17 research outputs found
A study of the relationship of visual and auditory factors to scholastic attainment of upper grade pupils, 1959-1960, 1960
No full textA Study on the Potential of a Neural Network Based Model in Predicting Hydrodynamic Behavior of a Semi-Submersible Crane Vessel
No full textHeerema Marine Contractors (HMC) is a contractor in the international offshore oil, gas and renewables industry. It is specialized in transporting, installing and removing large offshore facilities. HMC operates three crane vessels. Two of which are semi-submersibles (Thialf and Balder), the other is the monohull Aegir. A third semi-submersible, the Sleipnir, is currently under construction. To ensure safe operations, make accurate fatigue predictions and extend operational windows, HMC relies on vessel motion calculations. Currently, vessel motion estimations are based on response amplitude operators calculated by the diffraction software package WAMIT. As HMC cannot rely on diffraction software in case of non-linear vessel motions, the need for a method capable of capturing non-linear effects arises.The goal of this study is to determine the potential of a neural network based model in predicting hydrodynamic behavior of semi-submersible crane vessels. Hindcast weather data, vessel motion measurements and model test data are used to train several different neural network architectures. The research into the potential of neural networks in predicting hydrodynamic behavior is split into two main categories: the frequency domain and the time domain.Within the frequency domain, wave forecasts can be used to predict a response spectrum. The neural network in this case acts as a conventional RAO. In an artificial environment, four architectures are tested and the results show that neural networks are able to make accurate predictions in a fully linear environment. When tested on project data, where the vessel sails at operational draft, the neural network predictions shows a slightly higher accuracy than the diffraction based predictions for the specific test case. Another network is tested on transit data, where the vessel sails at an inconvenient draft. The results from these tests show that there is potential for a neural network to be used as a substitute for Response Amplitude Operators.The time domain models focus on predicting ship response based on surface height signals and/or hindcast vessel motion measurements. The first model is trained and tested on model test data from an SSCV. The input of the neural network is surface height measurements and the output is pitch motion prediction. The model shows that it is capable of predicting both first and second order pitch motions. Another time domain model has MRU roll measurements as input and it tries to predict the future 60 seconds of roll motion. Many network topologies and optimizer settings are tested but none are capable of predicting future motions.<br/
Folks from Dixie.
No full textAnner 'Lizer's stumblin' block.--The ordeal at Mt. Hope.--The colonel's awakening.--The trial sermons on Bull-Skin.--Jimsella.--Mt. Pisgah's Christmas 'possum.--A family feud.--Aunt Mandy's investment.--The intervention of Peter.--Nelse Hatton's vengeance.--At shaft 11.--The deliberation of Mr. Dunkin.Mode of access: Internet.Also available on microfilm in: Sc Micro R-1536 pt. A-1.LIBRARY HAS THREE COPIES IN THIS LOCATION.Afro-American author
The Impact of International Outsourcing on Unionization and Wages: Evidence from the Apparel Export Sector in Central America
No full textIt is often assumed that manufacturing workers in developing countries, as recipients of outsourced jobs, would achieve economic benefits and organizational power. The author argues that job growth in developing countries through outsourcing to competing firms has often actually resulted in declining unionization and lower wage rates relative to traditional, integrated manufacturing firms. Using time-series data on union membership from 1980–2003 for Honduras and El Salvador as well as 2004 Household Survey Data for El Salvador, he examines the determinants of unionization rates and wages in the manufacturing sectors. He finds that that competitive outsourcing hurts labor at the plant-level in three ways: 1) it reduces labor’s strike leverage by geographically dispersing the production process; 2) it increases the threat of plant mobility by decreasing plant-level investments; and 3) it increases labor costs relative to total costs, which creates an incentive for employers to keep wages low and unions out
Validation of a cloud-based tele-stroke system reliability in determining national institutes of health stroke scale scores for acute ischemic stroke screening in the emergency department
No full textRemote diagnosis; Tele-strokeDiagnóstico remoto; Tele-ictusDiagnòstic remot; Tele-ictusBackground and purpose: The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is the most recommended tool for objectively quantifying the impairment caused by a suspected stroke. Nevertheless, it is mainly used by trained neurologists in the emergency department (ED). To bring forward the NIHSS to the pre-hospital setting, a smartphone-based Telestroke system was developed. It captures the full NIHSS by video, transmits it off-line, and enables assessment by a distant stroke physician. We aimed to compare the reliability of an NIHSS score determined by a neurologist from afar, using the platform with a standard NIHSS assessment performed in the emergency departments.
Methods: A multi-center prospective study was conducted in two centers (Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, and Rambam, Israel). Patients admitted to the ED with suspected stroke had a neurological exam based on the NIHSS, while being recorded by the system. A skilled neurologist rated the NIHSS according to the videos offline. The results were compared with the NIHSS score given by a neurologist at the bedside.
Results: A total of 95 patients with suspected stroke were included. The overall intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.936 (0.99 in VdH and 0.84 in Rambam), indicating excellent and good reliability, respectively.
Conclusion: Remote stroke assessment based on the NIHSS, using videos segments collected by a dedicated platform, installed on a standard smartphone, is a reliable measurement as compared with the bedside evaluation.The authors declare that this study received funding from CVAID Company. The funder was not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, the writing of this article, or the decision to submit it for publication
Localization of transcripts, translation, and degradation for spatiotemporal sarcomere maintenance
No full textStyle as a [M]anner of Seeing : The Poetics of Gustave Flaubert
No full textAlthough Madame Bovary is considered a classic of modern realism, Gustave Flaubert would disagree with his classification as a realist, as he hardly remained loyal to a single literary genre or period. Rather, he longed to create a work of literature that would stand alone as an object of art, and to make this dream a reality he employed the techniques that he believed generated artful and expressive prose. As an author and artist, he was influenced greatly by other art forms, such as music and the visual arts, and like other authors of his time, he sought to discover how literature fit together with these prominent forms of art. From his aesthetics and from his fiction his poetics can be drawn. While various critics have researched and praised Flaubert\u27s literary achievements, few have discussed the way these techniques work together or have combined these techniques into a workable poetics. The focus of this thesis, then, is to determine and to describe the elements of Flaubert\u27s poetics, particularly in his realist and most well-known works: Madame Bovary, The Sentimental Education, and A Simple Heart. The most significant elements of Flaubert\u27s poetics include an omniscient but objective narrative style, careful structure, the musicality of language, and the discovery of the Other ; these literary elements form a poetics that offers him liberation from his own judgments and opinions, from the limitations of language, and from bourgeois society
Metric Expressivity: An Introduction
No full textThis article discusses how meter and musical impulses can generate distinct character traits in music according to a performer’s interpretation of the metric notation. It is part of an ongoing research project focused on interpretative elements and using analytical as well as auto-ethnographical methods. This article includes analysis and comparisons of historical recordings contiguous to performance-focused analysis. It is based on the study of metric components, organizational structures, and metric-structuring elements and concepts developed by Edward T. Cone (1968), David Epstein (1995a, 1995b), Roy Howat (1995), Mine Doğantan-Dack (2012, 2014), and Nicholas Cook (2001). These writers’ thoughts are placed in juxtaposition to those of Tobias Matthay (1913), Pablo Casals and David Blum, 1977), Anner Bylsma (2001), János Starker (2004), Leon Fleisher (Fleisher and Midgette, 2010), Artur Schnabel (paraphrased in Fleisher and Midgette, 2010), and Mario Brunello (2016), aiming to provide tools and possibilities that might support interpretive decisions for future performers. The author proposes a new term, metric expressivity, to indicate a previously underestimated layer of expressive element in music performance
In a vortex of meanings An attempt of semiotic analysis of structures of motion in film Vertigo Bird
No full textDiplomsko delo se ukvarja z analizo filma Vrtoglavi ptič Iztoka Kovača in Saše Podgorška. Prek semiotike, želimo razumeti gibalne strukture ter njihov pomen, ki pa ga moramo iskati interdisciplinarno. Avtorica film najprej postavi v prostor dogajanja, rudarsko mesto Trbovlje. Veliko plesnih scen je posnetih v rudniški infrastrukturi, kot so recimo delavske garderobe in kopalniški prostori ali bazen. Potem skuša razumeti, kaj je ples prek antropoloških pojmov in definicij, ki poudarjajo pomen kulturnih sistemov, od katerih se razlikujejo pomeni plesa v določeni družbi. Prek semiotike in teorij Barthesa o kulturnih kodih ter različnih sistemih preučevanja. Kovač je najprej ustvaril Vrtoglavega ptiča za gledališki oder, poskuša razumeti še, kaj je performans. Vse te teorije, ki jih skozi delo apliciramo na film, na koncu še direktno apliciramo z analizo celotnega filma. Pri filmu, kot je Vrtoglavi ptič je interdisciplinarni pristop pomemben pri analizi pomenov in struktur, saj z enostranskim pogledom ne bi mogli celovito in poglobljeno razumeti vsebine in vseh njenih podtonov.In this thesis we will be analysing a film by Iztok Kovač and Sašo Podgoršek titled Vertigo Bird. Through semiotics we are trying to understand structures of movement and their meaning which is to be sought in a interdisciplinary anner. The author first sets the setting of the film, which is the mining town of Trbovlje. Many of the dance scenes are filmed in mining infrastructures, e. g. workers\u27 changing rooms, bathroom facilities or a pool. Furthermore, the author then tries to understand dance through anthropological concepts and definitions. These emphasize the meaning of cultural systems from which meanings of dance in certain cultures greatly differ. The author analyses this through semiotics and Barthes\u27 theories of cultural codes and different approaches to analysis. Originally, Kovač created the Vertigo Bird as a theathre performance which is another aspect we are trying to understand in the analysis. The theories which are being used inn the analysis throughout this study are altterly applied to the film as a whole. An interdisciplinary approach is crucial when analyzing meaning and structures in films such as Vertigo Bird, as their content and all of its underlying messages could not be understood in depth with a unilateral view
Focus Group Interviews Employed in the Research Analysing Young Adults’ Behaviour on the Market of Alternative Means of City Transport
No full textShared transportation, directly corresponding to research on the sharing economy, is an important issue, directly linked with the issue of city transport, as well as that of alternative transport when analysed from a broader perspective. Forms of alternative city transport may be classified into two basic groups, different in terms of the manner in which they use their shared vehicles. It is either ride-sourcing or vehicle-sourcing (further broken down to car-sharing, bike-sharing and scooter-sharing). All the above-specified forms require access to a mobile app or a website and, consequently, some Internet and app-using skills, so it is obvious that they are predominantly used by young people. The fact prompted the author to research consumer behaviour in the sharing economy area among young people, who are regular users of the public transport available in Krakow. The research was conducted on a group of 96 respondents using qualitative method (FGI). The objective of the research was to identify the factors which determine some specific mobile behaviours in young adults in the area of alternative forms of the public transport, as well as identification of these forms of transport which are preferred and most popular among users. With all certainty, alternative forms of transport represent an attractive transportation offer addressed to young people, complementing the city transport system. Young people pointed to the particular importance of hedonistic factors prevailing n their choices, as they particularly appreciated reaching their destination in a fast, pleasant and comfortable anner, as well as the feeling of independence and freedom. However, alternative transport was certainly not hosen for reasons related to the environmental protection or economic aspects
