374 research outputs found
Supplementary Data for Reconstructing Past Craft Networks: A case study using 3D scans of Late Bronze Age swords to reconstruct specialized craft networks, PhD. Dissertation
No full textThis dataset includes .csv files of the network matrices, blade profile .bmp images, Fourier transform data, and the data gathered for statistics. Also included is the annotated SAS routine used to analyze the data. The Data were analyzed using SHAPE V1.3, SAS 9.4, and GEPHI 0.8.2. The data is being released with the publication of the dissertation.The data included here are supplemental data associated with the dissertation "Reconstructing Past Craft Networks: A case study using 3D scans of Late Bronze Age swords to reconstruct specialized craft networks." by Kristina Golubiewski-Davis. The dissertation is an examination of Late Bronze Age sword smiths wherein the author uses shape data as an indication of manufacture choices to reconstruct possible social networks. Included are .csv files of the Network matrices, blade profile .bmp images, Fourier transform data, and the data gathered for statistics. Also included is the annotated SAS routine used to analyze the data. The Data were analyzed using SHAPE V1.3, SAS 9.4, and GEPHI 0.8.2. The data is being released with the publication of the dissertation.Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork GrantHella Mears Summer FellowshipSummer Research Grant in Austrian/Central European Studies, University of Minnesota Center for Austrian StudiesGolubiewski-Davis, Kristina M. (2016). Supplementary Data for Reconstructing Past Craft Networks: A case study using 3D scans of Late Bronze Age swords to reconstruct specialized craft networks, PhD. Dissertation. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, http://dx.doi.org/10.13020/D6PK5C
Phantom pain
No full textAlmost anyone with a limb amputation experiences phantom sensations. Moreover, the majority of amputees experience
pain. This phenomenon is known as ‘Phantom pain’ and is described as the pain felt from a body part, usually a limb,
which is no longer present. Several mechanisms have been proposed in attempt to explain this phenomenon with some
being more prevalent than others. Cortical remapping seems to explain a substantial part of the occurrence of phantom
pain and will be focused upon throughout this review. Since the exact mechanism underlying phantom limb pain is
unknown, treatment for this condition is still quite primitive and is mostly by trial and error. However, ‘Mirror Therapy’
has recently been suggested which seems to show promising results for the effective treatment of phantom pain.peer-reviewe
Simplicity versus Complexity in the European Debate: Identity, Responsibility, and the Dialogue Questioned
No full textThis contribution aims to analyse current challenges of populism and nationalism by using the apparatus of political philosophy. Three important philosophic categories, such as identity, responsibility, and dialogue, are discussed while reflecting on current collisions. By showing their interrelated character, the author underlines the issue of speechlessness and multilateral lack of communication between people, people and the establishment, different intellectual groups, and so forth. Linking populism and nationalism to identity peculiarities, and reflecting on the fluidity of meanings, the power of words, and the related responsibility, this work claims the crucial importance and necessity of dialogue as the main instrument which can prevent dangerous consequences of irresponsibility, and identifies academics and public intellectuals as possible initiators of the dialogue
Modeling receptor reorganization and strain in protein-ligand binding
No full textThe key objectives of computational structure-based drug design include the prediction of the protein-ligand complex binding modes and estimation of the binding affinities. The overall affinity of a ligand for a receptor can be expressed as a balance between the strength of the interactions of a ligand to any particular binding-competent conformation of the receptor and the probability of occurrence of that conformation in the absence of the ligand. The receptor conformation probability distributions can be described by the free energy landscape of the receptor from which the strain free energy required to move from one conformation to another in the absence of a ligand may be estimated. The availability of large datasets of crystal structures in the PDB can provide information about the locations of free energy basins and their shapes. Here we utilize several methods in an effort to model the strain free energy of several receptors due to binding using the vast structural data publically available in the PDB. Clustering of 99 X-ray structures of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase at the flexible non-nucleoside inhibitor binding pocket elucidates eight discrete clusters, one of which displays a novel bound conformation of the functionally important primer grip. The clustering results served as a guide for replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations that offer a more in-depth look at the potential reorganization of the binding pocket. Clustering of 327 available X-ray structures of HIV-1 protease reveals less discrete variability in the substrate envelope than HIV-1 reverse transcriptase but does reveal some receptor reorganization that may be due to a combination of mutations. A linear response model for incorporation of receptor strain in modern protein-ligand binding affinity estimators is proposed. Receptor-receptor contact counts are employed as estimators for changes in receptor conformation due to binding of different ligands. Overall, the linear model produces apparent reduction in binding energy estimation errors and increases in the rank-order correlation with respect to initial values determined by the commercially available Glide 5.0 XP that does not take into account receptor reorganization. It also offers information as to the type of conformational changes, if any, that may contribute to the receptor reorganization energy. A null hypothesis test is constructed to evaluate the possibility of producing fits by chance alone. Finally, an alternative estimator approach using structurally significant intrareceptor distance descriptors, where there are less possible estimators, shows some promise for several drug targets. The model has the potential to allow for coarse-grained investigation of the conformational and energetic landscapes for binding inhibitors to flexible protein receptors.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Kristina A. Pari
Canticles of Martynas Mažvydas in the works of composer Kristina Vasiliauskaitė
No full textMartyno Mažvydo knygų giesmės (XVI a.) – vienos žinomiausių lietuvių protestantų bažnyčios tradicijoje. Senos kilmės jų melodijos visais laikais domino Europos kompozitorius: Johannas Kugelmannas , Johannesas Eccardas, Johannas Sebastianas Bachas, Ditrichas Buxtehude, Matthaeus Praetorius, M. Franckas, Felixas Mendelssohnas-Bartholdy, Igoris Stravinskis ir kt. protestantiškų giesmių melodijas yra naudoję savo vokalinėse bei instrumentinėse kompozicijose. XX a. pabaigoje į jas dėmesį atkreipė ir šiuolaikiniai lietuvių kompozitoriai. Kompozitorė Kristina Vasiliauskaitė (g. 1956), viena žymiausių bažnytinės muzikos kūrėjų, taip pat susidomėjo liuteroniškomis M. Mažvydo giesmėmis. Iš dešimties „Katekizmo“ giesmių melodijų ji pasirinko septynias ir harmonizavo jas balsui bei vargonams. Harmonizuotėse autorė išsaugojo melodinį, derminį, ritminį, struktūrinį giesmių autentiškumą, praturtindama jų skambesį harmonijos, faktūros, tembrų požiūriu. Kompozitorė praplėtė evangelikų liuteroniškųjų giesmių skambėjimo erdvę – jos gali būti atliekamos koncertų scenose. Straipsnyje nagrinėjamas kompozitorės kūrinys „Giesmės iš Martyno Mažvydo katekizmo“, parašytas 1996 metais; pateikiama K. Vasiliauskaitės kūrybos apžvalga, aptariamos harmonizuotų giesmių muzikinės savybės, tiriama vokalinės melodijos ir vargonų partijos sąveika; atskleidžiama kūrinio reikšmė gaivinamam Mažosios Lietuvos dvasiniam paveldui. Reikšminiai žodžiai: Evangelikai liuteronai; Giesmynas; Giesmė; Giesmės; Grigališkasis choralas; Harmonizacijos; Kompozitorius; Kristina Vasiliauskaitė; Lietuviai; Liuteronai; Martynas Mažvydas; Vargonai; Canticle; Canticles; Composer; Evangelical Lutherans; Gregorian chant; Harmonizations; Hymnal; Kristina Vasiliauskaitė; Lithuanians; Lutherans; Martynas Mažvydas; OrganThe hymns from the books of Martynas Mažvydas (16th c.) are among most known in the Lithuanian Protestant Church tradition. Their old melodies have always been of interest to European composers: Johannes Kugelmann, Johannes Eccard, Johann Sebastian Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, Matthaeus Praetorius, Melchior Franck, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Igor Stravinsky and others have used the melodies of Protestant hymns in their vocal and instrumental compositions. At the end of the 20th contemporary Lithuanian composers drew their attention to them. Composer Kristina Vasiliauskaitė (b. 1956), one of the most prominent creators of ecclesiastical music, also became interested in Lutheran hymns of Mažvydas. From ten hymns from the “Catechism” she selected seven melodies and harmonised them for voice and organ. In these harmonisations the author preserved melodic, modal, rhythmic and structural authenticity of hymns, enriching their sound in respect of harmony, facture and timbres. The composer expanded the space of performing Evangelical Lutheran hymns: they might be performed in concert halls. The paper investigates the composer’s piece “Giesmės iš Martyno Mažvydo katekizmo” [Hymns from Martynas Mažvydas’ Catechism], composed in 1996; gives an overview of Vasiliauskaitė’s works; discusses the musical features of harmonised hymns; examines the interaction of a vocal melody and the organ part; reveals the significance of the piece for the spiritual heritage of Lithuania Minor, which is being revived
Authority Records and Copyright Determination
No full textMatt Carruthers is a NACO-trained cataloger and metadata projects librarian at the University of Michigan, where he creates and transforms metadata in support of library and university projects. He has experience with name authority metadata in both bibliographic and archival contexts, utilizing MARC and EAC-CPF, and he was a team member of the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP).
Kristina Eden is copyright instruction librarian for the University of Michigan Copyright Office. She leads the training team for the Copyright Review Management System, a series of three IMLS National Leadership Grant projects based at the University of Michigan which have collectively identified more than 239,000 public domain works. She helped initiate the pilot project to send author death dates found during the course of copyright review to NACO certified catalogers for updating authority records.What do Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, British Insects and How to Identify Them, and Sixty Years a Bookman have in common? These books are all in the public domain, like many others collected on our library shelves. What information does it take to know if they are in the public domain, and where do enhanced authority records fit into this? Virtually all copyright terms around the world are based on some variation of the formula:
author’s life + years = copyright term
To calculate when a book enters the public domain, it is important to know the death date for the author.
For the past five years the IMLS-funded Copyright Review Management System (CRMS), based at the University of Michigan Library, identified public domain works one copyright determination at a time. As part of CRMS, we started to identify author death dates that were not already in authority records. We began depositing our discoveries of author death dates in NACO authority records as a pilot project in 2013 to enhance the data that has been so helpful to CRMS.
In this webinar we present our copyright-centric view of authority records and the impact you can make by simply adding an author death date. We will show you how NACO-trained catalogers improve authority records by including death date information that will be of value to a copyright review. We will also outline how cataloging practice relates to bibliographic copyright determination, including examples like federal documents, publication date range, and associated country.ALCTS, IMLS National Leadership Granthttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/110993/1/Authority Records and Copyright Determination.mp4Description of Authority Records and Copyright Determination.mp4 : Webinar presentatio
ANALISA SUMBER DAYA, KEMAMPUAN, DAN KEUNGGULAN KOMPETITIF TERHADAP PT HINDO (H&M) INDONESIA
No full textA company certainly has a problem that can affect the success or success of acompany. Based on the analysis conducted by the author, several risk factors werefound that were faced by PT Hindo (H&M). Factors that influence success arestrategic decisions, resources, capabilities, core competencies, value chains andoutsourcing. But not only that, there are also many other things that are at risk forPT Hindo (H&M). The risk of this loss can become an obstacle to the path anddevelopment of a company. The methodology used in this article is that the authoruses the Observation and Internet Searching methodologies.Keywords: Factors of company success, Value Chai
Andrei Siniavskii. A hero of his time?
No full textThis thesis is an artistic biography of Andrei Siniavskii (1925-1997) as a
writer in and of his time, showing how this subtle and complex author found his
way in a society polarised into heroes and villains, patriots and traitors; how he
progresses from identification with the value system and ideology of his time to
reaction against it, his dissidence expressed in literary terms.
Beyond this, I hope to show how he moves to a new conception of the writer
in the fusion of his creative and critical selves that is dominated neither by the
voice of the collective ‘we’, nor by the voice of the individual ‘I’ but which
leaves space in the text for engagement by the reader. Individual readers,
passing manuscripts from hand to hand or reciting texts orally had assured the
continuity of the Russian literary tradition during the long bleak years when
literature seemed to mark time under the strictures of Soviet ideology and
Socialist Realist aesthetics. Siniavskii’s work is motivated by the passionate
belief that the way forward for Russian literature lay in this same spark
generated between individual reader and text.
My thesis is organised chronologically and is based on a close reading of
Siniavskii’s work. It explores the way his art does not simply reflect the
circumstances of his life and times but is actively shaped by an intricate
commerce between the two. I intend to show how Siniavskii’s distancing
himself, first ideologically then physically, from the Soviet system is
counterbalanced by his creative reintegration with Russia through literature
Health Promotion Education for Overweight and Obesity in Adults with Endocrine Disorders
No full textabstract: Purpose: The purpose of this project was to implement health promotion education for overweight and obese adults with endocrine disorders. The overarching goal was to change dietary intake and improve exercise to reduce the incidence, prevalence, and impact of comorbidities associated with obesity. Background/Synthesis: Obesity is a significant epidemic facing the nation today with multiple impacts on the national healthcare system. There is often an association between obesity and endocrine disorders such as type 2 diabetes and prediabetes. Both obesity and diabetes cost the nation billions of dollars annually in healthcare costs. Evidence shows that lifestyle modifications related to nutrition and physical activity are effective in weight reduction and prevention of chronic disease, especially when given by a healthcare provider. Methods: Fifteen adult patients at an endocrinology office in Arizona received individual counseling using the teach-back method focusing on health promotion behaviors through nutrition and exercise with a two-week follow-up phone call. Short-term outcomes measured in this project included changes in dietary intake and exercise behaviors through a pre- and post-test adapted from an obesity-screening tool developed by Greenwood et al. (2008). Outcomes/Results: Participants were primarily Caucasian and Hispanic, married, female, average age of 50 years, average BMI of 34.5, and some college education. There was a statistically significant increase in health promoting behavior on posttest scores (M=66, SD=6.23, range=58-76) compared to pretest scores (M=61, SD=4.72, range=50-66), t(14)=-2.55, p=0.023. Conclusions and Implications: Overall, patient health promotion behaviors increased with this educational intervention. Clinical implications include a potential decrease in patient comorbidities related to overweight and obesity. Implications for the greater healthcare system include decreased comorbidities, utilization of healthcare resources, and costs associated with overweight and obesity. Future recommendations would include determining weight and BMI changes over a longer period of time for even better outcome measures.
Keywords: obesity, obese, overweight, health promotion, health education, diet, exercise, nutritio
Art and National Identity – Sweden and Lithuania
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to present some reflections on the relationship between the production of contemporary art and the function of national identities in our Scandinavian and Baltic countries. The main assumption of the paper is a non-essentialist one: the author assumes that national identity, like art and the context(s) of the art-world(s), is something which is produced and socially constructed. The author don't wish, however, to simplify the issue of national identity or to deny its relevance as a personal, individual experience. Rather, the aim is to say something about the ability of artists to critically investigate both the production of national identity and the role of subjectivity in this production. The "problem" of national identity, which is referred to in the title, should here be seen primarily as a fundamental conflict between subjective experience and collective symbols. The argument will proceed from two rather common experiences of this problem. Firstly: the inability of very young children to understand statements like "our house is in the town X" or "the town X and the village Y are both in the country Z". Secondly: the experience of the "spirit" of a place and the connection between the concepts of Place and Nation in the production and historical reception of landscape painting. This second, historical point will be illuminated very briefly by some examples of the symbolically significant motive "house in landscape" in Swedish and Lithuanian painting from the first half of the 20:th century (Carl Larsson, Petras Kalpokas, Antanas Samuolis). The analysis then extends into a presentation of the contemporary Swedish artist Peter Johansson and his installation "Little Sweden" during the Skulpturprojekte in Münster, summer 2000. This work consisted of a raft floating in the middle of an harbour, and on the raft a "typical" red Swedish cottage. The work also included two actors who played the roles of nationalist "skins": they lived in the cottage, drank a lot of beer, screamed and waved Swedish flags. As a caricature of some basic concepts and symbols of national identity (the Place, the House, the People), the comical effect of this installation/action could be explained as primarily an effect of distance - one could safely laugh at the small "Nation" on the raft because one didn't experience oneself as being a part of it. By contrast, the Lithuanian contemporary artist Arturas Railas work "Under the Flag", which was shown at the Berlin Biennale in 2001, rather includes the spectator as a part of the process and the place. Railas work consists of two video screens on two opposing walls in a dark room. On one screen is shown some documentary material from an Austian election campaign. On the other is shown the reactions of some Lithuanian neo-nazis when they see this material. An original situation is thus re-created in the room of the gallery. The position of the spectator, standing between the screens, is of a dualistic and active kind. He/she might here be supposed to recognize himself/herself as a part of a process in which national identities are simultaneously produced and reflected upon. This notion of subjectivity, which means that the artist/spectator should be seen as a part of the process rather than being merely a distant and critical onlooker, will be elaborated further in connection to some writings and public actions by the Lithuanian artcritic Raimundas Malasauskas
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