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A. Russell Mortensen
No full textA. Russell Mortensen was a historian, author, associate professor of English at the University of Utah, and director of the Utah State Historical Society
A. Russell Mortensen
No full textA. Russell Mortensen was a historian, author, associate professor of English at the University of Utah, and director of the Utah State Historical Society
Tromikosoma koehleri Mortensen 1903
No full textTromikosoma koehleri Mortensen, 1903 Reports for the Azores: Tromikosoma cf. koehleri Mortensen, 1903 — $ Mironov 2008: 4, tab. 1; Tromikosoma koehleri Mortensen, 1903 — Mironov 2014: 122. Type locality: Davis Strait. See: Mortensen (1935: 167–168, fig. 100, pl. 5). Occurrence: North Atlantic, from the Davis Strait (Mortensen 1903) south to the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone and north of the Azores (Mironov 2008). Depth: 2,517–3,527 m (AZO: 2,954–2,968 m; Mironov 2008). Habitat: probably a bottom-feeder living on soft sediments. Remarks: Tromikosoma koehleri was only known from its type locality. More recently, Mironov (2008) reported this species among the material collected by G.O. Sars (MAR–ECO expedition) in the Charles-Gibbs Fracture Zone. The same author listed material likely to belong to this rare species collected at stations located in the northern waters of the Azores (G.O. Sars, MAR–ECO cruise, sta 40/367: 42°55”N, 30°20”W, 2,954 –2,968 m). Later, however, Mironov (2014) placed the MAR-ECO ’ station from the Azores in the geographical distribution of this species. Mironov also added that this species is very closely related to T. uranus also known from the Atlantic (see below). Both species are known from very little material, and may prove to be identical.Published as part of Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), pp. 1-231 in Zootaxa 4639 (1) on page 121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/334216
Stereocidaris ingolfiana ? Mortensen 1903
No full textStereocidaris ingolfiana ? Mortensen, 1903 Reports for the Azores: Stereocidaris ingolfiana Mortensen, 1903 —? $ Pérès 1992: 254, 258. Type locality: Denmark Strait. See: Mortensen (1903: 38–41, pl. 6, figs. 1–5, pl. 8, figs. 4, 10–11, 16, 19–21, 23, 26, 28, 30, 36, pl. 11, figs. 12, 16–17, 23, 28, 30, 32–33; 1928: 267–268, pl. 27, figs. 1–3, pl. 70, fig. 6). Occurrence: North Atlantic, from the Denmark Strait south to the Caribbean in the west and to Cape Verde in the east (Mortensen 1928). Depth: 300– 1,745 m (Mortensen 1928);? AZO: 2,050 –3,300 m (Pérès 1992). Habitat: soft sediments (Koehler 1909). Larval stage: lecithotrophic (Emlet 1995). Remarks: Pérès (1992) claimed to have observed Stereocidaris ingolfiana during a dive made by the bathyscaphe Archimède north of S„o Miguel Island (2,050 m depth) and east of Santa Maria Island (3,150 –3,300 m depth). No specimen was collected and the identification seems to have rested solely on the long size of the spines of the observed animals. Pérès observations could represent an intermediary record between the east and West Atlantic populations, though S. ingolfiana known depth range is slightly shallower than the depth reported by this author. In the other hand, Cidaris cidaris is the only cidaroid confirmed species to occur in the archipelago with abundant documented material (see above). At macroscopic level these two species are almost identical, and in many instances the diagnose rests on the observation of pedicellaria (see Mortensen 1927a, 1928). Thus, until material belonging to S. ingolfiana is documented in the archipelago, Pérès observation must be placed as a dubious record (see also remarks under Histocidaris purpurata).Published as part of Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), pp. 1-231 in Zootaxa 4639 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/334216
Serious play: the art of Kevin Mortensen
No full textKevin Mortensen came to prominence in Australia and internationally as an early and highly regarded practitioner of performance art. He represented Australia at an early Venice Biennale and was a major figure in the Mildura Sculpture Triennials, which helped establish contemporary sculpture in this country in the 1960s and 1970s after a long period in which the art form languished. The new sculpture of this time was strongly related to American performance art, Happenings and Earth Art, and in Australia took on environmental concerns and facets of Australia's landscape, flora and fauna. Mortensen's art is highly environmental. More recently Mortensen has practised as a sculptor and also made prints and drawings. He was Head of Sculpture at RMIT University in the 1980s and early 1990s but, today almost a recluse, continues to exhibit new work at Australian Galleries in Melbourne and Sydney. Author Rob Haysom provides a beautifully written and researched account of Mortensen's entire career and the book is lavishly illustrated
Luidia ciliaris Mortensen 1927
No full textLuidia ciliaris (Philippi, 1837) Reports for the Azores: Luidia ciliaris (Philippi, 1837) — D̂derlein 1920: 287–288, figs. 8, 17, 34; Madsen 1950: 205–206, fig. 8; A.M. Clark 1982a: 170, fig. 3k; Gage et al. 1983: 272; A.M. Clark & Downey 1992: 11–12, figs. 7k, 8h, pl. 2, fig. E; Sneli 1999: 233;? Wirtz 2009: 46–47; Micael et al. 2012: 5. Type locality: Sicily, Mediterranean Sea. See: A.M. Clark (1982a); A.M. Clark & Downey (1992). Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea and Northeast Atlantic; from Scandinavia, the Faeroe Channel (Sneli 1999) south to Morocco (Mortensen 1925) and? Cape Verde (A.M. Clark (1982a), including the Azores, Madeira (D̂derlein 1920) and Canaries (Madsen 1950). Depth: 1–650(?805) m (A.M. Clark 1982a, Gage et al. 1983), typically from 25 to 200 m (Madsen 1950); AZO:?littoral. Habitat: hard to soft sediments, often found partly buried in gravel (Picton 1993). Larval stage: planktotrophic (Mortensen 1921). Remarks: the first record of Luidia ciliaris in the Azores can be trace back to D̂derlein’s (1920) review of the genus, which included a specimen collected in the archipelago from the Simroth collection, though the later author never included any material belonging to this species or genus in his 1888’s report. More recently, Wirtz (2009) reported an animal of Luidia ciliaris in a large tide-pool at Faial Island (not collected). The latter author claimed that a picture could be found in Wirtz & Debelius (2003), however, the photographed specimen in the 2003 work is from Madeira. The absence of documented specimens in the archipelago in over 80 years places the presence of this species in the Azores in a somewhat precarious position and thus, should be dealt with caution.Published as part of Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), pp. 1-231 in Zootaxa 4639 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/334216
Greg Mortensen: Humanitarian and Best-Selling Author of \u3ci\u3eThree Cups of Tea\u3c/i\u3e
No full textGreg Mortenson is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Three Cups of Tea: One Man\u27s Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time, and co-founder and executive director of the Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides educational resources and promotes education in regions where there are few or no educational opportunities.
Founded in 1996 and based in Bozeman, Mont., the organization is governed by a board of directors, all of whom are educators, who have traveled or lived in Pakistan and/or Afghanistan, and committed to the promotion of education and literacy. According to Mortenson, the organization has established over 61 schools in rural and often volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and educated more than 25,000 children, including 14,000 girls, where few educational opportunities existed before.
Mortenson\u27s decision to help the people in those remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan stems from a personal event in his life. In 1992, his younger sister Christa died from a massive seizure after a lifelong struggle with epilepsy. Mortenson decided to climb Pakistan\u27s K2 Mountain (also known as Mount Austin Godwin) in 1993, the second-highest mountain in the world, in honor of his sister. While recovering in a local village after climbing K2, Mortenson met a group of children writing in the sand with sticks. There, he made a promise to help them build a school. And the rest, as they say, is history.
His humanitarian efforts have not been without strife. He survived an eight-day kidnapping in the Northwest Frontier Province tribal area of Pakistan, and, according to his Web site, received hate mail and death threats after 9/11 for helping Muslim children with their education.
Born in Minnesota in 1947, Mortenson grew up on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. His father was a founder of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, a 480-bed teaching hospital, and his mother founded International School Moshi, also in Tanzania. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1977-79, where he received the Army Commendation Medal, and later graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1983
The Influence of Thematic Graphics in the Interpretation of Narrative Text
No full textABSTRACT\ud
THE INFLUENCE OF THEMATIC GRAPHICS IN THE\ud
INTERPRETATION OF NARRATIVE TEXT\ud
by\ud
Chad C. Mortensen\ud
Master of Arts in Psychology\ud
Psychological Science Option\ud
California State University, Chico\ud
Spring 2009\ud
This investigation was designed to test the hypothesis that decorative graphics serve to reveal the underlying themes of accompanying text, and are not benign in their influence of deeper comprehension processes. One-hundred-forty undergraduate volunteers read or listened to a classic literary short story (Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway) accompanied by either one of two decorative graphics or no graphic at all and wrote an essay of their understanding of the passage and its underlying themes immediately and one week later. Results revealed that decorative graphics enhanced understanding of the passage at both the literal and deep semantic level of the passage but only when the graphic was related metaphorically to the story themes. The effect was apparent immediately following reading and became even stronger one week later. The\ud
results are discussed in terms of the cognitive function metaphor to incur deep processing between graphics and text.CSU, Chic
The Pianist\u27s Guide to Historic Improvisation
No full textKeyboard artists in the time of J.S. Bach were simultaneously performers, composers, and improvisers. By the twentieth century, however, the art of improvisation was all but lost. Today, vanishingly few classically-trained musicians can improvise with fluent, stylistic integrity. Many now question the system of training that leaves players dependent upon the printed page, and would welcome a new approach to musicianship that would enable modern performers to recapture the remarkable creative freedom of a bygone era./= / \u3e/= / \u3eThe Pianist\u27s Guide to Historic Improvisation opens a pathway of musical discovery as the reader learns to improvise with confidence and joy. Useful as either a college-level textbook or a guide for independent study, the book is eminently practical. Author John Mortensen explains even the most complex ideas in a lucid, conversational tone, accompanied by hundreds of musical examples. Mortensen pairs every concept with hands-on exercises for step-by-step practice of each skill. Professional-level virtuosity is not required; players of moderate skill can manage the material. Suitable for professionals, conservatory students, and avid amateurs, The Pianist\u27s Guide leads to mastery of improvisational techniques at the Baroque keyboard.https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/faculty_books/1242/thumbnail.jp
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