36 research outputs found
Ann Fessler
No full textInstallation artist, filmmaker, and author Ann Fessler has spent four decades using her platform as an artist to bring hidden histories and stories to light. She turned to the subject of adoption in 1989 and has produced three documentary films, numerous audio and video installations, and written an award-winning book, The Girls Who Went Away, based on 100 interviews with women who lost children to adoption in the 1950s–early 70s. Fessler has been the recipient of a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard and grants from the NEA, the RI and Maryland State Arts Councils, LEF Foundation, RI Foundation, and RISCA. Her work is in the collection of major museums including the Whitney and MoMA in NY. Fessler, who received her MA in Media from Webster University and MFA in photography from the University of Arizona, is a professor at Rhode Island School of Design where she has taught since 1993.
networksrhodeisland.orghttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/faculty_networksri_risdprofiles/1001/thumbnail.jp
Covering Elections and Voting in 2024: A Media Guide
No full text"Covering Elections and Voting in 2024" by Pam Fessler, a communications advisor for The Elections Group and former National Public Radio correspondent, serves as a comprehensive resource for journalists covering the intricacies of elections and voting processes in the United States. The guide emphasizes the pivotal role of accurate, informed journalism in sustaining democracy and public trust in the elections process. It outlines the variability in election laws and practices across states and localities, underlining the complexity of the U.S. voting system and the challenges reporters face in navigating misinformation, legal changes, and the logistical aspects of election coverage.The guide offers practical tips for engaging with election officials, understanding the rules of voting, and exploring the human elements of elections. Additionally, the guide provides a directory of resources – including government agencies, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions and media outlets – offering tools, data and expert insights to support reporters.With contributions from experienced journalists and election experts, the guide offers story ideas, from the maintenance of voter rolls and the processing of mail ballots to the safety of election workers. It calls for a balanced approach to covering both the challenges and positive aspects of voting
Historiosophy of I. A. Fessler
No full textThe article analyzes the main aspects of the historical and philosophical concept of I. A. Fessler. His views on the position of historical science in relation to other types of knowledge and forms of spiritual culture, the problematic of historical fact and truth, the concept of reliability and plausibility, the nature of knowledge, the driving forces of the historical process, the profession of a historian, the relationship between the author and the reader are considered. The religious character of Fessler’s historiosophy and its connection with the intellectual background of European thought of the late 18th and early 19th centuries is explored
Exploring Mars
No full textA NASA Education Brief on Mars exploration.Developed by Allan Treiman and Walter Kiefer assisted by Pam Thompson, Brian Fessler, and Ronna HurdWhy explore Mars? -- A history of exploration -- Exploration now -- Why continue? -- The future -- For the classroom
Exploring Mars
No full textA NASA Educational Brief on Mars exploration.Developed by Allan Treiman and Walter Kiefer assisted by Pam Thompson, Brian Fessler, and Ronna HurdWhy explore Mars? -- A history of exploration -- Why continue? -- Exploration now -- For the classroom
Exploring Mars
No full textA NASA Educational Brief on Mars exploration. For educators of grades 5-12.Developed by Allan Treiman and Walter Kiefer assisted by Pam Thompson, Brian Fessler, and Leanne Woolley.Why explore Mars? -- A history of exploration -- Why continue? -- Exploration now -- For the classroom
Why Disability And Poverty Still Go Hand In Hand 25 Years After Landmark Law
No full textThis NPR article and radio clip explores why disability and poverty are commonly connected even after 25 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/antipoverty/1009/thumbnail.jp
Penalized Weighted Least-Squares Image Reconstruction for Positron Emission Tomography
No full textPresents an image reconstruction method for positron-emission tomography (PET) based on a penalized, weighted least-squares (PWLS) objective. For PET measurements that are precorrected for accidental coincidences, the author argues statistically that a least-squares objective function is as appropriate, if not more so, than the popular Poisson likelihood objective. The author proposes a simple data-based method for determining the weights that accounts for attenuation and detector efficiency. A nonnegative successive over-relaxation (+SOR) algorithm converges rapidly to the global minimum of the PWLS objective. Quantitative simulation results demonstrate that the bias/variance tradeoff of the PWLS+SOR method is comparable to the maximum-likelihood expectation-maximization (ML-EM) method (but with fewer iterations), and is improved relative to the conventional filtered backprojection (FBP) method. Qualitative results suggest that the streak artifacts common to the FBP method are nearly eliminated by the PWLS+SOR method, and indicate that the proposed method for weighting the measurements is a significant factor in the improvement over FBP.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/85851/1/Fessler105.pd
Implementing Service-Learning as a Pre-Service Teacher
No full textThis project explores service-learning in math at the middle school level and addresses the challenges and possibilities of pre-service teachers implementing service learning as a part of their educational preparation. The focus was a semester long experience with an 8th grade teacher in a math classroom at a middle school in Findlay, Ohio during the 2010-2011 school year. Activities included engagement in a math classroom, design, and implementation of a service-learning project, and regular reflection between the author and the teacher partner. Partners in the project included the Hancock United Way and Findlay Community Gardens. Key questions included: how can pre-service teachers effectively learn to use service-learning pedagogy, and what are the challenges of pre-service teachers partnering with and working in K-12 schools
Comments on “The Convergence of Mean Field Procedures for MRF's”
No full textThe author comments that Zhang (see ibid., vol.5, no.12, p.1662-65, 1996) attempts to establish the convergence of a mean field iteration for an Ising Markov random field (MRF) for large values of the hyperparameter value ? is not correct for the function T?(u) defined. The convergence of the mean field iteration remains an open question for large ?Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/85973/1/Fessler88.pd
