302 research outputs found
Joan R. Rosenblatt
No full textJoan R. Rosenblatt
Inducted: 2000
Citation: For research on nonparametric statistical theory, applications of statistical techniques in physical and engineering sciences, and reliability of complex systems, and for leadership of the Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory.
Tenure: 1955-1995
Birth: 1926, New York, New York
Education:
Barnard College, AB (Mathematics), 1946
University of North Carolina, PhD (Statistics), 1956
Positions held:
Chief, Statistical Engineering Section
Deputy Director, Center for Applied Mathematics [& successor units]
Director, Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory
Post-retirement: Guest Researcher, Statistical Engineering Division
Honors:
U.S. Department of Commerce: Silver Medal, 1969; Gold Medal, 1976
Washington Academy of Sciences Achievement Award, 1966
Federal Woman's Award, 1971
American Statistical Association Founders Award, 1991
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi
Memberships:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
American Statistical Association (Fellow; Vice-President)
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Fellow)
Caucus for Women in Statistics (President)
American Mathematical Society
International Statistical Institute
Bernoulli Society for Probability and Mathematical Statistics
Royal Statistical Society, London
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Association for Women in Mathematics
Philosophical Society of Washington
Washington Academy of Sciences (Fellow)
Publications:
Author of many technical papers on nonparametric statistical theory, applications of statistical techniques in physical and engineering sciences, and reliability of complex systems; on Editorial Board of SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
MARCAS JUDAICAS EM “COMO VIEMOS PARAR A AMAZÔNIA” DE SULTANA LEVY ROSENBLATT
No full textA pesquisa em questão faz parte do projeto de pesquisa Ecos sefarditas: judeus na Amazônia, desenvolvido no campus de Bragança. A investigação tem como escopo fazer uma análise dos aspectos de judeidade presentes nas obras da autora amazônida Sultana Levy Rosenblatt, cuja origem é judaico-sefardista. Para fazer essa sondagem, teremos como principal metodologia a pesquisa bibliográfica referente à presença de judeus sefarditas em território amazônico. Para tanto, autores como Samuel Bechimol, Reginaldo Heller, entre outros, nos fornecerão embasamento teórico histórico. Também será feita a análise de alguns escritos literários da escritora Sultana Levy Rosenblatt. Neste propósito, selecionou-se um texto da referida autora, a saber: “Como viemos parar a Amazônia”. Fez-se também um intertexto com o ensaio “Reminiscências de uma judia marroquina” de Clara Koshen. Em tais escritos, respectivamente, é possível encontrar a presença da cultura judaica de forma veemente. No primeiro, identificamos o processo de imigração de um jovem judeu, vindo da região de Marrocos, para uma comunidade desconhecida, com condições precárias, comparando-se às grandes cidades. A autora narra as aventuras desse jovem, bisavô de Sultana, o qual buscava encontrar prosperidade em terras amazônicas. Na segunda obra, destaca-se a presença das tradições judaicas, as quais são marcadamente descritas, pela autora, como uma forma de preservar a cultura de origem. Diante do exposto é possível inferir que a escritora busca rememorar traços da cultura judaica em terras amazônicas.
Palavras-chave: Judeus sefarditas. Judeidade. Sultana Levy Rosenblatt.
ABSTRACT: The research in question is part of the Sephardic Ecos research project: Jews in the Amazon, developed on the campus of Bragança. The investigation has as scope to make an analysis of the aspects of Jewishness present in the works of the Amazonian author Sultana Levy Rosenblatt, whose origin is Jewish-Sephardic. To do this survey, we will have as main methodology the bibliographic research concerning the presence of Sephardic Jews in Amazonian territory. For such, authors such as Samuel Bechimol, Reginaldo Heller, among others, will provide us with historical theoretical background. Also will be made the analysis of some literary writings of the writer Sultana Levy Rosenblatt. In this purpose, a text of the author was selected, namely: "How we came to stop the Amazon". An intertext was also made with the essay "Reminiscences of a Moroccan Jew" by Clara Koshen. In such writings, respectively, it is possible to find the presence of Jewish culture vehemently. In the first, we identified the process of immigration of a young Jewish man from the region of Morocco into an unknown community with precarious conditions compared to the large cities. The author narrates the adventures of this young man, great-grandfather of Sultana, who sought to find prosperity in Amazonian lands. The second work highlights the presence of Jewish traditions, which are markedly described by the author as a way of preserving the culture of origin. In view of the above, it is possible to infer that the writer seeks to recall traces of the Jewish culture in Amazonian lands.
Keywords: Sephardic Jews. Judaism. Sultana Levy Rosenblat
The Emerging Paradigm of Reader-Text Transaction: Contributions of John Dewey and Louise M. Rosenblatt, with Implications for Educators
No full textThis dissertation will trace the emerging paradigm of transaction as a model for the dynamics of the reading process.
The paradigm of transaction, implicit in John Dewey's writings as early as 1896 in "The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology," was originally described in terms of "interaction" between organism and environment. Only in 1949, in the twilight of his career, did Dewey definitively distinguish between "transaction" and "interaction," ascribing a mutually transformative character to the former process. In Knowing and the Known, Dewey and co-author Arthur F. Bentley (1949) proposed adoption of a wholly new "transactional vocabulary" as a precision tool for a new mode of scientific inquiry, whereby inquiry itself was recognized as a species of transaction between inquirer and observed phenomena.
Even before the publication of Knowing and the Known, literary theorist Louise M. Rosenblatt had applied an implicitly transactional model of the relationship between organism and environment to the relationship between reader and text. She described this dynamic model of the reading process in Literature as Exploration (first published in 1938), a work that has inspired an ongoing revolution in the teaching of reading and literature at all instructional levels. In the first edition of this work, Rosenblatt employed Dewey's original term--"interaction"--to describe the dynamic relationship between reader and text. Following the publication of Knowing and the Known in 1949, Rosenblatt began systematically to appropriate Dewey and Bentley's transactional terminology in her analysis of the reader-text relationship.
Educators who share the transactional vision of Dewey and Rosenblatt tend to see the role of the teacher as that of a facilitator of reader-text transaction and of reader-reader transaction as arbitrated by the text, rather than as an imparter of authoritative interpretations of texts. Envisioning potentialities for students' growth through such transactions gives rise neither to sanguine optimism nor to despair, but rather to a hopeful meliorism.Ph. D
Prevention of achievement loss in the middle school transition: evaluation of a social-emotional learning intervention
No full textDecades of research have shown a normative decline in academic performance to be associated with the transition from elementary school to middle school. Based on the idea that these difficulties stem from a lack of relevant coping skills, the current study focused on the preventive effects of a three-year social and emotional learning (SEL) program in mitigating transitional achievement loss. Quality of implementation, a crucial, but often overlooked, factor in program evaluation, is the framework through which students' intervention experiences were defined. In each intervention year, implementation was assessed through teacher-reported curriculum fidelity and teacher's perception of program quality. These factors were tested as predictors of changes in GPA and standardized test scores across the transition. Intervention dosage received over the fifth grade year emerged as a significant predictor of GPA change. Dosage was unrelated to standardized test change, though differences between genders and ethnic groups in transitional standardized test performance were found. Teachers' ratings of program effectiveness were also unrelated to outcome, but were associated with intervention dosage.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-75)
They've found it. Can they read it? Adding academic reading strategies to your IL toolkit.
No full textPaper presented at International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conferenc
RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements
No full textThis article is the fourth in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving). It describes an analysis of 80 scholarly journal publishers’ copyright agreements with a particular view to their effect on author self-archiving. 90% of agreements asked for copyright transfer and 69% asked for it prior to refereeing the paper. 75% asked authors to warrant that their work had not been previously published although only two explicitly stated that they viewed self-archiving as prior publication. 28.5% of agreements provided authors with no usage rights over their own paper. Although 42.5% allowed self-archiving in some format, there was no consensus on the conditions under which self-archiving could take place. The article concludes that author-publisher copyright agreements should be reconsidered by a working party representing the needs of both partie
Determination of Venus’ Interior Structure with EnVision
No full textInternational audienceThe Venusian geological features are poorly gravity-resolved, and the state of the core is not well constrained, preventing an understanding of Venus’ cooling history. The EnVision candidate mission to the ESA’s Cosmic Vision Programme consists of a low-altitude orbiter to investigate geological and atmospheric processes. The gravity experiment aboard this mission aims to determine Venus’ geophysical parameters to fully characterize its internal structure. By analyzing the radio-tracking data that will be acquired through daily operations over six Venusian days (four Earth’s years), we will derive a highly accurate gravity field (spatial resolution better than ~170 km), allowing detection of lateral variations of the lithosphere and crust properties beneath most of the geological features. The expected 0.3% error on the Love number k2, 0.1° error on the tidal phase lag and 1.4% error on the moment of inertia are fundamental to constrain the core size and state as well as the mantle viscosity
Géodésie planétaire: Application au champ de gravité du système martien et la formation des lunes de Mars.
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Géodésie planétaire: Application au champ de gravité du système martien et la formation des lunes de Mars.
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