2,220 research outputs found
Nel segno di Erasmo. La Philologia perennis di R. Pfeiffer e l'identità culturale europea
No full textSul valore storico delle posizioni del filologo tedesco Rudolf Pfeiffer sull'umanesimo e sul loro significato per la rappresentazione delle comuni radici dell'Europa modern
Managing Technology Risks Through Technological Proficiency: Guidance for Local Governments
No full textLike most organizations, local governments face challenges managing technology, the critical resource to meet evolving public service expectations. But benefits associated with adapting the latest technology come with risks, some more apparent than others.
This report details the problems facing municipal officials as they try to maximize the benefits of technology for their communities and constituents in the face of cybersecurity, legal, operational, financial, reputational and societal risks.
The report concludes that top municipal officials must create and maintain an environment of “technological proficiency.” That includes creating a process for making technology decisions, developing an annually reviewed technology plan that is tied to the budget, instituting a “cyber hygiene” training program for all employees in proper computer security practices, and making sure that agency technology is competently managed.
The report is supplemented by a "Best Practices and Resources Guide" that organizations can use to achieve technology proficiency. It provides best practices based on an organization's technology profile.Report and Supplement were prepared for the Municipal Excess Liability Fund, a joint insurance fund of over 600 New Jersey local government agencies
Why people with disabilities might really be leaving work : an exemplar case with lessons for managers
No full textThe author explores the 'silent' problem of unseen illness at work
Parachondria (Chondropomorus) caricae Pfeiffer 1858
No full textParachondria (Chondropomorus) caricae (Pfeiffer, 1858) Figures 1 P–W, 5 A Type material. Chondropoma caricae Pfeiffer, 1858: not located. Chondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae navarretense Bartsch, 1946: NMNH 471990 (2 specimens in lot, holotype listed as 12.2 mm long specimen). Chondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae sosuense Bartsch, 1946: NMNH 336770, holotype. Type locality. Chondropoma caricae Pfeiffer, 1858: “ Prope Santiago insulae Haiti.” Chondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae navarretense Bartsch, 1946: “Above Navarrete Station on the railroad running from Puerto Plata to Santiago, Dominican Republic.” See Distribution below. Chondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae sosuense Bartsch, 1946: “At Sosúa, 17 miles east of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.” Type figured. Chondropoma caricae Pfeiffer, 1858: unfigured. Chondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae navarretense Bartsch, 1946: Bartsch, 1946: pl. 3, fig. 5. C hondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae sosuense Bartsch, 1946: Bartsch, 1946: pl. 3, fig. 4. Chresonymy. Chondropoma caricae Pfeiffer in Hjalmarson & Pfeiffer, 1858: 142; Bland, 1861: 355; Pfeiffer, 1865: 156–157; Pfeiffer, 1876: 196; Kobelt, 1880: 277; Crosse, 1891: 174; Watters, 2006: 192–193. Chondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae Pfeiffer, 1858. Henderson & Bartsch, 1920: 61; Clench & Aguayo, 1937: 65. Chondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae caricae Pfeiffer, 1858. Bartsch, 1946: 20 –22, pl. 3, fig. 2. Chondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae navarretense Bartsch, 1946: 21 –22, pl. 3, fig. 5; Ruhoff, 1973: 102; Watters, 2006: 193. Chondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae sosuense Bartsch, 1946: 20 –21, pl. 3, fig. 4; Ruhoff, 1973: 128; Watters, 2006: 193. Parachondria (Parachondria) caricae caricae (Pfeiffer, 1858). Watters, 2006: 46, 192– 193. Parachondria (Parachondria) caricae navarretensis (Bartsch, 1946). Watters, 2006: 46, 193. Parachondria (Parachondria) caricae sosuensis (Bartsch, 1946). Watters, 2006: 46, 193. Distribution and habitat. Authors have identified the habitat of this species as living on papaya trees (Pfeiffer in Hjalmarson & Pfeiffer, 1858; 1865; Crosse, 1891). Pfeiffer (in Hjalmarson & Pfeiffer, 1958: 142) specifically reported specimens “under fallen leaves on the roots of Carica papaya, usually in pairs” (translated here from German). However, papayas are not native to Hispaniola and other records place this species on limestone outcrops in evergreen forests. There are very few records of this species and its actual range is unknown. It is currently known only from the vicinity of Santiago de Los Caballeros in Santiago Province and from Puerto Plata and Sosúa in Puerto Plata Province. Bartsch’s type locality description of C. c. navarretense is somewhat misleading. He implied that Navarrete Station was on the railroad between Puerto Plata and Santiago. Navarrete is now called Bisonó and is located on the railroad that runs from Puerto Plata through Santiago to Bisonó some 25 km further west. It is located in the Cibao Valley between the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Septentrional. Material examined (17 specimens). Dominican Republic. OSUM 22087 (2), Tacagera [not located], Santiago Province; UF 216562 (15), 3 km W of Puerto Plata, Puerto Plata Province. Redescription. Shell solid, opaque, high-spired, elongate conic. Maximum adult size: 16.1 mm, decollate. Minimum adult size: 9.9 mm, decollate. Adult shell decollated. Protoconch of 1.5 pale tan, smooth whorls. Teleoconch of 4.25–5.25 whorls. Axial sculpture of final whorl of numerous (ca. 100–120) very fine, narrowly spaced, weak threads of varying width. Growth stoppage lines usually present. Spiral sculpture of final whorl outside of umbilicus of ca. 20–30 irregularly sized, weak threads, widely spaced near suture, narrowly spaced elsewhere. Intersections of sculpture form very weak, axially elongated beads. Overall sculpture appearing as weak, irregular fenestrations or scallops. Umbilicus smooth within or with few very indistinct threads. Suture indented but not channeled. 1–3 threads are narrowly expanded at suture into sharp denticles or cusps; these are irregularly spaced. Aperture oval, lip double. Inner lip slightly exserted, thickened. Outer lip thickened, narrowly expanded, except narrower facing umbilicus, slightly recurved abaperturally. Adnate or narrowly detached from body whorl within same population. Weak posterior auricle broad and low. Color pattern pale and not well-defined. Base color off-white or tan. Smudged, pale tan and white axial zig-zags or dots that mark leading edge of growth stoppage areas; bands continue as brown bands on both sides of outer lip, tending to few narrow, weak spiral bands near umbilicus; umbilicus without bands. Beads and sutural denticles white. Operculum paucispiral with granular deposit. Variation in specimens. The few specimens seen differ primarily in having the outer lip either adnate or narrowly detached from the previous whorl. Specimens with a solute outer lip were named C. c. sosuense Bartsch, 1946, but this feature occurs along with adnate outer lipped individuals in a single population. Bartsch (1946) also named C. c. navarretense for specimens having fine sculpture but this is also a variable characteristic. Comparison with other species. This small, pale species is most similar to P. s i l v at i c u s. That species differs in its much coarser sculpture: 70–80 axial threads in P. silvaticus vs. 100–120 threads in P. caricae; 14–16 spiral threads in P. silvaticus vs. 20–30 threads in P. caricae. Remarks. Although the description appeared in Hjalmarson & Pfeiffer (1858) the species was listed as “ Chondropoma Caricae Pfr. ” and Pfeiffer is considered the sole author of the taxon. The species was not figured by Pfeiffer and the type has not been located. Bartsch (1946) identified his specimens based on the locality and the brief description given by Pfeiffer. This is reasonable as this is one of the few members of the complex recorded near Santiago and the description adequately matches Bartsch’s specimens. Original descriptions. Chondropoma caricae Pfeiffer, 1858. Pfeiffer in Hjalmarson & Pfeiffer (1858: 142) (translated here from Latin): “Shell slightly perforate, oblong-turret, solid, spiral raised lines and longitudinally subequally granular-decussated, pale brown, red spots and white variegated streaks; spire regularly narrowed, truncate; suture irregularly and widely crenulated; remaining 5 whorls convex, last not solute; aperture vertical, subangulate-oval; peristome double: inner slightly prominent, outer produced on top, right side shortly expanded, left obsolete.—Operculum flat, cartilaginous.” Chondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae navarretense Bartsch, 1946: See Bartsch (1946: 21–22). Chondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae sosuense Bartsch, 1946: See Bartsch (1946: 20–21). Etymology. Chondropoma caricae Pfeiffer, 1858: L. carica, fig or papaya [“ Ad radicae Caricae Papayae,” fide Pfeiffer, 1865: 156–157]. Chondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae navarretense Bartsch, 1946: Navarrete Station, Dominican Republic. Chondropoma (Chondropomorus) caricae sosuense Bartsch, 1946: Sosúa, Dominican Republic.Published as part of Watters, G. Thomas, 2016, Review of the Hispaniolan Parachondria (Chondropomorus) complex (Gastropoda: Littorinoidea: Annulariidae), pp. 245-275 in Zootaxa 4127 (2) on pages 250-251, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/27177
How Dr. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer Contributed to Organic Agriculture in Australia
No full textEhrenfried Pfeiffer (1899-1961) was 25 years old when Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) delivered his eight lectures on agriculture from 7th June to 16th June 1924. In those eight lectures at Koberwitz, Rudolf Steiner laid the basis for biodynamic agriculture. Steiner advocated an agriculture informed by anthroposophy, and that the ideas he expounded in the eight agriculture lectures should be developed by experiments, practice and observation. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer took up this task and he spent the rest of his life in the pursuit. Pfeiffer published his book ‘Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening’ in 1938. It was the first popular account of bio-dynamic agriculture. In that book Pfeiffer presented the practical results of more than a decade of farming practice and experimentation. Pfeiffer was a major contributor to Australia’s first organic farming journal, the 'Organic Farming Digest' (1946-1955); he was the leading contributing author from the USA. Pfeiffer's lecture tour to Australia planned for 1953, and visiting the states of NSW, Victoria, and South Australia, was cancelled at short notice due to his ill health
Noise-Attenuating Headphones and Participation in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Date Presented 3/31/2017
The purpose of this study was to understand the perceived benefits and limitations of using noise-attenuating headphones for children with ASD for participation in home, community, and school environments to determine feasibility of use and guide intervention planning and future research.
Primary Author and Speaker: Beth Pfeiffer</jats:p
Adverse Family Experiences Are Associated With Age of Diagnosis Among Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Date Presented 4/1/2017
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may pose a significant barrier to timely diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder among U.S. children. By identifying ACEs early in a family’s history, occupational therapy practitioners have the opportunity to reduce family stress and support parents in meeting their children’s treatment needs.
Primary Author and Speaker: Kristin Berg
Additional Authors and Speakers: Beth Pfeiffer
Contributing Authors: Cheng-Shi Shiu, Kruti Acharya, Michael Msall, Elizabeth Pfeiffer</jats:p
Mobile recommendation agents making online use of visual attention information at the point of sale
No full textPfeiffer T, Pfeiffer J, Meißner M. Mobile recommendation agents making online use of visual attention information at the point of sale. In: Davis F, Riedl R, Jan vom B, Léger P-M, Randolph A, eds. Proceedings of the Gmunden Retreat on NeuroIS 2013. 2013: 3-3.We aim to utilize online information about visual attention for developing mobile recommendation agents (RAs) for use at the point of sale. Up to now, most RAs are focussed exclusively at personalization in an e-commerce setting. Very little is known, however, about mobile RAs that offer information and assistance at the point of sale based on individual-level feature based preference models (Murray and Häubl 2009). Current attempts provide information about products at the point of sale by manually scanning barcodes or using RFID (Kowatsch et al. 2011, Heijden 2005), e.g. using specific apps for smartphones. We argue that an online access to the current visual attention of the user offers a much larger potential. Integrating mobile eye tracking into ordinary glasses would yield a direct benefit of applying neuroscience methods in the user’s everyday life. First, learning from consumers’ attentional processes over time and adapting recommendations based on this learning allows us to provide very accurate and relevant recommendations, potentially increasing the perceived usefulness. Second, our proposed system needs little explicit user input (no scanning or navigation on screen) making it easy to use. Thus, instead of learning from click behaviour and past customer ratings, as it is the case in the e-commerce setting, the mobile RA learns from eye movements by participating online in every day decision processes. We argue that mobile RAs should be built based on current research in human judgment and decision making (Murray et al. 2010). In our project, we therefore follow a two-step approach: In the empirical basic research stream, we aim to understand the user’s interaction with the product shelf: the actions and patterns of user’s behaviour (eye movements, gestures, approaching a product closer) and their correspondence to the user’s informational needs. In the empirical system development stream, we create prototypes of mobile RAs and test experimentally the factors that influence the user’s adoption. For example, we suggest that a user’s involvement in the process, such as a need for exact nutritional information or for assistance (e.g., reading support for elderly) will influence the user’s intention to use such as system. The experiments are conducted both in our immersive virtual reality supermarket presented in a CAVE, where we can also easily display information to the user and track the eye movement in great accuracy, as well as in real-world supermarkets (see Figure 1), so that the findings can be better generalized to natural decision situations (Gidlöf et al. 2013). In a first pilot study with five randomly chosen participants in a supermarket, we evaluated which sort of mobile RAs consumers favour in order to get a first impression of the user’s acceptance of the technology. Figure 1 shows an excerpt of one consumer’s eye movements during a decision process. First results show long eye cascades and short fixations on many products in situations where users are uncertain and in need for support. Furthermore, we find a surprising acceptance of the technology itself throughout all ages (23 – 61 years). At the same time, consumers express serious fear of being manipulated by such a technology. For that reason, they strongly prefer the information to be provided by trusted third party or shared with family members and friends (see also Murray and Häubl 2009). Our pilot will be followed by a larger field experiment in March in order to learn more about factors that influence the user’s acceptance as well as the eye movement patterns that reflect typical phases of decision processes and indicate the need for support by a RA
Plekocheilus (Aeropictus) veranyi Pfeiffer 1848
No full textPlekocheilus (Aeropictus) veranyi (Pfeiffer, 1848) Bulimus veranyi Pfeiffer 1848 a: 230. Type locality: Venezuela, Edo. Mérida, Chachopo. Lectotype BMNH 1975297 (Breure 1978). Plekocheilus (Aeropictus) veranyi (Pfeiffer); Tello 1975: 201. Plekocheilus veranyi (Pfeiffer); Richardson 1995: 323 (references, synonymy; see remarks). Plekocheilus (Orcesiellus) succinoides [sic] (Petit); Tello 1975: 201. Bulimus scytodes Pfeiffer 1853: 256. Type locality: Andes of Colombia. Type material: not located. Material. Venezuela, Barinas, Serranía de Santo Domingo, Jackson Colln, 3000 ft [~ 1000 m, in error?]: DMNH 148721, USNM 109523 (Gabaldon leg., 3000 m); Mérida, Chachopo: BMNH; between Chachopo and Timote, C. Beets leg./ 1953: RMNH; Mérida, Jackson Colln: DMNH 160801;?Mérida, Escorial Mountains, A. Gabaldon & sons leg.: USNM 206502 (8400 ft [~ 2520 m]), USNM 206504 (9600 ft [~ 2880 m]); Glorial: DMNH 141740; “Mérida:” UMMZ 147737 (ex Rolle); “Menda” (sic): UMMZ 147736, 242815;?Miranda, Caracas, ex M.L. Jaume: CMC C 13777.?, San Domingo: UMMZ 242814 (Marsh Colln), UMMZ 147735; “ Venezuela:” CMC C 11004 –11006, USNM 109526; New Granada: ANSP 66405, ANSP 66408, BMNH (ex Cuming), ZMUZ 511641 [not seen], ZMUZ 511642 [not seen]. Altitudinal range. The localities reported here range between 2520 and 3000 m (see remarks). Remarks. The date of first publication mentioned by Richardson (1995) is erroneous. He cited “ 1847 Philippi, Abbild. Beschr. neuer Conchyl. 3: 20, pl. 8 figs 5, 9 (1851)”. However, P. veranyi is mentioned on page 36, under the heading “ Bulimus. Tab. VIII. Januar 1849.” Thus the first valid publication was in Pfeiffer (1848 a). Of the taxa grouped under this species by Richardson (1995: 324), we consider P. cathcartiae and P. quadricolor to be distinct species. This species is very similar to P. delicatus, but differs in being decidedly smaller. Colombian material, labeled as P. veranyi, should all be considered P. delicatus. Two reasons lead us to believe that the altitude of DMNH 148721 (3000 ft) may be in error: (1) Another lot from the same location (USNM 109523) is clearly labeled with an elevation of 3000 meters; (2) All known species of the subgenus Aeropictus, similar to P. succineoides, are known only from high elevations, mainly páramo (i.e., 2500 m and above); if correct, 3000 ft would be by far the lowest elevation known for any species in this group, which we consider unlikely. We have been unable to trace the localities “Glorial” and “Escorial Mountains;” the latter, may refer to a location near Páramo El Escorial (~ 3000 m), or near the town of El Escorial (~ 3100 m), both within the Sierra Nevada de Mérida. Tello (1975) included P. succinoides [sic] in his list of Venezuelan land snails (cf. Weyrauch), apparently as a misinterpretation of a portion of Weyrauch’s (1967) description of the subgenus Orcesiellus. Contrary to Tello (1975: 201), we consider it likely that the species mentioned from Mérida by this author is P. veranyi (Pfeiffer).Published as part of Borrero, Francisco J. & Breure, Abraham S. H., 2011, The Amphibulimidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea) from Colombia and adjacent areas, pp. 1-59 in Zootaxa 3054 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27889
The Impact of the Sensory Environment on Participation of Preschool Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Date Presented 3/31/2017
This qualitative study explores the sensory environment to determine the impact on participation in the preschool environment. The study presents information gathered from semistructured interviews of preschool teachers and occupational therapists.
Primary Author and Speaker: Aimee Piller
Contributing Authors: Beth Pfeiffer</jats:p
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