669 research outputs found
Vicky Henderson
No full textthis paper. The second author is supported by an Advanced Fellowship from the EPSRC. The third author acknowledges partial financial support from DAAD, EPSRC and KW
Bayesian mixture estimation for perceptual grouping
No full textPerceptual grouping is the process by which a set of image elements is divided into distinct “objects” or components. In this dissertation I propose a Bayesian framework for understanding perceptual grouping, in which the goal of the computation is to estimate the organization that best explains the observed configuration of image elements. I formalize the problem of perceptual grouping as a mixture estimation problem, where it is assumed that the configuration of elements is generated by a set of distinct components (or ”objects”), whose underlying parameters one seeks to estimate. In the first part of this dissertation I will propose a simplified version of the framework and show how it can be used to estimate the number of objects, more specifically clusters of dots, present in the image. Across two experiments I show how the model gives an accurate and quantitatively precise account of subjects’ numerosity judgments, while at the same time outperforming more standard accounts for dot clustering. In the second part of the dissertation this simplified framework is expanded to estimate a hierarchical representation of the image elements. This framework can easily be adjusted to different subproblems of perceptual grouping. Here I will show how an instantiation of our framework for contour integration, part decomposition, and shape completion can account for several key perceptual phenomena and previously collected human subject data.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Vicky Froye
Humanitarian Organization Roundtable Discussions
No full text(Participants will join a roundtable of their choice to discuss topics more in depth with a presenter from our panel.)
Roundtable 1: Kelly Ryan
Room: BCC Oak Room
Roundtable 2: Charles MacCormack, President Emeritus, Save the Children
Room: BCC 200
Roundtable 3: Mari Barboza, Program Officer for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Organization, Catholic Relief Services
Room: BCC 206
Roundtable 4: John Keyes, Senior Vice President, Programs, International Rescue Committee
Room: BCC Mezzanine
Roundtable 5: Obadias Ndaba, President, World Youth Alliance; and, Amanda Pirih, Director, North America, World Youth Alliance
Room: BCC 1st Floor
Roundtable 6: Vicky Banks, Director of Outreach, All Girls Allowed
Building: Kelley, S.J. Center
Room: Kelley Presentation Roo
Double patterning at NA 0.33 versus high-NA single exposure in EUV lithography: an imaging comparison
No full textPhysical, sexual and emotional violence against women: a general practice-based prevalence study. by Danielle Mazza, Lorraine Dennerstein and Vicky Ryan
No full textTo determine the prevalence of domestic violence, childhood abuse and sexual assault experienced by women attending general practitioners
Confronting Existential Dilemmas: An In-Depth Analysis of Vicky Cristina Barcelona through the Philosophies of Sartre and Camus
No full textIn this paper, the author analyzes Woody Allen's film Vicky Cristina Barcelona through an existential lens, drawing parallels with the philosophies of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. The characters Vicky, Cristina, Juan Antonio, and María Elena embody existential dilemmas, exploring themes of individual freedom, choice, and the search for meaning in an indifferent world. The analysis delves into Sartrean concepts of bad faith and radical freedom, contrasting Vicky's societal conformity with Cristina's Camusian pursuit of meaning through experiences. The characters' interactions reflect the unpredictable and absurd nature of human relationships, echoing Camus's exploration of the absurdity of emotions. The non-linear narrative structure aligns with existential themes, emphasizing life's unpredictability, and Barcelona serves as a metaphor for the complexities of existence. Woody Allen's narrative and artistic choices invite viewers to reflect on the intricate interplay of love, desire, and chance encounters in the context of existentialism
From Pausanias to Baedeker and Trip Advisor: Textual proto-tourism and the engendering of tourism distribution channels
No full textThe key aim of this article is to provide an interdisciplinary look at tourism and its diachronic textual threads bequeathed by the ‘proto-tourist’ texts of the Greek travel author Pausanias. Using the periegetic, travel texts from his voluminous Description of Greece (2nd century CE) as a springboard for our presentation, we intend to show how the textual strategies employed by Pausanias have been received and still remain at the core of contemporary series of travel guides first authored by Karl Baedeker (in the 19th century). After Baedeker, Pausanias’ textual travel tropes, as we will show, still inform the epistemology of modern-day tourism; the interaction of travel texts with travel information and distribution channels produces generic hybrids, and the ancient Greek travel authors have paved the way for the construction of networks, digital storytelling and global tourist platforms
Exploring preservice teachers' development of awareness of student thinking
No full textNumerous reports have emphasized the need to engage students with the practices of scientific inquiry, specifically model-based inquiry in which students develop models to explain phenomena. A key factor in implementing this practice is the ability for teachers to attend and interpret student learning to guide instructional design. Research shows that experienced teachers’ understanding of learners influences their instructional design; however the research on preservice teachers (PT) has mixed results. For example, several studies have reported that PTs foresee few student learning difficulties when planning lessons while other studies found that PTs do acknowledge the importance of student ideas. Further, even when PTs do acknowledge student thinking, they are not clear what to do to ameliorate these misunderstandings. Being able to attend and respond to student thinking is based on the construct of noticing, which is the ability to notice and interpret significant interactions in the classroom. Due to the complex and dynamic nature of the classroom, it is difficult for PTs to develop these skills in real time due to the logistics involved in obtaining videos of PT instruction and the cognitive load involved in attending to the messy contexts of the real classroom environment. To circumvent this problem, teacher educators can focus on the precursors of noticing including framing and developing an awareness of student thinking; therefore, this dissertation focuses on the development of these precursors. The findings from these three studies will provide teacher education researchers with a clearer picture of where PTs are still struggling in their development; thus, they will be able to design and implement appropriate interventions that can help enhance these practices.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Vicky Kathryn Pilitsi
A Holding Space
No full textVicky Hunter is a Practitioner-Researcher and Professor in Site Dance at the University of Chichester,
UK. Her research explores site dance and corporeal engagements with space, place and lived
environments. Since 2004 she has presented site dance in a range of sites including basements,
woodlands and beaches. She is co-author of (Re) Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Themes (2019) with
Melanie Kloetzel and Karen Barbour, and editor of Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance
(Routledge, 2015). Her monograph Site, Dance and Body: Movement, Materials and Corporeal Engagement was
published by Palgrave in 2021
sj-docx-2-cre-10.1177_02692155231172012 - Supplemental material for Clinical practice recommendations for management of lateropulsion after stroke determined by a Delphi expert panel
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-cre-10.1177_02692155231172012 for Clinical practice recommendations for management of lateropulsion after stroke determined by a Delphi expert panel by Jessica Nolan, Angela Jacques, Erin Godecke, Hiroaki Abe, Suzanne Babyar, Jeannine Bergmann, Melissa Birnbaum, Shenhao Dai, Cynthia Danells, Taiza GS Edwards, Marialuisa Gandolfi, Klaus Jahn, Ryan Koter, Avril Mansfield, Junji Nakamura, Vicky Pardo, Dominic Perennou, Celine Piscicelli, David Punt, Devra Romick-Sheldon, Wim Saeys, Nicola Smania, Nathalie Vaes, Abigail L Whitt and Barbara Singer in Clinical Rehabilitation</p
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