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No full textThis paper explores the creative process the author partook in as she completed Act I of a future full-length screenplay, which explores themes of depression, self-acceptance, hope, forgiveness, and love. The reflection investigates the impact of Sheri Lindeman\u27s influences in the field of fiction and screenwriting shaping her structural choices, character development, and her growth as a writer. Although the screenplay submitted is a partial piece, incomplete due to length constrictions, a reflection on its initial creation and the extensive revision process will define this piece of writing as having potential for completion and possible consideration by the independent film industry
Declaratively Defining Domain-Specific Language Debuggers
No full textTool support is vital to the effectiveness of domain-specific languages. With language workbenches, domain-specific languages and their tool support can be generated from a combined, high-level specification. This paper shows how such a specification can be extended to describe a debugger for a language. To realize this, we introduce a meta-language for coordinating the debugger that abstracts over the complexity of writing a debugger by hand. We describe the implementation of a language-parametric infrastructure for debuggers that can be instantiated based on this specification. The approach is implemented in the Spoofax language workbench and validated through realistic case studies with the Stratego transformation language and the WebDSL web programming language. This paper is a pre-print of: Ricky T. Lindeman, Lennart C. L. Kats, Eelco Visser. Declaratively Defining Domain-Specific Language Debuggers. In Ewen Denney, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, editors, Generative Programming and Component Engineering, 7th International Conference, GPCE 2011, Portland, OR, USA, October 22-23, 2011, Proceedings. ACM, 2011.Software TechnologyElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Molecular composition of organic matter controls methylmercury formation in boreal lakes (Raymond L. Lindeman Award)
No full textAssociation for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Sciences Meeting (ASLO 2019), Planet Water - Challenges and Successes, 23 February - 2 March 2019, San Juan, Puerto RicoThe Raymond L. Lindeman Award honors a young author for an outstanding peer-reviewed, English-language paper in the aquatic sciences. The 2019 award was presented to Andrea Bravo (Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona, Spain) for her paper "Molecular composition of organic matter controls methylmercury formation in boreal lakes" (Bravo, Andrea G. et al., Nature Communications 8: 14255 (2017), doi: 10.1038/ncomms14255). Bravo’s research, published in Nature Communications in 2017, challenges the traditional mercury cycle by demonstrating the role of organic matter compo-sition on bacterial activity, and ultimately, on mercury methylation rates in boreal lak
L’accent indo-européen et le verbe celtique
No full textIndo-European stress and Celtic compound verbs : some methodological considerations.
According to a recent hypothesis by John T. Koch (1987), some of the peculiar features of the compound verbs in Old Irish and Brittonic could be explained by supposing that a Proto-Celtic ‘dynamic’ stress has replaced an older Pre-Celtic stress, of the musical type more or less identical with what is attested in Vedic. The author discusses the methodological problems involved in the different assumptions which are the basis of this ‘prosodic’ hypothesis.Selon une hypothèse récente de John T. Koch (1987) un certain nombre des traits particuliers caractérisant le verbe composé du vieil-irlandais et du britannique s’expliqueraient en supposant que l’accent ‘dynamique’ du proto-celtique ait remplacé un accent plus ancien, pré-celtique, du type ‘musical’ plus ou moins identique à celui que nous atteste le védique. L’auteur discute des problèmes de méthode que posent les diverses suppositions qui constituent la base de cette hypothèse ‘prosodique’.Lindeman Fredrik Otto. L’accent indo-européen et le verbe celtique. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 29, 1992. Actes du IXe congrès international d'études celtiques. Paris, 7-12 juillet 1991. Deuxième partie : Linguistique, littératures. pp. 43-50
Characterization of developing porcine cortical bone: applications of mechanical and optical methods
No full textThis thesis focuses on the characterization of developing pig bone under the effects of age-related changes and nutritional disease using several methods of characterization. The main characterization techniques are as follows: reference point indentation (RPI), compression testing, quantitative backscattered electron (QBSE) imaging, and nanoscale dynamic mechanical analysis (nanoDMA). The eventual goal of using this diverse set of characterization techniques is to understand and catalogue the changes that occur in bone due to biological factors. By understanding the various characteristics of bone, i.e. mineralization levels, property variations between quadrants, effects of disease, and microstructure variations, one can predict properties based on diagnostic knowledge.
The first study of this thesis is a partial review of the state of reference point indentation of bone. The origin of the device is explored, along with studies devoted to developing ideal operating conditions. Studies focusing on modeling RPI are also examined. Along with this literature review, an analysis of tip wear of the BioDent and Osteoprobe devices is presented.
The second study is a characterization of the mechanical effects on bone caused by induced colitis using three different measurement techniques. First, reference point indentation using the BioDent device was performed on femora and tibiae on both healthy and induced-colitis samples. Compression tests were completed on milled samples taken from cortical bones of left femora to determine modulus of elasticity and ultimate compressive strength. Finally, bone samples were dried and ashed to determine porosity and bulk mineral volume.
The next study is a demonstration of the quantitative backscattered electron imaging technique (QBEI). This technique is applied to characterize the effect of age in developing bones on the hydroxyapatite mineralization percentage. The sample preparation technique and data analysis procedure are demonstrated for a general desired compound.
The final study of this thesis is an investigation using nanoindentation of the viscoelastic properties of the outer layer of bone, known as the periosteal bone, compared to the inner, or endosteal, tissue. NanoDMA was used to capture hardness, complex modulus, and tan-delta data at a distribution of frequencies from 10-200 Hz. Determining the difference in properties between periosteal and endosteal bone is crucial in understanding measurements taken by reference point indentation devices.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-08-01The student, Cory Lindeman, accepted the attached license on 2017-07-18 at 12:22.The student, Cory Lindeman, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2017-07-18 at 12:27.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-07-18 at 16:41.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11503 on 2017-09-29 at 11:19:31Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-29T17:52:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Beyond Sorted: Developing Critical Adult Financial Education
No full textThis research sought to reimagine financial education from a critical theory perspective. This study proposes how a community of learners operating a critical pedagogy could be used to deliver adult financial education, and to provide a curriculum for use by such a community of learners. To achieve that aim, the objectives of this research were to complete an investigation into financial education discourses within New Zealand, to identify elements that compose financial education within each of these discourses and to combine those elements to create a comprehensive curriculum that when combined with the pedagogical approach form a critical adult financial education programme.
These objectives were achieved by conducting an investigation into the financial literacy and capability discourses in New Zealand to determine how these may be synthesised into an inclusive discourse. Four major discourses were identified following the collection and sorting of a wide selection of stakeholders within the financial education domain. The groupings were labelled governmental, community, commercial and academic to determine where there were overlaps and voids in the themes contained within these discourses. The key themes were then incorporated into the learning areas of a new curriculum matrix that became the research platform for this study.
The curriculum matrix included key competencies drawn both from the financial education discourses and from critical pedagogy influenced strongly by the theories and practises of Paulo Freire and Eduard Lindeman. The financial competencies identified were: financial decision making, financial goal setting, personal financial management and financial communication. The competencies evolving from the pedagogy were: critical thinking, self-reflection and agency. Also included were broad learning areas that would help identify topics for inquiry. These were: financial language, financial calculations, financial administration, financial products, financial services, consumerism and citizenship, seeking advice or remedy, and financial identity. The learning areas also included ‘institutions’ and ‘structures’ that support the neoliberal ideology dominant in New Zealand and much of the rest of the western world at this time in history. The inclusion of these indicated that a critical adult financial education must intend to identify and challenge injustices in local and global political and economic spheres to aim for emancipation from such injustices. The final element in the matrix was a selection of general and educational values used to support the effective operation of the community of learners. These values were suggestions only and the research platform recognised that each community of learners would create their own set of values to reflect the community’s ethos. Rather than include specific learning intentions or achievement criteria in the matrix, it was intended that the communities of learners would determine their own intentions and criteria. The curriculum matrix and pedagogical approach were presented as a programme for critical adult financial education.
In order to evaluate the programme, a qualitative Delphi inquiry was conducted over two rounds. The first round asked for two sets of feedback from experts within education and financial education domains. The first was to comment on the matrix and identify what they perceived as its strengths and weaknesses. The second question asked for feedback on the feasibility of the community of learners approach, operating a critical pedagogy, and applied to financial education. The results from the first round were synthesised, summarised and presented back to the participants via the web-based research platform, and further questions about specific issues common to many of the responses were posed in order to seek clarification of areas of high interest. The data from the Delphi provided varying responses and levels of support or critique for the programme. Respondents asked many questions, often seeking context for the programme or querying the choices of language use in the matrix or the overall operation of the community of learners.
No concrete conclusions about the potential effectiveness of a critical adult financial education delivered via the proposed programme were obtained from the Delphi inquiry. Instead, the results showed that further clarification and contextualisation of the programme was sought by the majority of respondents. Respondents sought the inclusion of achievement criteria within the matrix even though this was antithetical to the intentions of the design. Regarding the community of learners approach, the respondents were sceptical about whether an effective learning dynamic could be created considering the usually personal nature of financial learning. The purpose of adult education and adult financial education was examined as a part of the inquiry, which revealed that expectations of financial education are often so deeply entrenched in mainstream discourses that the notion of a critical approach is rejected even in theory. Overall the data showed that this programme, or possibly any critically located financial education programme, would be unlikely to find widespread support from those operating in mainstream financial education
Leisure and quality of cultural consumption: political and cultural issues in the Recreational Theory by E.C. Lindeman
No full textThe article focuses on the characteristics and dynamics of the so-called “cultural consumption” just as they have been identified by Eduard C. Lindeman in the US context after the end of World War II. In fact, the quality of recreational dimension – of individual, of family and of community as a whole – is an essential aspect in the Lindeman’s conceptions, in order to put into effect a democratic social order, in contrast to increasing standardisation pressures and trends of leisure time activities that are suggested and carried out. Therefore, the article considers some Lindeman’s writings which directly address this topic – e. g. Youth and Leisure (1937); Recreation and Moral (1941); Ideals for Family Life after the War (1942) – including the Italian translation of one of his most relevant articles in this field: The Dynamics of Recreational Theory (1948). The latter is a short essay, in which he addresses the homogenization of consumer-facing recreational activities, and their social, political and educational causes and effects. This in-depth analysis – which also aims to contribute to disseminating Lindeman’s thought and works, in the Italian context – can be interesting and useful both to understand the proposals by an author who is considered one of major founders of Adult Education in the modern perspective, more generally, and, in particular, to explain the emergence of the “American way of life”, highlighting some of its specific features
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