703 research outputs found
Characterizing physical habitats in rivers using map-derived drivers of fluvial geomorphic processes
No full textNew understanding of fluvial geomorphological processes has successfully informed flood mitigation strategies
and rehabilitation schemes in recent years. However well established geomorphological assessments are
location-specific and demanding in terms of resource and expertise required, and their routine application
for regional or national river characterization, although desirable, is unlikely at present. This paper proposes
a framework based on GIS procedures, empirical relationships and the self organized map for the analysis and
classification of map-derived drivers of fluvial morphological processes. The geomorphic controls analysed
are: channel gradient and hydrology, specific stream power, river order and floodplain extent. The case
study is a gravel bed river in England. Using the self organized map, we analyse patterns of these controls
along the river longitudinal profile and identify clusters of similar configuration. The reciprocal relationships
that emerge amongst the geomorphic controls reflect the hierarchical nature of fluvial systems and are
consistent with the current theoretical understanding of fluvial processes. Field observations from the River
Habitat Survey are used to prove the influence of geomorphic drivers on reach-scale morphological forms.
Six clusters are identified which describe six distinctive channel types. These proved to be characterized by
distinctive configurations of geomorphic drivers and specific sets of physical habitat features. The method
successfully characterizes the notable transitions in channel character along the river course. The framework
is suitable for regional or national scale assessments through automatic GIS and statistical procedures with
moderate effort
De coleções a narrações : recortes de um caminhamento em terapia ocupacional
No full textA presente pesquisa buscou refletir acerca do processo de trabalho clínico, em terapia ocupacional, nos atendimentos a sujeitos com transtornos mentais graves. Partindo da experiência de trabalho da pesquisadora, que se desenvolve em um centro de atenção psicossocial (caps), da Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre, procurou-se refletir acerca do processo de construção narrativa e do estatuto do objeto na clínica da terapia ocupacional, inserida no contexto da rede pública de dispositivos de saúde mental. Tomando como ponto de partida o ato de colecionar, esse estudo se tramou a partir de fragmentos da prática clínica cotidiana, bem como de uma reflexão mais detalhada acerca do processo de escrever de um paciente, a quem se chamou de Ciro. Utilizou-se o termo caminhamento, cunhado por Antoninho, também paciente do caps, como eixo metodológico, alçando referido termo ao estatuto de conceito. Com o sentido de caminhar acompanhado, tomou-se o conceito de caminhamento, no qual não se tem, propriamente, como objetivo, um bem aprioristicamente determinado a alcançar, mas sim, uma posição de disponibilidade para um encontro. A construção do objeto de estudo se deu a partir de elementos articulados, primeiramente, aos moldes de uma coleção. Estes elementos, ao longo do texto vão sendo tramados para produzir a narrativa dessa dissertação. Utilizou-se a figura topológica da Banda de Moebius como lente para refletir acerca do trabalho que se produz em dobra, no sentido de que, como efeito do jogo transferencial, o formato que a escrita da dissertação toma é homólogo aos processos trilhados por Ciro, os quais considerou-se terem sido da ordem de um movimento que partiu de coleções, chegando a narrações possíveis. Entendendo o trabalho em oficinas terapêuticas como situado em um espaço híbrido (Rickes, 2007), em uma zona de fronteira entre o campo clínico e o educativo, utilizou-se, para escrever e ler a experiência, referenciais conceituais oriundos da psicanálise, principalmente das obras de Freud e Lacan, e de leituras das mesmas realizadas por autores contemporâneos. Procurou-se pensar, tomando o caminhamento como método, nos efeitos produzidos através deste trabalho em terapia ocupacional, a partir das reflexões acerca da negativa (Freud, 1925), na perspectiva da disjunção que produz o campo do não eu, marcando, conseqüentemente a diferença entre o fora e o dentro; do estranho (Freud, 1919), para problematizar os momentos em que se faz necessária a (re)fundação destes campos; do endereçamento (Lacan, 1955-1956), no sentido de que a inscrição psíquica só se efetiva quando encontra representação no discurso social (no Outro, desde a psicanálise); e da densidade simbólica diferenciada (Guerra, 2004), estatuto do objeto produzido em um espaço de oficinas terapêuticas, como operador de um corte, uma disjunção na relação de continuidade que se estabelece entre o psicótico e o Outro.The aim of the present work is to reflect on the process of clinical occupational therapy practice, in the caring for individuals with severe mental disease. Based on the author's experience working at a municipal psychosocial outpatient center (“CAPS”) in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, the objective was to reflect on the process of developing a narrative and also on the status of the object in the occupational therapy practice as part of the public mental health system. Utilizing the act of collecting as a starting point, the study evolved from fragments of daily clinical practice into a more detailed reflection into the writing process of a patient whom we named Ciro.The term "caminhamento" (a word not existent in the Portuguese language, coined by Antoninho, also a patient at the “CAPS”) was used as methodological axis, as well as, eventually, a concept. While uttered originally with the meaning of "walking with a companion", the concept of "caminhamento" refers to a process without an objective to be reached, but as a situation of openness to an encounter. The objective of this study grew from articulated fragments assembled as a collection, initially. These elements are intertwined throughout the text, producing a narrative, which is this dissertation. The topological picture of a Moebius strip was used as a lens through which to view this work, as a loop. As an effect of transferential play, the format that this narrative took is homologous to the process utilized by Ciro considering he started with collections and proceeded to tentative narratives. From the standpoint that the therapeutic workshop is a hybrid space (Rickes 2007), on the border between clinical and educational, the conceptual references used to describe the experiences herein came from the field of psychoanalysis, specially the works of Freud and Lacan and their more contemporary scholars. Utilizing "caminhamento" as a method, the author attempted to think about the effects of this work in occupational therapy. Reflecting on negation (Freud, 1925) , in the perspective of the disjunction that creates the field of "not me", consequently stressing the difference between the out and the in; on the uncanny (Freud, 1919), to question the moments when the (re)foundation of these fields is necessary; on the addressment (Lacan,1955-1956), in the sense that psychic inscription is only effective when it finds representations in the social discourse (in the Other, from psychoanalysis); and, on the differentiated symbolic density (Guerra, 2004), status of object originated in therapeutic workshops as the one that severs the relationship of continuity that is established between a psychotic individual and the Other
Testemunho e transmissão : do excesso à produção de um saber
No full textO percurso desta tese partiu de uma inquietação, decorrente do encontro com um processo de trabalho no campo da clínica das psicoses, referente à necessidade de que algo (relacionado ao trabalho clínico com a psicose) ganhasse passagem. No campo de produções na cultura, delineou-se a questão da pesquisa: a articulação entre uma vivência da dimensão do excessivo e a subsequente necessidade de produzir uma perda no campo do Outro, por meio da produção de um saber, de algo endereçável. Perguntamo-nos sobre os efeitos desses encontros com o excessivo, quando o sujeito estaria na condição de testemunha de uma vivência alheia que lhe chegaria através de produções culturais (orais, escritas, imagéticas) deles decorrentes. Buscamos, na psicanálise freudo-lacaniana, as articulações teórico-conceituais para sustentar a formulação relativa à (re)inscrição da disjunção, que separa e coloca em relação (ao modo de uma torção, como a da Banda de Moebius) os campos do sujeito e do Outro, e que teria se suspendido em uma vivência do excesso. Refletindo sobre a produção de um saber, trabalhamos com as noções de experiência, testemunho, transmissão e endereçamento, tomando, além de elementos da literatura de testemunho e de fragmentos da criação de filmes, a produção do CD com livreto Minha Longa Milonga – 12 Canções para Keidânia, do artista porto-alegrense Claudio Levitan. O percurso da pesquisa nos permitiu concluir que haveria uma peculiaridade nessas produções, a saber, a força da dimensão de permanência com que são dotadas, no sentido de replicar, naquele que as receberia, tanto a vivência de um excesso, quanto a necessidade subsequente de fazer algo com isso, de seguir inventando palavras. Dessa forma, o circuito se recolocaria: um novo saber se produziria e assim sucessivamente, da forma como a cada um fosse possível tornar própria uma experiência, transmitindo-a.The path to this thesis arose from a certain disquietude due to encountering a work process in the field of clinic of psychoses, referring to need that something (related to clinic work with psychoses) gain passage. In the field of cultural production, the focus of the research was delineated: the articulation between living in the dimension of the excessive and the subsequent need of producing a loss in the field of the Other, by creating knowledge, something addressable. We asked ourselves about these encounters with the excessive, when the subject is in a condition of witness of somebody else’s experience which they would receive through cultural productions (orally, in writing, in imagery). We search, in freudian lacanian psychoanalysis, the theoretical-conceptual articulations to support the formulation relative to the (re)inscription of the disjunction, that separates and puts the subject and the Other in relation (as in the twisting of a Möbius strip), and that was suspended in during the experience of the excess. Reflecting upon the production of knowledge, we work with the ideas of experience, bearing witness, transmission and addressing, taking elements from the literature and fragments of movie productions, and also from the production of the CD and Booklet “Minha Longa Milonga – 12 Canções para Keidânia” from the artist from Porto Alegre, Claudio Levitan. The route that this research took, allowed us to conclude that these productions bear a peculiarity, which is the power of the dimension of permanence that they possess, in the sense of replicating, in the one that receives them, not only the experience of an excess, but also the subsequent need of doing something with it, to continue inventing words. Then, the circuit is repositioned: a new knowledge is produced and so forth, making it possible to make an experience one’s own, and transmit it forward
Gerda Lerner Family Collection 1939-1978
No full textThe collection contains materials related to several members of the Kronstein/Neumann/Mueller families; both original documents as well as additional biographical information and excerpts from Gerda Lerner's book "A Death of One's Own". The bulk consists of correspondence, mainly written from Ilona Kronstein's exile in Nice to her daughter Gerda in the United States. In one letter, Ilona Kronstein describes a brief stay in the Gurs camp. Most of the correspondence has been summarized by John and Eva Englander, the summaries are included in the folders.Austrian Heritage CollectionGerda Lerner, October 2003; April 2004 (Addenda 1)The Gerda Lerner Papers are on deposit at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute. See also the Nora Kronstein-Rosen Family Collection at the LBI (AR 25257)Ilona Kronstein (nee Neumann) was born in Budapest in 1897 to Sigmund Neumann and Emma Deutsch. In 1918, she met Robert Kronstein. The couple married a year later and moved to Vienna. They had two daughters: Gerda, born in 1920, and Nora, born in 1925. Between 1928 and 1933 Ilona studied art with Johannes Itten. She opened her own studio in 1933. In 1938, after several weeks in a Gestapo prison, she fled with her two daughters, Gerda and Nora, to Liechtenstein, where her husband was already waiting. After a few months in Vaduz, she went to a small town near Nice and solely devoted herself to art. It was in Nice that she became friends with the painter Rudolf Ray. In 1940 she was detained in the concentration camp at Gurs for several weeks and from 1941 onwards she began to show signs of multiple sclerosis. Her family managed with great difficulty to get her back to Liechtenstein in 1942 and to obtain medical assistance for her in Switzerland. She died in Zurich in 1948.In 2000, the Jewish Museum Vienna exhibited drawings and pastels by Ilona Kronstein, which her daughters Gerda Lerner and Nora Kronstein-Rosen donated to the museum in 1997.Ilona's sister Margit Neuer (born 1899) was a physician and perished in Auschwitz. Her second sister Klara (born 1903) married Alexander Mueller, a psychiatrist and close co-worker of Alfred Adler. As a stateless person he was denied residence in several countries and forcibly sent across the border back to Germany, until he finally obtained residence in Holland. After the Nazi takeover of the Netherlands, he and his wife fled to Budapest, where they survived the Russian siege and he survived Eichmann's death march to Austria. After the end of the war they first returned to The Netherlands, then found refuge in Switzerland, where Alexander Mueller accepted a position at the University of Zuerich. He died in 1968.Elizabeth Breznitz, née Klein, was born in Léva (then Hungary, today Levice, Slovakia). Her first husband, Leo Kalmer, died in a concentration camp in Bavaria; she was liberated from Auschwitz in 1945, but her father and her stepmother perished. After the war she lived in Plzen, Czech Republic. Her letters are of great interest to understand the daily life of a Holocaust survivor in Czechoslovakia.Gerda Kronstein came to the US in 1939, where she married Carl Lerner in 1941. She received her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1966. She is one of the founders of women's history and a former President of the Organization of American Historians. In 1972, she founded the first graduate (M.A.) program in women's history in the US at Sarah Lawrence College. In 1980 she founded the first PH.D. program in women's history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has won many honors, including 17 honorary degrees and is the author of 13 books.See also the catalog of an exhibition held at the Juedisches Museum Wien in 2000: Die Welt der Ili Kronstein = the world of Ili Kronstein : Werke 1938-1943 / herausgegeben von Werner Hanak im Auftrag des Juedischen Museums Wien. Wien : Juedisches Museum Wien, 2000. (LBI Library call number: q 156)Alexander Mueller’s only published book, “Du sollst ein Segen sein! : Grundzuege eines religioesen Humanismus“, GBS-Verlag, 1954 („You shall be a blessing! : main traits of a religious humanism”) has been transferred to the LBI libraryGerda Lernerdigitize
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Interview with Alicia Erian
No full textAlicia Erian is the author of a novel, Towelhead, and a collection of stories, The Brutal Language of Love. Her writing has appeared in Playboy, Zoetrope, and The Iowa Review. She has worked as a film director and screenwriter and taught at Wellesley College. She is currently completing a memoir. In March 2011, Erian came to Butler University as a writer-in-residence and sat down with Susan Lerner to discuss her writing process, messy families, and sex
Mémoires et témoignages = Memories and Testimonies
No full textThis catalogue accompanies an exhibition by eleven artists of European heritage now living in Canada. Curator Lerner explores how the artists’origins and experiences of emigration – new values and belief systems, new languages and identities – transpire in their work. The author introduces the artists by relating events from their personal history to their practice. Text in French and English. List of works. Biographical notes. Bibliography 3 p
NATURE AND NURTURE: THE COMPLEX INTERPLAY OF GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND DEVELOPMENT
No full textForeword / Steven E. Hyman -- Preface -- Introduction: Nature and nurture in human behavior and development: a view of the issues / Cynthia García Call, Elaine L. Bearer and Richard M. Lerner -- Ch 1. Genes and the promotion of positive human development: hereditarian versus developmental systems perspectives / Richard M. Lerner -- Ch. 2. How gene-environment interactions influence emotional development in Rhesus Monkeys / Stephen J. Suomi -- Ch. 3. Nature, nurture, and the question of "how?": a phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory / Margaret Beale Spencer and Vinay Harpalani -- Ch. 4. Commentary / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Ch. 5. Normally occurring environmental and behavioral influences on gene activity: from central dogma to probabilistic epigenesis / Gilbert Gottlieb -- Ch. 6. Beyond heritability: biological process in social context / Richard Rende -- Ch. 7. Uniqueness, diversity, similarity, repeatability, and heritability / Jerry Hirsch -- Ch. 8. Commentary / Lundy Braun -- Ch. 9. Instinct and choice: a framework for analysis / William I. Dickens and Jessica L. Cohen -- Ch. 10. Behavior as influence and result of the genetic program: non-kin rejection, ethnic conflict, and issues in global health care / Elaine L. Bearer -- Ch. 11. Embodied development: ending the nativism-empiricism debate / Willis F. Overton -- Ch. 12. Conclusions: beyond nature versus nurture to more complex, relational, and dynamic developmental systems / Cynthia García Call, Elaine L. Bearer and Richard M. Lerner -- Author index -- Subject inde
Market structure, competitive behaviour, and performance in local banking
No full textThis thesis explores the Austrian banking sector in terms of its competitive environment and drivers of banking profitability. By focusing on local markets, the empirical analysis provides more nuanced and reasonable insights, fitting for the large number of small banks. Furthermore, by including market structure as well as efficiency estimates, it is examined what the main explanatory factors for banking profitability are based on the structure-conduct-performance paradigm (SCP), relative market power hypothesis (RMPH), and efficient structure hypothesis (ESH). The results support the RMPH as well as the ESH regarding cost efficiency, showing that bank profitability in Austria is increased by being more cost-efficient as well as having greater market shares. Moreover, different competition measures are calculated, namely the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, the Boone indicator, and the Lerner index. These results show that the measures are weakly or even negatively correlated with one another, indicating inconsistencies in the resulting degree of competition they indicate. In particular, the development over the past years shows that while the HHI and Lerner suggest decreasing competition, the Boone indicator indicates competition to increase. These results have several policy implications, with the most notable being that effective policy making should not count on one measure reliably indicating the degree of competition in the banking market, but should rather apply a combined framework to measure competition.Author Simone Lueger, BSc BScMasterarbeit Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 202
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