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"Disney is the Tiffany’s and I am the Woolworth's of the business": A critical re-analysis of the business philosophies, production values and studio practices of animator-producer Paul Houlton Terry
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Animator-producer Paul Houlton Terry has been portrayed as having little passion for the animation he produced and being more concerned with making a profit than producing entertaining cartoons with high production values. The purpose of the dissertation is to re-evaluate Terry‘s legacy to animated cartooning by analyzing his business philosophies, production values, and studio practices.
Application of four psychodynamic factors to the early life and career of Terry, 1887-1929, found that his economic decision making was characterized by: an external locus of control, risk-averse financial behaviour, extreme saving behaviour through precaution, and shrewd money management practices. Based on Terry‘s historical responses to twelve major economic, technological, or institutional forces of change for the period 1929-1955, the psychodynamic factors were found to provide accurate explanations for his studio practices and production decisions.
There was no evidence to support the conclusion that three early career disappointments undermined Terry‘s intrinsic motivation to create animated cartoons. Rather, Terry‘s lack of risk taking, external locus of control, tight studio production schedule, desire to compete with neighbour studio Fleischer, difficulty in separating financial rewards from creative processes in animation, and practice of undertaking surveillance measures on staff may have undermined his and his studio‘s creativity. Archival research found Terry to possess strong passions for and to have made significant creative contributions to the field of animation.
Biographical research found that Terry retained a stable nucleus of highly talented artists who dedicated a significant portion of their working careers to the studio. An analysis of the cel aesthetics of a random sample of animated cartoons produced during the years 1930-1955 found that Terry created animated cartoons with above average cel aesthetics when compared to the other studios thereby supporting an inference that Terry was motivated to producing quality crafted animation. Further research is suggested into the role psychodynamic factors and economic decision-making play in the film production process and a clarification of Terry‘s legacy to the field of animated cartoons
Is a Semantic Web Agent a Knowledge-Savvy Agent?
No full textThe issue of knowledge sharing has permeated the field of distributed AI and in particular, its successor, multiagent systems. Through the years, many research and engineering efforts have tackled the problem of encoding and sharing knowledge without the need for a single, centralized knowledge base. However, the emergence of modern computing paradigms such as distributed, open systems have highlighted the importance of sharing distributed and heterogeneous knowledge at a larger scale—possibly at the scale of the Internet. The very characteristics that define the Semantic Web—that is, dynamic, distributed, incomplete, and uncertain knowledge—suggest the need for autonomy in distributed software systems. Semantic Web research promises more than mere management of ontologies and data through the definition of machine-understandable languages. The openness and decentralization introduced by multiagent systems and service-oriented architectures give rise to new knowledge management models, for which we can’t make a priori assumptions about the type of interaction an agent or a service may be engaged in, and likewise about the message protocols and vocabulary used. We therefore discuss the problem of knowledge management for open multi-agent systems, and highlight a number of challenges relating to the exchange and evolution of knowledge in open environments, which pertinent to both the Semantic Web and Multi Agent System communities alike
Interview: 2009-01-08
No full textDr. Spohn was born on February 22, 1946. His father was career military and his family moved many times. He spent several years growing up in Germany. Dr. Spohn was educated at Miami University in Ohio and received his PhD from Texas Tech University. He came to work at Liberty University in the summer of 1987 teaching in the areas of biology and creationism. Dr. Spohn has participated in a research grant to study the endangered Peaks of Otter salamander. He has taught English as a language at a Christian South Korean University and has spoken on Creationism at the Russian Academy. Dr. Spohn served as the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences from 1996 – 2000. He is currently part of the teaching faculty of the biology department of Liberty University
Advocating a utilitarian profession in a Kantian world? LIS ethical reflection and the challenges of political philosophy
No full textThe over-arching political philosophy of the past 30 years has seen a movement from the Utilitarian principles that had dominated since the mid to late Victorian period to a more Kantian, rights-based approach to justification of public services and professions. Political philosophy has a major impact on the ethical parameters in which professions operate. In publically-funded libraries a change in such philosophy can alter the aims and objectives of the organisation, and even the justification for its very existence. In a sector that grew out of the Utilitarian era, such as public libraries, old arguments for advocacy that have been used historically hold little sway with elected officials and managers inculcated within a rights-based framework. LIS professional education rarely fills such gaps; while many LIS courses contain modules that deal in professional ethics, a key tangential issue is the understanding of political philosophy and the motivations and beliefs of those who fund library services. Conversely many elected officials come to public service with an education that covers the broadest range of political philosophy. In the UK, North America and Europe, for instance, the PPE degree (politics, philosophy, and economics) and its variants are a staple of the ruling classes. Such a background sees them well able to understand and be able to rebut any arguments for justifying services that do not fit into the rights-based approach. LIS professionals’ ethical reflection must become more strategic and be aimed at advocacy that is effective and will be understood by elected officials influenced by rights-based arguments. Utilising the public library service as an example, this paper will identify how many in the profession may have strategically misfired in terms of their advocacy approach, and instead suggest how ethical reflection could be enhanced by presenting the justification of library services within the philosophical context of the day, and how in doing so fill a major gap in the knowledge of many library and information professionals. It will be argued that used in partnership with ethical codes, such a focused ethical reflection can take such static documents and apply them to myriad real scenarios, enabling them to become a living embodiment of active ethical reflection in library and information services
Birmingham News sleeve BN0026612
No full textMrs. Charles R. Terry / Celestine Sibley / Canterbury Methodist Church / Author Celestine Sibley and Mrs. Charles R. Terry at Fall Fiesta bazaar / Get Miss Sibley autographing book / 350 Overbrook Road / Mountain Brook / [Work order included
Minding the aesthetic: The place of the literary in education and research.
No full textThe article discusses the significance of aesthetic as a mode of cognition and means of social cohesion. It notes the relation of aesthetic knowledge with the perception or intuition, the emergence of such awareness into something durable and the response to the embodiment. It describes the evolution of aesthetic delight in the human species, the sense of sense of beauty arising on one's realization of the formal qualities of something, through the poem presented by the author on achievement
Fit before merit: exploring former McNair Scholars’ perceptions of faculty-student relationships
No full textThe Ronald E. McNair Scholars Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program is a federally funded program in the United States aimed at preparing underrepresented undergraduate students for graduate school. Within the program, which tends to have a meritocratic disposition, a mentorship component seeks to help students learn how to work with faculty members within the context of research. The central question of this exploratory study was how former McNair Scholars perceive the effectiveness of the mentorship component of the McNair program. This study is a student-centered and invites future studies about other perspectives within the McNair program, especially from faculty members and program staff. Based on eight interviews with former McNair Scholars in graduate school, in addition to complementary insights from my experience as a former McNair scholar and a previous participant observation study on current McNair Scholars’ work, a key finding is that the mentoring component struggled to address the tension between fit and merit within faculty-student relationships. This finding has implications for the future of the mentorship component of the McNair Program in addition to other the theorization of faculty-student relationships.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-08-01The student, Terry Vaughan, accepted the attached license on 2017-06-06 at 10:28.The student, Terry Vaughan, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-06-06 at 10:47.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-06-06 at 15:21.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11196 on 2017-09-29 at 11:13:27Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-29T16:39:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Louis Vierne and the Evolution of His Modal Consciousness
No full textThesis (D.M.A.)--University of Washington, 2018University of Washington Abstract Louis Vierne and the Evolution of His Modal Consciousness Jonathan Bezdegian Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Dr. Carole Terry Music During my years of organ study I have always been perplexed by the harmonic language of Louis Vierne (1870-1937), particularly in his 24 Pièces de Fantaisie. After reading a breadth of literature on the organ music of France after the French Revolution, the Paris Conservatoire, the progression of organ construction, the subsequent development of symphonic organ composition and improvisation, organ scholars have not discussed how to approach this music in terms of analysis, nor created a system to outline such an approach. Throughout Vierne’s Mémoires he constantly recalls his desire (and the desire of his colleagues), to escape French compositional norms and employ a new form of “daring modernism.” In Rollin Smith’s book, Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral, the author mentions that Vierne’s harmonic language has been codified in the modes of limited transposition. To date, scholars have not found any harmonic or analytical evidence to verify that this apparent modal consciousness is, in fact, true. Thus, the purpose of this dissertation will trace this harmonic evolution through Vierne’s life and education, the organs of Cavaillé-Coll, and through Vierne’s compositions. My analysis of Vierne’s selected compositions will illustrate that this modal awareness is plausible. By briefly analyzing the “Scherzo” from the 6ème Symphonie, it seems that this once loosely used modal writing (at least for Vierne) began to evolve and become more logical. Not only does this help to prove Smith’s point, but it will also give organists a new look at Vierne’s music through a harmonic, analytical lens, one that has not been attempted before
A computational biomarker of idiopathic generalized epilepsy from resting state EEG
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. This is an open access article. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this record.Epilepsy is one of the commonest serious neurological conditions. It is characterized by the tendency to have recurrent seizures, which arise against a backdrop of apparently normal brain activity. At present, clinical diagnosis relies on: (i) case history, which can be unreliable; (ii) observing transient abnormal activity during electroencephalography (EEG), which may not be present during clinical evaluation; (iii) if diagnostic uncertainty occurs, undertaking prolonged monitoring in an attempt to observe EEG abnormalities, which is costly. Herein, we describe the discovery and validation of an epilepsy biomarker based on computational analysis of a short segment of resting-state (inter-ictal) EEG. Our method utilizes a computer model of dynamic networks, where the network is inferred from the extent of synchrony between EEG channels (functional networks) and the normalized power spectrum of the clinical data. We optimize model parameters using a leave-one-out classification on a dataset comprising 30 people with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) and 38 normal controls. Applying this scheme to all 68 subjects we find 100% specificity at 56.7% sensitivity, and 100% sensitivity at 65.8% specificity. We believe this biomarker could readily provide additional support to the diagnostic processHelmut Schmidt, Mark P. Richardson and John R. Terry received financial support from Epilepsy
Research UK (via Grant A1002). Marc Goodfellow, Mark P. Richardson and John R. Terry
received financial support from the Medical Research Council (via Programme Grant
MR/K013998/1) and the EPSRC (via Centre Grant EP/N014391/1). John R. Terry further
acknowledges the generous support of the Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Award
(WT105618MA). Mark P. Richardson is part-funded by the National Institute of Health Research
(NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
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