124 research outputs found
Object-oriented programming with ActionScript / Branden Hall and Samuel Wan.
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Characterization through Physicality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody
No full texthttps://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/8ac8ab5f-3a7f-4fb0-9c79-9fc1413e264d/thumb/128.jpgIn this thesis I am documenting my acting and performance process throughout the 2024 Fall semester’s mainstage production of Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Kate Ming T’ien Duffly. Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a play based on the 15th-century morality play titled Everyman. The author of Everyman is unknown, but it is assumed the author was Catholic due to its themes of sin and repentance. Lawrence V. Ryan analyzes Everyman as “a concise presentation of the orthodox teaching on the matter of man’s salvation.” (Ryan 725) Everybody also represents “man’s salvation,” but strays from Everyman’s Catholic origins to tell a more secular story about life and death as perseverance and surrender. The goal of my thesis is to experiment with various acting techniques to develop character-building skills so that I may better understand and portray my characters on the stage. I will be studying three theatre practitioners’ methodologies by experimenting with play to discover how different acting techniques influence my characterization—thus stage presence—in the 2024 Fall mainstage show Everybody
Melodramatic Tradition vs Colorblind Casting for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Plays
No full textThe article concerns with the plays An Octoroon and Gloria by contemporary American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The dramaturgy of one of the most notable authors, writing for the US theatre at the present time, is thematically varied; besides, it includes both Jacobs-Jenkins’ original works (e.g., Gloria, 2015) and his adaptations of plays by other authors and/or other epochs. Among the adaptations there is the most famous of Jacobs-Jenkins' plays so far — An Octoroon (2014), which is the author's treatment of 19th century melodrama The Octoroon (1859) by Anglo-Irish dramatist Dion Boucicault. Working with the play of the 19th century, which reveals the problems of slavery in a simplified, melodramatic form, allows the contemporary playwright to actualize the consideration of racial conflicts and to reconstruct/deconstruct the generic model of melodrama. The author of the article draws attention to the reception of the minstrel tradition in the play An Octoroon, both at the level of interaction of D. Boucicault's work with American minstrel show coinciding with it in time, and in connection with the comprehension and overcoming of the “minstrel archetypes” by B. Jacobs-Jenkins. The question of casting is very important to Jacobs-Jenkins, the playwright puts forward his requirements for ethnic conformity between actors and roles in his plays, and this brings together An Octoroon and Gloria, though the works are diverse in genre and subject matter. The cultural context for the works of the American playwright is, first of all, the drama and theater of the United States throughout their development. For further studies it also seems interesting to consider B. Jacobs-Jenkins’ plays in connection with folklore traditions or, e.g., in the context of sacred genres
An Acute Spinal Intradural Hematoma after an Extraforaminal Wiltse Approach: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
No full textA nontraumatic spontaneous spinal acute subdural hematoma (sSDH) is a rare complication after spinal surgery. Although an sSDH is often associated with anticoagulation therapy, vascular malformations, or lumbar puncture, the pathogenesis of nontraumatic spontaneous sSDH remains unclear. We present the case of an intradural hematoma after an extraforaminal surgery through the Wiltse approach for an extraforaminal disk herniation at L5/S1. This 58-year-old woman experienced hypoesthesia and progressive motor dysfunction in the left leg several hours postoperation. Urgent magnetic resonance imaging revealed an intradural hematoma at the L1/L2 to L2/L3 level in the ventral dural sac proximal to the surgical level. Surgical decompression was performed. There was no evidence of trauma, coagulopathy, or anticoagulation therapy. To our knowledge, this case is the first to report an acute sSDH proximal to the surgery level after an extraforaminal spinal surgery through the Wiltse approach for an extraforaminal disk herniation. It illustrates that attentive postoperative neurologic monitoring, even in the absence of intraoperative irregularities, remains important to diagnose and treat this complication at the early stage.Plazier, M (corresponding author), Jessa Hosp, Dept Neurosurg, Campus Virga Jesse, B-3500 Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium.
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Trust and responsibility attributions: variations across hazard managers in accidental and intentional food contamination incidents
No full textSources of trust in hazard managers have been studied in detail over many years, but reasons for attributing responsibility for hazard system performance have not. This study examines the role of factors in the salient value similarity (SVS) and intuitive detection theorists (IDT) models of trust, as well as awareness of problems and freedom to act to deal with those problems (AWFR), in predicting both trust and attributions of responsibility. The context used is a hypothetical contamination of food by Salmonella bacteria, either accidental or intentional, and these judgments are assessed for food producers, processors, "watchdogs" (government), sellers, preparers, and consumers. Results show that trust is primarily positively predicted by an index combining SVS and IDT items, with AWFR playing a trivial role of varying sign. However, initial attributions of responsibility are positively predicted by AWFR, with SVS/IDT as a secondary and largely negative predictor. These relative roles persist in logistic regressions of final attributions of responsibility, which control for the initial attributions. Modest differences occur across hazard managers and contamination cause in both trust and responsibility attributions, but these do not affect the relative influence of SVS, IDT and AWFR variables.Poster presented December 5, 2011 at the 31st annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, Charleston, South Carolina.Peer reviewe
OUR Works and Recycled 3D printing filament
No full text30 printing is an ever-growing field that is slowly and surely permeating every aspect of the engineering field. It is a unique tool that can create prototypes cheaper and quicker than traditional methods. SEA 3D is an arm of the HAAS Center that caters to the local business and student needs to assist in rapid prototyping and provides niche parts made from carbon reinforced nylon. 3D printing is a process called additive manufacturing which is a process that uses computer numerical control (CNC) to move a tool head that melts materials to its glass transition point and build an object layer by layer. This process creates waste material as it requires supports to give strength to layers which form sharp overhanging surfaces. There is also waste from material used to adhere the print to the bed, or if the print fails. SEA 3D creates enough waste in the form of commercially abundant polylactide (PLA) that a proposal was approved to buy a pair of machines that would allow the lab to re-use the waste material. During the Fall of 2020, a capstone and enterprise team was created to investigate and refine a process that would tum number one recyclable plastics (polyethylene terephthalate, PET) into usable filament. Through hours of hard work, the team successfully created printable filament from recycled water bottles.
My involvement In the project, started In fall of 2020 when I was able to become involved with OUR through the OUR Works Program and assigned onto the& project to assist the enterprise
team that was working on the project. Working with Murillo Basso and the enterprise and capstone team, I was able to expand my work from the study of the recycling process to get hands on experience printing with several different machines and studying the mechanical properties of printed test objects. The goal of this portion of the project seeks lo determine the Modulus of Elasticity and Tensile Strength of 3D printed Dog bones using PLA. ABS, and PETG samples as they are three of the most common materials
Beheer van de begroeiing op zeewerende duinen
No full textIn de Nederlandse zeereep is helm de belangrijkste zandstabiliserende plantensoort. Helmbegroeiing degenereert op plaatsen waar geen zand aanstuift. Deze degeneratie treedt op als gevolg van aantasting van de planten door parasitaire en pathogene microorganismen, aanwezig in de wortelzone van helm. Er kan daardoor een kale, verstuivingsgevoelige situatie ontstaan. Opnieuw helm inplanten is voor dit probleem geen goede oplossing, omdat de planten zich merendeels niet goed ontwikkelen en zelfs doodgaan. In dit onderzoek is door middel van veldexperimenten en laboratoriumproeven nagegaan of door steken, maaien, branden of bemesten sterk verzwakte helm kan worden geregenereerd. Ook is door middel van laboratoriumexperimenten onderzocht in hoeverre een aantal plantensoorten die helm van nature opvolgen, resistent zijn tegen de bodemmicroorganismen die helm aantasten. In veldproeven (bij Oostvoorne, Oostkapelle en Noordwijk) is onderzocht of een aantal van de natuurlijke opvolgers van helm gaat groeien op plekken waar helm van nature degenereert. De planten werden gepoot, gestekt, gezaaid, of er werden aangewortelde planten of wortelstokken aangebracht. De conclusie uit dit onderzoek is dat, indien de helmbegroeiing zover is achteruitgegaan dat het duin erosiegevoelig wordt, deze begroeiing niet geregenereerd kan worden door te steken, maaien, branden of bemesten. Indien men een plek met gedegenereerde helmbegroeiing van beplanting wil voorzien, komen natuurlijke opvolgers van helm hier meer voor in aanmerking dan helm zelf. Konijnenvraat of waterafstotendheid van het zand kan voor deze plantensoorten een probleem zijn. Er zijn aanbevelingen opgesteld voor de zeereepbeheerders.TAW/EN
Effects of acknowledging uncertainty over time: the case of intentional food contamination
No full textExperts frequently advise communicators to acknowledge or even “proclaim” uncertainty when talking about risk. Using an experimental design involving a sequence of fictional newspaper articles, we examine the role that expressions of uncertainty can play in public response to a foodborne illness outbreak resulting from what is revealed to be intentional contamination of ground beef. The study was designed to understand the effects of different types of expression of uncertainty, whether these effects change over time, whether the topic of uncertainty matters, and whether it matters if the communicator is ultimately correct or incorrect. Data were collected from 1,924 participants from an internet panel (65.3% completion rate). The study had a full factorial design: 3 (Expression of uncertainty about the food involved) X 2 (Correctness about the food involved) X 2 (Expression of uncertainty about intentionality) X 2 (Correctness about intentionality). After each of three sequential messages, participants rated their understanding of the scenarios, the competence and honesty of the investigators, and the seriousness of the incident. ANOVAs indicate that expressing certainty during an investigation may increase perceptions of competence and honesty of investigators, and increase audience perceptions that they understand the situation (ps <.001). However, repeatedly expressing certainty eroded perceived competence over time. As expected, expressing uncertainty helped to mitigate the negative effects of being wrong about the details of an outbreak. However, there was only a significant interaction effect for expressing uncertainty and correctness about the intentionality of the foodborne illness outbreak, and no interaction with correctness about the food involved. Overall, these results indicate that looking at expressions of uncertainty at only one point does not provide a full picture of how messages of uncertainty risk will be received over the course of an outbreak.Poster presented December 10, 2012 at the 32nd annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, San Francisco, California.Peer reviewe
Maximum shortening velocity and myosin heavy-chain isoform expression in human masseter muscle fibers
No full textWhile human masseter muscle is known to have unusual co-expression of myosin heavy-chain proteins, cellular kinetics of individual fibers has not yet been tested. Here we examine if myosin heavy-chain protein content is closely correlated to fiber-shortening speed, as previously reported in other human muscles, or if these proteins do not correlate well to shortening speeds, as has been demonstrated previously in rat muscle. Slack-test recordings of single, skinned human masseter fibers at 15°C revealed maximum shortening velocities generally slower and much more variable than those recorded in human limb muscle. The slowest fiber recorded had a maximum shortening velocity (V0) value of 0.027 muscle lengths ·s-1, several times slower than the slowest type I fibers previously measured in humans. By contrast, human limb muscle controls produced V0 measurements comparable with previously published results. Analysis by gel electrophoresis found 63% of masseter fibers to contain pure type I MyHC and the remainder to co-express mostly type I in various combinations with IIA and IIX isoforms. Vo in masseter fibers forms a continuum in which no clear relationship to MyHC isoform content is apparent.Peer reviewedfinal article publishedslack testV0skeletal muscl
Comparing Bottled Water and Tap Water: Experiments in Risk Communication
No full textThe author discusses results of experiments in risk communication comparing bottled water and tap water
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