843 research outputs found
AHC Interview with Lore Lizbeth Waller
No full textLore Lizbeth Waller, 2003The photographer Lore Lizbeth Waller was born in 1918 in Vienna, Austria. She attended the prestigious “Schwarzwaldschule” and studied photography in Vienna. After the Anschluss to Nazi Germany in 1938 Lore moved with her mother and younger sister to their relatives in Czechoslowakia. With the help of her mother’s friend she was able to obtain a permit as a domestic servant in England. She left for England in March of 1939. After the war she worked for the Civil Censorship Division (CCD) in post-war Germany and got a position as a photographer for “Stars and Stripes”. In 1952 she moved with her husband to the United States. The author lives in California.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Lore Waller's memoirs "View from a Distance" in the LBI library (DS 135 A93 W35 1993
Foot-floor contact pattern in children and adults with Dravet Syndrome
No full textBackground
Dravet Syndrome (DS) is a developmental and epileptic encephalopathy characterized by severe drug-resistant seizures and associated with cognitive and motor impairments. Walking problems are frequently observed. As the foot plays a key role during walking, compromised foot function can be a feature of deviant gait.
Aim
To investigate foot function in DS by characterizing foot-floor contact patterns using pedobarography.
Methods
A total of 31 children and adults were included in the DS group (aged 5.2-32.8 years, 17 female, 174 steps) and 30 in the control group (aged 6.0-32.9, 16 female, 180 steps). The foot-floor contact pattern was evaluated based on progression, length and smoothness (spectral arc length) of the center of pressure (CoP). Linear mixed models were used to identify differences between non-heel strikes and heel strikes and between the DS and control group.
Results
Fifteen participants with DS showed inconsistency in the type of foot-floor contact (heel strikes and non-heel strikes). Heel strikes of participants with DS had significantly reduced time of CoP under the hindfoot and increased time under the midfoot region compared to the control group. Significant time and age effects were detected.
Conclusions and implications
Deviant foot-floor contact patterns were observed in DS. Possible gait immaturity and instability as well as implications for interventions are discussed
Demystifying Stuttering Lore
No full textStuttering is an extremely complex and often misunderstood disorder. Marcel Wingate has been a prolific author in the area of fluency disorders for over 40 years. The primary aims of his book, Foundations of Stuttering, are to debunk prevailing lore about the disorder of stuttering and to present evidence that supports stuttering as a disorder of speech control. To this end, common misperceptions about stuttering are highlighted and extensive literature reviews have been undertaken and, importantly, the stance presented in the book is supported by recent neuroimaging investigations that have demonstrated neural correlates for stuttering (e.g., Fox et al., 2000; Ingham, Fox, Costello Ingham, & Zamarripa, 2000; Sommer, Koch, Paulus, Weiller, & Buchel, 2002). The author emphasises that the study of stuttering must be approached from a reference point of what is known about speech and its production. The book is divided into four parts and within each section are a number of chapters pertaining to particular themes. At the end of each chapter is a useful and concise summary.No Full Tex
Lore of Running
No full textThis updated version of Lore of Running covers everything runners, trainers, and coaches want to know about running from physiology, training, and history to health and medical considerations. Author Timothy Noakes, himself a runner, research scientist, and physician, presents comprehensive information that is firmly based on science but written in a down-to-earth way that every layperson can understand. Part I of Lore of Running explores the physiology of running. In Part II, Noakes considers all aspects of training for running. Part III, Health and Medical Considerations, provides complete information about recognizing avoiding and treating injuries.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/prairiestriders_pubs/1207/thumbnail.jp
Family Lore and Believability in Historical Fiction
No full textThis thesis began with a story of family lore about life at the Manhattan Project plant site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The artist\u27s statement tells the story of lore passed down from grandmother to granddaughter during a road trip. As the family lore was written down on the page, the question of how to write believable historical fiction arose. Limitations in the research showed gaps in the narrative that the author needed to fill in. The critical theory paper evaluates how those research gaps can be used as opportunities for the craft of writing to bring this family story to life. Finally, the application of the research and family lore meet in the creative manuscript, Oak Ridge
How it actually works: Algorithmic lore videos as market devices
No full textOn YouTube, self-styled algorithmic experts claim to know how algorithms “actually work.” However, their knowledge is largely speculative. Developing recent work that pays attention to algorithmic expertise, I argue that algorithmic lore videos are “market devices” which are economically productive for the platform in four ways: they (1) legitimize platform narratives of algorithmic objectivity, (2) teach creators how to calculate the value of content and format it according to platform metrics, (3) encourage creators to build and govern audiences, and (4) justify continued content production even when it does not pay off for creators. Thus, despite claiming to describe “how the algorithm actually works,” algorithmic lore videos are performative; by teaching creators how to understand and act in the platform economy they do important work to bring the platform’s “visibility markets”—its labor market of content creators engaging in content production and its goods market of content to be watched—into being
„Game lore” — dodatek, podstawa i „granica” supersystemów
No full textThe term “game lore” does not have its exact equivalent in Polish. However, it remains an important manifestation of the reception of computer games. It is also an example of how computer games are initiated or supplemented by entertainment systems operating in the field of popular culture. Research on game lore can provide information that parts of the tradition of man living in times dominated by digital technology, continues to perpetuate and update, and why these, and not others. Basically, one can distinguish three main types of game lore. The first — as a complement to the entertainment superstructure — concerns cases when game developers reach the known universe (for example LOTRO) — and develop the ideas of the author (J.R.R. Tolkien). The second — as the basis of the new supersystem — is associated with the original ideas of programmers who create a new universe (for example, the Warcraft series, The Elder Scrolls). The third example — connect-ed with the evolution of the new universe and the supersystem in new and autonomous lore (for example League of Legend).The term “game lore” does not have its exact equivalent in Polish. However, it remains an important manifestation of the reception of computer games. It is also an example of how computer games are initiated or supplemented by entertainment systems operating in the field of popular culture. Research on game lore can provide information that parts of the tradition of man living in times dominated by digital technology, continues to perpetuate and update, and why these, and not others. Basically, one can distinguish three main types of game lore. The first — as a complement to the entertainment superstructure — concerns cases when game developers reach the known universe (for example LOTRO) — and develop the ideas of the author (J.R.R. Tolkien). The second — as the basis of the new supersystem — is associated with the original ideas of programmers who create a new universe (for example, the Warcraft series, The Elder Scrolls). The third example — connect-ed with the evolution of the new universe and the supersystem in new and autonomous lore (for example League of Legend)
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Forgotten Intellectual Property Lore
No full textAuthor of Ch. 8: R Radical Patent Law Reform in a Common Law Enabling System: A Metahistory.
Book Description:This innovative book explores forgotten disputes over intellectual property and the ways in which creative people and sovereigns have managed these disputes throughout the centuries. With a focus on reform, it raises important questions about the resilience of legal rules and challenges the methodology behind traditional legal analyses. Focusing on lore and traditions, expert contributors incorporate contextual understandings that are rooted in history, sociology, political science, and literary studies into their analyseshttps://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/book_chapters/1041/thumbnail.jp
Teaching local lore in EFL class: New approaches
No full text© Author(s).This paper is dedicated to the up-to-date educational problem, that is, the role of local lore in teaching EFL to University students. Although many educators admit that local lore knowledge plays a great role in the development of a well-bred and well-educated personality and meets students’ needs, the problem has not been thoroughly studied. Local lore can also serve as a unique source for implementing various teaching techniques, in particular a project method. In this study a project-based teaching technique was exploited, which allowed to implement the individual approach to the education of students. The materials used in this research are taken from the copyright methodical textbook “Local Lore in EFL Class”. Drawing on literature of teaching and learning EFL as well as personal teaching and learning experience, the authors present the authentic model of teaching local lore in EFL class on the basis of the project-based teaching technique. The paper discusses issues and practices of the studied topic and offers general recommendations for University faculty. These materials can also be used in teaching practice of pre-service teachers
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