Bee Gee News June 27, 1951

The BGSU campus student newspaper June 27, 1951. Volume 35 - Issue 59https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/2007/thumbnail.jp

March 31, 1928

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia

Understanding Individual Differences within Large-scale Brain Networks across Cognitive Contexts

Historically, human neuroimaging has studied brain regions “activated” during behavior and how they differ between groups of people. This approach has improved our understanding of healthy and disordered brain function, but has two key shortcomings. First, focusing on brain activation restricts how we understand the brain, ignoring vital, behind-the-scenes processing. In the past decade, the focus has shifted to communication between brain regions, or connectivity, revealing networks that exhibit subtle, consistent differences across behaviors and diagnoses. Without activation-focused research’s constraints, connectivity-focused neuroimaging research more comprehensively assesses brain function. Second, focusing on group differences ignores substantial within-group heterogeneity and often imposes false dichotomies. Recent findings show that brain network variability within an individual is nearly as great as across a group. Altogether, this illustrates a need for understanding individual variability in brain networks and how it relates to behavior. Therefore, I have developed a pipeline for investigating individual differences in brain connectivity, adapting robust statistical methods to address unique challenges of neuroimaging data analysis. Here, I describe this pipeline and apply it to two datasets. First, I explore between-individual variability in brain connectivity underlying intelligence and academic performance to better understand factors contributing to student success. Second, I assess the relative contributions of stress, sleep, and hormones to within-individual variability in brain connectivity across the menstrual cycle to illuminate little-studied phenomena affecting the everyday lives of half the population. Finally, I introduce a novel signal processing workflow for cleaning electrophysiological measures of bodily stress and arousal in neuroimaging research

Development of didactic physics experiments using a miniaturized wireless acquisition board

This work intends to utilize a miniaturized data acquisition board, with wireless communication, to modernize labs of introductory physics classes, namely in Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Electromagnetism, as well as to develop low cost solutions for these labs. The acquisition board used was BITalino, developed by the company PLUX. The selected experiments were the real pendulum and the Faraday induction. The real pendulum experiment uses a built-in accelerometer, while for the Faraday Induction a pre-amplifier was built in order to measure and recorded the induced voltage. A digital thermometer was also built, with the intent of being used in Thermodynamics experiments. The design philosophy of this project is to use, as much as possible, off the shelf components - both electronic and physical. The real pendulum experiment proved a success, it allowed finding of the damping time constant of the motion, as well as how the period of a real pendulum depends on the angle of oscillation. The pre-amplifier built to measure induced voltage in 10 300 V range and the digital thermometer were tested and both showed good results

February 4, 2021

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia

The Doppelgänger in Wilhelmine cinema (1895-1914) : modernity, audiences and identity in turn-of-the-century Germany

The Doppelganger is a celebrated motif of German silent cinema that has been seen by art and literary historians as a filmic descendant of German Romanticism, and by psychoanalysts as a concretisation of human beings' fears regarding their own potentially fragmentary nature and mortality. This research builds on such interpretations by suggesting that - in the case of German cinema before World War One, at least - the Doppelganger can be read as a signifier of modernity as it was experienced by members of various social groupings. Returning to primary sources, some 203 films are identified that featured a Doppelganger and were released in Germany between 1895 and 1914. This corpus is broken down both by genre (into detective films, comedies and art films), and in terms of the polarities of identity about which the figure of the Doppelganger is constructed (high yersus low class, female versus male, and black versus white). From here, individual chapters address the Doppelganger as a fantastic representation of shifting class, gender, sexual and ethnic identities in Wilhelmine society. Each chapter draws in particular on contemporary sources relating to the various frames of identity under discussion, and suggests possible readings available to Wilhelmine spectators of the Doppelganger in individual films and genres. In this way, meaning is located at the intersection of the filmic text and contemporary discourse, and the 'Doppelganger film' can be regarded as a conduit for exploring issues of shifting identity within modernity, with particular regard to perceived new identities constructed 'between' supposedly stable binary oppositions of class, gender, and so on. These include the 'new woman' (perceived as a female incursion into the male sphere), the nouveau riche (moving between low and high class identity), the 'sexual intermediate' (constructed between male and female sexuality), and so forth

1923 Warbler

The 1923 Warbler, yearbook of Eastern Illinois Universityhttps://thekeep.eiu.edu/warbler/1006/thumbnail.jp

1923 Warbler

The 1923 Warbler, yearbook of Eastern Illinois Universityhttps://thekeep.eiu.edu/warbler/1006/thumbnail.jp

Zeichen und Orte

Meine Arbeit untersucht drei ausgewählte Kriminalerzählungen und einen englischsprachigen Kriminalroman aus einer semiotisch-topographischen Perspektive. Das Textkorpus besteht aus den folgenden Texten: E. T. A. Hoffmann: Das Fräulein von Scuderi (1819), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Die Judenbuche (1842), Theodor Fontane: Unterm Birnbaum (1885), Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr Ripley (1955). Die Kombination von Zeichentheorie und Topographie als methodisches Analyseinstrument ergibt sich aus der Tatsache, dass beide Elemente fundamentale Kategorien klassischer kriminalliterarischer Texte sind: So entscheiden meist Zeichen (Spuren, Indizien etc.) und das einfache binäre System des Alibis (= „anderswo“) über die Frage nach dem Täter. In meiner Untersuchung identifiziere ich Zeichen und Zeichenstrukturen und setze diese in Beziehung zur im jeweiligen Text inszenierten Topographie, wobei diese Topographien zumeist mit simplen Dichotomien arbeiten, beispielsweise mit dem Gegensatz von oben und unten, Zentrum und Peripherie. Jeder der ausgewählten Texte wird hinsichtlich spezifischer semiotischer Aspekte untersucht. Zu diesen Aspekten zählen Medien und Fetisch, Schrift und Kainsmal, Syntagma und Paradigma, sowie Dekonstruktion und Psychoanalyse. Zu den zentralen Ergebnissen meiner Arbeit zählt die Schlussfolgerung, dass eine derartige Analyse implizite Kunstprogramme sowie Aussagen zur Natur des Zeichens, der Schrift und des unbewussten Diskurses herauszuarbeiten vermag. Des Weiteren erweisen sich die Texte zu weiten Teilen als selbstreflexiv, insofern sie ihre eigenen Konstruktionsprinzipien und ihre eigene Ästhetik thematisieren.In my thesis I analyze three crime novellas and one crime novel from a semiotic-topographic perspective. For my analysis I chose the following texts: E. T. A. Hoffmann: Das Fräulein von Scuderi (1819), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Die Judenbuche (1842), Theodor Fontane: Unterm Birnbaum (1885), Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr Ripley (1955). My point of view, which combines semiotics with topography, is based on the fact that both of these components are crucial elements in crime fiction: Typically, the perpetrator is identified with the aid of signs (tracks, clues etc.) or the question whether a specific person has an alibi (= „somewhere else“) or not, which is a simple binary system. I identified signs or signs-structures and put them into relation with the specific topography implemented by the respective text. Mostly, these topographic systems consist of dichotomies, e. g. the dichotomies: above and beneath & centre and periphery. Every respective text is analyzed from a specific semiotic point of view. Among these viewpoints are media and fetish, writing and the mark of Cain, syntagm and paradigm, as well as deconstruction and psychoanalysis. One of my primary conclusions is that an analysis like this can identify implicit concepts of art formulated by the respective text, as well as statements about the quality of the sign in general, the writing and the discourse of the unconscious. Furthermore, the texts analyzed in this thesis turn out to be self-reflexive in that they deal with their own construction patterns and aesthetics