Henri Temianka Correspondence; (unrath)

This collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/4219/thumbnail.jp

Becoming Magic: Acquiring the Artist Identity

This research mines the internal reflective process of an artist/researcher/teacher who witnesses her own becoming, seeing herself, in multiples and weaves a multimodal narrative while contemplating, revealing, and living multiple identities through visual inquiry. The purpose of this research, in its broadest sense, is to better understand the nature of artistic identity and how it is acquired in personal, social and educational contexts. As an artist/researcher/teacher, I seek to know how we might create more fertile conditions and facilitate appropriate rites of passage for transitioning individuals from student/teacher/aspirant to self-actualized artist

Dynamic exploration of helicopter reconnaissance through agent-based modeling

This thesis uses Multi-Agent System modeling to develop a simulation of tactical helicopter performance while conducting armed reconnaissance. It focuses on creating a model to support planning for the Test and Evaluation phas of the Comanche helicopter acquisition cycle. The model serves as an initial simulation laboratory for scenario planning, requirements forecasting, and platform comparison analyses. The model implements adaptive tactical movement with agent sensory and weaponry system characteristics. Agents are able to determine their movement direction and paths based on their perceived environment, attributes, and movement personalities. The model incorporates a three-dimensional aspect to properly simulate aerial reconnaissance. An integrated Graphical User Interface enables the user to create environments, instantiate agent propensities and attributes, set simulation parameters, and analyze statistical output. The resulting model demonstrates the ability to represent helicopter reconnaissance behavior. It captures simulation summary statistics that illustrate enemy performance, helicopter performance, and logistical requirements. The model establishes an initial simulation tool to further explore Comanche operational requirements and planning foi its Test and Evaluation phase. 14. SUBJECT TERMS 15. NUMBER OF Multi-Agent System, Agent- Based Modeling, Helicopter Reconnaissance, Comanche, Adaptive PAGES 140 Behavior, Modeling and Simulationhttp://www.archive.org/details/dynamicexplorati00unraU.S. Army (USA) autho

Cambios en las creencias, emociones y comportamientos de una persona con trastorno por atracón que asiste a psicoterapia

En la actualidad, el trastorno por atracón se presenta cada vez con mayor frecuencia. Sin embargo, es poco frecuente que quienes lo padecen busquen ayuda profesional principalmente psicológica, por algunas características del trastorno como lo son la vergüenza de reconocer sus comportamientos alimentarios y la escasa consciencia del padecimiento. Además, la reciente independencia del trastorno por atracón de la bulimia vuelve relativamente novedoso a su tratamiento específico a pesar de mantener ciertas características del tratamiento de la Bulimia. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo general describir los cambios en las creencias, emociones y comportamientos asociados al trastorno por atracón en una persona que asiste a psicoterapia. Se realizó desde una perspectiva de investigación cualitativa de alcance descriptivo y por medio de un estudio de caso único y de un análisis temático, se analizaron fragmentos de un total de ocho sesiones del inicio, intermedio y final del proceso psicoterapéutico, por medio de los cuales se evaluaron los cambios en las creencias, emociones y comportamientos. Los resultados obtenidos muestran distintos cambios significativos en las tres categorías. La categoría de creencias fue la primera en presentar cambios y a partir de esto, la categoría de emociones y posteriormente la de comportamientos presentaron transformaciones que aportaron a una mejora en la calidad de vida de la consultante. Como conclusión, se puede observar el impacto positivo que un proceso de psicoterapia tiene en el tratamiento del trastorno por atracón. Por medio de éste, la consultante fue presentando cambios en el reconocimiento e identificación de sus emociones y creencias al adquirir mayor conciencia de su problemática, lo cual la llevó a modificar sus comportamientos al comenzar a implementar acciones que le aportaban a su bienestar y principalmente, a la disminución de sus episodios de atracón.ITESO, A. C

Illokutive Strukturen und Dialoganalyse

The aim of this work is to describe dialog structures: dialogue structures that express different attitudes of interlocutors to the conversation and the partner. In addition, however, my hope is to be able to point out a possible way through the description of a dialogical attitude and the corresponding discussion structures, using specific "techniques" so structured and structured conversations that they lead to real understanding and thus to an improvement of the culture of dialogue

Predicting Robotic Grasps Using Surrogate Datasets

One of the tasks that continues to prove difficult in robotics is the ability to grasp objects of varying shapes. It is time-consuming to acquire large amounts of real-world data in order to train accurate classifiers that can predict the success or failure of a grasp. To solve this issue, we examine using artificially generated surrogate, or substitute, datasets as replacement training data for more expensive physically-tested training data. By dividing up the grasp space using kd-trees, we demonstrate that surrogate datasets can be efficiently leveraged to produce high-precision data in specific areas of the grasp space. This greatly eases the burden of collecting data by only requiring physical testing in areas where surrogate datasets have little expertise.Key Words: robotic grasping, kd-tree, Gaussian Process, Logistic Regression, classificatio

Diffusion tensor imaging and tractwise fractional anisotropy statistics: quantitative analysis in white matter pathology

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Information on anatomical connectivity in the brain by measurements of the diffusion of water in white matter tracts lead to quantification of local tract directionality and integrity.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>The combination of connectivity mapping (fibre tracking, FT) with quantitative diffusion fractional anisotropy (FA) mapping resulted in the approach of results based on group-averaged data, named tractwise FA statistics (TFAS). The task of this study was to apply these methods to group-averaged data from different subjects to quantify differences between normal subjects and subjects with defined alterations of the corpus callosum (CC).</p> <p>Results</p> <p>TFAS exhibited a significant FA reduction especially in the CC, in agreement with region of interest (ROI)-based analyses.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>In summary, the applicability of the TFAS approach to diffusion tensor imaging studies of normal and pathologically altered brains was demonstrated.</p

End-of-life care in Germany: Study design, methods and first results of the EPACS study (Establishment of Hospice and Palliative Care Services in Germany)

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In order to tackle the deficits in the provision of palliative home care, profound structural changes in the outpatient sector were introduced by law in Germany in 2007. The EPACS study was carried out (Research Accompanying the <b>E</b>stablishment of Hospice and <b>Pa</b>lliative <b>C</b>are <b>S</b>ervices in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) to document the quality of inpatient and outpatient end-of-life care in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, before the implementation of these changes. With this article we focus on the study design and methods of the EPACS-Study. We further report first results regarding several aspects of outpatient end-of-life care.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>The cross-sectional survey was based on a random sample of 5000 inhabitants of Rhineland-Palatinate that had died from May 25 until August 24 of the year 2008. Relatives of these randomly drawn deceased persons were interviewed by means of a written survey.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The overall response proportion considering only those questionnaires that actually were delivered (n = 3833) was 36.0%. Factors influencing participation were age, sex, and marital status. 355 (25.8%) deceased persons had used professional home care in the four weeks prior to their death, but only very few persons had used a specialised palliative home care service (n = 30; 8.5%). There was a clear gap between the need for specialised outpatient care and the actual utilisation of these services.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Satisfaction with professional home care was relatively high, but physicians were rated less favourable than nurses. There were deficits especially with respect to physicians' communicative and supportive skills. Further analyses are necessary to provide more detailed information about quality of care in different care settings and for distinct groups. Predictors of good care, as well as obstacles to it, must be further investigated. In the long run, a follow-up survey must be conducted to compare quality of home care before and after the structural changes in Germany.</p