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Item Applications of synergies in human machine interfaces(Frontiers Media) Vinjamuri, Ramana; Mao, Zhi-Hong; Maybhate, AnilSynergies is derived from the word synergos which means working together. In many contexts, synergies are common (shared) spatiotemporal patterns in muscle activities or movement kinematics/ dynamics. These patterns can be used as primitives or building blocks, that combine to form complete movements. These synergies were found by several researchers in postures, kinematics (joint positions and velocities), dynamics (joint torques), and muscles in upper and lower limbs. These synergies have helped researchers to understand the neural mechanisms behind human movement planning and control. This biologically inspired concept of synergies has found important applications in rehabilitation, rehab robotics, prosthetics and exoskeletons, brain machine interfaces and human machine interfaces.Item Baseball Girl: A Novel(2015) Verni, Stephanie; School of Design; Business CommunicationFrancesca Milli’s father passes away when she’s a freshman in college and nineteen years old; she is devastated and copes with his death by securing a job working for the Bay City Blackbirds, a big-league team, as she attempts to carry on their traditions and mutual love for the game of baseball. The residual effect of loving and losing her dad has made her cautious, until two men enter her life: a ballplayer and a sports writer. With the support of her mother and two friends, she begins to work through her grief. A dedicated employee, she successfully navigates her career, and becomes a director in the team’s organization. However, Francesca realizes that she can’t partition herself off from the world, and in time, understands that sometimes love does involve taking a risk.Item Being Wakeful(Otter Bay Books, 2015) Deluty, Robert H.Item Beneath the Mimosa tree: A Novel(2012) Verni, Stephanie; School of Design; Business CommunicationAnnabelle Marco and Michael Contelli are both only children of Italian-Americans. Next door neighbors since they were both five years old, they both receive their parents' constant attention and are regularly subjected to their meddlesome behavior. In high school and then in college, as their relationship moves from friendship to love, Annabelle finds herself battling her parents, his parents, and even Michael. She feels smothered by them all and seeks independence through an unplanned and unexpected decision that she comes to regret and that ultimately alters the course of her life, Michael's life, and the lives of both their parents. Set in Annapolis, Maryland, New York City, and London, England, in the 1980s and 1990s, Beneath the Mimosa Tree examines both Annabelle's and Michael's journeys over the span of ten years as we hear their alternating voices tell the story of self-discoveries, the nature of well-meaning families, and the sense of renewal that can take place when forgiveness is permitted.Item Between Nothing and All(Otter Bay Books, 2011) Deluty, Robert H.Item CHERISHING THE SMALL AND ORDINARY(Otter Bay Books) Deluty, Robert H.Item The Choice of Attention(Otter Bay Books, 2019) Deluty, Robert H.Item Communication Ethics: Literacy Dialogue and Difference(Sage Publications, 2009) Arnett, Ronald C.; Fritz, Janie M. Harden; Bell, Leeanne M.; School of Design; Business CommunicationThe pragmatic necessity of communication ethics -- Defining communication ethics -- Approaches to communication ethics: the pragmatic good of theory -- Communication ethics: in the eye(s) of the theory of the beholder -- Dialogic ethics: meeting differing grounds of the "good" -- Public discourse ethics: public and private accountability -- Interpersonal communication ethics: the relationship matters -- Organizational communication ethics: community of memory and dwelling -- Intercultural communication ethics: before the conversation begins -- Business and professional communication ethics -- Health care communication ethics -- Communication ethics literacy and difference: dialogic learning.Item The country myth: motifs in the British novel from Defoe to Smollett(Peter Lang Publishing, 1991) Towson University. Department of EnglishItem A Crowded Life(Otter Bay Books, 2012) Deluty, Robert H.Item Decolonizing Linguistics(Oxford University Press, 2024-03-01) Hudley, Anne H. Charity; Mallinson, Christine; Bucholtz, MaryDecolonizing Linguistics, the companion volume to Inclusion in Linguistics, is designed to uncover and intervene in the history and ongoing legacy of colonization and colonial thinking in linguistics and related fields. Taken together, the two volumes are the first comprehensive, action-oriented, book-length discussions of how to advance social justice in all aspects of the discipline.The introduction to Decolonizing Linguistics theorizes decolonization as the process of centering Black, Native, and Indigenous perspectives, describes the extensive dialogic and collaborative process through which the volume was developed, and lays out key principles for decolonizing linguistic research and teaching. The twenty chapters cover a wide range of languages and linguistic contexts (e.g., Bantu languages, Creoles, Dominican Spanish, Francophone Africa, Zapotec) as well as various disciplines and subfields (applied linguistics, communication, historical linguistics, language documentation and revitalization/reclamation, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax). Contributors address such topics as refusing settler-colonial practices and centering community goals in research on Indigenous languages; decolonizing research partnerships between the Global South and the Global North; and prioritizing Black Diasporic perspectives in linguistics. The volume's conclusion lays out specific actions that linguists can take through research, teaching, and institutional structures to refuse coloniality in linguistics and to move the field toward a decolonized future. , This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Decolonizing Linguistics, the companion volume to Inclusion in Linguistics, is designed to uncover and intervene in the history and ongoing legacy of colonization and colonial thinking in linguistics and related fields. Taken together, the two volumes are the first comprehensive, action-oriented, book-length discussions of how to advance social justice in all aspects of the discipline.The introduction to Decolonizing Linguistics theorizes decolonization as the process of centering Black, Native, and Indigenous perspectives, describes the extensive dialogic and collaborative process through which the volume was developed, and lays out key principles for decolonizing linguistic research and teaching. The twenty chapters cover a wide range of languages and linguistic contexts (e.g., Bantu languages, Creoles, Dominican Spanish, Francophone Africa, Zapotec) as well as various disciplines and subfields (applied linguistics, communication, historical linguistics, language documentation and revitalization/reclamation, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax). Contributors address such topics as refusing settler-colonial practices and centering community goals in research on Indigenous languages; decolonizing research partnerships between the Global South and the Global North; and prioritizing Black Diasporic perspectives in linguistics. The volume's conclusion lays out specific actions that linguists can take through research, teaching, and institutional structures to refuse coloniality in linguistics and to move the field toward a decolonized future.Item The eighteenth-century British novel and its background: an annotated bibliography and guide to topics(Scarecrow Press, 1985) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Behm, Carl, 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishItem Entering Throught the Window(Otter Bay Books, 2013) Deluty, Robert H.Item Gifts in Disguise(Otter Bay Books, 2014) Deluty, Robert H.Item Henry Fielding: an annotated bibliography(Scarecrow Press, 1979) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishItem Human Recordings(Otter Bay Books, 2014) Deluty, Robert H.Item Hypertext: from Text to Expertext(UMBC) Rada, RoyEfforts to exploit technology so as to add extra dimensions to text have occurred throughout history, but the electronic computer has opened new vistas. The modern history of hypertext begins with the text `As We May Think' which describes an analogue computer that allowed individuals to record and follow links among documents. The declining costs of digital computing along with the information explosion necessitate a reassessment of the principles and systems which may be united to serve the information age. In particular, the links within a document, among people, and among documents must come together. The disciplines of human-computer interaction, computer-supported collaborative work, information storage and retrieval, and artificial intelligence should complement one another in the new discipline that studies hypertext.Item Inclusion in Linguistics(Oxford University Press, 2024-03-01) Hudley, Anne H. Charity; Mallinson, Christine; Bucholtz, MaryInclusion in Linguistics, the companion volume to Decolonizing Linguistics, aims to reinvent linguistics as a space of belonging across race, gender, class, disability, geographic region, and more. Taken together, the two volumes are the first comprehensive, action-oriented, book-length discussions of how to advance social justice in all aspects of the discipline. The volume's introduction theorizes inclusion as fundamental to social justice and describes the extensive dialogic and collaborative process through which the volume was developed. Contributors discuss intersectional forms of exclusion in linguistics: researchers' anti-autistic ableism; the exclusion of Deaf Global South researchers of color; the marginalization of Filipino American students and scholars; disciplinary transphobia; and the need for a “big tent” linguistics. The volume goes on to outline intersectional forms of exclusion in linguistics, describes institutional steps toward inclusion, offers examples of how to further educational justice, and shares models of collaborations designed to create an inclusive public-facing linguistics. The volume's conclusion outlines actions that linguists can take through research, teaching, and institutional structures to advance inclusion in linguistics and move the field toward social justice.Item Inn Significant: A Novel(Mimosa, 2017) Verni, Stephanie; School of Design; Business CommunicationTwo years after receiving the horrifying news of her husband Gil’s death, Milly Foster continues to struggle to find her way out of a state of depression. As a last-ditch effort and means of intervention, Milly’s parents convince her to run their successful Inn during their absence as they help a friend establish a new bed and breakfast in Ireland. Milly reluctantly agrees; when she arrives at the picturesque, waterfront Inn Significant, her colleague, John, discovers a journal written by her deceased grandmother that contains a secret her grandmother kept from the family. Reading her grandmother’s words, and being able to identify with her Nana’s own feelings of loss, sparks the beginning of Milly’s climb out of the darkness and back to the land of the living.Item The Inventor as Observer(Otter Bay Books, 2013) Deluty, Robert H.
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