Measure of Spatial Orientation Ability

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-357
Author(s):  
Alfredo Campos ◽  
Diego Campos-Juanatey
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Orientation ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Point ◽  
Image Rotation ◽  
Cronbach Alpha ◽  
University Undergraduates ◽  
Orientation Ability

The aim of this study was to design a test to measure a person’s ability to orient themselves on a “you are-here” map. The Spatial Orientation Skills Test, a test measuring spatial orientation ability, consists of 30 items, each item contains two maps, one is positioned at 0° (the model), and the other is the same map but amplified and rotated. The task participants were required to perform was to find their way around on the model map to get to a specific point by taking as a reference point the position indicated on the amplified and rotated map. A sample of 281 university undergraduates participated in the study. The test obtained a Cronbach alpha of .83. The test was significantly correlated to the test measuring image rotation. The results are discussed, and new lines of research are proposed.

Loss of Spatial Orientation, Constructional Apraxia and Gerstmann'S Syndrome

1944 ◽  
Vol 90 (380) ◽  
pp. 753-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Stengel
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Orientation ◽  
Parietal Lobe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Angular Gyrus ◽  
Dominant Hemisphere ◽  
Comprehensive Description ◽  
War Injuries ◽  
Constructional Apraxia ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Gerstmann’S Syndrome

In recent years important additions to the knowledge of the symptomatology in cases with involvement of the parietal lobe have been made. Both constructional apraxia (Kleist, 1922) and Gerstmann's syndrome, consisting of finger-agnosia, disturbance of right-left orientation, agraphia and acalculia (1924) have been related to lesions of the angular gyrus of the dominant hemisphere. Before the description of those symptoms, a loss of spatial orientation had been described in cases with lesions of the same localization. Balint (1910), Riddoch (1917), and others had observed that symptom in single cases, but the most comprehensive description was given by Gordon Holmes (1918), who studied it in a case-material of war injuries. When Holmes and his co-workers published their observations, constructional apraxia and Gerstmann's syndrome were still unknown. Loss of spatial orientation as a fully developed symptom is rare, while the other two disorders are not uncommon. For this reason the psychopathological relationship of those symptoms is still insufficiently understood. The following case offers an opportunity for studying the problem:

scholarly journals Albanian Aorist and Time Reference Points

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Muhamet Reçica ◽  
Naser Pajaziti
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
The Other ◽  
Temporal Relations ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
Relative Time ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
Temporal System ◽  
The Absolute

Topics related to the structure of the temporal system of Albanian language always give opportunities for new discussions to deal with certain aspects related to various forms of this system, and one of them is the aorist, as a tense containing many semantic, temporal, aspectual, stylistic values, etc. The relationships that exist between the verbal tenses in this system within the absolute time-relative time dimension, which relate to the independent or dependent use of temporal forms against one another in different discoursing contexts, make up an interpretation-based approach to interest. Hence, the essential objective of this paper will be specifically the relations of the Albanian aorist to the other verbal forms, always observed with a time reference point, to illuminate the character of these purely temporal relations against each other under all circumstances of the actions that take place and are displayed by verbal forms in different contexts, relying on the corpus of examined materials.

scholarly journals AN IMPERIAL APOSTLE? ST PAUL, PROTESTANT CONVERSION, AND SOUTH ASIAN CHRISTIANITY

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-130
Author(s):  
SHINJINI DAS
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Imperial Ideology ◽  
The One ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractThis article explores the locally specific (re)construction of a biblical figure, the Apostle St Paul, in India, to unravel the entanglement of religion with British imperial ideology on the one hand, and to understand the dynamics of colonial conversion on the other. Over the nineteenth century, evangelical pamphlets and periodicals heralded St Paul as the ideal missionary, who championed conversion to Christianity but within an imperial context: that of the first-century Roman Mediterranean. Through an examination of missionary discourses, along with a study of Indian (Hindu and Islamic) intellectual engagement with Christianity including Bengali convert narratives, this article studies St Paul as a reference point for understanding the contours of ‘vernacular Christianity’ in nineteenth-century India. Drawing upon colonial Christian publications mainly from Bengal, the article focuses on the multiple reconfigurations of Paul: as a crucial mascot of Anglican Protestantism, as a justification of British imperialism, as an ideological resource for anti-imperial sentiments, and as a theological inspiration for Hindu reform and revivalist organization.

Competition Law in Europe

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
David J. Gerber
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Substantive Law ◽  
European Competition Law

European competition law is the other central player in the competition law world, so an entire chapter is devoted to understanding how it works and how to deal with it. Virtually all firms operating beyond their own national boundaries need to pay attention to it, many regimes use it as a model and reference point, and its institutions have broad and often deep influence on many others. Some aspects of the substantive law are similar to US antitrust, but the similarities are sometimes misleading. For example, EU law uses economic analysis in ways that often differ from how it is used in the US. Procedural and institutional arrangements are often complicated. They represent multiple voices, as national and EU institutions function together to create, apply, and enforce competition law. The chapter reveals how this system functions and what factors guide decisions in it. It looks, in particular, at the institutional arrangements between the EU and its member states, including the role of the European Competition Network.

Optimal Configuration of a 4-DOF Dual-Arm Cam-Lock Manipulator

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kambiz Ghaemi Osgouie ◽  
Ali Meghdari ◽  
Saeed Sohrabpour ◽  
Mehdi Salmani Jelodar
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Robot Manipulators ◽  
The Other ◽  
Initial Population ◽  
Structural Stiffness ◽  
Task Space ◽  
Specific Point ◽  
Geometrical Constraints ◽  
Dual Arm ◽  
Cooperative Manipulators

The Dual-Arm Cam-Lock (DACL) robot manipulators are reconfigurable arms formed by two parallel cooperative manipulators. Some of their joints may lock into each other. Therefore, the arms normally operate redundantly. However, when higher structural stiffness is needed these two arms can lock into each other in specific joints and loose some degrees of freedom. In this paper, the dynamics of the DACL robot is discussed and parametrically formulated. On the other hand, the criteria and implementation of genetic algorithm (GA) to optimize the configuration of DACL robot manipulators at a specific point with the objective to maximize the cooperatively applicable task-space force in a desired direction are addressed. To obtain a more efficient process, an initial population is generated satisfying the geometrical constraints of the planar arms.

Development and Evaluation of Stage-Matched Written Materials about Lifestyle and Structured Physical Activity

1995 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 543-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Cardinal
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Transtheoretical Model ◽  
Effect Size ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cronbach Alpha ◽  
Group Design ◽  
Written Materials

Two sets of written materials about physical activity were developed, one promoting lifestyle exercise and the other promoting structured exercise. Both sets integrated the Transtheoretical Model of behavior-change concepts. Materials were evaluated by 8 women and 6 men ( M age = 63.1 yr.) using a stratified (by gender) randomized group design. Participants evaluated the materials on 8 factors of a standardized instrument. Cronbach alpha was .97. No significant differences were found between the two sets of materials on the 8 factors evaluated. Effect size differences ranged from .16 to .84 ( M =.46).

scholarly journals Testing digital instruments and power systems devices

2020 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 01063
Author(s):  
Pavel Pavlov ◽  
Vladimir Fandeev ◽  
Valery Butakov ◽  
Dilyara Baymeeva ◽  
Venera Safiullina
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Test Methods ◽  
The Other ◽  
Electric Signal ◽  
State Monitoring ◽  
Digital Device ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Healthy State ◽  
And Control

Discussed here is a technique for testing digital devices based on the calculation and control of two or more characteristics of a binary electric signal at a reference point. Signals coming from a healthy and failed digital device that are indistinguishable by the value of one of the characteristics may differ in value of the other characteristic. The combination of test methods can significantly reduce the potential of not detecting the failure of digital device. The technique is aimed at increasing the information content of the healthy state monitoring results and the possibility of localizing failures in digital instruments and devices of power systems.

scholarly journals Globalization, Sharia law, and cultural hybridity: A case of marriage preferences of young Bangladeshis

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Szarota ◽  
Ewa Rahman ◽  
Katarzyna Cantarero
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Hybrid Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Traditional Model ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
Traditional Marriage ◽  
University Undergraduates

This contribution is one of the few psychological studies analyzing the marriage preferences of Bangladeshi urban youths. Our goal was to demonstrate that the line between traditional and “modern” marriage is no longer clear-cut and document the importance of social status and religion in shaping the life priorities of young, educated Bangladeshis. The sample (N = 205) consisted of unmarried university undergraduates aged 19-26. Participants were presented with three marriage scenarios: a traditional marriage arrangement, a hybrid model based on mutual attraction and family support, and finally, a Western-style love marriage. Generally, the Western marriage arrangements were rated more positively than the other models. Surprisingly, there were no significant differences between preferences for a hybrid and a traditional model. Additionally, participants from a higher social milieu with lower levels of religiosity accepted love marriages more eagerly than middle-class students.

Spatial Distance of Point-Lines

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Kwun-Lon Ting
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Quaternion Algebra ◽  
The Other ◽  
Spatial Distance ◽  
Dual Quaternion ◽  
Directed Line ◽  
Shortest Distance ◽  
The Common ◽  
Point Line ◽  
Displacement Model

A point-line is the combination of a directed line with a reference point on it. In this article, the spatial distance between two point-lines in space is defined based on a point-line displacement model. The displacement of a point-line from one position to the other is uniquely described as the composition of a pure translation along the point-line and a screw displacement about the common normal of the two positions. It is shown that such a displacement model leads to a simpler configuration of the underlying screw triangle and defines the shortest distance between two point-lines. The dual quaternion algebra is used to describe the idea with mathematic expressions.

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