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Effects of Pet Dogs for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their Families: Expectations versus reality (2016)
Journal Article
Wright, H., Hall, S., Hames, A., Hardiman, J., Burgess, A., Team, P., Mills, R., & Mills, D. (2016). Effects of Pet Dogs for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their Families: Expectations versus reality. Human-Animal Interactions, 4(2), 38 - 58. https://doi.org/10.1079/hai.2016.0009

Previous studies have examined the specific benefits of therapy and assistance dogs on children with autism, but until recently only anecdotes existed concerning the benefits of pet dogs. We conducted structured interviews with 40 parents of children... Read More about Effects of Pet Dogs for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their Families: Expectations versus reality.

Posthumanism and educational research for sustainable futures (2016)
Journal Article
Kruger, F. (2016). Posthumanism and educational research for sustainable futures. Journal of education (University KwaZulu-natal), 65(SAERA 2015 Conference Special Issue), https://doi.org/10.17159/i65a04

Karen Barad’s (2007) concept of intra-action and Rosi Braidotti’s (2013) nomadic posthumanism are employed in this article to problematise the notion of educational research for sustainable futures. In rejecting the hierarchical dualism of Cartesian... Read More about Posthumanism and educational research for sustainable futures.

Schooling in the shadow of benevolence: The experience of scholarship recipients in affluent schools (2016)
Journal Article
Geyer, K., & Walton, E. (2016). Schooling in the shadow of benevolence: The experience of scholarship recipients in affluent schools. South African Journal of Higher Education, 29(1), https://doi.org/10.20853/29-1-461

In a quest for improved educational outcomes that will lead to access to and success in higher education and the workplace, many affluent independent South African high schools offer scholarship places to talented and deserving learners. Learners sel... Read More about Schooling in the shadow of benevolence: The experience of scholarship recipients in affluent schools.

Preparation of students with disabilities to graduate into professions in the South African context of higher learning: Obstacles and opportunities (2016)
Journal Article
Ndlovu, S., & Walton, E. (2016). Preparation of students with disabilities to graduate into professions in the South African context of higher learning: Obstacles and opportunities. African Journal of Disability, 5(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v5i1.150

Background: Persons with disabilities continue to be excluded from professions in South Africa despite legislation on non-discrimination and equity.

Objectives: We sought to identify both the opportunities and obstacles that students with disabil... Read More about Preparation of students with disabilities to graduate into professions in the South African context of higher learning: Obstacles and opportunities.

Dessiner avec l’ordinateur dans les années soixante : le design et ses pratiques à l’aube de l’ère numérique (2016)
Journal Article
Kauffman, J. (2016). Dessiner avec l’ordinateur dans les années soixante : le design et ses pratiques à l’aube de l’ère numérique. Livraisons d’Histoire de l’Architecture, 105-123. https://doi.org/10.4000/lha.643

Les premières explorations de l'utilisation des ordinateurs dans le domaine du design 1 ont débuté dans les années 1960, près de trente ans avant que le « tournant numérique » (digital turn) ne s'empare du champ de la production architecturale. À cet... Read More about Dessiner avec l’ordinateur dans les années soixante : le design et ses pratiques à l’aube de l’ère numérique.

Supporting data for "Deep Machine Learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping" (2016)
Data
(2016). Supporting data for "Deep Machine Learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping". [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5524/100343

In plant phenotyping, it has become important to be able to measure many features on large image sets in order to aid genetic discovery. The size of the datasets, now often captured robotically, often precludes manual inspection; hence the motivation... Read More about Supporting data for "Deep Machine Learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping".

Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms (2016)
Book Chapter
Page, S.-J. (2016). Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms. In F. Stella, Y. Taylor, T. Reynolds, & A. Rogers (Eds.), Sexuality, Citizenship and Belonging: Trans-National and Intersectional Perspectives. Taylor & Francis

The twenty-first century is often invoked as a period of greater sexual freedom, with restraint and traditionalism partitioned to the past. The new rights accorded to LGBTQ groups and women have cemented such a perception. But whilst some theorists (... Read More about Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms.

Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger (2016)
Journal Article
Parker, L. (2016). Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger. Journal of Early Christian Studies, 24(1), 99-125. https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.2016.0009

The Life of Martha, the mother of the sixth-century stylite Symeon the Younger, has been almost completely neglected in modern scholarship. Yet the text possesses considerable historical interest as evidence for the contested development of a cult, a... Read More about Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger.

Grassmann variables and pseudoclassical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (2016)
Journal Article
Damion, R. A. (2016). Grassmann variables and pseudoclassical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Diffusion Fundamentals, 26, 1-23

The concept of a propagator is useful and is a well-known object in diffusion NMR experiments. Here, we investigate the related concept; the propagator for the magnetization or the Green's function of the Torrey-Bloch equations. The magnetization pro... Read More about Grassmann variables and pseudoclassical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

Democracy, Education, and a Politics of Indignation (2016)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2016). Democracy, Education, and a Politics of Indignation. In P. R. Carr, P. Thomas, B. J. Porfilio, & J. A. Gorlewski (Eds.), Democracy and Decency: What does Education have to do with it? (21-37). Information Age Publishing

3D segmentation of the whole heart vasculature using improved multi-threshold Otsu and white top-hat scale space hessian based vessel filter (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bukenya, F., Ehling, J., Kalema, A. K., Eyoh, I., Robert, J., & Bai, L. (2016, December). 3D segmentation of the whole heart vasculature using improved multi-threshold Otsu and white top-hat scale space hessian based vessel filter. Presented at 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Athens, Greece

Quantification of vessel density helps to know the stage of the disease during diagnosis and patient's response to treatment. However, this requires presence of all vessels in the image. The available segmentation techniques that are manual based are... Read More about 3D segmentation of the whole heart vasculature using improved multi-threshold Otsu and white top-hat scale space hessian based vessel filter.

Covariance Weighted Procrustes Analysis (2016)
Book Chapter
Brignell, C. J., Dryden, I. L., & Browne, W. J. (2016). Covariance Weighted Procrustes Analysis. In P. K. Turaga, & A. Srivastava (Eds.), Riemannian Computing in Computer Vision (189-209). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22957-7_9

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. We revisit the popular Procrustes matching procedure of landmark shape analysis and consider the situation where the landmark coordinates have a completely general covariance matrix, extending pre... Read More about Covariance Weighted Procrustes Analysis.