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This paper presents the findings of a project I created as a member of the Latin American Working... more This paper presents the findings of a project I created as a member of the Latin American Working Group for the Toronto 2015 Pan and ParaPan American Games occurring in July and August, 2015. As an Ignite community partner of the Games, and in collaboration with York University, the project aimed to explore the proposed core values and mission statement of the TORONTO 2015 Games, whose stated mission was to "ignite the spirit through a celebration of sport and culture", embracing core values of "joy, purpose, accountability, collaboration and results." The creation of "poet-tree" installations and webpages (creative and photo captured real life installations at various locations, websites, or in physical sculptural and movement formats) with poems or poet's names from the diverse regions of the Americas evoked the sports and the spirit of the culture of each place, and in particular of the connection across the Americas to the Toronto 2015 Pan / ParaPan Am Games. I track the project's progress and present these findings as viewed through recent developments in performance theory and embodied literary theory; the relation to identity, expressions of place and negotiating inter-subjectivities to reflect upon the network of realities which exist beyond national boundaries, as hemispheric and complex conceptions of words and physical action in representations of being. This type of wor(l)d-making is examined by presenting the poems and poets contained in the installations, to trace the expressions found in these examples connecting sports and culture, or reveal their disjuncture.
Paulo Coelho’s novels call into question the nature of the literary text and the act of reading i... more Paulo Coelho’s novels call into question the nature of the literary text and the act of reading in a post-Einsteinian world. Amidst the debate over his popular writings (Albanese; Ndagano), the discussion turns to whether Coelho continues a poetics of narrative developed by Jorge Luis Borges. This article explores how Coelho’s work may depart from a reading of Borges, yet goes beyond it into what Bakhtin established as “the Einsteinian universe applied to literary studies”, as posited by Stone (2008). Coelho’s work is affected by hypertexts, new ways of connecting and perceiving subjectivities, and cross-cultural pilgrimages. A hermeneutic reading of his novel, The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession (2005b), allows us to delve into the Coelhian the notion of the zahir as a tensional metaphor (Ricouer) of world-making (Valdes). This underscores the postmodern assumption of the author as just another reader, albeit an ably active one. Through the courageous act of making his reading(s) transparent through writing, he invites other readers into the dialectical presumptions of his world.
The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, 2016
The processing of ECG signal provides a wealth of information on cardiac function and overall car... more The processing of ECG signal provides a wealth of information on cardiac function and overall cardiovascular health. While multi-lead ECG recordings are often necessary for a proper assessment of cardiac rhythms, they are not always available or practical, for example in fetal ECG applications. Moreover, a wide range of small non-obtrusive single-lead ECG ambulatory monitoring devices are now available, from which heart rate variability (HRV) and other health-related metrics are derived. Proper beat detection and classification of abnormal rhythms is important for reliable HRV assessment and can be challenging in single-lead ECG monitoring devices. In this manuscript, we modelled the heart rate signal as an adaptive non-harmonic model and used the newly developed synchrosqueezing transform (SST) to characterize ECG patterns. We show how the proposed model can be used to enhance heart beat detection and classification between normal and abnormal rhythms. In particular, using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Beth Israel Hospital (MIT-BIH) arrhythmia database and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) beat classes, we trained and validated a support vector machine (SVM) classifier on a portion of the annotated beat database using the SST-derived instantaneous phase, the R-peak amplitudes and R-peak to R-peak interval durations, based on a single ECG lead. We obtained sentivities and positive predictive values comparable to other published algorithms using multiple leads and many more features.
Curriculum Design and Praxis in Language Teaching
The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, 2016
The processing of ECG signal provides a wealth of information on cardiac function and overall car... more The processing of ECG signal provides a wealth of information on cardiac function and overall cardiovascular health. While multi-lead ECG recordings are often necessary for a proper assessment of cardiac rhythms, they are not always available or practical, for example in fetal ECG applications. Moreover, a wide range of small non-obtrusive single-lead ECG ambulatory monitoring devices are now available, from which heart rate variability (HRV) and other health-related metrics are derived. Proper beat detection and classification of abnormal rhythms is important for reliable HRV assessment and can be challenging in single-lead ECG monitoring devices. In this manuscript, we modelled the heart rate signal as an adaptive non-harmonic model and used the newly developed synchrosqueezing transform (SST) to characterize ECG patterns. We show how the proposed model can be used to enhance heart beat detection and classification between normal and abnormal rhythms. In particular, using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Beth Israel Hospital (MIT-BIH) arrhythmia database and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) beat classes, we trained and validated a support vector machine (SVM) classifier on a portion of the annotated beat database using the SST-derived instantaneous phase, the R-peak amplitudes and R-peak to R-peak interval durations, based on a single ECG lead. We obtained sentivities and positive predictive values comparable to other published algorithms using multiple leads and many more features.
Hispania, 2006
... 1930: Rachel de Queiroz (1910-2003) publishes O quinze [The year fifteen]; critics praised th... more ... 1930: Rachel de Queiroz (1910-2003) publishes O quinze [The year fifteen]; critics praised the novel's depiction of the drought and human suffering in Northeastern Brazil, but mostly ignored the plot involving the female protagonist, a teacher who forgoes marriage so as to ...
Cuadernos de Música, Artes Visuales y Artes Escénicas, Jan 15, 2011
Encuentre este artículo en http://cuadernosmusicayartes.javeriana.edu.co/ * Artículo de investiga... more Encuentre este artículo en http://cuadernosmusicayartes.javeriana.edu.co/ * Artículo de investigación que forma parte de los resultados de un proyecto mayor, iniciado en 1996. Dicho proyecto ha producidos varias publicaciones y conferencias sobre el tema de la relación entre la literatura y la música.
Revista Estudos Feministas, 2003
Paulo Coelho’s novels call into question the nature of the literary text and the act of reading i... more Paulo Coelho’s novels call into question the nature of the literary text and the act of reading in a post-Einsteinian world. Amidst the debate over his popular writings (Albanese; Ndagano), the discussion turns to whether Coelho continues a poetics of narrative developed by Jorge Luis Borges. This article explores how Coelho’s work may depart from a reading of Borges, yet goes beyond it into what Bakhtin established as “the Einsteinian universe applied to literary studies”, as posited by Stone (2008). Coelho’s work is affected by hypertexts, new ways of connecting and perceiving subjectivities, and cross-cultural pilgrimages. A hermeneutic reading of his novel, The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession (2005b), allows us to delve into the Coelhian the notion of the zahir as a tensional metaphor (Ricouer) of world-making (Valdes). This underscores the postmodern assumption of the author as just another reader, albeit an ably active one. Through the courageous act of making his reading(s) transparent through writing, he invites other readers into the dialectical presumptions of his world.
Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 2001
Page 1. MAR?A L. FIGUEREDO El eterno retorno entre la poes?ay el canto popular: Uruguay, 1960-198... more Page 1. MAR?A L. FIGUEREDO El eterno retorno entre la poes?ay el canto popular: Uruguay, 1960-1985 Entre i960 y 1985 en Uruguay surge una intensificaci?n en el n?mero y el alcance p?blico de lasmusicalizaciones de ...
germanistik.uni-mainz.de
... Edited by Wolfgang Ahrens, York University Sheila Embleton, York University André Lapierre, U... more ... Edited by Wolfgang Ahrens, York University Sheila Embleton, York University André Lapierre, University of Ottawa with the assistance of Grant Smith, Eastern Washington University MariaFigueredo, York University Published by York University, Toronto, Canada 2009 ...
Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity: …, 2004
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Hispanic American Historical Review, 2014
– The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2020: Official Conference Proceedings
This paper presents the findings of a project I created as a member of the Latin American Working... more This paper presents the findings of a project I created as a member of the Latin American Working Group for the Toronto 2015 Pan and ParaPan American Games occurring in July and August, 2015. As an Ignite community partner of the Games, and in collaboration with York University, the project aimed to explore the proposed core values and mission statement of the TORONTO 2015 Games, whose stated mission was to "ignite the spirit through a celebration of sport and culture", embracing core values of "joy, purpose, accountability, collaboration and results." The creation of "poet-tree" installations and webpages (creative and photo captured real life installations at various locations, websites, or in physical sculptural and movement formats) with poems or poet's names from the diverse regions of the Americas evoked the sports and the spirit of the culture of each place, and in particular of the connection across the Americas to the Toronto 2015 Pan / ParaPan Am Games. I track the project's progress and present these findings as viewed through recent developments in performance theory and embodied literary theory; the relation to identity, expressions of place and negotiating inter-subjectivities to reflect upon the network of realities which exist beyond national boundaries, as hemispheric and complex conceptions of words and physical action in representations of being. This type of wor(l)d-making is examined by presenting the poems and poets contained in the installations, to trace the expressions found in these examples connecting sports and culture, or reveal their disjuncture.
Paulo Coelho’s novels call into question the nature of the literary text and the act of reading i... more Paulo Coelho’s novels call into question the nature of the literary text and the act of reading in a post-Einsteinian world. Amidst the debate over his popular writings (Albanese; Ndagano), the discussion turns to whether Coelho continues a poetics of narrative developed by Jorge Luis Borges. This article explores how Coelho’s work may depart from a reading of Borges, yet goes beyond it into what Bakhtin established as “the Einsteinian universe applied to literary studies”, as posited by Stone (2008). Coelho’s work is affected by hypertexts, new ways of connecting and perceiving subjectivities, and cross-cultural pilgrimages. A hermeneutic reading of his novel, The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession (2005b), allows us to delve into the Coelhian the notion of the zahir as a tensional metaphor (Ricouer) of world-making (Valdes). This underscores the postmodern assumption of the author as just another reader, albeit an ably active one. Through the courageous act of making his reading(s) transparent through writing, he invites other readers into the dialectical presumptions of his world.
The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, 2016
The processing of ECG signal provides a wealth of information on cardiac function and overall car... more The processing of ECG signal provides a wealth of information on cardiac function and overall cardiovascular health. While multi-lead ECG recordings are often necessary for a proper assessment of cardiac rhythms, they are not always available or practical, for example in fetal ECG applications. Moreover, a wide range of small non-obtrusive single-lead ECG ambulatory monitoring devices are now available, from which heart rate variability (HRV) and other health-related metrics are derived. Proper beat detection and classification of abnormal rhythms is important for reliable HRV assessment and can be challenging in single-lead ECG monitoring devices. In this manuscript, we modelled the heart rate signal as an adaptive non-harmonic model and used the newly developed synchrosqueezing transform (SST) to characterize ECG patterns. We show how the proposed model can be used to enhance heart beat detection and classification between normal and abnormal rhythms. In particular, using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Beth Israel Hospital (MIT-BIH) arrhythmia database and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) beat classes, we trained and validated a support vector machine (SVM) classifier on a portion of the annotated beat database using the SST-derived instantaneous phase, the R-peak amplitudes and R-peak to R-peak interval durations, based on a single ECG lead. We obtained sentivities and positive predictive values comparable to other published algorithms using multiple leads and many more features.
Curriculum Design and Praxis in Language Teaching
The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, 2016
The processing of ECG signal provides a wealth of information on cardiac function and overall car... more The processing of ECG signal provides a wealth of information on cardiac function and overall cardiovascular health. While multi-lead ECG recordings are often necessary for a proper assessment of cardiac rhythms, they are not always available or practical, for example in fetal ECG applications. Moreover, a wide range of small non-obtrusive single-lead ECG ambulatory monitoring devices are now available, from which heart rate variability (HRV) and other health-related metrics are derived. Proper beat detection and classification of abnormal rhythms is important for reliable HRV assessment and can be challenging in single-lead ECG monitoring devices. In this manuscript, we modelled the heart rate signal as an adaptive non-harmonic model and used the newly developed synchrosqueezing transform (SST) to characterize ECG patterns. We show how the proposed model can be used to enhance heart beat detection and classification between normal and abnormal rhythms. In particular, using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Beth Israel Hospital (MIT-BIH) arrhythmia database and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) beat classes, we trained and validated a support vector machine (SVM) classifier on a portion of the annotated beat database using the SST-derived instantaneous phase, the R-peak amplitudes and R-peak to R-peak interval durations, based on a single ECG lead. We obtained sentivities and positive predictive values comparable to other published algorithms using multiple leads and many more features.
Hispania, 2006
... 1930: Rachel de Queiroz (1910-2003) publishes O quinze [The year fifteen]; critics praised th... more ... 1930: Rachel de Queiroz (1910-2003) publishes O quinze [The year fifteen]; critics praised the novel's depiction of the drought and human suffering in Northeastern Brazil, but mostly ignored the plot involving the female protagonist, a teacher who forgoes marriage so as to ...
Cuadernos de Música, Artes Visuales y Artes Escénicas, Jan 15, 2011
Encuentre este artículo en http://cuadernosmusicayartes.javeriana.edu.co/ * Artículo de investiga... more Encuentre este artículo en http://cuadernosmusicayartes.javeriana.edu.co/ * Artículo de investigación que forma parte de los resultados de un proyecto mayor, iniciado en 1996. Dicho proyecto ha producidos varias publicaciones y conferencias sobre el tema de la relación entre la literatura y la música.
Revista Estudos Feministas, 2003
Paulo Coelho’s novels call into question the nature of the literary text and the act of reading i... more Paulo Coelho’s novels call into question the nature of the literary text and the act of reading in a post-Einsteinian world. Amidst the debate over his popular writings (Albanese; Ndagano), the discussion turns to whether Coelho continues a poetics of narrative developed by Jorge Luis Borges. This article explores how Coelho’s work may depart from a reading of Borges, yet goes beyond it into what Bakhtin established as “the Einsteinian universe applied to literary studies”, as posited by Stone (2008). Coelho’s work is affected by hypertexts, new ways of connecting and perceiving subjectivities, and cross-cultural pilgrimages. A hermeneutic reading of his novel, The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession (2005b), allows us to delve into the Coelhian the notion of the zahir as a tensional metaphor (Ricouer) of world-making (Valdes). This underscores the postmodern assumption of the author as just another reader, albeit an ably active one. Through the courageous act of making his reading(s) transparent through writing, he invites other readers into the dialectical presumptions of his world.
Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 2001
Page 1. MAR?A L. FIGUEREDO El eterno retorno entre la poes?ay el canto popular: Uruguay, 1960-198... more Page 1. MAR?A L. FIGUEREDO El eterno retorno entre la poes?ay el canto popular: Uruguay, 1960-1985 Entre i960 y 1985 en Uruguay surge una intensificaci?n en el n?mero y el alcance p?blico de lasmusicalizaciones de ...
germanistik.uni-mainz.de
... Edited by Wolfgang Ahrens, York University Sheila Embleton, York University André Lapierre, U... more ... Edited by Wolfgang Ahrens, York University Sheila Embleton, York University André Lapierre, University of Ottawa with the assistance of Grant Smith, Eastern Washington University MariaFigueredo, York University Published by York University, Toronto, Canada 2009 ...
Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity: …, 2004
" "
Hispanic American Historical Review, 2014
– The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2020: Official Conference Proceedings