Adding examples of the majority class to the training set can have a detrimental eeect on the learner's behavior: noisy or otherwise unreliable examples from the majority class can overwhelm the minority class. The paper discusses criteria to evaluate the utility of clas-siiers induced from such imbalanced training sets, gives explanation of the poor behavior of some learners under these circum...

Aphasia can globally or selectively affect comprehension and production of verbal and written language. Discourse analysis can aid language assessment and diagnosis. Objective [1] To explore narratives that produce a number of valid indicators for diagnosing aphasia in speakers of Brazilian Portuguese.[2] To analyze the macrostructural aspects of the discourse of normal individuals.[3] To ana...

Abstract This is a story about the ‘arts of noticing’ more‐than‐human noticing. In it I reflect on ways in which my own practice ethnographic filmmaking itself an agent multisensory participation. As artifice and artificial eye, there something both liberating sensuous practice. It heightens performativity participants their embodied rituals allows me to enter intimate spaces would otherwise no...

There is a new attention across disciplines to narrative knowing--the impulse to story life events into order and meaning. In this paper, narrative is presented as a framework for understanding the subject and interview data in qualitative research. Examples of narrative approaches are offered, narrative analyses are contrasted with other kinds of qualitative analyses, and truth in narratives i...

The feeling of being utterly lost that is cultivated by David Lynch’s Inland Empire (2006), one a handful films central to Dominic Lash’s Cinema Disorientation: Inviting Confusions, might be the paradigmatic effect body work Lash refers as “cinema disorientation”. These insistently problematise viewer’s relation unfolding diegesis, leaving them without stability interpretive points re...