BlindAid, a virtual environment system developed in part for orientation and mobility training of newly, adventitiously, and congenitally blind persons, allows interaction with different virtual structures and objects via auditory and haptic feedback. This research examined whether and how the system might help people who are blind develop orientation and mobility skills within a traditional re...

This study set out to conceptualise and measure Charismatic orientation (openness to charismatic experience) and traditional Catholic orientation (Catholic identity) among a sample of 670 Catholic churchgoers in order to test whether attachment to Catholic Charismatic Renewal strengthened or weakened the sense of traditional Catholic identity among churchgoing Catholics. This research question ...

This study explores the alignment between IT/IS and marketing from a strategic perspective. The heads of IT and marketing of eighteen large New Zealand companies were interviewed, and their assessments of alignment rated according to two constructs: strategic orientation, and market orientation. The strategic orientation dimensions were aggressiveness, analysis, defensiveness, futurity, proacti...

There is substantial research demonstrating that a student’s motivation for learning can be largely explained in terms of their preferred achievement orientation. This paper explores a case study investigating ICT derived lead indicators of student achievement orientation, and therefore underlying motivations. The study incorporated Tan’s (2009) research on learning dispositions to quantify stu...

We present a theoretical study of the mixed-field orientation of molecules without rotational symmetry. The time-dependent one-dimensional and three-dimensional orientation of a thermal ensemble of 6-chloropyridazine-3-carbonitrile molecules in combined linearly or elliptically polarized laser fields and tilted dc electric fields is computed. The results are in good agreement with recent experi...

Beyond our own interest in airborne particulate matter, the prediction of extinction and absorption spectra of single particles of mixed composition has wide use in astronomy, geology, atmospheric sciences, and nanotechnology. Single particle spectra present different challenges than traditional spectroscopic approaches. To quantify the amount of a material in a bulk sample (molecules in soluti...

Is thalamic input to the visual cortex strong and well tuned for orientation, as predicted by Hubel and Wiesel's (1962) model of orientation selectivity in simple cells? We directly measured the size of the thalamic input to single simple cells intracellularly by combining electrical stimulation of the cortex with a briefly flashed visual stimulus. In nearby cells, the electrical stimulation ev...

The geometric orientation of the subfilter-scale scalar-flux vector is examined in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. Vector orientation is determined using the eigenframe of the resolved strain-rate tensor. The Schmidt number is kept sufficiently large so as to leave the velocity field, and hence the strain-rate tensor, unaltered by filtering in the viscous-convective subrange. Strong preferent...

We present the absolute velocity-dependent orbital orientation for O(1D2) atoms produced from the photodissociation of ozone in the 248-285 nm region obtained using the DC slice imaging method. The results are analyzed in terms of laboratory frame anisotropy parameters describing distinct excitation and dissociation mechanisms possessing characteristic angular distributions. The results show ne...

This study investigates the inter-relationship between market orientation and service performance of 33 libraries in the south of Finland. Three kinds of market orientation were found: the strong, the medium and the weak. The findings show that the higher market orientation is positively connected with the libraries’ superior service performance. Résumé : Cette étude explore la relation interne...