Papers by Robert Rotenberg
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Technical departments often implement new educational technology without considering how it will ... more Technical departments often implement new educational technology without considering how it will impact instructor and student roles. At DePaul University, Information Services works closely with select faculty to determine how new technologies will affect these roles and then ...
2004年初开始在川滇地区布设的4个地电台, 使用所研制的抗干扰性能极强的PS-100地电测量系统和技术, 捕捉地震短临前兆. 至2008汶川8.0级地震前, 唯一仍在工作的红格台记录到了汶川地... more 2004年初开始在川滇地区布设的4个地电台, 使用所研制的抗干扰性能极强的PS-100地电测量系统和技术, 捕捉地震短临前兆. 至2008汶川8.0级地震前, 唯一仍在工作的红格台记录到了汶川地震的HRT波短临前兆. 根据潮汐力谐振共振波(简称为HRT波)短临地震预测模型, 在汶川8.0级地震前5月11日夜至12日凌晨5时分析得到了大震即将来临的结果. 所记前兆同以前各台对其他强震所记的HRT波震例的规律有很强的一致性. 所测物理量(地电阻率与地电流)仅在强震前才出现潮汐力的周期, 而其振幅在震前数月至几天明显增大. 通过研究所记的实例表明, 它们通常与几天后所发生的地震有因果关系, 这种波的到时与台站的震中距成正比; 由这种波动所测的断层固有周期T0与断层长度(震级)有关, 对6~9级地震, T0的范围为1~6 h. 有证据表明, 它们是来自即将发生地震的震源区. 这种波动周期较长, 在地壳中, 可传播数百乃至数千公里. 对发生在地壳中的浅源大震, 地壳固体在其孔、裂隙中通常含有易于流动的(导电的)流体(溶液), 这种流体在地震孕育过程中因受力(孔隙压力)先于断层位移(地震)产生的(微小)扰动(波动), 对所观测的HRT波提供了一种可能的解释. 从2004年在川滇地区增设4个PS-100HRT波台站, 试图捕捉强震短临前兆, 到2008年发生汶川8.0级地震(距离新增的MN台Δ=288 km; 距离记录到HRT波短临异常的HG台Δ=465 km；距离青川640 km)前, HG台捕捉到汶川8.0级地震的HRT短临前兆的全过程, 表明地震是有前兆的, 地震是可以预测、预报的, 在可预见的将来实现地震的短临预报是可行的.
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14 The Need for a Demystified Past: Remarks on Austria's Vergangenheitsbewaltigung RobertRot... more 14 The Need for a Demystified Past: Remarks on Austria's Vergangenheitsbewaltigung RobertRotenberg, DePaul University Hermine G. De Soto, University of Wisconsin-Madison RobertRotenberg's article, "Anti-Semitism and Victimhood in Waldheim's Vienna," ...
American Anthropologist, 1999
Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe. John Borneman. ... more Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe. John Borneman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 197 pp.
As part of its iTunes University initiative, DePaul University embarked on several projects to en... more As part of its iTunes University initiative, DePaul University embarked on several projects to engage students with the task of preparing podcasts. Students were engaged in classrooms, independent projects, in on-campus employment and through guided interviews. The result is a ...
The American Historical Review, 1996
... BOOKS BY RICHARD SENNETT THE CONSCIENCE OF THE EYE (1990) PALAIS ROYAL (1986) AN EVENING OF B... more ... BOOKS BY RICHARD SENNETT THE CONSCIENCE OF THE EYE (1990) PALAIS ROYAL (1986) AN EVENING OF BRAHAMS (1984 ... THE HIDDEN INJURIES OF CLASS (coauthor) (1972) THE USES OF DISORDER (1970) FAMILIES AGAINST THE CITY: MIDDLE-CLASS ...
American Anthropologist, 2001
Austrian History Yearbook, 2006
People usually think about biodiversity and nature in terms of national parks, reserves and wildl... more People usually think about biodiversity and nature in terms of national parks, reserves and wildlife. Yet humans have a growing urban footprint across the planet. More than 50 per cent of Australia's threatened species and ecosystems occur within the urban fringe. As Dr Richard Fuller points out, it's not just a problem for plants and animals-it seems that nature is key to the wellbeing of people in cities too. Credit: Ed Yourdon, wikimedia commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 licence Like many of us, I live in a small suburban unit with a backyard the size of a postage stamp. While this is arguably a good urban design for minimising biodiversity impacts, there is mounting concern that our modern urban lifestyle disconnects us from nature. This is worrying because nature experiences seem to provide important benefits to many aspects of our lives, including our mental and physical health, social relationships and even our spiritual well-being.
1988 was an intense year for the Viennese. Kurt Waldheim was in the third year of his presidency.... more 1988 was an intense year for the Viennese. Kurt Waldheim was in the third year of his presidency. It was the one hundredth anniversary of the Burgtheater. And it was the fiftieth anniversary of the Anschluss, the annexation of the Austrian State into the Third Reich. While living in the city for six months in the latter half of that year, I had the opportunity observe the internal debate on the experience of the war, particularly the experience of Viennese Jews. I came away from this experience with a heightened awareness of the continuing insecurity of the Gentile majority fifty years after the start of World War II. I have spent quite a bit of time in Vienna over the past fourteen years, but never was I as aware of the undercurrent of anti-Semitism as I was this time, an anti-Semitism without significant numbers of Jews. Altogether, there are an estimated 10,000 Jews in a population of 7.5 million Austrian, with about 8,000 of these living among the 1.2 million Viennese. Among Vie...
<PN>Part I <recto <PT>Imagination <CN>Chapter 1 <recto> <CT>Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns <AU>R... more <PN>Part I <recto <PT>Imagination <CN>Chapter 1 <recto> <CT>Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns <AU>Robert Rotenberg How do we sense a city? Is it a matter of directing our gaze from building to street to traffic to neon signs and back to the building again, accumulating impressions of line, scale, enclosure, mass, and spectacle, just as we do when viewing a painting of a landscape? No, the immediacy of our body's movement through the city requires a different kind of gaze, one that filters and edits our impressions according to preestablished systems of knowledge. For those cities where we consider ourselves at home, the knowledge is different from what it is for cities where we are visiting for the first time. At home, we enjoy exquisitely detailed knowledge of streets, buildings, traffic, and neon, as well as the memory of past experiences in these locations. This familiar knowledge of places and practices employs the city as a canvas on which we live our lives. First-time visitors, in contrast, see the city initially as a mirror of received knowledge: the city as icon of a region, the city as site of history, the city as filled with identifiable monuments, the city as outlet for enjoying regional foods and drink, and so on. Each of these represents an artifact to be collected, consumed by the senses, and made material through postcards and bric-a-brac that can be exhibited to the folks at home as evidence of the transforming effects of travel. After spending some time among the locals, the visitor begins to see the city as a possibility for living a life beyond a hotel room and suitcase, a more difficult-tocommunicate series of impressions that tend to fade rapidly. Of course, even visitors are rarely Comment [EL1]: AU: Revise to "Toward a"? See Table of Contents page. See also notes heading on page 58. Deleted: A Comment [AA2]: Permission still to come Deleted: <C-EPI> ¶ When you' Deleted: ' Deleted: re alone and life is making you lonely ¶ You can always go-Deleted:-Deleted: downtown ¶ When you' Deleted: ' Deleted: ve got worries, all the noise and the hurry ¶ Seems to help, I know-Deleted:-Deleted: downtown ¶ Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city ¶ Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty ¶ How can you lose? ¶-Tony Hatch ¶ ¶
Setting up an iTunes U site usually means that one person (or group) handles all of the materials... more Setting up an iTunes U site usually means that one person (or group) handles all of the materials uploading. In this session, DePaul University Information Services staff will cover their system design so that any instructor could upload materials to the proper course. Other topics will include course and section design and limiting access to students within a course section or to those in the DePaul Community.
Anthropology is a discipline that has a rich and important history. The discipline was born in th... more Anthropology is a discipline that has a rich and important history. The discipline was born in the heady, confusing, nineteenth century as Europeans tried to make sense of the human experiences they encountered while incorporating distant lands into market and empire. The demarcation of 'race' categories defined the nineteenth-century science's boundaries. In the twentieth century, anthropologists incorporated other kinds of difference, including categories of experience that were already studied by other disciplines: class, nation, region, occupation, gender, religion and ability. This mixing of foci in research has lead to a confusion of the boundaries between anthropology, sociology and geography by scholars outside the disciplines. For practitioners, however, the differences between these disciplines are very clear, both in theory and in practice. The nineteenth-century academic enterprise spawned several academic traditions. In most of Europe, anthropology most often refers to human biology and even more specifically to human palaeontology. One also finds the related disciplines of ethnology, national ethnography and social anthropology in European universities. The academic traditions in North America, Latin America, Africa, China, Japan and India only complicate the matter even further. It would seem that the anthropological enterprise is a canvas onto which intellectuals project their concern for the role of some basic human 'nature' in the origins or outcomes of contemporary issues. This often has resonance with political concerns, such as immigration, multiculturalism, national identity, dialect preservation or official folklore. I write from the tradition of North American cultural anthropology. This tradition dates from the late nineteenth century and can be traced to the work of a single scholar, Franz Boas. Trained as physicist and geographer, he became interested in the lives of Arctic peoples living in Greenland and in British Columbia. His great insight was that race, language and culture were the products of separate human experiences and developed according to different influences and processes. Compared to the racial thinking of the nineteenth century, this was a radical idea. It took some years before Boas could find an academic post. Eventually he taught anthropology at Columbia University (1896). He trained many anthropologists who then established the first anthropology departments in the other universities of the United States, Canada and Mexico. The work of Boas and his students is known as the Boasian School. This academic tradition insists that an anthropologist should be equally knowledgeable in human biology, human palaeontology, descriptive, historical and comparative linguistics, prehistoric and historic archaeology, and ethnology, also known as cultural anthropology. This last field, ethnology, is not the same as the one with the same name in Europe. For Boas, ethnology is about the distribution of traits, artefacts and practices in space, regardless of the political, linguistic or environmental features of the people who possess them. Cultural anthropology incorporates both ethnography and ethnology to understanding how culture shapes the human experience. This integration of several different disciplinary traditions within one academic department sets North American anthropology apart from the European tendency to separate these disciplines. Contemporary anthropologists have these multiple fields as the core of their academic training, but specialise in one of them. Two of these fields,
Podcasting has been a hot topic for a few years now, but how many people have measured the impact... more Podcasting has been a hot topic for a few years now, but how many people have measured the impact on faculty and students? Faculty and staff of DePaul University have and in this session, will cover the results on learning, marketing and instruction.
Economic Anthropology, 2015
Anthropological Quarterly, Jul 1, 1999
This book arose as an attempt to collect and collate various ideas and problems around notation t... more This book arose as an attempt to collect and collate various ideas and problems around notation that many of us have been dealing with on several levels. We have processes of varying complexity, and we would like to work out ways to discuss them that move beyond handwaving to looking at the deepest level of code. For example: How do we remember the structures of the facilitation systems that we have developed and pass them on to others? How to discuss the possibilities for interaction, and the way a media should be playing, given the actions of possible visitors? How to investigate the inner workings of an experience to see whether it makes sense, without building it completely in advance? We want to think of notation as an abstraction, a simplification, and intuitive or studied way of writing something down that succinctly summarises the important points of a given situation, process, object or system. http://timesup.org/DE12-book
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