Rafael Ramirez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rafael Ramirez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rafael |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramirez |
| SIGNATURE | RAMIREZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6836-1687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Towards Enhanced Built Cultural Heritage Conservation Practices: Perceptions on Industry 5.0 Principles and Enabling Technologies
Despite its recent adoption, Industry 5.0 has attracted significant attention from researchers across various fields. However, the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Management, Operation, and Conservation (AECMO&C) industry, particularly in the context of built cultural heritage conservation, has lagged in this regard. This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of conservation professionals’ perceptions regarding the adoption of Indust…
Etno☰hauntología. Espectros de la imagen y territorios aurales
This text is the result of a speculative fictional exercise based on the theory of hauntology, as developed by Jacques Derrida, Mark Fisher, and Kathy Shaw, and further appropriated by Tarek Elhaik and X. Andrade in relation to imagework or fieldwork on the image. Following the structure of an annotated diary—where the traces, hints, and survivals of a film can be found—we explore the concepts of ethno-hauntology, phantomglyph, and auralwork. The…
The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education
Strategists often employ consultants to gain insights from futures thinking. An alternative source is the lending of challenges to executive education participants. Here we assess the value derived by organisations who lend strategic challenges as live cases to business schools for the purpose of teaching scenario planning. We draw on data from 22 live cases spanning almost a decade. Lending organisations reap benefits commensurate to those expec…
Geographic Heterogeneity in Influenza and Pneumonia Mortality in Hispanic Americans
(1) Background : Influenza and pneumonia (IP) is a leading cause of death in the US. The hypothesis was tested that the mortality rate differential between Hispanic whites (HW) and non-Hispanic whites (NHW) from IP varied by geographic region in the US. (2) Methods : The CDC database for multiple causes of death between 1999-2018 was used for this study. For ages 25-84, age-adjusted mortality rates per 100,000 (AAMR) for IP were computed by Hispa…
Exploring how experience and learning curves decrease the time invested in scenario planning interventions
We need to talk (more wisely) about wisdom: A set of conversations about wisdom, science, and futures
The aesthetics of story-telling as a technology of the plausible
Scenarios as a scholarly methodology to produce “interesting research”
Recent debates identified the insufficient production of “interesting research”, namely research that is innovative and develops theory while being both usable and rigorous. We propose that scenarios methodology as a scholarly form of inquiry is one way in which we can generate “interesting research”. We present and compare how this methodology was used to investigate three research studies: (i) the unfolding of retailing formats in India; (ii) t…
Scenarios and design: Scoping the dialogue space
Introduction to the special issue in futures on design and scenarios
Plausibility and probability in scenario planning
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore extant distinctions between plausibility and probability in scenario planning and re-frame the either/or stance in the literature within a broader set of methodological choice possibilities. Design/methodology/approach – The paper surveys the history of both terms in both the English language and more narrowly within scenario planning, critically assessing the confusions that have arisen. The pape…
New Directions in Music and Machine Learning
Further special thanks are given to Alan Marsden, who enthusiastically supported this Special Issue since its inception
Effectiveness of the Engagement and Counseling for Latinos (Ecla) Intervention in Low-income Latinos
BACKGROUND: Persistent disparities in access and quality of mental health care for Latinos indicate a need for evidence-based, culturally adapted, and outside-the-clinic-walls treatments. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate treatment effectiveness of telephone (ECLA-T) or face-to-face (ECLA-F) delivery of a 6-8 session cognitive behavioral therapy and care management intervention for low-income Latinos, as compared to usual care for depression. DESIGN: Multisite…
Manuscript XXIX: Máximo Rodríguez's ‘Lost’ Prologue
Rainer Buschmann likewise acknowledges the generous assistance provided by fellowships at the Institute of Social Science (University of Lisbon) and the Europainstitut in Basel
The Sense of Ensemble: A Machine Learning Approach to Expressive Performance Modelling in String Quartets
Computational approaches for modelling expressive music performance have produced systems that emulate music expression, but few steps have been taken in the domain of ensemble performance. In this paper, we propose a novel method for building computational models of ensemble expressive performance and show how this method can be applied for deriving new insights about collaboration among musicians. In order to address the problem of inter-depend…
Measurement properties of the Adolescent Quality of Life Mental Health Scale (Aqol-MHS)
Introduction to the Special Issue on Music and Machine Learning
Feral futures: Zen and aesthetics
Automatic Performer Identification in Celtic Violin Audio Recordings
We present a machine learning approach to the problem of identifying performers from their interpretative styles. In particular, we investigate how violinists express their view of the musical content in audio recordings and feed this information to a number of machine learning techniques in order to induce classifiers capable of identifying the interpreters. We apply sound analysis techniques based on spectral models for extracting expressive fe…
Perceived Discrimination and Antisocial Behaviors in Puerto Rican Children
A Quantitative Analysis ofAtaque de Nerviosin Puerto Rico: Further Examination of a Cultural Syndrome
The authors present a quantitative analysis and assessment of the symptoms of ataque de nervios. A sample of 121 individuals living in Puerto Rico provided qualitative and structured data on ataques de nervios and psychiatric correlates. A total of 77 participants reported having an ataque de nervios during their lifetimes. Their reports of symptoms associated with the ataque-episode were analyzed using factor analysis. Two dimensions emerged fro…
Discovering expressive transformation rules from saxophone jazz performances
If-then rules are one of the most expressive and intuitive knowledge representations and their application to represent musical knowledge raises particularly interesting questions. In this paper, we describe an approach to learning expressive performance rules from monophonic recordings of jazz standards by a skilled saxophonist. We have first developed a melodic transcription system which extracts a set of acoustic features from the recordings p…
Understanding Caregivers’ Help-Seeking for Latino Children's Mental Health Care Use
BACKGROUND: Latino children have persistent low rates of mental health service use. Understanding the factors that influence caregivers' decisions about whether to use mental health care for their children can help explain why. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to investigate the factors reported by the primary caregiver that could help classify Puerto Rican children into users versus nonusers of mental health services and mental health …
Wrapping form and Organizational Beauty
Reinventing Italy: Methodological challenges
Scenarios as a scholarly methodology to produce “interesting research”
Recent debates identified the insufficient production of “interesting research”, namely research that is innovative and develops theory while being both usable and rigorous. We propose that scenarios methodology as a scholarly form of inquiry is one way in which we can generate “interesting research”. We present and compare how this methodology was used to investigate three research studies: (i) the unfolding of retailing formats in India; (ii) t…
Action Learning: A Holographic Metaphor for Guiding Social Change
This paper develops the concept of action learning in terms of holographic principles. It offers an approach to inquiry, learning, and organizational design in terms of minimum critical conditions which seek to enhance capacities for individual and collective self-organization
Scenarios and design: Scoping the dialogue space
Feral futures: Zen and aesthetics
Perceived Discrimination and Antisocial Behaviors in Puerto Rican Children
We need to talk (more wisely) about wisdom: A set of conversations about wisdom, science, and futures
Linking empirically based theory and evaluation: The family bereavement program
Conclusion We have illustrated how our “small theory” (Lipsey, 1990) of bereavement guided the development and evaluation of a preventive intervention for bereaved children. Our small theory, based on prior empirical research, enabled us to identify family processes that appeared to mediate the effects of parental death on child mental health. Our intervention was designed to attempt to change these processes. The evaluation of our experimental t…
The aesthetics of story-telling as a technology of the plausible
Introduction to the special issue in futures on design and scenarios
The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education
Strategists often employ consultants to gain insights from futures thinking. An alternative source is the lending of challenges to executive education participants. Here we assess the value derived by organisations who lend strategic challenges as live cases to business schools for the purpose of teaching scenario planning. We draw on data from 22 live cases spanning almost a decade. Lending organisations reap benefits commensurate to those expec…
Automatic Performer Identification in Celtic Violin Audio Recordings
We present a machine learning approach to the problem of identifying performers from their interpretative styles. In particular, we investigate how violinists express their view of the musical content in audio recordings and feed this information to a number of machine learning techniques in order to induce classifiers capable of identifying the interpreters. We apply sound analysis techniques based on spectral models for extracting expressive fe…
A Quantitative Analysis ofAtaque de Nerviosin Puerto Rico: Further Examination of a Cultural Syndrome
The authors present a quantitative analysis and assessment of the symptoms of ataque de nervios. A sample of 121 individuals living in Puerto Rico provided qualitative and structured data on ataques de nervios and psychiatric correlates. A total of 77 participants reported having an ataque de nervios during their lifetimes. Their reports of symptoms associated with the ataque-episode were analyzed using factor analysis. Two dimensions emerged fro…
La ensenanza de la historia en Mexico
La ensenanza de la historia en Mexico
Action Learning: A Holographic Metaphor for Guiding Social Change
This paper develops the concept of action learning in terms of holographic principles. It offers an approach to inquiry, learning, and organizational design in terms of minimum critical conditions which seek to enhance capacities for individual and collective self-organization
Linking empirically based theory and evaluation: The family bereavement program
Conclusion We have illustrated how our “small theory” (Lipsey, 1990) of bereavement guided the development and evaluation of a preventive intervention for bereaved children. Our small theory, based on prior empirical research, enabled us to identify family processes that appeared to mediate the effects of parental death on child mental health. Our intervention was designed to attempt to change these processes. The evaluation of our experimental t…
Inner-City, Poor Children of Divorce: Negative Divorce-Related Events, Problematic Beliefs and Adjustment Problems
This study examined the relations between negative divorce-related events, four types of beliefs about the divorce and the adjustment problems of 35 inner-city, poor children of divorce. Both parental and children's perspectives on children's adjustment were obtained. Negative divorce-related events were significantly, positively related to both children's and parents' reports of adjustment problems. Only one type of belief about divorce, fear of…
Wrapping form and Organizational Beauty
Reinventing Italy: Methodological challenges
Understanding Caregivers’ Help-Seeking for Latino Children's Mental Health Care Use
BACKGROUND: Latino children have persistent low rates of mental health service use. Understanding the factors that influence caregivers' decisions about whether to use mental health care for their children can help explain why. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to investigate the factors reported by the primary caregiver that could help classify Puerto Rican children into users versus nonusers of mental health services and mental health …
Discovering expressive transformation rules from saxophone jazz performances
If-then rules are one of the most expressive and intuitive knowledge representations and their application to represent musical knowledge raises particularly interesting questions. In this paper, we describe an approach to learning expressive performance rules from monophonic recordings of jazz standards by a skilled saxophonist. We have first developed a melodic transcription system which extracts a set of acoustic features from the recordings p…
A Quantitative Analysis ofAtaque de Nerviosin Puerto Rico: Further Examination of a Cultural Syndrome
The authors present a quantitative analysis and assessment of the symptoms of ataque de nervios. A sample of 121 individuals living in Puerto Rico provided qualitative and structured data on ataques de nervios and psychiatric correlates. A total of 77 participants reported having an ataque de nervios during their lifetimes. Their reports of symptoms associated with the ataque-episode were analyzed using factor analysis. Two dimensions emerged fro…
Perceived Discrimination and Antisocial Behaviors in Puerto Rican Children
Introduction to the Special Issue on Music and Machine Learning
Feral futures: Zen and aesthetics
Automatic Performer Identification in Celtic Violin Audio Recordings
We present a machine learning approach to the problem of identifying performers from their interpretative styles. In particular, we investigate how violinists express their view of the musical content in audio recordings and feed this information to a number of machine learning techniques in order to induce classifiers capable of identifying the interpreters. We apply sound analysis techniques based on spectral models for extracting expressive fe…
Measurement properties of the Adolescent Quality of Life Mental Health Scale (Aqol-MHS)
Plausibility and probability in scenario planning
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore extant distinctions between plausibility and probability in scenario planning and re-frame the either/or stance in the literature within a broader set of methodological choice possibilities. Design/methodology/approach – The paper surveys the history of both terms in both the English language and more narrowly within scenario planning, critically assessing the confusions that have arisen. The pape…
New Directions in Music and Machine Learning
Further special thanks are given to Alan Marsden, who enthusiastically supported this Special Issue since its inception
Effectiveness of the Engagement and Counseling for Latinos (Ecla) Intervention in Low-income Latinos
BACKGROUND: Persistent disparities in access and quality of mental health care for Latinos indicate a need for evidence-based, culturally adapted, and outside-the-clinic-walls treatments. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate treatment effectiveness of telephone (ECLA-T) or face-to-face (ECLA-F) delivery of a 6-8 session cognitive behavioral therapy and care management intervention for low-income Latinos, as compared to usual care for depression. DESIGN: Multisite…
Manuscript XXIX: Máximo Rodríguez's ‘Lost’ Prologue
Rainer Buschmann likewise acknowledges the generous assistance provided by fellowships at the Institute of Social Science (University of Lisbon) and the Europainstitut in Basel
The Sense of Ensemble: A Machine Learning Approach to Expressive Performance Modelling in String Quartets
Computational approaches for modelling expressive music performance have produced systems that emulate music expression, but few steps have been taken in the domain of ensemble performance. In this paper, we propose a novel method for building computational models of ensemble expressive performance and show how this method can be applied for deriving new insights about collaboration among musicians. In order to address the problem of inter-depend…
Scenarios as a scholarly methodology to produce “interesting research”
Recent debates identified the insufficient production of “interesting research”, namely research that is innovative and develops theory while being both usable and rigorous. We propose that scenarios methodology as a scholarly form of inquiry is one way in which we can generate “interesting research”. We present and compare how this methodology was used to investigate three research studies: (i) the unfolding of retailing formats in India; (ii) t…
Scenarios and design: Scoping the dialogue space
Introduction to the special issue in futures on design and scenarios
The aesthetics of story-telling as a technology of the plausible
We need to talk (more wisely) about wisdom: A set of conversations about wisdom, science, and futures
Computer Science (16 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Futures contract (6 works)