87 research outputs found
Wayne P. Messmer
No full textWayne P. Messmer ‘72 (born in Chicago, IL) is a professional speaker, singer, broadcaster, author, and actor. He is a professional member of SAG/AFTRA and the National Speakers Association. He was the long-time public address announcer for the Chicago Cubs. He is known as the popular “Voice of Wrigley Field” for singing The Star-Spangled Banner before many Cubs games, as well as prior to all Chicago Wolves American Hockey League games. Messmer is part owner of the Chicago Wolves. He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the national fraternity for men in music. At Illinois Wesleyan, Wayne received a bachelor’s degree in music education in 1972 and was a Drum Major of the Marching Titans and a member of the Collegiate Choir. In May 2003, Illinois Wesleyan awarded Wayne the Honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters after he delivered the Commencement Address on campus. Wayne credits his love for singing, even to this day, to his mentor Dr. David Nott, who directed the Collegiate Choir at IWU.https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/awards_distinguished/1061/thumbnail.jp
Real-time freeway network traffic surveillance: large-scale field testing results in Southern Italy
No full textThis paper reports on some large-scale field-testing
results of a real-time freeway network traffic surveillance tool that
has recently been developed to enable a number of real-time traffic
surveillance tasks. This paper first introduces the related network
traffic flow model and the approaches employed to traffic state
estimation, traffic state prediction, and incident alarm. The field
testing of the tool for these surveillance tasks in the A3 freeway
of 100 km between Naples and Salerno in southern Italy is then
reported in some detail. The results obtained are quite satisfactory
and promising for further future implementations of the tool
Performing 'the Spirit of '76': US Historical Memory and Countercommemorations for American Indian Sovereignty
No full textApproaching its topic from the intersection of History, Memory Studies and Performance Studies, this article will advance the concept of counter-commemorations in its investigation of the ways in which Native American activists used U.S. national historical memory to make interventions for expanded Indian sovereignty rights in the Late Cold War. In their efforts to educate the public and influence policy, American Indian activists held counter-commemorations in which they performed Native critiques of the Anglo-centered view of the American past, and used media attention to push for historical and social justice for Native Americans. Drawing on public and declassified government documents, AIM-related archival collections, newspaper accounts and memoirs, this article argues that radical Native sovereignty activists strategically used the position of Indians in the Euro-American cultural imagination and national memory as leverage to push for the recognition of enhanced sovereignty rights. Using Diana Taylor's Performance Studies concept of scenarios, I will analyze several Indian interventions in U.S. historical memory, and by placing them in historical context, I will establish counter-commemorations as part of a calculated strategy of the radical Indian sovereignty movement during the Late Cold War and beyond, and as a counter use of official memory by social movements, which productively complicates currently existing categories in Memory Studies. This article is part of a project I have conducted at the Centre for Collective Memory Research (Centra pro výzkum kolektivní paměti) at the Institute of International Studies, Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic. Its writing also benefited from a research residency of the author at the International Forum for U.S. Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014
ANALYSIS OF CELLULAR SENTINELS FOR EXTRACELLULAR HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN-PEPTIDE COMPLEXES
No full textSince the discovery of gp96 in the 1980’s as a “tumor rejection antigen,” Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) have received attention from immunologists for their ability to prime immune responses. Originally known for their important intracellular roles as chaperones to newly synthesized, misfolded, and/or recently degraded proteins, it is now understood that HSPs released into the extracellular environment can also initiate immune responses. Shown both in vitro and in vivo, HSPs act on antigen presenting cells (APC) to 1) deliver antigenic peptides for presentation by both MHC class I and class II molecules and 2) activate APC to increase expression of co-stimulatory molecules. Both of these activities contribute to productive T cell responses, which has led to current trials using HSP-peptide complexes as cancer vaccines. However, the cell populations responsible for monitoring exogenous HSPs and priming resulting immune responses have yet to be fully characterized. This study identifies the cells that incorporate HSPs in vivo, following either vaccination or release by tumors, and analyzes the immune response generated by these cells. A CD11c+CD11b+CD4+ dendritic cell population selectively takes up HSPs, coincident with higher expression of the HSP receptor CD91 on these cells. We also show the dependence on CD91 of HSP-mediated immune responses. Increased knowledge of the process by which HSPs shape immune responses will contribute to the understanding of HSP-mediated immunity as well as assist in optimizing current tumor-vaccine strategies
A Generic Approach by Non-linear Optimisation for Complex Processes Application Example Coordinated Control in Combined Sewer Networks
No full textThe algorithm based on nonlinear optimisation as presented in this paper is applicable to the control of complex processes. The systematic approach is doing without the formulation of rules. In case of competing control targets a weighting in the sense of minimising a cost criterion is done. As application example, coordinated control in combined sewer networks is presented.NEARCTI
Vitalistic information systems in the South African public health system : a transactional analysis perspective
No full textIncludes bibliographical references
Cypermethrin exposure induces metabolic and stress-related gene expression in copepodid salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis)
No full textA new methodology in network reliability
No full textComputer networks have turned out to be a more and more indispensable way of electronic communication. Not only the internet with its vast number of networked computers but also local or regional high-speed data networks are on their way to replace any other classical communication equipment like telephone, video conferences, radio, television, magazines, newspapers but also sensitive control devices. This makes the user of electronic media increasingly dependent on the proper functioning of the devices and connections which build the basic components of communication networks. This dissertation contributes to optimizing the dependability of highperformance networks. Graph-theoretical considerations combined with examinations of real-world networks and their predicted developments lead to a test framework which is used to analyze a novel high-speed restoration methodology which is capable of rapid calculation of network restoration paths. The methodology supports an arbitrary number of node and link failures in point-to-point or point-to-multipoint networks. Besides this universal approach, as far as the author knows, the algorithm reveals the lowest runtime of all currently presented restoration algorithms for general network graphs. Its operation is simulated on specially elaborated random graph models which can be tuned to represent most of the network topologies that currently exist. An additional chapter presents new methods for gaining a single similarity index, which allows the comparing of graph topologies. Finally the prediction of the structural development of existing network topologies is discussed. Models of this kind allow realistic performance and behavior tests in not yet existing network structures
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