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Stuckey, Slave Culture - Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America
No full textSlave Culture is a stimulating and well researched study into the social history of black America since the early colonial period up to the late 1930s. Professor Stuckey writes with the ease and clarity rarely found in more recent texts of black history. Slave Culture provides meaningful elaboration and examination of black society both in pre- and post-slavery America. In addition to an indepth overview of black culture and society, the author provides the reader with useful and relevant case studies of selected black Americans. The major figures included in the book are David Walker, Henry Highland Gamet, W.E.B. DuBois, and Paul Robeson
Learning Variable Activity Initialisation for Lazy Clause Generation Solvers
No full textContemporary research explores the possibilities of integrating machine learning (ML) approaches with traditional combinatorial optimisation solvers. Since optimisation hybrid solvers, which combine propositional satisfiability (SAT) and constraint programming (CP), dominate recent benchmarks, it is surprising that the literature has paid limited attention to machine learning approaches for hybrid CP–SAT solvers. We identify the technique of minimal unsatisfiable subsets as promising to improve the performance of the hybrid CP–SAT lazy clause generation solver Chuffed. We leverage a graph convolutional network (GCN) model, trained on an adapted version of the MiniZinc benchmark suite. The GCN predicts which variables belong to an unsatisfiable subset on CP instances; these predictions are used to initialise the activity score of Chuffed’s Variable-State Independent Decaying Sum (VSIDS) heuristic. We benchmark the ML-aided Chuffed on the MiniZinc benchmark suite and find a robust 2.5% gain over baseline Chuffed on MRCPSP instances. This paper thus presents the first, to our knowledge, successful application of machine learning to improve hybrid CP–SAT solvers, a step towards improved automatic solving of CP models.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Algorithmic
UGA Blue Key chapter to honor two Georgia Law alumni- Stuckey and Carr- as well as Albersheim and Bryan
No full textTuesday, September 27, 2005
WRITER: Larry B. Dendy, 706/542-8078, [email protected] CONTACT: Tom Landrum, 706/542-0054, [email protected]
UGA Blue Key chapter to honor two Georgia Law alumni- Stuckey and Carr- as well as Albersheim and Bryan
ATHENS, Ga. -- The University of Georgia chapter of Blue Key Honor Society will recognize two Georgia Law alumni and a pioneering UGA scientist and one of the university’s most loyal alumni supporters at the annual Blue Key Awards banquet Oct. 21.
The society will present the 41st annual Blue Key Service Awards to Williamson (Bill) Stuckey Jr., who represented Georgia’s Eighth District in Congress for 10 years; Peter Albersheim, Distinguished Research Professor and co-director of UGA’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center; and Carolyn Warnell Bryan, whose family has provided strong support for the university’s Warnell School of Forest Resources.
Stuckey will be the featured speaker for the banquet, which will also include presentation of the Blue Key Young Alumnus Award to Chris Carr, deputy chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia. Winners of the BellSouth Student Leadership Award, the Richard B. Russell Student Leadership Award and the Tucker Dorsey Memorial Scholarship also will be announced.
The banquet, which is open to the public, will be at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Reservations, at 6.5 million in research funding and is one of UGA’s largest research units.
Albersheim is an international leader in studying the structure and interaction of molecules in complex carbohydrates, a class of biochemicals in cells that can control growth, reproduction and disease resistance in plants. His research, though at a basic level, provides information that may be useful in increasing yields of agricultural crops as well as the possible development of treatments for diseases such as cystic fibrosis and AIDS.
He has helped generate more than $22 million in federal and private research grants since coming to UGA. He is author of more than 300 articles, reports and other scientific publications and has spoken at scientific gatherings around the world.
A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Albersheim has received major awards for his research from the American Chemical Society and the American Society of Plant Physiologists.
Bryan, who lives in Savannah, is the daughter of the late Daniel B. Warnell, a Georgia banker, farmer and landowner who served in the state senate. Warnell supplied pine trees that UGA professor Charles Herty used for his research in developing the process to make paper from resinous southern pines. That process paved the way for the growth of the pulp and paper industry in the South.
Bryan and her sister, Dorothy, honored their father with a gift to UGA that led to the forest resources school being named for Warnell. Bryan later made additional gifts of land including more than 3,000 acres in Effingham County that is home of the Dorothy Warnell Research, Education and Demonstration Forest, and the Mary Kahrs Warnell Forest Education Center, which honors her mother.
Bryan received a bachelor’s degree in home economics from UGA in 1937 and worked for 25 years with UGA’s Cooperative Extension Service office in Chatham County. She was president of the Georgia Home Economics Association and was hospitality chair of the National Association of Extension Agents.
Active in civic affairs in Savannah, she was president of the Savannah Women Business Professionals Club and worked with the Chatham County Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Heart Association and the Arthritis Foundation. She is a long-time supporter of the Bamboo Farm in Savannah, where a pavilion is named for her.
Carr, who lives in Arlington, Va., will receive the Young Alumnus Award. He graduated from the Terry College of Business in 1995 with a degree in international business, and earned a law degree in 1999. While in law school he was president of the UGA Blue Key chapter.
After receiving his law degree he worked in the Atlanta law firm of Alston & Bird and was vice president and general counsel of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. He managed Isakson’s 2004 senate campaign and became deputy chief of staff when Isakson went to Washington.
The Tucker Dorsey Memorial Scholarship is named for a former Blue Key student leader who died in an auto accident in 1965. The scholarship recognizes students for outstanding service and leadership.
The BellSouth Student Leadership Award recognizes a male and female student for outstanding leadership qualities and achievements.
The Richard B. Russell Award recognizes a Blue Key student for outstanding leadership ability and potential.
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Return and Increase in Abundance of Aquatic Flowering Plants in Put-In-Bay Harbor, Lake Erie, Ohio
No full textAuthor Institution: Herbarium, Museum of Biological Diversity, The Ohio State University ; Department of Biology, Utica College of Syracuse UniversityThe initial survey of aquatic flowering plants in Put-in-Bay Harbor, South Bass Island, OH, by Pieters (1901), and a follow-up study by Stuckey (1971), documented an overall loss of 50% of the species, and 61% of the submersed species. In the past 25 years, and moreover in the past five years, dramatic new changes in the species composition have occurred in the flora: 1) nine species have returned or appeared for the first time, 2) fourteen species have continued to survive or have increased in abundance, and 3) five species have declined in overall abundance. The return of species requiring clear water for seed germination and growth and the reduction in abundance of species tolerant of turbid water may be related to the invasions and spread of Dreissena polymorpha (Zebra Mussel) and Dreissena bugensis (Quagga Mussel) which have resulted in increasing water clarity. Vallisneria americana continues to be the dominant submersed species of Put-in-Bay Harbor
Bai Xianyong in Translation: Wandering through a Garden, Waking from a Dream
No full textAn original translation of Bai Xianyong’s “Wandering Through a Garden, Waking from a Dream” along with an introduction to the author as well as a note on translation. “Wandering through a Garden, Waking from a Dream” describes a gathering of former Kun Opera singers ten years after the nationalist army’s retreat to Taiwan. The story depicts the alienation of mainlanders exiled to Taiwan through the psychology of Madam Qian, a former Kun Opera star, as she struggles to reconcile her past in Nanjing with her present in Taiwan. Amid the merriment of the night, “Wandering through a Garden, Waking from a Dream” depicts the struggles of a woman pulled from the social expectations of the mainland’s high society amidst the whirling performances of Kun Opera
Steaming, Compressed Air
No full textThis essay, composed over a span of eight months, was developed through a collaboration meant to redefine notions of writing that excludes people with disabilities. As post-colonial/collaborative composition theory suggests (Davies, 1992), the author and the writer of the narrative are two distinct people. While the author constructed the words verbally through a series of ongoing dialogues, the writer transcribed, edited, and re-ordered the text. Douglas Biklen’s book, Communication Unbound (1993), inspired us to explore these non-traditional ways of “writing” that, while grounded in conversation and collaboration, also disrupt models of efficiency and individualism
Bai Xianyong in Translation: Wandering through a Garden, Waking from a Dream
No full textAn original translation of Bai Xianyong’s “Wandering Through a Garden, Waking from a Dream” along with an introduction to the author as well as a note on translation. “Wandering through a Garden, Waking from a Dream” describes a gathering of former Kun Opera singers ten years after the nationalist army’s retreat to Taiwan. The story depicts the alienation of mainlanders exiled to Taiwan through the psychology of Madam Qian, a former Kun Opera star, as she struggles to reconcile her past in Nanjing with her present in Taiwan. Amid the merriment of the night, “Wandering through a Garden, Waking from a Dream” depicts the struggles of a woman pulled from the social expectations of the mainland’s high society amidst the whirling performances of Kun Opera
Changing the Face of Modern Medicine: Stem Cells & Gene Therapy, October 18–21, 2016, Florence, Italy
No full textMolecular diagnoses in the congenital malformations caused by ciliopathies cohort of the 100,000 Genomes Project
No full textBackground: Primary ciliopathies represent a group of inherited disorders due to defects in the primary cilium, the ‘cell’s antenna’. The 100,000 Genomes Project was launched in 2012 by Genomics England (GEL), recruiting National Health Service (NHS) patients with eligible rare diseases and cancer. Sequence data were linked to Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms entered by recruiting clinicians.Methods: Eighty-three prescreened probands were recruited to the 100,000 Genomes Project suspected to have congenital malformations caused by ciliopathies in the following disease categories: Bardet-Biedl syndrome (n=45), Joubert syndrome (n=14) and ‘Rare Multisystem Ciliopathy Disorders’ (n=24). We implemented a bespoke variant filtering and analysis strategy to improve molecular diagnostic rates for these participants.Results: We determined a research molecular diagnosis for n=43/83 (51.8%) probands. This is 19.3% higher than previously reported by GEL (n=27/83 (32.5%)). A high proportion of diagnoses are due to variants in non-ciliopathy disease genes (n=19/43, 44.2%) which may reflect difficulties in clinical recognition of ciliopathies. n=11/83 probands (13.3%) had at least one causative variant outside the tiers 1 and 2 variant prioritisation categories (GEL’s automated triaging procedure), which would not be reviewed in standard 100,000 Genomes Project diagnostic strategies. These include four structural variants and three predicted to cause non-canonical splicing defects. Two unrelated participants have biallelic likely pathogenic variants in LRRC45, a putative novel ciliopathy disease gene.Conclusion: These data illustrate the power of linking large-scale genome sequence to phenotype information. They demonstrate the value of research collaborations in order to maximise interpretation of genomic data
Dietary and related factors in the health of Japanese expatriate workers
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