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Amanda Christensen Stockholm, Kravattfabrik
No full textAMANDA CHRISTENSEN STOCKHOLM, KRAVATTFABRIK
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Carissa Bryce Christensen
No full textCarissa Bryce Christensen is an internationally known expert on the space industry and technology forecasting. She led the creation of widely used data tools now considered global metrics for the commercial space and satellite sectors, providing non-advocate, data-driven insights. She is a frequent speaker and author on space and satellite trends, serves as a strategic advisor to government and commercial clients, and has been an expert witness and testified before Congress on market dynamics. Ms. Christensen is the CEO of Bryce Space and Technology, LLC (formerly a division of The Tauri Group), an analytic consulting firm. She is also an active investor in technology-focused startups and advises several companies she has helped seed. She serves on the board of QxBranch, an early stage quantum computing firm.
Ms. Christensen holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University\u27s Kennedy School of Government, where she specialized in science and technology policy. She also completed the General Course in Government at the London School of Economics and was a Douglass Scholar at Rutgers University.
Ms. Christensen is an Associate Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Association.https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-bios-2018/1022/thumbnail.jp
Kate Christensen, 37th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textKATE CHRISTENSEN is the author of six novels, including The Epicure\u27s Lament, the PEN/Faulkner award-winning The Great Man, and The Astral. She describes herself as a cook of the improvisational, what\u27s-in-the-cupboard school, which is also, possibly not coincidentally, [her] strategy with writing, and as someone who was raised in Berkeley in the 1960s, long before the Bay Area became the American locavore/foodie mecca. She now lives in Portland, Maine, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Her food memoir is Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites (Doubleday, 2013). She is currently collaborating with Barbara Lynch, the Boston chef, on her memoir
Dan Christensen: Forty Years of Painting
No full textArt critic Clement Greenberg described Dan Christensen (1942-2007) as one of the painters on whom the course of American Art depends. 1 This retrospective exhibition documents Christensen\u27s life-long quest to understand the possibilities of color, paint, and pictorial space. Though long associated with Color Field painting, Christensen\u27s relentless experimentation with style and technique places him among this country\u27s most ambitious abstract and gestural painters.
Christensen was born in Lexington, Nebraska and grew up outside of Cozad. As a teenager Christensen listened to music on radio stations from Shreveport and Little Rock and grew fond of soul, blues, and pop music. His early aspirations to reach beyond his Midwest roots and experience a larger world, coupled with a youthful sense of independence and self-reliance, contributed to his eventual move to New York City. In 1964 he graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute and after one year of graduate school moved to the East Coast where he spent the rest of his life. Although he was painting the figure when he arrived in New York, he soon made an abrupt break from this style.
Artists in Christensen\u27s circle met and shared ideas at Max\u27s Kansas City, a bar on Park Avenue South in New York City. There, Christensen met Minimalist artists Carl Andre and Brice Marden, whom he considered important early influences. Max\u27s is also where Christensen met art dealer Rich8rd Bell8my, who offered to represent him in 1966. Shortly afterward, Bellamy brought art collector and author James Michener for a studio visit. Michener bought a paintingthe first real sale Christensen mad
Microtransactions: Redefining Revenue in the Videogame Industry
No full textMicrotransactions. Hated. Loved. Adored. The fundamental base of the video game industry, microtransactions have been the eye of the storm for video game controversy. In this article, author Peter Christensen analyzes the conflicting views, and proposes a solution forward
The Relationship Between Psychological Distress and Bio-behavioral Processes in Cardiovascular Disease
No full textCardiovascular disease (CVD) has been proven to be the largest contributor to morbidity and mortality in the developed world. By considering the psychosocial factors that have been linked to CVD, this chapter will focus on the role of psychological distress. Existing empirical evidence shows that stress can be considered as a risk factor starting from the early years, while in adulthood the risk associated with distress derives mainly from either social isolation or workplace-related chronic stressors. Both behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms have been proposed to underlie this association, including sustained activation of the sympathetic nervous system and reduced heart rate variability. Finally, we report research emphasizing the potential protective role of positive psychological constructs such as well-being, optimism, and positive affect
'We will never get rich if we follow Buddhism' – The Rise of Brahmanism in Cambodia
No full textThis paper explores the growing demand for spirit rituals in Cambodia over the last two decades. Beginning with the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979, the author focuses on the revitalisation of “Brahmanism” (brahmaṇya-sāsanā), a term that in Cambodia describes religious practices involving spirits. Brahmanist practices have grown in popularity in parallel with the rapid revitalisation of Buddhism that has taken place since the end of the post-Khmer Rouge Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia in 1989. The author argues that the influence of ideas of pāramī, or spiritual power, is a significant reason for the popularity of Brahmanist rituals. In contrast to Buddhist practice which places emphasis on the accumulation of merit (puṇya), spirits and their human mediums may provide immediate cures, or help in the accumulation of power and money. Hence Brahmanism is appealing to many Cambodians – as the title of the paper suggests – because their offerings are traded for more immediate benefits than Buddhist merit-making. Because of their flexibility, Brahmanist rituals have been easily adapted to the new capitalist market, which was ‘liberalized’ in the 1990s. Unlike the well-documented development of Buddhism, the revitalization of Brahmanism has gone rather unnoticed by scholars of Cambodia. Nonetheless, it has become a modern phenomenon that provides revealing insights into a society that finds itself in politically troubled times
Shear wave splitting and mantle flow in Alaska
No full textThesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2018We explore the nature of mantle anisotropy and flow under Alaska by presenting 2389 SKS shear wave splitting observations from 547 earthquakes recorded at 384 broadband stations deployed in Alaska since 2010. We expand upon the results of Seismic Anisotropy under central Alaska from SKS splitting observations by Christensen and Abers (2010) and Insights into mantle structure and flow beneath Alaska based on a decade of observations of shear wave splitting by Perttu, Christensen, Abers, and Song (2014) to better understand the effect of flat slab subduction on mantle anisotropy and flow. Shear wave splitting is a common tool to investigate anisotropy in the upper mantle, which is often assumed to be caused by mantle flow or preexisting fabrics in the lithosphere. In Alaska, splitting appears to be controlled by the absolute plate motion of the North American and Pacific plates, and the interaction between the two plates. In particular, the subducting Pacific plate acts as a barrier to flow. Directly north of the slab, fast directions are oriented along the strike of the slab with large δts, and are caused by along strike flow in the mantle wedge. Stations further to the north, outside of the influence of the mantle wedge, gradually see fast directions parallel to the absolute plate motion direction of the North American plate. South of the slab, fast directions depend on the geometry of the subducting plate. South of the Alaska Peninsula, the fast directions are parallel to the trench, which represent along strike flow under the Pacific plate. To the east, however, flat slab subduction dominates. Here the fast directions are perpendicular to the trench (parallel to the absolute motion of the Pacific plate) and are indicative of entrained flow from the motion of the Pacific plate. Fast directions near the Fairweather- Queen Charlotte transform system are parallel to the faults, and are likely caused by the deformation associated with large lithospheric blocks moving past each other. The region between the inferred east end of the Pacific plate and the transform boundary is dominated by the collision and accretion of the Yakutat terrane. The tectonics of this region are still in debate and the fast directions are difficult to interpret.NSF 1460318, NSF 125197
Electronic Title in the New Millennium
No full textAs in all aspects of life and work, technology is making its presence felt with the introduction of electronic title in the Torrens system. Although the use of technology will provide greater access to information and faster registration, streamlining conveyancing, other issues arise. The effect on registration processes, conveyancing practice, the possibility of fraud and indefeasibility all need to be considered. This paper examines the practical and theoretical issues associated with the introduction of electronic title and greater reliance on computer information
The Glass Menagerie production [01]
No full textLorraine Cole as Amanda and Colleen Christensen as Laura in the University of Idaho drama production of 'The Glass Menagerie.
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