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Chapter 04: Strengthening Medical Oncology at MD Anderson with the Aid of NCI Researchers in the Department of Biostatistics
No full textDr. Gehan recollects Dr. R. Lee Clark’s approach to funding, recruitment, and management and the attraction of MD Anderson/Houston to Dr. “Tom” Frei III, his wife Elizabeth “Liz” (nee Smith), as well as himself. Dr. Olson mentions from Kenneth Endicott (NCI Director) to Dr. R. Lee Clark (President, MD Anderson) lamenting the move of Dr’s Frei III and Freireich to MD Anderson. When Dr. Gehan started at MD Anderson in 1967, Dr. Lee D. Cady Jr. was the Head of the Department of Biomathematics. Dr. Gehan talks about the impact of the arrival of Dr’s Frei III and Freireich on MD Anderson Research. Dr. Gehan cites the cooperative group collaboration model of NCI/NIH Clinical Chairman Dr. C. Gordon Zubrod and biostatistician Marvin A. Schneiderman on the first randomized trials in acute leukemia and solid tumors. He recalls the members of the administration and the research team at MD Anderson before the arrival of Dr’s Frei III and Freireich: Dr. H. Grant Taylor, Chairman of the Southwest Oncology Group (Southwest Oncology Group), epidemiologist Eleanor Josephine McDonald (known for creating the National Cancer Registry) statistician Kenneth M. Griffith, Dr. Roy C. Heflebower, Joe E. Boyd and Dr. Stuart O. Zimmerman, Chairman of the Biomathematics Department. He also mentions other MD Anderson administrators and researchers: Terry L. Smith, Dr. Peter F. Thall, Dr. J. Jack Lee, President Dr. Charles A. LeMaistre, Dr. Frederick F. Becker and President Dr. John Mendelsohn. Finally, he talks about the Department of Biostatistics, how it differs from Biomathematics, and the effort to strengthen medical oncology at MD Anderson.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/1313/thumbnail.jp
Landscaping Septic Systems
No full textFO-6986-B 1998Meyer, Mary H.; Pedersen, Brad; Jaster, Marguerite; Anderson, James; Olson, Kenneth M.; Gustafson, David M.. (1998). Landscaping Septic Systems. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/219501
Anderson, John M.
No full textAlso available as a printed booklet and from the Dean of Faculty website https://theuniversityfaculty.cornell.edu/Memorial Statement for John M Anderson, who died in 2011. The memorial statements contained herein were prepared by the Office of the Dean of the University Faculty of Cornell University to honor its faculty for their service to the university
Modification of nektonic fish distribution by piers and pile fields in an urban estuary
No full textLarge urban piers degrade habitat value for several estuarine benthic fish species by shading, but their effects on mobile nektonic species is less well understood due to sampling challenges. Dual Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON) allowed equal access to sampling in the water column of structured shaded and unshaded vs. open environments in both dark and light conditions by methods similar to video but without light. Sampling (n = 228, 5-minute transects) occurred under and around four large municipal piers of varying dimensions in the Hudson River estuary during day and night from summer and fall in 2007 - 2009. The distribution of small (5 - 25 cm in length) and large (25 – 850 cm) fishes were analyzed separately in recognition of functional guild differences. Small fishes occupied open water, shaded under-pier, and un-decked relict piling habitats, but were significantly more abundant during the day in open unshaded water than under adjacent piers or in piling habitats.. Small fish occurred under 3 of 4 piers of varying size and configuration at 10 - 20% of the median abundances of adjacent open water. However, while schools were rare under piers they could be very large, so that abundance greatly exceeded mean open water abundance variance so as to preclude confidence in differences among piers. The differences among habitats was not significant at night, and the difference among piers was also not significant at night. School membership for small fish appeared to mitigate adverse effects of shading and may influence scaling of their response to shading and could therefore influence pier design. Large (>25 cm) predatory fish were uncommon but responded similarly to habitat effects as did small fish. Habitats did not segregate fish by guild as small forage fish co-occurred in 65.8% of samples with large piscivores. Studies that provide species-specific and mechanistic interpretation of dynamic habitat use as well as further quantification of scaling effects could improve our understanding of how fishes respond to piers and other structures on urban shorelines.Peer reviewed
Kenneth M Alexander - Author and Artist
No full textI was born to Dennis and Kathleen Alexander in a single motor garage at 21 Limerick Road in Athlone. In those days, the midwife would do her rounds on a bicycle at the time when the stork was seen flying over the now-collapsed, missing going, gone forever Athlone Towers. Either that or she went to the foot of Table Mountain and placed a hollowed out pumpkin with a precision cut hole in one side. The monkey would come, stick his or her hand in the hole, grab some pips and in trying to pull its hand out in a fist, it gets stuck. The midwife then pounces on the helpless monkey, knocks it out with her case, and then stuffs "it" into that same black case and off she motors on her "dik" wheel bicycle to deliver the latest addition to an Athlone family. The monkey cries with relief when let out of the case. I have since moved on from that belief system. For some reason, the majority of the employers I worked for still believe that. In fact, far too many white people still do. To them we are monkeys and they pay us with peanuts
Kenneth M. Ford
No full textKenneth Ford is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) — a not-for-profit research institute located in Pensacola, Florida. IHMC has grown into one of the nation’s premier research organizations with world-class scientists and engineers investigating a broad range of topics related to building technological systems aimed at amplifying and extending human cognition, perception, locomotion and resilience. Richard Florida has described IHMC as “a new model for interdisciplinary research institutes that strive to be both entrepreneurial and academic, firmly grounded and inspiringly ambitious.” IHMC headquarters are in Pensacola with a branch research facility in Ocala, Florida.
Dr. Ford is the author of hundreds of scientific papers and six books. Dr. Ford’s research interests include: artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-centered computing, and entrepreneurship in government and academia. Dr. Ford received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tulane University. He is Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of AAAI/MIT Press and has been involved in the editing of several journals. Ford is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a member of the National Association of Scholars. Ford has received many awards and honors including the Doctor Honoris Causas from the University of Bordeaux in 2005 and the 2008 Robert S. Englemore Memorial Award for his work in artificial intelligence (AI). In 2012 Tulane University named Ford its Outstanding Alumnus in the School of Science and Engineering. In 2015, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence named Dr. Ford the recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Service Award. Also in 2015, Dr. Ford was elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2017 Dr. Ford was inducted into the Florida Inventor’s Hall of Fame.
In January 1997, Dr. Ford was asked by NASA to develop and direct its new Center of Excellence in Information Technology at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. He served as Associate Center Director and Director of NASA’s Center of Excellence in Information Technology. In July 1999, Dr. Ford was awarded the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal. That same year, Ford returned to private life and to the IHMC.
In October of 2002, President George W. Bush nominated Dr. Ford to serve on the National Science Board (NSB) and the United States Senate confirmed his nomination in March of 2003. The NSB is the governing board of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and plays an important role in advising the President and Congress on science policy issues. In 2005, Dr. Ford was appointed and sworn in as a member of the Air Force Science Advisory Board.
In 2007, he became a member of the NASA Advisory Council and on October 16, 2008, Dr. Ford was named as Chairman – a capacity in which he served until October 2011. In August 2010, Dr. Ford was awarded NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal – the highest honor the agency confers.
In February of 2012, Dr. Ford was named to a two-year term on the Defense Science Board (DSB) and in 2013, he became a member of the Advanced Technology Board (ATB) which supports the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In 2018, Dr. Ford was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-bios-2019/1005/thumbnail.jp
Carceral (im)mobilities: theorizing mobility crises and state control
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Addressing Interoperability in Open Hypermedia: the Design of the Open Hypermedia Protocol
No full textTheognete adarmstrongae Anderson 2010, new species
No full text<p> <b> 83. <i>Theognete adarmstrongae</i> Anderson, new species</b> (Figures 252, 269, 286)</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> Size. Length, male, 3.63mm; female, 3.12mm. Width, male, 2.30mm; female, 2.04mm. As for <i>T. kaulbarsi</i> but sutural interval of elytra not impressed or punctate; posterolateral area of elytra punctate; basal margin of elytra in humeral region not toothed. Tergite VIII in female emarginate in middle. Aedeagus as in Fig. 269.</p> <p> <b>Geographical distribution</b>. México (Chiapas).</p> <p> <b>Natural history</b>. Collected from berlese extraction of mixed oak-pine forest leaf litter at 1550m and dry oak forest litter at 1750m near the base of the upper peak of Cerro Bola.</p> <p> <b>Derivation of specific name</b>. Through their support of the Nature Discovery Fund at the Canadian Museum of Nature, this species is named after Audrey D. Armstrong of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, as a gift from her husband, Kenneth Armstrong.</p> <p> <b>Material examined</b>. 2♂, 1♀ (CMNC, UNAM)</p> <p> Holotype ♂ (UNAM): MÉXICO: Chiapas. Municipio Villa Corso, Ejido Sierra Morena, R. Biosfera La Sepultura, 16º09’10.6” N, 93º35’25.1” W., 1550m, 17–18.VII.2003, R. Anderson, mixed oak-pine forest litter, 2003-110A / HOLOTYPE ♂, <i>Theognete adarmstrongae</i> sp. nov. R.S. Anderson. Aedeagus extracted. Paratypes: MÉXICO. Chiapas. Municipio Villa Corso, Ejido Sierra Morena, R. Biosfera La Sepultura, 16º09’10.6” N, 93º35’25.1” W., 1550m, 17–18.VII.2003, R. Anderson, mixed oak-pine forest litter, 2003- 110A (1♀ CMNC). Municipio Villa Corso, Sierra Morena, 16.13663º N, 93.59875º W., 1750m, 14.V.2008, M. Branstetter #745 (1♀ CMNC).</p> <p> <b>Chorological relationships</b>. This species is not sympatric with any other species of <i>Theognete</i>.</p>Published as part of <i>Anderson, Robert S., 2010, A taxonomic monograph of the Middle American leaf-litter inhabiting weevil genus Theognete Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Molytinae; Lymantini) 2458, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 2458 (1)</i> on page 76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2458.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5316658">http://zenodo.org/record/5316658</a>
The socialization of selected academic department heads at Texas A & M University
No full textVita.The purpose of this study was to determine how academic department heads learn their roles through the socialization process for this role at Texas A&M University (TAMU). The literature suggests that faculty experience in a department provides adequate orientation for this administrative position. Little, if any, reported research was found describing the processes by which an individual in a faculty role learns/adapts to ari administrative role. This exploratory study, based on a naturalistic paradigm, used an exploratory interview approach. Twenty-five academic department heads were interviewed at the main campus of TAMU in College Station, Texas. Data analysis was a content analysis approach. From participants' perceptions, the following categories emerged which described how academic department heads learn their roles through the socialization process at TAMU: human resources, prior experience, observation, printed media, professional associations, professional development activities and, trial-and-error learning. This study concluded that: Human resources were considered to be the greatest learning resource by academic department heads. Prior experiences appeared to be important. Role models were important in the department head's perceptions of the role. Overall, professional development activities appeared to provide little value as learning resources. However, close to half of the department heads, together, found professional associations and issue-specific workshops to be helpful/useful. Aggregate analysis of the reported headship roles revealed similarities in responses regarding roles, and differences in emphasis among the department heads interviewed. A majority indicated that previous faculty roles were helpful the headship role in terms of participants' understanding of what the faculty role entails and their credibility with the faculty. Headship roles perceived to be both difficult and problematic, by the greatest proportion of respondents, related to areas of finance, faculty development/evaluation and interpersonal relations. Overall, most department heads perceived no change in their perceptions when their roles changed from faculty roles to administrative roles
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