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Barbara Lee Pence Overman
No full textBarbara Overman passed away peacefully on September 1, 2015. Born and raised in Amboy then later Marion Indiana, Barbara was the daughter of Robert and Dorothy Pence, owners of Custers Lumber Company and Custers Cashway. She graduated from Marion High School in 1945. Barbara was the last to survive of a family of two younger brothers, Raymond (Pete) and Jim Pence. In 1947 she married her high school sweetheart, Jerry Overman following his service in the Navy during WWII. In 1962, Jerry, Barbara and their two sons, Mark and Bob, moved to Palo Alto. Mark and Bob eventually moved to San Diego and Jerry and Barbara continued to live in the same house that they purchased when they moved to Palo Alto. While Barbara's primary focus was on taking care of her family, she also worked part time as an accountant for several businesses in the area. Barbara also believed in helping others that weren't so fortunate, and she donated her time and money to help several charitable organizations throughout her life. During her work and charitable involvement, Barbara met many people that became close friends. She was widely recognized as a kind and generous person, and it is easy to see why people wanted to be a part of her life and count her as a good friend, which in many cases actually meant you became not just a friend, but a part of the family. Barbara is survived by her husband Jerry, her sons Mark and Bob, grandchildren Scott, Kristina and James, and 4 great-grand children. Her generous and loving spirit will be missed by all who knew he
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Design Futures time-based paradigms
No full textAnna Barbara pointed out that the design of time
is one of the most important global trends, and
we should take the future as an important tool for
designing the present.
Anna Barbara asked the question: what kind of
present do we live in?
First of all, she explained the present meaning of
contraction and told us that the form of time is
changing. We are driving towards the future like
a car. What we see in the rearview mirror is the
past, and now is simplified to a moment. This is our
current situation.
We decompose our emotions and opinions and
filter our heritage to the world through smart
phones, cameras and other filters, which gives us
a distance between reality and related problems,
between us and social responsibility, and choose
to live in a comfortable area, making us passive
bystanders rather than active participants.
Anna Barbara pointed out that there are more and
more different perspectives, which have brought
us different opinions, which is also changing
the quality of our design and the space we will
live in. We hope to respond to the living space,
experience and experience, and our space may
have been designed 50 years ago, not modern
design at all. At the same time, the digital age has
brought us a completely different life.
In addition, the exploration of time is closely
related to the innovation in the field of mobile and
transportation. Anna Barbara, for example, looks
at the swimming pool in the above figure. The
swimming pool on the screen is more exciting than
in reality. She puts forward a social way to make
life no longer socialized. Excessive use of social
media gives us a sense of definition and existence.
Now we are not close to the people around us, but
we have established contact with people in another
space. Back to the point just mentioned, in fact, we
walk in space, and we don't move our steps when we walk. We don't even exist in space now. Our
existence is nonexistence.
In the compression or expansion of time, not only
designers, people maximize productivity. We are
constantly adjusting our adaptability to time. What
is it like now? With the continuous compression
and expansion of time, we become more and more
efficient, and our productivity has been maximized.
We all use artificial, rising and setting sun like
chickens in farms, but make them produce more
chicken eggs in an unsustainable way.
We have now become consumers of space. Our
feelings and experiences of place have been
distorted, seduced, enjoyed and entertained. Even
if our physiological rhythm is compromised in this
process, we have become over excited consumers,
resulting in emotional bulimia.
Finally, Anna Barbara asked: what should it be like
for future design?
Students are the people who live in the future. She
asked students to design a space where they hope
to live and see their prospects for the future. She
believes that as a teacher, we should go out of the
reflection of knowledge, let ourselves stand out, be
able to accommodate ourselves, teach methods,
abandon ideas, and teach students how to ask
correct questions, rather than simply give answers.
So that students can really live in a conscious
time and space, establish real proximity, sharing
economy and open knowledge. If teachers can
afford equal programs for young people of all
genders without leaving anyone behind, regardless
of social and cultural background, learning will be
highly sustainable in the future
Camera crew with Sophia Loren, Barbara Nichols during production of THAT KIND OF WOMAN, 1959
No full textA crew of grips pulls dolly-mounted camera alongside Sophia Loren, center, and Barbara Nichols during production of THAT KIND OF WOMAN, 1959. Scene is shot at Long Beach Station, Long Island, New York. 8.25x10 b&w photographic print
Forced Manager Turnovers in English Soccer Leagues: A Long-Term Perspective
No full textThe authors conduct an empirical analysis of a hand-collected sample of 2,376 turnovers of soccer managers in the four major English leagues in the seasons from 1949-1950 to 2007-2008. While the relation between the probability of a manager being fired and long-term performance remained remarkably stable, both the absolute frequency and the sensitivity of firing decisions on the outcome of recent matches steadily and significantly increased during the six decades covered by the sample. This is likely to reflect the increased level of competition in and economic importance of the English soccer leagues. © The Author(s) 2012
Boris Kaufman, Barbara Nichols, Sophia Loren, Sidney Lumet, and others during production of THAT KIND OF WOMAN, 1959
No full textFrom left, foreground: Cinematographer Boris Kaufman, Barbara Nichols, Sophia Loren, seated, and director Sidney Lumet, standing behind camera, during production of THAT KIND OF WOMAN, 1959. Others unidentified. 8.25x10 b&w photographic print
Further Observations on Shapes, Inscriptions, and Functions of Neopalatial Nodules and Noduli
No full textThis paper stems from a study carried out by the author on the Neopalatial sealings housed in two Italian museums, namely the National Archaeological Museum of Florence and the National Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum “L. Pigorini” in Rome. The major aim of this project was the application of digital technologies for the virtual representation and reconstruction of Aegean sealings. Reflections on shapes, inscriptions and functions of Neopalatial sealings, which emerged from this kind of study, are here presented
Axonal neuropathy with unusual pattern of amyotrophy and alacrima associated with a novel AAAS mutation p.Leu430Phe
No full textThe triple A syndrome is caused by autosomal recessively inherited mutations in the AAAS gene and is characterized by achalasia, alacrima and adrenal insufficiency as well as progressive neurological impairment. We report on a 14-year-old girl with slowly progressive axonal motor neuropathy with conspicuous muscle wasting of hypothenars and calves as well as alacrima. The mutation analysis of the AAAS gene revealed a compound heterozygous mutation: a c.251G>A mutation in exon 2 that had been reported previously, and a novel c.1288C>T mutation in exon 14. At the transcriptional level, the c.251G>A transition results in an aberrant splicing and decay of this RNA strand so that the particular clinical picture results from the novel c. 1288C>T, (p.Leu430Phe, L430F) mutation in a hemizygous form. With transfection experiments, we demonstrate that GFP-ALADIN(L430F) correctly localizes to nuclear pore complexes. Therefore, we conclude that this point mutation impairs ALADIN function at the nuclear pore
[Correspondence Between Janet F. Harte and Barbara Jordan - April 10-24, 1973]
No full textLetter from Janet F. Harte thanking Barbara Jordan for her support of legislation related to family planning and research with a reply from Jordan saying that she shares Harte's concern for family planning assistance legislation and thanking Harte for the kind letter
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