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Col. David Brenner (Ret.) Army
No full textCol. David Brenner (Ret.) grew up in Winter Park Florida attending local schools and graduating from the University of Central Florida (UCF). After serving 25 years in the US Army, he returned to Central Florida to take over the family’s successful Commercial Real Estate operations where he works with his father and son.
Col. Brenner (Ret.) joins the 46th Space Congress\u27 International Panel representing the subject of blockchain and cryptocurrencies in general. Col. Brenner is an Associate Director of Wyith Institute (Wyith.edu) which was founded in 1992 by Dr. Raymond Cheng. And, of the several digital assets Col. Brenner represents, only Wyith\u27s BCR@W is very progressive in all matters of education and training through digital assets. Col. Brenner (Ret.) was commissioned to the Regular Army in 1990 as a Distinguished Military Graduate of the University of Central Florida Army ROTC program as an Ordnance Officer, detailed to the Field Artillery. His initial assignment was in the 7th Battalion, 15th Field Artillery in the 7th Infantry Division as a Fire Support Platoon Leader. As an Ordinance Officer he commanded Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) units at the Detachment and Company levels, and he served in the 101st Ordnance Battalion as the S-1 and as Operations Officer. He was posted to the NATO headquarters, Larissa, Greece, where he served as the Strategic Planning Officer for Logistics and was the Joint Military Affairs Officer in Stabilizing Force (SFOR) Bosnia.
In 1997, the Army selected him for service in the Foreign Area Officer program as a Middle East specialist. Following Arabic Language training at the Defense Language Institute, he completed multiple tours in the Middle East; serving twice in the Defense Attaché Office in Cairo, Egypt, assigned as the Army Liaison Officer to the Israeli Defense Force in Tel Aviv, the senior transition planner in the Office of Security Cooperation – Iraq, the USCENTCOM Liaison Officer to US Forces – Iraq, and the Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché to Lebanon at the Embassy in Beirut.
At the Defense Intelligence Agency he served as Chief of the Libya Crisis Team during Operation ODYSSEY DAWN, and as Director of the North Africa Branch. His final military assignment was as the Senior Military Advisor to the US State Department’s Assistant Secretary, Anne Patterson, and the Near Eastern Affairs Bureau.
Col. David Brenner (Ret.) has deployed to Iraq in support of operations IRAQI FREEDOM and NEW DAWN, and completed an operational tour to Bosnia-Herzegovina. He served at five embassies in the Near East and in nine countries. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Central Florida and a Masters of Arts degree in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University.
His military decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Bronze Star Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters), the Meritorious Service Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), the Army Achievement Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, The Iraq Campaign Medal (with 2 Service Stars), the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Humanitarian Service Medal, the NATO Metal for the Balkans, the Overseas Service Ribbon with numeral seven, the Parachutist Badge, and the Senior Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge.
Col. Brenner (Ret.) is married to the former Teresa MacPherson of Winter Park, Florida, and they have two grown sons, Benjamin and Matthew.https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-bios-2019/1020/thumbnail.jp
New map of Mississippi with its roads & distances
No full textRelief shown by hachures.; Includes steam boat distance table.; In upper margin: Tanner's universal atlas.; Prime meridian: Washington.; Scanned raster image of original: 1 map : hand col. ; 34 x 26 cm.; Original in the David Rumsey Collection; scanned by Cartography Associates
Tagging of Biomedical Articles on CiteULike: A Comparison of User, Author and Professional Indexing
No full textThis paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and professional indexers. User tags, author keywords and descriptors were collected from academic journal articles, which were both indexed in Pubmed and tagged on CiteULike, and analysed. Descriptive statistics, informetric measures, and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the use of keywords between the three groups in addition to similarities which can be used to enhance support for search and browse. While tags and author keywords were found that matched descriptors exactly, other terms which did not match but provided important expansion to the indexing lexicon were found. These additional terms could be used to enhance support for searching and browsing in article databases as well as to provide invaluable data for entry vocabulary and emergent terminology for regular updates to indexing systems. Additionally, the study suggests that tags support organisation by association to task, projects and subject while making important connections to traditional systems which classify into subject categories
Is sea-basing a viable method of providing logistic support to the UK amphibious force?
No full textMaritime power has traditionally been a central part of the UK’s defence planning and is well
suited to supporting a wide range of military operations. The littoral area has always created
problems for naval planners as most landings historically have had to endure a tactical
separation of the naval and land components, and hence an artificial seam between the Navy
and the Marines. With the end of the Cold War, amphibious operations are going to be more
difficult to conduct than in the past, and amphibious forces are going to have to adopt
manoeuvre warfare capabilities in order to successfully complete their missions. It is very
likely that amphibious forces will have to conduct operations against a numerically superior
enemy, who is on his own terrain, and be surrounded by a neutral, if not hostile populace. As
such, the concept of Operational Manoeuvre From The Sea (OMFTS) whereby the sea is used
as a manoeuvre space, and command and control is fast enough to cope with large amounts of
information, but at the same time allow subordinates maximum flexibility to use their
initiative, is increasingly attractive. It will be important not only for the combat elements to be
able to use this new concept, but the Combat Service Support (CSS) elements as well
Generation of Col-GFP carrying immortalized cells.
No full text<p>Generation of Col-GFP carrying immortalized cells.</p
Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee.
No full textThe author was unknown to Crockett, who wrote his "Narrative" to correct the wrong impression produced by this publication. cf. Pref. to Crockett's Narrative.Mode of access: Internet
An annotated checklist of the jumping plant-lice (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Mercantour National Park, with seven new records for France and one new synonymy
No full textZoosystema is a diamond open access journal, free of charges for both the author and the reader and accessible here as soon as published. © Publications scientifiques du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. The attached file is the published version of the article.NHM Repositor
Characterization of the Col-GFP cell line.
No full text<p>Immunofluorescence staining of cells carrying the Col-GFP reporter cassette for α-SMA (<b>A</b>), GFAP (<b>B</b>), synaptophysin (<b>C</b>). (<b>D</b>) The GFP signals were detected by UV fluorescence microscopy. (<b>E</b>) The expression of α-SMA, collagen type I, GFAP, and p75 was analyzed by quantitative PCR and compared to those obtained in quiescent primary HSC (qHSC), and activated HSC cultured for 7 days (aHSC). Results represent three independent experiments, each experiment was done in duplicates, and error bars represent SEM values. (<b>F</b>) Cells were cultured in the respective growth media and cellular proteins were extracted and analyzed by Western blot using specific antibodies to Fibronectin, ColIV, ColI, β-glycan (crossreactive with Endoglin, <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0056116#pone.0056116-Meurer1" target="_blank">[20]</a>), vimentin, desmin, α-SMA, CTGF, Id2, GFP and as a loading control β-actin, respectively. (<b>G</b>) To demonstrate expression of ColI, an image with a longer exposure time is shown (n = 3).</p
Nondegradable Collagen Increases Liver Fibrosis but Not Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Mice
No full textAlthough hepatocellular cancer (HCC) usually occurs in the setting of liver fibrosis, the causal relationship between liver fibrosis and HCC is unclear. in vivo and in vitro models of HCC involving Col(r/r) mice (that produce a collagenase-resistant type I collagen) or wild-type (WT) mice were used to assess the relationship between type I collagen, liver fibrosis, and experimental HCC. HCC was either chemically induced in WT and Col(r/r) mice or Hepa 1-6 cells were engrafted into WT and Col(r/r) livers. The effect of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) from WT and Col(r/r) mice on the growth of Hepa 1-6 cells was studied by using multicellular tumor spheroids and xenografts. Collagen type I deposition and fibrosis were increased in Col(r/r) mice, but they developed fewer and smaller tumors. Hepa 1-6 cells had reduced tumor growth in the livers of Col(r/r) mice. Although Col(r/r) HSCs exhibited a more activated phenotype, Hepa 1-6 growth and malignancy were suppressed in multicellular tumor spheroids and in xenografts containing Col(r/r) HSCs. Treatment with vitronectin, which mimics the presence of degraded collagen fragments, converted the Col(r/r) phenotype into a WT phenotype. Although Col(r/r) mice have increased liver fibrosis, they exhibited decreased HCC in several models. Thus, increased liver type I collagen does not produce increased experimental HCC
AN OVERVIEW OF NEEDS THEORIES BEHIND CONSUMERISM
No full textWynn and Coolidge [2004] have hypothesized that one of the key reasons why the Homo Sapiens progressed to being modern man while the Neanderthal man didn�t, is that the former developed through innovation (from artefacts to advanced hunting methods) while the latter has left no trace of such evolution. Almost as if the Neanderthal man did not see the need to progress and accepted circumstances as fact. If this is true then the Homo Sapiens have not only developed psychological and objective needs but have progressively updated them as well. Maslow put it beautifully by saying �You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety�. This paper is the first part of a two part series. Here we provide an overview of needs theories and discuss them in the context of consumerism, consumption and opportunities for enterprises. In part two, needs and opportunities are linked to markets, benefits and strategies through a specific 3D model based on Maslow�s pyramid. To pave the way for this approach we also promote a model (PIE-Persons, Institutions and Enterprises) with the intent to help enterprises view consumers, institutions and their organisation as one interweaved entity. Needs theories are known to be crucial behind much of the understanding of human behaviour and in particular in the workplace and by the consumer. This paper examines the development of hierarchical needs theory from Maslow to Gough with the intent to better identify consumer needs, provide examples of current and past business opportunities and macroscopically show the progression from red to blue ocean strategies. The authors provide an overview of needs theories seeded through motivational theory also with the aim to uncover the differences in having (sometimes known as deficit needs) and being needs (sometimes known as growth needs) and then subsequently link them to enterprise strategies, improved consumer understanding and better market exploitation.Maslow, Herzberg, needs, motivation, having, being, uniformity, diversity
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