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The magic of storytelling : learning the craft at Millward Brown.
No full textThis report documents the learning journey of an intern at Millward Brown, one of the world’s top ten research agencies. As part of the curriculum structure, third year Communication Studies students at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information are required to undergo a 24-week Professional Internship (PI) at an organization. The author chose to work at Millward Brown so that he could immerse himself in the market research sector and had a taste of what the future working life as a market researcher is like.
Throughout the report, bits and pieces of experience of the author as an intern will be weaved together to provide a snapshot of the vibrancy of the market research sector through the lenses of Millward Brown.
This report, hence, seeks to give an insight into the internal structure of Millward Brown, the services it provides as well as its relationship with clients and its position in the research sector. In addition, this report also outlines the training and the knowledge that the author has acquired as an intern research associate as well as how he has applied this training in his daily jobscope with four different clients: Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi Co., Cerebros, and Gillette.
Above all, facets of the working life, working environment, and other social skills required at work are also reflected on in this report. The author concludes the report with the major takeaways he has from 24 weeks of hands-on learning that will in one way or another provide him with a better picture of the working world that he might join one day.COMMUNICATION STUDIE
A rational approach to Pi, Notes of a lecture held on the occasion of Pi-day on July 5, 2000 in Leiden
No full textThis article is based on notes for the lecture with the same title, which was held by the author on the occasion of the `Pi in de Pieterskerk' event (Pi-day) on July 5, 2000. The present article expands these notes with short proofs of most of the theorems given, but not proved, during the lecture
Brown Bag - Integrating the Raspberry Pi Into Your IT Program
No full textThis webinar was presented by Kerry Bruce and is part of a special 30-minute "Brown Bag" webinar series from the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC). This webinar explores the educational value of using a Raspberry Pi, offers suggestions on how to use Raspberry PI in the IT classroom, and briefly reviews common Raspberry Pi configurations. The webinar was intended to inspire attendees to adjust an existing assignment to include the Raspberry Pi. This webinar recording runs 29:20 minutes in length. PDF slides are also provided
Life of occam-Pi
No full textThis paper considers some questions prompted by a brief review of the history of computing. Why is programming so hard? Why is concurrency considered an “advanced” subject? What’s the matter with Objects? Where did all the Maths go? In searching for answers, the paper looks at some concerns over fundamental ideas within object orientation (as represented by modern programming languages), before focussing on the concurrency model of communicating processes and its particular expression in the occam family of languages. In that focus, it looks at the history of occam, its underlying philosophy (Ockham’s Razor), its semantic foundation on Hoare’s CSP, its principles of process oriented design and its development over almost three decades into occam-? (which blends in the concurrency dynamics of Milner’s ?-calculus). Also presented will be an urgent need for rationalisation – occam-? is an experiment that has demonstrated significant results, but now needs time to be spent on careful review and implementing the conclusions of that review. Finally, the future is considered. In particular, is there a future
Henry C. Brown, approximately 1876-1877
No full textCarte-de-visite portrait of Henry Clapp Brown, who attended Norwich University in 1876 and 1877, in his cadet uniform, from a disassembled Alpha Sigma Pi photograph album. Signed on back: "Yours in Α. Σ. Π.
"I' ll tell you a story that will make you believe" in narratives: the role of metafiction in the novel and in the film Life of Pi
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2015.Recentes estudos propõem que adaptações cinematográficas sejam entendidas como fonte de criação, os quais refletem contextos e interpretações diferentes do texto em que são baseadas. Nessa dissertação, propõe-se uma análise comparativa do romance Life of Pi (2001), de Yann Martel e do filme homônimo dirigido por Ang Lee (2012). A análise tem como objetivo identificar a presença e o modo em que a metaficção é construída no romance e no filme, e quais são alguns significados produzidos por ela em ambos os textos, tanto o literário quanto o fílmico. A concepção de metafição se baseia nas definições de Linda Hutcheon e Patricia Waugh. Por metaficção, entende-se a ficção consciente de si, que expõe o processo de escrita ao leitor e o convida a ter um papel ativo na construção do significado. Após uma análise comparativa dos dois textos, conclui-se que a metaficção está presente em ambos, tanto tematicamente como estruturalmente. As reflexões sobre narrativas apresentadas pelos personagens, o uso de vários níveis narrativos e de intertextualidade revelam diferentes usos da metafição em ambos. A diferença mais importante entre o romance e o filme Life of Pi está no uso dos níveis narrativos. Enquanto o romance possui um ?autor? sem nome que apresenta a história aos leitores, o filme possui um diretor implícito que deixa pistas de qual versão da história de Pi é ?real? no contexto da narrativa. Essa diferença dá ao romance um final aberto, em que o leitor deve escolher qual versão da história ele acredita, enquanto o filme possui uma resolução para essa questão. O filme, então, pode ser entendido como um testemunho, uma narrativa de trauma de um sobrevivente de um naufrágio e da experiência de migração, enquanto o livro não apresenta uma decisão em relação às versões da história, deixando o leitor aberto a qualquer possibilidade.Abstract : Recent studies propose that Film Adaptations should be understood as sources of creation, which also reflect a different context and interpretation from the text upon which they were based. In this thesis, I propose a comparative analysis of the novel Life of Pi (2001), by Yann Martel, and the homonymous film directed by Ang Lee (2012). The analysis has the objective of identifying the presence and the way in which metafiction is constructed in the novel and in the film, and what are some of the meanings produced by it in both texts, the filmic and the literary. The concept of metafiction was based on the definitions by Linda Hutcheon and Patricia Waugh. It is understood as the self-conscious fictional text, which exposes the writing process to the readers and invites them to have an active role in the construction of meaning. In the comparative analyses of the two texts, I have proved that metafiction is present in the two texts, both thematically and structurally. The reflections of the characters on narrative itself as well as the use of different narrative levels and intertextual references reveal different uses of metanarrative in both film and novel. The most important difference between the novel and the film Life of Pi is in their uses of different narrative levels. While the novel has an unnamed =author? who presents the story to the readers, the film has an implicit director who leaves =clues? of which version of Pi?s story is ?real? in the context of the narrative. This difference gives to the novel an open end, facein which the readers must choose which version of the story they believe in, while the film presents a resolution to this question. The film, thus, can be understood as a testimony narrative, a narrative of the trauma of a survivor from a shipwreck and from the experience of migration, while the novel does not decide for one of the versions of the story, enabling a more inconclusive reading
Kappa Beta Pi Articles of Incorporation Letter, 1928
No full textOfficial letter accompanying the original Articles of Incorporation, presented to the Kappa Beta Pi Legal Sorority in 1928 by the sorority\u27s founders.
Transcript:
We, the founders, have the honor of presenting to Kappa Beta Pi Legal Sorority on this, its twentieth birthday, the original Articles of Incorporation, issued to us by the State of Illinois on the fifteenth day of December, A.D. 1908, with the hope that the ideals of our sisterhood may be maintained, and that the Kappa Beta Pi spirit of unity, loyalty, and good fellowship which has existed unbroken and untarnished, may live through all the years to come.
Sue Brown Hassell Katharine S. Clark Charlotte Doolittle White Alice Craig Edgerton Claire L. Gleason Phyllis M. Kelley Anna Knabjohann Buck Nettie Rothblum Loew Mary Sellers Connery
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this fifteenth day of December, A.D. 1928.https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/memorabilia/1003/thumbnail.jp
Regulation of the leading edge motility by PI (4,5)P2-dependent lipid microdomains
No full textThe lipid second messenger PI(4,5)P2 modulates actin dynamics, and its local
accumulation at plasmalemmal microdomains (rafts) might mediate regulation of
protrusive motility. However, how PI(4,5)P2-rich rafts regulate surface motility is
not well understood. In this study, we show that upon signals promoting cell
surface motility, PI(4,5)P2 directs the assembly of dynamic raft-rich plasmalemmal
patches, which promote and sustain protrusive motility. The accumulation of
PI(4,5)P2 at rafts, together with Cdc42, promotes patch assembly through NWASP.
The patches exhibit locally regulated PI(4,5)P2 turnover and reduced
diffusion-mediated exchange with their environment. Patches capture
microtubules (MTs) through IQGAP1, to stabilize MTs at the leading edge.
Captured MTs in turn deliver PKA to patches, to promote higher order patch
clustering through further PI(4,5)P2 accumulation in response to cAMP. Patch
clustering restricts, spatially confines and polarizes protrusive motility. Thus,
PI(4,5)P2-dependent raft-rich patches enhance local signaling for motility, and
their assembly into clusters is regulated through captured MTs and PKA, coupling
local regulation of motility to cell polarity and organization
Tangle-bearing neurons survive despite disruption of membrane integrity in a mouse model of tauopathy
No full textNeurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are associated with neuronal loss and correlate with cognitive impairment in Alzheimer disease, but how NFTs relate to neuronal death is not clear. We studied cell death in Tg4510 mice that reversibly express P301L mutant human tau and accumulate NFTs using in vivo multiphoton imaging of neurofibrillary pathology, propidium iodide (PI) incorporation into cells, caspase activation, and DNA labeling. We first observed that in live mice, a minority of neurons were labeled with the caspase probe or with PI fluorescence. These markers of cell stress were localized in the same cells and appeared specifically within NFT-bearing neurons. Contrary to expectations, the PI-stained neurons did not die during a day of observation; the presence of Hoechst-positive nuclei in them on the subsequent day indicated that the NFT-associated membrane disruption, as suggested by PI staining, and caspase activation do not lead to immediate death of neurons in this tauopathy model. This unique combination of in vivo multiphoton imaging with markers of cell death and pathological alteration is a powerful tool for investigating neuronal damage associated with neurofibrillary pathology
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