390 research outputs found
Conner, Author
No full textAnna Conner - wifehttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1915/1140/thumbnail.jp
The Colorado Trust’s Healthy Communities Initiative: Results and Lessons for Comprehensive Community Initiatives
No full text· This article summarizes how 29 diverse communities throughout Colorado implemented the Colorado Healthy Communities Initiative (CHCI), which was conceived and funded by The Colorado Trust to engage community residents in the development of locally relevant strategies to improve community health.
· In line with the World Health Organization’s Healthy Cities model, CHCI emphasized (a) inclusive, representative planning; (b) a broad definition of “health”; (c) consensus decision making; and (d) capacity building among local stakeholder groups.
· Communities implemented an array of projects (on average, six per community) that extended well beyond traditional health promotion and disease prevention. The most common action projects focused on community problem solving, civic engagement, and youth development. Many of the grantees established projects or new institutions that had a long-term community impact.
· Key success factors for CHCI included (a) a wellspecified planning model, (b) a planning process facilitated by expert consultants, (c) a unifying “healthy community” vision developed at the beginning of the process by diverse stakeholders, (d) a willingness by stakeholders to work collaboratively to define “key performance areas” and then to implement “action projects” to achieve them, and (e) an appropriate level of funding for implementation ($50,000 per site per year).
· The outcomes and impacts of CHCI might have been improved by better anticipating the requirements for sustaining the energy and work initiated during the planning process.
· At the end of the initiative, CHCI provided the funders with a broader, deeper understanding of the requirements, opportunities, and realities associated with promoting “community health.
Human Intrinsic Factor Expression for Bioavailable Vitamin B12 Enrichment in Microalgae
No full textDietary supplements and functional foods are becoming increasingly popular complements to regular diets. A recurring ingredient is the essential cofactor vitamin B12 (B12). Microalgae are making their way into the dietary supplement and functional food market but do not produce B12, and their B12 content is very variable. In this study, the suitability of using the human B12-binding protein intrinsic factor (IF) to enrich bioavailable B12 using microalgae was tested. The IF protein was successfully expressed from the nuclear genome of the model microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and the addition of an N-terminal ARS2 signal peptide resulted in efficient IF secretion to the medium. Co-abundance of B12 and the secreted IF suggests the algal produced IF protein is functional and B12-binding. Utilizing IF expression could be an efficient tool to generate B12-enriched microalgae in a controlled manner that is suitable for vegetarians and, potentially, more bioavailable for humans
Captain Benjamin Bonneville's Wyoming Expedition the lost 1833 report
No full textIn 1832, Benjamin Bonneville led the first wagon train across the Continental Divide on the Oregon Trail. Financed by a rival of the Hudson's Bay Company, Bonneville and more than one hundred traders and trappers traveled from Fort Osage on the Missouri River, up to the Platte River and across present-day Wyoming. Washington Irving first gave the U.S. Army officer a brand by chronicling the three-year explorations in the 1837 book The Adventures of Captain Bonneville. Historians have long suspected that the captain, under the guise of commercial fur trading, was preparing for an eventual invasion of Mexico's California territory. Bonneville's 1833 report concerning his first year in the Wind River Range and beyond remained lost for almost a century before resurfacing in the 1920s. Author Jett B. Conner examines the intriguing details revealed in that historic document. --amazon.co
A security perspective on code review: The case of Chromium
No full textModern Code Review (MCR) is an established software development process that aims to improve software quality. Although evidence showed that higher levels of review coverage relates to less post-release bugs, it remains unknown the effectiveness of MCR at specifically finding security issues. We present a work we conduct aiming to fill that gap by exploring the MCR process in the Chromium open source project. We manually analyzed large sets of registered (114 cases) and missed (71 cases) security issues by backtracking in the project’s issue, review, and code histories. This enabled us to qualify MCR in Chromium from the security perspective from several angles: Are security issues being discussed frequently? What categories of security issues are often missed or found? What characteristics of code reviews appear relevant to the discovery rate?Within the cases we analyzed, MCR in Chromium addresses security issues at a rate of 1% of reviewers’ comments. Chromium code reviews mostly tend to miss language-specific issues (e.g., C++ issues and buffer overflows) and domain-specific ones (e.g., such as Cross-Site Scripting); when code reviews address issues, mostly they address those that pertain to the latter type. Initial evidence points to reviews conducted by more than 2 reviewers being more successful at finding security issues.Acknowledgments: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 642954Software Engineerin
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Discerning Strange Voices: A review of James Conner, David Scott, and Bonnie Thurston, The Voice of the Stranger
No full textThis is a book review of James Conner, David Scott, and Bonnie Thurston, "The Voice of the Stranger." "The Voice of the Stranger is a compilation of three essays and a Eucharistic homily from the Seventh General Meeting and Conference of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland, which took place on April 4-6, 2008 at Oakham School, the boarding school that Merton attended in his adolescence. The Voice of the Stranger is only 58 pages and saddle-stitched, making it feel more like an issue of a journal than a book. I will, therefore, use the term "booklet" to describe it. As the title suggests, its central theme is that of "the stranger." Each of the three authors addresses that general theme in a radically different way. There are, however, unifying threads. Each author challenges stereotypical ideas about who is and is not a "stranger," in ways that allow Merton to speak to situations that deeply haunt the world today.
James Conner, OCSO, is the author of the first essay, entitled "The Voice of the Stranger: A Manifesto for the 21st Century." The goal of this manifesto, in Conner's mind, is unity.
In the second essay, entitled "Brothers in Prayer and Worship: The Merton/Aziz Correspondence, An Islamic-Christian Dialogue," Bonnie Thurston changes the course of the volume to address interreligious dialogue. Thurston generally introduces the history and content of the fraternal correspondence between Merton and Abdul Aziz (34 letters, ranging from November 1960 until April 1968).
The third essay, "The Poet as Stranger," is David Scott's treatment of a theme that neither of the other authors developed in detail: Merton as stranger. To illustrate Merton's "strangeness," Scott discusses the influences on and content of Merton's poetry (as well as its role in the formation of Merton's faith)
An investigation into the relationship between childrens cognitive style and their perception of the environment.
No full textThis study considers relationships between the cognitive style\ud
identified by Witkin et al (1964) (ie analytic/field independence,\ud
as opposed to global/field dependence) and children's perceptions of\ud
their environment. Arising from a review of the literature, a Nariety\ud
of hypotheses were examined through an empirical investigation with\ud
481 children aged between 10 and 13 and drawn from a rural and an\ud
urban environment.\ud
The results of the study raise questions about the conceptual\ud
inadequacy and empirical validity of the style identified by Witkin\ud
and further whether the tests used to identify the style can explain\ud
performance on map and environmental exercises. The inter correlations\ud
between the three measures of cognitive .style used in the study were\ud
comparatively low (Embedded Figures Test (E2T) with Rod and Frame Test\ud
(RFT) 0.4290 p< 0.01, Pnbedded Figures Test with Articulation of Body\ud
Concept Scale (ABC) 0.4392 p <0.01, RFT with ABC 0.3448 D <0.01) and\ud
the most regularly used measure of this particular cognitive style in\ud
previous research (FT) correlated more highly with intelligence\ud
(0.5982 p <0.01) particularly perceptual reasoning (0.5616 p-<0.01)\ud
and spatial ability (0.7333 p<0.01) than with RFT and ABC. In the\ud
investigation of 25 specific research hypotheses, a more positive\ud
relationship was demonstrated with the result of the Embedded Figures\ud
Test than with those of the RFT and ABC and it is suggested that this\ud
can be explained in terms of general intellectual ability. Sintlarly\ud
performance on the measures of environmental perception and mapping\ud
skill employed in the study appeared to be considerably influenced by\ud
general intelligence and more especially perceptual reasoning. The\ud
strong spatial/intellectual bias of the relationships identified in\ud
the research were confirmed in a principal components and multiple\ud
regression analysis of the results.\ud
In a follow up study of a representative group of extreme analytic/\ud
field independent individuals and extreme global/field dependent\ud
individuals it was possible to identify children who demonstrated\ud
capacitieS as described by Witkin, which were not dependent upon\ud
ability. In general however, intelligence was the major differentia—\ud
ting factor betwee'n the two groups.\ud
Specific findings related to each of the research hypotheses\ud
are discuesed in detail in the text. The main findings of the study\ud
however appear to question the existence of the cognitive style\ud
identified by Witkin and the expectation of an association be tween\ud
cognitive style and environmental perception was not confirmed
Percy Lisk letter, MSS.1935
No full textAbstract: This collection contains a poem by an unknown author sent to Percy Lisk of Conner. The poem is about a doctor and includes a hand drawn image of a doctor.Scope and Content Note: This collection contains a poem by an unknown author sent to Percy Lisk of Conner. The poem is about a doctor and includes a hand drawn image of a doctor.Biographical/Historical Note
Herpes simplex virus type 1 blocks the apoptotic host cell defense mechanisms that target Bcl-2 and manipulates activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase to improve viral replication [Retracted]
No full textVolume 75, No. 6, pages 2710–2728, https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.75.6.2710-2728.2001. George Zachos, the first author in this paper, said: “I was informed that an investigation by the University of Glasgow found that the Western blots shown in Fig. 1, 2, and 4 contain duplications; as such, the data and its interpretation are misleading and unreliable. Given the age of the publication the original full blots are no longer available. For these reasons, we retract the article and apologize for the inconvenience it may have caused to the readers.”
Joe Conner, Chris M. Preston, and Margy Koffa could not be reached for approval of this Retraction, and J. Barklie Clements is deceased
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