922 research outputs found
2nd Annual Bob Berry Sports Law Lecture: Michael McCann
No full textBC Law\u27s annual sports law lecture, named after the late professor Bob Berry, featured Michael McCann from the University of New Hampshire School of Law this year.
McCann is one of the nation\u27s leading experts in sports law, a seasoned sports attorney, and an award-winning teacher and scholar. He is Sports Illustrated \u27s legal analyst, a writer for both Sports Illustrated and SI.com, and the on-air Legal Analyst for NBA TV. McCann has covered the Boston Marathon bombings, NBA, NFL & NHL lockouts, the Penn State scandal, O\u27Bannon v. NCAA, Lance Armstrong & other stories. McCann was the first member of the media to interview Lance Armstrong after Armstrong\u27s interview with Oprah Winfrey. He interviewed Armstrong at his home in Austin, TX and authored My Dance With Lance (Sports Illustrated, March 11 2013 issue, pages 14-15).
Professor McCann is the author of 18 law review articles and nearly 200 legal columns and investigative articles for Sports Illustrated and SI.com. His law review articles have been published in the Yale Law Journal, Wisconsin Law Review, and Boston College Law Review, among other prominent law reviews. One notable article is American Needle v. NFL: An Opportunity to Reshape Sports Law, 119 YALE L.J. 726 (2010).
In addition to his sports law expertise, Professor McCann is an established expert in media and broadcasting law, antitrust law, contract law, law and technology, food and drug law, disability law, and law and analytics. Along with Jon Hanson, the Alfred Smart Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Professor McCann is co-founder of The Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School
Colum McCann, 39th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textColum McCann is the author of six novels and three story collections. Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, he has received many international honors, including the National Book Award, the International Dublin Impac Prize, a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French government, election to the Irish arts academy, the Best Foreign Novel Award in China, and an Oscar nomination. His work has been published in more than 35 languages. He is the co-founder of the non-profit global story exchange organization Narrative 4, and he teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College
New anticoagulant strategies in ST elevation myocardial infarction: Trials and clinical implications
No full textConor J McCann, Ian BA MenownCraigavon Cardiac Centre, Craigavon Area Hospital, Craigavon, Northern Ireland, UKAbstract: New data have re-established the importance of anticoagulation of patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), both as an adjuvant to reperfusion therapy or in patients ineligible for reperfusion. Recent randomized trials have found newer agents to be superior to conventional unfractionated heparin. This article summarizes current understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of STEMI and provides a comprehensive review of emerging trial data for low molecular weight heparins, anti-factor Xa agents and direct thrombin inhibitors in this setting.Keywords: myocardial infarction, treatment, anticoagulant
Alterity, literary form and the transnational Irish imagination in the work of Colum McCann
No full textThis thesis explores selected texts by the contemporary author Colum McCann
(b.1965), situating his work within a larger transnational Irish canon. The project
traces how notions of Irish identity interact with experiences of diaspora, migration
and race; throughout the thesis, close attention is paid to the role and function of
literary form. After an introduction which maps out the material covered in the thesis,
the project opens with a contextual chapter entitled ‘Deoraí: Exile, Wanderer,
Stranger: (Post)colonial Ireland and making sense of place’. This chapter sets up the
methodological frameworks that guide the thesis through a meditation on exile in an
Irish and postcolonial context. My second chapter, ‘Deterritorialised novels:
McCann’s short stories as Minor Literature in an (Northern) Irish Mode’, focuses on
McCann’s short stories, paying particular attention to those set in the North of Ireland.
Invoking Thomas MacDonagh’s notion of an Irish Mode and Deleuze and Guattari’s
concept of Minor Literature, I argue that the rejection of the novel in favour of the
short story is a form of literary politics inflected with anti-colonial sentiment.
Continuing my examination of literary form, my third chapter, ‘Nomadism and
Storytelling in Zoli: oral culture, embodiment and travelling tales’, highlights the
ambivalence of orality within McCann’s novel Zoli and works towards establishing
what a textual practice of storytelling might be, in addition to probing at the
representation of nomadic peoples across McCann’s work. The next chapter is
entitled ‘Topography of Violence’: race, belonging and the underbelly of the
cosmopolitan city in This Side of Brightness’. This discusses the cosmopolitan ethics
that underpin McCann’s novel and how these are grounded by the close attention
McCann pays to the experiential realities of America’s (often racialised) underclass
through McCann’s depiction of interracial love. My final chapter ‘TransAtlantic:
Frederick Douglass, the Irish Famine and the Troubles with the black and green
Atlantics’, maps out the overlapping histories of the black and green Atlantics, tests
the validity of the ostensible affinity between the two groups and asks how useful
conventional chronological narratives are in the representation of their histories.
Finally, I finish with ‘Minor Voices, race and rooted cosmopolitanism’, which
concludes that McCann’s fiction articulates a need for rooted cosmopolitan and
critically engaged nomadic thought which embraces Minor Voices and rejects
exclusionary politics
L-optimal transportation for Ricci flow
No full textWe introduce the notion of L-optimal transportation, and use it to construct a natural monotonic quantity for Ricci flow which includes a selection of other monotonicity results, including some key discoveries of Perelman [13] (both related to entropy and to L-length) and a recent result of McCann and the author [11]
Isolation and characterisation of mouse intestinal mesoangioblasts
No full textAIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Children suffering from intestinal failure (IF) endure considerable morbidity and overall have poor survival rates, complicated by the shortage of organs available for transplantation. Therefore, new therapeutic approaches are pivotal if outcomes are to be improved. Over the past years, tissue engineering (TE) has emerged as a possible alternative treatment for many congenital and acquired conditions. TE aims at creating bioengineered organs by means of combining scaffolds with appropriate cell types, which in the intestine are organised within a multilayer structure. In order to generate functional intestine, this cellular diversity and organisation will need to be recreated. While the cells for the epithelial, neural and vascular compartments have been well defined, so far, less attention has been put on the muscular compartment. More recently, mesoangioblasts (MABs) have been identified as a novel source for tissue regeneration since they are able to give rise to vascular and other mesodermal derivatives. To date MABs have not been successfully isolated from intestinal tissue. Therefore, our aim was to demonstrate the possibility of isolating MABs from adult mouse small intestine. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All experiments were carried out using small intestinal tissues from C57BL/6J mice. We applied an established protocol for MAB isolation from the isolated neuromuscular layer of the small intestine. Cultured cells were stained for Ki67 to assess proliferation rates as well as for a panel of pericyte markers to determine their phenotype. RESULTS: Cells were successfully isolated from gut biopsies. Cultured cells showed good proliferative capacity and positivity for at least three pericytes markers found in vessels of the gut neuromuscular wall: neuron-glial antigen 2, alkaline phosphatase and platelet-derived growth factor β. CONCLUSION: This proof-of-principle study lays the foundation for further characterization of MABs as a possible cell source for intestinal smooth muscle regeneration and TE.sponsorship: The authors would like to acknowledge the NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre which supports all research at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. Additional support for this project was provided by Horizon 2020 INTENS funding. NT is supported by Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. SP's PhD studentship is funded through a GOSHCC grant awarded to NT. CM is supported by Guts UK (Derek Butler Fellowship). PDC is supported by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR-RP-2014-04-046). (NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre, Horizon 2020 INTENS funding, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, GOSHCC, Guts UK (Derek Butler Fellowship), National Institute for Health Research|NIHR-RP-2014-04-046)status: Publishe
Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800 1990. By James C. McCann. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1999. Pp. iii, 224. $24.95.
No full textJames McCann is the author of one of the most important agricultural and environmental histories of an African region (People of the Plow: An Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800 1990. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995). As such he is well placed to attempt a modern environmental history of the African continent. Overall, he has been successful. Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land is an extremely useful survey of recent trends in research into the causes and consequences of environmental change in Africa. As an introduction to the subject, McCann s book is probably unrivaled.
Enjeux culturels de la migration et la mobilité dans l’œuvre de Colum McCann
No full textThèse sous embargo de l’auteure jusqu’au 13/12/2025.This study analyses the literary representations of migration and mobility in the following novels of Irish author, Colum McCann: Songdogs (1995), Zoli (2006), LTGWS (2009), and Apeirogon (2020). Relying on a theoretical framework derived from cultural concepts such as multiculturalism, transculturality, transnationalism, and the analysis of the literary form based on a model developed by Mary McGlynn, this study proposes a diachronic analysis of the novels, following the change of focus from migration to mobility which happened during the first 25 years of McCann’s career. Irish migration is examined across four different historic periods, thereby setting the phenomenon into the Irish context. Combining the transcultural, transnational, and McGlynn’s features in terms of meaning and form of literary texts, a new model was developed to advance the analysis of the selected novels. In applying this new model, it was possible to identify the features used by McCann corroborate his alignment with these cultural concepts. The author addresses issues of migration and mobility in a dynamic way, following the changes happened not only in Ireland, but also in the contemporary world.Cette étude explore les représentations littéraires de la migration et de la mobilité dans ces quatre romans de l'écrivain irlandais Colum McCann : Songdogs (1995), Zoli (2006), Let the Great World Spin (2009), et Apeirogon (2020). L'analyse a été menée de manière diachronique, ce qui nous permet de suivre la manière dont l’auteur retrace l’évolution de la migration vers la mobilité au cours de 25 ans de sa carrière. L'approche théorique utilisée se fonde sur les concepts culturels de multiculturalisme, de transculturalisme et de transnationalisme. Quant à la forme littéraire des quatre La migration irlandaise est examinée à quatre époques historiques différentes, replaçant le phénomène dans le contexte irlandais. En combinant le transculturel et le transnational avec les approches de McGlynn concernant le sens et la forme des textes littéraires, un nouveau modèle a été développé pour procéder à l'analyse des romans sélectionnés. En utilisant ce nouveau modèle, il a été possible d'identifier les stratégies utilisées par McCann, ce qui corrobore son alignement sur les concepts culturels. L'auteur aborde les questions de migration et de mobilité de manière dynamique, en suivant les changements survenus non seulement en Irlande, mais aussi dans le monde contemporain
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full textHow Do I Respond?|The cries of the widow, the child, and the oppressed will reach their goal of God and God will grant them mercy, so says the author of Sirach. I have often wondered if that is enough. Do I leave well enough alone and let God handle everything, or do I have a role to play in that most tender part of another's life; when one is suffering?|The question is always surfacing as I see people who are without the basic necessities of life, whether they live in the Dominican Republic, or here on the streets of Omaha. I ask this when I see students who are depressed or lonely. I feel sad for a friend who is a single mom and is not sure how she can go on. Most recently, I asked this question when I was working in the Dominican Republic over the summer. I had the privilege of traveling to each village (campo) where Creighton students were living and learning. Upon entering one village, I found the students in the midst of coping with the recent death of one of the women from the campo. Altagracia was the unofficial "grandma" of the campo and had died from a heart attack two hours earlier. The students had attempted to resuscitate Altagracia, but it must have been her time to go. What an uncomfortable situation. We all were looking for the "right things" to do and say. What is the right thing? I did not know. Amazing enough, I learned over the following months. The image that stuck in my mind from that day was a Creighton Nursing student simply and gently holding a teenage girl (the granddaughter of Altagracia) as she cried. They were both crying.|Back in the states, I dropped the question for a few weeks. It was not in my consciousness as I got back into routines and life in the U.S. Then I went to see the movie "Return to Paradise." I had no idea what was in store for me. First, some of the scenery of the movie reminded me of the Dominican Republic. That set the mood for my later lesson. More importantly, the movie ended with a difficult death scene. In it, one character, imprisoned and sentenced to death, is being taken to the scaffold where he is about to be hung. The other character, his close friend, is watching from his cell in the prison. There is nothing for him to do that will help his friend to live. He can only watch. Moments before his death, the man in his prison cell screams to his friend, "Look at me. Look at my eyes. Don't be afraid. I am with you. I see you." It hit me. That is it. I can be a witness to the suffering of others.|In the moments when we can not take back or stop the suffering of others, I have learned that to be with someone in a time of suffering and to be able to say to them, I am here and I see what is happening to you, is the most healing thing. Your suffering may not be right, or fair. I cannot alleviate it, but I can witness it and let you know that your suffering is not in vain. I can take it and carry it and let others know what happened to you. I can be your witness. Isn't that what Jesus did while he was here? He witnessed the tears, the suffering, and the hardships of those around him. It helped them to not feel alone or abandoned. Isn't that what the nursing student did for the granddaughter of Altagracia as she held her and they cried? Isn't that what is being asked of me, and all of us
An exploration of stigma towards depression in rural Ireland : a mixed methods study
No full textTHESIS 10723This research demonstrates that experiencing depression is associated with a perceived expectation of being subject to stigmatisation in rural Ireland. Evidence is presented which suggests core social processes, actioned within this setting and driven by dominant social forces, are conspiring to facilitate the proliferation of this scenario
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