9,623 research outputs found
Allen Gee oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Dr. Allen Gee, currently the Donald L. Jordan Endowed Professor of Creative Writing in Columbus State University, was born in 1962 in Astoria, a mixed ethnic neighborhood in Queens, New York. He grew up with a family background of restaurant owners (his grandfather) and laundry owners (his mother’s side), which are stereotypical Asian immigrant jobs. However, on the contrary, Gee’s father, who was an engineer, is not a stereotypical Asian in many ways. He founded the Gee Family Association and is a vocal, romantic, and unconventional person who doesn’t hold himself back, and is a life explorer. The family bond and mindset became a major component in Gee’s personal values. As an athlete in high school, Gee later became a voracious reader and writer in college. Throughout his career, he had a number of mentors, among which most notably, the late James Alan McPherson, who Gee is now the designated biographer for. He earned a BA in Secondary English Teaching at the University of New Hampshire. He studied for his MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he met McPherson. Gee earned his PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Houston. He is married to the novelist Renee Dodd, and has two daughters, Ashley and Willa. He’s the author of the essay collection, “My Chinese-America,” for which he was awarded the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award. He is currently completing a novel, “The Iron Road” that chronicles the lives of Chinese railroad workers building the Central Pacific Line in 1866; as well as "That Little Marcella", a novel; and “Multicultural Americana,” which is the working title for the upcoming collection of essays. Gee is planning to work for another 7 years until retirement at 65
Gee, D H, VX26664
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/387134Surname: GEE. Given Name(s) or Initials: D H. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX26664. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 14117.208904
Item: [2016.0049.19427] "Gee, D H, VX26664
Gee, D H, NX37420
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/387131Surname: GEE. Given Name(s) or Initials: D H. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: NX37420. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 36897.208901
Item: [2016.0049.19424] "Gee, D H, NX37420
The Oberholzer-Gee/Strumpf File-Sharing Instrument Fails the Laugh Test
No full textI examine the key instrument (German kids on vacation) used by Professors Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf. Their measured relationship between the instrument and the variable that it is instrumenting for, American downloading, is seen to have outlandish implications, indicating an important error. The instrument is also shown to be related to American record sales, contrary to the requirements of their analysis. The data set used by O/S is biased, considerably overstating the share of German files. Finally, I demonstrate that the instrument must have a de minimus impact on American downloading (and thus American record sales) negating its potential usefulness and implying that their approach could never have worked.
Author and artist George Gee. Flutters from Side Street Volume One.
No full textIn 1992, George Gee and his wife Deborah Seaton opened Side Street Espresso, on G Street in downtown Anchorage. Soon the daily white boards for the cafe mirrored the intensity of contemporary American culture with social and political caricatures and commentary. Whereas George would erase each board at the end of the day, starting in 1997, he began to preserve the artwork, which resulted in the book, Flutters from Side Street: Volume One, Dry Erase Drawings, Social and Political Commentary, and Reflections From A Morning Walk To Work. The book is an amazing collection of dry erase drawings that highlight pieces of Anchorage and American history
wee gee
No full textwee gee n,v"Did you see him wee-gee around?" Explanation: turn hastily.turn hastilyYesDNE-citJ. D. A. WIDDOWSON COLLECTOR'S PERMANENT FILEUsed IUsed IUsed
Longitudinal Analysis of Renal Function using ZIP GEE on OLT Transplant Patients Undergoing NAC Prophylaxis
No full textOrgan dysfunction is associated with oxidative stress following Orthotropic Liver Transplant (OLT) surgery. N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) is an acetylated form of the amino acid cysteine. NAC is known to replenish glutathione in the bloodstream which helps relieve cell damage caused by oxidative stress. NAC was used in a placebo controlled study to discover its effects on organ dysfunction caused by oxidative stress following OLT surgery. A standard NAC treatment, as used to treat acetaminophen toxicity, was used as a treatment during surgery. Measures of hepatic and renal dysfunction were recorded at unequally spaced time-points for a follow-up time of one year. The Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) approach was used to model continuous hepatic responses. Discrete renal dysfunction responses are shown to follow a unique distribution. This unique distribution was accommodated by the GEE procedure proposed by Liang and Zeger to produce consistent and efficient estimates of the treatment effect of NAC. The estimates produced contradictory results for a hypothesized protective effect of NAC against hepatic dysfunction. The public health relevance of this work is that NAC treatment, if shown to be efficacious with respect to renal function, can benefit over six thousand OLT patients each year
Review of script displays of African languages by current software
No full textAll recorded African languages that have a writing system have orthographies which use the Roman or Arabic scripts, with a few exceptions. Whilst Unicode successfully handles the encoding of both these scripts, current software, in particular web browsers, take little account of users wishing to operate in a minority script. Their use for displaying African languages has been limited by the availability of facilities and the desire to communicate with the ‘world’ through major languages such as English and French. There is a need for more use of the indigenous languages to strengthen their language communities and the use of the local scripts in enhancing the learning, teaching and general use of their own languages by their speaking communities
GEE Models for the Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of Occupational Radiation Exposure on Lymphocyte Counts in Russian Nuclear Workers
No full textThe health effects of occupational radiation exposure have long been a source of scientific and administrative debates related to setting exposure standards. Relevant to this field are the effects of occupational long term radiation exposure on the lymphocyte counts which are especially sensitive to radiation. The trend of lymphocyte counts in radiation workers is of major importance since decreases in lymphocyte counts may be precursors of immunity disorders, cancer susceptibility or other chronic conditions. Another important question is whether the occupational radiation affects the lymphocyte counts similarly in males and females, given the relative lack of information on the effects and health implications of long term occupational radiation exposure on female subjects. This dissertation presents a comprehensive statistical analysis of the relationship between dosimetric (yearly gamma exposure) and hematological (lymphocyte counts) data collected from a historical cohort (1948-1956) of highly exposed radiation workers at Mayak Plant Association located in Russia. The analysis controls for important covariates, such as the baseline lymphocyte counts, sex, work location related to Plutonium exposure lifestyle variables and the number of years from the first exposure. The analysis contrasts the most relevant radiation dose-response models by using marginal models and the GEE technique. STATA programming tools have been developed to check the assumptions required by the GEE technique, with special attention to the missing data mechanisms and patterns in the framework of a longitudinal study with repeated measurements and unbalanced number of observations. The issue of non-linearity between the outcome variable and the explanatory covariates is addressed by the implementation of linear splines within GEE models. Statistical analyses indicate: (a) that a linear radiation dose-response model is appropriate for the data, (b) a statistically significant negative relationship between the log-transformed lymphocyte counts and the log-transformed external gamma dose, (c) no statistically significant differences between males and females regarding the effect of occupational radiation exposure on the lymphocyte counts. Public health significance of this research is:a) The linear radiation dose-response model is reasonable for regulatory purposes, andb) Males and females do not require differential regulatory standards for low dose occupational radiation exposure
- …
