451 research outputs found
An Evening with Anthony Doerr
No full textShaker Library and University School are proud to present Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See and a University School alumnus. He will speak at the University School Lower Campus in Shaker Heights. Tickets sold out in two days, but his lecture will be live streamed to the Main Library. Please register at www.shakerlibrary.org beginning October 5, 201
Constructing Founder Sets Under Allelic and Non-Allelic Homologous Recombination
Get PDFHomologous recombination between the maternal and paternal copies of a chromosome is a key mechanism for human inheritance and shapes population genetic properties of our species. However, a similar mechanism can also act between different copies of the same sequence, then called non-allelic homologous recombination (NAHR). This process can result in genomic rearrangements - including deletion, duplication, and inversion - and is underlying many genomic disorders. Despite its importance for genome evolution and disease, there is a lack of computational models to study genomic loci prone to NAHR.
In this work, we propose such a computational model, providing a unified framework for both (allelic) homologous recombination and NAHR. Our model represents a set of genomes as a graph, where human haplotypes correspond to walks through this graph. We formulate two founder set problems under our recombination model, provide flow-based algorithms for their solution, and demonstrate scalability to problem instances arising in practice
Application of acute maximal exercise to protect orthostatic tolerance after simulated microgravity
No full text Pages R837–R847: K. A. Engelke, D. F. Doerr, and V. A. Convertino. “Application of acute maximal exercise to protect orthostatic tolerance after simulated microgravity.” On p. 837, the author line of the article and abstract and the affiliation line should read as follows: KEITH A. ENGELKE, DONALD F. DOERR, CRAIG G. CRANDALL, AND VICTOR A. CONVERTINO Department of Physiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610; National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida 32899; Department of Physiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft. Worth, Texas 76107; and Physiology Research Branch, Clinical Science Division, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas 78235 </jats:p
Application of acute maximal exercise to protect orthostatic tolerance after simulated microgravity
No full text Pages R837–R847: K. A. Engelke, D. F. Doerr, and V. A. Convertino. “Application of acute maximal exercise to protect orthostatic tolerance after simulated microgravity.” On p. 837, the author line of the article and abstract and the affiliation line should read as follows: KEITH A. ENGELKE, DONALD F. DOERR,CRAIG G. CRANDALL, AND VICTOR A. CONVERTINO Department of Physiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610; National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida 32899;Department of Physiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft. Worth, Texas 76107; and Physiology Research Branch, Clinical Science Division, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas 78235 </jats:p
Constructing the Heritage Language Learner : Knowledge, Power and New Subjectivities /
No full textThough often treated as an objective category, heritage language learner is a social construct contested by researchers, government officials, school administrators, and students themselves. Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a Japanese language school in the US, the book examines the construction of the heritage language learner, viewing the notion as a site of negotiation regarding the legitimate knowledge of language and ways of belonging.Though often treated as an objective category, heritage language learner is a social construct contested by researchers, government officials, school administrators, and students themselves. Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a Japanese language school in the US, the book examines the construction of the heritage language learner, viewing the notion as a site of negotiation regarding the legitimate knowledge of language and ways of belonging.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Neriko Musha Doerr, Ramapo College, USA; Kiri Lee, Lehigh University, USA.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed March 24, 2015
More effective crossover operators for the all-pairs shortest path problem
No full textThe all-pairs problem is the first non-artificial problem for which it was shown that adding crossover can significantly speed up a mutation-only evolutionary algorithm. Recently, the analysis of this algorithm was refined and it was shown to have an expected optimization time of Θ(n 3.25(logn)0.25). In this work, we study two variants of the algorithm. These are based on two central concepts in recombination, repair mechanisms and parent selection. We show that repairing infeasible offspring leads to an improved expected optimization time of O(n3 2(logn)0 2). Furthermore, we prove that choosing parents that guarantee feasible offspring results in an optimization time of O(n3logn).Benjamin Doerr, Daniel Johannsen, Timo Kötzing, Frank Neumann and Madeleine Theil
The Impacts on Sisterhood for Women Survival during World War II as Reflected in All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony doerr
Get PDFThis thesis analyzes a novel by Anthony Doerr entitled All the Light We Cannot See by using feminist approach. The focus of this research is the impact on sisterhood for women and society survival during World War II in Germany and France as depicted by Doerr in several female characters in the story. This study uses the Image of Women theory by Josephine Donovan about how a male author describes the position of women in his work. The data of this research are analyzed by qualitative methods and the results of the research are presented with descriptive methods. The data of the research is collected from the novel as a primary data along with books, articles, journals, and essays relating to the research. After analyzing the novel, the writer concludes that women build their sisterhood to strengthen each other during World War II by creating good relationship among women, supporting each other to face the war, and resisting war. Then the authors also find three impacts on sisterhood for women and society, they are; braver society, stronger society, and confident society. Doerr also shows to the reader about how the female characters in the novel look powerful as depicted by a small and blind girl who can survive until she gets older.
Keywords: Anthony Doerr, Image of Women, World War II, sisterhood
Alter-Globalization. Author meets critics
No full text“Author meets critics: Alter-globalization. Becoming Actors in the Global Age”, with Jeff Goodwin (New York University, Chair of the “Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association), John Krinsky (Graduate Centre, City University New York), Giuseppe Caruso (University of Helsinki), Nicole Doerr (Harvard University), Brian Obach (State University of New York at New Platz), Eastern Sociological Association, Annual Conference, New York City, 24/02/201
Idaho Center for the Book Newsletter: First Folio 2016
Get PDFIdaho Center for the Book (ICB) dedicated its fall newsletter to Boise State\u27s First Folio exhibition and featured articles by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr, exhibition keynote speaker Eric Rasmussen, and Idaho Shakespeare Festival founder Doug Copsey. The newsletter was sent to ICB’s statewide mailing list of 2,400, and copies were available in the gallery throughout the exhibition
Mal-Nutrition
Get PDFMal-Nutrition documents how maternal health interventions in Guatemala are complicit in reproducing poverty. Policy makers speak about how a critical window of biological growth around the time of pregnancy—called the ""first 1,000 days of life""—determines health and wealth across the life course. They argue that fetal development is the key to global development. In this thought-provoking and timely book, Emily Yates-Doerr shows that the control of mothering is a paradigmatic technique of American violence that serves to control the reproduction of privilege and power. She illustrates the efforts of Guatemalan scientists, midwives, and mothers to counter the harms of such mal-nutrition. Their powerful stories offer a window into a form of nutrition science and policy that encourages collective nourishment and fosters reproductive cycles in which women, children, and their entire communities can flourish.
""This sensitive, wide-ranging, and beautifully written ethnography teaches us how the language of biological reproduction works to appropriate women’s rich generative and creative capacities for the reproduction of empire."" — CARLOTA McALLISTER, author of The Good Road
""Gripping and intricately layered in its analysis, this groundbreaking work illuminates how interventions purporting to improve women’s health and reproduction so often do more to uphold the very structures underlying gender violence and health inequality."" — MEGAN A. CARNEY, author of The Unending Hunger
""Mal-Nutrition brilliantly reveals a global struggle behind vulnerable women—against sexual violence and the displacement of their communities by agricapital. This is a timely and urgent book."" — RAYNA RAPP, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetu
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