803 research outputs found
Shook one anxiety playing tricks on me
No full text"Charlamagne Tha God, New York Times bestselling author of Black Privilege and cohost of Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club, reveals his blueprint for breaking free from your fears and anxiety to reach that elusive next level of success. Fear is holding you back. It's time to turn the tables and channel your fears to actually fuel your success. Being "shook" is more than a rap lyric for Charlamagne, it's his mission to overcome. While it may seem like he is ahead of the game and should have nothing to worry about, he is still plagued by anxieties...fear of being weak; fear of being a bad dad; fear of being a worse husband; and ultimately, fear of failure. Shook One chronicles his journey to beat back those fears and empowers you to no longer be held back from your potential. Shook One details the ways anxiety has been a driving force in Charlamagne's life since childhood. For many years, he stressed over what he thought were personal shortcomings: being unpopular in school, potential rejection by women, being ugly, and worst of all, falling into the life of stagnation or crime that caught up so many of his friends and family in his hometown of Moncks Corner, South Carolina. Even after achieving national prominence as a radio personality, Charlamagne still found himself paralyzed by thoughts that he wouldn't be able to take his career to the next level. But now, in Shook One, he is working through these problems with help from mentors, guests on his show, and therapy. He knows therapy and showing weakness are anxiety producing in the black community, but this is one of the reasons he wants to own his truth...to clear a path for others in hopes that they won't feel shame while dealing openly with their mental health"..."Charlamagne Tha God, New York Times bestselling author of Black Privilege and cohost of Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club, reveals his blueprint for breaking free from your fears and anxiety to reach that elusive next level of success"..
David Marks : Sound Man at Boston Common
No full textThe colour photograph depicts three musicians on stage.The back of the photograph includes a caption stating that the image depicted musicians in concert on Moratorium Day at the Boston Common with David Marks as soundman alongside singer Travis Shook and the Club Wow
Preliminary Study on Tall Building Coupling Using a Rigid Link
Get PDFIn growing urban cities, there is an evident trend towards vertical expansion with skyscrapers competing to achieve the highest point in the skyline. With this growth, there is an increasing need for interconnected residential and commercial buildings using skybridges to provide more effective movement between the structures. However, this raises questions on how these skybridges influence the structural response. Past studies demonstrated that such connections, if adequately designed, can be advantageous for controlling seismic and wind response. In this preliminary study, the seismic behavior of two skyscrapers is studied considering a rigid link representing the skybridge to understand variations of the base shear between the connected and individual buildings and the impact on story shear. The two buildings are designed to represent typical commercial and residential designs with concrete shear wall cores. This work is carried out through the use of dynamic analyses in SAP2000. The sensitivity of the skybridge placement is also discussed as this is an important factor in understanding how the dynamics of the structures can change with simple movements of the link throughout the building height. This work presents fundamental knowledge on how structural components cannot only enhance community mobility but also control and optimize structural performance
A Little War That Shook the World:Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West
Get PDFIn August 2008, Russia shattered the post–Cold War peace in Europe by invading the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Though only days long, that war dashed NATO’s hopes to expand to the Caucasus and sparked fundamental reevaluations of American and Euro- pean Union (EU) relations with Russia. Ronald Asmus’s A Little War That Shook the World is an engaging read that combines the best available history of the war with a broader analysis of the geopolitical forces that led to it
A rational methodology for the design of linked compound shear walls in tall buildings in high-seismic regions
Get PDFSpeeches by David L. Smiley
No full text25 speeches by history professor David L. Smiley. Titles include: "Alumni," regarding changes to campus; "The American Civil War of 1794," regarding American Civil War and Whiskey Rebels; "The Crisis of National Purpose: Lexington," regarding the purpose and goals of America; "Every year in the spring," regarding Passover; "Iron and Tragedy in Southern History," regarding war in Southern history; "It's a long, long way to Passchendaele," regarding World War I; "The Man Who Wrote the Scarlet Letter," regarding Nathaniel Hawthorne; "Moving a College," regarding the College's move from Wake Forest to Winston-Salem; "My dearly beloved...," regarding the future of Wake Forest Humanities Club; "My dearly beloved...," regarding the Reconstruction Amendment; "My dearly beloved...," regarding Wake Forest and the university seal; "My dearly beloved...," regarding Wake Forest study abroad programs; "On July 13, 1584...," regarding North Carolina history; "Papillon. By Henri Charriere," regarding the autobiography; "Priscilla, Poky, Anne, Eliza, and You: the Four Traditions of Women in America," regarding gender roles via Priscilla Alden, Pocahontas, Anne Hutchinson, and Eliza Lucas; "Roses in Winter, 1060 Polo Road, Winston-Salem 27106," regarding the Civil War; "Roses in Winter," regarding the Civil War; "Stroupe," regarding College Dean Emeritus Henry Stroupe; "Ten Minutes That Shook the World," regarding Battle of the Plains of Abraham; "That Is a Full Plate of Motive and Speculation," regarding John F. Kennedy's assassination and related reading; "Two December Disasters," regarding World War II; "Trustees - Alumni College," regarding College history; "Unity and Diversity in the South of 1820," regarding slavery; "The Warfare of Man against Nature. The Path between the Seas," regarding Panama and the Panama Canal; "What's in a name?" regarding naming of Winston-Salem; "Women and Religious Activities," regarding women in Christianity
A study of disturbance behaviors in Uloborus glomosus (Araneae; Uloboridae) as possible predator avoidance strategies
No full textWhen touched with a contact stimulus, 50% of adult Uloborus glomosus jumped from the web; 33% remained motionless; 13% moved to the edge of the web; and 4% shook the web. In a population of juveniles, 45% moved to the edge of the web; 27% jumped from the web; 24% shook the web; and 4% remained motionless.
Adults with either stabilimenta or eggsac chains in their webs showed a tendency to shake their webs in the morning and move to the edge in the evening. Those without web structures jumped from their webs throughout the day. Juveniles with stabilimenta shook their webs in the afternoon; those without stabilimenta shook their webs in the evening. Adults aligned with web structures remained motionless when disturbed.
Marked adults observed over the course of 4 weeks moved to the edge of the web or remained motionless when contacted in the mornings and jumped in the afternoons and evenings. During this time, the frequency of the jumping behavior increased.
An adult U. glomosus jumped from its web in response to contact by a spider-hunting wasp. Other spiders tested with a contact stimulus and the combined visual and vibratory stimuli produced by a tethered wasp responded only to contact.
Females tending their eggsac chains exhibited two types of defensive behaviors when either the parasitoid Arachnopteromalus dasys or spiderlings were placed on their eggsacs. They jerked their webs and swept the eggsacs with their long front legs.Master of Scienc
Semiometrics: producing a compositional view of influence
No full textHigh-impact academic papers are not necessarily the most cited. For example, Einstein's 'Special Relativity' paper from 1905 received (and continues to receive) fewer citations from other papers than his 'Brownian Motion" paper of the same year, despite the former radically changing the course of an entire scientific discipline to a much greater extent. Similarly, 'impact' metrics using citation count alone are, it is argued, not adequate for determining the scientific influence of papers, authors or small groups of authors. Although valid, they remain controversial when used to determine influence of larger groups or journals. While the term 'impact' has become closely linked to a journal's citation-based Journal Impact Factor score, this thesis uses the term 'influence' to describe the wider effectiveness of research, combining citation and metadata analysis to allow richer calculations to be performed over large-scale document networks. As a result, more qualitative influence ratings can be determined and a broader outlook on scientific disciplines can be produced. These ratings are best applied using an ontology-based data source, allowing more efficient inference than under a traditional RDBMS system, and allowing easier integration between heterogeneous data sources. These metrics, termed 'Semantic Bibliometrics' or 'Semiometrics', can be applied at a variety of levels of granularity, allowing a compositional framework for impact and influence analysis. This thesis describes the process of data preparation, systems architecture, metric value and data integration for such a system, introducing novel approaches at all four stages, thereby creating a working semiometrics system for determining influence at different semantic levels of granularity
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