241 research outputs found
2000 Sub-Librarians Meeting: Ace Atkins and M.C. Beaton
No full textThe Sub-Librarians planned and advertised a program with renowned science fiction and fantasy author Philip Jose Farmer. George Scheetz was instrumental in making that introduction. However, due to ill health, Farmer was unable to travel and had to cancel close to the program date.
However, on very short notice, Ace Atkins agreed to come to Chicago and speak to the group. Atkins had spoken to a very appreciative group of Sub-Librarians the previous year in New Orleans, and he gave another stellar performance in Chicago. He talked about his new book, Leaving\u27 Trunk Blues, which is another Nick Travers mystery, this one set in Chicago, from St. Martin\u27s Press.
St. Martin\u27s also stepped up and offered to have author M.C. Beaton join Ace as a speaker. M.C. Beaton is a pseudonym of Marion Chesney, who may be best known as the author of romance novels set during the English Regency. Her first detective story as M.C. Beaton came out for St. Martin\u27s in 1985. She has two series-one set in Scotland with Hamish Macbeth and one set in the Cotswolds with Agatha Raisin.
St. Martin\u27s generously provided copies of both authors\u27 books for signing after the program.
Marsha Pollak chaired the program, welcomed the audience, explained the change in speakers, called for toasts and introduced the authors
Henri Temianka Correspondence; (beaton)
No full textThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/1132/thumbnail.jp
Art, Biography, Sexuality: Patrick Procktor and Keith Vaughan
No full textThis critical review forms a reflection on the research published within the following publications:
Patrick Procktor: Art and Life (Unicorn Press, 2010)
Keith Vaughan: The Mature Oils 1946-1977, (Sansom & Co., 2012)
The research is on two artists, Patrick Procktor (1936-2003), and Keith Vaughan (1912-1977). The monograph on Procktor – previously one of the least documented of the generation of artists who came to prominence in London in the Sixties – positions him in a history of art from which he had been notably absent. The research on Vaughan asserts a new reading of his work, one that is both deeper and more nuanced in its analysis of the ways in which personal experience and sexuality are encoded autobiographically within his work. Crucially, in both artists biography and work are symbiotically linked; the research therefore examines the links between life and art.
Revisionary in intent, the work examines trajectories of experience of gay British (or rather, English) artists in the twentieth century, artists who sought to express themselves and forge careers within the constraints of a heteronormative society, albeit one in which attitudes to sexuality were undergoing change. As gay men, both were constrained by the social mores of their times, and each used painting as a means to affirm personal and sexual identities. A key research interest is in the ways in which sexuality and persona are reflected in critical responses to the artist’s work: in Vaughan, Procktor and other gay male artists of the period. The writing on both Procktor and Vaughan examines the relationship between their personal and professional/artistic lives, framed within a broader socio-political and art historical context. It asserts the place of biography as a means to understand and form new readings of the work. The work adds substantially to the literature and wider discourse on post-war British painting and social history
Understanding Temporal Changes in Snow Water Equivalency in the Kootenay Boundary Region
No full textIntegrated Environmental PlanningSnow and ice are highly important elements in the cryosphere (Earth's frozen water component) as they are a vital source of stored freshwater (Langlois et al. 2009). It stores freshwater through the winter months are release [sic] water into our ecosystems in the spring as spring freshet, and in the warmer drier months of summer (PyneK, Callegari G 2019). The water that is stored as snow and ice is what hydrologists call Snow Water Equivalency (SWE). It is this SWE that is of primary importance for climatological and hydrological processes (Langlois et al. 2009)
Implementing Appropriate Multivariate Methods for Higher Quality Results from Genetic Association Studies in Substance Abuse Populations
No full textFor nearly a century, detecting the genetic contributions to cognitive and behavioral phenomena has been a core interest for psychological research. Recently, this interest has been reinvigorated across many related domains including and especially psychiatric research. Furthermore, genotyping technologies (e.g., microarrays) that provide genetic data, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), are routinely available and easily accessible to almost any researcher. These SNPs—which represent pairs of nucleotide letters (e.g., AA, AG, or GG) found at specific positions on human chromosomes—are best considered as categorical variables. However, a categorical coding scheme can make difficult the analysis of their relationships with behavioral, diagnostic, or clinical measurements because most multivariate techniques developed for the analysis between sets of variables are designed for quantitative variables. Furthermore, there are many—not just one or a few—genetic contributions to complex behaviors and disorders such as substance abuse, thus requiring multivariate techniques to fully understand the many genetic contributions. To palliate this problem, I present a generalization of partial least squares (PLS)—a technique used to extract the information common to two different data tables measured on the same observations—called partial least squares correspondence analysis (PLS-CA)—that is specifically tailored for the analysis of categorical and mixed (“heterogeneous”) data types. I further extend PLS-CA with a ridge-like regularization called Smoothed PLS-CA (SmooPLS-CA). SmooPLS-CA adjusts for overfitting and noise that can lead to the interpretation of spurious effects in high dimensional-low sample size data such as genetics and genomics. PLS-CA and SmooPLS-CA were both applied to two genetic data sets within substance use disorders (SUDs) that focused on a large number of genes: an archived set (“discovery”) and an external set (“validation”). The goal of the two data sets were to discover markers of SUDs in one set, and then validate those markers in an independent and completed sequestered set. SmooPLS-CA showed no advantage over standard PLS-CA: bootstrap resampling techniques provided robust results regardless of regularization. Finally, multiple genes were identified as contributors to a broad case-control (i.e., SUDs vs. control group) effect. Some of the identified genes play key roles in the glutamatergic (e.g., GRIN2B) and dopaminergic systems (e.g., CCKBR), where other genes play complex or even undefined roles (e.g., PRKCE). In sum there are many robust, albeiet small, genetic effects as opposed to only a few large effects that contribute to SUDs
Supplemental materials for preprint: Relationship between caregiving concerns and clinical characteristics across multiple disorders in the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI)
No full textSupplemental materials for preprint: Relationship between caregiving concerns and clinical characteristics across multiple disorders in the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI)
No full textSupplemental materials for preprint: Relationship between caregiving concerns and clinical characteristics across multiple disorders in the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI)
No full textRADDACL: A Recursive Algorithm for Clustering and Density Discovery on Non-linearly Separable Data
No full textsj-docx-1-nnr-10.1177_15459683231177606 – Supplemental material for Association of Dual-Task Gait Cost and White Matter Hyperintensity Burden Poststroke: Results From the ONDRI
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-nnr-10.1177_15459683231177606 for Association of Dual-Task Gait Cost and White Matter Hyperintensity Burden Poststroke: Results From the ONDRI by Frederico Pieruccini-Faria, Benjamin Cornish, Malcolm Binns, Julia Fraser, Seyyed M. H. Haddad, Kelly Sunderland, Joel Ramirez, Derek Beaton, Donna Kwan, Allison A. Dilliott, Christopher Scott, Yanina Sarquis-Adamson, Alanna Black, Karen Van Ooteghem, Leanne Casaubon, Dar Dowlatshahi, Ayman Hassan, Jennifer Mandzia, Demetrios Sahlas, Gustavo Saposnik, Brian Tan, Robert Hegele, Dennis Bulman, Mahdi Ghani, John Robinson, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Sali Farhan, Sean Symons, Nuwan Nanayakkara, Stephen R. Arnott, Courtney Berezuk, Melissa Holmes, Sabrina Adamo, Miracle Ozzoude, Mojdeh Zamyadi, Wendy Lou, Sujeevini Sujanthan, Robert Bartha, Sandra E. Black, Richard H. Swartz, William McIlroy and Manuel Montero-Odasso in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair</p
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