323 research outputs found
Sylvester Okocha Oral History Interview
No full textOral history interview with Sylvester Okocha, a survivor of the Asaba Massacre, a mass killing of civilians that occurred in 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War. Okocha had been a civil servant in Benin City; when the war started, he and his family returned to their hometown of Asaba. They heard that the Nigerian soldiers were planning to kill all of the men, so Okocha hid in the bush for a week. When he returned, he started compiling a list of all the people who had been killed. After the war ended, Okocha returned to his job in Benin, where he was suspected of being a Biafran agent. He was arrested, imprisoned in Lagos, and tortured. He was eventually released and went home to Asaba. Okocha\u27s nephew, Emma Okocha, is the author of Blood on the Niger, the primary book about the massacre, which was written using the lists compiled by his uncle
Sylvester C. Smith, Jr. and family.
No full textSatterfield, John C.; Smith, Sylvester C. (Sylvester Comstock), 1894-; American Bar Associationhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/satterfield/1005/thumbnail.jp
Sylvester matrix rank functions on crossed products
No full textIn this paper we consider the algebraic crossed product induced by a homeomorphism on the Cantor set , where is an arbitrary field with involution and denotes the -algebra of locally constant -valued functions on . We investigate the possible Sylvester matrix rank functions that one can construct on by means of full ergodic -invariant probability measures on . To do so, we present a general construction of an approximating sequence of -subalgebras which are embeddable into a (possibly infinite) product of matrix algebras over . This enables us to obtain a specific embedding of the whole -algebra into , the well-known von Neumann continuous factor over , thus obtaining a Sylvester matrix rank function on by restricting the unique one defined on . This process gives a way to obtain a Sylvester matrix rank function on , unique with respect to a certain compatibility property concerning the measure , namely that the rank of a characteristic function of a clopen subset must equal the measure of .Both authors were partially supported by DGI-MINECO-FEDER through grant MTM2017-83487-P and by the Generalitat de Catalunya through grant 2017-SGR1725. The second named author was also partially supported by DGI-MINECO-FEDER through grant BES-2015-071439
The personal brand V.A.L.U.E. career development tool: A multi-perspective and interdisciplinary framework
No full textThe chapter provides insights into the ubiquitous term personal branding in the context of establishing a career development tool for university students and graduates. The chapter begins with an overview of branding and personal branding before offering an integrated theoretical framework drawing together branding and career theories. Next, the authors present the ‘personal brand V.A.L.U.E.' career development tool (diagrammatically expressed using a purpose-driven Venn diagram) for career counselors to use with university students and graduates. The tool was developed by the lead author and contextualized into the career space in collaboration with the second author. The V.A.L.U.E. acronym stands for (i) vision, (ii) ability, (iii) love, (iv) understanding, and (v) ecosystem. A critical sequence of five questions enables students and clients to inculcate their own specific and individual intra-personal and inter-personal brand V.A.L.U.E. to establish an authentic career development plan and respond to evolving labor markets.</p
On a Subject of the Titulus of Equites − Sylvester − Martin
No full textThe oldest known sources of the titulus of Rome date back to the pontificate of Sylvester (314-335). In his biography Liber Pontificalis mentions the construction of Equites’s titulus nearby Domitian’s hot baths, and in another place it says about Sylvester’s titulus founded there. The acts of a council held in Rome in 499 contain the signatures of presbyters from Equites’s titulus, and below the texts of the acts of the council of 595 there were signatures of presbyters of the titulus of Sylvester. Despite their incongruity, the interpretation of the mentioned texts permits to assume that they concern one building erected at Sylvester’s suggestion on the ground which belonged to Equites. On the same sitz, at the beginning of the 6th century, the pope Symmachus (498-514) erected a church dedicated to St Martin. According to the author, the so-called Fragmentum Laurentianum containing the biography of the pope Symmachus and dated back to the beginning of the 6th century, entitle one to such a conclusion. We read there that: „Hic beati Martini ecclesiam iuxta sanctum Silvestrem... dedicavit”. If, as it is suggested by the author, we translate the preposition „iuxta” not as „beside” which has hitherto been proposed by all who dealt with this text, but as „together with” (or „by”, „in relation with”), then the text can be understood as follows: Symmachus erected a church dedicated to St Martin on the site connected with the person of St Sylvester. This kind of interpretation cannot be excluded by the findings of archeological research carried out on the premises of the contemporary church S. Martino ai Monti in which the cult of St Sylvester has been present since ages
The immortal flower, and other inspirational poems, by Sylvester Clayton Higbee ...
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Sylvester Kosov’s Exegesis (1635): A Manifesto of the Kyiv-Mohyla Counter-Reformation
No full textBishop Sylvester Kosov’s polemical treatise The Exegesis (1635) is regarded as evidence of new
trends in Kyiv theology, reflecting the entry of Orthodox thinkers of the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita) into the spiritual sphere of European Reform, traditionally
defined as the Counter-Reformation. The treatise’s author, being the closest associate of
Metropolitan Petro Mohyla, denies the Byzantine theologians’ accusations of pliancy to
Protestant influences. Demonstrating doctrinal differences with Calvinism, Lutheranism, and
Unitarianism, Sylvester Kosov determines his own faith identity and its natural connection to
the apostolic tradition and the teachings of the Church Fathers. In doing so, he uses expressive
Baroque imagery
Sylvester Kosov’s Exegesis (1635): A Manifesto of the Kyiv-Mohyla Counter-Reformation?
No full textBishop Sylvester Kosov’s polemical treatise The Exegesis (1635) is regarded as evidence of new trends in Kyiv theology, reflecting the entry of Orthodox thinkers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita) into the spiritual sphere of European Reform, traditionally defined as the Counter-Reformation. The treatise’s author, being the closest associate of Metropolitan Petro Mohyla, denies the Byzantine theologians’ accusations of pliancy to Protestant influences. Demonstrating doctrinal differences with Calvinism, Lutheranism, and Unitarianism, Sylvester Kosov determines his own faith identity and its natural connection to the apostolic tradition and the teachings of the Church Fathers. In doing so, he uses expressive Baroque imagery
On a Theorem of Sylvester and Schur
No full textIn 1892, Sylvester [7] proved that in the set of integers n, n+l,…, n+k—1, n> k > 1, there is a number containing a prime divisor greater than k. This theorem was rediscovered, in 1929, by Schur [6]. More recent results include an elementary proof by Erdös [1] and a proof of the following theorem by Faulkner [2]: Let pk be the least prime ≥2k; if n≥pk then has a prime divisor ≥pk with the exceptions and In that paper the author uses some deep results of Rosser and Schoenfeld [5] on the distribution of primes.</jats:p
Samuel Untermyer letters 1917-1932
No full textThe collection consists of 14 letters to George Sylvester Viereck, author and editor, on a variety of subjects both personal and legal. Several of the letters relate to Viereck's propaganda work on behalf of Germany during World War IGift of the Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Foundatio
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