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A Model For Quadrat Sampling with "Visibility Bias"
No full text1 online resource (PDF, 12 pages)Cook, R. Dennis; Martin, Frank B.. (1972). A Model For Quadrat Sampling with "Visibility Bias". Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/199182
Frank Harrah Collection
No full textPhotograph of L to R: Pat Haley, Joe, F H, Laundry man, Pat Haley's Brother, Frank Harrah, Harrah's partner, and Fred the cook in front of Frank Harrah's Pioneer Restaurant in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, May 5,, 1889
Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, Interviewed by Dr. Barbara R. Hatton, August 21, 2012
No full textVideo interviews with a complementing monograph providing reflections of former presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities discussing leadership, mission, challenges, successes, and issues of race and education. Interviewer: Dr. Barbara R. Hatton, President, South Carolina State University 1992-1995, President, Knoxville College 1997-2005. Interviewee: Dr. Samuel Dubois Cook, President Dillard University 1974-1997
The Impact of R&D Investment On Productivity - New Evidence Using Linked R&D-LRD Data
No full textThis paper uses confidential Census longitudinal microdata to examine the association between R&D and productivity for the period 1972.1985. These data allow for significant improvements in measurement and model specification, yielding more precise estimates of the returns to R&D. Our results confirm the findings of existing studies: 1) positive returns to R&D investment 2) higher returns to company-financed research 3) a productivity "premium" on basic research These results are robust to our attempts to adjust for "influential" outliers. Also, it appears that the return to company-financed R&D (but not total R&D) is an increasing function of firm size.
Geographic structuring of global EIAV isolates: A single origin for New World strains?
No full textEquine infectious anaemia virus (EIAV) is classified within the Retroviridae and, like other lentivirus, has the propensity for considerable antigenic variation. An extensive phylogenetic analysis in Bayesian fashion, with significant amounts of new EIAV gag sequence information, revealed a strong geographic compartmentalization clearly related to the phylogeographic history of modern horses, pointing out that New World EIAV strains form a distinct group with a potentially common origin. This evidence suggests that a single founder event may have occurred during the reintroduction of horses to the Americas by European colonists in the 15th century, a possibility that raises many interesting scenarios with implications for all evolutionary and ecological studies
A Conversation with Dennis Cook
No full textDennis Cook is Full Professor, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota. He received his BS degree in Mathematics from Northern Montana College, and MS and PhD degrees in statistics from Kansas State University. He has served as Chair of the Department of Applied Statistics, Director of the Statistical Center and Director of the School of Statistics, all at the University of Minnesota.
His research areas include dimension reduction, linear and nonlinear regression, ex- perimental design, statistical diagnostics, statistical graphics and population genetics. He has authored over 200 research articles and is author or co-author of two textbooks - An Introduction to Regression Graphics, and Applied Regression Including Computing and Graphics - and three research monographs, Influence and Residuals in Regression, Regression Graphics: Ideas for Studying Regressions through Graphics and An Intro- duction to Envelopes: Dimension Reduction for Efficient Estimation in Multivariate Statistics.
He has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Associ- ation, The Journal of Quality Technology, Biometrika, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society and Statistica Sinica. He is a four-time recipient of the Jack Youden Prize for Best Expository Paper in Technometrics as well as the Frank Wilcoxon Award for Best Technical Paper. He received the 2005 COPSS Fisher Lecture and Award, and he is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statis- tics. The following conversation took place on March 22, 2019, following the banquetat the conference, "Cook's Distance and Beyond: A Conference Celebrating the Con- tributions of R. Dennis Cook." The interviewers were, Efstathia Bura (Effie), Daniel Pena, Lexin Li, Christopher Nachtsheim (Chris), Claude Messan Setodji, Robert Weiss (Rob), and Bing Li
Enhancers and silencers: An integrated and simple model for their function
No full textRegulatory DNA elements such as enhancers, silencers and insulators are embedded in metazoan genomes, and they control gene expression during development. Although they fulfil different roles, they share specific properties. Herein we discuss some examples and a parsimonious model for their function is proposed. All are transcription units that tether their target promoters close to, or distant from, transcriptional hot spots (or 'factories')
Cook: The Man Who Taught Gertrude Stein to Drive
No full textThis is a sixty-minute voice-over film biography of the life of William Edwards Cook (1881-1959), an American expatriate artist, who grew up in Iowa, but spent his adult life in Europe, living in Paris, Rome, and Majorca. More specifically, it is a detailed account of the nearly life-long friendship of Cook with the American writer Gertrude Stein. It is based on her frequent adulation of him in her writings, as well as on the contents of 250 pages of their unpublished correspondence. Cook was never a well-known artist, but he did acquire some renown for two other reasons: In 1907, he was the first American artist to be allowed to paint a portrait of Pope Pius X. Later, in 1926, he used his inheritance to commission the then-unknown Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier to design an early Modernist home (the first true cubist house ) in Boulogne-sur-Seine, which is still intact, and widely known as Maison Cook or Villa Cook.
The friendship of Gertrude Stein and William Edwards Cook (including the roles of their partners, Alice B. Toklas and Jeanne Moallic Cook) was first documented in COOK BOOK: Gertrude Stein, William Cook and Le Corbusier (Bobolink Books, 2005). This video talk corrects, updates, and adds to the information in that book.
This film project (as well as the earlier book) was made possible by the earlier work of such Stein scholars as Ulla Dydo, Bruce Kellner, and Rosalind Moad, as well as the Stein / Cook correspondence in the collection of the Beinecke Library at Yale University.
In 2005, when the book was released, Ulla Dydo (the pre-eminent expert on Stein, and author of The Language that Rises) praised it in the following way: This book jumps out at my eyes, my ears. It comes from everywhere, never drags those even blocks of print that dull the mind. Look at it, read it, let it tease you: It\u27s researched with all the care that keeps its sense of humor and its visual and voice delights. Travel with it, leave home, go and explore the many ways for a book to be a house for living.
The distinguished critic Guy Davenport wrote: This is as good as topnotch Behrens gets!
This film is not without humor, and at times it shares surprises. It may prove of particular value to viewers who are interested in American literature, Modernism, art, expatriates, Paris, Majorca, the American Midwest, Iowa, art history, the training of artists, Cubism, Picasso, Le Corbusier, LGBT, and gender identity issues. Written, produced and narrated by UNI Emeritus Professor Roy R. Behrens (©2022).https://scholarworks.uni.edu/behrens_videos/1003/thumbnail.jp
Graffiti on the wall: reading history through news media: the role of news media in historical crises, in the case of the collapse of the Eastern bloc in Europe 1989.
No full textThe thesis reviews the engagement of news media in the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, most vividly represented by the opening of the Berlin Wall. It uses field observations of the author as a journalist of the time, extensive interviews with other news correspondents, a review of historical writing on the period, and an exhaustive review of the coverage given by six major news outlets. The work sees the change in Europe being driven by mass social movements, but also examines conventional, institutional politics at work, and describes the engagement of news media in the historical situation as it unfolds. It determines that the daily coverage by leading Western news media judged in terms of
accuracy and perspective was successful, validated by later evaluations. It is informed by theoretical writing on mass social movements and on journalistic news values. It concludes by suggesting that the approach followed, a review of history from the perspective of news media of the day, could be applied to many other situations
Letters from John Brinks to Rhoda LeCocq, December 8, 1924
No full textTwo letters sent by John R. Brinks to his sister Rhoda Brinks LeCocq and Frank Jr. relaying the information sent to him by Johanna Cook and Grace Hulst in Michigan.https://nwcommons.nwciowa.edu/vanderhulst/1001/thumbnail.jp
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