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William R. Graham Memorandum for John Sununu
No full textA memorandum by William R. Graham, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), to Chief of Staff John H. Sununu, submitting his recommendation of Dr. Bernadine Healy as President Bush's Science Advisor
Biofuels, ex-felons, and empower, a worker-owned cooperative : performing enterprises differently
No full textIncreasingly we are seeing innovative economic transformations being pioneered outside the realm of traditional economic development policy and practice (Allard, Davidson, and Matthaei 2008; Cameron 2010). The (capitalist) "business as usual" orientation of most economic development activity is, it seems, unable to deliver widespread benefit to people or environments. All around the world people are experimenting with new kinds of enterprises intent on producing more equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and resilient economies (Gibson-Graham, Cameron and Healy 2013)
Interview with Dr David Healy, 13 February 2013
No full textDr David Healy is an internationally renowned and respected psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, scientist and author. A professor of Psychiatry at Bangor University in Wales, he studied medicine in Dublin and at Cambridge University. He is a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles, 200 other pieces and 20 books. Dr Healy�s main areas of research are clinical trials in psychopharmacology, the history of psychopharmacology, and the impact of both trials and psychotropic drugs on our culture. He has been involved as an expert witness in homicide and suicide trials involving psychotropic drugs, and in bringing problems with these drugs to the attention of American and British regulators, as well raising awareness of how pharmaceutical companies sell drugs by marketing diseases and co-opting academic opinion-leaders, ghost-writing their articles. Dr Healy is also a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Data Based Medicine Limited, which operates through its popular global website www.RxISK.org, dedicated to making medicines safer through online direct patient reporting of drug effec
The Life and Afterlives of Patrick Francis Healy, S.J.
No full textabstract: This dissertation centers on the life of Patrick Francis Healy, the son of an enslaved woman and an Irish slaveholder. Born in 1834, Healy became a Jesuit priest in 1864 and the president of Georgetown University in 1874, seven decades before Georgetown admitted its first African American student. In the twentieth century, historical investigations of race and American Catholicism cast Healy and his family in a new light. Today, the Healys are upheld in some circles as African American Catholic icons. Patrick Healy is now remembered as the first African American Jesuit and Catholic university president, as well as the first African American to receive a doctorate. This dissertation pursues both the life of Patrick Healy as well as what I call his “afterlives,” or the ways in which he has been remembered since the 1950s, when Albert S. Foley, S.J. discovered that the Healys’ mother was enslaved and refashioned them from white Irish Americans to white-passing African Americans. How and why did Patrick Francis Healy understand and comport himself as a white, upper-class Catholic? How and why have others sought to construct him as African American in the years since his ancestry was made widely known? How has Georgetown incorporated Healy’s legacy, in the context of its and other universities’ coming-to-terms with their dealings with slavery more broadly? I pursue these questions through archival sources (primarily Healy’s diaries and letters) at Georgetown University and College of the Holy Cross, as well as secondary literature on passing, subjectivity, and hagiography.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Religious Studies 202
Memory in the Novels by Dermot Healy
No full textEnglish title and keywords: Memory in the Novels by Dermot Healy - Dermot Healy, Irish literature, Irish novel, memory, collective memory Despite his large and diverse body of work Irish writer Dermot Healy remains somewhat ignored by scholars. However, his formally diverse writing which spans from novels and short stories to poetry and dramatic work is without a doubt worthy of critical response. One of Healy's themes is an engagement with the formation of memory and with how an experience transforms in the mind of its 'experiencer' and changes into what from a certain perspective may be regarded as fiction. Stemming from his own life experiences the author engages a topic common to all human beings and plays with the concept of memory and its possible distortion in his autobiography The Bend For Home (1996), as well as in his plays and poems. His autobiographic work can be seen as a background for the theme; however, the present thesis will focus on Healy's novels, starting with Fighting with Shadows (1984) through A Goat's Song (1994), Sudden Times (1999) to his final novel Long Time, No See (2011). In these books and in the characters that Healy presents we are able to observe individuals with diverse personal histories who return to individual experienced events through reconstruction and in..
Plasticity of Metallic Nanostructures- Molecular Dynamics Simulations
No full textThis thesis has been submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for a postgraduate degree (e.g. PhD, MPhil, DClinPsychol) at the University of Edinburgh. Please note the following terms and conditions of use: • This work is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights, which are retained by the thesis author, unless otherwise stated. • A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. • This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the author. • The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the author. • When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given
Ultrafast all-optical modulation in silicon optical fibers
No full textDegenerate and non-degenerate two-photon absorption based modulation is demonstrated in a hydrogenated amorphous silicon core optical fiber. We show modulation using femtosecond pulses and compare this with theory
Few-mode metal-free perovskite optical fiber with second-order optical nonlinearity
No full textSemiconductor core optical fibers are highly desirable for fiber-based photonic and optoelectronic applications as they can combine strong optical nonlinearities, tight light confinement, wide transmission bands, and electronic functionality within a single platform. Perovskites have emerged as particularly exciting materials for semiconductor photonics as they have strong optical nonlinearities and tunable optoelectronic bandgaps. However, lead-based perovskites contain toxic elements and are, therefore, not environmentally friendly. Furthermore, in fiber form, their core-size is prohibitively large, making them unsuitable for nonlinear optics and applications that require single-mode guidance, such as telecommunications. Here, we report a metal-free perovskite core optical fiber where lead has been substituted for an ammonium cation in the perovskite structure. The core material has a wide bandgap greater than 5 eV, a high laser damage threshold, and a core diameter that can be produced as small as 5 µm. At this core size, the fiber supports just six modes, and the fundamental mode can readily be excited and isolated. Moreover, the metal-free perovskite has a second-order susceptibility that is absent in the archetypal lead-based perovskites and many other semiconductor core materials, such as silicon and germanium. The second-order susceptibility is important for many nonlinear optics applications, such as second-harmonic generation and quantum optics.</p
Take back the economy at ethical guide for transforming our communities
No full textAl despertar de la crisis económica global, más y más gente está reconsiderando su papel en la economía y preguntándose qué puede hacer para que funcione mejor para la humanidad y el planeta. J. K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron y Stephen Healy contribuyen en términos prácticos a la compleja comprensión de la economía y responden a la pregunta: ¿qué podemos hacer ahora mismo en nuestras comunidades para hacer la diferencia? Con ejercicios atractivos, herramientas para pensar y ejemplos inspiradores de distintos lugares del mundo, este innovador libro muestra de qué manera la gente puede generar cambios a pequeña escala en sus propias vidas para crear economías éticas, pues desmantela la idea según la cual la economía es una cuestión ajena a la gente común y demuestra que es el resultado de las decisiones y los esfuerzos que hacemos en el día a día.Bogot
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