255 research outputs found
Cary T. Grayson Letter, 1920
No full textLetter from Cary T. Grayson, Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and alumnus of the College of William and Mary, to James P. Monroe, MIT, dated March 23, 1920.
From collection UA 5.044, Acc. 1980.3
Corporate responsibility and the media
No full textThis paper discusses how CR is covered in the media and the media’s own corporate responsibilities, covering both traditional and new media.Co published with Centrum fur Corporate Citizenship Deutschlan
Keynote Speeches by Grayson Perry and Patrick Casement Edited by Dr Robin Tipple
No full textGrayson Perry Dr Jill Westwood introduced the delegates to Grayson Perry. She drew attention to the work that Grayson had produced, and his observations, all of which she felt had “extraordinary reach”. In his making of pots, pictures, books, dresses, tapestries, motorbikes and now houses, Grayson draws on autobiography, works with the emotional and with the experience of psychotherapy. Grayson was also the winner of two BAFTA awards for his TV programmes presenting social and art-driven observations on class, taste, culture gender and identity. Addressing Grayson Jill said “You are in a unique position….and we are very happy for you, who is mischievous at the centre, to connect to us who is mildly maverick on the margins”.Grayson shared his creative journey through slides, talk and discussion with the conference delegates. He explored identity and the development of a sense of self. He emphasised the way in which the material culture provided support for self explorations and expression. He gave an account of journeys he had made and the inspiration that he gained from exchanges with others. Learning from others, Grayson suggested, was central to his understanding of creativity, a creativity which he felt was also central to the therapeutic endeavour. Patrick CasementDr Robin Tipple introduced the delegates to the psychoanalyst Patrick Casement, author of Learning from the Patient (1985), Further learning from the patient (1990), and Learning from mistakes (2002), the later receiving a Gradiva award for its contribution to psychoanalysis. Robin felt that all these books together represented psychoanalysis at its best, a psychotherapy that was not dogmatic, but open and honest in relation to communication with the patient. He said that the books were formative in developing his own therapeutic practices, and he was delighted when Patrick agreed to speak at the conference. Robin ended his introduction by observing how Patrick, in his youth, developed an extraordinary ability in diving, in plumbing the depths and holding his breath.
Angela Grayson
No full textAngela J. Grayson is an accomplished nationally recognized lawyer, speaker, and author. She is Principal Member and Founder of Precipice IP PLLC. PRECIPICE is an award-winning consultancy and technology law boutique specializing in patent, trademark, copyright, and data law. PRECIPICE helps entrepreneurs and technology-focused businesses protect their products, brands, designs and data.https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/wstem_images/1022/thumbnail.jp
Localism the American way
No full textRichard S Grayson suggests that in making democratic localism work, the UK could look more at the United States' radically decentralised system. Using the example of Newark's pioneering mayor Cory Booker, he argues that strong elected mayors can bring about significant change, even in difficult circumstances. Copyright (c) 2010 The Author. Public Policy Research (c) 2010 ippr.
Telling Our Stories: [Book One]
No full textCollection of stories by forty-two local writers describing family histories and anecdotes in the Grayson County, Texas area. Each story is preceded by a brief biographical sketch of the author
Speech Acts: Richard Grayson and Matt Mullican
No full textSpeech Acts: Richard Grayson and Matt Mullican illuminates the video-based practices of these two internationally acclaimed artists, who use the format of the monologue to construct and narrate hypothetical worlds. British artist Richard Grayson imbues vernacular culture with a sense of classicism, extracting layers of meaning from an array of subject matter, including scientific explanations, flash-mob videos, dinner party conversations and purposefully bad jokes. By contrast, American artist Matt Mullican examines the circularities of language, conducting performances under hypnosis to vacillate between primal and public speech. Who is it we are watching as Mullican performs in an hypnotic state? How do we interrogate and categorise what is being created? The book includes video excerpts of Mullican’s first ever performance under hypnosis in Australia (staged in collaboration with Sydney’s National Art School at the iconic Cell Block Theatre, a former nineteenth-century women’s prison) and a selection of Grayson’s scripted compositions, which combine political acuity with dry wit. Author Wes Hill, having curated Grayson and Mullican in a 2015 exhibition at UTS Gallery, unpacks them further in a fascinating essay on both artists, examining their obsessions with language, performance and the nature of interpretation, which arise in their works to engage and sometimes unsettle viewers
Asylum support for children and young people living in Kirklees: Stories of mothers
No full textThe report is based on a one-year pilot study by academic practitioners at WomenCentre, Kirklees, funded by the Nationwide Children’s Research Centre. This study has taken a localised approach to the Parliamentary Inquiry (2013) into asylum support for children and young people. We have placed the views of mothers of children who live or have lived in receipt of asylum support in Kirklees at the heart of the study. All of the mothers interviewed said that asylum support (accommodation and/or financial subsistence) was or had been their only means of survival and many of them have spent several years in receipt of asylum support with their children.
Using the themes that arose in the Parliamentary Inquiry into asylum support for children and young people (2013)’, we have examined the mothers’ accounts of asylum support in relation to children and young people living in Kirklees. Consistent with the Parliamentary Inquiry and central to the analysis, a number of areas of concern were raised by the mothers: ‘essential living needs’, ‘home-life’, ‘education’ and ‘societal attitudes’. A further theme emerged around ‘children’s resilience’.
As part of this report we have presented the recommendations put forward by the mothers:
• Families seeking asylum should be given the right to work.
• Section 4 support should be abolished and a cash-based support system introduced for all children, young people and their families.
• Families should have a choice about where they live.
• The best interests of the child should be central to decisions affecting children
Stem Cell Orchestra: interactive didactic animation for cardiac tissue engineering
No full textA potential treatment of heart failure from myocardial infarction is to replace damaged tissue with a cardiac patch, a bioengineered construct of cardiomyocytes and stem cell-supported capillaries grown on a bioscaffold. Tissue engineers must have a thorough understanding of the cues that guide multiple cell types to form functional tissue. As the field of cardiac tissue regeneration develops novel protocols for stem cell-based therapies, visualizations that didactically convey in vitro spatiotemporal cell-cell interactions become increasingly important to provide to students and the general scientific community.
An interactive web-based animation and educational module, Stem Cell Orchestra, was designed and developed to introduce students to case-based examples of biomedical research that are directly related to fundamental tissue engineering principles. A conceptual flowchart was created to establish the navigational structure of the module and connections between educational topics. The module focused on visualizing the development of a cardiac patch as a model bioengineered tissue through the creation of a 3D animation depicting cell-cell interactions within a cardiac patch. Animation content was derived from confocal microscopy and transmitted light microscopy datasets in combination with the results of a literature review of current cardiac regenerative medicine techniques. The educational module presents the 3D animation within the context of supplemental educational material on mechanotransduction cues related to cardiac patch development.
This interactive animation platform introduces students to examples of primary research and accurately showcases tri-culture of a cardiac patch from cardiomyocyte elongation and synchronization to the formation of endothelial capillaries supported by the novel human adipose derived stem cells. Supplemental material contextualizes mechanotransduction presented within the animation. This project resulted in the development of a novel workflow and educational module that can be expanded to include additional tissue engineering concepts
The DNA Ejection Process in Bacteriophage λ
No full textBacteriophages have long served as model systems through which the nature of life may be explored. From a physical or mechanical point of view, phages are excellent examples of natural nanotechnology: they are nanometer-scale systems which depend critically on forces, pressures, velocities, and other fundamentally physical quantities for their biological functions. The study of the physical properties of phages has therefore provided an arena for application of physics to biology. In particular, recent studies of the motor responsible for packaging a phage gnome into a capsid showed a buildup of pressure within the capsid of tens of atmospheres. This thesis reports a combined theoretical and experimental study on various aspects of the genome ejection process, so that a comparison may be drawn with the packaging experiments. In particular, we examine various theoretical models of the forces within a phage capsid, deriving formulas both for the force driving genome ejection and for the velocity at which the genome is translocated into a host cell. We describe an experiment in which the force was measured as a function of the amount of genome within the phage capsid, and another where the genome ejection velocity was measured for single phages under the microscope. We make direct quantitative comparisons between the theory and experiments, stringently testing the extent to which we are able to model the genome ejection process
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