565 research outputs found
A Stellar Conversation with Dr. Bill Sheehan
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Rick Chappell, director of Dyer Observatory, talks with Bill Sheehan on
the anniversary of what would have been E.E. Barnard's 150th birthday.
Dr. Sheehan is the author of 'The Immortal Fire Within,' the definitive
biography on Barnard who is one of the world's most famous astronomers.
Dr. Sheehan examines Barnard's life--his humble beginnings, his historic
discoveries, his time at Vanderbilt and his famous photographs of the
Milky Way.
Running and Being: The Total Experience
No full textWritten by the late, beloved Dr. George Sheehan, Running & Being tells of the author\u27s midlife return to the world of exercise, play, and competition, in which he found a world beyond sweat that proved to be a source of great revelation and personal growth. But Running & Being focuses more on life than it does, specifically, on running. It provides an outline for a lifetime program of fitness and joy, showing how the body helps determine our mental and spiritual energies.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/prairiestriders_pubs/1041/thumbnail.jp
Violence and Restraint: An Interview with Aaron Sheehan-Dean
No full textToday we are speaking with Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Fred C. Frey Professor of Southern Studies at Louisiana State University and the Chair of LSU’s History Department. He teaches courses on nineteenth-century U.S. history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and southern History. He is the author of Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia (UNC Press, 2007), Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2008), and is the editor of several other volumes. His most recent book, The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War, was released by Harvard University Press in Fall, 2018. [excerpt
Evidence from near-death experience for the existence of consciousness outside the brain
No full textThis paper discusses near-death experience in terms of evidence for consciousness existing outside the brain. The number of near-death experiences has significantly increased over the past few decades due to the advances in defibrillation and CPR techniques. This has made it possible to do Prospective studies in hospitals in an attempt to correlate psychological, physiological and pharmacological causes for near-death experience. Four arguments for evidence of consciousness outside the brain are reviewed and examples from Retrospective studies are given. They are the consistency, reality, paranormal and transformation elements. Retrospective studies provide evidence that near-death experiences have similar elements regardless of demographic data, but the details of the events are not verifiable. Prospective studies carried out in hospitals in Great Britain, America and the Netherlands can confirm through medical records and witnesses that cardiac arrest survivors have conscious experiences during unconsciousness when their brain is dysfunctional. Examples from these studies provide evidence that consciousness exits outside the brain. However, the dying brain hypothesis and the hallucination hypothesis are also looked at as an explanation for these experiences.M.A.L.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Marianne S Sheeha
Modernism à la Mode: A Presentation on Fashion and Literature
No full textThe Department of English and Communications Studies and the School of Liberal Arts present a panel discussion about fashion and literature with special guest Elizabeth Sheehan, author and professor at Oregon State University.Dr. Elizabeth Sheehan, an assistant professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University, is the author of Modernism a la Mode: Fashion and the Ends of Literature (Cornell University Press, 2018), and co-editor of Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion. She has produced groundbreaking publications on modernism, fashion, feminist theory, race, affect, photography, and magazines.Modernism à la Mode argues that fashion describes why and how literary modernism matters in its own historical moment and ours. Bringing together texts, textiles, and theories of dress, Elizabeth Sheehan shows that writers, including Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, W.E.B. Du Bois, Nella Larsen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, turned to fashion to understand what their own stylized works could do in the context of global capital, systemic violence, and social transformation. Modernists engage with fashion as a mood, a set of material objects, and a target of critique, and, in doing so, anticipate and address contemporary debates centered on the uses of literature and literary criticism amidst the supposed crisis in the humanities. A modernist affect with a purpose, no less. By engaging modernism à la mode—that is, contingently, contextually, and in light of contemporary concerns—this book offers an alternative to the often-untenable distinctions between strong or weak, suspicious or reparative, and politically activist or quietist approaches to literature, which frame current debates about literary methodology. As fashion helps us to describe what modernist texts do, it enables us to do more with modernism as a form of inquiry, perception, and critique. Fashion and modernism are interwoven forms of inquiry, perception, and critique, writes Sheehan. It is fashion that puts the work of early twentieth-century writers in conversation with 21st-century theories of emotion, materiality, animality, beauty, and history
George Sheehan on Running to Win: How to Achieve the Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Victories of Running
No full textPractical advice from the renowned athlete and author of Personal Bestshows readers how to achieve the physical, mental, and spiritual rewards of running, from choosing the right shoe to developing mental toughness.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/prairiestriders_pubs/1328/thumbnail.jp
Colonic perforation in Behçet’s syndrome
No full textAuthor contributions: Authors affliated to the Department of Surgery managed the patient’s diagnosis, surgical treatment and post-operative care and all contributed equally to this paper; Sheehan JJ reported the imaging and Sheahan K reported the histopathology
Camille Flammarion's the planet Mars: as translated by Patrick Moore
No full textCamille Flammarion (1842-1925) began his career at 16 as a human computer under the great mathematician U. J. J. Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory. He soon tired of the drudgery; he was drawn to more romantic vistas, and at 19 wrote a book on an idea that he was to make his own—the habitability of other worlds. There followed a career as France’s greatest popularizer of astronomy, with over 60 titles to his credit. An admirer granted him a chateau at Juvisy-sur-l’Orge, and he set up a first-rate observatory dedicated to the study of the planet Mars. Finally, in 1892, he published his masterpiece, La Planete Mars et ses conditions d’habitabilite, a comprehensive summary of three centuries’ worth of literature on Mars, much of it based on his own personal research into rare memoirs and archives. As a history of that era, it has never been surpassed, and remains one of a handful of indispensable books on the red planet. Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012) needs no introduction; his record of popularizing astronomy in Britain in the 20th century equaled Flammarion’s in France in the 19th century. Moore pounded out hundreds of books as well as served as presenter of the BBC’s TV program “Sky at Night” program for 55 years (a world record). Though Moore always insisted that the Moon was his chef-d’oeuvre, Mars came a close second, and in 1980 he produced a typescript of Flammarion’s classic. Unfortunately, even he found the project too daunting for his publishers and passed the torch of keeping the project alive to a friend, the amateur astronomer and author William Sheehan, in 1993. Widely regarded as a leading historian of the planet Mars, Sheehan has not only meticulously compared and corrected Moore’s manuscript against Flammarion’s original so as to produce an authoritative text, he has added an important introduction showing the book’s significance in the history of Mars studies. Here results a book that remains an invaluable resource and is also a literary tour-de-force, in which the inimitable style of Flammarion has been rendered in the equally unique style of Moore
If content is king then distribution is King Kong
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Date: 2 October 2013
Author: Annabelle Sheehan
Publisher: Inside Story
Owning Institution(s): Swinburne University
Book Details
Title: Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World
Publisher: Palgrave
Date Published: 2013
Author/s: Stuart CunninghamJon Silver
From Thomas Edison’s short films, distributed via the tiny Kinetoscope, through picture palaces, IMAX screens, 3D TV and into the era of YouTube, it’s fascinating to find that once again we are peeping at images on small screens. While the movie-going business remains strong, with annual global revenues at $34.7 billion, the splintering of screens develops apace with ever-smaller computer screens, tablets and smart phones. In Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World, Stuart Cunningham and Jon Silver describe this new landscape, laying out the emerging patterns of screen ownership, distribution and consumption.
Cunningham and Silver anoint Google, Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Hulu, Yahoo and Facebook as “The Magnificent Seven” – the leaders in this landscape. These web companies have been able to “push” content to individuals on a broad scale, creating new markets, new forms of content, and ultimately challenging the dominance of traditional media. In a perfect confluence of events, the internet and growing broadband capacity combined with new, more affordable production gear and digitisation equipment allowed savvy entrepreneurs to exploit a totally new platform. We may be witnessing a changing of the guard in the domination of screen distribution from the major Hollywood studios and television networks to these new online players. While many have said that “content is king,” Cunningham and Silver suggest that “if content is King then distribution is King Kong.”
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Ionic liquid behavior on rough surfaces
No full textSubmission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Alexis Sheehan, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-22 at 09:27.The student, Alexis Sheehan, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-04-22 at 09:40.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-04-25 at 08:32.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9430 on 2016-07-07 at 14:17:53Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T21:17:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemLimited Restriction Lifted for Item 93301 on 2018-07-08T09:15:30Z.This study focuses on the effects of surface heterogeneities on the behaviour of ionic liquids. Ionic liquids have shown great promise as both electrolyte replacements and as lubricants in industrial applications. Previous studies have focused on ionic liquid behaviour on flat substrates. Understanding the behavior of ionic liquids (ILs) either confined between rough surfaces or in rough nanoscale pores is of great relevance to extend studies performed on ideally flat surfaces to real applications.
This work is comprised of three sets of experiments to determine the effects of nanoscale roughness and chemical surface properties on IL static and dynamic behavior. The first is an extensive investigation of the structural forces between two surfaces with well-defined roughness (<9 nm RMS) in 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ([HMIM] Ntf2) by atomic force microscopy. Statistical studies of the measured layer thicknesses, layering force, and layering frequency reveal the ordered structure of the rough IL-solid interface. The second was a study of the frictional forces in [HMIM] Ntf2 on surfaces of varying roughnesses, both with and without confinement. These experiments focused on speed and load dependence of the friction force. The third investigated the effect of plasma treatment vs. UV ozone treatment of silica surfaces, in both [HMIM] Ntf2 and 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ([EMIM] Ntf2), on friction forces and adhesion. These experiments were completed without confinement.
This work shows that the equilibrium structure of the interfacial IL strongly depends on the topography of the contact. Most broadly an increase in layering is seen with confinement, as expected, but the layer size and push out forces are largely dependent on surface roughness. It is observed that the flat substrate shows a distinct layering pattern from the rough substrates; however notably layering is present on even the roughest surfaces. This work also showed that the decrease in ordering due to the presence of roughness leads to a decrease in friction forces, both unconfined and confined. The presence of roughness also appears to decrease the speed dependence of the friction response. This decrease in friction is likely due to an increase in liquid-like behavior of the IL on the rough surface. Last this work showed an increase in adhesion and friction force due to plasma treatment for [EMIM] Ntf2 with time but not for [HMIM] Ntf2. This reveals that while both ILs are hydrophobic they have different time-dependent responses to the more hydrophilic surface rich in silanol groups.
Overall this work illuminates the importance of studying systems closer to real applications as it clear that roughness and surface chemical modifications play an important role in IL surface behavior. It also suggests that IL may become more liquid-like than previously thought in rough pores, or between rough surfaces increasing their viability as both electrolyte replacements and lubricants
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