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Class Interaction with Author Tim O'Brien
No full textTim O'Brien is asked a question by a student in a WCSU class
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No full text"Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons"-
Flann O'Brien and Modernism
No full textThis new anthology on the fiction of Flann O'Brien brings a much-needed refreshment to the state of scholarship on this increasingly recognised but still widely misunderstood 'second generation' modernist. Rather than construe him as a postmodernist, it correctly locates O'Brien's work as the product of a late modernist sensibility and cultural context. Similarly, while there should be no doubt of his Irishness, and his profound debts to Irish language, history and culture, this collection seeks to understand O'Brien's nationally sensitive achievement as the work of an internationalist whose preoccupations reflect global modernist trends. The distinct themes and concerns tracked in Flann O'Brien and Modernism include characterization in branching narrative forms; the ethics and paradoxes of naming; parody and homage; lies and deception; theatricality; sexuality; technology and transport; and the inevitable matter of drink and intoxication. Taken together, these specific topics construct a mosaic image of O'Brien as an exemplary modernist auteur, abreast of all the most salient philosophical and technical concerns affecting literary production in the period immediately before and after World War Two. Written by a range of modernist scholars, from the well-established to the emergent, the collection speaks directly to many of the dominant concerns in modernist studies today, and uses its single-author focus to refract modernist scholarship along a spectrum of formal, cultural, and political problems definitive of the modern period
Never waste a good crisis
No full textPurpose: COVID-19 is no different. It presents us with opportunities to accelerate some changes we may already have in play, to either challenge some long-held assumptions or to think more creatively about new ways of working. Design/methodology/approach: Crises almost always bring to light not only threats but also opportunities, including a chance to reflect and learn. The author of this study is never the one to waste the opportunity that externally driven change creates to learn from what she has been witnessing and to accelerate change that she was already planning, to stop some things and start others which more effectively align with the vision of the organisation. Findings: This paper charts a course through some of the author’s thinking and actions in the digital information world over the last 30 years. Partly it is a story of “the more things change the more they stay the same” and partly a story of “overnight change which has been decades in the making”. It ends with the author’s thoughts on two opportunities that she believes we cannot afford to ignore. Originality/value: This paper charts a course through some of the author’s thinking and actions in the digital information world over the last 30 years. Its premise is that COVID-19 creates a fertile ground for library and information professionals to grasp the opportunities before them to realise aspirations which have been long held.Full Tex
First person – Phillipe O'Brien
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Phillipe O'Brien is first author on ‘Juvenile murine models of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes develop neuropathy’, published in DMM. Phillipe is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the lab of Dr Eva Feldman at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, investigating the use of mouse models of disease to understand the development of peripheral neuropathy, a common complication of obesity, prediabetes and type II diabetes
Albert W. Brown interviewed by Kenneth O'Brien #1
No full textAlbert W. Brown was the President of the College from 1965 to 1981. Brown was the third President of the College. During his time as President the College experienced a great period of growth. Enrollment grew throughout his term from 3,000-12,000 students. The college also changed from a Teacher’s College to a SUNY Comprehensive Undergraduate and Graduate Institution. He pioneered and led such programs as the Delta College, Mature Adult College Program, Peace Corp., College Degree Program, 3-1-3 High School College Articulated Program, the Washington Semester Program and the Philosophical Year.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportInterviews With Staff Past & Presen
Swarming and complex pattern formation in <it>Paenibacillus vortex </it>studied by imaging and tracking cells
No full textAbstract Background Swarming motility allows microorganisms to move rapidly over surfaces. The Gram-positive bacterium Paenibacillus vortex exhibits advanced cooperative motility on agar plates resulting in intricate colonial patterns with geometries that are highly sensitive to the environment. The cellular mechanisms that underpin the complex multicellular organization of such a simple organism are not well understood. Results Swarming by P. vortex was studied by real-time light microscopy, by in situ scanning electron microscopy and by tracking the spread of antibiotic-resistant cells within antibiotic-sensitive colonies. When swarming, P. vortex was found to be peritrichously flagellated. Swarming by the curved cells of P. vortex occurred on an extremely wide range of media and agar concentrations (0.3 to 2.2% w/v). At high agar concentrations (> 1% w/v) rotating colonies formed that could be detached from the main mass of cells by withdrawal of cells into the latter. On lower percentage agars, cells moved in an extended network composed of interconnected "snakes" with short-term collision avoidance and sensitivity to extracts from swarming cells. P. vortex formed single Petri dish-wide "supercolonies" with a colony-wide exchange of motile cells. Swarming cells were coupled by rapidly forming, reversible and non-rigid connections to form a loose raft, apparently connected via flagella. Inhibitors of swarming (p-Nitrophenylglycerol and Congo Red) were identified. Mitomycin C was used to trigger filamentation without inhibiting growth or swarming; this facilitated dissection of the detail of swarming. Mitomycin C treatment resulted in malcoordinated swarming and abortive side branch formation and a strong tendency by a subpopulation of the cells to form minimal rotating aggregates of only a few cells. Conclusion P. vortex creates complex macroscopic colonies within which there is considerable reflux and movement and interaction of cells. Cell shape, flagellation, the aversion of cell masses to fuse and temporary connections between proximate cells to form rafts were all features of the swarming and rotation of cell aggregates. Vigorous vortex formation was social, i.e. required > 1 cell. This is the first detailed examination of the swarming behaviour of this bacterium at the cellular level.</p
Překlad a stylistická analýza dvou kapitol Casualities of Peace Edny O'Brien
No full textTato bakalářská práce se zaměřuje na problémy při překládání anglické beletrie do češtiny. Sestává ze dvou částí. Praktickou část tvoří překlad jedné kapitoly románu Casualties of Peace irské autorky Edny O'Brien z roku 1966. Teoretická část předkládá stylistickou analýzu, která zahrnuje volbu rejstříku, morfologické, lexikální, syntaktické a pragmatické hledisko. Každé z nich je ilustrováno okomentovanými příklady postavenými na teoretickém podkladu z prací Jiřího Levého, Dagmar Knittlové a Olgy Krijtové.This bachelor thesis focuses on difficulties encountered when translating English fiction into Czech. It is divided into two sections. The practical part provides the translation of one chapter of the novel Casualties of Peace written by an Irish author Edna O'Brien in 1966. The theoretical part delivers the stylistic analysis including choice of register, morphological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic aspects. Each of them is illustrated with the commented examples based on theoretical background from works by Jiří Levý, Dagmar Knittlová and Olga Krijtová.Katedra anglického jazyka a literaturyFaculty of EducationPedagogická fakult
If I die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home
No full textBefore writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a masterwork of its genre
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