417 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.
Opening Science: Increasing Access to Federally Funded Research
No full textIncreasing Access to Federally Funded Research: Summarizes the considerable progress that Federal departments and agencies have made increasing public access to the results of Federally-supported scientific research and advancing the broader notion of open science. In this session, Jerry Sheehan, talks about sixteen agencies that now require researchers to ensure free public access to peer-reviewed publications resulting from all newly-funded research, with a delay of not more than 12 months after the publication date, and all agencies now have repositories to enhance accessibility to such research
Commericalization and transfer of technology in the U.S. jet aircraft engine industry
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1991.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 212-215).by Jerry R. Sheehan.M.S
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
Incentives and Support Systems to Foster Private Sector Innovation
No full textGovernments in many countries are devoting increased attention to bolstering business innovation capabilities. This interest reflects growing recognition of the importance of innovation in driving economic growth. This paper provides a brief overview of policy instruments to support business innovation, identifying the tradeoffs inherent in policy design and the development of coherent policy mixes. While the paper draws primarily from the experience of OECD economies, it aims to identify lessons that can be applied to a more diverse set of economies
Incentives and Support Systems to Foster Private Sector Innovation
No full textThis presentation discusses the use of incentives to foster innovation in the private sector. It includes a discussion of supporting and funding R&D in the business sector; the use of tax incentives for R&D; and a comparison of other financing instruments. This presentation was presented at the Science, Technology, & Innovation Network\u27s IADB Regional Policy Dialogue held in Washington, DC on April 16th-17th, 2007
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
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