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The Study of Music Therapy: Current Issues and Concepts (Kenneth S. Aigen)
No full textThis is a review of the book "The Study of Music Therapy: Current Issues and Concepts" authored by Kenneth S. Aigen.
Title: The Study of Music Therapy: Current Issues and Concepts | Author: Kenneth S. Aigen | Publication year: 2014 | Publisher: Routledge | Pages: 280 | ISBN: 978-041562641
Book Review: Boots and Suits: Historical Cases and Contemporary Lessons in Military Diplomacy
No full textAuthor: Philip S. Kosnett (editor)
Reviewed by Kenneth Weisbrode, assistant professor of history, Bilkent University
Historian and professor Kenneth Weisbrode reviews retired US ambassador Philip S. Kosnett’s anthology on “just how contested, and how significant,” military diplomacy is. After highlighting the value of General Kenneth F. McKenzie’s (US Marine Corps, retired) instructive foreword, which defines military diplomacy, Weisbrode outlines the book’s range of case studies across history (from the Confederacy to Afghanistan), author perspectives (“academics and government officials”), and subject matter (“strategy, operations, and tactics”). He distills some of the book’s essential policy lessons for readers and notes the book’s wide-ranging utility for “teachers, students, and aspiring (or even veteran) military diplomats.”https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/1036/thumbnail.jp
Introductory nuclear physics / Kenneth S. Krane.
No full textRev. ed. of: Introductory nuclear physics / David Halliday. 2nd ed. 1955.Includes bibliographies and index.xiii, 845 pages.
A Replicated and Persistent Functional Programming Environment - Extension of Licentiate's Thesis
No full textOF TECHNOLOGY LICENTIATE'S THESIS Author: Kenneth Oksanen Name of the thesis: A Replicated and Persistent Functional Programming Environment Date: Published November 16, 2001 Number of pages: 106 Department: Faculty of Information Technology Professorship: Tik-106 Supervisor: Professor Eljas Soisalon-Soininen Instructor: Traditional database management systems perform updates-in-place and use logs and periodic checkpointing to eciently achieve atomicity and durability. In this Thesis we shall present a dierent method, Shades, for achieving atomicity and durability using a copy-on-write policy instead of updates-in-place. We shall also present index structures and the implementation of Shines, a persistent functional programming language, built on top of Shades
Evolution of cooperation among tumor cells
No full textThe evolution of cooperation has a well established theoretical framework based on game theory. This approach has made valuable contributions to a wide variety of disciplines, including political science, economics, and evolutionary biology. Existing cancer theory suggests that individual clones of cancer cells evolve independently from one another, acquiring all of the genetic traits or hallmarks necessary to form a malignant tumor. It is also now recognized that tumors are heterotypic, with cancer cells interacting with normal stromal cells within the issue microenvironment, including endothelial, stromal, and nerve cells. This tumor cell???stromal cell interaction in itself is a form of commensalism, because it has been demonstrated that these nonmalignant cells support and even enable tumor growth. Here, we add to this theory by regarding tumor cells as game players whose interactions help to determine their Darwinian fitness. We marshal evidence that tumor cells overcome certain host defenses by means of diffusible products. Our original contribution is to raise the possibility that two nearby cells can protect each other from a set of host defenses that neither could survive alone. Cooperation can evolve as byproduct mutualism among genetically diverse tumor cells. Our hypothesis supplements, but does not supplant, the traditional view of carcinogenesis in which one clonal population of cells develops all of the necessary genetic traits independently to form a tumor. Cooperation through the sharing of diffusible products raises new questions about tumorigenesis and has implications for understanding observed phenomena, designing new experiments, and developing new therapeutic approaches.Author manuscript. Published in final edited form as: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 September 5; 103(36): 13474-13479.The final published version of this article is located at: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0606053103NIH U56 CA113004; to David E. AxelrodR.A. was supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant SES-0240852. D.E.A. was supported by NSF Grant IIS-0312953, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant U56 CA113004, and New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research Grant 1076-CCR-SO. K.J.P. is an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor and is supported by NIH Grants CA69568, CA102872, and CA093900.NIH CA69568; to Kenneth J. PientaNIH CA102872; to Kenneth J. PientaNIH CA093900; to Kenneth J. PientaNSF SES-0240852; to Robert AxelrodNJ Commission on Cancer Research 1076-CCR-SO; to David E. AxelrodAlso available in PubMed Central. PMCID: PMC155738
Design and development of stimuli-responsive materials: pH sensitive polymersomes and poly(olefin sulfone)s
No full textStimuli-responsive materials are materials exhibit a response when exposed to specific external triggers. These materials are powerful tools for material development in areas such as encapsulation, photoresists, sensors, self-healing materials, drug delivery, and transient electronic devices. A variety of chemical triggers can be employed to stimulate materials, for this work the focus has been on pH-responsive materials. Materials which can be triggered with pH have a variety of applications in biological and industrial fields. This thesis is split into two main parts: 1) the development of acid-triggerable covalently-crosslinked polymersomes and 2) the design and synthesis of base-, heat-, and fluoride-sensitive poly(olefin sulfone)s. Polymersomes are a useful approach for encapsulation but are susceptible to environmental stressors and leakage. By tuning the nanoscale architecture of the polymersomes with reversible chemical modifications, their stability can be improved while still allowing triggered release capabilities that permanently cross-linked polymersomes lack. Using dynamic covalent imine chemistry, terminally functionalized polymers were reversibly connected within polymersome membranes in the presence of reactive linkers. The connection of these polymer was investigated using two polymersome systems, poly(styrene-b-acrylic acid) in Chapter 2 and poly(styrene-b-ethylene oxide) in Chapter 3. Poly(olefin sulfone)s are a class of polymers known to degrade in the presence of base, as well as through thermolysis and radiolysis. In order to develop novel materials for applications in encapsulation and transient electronic devices, molecular design criteria needed to achieve rapid, base degradation of poly(olefin sulfone)s at room temperature were investigated,. Poly(vinyl ester sulfone)s and poly(vinyl butyl carbonate sulfone)s were synthesized and shown to degrade more rapidly than aliphatic poly(olefin sulfone)s (Chapter 4 and 5). Additional work has focus on the design of fluoride sensitive poly(olefin sulfone)s and the modulation of the thermal degradation of poly(tert-butyl carbonate sulfone) and poly(phthalaldehyde) (Chapter 5).Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-12-01The student, Catherine Casey, accepted the attached license on 2016-09-26 at 10:17.The student, Catherine Casey, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-09-26 at 10:18.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-09-27 at 10:45.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10170 on 2017-02-28 at 14:40:51Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-01T17:00:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4
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Discrete mathematics and its applications / Kenneth H. Rosen.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. B-1 - B-7) and index.xxii, 843, A-15, B-7, S-90, C-1, I-18 pages.
Kenneth M. Ford
No full textKenneth Ford is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) — a not-for-profit research institute located in Pensacola, Florida. IHMC has grown into one of the nation’s premier research organizations with world-class scientists and engineers investigating a broad range of topics related to building technological systems aimed at amplifying and extending human cognition, perception, locomotion and resilience. Richard Florida has described IHMC as “a new model for interdisciplinary research institutes that strive to be both entrepreneurial and academic, firmly grounded and inspiringly ambitious.” IHMC headquarters are in Pensacola with a branch research facility in Ocala, Florida.
Dr. Ford is the author of hundreds of scientific papers and six books. Dr. Ford’s research interests include: artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-centered computing, and entrepreneurship in government and academia. Dr. Ford received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tulane University. He is Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of AAAI/MIT Press and has been involved in the editing of several journals. Ford is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a member of the National Association of Scholars. Ford has received many awards and honors including the Doctor Honoris Causas from the University of Bordeaux in 2005 and the 2008 Robert S. Englemore Memorial Award for his work in artificial intelligence (AI). In 2012 Tulane University named Ford its Outstanding Alumnus in the School of Science and Engineering. In 2015, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence named Dr. Ford the recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Service Award. Also in 2015, Dr. Ford was elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2017 Dr. Ford was inducted into the Florida Inventor’s Hall of Fame.
In January 1997, Dr. Ford was asked by NASA to develop and direct its new Center of Excellence in Information Technology at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. He served as Associate Center Director and Director of NASA’s Center of Excellence in Information Technology. In July 1999, Dr. Ford was awarded the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal. That same year, Ford returned to private life and to the IHMC.
In October of 2002, President George W. Bush nominated Dr. Ford to serve on the National Science Board (NSB) and the United States Senate confirmed his nomination in March of 2003. The NSB is the governing board of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and plays an important role in advising the President and Congress on science policy issues. In 2005, Dr. Ford was appointed and sworn in as a member of the Air Force Science Advisory Board.
In 2007, he became a member of the NASA Advisory Council and on October 16, 2008, Dr. Ford was named as Chairman – a capacity in which he served until October 2011. In August 2010, Dr. Ford was awarded NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal – the highest honor the agency confers.
In February of 2012, Dr. Ford was named to a two-year term on the Defense Science Board (DSB) and in 2013, he became a member of the Advanced Technology Board (ATB) which supports the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In 2018, Dr. Ford was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-bios-2019/1005/thumbnail.jp
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Kenneth S. Norris: Naturalist, Cetologist & Conservationist, 1924-1998: An Oral History Biography
No full textThe Regional History Project conducted a series of interviews with Kenneth S. Norris, UCSC Professor of Natural History Emeritus, in the spring and summer of 1998. Halfway through the interviews, Norris, who had been in poor health, was hospitalized unexpectedly and died on August 16, 1998. Rather than publish an incomplete set of his edited interviews, the project was reconceived. We interviewed a group of his colleagues and former students who could discuss many of the topics the interviewer had not had an opportunity to discuss with him. These additional interviews include recollections of Norris’s myriad research interests (desert biology, herpetology, marine mammalogy) and his scientific legacy; his teaching philosophy and how it was so creatively manifested for almost two decades in the celebrated Natural History Field Quarter class; and his founding role in the creation in 1965 of UC’s Natural Reserve System.On October 24, 1998, at the Norris Memorial, held at UCSC, celebrating his life and work, many of his far-flung students and colleagues gathered together from around the country. During that weekend project interviewer Irene Reti, conducted interviews with Stephen R. Gliessman, Donald J. Usner, and Shannon M. Brownlee, for their recollections of the Natural History Field Quarter. Randall Jarrell conducted interviews with Robert M. Norris, William N. McFarland, William F. Perrin, and later, with Roger J. Samuelsen, and Lawrence D. Ford, who discussed the genesis of the NRS and Norris as scientist and naturalist.Norris was born August 11, 1924 in Los Angeles when Southern California was still a rural place with easy access to wild things. His mother and father relished the outdoors and were unusually encouraging of their boys’ naturalist interests. They took Ken and his older brother Robert on many family camping trips and hiking in the mountains and by the time he was about ten, Ken’s taste for natural history and collecting was already well developed.Norris graduated from Van Nuys High School in 1942 and entered UCLA. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 until 1948, when he returned to UCLA, and earned his bachelor’s degree in biology in 1948, after having almost completed his degree in geology. When he was a senior he met up with Raymond B. Cowles, who had a transformative influence on the direction of his life.Norris earned a master’s degree in desert zoogeography at UCLA in 1951, with Ray Cowles as his major professor when he wrote his thesis, “The Evolution of the Iguanid, genus Uma.” He moved from the desert to the sea when he began work towards his Ph.D. under the legendary Carl L. Hubbs, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. Two years into his doctoral work Norris was hired as the founding curator at the country’s second oceanarium, Marineland of the Pacific in Palos Verdes, California, where he began his pioneering work with marine mammals during the period 1953 to 1960. He continued working on his dissertation on the opaleye, named after its lovely bluegreen eyes, a perch-like fish of the sea chub family Kyphosidae, in which he investigated the effect of water temperatures on this intertidal fish. For the groundbreaking ecological approach he developed in this dissertation, “The Functions of Temperature in the Percoid Fish, Girella nigricans (Ayres),” he received the Mercer Award of the Ecological Society of America for the best study by a young scholar in 1963.He received his Ph.D. from Scripps in 1959 and in the same year Norris returned to UCLA where he was hired as Ray Cowles’s successor and taught biology and herpetology and continued his research on desert reptiles. He was at UCLA until 1972, where he advanced to full professor of Natural History (the only professor of natural history in the UC system). In 1965, due to his efforts, UC’s Natural Reserve System was established under UC President Clark Kerr. While continuing at UCLA on a part-time basis, he became the founding director of the Oceanic Institute in Hawaii, from 1968 until 1971. In 1972, he moved north when he was appointed at UCSC and founded Long Marine Laboratory and the Institute of Marine Sciences. He was Professor of Natural History until he retired in 1990 after eighteen years at UC Santa Cruz.In these interviews Norris and his colleagues discussed the unusually varied range of his scientific discoveries and conservation activities. At UCLA his work as a desert herpetologist and ecologist led to his discoveries of the function of color changes in amphibians and reptiles and of circadian rhythms in snakes. His pioneering investigations in marine mammalogy confirmed dolphin echolocation skills in a series of elegant experiments. Much of what is now known about whales and dolphins, specifically their social and familial interactions is due to his work. His expertise in marine mammalogy also resulted in his strong influence on public policy in the crafting of the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972. His leadership and research were also instrumental in the national campaign to reduce the dolphin kill in tuna fishing. Norris was the author of over a hundred scientific papers and several books on dolphins and porpoises
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