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Letter from Cy Donner to Michi Weglyn, June 2, 1967
No full textA letter from Cy Donner to Michi Weglyn encouraging her to come out to California to talk to producers about two shows called "Youthquake" and "Pretty Talk".These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Ferroelectric PLZT thin films prepared by chemical solution deposition
No full textTransparent polycrystalline PLZT (x/65/35) thin films were prepared using spin-coating technique of complex alkoxide precursor solutions by both 2ME and IMO sol-gel processes. Effects of lanthanum source and amount as well as annealing temperature on the ferroelectric and electro-optic properties were investigated. Microstructure and crystallization behavior were examined using FE-SEM, AFM and XRD. Ferroelectric hysteresis, optical transmittance and linear electro-optic coefficient values of the films were also measured. The measured remanent polarization and coercive field values were 5-35 muC/cm(2) and 40-70 kV/cm, respectively. Effective differential Pockels coefficient was approximately 2.4x10(-12) m/V
Outcome of medium-dose VP-16/CY/TBI superior to CY/TBI as a conditioning regimen for allogeneic stem cell transplantation in adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
No full textThe choice of conditioning regimen before allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is important. We retrospectively compared outcomes of medium-dose VP-16/cyclophosphamide/total body irradiation (VP/CY/TBI) regimen and CY/TBI. Five hundred and twenty-nine patients (VP/CY/TBI: n = 35, CY/TBI: n = 494) who met all of the following criteria were compared: first time for SCT, aged 15-59 years; first or second complete remission at SCT; bone marrow or peripheral blood as stem cell source; and HLA phenotypically matched donor. Median age of the patients was 34 years, and patients who received VP/CY/TBI were younger (28 years vs. 34 years, P = 0.02). Cumulative incidences of relapse and non-relapse mortality (NRM) were higher for patients who received CY/TBI (P = 0.01 for relapse, P < 0.01 for NRM). After a median follow-up period of 36.9 months, 5-year overall survival (OS) rates were 82.2% in the VP/CY/TBI group and 55.2% in the CY/TBI group. OS, and disease-free survival (DFS) in the VP/CY/TBI group were shown to be significantly better by multivariate analysis [hazard ratio: 0.21 (95% confidence interval: 0.06-0.49) for DFS, hazard ratio: 0.25 (95% confidence interval: 0.08-0.59) for OS]. VP/CY/TBI was associated with a lower relapse rate and no increase in NRM, resulting in better survival than that in CY/TBI for adult ALL patients
A Recessive Lethal Gene, l-Cy, concealed in the Second Chromosome Balancer of Drosophila Melanogaster
No full textThe second chromosome balancer, SM 5[In(2(LR)SM 5)]Cy, has been used as a most useful tool to study the genetic variations in natural populations of Drosophila. melanogaster. The balancer suppresses recombination in almost whole region of the second chromosome since it has complicated inversions both in the right and left arms. It is lethal in the homozygous condition and it also has a dominant mutant, Cy, and several recessive mutations.Homozygous lethality has been explained by the presence of In(2 LR) or Cy itself. However, the cause of lethality is not necessarily clear. Recently, the author has found a recessive lethal gene in a natural population, which is allelic to these balancer chromosomes. In this short communication the author reports that the lethality of SM 5 chromosome in the homozygous condition is due to a recessive lethal gene, l-Cy (lethal Cy)
A Poetics of becoming: the mythography of Cy Twombly
No full textA Poetics of Becoming: The Mythography of Cy Twombly, centres upon Proteus, a painting made by the artist Cy Twombly in 1984. The chapter uses this particular work as a means of unpacking the artist's complex and manifold relationship with mythology. With regards to both the facture and the matiere of Proteus, the author argues that the visual poetics of the artist's work results from what is claimed to be the painting's "becoming
In-flight health monitoring of a subscale wing using a fiber Bragg grating sensor system
No full textIn this paper, fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) were applied to measure dynamic strains inside a subscale wing under real-time wind tunnel testing. Two re-coated FBGs were embedded in the wing skin. The FBG sensor system includes a wavelength swept fiber laser with a wavelength indicator and fast signal processing modules. The agreement among the three kinds of sensor inside the subscale wing (FBG, electric strain gauge and PZT sensor) was confirmed in the bench test. The optical fiber strain sensors had an excellent resolution (<5 muepsilon) in the time domain and could detect a frequency response up to 100 Hz. Through the wind tunnel test of the subscale smart wing, the flutter was experimentally detected using FBG sensors and their usefulness as an in-flight health monitoring system was demonstrated.
CY Students: Economic Desparity in the Formation of Racial Identity
No full textSubmitted by Tim McDonough ([email protected]) on 2008-06-04T19:31:37Z
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ResearchProcess.doc: 60416 bytes, checksum: f98f8ef8abb0cbe4ec2582240eee44d0 (MD5)This project investigates whether racial identity within the Korean international student community is influenced by factors that had lead them to study in the United States. The aspect of racial identity being investigated focuses on individual’s perception of acceptance into various social networks on the University of Illinois campus. The author seeks to answer the following questions: How do people define their identity? How does appearance, nationality, ethnicity, and environment affect identity? Why do some CY students socialize only with the CY social networks while other CY students extend into main stream American social networks? How does economics factor into racial identity and does the “Push-Pull theory of migration” influence identity?Made available in DSpace on 2008-06-04T19:31:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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A survey on modular vector fields and CY modular forms attached to Dwork family
No full textThis article aimes to give a survay of the works of the author on modular vector fields and Calabi-Yau (CY) modular forms attached to the Dwork family. It is mostly tried to be more objective and avoid technical details. For any positive integer , it is firstly introduced an enhanced moduli space of CY -folds arising from the Dwork family. It is observed that there exists a unique vector field in , known as modular vector field, whose solution components can be expressed as -expansions (Fourier series) with integer coefficients. We call these -expansions CY modular forms and it is verified that the space generated by them has a canonical -module structure which provides it with a Rankin-Cohen algebraic structure. All these concepts are explicitly established for .<br
The Cy Pres Doctrine in the United States: From Extreme Reluctance to Affirmative Action
No full textPerhaps no legal principle illustrates the use of Fourteenth Amendment equal protection jurisprudence more poignantly than the relatively obscure cy pres doctrine. The ancient doctrine which allowed both courts and the Crown in England to change trust purposes when the original trust purposes proved no longer viable was adopted belatedly, sporadically and partially by jurisdictions in the United States. In Part I, the author illustrates how the United States jurisdictions differ from England in the requirement for charitable intent. Earlier cases reveal the United States, unlike England, has resisted relaxation of the requirement. In Part II, the author uses the Restatement of Trusts to demonstrate further how the jurisdictions had developed differently at the mid-twentieth century point. In Part III, the author reports on the significant reforms in England and the corresponding, though halting, movement toward reform in the United States jurisdictions. In Part IV, the author describes the specific reform proposals in the United States proliferating since 1943. Finally, the author concludes that relaxation of cy pres doctrinal requirements is realized best by modest legislation and effective drafting
Applying the ICF-CY Framework to Children With Cleft Palate: Narrative Review of a Fresh Approach
No full textThe International Classification of Function, Disability and Health-Children and Youth Version (ICY-CY), (WHO, 2007) provides an important framework for the holistic consideration of children with communication disorders such as cleft lip and palate. It allows for understanding the effects of a cleft lip and palate on a child’s ability to communicate in structured and natural contexts, going beyond a focus on body structures and functions in order to examine the ways that environmental and personal factors influence the child. Over the years, a number of researchers have applied the ICF-CY framework to children with communication impairments such as speech sound disorders, language impairments, and stuttering. While there is an emerging body of research and literature on this topic, the ICF-CY does not yet appear to be widely applied clinically to children with cleft lip and palate. The aim of the study was to conduct a comprehensive narrative review of the application of the ICF-CY to children with cleft lip and palate, in order to illustrate its use in this population, to identify research needs, and to make recommendations for clinical application to assessment and intervention and integrating the ICF-CY in cleft palate curricula. A systematic search of the literature was conducted by following a specific search strategy and a systematized selection of publications for review to limit researcher bias. Computer searches of electronic data bases, as well as hand searches, were conducted to identify publications and sources that addressed the ICF-CY or ICF in children with cleft lip and palate. Publications and sources that met the inclusion criteria were selected for review. Each source was summarized according to the author(s) and publication year, and a qualitative description of each was made according to structured review procedures and templates. Applications of the specific ICF-CY components to children with cleft lip and palate were mapped, and recommendations for clinical application and future research were described. It is suggested that the ICF-CY framework should be included in cleft palate curricula to provide future speech-language pathologists with a holistic perspective on children with cleft lip and palate and to extend their thinking about the impact of speech impairment associated with cleft lip and palate. Training to adopt the ICF-CY framework will also facilitate collaborative interdisciplinary care of children with cleft lip and palate. Using the ICF-CY framework in the assessment of children in this population will focus intervention on the ultimate goal of improvement of the child\u27s ability to communicate in natural settings. This narrative review will also serve as the theoretical underpinning for a planned survey of the clinical assessment practices of speech-language pathologists treating children with cleft lip and palate
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