1,088 research outputs found
Homegoing Celebration and Life's Blessed Memory of Bro. Lester Dennis Thompson
No full textFuneral program for Bro. Lester Dennis Thompson, born January 14, 1947 and died April 28, 2006. The funeral was held May 4, 2006 at West End Missionary Baptist Church, officiated by Dr. A. B. Devers. Funeral arrangements were made through the Lewis Funeral Home, and he was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery near San Antonio, Texas
Finite Element Modeling of Multi-Scale Thermal Contact Resistance
No full textThe author would like to thank Prof. Alexander H. Slocum for his advice, support and many conversations about this work; Dr. John M. Thompson for his collaboration in developing the post-processing tools and surface importation methods used in this work; Karta Khalsa from Zygo, Inc. for his collaboration in developing the surface data translation tool used in this work; ANSYS, Inc. for donating the software used in this work; and Berk Yesin and ABB, Ltd. for their support of this work
Quasi-market irrationaltiy in welfare servicing: The case of remote indigenous housing
No full textThough economically-rationalist belief systems seem less invasive than they were in the 1990s, market and quasi-market ideology is still being applied as a strategy for improving the outcomes of welfare programs. The following discussion examines remote Northern Territory (NT) Indigenous housing provision as a case study of the potential irrationality of using quasi-markets within social intervention strategy. This case study is a generalizeable example of ideology-based quasi-market provision. Thus the discussion concludes by considering implications associated with private sector participation in social intervention, and explores a better way to conceptualize and deal with problematic policies. The study incorporates a brief historical foray into the terminology and quasi-market assumptions which underpin the logic of NT social intervention strategy. The examination reflects on the nature of Indigenous living conditions; the intentions of government intervention; the interpretation and logic of these intentions and the consequent processes of intervention. It is assumed that such reflections are essential to the formation of good policy and that insights into existing policy are possible if this logical process is used. Thus the discussion commences with an examination of Indigenous living conditions intervention in its historical context, and then it reflects on the intentions of this intervention. It hinges on a re-examination of human need as the focus of existing and future policy development
Roger and Carol V. Thompson Sheldon
No full textDr. Roger Sheldon ‘64 is a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His postgraduate training included a residency in pediatrics in Boston and fellowships in pediatric pulmonology and neonatal-perinatal medicine in Denver. Joining the CU faculty in 1976, he established one of the nation’s first neonatal nurse practitioner programs at St. Joseph Hospital in Denver and later led the neonatal section and NICU at the University of Oklahoma before serving 21 years as assistant dean for Continuing Medical Education. Additionally, he served as both assistant medical director of Heartland Health Plan and medical director of the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma. During his Wesleyan years, Dr. Sheldon was president of the Student Senate, as well as a member of the marching band, the Collegiate Choir, the Apollo Quartet, Blue Key, and Phi Kappa Phi. Since retirement, Roger has devoted time to child advocacy, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center at the University of Minnesota, and Doctors for Early Childhood. Dr. Sheldon and his wife of 57 years, Dr. Carol V. Thompson Sheldon, have two children and six grandchildren. Son Christopher Sheldon is a history, theater, and speech teacher in Massachusetts, and daughter Dr. Rebecca Ansari is a retired emergency physician and an author in Minnesota. Dr. Sheldon’s brother, Mark Sheldon ‘70, was Student Senate president during his time at Wesleyan, and their mother and father, Helen McNicol Sheldon ’40 and Chet Sheldon ‘43, won the IWU Alumni Loyalty Award in 2009. Dr. Sheldon attended his first IWU class at three or four weeks of age in a bassinet carried by his father.
Dr. Carol V. Thompson Sheldon \u2765 graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1965 with a BS in mathematics. During her Wesleyan years, Dr. Sheldon served as Kappa Kappa Gamma scholarship chairman and vice president, IWU Dad’s Day chairman, and Student Senate secretary. She was a member of Beta Beta Beta, Alpha Lambda Delta, Green Medallion, Egas, and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. After college, Carol worked in computer programming and systems analysis at Chicago’s Illinois Bell Telephone and then at Boston Children’s Hospital. She tutored an immigrant child for Hull House in Chicago and was foster mother to five-year-old Joey in Boston. Dr. Sheldon never gave up her dream of becoming a physician and in 1979, after having two children, she received her MD degree from the University of Colorado. In 1983 she completed a residency in diagnostic radiology from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Sheldon was the first woman to chair the Radiology Department and the first woman to serve as President of the Central Oklahoma Radiological Society. In 1998 she subspecialized in breast diagnosis, first at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, and then working with two other women to cofound Breast Imaging of Oklahoma, where she practiced until her retirement in 2010. Since retirement and a move to Minneapolis, Dr. Sheldon has served as president of the Minneapolis branch of the American Association of University Women, a chapter of roughly 350 members. The group’s mission is equity for women and girls, supporting college scholarships to nine Minneapolis High School graduates each year, as well as providing food, clothing, and transitional housing to surrounding neighborhoods.https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/awards_distinguished/1096/thumbnail.jp
Ingestion of Amniotic Fluid Enhances\ud Opiate Analgesia in Rats
No full textPlacenta ingestion has recently been shown to enhance opiate-mediated analgesia produced by morphine injection, footshock, or vaginal/cervical stimulation. The enhancement of the effect of endogenous opiates (especially analgesia) may be one of the principal benefits to mammalian mothers of placentophagia at delivery. During labor and delivery, however, mothers also ingest amniotic fluid (AF) which, unlike placenta, becomes available during, or even before expulsion of the infant. The present experiments were undertaken to determine (a) whether AF ingestion, too, enhances analgesia; if so, (b) whether the effect requires ingestion of, or merely exposure to, AF; (c) whether the effect can be produced by AF delivered directly to the stomach by tube; and (d) whether the enhancement, if it exists, can be blocked by administering an opiate antagonist. Nulliparous Long-Evans rats were tested for analgesia using tail-flick latency. We found that (a) rats that ingested AF after receiving a morphine injection showed significantly more analgesia than did rats that ingested a control substance;' (b) AF ingestion, alone, did not produce analgesia; (c) ingestion of AF, rather than just smelling and seeing it, was necessary to produce analgesia enhancement; (d) AF produced enhancement\ud
when oropharyngeal factors were eliminated by delivering it through an orogastric tube; and (e) treatment of the rats with naltrexone blocked the enhancement of morphine-induced analgesia that results from AF ingestion
Politics and Elections with Dr. Larry Jacobs
No full textDr. Lawrence Jacobs, the Walter F. Mondale Chair of Political Studies at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and author of Fed Power: How Finance Wins, discusses teaching with Walter Mondale, national politics, and preparing a new generation of election officials for their work. Adam Thompson (WSU Student Senator) is the moderator along with coordinators Dr. Kara Lindaman and Kendall Larson. [season 1, episode 3]https://openriver.winona.edu/athenaeum/1016/thumbnail.jp
Excerpts from the author\u27s book Moxie: Maine in a Bottle , about Moxie soda, cr
No full textExcerpts from the author\u27s book Moxie: Maine in a Bottle , about Moxie soda, created by Dr. Augustin Thompson of Union in the late 1800s and named Maine\u27s official soft drink in 2005
Roots, Routes, and Reckonings: On Blackness and Belonging in North America
No full textDr. Debra Thompson is a leading scholar of the comparative politics of race, with teaching and research interests that focus on the relationships among race, the state and inequality in democratic societies. She is the author of The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging in North America (Simon & Schuster, 2022), finalist for the Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize for Nonfiction. This lecture discusses her new book on histories and experiences of Blackness in Canada and the USA.Lansdowne Lecture SeriesFacultyUnreviewe
Come, Lord Jesus: An Advent/Christmas Sermon Series
No full textIn this Concordia Theology interview, Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Director of Concordia Theology Dr. Erik Herrmann delves in the 2019 Advent/Christmas Sermon Series with its author, Dr. W. Mart Thompson, associate professor of Practical Theology. “Come, Lord Jesus: An Advent/Christmas Sermon Series” published by Concordia Seminary Press is available for download at Come, Lord Jesus. “Come, Lord Jesus” includes sermons for Advent and Christmas suitable for midweek or Sunday services, as well as worship helps and resources for a program of household daily devotions. Included is a reproducible daily devotion outline that congregations can make available to individuals and families. Learn more at Concordia Theology.https://scholar.csl.edu/spsermonseries/1014/thumbnail.jp
First person – Luke Thompson
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First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Luke Thompson is the first author on ‘Neurochondrin interacts with the SMN protein suggesting a novel mechanism for spinal muscular atrophy pathology’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Luke conducted the research in this article while a PhD student in the lab of Dr Judith Sleeman at the University of St Andrews, UK. He will be joining Prof. Elliot Androphy's lab group at Indiana University, USA, as a postdoctoral fellow, investigating the role of the coatomer proteins and associated factors in neuronal function.</jats:p
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