828 research outputs found
The Beckerman Twins: Fashion’s Social Media Superstars
No full textFIT welcomes the charismatic Canadian bloggers/fashion influencers The Beckerman Twins back to their alma mater to talk about how branding and marketing intersect with front-row fashion show glamour. Sam and Caillianne Beckerman are the outrageous identical twins behind Beckerman Blog. Dubbed “human glitter” by The New York Times, they are celebrated for their brazen sense of style. Their energy and interest in fashion, style, and beauty has made them fixtures on the street style scene.With a following that includes celebrities, musicians, and fashion’s elite, the Beckermans have collaborated with Kenzo, Disney, Apple, H&M, Versace, Chanel and more. The two FIT graduates also starred in a fashion documentary with National Geographic and were recently recognized as the Best Digital Influencers in Canada at the CAFA Awards. The duo lives in Toronto, but are often in both Los Angeles and New York City.Alex Joseph, managing editor of Hue magazine will moderate the discussion with the Beckermans; a Q&A will follow. This event is co-sponsored by International Student Services and the Office of International Programs
OpenFest 2023 Sheffield Showcase session recording: Keynote 2 - Andrew Beckerman (University of Sheffield), The Central Role of Being Nice in Open Science
No full textRecording of the second keynote from the OpenFest 2023 Sheffield Showcase', which took place on 6 September 2023 and which brought together researchers from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University to discuss open research practice:Andrew Beckerman (University of Sheffield), The Central Role of Being Nice in Open ScienceProfessor Beckerman has been an Editor-in-Chief for more than 10 years at a large Open Access Journal and collaborates with a PhD student focusing on barriers and opportunities in Open Research, Open Data and Open Access. Here, he'll focus on how being nice - as a scientist, author, referee, Associate Editor, Editor and even Publisher, can go a long way towards accelerating the benefits of OR/OD and OA.Andrew Beckerman is Professor in Evolutionary Ecology in the School of Biosciences at the University of Sheffield. He is also the editor in chief for Ecology and Evolution and a member of the Board of Directors at Dryad. His work addresses the structure, complexity and dynamics of food webs, using optimal foraging theory to define the rules linking predators and prey and predicting the impacts of multiple simultaneous threats to ecosystems.</p
Dollarization and semi-dollarization in Ecuador
No full textOver the 1980s and 1990s, GDP growth had stagnated because of oil export price volatility and natural disasters, the sacrifice of capital formation to heavy external public debt service, and incomplete and uneven structural reform. The exchange rate depreciation that proved continually necessary to sustain the net-export surplus and limit external debt accumulation induced Ecuadorians to dollarize spontaneously. The 1998 shocks affected real economic activity--hence bank loan portfolios, and widened the fiscal and current acccount deficits. The external imbalance led to exchange rate depreciation. Dollar-denominated bank loans whose borrowers lacked dollar income increasingly turned non-performing. At the same time, the depreciation swelled the locla currency value of dollar deposit liabilities. Many depositors, fearing that banks had become unsafe, withdrew, and over 1999 the Central Bank had to provide banks massive liquidity support. By year's end, the resulting monetary issue ledto the exchange rate collapse and incipient hyperinflation that forced the move to full dollarization. Ecuador's Central Bank will continue operating, using its foreign exchange holdings to carry out limited liquidity management and lender-of-last-resort activities. Ecuador's public accounts and banking system remain vulnerable to commodity-price and natural shocks. Exchange rate adjustment and monetary expansion are no longer available, however, to manage the external accounts, accommodate the public deficit, or assist failing banks. Further structural reform remains essential to assure fiscal discipline and banking system safety.Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Environmental Economics&Policies,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Economic Theory&Research,Banks&Banking Reform,Environmental Economics&Policies,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Financial Intermediation
Molecular and Cellular Signaling
No full textA small number of signaling pathways, no more than a dozen or so, form a control layer that is responsible for all signaling in and between cells of the human body. The signaling proteins belonging to the control layer determine what kinds of cells are made during development and how they function during adult life. Malfunctions in the proteins belonging to the control layer are responsible for a host of human diseases ranging from neurological disorders to cancers. Most drugs target components in the control layer, and difficulties in drug design are intimately related to the architecture of the control layer. Molecular and Cellular Signaling provides an introduction to molecular and cellular signaling in biological systems with an emphasis on the underlying physical principles. The text is aimed at upper-level undergraduates, graduate students and individuals in medicine and pharmacology interested in broadening their understanding of how cells regulate and coordinate their core activities and how diseases arise when these regulatory systems malfunction, as well as those in chemistry, physics and computer science interested in pursuing careers in biological and medical physics, bioinformatics and systems biology. To that end, the book includes background information and review sections, and chapters on signaling in the immune, endocrine (hormonal) and nervous systems. It has chapters on cancer, apoptosis and gene regulation, and contains chapters on bacteria and viruses. In those chapters not specifically devoted to pathogens, connections between diseases, drugs and signaling are made. Each chapter also features a problem set to facilitate further discussion and understanding. About the Author: Martin Beckerman, Ph.D. is Senior Scientist at the Center forMartin Beckerman, PhD, is a senior research scientist at the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN. Prior to assuming his current position at the Y-12 NSC, Dr. Beckerman held teaching and research positions at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the University of Rochester, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has authored over 130 publications and has been included in 1400 citations
Novos aspectos da patogenicidade de Magnaporthe grisea.
No full textO principal objetivo deste estudo foi identificar e analisar o papel que o gene PTH1 exerce na formação e maturação do apressório em M. grisea. Isolados de M. grisea mutantes (denominado pth1) para o gene PTH1 são incapazes de perfurar o tecido do hospedeiro para dar início à colonização e assim estabelecer uma interação patógeno-hospedeiro
Extinction cascades, community collapse, and recovery across a Mesozoic hyperthermal event
No full textMass extinctions are considered to be quintessential examples of Court Jester drivers of macroevolution, whereby abiotic pressures drive a suite of extinctions leading to huge ecosystem changes across geological timescales. Most research on mass extinctions ignores species interactions and community structure, limiting inference about which and why species go extinct, and how Red Queen processes that link speciation to extinction rates affect the subsequent recovery of biodiversity, structure and function. Here, we apply network reconstruction, secondary extinction modelling and community structure analysis to the Early Toarcian (Lower Jurassic; 183 Ma) Extinction Event and recovery. We find that primary extinctions targeted towards infaunal guilds, which caused secondary extinction cascades to higher trophic levels, reproduce the empirical post-extinction community most accurately. We find that the extinction event caused a switch from a diverse community with high levels of functional redundancy to a less diverse, more densely connected community of generalists. Recovery was characterised by a return to pre-extinction levels of some elements of community structure and function prior to the recovery of biodiversity. Full ecosystem recovery took ~7 million years at which point we see evidence of dramatically increased vertical structure linked to the Mesozoic Marine Revolution and modern marine ecosystem structure
Corporations—Power of Corporate Officers to Institute Litigation
No full textRothman & Schneider, Inc. v. Beckerman, 2 N.Y.2d 493, 161 N.Y.S.2d 118 (1957)
Characterization of Morel (Morchella spp.) Diversity in Indiana
No full textCharacterizing morel (Morchella spp.) diversity is challenging due to the limitations in both morphological species recognition (MSR) and the single-locus internal transcribed spacer (ITS) barcoding methods for this genus. The lack of both micro- and macrophenotypically informative characters makes species identification difficult with morphological data alone, while the ITS locus underestimates Morchella diversity. As a result, the current standard for Morchella delimitation is through the phylogenetic species recognition (PSR) criteria using a multilocus molecular dataset. There are, however, many locations in which morel collections have not been assessed with the current recognition methods and criteria. To begin evaluating Morchella in Indiana, we collected 132 morels from six counties in 2013, 2014 and 2015. The PSR criteria were applied using loci previously identified as phylogenetically informative in combination with each other for this genus: partial elongation factor 1-alpha ( EF1-α); the second-largest RNA polymerase subunit ( RPB2); and nuclear ribosomal large subunit (LSU) 28S rDNA. Color variation was quantified for 78 of these morels by calculating the average Pantone color values of sporocarp pits and ridges in Photoshop. Our morel collections displayed tremendous color variability. Particularly, the color variability of M. americana sporocarp ridges ranged from (P–6–11–C) to (P–178–16–C) and pits ranged from (P–12–16–C) to (\u3e P–179–16–C). Visual color descriptions of this species are congruent with current reports; however, we have begun to improve the precision of numerically characterizing sporocarp colors. Phylogenetic analyses identified 98% of these morels (77/78) as M. americana, and one isolate as M. diminutiva . Over 94% (124/132) of our total collections were also identified as M. americana when analyzed with PSR criteria; the remaining morels were identified as M. diminutiva (n = 3) and M. punctipes (n = 5). Of the three loci evaluated, a partial fragment of EF1-α was the only locus to provide bootstrap support ≥ 72% for all but one node when used alone in phylogenetic reconstructions of the Morchella spp. known to this region. As a result, the EF1-α fragment was used as a single locus to expedite phylogenetic reconstructions for species identification in the later years of our collections. Our results describe the color variability among M. americana in a region where morel diversity has not been assessed, as well as methodologies to expedite phylogenetic species identification in our region using by using the EF1-α fragment as a sole locus
Three Sisters [program]
No full textRipa, Augustine; Francis, Drew; Kerr, Travis; Hoelscher, Erica; Prue, Thomas; Hunter, Nicole; Dugan, Leigh; Rowen, Bess; McLaren, Noël; Howe, Justin; Clark, Jerrod; Fabré, Paul G.; Jacobs, David; Lucas, Kareem M.; Dobson, Devin; Wassel, David; Syciarz, Tim; Beckerman, Michelle; Arroyo, Shanno
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