221 research outputs found
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body
No full textBook Review of Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body / Edited by Barbara Thompson.--ISBN: 978-0-295-98771-2. Reviewed by Megan Macken
Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics
No full textBook Review of Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics / Edited by Sarah Nuttall.--ISBN 0-8223-3918-8 (pa., alk. paper). Reviewed by Megan Macken
Walter Macken: Life in literature
No full textWalter Macken: Life in Literature introduces Walter Macken, a Galwegian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and children\u27s novelist, to an American audience in order to make his works better known. The themes in Macken\u27s novels show common elements among Irish authors. The use of the common man and the use of Ireland\u27s history are most prevalent in Irish literature. However, Macken\u27s use of autobiographical elements in the midst of his presentation of life in the West of Ireland, in many ways, sets him apart from the other Irish authors. Few have chronicled the lives of the farmers and the fishermen in the West. And even fewer could have done this in the manner Macken did because he was one of them; Walter Macken needs to be reconsidered within the pantheon of Irish authors
The Creation of the Tribal Nations of Oklahoma Metadata Database
No full textIn the closing discussions of last year's symposium the impromptu creation of the Metadata Justice Collective occurred. Those that volunteered to chair, Megan Macken, Lulu Zilinskas, and Kaitlyn Palone, met shortly thereafter about possible projects that could use collaborative work. Megan presented the idea to create a database of Oklahoma Tribal Nation preferred names. The speakers presented on how this work was accomplished, problems encountered, and plans for future
Review: Artist as Author: Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting
No full textBook review of Artist as Author: Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting by Christa Noel Robbins. University of Chicago Press, June 2021. 256 p. Ill. ISBN 9780226752952 (h/c), $45.00. Reviewed November 2021 by Heather Saunders, Dean of Libraries and Archives, Acadia University, [email protected]
Client Showcase: Privacy and Research Information Management Systems (Oklahoma State University) - NA User Meeting 2021
No full textOklahoma State University (OSU) recently adopted Symplectic Elements as a Research Information Management (RIM) System, which is being implemented and supported by the OSU Libraries. A defining factor in the decision making process for product selection was how each system addressed issues around privacy. In this presentation, Clarke and Megan review some of the central data privacy considerations at play in the adoption of RIM Systems at both the institutional and individual level.</p
DETERMINATION OF 8--15 MICRON SIMULTANEOUS TRANSITION STABILITY UTILIZING REAL TIME VISIBLE DISPLAY IR DETECTION
No full textJ. E. Kiefer, A. Yariv, Appl. Phys. Letters 15, 26 (1969) J. A. Birken, R. G. Seed, J. A. Macken, to be published. J. A. Birken, R. G. Seed, J. A. Macken, Laser Session---this symposium. W. S. Benedict, private communication.""Author Institution:IR detection by thermal quenching of ultraviolet excited phosphorescent screens provides a visible of the quenching radiation’s spatial distribution and termporal continuity. By dispersing the IR beam onto the screen, the grating wavelength dependent function determines the line’s visible screen location. An axis on the screen can be directly calibrated in wavelength for convenient employment. Such a technique allows simultaneous observation of all IR transitions occuring within the frequency range of the instrument during the relaxation time of the screen. A concentric plasma laser cavity provides isolated multiline transitions from different vibrational bands of the lasing With , isolated multiline transitions have been produced from 8--15 microns---see figure . Understanding the mechanism producing this required spectral/temporal continuity measurement. Whether the observed broadband multiline emission is truly or quasi continuous---as certain dynamic theory suggests---has been determined. A number of lasers appearing to possess a stable single line have been found to emit primarily on this line with wandering to other lines for short durations. Such a technique has proven itself extremely convenient and valuable in these quarters. Efforts are underway to increase the intensity resolution and extend the operating range from 3--30 microns
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