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An Interview with Tony David Sampson: Author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
No full textTony D. Sampson is Reader in Digital Culture and Communication in the School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI) at the University of East London, where he directs the EmotionUX lab, supervising research on the cognitive, emotional, and affective aspects of user experience. In 2013, he co-founded Club Critical Theory, an organization dedicated to the application of critical theory in everyday life in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Tony is the author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks and The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Neuroculture, both from the University of Minnesota Press. He blogs at viralcontagion.wordpress.com.
The editors of this special NANO issue are delighted to have the opportunity to talk with Tony about how his work touches on issues of imitation and contagion—a loaded term unpacked within his 2012 book
The long hand of the small RNAs reaches into several levels of gene regulation.
No full textSmall RNA molecules such as siRNAs and miRNAs represent a new class of molecules that have been implicated in a wide range of diverse gene silencing phenomena. It is now becoming clear that these two similar molecules share several common features in both their biogenesis and their mechanism of action. Thus, the siRNA and miRNA pathways may have evolved from a common ancestral mechanism that has diverged to play important roles in developmental regulation, genomic organisation, and cellular defence against foreign nucleic acids
The Dedication of the Nolan Engineering Center
No full textBrother Tony Pisano was the Master of Ceremonies for the dedication of the Nolan Engineering Center. Sharing the dais were alumnus and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dick Gadomski, and guest speaker and Federal Express CEO, Fred Smith
Disruption of aminergic signalling reveals novel compounds with distinct inhibitory effects on mosquito reproduction, locomotor function and survival
Full text linkInsecticide resistance amongst disease vectors is a growing problem and novel compounds are needed. Biogenic amines are important for neurotransmission and we have recently shown a potential role for these in mosquito fertility. Here, we dissected the relative contribution of different aminergic signalling pathways to biological processes essential for vectorial capacity such as fertility, locomotion and survival by injecting agonists and antagonists and showed that octopaminergic/tyraminergic signalling is essential for oviposition and hatching rate. We show that egg melanisation is regulated by adrenergic signalling, whose disruption causes premature melanisation specifically through the action of tyramine. In addition to this, co-injection of tyramine with DOPA, the precursor of melanin, had a strong cumulative negative effect on mosquito locomotion and survival. Dopaminergic and serotonergic antagonists such as amitriptyline and citalopram recapitulate this effect. Together these results reveal potential new target sites for the development of future mosquito sterilants and insecticides
Tony Tulathimutte: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection. A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he’s received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and has written for The Paris Review, N+1, The New York Times, Playboy, The Nation, and others. He also runs CRIT, a writing class in Brooklyn
Homology effects in Neurospora crassa
No full textIt has become clear in the past few years that eukaryotic organisms possess different genetic systems to counter viruses, transposons and other repeated elements such as transgenes that could otherwise accumulate in the genome. In addition to serving as a model organism for genetic, biochemical and molecular studies, Neurospora crassa has proved to be a paradigm for the study of gene-silencing mechanisms. Indeed, its genome can be protected from expansion of selfish nucleic acids by a variety of mechanisms that inactivate duplicated sequences. Studies of these mechanisms have made a fundamental contribution to the understanding of the gene-silencing field. © 2005 Federation of European Microbiological Societies Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved
Tokyo Burning Interview with Tony Barnstone
No full textInterview with Tony Barnstone about adapting his poetry to music. Tokyo\u27s Burning is a CD that tells history from the inside, telling stories of the Pacific theater of WWII not from the God\u27s eye view but from the points of view of American and Japanese civilians and soldiers who lived and suffered through Pearl Harbor and Iwo Jima, the firebombing of Tokyo and the atom bomb drop on Hiroshima. Songs in the CD are based upon 15 years of research into the Pacific theater of WWII by Tony Barnstone—poet, author, and professor at Whittier College in Los Angeles. Tony worked with oral histories, histories, diaries, letters, and memoirs, and did his own interviews with vets and their families to write a book of poems titled Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki (BkMk Press, 2009). Though many of the songs deal with atrocity—sex slavery, torture, internment camps, even cannibalism—the CD itself is meant to take a neutral stance, allowing each character to speak his or her view, without judgment, assuming that the readers will find their own moral paths through these competing voices and viewpoints. As one character says, Seems everyone has a point of view, but no one has perspective. L.A.-based songwriters John Clinebell and Ariana Hall, who work together under the name Genuine Brandish, were commissioned by Tony to work with him to translate his book into 15 songs (with the essential help of producer Andrew Bush). What if history had a human face? What if the people who lived history could speak to it? This CD is an attempt to amplify the smaller voices, the human voices, of those who lived through the war and help them to sing history to us
The Medium - scene from opera - Mr. and Mrs. Gabineau and Mrs. Nolan
No full textTony Oliva as Mr. Gabineau, Anne Jameson as Mrs. Gabineau, and Margaret Gurley as Mrs. Nolan in UNM Opera Workshop's production of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium
Tony Ardizzone, 3rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textFrom the training grounds of Chicago and Bowling Green, Tony Ardizzone serves as running guard for the creative writing program at ODU. Author of a novel ( In the Name of the Father ) and a collection of short stories ( Idling ), he is also the editor of Intro, an annual journal of the best writing from college workshops around the country. In a nearly completed accompanying volume to In the Name of the Father, Ardizzone traces the route by which the character Vito Scaparelli reaches Vietnam. Ardizzone has published 15 short stories in distinguished fiction quarterlies. He believes that the writing of fiction is the crafting of interiorized drama
Improving urban planning: the case of New South Wales. by Tony Sorensen
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tag=10 data=The NSW Department of Planning is proposing changes to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act. The author reviews the proposals and highlights the difficulties of making urban planning efficient and equitable.
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tag=13 data=CABThe NSW Department of Planning is proposing changes to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act. The author reviews the proposals and highlights the difficulties of making urban planning efficient and equitable
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