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    Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek

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    This addition to Rodopi Presss Dialogue Series presents a collection of essays solely dedicated to Woman Hollering Creek (1991), Sandra Cisneross groundbreaking collection of short fiction stories and sketches. The emerging and veteran scholars who have.Intro -- SANDRA CISNEROS'S Woman Hollering Creek -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- I. Negotiating Borders: Issues of Sociocultural Cooptation -- Amphibious Women: The Complexity of Class in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- So You'll Know Who I Am: Inventory and Identity in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- The Chicana Trinity: Maternal Mestiza Consciousness in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- II. Toys, Tiny Candies, and Telenovelas: Popular and Material Culture as Storytelling Agents -- Male and Female Roles in Mexican-American Society: Issues of Domestic Violence in "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Reading the Puns in "Barbie-Q" -- The Gummy Bears Speak: Articulating Identity in Sandra Cisneros's "Never Marry a Mexican" -- Author Dialogue -- III. Images of Masculinity -- "Are you my general?": Revising Representation in "Eyes of Zapata" -- Boys to Men: Redefining Masculinities in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- IV. Images of Women: Role Expectations and Conflict -- Resemantization of Chicana Motherhood and Sexuality Through the Virgin of Guadalupe -- The Cries of La Llorona: Maternal Agency in "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Voicing Taboos in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- About the Authors -- IndexThis addition to Rodopi Presss Dialogue Series presents a collection of essays solely dedicated to Woman Hollering Creek (1991), Sandra Cisneross groundbreaking collection of short fiction stories and sketches. The emerging and veteran scholars who have.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

    UBC's Humanities 101 Program - Interview with Sandra Delorme

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    Childhood educational shortcomings didn't stop Sandra Delorme from becoming a published author later in life. She credits UBC's Humanities 101 program (but deserves most of the credit herself)

    Combining dependency parsing with PP attachment

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    Prepositional phrase (PP) attachment is one of the major sources for errors in traditional statistical parsers. The reason for that lies in the type of information necessary for resolving structural ambiguities. For parsing, it is assumed that distributional information of parts-of-speech and phrases is sufficient for disambiguation. For PP attachment, in contrast, lexical information is needed. The problem of PP attachment has sparked much interest ever since Hindle and Rooth (1993) formulated the problem in a way that can be easily handled by machine learning approaches: In their approach, PP attachment is reduced to the decision between noun and verb attachment; and the relevant information is reduced to the two possible attachment sites (the noun and the verb) and the preposition of the PP. Brill and Resnik (1994) extended the feature set to the now standard 4-tupel also containing the noun inside the PP. Among many publications on the problem of PP attachment, Volk (2001; 2002) describes the only system for German. He uses a combination of supervised and unsupervised methods. The supervised method is based on the back-off model by Collins and Brooks (1995), the unsupervised part consists of heuristics such as ”If there is a support verb construction present, choose verb attachment”. Volk trains his back-off model on the Negra treebank (Skut et al., 1998) and extracts frequencies for the heuristics from the ”Computerzeitung”. The latter also serves as test data set. Consequently, it is difficult to compare Volk’s results to other results for German, including the results presented here, since not only he uses a combination of supervised and unsupervised learning, but he also performs domain adaptation. Most of the researchers working on PP attachment seem to be satisfied with a PP attachment system; we have found hardly any work on integrating the results of such approaches into actual parsers. The only exceptions are Mehl et al. (1998) and Foth and Menzel (2006), both working with German data. Mehl et al. report a slight improvement of PP attachment from 475 correct PPs out of 681 PPs for the original parser to 481 PPs. Foth and Menzel report an improvement of overall accuracy from 90.7% to 92.2%. Both integrate statistical attachment preferences into a parser. First, we will investigate whether dependency parsing, which generally uses lexical information, shows the same performance on PP attachment as an independent PP attachment classifier does. Then we will investigate an approach that allows the integration of PP attachment information into the output of a parser without having to modify the parser: The results of an independent PP attachment classifier are integrated into the parse of a dependency parser for German in a postprocessing step

    Oral History Interview: Sandra Peterson

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    This interview is one of a series conducted with former employees of the Huntington Owens-Illinois, Inc. glass bottle factory. Ms. Sandra Peterson, born July 30, 1941, worked at the Owens glass plant for twenty-eight years as the Personnel secretary. In this interview, Ms. Peterson discusses the details of her job, company-sponsored activities, worker-management relations, and the many changes which occurred over the years with both management and technology. Ms. Peterson talks about the many friends she made at the factory and the difficulty and sadness of the final months at work before the plant shut down. Ms. Peterson was laid off when the plant closed in December of 1993.https://mds.marshall.edu/oral_history/1409/thumbnail.jp

    The Importance of Wishes: An Interview with Author Sandra Magsamen

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    Children’s author and illustrator Sandra Magsamen holds a beloved place in the hearts of library professionals who know the impact and power of her loving board and picture books. As the author and illustrator of more than sixty children’s and adult books, Magsamen, trained as an art therapist, hopes to create books that offer people a way to reach out and connect in a meaningful and expressive way with someone in their life, and indeed she accomplishes this with her endearing new release, I Wish Wish Wish for You

    Polluting Medical Judgment? False Assumptions in the Pursuit of False Claims Regarding Off-Label Prescribing

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    Johnson, Sandra H.. (2007). Polluting Medical Judgment? False Assumptions in the Pursuit of False Claims Regarding Off-Label Prescribing. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/155624

    Author Meets Critics: Sandra Braman

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    The publication of Sandra Braman’s Change of State signals the importance of the topic of information policy to the field of information studies. It also illustrates both the power and necessity of the kind of inter-disciplinary analysis that characterizes the field. This panel will provide an opportunity for both structured debate and lively discussion around Change of State and the important arguments it contains. Perhaps the most important one that it makes is that “trends in information policy both manifest and trigger change in the nature of governance itself.” That is, Braman points to how information flows have radically altered the nature of the traditional nation-state and its ability to exercise power (or fails to, as the case may be). Because of i-Schools’ strong connections with the professional world of information institutions, it is particularly important for graduates to understand the far-reaching implications of this argument. On a practical level, graduates need to become conversant with both the varied manifestations of information policy, and the mechanisms by which such policy is enacted. Change of State provides a highly useful synthesis of all the major debates in the field of information policy (including identity, immigration, innovation policy, etc.), organizing them into a comprehensive analytical framework, along with extensive bibliographic essays. The format of this session will involve each speaker presenting a 15 minute paper which will discuss Change of State from their own disciplinary perspective. Prof. Braman will then respond to the papers. The presentations will be followed by a question and answer period with the audience. The goal is to offer both structured debate around key arguments presented in the book, while offering an opportunity for the audience to interact with the speakers. The speakers are all leaders in the field, well-informed of Dr. Braman’s work, and chosen with the goal of maximizing disciplinary perspectives (Lievrouw: communication policy; Mueller: political science; Jackson: science and technology studies).Submitted by Heekyung Choi ([email protected]) on 2010-03-11T15:43:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 WC2_iconf08.doc: 30720 bytes, checksum: d09645278c62b44efffefccf4a01bae8 (MD5)Made available in DSpace on 2010-03-11T15:43:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WC2_iconf08.doc: 30720 bytes, checksum: d09645278c62b44efffefccf4a01bae8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-02-2

    First person – Sandra Vidak

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    ABSTRACT 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. Sandra Vidak is the first author on ‘Nucleoplasmic lamins define growth-regulating functions of lamina-associated polypeptide 2α in progeria cells’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Sandra Vidak is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Tom Misteli at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, investigating how the impairment of protein quality control mechanisms contributes to the progression of the premature ageing disease Hutchinson–Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS).</jats:p

    Off-targets analysis of sgRNAs.

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    Surveyor analysis of the top 5 predicted off-targets for each sgRNA used. Panel shows amplified sequence of target and 3 representative off-targets, non-treated and treated with T7 endonuclease I. Digestion reveals genome edition (red asterisk) when the off-target sequence carries some mutations. Table shows overall results from all off-targets analyzed. No differences were observed in number of edited off-targets by IE-sgRNAs compared with SDE-sgRNAs (Chi-square test P = 0.751 n.s.).</p
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