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21st-century scholarship and Wikipedia
Full text linkWikipedia, the world’s fifth most-used Web site, is a good illustration of the growing credibility of online resources. In his article in Ariadne earlier this year, “Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Academic Acceptance”, Brian Whalley described the debates around accuracy and review, in the context of geology. He concluded that ‘If Wikipedia is the first port of call, as it already seems to be, for information requirement traffic, then there is a commitment to build on Open Educational Resources (OERs) of various kinds and improve their quality.’ In a similar approach to the Geological Society event that Whalley describes, Sarah Fahmy of JISC worked with Wikimedia and the British Library on a World War One (WWI) Editathon. There is a rich discourse about the way that academics relate to Wikipedia
Dawn, Amber
No full textcurrentMFA, BA (UBC)
Amber Dawn is the author of four books and the editor of three anthologies. Her debut novel Sub Rosa (2010) won the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction and the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize. Her memoir How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir (2013) won the Vancouver Book Award. Her poetry collection Where the words end and my body begins (2015) was a finalist for BC Book Award’s Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her sophomore novel Sodom Road Exit (2018) was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Family History of Amber Ball
Full text linkAmber Renee Ball authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Spring 2020 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
Supplemental material for this article is available online.
No full textSupplemental Material for Love in the Time of War: Identifying Neighborhood-level Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence from a Longitudinal Study in Refugee-hosting Communities by Sarah Treves-Kagan, Amber Peterman, Nisha C. Gottfredson, Andrés Villaveces, Kathryn E. Moracco, and Suzanne Maman, in Journal of Interpersonal Violence</p
My art is killing me, and other poems
No full textShort-listed, Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes (BC and Yukon Book Prizes) 2021.In her novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femme sexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes drawn from her own lived experience and revealed most notably in her award-winning memoir "How Poetry Saved My Life". In this, her second poetry collection, Amber Dawn takes stock of the costs of coming out on the page in a heartrendingly honest and intimate investigation of the toll that artmaking takes on artists. These long poems offer difficult truths within their intricate narratives that are alternately incendiary, tender, and rapturous. In a cultural era when intersectional and marginalized writers are topping bestseller lists, Amber Dawn invites her readers to take an unflinching look at what we expect from writers, and from each other. Includes a foreword by writer Doretta Lau. --From publisher description.poetrywomen's literatureLGBTQ+lesbian literatur
ozbayb/amber: AMBER v1.0 release for multiphoton fiber bundle imaging
No full textAMBER V1.0
<p><strong>Artefactual Multiphoton Bundle Effect Removal</strong></p>
Description
<p>This release is a collection of functions and an example of a main program that is intended for the use of removing an artifact caused by performing multiphoton imaging through a coherent imaging fiber bundle. Some of the code may need to be modified to be compatible with specific file types for the image stacks. Also required is a "Flat" image, which is a multiphoton image of a flat fluorescent sample through the fiber-bundle acquired under the same conditions as the actual image data stacks to be fixed. The individual image stacks may be time series or Z-stacks and may be a field-of-view smaller than the full surface of the fiber-bundle. A simple rigid registration code allows the centroid locations identified in the flat image to be registered onto the image data.</p>
List of functions:
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<li>centerPadCrop: Performs a simple central crop</li>
<li>filterValSeries: Temporal/axial filter on each core independently</li>
<li>getCentroidValues: Extracts the values of the cores at the identified centroids</li>
<li>getCorrectorValues: Acquires the correction factors for each core from the flat image</li>
<li>getFiberCentroids: Finds the centroid pixel coordinates for each fiber core</li>
<li>getParameter: Extract specific data from a *.txt file containing imaging metadata</li>
<li>gridFiberCores: Interpolates the core centroids into a uniform pixel grid</li>
<li>makeFiberImage: Uses the centroid locations and values to recreate the fiber images</li>
<li>rigidAlignFiber: Performs a rigid registration of the flat fiber centroids to the actual image field</li>
<li>writeFiberImages: Writes the processed image files to *.tif with metadata (using Bioformats toolbox)</li>
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<p>Author: Baris N. Ozbay, University of Colorado Denver, Department of Bioengineering</p>
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