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Allen Gee oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Dr. Allen Gee, currently the Donald L. Jordan Endowed Professor of Creative Writing in Columbus State University, was born in 1962 in Astoria, a mixed ethnic neighborhood in Queens, New York. He grew up with a family background of restaurant owners (his grandfather) and laundry owners (his mother’s side), which are stereotypical Asian immigrant jobs. However, on the contrary, Gee’s father, who was an engineer, is not a stereotypical Asian in many ways. He founded the Gee Family Association and is a vocal, romantic, and unconventional person who doesn’t hold himself back, and is a life explorer. The family bond and mindset became a major component in Gee’s personal values. As an athlete in high school, Gee later became a voracious reader and writer in college. Throughout his career, he had a number of mentors, among which most notably, the late James Alan McPherson, who Gee is now the designated biographer for. He earned a BA in Secondary English Teaching at the University of New Hampshire. He studied for his MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he met McPherson. Gee earned his PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Houston. He is married to the novelist Renee Dodd, and has two daughters, Ashley and Willa. He’s the author of the essay collection, “My Chinese-America,” for which he was awarded the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award. He is currently completing a novel, “The Iron Road” that chronicles the lives of Chinese railroad workers building the Central Pacific Line in 1866; as well as "That Little Marcella", a novel; and “Multicultural Americana,” which is the working title for the upcoming collection of essays. Gee is planning to work for another 7 years until retirement at 65
GEE Model removing the co-linear effect of <i>Q</i><sub>1</sub>.
No full text<p>GEE Model removing the co-linear effect of <i>Q</i><sub>1</sub>.</p
Author and artist George Gee. Flutters from Side Street Volume One.
No full textIn 1992, George Gee and his wife Deborah Seaton opened Side Street Espresso, on G Street in downtown Anchorage. Soon the daily white boards for the cafe mirrored the intensity of contemporary American culture with social and political caricatures and commentary. Whereas George would erase each board at the end of the day, starting in 1997, he began to preserve the artwork, which resulted in the book, Flutters from Side Street: Volume One, Dry Erase Drawings, Social and Political Commentary, and Reflections From A Morning Walk To Work. The book is an amazing collection of dry erase drawings that highlight pieces of Anchorage and American history
The dynamics of O-2 adsorption on Pt(533): Step mediated molecular chemisorption and dissociation
No full textThe dissociative adsorption of oxygen on the stepped Pt(533) surface has been investigated using supersonic molecular beams by measuring the initial dissociative sticking probability S-0 as a function of incident kinetic energy E-i, angle Phi, surface temperature T-S, and S as a function of coverage Theta. By comparison with dynamical data available on the Pt(111) surface we have been able to establish that step sites dominate the dissociative adsorption process. S-0(E-i) for oxygen on Pt(533) at T-S=200 in the energy range 52 meV-1.4 eV shows a similar functional dependence to results on Pt(111), however, the magnitude of S-0 on Pt(533) is significantly greater at all energies. The measurement of S-0(Phi), scattering in a plane perpendicular to the step direction at E-i=1.18 eV at T-S=350 K, reveals a strong and asymmetric angular dependence which contains contributions associated with activated adsorption and dissociation of the chemisorbed precursor on the (111) terraces, and a second contribution associated with activated dissociation through a similar channel at the step sites. The latter exhibits a maximum in S-0(Phi) at 35 degrees, near the angle corresponding to the normal of the (100) step plane. S-0(T-S) at E-i=1.18 eV and Phi =0 degrees reveals a much smaller temperature dependence in the range 150 >T-S(K)> 800 on Pt(533) than on Pt(111). At E-i=1.18 eV and Phi =0 degrees ca. 15%-25% of dissociation takes place through molecules impinging directly at step sites. The remaining fraction dissociate through activated adsorption of the chemisorbed species on the (111) terrace and subsequent partition between desorption, and dissociation at step sites. Dissociation of the chemisorbed precursor on the (111) terrace appears highly activated, a result which is consistent with theory. The rapid decrease in S-0(E-i) observed below 0.15 eV on Pt(533), observed also on Pt(111), is consistent with a trapping mechanism where the need to dissipate energy limits the probability of adsorption, and subsequent dissociation, of the physisorbed precursor. Kinetic modelling of this partition on Pt(533), between the conversion of the physisorbed precursor to the chemisorbed species, and desorption yields DeltaE=120 meV and v(d)/v(pc)=80. We conclude that the effective barrier to conversion of the physisorbed to chemisorbed species on Pt(533) is effectively zero. We conclude that defects will tend to dominate this conversion process on the close packed surface. In addition to this channel, at E-i=0.05 meV ca. 50% of molecules dissociate through the same channel operating at higher energy on Pt(533)
The Q-Q plots for genome-wide p-values for phenotype left hippocampus volume from longitudinal analysis based on (a) GEE with the sandwich covariance estimator (left, inflation factor = 1.070), (b) GEE with the model-based covariance estimator (middle, inflation factor = 2.077), and (c) linear mixed model with only a random intercept term (right, inflation factor = 1.976).
No full text<p>The Q-Q plots for genome-wide p-values for phenotype left hippocampus volume from longitudinal analysis based on (a) GEE with the sandwich covariance estimator (left, inflation factor = 1.070), (b) GEE with the model-based covariance estimator (middle, inflation factor = 2.077), and (c) linear mixed model with only a random intercept term (right, inflation factor = 1.976).</p
Beyond the blue: the sorrowful joy of Gee
No full textBook synopsis: The relationship between writer and reader, an unnerving intimacy with a total stranger, remains mysterious. Writing, my body is the locus of illusions that for me, in that moment, are real: scenes, faces, landscapes, flash before my eyes as I record them. My web of words, by now drained of sound and colour, is transmitted to a publisher. (Maggie Gee, Foreword)
It is a risky business holding an academic conference, and publishing a collection of academic essays, on Maggie Gee. For Gee is a satirist of the most unflinching kind, and literary scholars and their conferences are mocked throughout her work. Take, for example, Gee's most recent novel, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014). Woolf – accidentally resurrected from the dead by contemporary writer Angela Lamb – learns that Angela is to attend a Woolf conference in Istanbul and is eager to go along with her. Angela has her doubts: 'I can hardly take her to her own conference', she writes to her daughter, Gerda; 'why not?,' thinks Gerda, in reply: 'Wouldn't it be helpful to have the actual writer telling all the academics and people like my mother where they are gong wrong? Surely it would be good for them' . Gee has a longstanding interest in the role of the author, since her doctoral thesis on self-conscious authors in Nabokov, Beckett and Woolf. Her first published novel Dying, in Other Words (1981), plays out that interest through fiction, in a postmodern self-conscious experimental reflection on the role of the author; her most recent novel addresses the same ideas through two author characters: the contemporary writer Angela Lamb, and the resurrected dead Woolf. This miraculous resurrection provides playful opportunity for further reflection on Roland Barthes's idea of 'the death of the author', a theoretical concept on which Gee wrote in her doctoral thesis.
Through our conversations with Gee – both at the conference and in correspondence throughout the years in which this collection has been brought together – we the editors, and our contributors, have no doubt that whilst an author may indeed not know everything about their work, the idea of intentionality is not entirely fallacious. Gee is a clever, careful writer, as well as a skilled scholar (even though she did not choose that path); she knows what she is doing when she is writing and she knows what she intends. At the same time, of course, she is under no illusion that when her fictional work ventures into the world, it will be interpreted in various and different ways
The role of steps in the dynamics of hydrogen dissociation on Pt(533)
No full textThe dissociative adsorption of H-2 and D-2 on Pt(533) (Pt{4(111)x(100)}) has been investigated using temperature programmed desorption and supersonic molecular beams. Associative desorption of D-2 from (100) step sites is observed at lowest exposures in TPD (assigned beta(3)) at 375 K. Saturation of this peak at Theta(H)=0.14 corresponds to the filling of half of the available four-fold sites at the (100) step edge. At higher coverages, additional desorption takes place from the (111) terraces in a broad peak below 300 K similar to that observed (assigned beta(1) and beta(2)) for the Pt(111) surface. The incident kinetic energy (E-i), surface temperature (T-s), coverage (Theta(D)), and incident angle (Phi) dependence of the dissociative sticking probability (S) was also measured. The initial dissociative sticking probability (S-0) first decreases with increasing kinetic energy over the range 0 < E-i(meV)< 150 (low energy component), and subsequently increases (high energy component). Comparison with D-2 dissociation on Pt(111), where (S-0) increases linearly with E-i, leads to the conclusion that it is the step sites that are responsible for the low energy component to dissociation on Pt(533). The high energy component is a result of a direct dissociation channel on (111) terraces of the Pt(533) surface. The probability of dissociation through the direct channel on the (111) terraces is found to be independent of T-s. The probability of dissociation through the low energy component associated with the (100) steps, over most of the range of E-i where it contributes, is also shown to be independent of T-s. Only at the very lowest value (6.6 meV) of E-i investigated does S-0 exhibit a (negative) temperature dependence. A (0.8-Theta(D))(2) dependence (where 0.8 is the measured saturation coverage) of S with Theta(D) is observed at E-i=180 meV where the direct channel dominates. However, the dependence of S on Theta(D) exhibits characteristics similar to those expected for precursor mediated dissociation at E-i=16 meV and E-i=6.6 meV where the low energy channel dominates. The angular dependence S-0(Phi) scattering in a plane perpendicular to the step direction is asymmetric about the Pt(533) surface normal at both E-i=6.6 meV and E-i=180 meV. At 180 meV S-0(Phi) can be understood by considering direct dissociation at the (111) terrace and (100) step plane. At 6.6 meV, S-0 tends to scale with total energy. The observed characteristics of the low energy channel is discussed in the light of models [specifically the role steps and defects, precursors (accommodated and dynamical), and steering] suggested to account for the low energy component for H-2/D-2 dissociation and exchange on metal surfaces presenting low activation barriers. At lowest energies (E-i=6.6 meV) dissociation through a conventional accommodated precursor takes place. In addition, more significant proportion of sticking in the range 0 < E-i(meV)< 150 takes place through an indirect channel involving an unaccommodated precursor dissociating at step sites, and is unlikely to be accounted for through a steering mechanism
Functions on Irreducible Components of the Emerton-Gee Stack
No full textLet be a finite unramified extension, and let denote the Emerton-Gee stack parametrizing étale -modules of rank . It is known since the work of Emerton-Gee that the irreducible components of the reduced special fiber of are labeled by Serre weights of . If such a component is denoted , we prove that when is sufficiently generic.Corrected an error in the proof of Theorem A.3.7 and made numerous minor change
Campanile Plaque for Edward Gee Miller
No full textA photo of a plaque for Edward Gee Miller 1840 - 1906 that reads Loyal citizen, ardent patriot, zealous ally of education, senator from Black Hawk County, 15th and 16th General Assemblies, author of bill passed, March 14th 1876, Establishing the Iowa State Normal School .https://scholarworks.uni.edu/uniphotos/2297/thumbnail.jp
Distributed Teaching and Learning in Pokémon Go
No full textabstract: This dissertation shares the results of a study of the community of the mobile augmented reality game Pokémon Go. It also serves to build on and expand the framework of Distributed Teaching and Learning (DTALS), which here is used as a framework through which to explore the game’s community (Gee & Gee, 2016; Holmes, Tran, & Gee, 2017). DTALS serves to expand on other models which examine learning in out-of-school contexts, and in particular on the connections between classroom and out-of-school learning, which numerous scholars argue is of critical importance (Sefton-Green, 2004; Vadeboncoeur, Kady-Rachid, & Moghtader, 2014). This framework serves to build bridges as well as fill gaps in some key literature on learning in out-of-school contexts, including connected learning (Ito et al., 2009), participatory culture (Jenkins, Purushotma, Weigel, Clinton, & Robison, 2009), learning ecologies (Barron, 2006), and affinity spaces (Gee, 2004; Gee & Hayes, 2012). The model also focuses on teaching in addition to learning in and across informal contexts.
While DTALS can be used to examine any number of phenomena, this dissertation focuses on the community around Pokémon Go. The game, with its emphasis on geography and community, presents unique opportunities for research. This research draws on existing video game research which focuses on not only games but their communities, and in particular the learning and literacy activities which occur in these communities (Gee & Hayes, 2012; Hayes & Duncan, 2012; Squire, 2006; Steinkuehler, 2006).
The results here are presented as three separate manuscripts. Chapter Two takes a broad view of a local community of players, and discusses different player types and how they teach and learn around the game. Chapter Three focuses on families who play the game together, and in particular three focal parents who share their perceptions of the game's merits, especially its potential to promote family bonding and learning. Chapter Four discusses teaching, in particular guides written about the game and the ways in which they are situated in particular Discourses (Gee, 2014). Finally, Chapter Five offers implications from these three chapters, including implications for designers and researchers as well as calls for future research.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Learning, Literacies and Technologies 201
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