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Sig Sander interview for The Survivors of the Holocaust Oral History Project
No full textOn September 6th, 1978, Rabbi Cary Kozberg interviewed Sig Sander about his life before, during, and after World War II. In his interview Sander discusses growing up in Germany, his family history, and his religious background and education. He also talks about being an accountant and how it became increasingly difficult to work after Hitler came to power. Towards the end of the interview Sander details his arrival to the United States and how he eventually came to Dayton
Stephen Dubner - Bestselling Co-author of Freakonomics
No full textIn partnership with University College’s First Year Experience
Award-winning author, journalist, and TV personality Stephen Dubner is the co-author of the international bestseller Freakonomics. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Dubner shows how economics is, at root, the study of how people get what they want, especially when other people want the same thing. Dubner spent several years at the The New York Times as an editor and writer, and has also written for The New Yorker and Time. He has written two previous bestselling books, Choosing My Religion and Confessions of a Hero-Worshipper. Dubner and economist Steven Levitt are currently working on another book, tentatively titled Superfreakonomics.
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On core stability and extendability
No full textThis paper investigates conditions under which the core of a TU cooperative game is stable. In particular the author extends the idea of extendability to find new conditions under which the core is stable. It is also shown that these new conditions are not necessary for core stability.core stability, stable core, extendability
On core stability and extendability
No full textShellshear E. On core stability and extendability. Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics. Vol 387. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld; 2007.This paper investigates conditions under which the core of a TU cooperative game is stable. In particular the author extends the idea of extendability to find new conditions under which the core is stable. It is also shown that these new conditions are not necessary for core stability
Charlayne Hunter-Gault - Award-Winning Journalist and Author
No full textFrom Jim Crow America to Apartheid South Africa and Beyond: A Journalist\u27s Journey
Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an award-winning journalist and author whose career spans more than 40 years. She has reported on racism, Vietnam veterans, life under apartheid, drug abuse, and human rights issues. She was the first African American woman to enroll in the University of Georgia and was among the first African American women to graduate from the university.
Hunter-Gault gained national recognition after she joined the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 1978, becoming a national correspondent for its 60-minute MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour in 1983. In 1997 Hunter-Gault left PBS to become the Africa bureau chief for National Public Radio (NPR), and in 1999 she was named Johannesburg bureau chief for CNN, a post she held until 2005.
She is the author of a memoir on the American civil rights movement, In My Place (1992), and New News Out of Africa (2006), a book documenting the many aspects of the African Renaissance.
Her numerous awards include two Emmy awards and two Peabody awards, and in 2005 she was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame.
Please also join us on Tuesday, February 1, for the Wright State University Honors Institute Symposium on Intersections of Memory.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/archives_presidential_lecture_series/1031/thumbnail.jp
Margaret O\u27Mara - Author, Pivotal Tuesdays
No full textCo-sponsored with Common Text Committee
Margaret O’Mara is an associate professor of history at the University of Washington, where she writes and teaches about the economic and political history of the modern United States.
She is the author of Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2005), which showed how politics and culture shaped the metropolitan geography of high technology, as well as other articles and essays about Silicon Valley and other high-tech regions around the world.
Her most recent book, Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century (Penn, 2015), explores the personalities, events, and issues of the presidential elections of 1912, 1932, 1968, and 1992. O’Mara’s current book project is Silicon Age: High Technology and the Reinvention of the United States (under contract with Penguin Press).
Her research has received fellowships and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Mellon Foundation, and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. She is an OAH Distinguished Lecturer and a past fellow of the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education.
O’Mara earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from Northwestern University. Prior to her academic career, she worked in the Clinton White House and served as a contributing researcher at the Brookings Institution.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/archives_presidential_lecture_series/1002/thumbnail.jp
Ruby Dee - Actress, Author, and Activist
No full textIn celebration of Wright State University\u27s Martin Luther King commemoration and the 35th anniversary of the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center
Ruby Dee, noted actress, author, and activist for social justice, has appeared in more than 40 films and countless Broadway plays during a 50-year stage and screen career. Dee was acclaimed for her acting in her late husband Ossie Davis\u27s satirical exploration of segregation, Purlie Victorious; in A Raisin in the Sun; her Ace Award-winning performance in Eugene O\u27Neill\u27s Long Day\u27s Journey into Night; and in Spike Lee\u27s Do the Right Thing. In 1965, she played Kate in The Taming of the Shrew and Cordelia in King Lear in the American Shakespeare Festival. She won an Emmy in 1991 for NBC\u27s Decoration Day. She and Davis received a Life Achievement Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Screen Actors Guild. Tireless human rights activists, Dee and Davis were close friends of Malcolm X (whom Davis eulogized as our own black shining prince ), and their production company produced the PBS special Martin Luther King: The Dream and the Drum. While remaining active in social causes, Dee has still found time to write plays, musicals, poetry books, and her one-woman show, My One Good Nerve.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/archives_presidential_lecture_series/1067/thumbnail.jp
The Core of a Partition Function Game
No full textWe consider partition function games and introduce new definitions of the core that include the effects of externalities. We assume that all players behave rationally and that all stable outcomes arising are consistent with the appropriate generalised concept of the core. The result is a recursive definition of the core where residual subgames are considered as games with fewer players and with a partition function that captures the externalities of the deviating coalition. Some properties of the new concepts are discussed.
David Frum - Conservative Author, Former Presidential Speechwriter
No full textDavid Frum is best known as an advocate for the reform and modernization of the Republican party. He is a contributing editor for Newsweek and The Daily Beast and is also a CNN contributor. Frum serves on the board of directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition and as vice chairman and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute.
Frum is the author of eight books including most recently the e-book, Why Romney Lost, and his first novel, Patriots. From 2001 to 2002, Frum served as speechwriter and special assistant to President George W. Bush. From 2007 to 2008, he was a senior policy adviser to the Giuliani-for-president campaign. Frum is Canadian-American but was a citizen of Canada when he joined the Bush administration.
Not afraid to challenge his own party, Frum expressed intense dissatisfaction with supply-siders, evangelicals, and nearly all Republican politicians in his 1994 book Dead Right. In a 2009 Newsweek column entitled Why Rush Is Wrong, Frum defended his conservatism and challenged the country’s most vocal conservative broadcaster. His editorial columns have appeared in a variety of Canadian and American magazines and newspapers, including the National Post and The Week.
A volunteer for the Reagan campaign in 1980, Frum is proud that he’s attended every Republican convention since 1988, was president of the Federalist Society chapter of his law school, and worked as editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal from 1989 to 1992. Frum graduated from Yale University in 1982 with simultaneous Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in history.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/archives_presidential_lecture_series/1014/thumbnail.jp
Study of 13-17th century Marathi manuscripts: author generated metadata and its mapping with Dublin Core
No full textThis paper reports on a study that examined the author generated metadata for 13th–17th century manuscripts. For the study 30 different handwritten Marathi (local language of Maharashtra State, India) manuscripts by Marathi poet saints were analyzed critically especially the start and end note areas (colophon area) from which one can easily identify the author, subject, geographical area, time period of the manuscript, etc. An attempt is made to map these author-generated metadata with Dublin Core elements set. Translated DC elements into Marathi are also used for mapping purpose. The results indicate that authors created good quality metadata to classify the manuscript easily. This research suggests that metadata created by poet saints from 13th–17th century can be easily mapped with DC elements. There are key metadata elements found in manuscripts that need to be incorporated. The study is very significant as the digitization of these manuscripts is under progress and the basic metadata will be useful for "resource discovery" once the data will be made available on the Internet
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