374 research outputs found

    Ep096 The Neighbours: Exploring Stories and Songs with Meghan Forsyth

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    Meghan Forsyth is the Project Coordinator and Researcher at the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place, and the Director of the Bruneau Centre for Excellence in Choral Music at MUN. She is an ethnomusicologist specializing in music and dance of the Acadian diaspora, and is co-author, with Ursula Kelly, of the forthcoming book The Music of Our Burnished Axes: Songs and Stories of the Woods Workers of Newfoundland and Labrador. In addition to her work at MMaP, Meghan teaches courses in ethnomusicology, musicology and popular music at MUN’s School of Music. Recently, MMaP launched “The Neighbours: St. John’s” -- an app for mobile devices. In this episode, we chat about how this new app presents fascinating stories from cultural communities in and around St. John’s. Meghan describes how the app enables users to take a walking tour of downtown St. John’s and Middle Cove Beach to hear stories associated with individual locations, and then she gives us a preview of her new book on logging song traditions. Recorded 9 January 201

    The Family History of Meghan Redmon

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    Meghan Redmon 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]

    Meghan Daum

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    Recording of the radio show The North Avenue Lounge broadcast February 15, 2016 on WREK Atlanta, 91.1FMIn part three of our February Celebrity Challenge, Charlie talks to Meghan Daum, newspaper columnist, essayist, and author of My Misspent Youth, The Unspeakable, and other books, about writing as a profession, writing as a life, and why she would not have rocked blogs

    The A-theory: a theory

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    A-theories of time postulate a fundamental distinction between the present and other times. This distinction manifests in what A-theorists take to exist, their accounts of property change, and their views about the appropriate temporal logic. In this dissertation, I argue for a particular formulation of the A-theory that dispenses with change in existence and makes tense operators an optional formal tool for expressing the key theses. I call my view the minimal A-theory. The first chapter introduces the debate. The second chapter offers an extended, logic-based argument against more traditional A-theories. The third and fourth chapters develop my alternative proposal. The final chapter considers a problem for A-theorists who think the contents of our attitudes reflect changes in the world.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Meghan Sulliva

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    My thesis is a collection of short stories and non-fiction pieces that center around my hometown, Elizabeth, NJ.M.F.A.by Meghan Owen

    Shedding the Shackles

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    I began to follow in my sister\u27s footsteps, and suddenly I lost myself. Meghan Hyland: Meghan wrote her essay for GWRIT 102D. Meghan is one of the student editors of e-Vision, though her essay was (of course!) submitted anonymously and and was chosen for publication by the e-Vision student editorial board without anyone having the slightest idea that she was the author! Meghan Hyland is a French and Spanish double major who likes to read and write in her spare time. She enjoys experimenting with new styles of writing, and favors creative writing because it allows her to write without rules. She finds the process of writing to be extremely challenging, but at the same time very rewarding. Overwhelmed by the newness of college and the task of developing her own identity, Meghan wrote Shedding the Shackles, which gave her a chance to reflect on her college decision and her relationship with her sister. In it, she experimented with voice by using sentence fragments and simple language to bring power to her writing and express the thoughts of a child. This personal essay required a number of drafts and revisions, but she feels that the ultimate product was well worth the effort

    Modeling and analysis of steel gusset plates in truss bridges under live load

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    In the aftermath of the collapse of the I-35W over Mississippi River Bridge in Minnesota, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) issued a technical advisory to bridge owners to check the status of similarly-designed bridges. It was determined that under-designed gusset plates contributed to the collapse. This sparked a nationwide effort to investigate the design of these connection members and to develop more detailed specifications for future gusset plate design. In order to thoroughly study complicated bridge elements such as gusset plates, sophisticated analysis techniques are required. One such technique is finite element modeling (FEM), which is used here to identify critical loading cases for typical Warren truss gusset plates. The specific gusset plates studied here are located on two bridges, herein referred to as Bridge A and Bridge B, that are similar in design to the I-35W Bridge. Following the I-35W collapse, independent investigations, which included finite element analysis, were initiated on both bridges. In this thesis, information from these investigations is used to develop a comprehensive FEM, which facilitates more in-depth analysis of such gusset plates. The analysis focuses on the investigation of stresses created in the gusset plates by various types of live loading. The results are compared to the Method of Sections approach recommended by FHWA following the I-35W Bridge collapse to determine if better analysis specifications are needed. Although the results of the finite element analysis and the Method of Sections approach are similar, the authors conclude that the value of the Method of Sections approach is strongly dependent on the accuracy of the load data input. Therefore, more detailed specifications are needed to ensure the accuracy of future gusset plate analysis and design.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Meghan M. Myer

    The Wisdom Of Universal DNA Collection: A Reply To Professor Meghan J. Ryan

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    Professor Loewy replies to a commentary written by Professor Meghan J. Ryan in response to the universal collection of DNA. This article’s response addresses several concerns including; of the costs of a universal DNA collection system, the willingness of people to provide DNA, and other biases. The author concludes that a universal DNA database should still be implemented

    Mapping the Microbiome of the Minnesota State Fair

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    Meghan Mason, Assistant Professor of Public Health, received a $2,500 Faculty Research & Scholarly Activities Grant to process microbiome samples gathered from 86 families at the 2014 Minnesota State Fair. Two student research assistants will co-author two manuscripts on the collected data

    Senselessness and sensibility: suicide and university culture

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    In the wake of yet another young suicide in the Welsh town of Bridgend, and in the context of rising emotional problems among young people in Britain, Meghan Benton reflects on the suicide of her ex-boyfriend at the age of 18, and asks what can be done to better protect at-risk young people, particularly pressurised students. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2008 ippr.
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