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Terry G. Allison Interview
No full textTerry Allison served in the U.S. Navy as Aviation Storekeeper E-5 from 1972-73, in San Diego, CA; Millington, TN; Yorktown, VA and in Vietnam. This interview covers his experiences during the Vietnam War
Bradley-Terry models in R : the BradleyTerry2 package
No full textThis is a short overview of the R add-on package BradleyTerry2, which facilitates the specification and fitting of Bradley-Terry logit, probit or cauchit models to pair-comparison data. Included are the standard 'unstructured' Bradley-Terry model, structured versions in which the parameters are related through a linear predictor to explanatory variables, and the possibility of an order or 'home advantage' effect or other 'contest-specific' effects. Model fitting is either by maximum likelihood, by penalized quasi-likelihood (for models which involve a random effect), or by bias-reduced maximum likelihood in which the first-order asymptotic bias of parameter estimates is eliminated. Also provided are a simple and efficient approach to handling missing covariate data, and suitably-defined residuals for diagnostic checking of the linear predictor
"Disney is the Tiffany’s and I am the Woolworth's of the business": A critical re-analysis of the business philosophies, production values and studio practices of animator-producer Paul Houlton Terry
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Animator-producer Paul Houlton Terry has been portrayed as having little passion for the animation he produced and being more concerned with making a profit than producing entertaining cartoons with high production values. The purpose of the dissertation is to re-evaluate Terry‘s legacy to animated cartooning by analyzing his business philosophies, production values, and studio practices.
Application of four psychodynamic factors to the early life and career of Terry, 1887-1929, found that his economic decision making was characterized by: an external locus of control, risk-averse financial behaviour, extreme saving behaviour through precaution, and shrewd money management practices. Based on Terry‘s historical responses to twelve major economic, technological, or institutional forces of change for the period 1929-1955, the psychodynamic factors were found to provide accurate explanations for his studio practices and production decisions.
There was no evidence to support the conclusion that three early career disappointments undermined Terry‘s intrinsic motivation to create animated cartoons. Rather, Terry‘s lack of risk taking, external locus of control, tight studio production schedule, desire to compete with neighbour studio Fleischer, difficulty in separating financial rewards from creative processes in animation, and practice of undertaking surveillance measures on staff may have undermined his and his studio‘s creativity. Archival research found Terry to possess strong passions for and to have made significant creative contributions to the field of animation.
Biographical research found that Terry retained a stable nucleus of highly talented artists who dedicated a significant portion of their working careers to the studio. An analysis of the cel aesthetics of a random sample of animated cartoons produced during the years 1930-1955 found that Terry created animated cartoons with above average cel aesthetics when compared to the other studios thereby supporting an inference that Terry was motivated to producing quality crafted animation. Further research is suggested into the role psychodynamic factors and economic decision-making play in the film production process and a clarification of Terry‘s legacy to the field of animated cartoons
Terry Link interviews writer and ecologist Stephanie Mills
No full textWriter and ecologist Stephanie Mills explains why she moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Michigan, her involvement in ecology issues, the changes in her writing style after moving to Michigan, works in process, and her views on an activist Robert Swann. Mills is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Terry Link for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Accounting for Individual Differences in Bradley-Terry Models by Means of Recursive Partitioning
No full textThe preference scaling of a group of subjects may not be homogeneous, but different
groups of subjects with certain characteristics may show different preference scalings,
each of which can be derived from paired comparisons by means of the Bradley-Terry model.
Usually, either different models are fit in predefined subsets of the
sample, or the effects of subject covariates are explicitly specified in a parametric
model. In both cases, categorical covariates can be employed directly to distinguish
between the different groups, while numeric covariates are typically discretized
prior to modeling.
Here, a semi-parametric approach for recursive partitioning of Bradley-Terry models is
introduced as a means for identifying groups of subjects with homogeneous preference scalings
in a data-driven way. In this approach, the covariates that -- in main effects or
interactions -- distinguish between groups of subjects with different preference
orderings, are detected automatically from the set of candidate covariates. One main
advantage of this approach is that sensible partitions in numeric covariates are
also detected automatically
Michael Rodriguez interviews poet Terry Blackhawk
No full textPoet Terry Blackhawk explains how Michigan factors into her writings, the InsideOut Literary Arts Project in Detroit, and how she started writing. Blackhawk is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries Michigan writers Series
G. Bennet Larson; Wayne Coy, FCC Commission; Wes Puller, TL head; Hugh Terry, TL, Denver.
No full textPhotograph of G. Bennet Larson, Wayne Coy (FCC Commission), Wes Puller (TL head) and Hugh Terry (TL, Denver), Salt Lake City, Utah
A novel device for growing protein crystals : computer control and automation
No full textIssued as Progress report, Semiannual status reports [nos. 1-2], Report, and Theses [nos. 1-2], Project G-33-605Thesis has author: Terry Lee BrayThesis has title: A Novel device for growing protein crystals : computer control and automatio
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Interview with Clark Terry
No full textInterview with Clark Terry. Terry discusses how he first got into music, how his older sister was married to a jazz musician and seeing their band, the trumpet player in that band owning a candy store and having candy he liked, being "glad it wasn't the banjo player," playing a makeshift trumpet with a hosepipe and funnel, putting a crystal radio set in a mixing bowl to amplify it, the neighbors chipping in $12.50 to buy him a real trumpet from a pawn shop, other makeshift instruments, getting serious about music at Vashon High School in St. Louis with Clarence Haydn Wilson as director, Wilson starting him on valve trombone, joining the Tom Powell drum and bugle corps, the G bugle as his "first real beautiful instrument," doing mouthpiece solos, hearing WC Handy playing at his school (this story is restated a second time), Louis Armstrong as his main influence, living in Corona, Queens, New York near Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Shavers, Carl "Bama" Warwick, Jimmy Rushing, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Helen Humes in a 2-mile radius, going to Louis Armstrong's house with Dizzy Gillespie and Terry's impression of Armstrong, Armstrong telling the true history of jazz as he lived it, drummer and pianist Charles "Sluggo" Fox, the first bands Terry played in professionally (Charles Fox, George Hudson), Club Plantation in St. Louis, the section sound in Hudson's band, the group Dollar Bill and His Small Change, the Bunker Hill section of St. Louis where Dollar Bill was from, what Terry was learning in those days, older musicians giving wrong answers to mislead younger ones, how his brother-in-law, Cy McField facilitated Terry's gig with Willie Austin and getting booked with Ida Cox, everyone being required to help push the bus on Ida Cox's tour, the riverboat scene in St. Louis and the Streckfus Steamers, jazz coming up to St. Louis from New Orleans on the riverboats, the Great Lakes Naval Training Station during the Second World War with Ernie Wilkins and Willie Smith, Len Bowden and the Melody Masters in St. Louis, training naval recruits in music, including Willie Smith, Ross McConnell, and Dudley Brooks, Terry's continuing friendship with Ernie Wilkins, bands Terry was in and his musical formation, Jimmy Lunceford's band and its use of flugelhorns, the sound he had in mind, Keith Ecker of the Selmer company designing his flugelhorn and receiving the horn during the Taylor Made Jazz session with Billy Taylor, Sykes Smith writing "Juniflip on the Flugelhorn" for him, more on Billy Taylor and Duke Ellington going to hear Taylor at the Hickory House in Manhattan, his years with the Ellington band as "the University of Ellingtonia" and how the experience prepared him to be a bandleader, Ellington surrounding himself with capable musicians, praise of Billy Strayhorn, parts written for individual musicians in the Ellington band and concern that they liked playing them, Ellington knowing how to use each musician, such as Harry Carney and his upper register, an anecdote about Ellington on a plane with a Texan telling him "twilight time is the lonesomest time of the day," Ellington writing a brief tune on that saying and then calling it back in, Ellington enjoying traveling with Harry Carney and being the navigator, Terry in the Basie band and Basie's band as the "prep school" for Ellington's "university," Basie's command of time and space, Terry on Quincy Jones' European tour, Terry giving a young Jones trumpet lessons in Seattle and Jones' bringing him his first arrangement, the World's Fair in Brussels in 1958, the NBC Orchestra and being a Black musician in those days, the Urban League investigation of Black representation on NBC, Snooky Young in the Tonight Shoe band, various assignments at NBC, staying with the Tonight Show until it moved to California, Terry's own band and theme song A Toi / Etoile, Phil Woods writing for the band, Terry's "mutual admiration society" with Bob Brookmeyer, how "Mumbles" came about, his philosophy of teaching as a reaction to older players giving younger ones the runaround when he was younger, Terry collecting trumpets for young musicians in need, games they played on the road to break up the monotony and learning to play the trumpet left-handed and upside-down, flugelhorn and getting doubling fees for trumpet to parallel those of woodwind players, more on the origin of Mumbles and a slow version called Incoherent Blues, the Gerry Mulligan concert jazz band the development of Mumbles and other work with Mulligan, how Mulligan makes a small group sound like a big band, tunes they would play at the Village Vanguard (including "Lady Chatterley's Mother" and "Blueport") quoting songs about cities in Blueport, Terry's empathy regarding Mulligan's temperament, Terry and Brookmeyer as "Mumbles and Grumbles," more on getting his flugelhorn in 1957, Terry's educational work, interpretation of the jazz language, the Ooba system and the importance of air movement, Tadd Dameron, Oop Bop Sh'Bam with Dizzy Gillespie and Babs Gonzales, teaching jazz phraseology through scat-singing, Wynton Marsalis asking him about buzz and growl, plunger technique and demonstration / imitation, stage bands and the development of jazz education, Terry having six honorary doctorates, the band camp in LeMars, Iowa and the Clark Terry Jazz Studies Institute, teaching jazz in Japan, circular breathing (with extended demonstration), Billy Taylor getting Terry into the jazz clinic scene, Railroad Porter Blues with Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Lionel Hampton's orchestra, Charlie Barnet's orchestra, and Terry's African and Middle Eastern tours
Poet Terry Blackhawk reads her selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textPoet Terry Blackhawk reads selections of her poetry from her books "Body and field" and "Escape artist", and answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of the Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections
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