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Six Seniors Given Tillman Award for Academic Excellence
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
At May 6 commencement exercises, six seniors received the Tillman Award. The award, established in 1940, is the university's highest academic honor.
Published by: Winthrop University
Six-vertex model and Schramm-Loewner evolution.
Square ice is a statistical mechanics model for two-dimensional ice, widely believed to have a conformally invariant scaling limit. We associate a Peano (space-filling) curve to a square ice configuration, and more generally to...
2020 in Six Words: Micro-Memoirs
Carolyn Weigel, Ursinus College Staff, Ursinus College Faculty, Ursinus College Students
Jan 01, 0001
This exhibit highlights events in the lives of students, faculty and staff at Ursinus College during the year 2020. 2020 was a memorable year. There was a pandemic, protests for racial justice, and a presidential election. All...
Ursinus College Myrin Library exhibit coronavirus covid-19 Memoirs Archival Science Library and Information Science
Published by: Ursinus College
Fostering Learner Agency Through Intentional Learning Design
Cathrael Kazin
Jun 24, 2022
This chapter argues that the conventional approach to education systematically inculcates passivity and strips learners of the capacity for meaningful and informed choice. Rather than promote student agency and self-direction...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Five-dimensional path integrals for six-dimensional conformal field theories
In this paper we derive Ward-Takahashi identities from the path integral of
supersymmetric five-dimensional field theories with an $SU(1,3)$ spacetime
symmetry in the presence of instantons. We explicitly show how $SU(1,3)$...
Five-Dimensional Path Integrals for Six-Dimensional Conformal Field
Theories
In this paper we derive Ward-Takahashi identities from the path integral of
supersymmetric five-dimensional field theories with an $SU(1,3)$ spacetime
symmetry in the presence of instantons. We explicitly show how $SU(1,3)$...
U.S. Disc Golf Championship Returns Oct. 5-8 to Winthrop's Gold Course
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Top players to watch during the week on the course around the Winthrop Coliseum are: defending champion Paul McBeth, Ricky Wysocki, Ken Climo, Barry Schultz and Karl Johan Nybo. More than 90 participants are expected to compete.
Published by: Winthrop University
The development of a dynamic, six-axis spine simulator
Background Context
Although a great deal of research has been completed to characterize the stiffness of spinal specimens, there remains a limited understanding of the spine in 6 df and there is a lack of data from...
Although a great deal of research has been completed to characterize the stiffness of spinal specimens, there remains a limited understanding of the spine in 6 df and there is a lack of data from...
Thirty-six Winthrop Employees Presented with Presidential Citations for Service
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Thirty-six Winthrop employees were honored with presidential citations for service to the university and presidential citations for service to the community. Pat Graham, who recently retired, received the Mary Spann Richardson...
Published by: Winthrop University
Six Sigma based approach to optimize radial forging operation variables
The present competitive market is focusing industrial efforts on producing high-quality products with the lowest possible cost. To help accomplish this objective, various quality improvement philosophies have been put forward in...
Selective Anion Binding Drives the Formation of AgI8L6 and AgI12L6 Six-Stranded Helicates.
Here we describe the formation of an unexpected and unique family of hollow six-stranded helicates. The formation of these structures depends on the coordinative flexibility of silver and the 2-formyl-1,8-napthyridine...
Six Sigma based approach to optimize radial forging operation variables
The present competitive market is focusing industrial efforts on producing high-quality products with the lowest possible cost. To help accomplish this objective, various quality improvement philosophies have been put forward in...
State Revenue Slide Prompts Six-Day Winthrop Furlough
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Employees must take six days of unpaid leave to meet expected new budget cuts. Academic operations will continue. More cuts could come later if S.C. tax collections continue to slide in 2009.
Published by: Winthrop University
The development of a dynamic, six-axis spine simulator
Background Context
Although a great deal of research has been completed to characterize the stiffness of spinal specimens, there remains a limited understanding of the spine in 6 df and there is a lack of data from...
Although a great deal of research has been completed to characterize the stiffness of spinal specimens, there remains a limited understanding of the spine in 6 df and there is a lack of data from...
Measurement System Analysis and System Thinking in Six Sigma
Brian Galli
Jan 01, 2020
This article investigated measurement system analysis and system thinking in Six Sigma, as well as the factors that influence these actions. If the measurement system being used to accumulate data from the process delivers...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Winthrop Board Re-Elects Karl Folkens as Chair, Gives Six Retiring Faculty Emeritus Status
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Karl Folkens, a Florence attorney, was re-elected as board chair June 8. The board also granted six retiring faculty emeritus status.
Published by: Winthrop University
The Thai SME Open Innovation Food-Machinery Flexibility Model
Food machinery SMEs have been essential constitutional actors in Thailand’s food industry. Their participation in food innovation is considerably recognized. However, their innovation logics and practices remain poorly...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Twenty-six Winthrop Retirees and 40 Employees Honored for Service
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Twenty-six Winthrop retirees and 40 university employees were honored during the annual Faculty, Staff, Retirees Awards Ceremony for service to the university and the state of South Carolina. The honored retirees have...
Published by: Winthrop University
The dynamic, six-axis stiffness matrix testing of porcine spinal specimens
Background Context
Complex testing protocols are required to fully understand the biomechanics of the spine. There remains limited data concerning the mechanical properties of spinal specimens under dynamic loading...
Complex testing protocols are required to fully understand the biomechanics of the spine. There remains limited data concerning the mechanical properties of spinal specimens under dynamic loading...
The dynamic, six-axis stiffness matrix testing of porcine spinal specimens
Background Context
Complex testing protocols are required to fully understand the biomechanics of the spine. There remains limited data concerning the mechanical properties of spinal specimens under dynamic loading...
Complex testing protocols are required to fully understand the biomechanics of the spine. There remains limited data concerning the mechanical properties of spinal specimens under dynamic loading...
Six Leadership and Social Change Series Events Slated for Academic Year
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
The series will consist of six Tuesday common time events between September and March, three each semester, with a concluding keynote speaker in April as the seventh and final event. The series resulted from events in the fall...
Published by: Winthrop University
Prospective Evaluation over 15 Years of Six Breast Cancer Risk Models
Sherly X. Li, Roger L. Milne, Tú Nguyen-Dumont, Dallas R. English, Graham G. Giles, Melissa C. Southey, Antonis C. Antoniou, Andrew Lee, Ingrid Winship, John L. Hopper, Mary Beth Terry, Robert J. MacInnis
Oct 18, 2021
Prospective validation of risk models is needed to assess their clinical utility, particularly over the longer term. We evaluated the performance of six commonly used breast cancer risk models (IBIS, BOADICEA, BRCAPRO...
A lifting method for analyzing distributed synchronization on the unit sphere
This paper introduces a new lifting method for analyzing convergence of continuous-time distributed synchronization/consensus systems on the unit sphere. Points on the d-dimensional unit sphere are lifted to the (d +...
Determining the skills needed by frontline NHS staff to deliver quality improvement
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have detailed the technical, learning and soft skills healthcare staff deploy to deliver quality improvement (QI). However, research has mainly focused on management and leadership skills...
Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers.
Xia Jiang, Hilary K Finucane, Fredrick R Schumacher, Stephanie L Schmit, Jonathan P Tyrer, Younghun Han, Kyriaki Michailidou, Corina Lesseur, Karoline B Kuchenbaecker, Joe Dennis, David V Conti, Graham Casey, Mia M Gaudet, Jeroen R Huyghe, Demetrius Albanes, Melinda C Aldrich, Angeline S Andrew, Irene L Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Antonis C Antoniou, Natalia N Antonenkova, Susanne M Arnold, Kristan J Aronson, Banu K Arun, Elisa V Bandera, Rosa B Barkardottir, Daniel R Barnes, Jyotsna Batra, Matthias W Beckmann, Javier Benitez, Sara Benlloch, Andrew Berchuck, Sonja I Berndt, Heike Bickeböller, Stephanie A Bien, Carl Blomqvist, Stefania Boccia, Natalia V Bogdanova, Stig E Bojesen, Manjeet K Bolla, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, James D Brenton, Mark N Brook, Joan Brunet, Hans Brunnström, Daniel D Buchanan, Barbara Burwinkel, Ralf Butzow, Gabriella Cadoni, Trinidad Caldés, Maria A Caligo, Ian Campbell, Peter T Campbell, Géraldine Cancel-Tassin, Lisa Cannon-Albright, Daniele Campa, Neil Caporaso, André L Carvalho, Andrew T Chan, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J Chanock, Chu Chen, David C Christiani, Kathleen BM Claes, Frank Claessens, Judith Clements, J Margriet Collée, Marcia Cruz Correa, Fergus J Couch, Angela Cox, Julie M Cunningham, Cezary Cybulski, Kamila Czene, Mary B Daly, Anna DeFazio, Peter Devilee, Orland Diez, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Jenny L Donovan, Thilo Dörk, Eric J Duell, Alison M Dunning, Miriam Dwek, Diana M Eccles, Christopher K Edlund, Digna R Velez Edwards, Carolina Ellberg, D Gareth Evans, Peter A Fasching, Robert L Ferris, Triantafillos Liloglou, Jane C Figueiredo, Olivia Fletcher, Renée T Fortner, Florentia Fostira, Silvia Franceschi, Eitan Friedman, Steven J Gallinger, Patricia A Ganz, Judy Garber, José A García-Sáenz, Simon A Gayther, Graham G Giles, Andrew K Godwin, Mark S Goldberg, David E Goldgar, Ellen L Goode, Marc T Goodman, Gary Goodman, Kjell Grankvist, Mark H Greene, Henrik Gronberg, Jacek Gronwald, Pascal Guénel, Niclas Håkansson, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Freddie C Hamdy, Robert J Hamilton, Jochen Hampe, Aage Haugen, Florian Heitz, Rolando Herrero, Peter Hillemanns, Michael Hoffmeister, Estrid Høgdall, Yun-Chul Hong, John L Hopper, Richard Houlston, Peter J Hulick, David J Hunter, David G Huntsman, Gregory Idos, Evgeny N Imyanitov, Sue Ann Ingles, Claudine Isaacs, Anna Jakubowska, Paul James, Mark A Jenkins, Mattias Johansson, Mikael Johansson, Esther M John, Amit D Joshi, Radka Kaneva, Beth Y Karlan, Linda E Kelemen, Tabea Kühl, Kay-Tee Khaw, Elza Khusnutdinova, Adam S Kibel, Lambertus A Kiemeney, Jeri Kim, Susanne K Kjaer, Julia A Knight, Manolis Kogevinas, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Stella Koutros, Vessela N Kristensen, Jolanta Kupryjanczyk, Martin Lacko, Stephan Lam, Diether Lambrechts, Maria Teresa Landi, Philip Lazarus, Nhu D Le, Eunjung Lee, Flavio Lejbkowicz, Heinz-Josef Lenz, Goska Leslie, Davor Lessel, Jenny Lester, Douglas A Levine, Li Li, Christopher I Li, Annika Lindblom, Noralane M Lindor, Geoffrey Liu, Fotios Loupakis, Jan Lubiński, Lovise Mæhle, Christiane Maier, Arto Mannermaa, Loic Le Marchand, Sara Margolin, Taymaa May, Lesley McGuffog, Alfons Meindl, Pooja Middha, Austin Miller, Roger L Milne, Robert J Macinnis, Francesmary Modugno, Marco Montagna, Victor Moreno, Kirsten B Moysich, Lorelei Mucci, Kenneth Muir, Anna Marie Mulligan, Katherine L Nathanson, David E Neal, Andrew R Ness, Susan L Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, Polly A Newcomb, Lisa F Newcomb, Finn Cilius Nielsen, Liene Nikitina-Zake, Børge G Nordestgaard, Robert L Nussbaum, Kenneth Offit, Edith Olah, Ali Amin Al Olama, Olufunmilayo I Olopade, Andrew F Olshan, Håkan Olsson, Ana Osorio, Hardev Pandha, Jong Y Park, Nora Pashayan, Michael T Parsons, Tanja Pejovic, Kathryn L Penney, Wilbert HM Peters, Catherine M Phelan, Amanda I Phipps, Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska, Miranda Pring, Darya Prokofyeva, Paolo Radice, Kari Stefansson, Susan J Ramus, Leon Raskin, Gad Rennert, Hedy S Rennert, Elizabeth J van Rensburg, Marjorie J Riggan, Harvey A Risch, Angela Risch, Monique J Roobol, Barry S Rosenstein, Mary Anne Rossing, Kim De Ruyck, Emmanouil Saloustros, Dale P Sandler, Elinor J Sawyer, Matthew B Schabath, Johanna Schleutker, Marjanka K Schmidt, V Wendy Setiawan, Hongbing Shen, Erin M Siegel, Weiva Sieh, Christian F Singer, Martha L Slattery, Karina Dalsgaard Sorensen, Melissa C Southey, Amanda B Spurdle, Janet L Stanford, Victoria L Stevens, Sebastian Stintzing, Jennifer Stone, Karin Sundfeldt, Rebecca Sutphen, Anthony J Swerdlow, Eloiza H Tajara, Catherine M Tangen, Adonina Tardon, Jack A Taylor, M Dawn Teare, Manuel R Teixeira, Mary Beth Terry, Kathryn L Terry, Stephen N Thibodeau, Mads Thomassen, Line Bjørge, Marc Tischkowitz, Amanda E Toland, Diana Torres, Paul A Townsend, Ruth C Travis, Nadine Tung, Shelley S Tworoger, Cornelia M Ulrich, Nawaid Usmani, Celine M Vachon, Els Van Nieuwenhuysen, Ana Vega, Miguel Elías Aguado-Barrera, Qin Wang, Penelope M Webb, Clarice R Weinberg, Stephanie Weinstein, Mark C Weissler, Jeffrey N Weitzel, Catharine ML West, Emily White, Alice S Whittemore, H-Erich Wichmann, Fredrik Wiklund, Robert Winqvist, Alicja Wolk, Penella Woll, Michael Woods, Anna H Wu, Xifeng Wu, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Wei Zheng, Shanbeh Zienolddiny, Argyrios Ziogas, Kristin K Zorn, Jacqueline M Lane, Richa Saxena, Duncan Thomas, Rayjean J Hung, Brenda Diergaarde, James McKay, Ulrike Peters, Li Hsu, Montserrat García-Closas, Rosalind A Eeles, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Paul J Brennan, Christopher A Haiman, Jacques Simard, Douglas F Easton, Stephen B Gruber, Paul DP Pharoah, Alkes L Price, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Christopher I Amos, Peter Kraft, Sara Lindström
Jan 30, 2019
Quantifying the genetic correlation between cancers can provide important insights into the mechanisms driving cancer etiology. Using genome-wide association study summary statistics across six cancer types based on a total of...
Breast Neoplasms Case-Control Studies Colorectal Neoplasms Female Genetic Predisposition to Disease Genome-Wide Association Study Head and Neck Neoplasms Humans Inheritance Patterns Lung Neoplasms Male Mental Disorders Neoplasm Proteins Ovarian Neoplasms Phenotype Polymorphism Single Nucleotide Prostatic Neoplasms Smoking White People
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