David Quentin Bowen: A memorial

David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award Lecture

THE EXPANDING knowledge of signaling pathways regulating cell growth, cell cycle progression, and programmed cell death has led to a dramatic improvement in our understanding of the molecular events involved in cancer. This knowledge has allowed the identification of numerous targets for anticancer agents. As we move forward into an era of molecularly targeted therapeutics, it is worth reviewin...

Sir David Bruce memorial lecture 1988.

University of Huddersfield Repository Moore , David , Mair , Quentin and Wakefield , Jonathan P . Ambisonic Audio System Optimization Using a HPC Cluster

This paper investigates the use of the Glasgow Caledonian University VOTER HPC cluster for optimizing Ambisonic surround sound decoders. The cluster was used to run an exhaustive search coded using MPI C/C++ in order to obtain an optimal set of Ambisonic decoder parameters for a fixed resolution. The execution time of running this problem on the cluster compares favorably to work carried out on...

Quentin Jones and Sheizaf Rafaeli

This paper examines the importance of ‘discourse architecture’ and ‘community’ to the maintenance and growth of virtual publics. ‘Virtual publics’ are computer mediated discourse spaces created by using various technologies including email, the USENET, web based bulletin boards, IRC, MUDS, etc. It is argued that the over-emphasis to date on ‘community’ has discouraged systemic analysis of colla...

A Comparative Genre Analysis of Memorial Cards in English and Funeral/Memorial Announcements in Persian

As covert socio-cultural relations have significant effects on language, these norms are reflected in linguistic and generic structure of public death notices as a distinctive genre. This study intended to identify the different genres of death notices (e.g. memorial advertisements, obituaries, funeral announcements/posters, memorial cards, etc.) and to conduct a comparative genre analysis of m...