History of Wofford College: 1854-1949

The college\u27s narrative history, written by Professor of History David Duncan Wallace, of the class of 1894, and published by Vanderbilt University Press just three years before the college\u27s centennial.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/collegebooks/1018/thumbnail.jp

SMT goes ABMS: Developing Strategic Management Theory using Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation.

For the emerging complexity theory of strategy (CTS), organizations are complex adaptive systems able to co-evolve with their dynamic environments through interaction and response, rather than purely analysis and planning. A promising approach within the CTS context, is to focus on a strategic logic of opportunity pursuit, one in which the distributed decision-makers behave audaciously despite unpredictable, unstable environments. Although there is only emergent support for it, intriguingly organizations can perform better when these decision-makers ‘throw caution to the wind’ even at their own possible expense. Since traditional research methods have had difficulty showing how this can work over time, this research adopts a complementary method, agent-based modelling and simulation (ABMS), to examine this phenomenon. The simulation model developed here, CTS-SIM, is based on quite simple constructs, but it introduces a rich and novel externally driven environment and represents individual decision-makers as having autonomous perceptions but constrainable decision-making freedom. Its primary contribution is the illumination of core dynamics and causal mechanisms in the opportunity-transitioning process. During model construction the apparently simple concept of opportunity-transitioning turns out to be complex, and the apparently complex integration of exogenous and endogenous environments with all three views of opportunity pursuit in the entrepreneurship literature, turns out to be relatively simple. Simulation outcomes using NetLogo contribute to CTS by confirming the positive effects on agent performance of opportunistic transitioning among opportunities in highly dynamic environments. The simulations also reveal tensions among some of the chosen variables and tipping points in emergent behaviours, point to areas where theoretical clarity is currently lacking, provoke some interesting questions and open up useful avenues for future research and data collection using other methods and models. Guidance through numerous stylized facts, flexible methods, careful documentation and description are all intended to inspire interest and facilitate critical discussion and ongoing scientific work

David Duncan Wallace Papers - Accession 333

The David Duncan Wallace Papers consist of microfiche copies of the original David D. Wallace family papers, 1866-1951, SCHS 1233.00 held at the South Carolina Historical Society.David Duncan Wallace (1874-1951) was a Professor of History at Wofford College from 1899 through 1947 and was the author of the three volume set titled, History of South Carolina published in 1934. He is considered one of the foremost historians in State. The papers consist of his correspondence, research notes, clippings, and published and unpublished manuscripts related to his publications and areas of research. Also, included is some ephemera and other items.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1417/thumbnail.jp

Carlisle Memorial Volume

Table of Contents: The Carlisle Family Life Sketch of Dr. Carlisle - by Dr. Charles Forster Smith Dr. Carlisle as a Citizen - by Watson B. Duncan The Wofford Chapel Hour - by Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder Wofford College and its President Twenty Years Ago - by Dr. Robert A. Law Dr. Carlisle as a Teacher - by Dr. David Duncan Wallace Tributes to Dr. Carlislehttps://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/collegebooks/1005/thumbnail.jp

Quantitative Analysis of Synaptic Release at the Photoreceptor Synapse

AbstractExocytosis from the rod photoreceptor is stimulated by submicromolar Ca2+ and exhibits an unusually shallow dependence on presynaptic Ca2+. To provide a quantitative description of the photoreceptor Ca2+ sensor for exocytosis, we tested a family of conventional and allosteric computational models describing the final Ca2+-binding steps leading to exocytosis. Simulations were fit to two measures of release, evoked by flash-photolysis of caged Ca2+: exocytotic capacitance changes from individual rods and postsynaptic currents of second-order neurons. The best simulations supported the occupancy of only two Ca2+ binding sites on the rod Ca2+ sensor rather than the typical four or five. For most models, the on-rates for Ca2+ binding and maximal fusion rate were comparable to those of other neurons. However, the off-rates for Ca2+ unbinding were unexpectedly slow. In addition to contributing to the high-affinity of the photoreceptor Ca2+ sensor, slow Ca2+ unbinding may support the fusion of vesicles located at a distance from Ca2+ channels. In addition, partial sensor occupancy due to slow unbinding may contribute to the linearization of the first synapse in vision

Expression Analysis of Moritella viscosa-Challenged Atlantic Salmon Identifies Disease-Responding Genes, MicroRNAs and Their Predicted Target Genes and Pathways

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A Method of Assembling Compact Coherent Fiber-Optic Bundles

A method of assembling coherent fiber-optic bundles in which all the fibers are packed together as closely as possible is undergoing development. The method is based, straightforwardly, on the established concept of hexagonal close packing; hence, the development efforts are focused on fixtures and techniques for practical implementation of hexagonal close packing of parallel optical fibers