New Releases by Eric Nguyen

An ancient prophecy foretold of an outsider that would save the peaceful village of Inoki from an unstoppable army—a man who would confuse the people at first with his unconventional ways, but lead them to the light. Nathan Garin, Captain in the United States Army, known for his viciousness in battle on the American frontier, could be that man…if he weren’t such an awful, drunken idiot. Now it’s up to Japanese-American teacher Todd Parker to warn the good people of Inoki of Garin’s true nature before he causes the very death and destruction they are counting on him to avert! This sword-swing satire has it all—time travel, compromising situations, accidental homicide, mistaken identity, and, most importantly, laughs. Collects White Savior #1–#4.

SAMURAI SATIRE! This sword-swinging satire comes to an explosive conclusion. It''s Inoki Village versus the might of the Akuno Clan for the fate of the people! Can our heroes Todd, Neal, and Maggie lead the village to victory? Find out, in the conclusion to the series that has brought you time travel, compromising situations, accidental homicide, mistaken identity, and, most importantly, laughs.

SAMURAI SATIRE! Inoki Village is just hours away from being overrun by the Akuno Clan. The village believes that they have a savior in their midst who will lead them to a decisive victory against the Akuno Clan and their evil leader Kenzo. Our hero, Todd Parker, knows that following the "savior" leads to certain destruction, but how can the man branded the village idiot convince them to ditch their faith in this foolish fake? And then what? Surely Todd can''t face an entire army by himself!

Yesterday, Todd Parker was ignoring his grandfather''s story about the decimation of the ancient Japanese village of Inoki. Today, Todd is stranded in Inoki just days before its destruction. The good news is that he knows how this turns out. The villagers place their trust in a savior who is anything but a savior. But how is he going to convince them not to follow that man when they''ve branded our scrawny hero the village idiot? Todd Parker, ignorer of stories passed down from generation to generation, is the only thing standing between Inoki and destruction.

A captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. This stunning debut is "vast in scale and ambition, while luscious and inviting … in its intimacy” (The New York Times Book Review). When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle in to life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father. But with time, Huong realizes she will never see her husband again. While she attempts to come to terms with this loss, her sons, Tuan and Binh, grow up in their absent father''s shadow, haunted by a man and a country trapped in their memories and imaginations. As they push forward, the three adapt to life in America in different ways: Huong gets involved with a Vietnamese car salesman who is also new in town; Tuan tries to connect with his heritage by joining a local Vietnamese gang; and Binh, now going by Ben, embraces his adopted homeland and his burgeoning sexuality. Their search for identity--as individuals and as a family--threatens to tear them apart, unu00adtil disaster strikes the city they now call home and they are suddenly forced to find a new way to come together and honor the ties that bind them.

Cette thèse étudie la possibilité d''améliorer les performances d''un avion de transport à travers un relâchement de la stabilité de route et une réduction de l''empennage vertical. L''idée principale est l''utilisation active de la poussée différentielle, rendue possible grâce au changement de paradigme apporté par la propulsion électrique distribuée. Ce moyen de contrôle supplémentaire et la réduction de l''empennage vertical sont étudiés en trois axes principaux. L''objectif de la première partie est l''évaluation de la stabilité de route ainsi que la contrôlabilité directionnelle de l''avion afin d''identifier les conditions de vol dimensionnant l''empennage vertical. Une contribution est apportée afin de prendre en compte l''aspect non-conventionnelle de la propulsion électrique distribuée. Des outils mathématiques sont développés pour trimmer l''avion utilisant la poussée différentielle comme moyen de contrôle et des outils aérodynamiques sont développés afin de modéliser un empennage vertical de taille variable ainsi que les interactions aéro-propulsives apparaissant sur une voilure soufflée par des hélices. Cette analyse permet d''isoler des conditions dimensionnantes, particulièrement en cas de pannes moteur au décollage et conduit à une réduction significative de la taille de l''empennage pour des cas statiques. De plus, il est montré que la gouverne de direction peut être remplacée par la poussée différentielle. Dans une seconde partie, les aspects dynamiques d''un avion utilisant la poussée différentielle à la place d''une gouverne de direction sont abordés. Une méthode est proposée afin de répondre au questionnement suivant : comment l''empennage vertical et les systèmes de propulsion devraient être dimensionnés afin de satisfaire un ensemble de qualités de vol imposées ? Une architecture de contrôle automatique et une méthode de co-design se basant sur la synthèse H1 structurée et sur des outils d''optimisation non convexe sont utilisés pour gérer le compromis entre la taille de l''empennage vertical et la bande passante des moteurs. Cet ensemble d''outils est ensuite mis à contribution pour étudier l''avion dans les conditions définies dans la première partie et notamment en présence de pannes moteur. Dans une dernière partie, un moyen de recherche expérimentale est développé afin de contribuer à un effort de production de donnée sur la propulsion électrique distribuée. Ce démonstrateur de vol est spécifiquement orienté vers l''étude de la mécanique de vol latérale d''un avion possédant une aile soufflée. Il a été possible d''identifier depuis les mesures réalisées en vol, les dérivées aérodynamiques de l''avion ainsi que leur dépendance à la poussée. Cela a ensuite permis d''illustrer les particularités de la dynamique de vol d''un avion à propulsion distribuée et aile soufflée.

RNA-binding proteins play a number of important roles throughout the cell. In order to more closely investigate their activity, we have adapted high-throughput techniques to characterize their activity across the transcriptome. We have previously identified heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) A2/B1 as a potential adaptor protein for interactions between the chromatin silencing complex PRC2 and the RNA HOTAIR. We used enhanced cross- linking immunoprecipitation (eCLIP) to map the complete set of direct interactions between hnRNP A2/B1 and RNA in breast cancer cells. Surprisingly, a strong A2/B1 binding site occurs in the third intron of HOTAIR, which interrupts a known RNA- RNA interaction hotspot and is retained at a higher frequency than other HOTAIR introns. In vitro eCLIP experiments suggest that A2/B1 may redistribute to exonic binding sites once this intron is spliced. A2/B1 associates with multiple lncRNAs at regions that may contribute to regulation. Finally, we performed cellular fractionation to characterize the pattern of RNA association of A2/B1 in chromatin, nucleoplasm, and cytoplasm. We also examined the potential relevance of hnRNP A2/B1 in myogenesis. As A2/B1 has been associated with a number of muscle diseases, we performed eCLIP on A2/B1 in both undifferentiated mouse myoblasts and differentiated myotubes. We found that A2/B1 binds the 3′ UTR of transcripts in differentiated cells, and that these transcripts tended to be protein-coding. We also performed eCLIP on another protein, TDP-43, that has been shown to directly interact with A2/B1 and be dysregulated in many of the same diseases. This experiment identified a number of exonic binding sites in myogenesis-associated transcripts, indicative of a role for TDP-43 in the nuclear export of long RNAs during myogenesis. Comparison of A2/B1 and TDP-43-bound transcripts shows some overlap, suggesting that they may act cooperatively in RNA regulation during myogenesis. Finally, we developed a novel method to investigate heterochromatin- associated RNA called hmRIP-seq, which was designed to differentiate between RNA-enzyme interactions leading to heterochromatin formation, and those that do not. This method identified a potential heterochromatin-interacting noncoding RNA, MTRNR2L12, that may direct silencing towards repetitive elements with similar sequence.

"Originally published in single magazine form inFAMOUS 1-6."

From surreal skyscapes to wholesale destruction: the most dramatic scenes from the natural world. The destructive power of nature has always been a source of fear and fascination, and never more so than now, when climate change and extreme weather conditions are constantly in the news. Across the central United States, the infamous storms of Tornado Alley are fueled by the collision of cold fronts from Canada and warm fronts from the Gulf of Mexico. People have been chasing these storms for decades in pursuit of thrilling experiences, but now a new generation of storm chasers is combining scientific knowledge with powerful images. This book follows Mike Hollingshead and Eric Nguyen on seventeen chases through Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and South Dakota, illustrating the unfolding events with sequential shots and a running commentary by the chasers themselves. These spectacular storm portfolios are expanded with special features on weather phenomena like hail and mammatus clouds plus insights into forecasting and research.

Left wounded and disfigured after escaping a kidnapping attempt by a terrorist leader, photojournalist Kieran Marshal stumbles upon the abandoned equipment and weaponry belonging to the famous crime fighter Sandman and becomes embroiled in a terrorist plot to detonate a series of suicide bombs in Jerusalem.

This report describes the tests on the Northern Telecom Inc. (NTI), FD-565 Optical Fiber Digital Transmission System against the high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP). It contains the information presented in NCSTIB- 91-1 and HDL SR-91-8 along with the results of the second-phase of testing at the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) Advanced Research Electromagnetic Simulator (ARES) facility. This report documents the FD-565 system configuration and test configurations and describes the test facilities and data acquisition and processing systems. The tests were carried out at different HEMP facilities because the 60-kV/m free-field level could not be reached at the Naval Air Test Center (NATC) facility as planned. Three different kinds of data are presented: operational data, bulk-current data, and field-level data. For the purpose of statistical analysis, all the operational data are tabulated at the end of this report.