Michael O'Shea

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Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1969-06-15

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Michael O’Shea (11 July 1947 - 18 December 1991) was an experimental folk musician from Newry, Northern Ireland, who played a unique handmade string instrument he called “Mo Chara” (Irish for “My Friend”), loosely based on the blueprints for a North African zither. The instrument had seventeen main strings, with six more sympathetic strings which added a profound resonance similar to a sitar. It typically played by O'Shea with a pair of sticks (often chopsticks, drumsticks, or paintbrush handl

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

   · 2014 · cited 88,318x

2. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 48,747x

3. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 44,787x

4. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,461x

5. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,496x

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