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Wednesday Convocation, April Rose, Jean Lee, Felice Garcia, Otto Ehling, Rachel Espil, Nancy Porter, Lui Kin-Bon, Eric Foote, Travis Lohmann, Bryce Krason, Hayden Bryant, Mike Elliot, Kanade Oi, Kanako Yamazaki, Samantha Bravo, Audrey Hansen, Frank Yi

Convocations

Program listing performers and works performed

Unlv String Chamber Music, Unlv String Chamber

Chamber Music

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The Performance Of Dialysis Care: Routinization And Adaptation On The Floor, Laura L. Ellingson

Women's and Gender Studies

Previous studies of communication in dialysis centers primarily focused on communication between nurses and patients. In this study, ethnographic methods were used to explore the dominant communication performances enacted by dialysis staff members, including registered nurses, patient care technicians, technical aides, a social worker, and a dietitian. Findings suggest a dialectic between extreme routinization of care and continual adaptation. The dominant routine involved repeating the same preparation, treatment, and discharge process 3 shifts per day, thrice weekly for each patient. At the same time, near-constant adjustments to scheduling, coordination of tasks, and problem solving were needed to maintain the performance …

Book Review: A Game Of Brawl, Scott D. Peterson

Communication Faculty Publications

Felber's book is more than just a close account of the 1897 baseball season: on the way to the September showdown between the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Beaneaters, his readers attend what passed for spring training in the 1890s, observe the struggles of the lone umpire on the field, and follow the efforts to open up Sunday baseball by thwarting the Blue Laws.

Sharing Teaching Resources, Russ Pennell

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

UOW established a digital repository (or CMS) in 2006 to manage and deliver digital learning resources, for use initially by the UOW's Graduate School of Medicine (GSM) and delivered through Blackboard Vista. The system (Equella by TLE) is also intended to advance teaching in UOW through the sharing of teaching resources.

Crume, Charles Thomas, Jr., 1933-1996 - Collector (Mss 184), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 181. Research material related to the history of Bullitt County, Kentucky. Also includes notebooks concerning drugs, chemical compounds, and jewelry and watch repairs compiled by David W. Crume of Bardstown. Detailed drawings of a timepiece by D.W. Crume and slides of Jesse Hilton Stuart and the sorghum molasses making process are part of the collection. Also includes personal correspondence and items of Charles Thomas Crume, Sr.

Impurity And Back Contact Effects On Cdte/Cds Thin Film Solar Cells, Hehong Zhao

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

CdTe/CdS thin film solar cells are the most promising cost-effective solar cells. The goal of this project is to improve the performance for CdS/CdTe devices by improving the open circuit voltage V_oc and current density J_sc. Efforts focused on increasing the V_oc, which include increasing the doping concentration by introducing Phosphorus and Antimony, finding and testing new back contact materials, and varying the ambient of CSS CdTe. In addition, the effect of Zn₂SnO₄ on the cells' performance was also studied.

Electrical characterization of the thin films and completed devices were carried out …

Prickled Lilly Perch, Jillian Ludwig

All Theses

The Prickled Lilly Perch series consist of graphite drawings and designed wallpaper, functioning as a device to mediate and reflect on morality. This work illustrates and investigates the cyclical system of birth, life, and death through multivalent, polar conditions. These opposing implications of birth, life, and death are investigated through concept and form, and can be seen through the visual language of whimsy, fantasy, subtle narration, symbols, decoration, and delicate detailing. Operational tools to suggest birth, life, and death are described through transitioning forms, an implied direction upon the human form, aging of a plant, portals, an irrational use of …

Mixed Signals, Elizabeth Snipes

All Theses

My oil on wooden panel paintings demonstrate a curiosity and fondness for a traditional subject, the human figure, and utilize a representational vocabulary to examine an interest in current modes of interpersonal interaction. The work has evolved in conjunction with an investigation of contemporary figurative painting with the purpose of translating a traditional genre and subject matter into a present context of remediation and digital social networking. The resulting paintings utilize recurrent art historical themes of the isolated figure and the sublime, and also contribute to a contemporary conversation surrounding painting's relationship to new media and photography in the twenty-first …

A Comparison And Contrast Of The History Of Christianity As It Developed In Cappadocia And Armenia During The First Five Centuries Ad, Judy Henzel

All Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to examine key political, cultural or environmental factors which affected the rise and development of Christianity in two specific regions of eastern Anatolia during the first to fifth centuries AD. Hagiography and chronicle often portray the progress of Christianity as deterministic and providential. However, unique cultural and political elements proved very influential in shaping the success and forms of Christianity in Cappadocia and Armenia, particularly in the fourth and fifth centuries AD.

Swinging Bridge - December 5, 2007, Erin Schubert

Student Newspapers & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Isaiah's Burden Prophecies As Spirtual Formulas, Justin Brent Top

Theses and Dissertations

The Book of Mormon makes it clear that Isaiah's message is of great importance to the modern reader. In order to facilitate modern and personal spiritual application of Isaiah's writings, spiritual "formulas" or principles may be discovered or formulated. These formulas are statements of truth based on the prophet's writings that may be applied in multiple situations and time periods. Such formulas of truth offer valuable insighst across time. These formulas may be understood by analyzing the historical setting of the chapter(s) under review, and through critical examination of the text itself. These formulas provide a solid foundation upon which …

Jazz Combo And Big Band Concert, Chapman Jazz Combo, Chapman Big Band

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Brass Ensemble, Willson Osborne, Bernard Fitzgerald, Morley Calvert, John Palmer, David Uber

Chamber Music

Program listing performers and works performed

2007-2008 Ppc Recital - Oksana Rusina (Cello), Oksana Rusina, Tao Lin

PPC/PSDP Recitals

No abstract provided.

Edwards Collection (Mss 22), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 22. Twelve patients' account books of Dr. Martin Van Buren and William T. Edwards, brothers, of Horse Cave, Kentucky, are the nucleus of this collection which also includes several G.A.R. Dept. of Ky. Robert Storie Post #104, Hiseville, items fo Cyrus Edwards, a second cousin, and several Horse Cave items.

Commissioners Report On The Shoals In The Ohio River (Sc 1545), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1545. Photocopy (made in 1970) of handwritten Ohio River survey done in 1819 related to river navigation in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, and Indiana. It includes many hand-drawn maps. There is a large, undated map in a pocket on inside back cover.

Dulaney, Elise, 1894-1966 (Mss 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscript Collection 24. "Recollections of Bowling Green, Kentucky", written by Elise Dulaney in 1961 with emphasis on the Covington, Dulaney, and Wells families, various individuals, Christ Episcopal Church, and local schools. Also cemetery deed, 1881; Warren County tax receipt, 1882; letters, 1953-1962 (6); and miscellaneous items.

Perkins Collection (Mss 20), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 20. Letters, genealogical charts, clippings, etc., mainly of Warren County, Kentucky families. Letters: Briggs family, 1812-1842; Curd family, 1832-1865; Finch family, 1826-1919; and Perkins family, 1851-1918. Genealogy records on the families; plus the record of the Morehead family and the autobiography of Charles Robert Morehead, Sr. (Click on "Additional Files for typescript).

It's Alive! The Gothic (Dis)Embodiment Of The Logic Of Networks, Anna Katharine Bennion

Theses and Dissertations

My thesis draws connections between today's network society and the workings of gothic literature in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century. Just as our society is formed and affected by the flow of information, the eighteenth-century culture of sensibility was formed by the merging and flow of scientific "technology" (or new scientific discoveries) and societal norms and rules. Gothic literature was born out of this science-society network, and in many ways embodies the ruptures implicit in it. Although gothic literature is not a network in the same sense as informationalism and the culture of sensibility are, gothic literature works according …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 25, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Byu Students' Beliefs About Language Learning And Communicative Language Teaching Activities, Sarah C. Bakker

Theses and Dissertations

Learner beliefs, which contribute to attitude and motivation, may affect language learning. It is therefore valuable to investigate the malleability of learner beliefs, and to determine whether potentially detrimental beliefs can be ameliorated. This study examines how instruction of the principles of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) affects students' beliefs about classroom activities and their beliefs about language learning in general. The 68 first-year German students at Brigham Young University who participated in this study were asked to rate the effectiveness of three activities typical of communicative language teaching: Dialogue activities, Peer Interview activities, and Information-gap activities. They were also asked …

University Choirs Concert, Elisa Fraser Wilson

Elisa Fraser Wilson

The university choirs performed with the UTEP Wind Symphony in an evening of holiday choral music. Dr. Wilson conducted the Women's Glee Club on four holiday favorites.

Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 29, December 3, 2007, Grand Valley State University

Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Synthesis Of Novel Cysteine Peptide Nucleic Acid (Cpna), Mehul J. Ajmera

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Many diseases are caused due to abnormalities in production of specific protein. Across this protein the conventional lock and key mechanism shows binding at the specific cites of protein. However use of antisense technology can prevent formation of protein. It does so by binding to mRNA and prevents transcription. The structural modifications lead to synthetic molecules with 18-mer units which show significant improvement in binding properties, this gives birth to a new class of oligomers called Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA). We herein report cysteine based PNA called CPNA.

Ccu Newsletter, December 3, 2007, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

Coastal Carolina University's weekly on-campus newsletter.

Sextets And Other Encounters, Christine Seitz, Valerie Ore

Opera

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High Desert Horns, Bill Bernatis

Chamber Music

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2007-2008 Junior Recital - Bud Holmes (Tuba), Bud Holmes, Kasia Paciorkowska, Yang Shen

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 032, Number 19, December 3, 2007, Grand Valley State University

2007-2008, Volume 32

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.