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Powwows And Identity On The Piedmont And Coastal Plains Of North Carolina, Chris J. Goertzen Dec 2001

Powwows And Identity On The Piedmont And Coastal Plains Of North Carolina, Chris J. Goertzen

Faculty Publications

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Poetry And The State: The Politics Of Nabat Tradition In Kuwait, Abdullah Alajmi Dec 2001

Poetry And The State: The Politics Of Nabat Tradition In Kuwait, Abdullah Alajmi

Master's Theses

This thesis analyzes the relationship between the practice of an old tribal Bedouin oral tradition (Nabat poetry) and the politics of the nation-state in Kuwait. The historical context of this tradition, its development within modern state boundaries, and its current role in the politico-cultural exchange are all examined. Anthropological, ethnohistorical, and Arabic local printed resources are used. In addition, Bedouin oral traditions and personal observation are employed for final analysis. Unlike the pre-state Nabat, the current practice is institutionalized to become an essential aspect of state modern processes. A connection is suggested between the emphasis (in the current practice of …

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Faculty Senate Minutes - November 16, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate Nov 2001

Faculty Senate Minutes - November 16, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

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Resolution In Support Of The Sexual Assault And Harassment Committee, Usm Faculty Senate Nov 2001

Resolution In Support Of The Sexual Assault And Harassment Committee, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Resolutions

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Host-Switching Does Not Circumvent The Ni-Based Defence Of The Ni Hyperaccumulator Streptanthus Polygaloides (Brassicaceae), Micheal A. Davis, Robert S. Boyd, James H. Cane Nov 2001

Host-Switching Does Not Circumvent The Ni-Based Defence Of The Ni Hyperaccumulator Streptanthus Polygaloides (Brassicaceae), Micheal A. Davis, Robert S. Boyd, James H. Cane

Faculty Publications

Elevated tissue concentrations of metals have been shown to defend metal-hyperaccumulating plants against both herbivores and pathogens. Tolerance of metal-based defences presents a challenge to herbivores, because heavy metals cannot be degraded or metabolized. One strategy that herbivores can employ to counter high-metal defences is dietary dilution, or host switching. Highly mobile herbivores are most likely to use this strategy, but less mobile lepidopteran larvae can also Improve their performance on toxic hosts if early instar development occurs on more favourable hosts. We examined the effects of host switching on growth and survival of a generalist folivore. Specifically, we tested …

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Concentration Gradient, Diffusion, And Flow Through Open Porous Medium Near Percolation Threshold Via Computer Simulations, Ras B. Pandey, J.F. Gettrust, D. Stauffer Nov 2001

Concentration Gradient, Diffusion, And Flow Through Open Porous Medium Near Percolation Threshold Via Computer Simulations, Ras B. Pandey, J.F. Gettrust, D. Stauffer

Faculty Publications

The interacting lattice gas model is used to simulate fluid flow through an open percolating porous medium with the fluid entering at the source-end and leaving from the opposite end. The shape of the steady-state concentration profile and therefore the gradient field depends on the porosity (p). The root mean square (rms) displacements of fluid and its constituents (tracers) show a drift power-law behavior, R∝t in the asymptotic regime (t→∞). The flux current density (j) is found to scale with the porosity according to, j∝(Δp)β with Δp …

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Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Judith Kalman, Macrina Gómez, Gert Rijlaarsdam, Anne D'Antonio Stinson, Melissa E. Whiting Nov 2001

Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Judith Kalman, Macrina Gómez, Gert Rijlaarsdam, Anne D'Antonio Stinson, Melissa E. Whiting

Faculty Publications

Twice a year, in the May and November issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography of recent research in literacy education, Most of the studies appeared during the six-month period preceding the compilation of the bibliography (January through June, 2001 for the present bibliography), but studies that appeared earlier are occasionally included. The listing is selective;; we make no attempt to include all research and research-related articles that appeared in the period tinder review Comments on the bibliography and suggestions about items for inclusion may be directed to the bibliography editors. We encourage you to send your suggestions to djbrown@ucok.edu, kalman@data.net.mx, …

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Faculty Senate Minutes - October 19, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate Oct 2001

Faculty Senate Minutes - October 19, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

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Endorsement Of Usfa Resolutions On Faculty Input In Presidential Evaluations, Annual Faculty Pay Increases, And Ihl Appointments, Usm Faculty Senate Oct 2001

Endorsement Of Usfa Resolutions On Faculty Input In Presidential Evaluations, Annual Faculty Pay Increases, And Ihl Appointments, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Resolutions

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Resolution On Using Tobacco Settlement Funds To Support State Health Benefits, Usm Faculty Senate Oct 2001

Resolution On Using Tobacco Settlement Funds To Support State Health Benefits, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Resolutions

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Library Focus (Fall 2001), University Libraries Oct 2001

Library Focus (Fall 2001), University Libraries

Library Focus

The Fall 2001 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring instructions for creating a personal library web site; a National Endowment for the Humanities grant awarded to the de Grummond collection; civil rights letters and posters in the digital archives; the 2001 Southeastern Library Network Outstanding Library Program Award given to University Libraries; new electronic resources; a Curious George exhibit in Japan; and a new digitization grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

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Pfiesteria: Review Of The Science And Identification Of Research Gaps. Report For The National Center For Environmental Health, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Jonathan Samet, Gary S. Bignami, Robert Feldman, William E. Hawkins, Jerry Neff, Theodore Smayda Oct 2001

Pfiesteria: Review Of The Science And Identification Of Research Gaps. Report For The National Center For Environmental Health, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Jonathan Samet, Gary S. Bignami, Robert Feldman, William E. Hawkins, Jerry Neff, Theodore Smayda

Faculty Publications

In connection with the CDC National Conference on Pfiesteria, a multidisciplinary panel evaluated Pfiesteria-related research. The panel set out what was known and what was not known about adverse effects of the organism on estuarine ecology, fish, and human, health; assessed the methods used in Pfiesteria research; and offered suggestions to address data gaps. The panel's expertise covered dinoflagellate ecology; fish pathology and toxicology; laboratory measurement of toxins, epidemiology, and neurology. The panel evaluated peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed literature available through June 2000 in a systematic conceptual framework that moved from the source of exposure, through exposure research and dose, to …

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An Intraday Examination Of The Federal Funds Market: Implications For The Theories Of The Reverse-J Pattern, Ken B. Cyree, Drew B. Winters Oct 2001

An Intraday Examination Of The Federal Funds Market: Implications For The Theories Of The Reverse-J Pattern, Ken B. Cyree, Drew B. Winters

Faculty Publications

The intraday literature suggests that returns, variances, and volume form an intraday reverse-J pattern. Two competing theories explain the observed patterns: private information about future security prices and trading stoppages. The Federal funds market allows a unique opportunity to study the causes of intraday patterns because private information common to most markets does not play a role in setting prices. We find reverse-J variance patterns while accounting for generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model effects. Our results support trading stops as an explanation for the reverse-J pattern and suggest that private information is not a necessary condition for the observed …

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The Cover Design, Thomas D. Walker Oct 2001

The Cover Design, Thomas D. Walker

Faculty Publications

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Faculty Senate Minutes - September 21, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate Sep 2001

Faculty Senate Minutes - September 21, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

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Effects Of River Inputs Into The Bay Of Bengal, Stephan D. Howden, Raghu Murtugudde Sep 2001

Effects Of River Inputs Into The Bay Of Bengal, Stephan D. Howden, Raghu Murtugudde

Faculty Publications

The effect of river runoff in the Bay of Bengal is examined using a reduced gravity primitive equation ocean model coupled to an atmospheric boundary layer model. Model simulations are carried out by including river discharges as surface freshwater forcing at the mouths of the rivers. To assess the effect of river inputs on the dynamics and thermodynamics of the tropical Indian Ocean, parallel simulations are carried out by neglecting the river inputs. Additionally, another set of parallel runs without penetrative radiation loss through the mixed layer is carried out. The freshwater flux due to rivers results in lower salinities …

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Dirt Road Corrugations, Temple H. Fay, Keith A. Hardie, Stephan V. Joubert Sep 2001

Dirt Road Corrugations, Temple H. Fay, Keith A. Hardie, Stephan V. Joubert

Faculty Publications

WE CONSIDER FACTORS INFLUENCING the build-up of corrugations on dirt roads and the reactions of vehicles to them. We suggest that corrugations are (at least in part) a consequence of a natural tangential oscillation of the tread surface of the car lure that occurs when the vehicle is being driven or braked. Secondly, we suggest that the unpleasant vibration experienced by a vehicle passing over a corrugated road is the result of a beat produced by the difference of the frequency of oscillation of its own tyres and the frequency of the stimulation received by the vehicle due to passage …

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Comment On "Observation Of Superluminal Behaviors In Wave Propagation", Harry Ringermacher, Lawrence R. Mead Jul 2001

Comment On "Observation Of Superluminal Behaviors In Wave Propagation", Harry Ringermacher, Lawrence R. Mead

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Experimental Evaluation Of Vitellogenin As A Predictive Biomarker For Reproductive Disruption, Ann Oliver Cheek, Thea Hoexum Brouwer, Suzanne Carroll, Steve Manning, John A. Mclachlan, Marius Brouwer Jul 2001

Experimental Evaluation Of Vitellogenin As A Predictive Biomarker For Reproductive Disruption, Ann Oliver Cheek, Thea Hoexum Brouwer, Suzanne Carroll, Steve Manning, John A. Mclachlan, Marius Brouwer

Faculty Publications

Vitellogenin (VTG) synthesis in male oviparous vertebrates is used as an indicator of environmental estrogen exposure, but the relationship between elevated VTG levels and the effects of environmental estrogens on reproductive success are poorly understood. To examine whether altered VTG expression predicts reproductive impairment, we exposed medaka (Oryzias latipes) for 2 or 8 weeks posthatch to 0, 0.5, 1.0, 2.5, and 7.5 ppb of the environmental estrogen o,p ' -DDT. Fish were sampled 2, 4, and 8 weeks after hatch to examine VTG expression and gonad development. After exposure, fish were transferred to clean water, grown to sexual maturity, and …

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Family, Commerce, And Religion In London And Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants, C.Ad1000-C.1300, Richard H. Bowers Jul 2001

Family, Commerce, And Religion In London And Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants, C.Ad1000-C.1300, Richard H. Bowers

Faculty Publications

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Faculty Senate Minutes - June 15, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate Jun 2001

Faculty Senate Minutes - June 15, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

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Chloropigment Distribution And Transport On The Inner Shelf Off Duck, North Carolina, Eurico J. D'Sa, Steven E. Lohrenz, James H. Churchill, Vernon L. Asper, John L. Largier, Albert J. Williams Iii Jun 2001

Chloropigment Distribution And Transport On The Inner Shelf Off Duck, North Carolina, Eurico J. D'Sa, Steven E. Lohrenz, James H. Churchill, Vernon L. Asper, John L. Largier, Albert J. Williams Iii

Faculty Publications

The distribution and movement of chloropigments (chlorophylls and associated degradation products) in the bottom boundary layer near Duck, North Carolina, were examined during July and August 1994. Time series of chloropigment fluorescence, current velocity, and surface wave properties were acquired from instruments mounted on a bottom tripod set at 20 m depth. These data were combined with moored current meter measurements, meteorological data, and shipboard surveys in a comparative assessment of physical processes and chloropigment distribution over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Two dominant scales of chloropigment variation were observed. On numerous occasions, small-scale (order m) structure …

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Faculty Senate Minutes - May 8, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate May 2001

Faculty Senate Minutes - May 8, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

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Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Judy Kalman, Ad Stinson, Me Whiting May 2001

Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Judy Kalman, Ad Stinson, Me Whiting

Faculty Publications

Twice a year, in the May and November issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography of recent research in the reaching of English. Most of the studies appeared during the six-month period preceding the compilation of the bibliography (June through December, 2000,for the present bibliography), but some studies that appeared earlier are occasionally included. The listing is selective; we make no attempt to include all research and research-related articles that appeared in the period under review. Comments on the bibliography and suggestions about items for inclusion may be directed to the bibliography editors. We encourage you to send your suggestions to …

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Faculty Senate Minutes - April 27, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate Apr 2001

Faculty Senate Minutes - April 27, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

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Faculty Senate Minutes - April 20, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate Apr 2001

Faculty Senate Minutes - April 20, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

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Seasonal Variation Of The North Atlantic Current, Max I. Yaremchuk, Dmitri A. Nechaev, Keith R. Thompson Apr 2001

Seasonal Variation Of The North Atlantic Current, Max I. Yaremchuk, Dmitri A. Nechaev, Keith R. Thompson

Faculty Publications

The seasonal circulation of the upper 1000 m of the North Atlantic between 40 degrees -55 degreesN and 20 degrees -40 degreesW is calculated using the traditional dynamic method and a circulation model with a density field that evolves with the flow. The model is of finite difference form and is based on dynamics that describe the nonlinear evolution of the ocean at low Rossby number. The model is controlled by initial and boundary conditions that include air-sea buoyancy and momentum fluxes. The model is run in two ways: with controls specified directly from observations and with controls inferred by …

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Library Focus (Spring 2001), University Libraries Apr 2001

Library Focus (Spring 2001), University Libraries

Library Focus

The Spring 2001 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring the 34th annual Children’s Book Festival; the Faces of Freedom Summer exhibit; web transcripts of Civil Rights oral histories; long-time library benefactor James A. Riley; new electronic resources; construction on the new Gulf Coast Library; and the Virtual Reading Room.

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Faculty Senate Minutes - March 23, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate Mar 2001

Faculty Senate Minutes - March 23, 2001, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

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Anything To Act Crazy: Cajun Women And Mardi Gras Disguise, Carolyn E. Ware Mar 2001

Anything To Act Crazy: Cajun Women And Mardi Gras Disguise, Carolyn E. Ware

Faculty Publications

As women play an increasingly prominent part in many Cajun Mardi Gras runs, they bring their own styles of roleplaying and masking to the celebration. A handful of creative women have taken the lead in commodifying the rural tradition, making and marketing Mardi Gras suits and masks on a large scale. This article looks at Cajun women's disguises as a way of understanding their larger influence on the festival.

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