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The Advocate, September 17, 2013, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

A Guest In Someone Else's House : The Construction Of Asian Americans As Foreigners, Deepa Ranganathan

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

Social workers, like many people, wrongly tend to think of Asian Americans as beings exempt from the problems of racism. The social work profession considers "race" to be a property inhering almost solely in African Americans. Meanwhile, the profession assigns the property of foreign "culture" primarily to Asian Americans. This thesis uses the work of Critical Race Theory (CRT) scholars to show that social workers, in presuming that Asian Americans are a class of people who are essentially foreign, are actually reproducing a form of exclusionist racism that Asian Americans have faced for generations. A partial solution to this problem …

'If You Ever Go To Dublin Town...': Kavanagh's Urban Flânerie And The Irish Capital, Marjan Shokouhi

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

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Incomplete Initiations In Brian Friel's Plays, Chu He

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

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'Winds Of Change' In The Moon In The Yellow River And The Dreaming Dust By Denis Johnston: Staging Identity In A Crisis, Virginie Girel-Pietka

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

'He Thinks He's Entangled In A Net': The Web Of Continental Associations In Waiting For Godot, Amy Burnside

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

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A Prophetic Voice?: Albert Memmi's Portrait Du Décolonisé Arabo-Musulman Et De Quelques Autres, Sheila Walsh

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

The Emigrant Experience: Sebastian Barry's On Canaan's Side (2011), Catherine O'Brien

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

Change As Threat: Envisioning The E/End In Colum Mccann's Two Collections Of Short Stories, Cécile Maudet

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

'Breakfast-Time Back Home'?: 'New Irish' Poets Greg Delanty And Eamonn Wall, Ailbhe Mcdaid

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

The Cowl - V.78 - N.2 - Sep 12, 2013

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 78 - No. 2 - September 12, 2013. 20 pages.

The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act: Time To End The Corporate Welfare, Robert J. Rhee

Faculty Scholarship

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, inflicted enormous losses on the insurance industry and businesses. In the wake of the disruptions occurring in the insurance market at the time, the government enacted the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to create a “temporary” federal backstop against catastrophic losses. This program subsidized private risk with public funds through a cost-sharing program for which the government does not receive any compensation. The compelling need for the program was unclear even in the smoldering aftermath of 9/11. Yet in response to effective lobbying by the insurance industry and business interests, Congress has …

The Advocate, September 10, 2013, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

The Bison, September 6, 2013

The Bison

No abstract provided.

A Model For Transforming Engineering Education Through Group Learning, Shannon Chance, Gavin Duffy, Brian Bowe, Mike Murphy, Tony Duggan

Conference papers

Electrical engineering educators at Technological University Dublin (DIT) have successfully implemented pedagogical change. They now use group-based, student-centered and inquiry-driven approaches to teach emerging engineers. The objective of this was to foster students’ personal as well as professional skills (i.e., teamwork, communication, self-directed learning, etc.). This paper explores how such change was achieved and provides graphic models that draw from prior phenomenological studies and incorporates aspects of Rogers’ (1962) product adoption curve and Lowe’s (2012) interpretations of it.

Remembrance And Research: Some Reflections On A Pending Centenary -- Conclusion, Keith C. Sewell

Pro Rege

This article is the second half of Dr. Keith C. Sewell’s study “Remembrance and Research: Some Reflections on a Pending Centenary”.

“Turn On The Lights”—Sustainable Energy Investment And Regulatory Policy: Charting The Hydrokinetic Path For Pakistan, Nadia B. Ahmad

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

Hydrokinetic energy is an under-recognized, low-cost renewable technology that can be deployed in Pakistan through a robust national energy strategy and international investment schemes to tackle the country’s acute energy crisis. This article will show how national and local laws can be amended to favor progress in the sustainable energy sector and achieve hydrokinetic energy production in Pakistan, which if actualized, would be nothing short of a game changer—strategically and environmentally. Despite current legal regimes that disfavor small scale hydroelectric power production, Pakistan and other less developed countries can adapt and deploy hydrokinetic technology through revamped investment laws, regulatory rules, …

Handling Concept Drift In The Context Of Expensive Labels, Patrick Lindstrom

Doctoral

Machine learning has been successfully applied to a wide range of prediction problems, yet its application to data streams can be complicated by concept drift. Existing approaches to handling concept drift are overwhelmingly reliant on the assumption that it is possible to obtain the true label of an instance shortly after classification at a negligible cost. The aim of this thesis is to examine, and attempt to address, some of the problems related to handling concept drift when the cost of obtaining labels is high. This thesis presents Decision Value Sampling (DVS), a novel concept drift handling approach which periodically …

Newspaper Classification: An Expansion Of The Library Of Congress “A” Classification To Accommodate International Newspapers, Naomi Kietzke Young

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Usawc Parameters

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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For "The Prosperity Of Scotland": Mediating National Improvement In The Scots Magazine, 1739-49, Alex Benchimol

Studies in Scottish Literature

Discusses the early years the the Scots Magazine, founded in Edinburgh in 1739, examining the aims of its publishers, and the development of its political and economic views before and after the Jacobite Rising of 1745-46, in light of contemporary Scottish ideas of social and economic improvement.

"And The Roadside Fire": Portrayals Of Home Through National Song In Stevenson's Scottish Adventures, Christy Danelle Di Frances

Studies in Scottish Literature

This article considers allusions to popular Scottish song in Stevenson’s work, especially in Kidnapped, to interrogate Stevenson’s broader configuration of home, as both personal and engaged with the Scottish national consciousness, exploring how he preserves home within his modern adventure aesthetic through reference to popular Scottish song, ballads and folk songs.

The Daily Gamecock, Football Preview, August 30, 2013, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

August

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Lifting The Veil Of Violence: The October Crisis, 1970., Jef R. Palframan

Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research

This work explores the uses of violence during the October Crisis of 1970 in Québec, Canada. The author questions the current state of historiographical approaches to the October Crisis and posits a new approach. Violence, seen as a language, permeates the events surrounding the kidnapping and later murder of Pierre Laporte. The reaction of the Québécois public at large is examine in response to the uses of violence by the belligerent parties. The work concludes that the FLQ did not possess the requisite capacity for violence to effectively compete with the Canadian Federal Government and other insights into the legacy …

Asterisk Revisited: Debating A Right Of Reply On Search Results, Frank Pasquale

Frank A. Pasquale

No abstract provided.

The Free Press Vol 45 Issue 1, 08-26-2013, Kirsten Sylvain

Free Press, The

Back to School Issue--Second-year USM student vies for congressional seat--President Theo Kalikow to stay for another year--President Obama’s proposal may change funding for USM

Family Stories: Narrating The Nation In Recent Postcolonial Novels, Erin K. Haddad-Null

Doctoral Dissertations

This study examines the depiction of family histories and stories of familial interactions and dynamics in eight recent postcolonial novels. I examine the depictions of family and nation in these novels and discuss the counter-histories that emerge as a means of questioning national narratives. This project contributes to discussions of the relationship between the nation and the novel and how postcolonial nationalism reshapes understandings of the construction of the nation-state in an increasingly transnational world.

In this study, I draw upon Anne McClintock’s and Susan Strehle’s examinations of how nationalism often separates the idea of family and home even while …

Queer(Ing) Politics And Practices: Contemporary Art In Homonationalist Times, Cierra A. Webster

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This project investigates homonationalism through three different art practices. Briefly, homonationalism is a term to articulate the imbricated systems of contemporary mainstream LGBT politics and nationalist politics. The first article, Queering the Canon: Museum Politics and Hide/Seek at the Smithsonian, unpacks the first major exhibition of gay artwork in America as an example of homonationalist processes in the United States. The second article, entitled Colonial Queeries: Centering a Two-Spirit Critique of Homonationalism, analyses Canadian artist Kent Monkman’s paintings and focuses on the political potential of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. (Pink)Washing the Conflict in Zero Degrees of Separation is …

Revisiting Walter Macken’S Connemara, Eamon Maher

Articles

As a writer, Macken was attuned to the menacing depths that lay behind the physical exterior: the infertile bogland that makes farming problematic, the harsh character of the inhabitants, their callous treatment of one another, their superstitious religiosity and frustrated love affairs. I read most of Macken’s novels as a teenager and enjoyed them enormously. It is a shame that there is little or no critical attention now paid to someone who had such a successful career as a novelist, playwright, actor and director. Even the publication by his son Ultan of a biography, Walter Macken: Dreams on Paper, by …

Ecomorphology And Mating Behavior Of Two Species Of Night-Stalking Tiger Beetles, Omus Audouini And O. Dejeanii, Robert Kent Richardson

Dissertations and Theses

Night-stalking tiger beetles (Cicindelinae: Omus) are among the least studied members of the highly diverse Carabid sub-family Cicindelinae, the tiger beetles. Despite populations of Omus being common in the forest floor habitats of the west coast of North America and their conspicuous predatory role within terrestrial arthropod communities, little is known about the biology and ecology of Omus.

Field studies showed that two species of Omus existed in the forested areas of Powell Butte Nature Park, Portland, Oregon, USA: Omus audouiniand O. dejeanii. The co-occurrence of sympatric, and likely syntopic, species allowed for a comparative approach in examining and analyzing …