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Faculty Senate Monthly Packet June 2003, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The June 2003 Monthly packet includes the June agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held May 2003.

Meeting Notes 2003-05-15 [Special Meeting] , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Portrayals Of Disability In The Professional Preparation Of Speech-Language Pathologists, Jane Eric Sleeper Gravel

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this dissertation research was to discover, describe, and analyze how disability is portrayed to students attending graduate programs with the objective of becoming certified to practice the profession of speech-language pathology (SLP). Curricular materials drawn from the 228 SLP graduate programs in the United States were analyzed, using qualitative research strategies, to shed light on the processes by which portrayals of disability affect the presuppositions and practices of professionals who work in disability services.

The analysis provided supporting evidence for the claims of disability scholars and activists that the concept “disability” is a malleable social construction that …

Community Policing In Portland, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Meeting Notes 2003-05-08 , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet May 2003, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The May 2003 Monthly packet includes the May agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held April 2004.

Portland State Magazine, Portland State University. Office Of University Communications

Portland State Magazine

PSU’s alumni magazine, published 2-3 times a year. In this issue: Michelangelo Aust keeps in touch while traveling through Europe; Urban and Public Affairs Dean Nohad Toulan steps down after 31 years; computer engineering professor is looking for new meaning in medical monitor data; why are violent crime victims in Oregon not seeking compensation from the state?; Aesop’s Fables can teach the principles of strategic management; player, manager, coach: Tom Trebelhorn dedicates his life to baseball; and more.

Artifacts And Cultures-Of-Use In Intercultural Communication, Steven L. Thorne

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article develops a conceptual framework for understanding how intercultural communication, mediated by cultural artifacts (i.e., Internet communication tools), creates compelling, problematic, and surprising conditions for additional language learning. Three case studies of computer-mediated intercultural engagement draw together correlations between discursive orientation, communicative modality, communicative activity, and emergent interpersonal dynamics. These factors contribute to varying qualities and quantities of participation in the intercultural partnerships. Case one, "Clashing Frames of Expectation -- Differing Cultures-of-Use," suggests that the cultures-of-use of Internet communication tools, their perceived existence and on-going construction as distinctive cultural artifacts, differs interculturally just as communicative genre, pragmatics, and institutional …

Cellular Automata Realization Of Regular Logic, Andrzej Buller, Marek Perkowski

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper presents a cellular-automatic model of a reversible regular structure called Davio lattice. Regular circuits are investigated because of the requirement of future (nano-) technologies where long wires should be avoided. Reversibility is a valuable feature because it means much lower energy dissipation. A circuit is reversible if the number of its inputs equals the number of its outputs and there is a one-to-one mapping between spaces of input vectors and output vectors. It is believed that one day regular reversible structures will be implemented as nanoscale 3-dimensional chips. This paper introduces the notion of the Toffoli gate and …

Function-Driven Linearly Independent Expansions Of Boolean Functions And Their Application To Synthesis Of Reversible Circuits, Pawel Kerntopf, Marek Perkowski

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The paper presents a family of new expansions of Boolean functions called Function-driven Linearly Independent (fLI) expansions. On the basis of this expansion a new kind of a canonical representation of Boolean functions is constructed: Function-driven Linearly Independent Binary Decision Diagrams (fLIBDDs). They generalize both Function-driven Shannon Binary Decision Diagrams (fShBDDs) and Linearly Independent Binary Decision Diagram (LIBDDs). The diagrams introduced in the paper, can provide significantly smaller representations of Boolean functions than standard Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (OBDDs), Ordered Functional Decision Diagrams (OFDDs) and Ordered (Pseudo-) Kronecker Functional Decision Diagrams (OKFDDs) and can be applied to synthesis of reversible …

The Portland Spectator, April 2003, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Portland Spectator

Editor: Napoleon Linardatos

Articles in this issue include: University Studies reform: giving options to students, making the program better; Churchill, appeasement and Iraq: the same yesterday, today and tomorrow; Walking with dinosaurs: the futile efforts of the vocal minority; The death of education in America; and The beer tax: increasing the price of grandpappy’s hooch;

Meeting Notes 2003-04-10 , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet April 2003, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The April 2003 Monthly packet includes the April agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held March 2003.

The Portland Spectator, March 2003, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Portland Spectator

Editor: Napoleon Linardatos

Articles in this issue include: Confederacy of dunces: 'Preacher Daniel' and his enlightened student opposition; Trowing the switch: the suspicious past of ex-Illinois Gov. Ryan; War for oil? Many would like to think so; Why this war is necessary: a last chance to stop Saddam Hussein; A unstable region: why the Middle East is behind the times; The folks from Paris: why Europeans don't like Bush; Fashion statements: lots of noise, not much argument; Friendly foods: why GM foods are good for you; and PSU architecture: many ideas, a few buildings, one campus.

Meeting Notes 2003-03-13 [Part C] , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Meeting Notes 2003-03-13 [Part D] , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Meeting Notes 2003-03-13 [Part A] , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Meeting Notes 2003-03-13 [Part B] , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet March 2003, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The March 2003 Monthly packet includes the March agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held February 2003.

The Portland Region: How Are We Doing? Highlights Of The Region, Metro (Or.)

Metro Collection

No abstract provided.

A Comparative History Of Aids In Latin America: Brazil And Cuba, Shawn Smallman

International & Global Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

According to a joint report of the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization in September 2002 there were approximately 1.4 million HIV+ people in Latin America, and a further 420,000 HIV+ people in the Caribbean. The number of infections had increased by nearly 10% from the previous year in Latin America, and 16% in the Caribbean. While striking, these figures may obscure the diversity of the HIV epidemic in the region. Latin America has a varied pattern of infections, which means that the experience of Bolivia, Ecuador and Mexico is quite different from that of Honduras, Haiti …

Enhanced Magnetic Quantum Oscillations In The Mixed State Of A Two-Dimensional Organic Superconductor, J. Wosnitza, J. Hagel, P. J. Meeson, D. Bintley, J. A. Schlueter, Javid Mohtasham, Rolf Walter Winter, Gary L. Gard

Chemistry Faculty Publications and Presentations

We report on de Haas–van Alphen (dHvA) oscillations observed in the mixed state of the organic superconductor β″–(BEDT-TTF)₂SF₅CH₂CF₂SO₃ (BEDT-TTF stands for bisethylenedithio-tetrathiafulvalene) utilizing the field-modulation technique and torque magnetometry. At low temperatures (30 mK), the dHvA signal persists down to 1.4 T well below the upper critical field Bc2≈3.6T. Contrary to most theoretical predictions and previous experimental findings, no additional damping of the dHvA-oscillation amplitude, but a reduced damping of the dHvA signal is found. This highly unusual effect might indicate a reduced quasiparticle scattering rate or an additional oscillatory contribution in the superconducting state.

Meeting Notes 2003-02-13 , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet February 2003, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The February 2003 Monthly packet includes the February agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held January 2003.

La Chanson D'Yde Et Olive: A Parable Of A Medieval Self-Made Man, NoéMie Young-Studer

Dissertations and Theses

La chanson d'Yde et Olive, an early fourteenth-century epic poem from the Picard region, exemplifies the medieval custom of text renewal that seeks to adapt pagan materials to fit Christian doctrine. Largely based on the plot of the Ovidian fable Iphis and Ianthe from The Metamorphoses, its main character Yde undergoes a metaphorical transformation from a woman into a man. Moreover, much like the Ovide moralisé, a Christianized adaptation of the Latin original, Yde et Olive's message can be understood as a Christian parable for the purging of the sinful soul. To set up the poem's didactic message, the poet …

Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium 2003: 1st Annual -- Sharing Data, Making Connections (Abstracts), Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium

Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium of Portland/Vancouver

The UERC is a consortium of people from various universities and colleges, state and federal agencies, local governments, non-profit organizations and independent professionals interested in supporting urban ecosystem research and creating an information-sharing network of people that collect and use ecological data in the Portland/Vancouver area.

UERC Mission Statement:

To advance the state of the science of urban ecosystems and improve our understanding of them, with a focus on the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan region, by fostering communication and collaboration among researchers, managers and citizens at academic institutions, public agencies, local governments, non-profit organizations, and other interested groups.

The principal organizers span …

Taking Root In The Silicon Forest: The Role Of High Technology Firms As Surrogate Universities In Portland, Oregon, Heike Mayer

Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation examines the evolution of the high technology industry in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region. The research explains how and why the region was able to grow a high technology industry cluster in the absence of a major world-class engineering and computer science research university. The research challenges the conventional assumption that a research university must be in place to create a high technology center. It was hypothesized that high technology firms functioned as surrogate research universities by attracting and developing labor, creating knowledge, and functioning as incubators for startup companies. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that a regional innovation milieu …

Meeting Notes 2003-01-16 , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Oregon State Ballot Measure 28: Temporarily Increases Income Tax Rates, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet January 2003, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The January 2003 Monthly packet includes the January agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held December 2002.