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Implementation Of Steel Bridge Protection Policy, Luh M. Chang, Po-Han Chen, Sangwook Lee

JTRP Technical Reports

Many Departments of Transportation (DOTs) have made tremendous efforts for managing their civil infrastructure systems effectively and to meet public demands for their performance and safety. The introduction of warranties help many DOTs keep their construction with better quality by shifting post-construction responsibilities to contractors. Warranties are applied to numerous items according to each DOT’s needs, and this research focuses on steel bridge painting protection policy for Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT). This research represents the development of an implementable warranty clause for protecting steel bridge painting and the image processing technique for the objective and quantitative painting quality assessment. …

Caste- And Development-Associated Gene Expression In A Lower Termite., Michael E. Scharf, Dancia Wu-Scharf, Barry R. Pittendrigh, Gary W. Bennett

Department of Entomology Faculty Publications

Background

Social insects such as termites express dramatic polyphenism (the occurrence of multiple forms in a species on the basis of differential gene expression) both in association with caste differentiation and between castes after differentiation. We have used cDNA macroarrays to compare gene expression between polyphenic castes and intermediary developmental stages of the termiteReticulitermes flavipes.

Results

We identified differentially expressed genes from nine ontogenic categories. Quantitative PCR was used to quantify precise differences in gene expression between castes and between intermediary developmental stages. We found worker and nymph-biased expression of transcripts encoding termite and endosymbiont cellulases; presoldier-biased expression …

Quasaq: A Database-Centric Approach To Enabling End-To-End Qos Control For Multimedia Repositories, Yi-Cheng Tu, Sunil Prabhakar, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Holy Fools, Secular Saints, And Illiterate Saviors In American Literature And Popular Culture, Dana Heller

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, "Holy Fools, Secular Saints, and Illiterate Saviors in American Literature and Popular Culture," Dana Heller identifies and analyzes characteristics of the holy fool figure in American literature and culture. Heller defines the holy fool, or divine idiot, as a figure central to U.S. myths of nation. One encounters such figures in American literature as well as in American folklore, popular culture, and mass media. In American culture, the Divine Idiot is a hybrid form which grows out of the crossings of numerous literary and historical currents, both secular and non-secular. This unwieldy hybridity -- the fact that …

Heidegger, The Erotics Of Ontology, And The Mass-Market Romance, Deborah Lutz

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper, "Heidegger, the Erotics of Ontology, and the Mass-Market Romance," Deborah Lutz explores a particular formula of mass-market romance -- the dangerous lover or "sweet savage" one -- as an allegory for Heidegger's theories of nearness and being-toward-an-end in Being and Time. The postponements, secrets, and failed presence of the final immanence of love in these narratives allegorize the flight and entanglement of Dasein in the everyday. The romance's narrative movement as always in relationship with its end -- the full presence of love -- and its structure of being always ahead of itself, mirrors the narrativity of …

Symbolism, Popular Drama, And Politics And Art In Belgium, 1886-1910, Joan Gross

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Symbolism, Popular Drama, and Politics and Arts in Belgium, 1886-1910," Joan Gross examines what effects the reign of terror in the Congo and the silence that masked it might have had on popular performance traditions and literary practices in Belgium. Gross examines a popular puppet play by Léopold Leloup and an essay by Maurice Maeterlinck, both of which are called The Massacre of the Innocents. The third text she explores is a parliamentary speech given by Émile Vandervelde in 1903 in which he protested brutal practices in the Congo. Gross explores the interconnections between these three disparate …

An Introduction To Comparative Cultural Studies And Popular Culture, Benton Jay Komins

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

New Orleans And Its Influence On The Work Of Lillian Hellman, Charlotte Headrick

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, "New Orleans and Its Influence on the Work of Lillian Hellman," Charlotte Headrick explores playwright Lillian Hellman's life and work. Headrick proposes that Hellman was indelibly shaped by her years in the city of New Orleans. In her early childhood, Hellman would spend half a year in New York and half a year in New Orleans, home to her parents. Despite this seemingly schizophrenic upbringing, she considered herself a Southerner to the end of her days and, in fact, defined herself less by her Jewishness than by her "Southernness." Hellman's plays and memoirs are peppered with references …

Qu(E)Erying Comic Book Culture And Representations Of Sexuality In Wonder Woman, Brian Mitchell Peters

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Qu(e)erying Comic Book Culture and Representations of Sexuality in Wonder Woman," Brian Mitchell Peters proposes that youth culture is responsible for an arbitrary yet highly structured appropriation of what we can call high-contemporary culture. Hence, notions of pop-culture take from the past and use the present to create a highly fluid now, capable of transcending its present moment in a stereotypical fifteen minutes of fame. Part of twentieth-century pop-culture phenomena is the evolution of the comic book. The comic, in its habitual split of binaries, creates a space where young people have tapped consistently into queer themes. …

Selected Bibliography Of Work In Cultural Studies And Us-American Popular Culture, Marta Guirao, Benton Jay Komins

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing/Demultiplexing By The Method Of Irregularly Sampled Zero Crossings, Ying Lu, Okan K. Ersoy

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

The tremendous growth of Internet traffic has created increasing demand on high capacity optical communications networks. Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) networks has emerged as a very attractive option. Systems for optical wavelength demultiplexing have generated much interest in research and development. Since its first appearance, the Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) has become the mainstay for the high channel count demultiplexing applications. In classical AWG design, the number of wavelength channels to be resolved is directly limited by the Free Spectral Range (FSR), and ultimately the channel count of an AWG is limited by the number of arrayed waveguides that …

Level Compressed Dags For Lookup Tables, Ioannis Ioannidis, Ananth Y. Grama

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

On Monitoring And Controlling Qos Network Domains, Ahsan Habib, Sonia Fahmy, Bharat Bhargava

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Distributed Clustering For Scalable, Long-Lived Sensor Networks, Ossama Younis, Sonia Fahmy

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Violin: Virtual Internetworking On Overlay Infrastructure, Xuxian Jiang, Dongyan Xu

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

The Next Information Revolution – Can Institutional Repositories And Self-Archiving Transform Scholarly Communications?, David C. Prosser

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Technology Foundations For Digital Libraries, Sun Microsystems

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Learning Communities: A Fundamental Shift In The Learning Process An Investigative Study Into Their Impact On Library Services, Sohair F. Wastawy

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Ever Widening Circles: Managing Library Consortia, Managing Change, Deb Debrujin

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Managing Library Transformation To Meet The Challenges Of A New Era, Egbert D. Gerryts

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Education And Training For Information Empowerment Specialists In The Networked Society: An Indian Experience, Cr Karisiddappa

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Student Satisfaction With Web-Based Educational Resources For Computer & Information Science: Teaching With Merlot Collection, Emrah Orhun

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Web-Based Educational Resources For Learning And Online Teaching In Higher Education: The Merlot Project, Emrah Orhun

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Library Consortia And Information Provision In Developing Countries: Cosalc, Hannie Sander

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Committed To Licensed Information, Irma Pasanen-Tuomainen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

What's In Collection Configuration Files?, Ian H. Witten

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Cooperative Digital Reference In Europe : Where Are We Going?, Paola Gargiulo

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Electronic Services Of The Sabanci University Information Center, Emel Sokullu

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

The Open Archives Initiative And Its Impact On Universities And Scholarly Publishing, Diann Rusch-Feja

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

University Of Toronto Libraries Electronic Journal Services, Warren Holder

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.