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Popular Culture And The Rituals Of American Football, Mark Axelrod Mar 2001

Popular Culture And The Rituals Of American Football, Mark Axelrod

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, "Popular Culture and the Rituals of American Football," Mark Axelrod reflects on meanings of cultural practice in American popular culture. Before globalization -- driven by economics -- became a fact of life with profound implications, there were myths and rituals that provided a kind of insulation from the mysteries of life. These practices were ritualized by "primitive" men and women who, seemingly, did not understand the universe as well as we moderns do. But in fact one only needs to witness throngs of Baltimoreans rushing after a caravan of cars attempting to kiss the Vince Lombardi Trophy …

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The Systemic Approach And Valle-Inclán, Semiotics: A Review Article Of New Work By Iglesias Santos And De Toro, A. Robert Lauer Mar 2001

The Systemic Approach And Valle-Inclán, Semiotics: A Review Article Of New Work By Iglesias Santos And De Toro, A. Robert Lauer

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Translation Studies, Cultural Context, And Dante, Reuven Tsur Mar 2001

Translation Studies, Cultural Context, And Dante, Reuven Tsur

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In his article, "Translation Studies, Cultural Context, and Dante," Reuven Tsur explores limits of legitimacy in translation studies. Tsur's approach is a critique of the theoretical assumptions and their application in Edoardo Crisafulli's cultural interpretation of Seamus Heaney's decisions in translating the Ugolino episode in Dante's Inferno. Crisafulli claims that Heaney's choices show internal consistency, and can be accounted for by appealing to "the Irish situational context." Instead, Tsur argues that Crisafulli's cultural interpretations are arbitrary and that a more satisfactory account can be offered through an analysis of constraints within a conception of the aesthetic object as an elegant …

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Memory And The Quest For Family History In One Hundred Years Of Solitude And Song Of Solomon, Susana Vega-González Mar 2001

Memory And The Quest For Family History In One Hundred Years Of Solitude And Song Of Solomon, Susana Vega-González

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, "Memory and the Quest for Family History in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Song of Solomon," Susana Vega-González explores similarities between the novels of García Márquez and Morrison with a special focus on the use of memory and imagination. Based on theoretical models, Vega-Gonzálezas proposes that fictional representations are a means of rewriting history, a particular aspect of literay discourse. The texts under scrutiny constitute true quest stories of characters who search for their family history along their own identity amidst the dangers of capitalism and its excessive desire for progress and class ascendance. The break …

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Testimonial Poetry In East European Post-Totalitarian Literature, Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva Mar 2001

Testimonial Poetry In East European Post-Totalitarian Literature, Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva

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In her article, "Testimonial Poetry in East European Post-Totalitarian Literature," Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva reexamines the belief that postmodern literature and deconstructive writing have parted literary and theoretical discourse from reality, thereby obstructing and annihilating our access to history. Lutzkanova-Vassileva exemplifies her prognosis in an inquiry into post-totalitarian and postmodern Bulgarian literature and its texts of poetry. Born in the turmoil of communism's debacle, the analysis is an attempt to illustrate that, contrary to denying reference, postmodernism solely rejects the reduction of reference to a world that is perceptible and cognitively masterable. Rethinking what many have seen as a self-referential literature, with …

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Gender, Literature, And Film In Contemporary East Central European Culture, Anikó Imre Mar 2001

Gender, Literature, And Film In Contemporary East Central European Culture, Anikó Imre

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In her article, "Gender, Literature, and Film in Contemporary East Central European Culture," Anikó Imre discusses gender, literature, and film in Hungary in the context of East Central European national cultures of the 1980s and 1990s. Anikó Imre analyzes the analogous gender structures that underlie both nation and literature in these transitional cultures. She challenges both social science studies of post-communist transitions and studies of East Central European literatures and cultures for their traditional neglect of gendered desire as a political factor. Thereby, Imre adopts a deconstructionist, feminist, and post-colonial approach to Hungarian "postmodernist" literature and film, which, similar to …

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Globalization And Conferencing Comparative Literature In Egypt And Slovenia, Babis Dermitzakis Mar 2001

Globalization And Conferencing Comparative Literature In Egypt And Slovenia, Babis Dermitzakis

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In his article, "Globalization and Conferencing Comparative Literature in Egypt and Slovenia," Babis Dermitzakis discusses two recent conferences in the discipline of comparative literature. The former conference was held on the topic of literary criticism in Cairo and the latter on the genre of the romantic epic poem in Ljubljana. The implicit and explicit objective of both conferences was to discuss as well as to demonstrate a stand against globalization with specific reference to culture and literature. The conference participants as much as the organizers intended to show that cultures and countries peripheral to economic, political, and cultural centres -- …

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The New Knowledge Management And Online Research And Publishing In The Humanities, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Mar 2001

The New Knowledge Management And Online Research And Publishing In The Humanities, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, "The New Knowledge Management and Online Research and Publishing in the Humanities," Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek discusses the problematics of new media scholarship and technology and online publishing in the humanities today. He argues that while there are legitimate questions about scholarly material in the humanities online, the reality is that most undergraduate as well as graduate students today use the web for at least the initial stages of their research. In order to increase the quality of content of scholarship on the world wide web, scholars in the humanities ought to get involved with new media …

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The Systemic Approach, Postcolonial Studies, And Translation Studies: A Review Article Of New Work By Hermans And Tymoczko, Louise Von Flotow Mar 2001

The Systemic Approach, Postcolonial Studies, And Translation Studies: A Review Article Of New Work By Hermans And Tymoczko, Louise Von Flotow

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Examples Of The Motif Of The Shrew In European Literature And Film, Louise O. Vasvári Mar 2001

Examples Of The Motif Of The Shrew In European Literature And Film, Louise O. Vasvári

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In her article "Examples of the Motif of the Shrew in European Literature and Film" Louise O. Vasvári presents the shrew-taming story as a masterplot of both Eastern and Western folklore and literature concerned with establishing the appropriate power dynamic between a married couple. Vasvári firts reviews the comparative groundwork of the story she has documented in her earlier studies of the topic. In addition to tracing the bundle of motifs that make up the shrew story from medieval Arabic and European versions to the present, she then devotes attention to Hungarian folklore traditions. In the second part of the …

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A Framework For Supporting The Class Of Space Partitioning, Walid G. Aref, Ihab F. Ilyas Feb 2001

A Framework For Supporting The Class Of Space Partitioning, Walid G. Aref, Ihab F. Ilyas

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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Parallel 3d Reconstruction Of Assymmetric Virus Structure From Electron From Electron Micrographs: Algorithms And Experiments, Robert E. Lynch, Dan C. Marinescu, Yongchang Ji, Hong Lin Feb 2001

Parallel 3d Reconstruction Of Assymmetric Virus Structure From Electron From Electron Micrographs: Algorithms And Experiments, Robert E. Lynch, Dan C. Marinescu, Yongchang Ji, Hong Lin

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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Participation Input And Participation Equality Within Cross-Cultural Computer Mediated Communication (Cmc) Environments, Roberto J. Mejias Jan 2001

Participation Input And Participation Equality Within Cross-Cultural Computer Mediated Communication (Cmc) Environments, Roberto J. Mejias

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

The current study measured the influence of national culture, anonymity levels, and technological support (CMC and non-CMC) upon participation input and participation equality within and between forty-two U.S. and Mexican groups constituting a total of 469 participants. Results indicate that both U.S. and Mexican groups supported by CMC technology (i.e., group support systems) were more productive in generating participation input than corresponding manual groups. While U.S. manual groups generated more unique or non-redundant ideas than U.S. CMC groups, Mexican CMC groups in contrast, generated more unique ideas than Mexican manual groups. With regard to perceived participation equality, U.S. groups indicated …

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The Value Relevance And Reliability Of Brand Assets Recognized By Uk Firms, Sanjay Kallapur, Sabrina Kwan Jan 2001

The Value Relevance And Reliability Of Brand Assets Recognized By Uk Firms, Sanjay Kallapur, Sabrina Kwan

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

We examine the value relevance and reliability of brand assets recognized by 33 UK firms, and the stock price reaction to the announcement of brand capitalization. We find that brand assets are value relevant, i.e., associated with market values. However, the market capitalization rates of brands of firms with low contracting incentives—firms with no transactions that avoided the London Stock Exchange (LSE) rule requiring shareholder approval for acquisitions/disposals, and firms with industry-adjusted leverage below the sample median—are higher than those of firms with high contracting incentives. Thus there could be substantial differences in the extent of bias or error in …

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Participation Equality: Measurement Within Collaborative Electronic Environments-A Three Country Study, Roberto W. Zmud, Roberto J. Mejias, Bruce A. Reinig, Isabel M. Martinez-Martinez Jan 2001

Participation Equality: Measurement Within Collaborative Electronic Environments-A Three Country Study, Roberto W. Zmud, Roberto J. Mejias, Bruce A. Reinig, Isabel M. Martinez-Martinez

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

While the engendering of participation equality is generally viewed as a desirable group process attribute, findings from prior empirical research are both inconsistent and inconclusive regarding the measurement of participation equality within collaborative electronically supported environments. One explanation for this inconsistency lies in the manner in which the “participation equality” construct has been studied and measured. Results of analyses performed across three distinct national cultures utilizing 86 experimental groups and over 660 participants from the United States, Hong Kong and Spain are presented with recommendations for future research involving the participation equality construct. This is a first paper in a …

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2001 Directory Of Indiana State, County, City And Town Officials Responsible For Road And Street Work, Indiana Ltap Jan 2001

2001 Directory Of Indiana State, County, City And Town Officials Responsible For Road And Street Work, Indiana Ltap

Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Directory

Contact information for agency officials and employees responsible for Indiana’s local road infrastructure.

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Parameter Estimation And Measures Of Fit In A Global, General Equilibrium Model, Jing Liu, Channing Arndt, Thomas Hertel Jan 2001

Parameter Estimation And Measures Of Fit In A Global, General Equilibrium Model, Jing Liu, Channing Arndt, Thomas Hertel

GTAP Working Papers Archive

Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models have been widely used for quantitative analysis of global economic issues. However, CGE models are frequently criticized for resting on weak empirical foundations. This paper builds on recent work in macro-econometric estimation, developing an approach to parameter estimation for a widely employed global CGE model, the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model. An approximate likelihood function is developed and the set of optimum elasticity values is obtained by maximizing this approximate likelihood function in the context of a back casting exercise. In addition, two statistical tests are performed. The first of these tests compares the …

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University Of Paris Libraries: Sainte Genevieve Library, E. Stewart Saunders Jan 2001

University Of Paris Libraries: Sainte Genevieve Library, E. Stewart Saunders

Libraries Research Publications

Traces the history of the Sainte Genevieve Library from its medieval origins to its present status as a library within the University of Paris system.

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The Virtual Writing Center: Developing Ethos Through Mailing List Discourse, Diana C. Bell, Mike T. Hubler Jan 2001

The Virtual Writing Center: Developing Ethos Through Mailing List Discourse, Diana C. Bell, Mike T. Hubler

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

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Writing Centers As Sites Of Academic Culture, Molly Wingate Jan 2001

Writing Centers As Sites Of Academic Culture, Molly Wingate

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

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Triangulation In The Writing Center: Tutor, Tutee, And Instructor Perceptions Of The Tutor's Role, Terese Thonus Jan 2001

Triangulation In The Writing Center: Tutor, Tutee, And Instructor Perceptions Of The Tutor's Role, Terese Thonus

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

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Resistance Is Anything But Futile: Some More Thoughts On Writing Conference Summaries, Margaret Weaver Jan 2001

Resistance Is Anything But Futile: Some More Thoughts On Writing Conference Summaries, Margaret Weaver

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

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Peer Tutoring And Gorgias: Acknowledging Aggression In The Writing Center, Julie A. Bokser Jan 2001

Peer Tutoring And Gorgias: Acknowledging Aggression In The Writing Center, Julie A. Bokser

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

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Review: Multiliteracies, Lisa Lebduska Jan 2001

Review: Multiliteracies, Lisa Lebduska

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

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International Writing Centers Association Information Jan 2001

International Writing Centers Association Information

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

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Design Guidelines For Deploying Closed Loop Systems, Andrew P. Nichols, Darcy M. Bullock Jan 2001

Design Guidelines For Deploying Closed Loop Systems, Andrew P. Nichols, Darcy M. Bullock

JTRP Technical Reports

Closed loop systems are becoming the preferred method of operating coordinated traffic signal systems. Some of the benefits of a closed loop system include remote controller access, synchronization of controller time clocks, and orderly transition between coordination plans. With ensured time clock synchronization, the coordination of traffic signals becomes more reliable, which leads to optimal vehicle progression through the system. However, due to the complexity and relative infrequent implementation in more rural districts of closed loop systems, it is very difficult to obtain a successful deployment. This manual provides a step-by-step procedure for designing the parameters, implementing, testing, and field …

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A Real-Time Offset Transitioning Algorithm For Coordinating Traffic Signals, Darcy M. Bullock, Montasir Abbas Jan 2001

A Real-Time Offset Transitioning Algorithm For Coordinating Traffic Signals, Darcy M. Bullock, Montasir Abbas

JTRP Technical Reports

This report introduces an adaptive real-time offset transitioning algorithm that can be viewed as an integrated optimization approach designed to work with traditional coordinated-actuated systems. The Purdue Real-Time Offset Transitioning Algorithm for Coordinating Traffic Signals (PRO-TRACTS) adds to the controllers the ability to adaptively change their offsets in response to changes in traffic pattern, providing an intermediate solution between traditional coordinated-actuated control systems and adaptive control systems. To facilitate implementation, a new National Transportation Communication for ITS Protocol (NTCIP) object for capturing detector actuation at the controller’s level is defined in this report. The unique cycle-based tabulation of volume and …

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Nwca Information Jan 2001

Nwca Information

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

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Searching For Robert Moore, Neal Lerner Jan 2001

Searching For Robert Moore, Neal Lerner

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

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Evaluation Of The Implementation Of Hot Pour Sealants And Equipment For Crack Sealing In Indiana, David R. Ward Jan 2001

Evaluation Of The Implementation Of Hot Pour Sealants And Equipment For Crack Sealing In Indiana, David R. Ward

JTRP Technical Reports

This study was initiated as an implementation effort that would monitor, assist with and report on a new maintenance activity involving the trial use of hot pour crack sealant. Work associated with this new activity was qualitatively assessed over a period of several years. INDOT began by purchasing six oil-jacketed melters that were distributed to various sub-districts. Previous INDOT research indicated using hot pour sealant might save on labor expense because it lasted significantly longer than the current emulsion. Random observations were made of various sub-district crews using hot pour sealant and the results were reported to appropriate personnel. Inspections …

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