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Intersectionality And Positionality: Situating Women On Color In The Affirmative Action Dialogue, Laura M. Padilla

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

Creating Problems Rather Than Solving Them: Why Criminal Parental Responsibility Laws Do Not Fit Within Our Understanding Of Justice , Tami Scarola

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

Taking Care Of Our Daughters, Katharine K. Baker

Cardozo Law Review

In The Neutered Mother, The Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies, Martha Fineman gives a powerful critique of the traditional family and proposes an innovative model for change. In the course of her critique, Fineman reveals a number of important truths. Primary among these truths are (1) that dependency begets dependency; (2) that equality rhetoric and practice are vacuous vehicles for justice in a world in which differing degrees of dependency beget different ability; (3) that the privacy and silence of dependency is crucial to patriarchy's construction of the family. Dependencies are created every time a baby is …

Christian Madsen- A Dane In The "Wild West", Sybil D. Needham

The Bridge

I never tire of hearing stories about Danish immigrants coming to America in the 1800' s. Their courage fills me with admiration because few of them would ever see their homeland or families again. My own great-grandparents Jens and Kristine Bagge arrived in June of 1863. Kristine died a few years later leaving five small children behind. We know she was lonely for Denmark.

A Family Sketchbook, Eva M. Johnson

The Bridge

Father, Otto Christensen, was born in 1875 on a farm

that lay on the edge of the North Sea in Jutland, Denmark.

When he was four his mother died and his father remarried.

He spent his childhood tending sheep and cattle and playing

in the sand dunes and heather along the sea. He must have

spent much time dreaming his dreams.

Bulletin Of Yale University School Of Nursing 1997-1998, Yale School Of Nursing

Yale School of Nursing Bulletins and Catalogues

Series 93, Number 13

September 1, 1997

Substance Abuse At Ucc Drafting Sessions, Norman I. Silber

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

A few substance abusers start down the road to addiction with a single reckless experiment. Such was the case of Professor "Doe", a consumer law specialist of my acquaintance. The entanglement of Professor Doe in the UCC drafting process began when he accepted what seemed like the harmless invitation of a friend to attend a single National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws ("NCCUSL") drafting session in1990. Session after session followed. Soon he found himself in a descending spiral-attending study groups, legislative task forces, and conference programs being held in strange cities to debate a new or revised provision …

Harmonic Oscillation In The Presence Of Multiple Damping Forces, Chris Pelto '97

Honors Projects

The relatively mundane damped harmonic oscillator is found to exhibit interesting motion once under the influence of both a velocity dependent and a Coulombic frictional damping force. Data for the decay of the amplitude as a function of time were collected on a specially prepared torsional oscillator. with a variable electromagnetic damping mechanism. An analytical solution of the appropriate equation of motion was obtained by the method of Laplace transforms. In both the limits of zero Coulombic friction and zero velocity damping, the solution reduces to the well-known answers to the problem. the solution, when plotted with the correct parameters, …

Intertextual Oneiric Space In "El Cantico Espiritual" By San Juan De La Cruz And Disney's Alice In Wonderland, Bobbie L. Arndt

Undergraduate Review

No abstract provided.

Civilization And Savagery In Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness And Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Laura Kesselring '97

Undergraduate Review

No abstract provided.

Feminist Literature: Confessional Writing Beyond National Boundaries, Heather Blaha '98

Undergraduate Review

No abstract provided.

Stereotypes As Reinforced Structure In M. Butterfly, Hope Hoffman '98

Undergraduate Review

No abstract provided.

Controlling The Uses Of Our Bodies: A Comparison Of Women In Twenty Countries, Jennifer Pence '97

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

As early as 1871, Elizabeth Cady Stanton recognized that suffrage alone would not guarantee women’s emancipation. Rather, she noted that in order for a woman to be a truly equal and independent citizen, she must possess the ability to control her own circumstances. "The pride of every man is that he is free to carve out his own destiny. A woman has no such pride" (DuBois, 1981:140). Through this recognition she acclaimed that women must have the ability to control their own lives, namely the ability to choose and control the uses of their bodies. Yet, in the present world, …

Critical Citizenship: A Theory On The Foundations Of Legitimate Government, Paul A. Konczal '97

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

In this paper, it is my intention to discuss the issue of legitimacy as it relates to government. I will explore what a legitimate government necessarily consists of; that is, I will attempt to formulate a number of conditions a government must meet in order to be considered legitimate.

Subtyping A Batterer Population, Melissa A. Sprowl '97

Honors Projects

Archival data from a batterers' assessment and treatment program was gathered on 75 males. The data were cluster analyzed to try to parallel the three subtypes of batterers suggested by Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart (1994) (family-only, dysphoric/ borderline, and generally violent/antisocial). To classify the batterers, the 300+ coded variables were condensed into the following subscales: legal history, alcohol/drug use, childhood violence, family distress, and psychiatric history. Three clusters defined by four of the five classifying variables emerged. However, the cluster-defined subtypes did not differ according to the four "external subscales" (physical abuse, emotional abuse, self-report of domestic violence incident, and police …

Women Who Batter: A Comparison To Men Who Batter, Treva S. Bogaerts '97

Honors Projects

A sample of 27 females and 27 males was drawn from the client files of a domestic violence agency in a medium-sized mid-western city. Clients were matched on ethnicity, age, and education so that comparisons could be made to determine whether distinctions exist between these batterer populations. The two groups were compared in terms of legal, family, mental, and social histories, as well as type of physical abuse used. The results have implications for adjustments in treatment procedures for female batterers.

The Use Of Concept Questions To Improve Student Understanding Of Mechanics, And The Formulation Of A Hierarchical Model Of Student Understanding Of Moments Of Forces, Stuart Rowlands

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The aims and objectives of the first part of the thesis are to create and evaluate a teaching package that would enable the teacher to facilitate student conceptual understanding of mechanics. The second part is to create a hierarchical model of student conceptual understanding of moments of forces. The thesis reports on the various conflicting theories and recommended teaching strategies from the research into student misconceptions, and examines the various underlying philosophical trends (for example, radical and social constructivism, the Vygotskian perspective and positivism) that have influenced the research into misconceptions in mechanics. As a result, the philosophical perspective of …

Adaptive Search And The Preliminary Design Of Gas Turbine Blade Cooling Systems, Rajkumar Roy

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This research concerns the integration of Adaptive Search (AS) technique such as the Genetic Algorithms (GA) with knowledge based software to develop a research prototype of an Adaptive Search Manager (ASM). The developed approach allows to utilise both quantitative and qualitative information in engineering design decision making. A Fuzzy Expert System manipulates AS software within the design environment concerning the preliminary design of gas turbine blade cooling systems. Steady state cooling hole geometry models have been developed for the project in collaboration with Rolls Royce plc. The research prototype of ASM uses a hybrid of Adaptive Restricted Tournament Selection (ARTS) …

Steiner Trees Over Generalized Checkerboards, Meta M. Voelker '97

Honors Projects

To minimize the length of a planar network, we can build a Steiner minimal tree that is, a tree consisting of the original network points, as well as additional, strategically-placed (Steiner) points. Chung, Gardner and Graham [2] investigated building Steiner trees over grids of unit squares. We generalize their ideas to grids of rhombuses, and show that two near-optimal Steiner trees exist for each grid, one built from Steiner trees over rhombuses and one built from Steiner trees over isosceles triangles. Further, we conjecture that for grids with an odd number of layers, only the small angle of the rhombus …

The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union March, 1997, Dit: Students' Union

DIT Student Union

No abstract provided.

The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union September, 1997, Dit: Students' Union

DIT Student Union

No abstract provided.

The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union October, 1997, Dit Students's Union

DIT Student Union

No abstract provided.

Diffraction From Polarization Holographic Gratings With Surface Relief In Side-Chain Azobenzene Polyesters, Izabela Naydenova, Ludmila Nikolova, Todor Todorov, N.C.R. Holme, P.S. Ramanujam, S. Hvilsted

Articles

We investigate the polarization properties of holographic gratings in side-chain azobenzene polyesters in which an anisotropic grating that is due to photoinduced linear and circular birefringence is recorded in the volume of the material and a relief grating appears on the surface. A theoretical model is proposed to explain the experimental results, making it possible to understand the influence of the different photoinduced effects. It is shown that at low intensity the polarization properties of the diffraction at these gratings are determined by the interaction of the linear and circular photobirefringences, and at larger intensity the influence of the surface …

Applications Of Acousto-Optic Demodulation And Decoding Techniques, Matthew Graham Hicks

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis describes the operation and performance of an acousto-optic demodulator system consisting of a laser source, an acousto-optic cell and a bi-cell detector. The bi-cell detector is made up of two photodiodes positioned side by side, separated by a small gap. Theory is developed to predict the following; the linear operating range for different gap sizes, absolute frequency sensitivity, system output in response to discrete phase changes, optimum gap size for phase demodulation, absolute descrete phase change sensitivity, the performance of the system in the presence of carrier noise and the effect of clipping the carrier signal on both …

A Geometric Approach To Modelling Interacting Populations, Jennifer M. Sharp

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to present a different approach to the formulation of differential equation mathematical models for interacting populations. It does this through considering a geometric method. The solution to the differential equations are forced, through theuformulation, to lie on the surface of well known three-dimensional shapes. It is this that allows detailed analysis of how, and why, the solution of the equations behave as they do. The thesis firstly reviews some of the skills and techniques used in the formulation and alysis of differential equation models to give a background for some of the analysis used …

A Novel Biosensor Using Nanolithographically-Produced Submicron Optical Sources For The Study Of Cell Adhesion And Chemotaxis, Alastair Sheridan Hood

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Cell adhesion and chemotaxis are two key factors determining cell behaviour and differentiation which are currently analysed by microscopic examination of the cell or membrane-associated fluorescence labels. These analyses are often slow, labour intensive and of limited informational content. This thesis describes the physical theory and experimental aspects of an optical method suitable for monitoring cell contact, adhesion to a surface and chemotaxis beyond the conventional limit of optical microscopy by means of a device that utilises both a plain bare surface and arrays of apertures nanolithographically-produced in the surface of a Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensor structure. Any minute …

Feedforward Artificial Neural Network Design Utilising Subthreshold Mode Cmos Devices, Dominique Xavier Henri Leon Coue

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis reviews various previously reported techniques for simulating artificial neural networks and investigates the design of fully-connected feedforward networks based on MOS transistors operating in the subthreshold mode of conduction as they are suitable for performing compact, low power, implantable pattern recognition systems. The principal objective is to demonstrate that the transfer characteristic of the devices can be fully exploited to design basic processing modules which overcome the linearity range, weight resolution, processing speed, noise and mismatch of components problems associated with weak inversion conduction, and so be used to implement networks which can be trained to perform practical …

Networked Computers + Writing Centers = ? Thinking About Networked Computers In Writing Center Practice, Stuart Blythe

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Cybertext/Cyberspeech: Writing Centers And Online Magic, Sara Kimball

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Droplet Concentration And Size Distribution In Haze And Fog, Josef Podzimek

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Fog (haze) droplet concentrations and size distributions were measured at five sampling sites representing rural and urban regions and a highly polluted marine-urban environment. Droplet imprints in a thin gelatine layer were evaluated and compared to the measurement by light scattering instruments. This enabled conditions for the application of the logarithmic-normal size distribution and for the classification of typical fog droplet size distributions to be established. In particular, the parameters featuring the width and asymmetry of a size distribution were suggested and calculated. Advantages and drawbacks of the applied droplet sampling and evaluation technique are discussed in more detail. © …