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An Accelerated Learning Curve: Understanding The Benefits Of Motorsports Within Academic Disciplines, Mark D. Howell

Visions in Leisure and Business

This article examines the growing need for college and university programs focusing on the motorsports industry. Many institutions fight against the age-old academic debate between classical or "high" culture and popular or "low" culture. Since motorsports affect large, general audiences, they are traditionally deemed "low" culture. As this article states, however, the need for college-educated engineers, designers, and business people in the rapidly expanding motorsports industry is slowly pushing automobile racing into the arena of an established and necessary academic discipline. The benefit of such a discipline is that graduates are successful in finding jobs with many of the biggest …

Scriptural Allusion And Metaphorical Marriage In Charles Chesnutt's 'The Wife Of His Youth', Earle V. Bryant

English Faculty Publications

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Poems The Big Cats Brought In (Review Article), John Gery

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Recovering Collectivity: Group Rights To Intellectual Property In Indigenous Communities, Angela R. Riley

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

When Is A Cd Factory Not Like A Dance Hall?: The Difficulty Of Establishing Third-Party Liability For Infringing Digital Music Samples, Rebecca Morris

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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Software As Discourse: The Power Of Intellectual Property In Digital Architecture, Brian F. Fitzgerald

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

As software increasingly facilitates our living, we are drawn more and more to conceptualize software as discourse. While this may sound trite, it is a fundamental point to appreciate.

One of the most significant intellectual developments of the latter part of the twentieth century has been the poststrucoturalist writing of thinkers like Foucault, Derrida, and Baudril-lard, who explain the multitude of power relationships we experience in our daily lives, the indeterminacy of law, the construction of meaning, and the role of language, or discourse, in the construction of meaning and identity. According to the post-structuralists, we live in an environment …

Minotaur Or The King’S Bull. By Jonathon Ward. Urban Youth Theater, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, New York. 23 July 1999 (Performance Review), Patricia Herrera

Theatre and Dance Faculty Publications

The production of Minotaur was not only a reinterpretation of an ancient Greek myth, but an opportunity for Latino hip-hop artists to pass down a cultural tradition to the next generation. Latino artists situated hip-hop as a social movement, and the teen performers physically embodied this in the songs and dance. In this way, the Athenian rebellion became the breaking of stereotypes often associated with urban youths. The performers beautifully portrayed this act of resistance when Theseus took Minos’ golden crown, wore it, and passed it down for all the Athenians to wear.

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Marine Ornithology

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Marine Ornithology

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Marine Ornithology

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Marine Ornithology

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Marine Ornithology

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The Fire, The State, And Henry Lyons: The Downfall Of The National Baptist Convention President, Kathleen Hayes Gibson

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

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Louis Comfort Tiffany's Chapel: From The 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition To The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum Of American Art, Gail A. Gray

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

In the history of nineteenth-century decorative arts, Louis Comfort Tiffany stands out as a giant among men. He produced such an imposing quantity of decorative arts that the attention of scholars has been largely focused on them. While this is a well-deserved recognition, Tiffany's oeuvre encompasses so much more than his famous lamps and vases. He created a prodigious amount of art in several different media including oils, watercolors, mosaics, windows, furniture, interior design, and landscape. This paper will examine one of the most famous, and perhaps best, of Tiffany's interiors, the Chapel he created for the 1893 Chicago Columbian …

The Sound Of Prejudice : A Look At Rodgers And Hammerstein's Asian Musicals And Racial Stereotypes, Loretta M. Pippin

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

While the minority musicals ofRodgers and Hammerstein use the music and dance traditions of the American musical, they are less successful in their attempts to transcend the racism inherent in the traditions of popular musicals and films. Some musicals are of particular interest to me because they deal with attempts to integrate people of Asian extraction into the mainstream of American popular culture. As a result, the musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein emerge as a blend of awareness of racism and often unconscious use of racist conventions.

The Current Structure Of Intellect Remediation Lab As An Intervention For Deficient Readers In Grades 3, 4, And 5, Donna Turner Campbell

Dissertations

Problem. Educational testing procedures focus on identification and classification of students rather than on remediation for their abilities. The Structure of Intellect (SOI) model proposes a multidimensional view of intelligence with a focus on remediation for underdeveloped or nonexistent abilities as they relate to school achievement.

Purpose. The purposes of this study were to determine if participation in the SOI remediation lab had a measurable effect on reading achievement with third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students, and to describe SOI learning profiles of students with below grade reading skills.

Methodology. The subjects for this quasi-experimental study were third-, fourth-, and …

Kindred Nature: Victorian And Edwardian Women Embrace The Living World By Barbara T. Gates Book Review, Vera Norwood

American Studies Faculty and Staff Publications

The most famous figure in Kindred Nature is Beatrix Potter, the author of the Peter Rabbit stories. Potter's talents in mycology and scientific illustration are less well known. Moreover, why Potter turned from her pursuits in nature study to write animal stories for children has been given very little attention. Feminist historians of science are beginning to examine the life stories of women like Potter to expand our understandings of women's contributions to the biological sciences. Barbara Gates practices such a retrieval in her study of British women's roles in nature study and appreciation during the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

Overview Of Intense Beam-Driven Relativistic Backward Wave Oscillators And Their Use In High Power Microwave Effects Studies, Chaouki T. Abdallah, C.E. Pizano, G.L. Heileman, M.S. Pattichis

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

We propose mathematical performance measures by which the robustness, imperceptibility and information content of various watermarking methods could be measured. These measures rely in the notion of equivalence in the perceptual domain and some basic information-theoretic concepts. Based on these measures we show that the success of image watermarking heavily depend on the functional form of the human visual system perceptual mask. We also analyse the implication for robust watermarking of some commonly used perceptual masks.

Merchants And Mercenaries: Anglo-Americans In Mexico's Northeast, Jorge A. Hernandez

New Mexico Historical Review

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Dragoo's Bolivia 2000 Catalog, Jerry Dragoo

Division of Mammals - Field Notes and Catalogs

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Dimensionless Invariants For The Optimal Size (Age) Of Sex Change, Eric Charnov, Unnur Skúladóttir

Biology Faculty & Staff Publications

Optimization models have been widely and successfully used in evolutionary ecology to predict the attributes of organisms; perhaps the greatest quantitative success is in the area of sex allocation (sex ratio, sperm versus eggs for hermaphrodites, time as a male [female] for a sex changer), where the fact of having only one mother and one father makes Darwinian fitness a simple product of gain-via-male times gain-via-female. Previous work on sex change used the maximization of this male—female product to successfully predict the direction and age (size) for sex change, and that age has been shown to imply a breeding sex …

Delay Effects On Static Output Feedback Stabilization, Chaouki T. Abdallah, Silviu-Iulian Niculescu

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper addresses conditions for characterizing static output feedback controllers including delays for some proper (finite-dimensional) transfer functions. The interest of such study is in controlling systems which can not be stabilized by the classical, non-delayed static output feedback, and its difficulty lies in computing delay intervals guaranteeing closed-loop stability, since stability switches/reversals may occur for the same (matrix) gain if the delay is seen as `free' (design) parameter. The derived conditions are expressed in terms of some appropriate matrix pencils or MIMO Nyquist tests. Illustrative examples are also presented.

Robust Non-Fragile Lq Controllers: The Static State Feedback Case, Chaouki T. Abdallah, Domenico Famularo, Peter Dorato, Wassim M. Haddad, Ali Jadbabaie

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper describes the synthesis of non-fragile or resilient regulators for linear systems. A general framework for fragility is described using state-space methodologies, and the LQ/H2 static state-feedback problem is examined in detail. We discuss the multiplicative structured uncertainties case, and propose remedies of the fragility problem using an optimization programming framework via matrix inequalities. A special case that leads to a convex optimization framework via linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) will be considered. The benchmark problem is taken as an example to show how special controller gain variations can affect the performance of the closed-loop system.

Hslic Annual Report 1999-00, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

HSLIC Annual Reports

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Probing The Protections In The Rotterdam Convention On Prior Informed Consent, Richard W. Emory

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Imprisoned For Protecting The Forests Of Guerrero, Mexico, Megan Murphy

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

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Book Review Of Private Law And Social Inequality In The Industrial Age, Michael Ashley Stein

Faculty Publications

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Environmental And Human Rights Objections Stall Turkey's Proposed Ilisu Dam, J. Mccrystie Adams

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

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China's Energy Policy And Competing International Environmental Pressures, Andrea Wang

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

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Government Failure And Public Indifference: A Portrait Of Water Pollution In Israel, Rachelle Adam

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

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