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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

No abstract provided.

Dragoo's Bolivia 2000 Catalog, Jerry Dragoo

Division of Mammals - Field Notes and Catalogs

No abstract provided.

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

No abstract provided.

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

No abstract provided.

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

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

California's Mtbe Contaminated Water: An Illustration Of The Need For An Environmental Interpretive Note On Article 1110 Of Nafta, Julia Ferguson

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Attitudes Of Lower Secondary School Students Toward Social Studies At An Independent School : A Case Study, Diane M. Hobbs

Theses : Honours

There is a dearth of research on student attitudes toward social studies, especially in Western Australian secondary schools. The purpose of this case study was twofold. Firstly it was to determine the attitudes of lower secondary school students toward social studies at one Independent high school in the Perth metropolitan area. Secondly, it was to investigate the factors that influence student attitudes toward social studies. The case study school was selected as a convenience sample. A total of 203 students from Years 8, 9, and 10 completed a questionnaire designed to determine attitudes toward social studies and to identify factors …

Factors Affecting The Non-Selection Of Year Eleven Physical Education Studies By Female Students In A Rural Western Australian High School, Fiona Cameron

Theses : Honours

This study of year eleven female students at a rural Western Australian high school, focused firstly on why students were choosing not to enrol in Physical Education Studies (PES) and secondly what students believed would improve student enrolment. A two-stage qualitative research approach was utilised. The first stage involved creating a school profile and conducting a survey of 71 year eleven females. The second stage involved a three-step process of interviewing three year eleven females who were selected on the basis of not enrolling in PES and their responses on the survey slips. Findings suggested that the major factors effecting …

Investigation Into The Compatibility Of The Outcomes Of The Northern Territory Special Category Curriculum For Secondary Aged Indigenous Students And The Western Australian Student Outcome Statements, Matthew Byrne

Theses : Honours

This study is an investigation into the compatibility of the outcomes of the Northern Territory Special Category Curriculum for Secondary Aged Indigenous Students (NTC) and the Western Australian Student Outcome Statements (SOS), in the Learning Area of English, using specified criteria. This document analysis examined the theoretical assumptions underpinning the NTC and SOS, the comparisons that can be made between the two, and then, how suitable the NTC was for achieving the SOS documented by Education Department of Western Australia (EDWA) for Indigenous secondary students in remote comminutes. The outcomes for the NTC and SOS in the Learning Area of …

Statement Of Basis Approval Of No Further Action Volume 18 Of 30, January 2000, Solid Waste Management Unit 14, Operable Unit 1335, Round 10, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Regulatorily Completed

This technical document contains the Justification for the Class III Permit Modification request for Site 14. Contained within this document is the history of the site, descriptions of any investigations and/or remediation completed at the site, the regulatory background, and the rationale for the proposed future land-use of this site.

Statement Of Basis Approval Of No Further Action Volume 23 Of 30 January 2000, Solid Waste Management Unit 10, Operable Unit 1333, Round 11, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Regulatorily Completed

This technical document contains the Statement of Basis for the Class III Permit Modification request for Site 10. Terminology changed to Justification for permit modifications after the submittal of this and the other documents included in this submittal. As with Justification Binders, contained within this document is the history of the site, descriptions of any investigations and/or remediation completed at the site, the regulatory background, and the rationale for the proposed future land-use of this site.

Statement Of Basis Approval Of No Further Action Volume 15 Of 30 January 2000 Er Site 44 Operable Unit 1303 Round 9, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Regulatorily Completed

This technical document contains the Statement of Basis for the Class III Permit Modification request for Site 44. Terminology changed to Justification for permit modifications after the submittal of this and the other documents included in this submittal. As with Justification Binders, contained within this document is the history of the site, descriptions of any investigations and/or remediation completed at the site, the regulatory background, and the rationale for the proposed future land-use of this site.

Statement Of Basis Approval Of No Further Action Volume 22 Of 30 January 2000 Solid Waste Management Unit 108 Operable Unit 1335 Round 10, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Regulatorily Completed

This technical document contains the Statement of Basis for the Class III Permit Modification request for Site 108. Terminology changed to Justification for permit modifications after the submittal of this and the other documents included in this submittal. As with Justification Binders, contained within this document is the history of the site, descriptions of any investigations and/or remediation completed at the site, the regulatory background, and the rationale for the proposed future land-use of this site.

Statement Of Basis Approval Of No Further Action Volume 12 Of 30 January 2000 Er Site 109 Operable Unit 1335 Round 8, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Regulatorily Completed

This technical document contains the Statement of Basis for the Class III Permit Modification request for Site 109. Terminology changed to Justification for permit modifications after the submittal of this and the other documents included in this submittal. As with Justification Binders, contained within this document is the history of the site, descriptions of any investigations and/or remediation completed at the site, the regulatory background, and the rationale for the proposed future land-use of this site.

Statement Of Basis Approval Of No Further Action Volume 20 Of 30 January 2000 Solid Waste Management Unit 27 Operable Unit 1332 Round 10, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Regulatorily Completed

This technical document contains the Statement of Basis for the Class III Permit Modification request for Site 27. Terminology changed to Justification for permit modifications after the submittal of this and the other documents included in this submittal. As with Justification Binders, contained within this document is the history of the site, descriptions of any investigations and/or remediation completed at the site, the regulatory background, and the rationale for the proposed future land-use of this site.

Statement Of Basis Approval Of No Further Action Volume 1 Of 30 January 2000 Er Site 22 Operable Unit 1334 Round 2, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Regulatorily Completed

This technical document contains the Statement of Basis for the Class III Permit Modification request for Site 22. Terminology changed to Justification for permit modifications after the submittal of this and the other documents included in this submittal. As with Justification Binders, contained within this document is the history of the site, descriptions of any investigations and/or remediation completed at the site, the regulatory background, and the rationale for the proposed future land-use of this site.

Dunnum's Bolivia 2000 Catalog, Jon Dunnum

Division of Mammals - Field Notes and Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Racz's Hungary 2000 Catalog, Gabor Racz

Division of Mammals - Field Notes and Catalogs

No abstract provided.