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Book Review: Outsiders Inside: Whiteness, Place And Irish Women (Gender, Racism, Ethnicity), Helen Thompson

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Outsiders Inside: Whiteness, Place and Irish Women (Gender, Racism, Ethnicity) by Bronwen Walter

Book Review: Black Body: Women, Colonialism, And Space, Stephanie Y. Evans

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space by Radhika Mohanram

From Sociability To Spectacle: Interracial Sexuality And The Ideological Uses Of Space In New York City, 1900-1930, Elizabeth Clement

Journal of International Women's Studies

This paper addresses inter-racial sociability and sexuality in New York City before and after the Great Migration of African-Americans from the rural South to northern US cities. Using space and the arrangements of objects in space as my primary evidence, I argue that spatial relations both reflected and created race relations in the urban North and that these practices shifted dramatically over the course of a twenty-year period. While the black proprietors of clubs in Hell’s Kitchen in the 1910s used space to make transgressive interracial sociability possible, by the 1920s, the white-owned clubs of the Harlem Renaissance did the …

Book Review: The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching In American Protestant Spaces, Alwen Bledsoe, Tammie Kennedy

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protestant Spaces by Roxanne Mountford

Singapore's Pursuit Of Location Advantages In Indonesia And Vietnam, Caroline Yeoh, . David, Siang Yeung Wong

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

No abstract provided.

Immigrants In Rural America: Finding A Foothold, Creating A Home, Kathleen Miller

Center for Social Development Research

The purpose of this paper is to review the literature relating to immigration into rural America, including the scale and location of immigration, the characteristics of immigrant populations, and community impacts. The paper looks at aspects of wealth and assets among immigrants, including the use of the U.S financial systems, homeownership, remittances, individual development accounts, and microentrepreneurship. This paper is one of a series focusing on wealth-building in rural America.

On Assigning Place Names To Geography Related Web Pages, Wenbo Zong, Dan Wu, Aixin Sun, Ee Peng Lim, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, we attempt to give spatial semantics to web pages by assigning them place names. The entire assignment task is divided into three sub-problems, namely place name extraction, place name disambiguation and place name assignment. We propose our approaches to address these sub-problems. In particular, we have modified GATE, a well-known named entity extraction software, to perform place name extraction using a US Census gazetteer. A rule-based place name disambiguation method and a place name assignment method capable of assigning place names to web page segments have also been proposed. We have evaluated our proposed disambiguation and assignment …

Training New Acquisitions And Collection Development Librarians: Some Technical And Philosophical Guideposts, Antje Mays

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

This article covers key competencies for success as acquisitions and collection development librarians, delineates between collection development's intellectual facets of curricular support and acquisitions' business functions and shows how the two interrelated. Also provided are best practices for training and mentoring and professional development information for new librarians entering acquisitions and collection development.

The Effects Of The No Child Left Behind Act Of 2001 On The Current Educational System, Morahima Villanueva

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This research study presents a historical view of the United States Federal Government's initial involvement in the country's educational systems and the motives behind these educational reforms. It explores the impact these reforms have had in the country's schools and how the implementations lead to the passing of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) under President George W. Bush. It discusses the role of the four pillars under NCLB and the changes that it has brought about in the current educational system. This study also focuses on the impact that NCLB has had on a small rural …

Evaluating G-Portal For Geography Learning And Teaching, Chew-Hung Chang, John G. Hedberg, Yin-Leng Theng, Ee Peng Lim, Tiong-Sa Teh, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper describes G-Portal, a geospatial digital library of geographical assets, providing an interactive platform to engage students in active manipulation and analysis of information resources and collaborative learning activities. Using a G-Portal application in which students conducted a field study of an environmental problem of beach erosion and sea level rise, we describe a pilot study to evaluate usefulness and usability issues to support the learning of geographical concepts, and in turn teaching.

A Richer Harvest [Toward A Regional Strategy For Portland Area Farmers Markets], John Chambers, Christopher Clancy, Aaron Deggs, Brandon Fessler

Asset Mapping: Community Geography Project

A senior capstone course is the culmination of the University Studies Program at Portland State University. The emphasis of a capstone course is to take students out of the classroom and into the field. Students bring previous knowledge and skills to work on a community project. They work together as a team, utilizing resources and collaborating with faculty and community leaders to find solutions for important issues.

Contract And Grant Awards Fiscal Year 2005, Office Of The Vice President For Research

Office of the Vice President for Research

I invite you to read this report Contract & Grant Awards, fiscal year 2005, which lists contract and grant (C&G) awards received by the University of New Mexico (UNM) during the period from July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005 (FY05). These awards represent new funds that were acquired during FY05 by the main campus, branch campuses and education centers, and the Health Sciences Center (HSC). The HSC includes the School of Medicine, College of Nursing, and College of Pharmacy. The awards received for FY05 total $295.4M, of which $167.6M is attributed to the main campus and $127.8M to HSC. …

Energy Balanced Broadcasting Through Delayed Intelligence, Michael R. Gosnell, Ryan Arbarelli, Maggie Xiaoyan Cheng, Bruce M. Mcmillin

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Ad hoc wireless networks are growing in popularity and usefulness, however they rely on broadcasting as a fundamental process for routing. Improvements to broadcasting have made ad hoc networks more feasible, but sometimes benefit only specific situations. Delayed intelligence (DI) is proposed as a new load balancing approach where small delays are introduced to allow distributed responsibility delegation. Preliminary results show delayed intelligence, when applied in existing broadcasting methods such as passive clustering, can be used to improve the energy disparity and therefore extend ad hoc network lifetime.

A Researcher's Research Agenda For Scholarly Communication In Canada, William F. Birdsall, Kathleen Shearer

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Despite millions of dollars being spent on research each year in Canada, little attention is paid to the dissemination of the results of research. There is a disconnect between Canadian public policies in this area; although a high priority is assigned to the generation of research, there is a lack of policies addressing its dissemination. Meanwhile, the environment in which research knowledge is being disseminated is undergoing a profound transformation because of several important drivers. In particular, these drivers include new technology, changing research patterns, new users, economics, and commercialization. The major objective of this study was to examine the …

Building Scholarly Information Infrastructure Through Partnership, Alex Byrne

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Beyond Information Access: The Information Specialist's Role In Extracting, Analysing And Packaging S&T Intelligence To Support Innovation, Jean Archambeault

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Energy Objects: Reflection Through Interaction, Mattias Ludvigsson

Nordes Conference Series

Energy consumption and personal objects both play important roles in young people’s everyday life and influence their behaviour in many different ways, although often unconsciously. This article investigates how interaction design and speculative re-design of personal objects can be used as a means for raising young people’s awareness of energy consumption. The concept of energy objects acts to make energy visible and tangible in order to stimulate reflection and reaction through the interaction with a collection of conceptual design proposals. Initial user feedback indicates that the presented collection of re-designed objects can be seen as an adequate tool in order …

Architectural Project And Research - Specificity And Meta-Reflection, Katrine Lotz

Nordes Conference Series

How can it be made possible to comply with requests for objectivity and transparency in a research-project that contains investigations in, and development of, the researchers own, personal architectural project?

Domestication And Context: Studying Objectification In Print Media, Sara Routarinne

Nordes Conference Series

This article investigates into the domestication of communication technology through two cultural discourses, for one that of interior magazines and for two that of technology magazines. During domestication process technological items are objectified by ways in which they are brought to a physical environment and in ways in which they rearrange that environment (cf. Silverstone & al. 1992). The study is inspired by the domestication approach (Silverstone & Hirsch 1992, Silverstone 1994), while its methodological background is mainly based on critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 1995). The data consist of 55 magazine articles including 687 images. The findings indicate that the …

Restless Landscapes, Smout Allen, Mark Smout, Laura Allen

Nordes Conference Series

This article discusses the work of the architectural design research and teaching partnership of Smout Allen around the theme of Restless Landscapes. The work proposes that the intrinsic features of the landscape such as topography, geography, climate, and man’s manipulation of rural and urban environments provides the designer with a language that can inform design. Can one exploit the conditions that physically and perceptually shape the landscape to augment architectural design and bring to it a sense of nature and environment illuminated? Two design cases conceived between the realms of architectural and landscape design, architectural competitions and conceptual art illustrate …

The U.S.-Uk Special Relationship: Past, Present And Future, Douglas V. Johnson Dr.

Articles & Editorials

On April 11-13, 2005, the Strategic Studies Institute co-sponsored a conference on "The U.S.-UK Special Relationship: Past, Present and Future," in cooperation with Dickinson College, and the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom at Shrivenham. The conference was followed by a wrap-up session hosted by the Royal United Services Institute in London. Conference attendees were primarily from the Defence Academy and its associated colleges and research bodies.

Forest Resource Use, Land-Use, And Ecotourism In The RíO PláTano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras, Christina Marie Friedle

Dissertations and Theses

The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, a tropical rainforest reserve in the northeastern corner of Honduras, is home to several subsistence-based indigenous groups, including the Miskito, Pech and Garifuna, as well as the non-indigenous Ladinos. Communities within the reserve depend on forest resources, swidden agriculture, marine resources and/or small-scale ranching as the foundations for local economies. Regulations placed on these subsistence practices, after establishment of the biosphere reserve in 1980, have created unique and new pressures and resulted in a blend of traditional and innovative resource use. A notable result is the promotion of ecotourism as a solution for meeting the …

Hyperspectral Simulation And Recovery Of Submerged Targets In Turbid Waters, Charles R. Bostater

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Modeled hyperspectral reflectance signatures just above the water surface are obtained from radiative transfer models to create synthetic images of targets below the water surface. Images are displayed as 24 bit RGB images of the water surface using selected channels. Example model outputs are presented in this paper for a hyperspectral Monte Carlo and a hyperspectral layered analytical iterative model of radiative transport within turbid shallow water types. Images at the selected wavelengths or channels centered at 490, 530 and 680 nm suggests the two models provide quite similar results when displayed as RGB images. The techniques are demonstrated to …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 029, Number 39, May 23, 2005, Grand Valley State University

2004-2005, Volume 29

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Digital Democracy And Its Application To The International Arena – From “Deliberation” To “Decision”, Alexander Siedschlag

Publications

Apart from the discussion about computer-mediated change in community and domestic political affairs, there is a pending debate on general effects of internet- or “net”-based communication on international politics. The reference to international politics rather than international relations is a consciously chosen one – for this paper focuses on net effects on collective decision-making rather than international-society processes. IP/IR driven research on internet-induced political change does not very much link itself to the state of knowledge in internet-and-politics research. Rather, it commonly departs from sub-discipline specific concepts such as neorealist power analysis or post-international turbulence analysis (cf. Allison 2002).

Commencement Program [Spring 2005], Clark University

Commencement Programs

Annual Commencement Program for graduation ceremonies at Clark University, held on May 22nd, 2005.

Commencement 2005 Taylor University, Taylor University

Commencement

The program of the 2005 Annual Commencement of Taylor University, May 21, 2005.

Urban Landscape Change In New Orleans, La: The Case Of The Lost Neighborhood Of Louis Armstrong, Willard Fields

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

While Jane Jacobs' frontal assault on "modern planning" is now over forty years old, communities around the United States are still struggling to deal with the legacy of modernist interventions that dramatically altered the historic urban form and culture of their downtowns. In the worst cases, whole zones were transformed into nearly unusable space. Reintegrating these lost spaces into the urban fabric is one of the most significant challenges of urban planners and designers today. Despite the ubiquity of lost spaces in American cities, comparatively little research has been done on the specific historic urban forms that were altered. This …

The Courier, Volume 38, Issue 25, May 20, 2005, The Courier, College Of Dupage

The Courier

Stories:

Unearthing Green Energy–The College Recently Received A Grant For $87,250 To Pursue Geothermal Energy

A Textbook Case Of Good Service (Library)

Conversion Across The Board–Administrators Brace For The Challenges Of Conversion By Making Changes In Advance (Quarters To Semesters)

AID-ing In The Tragedy

Learning About Language

Murder Below The Border

Sibling Rivalry That Stops At Nothing (“The Lonesome West”)

Chaps Finish With Same Result–Women's Tennis Finishes As The Runner-Ups At NJCAA Nationals For The Second Straight Year

People:

Kristina Zaremba

Sunil Chand

La Universidad De Las Mil Y Una Noches, Luis Porter

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

… The article departs from a hypothetical question an academic asks him/herself in his way to the educational institution where he-she works: What is my university? What makes me change from enthusiasm to deception, from pain to happiness?