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2 Vietnams, Scarlett Elizabeth Rooney Jan 2005

2 Vietnams, Scarlett Elizabeth Rooney

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

2 Vietnams documents modern Vietnam through alternating chapters of collage fictions and images: "East-West Documentation," "Vietnam in the Twilight-Hour," "Correspondence," and "Confessional Archives." Although 2 Vietnams serves as a documentary-style account of the many Vietnams that exist and confront our American memory of Vietnam, each chapter contains social narratives that connect to each other forming larger, subtler narratives. "East-West Documentation" follows a fictional writer's experience living in Vietnam, conducting interviews and reading articles. "Vietnam in the Twilight-Hour" strings narrative poetry together with titles ranging from "Neocolonialism," "Love in Notations," to "SocialPolygrams." In addition to these poetic narratives are photographs that …

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Allometric Scaling Models Of Isometric Biceps Strength And The Effects Of Resistance Training, Eric Dobert Ryan Jan 2005

Allometric Scaling Models Of Isometric Biceps Strength And The Effects Of Resistance Training, Eric Dobert Ryan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The purpose of this study was to (1) derive gender-specific allometric scaling models using pre-training muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) and body mass (BM) as scaling variables, (2) test model appropriateness using regression diagnostics, and (3) cross-validate the models before and after training. A subset of FAMuSS study data (n = 319, females = 183, males = 136) was randomly split into two groups (A & B). Group A pre-training data for female BM, female CSA, male BM, and male CSA models produced scaling exponents of 1.08, 0.44, 0.63, and 0.68, respectively. The female BM model was deemed inappropriate due to …

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Anticancer Activity Of Two Dietary Phytochemicals: Genistein And Beta-Lapachone, Kendra T. Merchant Jan 2005

Anticancer Activity Of Two Dietary Phytochemicals: Genistein And Beta-Lapachone, Kendra T. Merchant

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Phytochemicals are biologically active secondary plant metabolites that have been shown to exhibit anti-cancer activity. The dietary phytochemicals genistein isoflavone and beta-lapachone, were investigated to determine their effect on the growth of human prostate adenocarcinoma cells in vitro. The cells were exposed to varying concentrations of both phytochemicals in single and combination treatments for specified time periods and their effect was determined using post-treatment cell viability, treatment-induced apoptosis and cell signaling assays. The overall results revealed that both phytochemicals inhibited cell growth and proliferation and induced apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner for both single and combination treatments. However, combination treatments …

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Absence Of Intellect? Spike Tv And A Crisis In Masculinity, Wesley R. Akers Jan 2005

Absence Of Intellect? Spike Tv And A Crisis In Masculinity, Wesley R. Akers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study analyzes the programming, narrative structure and scheduling of Spike TV to reveal how this "first network for men" continues to support hegemonic masculinity through a strategy of gendered narrowcasting. Such representations mediate a crisis in masculinity by glorifying action-oriented males and, therefore, marginalize intellectual representations. The study suggests that such hegemonically masculine representations are contributing to the academic struggles currently plaguing young males in our culture.

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Atmosphere For "Orthodoxy": A Chestertonian Reading Of The Marian Heroine In Charles Dickens's "Dombey And Son", Jill A. Kriegel Jan 2005

Atmosphere For "Orthodoxy": A Chestertonian Reading Of The Marian Heroine In Charles Dickens's "Dombey And Son", Jill A. Kriegel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Considering the fervent Catholicism of convert G. K. Chesterton's societal views, his championship of Charles Dickens, a seemingly avid non-Catholic, may appear misplaced. Upon examination, however, the wisdom of Chesterton's rationale will manifest itself; in fact, rereading Dickens's Dombey and Son through the eyes of Chesterton's Orthodoxy will prove Dickens himself to be a champion, albeit an inadvertent one, of the very core of Catholicism. Presenting Florence Dombey as a heroine, as a paragon of religious strength, and as a path to salvation for her misguided father, I present her not only as Dickens's literary and moral contribution to readers …

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Carnival, Sacred And Sovereign: The Intellectual Intersection Of Bakhtin And Bataille, Jared E. Lemole Jan 2005

Carnival, Sacred And Sovereign: The Intellectual Intersection Of Bakhtin And Bataille, Jared E. Lemole

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The common intellectual ground shared by Mikhail Bakhtin and Georges Bataille routinely suffers from a dearth of consideration. Yet Bakhtin's celebrated "carnival" writings are invested in undeniably Bataillean interests---death, excess, transgression, heterogeneity. Both Bakhtin and Bataille inherited the Wagnerian Nietzsche's nostalgia for effusive communal ritual, collapsing the boundaries between bodies and the boundary between life and death (this is "transgression," eroticism , according to Bataille; too often transgression is spoken of in terms of stealing a pornographic magazine). Thus bodies in Bakhtin and Bataille are "open," mainly in comic and inglorious ways, and death is the cynosure of festival. Death …

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Policing The Border Between Trademarks And Free Speech: Protecting Unauthorized Trademark Use In Expressive Works, Pratheepan Gulasekaram Jan 2005

Policing The Border Between Trademarks And Free Speech: Protecting Unauthorized Trademark Use In Expressive Works, Pratheepan Gulasekaram

Publications

Abstract: Artists and other creators of expressive works often include trademarks and trademarked products as part of their works. They do so for a number of reasons, including lighthearted humor, critical cultural commentary, parody, or even simply to shock. In instances where such use is both unauthorized by and perceived as disparaging to the mark owner or the trademarked product, owners have attempted to sue under trademark law to enjoin the expressive use. This Article argues that, under a proper analysis of trademark law, precedent, and the free expression ideal enshrined in the First Amendment, mark owners should rarely, if …

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Post Reformation Ecclesiology And Missiology--From The Radicals To Wesley: Moving Out Of The Shadow Of Luther And Calvin, Woodrow W. Whidden Jan 2005

Post Reformation Ecclesiology And Missiology--From The Radicals To Wesley: Moving Out Of The Shadow Of Luther And Calvin, Woodrow W. Whidden

Faculty Publications

Whidden’s essay compares the key theological/ecclesiological factors of the Magisterial Reformation tradition with the Radical and Wesleyan ethos and their respective visions of discipleship, theology, ethics, and mission. He then argues that movements which are Arminian in their soteriology; functional, not institutional, in their ecclesiology; and emphasize discipleship (including strict discipline), sanctification, and Gospel ethics are more likely to have a missional bent.

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Ownership Of Intellectual Property Rights In Medical Data In Collaborative Computing Environments, Giuseppina D'Agostino, David Vaver, Chris Hinds, Marina Jirotka Jan 2005

Ownership Of Intellectual Property Rights In Medical Data In Collaborative Computing Environments, Giuseppina D'Agostino, David Vaver, Chris Hinds, Marina Jirotka

All Papers

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Like Crabs In A Barrel: Economy, History And Redevelopment In Buffalo, John Henry Schlegel Jan 2005

Like Crabs In A Barrel: Economy, History And Redevelopment In Buffalo, John Henry Schlegel

Other Scholarship

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Make-Believe Families And Whiteness, Judy Scales-Trent Jan 2005

Make-Believe Families And Whiteness, Judy Scales-Trent

Journal Articles

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Construction Of Readership In Ebony, Essence, And O, The Oprah Magazine, Lee Miller, Bonnie Brennen, Brenda Edgerton-Webster Jan 2005

Construction Of Readership In Ebony, Essence, And O, The Oprah Magazine, Lee Miller, Bonnie Brennen, Brenda Edgerton-Webster

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Miller et al examine the construction of readership in Ebony, Essence and O, The Oprah magazine, three popular magazines that purport to be a vehicle of identity and awareness for their target audience. Upon evaluation, they found that Ebony and Essence both challenge the hegemonic process with the incorporation of cultural artifacts that call upon collective memory to form reader association.

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Allosteric Models For Multimeric Proteins : Oxygen-Linked Effector Binding In Hemocyanin., Michael Menze, Nadja Hellman, Heinz Decker, Manfred Grieshaber Jan 2005

Allosteric Models For Multimeric Proteins : Oxygen-Linked Effector Binding In Hemocyanin., Michael Menze, Nadja Hellman, Heinz Decker, Manfred Grieshaber

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

In many crustaceans, changing concentrations of several low molecular weight compounds modulates hemocyanin oxygen binding, resulting in lower or higher oxygen affinities of the pigment. The nonphysiological effector caffeine and the physiological modulator urate, the latter accumulating in the hemolymph of the lobster Homarus Vulgaris during hypoxia, increase hemocyanin oxygen affinity and decrease cooperativity of oxygen binding. To derive a model that describes the mechanism of allosteric interaction between hemocyanin and oxygen in the presence of urate or caffeine, studies of oxygen, urate, and caffeine binding to hemocyanin were performed. Exposure of lobster hemocyanin to various pH values between 7.25 …

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Mlp/Rbf Neural-Networks-Based Online Global Model Identification Of Synchronous Generator, Jung-Wook Park, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Ronald G. Harley Jan 2005

Mlp/Rbf Neural-Networks-Based Online Global Model Identification Of Synchronous Generator, Jung-Wook Park, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Ronald G. Harley

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper compares the performances of a multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPN) and a radial basis function neural network (RBFN) for online identification of the nonlinear dynamics of a synchronous generator in a power system. The computational requirement to process the data during the online training, local convergence, and online global convergence properties are investigated by time-domain simulations. The performances of the identifiers as a global model, which are trained at different stable operating conditions, are compared using the actual signals as well as the deviation signals for the inputs of the identifiers. Such an online-trained identifier with fixed optimal …

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Roper V. Simmons And Our Constitution In International Equipoise, Roger P. Alford Jan 2005

Roper V. Simmons And Our Constitution In International Equipoise, Roger P. Alford

Journal Articles

In Roper v. Simmons, the Court unequivocally affirms the use of comparative constitutionalism to interpret the Eighth Amendment. It does not, however, provide an obvious theoretical basis to justify the practice. This Article searches for a theory to explain the comparativism in Roper using the theories advanced in the author's previous scholarship. It concludes that of the colorable candidates, natural law constitutionalism is the most plausible explanation, with the attendant problems associated therewith. The Article concludes with an analysis of the possible ramifications of the Court's comparative approach, suggesting that it may be pursuing a Constitution that is in international …

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Laughing All The Way To The Item Bank: How To Improve Your Treatment Effect By Improving Your Outcome Measurement, R Baron, J Hobart Jan 2005

Laughing All The Way To The Item Bank: How To Improve Your Treatment Effect By Improving Your Outcome Measurement, R Baron, J Hobart

Peninsula Medical School

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Spatial Variability Of Nitrous Oxide (N₂0) Emissions And Soil Properties In A Japanese Lowland Soil, Nsalambi V. Nkongolo Jan 2005

Spatial Variability Of Nitrous Oxide (N₂0) Emissions And Soil Properties In A Japanese Lowland Soil, Nsalambi V. Nkongolo

Theses and Dissertations

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The Reliability Of Reflective Surfaces, Donna Lee Neal Jan 2005

The Reliability Of Reflective Surfaces, Donna Lee Neal

Theses and Dissertations

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An Adaptive Grid Security Architecture, Raghuveer S. Maan Jan 2005

An Adaptive Grid Security Architecture, Raghuveer S. Maan

Theses and Dissertations

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Precipitation Evaluation Of The North Dakota Cloud Modification Project (Ndcmp), Eric A. Wise Jan 2005

Precipitation Evaluation Of The North Dakota Cloud Modification Project (Ndcmp), Eric A. Wise

Theses and Dissertations

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Planning For Cultural/Heritage Tourism For East Grand Forks, Minnesota, Sharon M. Grzeskowiak Jan 2005

Planning For Cultural/Heritage Tourism For East Grand Forks, Minnesota, Sharon M. Grzeskowiak

Theses and Dissertations

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Swelling Stress And Strain Analysis Of Untreated, Acetylated, And Hmr Treated Southern Yellow Pine, Blake M. Hofferber Jan 2005

Swelling Stress And Strain Analysis Of Untreated, Acetylated, And Hmr Treated Southern Yellow Pine, Blake M. Hofferber

Theses and Dissertations

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Shifts In The Structure Of British Imperialism In The Mid To Late Victorian Period, Josiah J. Patrow Jan 2005

Shifts In The Structure Of British Imperialism In The Mid To Late Victorian Period, Josiah J. Patrow

Theses and Dissertations

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Tolerance Of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells To Tars, Devinder Singh Jan 2005

Tolerance Of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells To Tars, Devinder Singh

Theses and Dissertations

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Relative Motion Of Two Spacecraft Near The Earth-Moon Triangular Libration Points, Kathryn A. Catlin Jan 2005

Relative Motion Of Two Spacecraft Near The Earth-Moon Triangular Libration Points, Kathryn A. Catlin

Theses and Dissertations

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Synthesis And Characterization Of Poly (L-Lactide)-Poly (D, L-Lactide) Stereo-Block Copolymers, Sachit Chopra Jan 2005

Synthesis And Characterization Of Poly (L-Lactide)-Poly (D, L-Lactide) Stereo-Block Copolymers, Sachit Chopra

Theses and Dissertations

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The Validation Of The Single-Stage Submaximal Treadmill Equation In Prediction Vo₂Max Using The Maximal And Submaximal Treadmill Running Tests, Stephanie A. Fallas Jan 2005

The Validation Of The Single-Stage Submaximal Treadmill Equation In Prediction Vo₂Max Using The Maximal And Submaximal Treadmill Running Tests, Stephanie A. Fallas

Theses and Dissertations

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Blessed Are The Poor : The German Peasant's War And The Sandinista Revolution In Comparison, Eu Kit Lim Jan 2005

Blessed Are The Poor : The German Peasant's War And The Sandinista Revolution In Comparison, Eu Kit Lim

Theses and Dissertations

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Women In Classical Society : Aspects Of Law, Family And Work, Heidi May Gould Jan 2005

Women In Classical Society : Aspects Of Law, Family And Work, Heidi May Gould

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Exploring Consciousness, Amanda M. Moen Jan 2005

Exploring Consciousness, Amanda M. Moen

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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