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Anadromous Fish And The Lenape, Marshall Joseph Becker

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Blogger's Blog: Exploring The Definition Of A Medium, Danah Boyd

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph of Introduction]

While blogging is piquing the interest of mainstream media, youth, academic researchers, and entrepreneurial Silicon Valley, only a fraction of Internet users read blogs and many do not even know what the term means. Reports on how many people read blogs vary (Rainie 2005, Comscore 2005), but even in the United States, less than 50% of Internet users read blogs and many do not even know when they do (Buchwalter 2005). Numerous tools have been built to support blogging and people have extended those tools to do a wide variety of things that may or may …

Design And Play: Weblog Genres Of Adolescent Girls In Israel, Carmel L. Vaisman

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Unique circumstances existing in the Israeli blogsphere have attracted many adolescent girls. In recent years, a growing number of weblogs belonging to adolescent girls are challenging blogging norms, creating a tension between written narratives and performance narratives that combine design and play practices. Existing weblog research has explored the connections between gender, linguistic features, and genre but has not examined visual blog genres, nor questioned the role of features inherent in weblog software in the formation of gendered blog genres and blogging norms. Based on a work-in-progress of a larger scope, I shall argue that design supportive features distinctive to …

On "Midwestern Unlike You And Me: New Zealand's Julian Dashper" [Art Exhibit], Larry Taylor

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

You might say that Julian Dashper has driven the final stake into the corpse of painting, even after its much-touted death. Is painting dead? Of course not. But the idea of "painting" thankfully is in so much as it continues to be sufficiently challenged. And although Mr. Dashper states that painting’s death is "not his dialogue," this artist has effectively aimed to fire the last Warholian shot.

Cs 790-02: Statistical Natural Language Processing: Models And Methods, Shaojun Wang

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

This course is designed to introduce students to the current statistical techniques for the automatic analysis of natural (human) language data. It develops an in-depth understanding of both the algorithms available for the processing of linguistic information and the underlying computational properties of natural languages. Potential topics include language modeling, finite state models, stochastic grammars, latent semantic analysis, log-linear models in natural language processing. We will explore how these core techniques can be applied to user applications such as information extraction, question answering, automatic speech recognition, statistical machine translation.

Book Review: Learning To Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience And American Indian Literature, Bruce E. Johansen

Communication Faculty Publications

In a twist on assimilation, many boarding school students used the English language, a primary tool of colonization, to "talk back" to the system. As surely as the boarding-schools' inventors understood that language is the vessel of culture, none of them gave much thought to the ways in which Native Americans would use English to critique the schools into which many of them had been unwillingly enrolled.

Their writings, examined by Amelia Katanski, indicate that the boarding-school students were unwilling to surrender as victims. Learning English describes how Native American students in boarding schools often forged new identities, taking a …

Comparing Warrior Traditions: How The Janissaries And Samurai Maintained Their Status And Privileges During Centuries Of Peace, Oleg Benesch

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Using World History To Predict The Future Of The First Civilization, William Mcgaughey

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

The Irrelevance Of Creativity: Feist's Wrong Turn And The Scope Of Copyright Protection For Factual Works, Marc K. Temin

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.

Hired Guns And Higher Law: A Tortured Expansion Of The Military Contractor Defense, Valerie C. Charles

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

The note examines the legal challenges surrounding the accountability of private military contractors (PMCs) in U.S. military operations, particularly in cases involving human rights violations such as torture. It argues that the expansion of the military contractor defense to shield PMCs from liability under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) would undermine federal policy interests and leave victims without effective legal recourse. The author advocates for judicial or legislative clarity on the applicability of the military contractor defense to intentional torts committed by PMCs and suggests that victims may need to seek redress directly from the federal government under the Federal …

The Public Trust Debate: Implications For Heirs' Property Along The Gullah Coast, Faith R. Rivers

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

"You Do Not Want To Go To The Island: "A Rhetorical Panorama Of "The Island", William Logan Barron

Senior Honors Theses

The first glance at the tropical haven emerging from the luminous teal waters arouses an awe of such a paradise. The inhabitants of a facility in the Michael Bay film, The Island, daily abide in that awe, assured in their eminent continuance succeeding a lethal global contamination. Their perception, however, is limited.

The inhabitants are components of a rhetorical vision and their view of the Island is less that panoramic. Through a rare analysis of film, the device of Fantasy Theme Analysis, devised by Ernest Bormann, interfaced with a notion of vampiring, an unobstructed cyclorama of the Island is made …

A Piece Of The Educational Puzzle, Lauren D. Fowler

Senior Honors Theses

The quality of education in America has not paralleled her vast achievements. In an effort to lessen mediocrity within the educational system, the standards-based education movement has begun to establish levels of information taught at each grade level. This educational reform which attempts to raise the quality of education across the nation has been implemented locally through the Virginia Standards of Learning. The Standards of Learning framework highlights the necessity of proficient communication for the sake of the future ambitions of students. Such an objective has been attained through grammatical instruction of Standard English integrated within the language arts. Although …

Penelope’S Web: Francesco Primaticcio’S Epic Revision At Fontainebleau, Giancarlo Fiorenza

Art and Design

Francesco Primaticcio designed his celebrated Galerie d’Ulysse at Fontainebleau (now destroyed) at a time when the epic genre was being updated and redefined. One of the most popular scenes from the gallery, Ulysses and Penelope recounting their adventures to one another in bed (from book 23 of the Odyssey), was adapted and revised in an independent composition by Primaticcio himself: Ulysses and Penelope (Toledo Museum of Art, ca. 1560). In contrast to the Fontainebleau mural, the artist’s self-conscious, refined pictorial language for his canvas converts epic energy into lyric sentimentality. As a result, Penelope becomes the central focus of the …

Ethnographic Study Of Buddhist Education, Based On Burgess' Social Science Method At An American University And A Private Buddhist Organization, Wan-Ming Lu

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

The literature shows that there are many studies about Buddhism in the United States and religion on college campuses, but few studies specifically about Buddhism in American universities. The purpose of this study is to explore how American college students approach and learn about Buddhism. A qualitative research study of clinical ethnography was applied to conduct this study at the Florida International University (FIU) and Florida Buddhist Association (FBA). FBA was chosen to compare with FIU so that the features of Buddhist education at FIU would be clearer.

Eight students and four teachers (instructors) were interviewed at FIU; and two …

University Reporter - Volume 11, Number 02 - October 2006

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about Chancellor Michael Collins' discussion of the future of the UMass Boston campus; the work of Africana studies professor, historian, and playwright Robert Johnson, Jr.; the convocation remarks of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall; and other news from UMass Boston.

Focus- Fall 2006, Newsletter Staff

Focus on Student Affairs

No abstract provided.

Neiu Magazine- Fall 2006, Neiu Magazine Staff

NEIU Magazine

No abstract provided.

Review Of Spanish Second Language Acquisition: State Of The Science By B. Lafford And R. Salaberry, Todd A. Hernandez

Spanish Languages and Literatures Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Woody's Melindas And Todd's Stories: Complex Film Narratives In The Light Of Literary Modernism, Walter C. Metz

Publications

This essay compares and contrasts the complex narrative strategies of two films: Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda (2004), and Todd Solondz' Storytelling (2001).

Rabbinic Contestations Of Authority, Christine Hayes

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Review [Of Writing Across Borders], Beth Godbee, Kate Vieira

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

The Place Of Understanding In A Phenomenology Of You, Miles Richardson

Southern Anthropologist

No abstract provided.

Complete Issue, Journal Editors

Southern Anthropologist

No abstract provided.

The Freedom To Manifest Religious Belief: An Analysis Of The Necessity Clauses Of The Iccpr And The Echr, M. Todd Parker

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.

“Sweeping The Heavens For A Comet”: Women, The Language Of Political Economy, And Higher Education In The United States, Ann Mari May

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

The importance of increased levels of education in improving the status of women throughout the world is well established. Higher levels of education are associated with lower birth rates, higher incomes, and greater autonomy for women. Yet, women’s struggle to have a voice in higher education has been fraught with difficulties in the US and worldwide, particularly in overcoming widely held perceptions that limit their entrance into certain academic fields, tenured positions, and elite universities. This essay examines the role political economy has played in providing narratives that rationalize women’s limited participation in higher education. By examining the representation of …

Initial Linguistic And Psychometric Validation Of The Arabic Version Of Nepean Dyspepsia Index, Mohamed S. Khalil, Saeed H. Wahass, Mohamed I. Yassawy

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To report the initial evaluation of the linguistic and psychometric validation of the Nepean Dyspepsia Index (NDI), as part of the ongoing research of quality of life among dyspeptic patients. METHODS: The Arabic version of the NDI was administered to 158 subjects (54 with non-ulcer dyspeptic [NUD]), 50 with gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) and 54 with no history of gastroenteritis disease), with a mean age of 46.6 and SD 10.7. All subjects answered the Arabic versions of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), the Self-Report Questionnaire (SRQ), and the Short Form-12 Quality of Life (QOL) scale. We administered the final …

Obstacle Avoidance Using Predictive Vision Based On A Dynamic 3d World Model, D. Paul Benjamin, Damian M. Lyons, Deryle W. Lonsdale

CSIS Technical Reports

The paper presents a predictive active-vision system for a mobile robot using a dynamic 3D world model. The virtual robot generates expected imagery, compares it with real visual input, and directs attention to significant discrepancies. Recognized objects are then monitored against predictions rather than repeatedly recognized, reducing the cost of scene understanding and supporting obstacle avoidance.

Putting ‘Culture’ Back In Multicultural Education: A Call For A Critical And Interdisciplinary Approach To Teacher Education, Pepi Leistyna

Journal of Praxis in Multicultural Education

No abstract provided.

A Multicultural Learning Community Seminar As A Site Of Praxis, Carl A. Grant, Vonzell Agosto

Journal of Praxis in Multicultural Education

The Multicultural Learning Community (MLC) Seminar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison operates under the direction of the authors as faculty director and teaching assistant. The seminar offers the students and faculty the opportunity to act on Freire’s and Leistyna’s conceptions of praxis. A culturally relevant approach to assessment is employed to discuss the progress of the students and the seminar as a site of praxis. Praxis is the relationship between theoretical understanding and critique of society (that is, its historical, ideological, sociopolitical, and economic influences and structures) and action that seeks to transform individuals and their environment (Leistyna, 1999, p. …