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Framing Bad Art: A Semiotic View Of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Scott B. Givonetti Jan 2006

Framing Bad Art: A Semiotic View Of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Scott B. Givonetti

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance has been criticized contemporaneously and subsequently by such figures as F. O. Matthiessen, Mark Van Doren, and Rudolph Von Abele for its lack of romanticism or realism, depending upon the critic. This thesis uses a semiotic approach to explore Hawthorne's deconstruction of his first-person narrator, Miles Coverdale, and the resulting confusion among critics regarding authorial control in what some call his "anti-romance." Coverdale, as a detached artist, is responsible for reality's misinterpretation and misrepresentation, somewhat lampooning Transcendentalism. The triadic relationship of object, sign, and interpretant modeled by Charles Sanders Peirce is discussed using Liszka, Sebeok, …

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Gifts From Home: Material Culture And American Immigrant Women In The 20th Century, Victoria L. Thur Jan 2006

Gifts From Home: Material Culture And American Immigrant Women In The 20th Century, Victoria L. Thur

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This thesis will explore material culture by focusing on textiles and needlework of American immigrant women in the twentieth-century. It will feature three textiles: the Fishman bris dress from Britain, traditional Ukrainian embroidery, and refugee Hmong story cloths. Material culture is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates a wide variety of sources, theories, and interpretations. Social history incorporates voices and sources that have been disregarded in the mainstream narrative. Without scholarship in material culture, these sources would be lost forever. Textiles and their study allow for a wider and more inclusive interpretation of the American experience as immigrant and female. Most …

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Hawthorne's Play On Gender And Sexuality In "The Blithedale Romance", Brooke J. Rubin Jan 2006

Hawthorne's Play On Gender And Sexuality In "The Blithedale Romance", Brooke J. Rubin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Feminist critics have primarily concentrated on the character of Zenobia, Nathaniel Hawthorne's premier feminist in The Blithedale Romance, to unravel Hawthorne's stance on the emergent sexual politics of the time. This thesis not only examines the importance of Zenobia but also analyzes the significance of Hawthorne's allusions to gender and sexuality constructs in terms of his other characters: Coverdale, Hollingsworth, Priscilla, Westervelt, and Moodie. In addition, I argue that Hawthorne's purpose is to experiment with societal constructs of gender and sexuality among his central characters, a literary experiment that inadvertently subverts his ostensible traditional, patriarchal perspective. In essence, my reading …

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Heartbeat Of A Caring Leader, Lynn K. Robbins Jan 2006

Heartbeat Of A Caring Leader, Lynn K. Robbins

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This doctoral dissertation explores the life of an African-American female elementary school principal using a unifying qualitative method incorporating biography, portraiture and anthropology called A renaissance method for studying leadership: A caring perspective. A portrait of the principal was derived using this method where verbatim statements were taken from friends, family, teachers, colleagues and supervisors as well as the principal herself at the school site and the town where she was raised to identify emerging themes. The findings indicate that her humanistic approach to leading in high poverty and minority schools was grounded on her ethic of caring, one that …

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Hamiltonian Methods In The Quantization Of Gauge Systems, Ruslan Vaulin Jan 2006

Hamiltonian Methods In The Quantization Of Gauge Systems, Ruslan Vaulin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The new formalism for quantization of gauge systems based on the concept of the dynamical Hamiltonian recently introduced as a basis for the canonical theory of quantum gravity was considered in the context of general gauge theories. This and other Hamiltonian methods, that include Dirac's theory of extended Hamiltonian and the Hamiltonian reduction formalism were critically examined. It was established that the classical theories of constrained gauge systems formulated within the framework of either of the approaches are equivalent. The central to the proof of equivalence was the fact that the gauge symmetries resuIt in the constraints of the first …

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Heartland Germans: Cultural Maintenance In Mid-Nineteenth Century America, Madelyn Witt Lavigne Jan 2006

Heartland Germans: Cultural Maintenance In Mid-Nineteenth Century America, Madelyn Witt Lavigne

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Midwestern Germans who populated Indianapolis, St. Louis, Chicago and St. Paul represented a kind of cultural identity that revealed an ethnic pride. Through the church, the press, their language, social organizations and political involvement, these Germans demonstrated the tenacity of a people willing to risk the security of their homeland for a better life in America and in the process established a set of cultural norms that reflected a significant attempt to maintain their ethnic identity. During the years 1830-1870, the pull of cheap and available land fueled the chain migration that led to the largest influx of German immigrants …

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Implementation Of The Sensor-Mac Protocol For The Jist/Swans Simulator, Veerendra. Tippanagoudar Jan 2006

Implementation Of The Sensor-Mac Protocol For The Jist/Swans Simulator, Veerendra. Tippanagoudar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

In recent years, advances in wireless technologies have enabled novel applications for wireless devices. Sensor network is one such application that consists of large number of battery-operated nodes. To simulate such networks with large number of nodes, a wireless sensor network simulator that is highly scalable is vital. JiST/SWANS is one such simulator that is highly scalable. However, the JiST/SWANS MAC layer implementation of 802.11b is not suitable for sensor networks, which are energy-constrained. Hence, our main focus is to implement the S-MAC protocol in JiST/SWANS. The S-MAC protocol allows the nodes to go to sleep and thereby it helps …

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Instructional Leadership In High Schools: The Effects Of Principals, Assistant Principals, And Department Heads On Student Achievement, Tara Lynn Todd Jan 2006

Instructional Leadership In High Schools: The Effects Of Principals, Assistant Principals, And Department Heads On Student Achievement, Tara Lynn Todd

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The purpose of the study was to examine the influence of instructional leadership on student achievement through the instructional leadership of principals, assistant principals and math department heads at the high school level. The Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale was used to quantify instructional leadership in ten different job functions. The research questions were as follows: 1. Can the instructional leadership of principals, assistant principals, and math department heads be described at the high school level? 2. Whose instructional leadership has the greatest relationship to student achievement, principals, assistant principals, or math department heads? 3. Does team alignment in instructional …

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Indicators Linked To The Success Of Students With Psychological Disabilities In Urban Community College Allied Health Sciences Programs, Deborah A. Casey Jan 2006

Indicators Linked To The Success Of Students With Psychological Disabilities In Urban Community College Allied Health Sciences Programs, Deborah A. Casey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The purpose of this study was to identify what climate indicators (attitudinal, support provision, student interaction) found in allied health sciences classroom and clinical settings at a northwest community college contribute to the success of students with psychological disabilities. Three climate assessments and a series of interviews revealed crucial information regarding academic support necessary to assist students with psychological disabilities within the allied health sciences. Utilizing mixed methodologies, the researcher collected and analyzed data during the Fall 2005 academic quarter from 177 climate assessments and facilitated 33 interviews, five student focus groups, and five follow-up interviews with students with psychological …

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Initial Evaluation Of Organotin Monomers And Polymers As Potential Anticancer Agents, Randy D. Doucette Jan 2006

Initial Evaluation Of Organotin Monomers And Polymers As Potential Anticancer Agents, Randy D. Doucette

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

A large number of metal-containing compounds show significant activity against cancer cells and incorporating a metal into a polymer offers several possible advantages. Compounds of the type R2SnCl2 (R = methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, t-butyl, octyl and phenyl) were tested for the ability to inhibit the growth of Balb 3T3 mouse fibroblast cells and CAOV3 human ovarian carcinoma cells. Polymers of 2-chloro-1,4-benzenediamine and the same organotin dichloride were synthesized and tested as well. For both monomers and polymers, the pattern of growth inhibition relative to the R group was butyl > propyl = t-butyl = octyl = phenyl > ethyl > methyl. This …

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Instructional Leadership: Principals Making A Difference With High-Poverty And Minority Populations To Improve Instruction And Increase Student Achievement, Julie. Hopkins Jan 2006

Instructional Leadership: Principals Making A Difference With High-Poverty And Minority Populations To Improve Instruction And Increase Student Achievement, Julie. Hopkins

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The purpose of the study was to examine instructional leadership through an in-depth multi-case study of three high poverty and high minority elementary school sites where the principals had been identified as instructional leaders. The study identified how schools with unique populations practiced instructional leadership and compared the methods used to the six standards described by the NAESP. In addition, the research identified actions of instructional leaders used to enhance school improvement efforts in schools serving high poverty and high minority populations while contributing to the understanding of the principal's role as an instructional leader. The three findings were: that …

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Investigation Of Flow Patterns Using Geochemical Tracers In The Floridan Aquifer System, Naples, Florida, E. Edward Rectenwald Jan 2006

Investigation Of Flow Patterns Using Geochemical Tracers In The Floridan Aquifer System, Naples, Florida, E. Edward Rectenwald

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study investigated flow patterns in the FAS and tested Kohout's theory of "cyclic flow" in the vicinity of Naples, Florida. Temperature logs were analyzed to identify a reverse geothermal gradient in the Floridan aquifer system. The geochemical analysis consisted of inorganics (major cations and anions), stable isotopes (2H, 18O), radiocarbon (14C), and noble gas (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe) data. The temperature logs were inconclusive in identifying a reverse geothermal gradient in the study area. The geochemical analysis suggests that within the FAS relatively old meteoric freshwater circulates in the UFA over relatively young seawater of the MCU and …

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Influence Of Consumers' Trust Beliefs On Intentions To Transact In The Online Environment: An E-Tail Study, Enrique P. Becerra Jan 2006

Influence Of Consumers' Trust Beliefs On Intentions To Transact In The Online Environment: An E-Tail Study, Enrique P. Becerra

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

With the increased importance of retailing through the Internet, or e-tailing, researchers and practitioners alike have been interested in the role that trust can play in intentions to transact online. However, influences of trust on intentions to provide personal information to complete the transaction, and influences of trust in the product category, and/or in the brand, on intentions to transact, have received little attention. This research fills the gap in the exiting literature by understanding the influence of product category trust, brand trust and vendor trust on intentions to transact online, a combination of intentions to purchase and intentions to …

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Intimate Partner Homicide Methods In Heterosexual And Homosexual Relationships, Krystal D. Mize Jan 2006

Intimate Partner Homicide Methods In Heterosexual And Homosexual Relationships, Krystal D. Mize

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

From 1976 to 2001 over 50,000 people in the United States were victims of documented intimate partner lethal violence. In a study of intimate partner homicides in Chicago, Block and Christakos (1995) found that the weapon used varied based on the offender's gender. Relative to heterosexual partners, homosexual partners experience added stress due to a lack of social support of their relationships. The current study examined the effect of sex and sexual orientation of intimate partner homicide offenders on brutality of killing methods. Two hypotheses were formulated addressing the brutality of the murders as a function of the offender's sexual …

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Label Routing Protocol: A New Cross-Layer Protocol For Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Wireless Network, Yu. Wang Jan 2006

Label Routing Protocol: A New Cross-Layer Protocol For Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Wireless Network, Yu. Wang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Compared to the traditional wireless network, the multi-hop ad hoc wireless network (simply called ad hoc networks) is self-configurable, dynamic, and distributed. During the past few years, many routing protocols have been proposed for this particular network environment. While in wired and optical networks, multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) has clearly shown its advantages in routing and switching such as flexibility, high efficiency, scalability, and low cost, however MPLS is complex and does not consider the mobility issue for wireless networks, especially for ad hoc networks. This thesis migrates the label concept into the ad hoc network and provides a framework …

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Isolation And Biosynthesis Of Terpenes In Pseudopterogorgia Elisabethae And Leptogorgia Minimata, Saalfeld Silke Von Jan 2006

Isolation And Biosynthesis Of Terpenes In Pseudopterogorgia Elisabethae And Leptogorgia Minimata, Saalfeld Silke Von

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The marine environment has proven to be an extremely rich source of novel natural products with activities in a variety of biological assays. The field of marine natural products chemistry has enjoyed an explosion of growth over the past 40 years and currently there are marine-derived metabolites in clinical trials for cancer, analgesia, allergy and cognitive diseases. Even with this tremendous development, it is clear that chemists and pharmacologists are only beginning to scratch the surface of the biomedical potential of marine organisms. One problem with this source of new pharmaceuticals is that the supply of such compounds can be …

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Key Management In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Bing. Wu Jan 2006

Key Management In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Bing. Wu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), providing secure communications is a big challenge due to unreliable wireless media, host mobility and lack of infrastructure. Usually, cryptographic techniques are used for secure communications in wired networks. Symmetric and asymmetric cryptography have their advantages and disadvantages. In fact, any cryptographic means is ineffective if its key management is weak. Key management is also a central aspect for security in mobile ad hoc networks. In MANETs, the computational load and complexity for key management are strongly subject to restriction by the node's available resources and the dynamic nature of network topology. We proposed …

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Interaction Between Surface-Based And Edge-Based Motion Mechanisms In The Perception Of Apparent Motion, David F. Nichols Jan 2006

Interaction Between Surface-Based And Edge-Based Motion Mechanisms In The Perception Of Apparent Motion, David F. Nichols

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The motion of an object may be perceived based on a change in location of either its surface or edges. By isolating the luminance changes produced by a moving object from the physical displacement of its surface and edges, it was found that a static object appears to move when the luminance changes are restricted to a narrow area adjacent to it. Therefore, changes in the luminance contrast of edges are sufficient for the perception of object motion. However, the existence of different motion signals based on luminance changes of edges and surfaces was confirmed by the occurrence of different …

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Iptv On Copper-Lines Converging Into "All-Optical" Trunk Transport: A Next-Generation Local-Loop Solution, Angela S. Perez Jan 2006

Iptv On Copper-Lines Converging Into "All-Optical" Trunk Transport: A Next-Generation Local-Loop Solution, Angela S. Perez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

A promising next-generation version of service that could be availed from local exchange carriers (LECs) refers to streaming Internet protocol based television (IPTV) programs into subscriber premises via traditional copper pairs. The present study addresses provisioning economically-budgeted and optimally-engineered bit rates (EBRs) in implementing IPTV technology in the local-loop via copper-pairs using the so-called (ADSL2/ADSL2+) technology (with high-speed/large bandwidth considerations plus copper-bonding for bandwidth sharing capabilities). Also studied is the way to extend the backhaul transport of IPTV on copper-lines (plus any other local-loop transmissions that may co-exist) onto an "all-optical" trunk of the inter-office facilities (IOFs) in the edge/core …

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Marketing The Television Apparatus For American Consumption: Producing Meaning In Contemporary Magazine Advertisements, Kimberly J. Maskevich Jan 2006

Marketing The Television Apparatus For American Consumption: Producing Meaning In Contemporary Magazine Advertisements, Kimberly J. Maskevich

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Contemporary magazine ads for television sets have much in common with their post WWII counterparts, the latter being produced during an era when the new technology was first getting installed in homes across the United States. Much has changed in the TV landscape since the postwar years. In particular, digital technology has altered the general terrain and set choices themselves are more diverse. Digital television began penetrating the marketplace in the 1990s and is predicted to become mainstream by 2010. Even though the cultural climate has shifted since the postwar era, along with the concept of the familial and traditional …

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Isolation, Characterization And Synthesis Of New Diterpenes From Pseudopterogorgia Elisabethae, Zhongliang Wan Jan 2006

Isolation, Characterization And Synthesis Of New Diterpenes From Pseudopterogorgia Elisabethae, Zhongliang Wan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae is a known source of structurally interesting bioactive metabolites. A detailed search for new, related compounds was undertaken in this study which resulted in the isolation and characterization of more than ten new diterpenes with serrulatane and ileabethane skeletons. Some of the new compounds isolated are closely related terpenes with significant biological activity and others are likely to be key biosynthetic intermediates. As a component of the development of a production method of anti-inflammatory compounds such as seco-pseudopterosin and elisabethadione, a synthesis of a seco-pseudoperosin aglycone from elisabethatriene was developed.

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Markers Of Hypoxic Stress In Fishes Of The Kissimmee River, Lynda J. Dirk Jan 2006

Markers Of Hypoxic Stress In Fishes Of The Kissimmee River, Lynda J. Dirk

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The channelized Kissimmee River experiences seasonally low dissolved oxygen levels which have changed the ecosystem to favor air-breathing species, while gamefish populations have declined greatly. In 2001 , the central portion of the river (Pool C) was physically restored. To evaluate the usefulness of various stress markers and assess the success of the partial restoration, the stress responses were analyzed (brain monoamines, heat shock proteins, and plasma cortisol) of air-breathing fish (bowfin, Florida gar), versus gamefish (largemouth bass and bluegill sunfish). Fish were collected from hypoxic and normoxic water at three sites in the Kissimmee River. Statistical analysis (MANOV A) …

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Mitigating Worm Propagation On Virtual Lans, Xiaoguang. Sun Jan 2006

Mitigating Worm Propagation On Virtual Lans, Xiaoguang. Sun

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Recent worms have used sophisticated propagation techniques to propagate faster than the patch distribution and have utilized previously unknown vulnerabilities. To mitigate repetition of such epidemics in future, active defense mechanisms are needed that not only identify malicious activity, but can also defend against widespread outbreak. We provide a framework capable of reacting quickly to quarantine infections. The fundamental components of our framework are detector and VLAN switch. We have provided a proof of concept implementation, where we use the Blaster worm as an example, and demonstrate that detection of worms is possible, and individual infected hosts can be isolated …

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Men's Partner-Directed Insults And Sexual Coercion In Intimate Relationships, Valerie G. Starratt Jan 2006

Men's Partner-Directed Insults And Sexual Coercion In Intimate Relationships, Valerie G. Starratt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Given the negative psychological and health-related consequences of sexual coercion, recent research has focused on predicting sexual coercion. In two studies, I investigated the relationships between men's partner-directed sexually coercive behaviors and their use of partner-directed insults in the context of intimate relationships. Study 1 secured self-reports from 247 men on the Partner-Directed Insults Scale and the Sexual Coercion in Intimate Relationships Scale. Study 2 secured partner-reports from 378 women on the same measures. Across both studies, the results indicate that men's use of sexually coercive behaviors can be predicted by the frequency or content of the insults that men …

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Method To Create Three-Dimensional Facial Image From Two-Dimensional Facial Data Set, Teerapat. Theerawong Jan 2006

Method To Create Three-Dimensional Facial Image From Two-Dimensional Facial Data Set, Teerapat. Theerawong

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

A method to create 3D-face image using 2D-face images is the objective of this research. The 3D-face image is constructed using a set of 3D-face images of other persons available in a face database. The 3D-face image actually depicts a parameterized form in terms of depth and texture. This concept can be used to facilitate creating a 3D-face image from 2D database. For this purpose, a 3D-face database is first developed. When a 2D-face image is presented to the system, a 3D-face image that starts with an average 3D-face image (derived from the 3D-face database) is projected onto the 2D-image …

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Morbid Jealousy From An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective, Judith A. Easton Jan 2006

Morbid Jealousy From An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective, Judith A. Easton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Individuals diagnosed with morbid jealousy have hypersensitive jealousy mechanisms that cause them to have irrational thoughts about their partners and to exhibit extreme behaviors. Because morbid jealousy is defined as a malfunction of evolved jealousy mechanisms such that they produce increased chances of perceiving partner infidelity, research guided by an evolutionary psychological perspective can add insight to the understanding of the disorder. The present research tested eleven evolutionarily relevant hypotheses about jealousy, in an attempt to improve the understanding of the etiology of morbid jealousy. To investigate a large enough sample, I created a database of all the morbid jealousy …

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Mothering And Male Masochism In Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Aurora Floyd, Denise Hunter Gravatt Jan 2006

Mothering And Male Masochism In Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Aurora Floyd, Denise Hunter Gravatt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Feminist literary critics often praise Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensation novels for undermining Victorian gender ideologies, and yet by failing to scrutinize aspects of maternity and female sexuality, they overlook some of her work's most subversive potential. In Aurora Floyd, for instance, Braddon deploys the trope of the missing mother to deconstruct the Victorian maternal ideal of a pure, passive angel in the house. Her text proposes a notion of motherhood, which is more concerned with internal goodness and vitality, rather than with the Victorian era's emphasis on external proprieties and socially constructed notions of femininity. Braddon's Aurora is a motherless …

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Now You Hear It, Now You Don't: The Effect Of Markedness On The Perception Of Unattested Clusters, Tracy J. Lennertz Jan 2006

Now You Hear It, Now You Don't: The Effect Of Markedness On The Perception Of Unattested Clusters, Tracy J. Lennertz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Linguistic theory predicts that speakers are equipped with universal sonority principles that restrict the structure of the syllable: onset clusters with sonority rises are preferred to onsets with plateaus, which are preferred to onsets with falling sonority (bn > bd > lb). We investigate the source of this preference in English, a language in which these sonority profiles are unattested. We gauged speakers' preferences for unattested onsets by examining their susceptibility to epenthetic repair. If English speakers are sensitive to onset structure, then onsets that are universally dispreferred should be more likely to elicit repair (e.g., lbif→lebif). Results from a syllable judgment …

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Neural Activity Associated With Tolerance To Amphetamine Hypophagia, Kimberlee D. Bachand Jan 2006

Neural Activity Associated With Tolerance To Amphetamine Hypophagia, Kimberlee D. Bachand

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

There is a growing body of literature indicating that drug effects are influenced by the context in which they are taken, and that neuroadaptations resulting from chronic drug use are similarly context dependent. Contingent tolerance to amphetamine-induced hypophagia is mediated by the learned suppression of stereotyped behaviors, and is an example of a drug-environment interaction. This form of behavioral tolerance depends upon instrumental learning, by which rats learn a strategy to suppress drug-induced stereotypies that interfere with feeding. Considerable progress has been made in understanding contingent tolerance at the behavioral level; little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying contingent …

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Music, Rhetoric And The Creation Of Feminist Consciousness In The Marian Songs Of Hildegard Of Bingen (1098--1179), Beverly R. Lomer Jan 2006

Music, Rhetoric And The Creation Of Feminist Consciousness In The Marian Songs Of Hildegard Of Bingen (1098--1179), Beverly R. Lomer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This dissertation examines the sixteen songs to Mary in the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum of twelfth century nun composer, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). The analysis demonstrates that the idiosyncratic musical style of the Symphonia cycle represents an innovative application of the rhetorical procedures of the medieval ars praedicandi and the ars dictamen to music centuries in advance of an articulated concept of musical rhetoric, and that one goal of the Marian repertory was to affect the self-consciousness of the all-female audience in a positive direction. The effect is achieved through the strategically constructed and inextricable relationship between text and melody. …

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