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Bones To Read: An Interpretation Of Forensic Crime Fiction, Ingrida Povidiša

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

The anthropological forensic crime fiction is a detective genre which is primarily concerned with investigating human bodies. In the hermeneutical process of reading the bones (i.e. studying, interpreting, understanding, embodying), the most enduring record carrier of one's individuality, supported by a rhizoid network of scientific disciplines, the anonymous corpse becomes a personalized victim. The present discussion is based on the novels of Kathy Reichs. Specific characteristics of the materiality and mediality of representation can be traced through a juxtaposition of Reichs' novels with the serial Bones (Twentieth Century Fox, 2005 - Present) and the novel by Max Allan Collins Bones …

Segundo, Colorado: Largest Coke Plant West Of Chicago, Glen D. Weaver, Ryan C. Graham

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Disparo En Red, July 1, 2008, Disparo En Red

Disparo en Red (Cuban science fiction magazine)

The July 1, 2008, issue of Disparo en Red.

The Eagleville Times,Volume 6, Issue 13, Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

No abstract provided.

At The Altar Of Autonomy: The Dangerous Territory Of Abigail Alliance V. Von Eschenbach, Andrea Beth Ott

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Biafra As Heritage And Symbol: Adichie, Mbachu, Iweala, John C. Hawley

English

Eddie Iroh made the observation that writers of his generation, who had lived through the Biafran conflict, were too close to the suffering to write the definitive accounts of the war, and that the task would fall to later generations. This essay looks at three later accounts Dulue Mbachu’s War Games (2005), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Uzodinma Iweala’s Beast of No Nation (2005) to assess the war’s impact on Nigerian cultural expression in the twenty-first century. As the eldest of the three writers, Mbachu lingers more on the war itself than do the other …

Prairie Dog Management In South Dakota, Sandy Huber, Jim Wilson

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

The black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus Ord) is a native rodent found throughout the short- and mixed-grass prairies of North America. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USDI USFWS 2006) estimated that black-tailed prairie dogs occupied about 1,842,000 acres in 2004. Of that, over 411,400 acres were located in South Dakota. Prairie dogs are clearly valuable as a component of grassland ecosystems, providing habitat to a number of plant and animal species. Prairie dogs clip vegetation short within their towns to enhance their ability to see predators (King 1955). As a result, they compete with livestock for forage on the …

Inside Earth, Volume 11, No. 1, Summer 2008, Rodney D. Horrocks, Cave And Karst Program (U.S.)

Inside Earth

Contents: The Discovery of KyPet Caverns, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument -- Lampflora Research Update -- Park Updates

Just For The Hell Of It: A Comparison Of Two Taboo-Term Constructions, J. Hoeksema, Donna Jo Napoli

Linguistics Faculty Works

The two English constructions exemplified in Let's get the hell out of here (type G) and They beat the hell out of him (type B) differ both syntactically and semantically, but in both the taboo expression has the force of an intensifier. History (through a corpus investigation) reveals that the B-construction started as a literal exorcism (beat the devil out of someone), where the hell substituted for the devil, and semantic bleaching ultimately made the literal sense give way to simple emphasis, with any taboo term jumping in. The G-construction may have developed simultaneously, always as an intensifier--or, perhaps, later, …

Vaccine - Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis In A Pre-Vaccinated Infant., Khalid S. Kakish, Watfa S. Al-Dhaheri, Sayenna A. Uduman

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Determination Of Liver Enzymes, Serum Ceruloplasmin And Urine Copper In Parents Of Children With Wilson's Disease., Mahmood Haghighat, Seyed-Mohsen Dehghani, Mohammad H. Imanieh, Siavash Gholami

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

The Grace We Are Owed: Human Rights And Divine Duties, James B. Gould

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Focal Spot, Summer/Fall 2008

Focal Spot All Issues

No abstract provided.

Australian Maritime Law Update: 2007 General Maritime Issues, Michael White, Craig Forrest

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Opening Remarks: General Comment No. 2, Felice D. Gaer

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Compost Production And Use In Horticulture, Bob Paulin, Peter O'Malley

Bulletins 4000 -

Maintaining and improving soil organic carbon levels is becoming an increasingly important aspect of modern farming. Compost provides potentially one of the most effective ways of applying organic matter to soils and improving organic carbon levels.

Improving soil organic carbon is directly related to soil quality and performance. Increased quality reflects improved biological function (soil health), fertility and physical attributes that include better drainage, reduced compaction and erosion, and improved moisture-holding capability, at least for lighter soils.

Compost is not the only option available. Others include the use of cover or break crops, reducing the use of cultivations, selecting safe …

Survey Of Illinois Law: Conservation, Energy And Food Developments In Agricultural Law, A. Bryan Endres, Donald L. Uchtmann

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Perceptually Motivated Wavelet Packet Transform For Bioacoustic Signal Enhancement, Yao Ren, Michael T. Johnson, Jidong Tao

Dr. Dolittle Project: A Framework for Classification and Understanding of Animal Vocalizations

A significant and often unavoidable problem in bioacoustic signal processing is the presence of background noise due to an adverse recording environment. This paper proposes a new bioacoustic signal enhancement technique which can be used on a wide range of species. The technique is based on a perceptually scaled wavelet packet decomposition using a species-specific Greenwood scale function. Spectral estimation techniques, similar to those used for human speech enhancement, are used for estimation of clean signal wavelet coefficients under an additive noise model. The new approach is compared to several other techniques, including basic bandpass filtering as well as classical …

Soil Nitrogen And Phosphorus Availability For Field-Applied Slurry From Swine Fed Traditional And Low-Phytate Corn, J. S. Paschold, B. J. Wienhold, Richard B. Ferguson, Dennis L. Mccallister

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Swine (Sus scrofa) slurry contains nutrients essential for crop production but usually contains more P relative to N than is required by most crops, creating the potential for negative environmental impacts. Diet modifications such as low-phytate corn (Zea mays L.) have resulted in improved bioavailability of P and reduced manure P content. A field study was conducted to compare in situ availability of N and P at two sites. One site received three annual additions of manure from swine fed low-phytate corn or traditional corn diets or inorganic fertilizer, surface applied to rainfed no-till sorghum [Sorghum …

Issue No. 76: July 2008, Historical Society Of New Mexico

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 Miera y Pacheco and the Gila Apaches
3 2008 Historical Society of New Mexico Awards
3 The Office of the State Historian Is Looking for Descendants of WPA Writers
4 New Mexico Heritage Preservation Awards
5 In Memoriam
5 Old Spanish Trail Exhibit Celebrates Trade Route between Santa Fe and Los Angeles
6 New Mexico State Quarter
6 Call for Papers, 2009 New Mexico History Conference
6 New Books for Your New Mexico History Bookshelves

Proteomics Analysis Identifies Molecular Targets Related To Diabetes Mellitus-Associated Bladder Dysfunction, Elizabeth Yohannes, Jinsook Chang, Mark R. Chance

Faculty Scholarship

Protein expression profiles in rat bladder smooth muscle were compared between animal models of streptozotocin-induced diabetes mellitus (STZ-DM) and age-matched controls at 1 week and 2 months after induction of hyper-glycemia with STZ treatment. At each time point, protein samples from four STZ-DM and four age-matched control rat bladder tissues were prepared independently and analyzed together across multiple DIGE gels using a pooled internal standard sample to quantify expression changes with statistical confidence. A total of 100 spots were determined to be significantly changing among the four experimental groups. A subsequent mass spectrometry analysis of the 100 spots identified a …

Syncretism In Narrativity, Visuality And Tactility: A Case Study Of Information Visualization Concerning A News Media Event, Ashley Holmes

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

This article re-examines the appropriateness of a conceptual framework based on the semiotic scholarship of Greimas and Courtés which Margaret Morse championed as being suitable for analysis of television and new media. That framework is supplemented with the suggestion that narrative, visual and tactile modes of communication involve syncretism. In a case study of information visualization examples produced for Australian news media during a mine collapse tragedy and rescue at the Beaconsfield Gold Mine in Tasmania in 2006 this idea is used to identify communicative qualities potentially inherent in traditional print and television and emergent new media visualization techniques.

Judicial Modesty And Abortion, Teresa Collett

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Model For Population Firing In Neuronal Networks With Planar Lattice Topology, Charity A. Pettis

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Masters Theses

The creation, modulation, propagation, and termination of seizures are of great interest to neuroscientists as understanding the dynamics of these responses may aid the prevention of seizures. Three major factors affecting epileptiform activity are intrinsic neuronal properties, synaptic properties and network connectivity. The computation required for the full scale simulation of neuronal networks is prohibitively expensive. To address this issue, we develop a simpler model for networks with planar lattice topology and “small world” characteristics. Using this model, one may examine the effects of connectivity and intrinsic neuronal properties on population firing, a measure of network activity, quickly. To verify …

Self-Tuning Query Mesh For Adaptive Multi-Route Query Processing, Rimma V. Nehme, Elke A. Rundersteiner, Elisa Bertino

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Your Own Actions Influence How You Perceive Other People: A Misattribution Of Action Appraisals, Sp Tipper, P Bach

School of Psychology

The attribution of personal traits to other persons depends on the actions the observer performs at the same time (Bach & Tipper, 2007). Here, we show that the effect reflects a misattribution of appraisals of the observers' own actions to the actions of others. We exploited spatial compatibility effects to manipulate how fluently-how fast and how accurately-participants identified two individuals performing sporty or academic actions. The traits attributed to each person in a subsequent rating task depended on the fluency of participants' responses in a specific manner. An individual more fluently identified while performing the academic action appeared more academic …

Transformations With Tai Chi: The Experience Of Community-Dwelling Tai Chi Practitioners, Sunny Yim Alperson Phd

Dissertations

While Tai Chi practice has dramatically increased across the U.S., its mechanism is unknown, and overall understanding of the phenomenon is lacking. The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of community-dwelling Tai Chi practitioners through a qualitative study, detailing its social and personal appeal, the reasons for their continued involvement, its symbolic meanings, and its impact on their lives. Utilizing the grounded theory method and dimensional analysis, in-depth interview data from 23 practitioners, aged 49-82 were audio-recorded, transcribed, coded and analyzed to derive a grounded theory. A theoretical model, transformation with moving meditation was developed, reflecting the …

July 1, 2008, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Anaga, Stephen Bowers, Ekatarina Janiashvili

Faculty Publications and Presentations

As part of a 2007-2008 project examining rural life in the eastern regions of Georgia, the authors prepared this study of a remote village in Kakheti.

Cardiac Metastasis In Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma., Aejaz A. Sheikh, Mushtaq Ahmad, Abdul R. Lone, Manzoor A. Banday

Saudi Medical Journal

ABSTRACT Malignant fibrous histiocytoma MFH is an aggressive spindle cell cancer and is the most common soft tissue tumor in the elderly, primarily affecting the extremities. It has high metastatic potential and can spread to various viscera including liver, lung, bone, and brain; however, cardiac metastasis is an extreme rarity. Here, we present a 50-year-old male, diagnosed as pleiomorhphic storiform MFH a of right arm who developed parenchymal pulmonary metastases and a mass lesion in left atrium. Patient had a downhill course and eventually succumbed.