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December 8, 2008 Aasu Faculty Senate Agenda, Armstrong State University Dec 2008

December 8, 2008 Aasu Faculty Senate Agenda, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Armstrong Faculty Senate Agenda (Archived)

December 8, 2008 AASU Faculty Senate Agenda


Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (December 8, 2008), Dmacc Dec 2008

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (December 8, 2008), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on December 8, 2008.


Fixing Foster Care: How Can We Best Support Foster Parents?, Erica S. Pistorino Dec 2008

Fixing Foster Care: How Can We Best Support Foster Parents?, Erica S. Pistorino

Pell Scholars and Senior Theses

The foster care system aims to provide a temporary home to children who are unable to be cared for by their parents. The reasons for this vary, but can be due to ”abuse, neglect, or abandonment” (Marzick 507). According to the Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care, there are more than half a million children in our country who are currently in foster care. These children remain in the system for at least two years and are often moved around from family to family (Krinsky, “A Case” 541-542). This paper involves examining the foster care system, as well as …


Mustang Daily, December 8, 2008 Dec 2008

Mustang Daily, December 8, 2008

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.


A Review Of Lorraine Daston And Peter Galison’S Objectivity, Tom Strong Dec 2008

A Review Of Lorraine Daston And Peter Galison’S Objectivity, Tom Strong

The Qualitative Report

Lorraine Daston’s and Peter Galison’s Objectivity (2007) traces historical and cultural developments as the word "objective" acquired different meanings and associated scientific practices. Similarly, Daston and Galison consider the changing relationship of the word "objective" as it relates to the subjectivity of the researcher. Objectivity will interest any reader interested in how the conceptions and practices of science change historically and culturally.


White Spaces: New Spectrum After Broadcast Digital Conversation, New York Law School Dec 2008

White Spaces: New Spectrum After Broadcast Digital Conversation, New York Law School

Media Center

A discussion on the pros. cons. and public perspectives in connection with an FCC proposal to allow unlicensed wireless devices to use so-called "white space" TV spectrum for broadband internet access and related services.


Dancescape: A Work In Thetranslation Of Bodies And Movement, Julia Allisson Cost Dec 2008

Dancescape: A Work In Thetranslation Of Bodies And Movement, Julia Allisson Cost

Scripps Senior Theses

Translation is inevitably challenging work. When the human body and its movement are the subjects translated, the work may be particularly difficult, as questions both technical and ethical may arise about the representation in the second medium. Yet the exercise can also be very illuminating, creating space for insights that may not have been possible without the translation. For my Scripps College art thesis, I have created a series of paintings of Western dancers and researched four artists whose work involves bodies, movement, or dance and whose approaches differ tremendously. These artists are Edgar Degas (1834-1917), an impressionist painter known …


Appropriating The City: Space, Theory, And Bike Messengers, Jeffrey L. Kidder Dec 2008

Appropriating The City: Space, Theory, And Bike Messengers, Jeffrey L. Kidder

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Over the last 30 years, social theorists have increasingly emphasized the importance of space. However, in empirical research, the dialectical relationship between social interaction and the physical environment is still a largely neglected issue. Using the theory of structuration, I provide a concrete example of why and how space matters in the cultural analysis of an urban social world. I argue that bike messengers—individuals who deliver time-sensitive materials in downtown cores of major cities—cannot be understood outside an analysis of space. Specifically, I connect the cultural significance of messenger practices to the emplacement of those practices inside the urban environment.


Nondestructive Evaluation Of Aircraft Composites Using Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy, Christopher D. Stoik Dec 2008

Nondestructive Evaluation Of Aircraft Composites Using Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy, Christopher D. Stoik

Theses and Dissertations

Terahertz (THz) time domain spectroscopy (TDS) was assessed as a nondestructive evaluation technique for aircraft composites. Material properties of glass fiber composite were measured using both transmission and reflection configuration. The interaction of THz with a glass fiber composite was then analyzed, including the effects of scattering, absorption, and the index of refraction, as well as effective medium approximations. THz TDS, in both transmission and reflection configuration, was used to study composite damage, including voids, delaminations, mechanical damage, and heat damage. Measurement of the material properties on samples with localized heat damage showed that burning did not change the refractive …


Deafdigest: Blue Edition, December 7, 2008, Barry Strassler Dec 2008

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, December 7, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2008

No abstract provided.


Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 7, 2008, Barry Strassler Dec 2008

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 7, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

No abstract provided.


The Chanticleer, 2008-12-07, Coastal Carolina University Dec 2008

The Chanticleer, 2008-12-07, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.


Nymble: Blocking Misbehaving Users In Anonymizing Networks, Patrick P. Tsang, Apu Kapadia, Cory Cornelius, Sean W. Smith Dec 2008

Nymble: Blocking Misbehaving Users In Anonymizing Networks, Patrick P. Tsang, Apu Kapadia, Cory Cornelius, Sean W. Smith

Computer Science Technical Reports

Anonymizing networks such as Tor allow users to access Internet services privately by using a series of routers to hide the client's IP address from the server. The success of such networks, however, has been limited by users employing this anonymity for abusive purposes such as defacing popular websites. Website administrators routinely rely on IP-address blocking for disabling access to misbehaving users, but blocking IP addresses is not practical if the abuser routes through an anonymizing network. As a result, administrators block \emph{all} known exit nodes of anonymizing networks, denying anonymous access to misbehaving and behaving users alike. To address …


New Method For Determination Of Molybdenum(Vi) Through Flow Injection Analysis Via The Consumption Of Liberated Oxygen From Reaction System Ammonia-Hydrogen Peroxide-Molybdenum(Vi) In The Presence Of Pyrogallol, Issam M.A. Shakir, Yasmeen H. Muhamad Ali, Nagam S. Turkey Dec 2008

New Method For Determination Of Molybdenum(Vi) Through Flow Injection Analysis Via The Consumption Of Liberated Oxygen From Reaction System Ammonia-Hydrogen Peroxide-Molybdenum(Vi) In The Presence Of Pyrogallol, Issam M.A. Shakir, Yasmeen H. Muhamad Ali, Nagam S. Turkey

Baghdad Science Journal

This piece of research work aims to study one of the most difficult reaction and determination due to continuous and rapid variation of reaction products and the reactants. As molybdenum (VI) aid in the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide in alkaline medium of ammomia, thus means a continuous liberation of oxygen which cuases and in a continuous manner a distraction in the measurement process. On this basis pyrogallol was used to absorbe all liberated oxygen and the result is an a clean undisturbed signals. Molybdenum (VI) was determined in the range of 4-100 μg.ml-1 with percentage linearity of 99.8% or (4-300 …


2008 Holiday Party, The Rockefeller University Dec 2008

2008 Holiday Party, The Rockefeller University

Posters

The Annual Rockefeller University Holiday Party


December 6, 2008 (Pages 6587-6676), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau Dec 2008

December 6, 2008 (Pages 6587-6676), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 38 (2008)

No abstract provided.


Conference Call Transcript Of The Federal Open Market Committee On December 6, 2007, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors: Federal Open Market Committee (Fomc) Dec 2008

Conference Call Transcript Of The Federal Open Market Committee On December 6, 2007, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors: Federal Open Market Committee (Fomc)

Documents

FOMC transcript renewing discussion of the TAF


Library And Information Support For New Partnership For Africa 'S Development (Nepad), Christopher Nkiko, Felicia O. Yusuf Dec 2008

Library And Information Support For New Partnership For Africa 'S Development (Nepad), Christopher Nkiko, Felicia O. Yusuf

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) was created in October 2001 as an way of helping Africa extricate itself from the malaise of underdevelopment and exclusion in a globalizing world. Its major objectives include: eradication of poverty, promotion of accelerated growth and sustainable development, halting the marginalization of Africa in the globalizing process, and the empowerment of women. The paper examines preconditions for its success and the specific roles expected of libraries and information centres. Such roles include; popularizing the initiative, providing continental information database, human development, eradication of diseases and poverty through information, information brokerage and environmental scanning, partnering …


Importance Of Information And Communication Technologies (Icts) In Making A Heathy Information Society: A Case Study Of Ethiope East Local Government Area Of Delta State, Nigeria, Monday Obaidjevwe Ogbomo, Esoswo Francisca Ogbomo Dec 2008

Importance Of Information And Communication Technologies (Icts) In Making A Heathy Information Society: A Case Study Of Ethiope East Local Government Area Of Delta State, Nigeria, Monday Obaidjevwe Ogbomo, Esoswo Francisca Ogbomo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ICTs are crucially important for sustainable development in developing countries. For the past two decades, most developed countries have witnessed significant changes that can be traced to ICTs. These changes have been observed in economics, education, communication, and travel. Many initiatives have been taken at the international level to support Africa's efforts to develop a communication infrastructure and. This study uses a survey that employed a two-part questionnaire that collected data on the personal characteristics of the respondents and their use of ICTs. A sample of 120 respondents was used. The respondents were drawn from the Ethiope East local government …


The Daily Egyptian, December 05, 2008, Daily Egyptian Staff Dec 2008

The Daily Egyptian, December 05, 2008, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 2008

No abstract provided.


Faculty Senate Minutes - December 5, 2008, Usm Faculty Senate Dec 2008

Faculty Senate Minutes - December 5, 2008, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.


Task Force On Interdisciplinary Programs Report Dec 2008

Task Force On Interdisciplinary Programs Report

University Provost Reports

No abstract provided.


Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes 2008-12-05, Bowling Green State University Dec 2008

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes 2008-12-05, Bowling Green State University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

The official meeting minutes of Bowling Green State University's Board of Trustees.


Consultative Minutes 12/05/2008, Consultative Committee Dec 2008

Consultative Minutes 12/05/2008, Consultative Committee

Consultative Committee

No abstract provided.


We Are…Marshall, December 5, 2008, Office Of Marshall University Communications Dec 2008

We Are…Marshall, December 5, 2008, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.


Khouzam V. Atty Gen Usa Dec 2008

Khouzam V. Atty Gen Usa

2008 Decisions

Agency


Campus Report, Vol. 36, No. 4, University Of Dayton Dec 2008

Campus Report, Vol. 36, No. 4, University Of Dayton

Campus Report

A $10 million gift sets a scholarship record; students raise $4,000 for a Marianist school in Africa; a news analyst and a diplomat discuss the "calamity of challenges" facing a new presidential administration; President Curran shares his confidence in UD's financial position; a sacristan and two archivists become history detectives; and six civil engineering students who spent the summer in Africa leave behind new friends, UD T-shirts, soccer cleats ... and clean water.


Reporter - December 5th 2008, Rit Reporter Staff Dec 2008

Reporter - December 5th 2008, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.


Opposition Makes Gains In Venezuelan State And City Elections, Guest Author Dec 2008

Opposition Makes Gains In Venezuelan State And City Elections, Guest Author

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Stevenson Center Compass, Vol. 2, Iss. 1, December 5, 2008, Illinois State University, Stevenson Center For Community And Economic Development Dec 2008

Stevenson Center Compass, Vol. 2, Iss. 1, December 5, 2008, Illinois State University, Stevenson Center For Community And Economic Development

Stevenson Center Compass

Newsletter for the Stevenson Center for Community and Economic Development