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Communication And The Knowable Community, Bonnie Brennen

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

This essay draws on Raymond Williams's concept of a knowable community in an effort to understand the myriad of connections that exist between individuals and society. Williams, who sees communication and community as synonymous, suggests that a knowable community may ultimately emerge through the process of communication and that in the discovery of connections between individuals and society, an understanding of historically specific patterns may be shown. This essay also discusses an oral history project with journalists who worked for Gannett in the 1960s as an example of an emerging knowable community that questioned traditional notions of community and challenged …

Messenger Rna Half-Life Measurements In Mammalian Cells, Chyi-Ying A Chen, Nader Ezzeddine, Ann-Bin Shyu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The recognition of the importance of mRNA turnover in regulating eukaryotic gene expression has mandated the development of reliable, rigorous, and "user-friendly" methods to accurately measure changes in mRNA stability in mammalian cells. Frequently, mRNA stability is studied indirectly by analyzing the steady-state level of mRNA in the cytoplasm; in this case, changes in mRNA abundance are assumed to reflect only mRNA degradation, an assumption that is not always correct. Although direct measurements of mRNA decay rate can be performed with kinetic labeling techniques and transcriptional inhibitors, these techniques often introduce significant changes in cell physiology. Furthermore, many critical mechanistic …

Automatic Feature-Extraction And Eigen-Analysis : Novel Methods For Intelligent Surveillance Video Enhancement And Target Tracking, Yi Wang

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Cooper V. Aaron And The Faces Of Federalism, Ashutosh Bhagwat

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

A Darwinist View Of The Living Constitution, Scott Dodson

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Admissibility Regimes The Opinion Rule And Other Oddities And Exceptions To Scientific Evidence The Scientific Revolution And Common Sense, David L. Faigman

Faculty Scholarship

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Forecasting Model For Air Taxi, Commercial Airline, And Automobile Demand In The United States, Hojong Baik, Antonio A. Trani, Nicolas Hinze, Howard Swingle, Senanu Ashiabor, Anand Seshadri

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A nationwide model predicts the annual county-to-county person roundtrips for air taxi, commercial airline, and automobile at 1-year intervals through 2030. the transportation systems analysis model (TSAM) uses the four-step transportation systems modeling process to calculate trip generation, trip distribution, and mode choice for each county origin-destination pair. Network assignment is formulated for commercial airline and air taxi demand. TSAM classifies trip rates by trip purpose, household income group, and type of metropolitan statistical area from which the round-trip started. a graphical user interface with geographic information systems capability is included in the model. Potential applications of the model are …

Undergraduate And Graduate Catalog [2007-2008], Georgia Southern University

Undergraduate & Graduate Catalogs

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Comparison Of Career Statistics And Season Statistics In Major League Baseball, Mark Joseph Ammons

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This is a comparison of statistics for some of the best seasons and careers of players from Major League Baseball; using data collected on batting average, at bat to homerun ratio, and earned run average. Two teams were created, composed of season leaders and career leaders, chosen for their outstanding offensive and pitching abilities, and were pitted against one another to determine superiority. These two teams also compared against a team from each era of major league baseball. The season and career leaders challenged, the 1918 Boston Red Sox, 1927 New York Yankees, 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, 1961 New York Yankees, …

Aquaporin 3 Water Channel Protein Gene Expression In Squalis Acanthias Dogfish Shark, Debra Lee Murray

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Aquaporins are a family of membrane proteins that provide channels for the rapid movement of water molecules and some small solutes across the cellular membrane. Since the discovery of the first water channel protein, hundreds of homologous proteins have been found in all forms of life and much has been learned about their complex role in body water homeostasis. This is the first study to use molecular and immunological techniques to demonstrate that an orthologue of mammalian AQP3 is present in the epithelial cells of Squalus acanthias dogfish shark kidney, gills, rectal gland, esophagus, stomach, eye and brain. The full-length …

Efficient Mrf Approach To Document Image Enhancement, Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi, Gady Agam, Ophir Frieder

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Markov random field (MRF) based approaches have been shown to perform well in a wide range of applications. Due to the iterative nature of the algorithm, the computational cost of such applications is normally high. In the context of document image analysis, where numerous documents have to be processed, this computational cost may become prohibitive. We describe a novel approach to document image enhancement using MRF. We show that by using domain specific knowledge, we are able to substantially improve computational performance by an order of magnitude. Moreover, in contrast to known techniques where patch initialization is arbitrary, in the …

Preferred Coaching Qualities In Ncaa Division I College Athletes: A Qualitative Analysis Of Basketball Players From The Millennial Generation, Edward Carl Hoffman

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The millennial generation, otherwise known as the Echo Boomers, is a generation with characteristics that few previous generations have possessed. In the world of sport, this generation is currently dominating the ranks of collegiate athletics. Moreover, the coaching ranks are just beginning to experience the characteristics of this exceptional group of people. Thus, the purpose of the study was to examine the preferred coaching styles of athletes from the millennial generation at the NCAA Division I level from a semi-structured qualitative perspective. A secondary purpose was to examine these characteristics from a gender perspective. After analyzing the data, five themes …

Examination Of Preferred Coaching Behaviors As Predicted By Athlete Gender, Race, And Playing Time, Glenn Parrish Burdette

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The Multidimensional Model for Sport Leadership (MML) (Chelladurai, 1980) states that athlete performance and satisfaction are functions of the congruency between the preferred leadership of student-athletes, the required behavior of the coach as dictated by the situation, and the actual behavior of the coach. The model was developed nearly 30 years ago and while research outside of sport has indicated that leadership preferences have changed with generations, the MML is still the most widely accepted model for sport leadership. As such, research in sport should examine how appropriate the model is to todays athletic culture. Gender, one member characteristic, has …

Roles And Responsibilities Of The Georgia Special Education Paraprofessionals And The Impact Of The Nclb Mandates: An Assessment By Georgia Administrators, Special Education Teachers, And Special Education Paraprofessionals, Donna Lynn Archibald

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This descriptive study was based on quantitative data from a total of 76 school personnel that consisted of 18 administrators, 37 special education teachers, and 21 special education paraprofessionals from two high schools, one middle school and two elementary schools. The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency of roles and responsibilities performed by the Georgia special education paraprofessionals and the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) on those roles and responsibilities as perceived by administrators, special education teachers and special education paraprofessionals. A survey was sent to all respondents for their input that covered …

Training For Lady Health Workers Clarified, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Sajid Soofi, Zahid Memon

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

We thank Yasir Bin Nisar for his interest in our pilot study^1,2 as well as the comments on various aspects of the Pakistan National Programme for Family Planning and Primary Health Care, commonly called the Lady Health Worker (LHW) programme. Indeed the LHW programme has undergone many modifications since its inception in 1994³ and, in particular, the last few years have seen an exponential growth in the number of LHWs as well as a streamlining of their activities and interventions. Our department has worked with the LHW programme for many years in several collaborative projects and …

Faculty Senate Librarian's Report-2008, Georgia Southern University

Faculty Senate: Librarian's Reports

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Wavelength Selection Using The Measure Of Topological Relevance On The Self-Organizing Map, Francesco Corona, Satu Pia Reinikainen, Kari Aaljoki, Annikki Perkiö, Elia Liitiäinen, Roberto Baratti, Olli Simula, Amaury Lendasse

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In This Work, We Investigated the Possibility to Perform Wavelength Selection by Exploiting the Metric Structure of the Spectrophotoscopic Measurements. the Topologically Preserving Representation of the Data is Performed using the Self-Organizing Map (Som) Where the Inputs' Significance to the Output is Computed with the Measure of Topological Relevance (MTR) on Som. the MTR on Som is a Metric Measuring the Similarity between Local Distance Matrices and We Found that Spectral Inputs with a Topology, Which Is, Close to the Outputs Are Also Associated to the Wavelengths that Chemically Explain the Influence of the Spectra to the Property of Interest. …

Faculty Handbook, Georgia Southern University

Faculty Handbooks

Faculty Handbook for Georgia Southern University for the 2008-2009 academic year. The Faculty Handbook is published online by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and archived in Digital Commons@Georgia Southern.

Jurisdictional Resequencing And Restraint The Jurisprudence Of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Heather Elliott

Articles

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is well known for her restrained jurisprudence, and yet one line of her opinions has been criticized as “substantially illegitimate.” Ruhrgas AG v. Marathon Oil Co. and Sinochem International Co. v. Malaysia International Shipping Corp. both involve “jurisdictional resequencing,” which in certain circumstances permits a federal court to decide a threshold jurisdictional question, such as forum non conveniens, before it resolves the question of subject-matter jurisdiction. Because jurisdictional resequencing allows courts to decide questions when they may in fact lack subject-matter jurisdiction, at least one critic has said this doctrine is “close to the line that …

Biblical Exposition And Faith Integration, William Hackett

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

Tax Fairness, Brian Galle

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This Article argues that, contrary to the consensus of economists and many legal scholars, the norm of "horizontal equity" in taxation has independent meaning as a default rule in favor of existing arrangements. Although it has long been said, and widely thought, that tax should be fair in its dealings with individuals who are situated similarly to one another, no one has been able to say convincingly just what that fairness comprises. As a result, the learned referees in the last major dispute over the significance of horizontal equity judged that fairness's critic had decidedly won the day. Since then, …

Instructional Strategies And Teacher-Student Interaction In The Classrooms Of A Chinese Immersion School, Tsueylin Tracy Wang

Doctoral Dissertations

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Student Satisfaction And Empowerment Through Complaining In Institutions Of Higher Learning, Farbod Karimi

Doctoral Dissertations

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The Sound Of Ink : A Bakhtinian Analysis Of Expressive Intonation In Written Feedback On Essays Of First And Second Language Community College Students Of English Composition, Robertson Scott Erskine

Doctoral Dissertations

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Beginning In The Midst Of The World : Ethics, Poetics And Social Change On An International Stage, Michael Fontaine

Doctoral Dissertations

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An Approach For Human Swarm Interaction, Shishir Bashyal

Masters Theses

"This study shows that appropriate human interaction can benefit a swarm of robots to reach to goal more efficiently. The common belief in swarm robotics that user intervention adversely affects intelligence of the swarm is studied carefully to show that the traditional human-robot interaction approaches are not suitable for human swarm interaction. A set of desirable features for human swarm interaction is identified and an interaction architecture is proposed that has all of the desirable features. A swarm simulation environment is then created that allows simulating a swarm behavior in an indoor environment. Three different applications of the swarm are …

Intermediate Accounting Ii, William Hahn

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

Wireless Mote-Based In-Process Diagnostics Using Hand-Held Tools In Network Enabled Manufacturing Environments, Reghu Anguswamy

Masters Theses

"When complex manufacturing systems are considered, post process inspection can be a very time consuming and costly. In addition, no inspection data is typically collected unless a major problem is encountered. Real-time monitoring of the manufacturing processes and verification of its product quality are two important factors to reduce the manufacturing lead time and to ensure safety and quality.

In this thesis, a diagnostics and root-cause analysis scheme with a single channel wireless routing protocol for real-time monitoring of process quality of pull-type fastening operations is first presented. The overall architecture has been implemented on a Huck45 pull-type tool, which …

Hermeneutics, Steelman Library, Gerry White

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

Electromagnetic Modeling Of Distributed Coaxial Cable Crack Sensors In Reinforced Concrete Members, Mei Wang

Masters Theses

"Distributed crack sensors were recently developed with coaxial cables that are composed of inner and outer conductors as well as dielectric layer in between. These sensors were designed based on the change in topology of the cable outer conductor structure under strain effects. Various tests of reinforced concrete (RC) beams and columns indicated that the newly designed sensors are 10~50 times more sensitive than commercial cables to the longitudinal elongation applied on their cable structures. The spatial resolution of the sensors is approximately 50 mm. Limited numerical simulations with the transmission line theory and the finite difference time domain model …