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Fishlines, 2008, N/A N/A

Fishlines

No abstract provided.

Lonely Sounds: Sonic Self Sufficiency, Personal Control, And Social Shields, Chris Rasmussen

James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities

In the winter of 1979 Sony introduced a hand-held cassette player called the Walkman—a device that catered to a mass culture that had come to demand personal control over the musical experience. The Walkman’s mobility allowed for unprecedented individual control over the environment: a barrier that kept unwanted sounds or unwanted others out. In the post World War II era, loneliness and recorded popular music became linked. For both the performer and audience, the musical experience had become more solitary and mediated over time. This separation occurred in the context of a historically individualistic culture that was placing ever-greater emphasis …

Nuclear Technologies In The Great Basin Oral History Project, Danielle Endres

Native American Forum on Nuclear Issues

Abstract:

The United States currently faces a nuclear waste crisis. According to a 2002 report by former Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, “We have a staggering amount of radioactive waste in this country.”1 The Department of Energy (DOE) estimates that by 2035 the U.S. will have approximately 115,000 metric tons of high-level nuclear waste, which exceeds the capacity of the proposed federal storage site at Yucca Mountain.2 Deciding where and how to store nuclear waste is a significant nuclear, environmental, and health policy issue. The decisions that we make about nuclear waste siting greatly impact the future of nuclear technologies …

On The Green Vol. 37 No. 31 April 11, 2008, Gallaudet University

2001-2010

On the Green is an internal publication of Gallaudet College, which later became Gallaudet University. It notified employees of updates around the campus and in the broader community, including new construction and the establishment of new academic programs. Running until 2010, it was supplanted by various forms of online mass communications across multiple audiences.

V. 75, Issue 17, April 11, 2008

Archway (1946-2020)

No abstract provided.

The Bg News April 11, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. April 11, 2008. Volume 98-Issue 138.

Creative City And Fields Of Cultural Production: Ethnographic Perspectives Of “The Arts” In Tampa, James Kuzin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Stimulated by the economic theories of Richard Florida (2005), the City of Tampa established the Office of Creative Industries (OCI) to oversee efforts to strengthen the presence and visibility of "the arts." This thesis presents ethnographic research focused on practices, and perspectives among members of the OCI's service population. From July 2006 to July 2007, I conducted fieldwork among a diverse group of stakeholders possessing a unique connection to the aims of the OCI. The central problem addressed in this research looks at the degree to which cultural change occurs from participatory, grass-roots initiatives, rather than ones emanating from "the …

Tribes And Yucca Mountain: Native American Forum On Nuclear Issues, Fred Dilger

Native American Forum on Nuclear Issues

Abstract:

-Yucca Mountain: Extensive history of social-cultural studies

-No interaction on transportation

-Unsuccessful effort began in 1993 and ended in 1995

-DOE tribal policy was a very good start

-Restarted again in 2004-DOE invites tribes to TEC meeting

-Shape future interaction between DOE and other Tribes

-Tribes identify themselves as affected by DOE differently than DOE defines affected tribes

The Effects Of Family Race/Ethnicity And Socioeconomic Status On Quality Of Services And Family Outcomes For Families Participating In Part C Early Intervention Programs, Paula S. Lalinde

Open Access Dissertations

This study investigated the association between family socioeconomic status, family race/ethnicity, quality of services and the impact of those services on the family for families who had participated in a northeastern state's IDEA, Part C Early Intervention Program. Data for this study came from 1,108 families who responded to a survey distributed by the state's Early Intervention Program. The survey contained two Rasch-based measurement scales designed to yield measures of family perceptions of the quality of early intervention services they had received and the impact of those services on their family. Results of the study indicated that measures of quality …

Expression Of Protective Antigens In Transgenic Chloroplasts (Us), Henry Daniell

UCF Patents

Vaccines for conferring immunity in mammals to infective pathogens are provided, as well as vectors and methods for plastid transformation of plants to produce protective antigens and vaccines for oral delivery. The invention further provides transformed plastids having the ability to survive selection in both the light and the dark, at different developmental stages by using genes coding for two different enzymes capable of detoxifying the same selectable marker, driven by regulatory signals that are functional in proplastids as well as in mature chloroplasts. The invention utilizes antibiotic-free selectable markers to provide edible vaccines for conferring immunity to a mammal …

Columbia Chronicle (04/07/2008), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from April 7, 2008 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 40 pages and is listed as Volume 43, Number 25. Cover story: "Swap" Editor-in-Chief: Amanda Maurer

Monitor Newsletter April 07, 2008, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

2008-04-07 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2008

No abstract provided.

Proceedings Of The 64th Annual Meeting - Great Expectations: Managing The Graduate School's Roles And Responsibilities, Midwestern Association Of Graduate Schools

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools

Great Expectations-Managing the Graduate School's Roles and Responsibilities

St. Louis Hilton at the Ballpark St. Louis, Missouri April 2-4, 2008

Plenary Sessions Plenary I: The Place for the Graduate School in a University

Keynote: Brian L. Foster

Plenary II: Trends in Graduate Education

Ph.D. Completion and Attrition: Analysis of Baseline Data

Trends in Graduate Education

Plenary III: What Graduate Students and Faculty Want from a Graduate School

The Role of the Graduate Dean in Professional Development

Professional Science Master’s (PSM) Programs Introduction

A Graduate Dean's Perspective

The Program Director's Perspective

Recent Trends in PSM Development

Academic Support & Online Learning …

Latinas In The Kitchen: The Rhetoric Of Food And Desire, Elizabeth Kessler

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

Abstract:

Even though the commodification of women by linking them erotically to food has been accepted for decades and used by women themselves to manipulate men and their desires, this has, in turn, led to behavioral and psychological problems. Using feminist as well as psychoanalytical criticism and theory by authors such as Nancy Chodorow, Nydia Garcia-Preto, Elspeth Probyn, Sigmund Freud, and others, “Latinas in the Kitchen: The Rhetoric of Food and Desire” explores how addiction to food and sex leads to unsuitable ways to satisfy one’s needs. Beginning with untreated emotional abuse that leads to inappropriate behavior between a father …

Chicana Photography: The Power Of Place, Ann Marie Leimer

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

Abstract:

The concern with space, location, place, and geographic site has received heightened attention from artists and theorists from the 1960s onward. For critics and creators engaged with these concepts, the analysis of the interaction between of the processes of spatialization, identity formation, and memory has emerged as an important aspect of critical discourse. Lucy Lippard defines space as a physical site, understood as landscape or nature, while place implies intimacy, a familiarity with a certain geographic location. For Lippard, human interaction and, most importantly, the infusion of memory into space or a geographic site produces place. Michel de Certeau …

Testimonial, Rosalyn Deutsche

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

It's an honor and a pleasure to introduce Douglas Crimp, whom I've known for more than thirty years. In that time, Douglas has been my fellow student, my inspiring colleague, my attentive editor, my concert, opera, film, and dance-going companion, and, most important, my dear friend.

Boletín V.13:No.2 (2008), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute

Boletín (Fordham University. Latin American and Latino Studies Institute)

No abstract provided.

Interpreter Of Maladies: A Rhetorical Practice Transmitting Cultural Knowledge, Taylor Shea

Reason and Respect

This essay will illustrate how Lahiri utilizes her cultural underpinning to creatively juxtapose various elements within her short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, in order to offer a balanced representation of her modern social group, the Indian diaspora within America. Interpreter of Maladies is used as an example of how cultural knowledge may be transmitted through literature-as-rhetoric whether or not an author is conscious of cultural influence.

Issue 10, Spring 2008, Imagining America

Newsletters - Imagining America

Highlights of Issue #10 (Spring 2008) include: an article featuring University of Southern California, University of California-Santa Barbara, California Institute of the Arts, University of California-Irvine, and University of California-Los Angeles, Stanford University, and University of California-Davis; an article on peer reviewed journals; and an interview with Randy Martin, New York University.

Issue 52, Spring 2008, Society Of Bead Researchers

The Bead Forum: Newsletter of the Society of Bead Researchers

Hidden Histories Project at the Petrie Museum of Egyptology in London.

Using Stanley Cavell, Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

Stanley Cavell often speaks of inheriting and carrying on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and other writers. These writers help him move on in his own thinking, turning him around when he feels lost, provoking him when he gets discouraged or stuck. His indebtedness to J. L. Austin in the acknowledgements to Must We Mean What We Say? (1969) captures one way he benefits from all the writers who have influenced him: “To the late J. L. Austin I owe, beyond what I hope is plain in my work, whatever is owed the teacher …

Testimonial, Henry Abelove

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Douglas Crimp was born in 1944 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where his brother and sister still live. As a boy, Douglas imagined that he might become an architect, and he went to Tulane University specifically to study architecture. But soon after beginning his university life, he shifted his concentration to Art History. One Tulane Teacher of Art History in particular enthralled him. This was Bernard Lehman, an eloquent, learned, and effervescent lecturer, and a campy gay man, whom Douglas credits as a primary influence.

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 37, No. 2, Spring 2008, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Reviews, Marvels & Tales Editors

Marvels & Tales

Politique du conte. Special Issue of Féeries: Études sur le conte merveilleux XVIIe–XIXe siècle.
Review by Jack Zipes.

Logica della fiaba: Fate, orchi, gioco, corte, fortuna, viaggio, capriccio, metamorfosi, corpo. By Michele Rak.
Review by Nancy Canepa.

Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Women in Disney’s Feature Animation. By Amy M. Davis.
Review by Jack Zipes.

Bodies: Sex, Violence, Disease, and Death in Contemporary Legend. By Gillian Bennett.
Review by Laura E. Lyons.

Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre. By Jack Zipes.
Review by Maggi Michel.

Catalogue of Portuguese Folktales. By Isabel Cardigos with the …

Graduate Alumnus: Outstanding Graduate Alumni Awards - Class Of 2008, Graduate School Of Eastern Illinois University

Graduate Alumnus

Since 1951 Eastern has offered advanced study

with master’s programming. Since that first

offering thousands of students have earned

graduate degrees, and EIU graduate alumni

have changed the world we live in. In 2005

EIU celebrated more than 50 years of graduate

education by honoring 50 graduate alumni

as Outstanding Graduate Alumni. That same

year the Graduate Alumni Advisory Board was

created and met for the first time. Since those

initial 50 honorees, the Graduate Alumni

Advisory Board, the Graduate School, and EIU’s

graduate programs have continued to honor

the achievements and accomplishments of our

graduate alumni every year.

Annual Report Of Research And Creative Productions, January To December, 2007, Research And Creative Productions Committee. Morehead State University.

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Reports and Publications

2007 Annual Report of Research and Creative Productions, Morehead State University, Division of Academic Affairs, Research and Creative Productions Committee.

Bio-Optics In Integrated Ocean Observing Networks: Potential For Studying Harmful Algal Blooms, Oscar Schofield, J. Bosch, Scott Glenn, Gary Kirkpatrick, John Kerfoot, Steven Lohrenz, Mark A. Moline, Matthew Oliver, Paul Bissett

Biological Sciences

Ships have a difficult time sampling the time and space scales relevant for understanding how the physics and chemistry regulates marine ecosystems (National Research Council 2000, 2003, Figure 3.1); therefore the biology in the oceans is chronically under-sampled. This is a major problem for policy makers and local governments charged with managing coastal resources who are increasingly being asked to develop ‘ecosystem-based management’ plans (US Ocean Commission on Ocean Policy, 2004). Th is is especially true in regions where Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are present (Hallegraeff, 1993). Ecosystem-based management requires a quantitative understanding of the processes controlling marine food webs. …

The Effect Of Outliers On Consumer Choice, Denise Fuda

Honors Projects in Marketing

This research investigates the effects of an extreme value (outlier) on a consumer’s reference price, and ultimately, the consumer’s choice. In a controlled experiment two hundred Bryant University students were presented with a choice task to select a cell phone plan from a set of plans described by price and six other features. Some choice sets contained a moderate outlier, an extreme outlier, or both a moderate and extreme outlier. Students who saw any of the outliers expected to pay an average of $4.40 more and ultimately chose a higher priced plan. However, there was no significant difference between reference …

Reviving The Subject Of Law, Penelope J. Pether

Working Paper Series

This essay is an advanced draft of work that will be published in On Philosophy and American Law (Francis J. Mootz III ed. forthcoming, Cambridge U.P., 2009). This edited collection includes responses by a wide range of scholars working in legal theory to Mootz’s challenge to respond to the current state of American legal philosophy, using Karl Llewellyn’s 1934 University of Pennsylvania law review account of the emergence of legal realism as a prompt. Drawing on the author’s recent scholarship on the emergence of a distinctive and impoverished model of “common law” judging in the U.S. since the mid- c20th, …