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Methods Of Safety Improvements At Coordinated Signals, Wei Li, Andrew P. Tarko

JTRP Technical Reports

In this research, the safety impact of arterial signal coordination is investigated. Based on the findings, procedures are proposed to incorporate safety considerations into signal coordination design. In addition, a software tool is developed to facilitate the use of the research findings. Signal coordination has been extensively employed as a tool to optimize an arterial system’s mobility performance, commonly measured by the total number of vehicle stops and the time of delays. Although vehicle crashes at signalized intersections have long been recognized as a major safety threat, studies to date have been limited locally to non-coordinated signals or the noncoordinated …

Women And Leadership Positions: Social And Cultural Barriers To Success, Josephine Kiamba

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Women continue to aspire for leadership positions in all spheres of governance in both the public and private sector. However it has not been easy. The paper will examine the many challenges women still face in taking leadership positions with specific reference to African women. Included in the paper are the barriers related to culture and cultural expectations, the choice and/or balance between work and family, and women’s own fear of success.

Drawing From The Wells Of Culture: Grace Onyango And The Kenyan Political Scene (1964-1983), Phoebe Musandu

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This paper examines the career of Grace Onyango in a bid to recover the history of independent Kenya’s most prominent female politician. To find success as a politician, Onyango had to have an understanding of the interplay between her ethnic culture, the cultures of those with whom she interacted as well as the dynamics of newly independent Kenya’s local and national politics.

The Autonomy Of Ugandan Women’S Organizations: How It Matters In Creating And Maintaining A Dependable Democracy, Caroline Tushabe

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

For African nations “independence” from colonial rule seemed a long-awaited time that would re-establish and/ or introduce democracy. In 1962 Uganda embraced “independence” from colonial rule with both arms. However, practices of poor governance, increased political instability and economic uncertainties slowly and steadily eroded women’s hard work which sustained the nation during the regimes of Idi Amin (1971-79) and Obote II (1980-84). When Uganda finally returned to democratic systems of government, quotas were reserved for women without any acknowledgement of women’s previous participation both in private and public spaces. Though there are now more women in government positions, the system …

A Puppet On A String: The Manipulation And Nationalization Of The Female Body In The “Female Circumcision Crisis” Of Colonial Kenya, Sara Boulanger

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

In pre-colonial Kenya, women shared power and ownership, and conducted many important social and cultural ceremonies, in particular initiation. But with Britain’s colonial takeover of Kenya at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the steadily growing power of colonial rulers and growing status of missionaries, came a total restructuring of society’s gendered norms. By the 1920s, Christianity had created a divide among Kikuyu-speaking people in colonial Kenya over several issues. This study focuses on one of those: the circumcision of girls and young women and legislation passed in relation to the practice. Basing her study largely on documents in …

Accessing Housing Finance In South Africa: The Role Of Women Activism, Catherine Ndinda, Ufo Okeke-Uzodike

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Women’s history in South Africa is replete with examples of exclusion, discrimination, and marginalization. The transition to democracy in 1994 and inclusion of gender equality in the post-apartheid constitution in 1996 were seen as steps in the right direction towards addressing women’s oppression and creating gender equity in accessing housing finance. The subsequent formulation of policies and institutions meant to achieve gender equality put women’s concerns in the public domain. However women’s access to capital and housing finance in particular remain challenges in accessing improved housing. An exploration of women’s position with regard to housing finance points to the ways …

Acceptance: Living With Hiv/Aids: An Interview With Video Producer Paul Van Der Veur, Jean Young

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Paul van der Veur is the executive producer/editor of the four part video series, Acceptance: Living With HIV/AIDS. As a former Peace Corp volunteer, Paul is involved in many facets of international programs. Paul recently returned from a 5-month trip to Namibia where he interviewed women living with HIV/AIDS in a four-part series production, Acceptance: Living With HIV/AIDS. The series was produced with funding by a Fulbright scholarship, a grant from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for the U.S. Department of State, Windhoek, Namibia in 2006, and a $250,000 grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb for AIDS education and …

Still Seeking For Something": The Unspeakable (Loss) In "Passing" By Nella Larsen, Agnieszka Mrozik

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

The paper analyzes Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) through the lens of the theory of melancholy from Freud to Butler. Examining the dynamic relationship between Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, two protagonists of Larsen’s novella, I attempt to demonstrate that under the surface of clearly expressed racial tensions, focused upon the dilemma of passing, there is a more deeply hidden problem - the one of gender identity and sexual desire.

From The Revolution To The Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, And Globalization In Nicaragua By Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Duke University Press, 2005, Brett Troyan

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.

Working With Gender: Wage Labor And Social Change In Southwestern Nigeria By Lisa A. Lindsay, Heinemann, Portsmouth, Nh, 2003, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.

Monique And The Mango Rains: Two Years With A Midwife In Mali By Kris Holloway, Waveland Press, Long Grove, Il, 2007., Tim Gerhard

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.

Can Public Debt Enhance Democracy?, Clayton P. Gillette

William & Mary Law Review

This Essay draws on historical and current examples to examine the extent to which public creditors can enhance democracy by monitoring public officials in a manner that compensates for the failures of the government debtor's constituents to monitor public officials. Creditors and constituents may share significant interests, depending on the structure of security arrangements for public debt and the identity of the debtors. Where interests overlap, the capacity of creditors to overcome collective action problems suffered by constituents may transform creditors into surrogates for constituents. Whether creditors are willing to play this role, however, may depend on the existence of …

Imperial And Imperiled: The Curious State Of The Executive, Saikrishna B. Prakash

William & Mary Law Review

In the last four decades, the presidency has been characterized both as the "imperial presidency" as well as the "imperiled presidency. "From an originalist perspective, both camps have elements of truth on their side. When it comes to the conduct and initiation of wars, modern Presidents exercise powers that rival those the Crown possessed in England. Presidents claim the power to start wars, notwithstanding Congress's power to declare war. Moreover, Presidents insist that they have the sole right to determine how the armed forces will wage all wars, even though Congress clearly has considerable power over the armed forces. Law …

Constituent Order And Participant Reference In Dolnia Hani Narrative Discourse, Karen L. Gainer

Theses and Dissertations

Hani is a language in the Loloish family, spoken primarily in Yunnan Province of southwest China. This thesis presents a description of constituent order and participant reference in written Hani narrative discourse. The primary data source for this thesis consists of three narratives, which are included in the appendices.

Constituent order in Hani is largely constrained by the principle of natural information flow. In order to conform to this principle, some constituents may appear in two or more different positions in the clause, depending on the information structure of the assertion being made. Information structure also influences the use and …

Verbal Tone In Mpyemo, Bradley D. Festen

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis describes the tonal patterns and alternations present in the Mpyemo language (Bantu A.86c – ISO code mcx), with special attention to the verbal system. Rules and autosegmental representations are used to clarify and provide a formal analysis. A tone raising rule causes the underlying two-tone system to display three phonetic levels at the surface. This thesis explores nominalized verbs and verbs in the imperative. In addition, inflected verbs are described, although only a limited set of inflectional morphemes are treated. Thus, I look at verbs with inflectional prefixes for subject agreement, the perfect, and a single verbal auxiliary …

Subordination, Grounding And The Packaging Of Information In Gojri, Kara Suzanne Fast

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is based on a collection of narratives told by Gujar women in northern Pakistan. It majors on the structure of subordinate clauses, the discourse functions of relative clauses and conjunctive participial clauses, and the function of the most common connectives: tɛ, fir, bas and ǰī.

The position of the relative pronoun indicates whether a relative clause is referring to an activated or a new participant. Relative clauses that appear superfluous indicate that the referent has a significant role to play in the subsequent discourse.

Conjunctive participial clauses may convey information of the same storyline status …

Qubit, December 2008

Qubit (Cuban science fiction magazine)

The December 2008 issue of the Qubit.

Energy Efficiency In An Educational Setting, Soma Ghosh

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Climate Change, Ivana George

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

"Absolutely Part Of What We Should Be Doing": Kevin Curry, Water Filters And The International Mission Of The Modern University, Andrew C. Holman

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Jim Keady: Behind The Swoosh, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Former professional soccer player and former college coach, Jim Keady will present “Behind the Swoosh,” the third in the Campus Activities Council Convocations Lecture Series, on Monday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Edson Auditorium of the Student Center.

U.S. Naval Strategy In The 1980s, John B. Hattendorf, Peter M. Swartz

Newport Papers

This volume is designed to complement and extend the previously published history of The Evolution of the U.S. Navy’s Maritime Strategy, 1977–1986, and to present publicly for the first time the detailed changes and developments that occurred during the decade in the five (now declassified) official versions of the strategy and three directly associated unclassified public statements by successive Chiefs of Naval Operations that were made in the years between 1982 and 1990.

Tigard-Tualatin School District Enrollment Forecast Update, 2009-10 To 2018-19, Portland State University. Population Research Center, Charles Rynerson, Vivian Siu, Danan Gu

School District Enrollment Forecast Reports

The Tigard-Tualatin School District (TTSD) enrolled 12,595 students in Fall 2008, an increase of 135 students (1.1 percent) from Fall 2007. Growth was concentrated in elementary and middle grades, with increases of 99 students (1.7 percent) in grades K-5 and 36 students (1.3 percent) in grades 6-8. District-wide enrollment in high school grades 9-12 was unchanged from Fall 2007. This report presents the results of a demographic study conducted by the Portland State University Population Research Center (PRC). The study includes analysis of population, housing and enrollment trends affecting the District in recent years, estimates of the impacts of new …

Comparative Trends In Organising The Local Administration: An Analytical Study, Abdulrazzaq Ibrahim Al-Sheikhli

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Local administration and systems of local governance are not modern human innovations; rather, they have been inherent to humanity since ancient times. It is observed that small villages emerged long before the establishment of formal states or the crystallization of the modern concept of the state. Historically, residents of these villages and cities would convene periodically to manage their communal affairs and resolve collective challenges, providing the earliest evidence of the application of direct democracy within a single society. Consequently, local governance is considered the primary source and origin from which modern states derived not only their systems but also …

Statistical Analysis Of Experiments Using The Split-Plot Design, Kamal Alwan Khalaf Al-Mashhadani, Qutaiba N. Nayef Al-Qazaz

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

This research aims to employ a method by use the formulas that determine the degrees of freedom for each component of sources of variation to calculate the sums of squares for each component as a fast and accurate method compared with another methods in Split – split plots experiment

Auto Updater Using Web Services, Vineel Vemula

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

The objective of this project is to develop a software application which when included in any software will provide the feature of automatic updatability. One of the serious problems software industries are currently facing is the faulty and error prone nature of the software being developed. Such faulty software when having an ability to update itself automatically as soon as an update or patch is released by the vendors will be more desirable by the customers or the end users. This project develops a platform dependant application which can be included in any software that supports the Microsoft.NET framework.

Shawnee Community College Online Course Catalog, Helen M. Dunn

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

Shawnee Community College, a rural community college in the southernmost portion of southern Illinois, needed an avenue to provide accurate catalog information to prospective students, current students, faculty and staff, and the community. The implementation of such a catalog was becoming more critical with the expansion of program offerings to include degrees sought through online means alone. The SCC Online Catalog project was chosen by the institution to provide a solution to the current catalog situation and a project plan was formed. After identifying platform options, the project team and the identified key stakeholders chose to utilize ASP.NET 2.0 along …

Handel's Messiah And Gloria In Excelsis Deo, Desert Chorale, Lindsay Killian, Michael Cochran, Juline Erika Barol-Gilmore, Neil Wilson, Nevada Pops Brass & Percussion Ensemble, Richard Mcgee, Stardust Barbershop Quartet, Levi Thomas

Choral Ensembles

Program listing performers and works performed

Neural Networks As A Discriminant Purposes, Tahir Reisan Dikheel

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Discriminant between groups is one of the common procedures because of its ability to analyze many practical phenomena, and there are several methods can be used for this purpose, such as linear and quadratic discriminant functions. recently, neural networks is used as a tool to distinguish between groups. In this paper the simulation is used to compare neural networks and classical method for classify observations to group that is belong to, in case of some variables that don’t follow the normal distribution. we use the proportion of number of misclassification observations to the all observations as a criterion of comparison.

Notes From The Director, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.