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Practice In Mediated Space: Engaging 'Hobbiton' And Its Visitors Through A Constructivist Media Anthropology, Robert Moses Peaslee

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

This paper calls for a (re)emphasis in site-specific, open-ended investigation of individual experience as a viable and valuable strategy across disciplines of the social sciences and the humanities, especially in the face of ongoing trends toward globality, hybridization, convergence, and destabilization of symbolic and material culture. The paper is particularly interested in reporting on the application of such methodologies toward investigating the media-tourism complex, a constellation of government, industrial, and personal activity which relies on globally mediated conceptions of place and practice and which represents a dynamic and ever-present field of symbolic and actual capital within which consumers operate and …

Undergraduate Bulletin 2009-2010, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

College Bulletins

No abstract provided.

The Government Contractor Defense And Superior Orders In International Human Rights Law, Jill M. Fraley

Florida A & M University Law Review

As military functions are increasingly outsourced to corporate contractors, civil courts face adjudicating issues of tort liability arising from actions occurring in war zones. Currently, victims of torture and other invasive military techniques used at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay seek to prevail over issues of sovereign immunity and to hold corporations responsible for the actions of their employees. In response, corporations shield themselves with the government contractor defense: an affirmative defense developed in the context of product liability actions. Recent articles have overwhelmingly suggested that the defense will prevail and often have argued that it should prevail due to …

Greek Migration And Settlement In Central America, Anastasios M. Tamis

Arts Book Chapters

Η πολιτική και κοινωνική αστάθεια, οι αλλεπάλληλες δικτατορίες στρατιωτικών καθεστώτων, οι εξωγενείς εμπόλεμες παρεμβάσεις των Ευρωπαϊκών δυνάμεων (Βρετανών και Ισπανών) και κυρίως των ΗΠΑ, οι συνεχείς εμφύλιες αιματοχυσίες και οι δημογραφικοί περιορισμοί με την έντονη παρουσία του ιθαγενούς στοιχείου και μιγάδων με την παράλληλη απουσία συμπαγών ρευμάτων ευρωπαϊκής μετανάστευσης, που χαρακτηρίζουν τη σύνθεση του πληθυσμού, ήσαν οι κύριες αιτίες που δεν επέτρεψαν την εγκατάσταση μεγάλου αρθμού Ελλήνων μεταναστών και εποίκων στις χώρες της Κεντρικής Αμερικής. Παρά την πλούσια υποδομή σε μεταλλεύματα, ορυκτά και πετρέλαιο, η οικονομία των χωρών αυτών παρέμεινε αυστηρά εξαρτώμενη από τις ανεπτυγμένες χώρες της Δύσης και των …

Greek Migration And Settlement In Eastern And South Asia, Anastasios M. Tamis

Arts Book Chapters

Πρόσφυγες και εκτοπισμένοι Έλληνες, θύματα κοινωνικο-οικονομικών και πολιτικών συγκυριών από το χώρο της Ρωσίας, φιλοπερίεργοι έμποροι από τη Βαλκανική και τη Μικρά Ασία, Xιώτες, Σάμιοι και Κασιώτες, Επτανήσιοι νησιώτες ναυτικοί και τυχοδιώκτες, μέλη πολύτεκνων οικογενειών ήσαν οι πρώτοι Έλληνες έποικοι που εγκαταστάθηκαν στις χώρες της Νοτιανατολικής Ασίας, Άπω Ανατολής και Ειρηνικού. Αρκετοί από αυτούς είχαν πρωταρχικά εγκατασταθεί στα μεγάλα αστικά κέντρα της Αλεξάνδρειας, της Κωνσταντινούπολης, της Σμύρνης, της Αγίας Πετρούπολης, της Οδησσού και της Φιλιππούπολης από το 1725. Αυτό τουλάχιστον μαρτυρούν οι ταφόπετρες στο κοιμητήριο του Καθολικού Ναού της Παναγίας στο προάστιο Murghihatta της Καλκούττας, όπου είναι θαμμένοι αρκετοί απ’ …

Greek Migration And Settlement In South America, Anastasios M. Tamis

Arts Book Chapters

Η μετανάστευση 100.000 Ελλήνων στις χώρες της Νοτίου Αμερικής ήταν ουσιαστικά προπολεμικό φαινόμενο (1880-1940), με εξαίρεση την εποίκιση των Ελλήνων στη Βραζιλία που συντελέστηκε στην περίοδο 1952-1970. Την ελληνική αυτή εποίκιση διέκρινε μεγάλη κινητικότητα, σποραδική εγκατάσταση, ελλιπή κοινωνική διαδικτύωση και χαλαρή κοινοτική διάρθρωση. Οι πρώτες εγκαταστάσεις οργανώθηκαν σε λιμάνια, αφού κυρίως ναυτικοί και νησιώτες ήσαν στην πλειοψηφία τους οι πρωτοπόροι. Τα επαγγέλματα που άσκησαν ήσαν εποχικά, οι οργανώσεις που συνέπηξαν είχαν χαρακτήρα αλληλοβοηθητικό, οι συνθήκες διαβίωσης πρωτόγονες. Πλεόναζαν οι εργένηδες και τα γεροντοπαλήκαρα, συχνά ανέστιοι και ενδείς περιφέρονταν από πόλη σε πόλη για την εξασφάλιση εργασίας. Αργότερα (μετά το 1924) …

Greek Migration And Settlement In Oceania, Anastasios M. Tamis

Arts Book Chapters

This Chapter on Oceania is divided into two parts - New Zealand and Australia.

Australia

Η Αυστραλία πρωτοκατοικήθηκε πριν 40.000 χρόνια από ανθρώπους που ήλθαν από τη νοτιανατολική Ασία με αυτοσχέδια κανώ και σχεδίες από μπαμπού. Ο πολιτισμός των πρώτων εποίκων (Αμπορίτζινις), παραμένει ο πλέον αρχαίος συνεχόμενος γνωστός πολιτισμός. Όταν το 1788 άρχισε η ευρωπαϊκή εγκατάσταση, ο αριθμός των ιθαγενών έφτανε περίπου τους 350.000. Ο Πρώτος Στόλος αποτελούνταν από 1000 Βρετανούς, 750 από τους οποίους ήταν κατάδικοι. Για τα πρώτα πενήντα χρόνια της Ευρωπαϊκής εγκατάστασης, οι Αμπορίτζινις και οι νησιώτες των Torres Strait Islandς αποτελούσαν το μεγαλύτερο μέρος του Αυστραλιανού …

Generation Of A Retroviral Vector That Expresses An Anti-Hiv-1 Tat Hammerhead Ribozyme, Lindsey E. Padgett, William H. Jackson

Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Embracing Diversity Through A Multicultural Approach To Legal Education, 1 Charlotte L. Rev. 223 (2009), Julie M. Spanbauer, Katerina P. Lewinbuk

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

From Dreams To Nightmares : Cross-Generational Romance In Mainstream American Cinema, Sol Stern

Theses : Honours

This thesis is concerned with the changes in cinematic depictions of romantic relationships in which there is enough age disparity that the couple could be mistaken for parent and child. These cross-generational affairs have significance within the ideology of the family unit, the heterosexual couple and the classic Hollywood ideal of romantic love. The way that these relationships have been portrayed on screen has changed drastically in mainstream American cinema from the 1950s to the 2000s, and these shifts reflect changing values and attitudes in society since all films exhibit certain ideologies. Through sampling several relevant films made between 1953 …

Desire And Passion As Foundations For Teaching And Learning: A Pedagogy Of The Erotic., Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway

Basic Communication Course Annual

In this narrative essay, I use my experiences as a communication educator to theorize the roles of desire and passion within the classroom. Extra-classroom encounters with several students inspire questions I feel are fundamental to the vocation of an educator in general, and a communication educator specifically. I argue for a shift in pedagogical practice from resisting desire and passion as feelings potentially destructive, to embracing such emotions as affirming, creative, and relationship-building pedagogical influences. I aim to illuminate the tensions and contradictions young and/or beginning communication instructors sometimes face when questions of personal and professional boundaries arise. I offer …

Author Biographies

Basic Communication Course Annual

No abstract provided.

The Hijab And The Sari: The Strange And The Sexy Between Colonialism And Global Capitalism, Falguni A. Sheth

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

By exploring the “Western” reception of the sari in comparison to the hijab, I hope to illuminate the racial aesthetic that is at work in vilifying the latter while glorifying the former. The history of colonialism and the forced domestication of the sari help to facilitate its reception as an acceptably “sexy” garment. By contrast, the hijab has not been subjected to colonial modification. It has remained unmodified, and is still experienced as culturally, racially, and aesthetically strange by observers. In order to explore the role that political and cultural authority plays in shaping “acceptable” and “unacceptable” racial aesthetics as …

Resistance To Northern Root-Knot Nematode (Meloidygyne Hapla Chitwood) In Lettuce (Lactuca Sativa L.), Parminderjit Kaur

Open Access Dissertations

The present study was undertaken to identify lettuce gel' plasm having resistance to M. hapla. Approximately 500 Lactuca accessions were evaluated in the greenhouse for resistance to M. hapla. Six week old seedlings were inoculated with M. hapla at 5,000 eggs per plant. Twelve weeks after inoculation data were recorded on root galling and fresh root weight. The accessions with a root galling score of two or less were considered resistant to M. hapla and were screened in a second trial. Two L. sativa accessions (PI 508476 and PI 419140) and three wild Lactuca accessions, L. saligna PI 281876, L. …

"All The World's A Stage": (Re)Familiarizing Shakespeare: A Study Of Romeo And Juliet In The East And The West, Beau La Rhee

Open Access Dissertations

This study analyzes William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1596) and his Globe Theater as well as John Gielgud's (1935), Peter Brook's (1947), and Tae-Suk Oh's (2005 and 2006) adaptation of it to explore how the play is retold, reinterpreted, and brought alive for new audiences through different cultures and through the theater of today. As the acclaimed western directors, the Korean director Tae-Suk Oh accurately interprets Shakespearean devices in the source text and employs methodologies drawn from his own culture as well as Elizabethan culture. He effectively relates the world of the play to the world of the audience through …

Persistence, Resistance, And Change: Toward A Critical Praxis For Student Researched Writing, Bryna L. Siegel

Open Access Dissertations

This project re-situates and re-defines researched writing, examines the persistence of the current-traditional model in college curriculums, investigates why resistance to the current-traditional model has often failed, and offers a solution which realigns researched writing with current rhetoric and composition research, theory, and pedagogical paradigms. The dissertation investigates the following research questions: What is the traditional research paper? How does it manifest in classrooms? How do teachers think and talk about this persistent genre? I critique the theoretical, ideological, and historical assumptions that exist in terms of the purposes of researched writing, and claim that a more critical aim for …

150 Years Of History And Preservation At Cahokia Mounds, Christa Wroblewski

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

No abstract provided.

Getting Out Of Wonderland: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, And Anne Sexton, Jessica Mccort

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This project examines the appropriation of children's literature, particularly Grimm's and Andersen's fairy tales and Lewis Carroll's Alice books, by Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Anne Sexton. Influenced by the cultural fixation on the child and the increasing popularity of Freudian discourse in American culture, the rise of confessional poetry, and second-wave feminist interest in female socialization, Bishop, Plath, Rich, and Sexton pursued in their poetry and prose an investigation of self and social formation that was simultaneously rooted in the public exhumation of the personal past and the personalized exploration of the dominant narratives of girlhood purveyed …

Aggregation & Localization Of A Disease-Associated Prion Protein (Prp) Mutant, Andrea Rhonda Medrano

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Aggregation & Localization of a Disease-Associated Prion Protein: PrP) Mutant by Andrea Rhonda Zaragoza Medrano Doctor of Philosophy in Biology and Biomedical Sciences: Genetics) Washington University in St. Louis, 2009 Professor David A. Harris, Chairperson Prion protein: PrP) is a GPI-anchored sialoglycoprotein involved in the pathogenesis of infectious and inherited forms of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies: TSEs). A nine-octapeptide insertional mutation in the prion protein: PrP) causes a fatal neurodegenerative disorder in both humans and transgenic mice. To determine the precise cellular localization of this mutant PrP: designated PG14), we have generated transgenic mice expressing PG14-EGFP, a …

Commencement Program 2009, Whitworth University

Commencement Programs

Undergraduate Commencement exercises of Whitworth University in May 2009.

Sumbawan Obstetrics: The Social Construction Of Obstetrical Practice In Rural Indonesia, Vanessa Hildebrand

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This dissertation examines the ways that the people in the village of Lunyuk, Sumbawa negotiate relationships and identity in their discussions about pregnancy and childbirth. At the center of the analysis are dueling midwives: those with biomedical training: bidan) versus those who use a local indigenous obstetrical knowledge similar to that found in much of Indonesia: dukun bayi). They compete with each other for patients, who are likewise making sense of their position in the world while juggling the pressures from national citizenship, local ethnic membership, Islam, and obstetric knowledge options. Specifically, this dissertation examines how people in this region …

Que Ondee Sola - January-February 2009, Xavier Luis Burgos

Que Ondee Sola

Student publication founded in 1972, articles include: Dominga Cruz Nationalist Leader, Rafael Hernandez Musician, Cortijo's Revenge: Race & Politics in Puerto Rico, Jose 'Chegui' Torres Boxing Champion, Jose Campeche Painter, Bomba: The History & Rhythyms of the Music, Loiza Aldea: The African Capital of Puerto Rico, History of the Maroon Societies, Luis Pales Matos Poet, NEIU Student Profile

Using Local Knowledge To Shrink The Individual Carbon Footprint, Katrina Fischer Kuh

Hofstra Law Review

The unexpected willingness of local governments to engage in climate change mitigation has occasioned a flurry of reflection and debate about whether local efforts are meaningful, what the implications of local climate change initiatives are for theories of environmental federalism, and how the motivations of local actors can be understood. Additionally, there has been much discussion about the efficacy of local actions and the appropriate role for local governments in addressing the climate change problem.

This Idea does not consider which level of government is best suited to address or attempt to define the optimal role of local governments with …

Key Factors For Successful Export Performance For Small Firms, Lance Eliot Brouthers, George Nakos, John Hadjimarcou, Keith D. Brouthers

Faculty Articles

What key factors result in superior export performance for small firms from small countries? Drawing on the internationalization process model and organizational learning theory, the authors hypothesize and find that (1) emphasizing international sales while (2) restricting exports to a few foreign markets results in superior perceived export performance for the sample of small firms from Greece and several Caribbean countries. Emphasizing international sales while focusing on a few markets enables small firms to develop expertise in those markets, build strong distribution networks, and manage export activities effectively.

Commencement Program (June 2009), Csusb

CSUSB Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Implications Of Social Support And Culture In The Context Of Work-Related Stress, Maria Amren

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Silicon Status Of Rice (Oryza Sativa), Joseph Eugene Kraska

LSU Master's Theses

Low silicon (Si) content in rice, sugarcane and other Si-accumulating crops can adversely affect crop performance due to reduced tolerance to both abiotic and biotic stresses. This research had two specific objectives relative to Si in Louisiana rice: develop a digestion procedure for Si tissue analysis that is robust, accurate, precise, and requires equipment commonly found in most agricultural laboratories; and survey the Si status of rice plants at mid-tiller (Y-leaf) and after harvest (straw) throughout the rice-growing regions of Louisiana. Assessing the Si status of a crop typically depends upon accurately measuring Si accumulation in plant tissue. While wet-digestion …

The Passion Over Perpetua: A New Approach To The Passio Perpetuae Et Felicitatis, Eric Poche

LSU Master's Theses

Although the Passio Santarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis has received much scholarly attention in the past twenty years, it has been used primarily as a source of information on the martyr Perpetua. Other aspects of the account, such as its Montanist theology and its unique portrayal of women have been largely ignored by scholars interested in tearing it apart for relavent information on Perpetua. The Passio contains three distinct portions, each produced by a member from the religious community of Carthage in the early third-century C.E. It therefore serves as a unique historical window into early Christian North Africa, displaying a …

Sialic Acid Conjugated Chitosan For The Attenuation Of Amyloid-Beta Toxicity, Dhruva Dilip Dhavale

LSU Master's Theses

Amyloid-beta (Aβ), a 39 to 43 amino acid long peptide, is the primary species identified in senile plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and has been implicated in the neurotoxicity associated with AD. It is believed that Aβ toxicity is mediated through the interaction with neuronal membranes. A variety of evidence indicates that 1) Aβ may bind to the cell surface sialic acids, 2) the affinity of this interaction is higher if the gangliosides or sialic acids on the cell surface are clustered, 3) the removal of the surface sialic acids attenuate Aβ toxicity. Based on this data, we hypothesized …

The Mashup As Resistance? A Critique Of Marxist Framing In The Digital Age, Adam Rugg

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis critiques contemporary scholarly approaches to the modern musical mashup that rely on outdated and over-generalized Marxist frameworks. These frameworks stem from an Adornian view of the culture industries that places consumers and producers in distinct and opposing roles. The mashup is therefore seen as little more than a subversive weapon for a resistant consumer class in its fight against the hegemonic structure of the mass media. A case study of the prominent mashup artist Girl Talk is presented to illustrate how the mashup can actually function as a celebratory form and how modern technological advances have destabilized traditional …