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Killing Pearl: When Hester Chooses Infanticide--Confronting Motherhood And The Redemptive Fantasy Of The Scarlet Letter In Suzan-Lori Parks's The Red Letter Plays, Alison Reid Jan 2009

Killing Pearl: When Hester Chooses Infanticide--Confronting Motherhood And The Redemptive Fantasy Of The Scarlet Letter In Suzan-Lori Parks's The Red Letter Plays, Alison Reid

Theses & ETDs

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne enforces the faulty notion of the good mother and the redemptive fantasy when she chooses not to kill Pearl in The Scarlet Letter. Socially and culturally, infanticide invokes a highly emotional response. The media deals with this response by constructing models of the "murderous mother" to rationalize the actions of women such as Andrea Yates and Casey Anthony. These models depend on a specific model of motherhood in which only the unnatural mother kills her child. Within the slave narrative, there are examples of empathetic infanticide in which a mother kills her child due to the …

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Relegation, Rejection, And Revolts: The Spatial Isolation Of The French Banlieue, Aaron Phillips Jan 2009

Relegation, Rejection, And Revolts: The Spatial Isolation Of The French Banlieue, Aaron Phillips

Theses & ETDs

No single word in the English language carries all the connotations of the French “banlieue.” Scholars, politicians, and residents offer dissonant renditions of these neighborhoods that vary from suburb and outskirt to ghetto and slum. This thesis analyzes the construction of the banlieue, both as a physical space and a site of contested meaning. Following the Second Word War, France poured reconstruction funds into public housing. Guided by Le Corbusier's utilitarian, modernist philosophy, the state outfitted hundreds of cités (projects) on the cheap land outside major cities with massive residential high-rises. This originally improved sanitation and quality of life for …

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Balance In Herodotus' Histories, Ana Mcgrath Jan 2009

Balance In Herodotus' Histories, Ana Mcgrath

Theses & ETDs

Balance is an important concept in Herodotus' Histories. I use it in my thesis as a broad umbrella term, which covers changes of fortune, mirroring, opposition and retribution. Balance is a cosmic law within the Histories, where every action has a karma-like reaction in order to maintain this balance. Herodotus sets up this theme in his preface to the Histories when referring to cities, "For most of those which were great once are small today; and those which used to be small were great in my own time. Knowing, therefore, that human prosperity never abides long in the same place, …

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Sea Level Rise And Local Land Use Planning: The Florida Example, Elisabeth Salinas Jan 2009

Sea Level Rise And Local Land Use Planning: The Florida Example, Elisabeth Salinas

Theses & ETDs

The influence of land use patterns on hazard vulnerability and resilience establishes the importance of examining local land use planning in research addressing climate change. While the conceptual connection between land use planning and climate change adaptation is relatively easy to grasp, in practice, integrating climate concerns into planning activity is technically and politically difficult. Using document research and survey techniques, the thesis describes how four southwestern Florida counties (Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte and Collier) have incorporated predictions regarding future accelerated sea level rise into comprehensive planning activities and the challenges they have faced in doing so. The thesis argues that …

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Antimicrobial Activity Of Some Thiourea Derivatives And Their Nickel And Copper Complexes, Hakan Arslan, Nizami Duran, Gulay Borekci, Cemal Koray Ozer, Cevdet Akbay Jan 2009

Antimicrobial Activity Of Some Thiourea Derivatives And Their Nickel And Copper Complexes, Hakan Arslan, Nizami Duran, Gulay Borekci, Cemal Koray Ozer, Cevdet Akbay

College of Health, Science, and Technology

Five thiourea derivative ligands and their Ni2+ and Cu 2+ complexes have been synthesized. The compounds were screened for their in vitro anti-bacterial activity using Gram-positive bacteria (two different standard strains of Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Enterococcus faecalis, Streptococcus pyogenes, Bacillus cereus) and Gram-negative bacteria (Esherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterobacter cloacae, Proteus vulgaris, Enterobacter aerogenes) and in vitro anti-yeast activity (Candida albicans, Candida krusei, Candida glabrata, Candida tropicalis, Candida parapsilosis). The minimum inhibitory concentration was determined for all ligands and their complexes. In vitro anti-yeast activity of both ligands and their metal complexes is greater than their in vitro anti-bacterial …

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Suffolk Alumni Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2009, Suffolk University Jan 2009

Suffolk Alumni Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2009, Suffolk University

Suffolk University Magazine

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Angle Of Repose: Testing Erosion And Prescribed Fire In Eastern Oregon And Washington’S Blue Mountains, Lisa-Natalie Anjozian Jan 2009

Angle Of Repose: Testing Erosion And Prescribed Fire In Eastern Oregon And Washington’S Blue Mountains, Lisa-Natalie Anjozian

Joint Fire Science Program Briefs (2007-2012)

Some forest lands in the United States are overgrown with small trees and thick with fuels. Prescribed fire has been used in many forests and woodlands to reduce fuel loads and the risk of wildfi re. But forests are unique, with different soils, plants, weather, and topography. While erosion from prescribed fi re would seem to be less severe than from a wildfire, prior to this study, little data existed on erosion rates and the infl uence of prescribed fi re on erosion in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon and Washington. This study showed that hillslope erosion in the …

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Al-Tamaddun = Journal Of Al-Tamaddun, Volume 4, Number 1, 2009, Academy Of Islamic Studies University Of Malaya Jan 2009

Al-Tamaddun = Journal Of Al-Tamaddun, Volume 4, Number 1, 2009, Academy Of Islamic Studies University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2000s)

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Privatizing Democracy: Promoting Election Integrity Through Procurement Contracts, Jennifer Nou Jan 2009

Privatizing Democracy: Promoting Election Integrity Through Procurement Contracts, Jennifer Nou

Articles

Voting machine failures continue to plague American elections. These failures have fueled the growing sense that private machine manufacturers must be held accountable. This Note argues that, because legitimacy externalities and resource disparities across election jurisdictions pose persistent threats to electoral integrity, meaningful accountability will require greater federal oversight. This oversight must take into account the unique nature of the public-private partnership that defines this nation's system of election administration. This Note thus proposes an amendment to the Help America Vote Act of 2002, which would condition federal funds on state procurement contracts. These procurement contracts would mandate performance-based requirements …

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Using Gis To Quantify Patterns Of Glacial Erosion On Northwest Iceland: Implications For Independent Ice Sheets, Sarah M. Principato, Jeremiah S. Johnson Jan 2009

Using Gis To Quantify Patterns Of Glacial Erosion On Northwest Iceland: Implications For Independent Ice Sheets, Sarah M. Principato, Jeremiah S. Johnson

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

Glacial erosion patterns on northwest Iccliind are quantified using a Geographic Information System (GIS) in order to interpret subglacial characteristics of part of northwest Iceland affected by ice sheet glaciation. Ice scour lake density is used as a proxy for glacial erosion. Erosion classes are interpreted from variations in the density of lake basins. Lake density was calculated using two dilTerent methods: the first is sensitive to the total number of lakes in a specific area, and the second is sensitive to total lake area in a specific area. Both of these methods result in a value for lake density, …

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An Interview With Julian Agyeman: Just Sustainability And Ecopedagogy, Salma Monani Jan 2009

An Interview With Julian Agyeman: Just Sustainability And Ecopedagogy, Salma Monani

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

This interview with Julian Agyeman, a key originator of the concept of just sustainability, engages Agyeman in discussion of how just sustainability evolved, and how its theoretical and practical dimensions relate to the principles of ecopedagogy.

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Clawson, Elmer Oral History Interview, Margaret "Peg" Langer Jan 2009

Clawson, Elmer Oral History Interview, Margaret "Peg" Langer

Emeriti Society Oral History Collection

Professor of Education (1974-1996). Department Chair, Associate Dean, Acting Dean (1983-84). Topics include:Transition of leadership in School of Education, federal funding of programs, response to changing demographics, economic education, credential and degree program.

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The Nopp O-Scope And Mosean Projects: Advanced Sensing For Ocean Observing Systems, Tommy Dickey, Nick Bates, Robert H. Byrne, Grace Chang, Francisco P. Chavez, Richard A. Feely, Alfred K. Hanson, David M. Karl, Derek Manov, Casey Moore, Christopher L. Sabine, Rik Wanninkhof Jan 2009

The Nopp O-Scope And Mosean Projects: Advanced Sensing For Ocean Observing Systems, Tommy Dickey, Nick Bates, Robert H. Byrne, Grace Chang, Francisco P. Chavez, Richard A. Feely, Alfred K. Hanson, David M. Karl, Derek Manov, Casey Moore, Christopher L. Sabine, Rik Wanninkhof

Marine Science Faculty Publications

The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) consecutively sponsored the Ocean-Systems for Chemical, Optical, and Physical Experiments (O-SCOPE) and Multi-disciplinary Ocean Sensors for Environmental Analyses and Networks (MOSEAN) projects from 1998 through 2008. The O-SCOPE and MOSEAN projects focused on developing and testing new sensors and systems for autonomous, concurrent measurements of biological, chemical, optical, and physical variables from a diverse suite of stationary and mobile ocean platforms. Design considerations encompassed extended open-ocean and coastal deployments, instrument durability, biofouling mitigation, data accuracy and precision, near-real-time data telemetry, and economy—the latter being critical for widespread sensor and system utilization. The complementary O-SCOPE …

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Cartograms, Crime And Location Quotients, Martin A. Andresen, Kathryn Wuschke, J. Bryan Kinney, Patricia Brantingham, Paul J. Brantingham Jan 2009

Cartograms, Crime And Location Quotients, Martin A. Andresen, Kathryn Wuschke, J. Bryan Kinney, Patricia Brantingham, Paul J. Brantingham

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications and Presentations

Visualizing spatial information has a long history in the field of cartography. Though there are generally accepted forms of spatial data visualization to represent different types of spatial data, the interpretation of the resulting maps tends to be subjective at best and incorrect, at worst. Cartograms are an increasingly popular form of spatial data visualization, recently applied in political and epidemiological analyses in an attempt to better represent the spatial data under analysis. We use the cartogram procedure to map crime rates and location quotients. Using this visualization approach, we are able to show the usefulness of cartograms to represent …

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A Computational Study Of Tsunami Runup As A Function Of Coastline Morphology, Kevin Ewell Jan 2009

A Computational Study Of Tsunami Runup As A Function Of Coastline Morphology, Kevin Ewell

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Tsunamis are surface waves with wavelengths on the order of tens to hundreds of kilometers. Modeling the propagation of a tsunami as it approaches shore requires detailed knowledge of bathymmetry in order to correctly capture the evolution of the wave as it slows down. Most published studies of terminal tsunami behavior (such as wave height and runup) are done for specific sites, often comparing model "postdictions" to recorded events. The goal of the present study is to understand in a general way how coastline indentations (such as bays and inlets) affect tsunami runup and wave height. The COMCOT tsunami propagation …

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Hypoxia-Related Processes In The Baltic Sea, D.J. Conley, S. Bj̈Orck, E. Bonsdorff, J. Carstensen, G. Destouni, B.G. Gustafsson, S. Hietanen, M. Kortekaas, H. Kuosa, H.E.M. Meier, B. Müller-Karulis, K. Nordberg, A. Norkko, G. Nürnberg, H. Pitkänen, N.N. Rabalais, R. Rosenberg, O.P. Savchuk, C.P. Slomp, M. Voss, F. Wulff, L. Zillén Jan 2009

Hypoxia-Related Processes In The Baltic Sea, D.J. Conley, S. Bj̈Orck, E. Bonsdorff, J. Carstensen, G. Destouni, B.G. Gustafsson, S. Hietanen, M. Kortekaas, H. Kuosa, H.E.M. Meier, B. Müller-Karulis, K. Nordberg, A. Norkko, G. Nürnberg, H. Pitkänen, N.N. Rabalais, R. Rosenberg, O.P. Savchuk, C.P. Slomp, M. Voss, F. Wulff, L. Zillén

Faculty Publications

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An Indirect-Effects Model Of Mediated Adjudication: The Csi Myth, The Tech Effect, And Metropolitan Jurors' Expectations For Scientific Evidence, Hon. Donald E. Shelton, Young S. Kim, Gregg Barak Jan 2009

An Indirect-Effects Model Of Mediated Adjudication: The Csi Myth, The Tech Effect, And Metropolitan Jurors' Expectations For Scientific Evidence, Hon. Donald E. Shelton, Young S. Kim, Gregg Barak

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Part I of this article defines the "CSI effect," a phrase has come to have many different meanings ascribed to it. It emphasizes the epistemological importance of first describing the effect of the "CSI effect" as observed in juror behavior documented in a new study conducted in Wayne County (Detroit), Michigan, and then looking at causative factors that may be related to an explanation of those observed effects. Part II describes the methodology of the Wayne County study, provides a descriptive analysis of Wayne County jurors, and compares the jurors demographically to the Washtenaw County jurors who were surveyed in …

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China’S Cleantech Landscape: The Renewable Energy Technology Paradox, Federico Caprotti Jan 2009

China’S Cleantech Landscape: The Renewable Energy Technology Paradox, Federico Caprotti

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Courts As Champions Of Sustainable Development: Lessons From East Africa, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Collins Odote Jan 2009

Courts As Champions Of Sustainable Development: Lessons From East Africa, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Collins Odote

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Loo Law: The Public Washroom As A Hyper-Regulated Space, Irus Braverman Jan 2009

Loo Law: The Public Washroom As A Hyper-Regulated Space, Irus Braverman

Journal Articles

The article suggests that the public washroom is the most regulated of all public spaces, at least in the United States. It offers several possible explanations for this hyper-juridical attention. First and foremost, the article argues, such hyper-regulation of the public washroom has to do with the sanitary and moral significance of this space. Secondly, the intensity of washroom regulation is due to its ambiguous public/private properties. Finally, the intense regulation of the public washroom is the result of physio-anatomical functions performed in it. Utilizing the State of New York as a lens through which to observe the various issues …

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Пещеры Сборник Научных Трудов Peshchery (Caves) Collection Of Scientific Transactionspeshchery (Caves) Interuniversity Collection Of Scientific Transactions Jan 2009

Пещеры Сборник Научных Трудов Peshchery (Caves) Collection Of Scientific Transactionspeshchery (Caves) Interuniversity Collection Of Scientific Transactions

KIP Articles

П 78 Пещеры: сб. науч. тр. / Перм. гос. ун-т. - Пермь, 2009. - Вып. 32. - 234 с. ISBN 978-5-7944-1353-3 В сборнике приведены материалы по геологии, генезису, биотическим комплексам пещер, их охране и истории изучения. Рассмотрены вопросы обучения спелеодайверов, даны рецензии на книги, библиография по карсту и пещерам за 2007-2009 гг., список адресов карстоведов и спелеологов и некоторые другие данные. Издание рекомендуется спелеологам, геологам, географам, экологам, биологам, а также тем кто интересуется карстом и пещерами. СОДЕРЖАНИЕ ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ ГЕОЛОГИЯ И ГЕНЕЗИС ПЕЩЕР Голубек П., Ермаков Н. Источник с периодической активностью в «Черной долине» - спелеологический и гидрологический феномен Низких Татр …

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Turkey: At The Crossroads Of Secular West And Traditional East Conference Introduction, Padideh Ala'i Jan 2009

Turkey: At The Crossroads Of Secular West And Traditional East Conference Introduction, Padideh Ala'i

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Turkey: At The Crossroads Of Secular West And Traditional East, Padideh Ala'i Jan 2009

Turkey: At The Crossroads Of Secular West And Traditional East, Padideh Ala'i

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Jones V. Bennet: The Bifurcated Legal Status Of Early Nineteenth Century Free Blacks In Kentucky, Alexander J. Chenault Jan 2009

Jones V. Bennet: The Bifurcated Legal Status Of Early Nineteenth Century Free Blacks In Kentucky, Alexander J. Chenault

The Modern American

No abstract provided.

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Seeking Protection From The Law? Exploring Changing Arguments For U.S. Domestic Violence Asylum Claims And Gendered Resistance By Courts , Richael Faithful Jan 2009

Seeking Protection From The Law? Exploring Changing Arguments For U.S. Domestic Violence Asylum Claims And Gendered Resistance By Courts , Richael Faithful

The Modern American

No abstract provided.

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Integrating Quantitative Reasoning Initiatives With Writing Programs: A Strategy For Effective Program Development, Nathan Grawe, Carol Rutz Jan 2009

Integrating Quantitative Reasoning Initiatives With Writing Programs: A Strategy For Effective Program Development, Nathan Grawe, Carol Rutz

Economics Faculty Work

As an inherently interdisciplinary endeavor, quantitative reasoning (QR) risks falling through the cracks between the traditional “silos” of higher education. This article describes one strategy for developing a truly cross-campus QR initiative: leverage the existing structures of campus writing programs by placing QR in the context of argument. We first describe the integration of Carleton College’s Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge initiative with the Writing Program. Based on our experience, we argue that such an approach leads to four benefits: it reflects important aspects of QR often overlooked by other approaches; it defuses the commonly raised objection that QR is …

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A Centered Index Of Spatial Concentration: Axiomatic Approach With An Application To Population And Capital Cities, Filipe R. Campante, Quoc-Anh Do Jan 2009

A Centered Index Of Spatial Concentration: Axiomatic Approach With An Application To Population And Capital Cities, Filipe R. Campante, Quoc-Anh Do

Research Collection School Of Economics

We construct an axiomatic index of spatial concentration around a center or capital point of interest, a concept with wide applicability from urban economics, economic geography and trade, to political economy and industrial organization. We propose basic axioms (decomposability and monotonicity) and refinement axioms (order preservation, convexity, and local monotonicity) for how the index should respond to changes in the underlying distribution. We obtain a unique class of functions satisfying all these properties, defined over any n-dimensional Euclidian space: the sum of a decreasing, isoelastic function of individual distances to the capital point of interest, with specific boundaries for the …

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Latin America: Contesting Extraction, Producing Geographies, Anthony J. Bebbington Jan 2009

Latin America: Contesting Extraction, Producing Geographies, Anthony J. Bebbington

Geography

Characterizing continents is the business of fools, inviting the charge of essentialization, over-generalization, and caricature of nuanced and complex processes varying across space and over time. Likewise it can attract the criticism that to privilege the national or the regional understates the transnational dimensions of social change, and to take a territorialized view diverts attention from the networks that cut across space, linking distant actors and places. This short essay therefore claims neither to be a reflection on Latin America-wide phenomena, and far less a statement on the most significant aspects of the political economy of the region. It does, …

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Pyrethroid Resistance In The Annual Bluegrass Weevil, Listronotus Maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), From Southern New England Golf Courses, Darryl Ramoutar Jan 2009

Pyrethroid Resistance In The Annual Bluegrass Weevil, Listronotus Maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), From Southern New England Golf Courses, Darryl Ramoutar

Open Access Dissertations

The annual bluegrass weevil, Listronotus maculicollis Kirby (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), has emerged as a serious pest of Poa annua L. (Poales: Poaceae) (annual bluegrass), in the Northeastern US. In 2007, topical application bioassays of bifenthrin and λ-cyhalothrin conducted on field-collected populations of L. maculicollis Kirby from eight southern New England golf courses resulted in LD50 ranges of 1.80-244.67 ng/insect and 0.52-159.53 ng/insect for bifenthrin and λ-cyhalothrin respectively. These results revealed low to high levels of resistance to bifenthrin (6.1-135.9 fold) and λ-cyhalothrin (28.7-306.8 fold), possibly due to insecticide overuse. In 2008, topical application bioassays with bifenthrin and bifenthrin plus synergists affecting …

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Legal Transplants Through Private Contracting: Codes Of Vendor Conduct In Global Supply Chains As An Example, Li-Wen Lin Jan 2009

Legal Transplants Through Private Contracting: Codes Of Vendor Conduct In Global Supply Chains As An Example, Li-Wen Lin

All Faculty Publications

The legal transplant literature typically focuses on legal transplants through governmental channels (e.g., legislative or judiciary processes). This article however directs attention to a generally ignored phenomenon: legal transplants through private contracting in the globalization age. Private actors have transplanted a variety of private and public laws across jurisdictions through contracting for over a decade. This article argues that codes of vendor conduct in global supply chains are a vivid example for this type of legal transplantation. Given that vendor codes in global supply chains can be interpreted as legal transplants through private contracting, this article further examines the transplant …

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