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Minutes Of Graduate College Curriculum Committee, September 25, 2009, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College Curriculum Committee.

Minutes - Graduate Curriculum Committee

Minutes of the committee that oversees the development of the curriculum of the University of Northern Iowa Graduate College.

Literary Bodies: The Novel As Experience, Britt Dienes

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

For my MA thesis I propose to examine a series of novels that combine motifs of the body with structural and linguistic experimentation that parallels the state of the bodies within the text. Using Tsitsi Dangarembga's 1988 "bodybildungsroman" Nervous Conditions, Sherley Anne Williams' 1986 neo -slave narrative Dessa Rose, Samuel Beckett's 1938 existential novel Murphy, Vikram Seth's 1986 poetic novel Golden Gate, and Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 poetic novel Pale Fire, I will argue that these texts portray the body as a readable space of culture, a legible site of conflict or creation.

I contend that these novels …

September 24, 2009, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2000-2009

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

News Notes Of The Department Of Chemistry, 2009-11, Illinois State University, Department Of Chemistry

News Notes of the Department of Chemistry

Newsletter of the Illinois State University Department of Chemistry

Kenyon Collegian - September 24, 2009

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

The Hilltop 9-24-2009, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

No abstract provided.

The Grizzly, September 24, 2009, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Roger Lee, Liz Kilmer, Ashley Mccomeskey, Akasya Benge, Lisa Jobe, Cory Kram, Elizabeth Mahoney, James Kilduff, Rebecca Smyth, Jonathan Edward Barber, Christopher Wierzbowski, Jason K. Mullins, Zach Shamberg, Gianna Paone, Abbie Cichowski

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

CIE Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary, Makes Changes • Introducing Ursinus' New Graduate Assistant • Tenth Annual Fringe Festival Kicks Off This Week • Visiting Professor Taije Silverman Shares Poetry • Is American Idol Rigged? An Investigatory Review • How Far Will You Go to Stretch Your Dollar in This Economy? • Restaurant Review: Molly Maguire's Irish Restaurant and Pub • Opinions: Freshmen Parking on Campus; Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh • Ursinus Women's Gymnastics Spends Weekend Volunteering • Coach Thomas Announces Baseball Captains for 2010 Season

Reporter's Verbatim Report Of Proceeddings, September 24, 2009, Volume Xv, Session 1 Of 4 [Pages 3207-3281]

King County Superior Court Documents

Includes testimony by Nicholas Brossoit, superintendent of the Edmonds School District.

Divergence In Seasonal Hydrology Across Northern Eurasia: Emerging Trends And Water Cycle Linkages, Michael A. Rawlins, H. Ye, D. Yang, Alexander I. Shiklomanov, Kyle C. Mcdonald

Faculty Publications

Discharge from large Eurasia rivers increased during the 20th century, yet much remains unknown regarding details of this increasing freshwater flux. Here, for the three largest Eurasian basins (the Ob, Yenisei, and Lena) we examine the nature of annual and seasonal discharge trends by investigating the flow changes along with those for precipitation, snow depth, and snow water equivalent. On the basis of a multiperiod trend analysis and examination of station data, we propose two characteristic regimes to explain the long‐term discharge increase from these large Eurasian rivers. Over the early decades from approximately 1936 to 1965, annual precipitation correlates …

Equity Analysis Of Portland’S Draft Bicycle Master Plan – Findings, Jennifer Dill, Brendon Haggerty

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

Portland's current bicycle network has brought the city into the national spotlight as a leader in the provision of cycling infrastructure. As the city looks forward to 2030 with ambitions of becoming a truly world-class bicycling city, it is clear that if the Draft Plan is fully implemented, nearly all of the city will be covered by a dense network of bikeways. The question of equity in the future is therefore not so much one of network coverage or lack of coverage, but of project priority and timing of implementation. The current network, while outstanding relative to other cities, nevertheless …

Volume 47, Number 5: September 23, 2009, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Prospectus, September 23, 2009, Sean Hermann, Chuck Shepherd, Chrissie Mckenney, Sean Whitsitt, Joel Reuter, Alishia Reynolds, Shagun Pradhan, Patrick Wood, Isaac Mitchell

Prospectus 2009

No abstract provided.

The Colby Echo (2009-09-23), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.

Togo: Irrigation Research, Michael Doenges, Sally Homsy, Marie-Claire Tuzeneu

ETHOS Technical Reports

A team of UD students conducted in-depth research concerning the construction of an irrigation system in a small village in central Togo (Sotouboua). The results of this research illustrated that a drip irrigation system would be the most appropriate and feasible choice considering the conditions of the fields and the village itself. Upon arrival in Togo, however, it became evident that there were many more pressing issues that needed to be addressed before an irrigation system could be built. A report was compiled to ensure that future ETHOS students placed in Togo will have the necessary information to prepare for …

Use Of The Chambira Palm (Astrocaryum Chambira) In Rainforest Communities Of The Peruvian Amazon, Anel Guel, Jim Penn

Student Summer Scholars Manuscripts

We proposed to research the use of chambira palm fibers and the sale of chambira crafts in four communities located about 100 miles from the city of Iquitos, Peru. In this part of the Peruvian Amazon, women are organized into groups that work to obtain the fibers and sell their products in a sustainable way, and at the same time promote the cultivation of the palm trees in their family gardens. As is the case with so many products from tropical forests, there is great geographic variation in the abundance of the resource (chambira) and variation in the amount of …

The Bg News September 22, 2009, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. September 22, 2009. Volume 100-Issue 22.

Making Regions For Geopolitical Action: The European Union And The Mediterranean, Alun Jones

Speaker Series

Alun Jones is Professor of Geography and Head of the Schoolof Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin (UCD) having held senior positions at University College London and the University of Leicester, and visiting posts at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bonn. Professor Jones is a political geographer and author of numerous books and international peer-reviewed papers on European Union governance, Europeanization and the Mediterranean, and rural transformations in France and Germany. He has been the recipient of the Robert Schuman scholarship, the Edward Heath Award of the Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers, and …

September 21, 2009, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

The Communicator, September 18, 2009, Bronx Community College

The Communicator

The Communicator newspaper published on September 18, 2009.

The Echo: September 18, 2009, Taylor University

2009-2010 (Volume 97)

Constitution still relevant – IT department looks to the future – In Brief – Bookstore displays new merchandise, new layout – Covered bridge attracts thousands – Jenkinson begins 50th year teaching – The Bubble – TU mourns YFC India director – World Voices – Summer with Operation Mobilization – Globalization in action – Around the World in 30 Seconds – A new kind of spiritual renewal – Students show musical stripes – The Adventures of Alissa & Adrienne – There will be blood (yours) – Yo, Adrienne! (And Alissa) – Woking right into Asian awareness – Missed Connections – Reviews …

The Daily Egyptian, September 18, 2009, Daily Egyptian Staff

September 2009

No abstract provided.

September 18, 2009, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Council On Academic Affairs Minutes, Sep 17, 2009, Eastern Kentucky University

Council on Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

The Scarlet - Volume Xc, No. 1 (September 17, 2009), Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet Archive (Student Newspaper) (1939-2011) (In Progress)

The September 17, 2009 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

The cover story for this issue is President John Bassett's resignation from Clark. Other headlines and coverage include new tenure-track faculty, mourning English professor William Tappley, new online tools ClarkYOU and L*IN*K, the famed Freud statue, Antichrist fervor surrounding President Obama, Circulatory System performing at Clark, film reviews of 500 Days of Summer, Inglorious Basterds, The Time-Traveler's Wife, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Every issue of The Scarlet from the 2011-2012 academic …

Chancellor's Report 2009-09, John Pugh

Chancellor's Report

No abstract provided.

Cultural Diversity And Economic Performance: Evidence From European Regions, Giovanni Prarolo, Elena Bellini, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Dino Pinelli

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

We investigate the relationship between diversity and productivity in Europe using an original dataset covering the NUTS 3 regions of 12 countries of the EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, former Western Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom). In so doing, we follow the empirical methodology developed by Ottaviano and Peri (2006a) in the case of US cities. The main idea is that, as cultural diversity may affect both production and consumption through positive or negative externalities, the joint estimation of price and income equations is needed to identify the dominant effect. Based on this …

Self-Enforcing Agreements On Water Allocation, Erik Ansink

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

Many water allocation agreements in transboundary river basins are inherently unstable. Due to stochastic river flow, agreements may be broken in case of drought. The objective of this paper is to analyse whether water allocation agreements can be self-enforcing. An agreement is modelled as the outcome of bargaining game on river water allocation. Given this agreement, the bargaining game is followed by a repeated extensive-form game in which countries decide whether or not to comply with the agreement. I assess under what conditions such agreements are self-enforcing, given stochastic river flow. The results show that, for sufficiently low discounting, every …

Mapping The Evolution Of "Clusters": A Meta-Analysis, Mario A. Maggioni, Francesca Gambarotto, T. Erika Uberti

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

This paper presents a meta-analysis of the “cluster literature” contained in scientific journals from 1969 to 2007. Thanks to an original database we study the evolution of a stream of literature which focuses on a research object which is both a theoretical puzzle and an empirical widespread evidence. We identify different growth stages, from take-off to development and maturity. We test the existence of a life-cycle within the authorships and we discover the existence of a substitutability relation between different collaborative behaviours. We study the relationships between a “spatial” and an “industrial” approach within the textual corpus of cluster literature …

Environmental Policy, Spatial Spillovers And The Emergence Of Economic Agglomerations, Anastasios Xepapadeas, Efthymia Kyriakopoulou

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

We explain the spatial concentration of economic activity, in a model of economic geography, when the cost of environmental policy - which is increasing in the concentration of emissions - and an immobile production factor act as centrifugal forces, while positive knowledge spillovers and iceberg transportation costs act as centripetal forces. We study the agglomeration effects caused by trade-offs between centripetal and centrifugal forces. The above effects govern firms’ location decisions and as a result, they define the distribution of economic activity across space. We derive the rational expectations equilibrium and the social optimum, compare the outcomes and characterize the …

Cultural Identity And Knowledge Creation In Cosmopolitan Cities, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Giovanni Prarolo

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

We study how the city system is affected by the possibility for the members of the same cultural diaspora to interact across different cities. In so doing, we propose a simple two- city model with two mobile cultural groups. A localized externality fosters the productivity of individuals when groups interact in a city. At the same time, such interaction dilutes cultural identities and reduces the consumption of culture-specific goods and services. We show that the two groups segregate in different cities when diaspora members find it hard to communicate at distance whereas they integrate in multicultural cities when communication is …