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‘The Metal Face Of The Age’: Hesiod, Virgil, And The Iron Age On Cold Mountain, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics & Religious Studies Faculty Publication Series

A prominent theme in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain is that redemption from the brutality of war may be achieved by retreat from the “metal face” of the contemporary age and return to a healing agricultural work ethic. In this context, the author makes recurrent reference to the classical topic of the “Golden Age,” a lost paradise on earth. He introduces this topic first as it appeared in Hesiod’s Works and Days, expressive of a profoundly pessimistic view that human history has been one long deterioration. As his protagonist’s physical and psychic homeward journey nears completion, though, he invokes the more …

Efficient Mutual Nearest Neighbor Query Processing For Moving Object Trajectories, Yunjun Gao, Baihua Zheng, Gencai Chen, Qing Li, Chun Chen, Gang Chen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Given a set D of trajectories, a query object q, and a query time extent Γ, a mutual (i.e., symmetric) nearest neighbor (MNN) query over trajectories finds from D, the set of trajectories that are among the k1 nearest neighbors (NNs) of q within Γ, and meanwhile, have q as one of their k2 NNs. This type of queries is useful in many applications such as decision making, data mining, and pattern recognition, as it considers both the proximity of the trajectories to q and the proximity of q to the trajectories. In this paper, we first formalize MNN search …

Haitian Zombie, Myth, And Modern Identity, Kette Thomas

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

In her article "Haitian Zombie, Myth, and Modern Identity" Kette Thomas analyzes texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Alfred Metraux, and Wade Davis. In these narratives we are re-introduced to the zombie not as a metaphor for lost consciousness, but, rather, as a common system that replaces personal subjectivity with an influence alien to our natural development. The discourse on subjectivity has become a central focus in the modern era but attention to fiction in "third world" cultures is neglected because they are studied almost exclusively through historical, political, sociological, or anthropological lenses or because their collective identities leads scholars to …

Insuring Against Drought‐Related Livestock Mortality: Piloting Index Based Livestock Insurance In Northern Kenya, Andrew G. Mude, Sommarat Chantarat, Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, Munenobu Ikegami, John G. Mcpeak

Economics - All Scholarship

Climate related shocks are among the leading cause of production and efficiency losses in smallholder crop and livestock production in rural Africa. Consequently, the identification of tools to help manage the risks associated with climactic extremities is increasingly considered to be amongst the key pillars of any agenda to enhance agricultural growth and welfare in rural Africa. This paper describes the application of a promising innovation in insurance design – index‐based insurance – that seeks to bring the benefits of formal insurance to help manage the weather‐related risks faced by rural crop and livestock producers in low‐income countries. In particular, …

Epidermal Neural Crest Stem Cell (Epi-Ncsc)--Mediated Recovery Of Sensory Function In A Mouse Model Of Spinal Cord Injury, Yao Fei Hu, Krishnaj Gourab, Clive Wells, Oliver Clives, Brian D. Schmit, Maya Sieber-Blum

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Here we show that epidermal neural crest stem cell (EPI-NCSC) transplants in the contused spinal cord caused a 24% improvement in sensory connectivity and a substantial recovery of touch perception. Furthermore we present a novel method for the ex vivo expansion of EPI-NCSC into millions of stem cells that takes advantage of the migratory ability of neural crest stem cells and is based on a new culture medium and the use of microcarriers. Functional improvement was shown by two independent methods, spinal somatosensory evoked potentials (SpSEP) and the Semmes-Weinstein touch test. Subsets of transplanted cells differentiated into myelinating oligodendrocytes. Unilateral …

Child Development And Behavior Guidance, Elizabeth J. Sandell

Elementary and Literacy Education Department Publications

Session 1: Introduction

Session 2: Learning Styles and Sensory Modalities

Session 3: Child Development

Session 4: Faith Development

Session 5: Discipline and Punishment Are Two Different Things

Session 6: Alternatives for Behavior Guidance

Session 7: The Mouths of Babes: Discussion Questions

Worksheet: Selecting Strategies for Behavior Guidance (English)

Worksheet: Selecting Strategies for Behavior Guidance (Russian)

On -Yesamarî And Laterality: Waiwai Meanderings, Evelyn Schuler Zea

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

This paper introduces the figure of “laterality” to differentiate two modes of conceiving relationships among the Waiwai of Northern Amazonia. One mode that works through direct unmediated relations, and another mode that works through particular non-direct mediated forms of relating. The aim of the paper is to describe the gap between these two forms of relatedness, while at the same time discuss the demands and expectations as well as promises and potentialities that accompany the deployment of these two modes. These issues are articulated by means of a sequence of conceptual images that go from the so-called -yesamarî or meanders …

Skew Selection Theory Applied To The Wealth And Welfare Of Nations, Susan F. Allen, Deby L. Cassill

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

According to skew selection theory, working citizens who build wealth and, at the same time, share portions of their wealth with those in need are more likely to survive economic downturns than citizens who hoard wealth. In this article, skew selection is employed as a theoreticalframework to support governmental efforts to develop social policies that protect the income of working citizens and, at the same time, provide for vulnerable, non-working children and elders. To illustrate its applicability, the social policies of Japan, Sweden and the United States-all of which are challenged by decaying ratios of working to non-working citizens-are compared …

Subjective Anxiety And Behavioral Avoidance: Gender, Gender Role, And Perceived Confirmability Of Self-Report, Carmen P. Mclean, Debra A. Hope

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Commonly reported gender effects for differential vulnerability for anxiety may relate to gender socialization processes. The present study examined the relationship between gender role and fear under experimental conditions designed to elicit accurate fear reporting. Undergraduate students (N = 119) completed several self-report measures and a behavioral avoidance task (BAT) with a tarantula while wearing a heart rate monitor. Gender roles were operationalized as instrumentality and expressiveness, as measured by the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (Spence, Helmreich, & Stapp, 1975). As expected, women reported greater subjective anxiety and were more avoidant of the tarantula than men. Regardless of gender, low …

Alumni, Matt Lazier

Cal Poly Magazine

No abstract provided.

31 Years In Support Of Learn By Doing, Matt Lazier

Cal Poly Magazine

No abstract provided.

Cal Poly Magazine, Spring 2010

Cal Poly Magazine

No abstract provided.

Recent Advances In The Climate Change Biology Literature: Describing The Whole Elephant, A. Townsend Peterson, Shaily Menon, Xingong Li

Peer Reviewed Publications

Climate change biology is seeing a wave of new contributions, which are reviewed herein. Contributions treat shifts in phenology and distribution, and both document past and forecast future effects. However, many of the current wave of contributions are observational and correlational, and few are experimental in nature, and too often a conceptual framework in which to contextualize the results is lacking. An additional gap is the lack of effective cross-linking among areas of research, for example, connection of sea-level rise and climate change implications for distributions of species, or evolutionary adaptation studies with distributional shift studies. Although numerous important contributions …

Endocannabinoid Signalling: Has It Got Rhythm?, Linda K. Vaughn, Gerene Denning, Kara L. Stuhr, Harriet De Wit, Matthew N. Hill, Cecilia J. Hillard

Biomedical Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Endogenous cannabinoid signalling is widespread throughout the body, and considerable evidence supports its modulatory role in many fundamental physiological processes. The daily and seasonal cycles of the relationship of the earth and sun profoundly affect the terrestrial environment. Terrestrial species have adapted to these cycles in many ways, most well studied are circadian rhythms and hibernation. The purpose of this review was to examine literature support for three hypotheses: (i) endocannabinoid signalling exhibits brain region-specific circadian rhythms; (ii) endocannabinoid signalling modulates the rhythm of circadian processes in mammals; and (iii) changes in endocannabinoid signalling contribute to the state of hibernation. …

Music, Skill And Artifact: The Pursuit Of Physical Opportunities, Cindy Staton

Theses

As a musician being faced with the option to create music on a primarily digital and intangible level, I found this new digital experience to be problematic when compared to the experience of playing a physical instrument. This thesis explores this idea on a macro scale extending it to examine our everyday lives and the effects technology in the digital age have had upon us specifically in the United States. We live in a country where our jobs primarily involve sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Having once worked on farms or made a living as a …

Keys For Small Ruminant Producers Purchasing And Raising Goats And Sheep, Uford A. Madden

Journal of Extension

This article provides key information that Extension professionals can use to prepare potential producers and current producers raising goats and sheep, and those who are expanding their enterprises. Extension professionals can help small ruminant producers to be more aware of the fact that the quality of the animals they begin with or acquire will affect their ability to impact production and marketing of animal-derived foods and products. Working with Extension professionals, these producers can make important early decisions that will have long-term effects on their ability to develop, maintain, and expand their enterprises while producing high-quality products demanded by consumers.

Nutrient Content Of Utah Turkey Litter, David D. Frame, Gary L. Anderson

All Current Publications

An estimated 60,000 cubic yards (24,700 tons) of turkey growout litter is produced annually in Utah. Most is destined for land application on commercial cropland or pastureland.

Cow-Calf Management Guide & Cattle Producter's Library Introduction, Linden Greenhalgh

All Current Publications

This publication explains the second addition of the Cow-Calf Management Guide.

Biosecurity Principles: Protecting The Utah Turkey Industry, David Frame

All Current Publications

This publication lists the diseases that are potentially a threat to the Utah turkey industry and how these diseases can best be avoided.

Basics For Raising Backyard Chickens, David D. Frame

All Current Publications

This fact sheet is constructed to be used by local municipalities for training or as an evaluation tool in the permitting process for allowing poultry keeping in population-dense settings. It also serves as a condensed review of basic poultry keeping practices.

Vampirism, Vampire Cults And The Teenager Of Today, Megan White, Hatim A. Omar

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

The aim of this paper is to summarize the limited literature on clinical vampirism, vampire cults and the involvement of adolescents in vampire-like behavior. The various definitions of clinical vampirism are outlined and the emergence of vampire cults from Gothic culture is examined. Further, the clinical features of cult behavior, the attraction to cults, the risk factors for cult involvement, and the clinical management of cult members are discussed. Additionally, vampire popular media is briefly introduced and a case study presented.

Liminal Living At An Extended Stay Hotel: Feeling "Stuck" In A Housing Solution, Terri Wingate-Lewinson, June Gary Hopps, Patricia Reeves

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

As a result of unaffordable housing, many of America's working poor are forced to seek shelter in hotels to avoid homelessness. The concept of liminality has been used in discussions of place to describe the subjective experience of feeling in-between two states of being. Research is scant on the liminal experiences of low-income hotel residents, who are culturally invisible in society. This paper draws from data qualitatively collected via semi-structured interviews from ten low-income residents living in an extended-stay hotel. Descriptions of these residential experiences are presented along with recommendations for social workers practicing with families in this liminal situation.

The Textural Discontinuity Hypothesis And Its Relation To Nomadism, Migration, Decline, And Competition, Aaron L. Alai

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The causes of nomadism, migration, and decline in vertebrates are debated issues in the ecological sciences. Literature suggests nomadism may arise in species that specialize in granivory, nectivory, or the utilization of rodent outbreaks. Migration is thought to arise as a result of the exploitation of certain scarce or variable food resources. Species decline is hypothesized to be the result of many different factors as well; large species, island species and specialists may be more prone to decline.

A fresh perspective regarding the causes for species nomadism, migration, and decline is being investigated utilizing the ideas within the Textural Discontinuity …

Motuporamine Mimic Agents, Otto Phanstiel

UCF Patents

We have completed a nucular modeling synthesis and biological evaluation of dihydro motuporamine c, a known anticancer agent. Using new insights into its molecular shape preferences, we have designed potent mimics of this natural produce

Inhibition Of Reactive Oxygen Species And Protection Of Mammalian Cells In Vivo., Sudipta Seal, Junping Chen, James Mcginnis, Swanand Patil, Steve Sezate, Lily Wong

UCF Patents

Methods and compositions useful for neuronal protection in retinal cells in vitro and the protection of mammalian cells from reactive oxygen species in vivo are provided. Ultrafine nano-size cerium oxide particles, less than 10 nanometers in diameter, have been provided to decrease reactive oxygen species (ROS) in retina tissue that generates large amounts of ROS. These reactive oxygen species (ROS) are involved in light-induced retina degeneration and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Cerium oxide nanoparticles have been used to promote the lifespan of retinal neurons and protect the neurons from apoptosis induced by hydrogen peroxide in vitro and in vivo. The …

"New Modernity, Transnational Women, And Spanish Cinema", Maria Van Liew

Languages & Cultures Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Bibliography Of Work In Modernity And "Third World" Studies, Valerian Desousa

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Psc 471.01: American Constitutional Law, James J. Lopach

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Quarterly Reporter - June 2010, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

Sport Diver Newsletters

Contents:

Allendale Expedition..... p.1
Volunteer Articles (Allendale Expedition)..... p.2
July Reports Due..... p.4
Shipyard Shindig..... p.4
Upcoming Events..... p.5
Field Schedule..... p.5
Artifact Identification Workshop..... p.5
August Artifact Workshop..... p.6
SDAMP News..... p.6
Feature Article..... p.7
Letters to the Editors..... p.8
Notes from the Editor..... p.8
Allendale Crew..... p.9

The Garden Of Earthly Delights: Mahaut Of Artois And The Automata At Hesdin, Elly R. Truitt

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.