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Magic In Six Dimensions, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A royal flush in poker consists of the ace, king, queen, jack and ten, all in the same suit. Our magic begins by having the spectator choose one of the cards in any of the four royal flushes. This choice could be by random draw or the spectator can merely think of one of the 20 cards. In either case he does not inform the magician of his choice but will write it on a slip of paper for future reference.

Name Categories, Lacey Echols

Word Ways

To begin, write your last name across the top of the grid. You should have enough columns for each letter in your name. For each category in the left column, fill in the cells with a word beginning with the letter in the top row. If duplicate letters appear in the top row, then you should think of two different words for that category. Additional categories could be added or exchanged for the ones below.

Influence Of Wall Vibrations On The Sound Of Brass Wind Instruments, Wilfried Kausel, Daniel W. Zietlow, Thomas R. Moore

Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Publications

The results of an experimental and theoretical investigation of the influence of wall vibrations on the sound of brass wind instruments are presented. Measurements of the transmission function and input impedance of a trumpet, with the bell both heavily damped and freely vibrating, are shown to be consistent with a theory that assumes that the internal pressure causes an oscillation of the diameter of the pipe enclosing the air column. These effects are shown to be most significant in sections where there are flaring walls, which explains why damping these vibrations in cylindrical pipes normally produces no measurable effects.

Cpa Client Bulletin, November 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Geographic Factors Of Residential Burglaries - A Case Study In Nashville, Tennessee, Jonathan A. Hall

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study examines geographic patterns and geographic factors of residential burglary at the Nashville, TN area for a twenty year period at five year interval starting in 1988. The purpose of this study is to identify what geographic factors have impacted on residential burglary rates, and if there were changes in the geographic patterns of residential burglary over the study period. Several criminological theories guide this study, with the most prominent being Social Disorganization Theory and Routine Activities Theory. Both of these theories focus on the relationships of place and crime. A number of spatial analysis methods are hence adopted …

The Statesman, V. 54, I. 10, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 54, i. 10

Hellenism And The Shaping Of The Byzantine Empire, Rakesh Mittal

Jablonowski Award (Best Undergraduate Research Paper, History)

No abstract provided.

Current, November 01, 2010, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Basic Concepts And Models For Interpreter And Translator Training, Revised Edition, Sherry Shaw

International Journal of Interpreter Education

No abstract provided.

Visualization Queries, Nicholas Del Rio, Paulo Pinheiro Da Silva

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

This paper introduces the notion of a query that describes a visualization request in terms of a universe of concepts, which includes but is not limited to Views, Operators, and Parameters. In the presence of specifications based on these concepts, users may be able to request for what properties they want to see in their visualizations (i.e., the graphical analogues of some dataset) without having to specify how to generate them, and more importantly, without being fully aware of a wide range of toolkit specific implementation details. The result of a query is a visualization that satisfies declarative user-defined criteria …

Nebline, November/December 2010

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: Garbology 4-H School Enrichment

Farm Views

Horticulture

Food & Fitness

Home & Family Living

Environmental Focus

Urban Agriculture

4-H & Youth

Community Focus

Extension Calendar

Nutrition Education Program

Family and Community Education (FCE) Clubs

and other extension news and events

Bede And The Rewriting Of Sanctity, Sally Shockro

History Faculty Publications

Bede's use and revision of the anonymous Life of St Cuthbert and the redeployment of patristic texts in later continental and Anglo-Saxon ascetic and hagiographical texts.

Scoop

Animal Sheltering 2010-12

• Transport of dogs relieves pressure on two overwhelmed Louisiana shelters
• Which volunteer management practices make for happy employees?
• The tropics aren’t all sun and fun for animals, but local groups are lending a hand
• After assisting with a major puppy mill raid, a longtime sheriff plans to switch to animal control
• A stray relies on the kindness of strangers to find a better home
• Community rolls up its sleeves (literally) to show support for local shelter

November 1, 2010, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

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

The Lick Agn Monitoring Project: Alternate Routes To A Broad-Line Region Radius, Jenny E. Greene, Carol E. Hood, Aaron J. Barth, Vardha N. Bennert, Misty C. Benz, Alexei V. Filippenko, Elinor Gates, Matthew A. Malkan, Tommaso Treu, Jonelle L. Walsh, Jong-Hak Woo

Physics

It is now possible to estimate black hole (BH) masses across cosmic time, using broad emission lines in active galaxies. This technique informs our views of how galaxies and their central BHs coevolve. Unfortunately, there are many outstanding uncertainties associated with these "virial" mass estimates. One of these comes from using the accretion luminosity to infer a size for the broad-line region (BLR). Incorporating the new sample of low-luminosity active galaxies from our recent monitoring campaign at Lick Observatory, we recalibrate the radius-luminosity relation with tracers of the accretion luminosity other than the optical continuum. We find that the radius …

I Am The Melting Pot: Multiple Identity Integration Among Gay/Bisexual/Questioning Male Ethnic Minority Adolescents, Omar B. Jamil

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

For adolescents who belong to multiple minority groups, such as those who are ethnic and sexual minorities, they must develop both their ethnic and sexual identities as they develop their overall identity (Chung & Katayama, 1998). The goal of this study was to examine the ways in which ethnic and sexual minority male adolescents integrate their multiple identities, and to examine how their presentation of their identities changes depending on context. Because of the various types of data collected for each participant, a case study analysis (Yin, 1981) was employed to determine the themes and differences across participants and within …

Book Review Of Out Of Range: Why The Constitution Can't End The Battle Over Guns, By Mark V. Tushnet, Dennis A. Henigan

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

The Silent Witness, November-December 2010

Silent Witness, The

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Washington, D.C.

The Silent Witness Finding Aid

Highly Irregular Verbs, Richard Lederer, Kern Mann

Word Ways

Most English adjectives take on the suffixes -er and est as they journey from their base forms to their comparative and superlative incarnations, as in smart smarter smartest and funny funnier funniest. Some intrepid logologists have created sequences of unrelated words that look like adjectival progressions but aren't.

Hiya, Ed!, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

A collage of colleges is camouflaged within the universe of universities presented in the twenty-question exam that follows. Simply extract a letter from each word in the list, implant another in its place, and scramble the resulting collection of characters to reveal the requisite institute of advanced learning. To wit, ORALLY would become BAYLOR upon rearrangement after "B" replaces one of the "L"s.

Linear Optimal Control Of Wind Turbines In Region Iii, Aliakbar Dabbaghmanesh

Mechanical Engineering Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Prelude, James Smith Allen

A Privileged Past

Yes, "A Privileged Past" is an autobiography – and something more. Structured like a comic opera to evoke the sensuous sources of personal recollection, this book explores the interrelations of public and private memory.

Its narrative is based on the author’s experiences, of course, but also on those of his forebears and their descendants, set in six historical contexts: immigration, social mobility, cultural capital, individual agency, national identity, and public education. These circumstances have driven all Americans’ faith in self, family, and better times, perhaps as early as the arrival of European settlers in the 1600s.

Drawing on documentation such …

Re-Seeing The Mighty: Critically Examining One Film's Representations Of Disability In The English Classroom, Joellen Maples, Katrina Arndt, Julia M. White

Education Faculty/Staff Publications

Films portraying characters with disabilities are often shown in the English classroom. Films such as "Of Mice and Men," "Simon Birch," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," "The Glass Menagerie," "Moby Dick," "Gattaca," and "A Beautiful Mind" often show simplistic and stereotypical representations of characters and their disabilities. Although students are frequently encouraged to think critically about a film's structure, themes, or symbolic elements, the authors argue that they should also learn to examine critically the representations of disability in these films. If stereotypical representations of characters with disabilities are not identified and challenged, another generation of …

“Barbarous Custom Of Dueling”: Death And Honor On St. Louis’ Bloody Island, Mark Alan Neels

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Neels argues that the Army Corps of Engineers inadvertently dealt the final death blow to dueling in the region when it eliminated “Bloody Island,” a sandbar in the Mississippi River which became a favorite venue for duels.

One New President, One New Patriarch And A Generous Disregard For The Constitution: A Recipe For The Continuing Decline Of Secular Russia, Robert C. Blitt

Scholarly Works

The government of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) - the country’s predominant religious group - recently underwent back-to-back changes in each institution’s respective leadership. This coincidence of timing affords a unique opportunity to reassess the status of constitutional secularism and church–state relations in the Russian Federation.

Following a discussion of the presidential and patriarchal elections that occurred between March 2008 and January 2009, the Article surveys recent developments in Russia as they relate to the nation’s constitutional obligations. In the face of this analysis, the Article argues that the government and the ROC alike continue to willfully undermine …

Letters Of Intent, Costly Signals, And Local Peacemaking In The Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict, Spencer B. Meredith Iii

Peace and Conflict Studies

A state of near-war lasted for almost two decades between Georgia and the separatist region of Abkhazia. Localized violence plagued neighboring communities while United Nations agencies, humanitarian groups, and religious organizations worked with both sides to resolve the conflict’s underlying causes. Unfortunately, those diverse and long-standing efforts proved fruitless when the parties went to war in August 2008. This article examines the reasons for the conflict’s enduring nature and presents an example of grassroots peacemaking completed by university students focused on the plight of Georgia’s domestic refugees. An in-depth case study reveals the impact of their unilateral peacemaking efforts to …

Hemispheric Differences In Specificity Effects In Talker Identification, Julio Gonza´Lez, Teresa Cervera-Crespo, Conor T. Mclennan

Psychology Faculty Publications

In the visual domain, Marsolek and colleagues (1999, 2008) have found support for two dissociable and parallel neural subsystems underlying object and shape recognition: an abstract-category subsystem that operates more effectively in the left cerebral hemisphere (LH), and a specific-exemplar subsystem that operates more effectively in the right cerebral hemisphere (RH). Evidence of this asymmetry has been observed in priming specificity for linguistic (words, pseudoword forms) and nonlinguistic (objects) stimuli. In the auditory domain, the authors previously found hemispheric asymmetries in priming effects for linguistic (spoken words) and nonlinguistic (environmental sounds) stimuli. In the present study, the same asymmetrical pattern …

In Memoriam Karl Heinz Göller (May 13, 1924 - April 22, 2009), Richard Utz

Medieval Institute Affiliated Faculty & Staff Publications

Eulogy on academic teacher, adviser, and mentor; founding dean of the College of Languages and Literatures at the University of Regensburg, Germany; and founder and honorary president of the German Medieval Academy (Mediävistenverband).

Epprecht's Crossing, Konrad Basler

Swiss American Historical Society Review

At Leo Schelbert's house in Evanston, Illinois, we looked through

those sources available at Leo's university library in which traces of the

Epprechts were most likely to be found. In the course of this process I

came across another Dorlikon ancestor, Ulrich Singer, a descendant of a

family doubly represented in the village's heraldic church window from

1685.

Columbus Day, Konrad Basler

Swiss American Historical Society Review

On October 12 I drove out to the magnificent autumn forests

by Pennsylvania. I chose highway 22, a route I had been familiar

with since the days at Lehigh University. Once more I was struck

by the speed and the distances mastered nowadays. Unlike us, the

Dorlikon emigrants had measured the distances they covered by the

hour. Carolina, for example, was '2200 hours on sea' from Rotterdam.

In order really to appreciate our modern standards of living, one has

to visualize what since then pioneers have achieved in America- not

only the independence from the British Crown, but also the …