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Reputation In A Networked World: Revisiting The Social Foundations Of Defamation Law, David S. Ardia
Reputation In A Networked World: Revisiting The Social Foundations Of Defamation Law, David S. Ardia
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Revolution In Pragmatist Clothing: Nationalizing Workplace Law, Jeffrey M. Hirsch
Revolution In Pragmatist Clothing: Nationalizing Workplace Law, Jeffrey M. Hirsch
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Initial Reflections On An Evolving Standard: Constraints On Risk Taking By Directors And Officers In Germany And The United States, Wulf A. Kaal, Richard W. Painter
Initial Reflections On An Evolving Standard: Constraints On Risk Taking By Directors And Officers In Germany And The United States, Wulf A. Kaal, Richard W. Painter
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An Evaluation Of A Community Dietetics Intervention On The Management Of Malnutrition For Healthcare Professionals, Sharon Kennelly, N. P. Kennedy, G. Flanaghan-Rughoobur, C. Glennon-Slattery, Sheila Sugrue
An Evaluation Of A Community Dietetics Intervention On The Management Of Malnutrition For Healthcare Professionals, Sharon Kennelly, N. P. Kennedy, G. Flanaghan-Rughoobur, C. Glennon-Slattery, Sheila Sugrue
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Background: Healthcare professionals working in the community setting have limited knowledge of the evidence-based management of malnutrition. The present study aimed to evaluate a community dietetics intervention, which included an education programme for healthcare professionals in conjunction with the introduction of a community dietetics service for patients ‘at risk’ of malnutrition. Changes in nutritional knowledge and the reported management of malnourished patients were investigated and the acceptability of the intervention was explored. Methods: An education programme, incorporating ‘Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)’ training, was implemented in eight of 10 eligible primary care practices (14 general practitioners and nine practice nurses …
Writing Across The Curriculum: Faculty Workshop Practices (1977-1997), Owen Brian Kaufman
Writing Across The Curriculum: Faculty Workshop Practices (1977-1997), Owen Brian Kaufman
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During the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) movement's formative years, programs were launched at hundreds of higher education institutions across North America. WAC programs incorporated workshops as the primary delivery mechanism to introduce participants to WAC pedagogy. To explore how workshops changed teaching practices, this study presents an account of patterns the researcher observed when analyzing archived materials generated from WAC workshops held in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and run primarily by Toby Fulwiler. Fulwiler attended Rutgers University's 1977 NEH Institute in the Humanities workshop where he learned of the work of James Britton and other education researchers who …
Homeless Chic: Cultural Contradictions In Contemporary American Literature, Jennifer Joyce Kissko
Homeless Chic: Cultural Contradictions In Contemporary American Literature, Jennifer Joyce Kissko
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The dissertation, "Homeless Chic: Cultural Contradictions in Contemporary American Literature," explores and responds to certain problems and questions that matter with regards to the ways in which homelessness gets represented in literature. It considers the problems United States culture faces in its attempts to think differently about homelessness -- at the ways it appropriates or makes use of figures of homelessness, and the ways literature markets, thematizes, racializes, and symbolizes homelessness. Using contemporary American literature, the dissertation examines how U.S. culture likes certain narratives that challenge the ability to think differently. The readings model how conflicted American readers are on …
Subjectivities And Counterpublics In 20th-Century Christian Leftist Texts, Robert Leblanc
Subjectivities And Counterpublics In 20th-Century Christian Leftist Texts, Robert Leblanc
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Subjectivities and Counterpublics in 20th-Century Christian Leftist Texts responds to the following question: How have recent film and literary voices of the Christian left addressed counterpublics suited to their emergent and pressing needs? In exploring answers to this question, the project considers the role of radical artistic expressions in addressing a politically motivated public sphere. The three core chapters provide close readings of literary texts and films from the second half of the 20th Century that seek to tie themselves to markers of Christian tradition while still operating in a radicalizing way on reading and viewing audiences. In these three …
Mitigations Of Shame: Represented And Elicited Affect In Vietnam War Films Of The Late 1980s, Bryan D. Marinelli
Mitigations Of Shame: Represented And Elicited Affect In Vietnam War Films Of The Late 1980s, Bryan D. Marinelli
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This dissertation investigates the extent to which select Vietnam War films of the late 1980s can be properly labeled as "shame-inducing texts." Beginning with an analysis of the ways in which shame has been represented and mitigated, the project then seeks to understand the degree to which these films elicited shame in viewing audiences. Chapter One delineates the properties of shame that are foundational to the study and offers a rationale for selecting Vietnam films of the late 1980s as focal texts. Chapter Two examines Full Metal Jacket's (1987) rendering of the methods used to neutralize shame in Marine recruits, …
Making Waves With Critical Literacy: A Teacher Researcher Study Around The Texts, Contexts, And Recontextualizations Of An Upper Middle Class Public High School, Carolyn Fortuna
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This dissertation is a teacher researcher qualitative study that explores the work of critical literacy in an upper middle class public high school. As a participant and an observer, I studied how a confluence of authority, privilege, curriculum, and pedagogy created context and shaped the meaning and quality of our collective literacy learning experiences. Using the tools of teacher research through narrative inquiry, my study traces school authority figures' reproduction of dominant ideologies, my struggles as a social justice educator to break through those definitions of "normal" with a privileged student population, and the hope that resulted when my students …
The Development And Validation Of The Survey Of Attitudes Toward Research Methods, Elizabeth S. Dimond
The Development And Validation Of The Survey Of Attitudes Toward Research Methods, Elizabeth S. Dimond
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Students' attitudes toward research methods may affect their learning approaches and outcomes in such courses. The four studies in this dissertation developed and provided evidence for the validity of the Survey of Attitudes Toward Research Methods (SATRM), a measure with which students' attitudes toward research methods can be better understood. The first objective was to develop the measure, including adaptation of items from an existing measure, the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (Schau, Stevens, Dauphinee, & Del Vecchio, 1995), to reflect research methods, and determining the factor structure and the questions best representing those factors. The SATRM was then administered …
Bodies Of Evidence: Critical Theory And Audience Response To American Gothic Narratives, Bruce G. Johnson
Bodies Of Evidence: Critical Theory And Audience Response To American Gothic Narratives, Bruce G. Johnson
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Some academic critics are making claims about audience reactions and responses to American Gothic literature and film in order to provide arguments about this particular genre. In presenting their predictions about audience behaviors, however, these critics typically fail to test the accuracy of their theories by providing any empirical evidence regarding the ways in which actual readers and viewers are impacted by these texts. This exploratory study, then, offers a preliminary method for measuring demonstrable audience responses to American Gothic literature and film in order to illuminate whether or not some of these critical theories about audience reactions are verifiable. …
Around, Alongside, Inside, And In-Between: The Geometries Of Performance In Contemporary U.S. Play And Film, Piotr A. Skuza
Around, Alongside, Inside, And In-Between: The Geometries Of Performance In Contemporary U.S. Play And Film, Piotr A. Skuza
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Divided into four consecutive chapters, The Geometries of Performance is a study of how Don DeLillo's play Valparaiso and Barry Levinson's film production Wag the Dog both demonstrate and inform readers, spectators, and viewers, through the performative nature of both sources, about the intersections of Patricia Pisters's notion of "camera consciousness" and Roy Ascott's "network consciousness": how such intersections are formed, how they emerge and operate in the contexts of modern technologies of perception, and how they affect contemporary audience. In chapter 1, "Valparaiso: Möbius Strip I or, In the Regime of Monads (Tell us everything')," I study Don DeLillo's …
The Drift: Rethinking The Affective Dynamics Of Adaptation, John Hodgkins
The Drift: Rethinking The Affective Dynamics Of Adaptation, John Hodgkins
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The Drift effects a deeper understanding of the dynamic relationship between literature and cinema by articulating an "affective turn" for adaptation studies, a field whose traditional focus has been the critical castigation of filmic adaptations based on canonical plays or novels. Specifically, this project draws on theorists such as Gilles Deleuze, Brian Massumi, and Marco Abel to re-conceive literary and cinematic texts as spatio-temporal engines generating and disseminating affect, and the adaptive process as a drifting of those intensities from one medium to another. By conceptualizing adaptation in this manner, this study steers clear of the chimerical notion of fidelity …
Cambodian And Laotian Americans' Cultural Values And Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Services, Manivone Thikeo
Cambodian And Laotian Americans' Cultural Values And Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Services, Manivone Thikeo
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Several studies have reported that Asian Americans, including Cambodian and Laotian Americans, tend to under utilize mental health services, both inpatient and outpatient although they display high levels of psychological problems related to significant psychological trauma experienced in their native land or while living in refugee camps. Underutilization may not be related to the lack of need but it may relate to cultural factors such as shame and stigma as well as acculturation and lack of health insurance. Although some Asian American research about help seeking exists, no previous research has specifically addressed this question with a Cambodian and Laotian …
An Expectancy Theory Analysis Of Catch Shares: Identifying Outcomes, Preferences, And Potential Co-Management Changes In New England Groundfish Management, William D. Whitmore
An Expectancy Theory Analysis Of Catch Shares: Identifying Outcomes, Preferences, And Potential Co-Management Changes In New England Groundfish Management, William D. Whitmore
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Catch shares have been implemented through a variety of limited access privilege programs, including individual transferable quotas (ITQs) and co-operatives. The New England Fishery Management Council recently approved 19 fishing cooperatives, referred to as sectors, in Amendment 16 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan. Despite requests by fishing industry members to consider an ITQ program in Amendment 16, a referendum requirement in the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and time constraints for implementing Amendment 16 were cited as reasons ITQs were not considered for Amendment 16. A mail survey was used to compare different outcomes fishermen and …
Flight Of The Mind: Reading Virginia Woolf Reading, Maria Chiancola Glade
Flight Of The Mind: Reading Virginia Woolf Reading, Maria Chiancola Glade
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Virginia Woolf was always a voracious reader, and the act of reading was for her both labor and pleasure, both an act of understanding and an act of production, and it was always already entangled with the act of writing. A record of her notes taken while reading exists, though unpublished and understudied, and these notebooks offer Woolf scholars access into the mind of the author at the moment of creative inception. Arguably, the extant sixty-seven notebooks, available at the Sussex University Library and the New York City Library's Berg Collection, offer a vast collection of material and a rich …
Taking Stock Of The Warehouse Cooperative School: A Personal Inventory Of The Formation Of Adolescent Subjectivity In The Context Of 1970s Alternative Education, Theo Greenblatt
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Constructed according the conventions of a subgenre the author defines as "formation text," this creative non-fiction work is an experiment in form that addresses the experimental coming of age of a subject within an experimental era and within the more specific context of an experimental education. Playing off the name of a school the author attended in the 1970s, The Warehouse Cooperative School, its structure employs a series of lists, both organizationally--as a textual version of inventorying, and as metaphor for storage and retrieval of memory. As an overt challenge to the bildungsroman, and its unacknowledged influence on contemporary memoir, …
Inside Writing Assessment: One Faculty's Collective Engagement & Active Critique Within Departmental Course Outcomes, Valerie A. Vancza
Inside Writing Assessment: One Faculty's Collective Engagement & Active Critique Within Departmental Course Outcomes, Valerie A. Vancza
Open Access Dissertations
Scholars in the field of rhetoric and composition are still only beginning to grasp the need for crucial examination of writing assessment as a locally-constructed, fully collaborative and necessary professional research activity. In particular, few assessment scholars have examined the attitudes of writing assessors in a full-scale course outcomes assessment--or even acknowledged the importance of their viewpoints and interpretations in such an assessment. This study investigated the attitudes, definitions, and self-perceptions of writing instructors fully engaged in assessing writing course outcomes. Empirical models for observation, survey, and interview were applied to fully gather, analyze, and triangulate data collected from writing …
Experimental Study Of Organocatalyzed Homodimerization Reactions Of α,β-Unsaturated Enones, Vanina Valeria Guidi
Experimental Study Of Organocatalyzed Homodimerization Reactions Of α,β-Unsaturated Enones, Vanina Valeria Guidi
Open Access Dissertations
This Thesis intends to elucidate the mechanism involved in a self condensation (Homodimerization) transformation of α, β-unsaturated ketones through the formation of a key enamine intermediate that arises as a consequence of the presence of an organocatalyst. The organocatyst utilized in this research is L-Proline, a natural occurring aminoacid. While the mechanism of the L-Proline organocatalyzed self-condensation reaction of α, β-unsaturated enals appears to proceed through an imine addition mechanism (Double Michael Addition), the analogous reaction pathway for Homodimerization of α, β-unsaturated enones has been postulated to proceed via a Diels-Alder reaction. This Thesis work is significant as the elucidation …
Just Like Me: Gay Men & Gay Space, Jeffrey Pounds
Just Like Me: Gay Men & Gay Space, Jeffrey Pounds
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
The thesis is an ethnographic study that examines how gay men use a gay bar to located and structure identity and social interaction.
Surface Reactivity And Dissolution Rate Of Galena: Potential Impact Of Co2 Leakage From Geological Carbon Sequestration On Groundwater Quality, Kathleen O'Malley
Surface Reactivity And Dissolution Rate Of Galena: Potential Impact Of Co2 Leakage From Geological Carbon Sequestration On Groundwater Quality, Kathleen O'Malley
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
Geological carbon sequestration is one promising solution to mitigating CO2 emissions and curtailing global
The Politics Of Constitutional Review: Evidence From The European Court Of Justice, Michael Malecki
The Politics Of Constitutional Review: Evidence From The European Court Of Justice, Michael Malecki
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
Judges who perform judicial review have the extraordinary power to strike down laws that do not conform to their own policy preferences. Their political independence is generally regarded as a normative good. In this work, I consider the microfoundations of judicial preferences and how those preferences interact with institutional independence to determine the policy impact of judicial review. The following argument is developed in the context of the Court of Justice of the European Union: European Court of Justice, or ECJ). Constitutional Courts generally and the ECJ in particular are considered "independent" when they enjoy discretion to act counter to …
The Role Of Aerobic Glycolysis In The Resting Human Brain, Sanjeev Vaishnavi
The Role Of Aerobic Glycolysis In The Resting Human Brain, Sanjeev Vaishnavi
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
The human brain accounts for 2% of total body weight, though it consumes 20% of the body's energy supply. Most of this energy is provided by the complete oxidation of glucose to carbon dioxide and water, though some fraction of glucose undergoes aerobic glycolysis without concomitant oxidative phosphorylation. Elevation in neuronal activity increases aerobic glycolysis due to the disproportionate increase in blood flow and glucose utilization greater than oxygen consumption. Since aerobic glycolysis produces significantly less energy than complete oxidation of glucose, its role in cellular activities has been overlooked, though its presence in the resting brain has been known …
Fluid Dynamics And Scale-Up Of Bubble Columns With Internals, Ahmed Youssef
Fluid Dynamics And Scale-Up Of Bubble Columns With Internals, Ahmed Youssef
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Bubble columns and slurry bubble columns, as multiphase reactors, are favored for a wide range of applications in the chemical, biochemical, petrochemical and metallurgical industries. They are considered the reactor of choice for the Fischer Tropsch synthesis, among other applications, offering an alternative energy source and providing clean liquid fuels as compared to other reactors. Most of the industrial applications of bubble column reactors require the utilization of heat exchanging tubes, the effect of which on the reactor's performance is not fully understood. This study proposes detailed investigations of selected local hydrodynamics in bubble columns with and without internal heat …
The Role Of Mda5 And Tlr3 In Response To Dsrna And Viral Infection, Stephen Mccartney
The Role Of Mda5 And Tlr3 In Response To Dsrna And Viral Infection, Stephen Mccartney
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
The innate immune system consists of a number of genetically encoded receptors that detect the products of viral replication and initiate signaling cascades leading to activation of the antiviral response. During the course of infection, many viruses produce dsRNA that can be recognized by two major arms of the innate immune system: the toll-like receptors: TLR) and the Rig-I-like receptors: RLR). Among the TLRs, TLR3 binds dsRNA within the endosomal compartment and initiates signaling through its downstream adapter TRIF. Melanoma differentiation-induced gene 5: MDA5) is a member of the RLR family that recognizes dsRNA within the cytosolic compartment and signals …
An Examination Of Oxysterol Effects On Membrane Bilayers Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Brett Olsen
An Examination Of Oxysterol Effects On Membrane Bilayers Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Brett Olsen
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
My thesis work focuses on understanding the role of biological membranes in cellular processes. I am particularly interested in how small molecules perturb membrane structure and regulate membrane function. Membranes are primarily responsible for segregating different compartments of biological cells from each other. However, they have other roles as well, including influencing signal transduction in the cell, both through associated membrane proteins and directly through alterations in membrane organization. In order to understand how small molecules change membranes, I use molecular dynamics simulations of small simplified membranes to examine, at an atomic-level detail, how the addition of small molecules to …
An Empirical Analysis On Point-Wise Machine Learning Techniques Using Regression Trees For Web-Search Ranking, Ananth Mohan
An Empirical Analysis On Point-Wise Machine Learning Techniques Using Regression Trees For Web-Search Ranking, Ananth Mohan
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Learning how to rank a set of objects relative to an user defined query has received much interest in the machine learning community during the past decade. In fact, there have been two recent competitions hosted by internationally prominent search companies to encourage research on ranking web site documents. Recent literature on learning to rank has focused on three approaches: point-wise, pair-wise, and list-wise. Many different kinds of classifiers, including boosted decision trees, neural networks, and SVMs have proven successful in the field. This thesis surveys traditional point-wise techniques that use regression trees for web-search ranking. The thesis contains empirical …
An Improved Plasmid Vector System For Genetic Engineering Of Synechocystis Sp Pcc 6803, Arul Varman
An Improved Plasmid Vector System For Genetic Engineering Of Synechocystis Sp Pcc 6803, Arul Varman
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No abstract provided.
Teaching News Literacy In The Age Of New Media: Why Secondary School Students Should Be Taught To Judge The Credibility Of The News They Consume, Elia Powers
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This paper involves two of the oldest institutions in America -- schools and the press -- and the preparation of informed citizens in the age of new media. I examine the manner and ways in which news literacy, the use of critical thinking skills to judge the reliability of news reports and news sources, is taught to secondary school students in the United States. It is axiomatic that a vigorous and independent press is critical to our democracy. Yet news literacy has not historically been included in the public school curriculum and continues to be widely absent, despite states vowing …
The Moving West: The Formation Of The American Midwest Through Westward Expansion, Erin Presson
The Moving West: The Formation Of The American Midwest Through Westward Expansion, Erin Presson
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No abstract provided.