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Nomadic Pastoralism In Mongolia's Age Of The Market, James William Birmingham

Theses & ETDs

The pastoralists of Mongolia have recently gone through a dramatic shift in their economy and government � one arguably even more challenging to their traditional subsistence economy than the Soviet era that preceded it. Mongolian nomadic pastoralism is now dealing with global capitalism. This thesis will analyze this transition�s effect on the nomadic pastoralists of Mongolia. It will focus on the tension between the traditional methods of the pastoralists and the capitalist policies that are being employed in modern Mongolia.

The Alps As Symbol Of National Identity An Analysis Of The German Bergfilm, Lauren White

Theses & ETDs

Alpinism gradually emerged as a cultural practice in German-speaking Europe over the course of the 19th century and 20th century. The Bergfilme, or mountain films, of the 1920s and 1930s were the first representations of alpinism accessible to the whole of Germany, regardless of geography or income. They thus constituted an essential element in the national perception of the Alps and alpinism. The films appeared around the era of an increasing politicization of the Alps, as war and the rise of reactionary politics began to appropriate the mountains as a symbol to their own ends. This thesis will examine the …

Made In New York, Stayed In New York Cultural Production And The Mayor's Office Of Film, Theatre, And Broadcasting, Harrison Bender

Theses & ETDs

To what extent can film commissions affect the production of material culture? What role do municipal institutions play in regional culture industries? When thinking about the production of material culture, we don�t always think of tangential institutions as having any meaningful part in the production of culture. I use semi-structured interviews and bibliographic analysis to ascertain the extent to which the Mayor�s Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting, the acting film commission in New York City, meaningfully affects the production of material culture. The results of my work illuminate the relationship between the MOFTB and the cultural/visual media industry networks …

Cultivating Community An Ethography Of Orange Blossom Community Garden, Anastasia Sallen

Theses & ETDs

This thesis explores community gardens as constructed and contested space. The case study is an ethnography of the Orange Blossom Community Garden and the surrounding community of Sarasota, Florida. Through the use of participant observation and interviews with both members of the Orange Blossom Community Garden and people from the surrounding area, I look at issues of access in regards to community garden space. I explore the physical as well as metaphorical relationships between the garden space and social practices and systems. Through examining community gardens as sites where people have a hand in shaping public space, constructing place out …

Sacred Pathways The Importance Of Caves In Maya Ritual And Ideology, Karin Camila Boynton

Theses & ETDs

In the Maya tradition, caves are considered important parts of the sacred landscape. Mayan art and literature often depict caves as the portals between the human realm and the Underworld. Remains of religious rituals in caves have been recovered from sites all across Mesoamerica, pointing to a possible cave complex that extends as far back as the Preclassic Olmec (1200-400 BC). In this thesis, I will use Naj Tunich � a remote cave in the Guatemalan Pet�n � as a case study to illustrate the importance of caves in Maya ritual and ideology. Naj Tunich and the artwork found within …

Why A Duck? Self, Locality, Community, And Relevance In The Work Of Charles Bernstein And Susan Howe, John Witte

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the poetry and essays of two contemporary poets, Charles Bernstein and Susan Howe. The purpose in doing this is to examine their relationship to each other in light of the aesthetic tendency known as Language Poetry as well as to examine the significance of Language Poetry as a whole. In the first chapter, I study the dissolution of the self in both authors�work. In the second chapter, the concept of �locality� as it is understood by the midcentury poet, Charles Olson, is explored in relation to the writers. In the third chapter, the formation of Language Poetry …

Whose Dream? Nbc, China, Orientalism, And The Opening Ceremony Of The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, Justin Speed

Theses & ETDs

The Beijing Olympic opening ceremony was a significant cultural event. Not only did it afford China the opportunity to re-create and present its national identity, it gave the world an opportunity to reflect on that identity. Properly framing my case study of the ceremony (and its accompanying commentary provided by NBC) required an examination of historical Western representations of China: NBC�s coverage can be seen as a continuation of that typically Western narrative tradition. An application of Edward Said�s Orientalism serves to facilitate the interpretation of the commentary, as well as of China�s reworked national identity. It becomes clear, especially …

Di Amerikaner-Geboren Transformations Of Yiddishkeyt In Jewish American Fiction, Lane Silberstein

Theses & ETDs

Just as the Talmud, or Biblical exegesis, reaches back to its origins--the Torah--so too must writers of Jewish fiction evoke their literary predecessors. Hence the contemporary author Cynthia Ozick chooses to recreate the Nobel prize laureate of 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991), in her story �Envy; or, Yiddish in America� (1969). Singer himself returns to the past and the shtetl life in his novel The Slave (1969), and his story �Yentl the Yeshiva Boy� (1962), yet he also writes about contemporary New York in Enemies, a Love Story (1972). These two temporal realms help to form Singer's literary voice. Just …

Chapter 2- Global Perspectives On Water For Food, Prem S. Paul, Monica Norby, Gillian Klucas, Ashley Washburn, Elizabeth Banset, Vicki Miller

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

The water crisis will play a major role in the future of global poverty, yet little awareness of this critical issue exists and few discussions are taking place about securing water for food, Jeff Raikes said. In a call to action, Raikes advocated an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, one that pulls on all levers to solve the pending crisis.

The Crisis
Already about 75 to 80 percent of human water consumption is used to grow food, Raikes said. The projected doubling in food demand, coupled with climate change’s impact on geographic availability of water, will significantly increase the demand for …

Focus Emu, November 16, 2010, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.

New Insights On The Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture Of The Dakota Formation In Kansas-Nebraska-Iowa From A Decade Of Sponsored Research Activity, G. A. Ludvigson, B. J. Witzke, Robert Matthew Joeckel, R. L. Ravn, P. L. Phillips, L. A. Gonzalez, R. L. Brenner

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Red Gold - Raising Cochineal In Oaxaca, Eric Chávez Santiago, Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Oaxaca’s diversity may be appreciated in its geography, people, and food. Therefore, artistic expressions throughout the state are truly rich in their variety. Textiles are one of the major expressions that have transcended through time and among the vast offer of materials, cochineal has been one of Oaxaca’s treasures. Capable of producing many different shades, cochineal has been widely used for dyeing since Pre-Columbian times. After reaching a point of extraordinary production as an exporting good, the cochineal cultivation started to decrease as the use of synthetic dyes started to spread. The Museo Textil de Oaxaca (Textile Museum of Oaxaca …

Colcha Embroidery As Cartography: Mapping Landscapes Of Memory And Passage, Suzanne P. Macaulay

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Stitching is one of the oldest forms or technologies of textile craft – if we regard technology in its elemental sense as artistry, process, invention or method. This presentation explores the notion of embroidered maps as creations of a cartographic visionary imagination. In terms of the Symposium’s theme promoting new links between traditional textile-based concepts and contemporary digital processes, these cartographic embroideries are viewed as compositions of space-time in which landscapes are rendered as illusions of three dimensions (space) with an implied fourth dimension (time). In these pictorial embroideries, time melds with memory in order to transcend the physical division …

The International Limits And Population At Risk Of Plasmodium Vivax Transmission In 2009, Carlos A. Guerra, Rosalind E. Howes, Anand P. Patil, Peter W. Gething, Thomas P. Van Boeckel, William H. Temperley, Caroline W. Kabaria, Andrew J. Tatem, Bui H. Manh, Iqbal R.F. Elyazar, J. Kevin Baird, Robert W. Snow, Simon I. Hay

United States Public Health Resources

Background: A research priority for Plasmodium vivax malaria is to improve our understanding of the spatial distribution of risk and its relationship with the burden of P. vivax disease in human populations. The aim of the research outlined in this article is to provide a contemporary evidence-based map of the global spatial extent of P. vivax malaria, together with estimates of the human population at risk (PAR) of any level of transmission in 2009.

Methodology: The most recent P. vivax case-reporting data that could be obtained for all malaria endemic countries were used to classify risk into three …

The International Limits And Population At Risk Of Plasmodium Vivax Transmission In 2009, Carlos A. Guerra, Rosalind E. Howes, Anand P. Patil, Peter W. Gething, Thomas P. Van Boeckel, William H. Temperley, Caroline W. Kabaria, Andrew J. Tatem, Bui H. Manh, Iqbal R.F. Elyazar, J. Kevin Baird, Robert W. Snow, Simon I. Hay

United States Public Health Resources

Background: A research priority for Plasmodium vivax malaria is to improve our understanding of the spatial distribution of risk and its relationship with the burden of P. vivax disease in human populations. The aim of the research outlined in this article is to provide a contemporary evidence-based map of the global spatial extent of P. vivax malaria, together with estimates of the human population at risk (PAR) of any level of transmission in 2009.

Methodology: The most recent P. vivax case-reporting data that could be obtained for all malaria endemic countries were used to classify risk into three classes: malaria …

Teacher Education In Nigeria: Past, Present And Future Challenges., Israel Osokoya

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

The history of western education in Nigeria was intimately bound up with the history of western education in Europe. During and after the Dark Ages in Europe, the church dominated the business of education and this had a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of people not only in Europe and America but also in the British colonial territories of Asia and Africa. Historically, the British imperial ambition and effective occupation of Nigeria dated back to the second half of the 19th century even though some Europeans including British traders had assumed trading activities with the people in the coastal …

Engineering Leadership, Davood Salmani, Omid Bagheri

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Around the 1960 and on to today, the environment of today’s is on customer satisfaction. Achieving this new paradigm, Engineering is to be more flexible and adaptable to the demands and expectations of stakeholders.

An Examination Of Tension In The Space Between Leadership Philosophy And The Cultural Reality Of Schools, Lisa Starr

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Diversity is what gives our society depth and arguably beauty but it also problematizes already complex social issues like the importance and value placed on the education. In part, this challenge exists because public education is founded on the “values and belief systems of the dominant cultural and linguistic class” (Goddard & Hart, 2007, p. 16) yet schools are a complex, heterogeneous weave of cultures (Murakami-Ramalho, 2008). According to Chambers (2003), Canadian students are “probably the most ethnically, racially, linguistically, and religiously diverse of any school population in the world” (p. 223). This is no less true in the United …

Accreditation Discrimination: Impact On School Choice, Costs, And Professional Prospects In Academia, Donovan Mcfarlane

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Universities and colleges in the 21st century have taken on extreme forms of business orientation and corporate success models, taking their strategies and cues from successful business corporations and business leaders. This stems from several factors including competition in the overall economy, increased demand for training and qualifications; hence an increased demand for degrees and certifications (not necessarily an increased demand for “education” in the strict classical sense of the word, since many individuals are graduating from colleges and universities nowadays with degrees and low levels of literacy or marginally educated), contraction of economies and industries, economic saturation and increased …

Akhenaten - Controversy And Catastrophe: The Reassertion Of Pharonic Power, Chase Childs

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 47-58

New Insights From The Archives: Historicizing The Political Economy Of Navajo Weaving And Wool Growing, Kathy M'Closkey

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

After the formation of the reservation in 1868, the government issued licenses to regulate trade in wool, textiles, and pelts that traders acquired from Navajos. In 1890, blanket sales were 10% of wool sales; by 1930, weavers processed one-third of the clip, their textiles were valued at $1 million, and provided one-third of reservation income. Only Navajos raised hardy coarse-wooled churros whose wool is ideal for hand processing. Recently analyzed archival evidence reveals that blankets were transformed into rugs when tariff removal (1894-97) triggered imports of one billion pounds of duty-free wool, much of it from China. Thus Navajos underwent …

Kekal Abadi, Jilid 28, Bilangan 2, 2010, Library University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Chicken And Dumplings: The Motif Of Food In Appalachian Literature, Cynthia L. Sibley Thayer

English Dissertations - Archive

Food is an important element of literature. It can help to establish setting, conflicts, a hero and heroine, relationships with nature and other humans, comfort to readers as well as characters in fictional texts, class structure, and survival of a culture. For the reader, Appalachian literature invokes a sense of home, memories, and family. Appalachian food is also a catalyst for infamous stereotyping of the culture in the United States. The names of Hawthorne and Thoreau represent New England; Twain and Faulkner represent the South; and authors like Robert Morgan, Silas House, and Charles Frazier represent Appalachia putting it on …

Flow And Retreat Of The Late Quaternary Pine Island-Thwaites Palaeo-Ice Stream, West Antarctica, Alastair G. C. Graham, Robert D. Larter, Karsten Gohl, Julian A. Dowdeswell, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, James A. Smith, Jeffrey Evans, Gerhard Kuhn, Tara Deen

Marine Science Faculty Publications

[1] Multibeam swath bathymetry and sub-bottom profiler data are used to establish constraints on the flow and retreat history of a major palaeo-ice stream that carried the combined discharge from the parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet now occupied by the Pine Island and Thwaites glacier basins. Sets of highly elongated bedforms show that, at the last glacial maximum, the route of the Pine Island-Thwaites palaeo-ice stream arced north-northeast following a prominent cross-shelf trough. In this area, the grounding line advanced to within ∼68 km of, and probably reached, the shelf edge. Minimum ice thickness is estimated at 715 …

Using Climatology To Predict The First Major Summer Corn Earworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Catch In North Central Illinois, David Changnon, Michael A. Sandstrom, Joseph Astolfi, Jonathan Kopczyk, Matias Sich

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

One of the largest food production companies in the United States, with sales in the billions of dollars, must closely monitor anything that may affect their vegetable crops. This includes harmful insects, such as the corn earworm (CEW) (Helicoverpa zea), that can reduce sweet corn yields and cause losses of approximately 12 million dollars annually in the Midwest. For this study, a major sweet corn production area located in north central Illinois was used to evaluate CEW moth flight characteristics. The initial major CEW catch (i.e. when 10 or more CEWs were caught in a field trap within a 24 …

Direction Of The Play: Blithe Spirit, Richard Shultz

Graduate Student Projects

This project entailed the selection, background research and documentation, musical analysis, casting, direction, vocal coaching, and post-production analysis of Derby High School's production of Blithe Spirit. Documentation includes research and analysis of the play, its music, and an evaluation of the play as a production vehicle for the Department of Theatre Arts at Derby High School.

Recommendations For Interdisciplinary Study Of Tipping Points In Natural And Social Systems, T.E. Jordan, O.E. Sala, S.G. Stafford, J.L. Bubier, J.C. Crittenden, S.L. Cutter, A.C. Kay, G.D. Libecap, J.C. Moore, N.N. Rabalais, J.M. Shepherd, J. Travis

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Natural And Human-Induced Hypoxia And Consequences For Coastal Areas: Synthesis And Future Development, J. Zhang, D. Gilbert, A.J. Gooday, L. Levin, S.W.A. Naqvi, J.J. Middelburg, M. Scranton, W. Ekau, A. Peña, B. Dewitte, T. Oguz, P.M.S. Monteiro, E. Urban, N.N. Rabalais, V. Ittekkot, W.M. Kemp, O. Ulloa, R. Elmgren, E. Escobar-Briones, A.K. Van Der Plas

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Kernel Density Estimation Of Tropical Cyclone Frequencies In The North Atlantic Basin, Robert Rohli

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Law, Science, And The Continental Shelf: The Russian Federation And The Promise Of Arctic Cooperation, Betsy Baker

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.