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'The Edge Of The Island': Neighborhood Identity And Evolving Community In 'Liminal Places', Gordon Douglas

Faculty Publications, Urban and Regional Planning

This paper examines the contemporary processes at work in urban areas without clear spatial identities that are simultaneously facing the challenges of cultural change and gentrification. I do so through the close analysis of one such ‘liminal place’ on Chicago’s West Side. I use the phrase ‘a community on the edge of the island’ to describe the area, inspired by an interview subject who referred to the tenuous search for a sort of ideal bohemian hipness as the need to stay as “close to the edge of the island” as possible without actually leaving it. Making use of ethnographic and …

A Phan On Phish: Live Improvised Music In Five Performative Commitments, Jnan A. Blau

Communication Studies

Explored as a series of five interrelated performative commitments, the author takes seriously the notion that live musical performance, especially when it is pervaded by an improvisational ethos, can be quite powerful and well worth close examination. In particular, the band Phish, with its devout subcultural following of “phans,” is mined as a rich site for critical, theoretical, and descriptive fodder. The author writes as both a phan and a scholar, drawing from his own experiences seeing Phish live on many occasions as well as from an interdisciplinary body of scholarly literature. The essay provides insight not only into the …

2010 August, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for August 2010.

2010 Fall - Registration Guide, Office Of The Registrar, East Tennessee State University

Registration Resources

No abstract provided.

Protecting Inshore And Demersal Finfish Identification Of Critical Habitats For Juvenile Dhufish Workshop Report, Gabby E. Mitsopoulos, Brett W. Molony

Fisheries Research Reports

A Juvenile Dhufish Workshop was held at the Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories (WAFMRL) on 18th March 2010, which was the first component of a State Natural Resource Management (NRM) funded project entitled “Protecting Inshore and Demersal Finfish - Identification of Critical Habitats for Juvenile Dhufish”. The primary objective of the workshop was to provide a forum for discussion in order to compile all biological, ecological and anecdotal information on the early life history of dhufish, to create hypotheses of habitat requirements for juvenile dhufish and provide recommendations as to which sampling methods should be used to confirm …

Review Of The Exploitation Of Marine Resources Of The Australian Indian Ocean Territories: The Implications Of Biogeographic Isolation For Tropical Island Fisheries, Matthew Hourston

Fisheries Research Reports

The small islands of the Indian Ocean Territories are isolated reefs in an expanse of open ocean of abyssal depth. The majority of marine species that live on their reefs and lagoons have settled there from remote locations. Colonising individuals are presumed to have come to the island as the result of unusual weather and current conditions and form populations that are, necessarily, largely self-sustaining. The isolated populations that make up many of the fish and invertebrate stocks at the Cocos (Keeling) and Christmas Islands rely almost exclusively on larvae returning to their home reef to settle, grow and ultimately …

Teacher Perceptions Of The Factors That Influence Support For An Adequacy Model Of School Funding, Nancy L. Alex

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study sought to determine teacher perceptions about the factors that influence support for an adequacy model of school funding and what relationships exist between specific demographic variables and those perceptions.

Using the instrument created for the study, one hundred thirty-nine teachers from the Montrose RE-1J School District where surveyed. Data was tabulated using standard descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviations, frequencies, and percentages). As a general data analysis approach, bivariate comparisons were performed using Pearson correlations and t-tests for independent means. Multiple regression prediction equations were used to examine the relationships between specific demographics and teacher perceptions of the factors …

Walking On The Red Brick Path: A Portrait Of African-American Women's Experiences With The Built Environment Of A Predominantly White Institution, Stephanie L. Krusemark

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

“Space, like language, is socially constructed; and like the syntax of language, the spatial arrangements of our buildings and communities reflect and reinforce the nature of gender, race, and class relations in society” (Weisman, 1992, p. 2). While institutions of higher education have granted physical access to African-American women over the last 150 years, their presence on American campuses has not been readily reflected in the physical design of the walls within which they learn. In examining the historical foundations of institutions of higher education, we cannot deny institutions consciously embed their values and basic assumptions within their physical manifestation …

The Global Project: Observing Geographic Literacy Obtained By Study Abroad Learning, Erin Joy Greunke

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

One of the major debates regarding studying abroad concerns criticism that it lacks measurable and demonstrable learning outcomes and is usually viewed as less rigorous than other university courses (McKeown 2009). As one Western Kentucky University (WKU) faculty member noted when responding to the Faculty Attitudes Survey deployed for this project, all too often “too many study abroad experiences [are] little more than glorified fieldtrips.....” (Anonymous WKU Faculty Member, 2009, Appendix IV). While this may be the case, upon their return to the United States, students often say their study abroad experience proved life changing. The primary purpose of this …

Toward Using Games To Teach Fundamental Computer Science Concepts, Jeffrey Michael Edgington

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Video and computer games have become an important area of study in the field of education. Games have been designed to teach mathematics, physics, raise social awareness, teach history and geography, and train soldiers in the military. Recent work has created computer games for teaching computer programming and understanding basic algorithms.

We present an investigation where computer games are used to teach two fundamental computer science concepts: boolean expressions and recursion. The games are intended to teach the concepts and not how to implement them in a programming language.

For this investigation, two computer games were created. One is designed …

The Multifunctional Transition In Australia’S Tropical Savannas: The Emergence Of Consumption, Protection And Indigenous Values, John Holmes

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

As elsewhere in affluent, western nations, the direction, complexity and pace of rural change in Australia can be conceptualised as a multifunctional transition in which a variable mix of consumption and protection values has emerged, con- testing the former dominance of production values, and leading to greater com- plexity and heterogeneity in rural occupance at all scales. This transition has been explored in accessible, high-amenity landscapes driven by enhanced consumption values. Less attention has been directed to remote, marginal lands where a flimsy mode of productivist occupance can, in part, be displaced by alternative modes with the transitions being facilitated …

Behind The Shield-Wall: The Experience Of Combat In Late Anglo-Saxon England, Jordan Poss

All Theses

Most studies of the Anglo-Saxon military examine its structural ties to economic and social structures, rarely investigating Anglo-Saxon battle itself. This paper asks the question 'What was it like to have been in battle with the Anglo-Saxon army?' After introducing the topic in a study of the 991 Battle of Maldon and describing the development of the Anglo-Saxon military system between the fifth and eleventh centuries, this paper relies on case studies of the most thoroughly-documented Anglo-Saxon battles, those of 1066--Fulford Gate, Stamford Bridge, and Hastings--to reconstruct the conditions of Anglo-Saxon combat and their effects on the men who fought …

Graduate Bulletin | 2010-2011, Jacksonville State University

Bulletins & Catalogs | Graduate

Vol. 33, No. 1 (August 2010). Jacksonville State was granted University status in 1966 and began adding graduate programs to its curriculum at that time. Graduate bulletins and catalogs contain information on the academic calendar, policies and procedures, faculty, scholarships and tuition, and degree requirements for graduate programs.

Isu Chem-Letter, Fall 2010, Illinois State University, Department Of Chemistry

Chem Letter

Newsletter of the Illinois State University Department of Chemistry

Global Genetic Stock Structure Of The Copper (Carcharhinus Brachyurus) And Dusky Sharks (Carcharhinus Obscurus): Interspecific Comparisons And Implications For Management, Martin Tomas Benavides

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Genetic stock structure information is needed to help delineate management units and monitor trade in sharks, many of which are heavily exploited and declining. Among these, the copper (Carcharhinus brachyurus) and dusky sharks (Carcharhinus obscurus) are considered some of the most vulnerable to overexploitation, given their K-selected life history strategy. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) categorizes the copper shark as “Near-Threatened” globally and the dusky shark as “Vulnerable” globally, with the Northwest Atlantic-Gulf of Mexico population qualifying for “Endangered.” Global mitochondrial stock structure is assessed for both C. brachyurus and C. obscurus by analyzing part of …

Insectivorous Bat Assemblages In Relation To Spatial Aspects Of Virgin Jungle Reserves In Peninsular Malaysia., Joann Christine Luruthusamy

Student Works (2010-2019)

The tropical region supports the highest diversity of bat fauna known. Reasons for their success are mainly due to their large geographical ranges, the diversity of habitats, various foraging strategies and the tendency to exhibit a variety of roosting behaviour. This study addresses the issue of insectivorous bat distribution in relation to spatial aspects such as geography, size, distance and topography. This information was gathered from the 958 individuals and 27 insectivorous bat species that were captured and identified over a span of 18 months. This study which included six virgin jungle reserves of various sizes across Peninsular Malaysia revealed …

The Taifa Of Denia And The Medieval Mediterranean, Travis Bruce

Dissertations

This dissertation treats the Muslim kingdom of Denia on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. Through a singular political program, the eleventh-century rulers of Denia created a maritime kingdom based on the resources and networks of the Mediterranean. Denia played a unique role as a Mediterranean polity, developing economic links with Christian Barcelona, Sardinia, Pisa and Genoa that would connect Muslim and Christian populations over several centuries. The dissertation demonstrates the importance of economics in the Muslim-Christian relations of the western Mediterranean using Latin archival documents, Latin and Arabic narrative sources, and archaeological and numismatic evidence. It explores the extent to which …

Pages News, Volume 18, No. 2, August 2010, Cathy Whitlock, Willy Tinner, Louise Newman

PAGES

Contents: Inside PAGES -- PAGES calendar -- Special Section: Fire in the Earth System: A Paleoperspective -- Editorial -- Fire in the Earth System -- Science Highlights -- Recent advances in the analysis and interpretation of sediment-charcoal records -- Molecular markers in ice cores provide large-scale patterns in biomass burning -- Global patterns of biomass burning during the last glacial period -- A fire paradox in ecosystems around the Mediterranean -- Tropical fire ecology across the African continent: A paleoecological perspective -- Holocene fires in eastern Canada: Towards forest management -- Fire and climate variation in western North America -- …

Old Versus New: Cartographic Discourse And Mapping The Protestant Identity In Paradise Lost, Bethany Len Nagel

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This thesis examines the development of the Protestant identity through cartographic discourses found in John Milton's Paradise Lost. The rise in the new cartography based on Ptolemy's Geography during the early modern period necessitated a new geographic consciousness for the individual. These new geometric maps stood in stark contrast to the older and highly symbolic cosmographies, the medieval mappaemundi. Milton is clearly marking the tension between the two ways of conceptualizing the world and the position of the individual within each one. Because every map assumes a viewer, these discourses are highly concerned with the individual and their relationship to …

Writing In/On The Borderlands : (Basic) Writers And The Writing Center., Allison Egnew Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Using Gloria Anzuldula's text Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and Bruce Homer and Min-Zhan Lu's 2000 article, "Expectations, Interpretations and Contributions of Basic Writing" as conceptual framework, I conducted my dissertation on the effects of mandatory writing center consultations on basic writers enrolled in the class "Introduction to College Writing," at a private, liberal-arts college in south-central Kentucky. This dissertation is divided into five chapters. In Chapter I, I discuss the distancing of basic writers from writing center and composition scholarship and the need to revisit this relationship. In Chapter Two, I discuss the methodological and theoretical framework of the …

Queer Tension : Le Teuer Inside Me., Nicholas Ryan Wood 1986-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The film High Tension (2005) is a complex and powerfully threatening portrait of queer monstrosity and negativity. Upon its release, the film's twist ending garnered widespread derision, but there is a mad method, so to speak, in its insistence on purposeful irreconcilability. This thesis aims to tease out the nuances of High Tension's subversive twist. It examines the makeup and history of the slasher sub-genre of horror, as well as relevant 'criticism in the field, in order to locate High Tension's specific contribution. The film presents an image of queer monstrosity that performs what Michael Moon calls sexual disorientation, as …

Small Farmers, Slavery, And The Political Economy Of Kentucky's Green River, 1790-1850., Christopher P. Petzold 1982-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study focuses on the expansion of the Green River's economic and political importance within Kentucky and how it impacted small farmers of the region. It challenges the idea that small farmers played an insignificant role in the agriculture and industry of the antebellum South. Qualitative data, including journals and letters, are used to understand small farmers' reactions to market expansion. Quantitative data, including agricultural and population censuses, are used to determine small farmers' participation in the economy. Small farmers actively participated in commercial exchanges of crops and livestock and encouraged the growth of a transportation infrastructure to market their …

Efficiency Gains From Transferable Water Rights, Joseph Ziska

All Theses

In times of drought, mandatory water restrictions are a popular option for local governments to prevent water shortages. The state of South Carolina has had mandatory water restrictions in various counties for nearly a third of the past decade. If there are heterogeneous consumers with varying marginal valuations for water, these mandatory restrictions may be economically inefficient. I calculate what welfare gains could be achieved for the state by allowing prices to fluctuate instead of imposing mandatory restrictions.
To perform this calculation, I assume a basic quadratic demand function for water with constant income elasticity. The water restrictions force all …

Hyperspectral Sensing Possibilities Using Continuum Removal Index In Early Detection Of Ganoderma In Oil Palm Plantation, N. M.N. Maris, H.Z. M. Shafri, A.S. Idris, M. Steven, D. Boyd, M.H.A. Mior

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

This study focuses on the possibility of early detection of Basal Stem Rot (BSR) disease caused by Ganoderma spp. a wood decaying fungi in oil palm plantation. The datasets were based on reflectance spectra measured with a GER 1500 spectroradiometer in the range of 350 – 1050nm. Relationship of oil-palm leaves reflectance spectra with the infestation of BSR was investigated. Two datasets from the same plantation were analysed; the young palm (5 years old) and the mature palm (17 years old). The palms were classified to three groups: T1 – healthy palm, T2 – palm infected with Ganoderma without any …

A Design Science Based Evaluation Framework For Patterns, Stacie Clarke Petter, Deepak Khazanchi, John D. Murphy

Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications

Patterns were originally developed in the field of architecture as a mechanism for communicating good solutions to recurring classes of problems. Since then, many researchers and practitioners have created patterns to describe effective solutions to problems associated with disparate areas such as virtual project management, human-computer interaction, software development and engineering, and design science research. We believe that the development of patterns is a design science activity in which an artifact (i.e., a pattern) is created to communicate about and improve upon the current state-of-practice. Design science research has two critical components, creation and evaluation of an artifact. While many …

Archaeological Resources Act 2010 Signed By Governor Sanford, Jonathan Leader

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

The Racial Geography Of The Federal Death Penalty, G. Ben Cohen, Robert J. Smith

Washington Law Review

Scholars have devoted substantial attention to both the overrepresentation of black defendants on federal death row and the disproportionate number of federal defendants charged capitally for the murder of white victims. This attention has not explained (much less resolved) these disquieting racial disparities. Little research has addressed the unusual geography of the federal death penalty, in which a small number of jurisdictions are responsible for the vast majority of federal death sentences. By addressing the unique geography, we identify a possible explanation for the racial distortions in the federal death penalty: that federal death sentences are sought disproportionately where the …

Washington State's Duty To Fund K-12 Schools: Where The Legislature Went Wrong And What It Should Do To Meet Its Constitutional Obligation, Daniel C. Stallings

Washington Law Review

The Washington State Constitution makes education Washington State’s top priority. Article IX, section 1 proclaims that “[i]t is the paramount duty of the state to make ample provision for the education of all children residing within its borders . . . .” In the 1978 case of Seattle School District v. State, the Washington State Supreme Court interpreted this language as a command to the state legislature. The Court ordered the legislature to fulfill its constitutional duty by defining and fully funding “basic education” and a “basic program of education.” The legislature attempted to comply by passing and subsequently …

Contents, Anon

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.

Intra- And Interpopulation Variation In Morphology And Behaviors In The Sailfin Molly, Poecilia Latipinna (Poeciliidae: Poecilia: Mollienesia), Jennifer Seda

All Theses

Understanding factors that contribute to population differences can provide insight into the process of speciation, yet population level studies seldom take into account variation among individuals within a population. Such intrapopulation variation may influence the degree to which interpopulation variation in suites of traits can arise. My research focused on characterizing intra- and interpopulation variation in male morphological and behavioral traits in the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna. First, I characterized the overall body shape of several populations of P. latipinna collected from north Florida in two different years. I used linear morphological measurements to examine shape and found there to …