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Dougla, Half-Doogla, Travesao, And The Limits Of Hybridity, Jennifer Rahim

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

No abstract provided.

Data Curation And Libraries: Short-Term Developments, Long-Term Prospects, Anna Gold

Robert E. Kennedy Library

This paper was prepared as background for a talk given at AGU 2009 on “Data & Libraries.” It summarizes the developments and events from late 2006 through early 2010 that are shaping library roles in scientific data curation while underscoring the range, complexity, and varying granularity of systems, actions, and efforts involved. The main conclusions are: (1) leaders of major research libraries have committed their institutions to support data curation. (2) The library profession has demonstrated significant conceptual progress in characterizing and understanding data curation both in theory and in practice. (3) There has been progress since 2006 in legitimizing …

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, April 4, 2010, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2010

No abstract provided.

Proposal For The Academic Reorganization Of The University Of Southern Maine, University Of Southern Maine

University Reorganization

No abstract provided.

Re-Composition: Considering The Intersections Of Composition And Creative Writing Theories And Pedagogies, Danita Berg

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Maintaining composition studies and creative writing as discrete disciplines may not be in the best interests of either field. But so long as the majority of scholars and practitioners of either field remain largely uninformed about one another, it is unlikely that any progress toward conjoining the two fields will occur. Various important and constructive efforts have been made for more than thirty years to establish a scholarly, interdisciplinary community that dedicates itself to examining points of intersection between composition and creative writing. Initially, such efforts appear to attract the attention from the broader communities of each discipline. Before long, …

Linguistics Out Loud: The Uses Of Jargon In Online Communities, Brittany Eisenhart

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Jargon is community-specific language that is often criticized for being confusing and exclusionary. But it serves a useful social function as well, enabling easy identification of group members, conveying community values, and streamlining internal communication. Past research on jargon has focused on face-to-face communities, especially on occupational groups such as the military and on spatially concentrated populations such as prison inmates. This paper seeks to understand how online communication has affected the development and distribution of jargon, and how various online communities use jargon. New technologies are a common source of linguistic change. The New Oxford American Dictionary even named …

Boxed In: Examining Faulkner's Linguistic Silhouette Of Addie's Interment, Amanda Allen Thompson

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Known for his immensely multifunctional use of the English language, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is a novel of fractionalized perspectives and boundless dialectal imagery. This story is constructed around the death of Addie Bundren. Its chapters are stories, memories, and ruminations of the people surrounding her-both in life and the days after. Yet only one chapter is dedicated to her own words, her own account, her own voice. It is her chapter on which this paper focuses. By dissecting the few pages allotted for her, and by examining Faulkner's own linguistic and psychological construction, we may better understand …

The Role Of Chicana/O Studies In Advancing Hispanic Serving Institutions: A Pragmatic Approach Combining Pedagogy Y La Práctica, Ramon Del Castillo, Adriann Wycoff

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Chicos Del Horno: How Adobe Oven-Roasted Corn Became A Local, Slow, And Deep Food, Devon Peña

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Annual Report Of Research And Creative Productions, January To December, 2009, Research And Creative Productions Committee. Morehead State University.

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Reports and Publications

2009 Annual Report of Research and Creative Productions, Morehead State University, Division of Academic Affairs, Research and Creative Productions Committee.

Summer Session 2010 Central Washington University, Central Washington University

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

The Cresset (Vol. Lxxiii, No. 4, Easter), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

No abstract provided.

Volume 1: Critical Issues In Multilingual Education: Reviewing The Past To Create The Future, New York State Association For Bilingual Education

Journal of Multilingual Education Research - Archives

No abstract provided.

Ex Aliquo Nihil: Nietzsche On Science And Modern Nihilism. Acpq, 84-2 (Spring 2010): 231-256., Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

This essay explores the nihilistic coincidence of the ascetic ideal and Nietzsche’s localization of science in the conceptual world of anarchic socialism as Nietzsche indicts the uncritical convictions of modern science by way of a critique of the causa sui, questioning both religion and the enlightenment as well as both free and unfree will and condemning the “poor philology” enshrined in the language of the “laws” of nature. Reviewing the history of philosophical nihilism in the context of Nietzsche’s “tragic knowledge” along with political readings of nihilism, willing nothing rather than not willing at all, today’s this-worldly and very planetary …

The International Calendar, Aslihan Bulut

International Journal of Legal Information

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Duncan Alford, Maria Grahn-Farley, Karin Johnsrud, Scott Rasmussen, Roy L. Sturgeon

International Journal of Legal Information

No abstract provided.

What Non-Specific Vocabulary Is Important On Standardized Tests? A Look At The New York State Living Environment Exam, Jessica Hosier

Education Masters

What vocabulary, not specific to any particular content area, do students need to know to maximize their achievement on standardized tests? This study focused on the New York State Living Environment Regents Exam, analyzing a total of 27 tests using the software program FREQUENCY for the non-specific vocabulary most commonly used by the test developers. With more importance being assigned to standardized tests such as the Regents with the advent of the No Child Left Behind Act, students who do not already have the skills to incorporate unknown vocabulary risk earning scores that do not reflect their true academic abilities. …

Does Cultural Distance Hinder Trade In Goods? A Comparative Study Of Nine Oecd Member Nations, Roger White, Bedassa Tadesse

Economics

We examine the effect of cultural distance, a proxy for the lack of a minimum reservoir of trust necessary to initiate and complete trade deals, on bilateral trade flows. Employing data for 67 countries that span the years 1996– 2001, we estimate a series of modified gravity specifications and find that cultural dissimilarity between nations has an economically significant and consistently negative effect on aggregate and disaggregated trade flows; however, estimated effects vary in magnitude and economic significance across measures of trade and our cohort of OECD reference countries. The consistently negative influence of cultural distance indicates that policymakers may …

Research & Action Report, Spring/Summer 2010, Wellesley Centers For Women, Georgia Hall, Amy Banks, Jean Hardisty, Rangita De Silva-De Alwis

Research & Action Report

In this issue:

Q&A: Healthy Living in Out-of-School Time
National Institute on Out-of-School Time

Connecting through Technology with the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute
Jean Baker Miller Training Institute

Open Circle: Updates from WCW ’s Social Emotional Learning Program
Open Circle

Commentary: How Women Can Succeed: An Alternative View

Global Connections: Testimony to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China

Economic Growth Of Nations, Nishant Makhija

Economics Graduate Research Papers

No abstract provided.

April 2010 Docket, Georgia State University College Of Law

The Docket

No abstract provided.

Berne-Copenhague-Madrid-París-Santiago: Interpolaciones Elativistas, Variaciones Cuánticas E Impactos Cósmicos En Altazor (1919-1931), Scott Weintraub

Languages, Literatures & Cultures

En este artículo para el número especial de Revista Chilena de Literatura que conmemora el bicentenario chileno, exploro múltiples conexiones literarias, científicas, y geográficas entre el poema Altazor de Vicente Huidobro y los contextos filosófico-científicos globales de las primeras décadas del siglo XX. Evalúo el impacto de una serie de caídas lingüísticas, críticas, alegóricas y gravitacionales en la trayectoria del “viaje en paracaídas” de Altazor, para volver a considerar, desde varias perspectivas críticas que tratan la “ilegible” y ambigua conclusión del poema, el impacto de un evento lingüístico en el campo de gravedad del poema. De esta manera, el artículo …

Whosoever Will: A Review Essay, C. Fred Smith

Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary (1973-2015)

No abstract provided.

A Longitudinal Study Of Language And Ideology In Congress, Bei Yu, Daniel Diermeier

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

This paper presents an analysis of the legislative speech records from the 101st-108th U.S. Congresses using machine learning and natural language processing methods. We use word vectors to represent the speeches in both the Senate and the House, and then use text categorization methods to classify the speakers by their ideological positions. The classification accuracy indicates the level of distinction between the liberal and the conservative ideologies. Our experiment results demonstrate an increasing partisanship in the Congress between 1989 and 2006. Ideology classifiers trained on the House speeches can predict the Senators' ideological positions well (House-to-Senate prediction), however the Senate-to-House …

Immigrant Children And Globalization: Formal Education In Producing New Citizens, Lelde Ilzina

Macalester International

No abstract provided.

Que Ondee Sola - April 2010, Xavier Luis Burgo

Que Ondee Sola

Student publication founded in 1972, articles include: Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, Poverty & Neoliberalism in Latin America, The Cuban Revolutuion After Fidel, Fortuno the Terrib;e, Student Strike at the University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2009, ook Review: A Puerto Rican in New York, Fortuno Forgets Definition of Democracy, QOS Briefs, 5th Annual Plantando Semillas

Languages And Loyalties: Shaping Identity In Tunisia And The Netherlands, Krista Moore

Macalester International

No abstract provided.

Increasing The Representation Of Minority Students In Gifted And Talented Education Programs, Shana K. Curtis

Education 589 Projects

The Supreme Court's decision in the historic landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) "represents the most significant ruling in the history of the Supreme Court on equal educational opportunity. It is the cornerstone of all subsequent legal developments ensuring the rights of disenfranchised groups" (Ford & Webb, 1994, p. 359). However, despite the ruling that separate was not equal and segregation would no longer be an acceptable practice, disparities can be found in education, especially in regards to minority representation in gifted and talented programs. This literature review addresses the issue of determining the …

The Art Of Governing The Self And Others In The Christian Philippines, Pak Nung Wong D.Phil.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Through an ethnographic depiction of cultural creolization, this paper will detail the ways in which traditional Filipino values have been successfully mixing with and eventually lodging into the intersubjective landscape of Cagayan Valley, where the Chinese, Ibanag, Ilocano, and Itawes ethnic groups dwell. This cultural creolization process informs the ways in which the imagined social reciprocity between the self and others has been governed by a historically constituted power/knowledge system: the padrino system. This system is mainly composed of the symbiotic codes and social practices of (1) Catholicized ritual kinship and (2) the Tagalog ethics of “debt of gratitude” (utang …

The Weight Of Secrets: Hidden Mirrors Of Identity In Aki Shimazaki's Pentalogy, Peter Schulman

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

In Tsubaki, the first of Aki Shirnazaki's series of five novels, a Rashomon 1-like pentalogy in which the same characters try to unravel the persona} traumas oftheir lives right before the atom bornb hits Nagasaki, the city that they have just moved to, one of the main characters, Yukio, cries out: "Ce n'est pas le temps de chercher la vérité, c'est l'unité qui compte" (Tsubaki 53). ln that instance, he was defending a young Korean unjustly accused of theft. Cou Id the same be said for the rest of Shimazaki's novels? Indeed, in Tsubame, for example, the narrator, a Korean …