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Making Over Myth: The Rhetorical Use Of The Puritan Conversion Narrative In Kitchen Nightmares, Joseph Bowling

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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John Rodden, in his analysis of the rhetoric of narrative in 1984, argues that the characters in the story are secondary to the narrative, which itself participates in and provides support for larger cultural myths (155). Though Rodden discusses overtly fictive literature, the same can be said for the simulacra of reality TV: a genre of television in which each episode follows a formula that obscures the individual contestants. The Fox reality television show Kitchen Nightmares is such a formula-driven show, one with rhetorical narrative structure. The show, which portrays a struggling restaurant owner saved by a professional …

Trauermarsch: German History As Remembered By The Extreme Right, Emily Turner-Graham

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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It is now well documented that Germany and Austria have struggled to come to terms with their catastrophic recent pasts and to recast their national identities from the tarnished faces with which they emerged from the Second World War. What now needs to be considered is the conundrum currently faced in these countries as extreme right groups become increasingly popular (Minority Rights Group International) [1] and those carefully considered and re-examined collective memories of the past and reconstructed national identities are brought into question. The Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (National Democratic Party or NPD), one of Germany’s most stridently …

How Different Variants Of Orbit Diagrams Influence Students' Explanations Of The Seasons, Victor R. Lee

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

The cause of the seasons is often associated with a very particular alternative conception: that the Earth’s orbit around the sun is highly elongated and the differences in distance result in variations in temperature. It has been suggested that the standard diagrams used to depict the Earth’s orbit may be in some way responsible for the initial appearance and overall maintenance of this incorrect conceptualization; the elongated shape of the orbit is thought of as a conceptualization cue that invites a fairly predictable way of reasoning. To test if that is indeed the case, six variants of diagrams depicting differently …

Library Newsletter Volume 6, Issue 2

Library Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Appeal Of The Taliban In Pakistan, Syed Manzar Abbas Zaidi

Journal of Strategic Security

This article briefly explores the economics of the "Talibanization" of Pakistan within descriptive and contextual paradigms, while attempting to find a best solution to counter rising militancy in the context of realities facing the population on the ground. One such solution is the National Pakistani Counter Terrorism and Extremism Strategy (NACTES), designed to curb Taliban financing in Pakistan. The strategy is being drafted by National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA), the nascent homeland security coordination body set up by the state as the primary public organ entrusted with counterterrorism, counter-extremism, and de-radicalization efforts of the state.

Spaces Of Freedom For Citizens And Asylees In The Eu And U.S., Francis J. Conte

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.

Perfecting Space: J. Horace Mcfarland And The American Civic Association, Julian Chambliss

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Enrollment Report - Fall 2010, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Enrollment Reports

The Enrollment Report provides administrative and delivery-site information on enrollment headcount and student credit hours, as well as the demographic characteristics of enrolled students. The purpose of this profile is to provide the undergraduate and graduate enrollments and student credit hour information by college or equivalent academic unit, class, gender and ethnicity.

Developing An Ecological Social Justice Framework For Ocean Energy Technologies: Case Studies From The Phillipines, Jay Batongbacal

PhD Dissertations

Unless subjected to skeptical and conscious scrutiny, environmentally-friendly ocean energy technologies can become Trojan machines of social inequity due to the subtle re-organizing influences of technologies on culture and the society. Environmental laws that promote or regulate ocean energy technologies can act as Trojan legal regimes in the absence of a framework for assessing and anticipating their adverse impacts on social justice. Environmental justice is inadequate for this task, so an alternative framework is proposed: ecological social justice, drawn from the Third Worlds perspective of sustainable development as equitable sharing. Though overshadowed by the prevalent notion of sustainable development as …

Death Of The Spam Wrangler: Can-Spam Private Plaintiffs Required To Show Actual Harm, Susuk Lim

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts

In Gordon v. Virtumundo, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit published its first opinion on private plaintiff standing requirements for actions under the federal CAN-SPAM Act. The court strictly interpreted CAN-SPAM’s enforcement language, rejecting attempts by professional litigants to insert themselves into CAN-SPAM’s limited private right of action. This Article analyzes Gordon’s treatment of CAN-SPAM’s private right of action and federal preemption provisions. It concludes by assessing the decision’s expected effect on future spam-related litigation.

Untitled, Paul Filippi

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, October 1, 2010, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

October

No abstract provided.

Library Perspectives, Issue 43, Fall 2010, Friends Of The Oberlin College Libraries

Library Perspectives Newsletter

This issue includes items about conductor Jeannette Sorrell '90, Molly Raphael '67, the acquisition of a Charles Langston letter, the Book Studies Object Collection, and much more.

Whitworth Today Fall-Winter 2010, Whitworth University

Whitworth Alumni and Bulletin Publications

No abstract provided.

Flood Devastation Hits Pakistan, Steve Holden

Teacher journal archive (2004-2011)

After catastrophic flooding, Pakistan faces a slow recovery, reports Steve Holden.

References

Teacher journal archive (2004-2011)

No abstract provided.

Making Virtual Copyright Work, Matthew R. Farley

Law Student Publications

This Article proposes measures that attempt to strike the balance between creation and access. The virtual-world community is not likely to persevere with the little copyright protection it currently enjoys. Creativity will dwindle and the rich, energetic settings that make virtual worlds so attractive to businesses and entertainers will follow suit. At the same time, because much of the creativity in virtual worlds is derivative in nature, virtual creators are also unlikely to benefit from strong copyright protections. Therefore, current interpretation of copyright law must be revisited and revised before applying it to virtual worlds. Part I details virtual worlds …

What Lies Beneath: Uncovering The Health Of Milwaukee's People, 1880-1929, Brigitte Marina Charaus

Dissertations (1934 -)

The true measure of a city's health is the health of its people. To truly understand how Milwaukee came to be known as the "healthiest city" in 1930, one must examine the health needs of common Milwaukeeans from 1880 to 1929. This study seeks to complement Judith Leavitt's pioneering work on public health in Milwaukee by presenting a picture, not of the politics of health reform, but of the personal side of health in the city.

Through an extensive examination of records including, but not limited to, coroner's reports, hospital records, personal correspondence, newspapers, cemetery data, and institutional records, a …

Detection Of Quercetin Using Polymer Coated Quartz Crystal Microbalance And The Modification Of Á-Zirconium Phosphate To Develop A Sorbent For Organic Pollutant Removal, Darlington Mlambo

Dissertations (1934 -)

Sorption processes involve physical and chemical interactions of sorbents with analytes. These may involve the physical and/or chemical processes in which a substance is accumulated at an interface between two phases, or the intermixing of a substance with the matrix of a second phase. The two processes are referred to as adsorption and absorption respectively. The sorption capacities of different classes of sorbents have many potential and demonstrated applications such as sensor development, water treatment, environmental remediation and chromatographic separations. The goal of this work is to explore the sorption capacity of polymers as well as nanodimensional layered materials for …

Bioaugmentation For Recovery Of Anaerobic Digesters Subjected To Organic Overload, Vaibhav Panjabrao Tale

Dissertations (1934 -)

Anaerobic digester upset due to organic overload is common and methods to reduce recovery time would be beneficial. One potential method is bioaugmentation, the addition of an external culture for performance improvement. Methanogenic community structure differs from digester to digester and there may exist a relation between specific methanogenic activity (SMA) and microbial community composition. The research presented herein tested whether there is a relationship between SMA and community structure. Also, the effectiveness of bioaugmentation was tested by hypothesizing that bioaugmenting with a methanogenic, propionate-degrading culture acclimated to small oxygen doses will help rapid recovery of organically overloaded digesters.

Fourteen …

Race And Education: The Future Of Desegregation In The United States, Gregory Coleman Jr.

Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Ionic Dissolution Products Of Ca-Sr-Na-Zn-Si Bioactive Glass On In Vitro Cytocompatibility, S. Murphy, A. W. Wren, Mark R. Towler, D. Boyd

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Many commercial bone grafts cannot regenerate healthy bone in place of diseased bone. Bioactive glasses have received much attention in this regard due to the ability of their ionic dissolution products to promote cell proliferation, cell differentiation and activate gene expression. Through the incorporation of certain ions, bioactive glasses can become therapeutic for specific pathological situations. Calcium-strontium-sodium-zinc-silicate glass bone grafts have been shown to release therapeutic levels of zinc and strontium, however the in vitro compatibility of these materials is yet to be reported. In this study, the in vitro cytocompatibility of three different calcium-strontium-sodium-zinc-silicate glasses was examined as a …

An Automated Phenotype-Driven Approach (Geneforce) For Refining Metabolic And Regulatory Models, Dipak Barua, Joonhoon Kim, Jennifer L. Reed

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Integrated constraint-based metabolic and regulatory models can accurately predict cellular growth phenotypes arising from genetic and environmental perturbations. Challenges in constructing such models involve the limited availability of information about transcription factor-gene target interactions and computational methods to quickly refine models based on additional datasets. In this study, we developed an algorithm, GeneForce, to identify incorrect regulatory rules and gene-protein-reaction associations in integrated metabolic and regulatory models. We applied the algorithm to refine integrated models of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium, and experimentally validated some of the algorithm's suggested refinements. The adjusted E. coli model showed improved accuracy …

Vol. 35, No. 4: Fall 2010, School Of Medicine & Health Sciences

North Dakota Medicine Archive

No abstract provided.

Wireless Sensing Without Sensors: An Experimental Study Of Motion/Intrusion Detection Using Rf Irregularity, Wei Qi Lee, Winston K. G. Seah, Hwee-Pink Tan, Zexi Yao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Motion and intrusion detection are often cited as wireless sensor network (WSN) applications with typical configurations comprising clusters of wireless nodes equipped with motion sensors to detect human motion. Currently, WSN performance is subjected to several constraints, namely radio irregularity and finite on-board computation/energy resources. Radio irregularity in radio frequency (RF) propagation rises to a higher level in the presence of human activity due to the absorption effect of the human body. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of monitoring RF transmission for the purpose of intrusion detection through experimentation. With empirical data obtained from the Crossbow TelosB platform …

Uwlaw, Fall 2010, Vol. 62

Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.

Gold & Blue, Fall 2010, St. Mary's University- San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue

This is the Fall 2010 edition of Gold & Blue which is St. Mary's University's official school publication.

The Least Of These: A Constitutional Challenge To North Carolina's Sexual Offender Laws And N.C. Gen. Stat. Sec. 14-208.18, Brian P. Livecchi

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reauthorizing Schip: Only A Starting Point, Pamela Newell

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.

Fall 2010: Sport And Society, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2007-2012

A mirror of our culture

A new stadium, a new mascot, a new academic conference on sport and society established at St. Norbert: just some signs of the way athletic endeavor pervades our campus, our communities and, indeed, our culture.

On the cover: Sir Norbert – “Norby” for short – helps rally the crowd at the second home football game. (It was a record high score for St. Norbert: the Green Knights beat Lawrence 77-26.) The college’s new mascot character made his first public appearance at the Donald J. Schneider Stadium this fall.