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California Printing History And The Shakespeare Press Museum, Laura Sorvetti Dec 2010

California Printing History And The Shakespeare Press Museum, Laura Sorvetti

Master's Theses

The Shakespeare Press Museum, a working letterpress museum at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, houses letterpress printing presses and equipment dating from the 1850s to the 1970s. Although the museum has been at Cal Poly since the 1960s, little work was completed on the historical context of the collections or to address the archival and educational frameworks of the museum’s collection. This thesis has three purposes: to place the museum’s collections in their nineteenth-century California historical context; to provide the first in-depth examination of the museum’s original founder, Charles “Shakespeare” Palmer; and to create an archival reference and program for …

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Asado En El Cuero (Barbecue On The Leather), Bruno P. Maestrini Dec 2010

Asado En El Cuero (Barbecue On The Leather), Bruno P. Maestrini

Research Papers

This project is a multimedia website that shows a little about one of the most famous traditions of Uruguay, Argentina and the south of Brazil: their barbecue. The custom of eating this food goes beyond the simple please of tasting good meat. The salting and roasting of the meat on the fire is one of the oldest habits in the southern part of the continent. In this project, the tradition of the countryside and the urban regions are shown in a variety of ways. The project documents the tradition of the people and shows how they survive in a always …

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Alternatives To Illinois’ Budget Deficit: An Analysis Of Proposed Solutions By Gubernatorial Candidates, Elected Officials, And Public Policy Organizations, Christopher P. Baughman Dec 2010

Alternatives To Illinois’ Budget Deficit: An Analysis Of Proposed Solutions By Gubernatorial Candidates, Elected Officials, And Public Policy Organizations, Christopher P. Baughman

Research Papers

No abstract provided.

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Reflections On The Conversation: An Overview Of Collection Development Literature From 2010, Courtney L. Selby Dec 2010

Reflections On The Conversation: An Overview Of Collection Development Literature From 2010, Courtney L. Selby

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

One of the most important functions of the regular review of a collection development policy is the opportunity to revisit the fundamentals of collection development. Regardless of whether we are public, private or academic entities, the basic considerations in creating and maintaining a collection development policy remain the same. We start with the library mission. Whom do we serve, and why? Knowing the focus and purpose of our service is important, but translating that knowledge into timely and relevant policies that inform our decisions is absolutely critical to excellence in service-oriented librarianship. And there is an even greater value in …

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Mentoring Community Economic Development In Idaho, Abelardo Rodriguez, Sue Traver, Benjamin Eborn, Karl Dye Dec 2010

Mentoring Community Economic Development In Idaho, Abelardo Rodriguez, Sue Traver, Benjamin Eborn, Karl Dye

Journal of Extension

This article presents an example of how Idaho Extension personnel have used regional economic tools to educate stakeholders from contrasting regions about the contributions of different sectors to their regional economies, how the sectors are interrelated, and how economic multipliers express attributes of each region. The discussions between communities of practice in contrasting regions were promoted to explore the benefits of the knowledge exchange. This mentoring approach changed the understanding and perceptions of the regional economies of participating community development practitioners of the regional economies. The approach should be promoted for wider dissemination.

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Disambiguating The Sublime And The Historicity Of The Concept, Vrasidas Karalis Dec 2010

Disambiguating The Sublime And The Historicity Of The Concept, Vrasidas Karalis

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Disambiguating the Sublime and the Historicity of the Concept" Vrasidas Karalis explores the notion of sublime or sublimity as the field of colliding signifiers and of experiential frameworks in conflict. Instead of treating the traditional notion as a structural element of style of ideology, he analyses it from the point of its contextual validation and its very historicity: what makes sublimity emerge is the extra-lingual unease, the existential dysphoria of the world outside the text, as refracted through specific works of art. Such dysphoria is expressed through ungrammatical language or/and through the attempt in specific moments in …

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The Chi Complex And Ambiguities Of Meeting, Paul Carter Dec 2010

The Chi Complex And Ambiguities Of Meeting, Paul Carter

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "The Chi Complex and Ambiguities of Meeting" Paul Carter develops a discussion of interpersonal encounters by mobilizing an apparatus of references, ranging from Jean Genet to Lévinas, Derrida, Bachmann, Merleau-Ponty, and Arendt. The hypothesis is that meeting another person entails and subsumes a non-meeting; a resistance and a refusal. The article pursues the ambiguity at the heart of encountering the other through an investigation of the urban spaces that are allegedly designed to invite and facilitate meetings. The argument put forward is that these spaces are paradoxically designed to avert encounters. This is especially true in the …

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Ambiguity, Children, Representation, And Sexuality, Catharine Lumby Dec 2010

Ambiguity, Children, Representation, And Sexuality, Catharine Lumby

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Ambiguity, Children, Representation, and Sexuality" Catharine Lumby considers current and historical scholarly and popular debates about the representation of children, including concerns about their sexualisation in such representations. The article begins by examining images taken by photographers in the Victorian era, including Charles Dodgson and Julia Cameron, and asks not only how the gaze of the photographer frames the child but how the child returns the adult gaze. Lumby seeks to problematize our understanding of the ways in which images "sexualize" children. Drawing on the work of James Kincaid, it examines discourses that frame children as, on …

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On Ambidextrousness, Or, What Is An Innovative Action?, Brett Neilson Dec 2010

On Ambidextrousness, Or, What Is An Innovative Action?, Brett Neilson

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "On the Ambiguity of Ambidextrousness, or, What is an Innovative Action?" Brett Neilson explores the significance of the fact that the technical equality of the hands is realized above all in the act of manual labor, revisiting an influential essay by Robert Hertz, a student of Emile Durkheim and associate of Marcel Mauss, published in 1909 and entitled "The Pre-Eminence of the Right Hand." In his text, Hertz argued that the basic spatial distinction between the left and right hand acquires the polarity of a social hierarchy owing not to the physiology or psychology of motor asymmetry …

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Ambiguity, The Literary, And Close Reading, David G. Brooks Dec 2010

Ambiguity, The Literary, And Close Reading, David G. Brooks

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Ambiguity, the Literary, and Close Reading" David G. Brooks approaches the matter of literary ambiguity from two directions: firstly by presenting the question of what we might learn if we look at ambiguity not so much from the angle of the author as that of the reader, a question which may appear obvious and inoffensive on the surface, but which becomes intricate and captivating as Brooks, arguing that literary ambiguity cannot be discussed without attention to the idea of close reading, peels layer upon layer of commonsensical assumptions away from reading practice, to arrive at the point …

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Conquest, Consequences, Restoration: The Art Of Rebecca Belmore, Kathleen Marie Deblassie Dec 2010

Conquest, Consequences, Restoration: The Art Of Rebecca Belmore, Kathleen Marie Deblassie

Art & Art History ETDs

Rebecca Belmore (Ojibwa/Anishinabe, b. 1960 in Upsala, Ontario), embraces three themes in her oeuvre: conquest, consequences and restoration.Through the mediums of performance art, installation, video and photography, Belmore confronts Indigenous issues regarding land theft, identity, gender, racism, stereotypes,memory, contested histories, and the recovery and reclamation of a decolonized self. All of these themes are sub-categories that fall under the larger theme of the consequences of conquest. The most significant component of Belmores work, however, is restoration, which embraces themes of healing, self-determination and sovereignty. Traditional art-historical methodologies can and have been used to analyze Indigenous art. This thesis proposes that …

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Incorporating Kettlebells Into A Lower Extremity Sports Rehabilitation Program, Jason Brumitt, Hui En Gilpin, Merideth Brunette, Erik P. Meira Dec 2010

Incorporating Kettlebells Into A Lower Extremity Sports Rehabilitation Program, Jason Brumitt, Hui En Gilpin, Merideth Brunette, Erik P. Meira

Faculty Publications - College of Physical Therapy

The primary goal of a sports rehabilitation program is to return the injured athlete back to competition as quickly and as safely as possible. Sports physical therapists utilize a variety of exercise equipment to help an athlete restore function after an injury. An injured athlete’s therapeutic exercise program frequently includes the prescription of functional strengthening and power exercises during the later stages of rehabilitation. One piece of exercise equipment, the kettlebell, has gained popularity for its ability to allow the user to perform functional power exercises. The unique exercises that can be performed with kettlebells may have utility in sports …

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Current Practices In Leadership Development For Front-Line Nurse Managers, Bret Lyman Dec 2010

Current Practices In Leadership Development For Front-Line Nurse Managers, Bret Lyman

Dissertations

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A Paradigm For Effective Pre-College Classical Guitar Methodology: A Case Study Of Two Models Of Effective Instruction, Renthungo Merry Dec 2010

A Paradigm For Effective Pre-College Classical Guitar Methodology: A Case Study Of Two Models Of Effective Instruction, Renthungo Merry

Dissertations

Many classical guitar teachers of the past had stated that the field of classical guitar education in general was an area that was in need of re-evaluation in terms of proper teaching methodology, especially at the beginner level. However, the last twenty years have seen the steady growth and expansion of classical guitar education. Various factors have contributed to this, including new and innovative methods of teaching, the construction of better instruments, the proliferation of new music written specifically for the classical guitar, and the growth of guitar programs in elementary and secondary levels of instruction. The purpose of this …

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Agriculture's Fate Under Climate Change: Economic And Environmental Imperatives For Action, John N. Moore, Van Bruggen Dec 2010

Agriculture's Fate Under Climate Change: Economic And Environmental Imperatives For Action, John N. Moore, Van Bruggen

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Farming, ranching, and other agricultural activities are in a relatively unique position amongst all human-caused sources of global warming. Unlike fossil fueled power plants and vehicles, for example, agriculture will suffer direct economic losses from the impacts of global warming on its products, such as through reduced crop yields. Also unlike other causes of global warming, agriculture can both mitigate global warming and increase revenue through a range of different practices, such as carbon sequestration and investments in carbon-friendly renewable energy. This article explains how global warming affects agriculture, especially in the Midwest and Great Plains, and how agriculture contributes …

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Privacy Implications Of Smart Meters, Cheryl Dancey Balough Dec 2010

Privacy Implications Of Smart Meters, Cheryl Dancey Balough

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Many people worry about the erosion of privacy in our society given developments in technology, but that loss of privacy may take a quantum leap as electric "smart meters" make it possible for strangers to know on a real-time basis what is occurring in our houses and apartments. Perhaps the greatest concern is that current laws and regulations do not fully protect us from this unprecedented threat to two of our most basic rights—to be left alone in our own homes and to control personal information. Utility companies across the country are replacing conventional electric meters with smart meters designed …

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High Fat Diet-Induced Animal Model Of Age-Associated Obesity And Osteoporosis, Ganesh V. Halade, Md M. Rahman, Paul J. Williams, Gabriel Fernandes Dec 2010

High Fat Diet-Induced Animal Model Of Age-Associated Obesity And Osteoporosis, Ganesh V. Halade, Md M. Rahman, Paul J. Williams, Gabriel Fernandes

Internal Medicine Faculty Publications

Osteoporosis and obesity remain a major public health concern through its associated fragility and fractures. Several animal models for the study of osteoporotic bone loss, such as ovariectomy (OVX) and denervation, require unique surgical skills and expensive set up. The challenging aspect of these age-associated diseases is that no single animal model exactly mimics the progression of these human-specific chronic conditions. Accordingly, to develop a simple and novel model of post menopausal bone loss with obesity, we fed either a high fat diet containing 10% corn oil (CO) or standard rodent lab chow (LC) to 12-month-old female C57Bl/6J mice for …

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J Am Coll Dent 2010 77 4 Dec 2010

J Am Coll Dent 2010 77 4

Journal of the American College of Dentists

The Journal of the American College of Dentists (JACD) publishes scholarly articles, editorials, essays, and reflections addressing the ethical, professional, and social dimensions of dentistry. The Journal serves as a forum for advancing ethics, professionalism, leadership, and excellence within the dental community. By fostering dialogue across disciplines and perspectives, JACD provides readers with insights that encourage ethical, professional practice, lifelong learning, and service to the public, reinforcing dentistry’s commitment to advancing oral healthcare and the common good.

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National Geographic’S "Jesus The Man"—A Review, Paul N. Anderson Dec 2010

National Geographic’S "Jesus The Man"—A Review, Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

No abstract provided.

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Research Project For Rokenbok Educational Foundation, Brian Becker-Tirrill, Paul Eichen, Stefanie Kurtz-Harris, Jennifer Tracy Dec 2010

Research Project For Rokenbok Educational Foundation, Brian Becker-Tirrill, Paul Eichen, Stefanie Kurtz-Harris, Jennifer Tracy

Program Design and Evaluation

Research project on Equipo de Ingenieros en Accion (Team of Engineers in Action), a collaborative program of Rokenbok Educational Foundation and Center for Academic and Social Advancement.

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Standardization Studies On Cuscuta Reflexa Roxb. - A New Homoeopathic Drug, H Gupta, P Subramanian, P Rao, D Kushwaha, C Nayak Dec 2010

Standardization Studies On Cuscuta Reflexa Roxb. - A New Homoeopathic Drug, H Gupta, P Subramanian, P Rao, D Kushwaha, C Nayak

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

No abstract provided.

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Constructing A Regulatory Regime For The Exploitation Of Resources On The Moon And Other Celestial Bodies: A Balancing Act, Jason Bonin, Fabio Tronchetti Dec 2010

Constructing A Regulatory Regime For The Exploitation Of Resources On The Moon And Other Celestial Bodies: A Balancing Act, Jason Bonin, Fabio Tronchetti

Indian Journal of International Economic Law

Law can be both a catalyst and consequence of technological change. Nowhere is this fact more clear than in the realm of space law. Man’s initial ascent to space was manifested not only through scientific discovery, but also through legal innovation, as both a means of keeping up with and shaping the use of outer space. During the initial period of space exploration, legal norms were developed in a world of state actors, designed to promote the continued peaceful use of space and to prevent claims of dominion or sovereignty. Since that time, further technological development and shifts in economic …

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A New Liability Regime For The Space Sector – An Economic Imperative, Lotta Viikari Dec 2010

A New Liability Regime For The Space Sector – An Economic Imperative, Lotta Viikari

Indian Journal of International Economic Law

It is not always easy to establish liability pursuant to international law of outer space, yet damages in the space sector can be considerable. The damaging potential of space activities can exceed the capacity of any single space faring entity to make reparation. Absolute and unlimited liability could render the highly hazardous activities uninsurable. Complex causation questions may complicate the situation further. The mere determination of the liable entity can be a problem. Accordingly, allocation of losses within a larger community of relevant entities to balance the competing concerns would seem useful. It could better retain the economic viability of …

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Back Matter, Ohio Cardinal Dec 2010

Back Matter, Ohio Cardinal

Ohio Cardinal

No abstract provided.

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Beyala Et Le Plagiat : Gary, Buten Et Walker Pourvoyeurs De Textes, Kisito Hona Dec 2010

Beyala Et Le Plagiat : Gary, Buten Et Walker Pourvoyeurs De Textes, Kisito Hona

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

If the name of Calixthe Beyala seems to be linked to controversial issues, it is also because she was repeatedly suspected and accused of plagiarism. One of these accusations led to her condemnation by the tribunal of Paris on May 7th, 1996. The purpose of this article consists not only in recapitulating the facts, but also, in capitalizing on them to study the phenomenon of plagiarism in general and the specifi c aspects which it takes with this writer.

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De Stock À Albin Michel : Beyala Et L’Édition, Bernard De Meyer Dec 2010

De Stock À Albin Michel : Beyala Et L’Édition, Bernard De Meyer

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Beyala has remained faithful to the publisher Albin Michel for her fictional work since the publication of Le petit prince de Belleville in 1992, but her four fi rst novels had three different publishers. A study of her relationship with the publishing world during this period shows her desire for recognition on the Parisian literary scene, which was ready to take up the challenge by publishing the novel of an unknown African woman writer. A careful analysis of paratextual elements, in particular the titrology, and of the contents of the novels reveals that Calixthe Beyala enters into a direct conversation …

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Colonial Nesting Yellow-Crowned Night Herons On The San Antonio River Walk, Clint W. Boal Dec 2010

Colonial Nesting Yellow-Crowned Night Herons On The San Antonio River Walk, Clint W. Boal

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

Yellow-crowned Night Herons (Nyctinassa violacea) typically nest as single pairs or in small colonies of about four pairs with high inter nest distances. They are also reported as susceptible to disturbance and to avoid habitat with high human use. However, some Yellow crowned Night Herons habituate to human-dominated landscapes and nest in residential areas. I located a colony of nesting Yellow-crowned Night Herons in San Antonio, Texas on the River Walk, a popular tourist destination with an estimated 2.5 million visitors annually. I located 68 and71 active nests in 2008 and 2009, respectively. This suggests the breeding population of the …

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Brown Pelican (Pelecanus Occidentalis) Mortality Due To Shotgun Wound, Timothy Mcsweeny, Daniel M. Brooks Dec 2010

Brown Pelican (Pelecanus Occidentalis) Mortality Due To Shotgun Wound, Timothy Mcsweeny, Daniel M. Brooks

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

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Productivity In An Urban White-Winged Dove Population On The Edwards Plateau, Texas, Michael F. Small, John T. Baccus, T. Wayne Schwertner Dec 2010

Productivity In An Urban White-Winged Dove Population On The Edwards Plateau, Texas, Michael F. Small, John T. Baccus, T. Wayne Schwertner

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

Eastern White-winged Doves (Zenaida asiatica asiatica) in Texas have expanded northward since about 1920 and established urban populations throughout the state. Although nest success has been measured indirectly using indices, actual productivity has yet to be thoroughly investigated. We were interested in determining recruitment into a White-winged Dove population with a known area of occupancy by measuring productivity (nest success and estimated fledgling survivorship). We used nest monitoring and mark-recapture techniques to assess these parameters in Mason, Texas (Mason County) from 25 May–11 August 2006.

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Evaluating The Technical Efficiency Of Trolley Buses In Athens, Greece, Panayotis G. Michaelides, Athena Belegri-Roboli, Theocharis Marinos Dec 2010

Evaluating The Technical Efficiency Of Trolley Buses In Athens, Greece, Panayotis G. Michaelides, Athena Belegri-Roboli, Theocharis Marinos

Journal of Public Transportation

Efficiency measurement traditionally has been an important approach of evaluating public firm performance. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the technical efficiency of Trolley Buses of the Athens and Piraeus Area (TBAPA) in Greece for the year 2003. The estimation of technical efficiency is based on the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and employs the Cobb-Douglas specification of the production function. Meanwhile, an attempt is made to investigate the explanatory power of other factors on the organization’s technical efficiency, such as the impact of other competitive means of transportation and the distance of the areas that each line connects. …

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