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Allusions And Influences In Joseph Marx's Sechs Klavierstucke, David Brian Ray Dec 2010

Allusions And Influences In Joseph Marx's Sechs Klavierstucke, David Brian Ray

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The late-Romantic Austrian composer Joseph Marx is best known today for his art songs. He did, however, compose chamber music, choral works, large symphonic works, two piano concertos, and six pieces for solo piano. This paper will focus upon Marx's Sechs Klavierstücke, composed in 1915 and published in 1916. Although Marx was an outstanding pianist and employed the piano in most of his art songs, chambermusic and orchestral scores, his onlypublishedworkforsolo pianowas this set of sixcompositions. The six late-Romantic character pieceswithin thiscollectionarerife with allusions to pre-existing piano worksby composers whom Marx admired, such as Bach, Chopin, Brahms, Scriabin, Reger, and …

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Not Quite Natural: Stories From The Edges Of Humanity, Patrick Walters Dec 2010

Not Quite Natural: Stories From The Edges Of Humanity, Patrick Walters

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This thesis, entitled “Not Quite Natural: Stories From the Edges of Humanity,” is a collection of creative nonfiction essays. It features stories about people who exist on the fringes of the human experience, from a man who infects himself with hookworms in an effort to cure his severe allergies to a woman who discovers a deaf man who has no language. It also features stories about groups of people on the edges of the human experience, including a community that refuses to leave its town, even though a fire is burning a hundred and fifty feet beneath it and a …

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Synthetic Studies Of 2-Acetoxyfuran And 2(3h)-Furanone As Pronucleophiles In The Asymmetric Synthesis Of Butenolides, Stephen James Howard Dec 2010

Synthetic Studies Of 2-Acetoxyfuran And 2(3h)-Furanone As Pronucleophiles In The Asymmetric Synthesis Of Butenolides, Stephen James Howard

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Enantioselective synthesis of γ-substituted butenolides is desirable due to the prevalence of these functionalities in medicinally important natural products. As organic synthons, butenolides contain four carbon atoms, each of which is capable of undergoing regioselective modification. Two complementary approaches for the construction of γ-substituted butenolides have been developed in the present work. The trapped dienolate, 2-acetoxyfuran, couples with aldehydes under mild conditions with diastereocontrol determined by the nature of catalyst, solvent, and temperature employed.An even more efficient synthesis of the butenolide architecture has been developed by the direct coupling of 2(3H)-furanone to aldehydes. Enantioselectivity is afforded by use of Takemoto's …

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A Performer's Analysis And Comparison Of Hindemith's Piano Sonata For Four Hands (1938) Transcription For Wind Band By Mark Spede To The Original Piano Work., Michael Ray Beard Dec 2010

A Performer's Analysis And Comparison Of Hindemith's Piano Sonata For Four Hands (1938) Transcription For Wind Band By Mark Spede To The Original Piano Work., Michael Ray Beard

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The works of Paul Hindemith have become a staple of the wind band repertoire. The number of works is just a handful but there have been some interest in transcribing more of his works for teh wind band. This document explores and discusses a new transcription by Mark Spede of Hindemith's Piano Sonata for Four Hands that will expand teh available the available repertoire for wind ensembles.During this process, the biographical information about Hindemith, his compositional style as it relates to the Sonata, and an analysis of the work. Also discussed is the progression Dr. Spede went through to create …

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Bullying Behavior: Perspectives On Implementation Of Policy From Building Level Administrators And School Counselors, Christopher Michael Barnes Dec 2010

Bullying Behavior: Perspectives On Implementation Of Policy From Building Level Administrators And School Counselors, Christopher Michael Barnes

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The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between anti-bullying policies developed and implementation of those policies in the state of Arkansas. The researcher used quantiative research methods to determine the extent of relationship between anti-bullying policies developed and implemented. A self-administered survey was constructed for data collection purposes using methods described by Fowler (2008) and Maronick (2009) and was distributed through Survey Monkey to all school counselors and building administrators in the state of Arkansas. Data analysis was conducted on responses received from 547 building administrators and school counselors to determine if there are relationships between administrators' …

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Autonomous Wireless Radar Sensor Mote For Target Material Classification, Muhammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan Dec 2010

Autonomous Wireless Radar Sensor Mote For Target Material Classification, Muhammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan

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An autonomous wireless sensor network consisting of different types of sensor modalities is a topic of intense research due to its versatility and portability.These types of autonomous sensor networks commonly include passive sensor nodes such as infrared,acoustic,seismic and magnetic.However,fusion of another active sensor such as Doppler radar in the integrated sensor network may offer powerful capabilities for many different sensing and classification tasks.In this work,we demonstrate the design and implementation of an autonomous wireless sensor network integrating a Doppler sensor into wireless sensor node with commercial off the shelf components.We also investigate the effect of different types of target materials …

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Variations In The Seismic Quality Factor Q For The Mississippi Embayment Sediments Utilizing Spectral Analysis Of Reflection Data, Michael Wilson Towle Dec 2010

Variations In The Seismic Quality Factor Q For The Mississippi Embayment Sediments Utilizing Spectral Analysis Of Reflection Data, Michael Wilson Towle

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A natural log spectral ratio technique is used to calculate Qp for the post-Paleozoic, unconsolidated sediments of the northern Mississippi Embayment. The method is applied to high-resolution marine seismic reflection data acquired along the Mississippi River. The method assumes a frequency independent Q over a certain frequency band. The frequency bands inspected range from 10-150 Hz and 10-200 Hz based on observed linear trends in the spectral ratio data. The large volume of data available allows for increased accuracy in Q estimates. Values of Qs are then approximated using an empirical Qp/Qs relationship for the embayment. Results show that average …

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The Role Of Individual Difference Factors In Predicting Alcohol-Related Consequences In College Students, Ashley Ann Dennhardt Dec 2010

The Role Of Individual Difference Factors In Predicting Alcohol-Related Consequences In College Students, Ashley Ann Dennhardt

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Although alcohol-related consequences are high in college students, thereis significant variability in the number experienced, evenamongstudents who drink heavily. Caucasian students drink more and experience more alcohol-related problems than African American students, but little research has investigated the potentially unique predictors of problems among these students.Depression, Distress Tolerance and Delay Discounting may be predictors of alcohol problem severity.We examined the relationship between these variables and alcohol-related problems among Caucasians and African American students using multivariate models.For Caucasian students, depression was associated with alcohol problems. For African American students, depression, distress tolerance, and delay discounting were associated with alcohol problems; and …

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Parental Involvement: A Qualitative Case Study Of Parent Involvement In Two Rural Mid-South Middle Schools, Tishsha Tanay Hopson Dec 2010

Parental Involvement: A Qualitative Case Study Of Parent Involvement In Two Rural Mid-South Middle Schools, Tishsha Tanay Hopson

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The purpose of this qualitative case study was to gain a better understanding of what parental involvement means to parents and what influences them to become involved in a school. Joyce Epstein's Six Types of Parent Involvement Typology provided a guiding framework to assess terms and categories commonly used in parent involvement research. This study was guided by two research questions: What does parental involvement mean to parents? What influences parents to engage in parent involvement? The researcher conducted interviews, focus groups, and took field notes as primary sources of data to answer the two reserach questions.The researcher interviewed six …

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The Chestershaw: The Views And Ideas That Shaped The Friendly Rivalry Of G.K. Chesterton And George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Vowell Dec 2010

The Chestershaw: The Views And Ideas That Shaped The Friendly Rivalry Of G.K. Chesterton And George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Vowell

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G.K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw both lived at the turn of the twentieth century, which was a time of incredible social and philosophic change and upheaval. In reaction to the social chaos and uncertainty, both men sought to change the world through their artistic and polemical works and thus were friends, yet both men wanted to change the world into different things for different reasons and thus were enemies. Their intellectual, friendly rivalry was a hallmark of early twentieth-century public discourse and English letters. Unfortunately, while their artistic contributions remain, most of their intellectual contributions have been either misunderstood …

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The Psychosocial Effects Of Being Rejected/Being Aggressive/Being Respected, Clayton Egli Dec 2010

The Psychosocial Effects Of Being Rejected/Being Aggressive/Being Respected, Clayton Egli

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This research identified groups of children using levels of aggression, rejection, and respect. Peer psychosocial outcomes were evaluated in groups of third- through sixth-grade children (N = 422). Four sets of analyses were performed. Groups were defined first by traditional grouping methods and then by data-driven grouping methods. For each method, groups were constructed first in terms of the traditional approach using relative levels of peer rejection and aggression (overt and relational). A second set of analyses for each method constructed groups in terms of relative levels of peer rejection, aggression (overt and relational), and respect by peers. Psychosocial outcomes …

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Effect Of A Weight Loss Intervention In A Faith-Based Environment With Overweight-Obese African American Women, Janelle Marie Meeks Dec 2010

Effect Of A Weight Loss Intervention In A Faith-Based Environment With Overweight-Obese African American Women, Janelle Marie Meeks

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The incidence of obesity is alarmingly high among African Americans, especially among women. Therefore, to help address the weight loss needs among a group (n=10) of obese African American women in a faith community, a seven-week nutrition intervention study was developed and implemented. Each session was lead by a member of the faith community and incorporated prayer and encouragement. BMI, waist, and hip circumference were measured, and three-day food diaries were collected at baseline and post-intervention. A paired sample t-test was used to analyze the data. A mean loss of 1.1 in. was observed in waist circumference (p=0.089). A mean …

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"The Young Blood Hungers": Mapping Young Black Manhood In Marita Bonner's Frye Street Fiction, Rachel Leigh Smith Dec 2010

"The Young Blood Hungers": Mapping Young Black Manhood In Marita Bonner's Frye Street Fiction, Rachel Leigh Smith

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Marita O. Bonner, early twentieth century African American public intellectual and creative writer, wrote particularly about the experiences of blacks in Chicago. Though most Bonner scholarship focuses primarily on her working class female characters, this study provides close readings of the young male figures in the short stories, "One Boy's Story," "The Makin's," "The Whipping," "There Were Three," "Tin Can," and "Nothing New." I analyze how these texts confront notions of family, personal identity, and violence, and how Bonner configures young life as a volatile liminal space of human development. As seen in Bonner's short stories and in her essay …

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An Examination Of Early Literacy In An Early Childhood Classroom, Fawna Ann Lovelace Dec 2010

An Examination Of Early Literacy In An Early Childhood Classroom, Fawna Ann Lovelace

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The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how one early childhood education teacher promotes her first graders' early literacy skills. Reading is a major component for students' successful learning and development. The female participant taught at a private, Catholic school. Research questions were: What assumptions does an early childhood education make about early literacy? How does an early childhood teacher promote early literacy through phonemic awareness activities? What role does the classroom environment play in the children's acquisition of early literacy skills? Data for this qualitative study were collected from aquestionnaire, interviews, videotaped observations, lesson plans, photos, and …

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"They Were Her Daughters:" Women And Grassroots Organizing For Social Justice In The Arkansas Delta, 1870-1970, Jayme Millsap Stone Dec 2010

"They Were Her Daughters:" Women And Grassroots Organizing For Social Justice In The Arkansas Delta, 1870-1970, Jayme Millsap Stone

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The Arkansas Delta has a rich history of struggle and resistance, however, little is known about how local people organized for social justice. The widely-held belief is that black, male church pastors defined civil rights issues in their communities and led the people to action when they believed it was appropriate. This study is a corrective for this assumption and illustrates how black women--activist mothers--used the churches and African American religion as launching points for activist activities that they deemed critical to survival. As grassroots caretakers of the black community, local personalities---as teachers and tenant farmers, as club women, race …

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Osteoblast Precursors Respond To Cyclic Mechanical Compressive And Tensile Strains At The Bone-Implant Interface, Andrew Phillip Noblett Dec 2010

Osteoblast Precursors Respond To Cyclic Mechanical Compressive And Tensile Strains At The Bone-Implant Interface, Andrew Phillip Noblett

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Stromals cells, W-20-17, were subjected to daily 30 minute doses of 800microstrain at 1Hz for six consecutive days on a commercially pure titanium substrate with a custom 4-point-bend cell strain system to simulate the bone-implant interface in vivo. The loading schemes include continuous and intermittent (15minutes of strain, 15 minutes of rest, 15 minutes of strain) dosing in both compresssive and tensile strain. Cell lysates and media were collected after 12hrs on the plate and after 1, 3, and 6 days of straining. DNA, total protein, and ALP concentrations were assayed to assess the results of the different strains. Overall …

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Assessing Awareness Of Local Nutrition Education Programs Among Memphis' Low Socioeconomic Adults, Josephine Marie Haller Dec 2010

Assessing Awareness Of Local Nutrition Education Programs Among Memphis' Low Socioeconomic Adults, Josephine Marie Haller

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Objective: To evaluate awareness of local nutrition programs in Memphis, TN in low socioeconomic status populations.Design: This study is a cross sectional survey design evaluating the knowledge of nutrition education resources available for low socioeconomic (SES) groups with high nutrition related health risks.Participants:66 participants recruited at a local grocery store met low SES eligibility criteria.Results: Overweight and obesity prevalence in the sample population matched national and state averages. 60% of the participants surveyed were aware of the Hope and Healing Center in general, however, there was little awareness (40%) of the nutrition education programs that they provide. 67% of the …

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Improving Reading Comprehension Through Prior Knowledge Acquisition Via Digital Game Based Learning, Julie Hooker Forbess Dec 2010

Improving Reading Comprehension Through Prior Knowledge Acquisition Via Digital Game Based Learning, Julie Hooker Forbess

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As a result of the Tennessee Diploma Project, Tennessee students must meet ACT standards in order to achieve high school graduation. However, the reading level of the ACT is beyond that of many average students enrolled in high school. The reading section of the ACT in fact, utilizes many excerpts from classic literature. Classic literature is also included on the reading lists of most school systems across Tennessee as well as the entire country. Many students are unable to connect to the characters and contexts of classic literature because they lack the necessary prior knowledge to make this type of …

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Obesity And Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, Jacob Michael Taylor Dec 2010

Obesity And Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, Jacob Michael Taylor

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Obesity rates for pediatric acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) survivors vary from 11%-57%. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between caloric and macronutrient intake on the incidence of obesity in survivors of pediatric ALL. A retrospective study of 137 participants using existing data collected from the Bone II study was evaluated. Participants were grouped into categories based on BMI for adults and CDC growth charts for children. Data was collected from 24 hour food recalls at time of enrollment. No statistical significance was found between BMI groups. Forty percent of participants were overweight or obese, but 69% …

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Signal Conditioning And Feature Estimation For Profiling Sensor Systems, Jeremy Benjamin Brown Dec 2010

Signal Conditioning And Feature Estimation For Profiling Sensor Systems, Jeremy Benjamin Brown

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This paper presents techniques for signal conditioning and feature estimation to be used for profiling sensors which perform broad scale classifications. Methods for improving existing feature estimation techniques for linear array profiling systems are provided. A 360 profiling system and the accompanying algorithms used for signal conditioning and feature estimation are presented. The algorithms are validated by demonstrating classification results for the broad scale human, animal, and vehicle three class problem for the linear array, and the human and animal two class problem for the 360 profiling sensor.

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Supporting The Expression Of Sadness: A Moderator In The Association Between Parents' Discouragement Of Sadness And Child Internalizing Symptoms, Katianne Marie Howard Dec 2010

Supporting The Expression Of Sadness: A Moderator In The Association Between Parents' Discouragement Of Sadness And Child Internalizing Symptoms, Katianne Marie Howard

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Recent literature in the field of emotion contingent responses has found associations between parent responses that discourage the expression of emotion and children’s negative emotional outcomes, as well as significant interactions between responses that support the expression of emotion and other types of responses in predicting emotional and behavioral outcomes. The present study investigated parents’ discouragement and support of children’s expression of sadness in relation to several indicators of internalizing behaviors in middle childhood. Children responded about their mothers’ emotion contingent responses and children and parents completed measures of children’s emotional and behavioral functioning. Results supported the association between discouraging …

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"Daily Planet" Vs. "Daily Bugle": The Changing Depiction Of Journalism In American Comic Books, Andrew Alan Smith Dec 2010

"Daily Planet" Vs. "Daily Bugle": The Changing Depiction Of Journalism In American Comic Books, Andrew Alan Smith

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Journalists and journalism have always been popular vehicles for storytelling in comic books, as they are in other pop culture media. The more than 70 years of comic books in America have provided thousands of fictional journalists, especially in the superhero genre. Primary among these are the staffs of the Daily Planet at DCComics and the Daily Bugle at Marvel Comics. This content analysis -- utilizing hundreds of the original texts but also historical research and a questionnaire to significant creators -- shines a spotlight on a quantum shift in the depiction of journalists in comics. Until the introduction of …

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Engaging Rural Community Members As Problem Solvers: Application Of Health Communication To Improve The Quality Of Health Care In Southwest Uganda, Tesfa N. Alexander Dec 2010

Engaging Rural Community Members As Problem Solvers: Application Of Health Communication To Improve The Quality Of Health Care In Southwest Uganda, Tesfa N. Alexander

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Using communication theories and anthropological models, I analyze the narratives of community members who are caretakers of children ages 5 and under in Southwest Uganda to situate rural community members as problem solvers whose insights can be used to inform sustainable and effective public health strategies that can lead to improved health outcomes. Throughout my analysis, I uncover themes and concepts from community members' narratives that demonstrate that health-seeking behaviors of rural community members are largely shaped by perceptions of interpersonal and social trust in local health care practitioners. Additionally, an analysis of discourse from patient-provider interactions in biomedical and …

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Modeling Light-Dark Cycle Memory In The Mammalian Scn, Benjamin L. Coffey Dec 2010

Modeling Light-Dark Cycle Memory In The Mammalian Scn, Benjamin L. Coffey

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The suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN), the principal mammalian circadian oscillator, contain several thousand clock neurons that oscillate spontaneously with ~24-hour periods in its ventrolateral region. Without light, this network synchronizes through action potentials releasing VIP, compromising on a free-running period near 24 hours. We entrained Siberian hamsters to various light-dark cycles and tracked their activity into constant darkness showing that they retain memory for a particular light-dark cycle to which they were entrained before returning to their own free-running period. Using Leloup-Goldbeter mammalian clock neurons, we model the ventrolateral SCN network and show that light acting weakly upon a strongly rhythmic …

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Stochastic Simulation Of Human Pulmonary Blood Flow Based On Anatomic And Elasticity Data, Jun Shi Dec 2010

Stochastic Simulation Of Human Pulmonary Blood Flow Based On Anatomic And Elasticity Data, Jun Shi

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In order to fully understand the function of the lungs, it is important to determine the transit time of the pulmonary circulation. However, a practical model to estimate the transit time is difficult to be found in literature, because of the high complexity of the whole pulmonary circulation system. This study developed a computing model of steady blood flow in human lungs based on detailed morphology and elasticity data by Huang et al (1996) [5], which incorporated a Diameter-Defined Strahler System to simulate a human lung branching system. A stochastic simulation approach was introduced. Considering Huang’s connectivity data between different …

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The Role Of Butch Identity In A Model Of Self-Esteem Among Sexual Minority Women, Katherine Ruth Hiestand Dec 2010

The Role Of Butch Identity In A Model Of Self-Esteem Among Sexual Minority Women, Katherine Ruth Hiestand

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This study explored the relationship of butch gender identity to perceived social support, level of outness, lesbian internalized homophobia, and self-esteem. Previous research has supported relationships between perceived social support, level of outness, lesbian internalized homophobia, and self-esteem in sexual minority women; this study explored these relationships specifically in masculine-identified lesbians. Using data obtained from an Internet survey on lesbian gender identity, a subset (N = 191) was composed of individuals who considered themselves masculine and who identified as butch (127; 66.5%) and those who did not identify as butch (64; 33.5%). A path analysis was conducted to determine what …

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Not About Me: A Memoir, Candice Renee Baxter Dec 2010

Not About Me: A Memoir, Candice Renee Baxter

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A rebellious teenage girl with driving bravado and Southern manners gets pregnant and married, in that order, her senior year of high school, class of 1998. Through cinematic scenes like a shotgun wedding, struggling marriage, single motherhood, college and business career, the feisty narrator builds tension up to a climax. This is not just another triumphant story of teenage pregnancy set deep in the heart of the Bible belt. Not About Me: A Memoir is an approximately 47,000 word book-length example of what happens ten years later when young parents grow in separate directions but maintain a relationship for the …

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Emove: Movement Detection And Classification For Tagged Assets On Embedded Platforms, Bhagavathy Krishna Dec 2010

Emove: Movement Detection And Classification For Tagged Assets On Embedded Platforms, Bhagavathy Krishna

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Most of the existing real-time asset tracking systems involves frequent communication of a device placed on the object to be tracked with a fixed infrastructure, which rapidly depletes the battery of the tag, due to the high energy demand of communication. This thesis presents emove, a system implemented on a low cost tag node that can be attached to assets. An emove tag autonomously detects and classifies movement of assets while being in deep sleep mode for most of its life. It communicates with the infrastructure only when it confirms the movement detected is of interest. Our design emphasizes energy-efficient …

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The Press And Democracy Building: Journalism Education And Training In Eastern And South-Eastern Europe During Transition, Michael Foley Dec 2010

The Press And Democracy Building: Journalism Education And Training In Eastern And South-Eastern Europe During Transition, Michael Foley

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Media assistance to the former communist countries of Eastern Europe from 1989 became an important part of the transformation of that part of Europe from a socialist command economy to a democratic, liberal market economy. The media was seen as an important ideological weapon of the previous regimes and so was to be transformed in order to change society. The exact amount of media aid is unknown, so much of it was hidden under such headings as aid to civil society and democracy building, but it is known to account for hundreds of millions of euro. Most was spent on …

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A Community In Bloom: An Affordable Housing Needs Assessment Of West Bloomington, Stevenson Center For Community And Economic Development Dec 2010

A Community In Bloom: An Affordable Housing Needs Assessment Of West Bloomington, Stevenson Center For Community And Economic Development

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This report was written in response to a request from Habitat for Humanity of McLean County. The report expands upon and updates an affordable homeownership needs assessment for the Bloomington-Normal community – with an emphasis on West Bloomington – that was created in 2004. Because the housing market and economic conditions of the area have changed drastically in the last 6 years, an updated report is necessary.

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