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You Can't Go Home Again: The Place Of Tradition In "Firefly's" Dystopian-Utopia And Utopian-Distopia, R Brown Jan 2011

You Can't Go Home Again: The Place Of Tradition In "Firefly's" Dystopian-Utopia And Utopian-Distopia, R Brown

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Science fiction has long been a site in which utopian-dystopian visions have been articulated. This paper uses one exemplar of this genre as a springboard into a discussion of the desire for a return to origin and of flawed attempts to impose an image of that origin, with discursions into illustrations drawn from contemporary conditions. In opposition to the hegemonic and reductive tendencies inherent in such attempts, this paper proposes an alternative which engages with the everyday reality of life. Intrinsic to this proposition is that our traditions and utopias must be founded upon a continual (re)making in the everyday.

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Third Way Architecture: Between Cybernetics And Phenomenology, S Murrani Jan 2011

Third Way Architecture: Between Cybernetics And Phenomenology, S Murrani

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This article in its essence aims to challenge and unfold, each at a time, two different fields of methodology – cybernetics and phenomenology – that have direct effects on the product of being and the process of becoming in architectural discourse. Furthermore, this article suggests a third way philosophy for architecture that relates notions of post-phenomenology and technoscience, and considers both to be equally vital to development and speculation within current architectural discourse. First, the history of each of the two fields – cybernetics and phenomenology – will be unveiled with a focus on exploring their impact upon architecture in …

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Specialization In Plant-Hummingbird Networks Is Associated With Species Richness, Contemporary Precipitation And Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity, B Dalsgaard, E Magard, J Fjeldsa, Amm Gonzalez, C Rahbek, Jm Olesen, J Ollerton, R Alarcon, Ac Araujo, Pa Cotton, C Lara, Cg Machado, I Sazima, M Sazima, A Timmermann, S Watts, B Sandel, Wj Sutherland, J-C Svenning Jan 2011

Specialization In Plant-Hummingbird Networks Is Associated With Species Richness, Contemporary Precipitation And Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity, B Dalsgaard, E Magard, J Fjeldsa, Amm Gonzalez, C Rahbek, Jm Olesen, J Ollerton, R Alarcon, Ac Araujo, Pa Cotton, C Lara, Cg Machado, I Sazima, M Sazima, A Timmermann, S Watts, B Sandel, Wj Sutherland, J-C Svenning

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Fresh Waters And Fish Diversity: Distribution, Protection And Disturbance In Tropical Australia., Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley, Richard G. Pearson, Robert Puschendorf, Thomas Rayner Jan 2011

Fresh Waters And Fish Diversity: Distribution, Protection And Disturbance In Tropical Australia., Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley, Richard G. Pearson, Robert Puschendorf, Thomas Rayner

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

BACKGROUND: Given the globally poor protection of fresh waters for their intrinsic ecological values, assessments are needed to determine how well fresh waters and supported fish species are incidentally protected within existing terrestrial protected-area networks, and to identify their vulnerability to human-induced disturbances. To date, gaps in data have severely constrained any attempt to explore the representation of fresh waters in tropical regions. METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS: We determined the distribution of fresh waters and fish diversity in the Wet Tropics of Queensland, Australia. We then used distribution data of fresh waters, fish species, human-induced disturbances, and the terrestrial protected-area network …

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Short-Term Exposure To Warm Microhabitats Could Explain Amphibian Persistence With Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis., Joshua H. Daskin, Ross A. Alford, Robert Puschendorf Jan 2011

Short-Term Exposure To Warm Microhabitats Could Explain Amphibian Persistence With Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis., Joshua H. Daskin, Ross A. Alford, Robert Puschendorf

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Environmental conditions can alter the outcomes of symbiotic interactions. Many amphibian species have declined due to chytridiomycosis, caused by the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), but many others persist despite high Bd infection prevalence. This indicates that Bd's virulence is lower, or it may even be a commensal, in some hosts. In the Australian Wet Tropics, chytridiomycosis extirpated Litoria nannotis from high-elevation rain forests in the early 1990 s. Although the species is recolonizing many sites, no population has fully recovered. Litoria lorica disappeared from all known sites in the early 1990 s and was thought globally extinct, but a …

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Central Venous Pressure And Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure, Tony S Ma, Biykem Bozkurt, David Paniagua, Biswajit Kar, Kumudha Ramasubbu, Carl F Rothe Jan 2011

Central Venous Pressure And Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure, Tony S Ma, Biykem Bozkurt, David Paniagua, Biswajit Kar, Kumudha Ramasubbu, Carl F Rothe

The Texas Heart Institute Journal

Heart-failure phenotypes include pulmonary and systemic venous congestion. Traditional heart-failure classification systems include the Forrester hemodynamic subsets, which use 2 indices: pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) and cardiac index. We hypothesized that changes in PCWP and central venous pressure (CVP), and in the phenotypes of heart failure, might be better evaluated by cardiovascular modeling. Therefore, we developed a lumped-parameter cardiovascular model and analyzed forms of heart failure in which the right and left ventricles failed disproportionately (discordant ventricular failure) versus equally (concordant failure). At least 10 modeling analyses were carried out to the equilibrium state. Acute discordant pump failure was …

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How A Lagoon Works For Livestock Wastewater Treatment, Rhonda Miller, Jennifer Major, Penny Trinca Jan 2011

How A Lagoon Works For Livestock Wastewater Treatment, Rhonda Miller, Jennifer Major, Penny Trinca

All Current Publications

This publication discusses various types of lagoons and how they work as livestock wastewater treatment.

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Reproduction And Immune Impacts From Vitamin Or Mineral Deficiencies: Determining If Your Herd Is Deficient, Kerry A. Rood Jan 2011

Reproduction And Immune Impacts From Vitamin Or Mineral Deficiencies: Determining If Your Herd Is Deficient, Kerry A. Rood

All Current Publications

This publication describes ways to determine vitamin or mineral deficiencies in cattle herds.

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Adding Value To Ecological Risk Assessment With Population Modeling, Valery E. Forbes, Peter Calow, Volker Grimm, Takehiko I, Hayashi, Tjalling Jager, Agnete Katholm, Annemette Palmqvist, Rob Pastorok, Dan Salvito, Richard Sibly, Julann Spromberg, John Stark, Richard A. Stillman Jan 2011

Adding Value To Ecological Risk Assessment With Population Modeling, Valery E. Forbes, Peter Calow, Volker Grimm, Takehiko I, Hayashi, Tjalling Jager, Agnete Katholm, Annemette Palmqvist, Rob Pastorok, Dan Salvito, Richard Sibly, Julann Spromberg, John Stark, Richard A. Stillman

Valery Forbes Publications

Current measures used to estimate the risks of toxic chemicals are not relevant to the goals of the environmental protection process, and thus ecological risk assessment (ERA) is not used as extensively as it should be as a basis for cost-effective management of environmental resources. Appropriate population models can provide a powerful basis for expressing ecological risks that better inform the environmental management process and thus that are more likely to be used by managers. Here we provide at least five reasons why population modeling should play an important role in bridging the gap between what we measure and what …

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Factors Affecting Growth And Condition Of Stocked Rainbow Trout In Eastern Washington Lakes, Tamara Knudson Jan 2011

Factors Affecting Growth And Condition Of Stocked Rainbow Trout In Eastern Washington Lakes, Tamara Knudson

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

"Rainbow trout growth and condition were examined in 17 ecologically diverse lakes from which physical, limnological, and biological parameters were sampled. Parameters were correlated with rainbow trout growth and condition to identify factor(s) that predict rainbow trout growth and condition across eastern Washington lakes stocked annually with rainbow trout fry. We tested the hypothesis Ho: the environmental variables examined do not predict rainbow trout growth and condition. Data were natural log transformed for better fit, and were analyzed by season. Several models were identified using stepwise multiple regression analysis and general linear modeling which significantly predicted trout growth or condition …

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Effects Of Acute And Repeated Administration Of Diazepam On Delay Discounting In Lewis And Fischer 344 Rats, Sally L. Huskinson Jan 2011

Effects Of Acute And Repeated Administration Of Diazepam On Delay Discounting In Lewis And Fischer 344 Rats, Sally L. Huskinson

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Impulsive choice is often examined using a delay-discounting procedure where choice is between two reinforcers of different magnitudes presented at varying delays. Individual discounting rates can be influenced by many factors including strain differences and drug effects. Lewis (LEW) and Fischer 344 (F344) rats have behavioral and neurochemical differences relevant to delay discounting and were used to examine effects of acute and repeated diazepam administration on impulsive choice. Consistent with previous literature, larger-reinforcer choice decreased as a function of increasing delays for all rats, and steeper discounting functions occurred for LEW relative to F344 rats. Acute and repeated diazepam administration …

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Vegetative Compatibility In Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Sonia Purin Jan 2011

Vegetative Compatibility In Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Sonia Purin

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The process of anastomosis promotes interconnectivity between hyphal branches during formation of a mycelial network and between fungal colonies. Self anastomosis involves fusion within a mycelium from a germinating spore, and this process is common in all species of fungi. Non-self anastomosis involves fusion between hyphae from different spores or colonies and allows lateral gene transfer, but this process is much rarer. Anastomosis in Ascomycota is well studied, but little is known for asexual arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in Glomeromycota. Because AMF are obligate symbionts in plant roots, studies have focused on anastomosis in asymbiotic hyphae of germinating spores. To …

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Assessments Of Marketing And Management Practices Of Appalachian Hardwood Sawmills, David Bradley Summerfield Jan 2011

Assessments Of Marketing And Management Practices Of Appalachian Hardwood Sawmills, David Bradley Summerfield

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

A mail survey was conducted in the fall of 2010 to investigate the profitability aspects of the Appalachian hardwood sawmills. Specifically, the survey focused on changes in production, employment, marketing, export and energy efficiency practices between 2008 and 2010. The majority of the respondents used circle-saw headrigs (57%) and the remaining (43%) used bandsaw headrigs. The results indicated that employees in the Appalachian region had decreased by 28.88 percent while production decreased by 26 percent. Among responding sawmills, the number of employees decreased significantly since the economic downturn (p=0.0267) although four survey respondents reported hiring new employees. The most employment …

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Phosphodiesterase-4 In The Brain: Effects Of Pharmacological Inhibition And Mutation Of Disc1, Lan Xiao Jan 2011

Phosphodiesterase-4 In The Brain: Effects Of Pharmacological Inhibition And Mutation Of Disc1, Lan Xiao

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The effects of treatment with PDE4 inhibitors on cAMP/pCREB signaling, hippocampal neurogenesis and immobility in forced-swim test and the effects of DISC1 mutation on cAMP/pCREB signaling, PDE4 subtypes and PDE4 activity and high-affinity rolipram binding state were determined. Acute treatment with PDE4 inhibitors increased cAMP and pCREB transiently, as determined by ELISA and Western blotting, respectively. Repeated treatment with PDE4 inhibitors for 16 days produced antidepressant-like effect as evidence by decreased immobility in forced-swim test, increased cAMP/pCREB signaling and enhanced hippocampal neurogenesis. PDE4 inhibitors which preferentially interact with the high-affinity rolipram binding state, such as rolipram and piclamilast, produced greater …

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Formulating A Conceptual Framework To Understand Native American Perceptions Of Place And Identity: A Temporal Examination Of The Spatio-Social Effects Of Uneven Development Through Accumulation By Dispossession, Denyse Wyskup Jan 2011

Formulating A Conceptual Framework To Understand Native American Perceptions Of Place And Identity: A Temporal Examination Of The Spatio-Social Effects Of Uneven Development Through Accumulation By Dispossession, Denyse Wyskup

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This research dialectically conceptualizes how capitalist uneven development and subsequent occurrences has shaped, and continues to shape, Native American perceptions of place and identity. Specifically, this research focuses on accumulation by dispossession, a key component of uneven development, and the spatio-historic effects this form of dispossession has had on Native American lifeworlds. This research focuses primarily upon federal legislation in the form of treaties, acts, and court rulings as the predominant component sustaining accumulation by dispossession and, in turn, perpetuating uneven development within Native American communities. In order to more holistically conceptualize the impacts of accumulation by dispossession three Native …

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Analysis Of Examples Of Servant-Leadership In The Grapes Of Wrath, Susan Dunfield Jan 2011

Analysis Of Examples Of Servant-Leadership In The Grapes Of Wrath, Susan Dunfield

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

The award-winning film The Grapes of Wrath, obviously based on John Steinbeck's Dust Bowl-era novel, follows the Joad family in their travels from their homeland to the "Promised Land" of California, only to discover that their destination is not "flowing with milk and honey" but, instead, leaves them facing severe poverty, injustice, illness, and death.

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Best Management Practices Monitoring Guide For Stream Systems, Nancy Mesner Jan 2011

Best Management Practices Monitoring Guide For Stream Systems, Nancy Mesner

All Current Publications

Best Management Practices Monitoring Guide for Stream Systems provides guidance on establishing a water quality monitoring program that will demonstrate the effectiveness of Best Management Practices (BMPs) to reduce nonpoint source pollution in stream systems.

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Grasses And Grasslike Plants Of Utah, Mindy Pratt, Roger Banner, James Bowns Jan 2011

Grasses And Grasslike Plants Of Utah, Mindy Pratt, Roger Banner, James Bowns

All Current Publications

This guide is meant to serve as a help in identifying many of the grasses and grass-like plants common to the rangelands, forests, and farmlands of Utah. It is not an exhaustive guide to the plants contained herein, nor is it a comprehensive summary of all the grasses and grass-like plants in Utah.

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Photo Composition, Stephen Sagers, Ron Patterson Jan 2011

Photo Composition, Stephen Sagers, Ron Patterson

All Current Publications

Photography is the art of capturing an image with a camera to produce satisfying artwork. There are several elements that go into a well-composed photograph.

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Disgust And Ugliness: A Kantian Perspective, Mojca Kuplen Jan 2011

Disgust And Ugliness: A Kantian Perspective, Mojca Kuplen

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Contemporary discussions of the problem of ugliness in Kant’s aesthetic theory have, to my knowledge, left unexplored the relation of disgust to ugliness. At most, they have explained away disgust as merely an extreme form of ugliness or displeasure, as Guyer did in his interpretation of ugliness in Kant’s aesthetic theory,[1] and by that strayed from the phenomenological and conceptual uniqueness of disgust in comparison to ugliness, while Kant, as I argue, did not. As a matter of fact, careful investigation of the concept of disgust in Kant’s writing will reveal the distinctive and multifaceted character that he ascribed …

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Virtual Dance And Motion-Capture, Marc Boucher Jan 2011

Virtual Dance And Motion-Capture, Marc Boucher

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

A general view of various ways in which virtual dance can be understood is presented in the first part of this article. It then appraises the uses of the term “virtual” in previous studies of digital dance. A more in-depth view of virtual dance as it relates to motion-capture is offered, and key issues are discussed regarding computer animation, digital imaging, motion signature, virtual reality and interactivity. The paper proposes that some forms of virtual dance be defined in relation to both digital technologies and contemporary theories of virtuality.

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Aura, Self, And Aesthetic Experience, Marshall Battani Jan 2011

Aura, Self, And Aesthetic Experience, Marshall Battani

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Aesthetic experiences are generated in encounters with cultural objects and such experiences are marked by the free play of cognitive and numinous experience unstructured by concepts. Kant’s famous three types of pleasure, made infamous in social theory by Pierre Bourdieu, are examined in relation to the critical theoretical concept of aura, the social psychology of “flow,” and cognitive explanations of perception to explain experience in aesthetic fields. Theories of aesthetic experience developed at the crossroad of critical social thought and cognitive science hold promise for a social analysis able to avoid the usual sociological pitfalls of either ignoring aesthetics or …

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Everyday, Elsewhere: Allegory In Philippine Art, Patrick D. Flores Jan 2011

Everyday, Elsewhere: Allegory In Philippine Art, Patrick D. Flores

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The essay traces certain contexts of the allegorical impulse in Philippine image making and art, specifically as it marks the self-consciousness of the maker of image and art to render time, place, and event legible. It conceives of it as an aesthetic of migration, prefiguring an elsewhere that is aspired to as well as a phantasm of affinity that describes a present condition. The allegorical, therefore, bears the desire to belong to the world, referencing both the critique of coloniality as well as the possibility of transcending it at the very moment of revealing its ethical failure.

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Playing With Shadows, Apinan Poshyananda Jan 2011

Playing With Shadows, Apinan Poshyananda

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This essay reflects on the practice of the Indonesian artist Heri Dono, whose exhibition in Tokyo in 2000 is the anchor. It probes the cultural contexts in which the contemporary art of Dono plays out, identifying key trajectories that help clarify the concerns of this particular articulation: the locale of Yogyakarta, the mentality of the Javanese, and the device of the puppet presentation or the wayang, which derives from the ancient epics.[1] All this is located within the scheme of an exhibition of contemporary art and rendered in such a way that it conveys a certain aesthetic of hybridity and …

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Icon And Image In Modern Thai Art: A Preliminary Exploration, John Clark Jan 2011

Icon And Image In Modern Thai Art: A Preliminary Exploration, John Clark

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Thai modern art is marked by the actual deployment of religious or august symbolic icons or the quasi-iconic use of images of variable indexicality in otherwise highly secular contexts. What were the sources for such modern uses and have the semiotic functions of icons shifted? To answer these questions, at least partially, religious functions for images are examined by tracking the use of court images and Buddhist figures.

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Unpacking Faculty Engagement: The Types Of Activities Faculty Members Report As Publicly Engaged Scholarship During Promotion And Tenure, Chris R. Glass, Diane M. Doberneck, John H. Schweitzer Jan 2011

Unpacking Faculty Engagement: The Types Of Activities Faculty Members Report As Publicly Engaged Scholarship During Promotion And Tenure, Chris R. Glass, Diane M. Doberneck, John H. Schweitzer

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Faculty Publications

While a growing body of scholarship has focused on the personal, professional, and organizational factors that influence faculty members’ involvement in publicly engaged scholarship, the nature and scope of faculty publicly engaged scholarship itself has remained largely unexplored. What types of activities are faculty members involved in as publicly engaged scholarship? How does their involvement vary by demographic, type of faculty appointment, or college grouping? To explore these questions, researchers conducted a quantitative content analysis of 173 promotion and tenure documents from a research-intensive, land-grant, Carnegie Classified Community Engagement university and found statistically significant differences for the variables age, number …

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2011 National Nonprofit Employment Trends Survey, Caster Center For Nonprofit And Philanthropic Research, University Of San Diego Jan 2011

2011 National Nonprofit Employment Trends Survey, Caster Center For Nonprofit And Philanthropic Research, University Of San Diego

Nonprofit Sector Issues and Trends

The 2011 national Nonprofit Employment Trends Survey™ is intended to provide a snapshot of current employment practices and discuss the economic trends and implications of employment practices in the sector. This report, which has been produced annually by Nonprofit HR Solutions since 2007, includes responses from more than 450 nonprofits nationwide.

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Front Matter Of Volume 6 Number 1, Tufail A. Qureshi Jan 2011

Front Matter Of Volume 6 Number 1, Tufail A. Qureshi

Business Review

Front Matter, Contents and Editorial Perspective

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Biology Ii Lab, Steelman Library, Todd Schraw Dr Jan 2011

Biology Ii Lab, Steelman Library, Todd Schraw Dr

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

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Cardiac Dysfunction After Cancer Treatment, Michael S Ewer, Sandra M Swain, Daniela Cardinale, Anecita Fadol, Thomas M Suter Jan 2011

Cardiac Dysfunction After Cancer Treatment, Michael S Ewer, Sandra M Swain, Daniela Cardinale, Anecita Fadol, Thomas M Suter

The Texas Heart Institute Journal

Onco-cardiology is an evolving discipline that requires the consideration of cardiotoxicity in preclinical, clinical,and therapeutic aspects of protocol development,treatment, and surveillance of patients who have undergone interventions using cardiotoxic agents. Only then can we foster new ways to maximize survival while keeping cardiac damage within acceptable limits. It is to this end that our working together has brought us to our present understanding. In the future, we may expect onco-cardiology to play an even greater role in the care of cancer patients.

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