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The Body Of Margaret Atwood: Sex Work And Prostitution Within Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx And Crake, And The Year Of The Flood, Tyler Dinucci Jan 2011

The Body Of Margaret Atwood: Sex Work And Prostitution Within Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx And Crake, And The Year Of The Flood, Tyler Dinucci

Honors Theses

In this paper, I will argue that Canadian author Margaret Atwood uses fiscal and socially conservative dystopias to show how sex work and prostitution are choices that women would never have to make in a world with true gender equality. In these radically different worlds, women have no agency beyond their sexuality and no ability to express themselves as equals within either society. And while the structures of both societies, the society of The Handmaid’s Tale and that of both Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, are inherently different, they both stem from modern conservative philosophies: for …

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The Tea Party And Social Movements, David Palmer Jan 2011

The Tea Party And Social Movements, David Palmer

Honors Theses

The recent rise of the Tea Party movement has added a new dimension to our discussion of domestic politics. The main question is: what effect will the Tea Party have on the political landscape? The best way to answer this question is to place the Tea Party in historical and theoretical context, in order to discuss what type of social movement the Tea Party is and what impact it might have. To this end, I will define and discuss the two major literatures in socialmovement theory: Issue Evolution and Political Process theory. This theoretical framework will provide the basis for …

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Quality Control In The Healthcare Industry: An Analysis Of Surgery Turnover Times, Brooke Stokes Jan 2011

Quality Control In The Healthcare Industry: An Analysis Of Surgery Turnover Times, Brooke Stokes

Honors Theses

For virtually all hospitals, utilization rates are a critical managerial indicator of efficiency and are determined in part by turnover time. Turnover time is defined as the time elapsed between surgeries, during which the operating room is cleaned and preparedfor the next surgery. Lengthier turnover times result in lower utilization rates, thereby hindering hospitals’ ability to maximize the numbers of patients that can be attended to. In this thesis, we analyze operating room data from a two year period provided byEvangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to understand the variability of the turnover process. From the recorded data provided, we …

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Microbial Community Analysis Of Lake Chillisquaque, A Small Water System In Central Pennsylvania, Allison Mayhew Jan 2011

Microbial Community Analysis Of Lake Chillisquaque, A Small Water System In Central Pennsylvania, Allison Mayhew

Honors Theses

Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic organisms that require the absorption of light for the completion of photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria can use a variety of wavelengths of light within thevisible light spectrum in order to harvest energy for this process. Many species of cyanobacteria have light-harvesting proteins that specialize in the absorption of a small range of wavelengths oflight along the visual light spectrum; others can undergo complementary chromatic adaptation and alter these light-harvesting proteins in order to absorb the wavelengths of light that are mostavailable in a given environment. This variation in light-harvesting phenotype across cyanobacteria leads to the utilization of environmental niches …

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Comparative Study Of Informal Health Care Networks And Elderly Health Status In Argentina And Cuba, Ava Ginsberg Jan 2011

Comparative Study Of Informal Health Care Networks And Elderly Health Status In Argentina And Cuba, Ava Ginsberg

Honors Theses

The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of informal care support networks on the health status, life satisfaction, happiness and anxiety of elderly individuals in Argentina and Cuba. Recent economic changes, demographic changes, the structure of families and changes in women?s labor participation have affected the availability of informal care. Additionally, the growing number of elderly as a percentage of total population has significant implications for both formal and informal care in Argentina and Cuba. Methods: The SABE - Survey on Health, Well-Being, and Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2000 was used as the data …

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Power To The Panza!: Feminist Body Politics In The Panza Monologues (Video Performance Review), Patricia Herrera Jan 2011

Power To The Panza!: Feminist Body Politics In The Panza Monologues (Video Performance Review), Patricia Herrera

Theatre and Dance Faculty Publications

Grise relates to the audience with another dose of humor when she attempts to suck in her panza to fit into a pair of jeans. Alas, after all the jumping and tugging to fit into the jeans, Grise faces her biggest challenge: the roll of flesh bulging out from the zipper. Here, handy dandy pliers are brought to the rescue. She uses them to pull up the zipper and then victoriously stuffs the panza into her pants. This triumphant moment reveals women’s obsession with controlling and literally constraining the body so as to succumb to the hourglass figure young women …

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Digital Curation Education In Practice: Catching Up With Two Former Fellows, Samantha Guss, Lisa Gregory Jan 2011

Digital Curation Education In Practice: Catching Up With Two Former Fellows, Samantha Guss, Lisa Gregory

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

From 2008-2010, as part of the grant: ‘DigCCurr I: Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum’ (DigCCurr I) funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a number of fellows at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) were comprehensively trained by library and archive professionals in digital curation theory and practice. This paper examines the curriculum skill areas matrix of the DigCCurr I program from the perspective of two former fellows, now employed in professional positions that utilize digital curation principles. Each …

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Democratization In Sub-Saharan Africa: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Ashley W. Munetsi Jan 2011

Democratization In Sub-Saharan Africa: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Ashley W. Munetsi

CMC Senior Theses

Democracy's advance on the African continent has been mixed, this article analyzes three countries which reflect this situation. Ghana represents the good, a country now considered a liberal democracy; Kenya represents the bad, although possessing the right conditions to advance its democracy the country has slid into an ambiguous zone; the Democratic Republic of Congo represents the ugly, after showing initial promise it still has significant issues halting its burgeoning democratic progress. These three countries represent the prototypical situations facing democratizing Sub-Saharan countries and analyzing them can inform what factors aid or have hindered democratic progress not only for them …

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Health Care Reform's Effect On Private Medical Practices, Spencer R. Clark Jan 2011

Health Care Reform's Effect On Private Medical Practices, Spencer R. Clark

CMC Senior Theses

In March of 2010, the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, signed into law a health care reform bill that will change the medical and business approach to healthcare that has been witnessed for quite some time. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aims to eliminate several inefficiencies encountered in our current health care system, as well as extend coverage by providing affordable care for the roughly forty six million Americans currently uninsured. Many of the changes will be implemented over the next several years, but hospitals, businesses, physicians, and insurance companies are no doubt planning …

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Race And American Indian Tribal Nationhood, Matthew L.M. Fletcher Jan 2011

Race And American Indian Tribal Nationhood, Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Wyoming Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Contaminating The Superfund: Arranger Liability And The Evolution Of Cercla's Not-So-Strict Liability, Katrina J. Brown Jan 2011

Contaminating The Superfund: Arranger Liability And The Evolution Of Cercla's Not-So-Strict Liability, Katrina J. Brown

Wyoming Law Review

No abstract provided.

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A Fatter Butt Equals A Skinnier Wallet: Why Workplace Wellness Programs Discriminate Against The Obese And Violate Federal Employment Law, Steven C. Sizemore Jan 2011

A Fatter Butt Equals A Skinnier Wallet: Why Workplace Wellness Programs Discriminate Against The Obese And Violate Federal Employment Law, Steven C. Sizemore

Wyoming Law Review

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First, Do No Harm: Response To “If You Prick Me”, Patricia A. Broussard Jan 2011

First, Do No Harm: Response To “If You Prick Me”, Patricia A. Broussard

Journal Publications

Brianna Lennon makes several cogent and persuasive arguments about Female Genital Mutilation (“FGM”) in her recently published Student Note entitled, If You Prick Me: The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Female Genital Cutting Policy Turnabout. She successfully articulates why she believes that by prohibiting FGM, opponents are in effect reinforcing it as a tie to the former culture or country. However, although Ms. Lennon makes some sound points, she overlooks and thereby, fails to answer the most obvious question which is, who owns a woman’s body? If one reaches the conclusion that a woman owns her body, then the logical extension …

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The Coal Miners Have Taken Care Of Us: Let's Now Take Care Of The Coal Miners, Priscilla Norwood Harris Jan 2011

The Coal Miners Have Taken Care Of Us: Let's Now Take Care Of The Coal Miners, Priscilla Norwood Harris

Journal Publications

For over a hundred years, coal has helped power America's economy.' In short, without coal mining no industrial revolution would have occurred. "Coal fueled the new industrial capitalism."' Moreover, from the very beginnings of industrialization in the United States, "Appalachian coal and other fossil fuels have fired the engine of American industry,"' and it was Appalachian coking coal that helped make the steel America needed.' Coal transformed the United States into "an industrial superpower from a virtual wilderness."" This massive use of coal has come at a price to the miners." The death and injury rate from mining is matched …

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Beware Of Wooden Nickels: The Paradox Of Florida's Legislative Overreaction In The Wake Of Kelo, Ann Marie Cavazos Jan 2011

Beware Of Wooden Nickels: The Paradox Of Florida's Legislative Overreaction In The Wake Of Kelo, Ann Marie Cavazos

Journal Publications

This article addresses Florida's reaction to the United States Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London. In Kelo, the Court provided a more expansive view of "the public use" of the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause to include taking property from one private owner and transferring it to a corporation or non-private citizen when the transfer is deemed by the lawmakers to be in the public good or for a public purpose. Florida, together with several other states, concluded that such eminent domain takings, while constitutionally permissible, offend the states' sense of fair play as it relates to …

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Benevolent Assistance Or Bureaucratic Burden?: Promoting Effective Haitian Reconstruction, Self-Governance, And Human Rights Under The Right To Development, Jeffery M. Brown Jan 2011

Benevolent Assistance Or Bureaucratic Burden?: Promoting Effective Haitian Reconstruction, Self-Governance, And Human Rights Under The Right To Development, Jeffery M. Brown

Journal Publications

This Article examines the capacity of regional organizations to coordinate foreign assistance and development programs in underdeveloped states, and in doing so, to promote the transformation of the Right to Development (RTD) - which stresses the right of nations and their people to progress in a manner that insures their ability to meet basic material, security and social needs -from conceptual template to a binding normative framework under international law. As the poorest state in the western hemisphere, but also the recipient of significant influxes of foreign aid, Haiti exemplifies the underdevelopment dilemma. For despite the large sums of aid …

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Turner V. Staker And Parson Companies : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 2011

Turner V. Staker And Parson Companies : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

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Utah V. David Q. Poulsen : Reply Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 2011

Utah V. David Q. Poulsen : Reply Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appeal from an order of restitution from convictions for participating in a pyramid scheme, class B misdemeanors, in the Fourth Judicial District Court of Utah, Utah County, the Honorable Steven L. Hansen presiding.

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Susie Strohm And Dorsey And Whitney, Llp V. Clearone Communications, Inc. : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 2011

Susie Strohm And Dorsey And Whitney, Llp V. Clearone Communications, Inc. : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

APPEAL FROM THE ORDERS AND JUDGMENT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, HONORABLE ROBERT K. HILDER, CASE NO. 080917500

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Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency, Aka Utopia V. Chris Hogan : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 2011

Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency, Aka Utopia V. Chris Hogan : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

ON APPEAL FROM THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY The Honorable Joseph C. Fratto, Jr., District Court Judge, Presiding District Court Case Civil No. 110909414.

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Respect For Me But Not For Thee: Reflections On The Impact Of Same-Sex Marriage On Education, Charles J. Russo Jan 2011

Respect For Me But Not For Thee: Reflections On The Impact Of Same-Sex Marriage On Education, Charles J. Russo

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

Examples of the ramifications of same-sex marriage in education are beginning to emerge whether in K-12 public or non-public schools or higher education. In K-12 schools, controversies have surfaced over whether school officials can use gay friendly curricular material for young children, 15 whether religiously affiliated non-public schools are obligated to enroll children who are being raised by couples in same-sex unions, 16 and whether students can bring same-sex dates to proms. 17 In like manner, disputes have arisen in higher education, particularly in the context of graduate counseling programs where two students unsuccessfully challenged their dismissals for professing their …

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Repugnant Aboriginality: Leanne Howe’S Shell Shaker And Indigenous Representation In The Age Of Multiculturalism, Monika Siebert Jan 2011

Repugnant Aboriginality: Leanne Howe’S Shell Shaker And Indigenous Representation In The Age Of Multiculturalism, Monika Siebert

English Faculty Publications

Surprisingly for a novel evidently invested in representations of contemporary Choctaw traditionalism as a viable alternative to settler society, LeAnne Howe’s 2001 Shell Shaker gives unrelenting play to the gruesomeness, horror even, of the traditional rituals it depicts, at the risk of reinforcing stereotypes of Indian savagery. And yet, these depictions of the repugnant, that is, of ancient practices now prohibited by law or found reprehensible by a public sense of ethics, allow Howe to escape the integrative thrust of contemporary multiculturalism by pre-emptying identification through difference, an interpretive logic according to which we are all the same because we …

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Institutional Divergence In Economic Development, Jonathan B. Wight Jan 2011

Institutional Divergence In Economic Development, Jonathan B. Wight

Economics Faculty Publications

The Anglo-American capitalist model (AACM) encompasses a set of theories and policies that advance the classical objectives of individual autonomy, wealth acquisition, and economic growth. In the twentieth century, the neoclassical goal of short-run Pareto efficiency was added yet remains in possible tension with these other aims. The AACM generally upholds the primacy of markets as the means for achieving its normative ideals through private, decentralized actions, with some exceptions. In the modern political arena this ideology is associated with the Reagan-Thatcher revolution of the 1980s and provides a framework for many who oppose statist solutions to social problems (Steger …

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Efficacy Of Fixed Infrared Thermography For Identification Of Subjects With Influenza-Like Illness, Christopher M. Hinnerichs Jan 2011

Efficacy Of Fixed Infrared Thermography For Identification Of Subjects With Influenza-Like Illness, Christopher M. Hinnerichs

Harold L. Hodgkinson Award for Outstanding Dissertation

Due to pandemic threats and the occurrence of biological terrorism, technological advancements are being vetted, developed, and implemented as part of surveillance systems and tools. A potential surveillance tool is infrared thermography (IRT), and its efficacy for screening was the focus of this dissertation. IRT-screened participants' temperatures were compared to laboratory diagnostics to confirm the presence or absence of influenza-like illness (ILI). An archival dataset of personnel on United States Navy and Marine vessels that were identified as exceeding an ILI threshold limit provided the data for the 320 study participants. Using a guiding thermo-science framework, derived from past IRT …

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Physiologic Capacity As A Predictor Of Postoperative Complications And Associated Costs In Three Types Of Oncological Surgeries, Vicky D. Woodruff Jan 2011

Physiologic Capacity As A Predictor Of Postoperative Complications And Associated Costs In Three Types Of Oncological Surgeries, Vicky D. Woodruff

Harold L. Hodgkinson Award for Outstanding Dissertation

An estimated 12 million individuals undergoing non-cardiac surgery in the United States each year will experience postoperative complications. The costs of complications are manifested in the growing healthcare economic burden and patients' reduced quality of life, future economic productivity, and shortened long-term survival. This research is grounded in a conceptual framework derived from literature in physiologic capacity and stress. The purpose of the study was to test the hypothesis that physiologic capacity is a predictor of postoperative complications and associated costs in three types of oncological surgery (esophagectomy, hepatectomy, and radical cystectomy). Data analysis strategies included forward step-wise binary logistic …

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Nitrogen Oxides In The Firn Air At Summit, Greenland, Claudia Toro Jan 2011

Nitrogen Oxides In The Firn Air At Summit, Greenland, Claudia Toro

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

Measurements of NOx within the snowpack at Summit, Greenland were carried out from June 2008 to July 2010, using a novel system to sample firn air with minimal disruption of the snowpack. These long-term measurements were motivated by the need of improving the representation of air-snow interactions in global models. Results indicated that the NOx budget within the snowpack was on the order of 550 pptv as maximum, and was constituted primarily for NO2. NOx production was observed within the first 50 cm of the snowpack during the sunlight season between February and August. Presence of NOx at larger depths …

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Vulcan Historical Review 15 (Front Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff Jan 2011

Vulcan Historical Review 15 (Front Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

No abstract provided.

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Twentieth Century Alabama Agriculture: Sharecropping, Agribusinesses , And Direct Marketing, Josh Hodge Jan 2011

Twentieth Century Alabama Agriculture: Sharecropping, Agribusinesses , And Direct Marketing, Josh Hodge

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 120-140

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Segregation And Sterilization: Reassessing Alabama's Eugenic Past, James M. Hurst Jan 2011

Segregation And Sterilization: Reassessing Alabama's Eugenic Past, James M. Hurst

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 51-69

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Florence Nightingale: Anticipating The Germ Theory Of Disease, Samuel 'Yana' Davis Jan 2011

Florence Nightingale: Anticipating The Germ Theory Of Disease, Samuel 'Yana' Davis

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 30-50

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