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Emu Today, November 29, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

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“What Do You Think Of Bleak House?”: Dickens’S Serial Novels And Victorian Literary Fandom, Susan Jane Ballinger

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

The objective of this thesis was to explore the many ways in which original readers experienced Victorian serial novels. Because the novels were published in parts over an extended period of time, often more than a year, readers experienced events in the novels in what they perceived as real time. This produced in readers an emotional connection not only between the events and characters of the novels, but between the readers and authors. The intensity of readers’ involvement in these novels is illustrated by the letters they wrote to the authors asking for clues, offering suggestions and criticism, and pleading …

The Comment, November 29, 2012, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

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Portland's "Refugee From Occupied Hollywood": Andries Deinum, His Center For The Moving Image, And Film Education In The United States, Heather Oriana Petrocelli

Dissertations and Theses

Two years after Dutch émigré Andries Deinum was fired from the University of Southern California in 1955 for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee, he moved to Portland, Oregon to teach film courses through the Portland Extension Center. By 1969 he had become integral to the local film community and had formed Portland State University's Center for the Moving Image (CMI), where he and Tom Taylor taught film history, criticism, and production for the next thirteen years. Although CMI was eliminated in 1981 as part of PSU's financial exigency, CMI's teachers and students have been a vital …

Louie’S Lower Level Renovated And Ready For Student Life, University Relations

Campus News Archive

After undergoing renovations this summer, Louie’s Lower Level is again ready for use.

Agenda And Reports, Juvenile Welfare Board, November 29, 2012, Juvenile Welfare Board Of Pinellas County

Juvenile Welfare Board Agendas, Minutes, and Historical Audits

Agenda for the January 10, 2013, meeting of the Juvenile Welfare Board. Attached as supplemental files are previous meetings' minutes and reports to review before the meeting.

Daily Eastern News: November 29, 2012, Eastern Illinois University

November

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Ot Students Learn From Autism, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Gardner-Webb Student Exemplifies Success Through Involvement, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Gardner-Webb University senior Sara Phillips wears many hats and now, she’s added a crown to her list of impressive achievements. Recently named GWU’s 2012 Homecoming Queen, she is now preparing for her final semester at GWU, which will take her prioritizing skills to a new level as she balances student teaching, multiple volunteer roles, and service to 24 women who share an address at Decker Hall. For the last several semesters, Phillips has served as a resident advisor (RA) at Decker, an all-female residence hall in the center of the Gardner-Webb campus.

Influential Educators: Why Are They Remembered And What Can Be Learned From Them?, Jessica M. Butler

Senior Honors Theses

The purpose of this study is to examine the lives of seven educators and present a synopsis of their lives, educational beliefs, and how their practices are implemented in the modern classroom. The educators included are Socrates and Plato, Jesus Christ, Johann Pestalozzi, Fredrich Frobel, Maria Montessori, and Jamie Escalante. Each were considered great teachers of their time, and their practices be evaluated for effectiveness and then implemented into modern educational thinking.

The goal of addressing each educator individually is to look at what these educators have in common that all teachers should identify as effective practice. These commonalities may …

Usnh Officials Call For New Vision And Partnership With State, Matt Cookson

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, November 29, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff

November 2012

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, November 29, 2012, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The November 29, 2012, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Capital Markets Law No. 26,831, Argentine Republic

Documents

No abstract provided.

A New Approach To Safety Assessment At Gated Highway–Rail Grade Crossings, Zheng Luo

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

A significant number of pedestrians and bicyclists (i.e., non-motorists) use the roadway system in the U.S. Research pertaining to the safety of them, especially their safety at highway-rail grade crossings (HRGCs), has drawn much attention in the past decade, and remains an important issue of safety research. Yet, the majority of existing research has examined non-motorist safety at intersections or motorist safety at HRGCs separately. Such research has related primarily to exploring relationships between safety countermeasures (e.g., engineering devices, education, enforcement, etc.) and crash frequency/severity, using different quantitative analysis approaches. A primary limitation of these studies is that few have …

Unh Professors Named American Association For Advancement Of Science Fellows, Beth Potier

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

The Alestle - Vol. 65 No. 14 - 11/29/2012, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 65 No. 14

Contextos Y Prácticas En Las Humanidades Digitales, Joseba Moreno

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

La aplicación de la tecnología a los trabajos enmarcados en el campo de las humanidades y la creación de un nuevo conjunto de prácticas denominado humanidades digitales, es el tema principal de este trabajo, que pretende servir de introducción a algunas de las prácticas y metodologías más recientes en el ámbito académico.

The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, November 29, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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There's No Place Like Home: How Residential Attributes Affect Family Functioning, Carly Marie Thornock

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which actual (e.g., density and openness) and perceptual (e.g., crowding and distance) elements of the spatial home environment act as predictors of family functioning. Data were gathered from 126 families whose child was attending a university’s preschool/kindergarten facility in a mid-sized community in the Western United States. Structural equation modeling (SEM, AMOS 19.0) was employed to examine the strength of the relationships within the model. Results showed that though actual home items (specifically density and great room openness) affect family functioning outcomes, perceived crowding was especially influential as a …

Taking The Reins, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Amazing Parking Pleas From The Transportation Hall Of Fame, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Improving Rapid Prototyping Through The Installment Of 3d Printers In Automotive Companies, Kelly Mccarthy

Honors Theses

Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a relatively new form of additive manufacturing that has the potential to induce a second industrial revolution. This technology utilizes a print head to lay down raw materials in successive layers to fabricate a three dimensional object. There are several techniques in 3D printing, two of which will be discussed hi this proposal: fused deposition modeling (FDM), and inkjet/polyjet matrix 3D printing.

Although this technology has been around since the 1980s, it is constantly evolving and new materials, uses, and objects are created daily. This technology presents the potential to manufacture a variety of objects across …

Relationship Between Principals’ Sense Of Achievement And Teachers’ Perceptions Of Their Principals’ Leadership Behaviors, Javaid Siddiqi

Theses and Dissertations

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPALS’ SENSE OF ACHIEVEMENT AND TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR PRINCIPALS’ LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS By Javaid Siddiqi, Ph.D. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2012 Major Director: Cheryl Magill, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership School of Education The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between principals’ sense of achievement and teachers’ perceptions of their principals’ leadership behaviors. This was determined by examining job satisfaction of principals and leadership style using the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) and the School …

3d Double Difference Velocity Tomography Of The Middle America Subduction Zone Beneath Nicaragua And Costa Rica, Melissa M. Driskell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Waveform and arrival onset data collected on five amphibious arrays deployed along the Costa Rica-Nicaragua portion of the Middle America subduction zone are integrated to conduct high resolution velocity and location studies. Pick quality is evaluated using an automated arrival detection algorithm based on the wavelet transform and Akaike information criterion, resulting in revised pick weights for inversion studies. I explore the effect of new weighting and removal of poor data by relocating hypocenters through a minimum one dimensional velocity model and conducting double-difference local earthquake tomography (LET). Analysis of the hypocenter relocation and seismic velocity tomography results suggest that …

Using Computer Assisted Tomography To Acquire More Detailed Subject Specific Information For Kinematic Analysis, Devin J. Conner

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Experimental knee simulators have been used to study knee kinematics of total knee replacements (TKR) in cadaver knees. Kinematic results are often reported using a Joint Coordinate System (JCS) introduced by Grood & Suntay in 1983. The JCS relies on bone landmarks in the knee which are removed when a TKR is performed. While it may be expedient to use the closest equivalents of the landmarks from the TKR to build the JCS (rather than the actual anatomic landmarks) doing so may introduce errors that could lead to misinterpretation of the kinematic results. Cadaver studies were performed on two posterior …

The Relationship Of Campanian Paleoseismites In The Eagle Formation To Initial Laramide Deformation Of The Elk Basin Anticline, Wyoming And Montana, William Thomas Jackson Jr.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Paleoseismites occur throughout the Campanian package exposed in the Elk Basin anticline. Within marine units convolute-bedding typically involves single sandstone beds with vertical to overturned strata on either side of a near-vertical vent, whereas the non-marine Eagle Formation contains planar clastic dikes derived from liquefied sand-source beds. Liquefied sand was injected upward and laterally across mudstone and/or coal along pre-existing planar, near-vertical, near-surface joints. Orientations of 145 sandstone-dikes were compared with 61 previously reported Laramide joint-orientations. Although dike- and joint-trends are similar, dikes preferentially fill cross-joints whereas strike-joints are the dominant later Laramide joint-set. Dike orientations are consistent with their …

Washington State Dependency Best Practices Report, Justice Bobbe J. Bridge, Michelle Ressa, Jacob D'Annunzio, Hathaway Burden, Dr. Sheri L. Hill, Lisa Kelly, Rose Wentz

Books

The judge's work in child abuse and neglect cases is among the most challenging of any judicial proceeding. The complexities are substantial. Such cases depend upon the exercise of discretion and good judgment together with the application of sound legal principles. The judge must call upon his or her most cherished skills—objectivity, wisdom, patience, and foresight—in circumstances of acute stress. Lives are literally at stake—the lives of the most vulnerable children and youth in our communities and the lives of families wracked by generations of poverty and despair. Families, children, and youth who have experienced intense trauma; who may be …

The Genomes Of The Fungal Plant Pathogens Cladosporium Fulvum And Dothistroma Septosporum Reveal Adaptation To Different Hosts And Lifestyles But Also Signatures Of Common Ancestry., Pierre J.G.M. De Wit, Ate Van Der Burgt, Bilal Ökmen, Ionnis Stergiopulos, Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam, Andrea L. Aerts, Ali H. Bahkali, Henriek G. Beenen, Pranav Chettri, Murray P. Cox, Erwin Datema, Ronald P. De Vries, Braham Dhillon, Austen R. Ganley, Scott A. Griffiths, Yanan Guo, Richard C. Hamelin, Bernard Henrissat, M Shahjahan Kabir, Mansoor Karimi Jashni, Gert Kema, Sylvia Klaubauf, Alla Lapidus, Anthony Levasseur, Erika Lindquist, Rahim Mehrabi, Robin A. Ohm, Timothy J. Owen, Asaf Salamov, Arne Schwelm, Elio Schijlen, Hui Sun, Harrold A. Van Den Burg, Roeland C.H.J. Van Ham, Shuguang Zhang, Stephen B. Goodwin, Igor V. Grigoriev, Jérôme Collemare, Rosie E. Bradshaw

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology Faculty Publications

We sequenced and compared the genomes of the Dothideomycete fungal plant pathogensCladosporium fulvum (Cfu) (syn. Passalora fulva) and Dothistroma septosporum (Dse) that are closely related phylogenetically, but have different lifestyles and hosts. Although both fungi grow extracellularly in close contact with host mesophyll cells, Cfu is a biotroph infecting tomato, while Dse is a hemibiotroph infecting pine. The genomes of these fungi have a similar set of genes (70% of gene content in both genomes are homologs), but differ significantly in size (Cfu >61.1-Mb; Dse 31.2-Mb), which is mainly due to the difference in repeat content (47.2% …

The Eastern Echo, November 29, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.