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Fabrication And Characterization Of Synthetic Substrates For Use In Rigidity Cell Culture Studies Of Valvular Interstitial Cells For Aortic Valve Tissue Engineering, Alexander T. Leonard

Chemical and Biological Engineering ETDs

More than 100,000 Americans each year undergo aortic valve (AV) replacement due to valve failure. An AV can become diseased, impairing the proper function of the valve. Common treatments for a defective valve are either replacement with a decellularized biologic or a synthetic valve. These treatments options are limited by short functional lifetime and thrombogenic surfaces. Tissue engineered heart valve will have the ability to integrate with the surrounding tissue as well as to repair and remodel. However, a greater understanding of valve cell biology is required to induce analogous tissue formation. A diseased valve is associated with stiffening of …

"Exploring The Blind Spots: Snowblind Studios' 'The Lord Of The Rings' War In The North.'" Reviewed By Harley J. Sims., Harley J. Sims

Mythprint Book Reviews

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.

Conceptualising Cultural And Creative Spaces, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This paper reviews the literature on cultural and creative spaces, and examines its merits and shortcomings in helping to explain how culture and creativity in the city are supported. Alternative ways of conceptualising cultural and creative spaces which emphasise the importance of networks and multi-scalar relationships and non-economic considerations will be examined.

Novel Magnetite-Producing Magnetotactic Bacteria Belonging To The Gammaproteobacteria, Christopher T. Lefèvre, Nathan Viloria, Marian L. Schmidt, Mihály Pósfai, Richard B. Frankel, Dennis A. Bazylinski

Physics

Two novel magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) were isolated from sediment and water collected from the Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park and southeastern shore of the Salton Sea, respectively, and were designated as strains BW-2 and SS-5, respectively. Both organisms are rod-shaped, biomineralize magnetite, and are motile by means of flagella. The strains grow chemolithoautotrophically oxidizing thiosulfate and sulfide microaerobically as electron donors, with thiosulfate oxidized stoichiometrically to sulfate. They appear to utilize the Calvin–Benson–Bassham cycle for autotrophy based on ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO) activity and the presence of partial sequences of RubisCO genes. Strains BW-2 and SS-5 biomineralize chains of octahedral …

Bio+Terror: Science, Security, Simulation, Melanie Armstrong

American Studies ETDs

The United States government has spent more than $125 billion since 2001 to prepare the nation for bioterrorism. This dissertation examines the emergence of bioterrorism as a credible threat in the contemporary moment, considering how the preparedness practices of the security state constitute new biopolitical formations. To explore how changing ways of knowing disease and risk are reshaping communities, this multi-sited study investigates the material outcomes of biosecurity in people's lives. It shows how complex histories of disease and terror are remade in the modern age to bring about new spaces and forms of biological citizenship.Through interview, observation and detailed …

Impact Of Western Cultural Values As Presented In The Egyptian Movies, Mariam El Shenawi

Theses and Dissertations

The social identification and cultivation theories & the impact of Western cultural values as presented in the Egyptian movies: signs of the Western cultural values are noticed in some Egyptian movies. Watching television everyday affects the educated Egyptian’s perception of their culture and the Western culture. This study looks at the cultivation theory and social identification theory and their relation to educated Egyptian’s perception of the image of the US and Egypt. It examines the recent Egyptian movies reflection on the Egyptian lives’ details of eating, talking and speaking. The researcher uses cultivation and social identity theories to check how …

Idealized Images Of Science In Law: The Expert Witness In Trial Movies, David S. Caudill

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

Memperbincangkan Sejarah-Sejarah Mikro Disiplin Sosiologi, Geger Riyanto

Masyarakat: Jurnal Sosiologi

No abstract provided.

Ucc Minutes January 26, 2012, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Generation Of Memory: Reflections On The “Memory Boom” In Contemporary Historical Studies, Jay Winter

Canadian Military History

Jay Winter delivered the following in the form of a lecture at the Canadian War Museum on 31 October 2000. A distinguished academic, Winter has been writing about the cultural history of the First World War for nearly three decades. He has taught at the University of Cambridge in England and is presently at Yale University. Since 1988, he has been a director of the Historial de la grande guerre in Peronne, an important war museum in northern France. In this capacity, he has become familiar with a great many institutions of war and military history around the world and …

On The Four Dimensions Of Cross-Cultural Aesthetic Appreciation, Qingben Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

According to Eliot Deutsch's studies in Comparative Aesthetics, the four dimensions of cross-cultural aesthetic appreciation are Cultural-Authorial Weltanschauung, Cultural-Authorial Aesthetic Preference, Formal Content and Symbolic Values. We will encounter many difficulties when appreciating the works of art from other cultures because of cultural differences. However, the four dimensions can help us overcome these obstacles, thus making possible our better understanding of the aesthetic features of the works of art. Comparative aesthetics is not to weigh the supremacy of the Chinese art or the Western art, nor to take the work of art as proof to cultural differences, but to find …

Reflections OnThe Cambridge History Of Chinese Literature: An Interview With Professor Stephen Owen, Min Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The author interviewed Professor Stephen Owen regarding The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature. The issues covered in the interview include the origins of the Western literary history and Chinese literary history, the stages and modes of writing Chinese literary histories,the interrelationships between literary historiography and intellectual history, and the new perspectives of literary historiography. The interview focuses on the new notions of "the Cultural Tang" and "discursive communities" proposed by Owen and elaborates their theoretical and methodological implications.

A Study Of F. R Leavis's Cultural Criticism, Xiangchun Meng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

F. R. Leavis was the most influential and controversial critic and one of the forerunners of cultural criticism in the 20th century Britain. His cultural criticism is the point of departure for his literary criticism, which in turn aims for cultural and social health. Leavis's cultural criticism comprises mainly of the conception of the "organic community", the theorization of "minority culture" and the promotion of "literary culture" and the criticism of the "Technologico-Benthamite" culture, the first three of which form the core of his cultural ideals. A better understanding of Leavis's cultural criticism may illuminate our reflections on the cultural …

From The Subaltern To The Precariat, During Simon

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This essay argues that, given the global dominance of neo-liberal capitalism, the concept of the subaltern now needs to be replaced by that of the precariat, a term first used by Pierre Bourdieu. It further argues that the category of the subaltern emerged in key post-disciplines of cultural studies, postcolonialism and subaltern studies, all of which themselves belong to the aftermath of the West's 1968 revolutions. In our era of global capitalism, their usefulness is in decline. Indeed the precariat is a broader category than the subaltern since it covers not just those who live on the margins of the …

Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, January 25, 2012, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Minutes from the January 25, 2012, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.

Foreign Language Careers For International Business And The Professions, Ronald C. Cere

Global Advances in Business Communication

The U.S. work and market places are becoming more global, multilingual, and multicultural in nature and are making foreign language and cultural studies, particularly those of Asia and Latin America, an important part of career planning and development. Many jobs demand knowledge of one or more languages and their attendant cultures and require experience in international and/or cross cultural areas. They also demand specialized interdisciplinary training such as that offered at many schools, colleges, and universities, and encourage internships that can lead to promising careers. Job sources for foreign language-based careers also abound and with guidance and research can be …

Effects Of Culture And Education On Ethical Responses On Our Global Society, Deborah Reed Scarfino, Kelli J. Schutte, Christina Pryor Comiskey, Tanna White Campbell

Global Advances in Business Communication

Two trends that affect communications are prevalent today: a focus on ethics in the U.S. business operations and an increasingly global society and marketplace. This research project brings together these trends to gain a more in-depth understanding of the impact of culture on ethical education. By surveying students in six countries around the globe, this study was able to get at the divergent cultural frameworks utilized in ethical decision making. The results offer a significant contribution to our understanding of the cross-cultural implications on ethical values in the business context. This understanding provides unique insights into ethics education and the …

A Postmodern International Business Communication Model In Three-Dimensions, Jane Thompson Johansen

Global Advances in Business Communication

Representational models of communication behavior have been created in the United States to describe specific communication problems since the early 1940’s when communication science was recognized as a separate social science. The three-dimensional model presented here describes the intricacies of 21st century international business communication. Its creation rests on three requirements demanded by current communication speed and technical communication capabilities. First, the model treats culture as a characteristic of communicators. Second, it discusses the dynamism or changes in communicators and the message itself. Third, it also describes the education of international communicators as they recontextualize their cultures to match each …

Eng 3009g-003: Myth And Culture, C Wharram

Spring 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 3009g-002: Myth And Culture, C Wharram

Spring 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 4801-001: Integrating The English Language Arts, Melissa Ames

Spring 2012

No abstract provided.

School Communities, Historical Narratives And Reconciliation In Eastern Slavonia, Borislava Manojlovic

Conflict, Memory, and Reconciliation: Bridging past, present, and future

Discourses, historical memories and traumas that emerged from the processes of Croatian state and nation formation, war and transition towards peace marked tectonic changes in status and relationships between Croat and Serb communities. Even sixteen years after the war has ended, stereotyping, absence of crossgroup friendships and lack of intergroup interaction highlights the divide between the two communities, particularly in school contexts. This study seeks to explore how contested historical discourses are mediated and reconstructed at the grassroots level through interaction in school communities (by which I mean students, teachers and parents) in Eastern Slavonia (Croatia), how these processes influence …

Returning To Santiago: City, Imagination & Memory, Sergio Fiedler

Conflict, Memory, and Reconciliation: Bridging past, present, and future

As a result of war and state repression, exile has become one of the most significant and massive process of social and cultural dislocation of the Twentieth Century , producing diasporas of truly nomadic subject with very singular experiences of social space and time, of memory and imagination. This problematic has been recently addressed by social theorists and academic researchers within both Anthropology and Cultural Studies. Through the use of semiotic phenomenology as a method and the construction of an auto-ethnographic narrative, this paper attempts to give a situated account of the reconstruction of memory and imagination drawing my own …

Constructivist Theory And Overcoming The Gender Gap In Education In Latin America, Kristen Staib

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Families' Experiences With Palliative Care Services Of Children With Cancer In Lebanon, May Naifeh Khoury, Huda Abu-Saad Huijer, Myrna Abi Abdallah Doumit

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Background: the impact of childhood cancer on the family has been studied in different cultures and continues to be an object of study and concern. In Lebanon, a country of 4 million people 282 new pediatric cases age <20 years were reported in 2004. Objectives: the purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of Lebanese families living with a child with cancer and receiving palliative care(PC) in a major referring center in Beirut.

Method: The study followed purposeful sampling and saturation principles in which 12 parents (mother or father) of a child with cancer were interviewed. Data were analyzed following hermeneutical process as described by Diekelmann and Ironsides (1998).

Results: A phenomenological approach was used to gain a deeper understanding of the experience of families of children with cancer. Five themes emerged from the data …

Women Count, Jeff Miller

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Teaching Digital History Through The University Archives: The Case Of Nebraska U: A Collaborative History, Peterson Brink, Mary Ellen Ducey, Andrew Jewell, Douglas Seefeldt

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Nebraska U: A Collaborative History (http://unlhistory.unl.edu) is a collaboration between faculty and staff in Archives and Special Collections (Brink, Ducey, and Jewell) and the department of History (Seefeldt). This project engages undergraduates in archival research, historical synthesis, and digital project creation.

Nebraska U uses digital technology to provide a research framework for students exploring the way the study of history is transformed using new media publication forms. Specifically, students in Dr. Seefeldt's "Digital History" course selected a topic from the history of the University; worked with Archives staff to locate materials and thoroughly research that topic; selected items …

Does More Mean Better? An Examination Of Visual Product Presentation In E-Retailing, Sarah Song Southworth

Faculty Publications - College of Business

Because of the intangible nature of online shopping, consumers perceive online shopping as being risky. This study examined how this risk can be reduced specifically by using a more effective online product presentation method. A combination of the number of product views (one and four) and size (small and large) of the product image were used to examine their influence on consumer’s mental intangibility and perceived amount of information, in which the two constructs ultimately influence perceived risk and patronage intentions. The results from the study showed that both product displays influenced mental intangibility even though an interaction effect did …

Book Review: Developmental Fairy Tales, Nicole Kwoh

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

At the 1996 APEC Economic Leaders Meeting, Jiang Zemin concluded his speech on economic development with a quote from Lu Xun: “For actually the earth had no road to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made” (1921). This quote highlights the important role played by the first generation of modern Chinese literature in shaping the current rhetoric of building a road to progress. In Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture, Andrew F. Jones explains the construction of this ubiquitous concept of cultural and historical progress. With a focus on Lu …

Lecturas De Aceptación Y De Rechazo De La Serie Norteamericana Lost Entre Jóvenes De Monterrey, México., Beatriz Elena Inzunza Acedo

Global Media Journal México

La presente investigación es un estudio de recepción de jóvenes regiomontanos con respecto a los tipos de lecturas que presentan de la serie norteamericana “Lost”. El método utilizado fue el de grupos de discusión y se contó con la participación de 29 jóvenes estudiantes y graduados de universidad en cinco sesiones distintas. Bajo la perspectiva teórica de Estudios Culturales, se utiliza como base al modelo propuesto en 1999 por Palmer y Hafen, cuyas categorías de lecturas son: aceptación ingenua, aceptación sofisticada, rechazo sofisticado y deconstrucción. Los resultados demuestran nuevos matices al modelo, además de las categorías de rechazo ingenuo y …