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Criticism

Ben Jonson: A Life (David Riggs) (Reviewed by Michael McCanles, Marquette University)

Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage (Robert C. Evans) (Reviewed by Michael McCanles, Marquette University)

Coleridge and Wordsworth: A Lyrical Dialogue (Paul Magnuson) (Reviewed by Raimonda Modiano, University of Washington)

Romantic Texts and Contexts (Donald H. Reiman) (Reviewed by Michael Scrivner, Wayne State University)

Intervals of Inspiration, The Skeptical Tradition and the Psychology of Romanticism (Donald H. Reiman) (Reviewed by Michael Scrivner, Wayne State University)

L'Entreprise melodramatique (Julia Przybos) (Reviewed by Gerald Mead, Northwestern University)

The Bible Tells Them So: The Discourse of Protestant Fundamentalism (Kathleen C. …

Linfield College: Study Abroad In Senegal, Lacey Dean

Letters from Returnees: Sharing the Value of Study Abroad

This letter from returnee Lacey Dean explains the value of studying abroad in Senegal.

Quantity And Capacity Expansion Decisions For Ethanol In Nebraska And A Medium Sized Plant, Mahsa Khoshnoud

Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Corn-based ethanol is the leader of sustainable sources of energy in the United States due to the abundance of corn and the popularity of ethanol-gasoline mixes. Over the past decade, ethanol production has risen from 1.5 million gallons in 1999 to 13 million gallons in 2011. This increase in production requires expansion of ethanol plants. Since Nebraska is the second highest producer of ethanol, we focus our research on the expansion of ethanol plants in Nebraska.

The aim of this study is to develop an optimization model for capital investments in ethanol in Nebraska and a medium sized ethanol plant …

Product Pilot Report: Youth Savings Performance In Ghana, Kenya, And Nepal, Lissa Johnson, Yungsoo Lee, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Moses Njenga, Sharad Sharma

Center for Social Development Research

Product Pilot Report: Youth Savings Performance in Ghana, Kenya, and Nepal

Crossing The Lines: Masao Miyoshi's Trespasses, David Palumbo-Liu

Criticism

Trespasses: Selected Writings by Masa Miyoshi. Edited and with an introduction by Eric Cazdyn. Foreword by Fredric Jameson. (Post-Contemporary Interventions Series. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. 384. $26.95 paper.)

Technology In The Classroom: A Deweyan Perspective, Heather E. Davis

Kentucky Journal of Higher Education Policy and Practice

Approximately one hundred years ago, John Dewey responded to societal changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution by writing a philosophy of education that encouraged experiential learning. Like the Industrial Revolution, the Information Revolution has created similar need for an adjusted philosophy of education. This article explores the educational and pedagogical issues created by the Information Revolution through a Deweyan lens.

When Damage Is Constructive: Interactions Of Hurricane Damage Levels With Disturbance-Based Forests, Katherine Elise Correll

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Southern pine forests thrive on disturbance to remain in sub-climax species composition. Wind disturbance can affect both the health and species composition of forest vegetation and may force forests back to the sub-climax stage if the effects of hurricanes are managed properly. This work explores hurricane impacts on forest health. Post-hurricane change is classified by measuring two components of forest health and then assigning an outcome class based on the components. The components are vegetation health (NDVI) and forest composition. Using Landsat imagery to quantify baseline values, change is recorded for storms of different intensities. Findings classify storms as having …

A New Approach To Model The Spatial And Temporal Variability Of Recharge To Karst Aquifers, A. Hartmann, J. Lange, M. Weiler

KIP Articles

In karst systems, near-surface dissolution of carbonate rock results in a high spatial and temporal variability of groundwater recharge. To adequately represent the dominating recharge processes in hydrological models is still a challenge, especially in data scarce regions. In this study, we developed a recharge model that is based on a conceptual model of the epikarst. It represents epikarst heterogeneity as a set of system property distributions to produce not only a single recharge time series, but a variety of time series representing the spatial recharge variability. We tested the new model with a unique set of spatially distributed flow …

Validity Of Infact Race/Ethnicity From Birth Certificates In The Context Of U.S. Demographic Change, Lisa Reyes Mason, Yunju Nam, Youngmi Kim

Center for Social Development Research

In this study, we examined consistency of infant race/ethnicity across two data sources (N=2,63) using measures of sensitivity and positive predictive value. First we created and compared conventional measures of infant race/ethnicity from 2007 Oklahoma birth certificates and SEED for Oklahoma Kids baseline survey data, classifying infants as White, African American, American Indian, Asian, or Hispanic. Then we created and tested alternative measures with a biracial classification, based on biological parentage from birth certificates or parent report of infant biracial identity in the survey. We find that, for conventional measures, sensitivity is highest for Whites and African Americans and lowest …

Anti-Catholicism And The Gothic Imaginary: The Historical And Literary Contexts, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Orange Peal

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

University Place

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

A Place Of Uncertainty

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Orange Peal

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

University Place

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

University Place

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

On Our Short List

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Frequency Of Harassment, Intimidation, And Bullying By General Education Students Compared To Special Education Students, And The Implications Of Early Intervention For At Risk Students; Are Special Education Students More Likely To Be Involved In Hib Incidents Than Regular Unclassified Students?, Peter Spezzano

Theses and Dissertations

This study intended to determine the pervasiveness of bullying among middle school students, and the relationship with special education classification. The sample population investigated was composed of 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade middle school students. Archival data collected from four years of office disciplinary referrals provided the statistics to evaluate student classification and frequency of bullying. A two-way analysis of variance was conducted in order to examine the data. As hypothesized results revealed that there was a correlation between student special education classification and the rate of involvement in a bullying event. The research suggests that students classified as …

Change Factors Affecting Women In The Local Church, Kathy Pulley

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Laborers In The Lord: Romans 16 And The Women In Pauline Churches, Christopher Roy Hutson

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Britannia's Issue: The Rise of British Literature from Dryden to Ossian (Howard Weinbrot) (Reviewed by Alok Yadav, California Institute of Technology)

Rethinking Blake's Textuality (Molly Anne Rothenberg) (Reviewed by Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska)

The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story (John T. Irwin) (Reviewed by Scott Peeple, College of Charleston)

Laughing Screaming (William Paul) (Reviewed by Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Southwest Texas State University)

Conspiring with Forms: Life in Academic Texts (Terry Ceasar) (Reviewed by Patricia Bergh, Wayne State University)

The Sanaviz: Human Centered Geovisualization To Facilitate Visual Exploration Of Public Health Data, Ashish Joshi

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

These three manuscripts are presented as a PhD dissertation for the study of using GeoVis application to evaluate telehealth programs. The primary reason of this research was to understand how the GeoVis applications can be designed and developed using combined approaches of HC approach and cognitive fit theory and in terms utilized to evaluate telehealth program in Brazil.

First manuscript

The first manuscript in this dissertation presented a background about the use of GeoVisualization to facilitate visual exploration of public health data. The manuscript covered the existing challenges that were associated with an adoption of existing GeoVis applications.

The manuscript …

A Multi-Scale Approach For Characterizing Habitat Selection Of Tidal Creek Fish In Charlotte Harbor, Florida, Renee M. Duffey

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

This study supplemented existing fish catch data by assessing habitat characteristics in four tidal creeks in Charlotte Harbor. Habitat and fish data were analyzed to determine spatial patterns at three different spatial scales; at the smallest mesohabitat scale, between segments within each creek, and at the largest scale between creeks. Fish abundance and diversity were calculated from fish catch data collected by Mote Marine Laboratory from 2005 through 2009. Twenty-three habitat variables were derived from data collected during field surveys and via GIS analyses. Field sampling methodology was adapted from the MesoHABSIM approach to delineate eleven habitat types at the …

Maximizing Transmission Opportunities In Wireless Multihop Networks, Jeong-Yoon Lee, Chansu Yu, Kang G. Shin, Young-Joo Suh

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Being readily available in most of 802.11 radios, multirate capability appears to be useful as WiFi networks are getting more prevalent and crowded. More specifically, it would be helpful in high-density scenarios because internode distance is short enough to employ high data rates. However, communication at high data rates mandates a large number of hops for a given node pair in a multihop network and thus, can easily be depreciated as per-hop overhead at several layers of network protocol is aggregated over the increased number of hops. This paper presents a novel multihop, multirate adaptation mechanism, called multihop transmission opportunity …

The Bg News July 18, 2012, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. July 18, 2012. Volume 102-Issue 111.

Re-Examining Green Revolution Diffusion And Factor/Input Markets In Bangladesh After Market Liberalization, S Rahman, Ia Begum, Mj Alam

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This paper re‐examines the effect of green revolution (GR) diffusion on factor/inputs demand in Bangladesh using an empirical model that allows for simultaneous determination of factors influencing adoption of GR technology at the current mature stage, as well as access to irrigation. Results reveal some alignments with conventional wisdom as well as few surprises. For example, while an increased demand for major inputs is expected, an increased demand for organic manure is an unexpected positive outcome. The GR adoption rate is significantly higher in villages with access to irrigation and fertile soils and, surprisingly, in infrastructurally underdeveloped villages. Together with …

Entertainment & Sports - The Voices Of New York Sports, Charles Salzberg

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Dominican Resort Tourism, Sustainability, And Millennium Development Goals, Vinod Sasidharan, Marilyn E. Hall

Journal of Tourism Insights

The tourism industry continues to be touted as the main income and employment generator for Caribbean nations. In the Dominican Republic (DR), international tourism has become one of the largest industries and is a major contributor to the country’s economic growth. A recent trend in the DR is the development of luxurious residential resort complexes and private resort cities, mainly designed and created for foreign ownership. The Dominican government support for such projects has been very strong due to the economic propensity of these high-end resorts to assist the country in generating local opportunities for stable employment, creating basic infrastructure, …

Tourism, Agriculture, And Identity: Comparing Grenada And Dominica, Velvet Nelson

Journal of Tourism Insights

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between agriculture and tourism in the promotion of economic identity at the turn of the twentieth century and again at the turn of the twenty-first in the case of two Eastern Caribbean islands: Grenada and Dominica. From the beginnings of export-oriented agriculture in the Caribbean until recent decades, agriculture was the dominant economic activity in the islands. Consequently, the economic identity of these islands has also been tied to their agricultural produce. Initially the emphasis placed on sugarcane cultivation in the region gave rise to the idea of the “sugar …

Fine Scale Spatiotemporal Clustering Of Dengue Virus Transmission In Children And Aedes Aegypti In Rural Thai Villages, In-Kyu Yoon, Arthur Getis, Jared Aldstadt, Alan L. Rothman, Darunee Tannitisupawong, Constantianus J.M. Koenraadt, Thanyalak Fansiri, James W. Jones, Amy C. Morrison, Richard G. Jarmen, Ananda Nisalak, Mammen P. Mammen Jr., Suwich Thammapalo, Anon Srikiatkhachorn, Sharone Green, Daniel H. Libraty, Robert V. Gibbons, Timothy Endy, Chusak Pimgate, Thomas W. Scott

Institute for Immunology and Informatics Faculty Publications

Background: Based on spatiotemporal clustering of human dengue virus (DENV) infections, transmission is thought to occur at fine spatiotemporal scales by horizontal transfer of virus between humans and mosquito vectors. To define the dimensions of local transmission and quantify the factors that support it, we examined relationships between infected humans and Aedes aegypti in Thai villages.

Methodology/Principal Findings: Geographic cluster investigations of 100-meter radius were conducted around DENV-positive and DENV-negative febrile ‘‘index’’ cases (positive and negative clusters, respectively) from a longitudinal cohort study in rural Thailand. Child contacts and Ae. aegypti from cluster houses were assessed for DENV infection. …