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Technical Standards For Admission To Medical Schools: Deaf Candidates Don't Get No Respect, Michael A. Schwartz

College of Law - Faculty Scholarship

Medical schools utilize a set of technical standards used to screen applicants with disabilities, and one of the standards, which deals with communication, requires the applicant to be capable of speech and hearing. To the extent that medical schools exclude an applicant with a hearing impairment on the ground that the applicant cannot hear and speak, such exclusion would be (and should be) a violation of federal law. Schools must engage in an individualized assessment of how a Deaf medical candidate would satisfy the communication standard. The notion of an “undifferentiated graduate,” where all graduates qualify for practice in any …

“School Sponsorship” And Hazelwood’S Protection Of Student Speech: Appropriate For All Curriculum Contexts? (White Paper), Adam Hoesing

Nebraska Law Bulletin (Selected Issues)

This article addresses whether and to what extent the First Amendment protects student speech when students select or discuss a particular topic as part of curriculum that allows students to freely and sovereignly choose their desired substantive topic. Specifically, this article addresses the applicability of the First Amendment protection provided by Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, protection that allows a school to censor speech “in school-sponsored activities so long as [the school’s] actions are reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns.” Part II provides and explains the pertinent federal jurisprudence, obligatorily starting with Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, …

'How's My Doctoring?' Patient Feedback's Role In Assessing Physician Quality, Ann Marie Marciarille

Faculty Works

A society-wide consumer revolution is underway with the rise of online user-generated review websites such as Yelp, Angie’s List, and Zagat. Service provider reviews are now available with an intensity and scope that attracts increasing numbers of reviewers and readers. Health care providers are not exempt from this new consumer generated scrutiny though they have arrived relatively late to the party and as somewhat unwilling guests.

The thesis of this article is that online patient feedback on physicians is relevant and valuable even though it is also uncomfortable for health care providers. This is because the modern physician-patient relationship is …

Early Human Vocalization Development: A Collection Of Studies Utilizing Automated Analysis Of Naturalistic Recordings And Neural Network Modeling, Anne Sanda Warlaumont

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Understanding early human vocalization development is a key part of understanding the origins of human communication. What are the characteristics of early human vocalizations and how do they change over time? What mechanisms underlie these changes? This dissertation is a collection of three papers that take a computational approach to addressing these questions, using neural network simulation and automated analysis of naturalistic data.The first paper uses a self-organizing neural network to automatically derive holistic acoustic features characteristic of prelinguistic vocalizations. A supervised neural network is used to classify vocalizations into human-judged categories and to predict the age of the child …

Becoming Isis: Myth, Magic, Medicine, And Reproduction In Ancient Egypt, Chrystal Elaine Goudsouzian

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In ancient Egypt, sexuality, fertility, and the conception of children was of central importance not just to personal identity, but also to family and social structure. Because of the significance of birth in both the physical world and in the spiritual realm, references to reproduction, including fertility, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth, can be found in a wide variety of textual sources. Specifically, mythic events and scenarios, including those in magical spells, medico-magical spells, and funerary texts, reflected Egyptian reproductive conceptions and practices. Further, the Egyptians employed and called on these mythic episodes and archetypes to create divinely charged myth-mirroring space, …

The Rhetorical Situation Of Facebook, Justin L. Suiter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The online social network Facebook is a site of ocnsiderable rhetorical activity. Because it exists at the frontier of Web 2.0 or "new media" technology, this rhetorical activity has certain novel features that require an expansion of the concept of rhetorical situation. I apply Lloyd Bitzer's original theory of rhetorical situation to the context of Facebook in order to highlight the ways in which technological advances and shifts in theory necessitate a broader understanding of rhetorical situations. I argue that two of Bitzer's three essential elements, constraints and audience, are applicable to Facebook but must be adapted to suit its …

The Freedom Faith Speeches Of Prathia L. Hall: Uncovering A Hybrid Rhetoric Of Protest, Mittie K. Carey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Cultural hybridity is most prevalently revealed in cultures where racism starkly exists, according to Homi K. Bhabba. The Jim Crow culture if the South during the Civil Rights Movement was one such culture. To Bhabba, a hybridized racial identity emerges when two polarized cultures are thrown together. I alter his perspective by arguing that a hybridized rhetoric of protest emerged in the South before and during the Civil Rights Movement, as evinced by the freedom faith expressions of activist, womanist, professor, lecturer, and preacher Prathia L. Hall (1940-2002). Hall first coined the phrase, freedom faith, in 1997, but described it …

Figures Of Reading, Nathan K. Hensley

Criticism

Garrett Stewart, Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 268. $45.00 cloth.)

Piling Up, Or Floating Away, Vivian L. Huang

Criticism

The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy by David L. Eng. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. 198. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper.)

Lyric Poetry As Society, Michael Clune

Criticism

Infidel Poetics: Riddles, Nightlife, Substance, by Daniel Tiffany. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 254. $66.00 cloth, $24.00 paper.)

Preliminary Investigations Toward A Theory Of Pattern For Technology Design, Annalisa Aguilar

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

It is argued that today's scarcity of computer tools compatible with human experience derives from an antiquated dualistic model of mind, as passed down through the mid-20th century, during the early development of the computer and artificial intelligence, and up to the present day. Rather than settle for technology as inevitable and instead of depending upon worldviews that are no longer aligned with current empirical findings on human cognition, this thesis renders a broad imperative for a design theory informed by an ecological understanding of mind in society, with a worldview that reflects the historical development of technology as tools, …

A Fuzzy Based Load Frequency Control And Load Shedding Scheme For Islanded Distribution Network Connected With Mini-Hydro /Javed Ahmed Laghari, Ahmed Laghari Javed

Student Works (2010-2019)

Mini hydro power plant (MHPP) based DG is cost effective and environmental friendly resource for rural electrification schemes. The DG can be connected in parallel with grid to supply the increased load demand. However, in utility practice when load disturbance occurs in grid, DG is tripped-off. Due to this, DG capacity is not utilized efficiently. In order to utilize the DG capability, islanding need to be done. The islanding has a considerable advantage such as reliability improvement, blackout reduction. However, islanding operation is a challenging issue; if there is any unbalanced between load demand and power generation, the system frequency …

Interviewing The Interpretive Researcher: An Impressionist Tale, Rebecca K. Frels, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie

The Qualitative Report

In this manuscript, we describe the use of debriefing interviews for interviewing the interpretive researcher. Further, we demonstrate the value of using debriefing questions as part of a qualitative research study, specifically, one doctoral student’s dissertation study. We describe the reflexivity process of the student in her study and the debriefing data that were coded via qualitative coding techniques. Thus, we provide an exemplar of the debriefing process and the findings that emerged as a result. We believe that our exemplar of interviewing the interpretive researcher provides evidence of an effective strategy for addressing the crises of representation and legitimation …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, July 22, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2012

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, July 22, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2012

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Dryden in Revolutionary England (David Bywaters) (Reviewed by James A. Winn, University of Michigan)

Byron, the Bible, and Religion: Essays from the Twelfth International Byron Seminar (Wolf Z. Hirst) (Reviewed by Louis Finkelman, Wayne State University)

Erotic Faith: Being in Love from Jane Austen to D. H. Lawrence (Robert Polhemus) (Reviewed by Rachel M. Brownstein, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel (Ruth Bernard Yeazell) (Reviewed by Rachel M. Brownstein, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)

The Office of the Scarlet Letter (Sacvan Bercovitch) (Reviewed by Joseph G. Kronick, …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Against Deconstruction (John M. Ellis) (Reviewed by Jeffrey Williams, East Carolina University)

When the Moon Waxes Red. Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics (Trinh T. Minh-ha) (Reviewed by Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University)

Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (Patrick Brantlinger) (Reviewed by Ajay Heble, University of Guelph)

Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics (Bruce R. Smith) (Reviewed by Jonathan Crewe, Dartmouth College)

Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship (Michael C. Schoenfeldt) (Reviewed by Claude J. Summers, University of Michigan-Dearborn)

Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass (Michael Moon) (Reviewed by Patrick …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Critical Writings, 1953-1978 (Paul de Man) (Reviewed by Mark Conroy, Ohio State University)

Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the Literary Imagination (David Loewenstein) (Reviewed by Richard Halpern, University of Colorado, Boulder)

A Form of Sound Words: The Religious Poetry of Christopher Smart (Harriet Guest) (Reviewed by Clement Hawes, Souther Illinois University)

Keats's Poetry and the Politics of the Imagination (Daniel P. Watkins) (Reviewed by Grant F. Scott, Muhlenberg College)

Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and Rewriting (Richard C. Moreland) (Reviewed by Karl F. Zender, University of California, Davis)

Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form (Kathryn L. Lynch) (Reviewed by James F. G. Weldon, Wilfrid Laurier University)

The Death of Literature (Alvin Kernan) (Reviewed by Peter Erickson, Clark Art Institute)

Alternate Worlds: A Study of Postmodern Antirealistic American Fiction (John Kuehl) (Reviewed by Miriam Fuchs, University of Hawaii)

The Mode of Information. Poststructuralism and Social Context (Mark Poster) (Reviewed by Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University)

Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film (Robert Stam) (Reviewed by James Morrison, North Carolina State University)

Deleuze and Guattari (Ronald Bogue) (Reviewed by Martin E. Rosenberg, Arizona State …

Resources For Teachers: Commentaries, Wendell Willis

Leaven

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Nahum-Malachi: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary For Teaching And Preaching, Elizabeth Achtemeier, Mark Love

Leaven

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A Home For The Homeless: A Sociological Exegesis Of 1 Peter Its Situation And Strategy, John H. Elliott, Mark Love

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Caring And Commitment: Learning To Live The Love We Promise, Lewis Smedes, Mark Love

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Decision Making In The Church: A Biblical Model, Luke T. Johnson, Mark Love

Leaven

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Resident Aliens: Life In The Christian Colony, Stanley Hauerwas, William H. Willimon, Wendell Willis

Leaven

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The Cruciform Church: A Call For Biblical Renewal, C. Leonard Allen, Larry James

Leaven

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

English Faculty Research and Publications

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University Place

Syracuse University Magazine

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Killed Top To Bottom

Syracuse University Magazine

Lnle do the well-meaning faculty members of Whitten College understand that TV executive Matt Cobb is, in truth, a high-level corporate snoop and trouble-shooter. Cobb is the protaganist of five novels by William DeAndrea. A sixth is coming soon. The fictitious Whitten College, the town of Sewanka, and some of the characters featured in this story were first created for DeAndrea's Killed \o/'ith a Passion, published in 1983. Other Cobb books are Killed in the Ratings (1978), Killed in the Aa(1981), Passion, Killed on the Ice (1984), and Killed in Paradise (1988; due in paperback this summer). DeAndrea is the …

The Future Of Information Provision, D. J. Hillman

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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