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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America (Michael L. Morgan)
Poetry after Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew (Susan Gubar)
Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics (Berel Lang) (Reviewed by Naomi Mandel, University of Rhode Island)

Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics, and Literary Culture, 1630–1685 (James Grantham Turner) (Reviewed by Harold Weber, University of Alabama)

Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in British Literature, 1720–1850 (Rajani Sudan) (Reviewed by Robert Anderson, Oakland University)

Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770–1840: "From an Antique Land," (Nigel Leask) (Reviewed by Donald Ross, University of Minnesota) …

Second Reaction: You Have Seven Messages In The Middle School Classroom, Jason Splichal

First Opinions, Second Reactions

No abstract provided.

Negotiating Teaching Mathematics In English Medium Schools In Tanzania: A Case Study, Lisa Kasmer, Paige Laurain

Colleagues

No abstract provided.

Structural Analysis And Auditing Of Snomed Hierarchies Using Abstraction Networks, Yue Wang

Dissertations

SNOMED is one of the leading healthcare terminologies being used worldwide. Due to its sheer volume and continuing expansion, it is inevitable that errors will make their way into SNOMED. Thus, quality assurance is an important part of its maintenance cycle.

A structural approach is presented in this dissertation, aiming at developing automated techniques that can aid auditors in the discovery of terminology errors more effectively and efficiently. Large SNOMED hierarchies are partitioned, based primarily on their relationships patterns, into concept groups of more manageable sizes. Three related abstraction networks with respect to a SNOMED hierarchy, namely the area taxonomy …

Advanced Intelligent Control And Optimization For Cardiac Pacemaker Systems, Wei Shi

Dissertations

Since cardiovascular diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality in the developed countries and the number one cause of death in the United States, their accurate diagnosis and effective treatment via advanced cardiac pacemaker systems have become very important. Intelligent control and optimization of the pacemakers are significant research subjects. Serious but infrequently occurring arrhythmias are difficult to diagnose. The use of electrocardiogram (ECG) waveform only cannot exactly distinguish between deadly abnormalities and temporary arrhythmias. Thus, this work develops a new method based on frequency entrainment to analyze pole-zero characteristics of the phase error between abnormal ECG and entrained …

2012 Printed Program, Taylor University

Colloquium Schedules

No abstract provided.

Faculty Retirement Recognition Dinner 2012, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Retirement Recognition Dinner Program

May 31, 2012

Honored Guests:

• Roberta Allen
• Elizabeth Amidon
• Thomas Bailey
• Ellen Brinkley
• Ronald Chase
• David Cowan
• Curtis Curtis-Smith
• James Daniels
• Linda Dannison
• Eileen Evans
• Jaimy Gordon
• Martin Grant
• Bruce Haight
• Bassam Harik
• Suzanne Hedstrom
• Charles Hines
• Catherine Julien
• Trent Kynaston
• Hanjoon Lee
• Mary Lu Light
• Frederick MacDonald
• Von Washington

Class Notes, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

Excerpt: "It is my distinct pleasure to announce that all of the eagles in the inaugural flock of the Eagle Nation on Parade public art project were sold and will soon be displayed in the community."

A Note On Jesuits And Philippine Languages, 1581-1900, Patria G. Arañas

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Baseball Falls in Semifinals
• News
• Opinions
• Arts
• Sports
• Classifieds
• Puzzles/ Comics

Gay And Lesbian Health Disparities: Evidence And Recommendations For Elimination, M. R. Barker

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice

Research suggests that significant health disparities exist among the gay and lesbian population in the United States. These disparities impact both the short- and long-term health outcomes of this population. This study first provides a current literature review of available research on gay and lesbian health disparities and organizes these findings according to health topic. The paper then investigates recommendations for the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities and examines their applicability in eliminating sexual minority disparities. While many recommendations are valid, this paper analyzes the six thought to have the greatest potential in eliminating gay and lesbian health …

Educating And Empowering Elders: Improving The Health Of Senior Latino Diabetics Through Community Collaboration, G. D. Cleghorn, Jean Lussier, Martha Velez, Marianna Canovitch, Marilyn Licciardello, Sarah Stanlick

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice

According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death among Americans.1 As of 2005, estimates indicate 20.8 million people – 7 percent of the population – afflicted by diabetes, 6.2 million of which are undiagnosed. 1 While diabetes is a growing problem for the United States as a whole, older, poverty-stricken Latinos and other minority groups have felt the encumbrance of this trend most intensely.2 In Massachusetts, the burden of diabetes among Caribbean Latinos is 11.8 percent, which is 2.5 times greater than the prevalence for the majority of the population in the state …

The Xbox 360 And Steganography: How Criminals And Terrorists Could Be "Going Dark", Ashley Podhradsky, Rob D’Ovidio, Cindy Casey

Annual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law

Video game consoles have evolved from single-player embedded systems with rudimentary processing and graphics capabilities to multipurpose devices that provide users with parallel functionality to contemporary desktop and laptop computers. Besides offering video games with rich graphics and multiuser network play, today's gaming consoles give users the ability to communicate via email, video and text chat; transfer pictures, videos, and file;, and surf the World-Wide-Web. These communication capabilities have, unfortunately, been exploited by people to plan and commit a variety of criminal activities. In an attempt to cover the digital tracks of these unlawful undertakings, anti-forensic techniques, such as steganography, …

Childlike: Queer Theory And Its Children, Michael Cobb

Criticism

Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale (Kenneth B. Kidd)
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Lee Edelman)
Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children (ed. Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley)

Book Review, Criticism Editors

Criticism

History of Shit (Dominique Laporte; Trans. Nadia Benabid and Rodolphe el-Khoury) (Reviewed by Davis Schneiderman, Lake Forest College)

Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law (Hal Gladfelder) (Reviewed by Craig Dionne, Eastern Michigan University)

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Jonathan Rose) (Reviewed by Frank Emmett, Shelter Island, NY)

The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing (Janet Sorensen) (Reviewed by Elizabeth Bohls, University of Oregon)

How Milton Works (Stanley Fish) (Reviewed by Gerald J. Schiffhorst, University of Central Florida)

Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City (Heather Ann Thompson) (Reviewed by …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic (Timothy Morton) (Reviewed by Susan B. Taylor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)

The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons & the Wordsworths in 1802 (John Worthen) (Reviewed by Paul Magnuson, New York University)

Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies (Helen Thomas) (Reviewed by Alan J. Rice, University of Central Lancashire)

The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman (Barbara Howard Traister) (Reviewed by Kristen Poole, University of Delaware)

Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance (Ed. Genevieve Fabre and Michel Feith)
The Evidence of Things Not Said (Lawrie Balfour)(Reviewed by …

Update On The State Of The Science Of Digital Evidence Examination, Fred Cohen

Annual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law

This paper updates previous work on the level of consensus in foundational elements of digital evidence examination. Significant consensus is found present only after definitions are made explicit, suggesting that, while there is a scientific agreement around some of the basic notions identified, the use of a common language is lacking.

Keywords: Digital forensics examination, terminology, scientific methodology, testability, validation, classification, scientific consensus

Review Of Marianne Gullberg And Kees De Bot (Eds): Gestures In Language Development., Gale Stam

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Oil Revenues, Ethnic Fragmentation And Political Transition Of Authoritarian Regimes, Alessandro Cologni, Matteo Manera

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

Natural resources are generally associated to negative effects on the political environment of a country. This paper explores the impact that oil revenues have on the establishment of a given political system. Based on previous literature, a political economy perspective is employed. A simple game theoretical approach in order to explain the relationships between oil revenues, political instability (conflicts) and emergence of different political systems is presented. The implementation of particular redistributive fiscal policies together with the possibility that paternalistic or “predatory" autocracies emerge are considered. Under certain circumstances, a process of full democratization is argued not to represent an …

International Legal Collections At U.S. Academic Law School Libraries, Camelia Naranch

School of Information Student Research Journal

This study examines how law librarians are participating in the process of creating new fields of international legal research and training. It investigates the current state of international legal collections at twelve public and private U.S. academic law school libraries, illuminating in the process some of the significant shifts that characterize the nature of professional librarianship and information science in the twenty-first century. Included in the study is a discussion of the reference works, research guides, and databases that make up these international legal collections. This is followed by a brief assessment of the trends and challenges that librarians face …

As-751-12 Resolution On Proposed New Degree Program: Bachelor Of Arts In Liberal Arts And Engineering Studies, Curriculum Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

Approves the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies.

Academic Senate - Agenda, 5/29/2012, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

The Sound And The Fury: Comparative Sociolinguistic Studies In German, Logan C. Pecinovsky

Honors Theses

The German nation has a long history of fragmentation, from the mini-states of the Middle Ages to the eastern and western republics of the recent past. These barriers affected the speech community in particular. Among the various borders that shifted through Central and Eastern Europe for centuries, dialects arose as a result of strong political and cultural identities. Without a strong centralizing force to integrate them, the many communities remained relatively homogenous, which provided fertile soil for unique linguistic development. The most recent partition of East and West scarcely lasted half a century and did not create a discrete speech …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, May 27, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2012

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, May 27, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2012

No abstract provided.

A Crowdsourcing Approach To Labelling A Mood Induced Speech Corpus, John Snel, Alexey Tarasov, Charlie Cullen, Sarah Jane Delany

Conference papers

This paper demonstrates the use of crowdsourcing to accumulate ratings from na ̈ıve listeners as a means to provide labels for a naturalistic emotional speech dataset. In order to do so, listening tasks are performed with a rating tool, which is delivered via the web. The rating requirements are based on the classical dimensions, activation and evaluation, presented to the participant as two discretised 5-point scales. Great emphasis is placed on the participant’s overall understanding of the task, and on the ease-of-use of the tool so that labelling accuracy is reinforced. The accumulation process is ongoing with a goal to …

Recommendations For Counseling Native Americans: Results Of A Survey, Timothy Thomason

Journal of Indigenous Research

Opinions of a sample of counselors and psychologists who work with Native American clients were examined by means of an internet survey. Most respondents recommended humanistic counseling approaches. Other recommendations concerned methods for building rapport with Native clients, reducing barriers to counseling, and incorporating Native practices and spirituality into counseling.

Table Rites And Animal Rights: Revisiting The Animal Question In The 21st Century, Vera Theisen

Headwaters

No abstract provided.

A Qualitative Study Of The Motivational Factors In Learning English Of Hong Kong Vocational Students, Siu May, Yvonne Yeung

Practical Social and Industrial Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

Irruptions Of The Sacred In A “World Of Shit”: Profanity, Sacred Words, And Cinematic Hierophanies In Stanley Kubrick’S Full Metal Jacket (1987), Joseph E. Bisson

Journal of Religion & Film

Full Metal Jacket remains embedded in the consciousness of the popular culture mainly because of its abundance of profane language, violent imagery, and salacious set pieces. The juxtaposition of profane language and imagery with sacred language and religious symbolism reveals that Kubrick’s Vietnam film has powerful religious overtones that comprise an important element of the film’s critique of homo religiosus and the modern human condition. By continually juxtaposing the sacred and profane, Kubrick created “cinematic hierophanies” that advanced a cultural critique that inventively integrated ideas from some of the mid-20^th Century’s greatest interpreters of myths -- Carl Jung, Joseph …