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Great Plains Quarterly Volume 32 / Number 4 / Fall 2012

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Contents

Book Reviews

Book Notes

Notes and News

Visualizing Modernity: The Appeal Of Cross-Border Healthcare Providers Along The Texas-Mexico Border, Geoffrey Schwarz, Victor Martinez

Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Enrollment Report, Fall 2012, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis

Enrollment Reports (2004-2019)

Enrollment Report for Fall 2012 for Illinois State University

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes 2012-09-28, Bowling Green State University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

The official meeting minutes of Bowling Green State University's Board of Trustees.

The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, September 27, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

September

No abstract provided.

The Eastern Echo, September 24, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

The Eastern Echo, September 24, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

The Eastern Echo, September 24, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

The Bg News September 21, 2012, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. September 21, 2012. Volume 103-Issue 16.

Counting Electric Sheep: Understanding Information In The Context Of Media Ecology, Lance Strate

CMS Faculty Publications

In the field of media ecology, defined as the study of media as environments, media and medium, and ecology and environment are key terms, while information, although commonly employed, is generally used without reference to a specific definition. This article examines the mostly implicit assumptions about and understandings of the term information in the context of the field of media ecology. Information can be seen as a synonym or subset of content or message, can be divided into different orders or levels of content/communication and relationship/medium, and on both levels is dependent on and altered by changes in technology, code, …

Flyer News, Vol. 60, No. 6 (Sept. 14, 2012), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

A Fast Primal-Dual Method For Generalized Total Variation Denoising, Francesc Ar`Andiga, Pep Mulet, Vicent Renau

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

Total Variation denoising, proposed by Rudin, Osher and Fatemi in [22], is an image processing variational technique that has attracted considerable attention in the past fifteen years. It is an advantageous technique for preserving image edges but tends to sharpen excessively smooth transitions. With the purpose of alleviating this staircase effect some generalizations of Total Variation denoising have been introduced in [17,18,19]. In this paper we propose a fast and robust algorithm for the solution of the variational problems that generalize Total Variation image denoising [22]. This method extends the primal-dual Newton method, proposed by Chan, Golub and Mulet in …

Uncut: The Materiality Of Textiles And The Politics Of Sustainment In Fashionable Clothing, Hazel Clark

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Uncut: The materiality of textiles and the politics of sustainment in fashionable clothing In the contemporary world, where visual communication gains greater authority, human beings are becoming more detached from the materiality of their clothing. Fashionable garments in particular are promoted, sold and bought on how they look, not what they are made of. Arguably this encourages the excessive waste that surrounds fashion, where clothes become relegated to the status of mere perishables. In production, similarly, an estimated 15% of the fabric used to create a piece of clothing ends up in a landfill. This paper examines this situation conceptually …

Textile Society Of America- Abstracts And Biographies

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

TSA Abstracts and Biographies, September 2012.

The Silenced Discourse: Students With Intellectual Disabilities At The Academy Of Music In Sweden, Marie-Helene Zimmerman Nilsson, Claes Ericsson

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

In this article, based on a larger research project, the ambition is to critically discuss the first collaboration between students with intellectual disabilities and the Academy of Music in Sweden. The article presents an analysis of video observations of lessons in rhythmics, related to an encounter between the students with intellectual disabilities and a group of student teachers. The theoretical and methodological framework emanates from post-structuralist and social constructionist theories. The results show that the silenced discourse, the unspoken, is constructed from the fact that the students with disabilities both are insufficiently skilled for the task as leaders in rhythmics, …

No Tradeoff Between Confidentiality And Performance: An Analysis On H.264/Svc Partial Encryption, Zhuo Wei, Xuhua Ding, Robert H. Deng, Yongdong Wu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Partial encryption is often used as a tradeoff between security and performance to protect scalable video data. In this paper, we argue that although partial encryption is strong enough for access control, it is not adequate for content confidentiality protection. We conduct experiments to show that partially encrypted H.264/SVC (scalable video coding) streams leak significant content information from the enhancement layers in all three scalability dimensions. Our analysis concludes that such leakage is caused by the underlying coding techniques used in H.264/SVC, and all layers should be encrypted to protect confidential video streams.

The Bg News August 22, 2012, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. August 22, 2012. Volume 103-Issue 3.

The Bg News August 20, 2012, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. August 20, 2012. Volume 103-Issue 2.

August 18, 2012 (Pages 5323-5460), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 42 (2012)

No abstract provided.

The Bg News August 17, 2012, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. August 17, 2012. Volume 103-Issue 1.

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Names on Trees: Ariosto into Art (Rensselaer W. Lee) (Reviewed by R. W. Hanning, Columbia University)

The Growth of a Personal Voice: Piers Plowman and The Faerie Queene (Judith H. Anderson) (Reviewed by Judith Dundas, University of Illinois)

The Harmonies of "The Merchant of Venice" (Lawrence Danson) (Reviewed by Marilyn Williamson, Wayne State University)

Virginia Woolf: Sources of Madness and Art (Jean O. Love) (Reviewed by Diane Filby Gillespie, Washington State University)

Augustus Caesar in "Augustan" England: The Decline of a Classical Norm (Howard D. Weinbrot) (Reviewed by Thomas E. Maresca, State University of New York at Stony Brook)

Carlyle …

Eng 3001-004: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith

Fall 2012

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, August 5, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2012

No abstract provided.

Analyzing Nurse-Physician Discursive Practices In Acute Patient Care, John Dinolfo

All Dissertations

This mixed methods study in inter-professional health communication assesses the pedagogical role of writing and visual communication in the education of non-traditional and traditional Nursing students as they interpret and apply the concepts of message framing and message reception in nurse-physician communication. To achieve that goal, this study analyzes the dynamics of terministic screens as message frames that can determine message reception in nurse-physician communication regarding the status of an acute care patient.
The study was conducted in two Nursing writing and communication classes during the Spring 2011 semester. Two study groups (combined across classes) included a mixed population of …

Graduate Bulletin | 2012-2013, Jacksonville State University

Bulletins & Catalogs | Graduate

Vol. 34, No. 1 (August 2012). Jacksonville State was granted University status in 1966 and began adding graduate programs to its curriculum at that time. Graduate bulletins and catalogs contain information on the academic calendar, policies and procedures, faculty, scholarships and tuition, and degree requirements for graduate programs.

Producing An Animated Tattoo Visual Effect, Zachary Trabookis

All Theses

Throughout society tattoos have established a mode of expression for individuals
that allows them to communicate without verbal means. This form of interaction may
appear somewhat static to the observer, but significant meaning and emotion are often
conveyed. With the advent of visual effects tools available today, tattoo representation
can be enhanced by including motion. This thesis presents a solution for illustrating this
form of visual communication using two-dimensional compositing and three-dimensional
techniques in a short animated film entitled '< italic>Legion.'

Camera Creatures: Rhetorics Of Light And Emerging Media, Anthony Collamati

All Dissertations

Camera Creatures addresses the new media landscape in which cameras, in most situations, outnumber pens. The dissertation argues that despite the accessibility and power of imagemaking devices, there persists in the humanities and social sciences a hesitation to engage the possibilities for composing with optical media. A number of factors contributing to this trend are addressed, including the preference for image analysis over imagemaking practices, persistent assumptions of the camera's mechanical objectivity, and a tendency to teach visual invention as collage. As a counter-measure, a proposal is made for investment in the mediation of light, or 'photonic rhetorics.' To explore …

Determining The Proper Point Size For Display Type On Packaging, Joanna Fischer

All Theses

Through the use of a preference test, the proper point size of display text on a package was evaluated in relation to a package's proportions. The test involved the examination of packaging images displaying the product or brand name in various point sizes by 150 participants who were then asked to choose the option they most preferred. The participants were then provided with a post-survey intended to gather additional information regarding potential preference motives.
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the most preferred display type size of a package based on its relationship with the package's proportions. …

What Makes A Font Persuasive?: An Eye-Tracking Study Of Perception In American And Chinese Assessment Of Fonts, Kimberly Sulak

All Theses

Professional, technical, and visual communication practitioners and academics have historically overlooked visual rhetoric and how it is employed in business communications as well as how various cultures comprehend and respond to the design elements and visual composition of business documents. More specifically typography, the building blocks of a document, has been little explored in professional and technical communication research. As such, this study utilizes eye-tracking technology in conjunction with other data collection methods to understand if and how fonts contribute to the persuasiveness of business communications and if different cultures vary in typeface assessment and perception.

Mackiewicz and Brumberger have …

Modes Of Presentation In The Education Of Secondary Students With Disabilities, Annie Laurie Quinn

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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