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Carbogen Treatment For Ph-Stat Management In Cardiopulmonary Bypass / Vijay Sundra Kumuran, Vijay Sundra Kumuran

Student Works (2010-2019)

Hypocarbia commonly occurs in infants undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass causing respiratory alkalosis with pH-stat management. In this study, pCO2 regulation was adjusted accordingly to sweep gas in control and treatment groups with gas-to-blood flow ratio of 0.5:1. Each extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (Capiox® RX05 and Medtronic® Minimax Plus® Hollow Fiber Oxygenator) contained control and treatment groups to determine carbogen intervention is necessary for infants undergoing hypothermic bypass. Arterial blood gas was corrected according to actual temperature of the patients for both control (without carbogen) and treatment (with carbogen) groups. The carbogen treatment was introduced to overcome the problem of maintaining pH and …

An Investigation Of Classroom Intervention : Plot As A Pre-Writing Strategy On The Narrative Writing Of Esl Students / Gan Shiau Chin, Shiau Chin Gan

Student Works (2010-2019)

Out of the four language skills, writing skills is said to be one of the harder skills for ESL students to master (Naginder Kaur, Nor Hayati Othman, & Abdullah, 2008; Sabariah Md. Rashid & Chan, 2008). Although writing is part of the major component being tested in the SPM English examination, yet many students with low level of English proficiency scores poorly for this component. One of the factors which lead to their poor performance in writing test is the lack of knowledge in pre-writing strategies. Pre-writing refers to the first stage of the writing processes, whereby one will spend …

How Overall Destination Image And Trip Experinces Affect Tourists' Behavior Intentions : A Case Of Kuala Lumpur / Lim Ai Sal, Ai Sal Lim

Student Works (2010-2019)

No abstract provided.

Gene Expression Patterns Of Cheek, Gum And Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma / Amyza Mohammed Saleh, Amyza Mohammed Saleh

Student Works (2010-2019)

Clinical evidence suggested that biological behavior as well as response to treatment is different in OSCC arising from the different anatomical locations of the mouth and could be influenced by the activation or/and inactivation of different genes and pathways. Objective: Gene expression analysis of OSCC from different sites of the oral cavity was conducted to determine if there were significant differences in the expression pattern that could be associated with clinical observations. Materials and Methods: Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues from OSCC from cheek, gum, tongue and non-cancerous oral mucosal from the matching sites were used in microarray experiments (DASL, Illumina) to …

Nationalism, Identity And The Theatre Across The Spanish State In The Democratic Era, 1975 - 2010, Sharon G. Feldman, Anxo Abuín González

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

The idea of a national theatre in its modern incarnation emerged during the eighteenth century, coinciding with the political and social turmoil of the French Revolution. Its intellectual and aesthetic origins thus can be traced to concerns with individual expression and national identity that came to light in relation to European Romanticism. Since that time, a myriad of public institutions, some of them quite massive and others more diminutive, have surfaced on the European theatrical landscape in accordance with the post-Enlightenment concept of a national theatre. They are designed to encourage a national repertoire. Curiously, these institutions have often predated …

Star Messengers, Paul Zimet, Ellen Maddow, Smith College. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

Star Messengers is a musical theater work about two scientists, Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler, who changed our view of the universe. Writer Paul Zimet and composer Ellen Maddow have created a carnival of genres—opera, Commedia dell'Arte, Strindbergian Dream Play, and contemporary dance/theater—to produce a theatrical language that conveys the wonder of Galileo's and Kepler's discoveries. While some aspects of Galileo's life and discoveries are well known, hardly anything is popularly known of his scientific contemporaries. Johannes Kepler's realization that the planets moved not in perfect circles, but in elliptical paths, was a leap of mind as extraordinary as that …

The Influence Of Travel Motivations And Islamic Religiosity On Islamic Travel Preference : A Comparison Between Muslim Malaysian And Iranian University Student / Ali Hemati, Ali Hemati

Student Works (2010-2019)

Islamic Tourism in the Muslim Societies which has a fast growth in tourism industry attracts the attention of many researchers for academic purpose and also catches the attention of for the business purposes. Present study attempts to examine the relationship between three motivational factors namely “Generic”, “Islamic”, “Hedonistic” to Islamic Travel Preference. This research compares the similarity and differences between Malaysians and Iranians in terms of Islamic travel preferences, travel motivations, and Islamic religiosity; and also evaluate the importance level of Islamic religiosity on the relationship between travel motivations and Islamic travel preference. This study is a quantitative research which …

Diva Voce : Reimagining The Diva In Contemporary Feminist Performance, Dawn Albinger

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This practice-led contemporary performance study investigates and invigorates the diva icon’s usefulness to feminist theatre praxis. It traces the research journey from an unexamined belief in the diva as an icon of empowered, independent and expressive womanhood, to a more nuanced conception of the diva as boundless feminist performer and philosophical subject. Two major questions emerge from and drive the process. The primary research question asks: How can the diva icon (in all her fury and glory and wretchedness and perversity and mastery and mortality) usefully inform a feminist theatre praxis? Early investigations give rise to a subsequent social query: …

Instructional Technology Resistance Levels Among University Faculty, Katie Glaze

Masters Theses

The purpose of the study was to contribute to a better understanding of resistance to instructional technology among university faculty. Siegel's (2008) Resistance to Instruction Technology questionnaire was employed to full-time faculty members working at a mid-west regional state university. Results from 226 respondents (37% of population) reported low levels of technology resistance. Further, respondents gave insight to their perceptions, attitudes, and actual use of instructional technology. Finally, recommendations for practitioners related resistance to instructional technology were discussed.

Capturing Dance: The Art Of Documentation (An Exploration Of Distilling The Body In Motion), Kasey J. Lack

Theses : Honours

This research paper is an exploration of documenting and capturing live dance performance in regards to three artistic mediums, Notation, Photography and Film. This piece of writing discusses practitioners who have contributed to the development of these processes such as: Ann Hutchinson Guest, Rudolf von Laban, Eadweard Muybridge, Lois Greenfield, Ted Shawn, Norman McLaren and Sue Healey. In conjunction with historical and current day research the secondary document provided alongside this thesis describes the practical investigation undertaken. The reflections included define first-hand discoveries of how these three mediums of documenting interconnect to describe a contemporary dance solo. Thoughts, findings and …

South Dakota State University Undergraduate General Catalog 2012-2013, South Dakota State University

South Dakota State University Catalogs and Bulletins: 1935 to present

No abstract provided.

2012 Report On Giving, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of External Relations

Report on Giving

No abstract provided.

Academic Data Series, 2011-12 Edition, Office Of The Controller, Wright State University

Academic Data Series

A compilation of statistics extracted from the University's Banner System and Ohio Department of Higher Education resources for 2011-2012.

The Inward Turn Of Consciousness : Gods, Metaphors, Necessity, And The Continued Relevance Of Greek Tragedy, Jillian Knapczyk

Honors Capstones

This paper was written to examine Greek Tragedy in its entirety, specifically through the playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. We focused on the inward turn of consciousness, or the movement from the great gods of Olympus authorizing actions through supra-human forces informing character, to conflicting psychic drives that condition human lives and motivate actions. We looked at the backgrounds of all three playwrights, analyzed each play, and ultimately concluded that Greek Tragedy is still important today. Greek Tragedy remains profoundly relevant today because it tries to explain ourselves, our relationship to others, our relationship to the world, and our relationship …

Cybersex: Protecting Sexual Content In The Digital Age, 11 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 815 (2012), Nicole Chaney

UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law

Advertisers employ bare-skinned models and sex appeal to seduce American consumers with every magazine, billboard, and television advertisement. The ubiquity of sexual gratification has reached a tangible quality in American culture, but sex is still somehow taboo in our legal system. Despite the vast market for online adult entertainment, obscenity laws have been used to strike down claims for adult content copyright owners. These content owners are producing creative sexual expression for the public benefit, but they are being denied the same economic incentives granted to their mainstream counterparts. Ironically, Playboy Co. is an outlier in the adult entertainment industry …

Douglas Bates V. Utah Association Of Realtors; Christopher Kyler; Charles Smalley; Salt Lake Board Of Realtors; Northern Wasatch Association Of Realtors; Wasatch Front Regional Mls; Bryan R. Kohler; Michael J. Ostermiller; Jillinda Bowers; Brady Long Dba Equity Real Estate; Thomas Johnson; Randall Wall; Sandra Hoover; And Does 1-60 Inclusive : Brief Of Defendants/ Appellees Equity Real Estate, Brady Long And Randall Wall., Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appeal from the Final Order of Dismissal of the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County, State of Utah, Dated December 29, 2011, Honorable John Paul Kennedy

An Intergenerational Study: Mirrors As A Tool For Self-Reflection, Susan Ridley

Expressive Therapies Dissertations

Globalization and advances in technology have resulted in a loss of cultural, community, and individual identity. Having a strong sense of self can be a protective factor in resisting peer pressure and involvement in negative behaviors, and a determining factor in the formation of one’s coping skills, and resiliency to life’s challenges. This was especially important for adolescents who are negotiating the developmental growth from childhood to adulthood, and older adults who are transitioning from the independence of adulthood to the dependence of old age.

This was a qualitative intergenerational study on the process of self-reflection on identity. Mirrors have …

Mary And Women In Late Imperial Russian Orthodoxy, Vera Shevzov

Religion: Faculty Books

Russian women of the nineteenth century are often thought of in their literary incarnations as the heroines of novels such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace. But their real-life counterparts are now becoming better understood as active contributors to Russia's varied cultural landscape. This collection of essays examines the lives of women across Russia - from wealthy noblewomen in St Petersburg to desperately poor peasants in Siberia - discussing their interaction with the Church and the law, and their rich contribution to music, art, literature and theatre. It shows how women struggled for greater autonomy and, both individually and …

Art And Cultural Participation In Nevada, Robert Tracy

Social Health of Nevada Reports

Pablo Picasso once famously observed that “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” As the second edition of the Social Health of Nevada report suggests, it certainly seems like the “dust of daily life” has descended on the souls of this State’s citizens and a thorough washing is necessary. With the economic collapse at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, Nevadans found out very quickly they were neither “protected” nor “immune” from the financial maelstrom that had been unleashed. Having lived in Las Vegas since 1984, I had heard …

The Aesthetic Code Of Russian Postmodernism, Mark Lipovetsky

Russian Culture

Postmodernist discourse has become central to literary criticism in the 1990s. Unlike many other literary discourses, it was never formally announced, yet beginning in the late 1980s (with Mikhail Epstein’s articles) it took over almost all literary publications and effectively led to a new polarization of literary forces. If, during the first years of Perestroika, literary and cultural factions were divided primarily along political lines, with Western liberal sympathizers and anti-Communists on one side, and nationalist defenders of Communism on the other, then by the middle of the 1990s debate about postmodernism had split the liberals into those who sided …

The Russian Cinematic Culture, Oksana Bulgakova

Russian Culture

The cinema has always been subject to keen scrutiny by Russia's rulers. As early as the beginning of this century Russia's last czar, Nikolai Romanov, attempted to nationalize this new and, in his view, threatening medium: "I have always insisted that these cinema-booths are dangerous institutions. Any number of bandits could commit God knows what crimes there, yet they say the people go in droves to watch all kinds of rubbish; I don't know what to do about these places." The plan for a government monopoly over cinema, which would ensure control of production and consumption and thereby protect the …

Souls/Soles Of Signs Tell Totems And The Sphinx Wager, Darryl A. Smith M.Div., Ph.D.

Occasional Papers

This paper develops a philosophy of play through an analysis of the foot wager of the Sphinx. Applying a construction of the cosmology of Plato along with a Socratic etymology of her riddle’s answer, it provides a reading of Sphingian contestation consistent with contemporary practices of deception found in modern games like poker. I argue that such deception is constitutive of the excessive illumination of signaling tells in games and that such excess, in turn, is indicative in allied political contexts of a covetous and acquisitive obsession with light. This theory makes use also of Ralph Ellison’s refiguring of Oedipal …

Volume 04, Matt Szemborski, Phillip Van Ness, Sarah Croughwell, Sarah Mayfield, Alyssa Strackbein, Marley Kimmel, Stephanie Skipp, Jamie Yurasits, Katherine Taggart, Alex Leonhart, Kristen Rawls, Andrew Armes, Amanda Haymens, Allison Paqlowski, Erica May, Stephanie Lane, Luke Acree, Cassandra L. Wilson, Stephanie Pishock, Erica Hopson, K. Juston Osborne, Katheryn Grayson, Kyle Fowlkes, Jessica Cox, Kaity Byrum, John-Harwood Scott, Ashley Johnson, Samantha Hockman, Emily Staskiel, Nancy Macdonald, R. Kruger Bressin, Benjamin P. Bilodeau, Andrea Irby, Kristin Macquarrie, Sarah Bietsch, Elizabeth Bednar

Incite: The Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship

Please note that part of pages 92-95 are redacted, in the digital copy, due to a misprint of the original printed article.

Introduction from Dean Dr. Charles Ross

The Internal Other: Transculturation and Postcolonial Magical Realism in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children by Matt Szemborski

Photography by Phillip Van Ness

Photography “Waterfall” by Sarah Croughwell

Romancing the Bite: Statistical Analysis of Young Adult Vampire Novels by Sarah Mayfield

Photography by Alyssa Strackbein

Photography by Marley Kimmel

Wine and Society in the Viceroyalty of Peru by Stephanie Skipp

Analysis of Claud Monet’s Impression, Sunrise by Jamie Yurasits

Exploring Meaning: The Lindisfarne Gospels by …

Actor Skills In Managerial And Professional Development: Effective Leadership Training For The Information Age, David Hendrik De Vries

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

The knowledge-based economies of today’s information age demand a higher level of communication skills in the workplace. One viable method of teaching communication skills leverages the techniques found in actor training. This thesis explores the use and effectiveness of actor training in the training and development of managers and professionals. The theories of Aristotle, Burke, Dewey and Ong are referenced to understand the value of the performance metaphor—“As a leader, you’re always onstage”—as an underlying approach, while the theories of Wiener, Watzlawick, Baxter, Ting Toomey and others reinforce the viability of actor training in the field of communication. A review …

Impact Of Improvisation On Interpersonal Communication, Brooklin Green

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

Improvisational games have grown outside the scope of performance to become tools to enhance, creativity, and communication. Recently, people have begun to use these games in a variety of fields including psychology, public speaking, corporate businesses, medicine, and education. Improvisational games help people learn through play. It shows that the use of these games can create an environment that opens communication to achieve learning and innovation. It is a positive tool in promoting confidence, empathy, listening skills, self-awareness, group awareness, quick thought and focus in the moment. While research on the benefit of improvisation does exist, few concentrate on the …

Virtual Child Pornography: The Children Aren't Real, But The Dangers Are; Why The Ashcroft Court Got It Wrong, Brian Goldblatt

Student Works

No abstract provided.

Checkup, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Checkup

No abstract provided.

2012-2013 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Undergraduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

No abstract provided.

The “Avos” Phenomenon: A Non-Censured Theatre In The Novosibirsk University, 1975-1976). In: Mosty (The Bridges), Frankfurt, Germany, 2012, 35: 269–301.] [Part 3], Victor Fet, Sergei Camyshan, Aleksandr Troitsky, Oleg Polyankov, Elena Fedorovskaya, Aleksandr Butorin, Mark Taraban, Sergei Kovalenko

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

РЕЗЮМЕ

В 1975-1976 гг. группа студентов Факультета Естественных Наук Новосибирского университета (Академгородок) умудрилась создать свой неподцензурный маленький театр «Феномен», который успел просуществовать целый сезон. В этих мемуарах бывших актеров, ныне разбросанных по всему миру, тщательно собранных 35 лет спустя, восстановлена подробная история театра. Центральным событием была (видимо, первая) постановка по поэме Андрея Вознесенского «Авось!» в декабре 1975, задолго до знаменитой рок-оперы.

ABSTRACT

In 1975-1976, a group of science students of the Novosibirsk University (Russia, Siberia) created a small theatre that managed to avoid the official censorship for the entire season. In this memoir, several former actors, now scattered across the …

The “Avos” Phenomenon: A Non-Censured Theatre In The Novosibirsk University, 1975-1976). In: Mosty (The Bridges), Frankfurt, Germany, 2012, 34: 236–284.] [Part 2], Victor Fet, Sergei Camyshan, Aleksandr Troitsky, Oleg Polyankov, Elena Fedorovskaya, Aleksandr Butorin, Mark Taraban, Sergei Kovalenko

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

РЕЗЮМЕ

В 1975-1976 гг. группа студентов Факультета Естественных Наук Новосибирского университета (Академгородок) умудрилась создать свой неподцензурный маленький театр «Феномен», который успел просуществовать целый сезон. В этих мемуарах бывших актеров, ныне разбросанных по всему миру, тщательно собранных 35 лет спустя, восстановлена подробная история театра. Центральным событием была (видимо, первая) постановка по поэме Андрея Вознесенского «Авось!» в декабре 1975, задолго до знаменитой рок-оперы.

ABSTRACT

In 1975-1976, a group of science students of the Novosibirsk University (Russia, Siberia) created a small theatre that managed to avoid the official censorship for the entire season. In this memoir, several former actors, now scattered across the …