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Cloud Security: A Case Study In Telemedicine, Michael Johnstone

Research outputs 2012

Security as part of requirements engineering is now seen as an essential part of systems development in several modern methodologies. Unfortunately, medical systems are one domain where security is seen as an impediment to patient care and not as an essential part of a system. Cloud computing may offer a seamless way to allow medical data to be transferred from patient to medical practitioners, whilst maintaining security requirements. This paper uses a case study to investigate the use of cloud computing in a mobile application for Parkinson Disease. It was found that functionality took precedence over security requirements and standards.

What A Difference A Year Made! : An Evaluation Of The National Year Of Reading 2012 In Western Australia, Queensland And The Australian Capital Territory, Caroline Barratt-Pugh, Pru Smith, Karen Anderson

Research outputs 2012

This report is an evaluation of how the National Year of Reading helped to build a reading culture across the nation. The evaluation was undertaken by The Centre for Research in Early Childhood Education, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia . The report describes the nature and outcomes of the National Year of Reading in the four case studies, including a consideration of what participating organisations delivered beyond what would normally be expected of them. The findings lead to a series of conclusions about the program's successes, challenges and legacy followed by recommendations about how these successes can be sustained and …

A Randomised Trial Of Robotic And Open Prostatectomy In Men With Localised Prostate Cancer, Robert Gardiner, J Yaxley, G Coughlin, N Dunglison, S Occhipinti, S Younie, R Carter, S Williams, R J Medcraft, Bennett Nigel, M F Lavin, Suzanne Chambers

Research outputs 2012

Background: Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer in the Western world however there is ongoing debate about the optimal treatment strategy for localised disease. While surgery remains the most commonly received treatment for localised disease in Australia more recently a robotic approach has emerged as an alternative to open and laparoscopic surgery. However, high level data is not yet available to support this as a superior approach or to guide treatment decision making between the alternatives. This paper presents the design of a randomised trial of Robotic and Open Prostatectomy for men newly diagnosed with localised prostate cancer …

Graduate And Undergraduate Catalog, 2012-2013, Eastern Washington University, Washington State Library. Electronic State Publications

Course Catalogs

Eastern Washington University's course catalog for the 2012-2013 academic year.

Eastern, Winter 2012, Eastern Washington University. Division Of University Relations.

Alumni Publications

This issue contains articles about: EPIC Adventures, Easterns outdoor program ascends to new heights from gear rental kiosk to amazing local and international outdoor recreation opportunities, and Threads of Hope, alumna Deborah R. DuPey fair-market trade business Corazon Scarves changes lives of women overcoming oppression and violence in Guatemala, Haiti, and Nepal, and State of the U, the economy's effect on Higher Ed, as economy trickles along, EWU and government step up to help more first-time and returning students afford college - while working within ever-shrinking budgets, and Career Services for Alumni, help for job seekers, and Big Careers Start …

Discovere, 2012-2013, Vol. 3, No. 1, Eastern Washington University. Academic Affairs

EWU Research Magazines

This issue contains articles on EWU professor helping determine how to keep U.S. Army soldier's mind as fit as their bodies, Jeni McNeal teaches exercise science at EWU and applies it to train some of the best athletes in the world, Eastern chemistry professor and students work to discover next lifesaving antibiotic, EWU's physical Therapy program helps to provide some relief to grocery store workers and help prevent injuries

A Constitutional Dilemma For Cities Seeking To Regulate Day Labor Solicitation, Monica Smith

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

In 2011, the Ninth Circuit invalidated a Redondo Beach municipal ordinance that prohibited individuals from standing on streets or sidewalks and soliciting work, business, or contributions from passing vehicles. The court determined that the law was a facial restriction of speech that did not advance the achievement of the city's stated interest.

This note examines the unsettling gaps in the law as a result of the decision. Although undoubtedly a victory for day laborers, the court's holding potentially precludes any future statute seeking to legitimately regulate such day labor solicitation. Unless crafted with tremendous care, there is a strong likelihood …

Wisdom Of The Ages Or Dead-Hand Control? Patentable Subject Matter For Diagnostic Methods After In Re Bilski, Rebecca S. Eisenberg

Articles

In 1980, the Supreme Court gave a reassuring signal to the then-nascent biotechnology industry about the availability of patent protection for the fruits of its research when it upheld the patentability of a genetically modified living organism in Diamond v. Chakrabarty. Twenty-five years later, the Court seemed poised to reexamine the limits of patentable subject matter for advances in the life sciences when it granted certiorari in Laboratory Corporation v. Metabolite. But the Federal Circuit had not addressed the patentable subject matter issue in Laboratory Corporation, and the Court ultimately dismissed the certiorari p etition as improvidently granted. Five years …

Cmn 3570b : Topics In Media History Ii, Communication Studies

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Cmn 3570a : Topics In Media History I, Communication Studies

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No abstract provided.

Tha 3001 : Advanced Costume Practicum, Theatre

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Tha 3002 : Advanced Scenic/Lighting Practicum, Theatre

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Ursinus Magazine, Winter 2012, Wendy Greenberg, Kathryn Campbell, Ellen Labrecque, Bobby Fong, Andrew Clark, Kelly Sorensen, Abbie Cichowski, Mariana Bergerson, Chelsea Sproul

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

Farewell and congratulations to Dean Judith Levy • Drumroll, please; Mark Gadson joins Ursinus Advancement staff • Faculty books • Heefner organ • Balance and broaden • Redemptive power of music • Which fork event • America Reads holiday party hosted by Ursinus tutors • Business students compete • Student-athlete earns accolades • The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art exhibitions on view • Take your best shot: Collegeville on Camera days • Homecoming 2011 • Welcome to the blogosphere • Nothing short of amazing: Ursinus field hockey wins Centennial Conference • Inauguration of Bobby Fong, Ph.D. • A …

Understanding Gender And Sexuality In A Gay/Straight Alliance, Megan L. Duesterhaus

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Gay/Straight Alliances aimed at providing sexual minority youth and their allies with support, social events, and activism and education opportunities have proliferated in high schools in the United States over the past two decades. This study employs a qualitative, grounded theory approach to examine how sexual minority youth and their allies navigate gender, sexuality, and social movement participation. A year and a half of observation and 16 semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with Gay/Straight Alliance members in a high school setting in the southeastern United States. The study reveals that, through the lens of frame analysis, the G/SA is analogous …

How Porous Are The Walls That Separate Us?: Transformative Service-Learning, Women’S Incarceration, And The Unsettled Self, Coralynn V. Davis, Carol Wayne White

Faculty Journal Articles

In this article, we refine a politics of thinking from the margins by exploring a pedagogical model that advances transformative notions of service learning as social justice teaching. Drawing on a recent course we taught involving both incarcerated women and traditional college students, we contend that when communication among differentiated and stratified parties occurs, one possible result is not just a view of the other but also a transformation of the self and other. More specifically, we suggest that an engaged feminist praxis of teaching incarcerated women together with college students helps illuminate the porous nature of fixed markers that …

"We Should Have Brought The Tank": Hypermediated Interactivity In Red Vs. Blue, Marc A. Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

Machinima, the practice of adapting recorded video game play into short films, highlights an often unacknowledged but significant shift in the consumption of video games and represents a key and underexplored intersection between the two leading theoretical camps. Considering the landmark series Red vs. Blue through the lens of Bolter and Grusin's propositions about "new" media's relationships with other forms offers an entry point for theorizing not only machinima but also the intersections between the ludology and narratology positions in games studies.

Ville Du Flaneur: La Transformation De Paris Selon Ses Propres Temoignages, Christopher J. Hanson

Senior Independent Study Theses

In my Independent Study, I analyze the flâneur, a nineteenth century literary figure known for wandering the streets of Paris. Born as a result of modernity, the flâneur sought refuge in the majestic arcades of Paris, absorbing every detail of this new modern life. By using Walter Benjamin's unfinished work, "Arcades Project," I attempt to define the flâneur in more precise terms. From here, I build a case to disprove Benjamin's assumption that the flâneur disappeared along with the advent of materialism. By discussing poetry, paintings, literature, and film from three distinct periods, I construct a more concrete image of …

It's Time For A Good Hard Look In The Mirror: The Corporate Law Example, John A. Barrett, Jr.

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

This Article asserts that the move from the industrial age to the

information age represents a fundamental change to our society on

such a widespread basis that the legal order must reexamine the

premises about how our society functions, assessing whether

foundational elements of U.S. Common Law remain valid. This

Article first confronts briefly the continuing acceptance of certain

foundational premises in contract and intellectual property law,

illustrating that such premises are no longer supported by the

realities of modern society. With fundamental change challenging

multiple areas of law in the information age, this problem is worthy

of widespread inquiry …

Can Students Be Disciplined For Off-Campus Cyberspeech: The Reach Of The First Amendment In The Age Of Technology, Charles J. Russo, Allan G. Osborne Jr.

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

The widespread use of technology in today's schools has ushered in a host of legal issues that educators and parents could not have contemplated just a few years ago. Within the past decade, students have had the unprecedented ability to send text messages and instant messages, create websites, post blogs, construct Internet profiles, and post messages on burgeoning social networking sites, most notably Facebook. Even when students engage in such speech-related activity off campus using their personal computers, their actions and posts on such social networking sites as MySpace and Facebook can have carryover effects into school and classroom environments. …

The Dialectic Of Obscenity, Brian L. Frye

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Until the 1960s, pornography was obscene, and obscenity prosecutions were relatively common. And until the 1970s, obscenity prosecutions targeted art, as well as pornography. But today, obscenity prosecutions are rare and limited to the most extreme forms of pornography.

So why did obscenity largely disappear? The conventional history of obscenity is doctrinal, holding that the Supreme Court’s redefinition of obscenity in order to protect art inevitably required the protection of pornography as well. In other words, art and literature were the vanguard of pornography.

But the conventional history of obscenity is incomplete. While it accounts for the development of obscenity …

Undergraduate Catalog, 2012-2013, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

The First Generation Community: What Does It Mean To Be A Youth Member?, Elissa M. Gallup

Capstone Collection

This paper examines the impact of being part of the First Generation community on the youth members. The context of Springfield, Massachusetts and the culture of First Generation are explained. The role of The Performance Project, the nonprofit through which First Generation operates, is also described, as it pertains to the context. A literature review, with other youth programs’ methodologies and findings of analyzing impacts in their programs, has been included.

Following months of work with First Generation and the literature research, qualitative interviews were crafted and conducted with members of the group. These anonymous interviews allow some insight into …

Increased Levels Of Anxiety Revealing Characteristics Of Social Phobia Elucidated By Smartphone Use, Mark H. Richardson

HIM 1990-2015

Students at the University of Central Florida completed two self-report inventories: the SPAI-23, (Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory - 23) and MPPUS (Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale) to determine if there is a relationship between social phobia and problematic mobile phone use. Fifty one students (N = 51) completed both surveys and the results indicated that there was a small but positive relationship between problematic cell phone use and social phobia symptoms, r=.28, p=.05. The results are discussed in terms of how social phobia might increase problematic phone use.

The Sustainability Of Overconsumption? A Discursive Analysis Of Walmart's Sustainability Campaign, Kathleen Adams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study inquires as to whether Walmart’s sustainability campaign represents a sincere and holistic change throughout the company’s global supply chain or if it is simply a public relations campaign which caters to the growing target market of “next-generation” consumers and justifies further expansion into “emerging markets”. A critical analysis of Walmart’s sustainability discourse is presented, using transcribed texts of various corporate and publicitygeared publications. Frequently utilized terms and themes are identified throughout the big-box retailer’s sustainability campaign which convey a distinctly Neoliberal ethos—a political economy which lies at the heart of current practices of institutional unsustainability—and emphasize the role …

Unpacking EugèNe Giraudet’S Library: Dance, Books, And International Relations In Fin-De-SièCle Paris, Dominique Bourassa

Library Staff Publications

Eugène Giraudet (1861-19?) was an exceptionally prolific and influential Parisian dance teacher, choreographer, author, and bibliophile. His library catalog, published in his 1900 Traité de la danse, Tome II, Grammaire de la danse et du bon ton, is more than a simple record of the books he owned. It also serves as a wish list and a directory of prominent dance personalities. As a whole, it presents an unparalleled conspectus of dance teaching, book collecting, business, and international networks radiating from a major metropolis—the historical urban center of the dance world—in the late-nineteenth century.

White Weddings: New Media Archives And The Transformations Of Michael Jackson’S Thriller, Lisa Patti

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

This article investigates the circulation and transformation of Michael Jackson’s star image within new media archives through an analysis of a series of re-enactments of his 1982 Thriller video. Focusing in particular on the viral success of the “original Thriller Wedding Video” on YouTube – one of several Thriller re-enactments staged at wedding receptions and circulated widely online – I examine the consequences of the erasure in these wedding videos of both the horror film mise-en-scène of Thriller and the racial and sexual indeterminacy of Jackson’s performance. I argue that Jackson’s 3D remake of the Thriller video, produced for inclusion …

Cmn 3570 : Topics In Media History, Communication Studies

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No abstract provided.

Tha 3000 : Advanced Performance Practicum, Theatre

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Cmn 3570d : Topics In Media History Iii, Communication Studies

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Eiu 4171g : Comics, Manga, And Graphic Novels: A History Of Graphic Narratives, Eiu

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