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Celebration Schedule 2013 (Saturday), Provost's Office May 2013

Celebration Schedule 2013 (Saturday), Provost's Office

Celebration

Full presentation schedule for Celebration, Saturday, May 4, 2013


School Of Law Commencement: May 4, 2013, University Of North Dakota May 2013

School Of Law Commencement: May 4, 2013, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

School of Law Commencement program from May 4, 2013.


Immigration And Farm Labor In The U.S., Philip Martin, Douglas B. Jackson-Smith May 2013

Immigration And Farm Labor In The U.S., Philip Martin, Douglas B. Jackson-Smith

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Hired workers comprise 33 percent of people employed on farms but do an estimated 60 percent of the work performed on U.S. farms. Most hired farm workers were born abroad, usually in Mexico, and most are believed not to be authorized to work in the U.S. Changes in Mexico-US migration flows and more restrictive immigration laws and policies have increased the vulnerability of U.S. agriculture to labor supply shocks, which could increase costs and threaten the ability of some farmers to harvest laborintensive crops. Congress is considering major changes in immigration policies. Farm employers want access to a reliable supply …


University Of The Pacific Commencement, University Of The Pacific May 2013

University Of The Pacific Commencement, University Of The Pacific

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Graduate, May 4, 2013, University Of South Florida May 2013

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Graduate, May 4, 2013, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

No abstract provided.


163rd Commencement, Spring May 2013

163rd Commencement, Spring

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


School Of International Studies, Diploma And Hooding Ceremony, University Of The Pacific May 2013

School Of International Studies, Diploma And Hooding Ceremony, University Of The Pacific

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


How To Hold A Press Conference, Jill Rodrigues May 2013

How To Hold A Press Conference, Jill Rodrigues

Featured News Story

Media relations students gain real-world experience by staging a mock press conference to address recent issues at Carnival Cruise Lines.


From Gibbons To Gymnasts: A Look At The Biomechanics And Neurophysiology Of Brachiation In Gibbons And Its Human Rediscovery, Emma Et Pennock May 2013

From Gibbons To Gymnasts: A Look At The Biomechanics And Neurophysiology Of Brachiation In Gibbons And Its Human Rediscovery, Emma Et Pennock

Student Works

This conference paper serves to examine the evolutionary linkages of a brachiating ancestor in humans, the biomechanical and neurophysiology of modern day brachiators, and the human rediscovery of this form of locomotion. Brachiation is arguably one of the most metabolically effective modes of travel by any organism and can be observed most meritoriously in Gibbons. The purpose of the research conducted for this paper was to encourage further exploration of the neurophysiological similarities and differences between humans and non-human primates. The hope is that in spurring more interest and research in this area, further possibilities for rehabilitating brain injury will …


Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, May 3, 2013, University Of South Florida May 2013

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, May 3, 2013, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Honorary Doctor of Science - Jerry L. Atwood


Citizens Of The Empire: A Molding Of Victorian Childhood Identity, Christopher B. Gallagher May 2013

Citizens Of The Empire: A Molding Of Victorian Childhood Identity, Christopher B. Gallagher

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

The Victorian Era in Great Britain was a time period of dramatic change. The Industrial Revolution was altering the social and economic fabric of society. Socially, Victorians were confronted with new theories that challenged their religious beliefs. The British Isles were progressing steadily in creating a national identity. Finally, the existence of the British Empire made imperialism a factor that cannot be ignored. Yet, many historians have pointed out that the history of the British metropole itself is often disconnected from the political and cultural history of the Empire. It is within this conversation that this project seeks to find …


Failure Of Imagination: Gender Integration And Negotiated Identities At The United States Air Force Academy, Amelia Frances Underwood May 2013

Failure Of Imagination: Gender Integration And Negotiated Identities At The United States Air Force Academy, Amelia Frances Underwood

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

Public Law-106, which authorized the admittance of women into the five federal service academies, was historically significant as it reversed the previous male-only policy at the nation’s premier military leadership institutions. Its 1975 passage reflected the groundwork established by military women as well as two decades of feminist activism in America. The entrance of women at the service academies clearly challenged the existing norms for women’s roles in the military and arguably in American society as well; furthermore, an analysis of primary source documents and oral histories provides insight into how men and women at the Air Force Academy confronted …


Flying Off The Shelf: E-Books Go Mobile, Madeline Cohen, Stefanie Havelka, Jennifer Poggiali, Kate Lyons, Elisabeth Tappeiner May 2013

Flying Off The Shelf: E-Books Go Mobile, Madeline Cohen, Stefanie Havelka, Jennifer Poggiali, Kate Lyons, Elisabeth Tappeiner

Publications and Research

On May 3, 2013, the two Hostos librarians teamed up with two librarians of Lehman College’s Leonard Lief Library at the Bronx EdTech Showcase to address the challenges and joys of e-books. Their hour-long presentation, focused on trends in ebooks, technical issues such as DRM and formats, CUNY’s eBook collections, and the challenges of informing students and faculty about e-books.


Soundings 2013-05-03, N/A N/A May 2013

Soundings 2013-05-03, N/A N/A

Soundings

No abstract provided.


A Board Game Simulator For Promoting System Thinking For Sustainable Pastoralism Among Maasai In Southern Kenya, Jacob Loorimirim Mayiani May 2013

A Board Game Simulator For Promoting System Thinking For Sustainable Pastoralism Among Maasai In Southern Kenya, Jacob Loorimirim Mayiani

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

A culturally-anchored board game simulator named ERAMAT! was created in cooperation with faculty members and members of the Maasai community and then piloted with US students and members of Maasai communities in southern Kenya during the summer of 2012. The game provides an alternative to a computer-based simulator, and hence provides a culturally credible simulation of the system dynamics associated with an accelerating boom/bust cycle of drought and hunger in the region. Factors driving the phenomena include greatly increased population densities, pastoralist cultural values, evolving pastoral practices, the ebb and flow of the semi-arid environment in which Maasai pastoralists live, …


Minutes, Arts & Sciences Executive Committee Meeting, Thursday, May 2, 2013, Arts & Sciences Executive Committee May 2013

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Executive Committee Meeting, Thursday, May 2, 2013, Arts & Sciences Executive Committee

Executive Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.


Soldiers For Democracy: Karl Loewenstein, John H. Herz, Militant Democracy And The Defense Of The Democratic State, Ben Plache May 2013

Soldiers For Democracy: Karl Loewenstein, John H. Herz, Militant Democracy And The Defense Of The Democratic State, Ben Plache

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the work of two German Jewish émigré scholars, Karl Loewenstein and John H. Herz, and how they confronted the conflict between fascism and democracy throughout the 1930s and during World War II. Loewenstein, in academic publications and later through a campaign of public advocacy, urged the adoption of his theory of militant democracy for the protection of democratic institutions. Originally conceived as temporary legislation to deprive fascists of the fundamental rights they abused in order to seize power, this theory evolved into the understanding by Loewenstein that fascist and democratic states could not coexist, and that fundamental …


Montana Kaimin, May 2, 2013, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula May 2013

Montana Kaimin, May 2, 2013, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.


A Mitochondrial Dna Variant Of The Cox-1 Subunit Of C. Elegnas’ Complex Iv Significantly Alters Mitochondrial Energy Metabolism Of Geographically Divergent Wild Isolates., Stephen D. Dingley, Erzsebet Polyak, Julian Ostrovsky, Satish Srinivasan, Mary Selak, Rui Xiao, Theodore G. Schurr, Eiko Nakamaru-Ogiso, Marni J. Falk May 2013

A Mitochondrial Dna Variant Of The Cox-1 Subunit Of C. Elegnas’ Complex Iv Significantly Alters Mitochondrial Energy Metabolism Of Geographically Divergent Wild Isolates., Stephen D. Dingley, Erzsebet Polyak, Julian Ostrovsky, Satish Srinivasan, Mary Selak, Rui Xiao, Theodore G. Schurr, Eiko Nakamaru-Ogiso, Marni J. Falk

Research Day

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence variation is increasingly recognized to influence the penetrance of complex diseases and climatic adaptation in mammals, although little is known about its influence on invertebrate species’ adaptation to unique geographic niches. We investigated whether natural variation in mtDNA-encoded respiratory chain subunits alters the inherent mitochondrial energy capacity of wild C. elegans isolates to match local environmental energy demands. We found that relative to the classic N2 Bristol (England) wild-type strain, CB4856 wild isolates from a warmer and more equatorial native climate (Hawaii) had a unique A12S amino acid substitution in the N-terminal string of the COX-1 …


Culture Flock, Rachael M. Huszar May 2013

Culture Flock, Rachael M. Huszar

Honors Theses

Details of the research, planning, and execution behind the exhibit "Culture Flock" which opened in the University Museum on April 2nd, 2013, and ran through May 10th, 2013. Final text panels and images of the exhibit in progress are included.


The Bates Student - Volume 142 Number 17 - May 1, 2013, Bates College May 2013

The Bates Student - Volume 142 Number 17 - May 1, 2013, Bates College

The Bates Student

No abstract provided.


Shattering The Political Or The Question Of War In Heidegger’S "Letter On Humanism.”, Babette Babich May 2013

Shattering The Political Or The Question Of War In Heidegger’S "Letter On Humanism.”, Babette Babich

Working Papers

Jean Beaufret’s question concerning humanism was “politically” framed on several levels as initially presented to Heidegger.1 Accordingly, Heidegger’s own response was itself political: invoking both technology and the self-same question of science that we remain—and to this day—still “too pious” (in Nietzsche’s words) to be able to frame as a question: the very same question Heidegger develops in his later lectures delivered to the businessmen of Germany, including his Question Concerning Technology. The preoccupation with thinking technology and thinking science remains with Heidegger to the end of his life. Even more significant perhaps (particularly in proximity with Heidegger’s focus …


Salva La Iglesia: Intercultural Capital And The Struggle For Community In A Small Town Congregation, Maria E. Schwarz May 2013

Salva La Iglesia: Intercultural Capital And The Struggle For Community In A Small Town Congregation, Maria E. Schwarz

Senior Theses

The purpose of this study is to examine community response to crisis and the impact of intercultural interactions on the outcome of ethnic and religious group conflict. I seek to expand the traditional theoretical lens of forms of capital (Bourdieu, 1986) to include a new way of examining group interactions as they relate to intercultural capital. I use a case study focusing on the San Martín Catholic Mission in western Oregon and the ways this particular community responded to the crisis of the Catholic diocese threatening to sell their property in 2010. I gathered data from a year of ethnographic …


Place Events 2012-2013, Place May 2013

Place Events 2012-2013, Place

PLACE Historical Documents

This document describes PLACE events at Linfield College for 2012-2013.


“More Than A Fossil-Hunter: The Life And Pursuits Of Charles W. Beehler”, R. Bruce Mcmillan May 2013

“More Than A Fossil-Hunter: The Life And Pursuits Of Charles W. Beehler”, R. Bruce Mcmillan

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Besides being a noted paleontologist in the Gilded Age, Charles Beehler was also a noted inventor, manufacturer, and businessman— and he made Kimmswick famous for mastodon bones.


Spring/Summer 2013, Full Issue May 2013

Spring/Summer 2013, Full Issue

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


Archeological Investigations For The Levi Jordan Plantation House Stabilization, Brazoria County, Texas, Jennifer K. Mcwilliams, Douglas K. Boyd, Aaron Norment May 2013

Archeological Investigations For The Levi Jordan Plantation House Stabilization, Brazoria County, Texas, Jennifer K. Mcwilliams, Douglas K. Boyd, Aaron Norment

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

The Levi Jordan plantation house is one of the few antebellum plantation structures to have survived in Brazoria County. It is the only standing structure associated with the plantation, which began operating in 1848 and was occupied continually up through the 1990s. The original house, built in the early 1850s using slave labor, was a 20x60-ft two-story wooden frame structure. It was altered many times during its long occupation, often due to hurricane damage. A portion of the Levi Jordan Plantation was acquired by the State of Texas in 2002 and managed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department until …


Diminishing Horizons: A Critical Look At History Education In America, Lisa N. Eekhoff May 2013

Diminishing Horizons: A Critical Look At History Education In America, Lisa N. Eekhoff

Master of Education Program Theses

Throughout the twentieth century, the structure of history education in elementary schools has shifted from a traditional, chronological structure to the expanding horizons structure. This thesis examines the philosophical underpinnings of each structure in light of a biblical view of teaching history. Emphasis is placed on historical understanding, training in historical analysis, and sense of identity. It is proposed that a chronological structure may present the child with a deeper understanding of historical events as well as a clearer view of historical principles. Additionally, it is proposed that a chronological structure may impart a more biblical view of self in …


Scholarworks Statistics - May 2013, Scholarworks May 2013

Scholarworks Statistics - May 2013, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of May 2013, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 27,331 full-text downloads and 13,241 page views.


Academic Program Review Committee Faculty Senate Report Fall 2013, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate May 2013

Academic Program Review Committee Faculty Senate Report Fall 2013, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

No abstract provided.