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A Quiz, Ann Rulon-Miller Aug 2013

A Quiz, Ann Rulon-Miller

Word Ways

A quiz.

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From Nowhere (Erewhon) To New Zealand, Jason Lofts Aug 2013

From Nowhere (Erewhon) To New Zealand, Jason Lofts

Word Ways

in 1996, having been in self-imposed exile from New Zealand for 11 years, I penned an anagrammatical poem NEW ZEALAND and published it as a postcard (8 lines of silver lettering on glossy black card). Apart from a mention at the time in the New Zealand News UK, a British weekly for Kiwi expatriates, it went unnoticed until 2002, when -despite its imperfections- it provided a quirky supporting act to the serious literary stars Samuel Butler and Janet Frame in "From Erewhon to Nowhere: A Leitmotif of New Zealand Poetry?", a scholarly contribution by Peter H. Marsden on pages 365-376 …

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Funny Business, Andy Liu Aug 2013

Funny Business, Andy Liu

Word Ways

If two businesses join together, they may be able to do so under a catchy name. For example, a dentist and a manicurist can form a business that they call Tooth and Nail. Find the names of the following businesses. The number of letters in the pair of words is given as a hint.

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Word Ways: Making The Alphabet Dance (Part One), A. Ross Eckler Aug 2013

Word Ways: Making The Alphabet Dance (Part One), A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

When I was a boy, wordplay took two forms: solving puzzles created by other people, and solving puzzles proposed by Nature (for example, searching for all words having a specified property). I was attracted to both of these, but more strongly to the latter; this chapter describes the particular forms these enthusiasms took.

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Literally Speaking Aug 2013

Literally Speaking

Word Ways

A crossword puzzle.

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Complete Description Of Idempotent Hedges In Fuzzy Logic, Jaime Nava Aug 2013

Complete Description Of Idempotent Hedges In Fuzzy Logic, Jaime Nava

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In describing expert knowledge, it is often important to properly take into account hedges} like "very", "somewhat", etc. In particular, fuzzy logic provides a consistent way of describing hedges. For some of the hedges, a repetition changes the meaning: e.g., "very very small" is smaller than "very small". However, other hedges -- like "somewhat" -- are idempotent, in the sense that repeating this hedge twice does not change the meaning. In this paper, we provide a complete description of such idempotent hedges.

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Finding Their Way: Teacher Journeys Toward Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Krista Keogh Aug 2013

Finding Their Way: Teacher Journeys Toward Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Krista Keogh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Hawley & Nieto (2010) indicate that students’ race and ethnicity influence teaching and learning in two important ways: how students respond to instruction and curriculum, and teachers' assumptions about how students learn and how much students are capable of learning. Research has indicated that the most significant factor in student success is the classroom teacher (Goldhaber & Brewer, 1997; Gordon, Kane, & Staiger, 2006; Jordan, Mendro, & Weerasinghe, 1997; Marzano, 2007; Nye, Konstantopolous, & Hedges, 2004; Rivkin, Hanushek, &Kain, 2002; Rockoff, 2004; Rowan, Correnti, & Miller, 2002). Teacher professional development regarding culturally responsive pedagogy has been promoted to help teachers …

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Acculturation, Marianismo Gender Role, And Ambivalent Sexism In Predicting Depression In Latinas, Andreana T. Jezzini Aug 2013

Acculturation, Marianismo Gender Role, And Ambivalent Sexism In Predicting Depression In Latinas, Andreana T. Jezzini

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study explores acculturation, the Latina gender role of marianismo, and ambivalent sexism in predicting depression in a community sample of Latinas. A review of existing literature regarding these variables reveals that all three constructs can be both risk factors as well as protective factors. Since marianismo and ambivalent sexism may share similar traits, both may be self-protective coping mechanisms by Latinas in the context of a patriarchal environment with structured gender roles and strong gender disparities. One hundred and thirteen adult Latina participants from various ancestries of origin were solicited from the community using an Internet survey tool. …

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Theresia Hofer, The Inheritance Of Change: Transmission And Practice Of Tibetan Medicine In Ngaming. Reviewed By Sienna Craig, Sienna Craig Aug 2013

Theresia Hofer, The Inheritance Of Change: Transmission And Practice Of Tibetan Medicine In Ngaming. Reviewed By Sienna Craig, Sienna Craig

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

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Synthetic Review Of Facing The Center: Toward An Identity Politics Of One-To-One Mentoring By Harry C. Denny, Writing Centers And The New Racism: A Call For Sustainable Dialogue And Change, And I Hope I Join The Band: Narrative, Affiliation, And Antiracist Rhetoric By Frankie Condon, Tim Taylor Aug 2013

Synthetic Review Of Facing The Center: Toward An Identity Politics Of One-To-One Mentoring By Harry C. Denny, Writing Centers And The New Racism: A Call For Sustainable Dialogue And Change, And I Hope I Join The Band: Narrative, Affiliation, And Antiracist Rhetoric By Frankie Condon, Tim Taylor

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

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Russian-English Homoglyphs, Homographs, And Homographic Translations, Tristan Miller Aug 2013

Russian-English Homoglyphs, Homographs, And Homographic Translations, Tristan Miller

Word Ways

A homoglyph is a letter whose visual form is more or less identical to that of a letter in some other alphabet. For example, the Cyrillic uppercase letters A, B, E, K, M, H, O, P, C, T, Y, and X all resemble letters from the Latin alphabet (though they do not necessarily have the same sound values).

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Instructions To Authors Aug 2013

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

Instructions to authors and back cover.

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Compositional Process Of "Through The Looking Glass", Philip Smith Aug 2013

Compositional Process Of "Through The Looking Glass", Philip Smith

Word Ways

To begin my composition, I started with the chess board that the whole Through the Looking Glass is based on. Since a chess board is eight squares by eight squares, I decided to base my composition off of an octatonic scale, a scale that contains eight notes rather then the traditional seven of a major or minor scale.

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Navigating The Paradox: An Examination Of Compliance-Gaining And Relational Development In Hostage Incidents, Justin P. Borowsky Aug 2013

Navigating The Paradox: An Examination Of Compliance-Gaining And Relational Development In Hostage Incidents, Justin P. Borowsky

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study sought to examine potential relationships between compliance-gaining strategy use and the outcome of hostage negotiation events. Persuasion has been identified as being a critical yet understudied part of the negotiation process. Utilizing the theory of Speech Acts, this study argued that compliance-gaining strategies play an essential role in the hostage recovery process. Specifically, compliance-gaining strategies allow the negotiator to exercise persuasion during the negotiation process while also building an interaction context that allows the hostage taker to feel as if the negotiator is working with, rather than against, the perpetrator. This type of relationship allows the negotiator to …

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Interests In High-Functioning Autism Are More Intense, Interfering, And Idiosyncratic Than Those In Neurotypical Development, Laura G. Anthony, Lauren Kenworthy, Benjamin E. Yerys, Kathryn F. Jankowski, Joette James, Madeline B. Harms, Alex Martin, Gregory L. Wallace Aug 2013

Interests In High-Functioning Autism Are More Intense, Interfering, And Idiosyncratic Than Those In Neurotypical Development, Laura G. Anthony, Lauren Kenworthy, Benjamin E. Yerys, Kathryn F. Jankowski, Joette James, Madeline B. Harms, Alex Martin, Gregory L. Wallace

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Faculty Publications

Although circumscribed interests are pathognomonic with autism, much about these interests remains unknown. Using the Interests Scale (IS), this study compares interests between 76 neurotypical (NT) individuals and 109 individuals with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HF-ASD) matched groupwise on age, IQ, and gender ratio. Participants and their parents/caregivers completed diagnostic measures (the Autism Diagnostic Interview—Revised and the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule; HF-ASD only), cognitive tests (Wechsler IQ Scales), and questionnaires (the Repetitive Behavior Scale—Revised, the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function, and the Social Responsiveness Scale), in addition to the IS. Consistent with previous research, HF-ASD and NT individuals did …

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Understanding The Working Alliance Between Clients Diagnosed With Anorexia Nervosa And Therapists In Individual Psychotherapy: A Phenomenological Approach, Laura M. Oyer Aug 2013

Understanding The Working Alliance Between Clients Diagnosed With Anorexia Nervosa And Therapists In Individual Psychotherapy: A Phenomenological Approach, Laura M. Oyer

Dissertations

The therapeutic working alliance is a vital ingredient to psychotherapy, specifically with clients diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa (AN) as progress is often slow and treatment difficult. This phenomenological study investigated the experiences of eight clients with AN and seven therapists who work with this population regarding how the working alliance was formed and challenged in the process of individual psychotherapy. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews. Findings revealed overarching themes among all the participants as well as themes unique to clients and therapists. The findings are discussed in the context of working alliance theory. Implications for therapists when forming the …

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Miracles And Militancy: The Evental Origins Of Religious Revolution, Timothy J. Isaacson Aug 2013

Miracles And Militancy: The Evental Origins Of Religious Revolution, Timothy J. Isaacson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Utilizing the theoretical framework of philosopher Alain Badiou, this paper will examine the force and movement of religiously fueled, revolutionary politics. Badiou’s definition of event is read through the theological concept of miracle, put forward by jurist Carl Schmitt in order to elucidate the inauguration of new order. The theological concept of miracle radicalizes Alain Badiou’s definition of event by manner of divine authorization. While Schmitt uses miracle to explicate sovereign preservation of the State, and Badiou’s interest lies in its erosion, reading both thinkers through miracle, and through each other, conceptualizes the theo-political militant, authorized by event to interrupt …

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Environmental Agency In Read-Alouds, Alandeom W. Oliveira, Patterson Rogers, Cassie F. Quigley, Denis Samburskiy, Kimberly Barss, Seema Rivera Aug 2013

Environmental Agency In Read-Alouds, Alandeom W. Oliveira, Patterson Rogers, Cassie F. Quigley, Denis Samburskiy, Kimberly Barss, Seema Rivera

Publications

Despite growing interest in helping students become agents of environmental change who can, through informed decision-making and action-taking, transform environmentally detrimental forms of human activity, science educators have reduced agency to rationality by overlooking sociocultural influences such as norms and values. We tackle this issue by examining how elementary teachers and students negotiate and attribute responsibility, credit, or blame for environmental events during three environmental read-alouds. Our verbal analysis and visual representation of meta-agentive discourse revealed varied patterns of agential attribution. First, humans were simultaneously attributed negative agentive roles (agents of endangerment and imbalance) and positive agentive roles (agents of …

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Introduction: Mirrored Sea – Reflective Glance, Bryan A. Garrett, Isabelle Rispler Aug 2013

Introduction: Mirrored Sea – Reflective Glance, Bryan A. Garrett, Isabelle Rispler

Traversea: The Journal of Transatlantic History

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The Effects Of Animal Assisted Therapy On Students, Cass Beasley Aug 2013

The Effects Of Animal Assisted Therapy On Students, Cass Beasley

Education Masters

This study examined the benefits of using animal assisted therapy student behavior/concentration to read and their motivation to read. Research was conducted in the students’ homes with the use of a certified therapy dog during reading and writing activities. Data was collected through observations, student and parent questionnaires, and examination and analysis of student work samples. The findings show that the presence of a therapy dog can improve student behavior/concentration to read and write as well as motivation to read and write. Therapy dogs should be used in addition to everyday instruction as a behavioral management tool and motivator for …

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Foreign Language Anxiety In The Classroom And In An Online Environment, Monica Baez-Holley Aug 2013

Foreign Language Anxiety In The Classroom And In An Online Environment, Monica Baez-Holley

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study compared the levels of anxiety that students experienced when taking a foreign language in the classroom with those taking a foreign language at a distance. It also aimed to determine if the student’s academic performance in the course could be predicted by his or her foreign language anxiety level. The sample consisted of 107 undergraduate students (57 traditional classroom students and 50 online students) enrolled in SPAN 101 at Indiana State University in the spring of 2012. Participants were asked to complete the L120 Questionnaire 2 developed by Hurd (2003). The original version of the instrument was used …

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The Piratical Ethos: Textual Activity And Intellectual Property In Digital Environments, Justin A. Lewis Aug 2013

The Piratical Ethos: Textual Activity And Intellectual Property In Digital Environments, Justin A. Lewis

Writing Program – Dissertations

The Piratical Ethos: Textual Activity and Intellectual Property in Digital Environments examines the definition, function, and application of intellectual property in contexts of electronically mediated social production. With a focus on immaterial production - or the forms of coordinated social activity employed to produce knowledge and information in the networked information economy - this project ultimately aims to demonstrate how current intellectual property paradigms must be rearticulated for an age of digital (re)production. By considering the themes of "Piracy", "Intellectual Property", and "Distributed Social Production" this dissertation provides an overview of the current state of peer production and intellectual property …

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The Imposition Of The Ego: Jean-Paul Sartre And The Cinematic Apparatus, James Driscoll Aug 2013

The Imposition Of The Ego: Jean-Paul Sartre And The Cinematic Apparatus, James Driscoll

College of Communication Theses and Dissertations

This thesis applies Jean-Paul Sartre’s early philosophy of consciousness and ego to two main concepts of Jean-Louis Baudry’s theory of the cinematic apparatus. The first of these concepts, the “transcendental subject,” is denoted by Baudry as the conflation of Cartesian philosophy and technology which ensures the transmission of representational knowledge in line with a historically dominant optical ideology. Since Sartre criticizes the transcendental phenomenology of Husserl in ways similar to Baudry’s work, his structures and levels of consciousness apply well to the enforced cohesion of the transcendental subject, and impart a hitherto lacking cohesion to the concept. Following from a …

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The Banner - V. 148, No. 8 - (August 2013), Christian Reformed Church In North America Aug 2013

The Banner - V. 148, No. 8 - (August 2013), Christian Reformed Church In North America

The Banner

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Revisiting The Mandaeans And The New Testament, James F. Mcgrath Aug 2013

Revisiting The Mandaeans And The New Testament, James F. Mcgrath

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

The Mandaeans have been known to scholars for as long as there has been modern scholarship. Thanks to advances in technology, you can now find some of their ancient texts online, and videos of their baptismal rituals on YouTube. Yet as fascinating as the Mandaeans are, and as much as modern technologies can facilitate greater familiarity with them, the amount of attention that they receive is surprisingly sparse – although there are encouraging signs that that is at least beginning to change.

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Sodium (Na) Levels In Drinking Water (H20) And Development Of Hypertension In Children, Sara Schiffman Aug 2013

Sodium (Na) Levels In Drinking Water (H20) And Development Of Hypertension In Children, Sara Schiffman

HIM 1990-2015

This integrative review of the literature focused on sodium (Na) content in drinking water (H?O) supplies and the subsequent effect on blood pressure levels in children. Studies for this review were drawn from the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health, PubMED, Science and Technology Databases, PsychInfo, United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and EPA in Florida websites. Criterion for inclusion in the data base searches were hypertension, high blood pressure, sodium in drinking water, drinking water salinity, children or preg'. Subsequently, further article selection criteria included children (under 18 years of age) and published in the English language …

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Choosing A Career : A Study Of Motivational Factors And Demographics That Influence P-12 Pre-Service Teachers., Diane Mackenzie 1964- Aug 2013

Choosing A Career : A Study Of Motivational Factors And Demographics That Influence P-12 Pre-Service Teachers., Diane Mackenzie 1964-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to analyze motivational and demographic factors that influence pre-service teachers’ decision to become teachers. The theoretical framework used in this study is the Factors Influencing Teaching Choice (Richardson & Watt, 2006), which is rooted in Expectancy Choice (Wigfield & Eccles, 2000) and Social Cognitive theories (Bandura, 1997). The results indicated that the motivational factors did not significantly influence respondents choices. The demographic factors, gender, ethnicity, type of program, and type of certification, were not significantly associated with motivational factors that influence pre-service teachers to choose teaching as a career. Findings suggest in terms of …

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The Rhetoric Of Africa : Historical Turns In Constructing A Continent, 1780-1890., Dexter Peck Mahaffey Aug 2013

The Rhetoric Of Africa : Historical Turns In Constructing A Continent, 1780-1890., Dexter Peck Mahaffey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines historical rhetoric about Africa in British and American writings between the beginnings of the Abolition period and the 1884 Berlin Conference at which the continent was divided by colonial powers. Tracing rhetorical trends of travel writers and their constituents through the explorations of the continent, it demarcates two turns in the way Africans and Africa were constructed rhetorically. In the process it reveals a 19th-century evolution from depicting Africa largely in terms of its viability for commerce and reception of European culture, to an Africa fallen into darkness, to Africa as the Dark Continent, permanently fixed in …

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Mixture Of Poisson Distributions To Model Discrete Stock Price Changes., Rasitha Rangani Jayasekare Kodippuli Thanthillage Dona Aug 2013

Mixture Of Poisson Distributions To Model Discrete Stock Price Changes., Rasitha Rangani Jayasekare Kodippuli Thanthillage Dona

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An application of a mixture of Poisson distributions is proposed to model the discrete changes in stock price based on the minimum price movement known as `tick-size'. The parameters are estimated using the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm with a constant mixing probability as well as mixing probabilities which depend on order size. The model is evaluated using simulations and real data. Both the simulated and real data show reasonable estimates. Several adjustments are made to the model implementation to improve the efficiency with user written codes for the Newton Raphson algorithm and also implementing one of the most recent versions of …

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Occupy: A Case Illustration Of Social Movements In Global Citizenship Education, Theresa Catalano Aug 2013

Occupy: A Case Illustration Of Social Movements In Global Citizenship Education, Theresa Catalano

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Due to the complex nature of global understanding and practice of citizenship, it is essential to understand how to educate for a responsive public sphere with active and emancipated citizens. This study aims to clarify how social movements (through a case illustration of Occupy) are representative of global citizenship goals while illuminating Occupy’s main goals and dynamic nature. Data collection consisted of 45 interviews conducted at four different Occupy locations in the United States. Interviewee comments entwined with key elements representative of global citizenship education are outlined, and findings indicate not only how social movements can be an integral part …

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