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The Free Press Vol 45 Issue 8, 11-04-2013, Kirsten Sylvain

Free Press, The

How much do you know about Tuesday’s election?--Students look closer at the Direction Package--Know your rights!--Students discuss pros and cons of campus life

2010 British General Election Leader Evaluations: Replicating Electoral Focus Group Research, Kristi Winters, Edzia Carvalho

The Qualitative Report

This research replicates and expands upon the qualitative electoral research of Winters and Campbell by using data from focus groups conducted in Essex, England to coincide with three leadership debates during the 2010 British general election. The Qualitative Election Study of Britain (QES Britain) broadly replicated Winters and Campbell’s research design but includes innovations in data collection to more accurately capture assessments. This innovation means the data coding are based entirely on the evaluations of the participants. In our analysis we innovate in the way we display each leader’s unique evaluation structure. To capture the salience and direction of leadership …

Bluffton Linguistics Alum Addresses Being Muslim In Post 911 America, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, November 3, 2013, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2013

No abstract provided.

Leap Motion Highlights Linguistics Holodeck At Ohio University, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Identifying With The Help: An Examination Of Class, Ethnicity And Gender On A Post-Colonial French Houselot, Erin Nicole Whitson

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to attempt to analyze and interpret an outbuilding located in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, a town established by French settlers in the 1780s. First the functional activities associated with the outbuilding will be determined and examined to best understand where and how the structure fit within the larger property. The activities taking place within/outside the outbuilding--especially those linked to domestic chores--will theoretically paint a clearer picture of who was living and/or working within the structure and who was not. Since little work has been done within the French Mississippi River valley on outbuildings in general, …

Fausto Di Florestano - The Genesis Of New Architectural Forms In Albania, Armand Vokshi, Florian Nepravishta

UBT International Conference

This research on the Florestano Di Faustos architecture seek to highlight the evident facts which are fairly present in the context of Albanian cities, but little-known in the academic and professional field . Di Fausto, the Italian architect who worked on the second regulatory plan of Tirana, designed personally also the new core of the Albanian capital, Skanderbeg Square altogether with the ensemble of ministries and the administrative buildings. The materials found in various archives in Italy and Albania reflects clearly the high capacity of architect’s creativity, who worked at the same time for the construction of the city where …

Symbolism And Poetics Of Autogenic Space And Structures – The New Design Approach On Mosque As Representative Building (Design Proposal For The Central Mosque Of Prishtina As Case Study), Banush Shyqeriu, Kushtrim Hajdari

UBT International Conference

The congregation Mosque, Masjid (from Arabic, sujúd = prostration to God) is one of the most important institutions of Muslim world, also the predominant built form of Muslim architecture. Having a basic spatial configuration to create “shelter” for prayer, it is evoking how the simple space bears meaning that generates symbolism. This paper tries to de-construct and re-construct the Mosque as a representative built form. By using our Design Proposal for the Central Mosque of Prishtina as Case Study, we emphasize an “organic” approach towards Mosque design through a methodology of integral contextualization and conception as the new “typology”, by …

Review Of The Dead Sea Scrolls In Context: Integrating The Dead Sea Scrolls In The Study Of Ancient Texts, Languages, And Cultures, Edited By Armin Lange, Emanuel Tov, And Matthias Weigold, In Association With Bennie H. Reynolds Iii., Sidnie White Crawford

Sidnie White Crawford Publications

These two massive volumes comprise the proceedings of a conference of the same name held at the University of Vienna in February 2008. The purpose of the conference, and the proceedings volumes, in the words of the editors, is “to integrate the Dead Sea Scrolls fully into the various disciplines that benefit from the discovery of these very important texts” (vol. 1, p. x). As a result, the papers contained in these volumes are wideranging, written by specialists in the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) as well as in other disciplines. The volumes will thus appeal to scholars in a variety …

Broadening What We Perceive: A Method For Analyzing Gesture And Language, Caro C. Williams-Pierce

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Scholarship

Gesture and language are deeply intertwined, and attending to both simultaneously when examining mathematical processes is a complex yet rewarding task. We share our budding research methodology for analyzing gesture and language and discuss the methodology from a generic perspective that can be easily adapted to different contexts, participants, and mathematical domains. We further share our problem-specific gesture coding scheme as an example of the grain size and foci of such schemes. Finally, we close by discussing the importance of gesture and language to understanding mathematical justifications and proofs.

Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: November 2013, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - November 2013

Fall 2013, Graduate School Of Humanities & Social Sciences

CAHSS Graduate SGA Dialogues

No abstract provided.

A Topic Detection Approach Through Hierarchical Clustering On Concept Graph, Xiaohui Huang, Xiaofeng Zhang, Yunming Ye, Shengchun Deng, Xutao Li

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

Topic detection and tracking (TDT) algorithms have long been developed for the discovery of topics. However, most existing TDT algorithms suffer from paying less attention to: (1) temporal distance between a pair of topics; (2) the mutual effect between highly correlated topic terms. In this paper, we proposed a novel topic detection approach by applying hierarchical clustering on the constructed concept graph (HCCG), which is able to solve aforementioned shortcomings simultaneously. In this approach, the concept is first defined as well as the concept behavior curve. Then, the temporal graph is constructed with concept as vertexes and connected by the …

"Nanawatai" Program, Central Theatre Ensemble, Central Washington University

CWU Theatre Programs

"Nanawatai" was performed in November 2013 by the Central Theatre Ensemble at Central Washington University. This play follows the struggle of a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer during the 1980s invasion of Afghanistan. The crew is separated from its unit and pursued through the mountains by a band of Mujahadeen.

A Satisfaction Evaluation Method For Scenic Spot Based On Linguistic Weighted Arithmetic Average Operator, Mingming Hu, Peiyu Ren, Maozhu Jin, Jibin Lan, Yuyan Luo

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

Based on the level empowerment system and the linguistic operator, a satisfaction evaluation process is proposed in this paper. First of all, a level empowerment system is established to generate the weight of each surveyed tourist. Then, some new linguistic operations are defined which can remedy the defects of the existed operations. Besides, the expectation and variance in linguistic information environment are defined to generate the weight of each character of tourist and the weights of indicators, and linguistic weighted arithmetic average (LWAA) operator is introduced to aggregate the linguistic information of each tourist and the group linguistic information of …

A Novel Model For The Evolution Of Online Public Opinion Based On Fuzzy Cellular Automata Rules In Directed World Networks, Tao Chen, Jie Lin

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this paper, a model of Cellular Automata model (CA), which contains four essential characters composed of Emotional tendencies of current netizen, self-confidence, the impact and sentiment orientation from other netizens, was designed for the evolution of online public opinion. To establish the relationship between the state of current netizen and the impact rate from other netizens. This study has adopted the rule-based fuzzy system.With the support of some experts from the Psychology area, 70 fuzzy rules with different weight have been formulated. Through the analysis of the simulation results, the opinion concentration, polarization, are revealed. The results of simulation …

Scholarworks Statistics - November 2013, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of November 2013, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 27,078 full-text downloads and 17,653 page views.

Bard Free Press, Vol. 15, No. 3 (November 2013), Bard College

Bard Free Press - All Issues (2000-2018)

No abstract provided.

Joy Hendry. Understanding Japanese Society, 4th Edition. New York: Routledge, 2013., Ilana Maymind Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Principles Of International Law For Multilateral Development Banks: The Obligation To Respect Human Rights, Robert T. Coulter, Leonardo A. Crippa, Emily Wann

Free, Prior and Informed Consent: Pathways for a New Millennium (November 1)

41 pages.

"January, 2009"

www.indianlaw.org

Motivating English Language Learners By Integrating Their L1 And C1, Badequnzhu Badequnzhu

MA TESOL Collection

The subject of this research paper is the use of first language (L1) and culture (C1) of the learners in the process of learning English in an EFL classroom in a specific teaching context. The researcher used different teaching methods and approaches in a Tibetan secondary school context: the Silent Way, Desuggetopedia, Cooperative Learning, Way of Council and Total Physical Response. Implications of this action research can be used in the classroom to raise learners’ motivation to lower affective filters allowing deeper and more profound input of the target language, thus to improve communication and comprehension of the target language …

Same Difference?, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A crossword puzzle

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 46, Number 4

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue including the table of contents.

Homophonemes, . Anil

Word Ways

How many different spellings can one phoneme or sound have?

Cyrillic That Looks Roman, Solomon W. Golomb

Word Ways

The Cyrillic alphabet used in Russian has several letters that look like Roman letters The ones that correspond closely to the Roman letters in sound as well as appearance are: A,E,K,M,O,T.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Parents And Offspring Reunited, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

A Parent word is split into two equal, or unequal, parts each of which is a word in its own right. The words are arranged to make a 3-word designation. There are 6 different ways in which 3 words can be arranged.

Magic Poker Hands, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A magic trick.

Opening The Floodgates To A Pandora's Box Of Worms, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

in past Word Ways articles, I've differentiated between true mixed metaphors, which combine incongruous, absurd, or unreal images ("it's the whole kettle of fish in a nutshell") and what I call mashed metaphors -where clashing tropes and cliches aren't contradictory or impossible, but nevertheless create an awkward and ludicrous effect because of their proximity ("Investors smelling trouble can vote with their feet").

Making The Alphabet Dance - Part Two, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

The second part in an autobiographical series by A. Ross Eckler detailing his interest in, and the history of Word Ways.