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T&C Magazine Issue 03 - Spring 2014, T&C Media

T&C Magazine

Articles include: Students Design Unique Majors // Boosting Testosterone // Behind the Scenes // Three-Year Housing Policy Still Under Scrutiny // Decisions Past and Present // Q&A: Alumni with Cool Careers // Learning Through Hope // Where in the World Are You From? // Rainy Day Fashion // Recording at Red Grove // Reducing the Stress

Canadian Patriotism And The Timbit: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Tim Horton's Inc.'S Canadian Connection Through The Application Of Semiotics, Shelanne Jennings

Masters Theses

This study examines the content of Tim Horton's television advertisements from 1980 to 2014 from a communication perspective. Using Peirce's semiotic theory, this study examines the significations of Canadian culture as they appear within each advertisement for the purpose of establishing the time and extent to which Canadian culture was used over the course of Tim Horton's advertising history. This study finds that Tim Horton's advertisements did not purposefully use Canadian significations during the 1980s to create a connection between their brand and Canadian patriotism. However, after discovering Canadians' natural affinity to the Tim Horton's brand through focus group research …

Disabled: Watching Stories Of The Malagasy Deaf, Nadeen Hamza

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Dislabeled: Mislabeled and Disabled - two words that Malagasy Deaf individuals have used in this project to describe themselves and the struggles of their community. This project explores dynamics between the mainstream Malagasy society and the marginalized Deaf community as well as the dynamics within the Deaf community of Antsirabe. I argue that mainstream stereotypes of the Deaf are manifested in the ways these individuals see themselves as well as the opportunities that society offers them. I also argue that individuals who have high proficiency in Malagasy Sign Language have wider access to public services as well as a higher …

The Peters Projection And The Latitude And Longitude Of Recolonization, Timothy Barney

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

In 1973, German historian Arno Peters unveiled the “Peters projection,” a map that challenged the Eurocentric Mercator style by redrawing the so-called “Third World” to appear more prominent on the global landscape. The projection sparked intense debate among cartographers about the overt use of ideology in mapping, while simultaneously championed by international groups (from the UN to church organizations) as a corrective against the marginalization of developing nations. This essay addresses how the Peters map became a rhetorical emblem for an internationalist identity within the contentious spatial conceptions constraining the Cold War. Ultimately, the Peters projection, despite its radicalism, constituted …

Art And Literacy, Tara Hemelgarn, Sherrie Henderson, Patricia Thompson

P-12 Lesson Plans

This lesson prepares students for a visit, virtually or in person, to the Zuckerman Museum of Art. Using art images from the ZMA permanent collection as displayed in the See Through Walls exhibition, students practice skills in language arts and visual arts.

The Update, April/May 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts And Sciences.

Update

Inside this issue...

-- Student Spotlight: Biology: Susan Graves
-- Department News
-- UBS Outstanding Teacher Award Recipients
-- School of Music Events
-- Celebrate Earth Week with the RRTTC
-- William & Stephanie Clohesy Documentary Film Series
-- UNI Botanical Center to Hold Its 15th Annual Spring Plant Sale
-- Alumni Spotlight: Computer Science: Tony Bibbs
-- Alumni Spotlight: Communication Studies, Language & Literatures: Therese Kuster
-- Alumni Spotlight: Mathematics: Ben Wadsley
-- Featured Organization: George Walker Society of Music, School of Music
-- Featured Organization: Grafx Club, Technology
-- Professionals and Students Awarded 19 American Advertising Awards
-- …

Harnessing Complexity: Analysis Methodology And Ethical Framework To Facilitate Utilization Of Video Data In Evaluations, Kurt A. Wilson

Dissertations

Most evaluations in the nonprofit and international development sectors are conducted in contexts of complexity; the specific intervention being evaluated is but one of many interrelated factors influencing the desired outcome. Video data, especially when directly generated by program participants, can provide both exceptionally rich qualitative data as well as contextually-relevant feedback within complex systems. Despite these unique strengths and opportunities, video data is underutilized in the field of evaluation. This dissertation addresses specific barriers associated with video data through three inter-related papers: Papers one and two (Chapters II and III) present the findings from two interrelated studies of an …

Montanan, Spring 2014, University Of Montana--Missoula

Montanan Magazine, 1969-2024

This is the magazine of the University of Montana with news about the University for UM alumni as well as current faculty, students, staff, and administrators. This is volume 31, number 2.

Depicting The Graphic Truth: The Heated Controversy Over Cigarette Warning Labels And The Boundaries Of First Amendment Protection, Brian Fedele

Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal

No abstract provided.

Enrollment Report, Spring 2014, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis

Enrollment Reports (2004-2019)

Enrollment Report for Spring 2014 for Illinois State University

Visual Thinking, Andy Van Solkema

2014 Conference Presentations

Solving a problem cannot be done purely by thinking. Cognition is enhanced when it is embodied with action or graphics. Visual thinking becomes an extension of our brain and allows us to share and advance thought. Recent increase in information graphics and visual design is enabled by ease in technology and visual resources. I will look at patterns and how they may enhance and shape our understanding for thought. Andy Van Solkema, a graduate of GVSU in 2002, is the Principal Designer and Founder of Visualhero, a design studio focusing on design research, information and user experience design.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, March 23, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2014

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, March 23, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2014

No abstract provided.

Agenda, General Education Day, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, March 21, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda from the March 21, 2014, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.

2014 Program: Honors Student Symposium, University Of Dayton. University Honors Program

Honors Student Symposium

No abstract provided.

Flyer News, Vol. 61, No. 22 (March 20, 2014), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

Stochastic Gradient Descent, Weighted Sampling, And The Randomized Kaczmarz Algorithm, Deanna Needell, Nathan Srebro, Rachel Ward

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

We obtain an improved finite-sample guarantee on the linear convergence of stochastic gradient descent for smooth and strongly convex objectives, improving from a quadratic dependence on the conditioning (L/µ) 2 (where L is a bound on the smoothness and µ on the strong convexity) to a linear dependence on L/µ. Furthermore, we show how reweighting the sampling distribution (i.e. importance sampling) is necessary in order to further improve convergence, and obtain a linear dependence in the average smoothness, dominating previous results. We also discuss importance sampling for SGD more broadly and show how it can improve convergence also in other …

Communication As Yoga, Kristen Caroline Blinne

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation, I am in conversation with the following questions: How can individuals and communities teach and learn to engage more peacefully, nonviolently, and compassionately with each other? Further, how can one practice a style of communication that helps at least one person suffer less each day? In asking these questions, my goal has been to imagine as well as attempt to actualize a world where individuals and communities work together to create less suffering in each other's lives by first developing compassionate awareness of our interconnectedness, then "waking up" not only to our own divinity but also to …

Visual Communication Design Majors, Alumni Sweep Up Advertising Awards, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2014

• Award winners were: Savannah Holder '13; Griffin Glaze '13; Kimberly Diedrich '09; Todd Turner '03; and Glenna Barron.

The Bg News March 19, 2014, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. March 19, 2014. Volume 93-Issue 76.

Using Nocturnal Flight Calls To Assess The Fall Migration Of Warblers And Sparrows Along A Coastal Ecological Barrier, Adam D. Smith, Peter W. C. Paton, Scott R. Mcwilliams

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

Atmospheric conditions fundamentally influence the timing, intensity, energetics, and geography of avian migration. While radar is typically used to infer the influence of weather on the magnitude and spatiotemporal patterns of nocturnal bird migration, monitoring the flight calls produced by many bird species during nocturnal migration represents an alternative methodology and provides information regarding the species composition of nocturnal migration. We used nocturnal flight call (NFC) recordings of at least 22 migratory songbirds (14 warbler and 8 sparrow species) during fall migration from eight sites along the mainland and island coasts of Rhode Island to evaluate five hypotheses regarding NFC …

Randomized Block Kaczmarz Method With Projection For Solving Least Squares, Deanna Needell, Ran Zhao, Anastasios Zouzias

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

The Kaczmarz method is an iterative method for solving overcomplete linear systems of equations Ax = b. The randomized version of the Kaczmarz method put forth by Strohmer and Vershynin iteratively projects onto a randomly chosen solution space given by a single row of the matrix A and converges exponentially in expectation to the solution of a consistent system. In this paper we analyze two block versions of the method each with a randomized projection, that converge in expectation to the least squares solution of inconsistent systems. Our approach utilizes a paving of the matrix A to guarantee exponential convergence, …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, March 16, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2014

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, March 16, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2014

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, March 9, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2014

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, March 9, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2014

No abstract provided.

Qualitative And Visualization Methodologies For Modeling Social-Ecological Dimensions Of Regional Water Planning On The Rio Chama, Moises Gonzales, Jose A. Rivera, J. Jarrett Garcia, Sam Markwell

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Courses in modeling often employ techniques based on mathematical or other computer-based quantitative models. In this article the authors update a range of social science qualitative and visualization methodologies presented to graduate students at an interdisciplinary modeling course on water issues related to climate change. In part the modeling course featured the coupling of natural and human system dynamics in the context of acequias, gravity flow irrigation systems in New Mexico that depend on winter snowpack for water supply in the form of spring run-off. While student teams were able to employ STELLA and other models, they were free to …

The Bg News March 03, 2014, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. March 03, 2014. Volume 93-Issue 72.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, March 2, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2014

No abstract provided.

An Index Of California Regulations Affecting Rice Growers, Maddie Dunlap

Agricultural Education and Communication

The purposed of this project was to identify and compile California regulations that affect rice growers. The final product was an index designed for rice growers and their representatives to be used lobbying efforts with regulators and elected officials. The index serves to illustrate the intensive regulations that rice growers face in California. Areas of focus include water quality, air quality, labor and pesticides indirectly.