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Competition Among Three Primate Species At Way Canguk, Sumatra, Indonesia, Alice Anne Elder

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Reperformance: Re-Creating And Reinterpreting Performance Art's History, Harry Jacob Weil

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation analyzes the history and theory of reperformance, arguing it as a mode of reproduction for the dissemination and institutionalization of performance art practices. In four chapters, I draw together sources in art history, performance studies, sociology, and anthropology to frame how performances of the past are re-created and reinterpreted, specifically within the context of museums and the art historical canon. While reperformance has been integral to the development of performance art since its inception in the early decades of the 20th century, my focus will turn to how post-World War II practices have been engaged with in recent …

Vocal Communication Of Wild Western Gorillas (Gorilla Gorilla), Roberta Salmi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The communication system of a species is the fundamental basis upon which animal social relationships are built and contributes to a species' social organization. Among group-living anthropoid primates that inhabit forested environments, vocal signals are likely to be one of the most important communication channels because reduced visibility limits the use of visual communication. Accordingly, many primates have different vocalizations that convey meaningful information to conspecifics about caller behavior, external objects or events and cues used in recognizing individuals. Thus, in order to better understand the social and ecological factors that have shaped a species' vocal communication system, we must …

Activity And Mechanism Studies On Novel Antibacterial Molecules Targeting Menaquinone Biosynthesis And Fatty Acid Biosynthesis In Drug Resistant S. Aureus, Yang Lu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Drug resistance in bacteria has become a global threat to public health care. The emergence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) exemplifies the eroding clinical efficacy of first-line antibiotics and emphasizes the need for new antibacterial drugs with novel mechanisms of action. The bacterial menaquinone (MK) biosynthesis pathway and fatty acid biosynthesis pathway (FAS-II) represent potential yet relatively underexploited targets for antibiotic development. My research is mainly focused on: 1) activity evaluation and mechanistic exploration of novel inhibitors targeting 1,4-dihydroxynaphthoyl-CoA synthase (MenB) from MRSA; 2) identification of a menaquinone salvage pathway in a defect S. aureus strain; 3) evaluation of …

Widowhood In Two Igbo Communities Of Nigeria: A Contextual Manipulation Of Patriarchy, Jerome Madumelu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Blackletter: Fiction And A Wall Of Precedent, Louis Anthony Di Leo

Dissertations

The eight stories that make up Blackletter explore situations in which people are forced to challenge the legitimacy of authority, rethink and rebuild their own identities, or confront their own involvement in human and environmental degradation. A central theme running throughout the collection is law, broadly, and the ways in which people adhere to or sometimes break from a particular rule, be it social or legislative. In each case, the role of law and its correlation to place and identity—either overt or veiled—serves as a major component of each story. In this way I locate these stories within a sociolegal …

Lindenwood University New Academic Appointments,, Lindenwood University

New Faculty Booklets

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Philosopher's Stone: The Faustian Geist Of Development, Salikyu Sangtam

Dissertations

The present study juxtaposes scientific rationality with polyphonic rationality in respect to societal development. This is done to illuminate how scientific rationality provides a narrow and truncated view of development. In order to explicate the exclusion of polyphonic rationalities/knowledges in favor of scientific rationality, several development scholarships are examined along with an episode of developmental scheme and two episodes of development programs. This is done to expound (note: ‘→’ = influences) how scientific rationality → scholarships → organizational/institutional schemes, such as the MDGs → actual applications of development schemes, such as transmigration and compulsory villagization. The present inquest, …

Graduate Bulletin | 2015-2016, Jacksonville State University

Bulletins & Catalogs | Graduate

Vol. 37, No. 1 (August 2015). Jacksonville State was granted University status in 1966 and began adding graduate programs to its curriculum at that time. Graduate bulletins and catalogs contain information on the academic calendar, policies and procedures, faculty, scholarships and tuition, and degree requirements for graduate programs.

The Use And Application Of Photogrammetry For The In-Field Documentation Of Archaeological Features: Three Case Studies From The Great Plains And Southeastern Alaska, Michael Chodoronek

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

This master’s thesis is comprised of two stand-alone technical papers united by a common theme. These papers explore the use and adaptation of a new software program, PhotoScan by Agisoft, and the use of non-traditional photogrammetry as a technique that should be incorporated into standard archaeological field practice. The PhotoScan program allows for rapid and accurate capture of photogrammatic information in a multitude of settings. The studies presented in this thesis were conducted between 2013 and 2015, over the course of which multiple advancements have brought the technology to new heights in the streamlined production of 3D representations of features …

The Influence Of Genetic And Social Structure On Reproduction In Phayre's Leaf Monkeys (Trachypithecus Phayrei Crepusculus), Eileen Larney

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Dispersal patterns, reproductive skew, and social structure have important fitness consequences for individuals. Intra-sexual competition and kinship have been suggested to directly or indirectly increase inclusive fitness. Thus individual, social, and ecological aspects may shape non-random dispersal and subsequent reproductive success. Primate studies have also shown strong support for the importance of kin interactions on dispersal decisions including contexts favoring an individual to leave to avoid inbreeding or competition and contexts favoring an individual to stay to increase fitness through cooperation. The genetic, ecological and social contexts are particularly important for female primates who also directly influence the growth, maturation, …

Nutritional Ecology And Growth In Juvenile Phayre's Leaf Monkeys, Kerry Michele Ossi-Lupo

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Primates exhibit slow growth and an extended juvenile period relative to other similar-sized mammals. Certain evolutionary explanations have linked the costs or benefits of bigger primate brains to slow life histories in general, although a link specifically to the length of juvenility is less clear. The ecological risk aversion hypothesis singles out the juvenile period as a target of selection, positing that slower growth rates and smaller size provide juveniles with an energetic buffer (i.e. | lower absolute metabolic demand) against starvation risk during a critical period of heightened vulnerability. This greater vulnerability is attributed largely to juveniles' lower foraging …

Youth Graffiti Vandalism : Liminal Perspectives In The Light Of Masculinity, Social Contract Theory And Transformative Process., Alton C. Frabetti

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

American adolescents experience liminality as their rights, obligations and cognitive development place them in a transitional life-period between childhood and adulthood. This liminal period inspires compensatory activities, such as identification with mainstream popular styles, radical adherence to an ideology or religion, or, for those especially struggling, destructive behavior. Graffiti is one such compensatory activity. Its practitioners' risky conduct, as well as their overall claims to exalted artistic activity, are especially appealing to certain males attempting to construct a retrogressive notion of masculinity and self-esteem in response to the further condition of male liminal identity. The practice of graffiti confronts the …

A Day In The Life : Identity Communication At The Intersection Of Race, Gender, And Sexual Orientation., Mary C. Mudd

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The theory of intersectionality posits that inclusion in multiple stigmatized identity groups results in intersectional rather than additive oppression, making it impossible to examine any one form of oppression in isolation. Black lesbians experience multiple forms of oppression—based on their sex, gender, race, and sexual orientation—making their experiences an ideal opportunity for analyzing the impact of intersectionality. Drawing from feminist theory and research, this thesis uses multiple Black lesbian narratives selected from two texts, interwoven with research from Black scholars, to present an innovative method of inquiry designed to uncover the intersections in their lives. The juxtaposition of the narratives …

August 2015 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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Andrews University Seminary Student Journal

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Signal Disruptions: Gendered Tropes And The Feminist Burlesque Of Martha Rosler, Jennifer Mary Kruglinski

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

My dissertation reveals the role of burlesque and humor in the feminist art of Martha Rosler. Rosler is acknowledged as a key figure in the feminist art movement, as well as a pioneer in video art, yet the fact that humor was integral to what I call her " feminist burlesque" --Rosler's parodic interpretation and re-presentation of the gendered imagery portrayed by the mass media--has been largely ignored in the literature surrounding her work. As such, this dissertation analyzes Rosler's feminist artwork from the 1970s that directly appropriated tropes of gender from the mass media and popular imagination in relation …

Selling Sacred Cities: Tourism, Region, And Nation In Cusco, Peru, Mark Rice

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

It is hard to imagine a more iconic representation of Peru than the Inca archeological complex of Machu Picchu located in the Cusco region. However, when US explorer, Hiram Bingham, announced that he had discovered the " lost city" in 1911, few would have predicted Machu Picchu's rise to fame during the twentieth century. My dissertation traces the unlikely transformation of Machu Picchu into its present-day role as a modern tourism destination and a representation of Peruvian national identity. Beginning in the 1920s, cusqueño elites embraced the discourse of tourism to re-imagine their region's indigenous heritage not as a sign …

Creativity In Information Literacy Teaching: Part Two – Applying Creativity To Teaching, Anthony Stamatoplos

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

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Kin Selection, Raymond Hames

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

When Hamilton (1964) published his theory of inclusive fitness it had no immediate impact in the social and behavioral sciences, even though ethnographers knew kinship to be a universally fundamental factor in human social organization, especially in egalitarian societies in which humans have spent nearly all their evolutionary history. In many ways, it was a theory that perhaps anthropologists should have devised: Anthropologists knew kinship fundamentally structured cooperation, identity, coalition formation, resource exchange, marriage, and group membership in traditional societies. It was not until 1974 with the publication of Wilson’s Sociobiology (1975) and especially Richard Alexander’s The Evolution of Social …

Links Between Foraging Strategies, Feeding Competition, And Female Agonistic Relationships In Wild Western Gorillas (Gorilla Gorilla), Jessica Lee Lodwick

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In wild primates, feeding competition is believed to influence female social relationships, patterns of dispersal, energy gain, and reproductive success. When high– quality foods are distributed in monopolizable patches, high– ranking females can use aggression to exclude low– ranking females from patches, thereby consistently gaining more food. Rank– related differences in female energy gain are expected to arise, and selection for aggression is thought to lead to unidirectional female agonistic relationships and a linear dominance hierarchy. The social and energetic effects of within– group contest competition have been extensively documented in small– bodied monkeys living in cohesive groups. However, the …

Bildung Culture: Elite Popular Music And The American University, 1960-2010, David Blake

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Milton Babbitt's 1958 article " The Composer as Specialist" (in)famously aligned the scientific aspirations of avant-garde art music with the university's mission of disinterested research. More recently, musicologists have criticized the alleged resultant hermitage of modernist styles within academia by asserting universities' separation from " public" musical culture. However, the growth of the American university in terms of population and social power since the mid-twentieth century has enlarged rather than mitigated the institution's societal influence. While universities have traditionally been associated with art music rather than popular music scenes, changes in demography, curricula, and student life over the past half-century …

Prometheus & Atlas: An Inquiry Into The Spectral Essence Of Technoscience, Jason Reza Jorjani

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Technological science has shattered the worldviews of all traditional cultures subjected to it, at times provoking reactionary religious responses that only underscore the traumatic force of this worldwide development. Yet, as I argue, this world-colonizing force is not neutral. The anticipatory projection and world-building characteristic of scientific theorization are grounded in a practical comportment, so that the essence of technology or Craft is ontologically prior to theoretical science. In other words, science is always already Technoscience. Moreover the theoretical concepts and methodologies involved in predictive calculation and in crafting frameworks that model and mold the world are derived from pre-conceptual …

Advantageously Adverse: Chinese Cinemas In Transition, 1945-1951, Lunpeng Ma

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Gone with the Wind (1939), a Hollywood prestige picture, was translated into Chinese as A Beauty at a Turbulent Time in 1946 and became a box-office hit at Shanghai. Its startling success, however, was soon overwhelmed in every aspect by a domestic film, The Spring River Flows East. This second blockbuster indicates the revitalization of Chinese cinemas in terms of aesthetics, genre, and industry in the aftermath of the Japanese occupation. Nevertheless, the translated title A Beauty at a Turbulent Time subliminally manifested the worries and dreams of China in a chaotic period. In this dissertation I examine postwar Chinese …

Abused, Neglected, And Abandoned By State Juvenile Courts: The Call For Reform In Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Sha'na Harris

Valparaiso University Law Review

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Undergraduate And Graduate Course Descriptions, 2015 Fall, Wright State University

Course Descriptions

Wright State University undergraduate and graduate course descriptions from Fall 2015.

Delta Narratives: Saving The Historical And Cultural Heritage Of The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Steve Boilard, Robert Benedetti, Margit Aramburu, Gregg Camfield, Philip Garone, Jennifer Helzer, Reuben Smith, William Swagerty, Marcia Eymann, Tod Ruhstaller, David Stuart, Leigh Johnsen, Dylan Mcdonald, Michael J. Wurtz, Blake Roberts, Margo Lentz-Meyer

College of the Pacific Faculty Reports

From August 2014 through July 2015, the Delta Narratives project, on contract to the Delta Protection Commission, addressed two questions. First, in what ways does the historical experience of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta contribute to an understanding of key themes in regional and American history? Second, how might Delta stories gain wider appreciation within the region, throughout Northern California, and among people in the rest of California and beyond?

Scholars on the project team documented ways the history of the Delta illustrates trends in land management and reclamation, technological shifts in transportation and agriculture, the impact of ethnicity and labor …

Utopia And Human Culture: Alternative Communities Of Higher Learning In America, Eli Orner Kramer

Theses

In this thesis I explore the place of the actualized utopian American alternative community of higher learning within a philosophy of human culture. I carry out such a study in order to articulate a unifying description of movement; to find the “target” that orients the activity of actualized utopia, as opposed to a classificatory rule to define a mechanically determined utopian-object. Although these communities have varied in practice since the first generation of them were created in the mid-nineteenth century, I argue that they have played, and continue to play, a particular role in America. They imagine what a world …

Alaska Native-Focused Teacher Preparation Programs: What Have We Learned?, Bernice Ttepon, Diane Hirshberg, Audrey Leary, Alexandra Hill

ISER Articles

There are too few indigenous teachers in Alaska, as fewer than 5% of Alaska�s certified teachers are Alaska Native. However, Alaska�s Indigenous students make up 80% of student enrollment in the state�s rural schools, and over 22% of the school population statewide. Moreover, 74 % of teachers hired by Alaska�s public schools come from outside the state. Teachers new to rural Alaska typically remain on the job just one or two years, and high turnover rates in Alaska are strongly correlated with poorer student learning outcomes (Hill & Hirshberg, 2013). Many community and education leaders believe rural schools could benefit …

Infectious Disease And Red Wolf Conservation: Assessment Of Disease Occurrence And Associated Risks, Kristin E. Brzeski, Rebecca B. Harrison, William T. Waddell, Karen N. Wolf, David R. Rabon, Sabrina S. Taylor

Faculty Publications

Infectious diseases pose a significant threat to global biodiversity and may contribute to extinction. As such, establishing baseline disease prevalence in vulnerable species where disease could affect persistence is important to conservation. We assessed potential disease threats to endangered red wolves (Canis rufus) by evaluating regional (southeastern United States) disease occurrences in mammals and parasite prevalence in red wolves and sympatric coyotes (Canis latrans) in North Carolina. Common viral pathogens in the southeast region, such as canine distemper and canine parvovirus, and numerous widespread endoparasites could pose a threat to the red Wolf population. The most prevalent parasites in red …