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Tcas Benchmark Loose Page, Eddie Osburn

North Texas Archeological Society Records

Page from an August issue of the TCAS Benchmark, with the year not shown.

Tcas Benchmark, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1996, Jim Blanton, Michael Gramly, Eddie Osburn

North Texas Archeological Society Records

Volume ten and issue four of TCAS Benchmark. Address redacted on last page.

Tcas Benchmark, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1996, Jim Blanton, Eddie Osburn, A. M. Van Damme

North Texas Archeological Society Records

Volume ten and issue one of TCAS Benchmark. Address redacted on last page.

Tcas Benchmark, Vol. 9, No. 11, 1995, Jim Blanton, Cathy Hoyt, Peyton Wright, Glynn Osburn, Eddie Osburn

North Texas Archeological Society Records

Volume nine and issue eleven of TCAS Benchmark. Address is redacted on last page.

Tcas Benchmark, Vol. 9, No. 10, 1995, Jim Blanton, Nolan E. Preston, James Everett, Pennie Lowetz

North Texas Archeological Society Records

Volume nine and issue ten of TCAS Benchmark. Address redacted on last page.

Tcas Benchmark, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1995, Jim Blanton, Eddie Osburn, Jay Hornsby

North Texas Archeological Society Records

Volume nine and issue four of TCAS Benchmark. Address redacted on last page.

Tcas Benchmark, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1995, Jim Blanton, Eddie Osburn, Paula Vastine

North Texas Archeological Society Records

Volume nine and issue three of the TCAS Benchmark.

Tcas Benchmark, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1995, Paula Vastine, Jim Blanton, James Everett

North Texas Archeological Society Records

Volume nine and issue one of the TCAS Benchmark, notably dropping the "TCAS News" title in this issue.

Hyperbilirubinemia Requiring Exchange Transfusion As A Risk Factor For Later-Onset Hearing Loss, Susan Wiley, Vivian Kaul, Oliver F. Adunka, Lynn Iwamoto, Robert C. Nutt, Kirsten R. Coverstone, Patricia Burk

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

Background: Previous position statements by the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing have recommended the presence of hyperbilirubinemia requiring exchange transfusion as a risk factor for childhood hearing loss. This article examines the strength of the evidence to support this recommendation.

Methods: A PubMed® query using the keywords hyperbilirubinemia and hearing loss identified 77 original papers. All abstracts were reviewed for consideration of full article review and 44 articles were reviewed for consideration of inclusion and grading with 21 articles graded using structured evidence-grading forms. Nineteen articles were included to provide supporting rationale for recommendations. Evidence grading was completed by recommendation. …

Journal Of Early Hearing Detection And Intervention: Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 1-55

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

No abstract provided.

Volume 7 (2024) Artificial Intelligence And Responsibility, Arwa Alnajashi, Danielle Derise, Philip L. Frana, David Mcgraw, Amanda Sawyer, Tatjana Titareva, Raafat Zaini, Allie Zombron

International Journal on Responsibility

The seventh volume of the International Journal on Responsibility (IJR) arrives at a crucial moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence and its integration into our academic and social fabric. As we witness the rapid advancement and deployment of AI systems across various domains, this special issue examines the multifaceted dimensions of responsibility surrounding AI technology, with a particular focus on its role in higher education and broader societal implications.

The articles in this volume contribute to our understanding of responsibility through diverse lenses, from classroom implementation to ethical design considerations. Together, they fulfill IJR’s central mission of exploring “Who …

What To Make Of This Flesh:, Gabrielle Leung

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.

The Evolved Survival Of Sm Entertainment In The Chinese Market: Legitimation Strategies And Organizational Survival, Weibo Ye, Sou Hwan Kang

Kritika Kultura

AVEX, a Japanese leading entertainment company, decided to withdraw from the Chinese market in 2013 due to its business failure. In contrast, SM Entertainment adapted to the Chinese market and has survived. Organizations are affected by their external environment and implement strategies to adapt and respond to this environment. This study investigates reasons for SM Entertainment’s successful entry into China. We analyze how the corporation’s strategies evolved to acclimatize to changes in the Chinese cultural industry policy from 1998 to 2014, and explored the results of these strategies. From this analysis, we argue that it is important for organizations to …

The New Korean Wave In The Middle East And Its Role In The Strategic Approach To Medical Tourism In Korea, Suwan Kim

Kritika Kultura

The “Korean Wave” (known as Hallyu in Korean) describes the phenomenon whereby aspects of Korean culture have become popular globally. By conducting a cross-cultural analysis, this study identifies the status and shifts of Hallyu in the Middle East, and analyzes the factors that have helped it spread successfully. This paper also seeks a strategic approach for evaluating the role of the new Korean Wave in the Middle East. The number of Middle Eastern patients and families visiting Korea for medical tourism has risen rapidly in the past few years. Medical tourism from the Middle East is expected to grow, improving …

Roots And Routes: Hip-Hop From South Korea, Ute Fendler

Kritika Kultura

With the growing success of hip-hop in South Korea, the discussions about the authenticity of this genre increase and create cleavages between the mainstream and the underground rappers. The paper intends to analyze three examples of the contemporary music scene that are representative of different positions. Taking Simon Frith’s work on popular music as a means to construct identity, the paper suggests questioning the concept of authenticity (“roots”) and proposes instead conceiving hip-hop in South Korea as a movement at the crossroads (“routes”) of various influences and practices.

From Localization To Glocalization: Contriving Korean Pop Culture To Meet Glocal Demands, Ingyu Oh

Kritika Kultura

Hallyu (the Korean Wave) has been around the world since the late 1990s. Over the period of twenty years, Hallyu has evolved from a regional entertainment pop to a global cultural content. The evolution of Hallyu, like any other evolutions, has involved a long process of localization and globalization. Both K-pop and K-dramas, the two major pillars of the Hallyu revolution, are foreign imports. K-pop has mostly been influenced by European and American dance music since the early 1990s, whereas K-dramas have been heavily influenced by Japanese trendy TV dramas in the past, particularly during the 1980s. However, the localization …

Webtoon As A New Korean Wave In The Process Of Glocalization, Wonho Jang, Jung Eun Song

Kritika Kultura

With the development of Web 2.0, the online publication of Korean cartoons has increased substantially. The webtoon is a new genre of publishing Korean comics (manhwa) online, and is considered a unique case in the global cartoon market. The increase of Internet users and digital cultural consumption has established conditions for fostering the platform for webtoons and their production. In addition, the popularity of Korean dramas and K-pop has cultivated the spread of webtoons in the countries receiving dramas and K-pop. This study discusses the characteristics of Korean webtoons and their development using the concept of “glocal culture.” The glocalization …

Monsters In The Pacific: The Philippines In The Hollywood Geopolitical Imaginary, Laurence Marvin S. Castillo

Kritika Kultura

The recent announcement of the American strategic pivot to the Asia Pacific calls for the examination of the ways by which the region, particularly its constituent states, is produced in and by the US imperialist imaginary. This essay responds to such critical imperative by analyzing the geopolitical imagination of the Philippine nation-space in the Hollywood giant monster films Pacific Rim (2013) and Godzilla (2014). The essay first discusses how the nation-state remains a crucial participant in the globalized expansion of capital, and how its participation is imagined in the realm of cinematic geopolitics. It then examines the development of the …

Recipes For Revision: Digesting American Empire In The Philippines Via Filipina Literature In Spanish, Adam Lifshey

Kritika Kultura

This essay investigates the intersections of American empire and American feminism via literature by Filipinas in Spanish. Texts written in Manila by hispanophone Filipinas who were also American subjects and American nationals present a defamiliarizing phenomenon that casts anew standard historical-literary accounts of the 20th century United States. The literary output of Maria Paz Zamora, for instance, reveals an America that emerges on shores not commonly taken to be American at all and yet are more indicative, arguably, of the modern United States than any other. Paz Zamora was the first Asian woman to produce a short story collection in …

Arabella Raut The Eighth, Karlo Antonio Galay David

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.

By The Third Mojito And Other Poems, Noelle Leslie Dela Cruz

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.

Itinerant Figures: Textual Mobilities In Fiction’S Diasporic Turn, Maria Luis Torres Reyes

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.

Multicultural Bildungsroman: Coming Of Age Between Han And Sana, Maria Luis Torres Reyes

Kritika Kultura

The paper explores ways in which the contemporary refunctioning of classical literary and cinematic genres might continue to provide vitality and relevance in building multi-faceted border-crossing societies such as multicultural communities. In the case of Korean hallyu cinema, Punch, the sleeper-hit film of 2011 about a Korean-Filipino character (“Kopino”), the “coming-of-age” genre is located at the nexus between the key features of the Bildungsroman and the project of multiculturalism in dominantly monocultural Korea. In the process of refunctioning, the aesthetics of the film is reworked from a narrative structured by the integrative logic of an individual’s development (Bildungsroman) into a …

The Matrix Of S&M In Korean Cinema: Time, Space, Trauma, Power, Taeyun Yu

Kritika Kultura

Just as Jean Baudrillard predicted that a new era would arrive wherein sexual desire would emerge, the late ’90s in Korea were marked as the fin-de-siècle of sexual explosion in popular culture, in the transition of the culture from pre-modernism to modernism. Sex and nudity became prevalent properties in popular culture and film, as a window onto the world, also joined this parade by equipping its products with erotically provocative visuals and transgressive texts. This study aims to shed some light on the social meaning of sadomasochism (S&M) by viewing it as an expression of power relations (dominance/submission & discipline/punishment) …

Editor's Introduction, Vincenz Serrano

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.

Optimization Of The Starch Chitosan-Based Flocculant Crosslinked By Ethylene Glycol Dimethacrylate On Removing Dypro 19 Textile Dye From Wastewater, Asep Nurohmat Majalis, Putri Ramadhani, Hendris Hendarsyah Kurniawan, Axel Dimaz Sanusi Pasaribu, Hafiizh Prasetia, Fitri Yuliani, Andreas Andreas, Hartati Hartati

Karbala International Journal of Modern Science

Dyes used in industry, especially textile dyes, are one of the water pollutants that receive much attention because they are potentially toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic, and generally challenging to decompose naturally. Textile dyes from wastewater can be removed through coagulation-flocculation. However, conventional coagulation-flocculation based on Fe and Al salts and synthetic polymers often leaves residual pollution. In this research, the performance of the new biopolymer-based flocculant, namely starch-ethylene glycol dimetacrylate-chitosan (SEC), which can act as coagulants and flocculants in solid-liquid separation of textile dyes, has been optimized using response surface methodology (RSM) approach. The influences of several independent variables, such …

Breast Cancer Area Identification In Mammograms Using Expectation Maximization Gaussian Mixture Model, Rizki Khoirun Nisa, Dian Kurniasari, Favorisen R. Lumbanraja, Warsono Warsono

Karbala International Journal of Modern Science

Breast cancer accounts for 25% of all cancer diagnoses and 16% of cancer-related deaths among women globally, with high mortality rates due to late diagnosis. Early detection relies on imaging techniques such as mammography, histopathology, and breast ultrasound, with mammography being the gold standard due to its proven to detect breast cancer, thus it is effective for breast cancer treatment. However, mammogram images often produce noise and artefacts, complicating early-stage cancer detection and emphasizing the need for advanced image processing. Clustering algorithms such as K-means and Expectation Maximization - Gaussian Mixture Model (EM-GMM) have shown potential in image segmentation. This …

Research On Latent Space-Based Anime Face Style Transfer And Editing Techniques, Haixin Deng, Fengquan Zhang, Nan Wang, Wancai Zhang, Jierui Lei

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To address issues such as image distortion and style uniformity in existing anime style transfer networks within the field of image simulation, we propose the TGFE-TrebleStyleGAN (textguided facial editing with TrebleStyleGAN) for anime facial style transfer and editing. This framework leverages vector guidance within the latent space to generate facial imagery and incorporates a detail control module and a feature control module to constrain the aesthetic attributes of the generated images. The images generated by the transfer network serve as style control signals and constraints for fine-grained segmentation. Text-to-image generation technology captures correlations between styletransferred images and semantic information. …

Don't Forget To Water The Plants: Crafting A Sustainable Framework For Space Launches Under The Inflation Reduction Act, Wyatt Modracek

Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, & Innovation Law

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) makes great strides toward limiting the consumption of fossil fuels through the incentivization of research and development of sustainable aviation fuel. However, the IRA serves as a reactive measure to the problem of air pollution while missing an opportunity to curtail another coming issue of pollution: space launches. While not as pervasive as commercial air travel, space launches and outer space as a whole are becoming a billion-dollar market with space mining, astro-tourism, and interplanetary travel. The rate of launches has no sign of slowing down, and rather than wait to pass a reactive measure …

The Illegal Trade Of Marine Wildlife: A Review Of Consequences And Strategies To Combat The Trade, Kaitlyn Shaw

Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, & Innovation Law

An enduring challenge in assessing the risk of extinction for marine animals lies in our need to consume them. Many nations, including the United States, invest substantial resources in supporting fishery businesses to locate, harvest, and market ocean wildlife, with comparatively small allocations for their protection. Despite the existence of numerous state, national, and international laws dictating how and when animals can be harvested, achieving sustainable catch levels remains elusive. Especially when adding in the constant battle against organized crime groups, combatting the marine wildlife trade almost seems impractical. This comment analyzes and argues for a more comprehensive approach to …