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Joanne Growney's Poetry-With-Mathematics Blog -- An Appreciation, Gregory E. Coxson Jul 2012

Joanne Growney's Poetry-With-Mathematics Blog -- An Appreciation, Gregory E. Coxson

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Now is a good time to work on the boundaries of practice and theory, of art and science. We are seeing a rising tide of interest in these boundaries. Witness the growing Bridges movement, which has been exploring the connections between mathematics and the arts. Similarly, JoAnne Growney's blog, Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics, explores the connections between mathematics and poetry. Through this review, I aim to give readers a taste of what can be found in Intersections as a way of encouraging others, be they mathematicians, poets, or neither, to visit the blog.

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Mathematics And The Hunger Games, Michael A. Lewis Jul 2012

Mathematics And The Hunger Games, Michael A. Lewis

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

The Hunger Games plot features a dystopian future in which twelve outer districts are oppressed by a centralized capital. The story focuses on the heroism of a sixteen-year-old girl named Katniss and how she tries to rise above the oppression that she experiences. It also features a special lottery and other twists that are sources of mathematical interest. This essay focuses on some of the mathematical issues raised by The Hunger Games in an effort to show that this story can be used to teach students (as well as other interested parties) some important concepts from mathematics.

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A Workshop To Introduce Concepts Of Moral Math, Sarah Voss Jul 2012

A Workshop To Introduce Concepts Of Moral Math, Sarah Voss

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

"Moral Math" refers to the study of ideas drawn from mathematics which can positively impact moral decision-making and social behavior. This essay describes a workshop designed to introduce these ideas to interested individuals of varying degrees of mathematical and theological sophistication. Created by a retired minister and former math professor, the workshop details five sets of interactive exercises culled from game theory, theoretical complexity, fuzzy logic, basic algebra, and simple arithmetic. Exercises are user-friendly, interactive, and easily related by analogy to various social issues.

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The Night I Almost Didn't Grow Up, Marion D. Cohen Jul 2012

The Night I Almost Didn't Grow Up, Marion D. Cohen

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This is a short memoir about the role that math played in a certain part of my young life.

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A Definition Of Mathematical Beauty And Its History, Viktor Blåsjö Jul 2012

A Definition Of Mathematical Beauty And Its History, Viktor Blåsjö

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

I define mathematical beauty as cognisability and trace the import of this notion through several episodes from the history of mathematics.

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Gaming Your Mathematics Course: The Theory And Practice Of Games For Learning, Kathleen H. Offenholley Jul 2012

Gaming Your Mathematics Course: The Theory And Practice Of Games For Learning, Kathleen H. Offenholley

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Learning through play is fundamental to humans and to many other animals. Game Based Learning is an interactive pedagogy that has as its foundation the tenet that games, by their very nature, increase learning through positive emotional experience. This article introduces readers to what games in mathematics classes have the potential to do, including to decrease anxiety, increase motivation, and deepen learning through immersive gaming. The article then connects this theory to practice, providing examples of both computer and non-computer games in introductory middle school, high school and college mathematics. The article analyses how these games work, and makes the …

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Report Supplement: Poetry Folder -- Selections From The Poetry Reading At Joint Mathematics Meetings 2012 Jul 2012

Report Supplement: Poetry Folder -- Selections From The Poetry Reading At Joint Mathematics Meetings 2012

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

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For The Love Of Poetry And Mathematics: January 6, 2012, Charlotte Henderson Jul 2012

For The Love Of Poetry And Mathematics: January 6, 2012, Charlotte Henderson

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Together we combine to become twice what 60 could ever be.
The same ghost looked into my eyes.
Also, the center of the circle is inside the circle.
There is no way to draw a line, other than a border line,
A language as precise as poetry to delineate universe and being,
Deceptive as one over n as n goes to infinity, summed.
The world is a complex system
not defined by any voice factored out of my voicelessness,
the hypotenuse of course is the man who came between us
doubting every figured guess,
so, inductively, all of God’s natural …

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Raphael's School Of Athens: A Theorem In A Painting?, Robert Haas Jul 2012

Raphael's School Of Athens: A Theorem In A Painting?, Robert Haas

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Raphael's famous painting The School of Athens includes a geometer, presumably Euclid himself, demonstrating a construction to his fascinated students. But what theorem are they all studying? This article first introduces the painting, and describes Raphael's lifelong friendship with the eminent mathematician Paulus of Middelburg. It then presents several conjectured explanations, notably a theorem about a hexagram (Fichtner), or alternatively that the construction may be architecturally symbolic (Valtieri). The author finally offers his own "null hypothesis": that the scene does not show any actual mathematics, but simply the fascination, excitement, and joy of mathematicians at their work.

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Games Mathematicians Play, Mark Huber, Gizem Karaali Jul 2012

Games Mathematicians Play, Mark Huber, Gizem Karaali

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

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Front Matter Jul 2012

Front Matter

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

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Use Of Information Sources By Faculty Members, Research Scholars And Students Of The Faculty Of Commerce, Amu, Aligarh: A Survey, Abdul Mannan Khan Jul 2012

Use Of Information Sources By Faculty Members, Research Scholars And Students Of The Faculty Of Commerce, Amu, Aligarh: A Survey, Abdul Mannan Khan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this study is to find out the level of use of information sources by faculty members, research scholars and students of the faculty of commerce, amu, aligarh. a structured questionnaire was administered to the faculty members, research scholars and students of the Faculty of Commerce, AMU, Aligarh. The survey reveals that the maximum number of Faculty Members as well as Research Scholars uses Journals for getting their required information, while Students prefer general books for getting their required information. After general books they consult journals as well as supervisors/seniors. It is also found that most of the …

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Student-Based Societies And The Development Of Library And Information Profession In Nigeria: Any Nexus? A Case Study Of Larissa, University Of Ibadan, Oludayo John Bamgbose Jul 2012

Student-Based Societies And The Development Of Library And Information Profession In Nigeria: Any Nexus? A Case Study Of Larissa, University Of Ibadan, Oludayo John Bamgbose

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The roles of Library Schools in the contemporary world transcend being ivory towers where Library and Information Professionals are trained. Besides, Library schools provide platform for students to develop their leadership potentials and abilities through participation in student-centred programmes. This paper chronicles the activities of one of such societies – the Library, Archival and Information Studies Students’ Association (LARISSA) in the University of Ibadan, Nigeria from the perspective of its activities in relation to the development of Library and Information Practice (LIP) in Nigeria. The study shows that a number of the LARISSA activities have direct positive impact on LIP …

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Institutionalized, Justine S. Murison Jul 2012

Institutionalized, Justine S. Murison

Criticism

Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States by Christopher Castiglia. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. 400. $89.95 cloth, 24.95 paper.)

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Excusions Beyond The Frame, Catherine Zuromskis Jul 2012

Excusions Beyond The Frame, Catherine Zuromskis

Criticism

The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning by John Tagg. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Pp. 392, 65 black-and-white photos. $82.50 cloth, $27.50 paper.)

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Victorian Sages, Kathy Alexis Psomiades Jul 2012

Victorian Sages, Kathy Alexis Psomiades

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Darwin and the Memory of the Human: Evolution, Savages, and South America by Cannon Schmitt. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 260, 5 illustrations.$90.00 cloth.)

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The Richness Of Things Themselves, Steven Shaviro Jul 2012

The Richness Of Things Themselves, Steven Shaviro

Criticism

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Jul 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

The Political Vision of the "Divine Comedy" (Joan M. Ferrante) (Reviewed by Richard H. Lansing, Brandeis Univeresity)

Detours of Desire; Readings in the French Baroque (Mitchell Greenburg) (Reviewed by Michael Giordano, Wayne State University)

Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville (Michael Paul Rogin) (Reviewed by John Franzosa, Wayne State University)

On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (Susan Stewart) (Reviewed by Herman Rapaport, University of Iowa)

Erring: A Postmodern A/theology (Mark. C. Taylor) (Reviewed by Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Brandeis Univeresity)

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Index, Criticism Editors Jul 2012

Index, Criticism Editors

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Jul 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions (Linda S. Kauffman) (Reviewed by Shari Benstock, University of Miami)

The Old French Fabliaux (Charles Muscatine) (Reviewed by Mary Jane Schenck, University of Tampa)

Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth Century England (John Bender) (Reviewed by Simon Varey, University of California, Los Angeles)

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Jul 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism (Michael Sprinker) (Reviewed by Gerry O'Sullivan, University of Pennsylvania)

New Vico Studies (Giorgio Tagliacozzo) (Reviewed by Renate Holub, Skyline College)

Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition (Ann Bermingham) (Reviewed by Timothy Erwin, Rutgers University)

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Introduction, Suzanne C. Ferguson Jul 2012

Introduction, Suzanne C. Ferguson

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Jul 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and its History (Leo Braudy) (Reviewed by Seth L. Schein, University of California at Santa Cruz)

Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper (Claude Rawson) (Reviewed by Hilary M. Schor, University of Southern California)

Literature and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Centurl) England (Pat Rogers) (Reviewed by Hilary M. Schor, University of Southern California)

Eighteenth-Century Encounters: Studies in Literature and Society in the Age of Walpole (Pat Rogers) (Reviewed by Hilary M. Schor, University of Southern California)

The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture (Marjorie Perloff) (Reviewed by …

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Index, Criticism Editors Jul 2012

Index, Criticism Editors

Criticism

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Jul 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 (Michael McKeon) (Reviewed by John Kucich, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832 (Jon P. Klancher) (Reviewed by John Kucich, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Images of Power: Medieval History/Discourse/Literature (Kevin Brownlee) (Reviewed by H. Jay Siskin, Northwestern University)

John Rainolds's Oxford Lectures on Aristotle's "Rhetoric," (Lawrence D. Green) (Reviewed by Donald N. Mager, Johnson C. Smith University)

Iconoclasm and Poetry in the English Reformation: Down Went Dagon (Ernest B. Gilman) (Reviewed by John. N. Wall, North Carolina State University)

One Foot in Eden: Modes of Pastoral in …

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Jul 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Derrida and the Economy of Différance (Irene Harvey) (Reviewed by Christopher Norris, University of Wales)

The City Staged: Jacobean Comedy, 1603-1613 (Theodore B. Leinwand) (Reviewed by Richard C. McCoy, Queens College, CUNY)

Romanticism and Language (Arden Reed) (Reviewed by Michael Scrivner, Wayne State University)

American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent (Myra Jehlen) (Reviewed by Michael Rogin, University of California, Berkeley)

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Jul 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola (Rachel Bowlby) (Reviewed by Catherine Gallagher, University of California, Berkeley)

Modes of Production of Victorian Novels (Norman Feltes) (Reviewed by Catherine Gallagher, University of California, Berkeley)

Philosophy of the Literary Symbolic (Hazard Adams) (Reviewed by Wallace Martin, University of Toledo)

Gadamer's Hermeneutics: A Reading of "Truth and Method" (Joel C. Weinsheimer) (Reviewed by Wallace Martin, University of Toledo)

The Bible and the Narrative Tradition (Frank McConnell) (Reviewed by Wesley A. Kort, Duke University)

Diderot: Thresholds of Representation (James Creech) (Reviewed by Diane Fourny, Vassar College)

Newspaper Columns by W.E.B. Du Bois …

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Jul 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism (Morris Eaves and Michael Fischer) (Reviewed by Marcel Cornis-Pop, University of Northern Iowa)

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Modernism Through Post-Structuralism (Robert Con Davis) (Reviewed by Thomas McLaughlin, Appalachian State University)

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Knowledge, Persuasion, And Decision: Examining Predictors Of Microblogging’S Diffusion In China, Yu Liu Jul 2012

Knowledge, Persuasion, And Decision: Examining Predictors Of Microblogging’S Diffusion In China, Yu Liu

Open Access Dissertations

The last decade has witnessed a global plethora of social media. One unique social media innovation, microblogging, which combines the features of blogging, texting, and social networking sites, enables its users to post personal thoughts and opinions as well as connect to online and offline networks. Particularly, microblogging has experienced a remarkable growth in China because it not only offers a popular platform for social interactions, but also plays an essential role as an alternative news medium. Within the framework of Diffusion of Innovations theory, this study aimed to examine the five stages of microblogging’s innovation-decision process and identify the …

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Therapeutic Effects Of Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Superfamily 25 (Tnfrsf25)-Mediated Expansion Of T-Regulatory Cells In Allergic Lung Inflammation And Airway Remodeling, Matthew Tsai Jul 2012

Therapeutic Effects Of Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Superfamily 25 (Tnfrsf25)-Mediated Expansion Of T-Regulatory Cells In Allergic Lung Inflammation And Airway Remodeling, Matthew Tsai

Open Access Dissertations

Chronic allergic lung inflammation results in airway remodeling and permanent structural changes. Here we show that administration of agonists to TNF receptor super family 25 (TNFRSF25) in vivo causes expansion of natural and allergen-specific CD4+FoxP3+ regulatory T-cells (Tregs), which can prevent allergic lung immunopathology in the acute setting, and if administered during chronic allergic lung inflammation, inhibits inflammation and reverses airway remodeling. TNFRSF25-expanded Tregs reduced eosinophilia in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, reduced expression of T-helper type-2 (Th2) cytokines and blunted allergen-specific Th2 effector responses. Previously established chronic airway remodeling, as measured by goblet cell hyperplasia and subepithelial collagen deposition, was …

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