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Becoming Isis: Myth, Magic, Medicine, And Reproduction In Ancient Egypt, Chrystal Elaine Goudsouzian

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In ancient Egypt, sexuality, fertility, and the conception of children was of central importance not just to personal identity, but also to family and social structure. Because of the significance of birth in both the physical world and in the spiritual realm, references to reproduction, including fertility, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth, can be found in a wide variety of textual sources. Specifically, mythic events and scenarios, including those in magical spells, medico-magical spells, and funerary texts, reflected Egyptian reproductive conceptions and practices. Further, the Egyptians employed and called on these mythic episodes and archetypes to create divinely charged myth-mirroring space, …

Structural, Magnetic Properties And Mssbauer Analysis Of R2fe17-Xtmx (R: Dy, Er & Gd, Tm: Nb & Cr) Compounds., Binod Kumar Rai

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Binary rare-earth (R)-iron intermetallic compounds with Th2Ni17 and Th2Zn17 structure have been extensively studied for their potential application as permanent magnets. The main drawbacks of these materials are low Curie temperature (Tc) and magnetic anisotropies. In the present study, substitution of Fe atom by Nb or Cr atom shows enhancement in the magnetic properties of R2Fe17 compounds.On the first part of thesis, it presents effects of substituting iron atoms in R2Fe17 (R: Dy & Er) with bigger non-magnetic Nb atoms and smaller magnetic Cr atoms with changes in the structural and magnetic properties of the R2Fe17-xNb(orCr)x (0 ≤ x ≤ …

P-N Junction Oxide Nanoparticle As A Novel Photocatalyst For Solar Applications, Bedanga B T Sapkota

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Due to the spectral limitation of popular photocatalysts (PC) TiO2 and ZnO, there is quest for modification of the existing PC to enhance their photocatalytic performance. It has been demonstrated that the coupled nanostructured semiconductors in the form of nanocomposites (NC) enhance the performance by the mutual charge transfer of carriers between each semiconductor components with compatible chemical and electrical properties. ZnO (Bg: 3.37 eV) n-type semiconductor, is most important PC because of its high photosensitivity and stability. CuO (Bg: 1.85 eV), a p-type semiconductor, can be used in conjunction with ZnO to further improve its photocatalytic activity (PCA). Herein, …

The Rhetorical Situation Of Facebook, Justin L. Suiter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The online social network Facebook is a site of ocnsiderable rhetorical activity. Because it exists at the frontier of Web 2.0 or "new media" technology, this rhetorical activity has certain novel features that require an expansion of the concept of rhetorical situation. I apply Lloyd Bitzer's original theory of rhetorical situation to the context of Facebook in order to highlight the ways in which technological advances and shifts in theory necessitate a broader understanding of rhetorical situations. I argue that two of Bitzer's three essential elements, constraints and audience, are applicable to Facebook but must be adapted to suit its …

Design And Validation Of A Cyclic Strain Bioreactor To Condition Spatially-Selective Scaffolds In Dual Strain Regimes, John Matthew Goodhart

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Goodhart, John Matthew. M.S. The University of Memphis. August 2012. Design and Validation of a Cyclic Strain Bioreactor to Condition Spatially-Selective Scaffolds in Dual Strain Regimes. Major Professor: Dr. Joel Bumgardner. The objective of this study was to design and validate a unique bioreactor design for applying spatially-selective, linear, cyclic strain to degradable polymeric fabric scaffolds. Image analysis of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) scaffolds subjected to 3% mechanical stretch showed that the stretched and unstretched portions of the scaffolds experienced 2.97±0.13% and 0.02±0.18% strain respectively. NIH-3T3 fibroblast cells were cultured on PET scaffolds and half of each scaffold was stretched 5% …

Deleuze's Critical Philosophy: The Differential Theory Of The Faculties, Cheri Lynne Carr

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This dissertation argues that a sustained treatment of Gilles Deleuze's relationship to Immanuel Kant is eesential to a refined understanding of Deleuze's thought in his seminal work Difference and Repetition (1968). Five years before writing Difference and Repetition Deleuze published Kant's Critical Philosophy (1963), a short but comprehensive survey of Kant's work that introduced within the general traidic structure of Kant's critiques a more finely-grained structure oriented around the concept of faculties or capacities of thought. Kant's Critical Philosophy sees Deleuze using Kant's recurrent descriptions of the relationships between the faculties of thought as an organizing principle to reveal the …

The Freedom Faith Speeches Of Prathia L. Hall: Uncovering A Hybrid Rhetoric Of Protest, Mittie K. Carey

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Cultural hybridity is most prevalently revealed in cultures where racism starkly exists, according to Homi K. Bhabba. The Jim Crow culture if the South during the Civil Rights Movement was one such culture. To Bhabba, a hybridized racial identity emerges when two polarized cultures are thrown together. I alter his perspective by arguing that a hybridized rhetoric of protest emerged in the South before and during the Civil Rights Movement, as evinced by the freedom faith expressions of activist, womanist, professor, lecturer, and preacher Prathia L. Hall (1940-2002). Hall first coined the phrase, freedom faith, in 1997, but described it …

Efficacy Of Three Biodegradable Polymer Coatings Loaded With Tobramycin For Bone Screws, Zane Mckinley Hartsell

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Biodegradable polymers have a potential for use in medical applications due to their tailorable mechanical properties and their biocompatibility.Polymers have been used in applications ranging from sutures to dialysis filters and even for intraocular lenses.The purpose of this research was to evaluate the potential use of the following biodegradable polymers: chitosan, poly l-lactic acid, and polyurethane, for potential use as a local antibiotic carrier through their use as coatings for orthopaedic fixation screws.Testing of the coatings included mechanical testing of the adhesion strength as well as biological testing using zone of inhibition, activity, and elution testing.The results of this study …

Conditioning Channel Catfish Fingerlings Ictalurus Punctatus To Acute Low-Water Stress And Comparison Of Metomidate And Ms-222 In Modulating The Short-Term Stress Response, Miriah Shiloh Mertell

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The efficacy of the anesthetics Metomidate and MS-222 to modulate the cortisol response of channel catfish during a 10 min confinement stress was compared, in preparation for evaluating whether or not previous conditioning increases resistance to Edwardsiella ictaluri. Fingerlings anesthetized in Metomidate maintained baseline levels of cortisol concentrations throughout the study (P< 0.05), whereas levels increased correspondingly in fish anesthetized in MS-222and controls. Metomidateis useful for long periods of anesthetization, but MS-222 suppressed cortisolsecretion for only the first 5 min of sedation. During the conditioning study, the cortisol response among disturbed fingerlings decreased over time, indicating conditioning occurred. However, cortisolconcentrations of conditioned fingerlings increasedwhen subjected to a disease challenge, although their responsewas significantly lower compared to unconditioned controls.This indicates a possibleadvantage in conditioningfish, although differential susceptibility to a disease challenge has not yetbeen demonstrated.

Out Of Joint: The Nexus Of Madness And Time-Consciousness, Heidi A. Samuelson

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According to Edmund Husserl, time is one of the most difficult phenomenological problems, and difficulties arise as soon as we attempt to reach an understanding of how temporal objectivity can become constituted in the subjective consciousness of time. I am focusing on one aspect of time-consciousness - the role it plays in studies of mental illness - in order to expose the difficulties, and ultimately the social problems, that arise when Husserlian structures of time-consciousness are taken as a medically normal foundation. In the first part of this project, I argue that Husserlian structures of time-consciousness are uncritically reliant upon …

Winthrop Percussion Ensemble Wins Distinguished Award, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2012

• The 12-student ensemble will perform at this year’s Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) Oct. 31-Nov. 3 in Austin, Texas, the largest annual gathering of percussionists in the world.
• Winthrop is the first university with a population of less than 20,000 students to win the competition.
• Past winners have included the University of North Texas Indonesian Gamelan Ensemble, the University of Wisconsin-Madison World Percussion Ensemble and the Indiana University World Percussion Ensemble.

Crossing The Lines: Masao Miyoshi's Trespasses, David Palumbo-Liu

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Trespasses: Selected Writings by Masa Miyoshi. Edited and with an introduction by Eric Cazdyn. Foreword by Fredric Jameson. (Post-Contemporary Interventions Series. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. 384. $26.95 paper.)

Figures Of Reading, Nathan K. Hensley

Criticism

Garrett Stewart, Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 268. $45.00 cloth.)

"In The Midst Of And At The Edges Of This Maelstrom": Experience And Archives After The Falling Away, Victor Bascara

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Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization by Neferti X. M. Tadiar. (A John Hope Franklin Center book. Post-Contemporary Interventions Series. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. 496. $99.95 cloth, $28.95 paper.)

Piling Up, Or Floating Away, Vivian L. Huang

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The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy by David L. Eng. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. 198. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper.)

E Pluribus Unum, Ashley Hetrick

Criticism

On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World, by Jonathan Elmer. (Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2008. Pp. 256. $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.)

Lyric Poetry As Society, Michael Clune

Criticism

Infidel Poetics: Riddles, Nightlife, Substance, by Daniel Tiffany. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 254. $66.00 cloth, $24.00 paper.)

Photographic Simulation And Nineteenth-Century Expression, Lindsay Smith

Criticism

Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution, by Phillip Prodger. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 320. 7 color illustrations, 106 b & w illustrations. $39.95 cloth.)

City Pictures, Juliane Rebentisch

Criticism

Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices, 1970s to the Present, edited by Lynne Cooke and Douglas Crimp, with Kristin Poor. (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia; Cambridge, Massachusetts/London: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. 300. 70 color illustrations, 130 b & w illustrations. $49.95 cloth.)