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Elegy Without Consolation, Matthew Buckley Smith Jan 2014

Elegy Without Consolation, Matthew Buckley Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 133


Things In The Vicinity, Eamon Grennan Jan 2014

Things In The Vicinity, Eamon Grennan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 76


"Well, Shaniqua’S Taking Her Time", Benjamin Grossberg Jan 2014

"Well, Shaniqua’S Taking Her Time", Benjamin Grossberg

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 78-80


Naming The Dead, Robert Miltner Jan 2014

Naming The Dead, Robert Miltner

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 174-177


Vulcan Historical Review 18 (End Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff Jan 2014

Vulcan Historical Review 18 (End Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

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"Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts": Unraveling Abraham Lincoln's Perplexing Paradoxes, Jennifer E. Stitt Jan 2014

"Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts": Unraveling Abraham Lincoln's Perplexing Paradoxes, Jennifer E. Stitt

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 18-31


Cardiac, Marjorie Welish Jan 2014

Cardiac, Marjorie Welish

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 149-150


Droit Du Vassal, Rebecca Foust Jan 2014

Droit Du Vassal, Rebecca Foust

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 72


The Use Of The World, Shelly Cato Jan 2014

The Use Of The World, Shelly Cato

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 160-163


Witness, Amy Arthur Jan 2014

Witness, Amy Arthur

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 55


The Arsonist's Lament, Eric Smith Jan 2014

The Arsonist's Lament, Eric Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p.131


When Reasonable People Are Alarmed: Riots, Rioters, And The Press In Eighteenth-Century England, Nicole Watkins Jan 2014

When Reasonable People Are Alarmed: Riots, Rioters, And The Press In Eighteenth-Century England, Nicole Watkins

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 68-91


A Conversation With Eric Foner, Brian Steele Jan 2014

A Conversation With Eric Foner, Brian Steele

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 10-14


Pretenders And Punishments, Rachel Morgan Jan 2014

Pretenders And Punishments, Rachel Morgan

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 54-67


Shiloh Baptist Church Tragedy: Tracing Theories Of Collective Behavior To Understand Crowd Panic And How It Relates To The Birmingham Panic Of 1902, Melissa Gilmore Jan 2014

Shiloh Baptist Church Tragedy: Tracing Theories Of Collective Behavior To Understand Crowd Panic And How It Relates To The Birmingham Panic Of 1902, Melissa Gilmore

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 32-40


A Cult Of Fusion, Dana Dawson Jan 2014

A Cult Of Fusion, Dana Dawson

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 142-150


The Conversation, Kimberly Bruss Jan 2014

The Conversation, Kimberly Bruss

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 64


Birthday Dress, Trista Edwards Jan 2014

Birthday Dress, Trista Edwards

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 71


Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, Tom C. Hunley Jan 2014

Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, Tom C. Hunley

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 86-87


Trespasses, Amy Arthur Jan 2014

Trespasses, Amy Arthur

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 58


The Irritating Professor, David Kirby Jan 2014

The Irritating Professor, David Kirby

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 98-99


Romantic Notions, Stephen Priest, Gergen Manstoff Jan 2014

Romantic Notions, Stephen Priest, Gergen Manstoff

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 118


Little Murders Everywhere / Chord Box / Praise Nothing, Jessica Murray Jan 2014

Little Murders Everywhere / Chord Box / Praise Nothing, Jessica Murray

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 164-173


Lookout Mountain, Austin Segrest Jan 2014

Lookout Mountain, Austin Segrest

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 129


Last Call At The Conference Hotel, Matthew Buckley Smith Jan 2014

Last Call At The Conference Hotel, Matthew Buckley Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 132


Cathedral, Rachel Richardson Jan 2014

Cathedral, Rachel Richardson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 127


The Inverse Volatility Problem For American Options, Ajay Mahato Jan 2014

The Inverse Volatility Problem For American Options, Ajay Mahato

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The inverse problem of determining equity volatility from a knowledge of American option prices for a range of exercise prices and expirations is solved by minimization of a convex functional. This variational approach has distinct advantages over traditional least squares techniques in that, as the associated functional is convex, one typically has a unique global minimum, so that one is not concerned about the steepest descent minimization process "getting stuck" in spurious local minima. This is an enormous advantage numerically in difficult situations. We illustrate the method using examples drawn from recent market data.


Sak Yant: The Transition From Indic Yantras To Thai "Magical" Buddhist Tattoos, Angela May Jan 2014

Sak Yant: The Transition From Indic Yantras To Thai "Magical" Buddhist Tattoos, Angela May

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Officially, Thailand is dominated by the state-sponsored Theravada Buddhist tradition, which has essentially been practiced in Thailand since 1902 when the sangha bureaucracy was established. However, within the last couple of decades a hybrid form of Thai Buddhism has emerged. The contemporary, hybridic Thai religion emphasizes Buddhism--placing it at the top of its hierarchal pyramid--even while it includes elements of Animism and Hinduism. This thesis explores the hybridization of popular religions in contemporary Thailand as reflected in the art form of Sak Yant. Thai Buddhist magical tattoos called Sak Yant are based on ancient Indic yantras that are considered powerful …


Illuminating The Physiology And Ecology Of The Wound-Induced Macroalgal Oxidative Burst, Ruth Ellen Mcdowell Jan 2014

Illuminating The Physiology And Ecology Of The Wound-Induced Macroalgal Oxidative Burst, Ruth Ellen Mcdowell

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The role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the macroalgal wound response was investigated with emphasis on their occurrence, source, and ecological role. In a survey of Antarctic macroalgae, an oxidative response to wounding was common and ROS in seawater decreased the feeding rate of sympatric amphipod grazers. The macroalgal oxidative response was also sensitive to light. In contrast to the current understanding of the macroalgal oxidative burst, initial wound-induced ROS from the temperate kelp Saccharina latissima were light-dependent and arose from disrupted photosynthetic electron transport rather than from a defense-related enzyme such as an NADPH-oxidase. Furthermore, the light-dependence of …


Hormonal Contraceptives Alter The Immune Function And Structural Integrity Of The Female Genital Tract: Implications For Hiv-1 Infection, Katherine Gisella Michel Jan 2014

Hormonal Contraceptives Alter The Immune Function And Structural Integrity Of The Female Genital Tract: Implications For Hiv-1 Infection, Katherine Gisella Michel

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The potential effect of hormonal contraception on HIV-1 acquisition and transmission represents an important public health issue. Several observational studies have suggested an association between the use of hormonal contraception, in particular injectable depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), and an increased risk of HIV-1 acquisition and transmission. To delineate the biological mechanisms behind this phenomenon, we have recruited healthy, HIV-negative women using either DMPA, NuvaRing, or combined oral contraceptives for a vaginal biopsy and cervicovaginal lavage (CVL). Analysis of the functional capacity of circulating plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs), distribution of vaginal immune cell populations, and systemic and genital levels of immune …