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Birmingham Poetry Review 40 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2013

Birmingham Poetry Review 40 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 196-213


Confidences: A Rendering Of Saint Augustine’S Confessions, Katie Harstock, St. Augustine Jan 2013

Confidences: A Rendering Of Saint Augustine’S Confessions, Katie Harstock, St. Augustine

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 79-98


Black Widow, L S. Asekoff Jan 2013

Black Widow, L S. Asekoff

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 40


Two Angels, James May Jan 2013

Two Angels, James May

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 116-117


Three Veils, Farah Khan Jan 2013

Three Veils, Farah Khan

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 111-112


Help! Help! I'M Being Repressed: A Comparative Look At The Rural And Urban Peasant Rebellion Of 1381, Nicole Watkins Jan 2013

Help! Help! I'M Being Repressed: A Comparative Look At The Rural And Urban Peasant Rebellion Of 1381, Nicole Watkins

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 84-95


Third, Claudia Emerson Jan 2013

Third, Claudia Emerson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 5


Ghost, Revenant, Gaylord Brewer Jan 2013

Ghost, Revenant, Gaylord Brewer

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 47


Brainspin Me Another Wunna Those, Laura Mccullough Jan 2013

Brainspin Me Another Wunna Those, Laura Mccullough

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 120


To The Praying Mantis, Nick Mcrae Jan 2013

To The Praying Mantis, Nick Mcrae

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 128


The War Reporter Paul Watson Imagines His Father, Daniel O'Brien Jan 2013

The War Reporter Paul Watson Imagines His Father, Daniel O'Brien

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 138


Bare Ruined Choirs, Jane Springer Jan 2013

Bare Ruined Choirs, Jane Springer

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 164-165


Epithalamium At An Agriturismo, Todd Portnowitz Jan 2013

Epithalamium At An Agriturismo, Todd Portnowitz

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 149


Double Agent, Laura Eve Engel Jan 2013

Double Agent, Laura Eve Engel

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 181-183


Connecticut Avenue, Deborah Ager Jan 2013

Connecticut Avenue, Deborah Ager

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 31


Appalachian Matins, Carrie Jerrell Jan 2013

Appalachian Matins, Carrie Jerrell

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 101


The Slug, Zachariah Mcvicker Jan 2013

The Slug, Zachariah Mcvicker

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 129-130


Palo Duro, Andrew Sofer Jan 2013

Palo Duro, Andrew Sofer

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 161


The Physiologist’S Rebuke To His Lover, Todd Portnowitz Jan 2013

The Physiologist’S Rebuke To His Lover, Todd Portnowitz

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 148


Re-Visioning Composition: Exploring How Creative Nonfiction Might Invigorate Composition Studies, Melba Major Jan 2013

Re-Visioning Composition: Exploring How Creative Nonfiction Might Invigorate Composition Studies, Melba Major

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My thesis explores and advances the discussion of how easing the boundary between creative nonfiction and composition studies might invigorate composition studies by moving from theory to practice. Building upon work by Wendy Bishop, Douglas Hesse, Robert L. Root, Jr., and Andrew Bourelle, it offers a study of the impact of introducing creative nonfiction texts and creative writing pedagogy into the composition classroom. Composition studies and creative writing currently exist in separate worlds. Those teaching composition tend to focus on the social-epistemic, while creative writing pedagogy focuses on expressivism. Negative stereotypes have evolved about both departments based on their approaches …


Making Room For A Restorative Response To Conflict: Challenging The Retributive Paradigm In American Journalism, Cynthia Duggan Mwenja Jan 2013

Making Room For A Restorative Response To Conflict: Challenging The Retributive Paradigm In American Journalism, Cynthia Duggan Mwenja

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Reactions to current events from across the political spectrum highlight a journalistic retributive narrative framework that is ubiquitous in the American media. News articles from the childhood obesity debate support claims that journalists on both left and right interpret this story - and by implication, all stories - through a retributive cultural lens. Burke's rhetorical analysis tool, dramatism, is used to examine the rhetoric on all sides of the issue and demonstrate the common retributive aspects of the narratives, regardless of the social or political orientations of the writers and their affiliations. The retributive narrative is connected to American justice …


Frequency Of Exercise Training's Effect On Psychological Outcomes In Older Women, William Neumeier Jan 2013

Frequency Of Exercise Training's Effect On Psychological Outcomes In Older Women, William Neumeier

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Objectives: Exercise training by older adults has demonstrated many health benefits, including improved cognition and psychological well-being. The optimal frequency of combined aerobic exercise training (AET) and resistance exercise training (RET) is unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine whether exercise improves body image, esteem, depression, and mood, among older women, and whether improvements differ by frequency of exercise. Methods: Post-menopausal women (N = 64) over the age of 60 (64.79 ± 3.74) were randomly assigned to one of three groups. Group 1 completed two exercise sessions (1 AET, 1 RET) per week, Group 2 completed four sessions …


An Investigation Of The Sublethal Effects Of Carbon Dioxide On The Common Sea Urchin Lytechinus Variegatus And The Carbonate Chemistry Of Its Nearshore Habitat, Roberta Challener Jan 2013

An Investigation Of The Sublethal Effects Of Carbon Dioxide On The Common Sea Urchin Lytechinus Variegatus And The Carbonate Chemistry Of Its Nearshore Habitat, Roberta Challener

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Increases in CO2 concentrations, whether from accumulation of metabolic waste under intensive culturing conditions or from increases in atmospheric levels, lead to decreases in seawater pH and carbonate saturation states. Lytechinus variegatus survive chronic exposure to hypercapnic conditions (pH 7.4 -7.8, partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) 1738-4290 μatm) in synthetic seawater, yet aspects of growth and development are affected. Rates of embryonic and larval development were delayed and larval size and arm length reduced under high pCO2 conditions. Fecal production rates were higher and ash absorption efficiency (%) was lower in individuals exposed to hypercapnic conditions, suggesting that the ability …


Spectral Properties Of Random Block Operators, Jacob Chapman Jan 2013

Spectral Properties Of Random Block Operators, Jacob Chapman

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Ever since the introduction of the Anderson model in 1958, physicists and mathematicians alike have been interested in the effects of disorder on quantum mechanical systems. For example, it is known that transport is suppressed for an electron moving about in a random environment, which follows from localization results proven for the Anderson model. Quantum spin systems provide a relatively simple starting point when one is interested in studying many-body systems. Here we investigate a random block operator arising from the anisotropic xy-spin chain model. Allowing for arbitrary nontrivial single-site distributions, we prove a zero-velocity Lieb-Robinson bound under the assumption …


Identification Of Staphylococcus Aureus Sortase A Inhibitors As Potential Antibacterial Agents, Bala Chandra Chenna Jan 2013

Identification Of Staphylococcus Aureus Sortase A Inhibitors As Potential Antibacterial Agents, Bala Chandra Chenna

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Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is the causative organism for a wide range of infectious diseases from superficial skin infections to dangerous bacteremias. Six pathogens named ESKAPE pathogens are responsible for majority of antibiotic resistant bacterial infections. MRSA is the single most prevalent ESKAPE pathogen. Many of the nosocomial MRSA strains are multi-drug resistant, and even methicillin-sensitive strains can be deadly. S. aureus has recently taken on a new role in causing an escalating number of community-acquired infections in non-hospitalized persons without predisposing risk factors. Due to the increase in the number of infections caused by multi-drug resistant S. aureus and …


The Effects Of High Pressure On Magnetic Transitions In Heavy Rare Earth Metals, Sarah Thomas Jan 2013

The Effects Of High Pressure On Magnetic Transitions In Heavy Rare Earth Metals, Sarah Thomas

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Rare earth metals bear close resemblance to the 5f actinide metals that are critical to nuclear stockpile stewardship research. To better understand these materials, we have studied erbium, holmium, and terbium under high pressure and low temperatures in order to elucidate the magnetic transitions as these materials are compressed to different crystallographic phases. In erbium, we have undertaken four-probe electrical resistance measurements in a diamond anvil cell to temperatures as low as 10 K and pressures up to 20.3 GPa. We have also conducted x-ray diffraction measurements on erbium to 10 K and 20.4 GPa. In the electrical resistance measurements …


Documenting Death: Transitioning From A County Coroner System To A Medical Examiner System In Jefferson County, Alabama, Nathaniel Lane Wade Jan 2013

Documenting Death: Transitioning From A County Coroner System To A Medical Examiner System In Jefferson County, Alabama, Nathaniel Lane Wade

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A coroner and a medical examiner are legal certifiers of death. A coroner is an elected official who often lacks formal medical training. A medical examiner is usually an appointed official who has formal medical training in forensic pathology. Each state within the U.S. can be comprised of a coroner system, a medical examiner system, or a blended statewide system. The coroner or the medical examiner documents the cause and manner of death of a person both on a report and on a death certificate. Deaths are classi-fied as natural, accidental, suicide, homicide, or undetermined. In 1978, Jefferson County, Alabama …


Age Cohorts And Emotional Attachment To Mobile Phones, Amanda Warr Jan 2013

Age Cohorts And Emotional Attachment To Mobile Phones, Amanda Warr

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ABSTRACT Mobile phones have become integral to the way people communicate. Although mobile phone ownership is nearing saturation in the United States, use patterns differ among age cohorts. Another difference is the degree to which members of different age cohorts depend on their mobile phones. I explore emotional attachment to mobile phones and how it differs by age cohorts. Using data from a national survey of U.S. adults, I examine whether cohorts differ in attachment to their mobile phones, even when controlling for diversity of technology use. The results illustrate that there are important differences in attachment to mobile phones …


Clear Cut Lines:Reconsidering Max Beckmann's Influences, Annie Suzanne White Jan 2013

Clear Cut Lines:Reconsidering Max Beckmann's Influences, Annie Suzanne White

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Max Beckmann came of age when the art world was rapidly changing in the early twentieth century. Beckmann did not fall into any one artistic movement and was often at odds with his contemporaries. Because of these factors it is difficult to discuss his influences without hyper-focusing on just one influence as a way to explain his artistic progression and style. The scholarship has tended to place specific chronological frames around parts of Beckmann's work and focus on just one influence in isolation. Beckmann's influences need to be viewed in a more holistic continuous fashion. This thesis examines the most …


Neural Mechanisms Supporting The Learning-Related Emotional Response To A Threat, Kimberly H. Wood Jan 2013

Neural Mechanisms Supporting The Learning-Related Emotional Response To A Threat, Kimberly H. Wood

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Successful regulation of the emotional response to a threat allows one to react more effectively under threatening conditions. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) and amygdala are key brain regions that mediate the regulation and expression of emotion. We employed Pavlovian fear conditioning to investigate the neural mechanisms that influence the emotional response to a threat. These procedures were designed to investigate conditioned diminution of the unconditioned response (UCR). The specific aims were to better understand the role of associative learning, expectation, controllability, and predictability in modulating UCR expression. This project employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess the magnitude of …