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Reality Cosmetic Surgery Makeovers: Potential Psychological And Behavioral Correlates, Steffanie Sperry

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (2006), the number of cosmetic procedures has increased to over 10 million in 2005, showing a 38% increase from 2000. This increase in cosmetic surgery prevalence is paralleled by a surge in reality cosmetic makeover television programming, such as Extreme Makeover and Dr. 90210. No research to date has assessed the potential relationships between reality media viewership and body image, eating pathology, or cosmetic surgery attitudes. The tripartite model of core influence (Thompson et al., 1999) is presented as a theoretical framework for conceptualizing the link between media influences, internalization, body image …

Novel Polymer-Metal Nanocomposites For Applications In Detection And Sensing, Dayling L. Chaparro

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Detection of trace elements such as organic contaminants, explosive residues, and metal ions is an intellectually challenging task in science and engineering. It is also a topic of increasing importance due to its impact on society and the environment. Designing molecularly imprinted materials is one of the most promising approaches to explore sensing and detection applications. “Stimuli-sensitive” polymer materials are ideal candidates for these imprinted sensors as they are able to respond to changes in their environment and can be tailored by cross-linking the polymer chains. The responses can be amplified and transduced into measurable signals due to macromolecular properties …

2006-2007 Master Of Music Recital - Ni Peng (Collaborative Piano), Ni Peng

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 82, No. 44, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Processing Peace: Art Therapy For A Grieving Artist, Amber L. Petersen Vold

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Ua35/11 Arête April 2007, Honors College

Arête: Honors College at WKU Newsletter

No abstract provided.

University Orchestra, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

2006-2007 Master Of Music Recital - Natalia Herrera Osorio (Violin), Natalia Herrera, Tao Lin, Carol Cole

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.

2006-2007 Ppc Recital - Adriana Lombardi (Cello), Adriana Lombardi, Edgar Leite, David Cole, Ni Peng

PPC/PSDP Recitals

No abstract provided.

Deacon Kermit Wooten

African American Funeral Programs

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Faculty Brass Quintet: Amy Gilreath, Trumpet; Ken Wendt, Trumpet; David Snyder, Horn; Stephen Parsons, Trombone; Andy Rummel, Tuba; April 10, 2007, Amy Gilreath, Ken Wendt, David Snyder, Stephen Parsons, Andy Rummel

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
Tuesday Evening
April 10, 2007
8:00 p.m.

A Musical Poet: Themes In The Lieder Of Robert Schumann’S Year Of Song, Mary H. Harkrader

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

My thesis will research themes of solitude, love, nature, mood or emotional states, and the duality of joy and pain in the Robert Schumann’s Lieder composed around the year 1840. This year was the year of Schumann’s marriage to his music teacher’s daughter Clara Wieck and is, consequently, the year when Robert Schumann turned to writing Lieder or songs. Lieder were a unique lyric genre created in Germany during Romantic era. These songs combined the works of great German poets of the time with the artistic expression of emotions captured by the composer. Tracing the themes in Robert Schumann’s Lieder …

Symbolic Computations Of Exact Solutions To Nonlinear Integrable Di®Erential Equations, Vladimir Grupcev

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, first the tanh method, a method for obtaining exact traveling wave solutions to nonlinear differential equations, is introduced and described. Then the method is applied to two classes of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. The first one is a system of two (1 + 1)-dimensional nonlinear Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) type equations. The second one is a (3 + 1)-dimensional nonlinear wave equation. At the end, a few graphic representations of the obtained solitary wave solutions are provided, in correspondence to different values of the parameters used in the equations.

Evanescent Field Absorption Sensing Using Sapphire Fibers, Michael Grossman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the application of coiled sapphire multimode optical fibers for evanescent wave chemical sensing in both the visible spectrum and the near infrared. As has been suggested in the literature pertaining to silica fibers, bending converts low-order modes to high order ones, which leads to more evanescent absorption and thus a more sensitive chemical detector. By coiling the fiber many times, it was expected that even greater sensitivity would be attained.

Experiments were performed to investigate the sensor response to different solutions and to characterize this response. In the first of three experiments, the large absorption peak of …

Ccu Newsletter, April 9, 2007, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

Coastal Carolina University's weekly on-campus newsletter.

The Chanticleer, 2007-04-09, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 031, Number 34, April 9, 2007, Grand Valley State University

2006-2007, Volume 31

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Lanthorn, Vol. 41, No. 56, April 9, 2007, Grand Valley State University

Volume 41, July 13, 2006 - June 14, 2007

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Isu Music Factory, April 9, 2007, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
Monday Evening
April 9, 2007
8:00 p.m.

Shakespearean Spin-Offs: Mindless Entertainment Or Conversations With Critics, Amy Anderson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Literature is always in a state of evolution. Words change; the way writers write changes. Even actual literary works transform. William Shakespeare manipulated numerous classic works of literature to make extraordinary dramas for both his lifetime and eras since. Much as Shakespeare adapted literature to suit his purposes, writers today are constantly utilizing story lines introduced by the bard over four-hundred years ago in various modern-day mediums. Shakespeare wrote most of his works for the entertainment of the masses; Shakespeare's works are adapted today for both entertainment and academic endeavors. Certainly, a Klingon (Star Trek) version of arguably …

Natural Law Ethics: A Comparison Of The Theravāda And Thomistic Traditions, David Lantigua

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates the topic of natural law in the Therav

āda and Thomistic traditions by utilizing the methodology of comparative religious ethics. Approaches to the method such as ethical formalism, ethical naturalism, and narrative ethics are assessed with the author opting for a multidimensional approach that is religious and ethical. This multidimensional approach, as defined by William Schweiker, conducts natural law inquiry from a hermeneutical standpoint of moral diversity and democratic pluralism.

The hermeneutical standpoint warrants a historicizing of natural law ethics that is compatible with modern secularity instead of a classicist metaphysical worldview. To achieve this task, the …

Influence Of Evapotranspiration On Patterns Of Ground-Water Conductivity In Small Basins, Ana Jiménez

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Ground-water conductivity data were obtained from shallow wells in a 12 km2 stream-basin along a 400 m transect, extending from the divide to the stream. The stream, Pringle Branch, is a second-order perennial stream in Hillsborough County, Florida. The shallow stratigraphy consists of 2-3 m of fine sand over a layer of clayey silt and silty clay. Vegetation cover includes grasses on the upper and middle slope, and riparian woodlands on the foot slope and floodplain. Precipitation is about 1.3 m per year. Shallow ground-water conductivity is about 50 uS/cm at the divide. It increases moderately along the mid slope, …

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, April 8, 2007

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf Finding Aid

St. Francis Of Assisi Catholic Church And Center For The Deaf Sunday Bulletin, April 8, 2007

Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Landover Hills, MD

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin Finding Aid

Lucindy Williams

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

The Feel-Good Gulag: The Value Of The Arts, Ian Kilroy

Books/Book chapters

A 2007 consideration of the importance of the arts in Irish society by Ian Kilroy, Arts Editor of the Irish Examiner. The piece was commissioned by the Irish Arts Council.

German-American Nazis And The Meaning Of American Homeland, 1935–1939, Edward S. Price

James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities

History states that the United States defeated Nazi Germany not only militarily, but ideologically too. This assertion is the central concern of my paper. As the liberal, American identity has endured, and German fascism has not, so too has the idea of irreconcilable differences between two opposing political identities. Since 1945, a postwar need to “castigate fascism as an aberration” has certainly given way to more subtle research, that with “an acknowledgement of fascism’s complexity, ambiguity and seductiveness” (Kallis, 1, 2000). However, the “urge to explain … fascism” has endured and is still the central concern of any project, even …

Gumbo Flats And Slim Buttes: Visualizing The “West River” Region In Western South Dakota, Nathan B. Sanderson

James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities

When South Dakota and North Dakota became states in 1889, the powers that be split the old Dakota Territory lengthwise a few degrees south of the 46th parallel, creating two states that each spanned roughly 400 miles east to west, and about 230 miles north to south. The Missouri River ran through the central portion of both states, marking the approximate location of the 100th Meridian. Given the stark differences in annual moisture on either side of the Meridian and the inherent contrasts this discrepancy produces, perhaps these states should have been divided north to south instead.

In South Dakota, …

Constructing Virtue, Making Place: Regional Creation In A National Context. The Second Annual James A. Rawley Conference In The Humanities

James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities

Program:

Water, Economic Development, and Federal Policy in the American Midwest
Chair: Dr. Kurt Kinbacher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. Constructing Regionalism through Improvement: The Des Moines River Lands Grant and Improvement Project—Rick Woten, Iowa State University
2. Historians as Divorce Lawyers: The Pick Sloan Plan and a Failure of Regionalism—David Nesheim, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
3. Pumping the Well Dry: Irrigation on the Great Plains—Lisa Schuelke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Comment: Dr. David Wishart, University of Nebraska Lincoln

Race and Regionalism
Chair: Chris Rasmussen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. Harlem Riots and the White Press’ use of the Brute Negro, the Contested Slave, …

Student Recital: Joyce Bennett, Double Bass, And Abbey Bourdon, Violin, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.