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Paul A. Mackenzie, Trans., Caritas Pirckheimer: A Journal Of The Reformation Years, 1524-1528. (Library Of Medieval Women.) D.S. Brewer, 2006, Alison More

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Anne R. Larsen, Ed. And Trans., From Mother And Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, And Letters Of Les Dames Des Roches. (The Other Voice In Early Modern Europe.) University Of Chicago Press, 2006, Edith J. Benkov

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.44 No.1 2008

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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The Domain Of Lordly Women In France, Ca. 1050-1250, Kimberly A. Loprete

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Lara Farina, Erotic Discourse And Early English Religious Writing. (The New Middle Ages.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, Joanna Shearer

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Regional Integration, Capital Investment And The Cultural Content Of Egyptian Tv: The Case Of Mbc And Otv, Sahra Gemeinder

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Kurds In The Mosul Province 1918-1932, Kristen Alff

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Impact Of Fatawa El-Jihad On Users Of Islamonline.Net, Hanaa Ahmed Marie

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Gendering Labor Contestation In Egypt, Francesca Mara Ricciardone

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Saudi Arabia: Remodeling Authoritarianism For The 21 St Century, Kira D Jumet

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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From Brothers To Partners: The Evolution Of China's Foreign Policy To The Middle East (1949-2008), Shuang Wen

Archived Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the evolution of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) foreign policy to the Middle East from 1949 to 2008. Using a historical analysis approach, it argues that in the past fifty nine years, the policy has changed from ideology orientated to economic oriented, from idealistic to pragmatic, and from reactive to pro-active. The reasons behind these changes are mainly due to the changing situations within and without the PRC. It concludes that in the near future, the PRC may not confront the US's policy in the region, but instead will actively engage with Middle East countries with …

The Gothic Genre Beyond Borders: Mathew Lewis’S Influence On José De Espronceda’S El Estudiante De Salamanca, Francisco Fernández

The Coastal Review

Once the Gothic crossed the Spanish border, a number of writers were influenced by this genre. This is the case of José de Espronceda in his El estudiante de Salamanca (1840). Influenced by Matthew Lewis’sThe Monk, Espronceda not only uses Gothic conventions when he creates a protagonist haunted by a ghost but also subverts them by reversing the villain-victim relationship for the sake of poetic justice. As a result, the development of the plot is more strongly justified, for the hero’s sins are, after all, what lead him to his tragic end.

Epifaunal Assemblage Of A Newly Established Oyster Reef With Two Substrates, Ian M. Dow

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

An artificial oyster reef constructed in Boca Ciega Bay, off of the War Veteran's Memorial Park, St. Petersburg, Florida, in 2005, was used to compare a mined shell material to the typical oyster shell substrate used in artificial reef projects as an alternative substrate and cultch material. Half of the reef's veneer was the fresh oyster shell and the other half was mined material. Experimental trays were deployed on top of the sediment along the leeward reef base and sampled quarterly to test the hypothesis that fresh shell is the preferential cultch material of the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica, promoting …

Error Related Negativity In Parkinson’S Disease: A Test Of The Validity Of Mesencephalicdopamine Contributions To Ern, Craig A. Siders

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A model proposed by Holroyd and Coles (2002) stating that error related negativity (ERN) is caused by a decrease in mesencephalic dopamine output to the ACC was tested. A group of individuals with Parkinson's disease (N = 16) and an age and education matched group free from neurological disorder (N = 16) completed a card guessing task where the magnitude of monetary penalties and rewards for incorrect and correct answers was varied by block. Individuals with Parkinson's disease were tested after an overnight washout from dopamingeric medications.

The amplitude of the mid-frontal negativity elicited by feedback was analyzed with spatial …

Between The City And The Bush: Suburbia In The Contemporary Australian Novel, Nathanael David O'Reilly

Dissertations

Australia's most important national narratives take place in the bush, the outback, and overseas. The dominant representations of Australia, both within the nation and abroad, focus on the outback, the bush and the cities. However, Australia is one of the most suburban societies in the world, and has been since the mid-nineteenth-century. Nevertheless, Australian novels are rarely set in suburbia. Between the City and the Bush examines representations of suburbia in contemporary Australian novels. Focusing on the relationship between colonialism, the physical development of suburbia and the anti-suburban intellectual tradition, my chapters address a number of issues, including immigration, environmental …

Intimacy, Elizabeth Knapp

Dissertations

In one of his finest poems, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower," William Carlos Williams writes: "It is difficult / to get the news from poems / but men die miserably everyday / for lack / of what is found there." Earlier, his contemporary, W.H. Auden, had made his famous claim that "poetry makes nothing happen." While the views of the two great modernists appear to be at odds with each other, they are in fact two sides of the same argument, the yin and yang at the center of all true art. For what these poets saw as critical to both …

Eulogy For Charlotte Johnson, Delivered On May 31, 2008, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Eulogy for Charlotte Johnson, delivered on May 31, 2008 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

Nucleus 2008: Diversity, Creativity, Integrity, Community, Vitaility, Ability, Opportunity, Individuality, Activity, Identity, University, New Jersey Institute Of Technology

Yearbooks

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the New Jersey Institute of Technology Nucleus.

The Chinese Press In The Spotlight, Timothy Weston

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

In recent weeks, the Chinese press has struggled to cover a series of major and difficult stories. Moreover the Chinese press itself is being watched and critiqued by the Western world with intensity and curiosity. What we are seeing in the Chinese press now is a world in transition and flux.

First was the Chinese press’ discussion of the Tibetan demonstrations, its virtual refusal to acknowledge the validity of any foreign criticism, and its exposure of a reflexive, threatening, and brittle nationalism, especially among some Chinese youth. However, that was followed by its honest and educational reporting during the hand …

Islamic Law And Women's Rights: Questioning The Validity Of The Reservations Invoking Islamic Law To The Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw), Malak Khalil

Archived Theses and Dissertations

This thesis will attempt to demonstrate that the reservations invoking Islamic law to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) are invalid. Reservations to human rights treaties in general are problematic, because these ones not only govern the relationship between States, but they also govern the relationship between the State and its citizens. Thus, finding a balance between state sovereignty, the pillar of international law and the rights of the people remains a challenge in the international arena. Another dimension of the argument is analyzing the validity of claiming Islamic law as a basis …

Stan Champer Column, Stan Champer

Indian Head Rock Project

Columnist Stan Champer writes in the Ashland Daily Independent on the story of Indian Head Rock from May 30, 2008.

Culture And Collapse, Pierre Fuller

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

China has shown a “dismayingly cavalier attitude toward the well-being of its people,” a British journalist turned pop historian determined recently in the pages of the New York Times. The Chinese, he explained, long ago handed over science – and by extension earthquake resistant engineering – to “the West,” leaving “themselves to become mired, time and again, in the kind of tragic events that we are witnessing this week.” The thrust of this piece by Simon Winchester (which simultaneously appeared in the International Herald Tribune and evidently stems from his latest books, The Man Who Loved China (2008), on Joseph …

Utilitarian Approaches For Multi-Metric Optimization In Vlsi Circuit Design And Spatial Clustering, Upavan Gupta

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the field of VLSI circuit optimization, the scaling of semiconductor devices has led to the miniaturization of the feature sizes resulting in a significant increase in the integration density and size of the circuits. At the nanometer level, due to the effects of manufacturing process variations, the design optimization process has transitioned from the deterministic domain to the stochastic domain, and the inter-relationships among the specification parameters like delay, power, reliability, noise and area have become more intricate. New methods are required to examine these metrics in a unified manner, thus necessitating the need for multi-metric optimization. The optimization …

The Effects Of Depressed Mood On Academic Outcomes In Adolescents And Young Adults, Robert Christopher Jones

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The following dissertation investigates the relationship between depressed mood and academic performance (measured in terms of grade point average) in U.S. middle and high schools.

Utilizing data from AddHealth, the dissertation establishes Ordinary Least Squares, Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS), and individual and sibling fixed effect regressions that attempt to control for confounding factors, including student motivation, personality characteristics, and parental inputs that are unobserved but may influence both mental health and achievement.

Study findings indicate that students who report feeling depressed do not perform as well academically as non-depressed students. Additionally, the degree of GPA impact increases with the severity …

“Posing Off:” Performance And Body Language On The Jamaican Stage, Andrea Elizabeth Shaw-Nevins

CAHSS Faculty Presentations, Proceedings, Lectures, and Symposia

My paper will explore reggae dancehall album covers and the seductive yet dismissive ways in which bodies pose for the camera while concurrently seeming to ignore it. What accounts for this intrigue with the camera as well as an apparent repulsion towards it? Within the arena of national beauty politics, how do we account for those Caribbean bodies that are positioned for the global camera?

What's In A Name? Clues To Understanding Macdonald's Fairy Story Cross Purposes, Marie K. Hammond

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

Dorothy L. Sayers: An Exemplar For Lay Theology, Christine M. Fletcher

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

Sacred Journeys: C.S. Lewis And Frederick Buechner, Victoria S. Allen

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

Imbruted Souls In Milton, Macdonald, & Lewis, Larry E. Fink

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

Tolkien's Theory Of Courage: The Good, The Bad, And The Evil, Emily Bowerman

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.