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In Case You Missed It: Nixon And Mao, Kate Merkel-Hess

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

This week marks the 36th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s visit to China, so it was serendipitous that on meandering through the public library’s history section I happened on Margaret MacMillan’s Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World. Largely a play-by-play examination of the week’s events (and its larger-than-life stars in Nixon, Mao, Kissinger, and Zhou Enlai), the book is littered with fascinating anecdotes about the China Nixon and his entourage encountered: for instance, Beijingers were ordered to studiously ignore the welcoming motorcade and Chinese pilots who took over Kissinger’s plane for the Shanghai-to-Beijing leg during his 1971 prepatory …

Ceramic Sculptor To Visit Illinois Wesleyan, Sherry Wallace

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Crusader, February, 22, 2008, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

The student newspaper for the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Articles include coverage of campus events and issues, sports, editorials and special features.

2007-2008 Performance Forum - February 22, 2008, Xinou Wei, Valentin Mansurov, Valeriya Polunina, Jeffrey Karlson, David Stonecipher, Mario Lopez, Alex Nisbet, William Rueckert, Yu Ju Sun, Yang Shen, Marina Stojanovska, Adriana Lombardi, Tao Lin

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

West Indian Parents’, Guardians’, And Caregivers’ Perceptions, Understandings, And Role Beliefs About K-12 Public Schooling In The United States, Susan Chanderbhan Forde

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the understandings and perceptions that West Indian parents and caregivers residing in the U.S. have about U.S. public schools. A second purpose of this study was to examine the consistency between these findings and the cultural-ecological theory advanced by Ogbu (1974) which posits that immigrant minorities to the U.S. hold different perceptions and expectations in relation to U.S. schools.

Using interviews with 13 families in the Tampa Bay area, the study examined West Indian parents' and caregivers' understanding of the American public schooling process, expectations for education, role beliefs, and roles …

Rev. Richard A. Bell

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1916 (Mss 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 198. Three indices for Barren County, Kentucky Quarterly Court records; the actual court records are not part of this collection and are located in the Barren County courthouse. Two of the indices are not dated, and the third one marked "Executions" is dated 1916.

Garrison Store - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 197. Account book kept for John W. Garrison’s store at Polkville in northeastern Warren County, Kentucky. Includes accounts for many county citizens of that region.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 35, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Rowell, Larry. Suspect of Pearce-Ford Tower Peeping Had Criminal Background – Jarred Bray
• Siders, Neil. Students Rally at Capitol – Budget Cuts, Protests
• Day, Michelle. Condemnation Case Heard; No Ruling by Judge – 1672 Normal Drive
• Erwin, Jill & Neil Siders. Western in Top 10 of ONE Campaign Campus Challenge – Charities
• Ryan, Eileen. Staring, Reflecting & Remembering – Tornados, Gamaliel, Treg Turner
• Laun, Susie. Memorial Services Planned for Phi Mu Sorority Freshman – Sally Schiller
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon re: Gannett as Darth Vader
• Hunton, Ryan. A …

Diarization, Localization And Indexing Of Meeting Archives, Himanshu Vajaria

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation documents the research performed on the topics of localization, diarization and indexing in meeting archives. It surveys existing work in these areas, identifies opportunities for improvements and proposes novel solutions for each of these problems. The framework resulting from this dissertation enables various kinds of queries such as identifying the participants of a meeting, finding all meetings for a particular participant, locating a particular individual in the video and finding all instances of speech from a particular individual. Also, since the proposed solutions are computationally efficient, require no training and use little domain knowledge, they can be easily …

Trail Blazer - Volume 82, Number 4, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on February 21, 2008.

Chapel Hour Believes Green, Heather Lindquist

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

The Grizzly, February 21, 2008, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Kristi Blust, Roger Lee, Heather Turnbach, Ali Wagner, Terry Kelley, Katie Callahan, Jeremiah Long, Dan Sergeant, Jill Alspach, Laurel Salvo, Ryan Tole, Alex Ernst, Matt Short, Corey Stary, Anthony George, Danielle Langdon, Ashley Drogalis, Jason Davis, Ashley Panicker

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Administration Speaks Out About New Member Education • Rethinking Equality in America • Brought to a Grinding Halt: Reactions to NME Ban • Vending, Vending Everywhere: New Machines to Arrive for Students • Exploring the Circumcision Decision: Benefits and Risks • The Mysterious White Van: Science in Motion at Ursinus • Jasmine: For Those Willing to Spend a Buck or Two • Ursinus Hosts Award-Winning Poet • Professor Victor Brown: Making a Prominent Impact • Alumni Advice for UC Students • Opinions: The Harvard Effect: Will Ursinus Increase Financial Aid to Stay Competitive?; The "Fair Tax" • Men's Basketball 16-0 …

8th Annual African-American Celebration, Unlv Women's Chorus, Unlv Chamber Chorale, University Concert Singers, University Children's Chorale, Unlv Dance Ensemble, Las Vegas Academy Singers

Choral Ensembles

Program listing performers and works performed

2007-2008 Tao Lin (Piano), Tao Lin

Faculty Recitals

No abstract provided.

The Methodology Of Architectonic Truth-Finding In Grass's The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), Stephan Schaffrath

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Stephan Schaffrath, in his paper "The Methodology of Architectonic Truth-Finding in Grass's The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)," discusses how Günter Grass's The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) negotiates the treacherous terrains that lie between positivism and nihilistic relativism by means of a truth-finding methodology. Schaffrath proposes that truth-finding methodology applies approximative, and therefore architectonic, approaches to conventional concepts of narration and history. Grass's novel breaks down and reassembles playfully the conventions of narration and history, not to negate or devalue them, but to reappraise them by means of an approximative truth-finding methodology, an approach that corresponds to Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of …

Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 45, February 21, 2008, Grand Valley State University

Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008

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

Idiom Comprehension In Bilingual And Monolingual Adolescents, Belinda Fusté-Herrmann

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A majority of Latino adolescents are reading below a proficient level, according to federal data, and there is a significant gap between overall reading proficiency of Latino and non-Latino, Caucasian adolescents. The purpose of this study was to investigate the linguistic underpinnings of Latino students' text comprehension. A positive relationship appears to exist between idiom comprehension and academic achievement, as well as idiom comprehension and reading comprehension, in typically developing, monolingual adolescents. Since reading comprehension and idiom comprehension share many of the same linguistic processes, idiom comprehension may provide a unique perspective for investigating Latino adolescents' reading comprehension.

Using the …

Effects Of Electric Field On The Functions Of Cell Membrane Proteins, Zhongsheng Zhang

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The most important and most common channels on cell membrane are voltage-gated Na+ and K+ channels. In so-called "excitable cells" like neurons and muscle cells, these channels open or close in response to changes in potential across the membrane in order to accomplish muscle contraction and transmit signals. By controlling the membrane potential, we observe extraordinary inactivation behaviors of the voltage-gated Na+ channels and the voltage-gated delayed rectifier K+ channels, which shows that electric stimulation pulses can temporarily close the Na+ and K+ channels, just as drugs, like tetrodotoxin (TTX) and tetraethylammonium (ETA), do.

The Na/K pump is essential for …

Open End: New Works And Improvisations, Open End

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

A Coming Distraction–Rana Mitter’S Modern China: A Very Short Introduction

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

If I rode the subway to and from work, I’d be seriously addicted by now to the Oxford University Press “Very Short Introductions” series in which Rana Mitter’s next book is about to appear (it’s due out late in February in Britain, soon after that in the U.S.). This is because these slim volumes seem custom-made to be read over the course of a day-or-two’s worth of hour-there and hour-back train rides.

The best way to sum up the series is that it’s made up of little books on big topics. They are all short (100 to 150 pages of …

Honors Convocation, Melaney Scarberry, Athena Mertes, Bryce Nakaoka, Grant Davis, Kanade Oi, Stewart Cramer, Kanako Yamazaki, Bilyana Tancheva, Julian Tanaka, Christina Williams, Annie Sparacino

Convocations

Program listing performers and works performed

2007-2008 Senior Recital - Sonia Shklarov (Violin), Sonia Shklarov, Tao Lin

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 34, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Day, Michelle. Steve Beshear Proposes Licenses for 12 Casinos
• Rowell, Larry. Young Joc’s Concert Canceled Due to Unsafe Conditions
• Brown, Holly. Shooting Spotlights Preparedness – Northern Illinois University
• Isbell, Eric. Up ‘til Dawn Efforts Raise More Than $100,000 for St. Jude
• Rowell, Larry. Rape Reported in Rodes-Harlin Hall
• Laun, Susie. WKU Student Involved in Car Accident – Sally Schiller
• Hale, Marianne. Furnishings Spared from Demolition to be Resold – Normal Street, Regents Avenue
• McCrarey, Magen. Einstein Bros. Bagel Shop Causes Concerns for Some Journalism Faculty
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial …

2007-2008 Junior Recital - Audrey Destito (French Horn), Audrey Destito, Yang Shen

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

The Many Voices Of Love: Images From The Musical Stage, February 19, 2008, Michelle Vought, Christopher Hollingsworth, Timothy Schmidt, Paul Borg

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
Tuesday Evening
February 19, 2008
8:00 p.m.

Teacher Perceptions Of The Changing Role Of The Secondary Middle School Principal, Dawn E. Coffin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The focus of this study was to examine perceptions of middle school teachers regarding the changing role of the secondary middle school principal and compare teachers' results with assistant principals' and principals' perceptions of their role, thus adding the voice of teachers, regarding the secondary principal's role, to existing literature.

Data was collected electronically using the survey method in one urban Florida school district. Qualitative and quantitative data were captured using the Principal's Role Questionnaire (PRQ) (Goodwin, 2002). Thirty-six principal role descriptor statements on the PRQ survey requested a level of agreement from research participants regarding changes, current and future …

Interactions Of Neurons, Astrocytes And Microglia With Hucb Cell Populations In Stroke Models: Migration, Neuroprotection And Inflammation, Lixian Jiang

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Previous studies demonstrated that intravenous administration of human umbilical cord blood (HUCB) cells could improve behavioral and neurological recovery of stroked animals following middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). In addition, HUCB cell recipients had less of an inflammatory response with less leukocyte infiltration. In these studies we explored how HUCB cells change the inflammatory response of neurons, astrocytes, and microglia to hypoxia/ischemia. Initiation of the inflammatory response occurs with the expression of chemokines. We determined that monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) and macrophage inflammatory protein 1alph (MIP-1a), which are upregulated in the brain early after a stroke, induce migration of HUCB …

Petrographic And Kinematic Investigation Of The Volcaniclastic And Plutonic Rocks Of The Northern Alisitos Arc, Baja California, Mexico, Fatin Tutak

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Alisitos arc segment forms part of the western zone of Jura-Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith of Baja California. It extends south from the ancestral Agua Blanca Fault to the state boundary between Baja Norte and Sur. The study area is located within a fold and thrust belt intruded by a number of plutons that were emplaced during and after the deformational event. The northern end of the Alisitos arc is characterized by subvertical tight to isoclinal folds and high-angle reverse faults that define a northwest trending, southwest vergent fold and thrust belt. The aABF defines the northern limit to the …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Faculty Recital, Wendell Dobbs, 18th Century Flute, Kay Wildman, Harpsichord, Guest Artist, Elizabeth Ford, 18th Century Flute, Wendell B. Dobbs Dr., Kay Wildman, Elizabeth Ford

All Performances

No abstract provided.