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Central Florida Future, Vol. 41 No. 78, October 5, 2009

Central Florida Future

Birth control ban a possibility; A myth gets soaked; Captain reels in student interest; SARC celebrates 20th anniversary on campus; Students: attacks orientation-based.

Spartan Daily October 5, 2009, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 133, Issue 19

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Day, Michelle. Keep Off the Grass – Tailgating, Football
• Stewart, Colleen. WKU Outgrows State Schools
• Wade, Katherine. Daily Bread & Puppet Theatre – Entertainment
• Koontz, Whitney. Former Student Finds Fit in Bowling Green – Erine Huntsberry, Just My Fit
• Ulber, Emily. Regents Committees to Meet
• Harris, Shakia. Jewish Students Juggle Class, Religion – Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur
• Harris, Shakia. Provide-a-Ride Returns – Parking & Transportation
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon re: Sex In Dormitories
• Safe Sex or Silent Sex? Massachusetts University Bans Sex in Front of a Roommate
• Waggoner, …

The Beat: October 2009, Centracare Health

The Beat

• "Your work helps CentraCare weather the recession"
• CentraCare pharmacies awarded certification
• Corene Kain receives Volunteer of the Year award
• Operating Room open house
• Kids & Parents Expo
• Gratitude and Your Health
• Ice Fishing Seminar
• Perinatology Clinic expands hours of service
• Extended clinic hours in St. Joseph
• Flu vaccination message
• Health literacy - What is it?
• Sleep issues with Multiple Sclerosis
• Stroke & blood vessel screenings

Patient Care News: October 2009, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Palliative Care Consultation Notification

Physical Findings CEG

Adverse Health Events Update

Exploratory Study: Pain Assessment

Notary Service for Patients

Upcoming Developmental Programs

Clinical Ladder

Prescribed Reading: October 2009, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Welcome to our new providers
• Extended clinic hours in St. Joseph
• Clinic involved in LEAN improvement project
• Welcome to these new employees
• Welcome to our new Quality Improvement leader
• Recognition for years of service
• Kudos to . . .
• Congratulations to . . .
• Flu vaccination message for health care workers
• 2009 United Way Campaign runs Oct. 19 – Nov. 6
• Concert celebrates 20 years of Jacob’s Hope
• Condolences to:
• Our sincere apologies
• Food Allergy Basics
• #1 Best Place to Work in Minnesota
• Spirit Girls’ Night Out
• SCH Operating Room Open House
• Gratitude and Your Health
• CLIMB program offered at …

Lindenword, Fall 2009, Lindenwood University

LindenWord (2006-2011)

LindenWord was a publication for Lindenwood students from 2006 to 2011.

Navigating Producer-Consumer Convergence: Media Policy Priorities In The Era Of User-Generated And User-Distributed Content, Philip M. Napoli

McGannon Center Research Resources

No abstract provided.

Consumption As Lifestyle: The Use Of Western Lifestyle As A Status Symbol In Multinational Corporations' Advertising In India, Alissa Goddard

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This paper examines the use of Western lifestyle as depicted in advertising by multinational companies through the use of English in advertising; sexually evocative imagery; and background images in advertisements that reflect Western lifestyles. These messages perpetuated by multinational companies of the elite status of Western lifestyle are further enhanced due to the pervasive influences of the mediums in which these lifestyles are communicated to Indian consumers (e.g. primarily television and magazines). However, this paper also examines how the products that the Indian consumer purchases to emulate this Western lifestyle are actually not the same products sold in the Western …

Suggestions For Owl 3, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

With OWL 2 about to be completed, it is the right time to start discussions on possible future modifications of OWL. We present here a number of suggestions in order to discuss them with the OWL user community. They encompass expressive extensions on polynomial OWL 2 profiles, a suggestion for an OWL Rules language, and expressive extensions for OWL DL.

Ibm Altocumulus: A Cross-Cloud Middleware And Platform, E. Michael Maximilien, Ajith Harshana Ranabahu, Roy Engehausen, Laura Anderson

Kno.e.sis Publications

Cloud computing has become the new face of computing and promises to offer virtually unlimited, cheap, readily available, "utility type" computing resources. Many vendors have entered this market with different offerings ranging from infrastructure-as-a-service such as Amazon, to fully functional platform services such as Google App Engine. However, as a result of this heterogeneity, deploying applications to a cloud and managing them needs to be done using vendor specific methods. This "lock in" is seen as a major hurdle in adopting cloud technologies to the enterprise. IBM Altocumulus, the cloud middleware platform from IBM Almaden Services Research, aims to solve …

Paraconsistent Reasoning For Owl 2, Yue Ma, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

A four-valued description logic has been proposed to reason with description logic based inconsistent knowledge bases. This approach has a distinct advantage that it can be implemented by invoking classical reasoners to keep the same complexity as under the classical semantics. However, this approach has so far only been studied for the basid description logic ALC. In this paper, we further study how to extend the four-valued semantics to the more expressive description logic SROIQ which underlies the forthcoming revision of the Web Ontology Language, OWL 2, and also investigate how it fares when adapated to tractable description logics including …

A Preferential Tableaux Calculus For Circumscriptive Alco, Stephan Grimm, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Nonmonotonic extensions of description logics (DLs) allow for default and local closed-world reasoning and are an acknowledged desired feature for applications, e.g. in the Semantic Web. A recent approach to such an extension is based on McCarthy's circumscription, which rests on the principle of minimising the extension of selected predicates to close off dedicated parts of a domain model. While decidability and complexity results have been established in the literature, no practical algorithmisation for circumscriptive DLs has been proposed so far. In this paper, we present a tableaux calculus that can be used as a decision procedure for concept satisfiability …

Nbc Peacock North Fall 2009, Peacock North Staff

NBC Peacock North Newsletter

Highlights include; Two NBC Radio Pioneers -- A 44 Year Audio Connection Continues -- A Weekend in Cooperstown -- NBC Expands at Universal City -- New Members

Central Florida Future, Vol. 41 No. 77, October 1, 2009

Central Florida Future

Incumbent senator found in violation; Pledge classes put on hold; Uncover Thursdays; I love the '80s; Plus: iKiwi: Fro-o, the way to go; Columns: Great American traditions of apathy, steroids; Environment expert advises students on energy, climate; Student said drink was spiked.

A Best Practice Model For Cloud Middleware Systems, Ajith Harshana Ranabahu, E. Michael Maximilien

Kno.e.sis Publications

Cloud computing is the latest trend in computing where the intention is to facilitate cheap, utility type computing resources in a service-oriented manner. However, the cloud landscape is still maturing and there are heterogeneities between the clouds, ranging from the application development paradigms to their service interfaces,and scaling approaches. These differences hinder the adoption of cloud by major enterprises. We believe that a cloud middleware can solve most of these issues to allow cross-cloud inter-operation. Our proposed system is Altocumulus, a cloud middleware that homogenizes the clouds. In order to provide the best use of the cloud resources and make …

Context And Domain Knowledge Enhanced Entity Spotting In Informal Text, Daniel Gruhl, Meena Nagarajan, Jan Pieper, Christine Robson, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

This paper explores the application of restricted relationship graphs (RDF) and statistical NLP techniques to improve named entity annotation in challenging Informal English domains. We validate our approach using on-line forums discussing popular music. Named entity annotation is particularly difficult in this domain because it is characterized by a large number of ambiguous entities, such as the Madonna album “Music” or Lilly Allen’s pop hit “Smile”.

We evaluate improvements in annotation accuracy that can be obtained by restricting the set of possible entities using real-world constraints. We find that constrained domain entity extraction raises the annotation accuracy significantly, making an …

Using Facebook To Connect With Students, Jared L. Howland

Faculty Publications

This poster was presented at the Library Information and Technology Association's 2009 National Forum in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Know Your Enemy: Tibetan Perceptions Of And Approaches To Chinese Studies In Exile, Katherine Mechling

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Achieving peaceful dialogue between Chinese and Tibetans is the crux of the Tibetan community in exile’s strategy to regain its homeland. Yet despite the recognized importance of cross-cultural communication the Tibetans, ideologically unwilling to separate “China the Oppressor” from “China the Neighbor” or even, potentially, “China the Co-Collaborator,” have largely avoided studying their adversary. Although increased literacy in Chinese language, knowledge of Chinese history and understanding of Chinese culture would enable the Tibetans to engage with China more effectively and productively, few initiatives exist in exile that facilitate the spread of such information. Receiving only a basic overview of Chinese …

Warm Ideas And Chilling Consequences, Arthur P. Bochner

Communication Faculty Publications

In the process of writing my academic memoirs spanning a period of more than thirty-five years, I discovered how crucial the work of Gregory Bateson had been to my life as a teacher, a scholar, and a relational partner. In this paper I celebrate Bateson's charming and incisive ideas about how communication works, his deep reservations about the worship of quantification, and his astute analysis of what is at stake when we make epistemological errors in everyday life. Reviewing a turning point in my academic life—a conference held in 1979, I reaffirm the importance of warm ideas and provide a …

The Influence Of Being "Out" On Perceptions Of Managerial Credibility And Positive Affect, Justin P. Boren, Mary B. Mcpherson

Communication

The purpose of this study was to determine if the revelation of sexuality by a gay man or lesbian manager would affect potential employees' perceptions of that manager. Using EVT, three hypotheses predicted that the manner in which information is revealed about the manager influences perceptions of that revelation as a violation, as well as perceptions of managerial credibility and positive affect. Employed participants (N = 470) completed surveys about a hypothetical manager. Results showed that the manner in which managers' sexuality was revealed influenced levels of expectedness. Mixed results were found for credibility and positive affect. The relationship between …

Unlv Magazine, Matthew K. Jacobsen, Holly Ivy De Vore, Lisa Arth, Cate Weeks, Greg Lacour, Tony Allen, Afsha Bawany, Barbara Cloud, Gian Galassi, Phil Hagen, Karyn S. Hollingsworth, Michelle Mouton, Erin O'Donnell

UNLV Magazine

No abstract provided.

Reinventing Libraries For The Next Generation Of Library Users, La Loria Konata

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article calls for the need to reinvent libraries for the next generation of library users. It stresses the value of being able to provide customer satisfaction, building and maintaining loyalty as well as resolving customer complaints so as to compete with other libraries. It also points out the importance of branding as a marketing strategy and encourages libraries to adhere to the liaison model or subject specialist model in providing specialized service. Also suggested are steps for marketing library services.

Spartan Daily October 1, 2009, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 133, Issue 18

A Plea For Pr Ethics Research, Kati Tusinski Berg

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Georgia Library News Now On Twitter

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article informs that the Georgia Public Library Services (GPLS) has created a Twitter account, Georgialibs. According to GPLS Webmaster Darin Givens, the GPLS Twitter feed will be useful communications tool for getting brief reminders about upcoming library events, conferences and workshops. Given adds that it will also be used for linking public library news items.

Macon State Showcases 'Lost' Literature

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article reviews the literature exhibit "Lost" at the Macon State College's library in Georgia.

History Of Tibetan And Exile Radio, Irene Richardson

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Radio has long served as an important source of information and means of communication in Tibet. I discuss the history of wireless communication and broadcasting as it developed in the years before the 1950 invasion and summarize the dismantling of the Tibetan’s communication network after the 17 Point Agreement. Next, foreign broadcasting aimed at Tibetans living in China is discussed. American broadcasting is overseen by the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Radio Free Asia and Voice of America carry out broadcasting directed at Tibetans. U.S. government funded broadcasting is particularly controversial; I compare a number of viewpoints on the subject. Voice …

The Cowl - V. 74 - N. 4 - Oct 1, 2009

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 74 - Number 4 - October 1, 2009. 32 pages.

First Acm Sigmm International Workshop On Social Media (Wsm'09), Suzanne Boll, Steven C. H. Hoi, Jiebo Luo, Rong Jin, Dong Xu, Irwin King

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Social Media(WSM’09) is the first workshop held in conjunction withthe ACM International Multimedia Conference (MM’09) atBejing, P.R. China, 2009. This workshop provides a forumfor researchers and practitioners from all over the world toshare information on their latest investigations on social mediaanalysis, exploration, search, mining, and emerging newsocial media applications.