Literature, English

Throughout my thesis I explore alternativefem(me)ininities. Such femmes re-signify femininity by means ofdisidentification and parody and in turn trouble notions ofauthenticity. Queer fem(me)inities critique heteronormativeconceptions of femininity and sexuality. The texts and theoriesthat I use to inform my theoretical framework of fem(me)ininitiesare: beside in Eve Kosofsky

Environmental Sciences

I interned at the Ohio River Valley Water SanitationCommission (ORSANCO) in Cincinnati, Ohio. ORSANCO is aninterstate commission formed under the auspices of the FederalGovernment and eight states bordering the Ohio River. The eightstates are Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio,Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. The mission of ORSANCOis to monitor and maintain the water quality of the Ohio Riverand its tributaries.My internship focused mainly on themonitoring of the Ohio River for...

Engineering, Chemical

ohiou1089820343yes_pdfndagia@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu5 Monticello DriveApt. 101Athens, OH 45701740-707-5592India202A promising therapeutic approach for reducing aberrantleukocyte − endothelial adhesion during pathologicalinflammation is to inhibit pro-inflammatory (e.g., tumornecrosis factor-

Geography

At first glance, Keystone appears very similar to othersmall coal towns in southern West Virginia. Dilapidated andempty buildings, coal dust, and churches are evident on thelandscape. However, Keystone is far from a typical coal town incentral Appalachia. Although Keystone

Novice blood donors are at an increased risk for suchsymptoms as dizziness and lightheadedness. Adverse reactionsoccur in response to decreases in blood pressure and theresultant inadequate cerebral perfusion. Laboratory studieshave demonstrated that water ingestion can produce an acuteincrease in resting blood pressure. To test this, 83 first-timeblood donors (48% female) were randomly assigned to either apre-donation water or no water condition. Donors in the watercondition consumed 500 ml of ...

Speech Pathology

The use of images in multiple-choice formats forcomprehension testing is common. The validity of responses ofthose tests may be confounded by (a) physical stimulusfeatures, such as size, luminance or clarity of images or (b)semantic content conveyed by multiple-choice images such asimage familiarity and frequency. An instrument, based on theliterature and validated by experts, was developed to assesssuch influences within multiple-choice images. Twenty-threeadults rated 20 sets of images from fi...

Fine Arts

This thesis will explore the relationship between atheoretical definition of the specialized audience practiceassociated with the cult film from Telotte, Kawin and Staigerand the contemporary user-defined genre of the same name. It ismy belief that the study of cult films could be greatlyclarified by separating cult audience practice from the cultfilm text itself. By combining a survey of theoreticalliterature of audience reception and practice and genre theorywith internet based primary source ...

History, Medieval; History, General

This thesis:a. Provides a summary of the political conflicts during the reign of Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian, 1314-1347.b. Discusses the works of chroniclers Heinrich von Diessenhoven, Matthias von Neuenberg and Johann von Viktring, all of whom were writing during the reign of Ludwig.c. Introduces the concepts ofrex/regnumandimperator/imperiumas they would have been understood during the early 14th century.d. Analyzes the aforementioned chronicles in order to understand how these concepts were u...

This dissertation examines components of male-malecompetition in order to determine factors that are important incontest dynamics and outcome, as well as the evolution ofparticular male traits. Specifically, I use northern swordtailfishes (Pisces: Poecilliidae, genusXiphophorus) to address the following questions: 1) What role does sizeplay in conflict resolution; 2) How do males use the signalvertical bars in agonistic encounters; 3) What was the role ofmale - male communication in the evolutio...

This research assesses Participatory Action Research (PAR)through the Integrated Upland Agricultural Research Project(IUARP) in Luang Prabang province, Laos. The IUARP is designedto produce alternatives to shifting cultivation for smallholderfarmers. Through interviews, observations, and a farmerdatabase I analyzed who participates in the project, whobenefits, and the level of participation developed between theproject administrators and farmers. Village politics, farmersocio-economic status, vi...

Psychology, Clinical

The goal of this study was to examine key factors that maypredict success in school-based mental health interventions.This study occurred in the context of a larger study in which abehavioral, school-based mental health intervention wasimplemented and evaluated. The children who participated in theintervention (n=30) had been identified as demonstratingsignificant inattentive and disruptive behavior problems.Treatment outcome was defined as the change in the severity ofthe child

Electrical; Engineering, General

Ohio University, as one of the project members of anindustrial project called FIPER, has developed a software toolin Java called the

The aim of this dissertation is to provide first-ordernecessary conditions of optimality for local optimal solutions

Chemistry, Inorganic

The antibacterial activity of aminoglycosides stemsfrom their high affinity binding to the 16S rRNA in bacteriaresulting in inhibition of protein synthesis. Used to treat acutebacterial infections these antibiotics have limited applicationsdue to their high dosage requirements and the emergence ofresistant strains. We have synthesized and characterized theCu(II) derivatives of six aminoglycosides. Kanamycin A,tobramycin and neamine exhibit preferential and tight binding toCu(II) whereas neomycin...

Education, Early Childhood

This dissertation is a response to those whobelieve inmy effectiveness as a teacher of African American children. It isalso a voice for teacher research and particularly research froman African American male point of view. I have found in mystudies that an African American male perspective on teaching andlearning in early childhood education is rare or unavailable inarticles, books, and journals concerning educational theory andpractice. As a teacher researcher, I found it necessary todevelop a ...

Mathematics

Variable annuities are in the spotlight in today sinsurance market. The tax deferral feature and the absence of theinvestment risk for the insurer (while keeping the possibility ofinvestment benefits) boosted their popularity. They represent thesensible way found by the insurance industry to compete withother stock market and financial intermediaries. A variableannuity is an investment wrapped with a life insurance contract.An insurer who sells variable annuities bears two different typesof risk...

Economics, General

Central bankers know that financial intermediation isimportant for achieving macroeconomic stability. Without afunctioning banking system, an economy will grind to a halt. Butmonetary policy and prudential supervisory policy can work atcross-purposes. While monetary policymakers want to ensure thatthere is always sufficient lending activity to maintain high andstable economic growth, bank supervisors work to limit banks lending capacities in order to prevent excessive risk-taking. Toavoid workin...

Management

In this dissertation I focus on how firms should buyresources in factor markets to create competitive advantages.When competing in factor or product markets to acquire resourcesor sell goods, firms often have to make strategic decisionswhether to use spot market transactions with posted prices,negotiation markets with bargaining, or auction markets withbidding. Given these three different market mechanisms, what arethe firm and industry specific factors that determine differentselling/buying dev...

Administration, General

This dissertation is comprised of in depth analysis onthe broader topic of corporate strategy with emphasis of the roleof intangible assets: 1) the performance implications ofacquiring firms that have highly intangible assets structures; 2)dynamic characteristics as well as outcomes of developingintangible yet valuable corporate level capabilities in relationto managing alliances and acquisitions; 3) theoreticalperspective on corporate strategy via a formal model thatincorporates property rights...

Psychology, General

Viktor Frankl

Education, Physical

This study analyzed the perceptions of somestakeholders of Kuwaiti sport regarding the importance of threedomains of sport (i.e., mass sport, elite sport, and commercialsport), and the relative emphases to be placed on each of thesedomains. The respondents were also asked to indicate theorganizational forms (public, nonprofit, profit, public-nonprofitcombine, and public-profit combine) best suited to deliverrelated sport services in the country. The stakeholder groupswere administrators of feder...

; Psychology, Behavioral

The main purpose of this study was to examine theeffectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral stress managementintervention designed to help collegiate student-athletesunderstand and utilize various techniques to manage stress betterand regulate arousal to achieve optimal performance. The finalsample consisted of 30 participants divided into a treatment anda wait-list control group. The treatment group met for one hourper week for a five-week intervention, where they learned how touse skills such as ...

Economics, Finance

Lines of credit in the consumer credit market areprimarily in the forms of credit cards (CCs) and Home EquityLines of Credit (HELOCs). In the first chapter of thedissertation I focus on the special usage of lines of credit as ahedge against optimally uninsured risks. This framework helps meunderstand why some consumers hold lines of credit and do notdraw on them. Consumers weigh the various non-interest costs ofHELOC borrowing against the benefits of low and incometax-deductible interest rates. ...

Psychology, General

The present study was conducted to examine the efficacyand the psychology of a new, theory-based newcomer orientationprogram, called

; Education, Technology

This dissertation presents a Critical Content MetaAnalysis of published literature related to using the Internet todevelop critical thinking skills in students and to build onlinecommunities of teachers. An underlying goal of the research wasto work toward the development of stronger connections betweenmuseums and public schools. Through analyzing the literature, Ideveloped suggestions for museum personnel to implement whencreating educational museum web sites. The analysis of theliterature on c...

Circuit partitioning is the process of dividing up alarge circuit netlist into a set of smaller net lists whilemaintaining the design integrity. With the increasing complexityof micro-electronic circuits, it has become difficult to fitlarge design in a single chip. Instead of a single large chip fora design, it is easy and economical to fit the design in severalsmaller chips. It is imperative to look at the various designrequirements as well as the cutset minimization whilepartitioning a design....

Computer Science

Man has been using graphs since a long time to help himvisualize and analyze various data. Visually representing data inan interconnected graph form is obviously a better method foranalysis of the overall-trend of the network. However, most ofthe graphs have been drawn manually and have been very simple.Growth in computing has led to an increase in the amount of datathat can be stored and analyzed. An example of such data is thenetwork gene and protein interactions in living organisms. Mostof su...

Architecture

Architecture

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; Architecture

Cast-in-place concrete can be found on every site ofconstruction today for its economic advantage, durability, andstructural capabilities. It is adaptable for use in an array ofbuilding elements from foundations and floor slabs to structuralframes and interior/exterior wall surfaces. Because concrete haslittle thermal resistance and is often permeable to moisture, itis rarely left visually exposed in projects. Waterproofing andinsulation are usually placed on one side of the concreteelement, whe...

Music

The Argentine-born composer Mauricio Kagel (b. 1931) isone of the most distinctive and multi-faceted European composersof the contemporary music world. A staunch skeptic of acceptedmusical aesthetics, traditions, and values, his works incorporaterelentless imagination, explosive drama, disjunction, eccentrichumor, and fractured rhetoric. Kagel

Biology, Microbiology

ucin1083265032yes_pdfschaefly@ucmail.uc.edulyndsay@youth-guard.org1936 Payne St.Louisville, KY 402061936 Payne St.Louisville, KY 40206(502)583-3005(502)583-3005United States147Bordetella pertussis is the causative agent of thehuman respiratory disease whooping cough. Despite extensivevaccine coverage, the incidence of this disease continues to risethroughout the developed and developing world. A majorcontributor to the success of this pathogen, and the focus ofthis thesis, is its ability to evad...

Architecture

In today

Biology, Molecular

The cellular response to hypoxia involves changes inion channel conductance, intracellular calcium ([Ca2+]i) fluxes,and activation of various signaling pathways, especially thoseinvolving the hypoxia inducible factor, HIF. HIF regulates theexpression of various genes during hypoxia. In normoxia, thealpha-subunit of HIF is rapidly degraded via theubiquitin-proteasome pathway. The von Hippel-Lindau protein(pVhl) mediates this degradation. Mutations and loss ofheterozygosity of the VHL gene are lin...

Architectural acoustics entails creating a space inwhich the sound is both heard and thought about, just as visualaesthetics are also thought about in architecture. In aperformance space, acoustics play a major role in theaudience

Architecture

Architecture is not just the design of buildings; it isalso the creation of an experience that comes from aninterrelation between the site and the building. Architecturethat comes from the study of the land, culture, and history ofindividual sites is site-specific and achieves this interrelationand unification. The Modern Movement removed site-specificityfrom design; it theorized and practiced architecture as an objector autonomous form, as

Health Sciences, Radiology

The objective of this study is to determine ifinconsistencies existed in the reporting methodologies ofparticipants in the Mecon-PEERx survey for the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) radiation oncology departments and tomake recommendations that would serve to clarify appropriatebenchmark indicators. Data on reporting costs for equipmentrepair, brachytherapy sources, medical supplies, and staffing wasobtained through a questionnaire that was sent to forty-one UHCparticipants in the Mecon...

Health Sciences, Mental Health

Objectives: The elderly account for an increasinglysignificant proportion of the overall population in the UnitedStates. Incidence rates of Alzheimer

As many students demonstrate academic or behavioraldifficulties, there is a need for effective interventions tosupport students. The school psychology and education literaturesprovide effective interventions (e.g. Rathvon, 1999; Shinn,Walker, & Stoner, 2002; Thomas & Grimes, 2002); however,studies of interventions implemented in schools (e.g. Safran& Safran, 1996) often show few positive results or lack ofimplementation. As federal and state governments recommend orrequir...

Music

Music theorists at the turn of the eighteenth-centuryfocused much of their energy introducing new theoretical methodsfor musical composition. As a result the field of music theorygrew into several important areas. Jean-Philippe Rameau(1683-1764) first presented many of the ideas that form ourmodern analytical practice. In Traité de l

Education, Guidance and Counseling

Most Asian counselors have been trained within acounseling model based on Western thought, theories, and values.The present study may be the first to address directly thepotential impact of cultural values upon Asian counselors. As aninitial step to understanding possible values differences betweenAsian and American counselors, this research examined thedifferences in perceptions between Taiwanese and Ohio counselorsas they reviewed two values-related client scenarios. Seventy-sixTaiwanese and 7...

Music

WIND IN HER HAIRwas commissioned by NeXT Ens, an electro-acoustic music ensemblefounded in October 2003 by pianist Shiau-uen Ding. The piece isinspired by my teenage habit of walking through my hometownwhenever I was angry or restless. Part of the vast Los Angelesurban sprawl, it s an ugly town by day. But at 2 AM, it takes onan odd gritty beauty. Rows of orange streetlamps turn the hazysky a deep purple and cast houses and people in a murkymonochrome. Broken glass glitters on the asphalt, and w...

Geography; Library Science

This study is an empirical investigation of theevolution, spatial distribution and changes in spatial patternsof public libraries in Calcutta for the period 1850 to 1991. Itseeks to demonstrate the provision of information services,accessibility and consumption of public libraries at the intraurban scale thereby extending research of urban service deliveryto a non-western city, which has previously remained confined tothe availability of basic services. Within the context of urbanservice deliver...

Anthropology, Archaeology

The purpose of this study is both to propose a newclassification system for the pottery of the Late Helladic Iperiod (c. 1700-1600 B.C.) in the northeastern Peloponnese ofGreece and to examine the impact such a system has on thechronology of the period commonly known as the "Shaft GravePeriod." The majority of ceramic studies concerning LH I potteryfocuses almost exclusively on Mycenaean Decorated despite thefact that the vessels of this ware comprise a tiny fraction ofpottery assembla...

This thesis presents the research into dielectrics forthin film capacitors for high voltage, high temperatureintegrated circuits. For such applications, the dielectric mustsatisfy a number of critical thermal, environmental andelectrical requirements. The attributes required include thermalstability, high permittivity, low leakage currents, highbreakdown voltages, low equivalent series resistance (ESR) andhigh chemical stability. Aluminum Nitride (AlN), with a highdielectric constant (~8.9) and ...

Music

This thesis examines the approach to sonata form inSchubert

Engineering, Mechanical

Dimensional reduction has been routinely used tosimplify complex three-dimensional problems posed over thindomains to more manageable two-dimensional problems. Hierarchicalmodels of thin bodies, which usually assume that the solutiondisplays a polynomial behavior in the thickness direction, allowthe analyst to obtain more accurate solution than classical plateand shell theories while retaining their lower-dimensionaladvantages. In the numerical approximation of hierarchical modelsof thin bodies,...

Sociology, Individual and Family Studies

Approaching the problem of youth at risk from ahistorical and social constructionist perspective, I argue inthis thesis that the notion of youth risk that guidescontemporary efforts to reduce risk is a historical constructthat can be understood only in light of a broader analysis of thestatus of youth in our society. In the United States, theemergence of youth as a distinct category was facilitated by theintroduction of compulsory education, restrictions on childlabor, and, permeating these chan...

Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies

How we define groups is important to the way weperceive their activity. Gangs and fraternities are two groupsdefined very differently even though they share similarideologies and histories. In this paper I argue that the meaningabout gangs and fraternities are projected images about the groupcreated through claims make about them by claimsmakers in themedia, more specifically the newspaper. Historically fraternitieswere formed to create a venue for young collegiate men to expressthemselves, form...

Mass dispersion in unsteady laminar flow is common indead-end regions of water distribution systems. However,dispersion has not been included in network models and thisomission can lead to inaccurate predictions of water quality inregions where laminar flow prevails. Incorporating dispersion innetwork models is a challenge because it requires solving atwo-dimensional (2-D) governing equation numerically. The presentwork introduces and verifies a new analytical equation that canestimate the rate ...