cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Anglo-Saxon Peace Weaving Warrior
Creators: name: Andrade, Anthea
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: Beowulf presents a literary starting point in the discussion of peace weaving, reflecting the primary focus of Anglo Saxon epic poetry on the male hero rather than the peace weaver. Scholarship on peace weaving figures in the poem tend to negatively perceive the lack of female presence, and determine the tradition as one set up for failure. Adding historical peace weavers like Queen Emma to the discourse encourages scholars to view smaller successes, like temporary peace, as building on each other to ultimately cause the peace weaver to be successful at her task. From studying the life of Queen Emma, the continuous struggle of such a figure to be an influential presence in her nation is more evident. Combining the images of peace weaving set down by literature and then history prove that figures participating in the tradition are as vital to the heroic world as the warrior himself.
The Crystal Set
Creators: name: Sharp, Kristen
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360699
subject: Visual arts not elsewhere classified

description: BACKGROUND Sounds of Weather was a cross-cultural art and research project between Musashino Art University in Tokyo and the School of Art, RMIT University to investigate weather through sound, video and performance. The project included site visits to the Sumida River, Tokyo Bay, Saitama Underground Discharge Facility and the Kiewa Hydroelectric Scheme. Exhibitions and performances have occurred at various venues in Tokyo and Melbourne including Superdeluxe, West Space Gallery, RMIT Project Space/Spare Room and Konnoh Hachimangu Shrine. Notable sound and performance artists including Haco, Jou Odoru, Minoru Sato, Toshiya Tsunoda and Kudo Taketeru made additional contributions to the project. Sharp brings to the project expertise in interdisciplinary research and transnational studies. CONTRIBUTION Weather shapes our perception of ourselves, and the places that we inhabit. Our experience of weather is often reinforced and shaped by the language we use to describe it - a common part of everyday social communication. The Crystal Set is an original composed performance based around the use of onomatopoeia in colloquial Japanese language. Onomatopoeia is far more prevalent in everyday Japanese language that in English and is highly localised within social groups. The Crystal Set is designed to emphasise the various sonic properties of these specialised terms and to use the voice to activate the unique spatial properties of performance sites. The work is comprised of site recordings made from a performance at the Saitama Underground Water Discharge Tunnels in Japan combined with live improvised performances. The intention of the work is to investigate the sonic and cultural experiences of weather to identify both local nuances and more global connections through language and meaning. SIGNIFICANCE Sounds of Weather was funded by an RMIT Foundation International Exchange Fellowship and a special project grant from Musashino Art University.
Complex skills are required for new primary health care researchers: a training program responds
Creators: name: Terry, Amanda L.
name: Stewart, Moira
name: Ashcroft, Rachelle
name: Brown, Judith B.
name: Burge, Fred
name: Haggerty, Jeannie
name: McWilliam, Carol
name: Meredith, Leslie
name: Reid, Graham J.
name: Thomas, Roanne
name: Wong, Sabrina T.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Abstract Background Current dimensions of the primary health care research (PHC) context, including the need for contextualized research methods to address complex questions, and the co-creation of knowledge through partnerships with stakeholders – require PHC researchers to have a comprehensive set of skills for engaging effectively in high impact research. Main body In 2002 we developed a unique program to respond to these needs - Transdisciplinary Understanding and Training on Research - Primary Health Care (TUTOR-PHC). The program’s goals are to train a cadre of PHC researchers, clinicians, and decision makers in interdisciplinary research to aid them in tackling current and future challenges in PHC and in leading collaborative interdisciplinary research teams. Seven essential educational approaches employed by TUTOR-PHC are described, as well as the principles underlying the curriculum. This program is unique because of its pan-Canadian nature, longevity, and the multiplicity of disciplines represented. Program evaluation results indicate: 1) overall program experiences are very positive; 2) TUTOR-PHC increases trainee interdisciplinary research understanding and activity; and 3) this training assists in developing their interdisciplinary research careers. Taken together, the structure of the program, its content, educational approaches, and principles, represent a complex whole. This complexity parallels that of the PHC research context – a context that requires researchers who are able to respond to multiple challenges. Conclusion We present this description of ways to teach and learn the advanced complex skills necessary for successful PHC researchers with a view to supporting the potential uptake of program components in other settings.
Aspects of King MacLain in Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples
Creators: name: Shimkus, James
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: Much of the scholarship on Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples focuses on Welty's use of folklore and myth, particularly as presented in several of W. B. Yeats's poems. The character King MacLain is most often associated with Zeus, Perseus, and Aengus. A close examination of King MacLain?s development during Welty?s composition and revision of The Golden Apples reveals associations between King and other figures from myth and folklore, including Odin, Loki, Finn MacCool, Brer Rabbit, the King of the Wood from James George Frazer?s The Golden Bough, and several types of Irish fairies. The many layers of allusion revealed by studying King MacLain suggest that close studies of other characters in The Golden Apples will illustrate the complexity and scope of Welty?s story-cycle.
Supplementary document for Proposal for complete characterization of attosecond pulses from relativistic plasmas - 5521812.pdf
Creators: name: Wu, Chaoneng
name: LI, Lu
name: Yeung, Mark
name: Wu, Sizhong
name: COUSENS, STEVEN
name: TIETZE, STEFAN
name: Dromey, Brendan
name: Zhou, Cangtao
name: Ruan, Shuangchen
name: Zepf, Mathew
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document: Numerical methods and error analysis
Finding Love among Extreme Opposition in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter
Creators: name: Clark, John
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: In Toni Morrison?s Jazz and Eudora Welty?s The Optimist?s Daughter, extreme opposition is prevalent as the authors describe the makeup of each character, as well as the setting and plot in these novels. What are they accomplishing by portraying such opposition? By using Jacque Derrida?s deconstructive theory and Julia Kristeva?s definition of abjection as theoretical guides to navigate these novels, examples of how both authors use extreme opposition in each element of their works are cited and explored. Through this process, the realization that opposing extremes can harmoniously lie side by side and have as many similarities as differences is discovered. By the conclusion, the unifying quality that love plays in both novels, as well as the authors? intents to change their readers traditional concept of love, is evident.
Two Laureates and a Whore Debate Decorum and Delight: Dryden, Shadwell, and Behn in a Decade of Comedy A-la-Mode
Creators: name: Chapman, Patricia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: The comedies of John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, and Aphra Behn were equally well-received by Restoration audiences, yet each dramatist professes divergent dramatic theories and poetic goals. In prefatory material to their plays, Shadwell insists a dramatist?s duty is to depict virtue rewarded and vice punished, Behn rejects the idea that comic drama might influence morals or manners, and Dryden maintains that his only goal is to please the audience, despite his dull conversation and lack of wit.

A comparison between the playwrights? dramatic theory and their most popular comedies of the 1668-77 decade indicates that none of them represent with any accuracy their own (or others?) work. Shadwell abandons his didactic goals in pursuit of approbation and income, while Behn unswervingly attacks social issues prevalent in a patriarchal society. Dryden?s comedies?witty and fast-paced despite his protestations?also address weaknesses in the patriarchal system and condemn the commodification of marriage.
The Effect of a Perspective Taking Reading Strategy on the Critical Reading Skills of 11th Grade Students
Creators: name: Madrid, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether a Perspective Taking Reading Strategy, based on Robert Selman’s levels of perspective taking (1979), would affect the critical reading achievement of eleventh grade students. The measurement tool was a modified English High School Examination, the Maryland state test administered to measure student achievement of state curriculum standards. This study followed a quasi-experimental design involving the use of a pre-test/post-test design to compare data from October of 2009 to data from December of 2009. No achievement gains were substantiated in this study. Results from the study suggest that the Perspective Taking Reading Strategy is not a useful tool for the direct increase of achievement on standardized tests such as the HSA, possibly due to the amount of time the reading strategy takes to complete. However, further study into the use and benefits of the Perspective Taking Reading Strategy to enhance student discussion and critical thought is recommended.
Goucher Graduate Students' Perception of the Effectiveness of Letter Sounds, Rhyming, and Phoneme Segmentation in Developing Early Reading and Writing Skills
Creators: name: McClelland, Deborah L.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether Goucher graduate students in education perceive instruction in letter sounds, rhyming, or phoneme segmentation as more useful in developing phonemic awareness, word identification, and spelling skills. The study was a descriptive study in which quantitative data was collected through the use of self-report surveys in the form of questionnaires. The sample of graduate students was broken down into two categories: the entire sample (n = 80) and a subset consisting of students with Early Reading Instruction Experience (n = 39). Among the total sample, the letter sounds favorability rating (Mean = 30.78, SD = 3.25) was significantly higher than the rhyming favorability rating (Mean =27.33, SD = 4.24) [t(79) = 8.63, p < .001] and the segmentation favorability rating (Mean = 30.00, SD = 3.82) [t(79) = 2.42, p < .05]. Favorability ratings for segmentation were significantly higher than favorability ratings for rhyming [t(79) = 6.96, p  .05]. Favorability ratings for segmentation were significantly higher than favorability ratings for rhyming [t(38) = 5.37, p < .001]. Implications of the study, including the apparent preference of graduate students in education for teaching letter sounds over the other methods, are discussed.
Growing Crops in Arid, Drought-Prone Environments: Adaptation and Mitigation
Creators: name: Sisto, Nicholas P.
name: Severinov, Sergei
name: Aboites Manrique, Gilberto
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Drought poses significant risks to society, in particular irrigated-crop production, which accounts for a large share of global freshwater use. Given its key role in the production of food, feed and fiber crops, there exists a need for policy measures to prevent and mitigate the impacts of drought on irrigated agriculture. This paper proposes that the design of drought policy should take into account actual farmer behavior in response to water scarcity. To this end, we offer a detailed analysis of land allocation and crop-choice decisions over time in an irrigation district located in the dry plains of Northern Mexico. We find that farmers systematically change their crop mix in response to water availability. In particular, in times of drought, irrigation water flows to higher-yield and higher-price crops (which also require more intense irrigation) to the detriment of less water-demanding (but lower value) crops. Farmers use water with the goal of earning a living—economizing on water per se has no relevance in that context. Policies that do not explicitly recognize this may result in ineffective, inefficient and/or unfair outcomes.
Porncake
Creators: name: Verhagen, Darrin
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360403
subject: Drama, theatre and performance studies

description: The principles of rhetorical listening (an audience intuitively knowing whether a musical moment is expository, transitional, recapitulatory or concluding) is well understood by cognitive musicologists. And whilst in score, the presentational or the triumphantly conclusive is standard fare, more subtle intuitions of this phenomena, applied to more sophisticated narratives - let alone new Australian theatrical writing remains underexplored.

SIGNIFICANCE
Exploiting the fugal writing style of repeating scenes, an extended musical composition was split into modules which bore distinctive imprints of their structural function within the broader musical form. These pieces then framed scenes, drawing across from the music the feelings of rhetorical listening, effecting the perception of the action from the outset.
- Commissioned by the Malthoue theatre. Directed by Pamela Rabe.

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION
This soundtrack demonstrated an innovative approach to scoring fugal narrative structure. A long form composition - which abides by its own internal logic and generates specific rhetorical modes of listening, is then atomised into modules to inform feelings about repeated scenes (and how resolved or exploratory they seem). As with most of my soundtrack/sound design work, this is designed to go unnoticed. The production itself, was well received by audiences, and acclaimed by critics.
A World of Our Own: William Blake and Abolition
Creators: name: Parker, Lisa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This thesis examines the influence of the abolition debates on two of William Blake?s early writings, ?The Little Black Boy? and The Visions of the Daughters of Albion. It also considers Blake?s engravings for John Gabriel Stedman?s Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam as proof of his abolitionist interest. Chapter one provides an overview of current Romantic criticism which situates Blake and other Romantic writers within a historical context. Chapter two summarizes the abolition movement in the late eighteenth century. Chapters three, four and five specifically discuss Blake?s work as abolitionist in intent.
THE IMPACT OF LOWEST BIDDER BID AWARDING SYSTEM ON PROJECT PERFORMANCE: CASE STUDY ON ETHIPIAN FEDERAL ROAD PROJECTS
Creators: name: ABRHAM MELAKU
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: THE IMPACT OF LOWEST BIDDER BID AWARDING SYSTEM 

ON PROJECT PERFORMANCE: CASE STUDY ON ETHIPIAN 

FEDERAL ROAD PROJECTS
Experiences with Collaborative Supervision and Perceptions of Teacher Evaluations
Creators: name: Miller, Heather A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether a teacher‘s experience with collaborative supervisory techniques would affect the teacher‘s perception of the current teacher evaluation process. This was a correlational study in which a random purposeful sample of high school English teachers was surveyed concerning their experience with specific collaborative and traditional supervisory techniques, their perceptions of the effectiveness of the specific techniques, and their overall satisfaction with the current teacher evaluation process. Analysis of the data focused on relationships between demographical data, the experience with the two types of supervisory practices, the perceived helpfulness, and the satisfaction with the teacher evaluation process. Results from the survey indicate that there is a significant positive correlation between experience with traditional supervisory techniques, the perception of helpfulness of these techniques, and satisfaction with the current teaching evaluation process. Given the relatively narrow random sampling and the limitations of the measurement tool, particularly in regard to satisfaction, this research should be conducted again with a larger and broader sampling using a revised and expanded survey tool.
REACHING THE PRIMARY BENEFIT FROM SYMPTOMS OF TENSION HEADACHES
Creators: name: O.Y. Kirilova
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In general, the concept of coping is used in psychology to describe the characteristic ways of people's behavior in various difficult life and professional situations. The ultimate goal of this behavior and at the same time the criterion of its effectiveness can be considered to be the reduction of the stressful influence of the situation, that is, overcoming it and reaching a normal level of functioning. Coping behavior is carried out with the help of coping strategies. The choice of such strategies is influenced by various factors: age, as well as gender characteristics.

People in the modern world live in stressful conditions, so the analysis of problems related to the resolution of complex stressful situations is especially relevant. The ability to overcome stressful situations is the key to people's mental health and a prerequisite for social stability, predictability of processes occurring in society.

It should be noted that in our time, despite attempts to prevent and cure various diseases, malignant tumors continue to spread rapidly among people. From a medical point of view, they represent a chronically progressive somatic pathology, which is accompanied by a systemic pathogenic effect on the body. At the psychological level, establishing one of these diagnoses causes a disturbance in the patient's mental state, which is accompanied by stress. Therefore, along with the continuous search for methods of treating these diseases, the search for ways to adapt and the ability to psychologically cope with the disease remains an equally important task. For this purpose, all sorts of psychological strategies are being developed to overcome a person's stressful state and increase his or her life expectancy.

Domestic and foreign authors have come to the same conclusion that unsuccessful adaptation can lead a person to various neurotic disorders, which will exert additional stress pressure and significantly reduce both the result of drug treatment in particular and the quality of life in general. A person's psychological resources, his unconscious (psychological defenses) and conscious (coping strategies) ways of coping with what is happening, become the most important condition for his psychological adaptation.
Melville's Quest for Certainty: Questing and Spiritual Stability in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
Creators: name: Schlarb, Damien
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This paper investigates Herman Melville?s quest for spiritual stability and certainty in his novel Moby-Dick. The analysis establishes a philosophical tradition of doubt towards the Bible, outlining the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes, Benedict de Spinoza, David Hume, Thomas Paine and John Henry Newman. This historical survey of spiritual uncertainty establishes the issue of uncertainty that Melville writes about in the nineteenth century. Having assessed the issue of doubt, I then analyze Melville?s use of metaphorical charts, which his characters use to resolve this issue. Finally, I present Melville?s philosophical findings as he expresses them through the metaphor of whaling. Here, I also scrutinize Melville?s depiction of nature, as well as his presentation of the dichotomy between contemplative and active questing, as represented by the characters Ishmael and Ahab.
Confluence
Creators: name: Lindberg, Jessica
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Confluence examines life experiences through the craft of poetry. This original work colors the author?s history with imagination, blending these two entities to create a separate and distinct story. The subject matter ranges from hippies to National Geographic to global warming. Themes of memory, addiction and recovery, domesticity and motherhood figure prominently in the work.
From Superman to Superbland: The Man of Steel's Popular Decline among Postmodern Youth
Creators: name: Pevey, Timothy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Although immensely popular with American boys upon his debut in 1938, Superman has gradually lost relevance with the postmodern generation. DC Comics has rewritten the character numerous times in an attempt to regain lost popularity, but the problem lies in an aspect of his character they refuse to alter ? his invulnerability. Superman?s invulnerable body was engineered to quell the fears America harbored towards technological progress, but his impervious physique now renders him obsolete. Boys in postmodern America, under the influence of post-Enlightenment body values, now connect with vulnerable comic book heroes whose bodies more closely match their own. This paper examines the sociological reasons for the shift in Superman?s popularity by comparing the body values of 1938 with those of today, and concludes that while Superman might have succeeded as a modern hero, he fails as a postmodern one.
Becoming the New Man in Post-PostModernist Fiction: Portrayals of Masculinities in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Chuck Palahnuik's Fight Club
Creators: name: Delfino, Andrew
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: While scholars have analyzed the masculinity crisis portrayed in American fiction, few have focused on postmodernist fiction, few have examined masculinity without using feminist theory, and no articles propose an adequate solution for ending normative masculinity?s dominance. I examine the masculinity crisis as it is portrayed in two postmodernist novels, David Foster Wallace?s novel Infinite Jest and Chuck Palahniuk?s novel Fight Club. Both novels have male characters that ran the gamut of masculinities, but those that are the most successful at avoiding gender stereotypes (Donald Gately in Infinite Jest, and the narrator in Fight Club) develop a masculinity which incorporates strong, phallic masculinity and nurturing, testicular masculinity, creating a balanced gender. At the same time, both novels examine postmodernist fiction?s future. Post-postmodernist fiction, similar to well-rounded masculinity, seeks to be more emotionally open with the reader while still using irony and innovation for meaningful effects, not just to be clever.
Teaching Media Literacy in the Composition Classroom:  Are We There Yet?
Creators: name: Carmichael, Misty
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Despite the prevalence and ubiquity of media in North American culture, educators still show reluctance to embrace media literacy as a necessary literacy. This study examines two media literacy activities using descriptive teacher research, and defining usefulness based on student response and applicability to composition objectives in the English 1101 classroom. Both lessons produce useful findings, with students rating the second activity as more useful than the first activity. This research lends sample assignments and confidence to instructors seeking to employ simple media literacy tactics in the introductory composition classroom.
An Erratic Performance: Constructing Racial Identity and James Baldwin
Creators: name: Walker, Natasha
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: This thesis analyzes James Baldwin's essays as a method for understanding racial identity and authenticity.  By using Vetta Sanders-Thompson's racial identification parameters, I suggest that Baldwin's struggle with his identity as a black American is crucial to deposing the idea of a monolithic black experience, which opens up new ways of analyzing African American literature.
DINIY BAG'RIKENGLIK VA KONFESSIYALARARO MULOQOT
Creators: name: Sobirov Shohzod Toshkent axborot texnologiyalari universiteti Samarqand fillali  KI24-04 guruhi talabasi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqolada diniy bag‘rikenglik tushunchasi, uning zamonaviy jamiyatdagi o‘rni va ahamiyati tahlil etiladi. Konfessiyalararo muloqotning mohiyati, vazifalari va shakllari haqida batafsil ma'lumotlar beriladi. Shuningdek, tarixda diniy bag‘rikenglikning namunalari va hozirgi davrda uni rivojlantirish uchun qo‘llanilayotgan strategiyalar yoritilgan. Maqola diniy bag‘rikenglikni mustahkamlash yo‘llarini aniqlash va xalqaro tajriba asosida istiqbolli tavsiyalar berishga qaratilgan.
Establishing Pedagogical Practicality by Reconnecting Composition Studies to the Rhetorical Tradition
Creators: name: Bacha, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Composition instructors agree writing instruction should focus on helping students become better writers. Pedagogical commonality, however, ends here. Composition instructors disagree about what constitutes good writing, what student should be learning, and how best to approach a composition classroom. I argue that pedagogical diversity among composition instructors is detrimental to the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition, because it has contributed to the public perception that we have no teachable content. Focusing around the removal of and reintegration of rhetoric from American college English departments, I argue composition studies and the rhetorical tradition have historically been viewed as separate disciplines. This project will illustrate that composition studies needs to reconnect to the rhetorical tradition in order formulate a unified practical pedagogical identity. With a unified pedagogical identity, composition studies can finally claim it has a teachable and defendable content: the production of better critical thinking skills.
Waiting for You
Creators: name: Carter, Paul
name: Williams, Christopher
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design
classificationCode: 360299
subject: Creative and professional writing not elsewhere classified

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND: 'Waiting for You' was commissioned by Intellectual Birdhourse editorial collective in Berne Switzerland and realised in colllaboration with Christopher Williams, sound artist (ABC, Adelaide). Carter wrote the script and was a performer in the piece. Williams did the sound. The work was commissioned to support Carter's book chapter, 'Parrot Language: an original improvement', which was published in Intellectual Birdhouse, Koenig Books, London, UK, pp. 267-273 ISBN: 978-3-86335-118-2. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: 'Waiting for you' explored the feedback between human speech and bird song.This radio work builds on Carter's 2006 monograph, 'Parrot' (Univesity of Chicago Press) an natural and cultural history of parrots that considered, in part, parrot calls as echoes of the voices around them. Parrot squawks literally immortalise, trasmit and mimic our own struggles with language. Parrots have a particular poignancy in Australia where many Indigenous languages are under threat. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: This work was peer reviewed via commission (from Intellectual Birdhouse editorial collective). It provided an audio accompaniament to the scholarly arguments presented in Carter's 'Parrot language' book chapter. The work was publically presented by being posted at materialthinking.com.au in late 2010 and it is still available, online, on Christopher Williams' website http://christopherwilliams.com.au/sound-installations/waitingforyou/ The text of 'Waiting for You' is published in Carter's new collection of poems, 'Ecstacies and Elegies' (University of Western Australia Press, 2013) ISBN 9781742585611.
Tangerines in a Tomato Patch
Creators: name: Cooper, Michael
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: This thesis is comprised of a collection of short stories, most of which are set in southern,   urban milieus. The fictional characters contained within deal in their own unique ways with the  crises they face. Most of these sources of conflict arise from domestic complications. Six of the eight stories are written in the first person; the collection is voice-driven and concerned with the idiosyncratic points of views of the focal characters, and in this way borrows from the tradition of Southern fiction, which is in many cases laced with dark humor.
A Meaning-Full Bouquet: Margaret Fuller's and Elizabeth Stoddard's Use of Flowers to Grow Feminist Discourse
Creators: name: Kopcik, Corinne
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Margaret Fuller?s and Elizabeth Stoddard?s innovative use of the language of flowers in ?The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain? and The Morgesons explore multilevel feminine discourse in ways later described by H?l?ne Cixous and Luce Irigary. Fuller uses flowers symbolically in her text, not mimicking conventional sentimental motifs, but inspiring women?s independence and self-development. Fuller?s flower images become anthropomorphic possibilities for female empowerment which re-envision American women?s social roles and express Fuller?s developing feminism. Stoddard?s use of flowers reflects her realist writing and captures many of the contemporary social applications of flowers. Stoddard, like Alice Walker, sees some artistic agency for women through gardening, but ultimately finds the comparison of women to flowers an antiquated system which holds women back in search of social progress.
The Effect of Phonological Awareness on the Reading Ability of Below Average Kindergarten Students
Creators: name: Machovec, Annie Laurie
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The impact of phonological awareness on the reading ability of kindergarten students was the
focus of the study. The experimental and control groups were kindergarten students who were
rated equally in ability based on a pre-test. The students from both groups were from a public
school in which they received the same daily instruction in reading. The treatment group
received additional instruction in phonological awareness as their intervention program. The
intervention was provided for 1 hour each week over the period of 10 weeks. The results of the
study showed that both treatment and control group demonstrated significant increase in
phonological awareness from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. There was no
significant difference between the groups.
The Effects on Direct High Frequency Word Instruction on Oral Reading Fluency for Title I First Grade Students
Creators: name: Sowa, Anna
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study is to determine whether students who receive direct high frequency word instruction along with regular classroom instruction will increase their oral reading fluency as compared to students who receive regular classroom instruction. The measurement tool used was Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Learning Skills (DIBELS) Oral Reading Fluency Assessment, Retell Assessment and The Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary list. This study used a pre-test/post-test design to measure the data collected from January 2010 to March 2010. The experimental group participated in daily 20 minute small group instruction for five weeks. While both groups increased their scores from the pre-test to post-test, the hypothesis was not supported because the differences were not statistically significant. Achievement gains were shown to be slightly higher in oral reading fluency, retell and high frequency word knowledge for the experimental group than the control group shown in the post-test at the end of the study. Although research has been conducted on fluency alone, research in this area should continue as there is very little information available regarding the use direct high frequency word instruction as a reading intervention for fluency. Research in this area should continue to determine the best methods for fluency instruction.
Supplementary document for Proposal for complete characterization of attosecond pulses from relativistic plasmas - 5521812.pdf
Creators: name: Wu, Chaoneng
name: LI, Lu
name: Yeung, Mark
name: Wu, Sizhong
name: COUSENS, STEVEN
name: TIETZE, STEFAN
name: Dromey, Brendan
name: Zhou, Cangtao
name: Ruan, Shuangchen
name: Zepf, Mathew
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document: Numerical methods and error analysis
The Effect of Read Alouds on the Reading Motivation of Fourth Grade Students
Creators: name: Sullivan, Marcie B.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study is to determine the effect bi-weekly teacher read alouds
had on the reading motivations of fourth-grade students. The sample consisted of 15
students; 8 students were in the control group and 7 students were in the treatment group.
The study took place over four weeks and the study utilized the pre-measure/postmeasure
quasi-experimental design. The pre- and post-measures included the
Motivations for Reading Questionnaire (MRQ) and the number of Steps earned at home
(one Step being 15 minutes of reading). It was determined that the read alouds do not
impact students’ motivation to read and the null hypothesis was retained.
Building Nest
Creators: name: Carter, Laura
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: "What does it mean, to make a genuine generalization, to create an objective concrete abstraction of a phenomenon?" Evald Ilyenkov. As Guy Debord writes in his Society of the Spectacle, ?the lack of general historical life also means that individual life as yet has no history.? These poems are my process of coming to understand history, and many of them are critiques of histories per se. If, as Frank O?Hara writes, ?these anxieties remain erect,? they also shape the poems that I have written here. I want to be in dialogue with the spectacle that shapes postmodernism. I want to live in communication with the memories of events that have shaped my speech over the years. The title is a struggle to regain a home while not forgetting the displacement of the proverbial poet, a poet to whom I am forever indebted and probably likely to become.
Tony Woods - Field Recordings
Creators: name: Edwards, Philip
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts

description: The book in which I wrote a chapter documents the fifty year carerr of pioneering Melbourne -based cvontemporaray artist and film maker Tony Woods. The 239 page hard back volume documents and evaluates Wood's artistic acheivement and contribution to Australian and international arts culture since the 1960's. I am one of seven contibuters to chapters that explore his history and legacy. My contribution outlines his contribution to concrete sound recordings over two decades and his contribution to Super-8 film culture. It is of research importance as it contributes to knowledge of this artists relationship with ideas and culture from the 1960's to the present-day. As well as consisting of essays it also provides a history of images, film, interviews with signifigant Australian artists and documents from each deacade.This knowledge has not been synthesised before and will provide a research platform for students and academics researching this period of Australian visual and experimental art.It is the first major study on this signifigant Australian artist.
The Role of Parental Involvement in Academic Achievement
Creators: name: Thomas, Jesse
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: Improving the academic achievement of students is a constant goal of America’s school system. Over the course of American history, many studies have been conducted to determine influences that can be manipulated to trigger a positive effect on learning. Some studies concluded that parental involvement in children’s education helps academic achievement. This research was meant to determine the relationship between parental involvement and academic achievement and how parents can be best utilized in their child’s education. Previous studies performed insist parental involvement plays a positive role in academic achievement. Careful scrutinizing of such research shows parental involvement does play a role in academic achievement, but it may not be in the manner most educators expect. The research attempted to show how parents can be involved, how much they should be involved, and the impact of parental involvement in academic achievement of their children. This study looked at three categories: volunteering, supervision and expectations to determine the impact each have on the academic achievement of the students.
Cryptocurrency as a Payment Method in Online Casinos: Benefits, Challenges, and Regulatory Perspectives
Creators: name: Gold, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The integration of cryptocurrency as a payment method in online casinos has emerged as a significant development in the digital gambling landscape. This article explores the benefits and challenges associated with using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others in online casinos. It delves into key issues such as security, anonymity, transaction speed, and regulatory concerns. Additionally, the article examines how various jurisdictions are adapting to the rise of cryptocurrency in the gambling industry, highlighting the diverse approaches to regulation and their implications for the future of online gambling.
Multiple-trait analyses improved the accuracy of genomic prediction and the power of genome-wide association of productivity and climate change-adaptive traits in lodgepole pine
Creators: name: Cappa, Eduardo P.
name: Chen, Charles
name: Klutsch, Jennifer G.
name: Sebastian-Azcona, Jaime
name: Ratcliffe, Blaise
name: Wei, Xiaojing
name: Da Ros, Letitia
name: Ullah, Aziz
name: Liu, Yang
name: Benowicz, Andy
name: Sadoway, Shane
name: Mansfield, Shawn D., 1969-
name: Erbilgin, Nadir
name: Thomas, Barb R.
name: El-Kassaby, Yousry A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Abstract Background Genomic prediction (GP) and genome-wide association (GWA) analyses are currently being employed to accelerate breeding cycles and to identify alleles or genomic regions of complex traits in forest trees species. Here, 1490 interior lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex. Loud. var. latifolia Engelm) trees from four open-pollinated progeny trials were genotyped with 25,099 SNPs, and phenotyped for 15 growth, wood quality, pest resistance, drought tolerance, and defense chemical (monoterpenes) traits. The main objectives of this study were to: (1) identify genetic markers associated with these traits and determine their genetic architecture, and to compare the marker detected by single- (ST) and multiple-trait (MT) GWA models; (2) evaluate and compare the accuracy and control of bias of the genomic predictions for these traits underlying different ST and MT parametric and non-parametric GP methods. GWA, ST and MT analyses were compared using a linear transformation of genomic breeding values from the respective genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP) model. GP, ST and MT parametric and non-parametric (Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces, RKHS) models were compared in terms of prediction accuracy (PA) and control of bias. Results MT-GWA analyses identified more significant associations than ST. Some SNPs showed potential pleiotropic effects. Averaging across traits, PA from the studied ST-GP models did not differ significantly from each other, with generally a slight superiority of the RKHS method. MT-GP models showed significantly higher PA (and lower bias) than the ST models, being generally the PA (bias) of the RKHS approach significantly higher (lower) than the GBLUP. Conclusions The power of GWA and the accuracy of GP were improved when MT models were used in this lodgepole pine population. Given the number of GP and GWA models fitted and the traits assessed across four progeny trials, this work has produced the most comprehensive empirical genomic study across any lodgepole pine population to date.
Satirical Inquiry
Creators: name: Prescott, Gina
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Satire might not inspire physical action?the physical act of picking up a sign to picket the government?but it moves an audience towards a state of mental action by confronting audiences with the interdictions and iniquities it fears the most. The rhetorical qualities of satire need to be acknowledged to fully understand how satire functions. To look at an example of contemporary satire, like The Onion, and see how it functions as a tool to create knowledge, three concepts can be borrowed from the rhetorical tradition: (1) Plato?s dialectic as a rhetorical model for Donald Griffin?s ?Rhetoric of inquiry and provocation? ; (2) Aristotle?s means of persuasion and Han Tzu?s recognition of the imbalanced power-dynamics inherent in discussing dissentient views to see how satire?s audience and its controversial or unmentionable content is inextricably intertwined, making humor a satirist?s primary mean of persuasion; and lastly, (3) the Sophists? understanding of situational truths and how it informs the cultural standards and institutions that satire contends. A satirist wishes to create, through the use of laughter, a space for questioning the worst qualities of society and humanity, provoking inward reflection in order to challenge the cultural rationalization that informs societal behavior.
Levelling Up: Designing and Testing a Contextual, Web-based Dreamweaver 8 Tutorial for Students with Technological Aptitude Differences
Creators: name: Hatter, Alicia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: This thesis examines the user-centered design methods and methodology inherent to designing and testing a web-based Dreamweaver 8 tutorial for undergraduate and graduate students who enroll in certain English rhetoric and composition courses at Georgia State University. The tutorial?s three interfaces were rhetorically designed to support three corresponding types of user?novices, intermediates, and experts? whose familiarity with Dreamweaver and student web space determined their starting point of interaction with the artifact. Three usability tests examined each interface based on four usability attributes. Findings revealed the novice and expert interfaces to be usable, while the intermediate interface was more problematic. The analysis of findings indicated the advanced documentation theory to be sound; however, the practical implementation of the theory to this artifact was comparatively ineffective. More research is suggested for determining whether a multimodal tutorial design is the most useful and usable for the target audience(s).
Accommodations for Students with Disabilities
Creators: name: Thompson, Marsha S.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study is to determine whether general education teachers were knowledgeable about the types of accommodations needed by their students and whether they provide these accommodations. The measurement tool was a survey created by the researcher. This study involved general education teachers at Chesapeake High School. Results indicated that although 100% of the respondents are willing to provide accommodations fewer reported providing required accommodations. Research in the area of the benefits and obstacles to teachers to be able to provide accommodations to students with disabilities should be given priority. Although teachers appear to be willing to provide accommodations, full implementation of those accommodations is lacking.
The King of Babylon and Other Stories
Creators: name: Miller, Samuel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: This collection of two short stories and one novella seeks to express and embody concepts of narrative form and technique developed over the course of this graduate program with regards to the formulation of believable, nonrealist fictional realities in an American idiom which can enter into the global critical conversation of similarly-purposed international literature.