172 research outputs found
The Contribution of Outer HI Disks to the Merging Binary Black Hole Population
No full textPeer reviewe
She Gets the Girl
No full textAlex Blackwood is an undeniably courageous flirt. Molly Parker is a socially awkward compassionate soul. The duo strikes a deal that helps Molly explore her flirtatious nature and helps Alex prove to her ex that she is not self-centered. The question is: Do Molly and Alex want other people or each other? Author Alyson Derrick, a No. 1 New York Times best-selling author, depicts a beautiful dichotomy between wants and needs in romance.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ul_popularromance/1050/thumbnail.jp
Instrumental and sensory characteristics of selected nutritionally improved school foods
No full textChildhood obesity is a growing problem in the United States. Recently enacted Federal and State regulations require school foods to be improved nutritionally. The objective of this study was to determine quality of selected newly developed school foods using instrumental and sensory methods. From the National School Lunch Program reimbursable meals chicken nuggets, macaroni and cheese, and pierogies were selected. From the Competitive Foods apple snacks were used. Surface color parameters (L, a*, and b*) were determined by colorimeter and digital camera. A texture analyzer (TA-xT2i) was used to measure texture specific to each product. Sensory Quantitative Descriptive analysis was used to evaluate six to eight sensory attributes per product. The results were compared with similar traditional products. Chicken nuggets with whole grain breading were darker red (L 132.43 and a* 147.96) and coarser, while home style were more yellow (b* 188.44) with firmer breading (407.59 g) and original variety was less yellow and red (b* 182.69 and a* 138.01) with softer meat texture (462.26 g/cm). Macaroni and cheese with 26% reduced fat was significantly saltier and less viscous than original (1486.21 g), however not significantly different in color, cheese aroma, or sweetness. Pierogies with 70% more protein per serving were significantly different with a firmer, grainier filling and darker surface color with values of L 59.14 and b* 14.98 and peak force of filling 7968.9 g. Freeze dried enriched apple snacks were significantly lighter in color, more red (L 170.13 and a* 137.71), firmer texture with average 2821.24 g peak force, more sour, bitter and had a rougher surface texture than air-dried apple snacks. Instrumental color, texture, and sensory characteristics of nutritionally improved products differed significantly from the similar traditional products. Additional efforts of processors will be necessary to prepare nutritionally improved products with high children's acceptability.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-104)by Alyson Mandevill
US97: Dover Ln to Bear Dr safety improvements, MP 97.5 to 100.5, transportation management plan
No full textprepared by: Alyson Shubert, EIT, R4 Traffic Designer ; reviewed by: Teresa Gibson, PE, R4 Traffic Analyst.Title from PDF cover (viewed on October 17, 2022)."K22520."This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
A Thesis in Seasons
No full textA personal take on a thesis. Alyson Davies uses narratives of her rural Albertan upbringing to position her art practice and experience in Emily Carr University’s MFA program. Davies painting, primarily based in autobiographical narratives, is also met by supplementary practices across other media where seasonality and nature direct the subject of the works. The thesis paper aims to contextualize Davies’ artworks along other artist’s work, and within the physical and inner worlds the work exists in.SeasonalityPrairiesFarmingFarmBetty WoodmanVanessa BellMary FeddenAnita Klei
On necrocapitalism: A plague journal
No full textM.I. Asma is the collective designation for six authors from Canada and the United States, representing a variety of revolutionary anticapitalist theoretical persuasions: J. Moufawad-Paul, Devin Zane Shaw, Mateo Andante, Johannah May Black, Alyson Escalante, and D. W. Fairlane. As the pandemic transitioned from science fiction to reality in early 2020, a number of writers and thinkers in the imperialist metropoles declared the impossibility of writing in the face of a future that is foreclosed. And yet, due to the nightmare that capitalism has been since its beginning, numerous writers and thinkers from the margins have always written in the face of such foreclosure. Meanwhile, other contemporary thinkers sought to conceptualize the unfolding pandemic according to conceptions of bio/necropolitics, forgetting the foundation upon which these conceptions have always existed.
The M.I. Asma writing group came together to stake out a different terrain, thinking through the pandemic as events unfolded while also always working to think beyond the capitalist imaginary. Writing between April 2020 and May 2021, the authors set out to produce a serial theoretical philosophical project focused on class struggle in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors approached the pandemic as an occasion to think capitalism according to what it always has been, what the pandemic reveals about its current ideological deployment, and how we can think about a communist alternative in the face of exterminism.
This book collects, with some revisions and with a new epilogue, the entries from the On Necrocapitalism blog, where M.I. Asma’s interventions first appeared.DC Author's celebration 202
Utilizing content analysis on TheKnot.com to study an online wedding planning community for New Jersey
No full textAs with other aspects of our culture today, wedding planning is increasingly discussed and implemented online. Information is disseminated through online media attention, advertising, and computer mediated communication. The latter provides an avenue through which the impact of community building and relational culture can be established. My dissertation analyzes an online wedding planning forum on TheKnot.com to exemplify the ways by which a community is built through online postings and discusses the characteristics of this community. Utilizing the uses and gratification theory, content gratifications are examined through the types of topics publically viewable on an active online wedding planning Website. Because of the extensive reach of such forums, one particular region, New Jersey, will be examined. Process gratifications will be discussed as participants share personal experiences from their time spent on this particular online bulletin board planning their wedding celebration. Furthermore, the dynamics of interaction among this group will be analyzed over the course of half a calendar year and will show the types of interaction taking place through content analysis.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Alyson H. Theli
Experiencing Kane: an 'affective approach' to Sarah Kane's experiential theatre in performance
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2008 Dr. Alyson Evette CampbellThe thesis investigates the theatre of British playwright Sarah Kane, focusing particularly on her last work, 4.48 Psychosis. This play about suicide, written by a playwright who then committed suicide, has been widely, and understandably, read as a suicide note that can have little political relevance or engagement with wider society. The thesis responds to this interpretation and argues for a re-evaluation of Kane’s last work. It contends that alternative, more political, readings of the play are possible and proposes that close attention to Kane’s term ‘experiential’ theatre is one way to produce such a reading.
The thesis, therefore, undertakes an investigation into experiential theatre, and does this through a dual practical and theoretical methodology. I approach the research as a theatre practitioner – a director – and as a scholar, with the result that the thesis is undertaken and organised as 50% written dissertation and 50% creative work. In the dissertation I theorize ‘experiential theatre’: what it is; how it works dramaturgically; and how this dramaturgy can be read as politically significant. I adopt a predominantly phenomenological approach to argue that Kane’s experiential theatre is concerned primarily with the embodied nature of spectatorship and the visceral affect of live performance, and that this is the site of its potential political efficacy. The creative work, my direction of a production of 4.48 Psychosis for Red Stitch Actors Theatre (July-August 2007), investigates the viability of this new critical framework in practice.
Out of this combined practical and theoretical investigation the thesis concludes that, given an appropriate critical paradigm, it is possible to read 4.48 Psychosis as experiential theatre, and to theorise experiential theatre as underpinning the political engagement of Kane’s dramaturgy. However, in practice, the work is only ever potentially experiential, being contingent upon the decisions made by the creative team, the unpredictable outcome of those decisions upon the individual spectator and the material circumstances of the production itself
The rhetoric of architecture and the language of pleasure : the maison de plaisance in eighteen-century France
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2006.Vita. Leaf 155 blank.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-154).This thesis investigates the history of the petite maison (otherwise known as a little house) in eighteenth-century France. In particular, I focus on a popular libertine novella written in 1758 by Jean-Francois de Bastide entitled appropriately enough La Petite maison. In the novella, Bastide conflates concepts of vice and virtue in his descriptions of the little house. By doing so, the author set into play a terminological confusion of meaning that rendered the house as a problem that required a resolution. This thesis tracks the resolution of the ambiguous meaning of the little house in the work of the late eighteenth-century architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. I look at three different projects by Ledoux in order to trace how he transformed the "little house" as a literary trope illustrated by the author Bastide into a country house architectural typology. The first project discussed is a built music pavilion designed for fetes, entertainments and pleasures at Louveciennes for the mistress of Louis XV named Madame du Barry. The second project is an imagined house for a Marchande de modes (woman milliner tailor) represented in Ledoux's treatise entitled Architecture considered in relation to art, mores, and legislation, published in 1804.(cont.) The third imagined project, an institutional monastery cum brothel entitled Oikema is also represented in his treatise. This thesis shows how Ledoux's architectural typology of the little house resulted in nothing less than a formulation of a modem architectural conception of house and home. By demonstrating that the little house is located at the fault lines of eighteenth-century moral philosophy, manners, architecture, sexuality, class, and nation building this thesis removes the building type from the historical margins that it has, until now, been relegated to. What is at stake, here, in this discussion of the petite maison is nothing less than the history of the formulation of a modem architectural syntax of domesticity. In this context, discussions of morality in elite discourse had forced sexuality out into the open. This thesis questions how the little house functioned as a vessel by which the language of sexuality came to be explored in both architecture and architectural theory in the twilight years of the eighteenth-century.by Alyson Jacqueline Liss.S.M
Effects of dietary calcium to non-phytate phosphorus ratio and phytase supplementation on growth performance, digestibility, and bone characteristics of broiler chickens
No full textThree experiments were conducted to evaluate the interrelationships among Ca, non-phytate phosphorus (NPP), and phytase supplementation in diets fed to broiler chickens. Experiment 1 was conducted to evaluate the influence of dietary Ca concentrations by evaluating growth performance, tibia measurements, and apparent retention of broiler chicks. Dietary treatments consisted of 7 concentrations of Ca (0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, or 1.6% of the diet) and NPP concentrations were maintained at 0.3%. Growth performance and bone ash of broilers fed 0.6% Ca were improved compared with those fed higher Ca concentrations. Tibia ash and tibia break force were reduced in birds fed Ca inclusions above 0.6%. Tibia reference force indentation measurements exhibited quadratic responses as the Ca inclusion increased from 0.4 to 1.6%. Dietary treatment effects were observed for apparent retention of P and Ca, which decreased linearly or quadratically with increasing Ca concentrations. Experiment 2 evaluated effects of dietary Ca and NPP combinations to create distinct Ca-to-NPP ratios on growth performance, tibia measurements, and apparent nutrient retention in broiler chicks. Dietary treatments contained 3 concentrations of Ca (0.4, 1.0, or 1.6% of the diet) with NPP concentrations either constant at 0.45% or adjusted to maintain a Ca-to-NPP ratio of 2:1 (6 treatments total). No growth performance outcomes were influenced by either Ca concentration or the Ca-to-NPP ratio. Maintaining a constant 2:1 Ca-to-NPP ratio, tibia break force and ash improved as Ca and NPP concentrations increased. Moreover, apparent retention of Ca decreased with increasing Ca concentration and apparent retention of P reduced as the concentrations of Ca and NPP increased. In Experiment 3, the effects of supplementing exogenous phytase in diets of varying Ca and NPP concentrations on growth performance, tibia and organ P concentrations, and apparent nutrient digestibility and retention were evaluated in broiler chicks. Chicks received 1 of 6 dietary treatments that consisted of [control diet with 1.0% Ca and 0.5% NPP; mineral matrix 1 with reductions of 0.15% NPP and 0.16% Ca compared with control; and mineral matrix 2 with reductions of 0.21% NPP and 0.23% Ca compared with control] and phytase supplementation (0 or 1,500 FTU/kg). Phytase supplementation increased BW gain, however, feed efficiency was not influenced by mineral matrix, phytase addition, or their interaction. Feed intake was quadratically influenced by the mineral matrix, but there was no effect of phytase or their interaction. The impact of phytase on tibia ash varied among the dietary mineral matrices, and tibia P content was highest in the control dietary treatment. In contrast to tibia P, concentrations of P in muscle, liver, and spleen were not influenced by dietary treatment. Various interactions among mineral matrix and phytase supplementation were observed for apparent ileal nutrient digestibility and apparent retention values. Overall, results of this research demonstrates that Ca and NPP concentrations, as well their ratio, influenced broiler growth performance, apparent nutrient digestibility and retention, and bone responses in broiler chicks.
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-08-01The student, Alyson Gautier, accepted the attached license on 2016-07-19 at 09:44.The student, Alyson Gautier, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-07-19 at 10:34.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-07-19 at 15:50.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10009 on 2016-11-10 at 12:27:18Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-10T18:35:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
GAUTIER-THESIS-2016.pdf: 972258 bytes, checksum: ffd08782195fc9936ffd8ebf06d4aeb4 (MD5)
LICENSE.txt: 4211 bytes, checksum: b0f5dd719a9e45c70f1e128f70e1061f (MD5)
Previous issue date: 2016-07-19Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 95390
Lift date: 2018-11-10T18:35:44Z
Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemEmbargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 95390
Lift date: 2018-11-10T18:37:47Z
Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemEmbargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 95390
Lift date: 2018-11-10T18:39:22Z
Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemEmbargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 95390
Lift date: 2018-11-10T18:43:22Z
Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemU of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 95390 on 2018-11-11T10:15:36Z
- …
