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Explaining Mormonism: A Believing Skeptic’s Guide to the Latter-day Saint Worldview by Gregory Steven Dundas
No full textBYU Studies author Gregory Dundas has written a book aimed primarily at a non– Latter-day Saint audience to inform them about the beliefs, culture, and practices of the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dundas is an engaging writer who has a diverse background and whose research is both broad and thorough
Problems of text and reception: Mixail Zoscenko.
No full textMixail Zoscenko stands at the center of controversy. His critical reception in both the (former) Soviet Union and the West is dominated by incompatible images of author and work. He has been advanced as a pro-Soviet satirist, an anti-Soviet satirist, or an artist striving for maximum simplicity to meet the needs of the newly literate masses. Previous interpretations have generally promoted Zoscenko within one of these lines, seeking to define him through various political claims, yet it is my contention that this conflict is not primarily a question of literary politics. In my dissertation, I investigate how his texts' complexities and ambiguities generate this critical dissension. Given the noted indeterminacy of Zoscenko's texts--inconsistencies, contradictions and incongruencies on the linguistic and narrative planes--they resist/parody conventional strategies of semanticization. This tension compromises critical expectations that his work fulfills an essentially mimetic or "realistic" function as a "window" on early Soviet life and language. Two central elements of this ambiguity are his celebrated skaz, which complicates the normal procedures by which we may demarcate and hierarchize voices in a narrative, and the generic instability of his texts. By integrating analysis of these elements with examination of the numerous, yet relatively untouched, documents of his reception, I explore how his texts' value shifts within various critical paradigms. The dissension in his critical legacy constitutes a useful case study in order to examine the question of literary reception in the Soviet Union, a subject that rarely has been investigated outside of a political framework. My focus is on the reception of Zoscenko in the 1920s and 1930s, and, therefore, separate attention is devoted to two vital aspects of this question: the mass reader and the Socialist Realist context. However, reference is made to posthumous interpretations and to his legacy in the West in order to elucidate certain theoretical points. As a theoretical basis from which to understand the complexities of textual production and reception, I employ late formalist and Prague structuralist studies of the polysemic nature of the text, complemented by Mixail Baxtin's theories of double-voiced discourse.PhDSlavic Languages and LiteraturesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/103042/1/9303703.pdfDescription of 9303703.pdf : Restricted to UM users only
Issues in the Measurement of Metacognition- Contents
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1. A Process-Oriented Model of Metacognition: Links Between Motivation and Executive Functioning John G. Borkowski, Lorna K. S. Chan, and Nithi Muthukrishna...........................1
2. Assessing Metacognition and Self-Regulated LearningPaul R. Pintrich, Christopher A. Wolters, and Gail P. Baxter.........................43
3. Assessing Metacognition in Children and AdultsLinda Baker and Lorraine C. Cerro............................................................99
4. Assessing Metacognitive Knowledge Monitoring Sigmund Tobias and Howard Everson.......................................................147
5. Metacognition and Computer-Based Testing Gregory Schraw, Steven L. Wise, and Linda L. Roos................................223
6. Development of Grounded Theories of Complex Cognitive Processing: Exhaustive Within- and Between Study Analyses of Think-Aloud Data Michael Pressley....................................................................................262
7. Assessing Metacognition: Implications of the Buros Symposium Gregory Schraw .....................................................................................297
Author Index........................................................................................323
Subject Index.........................................................................................33
On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
No full textRecent literature and new data help determine plausible bounds to some key demographic differences between the poor and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the developing world's trend rate of"$1 a day"poverty reduction in the 1990s. However, in a neighborhood of plausible estimates, differential fertility-whereby poorer people tend also to have higher birth rates-has had a more than offsetting poverty-increasing effect. The net impact of differential natural population growth represents 10-50 percent of the trend rate of poverty reduction.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Services&Transfers to Poor,Safety Nets and Transfers,Rural Poverty Reduction,Health Indicators
Hardware model of a shipboard generator
No full textThesis (Nav. E. and S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2009.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 65).A hardware model of the Gas Turbine Generator (GTG) in use on the US Navy's DDG-51 Class Destroyer is constructed for use as a lab apparatus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES). The components of the hardware model include a 5 kilowatt three-phase generator; DC power supplies and motors that function as the prime mover; computer software to implement speed and voltage control; and an input-output interface board that passes measurement and controller signals to and from the software environment. A numerical Simulink model of the GTG is developed that provides speed response to a change in electrical loading. The GTG model takes into account basic physical characteristics of gas turbine generators and is tuned to provide a response similar to that of the destroyer's Allison 501-K34 GTG. An empirical open-loop model of the tabletop generator is also developed in Simulink and subsequently provided with closed-loop feedback control. Controller gains are adjusted such that the tabletop's Simulink model provides a response likened to the GTG model. Proportional and Integral (PI) control of the tabletop generator is implemented in the software environment. The tabletop generator's response to a certain electrical transient is compared to the GTG response predicted by the Simulink model. Recommendations to improve the response of the tabletop generator are made based on analysis of actual speed sensor noise.by Gregory L. Elkins.Nav.E.and S.M
Efficacy of arsenic exposure reduction via drinking water treatment systems
No full textArsenic, a known human carcinogen, exceeds the maximum contaminant level in New Jersey private wells at a higher percentage than any other contaminant with a primary drinking water standard. New Jersey’s drinking water standard for arsenic at 5 µg/L is currently the most protective in the world. Water treatment systems can remove arsenic from drinking water, either from the entire home (point-of-entry) or just at a single tap (point-of-use) for drinking and cooking. The goal of this research was to compare human exposure to arsenic between point-of-entry and point-of-use water treatment, by biomonitoring, to determine which level of treatment most effectively reduced arsenic exposure and dose from water at home to acceptable risk levels. The study recruited 53 subjects in 22 households obtaining arsenic water treatment, and five control subjects with little or no measurable arsenic in their water supply. The mean arsenic concentration in untreated water was 44 µg/L. Biomonitoring started before initiation of water treatment and continued for up to three years with samples analyzed at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute. The study determined that: 1) dietary arsenic can be a major confounder in arsenic biomonitoring studies; 2) arsenic speciation techniques are extremely valuable for arsenic biomonitoring studies; 3) sampling protocols and reference values for arsenic in urine and blood should be recommended; 4) arsenic water treatment systems are effective in reducing arsenic exposure from well water; 5) there is a measurable arsenic body burden after chronic exposure to arsenic in drinking water; 6) there is a two-compartment clearance of arsenic from urine, after cessation of ingesting the arsenic contaminated water; and 7) after nine months of water treatment, the adjusted mean inorganic-related arsenic concentrations in urine were significantly lower in the point-of-entry treatment group with a mean ± standard error of 2.7 ± 0.6 µg/g creatinine than in the point-of-use treatment group at 6.1 ± 0.7 µg/g creatinine. In conclusion, point-of-entry treatment of arsenic-contaminated well water should be recommended in preference to point-of-use.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Steven E. Spay
Embeddedness as Condition and Strategy in Contemporary Art and Cultural Production
No full textThis thesis examines the concept of ‘embeddedness’ as condition and strategy in contemporary art and cultural production. Identifying embeddedness as a motif of contextual proximity and a strategy in contemporary art, the thesis proposes immediacy to be the result of intrinsic mediation. The project’s main concern is how embeddedness is contextualised by the current conditions that authors and cultural producers engage with. The primary question is whether and how embeddedness can convey a critical relation to the mediation that it undertakes. These concerns inform and arise from my work as an artist, and my participation in events, some of which I organise. The project claims that embeddedness in art is a critical condition and an editorial concept or a strategic plan that can be set up by the artist.
The investigation begins by looking at conditions of embeddedness by focusing on concepts of subjectivity and by elaborating strategies that I call ‘auto-direction’. For example, concepts of subjectivity are taken up in relation to Richard Serra’s video Boomerang (1974), in which the performer Nancy Holt reflects on her own spoken words, which are fed back with a short delay via microphone and headphones into her ears. Auto-direction, introduced with the example of Steven Spielberg’s initiative of a video diary exchange project between Israeli and Palestinian children, describes the activity of the producer, who self-directs his situated presence. Taking up idioms of embeddedness from artists like Phil Collins, Christian Jankowski and Erik van Lieshout the project examines embeddedness through a comparative analysis between contemporary art, visual culture, media theory, sociology, art theory, psychoanalysis and philosophy. These practices lead to an identification of embeddedness as an author’s immanent exposure, a claim taken up through analysis of theoretical texts and literature by Rosalind Krauss, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Gregory Bateson, Hal Foster, Bernard Williams and Alfred North Whitehead
Flexible Global Carbon Pricing: A Backward-Compatible Upgrade for the Kyoto Protocol
No full textThe Kyoto Protocol’s approach of assigning emission targets, or “caps,” promises certainty that it cannot deliver, because it exacerbates problems with international cooperation and commitment. Global carbon pricing addresses these problems and, with less risk and more reward, can generate and sustain stronger policies. This paper proposes a system, “flexible global carbon pricing,” designed to replace the Kyoto Protocol. It provides backward-compatibility with the Kyoto Protocol by allowing un-modified cap and trade as one form of national carbon pricing. Instead of many national “caps,” the proposal sets a global target price for carbon and specifies a pair of incentives. A Pricing Incentive rewards nations that set their carbon price higher than the global target and penalizes nations that underachieve. These rewards and penalties sum to zero by design. The strength of the Pricing Incentive is adjusted automatically so that the global average carbon price converges to the global target price. A Clean Development Incentive (CDI), free from the gaming problems that plague the U.N.’s Clean Development Mechanism, encourages full participation by low-emission countries. An example, based on a $20 price target, causes transfers from the United States of only seven cents per capita per day. Nevertheless, India’s CDI receipts cover its compliance costs. The example shows that low costs can be guaranteed.Kyoto protocol,cap and trade,flexible global carbon pricing,international cooperation
Development of metalorganic molecular beam epitaxy for the growth of indium(0.53) gallium(0.47) arsenic/indium phosphide heterojunction bipolar transistors and quantum well optoelectronic devices
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Item is restricted indefinitely.Metalorganic molecular beam epitaxy (MOMBE) offers several potential advantages over molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) for the development of high-speed/reliability C-doped In\rm\sb{0.53}Ga\sb{0.47}As/InP heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs). Improvements in reproducibility of alloy composition and layer thickness for \rm In\sb xGa\sb{1-x}As and InP, which are afforded by MOMBE relative to MBE, offer clear advantages for manufacturing. The potential for reduction of the H passivation of C acceptors and substrate temperature sensitivity of the alloy composition, using CCl\sb4 as the C source, offers advantages relative to MOCVD. However, the lack of an efficient gaseous n-type dopant source limits the potential for scalability of MOMBE. This thesis describes recent work on the development of MOMBE for the growth of C-doped \rm In\sb{0.53}Ga\sb{0.47}As/InP HBTs. Issues relevant to obtaining abrupt heterointerfaces, the development of a new gaseous Si dopant source, SiBr\sb4, and the sources of H passivation of C acceptors in C-doped \rm In\sb{0.53}Ga\sb{0.47}As have been investigated.The use of a common Ta-baffled hydride cracker for the dissociation of AsH\sb3 and PH\sb3 at 950\sp\circC was found to result in the generation of As\sb2, P\sb2, and H\sb2. However, severe group V memory effects were observed for P and As. Significantly faster switching was obtained, by using separate open Ta tube crackers. Single and multiple quantum well \rm In\sb{0.53}Ga\sb{0.47}As/InP heterostructures containing quantum wells as narrow as 10 A exhibit intense photoluminescence and ninth order satellite peaks in resolution x-ray diffraction rocking curves.SiBr\sb4 has been demonstrated as an extremely efficient gaseous Si doping source which is compatible with MOMBE. Net electron concentrations of n = \rm2.3\times10\sp{20}\ cm\sp{-3} have been obtained in InP grown at 450\sp\circC without morphology degradation. Specific contact resistances of \rm\rho\sb c=6\times10\sp{-8}\ \Omega-cm\sp{2} have been obtained by using nonalloyed Ti/Pt/Au contacts directly to these heavily-doped InP layers. \rm In\sb{0.53}Ga\sb{0.47}As/InP HBTs using InP contact layers with comparably low specific contact resistances have been demonstrated. A blue shift in the photoluminescence peak energy of approximately 265 meV is observed for InP layers doped to n = \rm7\times10\sp{19}\ cm\sp{-3}.Carbon doping of \rm In\sb{0.53}Ga\sb{0.47}As in gas source molecular beam epitaxy and MOMBE using CCl\sb4 has been investigated. Net hole concentrations of p = \rm1.8\times10\sp{20}\ cm\sp{-3} have been obtained with negligible H passivation for hole concentrations as high as p = \rm8\times10\sp{19}\ cm\sp{-3}. The degree of H passivation was found to be highly dependent on the AsH\sb3 cracking temperature with an enhanced effect at substrate temperatures {<5}00\sp\circC and for reduced H\sb2 pumping speed.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:26:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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"Have you really read Job? Read him, read him again and again" : Kierkegaard, Vischer, and Barth on the book of Job
No full textThis thesis explores the reception history of the book of Job, particularly in Søren
Kierkegaard’s Three Upbuilding Discourses and Repetition, Wilhelm Vischer’s “Hiob, ein
Zeuge Jesu Christi,” and Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. It examines the hermeneutical
presuppositions of these three scholars and how the scholars themselves fit into the history
of interpretation, showing that they use a post-critical allegorical interpretation in order to
explore the freedom of God and humanity.
Chapter one offers a defense of using reception history in biblical studies. By
walking through Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories on great time and the chronotope, it argues that
great texts continue to live and grow even after their completion and canonization. During
this “afterlife,” their meaning expands as more readers participate in their interpretations.
Chapter two examines the afterlife of the book of Job in the hands of Christian exegetes,
focusing on allegory and freedom in the interpretations by Gregory the Great, Thomas
Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Immanuel Kant. Chapter three looks at the
unusual and rich interpretations of Job by Kierkegaard—the autonymous upbuilding
discourse on Job’s response to his suffering in the prologue and the novella Repetition as an
interpretation of the dialogue between Job and his friends. Chapter four examines the
interpretation of the book of Job in Vischer’s mini-commentary. Vischer sees the character
of Job as one whose devotion to God goes beyond the laws that God purveys and the
doctrine that seeks to explain God. Referring specifically to the works of Kierkegaard and
Vischer, Karl Barth’s work on Job—the focus of chapter five—sees the book of Job as
illustrative of Jesus Christ’s relationship to God and humanity. All three scholars
incorporated allegory while ruminating on the freedom of God in the book of Job. The final
chapter evaluates their interpretations while addressing their similarities and differences
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