96 research outputs found
USU Extension Group
No full textSteven Cox, center front row, county agent for the USU Extension, is pictured with a group of extension students. His wife Ronda is seated to the left of him. Others identified are Lois Merrell, Shane Southam, Brent Morrill, Evan Harrison, Steven Harrison and Lynette Morrill
The Structure of the School Social Behavior Scales: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis
No full textThe School Social Behavior Scales (SSBS; Merrell 1993a) is a behavior rating instrument designed for use by teachers and other school personnel in evaluating social and antisocial behavior of children in grades K through 12. Published psychometric data for the SSBS have been promising to date. Although exploratory factor-analytic techniques were used to define its subscales, a confirmatory methodology has not been used with this measure. The present research sought to confirm the structure of the SSBS using the national data collected for the standardization and norming of the instrument. The standardization sample was split to allow for post-hoc model fitting, if necessary. The initial model tested for both the Social Competence and Antisocial Behavior scales was in line with the scoring recommendations of the author, and results suggested some model mis-specification. Alternative models were tested to identify a model that would provide a better fit to the data. After identification of an acceptable model, the invariance of the new model was tested with the remaining half of the standardization sample. Generally, both scales performed well and resulted in models very similar to those originally proposed by the author of the instrument. These findings support the continued use of the SSBS for both clinical and research purposes. Results are discussed from the perspectives of screening, assessment, and intervention planning with children and youth in K-12 educational settings
The Archaeology of Cahokia's West Plaza. Excavations in the Merrell Tract.
No full textWith more than 100 earthen pyramids, Cahokia was the largest polity of pre-Columbian
North America. Located a few kilometres from present day St. Louis (MO), it rose to be the greatest Mississippian settlement by the middle of the 11th century; until its abandonment at the end of the 14th century. Even though Cahokia is the largest
Mississippian settlement, the archaeological investigations led at the site have interested
only a small part of its extension. This dissertation focuses on the extensive excavations
led in the Merrell Tract by the University of Bologna from 2011 to 2016. The investigations
were carried out in one of the main public areas of the site, the West Plaza, and involved,
for the first time at Cahokia, the employment of photogrammetry and GIS as methods of
data management, recording and post processing. Along with the description of the
results obtained during the University of Bologna’s excavations, the author dedicated part
of the work to the collection of data from previous excavations led in the area since 1920s.
Through the comparative analysis of the data recovered, the author intends to propose
new hypothesis concerning the settlement dynamics and use of space of the area and its
contextualization in the wider picture of the history of this Mississippian centre
El ensayo latinoamericano de escritoras: Asuntos de género literario, identidad femenina y concientización por la escritura
No full textAt the end of the twentieth century an increasing interest developed toward recovering Latin American women\u27s essays from their hidden place in the literary canon. New critical perspectives and anthologies by Latin American, Spanish and American scholars shed light to the study of a genre that traditional criticism had hitherto denied a place. This dissertation examines feminist conceptions of the essay and their influence in the use of the genre by Latin American women writers. Through the essay, women formulate their own understanding of their socio-cultural reality and their personal feminine experience and confront the hegemonic concept of history. They convey a message to other women exhorting them to further their education and to write their personal experiences as a means to women\u27s emancipation in Latin America. The legacy of patriarchal canons, having marginalized the women\u27s writing as female, subjective, and therefore incapable of conveying universal truth has presented barriers and challenges to the authorial “I” of the essayist as subject and author of the text. By relating all of this to contemporary postmodern theoretical perspectives this work addresses issues on writing, gender and genre, subjectivity and cultural identity and it proposes alternatives for a more regionally oriented Latin American literary criticism. It analyses the essays by four women writers of different times: Zoila Aurora Cáceres (1890), Victoria Ocampo (1930), Rosario Castellanos (1960) and Rosario Ferre (1970). These women directly intervened in the traditionally masculine domain of literary and journalistic writing, challenged the established models about their role and function as female subjects and agents in Latin America, and by developing a feminist consciousness, contributed to the region\u27s cultural history of feminism. This dissertation also reviews the extent to which these theories speak to the material reality of other Latin American women writers. This leads to a consideration of the region\u27s writers\u27 cultural, historical, and personal circumstances with respect to race, class, and gender. The study\u27s thrust, then, calls attention to the importance of the essay as a means of women\u27s voice. As a conclusion, it suggests a new reading of the Latin American feminine reality, from the region\u27s particularity
The relationship between literature and law: A study of Latin American texts
No full textThere is a long tradition of interrelationships between Literature and Law. Classical tragedy has provided a forum in Western philosophy for the discussion of political theory. The idea of natural law is developed in Antigone by Sophocles. A similar theme is explored in Jorge Andrade\u27s Pedreira das Almas. Applying Hegel\u27s theory of tragedy, natural law and positive law are seen as antithetical values in the play, which in the end produce a synthesis. Agustin Cuzzani\u27s Una libra de carne approaches the legal question from an expressionistic and Brechtian frame of reference. It presents the trial of an employee who, under financial duress, repeats the pact made in Shakespeare\u27s The Merchant of Venice. El Gigante Amapolas by Juan Bautista Alberdi is a political farce relating to Rousseau\u27 s concept of the social contract. Both literary critics and law professors have evaluated the influence of literary theory on the interpretation of legal texts. Sanford Levinson examines the implications of the running debate among literary theorists about the conditions of shared meaning. However, this dissertation emphasizes the main differences between utterances in Literature and Law by applying the speech act theory. Machado de Assis\u27s Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas illustrates many of these differences. The idea of a contract is applied to the reading of literary texts, as an implicit agreement between the textualized author and the reader. The study of the short story Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote by Jorge Luis Borges explains the process of the contract
New species of Spirotrichonympha from reticulitermes and the relationships among genera in Spirotrichonymphea (Parabasalia)
No full textSpirotrichonymphea is a class of hypermastigote parabasalids defined by their spiral rows of many flagella. They are obligate hindgut symbionts of lower termites. Despite more than 100 yr of morphological and ultrastructural study, the group remains poorly characterised by molecular data and the phylogenetic positions and taxonomic validity of most genera remain in question. The genus Spirotrichonympha has been reported to inhabit several termite genera, including Reticulitermes, Coptotermes, and Hodotermopsis. The type species for this genus, Spirotrichonympha flagellata, was described from Reticulitermes lucifugus but no molecular data are yet available for this species. In this study, three new Spirotrichonympha species are described from three species of Reticulitermes. Their molecular phylogenetic position indicates that the genus is not monophyletic, as Spirotrichonympha species from Coptotermes, Paraneotermes, and Hodotermopsis branch separately. In contrast, the genus Holomastigotoides is monophyletic, as demonstrated using new sequences from Holomastigotoides species. The presence of Holomastigotoides in Prorhinotermes and the distinct phylogenetic positions of Spirotrichonympha from Reticulitermes and Coptotermes are consistent with a previously proposed symbiont fauna replacement in the ancestor of Reticulitermes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Peer reviewedfinal article publishedCoptotermeslower termitegut symbiontRhinotermitidaeProrhinotermesParaneotermesHeteroterme
The Geographic Pattern and Traffic Problems of Warren, Ohio
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Geography, Kent State University, Kent, Ohi
Borges ⋄ Freud ⋄ Lacan: Los senderos bifurcados del deseo
No full textThis dissertation examines the notions of reality, time, and writing as subjective constructions present in the epistemological and literary compositions of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, all examined in accordance to the theoretical approaches of psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan. This work concentrates on Borges\u27s metaphysical essays and short stories which reveal the double façade of reality: Reality is structured as a fictional work and all fictional texts resemble, in one way or another, the truth of reality. Hence, truth is always a subjective and ideological construction. In addition to any objectivity it might evince, throughout my work, reality is equated with psychic reality, dream work, and the mirror stage. It also analyzes the issue of time as a logical, intrasubjective construction, never as a chronological stance. Finally, Borges writing is used as a vehicle to unveil the truth that resides in the depths of the human unconscious. My research shows that literature is not just a fantastic source of imagination; but on the contrary, it is a way to reveal the intricacies of the human mind and its impact on cultural representations. The post-psychoanalytical approach used in this dissertation not only expands the existing models of reading Borgesian works and fantastic literature in general, but also leads to create new ways to deconstruct reality and find truth in the illusory moments of life, such as dreams, hallucinations, and the chaotic relationships of the subject with herself. My in-depth analysis addresses a series of relevant questions concerning (a) the components of which life, reality, and truth are composed; (b) the significance of time as an instance to reveal the precipitation of truth in subjectivity and cultural representations; and (c) the act of writing as an inherent action in the formation of sexual identity and configuration. Therefore, by challenging the recurrent frameworks which tend to consider Borges\u27s writing as fantastic and metaphysical literature, my dissertation allies itself with innovative modes of exploring the blurred boundaries between the so-called real and the illusory, thus invoking a third space in which reality is not the opposite of the unreal, but its other side
The Effects of the "Ike Dike" barriers on Galveston Bay
No full textIn 2008 Hurricane Ike flooded large parts of the barrier islands in front of the Galveston Bay near Houston, Texas. The storm surge also entered the bay through the inlets causing great damage along the bay and the port of Houston. Because of the high probability that a hurricane would strike again the “Ike Dike” was developed. The concept consists of heightening and extending the floodwall on Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. Barriers will be placed at the San Luis Pass and Bolivar Roads inlet whereas the Rollover Pass might be closed completely. The Bolivar Roads barrier will be a combination between a floodgate and a lifting gate structure. During non-storm conditions, when the gates are open, the flow area through the inlets are expected to reduce up to 40-60% due to the barriers. The reduction of flow area can cause a decrease of the tidal prism and tidal range. Also current velocities are expected to increase near the barriers and decrease in the main bay. The residence time of fresh water in the bay is expected to increase and the salinity to decrease. The reduction of the tidal prism, tidal range and current speeds can cause a redistribution of the sediment from marshes and flats to the channels within the bay. The blocking of sediment from the Mexican Gulf by the barriers can further enhance this. Changes of the hydrodynamics, water quality and morphology in the bay could potentially result in loss of habitat and disturb the ecology. A 2D hydrodynamic model has been created in order to investigate the impact of the barriers on the tidal prism, tidal range and circulation in the bay. The morphology and water quality of the bay are investigated qualitatively using literature, reference projects and the outcomes of the 2D model. It is concluded that a 40-60% decrease of the flow area at the Bolivar Roads entrance affects the hydrodynamics of the Galveston Bay. To mitigate or prevent these effects the design could be altered such that the flow area is reduced by less 20%, because the impacts of such a barrier are relatively small. Another mitigating solution could be to build compartment dams to preserve the tidal range.Coastal EngineeringHydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Creating Lua : An Exploration of the Actor's Process for the Production of Travels with Lua at the Turn of the Century
No full textvi, 120 p.The author describes her experience preparing and performing the role of the Victorian Era leader of the Bahai faith, Lua Getsinger in the play Travels with Lua at the Turn of the Century
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