61 research outputs found
A Study of the Stability Constants of Some Transition-Metal Complexes of (Ethanediylidenetetrathio)Tetraacetic Acid
No full textThe main problem attacked in this investigation is the nature of the bonding in transition metal-ETTA [(Ethanediylidenetetrathio)tetracetic Acid] complexes, whether it occurs through sulfur, oxygen or both. The author feels the bonding occurs through both sulfur and oxygen and in a tetrahedral configuration a- bout the central metal ion. | In this investigation the synthesis of both 1st and 2:1 metal to ligand ratio complexes of transition metals Cobalt (II), Nickel (II), Copper (II), Iron (II), Manganese (II), and Zinc (II) with ETTA were attempted. The complexes were all isolated from an aqueous solution of the ligand and the metal carbonate. The complexes were sent out for C, H, and S analysis to confirm the nature of the complexes.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
A curse upon the nation: ideas about race, freedom, and extermination in antebellum America
No full textThis dissertation argues that ideas about black and white extermination in a war between the races influenced the development of slavery and precluded the acceptance of black freedom in America. Beyond the instrumentality of violence that we know was part of the master slave relationship, this study examines what impels white ideas in the eighteenth and nineteenth century that emancipation would ultimately lead to a race war. It attempts to demonstrate how ideas of extermination became part of the brutal legacy of racial control that sustained the institution of slavery and violence in the post-Civil War South. “A Curse Upon the Nation” traces the progression of these beliefs from the colonial period to the post Reconstruction era and how they traveled from Europe, Africa, and then to America, revealing that ideas about extermination became inextricably tied to race and freedom, making survival an important form of resistance for blacks in America.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Kay Lewi
ActionPoint: Bringing Together Computer Science and Psychology to Design an App to Prevent Cyberbullying
No full textabstract: Over the past several decades, cyberbullying has increasingly become one of the most dangerous threats to an adolescent’s mental health. Heather Springer, writing for the American Psychological Association, projects that roughly 33% of American teenagers are affected by cyberbullying while on social media (Springer). This startling percentage, compounded by an escalating need to combat cyberbullying’s negative impact on mental health, has catalyzed a wave of psychological research to explore the ways in which social media impacts teens. Over the years, researchers have produced a plethora of publications on the subject, inspiring families to pursue cyberbullying prevention for their loved ones. However, despite this surge in anti-cyberbullying interest, few researchers have attempted to coalesce these psychological findings with computer applications, and fewer still have sought to prevent cyberbullying through the strengthening of parent-teen relationships (Silva et al., 2019). Because of this, the BullyBlocker team, led by Dr. Yasin Silva and Dr. Deborah Hall, has spent the past couple years developing a mobile application called ActionPoint. Our team hopes that through this app, the risk of cyberbullying is drastically decreased and even prevented. (abstract
Metal music, masculinity, and mass shootings
No full textWhat can experiences of sexism and violence in music teach us about the imminent dangers perpetuated by hypermasculinity?Drawing from her own experience as a cis-woman in the realm of heavy metal music, author Deborah Kay Phillips critiques the genre’s role in amplifying hypermasculinity to the point of violence. Exploring the intersections of gender, gun culture, and mental health, Metal Music, Masculinity, and Mass Shootings follows Deborah’s first-hand experience of a metal concert mass shooting, and the resulting reflection on the issues surrounding metal music in the throes of PTSD. Deborah argues by comparing her own experiences to the academic research that the toxic, violent, and misogynistic foundations of the genre produce real world consequences that must be examined for transformation.Providing an important critique of a male-dominated genre and the repercussions of its toxic masculinity, this book is ideal reading for students of Feminism, Gender Studies, Music Studies, and Mental Health
Indonesia and the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area : why Indonesia did not prepare properly for the full implementation of ACFTA in 2010?
No full textThe full implementation of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area has come into effect since January 2010 but Indonesia does not gain significant benefits from it. Its industries suffer from production and profit decline as well as from termination of employment. Based on the author's study, the problem appears because the country did not have a strategy to face the ACFTA even though the government had 9 years to create one. This paper investigates why Indonesia did not prepare properly for the ACFTA full implementation. It first reviews the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area and Indonesia's experience within the ACFTA briefly. Then it will analyze the reasons behind Indonesian government's lack of preparation. Moreover, it will compare Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines’ experiences within the ACFTA to explain the importance of a strategy, a good coordination and an effective communication among the stakeholders or the related institutions to create a strategy. In the last chapter, the paper comes to the conclusion that the Indonesian government and ministries did not prepare properly to create a strategy because of their ignorance and lack of good coordination, the ministers' difference of ideas, nature and positions, and an ineffective communication from the central government to the business communities and to the parliament. In the end, the author also provides some policy recommendations and expected results from them.Master of Science (International Political Economy
Competition in network industries
No full textA wave of privatization is sweeping the globe, affecting about 100 countries and adding up to an average of more than $60 billion a year in business in the past decade. The challenge is to ensure that privatization yields clear benefits. Empirical studies suggest that ownership change by itself will often yield results, especially when it reduces government interference. But the regulation required in areas of natural monopoly can become overly intrusive and undermine progress. Real competition is required to generate sizable and lasting welfare improvements. But in infrastructure sectors, the introduction of competition is complicated by the existence of complex transport and communications networks. Debate about whether and how to introduce competition in network industries is sometimes heated. Certain questions recur: Will continuing regulation be needed? Whether and at what terms will private finance be forthcoming? The author argues that policymakers need to understand how competitive forces can be brought to bear in network industries. He explains the following: 1) common principles that are often lost in"technical"debates about specific sectors; 2) various methods for introducing competition in network industries; 3) competition for the market, and bidding for franchises; 4) options for competition for existing networks; 5) options for expanding competitive systems by decentralizing investment in new network capacity; 6) the option of allowing competition among multiple networks; and 7) the implications of these options for the sectors and for financing industry expansion. In case of doubt, he contends, policymakers should not restrict the entry of competitive firms in such networks. If they do, entry restrictions should be subject to an automatic test after a set period, and reviewed for costs and benefits.Economic Theory&Research,Decentralization,Markets and Market Access,Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Policies,Education for the Knowledge Economy,Economic Theory&Research,Access to Markets,Markets and Market Access,Environmental Economics&Policies
Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction
No full textTo ignore the strategies and structures through which stories are told, this thesis contends, is to neglect a vital dimension of their politics. Narratology provides productive analytical tools to illuminate the complex and varied mechanics of narrative form, yet it also bears the traces of its structuralist origins. Its value is therefore contingent upon its continuing reformulation as an expansive, pluralist and contextualized critical discipline. Participating in this expansion, this
thesis evidences the pertinence and vitality of some narratological models and the limitations of others. It opens up alternative critical possibilities by drawing upon insights within contemporary critical theory, from poststructuralist philosophy to transcultural feminism to
sociolinguistics. Above all, my interventions proceed from close readings of innovative fiction by women writers hitherto all but unrepresented in, and therefore potentially subversive of, existing models: Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Hiromi Goto, Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Erna Brodber, Dionne Brand, Aritha van Herk.
The first chapter formulates an in-between critical space where feminist and postmodernist theories of narrative intersect. It re-examines metafiction through the lens of auto(bio)graphical practice and feminist poststructuralist theories of self, and introduces the notions of folds and
echoes to describe specific structural innovations. Chapter Two examines unconventional uses of second-person address and reconsiders existing narratological approaches in their light, focusing on the `push and pull of narrative' that the `you' form enacts. Chapter Three addresses the insufficient attention paid to multiply narrated novels, theorizing them as `narrative communities' and introducing terms to describe different internal relations between narrators, relations that can often be read as determinedly 'democratic'. The final chapter contests the
hegemony of temporal models of narrativity by formulating a 'spatial poetics' that accounts both for how spatial structures can be agents of narrative change and for the complexity of textual constructions of space, which frequently exceed static definitions of 'setting'.
Running throughout is a reconception of narrative as located not with the figure of the narrator, but in relations of intersubjectivity. The narratological criticism formulated here works towards a situated ethics of reading responsive to the politics of writing: it is engaged, relational, and ever in process
Book Reviews
No full text'Social Security for the Excluded Majority: Case Studies of Developing Countries'; Editor: Wouter van Ginneken; Reviewer: Tim Conway; 'Taiwan's Development Experience: Lessons on the Roles of Government and Market'; Authors: Erik Thorbecke and Henry Wan; Reviewer: John W. Mellor; 'The Political Economy of Water Pricing Reforms'; Editor: Ariel Dinar; Reviewer: Paul Herrington; 'Risks and Reconstruction: Experiences of Resettlers and Refugees'; Editors: Michael M. Cernea and Christopher McDowell; Reviewer: Zo� Marriage; 'On the Move: Mobility, Land Use and Livelihood Practices on the Central Plateau in Burkino Faso'; Author: Mark Breusers; Reviewer: Karim Hussein; 'Urban Poverty in Africa: From Understanding to Alleviation'; Editors: Sue Jones and Nici Nelson; Reviewer: Sandra Wallman; 'Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America'; Editors: Deborah Bryceson, Christobal Kay and Jos Mooij; Reviewer: Jan Kees Van Donge; 'Development Under Adversity: The Palestinian Economy in Transition'; Authors: Ishac Diwan and Radwan A. Shaban; Reviewer: Emma Murphy; 'EU 'Global Player': The North-South Policy of the European Union'; Author: Mirjam van Reisen; Reviewer: Marjorie Lister;Review Books,
Decolonizing the Landscape Indigenous Cultures in Australia
No full textHow does one read across cultural boundaries? The multitude of creative texts, performance practices, and artworks produced by Indigenous writers and artists in contemporary Australia calls upon Anglo-European academic readers, viewers, and critics to respond to this critical question. Contributors address a plethora of creative works by Indigenous writers, poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and painters, including Richard Frankland, Lionel Fogarty, Lin Onus, Kim Scott, Sam Watson, and Alexis Wright, as well as Durrudiya song cycles and works by Western Desert artists. The complexity of these creative works transcends categorical boundaries of Western art, aesthetics, and literature, demanding new processes of reading and response. Other contributors address works by non-Indigenous writers and filmmakers such as Stephen Muecke, Katrina Schlunke, Margaret Somerville, and Jeni Thornley, all of whom actively engage in questioning their complicity with the past in order to challenge Western modes of knowledge and understanding and to enter into a more self-critical and authentically ethical dialogue with the Other. In probing the limitations of Anglo-European knowledge-systems, essays in this volume lay the groundwork for enter¬ing into a more authentic dialogue with Indigenous writers and critics. Beate Neumeier is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Cologne. Her research is in gender, performance, and postcolonial studies. Editor of the e-journal Gender Forum and the database GenderInn, she has published books on English Re¬naissance and contemporary anglophone drama, contemporary American and British-Jewish literature, and women's writing. Kay Schaffer, an Adjunct Professor in Gender Studies and Social Analysis at the University of Adelaide. is the author of ten books and numerous articles at the intersections of gender, culture, andliterary studies. Her recent publications address the Stolen Generations in Australia, life narratives in human-rights campaigns, and readings of contemporary Chinese women writers.Intro -- Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- SHARING ACROSS BOUNDARIES -- From Drill to Dance -- The Great Tradition: Translating Durrudiya's Songs -- Aboriginal Families, Knowledge, and the Archives: A Case Study -- Decolonizing Methodologyin an Arnhem Land Garden -- The 'Cultural Design' of Western Desert Art -- ETHICAL AND OTHER ENCOUNTERS -- Modernism, Antipòdernism, and Australian Aboriginality -- Material Resonance: Knowing Before Meaning -- Waiting at the Border: White Filmmaking on the Ground of Aboriginal Sovereignty -- Wounded Spaces/Geographies of Connectivity: Stephen Muecke's No Road (bitumen all the way), Margaret Somerville's Body/Landscape Journals, and Katrina Schlunke's Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre -- Recovering the Past: Entangled Histories in Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance -- READING TRANSFORMATIONS -- The Geopolitical Underground: Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, Mining, and the Sacred -- Identity and the Re-Assertion of Aboriginal: Knowledge in Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung -- Gallows Humour and Stereotyping in the Nyungar Writer Alf Taylor's Short Fiction: A White Cross-Racial Reading -- "And in my dreaming I can let go of the spirits of the past": Gothicizing the Common Law in Richard Frankland's No Way to Forget -- Performative Lives - Transformative Practices: Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, The 7 Stages of Grieving, and Richard Frankland, Conversations with the Dead -- Notes on ContributorsHow does one read across cultural boundaries? The multitude of creative texts, performance practices, and artworks produced by Indigenous writers and artists in contemporary Australia calls upon Anglo-European academic readers, viewers, and critics to respond to this critical question. Contributors address a plethora of creative works by Indigenous writers, poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and painters, including Richard Frankland, Lionel Fogarty, Lin Onus, Kim Scott, Sam Watson, and Alexis Wright, as well as Durrudiya song cycles and works by Western Desert artists. The complexity of these creative works transcends categorical boundaries of Western art, aesthetics, and literature, demanding new processes of reading and response. Other contributors address works by non-Indigenous writers and filmmakers such as Stephen Muecke, Katrina Schlunke, Margaret Somerville, and Jeni Thornley, all of whom actively engage in questioning their complicity with the past in order to challenge Western modes of knowledge and understanding and to enter into a more self-critical and authentically ethical dialogue with the Other. In probing the limitations of Anglo-European knowledge-systems, essays in this volume lay the groundwork for enter¬ing into a more authentic dialogue with Indigenous writers and critics. Beate Neumeier is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Cologne. Her research is in gender, performance, and postcolonial studies. Editor of the e-journal Gender Forum and the database GenderInn, she has published books on English Re¬naissance and contemporary anglophone drama, contemporary American and British-Jewish literature, and women's writing. Kay Schaffer, an Adjunct Professor in Gender Studies and Social Analysis at the University of Adelaide. is the author of ten books and numerous articles at the intersections of gender, culture, andliterary studies. Her recent publications address the Stolen Generations in Australia, life narratives in human-rights campaigns, and readings of contemporary Chinese women writers.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Ariadne's threads of identity : foreshadowing of social and individual identity theories in John Dos Passos' U.S.A.
No full textThe eminent biologist E.O. Wilson theorizes a unity of knowledge for all fields of study. Claiming that all knowledge springs from a basis in physics and continues to chemistry, biology, social sciences, and into humanities and even religion, Wilson then assumes that all knowledge can be connected. Many of these associations begin with people containing an understanding of two or more fields of study or even maintaining a general curiosity about life. American Modernist John Dos Passos is one artist who writes in a period full of new ideas and theories such as Existentialism and psychology. Centered on the mimetic ability for the author to capture concerns that define the human condition in order to bring forth some unknown truth, John Dos Passos writes a picture of America in his trilogy U.S.A. One basic struggle each of his twelve characters has is the challenge to define themselves. In this struggle we see the foreshadowing of future psychological studies: the beginnings of identity theory. What I shall demonstrate is that through the work of John Dos Passos, connections can be made between the U.S.A. characters of Mac, J. Ward Moorehouse, Eveline Hutchins, and March French and contemporary social identity theories. His writings precede very recent discoveries in the field of identity and allow links to be formed between the fields of humanities and the social sciences. By examining different theorists such as George McCall, Peter Burke, Michael Hogg, and Kay Reid, we see that Dos Passos writes about a society that constantly questions the development of self and identity. Due to his unique style, the development of identity, whether individual or social, is a natural product of the style
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