64 research outputs found
Celebrity One-Word Anagrams
No full textDid you know that guitar legend ERIC CLAPTON is a NARCOLEPTIC? Or that singer BRITNEY SPEARS is a member of the PRESBYTERIANS? Or that actress MEG RYAN hails from GERMANY? Well, actually, such observations are only true loglogically; these are examples of famous people whose combined first and last names can be anagrammed into a single English word
Speech Acts in Intercultural Communication: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Politeness Strategies
No full textAbstract
Purpose: The general objective of this study was to analyze how different cultures use speech acts and politeness strategies in everyday communication.
Methodology: The study adopted a desktop research methodology. The study relied on already published studies, reports and statistics. This secondary data was easily accessed through the online journals and library.
Findings: The findings reveal that there exists a contextual and methodological gap relating to speech acts in intercultural communication. Preliminary empirical review revealed that social media significantly transformed politeness strategies in intercultural communication, shifting towards greater informality and directness compared to traditional face-to-face interactions.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study recommended expanding politeness theory to include digital communication contexts, as social media’s informality challenged traditional models of politeness
Lateral Fluxes Drive Basal Melting Beneath Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, West Antarctica
No full textThwaites Glacier is one of the fastest-changing ice-ocean systems in Antarctica. Basal melting beneath Thwaites' floating ice shelf, especially around pinning points and at the grounding line, sets the rate of ice loss and Thwaites' contribution to global sea-level rise. The rate of basal melting is controlled by the transport of heat into and through the ice–ocean boundary layer toward the ice base. Here we present the first turbulence observations from the grounding line of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf. We demonstrate that contrary to expectations, the turbulence-driven vertical flux of heat into the ice–ocean boundary layer is insufficient to sustain the basal melt rate. Instead, most of the heat required must be delivered by lateral fluxes driven by the large-scale advective circulation. Lateral processes likely dominate beneath the most unstable warm-cavity ice shelves, and thus must be fully incorporated into parameterizations of ice shelf basal melting
Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms and Phytoplankton Nutrient Limitation in a Pair of Hypereutrophic Reservoirs in the Red Cedar River Watershed
No full textApplied Science: Biology ConcentrationEutrophication caused by nutrient pollution results in cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms which produce toxins and harm water quality. Western Wisconsin's long history of agriculture and naturally abundant phosphate in the soil led to an excess of nutrients in lakes and associated algae blooms (Fig. 1, A River Runs Through Us). Limiting nutrients are in lower supply than demanded by primary producers and watershed management for phosphorus should promote phosphorus limitation in lake phytoplankton
Triangle Journal, volume 1, number 8
No full textEditor: Rebekah Hart. Editorial Review Board: Rusty Collins, Jamie Griffin, Herb Zeman. Contributors: Chris Balton, Will Batts, Britney Baygents, Echo Bites, William Castle, DDS, Jonathan Cole, Sonia Garner, Jamie Griffin, Alix Hewlett, Erin Kay, Edit Love, Mark Martin, Keith Mitchell, Len Piechowski, Chuck Saylor, Tommy Simmons, Carl Smith, Randy Tarkington, Casey Williams, Rohbi Yow. Staff Photographer: Herb Zeman. Office Facilities: Holy Trinity Community Church. National Advertising: Rivendell MediaSpecial thanks to Rhodes College and the Paul Barret Jr. Library for providing initial scanning of this collection.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-outmemphis5/1007/thumbnail.jp
No One Left Behind: Forensic Anthropology In The Community
No full textForensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology are subdisciplines of the field of Physical Anthropology. Forensic Anthropology deals with the study of human remains in the medico-legal context, while Bioarchaeology focuses on human remains and their excavation within the archaeological record. This historic burial case came to the University of Montana through the initiated request of a citizen in an effort to identify his relatives’ remains by correlating our findings with family records before being re- located to another cemetery. The remains were originally exhumed by Beaverhead County and transported to the Montana State Crime Lab in Missoula before being transferred to the University of Montana Forensic Anthropology Lab (UMFAL) for analysis. They were temporarily curated at UM during the analysis and have subsequently been sent back to the citizen, along with our findings, for reburial.
Standard Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeological methods were used in this analysis. In order to determine the sex of the individual, aspects of the cranium, pelvis, and upper arm bones were examined and findings were verified using well documented and peer- reviewed regression formulae and statistical analyses including the use of FORDISC 3.1. Living stature was estimated by taking measurements of the long bones with an osteometric board and calculated using known and accepted mathematical formulas. Age-at-death was found by assessments of the ectocranial sutures, dental patterns, and known changes that occur to certain features of the pelvis. Ancestral estimations were made using morphoscopic analysis of the cranium as well as by taking craniometric measurements and then employing statistical analysis with FORDISC 3.1. Trauma and pathology analyses were also performed and the findings corroborated with Dr. Aldo Fusaro of the Montana State Crime Lab in Missoula. The artifacts that were transported with the human remains were cataloged and Archaeology faculty from UM were consulted in an effort to help ensure the accuracy of findings. This case is a great example of combining different methods and techniques from multiple fields of Anthropology in order to identify a set of human remain
Diplomacy 2.0: The Future of Social Media in Nation Branding
No full textThe importance of social media as a tool of public diplomacy has gained traction in U.S. foreign policy initiatives. The Obama administration’s creation of “Diplomacy 2.0” has brought the use of Twitter and other social media sites to the front line of public diplomacy practices. This paper looks at why social media are an effective tool for two-way communication and how it can enhance U.S. public diplomacy initiatives. The author examines case studies of successful implementation of Twitter diplomacy and the use of Twitter for crisis management. Finally, the author concludes and discusses policy prescriptions, including Twitter implementation, relevant to the U.S. Department of State
Land Use and Conservation Practices Affect Stream Water Quality in the Red Cedar Watershed
No full textFreshwater CollaborativeNutrient pollution (nitrogen and phosphorus) results in harmful blue-green algae blooms in surface water across much of the United States causing a variety of environmental, recreational, and potential health issues (EPA 2023). The Red Cedar Watershed is a prime example of this widespread problem. Numerous water bodies throughout the watershed are designated as impaired as a result of nutrient runoff leading to harmful cyanobacteria blooms (WI DNR 2022). Nutrient rich runoff enters surface water from diffuse sources into headwater streams and ultimately flows into lakes Tainter and Menomin via the Hay and Red Cedar rivers
Entrainment and dynamics of ocean-derived impurities within Europa's ice shell
No full textAuthor Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2020. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 125(10),(2020): e2020JE006394, doi:10.1029/2020JE006394.Compositional heterogeneities within Europa's ice shell likely impact the dynamics and habitability of the ice and subsurface ocean, but the total inventory and distribution of impurities within the shell are unknown. In sea ice on Earth, the thermochemical environment at the ice‐ocean interface governs impurity entrainment into the ice. Here, we simulate Europa's ice‐ocean interface and bound the impurity load (1.053–14.72 g/kg [parts per thousand weight percent, or ppt] bulk ice shell salinity) and bulk salinity profile of the ice shell. We derive constitutive equations that predict ice composition as a function of the ice shell thermal gradient and ocean composition. We show that evolving solidification rates of the ocean and hydrologic features within the shell produce compositional variations (ice bulk salinities of 5–50% of the ocean salinity) that can affect the material properties of the ice. As the shell thickens, less salt is entrained at the ice‐ocean interface, which implies Europa's ice shell is compositionally homogeneous below ~1 km. Conversely, the solidification of water filled fractures or lenses introduces substantial compositional variations within the ice shell, creating gradients in mechanical and thermal properties within the ice shell that could help initiate and sustain geological activity. Our results suggest that ocean materials entrained within Europa's ice shell affect the formation of geologic terrain and that these structures could be confirmed by planned spacecraft observations.This study was supported by the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, grants NNX16AP43H S01 and NNX16AP43H S002. Britney Schmidt was additionally supported by the Europa Clipper Mission. Resources supporting this work were provided by the NASA High‐End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center.2021-03-2
Religion and the American Celebrity
No full text In American culture, is the celebrity a divine figure, or just another commodity in the marketplace? The author maps a series of strategies for the study of celebrities within the study of religion and America, focusing on the concomitant production of Britney Spears as a religious figure, a religious sacrifice, and a consumer product. </jats:p
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