205 research outputs found
The Contribution of Outer HI Disks to the Merging Binary Black Hole Population
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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
2015 MayX in New Zealand
No full textMayX in New Zealand now showing in Hipp Hall Gallery. Starring Erica Blake, Katie Burke, Casey Carrell, Alyson Cotter, Abigail Dahlman, Dougie Dingess, Maddy Gentry, Lauren Girouard, Caroline Harris, Caroline Holley, Michele Manceor, Chandler Massey, Ashley McCollum, Sarah Noble, Madison Peeples, Lindy Perry, PollyRose Philpot, Alex Scott, Olivia Stevens, Britt Viergever, Madison Wolfe, George Lipscomb, and Katie Stover.https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/edu-nz/1000/thumbnail.jp
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
Case Study of the Contexts in Which Inclusive Leaders Learn Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions to Lead Inclusive Schools
No full textThis case study was implemented to better understand how leaders of inclusive schools develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to improve schooling for all students. Inclusive leaders find that leadership preparation programs provide theoretical knowledge that is only minimally useful to them when they are faced with the day-to-day complexities of leading inclusive schools. The most important learning takes place through “trial by fire” on the job. They learn through experiencing critical incidents which occur over both the short and long term. These critical incidents have been categorized through this study as acute and chronic critical incident. Additionally, significant learning occurs through mentorship with seasoned leaders who have themselves learned to successfully lead inclusive schools
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
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