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Predicting the Path to Recovery from Hurricane Katrina through the Lens of Hurricane Andrew and the Rodney King Riots
No full textHurricane Katrina caused the greatest damage of any hurricane in American history. We look at the rebuilding effort in New Orleans through the lens of two other disasters that occurred in 1992: Hurricane Andrew in Miami and the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. The rebuilding effort in New Orleans shares similarities with both events, combining the impact of a hurricane on infrastructure and private businesses, and the prospect of an uneven recovery biased against racial minorities and the economically disadvantaged. Using the experience of the King riots, our concern is that the rebuilding effort will be modest at best in poorer areas and slow to develop. There is the prospect of long lasting negative effects on income in poor neighborhoods. In wealthier areas, the pecuniary incentive for private business and citizens to rebuild is stronger, and in some cases the rebuilding effort can cause net income gains in response to a natural disaster of the scale of Hurricane Andrew. Based on these events, we recommend targeting a disproportionate amount of federal transfers towards poorer areas to stimulate growth.riots, hurricane, Rodney King, Katrina, disasters
Douglas Ross
No full textDouglas Ross, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rodney D. Ross, has been selected to participate in the annual Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. He attending Oklahoma Military Academy
UGA professor, accomplished author J. Douglas Toma dies at 47
No full textFormer adjunct professor J. Douglas Toma, who passed away on May 4, was featured in The Red and Black for his numerous contributions to the university as well as to the field of academe as a whole. The article appeared on 5/10/2011
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No full textI want to thank Rodney Douglas, my thesis advisor and inspirational source very much for his great support. His guidance was very gentle and he was very careful not to disturb my own intuition and approach to the field while providing guidelines and stopping me when I was getting too far off track. Rodney’s support went well beyond scientific supervision: He helped me gain self-confidence about my project and motivated me in difficult times. It was a great privilege for me to work on such a visionary project. A project that might not have found many homes at the current stage of technology – but the stimulating environment created by the professors Kevan Martin and Rodney Douglas in the Institute of Neuroinformatics have provided the perfect balance between pioneering spirit and grounding to reality. I would also like to thank Hava Siegelmann for accompanying me along the first part of my thesis and for the inspiring discussions we held. I am very happy that she and Christoph von der Malsburg can be the coexaminers of my thesis and I would like to thank them both very much for goin
Author, Actor and Audience- Figures: The Theatrical Metaphor in Jonsonian Comedy
No full textIn this thesis, I am concerned with Jonson's attitude toward theatricality in the world. His representation of a "centered self," especially in his poems, can be seen both as a part of the Renaissance concern with fashioning identity and as a protest against the theatrical role-playing it often caused. I am further interested in Jonson's conception of the nature of the theatre as a significant social activity. He employs the theatrical metaphor in Volpone, Epicoene, and The Alchemist in which clever author and actor-figures deceive less clever audience-figures who lack proper judgement. These characters reflect Jonson's awareness of his own engagement with his audience. The series of plays-within-the-play illustrate a theatre of deception and manipulation by which Jonson comes to measure both himself as a playwright and his art. This study also attempts to come to terms with the interesting discrepancy between Jonson the moralist and Jonson the artist. There is a certain tension created in Jonsonian comedy when we consider that he infuses his theatrical tricksters with immense comic vigour. The audience's ability to pass judgement on the author and actor-figures' subversive actions is complicated since they perform so amusingly and with such brilliance. As well, I trace the development of Jonson's thinking about the nature and function of comedy. With each successive play, I find that he subtly disguises his moral idealism in order to write successful comedy. A problem with this formula was that it tended to mask Jonson's identity as a morally purposeful writer. Increasingly, his comedies seemed to owe their success to a triumph of theatrical over moral values. Jonson remains a morally responsible dramatist who incorporates into his art the critical acceptance of the stage as a medium.Master of Arts (MA
Douglas College Human Anatomy & Physiology II
No full textThis textbook is a project under development by our Biology faculty to ultimately provide students with all the factual information they need to succeed in the BIOL 1203 and BIOL 1209 courses at Douglas College in BC, Canada. It was developed initially as an adaptation of the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology textbook, freely available online at http://cnx.org/content/col11496/latest/. The original adaptations of that OpenStax textbook for Douglas College are accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol11031109/ and https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol12031209/ In the first edition of the Douglas College adaptations the chapter and section numbers were left as they were in the version of the OpenStax A&P textbook, from which they were largely drawn. However, this second edition has been more extensively edited and rearranged to correspond with the curriculum used at Douglas College, so chapter and section numbers are no longer aligned specifically with the OpenStax A&P textbook.publishe
Review of the book Lyric philosophy, by J. Zwicky
No full textFinal article published.philosophyDr. John Bruin (Douglas College) reviews the book Lyric philosophy, by J. Zwicky (1992)
Pontomedullary reticular formation neurones : a study of microanatomy, transmitter sensitivity and connections from the substantia nigra pars reticulata
No full textBibliography: leaves 164-200.This investigation examines certain aspects of the medial pontomedullary reticular formation (PMRF) microanatom y and neurotransmission and also the connections between the substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr) and the PMRF in the rat. The anatomical distribution of the population of PMRF neurones was determined by combining physiological identification with electrical stimulation and retrograde HRP tract-tracing. A dual stimulating/deposition electrode was used to combine antidromic stimulation of PMRF cells with optimal retrograde labelling. 139 PMRF neurones were identified by means of their stereotaxic location and physiological criteria, namely; spontaneous discharge, polymodal sensory responses and large receptive fields
Review of the book How Fascism Works, by J. Stanley
No full textDr. Devin Z. Shaw (Douglas College) reviews the book How fascism works, by J. Stanley (2020).Final article published
Agriculture in the Palouse: a portrait of diversity
No full textBulletin no. 794 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension System, 1999-02-01. Author(s): Hall, Mike; Young, Douglas L.; Walker, David J
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