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Gardner-Webb University Theatre Department Presents “Doubt” Oct. 3-7
No full text“Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty,” according to the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play “Doubt.” The mystery-drama, written by John Patrick Shanley, will be presented by the Gardner-Webb University Theatre Department Oct. 3-6 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 7 at 2:30 p.m. in the Millennium Playhouse, located in the Communication Studies Hall. The play is set in the fictional St. Nicholas Church School in New York City during the fall of 1964.
Youtube: Gardner-Webb Theatre Arts Presents Doubt Fall 2012https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/2772/thumbnail.jp
Gardner-Webb University Theatre to Hold Open Auditions
No full textThe Gardner-Webb School of Performing and Visual Arts is extending an open invitation for auditions for the drama “Doubt” on Monday, Aug. 27 in the Millennium Theatre, located in the Communication Studies Hall. “Doubt”, a parable, is a 2004 play by John Patrick Shanley, set in the fictional St. Nicholas (Catholic) Church School, located in the Bronx, N.Y., during the fall of 1964. The story centers on a beloved priest, Father Flynn, who is accused of a crime, and the school’s vigilant principal, Sister Aloysius, who is caught in the middle of the controversy.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/2801/thumbnail.jp
Interview with Nicholas Christopher, author of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City
No full textInterview with Nicholas Christopher, author of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American Cit
Visual acuity, eye movements, motion sickness and the illusion of motion, with optokinetic stimuli
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Resurrecting the Author
No full textPresentation of Nicholas Wolterstorff\u27s Paper Resurrecting the Author with time after for questions beginning at 18:00
The cult of St Nicholas in medieval Italy
No full textSt Nicholas was one of the most popular saints in medieval Italy. His cult attracted the attention
of popes, kings and emperors, and his shrine at Bari became an important international pilgrimage
destination. This thesis asks how the cult of St Nicholas came to be so widespread and popular in
Italy, and why the saint attracted the attention of diverse groups and individuals.
This thesis is structured around four chapters. The first demonstrates that through a
process of Latinisation the cult of St Nicholas became integrated within Italian literary traditions
and within a new spiritual era. Chapter Two reveals that this Latinisation also occurred within the
saint’s iconography. Chapters Three and Four are case studies of the cult in Puglia and Venice,
locations which claimed possession of the saint’s relics. These case studies show that the general
developments that the cult of St Nicholas underwent in Italy, identified in Chapters One and Two,
did not apply universally. Instead, the presence of the saint’s relics resulted in a different profile
of the saint in Bari and Venice. Through the process of Latinisation, the cult of St Nicholas
became updated and remained relevant for its new Italian audience; Chapters Three and Four
show alternative ways that the cult of St Nicholas gained widespread popularity.
This thesis presents for the first time an iconographical study of St Nicholas in Italian art,
which develops existing research of the saint’s Byzantine iconography. Chapter Four presents a
profile of the cult of St Nicholas in Venice in the Middle Ages, which is a significant oversight in
the literature. The thesis uses a variety of visual and textual sources, in particular fresco and
altarpiece representations, archival documents from Venice and Rome (including the Apostolic
Visitations), and under-exploited contemporary and antiquarian Venetian sources
Using Ambient Seismic Noise to Determine Short Period Phase Velocities and Shallow Shear Velocities in Young Oceanic Lithosphere
No full textUsing 10 broadband ocean bottom seismometers from the 11-month-long deployment of the Gravity Lineations Intraplate Melting Petrologic and Seismologic Expedition (GLIMPSE) passive seismic experiment located in the south central Pacific, we have estimated the seismic impulse responses from ambient seismic noise for 45 station-to-station paths. The raw impulse responses show moveout with station-to-station distance, and there is a trend of decreasing signal-to-noise ratios as the station-to-station distance increases. The decrease in signal-to-noise ratio is expected as a smaller range of azimuths of propagating surface waves will contribute constructively to the cross-correlated signal with increasing distance, although scattering may also play a role in the coherence of seismic noise at periods less than 16 sec. From these station-to-station paths, we determined group velocities for the fundamental mode Rayleigh waves of a 2–16-sec period and the second mode Rayleigh wave of a 3.5–7-sec period. We calculate phase velocities for the fundamental mode and second mode Rayleigh wave over the same period range as the group velocities by applying a time variable filter to the noise correlation function and carefully unwrapping the phase spectrum of the resulting filtered impulse responses. Within this period range, there is a transition from waves at short periods, whose energy is mostly in the water column, to waves sensitive to crustal and upper mantle structure. The phase velocities for the second mode, which have peak sensitivity in the lower crust and shallow mantle, show evidence for azimuthal anisotropy. The average phase velocities of the station-to-station paths in the east–west direction are 2% faster than the north–south paths at the 4–7-sec period, consistent with the fast directions determined from SKS wave splitting measurements of N100°E. By incorporating the short-period fundamental and higher mode phase velocities from ambient seismic noise with longer period (16–100 sec) fundamental mode Rayleigh-wave phase velocities determined from teleseismic events, we inverted for the average crustal and upper mantle shear velocity structure and water column depth and velocity. The predicted phase velocities are extremely sensitive to the water column compressional velocity. We determined the average water column velocity to be 1466±3 m/sec, in contrast to the average of 1500 m/sec estimated from shipboard measurements weighted according to the Rayleigh-wave sensitivity kernel. The difference may be due to the dispersive effects of scattering by bathymetry or by the thin variable thickness sediment layer. The inversion also produces a Vp/Vs ratio of 1.88 for the crust. This method can provide useful information about the shallow seismic structure of the oceanic crust and uppermost mantle and is an important complement to longer period studies. <br/
Heritability and Linkage Analysis of Appendicitis Utilizing Age at Onset
No full textAppendicitis usually afflicts the young, but there is a large tail in the distribution of onset age. The genetics of this disease are still not well understood. A heritability analysis and genome wide linkage analysis of a large twin dataset was undertaken. Treating age of onset of appendicitis as a censored survival trait revealed a heritability of 0.21, and found evidence of linkage to Chromosome 1p37.3. Author(s): Christopher Oldmeadow 1 * | Kerrie Mengersen 2 | Nicholas Martin 3 | David L. Duffy
Eye movement, vection and motion sickness with foveal and peripheral vision
No full textBACKGROUND:
Both motion sickness and the illusion of self-motion (i.e., vection) can be induced by moving visual scenes. The results of a previous study imply that motion sickness is primarily dependent on visual motion in foveal vision while vection is primarily dependent on motion in peripheral vision. HYPOTHESIS:
It was hypothesized that similar motion sickness would be produced when tracking a single moving dot and a full screen of moving dots, but that vection would be greater when tracking multiple moving dots. METHOD:
Sixteen subjects viewed moving images presented on a virtual reality head-mounted display. In one condition a single dot moved from left to right at 27 degrees x s(-1) over a distance of 18 degrees before returning instantly to its starting point. This motion was repeated continuously. In a second condition, five horizontal rows of dots, each 18 degrees apart, moved continuously across the screen at 27 degrees x s(-1); subjects were instructed to track each dot in the central row as it passed. RESULTS:
In both conditions, there were nystagmic eye movements with an approximate amplitude of 18 degrees at 27 degrees x s(-1). Vection differed significantly between the two conditions, with more vection in the condition with five rows of dots. Subjects experienced motion sickness symptoms with both the single moving dot and the five rows of dots, with no significant difference in sickness between the two conditions. Subject ratings of motion sickness and vection were not correlated with each other in either of the two conditions. CONCLUSIONS:
Motion sickness and vection can vary independently. Vection appears to be influenced by peripheral vision, as there was an increase in vection with full-field stimulation. Motion sickness induced by moving visual scenes may be influenced by foveal visual stimulation or by eye movements, as these were the same in both conditions
Volume 42 (2010)
No full textThe 2010 edition of The Broad River Review was edited by C. V. Davis. The publication contains fiction, non-fiction, art, poetry, and photography. The cover was photographed by Justin Roper. The winner of the J. Calvin Koontz Poetry Award, given annually for a portfolio of poetry to a senior English major, is Nicholas Laughridge. The Broad River Review Editor\u27s Prizes in Fiction and Poetry are chosen among all submissions from Gardner-Webb University students. The prize in poetry was awarded to Jennifer Hart for her work titled, In August. The prize in fiction was awarded to Sarah Steadman for her work titled, In-Between Glory.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/brreview/1006/thumbnail.jp
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