Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Emily Hoff, Homework for September 9, 2008

SYNOPSIS:

What are the rheological properties of multi-walled nanotubes filled with polycarbonate nanocomposites formed by melt extrusion; what is the influence of nanotube content on complex viscosity, storage modulus, and loss modulus; and can one connect the morphological and resistivity information with rheological observations?

 

LINK TO ARTICLE:

http://www.sciencedirect.com.lynx.lib.usm.edu/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6TXW-45B65SJ-1-12&_cdi=5601&_user=527808&_orig=search&_coverDate=05%2F31%2F2002&_sk=999569988&view=c&wchp=dGLzVlz-zSkWW&md5=d66f095024d65b700cd3e8799c532bb7&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

Stephanie Abby, Homework for Sept. 9

SYNOPSIS

This article explores the normative aspects of consumers' evaluations and the relationship between the general trait of impulsiveness and consumer buying behavior. The article seems to pose the following questions: 1) Given the appropriate test of difference in the trait-behavior relationship across different normative conditions, what is the comparison of product-moment correlations across normative subgroups? 2) How trait-behavior translate from impulse buying on the vast consumer scale to natural shopping behaviors in an actual retail environment.

LINK TO ARTICLE

http://www.jstor.org.lynx.lib.usm.edu/stable/select/2489616?seq=1

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

William Hatten, Homework for September 9

SYNOPSIS:
Juliane House and Shoshana Blum-Kulka explore how translating plays from a source language to a target language results in necessary shifts of cohesion and coherence. They further seek to explain that the discourse of the play can be paralled but not duplicated due to explicit changes in redundancy or transparency in correlation to differences in grammar between the source and target languages.

LINK TO ARTICLE:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=CZXcTzFLDuwC&oi=fnd&pg=PA17&dq=translating+plays+from+french+to+english&ots=FUlW26Uzcm&sig=cnn3Ii__F3KcICWjXewbKXWSiFU#PPA24,M1

Monday, September 8, 2008

Joy Shelton Homework for September 9

Headline: SYNOPSIS
 
This article is an in-depth analysis of Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Crop." It closely examines the work in terms of technique and content in order to find what O'Connor was trying to portray with this story. The author focuses on specific details of the story in order to show that while this is one of O'Connor's earlier pieces, it is the foundation of her later work.
 
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Noelle Lucus Homework for September 9

Synopsis: The article explores the question, "Does spinal anesthesia cause hearing loss in the obstetric population?" Additionally, does the specific type of anesthesia (subarachnoid block or lumbar epidural block) or type of needle used to administer anesthesia play a role as well?
 

Honors 301 Homework for Sept. 9

Dr. Davies,

I am emailing you my homework assignment for tomorrow, September 9. I am sorry that I am submitting it late...I thought it was not due until tomorrow at noon.
I have attached my assignment. In addition Emily Hoff and I will be reading each others articles in order to be prepared for class discussion.

Stephanie Abby
HON 301

Research Question

Hi Dr. Davies,
 
I am emailing you my homework assignment for September 9.  I apologize for the tardiness of this assignment I was thinking that it was due tomorrow.  I have attached the assignment to this email.  Stephanie Abby and I plan to read each other's articles and questions so that we will be prepared for class tomorrow.
 
Thank you,
Emily Hoff

Delaney Vampran, Homework for September 9

 
- SYNOPSIS-
  • Jo Ann McNamara, Suzanne Wemple
  • Feminist Studies, Vol. 1, No. 3/4, Special Double Issue: Women's History (Winter - Spring, 1973), pp. 126-141
  • Published by: Feminist Studies, Inc.
  • Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1566483
  •  
    In The Power of Women Through the Family in Medieval Europe, Jo Ann McNamara and Suzanne Wemple examine the role women in the Western European middle ages played in their family units. The research questions, are: 1. What role exactly did women play in their daily household existence, what did they do and how did they live. 2. Were women "hostages of society", or did they submit of their own free will to a virtual life of bondage and work. 3. Did aristocratic women have it any better than the average women of a lower class, or were their lives actually much harder (if not physically more demanding)?. An useful article with original research primarily taken from first hand accounts (diaries and the equivalent of newspapers) and the examination of trade records, illuminates women in the middle ages and examines how exactly they functioned.
     
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    Patrick Fisackerly, Homework for Sept. 9

    SYNOPSIS
    Research question:  Will further education on the dangers of cigarette smoking decrease the smoke-friendly social behavior of high school tenth graders?  (Yes, if you were wondering.)

    LINK TO THE ARTICLE
    http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/70/7/722

    Kyndal Owens, Homework for Sept. 9

    SYNOPSIS
     
    This article explores the differences between history and memory and the ways in which Colonial Williamsburg's representation of the past causes the two to overlap.
     
    LINK TO THE ARTICLE
     
     

    Kayla Rutledge, Homework for Sept. 9

    SYNOPSIS: The author is asking if in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, the
    lion Aslan is a symbol of Jesus Christ, and if so in what ways? The author
    compares descriptions and aspects of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia with
    those of Jesus in Biblical texts.

    LINK TO THE ARTICLE:
    http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1773/2004/041/LTU-CUPP-04041-SE.pdf

    LIzzie Maloy, Homework for Sept. 9

    Headline: SYNOPSIS
    Does a twenty-minute nap taken by young adults around noon each day positively or negatively effect sleep inertia and mid-afternoon sleepiness? Are the effects enhanced or minimized after 3 consecutive days?

    Headline: LINK TO THE ARTICLE
    http://sro.org/bin/article.dll?Text&3276&0&0&NP=-1

    Sunday, September 7, 2008

    Adam Seyfarth, Homework for Sept. 9

    SYNOPSIS

    What is the positional error between locations calculated with
    geocoding and locations found with aerial images? How does it vary
    with population density and between street centerline and property
    parcel data techniques?

    LINK TO THE ARTICLE

    http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/2/1/10

    Saturday, September 6, 2008

    Lauren White, Homework for Sept. 9

    SYNOPSIS
     This article uses the theories of feminist literary criticism to analyze multi-cultural children's literature of the mid-twentieth century. The author focuses on the works of four particular authors to demonstrate how texts by "outsiders" can reveal "invisible" cultures.
     

    Friday, September 5, 2008

    Kaycie Hall, Homework for Sept 9

    SYNOPSIS:

    The author of this article is trying to prove that Tolkien's prose style The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King should not be overlooked simply because the book is often counted as popular fiction.

    LINK TO THE ARTICLE:

    http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tolkien_studies/v001/1.1drout.pdf


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    Homework for Monday/Tuesday: Find a full-text online scholarly article of original research using Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). Summarize the author's research question(s) in one to three sentences. Then, send the following to the email address below using the specified format by noon Monday. Using this format will post the article to our class blog. You must use this format:

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    Headline: SYNOPSIS

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    Headline: LINK TO THE ARTICLE

    Cut and paste a link to the article citation on Google Scholar. It must be a full-length article.

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