In the course of their life cycle, mosquitoes undergo an ontogenetic niche shift; immature larval development occurs within an aquatic habitat from which adult mosquitoes subsequently disperse into the terrestrial environment. While adult female...
Municipal government--Japan--Case studies; Administrative agencies--Reorganization; Globalization--Political aspects; Globalization--Government policy; Globalization--Japan; Tokyo (Japan); Osaka (Japan)
This study examines the effects of globalization on state restructuring and the status of cities and local governments. I conduct a comparative case study of two Japanese world cities, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. Existing globalization theories offer...
Nationalism--China; Semantics--Social aspects; Mass media and international relations; Nationalism--Psychological aspects
This project examines the rhetorics that enable nations to tap into and deploy capital transnationally. Its primary focus is on China. China's globalism promotes a version of Western neoliberalism, including tropes such as efficiency,...
Pattern perception--Data processing; Pattern recognition systems; Land mines--Detection; Data mining
For complex detection and classification problems, involving data with large intra-class variations and noisy inputs, no single source of information can provide a satisfactory solution. As a result, combination of multiple classifiers is playing...
Dentist and patient; Dentists--Training of; Dentistry--Practice; Orthodontics, Corrective
Competition for orthodontic patients is at an all time high. Ways to differentially market an orthodontic practice are essential in attracting patients. It is hypothesized that the patients don't understand the extra training that an orthodontist...
Legal and illegal gambling opportunities are readily available to students on college campuses and surrounding areas (Saum, 1999). College students are at an age that is highly impressionable, experimental, and prime to taking risks while ignoring...
Middle school education--Curricula--United States; Single-sex schools
A comparative case study focused on six mathematics teachers of all-boy classes in three middle schools. Each school chose to experiment with gendered classes to improve specific, yet somewhat different, outcomes. A purpose of this study was not to...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Indians of North America; Pawnee Indians; Headdresses; Sports; Archery
Native Americans at Anthropology Days intertribal archery competition, published in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition official scrapbook. Pawnee Frank Moore, wearing a headdress with feather, braids, breechcloth, leggings, and moccasins, shoots an...
Choirs (Music); Fraternities & sororities; Grawemeyer Hall (Louisville, Ky.)
Fryberger Sing, a singing competition for fraternities and sororities at the University of Louisville. In this period, the competition was held on the steps of Grawemeyer Hall (then known as the Administration Building).
Choirs (Music); Fraternities & sororities; Grawemeyer Hall (Louisville, Ky.)
Fryberger Sing, a singing competition for fraternities and sororities at the University of Louisville. In this period, the competition was held on the steps of Grawemeyer Hall (then known as the Administration Building).
Choirs (Music); Fraternities & sororities; Grawemeyer Hall (Louisville, Ky.)
Fryberger Sing, a singing competition for fraternities and sororities at the University of Louisville. In this period, the competition was held on the steps of Grawemeyer Hall (then known as the Administration Building).
Choirs (Music); Fraternities & sororities; Grawemeyer Hall (Louisville, Ky.)
Fryberger Sing, a singing competition for fraternities and sororities at the University of Louisville. In this period, the competition was held on the steps of Grawemeyer Hall (then known as the Administration Building).
Fraternities & sororities; Racing; Bicycles & tricycles; University of Louisville--Students
Pegasus Pedalathon competition for University of Louisville students at Fairgrounds Motor Speedway on April 28, 1968. The Pegasus Pedalathon was a bicycle/tricycle racing competition for greeks and other student campus groups held at the time of...
By Beardsley: prospectus for "The Yellow Book," Elkin Matthews and John Lane, London, 1894 (bottom). Not by Beardsley: cover design for "The Studio," London, 1893, submitted in a competition (top); cover of "Art et...
Segregation in education; African American construction workers; Construction workers; African Americans; Labor unions; Race relations; Laborers' International Union of North America; Women construction workers; African Americans--Employment; A....
Oral history interview conducted with James "Jimmy" Stewart on April 4, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Mr. Stewart, business manager for Local 576 of the Laborers' International Union of North America discusses segregation in education in Tennessee...
Groups of young men stand with trophies next to Plymouth cars and a girl rides in the back of c convertible on the track at a Plymouth competition at a racetrack.
Different groups of men, women, and children in riding uniforms show their ribbons and trophies from a horseback riding competition at the Kentucky State fairgrounds.
