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Hugh MacDiarmid: Man and Poet

Nancy Gish PhD
Understanding the Physiological Basis of Muscular Fitness

James Graves PhD and Michael L. Pollock

Chapter in The StairMaster Fitness Handbook, ed. J.A. Peterson & C.X. Bryant.
Morality and Moral Theory: A Reappraisal and Reaffirmation

Robert B. Louden PhD

Contemporary philosophers have grown increasingly sceptical toward both morality and moral theory. Some argue that moral theory is a radically misguided enterprise which does not illuminate moral practice, while others simply deny the value of morality in human life. This book attempts to respond to the arguments of both “anti-morality” and “anti-theory” sceptics. Part One develops and defends an alternative conception of morality. On this book's model, morality is primarily a matter of what one does to oneself, rather than what one does or does not do to others. This model eliminates the gulf that many anti-morality critics say exists between morality's demands and the personal point of view. The book further argues that morality's primary focus should be on agents and their lives, rather than on right actions, and that it is always better to be morally better—i.e. it is impossible to be “too moral.” Part Two presents an alternative conception of moral theory. It reaffirms the necessity and importance of moral theory in human life, and shows that moral theories fulfill a variety of genuine and indispensable human needs.
A Principled Approach to Solving Complex Discrete Optimization Problems [Book Chapter]

Bruce MacLeod PhD and Robert Moll

Book chapter from Computer Science and Operations Research: New Developments in their Interfaces, ed. Osman Balci.

More about this chapter:

In this work we report on a general and extensible framework, called OPL, for quickly constructing reasonable solutions to a broad class of complex discrete optimization problems. Our approach rests on the observation that many such problems can be represented by linking together variants of well-understood primitive optimization problems. We exploit this representation by building libraries of solution methods for the primitive problems. These library methods are then suitably composed to build solutions for the original problem.

The vehicle routing problem and its generalizations, which involve not only routing but also delivery scheduling, crew scheduling, etc., is a significant and extensively investigated area of operations research. In this paper we report on OPL definitions and solutions for a wide variety of such problems.
Which Children Did They Show Obey Strong Crossover?

Dana McDaniel PhD and Cecile McKee

Chapter in Island Constraints: Theory, Acquisition and Processing, edited by Helen Goodluck & Michael Rochemont.

Chapter abstract:

This study examines children’s knowledge of strong crossover in two-clause sentences. The relevant constructions are illustrated in Types Ito IV below, where the intended interpretation of each question is indicated by indexing in the question. The answers provided correspond to the indexing in the question.
The Body with AIDS: A Post-Structuralist Analysis [Book Chapter]

Julien Murphy PhD

Chapter from The Body in Medical Thought and Practice, edited by Drew Leder.

More about this chapter:

The epidemic of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is one of the most significant threats to health in the United States in the latter part of the century. While medical researchers scurry to find ways to arrest AIDS-related infection in the body, scholars in the humanities have been at work analyzing a crisis of representation in academia, manifested by recent theories of interpretation (e.g., deconstruction, post-structuralism, post-modernism). In the epistemic epidemic, the vitality of our conceptual framework, the ways we know, and the means by which we interpret cultural experience are under siege. These two epidemics have much to do with each other, not only because of their synchronicity, but also because breakthroughs in ways of understanding cultural experience affect our interpretations of health and disease. One person whose life was caught up in both epidemics was Michel Foucault. Foucault was a leading French post-structuralist, perhaps the most notable French philosopher since Sartre. He was also involved in gay liberation struggles and the first intellectual of international importance to die of AIDS, a disease that is, not infrequently sexually transmitted, and in the U.S. was first diagnosed in and disproportionately affects gay men. Foucault’s death brought to an end his three-volume study of sexuality, a work which leaves no hint that it was written during an epidemic, and bears no mention of sexually transmitted disease. Yet, his writings on the whole lend themselves to analyses of the AIDS epidemic.
The Elderly and Endurance Training

Michael L. Pollock, D T. Lowenthal, James Graves PhD, and Joan F. Carroll

Chapter in Endurance in Sport, ed. R.J. Shepherd and P.O. Astrand.
Exercise and Cardiovascular Disease: a Gender Difference

Christopher B. Scott PhD

Chapter in Exercise and Disease, edited by Ronald R. Watson and Marianne Eisinger.

More about this title:

Begins a series exploring aspects of nutrition and exercise, including sport, for researchers, physicians, and a broad range of health-care providers and people involved in exercise or sport, either professionally or recreationally. The 11 studies include discussions of the role of physical activity in the development of childhood obesity, short-term exercise and immune function, and the psychological effects of exercise for disease resistance and health promotion. No specialized knowledge in any field is assumed. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc.
The Hazardous Waste Q&A: An In-Depth Guide to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act

Travis P. Wagner PhD

The Hazardous Waste Q & A An In-depth Guide to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act Revised Edition Travis P. Wagner The "Answer Book" for all your compliance questions. How much of your company's waste is considered "hazardous" under current federal regulations? If the carrier you hire to remove waste is cited for a violation, can you also be held liable? Does your company's disposal program meet new EPA and DOT requirements? Now you can find the authoritative answers to these and hundreds of other critical waste management problems--in minutes--with the revised edition of this practical, quick-reference guide to RCRA and HMTA compliance. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act have spawned an enormous and complex body of regulations and requirements--among the most complicated laws in the land. Unfortunately, while ensuring compliance with these regulations is a top priority for both the EPA and DOT. helping businesses understand and comply with the regulations is not. Written by a former technical compliance specialist for EPA. The Hazardous Waste Q&A helps you make sure your waste management practices fully meet these tough regulations--and will help you reduce your liability, too. The Hazardous Waste Q&A simplifies hazardous waste management under RCRA and HMTA by presenting these highly technical and often difficult to interpret regulations in an easy-to-understand, easy-to-use question-and-answer format. This approach lets you go straight to the help you need without digging through pages and pages of dense, technical detail.
Middle level education : policies, programs, and practices

Jody Capellluti (Ed.) and Donald Stokes (Ed.)

Middle level education is experiencing unparalleled growth as an organizational alternative. No longer referred to as a movement, it has become a fixture in our educational system. The lesson for educators and others, it would appear, is that educators have the knowlege and desire to implement change. If such change is to be successful, however, individual, group, and intergroup needs must be considered.

This monograph provides an opportunity for readers to examine current policies,programs, amd practices in light of recent developments at the middle level. It is our desire that by studying the successes of out colleagues at the middle level, all levels will be improved.

From the Preface by Jody Capelluti
Pater Speaking Bloom Speaking Joyce

F C. McGrath PhD

Chapter in Pater in the 1990s.
The Philosophy of Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Julien Murphy PhD
Bridges Between Psychology and Linguistics; A Swarthmore Festschrift for Lila Gleitman

Donna Jo Napoli and Judy Kegl

Edited by Donna Jo Napoli and Judy Kegl.

Written as a tribute to Lila Gleitman, an influential pioneer in first language acquisition and reading studies, this significant book clearly establishes the relationships between psychology and linguistics. It begins with a thorough examination of issues in developmental psychology, continues with questions on perception and cognition, studies the realm of psycholinguistics, and concludes with an exploration of theoretical linguistics.
Bonding and Signification in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Kathleen M. Ashley PhD

Chapter in Text and Matter: New Critical Perspectives of the Pearl-Poet.
Cultural Approaches to Medieval Drama

Kathleen M. Ashley PhD

Chapter in Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama.

Anyone who has recently attended a professional meeting devoted to medieval drama or witnessed a revival of a medieval play knows that the genre is alive and flourishing. This volume offers help for new teachers of these works, encourages experienced teachers to rethink classroom presentation of familiar plays, and suggests new ways for all teachers to integrate medieval drama into undergraduate courses. Like other books in the Approaches series, this one is divided into two parts. The first part, “Materials,” reviews editions, translations, and anthologies of medieval drama and discusses useful secondary readings for both students and instructors. In the second part, “Approaches,” seventeen essays present a rich array of ideas for teaching medieval English drama, from the liturgical texts of the tenth century to the morality plays and cycle plays of the fifteenth century. Several authors focus on particular classroom strategies; others apply methodologies informed by theoretical approaches such as feminism, semiotics, and anthropology; still others discuss staging and performance of the plays.
Images of Women in Medieval Drama

Kathleen M. Ashley PhD

Chapter in Women's Studies Encyclopedia, 1st Edition.
Victor Turner and the Construction of Cultural Criticism: Between Literature and Anthropology

Kathleen M. Ashley PhD

During the past twenty years of intellectual boundary-crossing and widespread borrowing between fields, Turner's notions of "liminality" and the "processual" have been adopted by many theorists of art and society. This is the first volume to place individual Turner concepts into the context of his entire career and to spell out their implications for literary studies.
Interpreting Cultural Symbols: St. Anne in Late Medieval Society

Kathleen M. Ashley PhD and Pamela Sheingorn
Input/Output and Devices: Microprocessor System I/O [Book Chapter]

David F. Bantz PhD

Chapter from Eshbach’s Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals, 4ed., edited by Myer Kutz.

Bantz also authored another chapter in this volume: Chapter 9.10 Input/Output and Devices: General Considerations
Crown Point

Jerry L. Bowder PhD

J. L. Bowder

Crown Point for Winds and Percussion (1990)

1. 1991 Reading Session

2. 1998 Concert

The University of Southern Maine Concert Band

Peter Martin, Conductor
Books of our own: Adult educators and journal writing

E Michael Brady PhD

Chapter in The Joy of Learning, edited by W.D. Callender, Jr., M.A. Vishneau, & K.D. Nelson.
Change in Education : Strategies for Improving Middle Level Schools

Jody Capellluti and Judy Eberson

A detailed discussion of change, its impact on middle level education, and how, through a collaborative process, one middle school was able to assist another in addressing change in its own milieu.

From the forward by Michael G. Allen
University of Southern Maine Concert Band & Chorale

Peter Martin and Robert Russell

VOCAL MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE

The University Chorale, an ensemble of music majors and other University students, performs a wide variety of music from all historical periods. The Chorale offers singers instruction that will enable them to sing a broad spectrum of choral music expressively and with musical understanding. In recent years the Chorale has sung with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and with the Elmer Iseler Singers.

Students have further singing opportunities in Chamber Singers, Opera Workshop, and in vocal ensembles that include madrigal singers, jazz choir, early music ensembles, and barbershop quartets. Members of the Chamber Singers principally sing a capella repertoire from the Renaissance and Twentieth Century and masterworks from the Classic Era. Singers in the Opera Workshop perform opera and musical comedy both in scene and in fully staged productions jointly produced with the University Theatre Department.
The Processing and Acquisition of Control Structures by Young Children

Dana McDaniel PhD and Helen Smith Cairns

Chapter in Language Processing and Language Acquisition, edited by Lyn Frazier and Jill De Villiers.

Chapter abstract:

In order to interpret a sentence involving control, the hearer must identify a referent for the phonetically null element PRO. It is, therefore, of interest to investigate how children acquire this ability.

Book description:

Studies of language acqUiSItion have largely ignored processing prin ciples and mechanisms. Not surprisingly, questions concerning the analysis of an informative linguistic input - the potential evidence for grammatical parameter setting - have also been ignored. Especially in linguistic approaches to language acquisition, the role of language processing has not been prominent. With few exceptions (e. g. Goodluck and Tavakolian, 1982; Pinker, 1984) discussions of language perform ance tend to arise only when experimental debris, the artifact of some experiment, needs to be cleared away. Consequently, language pro cessing has been viewed as a collection of rather uninteresting perform ance factors obscuring the true object of interest, namely, grammar acquisition. On those occasions when parsing "strategies" have been incorporated into accounts of language development, they have often been discussed as vague preferences, not open to rigorous analysis. In principle, however, theories of language comprehension can and should be subjected to the same criteria of explicitness and explanatoriness as other theories, e. g. , theories of grammar. Thus their peripheral role in accounts of language development may reflect accidental factors, rather than any inherent fuzziness or irrelevance to the language acquisition problem. It seems probable that an explicit model of the way(s) processing routines are applied in acquisition would help solve some central problems of grammar acquisition, since these routines regulate the application of grammatical knowledge to novel inputs.
Practical Hypermedia and Hypertext [Book Chapter]

P. C. Patrikis, J. H. Murray, David F. Bantz PhD, R. L. Jones, and J. S. Noblitt

Chapter from Multimedia and Language Learning. Technology in Higher Education : Current Reflections. Fourth in a Series, eds. Peter Patrikis and others.

About this book:

The five essays in this volume represent the contributions of one group of leaders in the application of computers to the teaching and learning of foreign languages and illustrate present and future uses of technology in assisting language learning. Various pedagogical problems and approaches are considered in the papers.
The German-Jewish legacy in America, 1938-1988 : from Bildung to the Bill of Rights

Abraham J. Peck PhD

The essays in this volume were written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Kristallnacht, the fateful pogrom in early November 1938 which was a watershed in the treatment of Jews in Germany and signaled the end to more than a century of specific Jewish culture there.

Historian George Mosse in the opening essay characterizes this spirit as represented by Bildung, a post-emancipation notion that included character formation, moral education, the primacy of culture, the acquisition of aesthetic taste, and the belief in the potential of humanity. Bildung became to large portions of German Jewry an important, if not central, expression of their Jewishness. It is this legacy that this volume explores and seeks to understand. Among the questions contributors examine are the meaning of this legacy in our time, what has happened to it in its American context, whether it has found a home in the United States or whether it remains in exile, and which elements of the legacy are worth preserving for the next generation.

Two groups address this range of questions. The first is made up of Jews born in Germany but who reached their professional maturity in the United States. The second is made up primarily of American-born individuals whose Jewish parents had either fled Nazi Germany or who, as German Jews, survived the Holocaust.

The Germany Jewish Legacy in America commemorates the end of one of the greatest communities in Jewish history and explores those elements of its greatness which may still be relevant in insuring a vibrant and productive Jewish community in a free and democratic American society.
Hazardous Waste Identification and Classification Manual : The identification of hazardous wastes under RCRA and the classification of hazardous waste under HMTA

Travis Wagner PhD

The stringent framework established under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) was designed to protect human health and the environment from the effects of improper management of hazardous waste. The classification procedure of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) was created to ensure its proper handling throughout its transportation.

The Hazardous Waste and Identification Classification Manual is now the most comprehensive guide to identifying and classifying hazardous waste material in accordance with the stringent provisions of the RCRA and the HMTA.

Included in the wealth of in-depth information in plain English that will help readers understand this lengthy and complex regulatory system.
Predictors of Success among Older Workers in New Jobs. Final Report

E Michael Brady PhD

To examine older workers' general values toward work and their specific motivations when seeking a new job, a sample of 198 people aged 50 or older who had recently begun a new job were interviewed by telephone. A follow-up interview was conducted 4 months later (n=182). Regarding general work values, respondents ranked "feeling a sense of accomplishment" as their highest priority. Factor analysis of 16 work value items yielded 5 factors: material benefits, mental stimulation, job compatibility, flexibility, and social environment. The most important motivational value during pursuit of the new job was the desire to feel useful. Factor analysis of motivational items yielded two factors: material benefits/security and personal development/social. The follow-up interview revealed 75 percent of respondents were still at the same job. Being able to use previously developed skills, seeing the impact of one's work on the final product, having the freedom to decide what to do on the job, and not being too closely supervised all related to job persistence and work satisfaction among older workers. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed gender was the important predictor of persistence on the job, with women persisting more than men; worker independence was the most important predictor of job satisfaction and ability to use previously developed skills and abilities on the new job was the most important predictor of "fit" between job sought and job located. A major recommendation resulting from this research is for hirers to pay attention to the intrinsic (non-material) benefits of work as well as to the extrinsic (material) gains. Older workers are seeking a challenge and a sense of accomplishment. (Appendixes include 29 references, older worker referral materials, and interview schedules and instruments.) (YLB)
Reviews of Instructional Software in Scholarly Journals : A Selected Bibliography

David F. Bantz PhD, P. Wykes, and N. Millichap

This bibliography lists reviews of more than 100 instructional software packages, which are arranged alphabetically by discipline. Information provided for each entry includes the topical emphasis, type of software (i.e., simulation, tutorial, analysis tool, test generator, database, writing tool, drill, plotting tool, videodisc), the journal citation of the review, the name and institutional affiliation of the author of the review, the length of the review, and the copyright-holding agency. Subject areas represented by the reviews include biology, chemistry, economics, education, engineering, English composition and literature, geology, history, foreign languages, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, physics, and psychology.
Predictors of Success among Older Workers in New Jobs. Final Report

E Michael Brady PhD

To examine older workers' general values toward work and their specific motivations when seeking a new job, a sample of 198 people aged 50 or older who had recently begun a new job were interviewed by telephone. A follow-up interview was conducted 4 months later (n=182). Regarding general work values, respondents ranked "feeling a sense of accomplishment" as their highest priority. Factor analysis of 16 work value items yielded 5 factors: material benefits, mental stimulation, job compatibility, flexibility, and social environment. The most important motivational value during pursuit of the new job was the desire to feel useful. Factor analysis of motivational items yielded two factors: material benefits/security and personal development/social. The follow-up interview revealed 75 percent of respondents were still at the same job. Being able to use previously developed skills, seeing the impact of one's work on the final product, having the freedom to decide what to do on the job, and not being too closely supervised all related to job persistence and work satisfaction among older workers. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed gender was the important predictor of persistence on the job, with women persisting more than men; worker independence was the most important predictor of job satisfaction and ability to use previously developed skills and abilities on the new job was the most important predictor of "fit" between job sought and job located. A major recommendation resulting from this research is for hirers to pay attention to the intrinsic (non-material) benefits of work as well as to the extrinsic (material) gains. Older workers are seeking a challenge and a sense of accomplishment. (Appendixes include 29 references, older worker referral materials, and interview schedules and instruments.) (YLB)
Egg-Farming and Women’s Future

Julien Murphy PhD
Should Pregnancy be Sustained in Brain-Dead Women?

Julien Murphy PhD
The AIDS Epidemic: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Infectious Body [Book Chapter]

Julien Murphy PhD

Chapter from The Meaning of AIDS: Implications for Medical Science, Clinical Practices, and Public Health Policy, edited by Eric T. Juengst and Barbara A. Koenig.

More about this title:

The editors of this remarkable volume have collected 18 essays by humanists about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS seems to seek out as its victims the weakest and already victimized, writes Albert R. Jonsen, describing the inhumanity of this disease. Jonsen states that scientists have already fashioned a language for describing the disease in objective, clinical terms. What is needed now is a language to describe the human experience and instruct us on how to live humanely while AIDS is among us. To help construct this language, this collection examines AIDS from the perspective of the humanities: History can recall past experience for our instruction, Philosophy can define terms such as welfare, freedom, health, and disease, that guide our discourse, and Literature can reveal the images that shape the social reality of AIDS.

Editors Eric T. Juengst and Barbara Koenig begin this study by delineating six interpretations of AIDS. Their aim is to demonstrate the many ways in which AIDS is viewed by society. The book is then divided into three parts. Part One examines how our current knowledge of AIDS was generated and how this knowledge is interpreted. Part Two explores the meaning of AIDS for health professionals and the ethical issues it can raise. Part Three examines public policy and AIDS. The contributors clarify and correct definitions, recall analogous incidents in our history and draw values and principles out of the obscurity of emotions and into the light of reason. divided into three parts. Part One examines the current knowledge of AIDS and how this knowledge is interpreted. Part Two explores the meaning and perceptions of AIDS in the medical community. Part Three examines public policy and AIDS. The contributors clarify and correct definitions, recall analogous incidents in our history and draw values and principles out of the obscurity of emotion and into the light of reason.
The Look in Sartre and Adrienne Rich [Book Chapter]

Julien Murphy PhD

Chapter from The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy, edited by Jeffner Allen and Iris Marion Young.

More about this title:

Marking a radical shift in the traditional philosophical separation between muse (female) and thinker (male), The Thinking Muse revises the scope and methods of philosophical reflection. These engaging essays by American feminists bring together feminist philosophy, existential phenomenology, and recent currents in French poststructuralist thought.
Queen City Refuge : an Oral History of Cincinnati's Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany

Abraham J. Peck PhD and Uri D. Herscher
The Teenage World: Adolescent Self-Image in Ten Countries

Daniel Offer, Eric Ostrov, Kenneth I. Howard, and Robert Atkinson

A Cross-National Study of Adolescent Self-Image Adolescence is not, as has been previously assumed, a developmental stage that was defined after the industrial revolution.
Renaming the Sins: A Homiletic Topos of Linguistic Instability in the Canterbury Tales

Kathleen M. Ashley PhD

Chapter in Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature.
Retirement: The challenge of change

E Michael Brady PhD

Intended for persons in their 50s and 60s who are seriously thinking about retirement and younger people who want to learn about aging and retirement, this book was developed as a companion piece to the training program offered to business and nonprofit organizations by the University of Southern Maine retirement planning team. Most of the contributors to the book live in Maine and the settings and examples used reflect this location, although the research cited is national or international in scope. The following 13 chapters are included in the document: "Faces of Retirement" (Brady); "The Aging Body" (Friedman); "Financial Planning for Retirement" (Jagolinzer); "Changing Relationships in Retirement" (Davis, Martay); "Where to Live in Retirement" (Murray); "Exercise, Health, and Fitness" (Jordan); "The Use of Leisure Time" (Brady); "Community Resources" (Spear, Wolfberg); "Transferring Skills to New Work and Volunteer Options" (Viehmann); "Health Insurance in Later Life" (Turyn, Comerford); "Legal Concerns in Retirement" (Valcourt); "Find Some Happiness Today" (Langlois); and "A Voice from Retirement" (Sandmel). (CML)
Thinking Autobiographically

E Michael Brady PhD

Chapter in Critical Thinking, ed. Cohen.
Feelings and perceptions of graduate students about their undergraduate nursing education

Laurie Caton-Lemos MS, FNP-C

University of Southern Maine Master's thesis.
The Waste Land: A Poem of Memory and Desire

Nancy Gish PhD

Since its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's epic poem The Waste land has come to be considered the preeminent work of the modern period in English literature. In this enlightening guide to Eliot's masterpiece, Nancy K. Gish examines the history of its composition and, through careful analysis, reveals a poem that is both deeply personal in tone and universal in impact.
Safe, Specific Testing and Rehabilitative Exercise for the Muscles of The Lumbar Spine

A Jones, M Pollock, James Graves PhD, M Fulton, W Jones, M MacMillan, D Baldwin, and J Cirulli
What Socrates Began: An Examination of Intellect Vol. 1

University of Southern Maine

Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education Symposium 1988
What Socrates Began: An Examination of Intellect Vol. 2

University of Southern Maine

Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education Symposium 1988
Photon Correlation Spectroscopy, Transient Electric Birefringence, and Characterization of Particle Size Distributions in Colloidal Suspensions

Renliang Xu, James R. Ford PhD, and Benjamin Chu

Chapter 8 from Particle Size Distribution; edited by Theodore Provder.

Chapter abstract:

By using a combination of static and dynamic laser light scattering (LLS) and transient electric birefringence (TEB) we have been able to determine structural characteristics and size distributions of polydisperse disk-shaped particles (bentonite) in suspensions. In the limit of low concentration and scattering angle we obtained the weight-average molecular weight Mw, the z-average radius of gyration 1/2 and the second virial coefficient A2 from static light scattering measurements; at higher scattering angles we were able to estimate an average particle thickness. Photon correlation function measurements of both the polarized and the depolarized components of scattered light give us the average diffusion coefficients DT (translational) and DR (rotational) which can in turn be converted to average particle dimensions. Detailed analysis of characteristic linewidth distributions yield particle size distributions consistent with direct observations using electron microscopy. The TEB experiment provides us with the average optical polarizability difference Δα°, the ratio of permanent dipolar moment to electric polarizability difference, and the average rotational diffusion coefficient DR (TEB). Profile analysis of the decay curve yields a distribution of particle sizes consistent with the results from LLS.
Medieval Courtesy Literature and Dramatic Mirrors of Female Conduct

Kathleen M. Ashley PhD

Chapter in The Ideology of Conduct.

As many historians have pointed out, the late Middle Ages was an era obsessed with codified and externalized behaviors. For aristocrats, such codes promised to maintain social identities at a time of blurring boundaries between upper and "middle" classes. However, the wealthy bourgeoisie and other upwardly mobile groups subverted the boundaries as they increasingly adopted aristocratic codes to define their new sense of worth and place in medieval society. Although the flourishing of courtesy literature during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was connected to both these impulses, I will be concerned here primarily with conduct books addressed to non-aristocratic women and their influence on the French and English cycle plays.
Productivity and U.S. Economic Growth

Dale W. Jorgenson, Frank M. Gollop, and Barbara M. Fraumeni

Although the level of U.S. per capita output was higher than that of any other industrialized country at the end of World War II, output has increased by more than four times and per capita output has more than doubled. Empirical evidence has shifted the terms of professional debates over the importance of investment and productivity as sources of postwar growth. This volume traces this outstanding growth performance to investments in tangible assets and human capital. The distinctive feature of investment as a source of economic growth is that returns can be internalized by the investor. The most straightforward application of this idea is to investments that create property rights. These include rights to transfer the resulting assets and benefit from the incomes that are generated. This volume broadens the meaning of capital formation to include the investments in education and training. The contributions of these investments to economic growth can be identified from their impacts on labor incomes. After the slowdown in U.S. economic growth that began in 1973 it became apparent that economic research had failed to produce a satisfactory basis for policies to generate growth. This volume provides the starting point for development of a new consensus based on the policies that stimulate and reward investments in tangible assets and human capital. These policies will focus on returns that can be internalized by investors, ending the fruitless search for "spill overs" that can generate growth without providing incentives for capital formation.
Intersubjectivity and the Value of the Other

Julien Murphy PhD
Women with AIDS: Sexual Ethics in an Epidemic [Book Chapter]

Julien Murphy PhD

Chapter from AIDS : principles, practices & politics, edited by Inge B. Corless and Mary Pittman-Lindeman.

More about this title:

First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Awakening and Growth of the Human Infant: A Telecourse Study Guide for Infant Mental Health Practitioners

Susan E. Partridge MSW, PhD

This Study Guide is an accompaniment to "The Awakening and Growth of the Human: Studies in Infant Mental Health", a series of 10 videotapes, produced and narrated by Mr. Michael Trout.

The Infant Mental Health Telecourse materials consist of the Study Guide, the Trout Videotapes, and 30 highly recommended readings on infant mental health topics.

An Instructor's Guide is available.

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