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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Images of Women in Medieval Drama
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Women's Studies Encyclopedia, 1st Edition.
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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.
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Interpreting Cultural Symbols: St. Anne in Late Medieval Society
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD and Pamela Sheingorn
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.