Assessment and Cost Effective Analysis of LEED Certified Single-Family Homes in Kentucky

A Thesis Presented to the faculty of the College of Science and Technology Morehead State University in Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Masters of Science by Stephen Glossner on June 9, 2014

Cavaliers And Crackers: Landless Whites In The Mind Of The Elite Antebellum South

Due to their marginalized role in southern society, landless white southerners have often been overlooked by historians who study social class, politics and intellectual culture in the antebellum south. But depictions of landless white southerners were prominent in contemporary elite literature and their place was debated extensively by social commentators. These depictions marginalized landless whites from southern honor culture and marked them as a people who were not quite white in a social and biological sense. This characterization was both a cause and effect of elite southern unease with the presence of a class of poor landless whites. This unease manifested itself in the intellectual debate over slavery. Southern elites feared a political revolt as antislavery messages aimed at poor laboring southerners began to grow. Interaction between landless whites and slaves also magnified elite unease with the class. They were often seen as conduits for illicit actions by slaves, and most importantly as a comcatalyst for insurrectionist plots. In the post-Nat Turner south, fear of slave rebellion dominated elite concerns over the future of slavery and hastened the development of proslavery ideology. Poor whites were a crucial part of concern over the protection of slavery, and proslavery ideology would often highlight the role the slave labor system could have in curing their ills, or in preventing the development of an antislavery class consciousness. These fears were a clear impetus in the development of antebellum proslavery ideology, which sought to illustrate the positive good that slavery promised to southern non-slaveholders. The inconsistencies between elite southern ideology, white supremacy, and the social realities that landless whites faced, intensified elite worries about the loyalty that these people had for the south and the institution of slavery, ultimately resulting in arguments that stressed secession as a way to separate southern landless whites from potential class and political allies in the antislavery north

Sanctions and Iranian energy exports : as crude oil sales decline new opportunities arise

Lusíada. Política internacional e segurança. - ISSN 1647-1342. - S. 1, n. 9 (2013). - p. 57-75.The Iranian draft budget for the 2013/2014 period assumed a 40% decline in oil revenues taking into account the economic consequences of international sanctions since 2012 that have targeted Iran’s oil and natural gas sector. Yet, Iran is making plans to boost its energy exports to circumvent Western sanctions and ease its losses. Sanctions were not an unexpected outcome of the previous negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program and as such Iran has been building non-Western and regional ties to increase its options. These include the strategic investment in electricity imports in neighboring countries as well as the construction of new grids to these areas, the expansion of natural gas exports and the change of crude oil imports. This paper seeks to argue that although the sanctions have reduced the immediate revenues of the government, particularly through decreased investments and relations to the West. New opportunities have been sought and groomed since 2009 to balance out these losses and diversify its energy export dependency

Weasels and Angels: Rhetorical and Communicative Strength and Weakness in Selected Women of The Canterbury Tales

This thesis looks at the communicative methods and rhetorical strategies of five women characters found in Chaucer\u27s The Canterbury Tales through the lens of Helene Cixous\u27s description of written female language as applied spoken language to examine the dichotomy of weakness in strength and strength in weakness these characters portray

Do Institutional Investors Stabilize Equity Markets in Crisis Periods? Evidence from COVID-19

During the COVID-19 crash, U.S. stocks with higher institutional ownership performed worse. This under-performance is unrelated to revisions in earnings expectations, which suggests a disconnect between stock prices and firm fundamentals. Two mechanisms were at play: Institutions faced a sudden increase in redemptions and simultaneously attempted to de-risk their portfolios. Most types of institutional investors re-balanced portfolios toward financially strong firms, whereas hedge funds sold indiscriminately. Data from a discount brokerage (Robinhood) confirm that retail investors provided liquidity. Overall, the results suggest that when a tail risk realizes, institutional investors amplify price crashes

Instruction set extensions for software defined radio on a multithreaded processor

Software dened radios, which provide a programmable solu-tion for implementing the physical layer processing of multi-ple communication standards, are widely recognized as one of the most important new technologies for wireless com-munication systems. Emerging communication standards, however, require tremendous processing capabilities to per-form high-bandwidth physical-layer processing in real time. In this paper, we present instruction set extensions for sev-eral important communication algorithms including convo-lutional encoding, Viterbi decoding, turbo decoding, and Reed-Solomon encoding and decoding. The performance bene ts of these extensions are evaluated using a supercom-puter class vectorizing compiler and the Sandblaster low-power multithreaded processor for software dened radio. The proposed instruction set extensions provide signicant performance improvements, while maintaining a high degree of programmability. Categories and Subject Descriptors C.3 [Computer Systems Organization]: Special-purpose and Application-based Systems|Real-time and embedded sys

Nonlinear high-temperature superconducting terahertz metamaterials

We report the observation of a nonlinear terahertz response of split-ring resonator arrays made of high-temperature superconducting films. Intensity-dependent transmission measurements indicate that the resonance strength decreases dramatically (i.e. transient bleaching) and the resonance frequency shifts as the intensity is increased. Pump–probe measurements confirm this behaviour and reveal dynamics on the few-picosecond timescale.Los Alamos National Laboratory. Laboratory Directed Research and Development ProgramUnited States. Office of Naval Research (Grant N00014-09-1-1103)National Science Foundation (U.S.) (American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellowship 1041979