Eight paintings

The thesis show consists of a series of eight paintings dealing with the spatial ambiguities within a composition, and their interaction with the observer. The media is acrylic on canvas with the exception of one painting, Window Shades, in which silver nitrate emulsion is used to facilitate the photographic printing process used in the painting. The paintings are initially approached from the standpoint of establishing a foreground-background spatial relationship in the composition. These area delineations are reinforced for the viewer through the use of two contrasting visual languages. The foreground is established as the frontal plane in a perpendicular relationship to the viewer. It is rendered as a very shallow space, close to the viewer, and presents a familiar context, easily identified by the participant observer. Architectural boundaries associated with this established plane are used as interrupters which provide access through the plane. These devices being objects such as a door or window, allow the viewer to proceed through the picture plane and into the space behind. Other architectural devices, a chair rail for example, may interrupt the frontal plane, but as to whether or not access through the plane is achieved is left slightly ambiguous. The observer is free to manipulate these spatial ambiguities

An ornament of civilization : the literary criticism of Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell, one of America's foremost postwar poets, was also a distinguished literary critic, a man Alfred Kazin once described as a "prince of reviewers." This study traces the course of Jarrell’s critical development. It begins with a trio of chapters detailing his apprenticeship when, as a young man at Vanderbilt and Kenyon in the late thirties, he came under the influence of the New Critics. His first work tor national magazines such as The New Republic, The Nation and Partisan Review is also examined, including the early support he received from Edmund Wilson. The fact that Jarrell made his early reputation by writing high-spirited attacks on inept or imitative poets is examined, particularly as this practice contrasts markedly with his later role as an appreciator of too little regarded poets of real worth

Twenty-three poems and six tales

This thesis presents twenty-three of the poems I have written which I consider best and all of the short fiction I have written to date which I wish to preserve. I consider the stories to be expeditions in search of a style and exercises in various techniques in preparation for longer fictional works. In poetry, for good or ill, I seem to have achieved a style and these poems are in it. Both poems and tales represent notations of ideas I have tried to catch and hold, sometimes for their own sakes, sometimes in order to preserve them for later use in other contexts or in expanded forms. For instance, one story not included here later became a novella. Similarly, more than one of these poems was written to retain a mood, scene, or thought for inclusion in a novel I have yet to write. The subject matter of these poems and stories varies considerably, although, during the compilation of these pages, I did notice an apparent preoccupation with death. This did not surprise me; it is a concommitant of another preoccupation I have. Slices of life and naturalistic portrayals of daily events do not interest me. I care more for fantasy, wonder, oddity, mystery, magic. No wonder death pops up. It is the central mystery. I only hope a few of these bits and pieces, which deal with it and other concerns, succeed in being magical for a moment

The cardiac training effect of selected college men as measured by three heart rate intensity levels based on resting and maximum heart rates

The purpose of this investigation was to study the cardiac training effect of three heart rate intensities based on the percentages within the range of resting and maximum heart rates. It was designed to focus additional light on the amount of cardiac stress needed to cause the "training effect" to occur and the amount of work needed to achieve a physiological change as noted by the decrease in resting heart rate. The subjects were 12 dependable college males who would complete the six weeks exercise program. The resting heart rate was obtained by attaching electrodes to the manubrium sterni and monitoring the subjects' resting heart rate after they rested a minimum of 30 minutes in a supine position. A maximum heart rate was also obtained by monitoring the heart rate as each subject ran on a treadmill at 7 mph and 0 per cent grade. The speed remained constant but the grade increased 2 1/2 per cent after each minute of exercise until exhaustion. The 50, 60 and 70 per cent heart rate intensity levels were determined from the range between the resting and maximum heart rates

Cluster requiem and the rise of cumulative growth theory

Industry cluster theory has been the predominant model guiding economic development policy throughout the world for nearly two decades. As appealing as the cluster approach has been to regional scientists and policy makers it suffers from a number of theoretical and empirical shortcomings, including an inability to explain economic dispersion and the presence of high-growing firms that thrive in non-clustered industries and locations. This dissertation tracks the growth and survival of a cohort of more than 300,000 establishments operating in Pennsylvania during the 1997-2007 period. It reveals that firm characteristics are 10-times more powerful than industry and cluster characteristics, and 50-times more powerful than location characteristics, in explaining and predicting establishment-level growth and survival. It also finds a Power Law is present in the distribution of establishment growth, indicating that a sub- set of businesses systematically accumulate a disproportionate share of employment growth. Roughly 1% of establishments created 169% of all net new jobs added in the state over a ten- year period. Growth is further concentrated among businesses that are able to sustain growth over multiple years. This suggests that the principal driver of regional growth is cumulative firm growth – the accumulation of a disproportionate amount of growth among a small number of firms through sustained expansion over multiple years. I conclude that the path to building better theory and more effective development policies is one that explicitly links regional growth to the growth of firms. Such an approach should focus on endogenous firm dynamics rather than exogenous heuristics such as industry and location

A Study Of The Reasons Why Freshmen Drop Out Of Appalachian State Teachers College

It was the purpose of this study (1) to determine the causes of drop-outs in the freshman classes of 1946-1947 through 1951-1952 at Appalachian State Teachers College in Boone, North Carolina; (2) to make an analysis of certain factors believed to cause them to drop out of college; and (3) to make certain suggestions for improving the offerings of the college

Children's use of category labels in recall of conceptually related terms

The purpose of this study was to investigate children's failure to use category labels as cues in the recall of conceptually related items. Previous research has shown that despite the fact that the use of these labels as cues increases recall, children do not use them unless constrained to do so by the experimenter. The premise of this investigation was that young children fail to use cues because they are not kept in active memory during the recall process. Therefore, it was predicted that ensuring the presence of category labels in active memory would improve amount of recall. In order to determine the degree of assistance needed by children to keep the category labels in active memory during recall, three recall conditions were constructed which varied in the amount of assistance they gave in the task of remembering

An Investigation Of Real Valued Sequences

It is my purpose to examine the set of all real valued sequences with respect to certain algebraic structures. Particular consideration will be given to the set of all convergent sequences. Several of the results will be obtained by examining the properties of limit and restricting the domain of limit to the set of sequences converging to zero

An Investigation Of The Orientation Texture In Stereoregular Polypropylene Films

The contributions of the crystalline and the noncrystalline regions to the total orientation of stereoregular polypropylene films were measured and characterized

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the setting of locally advanced olfactory neuroblastoma with intracranial extension

Olfactory neuroblastoma (esthesioneuroblastoma) is a rare malignant tumor of neuroectodermal origin. With only about 1,000 cases reported, there are no clear guidelines regarding management of this disease. Intracranial extension and orbital involvement have been shown to be independent risk factors associated with poorer outcomes. We hereby report a case of a 46-year old male presented with an 8-month history of progressive nasal obstruction and intermittent right-sided epistaxis associated with anosmia and increased pressure sensation in and around the right eye. Further evaluation revealed a large enhancing heterogeneous cystic and solid mass in the right nasal cavity measuring 5.0×5.3×4.6 cm with extension superiorly into the anterior cranial fossa and frontal lobes, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses. A biopsy of this mass confirmed high grade olfactory neuroblastoma. Because of the intra-cranial extension, a decision was made to start neoadjuvant chemotherapy with cisplatin and etoposide. The patient had very good response to this treatment on a repeat imaging study and went on to have resection of this mass. Post-operatively, he received radiation therapy to the tumor bed and 2 more cycles of chemotherapy. He has been followed now for more than 8 months with no evidence of disease recurrence