The Ultimate Time Travel Machine

Response to earlier Mythlore article by Beare (issue #81). Addresses issue of time-travel, putting it in broader context—focusing not on the character but on the reader

From Isolation to Community: Ransom\u27s Spiritual Odyssey

Explores Ransom’s transformation from a position of isolation at the beginning of Out of the Silent Planet to his position as Head of the community of St. Anne’s in That Hideous Strength

Examining Eustace\u27s Transformation and Its Mythic Antecedents in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

This paper examines the transformation of Eustace and the redemption of his character in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

From Isolation to Community: Frodo\u27s Incomplete Personal Quest in \u3ci\u3eThe Lord of the Rings\u3c/i\u3e

Studies the inner quest that takes Frodo from isolation to community in The Lord of the Rings

The case for management in the Turkish-Kurdish conflict.

The Turkish-Kurdish conflict has ravaged Turkey for nearly 34 years. It is one of the world’s longest enduring rivalries, garnering significant international attention. Since 1984, experts estimate that at least 30,000 people have died in this conflict. In just the past two years, the fighting has killed 3,362 peopleand displaced another half million people. Although the parties have attempted to resolve this dispute multiple times, a comprehensive peace deal has remained elusive. So what should be done about this conflict? Is there a way to compel these parties to forge a lasting peace deal? Or, should the international community focus on ameliorating the most pernicious effects of the conflict until peace seems more attainable? This paper will begin by recounting a short history of the Kurds in Turkey, the beginnings of the insurgency, and the former attempts at peace negotiations. Then, it will analyze the most recent negotiation between Turkey and the PKK, followed by a discussion of the reasons that those negotiations collapsed and recent developments in Turkey. This paper will then elucidate four primary strategies that the literature has suggested to resolve ethnic conflicts and discuss why each of those models seems unlikely to resolve the Turkish-PKK dispute. This paper will conclude by anticipating the possibility for another round of peace negotiations and will introduce a new, conflict-management model to promote cooperation between the parties until they can reach a comprehensive peace deal

Migrating to an Open Source Institutional Repository: Challenges and Lessons Learned

FSU Libraries is currently completing a migration from Digital Commons (a hosted proprietary IR platform) to Islandora (an open source digital collections platform based on Drupal and Fedora Commons). In implementing a mission-critical open source system, we have encountered a variety of challenges related to technical development, shared governance, communications, and user testing, and would like to share some of the lessons learned so that others can benefit from our experience

UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF SULFUR IN CARTILAGE DEVELOPMENT: HOW STRUCTURAL PROTEOGLYCANS ARE IMPLICATED IN CARTILAGE MATURATION

Cartilage is a vital tissue of the adult skeleton, which also serves as a transitional structure during early skeletal development. Sulfation of proteoglycans, especially chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs), lends unique mechanical properties to this tissue; but how CSPG sulfation relates to cartilage growth and development remains an open area of study. Though the basic biochemistry of addition and removal of sulfate groups from sulfated proteoglycans has been well studied, we reveal for the first time in the chicken the spatial distribution of sulfur throughout the cartilage template of a developing endochondral bone (the humerus) to show that changes in sulfation pattern are related to cartilage maturation. New techniques such as chemically specific X-ray fluorescence (XRF) imaging combined with immunohistochemistry allow the testing of the hypothesis that sulfate ester levels are correlated with the underlying cartilage maturation state. Our findings indicate that there is a significant decrease in sulfate ester levels in mature cartilage when compared with immature cartilage in the chicken. No significant decrease in PGs occurred at this time point in mature cartilage according to infrared imaging, suggesting an under-sulfated CSPG molecule in mature cartilage, and an unknown mechanism responsible for this shift in lowered sulfation levels. Decreasing sulfate esters in mature cartilage are now shown to be features of skeletal development for the chicken in addition to zebrafish

The Use of Apps to Prime Learning for a Verbal Task

This study tested whether or not children’s memory performance would be affected by stimulating brain activity by completing a verbal puzzle task or a non-verbal puzzle task prior to a verbal learning task