ESTABLISHING PRIORITIES AMONG MULTIPLE MANAGEMENT GOALS

Institutional and Behavioral Economics,

Vietnam Continued: The Battle for American Public Memory in Public School History Textbooks

The question of “how do we actively remember the past?” can perhaps best describe the purpose of public memory studies. Acknowledging this question, I analyze popular public-school textbooks to assess the way in which educational literature constructs the public memory of the Vietnam War. In total, the narratives of the texts construct a public memory of Vietnam as a controversial conflict contained within a decade of American uncertainty. However, these narratives also take care to minimize or leave aside the details of Vietnam’s lasting impact and in favor of reaffirming American exceptionalism. Ultimately, this thesis finds that students who read these texts will walk away with a view of Vietnam as a small note of erring in the otherwise consistent American story; an event that does not detract from the United States’ exceptional legacy

Intelligent Data Reduction (IDARE)

A description of the Intelligent Data Reduction (IDARE) expert system and an IDARE user's manual are given. IDARE is a data reduction system with the addition of a user profile infrastructure. The system was tested on a nickel-cadmium battery testbed. Information is given on installing, loading, maintaining the IDARE system

Structural Natural Frequency Tuning on a Vertical Pump

Case StudyThis case study demonstrates the steps taken to solve a structural resonance issue on a VFD driven vertical pump installed in the field. Topics discussed include problem validation, steps taken to solve the issue, the resulting reduction in vibration amplitude, and key takeaways

Living Through Terror and Terror Through Living: The Biopolitical Dimensions of Religion, Security, and Terrorism

Recent emphasis and attention by thinkers, media pundits, and politicians on terrorism requires new, critical evaluation of the processes by which terrorism is understood. By investigating the concept of biopolitics, as developed specifically through Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, new insights into the interactions between terrorism, politics, and religion can emerge. Most notably, the attempts to explain terror as simply an economic problem, an excessive form of violence, and/or as religious fervency gone awry rely on embedded biopolitical concepts. The continual attempts to solve terrorism through increased biopolitical strategies, thereby making terrorism a problem for biopolitics, only further substantiate the crisis that biopolitics brings about in the first place. Carefully investigating the relationship between biopolitical theory and religious concepts uncovers those very motivations of defining terrorism in certain forms (economically problematic, excessively violent, religiously passionate), and the continued insistence that terrorism is another problem to be solved, like any other political issue. Instead, I propose that by taking the religious concepts of biopolitics seriously, we can reimagine terror as heresy, requiring a different political calculus articulating terrorism not as a problem for biopolitics to fix but instead as a problem of biopolitics

Factors in older adults\u27 resistance to substance abuse treatment

The purpose of this study was to determine the factors that cause resistance in older adults to participation in substance abuse treatment programs