Fundamental understanding of re-dispersion of cobalt on supported model Fischer-Tropsch catalysts

The aim of this study was to investigate how the catalytically active material may redisperse during consecutive oxidation-reduction steps (OROR) for a model supported-cobalt catalyst to give insight into the regeneration process of a spent supported-cobalt FTS catalyst

Monstrous Transformations

According to Ulrich Beck, the breakdown of nation-state power and the migration of people, culture and ideas through neoliberalism provides us with a unique historical moment that simultaneously holds the potential for unparalleled cosmopolitanism and rising xenophobia. This essay further explores and problematizes this distinction through an analysis of the video art and music of the rap-rave group Die Antwoord and the photographer Roger Ballen, both of which provide images of Afrikaner Identity with differing ramifications for the formation of cosmopolitan identities. In both, figures become living collages, their anatomy mixes with animals and inanimate objects, and they transform into stark colors of black and white. The cosmopolitan becomes something monstrous and frightening. If an understanding of this xenophobic seed embedded in cross cultural soil is placed in the context of the larger history of capitalist market expansion, within the cyclical movement of cosmopolitanism and nationalism in South Africa, then discourses of monstrous transformations can be seen as obfuscating cosmopolitanism and xenophobia as alternatives opposing one another – as dialectically related phenomena. Interactions between groups within capitalism might lead to innovative mixtures but only in ways that quietly reinforce differences which surface when competition over resources occurs in hierarchical social relationships. Through analyzing how identities fuse in the works of Ballen and Die Antwoord, the following article will display both the space of critique and the danger of co-option of cosmopolitan identities

A look at the Protestant Church in the city

It is the purpose of this study to explore some of the numerous facets of the church in the city and more especially the inner-city. Trite, though it may be, it should be stated that it would be utterly impossible to cover every aspect of this problem. Instead, the author wishes only to touch on a few chosen subjects in hopes that this will spark interested readers to further investigation. The magnitude of the problem is immense and could not possibly be covered in one paper, or in one volume

Social Systems and Psychic Confluence: Flash Mobs, Communications, and Agency

This dissertation involves two components: 1) an analysis of the history of flash mobs including detailed descriptions of specific flash mobs and 2) an exploration of what this analysis elucidates concerning the interaction between individuals and social structure. By focusing on the flash mob as a form of communication, the dissertation displays how the flash mob has communicated multiplicitously through various social systems (e.g. art, mass media, economy, politics) to achieve various and often divergent ends. Within this larger understanding of the interaction between flash mobs and social structure this dissertation also finds, through an application of Luhmannian systems theory, that individuals communicate through flash mobs in ways more similar than different from social systems. Most significantly, both individuals and social structures interpenetrate with other systems to communicate via flash mob. Luhmann views social systems as quasi-independent systems that, while determined by their own internal structure, borrow on each other to achieve continued existence an act he calls interpenetration. I argue that within this interpenetration individuals, by acting in a like manner to social systems, experience psychic confluence−a phenomenon in which both individuals and social systems simultaneously influence and alter one another. In this space, despite systems quasi-autonomy, human agency (an individual’s ability to affect social structure) and structure (social structure’s ability to affect individuals) are opened to each other in the self-same moment. Through the analysis of flash mobs, this dissertation illustrates how it may be more instructive not to understand structure and agency as separate, diametrically opposed causal influences, but as co-existing potentialities defined by the same process

The series limited liability company: Innovative, flexible … and complicated

Since the introduction of the limited liability company (LLC) in the United States of America, various states have recognised the need to experiment with ways of improving the limited liability this structure offers. Of particular interest in this regard is the development of the series LLC. The series LLC was intended to provide a more flexible manner for businesses to conduct their activities, while preventing the risks of liability from affecting the entire LLC enterprise. However, uptake of the series LLC has been slow. This can allegedly be ascribed to uncertainty about how this structure may be utilised for commercial purposes, as its relation to business law remains, to a large extent, unresolved. This article examines these uncertainties, including the “separateness” of the series LLC, the recognition of the limited liability it affords, the application of bankruptcy law, taxation, as well as the fiduciary duties attached to the structure. Certain recommendations are made to ease the way forward, while further legal development is awaited. First, series LLC statutes need to specifically provide for all the rights of each series as well as the rights reserved for the master LLC. Secondly, these statutes must specify a default rule for the measure of “separateness” between the master LLC and each series. Finally, series statutes ought to provide for notice of the limited liability of each series to creditors of the LLC

Digital Literacy in the Age of Virtual Reality: Lessons from a Digitally Infused Pilot in a First-Year Undergraduate Research Seminar Course

Because Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming widely used across many sectors of society, it is imperative that we prepare students for the next level of digital literacy skills necessary in a virtual workspace/place. Lessons from the infusion of VR technology into the first-year research program will be shared

Evaluation of 3‐benzylthiomethyl chlorothiazide A new oral diuretic

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/117245/1/cpt196012175.pd

Ongoing Revisions to a First-Year Seminar Program: Building Students’ Digital Literacies through Podcasts

A discussion of ongoing revisions to a First-Year Seminar program at a small liberal arts college. We discuss integrating digital literacies through a podcasting assignment, consider faculty development necessary to support these changes, and share key takeaways from students who participated in revised sections

Rebonding Anomic Communities with Theatre of the Oppressed

This thesis explores whether Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) can help anomic communities, affected by deindustrialization and globalization, in the U.S. Midwest, specifically looking at Saginaw, MI. After presenting a paper at the American Symposium for Theatre Research (ASTR) conference in 2009, the author attended a Theatre of the Oppressed facilitator training in Port Townsend, WA under the direction of Marc Weinblatt. She then conducted her own Theatre of the Oppressed workshop in Saginaw, MI to analyze the abilities of Theatre of the Oppressed in an anomic community. Each experience is detailed and followed by the author’s conclusions and hopes for Theatre of the Oppressed in the Midwest

Thesis Proposal for: General and Specific Definitions: A Network Study of Differential Association

This study examines a largely unexplored aspect of Sutherland’s (1974) model of differential association: the interplay of general and crime specific definitions favorable towards crime. Do individuals learn the specific techniques of a type of crime through interactions or do social interactions produce a general disposition towards all types of criminal behavior? Little prior research has been done on the influence of these definitions. Instead studies focus on only one or another, which leaves the details of general/specific definitions unexplored. With the aid of a mixed methodology of statistical and network analysis, this study explores general/specific definitions simultaneously by focusing on relationships between egos and alters. If alters commit similar crimes, it is likely that crime specific definitions are being learned; if crimes are dissimilar then general definitions are more likely. Using police data on a known criminal network located in an urban capital, I test the relationship between the criminal behaviors of egos and alters. The study also compares the centrality of the node to the commonality of crime they commit. This provides an understanding of how key nodes in the network affect the dissemination of criminal definitions. Overall, while variations exist for criminal types, the study finds that crime specific definitions dominate the network and, therefore, have greater influence over respondents’ criminal behavior. Conversely, I found no clear pattern which indicates that high centrality nodes commit more common crimes. This may indicate that high centrality nodes are responsible for disseminating general definitions of crime while most nodes communicate crime specific definition