Wearing Surface Testing: Yukon River Bridge

INE/AUTC 12.2

Structural Health Monitoring and Condition Assessment of Chulitna River Bridge

INE/AUTC 12.29 (Training Report) and INE/AUTC 12.30 (Sensor Selection and Field Installation Report

A Biography of Philip Ulmer

Philip Ulmer, a wealthy planter in southeast Georgia was born in 1783 probably in western Chatham County, Georgia. During his life, he fathered eleven children by two wives and died a wealthy man 1856, at the age of seventy-three. Since both Philip\u27s father and granr1rather also had the name of Philip Ulmer, this report will refer to the grandfather as Philip 1, the father as Philip II, and the son, the focus of this report, as Philip III.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/1154/thumbnail.jp

Someone Else is There:Presence,Embodiment and Aspects of Third Place Theory In World of Warcraft

Oldenburg\u27s (1999) theory of Third Place was used as a lens to determine whether World of Warcraft (WoW), a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), acts as a virtual third place where users go to engage in informal social interaction. Based on Shields\u27 (2003) seminal study on virtuality, WoW is examined as a liminality that exists between the physical realm and what exists in essence. Virtual communities exist on the threshold between the tangible and the iconic, creating a sort of liminality that allows us to feel them without actually having them present in a purely physical sense. Similarly, Third Places are examined as existing on the threshold between formal public life and private life. The study found that while WoW shares many aspects with Oldenburg\u27s Third Place, the theory as designed by the author does not stretch to accommodate the peculiarities of virtual places and the communities that exist within

Change amidst continuity? Assessing the 2018 regional elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Looking at regional elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is a complex task. It requires a simultaneous discussion of nationalization and congruence in Bosnian elections, the role of civic parties, the role of regional elections in overall party system fragmentation, and the impact of federalism and power-sharing on peace-building and state-building. For this paper, we use two primary analytical lenses. The first and most emphasized lens will be on developments in political competition within cantons and entities, and therefore largely within ethnic blocs. Due to limits imposed by power-sharing at the central state level, regional elections are where competition is most dynamic and responsive to voters. Of particular interest are challenges to SNSD’s (Alliance of Independent Social Democrats- Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata) predominant position in Republika Srpska in light of very visible popular protest against Milorad Dodik and his party, as well as the impact of ongoing fragmentation of civic parties in the Federation and canton elections. The second lens is the analysis of continuity and change in the linkage between canton and entity elections on the one hand and BiH-level elections on the other. This interaction is the driving force behind the distinctive features of the Bosnian party system, namely its high degree of congruence within regions and low congruence across regions, which results in a highly fragmented party system at the central state level. This paper includes a discussion of entity and cantonal elections in Bosnia in 2018, embedded in the discourse of party system change and continuity as well as congruence and fragmentation. However, we also link this discussion to BiH-level elections to demonstrate how peculiar the country is, but also how the elections at a regional and cantonal level help explain some of the problems of Bosnia as a whole

Visual Reconstructions of Language

This article discusses the central conceptual role that linguistics plays in Sarah Hulsey's visual art. By referencing the theory of generative grammar, she discusses how she creates visual analogs of sentences, sound patterns, and other linguistic structures through printmaking and artist’s books. Two projects are discussed, Diagraphia and The Space of Poetics, along with their influences, both visually and linguistically

The iconography of nationalism: icons, popular culture, and American nationalism

The Iconography of Nationalism: Icons, Popular Culture, and American Nationalism develops a model of cultural icons, defining icons as highly visible, culturally variable, and overdetermined auratic images. Situating icons within the context of mass reproduction technologies and American nationalism, this study seeks to demystify the simple images presented by infantile, national, and scapegoat icons in literature, film, and political rhetoric. This dissertation argues that icons participate in the American nationalist project by channeling citizens’ political and patriotic feelings through seemingly simple images. While acknowledging that icons are necessary to construct what Benedict Anderson calls “the imagined community” of the nation, this study complicates a quick and easy reading of an icon’s manifest content and uses narrative to reveal the latent content in images like Marilyn Monroe, Barbie, Mickey Mouse, Elvis Presley, Pocahontas, Uncle Sam, Big Brother, and Adolf Hitler