Cape Wind: Public values and perceptions Application of contingent valuation method

The Cape Wind proposal to build 130 turbines in Nantucket sound has been a central figure in development of renewable energy in New England. The aim of this study was two fold. First, the contingent valuation method was used to estimate an economic value the public has on policy for the preservation of Nantucket sound, within the scopes of the project. The second goal was to identify lessons that could be learned from the Cape Wind proposal and applied to future renewable energy projects in New England. Results revealed that the public has a positive economic value for a policy that would allow the resources of Nantucket Sound to be used as a wind park. Lessons that can be applied to future renewable energy developments include increasing public involvement in the early stages of planning and increasing public education on renewable energy

Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra Strings featuring Jonathan Steltzer, Soprano Saxophone Soloist and 2018 KSU Concerto Winner

This performance of the KSU Wind Ensemble, led by Dr. David Kehler, Director of Bands and Professor of Music, and string players from the KSU Symphony Orchestra, led by Dr. Nathaniel Parker, Director of Orchestral Studies and Assistant Professor of Music, features Jonathan Steltzer, winner of the 2018 KSU Concerto Competition on soprano saxophone.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2036/thumbnail.jp

Feministische Theorie und feministische Linguistik

Die feministische Forschung zu Sprache und Geschlecht hat sich als interdisziplinäres Unternehmen etabliert, das immer wieder durch verschiedene Methoden und Denktraditionen anderer Disziplinen stimuliert wurde und wird. Gerade deshalb spielen kontinuierliche Versuche, Analysekategorien, sprachtheoretische Grundannahmen und Perspektiven zu hinterfragen und zu präzisieren eine wichtige Rolle. Besonders durch die Einflüsse der Queerforschung auf die feministische Theorie seit Anfang der 199oer Jahre kam es zu einer Problematisierung der Sexualität und ihrer Beziehung zu Gender. Dieser Ansatz ist von der Feministischen Linguistik noch wenig berücksichtigt worden. Aber gerade die Dekonstruktion des Sex/Gender Modells wirft wichtige Fragen für die Feministische Linguistik auf, was die Konzeption der Beziehung von Sprache und Gender anbelangt. In den meisten Untersuchungen der Feministischen Linguistik, die entweder geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede im Gesprächsverhalten oder als sexistisch kritisierten Sprachgebrauch analysieren, wird Gender als eine dem Sprechen vorgängige Kategorie angenommen. Die neue feministische Theorie, wie sie beispielsweise von Judith Butler vertreten wird, stellt eine derartige Annahme radikal infrage und stellt somit eine Herausforderung für die Feministische Linguistik dar. Die feministische Sprachkritik, die mit sprachpolischen Maßnahmen wie Richtlinien und Empfehlungen zu einem geschlechtergerechten Sprachgebrauch einen deutlich merkbaren Sprachwandel, was die Verwendung von Personenreferenzformen betrifft, eingeleitet hat, ist eine wichtige Kraft im feministischen Bestreben Geschlechterhierarchien aufzuzeigen und zu bekämpfen. Mit der Forderung nach sprachlicher Sichtbarmachung von Frauen und dem Beharren auf geschlechtsspezifischen Formen für die Personenreferenz, wird aber auch eine dichotome Geschlechterordnung verfestigt und nicht problematisiert. Eine verstärkte Auseinandersetzung mit der neuen feministischen Theorie wird zu einer verstärkten Reflexion über das eigene Forschungsgebiet und die Verwendung der Kategorie „Geschlecht“ führen.Since its beginnings in the 1970s feminist linguistics has developed into an interdisciplinary field of research on gender and language. Different methods and approaches have stimulated this field of study and have produced productive tensions and discussions. Therefore it is extremely important to continually question and to make explicit the categories of analysis and the linguistic theories used in the different approaches. Since the 1990s feminist theory has been especially stimulated by queer theory and has developed a new approach to the study of gender. The deconstruction of the Sex/Gender model raises important questions, which most feminist linguists still have to face. Both, feminist research on gender-specific ways of speaking and on sexist language take the category of gender as something that exists prior to language. Researchers of both groups have to rethink their concepts of the relationship between language and gender so that they do not inadvertently reinforce gender polarization and the myths of essential female-male difference. While feminist language reform has proved successful in initiating a remarkable language change during a comparably short period of time, there remains the problem that many of the advised strategies at least in German-speaking countries, which aim at gender-specific linguistic representation in language, strengthen the idea of a binary dichotomy. The new feminist theory presents a challenge to feminist linguistics: rethinking the category gender in their own research. This could lead to challenging new questions

Sanford Berman

Seit der Veröffentlichung seines Buches "Prejudices and antipathies" (1971), einer Abhandlung über tendenziöse Terminologie in den Library of Congress Subect Headings (LCSH), ist Sanford „Sandy“ Berman (geb. 1933) als lautstarker und unermüdlicher Kritiker des bibliothekarischen Mainstream der USA bekannt. Die vorliegende Arbeit soll einen Überblick über Bermans Wirken als Bibliothekar und Aktivist bieten, darunter sein Bemühen um benutzerfreundlichere Kataloge, sein sozialer Aktivismus, sein Einsatz für „alternative“ Materialien in Bibliotheken und sein Engagement im Kampf gegen Zensur und die Kommerzialisierung von Bibliotheken. Das zentrale Kapitel der Arbeit ist Bermans bis heute andauernder Kritik an der Terminologie der LCSH gewidmet.Since the publication (in 1971) of his book "Prejudices and antipathies", a tract about biased terms in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), Sanford „Sandy“ Berman (b. 1933) has been known as an outspoken and ceaseless critic of mainstream American librarianship. This thesis aims to provide an overview of Berman's work as an activist librarian, including (but not limited to) his struggle for more user-friendly catalogs, his social activism, his advocacy for „alternative“ materials in libraries, and his campaigning against censorship and the commercialization of libraries. The thesis' central chapter is devoted to Berman's continuing critique of LCSH terminology

Percussion Ensemble Fall Concert

KSU Percussion Ensemble, led by director John Lawless, performs an exciting program of repertoire for various groupings of percussion instruments and players.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2154/thumbnail.jp

Kiri Karl Morgensternile, Moscau

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Senior Recital: Jacob Martinez, Saxophone

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Music Education. Mr. Martinez studies saxophone with Luke Weathington.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2285/thumbnail.jp

When a good is a bad (or a bad is a good) - analysis of data from an ambiguous nonmarket valuation setting

This paper analyses data from a contingent valuation experiment carried out in a context with large degree of preference heterogeneity and valuation ambiguity. Despite this challenge, by implementing estimation of an unrestricted valuation function on pooled data from two elicitation formats, utilizing all preference information available from the survey, we are able to estimate welfare measures with an acceptable degree of statistical confidence. It turns out that an offshore wind farm, a priori believed to constitute a bad that people would be willing to pay to avoid, instead was a good that people would be willing to forego under compensation. This was true on average but not for all study participants. Two key determinants of preferences were spatial proximity to the proposed wind farm and perceptions of the visual impacts of wind turbines. Individuals who would be near and thought wind turbines are “ugly” had a mean willingness to pay to avoid the wind farm of about $508 per household per year. In contrast, those who would be far away and perceived wind turbines to be “beautiful” had a negative mean willingness to pay to avoid the wind farm of about −$595 per household per year.publishedVersio

12 kirja Karl Morgensternile, Moskau

Lisa:Chr. J. L. Steltzeri käsikirjaline luuletus: Georgs von Oldenburg Tod. (l.136-136v)http://tartu.ester.ee/record=b1806074~S1*es