East Bay Coalition for the Homeless Project: Final Report

The report suggests strategies that can be incorporated into the current work flow and builds upon the current work of the EBCH. The report also presents ways in which to create a more efficient platform for completing marketing tasks, creating opportunities for awareness and knowledge of the EBCH, and increasing consideration of the EBCH as a potential donation focus

Performance of a spin-based insulated gate field effect transistor

Fundamental physical properties limiting the performance of spin field effect transistors are compared to those of ordinary (charge-based) field effect transistors. Instead of raising and lowering a barrier to current flow these spin transistors use static spin-selective barriers and gate control of spin relaxation. The different origins of transistor action lead to distinct size dependences of the power dissipation in these transistors and permit sufficiently small spin-based transistors to surpass the performance of charge-based transistors at room temperature or above. This includes lower threshold voltages, smaller gate capacitances, reduced gate switching energies and smaller source-drain leakage currents.Comment: 4 pages including 3 figures, APL in pres

Alumni Showcase

Below is a document containing the combined remarks delivered by six Illinois Wesleyan alumni about their experiences with collaborative engagement and the liberal arts. Martha Aguirre, Class of 2017, created this transcript, based on outlines provided by some of the speakers and the recording available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FptKx2P9oVg The speakers\u27 photographs and this transcript are also available for download here.https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jensen_inauguration/1008/thumbnail.jp

Senior Class Banquet Invitation, April 29, 1945

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Evolutionary quantitative genetics of animal personality in the wild

Individuals within populations often show repeatable behavioural differences which reflect variation in personality. In contrast to human personality, which has been extensively studied by psychologists for several decades, animal personality has only recently drawn the attention of behavioural ecologists. Animal personality is now known as a widespread phenomenon in nature and has been increasingly studied over the last 15 years due to its important ecological and evolutionary implications. Importantly, the mere existence and maintenance of personality, when individuals are expected to be behaviourally flexible, remains a puzzle which needs to be solved. The bulk of animal personality studies aims at understanding the evolution and causation of animal personality, and has shown that personality is often related to individual performance such as survival and reproductive success. In this context, quantitative genetics provide a framework to study the evolution of animal personality. This is because personality traits vary continuously within populations and can be considered as quantitative traits comparable to size, determined by many genes which are inherited according to Mendelian rules. Unfortunately, the uptake of ideas and concepts of quantitative genetics to the study of animal personality has been slow and questions related to personality development, although essential to understand its evolution, have been understudied. The main aim of my thesis is to provide a quantitative genetics view of personality in a wild population of blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). The research presented in this thesis addresses a range of classical themes in evolutionary quantitative genetics in the context of animal personality evolution, that is, heritability, genetic correlations, (correlated) selection and plasticity. Indeed, quantitative genetic approaches were applied to two behavioural responses to handling measured in adults and nestlings and showed that that these two responses are heritable and reflect aspects of blue tits’ personality. Although these personality traits are genetically correlated in nestlings, the genetic correlation between them disappears in adults because of developmental plasticity. In addition, the personality traits measured in adults are linked to their survival and reproductive success, and one of these traits shows an age-related decline which is consistent with predictions from evolutionary theories of senescence. Finally, a variance-partitioning description of assortative mating shows that the approach traditionally used for estimating assortative mating in fixed traits is largely inappropriate when applied to labile traits such as behaviour. Alternative approaches allowing for a better estimation of assortative mating and other sources of phenotypic resemblance between mated partners are then introduced. In addition to providing some methodologies and examples to facilitate the use of quantitative genetics in the study of personality, this thesis shows the merits of adopting this framework, which has the potential to move personality research further. This is because applying quantitative genetics to the study of animal personality not only enables answering questions that have been overlooked, such as age-related plasticity, but also gives insight into potential mechanisms maintaining variation in personality

Causee Case in Gipuzkoan Basque

This paper examines this the case properties of causees in Gipuzkoan Basque and proposes a syntactic model to explain these case properties. In Gipuzkoan Basque, the subjects of transitive and unergative predicates receive dative case when embedded in a causative, whereas the subjects of unaccusatives receive absolutive (de Rijk 2008). This pattern differs from other dialects of Basque, with the consequence that syntactic models of causatives used for other Basque dialects do not capture this alternation well. I look at two of these models used for other dialects and show that they can’t correctly explain the case properties of Gipuzkoan causees, before proposing my own model. In particular, I propose that in Gipuzkoan causatives external arguments are introduced in an applicative phrase (ApplP), where they receive inherent dative case, whereas internal arguments are introduced as the complement of the verb root, where they receive structural absolutive case from v

Tri-State High School Handbook, 1943

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In partial fulfilment of theory exam

Course manager: Theodor Barth: Invited external sensors: Bojana Cvejic (Dance dpt. KHiO), Håkon Caspersen (KHM). Pedagogic framework: Learning theatre w/QUADs.In the left column: Essays in partial fulfilment of theory exam in the MA programme/design (numbered in the sequence appearing in the INDEX below). The course is called DE551|Theory3—Synthesis, and includes the students from the MA programme as a whole. In a second half of the theory exam the students did an oral presentation of their professional outlook (NB! after the essay) in each their specialisation: I) Graphic Design & Illustration (GI); II) Clothing & Costume design (KK); III) Interior architecture & Furniture design (IM). The presentations were public, with the attendance class/QUADs and the professional staff. _____________ INDEX 1—Zarina Saidova/GI: 9,5 Spørsmål jeg stilte meg selv om tegneserier rett før jeg laget frokost, og ett etter at jeg så ut av vinduet; 2—Morteza Vaseghi/KK: Why I do what I do; 3—Marte Nesdal/IM: Liminality in space. Thresholds, transitions and in-between; 4—Levi Holt Bratland/GI: jeg har tenkt på folkekunst; 5—Lydia Hann/KK: The skin we wear. Specific costuming through the narrative of the Selkie; 6—Mohammad Ghasemi/IM: Souvenirs from limbo; 7—Øyvind Rogstad/GI: Kognitive lese- og skrivevansker i møte med tekst; 8—Ingrid Pettersson/KK: Møter med sprett. 9—Ali Onat Türker/IM: Everyday world, circular ruins and the realm of constant becoming; 10—Frode Helland/GI: The cult of the sans-serif; 11—Amanda Vesthardt/KK: Textile installation art; 12—Rita Kinuthia/IM: Transcending time; 13—Kine Kolstad/GI: De viktige tingene; 14—Eyrunn Müller/KK: A trilogy. From the interior to the exterior; 15—JP Lasco/IM: Reflections | Oslo olsO | snoitcelfeR; 16—Aina Piao/GI: Such stuff that dreams are made of; 17—Emmanuel Prempeh/KK: Mimesis (recreating instances of human experience); 18— Tobias Bang/IM: Synthesis; 19— Julie Kristensen/GI: Slott og andre drømmer; 20—Sophie Solveig Cabrera/KK: Personal gods. Designing gods and creatures; 21— Espen Grønberg/GI: Tømmervase; 22—Helena Fremerey/IM: Student Life in a Former Swimming Pool.updatedVersio

Upright Posture and Gendered Styles of Body Movements in The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot predicates the two principal characters of her second novel, The Mill on the Floss (1860), not on fixed traits but on gendered differences in styles of body movement. This chapter approaches the interplay of medicine and mobility through the lens of the feminist phenomenology of perception, situating Eliot’s configuration of the gendered scripts of posture in the proto-orthopaedic discourse of Victorian disciplinary power. The comparison of the characters’ growth into manhood and womanhood showcases Tom Tulliver’s increasing compliance with correct masculine posture and his sister Maggie’s persistent tomboyism in adulthood. Monika Class contends that Eliot’s realist novel engages critically with Victorian postural standards and thus conveys the link of medical and moral norms in a vision towards variable, and even untamed, gender identities. Above all, the configuration of the heroine expands the Victorian repertoire of feminine body movement