The study of the social dimensions of Shakespeare's art is represented by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, C.L. Barber, Robert Weimann, Edward Berry, and Michael Bristol. Their work analyzes the background in Elizabethan social practices and popular dramatic traditions that contribute to the form, structure, and meaning of Shakespeare's comedies....
Bidirectional reflectance is a fundamental property
used for the analysis of radiative heat transfer. It is a
form of reflectivity in which the spectral and directional
dependencies of both the beam incident on a surface and the
beam reflected from the surface are specified.
A new system has been designed...
This study identified some of the ways that multiethnic women describe their ethnic
identities, how they perceive ethnic-specific gender identities and what they think are
appropriate norms for, and effective outcomes of, communicative behavior. Twelve
multiethnic women described their ethnic identity names or labels, and ethnic-specific gender
identities; they also...
During the operation of phase-change ink-jet printers a bubble formation
phenomenon often occurs. These bubbles are detrimental to the operation of
the printer and substantial efforts are made to remove them. The objective of
this research was 1: to develop a fundamental understanding of how bubble or
void formation occurs...
A historical overview of Latino enrollment in the community college is resented. Thirty Latino occupational, transfer, and non-credit students attending
an Oregon college were interviewed, examining
educational and familial background, and
college services as indicators of their
decision to pursue postsecondary studies at
the two-year institution. Results are
analyzed, supplemented...
This study investigated the laboratory performance of crumb rubber modified
mixtures compared to a standard bituminous mixture using performance based test
procedures. This study was part of an asphalt resurfacing program for the Seattle
Washington area. Laboratory analyses were used to estimate the long term pavement
performance of these mixtures...
The primary purpose of this study was t determine the
difference in "career progress" and satisfaction between
cooperative education/internship graduates and non-coop/
intern graduates of a small, private, non-engineering
college. A secondary purpose was to determine which other
independent variables (age; gender; SAT score; GPA; percent
of related work) contributed...
The coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest are
affected by a variety of endemic fungal root pathogens. Forest
disease surveys have noted the presence of two or more of
these root pathogens infecting the same stump or root, and it
has been suggested that these fungi may be interacting
synergistically....
