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This volume of original poetry is prefaced by a critical introduction examining the narrative distancing strategies present in Louise Glück’s The Seven Ages. The introduction focuses on the tendency of Glück’s speakers to create distance between themselves and volatile emotions and addresses these distancing techniques in groupings of childhood, adolescent, adult, and domestic poems. In a larger context, the introduction examines how Glück’s speakers ultimately construct their own identities and define autonomous boundaries by both attempting to adhere to prescribed ideals and rejecting conventional depictions of womanhood. The subsequent collection of poetry seeks to define the existing boundaries between self and other in both family and love relationships, to examine the impossibility of returning to or sharing in any truthful way our separate pasts, and to define personal truths in the middle distance between that which we have been taught and that which we have learned.

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Approved for public release, distribution unlimited / A 12-inch diameter, 1.5-inch span crossflow fan test apparatus was constructed and tested using the existing Turbine Test Rig (TTR) as a power source. Instrumentation was installed and a data acquisition program was developed to measure the performance of the crossflow fan. Performance measurements were taken over a speed range of 1,000 to 7,000 RPM. Results comparable to those measured by Vought Systems Division of LTV Aerospace in 1975 were obtained. At 6,000 RPM, a thrust-to-power ratio of one was determined; however, at 3,000 RPM twice the thrust-to-power ratio was measured. Flow visualization was conducted using dye-injection methods. Performance and flow visualization results were compared to predictions obtained from 2-D numerical simulation conducted using Flo++, a commercial PC-based computational fluid dynamics software package by Softflo. A possible design for a light civil V/STOL aircraft was suggested using a similar crossflow fan apparatus for both lift and propulsion. / Lieutenant, United States Navy

Thesis (M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Garth V. Hobson, Raymond P. Shreeve. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-70). Also available online.

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The study of the ionosphere over the sunrise period is necessary for an understanding of the vtiriations in layer structure with time and has been a topic of research of many workers. On the whole these investigations have been restricted to a study of critical frequency variations with relatively short intervals of a few minutes between successive records, of N-h curves deduced from ionograms with long intervals (15 minutes or so) between successive N-h curves or of continuously monitored single frequency reflections. Not one of the three techniques is entirely satisfactory for a detailed study of ionospheric behaviour over sunrise. The first two do not give a sufficiently clear indication of what happens in the initial stages of layer development, while from the third incomplete data is obtained as to what is happening at a specific electron-density level. For this reason a preliminary investigation of the ionosphere over sunrise was made at Rhodes University during August, 1959. The records were obtained at four-and-a-half minute intervals and scaled by the method of KELSO (1952 ). "Many of t he results were inconclusive but it appeared that records would have to be taken at approximately one minute intervals and reduced to N-h curves by a scaling technique which made full allowance for low-level ionization if useful results were to be obtained. An attempt has been made in this thesis to investigate the behaviour of the ionosphere over sunrise more fully than can be done by the three techniques referred to. A number of observed phenomena are also examined. Part I deals with the theoretical background to ionosphere physics in general and describes the equipment, equipment modifications and experimental procedure. Part II presents the results obtained. The records for a largescale travelling disturbance are analysed. Various observed phenomena are described and discussed. A simple method of obtaining production rates from experimental data is described. The implications of the observed variations of production rates with height and time are discussed. Suggestions for further research and improvement of the methods used arc made in Charter 9.

No abstract / Mini Dissertation (MPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2019. / Public Law / MPhil / Unrestricted

This case study presents a comprehensive discussion of economic and administrative impacts of riverboat gaming on a small city, Rising Sun, Indiana. The history of gaming is traced in the United States, Indiana, and Rising Sun. Evidence suggests that most of the impacts in Rising Sun have been positive financially. It allows for upgraded infrastructure, new city building construction and improved community services. Two foundations have been created to help surrounding communities and Rising Sun, as well as an unique revenue sharing plan that encompasses counties and cities beyond Rising Sun and Ohio County. The study also determines that the riverboat casino has not helped existing businesses in the community, and that "economic development" of those businesses has not flourished because of the gaming casino. Administratively, this study does suggest that the casino's revenues and presence has affected changes in the town's leadership, as well as small increases in crime and other social impacts. / Department of Political Science

The proliferation of gaming in America has increasingly brought certain development pressures to bear on historic resources and has been an emerging issue in the field of historic preservation for the last decade. Early experiments to harness gaming as a catalyst for preservation activity in four historic mining communities in South Dakota and Colorado received much attention. More recently, riverboat casinos have affected historic communities throughout the Midwest. From the standpoint of preservation, these examples have had both positive and negative effects for historic resources. This study examines some of the lessons learned and uses them to illuminate the case of Rising Sun, a small rural community in southeastern Indiana with a casino riverboat. The goal is to determine whether gaming development, if properly planned, situated, and regulated, can be a positive force for preservation activity while still maintaining the original character of the host community. / Department of Architecture