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... myriad carbon, myriad silicon ... is inspired by the ubiquitous presence of carbon and silicon, elements fundamental to both nature and technology. These elements, interwoven into our daily lives, are manifest in the natural world around us, in the technology we use, and within ourselves. This piece delves into the intersection of the natural and technological realms, fostering a dialogue that extends beyond grand narratives. It focuses on the everyday interactions between nature’s organic creations and human-made technology. The music reflects this interplay, fluidly transitioning between organic and mechanical sounds, thus embodying the dualistic nature of our environment. However, the essence of the piece goes beyond a simple dichotomy of nature versus technology, exploring the subtleties of contemporary composition. The piece unfolds as a process, revealing layers of complexity and subtlety, without making any definitive statements.

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Call number: LD2668 .T4 1948 N44 / Master of Science

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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 17-20, 1994 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / The Space Station Verification and Training Facility is using an object-oriented design methodology for software design, a rate monotonic scheduling and message passing system to support the highly distributed environment, and the Ada language to implement most of the software. One of the subsystems within the Space Station and Training Facility is the Space Network Simulator. Space Network simulators are used to provide training of ground controllers and flight crews, providing a model of real-world formats and protocols. This gives the controller the appearance of a real-world network, providing valuable training. To develop a simulation of the space network within this distributed environment, software objects are under development to dynamically simulate the existence of the space vehicle(s) and their communication components. Communication components include the on-board antennas, transponders, communication systems, and corresponding communication ground control facilities. Telemetry systems are used in the simulation to provide the control of actual data manipulation, as a function of the state of the simulated Space Network. The telemetry system automatically formats appropriate telemetry characteristics through mode and control commands. A software model is under development to provide a transparent interface between the software objects and the telemetry system, allowing the objects to execute without knowledge of the particular telemetry system in use. A transparent interface between the software and hardware, within this object-oriented methodology, reduces the propagation of change to software models as the interface requirements change.

This dissertation explores the ambiguities of professionalization for writing centers and presents an alternative way to approach what I believe is an inevitable process. Toward that end, my project is to examine how the discourse surrounding the professionalization of writing centers constructs scholars, tutors, teachers, and writing. In particular, the focus of my project is to compare how tutors' self-definitions of professionalism reflect/deflect how professionalism is defined in the scholarly literature and in arenas outside of academia. The conclusions I draw are based on my research of two local writing centers in two southwest universities as well as a survey of the intertwined histories of literature, composition studies, and writing centers, and my experience co-directing a writing center for two years. My final argument is that writing center workers ought to look outside of academia for organizational models more closely aligned to political activism such the civil rights movement and women's movement, and to capitalize on the interdisciplinary nature of writing center work to create a "participatory democracy," in which participants theorize from their experience and value the process over gaining expertise.