Thesis--PlanA (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1999. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2717. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as, preliminary leaves [2-3]. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 31-33).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-203). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (M.A.)--Mills College, 2002. / Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Computer Science.

Information privacy is a paradoxical issue. Especially after Facebook, information privacy has become more important than before. College student Facebook users share a great deal of information on Facebook, and Facebook collects users’personal information. Users’ personal information on Facebook is linked to their identity; therefore negative consequences (privacy problems) have become possible on Facebook. This study focused on college students’ privacy concerns and awareness of privacy issues and settings. Moreover, heavy and light users’ privacy concerns were compared in this study. According to the survey results, privacy is still important to Facebook users and different privacy concerns exist among heavy and light users. Results also show that privacy on Facebook is not a simple thing. It is related to identity construction, users’ experience, and awareness of privacy implications. / text

The aim of this research is to investigate the social benefits generated by heritage conservation in the Eastern country – China. With economic booming in the urban area, the cultural built heritage is hardly got properly conservation resulting from primarily considering economic benefits other than environmental or social benefits. Nowadays, the social benefits have been recognized by experts and governments; however few studies were conducted in developing or Eastern countries. Thus, this research is appealing a completed picture of heritage conservation in China. This research was based on a review of relevant literature, in which heritage conservation, social benefits of heritage conservation and conservation in China are discussed. Case study is adopted in this research and Gulou area, since it is one of representative heritage conservation in China whose renew project draws much focus. Questionnaires are delivered to local residents in the site of case study –Gulou area in Beijing, China, together with several interviews. The findings underline that the social benefits mentioned in the contemporary literature are partly achieve in practice. Education about the heritage and public participation are particularly lacking. The main conclusion to be drawn from this work is that heritage-related celebrations and completed exhibition should get more consideration in heritage conservation, while there are constrains to conduct. / published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

The binding of [³H]flunitrazepam (FLU) to membranes prepared from mammalian brain, retina and kidney was investigated by means of conventional filtration assay techniques. In the mouse brain a study of the ontogeny of [³H]FLU binding was conducted. Specific [³H]FLU binding was present early in development and there was a rapid increase in receptor density (Bmax) during the first 2 weeks of neonatal life. This increase could be described by the function, a·eᵏˣ, where a = 1.8 pmol/brain, k = 0.23 weeks⁻¹ and x = time in weeks (r = 0.98). By 3-4 weeks of age, adult levels of [³H]FLU binding were reached (∼115 fmol/mg tissue). Notable changes in the equilibrium dissociation constant (K(d)) during development were not observed. γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) has previously been shown to increase the affinity of [³H]FLU binding in the adult rat brain; in the present studies this effect was shown to be present throughout the development of the mouse brain. Kinetic analyses of the GABA enhancement of [³H]FLU binding indicated that the change in K(d) was due to a decrease in the rate constant of dissociation (k₋₁). [³H]FLU binding has been shown to occur in the mammalian retina and it has all the characteristics of cerebral [³H]FLU binding. Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is toxic to retinal neurons and it was used to ascertain the putative cellular localization of retinal BZD binding sites. Nine weeks following neonatal MSG administration, histologic evidence showed the virtual absence of ganglion cells and a marked reduction in the number of inner nuclear neurons in MSG retinae. A corresponding 73 percent decrease in GABA content and a 77 percent decrease in the Bmax of [³H]FLU were found in the retinae from MSG treated rats as compared to controls. There were no significant changes in [³H]FLU binding in the cerebella, cerebral cortices and hypothalami from MSG treated rats. The binding of [³H]FLU was characterized for the rat kidney. Binding was specific, saturable and of moderately high affinity (Bmax, ∼320 fmol/mg tissue; K(d), ∼11 nM). Drug specificity studies with renal membranes showed that inhibition of [³H]FLU binding by various BZD's did not correlate either with their pharmacologic potency as anxiolytic agents or with their potency as inhibitors of [³H]FLU binding in the brain. An intrarenal distribution of specific [³H]FLU binding was found in the bovine kidney; specific binding was greatest in the outer cortex and virtually absent in the medulla, the minor calyx and the renal artery. In rats made hypertensive by simultaneous deoxycorticosterone acetate and NaCl administration, there was a significant 35-43 percent increase in the Bmax of renal [³H]FLU binding. Binding in the cerebral cortex of these animals was unchanged. The inhibition of [³H]FLU binding by a triazolopyridazine (CL 218,872) was studied in membranes prepared from bovine retina, rat cerebral cortex, cerebellum and kidney. The affinity of CL 218,872 for the inhibition of [³H]FLU binding was greatest in the cerebellum, followed by the retina, cerebral cortex and kidney (60, 150, 200, and 1,800 nM, respectively). The slope factors (Hill coefficients) were ∼1 for the kidney, ∼0.9 for the cerebellum and ∼0.7 for the cerebral cortex and retina. A nonlinear least squares regression analysis of the data from the cerebral cortex, retina and cerebellum gave an excellent fit for a model containing 2 binding sites. In washed membrane preparations from the cerebral cortex, cerebellum and retina, Kᵢ values for CL 218,872 were significantly decreased an average of 60 percent in the presence of 100 μM GABA. (+)Bicuculline could antagonize this effect of GABA. GABA had no effect upon the Kᵢ of CL 218,872 in renal membranes.

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This thesis examines contemporary art projects that are installed in unconventional sites in urban neighbourhoods. Using the conceptual framework of the neighbourhood imaginary, I propose that these local art practices utilize neighbourhood spaces to engage with nation, identity and citizenship practices within the contemporary discourse of globalization. The three art projects I investigate address different aspects of neighbourhood. Cuban artist René Francisco Rodriguez’s (René Francisco) project, El Patio de Nin, foregrounds the citizen in an urban neighbourhood. His project merges creativity and pedagogy with social service, and blurs the boundaries between art and life in order to comment on social conditions and citizenship practices. The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach (2006), by Toronto artist Iris Häussler, uses a home in an urban neighbourhood as a physical space in which to create an imaginary life to explore aspects of community, human behaviour and social values. The Swamp Ward Window, a Kingston-based curatorial project, takes advantage of the intimacy of the private home and the immediacy of the street to present artworks that explore the interface between public and private and everyday life in the community. Cornelius Castoriadis argues that the social imaginary emerges when the subconscious, the symbolic and action interact, not merely to reflect the outside world, but to create new meanings from which social change is possible. In my analysis, the neighbourhood imaginary resonates with the social imaginary, functioning as a conceptual laboratory for artists to experiment with the different meanings associated with neighbourhood, community and citizenship. I propose that a reengagement with the local, as part of a iii global discourse, provides an opportunity to examine art projects that manifest in neighbourhoods. And, while taking place in different socio-political circumstances, the shared condition of locality, I argue, provides a window through which the three projects envision linkages between aesthetic practices and public life. Finally, in order to critically consider local artistic practices in relation to globalization and the commodification of culture, this thesis engages those discourses of globalization that see culture as integral in new global economies. / Thesis (Master, Art History) -- Queen's University, 2008-02-29 13:04:52.207