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The Empire of French Imperial Art: Jacques-Louis David and the Napoleonic Regime, 1799 to 1812
(2010-04-30)
This thesis deals with the relationship of art in Napoleonic France, with a specific focus of works glorifying Napoleon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon’s official court painter. The central focus of each image ...
Cepheid Variables in M33 and the Extragalactic Distance Scale
(2010-01-16)
The DIRECT project aims to improve the extragalactic distance ladder by discovering Cepheids and eclipsing binaries in M31 and M33. We present the detection of Cepheids and other variables in M33 based on data obtained by ...
Comparative Analysis of Second Language Instruction and Motivation
(2010-07-14)
How do we explain when high school students graduate and are barely able to
communicate Spanish? With the growth of global interdependence, students within the
United States need to be realistically prepared for an ...
À Table: The Impacts of Globalization on French Cuisine
(2010-07-14)
Cuisine is an important aspect of the French culture that has been developing for centuries. It is internationally known and considered by some to be the best in the world. However, as a result of globalization, the ...
The Euro as More than a Currency: How Salient is the European Single Currency to Europeans
(2010-07-14)
This study moves past traditional studies of euro approval based on demographics and examines the euro within a two dimensional identity framework. Using Eurobarometer survey data from both 2003 and 2008, this study ...
Credibility Factors in Professional Journalists' Versus User-Created Blogs
(2010-07-14)
During the past decade the professional news industry has continued to lose ground to citizen journalists and other alternative forms of news in the war for credibility and readers. At the same time, the Internet has ...
Environmental Aspects of Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles: Parametric Modeling and Preliminary Analysis
(2010-07-14)
Nuclear power has the potential to help reduce rising carbon emissions, but to be considered sustainable, it must also demonstrate the availability of an indefinite fuel supply as well as not produce any significant negative ...
The Color Lavender: Audience Reception, Adaptation, and Performance of The Color Purple
(2010-07-14)
Since its introduction to the world, Alice Walker?s The Color Purple has been recreated
in other media. Audiences are just as likely to have learned about Celie's journey from
the 1985 Warner Bros.' movie or the 2005 Tony ...
Modeling Plasma Flow in a Magnetic Nozzle with the Lattice-Boltzmann Method
(2010-07-14)
Magnetic nozzles must convert thermal or gyro energy of the plasma to thrust while also
inducing plasma detachment in order to be effective. Plasma detachment and methods to
induce plasma detachment are examined. In ...
Development of a Method Using BIM Technology to Determine the Utility Bill and Total Cost of Ownership of a Single-family Home
(2010-07-14)
Building Information Modeling (BIM) Technology has been around for several years and has proven to be very helpful in aiding engineers, architects, and contractors with their projects. BIM is a set of computer programs ...