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Search the Channel search http://dspace.swem.wm.edu/dspace/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/10288/587 Title: Italian Culture and Society—An Exploration Through Select Italian Films <br/> <br/>Authors: Wolfenbarger, Amanda Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:37:07 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10288/586 Title: Uncovering the "Tribe": Long Island Native American Culture <br/> <br/>Authors: Schindler, Jennifer Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:49:02 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10288/574 Title: Mental Rotation and its Relationship with Motoric Accessibility: An ERP study assessing the effects of a physical barrier on spatial discrimination. <br/> <br/>Authors: Lupo, Andrew M. <br/> <br/>Description: Considered the hallmark for research on mental rotation, Shepard and Metzler’s (1971) experiment constructed the foundation for the investigation into cognitive processes guiding rotational movement of objects in a space. Their data showed that behavioral reaction time increases as a monotonic function of angular disparity, indicating that participants, upon viewing a spatially-altered object, mentally rotate a comparison figure in order to discriminate for the purposes of matching. Later research conducted on rotation of human body parts (i.e. hands) indicates that this particular motor rotation requires the influence of egocentric proprioceptive (i.e fine muscle movement) information (Parsons, 1995) Based on a study conducted by Thayer and Johnson (2006) to investigate the cerebral structures involved in mental rotation, the current study utilized ERP technology to measure the cortical activation between a hand barrier and a hand non-barrier group. Thirty undergraduate participants were randomly assigned equally to the two above-mentioned groups and given a right versus left hand discrimination task. Behavioral results indicate an increase in reaction time with angular departure from conical orientation, while the ERP data reveal significant late negative complex (LNC) and N1 activation increases for the occipital and parietal cortices in the barrier compared to the non-barrier group. This finding suggests that physical barriers inhibiting motoric cueing can significantly modulate cortical activity associated with the performance of a biomechanical - possible anatomical movement - rotation task. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:05:34 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10288/573 Title: Newly Discovered Mesozoic Basins in the Virginia Blue Ridge: Sedimentology, Provenace, Structure, and Tectonics <br/> <br/>Authors: Hartmann, Ari <br/> <br/>Description: Deposits of iron-oxide cemented conglomerate and coarse sandstone were recently discovered in northern Albemarle County and southern Madison County, in the eastern Blue Ridge Province of north central Virginia. These deposits are interpreted to represent remnant Mesozoic rift basins on the basis of deformational age constraints, sedimentary provenance, and lithologic similarity and proximity to other Mesozoic sedimentary rocks. Mesozoic rift basins occur along eastern North America and were formed by tensile stresses from the breakup of Pangea and the birth of the Atlantic Ocean in the mid to late-Triassic and early Jurassic. The Beautiful Run Basin (new name) in Madison County is comprised of two erosionally separated ~100-200 m wide iron-oxide cemented conglomerate and sandstone deposits bounded by a normal fault trending 040 on their NW side. The Burnley Basin (Nelson, 1962) in Albemarle County is comprised of two erosionally separated ~50-100 m wide iron-oxide cemented conglomerate and sandstone deposits. In contrast to the Beautiful Run Basin, the Burnley Basin displays structural complexity, and may occur along a right stepping segment of the same normal fault. Both the Beautiful Run and Burnley basins abut a 10-400 m belt of graphite schist. This belt of graphite schist, called the Johnson Mill Member (Allen, 1963) of the Lynchburg Group, acted as a detachment surface during Mesozoic extension and controlled basin formation. Clast assemblage analyses on the Burnley Basin and Beautiful Run Basin reveal a local provenance. Similar analyses of conglomerates of the Culpeper and Barboursville Basins depict a larger westerly source area. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:24:10 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10288/572 Title: Prostitution and the Representation of Anxiety in London, 1723-1870 <br/> <br/>Authors: Booth, Maria Dale <br/> <br/>Description: The goal of my research is to investigate the ways in which prostitutes, and specifically prostitutes in public spaces, were used as a symbol for the multiple fears that arose in British society during the long nineteenth century. These fears ranged in content from economic anxieties, to the control of women, to more specific concerns over public health and international relations. The rhetoric used against prostitutes coincides with the progression of these anxieties, suggesting that the true nature of public concern over prostitutes was not necessarily about sex as a commodity; rather, these women acted as an outlet through which contemporaries could express their broader, perhaps more complicated fears during the period, many of which related directly to the use of public space. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:36:31 GMT