OpenSIUC

Facebook Sharing Habits And Its Effect On Personal Privacy

Bryan M. Bubulka — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:44:15 PDT

Over the past several years many individuals have jumped on the social networking bandwagon to create Facebook accounts linking their lives to the outside world, over four hundred million according to Facebook (Facebook, 2012). Whether it’s your personal privacy or property, knowing what information to post or share on social networking sites such as Facebook could be the key in protecting both. This research will focus on possible privacy concerns within social networking sites using Richard Mason’s groundbreaking PAPA (Privacy, Accuracy, Property, and Accessibility) Framework (Mason, 1986). The PAPA Framework will be used to identify what is being shared on social networking sites and how publishing certain information can negatively affect an individual’s privacy. This research will revisit Mason’s PAPA Framework and apply it to today’s individual privacy risks concerning social net-working, primarily Facebook.

Revolutionary Identities and Competing Legitimacies: Why Pariah States Export Violence

Ari B. Weiss — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:44:13 PDT

Amid the burgeoning literature on international norms, the study of states that violate them, so called pariahs, remains sparse (Shannon 2000). Although recent studies of pariah states have the identified numerous ways in which they break international norms, we do not know why they pursue one action over another (E.g Geldenhuys 2004, Nincic 2005). I argue that the export of violence is caused by the state’s "revolutionary identity" which leads to the adoption of competing and incompatible norms. Using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) I test this against other alternate and prevailing hypotheses, demonstrating that a combination of sovereignty, existential threat, and either irredentism or a revolutionary identity is necessary to cause the export of violence. As an additional analysis, I examine this under the Cold War and Post-Cold War eras, achieving similar results.

DISCOVERING ARISTOTLE: AN EXAMINATION OF HIS LIFE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIS IMMUTABLE BRILLIANCE

Timothy H. Sparling — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:11:48 PDT

A synoptic piece which addresses the life of Aristotle and analyzes the development of his philosophical thought, Discovering Aristotle: An Examination of his Life and the Development of his Immutable Brilliance reviews multiple facets of this thinker's being, ranging from his genealogy to his pedagogical and theoretical contributions, and serves as a standard of measurement through which his vast works may be studied, thus granting his "exoteric" or early works with a certain preponderance in the text itself. Additionally, a respectable number of appendices, which are extremely relevant to Aristotle's world, are also included in the work; these provide the reader with a slew of useful supplementary material to aid him or her in their attempt to elucidate his reality as he knew it in a manner which may provide contemporary scholars with further insight into the psyche of one of humanity's most brilliant minds.

Takarazuka for the Family: Japanese All-Women’s Musical Theater and Traditional Gender Perceptions

Kay Satoh — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:52:38 PDT

Takarazuka, the Japanese all-female musical theater troupe has been inspiring Japanese audiences since 1913, when it first began as a place for training young girls to becoming ryosai kenbo, or “good wives, wise mothers.” The women are assigned either as a musumeyaku (daughter-role) or otokoyaku (male-role) when performing on stage. The founder, Ichizo Kobayashi hoped that the training through the Takarazuka Music School as well as the experience of performing male roles would strengthen the character of these young women, ultimately preparing them for marriage. Around 1930, he also created the school motto, “Kiyoku, tadashiku, utsukushiku,” meaning “[With] purity, righteousness and beauty,” to clearly state the type of women Takarazuka was promoting. This paper will closely examine how Takarazuka influences the audience’s perception on gender roles and sexuality, and whether it challenges or supports the traditional family idealism.

Revolving Green Loan Funds and Implementation at SIUC

Carly Freiwald — Thu, 10 May 2012 06:58:20 PDT

Over the past few years revolving green loan funds have been implemented at about fifty schools all across the country to help fund sustainability projects on their campus. These green revolving funds are used to invest in sustainability projects that lower operating expenses, for example, energy bills. The savings that these projects produce then get sent back to the fund and are reinvested in additional projects. These loan funds have been incredibly helpful in furthering the sustainability goals of colleges, while also helping to save the universities money. My research included looking into how other universities are implementing these revolving loan funds, with a focus on universities in our peer group, to determine how Southern Illinois University can best implement one of these funds on our campus. I also spoke to stakeholders on campus to find out their ideas or opinions on the fund. Finally, I looked at examples of projects other universities have funded to gain insight on the best kinds of projects to fund in the future at SIU, once the loan fund is implemented. The goal of my research is to educate others on campus green loan funds and sustainability projects and to do everything possible to get a loan fund implemented on our campus.

A Phylogenetic Analysis of Polygyridae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) Based on Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data

Nicholas A. Defreitas — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:38:11 PDT

A Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) in Southern Illinois

George A. Feldhamer — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:50:08 PDT

The second record of a Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat from Illinois is reported. A young female was collected 18 October 1984 from Carbondale, Jackson County.

HOW LOCAL SCHOOLS CAN PROMOTE CIVICS EDUCATION

Suzanne Schmitz — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:19:05 PDT

Population Dynamics and Ecology of White-Tailed Deer in Illinois

Alan Woolf et al. — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:20:04 PDT

On a Diophantine Equation That Generates All Integral Apollonian Gaskets

Jerzy Kocik — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:08:03 PDT

A remarkably simple Diophantine quadratic equation is known to generate all, Apollonian integral gaskets disk packings. A new derivation of this formula is presented here based on inversive geometry. Also, occurrence of Pythagorean triples in such gaskets is discussed.

A Doubling Method for the Generalized Lambda Distribution

Todd C. Headrick et al. — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:03:04 PDT

This paper introduces a new family of generalized lambda distributions GLDs based on a method of doubling symmetric GLDs. The focus of the development is in the context of L-moments and L-correlation theory. As such, included is the development of a procedure for specifying double GLDs with controlled degrees of L-skew, L-kurtosis, and L-correlations. The procedure can be applied in a variety of settings such as modeling events and Monte Carlo or simulation studies. Further, it is demonstrated that estimates of L-skew, L-kurtosis, and L-correlation are substantially superior to conventional product-moment estimates of skew, kurtosis, and Pearson correlation in terms of both relative bias and efficiency when heavy tailed distributions are of concern.

BUT WHAT IS IT SAYING? TRANSLATING THE MUSICAL LANGUAGE OF STRAVINSKY’S THREE PIECES FOR CLARINET SOLO

Derek Emch — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:53:00 PDT

In response to questions of interpretation of his music, Igor Stravinsky has said simply to let the notes speak for themselves. In this paper I will translate the language of Stravinsky’s music in his Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo. I will demonstrate the following: how Stravinsky was able to derive a harmonic structure out of melodic content, thereby creating a two-dimensional space; the formal structure of each of the three Pieces; and relationships between Three Pieces and another of Stravinsky’s works, L’Histoire du Soldat. This analysis will serve as my translation of Stravinsky’s musical language, which will then be compared to scholarly research conducted regarding the Three Pieces.