Denison University

About: Denison University is a education organization based out in Granville, Ohio, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 921 authors who have published 1828 publications receiving 41060 citations. The organization is also known as: Denison & DU.

Making fashion in the city: A case study of tailors and designers in Dakar, Senegal

Abstract: This article examines the interface between fashion production and the visual experience associated with urban life in Dakar, Senegal. It focuses on tailors and fashion designers to explore how their relationship to the city informs their creative practices and the processes of making fashion. Both tailors and fashion designers locate their creative practice in Dakar by attributing their engagement with the city's visual and conceptual matrix as fundamental to fashion making. In addressing the interplay between fashion production and the urban environment, this discussion further considers the dynamics of artistic positioning and the complex intersections between local and global inflections. This analysis underscores the imbrication of fashion in Dakar and the city's conceptual and visual landscape, the street and the mass media, and finally dialogues within and beyond Africa. Not only do fashion makers select visual and conceptual elements from the urban ocular field. By creating new proposition...

Predictions of Normative Drug Use by College Students

Abstract: The Core Alcohol and Drug Survey was administered to 2,642 students between 1993 and 1996 at three liberal arts colleges. Overall, the average predicted drug use was significantly higher (p <0.0005) than the average reported use for 8 of the 11 drugs surveyed. However, an analysis by level of reported use for the three most popular drugs (tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana) showed that the predicted average use was about the same at each level of reported use. “False Consensus” and “False Uniqueness” effects were discussed. Moreover, the effectiveness of intervention programs may depend upon perceptions as to how much other people use drugs relative to oneself.

High-resolution neutron capture and transmission measurements, and the stellar neutron-capture cross section of 88 Sr

Abstract: We have made new and improved measurements of the neutron capture and total cross sections for Sr-88 at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator (ORELA). Improvements over previous measurements include a wider incident neutron energy range, better resolution, the use of metallic rather than carbonate samples, better background subtraction, reduced sensitivity to sample-dependent backgrounds, and better pulse-height weighting functions. Because of its small cross section, the Sr-88(n,gamma) reaction is an important bottleneck during s-process nucleosynthesis. Hence, an accurate determination of this rate is needed to better constrain the neutron exposure in s-process models and to better understand the recently discovered isotopic anomalies in certain meteorites. We performed an R-matrix analysis of our capture and transmission data to extract parameters for 101 resonances between 100 eV and 350 keV. In addition, we fitted our transmission data alone to extract parameters for 342 additional resonances between 350 and 950 keV. We used this information to calculate average properties of the Sr-88+ n system for comparison to previous work. Although previous data and resonance analyses were much less extensive, they are, in general, in good agreement with our results except that the average radiation widths as well as the p-wave correlation coefficients we determined are significantly smaller, and the s-wave correlation coefficient we determined has opposite sign from that reported in previous work. We used these resonance parameters together with a calculation of the small, but significant direct-capture contribution to determine the astrophysical reaction rate for the Sr-88(n,gamma) reaction to approximately 3 needed by s-process models. Our new rate is in good agreement with the results from a high-precision activation measurement at kT=25 keV, but it is approximately 9.5 nucleosynthesis calculations in the temperature range (kT=6-8 keV), where most of the neutron exposure occurs in current stellar models of the s process. We discuss the possible astrophysical impact of this new, lower rate.

Toward a Discourse Approach to Polling

Abstract: This article presents a discourse model of polling that investigates what poll discourse is, how it is structured and how it functions. In contrast to most polling research, which presupposes polli...