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A Boring Day At The Clinic Is A Good Day At The Clinic: Narrative Inheritances Of Anti-Abortion Violence, Cassidy D. Ellis
A Boring Day At The Clinic Is A Good Day At The Clinic: Narrative Inheritances Of Anti-Abortion Violence, Cassidy D. Ellis
Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
This paper autoethnographically interrogates the author’s personal experience as an abortion clinic patient escort. Based in a performance paradigm, the author uses performative writing to articulate her experiences and to argue for an emphasis of the body and embodiment in scholarship on anti-abortion violence that centers patients and providers. Additionally, the paper articulates the ways in which anti-abortion violence is storied and narratively inherited by abortion providers, which affects their identity related to their abortion work. Finally, the author demonstrates how internalized and embodied narratives of anti-abortion violence manifest in fear of unpredictability.
Queering Creativity: Why Maximalism Matters, Ac Panella
Queering Creativity: Why Maximalism Matters, Ac Panella
Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
Creative studies has been a growing field that is often focused on either the psychological or social process. However, each of these approaches tends to erase the role of identity or political process. By introducing queer theory to creative theory we can start to see how the creative process is a way of challenging normative assumptions of being. This article will use the work of performance artist Taylor Mac as a focal point for the ways that queer identity and theory inform creative theory.
Expanding Perspectives Through Flight: Transformation Of Fear Through Arational Ways Of Knowing, Barbara Bickel
Expanding Perspectives Through Flight: Transformation Of Fear Through Arational Ways Of Knowing, Barbara Bickel
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Danger and fear permeates all parts of our lives during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. This arts-based auto-ethnographic writing explores living in a perpetual liminal space of unknowing is a disorienting experience at collective and individual levels. Living with and through the pandemic experience has offered a novel opportunity to stop and face both life and death from alternative perspectives. It gives rise to the question: Can we face our fear and relearn how to be in flight to gain greater perspectives rather than for escape and avoidance as only victims? The gift of symbolic and mythological flight offers …
Neuronal Dances, Olivia Balsley Saltus
Neuronal Dances, Olivia Balsley Saltus
Honors Theses
Neuronal Dances is a project inspired by Alain Destexhe and Luc Foubert’s music compositions of neuronal activity. Their songs were derived from electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings of human brainwave activity during wakefulness, non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM), rapid-eye movement sleep (REM), and epileptic seizures. Their unique sounds were combined to provide the soundtrack for Neuronal Dances performance. The movement of the performance was inspired from brain activity research describing the types of brainwaves and neurons that inspired the sound. The goal of Neuronal Dance was to represent these processes through dance for concert performance. If this project were to be done …
A Suite In Six Attitudes: Subverting (And Succumbing To) The Textual Bias, Leanna Smithberger
A Suite In Six Attitudes: Subverting (And Succumbing To) The Textual Bias, Leanna Smithberger
Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
This essay challenges textual dominance in academia by using music composition and performance as a method and representation of inquiry. I argue that this is a form of tactical resistance since it plays within the system, meeting requirements but challenging expectations. The resulting text from the project satisfies academic requirements for a written text, but subverts expectations as to the form that text should take. I provide the musical score and a discussion of the creation and performance of the composition to show how even when attempting to abandon textualism, we are still constrained by it. Despite this, I present …
Secure Mobile Applications Based On Ntru, Vikram Hegde, Hanqing Zhao, Kefeng Shi, Yi Yang
Secure Mobile Applications Based On Ntru, Vikram Hegde, Hanqing Zhao, Kefeng Shi, Yi Yang
ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium
Modern mobile devices have an urgent need for a new-generation public-key cryptographic system. This system should provide sufficient security for mobile devices without degrading performance due to their limited resources. NTRU is a decent model for this. We validate it through experimental studies and apply NTRU to protect a peer-to-peer communication app.
Cross Court View: Comparison Of Body Image During Competition, Timothy M. Kelly
Cross Court View: Comparison Of Body Image During Competition, Timothy M. Kelly
Research Papers
There are many studies on body image but few focus on the body image of athletes. Further, there are few studies on the effects of appearance on athletic performance. Past studies have focused on internalization or body image dissatisfaction. None have gathered data about competition to see if body image and appearance of competitors effects athletic performance. Using an 18 question adapted Likert survey and two qualitative questions we explored whether appearance of the other competitors has an impact on athletic performance. The study was conducted using 50 division I female athletes from the softball, volleyball, tennis, swimming and diving, …
The Author Is Absent: Toward Emergent Narrative Event Environments, Dimitar O. Velkov 3030359
The Author Is Absent: Toward Emergent Narrative Event Environments, Dimitar O. Velkov 3030359
Research Papers
Creating an emergent narrative or one which is not predetermined by the controlling figure of the game designer, but instead frees the audience to guide and control the story has been a major interest in the field game design studies of virtual world storytelling. “The Author Is Absent” is an art project that interprets an emergent narrative problem through the prism of performance arts, and mainly the happenings of Alan Kaprow. The following paper provides a theoretical groundwork and some historical examples of previous attempts in the same tradition. It then goes on to elucidate the formal aspects of the …
Crip Pessimism: The Language Of Dis/Ability And The Culture That Isn't, Michael L. Selck
Crip Pessimism: The Language Of Dis/Ability And The Culture That Isn't, Michael L. Selck
Research Papers
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Acute Effects Of Theacrine Supplementation On Muscular Strength And Muscular Endurance, Caleb J. Snyder
Acute Effects Of Theacrine Supplementation On Muscular Strength And Muscular Endurance, Caleb J. Snyder
Research Papers
There are many performance-enhancing supplements on the market. Theacrine (1,3,7,9-tetramethyluric acid) is a new product similar to caffeine. Both are purine alkaloids thought to act as adenosine receptor antagonists. It has been reported to increase subjective energy levels among other beneficial effects, but has not yet been tested on muscular strength and muscular endurance. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study, eleven healthy resistance trained college-aged males received a 200mg dose of theacrine or a placebo. One-repetition max (1RM) and maximal repetition tests were performed after supplementation. A one-way repeated measures analysis of variance was completed between the treatments (placebo, …
Precognition: Bodies In Network, Kate Hoyt
Precognition: Bodies In Network, Kate Hoyt
Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
Precognition” is an installation that seeks to explore the liminal space between actor and environment, human and technology, and self and Other through the performativity of flow. Deleuze and Guattari use the term “flow” to describe a deliberately imprecise way of knowing or understanding meaning beyond, across, and within the existing category of the form (trans. 1987). Within the materialist ontology of poststructuralism, it is not the form that matters so much as the substance - energies and affects entangle us with our surroundings, affording a radical questioning of the rational, contained self that remains so central to the Western, …
Dietary Habits And Nutritional Knowledge: The Importance Of Sports Nutrition Professionals, Sieger M. Giroux
Dietary Habits And Nutritional Knowledge: The Importance Of Sports Nutrition Professionals, Sieger M. Giroux
Research Papers
No abstract provided.
Persistence In Commodity Etf Performance, Binghui Li
Persistence In Commodity Etf Performance, Binghui Li
Research Papers
Commodities ETFs have became popular investments since first introduced in the market. This type of funds provide investors a simple way to gain exposure to commodities, and these types of funds are considered as an asset class to diversify investment portfolios and as a hedge against economic recessions. With more capital invested in commodities ETFs by investors, argument about the efficiency in commodity ETF market are heated debate by economists. This paper developed a reasonable method to explore persistence in commodity ETFs. 30 commodities ETFs, which ranked high in terms of large assets, are selected during the period of 2008 …
Alcoholism On The American Stage: De-Stigmatizing Socially Constructed Depictions Of The Alcoholic Through Performance, Thomas Michael Campbell
Alcoholism On The American Stage: De-Stigmatizing Socially Constructed Depictions Of The Alcoholic Through Performance, Thomas Michael Campbell
Dissertations
This dissertation seeks to address the societal problems associated with alcohol abuse and alcohol dependency in relationship to problematic depictions that have appeared on the American stage. It examines plays that perpetuate stigmas as well as plays that seek to subvert stigmas and stereotypical depictions as a means of creating avenues for discourse. This study asks how we, as practitioners of the theatre, can use the theatre and the act of storytelling to initiate empathy and compassion toward what is still considered a marginalized topic of discussion. Cultural misconceptions regarding the development of and (mis)understandings of alcohol abuse/dependency are perpetuated …
Middle School Teachers' Familiarity With, Interest In, Performance On, And Conceptual And Pedagogical Knowledge Of Light, Simeon Mbewe
Middle School Teachers' Familiarity With, Interest In, Performance On, And Conceptual And Pedagogical Knowledge Of Light, Simeon Mbewe
Dissertations
The purpose of this study was threefold: Examine middle school teachers' familiarity with, interest in, conceptual knowledge of and performance on light; Examine their ability to identify misconceptions on light and their suggested pedagogical ideas to address the identified misconceptions; and Establish the relationship between the middle school teachers' interest, familiarity, conceptual understanding, performance, misconception identification, and pedagogical ideas for light. Sixty six (66) middle school science teachers enrolled in three math and science teacher professional development projects at Southern Illinois University Carbondale participated in this study. This study used mixed-methods approach to collect and analyze data. The participants responded …
Some Queer Bodies, Per Se: An Explication Of Actors' Bodies In Ichor & The Four Humours Present: Percy Per Se Himself Presenting: Fopulous! Or All Is Vanity (A Tragicomedy Of Manners In Five Acts With Narrated Interludes And Dancing), Bennett P. Whitaker
Research Papers
This paper locates bodies' centrality to performance studies and interrogates those bodies present in one aesthetic performance, Fopulous, employing a queered version of David Graver's typification in "The Actor's Bodies."