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Guest Editors' Introduction: Toward Decolonized And Student-Centered Teaching Of Critical Theory, Helena Gurfinkel Dr., Gautam Basu Thakur

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

An Introduction to a Cluster on Teaching Theory in Global Contexts

Insulated Blackness: The Cause For Fracture In Black Political Identity, Timothy E. Lewis, Sherice J. Nelson

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

The Black Political Identity is often treated as a monolith in American politics, with interest groups and political parties employing blanket policy solutions to appease and engage African Americans. However, observations and scholarship show that Black Americans are not monolithic, possessing divergent views about social policies, so much so that some Black Americans can hold political positions that are oppositional to collective Black advancement. Therefore, this work theorizes the concept of insulated Blackness – the extent to which self-identified African Americans oppose pro-Black remedial policies and/or disagree with commonly held ideologies about the Black condition, as a result of an …

Survival Of Fishes In A Stormwater Retention Pond At The Watershed Nature Center, Edwardsville, Illinois, Manuel Gomez, Richard B. Brugam Ph.D., Sharon Locke

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

A study of the Upper Pond at the Edwardsville Watershed Nature Center (WNC) was conducted to discover the potential cause of fish kills in the small stormwater retention pond and to determine how the current populations of bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus), common carp (Cyprinus carpio) and largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) can survive in the pond based on prevailing environmental conditions. Dissolved oxygen (DO) was measured from June 19 to December 5, 2019 at a site in the center of the open lake (4 m deep) and from a dock …

A Geometric Description Of The Set Of Stabilizing Pid Controllers, Keqin Gu, Qian Ma, Huiqing Zhou, Mahzoon Salma, Xingzi Yang

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

This article developed a new method to described the set of stabilizing PID control. The method is based on D-parameterization with natural description of the set. It was found that the stability crossing surface is a ruled surface that is completely determined by a curve known as discriminant. The discriminant is divided into sectors at the cusps. Corresponding to the sectors, the stability crossing surface is divided into positive and negative patches. A systematic study is conducted to identify the regions with a fixed number of right half-plane characteristic roots. The crossing directions of characteristic roots for positive patches and …

Direction And Associated Motion In Tibeto-Burman, Carol Genetti, Kristine Hildebrandt, Alexia Fawcett, Nathaniel Sims

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

This study analyzes systems of direction and associated motion in 23 languages of the Tibeto-Burman family. Both direction and associated motion can be encoded by a range of grammatical strategies, including affixes, clitics, parti- cles, serial-verb constructions, and auxiliary verbs. While some languages have only associated motion or direction, others have both, either via distinct sub- systems, syntactic ambiguity, or context-dependent interpretation. While direc- tional encodings can be interpreted as associated motion in some contexts, the reverse can also be true. Verbal semantics is key to the pragmatic interpretation of examples in context; some types of motion verbs are more …

From Stress To Success: Leveraging The Online Experience For Information Systems Students, Connie Barber

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

The development of the coronavirus and universities’ unprecedented and abrupt transition to remote learning were disruptions to higher education that impacted stress levels for both graduate and undergraduate students. However, remote learning could be implemented in a method with lower stress that also helps prepare students for an increasingly digital workplace. Additionally, different modes of remote learning could enable students to enhance their digital competencies. In this paper I describe a teaching practice in which I modified one undergraduate and one graduate course to reduce the stress of remote learning and provide opportunities for students to enhance their digital competencies …

Drag Artist Interviews, 2020, Destiny Baxter, Ezra Temko, Adam Loesch

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

This public dataset contains transcripts of 8 in-depth semistructured interviews with drag artists. Destiny Baxter conducted these interviews during Spring 2020. This follows up on an available dataset of 22 interviews of drag artists conducted in Spring 2019 by SIUE students, available at https://spark.siue.edu/siue_fac/104/

All 2019 and 2020 interviews used the same instrument.