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Piropo As A Cultural Term For Talk In The Spanish-Speaking World, Benjamin Bailey
Piropo As A Cultural Term For Talk In The Spanish-Speaking World, Benjamin Bailey
Benjamin Bailey
No abstract provided.
For Information On The Social Interaction And Culture Graduate Focus, Dept Of Communication, Click On "Download" Button, Benjamin Bailey
For Information On The Social Interaction And Culture Graduate Focus, Dept Of Communication, Click On "Download" Button, Benjamin Bailey
Benjamin Bailey
No abstract provided.
Academic Librarians And The Sustainability Curriculum: Building Alliances To Support A Paradigm Shift, Madeleine K. Charney
Academic Librarians And The Sustainability Curriculum: Building Alliances To Support A Paradigm Shift, Madeleine K. Charney
Madeleine K. Charney
Sustainability is a fast evolving movement in higher education demonstrated by a proliferation of academic programs and co-curricular initiative and projects. After a review of sustainability-related LibGuides (online resource guides) created by academic librarians, a survey was administered to their developers during the spring of 2011 and posted on library listservs. Librarians returned 112 survey responses which reflected active roles in the paradigm shift toward sustainability through the forging of partnerships across campus and development of teaching resources and events. Telephone interviews conducted with 24 of the respondents showed librarians’ wide-ranging personal and professional interest in sustainability, and their initiatives …
Consumer Subjectivity And Us Healthcare Reform, Emily West
Consumer Subjectivity And Us Healthcare Reform, Emily West
Emily E. West
Health care consumerism is an important frame in US health care policy, especially in recent media and policy discourse about federal health care reform. This paper reports on qualitative fieldwork with health care users to find out how people interpret and make sense of the identity of “health care consumer.” It proposes that while the term consumer is normally understood as a descriptive label for users who purchase health care and insurance services, it should actually be understood as a metaphor, carrying with it a host of associations that shape US health care policy debates in particular ways. Based on …
Material Law, John Brigham
The Racialization Of Us Health Care Reform: The Case Of Gold-Plated Cadillac Health Plans, Emily West
The Racialization Of Us Health Care Reform: The Case Of Gold-Plated Cadillac Health Plans, Emily West
Emily E. West
The term “gold-plated Cadillac health plans” became nationally prominent during John McCain’s run for President in 2008, and high-premium insurance plans continue to be called “Cadillac plans” today. The metaphorical phrase “gold-plated Cadillac” defines health care as a consumer and even a luxury good; implies that owners of these plans are irresponsible, wasteful healthcare consumers; and evokes the stereotype of an “out-of-control” African American consumer. The history of the Cadillac brand and of gold-plated Cadillacs in particular in popular culture demonstrates the salience of these associations. The use of this phrase in recent health care reform debates is considered in …
On Dialogue Studies, Donal Carbaugh
On Dialogue Studies, Donal Carbaugh
Donal Carbaugh
The study of dialogue is a way to open several intellectual arenas for investigation while at the same time offering insights into multiple scenes of practical yet culturally diverse human practices. This article reviews several such arenas including studies of dialogue as a culturally distinctive form of communication, dialogue as an approach to understanding social practices, dialogic ethics, as well as dialogue as an integrative view of not only cultural practice but also natural environments. Throughout, dialogue studies are cast as a broad field with distinct disciplines within it, as holding deep value for understanding diversity in peoples’ practices, as …
Molecular Analysis Of The In Situ Growth Rate Of Subsurface Geobacter Species, Dawn E. Holmes, Ludovic Giloteaux, Melissa Barlett, Milind A. Chavan, Jessica A. Smith, Kenneth H. Williams, Michael Wilkins, Philip Long, Derek Lovley
Molecular Analysis Of The In Situ Growth Rate Of Subsurface Geobacter Species, Dawn E. Holmes, Ludovic Giloteaux, Melissa Barlett, Milind A. Chavan, Jessica A. Smith, Kenneth H. Williams, Michael Wilkins, Philip Long, Derek Lovley
Derek Lovley
Molecular tools that can provide an estimate of the in situ growth rate of Geobacter species could improve understanding of dissimilatory metal reduction in a diversity of environments. Whole genome microarray analyses of the subsurface isolate, Geobacter uraniireducens, grown under a variety of conditions identified a number of genes that are differentially expressed at different specific growth rates. Expression of two genes encoding ribosomal proteins, rpsC and rplL, were further evaluated with quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) in cells with doubling times ranging from 6.56 h to 89.28 h. Transcript abundance of rpsC correlated best (r2= 0.90) with specific growth …
Interspecies Electron Transfer Via H2 And Formate Rather Than Direct Electrical Connections In Co-Cultures Of Pelobacter Carbinolicus And Geobacter Sulfurreducens, Amelia-Elena Rotaru, Pravin M. Shrestha, Fanghua Liu, Toshiyuki Ueki, Kelly Nevin, Zarath M. Summers, Derek R. Lovley
Interspecies Electron Transfer Via H2 And Formate Rather Than Direct Electrical Connections In Co-Cultures Of Pelobacter Carbinolicus And Geobacter Sulfurreducens, Amelia-Elena Rotaru, Pravin M. Shrestha, Fanghua Liu, Toshiyuki Ueki, Kelly Nevin, Zarath M. Summers, Derek R. Lovley
Kelly Nevin
Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) is an alternative to interspecies H2/formate transfer as a mechanism for microbial species to cooperatively exchange electrons during syntrophic metabolism. To understand what specific properties contribute to DIET, studies were conducted with Pelobacter carbinolicus, a close relative of Geobacter metallireducens, which is capable of DIET. P. carbinolicus grew in co-culture with Geobacter sulfurreducens with ethanol as electron donor and fumarate as electron acceptor, conditions under which G. sulfurreducens formed direct electrical connections with G. metallireducens. In contrast to the cell aggregation associated with DIET, P. carbinolicus and G. sulfurreducens did not aggregate. Attempts to initiate …
Promoting Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer With Activated Carbon, Derek Lovley, Fanghua Liu, Amelia-Elena Rotaru, Pravin M. Shrestha, Nikhil S. Malvankar, Kelly P. Nevin
Promoting Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer With Activated Carbon, Derek Lovley, Fanghua Liu, Amelia-Elena Rotaru, Pravin M. Shrestha, Nikhil S. Malvankar, Kelly P. Nevin
Derek Lovley
Granular activated carbon (GAC) is added to methanogenic digesters to enhance conversion of wastes to methane, but the mechanism(s) for GAC's stimulatory effect are poorly understood. GAC has high electrical conductivity and thus it was hypothesized that one mechanism for GAC stimulation of methanogenesis might be to facilitate direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) between bacteria and methanogens. Metabolism was substantially accelerated when GAC was added to co-cultures of Geobacter metallireducens and Geobacter sulfurreducens grown under conditions previously shown to require DIET. Cells were attached to GAC, but did not aggregate as they do when making biological electrical connections between cells. …
Promoting Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer With Activated Carbon, Fanghua Liu, Amelia-Elena Rotaru, Pravin M. Shrestha, Nikhil S. Malvankar, Kelly Nevin, Derek R. Lovley
Promoting Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer With Activated Carbon, Fanghua Liu, Amelia-Elena Rotaru, Pravin M. Shrestha, Nikhil S. Malvankar, Kelly Nevin, Derek R. Lovley
Kelly Nevin
Granular activated carbon (GAC) is added to methanogenic digesters to enhance conversion of wastes to methane, but the mechanism(s) for GAC's stimulatory effect are poorly understood. GAC has high electrical conductivity and thus it was hypothesized that one mechanism for GAC stimulation of methanogenesis might be to facilitate direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) between bacteria and methanogens. Metabolism was substantially accelerated when GAC was added to co-cultures of Geobacter metallireducens and Geobacter sulfurreducens grown under conditions previously shown to require DIET. Cells were attached to GAC, but did not aggregate as they do when making biological electrical connections between cells. …
A Communication Theory Of Culture, Donal Carbaugh
A Communication Theory Of Culture, Donal Carbaugh
Donal Carbaugh
This chapter does three general things. First, following Bauman (1999), it discusses some prominent uses of the culture concept. Second, it introduces a communication theory of culture and uses that theory as a basis for reflecting upon earlier uses of the culture concept. Third, the chapter concludes by briefly summarizing some of the possibilities of this approach for the study of communication and culture.
Molecular Analysis Of The Metabolic Rates Of Discrete Subsurface Populations Of Sulfate Reducers, Marzia Miletto, Kenneth H. Williams, A. Lucie N'Guessan, Derek Lovley
Molecular Analysis Of The Metabolic Rates Of Discrete Subsurface Populations Of Sulfate Reducers, Marzia Miletto, Kenneth H. Williams, A. Lucie N'Guessan, Derek Lovley
Derek Lovley
Elucidating the in situ metabolic activity of phylogenetically diverse populations of sulfate-reducing microorganisms that populate anoxic sedimentary environments is key to understanding subsurface ecology. Previous pure culture studies have demonstrated that the transcript abundance of dissimilatory (bi)sulfite reductase genes is correlated with the sulfate-reducing activity of individual cells. To evaluate whether expression of these genes was diagnostic for subsurface communities, dissimilatory (bi)sulfite reductase gene transcript abundance in phylogenetically distinct sulfate-reducing populations was quantified during a field experiment in which acetate was added to uranium-contaminated groundwater. Analysis of dsrAB sequences prior to the addition of acetate indicated that Desulfobacteraceae, Desulfobulbaceae, and …
Restoring The Power Of Unions: It Takes A Movement, Dan Clawson
Restoring The Power Of Unions: It Takes A Movement, Dan Clawson
Dan Clawson
No abstract provided.
Analysis Of Aggregate Size As A Process Variable Affecting Paclitaxel Accumulation In Taxus Suspension Cultures, Martin E. Kolewe, Michael A. Henson, Susan C. Roberts
Analysis Of Aggregate Size As A Process Variable Affecting Paclitaxel Accumulation In Taxus Suspension Cultures, Martin E. Kolewe, Michael A. Henson, Susan C. Roberts
Michael A Henson
Plant cell aggregates have long been implicated in affecting cellular metabolism in suspension culture, yet the rigorous characterization of aggregate size as a process variable and its effect on bioprocess performance has not been demonstrated. Aggregate fractionation and analysis of biomass-associated product is commonly used to assess the effect of aggregation, but we establish that this method is flawed under certain conditions and does not necessarily agree with comprehensive studies of total culture performance. Leveraging recent advances to routinely measure aggregate size distributions, we developed a simple method to manipulate aggregate size and evaluate its effect on the culture as …
Hegemonic Masculinity On The Sidelines Of Sport, Laura A. Grindstaff, Emily West
Hegemonic Masculinity On The Sidelines Of Sport, Laura A. Grindstaff, Emily West
Emily E. West
Nearly a quarter of a century old, the concept of hegemonic masculinity as developed by R. W. Connell remains both influential and contested among gender scholars. In this essay, we use our research on coed cheerleading in the United States as a springboard to explore the bounds and limits of hegemonic masculinity as both cultural script and analytic construct. Cheerleading constitutes a public stage for ‘doing gender’ in ways that highlight normative, taken-for-granted notions of gender difference; consequently, we use cheerleading as a vehicle for asking under what circumstances and to what degree heterosexuality remains central to the enactment of …
Discursive Reflexivity In The Ethnography Of Communication: Cultural Discourse Analysis, Donal Carbaugh, Elizabeth Molina-Markham, Elena V. Nuciforo, Brion Van Over
Discursive Reflexivity In The Ethnography Of Communication: Cultural Discourse Analysis, Donal Carbaugh, Elizabeth Molina-Markham, Elena V. Nuciforo, Brion Van Over
Donal Carbaugh
This article is a creative reconstruction of reflexivity as it operates for some practitioners of the ethnography of communication. Our central concern is conceptualized as “discursive reflexivity”; with that concept, we foreground communication both as primary data and as our primary theoretical concern. As a result, we treat reflexivity as a process of metacommunication, that is, as a reflexive process of using discourse at one level to discuss discourse on another. Following current and past research, we explore how dimensions of discursive reflexivity differently configure into five types of ethnographic practice, these being theoretical, descriptive, interpretive, comparative, and critical inquiry. …
Microbial Fuel Cells, A Current Review, Ashley E. Franks, Kelly Nevin
Microbial Fuel Cells, A Current Review, Ashley E. Franks, Kelly Nevin
Kelly Nevin
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are devices that can use bacterial metabolism to produce an electrical current from a wide range organic substrates. Due to the promise of sustainable energy production from organic wastes, research has intensified in this field in the last few years. While holding great promise only a few marine sediment MFCs have been used practically, providing current for low power devices. To further improve MFC technology an understanding of the limitations and microbiology of these systems is required. Some researchers are uncovering that the greatest value of MFC technology may not be the production of electricity but …
Hands On Hips, Smiles On Lips! Gender, Race, And The Performance Of Spirit In Cheerleading, Laura Grindstaff, Emily West
Hands On Hips, Smiles On Lips! Gender, Race, And The Performance Of Spirit In Cheerleading, Laura Grindstaff, Emily West
Emily E. West
Cheerleading has long been synonymous with “spirit” because of its traditional sideline role in supporting school sports programs. In recent decades, however, cheerleading has become more athletic and competitive - even a sport in its own right. This paper is an ethnographic exploration of the emotional dimensions of cheerleading in light of these changes. We argue that spirit is a regulating but also flexible concept that is deployed in order to manage and uphold ideologies of emotion, and that these ideologies are central to how cheerleading reproduces racialized gender difference. On the one hand, the performance guidelines for spirit stabilize …
Bibliography Of Book Collections At The Southeast European Institue, University Of Graz, Joel Halpern
Bibliography Of Book Collections At The Southeast European Institue, University Of Graz, Joel Halpern
Joel M. Halpern
No abstract provided.
A Taste For Greeting Cards: Distinction Within A Denigrated Cultural Form, Emily West
A Taste For Greeting Cards: Distinction Within A Denigrated Cultural Form, Emily West
Emily E. West
Greeting cards are a denigrated product category in the United States, and yet consumers use them at high rates across taste formations. Consumers with relatively high cultural capital place a premium on originality in their self-expression, hence greeting cards present a consumption problem because they are a mode of expressing the self through mass-produced means. Based on interviews with 51 people, I show that consumers with higher cultural capital are more likely to prioritize card design over sentiment; select smaller, simpler designs and sentiments; prefer cards that are handmade, look handmade, or remind them of fine art; and are more …
Expressing The Self Through Greeting Card Sentiment: Working Theories Of Authentic Communication In A Commercial Form, Emily West
Emily E. West
As mass produced vehicles of sentiment, greeting cards draw attention to the use of socially constructed codes for communicating, even feeling, emotion. This paper describes the results of interviews with fifty-one greeting card consumers, focusing on what makes greeting cards ‘personal’ for them, despite their mass-produced nature. Consumers negotiate their relationships with pre-printed sentiments differently depending on whether their allegiance is stronger to an expressive individualist understanding of authenticity or a ritual perspective, and these allegiances tend to reflect cultural capital. Specifically, suspicion of pre-printed sentiments is common among people with higher cultural capital, while this is the feature of …
Reality Nations: An International Comparison Of The Historical Reality Genre, Emily West
Reality Nations: An International Comparison Of The Historical Reality Genre, Emily West
Emily E. West
When 1900 House (Hoppe, 2000) premiered in the UK in 2000, a hybrid television form was born that would spawn spin-offs and imitators over the next several years in several other countries. These series place people in historical settings, asking them to leave their 21st century lives behind, and live within the material and social constraints of the past for a period of three or four months. For this chapter I examine a sample of seven historical reality mini-series that aired between 2000 and 2005 in English-speaking countries, ranging from four to eight episodes each. As existing scholarship on the …
Review Of Exhibitions: ‘The Triumph Of Marriage’ And ‘Art And Love In Renaissance Italy, Monika Schmitter, Patricia Simons
Review Of Exhibitions: ‘The Triumph Of Marriage’ And ‘Art And Love In Renaissance Italy, Monika Schmitter, Patricia Simons
Monika Schmitter
No abstract provided.
Doing Gender Difference Through Greeting Cards: The Construction Of A Communication Gap In Marketing And Everyday Practice., Emily West
Emily E. West
Greeting card communication reflects the highly gendered division of both emotional and domestic labor in American culture. It’s generally thought that American men do not take as much responsibility for sending greeting cards as women, or display competence in this mode of communication, and both survey data and field work with greeting card consumers confirm this overall pattern. For many women, greeting card communication is part of a feminized habitus that includes kinship work as well as routine provisioning for the household. For men, taking an interest in greeting cards can seem like discrediting behavior for heterosexual masculinity, and so …
Photoregulated Release Of Caged Anticancer Drugs From Gold Nanoparticles, Ss Agasti, A Chompoosor, Cc You, P Ghosh, Ck Kim, Vm Rotello
Photoregulated Release Of Caged Anticancer Drugs From Gold Nanoparticles, Ss Agasti, A Chompoosor, Cc You, P Ghosh, Ck Kim, Vm Rotello
Vincent Rotello
An anticancer drug (5-fluorouracil) was conjugated to the surface of gold nanoparticles through a photocleavable o-nitrobenzyl linkage. In this system, the particle serves as both cage and carrier for the therapeutic, providing a nontoxic conjugate that effectively releases the payload upon long wavelength UV irradiation.
Constituting Folklore: A Case For Critical Folklore Studies, Stephen Olbrys Gencarella
Constituting Folklore: A Case For Critical Folklore Studies, Stephen Olbrys Gencarella
Stephen Olbrys Gencarella
This article argues for the development of a critical folklore studies through an interweaving of folklore and rhetorical theory. Following paths set by Roger Abrahams, Kenneth Burke, and Antonio Gramsci decades ago, and drawing upon more recent contributions by Ernesto Laclau and rhetorical critics, it considers folklore as a constitutive rhetoric, the act of which establishes a "folk"--and their adversaries-as a political category. Identifying three articulations of critical folklore studies, it calls upon folklorists to intervene against (rather than strictly analyze) oppressive power formations through the production of overt criticism and related counterhegemonic practices
A Biosensor Assay For The Detection Of Mycobacterium Avium Subsp. Paratuberculosis In Fecal Samples, V. Kumanan, Sam R. Nugen, A.J. Baeumner, Y.F. Chang
A Biosensor Assay For The Detection Of Mycobacterium Avium Subsp. Paratuberculosis In Fecal Samples, V. Kumanan, Sam R. Nugen, A.J. Baeumner, Y.F. Chang
Sam R. Nugen
A simple, membrane-strip-based lateral-flow (LF) biosensor assay and a high-throughput microtiter plate assay have been combined with a reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for the detection of a small number (ten) of viable Mycobacterium (M.) avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) cells in fecal samples. The assays are based on the identification of the RNA of the IS900 element of MAP. For the assay, RNA was extracted from fecal samples spiked with a known quantity of (101 to 106) MAP cells and amplified using RT-PCR and identified by the LF biosensor and the microtiter plate assay. While the LF biosensor assay …
Why Public Health Agencies Cannot Depend On Good Laboratory Practices As A Criterion For Selecting Data: The Case Of Bisphenol A, I Chahoud, F. S. Vom Saal, B. T. Akingbemi, S. M. Belcher, D. A. Crain, D. Crews, L. C. Guidice, P. A. Hunt, F. Farabollini, L. J. Guillette Jr., T. Hassold, S. M. Ho, K. Arizono, T. Colborn, T. Iguchi, S. Jobling, J. Kanno, H. Laufer, M. Marcus, A. Nadal, J. A. Mclachlan, J Oehlmann, N. Olea, P. Palanza, S. Parmigiani, B. S. Rubin, G. Schoenfelder, C. Sonnenschein, A. M. Soto, C. E. Talsness, J. A. Taylor, L. N. Vandenberg, J. G. Vandenbergh, S. Vogel, C. S. Watson, W. V. Welshons, R. Thomas Zoeller
Why Public Health Agencies Cannot Depend On Good Laboratory Practices As A Criterion For Selecting Data: The Case Of Bisphenol A, I Chahoud, F. S. Vom Saal, B. T. Akingbemi, S. M. Belcher, D. A. Crain, D. Crews, L. C. Guidice, P. A. Hunt, F. Farabollini, L. J. Guillette Jr., T. Hassold, S. M. Ho, K. Arizono, T. Colborn, T. Iguchi, S. Jobling, J. Kanno, H. Laufer, M. Marcus, A. Nadal, J. A. Mclachlan, J Oehlmann, N. Olea, P. Palanza, S. Parmigiani, B. S. Rubin, G. Schoenfelder, C. Sonnenschein, A. M. Soto, C. E. Talsness, J. A. Taylor, L. N. Vandenberg, J. G. Vandenbergh, S. Vogel, C. S. Watson, W. V. Welshons, R. Thomas Zoeller
R. Thomas Zoeller
Background In their safety evaluations of bisphenol A (BPA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a counterpart in Europe, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), have given special prominence to two industry-funded studies that adhered to standards defined by Good Laboratory Practices (GLP). These same agencies have given much less weight in risk assessments to a large number of independently replicated non-GLP studies conducted with government funding by the leading experts in various fields of science from around the world. Objectives We reviewed differences between industry-funded GLP studies of BPA conducted by commercial laboratories for regulatory purposes and …
Percursos Migratórios Afetivos: Ser-Se Açoriano Na América E Como, Francisco Cota Fagundes
Percursos Migratórios Afetivos: Ser-Se Açoriano Na América E Como, Francisco Cota Fagundes
Francisco Cota Fagundes
No abstract provided.