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The Making Of A Tyrant: Seattle Shakespeare Company And Upstart Crow Collective’S Richard Iii, Ivy Jong, Emily Boynton, Caroline Craighead, Mina Gibbs, Mary Lawrence, Sydney Haas, Emily Brown

Early Modern Culture

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Using Shakespeare Biography To Teach First-Generation College Students, Mardy Philippian

Early Modern Culture

No abstract provided.

Toward Speech Therapy: Affect, Pedagogy, And Shakespeare In Prison, Perry Guevara

Early Modern Culture

No abstract provided.

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Oer, Yang Wu

Presentations

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Shakespeare Bash’D’S Measure For Measure, Noam Lior

Early Modern Culture

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Social Shaping Of Mobile Geomedia Services: An Analysis Of Yelp And Foursquare, Jordan Frith, Rowan Wilken

Publications

In their book, Location-Based Social Media: Space, Time and Identity, Leighton Evans and Michael Saker remark on the apparent ‘death’ of location-based social networks, suggesting that location-based social networks can now be understood as ‘a form of “zombie-media” that animates and haunts other media platforms’. In this article, we use this perspective as a point of departure for a social shaping of technology-informed analysis of two key geomedia platforms: Yelp and Foursquare. With Yelp approaching its 15th year of service and Foursquare approaching its 10th anniversary, this article provides a timely opportunity to (re-)examine the significance of Yelp and …

Snowedout Atlanta: Examining Digital Emergence On Facebook During A Crisis, Andrew S. Pyle, Meredith Morgoch, Brandon C. Boatwright

Publications

Individuals in emergencies form spontaneous, emergent groups to respond and recover. With the rise of social media use in crises, academics and professionals must be aware of how groups digitally coordinate emergent response efforts. This paper examines digital emergence through the case of SnowedOut Atlanta, a Facebook group formed during the 2014 ice storms in Atlanta. The posts and actions of the group members are in line with those of traditional emergent groups. For example, group members shared informational, material, and emotional support. The findings also provide implications for practitioners and insight into the communication of such groups. In …

Guiding Students Through Choppy Creative Waters: Collaborative Pedagogy To Empower Ethical Creators, Kelsey Sheaffer, Jessica Kohout-Tailor

Publications

With the rise of ‘multimodality’, students are increasingly creating digital projects that require an understanding of copyright that includes Creative Commons, to both search for and appropriately remix the original work of others. In this session, learn how two librarians collaboratively developed their student-centered pedagogy to apply active-learning strategies in the classroom for these special creative copyright sessions. In their approach, the librarians engaged the student-as-producer to make creative copyright more accessible and applicable to their projects. These instructional interventions build on the traditional lecture-style session on Copyright Law to support non-traditional projects.

The Tiger: The Best Of Clemson 2018-2019, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers 2019

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Tornado Hazard Analysis For The United States Using A Stochastic Track Simulation Model, Fanfu Fan

All Dissertations

During the period from 1950 to 2015, the United States experienced more than 60,000 tornadoes resulting in more than 900,000 injuries and about 6,000 fatalities (NOAA, 2016). Compared to hurricanes, the impact of a tornado is much localized and the probability of occurrence at a given location can be extremely low. Therefore, it is not feasible to use solely the raw historical data or tracks to quantify the risk of tornadoes for a given structure or a city that has not been affected by historical tornadoes. In order to properly quantify the risk of tornado, there is a need to …

Clemson Commencement Program, May 2019, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

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Doctoral Student Experiences Of Engagement In Social Media: An Exploration Of #Sadoc, Jessica G. Owens

All Dissertations

This phenomenological study aimed to understand how doctoral students perceived the influence of social media engagement, through Twitter, on their socialization and sense of belonging within academia. Eight participants were recruited from #sadoc on Twitter. Data from a participant selection questionnaire, in-depth, semi-structured interview, and posts to Twitter were used to understand their lived experiences in #sadoc. Thematic coding was employed to identify six common themes: (a) community of shared doctoral experiences; (b) exposure to doctoral education process; (c) celebration of doctoral student experiences; (d) expansion of boundaries; (e) doctoral student identification; and (f) visibility and authenticity of expression. The …

Engineering Design Team Leadership In Undergraduate Design Teams, James Righter

All Dissertations

The objective of this research is to develop an understanding of the emergence and distribution of leadership behaviors in engineering design teams. This research was conducted with undergraduate engineering students and explored leadership behaviors within design teams in a variety of contexts. Undergraduates were selected for the study since they possessed similar education and skills as a novice engineer in industry. A mixed methods approach incorporated qualitative and quantitative techniques including interview, case study, and protocol study instruments. The use of these methods enabled the exploration of leadership in both natural and controlled environments to capitalize on the research advantages …

The Mechanical And Functional Effects Of Ionizing Radiation On Articular Cartilage, Hannah Cash

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Articular cartilage is a specialized connective tissue, predominately composed of water, collagen, and proteoglycans, that provides a smooth, lubricated surface for articulation in joints. It has long been considered radioinsensitive and therefore unaffected by exposure to radiation in medical settings. Due to the increased amount of yearly radiation exposure through radiotherapy and ionizing radiation diagnostic procedures, there has been a renewed interest in how radioinsensitive articular cartilage actually is. Despite this renewed interest, the majority of studies do not focus on articular cartilage as their primary goal, but rather, have observed the effects of total body irradiation. These studies have …

Signaling Your Beliefs: The Role Of Signal Strength On Identity Perceptions In A Social Media Environment, Marie Esposito

All Dissertations

Social media is increasingly being turned to by employment recruiters as a method of screening out job applicants. To date there has been little research examining what ques are most salient to recruiters when making employability decisions based on their screening of social media. This research seeks to begin to fill that gap by examining signal strength of political and religious identity presentation in a social media signaling environment.

In this research we differentiate between a conventional hireability screening environment and the new paradigm of social media employability screenings by making extensive use of both Signaling Theory and the Similarity …

Youth Civic Engagement In Albania, Ana Uka

All Dissertations

Civic engagement is beneficial for young people and for democracy, especially for post-Communist countries like Albania which is struggling to establish a stable and fair democracy. To describe citizens’ civic behavior using social capital as a framework, this work hypothesized that there would be significant age, gender, and urbanicity differences related to youth civic engagement. Moreover, both youth optimism and young people’s attitudes to the political system were hypothesized to be positively associated with youth civic engagement when controlling for age, gender, and urbanicity. Finally, this study hypothesized that age, gender, and urbanicity would significantly moderate the associations between youth …

Development Of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts Resistant To Diabetes Mellitus, Jhilmil Dhulekar

All Dissertations

Diabetes Mellitus, characterized by high levels of blood sugar, is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Almost 25 million Americans are currently diagnosed with diabetes, with numbers rising rapidly. Hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia coexist in diabetes and result in inflammation, stiffening and degeneration in blood vessels which contributes to the development of atherosclerosis and arterial diseases such as coronary and peripheral artery disease. The diseased arteries can be replaced with synthetic materials, but the small-diameter arterial replacements (< 6 mm diameter) fail after 5-10 years because they are not resistant to the damage associated with diabetes. Tissue engineering offers a promising approach to develop decellularized extracellular matrix-based vascular scaffolds, repopulated with the patients’ own stem cells, to provide a non-immunogenic, patient-tailored vascular graft with improved remodeling and integration with native tissue. However, the presence of diabetes will structurally modify the implanted tissue engineered grafts. Therefore, it is necessary to develop tissue engineered vascular constructs capable of resisting diabetes-related alterations. The primary focus of this research was threefold: 1) Develop decellularized vascular scaffolds derived from porcine renal arteries with matrix integrity and mechanical properties similar to native blood vessels, 2) test the resistance of scaffolds treated with penta-galloyl glucose (PGG) to diabetes in functional small animal model, and 3) determine the immunomodulatory effect of adipose derived stem cell differentiation and seeding on scaffold remodeling in a diabetic environment.

First, a complete decellularization procedure of porcine renal arteries was established and optimized to remove all cellular and nuclear material from the …

Glucose Adaptation And Glycosome Import Machinery Of Trypanosoma Brucei, Logan Phillip Crowe

All Dissertations

Trypanosoma brucei is the protozoan parasite responsible for Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) and the cattle wasting disease Nagana endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. T. brucei and other kinetoplastids possess specialized peroxisomes called glycosomes that compartmentalize many processes including glycolysis and gluconeogesis. While most studies on T. brucei has been performed on lab-adapted 29-13 strain parasites, it has been observed that glucose is an important signaling cue for differentiation of AnTat1.1 cells. Currently, most parasites are maintained in the glucose-rich medium SDM-79, and studies using low glucose media have used either SDM-80 or SDM-79 in which glucose has been depleted by cell …

The Rhetoric Of Neo-Orientalism: The Perpetuation Of Ideological Entanglements For Pakistan, Firasat Jabeen

All Dissertations

This research is a re-imagination of Edward Said’s landmark scholarship Orientalism from a Pakistani perspective. The study focuses on the construction and creation of ideologies positioned in mass media (both US and Pakistani) messages. In doing so, I consider Edward Said’s Orientalism as a set of two distinctive theories: (i) the theory of representation, and (ii) the theory of power. For the former, I study the production and promotion of ideologies in the representation of events and case studies. These case studies include: (i) the Malala Yousafzai case (2012), (ii) the US Drone Strikes case (2010), (iii) the Daniel Pearl …

Machinic Eyes: New And Post-Digital Aesthetics, Surveillance, And Resistance, Brian Gaines

All Dissertations

This work concerns the rise of the New Aesthetic, an art project developed by James Bridle in 2012. The New Aesthetic, as envisioned by Bridle, was chiefly concerned with the overlapping of physical and digital realities through both the artifacts produced by this overlapping and the systems involved therein. I introduce the advent of the New Aesthetic and present the major criticisms: the lack of a robust theoretical and scholarly framework, the lack of a historical framework, the privileging of artifacts over systems as new Aesthetic, and the fragmented scholarly outlook on the New Aesthetic.

Upon further examination, I discovered …

The Role Of Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games In Facilitating Vocabulary Acquisition For English Language Learners: A Mixed-Methods Study, Juan Li

All Dissertations

Slow vocabulary development and poor comprehension among English Language learners (ELLs) (August, Carlo, & Snow, 2005) have resulted in an academic achievement gap between ELLs and native English-speaking learners in the United States (Klingner, Artiles, & Barletta, 2006; Wilde, 2010). This mixed-methods sequential explanatory research aims to help narrow the academic gap by providing increased engagement and interaction opportunities to ELLs. In this study, I replicated and extended Bourgonjon et al. (2010)’s study identifying the predictive factors of students’ acceptance for using video games in the classrooms. A sequential qualitative study with 11 selected participants was conducted to explain how …

Applications Of The Club Model To The Economics Of Terrorism, Alexander Daniel Ray

All Dissertations

Terrorism remains a controversial topic both in academia and in the public discourse. Building on previous social science research investigating the determinants of terrorism in a rational choice framework, I analyze terrorism through an economist's lens that assumes terrorist groups to be rational actors that use violence as a tool in pursuit of tangible political or ideological goals.

In the first chapter, I develop an economic model for the formation of alliances between terror groups, and why intergroup cooperation is more effective if the groups have a similar ideology. Groups cooperate in order to increase access to resources while maintaining …

Our Educative Reticence: A Grounded Theory Of Instructors’ Not Adopting Open Textbooks, Jonathan Lashley

All Dissertations

The Open Textbook Network (OTN)—an organization based out of the University of Minnesota and comprising over 1,000 postsecondary institutions—supports the open education movement by facilitating in-person workshops about, sharing training resources for, and curating a library of peer-reviewed open textbooks. Its efforts are meant to build awareness of open education among attendees by teaching them about the positive potential of open textbooks in addressing the rising costs of attending college, waning public investment in higher education, increasing pedagogical dependence on the course materials of commercial publishers, and curbing other barriers to affordability, access, and equity in higher education. While many …

Committee Annual Reports And Updates

NASIG Newsletter

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January 16, 2019 Board Meeting, Beth Ashmore

NASIG Newsletter

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March 12, 2019 Conference Call, Beth Ashmore

NASIG Newsletter

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Streaming Infrastructure And Natural Language Modeling With Application To Streaming Big Data, Yuheng Du

All Dissertations

Streaming data are produced in great velocity and diverse variety. The vision of this research is to build an end-to-end system that handles the collection, curation and analysis of streaming data. The streaming data used in this thesis contain both numeric type data and text type data. First, in the field of data collection, we design and evaluate a data delivery framework that handles the real-time nature of streaming data. In this component, we use streaming data in automotive domain since it is suitable for testing and evaluating our data delivery system. Secondly, in the field of data curation, we …

Investigating The Cultural Context For Big Cat Conservation Around The World, Kathleen Elizabeth Krafte

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Populations of predators are in decline worldwide as human growth and development destroys and alters their habitats. At the same time, large predators are a tourist attraction in many regions of the world, bringing essential income to governments and local communities. The complex interactions between predator populations and local communities often result in conflicts that can negatively impact both humans and wildlife populations. To gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of human-predator conflict and potential solutions, this study focuses on assessing the social suitability for predator conservation that measures the cultural context for conservation in a region. First, a …

Composing Counter-Memories: Using Memorial And Community Engagement To Disrupt Dominant Narratives, April Obrien

All Dissertations

This project focuses on the convergence of rhetorical theory, memory studies, and

community-based writing. I use this tripartite to call attention to the politics of

remembering Black history in the South. Specifically, I utilize the historic rural town of

Pendleton, South Carolina as a case study. Pendleton, like many towns and cities in the

American South, has a complicated relationship with its history, which is observable

through the town’s segregated physical spaces, as well as through its historic sites and

markers. Through a methodology I call chora/graphy, I create several associated maps of

Pendleton’s contested spaces, places, and objects, and, …

Evaluating Effects Of Character Appearance On Ownership And Learning In Virtual Applications, Lorraine Lin

All Dissertations

Virtual applications are now a dominant commercial and social platform. Sixty-seven percent of households own a gaming device, and eighty-one percent of the United States population has a social media profile. Now, virtual reality appears to be the next technological frontier that will take over mainstream markets. New, low-cost devices for virtual reality or mixed reality such as the Oculus Rift, Sony's PlayStation VR, or Samsung's Gear VR are already available or have been announced and might even outperform previous high-cost systems. With the prevalence of this technology, it is important to know how it influences us. One common factor …