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Curricular Requirements, Critical Traditions, And Adaptation In The Paratext Of Chinese And American School Editions Of Robinson Crusoe, Haifeng Hui

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Curricular Requirements, Critical Traditions, and Adaptation in the Paratext of Chinese and American School Editions of Robinson Crusoe" Haifeng Hui analyses a Chinese new curricular edition and an American common core edition of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to reveal how the paratext can be utilized to reveal different ways of understanding in different educational cultures. He argues that the paratext powerfully exerts the publisher's authority over the text and the reader, thus shaping readers' interpretation of the story in the service of fulfilling specific national curricular needs. The Chinese edition aims more at how Crusoe's story should …

A Comparative Minoritarian Study Of Language Poetry Of Iran And The United States, Sama Khosravi Ooryad

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "A Comparative Minoritarian Study of Language Poetry of Iran and the United States" Sama Khosravi Ooryad analyses Language poetry of the United States (1970s) and Language poetry of Iran (1990s) through Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concepts of minor literature and rhizomic text. The argument of the article is that the two movements, in both their poems and theoretical passages, carry potentialities to be related to Deleuzian concepts. The practice of minor literature, rhizomic text and book as machine is more evident in the works of U.S. language poets. Moreover, Iranian language poetry, while being analyzed alongside …

China And The Politics Of Cross–Cultural Representation In Interwar European Fiction, Carles Prado-Fonts

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "China and the Politics of Cross–Cultural Representation in Interwar European Fiction" Carles Prado-Fonts analyzes Joan Crespi's La ciutat de la por (The City of Fear, 1930) to illustrate the varied representations of China in interwar Europe. In the 1920s and 1930s, a plurality of views on China and the Chinese people became widespread across different parts of Europe, mainly shaped by English, French, and German representations. Contradictory images of China coexisted in literature, thought, and popular culture. Crespi's work exemplifies these contradictions: China appears as both an attainable reality and an unreachable fantasy, two tropes that prevailed …

Interview: Bridget Johnston, Sunny Asaf

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

Purdue University alumnus Bridget Johnston serves as the interactive technology projects manager at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

Out Of The Box: Homegrown In Greater Lafayette: Hispanic Community In Greater Lafayette [Full Paper], Sara King

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

Students from the Honors 299 course, “Homegrown,” researched local Hispanic culture, sound, green spaces, and coffee shops, among other areas of study, as well as the role of each in establishing a sense of place.

Out Of The Box: Homegrown In Greater Lafayette: Caffeine And Everyone: Coffee Shops Of Lafayette And West Lafayette [Full Paper], Bridget Curry

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

Students from the Honors 299 course, “Homegrown,” researched local Hispanic culture, sound, green spaces, and coffee shops, among other areas of study, as well as the role of each in establishing a sense of place.

Out Of The Box: Researching A Divided Country, Christian Clase, Melissa Deach, Lauren Feagler, Sarah Weaver

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

A group of undergraduate students from Purdue University’s Department of Political Science and the Brian Lamb School of Communication attended the 2017 Presidential Inauguration and subsequent Women’s March on Washington to research political divisions in America. For many of the students, this was their first experience with qualitative research.

Simulation Of Oil Droplets Through Porous Media Using Dissipative Particle D, Yuchen Zhang

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

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America, Divided: Understanding The Contentious Political Climate Following The 2016 Election, Meron Tamene, Pablo Balcazar, Daniella Gonzalez, Danielle Hustedt, Courtney Pegues

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

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Spatial Soundscape Ecology: Application In A Paleotropical Rainforest, Jack Vanschaik

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

The world’s biodiversity is declining with much of the decrease attributed to human activity. The paleotropical rainforests of Borneo contribute 10% of the world biodiversity but are at risk of destruction due to logging and other human interests. Soundscape ecology, defi ned as the study of the composition of sounds in an environment, is a new fi eld that offers solutions for assessing biodiversity and disturbance. Spatial dynamics are an important component of an ecosystem, yet the link between spatial dynamics and soundscapes has not yet been studied. It should be possible to assess disturbance of an ecosystem by analyzing …

Predicting Advertisement Clicks Using Deep Networks: Interpreting Deep Learning Models, Karan Samel

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

Deep learning has achieved state-of-the-art results in a variety of tasks such as classifying images and driverless cars. In this paper, I used deep learning to understand consumer product interests. One of the main goals for advertisement agencies is to develop mathematical models to predict whether consumers will click on their advertisement. Achieving the highest click prediction rate means that these agencies can pay to place their online advertisements effectively to target people most interested in their product. Most existing approaches are based on logistic regression or regression tree models (Trofi mov, Kornetova, & Topinskiy, 2012). The model based on …

Animal-Assisted Activities: Effects Of Animals On Positive Emotional Display In Children In Inclusion Classrooms, Gayatri Mazgaonkar

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

Animals are commonly present in classrooms and may be an important tool in enhancing children’s experiences, especially in inclusion classrooms that provide integrative learning for both typically developing children and children with special needs.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of animal-assisted activities on children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as well was typically developing (TD) children in inclusion classrooms.

Ninety-nine children from 15 inclusion classrooms were divided into groups of three (two TD children and one child with ASD) to take part in free play sessions with either two guinea pigs or a set of …

The Role Of Vitamin D In Breast Cancer: Investigating Potential Inhibition Through Matrix Metalloproteinase 2, Hyesoo Chae

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

Breast cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States, with 99% of breast cancer patients surviving fi ve years after diagnosis if the tumor is localized. However, if the tumor has metastasized, the survival rate decreases to 22%. Epidemiological and animal studies, as well as previous studies from our laboratory in in vitro 3D cell culture models, support the hypothesis that vitamin D may inhibit breast cancer metastasis in humans, but the mechanisms remain unknown. The purpose of the present studies was to investigate the effect of the bioactive vitamin D metabolite, 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin …

Commons Model In Libraries – Challenges & Successes, Elizabeth Soergel, Kelly Banyas, Nevenka Zdravkovska

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Trends In Academic Library Space, Silas Marques De Oliveira

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Making The Library The Preferred Place To Study: Rethinking Existing Spaces And Opening The Library To The Users, Anne-Berit Gregersen, Gry Bettina Moxnes

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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The Library As “Student Heaven”: Re-Designing Library Spaces To Enrich The Student Experience, Jill Benn

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Engineers: What Do They Read And Write, And Why? – A Survey Of Information And Publishing Behavior Of Academic Engineers, Lenka Němečková, Iva Adlerova

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Why Is The Library Involved In Research Support? Demonstrating Why And How The Library Can Contribute And Add Value To The University Research Priorities, Trish Wilson

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Library’S Role In Researcher Services And In Open Science, Iris Tahvanainen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Taking The Mountain To All The Mohammeds: Elements Of Embedded Librarianship At A Large University, Viola Voß

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Systematic Approach To Marketing Library Services, Johanna Kamara

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Showing The Way – From App To Book: Successful In-House Software Development Through A Computer Science – Library Partnership, Alfredo Azmitia, Janett Mohnke, Henning Wiechers

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Google Scholar, Sci-Hub And Libgen: Could They Be Our New Partners?, Louis Houle

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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The Establishment Of A Strategic International And Local Partnership Through A Masters Level Degree In Information Technology, Marlene Amanda Holmner, Theo Bothma

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Developing A Vision, Strategy And Offer For Information And Digital Literacy (Idl): A Case Study Of The University Of Sheffield, Uk, Vicky Grant, Alison V. Little, Anne Horn

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Design And Implementation Of A Campus-Wide Online Plagiarism Tutorial: Role Played By The Library In An Emerging Research Institution In Saudi Arabia, Lee Yen Han

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Letting Traditional Boundaries Blur: A Case Study In Co-Developing Stem “Excellence” Courses, Stephanie Krueger

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Flora Graeca Digitalis: Old Library Stock, Wolfgang Stille

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Digitization Projects Of Documentary Collections In Academic Libraries, Ilaria Giglio

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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