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Wet Market, Haitao Zeng

Research Papers

This research project paper explores the documentary installation show: Wet Market. The installation is to show the Chinese culture of both shoppers and vendors buying and selling food on a daily basis in the Chinese wet market. With the use of audio, photos, and videos, the author created a space to construct an environment similar to that of a Chinese food wet market. In the show, Wet Market, audiences can walk around to look at the photos, listen to the natural sounds of each section of the wet market recorder on audio, and watch the large screen projected of …

Unpacking Social And Structural Roadblocks To Accessibility In Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Abimbola Olamide Iyun

Research Papers

This research paper alongside an audio documentary, Living In Our Space, explores from the perspective of four students with physical disabilities at Southern Illinois University (SIU) consistent issues of inaccessibility and its effects on students with disabilities at SIU. It explores what inaccessibility means for participants in this study and how it affects their lives. Data was gathered through the use of semi structured interviews and autobiographical accounts and analysed with thematic analysis and Invivo coding.

Siu Alumni, Siu Alumni Association

SIU Alumni Magazine

No abstract provided.

Preparing For Baby Boomers As An Agri-Tourism Market, Anthony Agbeh, Elaine T. Jurkowski

Peer-reviewed Articles

The tsunami of baby boomers has led to an increase in people over the age of 60 traveling, and venturing to rural and agri-tourism environments or settings. Coupled with this new trend, is an increase in the number of travelers with disabilities or mobility impairments, who have comfortably traveled domestically through accommodations, afforded through the Americans’ with Disabilities Act. The advent of the agri-tourism industry now can utilize many of these accommodations expected by baby boomers. This paper addresses current issues and recommends strategies to intervene in order to meet the needs of the agri tourism market in the United …

The Climate Of Opinion In Illinois 2008- 2016: Roots Of Gridlock, John Jackson, Charles W. Leonard, Shiloh L. Deitz

The Simon Review (Occasional Papers of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute)

Since January 1, 2015, Illinois has been frozen in a governmental and political gridlock that has dominated the state’s political discourse, consumed the energies of all involved, and created chaos in governmental and non-profit agencies that normally deliver state services. It has also created untold hardship and suffering among those who are most dependent on state services. The conflict has especially threatened to drastically reduce the quality and missions of the institutions of public higher education in Illinois, a state system that was widely recognized as one of the best in the nation and the world.

All Prisoners Are Equal, But Some Prisoners Are More Equal Than Others: An Inmate’S Right To Sex Reassignment Surgery After Kosilek V. Spencer, 889 F. Supp. 2d 190 (D. Mass. 2012), Julia Kaye Wykoff

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

In a system where all prisoners are equal, some prisoners are more equal than others. Despite the progression of the LGBT community, one very overlooked group is transgender prisoners. This Note explores a transgender prisoner’s rights to sex reassignment surgery. In 2012, a federal district judge held for the first time that a DOC prisoner must receive sex reassignment surgery. In a ten-year battle, Michelle Kosilek presented evidence that his Gender Identity Disorder was so severe that the only way to medically treat the condition was to have a sex reassignment surgery. This case presented new, unprecedented law regarding the …

State Ex Rel. Proctor V. Messina And Ex Parte Communications Under The Hipaa Privacy Rule: The “Judicial Proceedings” Split, Daniel J. Sheffner

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

In State ex rel. Proctor v. Messina, the Supreme Court of Missouri held that the HIPAA Privacy Rule does not authorize court orders permitting defense counsel to enter into informal ex parte communications with a plaintiff’s treating, non-party health care provider, absent the plaintiff’s authorization. In overruling the trial court’s order allowing such ex parte communications, the 2010 decision comports with the majority of state courts that prohibit such informal discovery techniques. Notably, however, the Missouri court did not rest its holding on any state substantive rule expressly prohibiting ex parte communications, but on the court’s interpretation of the …

Domestic Tranquility: The Goals Of Home Protection, Burke Bindbeutel

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

This Article proposes an explanation for the special place of the home by surveying the development of privacy jurisprudence and grounding that development in our political tradition. Our earliest conception of rights began with a kind of home protection. But then there was a crucial shift into the abstract realm of privacy. Legal home protection has evolved beyond a ceasefire between state and citizen. Where before it was enough to stay the government’s intrusion into the home, there is today a recognition of the value of the intimate association of free individuals and the trust in government which arises from …

Disaster Relief Housing: A Passive Design Approach, Lauren K. Ovca

Honors Theses

Hurricanes, forest fires, floods, and avalanches are only a few of the natural disasters that can devastate cities, communities, and families. Too often the individuals that have endured these catastrophes have nowhere to go. As traveling out of the area may not be possible, they are often crowded into shelters or given inferior, substandard housing. These living conditions are far from ideal, and what was initially presented as a housing solution for a week or two can quickly turn into a harsh reality for several months or more.

Why not provide better housing solutions during these trying times? The answer …

User Determinism: A Study Of The Determination Of Gratifications On The Uses Of China’S Wechat, Bowen Gao

Research Papers

Modern social media have been being multi-functionalized. Some social media companies add more functions to their products in order to gratify more personal needs of their customers. Contrary to devoting to gratify users’ needs, some other media companies make smart marketing strategies, which aim to influence consumers’ behavior for motivating them to conduct financial transactions. However, marketing strategies are only effective in a certain period on a certain group of people. In contrast, gratifying users’ needs is always an effective way to obtain a large amount of users.

China’s WeChat, one currently dominant social messaging application in Chinese Mainland, as …

What Influences Do Age, Gender And Race/Ethnicity Have On The Overall Health Consequences Of Excess Lead In Children?, Jessica J. Smith

Research Papers

After Flint, Michigan governmental authorities introduced a more corrosive water source into an already aging water system without adequate corrosion control, the percentage of children with elevated blood lead levels increased, particularly in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods. The main objective of this research paper is to clarify influences of age, gender and race, ethnicity have on the overall health consequences of excess lead in children. There are studies that focus on the short and long term effects of neurological, hypertension, renal, and developmental on children. However, since specific demographic evidence is still limited, future research is still needed to implement a …

Innovation And Leadership Development For The Millennial Generation, Savannah L. Mccord

Honors Theses

Millennial college students’ leadership development is imperative for the future success of US society. If utilized consciously, the university can serve as a container of self-cultivation for the aspiring Millennial leader. Keys to leadership development are combining theory, practice, and mentoring. By utilizing the work of Joseph Campbell combined with other cutting-edge leadership development theories, this autoethnographic research shows the synthesis of theory and practice for a successful Millennial leader. This research is offered as a service to future Millennial college students and potential leaders.

Anxiety Break: A Smartphone Application Used To Examine The Mediating Effects Of Metacognition On Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Devon L. Ruhde

Honors Theses

Worry is the highlight characteristic of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). While worry is very common in anxiety disorders, it is important to note that worry is common in non-clinical populations as well. The current study focused on the metacognitive model of GAD (Wells, 2005). Various intervention types available for those with GAD have been examined. However, with the surge of technological advances being integrated into the field of psychology, it is important to examine technology-based treatments, more specifically smartphone application interventions. The purpose of the current study was to use a smartphone application (Anxiety Breaks; Habib, 2013) that targets worry …

When Affirmative Action Is White: Italian Americans In The City University Of New York, 1976 – Present, Liana Kirillova

2016

In 1976, the City University of New York (CUNY) unprecedentedly included Italian Americans in its affirmative action policy, providing them with the status of a designated minority. At the moment, CUNY is the only place where Italian Americans have gained such privileges alongside federally recognized racial and ethnic groups. This historically unique decision has significantly influenced the Italian American community in New York. Yet the question remains: have they made satisfactory progress as a group? Tracing the dynamics in their relations with CUNY authorities, today one can detect a high level of dissatisfaction among Italian American faculty. Additionally, it is …

Globalized Backlash: Women Against Feminism’S New Media Matrix Of (Anti) Feminist Testimony, Margarethe Mapes

Dissertations

Feminisms are oftentimes confronted with dissonance, resistance, and backlash. Invested in criticizing the cultural and institutional emergence of patriarchy and calls to re-order structures of inequality make feminism threatening to status quo power dynamics. “Women Against Feminism”—a social media phenomenon and space for women to post anti-feminist messages—began gaining notoriety in 2013. By 2015, “Women Against Feminism” expanded to multiple social media platforms, gained thousands of anti-feminist submissions, and received ample support and criticism across news outlets. This study explores “Women Against Feminism” as a potential site of 21st feminist backlash, noting nuanced rhetorical strategies that rely on fearing feminism, …

Women's Textile Graffiti: An Aesthetic Staging Of Public/Private Dichotomies, Diana Christine Woodhouse

Dissertations

The cultural performance of textile graffiti, or yarnbombing, dramatizes women’s contested relationship to the public/privates dichotomies that constitute neoliberal capitalism as well as liberal democracies. Across both of these institutions, privatized matters are problematically excluded from political consideration, and private sphere values—such are nurturance, interdependence, and communalism—are denied their necessity and legitimacy as public goods. Textile graffiti artists furnish an association between public and private life by placing signifiers of domesticity and caregiving onto the public streets, and adorning those nurturant signifiers with political and/or feminist messages. In so doing, textile graffiti functions to politicize caregiving, to highlight its gendered …

“No Cosby Show”: Single Black Mother Homes And How Black Men Build Romantic Relationships, Maia Niguel Moore

Dissertations

This qualitative study explored the lives of 11 Black men to better understand how Black men who were raised in single Black mother homes build romantic relationships with Black women. One focus group and a series of individual in-person interviews were conducted with the participants who ranged between 23 and 43 years of age. Participants were asked questions that inquired about their family of origin, messages they received about relationships, how they define masculinity, their perceptions of Black women, and their previous and current experiences building romantic relationships. Guided by a narrative approach, several different coding methods were used to …

Asian Gangs In The United States: A Meta-Synthesis, Sou Lee

Theses

The purpose of this study is to gain a holistic understanding of the Asian gang phenomenon through the application of a meta-synthesis, which is seldom utilized within the criminal justice and criminology discipline. Noblit and Hare’s (1988) seven step guidelines for synthesizing qualitative research informed this methodology. Through this process, 15 studies were selected for synthesis. The synthesis of these studies not only identified prevalent themes across the sample, but also provided the basis for creating overarching metaphors that captured the collective experience of Asian gang members. Through the interpretive ordering of these metaphors, a line of synthesis argument was …

Branding Smes In The Uae's Emerging Market, Sandra E. Akaaboune Mrs.

Research Papers

Brand positioning is one of the crucial elements to a businesses’ success or failure. Extensive research has been conducted to formulate theories and strategies around successful positioning for global brands and the ways small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can compete in the market through positioning, but none of it completely or directly applies to the focus of this research. Dubai is emerging as a fashion capital, it is the second top retail tourist destination globally, and the market is highly saturated with fashion brands from around the world. Success in the UAE could provide endless opportunity for SMEs. Middle …

An Impact Study Of Women In U.S. Super Bowl Beer Commercials, 2011-2015, Elizabeth Robinson

Research Papers

The beer industry is one of the largest moneymaking industries in the U.S., and is one that spends a significant amount of money on advertising expenditures. While beer companies traditionally target men in their advertisements, particularly those aired during televised sporting events, the female audience is practically ignored, although it is one that is growing in importance due to the increase in women as beer drinkers and sports fans.

The objectives of this study are to: (1) determine the extent to which females are targeted as potential consumers in beer advertising aired during Super Bowl broadcasts from 2011-2015; (2) examine …

Fund Balance Reporting. Local Governments' Compliance With Gasb Statement №54, Mikhail Zolotykh

Research Papers

No abstract provided.

Voice And Silence Among International Students In The U.S.- American Classroom: Towards A Dialogic And Inclusive Approach To Voice, Silence, And Active Listening, Jana Simonis

Dissertations

Each year, thousands of international students move to the United States to pursue higher education. Over the past few years in particular, the numbers of international students enrolled at U.S.-American universities has been on a constant incline. Two of the biggest changes that international students may experience are the different expectations of classroom etiquette and participation in the U.S.-American classroom setting. Impacted by many years of exposure to West-centric approaches to pedagogical praxis, the U.S.-American classroom has been created as a privileged space in which, more often than not, West-centric epistemologies, approaches to pedagogy, and ways of knowledge production are …

#Socialsupport For Diet And Physical Activity Via Web 2.0: A Qualitative Study Of College Women, Bethany Kies Kies

Dissertations

Like other adults in the U.S., college students, have high rates of obesity and overweight, and they have a pattern of poor diet and physical inactivity. Emerging adulthood is a key developmental period for building life-long habits and behaviors, and health theory suggests that one’s social environment and amount of social support affects health behaviors, particularly among women. With the technological advances of Web 2.0, or social media, the opportunity for providing social support for health behaviors through the online social environment now exists; social media is a game changer for both research and practice related to understanding the social …

Cracking The World System: Mediating Public Pedagogies From The “World Revolution” Of 1848, James Kepley Anderson

Dissertations

This project adopts the framework of World Systems Analysis [WSA], formulated by global sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, to take the entire world system as the unit of analysis. Drawing on the work of Paulo Freire, the seminal theorist of critical pedagogy, this project couples WSA with the analytic lens of public pedagogy to overcome the conceptual limitations of ideology and of various postmodern critiques. Primary media sources are used for purposes of critical political economy, to outline the contours of economic changes and class formations from the first world revolution. A detailed descriptive history of the revolutions that swept across Europe …

The Use Of Specialized Cybercrime Policing Units: An Organizational Analysis, Dale Willits, Jeffrey Nowacki

Articles

Given the increased focus and importance of cybercrime, some police agencies have turned to the use of specialized cybercrime policing units. Research has yet to examine the how frequently these units are used in policing, nor has research examined the types of agencies most likely to use these units. The current research, drawing on contingency theory, institutional theory, and Maguire’s theory of police organizational structure, uses four waves of Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Survey data to provide a descriptive analysis of specialized cybercrime units with a focus on identifying organizational correlates, environmental pressures, and the role of time. Trend …

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 …

Where Is Home? A Multimedia View Of The Lives Of El Salvador’S Orphaned Children, And Flaws Within The Child Welfare System Of The World’S Murder Capital, Kayli A. Plotner

Research Papers

In El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, live 6.4 million people attempting to recover from a civil war that ended more than 20 years ago. Its people are still fighting to recover from the war—both economically and socially.

More than one third of the population fall beneath the poverty line, leaving many children to join their families in the work force. In a country where only 3 percent of the public expenditures are put toward education, at least one-third of children drop out of school by fifth grade.

As of January 2016, El Salvador has a homicide …

2016 Abstract Book, Undergraduate Creative Activities And Research Forum

Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Forum Abstract Books

This booklet contains all the abstracts from the 2016 forum held at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Coordinated by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, a unit in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.

Common Thread Of Success: Connecting, Relationships, Networks, Katherine L. West

Research Papers

This paper shows that success centers around connection to community, and relationships within a network. Three case studies presented, include the 1950’s conflict between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs, the non-profit organization charity: water, and the e-commerce business Amazon.com, highlighting the common thread of success. Storytelling, communication biases, and motivation were identified as three main factors that aided in the community connections supporting their success. These factors were then applied to WSIU Public Broadcasting as an example, with the theory that they could effectively be applied to any organization. The key for success is connection, so each time these supporting …

Warning! You May Have Ed: A Rhetorical Analysis Of "The Male Predicament" From An Ecofeminist Perspective, Heather A. Abell

Research Papers

No abstract provided.