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External Program Review, English, 2013, Janice Walker, Michael Wiley

Academic Learning Compacts

An external review of the English program at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg by Janice Walker and Michael Wiley. Included as supplemental files are a self-study and a supplemental report.

World Languages & Cultures, 2013-2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2013-2014 for the Bachelor's of Arts in World Languages and Culture.

English: Writing Studies, 2013-2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2013-2014 for English's Writing Studies.

Teologia E Comunicazione. Il Pensiero Di W. J. Ong, Paul A. Soukup

Communication

Anche se incentrati sulla letteratura e sull’espressione, la ricerca e gli scritti di Walter Jackson Ong (1912-2003), gesuita statunitense, antropologo, insegnante di letteratura inglese e storico delle culture e delle religioni, hanno continuato a esercitare un considerevole influsso su settori accademici molto diversi tra loro, come la psichiatria, la teologia, gli studi culturali e la comunicazione. Ong si è interessato dei mezzi della trasmissione della conoscenza e del loro impatto sulla percezione dell’uomo. I suoi studi ci permettono di vedere quelle che egli chiamava le «correlazioni» tra le pratiche culturali: gestione dell’informazione, forme di espressione, media, modelli di interpretazione, pratica …

Cultural Impacts On Saudi Students At A Mid-Western American University, Nasser Razek, Sandra C. Coyner

Counselor Education and Human Services Faculty Publications

The number of Saudi students studying in the United States quintupled from 3,035 students in 2005 to 15,810 students in 2010 due to a fully funded Saudi government scholarship (Open Doors, 2010). As students originating in a cultural background differing from the prevailing principles of their higher education institutions, Saudi students face several challenges. The cultural challenges are one of the most frequently apparent among these challenges (Constantine, Okazaki, & Utsey, 2004; Miller, 2002). Building upon the relationship between the cultural beliefs and student academic achievement, this study aimed at examining the cultural aspects of the increased presence of Saudi …

Current Therapeutic Approaches To Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis, L. Dirikolu, Jonathan H. Foreman, Thomas Tobin

Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center Faculty Publications

Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis is the most important infectious neurologic disease of horses in the Western Hemisphere. Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis can interfere with a horse's ability to race, work, and perform; untreated, EPM can be lethal. Antemortem diagnosis of EPM is challenging, requiring careful evaluation of the animal's history, clinical signs, and laboratory data, with rigorous exclusion of other causes.

Therapeutic approaches to EPM are evolving. First-generation therapeutic approaches for EPM were based on the classic anti–Toxoplasma gondii pyrimethamine–sulfonamide combinations; treatment is prolonged and can be associated with a considerable relapse rate, which may be associated with the difficulty in …

Impulsivity Like Traits And Risky Driving Behaviors Among College Students, Matthew R. Pearson, Elaine M. Murphy, Ashley N. Doane

Psychology Faculty Publications

The present study examined the predictive effects of five impulsivity-like traits (Premeditation, Perseverance, Sensation Seeking, Negative Urgency, and Positive Urgency) on driving outcomes (driving errors, driving lapses, driving violations, cell phone driving, traffic citations, and traffic collisions). With a convenience sample of 266 college student drivers, we found that each of the impulsivity-like traits was related to multiple risky driving outcomes. Positive Urgency (tendency to act impulsively when experiencing negative affect) was the most robust predictor of risky driving outcomes. Positive Urgency is a relatively newly conceptualized impulsivity-like trait that was not examined in the driving literature previously, suggesting a …

Who’S My Real Daddy? Reducing The Prevalence Of False Paternity In Texas, Elan Renee-Guerin Longstreet

Texas A&M Law Review

False paternity occurs when a man is incorrectly presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated to be the father of a child even though, contrary to his own belief, he has no biological relationship to the child. In Texas, over 85% of cases of false paternity result when paternity is initially established by a legal presumption or voluntary acknowledgement. However, instead of amending the laws on how paternity is initially established, Texas attempts to remedy false paternity merely by determining the situations in which paternity may be disestablished. The effects of disestablishing paternity vary wildly and can be devastating to the child, the …

Entertaining, Informing, Persuading: Figures Of Speech To Prepare For Health And Safety, David H. Lee, Frederick Steier, Wit Ostrenko

Publications and Research

The public mandates science center exhibits that are entertaining as well as informative. In addition, exhibits can also be performative, in that they act back upon the visitors with an injunction to change their ways. We give examples from two exhibits that not only inform, but also open up space for changes in behavior and perception, particularly in arenas of public health. We look at two recent and ongoing exhibits at MOSI – “Disasterville” and “The Amazing You” - and examine the affordances suggested by figures of speech such as eponymy, hyponymy, hypernymy and retronymy. Tropological research into museum exhibits …

Like Father, Like Son? Reflections On Black Cultural Capital And Generational Conceptions Of Work, Quaylan Allen, Travis D. Boyce

Education Faculty Articles and Research

This article extends our understanding of Black middle-class social mobility by examining successful cases of social reproduction. Specifically, using autoethnographic methods, two Black junior faculty reflect upon their fathers’ uses of cultural capital and the generational differences in conceptions of appropriate work. For the first generation middle-class Black fathers, material realities and the technocratic nature of their work influenced their interpretations of appropriate employment. In contrast, the second-generation’s access to particular cultural and economic capital influenced the sons’ conceptions of work, demonstrating generational differences in Black middle-class occupational ideology. Responding to deficit views on Black mobility, this article highlights the …

How Universal Is The Big Five? Testing The Five-Factor Model Of Personality Variation Among Forager-Farmers In The Bolivian Amazon, Michael Gurven, Christopher Von Rueden, Maxim Massenkoff, Hillard Kaplan, Marino Lero Vie

ESI Publications

The five-factor model (FFM) of personality variation has been replicated across a range of human societies, suggesting the FFM is a human universal. However, most studies of the FFM have been restricted to literate, urban populations, which are uncharacteristic of the majority of human evolutionary history. We present the first test of the FFM in a largely illiterate, indigenous society. Tsimane forager–horticulturalist men and women of Bolivia (n = 632) completed a translation of the 44-item Big Five Inventory (Benet-Martínez & John, 1998), a widely used metric of the FFM. We failed to find robust support for the FFM, based …

Recalibrational Emotions And The Regulation Of Trust-Based Behaviors, Eric Schniter, Timothy W. Shields

ESI Working Papers

Though individuals differ in the degree to which they are predisposed to trust or act trustworthy, we theorize that trust-based behaviors are universally determined by the calibration of conflicting short- and long-sighted behavior regulation programs, and that these programs are calibrated by emotions experienced personally and interpersonally. In this chapter we review both the main-stream and evolutionary theories of emotions that philosophers, psychologists, and behavioral economists have based their work on and which can inform our understanding of trust-based behavior regulation. The standard paradigm for understanding emotions is based on mapping their positive and negative affect valence. While Valence Models …

Editor's Introduction: "Making Sense Of The Senseless: A Case For The Insufficiency Of Theory And Hermeneutics", Marc A. Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

This issue is a wonderful compilation of truly excellent essays. I can assure readers that I have read and appreciated them. Indeed, several of them came through my inbox during various stages of preparation and it is encouraging to see such a healthy roster of scholarly contributions. I wish I were able to do them justice. Please read them. Enjoy them. The work alone should give us hope. People are thinking critically and responding creatively. This in and of itself is a good thing. What follows, then, is a call for more good things. It is part response, part self-directed …

Married, With Children And An Xbox: Compromise In Video Games Play, Marc A. Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

(First paragraph) In a home with two children under six, managing to find the time and the games that allow for play with a partner who has completely different tastes and capabilities produces compromises both inside and outside the game, as well as a hybrid form that spans the two. This last point highlights the fact that compromise remains a popularly studied topic in considerations of games, but only within very discrete boundaries that do not necessarily have anything to do with play or with players. Said another way, compromise appears in studies that foreground games as promoting aggression and …

Fact Book 2013-14, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Fact Books

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Aphra Behn Online : The Case For Early Modern Open-Access Publishing, Laura Runge

English Faculty Publications

An obvious and important advantage to the digital turn in early modern studies is the accessibility afforded by online academic publishing, but scholars of the Early Modern period (1500–1800) have been slower than their modern counterparts to take these opportunities seriously.1 Though The Early Modern Commons now lists 305 blogs, and though many of our print journals have adopted a form of online presence, studies in the early modern period can claim roughly eleven peer-reviewed, open-access, online journals to date, in- cluding a large percentage of European-based, Spanish-language journals of interdisciplinary fields.2 Given the current push to provide access to …

Notes On The Politics Of The Auteur: Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, And The Spectator, Michael Perreault

Honors Theses

What is an author, and what does it matter? Questions about authority in the cinema have been the subject of debate since the late 1940s, when Alexandre Astruc posited the notion of the camera-stylo in France. A slightly reductive understanding of the term “auteur”—a term that Cahiers du Cinéma would later adopt—states that, with the shadow of the World War II era of censorship still looming in the 1950s, the many individual voices of the cinema needed to be both heard and promoted. Namely, the director should be regarded as (and should consider his or her primary objective to …

Law And Discretion In Supreme Court Recusals: A Response To Professor Lubet, Barry Sullivan

Valparaiso University Law Review

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Experience Of Patients And Carers With Traditional Healing And Psychiatric Services, And The Outcome Of Psychosis For Patients Who Attend Traditional Services In Sudan / Ehab Ali Sorketti Koriana, Ehab Ali Sorketti Koriana

Student Works (2010-2019)

The use of traditional healers is common worldwide, especially in developing countries. Few studies, though, have focused on the use of traditional healers by people with mental disorders. This study made an attempt to understand the practice of traditional healers in relation to mental health and psychiatric services in Sudan. The study was framed to understand: (a) the socio-demographic characteristics of people with mental disorders who seek treatment in the traditional healer centres in central Sudan; (b) the clinical presentations, diagnoses and outcomes of people with psychotic disorders attending traditional healers, as well as the healing methods and interventions used; …

Diversity Of Polyporales In The Malay Peninsular And The Application Of Ganoderma Australe (Fr.) Pat. In Biopulping Of Empty Fruit Bunches Of Elaeis Guineensis / Mohamad Hasnul Bin Bolhassan, Mohamad Hasnul Bolhassan

Student Works (2010-2019)

Diversity and distribution of Polyporales in Malaysia was investigated by collecting basidiocarps from trunks, branches, exposed roots and soil from six states (Johore, Kedah, Kelantan, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang and Selangor) in Peninsular Malaysia and Federal Territory Kuala Lumpur. The morphological study of 99 basidiomata collected from 2006 till 2007 and 241 herbarium specimens collected from 2003 - 2005 were undertaken. Sixty species belonging to five families: Fomitopsidaceae, Ganodermataceae, Meruliaceae, Meripilaceae and Polyporaceae were recorded. Polyporaceae was the dominant family with 46 species identified. The common species encountered based on the number of basidiocarps collected were Ganoderma australe followed by Lentinus …

Selection, Characterization And Evaluation Of Streptomyces For The Control Of Anthracnose In Chilli / Pedram Shahbazi, Pedram Shahbazi

Student Works (2010-2019)

The actinomycetes, mainly Streptomyces spp., have been widely studied as potential biocontrol agents against plant pathogenic fungi. This project was undertaken to isolate and select Streptomyces strains showing potential in vitro and in vivo antifungal activity. Isolation was done from rhizosphere-derived soil of healthy and Colletotrichum-infested chilli plants in Ulu Chechuh in Kuala Selangor and Sungai Burung in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. The selected strains were evaluated for their ability to control chilli anthracnose pathogen, Colletotrichum spp. in vitro, and the best strain among them was chosen for green house experimental trials on chilli in vivo. A total of …

Tissue Culture Studies, Secondary Metabolites And Pigment Extraction From Allamanda Cathartica L. / Wong Kim Fah, Kim Fah Wong

Student Works (2010-2019)

Allamanda cathartica L. is a potential medicinal plant which starts to achieve public awareness due to its nutritional value that able to treat various types of diseases, especially in the treatment of jaundice, malaria and cancer. Tissue culture studies were undertaken to examine the effects of different plant growth regulators (PGRs) on the callus induction from leaf and stem explants of this species. Surface sterilization by mercuric (II) chloride (HgCl2) was utilized in order to surface sterilize the leaf (0.1%) and stem (0.2%) explants. The leaf and stem explants were cultured on full-strength Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with …

A Study Of Gender Differences In Compliments And Responses Of Chinese International Students / Zhao Jian Xiang, Jian Xiang Zhao

Student Works (2010-2019)

As a positive speech act, compliments and compliment responses play an important role as a polite speech act in activities of daily verbal communication. Incorporating the questionnaires survey and theories in pragmatics and sociolinguistic views of gender differences in language, this study investigated the gender differences in compliments and compliment responses. Twelve situations were set in the questionnaire to investigate the gender differences in compliments and compliment responses used by Chinese international male and female students in University of Malaya (UM). Among them, six situations are about compliments, and six situations are about compliment responses. The study was carried out …

Miscommunication Amongst Persian Learners Of English As A Foreign Language / Nastaran Zahra Bodaghi, Nastaran Zahra Bodaghi

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study examines miscommunication faced by Iranians when they use their English knowledge in a foreign country like Malaysia and to recommend ways to overcome the problem. To investigate miscommunications that Iranians face in their real interactions, 12 Iranians who are postgraduate students in Malaysia are asked to describe their experiences of miscommunications. These Iranians had learnt English in Iran, which can be considered as either an EFL or EIL country, and later lived in Malaysia, an ESL country. The analysis of the study reveals two major sources of miscommunications, language and culture. Culture contributed 64% while language 36% towards …

The Analysis Of Grammatical Shifts In Translating English News Into Arabic / Nael F. M. Hijjo, F. M. Hijjo Nael

Student Works (2010-2019)

The challenging issues with reference to grammatical shift as one aspect for an adequate translation have been widely studied. However, the present study investigates the grammatical shifts issues within media translation settings. Since “most readers are probably unaware of the role played by translation in international news reporting” (Schäffner and Bassnett, 2010), accordingly, this study attempts to determine the types of the grammatical shifts between English as a source language (SL) and Arabic as a target language (TL) that are realized when translating English media news into Arabic. Furthermore, it examines the quality of the source text message after applying …

Tissue Culture, Biological Activities And In Vitro Flowering Of Oxalis Triangularis / Anis Idayu Binti Mad Yussof, Anis Idayu Mad Yussof

Student Works (2010-2019)

Oxalis triangularis (A.St.-Hil) or commonly known as ‘Pokok Rama-rama’ in Malaysia is a beautiful ornamental plant which is propagated by bulbs. The plant grows to a height of 0.1 m - 0.2 m and is perfect for cultivating in pots or containers. Nowadays, with the emerging and advanced technologies, an efficient protocol has been established for a rapid multiplication of Oxalis triangularis in a large scale production under aseptic conditions. In vitro plant regeneration of Oxalis triangularis was successfully obtained in the present study via petiole and leaf as explants. The petiole explants cultured on MS medium supplemented with 0.5 …

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Votes: Graphicacy Skills For Political Debate, Amanda Rainey, Stuart Medley

Research outputs 2013

Political campaigns are greatly influenced by changes in technology and communication, from FDR’s ‘Fireside Chats’ to JFK’s embrace of television. Now a combination of technologies allows almost everyone to create, reproduce, transform, and share images with friends and family, or with the world. Individuals and grassroots organisations can communicate using images alongside mainstream media, corporations and governments. There is now a great need for all of us to develop the visual literacy – or graphicacy – required to interpret and recreate images, to communicate as educated equals in this new political environment. Political advertising can use graphic design to make …

Towards A Natural History Of Internet Use? Working To Overcome The Implications For Research Of The Child-Adult Divide, Lelia R. Green, Donell J. Holloway, David Holloway

Research outputs 2013

Using a metaphor borrowed from the biological sciences, this paper discusses a ‘natural history’ of Internet use. As ‘digital natives’ many of today’s teenagers and young people have grown up and matured interacting with the Internet from an early age. Research about young people’s Internet use tends, however, to focus on the protection of minors. Young people, 16 years or older, are often excluded from noncommercial research about how young people grow into more mature patterns of Internet use. This paper highlights how parents with teenagers are building dynamic models of their children’s engagement with the Internet as they mature. …

Chinese Students' Perceptions Of Their Creativity And Their Perceptions Of Western Students' Creativity, Bingxin Wang, Kenneth M. Greenwood

Research outputs 2013

This paper applies the Four C Model of Creativity ('Big-C, little-c, mini-c and Pro-c') to determine Chinese students' perceptions of their own creativity and their perceptions of Western students' creativity. By surveying 100 Chinese students and interviewing 10 of them, this paper discovered that Chinese students generally perceived their creativity to be less than that of Western students. Differences on mini-c and Pro-c were larger in the direction of Western students being superior, and the items that differed in the opposite direction and those which did not differ were part of the subset of little-c items. The perceived superiority of …

Through The Viewfinder: Reflecting On The Collection And Analysis Of Classroom Video Data, Angela Fitzgerald, Mark Hackling, Vaille Dawson

Research outputs 2013

The possibilities inherent in the collection and use of video footage point to an important innovation for classroom research. Unfortunately, researchers often experience uncertainty about incorporating video into their methodological approach as it can present a potential minefield of operational, technical, and ethical issues that require consideration and negotiation. Nevertheless, with the increased emphasis on the use of digital technologies, the timing is right to engage in more in-depth discussions about the role of video data in education research. In contributing to this discussion, this article unpacks several issues connected to the use of video technology as a tool for …