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Stuart Hall: An Exemplary Socialist Public Intellectual?, Herbert Pimlott

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This article offers an assessment of the Stuart Hall’s role as a socialist public intellectual during the 1980s and the circulation of his Thatcherism thesis via public interventions writing for the periodical, Marxism Today.

Contrary to most assessments of the influence of scholars and public intellectuals, which are based upon an implicit assumption that their widespread circulation are a result of the veracity and strength of the ideas themselves, this article focuses on the processes of production and distribution, including the intellectual’s own contribution to the ideas’ popularity by attending conferences and public rallies, writing for periodicals, and so …

The College Of Pharmacy, South Dakota State University

Jackrabbits Script and Scope (Formerly called College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions Magazine)

[Page] 2 Student Organizations Throughout the history of the college, student organizations have played a strong part in what the college has become.
[Page] 8 Academic and athletic success Numerous students participate as members of the Jackrabbits’ athletics teams.
[Page] 10 Relationships matter Johns Hopkins researcher works with State on breast cancer and delivers second annual Francis Miller Lecture.
[Page] 12 Celebration of Excellence By playing a prominent role in interprofessional education, Debra Farver is named the college’s outstanding scholar.
[Page] 14 Pharmacist of the Year Associate professor Tadd Hellwig honored by South Dakota Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
[Page] 15 …

Journal Of Mormon History Summer 2014 Vol. 40 Issue 3

Journal of Mormon History

CONTENTS

LETTER

--Emma’s Awareness, Brian C. Hales vii

ARTICLES

--The Curious Case of Joseph Howard, Palmyra’s Seventeen-Year-Old Somnium Preacher, Noel A. Carmack 1

--The Upper-Room Work: Esotericism in the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), 1853–1912, Christopher James Blythe 43

--The Cumorah Baseball Club: Mormon Missionaries and Baseball in South Africa, Booker T. Alston 93

--Mormons and Indians in Central Virginia: J. Golden Kimball and the Mason Family’s Native American Origins, Jay Hansford C. Vest 127

--Identifying Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives, Brian C. Hales 155

--A Society of Like-Minded Men: American Localism and the Mormon Expulsion from Jackson County, Matthew B. …

A Holistic Approach To Homestay: A Homestay Program Proposal For Cats Academy Boston, Nora Salmon

Capstone Collection

The following is a proposal for an academic yearlong homestay program for international students attending high school in the United States. This proposal examines what research conducted on homestay programs says about the effects of living in a homestay, what the perceived benefits of living in a homestay are and what is the role of homestay hosts in the homestay experience.

The homestay program developed is entitled the CATS Academy Homestay Program. This proposed program design incorporates the homestay experience as part of the students’ overall education at the high school CATS Academy, located in Newton, Massachusetts. It uses a …

Building Bridges, And Reducing Anger: Liberal-Conservative Dialogue In The United States, Jeremy M. Moses

Capstone Collection

In the United States today, liberal and conservative citizens are becoming increasingly polarized in their attitudes of hostility toward one another. This has resulted in a socio-political climate in which liberals and conservatives routinely demonize each other, and political differences are unhelpfully framed as matters of good versus evil. Open and honest dialogue between liberals and conservatives has the potential to improve this situation, but a myriad of cultural, psychological, and societal challenges create significant barriers to liberal-conservative dialogue. This paper explores these barriers in detail through a synthesis of research in moral psychology, cognitive psychology, and sociology. It explains …

Retaliating Against Customer Interpersonal Injustice In A Singaporean Context: Moderating Roles Of Self-Efficacy And Social Support, Violet Ho, Naina Gupta

Management Faculty Publications

Few studies have examined the relationship between customer injustice and employees' retaliatory counterproductive behaviors toward customers, and those that have done so have been conducted in a Western setting. We extend these studies by examining the relationship in a Singaporean context where retaliatory behaviors by employees might be culturally constrained. While the previously established positive relationship between customer injustice and counterproductive behaviors was not replicated using peer-reported data from employees across two hotels in Singapore, we found that individuals' self-efficacy and perceived social support moderated it. Specifically, the injustice-to-counterproductive behaviors relationship was positive for individuals with high self-efficacy, and for …

Intercultural Communication: American Tv Series In China, Xuan Li

Research Papers

American TV series were first introduced into China in the 1980s and their popularity was growing in recent years. Different from South Korean TV series in previous years, the popularity of American TV series does not rely on television but via Internet. As an art of sound and image, American TV series do not only bring Chinese audiences fresh audio-visual experience, but also intercultural experiences of American culture and values. This exploratory study uses questionnaire survey and focus group to investigate Chinese audiences’ attitudes towards American TV series, to analyze the influences that the American TV series may have on …

Human Asset Accounting And Measurement: Moving Forward, Brian Stanko, Thomas Zeller, Matthew F. Melina

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Changes in the accounting profession and in the way organizations are managed and operated over the past several decades have led to the identification of a new factor that makes up a substantial part of the value of an organization: human capital. The value that employees add to organizations, however, has been difficult to measure because of the many elements that comprise it and aspects of human nature and free will that are involved. Many models have been proposed to capture the value that organizations gain from employees, but none have succeeded in full. Additionally, strict financial reporting regulations would …

"For 'Tis Your Thoughts That Now Must Deck Our Kings": Affect In Shakespearean Performance, Elizabeth Dieterich

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Because Shakespeare’s plays have been performed consistently for four hundred years, Shakespearean performance is in an ideal position to demonstrate how performance transmits the meanings of texts. This thesis argues that performances of Shakespeare’s plays create meaning through the transmission of affect. Renaissance conventions of audience-actor engagement were based on character tropes and staging practices of medieval theater, to which audiences responded viscerally. To illustrate these responses, I draw upon 3 Henry VI and Richard III. I then examine Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It for their treatment of representation, empathy, and the power of …

Kenneth Simpson, 1943-2013, Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

Obituary recording the career of Dr. Kenneth G. Simpson (1943-2013), of the University of Strathclyde, and his contributions to eighteenth-century Scottish studies, especially the study and nuanced appreciation of Robert Burns.

The Rhetorical Constitution Of Online Community: Identification And Constitutive Rhetoric In The Community Of Reddit, Bradley Stephen Ludwig

Open Access Theses

The concepts of online identity and online community within the context of social media have been major research interests in the field of communication in recent years. Questions of interest include how the Internet and social media contribute to the construction of identity both online and offline, and what factors encourage participation in and contribution to online communities. This thesis will address these questions related to online identity and community from a rhetorical perspective to examine the role rhetoric plays in these processes and build on the application of rhetorical approaches to online contexts. Specifically, this project proposes a rhetorical …

Dissonant Divas In Chicana Music: The Limits Of La Onda By Deborah R. Vargaswild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture By Rita E. Urquijo-Ruizperforming The Us Latina And Latino Borderlands Edited By Arturo J. Aldama, Chela Sandoval, And Peter J. García, Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Despite the performative turn of the 1990s, a disjuncture has persisted between performance studies, though self-admittedly expansive and porous, and much of the scholarship produced around the diverse acts constituting Latina/o performance. The books reviewed here engage Latina/o performance on its own terms and terrains while reconceiving the limits of the archive as well as the subjects and substance of performance. Myriad works considered here further intervene in debates regarding critical regionalism and transnationalism within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, as well as American studies, by embracing a hemispheric approach while also being attuned to the inflections of the local. Also …

Less Is More. Effects Of The Amount Of Information And Its Presentation In The Recall And Reception Of Audio Described Characters, Nazaret Fresno, Judit Castellà Mate, Olga Soler Vilageliu

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

Audio description is a discipline within Translation Studies aimed at making audio visual products and events accessible to blind and visually impaired audiences. Works of art, TV programs, films and stage arts are audio described in order to guarantee that anyone, regardless of his/her visual capacity, can enjoy them. In the case of films, it consists of a verbal description of visual details such as settings and characters (what they look like, what they do and how they do it) provided to the audience in those parts of the movie where no relevant sounds or dialogues are heard.

The nature …

Ethnographic Accounts Of Ketamine Explorations In Psychedelic Culture, Kenneth Ring, Ralph Metzner, Philip E. Wolfson

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Off-label use of ketamine as a mind-altering substance did not begin in the laboratory, but in the psychedelic culture that grew out of the 1960s counterculture movement. Whatever the risks and limitations of such experimentation, without them the remarkable therapeutic effects of the drug might well have gone unnoticed, and unresearched. The following personal accounts—both inspiring and cautionary—offer glimpses into the cultural contexts that found ketamine to be much more than a reliable anesthetic.

Zola’S Spatial Explorations Of Second Empire Paris, Julia Kröger

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Literary criticism now has several decades of intense research on spatiality behind it. Yet it was only with the paradigm shift of the so-called "spatial turn" (Soja 1989: 39; Jameson 1991: 154) that new ideas regarding the interrelation of space as both conceived and perceived, the dialectics of space and place, and the significance of both to human experience, began to be systematically developed (see Foucault 1984; Lefebvre 2000; Relph 1976; Detering et al. 2012: Lotman 1972; Bachtin 2008). The central premise of much of this work is that space and place are produced through a dialectical interaction …

Textual Geographies: The Real-And-Imagined Spaces Of Literature, Criticism, And Theory, Robert T. Tally Jr.

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Spatial literary studies, the subject of this special issue of Reconstruction, is (or are) quite timely, it seems. Whether considered as a singular subfield within literary scholarship more generally or as diverse examples of multiple critical practices (hence, my reluctance to settle on a verb form), spatial literary studies has or have exploded in recent years, and the number of books and essays that might be legitimately listed on any comprehensive bibliography of spatial literary studies is almost beyond count. [1] The response to the call for papers for this special issue alone so exceeded my expectations, …

Literary Cartography In An Age Of Interconnectedness: Review Of Spatiality, By Robert T. Tally Jr., Matt Hudson

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Prior to the twentieth century, literary and cultural critics had been fascinated with the trajectory of time - of the remembrance of things past as situated inside of a historical canon. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, however, a change began to take place. Scholars and critics began to take a closer look at "space." Specifically, how an author constructed a place within literature, and how in turn, a reader reconstructed a place through his or her reading. This change has been termed the "spatial turn" in literary and cultural studies, and this turn is the …

Isolated Spaces, Fragmented Places: Caryl Phillips’S Ghettos In The Nature Of Blood And The European Tribe, İ.Murat Öner, Mustafa Bal

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

This study focuses on Caryl Phillips's deviant Othello character in The Nature of Blood and his transformation and perception of and in the ghettoized space of Venice in a geocritical scope. Geocriticism provides us with genuinely unique approaches to explore real-and-fictional space of Venice in The Nature of Blood (a fictional work) and The European Tribe (a non-fictional work), and other literary and non-literary materials. Interdisciplinary methods of geocriticism also help us analyze the cartographies and continuously changing spatial relations and discover unseen power correlations by using various cultural discourses such as architecture, philosophy, sociology, and geography. By applying geocritical …

Taylor: A Magazine For Taylor University Alumni, Parents And Friends (Summer 2014), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Summer 2014 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

A Case Study Investigating The Impact Of A Blended International Partnership On Perceptions Of Learning And Global Mindedness In A North Carolina High School, Jennifer Ricks

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Despite the ever-increasing popularity of international partnerships that blend study abroad and virtual learning, very little data exists to understand their impact on student attitudes and achievement. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate the impact of a blended international school partnership on perceptions of learning and global mindedness in a North Carolina high school. Data was collected, in two phases, from stakeholder interviews, observations, an online Global Mindedness Scale survey, the NC School Report Card, and teacher lesson plans. Global mindedness was found to have increased as participants gained a multifaceted understanding of, and appreciation for, …

Geocriticism At A Crossroads: An Overview, Mariya Shymchyshyn

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

In the article I will outline some of the methodological and theoretical development in late twentieth-century criticism that led to the spatial turn in the humanities. In particular, I will concentrate my attention on the concepts of space in the works of Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, and I will pursue how they influenced literary theory, causing the emergence of "geocriticism" (e.g., in the work of Robert Tally, Bertrand Westphal, Eric Prieto) or, using another term, "literary geography" (e.g., in Franco Moretti). I will argue that the postmodern condition generated an alertness to space …

How To Do Narratives With Maps?: Cartography As A Performative Act In Gulliver’S Travels And Through The Looking Glass, Emmanuelle Peraldo, Yann Calbérac

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

The articulation between literary text and space has been significantly redefined thanks to two major theoretical turns. Because of the spatial turn that marked the humanities and social sciences from the 1980s onwards, time - inherited from the Enlightenment's ideal of progress - is not the main category of analysis any longer: space has replaced it (Soja, 1989). The spatial dimension of objects is now at the core of critical and analytical preoccupations: all fields of knowledge (and not only geography) are now invited to reconsider space, places and mapping. Literary studies reflect this paradigmatic shift as can …

Transgression, Boundaries, And Power: Rethinking The Space Of Postcolonial Literature, Dustin Crowley

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Space, Henri Lefebvre tells us, is a tool for thought and action. Space enables and space constrains. Alongside history and metrics like race, class, and gender, space demands our attention as a foundational feature of social production and struggle. In the decades following Lefebvre's provocatively suggestive text The Production of Space, interest in spatial studies has burgeoned across academia, and literary studies are no exception. Though still relatively nascent, spatial literary studies has already been established on firm ground by works like Robert Tally's Spatiality and Bertrand Westphal's Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces. These and other …

Contributors, Robert T. Tally Jr.

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Information about contributors to articles in volume 14, issue 3 of Reconstruction.

The Politics Of Memory, Nicole Maurantonio

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This chapter considers the definitional and disciplinary politics surrounding the study of memory, exploring the various sites of memory study that have emerged within the field of communication. Specifically, this chapter reviews sites of memory and commemoration, ranging from places such as museums, monuments, and memorials, to textual forms, including journalism and consumer culture. Within each context, this chapter examines the ways in which these sites have interpreted and reinterpreted traumatic pasts bearing great consequence for national identity. It concludes with a discussion of the challenges set forth by new media for scholars engaging in studies of the politics of …

Modulating Notochordal Differentiation Of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using Natural Nucleus Pulposus Tissue Matrix, Yongxing Liu, M. N. Rahaman, B. Sonny Bal

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) can differentiate into notochordal cell (NC)-like cells when cultured in the presence of natural porcine nucleus pulposus (NP) tissue matrix. The method promises massive production of high-quality, functional cells to treat degenerative intervertebral discs (IVDs). Based on our previous work, we further examined the effect of cell-NP matrix contact and culture medium on the differentiation, and further assessed the functional differentiation ability of the generated NC-like. The study showed that direct contact between hiPSCs and NP matrix can promote the differentiation yield, whilst both the contact and non-contact cultures can generate functional NC-like cells. …

Parenting Behaviors, Adolescent Depressive Symptoms, And Problem Behavior: The Role Of Self-Esteem And School Adjustment Difficulties Among Chinese Adolescents, Cixin Wang, Yan Ruth Xia, Wenzhen Li, Stephan M. Wilson, Kevin Bush, Gary Peterson

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Cross-sectional data from 589 Chinese adolescents were used to investigate whether parenting behaviors are directly or indirectly (through self-esteem and school adjustment difficulties) associated with adolescent depressive symptoms and problem behavior. Structural equation modeling results showed that school adjustment difficulties fully mediated the relations between two parenting behaviors (parental punitiveness and paternal monitoring) and adolescent problem behavior and partially mediated the relation between maternal monitoring and adolescent problem behavior. Adolescent self-esteem partially mediated the relations between maternal punitiveness and adolescent depressive symptoms and fully mediated the relations between parental support and adolescent depressive symptoms. Parental love withdrawal was not significantly …

Contributors, Nlsj .

National Law School Journal

No abstract provided.

Discovery Of An Allosteric Site On Furin, Contributing To Potent Inhibition: A Promising Therapeutic For The Anemia Of Chronic Inflammation, Andrew Jacob Gross

Theses and Dissertations

Release Date: October 2017

Anemia of chronic inflammation (ACI) is a condition that develops in a setting of chronic immune activation. ACI is characterized and triggered by inflammatory cytokines and the disruption of iron homeostasis. Hepcidin, a small peptide hormone, is the master regulator of iron homeostasis, and rapidly responds to iron supply and demand. Under conditions of chronic inflammation, hepcidin is elevated, and alters the way that iron is absorbed and disrupted throughout the body, resulting in disrupted iron homeostasis through inhibition of the iron exporter protein ferroportin. Anemia arises when insufficient erythropoietic activity combined with inadequate iron supply …

"Do You Bant?" William Banting And Bantingism: A Cultural History Of A Victorian Anti-Fat Aesthetic, Jaime Michelle Miller

English Theses & Dissertations

In the second half of the nineteenth century, a retired Victorian undertaker named William Banting (1796-1878) dramatically altered attitudes toward fat by initiating the profoundly consequential idea of the diet as a saleable commodity capable of marking identity within particular social and racial contexts and connecting obesity with degeneracy, illness, and evil. His work Letter on Corpulence Addressed to the General Public self-published in 1863 describes how, with physician William Harvey, Banting reduced his weight by nearly fifty pounds by following a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet. Banting and his dieting phenomenon transformed the English cultural consciousness of fatness, and created a …