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Theorizing More Inclusive Cities: A Relational Model Of Boundary Transformation And Urban Research Agenda, Leigh Graham

Publications and Research

To generate more inclusive environments for marginalized urban communities of color demands a strategy that privileges symbolic boundary change and uses it as the inroad towards spatial changes. This paper theorizes a three step relational process of a) communicative democratic activism, b) "multicultural" capital brokers providing access to the policy making process, and c) practices of community building that reflect the role of cities as key sites for sociospatial boundary transformation. An emphasis on discursive and ideational change, relying on communicative democratic processes steeped in historical, comparative analysis opens up our minds towards different classification schemes for stigmatized groups. Participating …

Librarianship, Art, And Activism. A Transatlantic Interview With Alycia Sellie, Alycia Sellie, Martin Persson

Publications and Research

Alycia Sellie is an activist, librarian and the editor of the zine The Borough is My Library. She joined Martin Persson for a talk about hardships and possibilities for librarianship today, the intersection between art and libraries, and the struggle to promote free/open access culture and readers' rights.

Effect Of Age, Education, And Bilingualism On Confrontation Naming In Older Illiterate And Low-Educated Populations, Sameer Ashaie, Loraine Obler

Publications and Research

We investigated the effects of age as well as the linked factors of education and bilingualism on confrontation naming in rural Kashmir by creating a culturally appropriate naming test with pictures of 60 objects.We recruited 48 cognitively normal participants whose ages ranged from 18 to 28 and from 60 to 85. Participants in our study were illiterate monolinguals (� = 18) and educated Kashmiri-Urdu bilinguals (� = 30). Hierarchical multiple regression revealed that younger adults performed better than older adults (� < 0.01) and the age effect was quadratic (age²). It also showed Age X Education and Age X L2 Speaking interactions predicted naming performance.The Age X …

Lo Político Del Lenguaje Y Los Límites De La Política Lingüística Panhispánica, José Del Valle

Publications and Research

This article introduces glottopolitical studies (political approaches to language) and discusses the meaning of the political within this field. It analyzes consensus-based language policies as deployed by Spain´s language academy and instances in which antagonistic relations surrounding language manifest themselves.

El Lugar De Las Lenguas En Las Lenguas Modernas: Hacia Una Nueva Cartografía De La Lingüística Hispánica En Eeuu, José Del Valle

Publications and Research

This article analyzes the status of linguistic studies in departments of modern languages in the USA and argues for the promotion of sociological approaches to language at the expense of formal approaches to language.

The Politics Of Spanish In The World, José Del Valle

Publications and Research

This article offers an overview of the spread of Spanish as a global language focusing on the policies and institutions that have worked, particularly in the last couple of decades, on its promotion. The actions of institutions as well as corporate and cultural agencies involved in this sort of language policy are to be understood as part of a wider movement of internationalization of financial activities and political influence.

The Politics Of Normativity And Globalization: Which Spanish In The Classroom?, José Del Valle

Publications and Research

This articles explores linguistic ideologies in teaching Spanish in the United States. It focuses on debates surrounding questions of normativity and correctness in the Spanish language classroom and curriculum design.

Ciclos De Acaparamiento De Tierras En Centroamérica: Un Argumento A Favor De Historizar Y Un Estudio De Caso Del Bajo Aguán, Honduras, Marc Edelman, Andrés León

Publications and Research

La falta de perspectiva histórica en la mayoría de los estudios sobre la nueva ola de acaparamiento de tierras lleva a los investigadores a subestimar hasta qué punto las relaciones sociales preexistentes producen los espacios rurales donde suceden las actuales transacciones de tierras. Así, la historización del acaparamiento de tierras es esencial para entender los antecedentes, definir bases para poder calcular los impactos y devolver la “agencia” a las distintas clases agrarias en disputa. En Centroamérica, cada uno de los ciclos de acaparamiento de tierras –reformas liberales, concesiones bananeras y contrarreformas agrarias– tuvo un fuerte impacto en el período que …

Review: Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles, And Politics, Stephen Brier

Publications and Research

Review of Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles, and Politics, edited by Brett D. Hirsch, multiple authored collection of articles on the theory as well as the practices and principles of the digital humanities and how DH can and has begun to reshape pedagogy in college teaching and learning.

Total Voice Leading, Joseph N. Straus

Publications and Research

The total voice leading between sets X and Y is defined as the complete collection of ordered pc intervals formed between the pcs in X and the pcs in Y. These interval multisets (imultisets) describe the sonic signature of the motion from X to Y, and they always have the property of transpositional combination. In some cases, the same total voice leading may be produced by different pairs of X and Y (Cohn 1988 refers to this as “multiple parentage”). In such cases, the total voice leading may remain the same even though the generating chords differ.

Achievement Outcomes Of Sixth-Grade Students With A Military Parent Deployed To A War Zone Or A Military Parent Not Deployed Compared To Same School Students Whose Parents Have No Military Affiliation, Robert L. Ingram Iii

Student Work

The need for accurate information about the achievement of students whose military parents are deployed to a war zone or whose military parents are eligible although not currently deployed to a war zone is important in order to ensure that we are providing for the educational wellbeing of these children as their parents defend our nations freedoms. The purpose of this posttest-only comparative efficacy study was to determine the achievement outcomes of sixth-grade students with a military parent deployed to a war zone (n = 10) or sixth-grade students with a military parent not deployed to a war zone (n …

Hacia Una Anatomía Del Textum: Corporalidad Y Discurso En El Cine Contemporáneo Argentino., Guillermo Abel Severiche

LSU Master's Theses

En la introducción de su libro The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry afirma que “cuando uno escucha acerca del dolor físico de otra persona, los eventos que tienen lugar en el interior del cuerpo de esa persona parecen tener el carácter remoto de un hecho profundamente subterráneo” (3). Podríamos tomar este postulado y transportarlo a otras formas de la corporalidad: cuando el cuerpo se excita sexualmente, cuando el cuerpo se enferma. En parcial oposición al pensamiento de Scarry, el propósito fundamental del presente estudio es comenzar a darle forma a un concepto que encapsule la dimensión interna del cuerpo junto …

Black Gay Genius Interview With Lisa C. Moore, Shawn(Ta) Smith-Cruz

Publications and Research

An interview with the publisher of Redbone Press, the small press, black lesbian owned and operated, that republished the archival material of Joseph Beam, excavating the work of the gay black male icon and writer of Brother to Brother and In the Life.

Méthodologie : Indicateurs Des Coûts Des Lésions Professionnelles, 2005-2007, Patrice Duguay, Alexandre Boucher, Marc-Antoine Busque, Pascale Prud'homme

Fiches

L’IRSST produit, développe et analyse des indicateurs qui mesurent différents aspects des lésions professionnelles. Ce travail permet d’avoir un meilleur portrait « des problématiques en SST au Québec ». Ce document présente comment l'IRSST produit ces indicateurs.

Pour en savoir plus : consulter le site Web statistiques.irsst.qc.ca

Focal Stacking Of Microscopic Images Using Modified Harris Corner Response Measure, Madhu Sudan Sigdel

Theses

Automated image analysis of microscopic images such as protein crystallization images and cellular images is one of the important research areas. For proper analysis of the microscopic images, it is necessary to have images where all objects are in good focus. If objects in a scene (or specimen) appear at different depths with respect to the camera's focal point, objects outside the depth of field usually appear blurred. It is not possible to get all objects in focus simultaneously by changing the focal point of a lens of camera. Therefore, scientists capture a collection of images with different depths of …

Twisting Algorithm For Controlling F-16 Aircraft With Performance Margins Identification, Akshay Kulkarni

Theses

A Twisting algorithm based second order sliding mode controller is designed for tracking of command angles for nonlinear flight dynamics of an F-16 aircraft, before and after the battle damages. The high frequency switching controller is designed in terms of control derivative so that the actual control function is continuous. The practical robustness performance margins are identified in terms of maximal additional gain (Practical Gain Margin) and phase lag (Practical Phase Margin) added to the frequency characteristic of the linear part of the open loop system that yield acceptable loss of command angle tracking performance in terms of admissible parameters …

Pickets, Politics, Perdition, And Perspectives : The 1934 Textile Strike In North Alabama, Nathan Walker Raby

Theses

The 1934 textile strike was the result of presidential rhetoric as millworkers believed that Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was going to improve their workplace and economic conditions. The corporatism of the First New Deal, however, demonstrated that the newly formed National Recovery Administration and its leader Hugh S. Johnson allowed mill owners and executives the ability to regulate and control their mills by influencing how industry codes were written. The workers' strike was an effort to reclaim their own dignity and the promises from Roosevelt of a New Deal for Americans. The strike began in North Alabama in July …

An Evaluation Of A Passively Cooled Cylindrical Spectrometer Array In Lunar Orbit, Jason Waggoner

Theses

This thesis evaluated a passively cooled cylindrical spectrometer array in lunar orbit characterizing the thermal response to provide context for decision-making to scientists and engineers. To provide perspective on thermal issues and controls of space science instruments, a background search of historical lunar missions is provided. Next, a trial science mission is designed and analyzed which brings together the elements of the background search, lunar orbit environment and passive cooling. The proposed Lunar Occultation Observer astrophysics mission which will utilize the moon for occultation in order to locate, identify and map deep space high-energy sources was chosen as the trial …

Understanding The Components Of Online Identity Disclosure : Trust And Risk, Casey Thomas

Theses

Disclosure of personal information online has been associated with identity theft. Effective warnings can potentially decrease identity theft by decreasing personal information disclosed online. The present experiment explored whether disposition to trust, trust beliefs in the warning, risk perceptions, perceived ease of use of the website, and the source of the warning could affect disclosure of personal information online. The model is unique to the literature because it has multidimensional constructs of trust and multifaceted constructs of risk that may explain disclosure as an online behavior. The model was tested using a 2 (identity: email address and driver's license) x …

2014-2015 Schaefer Workshop Speakers, William & Mary Law School

Elmer J. Schaefer Workshop Series

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Genetic Mechanisms Underlying The Pathogenicity Of Cold-Stressed Salmonella Enterica Serovar Typhimurium In Cultured Intestinal Epithelial Cells, J. Shah, P. T. Desai, B. C. Weimer

Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

Salmonella encounters various stresses in the environment and in the host during infection. The effects of cold (5 C, 48 h), peroxide (5 mM H2O2, 5 h) and acid stress (pH 4.0, 90 min) were tested on pathogenicity of Salmonella. Prior exposure of Salmonella to cold stress significantly (P < 0.05) increased adhesion and invasion of cultured intestinal epithelial (Caco-2) cells. This increased Salmonella-host cell association was also correlated with significant induction of several virulence-associated genes, implying an increased potential of cold-stressed Salmonella to cause an infection. In Caco-2 cells infected with cold-stressed Salmonella, genes involved in the electron transfer chain were significantly induced, but no simultaneous significant increase in expression of antioxidant genes that neutralize the effect of superoxide radicals or reactive oxygen species was observed. Increased production of caspase 9 and caspase 3/7 was confirmed during host cell infection with cold-stressed Salmonella. Further, a prophage gene, STM2699, induced in cold-stressed Salmonella and a spectrin gene, SPTAN1, induced in Salmonella-infected intestinal epithelial cells were found to have a significant contribution in increased adhesion and invasion of cold-stressed Salmonella in epithelial cells.

Genome -Scale Reconstruction Of Metabolic Networks Of Lactobacillus Casei Atcc 334 And 12a, Elena Vinay-Lara, Joshua J. Hamilton, Buffy Stahl, Jeff Broadbent, Jennifer L. Reed, James L. Steele

Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

Lactobacillus casei strains are widely used in industry and the utility of this organism in these industrial applications is straindependent. Hence, tools capable of predicting strain specific phenotypes would have utility in the selection of strains forspecific industrial processes. Genome-scale metabolic models can be utilized to better understand genotype-phenotyperelationships and to compare different organisms. To assist in the selection and development of strains with enhancedindustrial utility, genome-scale models for L. casei ATCC 334, a well characterized strain, and strain 12A, a corn silage isolate,were constructed. Draft models were generated from RAST genome annotations using the Model SEED database and refined …

Coalition Formation In A Legislative Voting Game, Nels Christiansen, Sotiris Georganas, John H. Kagel

Economics Faculty Research

We experimentally investigate the Jackson and Moselle (2002) model where legislators bargain over policy proposals and the allocation of private goods. Key comparative static predictions of the model hold with the introduction of private goods, including "strange bedfellow" coalitions. Private goods help to secure legislative compromise and increase the likelihood of proposals passing, an outcome not predicted by the theory but a staple of the applied political economy literature. Coalition formation is better characterized by an "efficient equal split" between coalition partners than the subgame perfect equilibrium prediction, which has implications for stable political party formation.

Adam Smith And Entangled Political Economy, Maria Pia Paganelli

Economics Faculty Research

Entangled Political Economy, the idea that the economy and the polity are a nexus of interrelations often with unplanned outcomes, is close to the concept of economics that Adam Smith presents, a concept which was not shaped by strict discipline barriers. I show that Adam Smith analyzes the nature and causes of the wealth of nations by analyzing the interaction of the economy with politics, ethics, and the law. In particular, Smith presents each of these systems as a network of relations with all the other systems: the economy is entangled not just with the polity, but also with other …

The Byu New Testament Commentary: "It Doth Not Yet Appear What It Shall Be", Philip L. Barlow

Studies in the Bible and Antiquity

No abstract provided.

Sidney H. Griffith, The Bible In Arabic: The Scriptures Of The "People Of The Book" In The Language Of Islam, D. Morgan Davis

Studies in the Bible and Antiquity

No abstract provided.

Biblical Allusions And Themes In The Early Renaissance: Joseph Sarfati's Use Of Biblical Hebrew As An Encoded Language, Shon D. Hopkin

Studies in the Bible and Antiquity

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Religion in the Age of Enlightenment

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"Oppressed With My Own Sensations": The Histories Of Some Of The Penitents And Principled Piety, Robin Runia

Religion in the Age of Enlightenment

Many scholars have observed the sentimentalization of the prostitute throughout the eighteenth century, and while this sentimentalization and its connection to the culture of sensibility have been compellingly theorized, the penitent prostitute's relationship to emotion, sensation, and piety has not been fully developed. The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House (1760) constructs an anxious equivalency between emotion and sensation, reflecting the vexed nature of sentimental discourse-the difficulty of distinguishing clearly between sensibility and sensuality. Examining this slippage reveals anxieties about women's abilities to accurately interpret and act upon the sensations of their bodies and their corresponding …

The Eighteenth-Century Novel And The Secularization Of Ethics: Book Review, Mary Ann Rooks

Religion in the Age of Enlightenment

For many reasons-including religious reforms and controversies, doubts about the effectiveness of the clergy, the development of scientific advancements and Enlightenment ideologies, and disruptions of class and gender expectations coinciding with the emergence of a consumer economy-it is easy to imagine writers and readers in the eighteenth century searching for a locus of moral authority. The frequency of claims to "entertain and instruct;' a mantra of eighteenth-century prose fiction, indicates a need felt by many authors to address the suspected dangers of novel reading and defend the legitimacy-in part_icular the moral efficacy-of this emergent genre. In The Eighteenth-Century Novel and …