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Naturally Striated Muscle: Investigating The Process And Consequence Of Ideographic Striation, Dustin L. Briggs

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

In U.S. America and much of the Western world, natural is a venerated symbolic placeholder for any number of assumed virtues and ideals. Present conflicts have brought forward questions about what natural (which I argue functions as an ideograph) should mean in contexts that seem to call for a formal, enforceable definition. In this study, I use the vocabulary of Deleuze and Guattari (1987) and the context of bodybuilding to work towards a theory of how ambiguous ideographs become "striated." In this discussion I present instances where natural has been employed as a vehicle to cause harm, and I offer …

Banksy At Disneyland: Generic Participation In Culture Jamming, Joshua Carlisle Harzman

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

Culture jamming is a profound genre of communication and its proliferation demands further academic scholarship. However, there exists a substantial gap in the literature, specifically regarding a framework for determining participation within the genre of culture jamming. This essay seeks to offer such a foundation and subsequently considers participation of an artifact. First, the three elements of culture jamming genre are established and identified: artifact, distortion, and awareness. Second, the street art installment, Banksy at Disneyland, is analyzed for participation within the genre of culture jamming. This study finds that Banksy at Disneyland successfully participates within the genre, which …

Disrupting Privileged And Oppressed Spaces: Reflecting Ethically On My Arabness Through Feminist Autoethnography, Haneen Ghabra

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

This essay urges for the need to explore one’s privileges and oppressions through Feminist Arabness. Through intersectionality, the author brings forth various experiences as a woman of color. By exploring privileges and oppressions, the goal is to bring contestations of domination into conversation with neoliberalism, reflexivity and ethical communication. Thus, this study is a call to highlight the need for an integrated approach that combines theory, and Autoethnography in order to reflect a richer intersectional analysis that combines both privileges and oppressions as identities. It is also a call towards an intersectional feminist ethic that can in turn identify the …

Front Matter, Benny Lemaster

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

No abstract provided.

Mesobuthus Eupeus (C.L. Koch, 1839) (Scorpiones: Buthidae) In Turkey, Ayşegül Karataş, Ahmet Karataş

Euscorpius

Distribution of Mesobuthus eupeus (C.L. Koch, 1839) (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in Turkey is investigated and new distributional records are given. In addition, data on the variation of the number of pectinal teeth, and some ecological features of M. eupeus are provided.

Proceedings Of The 3rd Scorpiology Symposium (American Arachnological Society, 28th Annual Meeting), Victor Fet, Michael E. Soleglad

Euscorpius

Table of Contents

Victor Fet and Douglas D. Gaffin. Preface p. i

Karen C. Bost and Douglas D. Gaffin. Sand scorpion home burrow navigation in the laboratory p. 1

Douglas D. Gaffin and Mark E. Walvoord. Scorpion peg sensilla: are they the same or are they different? p. 7

J. Zachary Porterfield, Douglas D. Gaffin, Caitlin Porterfield and Curtis Johnston. Screening for scorpions: A non-invasive approach to tracking the movements of arachnids in sand p. 17

Tsunemi Yamashita. Surface activity, biomass, and phenology of the striped scorpion, Centruroides vittatus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in Arkansas, USA p. 25

C. Neal McReynolds. Temporal …

Prey Capture Behavior In The East African Scorpions Parabuthus Leiosoma (Ehrenberg, 1828) And P. Pallidus Pocock, 1895 (Scorpiones: Buthidae), Jan O. Rein

Euscorpius

Prey capture behavior in Parabuthus leiosoma (Ehrenberg, 1828) and P. pallidus Pocock, 1895 was studied in the laboratory. The behavioral components involved in prey capture were identified and an ethogram is presented. The occurrence of the different prey capture components are analyzed and discussed.

Jewish Terror In Warsaw

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A black and white photograph of Jewish men in heavy jackets being escorted by the military.Back: Several hand stamps and various writing. Includes source as International New Photo

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: News wire photo of Jews in Warsaw Ghetto. Verso: "Jewish terror in Warsaw" and "Jews in Warsaw" with a date stamp of November 7, 1941. The Warsaw Ghetto had been the largest ghetto in occupied Poland in the General Government with more than 400,000 residents. While there is no further information on this photo, these men are possibly being marched to a work camp. Deportations …

Transfer Of Farm Property To True Germans Document

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: White paper with printed black writing and lines. Includes written information and several purple hand stamps.Back: Includes several stamps and a purple signature.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Probate court ensures only true Germans own farms. Legal folio, Cologne August 8, 1942, an 'Anerbengerichts' or inheritance court document approving the transfer of a farm to another party. The 'Anerben' laws were specifically established by the Nazis to ensure that German farms would be sold, inherited, or otherwise transferred only to those with pure German blood and that they would not be split up. The law actually saw farms …

Transatlantic Liner St. Louis

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Black printed postcard lines. Includes a green postage stamp, handwritten message and black circular hand stamp.Back: Black and white photograph of a large ship.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: The inability of the Jews on the transatlantic liner St. Louis to disembark in Havana, the United States, or any of the chosen destinations was a great propaganda victory for the Nazis. On the 1939 voyage were 938 passengers, almost all Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. This postcard is of the St. Louis in the early thirties.

How God Is Using The Murder Of Nine People To Bring Racial Reconciliation To All People, Austen Haney

The Kabod

Race related violence is not a thing of the past. It rears its ugly head in Ferguson, in Chicago, and recently at Mother Emmanuel Church in Charleston South Carolina. Learn how the Church has used the murder of nine members to progress the process of racial reconciliation in the U.S., and how you can help.

Educational Experiences Of Foster Care Youth With Disabilities, Vanessa A. Thorrington

Open Access Dissertations

Youth with disabilities who live in foster care face unique obstacles as compared with their peers who are non-disabled and not involved in the dependency system. Transition services delivered through their special education program during high school and at the culminating Individualized Education Plan meeting are designed to assist these youth in their transition. Few studies have focused on youth involved in both systems (special education and dependency) and on their transition from the education system. Even fewer studies have focused on the perspectives of the youth during this transition. This qualitative study, using case study design, focuses on two …

Demystifying Variance In Performance: Toward A Multilevel Longitudinal Perspective Of Strategic Management, Guangrui Guo

Open Access Dissertations

Drawing upon complexity theory, this dissertation contributes both to inquiry on relative importance of business–unit, corporation, industry, and year effects on firm performance and to development of a multilevel longitudinal perspective of strategy. Empirically, this dissertation generates important new insights about variation in performance. This dissertation is the first to (1) capture substantial stable corporation–industry interaction effects that were confounded with stable effects of business unit, corporation, and industry in results of previous studies, (2) demonstrate that stable effects of corporation, industry, corporation–industry interaction, taken together, are of similar relative magnitude to that of stable BU effects, (3) reveal that …

The Interactive Effects Of Beta-Alanine And Resistance Training On Muscular Endurance In Older Adults, Christopher Hayes Bailey

Open Access Dissertations

Muscular endurance is a major neuromuscular factor affecting independence and fall probability in older persons. PURPOSE: To determine the effects of sustained-release beta-alanine supplementation alone or in combination with a resistance training program on muscular and daily activity-based performances in older adults. METHODS: Twenty-seven subjects, 60-82 years of age, were randomly assigned to one of four groups for a 12-week intervention: 3.2g/day placebo without resistance training, 3.2g/day beta-alanine without resistance training, 3.2g/day placebo with resistance training, or 3.2g/day beta-alanine with resistance training. Before and after the intervention, subjects’ anthropometric, Physical Functional Performance 10, Senior Fitness and upper and lower body …

Exploring Black/White Biracial Female Therapists’ Perceptions And Meaning-Making In The Context Of Providing Therapy, Anna Wheatley Scarbriel

Open Access Dissertations

Individuals born to parents from two or more different racial groups are one of the fastest growing population groups in the United States, with Black/White biracials making up the largest proportion therein. This diversification has permeated the field of psychology and counseling, and people of mixed race will increasingly be clients, colleagues, supervisors, and supervisees. It is imperative that the field of counseling and psychology turn attention not only to serving/treating mixed race clients, but also to providing training and supervision to mixed race professionals. In particular, much work remains to better understand the significance and impact of a mixed …

Gelatinous Zooplankton In Marine Communities And Ecosystems: Fine-Scale Horizontal And Vertical Distribution, Trophic Drivers, And Contribution To Global Carbon Cycling, Jessica Yuchao Luo

Open Access Dissertations

The gelatinous zooplankton (GZ), comprised of cnidarians, ctenophores, and pelagic tunicates, are an abundant, diverse group of organisms that often exhibit boom-and-bust population dynamics. Most of the work on GZ has been focused on the large scyphozoans, while the smaller members of this group (hydrozoans, ctenophores, and pelagic tunicates) are relatively understudied due to their size, fragility, and transparency. Furthermore, spatially and temporally variable GZ populations can have important ecosystem impacts, e.g. to the biological pump via sinking carcasses and fecal pellet production. This dissertation investigates gelatinous zooplankton and their role in marine communities and ecosystems, with respect to 1) …

Oxidative Stress In Avian Embyros, Toshi Tsunekage

Dissertations

Oxidative stress has been implicated in mediating trade-offs in the evolution of life histories. Oxidative stress results from an imbalance in the production of free radicals and an organism’s antioxidant defenses. Higher metabolic rates associated with more rapid growth and shorter development periods may increase oxidative stress and accumulated cellular damage in embryonic tissues. In my dissertation I explored oxidative stress and antioxidant defenses in avian embryos. I measured levels of oxidative stress in tissues of different stage embryos of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), and tested if patterns of lipid peroxidation could be explained by changes in the developing embryo’s …

Geographic Variation, Null Hypotheses, And Subspecies Limits In The California Gnatcatcher: A Response To Mccormack And Maley, Robert M. Zink, Jeffrey G. Groth, Hernan Vázquez-Miranda

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

We interpreted the results of nuclear DNA sequencing to be inconsistent with the recognition of California Gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica) subspecies. McCormack and Maley (2015) suggested that our data did support 2 taxa, one of which was P. c. californica, listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). We summarize here how 2 sets of researchers with access to the same data reached different conclusions by including different analyses. We included the southern subspecies’ boundary from the taxonomy of Atwood (1991), the taxonomic basis for the ESA listing, which resulted in an Analysis of Molecular Variance that …

Volume 107 Issue 12, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Is The Face Of America Donald Trump Or George Bailey?, Evan Barrett

Highlands College

A Montana Public Radio Commentary by Evan Barrett.

Published newspaper columns written by Evan Barrett on this topic, which vary somewhat in content from this commentary, appeared in the following publications:

Montana Standard, December 11, 2015

Ravalli Republic, December 23, 2015

Missoulian, December 24, 2015

Montana Public Radio, December 29, 2015

Referendum To Overturn Aid-In-Dying Law.

Initiatives

If signed by the required number of registered voters and timely filed with the Secretary of State, this petition will place on the statewide ballot a challenge to a state law previously approved by the Legislature and the Governor. The challenged law must then be approved by a majority of voters at the next statewide election to go into effect. The law allows a terminally ill, mentally competent adult to obtain a prescription for a life-ending drug, provided two doctors confirm the diagnosis and prognosis, and other safeguards are met.

Oral History-Alina Sherman, Alina M. Sherman

World War II

No abstract provided.

The First Bromeligenous Species Of Dendropsophus (Anura: Hylidae) From Brazil's Atlantic Forest, Rodrigo Barbosa Ferreira, Julián Faivovich, Karen H. Beard, José P. Pombal Jr

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

We describe a new treefrog species of Dendropsophus collected on rocky outcrops in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Ecologically, the new species can be distinguished from all known congeners by having a larval phase associated with rainwater accumulated in bromeliad phytotelms instead of temporary or lentic water bodies. Phylogenetic analysis based on molecular data confirms that the new species is a member of Dendropsophus; our analysis does not assign it to any recognized species group in the genus. Morphologically, based on comparison with the 96 known congeners, the new species is diagnosed by its small size, framed dorsal color pattern, and …

December 9, 2015: The Spirit Of Doom, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Spirit of Doom“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Tan Cheng Bock [Singapore, Member Of Parliament], Cheng Bock Tan

Digital Narratives of Asia

Former veteran People's Action Party Member of Parliament, presidential candidate Dr Tan Cheng Bock speaks his mind with DNA on his struggles during his school days, National Service, and what had motivated him to enter politics. He reveals his take on Foreign Talent, the Feedback Unit, and shares on the kind of society he hopes Singapore will become.

The Lumberjack, December 9, 2015, The Lumberjack Staff

2015

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University

Prospectus, December 9, 2015, Jacob Kenter, Peter Floess, Matthew D. Moss, Scott Barnes, Zach Trueblood, Sierra Benson, Adam Vilmin

Prospectus 2015

NUMBER ONE: COACH CLIFF HASTINGS DISCUSSES HISTORIC SEASON; Study abroad: Costa Rica; Parkland student body examined; 6 arraigned in kidnap of 2 college students; Vandalized menorah rededicated at U of I; The value of an education; Social media, the new megaphone for violent perpetrators; The importance of choosing your news sources wisely; Trump shrugs off GOP rejections of proposal to ban Muslims; Open mic hosted by Student Government; 2015 State of the Art: Ceramics Invitational at Gierz Art Gallery; Men's basketball!! gains momentum, confidence on the court

The Anchor, Volume 129.12: December 9, 2015, Hope College

The Anchor: 2015

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Information Literacy & First Year Students: Programmatic Instructional Approaches & Assessment, Sally Neal, Sarah Lowe, Catherine Pellegrino, Bill Orme, Sean Stone

Scholarship and Professional Work

No abstract provided.

We Are...Marshall, December 9, 2015, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.