Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (795)
- Arts and Humanities (696)
- Communication (459)
- Critical and Cultural Studies (352)
- Sociology (292)
-
- Education (288)
- English Language and Literature (190)
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (124)
- Geography (118)
- Anthropology (116)
- Literature in English, North America (114)
- Nature and Society Relations (109)
- History (105)
- Place and Environment (101)
- American Studies (100)
- Psychology (90)
- International and Area Studies (84)
- Film and Media Studies (80)
- Creative Writing (77)
- Comparative Literature (76)
- Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies (76)
- Medicine and Health Sciences (75)
- Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication (72)
- Business (67)
- Law (64)
- Environmental Studies (62)
- Life Sciences (61)
- Rhetoric and Composition (58)
- Communication Technology and New Media (57)
- Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration (57)
- Institution
-
- Wilfrid Laurier University (106)
- Purdue University (93)
- City University of New York (CUNY) (65)
- Lindenwood University (56)
- Technological University Dublin (49)
-
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (39)
- Kennesaw State University (38)
- University of South Florida (35)
- Lingnan University (29)
- University of Kentucky (29)
- Brigham Young University (25)
- University of New Mexico (23)
- Universitas Indonesia (22)
- Grand Valley State University (21)
- Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School (21)
- Nova Southeastern University (19)
- University of Central Florida (19)
- Edith Cowan University (18)
- Old Dominion University (18)
- Columbia College Chicago (17)
- Louisiana State University (17)
- Portland State University (17)
- University of Plymouth (17)
- University of South Carolina (17)
- Design Research Society (16)
- Liberty University (16)
- University of Montana (16)
- University of Nebraska at Omaha (16)
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (16)
- Bowling Green State University (15)
- Keyword
-
- Poetry (49)
- Culture (36)
- Comparative literature (35)
- comparative literature (33)
- Gender (30)
-
- Identity (29)
- Ecocriticism (23)
- Education (22)
- Feminism (22)
- Media (22)
- Cultural studies (21)
- Literary theory (18)
- Race (18)
- Environment (17)
- History (17)
- literary theory (17)
- Communication (16)
- Ireland (16)
- United States (16)
- Intercultural studies (15)
- Memory (15)
- intercultural studies (15)
- Comparative cultural studies (14)
- Ecopoetics (14)
- Ecopoetry (14)
- Women (14)
- comparative cultural studies (14)
- Diasporic, exile, (im)migrant, and ethnic minority writing (13)
- Ecology (13)
- Language (13)
- Publication
-
- The Goose (99)
- CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (65)
- Journal of International and Global Studies (54)
- Theses and Dissertations (50)
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations (44)
-
- Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects (33)
- Publications and Research (26)
- Young African Leaders Journal of Development (25)
- Faculty Publications (21)
- USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations (19)
- Irish Communication Review (18)
- Open Access Dissertations (18)
- DRS Biennial Conference Series (16)
- Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences (16)
- Journal of International Women's Studies (14)
- Masyarakat: Jurnal Sosiologi (14)
- Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications (13)
- Dissertations (13)
- First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience (13)
- Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (12)
- The Heritage Journal (12)
- Masters Theses (11)
- Articles (10)
- Commencement Programs (9)
- Honors Theses (9)
- Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection (9)
- Lingnan Theses (9)
- Speaker & Gavel (9)
- The Qualitative Report (9)
- Theses & ETDs (9)
- Publication Type
- File Type
Articles 31 - 60 of 1971
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
How Burroughs Plays With The Brain, Or Ritornellos As A Means To Produce Déjà-Vu, Antonio José Bonome
How Burroughs Plays With The Brain, Or Ritornellos As A Means To Produce Déjà-Vu, Antonio José Bonome
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "How Burroughs Plays with the Brain, or Ritornellos as a Means to Produce Déjà-Vu" Antonio José Bonome discusses how the recurrence and significance of one of William S. Burroughs's most potent refrains, "dim jerky faraway," was inspired by its source text, Paul Bowles's second novel Let It Come Down (1952), where Tangiers-Interzone fuels the unwholesome descent of a US-American expatriate not unlike Bowles or Burroughs himself. "Dim jerky faraway" was used by Burroughs during more than two decades in different contexts, and its textual variations have sparked a mélange of colors, sounds, smells, and feelings oscillating in …
The Effect Of A Culturally Tailored Web-Based Physical Activity Promotion Program On Asian American Midlife Women’S Depressive Symptoms, Wonshik Chee, Sangmi Kim, Xiaopeng Ji, Sooyoung Park, Eunice Chee, Hsiu-Min Tsai, Eun-Ok Im
The Effect Of A Culturally Tailored Web-Based Physical Activity Promotion Program On Asian American Midlife Women’S Depressive Symptoms, Wonshik Chee, Sangmi Kim, Xiaopeng Ji, Sooyoung Park, Eunice Chee, Hsiu-Min Tsai, Eun-Ok Im
Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal
The benefits of physical activities on depressive symptoms have increasingly been reported in the literature, but the effect through which a Web-based physical activity promotion program alleviates depressive symptoms is not clearly known, especially among ethnic minority midlife women. The purpose of this pilot randomized control study is to examine the preliminary efficacy of the Web-based physical activity promotion program in enhancing the depressive symptoms of Asian American midlife women through increasing physical activity. This study adopted a randomized repeated measures pretest/posttest control group design. This study consisted of two groups of research participants: 18 in an intervention group and …
Rna Sequencing Reveals A Role Of Tonebp Transcription Factor In Regulation Of Pro-Inflammatory Genes In Response To Hyperosmolarity In Healthy Nucleus Pulposus Cells: A Homeostatic Response?, Zariel I. Johnson, Irving M. Shapiro, Makarand V. Risbud
Rna Sequencing Reveals A Role Of Tonebp Transcription Factor In Regulation Of Pro-Inflammatory Genes In Response To Hyperosmolarity In Healthy Nucleus Pulposus Cells: A Homeostatic Response?, Zariel I. Johnson, Irving M. Shapiro, Makarand V. Risbud
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty Papers
Transcription factor tonicity-responsive enhancer-binding protein (TonEBP/NFAT5) is critical for osmo-adaptation and extracellular matrix homeostasis of nucleus pulposus (NP) cells in their hypertonic tissue niche. Recent studies implicate TonEBP signaling in inflammatory disease and rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis. However, broader functions of TonEBP in the disc remain unknown. RNA sequencing was performed on NP cells with TonEBP knockdown under hypertonic conditions. 1140 TonEBP-dependent genes were identified and categorized using Ingenuity Pathway Analysis. Bioinformatic analysis showed enrichment of matrix homeostasis and cytokine/chemokine signaling pathways. C-C motif chemokine ligand 2 (CCL2), interleukin 6 (IL6), tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and nitric oxide synthase 2 (NOS2) …
The Trope Of Flattening And The Complexities Of Difference: An Account Of Trinidad Carnival, Nanette De Jong, Christian Mieves
The Trope Of Flattening And The Complexities Of Difference: An Account Of Trinidad Carnival, Nanette De Jong, Christian Mieves
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
This paper critiques the position of flattening as an alternative way to map and analyse power structures in Trinidad Carnival. As will be argued, traditional hierarchies of meaning and value invert in Carnival, with participants using masquerade and the visual arts to perform and critique the contradictions of Trinidad society, and to make or unmake categories of difference. Flattening, as the authors argue, is particularly well suited when speaking about Carnival, whose cultural frames are constantly blurred, stretched, erased or redrawn, and where distortions of social and cultural distinctions are realised visually. Furthermore, flattening emphasises the elasticity and fluidity …
Contributors, Antipodes Editors
What’S Creative About Creative Writing? Critical Pedagogy And Transversal Creativity, Erick Piller
What’S Creative About Creative Writing? Critical Pedagogy And Transversal Creativity, Erick Piller
Journal of Creative Writing Studies
As creative writing studies emerges as a field, scholars should interrogate the meanings and possibilities of creativity in the educational contexts of creative writing. This article draws from the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to propose the concept of transversal creativity, which emphasizes agency and self-invention through a realized meshing of discourses and identities—ways of speaking, writing, thinking, and being that cut across and run between established discourses and subject positions. Conceived in this light, creativity can bring critical pedagogy into the creative writing course.
Lewis Baltz: Discovering Park City, Susan H. West
Lewis Baltz: Discovering Park City, Susan H. West
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis explores the contextual framework of Lewis Baltz’s portfolio Park City, demonstrating that he was operating in an artistic space informed by both predecessors in the field of photography and responsiveness to the latest advances in art by his contemporaries, particularly in Minimalism and Land Art.
Infusing El Content Into A Sociocultural Studies In Education Course, Lauren B. Isaac, Richard A. Quantz
Infusing El Content Into A Sociocultural Studies In Education Course, Lauren B. Isaac, Richard A. Quantz
TAPESTRY
An article describing the process of embedding English learner topics in the sociocultural studies in education course the authors teach.
A Bounded Affinity Theory Of Religion And The Paranormal, Joseph O. Baker, Christoper Bader, F. Carson Mencken
A Bounded Affinity Theory Of Religion And The Paranormal, Joseph O. Baker, Christoper Bader, F. Carson Mencken
Sociology Faculty Articles and Research
We outline a theory of bounded affinity between religious experiences and beliefs and paranormalism, which emphasizes that religious and paranormal experiences and beliefs share inherent physiological, psychological, and ontological similarities. Despite these parallels, organized religious groups typically delineate a narrow subset of experiences and explanatory frames as acceptable and True, banishing others as either false or demonic. Accordingly, the theory provides a revised definition of the “paranormal” as beliefs and experiences explicitly rejected by science and organized religions. To demonstrate the utility of the theory, we show that, after controlling for levels of conventional religious practice, there is a strong, …
Book Review: Undisciplining Knowledge, Magdalena Karolak
Book Review: Undisciplining Knowledge, Magdalena Karolak
All Works
No abstract provided.
“Yes, Sir, I Am Here!”: Images Of American Women In World War I Propaganda, Alexandra Bisio
“Yes, Sir, I Am Here!”: Images Of American Women In World War I Propaganda, Alexandra Bisio
Historical Perspectives: Santa Clara University Undergraduate Journal of History, Series II
No abstract provided.
An Interactive Environmental Approach To Teaching English As A Second Language, Jennifer L. Young
An Interactive Environmental Approach To Teaching English As A Second Language, Jennifer L. Young
Master's Projects and Capstones
This field project offers lessons related to ecoliteracy and environmental understanding for intermediate to advanced English Language Learners. It contains an ESL Ecoliteracy Student Handbook and an ESL Ecoliteracy Teacher Guide. There are two comprehensive units focused on understanding and acknowledging ecosystems in urban areas and foraging. The lessons formed in these units stem from Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences and the pedagogical theories of place based and experiential learning. Each unit has an outdoor activity build into the language learning framework, and the lessons are focused on building communicative, reading, vocabulary and grammar skills within an authentic learning …
Anywhere And Everywhere: Third Cultured Kids And Their ‘Stabilizing Factors’, Aman D. Singh Mr.
Anywhere And Everywhere: Third Cultured Kids And Their ‘Stabilizing Factors’, Aman D. Singh Mr.
Capstone Collection
The purpose of this research is to explore the significance of the Third Culture Kid (TCK) and the impact their ‘stabilizing factors’ or ‘constants’ have on their occupation outcome. Third Culture Kid is a term used for people who have travelled and lived in many different countries during their development years. Within that definition there are other subgroups such as: Bi/multi-cultural and/or bi/multi-racial families, immigrants, international adoptees, refugees and Domestic TCKs or CCKs. Ever since the term was first coined by Ruth Hill Useem, a sociologist, in the early 50s, there have been more and more families having the TCK …
Exploration Of Factors Affecting Nurse Faculty Use Or Resistance To Online Education, Lisa M. Harless
Exploration Of Factors Affecting Nurse Faculty Use Or Resistance To Online Education, Lisa M. Harless
Nursing Theses and Dissertations
The substantial increase in online nursing program enrollment demands that nurse educators be adept in the delivery of online education; however, a significant challenge exists in how to deliver practice-based nursing education in the online environment. Teaching online requires a change in the traditional role of the educator accompanied by the effective use of online learning technologies. Some studies suggest that faculties remain pessimistic to online delivery of education and do not participate, yet few objectively examine variables that influence resistance or use. Included in this dissertation are two manuscripts. The first manuscript defines resistance and addresses prominent concerns associated …
Jackson Creek Arts And Trails, Llc: Museum Travel Immersion Programs, Else C. Trygstad-Burke
Jackson Creek Arts And Trails, Llc: Museum Travel Immersion Programs, Else C. Trygstad-Burke
Master's Projects and Capstones
Museums have become increasingly oriented towards reaching new audiences, encouraging visitor loyalty, and informing the public about their overall relevance. Innovation in programming is a centerpiece of this effort, including a provision of programs for all age groups and demographics. At the same time that this transformation occurs in the museum world, similar changes are taking place in the leisure, travel and tourism industries. A continuously rapid increase in globalism and cultural access contributes to an atmosphere in which travelers can expand their goals and purposes within the context of a travel experience. This report will demonstrate that these trends …
Reviewing Literature On Gender Using Found Poetry And Dramatic Script, Dorothy Morrissey
Reviewing Literature On Gender Using Found Poetry And Dramatic Script, Dorothy Morrissey
The Qualitative Report
In this article, derived from the literature review chapter of her doctoral dissertation, the author presents a variation on what Prendergast (2006) calls found poetry as literature review. Her writing experiment is intended to reflect the dynamism of her “conversations” with the theoretical literature with which she engaged before and during the dissertation project: an intervention in the gender narratives of postgraduate student teachers. She does not, however, see theory as confined to academic literature and her conversations extend into poetry as well. In her conversations, the author engages with a wide range of texts in performance studies and feminist …
The Last Gay Man On Earth -- Can The Mainstreaming Of A Culture Be Responsible For Its Demise?, Muri Assunção
The Last Gay Man On Earth -- Can The Mainstreaming Of A Culture Be Responsible For Its Demise?, Muri Assunção
Capstones
Social acceptance towards the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer community (LGBTQ) has seen incredible progress in the last few decades. Less than 50 years ago, an act of rebellion against a homophobic police raid at Stonewall, a gay bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, kicked off the gay liberation movement and the fight for LGBTQ rights. Today, the queer revolution has proved effective: same-sex unions in the U.S. are legally allowed, and gay parenting is socially accepted. But, at what cost? Are queer people conforming to a heteronormative way of life? Can such social advances be also responsible for the …
Scotland And The Caribbean, Jo Durant
Scotland And The Caribbean, Jo Durant
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses (and summarizes) Michael Morris's recent book Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740-1833, concluding that it should be welcomed, not only as an introduction to specific writers, but as a good introduction to recent debates on the legacy of Caribbean slavery, as seen from a Scottish perspective.
The Interaction Of Mercury And Methylmercury With Reduced Sulfur: Implications For The Transformation Of Mercury And Methylmercury In The Environment, Nashaat M. Mazrui
The Interaction Of Mercury And Methylmercury With Reduced Sulfur: Implications For The Transformation Of Mercury And Methylmercury In The Environment, Nashaat M. Mazrui
Doctoral Dissertations
Archival abstract submitted
Pleasure In The Past: Queer Nostalgia In The Gay American Century, Elisabeth Windle
Pleasure In The Past: Queer Nostalgia In The Gay American Century, Elisabeth Windle
Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation, I recover nostalgia—unpopular, too frequently dismissed, and presumptively conservative—as a generative emotional position from which to read queer texts. My archive assembles a group of post-Stonewall texts—literature, film, television, and advertising—that marshal the pre-Stonewall literary past to support reflection on the pressing issues of recent gay life: same-sex marriage, the myth of the down low, effemiphobia and anti-feminism, and HIV/AIDS. Shuttling critically between modernist literary history and contemporary culture, I propose nostalgia as a useful affective mode for negotiating our relationship to queer history. Against both the pervasive narrative of gay progress circulating in mainstream culture and …
A Note On Resilience Perspectives In Public Library Research: Paths Towards Research Agendas, Andreas Vårheim
A Note On Resilience Perspectives In Public Library Research: Paths Towards Research Agendas, Andreas Vårheim
Proceedings from the Document Academy
Resilience is the ability to cope with change. The concept of resilience originating in the natural sciences has been applied in a variety of disciplines, from physics through ecology and social ecology to psychology and cultural studies. In public library research, very little resilience research has been conducted. The derived concepts of community resilience and information resilience have been applied to a very limited extent, and primarily in relation to the role of public libraries in disasters and in information literacy initiatives toward refugees. This short paper provides a condensed overview of concepts of resilience, asserts that public libraries are …
Teaching The Cultures Of Minnesota Native American Tribes: Reported Comfort Level Of Teachers In Meeting Minnesota English Language Arts Standards, James D. Autio
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations
The issue of how to teach about Minnesota Native American tribes in elementary school intrigues me because of my personal experiences growing up as an Ojibwe/Finnish person. As an adult, I became an educator and wanted to improve my craft while also helping other teachers to feel better about working with this topic. The Minnesota English Language Arts standards specify a need for second- and fourth-grade teachers to teach about Dakota and Ojibwe people, but teachers report varying levels of comfort. This paper examines similar state-mandated situations in Montana and Alaska, and different ways in which the schools tried to …
Nicaragua’S Grand Canal: A Case Study In Political And Economic Culture, Michael S. Doyle
Nicaragua’S Grand Canal: A Case Study In Political And Economic Culture, Michael S. Doyle
Global Advances in Business Communication
The proposed Nicaraguan Grand Canal mega-project—whether promised land or pipe dream—serves as the basis for the following short case study in political and economic culture. It can be useful for multiple fields such as business, policy, foreign affairs, public relations, logistics, tourism, intercultural communication studies, business communications, and the emerging field of language for specific purposes. Neither a research nor a theoretical contribution per se, it is intended to serve as a theory-based pedagogical piece for developing critical thinking, problem-solving, and presentational skills, illustrative of the didactic genre, in a way that is applicable to multiple fields.
Free To Play/Pay To Win: Consuming Competition Through Online Gaming In The Neoliberal Age, Brandon Jones
Free To Play/Pay To Win: Consuming Competition Through Online Gaming In The Neoliberal Age, Brandon Jones
Honors Projects
This project examines online gaming in the context of decades of deregulation and privatization. In the piece, I examine American culture’s infatuation with the value of competition through a historical and hegemonic scope. Throughout the piece, I make connections between online gaming and the illusion that the populace must compete for unnecessarily scarce resources. The goal of this project is to illustrate how micro-transactions in online gaming is not beneficial for the consumer, but rather coercive reinforcements of the spontaneous philosophy of competition prevalent in the Neoliberal age.
Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar
Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar
WKU Administration Documents
Commencement program listing graduates.
Compliant Culture Platforms With Independently Tunable Stiffness And Electrical/Optical Functionality, Nadeem Abdul
Compliant Culture Platforms With Independently Tunable Stiffness And Electrical/Optical Functionality, Nadeem Abdul
Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs
Interfacing biological cells and solid-state devices is crucial in many applications, ranging from well-established fields, such as electrophisiology, to the newly developed areas of optogenetics and mechanobiology. Most biological cells are anchored to substrates with elastic modulus, E, in the range of ~1 to 100 kPa, the moduli of brain-tissue and osteoid, respectively. On the other hand, bulk semiconductor substrates have ~6 orders of magnitude higher elastic modulus. This large elastic mismatch between devices and cells natural microenvironments is an issue for bio-devices integration, as cells are highly sensitive to mechanical cues. Specifically, cells exert traction forces on their surroundings …
Review Of "Kings Of The Forest: The Cultural Resilience Of Himalayan Hunter- Gatherers" By Jana Fortier, "Culture And The Environment In The Himalaya" Edited By Arjun Guneratne, "Nature, Culture, And Religion At The Crossroads Of Asia" Edited By Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Nayna Jhaveri
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Water Connection: Everyday Religion And Environments In Kathmandu Valley, Mukta S. Tamang
Water Connection: Everyday Religion And Environments In Kathmandu Valley, Mukta S. Tamang
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This case study aims to explore the relationship between ‘everyday religion’ and prospects for urban sustainability in the context of on-going changes -in Kathmandu. It argues that everyday religion plays a role in furnishing the incentive for urban residents to sustainably manage ‘culturalized nature’ in the city. In particular, I examine water, the practices surrounding its use, and how these practices connect various social realms. I suggest that water in Kathmandu valley plays an important role as a connector encompassing life and death, religion and environment, as well as politics and development.
Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, December 9, 2016, University Of South Florida
Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, December 9, 2016, University Of South Florida
USF Graduation and Convocation Programs
Honorary Doctor of Science - Melanie Cooper; Outstanding Graduate - Stephanie Radu; President's Global Leadership Award - Peter McPherson; King O'Neal Scholars - Lauren Alford,Khadija Bouarfa, Aaron Braley, Shane Cataract, Payton Cook, Alyssa Cooper, Eesha Hasan, Elly Kretchman, Brooks Lackmann, Corazon Marmanillo Romero, Angelina Parrino, Amanda Pitre, and Katelin Russ
Mental Illness In Starkville, Ms: A Cultural Consensus Analysis Of The Public Conceptions Of Mental Illness, Curtis Andrew Kennett
Mental Illness In Starkville, Ms: A Cultural Consensus Analysis Of The Public Conceptions Of Mental Illness, Curtis Andrew Kennett
Theses and Dissertations
Mental illness is a complex phenomenon that is social and psychological as well as biological. But since the creation of the DSM-III in the 1980s, the landscape of mental health research and treatment in the United States has been heavily influenced by the biomedical model. The thoughts and beliefs of the lay public about mental illness are often ignored despite the push for greater cultural understanding among biomedical professionals. This disconnect, coupled with the poor mental health infrastructure, has left Mississippi with an inadequate ability to help Mississippians address mental illness. This research uses cognitive anthropological methods and biocultural theory …