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Fashion And Female Beat Identity In The Writing Of Jones, Johnson, And Di Prima, Raven J. See

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Fashion and Female Beat Identity in the Writing of di Prima, Johnson, and Jones" Raven J. See discusses how the women writers of the Beat Generation have become iconically defined by their fashion choices. Clothing and accessories offer Beat women a means to construct and express their identity and Diane di Prima, Joyce Johnson, and Hettie Jones write about fashion in their narratives of self-creation. Like their male contemporaries, Beat women make style choices that allow them to reject mainstream culture and identify within Beat subculture. However, these women write about their decisions to accept or reject …

Race, Gender, And The Beats In Tan Magazine's "I Was A Victim Of The Beat Generation", Chelsea M. Stripe

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Race, Gender, and the Beats in Tan Magazine's 'I Was a Victim of the Beat Generation'" Chelsea Stripe discusses the "true to life" story of Sara Howard, a single African American mother who becomes pregnant by a white Beat and struggles to raise their child alone. On the one hand, "I Was a Victim of the Beat Generation" emphasizes the exploitative character of Beats' affinity for African American culture and of their attitudes toward women. Further, Howard's story critiques the social fluidity that Beat privilege allows. On the other hand, the story articulates conservative US-American middle class …

Burroughs's Re-Invention Of The Byronic Hero, Franca A. Bellarsi

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Burroughs's Re-Invention of the Byronic Hero" Franca A. Bellarsi discusses George Gordon Byron's (1788-1824) and William S. Burroughs's (1914-1997) texts as masterful examples of irreverence which earned notoriety in their own days. Yet despite the scandalous aura of lawlessness, iconoclastic cynicism, and nomadic elusiveness which surrounds both authors' work, a parallel between them has never been attempted. Bellarsi argues that more than a hundred years after Burroughs's birth, assessing his work implies understanding that his enduring appeal across languages and cultures rests in part on how his writing pushes the transformation of the Byronic myth further in …

Burroughs's Postcolonial Visions In The Yage Letters, Melanie Keomany

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Burroughs's Postcolonial Visions in The Yage Letters" Melanie Keomany discusses the contents of William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg's The Yage Letters which could be dismissed as openly bigoted and racist. Keomany posits that the text reveals valuable connections between the colonial expansion of the eighteenth century and 1950s USA and Latin America. By re-shaping Burroughs's lived experiences in the Amazon into a text where the narrator William Lee mimics sardonically and parodically the colonial scientific explorer, The Yage Letters provides valuable insight into the complex postcolonial context of the mid-twentieth century.

Burroughs's Folios As An Archival Machine For Artistic Creation, Tomasz D. Stompor

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Burroughs's Folios as an Archival Machine for Artistic Creation" Tomasz D. Stompor discusses the significance of archival material as a scholarly resource for the analysis of William S. Burroughs's cut-up experiments. Stompor retraces the history of the author's filing system as both a referential repository and a device for documentation and investigates its function as an eperimental machine for the production of cut-up texts and layouts

Theories Of Opiate Addiction In The Early Works Of Burroughs And Trocchi, Richard English

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Theories of Opiate Addiction in the Early Works of Burroughs and Trocchi" Richard English discusses William S. Burroughs's and Alexander Trocchi's representations of opiate addiction with special reference to their early writings. English examines the concept of homo heroin that can be attributed to Burroughs and lists and expounds its qualities. Among these are: immorality, criminality, mono-objectuality, self- and other-indifference, and, most importantly, the radical physical transformation into a new species, which Burroughs extends in Naked Lunch. English shows how homo heroin relates to Trocchi's conception of a heroin addict, which serves to illustrate that homo …

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 …

Selected Bibliography For The Study Of The Beat Generation, Oliver Harris, Polina Mackay

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Evolutionary View Planning For Optimized Uav Terrain Modeling In A Simulated Environment, Ronald A. Martin, Ivan Rojas, Kevin W. Franke, John Hedengren

Faculty Publications

This work demonstrates the use of genetic algorithms in optimized view planning for 3D reconstruction applications using small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The quality of UAV site models is currently highly dependent on manual pilot operations or grid-based automation solutions. When applied to 3D structures, these approaches can result in gaps in the total coverage or inconsistency in final model resolution. Genetic algorithms can effectively explore the search space to locate image positions that produce high quality models in terms of coverage and accuracy. A fitness function is defined, and optimization parameters are selected through semi-exhaustive search. A novel simulation …

Reflection On The Legality Of "Private" Discrimination In Light Of Recent Social And Economic Changes In Ethiopia, Mekonnen Firew Ayano

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

A Qualitative Study Of Gender Issues Associated With Academic Mentoring In A Nigerian University., Oghoadena Clementina Osezua Dr

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

There is an upsurge in the establishment of private and public universities in Nigeria. The development has opened up the need for quality and seasoned academics, but minimal opportunities exist for mentoring of young academics. This article explores the mentoring opportunities and challenges of young female academics faced in a male dominant university system. From an exploratory qualitative design, this article generates empirical evidence through structured a face-to-face interview with purposively selected 36 female academics. The participants were recruited from the Obafemi Awolowo University, a first-generation, public-owned university in Nigeria. A thematic analysis of the data revealed common challenges in …

The Empowering Effects Of Cooperative Development Among Indigenous Women In Southern Mexico, Dawn Mccarty 2212729, Damaris Cortez, Beth A. Bee

Journal of Family Strengths

Abstract

The Zapatista uprising, rebellion, and ongoing attempts to create a new way of life inside Mexico is unique. While Zapatistas have purposely isolated themselves from the Mexican government, they are not isolated from surrounding communities. Zapatista influences can be seen in the practices and organization of cooperatives and in the altered role of indigenous women in the surrounding communities. This study focuses on four cooperatives: one located in the city of San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, and the others in rural surrounding areas. The selected collectives produce traditional artisan work, basic food staples, natural personal care products, …

Community-Based Partnerships: Collaboration And Organizational Partnerships In Criminal Justice, Meghan E. Hollis

Journal of Family Strengths

This research examined a collaborative communitypractitioner partnership involving many justice and non-justice system agencies in Tarrant County, Texas. The study examined the challenges of a community-based partnership for solving jail overcrowding issues and the overincarceration of mentally ill individuals. This research involved working with the behavioral and mental health providers, substance abuse services providers, health services providers, police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, sheriff’s office, county administration, court administration, jail staff, reentry services providers and organizations, victim services organizations, and so many more. In this paper the focus is on the importance of reducing conflict between entities that see themselves as …

Micro-Meso-Macro Comparative Law: An Essay On The Methodology Of Comparative Law, Alessandro Romano

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

There are strong analogies between the quest for a methodology of comparative law and the broader debate on the epistemology of social and natural sciences. In this vein, after having explored the dispute between holists and reductionists, I argue that the dichotomy between micro and macro comparative law ought to be abandoned. Building on the insights of social theory, I introduce a specific framework to bridge the two levels of enquiry through a meso analysis. This framework is applied to investigate the robustness of the findings of the legal origin theory.

On Saints, Sinners, And Sex In The Apocalypse Of Saint John And The Sefer Zerubbabel, Natalie Latteri

Theology & Religious Studies

The Apocalypse of St. John and the Sefer Zerubbabel [a.k.a Apocalypse of Zerubbabel] are among the most popular apocalypses of the Common Era. While the Johannine Apocalypse was written by a first-century Jewish-Christian author and would later be refracted through a decidedly Christian lens, and the Sefer Zerubbabel was probably composed by a seventh-century Jewish author for a predominantly Jewish audience, the two share much in the way of plot, narrative motifs, and archetypal characters. An examination of these commonalities and, in particular, how they intersect with gender and sexuality, suggests that these texts also may have functioned similarly as …

Evolutionary Dynamics Of Tree Invasions: Complementing The Unified Framework For Biological Invasions, Rafael D. Zenni, Ian A. Dickie, Michael J. Wingfield, Heidi Hirsch, Casparus J. Crous, Laura A. Meyerson, Treena I. Burgess, Thalita G. Zimmermann, Metha M. Klock, Evan Siemann, Alexandra Erfmeier, Roxana Aragon, Lia Montti, Johannes J. Le Roux

Faculty Publications, Environmental Studies

Evolutionary processes greatly impact the outcomes of biological invasions. An extensive body of research suggests that invasive populations often undergo phenotypic and ecological divergence from their native sources. Evolution also operates at different and distinct stages during the invasion process. Thus, it is important to incorporate evolutionary change into frameworks of biological invasions because it allows us to conceptualize how these processes may facilitate or hinder invasion success. Here, we review such processes, with an emphasis on tree invasions, and place them in the context of the unified framework for biological invasions. The processes and mechanisms described are pre-introduction evolutionary …

Stability Of Cross-Feeding Polymorphisms In Microbial Communities, Ivana Gudelj, Margie Kinnersley, Peter Rashkov, Karen Schmidt, Frank Rosenzweig

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Cross-feeding, a relationship wherein one organism consumes metabolites excreted by another, is a ubiquitous feature of natural and clinically-relevant microbial communities and could be a key factor promoting diversity in extreme and/or nutrient-poor environments. However, it remains unclear how readily cross-feeding interactions form, and therefore our ability to predict their emergence is limited. In this paper we developed a mathematical model parameterized using data from the biochemistry and ecology of an E. coli cross-feeding laboratory system. The model accurately captures short-term dynamics of the two competitors that have been observed empirically and we use it to systematically explore the stability …

Career: Thermochronometric And Textural Signatures Of Fault Damage Zones And Stimulating Middle School Student Interest In Earthquake Science, Alexis Ault

Funded Research Records

No abstract provided.

Piercing The Corporate Veil Us Lessons From Romania And Slovakia, Alexandra Horvathova, Catalin Gabriel Stanescu

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

This article describes and analyzes the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil in various jurisdictions across the world. First, it introduces the development and history of this doctrine in the United States - the jurisdiction, which has nurtured this legal concept for several centuries. Second, it analyzes its possible implementation within two chosen jurisdictions in Central and Eastern Europe: Romania and Slovakia. The authors’ aim is to assess their home jurisdictions and examine whether these jurisdictions apply the doctrine, if so, then in which form and to what extent. The authors analyze different areas of their respective legal systems - …

Interprofessional Collaboration With Aphasic Patients: A Survey Based Study On Implementation And Benefits, Emily Foster, Alexa Wagner

Graduate Independent Studies - Communication Sciences and Disorders

Interprofessional practice (IPP), collaboration of professionals from different backgrounds working together to provide services, is of growing importance in speech-language pathology and across other disciplines in the vast health field (WHO, 2010). The American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) stresses the importance of communicating roles and responsibilities of health professionals to provide the best quality care for patients (Dixon & Oandasan, 2015). In order to understand the roles and responsibilities across disciplines, health care professionals and students need to be provided with the necessary education. Currently, an initiative for interprofessional competency is being constructed to provide more involved education for …

Sustainability And Spread Of Community-Based Initiatives: A Case Study Of Community Cares, A Children’S Hospital’S 16 Year Effort To Serve Its Community, Robert F. Austin, Patricia Coleman, Stephanie Meads, Angelo P. Giardino

Journal of Family Strengths

The sustainability and spread of innovations is often elusive, presenting continuous challenges to clinicians and healthcare leaders. Somewhere between 33 - 70% of all innovations are reportedly not sustained, and even fewer are spread beyond the original team, or to other units within an organization. In plain language, sustainability is defined as locking in progress, while continually building upon that foundation, while spread is the exchange of knowledge and experience to others beyond the original implementing team. The literature supports the concept that sustainability is both multi-dimensional and multi-factorial and has several characteristics and pre-conditions. Tax-exempt, not-for-profit organizations in the …

Analyzing And Modeling The Dysfunction Of Inhibitory Neurons In Alzheimer’S Disease, Carlos Perez, Jokubas Ziburkus, Ghamim Ullah

Physics Faculty Publications

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by the abnormal proteolytic processing of amyloid precursor protein, resulting in increased production of a self-aggregating form of beta amyloid (Aβ). Several lines of work on AD patients and transgenic mice with high Aβ levels exhibit altered rhythmicity, aberrant neuronal network activity and hyperexcitability reflected in clusters of hyperactive neurons, and spontaneous epileptic activity. Recent studies highlight that abnormal accumulation of Aβ changes intrinsic properties of inhibitory neurons, which is one of the main reasons underlying the impaired network activity. However, specific cellular mechanisms leading to interneuronal dysfunction are not completely …

Analiza Mnenj Obiskovalcev O Turistični Ponudbi V Ljubljani, Tjaša Redek, Uroš Godnov

Economic and Business Review

Analysis of visitors' opinions about the tourist offer in Ljubljana. Tourists increasingly rely on online data sources about the characteristics of the tourist offer in a given place and, more importantly, about the quality or characteristics of certain providers when making their decisions. The aim of the article is to investigate the characteristics of Ljubljana's tourist offer, especially the individual types (hotels, gastronomy, cultural offers, etc.), using content and sentiment analysis of text reviews from the largest online tourist portal. Using text mining methods, almost 9,000 reviews about different providers in Ljubljana were analysed. The results of the sentiment analysis …

Tokovi Storitev Neplačanega Dela Med Generacijami In Spoloma: Primerjava Italije, Nizozemske In Velike Britanije, Ana Šeme, Jože Sambt

Economic and Business Review

The article presents the age distribution of production, consumption and net transfers of unpaid (household) service work for three European countries - Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. This type of analysis is made possible by the relatively new method of 'national time transfer accounts', which introduces the dimension of age into unpaid work. We find that patterns of unpaid work are significantly influenced by the institutional and cultural environment and that there are also large gender differences. The amount of unpaid work also changes over time. It is emphasised that it is important to include unpaid work in the …

Povezava Avtentičnega In Transformacijskega Vodenja Z Inovativnim Vedenjem Sledilcev: Moderacijski Vpliv Psihološkega Opolnomočenja, Matej Grošelj, Sandra Penger, Matej Černe

Economic and Business Review

The article examines the moderating effect of psychological empowerment on the relationship of authentic and transformational leadership with innovative work behaviour. Hypotheses are developed and empirically tested using multiple regression analysis on a sample of 126 employees of an international technology company. The results show that psychological empowerment acts as a moderator of the relationship between leadership and innovative work behaviour in both authentic and transformational leadership. The contribution of the research is seen in the extension of studies on the integration of leadership and innovation, a comparison of the relationships between two leadership theories and innovation, and a better …

Uporabnost Modela Določanja Donosnosti Lastniškega Kapitala Za Slovenski Kapitalski Trg, Tamara Pustoslemšek, Sergeja Slapničar, Aljoša Valentinčič

Economic and Business Review

The article examines the applicability of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to the Slovenian capital market. The focus is on the choice of possible (reasonable) values of the input parameters that the investor would use in the Slovenian capital market. We find that: i) the variability of estimated betas for Slovenian stocks is very high; ii) the variability of estimates of required rate of return is extremely high, regardless of the type of input data that can be reasonably chosen; iii) there is no statistically significant relationship between expected rates of return calculated by the CAPM model and actual …

Analiza Vzrokov Za Nezadovoljstvo Slovenskih Pacientov Z Nemedicinskimi Sestavinami Zdravstvenih Storitev, Maja Nemec, Tomaž Kolar, Borut Rusjan

Economic and Business Review

Exploring the causes of patient dissatisfaction can inform healthcare providers about the drawbacks of their services while providing a meaningful outcome to improve quality. In this article, using the qualitative method of netography, we identify the main causes of Slovenian patients' dissatisfaction with the non-medical components of healthcare services and, based on the results, identify those non-medical areas of healthcare services that can be improved in the future in terms of the quality of healthcare services from the perspective of patient satisfaction. Based on the content analysis of online forums, we find that the most common reasons for dissatisfaction with …

Rerspon Tanaman Hanjeli (Coix Lacryma-Jobi L.) Akibat Kombinasi Jarak Tanam Dengan Dosis Pupuk Organik Cair Di Kecamatan Rancakalong, Agus Wahyudin, Ruminta, Yuyun Yuwariah, M. Fauzi

Jurnal Kultivasi

Pertambahan jumlah penduduk yang sangat besar menyebabkan kebutuhan pangan meningkat.Salah satu alternatif yang dapat dijadikan solusi adalah program diversifikasi pangan.Hanjeli adalah salah satu tanaman pangan alternatif, namun petani belum mendalami teknik budidaya tanaman ini terutama pemupukan.Oleh karena itu dilakukan suatu upaya untuk meningkatkan pertumbuhan dan hasil hanjeli dengan kombinasi jarak tanam dengan dosis pupuk organik cair.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh kombinasi jarak tanam dengan dosis pupuk organik cair untuk meningkatkan hasil tanaman hanjeli. Percobaan dilaksanakan di Desa Pasir Biru, Kecamatan Rancakalong, Kabupaten Sumedang pada bulan Desember 2015 sampai dengan Mei 2016. Bibit Hanjeli yang dipergunakan adalah Hanjeli Pulut aksesi 37.Rancangan …

Perbandingan Efek Larvasida Minyak Atsiri Daun Cengkeh (Syzygium Aromaticum L.) Varietas Zanzibar Dengan Temephos Terhadap Larva Nyamuk Aedes Aegypti, Ridzmullah Wishnu Pamungkas, Neneng Syarifah Syafei, Arto Yuwono Soeroto

Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research

The use of temephos as larvicides in disease prevention Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) in Indonesia has been going on for 40 years. Larviciding very long led the resistance to temephos. Cloves, one of native Indonesia plant contains eugenol that are toxic to the insect’s body. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of Zanzibar clove leaf essential oil compared to temephos in killing the larvae of Aedes aegypti. This study uses experimental laboratory research design. The samples are larvae of Aedes aegypti stage III. The mosquito larvae were classified into six groups, each given a clove leaf essential oil with …

Analysis Of Education Levels And Small Business Financial Worth In Uganda, Rogers Matama

Business Management Review

A common impression prevails that the higher the education of business owners the lower the business prosperity, that the highly educated individuals suffer from the ' paralysis of analysis ' and so their firms are alleged to financially starve due to excessive financial risk analyzes. This motivated investigations of the effect of educational levels of small business owners on small business financial worth. Financial worthiness in this study is defined by the financial value of the total assets of the firm while the educational levels constitute, secondary education, post-secondary and university degree. From a heterogeneous sample of 528 small firms …