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The Cultural Construction Of Subject Discipline Knowledge: Comparing ‘Abstraction’ In Two International Contexts, Nick Pratt, Peter Kelly Dec 2016

The Cultural Construction Of Subject Discipline Knowledge: Comparing ‘Abstraction’ In Two International Contexts, Nick Pratt, Peter Kelly

Plymouth Institute of Education

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Ordinary? Affects? Swimming With Kathleen Stewart And Others Against The Tide Race Of Representation And The Heresies Of Names, K Gale Dec 2016

Ordinary? Affects? Swimming With Kathleen Stewart And Others Against The Tide Race Of Representation And The Heresies Of Names, K Gale

Plymouth Institute of Education

This essay describes instances in the rhythmic play with affect in the reading of and performances with Kathleen Stewart's Ordinary Affects. It offers an engagement with the work that both troubles and is troubled. It celebrates this engagement and delights in the opportunity to read, read around, and read again and again words that flee from identification and representation and come to life in moments of tears, smiles, and writings living in the temptation and allure of the unknown. This was written with a visit to Edinburgh in mind and Robert Frank's The Americans, alongside Stewart's Ordinary Affects in my …

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Learning To Mock - Challenging The Teaching Establishment, N Gabriel Dec 2016

Learning To Mock - Challenging The Teaching Establishment, N Gabriel

Plymouth Institute of Education

There have been very few studies that apply the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Norbert Elias to understand the underlying learning processes of young children. This article will explore the methodological similarities between Bakhtin’s ideas about the carnivalesque and Norbert Elias’s theory of established-outsider relations to explain how young children can undermine the authoritative discourses of teachers in preschool classrooms. It will focus on the playful mockery that young children display within their peer-groups to challenge teaching authority. I will argue that many of the humorous events produced by young children should be viewed as an attempt to violate their …

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Intra-Generational Education: Imagining A Post-Age Pedagogy, Joanna Haynes, Karin Murris Dec 2016

Intra-Generational Education: Imagining A Post-Age Pedagogy, Joanna Haynes, Karin Murris

Plymouth Institute of Education

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Decisions On Risk And Mental Health Hospital Admissions By Approved Mental Health Professionals, K Stone Dec 2016

Decisions On Risk And Mental Health Hospital Admissions By Approved Mental Health Professionals, K Stone

More Faculty of Health Research

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Nature Of Ngo Volunteers’ And Employees’ Motivation. Implications And Recommendations For Managerial Staff, Joanna Schmidt Dec 2016

Nature Of Ngo Volunteers’ And Employees’ Motivation. Implications And Recommendations For Managerial Staff, Joanna Schmidt

European Management Studies

The analysis presented below indicates different types of motivation of non-governmental organisations’ staff and involves the relationship between the type of motivation and other staff features. This allows not only for looking at the causes and characteristics of involvement in the activities of non-governmental organisations but also for describing the specific motivation of the various groups involved in the activities of the organisation and presenting profiles of these groups. Moreover, the analysis of motivations and characteristics correlated with them allows for drawing conclusions related to motivating rules of these groups, stimulating their commitment and selecting the management style appropriate for …

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Duty, Calling Or Passion? The Meaningfulness Of Work In Narratives Of Public Administration Employees, Agnieszka Wojtczuk-Turek Dec 2016

Duty, Calling Or Passion? The Meaningfulness Of Work In Narratives Of Public Administration Employees, Agnieszka Wojtczuk-Turek

European Management Studies

One of the important aspects related to work is the sense of its significance and meaning. In Hackman and Oldham’s model (Job Characteristics Model – JCM), experienced meaningfulness of work is a function of task identity, subjective perception of task significance and the employees’ engaging a variety of skills. Research shows that persons who practice different professions define their work differently and attribute it different meanings. The cognitive and application-related value of these studies is based on a better understanding of the mechanisms of shaping positive attitudes towards work, whose behavioural consequence is employee’s engagement in work. The aim of …

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Professionalization Of Vocational Roles Of Public Employment Services Employees In Europe Through Competency Profiling, Łukasz Sienkiewicz Dec 2016

Professionalization Of Vocational Roles Of Public Employment Services Employees In Europe Through Competency Profiling, Łukasz Sienkiewicz

European Management Studies

The aim of this article is the development of competence profile for employment counsellors within public employment services, reflecting the recent changes and redefinition of these professional roles. This article aims to analyse the state-of-play in relation to professionalization of vocational roles of PES employees in Europe, on the basis of research conducted by the author in the years 2012–2014 for the European Commission. These studies included literature review, analysis of available research and structured survey conducted among representatives of the Public Employment Services in 22 EU countries, complemented by in-depth interviews and analysis of solutions used in PES. On …

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Application Of The Grounded Theory Methodology In Hrm Research Within Private And Public Sector – An Attempt At A Meta-Analysis Of Articles Published On The Isi Master Journal List Between 2010 And 2014, Katarzyna Susabowska Dec 2016

Application Of The Grounded Theory Methodology In Hrm Research Within Private And Public Sector – An Attempt At A Meta-Analysis Of Articles Published On The Isi Master Journal List Between 2010 And 2014, Katarzyna Susabowska

European Management Studies

The aim of the study is to assess the cognitive value of research results presented in the articles concerning HRM in which the grounded theory methodology was used. The article puts forward the meta-analysis as a tool for comparing the results of previous empirical research published during the period of the last five years (2010–2014) on the ISI Master Journal List. I hope that my research will add to debates on issues of HRM within the private and public sector.

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The Influence Of Feedback On Implicit Bias In A Sample Of Primarily Caucasian Women Counselors-In-Training, Branson L. Boykins Dec 2016

The Influence Of Feedback On Implicit Bias In A Sample Of Primarily Caucasian Women Counselors-In-Training, Branson L. Boykins

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine whether bogus cultural feedback influenced the presence of implicit racial bias in the clinical judgment of counselors-in-training. Participants were 193 master’s-level counselors-in-training, in which the majority were Caucasian women (57%). Three hypotheses guided the study. The first hypothesis focused on the influence of priming positive and negative feedback about cultural attitudes on a clinical case, regardless of the race or clarity of the case. The second and third hypotheses both focused on racial bias by examining the interaction between type of feedback, race, and ambiguity of diagnosis on participants’ clinical impressions of …

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Like A Duck On Water: Chinese Academic Migrants In The U.S. And Their Suburban Weekend Chinese School, Jianping Xu Dec 2016

Like A Duck On Water: Chinese Academic Migrants In The U.S. And Their Suburban Weekend Chinese School, Jianping Xu

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Current literature is scarce on the diverse experiences of hundreds of thousands of mainland Chinese who, since 1979, have come to the U.S. primarily for graduate study and mostly settled here afterwards in dispersed university or corporate jobs and suburban residences. After the Immigration Act of 1990, many of them have become visible experts in science and engineering. Yet their struggles as Chinese academic migrants simultaneously privileged by their educational backgrounds and disadvantaged by their outsider status in the U.S. often remain invisible. Possibly due to the myth of “model minority,” mainstream America has seen them as doing-well and well-behaving, …

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Strengths And Limitations Of Forensic Science: What Dna Exonerations Have Taught Us And Where To Go From Here, Vanessa Meterko Dec 2016

Strengths And Limitations Of Forensic Science: What Dna Exonerations Have Taught Us And Where To Go From Here, Vanessa Meterko

West Virginia Law Review

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Scandal, Fraud, And The Reform Of Forensic Science: The Case Of Fingerprint Analysis, Simon A. Cole Dec 2016

Scandal, Fraud, And The Reform Of Forensic Science: The Case Of Fingerprint Analysis, Simon A. Cole

West Virginia Law Review

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Playing Off-Key: Trans-Atlantic Data Regulation In A Discordant World, Jennifer L. Bauer Dec 2016

Playing Off-Key: Trans-Atlantic Data Regulation In A Discordant World, Jennifer L. Bauer

West Virginia Law Review

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A Quantitative Policy Analysis Of Bronx County Public High School Students’ Mathematics Course Completion | A Quantitative Policy Analysis Of Bronx County Public High School Students’ Mathematics Course Completion, Ramon Emilio Fernandez Dec 2016

A Quantitative Policy Analysis Of Bronx County Public High School Students’ Mathematics Course Completion | A Quantitative Policy Analysis Of Bronx County Public High School Students’ Mathematics Course Completion, Ramon Emilio Fernandez

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Education reform remains a work in progress. Research, government, and policy reports emphasize that a high-quality high school mathematics education is key to the future of the nation. Technical and research work in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), social sciences, and life sciences have been identified as essential requirements to bolster the economic growth, national competitiveness, and security of the United States. The academic preparedness, college aspiration, persistence, graduation, as well as earnings of high school graduates who complete college preparatory and advanced math courses are all positively, strongly, and significantly correlated to their math course completion. Despite various efforts …

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A Medical Decision Model For Tinnitus Treatment Assessment, Hong Don Ihn Dec 2016

A Medical Decision Model For Tinnitus Treatment Assessment, Hong Don Ihn

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Tinnitus means objective somatosounds, and subjective auditory or sensorineural perception of noise without external physical sounds. There are several tinnitus treatments, but it is difficult to ascertain how otorhinolaryngologists rank the alternatives of treatments due to the insufficiency of available evidence and standards. A hierarchical decision model (HDM), a popular multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) method, can help to implement a comprehensive assessment of tinnitus treatments and rational decision-making to select the appropriate tinnitus treatments. The HDM considers a holistic approach using multiple dimensions, criteria and expert judgments to acquire the relative ranking of candidate tinnitus treatments. The four dimensions selected …

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The Stream Of Consciousness In Richard Foreman's Lava, Jungyoon Han Dec 2016

The Stream Of Consciousness In Richard Foreman's Lava, Jungyoon Han

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Richard Foreman’s Lava (1989) is chosen to be studied in terms of stream of consciousness as one of the representative plays of Ontological-Hysteric Theatre. Given the nature of stream of consciousness, continuation of experiences, this play is analyzed through its manifestation process itself. The stream of consciousness is found to consist of three main features; Fragmentation, Mismatch, and Rituality. These features are not only belong to Richard Foreman’s Lava but also have been descended and regarded as the main characteristics of avant-garde theaters. This study relates the manifestation of stream of consciousness in Lava with the avant-gardism. It pursues to …

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Audience Participation In Traditional Chinese Theatre, Zifei Wu Dec 2016

Audience Participation In Traditional Chinese Theatre, Zifei Wu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Traditional Chinese theatre is unique. Unlike its distinct stage elements with apparent Eastern features, the special role of audience participation in traditional Chinese theatre is less conspicu-ous and, to some, may seem disordered; however, underneath, the logic of audience participation suggests a theatrical communication and a performer-audience relationship that is completely different from the theatrical traditions of the Western world. There is an explosion of interest in the role of the audience among twentieth and twenty-first century theatre practitioners in the Western world. To these experimental theatre artists, forming a non-traditional performer-audience relationship is often an approach to show their …

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Othering The Mother: Traumatic Effects Of Motherhood On The Formation Of Identity In Toni Morrison’S Beloved | Othering The Mother: Traumatic Effects Of Motherhood On The Formation Of Identity In Toni Morrison’S Beloved, Gabriella Elizabeth Greco Dec 2016

Othering The Mother: Traumatic Effects Of Motherhood On The Formation Of Identity In Toni Morrison’S Beloved | Othering The Mother: Traumatic Effects Of Motherhood On The Formation Of Identity In Toni Morrison’S Beloved, Gabriella Elizabeth Greco

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

As a text based heavily on tropes from both American Gothic literature and the slave narrative genre, Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved serves as a complex and delicate commentary on racial ambiguities and the psychologically haunting effects of African American trauma. These ambiguities simultaneously serve as reasons for and consequences of the various traumas that strain the interpersonal relationships between the female characters. Aside from the most blatant and gruesome trauma of the novel—the infanticide that Sethe commits as an act of mercy for her unnamed child—many of the recurring traumatic memories evoke the challenges of motherhood during slavery. | As …

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Digitizing The Novel, 1987-2010, Bradley Reina Dec 2016

Digitizing The Novel, 1987-2010, Bradley Reina

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The novel is digital, it was digital, and it will be digital. Most authors have written on word processors and most publishers have made books with some form of desktop publishing software since the early 1990s. The first novels for digital display were written and published in the late 1980s. From a literary perspective, the question is whether such digital-born literature translates into palpable changes in the novel form, why, and how. Previous theories of the meeting of digital technology and literature have all too often presented a predetermined fate for this pairing—an essentialist vision of literature, technology, or both. …

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The Human To Come: Representations Of Human In Literary Modernity’S Testimonial "I" | The Human To Come: Representations Of Human In Literary Modernity’S Testimonial "I", Kerry Suzanne Spooner Dec 2016

The Human To Come: Representations Of Human In Literary Modernity’S Testimonial "I" | The Human To Come: Representations Of Human In Literary Modernity’S Testimonial "I", Kerry Suzanne Spooner

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

With the concern for human rights always present to this project, I explore in the initial chapters the precariousness of the first-person singular subjective “I†in both testimonial and fictional texts and its bearing on human rights. In practice, first-person narratives, whether as life-writing or fictional, are textual spaces in which writers’ concerns that deal with human conditions are frequently articulated. By examining the first-person narrative function in selected texts of Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, and Samuel Beckett, this dissertation shows how conceptual imaginings of the concept of the human and human embodiment are unsettled. These exemplar modernist …

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An Invisible Man, A Group Of Old Men, And An American Couple Walk Into A Bar… How The Deconstruction Of Pseudo Identities Leads To Liberation For The Prepared Or To The Downfall Of The Unprepared | An Invisible Man, A Group Of Old Men, And An American Couple Walk Into A Bar… How The Deconstruction Of Pseudo Identities Leads To Liberation For The Prepared Or To The Downfall Of The Unprepared, Christos Constantine Zodiatis Dec 2016

An Invisible Man, A Group Of Old Men, And An American Couple Walk Into A Bar… How The Deconstruction Of Pseudo Identities Leads To Liberation For The Prepared Or To The Downfall Of The Unprepared | An Invisible Man, A Group Of Old Men, And An American Couple Walk Into A Bar… How The Deconstruction Of Pseudo Identities Leads To Liberation For The Prepared Or To The Downfall Of The Unprepared, Christos Constantine Zodiatis

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

A large amount of American literature is based on themes of identity construction. Several authors make the argument that a true American identity is one that is self-created as opposed to ones made based on societal stereotypes. Yet often, the issue that arise from this central theme is that it takes traumatic episodes to come to this realization. In A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gains, the old black men of the town are subjugated and have their identity placed upon them by society, with the label in this case being “them black folk.†Similarly, in Invisible Man, Ralph …

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Neuronal Activation With Gain Modification Of The Trigeminal Blink Reflex, Patricia Ronessa Enmore Dec 2016

Neuronal Activation With Gain Modification Of The Trigeminal Blink Reflex, Patricia Ronessa Enmore

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The trigeminal blink reflex is a simple circuit for investigating the neural bases of motor plasticity in mammals. Stimulating the supraorbital branch of the trigeminal nerve (SO) evokes two bursts of activity in the lid closing orbicularis oculi muscle, R1 and R2. One procedure for inducing blink plasticity is high frequency stimulation (HFS) of the SO. Presenting HFS before the R2 component (HFS-B) reduces blink amplitude for at least one hour in humans and rats. This reduction in blink amplitude is a decrease in gain because the blink evoking stimulus is the same before and after HFS-B treatment. To identify …

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The Role Of Pten Signaling In The Function And Development Of The Sexually Dimorphic Kisspeptin System, Ariel L. Negron Dec 2016

The Role Of Pten Signaling In The Function And Development Of The Sexually Dimorphic Kisspeptin System, Ariel L. Negron

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Hypothalamic kisspeptin-expressing neurons are a critical relay system that conveys information about hormonal and nutritional status to gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons. PI3K/mTOR signaling is linked to the regulation of hypothalamic kisspeptin expression and of gonadotropin release by nutritional status. Whether kisspeptin neuron-specific PI3K/mTOR signaling participates in the regulation of the kisspeptin system and gonadotropin release under normal and under metabolic challenges is unknown. Phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) is the principal negative regulator of the PI3K/mTOR signaling pathway. In addition, PTEN expression and function is regulated by estrogen, the sex-steroid hormone principally responsible for the sexually dimorphic expression of hypothalamic kisspeptin …

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Increasing College Students’ Interest And Engagement In Stem: A Comparison Of Strategies For Challenging Stem Stereotypes | Increasing College Students’ Interest And Engagement In Stem: A Comparison Of Strategies For Challenging Stem Stereotypes, Jiyun Elizabeth Shin Dec 2016

Increasing College Students’ Interest And Engagement In Stem: A Comparison Of Strategies For Challenging Stem Stereotypes | Increasing College Students’ Interest And Engagement In Stem: A Comparison Of Strategies For Challenging Stem Stereotypes, Jiyun Elizabeth Shin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Increasing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates has become an important part of the education agenda in the U.S. in recent years. Stereotypes about STEM (i.e. | belief that STEM abilities are innate, and that European American men are best suited for STEM) have been identified as one of the critical factors that may contribute to low recruitment and retention of STEM students. Drawing from the literatures on biological essentialism and role models, this study compared different strategies for challenging STEM stereotypes among undergraduate students in STEM and non-STEM fields. STEM stereotypes were challenged directly with research articles that …

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Intactivism: Understanding Anti-Male Circumcision Organizing In The U.S., Amanda Owyn Kennedy Dec 2016

Intactivism: Understanding Anti-Male Circumcision Organizing In The U.S., Amanda Owyn Kennedy

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

While in the U.S. routine medical circumcision of male infants has long been justified on medical grounds, scholars have also pointed to surrounding discourses that suggest deeply held cultural prejudices, fears of sexuality, and racial contagion. However, little scholarship has addressed the questions of masculinity, despite a massive polemical literature that swirls around it. This dissertation takes those polemics, and several organizational efforts, as its source of data to understand the “Intactivist†movement as a social movement. Like all social movements, the Intactivist movement has many branches, is organizationally diverse and rhetorically diverse. So, how does the movement coalesce, and …

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Dance Usm! Program [2016], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre Dec 2016

Dance Usm! Program [2016], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2016-2017 Season

Directed by Maria Tzianabos

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Hilltopics: Volume 13, Issue 4, Hilltopics Staff Dec 2016

Hilltopics: Volume 13, Issue 4, Hilltopics Staff

Hilltopics

No abstract provided.

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Religion-Related Research In The Journal Of Macromarketing, 1981-2014, Jenna M. Drenten, Kristy Mcmanus Dec 2016

Religion-Related Research In The Journal Of Macromarketing, 1981-2014, Jenna M. Drenten, Kristy Mcmanus

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This study provides a review of religion-related research published in the Journal of Macromarketing (JMK) from 1981 to 2014. A systematic review of the journal identifies 19 key articles at the intersection of religion and macromarketing. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are utilized to review this body of work in terms of frequency, content, methodology, and authorship. Results reveal four categories of religion-related research in JMK: 1) the impact of religion on macromarketing issues, 2) the impact of macromarketing issues on religion, 3) religion as a theoretical perspective, and 4) religious groups/individuals as a research context. Opportunities for future research …

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Lateralization Of Simulated Sources And Echoes Differing In Frequency Based On Interaural Temporal Differences, Raymond H. Dye Jr., Joseph Boomer, Joleen Frankel, Jacquelyn P. Hill, Alycia N. Peloquin Dec 2016

Lateralization Of Simulated Sources And Echoes Differing In Frequency Based On Interaural Temporal Differences, Raymond H. Dye Jr., Joseph Boomer, Joleen Frankel, Jacquelyn P. Hill, Alycia N. Peloquin

Psychology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This study examined listeners’ ability to process interaural temporal differences (ITDs) in one of two sequential sounds when the two differed in spectral content. A correlational analysis assessed weights given to ITDs of simulated source and echo pulses for echo delays of 8–128ms for conditions in which responses were based on the source or echo, a 3000-Hz Gaussian (target) pulse. The other (distractor) pulse was spectrally centered at 1500, 2000, 3000, 4000, or 5000 Hz. Also measured were proportion correct and proportion of responses predicted from the weights. Regardless of whether the echo or source pulse served as the target, …

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