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Examining Feminist Consciousness In Lgbtq University Constituencies, John P. Cullen, Angela Clark-Taylor, Catherine Faurot, Alysha Alani, Catherine Cerulli Sep 2019

Examining Feminist Consciousness In Lgbtq University Constituencies, John P. Cullen, Angela Clark-Taylor, Catherine Faurot, Alysha Alani, Catherine Cerulli

New York Journal of Student Affairs

There is little data on the perception of LGBTQ constituencies toward feminism. We conducted focus groups on our campus and within the surrounding community on perspectives of LGBTQ students, university-employed gay men, community-based transgender individuals, and community-based gay men toward feminism. We analyzed findings using Bem’s gender schema and Ridgeway’s construct of individual, interactional, and institutional aspects of gender identity. Our results show the majority of our LGBTQ focus groups held positive views toward feminism, associating it with equality for all genders and social justice, with the exception of community-based gay men, who negatively associated feminism solely with women’s rights.

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The Current Volume 30 : Issue 5, Nova Southeastern University Sep 2019

The Current Volume 30 : Issue 5, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

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Huawei, Bis, And The Ieee: It's Déjà Vu All Over Again, Hal Berghel Sep 2019

Huawei, Bis, And The Ieee: It's Déjà Vu All Over Again, Hal Berghel

Computer Science Faculty Research

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Executive Committee - Agenda, 9/24/2019, Academic Senate Sep 2019

Executive Committee - Agenda, 9/24/2019, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

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Student Affairs Minutes 09/24/2019, Student Affairs Committee Sep 2019

Student Affairs Minutes 09/24/2019, Student Affairs Committee

Student Affairs Committee

No abstract provided.

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Genetic Variants Of Duffy And Hemoglobin S Genes In An Afrodescendent Population From Columbia, Diana C. Ortega, Heiber Cardenas, Guillermo Barreto Sep 2019

Genetic Variants Of Duffy And Hemoglobin S Genes In An Afrodescendent Population From Columbia, Diana C. Ortega, Heiber Cardenas, Guillermo Barreto

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Malaria is an endemic disease in a large part of Colombia, and the city of Buenaventura reports one of the highest malaria infection rates. Some genetic variants confer resistance to malaria, such as the heterozygote for hemoglobin S (HbS) and the homozygous variant FYBES/FYBES of the Duffy gene. The aim of this work was the molecular characterization of these genes in an afrodescendent population from the urban area of Buenaventura. A total of 819 individuals from a stratified random sampling in each of the 12 communities of this city were analysed. Molecular analysis was performed using PCR-RFLP, …

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Bistable Collapsible Compliant Mechanisms And Shape-Changing Structures That Comprise Them, Rami A. Alfattani, Craig Lusk Sep 2019

Bistable Collapsible Compliant Mechanisms And Shape-Changing Structures That Comprise Them, Rami A. Alfattani, Craig Lusk

USF Patents

A bistable collapsible compliant mechanism including a first sub-mechanism comprising opposed first and second quaternary links and multiple binary links, each link being connected to at least two other links in the sub-mechanism, and a second sub-mechanism connected to the first sub-mechanism, the second sub-mechanism also comprising opposed first and second quaternary links and multiple binary links, each link being connected to at least two other links in the sub-mechanism, wherein the bistable collapsible compliant mechanism can be alternatively be placed in a stable extended orientation in which the bistable collapsible compliant mechanism has a trapezoidal shape and in a …

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Global Connections Professional Development Initiative Accepting Applications For Second Cohort (September 24, 2019), University Communications And Marketing Sep 2019

Global Connections Professional Development Initiative Accepting Applications For Second Cohort (September 24, 2019), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

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Meet Rowan, The Counseling Campus Canine, Michael Newsom Sep 2019

Meet Rowan, The Counseling Campus Canine, Michael Newsom

University of Mississippi News

University Counseling Center to offer animal-assisted therapy with 'sproodle' hybrid

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Targeting Transcription Factor Tcf4 By Γ-Mangostin, A Natural Xanthone., Balaji Krishnamachary, Dharmalingam Subramaniam, Prasad Dandawate, Sivapriya Ponnurangam, Pugazhendhi Srinivasan, Prabhu Ramamoorthy, Shahid Umar, Sufi Mary Thomas, Animesh Dhar, Seth Septer, Scott J. Weir, Thomas M. Attard, Shrikant Anant Sep 2019

Targeting Transcription Factor Tcf4 By Γ-Mangostin, A Natural Xanthone., Balaji Krishnamachary, Dharmalingam Subramaniam, Prasad Dandawate, Sivapriya Ponnurangam, Pugazhendhi Srinivasan, Prabhu Ramamoorthy, Shahid Umar, Sufi Mary Thomas, Animesh Dhar, Seth Septer, Scott J. Weir, Thomas M. Attard, Shrikant Anant

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Given that colon cancer is the third most common cancer in incidence and cause of death in the United States, and current treatment modalities are insufficient, there is a need to develop novel agents. Towards this, here we focus on γ-Mangostin, a bioactive compound present in the Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) fruit. γ-Mangostin suppressed proliferation and colony formation, and induced cell cycle arrest and apoptosis of colon cancer cell lines. Further, γ-Mangostin inhibited colonosphere formation. Molecular docking and CETSA (Cellular thermal shift assay) binding assays demonstrated that γ-Mangostin interacts with transcription factor TCF4 (T-Cell Factor 4) at the β-catenin …

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Tooth Fracture Frequency In Gray Wolves Reflects Prey Availability., Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Rolf O. Peterson, Douglas W Smith, Daniel R Stahler, John A. Vucetich Sep 2019

Tooth Fracture Frequency In Gray Wolves Reflects Prey Availability., Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Rolf O. Peterson, Douglas W Smith, Daniel R Stahler, John A. Vucetich

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Exceptionally high rates of tooth fracture in large Pleistocene carnivorans imply intensified interspecific competition, given that tooth fracture rises with increased bone consumption, a behavior that likely occurs when prey are difficult to acquire. To assess the link between prey availability and dental attrition, we documented dental fracture rates over decades among three well-studied populations of extant gray wolves that differed in prey:predator ratio and levels of carcass utilization. When prey:predator ratios declined, kills were more fully consumed, and rates of tooth fracture more than doubled. This supports tooth fracture frequency as a relative measure of the difficulty of acquiring …

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Cellular Distribution Of The Prion Protein In Palatine Tonsils Of Mule Deer (Odocoileus Hemionus) And Rocky Mountain Elk (Cervus Elaphus Nelsoni), Matthew M. Hille, Jean E. Jewell, E. Lee Belden Sep 2019

Cellular Distribution Of The Prion Protein In Palatine Tonsils Of Mule Deer (Odocoileus Hemionus) And Rocky Mountain Elk (Cervus Elaphus Nelsoni), Matthew M. Hille, Jean E. Jewell, E. Lee Belden

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) that affects members of the Cervidae family, including deer (Odocoileus spp.), elk (Cervus Canadensis spp.), and moose (Alces alces spp.). While CWD is a neurodegenerative disease, lymphoid accumulation of the abnormal isoform of the prion protein (PrPSc) is detectable early in the course of infection. It has been shown that a large portion of the PrPSc lymphoid accumulation in infected mule deer takes place on the surface of follicular dendritic cells (FDCs). In mice, FDC expression of PrPC has been shown to be essential for PrPSc accumulation. …

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Complexity, Genetic Causation, And Hereditarianism, Charles Roseman Sep 2019

Complexity, Genetic Causation, And Hereditarianism, Charles Roseman

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Hereditarians have claimed that recent advances in psychological and psychiatric genetics support their contention that individual and group socially important aspects of behavior and cognition are largely insensitive to environmental context. This has been countered by anti- hereditarians who (correctly) claim that the conclusion of genetic ineluctability is false. Anti- hereditarians, however, sometimes use problematic arguments based on complexity and the ignorance that comes with complexity and a demand for mechanistic, as opposed to variational, explanations for the ways in which genes affect phenotype. I argue here, as a committed anti-hereditarian, that the complexity gambit and the demand for mechanisms …

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Basho & Friends Literacy Game For Tablet, Joshua Korenblat Sep 2019

Basho & Friends Literacy Game For Tablet, Joshua Korenblat

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

Basho & Friends is an in-progress prototype for an interactive children’s book. Here, children ages 8-13 collaborate with young Basho, the legendary founder of haiku poetry, to become poets themselves. This project exemplifies a “convivial tool,” defined by philosopher Ivan Illich as a platform designed to promote creative expression. Here, we imagine new possibilities for reading, sensemaking, and creative writing based on past forms and ideas. Through poetry, Basho promotes meaningful principles of literacy and sustainability today. Children can engage with Basho’s story in an historical context and practice haiku to see themselves as authors of their life stories.

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Fanfiction As Performative Criticism: Harry Potter Racebending, Khaliah A. Petersen-Reed Sep 2019

Fanfiction As Performative Criticism: Harry Potter Racebending, Khaliah A. Petersen-Reed

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

Fanfiction anatomizes a text and in this textual nakedness fanfiction writers recognize gaps in their chosen source texts and seek to supplement these deficiencies through literary disruption. This essay focuses on the kind of fanfiction that critically disrupts through artistic cultural production—a practice that I am labeling performative criticism. I look at Racebending fanfiction that intervenes in the gaps of the Harry Potter series—specifically the gaps related to race. Using fanfiction produced by Harry Potter fans, I will show that by reading and writing fanfiction these writers are blurring demarcation between creative writing and literary criticism.

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This Is (Not) A Game: The Adjunct Experience As Playable Fiction, Lee Skallerup Bessette Sep 2019

This Is (Not) A Game: The Adjunct Experience As Playable Fiction, Lee Skallerup Bessette

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

How can a never-ending running 8-bit game be a piece of protest art? In examining her own experience in a related netprov protesting the treatment of adjuncts, the artist explores issues of agency, exploitation, and the very nature of games and playing in her artist’s statement on her game, Adjunct Run: https://adjunctrun.readywriting.org/.

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“The Machinic Author” Artist’S Statement: The Reading Club, Annie Abrahams, Emmanuel Guez Sep 2019

“The Machinic Author” Artist’S Statement: The Reading Club, Annie Abrahams, Emmanuel Guez

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

The Reading Club is an online venue for simultaneous, collaborative reading and writing, both of which occur within a precisely defined framework: «reariters» are invited to read a given text and to rewrite it within a set number of characters. The public also gets involved, reading and commenting in a chat field. Performances have been held in various languages (sometimes simultaneously), including the language of code.

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Machine Co-Authorship(S) Via Translative Creative Writing, Aaron Tucker Sep 2019

Machine Co-Authorship(S) Via Translative Creative Writing, Aaron Tucker

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

This paper argues that machine translation and a symbiotic ecosystem of authorship are central to the poetic works of Aaron Tucker and reveal larger ethical paths for machine-human relationships. In particular, the elements of chance alongside the intersemiotic translative acts that are the nature of human-computer relationships give space to a potential futurity that challenges a human-centric understanding of “reading” and “writing” and generates a type of literature that encourages a reader to better understand their own interactions within their daily digital environments.

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The Many Authors Of The Several Houses Of Brian, Spencer, Liam, Victoria, Brayden, Vincent, And Alex: Authorship, Agency, And Appropriation, Zach Whalen Sep 2019

The Many Authors Of The Several Houses Of Brian, Spencer, Liam, Victoria, Brayden, Vincent, And Alex: Authorship, Agency, And Appropriation, Zach Whalen

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

The Several Houses of Brian, Spencer, Liam, Victoria, Brayden, Vincent, and Alex is a computer-generated children’s book of 53,651 words and 350 unique illustrations arranged over 800 pages. The text is a cumulative poem in the style of the nursery rhyme “This is the House that Jack Built,” but with a house for each of the eponymous seven individuals, and with each of their houses containing many more types of things. These houses, these things, and these words were chosen by a Python script that I wrote, and the resulting novel--which can be viewed on my Github repository--is …

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Toward Disruptive Creation In Digital Literature Instruction, Michael D. Clark Sep 2019

Toward Disruptive Creation In Digital Literature Instruction, Michael D. Clark

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

Given the multimodal and collaborative nature of digital literature along with the ways it often embodies the theories informing its artistic production, approaches to exploring both the creation and study of the form must abandon legacy pedagogies in favor of disruptive, student-driven course experiences. This work must further include explorations of digital culture, means of production, multimodal literacies, and connections with various definitions of literature ranging from print to auditory to visual forms. To accomplish this, instructors must move from more traditional hierarchical roles to those of facilitator and participant, committing consistently to returning decision-making work to the students.

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Redirecting Textile Knowledge; An Innovative Approach To Recycling, Donna Cleveland Sep 2019

Redirecting Textile Knowledge; An Innovative Approach To Recycling, Donna Cleveland

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

This paper identifies an opportunity to design a localised textile waste system in New Zealand which provides the raw material required to develop a value added, closed loop, innovative and sustainable textile product. Sustainability is a key challenge of our time. The mass production processes of the apparel industry create large volumes of waste posing significant sustainability issues at all levels. New Zealand is a wasteful country that has up until recently managed textile waste recycling by exporting or landfilling the problem. Ministry for the Environment records indicate 100 million kilos of textile waste is disposed of into New Zealand’s …

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Collaborative Ecologies Through Material Entanglements, Miranda Smitheram, Frances Joseph Sep 2019

Collaborative Ecologies Through Material Entanglements, Miranda Smitheram, Frances Joseph

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

This paper addresses aspects of collaboration and conceptual frameworks in practice that are central to our project, Phenomenal Dress. The research has been informed by material thinking, posthuman theory and New Zealand Māori perspectives, through processes of “making-with” (Haraway, 2016). Working with an ecosystem, engaging with localized non-human phenomena as well as cultural and scientific experts, mediated materials, textile surfaces as new forms of “dress- action” (Tiainen, Kontturi and Hongisto, 2015) have been developed through relational entanglement. The artefacts produced in the project are not functional or fashionable products, they are matter flows, formed through diverse perspectives and collaborative processes. …

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Interdisciplinary Collaboration As A Framework For Creating Future Materials: Hacking Silk Case Study, Marie Vinter, Kairi Koort Sep 2019

Interdisciplinary Collaboration As A Framework For Creating Future Materials: Hacking Silk Case Study, Marie Vinter, Kairi Koort

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

The fast progress of bioengineering and technology is predisposing new, biology-based production methods, which enables us to create ecologically compatible materials with tuneable properties. Ongoing research on new alternative resources and emerging new materials speak for achieving sustainable development within circular economy. This paper offers practice-based design solutions through interdisciplinary collaboration for utilizing proteinbased materials capable of environment sensing-adapting and proposes new morphologies of spider and silkworm silk as promising future materials. The theoretical part of the study explores silk, spider silk in particular, and its fibrous structure. Following protocols developed for biomedical applications, the exploratory part of the project …

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Mycelium: Exploring The New, Alternative Fungal Hyphae-Based Material’S Potentials, Niki Boukouvala, Spyros Bofylatos, Nikolaos Zacharopoulos Sep 2019

Mycelium: Exploring The New, Alternative Fungal Hyphae-Based Material’S Potentials, Niki Boukouvala, Spyros Bofylatos, Nikolaos Zacharopoulos

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

This paper aims to provide new knowledge in the field of mycelium both in the context of DIY and biofabrication. The approach of biofabrication is closely tied with the transition towards sustainability and ways of designing that incorporate different values and aesthetics. At the same time, closing the material loops is a prerequisite of the circular economy. These parameters point to a need of new knowledge for designers, in order to lower the entry barriers for the creation of DIY materials. Experts in a field, such as mycologists in this case study, come from an established field with a given …

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Sustainability Principles Through Educational E-Textile Kit, Paula Veske, Barbro Scholz Sep 2019

Sustainability Principles Through Educational E-Textile Kit, Paula Veske, Barbro Scholz

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

Innovations in smart textiles technology are on the rise with a promise to add value to the consumer's life (Goodman et al., 2018). However, these innovations and the high development speed involved also raised concerns about environmental issues related to these trends (van der Velden, Kuusk, & Köhler, 2015). Therefore, TTorch project was created to bring different fields like electronics and textile engineering together to create a kit for educational purposes and follow circular economy principles during the process. TTorch is a creative toy with a development kit for up to 10-year-old children, using e-textile principles. The product kit creates …

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An Interactive Playmat To Support Bonding Between Parents And Young Children With Visual (And Intellectual) Disabilities, Paula Dekkers-Verbon, Paula Sterkenburg, Marina Toeters, Marije Baars, Emilia Barakova Sep 2019

An Interactive Playmat To Support Bonding Between Parents And Young Children With Visual (And Intellectual) Disabilities, Paula Dekkers-Verbon, Paula Sterkenburg, Marina Toeters, Marije Baars, Emilia Barakova

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

How can a caregiver contribute to secure attachment in a playful manner when the infant is blind or has visual (and intellectual) disabilities? This paper describes the design and development of an interactive playmat to contribute to this bonding process by stimulating sensitive mirroring behaviour of the parent. The motivation for developing the playmat is discussed, followed by an overview of the collaborative developmental process. An iterative co-creation process involving researchers from various disciplines, professional designers and focus groups was used; several test phases with target users took place. This paper describes the starting point from which the process was …

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When Art Meets Science: Conditions For Experiential Knowledge Exchange In Interdisciplinary Research On New Materials, Camilla Groth, Margherita Pevere, Pirjo KäÄRiäInen, Kirsi NiinimäKi Sep 2019

When Art Meets Science: Conditions For Experiential Knowledge Exchange In Interdisciplinary Research On New Materials, Camilla Groth, Margherita Pevere, Pirjo KäÄRiäInen, Kirsi NiinimäKi

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

Interdisciplinary research across art and science offers the potential to open up new areas of knowledge previously hidden in-between disciplines. At the same time, differences in disciplines’ theoretical frameworks, verification methods and expectations can cause discrepancies, which can be fruitful but may also require further navigation efforts. In this paper, we discuss the potentials and challenges of combining scientific and artistic research in interdisciplinary projects studying new materials. We interviewed 11 researchers working in different projects that combined scientific and artistic research in Finland and Germany, in order to investigate how they deal with different epistemological approaches and the limitations …

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Phoenix, 2019-09-23, Phoenix Newspaper Sep 2019

Phoenix, 2019-09-23, Phoenix Newspaper

Phoenix

The Phoenix is a student newspaper published at Governors State University since August 2002. The newspaper features student reporting, opinions, news, and photos.

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Volume 55, Issue 2 - Monday, September 23, 2019, Rose Thorn Staff Sep 2019

Volume 55, Issue 2 - Monday, September 23, 2019, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

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Meet Dale Bramlett, September's Staff Member Of The Month, Inside Ole Miss Sep 2019

Meet Dale Bramlett, September's Staff Member Of The Month, Inside Ole Miss

University of Mississippi News

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