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Papers Of Robert (Bob) Dickerson Arc2010-001- Finding Aid, Ats Special Collections And Archives

Finding Aids

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Papers Of Albert Edward Day Arc1993-005 - Finding Aid, Ats Special Collections And Archives

Finding Aids

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Analyzing Documents With Tf-Idf, Matthew Lavin

Faculty Publications

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Catalog Denison University 2019-2020

Denison University Catalogs

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Flexible Liminality Among The Tibetan Diaspora: Tibetan Exiles Adjusting Cultural Practices In Dharamsala, India And The United States, Sneha Thapa

Theses and Dissertations--Anthropology

In this dissertation, I investigate the characteristics and quality of liminality among the Tibetan exile community in Dharamsala, India, and the United States. I argue that the quality of their liminality defines this exile community’s ability to maneuver and voice their influence to geo-political community of states that surround them, all while within their liminal condition. The Tibetan exile people live as stateless foreigners in India but have a better standard of living and better opportunities to acquire transnational resources than their surrounding host community. In the U.S., Tibetan diaspora people live as asylum-seekers and naturalized Tibetan-Americans but have established …

The Wages Of Precarious Work: An Ethnography Of Upstate South Carolina’S Reserve Army Of The Laboring, Henry Bundy

Theses and Dissertations--Anthropology

The proliferation of precarious work represents a sea change in the opportunity structure of the new economies of the American South. As the role of the State has shifted from guarantor of rights and services to anxious custodian of economic liberalization, Americans have been enjoined to shoulder ever-larger shares of the responsibilities and risks associated with wage labor. As a result, the working poor have been left to weather the vicissitudes of the unfettered market with the increasingly paltry social membership guaranteed through waged employment. Among the risks now frequently assumed by individuals, are the responsibilities of health.

In the …

Communities And Libraries In Times Of Crisis: A Journey Of Knowledge Inquiries In South Carolina, Feili Tu-Keefner

Faculty Publications

In October 2015, several counties in South Carolina experienced catastrophic flooding that caused severe damage. Using a framework for risk communication preparedness and implementation recommended by public health experts, this study investigated public libraries and their legitimacy as partners of public health agencies during and after a disaster. The results show that the libraries in the areas affected created disaster-recovery centers, illustrating their value in facilitating emergency response and recovery. However, the findings also show librarians were not fully prepared to provide disaster and health information, especially through online venues. Information and technology literacy issues created barriers for community members …

The Lived Experience Of Work And Career Among Individuals With Bipolar Disorder: A Phenomenological Study Of Discussion Forum Narratives, Susan R. Rathbun-Grubb

Faculty Publications

Individuals with invisible chronic illnesses are often at a disadvantage in the workplace in terms of job security, promotion, and occupational success. Because little is known about the use of public online support forums to help patients with mental health disorders cope with the impact their illness has on their work and career, this research identifies and examines online forum posts related to employment by contributors with bipolar disorder. Seven percent of the total eligible posts from four discussion forums (n = 7,712) contained mentions of work and career (n = 572). A thematic analysis of the 572 posts is …

"Like Two Beach Umbrellas Put Together": Investigating The Health Information Practices Of South Carolina Lgbtq+ Communities, Vanessa Kitzie, Travis L. Wagner, Valerie A. Lookingbill, Alexander N. Vera

Faculty Publications

This poster presents initial findings from an exploratory, qualitative study investigating the health information practices of LGBTQ+ communities in South Carolina (SC). Significant health disparities exist between LGBTQ+ people and their cisgender, heterosexual counterparts. An important but under-researched barrier producing disparities is informational, as LGBTQ+ people face challenges in learning about their healthcare needs, navigating the healthcare system, and overcoming barriers to care. This study addresses research gaps via the following questions: 1) How do LGBTQ+ communities create, seek, share, and use health information?, and 2) What social and structural factors affect these health-related information practices?Findings are informed by ~30 …

Resituating Public Library Values To Leverage The Health Information Practices Of South Carolina Lgbtq+ Communities, Vanessa Kitzie, Travis L. Wagner, Alexander N. Vera, Valerie A. Lookingbill

Faculty Publications

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We Try To Find Something For Whatever Obstacle Might Be In Our Way": Understanding The Health Information Practices Of South Carolina Lgbtq+ Communities, Vanessa Kitzie, Travis L. Wagner, Valerie A. Lookingbill, Alexander N. Vera

Faculty Publications

Title: “We Try to Find Something for Whatever Obstacle Might be in Our Way”: Understanding the Health Information Practices of South Carolina LGBTQ+ Communities Objective: LGBTQ+ people experience health disparities compared to heterosexual, cisgender peers. Individual and systemic barriers produe these disparities. One barrier is informational, as LGBTQ+ people experience challenges when learning about their health needs, navigating the healthcare system, and overcoming obstacles to care. This paper investigates the future of libraries and the health sciences by exploring how they can address these informational barriers. Methods: This paper reports on ~30 ongoing interviews with LGBTQ+ community leaders from South …

A Comparative Study Of Perceptions And Use Of Google Scholar And Academic Library Discovery Systems, Mónica Colón-Aguirre, K. E. Oh

Faculty Publications

Google Scholar and academic library discovery systems are both popular resources among academic users for finding scholarly information. By conducting an online survey with 975 users from more than 20 public research universities across the United States, this study comparatively investigates how and why academic users use these two resources. Results show that the ways participants used both resources were similar, and both were perceived as highly accessibleand useful. Academic library discovery systems’ perceived comprehensiveness, subjective norm, loyalty, and intended use were higher than Google Scholar, while Google Scholar’s perceived ease of use, system quality, and satisfaction were higher than …

Examining The Challenges And Practices Of Our Russian Partners In The Institution Of Teacher Librarianship, Lucy Santos Green, M. P. Johnston

Faculty Publications

Examining international teacher librarianship enables school library researchers and practitioners to continue uncovering the institutional factors that impact school librarianship; further strengthening the case for cross-cultural partnerships. In 2015, researchers conducted an institutional ethnography confirmatory study of school librarianship in Moscow, Russia. Emergent themes culled from previous research and confirmed in this new study were: collaboration, literacy, instruction, technology integration, and the learning environment. Confirmation of these themes in Russian school librarianship indicates teacher librarians around the world struggle with strikingly similar challenges despite varied contexts and socioeconomic situations.

A Knowledge Lens: Humans In Action, Darin S. Freeburg

Faculty Publications

Every member of a social system sees that system in a particular way. This essay outlines a

new way of seeing the uniquely human characteristics in these systems, with particular attention to what happens when this view is taken. Termed the Knowledge Lens, this view embraces complexity, sees the potential of innovation through conversation, and understands the barriers limiting the traditionally assumed powers of data, information, and knowledge. This lens is approached within the context of ensuring that graduates of a Knowledge School are equipped with the tools and understanding necessary to facilitate positive change and increase human agency--both in …

Culture And Heritage: A Foundation For Sustainable Development Through Understanding And Tolerance Of Cultural Differences, Melodena Stephens, Shamma Bint Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, Frederik Panz, Filareti Kotsi

All Works

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English Translation Of Einige Gesetze Ueber Die Theilung Der Ebene Und Des Raumes, Justin Heavilin

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

The article “Einige Gesetze ueber die Theilung der Ebene und des Raumes.” was published by J. Steiner in the very first volumn of the Journal fuer die reine und angewandte Mathematik in 1826. Journal fuer die reine und angewandte Mathematik is the oldest mathematics periodical in existence.† . My translation is meant to convey the ideas published by Steiner, and when presented with the choice between translating faithfully to the original text or clarity of his ideas, I admit to choosing the later. There are two footnotes original to the text, which appear with asterisks. Where helpful I included additional …

Tpp 3990: Music Theatre And Design Showcase, University Of North Florida

2019 Spring Directors' and Musical Theatre and Design Showcases

A flyer for TPP 3990: Musical Theatre and Design Showcase, Tuesday December 3 at 7:30 pm at the John A. Delaney Student Union Auditorium.

Director: Maureen McCluskey.
Pre-Show Music and Host: Ricky Sharp

Investigating Intercultural Communication Competence In Narrative Texts Of English Learners, Alexander Lee-Heng Tai

All Theses And Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to investigate the current levels of intercultural communication competence in fourth and fifth grade English Learners through narrative text composition within the researcher's English Learner classroom environment. This mixed-methods research was conducted as a response to the need for curriculum changes in preparing EL pre-service educators within the higher education system to become more proficient in the implementation of intercultural communication pedagogy. This action research was supported by a literature review including topics of intercultural communication pedagogy, linguistic relativity hypothesis, linguaculture, and English language development. The research questions that guided this study were: (1) …

Hungary's New Church Law Is Worse Than The First, H. David Baer Ph.D.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

In early December 2018, the Hungarian parliament passed a series of sweeping laws with major constitutional implications. The parliamentary session itself was something of a circus. In order to pass the law, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government was forced to disregard rules of the chamber that would have allowed the opposition to derail the legislation with parliamentary maneuvers. In protest, the opposition sounded bullhorns in Parliament while throwing confetti, before walking out. Perhaps the most significant law was one establishing a new, parallel system of courts which critics say give Orbán complete control of the judiciary. Less noted, but also …

Investors Attention Properties Regarding Target Prices,Pe Ratios And Their Investment Implications, Poomipong Chirabandhu

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Several studies have studied the return and liquidity characteristics of target price and P/E ratio trading strategy. Many previous literatures found that investors tend to pay attention to stocks with high target price expected return (TPER) and low P/E stocks. This paper tries to study further from those the previous literatures so it will examine whether investors in Thailand exhibit the attention characteristics to target price more than P/E ratio. Moreover, this paper finds investment implication of creating abnormal returns from TPER trading strategy in Thailand stock market. In this study, several approaches have been applied which are Fama-French (1993) …

Production Optimization Of Recombinant Human Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor In Tobacco (Nicotiana Benthamiana), Christine Joy I. Bulaon

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Molecular pharming represents the innovative development of plants as alternative production platforms for recombinant proteins. Human vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is one of the growth factors that has displayed eminent roles in wound healing. This study aimed to develop optimized expression conditions and rapid production of recombinant VEGF in Nicotiana benthamiana. Herein, four plant expression constructs, particularly pBYR2e-SP-VEGF-His-SEKDEL (S-V-H-K), pBYR2e-SP-VEGF-His (S-V-H), pBYR2e-SP-His-VEGF-SEKDEL (S-H-V-K) and pBYR2e-SP-His-VEGF (S-H-V), were utilized and inserted into geminiviral vector pBYR2e-K2Md for transient expression in N. benthamiana. The expression level of all the four constructs was examined and the optimal harvest time for high protein expression …

Front Cover, North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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Back Cover, North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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Msg-Fast: Metagenomic Shotgun Data Fast Annotation Using Microbial Gene Catalogs, Stuart M. Brown, Hao Chen, Yuhan Hao, Bobby P. Laungani, Thahmina A. Ali, Changsu Dong, Carlos Lijeron, Baekdoo Kim, Claudia Wultsch, Zhiheng Pei, Konstantinos Krampis

Publications and Research

Background: Current methods used for annotating metagenomics shotgun sequencing (MGS) data rely on a computationally intensive and low-stringency approach of mapping each read to a generic database of proteins or reference microbial genomes.

Results: We developed MGS-Fast, an analysis approach for shotgun whole-genome metagenomic data utilizing Bowtie2 DNA-DNA alignment of reads that is an alternative to using the integrated catalog of reference genes database of well-annotated genes compiled from human microbiome data. This method is rapid and provides high-stringency matches (>90% DNA sequence identity) of the metagenomics reads to genes with annotated functions. We demonstrate the use of this …

Temperamental! Prints In The Collection Of Bryn Mawr College

Books, pamphlets, catalogues, and scrapbooks

Brochure for an exhibition held at Bryn Mawr College March 22, 2019-June 2, 2019, organized by Tessa Haas (A.B./M.A. student), Anya Prussin (Class of 2019), Talia Shiroma (Class of 2019), and Maeve White (A.B./M.A. student): the students in a Fall 2018 exhibition seminar taught by Professor Christiane Hertel and Carrie Robbins (Bryn Mawr College Ph.D. 2013, Curator/Academic Liaison). Brochure design by Nathanael Roesch (Bryn Mawr College Ph.D. 2017).

Care After Lymphoma (Caly) Trial: A Phase Ii Pilot Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial Of A Nurse-Led Model Of Survivorship Care, Karen Taylor, Paola Chivers, Caroline Bulsara, David Joske, Max Bulsara, Leanne Monterosso

Nursing Papers and Journal Articles

Purpose: Post-treatment follow-up for lymphoma potentially fails to address the supportive care needs of survivors. A nurse-led lymphoma survivorship model of care was developed and tested in a phase II pilot pragmatic randomised controlled trial (RCT). The intervention comprised three face-to-face appointments, delivery of tailored resources and an individualised survivorship care plan and treatment summary (SCPTS), shared with the general practitioner (GP).

Method: Three months’ post-treatment completion, eligible lymphoma patients were randomised 1:1 to usual care (control) or usual care plus intervention. Survivorship unmet needs (Short-Form Survivor Unmet Needs Survey), distress (Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21), adjustment to cancer (Mini-Mental …

Complementary Medicine Use And Health Literacy In Older Australians, Caroline A. Smith, Esther Chang, Gisselle Gallego

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Objectives: To investigate whether complementary medicine (CAM) use is associated with health literacy levels and decision self-efficacy.

Design: A cross-sectional survey was distributed to men and women aged 65 years and older who participated in a randomised control trial (N = 153) in Sydney, Australia.

Results: One hundred and fifty-three people completed the survey of those 66% were females and the mean age was 76 years. Most participants used or were currently using CAM in the past 12 months (75%). The most common source of CAM information were GPs. Participants with higher levels of social support were found more likely …

The Impact Of Mandatory Iodine Fortification And Supplementation On Pregnant And Lactating Women In Australia, Stephen Hurley, Creswell J. Eastman, Gisselle Gallego

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Background and Objectives: In Australia, two public health measures were introduced between 2009 and 2010 to reduce iodine deficiency. However there has been a shortage of information regarding their effectiveness and the ongoing prevalence of iodine deficiency in Australia. The primary aim of this study was to assess the extent to which these public health measures have reduced rates of iodine deficiency among pregnant and lactating women.

Methods and Study Design: A review was conducted to identify all studies published since January 2010 that quantitatively measured the iodine status of pregnant and/or lactating women in Australia.

Results: We found 25 …

Exploring Assessment Of Medical Students' Competencies In Pain Medicine - A Review, Elspeth Shipton, Carole Steketee, Frank Bate, Eric J. Visser

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Introduction: Considering the continuing high prevalence and public health burden of pain, it is critical that medical students are equipped with competencies in the field of pain medicine. Robust assessment of student expertise is integral for effective implementation of competency-based medical education.

Objective: The aim of this review was to describe the literature regarding methods for assessing pain medicine competencies in medical students.

Method: PubMed, Medline, EMBASE, ERIC, and Google Scholar, and BEME data bases were searched for empirical studies primarily focusing on assessment of any domain of pain medicine competencies in medical students published between January 1997 and December …

Bioethics In The News: The Values At Stake. Why Are Conservative Values So Difficult To Communicate In The Public Square And Progressive Values So Easy?, Margaret Somerville

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Bioethical issues are complex, often involve factual uncertainty, and have broad and long-term potential consequences for individuals, institutions and society. Simplification is a strategy used by so-called ‘progressive’ values advocates to promote acceptance of their values. It results from excluding consideration of complexity, uncertainty and potentiality in the values disputes around bio-ethical issues. In order to engage effectively in public debates of bioethics issues, it is necessary to understand the current societal values zeitgeist and how it differs from a traditional societal values zeitgeist. Since words are weapons in the values battles, it is necessary to identify how they are …