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Composing In The Age Of Social Media: Using Social Media Within An Assemblage And Circulation Framework, Monique Cole Apr 2021

Composing In The Age Of Social Media: Using Social Media Within An Assemblage And Circulation Framework, Monique Cole

All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

Social media is changing the landscape of composing and information distribution. As Americans are engaging with more social media platforms, composition and rhetoric scholars should consider the importance of enhancing digital literacy skills when utilizing social media, especially with the spread of misinformation across social media platforms. The thesis argues for integrating social media into composition classrooms to help students become stronger critical composers and consumers of information. The project is informed by scholarship on social media in rhetoric and composition, assemblage, and circulation. By combining assemblage and circulation theories, I develop a Social Media Interaction Framework that views social …

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The Use Of Structuralism And Poststructuralism In Library And Information Science, Amjid Khan, Muhammad Arshad, Pervaiz Ahmad Apr 2021

The Use Of Structuralism And Poststructuralism In Library And Information Science, Amjid Khan, Muhammad Arshad, Pervaiz Ahmad

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper aims to explore the fundamental concepts of structuralism and post-structuralism as philosophical approaches, literary differences between structuralism and post-structuralism, and the implication of these two approaches in Library and Information Science (LIS). Several published literature was consulted to achieve the study objectives. It was found that structuralism and post-structuralism have a significant impact on the functioning of modern libraries and, therefore, their importance should be given consideration. Structuralism and post-structuralism as philosophical approaches provide insights into research and development in LIS. The study gives numerous recommendations for LIS professionals to adopt these two philosophical approaches in modern library …

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A Crisis Of Globalization: A Review Essay, Matthew Rochat Apr 2021

A Crisis Of Globalization: A Review Essay, Matthew Rochat

The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies, and Development

Ian Bremmer's book Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism focuses on the discontents of globalization and draws a link between economic insecurity and tides of political polarization that have swept across states, splintering segments of the population and leaving deep social fractures in their wake. In this review essay, I expand on Bremmer’s argument by incorporating two other recent works of global political economy that shed light on the current state of globalization, The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy by Dani Rodrik and Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity by William Robinson. Based …

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Mi Universidad: Empowering Youth With Popular Education Pedagogy And Community Cultural Wealth, Rafael Hernandez Apr 2021

Mi Universidad: Empowering Youth With Popular Education Pedagogy And Community Cultural Wealth, Rafael Hernandez

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

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Gambian And Senegalese Refugee Policies As A Potential Means Towards Regional Stability, Amy Armata Apr 2021

Gambian And Senegalese Refugee Policies As A Potential Means Towards Regional Stability, Amy Armata

CISLA Senior Integrative Projects

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Inside Information Spring 2021, Ariela Mccaffrey Apr 2021

Inside Information Spring 2021, Ariela Mccaffrey

Inside Information

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Letter To My 12 Year-Old Self, Iris (Pettie) Perkins Apr 2021

Letter To My 12 Year-Old Self, Iris (Pettie) Perkins

Poetry Slam 2021

"Letter to My 12 Year-Old Self" is a self reflection piece and I just wanted to tell people what kind of advice that I would have liked to have when I was growing up.

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Developing Educators’ Capacity For Natural And Ethical Caring A Mixed-Methods Study, Arlene J. Callwood Apr 2021

Developing Educators’ Capacity For Natural And Ethical Caring A Mixed-Methods Study, Arlene J. Callwood

Selected Full Text Dissertations, 2011-

An ethic of care is central to the role of teaching and educational outcomes. Many Kindergarten-College institutions have “developing caring students or teachers” as a primary goal in their mission or vision statements. However, teachers need to know how to care. The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to examine the behaviors that teachers and students perceive as being indicative of the caring teacher; and (b) to develop a guide for the core of teacher caring. These purposes were designed to help educators understand the nature of teacher caring and provide an exemplar for intentional and reflective practice as …

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Linguistic Features Tokenization Of Text Corpora Of The Uzbek Language, I.I. Bakaev Apr 2021

Linguistic Features Tokenization Of Text Corpora Of The Uzbek Language, I.I. Bakaev

Bulletin of TUIT: Management and Communication Technologies

The article deals with the topic of tokenization of text corpora of the Uzbek language, which should take into account the linguistic features of the spelling of the language. The types of words are analyzed and a mathematical model of word formation for complex, paired, repeated, and compound words is proposed. And also based on the models developed a finite state machine to demonstrate the spelling rules of the language, and the rules are implemented by regular expressions

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Discourse Competence In The Professional Activities Of Doctors, Abdunazar Kh. Juraev Apr 2021

Discourse Competence In The Professional Activities Of Doctors, Abdunazar Kh. Juraev

Central Asian Journal of Medicine

The article interprets the concept of discursive disorders encountered during the practical activities of doctors and its role in the process of oral speech. Using the concepts of Disсourse and the scientific opinions of leading scientists, the author's attitude to them is expressed taking into account the Uzbek culture.

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Natural Language Processing And Graph Representation Learning For Clinical Data, David Chang Apr 2021

Natural Language Processing And Graph Representation Learning For Clinical Data, David Chang

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

The past decade has witnessed remarkable progress in biomedical informatics and its related fields: the development of high-throughput technologies in genomics, the mass adoption of electronic health records systems, and the AI renaissance largely catalyzed by deep learning. Deep learning has played an undeniably important role in our attempts to reduce the gap between the exponentially growing amount of biomedical data and our ability to make sense of them. In particular, the two main pillars of this dissertation---natural language processing and graph representation learning---have improved our capacity to learn useful representations of language and structured data to an extent previously …

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Rough Beginnings: Imagining The Origins Of Agriculture In Late Medieval And Early Modern Britain, Clio Doyle Apr 2021

Rough Beginnings: Imagining The Origins Of Agriculture In Late Medieval And Early Modern Britain, Clio Doyle

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

The Renaissance had both apocalyptic and hopeful visions of the future, but both were tied into the idea of the Golden Age, a past age that could be described as perfectly fertile or hopelessly barren, as a time of plenty or of hunger. The idea of a time before agriculture was approached with ambivalence: it was at once the innocent, ideal beginning and the feared end. I argue in my dissertation, “Rough Beginnings: Imagining the Origins of Agriculture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain,” that stories about the invention of agriculture allowed writers of poetry, drama, history, and husbandry …

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Figuring Collectivity In The Age Of Climate Crisis, Maximilian Elihu Chaoulideer Apr 2021

Figuring Collectivity In The Age Of Climate Crisis, Maximilian Elihu Chaoulideer

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation confronts a contradiction that has come to define human life over (at least) the past quarter millennium: though we have, collectively, become the first species to inscribe ourselves into the geological record, we have, individually, diminishing power over the shape of the world toward which we blindly work. While imperial expansion and unfettered fossil fuel extraction threaten to undermine the material conditions of all human life, there is, I argue, a more fundamental problem manifest in anthropogenic climate change, one that poses a representational challenge. Because of its own globality, the threat posed by something as diffuse and …

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Epic Black: Poetics In Protest In The Time Of Black Lives Matter, David Marcello De León Apr 2021

Epic Black: Poetics In Protest In The Time Of Black Lives Matter, David Marcello De León

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation examines certain book-length poetic works released between 2014 to 2016, corresponding to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement formed in the wake of the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2013. I argue that these works emerge from the same political and poetic urgency that demanded a movement like BLM. Using Beyoncé’s Lemonade (2016) as an entrance, I focus on a genre/strategy that Farah Jasmine Griffin calls Epic Black, a poetics that uses the hypervisibility of Black bodies, the inescapable place that Black expression has in popular American culture, and the scale and scope of the Western …

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Sursum Ductio. Reasoning Upward. An Investigation Into The Vertical Structure Of Dante's Commedia., Sandro-Angelo De Thomasis Apr 2021

Sursum Ductio. Reasoning Upward. An Investigation Into The Vertical Structure Of Dante's Commedia., Sandro-Angelo De Thomasis

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation investigates “vertical readings” of the Commedia, i.e., the interpretive method that compares and contrasts same-numbered cantos in the three canticles of the poem: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Although there is a consensus that specific vertical readings are intentional, critics remain skeptical of extrapolating it into a totalizing system. This dissertation aims to delineate the methodology’s parameters, trace its emergence in the field of Dante studies, and anchor it within the context of Italian Duecento and Trecento culture. This research investigates the methodology by gathering vertical readings in Dante studies into a comprehensive archive. This catalog provides valuable information …

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A Domain-General Perspective On Deviancy: People’S Sensitivity To Deviancy And Its Social Consequences, Anton Gollwitzer Apr 2021

A Domain-General Perspective On Deviancy: People’S Sensitivity To Deviancy And Its Social Consequences, Anton Gollwitzer

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

In this dissertation, I propose that people’s sensitivity to deviancy is a domain-general phenomenon—an aspect of the individual experience that manifests across distinct domains. Supporting this possibility, across a multi-faceted approach (cross-cultural, developmental, nonconscious processes), I document that people’s responses to deviancy—their evaluative and affective responses to distortions in regularities and patterns—overlap across highly divergent domains (e.g., nonsocial stimuli, social actions, physical characteristics, nonvisual stimuli, visual stimuli). Additionally, in line with this broad conceptualization of deviancy, I find that people’s domain-general responding towards deviancy is largely negative in affect, emerges at a young age, exists cross-culturally, and may even causally …

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Temporal Articulatory Stability, Phonological Variation, And Lexical Contrast Preservation In Diaspora Tibetan, Christopher Alden Geissler Apr 2021

Temporal Articulatory Stability, Phonological Variation, And Lexical Contrast Preservation In Diaspora Tibetan, Christopher Alden Geissler

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation examines how lexical tone can be represented with articulatory gestures, and the ways a gestural perspective can inform synchronic and diachronic analysis of the phonology and phonetics of a language. Tibetan is chosen an example of a language with interacting laryngeal and tonal phonology, a history of tonogenesis and dialect diversification, and recent contact-induced realignment of the tonal and consonantal systems. Despite variation in voice onset time (VOT) and presence/absence of the lexical tone contrast, speakers retain a consistent relative timing of consonant and vowel gestures. Recent research has attempted to integrate tone into the framework of Articulatory …

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Text Summarization Across High And Low-Resource Settings, Alexander Richard Fabbri Apr 2021

Text Summarization Across High And Low-Resource Settings, Alexander Richard Fabbri

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Natural language processing aims to build automated systems that can both understand and generate natural language textual data. As the amount of textual data available online has increased exponentially, so has the need for intelligence systems to comprehend and present it to the world. As a result, automatic text summarization, the process by which a text's salient content is automatically distilled into a concise form, has become a necessary tool. Automatic text summarization approaches and applications vary based on the input summarized, which may constitute single or multiple documents of different genres. Furthermore, the desired output style may consist of …

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Taking Sides With The World: Between Politics And Poetics From 1794 To 1960, Irina Kogan Apr 2021

Taking Sides With The World: Between Politics And Poetics From 1794 To 1960, Irina Kogan

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation traces moments in the German intellectual tradition in which poetic or aesthetic pursuits find themselves confronted with the question of the political: during the period of Weimar Classicism, the Weimar Republic, and after the Shoah. I illuminate the underlying progression from a sharp separation between politics and poetics to a revision of what it means to be human: away from the notions of autonomy and universality and towards those of plurality and alterity. I first explore the frame narrative of Goethe’s "Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten" (1795), arguing that its specific textual complexity subverts its apparent narrative of positing a …

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In Between Dār Al-Islām And The ‘Lands Of The Christians’: Three Christian Arabic Travel Narratives From The Early Modern/Ottoman Period (Mid-17th-Early 18th Centuries), Iraj Sheidaee Apr 2021

In Between Dār Al-Islām And The ‘Lands Of The Christians’: Three Christian Arabic Travel Narratives From The Early Modern/Ottoman Period (Mid-17th-Early 18th Centuries), Iraj Sheidaee

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This study analyzes closely the Arabic travel narratives of three Christians from the Ottoman Levant and Near East, who travelled to what they called the ‘lands of the Christians’—ie. Europe. Paul of Aleppo (Būluṣ al-Ḥalabī), a deacon of the Orthodox Church, travelled from 1652 to 1659 to Southeastern and Eastern Europe: the Danubian Principalities (modern Romania), the ‘lands of the Cossacks’ (Ukraine), and Muscovite Russia. Paul’s travels were part of an Arab Orthodox ecclesial mission in the company of this father, Patriarch Makarios III ibn al-Zaʿīm of the see of Antioch. He recorded his travel experiences in one of the …

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Representations Of Time In Late-Medieval Music, Philippa Ovenden Apr 2021

Representations Of Time In Late-Medieval Music, Philippa Ovenden

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

The late-medieval style that is characterized by complexity of rhythm, notation, and pitch is commonly referred to as the ars subtilior, the “more subtle art,” a term coined by Ursula Günther in 1963. Along with its stylistic attributes, the scope of this repertory has been defined chronologically and geographically, associated with Southern France and Northern Italy during the period c. 1380–1420. In recent years, scholars such as David Catalunya, David Fallows, Karl Kügle, Jason Stoessel, Anne Stone, and Anna Zayaruznaya have argued that the so-called ars subtilior style should be expanded to incorporate a wider chronological and geographical purview. Responding …

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Learning To Map Natural Language To Executable Programs Over Databases, Tao Yu Apr 2021

Learning To Map Natural Language To Executable Programs Over Databases, Tao Yu

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Natural language is a fundamental form of information and communication and is becoming the next frontier in computer interfaces. As the amount of data available online has increased exponentially, so has the need for Natural Language Interfaces (NLIs, which is not used for natural language inference in this thesis) to connect the data and the user by easily using natural language, significantly promoting the possibility and efficiency of information access for many users besides data experts. All consumer-facing software will one day have a dialogue interface, and this is the next vital leap in the evolution of search engines. Such …

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Hearing The Tonality In Microtonality, Michael Bruschi Apr 2021

Hearing The Tonality In Microtonality, Michael Bruschi

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

In the late 1970s and 1980s, composer-pianist Easley Blackwood wrote a series of microtonal compositions exploring the tonal and modal behavior of a dozen non–twelve-tone equal temperaments, ranging from 13 to 24 tones per octave. This dissertation investigates a central paradox of Blackwood’s microtonal music: that despite being full of intervals most Western listeners have never heard before, it still seems to “make sense” in nontrivial ways. Much of this has to do with the music’s idiosyncratic approach to tonality, which I define as a regime of culturally conditioned expectations that guides one’s attentional processing of music’s gravitational qualities over …

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Motive-Directed Meter, Daniel Nathan Cox Apr 2021

Motive-Directed Meter, Daniel Nathan Cox

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation isolates, defines, and explores the phenomenon of Motive-Directed Meter (MDM), which has hitherto received little scholarly attention. MDM is a listening experience evoked by music that is temporally regular enough to encourage metric listening and prediction, but irregular enough to frustrate these behaviors. MDM arises when recurring musical motives suggest parallel metric hearings, but shifting durational spans make metrical parallelism difficult to achieve. Listeners are therefore caught in a state of expectational limbo, urged to continually revise predictions that are recurrently thwarted. To approach this phenomenon, Chapter 1 describes the model of musical meter that undergirds this project, …

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Rethinking Aesthetic Humanism: Schiller After Agamben And Rancière, Thiti Owlarn Apr 2021

Rethinking Aesthetic Humanism: Schiller After Agamben And Rancière, Thiti Owlarn

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Since de Man, aesthetic humanism is often thought of as an ideology that valorizes the arts and their capacity to improve humanity. This study argues that something more important is at stake in Schiller’s aesthetics. Following Rancière, I argue that aesthetic experience is inherently meaning-disruptive and therefore not utilizable as means to an end. The fact that the aesthetic has this means-without-end structure allows us to reconceive of humanity, like Agamben, not as a rational animal or an end-setting subject, but as a figure of surplus potential, a life that gives itself form without being reducible to a specific way …

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Culturally-Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Bilingual Latinx With Depressive Symptoms, Leanne Gonzalez Apr 2021

Culturally-Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Bilingual Latinx With Depressive Symptoms, Leanne Gonzalez

Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program Theses

The prevalence of depression is particularly high in the Latinx population, and this population is associated with lower rates of depression diagnosis and treatment. One intervention that has shown to be effective in treating mild to moderate depression is cognitive behavioral therapy. Though the effects of culturally adapted therapy, language being the most common adaptation, have been studied, the difference in outcomes for bilingual, bicultural speakers has not been examined. In this randomized control trial, we will compare the effectiveness of Spanish language cognitive behavioral therapy to that of English language therapy in bilingual, foreign-born, Latinx patients with depressive symptoms. …

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Why Decimal System? Why Communities With More Than 150 Folks Tend To Split? New Consequences Of The Seven Plus Minus Two Law, Leobardo Orea Amador, Vladik Kreinovich Apr 2021

Why Decimal System? Why Communities With More Than 150 Folks Tend To Split? New Consequences Of The Seven Plus Minus Two Law, Leobardo Orea Amador, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Why are we using the decimal system to describe numbers? Why all over the world, communities with more than 150 folks tend to split? In this paper, we show that both phenomena -- as well as some other phenomena -- can be explained if we take into account the seven plus minus two law, according to which a person can keep in immediate memory from 5 to 9 items.

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Technical Properties Of Cochlear Implants, Halle Schoen Apr 2021

Technical Properties Of Cochlear Implants, Halle Schoen

Digital Student Showcase Spring 2021

a.) The prompt of this assignment was to create something that can educate or inform a group of people on a certain topic. In this case, my project was to make a cochlear implant model and write a research paper to inform patients and speech-language pathologists/audiologists on the technical properties of cochlear implants and how they work to stimulate an individuals hearing sensation. b.) To create the model for this project I used modeling clay to form and show the different parts of an ear and a cochlear implant. I then painted the model and added labels to show the …

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Healing Of Violence And Violence Of Healing: Mark’S Hybrid Jesus In Mark 5:1-20, Pierre Célestin Musoni S.J. Apr 2021

Healing Of Violence And Violence Of Healing: Mark’S Hybrid Jesus In Mark 5:1-20, Pierre Célestin Musoni S.J.

Jesuit School of Theology Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to determine whether, in Mark 5:1-20, the author of Mark portrayed Jesus as an assimilated Jew or a transformative resistant. After preliminary matters concerning methodology, nature and scope, and significance, the theoretical framework is established (chapter 1). I discussed the origin of postcolonialism as a field of study, its relationship to biblical studies, and the postcolonial readings of Mark’s Gospel. Then, the thesis focuses on the Roman empire and its arrival in 1st century Palestine (Chapter 2). In this chapter, the roman imperial Weltbildung becomes the focus of the analysis. Subjugated people responded to …

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Faculty Achievements, April 2021, Otterbein University Apr 2021

Faculty Achievements, April 2021, Otterbein University

Faculty Achievement Reports

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