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The College Voice, Vol. 56, No. 4 [November 10, 2021], Connecticut College

2021-2022

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Virtual Communities Of Anglo And Spanish Migrants In Chile. A Multiple Case Study, Cristián Doña-Reveco, Yanko Pavicevic

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

This article characterizes and analyzes the development and construction of virtual communities of Anglo and Spanish migrants living in Chile. We selected some of the most popular and active sites among them and analyzed hem using virtual ethnography methods and discourse analysis in its textual and contextual dimension, as well engaging with the discourses of its creators. The socialization process that occurs in these communities is oriented towards sharing experiences and accomplishing objectives in common among the members, like meeting other migrants and locals, learning a language and obtaining useful information about the country of current or future residence, among …

Correlation Of Ophthalmology Residency Application Characteristics With Subsequent Performance In Residency, Brett M. Gudgel, Andrew T. Melson, Justin Dvorak, Kai Ding, R. Michael Siatkowski

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Abstract

Purpose Only from reviewing applications, it is difficult to identify which applicants will be successful ophthalmology residents. The change of the USMLE Step 1 scoring to “Pass/Fail” removes another quantitative metric. We aimed to identify application attributes correlated with successful residency performance. This study also used artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate letters of recommendation (LOR), the Dean's letter (MSPE), and personal statement (PS).

Design Retrospective analysis of application characteristics versus residency performance was conducted.

Participants Residents who graduated from the Dean McGee Eye Institute/University of Oklahoma Ophthalmology residency from 2004 to 2019 were included in this study.

Methods Thirty-four …

A Quantum Natural Language Processing Approach To Musical Intelligence, Er Miranda, R Yeung, A Pearson, K Meichanetzidis, B Coecke

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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Oppression, Resistance, And Empowerment: The Power Dynamics Of Naming And Un-Naming In African American Literature, 1794 To 2019, Melissa "Maggie" Romigh

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Oppression, Resistance, and Empowerment: The Power Dynamics of Naming and Un-naming in African American Literature, 1794 to 2019 researches and discusses the way African American authors both discuss naming and un-naming in their works and the way they use naming in their works to illustrate the dynamics of power in relationships—racial, familial, gender-related, work-related, etc. Chapter 1 focuses on the earliest forms of African American literature, memoirs in particular, also known as “slave narratives.” In their memoirs, many of those men and women who were formerly enslaved wrote about having their names taken from them and replaced with names chosen …

Comparing Genetic Variation Among Latin American Immigrants: Implications For Forensic Casework In The Arizona- And Texas-México Borderlands, Briana T. New, Bridget F.B. Algee-Hewitt, M. Katherine Spradley, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Cris C. Hughes, Bruce E. Anderson, Marek E. Jasinski, Joanna Arciszewska, Grażyna Zielińska, Maria Szargut, Sandra Cytacka, Andrzej Ossowski

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

The humanitarian crisis on the United States-México border is a long standing and evolving crisis in which nearly 8,000 deaths have been reported in the last two decades. These deaths are largely distributed across the Arizona-México and Texas-México border regions where demographic trends for immigrants attempting to cross into the U.S. have shifted dramatically. The demographic change and volume of immigrants seeking shelter in the U.S. presents new challenges for the forensic practitioners entrusted with the identification of individuals who lose their lives during the final segment of their journey. Within this Border context, the present study investigates how genetic …

Aesthetic Judging And The Constitution (Or, Why Supreme Court Justices Are Less Like Umpires And More Like Figure-Skating Judges), Chad M. Oldfather

Florida Law Review

This Article extends the project of exploring the metaphor to the specific context of constitutional adjudication and change. It works from the understanding that both sports and constitutional law can be understood as “practices” in the philosophical sense, as “activities that are constituted by the convergent or overlapping understandings, expectations, and intentions of multiple participants.” The analysis is thus fundamentally comparative in nature. Conceiving of the operation of constitutional law in these terms, like any comparative analysis, helps to uncover and highlight certain of its features, including the ways in which its content is susceptible to change, only some of …

The "Fixation Thesis" And Other Falsehoods, Frederick Mark Gedicks

Florida Law Review

This Article challenges the so-called “fixation thesis” of public-meaning originalism. This thesis holds that the meaning of the Constitution was fixed when adopted and exists in the past as a fact, unaffected by what anyone thinks about it in the present. For public-meaning originalists, constitutional meaning is always ontologically “there” in the past to be found, even if their epistemological method sometimes fails to find it.

The fixation thesis underwrites the powerful rhetoric of fidelity that public-meaning originalists deploy against nonoriginalists, whom they deride for “making up” constitutional meaning without any interpretive theory: “it takes a theory to beat a …

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Florida Historical Quarterly

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Music At The Mary Hare Grammar School For The Deaf From 1975 To 19881, William G. Fawkes, J. Tilak Ratananather

Visions of Research in Music Education

This review aims to show that it is possible for deaf children to learn and play music to a high academic standard specifically at the Mary Hare School for the Deaf in Newbury, England. The authors describe the foundation of the music programme that led to academic successes years later, and emphasise the need for neuroimaging research to undercover the cognitive neuroscience factors behind these successes. Based on summaries of previously inaccessible publications, the review focuses on the period from 1975 to 1988 describing the early musical activities, public performances and lessons as music became integrated into the curriculum. The …

About Time: Stratedgies Of Performance Revealed In Graphs, Elaine Chew

Visions of Research in Music Education

This paper describes how insights into performance strategies can arise from observations derived from measurements as well as visual inspection of graphs of expressive parameters. The widespread availability of tools for quantifying expressive parameters have made it possible to incorporate engineering approaches to the study of performance for both experts and novices. Scientific graphs map the evolution of these parameters over time, allowing investigations that reveal correspondence or a lack thereof between expressive gestures and musical structures. Three examples illustrate discoveries of principles of performance using a scientific approach. The first example compares three performances of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. …

Channelling Bamberger: An Unorthodox Appreciation Of Jeanne Bamberger's Work On Musical Development And Musical Understanding, Craig Graci

Visions of Research in Music Education

This article serves as a tribute to Bamberger as a notable researcher and teacher. The author articulates “working principles” that characterize Bamberger’s work and draws comparisons between two programs, Impromptu and Music Exploration Machine (MxM). From the perspective of music cognition, the most significant elements of this paper concern explicitly representing grouping structure and reductional structure of melodies within a computational formalism. From a developmental perspective, the most salient element is the identification and discussion of working principles associated with Bamberger’s compelling and challenging approach to research on musical development.

Jeanne Bamberger -- Vignettes From 1974-1976, Joyce Kouffman

Visions of Research in Music Education

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Representations Of Music: Neural Foundations And Metaphoric Descriptions, Wilfried Gruhn

Visions of Research in Music Education

In Jeanne Bamberger's (1991) instructive case study on Jeff's learning, Bamberger observed and systematically ordered altering states of mental representations. In this study, Bamberger introduced and discussed a differentiated perspective on various forms of representation. In addressing the processing of music in the mind, mental representations can refer specifically to neural correlates of music or they can address more metaphoric ideas. Therefore, there is a proposed differentiation between mental representations if the mind is involved and neural representations if the brain is addressed. Furthermore, corporeal sensations and bodily excitations provide a necessary prerequisite for the development of mental and neural …

Experience Design And Interactive Software In Music Education Research, Andrew R. Brown

Visions of Research in Music Education

This paper examines the integration of computing technologies into music education research in a way informed by constructivism. In particular, this paper focuses on an approach established by Jeanne Bamberger, which the author also employs, that integrates software design, pedagogical exploration, and the building of music education theory. In this tradition, researchers design software and associated activities to facilitate the interactive manipulation of musical structures and ideas. In short, this approach focuses on designing experiences and tools that support musical thinking and doing. In comparing the work of Jean Bamberger with that of the author, this paper highlights and discusses …

Musical Instrument Familiarity Affects Statistical Learning Of Tone Sequences., Stephen C Van Hedger, Ingrid Johnsrude, Laura J Batterink

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

Most listeners have an implicit understanding of the rules that govern how music unfolds over time. This knowledge is acquired in part through statistical learning, a robust learning mechanism that allows individuals to extract regularities from the environment. However, it is presently unclear how this prior musical knowledge might facilitate or interfere with the learning of novel tone sequences that do not conform to familiar musical rules. In the present experiment, participants listened to novel, statistically structured tone sequences composed of pitch intervals not typically found in Western music. Between participants, the tone sequences either had the timbre of artificial, …

Academic Senate - Agenda, 11/9/2021, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

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Say Her Name: The Narrative Afterlives Of Breonna Taylor, Tyler S. Smith

Theses and Dissertations

Within the growing literature and media coverage of police misconduct and brutality, Black women and girls are functionally invisible. Since the Black Lives Matter movement began the names of only two women have stood out among the Black male victims we know by name: Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor. Here, I will explore through a Black feminist analytic framework, how the intersectionalities of gender and race contributed to a delay in awareness and accountability for the death of Breonna Taylor. This content analysis looked at the media coverage of Breonna Taylor for the one-year period (3/13/20-3/13/21) to uncover the reasons, …

Toward A Trauma-Informed Campus: Reflections On Fostering Student Success Through San Juan College’S Trauma Literacy Project, Danielle Kubasko Sullivan, Rick Marlatt

Journal of Access, Retention, and Inclusion in Higher Education

During its Fall 2020 semester, San Juan College instituted a trauma literacy project (TLP) in response to the disproportionate effect that the COVID-19 pandemic had on its student population, 32% of whom identify as Native American. The purpose of the TLP was to infuse equity and student support throughout the programming, which consisted of professional development events aimed at increasing trauma awareness on campus as well as a trauma literacy designation pathway for instructors. Participants in the TLP reported better understanding of how to support students through trauma-informed practices. Although there was substantial participation in the programming, several steps need …

Sociolinguistic Analysis Of Spanish R- Variation By New Mexican Child Heritage Speakers: How Speech Analysis Can Improve Speech Impairment Diagnosis And Teaching Techniques, Mariana Marchesi

Shared Knowledge Conference

Sociolinguistic Analysis of Spanish r- Variation by New Mexican Child Heritage Speakers: How Speech Analysis Can Improve Speech Impairment Diagnosis and Teaching Techniques Mariana Marchesi, PhD Student, Linguistics, University of New Mexico Abstract In many varieties of Spanish, variation among rhotic segments - r-sounds - is a salient dialectal feature (Lipski, 2008; Hualde, 2014), and this variability is due to a combination of sociolinguistic and phonetic factors (Melero Garcia, 2015). Previous research on adult speakers of Spanish in New Mexico shows that trill (carro) and tap (roca) productions are not as common as assibilated (shower) and approximant (rest) segments (C.E. …

Life-Or-Death: An Assessment Of Covid-19 Messaging In New Mexico And Potential Consequences For The Spanish-Speaking Population, Victoria Pena-Parr

Shared Knowledge Conference

A common theme throughout history is that marginalized communities are typically the communities hit the hardest during times of crisis. When the fatal coronavirus put the entire world on lockdown in 2020, there were great concerns that marginalized communities would be the most affected by the disease. This was met directly with promises from government officials ensuring that minority populations would not be left out of COVID-19 relief efforts. These promises included some from New Mexico's own Governor Michelle Luján Grisham. However, our study shows that the state of New Mexico not only neglected but failed to provide equity for …

Hispanic Identity & Language Attitudes, Brandon Martínez

Shared Knowledge Conference

The conflict between having a traditional Hispanic identity versus a Mexican one is a common theme within the Latino population of New Mexico. It has its roots in the period preceding the invasion of the Southwest by the United States, and was further exacerbated by the struggle for Statehood and through the modern day (Bills & Vigil 2008; Gonzales 2005; Gonzales-Berry & Maciel 2000; Nieto-Phillips 2000; Nostrand 1992). An associated phenomenon is the unprecedented loss of Spanish language skills among the State's Hispanic population in the last 150 years, despite the fact that continued immigration from Mexico and other parts …

The Documentation And Grammatical Description Of Sanapaná (Enlhet-Enenlhet, Paraguay), Jens Van Gysel

Shared Knowledge Conference

The Sanapaná language is spoken by around 1000 people in the Paraguayan Chaco region (Crevels 2012). Only about a third of the members of the ethnic Sanapaná group still speak the language, and in five of the seven Sanapaná communities, children now learn Spanish or Paraguayan Guaraní as their native language. This makes Sanapaná one of the many languages that are in danger of disappearing. Documenting such endangered languages is of vital importance to preserving the world's cultural and intellectual diversity, as well as a representative sample of human linguistic behaviours and their social functions. Language endangerment has also been …

"Space, Place And Cultural Visibility: Barrioization And Barriology In Mario Suárez's Short Stories", Jorge Hernández

Shared Knowledge Conference

Mario Suárez (1923-1998) a keen observer, short story writer, polemical essayist, aspiring novelist, devoted educator, informed activist, and tenacious editorialist does not stand as a well-known writer. Preferring to be concise and meticulous, a perfectionist, he was more interested in human character than pure craft. Born and raised in the Chicano barrio of Tucson, Arizona and as one of the most important short story writers of Mexican descent from the early mid-twentieth century, Suárez figures as a unique case of an early Mexican American writer to create a distinctively Chicano literary space. Among the many early league activists who carved …

Creating A Corpus Of Navajo Historical Narratives - Prospects And Challenges, Lukas Denk

Shared Knowledge Conference

Linguistic research and language instruction have benefitted from linguistic corpora (digital databases containing numerous texts written in one language). For low-resource languages where written records are scarce, the creation of corpora can be a challenge, but has the benefit of supporting conservation and revitalization. My project consists in the creation of a corpus of Diné Bizaad (Navajo), based on existing publicly available narratives written in the 1950's. I present examples from the corpus as well as mention challenges faced in the annotation of the first 5000 words. One problem that pertains to Native American Languages in general is that only …

The Development Of Discourse Markers In Narrations Written By Spanish Heritage Language Learners, Mark Cisneros

Shared Knowledge Conference

Studies in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) indicate that the use of discourse markers (DMs) in the academic writing of second language learners improves the overall quality of these written texts by contributing to their cohesion and comprehensibility (Saif Modhish 2012; Jalilifar 2008; Intaraprawat & Steffensen 1995). The use of DMs not only improves the quality of second language (L2) written texts, but also that of texts produced by speakers in their first language (L1). Learning how to properly use DMs allows L1 writers to become more conscious of how they present the information in their texts (Steffensen & …

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 8, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

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Culturally Responsive Practices In Head Start Settings, Kathryn Diane Ferdon

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation reports the results of a research project that examined the effect teachers' attitudes, knowledge, and practices have on the relationships they build with their students and students' success in school (i.e., academic, social-emotional, and behavioral).

Using Dyadic Observation To Explore Equitable Learning Opportunities In Classroom Instruction, Alyson L. Lavigne, Thomas L. Good

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications

Because of poverty, many children do not receive adequate prenatal care, nutrition, or early childhood education. These inequities combine to ensure that many students enter school with considerably less academic content knowledge and skills for learning than their peers. Teachers and schools did not create these gaps, but they must address them. The impact of schools in reducing gaps has been explored for decades only to yield inconsistent findings. One possible reason for these contradictory results is because these studies ignore classroom process. We argue for the inclusion of process in research on opportunity and achievement gaps to better articulate …