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Accessible Services For Underserved Populations, Kjirsten Eisentrout, Alexa Forster, Amy Bergstrom Dec 2024

Accessible Services For Underserved Populations, Kjirsten Eisentrout, Alexa Forster, Amy Bergstrom

MAGIS: Student Development Journal

Many student services on college and university campuses cater to the needs of full time, residential students who are 18 to 24 years old and White. These services often do not address the needs of students who do not fit those demographics. This paper investigates what good practices institutions are using to better support traditionally underserved and underrepresented students. These practices include co-location, online services, and targeted programs. By implementing these practices, students are able to feel more integrated into the college environment, which research shows can help support persistence and retention.


Back Matter Dec 2024

Back Matter

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.


Interview: Daniel Schiff And Yu Lu, Nikhil S. Sadavarte Dec 2024

Interview: Daniel Schiff And Yu Lu, Nikhil S. Sadavarte

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

Dr. Daniel Schiff is an assistant professor of technology policy in Purdue University’s Department of Political Science and the co-director of the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL). Undergraduate student researcher Yu Lu, an undergraduate research affiliate with GRAIL, is interviewed along with Schiff.


Alumni Spotlight: Daphne Fauber Dec 2024

Alumni Spotlight: Daphne Fauber

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

Daphne Fauber published an article in volume 9 (2019) of the Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research during her time spent completing her baccalaureate degree.


Toxic Waste Dumps And Intersectionality, Kaitlyn Vasilko Dec 2024

Toxic Waste Dumps And Intersectionality, Kaitlyn Vasilko

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.


Lol Or Mdr: The Importance Of Slang When Teaching A Second Language, Emma Niecikowski Dec 2024

Lol Or Mdr: The Importance Of Slang When Teaching A Second Language, Emma Niecikowski

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.


Finding Racial Identity: Analyzing Eddy L. Harris’S Journeys Through Africa And The Southern United States, Veronica G. Johnson Dec 2024

Finding Racial Identity: Analyzing Eddy L. Harris’S Journeys Through Africa And The Southern United States, Veronica G. Johnson

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.


Multisensing Self-Powered Patch For Meltdown Prediction, Sarah Pushparaj, Sejal Rhodes, Ezekiel Ulrich Dec 2024

Multisensing Self-Powered Patch For Meltdown Prediction, Sarah Pushparaj, Sejal Rhodes, Ezekiel Ulrich

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.


Development Of A Model For Fire Spread In Low-Gravity Conditions, Kathleen Martinus Dec 2024

Development Of A Model For Fire Spread In Low-Gravity Conditions, Kathleen Martinus

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.


Predictive Maintenance Analysis Of Turbofan Engine Sensor Data, Stanley A. Melkumian Dec 2024

Predictive Maintenance Analysis Of Turbofan Engine Sensor Data, Stanley A. Melkumian

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

Predictive maintenance in aviation and aerospace applications is among the most explored problems in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), and datasets such as NASA’s C-MAPPS turbofan engine degradation simulation data have proven invaluable, helping researchers explore numerous questions on engine performance, maintenance, and failure. The purpose of this study was to extend the current research on predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of engines and their risk classification. Starting with simple yet under-investigated nonlinear survival and random forest models, the analysis implemented eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) and long short-term memory (LSTM) from TensorFlow’s Keras library. For both regression …


Identification Of Conserved Eukaryotic Gene Products In Novel Mycobacteriophage, Brandon Mar, Jade Coxon, Lily Esterline, Sydney Clifford, Gabriella Burke, Mallory Motz, Alaina Gartner, Kioni Bush, James Lin, Lizzie Adams, Sophia Palant Dec 2024

Identification Of Conserved Eukaryotic Gene Products In Novel Mycobacteriophage, Brandon Mar, Jade Coxon, Lily Esterline, Sydney Clifford, Gabriella Burke, Mallory Motz, Alaina Gartner, Kioni Bush, James Lin, Lizzie Adams, Sophia Palant

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

Bacteriophage, a type of virus that infects bacteria, was discovered 100 years ago, initially isolated with a plaque assay in the 1940s. A mycobacteriophage is a subtype of bacteriophage that specifically infects mycobacteria. Since the introduction of DNA technologies and efforts to identify a plethora of bacteriophages, over 10,000 bacteriophages have been identified with 1,500 sequenced. Bacteriophage discovery has aided in genetic editing techniques, the development of synthetic biology tools, and disease treatment. However, to be able to expand on these capabilities, there is a need to identify more bacteriophages and sequence the genomes of these viruses, as they outnumber …


Coded Bias In Applicant Tracking Systems, Prithvi Dhanabal, Emily Hao Dec 2024

Coded Bias In Applicant Tracking Systems, Prithvi Dhanabal, Emily Hao

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

This Tech Justice Lab project explored potential hiring discrimination against transgender and gender-nonconforming job applicants in the hiring process by evaluating the impact of including pronouns in résumés submitted to an applicant tracking system (ATS) platform. The research team began by collecting background information regarding existing discrimination against transgender job applicants and how ATS platforms can reflect and magnify existing biases in the hiring process. A “sock puppet” audit was then conducted by submitting fake user résumés to test the platform’s response. The chosen platform was Jobscan, an applicant-facing software claiming the ability to simulate a résumé review by major …


Embodied Cognition And Teaching Stem: Tenets To Explain And Enhance A Middle School Science Project, Jonathan E. Roberts, Joshua L. Williams, Robert A. Hodgdon, Caroline Payne, Gabriela Ruiz Emmanuelli Dec 2024

Embodied Cognition And Teaching Stem: Tenets To Explain And Enhance A Middle School Science Project, Jonathan E. Roberts, Joshua L. Williams, Robert A. Hodgdon, Caroline Payne, Gabriela Ruiz Emmanuelli

Current Issues in Middle Level Education

STEM pedagogy is a popular area for research and discussion. The empirical literature on this topic supports a variety of approaches (e.g., inquiry-based) to help instructors spark student interest create an effective learning environment, and foster long-term retention and transfer of information related to STEM topics. One potential approach is to use tenets of embodied cognition, in which behavior and cognition emerge out of real-time sensorimotor behavior of the individual situated within a particular context, to implement strategies to enhance STEM pedagogy. We applied the six lessons of embodied cognition to understand the beneficial aspects of a middle-school project on …


“Give The People What They Want”: Bodies On Display In Marlene Van Niekerk’S Triomf, Lara Buxbaum Dec 2024

“Give The People What They Want”: Bodies On Display In Marlene Van Niekerk’S Triomf, Lara Buxbaum

Kritika Kultura

Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf has attained both literary acclaim and notoriety since it was first published in Afrikaans in 1994 (English translation 1999). This darkly comic novel is set at the dawn of the democratic election and as such, the fictional context mirrors the historical moment in which it was published. The novel relates the misadventures of the incestuous and indigent Afrikaans family, the Benades, whose grotesque bodies are described in minute detail. The paper examines the reason for this visceral corporeality in the context of Louise Bethlehem’s classification of the post-apartheid literary canon as one “in which the abject …


The Long And Short Of It: Reflection On “Form” In Recent South African Fiction, Chris Thurman Dec 2024

The Long And Short Of It: Reflection On “Form” In Recent South African Fiction, Chris Thurman

Kritika Kultura

This paper takes as its starting point not those aspects of “form” associated with “formalist” criticism—structure, prose style, figurative language, or other aesthetic elements—but rather the more mundane consideration of length and the related matter of genre. This is a deliberately literal (rather than literary) interpretation of “form”: what does a book look and feel like when held in the reader’s hand? What reader expectations are aroused? From the answers to these questions can be discerned certain trends in recent (post-apartheid/transitional) fiction—or, more specifically, in writing and publishing practices. In 2004, Michael Chapman identified the short story as the literary …


Living In Disgrace Without Term, Peter Horn Dec 2024

Living In Disgrace Without Term, Peter Horn

Kritika Kultura

This paper provides a reading of J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace. Professor David Lurie, formerly professor of modern languages, then of communication, has seduced one of his students in the Romantics class, and was dismissed by the university after a disciplinary hearing where he refuses to defend himself against the charges. He pleads guilty, denying the right of the university to judge the morality of his conduct. Later he states: “I became a servant of Eros” and “I am not prepared to be reformed. I want to go on being myself.” When asked by his daughter to make his case, Lurie …


"Wedded In The Association": Heteroglossic Form And Fragmentary Histiography In Nick Joaquin's Almanac For Manileños, Vincenz Serrano Dec 2024

"Wedded In The Association": Heteroglossic Form And Fragmentary Histiography In Nick Joaquin's Almanac For Manileños, Vincenz Serrano

Kritika Kultura

Almanac for Manileños (1979) by Nick Joaquin (1917-2004) is “a calendar, a weather chart, a sanctoral, a zodiac guide, and a mini encyclopedia on the world of the Manileño.” Undergirded by Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of heteroglossia, Walter Benjamin’s montage method in writing history, and Reynaldo Ileto’s notion of non-linear emplotment, the essay engages with the Almanac’s calendars and essays and offers four claims. Firstly, although multiple genres embedded in the Almanac—which include, apart from the abovementioned, horoscopes, recipes and light verse—stratify the text, temporal associativeness offers a sense of cohesion. Secondly, the formal strategy of the calendars—typified by correspondence and …


Letting It Flow: A Phenomenology Of Water In The Age Of Modern Technology, Remmon E. Barbaza Dec 2024

Letting It Flow: A Phenomenology Of Water In The Age Of Modern Technology, Remmon E. Barbaza

Kritika Kultura

This essay seeks to initiate a phenomenology of water in the age of modern technology within a Heideggerian framework. Insofar as it holds sway as the essence of modern technology, Ge-stell (enframing) blocks the appearance of water as water. Instead, like most other “natural resources,” water appears as the resource that is extracted, manipulated, and made readily available for universal distribution and instant consumption, but detached from its origin in earth and sky. A disruption in the handiness of water, however, such as is occasioned by water shortage or massive flooding, offers the possibility of inviting human beings to recover …


Memory And The Diasporic Creative Imagination: Preeta Smarasan's Evening Is The Whole Day, Shanthini Pillai Dec 2024

Memory And The Diasporic Creative Imagination: Preeta Smarasan's Evening Is The Whole Day, Shanthini Pillai

Kritika Kultura

The focal point of this paper is the concept of transnational memory and the blurred and fluctuating boundaries of ties with the nation that was once home as depicted in Evening is the Whole Day, a novel by Preeta Samarasan, part of the emergent community of new Malaysian diasporic writers. New Malaysian diasporic writers in the context of this paper are taken to refer to writers who were born in Malaysia but are now settled elsewhere in the globe, and yet are recognizably transnational in that their writings focus on the older country and memories of family, community, and a …


Building Transferable Skills In An Interdisciplinary Science And Science Fiction Capstone Course, John Carrell, Robert G. Weiner, Alexandria Prather Dec 2024

Building Transferable Skills In An Interdisciplinary Science And Science Fiction Capstone Course, John Carrell, Robert G. Weiner, Alexandria Prather

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

College graduates are entering an ever-competitive workforce. Interdisciplinary course experiences are critical for developing analytical abilities and learning and these courses can provide valuable skills that will aid students beyond the classroom. These transferable skills include communication, teamwork, analytical and critical thinking, and creativity. To provide a unique learning experience and, through it, the development of transferable skills, the Honors College at Texas Tech University created an upper-level Capstone course titled “Superheroes, Super Villains, AI, Time Travel, and Film in Science and Popular Culture.” The class is an interdisciplinary look at science and science fiction taught by an engineering faculty …


Fandoms, Postfandoms In The Convergence Of Digital Media: A Case Study Of Youth Cultures From Two Afro-Boricua Musical Genres, Mariely Rivera-Hernández Rivera-Hernández Dec 2024

Fandoms, Postfandoms In The Convergence Of Digital Media: A Case Study Of Youth Cultures From Two Afro-Boricua Musical Genres, Mariely Rivera-Hernández Rivera-Hernández

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

The purpose of this work is to analyze the relation between media convergence and a series of habitual activities of youth groups belonging to fandoms. We have established two pedagogical objectives: on the one hand, to analyze the link between media convergence and the participatory culture of fandoms and postfandoms and, on the other, to learn about the cultural consumption of youth cultures in social media and digital platforms. The activity generated in digital communities by several sectors related to the Afro-Boricua musical genres of bomba and plena have led us to the work of cultural ambassadors who circulate and …


In A Dance With Words: Dance Movement Psychotherapy And Ontological Inquiry, Diana Mota Dec 2024

In A Dance With Words: Dance Movement Psychotherapy And Ontological Inquiry, Diana Mota

Turning Toward Being: The Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education

This article explores intersections between dance, psychotherapy, phenomenology, and ontology, addressing how both verbal and non-verbal language enact ways of being in the world. The main aim is to investigate potential contributions of ontological inquiry to the practice of dance psychotherapy, to thereby strengthen the therapeutic relationship. Drawing on her practical experience and theory building in dance and dance therapy, the author presents clinical vignettes from a session as a laboratory to elaborate an ontological-phenomenological model. She concludes by clearly advocating for further exploration of these intersections and argues these fields are mutually enriching and complementary.


Feeling Inclusion: Becoming-With In Narrative Inquiry With An Inclusive Educator, Srikala Naraian, Maddie Neufeld, Yoomi Bae Dec 2024

Feeling Inclusion: Becoming-With In Narrative Inquiry With An Inclusive Educator, Srikala Naraian, Maddie Neufeld, Yoomi Bae

Turning Toward Being: The Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education

As narrative researchers, our inquiry into the ordinary work of teachers as they go about enacting inclusive pedagogies presumes that “a person’s experience must be listened to on its own terms first, without the presumption of deficit or flaw” (Clandinin & Rosiek 2007 50). We simultaneously turn away from a human-centered agency opening up to the possibilities for thinking, feeling, doing, and being that are evoked when we imagine the teacher as non-sovereign, intra-acting, and becoming among bodies of schooling. We move frictionally (Springgay & Truman 2018) through these frameworks as we attempt a narration of a teacher. Departing from …


Rhetorical Empathy In The Context Of Ontology, Lou Agosta Dec 2024

Rhetorical Empathy In The Context Of Ontology, Lou Agosta

Turning Toward Being: The Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education

This article aspires to elaborate the intersection of empathy and rhetoric with particular reference to empathic responsiveness. The argument regarding rhetorical empathy in the context of ontology proceeds through three phases. First, empathy is distinguished ontologically from a psychological mechanism. Second, the different aspects of empathy are exemplified. What brings forth empathy and makes it present? Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology is usefully appropriated for an ontological account of empathy. The elaboration of the intersection of empathy and rhetoric goes beyond Heidegger; and the argument is made that empathy is incomplete without an empathic response. This empathic response is the opening in …


Making A Personal Connection Brings Back The Magic, Don Sessions Dec 2024

Making A Personal Connection Brings Back The Magic, Don Sessions

Turning Toward Being: The Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education

In this age of technology with its concerns for efficiency and resources the practice of medicine and the relationship between doctors and patients is under assault. Using the doctor-patient relationship as a model to address this concern the author claims that making a personal connection between doctors and patients at the level of their shared humanity produces synchronous beneficial results. Further, this personal connection can facilitate magic, an experience where a specialized type of language and listening allow for unpredictable and unexpected results.


Possibility Above Actuality In Sartre’S Ontology Existential Thoughts On Education, James M. Magrini Dec 2024

Possibility Above Actuality In Sartre’S Ontology Existential Thoughts On Education, James M. Magrini

Turning Toward Being: The Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education

Systematic philosophies and practices of education, more often than not, tend to define the nature of the human being in terms of an immutable essence. For example, a manipulable organism within the learning environment or empty vessel to be filled with the knowledge it lacks. Systematic education, for the most part, is based on the uncritical acceptance of such antecedent ontological/biological conclusions regarding human being; views which leaves little room for the exploration and experience of human freedom. In response to this aforementioned problem, the pressing issue grounding this essay, which educators seeking to better serve their students should consider, …


Ontological Inquiry In The World Of Law: Bringing Forth Subjective Experiencing From The Shadows, Margarida Garcia Dec 2024

Ontological Inquiry In The World Of Law: Bringing Forth Subjective Experiencing From The Shadows, Margarida Garcia

Turning Toward Being: The Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education

This article explores how we assess the value of ontological inquiry in the world of law, and to that end, it seeks to bring forth “seeings” that show up when we open the “curtains” of law, and engage the world of law as a field of subjective experience. By revisiting subjective impressions left from participation in the world of law, and that, for the most part, have remained unexamined, the author imagines what an “ontologically sensitive” approach to legal education, practice, and scholarship might look like and be if more space was given to those who participate in those …


Editorial Statement: Volume 2, Issues 1 And 2, Carolyne J. White Dec 2024

Editorial Statement: Volume 2, Issues 1 And 2, Carolyne J. White

Turning Toward Being: The Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education

No abstract provided.


Secure Healthcare Systems And Big Data: A Bibliometrics Analysis, Rasha Talal Hameed, Saad Ahmed Dheyab, Saba Abdulbaqi Salman, Ahmed Hussein Ali, Omar Abdulwahabe Mohamad Dec 2024

Secure Healthcare Systems And Big Data: A Bibliometrics Analysis, Rasha Talal Hameed, Saad Ahmed Dheyab, Saba Abdulbaqi Salman, Ahmed Hussein Ali, Omar Abdulwahabe Mohamad

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

This study conducts a bibliometrics analysis of research on secure healthcare systems and big data, aiming to identify trends, key contributors, and thematic areas within the field. By examining a comprehensive database of academic publications, we highlight the evolution of research from foundational concepts to contemporary innovations in data security and privacy management in healthcare. Key metrics such as publication volume, citation impact, and co-authorship networks are analyzed to uncover the most influential authors and institutions. Additionally, we explore the integration of big data analytics in enhancing healthcare delivery while addressing security challenges. The findings provide valuable insights for researchers …


Gay Language: Defying The Structural Limits Of English Language In The Philippines, Norberto V. Casabal Dec 2024

Gay Language: Defying The Structural Limits Of English Language In The Philippines, Norberto V. Casabal

Kritika Kultura

Gay language has achieved a higher degree of acceptance in recent years in the Philippines. Both gays and non-gays can be heard uttering gay expressions. But the main role of gayspeak for gay people in the Philippines is to function as an “armor” to shield themselves from the chasm and the social stigma caused by gender differences. From a linguistic point of view, this paper not only describes the nature of this gay language and how expressions are coined; it also looks at how code mixing (gayspeak + English language) is made possible. This paper also examines how this code-mixing …