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Front Matter, Naya Sucha-Xaya Dec 2023

Front Matter, Naya Sucha-Xaya

Journal of Letters

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Infernal Symbioses: Reading Dante’S Inferno In The Chthulucene, Rawitawan Sophonpanich Dec 2023

Infernal Symbioses: Reading Dante’S Inferno In The Chthulucene, Rawitawan Sophonpanich

Journal of Letters

This article explores the possibility of foregrounding Dante’s Inferno from the epic La Divina Commedia in this day and age of environmental crises. This catastrophic state has androgenic origins and has been labeled by climate scientists as the “Anthropocene” – a new geological era marked by the ways in which humanity has irrevocably altered the earth system. Nevertheless, Donna Haraway has voiced her opposition against this classification, postulating that it contains too much nihilistic and pessimistic connotations that function to discourage humans from doing the work necessary to alleviate the crises. Haraway therefore proposes “Chthulucene” to denote the temporally and …

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Chinese Ecological Attitudes In The Modern Era And Foundations Of Taoist Philosophy: A Case Study Of The “Biodiversity Conservation In China” Whitepaper, Yao Siqi Dec 2023

Chinese Ecological Attitudes In The Modern Era And Foundations Of Taoist Philosophy: A Case Study Of The “Biodiversity Conservation In China” Whitepaper, Yao Siqi

Journal of Letters

This paper analyzed (1) the language representations of attitude resources in the “Biodiversity Conservation in China” whitepaper based on Martin and White’s appraisal theory, and (2) hidden modern Chinese eco-attitudes as reflected in the whitepaper. The findings were that the whitepaper used all three attitude subcategories: (1) judgment, (2) appreciation, and (3) affect, in decreasing order of significance. Judgment and appreciation were highly proportional and positive, while distribution of affect was minimal. Chinese eco-attitudes in the new era, as reflected in the white paper, may be considered from three perspectives: overall outlook, equality and future perspective. Ecological awareness of respecting …

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A Case For The Negotiation Of Agency By Disenfranchised Subjects In Contemporary Nigerian Literature, Chinelo Eneh Dec 2023

A Case For The Negotiation Of Agency By Disenfranchised Subjects In Contemporary Nigerian Literature, Chinelo Eneh

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis diverges from conventional narratives that predominantly focus on the challenges faced by women and children in Nigeria, particularly in the aftermath of colonial rule. While existing scholarship tends to underscore the myriad difficulties and constraints experienced by these individuals, this study takes a departure from such well-trodden paths. Instead, it endeavors to bring to the forefront the endeavors undertaken by these subjects to assert a measure of agency and autonomy, specifically during two tumultuous periods in Nigeria's history. Through a focused examination of Chimamanda Adichie's "Half of A Yellow Sun" and Adaobi Nwaubani's "Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree," …

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Education And Work Future Expectation Scale Adaptation For Indonesian University Students, Ike Dwiastuti, Wiwin Hendriani, Fitri Andriani Dec 2023

Education And Work Future Expectation Scale Adaptation For Indonesian University Students, Ike Dwiastuti, Wiwin Hendriani, Fitri Andriani

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

The students' optimism about their future careers and education impacts their educational success. The Future Expectation Scale of Adolescents (FESA) can measure future expectations of education and student career. This study aims to adapt the scale of the FESA work and education domain to the Indonesian language and culture. The adaptation in this study follows the six-stage category of the International Commission Test. Development of adaptation items using a forward-backward translation design involving six experts. The comparability of language and content validity assessments involved nine experts. Pilot study for item evaluation involving 15 students from the target population. The quantitative …

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Epilepsy Networks And Their Surgical Relevance, Kevin Hines, Chengyuan Wu Dec 2023

Epilepsy Networks And Their Surgical Relevance, Kevin Hines, Chengyuan Wu

Department of Neurosurgery Faculty Papers

Surgical epilepsy is a rapidly evolved field. As the understanding and concepts of epilepsy shift towards a network disorder, surgical outcomes may shed light on numerous components of these systems. This review documents the evolution of the understanding of epilepsy networks and examines the data generated by resective, ablative, neuromodulation, and invasive monitoring surgeries in epilepsy patients. As these network tools are better integrated into epilepsy practice, they may eventually inform surgical decisions and improve clinical outcomes.

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Teaching Hispanic Culture, Diversity, And Tolerance Through Hispanic Dances And Music: Two Approaches For Flamenco & Caribbean Dances, Chita Espino-Bravo Ph.D., D. Nicole English Dec 2023

Teaching Hispanic Culture, Diversity, And Tolerance Through Hispanic Dances And Music: Two Approaches For Flamenco & Caribbean Dances, Chita Espino-Bravo Ph.D., D. Nicole English

Modern Languages Faculty Publications

A Sociology Approach: Dance can be a useful tool for teaching students about culture and community. Through the language of Dance and Music (Caribbean Dance), context is given to social facts, which engages and informs students about such social issues as history, Colonialism,social class, gender, race/ethnicity, and social justice. The added bonus of using Dance as a lens is that it involves active, embodied learning (Dewey, English, Mead), making the material more memorable, meaningful, and relevant to the learner. A Communicative Approach (Task-based Learning Activity) & Language for Specific Purposes:Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is a derivative of the Communicative Approach …

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Perceived Brand Authenticity As The Answer To Global Crises, Magdalena Grębosz-Krawczyk Dec 2023

Perceived Brand Authenticity As The Answer To Global Crises, Magdalena Grębosz-Krawczyk

European Management Studies

Purpose: The aim of the article is to assess the impact of perceived brand authenticity and its different dimensions on the brand choice of young consumers. Design/methodology/approach: The experiment was applied in the study. A sample of 180 Polish young respondents from Lodz region participated in the study in December 2022. Findings: The research results confirm that perceived brand authenticity positively affects the brand choice in case of young consumers, even if a higher price is applied. The most important PBA dimension in the case of mineral water is the brand naturalness. The study also proved that the brand origin …

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Social Media Utilization Of Public Benefit Organizations During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Piotr Szamrowski, Marian Oliński Dec 2023

Social Media Utilization Of Public Benefit Organizations During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Piotr Szamrowski, Marian Oliński

European Management Studies

Purpose: The main purpose of the research was twofold. First, it was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the publishing activity of Polish public benefit organizations on Facebook. Second, to determine the impact of content published in a crisis situation on the public reaction. Design/methodology/approach: During the investigation, the financial reports of public benefit organizations were analyzed. Farther the basic parameters of the organization’s Facebook profile and the content published on Facebook were analyzed (1025 organizations were covered by the research). From the reports, financial data of organizations has been collected. Both in 2020 and in 2021, …

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Aesthetics After The Ontological Turn: An Ecological Approach To Artificial Creativity, Miguel Carvalhais, Diniz C. Ribeiro Dec 2023

Aesthetics After The Ontological Turn: An Ecological Approach To Artificial Creativity, Miguel Carvalhais, Diniz C. Ribeiro

Critical Humanities

The development of chatbots and other generative systems powered by AI, particularly the latest version of ChatGPT, rekindled many discussions on topics such as intelligence and creativity, even leading some to suggest that we may be undergoing a “fourth narcissistic wound”. Starting from Margaret Boden’s approach to creativity, we will argue that if computational systems have always excelled at combinatorial creativity, current AI systems stand out at exploratory creativity but are perceived as still falling flat regarding transformational creativity. This paper explores some of the reasons for this, including how, despite the immensity of the conceptual space that results from …

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Guilty Machines: On Ab-Sens In The Age Of Ai, Dylan Lackey, Katherine Weinschenk Dec 2023

Guilty Machines: On Ab-Sens In The Age Of Ai, Dylan Lackey, Katherine Weinschenk

Critical Humanities

For Lacan, guilt arises in the sublimation of ab-sens (non-sense) into the symbolic comprehension of sen-absexe (sense without sex, sense in the deficiency of sexual relation), or in the maturation of language to sensibility through the effacement of sex. Though, as Slavoj Žižek himself points out in a recent article regarding ChatGPT, the split subject always misapprehends the true reason for guilt’s manifestation, such guilt at best provides a sort of evidence for the inclusion of the subject in the order of language, acting as a necessary, even enjoyable mark of the subject’s coherence (or, more importantly, the subject’s separation …

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On Chatgpt And The Forces And Relations Of Production, Matthew Rellihan Dec 2023

On Chatgpt And The Forces And Relations Of Production, Matthew Rellihan

Critical Humanities

ChatGPT and artificial intelligence more generally are transformative technologies capable of liberating humanity from the necessity of burdensome toil. Recent discussions have neglected this possibility because they suffer from the sorts of cognitive distortions catalogued by Marx and the Marxist tradition. Technology fetishism, understood on the model of commodity fetishism, occurs when the use and development allowed by a certain mode of production appear as intrinsic features of the technology itself. Naturalistic mystification occurs when the socially contingent use and development of these technologies is made to appear natural and therefore inevitable. To those suffering from either distortion, it will …

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Managing Protected Areas: People And Places, Niall Finneran, Denise Hewlett, Richard Clarke, Richard Gunton, Debra Gray, Ainara Terradillos, Danny Byrne, Sheela Agarwal Dec 2023

Managing Protected Areas: People And Places, Niall Finneran, Denise Hewlett, Richard Clarke, Richard Gunton, Debra Gray, Ainara Terradillos, Danny Byrne, Sheela Agarwal

Plymouth Business School

This open access book brings together 16 specially commissioned chapters drawn from a range of different professional-practitioner and academic global perspectives on the importance of the relationship between people and green and blue spaces. It focuses on issues surrounding the importance of natural environments on public health and wellbeing, and the environmental, cultural, and social importance of green and blue spaces that can result through responsible and sustainable adaptive management processes. It explores how the Covid-19 pandemic forced reconsiderations of our relationship with these natural spaces and highlights the important impact of the pace of climate change. While not pretending …

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Evaluation Of Morphologic And Morphometric Characteristics Of The Mental Foramen And Anterior Loop In A Turkish Subpopulation Using Cone Beam Computed Tomography, Fatma Büşra Doğan, Faruk Akgünlü Dec 2023

Evaluation Of Morphologic And Morphometric Characteristics Of The Mental Foramen And Anterior Loop In A Turkish Subpopulation Using Cone Beam Computed Tomography, Fatma Büşra Doğan, Faruk Akgünlü

Journal of Dentistry Indonesia

Objective: Before a surgical intervention in the mandibular interforaminal area, it is important to have a full understanding of the anatomy of the mandibular anterior segment. The evaluation of anatomical structures, variations and pathologies is performed with radiological imaging methods. Today, cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) is an imaging method which offers all the features necessary for this. In addition to its importance in surgical applications, it is also valuable in terms of anatomical studies thanks to the reliability of its measurements and the fact that it allows for a three-dimensional evaluation. The mental foramen and anterior loop are …

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France In The Middle East: A Democratic Justification For Military Interventions In Iraq And Beyond., Nicolas Demeure, Brice Tseen Fu Lee Dec 2023

France In The Middle East: A Democratic Justification For Military Interventions In Iraq And Beyond., Nicolas Demeure, Brice Tseen Fu Lee

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

How did France’s refusal to take part in the war on Iraq in 2003 has created the conditions that legitimizes its future military interventions abroad? In this paper, a discourse analysis of the official French Foreign Policy Discourse is done to show why saying no to war in 2003 paradoxically allows France to carry out military interventions in 2015. This paper argues that France, while perpetrating an existing discourse of democracy opposing the civilized against the uncivilized that legitimates Foreign policy as a security tool, by its refusal, transformed military intervention a latent policy andlegitimized the French Self as …

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Playing Video Games As A Supplement To Identity: Insights On Former College Athlete Transitions, Matthew T. Bowers Dec 2023

Playing Video Games As A Supplement To Identity: Insights On Former College Athlete Transitions, Matthew T. Bowers

Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics

Traditionally, researchers of sport and physical activity have considered playing video game to be an obstacle toward optimal health and social outcomes for youth. This study, however, posits video game play not as antithetical to health and physical activity, but as a meaningful forum utilized by former intercollegiate athletes to maintain salient aspects of their sport identities. Through a grounded theory analysis of a sample of 13 former intercollegiate athletes, this study takes initial steps toward a nuanced understanding of the manner in which video games can assist intercollegiate athletes who are transitioning out of elite athletic competition. The findings …

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The Century Of Women. How Women Have Transformed The World Since 1900, Bessie Rigakos Dec 2023

The Century Of Women. How Women Have Transformed The World Since 1900, Bessie Rigakos

The North Meridian Review

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Oer Syllabus Political Science 63, Grace Trotman Dec 2023

Oer Syllabus Political Science 63, Grace Trotman

Open Educational Resources

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A New Methodology To Determine The Orifice For Root Canal Configurations In First Permanent Molar Root And Canal Morphologies Using Micro-Computed Tomography, Casper Hendrik Jonker, Guy Lambourn, Anna Catherina Oettlé, Federico Foschi, Charlotte Theye, Ericka Noelle L’Abbé Dec 2023

A New Methodology To Determine The Orifice For Root Canal Configurations In First Permanent Molar Root And Canal Morphologies Using Micro-Computed Tomography, Casper Hendrik Jonker, Guy Lambourn, Anna Catherina Oettlé, Federico Foschi, Charlotte Theye, Ericka Noelle L’Abbé

Peninsula Dental School

Background: The distinction between where the pulp chamber ends and the root canal system begins is poorly defined within the existing literature. Methods: This paper aimed to describe a range of accurate methods to define the transition from pulp chamber to root canal in different first molar root morphologies using micro-focus computed tomography (micro-CT). Methods: The sample consisted of 86 mandibular and 101 maxillary first molars from the skeletal collections housed in the Department of Anatomy and Histology of the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University and the Pretoria Bone Collection. A stepwise approach using the cemento–enamel junction (CEJ) and dedicated …

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First Destination Survey 2023: For Degrees Awarded December 2022-August 2023, Hart Career Center, Illinois Wesleyan University Dec 2023

First Destination Survey 2023: For Degrees Awarded December 2022-August 2023, Hart Career Center, Illinois Wesleyan University

First Destination Survey

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Memory, Politics, And Literary Imagination In Viet Thanh Nguyen’S The Refugees, Jian Zhu Dec 2023

Memory, Politics, And Literary Imagination In Viet Thanh Nguyen’S The Refugees, Jian Zhu

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

Despite the official conclusion of the Vietnam War, the struggle for remembrance and recollection endures. Within the pages of The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen offers a transnational lens through which to examine the formation and contestation of collective memories between the United States and Vietnam. Despite its military defeat, the United States appropriated anti-communist ideology during the Cold War era to assimilate the refugee community, leveraging a discourse of “freedom and democracy” as a means to reshape historical narratives. In stark contrast, Vietnam commemorated its revolutionary struggle against imperialism through the establishment of museums, statues, and public cemeteries within …

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Vol.51 N.22 December 21th 2023, Voice Media Ventures Dec 2023

Vol.51 N.22 December 21th 2023, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

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Vol.51 N.22 December 21, 2023, Voice Media Ventures Dec 2023

Vol.51 N.22 December 21, 2023, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

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Clemson Commencement Program, December 2023, Clemson University Dec 2023

Clemson Commencement Program, December 2023, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

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Care And The Funny Business Of Unsettling Land Acknowledgements, Salma Monani, David S. Walsh, Janelle Wertzberger Dec 2023

Care And The Funny Business Of Unsettling Land Acknowledgements, Salma Monani, David S. Walsh, Janelle Wertzberger

All Musselman Library Staff Works

This article points to the “funny business” that invariably accompanies the practice of land acknowledgments. By highlighting the idea of “funny business,” we illuminate its double entrendre – its humor as well as the smoke and mirrors of what The Care Collective ([2020]. The care manifesto: The politics of interdependence. Verso.) describes as “carewashing,” communication strategies designed to proffer a sense of concern, while all the while continuing exploitative practices that deny and obstruct these very concerns. We meld humor with seriousness to interrogate land acknowledgments, expose the perplexing dilemmas of Indigenous and colonial contexts, and push past to …

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Culturally Sustaining Math Word Problem Instruction With Hip-Hop Story Schemas, Michelle J. Cook, Jonte C. Taylor, Elizabeth M. Hughes, Thomas D. Deau Dec 2023

Culturally Sustaining Math Word Problem Instruction With Hip-Hop Story Schemas, Michelle J. Cook, Jonte C. Taylor, Elizabeth M. Hughes, Thomas D. Deau

Journal of the Arts and Special Education

On August 11, 2023, Hip-Hop celebrated its 50th anniversary. In honor of this milestone, we share an activity that is designed to harness the power and art of Hip-Hop to support learning in mathematics for students with and without exceptionalities. Using a vignette, we examine why culturally sustaining practices are pivotal to learning and how teachers can collaborate with middle-school students to strengthen an evidence-based practice such as schema-based instruction by honoring the funds of knowledge that students possess. The activity includes (a) the creation of culturally relevant word problems in mathematics, (b) schema-based instruction for solving additive-type word …

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Podcasting Practices: Mediators Of Archival Work, Ela Teacher Education Curricula, And Digital Identities, Nancy Heiss, Morgan King, Courtney Adang, Donna E. Alvermann Dec 2023

Podcasting Practices: Mediators Of Archival Work, Ela Teacher Education Curricula, And Digital Identities, Nancy Heiss, Morgan King, Courtney Adang, Donna E. Alvermann

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This paper investigates how a semester-long online course in a language and literacy teacher education department coupled a podcast project with archival pedagogy and restorying to explore how ELA (English Language Arts) teachers (preservice, inservice teachers, and those seeking re-entry) worked collaboratively to enrich understandings of instruction embedded in a high-tech environment. The course was taught in the southeastern United States at the height of a global pandemic. After the semester ended, three graduate students (from a class of 21) joined the instructor to qualitatively analyze data collected during the previous 14 weeks. Data sources included digitally stored videos, archived …

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Everyday Engagement With Mobile Phones In An Urban Slum In Delhi, Simranjeet Kaur, Sunita Singh Dec 2023

Everyday Engagement With Mobile Phones In An Urban Slum In Delhi, Simranjeet Kaur, Sunita Singh

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This ethnographic case study presents findings of an 18-month research study focusing on the ways in which families residing in an urban slum were using mobile phones and how this use supported literacy practices. Data collection included participant observations and interviews with 42 participants including parents, children and community members. Results of the data analysis indicated that in this urban slum, most participants owned a mobile phone which provided multiple entry points to learning. The phones ushered in new ways of brokering knowledge where children acted as ‘experts’ and enabled parents to perform everyday tasks while parents mediated as cultural …

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Back Matter Dec 2023

Back Matter

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

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The Latino Cultural Center: Higher Education And The Importance Of Community, Kamilah Mercedes Valentín Díaz Dec 2023

The Latino Cultural Center: Higher Education And The Importance Of Community, Kamilah Mercedes Valentín Díaz

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

The Latino Cultural Center (LCC) at Purdue University is 1 of 2 in the state of Indiana, with the other housed at Indiana University. Choosing to pursue higher education has its challenges, but not everyone has access to the same resources or community support that helps make the process easier. The LCC, like the other cultural centers on campus, is vital in distributing resources that aid in student success. They work to create an inclusive environment for the entire campus community by fostering meaningful dialogue and cultural understanding of the Latino/e/x community. They aim to support Latino/e/x faculty and staff …

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