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The Winonan - 2020s

This issue of the Winonan, the Winona State University student newspaper, was published on September 23, 2026.

Relationship Between Language, Culture, And Thinking Of The Kajang Community From The Perspective Of Anthropological Linguistics, Harlinah Sahib, Jumardin Muchtar, Herawati Abbas, Ferawaty Syam

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

In terms of anthropological linguistics, the study aims to explore the interaction of language, culture and cognitive tendencies in the community of Kajang. It particularly looks into the traditional oral expressions (kelong) of the community, including Kelong Basing Rikong, Lok-lok, and Ati-ati Raja, as their understandings of life, death, spirituality, and social values are expressed. A qualitative ethnolinguistic approach, informed by anthropological linguistics, was used in this study. Data collection methods included field observations, in-depth interviews with traditional leaders (Ammatoa), cultural practitioners and community elders, and a documentary analysis of oral texts, especially Kelong. …

Introduction To Theater Syllabus, Claudia Terry

Open Educational Resources

This is the main components of an Introduction to theater course syllabus that is OER.  Using these sources also allows the course to be more open and diverse in what theater is and how it done.

Creativity In A Digital World, Rafael Conde Melguizo, Jessica Blanco Marcos

Libros

Durante décadas, la internacionalización de la educación superior se ha construido principalmente sobre una idea: viajar para estudiar. Las universidades han desarrollado amplias redes de colaboración que permiten a sus estudiantes cursar un semestre o un año académico en otra institución, ya sea mediante programas de movilidad europeos o a través de acuerdos bilaterales con universidades de todo el mundo. Junto a estas movilidades tradicionales, las dobles titulaciones internacionales, los programas conjuntos o la creciente oferta docente en diferentes idiomas han contribuido igualmente a construir universidades más abiertas y conectadas. Todas ellas fortalecen la dimensión internacional de las instituciones y …

Using An Automated Evaluation System To Improve Medical Student Evaluation Response Rate And Reduce Administrative Burden, Chaiya Laoteppitaks, Alisha Agarwal, Jason Gonzalez, Nina Mingioni, Xiao C. Zhang

Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Email reminders facilitate timely task completion but can create substantial administrative burdens for clerkship staff. In our emergency medicine (EM) clerkship, third-year medical students initiate digital evaluation requests after each clinical shift, requiring frequent manual reminders to maintain completion rates. The time-intensive nature of this process highlights the need for a more efficient and scalable approach.

METHODS: This multi-site, pre-post study evaluated clinical performance evaluation completion rates and time to completion during the required EM clerkship over 48 weeks before and after implementation of an automated reminder system in September 2024. The system integrated existing survey functionality with Microsoft …

“Whenever You Are Using Media, You Should Always Have A Purpose”: A Study Of Chinese Immigrant Mothers’ Media Practices, Xiaoning Gui, Daniel G. Krutka

Journal of Media Literacy Education Pre-Prints

This qualitative study explores how eleven Mandarin-speaking Chinese immigrant mothers of young children in a southwestern U.S. city navigate and mediate media in their households. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Findings show mothers balance media’s educational affordances with concerns about health and age-appropriate content, employing gatekeeping, time limits, and purposeful sharing. Mothers described children as learners, co-learners, and cultural connectors, sometimes reversing mediation by teaching mothers about U.S. media norms. Interpreted through a lens of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy while also drawing on Confucian concepts, results underscore the need for early childhood educators to honor immigrant families’ practices while fostering …

Examining The Effect Of Having A Disability On The College Experience, Grace Dudley

James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)

Among people 25 or older in the United States in 2022, just 21% of individuals with a disability had earned a bachelor’s degree or higher, while 38% of individuals without a disability had earned a bachelor’s degree or higher. Previous research has identified a variety of barriers that students with disabilities may face as they pursue postsecondary education. The purpose of this study was to examine barriers students with disabilities (SWDs) face once they arrive at college in order to investigate how higher education may be made more accessible. Barriers were assessed by surveying SWDs attending James Madison University, a …

The Efficient Market Hypothesis In Youth Entrepreneurship: Understanding, Application, And Contextual Factors — A Systematic Literature Review, Omari Khalifa Mbura Prof,, Binto M. Binto

Business Management Review

This systematic literature review explores how youth entrepreneurs understand and apply the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) in their decision-making, and examines the contextual factors influencing the decision-making nexus. Guided by a post-positivist framework, the review synthesises extant literature across youth entrepreneurship, finance, and digital strategy to map emerging themes and identify knowledge gaps. It covered a sample of 38 peer-reviewed articles, selected in accordance with the PRISMA guidelines. Findings of the systematic literature review show that youth entrepreneurs' engagement with EMH is largely experiential and indirect, influenced by digital literacy, social learning, and the realities of rapidly changing market environments. …

Attachment 4: Automatic Voter Registration Would Help Get More Young People To Vote, Katy Spexarth

Katy Spexarth, College Critical Reading and Critical Thinking

No abstract provided.

Attachment 2: The Power Of Perspective - The Voting Access Dilemma, Katy Spexarth

Katy Spexarth, College Critical Reading and Critical Thinking

No abstract provided.

Activity 1: Know Your Rights, Emese Ilyés

Emese Ilyés, From Story to Action: Research as Liberation Practice

No abstract provided.

Assignment 1: Semester Project - Community Action Research Project, Emese Ilyés

Emese Ilyés, From Story to Action: Research as Liberation Practice

No abstract provided.

Activity 3: Ai Stakeholder Roleplay Activity For Civic Engagement And Rhetoric In The Age Ai, Kelly "Vee" Kennedy

Kelly “Vee” Kennedy, Design and Syllabus for Civically Engaged Rhetoric in the Age of Generative AI

No abstract provided.

5c) Module 5 Readings, 2, Barry Stiefel

Barry Stiefel, Civic Heritage and the Power of Place

No abstract provided.

7d) Module 7 Readings, 3, Barry Stiefel

Barry Stiefel, Civic Heritage and the Power of Place

No abstract provided.

Assignment 2: Research Paper, Kylie E. Quave

Kylie Quave, First Year Writing: Food Archaeology for Civic Engagement

No abstract provided.

Syllabus: First Year Writing, Kylie Quave

Kylie Quave, First Year Writing: Food Archaeology for Civic Engagement

No abstract provided.

A Unified Sensitivity Kernel For Coherent Wave Tomography In Radar, Seismic, Ultrasound And Optical Imaging, Alexey Yamilov

Research Data

Overview:

This deposit contains the three figures of Ref. [1] that report numerical simulations, main-text Fig. 4 and Supplementary Figs. S1 and S2, together with the plotted data, one CSV file per figure. The simulations are described in Supplementary Note S3 of Ref. [1]. They were computed with MESTI [2] in two dimensions and with the modified Born series [3] in three, on the Mill [4] and Hellbender [5] clusters. The remaining figures of the paper are schematics (Figs. 1 and 5), a diagram drawn from the numbers listed in Table I (Fig. 3), or evaluations of closed-form expressions given …

Barriers To Psychological Care: Lived Experiences Of Adults With Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Hovhannes Nazaryan

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Adults with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) may experience significant disability-related stressors, yet mental health services remain underused within this population. Although prior research has identified barriers to service use among individuals with SMA and people with disabilities more broadly, there is less literature about how adults with SMA experience the mental health care system. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore lived experiences of adults living in the United States with SMA as they relate to this system. Guided by the biopsychosocial model and Andersen’s behavioral model, the study involved addressing the question: What are lived experiences …

Sociodemographic And Geographic Factors Underlying Breast Cancer Survival Disparities Among Women In The United States, Colletta Brabham-Orr

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Breast cancer-specific mortality in the United States remains higher among women in rural and socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, yet few population-based studies have been conducted to jointly scrutinize demographic and structural determinants of this disparity. Informed by the social determinants of health framework, this secondary data analysis, using records from the SEER Research Plus database, examined the association between age at diagnosis, race and ethnicity, rural/urban residence, county-level median household income, and breast cancer-specific mortality among U.S. women aged 18 and older diagnosed with malignant invasive breast cancer between 2010 and 2020 (N = 285,865). Bivariate chi-square tests and binary logistic …

Regulating Religious Coexistence : The Intricacies Of Interfaith Cooperation In Coastal Kenya, Erik Meinema

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

Regulating Religious Coexistence offers a compelling ethnographic analysis of how Muslims, Christians, and practitioners of indigenous African religions negotiate coexistence in Kenya’s coastal region. The book conceptualizes religious diversity as a dynamic field shaped by multiple partly intersecting and partly conflicting models of interaction. These include the political secularism promoted by the Kenyan state and civil society organizations focused on interfaith harmony, forms of competition between religious groups, and pluralistic practices in which individuals draw on multiple traditions to meet spiritual needs.

Through a close examination of civil society initiatives funded by Western donors to foster peacebuilding and to counter …

8c) Module 8 Readings, 3, Barry Stiefel

Barry Stiefel, Civic Heritage and the Power of Place

No abstract provided.

Field-Induced Electrochemistry: Concept, Application, And Outlook, Jingyu Wu, Yingjie Ji, Shiyu Wang, Shuyun Yao, Xiaoxuan Wang, Kang Ji, Wanlong Bai, Chao Yi, Zhiyu Yang, Yi-Ming Yan

Online First

Field-induced electrochemistry has attracted increasing attention as a complementary strategy for regulating electrode process kinetics beyond conventional composition and structure optimization. Externally applied fields and local fields arising from interfacial polarization, nonuniform charge or spin distribution, defects, heterostructures, spontaneous polarization, and high curvature surface geometries can influence adsorption, interfacial electron transfer, ion and mass transport, and gas–liquid transport. This review summarizes the conceptual development from field-induced chemistry to field-induced electrochemistry and discusses field effects from a multiscale kinetic perspective, including atomic and molecular processes, nanoscale interfacial regulation, and mesoscopic and macroscopic transport. Representative electric, magnetic, flow, strain, thermal, acoustic, and …

Syllabus “Struggles That Connect Us: From South Africa To Palestine To The United States”—A 14-Day Study Abroad Course In Cape Town, South Africa, Nafisa Tanjeem

Nafisa Tanjeem, Struggles that Connect Us: From South Africa to Palestine to the United States” - A 14-Day Study Abroad Course in Cape Town, South Africa

This course challenges conventional approaches to global engagement and study abroad by integrating decolonial, anti-racist, and feminist lenses with experiential learning to explore how historical and contemporary systems of power, inequity, and resistance operate across borders. It invites students to think beyond national boundaries, evaluate how their own identities and positionalities shape their perspectives and actions, and engage ethically and critically with interconnected struggles.

Assignment 1: Constructing The Public, Hyungjin Gill

Hyungjin Gill, Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Democratic Life

No abstract provided.

Response Of The Eddystone Lighthouse To Storm-Wave Impacts, Davide Banfi, Alison Raby, Geoffrey Bullock, David Simmonds

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Structural response to wave action is difficult to predict due to complex wave–structure interactions, particularly for structures subject to impulsive loads from breaking waves such as rock lighthouses. This study examines the response of the exposed Eddystone Lighthouse, located some 21 km offshore from Plymouth, UK, using field measurements from geophones, video cameras and an offshore wave buoy. Accelerations and displacements are derived from geophone velocity measurements recorded just below the lantern during 3085 response events in the exceptional UK winter storms of 2013–2014. These are complemented by video records of breaking waves with estimated heights up to 10–15 m. …

Turkish Translation And Cultural Adaptation Of The Evaluation In Ayres Sensory Integration (Easi), Aymen Balikci, Ayse Firdevs Aracikul Balikci, Isabelle Beaudry-Bellefeuille, Gamze Cagla Sirma, Fatos Kirteke, Zoe Mailloux, L. Diane Parham, Susanne Smith Roley, Roseann C. Schaaf

Department of Occupational Therapy Faculty Papers

INTRODUCTION: Cultural sensitivity and relevance are critical components for best practice in occupational therapy assessment. The Evaluation in Ayres Sensory Integration (EASI) is a performance-based assessment designed to evaluate sensory perception, sensory reactivity, postural control, ocular control, bilateral integration, and praxis abilities in children aged 3-12 years. Before the development of this tool, no standardized performance-based assessment of sensory integration functions had included a normative Turkish sample. The objective of this study was to translate and culturally adapt the EASI for Türkiye.

METHOD: A seven-step process for translation and cross-cultural adaptation, grounded in established methodology, was applied. The steps included …

Management Of Non-Survivable Head Trauma: Opportunities For Improvement, Sanjana R. Salwi, Mackenzie D. Castellanos, Therese Murphy, Pious D. Patel, Sonia Ajmera, Alex P. Vaz, Connor A. Wathen, Niels D. Martin, Monisha A. Kumar, James M. Schuster, Dmitriy Petrov

Department of Neurosurgery Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Managing patients with non-survivable head trauma who do not meet brain death criteria presents significant ethical and clinical challenges. Decisions frequently fall to surrogates with limited guidance, particularly when organ donation status is unknown. This study assessed physician perspectives on communication, interventions, and institutional factors.

METHODS: We conducted a national survey of academic neurosurgery, trauma surgery, and neurocritical care programs. Items examined communication barriers, interventions by donor status, institutional support, and a dissonance measure for interventions viewed as inappropriate.

RESULTS: A total of 133 physicians responded. Top communication barriers were medical literacy, unclear patient values, and intrafamily conflict. Physicians …

Molecular And Structural Basis For Replication Initiation And Strand Separation By Human Mitochondrial Dna Polymerase Γ, Viktoriia Sokolova, Gina Buchel, S. Strock, Ashok R. Nayak, Dmitry Temiakov

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

Defects in human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) replication can lead to somatic mutations associated with a range of devastating mitochondrial diseases. However, the molecular mechanisms governing the earliest steps of mtDNA replication and their fidelity remain poorly understood. Here, we found that DNA polymerase gamma (Polγ) forms stable complexes with RNA-DNA primer-template substrates, exhibiting greater stability and lower misincorporation than on DNA-primed substrates. Structural analysis revealed that Polγ interacts with the 2'-OH groups of ribose within the first four nucleotides of the primer, explaining the stability of complexes that utilize RNA primers. Although Polγ requires TWINKLE to extend RNA primers, its …

Biases And Paradoxes: The Politics Of New Aestheticism's Depoliticization, Fang Yuan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

New aestheticism is a school of literary criticism that emerged in the early twenty-first century. Rather than simply returning to traditional aestheticism, it incorporates insights from multiple theoretical traditions. It critiques social-historical criticism and cultural studies in an effort to downplay the political dimension of literary criticism, instead emphasizing individualized experience and aesthetic pleasure. However, new aestheticism reveals significant theoretical biases and inherent paradoxes. It overlooks the sustained attention that social-historical criticism and cultural studies have devoted to aesthetic questions; it attributes the perceived decline of English studies to the utilitarian tendencies of criticism; and it seeks to free itself …