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University Students' First Online Exam Experience: Is It Stressful Or Joyful?, Konul Abasli, Bahar Yakut Ozek, Abdulkhalig Mammadli

Higher Learning Research Communications

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine university students’ views on online exams during the pandemic. The study was carried out with the participation of 15 undergraduate students studying at an engineering university in Azerbaijan.

Methods: Interpretive phenomenology guided the study. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using content analysis.

Results: Research findings showed that students experienced various problems in the online exam process. The inability to solve the technical problems encountered during exams and the perception that the instructors did not have sufficient knowledge about the conduct of the online exams made it difficult for …

Piano Majors Showcase

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Chapman Vocal Jazz Ensemble

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Isagani Cruz And His Fiction: A Footnote To The “Deconstructive Effect Of Feminist Materialism On The Newly-Discovered Cordillera Archives”, Isidoro M. Cruz

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

A cursory reading of Isagani R. Cruz’s literary theory and criticism on one hand, and his fiction on the other, suggests a disparity between Cruz as a scholarly literary critic and Cruz as a fictionist of stories “for adults only”; however, a detail in one of his short stories in his book, Father Solo and Other Stories for Adults Only, arouses a critical suspicion that his fiction is actually cultural criticism masquerading as irreverent or obscene fiction, so that the critic and the fictionist are one. That detail is found in “Once upon a Time Some Years from Now,” …

Geurae Sebagai Pemarkah Wacana Dalam Percakapan Bahasa Korea, Mellyana Murtanu, Usmi Usmi

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

In Korean, the word geurae is positioned as an exclamation in a sentence. Its use in oral communication has diverse meanings and functions. Previous research shows that, apart from conveying its basic meaning, the word geurae is also often used as a discourse marker (DM), especially in a conversation. DMs are words used by speakers to express their feelings and view about the contents of a conversation to a speech partner. The purpose of this study was to analyze the form, meaning, and function of the word geurae as a DM in Korean conversations. This literature study is linguistics description …

Utilization Of Google Forms As Archive Data Input Media, Dwi Ridho Aulianto, Tiara Desyanti Raharja

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Using Google Forms to enter data into an archive gives archivists or organizations options and solutions for making archiving work more effective and efficient. This study aims to find out more about Google Forms in more detail, starting from the definition of Google Forms, the features available on Google Forms, the benefits of Google Forms, and the implementation of Google Forms as an input medium for archival data. The research method uses a descriptive method with a qualitative approach. Data collection took place in December 2021 through literature studies and interviews. The study results indicate that Google Forms have features …

Catherine Grant & Kate Random Love. Fandom As Methodology, Widya Citra Nastiti

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

No abstract provided.

Architecture And The Subconscious, Kristanti Dewi Paramita

ARSNET

The subconscious thinking governs the way the built environment is experienced and organised by its inhabitants. The collection of articles in this issue of ARSNET explores how our subconscious thinking provides alternative spatial narrative and design methods. The explorations in this issue highlight the different conditions and realms of the subconscious, as well as the various ways of learning and making driven by subjective subconsciousness. These inquiries offer deep thought on how the focus on subconscious thinking reveals hidden experiences and knowledge of architecture, as well as celebrating speculations and open-ended qualities that allow architecture to evolve.

Perception Of Designers Of An Enabling Environment For Dementia Care In Thailand, Yanisa Niennattrakul

ARSNET

This paper explores the perception of designers towards an enabling environment for dementia care in Thailand. The global number of people living with dementia has increased, and the number is growing in developing countries with the decline in the quality of care and the high turnover rates of formal caregivers. A dementia-friendly environment can support the challenging dementia symptoms, employing a specialised environment for quality care that is a significant therapeutic resource for supporting residents’ well-being, such as comfort, familiarity, and organised space. Thus, the salutogenic design approach becomes vital in supporting personalised narratives related to personality, lifestyles, and a …

Alzheimer's Dementia And Occupational Therapy, Sofia Demusaj, Averee Ortiz, Laura Swanson

Client Educational Handouts

This handout is an introduction to Alzheimer's dementia and the role that occupational therapy can have in the treatment of the disease. It contains facts, figures, signs, and symptoms of Alzheimer's dementia. It also contains examples of occupational therapy interventions and assessments for clients with Alzheimer's disease.

Preliminaries And Editor's Introduction, Dinah Roma

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

No abstract provided.

Lives Away From Home And Precarious Writing As Life: Reading Bienvenido Santos’S Postscript To Saintly Life, Ivan Emil A. Labayne

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

Towards the end of his writing career, Bienvenido Santos published two autobiographies, Memory’s Fictions and Postscript to Saintly Life—a departure in a writing life mostly devoted to penning fictional works. This paper focuses on the last autobiography which mainly looks at Santos’s experiences as a pensionado in America. It pays attention to how Santos writes about his Philippine home while in exile, taking part in a program that is part of the American colonial period. The range of Santos’s emotions—with shame and pride on both ends—while abroad is also examined. How these emotions were manifested in the book served …

Marginal Voices, Silenced Annotations: Notes On The Life Of Edith L. Tiempo, Cris Barbra N. Pe

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

The popular version of National Artist for Literature Edith L. Tiempo is that she holds a central position as the literary matriarch of the Philippines. However, little is known about her background as a partly tribal (indigenous) woman. This paper proposes that biography can be a form of intervention to recuperate silenced narratives and marginal lives. Drawing from the ideas of the Geneva School of Consciousness, biography can be seen as a form of reading, where latent images in an author’s works can be made manifest and reveal hidden narratives in the author’s life. Edith’s life and works yield images …

Ang Balintuna Ng Pesimismo At Pag-Asa Sa “Ilang Aeta Mula Sa Botolan” Ni Cirilo F. Bautista (The Paradox Of Pessimism And Hope In Cirilo F. Bautista’S “Ilang Aeta Mula Sa Botolan”), Mesándel V. Arguelles

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

Sa sanaysay na ito, ginagalugad ang isa sa mga birtud ng panulaan ni Pambansang Alagad ng Sining sa Literatura Cirilo F. Bautista—ang balintuna, sa pangunahin, ang balintuna ng pesimismo at pag-asa kaugnay ng pagpaksa sa mga usapin, suliranin, at penomenong panlipunan ng kanyang panahon hanggang sa kasalukuyan. Pinagninilayan din ang bait at bisa ng kanyang mga tula na nakasalalay sa kabatirang kapwa lubhang mahalaga at di-makasasapat ang wika upang, aniya, ay “ipahayag ang ating isip at damdamin” na nagbunsod sa kanya sa pagbuo ng pormulasyong “sugat ng salita” at “kirot ng kataga”—kapwa ginamit bilang mga susing konsepto ng kanyang dalawang …

The Ecocritical Erotic In Marjorie Evasco's "Elemental", Jose Kervin Cesar B. Calabias

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

This brief article explores the critical entanglements of nature, matter, and the human body in Marjorie Evasco’s poem “Elemental.” Through ecocritical erotic writing, the text establishes the “trans-corporeal” relationships between human desire and the natural environment, the language of the erotic and the craft of poetry, and the writer and the task of ecofeminist writing. Ultimately, this essay suggests that the text and the author engage with the ba’i as an indigenous source of femininity, charting a direction toward native Philippine ecofeminism.

Asinkronong Pambubulabog, Pagbubuo: Rebyu Ng Asinkrono: Isang Nobela Ni Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (Asynchronous Disruption, Construction: Review Of Asinkrono: Isang Nobela By Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles), Louise Vincent B. Amante

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

No abstract provided.

Contributors, Contributing Authors

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

No abstract provided.

The Application Of An Extracellular Vesicle-Based Biosensor In Early Diagnosis And Prediction Of Chemoresponsiveness In Ovarian Cancer, Meshach Asare-Werehene, Robert A Hunter, Emma Gerber, Arkadiy Reunov, Isaiah Brine, Chia-Ching Chang, Dylan Burger, Hanan Anis, Benjamin K Tsang

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer (OVCA) is the most fatal gynecological cancer with late diagnosis and plasma gelsolin (pGSN)-mediated chemoresistance representing the main obstacles to treatment success. Since there is no reliable approach to diagnosing patients at an early stage as well as predicting chemoresponsiveness, there is an urgent need to develop a diagnostic platform for such purposes. Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are attractive biomarkers given their potential accuracy for targeting tumor sites.

METHODS: We have developed a novel biosensor which utilizes cysteine-functionalized gold nanoparticles that simultaneously bind to cisplatin (CDDP) and plasma/cell-derived EVs, affording us the advantage of predicting OVCA chemoresponsiveness, …

Response To Letter From Dr Thorakkal Shamim

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

No abstract provided.

Support Needs Of People With Younger Onset Parkinson's Disease: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Clare Stephenson, Allyson Flynn, Anthony Overs, Karen Strickland

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Background: People with younger onset Parkinson's disease reported trouble navigating the health system and managing their Parkinson's disease symptoms. This impacted their everyday responsibilities, such as maintaining employment, caring for children, or meeting financial commitments. Aim: To understand the experiences of the unmet support needs of people diagnosed with younger onset Parkinson's disease and allow a deeper understanding of their lived experiences. Methods: Data were collected by interviewing four participants about their perceptions of the current supports available. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was applied for in-depth exploration of the participant's experience, allowing the participant and the researcher to ‘make sense’ of …

Miscellaneous, Grayson Carter

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Internet Links, submission guidelines, Style guide, copyright notice, and order form.

Review Of An Evening With C. S. Lewis (Play), Nadine Kulberg

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

James P. Helfers: Review of: “An Evening with C. S. Lewis.” Starring David Payne. Performed at Calvary Community Church in Glendale, Arizona, on 9 September 2012.

Review Of C. S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Play), Steven Beebe, James P. Helfers

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Steven Beebe: Review of: C. S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Starring Sally Dexter, Carly Bawden, Rebecca Benson, Philip Labey, and Jonny Weldon. Adapted for the stage by Rupert Goold. Directed by Rubert Goold and Michael Fentiman. Performed at The Threesixty Theater in Kensington Gardens, London, 19 May 2012.

Short Notices, Grayson Carter

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

No abstract provided.

Review Of Socrates In The City: Conversations On “Life, God, And Other Small Topics”, Crystal Hurd

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Eric Metaxas, ed., Socrates in the City: Conversations on “Life, God, and Other Small Topics” (Boston, 2011). 400 pages. Kindle Edition $7.99. ISBN: 9780525952558.

Review Of The Devil: A Very Short Introduction, Cory Grewell

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Darren Oldridge, The Devil: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2012). 114 pages. $11.95. ISBN: 9780199580996.

Review Of Surprised By Meaning: Science, Faith, And How We Make Sense Of Things, Paul J. Contino

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Alister E. McGrath, Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We Make Sense of Things (Louisville, 2011). 112 pages. $13.02. ISBN 9780664236922.

Review Of The Pleasures Of Reading In An Age Of Distraction, Charles W. Connell

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Oxford, 2011), 162 pages, $19.95, ISBN: 9780199747498.

Review Of Oxford In English Literature: The Making, And Undoing, Of The English Athens, Stephen Barber

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of John Dougill, Oxford in English Literature: The Making, and Undoing, of the English Athens (Milton Keynes, 2010). xii + 379 pages. $14.55. ISBN: 9781438976839.

Review Of The Lion’S World: A Journey Into The Heart Of Narnia, Nikolay Epplée

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Rowan Williams, The Lion’s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia (Oxford, 2012). 168 pages. $13.58. ISBN: 9780199975730.