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“We Practice Lakota Way, But We Are Not An Indian Church”: The Diverse Ways Lakota Christians Articulate, Perform And Translate Ethnicity In Congregational Life, Kristin A. Fitzgerald Jul 2019

“We Practice Lakota Way, But We Are Not An Indian Church”: The Diverse Ways Lakota Christians Articulate, Perform And Translate Ethnicity In Congregational Life, Kristin A. Fitzgerald

Anthropology ETDs

This study looks at articulations, performances and translations of ethnicity among urban Lakota Christians at St. Matthew’s and St. Isaac Jogues in Rapid City, South Dakota. Within the context of increased ethnic revitalization and recognition, Native American Christians are negotiating new models of ethnicity in typically Western arenas, often manifesting through actions and discourse that are ostensibly traditional. Yet even in this era of recognition, the public performance of cultural authenticity is not the only thing on people’s minds. Native people mark various practices, symbols, and persons as traditional or modern at different points in history or within different contexts …

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Understanding Cumulative Hazards In A Rustbelt City: Integrating Gis, Archaeology, And Spatial History, Daniel Trepal, Don Lafreniere Jul 2019

Understanding Cumulative Hazards In A Rustbelt City: Integrating Gis, Archaeology, And Spatial History, Daniel Trepal, Don Lafreniere

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

We combine the Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure (HSDI) concept developed within spatial history with elements of archaeological predictive modeling to demonstrate a novel GIS-based landscape model for identifying the persistence of historically-generated industrial hazards in postindustrial cities. This historical big data approach draws on over a century of both historical and modern spatial big data to project the presence of specific persistent historical hazards across a city. This research improves on previous attempts to understand the origins and persistence of historical pollution hazards, and our final model augments traditional archaeological approaches to site prospection and analysis. This study also demonstrates …

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Usability Study For A Community College Library Website: A Methodology For Large-Scale Data Gathering, Mark E. Eaton, Carlos Arguelles Jul 2019

Usability Study For A Community College Library Website: A Methodology For Large-Scale Data Gathering, Mark E. Eaton, Carlos Arguelles

Publications and Research

Usability studies (UX) are increasingly common in libraries. A UX methodology is a useful tool to support librarians’ decision-making processes during a website (re)design. This article describes a UX process using a custom-built usability-testing environment and a data-collection tool, written in JavaScript and Python respectively. The resulting automated approach allowed us to collect usability data from a sample of 225 students. The methodology described in this study will be of interest to those considering or planning a UX study in their libraries.

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Trends In Irs, Future Planning, Preservation, Paul Gallagher Jul 2019

Trends In Irs, Future Planning, Preservation, Paul Gallagher

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group 2019 Meeting

We will take some time do discuss the big picture issues of where IRs are going, how to plan for the future, long term preservation, how can we partner with bepress to achieve our goals, and any other topics that interest the group.

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Various Topics, Maira Bundza Jul 2019

Various Topics, Maira Bundza

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group 2019 Meeting

Registered participants expressed an interest in various topics dealing with IRs from ADA accessibility, metadata, data sets, assessment, OER, libraries as publishers. We will try to get to as many topics as the group wishes.

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Transitioning To All Digital Theses Deposits, Todd Bruns Jul 2019

Transitioning To All Digital Theses Deposits, Todd Bruns

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group 2019 Meeting

Eastern Illinois University has utilized a moderated deposit method for incorporating theses into our institutional repository, The Keep: Students deliver print copies of their thesis to the library, which are then scanned, digitized, and uploaded to our catalog and the IR. Over the course of the past six months we have worked toward transitioning to all digital uploading. This discussion presents lessons learned and developed work-arounds that may benefit other institutions moving in the same direction.

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Long Road To Capturing All Dissertations And Theses, Maira Bundza Jul 2019

Long Road To Capturing All Dissertations And Theses, Maira Bundza

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group 2019 Meeting

Western Michigan University started its repository in 2011 and approached the Graduate College about entering dissertations and master's theses. A workflow evolved for current theses, but what about the older ones? The goal has been to get every dissertation and theses written at Western into the repository. It has been a long and winding road, but the goal is in sight.

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Literary Legends: The Secret History Of Cather And Pound Halls, Harry Lime Jul 2019

Literary Legends: The Secret History Of Cather And Pound Halls, Harry Lime

Louise Pound: A Folklore and Literature Miscellany

No abstract provided.

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My Ántonia And Czech Mushroom Folklore, Evelyn Funda Jul 2019

My Ántonia And Czech Mushroom Folklore, Evelyn Funda

Louise Pound: A Folklore and Literature Miscellany

No abstract provided.

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The Complete Second Issue, £ £ Jul 2019

The Complete Second Issue, £ £

Louise Pound: A Folklore and Literature Miscellany

No abstract provided.

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Faculty Work/Expert Gallery/Selected Works, Shandon Quinn Jul 2019

Faculty Work/Expert Gallery/Selected Works, Shandon Quinn

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group 2019 Meeting

After a brief introduction, the group will have an opportunity to discuss how to engage faculty, ideas for workflows and organization systems for checking rights and uploading faculty work. Questions can include all aspects of faculty work, the Experts Gallery or Selected Works.

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A Luminous Haze; Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Plagiarism, Todd Richardson Jul 2019

A Luminous Haze; Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Plagiarism, Todd Richardson

Louise Pound: A Folklore and Literature Miscellany

“I really was never any more than what I was,” Bob Dylan writes in his autobiography Chronicles, “a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze.” I’d call his proclamation inefficient if that didn’t imply that it gets a job done, albeit poorly. The sentence, rather, strikes me as grand-sounding balderdash. It begins with a promise of humility, after which it gradually evaporates into bleary images that never realize anything resembling actual meaning. On the whole, Dylan is exceedingly specific throughout Chronicles, recounting in detail …

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The Great Games We Play: Fan Resistance And The Bbc Sherlock, Amanda Ewolt Jul 2019

The Great Games We Play: Fan Resistance And The Bbc Sherlock, Amanda Ewolt

Louise Pound: A Folklore and Literature Miscellany

Discontented with mainstream value systems, the Sherlock fandom is tireless in implementing various forms of resistance to question the balance of power and authority between producer, consumer, and text. One such method is slash fanfiction, which is both a tool for understanding and creating meaning from the source text and an act of defiance from those who feel marginalized by the dominant culture. Yet, I argue, Sherlock is a special case. Sherlock itself is a brilliant and intertextual rereading of Arthur Conan Doyle's original text; in other words, the show itself is elaborate fanfiction, which complicates the typical producer-fandom interaction …

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Beasts And Bluebeards: Reader Reception, The Fairy Tale And Jane Eyre, Brittany Warman, Sara Cleto Jul 2019

Beasts And Bluebeards: Reader Reception, The Fairy Tale And Jane Eyre, Brittany Warman, Sara Cleto

Louise Pound: A Folklore and Literature Miscellany

The 19th-century novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë has been frequently mined for its folkloric allusions, particularly the fairy tales that haunt the narrative's characterization, plot, and atmosphere. Moving beyond so-called motif spotting, this article will explore the ways in which two of the main fairy tale intertexts of the novel - "Beauty and the Beast" and "Bluebeard" - duel for supremacy in the reader's mind, creating a tension that ultimately determines reception. Drawing primarily on narrative and reader- response theory, we will argue that the uncertainty regarding exactly which fairy tale is being called upon allows Brontë to create …

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Introduction: What Kind Of Mother, Shelley Ingram Jul 2019

Introduction: What Kind Of Mother, Shelley Ingram

Louise Pound: A Folklore and Literature Miscellany

We’ve long studied the folklore in literature, but there is also literature in folklore, so we can also reverse our gaze to see how literature has been taken up and incorporated into the folk culture of groups – a book club, or a fandom, or a knitting circle. We study the ways in which authors use, for example, forms of folk narrative to structure a text, how they tap into the cultural knowledge of their myriad readerships to add depth to their pages. But we can also look inward to find certain ambiguities built into a text which invite or …

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The Complete First Issue, £ £ Jul 2019

The Complete First Issue, £ £

Louise Pound: A Folklore and Literature Miscellany

No abstract provided.

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What's New And What's Coming, Shandon Quinn Jul 2019

What's New And What's Coming, Shandon Quinn

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group 2019 Meeting

We’ll hear about what is around the corner in the Digital Commons roadmap, including harvesting, integrations, and other features to support content population or increased IR impact. Plenty of time for questions.

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Bepress Culture: The Past And The Present, Greg Borman Jul 2019

Bepress Culture: The Past And The Present, Greg Borman

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group 2019 Meeting

Covering historical and recent developments in the company culture of bepress

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Introduction And Welcoming Remarks, Julie Garrison, Maira Bundza Jul 2019

Introduction And Welcoming Remarks, Julie Garrison, Maira Bundza

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group 2019 Meeting

Dean Garrison will welcome us to our user group meeting and ScholarWorks librarian Maira Bundza will provide and introduction to the day and ask all present to share something about their repository and what they would most like to discuss at this meeting.

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Applied Capstone Project Spc 589, Joanna Burkhardt Jul 2019

Applied Capstone Project Spc 589, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

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Developmental Neurobiology Neu 201, Joanna Burkhardt Jul 2019

Developmental Neurobiology Neu 201, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

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Applied Capstone Project Spc 589, Joanna Burkhardt Jul 2019

Applied Capstone Project Spc 589, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

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Medieval Narratives As Meta-Constructions Used In Creating Socio-Cultural Identity, Laurie A. Price Jul 2019

Medieval Narratives As Meta-Constructions Used In Creating Socio-Cultural Identity, Laurie A. Price

Linguistics ETDs

This study of the distribution and function of Historical Present (HP) in Old French, Old English, and Old Norse narratives combines the methods of cognitive linguistics and corpus-based discourse analysis with insights from work in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and medieval studies. I show that HP, in combination with those other features, is a strategy to establish stance, a strategy that both constructs and reinforces a cultural persona. Although previous research on HP in narratives focused on the use of HP to foreground events and contrast marked vs unmarked events in narratives, my analysis shows that HP has an additional range …

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Increasing Faculty-Librarian Collaboration Through Critical Librarianship, Adrienne Gosselin, Mandi Goodsett Jul 2019

Increasing Faculty-Librarian Collaboration Through Critical Librarianship, Adrienne Gosselin, Mandi Goodsett

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

Through the lens of critical librarianship, librarians are becoming increasingly involved in social justice, civic engagement, and human rights issues. This paper examines the collaboration between a subject librarian and a faculty member in an assignment that engaged in Public Sphere Pedagogy (PSP), a teaching strategy with the goal of increasing students’ sense of civic agency and personal and social responsibility by connecting their classwork to public arenas; and project-based learning, wherein students develop a question to research and create projects that reflect their knowledge, which they share with a select audience.

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Neuroscience Professional Development Neu 230, Joanna Burkhardt Jul 2019

Neuroscience Professional Development Neu 230, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

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Interdependencies Between Energy, The Environment, And Stakeholder Choices, Saleh Nur Muhammad Al Mamun Jul 2019

Interdependencies Between Energy, The Environment, And Stakeholder Choices, Saleh Nur Muhammad Al Mamun

Economics ETDs

This dissertation contributes to the field of energy economics by expanding the knowledge of energy stakeholders’ decisions amid the interdependence of energy and environmental policies. I analyze three specific energy development decisions from multiple stakeholders’ perspectives. Chapter 2 introduces a broader state-level policymakers’ decision on renewable portfolio standards (RPS). The renewable portfolio standards is a state-mandated obligation that requires electric load-serving entities to distribute a certain percentage of electricity generated from renewable sources. I investigate the public preferences of RPS for residents in New Mexico in 2017. I find that households are willing to pay for an increase in RPS …

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A Hybrid Gis/In Situ Analysis Of Aed Coverage On The Unm Central Campus, Ian T. Hill Jul 2019

A Hybrid Gis/In Situ Analysis Of Aed Coverage On The Unm Central Campus, Ian T. Hill

Geography ETDs

Automated External Defibrillators (AED’s) are lifesaving devices that can greatly improve the survival rates of cardiac arrest when used quickly. There are publicly accessible AED’s on the UNM campus, and each device has an effective range based on how quickly a responder can retrieve the AED and return it to the site of the cardiac emergency. The ranges of the AED’s on UNM central campus are analyzed using GIS, interior building measurements, and various retrieval speeds. This helps evaluate the current placement of AED’s on campus and helps reveal where future coverage is needed. This focus on the combined navigation …

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Genetically Modified Salmon And The Future Of Food: A Qualitative Content Analysis Of Twitter, Margaret Markham Siebert Jul 2019

Genetically Modified Salmon And The Future Of Food: A Qualitative Content Analysis Of Twitter, Margaret Markham Siebert

Communication ETDs

This dissertation is a qualitative content analysis of the ongoing online debate on Twitter regarding the AquAdvantage Salmon™, the first genetically engineered animal, fish, and meat product approved by the FDA for sale and consumption in the US. On Twitter, Topics can be discussed by any account user creating a public sphere and forum of discussion. In a time when the anthropogenic impacts on the environment are observable and at times detrimental, it remains in question how we will produce our food; this study problematizes whether or not genetic engineering is the solution and the future of our food, and …

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Analysis Of The Demands Of A Student Athlete, Jaret Curtis Jul 2019

Analysis Of The Demands Of A Student Athlete, Jaret Curtis

Honors Theses

College athletics has become a staple in our society today. In this analysis, I do a detailed analysis of the demands of a collegiate student athlete. To be more specific, I look at how participating in college athletics affects hirability post-graduation. I am currently a football student athlete here at WMU so I have first person access to this information and can relate very well to this topic. I obtained information by taking an autobiographical approach and applying my experiences as a student athlete and using outside research to answer the question of whether or not being a student athlete …

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The Impact Of Exogenous Shocks And Heterogeneity On Demand And Preferences Environmental And Resource Goods In The Southwestern United States, Kara A. Walter Jul 2019

The Impact Of Exogenous Shocks And Heterogeneity On Demand And Preferences Environmental And Resource Goods In The Southwestern United States, Kara A. Walter

Economics ETDs

The 2018 IPCC report declared damages from climate change rapidly approaching. This dissertation consists of three empirical studies employing unique data sets and three econometric methods. First, I consider energy portfolios; I find that political affiliation is not the strongest driving factor of heterogeneity. Second, I examine the impact of observable characteristics in explaining preferences for the environment and regulation; I find opinion on climate change is an important factor and that omitting it results in changes to the significance of other factors. Finally, I study the impact of wildfires on visitation to national parks; I find that in the …

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