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Ecology Or Catastrophe: The Life Of Murray Bookchin By Janet Biehl, Benjamin C. O'Heran

The Goose

Review of Janet Biehl's Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin.

Listening For The Heartbeat Of Being: The Arts Of Robert Bringhurst Edited By Brent Wood And Mark Dickinson, Kirsten Alm

The Goose

Review of Brent Wood and Mark Dickinson's Listening for the Heartbeat of Being: The Arts of Robert Bringhurst.

The Canadian Horror Film: Terror Of The Soul Edited By Gina Freitag And Andre Loiselle, Jennifer Schell

The Goose

Review of Gina Freitag's and Andre Loiselle's The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul

Heidegger's Way Of Being By Richard Capobianco, Brian Mccormack

The Goose

A review of Richard Capobianco's Heidegger's Way of Being.

Gender Bias And The Evaluation Of Players: Voice And Gender In Narrated Gameplay Videos, Robin April Crowell

Dissertations and Theses

This study evaluates perception differences of male and female narrators in video game tutorials. Video games have long been considered a masculine pursuit, and because of this, women have endured unpleasant surroundings and interactions in gaming and related communities. With the proliferation of technologies like Twitch and YouTube gaming, gaming is more communicative than ever, increasing potential for problematic interactions. Recent booms in these technologies emphasize the importance of understanding how varying demographics are perceived, as these perceptions influence interactions, potentially limiting the likelihood of women and others' involvement and interest.

Involvement in technology during youth is associated with interests …

Dependency Theory Reloaded: Exploring Baseball In The Dominican Republic, Sarah Nass

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Latin America’s presence in Major League Baseball has grown rapidly in recent years. The increase of players from the Dominican Republic can no longer be ignored. But why is Major League Baseball in the Dominican Republic? What has been the impact of Major League Baseball’s player development strategies and tactics on the people and culture of the Dominican Republic? Does the Dominican Republic need Major League Baseball to be successful? An ethnographic study was conducted in an attempt to answer these questions. This study examines the relationship between Major League Baseball and the Dominican Republic. Examining this relationship using the …

Winds Of Change: Short Stories About Our Climate Edited By Mary Woodbury, Veronika Kratz

The Goose

Review of Mary Woodbury's edited collection, Winds of Change: Short Stories about Our Climate.

Educating The Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, And Future Edited By Alan Bewell, Neil Ten Kortenaar, And Germaine Warkentin, David Carruthers

The Goose

Review of Alan Bewell, Neil ten Kortenaar, and Germaine Warkentin's Educating the Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, and Future.

My Last Continent By Midge Raymond, Jessica George

The Goose

A review of Midge Raymond's My Last Continent.

A New Index For Predicting Catastrophes By Madhur Anand, Andrew Gordon Jeffrey

The Goose

A Review of Madhur Anand's A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes.

Aggressive Humor As A Negative Relational Maintenance Behavior During Times Of Conflict, Whitney Anderson, Nancy Ditunnariello

The Qualitative Report

This study explores how aggressive humor is used as a negative relational maintenance behavior during conflicts in romantic relationships. Negative relational maintenance behaviors are questionable interpersonal behaviors romantic partners use to relieve personal tensions about the state of the relationship while still keeping the relationship in existence. Twenty-six participants in committed romantic relationships participated in seven semi-structured group interviews, and transcripts from these group interviews were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. This analysis revealed participants were motivated to use aggressive humor in conflict situations to cover up topics of discussion, elicit a response from their partners, and ease tension. Aggressive …

Blurred Boundaries: Interpreters As Researchers In Cross-Cultural Settings, Jennifer S. Hensley

Journal of Interpretation

This is a study of ambiguities and tensions that occur within the role of the bilingual/bicultural researcher in an ethnographic study. This manuscript presents an analysis of three instances from two interviews in a study on the acculturation of deaf students in deaf kindergarten classrooms in Japan and the US. This is an auto-ethnographic analysis of conflicts found in fluctuating between multiple roles: research assistant, interpreter, cultural mediator, and sociolinguistic consultant. In these examples my bicultural knowledge allowed me to identify “hidden” meanings overlooked by other members of the research team. However, my interpreter role at times made it awkward …

Found In Alberta: Environmental Themes For The Anthropocene Edited By Robert Boschman And Mario Trono, L. Camille Van Der Marel

The Goose

Review of Robert Boschman and Mario Trono’s edited collection Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene.

Marry & Burn By Rachel Rose, Carolyn J. Creed

The Goose

Review of Rachel Rose's Marry & Burn.

Sleeping In Tall Grass By Richard Therrien, Gillian Frances Harding-Russell

The Goose

Review of Richard Therrien's Sleeping in Tall Grass.

Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics Of Time In Canadian Literary Culture By Paul Huebener, Cheryl Lousley

The Goose

Review of Paul Huebener's Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture

An Environmental History Of Medieval Europe By Richard C. Hoffman, Geneviève Pigeon Dr

The Goose

Review of Richard C. Hoffman's An Environmental History of Medieval Europe.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Sullivan, Tommy. Campus Police Chief Search Ongoing
• Kast, Monica. Under the Sea – Royhan Gani, Geology & Geography
• Kast, Monica. Governor Matt Beavin Appoints Two New Board Regents – Jason McKinney, Julie Hinson
• Five Projects Student Government Association Plans to Tackle This Year
• Carlson, Kylie. Freshens Replaces Two Tower Restaurants – Dining Services
• Carlson, Kylie. Bookstore Introduces Self-Service System
• Kaetzel, Kylee. A New Journey: Talisman Builds On Its Legacy in New Form
• Ronkainen, Millie. Rediscovering My Authenticity During Camp
• Ares, Nicole. Five Ways to Cheat the Hill
• Ares, Nicole. …

Lindenwood Digest, August 25, 2016, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been an employee newsletter since 2009.

From Sensory Perception To Lexical-Semantic Processing: An Erp Study In Non-Verbal Children With Autism, Chiara Cantiani, Naseem A. Choudhury, Yan H. Yu, Valerie L. Shafer, Richard G. Schwartz, April A. Benasich

Publications and Research

This study examines electrocortical activity associated with visual and auditory sensory perception and lexical-semantic processing in nonverbal (NV) or minimally-verbal (MV) children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Currently, there is no agreement on whether these children comprehend incoming linguistic information and whether their perception is comparable to that of typically developing children. Event-related potentials (ERPs) of 10 NV/MV children with ASD and 10 neurotypical children were recorded during a picture-word matching paradigm. Atypical ERP responses were evident at all levels of processing in children with ASD. Basic perceptual processing was delayed in both visual and auditory domains but overall was …

Prospectus, August 24, 2016, Parkland College, Peter Floess, Scott Wells

Prospectus 2016

Student Life director enjoys job, working with students, Students to compete at nationals for engine work, Japan House gears up for crowds at festival celebrating Japanese culture, Parkland Cobras vs. Fighting Illini scrimmage

Raising Nebraska: Engaging The Public In Ways That They Value, Chuck Hibberd

SciComm 2016 - Lincoln, Nebraska, September 23-24, 2016

Raising Nebraska A partnership: •Nebraska State Fair •Nebraska Extension •Nebraska Department of Agriculture With a purpose: •Demonstrate the science and art of Nebraska agriculture •Learn from consumers

Prescribing irrigation –conserving water

Walkable Nebraska map -elevation change, waterways, precipitation and crops/livestock

Trusted Voice Videos –Top 5 & Bottom 5

Interactive Dinner Table -- Dinner Table –Entrée, Drink, & Side Selection

Exit Poll -How many things did you learn today?

Conclusions •Participants are telling us what they want to learn more about •Participant responses provide insight on content offerings •Interactive, digitally-based learning venues are effective

Tell Me A Science Story: Transforming Engagement With Science Using Creative Nonfiction, Janell C. Walther

SciComm 2016 - Lincoln, Nebraska, September 23-24, 2016

“I definitely felt more engaged with the first one [creative nonfiction]and less tuned out because I had somebody interpreting their response for me. So when he was like “Oh, I was surprised” then I think “Oh, so was I, I was also surprised by the piece of information.” So I was more engaged with it personally even if I didn't retain all the numbers... “

“[The story] seemed more relatable I guess, as a normal, average, everyday person than a whole bunch of scientists talking about facts. Where the facts were still in here, the way that it was written …

Science Not Communicated Is Science Not Done: Present Your Science Powerfully, Melissa Marshall

SciComm 2016 - Lincoln, Nebraska, September 23-24, 2016

Great communication ignites a chain reaction. Discussion: Identify the best presenter of science that you have seen. What made that speaker so effective?

To excel in your presentations, you will need content , passion, and a sharp sense of the audience.

Science not communicated is science not done. Presenting your science powerfully requires mastery of three skills: Be Audience Centered, Filter and focus, Show your science

Becoming an audience focused speaker is one of the most powerful skills you can adopt. Returning to points of common ground satisfies audiences of different technical backgrounds.

Successful technical presentations require you to filter …

How To Talk About Science In The Face Of Religious Mistrust, Clay Farris Naff

SciComm 2016 - Lincoln, Nebraska, September 23-24, 2016

King Ashoka (268to 232 BCE). Ralph Waldo Emerson. Homer Simpson. Us and THEM. Timothy Gay, UNL Prof. of Physics. Ken Miller, Prof. of Biology, Brown. Richard Dawkins. Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis.

THEM = Truthful Humble Evidential Memorable

Theistic Evolution. Human Babies Barely Fit. The right & left laryngeal nerves take wildly differing paths. Progeria. General Theory of Relativity. Sun’s Gravity Bends Starlight. GPS & Relativity. Sugar vs. Fat. U.S. stock market. Pope. Dalai Lama. Epicurus.

We Must Learn To Tell Narratives That Make Us Better – Not Diminish Us, Bruce Janz

UCF Forum

Every four years we turn to our TVs and online sites to cheer on competitors vying for supremacy in an arena where the rules are often unclear and scandal is rife. We hope for an uplifting narrative that shows the best of who we can be, which gives us all something to strive for, but more often than not the narrative degenerates into stories that divide us.

Spartan Daily, August 24, 2016, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2016

Volume 147, Issue 1

Online Information Seeking By Patients With Bipolar Disorder: Results From An International Multisite Survey, Jörn Conell, Rita Bauer, Tasha Glenn, Martin Alda, Raffaella Ardau, Bernhard T. Baune, Michael Berk, Yuly Bersudsky, Amy Bilderbeck, Alberto Bocchetta, Letizia Bossini, Angela Marianne Paredes Castron, Eric Yat Wo Cheung, Caterina Chillotti, Sabine Choppin, Maria Del Zompo, Rodrigo Dias, Seetal Dodd, Anne Duffy, Bruno Etain, Andrea Fagiolini, Julie Garnham, John Geddes, Jonas Gidebro, Ana Gonzalez-Pinto, Guy M. Goodwin, Paul Grof, Hirohiko Harima, Stefanie Hassel, Chantal Henry, Diego Hidalgo-Mazzei, Vaisnvy Kapur, Girish Kunigiri, Beny Lafer, Chun Lam, Erik Roj Larsen, Ute Lewitzka, Ramus Licht, Anne Hvenegaard Lund, Blazej Misiak, Patryk Piotrowski, Scott Monteith, Rodrigo Munoz, Takako Nakanotani, René E. Nielsen, Claire O'Donovan, Yasushi Okamura, Yamima Osher, Andreas Reif, Philipp Ritter, Janusz K. Rybakowski, Kemal Sagduyu, Brett Sawchuk, Elon Shwartz, Ângela Miranda Scippa, Claire Slaney, Ahmad Hatim Sulaiman, Kirsi Suominen, Aleksandra Suwalska, Peter Tam, Yoshitaka Tatebayashi, Leonardo Tondo, Eduard Vieta, Maj Vinberg, Biju Viswanath, Julia Volkert, Mark Zetin, Iñaki Zorrilla, Peter C. Whybrow, Michael Bauer

Marriage and Family Therapy Faculty Articles and Research

Background

Information seeking is an important coping mechanism for dealing with chronic illness. Despite a growing number of mental health websites, there is little understanding of how patients with bipolar disorder use the Internet to seek information.

Methods

A 39 question, paper-based, anonymous survey, translated into 12 languages, was completed by 1222 patients in 17 countries as a convenience sample between March 2014 and January 2016. All patients had a diagnosis of bipolar disorder from a psychiatrist. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and generalized estimating equations to account for correlated data.

Results

976 (81 % of 1212 valid responses) …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Dick, Jacob. Debate & Questions Surface After Medical Center Decision
• Kast, Monica. Alive Center & Institute for Citizenship and Responsibility Consolidate
• Carlson, Kylie. Hypnosis, Hip-Hop Featured at MASTER Plan
• Ares, Nicole. New Alpha Xi Delta House Under Construction
• Ares, Nicole. Counseling & Testing Center to Offer Lunch-n-Learn Sessions
• Carlson, Kylie. Journalism Professors, Spouses Co-Author Book – Benjamin LaPoe, Victoria LaPoe
• Taylor, Brooks. Editorial Cartoon re: Medical Center
• Medical Center Deal a Bitter Pill to Swallow
• Henderson, Andrew. A Hello from the College Heights Herald
• Winstead, John. Socialist Convergence Was …

Stone: An Ecology Of The Inhuman By Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Joel Weishaus

The Goose

Review of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman