Although prior research has explored the demographic characteristics, religious practices, and beliefs of modern Pagans, their political attitudes and actions have yet to be studied in depth. Further, most extant research is...
"The chief thing is the happy conviction that you carry away with you--the conviction that Sevastopol cannot be taken, and not only that it cannot be taken, but that it is impossible to shake the spirit of the Russian people...
The developmental origins of psychopathology begin before birth and perhaps even prior to conception. Understanding the intergenerational transmission of psychopathological risk is critical to identify sensitive windows for...
The Primarily Undergraduate Nanomaterials Cooperative (PUNC) is an organization for research-active faculty studying nanomaterials at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs), where undergraduate teaching and research go...
This new translation brings to life Prudentius' Psychomachia, one of the most widely read poems in western Europe from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance. With accompanying notes and introduction, this volume provides a...
This is a translation of Luigi Pirandello’s short story Prudenza. The translation is by Patricia Santos, a student in Tullio Pagano’s 2022 Senior Seminar at Dickinson College. Santos wrote the brief introduction in English,...
Wild and managed pollinators are essential to food production and the function of natural ecosystems; however, their populations are threatened by multiple stressors including pesticide use. Because pollinator species can...
Modern Love’s Sonnet XVII is perhaps George Meredith’s most overt commentary on
modern marriage,calling attention to marriage as a performance and a social fantasy.
Published in 1862, the husband and wife of the sequence...
Organisms inhabiting xeric environments face many challenges to obtain dietary water. Numerous species have evolved unique adaptations to collect, harvest, and condense water from infrequent and unpredictable rainfall. Several...
The causative agent of the evolution of social aggregation continues to baffle biologists.
Though many hypotheses exist, we continue to overlook species that exhibit sociality in nonvisual and non-auditory ways. These...
Recent years have witnessed an increase in human life expectancy fueled by significant improvements in infrastructure, healthcare, and economies across the globe. Longer life spans have altered the world demographics resulting...
A professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh for more than 40 years, Robert Brandom has written extensively and insightfully on a wide range of topics, including language, mind, logic, norms, freedom, philosophical...
Esteban Echeverría, despite having a lasting effect on Argentine literature,
politics, and philosophy, is unknown in name outside of Argentina and the field of
Hispanic studies. When I first encountered his poetry, I went...
The Hagios Charalambos ossuary is a Minoan secondary burial site that presents evidence for the
Minoan funerary custom of ancestor veneration. The Hagios Charalambos ossuary is located in
the Lasithi Plain and contains an...
Settler colonialism is a system by which a group overwhelms an existing population and imposes its culture upon the original population. The ownership of land is a key aspect of settler colonialism, as opposed to colonialism,...
The Bryozoan Skeletal Index (BSI) is a measure of the relative proportion of skeleton to open space in stenolaemate bryozoans. Here the measure is calculated for the Families of the Suborder Rhabdomesina of the Order...
What does it mean to be the Socrates of Soviet philosophy, as Georgian-born philosopher Merab Mamardashvili has been called? More broadly, what does it mean to be a Socrates in Russia at all? Mamardashvili was known primarily...
This volume explores the influence of the Socratic legacy in the Russian, East European, and Soviet contexts. For writers, philosophers, and artists, Socrates has served as a potent symbol—of the human capacity for...
The Indian government advocates for a major shift from national reliance on coal to more renewable energy sources. While these aspirations are laudable, a political ecology review reveals the uneven power relations associated...
Guo, Hao, Chenxu Hu, and Xiaozhou Ding. Son Preference, Intrahousehold Discrimination, and the Gender Gap in Education in China. International Review of Economics and Finance 79 (2022): 324-339....
Chuño is created by subjecting Solanum subspecies or other tubers to a process of freeze-drying that reduces their weight and renders them highly storable. Despite the importance of chuño within traditional Andean foodways, we...
For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.4535, Alam, Shamma Adeeb, and Bijetri Bose. "Stepping into Adulthood During a Recession: Did Job Losses...
The present study investigated the relationships between stress, social support, loneliness, and substance use behaviors using the COVID-19 pandemic as a model. Participants (N = 185, Mage = 36.9, SDage = 5.87) were screened to...
Guardino, Christine, and Christine Dunkel Schetter. Subjective Social Status and Allostatic Load in Mothers 1 Year After Birth. Health Psychology 41, no. 3 (2022): 235–241. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001148, OBJECTIVE:...
The emergence of various patterns of synchronization within systems of
coupled self-sustained oscillators is a phenomenon which can be traced back
to Huygens’ clock experiments of 1665 [1]. Such occurrences can be found
on...
The goal of this project is to describe the application of Synchrotron Radiation Micro-Computed Tomography (SRμCT) for three-dimensional imaging of fossil cheilostome bryozoan colonies. The technology is applied to the...
Common intellectual experiences (CIEs) are one of the lesser-known modalities that have been identified as a high impact practice (HIP) in higher education. This mixed-methods study assesses the outcomes of a short-term CIE,...
BACKGROUND:
Relapse rates for individuals with anorexia nervosa after intensive hospital treatment (in-patient or full-time day care) are high.
Better knowledge about the difficulties and opportunities that
arise during...
Key, Marcus M., Jr., Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, and Catherine M. Reid. Trepostome Bryozoans Buck the Trend and Ignore Calcite-Aragonite Seas. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 102 (2022): 253-263....
Climate change in the 21st century has become an increasingly pressing issue, yet little has been done to effectively mitigate and combat it. The polarized nature of American politics today has resulted in a stark difference in...
Neil Diamant is a professor of Asian Law and Society at Dickinson College. , Diamant, Neil J. Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022....
After the Sharpeville Massacre in March of 1961 the primary agents sponsoring the decades old South African anti-Apartheid movement, the African National Congress (ANC), agreed to suspend non-violent methods in favor of an...
Paul Ko is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College. , Kirss, Alexander, Paul Ko, and Cleo O'Brien-Udry. '“Less Stress, More Confidence”: Supporting Junior Scholars Online at the Graduate Student International Political...
On February 17, 1909, Virginia Stephen (not yet Woolf) accepted a marriage proposal from a panicked Lytton Strachey; it was called off before the end of their conversation. Other prominent queer authors in the early twentieth...