This essay brings the discourse of “weak theory” to bear on Lyn Hejinian’s feminist experimental poem of the 1980s, My Life. It argues that the eating matters of My Life—the poem’s steady references to eating, cooking,...
String art is a well-known and popular activity that uses string, a board, and nails to produce artistic images (although there are variations that use different modalities). This activity is beloved because simple counting...
Though posters have been used as a pedagogical tool in a variety of fields, the literature suggests that the use of posters as an educational assessment tool by the mathematics community has been limited. This is unfortunate...
Grading is a way for faculty to both assess student work and provide feedback to students on their level of understanding of a course’s material. Whether your grading system is traditional or nontraditional, the feedback-giving...
The Native American Culture Group: Indigenous Community Organizing and Activism at a Federal Prison in 1970s Oklahoma, presented by John Truden, is part of “Perspectives in History,” the 2022 Oklahoma History Symposium. ...
Type II diabetes is increasingly becoming a problem in Latin American countries such as Peru. People living with diabetes must incorporate several behavioral changes in their everyday lives, which are done outside the purview...
The Cracked Mountain edifice is a basaltic subglacial volcano (i.e. tuya) situated in southwest British Columbia, Canada. The edifice is dominated by subaqueously deposited, massive to poorly stratified, variably palagonitized...
I focus in this article on Florentine texts from the sixteenth century in which the authors describe intense affective responses to the Last Judgment (and Michelangelo the artist), and the relationship these responses bear to...
Amazonian Indigenous Peoples are undergoing drastic changes in their ways of life including the quality and availability of food and its impact on their health and well-being. Indigenous populations have their own perspectives...
We generate compact localized states (CLSs) in an electrical diamond lattice, comprised of only capacitors and inductors, via local driving near its flat-band frequency. We compare experimental results to numerical simulations...
This book charges that just about every philosophical theory of mind or language developed over the past 50 years in the West is systematically inaccurate. Systemic oppression has influenced the processes that theories of mind...
About 1 in 100 Gazans have been killed since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health’s Jan. 8, 2024, update. More than 24,000 people have died, an average of 250 each day. The Israel...
In October 2022, Lebanon and Israel signed a Maritime Border Agreement brokered by the United States of America. Lebanon does not recognize Israeli statehood, and the two States have been at war since 1948. This Article seeks...
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...
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...
A Mediterranean slipper lobster, Scyllarides latus (Latreille, 1802), was found near Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. It was conspicuously fouled by bryozoans which is a rare occurrence for lobsters in general, including this...
Bryozoan Studies 2022 contains nineteen papers presented at the 19th International Conference of the International Bryozoology Association held at Trinity College Dublin in August 2022. Bryozoans are complex and fascinating...
In Eadweard Muybridge's photograph Wildcat Falls, Valley of the Yosemite (Figure 1.1), a waterfall rushes toward the foreground; the photographer must have been perched precariously on one of the well-worn rocks that frame...
Across the West and Toward the North compares how photographers in Norway and the United States represented the environment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when once-remote wildernesses were first surveyed,...
Background:
Despite several decades of treatment research for anorexia nervosa (AN), many of the same questions remain: how to boost enrollment, engage participants, prevent attrition, and meet the needs of a diverse...
Eudora Welty’s love affair with Elizabeth Bowen begins to unfold in Welty’s 1951 letter to Bowen after her second visit to Bowen’s ancestral home in County Cork. Bowen’s letters match Welty’s joy in their intimacy. The phrase...
The politics of knowledge production reveals the exercise of power in societies, with narratives a key means to project national image. This article examines narratives used by Government of India representatives to frame...
Bryozoan epibiosis on lobster hosts has rarely been reported. This study documents bryozoan fouling of the American lobster (Homarus americanus Milne Edwards, 1837) from the Connecticut portion of Long Island Sound, USA. A...
This essay analyzes three later films of Arnold Fanck: S.O.S Eisberg (1933), Die Tochter des Samurai (1937) and Ein Robinson (1940). Best known for the classical mountain films (Bergfilme) which he, along with LeniRiefenstahl...
Although mountains have featured prominently in the history of cinema from its very beginnings to the present, the advent of
the mountain film is often associated with the Weimar cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. Arnold Fanck is...
Background: Resilience resources are predispositions that promote individuals’ abilities to cope with stress. Objective: The current cross-sectional study used path analysis with parallel multiple mediators to test...
The timing of Tiwanaku’s collapse remains contested. Here we present a generational-scale chronology of Tiwanaku using Bayesian models of 102 radiocarbon dates, including 45 unpublished dates. This chronology tracks four...
In early April of 2020, amidst astoundingly sudden suffering and disease, the novelist Arundhati Roy challenged the world with a provocative article, asking: Could the pandemic be a portal to better possibilities? Might we...
A 2019 Association of American Universities survey of undergraduate and graduate students found that almost 17% of respondents self-identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, queer, questioning, or selected more than one...
Through collaboration with more than 20 higher education institutions and civil society organizations, the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative put together online, open-access teaching resources that advance such a...
The Institute of International Education (IIE) and Dickinson College have produced a new publication, Models of Change: Equity and Inclusion in Action in International Education, summarizing their partnership to reimagine an...
In the spring of 2020, as COVID-19 forced the suspension of most U.S. education abroad programs, study abroad students returned home, summer programs were canceled, and international educators pondered the unlikelihood of...
In 1875 Colonel Ranald Mackenzie -- a White US Army officer stationed in southwestern Indian Territory--conducted an experiment on Comanches and Kiowas living at Fort Sill. Relatively little is known about the experiment's...
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 relationships between Indigenous peoples, cowboys, missionaries, and the US Army can be seen through the lens of an 1884 shooting that was recorded in a German-language newspaper. John Truden annotates this newspaper story,...
On July 12, 1975, two performing Asian elephants reacted t a loud noise at the Carson and Barnes Circus's off-season camp near Hugo, Oklahoma, and fled into the surrounding dense forest. Several circuses first established...
For many Oklahomans, Lake Thunderbird is familiar landscape. A manmade body of water in the center of the state, this reservoir and the surrounding forests have drawn naturalists, boater, bicyclists, campers, fishermen, and...
A traveling salesman in 1923 conned the Osage community and the federal government into giving him thousands of dollars to start an American Indian Steamship Company - he almost got away with it., Truden, John. "The American...
Neal Evans and Ben Clark built their lives on the rugged landscape of western Oklahoma—Evans as a storekeeper and Clark as a guide. John Truden uses the lives of the Evans and Clark families to demonstrate evolving systems of...
On the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, Richard (“Dick”) Wilson is a controversial figure. During his first year as tribal chairman, the highest elected position for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, his...
Between 1877 and 1885, a Southern Cheyenne chief named Stone Calf gathered a coalition of Southern Cheyenne women and men, cultural intermediaries, ranchers, missionaries, and U.S. soldiers together in northwestern Indian...
In the first years of the 1970s, Indian Country became paradoxically more interwoven and yet also more divided. Three case studies from Oklahoma’s Indigenous communities illustrate this transformation. Beginning in the...
When Hermann Broch began the work of completing and publishing his first major literary work, the trilogy Die Schlafwandler, in the early 1930s, French and English were the two languages into which he wanted his work to be...
Der radikale Zivilisationsbruch, die Zukunft und Verteidigung der Demokratie, der Kampf gegen Totalitarismus und Massenwahn, der Einsatz für Menschenrechte sowie das utopische Potential einer Literatur, die antike und...
The radical rupture in civilization, the future and defense of democracy, the fight against totalitarianism and mass hysteria, the commitment to human rights, and the utopian potential of literature – these were the topics that...
Academic librarians have long struggled to evaluate, report, promote and grow library services in order to effect positive changes in curricula. Metrics reported to faculty and administration generally include how many...
The COVID-19 pandemic, subsequent shutdown, and its aftermath have challenged how academic libraries make contact and maintain connections with their communities. Starting work as a new librarian in the summer of 2021 presented...
Hermann Broch was a prolific letter writer and spent much of his life explaining and promoting his thoughts and ideas in letters. These letters show his belief that his work was worth communicating to others and that he was...
Chicha (a fermented beverage) was an essential element of the political economy for some prehistoric Andean societies. In this article we outline the archaeological correlates of chicha production for the Wari Empire (ca....
In his provacatively titled piece We're all behavioral economists now, Erik Angner (2019) argues that, far from being peripheral to economics, behavioral economics is now a central part of the field with the result that we...
The Canadian Cordillera hosts numerous Pleistocene and Holocene volcanoes and volcanic deposits, including a number of volcanoes that have erupted within the last several hundred years. The nature and composition of volcanic...
Agency and communion are core personality variables with relevance to narrative approaches to personality and well-being, in addition to having gendered connotations. Agency has long been associated with masculinity, and...
Cruciferous plants produce sulforaphane (SFN), an inhibitor of nuclear histone deacetylases (HDACs). In humans and other mammals, the consumption of SFN alters enzyme activities, DNA-histone binding, and gene expression within...
Although it is impossible to construct a regular heptagon and a regular nonagon using a compass and unmarked straightedge, it is possible to construct them with a compass and marked straightedge using the neusis technique. We...
Most conceptualizations of the state in archaeology remain rooted in Enlightenment ideas of interlocking institutions that existed external to individuals and their interactions. These static conceptualizations often run...
In the past 50 years, a voluminous literature estimating the value of schools through capitalization in home prices has emerged. Prior research has identified capitalization using a variety of approaches including...
The current study tested the effects of attentive versus distracted listening on both speakers and listeners in recall of an autobiographical memory. Participants included 128 pairs of friends who spoke with each other over a...
Introduction: Living with a chronic condition is a challenging experience, as it can disrupt your capacity to function and fulfill social roles such as being a father. Fatherhood constitutes an important component of...
In this article we have highlighted a few geometric versions of attractive numerical patterns, which could be used to brighten up the classroom and perhaps arouse students toward further investigation. These examples have been...
The world’s most populous democracy, India, has taken steps to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. However, injustices related to nascent large-scale renewable efforts in India provide early warning that...
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...
Operations research practitioners frequently need to enforce logical conditions, such as if-then implications, within a mixed-integer linear program (MILP). Unfortunately, it is not always clear how to represent such conditions...
Binary quadratic and higher-order polynomial programs are widely studied in the optimization literature by both theoreticians and practitioners alike. Despite boasting many diverse applications in a variety of settings, these...
Conventional farming utilizes tools such pesticides, synthetic chemical fertilizers, and herbicides, with the goal of producing large amounts of food on less land and with less labor. While these powerful mechanisms help to...
Volume 2 of the Cambridge History of Global Migrations conceptualizes and organizes major themes and dynamics concerning migration across global and local scales through articles by an international array of experts. This...
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations, Volume II: Migrations, 1800-Present, presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day....
German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared during a May 2018 speech that Europeans can no longer depend on the United States to protect Europe from conflict. She added that "Europe can no longer entrust its security to the United...
In 1998, I unintentionally created a racially biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today., MacCormick, John. "I Unintentionally Created a Biased AI Algorithm...
Objective: Interdependence with family is considered a core element of collectivistic cultures, and it is routinely endorsed by people of ethnic/racial minority backgrounds in the United States. In contrast, a preference...
The Great Goa Land Grab charts how shifting state governments, politicians, and corporations have acquired large tracts of land in the Indian coastal state of Goa for a wide range of projects, including industrial enclaves,...
Early voting has been pitched as a way to help boost voter turnout in the United States. The evidence pointing to a positive association between the availability of early voting and electoral participation is decidedly mixed,...
This paper proposes that, in many cases, conversational norms permit gaslighting when socially subordinate speakers report systemic injustice. Section 1 introduces gaslighting and the kinds of cases on which I focus—namely,...
As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, congestion is an important component in access to medical care. This study expands congestion-based accessibility research by imposing upper limits on demand levels and introducing minimum...
Several studies have reported adverse consequences of the COVID-19 lockdowns on the utilization of healthcare services across Africa. However, little is known about the channels through which lockdowns impacted healthcare...
This essay explores two different approaches to disaster found in fiction following the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923: trauma and differential vulnerability., Alex Bates, "Fiction from Unstable Ground: The Imagination of...
Research suggests a U.S. political ideology gap for taking COVID-19 precautions, but we do not know the role of cognitive risk (assessed here as perceived risk) and affective risk (assessed here as worry) in explaining why...
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects operate transparently, providing excellent educational opportunities for computing students to acquire and practice both technical and softer skills that are in high demand....
Coherent personal narratives employed for self-understanding (self function) and social proximity (social function) are theorized to inform life and the sense of self with meaning. Yet, it has not been tested whether this...
We present detailed analytical and experimental results for a system of two comparator-based relaxation oscillators that are coupled via threshold modulation. Starting with the op-amp circuit equations, we derive parameter...
The present experiment examined the contribution of the β-adrenergic receptor system in mediating the unconditioned (i.e. pharmacological) and conditioned (i.e. learned) hyperactive effects of methamphetamine. To this end, mice...
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...
American Indians are among the most underrepresented, yet heavily regulated, groups in national politics. While Indian nations maintain statuses as sovereign nations, they, and their people, remain affected by national policies...
The voice of Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999), the “Queen of Fado” and Portugal's most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach. Amalia à l'Olympia (1957) is...
The 3.11 triple disasters occurred at a moment of increased anti-immigrant sentiment in Japan exemplified by the activities of the Zaitokukai, a particularly anti-Korean right-wing group. This xenophobic sentiment provided...
Puerto Rico’s indeterminate status as a US territory has unquestionably left it vulnerable to political, economic, and environmental exploitation. Its status as neither country nor state has resulted in the small island of...
In the early days of the coronavirus quarantine, my Facebook feed was inundated with postings about the effects of both---Covid and the quarantine----on jobs, on health, on social connection. The fear was palpable. Amidst all...
The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is a key reference work in contemporary scholarship situated at the intersection between Gender and Fat Studies, charting the connections and tensions between these two...
Until very recently, literature in English of the late 1940s suffered from a strange critical underestimation. In contrast to the patent world-historical and geopolitical import of the years just after World War II, the...
Located in Carlisle, a small town in south central Pennsylvania, the Trout Gallery was created in 1983 to bring together in one location art objects and artifacts donated to Dickinson College. Today, the gallery's permanent...
Located in Carlisle, a small town in south central Pennsylvania, the Trout Gallery was created in 1983 to bring together in one location art objects and artifacts donated to Dickinson College. Today, the gallery's...
This book is a compilation of case studies and analyses that can be used as a resource guide for college and university professors of foreign language and academic museum educators collaborating to develop new pedagogical...
In 2019, the Pennsylvania Legislature eliminated the Straight-Ticket Voting Option
(STVO). This meant voters could no longer select a button that automatically cast a ballot for
“all Democrats” or “all Republicans.” Many in...
Leadership, especially that associated with collaborative endeavors, is important for addressing emerging, increasingly complex challenges. That development is relevant to liberal arts colleges that are dedicated to educating...
The abstract, platonic theory of numbers is typically taken to provide metaphysical justification for mathematical statements like “1+1=2”. For the anti-realist theory of mathematical fictionalism, a central task is finding...
In addition to its famous motto of “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” France is known for two things: its cuisine and its complicated history with religion. In contemporary France, these two ideas, food and religion, are linked...
This paper analyzes a specific genre of anime called “iyashikei,” whose aim is to explicitly provide a sense of relaxation and calm to the viewers. The historical context of “iyashi,” the Japanese notion of healing is briefly...
This research situates the origins of zine culture in early Black magazines from the 1800s
and 1900s that laid a foundation for contemporary zine culture, reinserting Black narratives into
the history of zine production....