cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital: A Moral Achitecture
Creators: name: Roland, Holly
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: From the Faculty Nominator: Holly wrote her paper for my course, ART 278, European and American Architecture, 1750-1900, in Fall 2007. Students in the class were asked to start with a specific Baltimore building, analyze that building's style and form, and suggest its content and meaning. Students were then required to identify a direction for further research based on those intitial observations and ideas,to develop a research plan, and to write a thoroughly-developed paper. Holly's finished paper on the Shephard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, the result of this process, is an intellectually sophisticated discussion that places the building's physical properties and its functions in a broad historical context. In her paper, Holly synthesizes material from architectural history, landscape design, and the history of the treatment of mental illness, and presents a well-crafted, convincing argument for the way in which the physical, built environment can express cultural ideals and aspirations. I am particularly impressed with the scope of Holly's research; the range of materials brought together in her final paper is unusually broad and deep, encompassing primary documents from archival sources, scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, and contemporary newspaper reports. Holly's paper is a testament to her diligence and imagination, and a model of undergraduate research.
description: This paper is the product of an assignment from Goucher’s architecture (art history) course that asked students to research a historic building in the Baltimore area. Being a psychology major, I was strongly drawn towards exploring the nearby Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, an institution that has been of extreme historical and medical importance for over a century. Still a nationally recognized example of excellent and unique mental health care, Sheppard Pratt’s legacy lives on mere miles from Goucher’s campus. I hope this paper provides readers with insight into how architecture impacts psychological well being and brings light to the universal importance of this relationship.
description: Gail Husch
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/5-2/
A Public Affair: The Politics and Perspectives of Homosexual Identity throughout Early Modern and Mordern Dutch Society
Creators: name: Schields, Chelsea
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: While the topic of homosexuality remains controversial in popular American culture, the Dutch are world renowned for their tolerance regarding sexual identity. During Professor Robert Beachy’s History of European Sexuality course in the fall semester of 2007 we learned to interrogate the historical circumstances that classified, popularized, and demonized certain customs, identities, and traditions. Beginning with an overarching curiosity in the historical and political contingency of identity formation, and a desire to put my Dutch language skills to use through primary source research, I decided to focus on the construction of a Dutch homosexual identity. Much to my surprise, many scholars, attempting to explain a universal history of homosexuality, pointed to a series of trials held during the eighteenth century against sodomites in the Dutch Republic. Though these trials were significant in that they revealed an extensive statewide network of sodomites, it was not, as some scholars argued, the beginning of a modern homosexual identity. The term homosexual was not known in the Dutch language until 1892, when medical magazines throughout Western Europe produced the term as a diagnosis and pathology. The medical construction of a homosexual, with all of its modern consequences, did not occur until the medicalization of the late nineteenth century. Through my research, I hoped to problematize the connection of sodomitic trials to the construction of homosexuality in the era of medicalization. However, relevant points of intersection and continuity were found between the treatment of sodomites and homosexuals (both as communities and individuals) of the early modern and the modern periods, and thus it became more urgent to interrogate the historical and political processes which deemed sodomites and homosexuals as social deviants and examine, somewhat anthropologically, the motivations and demarcations of social classification. Employing the work of a small body of Dutch scholars and the philosophical insights of Michel Foucault, I examined the regimes of power which provided the terms sodomite and homosexual their cultural relevance. Though history lends itself well to interrogation, this paper succeeded in reminding me of the present contingencies of our own identities. Though I’m happy to present the product here, it is for me a continuous process, a jumping-off point, whose development I hope to follow in further academic work.
description: Robert Beachy
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/5-2/
The Effect of Mentoring Programs on Elementary-Age Students with Disruptive Behavior
Creators: name: Slivka, Miranda
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: ii
Abstract
The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to compare the behavioral effects of a mentoring program on elementary students with frequent disruptive behavior. The referral data of 36 elementary students in first through fifth grade was examined. First semester office referral data from the School-Wide Information Systems (SWIS) was used as baseline data. Seven students participated in a mentoring program entitled Kids with Promise. Second semester referral data was analyzed to determine the mentoring program‟s effectiveness. The results of this study suggest that the mentoring program did have an impact in reducing minor disruptive behavior in the classroom. The experimental group had a significantly higher number of referrals before the mentoring program was put in place. However, after the mentoring program, the experimental group showed no significant difference from the control group in minor office referrals. Further research is needed to determine if a mentoring program has a stronger impact on primary or intermediate students.
The Future of City Squares: Robotics in the Urban Design of Tomorrow
Creators: name: Dąbrowska-Żółtak, Karolina
name: Wojtowicz, Jerzy
name: Wrona, Stefan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Technological development generates social changes while providing new tools that can be implemented in the fields of architecture and urban design. It creates the need to enrich architects’ competencies with knowledge and experience, enabling the conscious use of technology in designing future functional solutions for responsive space and the optimization of accessibility for various groups of users. This paper presents a teaching method developed to study the integration of architecture, urban planning and mechatronics to create a dynamic common space, responding to changing user needs and environmental conditions. Four experimental projects for a chosen public space were designed by students in order to investigate research by design and as an agenda for further design research. In the final part of the article, we present predictions for the future development of kinetic and responsive architecture in public spaces, including potential opportunities and challenges.
What?s the Story? Framing of Health Issues by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Major Newspapers: A Qualitative Analysis
Creators: name: Karnes, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: This qualitative analysis of the framing of health issues by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the world?s premier health organizations, and by major U.S. newspapers analyzes the frames present in a sample of the CDC?s press releases, and the frames present in the contemporaneous (and often resulting) press coverage. This study focuses on communication surrounding public health events that occurred in the six-year period 2002?2007.
UPS and Zoo Atlanta: A Case Study on Corporate Social Responsibility
Creators: name: Saghini, Karen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: This thesis is designed to explore consumer attitudes and behaviors toward corporations that engage in socially responsible practices. The goal of this project was to determine if there was a relationship between a company?s perceived reputation for social responsibility and attitudes and behaviors that would favorably impact the company. Specifically, the project uses a case study of UPS and its support of Zoo Atlanta to further test these relationships in a true-to-life scenario. The findings reveal implications for corporate communication efforts in two ways: first, by serving as a framework to evaluate future corporate giving programs and to better understand company reputation; and second, by understanding the importance of strategically positioning one?s company as a good corporate citizen.
A Genealogy of Absence & Evil: Tracing the Nation's Borders with Captain America
Creators: name: Steinmetz, Christian
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Although research has previously connected comic books and national ideology, there
has yet to be a study examining the role of villains in this relationship. By analyzing
representations of evil and villainy in the long-running series Captain America and
understanding them in light of the model of the circuit of culture, the transforming imaginary space of the American nation can be traced.
Plaza Fiesta: A Re-Imagined Homeland Contributing to Latino Identity and Community
Creators: name: Marske, Sarah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: This study analyzes the relationship between Plaza Fiesta, a Latino shopping center
located in Atlanta, Georgia, and concepts of Latino identity and community formation among immigrants in a U.S. city. It is focused specifically on the complexities of identification for Latin American immigrants, who relate in various ways to Plaza Fiesta. One chapter explores the relationships between product consumption, marketing, spaces, and memory in the production of
hybrid identity formations. Another chapter considers the relationship between pan-ethnic Latino identity construction and notions of belonging and not belonging for these Latin American immigrants. The final chapter adds to knowledge about identity by analyzing the complexities and contradictions based on interviews, questionnaires, and observations at Plaza Fiesta. Moreover, this paper examines the importance these topics have with immigration issues and U.S. society. Overall, this paper suggests that Plaza Fiesta plays a role in establishing a sense of Latino community in Atlanta.
The Effect of Gay Visual Exemplars on Issue Perceptions in Newspaper Reports
Creators: name: Atwell, Anita
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Visual implicit propositioning suggests that exemplars can activate stereotypes regarding social group members, affecting how individuals may perceive issues presented in a news format.  This experiment sought to test the main tenet of visual implicit propositioning by examining how gay exemplars affect social estimate perceptions associated with the mortgage crisis and support for programs that would help homeowners refinance their mortgages.  One hundred and ninety heterosexual college students read a news story featuring recent the mortgage crisis with a gay male couple, a heterosexual couple or a house and reported their perceptions related to various social groups.  Gay exemplars did not affect social estimate perceptions, but did affect support for programs that would help homeowners refinance their homes. Attitudes towards gay males was examined as a moderating variable, however, this study did not find that these attitudes moderated the relationship between the exemplar presented and social estimates or support for programs.
Satellites, Neoliberal Globalization and Global Corporatism
Creators: name: Xu, Fangjie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Using the specific case of Rupert Murdoch's satellite operations, this thesis examines changes and trends in U.S. and Chinese satellite media policies under the diffusion of neoliberal globalization. Over the last two decades, the landscape of the global media market has been transformed by the force of transnational media conglomerates coupled with unprecedented technological innovation, including satellite telecommunications. Murdoch's satellite operations in the U.S. and China were synchronous with this process and therefore illustrate the trajectories of these two countries' media policies under different ideologies. This historical case study, which covers 1983 to the end of 2006 in the U.S. and 1993 to June 2008 in China, demonstrates that, in order to strengthen political power and capital power, both the U.S. and Chinese media industries are going forward to corporatism in two different ways.
Contagion from Abroad: U.S. Press Framing of Immigrants and Epidemics, 1891 to 1893
Creators: name: Moore, Harriet
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: This thesis examines press framing of immigrant issues and epidemics in newspapers and periodicals, 1891 to 1893. During these years, immigration policies became more restrictive because of the Immigration Act of 1891, the opening of Ellis Island in 1892, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1892, the New York City epidemics of 1892, the National Quarantine Act of 1893, and the nativist movement. Framing theory guided the following research questions: 1) How did articles in newspapers and periodicals frame immigrants and immigration issues in the context of epidemics from 1891 and 1893?; and 2) How did the press framing of immigrants and immigration issues in the context of epidemics from 1891 to 1893 reflect themes of nativism? This thesis contributes to the discourse about immigration because many Americans historically have learned about immigration issues from the press.
Mourning and Message: Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 Atlanta Funeral as an Image Event
Creators: name: Burns, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: The seven-and-a-half-hour series of funeral rites that occurred in Atlanta on April 9, 1968 in honor of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. were broadcast live to 120 million U.S. television viewers and reported extensively in local and national newspapers and magazines. While King's April 4 assassination triggered deadly riots in more than 100 cities, Atlanta remained peaceful before and during the funeral. In this research thesis I explore how the funeral was leveraged by three disparate stakeholder group's King's family, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Atlanta's liberal white leadership- to stage image events. I create a historiography for each group that draws on primary sources and original interviews. Using an intertextual approach I conduct qualitative content analysis of the media coverage generated by each group's actions, identifying seven major messages that emerged.
Georgia Newspaper Coverage Discovering Conventional Practices of the 'Cherokee Question': Prelude to the Removal, 1828-1832
Creators: name: Hobgood, Jr., James
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: This thesis analyzes the specific journalistic conventional practices of newspapers in Georgia as they focused on the ?Cherokee Question? in 1828-1832, the critical period during which the state considered the removal of the Cherokees from Georgia. The research compares news and opinion texts in five Georgia newspapers with news and opinion texts in the newspaper launched by the Cherokee nation in 1828,the Cherokee Phoenix. While the conventional practices in the white-owned press tended to legitimize removal, the Phoenix adopted some of the same conventions in order to defend and negotiate Cherokee culture and issues.
Dialectical Relationships in Pre 9/11 and Post 9/11 White Supremacist Discourse
Creators: name: Williams, Abigail
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: My thesis argues that a shift has taken place in white supremacist rhetoric post September 11, 2001. I focus on the pre-9/11 rhetoric of Jared Taylor, the post 9/11 rhetoric of Patrick Buchanan, and identify the attacks of September 11th as a catalytic event in the history of white supremacist rhetoric. Through careful rhetorical analysis, I identify the 9/11 shift as a shift in placement vis-…-vis the political mainstream.
TAVR for All? The Surgical Perspective
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiling
name: Puehler, Thomas
name: Frank, Derk
name: Sathananthan, Janarthanan
name: Sellers, Stephanie
name: Meier, David
name: Both, Marcus
name: Blanke, Philipp
name: Seoudy, Hatim
name: Saad, Mohammed
name: Müller, Oliver J.
name: Sondergaard, Lars
name: Lutter, Georg
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: In spite of the noninferiority of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in high- and intermediate-risk patients, there are still obstacles that need to be overcome before the procedure is further expanded and clinically integrated. The lack of evidence on the long-term durability of the bioprostheses used for TAVR remains of particular concern. In addition, surgery may be preferred over TAVR in patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) or with concomitant pathologies such as other valve diseases (mitral regurgitation/tricuspid regurgitation), aortopathy, and coronary artery disease. In this review, we discuss and summarize relevant data from clinical trials, current trends, and remaining obstacles, and provide our perspective on the indications for the expansion of TAVR.
E-health and the Internet: Factors that Influence Doctors' Mediation Behaviors with Patients
Creators: name: Robinson, Erin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: The Internet?s popularity as a health resource (also referred to as e-health) for patients is impacting the doctor-patient relationship and health care overall. Many patients now tend to look on the Internet for the information they seek in order to avoid the hassle of going to the doctor. It is important to investigate how the doctors themselves feel about this impact and see what factors influence their behaviors toward patients with regards to e-health. This study used mediation behavior theory and the theory of reasoned action to assess the relationship between doctors? beliefs/attitudes and their subjective norms about e-health and their mediation behavior toward patients. Results revealed that many factors, including perceived benefits of the effects of e-health, perceived concerns about possible negative effects, evaluations, positive experiences with patients and social norms indeed affect the type of mediation behavior doctors perform with patients when discussing e-health.
Radiohead:  The Guitar Weilding, Dancing, Singing Commodity
Creators: name: Lawson, Selena
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: In 2007, Radiohead released a downloadable album, In Rainbows, allowing consumers to pay what they thought the album was worth. The band responded to a moment of change in the music industry. Since then, other bands, like Nine Inch Nails and Coldplay, have made similar moves. Radiohead's capability to release an album and let the fans decide its worth relied on the image they built, which foregrounded their commodification. The historic move redefined the boundaries between art and commodity, a well know tension in popular music studies. The thesis focuses on popular music as communication in the changing industry. Using Radiohead?s album as a case study, it looks at the changing boundaries in the tension between art and commodity. The thesis examines Radiohead's performance, its mediation by the press, and what the album?s distribution method meant to the fans.
title: Alfalfa Nutrient Management Guide
Creators: name: Baker, Megan
name: Yost, Matt
name: Anderson, Clara
name: Cardon, Grant
name: Gale, Jody
name: Creech, Earl
name: Zesiger, Cody
name: Taylor, Kalen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: Proper nutrient management is key to maintaining high yields, quality, and stand longevity for profitable alfalfa production. By the time that visible symptoms of nutrient deficiencies have appeared, yield, quality, and economic losses have already occurred. Soil tests provide a proactive opportunity to prepare fertilizer or amendment supplementation before the growing season. Fertilizer applications can greatly improve crop yield and quality and, in turn, greatly increase economic returns.
Ethical Sustainability
Creators: name: Orr, Kaitlyn
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2009
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: From the Faculty Nominator: Kaitlyn wrote this essay for my Contemporary Philosophy course which looks at trends in European philosophy in the years following the tumultuous events of 1968. Her paper focuses on the work of Gilles Deleuze, a notoriously difficult thinker, and relates his ideas to environmental concerns. She argues that the traditional distinction between the natural and the unnatural is irrelevant to environmental ethics--because the products of human industry, she argues, are as natural as plants and animals. Whether we are talking about non-human eco-systems or thoroughly urban environments, the question we must constantly return to is whether or not the system is sustainable. To flesh out this thesis, Kaitlyn turns to both Aldo Leopold’s theory of deep ecology and to Deleuze’s writings on the seventeenth-century philosopher, Baruch Spinoza. Drawing on Spinoza’s theory of ethics, Kaitlyn argues that the goodness or badness of any relationships is relative to the positive or negative outcomes for the entities involved. When applied to the environment, the measure of these outcomes is usually understood in terms of sustainability. However, as Kaitlyn argues, we must be careful, nature is not as sustainable as we like to imagine. After all, the extinction of the dinosaurs could hardly be called a sustainable event, yet it was clearly a "natural" one. In fact, by the end of the paper, Kaitlyn has shown us that our concept of sustainability, which grounds so much of environmental ethics, is almost always accompanied by a deeply rooted anthropocentrism.
description: Essay 	From the Author: "Ethical Sustainability" is a culmination of sustained thought regarding environmental ethics and contemporary philosophy. Taking simultaneous classes in both, I found the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to intertwine with ideas of Aldo Leopold and deep ecology. I pursued these thinkers in an attempt to make sense of the roots of environmental ethics. Earth is changing rapidly, the effects unknown and frightening and it is essential to understand our own intentions as deeply as possible, for it is our intentions that often shape our philosophies and actions. What I have written here does not only reshape our concept of environmental ethics itself, but may begin to reshape our concepts in other areas of philosophical thought, such as feminism.
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/6-2/
L'Opinion Public et la Censure d'Encyclopedie
Creators: name: Narayanan, Anndal
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2009
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: This short paper, written for a French seminar on the Enlightenment, touches on some of my favorite topics in French history: intellectual history and the relationship between church and state (somehow, I couldn't figure out a way to write about French colonial history in an essay on the 18th century Encyclopedia). The essay examines the implicit threat to the church and the state embodied in the access to reason championed by the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert, in the context of a nascent force: public opinion. If the tool of reason was accessible to every man, and if both religion and politics could be subjected to the examination of reason, as many Encyclopédistes claimed, then the authorities of church and state had reason to worry. The irony that appears to our twenty-first century minds is that the compilers of the Encyclopedia did not by any means advocate a social or political revolution; rather, they desired to improve society and man through the application of reason to all aspects of the world, which nevertheless posed a strong enough danger to warrant censorship.
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/6-2/
Impact of Deforestation on Adjacent Small Stream Ecosystems
Creators: name: Beechem, Katie
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2009
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: From the Faculty Nominator: Katie wrote Impact of Deforestation on Adjacent Small Stream Ecosystems for BIO 240 (Ecology and Evolution). The assignment was to review an ecological or evolutionary topic of the students’ choosing. Papers were to include a synthesis of the current state of knowledge of the subject, the relevance of the topic, and any controversial issues surrounding the area. I was impressed with Katie’s original choice of topic and her comprehensive review of not only the biological implications, but also the important physical and chemical aspects of deforestation.
description: If there is one theme that pervades nearly every branch of ecology, it is the complex connectivity of each being to its physical, chemical, and biological surroundings. Though inherently fascinating, these relationships reach a new level of importance when human beings are drawn into the system. In this literature review paper for Dr. Cynthia Kicklighter’s Ecology and Evolution course, I chose to compile information from several independent scientific studies about the impact of deforestation on adjacent small streams - a topic that vividly represents the far-reaching environmental “domino effect" of this single human action.
description: Cynthia Kicklighter
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/6-2/
Measuring the financial impact and net value of goods and services provided in a student-run health care fair
Creators: name: Liu, Julia
name: Warmflash, Hana
name: Fan, Yichen
name: Kumasaka, Lisa
name: Hernandez-Duran, Gabriela
name: Nguyen, Minh
name: Drummond, Sarah
name: Jacobsen, Emily
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Health Fairs
subject: Health Equity
subject: Interprofessional Education
subject: Ill-Housed Persons
subject: Insurance, Health
subject: Oregon
subject: student run health fair
subject: houselessness

description: The Health Care Equity Fair (HCEF) began in 2009 as a health screening fair organized by OHSU students across interprofessional programs to provide resources for Oregonians without health insurance. As the number of unhoused individuals in Oregon continues to grow, HCEF serves as a crucial resource for individuals seeking medical care in a system without larger structural solutions. Free community health fairs like HCEF allow individuals facing barriers to access health services, preventive services, and address unmet healthcare needs. Students planning HCEF raised money, partnered with community organizations, and volunteered in different patient supporting roles. This study seeks to evaluate the net value of the funds raised, goods donated, services provided, and hours volunteered by students and community partners during the fair.
A Review on the Long-Term Performance of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: From Degradation Modeling to the Effects of Bipolar Plates, Sealings, and Contaminants
Creators: name: Pourrahmani, Hossein
name: Siavashi, Majid
name: Yavarinasab, Adel
name: Matian, Mardit
name: Chitgar, Nazanin
name: Wang, Ligang
name: Van Herle, Jan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are regarded as promising alternatives to internal combustion engines (ICEs) to reduce pollution. Recent research on PEMFCs focuses on achieving higher power densities, reducing the refueling time, mitigating the final price, and decreasing the degradations, to facilitate the commercialization of hydrogen mobility. The design of bipolar plates and compression kits, in addition to their coating, can effectively improve performance, increase durability, and support water/thermal management. Past reviews usually focused on the specific aspect, which can hardly provide readers with a complete picture of the key challenges facing and advances in the long-term performance of PEMFCs. This paper aims to deliver a comprehensive source to review, from both experimental, analytical and numerical viewpoints, design challenges, degradation modeling, protective coatings for bipolar plates, and key operational challenges facing and solutions to the stack to prevent contamination. The significant research gaps in the long-term performance of PEMFCs are identified as (1) improved bipolar-plate design and coating, (2) the optimization of the design of sealing and compression kits to reduce mechanical stresses, and (3) stack degradation regarding fuel contamination and dynamic operation.
Organizational Accessibility and Community Connections: Examining Changes in the Spatial Proximity of Pubic Housing Residents to Social Service Providers and Providers' Responses to Redevelopment
Creators: name: Stringer, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Public housing structures that are deemed ?severely distressed? are being demolished and replaced with mixed-income developments. The current study examines the role that social service organizations play in the relocation of public housing residents. Service organizations tend to locate in areas anchored by public housing complexes where the need for their services is immense. Organizations that lose clients due to relocations run the risk of losing the funding they get for serving that population. GIS mapping and semi-structured interviews were used to answer questions about how redevelopment affects the communication infrastructures of public housing residents. GIS mapping was used to determine how services are spatially distributed in relation to public housing developments in Atlanta. Representatives from a sample of those organizations located near current and former public housing locations were interviewed to examine if a strategic communication plan is in place to retain connections with clients during the relocation process.
Gaming Realism in Second Life
Creators: name: Zhang, Dan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Virtual worlds are online communities that enable user interaction via avatars in a computer-based simulated environment. In recent years, the fast growth of virtual worlds and their enormous potential for various applications have attracted much attention. Though the uses of virtual worlds are becoming numerous in diverse fields, the core issue for their development from the perspective of gamers is to maximize user immersion.

This paper tackles the issue from the perspective of game designers and explores the immersive dimensions of users via an experiment. The experimental platform is a specific virtual world, Second Life, and a particular gaming situation, dancing. The main manipulation involves altering the graphic realism level of both the avatar­?s appearance and the dancing environment. The research aims to find out whether there is a correlation between graphic realism and user immersion and, if there is, what element(s) or degrees of realism will lead to different levels of user immersion.
Additional file 1 of Characteristics of patients with difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis: a descriptive retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Qi, Wen
name: Robert, Antoine
name: Singbo, Narcisse
name: Ratelle, Lucie
name: Fortin, Paul R.
name: Bessette, Louis
name: Brown, Jacques P.
name: Michou, Laëtitia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Racial Satire and Chappelle's Show
Creators: name: Zakos, Katharine
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines Chappelle's Show?s use of racial satire to challenge dominant stereotypes and the effectiveness of that satire as a tool to achieve perspective by incongruity. I use a variation of D?Acci?s circuit of media study model to examine the institutional challenges and limitations on the show due to the context in which it was created, produced, and distributed; to interrogate the strategies employed by the show?s writers/creators to overcome these challenges through the performance of race; and to analyze the audience?s understanding of the use of racial satire through a reception study of the show?s audience. I argue that using satire often has the unintended consequence of crossing the line between ?sending up? a behavior and supporting it, essentially becoming that which it is trying to discount, though this is not to say that its intrinsic value is therefore completely negated.
In the Culture of Truthiness: Comic Criticism and the Performative Politics of Stephen Colbert
Creators: name: Holcomb, Justine
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: I analyze comedian Stephen Colbert's performances as the bloviating "fake" pundit, "Stephen Colbert." Colbert's work reflects the progression of personality-driven media and performance-driven society. His frequent shifts and blending of characters ? from actor and entertainer to pundit and politician ? call attention to the similarly character-driven nature of "real" figures in politics and media. Using Kenneth Burke's theory of tragic and comic frames of acceptance, I analyze three sets of Colbert's performances ? hosting The Colbert Report, speaking at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, and running for president ? as well as the conventional situations and discourses he complicates. I argue that Colbert's comic critique provides perspective by incongruity about the processes of production, mediation, and persuasion in the business of news punditry ? and the literal staging of politics performed as entertainment.
Appropriation of Yoga and Other Indigenous Knowledge & Cultural Heritage: A Critical Analysis of the Legal Regime of Intellectual Property Rights
Creators: name: Pokhrel, Lok
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) has posed an unprecedented threat to the existence of an Indigenous Knowledge system. There is an increasing amount of appropriation of indigenous knowledge, whereby corporations from rich countries are claiming proprietary rights over knowledge that has belonged to cultures and people of indigenous communities for hundreds of years. IPRs have been inappropriately utilized hindering development and perpetuating poverty within indigenous knowledge?holding communities. This thesis attempts to frame the current debate at the intersection of IPRs and indigenous knowledge, bringing in the case studies on the appropriation of traditional Yoga of Hindu and the Zia sun of Zia?Pueblo of New Mexico. By bringing two case studies on appropriation, this project employs legal?critical scholarship to analyze how the current IPR regime supports commodifying traditional knowledge and artifacts such as Yoga and the Zia sun, and recommends for customary law as a viable alternative to the IPRs.
Hit Compounds and Associated Targets in Intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Creators: name: Tsui, Clement K. M.
name: Sorrentino, Flavia
name: Narula, Gagandeep
name: Mendoza-Losana, Alfonso
name: Del Rio, Ruben Gonzalez
name: Herrán, Esther Pérez
name: Lopez, Abraham
name: Bojang, Adama
name: Zheng, Xingji
name: Remuiñán-Blanco, Modesto Jesus
name: Av-Gay, Yossef
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the etiological agent of tuberculosis, is one of the most devastating infectious agents in the world. Chemical-genetic characterization through in vitro evolution combined with whole genome sequencing analysis was used identify novel drug targets and drug resistance genes in Mtb associated with its intracellular growth in human macrophages. We performed a genome analysis of 53 Mtb mutants resistant to 15 different hit compounds. We found nonsynonymous mutations/indels in 30 genes that may be associated with drug resistance acquisitions. Beyond confirming previously identified drug resistance mechanisms such as rpoB and lead targets reported in novel anti-tuberculosis drug screenings such as mmpL3, ethA, and mbtA, we have discovered several unrecognized candidate drug targets including prrB. The exploration of the Mtb chemical mutant genomes could help novel drug discovery and the structural biology of compounds and associated mechanisms of action relevant to tuberculosis treatment.
L337 Soccer Moms: Conceptions of "Hardcore" and "Casual" in the Digital Games Medium
Creators: name: Boyer, Steven
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: As digital games have become increasingly significant in the entertainment media landscape, the terms ?casual? and ?hardcore? have become the primary ways to describe gaming audiences, genres, and gameplay. However, these terms are saturated with outdated stereotypes involving gender, age, and class. Focusing on industrial discourse, this thesis examines this dichotomy, emphasizing areas of discontinuity and overlap to question why these terms have become so ubiquitous in gaming discourse and what functions they fulfill for a variety of groups including the industry, advertisers, and audience members. Ultimately, I suggest that these terms need to be replaced in order to move beyond restrictive stereotypes, proposing a new framework for digital games that takes into consideration user motivation, personal investment, and historical specificity.
Analyse des Erfüllungsaufwands und der "One in one out"-Regel als Leitbilder der Politikgestaltung
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Umweltpolitik
subject: Strategische Aspekte
subject: Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung
subject: Umweltauswirkung
subject: one in one out-Regel
subject: Bürokratiekosten
subject: Umweltnutzen
subject: Umweltfolgen
subject: Erfüllungsaufwand
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

description: Staatliche Regelungen dienen dem öffentlichen Wohl und bezwecken u.a. Verbesserungen im sozialen Bereich, für die Wirtschaft oder für die Umwelt. In Deutschland sind alle Ministerien verpflichtet, die Auswirkungen eines Gesetzesvorhabens in einer Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung (GFA) darzustellen. Die Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung bezweckt die systematische Aufarbeitung der Auswirkungen von staatlichen Interventionen. Als Gesetzesfolge verpflichtend zu quantifizieren ist dabei der Erfüllungsaufwand.Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Staatliche Regelungen dienen dem öffentlichen Wohl und bezwecken u.a. Verbesserungen im sozialen Bereich, für die Wirtschaft oder für die Umwelt. In Deutschland sind alle Ministerien verpflichtet, die Auswirkungen eines Gesetzesvorhabens in einer Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung (GFA) darzustellen. Die Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung bezweckt die systematische Aufarbeitung der Auswirkungen von staatlichen Interventionen. Als Gesetzesfolge verpflichtend zu quantifizieren ist dabei der Erfüllungsaufwand.
The Rhetorical Dimensions of Place-making: Texts, Structures, and Movement in Atlantic Station
Creators: name: Irving, Brook
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: The suggestion that cities ?speak? has become a growing interest in communication scholarship, yet the particular ways city spaces communicate remains under theorized. I argue that the intersection of people with spaces, the networks between texts, objects, and movement are all implicated in the rhetorical process of place-making in which individuals are both shaped by and shaping space. I envision this process to involve three interdependent modes of symbolization: textual constructions about place, symbolic activities of place, and movement and action in space. The mode of inquiry proposed here contributes to a body of scholarship interested in exploring the multiple ways cities ?speak? by forwarding a reading of space as text. Focusing on the new urbanist community Atlantic Station in Atlanta, GA, this analysis reveals the dynamic tensions between the community?s textual representations, the structural symbolization of the development, and the uses of the space.
Hurricane Katrina and the Third World: A Cluster Analysis of the "Third World" Label in the Mass Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina
Creators: name: Mabrey III, Paul
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and the United States in August of 2005. While an emerging literature base details the consequences and lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina, a critical missing piece for understanding Hurricane Katrina American landfall is a rhetorical perspective. I argue a rhetorical perspective can significantly contribute to a better understanding of Hurricane Katrina?s implications for creating policy, community and identity. As a case study, I employ Kenneth Burke?s cluster analysis to examine the use of the label ?Third World? to describe New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and the United States in the mass media coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
Communication Channels, Social Support and Satisfaction in Long Distance Romantic Relationships
Creators: name: Yin, Lijuan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Based on uses and gratification theory, media richness theory, and social presence theory,
the present study explores the role of different communication channels and social support in
relationship maintenance among long distance dating partners. Specifically, how social support is related to relational uncertainty, how the use of different communication channels is related to
social support variables, and what are main factors of relationship satisfaction are examined in this study. A total of 311 respondents participated in the study. All of four social support variables,emotional support, socializing, advice/guidance and support appraisals were found to be negatively related to relational uncertainty. In addition, both phone call and webcam use were positively related to all support behaviors and support appraisals, while email use was positively related to advice/guidance and support appraisals. Finally, the regression results suggested that emotional support, socializing, support appraisals, phone call, and webcam use were positive predictors of relationship satisfaction, whereas text messaging negatively predicted relationship satisfaction.
Media Literacy in the United States: A Close Look at Texas
Creators: name: Ward-Barnes, Ava
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: It is difficult to deny the ubiquitous nature of our mediated landscape in the United States. With the plethora of mediated messages come media related risks for children. Training in media literacy is one way to combat these risks. Unfortunately, most American public school media literacy standards are in need of improvement. This project examines how media literacy functions in American K-12 public schools. It not only applies a standard of assessment for media literacy standards, but also provides a synopsis of the range of advanced to poor programs across the country. Then, suggestions for improving lacking programs are revealed in a case study on Texas? advanced media literacy program.
What Do They Expect? A Study of the Rhetoric of Job Expectations for First Post-College Jobs Found on Career Webpages of Gender-Dominant Organizations
Creators: name: Neiner, Catherine
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Potential employees use organization career webpages as a first source of information about potential jobs. A content analysis of the career webpages of twenty organizations that recruit from male-dominant occupations and twenty organizations that recruit for female-dominant occupations were examined for gender-specific textual markers and for textual markers for the characteristics of job expectations of comfort, reward and responsibility. Specific focus was made on college recruitment pages for employment into first post-college jobs. This study found that there is an underlying gender issue on organization?s college recruiting online presence. Organizations that have a recruitment strategy to hire women are challenged to appropriately appeal to women in their online recruitment messaging frameworks. Additionally, the rhetoric of job expectations is elusive and so is inadequate to foster the development of accurate expectations for a first post-college job.
Changes in Branding Strategy: A Discourse Analysis of NATO Publications and Speech Regarding its Russian Relationship and the NATO-Russia Council
Creators: name: Sowers, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: This thesis studies how NATO has changed the way it brands itself to Russia, from a cooperative and humanitarian stance in 2002 toward a critical and confrontational posture between 2006 and 2008. The study is based on a discourse analysis of NATO?s publications. In the political climate following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, NATO?s NRC established a cooperative relationship with the new Russian Federation, which included offers of humanitarian aid in food and medical care. This study shows that under the NRC, from 2002 to 2006, NATO?s image toward Russia continued to be one of ?Strategic Partner.? Between 2006 and 2008, the image NATO portrayed toward Russia reverted to confrontational. The analysis of NATO?s change can be understood by considering the definition of brand image: a symbolic construct created within the minds of people and consists of all information and expectations associated with a product or service.