cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
[Redacted Text] and Surveillance: An Ideographic Analysis of the Struggle between National Security and Privacy
Creators: name: Connelly, Eric
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: In the aftermath of the events of 9/11, the U.S. executive branch has repeatedly maintained that its need for action to secure the nation requires a revised interpretation of individual liberties. This study will explore the tensions between the positive ideographs  and  in response to the negative ideograph  in a contemporary United States court ruling. Using Burke?s pentad, and cluster analysis, as well as Brummett?s notion of strategic silence, the study examines how the FISCR substantially changed the interrelationship between the two ideographs. The study concludes that the FISCR situated strengthening national security as the purpose of the case it ruled on, which privileged national security over privacy. Throughout the expansion of security,> the court used silence to justify its decision. This analysis both adds to our understanding of the synchronic relationship between ideographs, and examines how the courts utilize such interplays to reconstitute community.
The Failed NC-17 Rating, Screen Violence and Sexuality, and the Viability of the Current MPAA Ratings System
Creators: name: James, David
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: While the MPAA?s Classification and Ratings Administration ? or CARA ? has generally expanded the freedoms of filmmakers since its 1968 inception, the economic failure of the NC-17 rating has led to substantial inconsistencies in the rating system. Because of the CARA model, filmmakers have been able to probe the extremes of violence under the R rating while they have been unable to do the same for screen sexuality. Through the NC-17 rating, CARA has been able to repress non-pornographic sexual portrayals by rating a given film NC-17, thus forcing contractually obligated directors to make edits that are sometimes inconsistent and arbitrary. Though cinema used to have significant thematic and visual freedoms over television, NC-17 level paid cable programming has surpassed what is allowed under CARA?s R-rating, allowing for more complex and mature viewpoints on sexuality than is currently allowed to regularly reach film audiences.
Framing Autism Causes and Prevelance: A Content Analysis of Television Evening News Coverage--1994 Through April 2010
Creators: name: Colson, Angela
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Autism has been declared an urgent public health concern by the U.S. government and an epidemic by some advocacy groups. Determining autism?s diagnostic criteria, prevalence, and causes have been challenging. It is important to examine how the U.S. media have contributed to the public?s understanding of autism. Previous research found that British media coverage of the theory that vaccines cause autism was shown to contribute to the decline of vaccination rates in Britain (Lewis & Speers, 2003). This study examined U.S. television news media coverage using an agenda-setting theory and media framing perspective. A content analysis was conducted of national television evening news broadcasts airing on ABC, CBS, and NBC from 1994, when autism was first recognized as a spectrum disorder through April 2010, the time of this study. Specifically, this study examined the saliency of autism stories and how autism was framed in terms of prevalence and causes.
Cultural Play at the Crazy Horse Colossus: Narrative
Creators: name: Cornwell, Thomas
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This thesis explores the Crazy Horse Memorial orientation film and its rhetorical claim to represent Lakota values in the rhetorically contested Black Hills of South Dakota. Walter Fisher?s concept of narrative rationality is used to analyze the informal logic of the memorial film narrative. The Crazy Horse Memorial is seen as a response to Mt. Rushmore?s colonialist legacy. Analysis shows that the Crazy Horse Memorial actually has much in common with Rushmore?s legacy of Euro-American colonialism. This thesis discusses the effects of this redefinition of Lakota cultural values on the rhetorical sphere of the contested Black Hills.
The Radical Voice in the Rhetoric of the Tea Party Movement
Creators: name: Lemuel, Joel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This study examines the analyzes the 2010 National Tea Party Convention in order to determine whether the Tea Party Movements? rhetoric is unique from the rhetoric employed by previously studied movements. The study forwards the concept of a pseudo-movement: a movement that appears radical, but has normative, procedural goals.
Additional file 1 of The efficacy and potential mechanisms of pyrotinib in targeting EGFR and HER2 in advanced oral squamous cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Zhou, Liang
name: Le, Kehao
name: Chen, Qianming
name: Wang, Huiming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
History in the Making: The Impact of Ideology in Lynne Cheney's Children's Books
Creators: name: Miller, Samuel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This analysis of children?s literature attempts to understand the relationship between social reproduction and ideology. This thesis argues that children?s literature written by Lynne Cheney is a cultural artifact that constitutes an ideological history. In addition, it argues that her books can be used by ideological institutions to strengthen socially accepted practices through the theory of social reproduction. Since there is a lack of theory regarding cultural artifacts in literary studies, an adoption from the field of pedagogy called the theory of hidden curriculum is used to explain social reproduction. The process of social reproduction reinforces socioeconomic structures put in place in order to reinforce social norms.
The Flow of the Water: Contemporary American Realisms
Creators: name: Horton, Justin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: "Realism" is one of the enduring theoretical problems of the cinema. This study aims to broaden the parameters of the term by focusing on an often overlooked strain of thought that flows throughout the work of a number of prominent and seemingly incongruous thinkers such as Bazin, Kracauer, Benjamin, Barthes, Bu¤uel, and others. Realism, I contend, is undergirded by something far more elusive and irrational than verisimilitude or social commentary. To demonstrate, I will examine a body of contemporary American films that I will cast?perhaps provocatively?as realist. I rely heavily upon Deleuze to discuss how free indirect discourse and the disjunction of sound and image open realism to an oneiric and/or intersubjective realm.
Leaving
Creators: name: Guntarik, Olivia
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360299
subject: Creative and professional writing not elsewhere classified

description: This oral history exhibition was launched by Andrea Coote, State Parliamentary Secretary for Family and Community Services at the Immigration Museum on 4 March 2011. It forms part of an archive of 100 stories selected by the Victorian Immigrant and Refugee Women's Coalition (VIRWC) from hundreds of submissions across Victoria. The VIRWC performed a rigorous evaluation process which involved members of the board assessing the significance of the stories submitted. The work is connected to a grant from the RMIT Foundation and the Malcolm Moore Industry Research Award which the author won in 2011 to examine intergenerational migrant narratives. It contributes to strengthening the Immigration Museum's collections and creating a more diverse and complex picture of Australian immigration histories. This work was also awarded an Australian Society of Authors Mentorship Award in 2011, a prestigious national award for developing a manuscript, one of 15 selected from 219 entrants. The work is an important component of the Immigration Museum's collections; it was the first time that 100 stories, from a first person perspective, were collated. It forms part of a project by the author titled Voice from the Margins, which aims to document the narratives of first generation migrants and second generation Australians, and highlight the different ways migrants participate in community life in Australia using digital stories and photographs. This work contributes to creative innovations in representations of immigration through its unique use of digital technologies to tell stories. The work was widely reviewed across a range of media, including the mainstream and multicultural press (see http://www.beyondindia.com.au/news/606/15/A-hundred-women-give-â-Her-Storyâ-to-the-Immigration-Museum.html). Novelist, Fiona McGregor, who reviewed it said, 'The writing...is very bittersweet, it rarely flags, it¿s very fresh. It¿s clear and gallops along.'
The Journey of Research Data Management and Open Science at Hasselt University: Achievements and Future Directions
Creators: name: Poelmans, Hanne
name: Vancauwenbergh, Sadia
name: D'haenens, Simon
name: D'haenens Simon
name: Daniels, Nicky
name: Schoeters, Eline
name: Berckmans, Jolien
name: Cleeren, Hilde
name: Vlietinck, Hanne
name: Lernout, Pieter
name: Kenens, Ulrike
name: Moens, Philippe
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2022

description: Poster presented at EOSC National Tripartite Event (NTE) on 16 April 2024 at the Palais des Academies in Brussels.
Constructing Asian/American Women on Screen
Creators: name: Wilcox, Charleen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Asian/American women occupy a highly circumscribed subject position in popular Western culture that entails a unique reading of our bodies. My discussion of this group will gain greater depth and scope by using Black body theory as a theoretical framework to better understand how Asian/American bodies become a site to enact a multitude of fantasies, fears, and anxieties. I will examine three case studies: the construction of the interracial ?romance? featuring Asian/American women produced in classical Hollywood cinema, interracial pornography featuring Asian/American female performers, and the independent works of Asian/American feminist filmmakers. Topics interrogated include the over-determination of non-White bodies and possibilities for destabilizing bodies and crafting their new legibility.
Nadya Suleman and Kate Gosselin in the Media: Exploring Images of Motherhood and Reproductive Technology
Creators: name: Hanna, Lisa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This project examines how Nadya Suleman and Kate Gosselin were represented in the media following the births of their higher order multiples by conducting a critical textual analysis of newspaper and entertainment magazine articles to answer the following questions: How were Suleman and Gosselin portrayed as mothers? And how were they portrayed as recipients of reproductive technology? The findings illustrate that race and class combined with gender to play an important role in determining who has a right to be a mother and what that mother should look like. Traditional stereotypes within media coverage about good mothers and bad mothers reinforced prejudices about who deserves access to reproductive technology and who does not.
The Game of Unity?: The 2007 Cricket World Cup as a Catalyst toward Caribbean Identity Construction
Creators: name: Wiggan, Peta-Gaye
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: It was paramount for the English-speaking Caribbean to host a successful 2007 Cricket World Cup and field an outstanding West Indian cricket team for the international sporting mega-event. For CARICOM and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), there were two principle goals ? first, to exhibit regional Caribbean identity, and second, to be triumphant under the leadership of the West Indian cricket team?s captain, Trinidadian Brian Lara. Identities are multifaceted and intricate, negotiated and renegotiated, based on a history of economic, political and cultural forces. This thesis interrogates Caribbean identity through textual analysis of the broadcast of the opening ceremony and regional newspaper coverage of the spectacle as well as ensuing events that were held in eight of the Caribbean countries from 11 March to 28 April 2007. The thesis questions whether this mega-event served as a catalyst toward Caribbean identity construction.
A Balancing Act Between Nationalism and Globalism: A Comparison of Two Chinese Official Newspapers in Portrayal of America 1989-2009
Creators: name: Dai, Shuhua
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This study uses discourse analysis to investigate and compare the coverage of America in two Chinese official newspapers, the Chinese language People?s Daily and the English language China Daily in January in 1989, 1999, and 2009. This study compares the two newspapers in four aspects of the texts: topic selection, headline design, writing tactics, and visual components use, to find any differences in reporting tactics according to their different readerships. People?s Daily employed a constant editorial preference for political content and a provocative reporting tactics. Meanwhile, China Daily used a more global editorial approach. Its content and its reports were increasingly consistent with Western journalism criteria: accurate, brief, and clear.
Communicating with the World: History of Rhetorical Responses to International Crisis and the 2007 U.S. National Strategy for Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication
Creators: name: Berryman, Laurel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Following the events of September 11, 2001, we have seen a revival in American public diplomacy. I argue the U.S. continues to rely on similar rhetorical responses to crisis that are an essential part of American public diplomacy interconnected through history, from the birth of our country to the recent 2007 U.S. National Strategy for Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication. Tracing this recurring rhetorical process from our founding to the Carter Administration illustrates our reliance on similar rhetoric despite changing contexts. I use Burke?s concept of identification and the interrelated use of ethos and enemy construction to demonstrate the rhetorical parallels between the Carter Administration?s 1979 Communication Plan with Muslim countries and the 2007 NSPDSC. This analysis not only contributes to the gap in public diplomacy research but provides insight into American public diplomacy since 9/11.
Imagining Queerness: Sexualities in Underground Films in the Contemporary P. R. China
Creators: name: Zhao, Jin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: In response to the globalizing queerness argument and the cultural specificity argument in queer cultural studies, this thesis examines the emerging modern queer identity and culture in the contemporary People?s Republic of China (PRC) in an intercultural context. Recognizing Chinese queer culture as an unstable, transforming and complex collection of congruent and/or contesting meanings, not only originated in China but also traveling across cultures, this thesis aims to exorcise the reified images of Chinese queers, or tongzhi, to contribute to the understanding of a dynamic construction of Chinese queerness at the turn of a new century, and to lend insight on the complicity of the elements at play in this construction by analyzing the underground films with queer content made in the PRC.
Twitter's Impact on Sports Journalism Practice: Where a New Medium Meets and Old Art
Creators: name: Sears, Kyle
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: This project aims to determine if and how the relatively new journalistic tool of Twitter is impacting journalistic decision-making and news production as a legitimate tool amongst sports writers. Using the methods of qualitative textual analysis and in-depth interviewing, this project analyzes the words and tweets of nine journalists at prominent U.S. newspapers in an attempt to fill a void in research among the topics of journalistic decision-making, sports journalism, and Twitter and to answer questions that arise from the marriage of a certain type of journalism and a particular new media platform.
A House in the Middle of the Road: Serbia's Otpor Movement and its Strategies of Nonviolent Resistance
Creators: name: Kelava, Jelena
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Using Gene Sharp?s guidelines for nonviolent action and Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way?s four arenas of contestation (electoral, legislative, judiciary, and the media) that allow opposition forces to challenge, weaken, or defeat competitive authoritarian regimes, this study provides a functionalist analysis of Serbia?s Otpor movement. Serbia under Milo?evi? was a particular type of hybrid regime called competitive authoritarianism, a regime where the rules of a fully democratically integrated government are violated so often and to such extent that competitive authoritarian incumbents fall short of the bare minimum standards of conventional democracy, bordering the line of authoritarian dictators. Combining Sharp, Levitsky, and Way?s functionalist perspective on social movements with those of sociologists Charles Tilly and Lesley Wood and Charles Stewart?s functional approach to the rhetoric of social movements, this study outlines Otpor?s strategies and analyzes them in hopes of outlining a blueprint for future social movements with similar political opportunities available.
Discourse Analysis of Public Debate over U.S. Government Faith-Based Initiative of 2001
Creators: name: Scott, Vincente
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: 

This thesis uses the discourse analysis methods developed by T. Van Dijk and J. P. Gee to examine public debate over the Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in 2001 as it arose in testimony before the U. S. House of Representatives and related news articles published in the
New York Times and Washington Post. 
In analyzing the language used in the congressional hearings and news articles printed between January 2001 and December 2004, Van Dijk?s categories and related questions were methodologically combined with Gee?s approach to provide a framework and method for analyzing the underlying discourse. While debate participants expressed strong beliefs in complex social ideals, many see America?s social problems as intractable in nature, where key decisions about distributions of funds are based on political considerations, as opposed to merit or need.
Rhetoric and Rupture: A Theory of the Event
Creators: name: Mills, Robert
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: This thesis engages the problematic of agency and interiority in rhetorical studies by proposing a theory of evental rhetoric. The event is a rupture in the continuities of the symbolic, revealing the
distance between the forces of symbolization and their phantasmagorical effects. This theory is built upon the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacques Lacan, engaging questions of truth, being, and the relationship of the subject to herself and the world. The rhetorics of legal practice, particularly the per curiam opinions of the United States Supreme Court, I argue, provide the institutional and epistemological formations necessary to transcend the bonds of situated rhetoric and become truly evental. I turn to the Supreme Court decision in New York Times Co. v. United States as an example of such an evental rhetoric. These rhetorics clear the way for the introduction of the new, and found a conversation in which democracy can begin.
Additional file 1 of The effect of solid food diet therapies on the induction and maintenance of remission in Crohn’s disease: a systematic review
Creators: name: Zhang, Jennifer Li
name: Vootukuru, Nikil
name: Niewiadomski, Olga
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1
No Angel: An Analysis of Media Coverage of Nadja Benaissa in the U.K., U.S. and Germany
Creators: name: Cantrell, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: The media?s portrayal of HIV has taken a number of different forms since the disease was first discovered over three decades ago.  HIV has been portrayed as an epidemic and a disease affecting homosexuals and immigrants.  Its transmission has also been portrayed as a criminal offense.  In August 2010, the German singer Nadja Benaissa was arrested for passing on HIV to a former partner and exposing two other men. Media constructions of this story draw upon HIV stereotypes because of her drug-using past, her immigrant status and her criminal actions. This media study points to a new discourse centered on the shared responsibility of safe sex. While Benaissa was mostly blamed for transmission, the media at times suggested that safe sex concerning HIV was not entirely dependent upon HIV-positive individuals.
Choline Supplementation Modifies the Effects of Developmental Alcohol Exposure on Immune Responses in Adult Rats
Creators: name: Baker, Jessica A.
name: Breit, Kristen R.
name: Bodnar, Tamara
name: Weinberg, Joanne
name: Thomas, Jennifer D.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Prenatal alcohol exposure can disrupt the development of numerous systems, including the immune system. Indeed, alterations in cytokine levels may contribute to the neuropathological, behavioral, and cognitive problems, and other adverse outcomes observed in individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Importantly, supplementation with the essential nutrient choline can improve performance in hippocampal-dependent behaviors; thus, the present study examined the effects of choline on plasma and hippocampal cytokines in adult rats exposed to ethanol in early development. From postnatal day (PD) 4–9 (third trimester equivalent), pups received ethanol (5.25 g/kg/day) or Sham intubations. Subjects were treated with choline chloride (100 mg/kg/day) or saline from PD10–30. On PD60, plasma and hippocampal tissue was collected before and after an immune challenge (lipopolysaccharide (LPS); 50 ug/kg). Prior to the immune challenge, ethanol-exposed subjects showed an overall increase in hippocampal pro-inflammatory cytokines, an effect mitigated by choline supplementation. In contrast, in the plasma, choline reduced LPS-related increases in pro-inflammatory markers, particularly in ethanol-exposed subjects. Thus, early choline supplementation may modify both brain and peripheral inflammation. These results suggest that early choline can mitigate some long-term effects of ethanol exposure on hippocampal inflammation, which may contribute to improved hippocampal function, and could also influence peripheral immune responses that may impact overall health.
Piyar zindai hai. Karachi - Directed by Durriya Kazi
Creators: name: Douglas, Mick
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330315
subject: Textile and fashion design
classificationCode: 360603
subject: Performance art

description: A one-night performance tour of the city exploring how citizens move about their lives at a time of unpredictable violence and social anxiety, featuring a mobile video installation on a decorated truck and two passenger-carrying mini-buses pauses in public locations. Review: http://tribune.com.pk/story/142327/piyar-zindagi-hai-motorcade-spreads-some-love-in-the-city/
Online Gaming and Teamwork
Creators: name: Jagad, Lakshmi
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: This thesis aims to find out the relationship, if any, between playing multi-player online games and developing teamwork qualities. Online multi-player games involve thousands of players who play in teams (or solo, as the preference may be) in sophisticated gaming environments. As gamers team together to complete missions within the game, teamwork concepts such as communication skills, leadership, coordination, negotiation and other similar qualities come to the fore. The research component of this thesis consists of a survey where respondents answered questions about their online gaming behavior. They also answered questions about their experience working in teams in the offline environment. A total of 202 responses were collected and analyzed. There was a significant negative association found between autocratic leadership ability and hours spent per week playing online games in teams/groups. Team communication skills and leadership communication skills were significantly related to the degree of involvement in the gaming community, but only for individuals with low leadership-work experience. A significant relationship was also seen between democratic leadership skills and the degree of involvement in the gaming community. In addition, a significant negative relationship was found between autocratic leadership ability and degree of involvement in the gaming community.
Additional file 1 of How women living with HIV in the UK manage infant-feeding decisions and vertical transmission risk – a qualitative study
Creators: name: Kasadha, Bakita
name: Hinton, Lisa
name: Tariq, Shema
name: Nyatsanza, Farai
name: Namiba, Angelina
name: Freeman-Romilly, Nell
name: Rai, Tanvi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Identification is Persuasion: Eisenhower?s Call for Unity and the Founding of NATO?s Military Headquarters
Creators: name: Fossum, Debra
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Historians of the founding years of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) acknowledge General Dwight D. Eisenhower?s role as the first Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), yet they ignore the effect Eisenhower?s rhetoric had in the creation of a sense of unity among Western European nations. Rhetorical analysis of Eisenhower?s time as SACEUR offers scholars a unique look into the founding years of NATO and the beginning of European unification. Using Kenneth Burke?s theory of the four master tropes, I analyze how Eisenhower?s role in the development of NATO was important to the eventual development of a unified Europe.
The Glitch Aesthetic
Creators: name: Jackson, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: The miscommunication between sender and receiver during transcoding indexes specific historical moments similarly to analog film's indexical trace. Iconography and glitch art begin to establish glitch's deictic index. The glitch aesthetic exposes societal paranoia by illustrating dependence on the digital and fear of system failure. With the advent of video sharing sites like Youtube and popular cyberfilms, the glitch aesthetic has evolved into a pop culture artifact.
"To Blaze Forever in a Blazing World": Queer Reconstruction and Cultural Memory in the Works of Alan Moore
Creators: name: Besozzi, Michael
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: This thesis is a queer analysis of two graphic novels by writer Alan Moore: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series (art by Kevin O?Neill, 1999-Present) and Lost Girls (art by Melinda Gebbie, 1992-3). These two works re-contextualize familiar characters such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mina Murray, and Alice to uncover both the liberating desires and the sexist, homophobic, and imperialistic anxieties underlining historically popular fiction. Focusing on three characters utilized in Moore?s work, this thesis argues that the ideological associations with those chosen characters and the reconstructions of queerness in their narratives offer contemporary subjects resistance to limiting cultural tendencies and create an alternative space that call attention to phobic societal constructs. Both Lost Girls and the League series redefine discursively constituted identities and offer the potential to re-write normative codes of sex and sexuality.
Veiled Politics: Legitimating the Burqa Ban in the French Press
Creators: name: Roberts, Anne
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: In October 2010 the Constitutional Council of France approved a law banning the burqa and niqab from all public places.  Joining the ongoing scholarly discussion on veiling, this study seeks to understand the role the French press played in legitimating the ban, the first of its kind to be implemented in Europe. I argue that discourse in the press made the legislation appear reasonable and necessary because of its association with gender inequality and religious fundamentalism.  This media narrative legitimated the legislation by presenting the veil as intolerable and ?against public social order.?  Made necessary by rapidly shifting demographics in contemporary France, this discourse was couched in a defensive employment of la‹cit‚.
Disney's Portrayal of Nonhuman Animals in Animated Films Between 2000 and 2010
Creators: name: Leventi-Perez, Oana
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: This paper used the constant comparative method to examine the 12 animated features released by Disney between 2000 and 2010 for: (1) their representation of nonhuman animals (NHAs) and the portrayal of race, class, gender, and speciesism within this representation, (2) the ways they describe the relationship between humans and NHAs, and (3) whether they promote an animal rights perspective.  Three major themes were identified: NHAs as stereotypes, family, and human/NHA dichotomy.  Analysis of these themes revealed that Disney?s animated features promote speciesism and celebrate humanity?s superiority by justifying the subordination of NHAs to human agency.  Furthermore, while Disney?s representation of NHAs remains largely anthropocentric, most of its animated features do not reflect the tenets of animal rights.
Team Edward or Team Jacob? The Portrayal of Two Versions of the "Ideal" Male Romantic Partner in the Twilight Film Series
Creators: name: Bedoya, Paola
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: The popularity of the Twilight saga, enhanced by the film adaptations of the books, sparked a series of interesting reactions of fans. One was the creation of ?Team Edward? and ?Team Jacob,? in which fans aligned with one or the other character and argue about which one of them could be a better romantic partner. This study explores the messages the movies are sending to young girls around the world about what are the traits of the ?ideal? male romantic partner as portrayed through the characters of Edward and Jacob.  A textual analysis of the first three movie adaptations of the saga, Twilight (2008), New Moon (2009), and Eclipse (2010) was conducted. Based in social cognitive theory and using a feminist critical approach, I argue that these messages might be teaching young girls lessons about relationships that are up to certain degree dangerous, some of them perpetuating patriarchy.
Remember
Creators: name: Vines, Anthony
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: REMEMBER is a film script that operates within the horror genre but touches upon the subgenre of body horror as well as the sub-subgenre of body modification/alteration. It examines psychological and sociological issues such as identity and acceptance, gender understanding and social assignment.
The story follows five young women who live outside the norms of ?acceptable? society. After an accident near a small, isolated, rural town called Tantalus leaves them stranded with strangers, the girls soon find that something is amiss. Having arrived during a tornado just before the towns Founder?s Day festival, they discover there is more in Tantalus than meets the eye. The town is founded on a dark past which appears to be returning in a fashion. Now with a body count rising and no way to leave, the women find themselves connected to the murders. The only question that remains is how?
Additional file 1 of Radiomics nomogram based on CT radiomics features and clinical factors for prediction of Ki-67 expression and prognosis in clear cell renal cell carcinoma: a two-center study
Creators: name: Li, Ben
name: Zhu, Jie
name: Wang, Yanmei
name: Xu, Yuchao
name: Gao, Zhaisong
name: Shi, Hailei
name: Nie, Pei
name: Zhang, Ju
name: Zhuang, Yuan
name: Wang, Zhenguang
name: Yang, Guangjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Marine Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Does the AOA really "own the bone?"
Creators: name: Smith, Haley
name: Smith, Spencer
name: Turner, Naomi
name: Friess, Darin
name: Working, Zach
name: DeKeyser, Graham
name: Yoo, Jung
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Osteoporosis
subject: Osteoporotic Fractures
subject: Diphosphonates
subject: fragility fracture
subject: bisphosphonates
subject: DEXA bone scan
subject: Own the Bone

description: The American Orthopaedic Association (AOA) launched the “Own the Bone” program in 2009 for preventative counseling and treatment of osteoporosis following fragility fractures. This study investigates the annual rates of DEXA bone scans and bisphosphonates prescriptions since Own the Bone’s creation.
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, Discussing Online: The Slow Food Movement Quickens with New Media
Creators: name: Bender, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Even with its opposition to ?fast? and ?globalization,? the Slow Food movement has embraced new media and speed to disseminate information to a worldwide audience. The organization?s use of new and social media is the focus of this ethnographic study to examine the online discourse of the movement through the theoretical lens of international political economy of media and globalization theory. Online interviews via social media and supplemental textual analysis of Slow Food-related online discourse reveals themes concerning time, education and community and shows that participation in the dialogic discussion surrounding Slow Food online varies widely across groups and new media platforms.
Feasibility of a Monitoring Mechanism Supporting a Watch List under the Water Framework Directive
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014

description: This report describes work conducted by the European Commissions Joint Research Centre in the context of its support to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC. The work aimed at the feasibility assessment of an experimental monitoring exercise in support to a so-called Watch List Mechanism in a collaborative design involving EU Member States laboratories and some 200 official monitoring station operated by the Member States. The report includes all details on sampling stations, performance of analytical methods as well as the results of the analyses of all samples with regard to the occurrence and levels of 20 compounds of concern. In total, 219 whole water samples originating from 25 EU Member States and 2 other European countries, were assessed for contents of acesulfame, glyphosate and its metabolite AMPA, 1H-Benzotriazole and tolyltriazoles, bisphenol A, triclosan and triclocarban, carbamazepine and its metabolite 10,11-dihydro-10,11-dihydroxycarbamazepine, sulfamethoxazole, perfluoropropionic acid, tris-2-chloropropyl phosphate, methyl tert-butyl ether, silver, boron and chloride (Cl-) in water. Furthermore, 23 sediment samples were analysed for decabromodiphenylethane and decabromodiphenyl ether. The underlying analytical methods are carefully documented with regards to their performance characteristics. Obtained results are assessed statistically and where possible compared to other findings. Although the analysed single samples are insufficient to make any statement on the performance of the treatment processes leading to the compost, the collective of data allows having a glance at the pan-European situation as regards the studies compounds. Background information from literature describing the situation before the survey is included, too. The report is divided into a core part and two annexes. For practical reasons, the report is split into two volumes: Volume 1 contains the report and the single analytical results; volume 2 contains the documentation of the sampling stations.
Quelle: http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
Engaging Mexican and Mexican-American Mothers in Schools: Using Culture, Acculturation, and the Situational Theory of Publics to Motivate Parental Involvement
Creators: name: Perez, Linda
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Hispanic parents face several barriers that impede their involvement in their children?s education. This lack of parental involvement negatively affects the academic outcome of students, graduation rates, and college attendance. This study uses the situational theory of publics to determine what kind of public Mexican parents are, and makes recommendations on what is the best way to engage them and motivate them to participate in schools. Seventeen Mexican mothers were interviewed about their views on education and relationships with their children?s teachers and schools. Findings revealed that the main barriers to parental involvement among Mexican parents are work, language and lack of childcare. The study discusses some strategies that schools can use to help parents overcome barriers to involvement. This research is important because for the first time it uses communications, and more specifically public relations theories, to further the research on Hispanic parental involvement.
Another Brick in the Wall: Public Space, Visual Hegemonic Resistance, and the Physical/Digital Continuum
Creators: name: Gilmore, Daniel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: In this thesis I will demonstrate that there is a similarity between the use of physical walls and digital walls as means of ideological dissemination by power structures as well as socio-political protesters. Also, I will show that their use in this manner not only changes the way that both function ideologically, but also changes the environment that these walls are created/exist in as well. The first case study will analyze Banksy?s employment of carnivalesque graffiti as a means of protest. The second case study will analyze the use of digital public space and ?walls? created within social media as tools of protest, paralleling the earlier examples pertaining to the physical walls of public space. The third case study will look at the employment of the digital ?walls? of Facebook and Twitter in conjunction with the use of public space in Cairo and its role in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.
A Play on Occlusion : Uptake of Letters to the University President
Creators: name: Thieme, Katja
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Occlusion is most commonly presented as an aspect of certain genres: occluded genres. Here, occlusion is proposed as a property of the processes by which genres are taken up. While routine use of genres creates expectations around when the genre’s uptake is commonly occluded, such expected practice can be subverted by deliberate disclosure. Occlusion and disclosure in the process of genre uptake thus become argumentative and powerful moves in communicative interaction. In three case studies, I analyze processes of occlusion in relationship to the genre of the letter to the university president.
Additional file 1 of Setting the international research agenda for sarcomas with patients and carers: results of phase II of the Sarcoma Patient Advocacy Global Network (SPAGN) priority setting partnership
Creators: name: Roets, E.
name: Schuster, K.
name: Bickley, S.
name: Wartenberg, M.
name: Gonzato, O.
name: Fernandez, N.
name: Kasper, B.
name: Pilgermann, K.
name: Wilson, R.
name: Steeghs, N.
name: van der Graaf, W. T. A.
name: van Oortmerssen, G.
name: Husson, O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Representations of Haiti in Western News Media: Coverage of the January 2010 Earthquake in Haiti
Creators: name: Brown, Hillary
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: On January 12, 2010, the Caribbean nation of Haiti suffered from one of the most devastating earthquake in recent history. The purpose of this study is to explore representations of Haiti in Western news media coverage of the disaster. The researcher utilized Jiwani?s (2006) theoretical framework of common sense stock knowledge to explore the relationship between the Western news media and Haiti, with an emphasis on media framing. Additionally, the method of journalistic discourse analysis was employed as a means of analyzing the 90 article sample. The researcher found that there were several frames that dominated coverage of the disaster which resulted in the marginalization of Haiti and Haitians.
Consensus panel for assessing usability and acceptability of mobile health autism screeners
Creators: name: Tangkilisan, Gabriella
name: Vazquez, Luis R.
name: Fuchu, Plyce
name: Sanders, Benjamin
name: Broder-Fingert, Sarabeth
name: Zuckerman, Katharine
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Telehealth
subject: Autistic Disorder
subject: mobile health
subject: screening tools
subject: recommendations

description: Parents and healthcare providers who have developmental concerns about a child may use autism screening tools online. Online screening tools may improve autism screening though advanced technologies and improved connection to services. However, language, cultural, and technological barriers may impede equitable access to care. The objective of this project is to create consensus recommendations for equitable design of autism screening apps and websites.
Additional file 1 of Efficacy of BRAF/MEK-inhibitor therapy for epithelioid glioblastoma with a novel BRAFV600 mutation
Creators: name: Steininger, J.
name: Buszello, C.
name: Oertel, R.
name: Meinhardt, M.
name: Schmid, S.
name: Engellandt, K.
name: Herold, S.
name: Stasik, S.
name: Ebrahimi, A.
name: Renner, B.
name: Thiede, C.
name: Eyüpoglu, I.Y.
name: Schackert, G.
name: Beissert, S.
name: Meier, F.
name: Radke, J.
name: Westphal, D.
name: Juratli, T. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Modification of Gene Expression, DNA Methylation and Small RNAs Expression in Rice Plants under In Vitro Culture
Creators: name: Wang, Ningning
name: Yu, Yanan
name: Zhang, Di
name: Zhang, Zhibin
name: Wang, Zhenhui
name: Xun, Hongwei
name: Li, Guo
name: Liu, Bao
name: Zhang, Jian (Professor Of Biology)
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Tissue culture is an important experimental technique widely used for plant transformation and can induce somaclonal variation that is shown to be associated with genetic and epigenetic changes. However, the molecular basis of somaclonal variation and plant cell response to tissue culture has yet to be fully understood. In this study, we investigated gene expression, DNA methylation, and small RNA changes in regenerated lines (RL) compared with the wild-type progenitor plants (WT) of rice cv. Hitomebore. Using microarray, we identified many genes that were differentially expressed in the shoot-tip tissue and showed that TEs were generally activated in RL. Methylation Sensitive Amplification Polymorphism (MSAP) analysis of 5′CCGG sites combined with bisulfite sequencing detected a generally reduced DNA methylation in the RL lines. Small RNA sequencing analysis detected widespread changes in small RNA accumulation between RL and WT. In particular, repeat and TE-associated 24-nt size class of small RNAs, the inducer of RNA-directed DNA methylation, was in general down-regulated in RL, consistent with reduced CHG and CHH methylation at some of the differentially methylated TE loci. A large number of differentially expressed miRNAs were identified in RL and WT lines, including known and novel miRNAs. The expression of some of these miRNAs exhibited inverse correlation with the predicted target genes, suggesting a regulatory function. The RL plants looked similar to WT plants under normal conditions but showed significant phenotypic alterations under abiotic stress conditions. The widespread changes in DNA methylation, small RNA accumulation and gene expression in regenerated plants supports the role of epigenetic changes in tissue culture-induced somaclonal variation.
Playing for Resistance in MMORPG: Oppositional Reading, Emergence, and Hegemony in the Lineage II "Bartz Liberation War"
Creators: name: Cho, Yoon Sang
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG) open new worlds and new societies in the virtual space. Those worlds and societies rapidly expand and become important to the real world. Therefore, to understand them, this thesis examines the meanings and impacts of resistance in the MMORPG worlds and gaming culture from the case of an unprecedented grassroots revolution in Lineage II, which is called the ?Bartz Liberation War.? By using the concepts of ?oppositional reading,? ?emergence,? and ?hegemony,? this thesis examines how playing for resistance emerges and becomes dominant and explores the impact of resistance in both the gaming and real worlds. Also, this thesis shows the cultural struggle for hegemony in the game world and gaming culture as well as in the real world culture and politics.
Understanding Diversity: Top Executives' Perceptions of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Public Relations
Creators: name: Irizarry, Amber
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: In public relations, minority public relations practitioners are feeling left behind by the profession (Ford & Appelbaum, 2005). Where do top executives stand on employment diversity within their organizations? An online survey of 20 top executives of small-sized public relations agencies explored how top executives? perceptions of and normative beliefs about diversity practices were related to their future engagement in diversity practices at work. Based on the theory of reasoned action, this explanatory study found that executives? perceptions of peer endorsement of diversity were associated with greater intention of organizational engagement in diversity practices. Neither perceived benefits of nor perceived concerns about diversity were related to future engagement. Recommendations for contacting this hard-to-reach audience, as well as suggestions for promoting diversity practices among top executives, were discussed.
Maternal undernutrition indicators as proxy indicators of their offspring's undernutrition: Evidence from 2011 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey
Creators: name: Alinoor Mohamed Farah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: Maternal undernutrition indicators as proxy indicators of

their offspring’s undernutrition: Evidence from 2011 Ethiopia

Demographic and Health Survey