cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary document for Deformable Mirror based Optimal PSF Engineering for 3D Super-resolution Imaging - 5863697.pdf
Creators: name: Fu, Shuang
name: Li, Mengfan
name: Zhou, Lulu
name: He, Yingchuan
name: Liu, Xin
name: Hao, Xiang
name: Li, Yiming
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Supplementary Information
Endothelial dysfunction improves with Advanced glycation end-products inhibitor in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Creators: name: Garg, Nidhi
name: Syngle, Ashit
name: Vohra, Kanchan
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Objective:
 Increased cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) provides a strong rationale for early therapeutical interventions. In view of the similarities between atherosclerosis and RA and the proven benefit of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) inhibitor in atherosclerotic vascular disease,1 the study aimed to delineate the impact of AGEs inhibitor (benfotiamine 50mg+ pyridoxamine 50mg + methylcobalamin 500µg, Vonder) on endothelial dysfunction (ED) in patients with RA.
 Methods:
 24 RA patients received 12 weeks of treatment with oral AGEs inhibitor twice a day as an adjunct to existing stable antirheumatic drugs. ESR, CRP, nitrite, endothelium-dependent and independent vasodilatation of the brachial artery measured at baseline and after treatment.
 Results:
 FMD increased significantly (p<0.01) after treatment whereas there was no significant change in endothelium-independent vasodilation with nitroglycerin and baseline diameter. ESR, CRP and nitrite improved significantly (p<0.05) after treatment. Significant negative correlation was observed between FMD and nitrite at baseline and between FMD and CRP after treatment.
 Conclusion:
 AGEs inhibitor improves inflammation and ED in RA. The vasculoprotective effect of AGEs inhibitor in RA appears to be due to its anti-inflammatory effect.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 2 (2016)
Mexican/migrant Mothers and 'Anchor Babies" in Anti-Immigration Discourses: Meanings of Citizenship and Illegality in the United States
Creators: name: Franz, Margaret
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: The right wing anti-immigration movement’s recent surge in racial panic and paranoia concerning the specter of the overly fertile Mexican migrant mother and her US-born child points to a discursive struggle over the meaning of citizenship and illegality. Starting from the assumption that both citizenship and illegality are highly contested and fluid political and moral categories, this project examines how white supremacist and heteronormative ideologies and political emotions like love and fear construct both Mexican migrants and their children as “illegal,” while simultaneously shrinking the meaning and enactment of citizenship for everyone. I argue that citizens of Mexican descent are racialized and sexualized as “illegal,” in order to warrant their exclusion, though not their expulsion, from the biopolitical fold of the nation-state.
A Feminist Action Research Project: Creating a Practical Support Program for the Georgia Reproductive Justice Access Network
Creators: name: McKew, Melinda
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: The purpose of this feminist action research project was to produce a practical support volunteer training and manual for the Georgia Reproductive Justice Access Network (GRJAN). Founded in 2011, GRJAN is a grassroots, reproductive justice abortion fund that provides abortion funding and until 2012, practical support (lodging, transportation, and childcare) to low-income individuals seeking abortion services in Atlanta, GA. The resultant thesis is a reflective essay upon the project, documenting and analyzing the successes and failures of the project as well as discussing the limitations of pursuing feminist activist work within the academy.
Acheta domesticus Fabricius 1775
Creators: name: Felix, Rob
name: Bouwman, Jaap
name: Odé, Baudewijn
name: Ketelaar, Robert
name: Pham, Duc Minh
name: Bailey, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Gryllidae
Acheta
Acheta domesticus

description: Acheta cf. A. domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Figs 132, 133
Diagnostic notes.
Since only three female specimens are known, this taxon’s identification on Socotra is uncertain. They are referred to here as Acheta cf. A. domesticus. Proper identification should be done, based on males’ genitalia and bioacoustics.
Acheta domesticus is a medium-sized, yellowish-light brown cricket. In males, the tegmina cover two-thirds of the abdomen and contain four harp veins. The head is yellowish-brown, with two broad dark bands, one on the occiput and one between the eyes. Frons and clypeus are dark with a light central mushroom-shaped marking on the frons. The pronotum has a characteristic pattern of three dark triangular markings; sometimes, the two lateral ones are divided, resulting in five spots.
Distribution and occurrence.
Acheta domesticus is a synanthrope species with a worldwide distribution nowadays. Its original distribution area was presumably comprised of northern Africa, southern Europe and southwest Asia, which is comparable to other members of the genus (Gorochov and Llorente 2001). On Socotra, only three recent records of this presumed species are known, two in the southern coastal area and one in Wadi Ayhaft (Fig. 133).
Habitat and biology.
One of the two specimens was found in a palm grove near a village and the other was found in a wadi, far from any urbanisation. Records are from April and October.
Bioacoustics.
The song of Acheta domesticus is well known and consists of a repetition of short echemes (e. g. Baudewijn Odé, XC 446402, accessible at https://www.xeno-canto.org/446402).
description: Published as part of Felix, Rob, Bouwman, Jaap, Odé, Baudewijn, Ketelaar, Robert, Pham, Duc Minh & Bailey, James, 2025, The grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): a comprehensive overview and a description of a new Oecanthus Tree Cricket (Oecanthidae), pp. 21-166 in Contributions to Entomology 75 (1) on pages 21-166, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e144389
"Prevention of glycosylation by natural and synthetic antioxidants"
Creators: name: Sadowska-Bartosz, Izabela
name: Galiniak, Sabina
name: Stefaniuk, Ireneusz
name: Bartosz, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: One of the main mechanisms of etiopathogenesis of diabetes and diabetic complications is an increase in the level of glycation of proteins due to increased concentrations of glucose and other reactive metabolites. The level of protein glycation is elevated also in other diseases such as multiple sclerosis or cystic fibrosis [1]. The search for new compounds protecting against glycation is thus of paramount importance. Our studies confirmed the high efficiency of natural polyphenols in this respect and identified, for the first time, a new class of compounds, stable free nitroxyl radicals that can counteract glycation. The effectiveness of nitroxides in the prevention of glycation correlates with their reactivity with non-oxygen centered radicals. SAR analysis should allow for the design and synthesis of more effective nitroxides [2]. 1-Cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid is an effective inhibitor of protein glycation in vitro [3]. This compound may not be directly applicable in vivo due to its other biological effects (inhibition of transport of carboxylic acids) but can be a starting point for the synthesis of new derivatives. Analysis of the relationship between the structure and antiglycating activity of nitroxides should allow for the design of new medicines with maximal efficiency and minimal side-effects.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 2 (2016)
AGE accumulation contributes to synaptic dysfunction
Creators: name: Yan, Shirley ShiDu
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) are members of a heterogeneous class of molecules. AGEs accumulate with aging, diabetes, and neurodegenerative diseases. Excess AGE accumulation is progressive factor accelerating and exacerbating neuronal dysfunction, contributing to cognitive decline in normal aging and age-related neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease. Synaptic dysfunction is an early pathological feature associated with aging and neurodegeneration. Whether and how AGEs are involved in alterations in synaptic structure and function are not well understood. We have demonstrated that application of AGEs to brain slices impaired hippocampal long term potentiation (LTP), a maker for synaptic function and transmission. The treatment of AGEs causes loss of synapses as shown by significant reduction in synaptic density. Deficiency of neuronal RAGE or dominant-negative RAGE (DN-RAGE) rescues synaptic function and structure. RAGE-deficiency or DN-RAGE blocks AGE-induced activation of p38 signaling. RAGE deficiency also affords a protective effect on diabetes-induced synaptic dysfunction and impairment in learning and memory. These results suggest that AGEs contribute importantly to synaptic and cognitive dysfunction associated with neurodegeneration in aging and diabetes.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 2 (2016)
Bread & Salt : A tribute to the East End's historic Ukrainian Community
Creators: name: Vancouver Moving Theatre
name: Downtown Eastside Heart Of The City Festival
name: Association Of United Ukrainian Canadians
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Program guide to accompany the November 8-10, 2013 production Bread & Salt, a tribute to the East End's historic Ukrainian Community. Written by Beverly Dobrinsky and Savannah Walling, with contributions by Ivan Franko, Clifford Odets, Taras Shevchenko and Helen Potrebenko.
Oxidative Stress Mediated Cytotoxicity of Glycated Albumin: Comparative Analysis of Glycation by Glucose Metabolites
Creators: name: Khan, Mohd Shahnawaz
name: Al-Senaidy, Abdulrehman M
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: The non-enzymatic reaction between reducing sugars and proteins has received increased attention in nutritional and medical research recently. In the current manuscript, effect of glycation in structural changes of human serum albumin (HSA) by the metabolites of glucose such as glyoxal, methylglyoxal and glyceraldehyde was studied using different spectroscopy techniques. Glycation of HSA was monitored by following advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) fluorescence changes, HSA intrinsic fluorescence measurement, extrinsic fluorescence using 8-analino 1- nephthlene sulfonic acid (ANS) dye, and circular dichroism (CD) studies. AGEs were formed within 7 days of incubation with glyoxal, methylglyoxal and glyceraldehyde. However, methylglyoxal induced significant structural changes in HSA compared with glyoxal and glyceraldehydes. Moreover, ANS binding to native and glycated-HSA showed difference in binding pattern of these metabolites to HSA. The CD spectrum revealed changes in the secondary structure of HSA upon glycation when compared to native HSA. Furthermore, the MTT (3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2, 5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide) assay established the cytotoxicity of the glycatedHSA towards human liver carcinoma (HepG2) cell lines via the production of reactive oxygen species.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 2 (2016)
Acheta rufopictus Uvarov 1957
Creators: name: Felix, Rob
name: Bouwman, Jaap
name: Odé, Baudewijn
name: Ketelaar, Robert
name: Pham, Duc Minh
name: Bailey, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Acrididae
Acheta
Acheta rufopictus

description: Acheta rufopictus Uvarov, 1957
Figs 134, 135, 136, 137, 138
References for Socotra.
Burr 1903: 412, 422 [as Gryllus lepidus]; Uvarov (in Uvarov and Popov (1957)): 365–366; Chopard 1961: 271, plate IV; Gorochov 1993: 86; Wranik 2003: 316, plates 147, 149; Chintauan-Marquier et al. 2016: 57, 71; Massa et al. 2022: 10, 11, 16, 24.
Diagnostic notes.
Acheta rufopictus is a medium-sized cricket with a relatively uniform dark body. Its head is dark reddish-brown to black, with only the median and lateral ocelli light and a light spot behind the eye (Figs 134, 135). The pronotum is uniformly blackish-brown on the disc, sometimes with a reddish hue and has a light hind margin and lateral lobes with a broadly yellowish margin. The tegmina have four harp veins. Legs are pale. Nymphs are strikingly patterned (Fig. 138).
Distribution and occurrence.
Endemic to Socotra. The crickets are found throughout the island. In 2009 and 2010, the species was common in Ayhaft, Qeysoh, Adho Dimello, Begobig and various localities in Dixam (Fig. 136).
Habitat and biology.
Found in almost all habitats, ranging from sandy plains, limestone plateaus and urbanisation to montane shrub- and woodlands in the Hagher, from 0–1470 m a. s. l. Nocturnal and hiding by day in all kinds of crevices. Adults are present year-round.
Bioacoustics.
The calling song of Acheta rufopictus is a simple syllable, more or less regularly repeated at a maximum rate of about 2.5 per second (Fig. 137; https://www.xeno-canto.org/877940). Syllable duration is about 35 ms. Only the closing hemisyllable produces sound. The carrier frequency of the song is around 5.4 kHz. The song has some harmonics at higher frequencies.
Remarks.
Chintauan-Marquier et al. (2016) genetically analysed a male specimen from Ayhaft (26 Oct 2010). Sequences are stored in GenBank (KR 904150.1; KR 903964.1; KR 903786.1; KR 903623.1; KR 903446.1; KR 903272.1; KR 903101.1).
description: Published as part of Felix, Rob, Bouwman, Jaap, Odé, Baudewijn, Ketelaar, Robert, Pham, Duc Minh & Bailey, James, 2025, The grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): a comprehensive overview and a description of a new Oecanthus Tree Cricket (Oecanthidae), pp. 21-166 in Contributions to Entomology 75 (1) on pages 21-166, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e144389
Monsters In My Bed: Accounting For The Popularity Of Young Adult Paranormal Romances
Creators: name: Young, Whitney
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Using textual analysis of 49 young adult paranormal romances, I answer what it is about the cultural milieu that makes these novels popular right now?  This thesis argues that the discourse which emerges from the novels reflects contemporary discourse and narrative about the girls and young women who read the genre and who place themselves within this discourse and narrative.  The novels respond to this discourse by offering instances where the girls' ideologies, built on the discourse taught to them, can be temporarily restored when the narrative proves false.  These novels also undermine the confining discourse which the girls find themselves stuck in.
Barjols, salle des mariages de la mairie, apéritif au pastis servi au terme de la distribution des paquets de viande
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
NOSIRIDDIN TUSIYNING  "ADAB-UL MUTA'ALLIMUN" ASARINING AXLOQSHUNOSLIGIDA O'RNI VA AHAMIYATI
Creators: name: Qo'shshayeva, Nafisa
name: Raxmatov, Mironshoh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqola Nosiriddin Tusiyning talabalik  madaniyati va ilmgaga doir qarashlari aks ettirilgan.
Glycated apolipoprotein A-I exacerbates cellular senescence in human umbilical vein endothelial cells accompanied by impaired insulin secretion activity and embryo toxicity
Creators: name: Park, Ki-Hoon
name: Kim, Jae-Yong
name: Cho, Kyung-Hyun
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Glycation of apolipoproteins is a major feature of production of dysfunctional high-density lipoproteins (HDL), which is associated with incidence of several metabolic diseases such as coronary artery disease and diabetes.  High-density lipoprotein (HDL) and apolipoprotein (apo) A-I have strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties in the plasma.   Fructose-induced non-enzymatic glycation of apoA-I can lead to the production of dysfunctional apoA-I and HDL.  To compare the physiologic effects of dysfunctional apoA-I and HDL, reconstituted HDL containing native apoA-I (nA-I) or glycated apoA-I (gA-I) was injected into zebrafish embryos in the presence of inflammatory molecules. Co-injection of oxidized LDL (oxLDL) and nA-I-rHDL improved embryo survival, while co-injection of oxLDL and gA-I-rHDL aggravated inflammatory deaths.  Using pancreatic β-cells, insulin secretion was impaired by gA-I in the lipid-free and reconstituted HDL (rHDL) states up to 35%, and 40%, respectively, under hyperglycemic conditions (25 mM glucose). Treatment with gA-I and HDL from elderly patients to human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) caused 1.8-fold, and 1.5-fold increased cellular senescence, respectively, along with increased lysosomal enlargement. In the lipid-free and rHDL states, gA-I caused 1.5-fold and 2.5-fold higher embryo death, respectively, along with production of oxidized species. Furthermore, rHDL containing gA-I (gA-I-rHDL) showed a higher isoelectric point (pI, approximately 8.5), whereas rHDL-containing nA-I (nA-I-rHDL) showed a narrow band range with lower pI (around 8.0) as well as much smaller particle size than that of nA-I-rHDL.Conclusively, fructose-mediated apoA-I glycation resulted in severe loss of several beneficial functions of apoA-I and HDL, including anti-senescence and insulin secretion activities, accompanied by increased susceptibility of protein degradation and structural modification.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 2 (2016)
High-density lipoprotein oxidation in type 2 diabetic patients: is it a glycation-catalyzed process?
Creators: name: Lapolla, Annunziata
name: Seraglia, Roberta
name: Roverso, Marco
name: Sartore, Giovanni
name: Burlina, Silvia
name: Bolis, Angiola
name: Marina, Raffaella
name: Manzato, Enzo
name: Ragazzi, Eugenio
name: Traldi, Pietro
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Among long-term diabetic complications, cardiovascular disease is one of the major causes of premature death. High density lipoproteins (HDL) play an important role in the control of vascular damage but ApoA-I can undergo oxidative changes that reduce their antiatherogenic role. The aim of this study was to evaluate methionine sulfoxide (MetO) content in the ApoA-I of HDL isolated from type 2 diabetics and healthy subjects. We evaluated the lipid profile of 21 type 2 diabetic patients and 21 healthy volunteers and determined in all subjects the MeO content in ApoA-I by MALDI/TOF/TOF technique. The typical MALDI spectra of the tryptic digest obtained from HDL plasma fractions from all patients showed a relatively increased abundance of peptides containing Met112O in ApoA-I from type 2 diabetic patients. Interestly  a strong correlation emerged between the duration of the diabetes and MetO levels in ApoA-I. However no correlation was found between MetO levels in ApoA-I and HbA1c, indicating that ApoA-I oxidation appears unrelated to the degree of glycemic control. MetO levels in ApoA-I, measured using an accurate and specific method, should be investigated in order to assess their possible role as a novel risk factor to reduce the burden of cardiovascular complications.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 2 (2016)
Electrocatalytic Assay for Monitoring Methylglyoxal-mediated Protein Glycation
Creators: name: Svrčková, Marika
name: Zatloukalová, Martina
name: Ulrichová, Jitka
name: Novák, David
name: Vacek, Jan
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Protein glycation has been implicated in various disease states and is therefore an important process in aging and age-related chronic diseases. At the molecular level, protein glycation has important implications for protein activity, unfolding and degradation.
 We here introduce a novel sensing strategy for protein glycation based on electroactivity measurement. Concretely, the label-free method proposed is based on the application of a constant-current chronopotentiometric stripping analysis at Hg-containing electrodes (Havlíková et al. 2015).

 Two model proteins were used: serum protein albumin (bovine and human) and membrane protein Na+/K+-ATPase. Results were investigated over 4–72 hours of incubation with the glycation agent methylglyoxal in the absence or presence of the glycation inhibitor aminoguanidine. We compared the results acquired by electrocatalytic assay with the results of complementary methods frequently used for glycation analysis, including specific protein activity measurement.
 Based on our results, we can say that our approach primarily reflects changes in ‘protein surface chemistry’ in comparison to other methodologies. In addition to this, the approach proposed here could be the starting point for the further development of novel techniques for protein glycation detection, especially electrochemical sensors and versatile sensing platforms.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 2 (2016)
A Story of One's Own: Creative Narratives about Muslim Women in Turkey
Creators: name: Ozer, Mirkena
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Writing fiction within a feminist framework is a helpful way in bringing up women’s issues to   a wider readership that is not necessarily familiar with feminist scholarship. Through creative narrative an author can dispel misunderstandings, correct misconceptions and represent underrepresented women who have been rendered invisible or pushed to the margins by hegemonic discourses. My novella tells the story of a group of Muslim women doing community work in Turkey. Navigating their way in contemporary Turkey, these women dispel the upheld literary stereotypes of Muslim women. Through their work and dedication, these women show that they are not victims of a suppressive religion, or escapees from an oppressive culture. Instead they see themselves as participants in a noble cause for the benefit of the wider society. The impetus for their service is drawn from the main sources of their religion: Quran and the example of the prophet Muhammad.
Listening from the Heart: The Experience of Compassionate Listening in Teen Talking Circle
Creators: name: Wilson, Carla
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of former teen talking circle participant’s experience with the practice of compassionate listening in talking circles and to explore compassionate listening as a form of spiritual activism. This study explored the use and effect of compassionate listening within the facilitator training materials developed and used by the organization Teen Talking Circles as well as the use and experience of compassionate listening within the teen talking circles. For the purpose of this study, I interviewed seven former female teen talking circle participants. Open ended semi-structured interviews were the means of data collection. Data were analyzed thematically and after reviewing the transcripts from all seven interviews, the five strongest themes to come out of the interviews were: increased communication skills, increased awareness, less judgment of self and others, deeper relationships and an increased sense of empathy.
Femininity and Masculinity in Indonesian Popular Music Videos
Creators: name: Carswell, Hannah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This work fills a gap in research on Indonesian popular culture by delving into the presentation of femininity and masculinity in Indonesian music videos.  Through a textual analysis of four videos, a survey of the video YouTube comments, and interviews with Indonesians about these videos, the author examines the presentation of Order/Chaos and other Male/Female binaries in the music videos and their relationship with the current pop culture and political environment.
J-Setting in Public: Black Queer Desires and Worldmaking
Creators: name: Loyd-Sims, Lamont
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: My research provides an inquiry of Black southern queerness situated through the artistic performance of j-setting. I explore j-setting as a dance style created by Black gay men by mapping out its beginnings, and how it has (not) traveled through mainstream culture. With this in mind I interrogate how j-setting exists as a cultural scene for Black queer men in the South to celebrate who we are, while also representing a strategy for our survival against racism, heteronormativity, and other dominant forces that pathologize our realities. This project suggests that an exploration of j-setting exemplifies the resilience and vulnerabilities of Black gay men when engaging dominant/mainstream culture. I contend that j-setting represents a form of worldmaking that allows Black gay men to create new racial and gendered possibilities while grappling with the everyday experiences of anti-Black racism and homo/queerphobia.
It Makes Atlanta Feel Like a Real City: Biopolitical Urbanism and Public Art on the Atlanta BeltLine
Creators: name: Faulkner, Sherah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Functioning as both a light rail transit project and comprehensive redevelopment program, the Atlanta BeltLine is widely expected to impact the city of Atlanta as profoundly did 1996 Olympic Games. In this paper, the Atlanta BeltLine is examined as a biopolitical project and the manners in which its public arts program, Art on Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, works to secure local consent redevelopment are explored.
Performing Specters of Imperialism: Affect, Terror, and the Body in Naveed Mir's The Cinco Sanders Show
Creators: name: Miller, Andrea
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Examining the work of Pakistani-American performance artist Naveed Mir’s The Cinco Sanders Show, this thesis explores Mir’s work as conjuring the specters of the terrorist, tortured, and targeted bodies of the U.S. war on terror and unpacks ghosting/haunting as a primary technology of U.S. imperialism. Through close readings of Mir’s characters Party Mummy and Mohammed the Plumber, I argue that Mir’s affective performance style evokes and complicates what I refer to as the three decorporealizing logics of the war on terror: the body-made-threat, the body-made-target, and the body-made torture. Understanding these processes as violent forms of racialization that take shape in the construction of the terrorist other, the tortured Guantánamo Bay detainee, and those brown bodies targeted and killed by U.S. drone strikes, I explore the relationship between these forms of decorporealizing racialization and everyday forms of racialization, which call into question modern understandings of the body itself.
Resisting Tropes, Inserting Selves: An Interpretative Biographical Analysis Of The Life Writings Of Mixed Race Women Writers
Creators: name: George, Erin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This thesis focuses on the patterns of racial formation, and epistemological points of entry that are salient to the mulatta experience in the United States, through the use of life writings. The results gleaned from this research are utilized to problematize revived political and social assertions of a post-feminist, post-racist United States.
Forever Adolescence: Taylor Swift, Eroticized Innocence, and Performing Normativity
Creators: name: Pollock, Valerie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: As a popular culture subject, Taylor Swift is an example of a widely circulated image that adheres to the guidelines for “appropriate” girlhood, innocence, and feminine performance. The proliferation of Swift’s identity as a virginal, delicate girl makes Swift the successful pop music figure that can “save” the troubled young girl of today. This thesis grapples with Swift’s image as an artist and addresses the ways that she often stands in as the example for imagined “appropriate” femininity. Swift’s image relies on ideas about innocence and normativity that are directly linked to markers of whiteness without ever having to explicitly name it. Swift’s specific performance of normativity and the success she has achieved because of it is one example of how we can begin to complicate understandings of agency and where it can be located.
Paying for the Gift of Education: A Critical Discourse Analysis of The Intown Academy of Atlanta
Creators: name: Nesbit, Scott
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: In my critical discourse analysis of The Intown Academy's (TIA) various documents and media—including the school's charter petition, charter, Parent-Student Handbook, and website—I articulate the school's subjectifying narratives and analyze how these narratives function to (re)produce particular subjects according to tropes of threat/crisis, opportunity, corporate/non-profit benevolence, and personal responsibility. Identifying these subjects, I analyze how they are effected/affected by the practice of education at TIA. To this end, I examine the various practices of school discipline codified in the Parent and Student Contracts in TIA's 2012-2013 Parent Student Handbook, including mandates for the wearing of school uniforms, volunteer labor, and reorientations of the family and the private space of the home. I conclude that TIA discursively produces indebted subjects whose educational and economic survival depends on the reorientation of their lives in service to the school.
The Politics of Impossibility: CeCe McDonald and Trayvon Martin— the Bursting of Black Rage
Creators: name: Jordan, Taryn
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: What can the affect of black rage do in a era of impossibility marked by the circulation of neoliberal post-race post-feminist themes? I argue that black rage is a key weapon in the fight against our impossible era—black rage operates through an affective bursting apart, disrupting circulating narratives connected to a post racial, post feminist world and charting a new path of social unrest that has the potential to transform the social order. I locate political uses of black rage through two case studies: CeCe McDonald, a black Trans* woman who was brutally attacked by a group of transphobic and white supremacist in summer of 2012. And in the Justice for Trayvon Martin March and Rally in Atlanta, Georgia in July of 2013. Both cases studies prove black rage can collectivize the struggles of differing people producing a feeling of possibility during our era of impossibility.
The Commercialization Of The Atlanta Pride Festival: “Somebody's Got To Pay For It”
Creators: name: Beasley, Sarah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This thesis is focused on the commercialization of the Atlanta Pride Festival during the years 1992-1997. Through personal interviews, I have concluded that the Atlanta Pride Festival produced complicated experiences for participants who had mixed feelings about the commercialization.
Cooking Up Authenticity: Latina Celebrities, Cookbooks, and Consumerism
Creators: name: Cooke, Siobhan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This thesis examines contradictory stereotypes navigated by Latina celebrities within dominant representations of Latina identity.  On one hand, Latinas are represented as traditional and family-oriented and on the other hand are understood as exotic and hypersexual.  I argue that the marketing and content of cookbooks by Eva Longoria and Gloria and Emilio Estefan serve to perpetuate dominant stereotypes about what it means to be/cook/eat Latina, which limits the possibilities for relating to food and creates a narrative of a static, homogenous Latina identity.  By performing rhetorical analysis of cookbooks by Eva Longoria and Gloria and Emilio Estefan, I illustrate the ways in which the cookbooks function to legitimize both the ethnic authenticity of the celebrity author and of the cuisine itself.
"Lean In," "Opt Out," and the Journey to Happiness: Brazilian College Women Imagine Freedom
Creators: name: Troiano, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: This work focuses on understanding how nine Brazilian college women, from different ethnicities and sexual orientations, navigate their future expectations related to career and personal lives. Thus, the research explores how they are planning to create and maintain a work/life balance and how they are shaping their intentions in relation to the duality “lean in”/ “opt out,” a dichotomy that tells women to work hard and assert themselves or to leave the competitive workplace. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the author explores how the women’s idealized futures do not follow the propositions offered by “lean in”/“opt out.” Instead, these young women dream of a balanced life in which happiness, understood as the possibility of being free to make their own choices, collides with the limited boundaries of “lean in”/“opt out.” Their pursuit of happiness operates under a neoliberal logic based on a cost-benefit calculus in which “lean in”/“opt out” does not offer a viable alternative for their futures.
Sexy Ambiguity and Circulating Sexuality: Assemblage, Desire, and Representation in Seba al-Herz's The Others
Creators: name: Johnson, Kristyn
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Sexual representations in Seba al-Herz’s Saudi Arabian novel The Others span various kinds of sexual identification and experience. Surface level readings of the novel find examples of lesbian identities and encounters, but a deeper, more nuanced examination of the novel unearths a complex set of queer desires, practices, sexual encounters, and relationships that do not fit neatly in to regulated sexual identity categories. Through literary analysis, I argue that through ambiguities in the novel’s construction and narration, and through the Narrator’s sexual experiences, The Others offers a kind of sexual expression that opens up possibilities of de-territorializing and re-territorializing sexual experience beyond static identity labels.
The Veiled Identity: Hijabistas, Instagram and Branding In The Online Islamic Fashion Industry
Creators: name: Waninger, Kelsey
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: What it means to be a Muslim woman is frequently redefined in reaction to the notions of ‘Muslim womanhood’ constructed within neoliberal society. By examining the ways in which Hijabi fashion bloggers use the visual discourse of their Instagram accounts to implement specific notions of taste, authenticity and branding this project aims to address the question of where fashion blogs fit within mainstream fashion frameworks and the ways in which the assumed tensions surrounding veiling and fashion are disrupted.
(De)Tangled:  an Exploration of the Hierarchies in the Natural Hair Community
Creators: name: Howard, Schillica
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Within popular discourse, natural hair is considered to be a source of liberation where Black women can accept and nurture their natural hair texture. My research explores the points of contention in this community and the hierarchies that exist based on length of hair, curl pattern, and texture. By using product content analysis, interviews with Black women with natural hair, and analysis of social media, this thesis brings the ideal aesthetics in the natural hair community to the forefront for closer examination. Findings insist that, in the natural hair community, a curl is more attractive than a kink, longer hair more preferable than short, and that “manageable hair” is vital to Black women’s successful performances of Black femininity. This thesis project attempts to broaden the discourse on Black women and natural hair to encourage new conversations and understand tensions in the natural hair community.
Gendered Admission: Transinclusive Admissions Policies at Women's Colleges
Creators: name: Kett, Ruby
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Many women’s colleges in the United States are evaluating their mission to educate women in a society where gender is recognized as a social construct. As a result, some women’s colleges have changed their admissions policies to include transgender people. By examining the admissions policies of select women’s colleges, I analyze who becomes a thinkable student at women’s colleges, as well as who is excluded by the admissions policies. Through my analysis of the admissions policies of twelve women’s colleges, I divide the colleges into four categories: colleges with self-identification policies, colleges with consistent identification policies, colleges with legal and/or medical policies, and colleges with no specific admissions policies.
From Panic to Pity: Circuits and Circulations of the Contemporary Anti-Trafficking Crusade
Creators: name: Ramirez-Rodriguez, Juliana
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: The creation, implementation, and ratification of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), as well as the growth of parallel private initiatives against human trafficking, have emerged from a neoliberal political agenda that focuses on redefinitions of labor, sexuality, securitization of humanitarian campaigns, and immigration policies. In this thesis, I explore some of the meanings and effects of those redefinitions by focusing on the affective registers of pity and panic in their ability to mobilize publics toward restrictive forms of assistance to real and imaginary victims of the so-called phenomenon of “modern-day slavery.”
“You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup”: Self-Care and Spiritual Activism in Queen Afua’s Sacred Woman
Creators: name: Pettijohn, Brandy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Queen Afua created the Sacred Woman as a text and program that seeks to heal women of common disorders that particularly affect the African American community. This thesis project is a conversation about the self-care methods embedded within the text that moves away from the ideology of the strongblackwoman. I position both theories and methods of self-care by using a womanist theoretical framework, as well as textual analysis and interviews as methods that examine the womanist concept of spiritual activism, which expands what is thought of as radical and liberatory activist actions.
Mapping Transgender Narratives in a Digital Age
Creators: name: Mabry, Megan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Considering the rise of transgender representation and discussion across many media platforms (television, film, print, social networking, etc.), how does such burgeoning and diverse exposure affect transgender individuals and communities? This project explores the ways in which transgender communities have developed and investigated potential for alternative and community-created representations of transgender experiences. With a particular focus on the utility and versatility of digital spaces, this project investigates the potential of web comics in harnessing both digital space and graphic narrative in creating alternative representation and discourse. The ensuing work, Maps, follows the journey of a cast of queer and transgender characters on a journey through the American South in search of family and justice.
Gryllus bimaculatus De Geer 1773
Creators: name: Felix, Rob
name: Bouwman, Jaap
name: Odé, Baudewijn
name: Ketelaar, Robert
name: Pham, Duc Minh
name: Bailey, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Acrididae
Gryllus
Gryllus bimaculatus

description: Gryllus bimaculatus De Geer, 1773
Figs 142, 143
References for Socotra.
Burr 1903: 412, 422 [as Liogryllus bimaculatus]; Wranik 2003: 315–316, plates 147, 149.
Diagnostic notes.
Gryllus bimaculatus is a large pitch-black cricket with yellow markings at the base of the long tegmina. Its size and colouration make it an unmistakable species.
Distribution and occurrence.
Gryllus bimaculatus is a widespread species in southern Europe, northern and eastern Africa and parts of Asia. It is known to swarm and cross large distances, also across open seas (Ragge 1972).
Only one ancient record (1899) is known from the island, while recent ones are numerous (Fig. 142). It could mean that the island has been colonised several times, with only the recent one being successful. In 2010, it was common in Ayhaft and Adho Dimello.
Habitat and biology.
All kinds of habitats and vegetation types. Records from 20–1450 m a. s. l. The species is attracted by light (Adho Dimello, 30 Oct 2010).
Bioacoustics.
The calling song of Gryllus bimaculatus is an echeme, lasting about 100 ms and repeated at about 4–5 per second (Fig. 143; https://xeno-canto.org/877943). Echemes consist of three (rarely two) syllables of more or less equal duration and loudness. The carrier frequency of the song is around 4.7–4.8 kHz and has many harmonics at higher frequencies.
description: Published as part of Felix, Rob, Bouwman, Jaap, Odé, Baudewijn, Ketelaar, Robert, Pham, Duc Minh & Bailey, James, 2025, The grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): a comprehensive overview and a description of a new Oecanthus Tree Cricket (Oecanthidae), pp. 21-166 in Contributions to Entomology 75 (1) on pages 21-166, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e144389
Alternative Modernization, Indigeneity, and Affective Capture in Contemporary Bolivia
Creators: name: Frisch, Nathan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: This thesis explores Bolivia’s state project of alternative modernization and, specifically, its instrumentalization of indigenous identity for political gain and capitalist growth. I examine both rural development in the TIPNIS reserve and urban development in the city of El Alto in order to analyze how state and capital interests target the affective life of residents; redirecting the energies of radical movements into projects of market expansion and hailing indigenous entrepreneurial subjects.
Bitches Be Like...: Memes as Black Girl Counter and Disidentification Tools
Creators: name: Bowen, Sesali
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Memes are a popular source of online media. As such, they become tools that can distribute racialized and gendered narratives. While memes are often a source of shaming and devaluing Black girls, my research also explores how they can be used as tools to counter and disidentify with narratives. Using Hip-Hop feminism and trap feminism as frameworks, I analyze several memes to not only exemplify the hegemonic narratives of Black girlhood that circulate via memes, but to illuminate the possibilities for resistance and transformation via this technology.
Spirits in the Food: A Pedagogy for Cooking and Healing
Creators: name: Dutta, Sumita
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Cooking is mind, body, spirit work. What’s possible when we ‘drop in’ to our bodies when cooking? We begin noticing what we are energetically bringing to the food we make. This creative project practices a pedagogy that works with food to create healing space. Healing, as it is defined here, is not void of discomfort nor is it happiness all the time. Who haunts your domestic space? Who is at your back when you cook? This project finds information and sacred knowledge in the food we cook and eat; it reflects back to us deeply buried truths regarding our traumas, joys, and subjectivity. This pedagogy holds the potential for participants to bring “new meanings” to food, and thereby, be activated as cultural producers cooking up the next chapter in our peoples’ creation stories (Anzaldúa 103). This project is documented as an auto-ethnographic tale from the perspective of the practitioner, using erotic storytelling to keep fire in the pages and a methodology of refusal to “determine the length of the [academy’s] gaze” (Tuck and Ree 640).
Planning Obsolescence: Generational Labor, Welcoming Crisis, and Actualizing Immaterial Bonds
Creators: name: Mahmood, Syeda
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: The 2008 economic crisis crippled the global public higher education sector, leaving a generation questioning the practicalities of pursuing higher education. In response to the neoliberalization of the public university, I examine the proliferation of DIY ethics and practices Millennials (AKA the Recession Generation) have strategically developed to evade institutions that further indebt their members. I further examine how the Recession Generation shapes affective labor, also described as immaterial labor, which serves as a necessary condition in the informational age of late capitalism. In examining a range of DIY sites, I show how Millennials strategically develop para-academic practices in order to rewrite harmful institutional practices that reify and weaponize static identitarian categories.
"I Wanna Know Where the Rule Book Is": YouTube as a Site of Counternarratives to Transnormativity
Creators: name: Miller, Jordan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: In June 2015, Caitlyn Jenner created waves of excitement with her coming out announcement on the cover of Vanity Fair: “Call me Caitlyn.” From the perspective of critical trans politics, however, the heightened visibility of trans people in mainstream media does not call for unequivocal celebration. Though trans women of color, such as Laverne Cox and Janet Mock, are more visible in mainstream media than ever before, mainstream media still largely depicts trans people through white constructs of what it means to be trans, namely medicalized binary transitions. Many trans people who deviate from mainstream media’s depiction of trans people are creating their own media on YouTube to voice their lived experiences. I argue that while YouTube is a particularly accessible platform for trans people to challenge transnormativity, the reach of trans YouTubers’ messages are highly limited by the medium’s design and genre conventions.
title: Critical Inquiry and Use as Action. The Expanding Scope of Evaluation Use
Creators: name: Rossman, Gretchen
name: Rallis, S. F
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Education

description: DOI: 10.1002/ev.1191
description: A conception of evaluation as learning focuses attention on the critical inquiry cycle that incorporates use throughout the evaluation process.