cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sex differences in contextual pattern separation, neurogenesis, and functional connectivity within the limbic system
Creators: name: Yagi, Shunya
name: Lee, Amanda
name: Truter, Nadine
name: Galea, Liisa A. M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Background Females are more likely to present with anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) compared to males, which are associated with disrupted hippocampal integrity. Sex differences in the structure and function of hippocampus exist. Here, we examined sex differences in contextual pattern separation, functional connectivity, and activation of new neurons during fear memory. Methods Two-month-old male and female Sprague-Dawley rats were injected with the DNA synthesis markers, iododeoxyuridine (IdU) and chlorodeoxyuridine (CldU) 3 weeks and 4 weeks before perfusion, respectively. One week after CldU injection, the rats underwent a context discrimination task in which rats were placed in context A (shock) and context A’ (no shock) every day for 12 days. On the test day, rats were placed in the shock context (context A) to measure fear memory and expression of zif268, an immediate early gene across 16 different limbic and reward regions. Repeated-measures or factorial analysis of variance was conducted on our variables of interest. Pearson product-moment calculations and principal component analyses on zif268 expression across regions were also performed. Results We found that females, but not males, showed contextual discrimination during the last days of training. On the test day, both sexes displayed similar levels of freezing, indicating equivalent fear memory for context A. Despite similar fear memory, males showed more positive correlations of zif268 activation between the limbic regions and the striatum, whereas females showed more negative correlations among these regions. Females showed greater activation of the frontal cortex, dorsal CA1, and 3-week-old adult-born dentate granular cells compared to males. Conclusions These results highlight the importance of studying sex differences in fear memory and the contribution of adult neurogenesis to the neuronal network and may contribute to differences in susceptibility to fear-related disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Highlights Female rats, but not male rats, show faster discrimination during a contextual pattern separation task. Three-week-old adult-born neurons are more active in response to fear memory in females compared to males. Females had greater neural activation compared to males in the frontal cortex and dorsal CA1 region of the hippocampus in response to fear memory. Males and females show distinct patterns in functional connectivity for fear memory across limbic regions. Males have many positive correlations between activated new neurons of different ages between the dorsal and ventral hippocampus, while females show more correlations between activated new neurons and other limbic regions.
Medias Res, Temporal Double-Consciousness and Resistance in Octavia Butler's Kindred
Creators: name: Smith, Roslyn
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Dana, the Black female protagonist in Octavia Butler?s novel Kindred (1979), finds herself literally and figuratively in medias res as she sporadically travels between her present day life in 1976 and her ancestral plantation of 1815 ? two time periods that represent two converse concepts of her identity as a Black woman. As a result, her time travel experiences cause her to revise her racial and gendered identity from a historically fragmented Black woman, who defines herself solely on her contemporary experiences, to a Black woman who defines herself based on her present life and her personal and ancestral history of experiencing and overcoming racial and gendered oppression. Using Black feminist theory scholarship, this thesis examines Dana?s movement out of in medias res, through temporal double-consciousness, into a historically integrated identity or interstitial consciousness.
Where the Whip-poor-Will Blows
Creators: name: Ivey, Robert
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: These poems represent the vanishing world of the South and that tale is perpetuated by a series of fathers and sons which often act as the narrators.  Each father passes his knowledge of language, hunting, lore, loss, and even sins onto the sons who repeat the tradition.  The voice and age of the narrators evolves from the heavily dialectical to a more educated and contemplative voice as the thesis progresses.
How to Win at Slot Machines: Strategies and Schemes
Creators: name: Gold, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Winning at slot machines is often perceived as a matter of luck. However, this research dives deeper into the strategies and schemes that can be employed to maximize your chances of winning. By understanding the mechanics of slot machines, applying strategic betting, and utilizing effective bankroll management, players can improve their odds and enhance their overall experience. This research offers a comprehensive guide to mastering slot machines, making it a valuable resource for both novice and experienced gamblers.
Cotton Mather's Relationship to Science
Creators: name: Hudson, James
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: The subject of this project is Cotton Mather's relationship to science.  As a minister, Mather's desire to harmonize science with religion is     an excellent medium for understanding the effects of the early Enlightenment upon traditional views of Scripture.  Through "Biblia Americana" and The Christian Philosopher, I evaluate Mather's effort to relate Newtonian science to the six creative days as recorded in Genesis 1.  Chapter One evaluates Mather's support for the scientific theories of Isaac Newton and his reception to natural philosophers who advocate Newton's theories.  Chapter Two highlights Mather's treatment of the dominant cosmogonies preceding Isaac Newton.  The Conclusion returns the reader to Mather's principal occupation as a minister and the limits of science as informed by his theological mind.  Through an exploration of Cotton Mather's views on science, a more comprehensive understanding of this significant early American and the ideological assumptions shaping his place in American history is realized.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR FORMATION
Creators: name: E.M. Onuchkova
name: E.N. Ustyuzhaninova
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The article examines the relationship between family emotional communications, strong-willed personality traits and addictive behavior. An important place in the work is occupied by the consideration of the influence of such factors as family emotional communications and volitional personality traits on the formation of a tendency to addictive behavior in an individual. The paper presents the results of a study on the relationship between family emotional communications, strong-willed personality traits and addictive behavior. The article concludes with the results obtained in the study of the relationship between psychological and individual factors and addictive behavior.
The Effect of High Intensity Physical Education Instruction on the Cardio-Respiratory Fitness of Middle School Students
Creators: name: Kelley, David
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of intensified physical education
instruction on the cardio-respiratory fitness of middle school students. This study
occurred over an eight week period and utilized a pre-test/post-test design. All
participants in the study received daily physical education. The treatment group received
intensified physical education instruction over the course of a thirty day intervention
period. During the intensified physical education instruction, students were engaged in
activities designed to elicit a heart rate intensity level within a personal target heart rate
zone for ten minutes. The control group received normal physical education instruction
during the same time period. Attainment of target heart rate zone was assessed and
recorded through a series of self-reported pulse checks using heart rate monitor watches.
Cardio-respiratory fitness was measured pre and post-intervention using the FitnessGram
PACER test. The results of the study revealed that there was no statistically significant
increase in the average PACER score of the treatment group. However, a small increase
was noted by the researcher, prompting the recommendation for additional research over
a longer period of time to continue the evaluation of intensified physical education
instruction as a method to increase the cardio-respiratory fitness of middle school
students.
Clarice Lispector's an Apprenticeship, or the Book of Delights: The Role of Silence in the Cultivation of Intimacy"
Creators: name: Dulaney, Susan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: This thesis undertakes to explore silence as it functions in relation to intimacy in Clarice Lispector?s last narrative. It asks how silence, when perceived as a generative force, may cultivate intimacy between men and women, opening up a horizon of equality and exchange between the sexes. Using Lispector?s work as a symbolic location for asking larger questions about the role of Eros in contemporary literature, the first chapter is dedicated to introducing her work as it relates to the critical canon. After examining silence and intimacy as each have been conceptualized by thinkers from various philosophical traditions, I incorporate the recent work of Luce Irigaray, which has integrated Western discourse and Eastern mystical concepts of the intimate to articulate a new kind of male/female reciprocity. I apply Irigarayan theory to Lispector?s text as a way of enriching the academic scholarship regarding Lispector.
The torus: A gridshell structure
Creators: name: Williams, Nicholas
name: Cherrey, John
name: Bohnenberger, Sascha
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design

description: BACKGROUND: Sound Art is fast gaining international prominence as evidenced by recent international shows and major awards for sound artists. For the Sound Bites City exhibition, a concept and space was commisioned for a temporary spatial structure inside which the audience could listen to the pieces or art. Williams and Cherrey designed The Torus - a timber gridshell in a toroidal arrangement that drew on a history of post-formed gridshell structures. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: Williams' essay (attached) outlined the design approach for the structure and located it in the context of over 50 years of post-formed timber gridshell structures. This history describes collaborations between architects and engineers in designing structurally-efficient shells, and highlights the use of both physical prototypes and contemporary techniques of digital 'form finding' and customised fabrication. The essay further situated the spatial arrangement, as a torus which created performance spaces both inside and outside the structural shell, within a contemporary digital design discourse. Finally, the essay sought to outline connections between architectural design and sound art production regarding creative processes and the tools and the individual roles of designer/artist. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The Sound Bites City exhibition launched RMIT's sound art collection, the first such collection in the country. As such, a sophistocated architectural response which was well situated within the contemporary discourse was critical to the exhibition's success. Over five weeks, 3815 people visited including an opening night crowd of close to 300. The significance was further demonstrated by media coverage including 'The Age' (Penny Webb, 5 October 2013) and 'Melbourne Review' (Evelyn Tsitas, 'The Fine Art of Listening', Sept 2013).
Responsible Gambling in the Digital Age: Strategies for Promoting Healthy Gambling Practices Online
Creators: name: Gold, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Winning at slot machines is often perceived as a matter of luck. However, this research dives deeper into the strategies and schemes that can be employed to maximize your chances of winning. By understanding the mechanics of slot machines, applying strategic betting, and utilizing effective bankroll management, players can improve their odds and enhance their overall experience. This research offers a comprehensive guide to mastering slot machines, making it a valuable resource for both novice and experienced gamblers.
Divine Destiny or Free Choice: Nietzsche's Strong Wills in the Harry Potter Series
Creators: name: Pond, Julia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: This paper considers the influences of fate and free will in J.K. Rowling?s Harry Potter series. Current scholarship on the topic generally agrees that Rowling champions free will by allowing her characters learning opportunities through their choices. By using Friedrich Nietzsche?s philosophy on fate and free will and by more closely examining the Harry Potter texts, this paper demonstrates fate?s stronger presence in Rowling?s fictional world. Certain strong-willed characters rise above their peers? fated states by embracing their personal fates and exercising their wills to create themselves within fated destinies. The paper also explores the possibility of an authority directing fate.
Daisy Chain
Creators: name: Fleishman, Shelley
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: This collection of work explores conflict and connection.  The poems are shorter, but they are no less conflicted about human nature and our own desires to be good, while struggling with less-good desires.  My construction of progressive imagery has changed from Confessional to a sensory connectivity of situation and feel.  Breaking the collection into parts allows for grouping according to speaker relationship and voice.
title: Wohin geht die Reise?
title: Wohin geht die Reise?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bopst, Juliane
name: Hölzer-Schopohl, Olaf
name: Lindmaier, Jörn
name: Myck, Thomas
name: Schmied, Martin
name: Weiß, Jan
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Luftverkehr
subject: Klimaneutralität
subject: Nachhaltige Mobilität
subject: Fluglärm
subject: Klimaschutz
subject: Treibhausgasneutralität
subject: Umweltschonende Mobilität
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Verkehr

description: Immer mehr Menschen fliegen. Allein 2018 nahm der weltweite Passagierluftverkehr gegenüber dem Vorjahr um 6,7 Prozent zu. Und er wächst weiter. Damit wachsen auch die Belastungen. Das Umweltbundesamt (UBA ) widmet sich mit dieser Broschüre daher einer wichtigen und zugleich sehr komplexen Materie. Wieviel Luftverkehr ist tatsächlich notwendig? Zu welchen Kosten für Mensch, Klima und Umwelt ist er in Zukunft tragbar? Wie gelingt eine Verkehrswende, die nicht nur Flugzeuge und Flughäfen, sondern auch Veränderungen in Wirtschaft und im Konsumverhalten erfasst? Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Immer mehr Menschen fliegen. Allein 2018 nahm der weltweite Passagierluftverkehr gegenüber dem Vorjahr um 6,7 Prozent zu. Und er wächst weiter. Damit wachsen auch die Belastungen. Das Umweltbundesamt (⁠UBA⁠) widmet sich mit dieser Broschüre daher einer wichtigen und zugleich sehr komplexen Materie. Wieviel Luftverkehr ist tatsächlich notwendig? Zu welchen Kosten für Mensch, ⁠Klima⁠ und Umwelt ist er in Zukunft tragbar? Wie gelingt eine Verkehrswende, die nicht nur Flugzeuge und Flughäfen, sondern auch Veränderungen in Wirtschaft und im Konsumverhalten erfasst?
Slow Spring
Creators: name: Bartlett, Sara
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: This thesis is a collection of original poems.  The poems found herein attempt to bridge a perceived gap between poet and audience by using clear, interesting language and relatable subject matters.  The setting for many of these poems is New England, and travel between the American Northeast and the South is emphasized.  The speakers in these poems often find themselves positioned between two contrasting worlds and attempt to negotiate between them.  Consistent themes include travel, nature, generation, family, and growing up.
The Impact of Technology on Reading Instruction
Creators: name: Skahill, Jennifer E.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study is to determine if struggling readers could benefit from 
integrating technology into reading instruction, and to analyze the effects of technology 
integration in order to relate these influences to future instructional methods within the 
reading curriculum.  The measurement tool was a reading comprehension test, part of the 
DIBELS program, in which students’ ability to read and understand what they are reading 
was measured.  Comprehension, fluidity, decoding and basic recall were slightly higher 
after the integration of the student-centered technology, however, critical thought and 
higher order thinking skills (making predictions, inferences) did not seem to be increased 
(or decreased) based on the technological integration.  Research in this area should 
continue because there is little supported research that relates reading instruction to 
technology, despite the fact that today’s students are well accustomed to these potential 
learning tools.
The Relationship Between Recess and the Behavior of 5th Grade Students
Creators: name: Slaughter, Michael
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether 5th grade students exhibit
fewer inappropriate behaviors, as measured by the number of behavior levels they are
assigned for inappropriate behaviors, before or after recess. According to the school
behavior plan, levels are assigned based on behavioral infractions. Three 5th grade
teachers recorded times when levels were given for each individual student (n=65) on the
Weekly Behavior Logs. The average number of levels received per student in the 90
minutes before recess was compared to the average number of levels received per student
in the 90 minutes after recess. Data was collected over a 10-day period. The difference
in the average number of behavior levels assigned before recess (Mean = .52, SD = .90)
and after recess (Mean = .29, SD = .70) was statistically significant [t (64) = 2.07, p
The Gambling Industry: Evolution, Impact, and Future Trends
Creators: name: Gold, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The gambling industry has evolved significantly over the past century, transitioning from traditional land-based casinos to a thriving online ecosystem. This article explores the history and development of the gambling industry, its economic and social impacts, and the emerging trends shaping its future. As technology continues to advance, the industry faces both opportunities and challenges that will determine its trajectory in the coming years.
Transgenerational Ghosting in the Psyches and Somas of African Americans and their Literatures
Creators: name: McCoy-Wilson, Sonya
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: I argue that William Wells Brown?s narrative, Clotel, is informed by the white racism inherent in Thomas Jefferson?s Notes on the State of Virginia and reveals evidence of the trauma it has fostered transgenerationally. By examining Toni Morrison?s Beloved, I assert that the trauma of slavery is transmitted transgenerationally in the black female body. I develop my argument using trauma theory, postulated through the work of Cathy Caruth, Dori Laub, Diana Miles, Abraham and Maria Torok, and William Cross. My purpose is to reveal the relevance and lasting significance of the legacy of slavery in contemporary American society. Thomas Jefferson?s white supremacist ideas, along with the system of slavery which nurtured them, continue to plague contemporary American thought and continue to shape African American female identity.
Kindergarten Intervention Study: A Comparison of Intervention Models With At Risk Students
Creators: name: Miller, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine if a small group of students at risk for reading difficulties would improve more with an intervention that combined Guided Reading and an Early Reading Intervention (ERI) model versus a small group of at risk students that received only the ERI model. This study uses a quasi-experimental design that includes students from three kindergarten classes in the researcher’s school. The measurement tool used was the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) and a phonemic awareness benchmark assessment. Achievement gains appear to be equal between the two groups. Continued research in this area would benefit young children identified as at risk for reading failure.
The overdose epidemic: a study protocol to determine whether people who use drugs can influence or shape public opinion via mass media
Creators: name: Jozaghi, Ehsan
Publisher: name: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2022

description: Background We are currently witnessing an ongoing drug overdose death epidemic in many nations linked to the distribution of illegally manufactured potent synthetic opioids. While many health policy makers and researchers have focused on the root causes and possible solutions to the current crisis, there has been little focus on the power of advocacy and community action by people who use drugs (PWUDs). Specifically, there has been no research on the role of PWUDs in engaging and influencing mass media opinion. Methods By relying on one of the longest and largest peer-run drug user advocacy groups in the world, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), newspaper articles, television reports, and magazines that VANDU or its members have been directly involved in will be identified via two data bases (the Canadian Newsstream & Google News). The news articles and videos related to the health of PWUDs and issues affecting PWUDs from 1997 to the end of 2020 will be analyzed qualitatively using Nvivo software. Discussion As our communities are entering another phase of the drug overdose epidemic, acknowledging and partnering with PWUDs could play an integral part in advancing the goals of harm reduction, treatment, and human rights.
A Virtues Based Behavioral Modification Program
Creators: name: Molin, Brett J.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether a behavior program based on a
student’s innate character traits and virtues would positively affect his/her actions and
academic performance. The treatment is based on an international program called The
Virtues Project. The measurement was based on the students’ grades as well as the
number of office referrals given for negative behaviors as outlined by the school’s
student handbook. This study was performed as an action research with a pretest/posttest
design where the subjects’ performance was measured prior to the study and then again
after the study to determine the effectiveness of the treatment. Achievement gains were
significant in both academic success as well as stemming negative behaviors. Given the
success of this limited study, research in the area of teaching students how to overcome
obstacles they encounter in their day to day lives should continue on a broader scale.
Thinking Back through Our Fathers: Woolf Reading Shakespeare in Orlando and a Room of One's Own
Creators: name: Gallagher, Maureen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: This thesis is a feminist interpretation of Virginia Woolf?s treatment of Shakespeare in Orlando and A Room of One?s Own. Although Woolf?s admiration of Shakespeare is evident in both texts, Woolf?s identification of Shakespeare as a gender-neutral or feminist-friendly writer must be qualified. Woolf presents Shakespeare as a worthy but incomplete artistic model, for his work does not explore women with adequate complexity. In these texts, Woolf partially ?writes with? Shakespeare, but she also uses his literary works and his status as a cultural icon both to critique the conventional treatment of women as limited by the male perspective and to highlight the gender privilege male writers have historically had. In these two texts, Woolf presses beyond what she perceives to be Shakespeare?s limited exploration of women, ultimately calling for a feminist re-evaluation of gender roles in literature and emphasizing the need for women writers to record women?s experiences.
Illuminating the Queer Subtext: the Unmentioned Affairs in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!
Creators: name: Neill, Nora
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Willa Cather contests the contemporary notion that identification links to a natural or original order. For example, that man equals masculine and femininity comes from an essential connection to woman. Cather deconstructs normativity through her use of character relationships in order to redefine successful interpersonal alliances. Thus, Alexandra, the protagonist of O Pioneers! builds a home and friendships that exemplify alternatives to stasis. My readings of O Pioneers! display the places in the novel where Cather subtly contests the ideology of naturalization. I make lesbian erotic and queer social interactions visible through a discourse on Cather?s symbolism. I favor queer theory as a mode of inquiry that magnifies the power and presence of heteronormativity and I examine Cather?s work as a critique of cultural principles that inflict violence against individuals who participate in dissent from conformity.
The Effects of Reading Ability on Mathematics Achievement
Creators: name: Oliva, Jessica M.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to explore the possibility that reading ability, specifically math
reading ability, affects mathematics achievement among elementary school students, specifically
fourth graders, with varying levels of reading achievement. The experimental group consisted of
one classroom differentiated into three small groups of students leveled by reading ability. The
intervention used was the Thinking Maps flow map approach to problem solving. The
measurement tool used was the Anne Arundel County Public School topic tests and benchmark
assessments. This study involved the use of a pretest/posttest design to compare data from before
the implementation of the intervention (September - February, 2009) to data from after the
intervention was complete (March 26, 2010). Achievement gains were noteworthy, though there
was no statistical significance found. In addition, results could be attributable to a number of
intervening factors. Further research would be beneficial to determine the true success of this
approach to problem solving and expand on the results in this study.
Social Skills in the Elementary Classroom
Creators: name: Rein, Fontina
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of social skills instruction on classroom
behavior. Students were presented with the Skill Streaming in the Elementary School curriculum.
This study involved a pre-test and post-test design. Students and the teacher used a rating scale
after each skill was taught to determine if the skill level improved. At the conclusion of the
study, teacher ratings suggested students demonstrated improvement. Particular growth was
seen in weeks two through seven. More research needs to be completed on this program to
determine if the results in positive social skills will continue to grow and to determine if the
program results will stand long term.
The Effects of a Reading Intervention System in Heterogeneously Grouped Fifth Grade Reading Classes
Creators: name: Simon, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study is to determine whether a targeted reading intervention could
improve the reading performance levels of heterogeneously grouped fifth grade reading students.
It was hypothesized that the intervention would have a significant impact on the reading
performance of the fifth grade reading students. A quasi-experimental design with a pre-test and
post-test was used for this study. Forty fifth-grade students from two heterogeneously grouped
reading classes were selected for this study. One reading class, comprised of 19 students, served
as the control group and the other reading class, comprised of 21 students, served as the
experimental group. The reading intervention was implemented with the experimental group for
a period of 16 days during the instruction of a fifth-grade reading unit. Although the results
indicated that the experimental group earned higher scores on the post-test after the intervention,
a number of factors affected the significance of the data. Further research over a longer period of
time is needed to measure the effectiveness of the reading intervention.
"You Done Lost Yo' Mind Ain't No Such Thang as AAVE": Exploring African American Resistance to AAVE
Creators: name: Jones, Tiffany
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: John Rickford (1990) states that ?80%-90% of African Americans speak some form of Black English?, also known as ?Ebonics? or ?African American Vernacular English? (AAVE). In 1996, when the Oakland School Board proposed its resolution designating Ebonics as their students? primary language, many African Americans outright rejected the School Board?s reference and description of their language (Smitherman, 2000, 150). Among them were Baby boomers (1940-1960s), who participated in the debates, and the Generation X?ers, (1960s-1980s), who were informed by the debates. A recent interview of members from both groups show that there is continued skepticism regarding the legitimacy of Ebonics as a language. Their resistance offers much to learn about intergroup relations and conflict. This research explores these components of group identity by examining the in-group language responses to the question of whether Ebonics, AAVE, or Black English is a language.
title: Condition monitoring of a direct-drive permanent magnet synchronous generator under demagnetisation and eccentricity faults
Creators: name: Ab Rasid, Syidy
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Demagnetisation
subject: Eccentricity
subject: Harmonic cancellation
subject: Current Signature Analysis (CSA)
subject: Finite Element Modelling (FEM)

description: This research investigates fault diagnosis challenges in 20 kW direct drive air-cored permanent magnet generators to enhance reliability and performance. It addresses gaps in harmonic behaviour and fault detection, focusing on issues like demagnetisation and eccentricity, which impact efficiency and lifespan. The study highlights harmonic cancellation and how pole and phase coil configurations influence the detectability of fault signatures. Results indicate that increasing phase coils reduces detectable fault harmonics, while three-phase configurations enhance harmonic cancellation, improving understanding of fault-related patterns. Diagnostic methods such as Current Signature Analysis (CSA), the Park Vector Approach (PVA), the Extended Park Vector Approach (EPVA), and Flux Monitoring were adapted from induction machines to evaluate their application in PM generators. Using Finite Element Modelling (FEM) alongside experimental validation, the results prove that CSA, in combination with FEM, provides increased sensitivity to faults like demagnetisation and eccentricity, making it effective for practical use in real-world systems. This study makes an important contribution by examining how partial demagnetisation affects electromagnetic and thermal performance. Results indicate that magnetic imbalances caused by demagnetisation lead to circulating currents, which increase losses, reduce efficiency, and aggravate fault severity. The research also identifies critical thresholds for electromagnetic and thermal stresses, better understanding how faults develop and progress in PM machines. The investigation also includes the effects of static, dynamic, and mixed eccentricity faults in air-cored PM generators, analysing their impact on efficiency and performance across different severity levels. The research identifies effective diagnostic methods by studying fault behaviour under varied conditions, extending the work traditionally done with induction machines. This thesis contributes to the field by improving the understanding of harmonic interactions, fault-related behaviours, and diagnostic methods for PM generators. The findings support the development of more reliable fault detection strategies, reduced maintenance needs, and improved operational performance, particularly in renewable energy applications.
Dread Talk: The Rastafarians' Linguistic Response to Societal Oppression
Creators: name: Manget-Johnson, Carol
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Opposed to the repressive socio-economic political climate that resulted in the impoverishment of masses of Jamaicans, the Jamaican Rastafarians developed a language to resist societal oppression.  This study examines that language--Dread Talk--as resistive language. 
Having determined that the other variations spoken in their community--Standard Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole--were inadequate to express their dispossessed circumstances, the Rastafarians forged an identity through their language that represents a resistant philosophy, music and religion. This resistance not only articulates their socio-political state, but also commands global attention. 
This study scrutinizes the lexical, phonological, and syntactical structures of the poetic music discourse of Dread Talk, the conscious deliberate fashioning of a language that purposefully expresses resistance to the political and social ideology of their native land, Jamaica.
The High Stakes: Understanding Gambling Behavior, Addiction, and Industry Dynamics
Creators: name: Gold, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: "The High Stakes: Understanding Gambling Behavior, Addiction, and Industry Dynamics" delves into the world of gambling, focusing on why people gamble, how some become addicted, and how the industry plays a role in these behaviors. The article looks at what drives people to gamble, the signs and causes of addiction, and what the gambling industry does to keep people coming back. This research aims to give a clearer picture of gambling's impact on individuals and to suggest ways to promote safer gambling habits.
Wees Gonna Tell It Like We Know It Tuh Be: Coded Language in the Works of Julia Peterkin and Gloria Naylor
Creators: name: Hills, Crystal
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: This study employs African American literary criticism and critical discourse analysis to evaluate Julia Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary (1928) and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day (1988). These women write stories of African American life on the Sea Islands through different prisms that evoke cultural memory within and outside the texts. Peterkin, a white Southerner, writes as an "onlooker" and ?pioneer? of fictional Gullah culture; Naylor, a black Northerner by birth, writes as an "outsider" to Gullah culture, although a veteran of African American Southern heritage.

The authors' hybridity produce different literary voices. A close examination of their discourse conveys a coded language pertinent to understanding the historical, social, and political conditions portrayed through their texts.

This study will examine their discourse to prove that Julia Peterkin?s, Scarlet Sister Mary, takes ownership over the Gullah experience rendering stereotypical characterizations promoting hegemony; while Gloria Naylor's, Mama Day, resurrects Peterkin?s view rendering multi-dimensional characterizations that legitimize the authenticity of Gullah culture and aid in its preservation.
Considering the animation-state and the glassy-state
Creators: name: Torre, Daniel
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360502
subject: Computer gaming and animation
classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts

description: Research Background: This highly original theoretical essay explores the relationship between two very distinctive mediums: glass art and animation. It seeks to find commonalities between these mediums through an original application of process philosophy and contemporary animation theory. Research Significance: This essay approaches the subject from a perspective of Process Philosophy, which allows for a very unique interrogation of the two mediums in terms of both their production and presentation. It draws parallels between the amorphous qualities of both the glassy-state (the unique molecular state of glass) and the animation-state (the unique metaphysical state that animation occupies so that its form and movement are percept) . Research Contribution: The analysis of glass in terms of process philosophy has never occurred before and the theoretical consideration of animation in terms of Process philosophy and 'an animation-state' had never been identified in this way in any animation-studies text. This text represents an entirely original theoretical approach which successfully articulates a common philosophical ground between glass art and animation. Besides being sold at the Deakin University Art Gallery, and now included in a number of library collections, this publication was also distributed as part of the delegate pack for all national and international delegates who attended the Society for Animation Studies 2012 international conference held at RMIT University. This essay, in particular, has received wide praise by animation studies scholars and was cited in a number of the panel presentations, and has been cited in at least one forthcoming high-profile academic publication.
The Sound the Wind Makes
Creators: name: Pfeiffer, Robert
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: What follows is a brief introduction and a selection of the poetry I have composed over the course of my tenure as a student in the Master of Fine Arts program.  I would like to think that they represent significant artistic growth. As a result of studying poetry in greater breadth and depth then ever before, the world of poetry has opened up to me, and hopefully my work exhibits that.
Barb & Debbie
Creators: name: Brooks, Amber
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: This long work of imagination is a culmination of years of writing about two characters, cousins Barb and Debbie: Barbara Catherin Owens and Deborah Jean Magee. Born in south-eastern Arkansas, Barb and Debbie haunted Amber Nicole Brooks until she initiated them into the world of fiction in an initial short story set in 1970. Since then, many stories, ranging from the 1960s to 1990s, have been born of these characters? exploits, despair, and erotic encounters. In a drastic overhaul of prose, Amber has reworked the episodes of these characters lives into one long, linear narrative, a thing some folks might perhaps characterize as a novel.
The Impact of 51 Risk Factors on Life Expectancy in Canada: Findings from a New Risk Prediction Model Based on Data from the Global Burden of Disease Study
Creators: name: Kopeć, Jacek A.
name: Sayre, E. C.
name: Shams, Benajir
name: Li, Linda C.
name: Xie, Hui
name: Feehan, Lynne M.
name: Esdaile, John
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: The aims of this study were (1) to develop a comprehensive risk-of-death and life expectancy (LE) model and (2) to provide data on the effects of multiple risk factors on LE. We used data for Canada from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study. To create period life tables for males and females, we obtained age/sex-specific deaths rates for 270 diseases, population distributions for 51 risk factors, and relative risk functions for all disease-exposure pairs. We computed LE gains from eliminating each factor, LE values for different levels of exposure to each factor, and LE gains from simultaneous reductions in multiple risk factors at various ages. If all risk factors were eliminated, LE in Canada would increase by 6.26 years for males and 5.05 for females. The greatest benefit would come from eliminating smoking in males (2.45 years) and high blood pressure in females (1.42 years). For most risk factors, their dose-response relationships with LE were non-linear and depended on the presence of other factors. In individuals with high levels of risk, eliminating or reducing exposure to multiple factors could improve LE by several years, even at a relatively advanced age.
Can the Wound Be Taken at Its Word?: Performed Trauma in Don DeLillo's The Body Artist and Falling Man
Creators: name: Griffin, Brett
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Two of Don DeLillo?s recently published novels, The Body Artist (2001) and Falling Man (2007), feature performance artists performing trauma. Through the bodies of these performers, DeLillo restates the central concern of trauma studies: if trauma is that which denies mediation, how may we speak about traumatic experience? DeLillo?s stagings of traumatic (re)iterations illustrate how the missed originary moment of trauma precludes directly referential content in traumatic representation. But I propose that performed trauma ? the knowledge of forgetting addressed to another ? recapitulates the structure of traumatic experience itself, thereby revealing trauma to be wholly constituted in repetition, and providing a means of speaking about the unspeakable. I hope to illustrate how restoring trauma to language revives the ethical and political efficacy of traumatic representation.
The Morphic Orator: Transmogrified Delivery on the Audio-Enabled Web
Creators: name: Snead, Brian
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Audio is an effective but often overlooked component of World Wide Web delivery. Of the nearly twenty billion web pages estimated to exist, statistically few use sound. Those few using sound often use it poorly and with hardly any regard to theoretical and rhetorical issues. This thesis is an examination of the uses of audio on the World Wide Web, specifically focusing on how that use could be informed by current and historical rhetorical theory. A theoretical methodology is applied to suggest the concepts and disciplines required to make online audio more meaningful and useful. The thesis argues for the connection between the Web and the modern orator, its embodiment, its place in sound reproduction technology, and awareness of the limitations placed on it by design and convention.
The Impact of Online Casino Bonuses on Player Behavior: Analyzing Loyalty Programs and Wagering Requirements
Creators: name: Gold, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Online casino bonuses have become a key marketing tool for attracting and retaining players in an increasingly competitive digital gambling landscape. This research explores the impact of various types of bonuses, such as welcome bonuses, free spins, and loyalty programs, on player behavior. By analyzing the effectiveness of these incentives, as well as the associated wagering requirements, the study seeks to understand how bonuses influence player retention, loyalty, and overall engagement. The findings of this research provide insights into the psychology of players and the strategic implications for online casinos.
Performing Passing:  Theatricality in Zo? Wicomb's Playing in the Light and Nella Larsen's Passing
Creators: name: Apgar, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Acts of ?passing? inform the plots of Zo? Wicomb?s Playing in the Light and Nella Larsen?s Passing. Examples of contemporary South African fiction and Harlem Renaissance fiction respectively, these texts explore racial passing and its correlative, social passing. Social passing includes enactment of social relationships, responds to class anxieties, and requires repression of emotions as participating characters attempt to fix their performed roles into permanent identities. At issue are the texts? multiple enactments of passing with special interest paid to these acts? constitutive theatricality. Characters perform within narrative settings, locations subsequently deconstructed exposing both implicit and explicit theatrical functions. Threshold spaces of doors and windows form frames within settings, focusing the audience?s gaze and simultaneously creating and dismantling private and public places to reconstitute them as theater. This study culminates in reflections on the tension between the relative freedom and containment of characters that pass.
The variable fate of Ag and TiO2 nanoparticles in natural soil solutions - sorption of organic matter and nanoparticle stability
Creators: name: Degenkolb, Laura
name: Kaupenjohann, Martin
name: Klitzke, Sondra
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Aromatische Verbindung

description: Engineered nanoparticles (NP) like Ag and TiO2 offer unique properties for various applications. Thus, the entry of the NP in soil environments is expected to increase in the future due to their growing industrial use. To avoid potential hazards due to these anthropogenic products, NP behavior in the environment should be well understood. In natural soil solutions, we investigated NOM adsorption onto Ag and TiO2 NP and its influence on NP colloidal stability. Therefore, we extracted soil solutions from a floodplain soil (Fluvisol) and a farmland soil (Cambisol) differing in NOM quality and inorganic ion concentration. We measured the amount of adsorbed organic carbon as well as changes in aromaticity and molecular weight of NOM upon adsorption onto NP. Additionally, the size and zeta potential of NP in both soil solutions were investigated. We observed that the highly hydrophilic NOM of floodplain soil solution rich in inorganic ions strongly adsorbed to Ag but not to TiO2 NP. Instead, sorption to TiO2 NP was observed for the more hydrophobic NOM of the farmland soil with low ionic strength which did not sorb to Ag NP. These differences had a strong effect on NP stability, leading to Ag NP destabilization in case of floodplain soil solution and TiO2 NP stabilization in the presence of farmland soil solution. Our results point out the necessity of studies in more complex systems and suppose that oxic and metallic NP might show very different fate depending on the environment they are exposed to. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019