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When a Fairy Tale Yields More Than a Moral: Illuminating Immigrant Literature Themes Through Diverse Versions of Little Red Riding Hood
Full text linkLittle Red Riding Hood is a story hundreds of years old and is most commonly known for its central message, don’t talk to strangers. This is an important message to convey to young children, but with a plethora of contemporary versions of Little Red Riding Hood living in classrooms and libraries around the world, it becomes increasingly more obvious that more can be gleaned from these diverse versions of Little Red Riding Hood than one simple moral. In light of this, I seek to understand the connections between themes commonly found in immigrant children’s literature and themes found in diverse versions of Little Red Riding Hood. To explore this topic, I examined ten different picture book versions of Little Red Riding Hood for immigrant literature themes. I used an inductive qualitative model, and framed the study using critical content analysis (Johnson et al., 2016). While exploring the texts and illustrations of the books, I considered specific immigrant literature themes: language, culture, names, power, difference, and representation. Rosenblatt’s (1994) theory of transactional reading and Butler’s (1995) For a Careful Reading offer insight into the unrealized potential hidden within a text and its illustrations. The findings buttress the notion that while gathering a central moral to a story can be beneficial, there remain equally or more beneficial themes to be gleaned when teachers are afforded time and energy to pursue quality children’s literature for their early childhood and elementary classrooms
Contesting Corporate Power
No full textIn October of 2013, the first issue of Class, Race and Corporate Power was published as part of an open access digital commons network. I have been editor-in-chief ever since. The aim from the very beginning was to be part of an effort to connect academics to organizers and activists around the world to help support social movements fighting for political and economic democracy. That goal is more urgent than ever, as corporate power has intensified and accelerated across the world since our first issue was published.
As of February, 2025, we launched a companion website that is designed to further promote and enhance the visibility of Class, Race and Corporate Power. This new website is part of an effort to build a more robust collective information and support network to help empower movements that are contesting corporate power on behalf of the working class, oppressed and marginalized groups. We encourage participation in this new companion website for Class, Race and Corporate Power, which will feature many of the same articles and essays at our current site, alongside more immediate and shorter responses to current events and issues. Our aim is to link to and join forces with groups that align with our politics as we try to expand our intellectual, organizational and activist capacity on the left from the bottom up
Dataverse - Metadata Mining
No full textThe Central American Transparency Hub project, led by the GIS Center for Digital Collections, aims to enhance the accessibility and accuracy of its digital archives. This project emphasizes creating and managing descriptive metadata for reports and data, digitally archiving materials in both Spanish and English, conducting quality assurance checks, and ensuring seamless integration into the institutional data repository with metadata mining techniques, with a strong focus on NLP
Assessment of Selected Geographic Information Science (GIScience) Journals: Trends and Ranking Across Metrics
No full textIn this presentation, I\u27ll share insights from my research, recently published in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, which analyzes publication trends in GIScience journals. I examined data from 2018 to 2023, focusing on open access, author representation, and journal metrics. My findings highlight the growing prevalence of open access and the need to address global representation disparities. I\u27ll present these results and, importantly, provide updated data reflecting the most current publishing patterns. This work offers a critical overview of the evolving GIScience literature, aiming to inform researchers and practitioners alike
Beyond Antibiotics: Exploring the Antibacterial Mechanisms and Efficacy of Medicinal Plants and Endophytic Fungi
No full textDue to the overuse of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance has become a global health crisis, and has forced an exploration of alternative antibacterial agents. This review explores natural solutions through the antibacterial potential of medicinal plants and their symbiotic endophytic fungi. Medicinal plants have been utilized for centuries to treat infections because of their rich phytochemical content, including alkaloids, flavonoids, and saponins, which exhibit antibacterial properties. Their efficacy is measured through minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) assays, which showcase their ability to inhibit bacterial growth. Isolated compounds from medicinal plants demonstrate enhanced antibacterial activity by disrupting bacterial cell membranes, with MIC values as low as 3.0 µg/mL. However, challenges like inconsistent chemical composition and cultivation issues can limit the large-scale application of medicinal plants. Endophytic fungi, micro-fungi that reside in plant tissues, offer a promising alternative resulting from their ability to mimic the production of similar bioactive compounds. Their antibacterial activity is measured through agar well assays, and most strains inhibit both gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial growth demonstrated by zones of inhibition up to 34 mm. Unlike plants, endophytic fungi are easier to cultivate and can be optimized for mass production under controlled laboratory conditions, making them a sustainable source of novel antibiotics. By exploring the diverse chemical profiles of medicinal plants and endophytic fungi, this review demonstrates the potential of both to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria effectively. Further research into their specific mechanisms and clinical trials is necessary to ensure their safety, but by advancing the exploration of these natural sources, they can contribute to the global effort to combat antibiotic resistance and revolutionizing the treatment of bacterial infections
Echoes of Vatican II: Understanding the Lay Revival in a Secular Age
No full textThe religious landscape of the 21st century is experiencing a set of unique historical circumstances that have shifted attitudes toward the role of religion in society. With the contemporary amplification of the secular worldview in mainstream Western culture, the Roman Catholic Church, in particular, is witnessing a decline of its faithful followers, more so with its younger generation straying further away from the Christian compass. However, there is an interesting dichotomy that this research considers. That is the resurgence of lay ecclesial ministries and communities within the Catholic Church around the time of or following the Second Vatican Council, 1962-1965. In an effort to understand this revival, the following research offers a multifaceted perspective on the Neocatechumenal Way—a recently formed lay ministry that is often underestimated contrary to its significant growth and impact. The evidence presented entails apostolic exhortations, papal addresses, religious documents, and academic publications, all of which fall within the interdisciplinary scope of religious sociology, modern church history, and practical theology. The object of the narrative is to contribute to the existing historiography of the post-conciliar era of the Roman Catholic Church and the arising discourse surrounding the New Evangelization movement introduced by Pope Paul VI in 1975 and subsequently set in motion by Pope John Paul II
Editorial: Introducing the FIU Engineering Review
No full textThis editorial marks the launch of the FIU Engineering Review, the first engineering research journal at Florida International University. As an open-access, peer-reviewed platform sponsored by the Engineering Research Society, the journal aims to promote scholarly excellence and interdisciplinary dialogue across all areas of engineering. This inaugural message outlines the vision, scope, and purpose of the journal, and invites students, faculty, and professionals to contribute original work that advances the field and engages a broad academic and professional audience
Empowering High School Writers: Concept Mapping and Writing Dispositions
No full textThis study examined how concept mapping as a prewriting strategy affects high school students\u27 writing dispositions. Using a mixed-methods approach, 64 tenth-grade students completed a Writing Disposition Scale before and after implementing concept mapping in a research writing unit. Quantitative analysis revealed significant improvement in students\u27 writing dispositions (t= -2.496,
A Framework for Field Inspection of In-Service FRP Reinforced/Strengthened Concrete Bridge Elements: Technical Summary
Full text linkThis document is a technical summary and supplement to the Florida International University report, A Framework for Field Inspection of In-Service FRP Reinforced/Strengthened Concrete Bridge Elements (FIU800014727), available at https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/73333. The document additionally offers technical findings beyond those provided in the FIU report, based on the broader research study sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
