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Creating partnerships between veterinarians and small and medium-sized ranchers to enhance profitability and sustainability
No full textSurvey Questions on Veterinarians' Perspectives of Working with Producers; Survey Questions on Producers' Perspectives of Working with VeterinariansSurvey Questions on Veterinarians' Perspectives of Working with Producers; Survey Questions on Producers' Perspectives of Working with VeterinariansThis work is supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program grant no. 2021-68006-33878 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Comparative feeding and defecation behaviors of Trypanosoma cruzi-infected and uninfected triatomines (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from the Americas
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Decolonizing the American Family Unit
No full textThis thesis combines possible dialogues between decolonial feminist, Mari��a Lugones with feminist activist, Silvia Federici to explore how Western attitudes towards gender and race reinforce reproductive imperatives for women. The research will explain how these imperatives are resisted through a recognition of one���s multiplicity inside and outside a fragmenting, modern bourgeois society. Specifically, this thesis examines families of the Texas borderlands as models of resistance to dominant social constructions of motherhood which exclude ���non-traditional��� borderlands families from the larger American society. Using Federici���s historical analysis of the transition from feudalism to capitalism, I will employ a decolonial feminist approach to evaluate the dynamics of family units in the Texas borderlands. Federici���s critique of primitive accumulation will show that the capitalist mode of production utilizes mechanisms of power that negatively alter the perceptions and roles of American mothers within the family unit. Moreover, a decolonial analysis, following Lugones, will show how Western attitudes towards gender and race create social and political norms which subordinate women of color and mothers in particular. The collective research will reveal that families of the borderlands are found outside of the dominant social organization and refute Western social determinations of gender and race. Concepts such as capitalism, arrogant perception of women, and fragmentation will explain how women of color are reduced in society and within the family unit through attempts to impose corresponding social relations with modern/colonial roots. A recognition of the struggles endured by women of color against dominant social classifications will help to explain how the positionality of women in society is centered upon being subordinated by white men. The family unit is a source of struggle for women that reinforces the self-estrangement of mothers as objects of an oppressive white male arrogant perception. In this respect, I will address the gap in decolonial feminist literature to expand upon a decolonial viewpoint that the nuclear family operates as a microstate. This thesis creates new discussions surrounding family units in philosophy. Families in the borderlands must reject Western, Eurocentered feminism insofar as it misses the colonial perspective. Instead, families in the borderlands can navigate society by embracing their double- consciousness and multiplicity. An analysis of Lugones and Federici will contribute to conversations of this counterculture, identifying the fragmentation of women of color in the family unit and the mechanisms of colonial power that oppresses them
Horrified
No full textItalian Philosopher Antonio Rocco once claimed that ���horrors in particular���putrefaction, decay, distortion, and dissymmetry, among others���are sites of fertility, change, and innovation��� (Comaroff & Ker-Shing, 2024, 1). Similar to how the genre of horror has changed through time as society evolves, so has the concept of the museum. Museums have evolved from their origin as a place of study and research and into a new type of public space; something to be experienced (Smith, 2021). The primary focus of this final study project is to discover what ���museum��� means in the 21st century through the lens of a horror movie museum, while also considering the thought of what fear can be architecturally. The main research surrounding this project has been how the museum experience has changed and what it can become in the future, what is architectural horror, and how unease can be introduced to museum visitors architecturally. The Horror Movie Museum is all about immersion and experience, while consistently touching back to the learning and display aspects found in traditional museum experiences. The swift advancement of technology is enabling the display of new forms of art and materials. This rapid evolution prompts the question of whether traditional ���museums��� remain aptly named or if a new classification is warranted to encompass these advances
