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Bargain Basement Assessment: Free and easy resources to assess instruction and measure student outcomes
No full textIn this session, we will discuss free and easy resources to collect assessment data and measure student outcomes for one-shot information literacy instruction sessions. The tools described are free of charge, easy to use (no coding or technical expertise needed), and many are easily integrated into LibGuides. These tools have allowed us to collect assessment data and measure what our students are learning in instruction sessions, and to share that information with our faculty. We will give concrete examples of what we have used and how, and hope to provide solid takeaways to attendees
Converting \u3cem\u3eL\u3c/em\u3e\u3csup\u3eΡ\u3c/sup\u3e Estimates Into \u3cem\u3eL\u3c/em\u3e\u3csup\u3e∞\u3c/sup\u3e for Nonlinear Diffusion Models with Memory at the Boundary
No full textDrawing motivation from models of tumor-induced capillary growth, we initiated the study of diffusion models with boundary flux governed by memory around 5 years ago. Considering instances of power laws where supersolution comparison methods are not generally applicable, it turns out to be possible to estimate norms of the solution for any large value of . Although constants in the estimates do not permit passage to the limit for obtaining an estimate, one may instead apply an integral form of the maximum principle that has frequently been applied in the case of porous medium equations. We provide an adaptation of the method to also apply equally well in so-called fast diffusion cases. Combined with results on blow-up in finite time, this allows a complete analysis of global solvability for such memory flux models which exactly parallels known results for corresponding localized nonlinear flux models
Alternative Splicing of a Host Defense Regulatory Gene in Soybean (Glycine max) and its Splicing Signature to Soybean Aphids
No full texthttp://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1049/thumbnail.jp
The Effects of Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage on Retiree Out-‐of-‐Pocket Medical Expenditures
No full texthttp://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1055/thumbnail.jp
Biochemical Characterization of a Mycobacterial Glycerol-3-Phosphate Acyltransferase
No full texthttp://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1053/thumbnail.jp
Selling and Consuming Cosmetic Surgery: Construction of Hegemonic Femininity in Post-socialist China
No full textThis presentation analyzes two contrasting cultural discourses surrounding women’s consumption of cosmetic surgery in post-socialist China: cosmetic hospitals’ marketing materials and women consumers’ interview narratives. Contextualizing my analysis within China’s neoliberal market imperatives and postfeminist mentality, I find that the sampled data point to the fomentation of hegemonic feminine ideals that hinge on not only narrowly defined aesthetic and self-regulating moral standards, but also patriarchal, heterosexual gender roles. The hegemonic femininity embodied by a Ms. White Wealthy Beautiful (the thus labeled “Bai Fu Mei”), for instance, has left indelible imprints on both selling and consuming cosmetic surgical procedures. Remapping intertwined class and gender codes on the female body, cosmetic surgery has paradoxically brought about the promise of upward class mobility and the predicament of regressive gender mandate. Whereas neoliberal social transformation and evolving gender politics foment new configurations of Chinese femininity, I further posit that consumers of cosmetic surgery play a complex, complicit role in constructing oppressive subtexts of feminine normalcy, which reinscribes cultural control over the female body
