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Higher Education Careers Beyond the Professoriate
Get PDFHigher Education Careers Beyond the Professoriate is one of the first collections to explore PhD career versatility within higher education. The twenty-three contributors represent diverse disciplines, institution types, professional roles, and intersectional identities. Each thoughtful and personal essay explores firsthand what it means to remain in higher education, yet not in the traditional role of a professor. Topics include establishing new career paradigms, well-being and work-life balance, blended roles and identities, and professional work around advocacy and inclusion. Unifying the essays is the idea that career diversity is intertwined with other diversity discourse, yielding a broad-based but critical examination of careers in higher education administration.
Though the doctoral landscape continues to change, a self-determined, values-driven attitude remains essential. This book offers powerful insight into cultural and structural barriers that inhibit institutional transformation and obscure the real range of PhD futures. Frank about both challenges and opportunities, these essays reveal how letting go of “track” thinking opens a constellation of possibilities and many paths to meaningful work and a fulfilling life.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/navigatingcareershighered/1003/thumbnail.jp
Two Imagined Chinas in \u3cem\u3eTel Quel\u3c/em\u3e
Get PDFFrom the mid-1960s, the literary review Tel Quel shifted its anti-traditional and avant-garde stance in arts and literature toward politics within the radical political context in France. Its editor Philippe Sollers initiated a “political turn,” marked by its transformation from its “structuralist period” to its “China period.” Its “China period” inadvertently created a “textual spectacle” of two imagined Chinas: first, a poetic, static “ancient China” represented by Daoism (Taoism), Chinese ideograms, and classical Chinese art and poetry; and second, a revolutionary, subversive “modern China” represented by Maoism along with Lu Xun and other left-wing writers. Taking appropriation, rather than misreading, as a prism to view these imagined Chinas, a strategy of deconstruction emerges from the Telquelians. On the one hand, they attack Western logocentrism through Daoist philosophy, and Chinese ideograms become a crucial Other to assault Western linguistic self-enclosure and phonocentrism, and a way to disperse and diffuse meaning. On the other hand, the Chinese revolutionary spirit probably provided ammunition to reinstate the shattered subject in French theory. For the Telquelians, two imagined Chinas seem like a Chinese wisdom in the movement from structuralism to poststructuralism in French literary theories
Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Copper Production
Get PDFCopper demand will surge significantly in the context of global renewable energy technology implementation, but its production is an energy-intensive process. It is crucial to choose the best production method to reduce environmental damage in terms of the enormous copper supply. This research develops a multi-criteria life cycle assessment model for the three main copper production routes- pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, and bioleaching. We complied material and energy flow data to assess each route\u27s life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, cost, and resource efficiency. Results indicate bioleaching emits the least GHG emissions (4.09 kg-CO2 eq/kg copper) among the three routes. Hydrometallurgy is the most economical production route, costing the least $3.25/kg copper. Nevertheless, either hydrometallurgy or bioleaching will cause a certain amount of resource waste because of uncertain resource efficiency (75%-95%). On the contrary, pyrometallurgy presents the highest copper recovery rate (\u3e98%). This work provides a framework for the decision-making of copper production from the life cycle perspective
Animal-Assisted Services and Occupational Therapy within an Australian Context: A Survey Study
Get PDFIntroduction: The incorporation of animal-assisted services is an emerging field of occupational therapy. There remains varying levels of involvement and knowledge of what is involved in animal-assisted services among Australian occupational therapists. The profession of occupational therapy acknowledges that competence as a clinician requires appropriate education and knowledge guiding clinical decision making. Research Question: This study aimed to explore the understanding and role of Australian occupational therapists including animal-assisted services in their practice, as well as the changes required to support future service delivery. Methods: A cross sectional survey was conducted online. Participants were recruited through a digital mailing list, snowball sampling, and through a link published in the professional association newsletters. The survey consisted of short and multiple-answer questions and a 5-point Likert scale to identify therapist understanding and engagement in animal-assisted services and future practice supports needed. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Open-ended responses were analyzed using content analysis. Results: A total of 53 participants completed the survey. Approximately 50% of participants identified having some engagement in animal-assisted services; however, most acknowledged having low to moderate understanding of the field. Across all categories, participants identified that the key barriers to fulfilling their role within animal-assisted services included insufficient training and lack of understanding of the role. The top priorities to support occupational therapists in animal-assisted services included risk assessments, practice standards, and ethical guidelines for practice
What Does It Mean to Keep Kissing-Close to the Evidence, and Why Might It Matter?
Get PDFAfrican art specialists often lack detailed information to assess the original meanings, uses, and contexts of so-called historical or traditional arts of Africa, and they rely on indirect evidence to interpret the works. Thus, claims about African arts often reflect speculation rather than irrefutable details. When specific documentation for an object does exist, the circumstances of its creation require careful evaluation as well. The assessment of the quality and reliability of any claim is of particular importance in attempts to determine an object’s place of origin in the ongoing debates about restitution
Making Absences Present: The Process of Visualizing Knowledge Production in Museum Records
Get PDFIn this paper, I evaluate the development of data visualizations as an art historical approach. By visualizing data for Senufo-labeled objects in the Musée Africain de Lyon’s collection, I demonstrate how the museum’s knowledge infrastructure privileges European collectors over African makers. I use Tableau visualizations to decenter this narrative by making silences present in a more impactful manner than through text alone. The visualizations also reveal the complex role that one maker, Bèma Coulibaly, played in the life of the collection. The addition of the individual narrative to the data was necessary to bring a human element into view.
Nous examinons ici le développement des visualisations de données comme méthode pour l’histoire de l’art. En visualisant les données des objets catalogués Senufo dans la collection du Musée Africain de Lyon, nous démontrons comment le musée privilégie les collectionneurs européens par rapport aux fabricants africains, et comment les visualisations Tableau permettent de décentrer notre récit en rendant les silences bien plus présents que ne le ferait un texte seul. Les visualisations révèlent le rôle qu’un fabriquant, Bèma Coulibaly, a joué dans la vie de cette collection. L’ajout de ce récit individuel enrichit les données d’une dimension plus humaine
The American West and Nozick’s Theory of Entitlements
Get PDFCustomary law emphasizing the protection of private property rights rather than the authoritative assertion of the law characterized expansion into the American West from 1848-1895. The subsequent legal systems developed in a minarchistic manner that aligned with Robert Nozick’s “theory of entitlements,” leading to the adoption of a “night-watchman state.” This theory asserts that a society built upon customary law that focuses on the protection of individual rights will undoubtedly develop a protective body to safeguard these rights in pursuit of the third principle, the “rectification of justice.” Thus, the chaotic and often disorganized way the West’s extralegal and formal judicial authorities enforced the law was a function of this theory. This explains the distrust of Federal authority, the general acceptance of women’s suffrage, disputes over slavery, and the proliferation of “mob law.” However, customary law also resulted in racism, wrongful convictions, and corruption. This paper will explore how Western extralegal and formal judicial institutions fit Nozick’s theory as well as explore the implications of this style of law enforcement on the economic beliefs, social environment, and relations with the Federal government. This paper utilizes both primary and secondary sources, with the primary sources arising mainly from narrative accounts, legislation, and court records. Scholarly journal articles comprise the majority of the secondary sources used
Sparse Ensemble Networks for Hypserspectral Image Classification
Get PDFWe explore the efficacy of sparsity and ensemble model in the classification of hyperspectral images, a pivotal task in remote sensing applications. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformer models have shown promise in this domain, each exhibits distinct limitations; CNNs excel in capturing the spatial/local features but falter to capture spectral features, whereas Transformers captures the spectral features at the expense of spatial features. Furthermore, the computational cost associated with training several independent CNN and Transformer networks becomes expensive. To address these limitations, we propose a novel ensemble framework comprising pruned CNNs and Transformers, optimizing both spatial and spectral feature utilization while curbing computational costs. By integrating sparsity through model pruning, our approach effectively reduces redundancy and computational complexity without compromising accuracy. Through extensive experimentation, we find that our method achieves comparable accuracy to its non-sparse counterparts while decreasing the computational cost. Our contribution enhances remote sensing analytics by demonstrating the potential of sparse and ensemble models in improving the precision and computational efficiency of hyperspectral image classification
Re/Searching (for) Hope: Archives and (Decolonizing) Archival Impressions
Get PDFOn archives and archival impressions, this essay extends archival research to the elsewhere and otherwise. The essay asks, how do we reposition the contents of archives so that we can position ourselves in relation to it otherwise? It puts forward a theory of (decolonizing) archival impressions
