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Establishment of Chinese Medicine Practice in San Antonio, Texas
Get PDFThis thesis sets out to interrogate the establishment of traditional Chinese medicine practice in San Antonio, Texas. I have chosen to focus on two practitioners in particular who can be considered founders of Chinese medicine practice in San Antonio and in Texas as a whole. These practitioners, Dr. Chang and Dr. Ho, are the only remaining of an estimated five total practitioners that practiced in San Antonio in the 1970’s and 1980’s before acupuncture became a licensed profession in Texas. This thesis will follow the history of these two practitioners, detailing their separate roles in the establishment of Chinese medicine in San Antonio, as well as how their individual histories and the social and legal environment they encountered there has shaped how they approach and articulate their practice
Female Nesting Site Choice in Brown Anole (\u3cem\u3eAnolis sagrei\u3c/em\u3e) Lizards: Implication for Embryonic and Post-Hatching Development
Get PDFFor oviparous ectotherms, embryonic environment can strongly impact post-hatching phenotype. Therefore, it is advantageous for females to choose nesting sites with conditions conducive to offspring development. In lizards that bury their eggs, the substrate temperature of the embryonic environment can have especially significant consequences for development. Abnormalities in craniofacial development and immobile limbs have been linked to high incubation temperatures outside the normal range of developmental temperatures. However, other factors, such as substrate moisture and depth, can impact offspring fitness as well.
To determine the extent to which temperature influences female nesting site choice in relation to substrate moisture and depth, we housed 35 wild-caught female brown anole lizards (Anolis sagrei) in small groups in the laboratory. In each cage, females had the choice of oviposition in one of two “nesting boxes” containing moist substrate: the Heated Box, which was placed over a heating pad controlled by a thermostat, and the Ambient Box, which was maintained in ambient conditions. In both boxes, we measured substrate moisture and depth for each nesting site and calculated the temperature at each location where an egg was laid.
I predicted that the lizards would avoid dangerously warm nesting sites near the base of the Heated Box and that the depth of nesting sites would thus be more variable in the Ambient Box. My findings indicate that females did not exhibit a preference between the Heated and Ambient Box, and on average, nesting sites in the Heated Box were warmer than those in the Ambient Box. The substrate moisture and depth of nesting sites did not differ between the Heated and Ambient Box; however, nesting site depths were more variable in the Heated Box in comparison to the Ambient Box. In both boxes, all oviposition sites were warmer than 26°C and with the exception of one 33.2°C nesting site, all nesting sites were cooler than 31.5°C, indicating that females avoided nesting site temperature conditions likely to result in low fitness offspring Temperature may be an important cue for female nesting sites in many taxa. Yet, the progression of climate change may increasingly pose challenges to oviparous ectotherm species in their current ranges
Media Literacy in a Disruptive Media Environment
No full textThis book, part of the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, brings together top scholars researching media literacy and lays out the current state of the field in areas such as propaganda, news, participatory culture, representation, education, social/environmental justice, and civic engagement.
The field of media literacy continues to undergo changes and challenges as audiences are reconceptualized and reconfigured, media industries are transformed and replaced, and the production of media texts is available to anyone with a smartphone. The book provides an overview of these. It offers readers specific examples and recommendations to help others as they develop their own teaching and research agendas.
Media Literacy in a Disruptive Media Environment will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students studying media literacy through the lens of broadcasting, communication studies, media and cultural studies, film, and digital media studies.https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mono/1151/thumbnail.jp
Lives of the Laureates: Thirty-Two Nobel Economists
No full textLives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic thought as told through autobiographical essays by thirty-two Nobel Prize laureates in economics. The essays not only provide unique insights into major economic ideas of our time but also shed light on the processes of intellectual discovery and creativity. The accounts are accessible and engaging, achieving clarity without sacrificing inherently difficult content.
This seventh edition adds six Nobelists to its pages: Roger B. Myerson (co-recipient in 2007) describes his evolution as a game theorist and his application of game theory to issues that ranged from electoral systems to perverse incentives; Thomas J. Sargent (co-recipient in 2011), recounts the development of the rational expectations model, which fundamentally changed the policy implications for macroeconomic models; Amartya Sen (recipient in 1998) reflects on his use of a bicycle (later donated to the Nobel Museum) to collect data early in his career; A. Michael Spence (co-recipient in 2001) describes, among other things, his whiplash-inducing first foray into teaching an undergraduate class; Christopher A. Sims (co-recipient in 2011) discusses his “non-Nobel” research; and Alvin E. Roth (co-recipient in 2012) chronicles the “three insurrections” he has witnessed in mainstream economics.
Lives of the Laureates grows out of a continuing lecture series at Trinity University in San Antonio, which invites Nobelists from American universities to describe their evolution as economists in personal as well as technical terms.https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mono/1152/thumbnail.jp
Self-Concept Change at Work: Characteristics and Consequences of Workplace Self-Expansion
No full textSelf-expansion is generally studied in the context of romantic relationships; however, self-expansion can also occur in a variety of non-relational settings. This chapter explores the opportunities for workplaces to promote self-expansion. People may experience self-expansion at work when their jobs provide them with novel experiences, challenges, resources, new skills, and new identities as organizational contributors. Recent evidence confirms that individuals experience workplace self-expansion and that workplace self-expansion is associated with a variety of beneficial outcomes for employees and organizations such as higher job satisfaction, commitment, engagement, and lower burnout and turnover intentions. Overall, this research suggests that workplace self-expansion may be an important component of employees’ experiences and leaders’ effectiveness
The Invisible City: Travel, Attention, and Performance
No full textThe Invisible City explores urban spaces from the perspective of a traveller, writer, and creator of theatre to illuminate how cities offer travellers and residents theatrical visions while also remaining mostly invisible, beyond the limits of attention.
The book explores the city as both stage and content in three parts. Firstly, it follows in pattern Italo Calvino\u27s novel Invisible Cities, wherein Marco Polo describes cities to the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, to produce a constellation of vignettes recalling individual cities through travel writing and engagement with artworks. Secondly, Gillette traces the Teatro Potlach group and its ongoing immersive, site-specific performance project Invisible Cities, which has staged performances in dozens of cities across Europe and the Americas. The final part of the book offers useful exercises for artists and travellers interested in researching their own invisible cities.
Written for practitioners, travellers, students, and thinkers interested in the city as site and source of performance, The Invisible City mixes travelogue with criticism and cleverly combines philosophical meditations with theatrical pedagogy.https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mono/1155/thumbnail.jp
American Roulette: The Social Logic of Death Penalty Sentencing Trials
No full textAs the death penalty clings to life in many states and dies off in others, this first-of-its-kind ethnography takes readers inside capital trials across the United States. Sarah Beth Kaufman draws on years of ethnographic and documentary research, including hundreds of hours of courtroom observation in seven states, interviews with participants, and analyses of newspaper coverage to reveal how the American justice system decides who deserves the most extreme punishment. The “super due process” accorded capital sentencing by the United States Supreme Court is the system’s best attempt at individuated sentencing. Resources not seen in most other parts of the criminal justice system, such as jurors and psychological experts, are required in capital trials, yet even these cannot create the conditions of morality or justice. Kaufman demonstrates that capital trials ultimately depend on performance and politics, resulting in the enactment of deep biases and utter capriciousness. American Roulette contends that the liberal, democratic ideals of criminal punishment cannot be enacted in the current criminal justice system, even under the most controlled circumstances.https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mono/1158/thumbnail.jp
“Multiplicity, Race, and Resilience: Transgender and Non-Binary People Building Community”
No full textScholars theorize that the development of community is an important part of resilience. In this mixed-methods study, we argue that race informs the experiences that transgender and non-binary (TNB) people have in seeking community. Using the Strengthening Colors of Pride Phase I and Phase II research, we argue that in a Latino-majority city, Latinx and Anglo TNB people connected with the transgender and broader lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community, although Anglo TNB people reported more transphobia in the LGBTQ+ community. Black and American Indian TNB people connected with LGBTQ+ communities of color specifically and struggled more to find in-person community. Anglo TNB people used their own White racial networks to connect with supportive hobby and interest groups. In general, TNB people connected more with communities that resonated with the multiplicities of their own lives, such as commonalities of economic precarity and immigration status. This research is an important contribution to understanding the development of community for resilience, and the way race and gender identity inform community experiences for TNB people
Implications of Relationship-Induced Self-Concept Change Across Partners: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model Approach
No full textInvestigations of relationship-induced self-concept change and relationship quality have generally been limited to intraindividual effects (i.e., actor effects). In the current study, we examined whether self-changes influence romantic partners’ perceptions of relationship satisfaction and commitment (i.e., partner effects). Using the actor–partner interdependence model, we tested how four self-concept change processes—self-expansion, self-pruning, self-contraction, and self-adulteration—are associated with relationship satisfaction and commitment. Results revealed robust actor effects across all self-change processes and partner effects on satisfaction for degradation processes only (i.e., self-contraction and self-adulteration), suggesting that self-changes differentially predict individuals’ and partners’ perceptions of the relationship
This Living Hand: \u3cem\u3eBright Star\u3c/em\u3e and the Etsy Effect
No full textThis essay argues that the Keats portrayed in Jane Campion’s Bright Star is a product of the twenty-first century’s Etsy culture—and that this portrayal, if somewhat surprising or even counterintuitive, effectively captures Keats’s understanding of the relationship between poetic making and imperfection. The paper both compares Keats’s presence on the handicraft-marketing platform Etsy.com to his characterization in Campion’s hand-centric film and identifies the ways in which the Keats of contemporary popular culture has become an appealing and textually reasonable model for entrepreneurial crafters and other aspiring artisans