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“It’s not a level playing field”: Exploring International Students of Color’s Challenges and the Impact of Racialized Experiences on the Utilization of Campus Resources during COVID-19
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Shifting Gears in a Pandemic: The Impact of Online Academic Support for International and Domestic Students
No full textEncapsulating holistic intercultural competence development in higher education: A literature review on assessments and competencies
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The Other in Southeast Asian Puppetry
No full textSoutheast Asian wayang/nang talung puppetry presents the local hero as refined. Three types of “others” repeat: 1) comic foreigners, 2) Raja Sabrangan (“Overseas King”) and followers, and 3) physically deformed clown servants. The last two groups are important and may relate to Austronesian concepts of spirit siblings accompanying each person through life.https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/ballinst_alterity/1008/thumbnail.jp
Exhibiting Blackface Puppets from the German Imaginary
No full textGerman puppet collections face the problem of how—and whether—to display their extensive holdings of blackface puppets that are built on grotesquely racist stereotypes, including the Imagined Turk, the Imagined African, the Imagined African American, and the Imagined Multicultural German.https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/ballinst_alterity/1001/thumbnail.jp
Sicilian Puppet Theater: Alterity or Diversity?
No full textFrom the perspective of alterity, the predominant figure of the Other in Sicilian puppet theater is undoubtedly the Saracen (Muslim) aggressor. Yet the Paladins of France cycle, with its over 300 nightly episodes, is replete with stories that eschew an opposition between an “us” and a “them” and instead underscore our common humanity across borders of all kinds. Indeed, camaraderie, friendship, and even romance can readily develop between individuals from the most disparate corners of the globe. My paper focuses on a selection of examples under the guise of both alterity and diversity, the latter achieved especially through heterogamous marriages.https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/ballinst_alterity/1003/thumbnail.jp
Optimal Stopping and Related Topics
No full textSuppose we are observing a randomly evolving system and have the ability to freeze it at any time. If we want to maximize some function of the state of the system, how can we determine the best time to freeze the system based on observations only up until the present moment? That is, without seeing the future, how can we form a rule for stopping the system such that we optimize the expected value of the function of interest to us? This is an informal statement of the concept of optimal stopping, a topic with deep theory and numerous applications.
Assuming a strong background in real analysis, we put forth in Chapter 1 a brief review of the fundamentals of probability theory, maintaining a modern and general perspective. We then develop in Chapter 2 some theory for the analysis of stochastic processes. We then apply these results in Chapter 3 to prove powerful theorems in optimal stopping and provide solutions to some example problems. Our coverage is largely focused on discrete-time stochastic processes, but we include references to major results for continuous-time processes wherever applicable
Cited Data (Say So Much): A case study on what data sources our business researchers are citing
No full textData is the fuel of business research, but what kind of data do business researchers use, and how do they use it? In this presentation, we reveal the data sources and topics of hundreds of journal articles from two business schools - New York University Stern School of Business and the University of Connecticut School of Business. We analyze the full text of journal articles published between 2020 and 2022 to identify cited data sources and rank the most popular commercial, public, and open datasets. We highlight the top ten data sources for each school and each type of secondary data and show how they differ or overlap. We also examine how the data usage patterns of the two schools influence their research impact and visibility. Our presentation is based on the work of Lauren Reiter (2021), who studied the use and access of commercial data in academic business research. We aim to provide valuable insights for business librarians and researchers on the current and emerging trends of data-driven business research