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WJ Clemons Home at 1314 Third Avenue West
No full textHome of Willie J. Clemons Junior, a teacher at Bayshore Middle School, and his wife Ruby. It was located at 1314 3rd Avenue West
Clemons, Mary J., Death Record, 1912
No full textDeath entry for Mary J. Clemons.
Age: 45 years
Death Date: January 10, 1912
Cause: Not listed
Burial Date: Unknown
Location: Zion Cemetery, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Undertaker: A. E. Cole
The W. J. Roads home, Breckenridge, Texas
No full textThe W. J. Roads home after a snow storm, Breckenridge, Texas. Basil Clemons\u27 shadow can be seen in the lower right corner of the photograph, 1936.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_basilclemonsphotograph/4363/thumbnail.jp
Online Trust: An International Study Of Subjects' Willingness to Shop at Online Merchants, Including The Effects of Promises and of Third Party Guarantees
No full textSignificant differences exist among consumers' online shopping behavior in different international markets. This paper compares consumer behavior in four different markets: (1) The US, the largest and most mature market, (2) Germany, a similarly advanced western market (3) China, the fastest growing online market, but one where consumers are plagued by incidents of counterfeits, forgeries, and spoiled or defective items, and (4) Singapore, an advanced market, culturally similar in some ways to China, but with a strong legal system. We performed laboratory experiments simultaneously in all four countries. We used three experimental treatments: (1) No assurances of product quality or authenticity, (2) promises of quality and authenticity, and (3) promises backed up by third party assurances. We examined subjects' responses for all three treatments, and for vendors' with different degrees of riskiness. We confirmed that significant differences exist in consumer behavior, but these differences were not always what we expected. Chinese consumers do appear to have trust in their best online vendors. US consumers appear to treat online shopping very similarly to the way they treat shopping in physical venues.EICPCI-S(ISTP)[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Hole in Crystal Falls Road
No full textImage of a group of people looking at a large hole in a road.Recto: [inscribed on negative] Hole in Crystal Falls Road. Breckenridge, Tex. Where J. E. ''Chigger'' Brown's Nitro Truck Exploded. Basil Clemons, 6-11-1926
Cultivating Agricultural Literacy: A Qualitative Exploration of Instructional Practices and Teacher Perspectives in Agricultural Education
No full textAuburn University researchers explored how agricultural education teachers in Alabama equip students with the knowledge and vocabulary needed to navigate the world of agriculture. Researchers investigated teachers' instructional methods and how they assess student learning and connect literacy skills to overall understanding. The study found that agricultural education teachers leverage instructional techniques (Lindner et al., 2020; McKibben et al., 2022), including clear explanations, group work, and real-world projects, to introduce students to new agricultural concepts and terminology. While teachers expressed satisfaction with students' developing agricultural knowledge, a key component of agricultural literacy, they voiced frustration with a lack of emphasis on writing skills (Clemons et al., 2018). Researchers recommend incorporating more writing exercises to solidify student learning and encourage collaboration between teachers and administrators to develop best practices for fostering agricultural literacy. This study highlights the importance of effective learning strategies for future generations with the tools they need to understand and engage with the agricultural sector.
Clemons, C. A., Lindner, J. R., Murray, B., Cook, M. P., Sams, B., & Williams, G. (2018). Spanning the gap: The confluence of agricultural literacy and being agriculturally literate. Journal of Agricultural Education, 59(4), 238–252. doi: https://doi.org/10.5032/jae.2018.04238
Lindner, J., Clemons, C., Thoron , A., & Lindner, N. (2020). Remote instruction and distance education: A response to COVID-19. Advancements in Agricultural Development, 1(2), 53–64. https://doi.org/10.37433/aad.v1i2.39
McKibben, J. D., Giliberti, M., Clemons, C. A., Holler, K., & Linder, J. R. (2022). My ag teacher never made me go to the shop! Pre-service teachers’ perceived self-efficacy in mechanics skills change through experience. Journal of Agricultural Education, 63(3), 283–296. https://doi.org/10.5032/jae.2022.0328
Branding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State
No full textAsk anyone to name an archetypal Texan, and you\u27re likely to get a larger-than-life character from film or television (say John Wayne\u27s Davy Crockett or J. R. Ewing of TV\u27s Dallas) or a politician with that certain swagger (think LBJ or George W. Bush). That all of these figures are white and male and bursting with self-confidence is no accident, asserts Leigh Clemons. In this thoughtful study of what makes a Texan, she reveals how Texan identity grew out of the history--and, even more, the myth--of the heroic deeds performed by Anglo men during the Texas Revolution and the years of the Republic and how this identity is constructed and maintained by theatre and other representational practices.
Clemons looks at a wide range of venues in which Texanness is performed, including historic sites such as the Alamo, the battlefield at Goliad, and the San Jacinto Monument; museums such as the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum; seasonal outdoor dramas such as Texas! at Palo Duro Canyon; films such as John Wayne\u27s The Alamo and the IMAX\u27s Alamo: The Price of Freedom; plays and TV shows such as the Tuna trilogy, Dallas, and King of the Hill; and the Cavalcade of Texas performance at the 1936 Texas Centennial. She persuasively demonstrates that these performances have created a Texan identity that has become a brand, a commodity that can be sold to the public and even manipulated for political purposes.https://repository.lsu.edu/facultybooks/1415/thumbnail.jp
Review of \u3ci\u3eBranding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State\u3c/i\u3e by Leigh Clemons
No full textLeigh Clemons identifies Texas cultural identity as composed of a complex set of performances reinforcing ideas about the state\u27s distinctiveness and its inhabitants\u27 lives and values. She examines a number of cultural and historical depictions of Texas people and events, not surprisingly finding that the privileged cultural identity is that born of the Texas Revolution, with forceful Anglo males at center stage and other, less powerful groups on the periphery challenging the dominant narrative.
Clemons begins with archival spaces of Texan cultural memory, including the Alamo and other Revolutionary battlefields. Here she examines how the old triumphalist narratives of Anglo-centered history continue to be manifest. She then moves on to ways in which dramas, pageants, and films about the Revolution have promoted a Texan identity, especially in keeping Texans of Mexican descent excluded and in keeping women peripheral. There is scant recognition in Clemons\u27s analysis of effective changes in the social and cultural climate over time. For example, the work states that young schoolchildren learn Anglo-centered ideas from the 1936 pageant Texas Was Mine, raising the question of whether such a terribly dated drama would be used in Texas schools today. However, the author convincingly shows the long shelf life in popular culture of a myth that privileges one group over others
Comparison of toxic equivalent factors for selected dioxin and furan congeners derived using fish and mammalian liver cell lines
No full textToxic equivalent factors (TEFs) for eight polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin (PCDD) and polychlorinated dibenzofuran (PCDF) congeners were derived with a rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) cell line, RTL-W1, and compared with TEFs obtained with a rat hepatoma cell line, H4IIE. Cells were exposed to a range of concentrations of the congeners which included 1,2,3,7,8-pentaCDD, 1,2,3,4,7,8-hexaCDD, 1,2,3,6,7,8-hexaCDD, 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-heptaCDD, 2,3,7,8-tetraCDF, 1,2,3,7,8-pentaCDF, 2,3,4,7,8-pentaCDF, and 1,2,3,4,7,8-hexaCDF. Ethoxyresorufin o-deethylase (EROD) activity was measured and EC50 values calculated from a dose-effect curve newly proposed for this purpose. TEFs were computed using 2,3,7,8-tetraCDD standard curves run concurrently with each assay. With the exception of 1,2,3,6,7,8-hexaCDD and 1,2,3,7,8-pentaCDF, all of the RTL-W1-derived TEFs were significantly higher (two- to eightfold higher) than the respective H4IIE TEFs. Immunoblotting analysis with the monoclonal anti-scup P4501A1 antibody was used to identify basal and induced levels of P4501A1 protein in both the RTL-W1 and H4IIE cells. It was concluded that mammalian-derived TEFs may not accurately predict the potency of PCDDs or PCDFs to fish.PT: J; UT: BIOSIS:PREV199598046091Source type: Electronic(1
The role of trust in successful ecommerce websites in China: Field observations and experimental studies
No full textThe ecommerce market in China is both the largest online market in the world and the market with the greatest number of low quality or counterfeit product offerings. We examine three very successful online companies in China and their very different paths to success and then use our experience to develop testable hypotheses, as proposed by Eisenhardt and Graebner. We present our hypotheses and then discuss the experiments that were conducted in China, the United States, Germany, and Singapore in order to test these hypotheses. We expected to see that the role of reputation is critical in China, and that it is more critical in China than in ecommerce markets elsewhere. Consistent with our hypotheses, we find first that vendor reputation is indeed the most important factor influencing consumers' willingness to shop at and willingness to pay for goods from a specific vendor in China and elsewhere. We find only limited support for our hypotheses concerning the role of risk mitigation mechanisms in general, but we do find support for the hypothesis that the Chinese online markets differ from online markets elsewhere. ? 2012 IEEE.EI
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