68 research outputs found
Dr. Kristin Bezio – Faculty Author Interview
No full textKristin Bezio, Assistant Professor Of Leadership Studies, discusses “Friends & Rivals: Loyalty, Ethics, and Leadership in Dragon Age II,” a chapter in the 2014 book, Identity and Leadership in Virtual Communities: Establishing Credibility and Influence. Dr. Bezio’s teaching and research focuses on the ways in which literature, drama, film, and video games have influenced society and the way people think about issues of leadership and followership. Her chapter explores how video game players can influence their understanding of ethics in terms of human emotion and interactio
Gender Differences in Young Children's Perceptions of Writing, Writing Characteristics, and Knowledge of Production Rules in Writing
No full textResearch has shown that children come to school with preexisting knowledge about writing. It is therefore essential for teachers to observe their students to learn what knowledge they already possess and to plan their lessons accordingly. The author asks whether there are differences between how boys and girls perceive the writing process, whether there are differences between the characteristics of boys’ and girls’ writing samples and episodes, and whether there are differences between boys’ and girls’ knowledge of production rules in writing. A subject pool of 34 children were selected and were given two interviews in which they completed writing tasks and answered questions from the author. The results of these interviews were collected and analyzed by type of response given. The author found that while many children just beginning school do not yet have a clear definition of writing, more girls than boys seem to have a closer perception of what writing is. Similarly, girls were seemingly more perceptive to the purposes of writing, though a majority of both perceived it as relatively easy. Lastly, the writing tests suggest that girls may obtain knowledge of writing’s production rules sooner than boys. The author argues that further research is needed to verify their findings and to better understand the role of families and teachers in a child’s writing development.SUNY BrockportMaster of Science in Education (MSEd)Education and Human Development Master's These
Critical edition of Camp-Bell, or the Ironmonger’s Fair Field (author, Anthony Munday) with Mapping Early Modern London
No full textShakespeare and his contemporaries traversed London on foot. Early modern plays, pamphlets, histories, and poems assume intimate knowledge of the streets, alleys, and topography of the city. At Map of Early Modern London (MoEML), our ongoing project is to map the spatial imaginary of Shakespeare’s city; we ask how London’s spaces and places were named, traversed, used, repurposed, and contested by various practitioners (Michel de Certeau’s term), writers, and civic officials. MoEML’s maps allow us to plot people, historical documents, literary works, and recent critical research onto topography and the built environment. At the same time, we experiment with new digital modes of answering GeoHumanities questions. An early contributor to the spatial turn and literary geographic information systems (GIS), MoEML provides a virtual space for exploring the meaning and representation of cultural space in the London of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. We also experiment with new ways of working collaboratively as teams and across institutions and disciplines
What Pandemics Teach Us About Servant Leadership
No full textThis article seeks to understand what pandemics teach us about servant leadership. It analyzes two texts, which reflect on people of color’s experiences becoming servant leaders during such public health crises: A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, during the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793 (1794) and The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (2021). These texts balance detailed depictions of what this leadership praxis looks like with trenchant critiques of how service, racism, and leadership tend to intersect in the United States. As texts that demonstrate the value of servant leadership under pandemic conditions while also exposing its imbrication in systems of racialized oppression, the Narrative and the Guide reveal servant leadership’s complicity with systemic white supremacy and corollary extractive logics in American contexts. This article builds on scholarly conversations about how race and gender impact recognition of servant leadership by drawing on the work of Saidiya Hartman, particularly two concepts she develops through analysis of post-Emancipation labor: indebted servitude and property in the self. These concepts help illuminate how racialized attitudes toward compulsory servitude extend to the praxis of servant leadership for people of color
Communicable Disease in the American Literary Imagination
No full textCommunicable disease repeatedly found its way into early American fictional and autobiographical works. Rather than producing stories in which illness signaled dangerous otherness in need of control or even eradication, my study shows how authors from William Byrd II to Harriet Beecher Stowe used infectious disorders to develop inclusive conceptions of national belonging. By examining medical texts alongside literary works written from approximately 1720 to 1870, I make the case that like-cures-like principles undergirding inoculation and homeopathy helped to construct a worldview in which susceptibility to other cultures was seen as therapeutic. Scholars have tended to interpret disease in literature as a device for stigmatizing outsiders--a reading well-suited to our modern age's ambivalent attitude toward exposure in an increasingly globalized world. But when we study this earlier period in American literary history, we find a remarkably different narrative. Indeed, I argue that attentiveness to the salutary effects of cross-cultural infections reveals an as-yet-unexamined national episteme in which foreign influences served to constitute community.Doctor of Philosoph
Pragmatic Secularism; Or, What <i>The Scarlet Letter</i> Can Teach Us about Modern Medicine
No full text This article argues that The Scarlet Letter (1850) offers a unique insight into American secularism’s inherent pragmatism—a pragmatism that attempts to provide a resolution for the healing arts’ struggle to be knowledgeable and moral at the same time. A “pragmatic secularism” continues to inform a particular brand of modern biomedicine, which can be seen in Atul Gawande’s medical reform text The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (2009). Simply put, the pragmatic secularism found in these two very different books is a system of ascertaining right from wrong that relies on nothing more than someone’s work proving effective within the larger community. This article elaborates how these texts have a shared project in which a significant formation of the secular arises from situations that privilege practical applications—especially when urgent circumstances dictate immediate action as the only viable option. Inflected by the concerns of their respective historical moments, Hawthorne’s novel foregrounds the transformation of fringe knowledge into mainstream doing, whereas Gawande’s manifesto focuses on the limits of any kind of knowledge, privileging instead work as an end unto itself. However, the “power to do” exemplified by The Scarlet Letter as the core of the pragmatic secularist’s vocation finds its modern expression in The Checklist Manifesto’s fetishizing of medical work in a deliberate move to ideologically dismantle the pervasive epistemic fetishism undergirding health research and praxis. </jats:p
Critical edition of The triumphs of re-united Britannia (author, Anthony Munday) with Mapping Early Modern London
No full textShakespeare and his contemporaries traversed London on foot. Early modern plays, pamphlets, histories, and poems assume intimate knowledge of the streets, alleys, and topography of the city. At Map of Early Modern London (MoEML), our ongoing project is to map the spatial imaginary of Shakespeare’s city; we ask how London’s spaces and places were named, traversed, used, repurposed, and contested by various practitioners (Michel de Certeau’s term), writers, and civic officials. MoEML’s maps allow us to plot people, historical documents, literary works, and recent critical research onto topography and the built environment. At the same time, we experiment with new digital modes of answering GeoHumanities questions. An early contributor to the spatial turn and literary geographic information systems (GIS), MoEML provides a virtual space for exploring the meaning and representation of cultural space in the London of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. We also experiment with new ways of working collaboratively as teams and across institutions and disciplines
Effects of capture surface morphology on feeding success of scyphomedusae : a comparative study
No full text© The Author(s), 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Marine Ecology Progress Series 596 (2018): 83-93, doi:10.3354/meps12549.Predation by feeding-current foraging medusae can have detrimental effects on prey populations. Understanding the mechanics that control prey selection and ingestion rates with different types of prey enables us to better predict the predatory impact of these medusae. We quantified the outcomes of each post-entrainment stage of the feeding process in multiple scyphozoan jellyfish species to understand how post-entrainment feeding events influence feeding patterns. Using 3-dimensional video, we observed and quantified the fate of both passive and actively swimming prey that were entrained in the feeding current of 5 different scyphomedusan species belonging to the orders Semaeostomeae and Rhizostomeae. Less than 65% of entrained prey contacted the capture surfaces (termed contact efficiency) of the semaeostome medusae, while the rhizostome medusae came into contact with less than 35% of the prey entrained in the feeding current. However, when contacted, prey were very likely to be ingested (>90%) by all species examined. These results suggest that prey capture by oblate medusae appears to be largely limited by the probability that prey entrained in the feeding current will contact a capture surface. As a passive process, this contact stage of the feeding process is directly affected by the morphology of the contact surfaces. The importance of the contact stage of the feeding process suggests that differences in prey selection patterns observed among oblate medusan taxa are likely dominated by the morphology of contact surfaces as opposed to traits which influence the other stages of the feeding process, i.e. bell shape and nematocysts.This work was funded by a NSF Biological
Oceanography grant awarded to S.P.C. and J.H.C.
(OCE 1536688) and supported by the Roger Williams University
Foundation to Promote Teaching and Scholarship
Observation of VVZ production at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
No full textA search for the production of three massive vector bosons, VVZ (V = W,Z), in proton–proton collisions at
root s = 13 TeV is performed using data with an integrated luminosity of 140 fb-1 recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events produced in the leptonic final states WWZ -> l nu l nu l l (l = e, mu), WWZ -> l nu l l l l, ZZZ -> l l l l l l, and the semileptonic final states WWZ -> qq l nu l l and WZZ -> l nu qq l l, are analysed. The measured cross section for the pp -> VVZ process is 660+93 −90 (stat.)+88 −81 (syst.) fb, and the observed (expected) significance is 6.4 (4.7) standard deviations, representing the observation of VVZ production. In addition, the measured cross section for the pp -> WWZ process is 442 +- 94(stat.) + 60 − 52 (syst.) fb, and the observed (expected) significance is 4.4 (3.6) standard deviations, representing evidence of WWZ production. The measured cross sections are consistent with the Standard Model predictions. Constraints on physics beyond the Standard Model are also derived in the effective field theory framework by setting limits on Wilson coefficients for dimension-8 operators describing anomalous quartic gauge boson couplings
- …
