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- Title
- “Why so serious?” : antisocial trolling behavior and its relationship with everyday psychopathy and sadism
- Author
- Siegel, AJ, Peach, Hannah D.
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Online trolling, Antisocial personality disorders
- Description
- Trolling is an antisocial form of online communication in which users, known as trolls, initiate negative and taunting interactions to disrupt digital communication. While trolling is a common online practice ranging from innocent to potentially d...
- Title
- “We’re Not ‘Baby Daddies’ We Are Fathers. Dads.”: Nonresidential Fathers’ Online Stigma Management
- Author
- Schambach, Emma
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication
- Description
- Family and stigma communication research have barely scratched the surface of the dynamic and diverse arrangements of stigma in the family context. Though some research has investigated the stigma surrounding nontraditional family structures (e.g....
- Title
- “WE DON’T LOVE THESE HOES” EXPLORING MISOGYNOIR AND BLACK MALE PATRIARCHY THROUGH SEXUAL DOUBLE STANDARDS
- Author
- Webber, Mariah
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- While much research has been dedicated to exploring how Black people as a collective respond to racism, or how White women as collective respond to sexism, little empirical research has been found regarding the experiences of combatting both racis...
- Title
- “The Name With Which You Ascend to Heaven”: Semiotic and Linguistic Ideology in the Midrash of Shemhazai and ‘Aza’el
- Author
- Cornett, Aleah
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Linguistics, Judaism--Study and teaching
- Description
- The Midrash of Shemhazai and ‘Aza’el may appear much like other midrashic exegetical texts that seem ubiquitous in Rabbinic Judaism. It is, however, different not only because it appears much later and is a part of a larger recontextualization con...
- Title
- “Redeeming" the Canal, Centralizing the Nation: Omar Torrijos and the Quest for Panamanian Sovereignty
- Author
- Winch, Debora
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- From October 1968 to September 1977, the Panamanian government under the leadership of Omar Torrijos Herrera conducted negotiations with the United States regarding the Panama Canal, controlled and established by the United States. This thesis see...
- Title
- “Protoplasm feels": the role of physiology in Charles Sanders Peirce's evolutionary metaphysics
- Author
- Pearce, Trevor
- Subjects--Topical
- Philosophy, Metaphysics
- Description
- This essay is an attempt to explain why Charles Sanders Peirce’s evolutionary metaphysics would not have seemed strange to its original 1890s audience. Building on the pioneering work of Andrew Reynolds, I will excavate the scientific context of P...
- Title
- “Making peace” with bodies and sexual selves : changes during COVID-19 among adults in the United States
- Author
- Bowling, Jessamyn, Basinger, Erin, Montanaro, Erika
- Subjects--Topical
- COVID-19 (Disease), Body image
- Description
- The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the physical and mental health of many and has necessitated widespread societal shifts, including changes to work and family activities. These changes have impacted individuals’ identity, including the...
- Title
- “MY BABY COULD LIVE THE BEST LIFE”: FAMILY PERSPECTIVES ON SERVICES FOLLOWING A PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS OF DOWN SYNDROME
- Author
- Martin, Zachary
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Education, Early childhood education
- Description
- Screenings and diagnostic tests provide individuals the opportunity to receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. Post-diagnosis, families are presented with opportunities for services and supports ...
- Title
- “Just because I have a medical degree does not mean I have the answers” : using CBPR to enhance patient‐centered care within a primary care setting
- Author
- Siegal, Rachel, Case, Andrew, Nance, Andrew, Johnson, Atalaya
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Medical care, Patient-centered health care
- Description
- Patient-centered care (PCC) is a health care delivery model that is considered a means to reduce inequities in the healthcare system, specifically through its prioritization of patient voice and preference in treatment planning. Yet, there are doc...
- Title
- “It just feels right” : perceptions of the effects of community connectedness among trans individuals
- Author
- Bowling, Jessamyn, Barker, Jordan, Lace, Tatim, Gunn, Laura
- Subjects--Topical
- Transgender people, Mental health
- Description
- Trans individuals (e.g. trans men and women, non-binary, gender fluid) are at higher risk for mental health concerns, in part due to marginalization. Previous work has documented the effects of social support and community engagement on health out...
- Title
- “It Make Me Feel Like I’m Beneath Them”: Experiences of Stigma Among Individuals Living with Food Insecurity
- Author
- Uri, Rachel
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Sociology, Environmental health
- Description
- Food insecurity represents one of the most prevalent and severe problems facing modern United States (U.S.) society, with the proportion of households affected surging to approximately 23% during the COVID-19 pandemic. While several food safety ne...
- Title
- “I want to be like her”: The role of bonding social capital among unmarried mothers enrolled in a place-based initiative program
- Author
- Ersoff, Mia
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Social capital, or resources derived from positive social ties, is well-documented as a means of lifting individuals from low-income and economically marginalized (LIEM) backgrounds out of poverty (e.g., Crul et al., 2017; Dominguez & Watkins, 200...
- Title
- “BUYER’S REMORSE” OF “EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED:” NARRATING EXPERIENCES OF POSTNATAL DEPRESSION AFTER ASSISTED CONCEPTION
- Author
- Pope, Nathan
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication
- Description
- When I initially read the heartfelt stories of the many people who had battled depression during their child’s infancy after assisted conception, I was shaken by the complex emotions they expressed. They wrote about communication breakdowns that o...
- Title
- “All things will result to your entire satisfaction”: The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses as Instrumental Ephemera
- Author
- Hunter, Paul
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- English literature, Communication of technical information, Folklore
- Description
- This thesis considers the 19th-century German grimoire, The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses (1880), through a theoretical framework that synthesizes Killingsworth and Gilbertson’s tripartite schema in Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical C...
- Title
- us - AM to DM and the Reimagining of Morning Television
- Author
- Melendez, Tanya
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Rhetoric
- Description
- In September of 2017, BuzzFeed News launched a morning television show that airs live on Twitter five days a week. AM to DM represents one of the first disruptions of a 60-year-old genre with an emphasis on audience participation, an editorialized...
- Title
- Zika virus : medical countermeasure development challenges
- Author
- Janies, Daniel, Damodaran, Lambodhar, Schneider, Adriano
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Communicable diseases, Zika virus
- Description
- Introduction Reports of high rates of primary microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome associated with Zika virus infection in French Polynesia and Brazil have raised concerns that the virus circulating in these regions is a rapidly developing neu...
- Title
- Z-DNA binding protein 1 mediates necroptotic and apoptotic cell death pathways in murine astrocytes following herpes simplex virus-1 infection
- Author
- Marriott, Ian, Jeffries, Austin M., Suptela, Alexander J.
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Herpes simplex virus, DNA
- Description
- The mechanisms by which glia respond to viral central nervous system (CNS) pathogens are now becoming apparent with the demonstration that microglia and astrocytes express an array of pattern recognition receptors that include intracellular RNA an...
- Title
- Your phrases matter : third waves in research approaches and new contexts for formulaic language
- Author
- Davis, Boyd H., Troutman-Jordan, Meredith, Maclagan, Margaret
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Psycholinguistics, Dementia
- Description
- This study reports on new contexts in which formulaic language has been used in the years since 2013 when the last synthesis was carried out. The background presents an old but still useful definition and lists themes under which research was arra...
- Title
- YOUTH VOICE AND PERCEIVED CONTROL IN TREATMENT FOR YOUTH IN A SYSTEM OF CARE
- Author
- Huggins, Sasha
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Clinical psychology
- Description
- Empowering clients in the mental health system is a principle for providing care that has developed in response to the once standard approach in which individuals had little to no voice and choice in their treatment plans and were served in very r...
- Title
- Writers Accommodate the Primary Audience: A Study of Technical and Legal Writers’ Composition Principles Used for Usability Purposes
- Author
- Dancisin, Nicole
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Law, Communication of technical information
- Description
- Kenneth Bruffee argues that for action to commence and for knowledge to be shared and furthered, communication must successfully occur between two or more individuals. Successful communication requires the reader or listener to interpret a message...