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V1309 Sco: Understanding a merger
(IOP, 2014-05-01)One of the two outcomes of a common envelope (CE) event is a merger of the two stars. To date, the best known case of a binary merger is the V1309 Sco outburst, where the orbital period was known and observed to decay up ... -
Veterans in the Writing Classroom: Three Programmatic Approaches to Facilitate the Transition from the Military to Higher Education
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2016-12)Drawing upon a two-year study of student-veterans in college writing classrooms, this article analyzes three types of courses developed in an effort to respond to increased military-affiliated student enrollments: ... -
Virus Innexins induce alterations in insect cell and tissue function
(Elsevier, 2017-01-07)Polydnaviruses are dsDNA viruses that induce immune and developmental alterations in their caterpillar hosts. Characterization of polydnavirus gene families and family members is necessary to understand mechanisms of ... -
‘We Want Both!’: pressuring Philadelphia unions for inclusion and equity during the long 1970s
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-02)This article examines local labor insurgency in Philadelphia between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s. Drawing on alternative press sources, it traces the efforts of Black, Puerto Rican, and female workers to reshape their ... -
“Weaning off of Email”: Encouraging Students to Use Office Hours over Email to Contact Professors
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Weird Beyond Description: Weird Fiction and the Suspicion of Scenery
(Indiana University Press, 2020-01-01)This paper uses Algernon Blackwood's weird tale "The Willows" (1907) to argue that the genre of weird fiction is characterized by a disproportionate investment in descriptive modes of writing. The weird tale's fascination ... -
Wetland Animal Ecology
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What Can Professional Scientific Societies Do to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Case Study of the American Elasmobranch Society
(Frontiers Media SA, 2022-05-30)Scientific professional societies are reviewing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices and policies in response to recent calls for much-needed change. Organizations like scientific professional societies contribute ... -
When Drama Went to the Dogs; or, Staging Otherness in the Animal Melodrama
(Modern Language Association, 2017-05-01)For much of the nineteenth century, nonhuman animals shared the English stage with human performers in a series of popular, widely produced quadruped dramas. Work in animal studies and performance theory overlooks this ... -
Who Should Own the League? Transaction Costs and the Structure of NBA Ownership
(Sage Publications, 2022-01)Like many professional sports leagues worldwide, the National Basketball Association is organized as a cooperative of team owners. We argue that league ownership structures must balance two types of transaction costs: the ... -
Why eat extrafloral nectar? Understanding food selection by Coleomegilla maculata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
(International Organization for Biological Control (outside the USA)., 2012-12-20)Methods of increasing predator abundance within a habitat include the incorporation of non-prey food items, yet the influence of this on predation intensity toward herbivores remains unknown. In order to gain an understanding ... -
Wild bee species abundance and richness across an urban–rural gradient
(Springer, 2018-05-26)Long-term and widespread monitoring programs are essential to understanding the role of human-dominated landscapes in supporting wild bee populations. Urbanization results in increased impervious surfaces throughout the ... -
Will (copy of ): John Hanks
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Women's Studies and Its Institutionalization as an Interdisciplinary Field: Past, Present, and Future
(Feminist Press, 2023-01-01)To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of WSQ, this article offers a snapshot of the history of women’s studies (WS), one that establishes it as an interdisciplinary field alongside Black studies and ethnic studies. It also ... -
Woody Allen's Cinema of Regret
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You Have To Leave Me Twice
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Yucatan as an Exception to Rising Criminal Violence in Mexico
(Sage Publications LTD, 2022-04)Yucatan state's homicide level has remained low and steady for decades and criminal violence activity is low, even while crime rates in much of the rest of the country have increased since 2006. In this research note, we ... -
Yucatec Maya Organizations in San Francisco, California: Ethnic Identity Formation Across Migrant Generations
(Latin American Studies Association, 2015-06-01)Using results of field research among Yucatec Maya in San Francisco, we compare two types of migrant associations: hometown associations (HTAs) and social service agencies, specifically in terms of the use and expression ... -
Zheng Zhen and the Rise of Evidential Research in Late Qing Northern Guizhou
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-08-07)This article investigates the formation of the Shatan scholarly group and the contribution of its leader, Zheng Zhen. Zheng benefitted from a vigorous trans-regional cultural network of returned local scholars such as Li ...
