Interview with Ali Eteraz

Ali Eteraz is the author of the debut novel Native Believer, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Children of Dust, which was selected as a New Statesman Book of the Year, won the Nautilus Book Award Gold, and was long-listed for the Asian American Writers Workshop Award. Previously, he wrote the short story collection Falsipedies and Fibsiennes. Other short stories have appeared in The Adirondack Review, storySouth, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Forge Journal. Eteraz is an accomplished essayist and has been spotlighted by Time Magazine and Pageturner, the literary blog of The New Yorker. During his visit to Butler University as part of the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series, Eteraz took the time to speak with Manuscripts staff member Elena DeCook

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The History of the Book, Literary History, and Identity Politics in Canada

National literary histories, like the Literary History of Canada, generally tend to perform exclusions on the basis of class, gender, race, language, and ethnicity; the only way to correct such past hegemonic exclusions is to assert the cultural legitimacy of specific communities' writings by writing new literary histories. Book history can be important for uncovering texts' transmission and reception histories surrounding the engagement of colonized groups with Western textualities, for its concentration on the institutions that mediate our engagement with literature, and for taking into account the institutions and economic forces involved with canonicity. The newly-established History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada project (HbiC/HLIC) has a significant role to play in rethinking Canada's cultural pasts by incorporating work based on identity politics, thereby becoming a truly interdisciplinary and inclusive project

Mental Health and the Effect on Entrepreneurs in Low-Income, Urban Communities of South Africa

Global Independent Study, Summer 2018 -- Johannseburg, Cape Town, South Africa -- Partner Agencie(s): Paradigm Shifthttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/145785/1/DeCook_Poster.pd

New statistical methods in bioinformatics: for the analysis of quantitative trait loci (QTL), microarrays, and eQTLs

This thesis focuses on new statistical methods in the area of bioinformatics which uses computers and statistics to solve biological problems. The first study discusses a method for detecting a quantitative trait locus (QTL) when the trait of interest has a zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) distribution. Though existing methods based on normality may be reasonably applied to some ZIP distributions, the characteristics of other ZIP distributions make such an application inappropriate. We compare our method to an existing non-parametric approach, and we illustrate our method using QTL data collected on two ecotypes of the Arabidopsis thaliana plant where the trait of interest is shoot count;The second study discusses a method to detect differentially expressed genes in an unreplicated multiple-treatment microarray timecourse experiment. In a two-sample setting, differential expression is well defined as non-equal means, but in the present setting, there are numerous expression patterns that may qualify as differential expression, and that may be of interest to the researcher. This method provides the researcher with a list of significant genes, an associated false discovery rate for that list, and a \u27best model\u27 choice for every gene. The model choice component is relevant because the alternative hypothesis of differential expression does not dictate one specific alternative expression pattern. In fact, in this type of experiment, there are many possible expression patterns of interest to the researcher. Using simulations, we provide information on the specificity and sensitivity of detection under a variety of true expression patterns using receiver operating characteristic curves. The method is illustrated using an Arabidopsis thaliana microarray experiment with five time points and three treatment groups;The third study discusses a new type of analysis, called eQTL analysis. This analysis brings together the methods of microarray and QTL analyses in order to detect locations on the genome that control gene expression. These controlling loci are called expression QTL, or eQTL. Locating eQTL can help researchers uncover complex networks in biological systems. The method is illustrated using an Arabidopsis thaliana eQTL experiment with 22,787 genes and 288 markers

Interrogating the "incel menace": assessing the threat of male supremacy in terrorism studies

Following a series of deadly attacks, and increasingly in recent years, incels have entered not only the public lexicon but also piqued scholarly interest, especially in terrorism research and programmes aimed at countering violent extremism (CVE). However, much of the current analyses largely interpret incel communities as homogenous, and in doing so ignore the complex and often contradictory nature of incel communities. CVE recommendations made by these scholars are often founded on misconceptions of incel identity and community. Through a critical feminist lens, in this article we argue that the focus on incels should seek to understand the role of male supremacy, antifeminism, and misogyny in society. Additionally, we argue against the trend of attempting to classify and securitise incels as a unique form of misogynistic violence, and identify the dangers of a lack of focus on male supremacy

Of Humans, Machines, and Extremism: The Role of Platforms in Facilitating Undemocratic Cognition

The events surrounding the 2020 U.S. election and the January 6 insurrection have challenged scholarly understanding of concepts like collective action, radicalization, and mobilization. In this article, we argue that online far-right radicalization is better understood as a form of distributed cognition, in which the groups’ online environment incentivizes certain patterns of behavior over others. Namely, these platforms organize their users in ways that facilitate a nefarious form of collective intelligence, which is amplified and strengthened by systems of algorithmic curation. In short, these platforms reflect and facilitate undemocratic cognition, fueled by affective networks, contributing to events like the January 6 insurrection and far-right extremism more broadly. To demonstrate, we apply this framing to a case study (the “Stop the Steal” movement) to illustrate how this framework can make sense of radicalization and mobilization influenced by undemocratic cognition

Ground Water Occurrence and Utilization in the Arizona - Sonora Border Region

Authors' manuscript for published article / paper presented at Symposium on U.S.-Mexican Transboundary Resources, Part II. (publication information from WorldCat.)This article discusses ground-water resources along the Arizona-Sonora border from Yuma, Arizona to the Douglas-Rio Yaqui region in Eastern Arizona. Transfrontier physiography and geology are reviewed to understand the physical occurrence of ground water, its storage, movement, depth, and availability. The border region is divided into five zones or basins for ground-water supply; then the utilization of ground-water resources is detailed, including kinds of development and production water quality considerations, and present and future resource supply problems. Particular attention is paid to the extensive pumping proposals at San Luis, Sonora near the Colorado River. The need for better institutional arrangements to plan and manage the conjunctive use of both surface and ground-water supplies is discussed as a summary conclusion.This item is part of the Water Resources Research Center collection. It was digitized from a physical copy provided by the Water Resources Research Center at The University of Arizona. For more information about items in this collection, please contact the Center, (520) 621-9591 or see http://wrrc.arizona.edu