A List of Wisconsin Springtails With New Records and Annotations (Hexapoda: Parainsecta: Collembola)

Twenty Collembola species new to Wisconsin were collected from soil at two agricultural sites in southern Wisconsin, including an undescribed species of Isotomidae. The state faunal list now contains 52 species representing seven families

Anna Rebek's GASP! Thesis

In this Columbia Director's thesis, Anna Rebek takes you behind the scenes in her process of collaborating, devising and creating her original thesis production, GASP

Slow on the Fast Track: A Mindful Oath to Management and a Ph.D. Survival Guide

As an entrepreneur, instructor, and new mother, becoming a student again was no easy task. It was important for me to find the right balance to energize my pursuit of learning, nurture my young family, and attend to work obligations all while achieving doctoral program outcomes. I could not conceive of program expectations thoroughly enough to prepare. Yet, by investing time to make a plan and establish routines, tools, and techniques at the onset, I managed obligations effectively and efficiently. My plan translated into a mindfulness routine that maintained consistent levels of motivation, and inspired me to apply methods to help me succeed. Drawing on my doctoral experiences and empirical research in mindfulness and motivation, this article illustrates approaches to assist students with managing personal, professional, and scholastic expectations. By dedicating time to be mindful and cultivating a mindset to manage priorities, students can engage in a healthy pursuit of learning and achievement, and strengthen their human potential

Case report: Transcervical approach for removal of the tumor of the primary parapharyngeal space (PPS)

Tumors of the primary parapharyngeal space (PPS) account for less than 1% of all head and neck tumors. Because of the asymptomatic aspect of the disease, PPS tumors are usually detected in the advanced stage. In this case report, we present rare a PPS tumor and itstreatment

Nantucket pine tip moth

The Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service periodically issues revisions to its publications. The most current edition is made available. For access to an earlier edition, if available for this title, please contact the Oklahoma State University Library Archives by email at [email protected] or by phone at 405-744-6311

Woodborers

The Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service periodically issues revisions to its publications. The most current edition is made available. For access to an earlier edition, if available for this title, please contact the Oklahoma State University Library Archives by email at [email protected] or by phone at 405-744-6311

A List of Wisconsin Springtails With New Records and Annotations (Hexapoda: Parainsecta: Collembola)

Twenty Collembola species new to Wisconsin were collected from soil at two agricultural sites in southern Wisconsin, including an undescribed species of Isotomidae. The state faunal list now contains 52 species representing seven families

COIL Experience. Intercultural Case Analysis: Sports Brand Company Perspectives from Canada and Spain

The COVID-19 pandemic posed many challenges, including travel restrictions, which limited the opportunities for student-exchange programs. One solution to promote intercultural learning during the pandemic and form relations with students in different countries was COIL. This paper presents a Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning (COIL) case study that engaged students from Canada and Spain in an intercultural learning experience. Instructors worked collaboratively to design learning objectives and related course activities to establish a five (5) week program of co-instruction within their higher-education course schedules. Using technology, and a combination of asynchronous and synchronous opportunities, students were engaged in the course content (business-marketing strategy). Students learned about their unique cultural applications in relation to the content, and also learned about their cultural perspectives. Along with a variety of interpersonal and intercultural learning opportunities, students completed learning activities in cross-cultural teams (a balance of members from each country, three from Canada and three from Spain, with eight teams in total). Administrators, students and faculty were excited about the cultural learning experience and found the benefits to far outweigh the improvements needed. This paper shares the details of this experience from both administrative and faculty perspectives, to help other administrators/faculty members develop COIL and provide students with this rich intercultural online-learning experience

Commercial management of turfgrass insects and mites

The Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service periodically issues revisions to its publications. The most current edition is made available. For access to an earlier edition, if available for this title, please contact the Oklahoma State University Library Archives by email at [email protected] or by phone at 405-744-6311

Bondage and balm: A feminist narrative inquiry of midlife women, domestic labor, and health during COVID-19

Among the many things we do not understand about COVID-19 is how pandemic-era domestic pressures manifest in the already-pressurized lives of women at midlife, a life stage characterized in the health literature as a period of great risk and tremendous possibility. Research conducted since the pandemic began indicates a number of factors, including a lopsided-by-gender domestic workload and sandwich generation caregiving demands, that could impact the health of midlife women. The purpose of this feminist qualitative study was to explore women’s experiences of the health impacts of their greater, disproportionate, and gendered pandemic domestic labor workload. To fulfill that purpose, I asked this research question: How do midlife women story the health impacts of their pandemic domestic labor? To answer this, I used feminist narrative inquiry guided by The Listening Guide methodology and methods. Narrators were five midlife women (defined for the purposes of this study as being 40 to 64 years old). I gathered each narrator’s stories during a series of four interviews. Each interview covered a period within the first 15 months of the pandemic. From these interviews, I harvested I-poems that foreground women’s voices and crystallize their experiences of pandemic domestic labor. Together with repeated listenings and readings of the interview recordings and transcripts, these analytic devices helped me to extract the layers of narrators’ experiences. What I heard from them became the four “listening layers” into which I organized the core findings of my study. This study foregrounds the details of women’s lives and takes seriously the connections between the domestic and women’s health. It considers the significance of space and women’s ongoing struggle to navigate their needs for sharing domestic labor with others in their households. Finally, it recognizes “seeing” domestic needs as a form of labor and makes visible the connection of seeing and doing domestic labor to the valuation of the women and their needs. This project unfolded during the pandemic as I shared these domestic and health challenges, reclaimed my identity by transitioning my name from Rebek to Lavish, and recognized the ongoing health implications of domestic labor