Cannibalistic Imprisonment: Incorporating Hunger, Food, Identity, and Language in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa, Mary Gordon’s Final Payments, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved

This thesis critically examines the intersection of contemporary feminist theory and the work of three authors, Samuel Richardson, Mary Gordon, and Toni Morrison, representing classic and contemporary literature. In pursuing extended comparative readings of Richardson’s Clarissa, Gordon’s Final Payments, and Morrison’s Beloved as case studies, this project observes the various ways in which cultural and material circumstances organize relationships among writing, women\u27s bodies, food, and identity. One facet of the argument concerns the concept of the “abject,” understood to be a “process which begins at the moment of self-realization in the pre-oedipal dyad.” This is applied to all three narratives as a means to further discuss identity with regard to each protagonist. The project juxtaposes the physical instances and metaphors of imprisonment which cause a breakdown of the heroines\u27 language and identity, which, in turn, results in both literal and metaphorical cannibalism. Explanatory material on eating and relationship formation, as foundational to identity, is offered prior to the literary discussion that follows

A Recipe for Successful Inclusion

A model to assist in the process of including students with disabilities into general education classes for sixth and seventh grade students at West Valley Middle School in Yakima, Washington was developed. A literature review of current research supports inclusion as a model that addresses the school culture in the Untied States at this time. The literature review also indicated the need for schools to provide and teach study skills to better prepare students for their future

Leveraging Cataloging and Collection Development Expertise to Improve OER Discovery

While there is ongoing improvement in some of the larger open educational resources (OER) search engines, librarians sending emails to listservs asking “anyone know of OER on this topic?” and keeping old-fashioned reading lists of valuable OER are common occurrences. Compared to searching for books in a library catalog or scholarly articles in a research database, finding OER wherever they may be is challenging even for librarians, not to mention instructional faculty. The reason is technical: subpar and variable metadata in OER search engines leads to difficulties searching, capturing, and sharing data across repositories. In other words, the current lack of robust, descriptive metadata for OER results in fewer access points. Thus, OER are comparatively hard to find. Bibliographic control for purposes of information storage and retrieval is something librarians are experts in, but we have not shared our methods with the Open Education community yet. So far, the majority of library advocates for OER have been reference and instruction librarians, as well as library directors. This is great, and we need them to continue to champion OER creation and adoption, but the Open Education movement needs technical services librarians to step forward and apply their cataloging and systems administration expertise to streamline access to the sprawling landscape of OER content; our profession would do well to share our collection development expertise as well. To this end, Clare Sobotka, Reference Assistant at Linn-Benton Community College (LBCC), Holly Wheeler, Library Cataloging and Metadata Specialist at Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC), and Heather White, Library Technical Services & OER Coordinator, along with their colleagues, have started to experiment with creating collection development policies and MARC records for OER. Ultimately, they hope for the development of a metadata schema that is shared between the Open Education and library communities and is mapped to MARC and RDA, to improve both catalog records and OER search engines across the web

Using Literature to Engage Students Mathematically

In this article, the authors share two lessons that incorporate children’s literature with the Pythagorean theorem and area to engage preservice teachers (PSTs) mathematically. Sample responses, example texts, and future work are discussed

Urban Ancient Woodland in Britain’s Modern Landscape

Ancient woodland covers around 2.5% of the UK’s land surface. It harbours species-rich communities including ancient woodland indicator plants, which provide evidence of a constant landscape that has been under traditional management for several centuries. Despite their protection in the planning process, when urban development expands these woodlands can become islands within an urban matrix. In this context, woodland plant communities may be affected by pollutants, compaction of soils, changing hydrology, invasive species, habitat fragmentation or isolation. We investigated the distribution of ancient woodland in the UK and assessed the land use surrounding these sites to identify ‘urban ancient woodlands’ that were near human-dominated land cover. 10.4% of ancient woodland was found to be within 100 metres of land classed as urban fabric in the 2018 CORINE land cover data. This small but significant proportion of ancient woodland is likely to be affected by the impacts of urbanisation

OER Metadata Rosetta Stone

This document is the technical specification of core and contextual elements for Open Educational Resources using existing schema to create a Metadata Application Profile. It provides a list of relevant classes and properties used in OER metadata records at the institutional and repository level. It is our hope that this document will support best practices for OER repositories and institutions to leverage existing library expertise and networks

Molecular markers for species identification of Hessian fly males caught on sticky pheromone traps

Citation: Chen, M., . . . & Skinner, M. (2014). Molecular Markers for Species Identification of Hessian Fly Males Caught on Sticky Pheromone Traps. Journal of Economic Entomology, 107(3), 1110-1117. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1603/EC13384Pheromone traps have been widely used to monitor insect population activity. However, sticky pheromone traps for the Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor), one of the most destructive pests of wheat, have been used only in recent years. Hessian fly male adults are small and fragile, and preserving specimens during sorting of sticky pheromone traps is a challenge when intact specimens are often required to visually distinguish them from related insects such as fungus gnats. In this study, we have established a quick and reliable method based on polymerase chain reaction markers to correctly distinguish Hessian fly males from other closely related insects. Two Hessian fly-specific markers were established, one based on the trypsin gene MDP-10 and the other based on a gene encoding the salivary gland protein SSGP31‐5. Both markers provided >98% identification success of 110 Hessian fly samples prepared from single insects. The method should provide a useful tool to allow for identification of Hessian fly individuals on sticky pheromone traps or in other situations when Hessian fly eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults are difficult to distinguish from other insects

Nutrient and extracted chlorophyll data from the GLOBEC long-term observation program, 1997-2004 (revised 2012)

Originally published in 2004, revised in 2012

Nutrient and extracted chlorophyll data from the GLOBEC long-term observation program, 1997-2004

Originally published Feb 2004, revised Jan 2005. A 2012 revision of this item can be found at http://hdl.handle.net/1957/30347