Outstanding Faculty Publications 2021
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Outstanding Faculty Publications 2021
Description
The publications featured in this exhibit were chosen by their departments as outstanding examples of the research, scholarly, and creative work being done at Fresno State in 2020. The Library is proud to highlight these outstanding contributions by Fresno State faculty.
Collection Items
English L2 reading: Getting to the bottom
English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom uses research-based insights to examine bottom-up skills in reading English as a second language. This fourth edition clearly presents core concepts alongside their practical applications to teaching…
An acoustic phonetic description of Nungon vowels
This study is a comprehensive acoustic description and analysis of the six vowels /i e a u o ɔ/ in the Towet dialect of the Papuan language Nungon ⟨yuw⟩ of northeastern Papua New Guinea. Vowel tokens were extracted from a corpus of audio speech…
Untold stories: Portuguese Americans along the 99 corridor
A project of the Portuguese-American Oral History Program at Fresno State.
Darkside
Darkside is the first post-pandemic University Theatre production since the campus closed nine months ago. For a few brief weeks in September, anxious for the opportunity of artistic togetherness, our company returned to campus to rehearse and film…
To thine own self be true: Gender, sexuality and the bard
The genius of William Shakespeare has brought fresh insights into the human condition for over four centuries. Recognizing the timelessness of Shakespeare’s works, this production will explore modern day LGBTQ perspectives and confront gender…
Kings literacy initiative pact
Documentary short following the John Corcoran Foundation as they combat illiteracy and sub-literacy in Kings County, CA
Photographic (re)memory: The holocaust and post–World War II memory in Yugoslavia
As Jacques Derrida notes, the question of memory is not just a question of the past; instead memory is entangled with future generations and representations.¹ This entanglement is evident through the recycled Holocaust imagery utilized in the…
Graduate student teacher voices: Perception of and apprenticeship in multiliteracies-oriented teaching
Tara Hashemi examines Graduate Student Teachers’ (GSTs’) perceptions of their professionalization in FL programs which have adopted a literacy-based approach to teaching French in the United States. Findings show that while some clear efforts are…
Master and commander
A scholar of the Machiavelli’s Art of war hardly thinks of comparing it to Sunzi bingfa, due to the radical diversity between a text placed in a precise and well-known historical context (Machiavelli) and of strong thought, and another (Sunzi bingfa)…
Importance of noncost criteria weighing in best-value design-build US highway projects
United States highway agencies use best-value procurement with a fixed price to select design builders. This method enables public agencies to choose the best proposer by assessing several factors in addition to price. Theoretically, considering cost…
Coalescence speed of two equal-sized nanobubbles
In this work, we use molecular dynamics (MD) simulations coupled with continuum-based theoretical analysis to study the coalescence dynamics of two equal-sized nanobubbles (NBs). We first derive a governing equation for the evolution of the capillary…
Reducing psychological reactance to health promotion messages: Comparing preemptive and postscript mitigation strategies
This study compared the relative efficacy of two strategies designed to mitigate psychological reactance in health campaigns by using reminders of behavioral autonomy: preemptive scripts, which appear before the appeal, and restoration postscripts,…
Information literacy beyond librarians: A data/methods triangulation approach to investigating disciplinary IL teaching practices
Objective – While library literature contains many studies examining faculty perceptions of the value of librarian-led information literacy (IL)instruction, there is little evidence regarding IL instruction practices of disciplinary faculty…
Effects of higher education internationalization on student learning: Student experiences and perceptions
The purpose of this study was to explore how campus internationalization efforts in higher education impact student learning through the lens of the student’s perspective and experience. Grounded in transformative learning theory and guided by a…
Best practices for cataloging objects using RDA and MARC21
Why catalog objects? We catalog objects in order to make them discoverable in our libraries’ catalogs, so that our library users may find, identify, select, and obtain these resources just as efficiently as any other types of resources. Many of our…
Survey of egg quality in commercially available table eggs
Increased demand in consumer choice has resulted in a wide variety of egg selection available in the retail market. Specialty and designer chicken eggs represent a portion of the table egg market that is increasing in size. Egg quality is known to be…
Restaurant authenticity: An analysis of its influence on restaurant customer perceptions and behaviors
This study developed a conceptual model to test the influence of restaurant authenticity on customer perceptions and behaviors at restaurants serving a destination’s authentic regional cuisine. The framework for the study was grounded in social…
Volatile transference and antimicrobial activity of cheeses made with ewes’ milk fortified with essential oils
During the last decades, essential oils (EOs) have been proven to be a natural alternative to additives or pasteurization for the prevention of microbial spoilage in several food matrices. In this work, we tested the antimicrobial activity of EOs…
Grape detection with convolutional neural networks
Convolutional neural networks, as a type of deep learning approach, have revolutionized the field of computer vision and pattern recognition through state of the art performance in a large number of classification tasks. Machine learning has been…
Carbon isotope discrimination (δ13 C) of grape musts is a reliable tool for zoning and the physiological ground-truthing of sensor maps in precision viticulture
Carbon stable isotope composition of berry must at harvest (δ13C) is an integrated assessment of plant water status during grape (Vitis vinifera L.) berry ripening. Measurement of δ13C of grape juice is proposed as an alternative to traditional…