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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…

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…

A project of the Portuguese-American Oral History Program at Fresno State.

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…

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…

Documentary short following the John Corcoran Foundation as they combat illiteracy and sub-literacy in Kings County, CA

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…