Faculty Research
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Recent Submissions
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Invisible disabilities: perceptions and barriers to reasonable accommodations in the workplace
(Library Management, 2019)Purpose The subject of invisible disabilities is becoming more prevalent in the workplace. Invisible disabilities (as defined by the Invisible Disabilities Association) refers to symptoms such as “debilitating pain, ... -
"Open Education Week 2019: From #textbookbroke to #textbookfixed"
(2019-02-15)This poster was created for "Open Education Week 2019: From #textbookbroke to #textbookfixed" and covers the current issues students face with textbook and course material costs and how Texas Tech Libraries can help with ... -
Architecture and Copyright
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Archivematica (AM): Possibilities here at TTU Libraries
(2019-01-08)Report out on Archivematica Camp Texas in Houston Texas, and how Texas Tech University Libraries would be able to implement the program. -
Gaming at the Library
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Managing Work Emails: In this era of information overload
(Texas Tech University Library, 2018-12-14)Help employees understand the problems with email. Teach employees how to limit the email coming to their inbox. Teach employees how to limit the number of emails they send out. Teach library faculty how to communicate ... -
New Strategy To Access Enantioenriched Cyclohexadienones: Kinetic Resolution of para-Quinols by Organocatalytic Thiol-Michael Addition Reactions
(American Chemical Society, 2018-11-14)Existing stereoselective routes to 2,5-cyclohexadienones involve either desymmetrization of an achiral substrate or have attempted to perform an asymmetric dearomatization of a phenol. Herein, we report proof-ofprinciple ... -
Voz y Vision/Voice and Vision: Catharsis and Conviction in Latina Literature
(2008)“Voz y Vision/Voice and Vision: Catharsis and Conviction in Latina Literature” was a research paper that I wrote for my senior Humanities project while attending Lubbock Christian University. The goal of the paper was show ... -
“Vida es la vida, y se acabo” – Perspectivas y paralelismos de la juventud entre “La casa nueva” de Silvia Molina.
(2008)Silvia Molina, autora mejicana premiada de muchas novelas, ensayos, cuentos y mucho mas, crea estos trabajos literarios incorporando toques realistas de la humanidad. En una entrevista, escrito por Lourdes Rangel, Molina ... -
Desaparecidos y Desplazados en la Obra de Marjorie Agosin
(2007)Países de americano del sur tiene nublados que ahora blinda el resto del mundo de saber la oscuridad que retiene. Las desapariciones, muertes, e agitación política contienen a gente en estos países que los eclipsan con ... -
Reputation Management: Evaluating Journals for Publication and Impact
(ABSEL: Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning, 2014-03)Reputation management is the practice of strategically placing academic journal articles in such a way as to get them noticed, read and cited. The purpose of reputation management is to raise the academic profile of ... -
Burning Man Values Examined: Gratitude as a Cultural Driven and Value-Based Organizational Mainstay
(Valpariso University, 2017-12)The topic specifically addressed in this paper is the manner in which the cultural organization Burning Man has taken the general concept of gratitude, and crafted the expression of gratitude into an elevated organizational ... -
Righting the Wrongs: Mistakes Made in the Virtual Classroom
(ASEE: American Society for Engineering Education, 2000-06)When teaching an electrical engineering technology course in the virtual classroom, instructional challenges are magnified in both course development and course delivery. Among these challenges are learning course ... -
A Novel Personalized Motion and Noise Artifact (MNA) Detection Method for Smartphone Photoplethysmograph (PPG) Signals
(IEEE, 2018-12)Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a technique to detect blood volume changes in an optical way. Representative PPG applications are the measurements of oxygen saturation, heart rate, and respiratory rate. However, the PPG ... -
Cytotoxicity of Selenium Immunoconjugates against Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells
(MDPI, 2018-10-26)Within the subtypes of breast cancer, those identified as triple negative for expression of estrogen receptor α (ESR1), progesterone receptor (PR) and human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2), account for 10–20% of breast ... -
Hungry, Hungry Gringos: Solving the Problems Posed by Feeding Tourists
(Wiley, 2018-10-25)Tourist demand for food stuffs like delicate lettuce varieties that are ill‐suited to the local environment are setting off a chain of reactions within the Cayo District of Belize. To meet demand, farmers are learning to ... -
The effects of yoga and quiet rest on subjective levels of anxiety and physiological correlates: a 2-way crossover randomized trial
(BMC, 2018-10-17)Abstract Background: Rest or acute exercise can decrease state anxiety, with some evidence showing exercise to prevent laboratory-induced elevations in anxiety. No study has examined whether yoga provides short-term ... -
Natural philanthropy: A new evolutionary framework explaining diverse experimental results and informing fundraising practice
(Palgrave Communications, 2017-06-20)Philanthropic decision-making is important both for its potential to provide insight into human behaviour and for its economic significance. In recent years, investigations of charitable-giving behaviour have expanded ... -
Soundwriting Pedagogies
(Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2018)The availability of digital tools has made it easier than ever to record and edit sound, and teachers of composition have noticed. We’re entering an age of soundwriting, where the affordances of sound intersect the pedagogies ... -
Contextualizing Students’ Media Ideologies and Practices: An Empirical Study of Social Media Use in a Writing Class
(The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2017)
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