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- The number of Hispanics in engineering departments at companies and universities differs from the proportion of Hispanics in the US population. Hispanics represented only 8% of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) workforce in 2020, despite being 17% of the overall workforce. The ethnic disparity in STEM occupations contributes...
- Keyword:
- US Workforce, STEM, Latino, Hispanics in STEM, and hispanic
- Subject:
- Diversity in the workplace and The number of Hispanics in STEM careers in the US population
- Creator:
- Mario A. Camargo Espana
- Contributor:
- Dr. William Mickelson (second reader) and Dr. Candice Bradley (advisor)
- Owner:
- Mario Andres Camargo
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2023
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-05-09
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- Characterization is the musical creation of fictional characters, and it is particularly important for creating multi-dimensional, nuanced characters in opera. However, how do composers characterize roles if the opera does not feature a traditionally linear plot or story? Does opera need a narrative to create characterization? Some may view narrative...
- Keyword:
- music, narrative, opera, composition, characterization, and chamber opera
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- Liza Sobel Crane
- Owner:
- Liza Anna Sobel
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-05-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Turkish television series are a global sensation, and concurrently, targets of bans, boycotts, and protests. In Russia, Turkish series are countered with Russian television productions, promoted as disclosing truths about Turkey that are absent in Turkish series. A multimodal discourse analysis of East/West and Eastern Wives from a critical geopolitics...
- Keyword:
- women, Ukraine, Russian media, popular geopolitics, Eurasianism, Islamophobia, Turkish TV series, Turkey, Orientalism, and Russia
- Creator:
- Celikkol, Yasemin
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- This edited volume presences a nuanced look at a range of issues affecting motives to migrate and outcomes of integration, demonstrating that equitable migration can only be realized by paying attention to how migrants interact with institutional mechanisms and social processes. Michigan State Professor Steven Gold calls the book a...
- Keyword:
- United States -- Emigration and immigration
- Subject:
- Immigration Act of 1990 (United States), United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century, Emigration and immigration, Government policy Foreign workers -- United States , Economic aspects United States , United States -- Emigration and immigration, and United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Creator:
- Mahmud, Hasan
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Publisher:
- New York University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Situated within motherhood studies, this edited volume is at the interdisciplinary intersection of literature, life writing, gender, (im)migration, refugee, and cultural studies. Contributors examine literary fiction, memoirs, and children’s literature. The borders that displaced mothers face are examined through frameworks of postcolonialism, nationalism, feminism, and diaspora studies.
- Keyword:
- Motherhood -- Cross-cultural studies --Conditions sociales Motherhood-- Motherhood in literature -- Motherhood in motion pictures -- Women immigrants in literature -- Women immigrants in motion pictures -- Women immigrants -- Social conditions Women refugees -- Social conditions
- Subject:
- Motherhood, Women immigrants, Cross-cultural studies, Women immigrants in motion pictures, Women refugees--Social conditions, Motherhood in motion pictures, Motherhood in literature, and Women immigrants in literature
- Creator:
- Lombard, Maria (ed)
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Publisher:
- Lexington Books
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Dunsky weaves historical background and data with the everyday narratives of Palestinian farmers, scientists, professors, writers, entrepreneurs, cultural initiators, and artists in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi calls the book “meticulously reported” and an “uplifting but gritty book.”
- Keyword:
- Palestine -- Biography Palestine -- Social conditions Palestinian Arabs Social conditions Middle East -- Palestine
- Creator:
- Dunsky, Marda
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Publisher:
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Virtual reality (VR) have attracted growing attention within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry in recent years. Integration of BIM and VR technology can develop workflow efficiency through enhanced common understanding and prepare students in architecture and engineering programs to become leaders of the...
- Keyword:
- building information modeling, performance assessment, AEC education, and virtual reality
- Creator:
- Huang, Joseph Chuenhuei , Hadavi, Ahmad, and Alizadehsalehi, Sepehr
- Owner:
- Ahmad Hadavi
- Publisher:
- MDPI https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Modified:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021-04-03
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI 10.3390/app11073225
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- Description:
- Introduction To assess disparities in retesting for glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and systolic blood pressure (SBP) among people with diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension (HTN), respectively, we analyzed medical records from a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer-specialized federally qualified health center with multiple sites in Chicago. Research design and methods We...
- Keyword:
- LGBT, hypertension, COVID-19, healthcare disparities, and diabetes
- Creator:
- Adovich Rivera
- Owner:
- Ado Rivera
- Publisher:
- BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/30/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-13
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10.1136/bmjdrc-2022-002990
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Miriam Felton-Dansky’s Viral Performance proposes the concept of the viral as an essential means of understanding socially engaged and transmedial performance practices since the mid-twentieth century.
- Keyword:
- political theater, digital media, media, viral transmission, Artaudian, and performing arts
- Subject:
- Performing arts
- Creator:
- Felton-Dansky, Miriam
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3717-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3715-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3716-5
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Kai Evers’s Violent Modernists: The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature develops a new understanding of German modernism that moves beyond the oversimplified dichotomy of an avant-garde prone to aggression on the one hand and a modernism opposed to violence on the other. Analyzing works by Robert Musil, Franz...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Evers, Kai
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2930-6, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2962-7, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6727-8