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  • Joy Production: Gender Euphoria in Trans University Student Lives

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    James, Gabs M.
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    Much of our knowledge about transgender (folks who identify as not cisgender) lives in universities centers around barriers experienced, feelings of exclusion, and being victims of harassment and violence. This thesis describes conversations regarding captured gender euphoric moments from five students at a large university. They came together through a...
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  • Exile in one's homeland : Yung Wing and the Chinese Educational Mission

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    Yao, Yingxia
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    This thesis examines the influence of Christian missions on Yung Wing (1828-1912) during the nineteenth century, when China was beginning to encounter the West. Yung was the first Chinese graduate student to enter an American institution of higher education (Yale College, 1854). As a Westernized Christian intellectual, he strove to...
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    . 4 See more articles in Wu Wenlai吴文莱, Rong Hong yu Zhongguo jindaihua容闳与中国近代 化 (Yung Wing and

  • Cultural differences and business interaction : an analysis of conflicts between Chinese and American ways of life

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    Chen, Yuejian, 1958-
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    This study uses an anthropological perspective to discuss the cultural differences between Chinese and Americans in business contexts. Through an analysis of case studies related by businesspersons involved in Sino-US trade, and by an analysis of literature on the subject, it describes how cultural differences contribute to the problems and...
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    was also held by N. T. Wang and other scholars in a series of articles, published in the Columbia

  • The identification and division of Steve Jobs

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    Anderson, Scott M. (Scott Matthew)
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    On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak entered into a partnership agreement to found Apple Computer. In the decade that followed, Apple experienced remarkable growth and success, as Jobs catapulted Apple to the Fortune 500 list of top‐flight companies faster than any other company in history. Under direction...
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  • Assessment of Feedstock Materials for Producing a Suitable and Cost-Effective Biochar to Use as a Soil Amendment for Northern Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)

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    Kumari, Pooja
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    Biochar is a highly porous, carbon-rich residue produced by thermochemical conversion (pyrolysis) of plant biomass and carbonaceous organic materials under oxygen-controlled conditions. Chars produced by this process tend to have high ion-exchange capacities and, when added to soil, increase retention of water and nutrients and improve soil aggregation, porosity, and...
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    specific crops (Manyà, 2012; Wu et al., 2020). Moreover, the high cost of biochar is limiting wide-scale

  • Change in some aspects of Chinese core values, 1978-1988

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    Qi, Xiaoping
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    Great change has taken place in China during the past decade. As core values represent the most basic aspects of social life, change in some aspects of Chinese core values indicates that China is moving rapidly from being an agricultural society toward becoming a modern industrial society. China today can...
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    years (Wang, 1984). China is attempting to modernize based on a deeply historical self-examination

  • Design Thinking as a Framework to Maximize Learning Foreign Languages in Online Environments

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    Beged-Dov, Yael
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    In this qualitative case study, the implementation of a student-centered model of teaching, “Design Thinking, is explored to understand the difficulties learners experience when studying a foreign language in formal learning environments. This study suggests that excessive concentration on factors of grammar, translation, pronunciation, vocabulary, and lack of speech activity...
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    major differences amongst these variations of learning applications (Hood, 2005, Heil, Wu and Lee

  • Vocalization Patterns of Captive Francois ́ Langurs (Presbytis francoisi)

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    Krishnamurthy, Ramesh S. (Ramesh Saligrama), 1964-
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    Vocalization patterns of two groups of captive Francois' langurs (Presbytis francoisi) were studied between August 1989 and June 1990. During the 11 months of observation, 109 hours of vocalization recordings were made at Metro Washington Park Zoo, Portland, and the San Diego Zoo, San Diego. Based on the behavioral observations...
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    Zuo river and along the eastern Ming river in southern Guangxi (Wu et.al. 1987), Sangen Mountain

  • China and France in the Nineteenth Century

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    Leggatt, Nick
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    In studying Western, especially French, imperialist action in China during the nineteenth century, this thesis argues that contemporary Sino-Western relations took various forms across various social strata on both sides, and the general terms used to classify them are erroneous: in effect, there was no "Chinese" response to "the West,"...
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    various foreign legations in Shanghai rose up to defend their interests when the Chung Wang, or