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Hi, I normally would just wait for my university's ILL system to slowly get around to sending me these articles but I am working on a 72 hour deadline that's coming up tomorrow. If anyone has access to these articles I would greatly appreciate it.
I don't have complete citations for all of them either.(I am copying off the ILL screen and apparently they don't include everything)...
(2003) GM food: The risk- assessment of immune hypersensitivity reactions covers more than allergenicity. Journal of Food and Agriculture: 1, 42-45.
(1996) Allergenicity assessment of foods derived from genetically modified plants. Food technology: 50, 83-88.
Loureiro et al. (2004). Preferences and willingness to pay for GM labeling policies. Food Policy:29(5), 467-
Fox (1994). FDA attacks food allergens. Biotechnology:12, 568-569.
(2002). Regulation of biotechnology: will we ever ‘freely’ trade GMOs?European Review of Agriculture Economics:29, 155-176
If you could email me at chumphr3 *at* slu *dot* edu that would be great.
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Since we had an enjoyable debate/discussion/minor flamewar over literary criticism in xkcd recently, I wonder what's to stop me posting this?
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27794
Well, I enjoyed it, anyway. :-)
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I hope this is appropriate to post here... I have invited to participate in a forum on religion and homosexuality. It's being put on by a local queer group, so the focus is positive. They have someone discussing Judaism and Islam, someone dissecting the traditional New Testament verses, and someone discussing denominational stances here in New Zealand and world-wide. My part of the talk would be about my personal experiences being gay and Christian.
If you attended such a talk what would you want to hear about? About my marriage? My experience in the queer community? Religious community? I don't want to go back over Bible verses as those will have already been discussed, and I would like to avoid "justifying" or defending my life. I especially want to hear from anyone in this group who doesn't think being gay is okay religiously as we anticipate a very mixed audience: people who are gay/straight, religious/non-religious, think being gay is fine/think gays are going to hell, etc.
For the record I'm 28, married (to a woman) for three years, and I'm an American ex-pat in New Zealand. I'm conservative in much of my theology and personal behavior.
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Looking for two articles from the 1960's -- not too hopeful, but don't have JSTOR access at the moment, so your help is appreciated:
link: The Application of Sociological Techniques to the Study of College Slang
Lawrence Banchero and William L. Flinn
American Speech, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Feb., 1967), pp. 51-57
link: Conditions under Which College Students Borrow, Use, and Alter Slang
Virginia Olesen and Elvi Whittaker
American Speech, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Oct., 1968), pp. 222-228
if you can send a pdf to dan4th at gmail, I'll be eternally grateful.
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my 30th birthday is october 13. honestly, i can't wait to leave my 20s behind. they were very difficult.
i'm not sure what i'd like to happen. on the weekend closest to my birthday, i have to work with youth on sunday morning, so i'd only be able to be away from home on friday night. there's a witchcraft campout that weekend, but i think most of the people i'm closest to are not going, which makes it less appealing. i will have a bit more money than i do now then, but i'm still going to be operating on a tight budget.
what did you do/what would you want to do on your 30th birthday?
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I have consulted the archives and a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style (I'm using Chicago for my dissertation) and have not been able to find an answer. So, as I write, write, write in anticipation of my meeting with my supervisor next week, I come to you all with a question. I'm currently writing up a section of my dissertation that focuses on a 19th century British organization (still around today) known as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. It's quite a lengthy section and, as such, I decided early on to abbreviate the organization name to SPGFP. However, I'm bothered by my frequent use of the abbreviation and would like to mix it up with the actual organization name every once and a while. But is this a no-no? Once I've committed to an abbreviation, must I stick with it for the remainder of the piece? I'm writing in the field of literature if that matters . . .
Thanks to you all in advance.
Good luck in the upcoming semester/term.
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Having realized that my research is slowly becoming too focused for someone who purports to be a generalist and that this community suffers from quite a few quiveing balls of stress, I have decided to throw off the shackles of restrictive note-taking and have picked up a book that simply interests me and that I think would be enlightening.
I hereby call on anyone similarly over-focused or over-worked to grab an interesting text and join me in a random celebration (that I will undoubtably repeat in the coming months) called "GIT LERND WEEK."
While I'm sure most of us are quite capable of blowing through a text in a day or too, I'm equally certain that we'll feel too guilty about not doing our research to successfully manage that, so a week seems more appropriate.
So join me brothers and sisters! Do what called you into academics in the first place! Grab a book and a caffeinated beverage of your choice, find an unoccupied cubicle, hunch over obsessively and GIT LERND!
For my erudition I have started on C.A. Bayly's The Birth of the Modern World. Anyone else GITTIN' LERND is encouraged to share what they're LERNIN' and possibly review it briefly if you find the time!
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Can anyone get hold of this for me? My university's subsription only goes back to 1998 :(
http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=p260367
Email: clarescifi at gmail dot com
Thank you!
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A NYT essay by Margo Rabb on the border between adult and Y.A. literature.
“There’s an enormous level of condescension towards Y.A. writing in the literary world,” said Martha Southgate, whose first novel, Another Way to Dance, was Y.A. She followed it with two adult novels. “My first book often gets literally left off my bio.” ... Mark Haddon, who wrote numerous novels for children before The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, said in an e-mail message that he recalled “a number of people looking down their noses at me when I explained what I did for a living, as if I painted watercolors of cats or performed as a clown at parties.”
Many adults don’t realize how much the Y.A. genre has changed since their days of reading teenage romances and formulaic novels. “A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. is the Garden of Eden of literature,” said Sherman Alexie, whose first Y.A. novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, won the National Book Award for young people’s literature last year. Even the prestige of that award didn’t make him impervious to the stigma. “Some acquaintances felt I was dumbing down,” Alexie said in a phone interview. “One person asked me, ‘Wouldn’t you have rather won the National Book Award for an adult, serious work?’ I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian -- that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.”
And from closer to the end of the article:
“I obviously should’ve been writing Y.A. all along,” Alexie said in his National Book Award acceptance speech. He later told me, “This book sold like crazy in a way my books never have before, and I’ve had a great career.” There are other rewards as well. “At every reading I gave on tour, two or three other Y.A. authors would show up. That doesn’t happen in adult lit. The adult world is made up of cannibals who’d eat every part of your body. In the Y.A. world, they’d merely eat a toe or two.”
I am just faskinated by the Crossover Question.
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Hi everyone,
It's weird to find a livejournal community like this. I knew I wasn't the only one who seemed to lose my life as I work full time and take classes at night toward my educational doctorate in reading, language, and literature, but I didn't realize other people would be willing to talk about it. For the next four weeks my life will be fairly quiet until I return to school and begin taking 2 or three classes at night (I have yet to decide how insane I want to make my life.) Anyway, I look forward to getting to know you.
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I'm currently in an MFA program for creative writing, and just found out that I need to pick a committee chair by August 18th (maybe, they aren't sure what the deadline is yet), and my advisor is already chairing three committees. So I'm left with a choice between the other fiction writing professor or the non-fiction professor. The fiction prof is the obvious choice, since I'm in the fiction concentration, but... always a but. But I write mostly genre work, scifi/fantasy, and he has said in workshops that he doesn't feel qualified to comment on genre writing. (We genre writers in the program are slowly convincing him that writing is writing, and he's perfectly qualified to tell us if our stories are too character driven, our sentences are overwritten, etc.) The non-fiction prof, however, does read scifi/fantasy type stuff. He's the only one in the department who knows who I'm talking about when I say I'll be referencing Neil Gaiman in my introduction. I'm feeling lost, overwhelmed and panicked. I get along fairly well with the non-fic prof, and would be much more comfortable working with him. But at the same time, I feel like I might be slighting the fiction prof if I don't ask him. Not that he seems the type to care... I need to decide soon, as they are talking about limiting the number of committees a prof can chair, and I'm worried that once word about this gets out, there won't be enough professors to go around.
So I guess my question is chair whom I get along with and would better understand my work or chair who actually teaches what is technically my focus, even though I feel like I will totally baffle him?
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Does anyone have access to these articles?
A Developmental-Constructivist Approach to Teacher Education
Allen Black and Paul Ammon
Journal of Teacher Education, Vol. 43, No. 5, 323-335 (1992)
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Not just Piaget; not just Vygotsky, and certainly not Vygotsky as alternative to Piaget
Michael Shayer
Learning and Instruction
Volume 13, Issue 5, October 2003, Pages 465-485
The Influence of L. S. Vygotsky on Education Theory, Research, and Practice
Vasily V Davydov and Stephen T Kerr
Educational Researcher, Vol. 24, No. 3, 12-21 (1995)
American Educational Research Association
Thanks so much!!
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Name: ...
Year: Jan 2008 (that is when I started.. will finish no later than June 2010)
Degree you're working towards: Master of Science
Field of study: Telecommunication Systems
Research interests (if any): Wireless and Mobility
University: DePaul University
Five year plan: Get masters. Hopefully get a job in Europe or some sort of fellowship so I can get my PhD- IN EUROPE!
Best way to relieve uni-related stress: I work full time as a consultant AND I go to school full time. When not worried about work, I worry about school. When not worried about school, I worry about work.
Totally random fact: I like goat cheese.
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I'm currently going into my second year (out of 3) in a Master of Fine Arts program. My main focus is on media, video and the construction of science and gender.
I've decided that teaching at the post-secondary level is something I would really like to do. I'm a little frustrated though. I've been speaking to a few art professors, about what I need to do to be an attractive job candidate in the cut throat world of collegiate teaching, but am just getting the standard follow your dreams type of advice. I know there's not magic bullet, but toss me a bone fellas! The only really practical advice is "get your work out there". Okay fine, but there has to be something else. Some other tip on what else I can be doing? I'm trying to add a little international flair to my CV by doing a collaborative art project with some students in Scotland, doing some volunteer work, and holding a project assistantship this coming coming academic year, and maintaining a 4.0 average (but I guess that won't mean much in an art program). With art being the last of many school's priorities these days I feel like I need to make myself really marketable.
Any recent MFA candidates have advice? Or anyone with an MFA currently teaching digital art have some wisdom to bestow? I'd rather be working on these things now, than say my final semester. Going damn, I wish I had done more of X.
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Name: Kim
Year: beginning Fall '08
Degree you're working towards: MA
Field of study: Sociology
Research interests (if any): I haven't defined my research area as of yet... I am doing a coursework MA with a research project rather than a thesis-route so I haven't started feeling that stress yet as it won't be until next summer. I'm trying to come up with something early on though, so I can have a good directive for course readings. I'm really interested in gender studies and intersectionality... media studies, feminist and queer theories, sexualities, identity politics and community.
University: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Five year plan: I have several potential life options... I'm not entirely sure what's in my future but I have been considering a) applying for a Masters or PhD in Women's Studies/Gender Studies/Feminist Research program, b) applying for a PhD in Sociology, or c) looking at Social Work programs. I have a lot to think about so I might take a year off after the MA. I've had a few profs say that I should go on to do a PhD rather than a second MA/MWS but I'm not sure. I originally chose Sociology, though I'm somewhat attached to Women's Studies, because I felt that it would allow more freedom for teaching and research -- it's easier to go back and forth from Sociology than Women's Studies. Any advice/comments on this is welcome (second MA/MWS, Sociology vs Women's Studies in general)... now that I've written a novel!
Best way to relieve uni-related stress: cooking! I have a collection of vegan cookbooks that I like to peruse.
Totally random fact: I have a street that was named after me... it was a new subdivision and I was the first baby born to a family on the street. :)
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I don't have ILL, and my university has a habit of cancelling journals the year before they publish articles I need:
Auld, T.D. 1986. Population dynamics of the shrub Acacia suaveolens (Sm.) Willd.: Fire and the transition to seedlings. Australian Journal of Ecology 11: 373-85.
Jurskis, V., Turner, R.J., Jurskis, D. (2005) Mistletoes increasing in 'undisturbed' forest: a symptom of forest decline caused by unnatural exclusion of fire. Australian Forestry 68 (3), 221 - 226.
Jurskis, V. (2005) Decline of eucalypt forests as a consequence of unnatural fire regimes. Australian Forestry 68 (4), 257 - 262.
Lunt 1998 Allocasuarina (Casuarinaceae) invasion of an unburnt coastal woodland Australian Journal of Botany 46: 649-656
Send to stentor.danielson@gmail.com
Thanks!
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Does anybody have access to recent articles from Science? My university's library doesn't go beyond 2004 at the moment.
How Old Is The Human Presence On Cyprus?
September 2007
Alan H. Simmons and Rolfe D. Mandel
Science Volume 317 (5845), page 1679
Profile: Albert Ammerman: Exploring the Prehistory of Europe, in a Few Bold Leaps
July 2007
John Bohannon
Science Volume 317 (5835), pages 188-189
Would appreciate any copies to theraaa.1 (at) gmail dot com
Cheers!
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I hesitate to even post this, but I have no idea what to do. I am from the U.S. I have received an email request from someone who is ostensibly in my area of research who is requesting a copy of an edited book I published, or if not possible, copies of related research articles. The request is from a person in Baquba, Iraq, which is 30 miles from Baghdad outside the Sunni triangle. The person included their mailing address and telephone number. I googled the name and couldn't find anything, which isn't necessarily meaningful. There is a Diyala University in that area. I receive many such requests from countries outside the U.S., and particularly in places where I know things are rough I have honored such requests before, it's not that unusual and I have a few extra copies of my book at my disposal. Here's the issue: I am extremely paranoid about U.S. Homeland Security involvement. First, if I just go off and mail a flat, hard package to Baquba, Iraq to a guy with an Arabic name, I'm sure our local postal authorities will notify Homeland Security and there I am on their radar, if not worse. Second, I thought about calling him directly to check things out. No, a phone call to that area? I'll be wiretapped forever if I'm not already. Third, perhaps it's an NSA/FBI/CIA scam to see if an academic will contact such a person. Fourth, maybe it's some other kind of nefarious scam. I mean, I hate to even have to consider such things, but the environment here now in the U.S. is what I believe rivals a Stalinist police state in some respects, and of course the U.S. can now around up any U.S. citizen for any reason and hold them indefinitely if they are a "terror suspect."
The email comes from a gmail account. I thought about just attaching a couple .pdf's of a couple of my articles, but people in my area would really need to have this book for certain types of research endeavors. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone here has faced a similar situation and, if so, what did you do? And, I can anticipate a few snappy remarks like "Just fucking do it" or "You're too paranoid" or whatever, but spare me that. I mean, I AM posting this note in a public forum, I decided to go ahead and do that. Anyway, it's thanks to the current paranoid political environment that I even had to think about something like this. What if this is a struggling researcher in a war-torn area who is trying to get ahead somehow? It would be a shame if I couldn't help. Thanks for any advice...
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I'm not currently a student or I'd probably be able to get the whole thing somewhere.
:-(
Help?
The Cult Withdrawal Syndrome: A Case of Misattribution of Cause?
by James R. Lewis and David G. Bromley
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1987, 26 (4): 508-522
The abstract is here: http://www.jstor.org/pss/1387101.
My email address is the same as my username here, at yahoo.com.
Thank you in advance!
EDIT: Got it!! Thanks, rymenhild!
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