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Historical Sex Work: New Contributions from History and Archaeology
(`) Smith, Angela J. (Angela Jeannine); Fellows, Kristen R.
Vice districts, saloons, and prostitution are things of HBO series set in the West. And yet, the actual people who inhabited these roles and places had real effects on their communities. Melvina Massey, an African American brothel owner who lived in Fargo and ran one of the city’s most notable establishments between the 1880s and 1911, serves as a case study through which to examine the history and larger impacts of those living on the fringes of society. After students in Dr. Angela Smith’s public history class first discovered Madam Massey in the local archives, Smith continued to look for more in-depth biographical data that would help shed light on broader historical patterns. Dr. Kristen Fellows, a historical archaeologist with research interests in race, gender, and the African Diaspora, joined the research team in 2014 and added an anthropological approach to the mix. Their collaboration has resulted in an exhibit on the red-light district in Fargo (2017) and an edited volume on the topic of historical sex work (2020) which includes chapters on Massey and her brothel. This talk will focus on Massey, but also on recent advances in the history and archaeology of historical sex work.
Search Terms Up for Debate: The Politics and Purpose of Library Subject Headings
Gross, Tina
The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) are used by most libraries in the United States to help users find resources in their collections. For the last century, librarians have worked to make LCSH more inclusive and accurate by replacing offensive or racist terms with language that more fully reflects the identities and experiences of diverse populations. This article explains the purpose and function of subject headings and discusses the process by which they are continually updated. The main emphasis of the article is the history of debates and advocacy associated with that process, with a particular focus on the long campaign to change the former subject heading "Illegal aliens."
At Lightning Speed? The Recent Surge of Long-Needed Changes to LCSH
Gross, Tina
In the past few years, changes to longstanding problematic (dehumanizing, pejorative, marginalizing) Library of Congress Subject Headings are being made at an unprecedented rate. Particularly since the "lightning rod" of the urgency of changing the subject heading "Illegal aliens" galvanized the library world in 2016, so many have been changed recently that it's actually hard to keep up! This presentation gives a quick overview of newly created & changed subject headings, subject headings are still unchanged & needed headings that are still lacking, and changes currently in progress (as of March 2023).
Disability Inclusion in Service Provision and Web Accessibility
(10/13/2022) Park, Kwangsoo
This research examined the effect of human elements of service inclusion at a service encounter on the consumers’ perception and behavioral intentions. The results from an experiential design model indicate that an inclusive service environment for persons with disabilities elicits positive perception, attitude, and behavioral intentions by consumers without disabilities. There was a significant interaction between hospitableness and expertise. In high hospitableness condition, consumers without disabilities who observed a service employee with an expertise showed the higher degree of gratitude and favorable word of mouth than those who didn’t observe the expertise of the service employee. Especially, it is notable that expertise (i.e., disability etiquette) plays a significant role in eliciting higher degrees of evaluation and willingness to reward.
Inclusion or Exclusion? Varieties of Americanization in the Early 20th Century
(10/20/2021) Blankenship, Anne M.
At the turn of the twentieth century, millions of southern Italians and Eastern Europeans entered the United States. Their presence alarmed most Americans, not least their Catholic and Jewish co-religionists. By the late 1800's, Irish Catholics and German Jews had gained tentative acceptance within American society, and many felt that these new immigrants with their Old World dress, language, religious practices, and food threatened that status. Thus bean concerted campaigns of Americanization, one white Protestants supported as well. This presentation explores how their differing definitions of Americanization coincided or clashed and the closely related role of religion.
Health Insurance in Rural America: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis
(11/19/2022) Nganje, William Evange, 1966-
The cost of rural health continues to be high in the United States despite an overall improvement in national health insurance enrolment. Stakeholder’s perception of adverse selection remains a culprit in the challenges of rural insurance markets. Risk attitude has been revealed as an alternative for measuring this phenomenon, given the 2014 prohibition law on pre-existing conditions and a subsequent repeal in 2018 accompanied by extensive debate in congress. We examine the existence of adverse selection in rural insurance markets by comparing the effects of pre-existing or chronic health conditions and risk attitudes in a Principal-Agent model.
Social Justice: Identifying Attributes, Antecedents and Consequences Through a Multidisciplinary Literature Review
(12/7/2021) Buettner-Schmidt, Kelly Patricia
"Social justice is a matter of life and death" (WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health). How do you define and describe social justice? Is social justice a process, a product, or both? Is it easier to describe social justice or social injustice? A broad multidisciplinary review of literature within and outside of the health-related literature resulted in the identification of social justice's attributes, antecedents, and consequences and provided clarification of the concept of social justice. A synthesized definition of social justice was developed. This presentation provides a baseline for a conversation on the meaning and implications of social justice and injustice in today's world.
Health Effects on the #MeToo Movement by Gender: Public Health Implications of a Social Movement
(2/23/2022) Huseth, Andrea (Andrea Huseth-Zosel); Larson, Mary F. D. (Mary Frances); Nelson, Kjersten R., 1978-; Talcott, Megan
In October 2017, those who had experienced sexual harassment and assault commanded attention by posting their experiences with the hashtag “#metoo.” This movement built off Tarana Burke’s advocacy efforts beginning in 2007, and these posts were soon ubiquitous, with survivors sharing very personal and painful experiences. The ubiquity of these posts could have various impacts on those who read them, from empowerment to pain. In a recent study, we examine the health impacts of encountering the #metoo movement, particularly examining how outcomes vary based on an individual’s experience with sexual harassment. We find differences by the gender of respondent in both negative and positive health outcomes, depending on the respondent’s experience with sexual harassment. Public health strategies for preventing sexual harassment are discussed.
Life and Politics on the US-Mexico Border
(2/25/2020) Wing, Heath
Although national borders elicit geopolitical notions, in the 21st century borders are about people—their movements and migrations. In today’s terms, borders mark the point where politics and life converge, and are, therefore, biopolitical spaces. Nowhere is this truer than the U.S-Mexico border, where the precarious nature of life is codified and regulated by state power. This talk will address U.S. border policies and practices as they relate to life, [il]legality, and politics.
Assessing Nitrogen Contamination Potential via Remote Sensing
(North Dakota State University, 2002) Seelig, Bruce; Beard, Larry W.; Mita, Dath
A remote sensing-based cropland layer (CDL) was included in a group of natural and anthropogenic factors to assess the potential for nitrogen contamination of groundwater in Dickey County, North Dakota. The CDL, produced by the Spatial Analysis Research Section, USDA, NASS and the Cooperative Extension Service, NDSU, was used to determine areas of cultivation, corn or potatoes, and summer fallow. ARCVIEW was used to import the CDL image of North Dakota for 1998. The image was converted to a grid and clipped to the appropriate area of assessment. Compared to natural factors, many of the anthropogenic factors are subject to considerable change over time. Consequently, land use information from one season was modified using the ARCVIEW neighborhood statistics function to provide an estimate of land use probability. Mean values were calculated for areas of 1/2 mile radius with respect to cultivation, potatoes or corn, and summer fallow. These values were used to classify areas as low, intermediate, or high probability for these types of land use. The three land use probability layers were used in combination with other factors to determine groundwater sensitivity to nitrogen contamination.
Work Makes Life Sweet, or Does It?
(North Dakota State University, 2003) Lindgren, H. Elaine
Estimating Potential for Nutrient Delivery to Surface Water Resources in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2003) Seelig, Bruce
The relationship between nutrients and water resources may be described in terms of availability, mobility, and accessibility. There are many factors that influence nutrient behavior in the environment and their interrelationships may be complex. Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are the main plant nutrients that warrant concern with respect to surface water systems. Elevated concentrations of these nutrients contribute to eutrophication of streams and lakes. In many ways nitrogen and phosphorus work in tandem with respect to plant growth. The nutrient of least availability will limit plant growth. In aquatic systems it is generally recognized that an N to P weight ratio of approximately 10 is an indication of nutrient balance (Forsberg, 1980; Thomann and Mueller, 1987). N to P ratios less than 10 indicate N limitation, while greater than 10 indicate P limitation. The limiting nutrient will control biotic growth. In the northern prairies both N and P limited aquatic systems have been observed (Shubert, 1980; German et al., 1991). The impacts of nutrients on the trophic status of surface water in the northern prairies may be dependent on the status of either N or P and may vary with the season (German et al., 1991). The potential for either N or P to contribute to surface water degradation may be estimated by accounting for those factors that are most influential in determining nutrient behavior in the northern prairies.
Enabling Mobile Commerce through Pervasive Communications with Ubiquitous RF Tags
(2003) Bridgelall, Raj; Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
For many years we’ve heard of the existence of a wonderful new technology called radio frequency identification (RFID) that allows supermarket items to be checked out without human intervention. Advertisements claim that this technology will be able to locate our keys and spectacles when we lose them around the house - all for pennies. Although technologists amongst us widely recognize this as very early marketing hype, we also admit to having recently witnessed strong evidence that underlying RFID tag performance and cost are fast approaching these initially very optimistic expectations. The future success of mobile commerce or m-commerce will depend on a pervasive communications infrastructure that provides both seamless roaming and automatic object identification. In this paper, we identify key factors that will enable future pervasive deployment of RFID tag and communications technology, thereby leading to the acceleration of applications for m-commerce. For each of these key factors, we provide a summary of the existing impediments and propose potential solutions.
Energy Efficiency of CSMA Protocols for Wireless Packet Switched Networks
(2004) Bridgelall, Raj; Chan, Douglas S.; Berger, Toby; Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
The finite battery power in wireless portable computing devices is a motivating factor for developing energy efficient wireless network technologies. This paper investigates energy efficiency, relating it to throughput and packet delay for both non-persistent and p-persistent CSMA, two protocols popularly applied in current wireless networks; for example, the widely adopted IEEE 802.11 WLAN standards are based on p-persistent CSMA. For high message generation by the members of a finite population, we find that non-persistent CSMA is optimized for energy efficiency, throughput and delay are impacted negatively, whereas p-persistent CSMA can effectively optimize all three with the same network settings. Our results help illuminate the suitability of each CSMA scheme for various wireless environments and applications.
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Capstone Course Evolution at North Dakota State University
(American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2005) Bon, Tom A.; Kucera, Henry L.
The approach to the department's capstone design course has changed considerably since the 1960s. The general evolution of the course has proceeded from extended laboratory exercises to individuals working on self-defined projects to team-based projects. Interactions between the capstone course and other courses have been attempted with varying success. This paper presents the development of the NDSU Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department' s capstone course and thoughts on possible future modifications to the course.
Introducing a Micro-Wireless Architecture for Business Activity Sensing
(2008) Bridgelall, Raj; Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
RFID performance deficiencies discovered in recent high profile applications have highlighted the danger of selecting only passive tags for an application because of their lowest cost relative to other types of RFID tags. Consequentially, battery-based RFID technologies are being considered to fill those performance gaps. A mix of both passive and battery-based RFID technologies can provide a more cost effective and robust solution than a homogeneous RFID deployment. However, it is easy to choose the wrong battery-based RFID technology given the confusing array of choices currently available. This paper explores the performance deficiencies of both passive and battery-based RFID technologies. A new micro-wireless technology that resolves these performance deficiencies is then introduced. Finally an application example is presented that demonstrates how the new technology can also seamlessly roam between passive and battery-based RFID infrastructures at the lowest possible cost to bridge their respective performance gaps.
E-portfolios: Wordpress and Scribd
(North Dakota State University, 2009) Brooks, Kevin
This presentation provides a brief overview of the value of portfolios (collections of student writings, in this case) in general, and electronic portfolios specifically. It then walks attendees through an approach to e-portfolios that combines Wordpress, Scribd, and SlideShare (with a nod to YouTube), demonstrating how an e-portfolio via WordPress can successfully present multiple document formats (Word, PDF, PPT, even Video) through a single, unified, interface.
Simple cell response properties imply receptive field structure: balanced Gabor and/or bandlimited field functions [Supplement]
(North Dakota State University, 2009) McCourt, Mark E.; Blakeslee, B.; Cope, Davis
The classical receptive fields of simple cells in mammalian primary visual cortex demonstrate three cardinal response properties: 1) they do not respond to stimuli which are spatially homogeneous; 2) they respond best to stimuli in a preferred orientation (direction); and 3) they do not respond to stimuli in other, non-preferred orientations (directions). We refer to these as the Balanced Field Property, the Maximum Response Direction Property, and the Zero Response Direction Property, respectively. These empirically-determined response properties are used to derive a complete characterization of elementary receptive field functions defined as products of a circularly symmetric weight function and a simple periodic carrier. Two disjoint classes of elementary receptive field functions result: the balanced Gabor class, a generalization of the traditional Gabor filter, and a bandlimited class whose Fourier transforms have compact support (i.e., are zero-valued outside of a bounded range). The detailed specification of these two classes of receptive field functions from empirically-based postulates may prove useful to neurophysiologists seeking to test alternative theories of simple cell receptive field structure, and to computational neuroscientists seeking basis functions with which to model human vision.
Provision of Medication Therapy Management to University Faculty and Staff Members by Third-year Pharmacy Students
(2010) Eukel, Heidi N.; Skoy, Elizabeth T.; Frenzel, Jeanne Elizabeth
Objective. To develop and implement a medication therapy management (MTM) curriculum and assess students’ skills and attitudes after the provision of MTM services to faculty and staff members.
Preparing Texts for Translation
(North Dakota State University, 2010) Maylath, Bruce
Tips on how to make your writing more understandable to translators, along with reasons why it's important to do so.

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