Wichita State Research Articles

Pressed, and: Objection

Pressed, and: Objection Simone Muench (bio) and Jackie K. White (bio) Pressed On a sheetless mattress, immobile andundone, I was marked for ruin. I drownedin dread, became a stain, a containerof shatter, of "I don't matter." I'm told to muzzle that memory with pillow plush,and smother all the old mouths' carpingas I'm pressed into performance, pushed to playthat old game perfectly. Now, I turn the mouth into spewing glass. The anatomy of a rupture.I burn. I bellow. I say no I say no I say no.This is the season of the scalpel, not nostalgia.This is the year of scraping out hauntings. I said no. Now I shove that ghost into the fold,press back, iron the sheets of my choosing. [End Page 57] Objection Some wept watching Love Connection. Some weptin search of goddesses. Some wept earlyin the year. Some wept later in a novelwith faces reflected in a pool of vodka. Some were warned by lipstick on the glass.Some did the warning by earmarking oddpages. Some whispered the ancient spells,some wrote coded scripts. All were rejected. But some rose saying no longer betweenlightning's flash & clap. Some rose to mistrial.Some rose to file a missing person's report.Some rose & cast curses, mouths licked in spit, fingers unpricked, pointing, eyes untissued,dry and daring, arms tort-wielding: watch this. [End Page 58] Simone Muench Simone Muench is the author of six books, including Wolf Centos (Sarabande, 2014). Her recent, Suture, includes sonnets written with Dean Rader (BLP, 2017). She is an editor of They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (BLP, 2018) and curator, with Kenyatta Rogers, of the HB Sunday Reading Series in Chicago. She serves as faculty advisor for Jet Fuel Review and as a senior poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly. Jackie K. White Sam Taylor is the author of three books of poems, including Body of the World (Ausable/Copper Canyon) Nude Descending an Empire (Pitt Poetry), and The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse (forthcoming, Negative Capability). "White Trash" is an excerpt from The Book of Fools, a book-length experimental elegy for our earth and oceans that marries global, ecological themes of loss to personal, confessional ones. He is an Associate Professor and the Director of the MFA Program at Wichita State. He received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, and his poems have appeared in such journals as The Kenyon Review, AGNI, and The New Republic. <www.samtaylor.us> Copyright © 2020 Pleiades and Pleiades Press

The Good and Bad of Innovation in Emerging Markets

This proposed symposium offers important implications related to the theme of the 2018 Academy of Management meeting, Improving Lives. Innovation in emerging markets has been the topic of many discussions. Innovation can contribute to the economic development of underdeveloped, developing and emerging economies, and even developed countries. For example, innovation can bring more cost effective process of production to reduce the cost of products and services, which can provide a better life for the bottom of the pyramid or any marginalized group of people. Innovation in underdeveloped or developing countries can also allow firms engage in business with other countries that can ultimately bring economic development for the country and potentially move it up the global value chain and to the stage of emerging economy with much larger prospect of development. On the other hand, many have criticized innovation in emerging and developing countries as their inventions are viewed as copying developed country firms’ processes and products, causes of path-dependency and lack of true development and indigenous innovation, cheaper production of such products and services due to factor endowment such as cheaper labor force, and contributor to social and environmental pollution due to lack of integrated institutions. Frugal Innovation from Emerging Market MNCs Presenter: Masud Chand; Wichita State U. Global Innovation Capabilities from Emerging Market: Beyond Reverse Innovation Presenter: Yi Wang; Tsinghua U. Innovation, Rural Economic Development and the Bottom of Pyramid Presenter: Majid Ghorbani; Renmin U. of China Presenter: Liyan Xuan; Renmin U. of China From Value Co-creation to Value Co-destruction? The Case of Dockless Bike Sharing in China Presenter: Juelin Yin; Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool U. Presenter: Lixian Qian; Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool U.

Language learning

Language learning

New and continuing issues with using visible fat classes to estimate fat stores of birds

Journal of Avian BiologyVolume 34, Issue 2 p. 129-133 Free to Read New and continuing issues with using visible fat classes to estimate fat stores of birds Christopher M. Rogers, Christopher M. RogersSearch for more papers by this author Christopher M. Rogers, Christopher M. RogersSearch for more papers by this author First published: 02 July 2003 https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-048X.2003.03223.xCitations: 11 Christopher M. Rogers, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Wichita State Univ., Wichita, KS 67260, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Citing Literature Volume34, Issue2June 2003Pages 129-133 RelatedInformation

Bilingual education/bilingualism

HTML view is not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button. 03–204Bilash, Olenka S. E. (U. of Alberta, Canada). The challenges and successes of developing a literacy community in a minority language in Western Canada: An action research study. Foreign Language Annals (New York, USA), 35, 3 (2002), 307–19.03–205Capirci, Olga (Inst. of Psychology, Nat. Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy; Email: capirci@ip.rm.cnr.it), Iverson, Jana M., Montanari, Sandro and Volterra, Virginia. Gestural, signed and spoken modalities in early language development: The role of linguistic input. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge, UK), 5, 1 (2002), 25–37.03–206Francis, Norbert (Northern Arizona U., USA; Email: norbert.francis@nau.edu). Modular perspectives on bilingualism. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Clevedon, UK), 5, 3 (2002), 141–61.03–207Ghadessy, Mohsen (Zhongshan U., Guangzhou, P. R. China; Email: mghadessy@hotmail.com) and Nicol, Mary. Attitude change in bilingual education: The case of Brunei Darussalam. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Clevedon, UK), 5, 2 (2002), 113–28.03–208Gutiérrez-Clellen, Vera F. (San Diego State U., CA, USA; Email: vclellen@mail.sdsu.edu). Narratives in two languages: Assessing performance of bilingual children. Linguistics and Education (New York, USA), 13, 2 (2002), 175–97.03–209Helot, Christine and Young, Andrea (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France; Emails: christine.helot@alsace.iufm.fr; andrea.young@alsace.iufm.fr). Bilingualism and language education in French primary schools: Why and how should migrant languages be valued? International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Clevedon, UK), 5, 2 (2002), 96–112.03–210Holowka, Siobhan, Brosseau-Lapré, Françoise (McGill U., Canada) and Petitto, Laura Ann (Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, USA; Email: Laura-Ann.Petitto@Dartmouth.edu). Semantic and conceptual knowledge underlying bilingual babies' first signs and words. Language Learning (Malden, MA, USA), 52, 2 (2002), 205–62.03–211Huver, Emmanuelle (Université Nancy 2, France). Quelle scolarisation pour les enfants de migrants? [What kind of schooling do immigrants' children receive?] Mélanges CRAPEL (Nancy, France), 26 (2001), 111–36.03–212Jake, Janice L. (Midlands Tech. Coll., USA; Email: jakej@midlandstech.com), Myers-Scotton, Carol and Gross, Steven. Making a minimalist approach to codeswitching work: Adding the Matrix Language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge, UK), 5, 1 (2002), 69–91.03–213Montrul, Silvina (U. of Illinois at Urbana.Champaign, USA; Email: montrul@uiuc.edu). Incomplete acquisition and attrition of Spanish tense/aspect distinctions in adult bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge, UK), 5, 1 (2002), 39–68.03–214Pavlenko, Aneta (Temple U., Philadelphia, USA). Bilingualism and emotions. Multilingua (Berlin, Germany), 21, 1 (2002), 45–78.03–215Piske, Thorsten (U. of Kiel, Germany), Flege, James Emil, MacKay, lan R. A. and Meador, Diane. The production of English vowels by fluent early and late Italian-English bilinguals. Phonetica (Basel, Switzerland), 59, 1 (2002), 49–71.03–216Silliman, Elaine R. (U. of South Florida, USA; Email: silliman@chuma1.cas.usf.edu), Bahr, Ruth Huntley, Brea, Maria R., Hnath-Chisolm, Theresa and Mahecha, Nancy R. Spanish and English proficiency in the linguistic encoding of mental states in narrative retellings. Linguistics and Education (New York, USA), 13, 2 (2002), 199–234.03–217Tse, Lucy (California State U., Los Angeles, USA; Email: ltse@calstatela.edu). Heritage language literacy: A study of US biliterates. Language, Culture and Curriculum (Clevedon, UK), 14, 3 (2001), 256–68.03–218Uribe de Kellett, Angela (U. of Newcastle, UK). The recovery of a first language: A case study of an English/Spanish bilingual child. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Clevedon, UK), 5, 3 (2002), 162–81.03–219von Studnitz, Roswitha E. and Green, David W. (U. College, London, UK; Email: d.w.green@ucl.ac.uk). Interlingual homograph interference in German-English bilinguals: Its modulation and locus of control. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge, UK), 5, 1 (2002), 1–23.03–220Westby, Carol (Wichita State U., USA; Email: carol-westby@worldnet.at.net), Moore, Celia and Roman, Rosario. Reinventing the enemy's language: Developing narratives in Native American children. Linguistics and Education (New York, USA), 13, 2 (2002), 235–69.03–221Youssef, Valerie (The U. of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago; Email: youssef@carib-lin.net). Issues of bilingual education in the Caribbean: The cases of Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Clevedon, UK), 5, 3 (2002), 182–93.

The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion by Jimmy M. Skaggs

TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 363 habits that humans carried to new environments, and new breeds of plants and animals as purposeful innovations, not mere accidents, Hudson trenchantly illuminates the relationship of technology and culture. The author can be criticized for weighting the southern influence too heavily when he asserts that “there was no significant Yankee influence in creating the region” (p. 103). Instead of awarding credit to either northerners or southerners, one could argue that the Corn Belt’s prosperity is due precisely to the amalgamation of diverse cultures. Indeed, many regions of the Midwest were settled by a mixture of migration streams, where the Yankee store was as important to the region’s economy as the corn and hogs that farmers produced. Finally, although the scope is broad, the dense detail of this specialized monograph at times obscures the underlying argu­ ment. Nevertheless, the book contributes to the new rural history which cares less about technology than the cultures of capitalism. It successfully marries technology and culture to explain the history of the Corn Belt, a core region that has come to symbolize the prosper­ ity of America itself. Susan Sessions Rugh Dr. Rugh is assistant professor of history at St. Cloud State University. She is com­ pleting a book on the role of diverse regional cultures in the making of the midwestern family farm in 19th-century Illinois. The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expan­ sion. By Jimmy M. Skaggs. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Pp. xii+334; notes, appendixes, bibliography, index. $45.00. To 19th-century American manufacturers, there was something profoundly irresistible about the industrial conversion of animal parts into consumer goods. From bone, horn, ivory, and hides to blood, oil, feathers, and hair, the marketplace and the entrepreneur combined to yield an alphabet soup of dry goods from the animal kingdom. Within decades, the synthetic imitations of the 20th cen­ tury supplanted this menagerie, product by product, leaving leather goods as one of our few animal-based industrial product lines. To­ day, combs, piano keys, hats, pillow stuffing, billiard balls, and han­ dles need only imitate certain aspects of the old animal part. NowJimmy Skaggs, professor of economics at Wichita State Uni­ versity, adds the guano trade to our understanding of this robust era of American industrial expansion. Skaggs spends no time embed­ ding bird droppings within the larger narrative of our industrialzoological dependence; he focuses instead on guano as a vivid exam­ ple of American government support and management of the na­ tion’s so-called free-enterprise, open-market system. The bulk of this 364 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE book examines case after case of American businessmen first laying claim to remote, guano-rich rock islands in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, and then seeking official U.S. sanction for private rights to these rich deposits, under the authority of the remarkable Guano Islands Act of 1856. Commercial guano generally has been defined as the dried excre­ ment of sea birds such as gulls, gannets, pelicans, and cormorants. Rich in phosphates, nitrogen, and potassium, ocean guano quickly attracted American farmers as a wonder fertilizer beginning in the 1840s, soon after Peruvian officials began exporting guano from their Pacific Islands. Some deposits were over one hundred feet thick. The near-miraculous ability of guano to replenish exhausted farming soils produced a guano rush, a guano fever, a guano mania, a guano gospel that expired only when guano, too, was replaced by man-made alternatives in the 20th century. The business of acquiring rights to guano-rich islands, and then the difficult process of extracting and shipping the guano, form the basis of the book. Guano’s absence from the historical literature in­ spires Skaggs to use this opportunity to range across every aspect of guanodom but, amazingly, he furnishes not one image of his subject matter or the birds that make it. Skaggs’s main objective, however, is more economic and political than it is technical, as he demon­ strates how guano furnished the basis for American acquisition of the nation’s first foreign lands or “appurtenances.” Senator William H. Seward masterminded an act of Congress in...

SYMMETRIES OF SECTIONAL CURVATURE ON 3-MANIFOLDS

In dimension three, there are only two signatures of metric tensors: Lorentzian and Riemannian. We find the possible pointwise symmetry groups of Lorentzian sectional curvatures considered as rational functions, and determine which can be realized on naturally reductive homogeneous spaces. We also give some examples. MSC (1991): Primary 53C50; Secondary 53B30, 53C30. 1Supported by Project XUGA8050189, Xunta de Galicia, Spain. 2On leave from Math. Dept., Wichita State Univ., Wichita KS 67260, U.S.A., pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu 3Partially supported by DGICYT-Spain.

Neural networks for detecting defects in aircraft structures : Wichita State Univ., KS Inst. for Aviation Research, Kansas (United States), PB91-118760/GAR, 16 pp. (Apr. 1990)

There are various nondestructive testing (NDT) inspection methods, such as, vision, eddy currdent, and ultrasonic, used for crack or corrosion detection of the skin or the structures of aircraft around rivets and fasteners. These methods require a skilled technician to identify the existence of the cracks. Despite the training that a technician goes through, human error is identified to be one of the major contributing factors to problems in the determination of the safety of aircraft. There has been some effort to develop expert systems that can be used by technicians. However, there is currently no expert system developed that can learn and improve its capability as it encounters new situations. In this paper, the authors review the neural network and its possibility for aiding the technician in detecting defects.

Discussion of ‘An objective technique for determining end-member compositions and for partitioning sediments according to their sources.’: Full, W.E., Robert Ehrlich (comment), Margaret Leinen and Nicklas Pisias (reply), 1986. Geochim. cosmochim. Acta, 50(6):1303–1306. Dept. of Geol., Wichita State Univ., Wichita, KS 67208, USA

Discussion of ‘An objective technique for determining end-member compositions and for partitioning sediments according to their sources.’: Full, W.E., Robert Ehrlich (comment), Margaret Leinen and Nicklas Pisias (reply), 1986. Geochim. cosmochim. Acta, 50(6):1303–1306. Dept. of Geol., Wichita State Univ., Wichita, KS 67208, USA

Feminism and World Religions

There are several ways in which teachers might introduce feminist studies into the mainstream of world religions. Perhaps the best way to proceed would be for me to sketch my own teaching efforts (which have criss-crossed the world religions and Christianity), so that the reader will have one fairly full model against which to react. I apologize for the self-advertising this will entail.I began with a dual focus. On the one hand, I was asked to teach a course on “Women and Religion” that would serve a developing Women's Studies program (first at Penn State, then at Wichita State). The program was composed of various “Women and …” courses: “Women and Business,” “Women and the Law,” “The Psychology of Women,” “The Sociology of Women,” etc. On the other hand, I was asked to represent feminist scholarship and feminist interests within my home-base departments of Religious Studies. This meant cross-listing the course on “Women and Religion” as a Religious Studies elective, but also providing for feminist issues in other, usually general courses, such as “Introduction to Religion,” “Christianity,” “Traditional Religion in the Modern World,” and the like.

Touch Football at Wichita State

(1974). Touch Football at Wichita State. Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation: Vol. 45, No. 8, pp. 79-80.