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Appendix B: Survey of Urban Habits

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This survey was developed by Jo Novelli-Blasko at The Habitorium, in collaboration with Blagovesta Momchedjikova and Jorge de La Barre records urban habits. It was used to gather contributions to Streetnotes 31: An Anthology of Urban Habits.

An Anthology of Urban Habits

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Streetnotes 31, "An Anthology of Urban Habits" collects and showcases responses from "The Survey of Urban Habits" (see Appendix B) developed by Jo Novelli-Blasko at the Habitorium, in collaboration with Blagovesta Momchedjikova and Jorge de La Barre. The volume explores urban habits as repeated activities and behaviors that respond to and interact with urban environments. It asks: How do bodies shape the city through habit? Whose body can express a habit, where, when, and how? How does the body habitually sense a city? How does the body incorporate the city through habit? When and where does the body habituate to the infrastructure of a city? In keeping with the mission of Streetnotes, it invites readers to experiment with poetics of documentary as they pay attention to habitual behavior in the city.

Cross-Linguistic Variation and Efficiency

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This book argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence for these comes from languages permitting structural choices from which selections are made in performance, e.g. between competing word orders and between relative clauses with a resumptive pronoun versus a gap. The preferences and patterns of performance within languages are reflected in the fixed conventions and variation patterns across grammars, leading to a ‘‘Performance–Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis.’’ The general theory that is laid out in Hawkins’s Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars (OUP) is extended and updated. New areas of grammar and of performance are discussed, new research findings are incorporated that test Hawkins’s earlier predictions, and new advances in the contributing fields of language processing, linguistic theory, historical linguistics, and typology are addressed. This efficiency approach...

Table of Contents An Anthology of Urban Habits. Streetnotes 31.

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

List of contributions in An Anthology of Urban Habits.

Border Biomes: Ecological Imaginaries of Mexico's Edges

Fri, 8 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What effect do heavily fortified national borders have on the natural environments that surround them? In Border Biomes, Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez explores this question by analyzing contemporary Mexican, Latinx, and Indigenous literature that has tried to highlight the human and ecological toll of Mexico’s borders with the United States and Guatemala. By challenging the very premise of borders as permanent, immovable boundaries, she shows how novelists and poets in Mexico and the United States have tried to represent and understand the vast social, political, and ecological harm caused by these constructions. She argues that the environmental destruction that borders create is inseparable from state‑sanctioned, anti‑immigrant racial violence. To do this, she structures the book around three main biomes: rivers, deserts, and forests. Within each chapter, Vázquez Enríquez considers how authors such as Dolores Dorantes, Natalie Diaz, and Ofelia Zepeda have drawn...

Migration: The Biology of Life on the Move (Second Edition)

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Migration is a dramatic behaviour distinct from other movements. It is an important component of life histories of biodiverse organisms including terrestrial and marine vertebrates, insects, many invertebrates, and the propagules of some plants. This sequel discusses migration across a wide range of groups and species drawing comparisons to illuminate migratory life cycles and their evolution. It takes an integrative approach to migration as a physiological and behavioural phenomenon with important ecological consequences. Part I defines migration in relation to other movements, provides examples, and includes an updated chapter on recent results from newly developed electronic tracking and other methods. Part II surveys proximate mechanisms including physiology, morphology, constraints, the use of winds and currents, and new discoveries regarding the ability to orient and navigate. Part III on the evolution of migratory life histories is the longest section of the book. It...

Clay minerals and related aluminosilicate adsorbents as feed additives incalves: a scoping review protocol

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Clay minerals and related aluminosilicate adsorbents as feed additives incalves: a scoping review protocol

Identifying COVID-19 Related Concern Patterns: A Mixed-Methods Study of Vaccine Decision-Making in Zambia

Fri, 3 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Vaccination is one of the most effective public health strategies, yet concerns about vaccine safety, and mistrust in institutions influenced acceptance in Zambia, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic. This practicum examined how adults in Lusaka Province, Zambia prioritize COVID-19 vaccine concerns and how these concerns shape willingness to accept other novel vaccines. Using the COVID-19 Best-Worst Scaling (BWS) dataset, this project identified five distinct concern profiles that reflect different patterns of beliefs, motivations, and information needs. A focused literature search identified 14 relevant sources provided context for understanding vaccine hesitancy in the country. Descriptive analyses showed meaningful differences in demographic variables across profiles. Regression analyses demonstrated that some profiles were less likely to express high intention to accept future vaccines, even after accounting for demographic and behavioral factors. These findings indicate...

An OER and Accessibility for the Regional Teaching Academy Sharing Group

Tue, 3 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

An OER and Accessibility for the Regional Teaching Academy Sharing Group

Final report on the Material Selection Pilot from the Google Books Partners Working Group on Material Selection and Collection Development

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Final report on the Material Selection Pilot from the Google Books Partners Working Group on Material Selection and Collection Development

Descriptional survey results of student use of AI for research in the classroom

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Student learning and the use of AI is a new challenge to educators. This presentation by health science librarian, Erik Fausak and writing lecturer, Brendan Johnston, explores AI‚Äôs potential in finding research, testing clinical questions, and extracting relevant data. There is already research on the benefits of using AI to augment or supplement the health science writing of experts. But how useful is it to introduce the nascent technology to novice researchers and writers in the classroom? We aim to test students' critical appraisal of the uses and potential pitfalls of AI in the research and writing process. While the preliminary reaseach and approach were presented at SITT 2024, these are the results of a student survey administered in the class.

Presentation was for UC Davis Scholarship in Teaching and Learning Conference, 5 December 2025 at ARC Ballroom. Davis, CA 95616

"Flipped classroom" model's impact on Knowledge retention. from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) 2021. Reconnecting the SoTL community.

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

There is evidence that “flipped classroom” models result in improved learning outcomes. “Flipped classrooms” are where lecture content is provided prior to class sessions, often in the form of short instructional videos so active learning exercises can be practiced in class. The aim of this assessment is to identify if “flipped classroom” instruction results in improved retention for future recall.

Main Findings

A voluntary quiz used to measure student retention of knowledge a year after initial flipped classroom instruction shows promising improvement from lecture-based instruction. Overall, greater improvements of scores can be consistently seen in the flipped classroom group compared (average scores 80% and 78% in 2020 and 2021, respectively) to the lecture-based group (average score 72%). Average scores were highest with the largest sample group the first...

Literaturmagazin (Rowohlt): An Index

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Literaturmagazin (Rowohlt): An Index

The Aesthetic Character of Blackness: Sounds Like Us

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In The Aesthetic Character of Blackness, Jemma DeCristo theorizes the means by which black art liberates the free world but does not and cannot liberate black people. Drawing on Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke and as well as the aesthetic thought of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Theodor Adorno, DeCristo critiques the exaltation of black culture and art’s saving power by analyzing the violence underneath aesthetic production. She tracks black music’s representational and anti-representational capacities in projects of black non/humanization from nineteenth-century abolitionism and the founding of the recording industry to the emergence of black queer blues performers and the rise of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Theorizing the contemporary neoliberalization of black audio-visual spectacle, DeCristo ultimately demonstrates that the voluptuous world of black aesthetics beautifies an anti-black world that wields...

The Quest for Liberation: Philosophy and the Making of World Culture in China and the West

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used classical Chinese philosophy as an alternative intellectual genealogy to reimagine ethics, politics, society, and modernity for the entire world. Their engagement with Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism broadens the scope of global intellectual history to include a non-European origin of concepts and ideas.Due to the differences in their local crises, the Chinese and the European stories are often narrated in separate national and cultural contexts. Bridging the critical divide between China and the West, The Quest for Liberation examines the thinkers’ shared interest in Chinese philosophy and their common effort to envision a world culture other than Western modernity.Breaking with the common logic of either studying the reception and adaptation of Western ideas in the East...

Characterizing masticatory motion of dogs using optical and electromagnetic motion tracking

Mon, 4 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction: Accurate knowledge of masticatory motion across a variety of food materials is essential for ex-vivo testing and simulation of the food-teeth interaction. Yet, the masticatory motion has never been fully characterized in the domestic dog (Canis lupus), limiting our ability for ex-vivo modelling. Objective: The aim of this study was to characterize masticatory motion among a variety of different foods in beagle dogs using optical and electromagnetic motion tracking. Results: We confirmed that the masticatory pattern in the beagle is a hinge motion with no clinically meaningful horizontal motion of the mandible. The mouth opening was not significantly difference among different food and treat types regardless of food stiffness and force to fracture of the food, with a mean and standard deviation of 2.51  ±  0.33 (range 1.93-2.95) cm between the canine teeth during chewing. Conversely, frequency of chewing was influenced by food type, with kibbles...

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variant Infection Dynamics and Pathogenesis in Transgenic K18-hACE2 and Inbred Immunocompetent C57BL/6J Mice

Mon, 4 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), persists in part due to the emergence of new variants. Understanding variant-specific infection dynamics and pathogenesis in murine models is crucial for identifying phenotypic changes and guiding the development of countermeasures. To address the limitations of earlier studies that investigated only a few variants or used small sample sizes, we evaluated clinical disease, infection kinetics, viral titers, cellular localization, and histopathologic changes in the lungs and brains of transgenic B6.Cg-Tg(K18-ACE2)2Prlmn/J ("K18") and corresponding genetic control (C57BL/6J) mice expressing human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (hACE2). Six SARS-CoV-2 variants were assessed: B.1 (WA1-like), alpha, beta, delta, omicron, and omicron XBB.1.5, using cohorts of ≥18 mice. Following intranasal inoculation with B.1, alpha, beta, or delta variants, K18 mice experienced...

One Health clinic challenges and evolution: increasing access to care for people and pets in a rural community in Northern California

Mon, 4 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A student-run, free One Health clinic (OHC) improves access to care for people and pets while providing increased training opportunities for interprofessional students in the areas of spectrum of care, contextualized care, cultural humility, ethical community engagement, and relationship-centered communication when clinical instruction is provided. The coordination and implementation of a community-based student-run free clinic (SRFC) that is also an OHC is complex. Programmatic challenges can include coordination with the leaders of multiple training programs, seasonal variation of student and clinical instructor schedules, and the need to balance student experiential learning with positive client and patient outcomes. Internal evaluations of the clinic's scope of care, patient and provider safety, and student preparedness has led to the development of policies and procedures that consider both student training and the client-patient experience. Widening the OHC provider and...

Skin microbiomes of frogs vary among body regions, revealing differences that reflect known patterns of chytrid infection

Mon, 4 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction: The amphibian skin microbiome is an important line of defense against pathogens including the deadly chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). Bd is known to preferentially infect ventral skin surfaces and feet of host amphibians, often leaving dorsal surfaces like the back uninfected. Within-individual variation in infection distribution across the skin, therefore, may relate to differences in microbiomes among skin regions. However, microbiome heterogeneity within amphibian individuals remains poorly characterized. Methods: We utilized 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing to compare microbiomes of 10 body regions from nine captive Rana sierrae individuals and their tank environments. These individuals were naive to Bd, allowing us to assess whether microbiomes differed among body regions prior to any impacts that may be caused by infection. Results: We found that frog skin and tank environments harbored distinct microbial communities. On frog skin, the...

Distribution of early-branching Cyanobacteriia and the potential habitats that gave rise to the earliest oxygenic phototrophs

Mon, 4 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis in the Cyanobacteria was one of the most transformative events in Earth history, eventually leading to the oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere. However, it is difficult to understand how the earliest Cyanobacteria functioned or evolved on early Earth in part because we do not understand their ecology, including the environments in which they lived. Here, we use a cutting-edge bioinformatics tool to survey nearly 500,000 metagenomes for relatives of the taxa that likely bookended the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis to identify the modern environments in which these organisms live. Ancestral state reconstruction suggests that the common ancestors of these organisms lived in terrestrial (soil and/or freshwater) environments. This restricted distribution may have increased the lag between the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis and the oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere.IMPORTANCECyanobacteria generate oxygen as part of their metabolism...

Differential effects of multiplex and uniplex affiliative relationships on biomarkers of inflammation.