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Discomfort Design: Critical Reflection through Uncomfortable Play
(2014-02-05)Consider that uncomfortable moment in life when people discover a playful experience ceases to be worth playing. Just as an arm is broken on the playground, or a relationship can no longer be mended, there are explicit ... -
The Political Other in Nineteenth-Century British North America : the Satire of Thomas Chandler Haliburton
(2014-02-05)In the first half of the nineteenth century, British North America was trying to find its way within the Empire and in North America. The American democratic and republican experiment offered the Canadian colonies an ... -
Revolution Remixxx 2011: Protest Song Marocaine
(2013-04-04)In late 2010, those of us interested in the Middle East were surprised by persistent protests in Tunisia. My family and I were evacuated from Cairo on February 2, 2011. I returned to Egypt on February 13, and a week later, ... -
The “Crossing Borders” Program: Increasing Intercultural Competency Via Structured Social Interactions
(2013-04-04)Increasing diversity in American college classrooms and recent trends toward globalization require professors to teach more creatively in order to encourage students’ face-to-face intercultural interactions and resulting ... -
An Orthodox Social Gospel in Late-Imperial Russia
(2013-04-04)On Sunday morning, 9 January 1905, 150,000 workers and their families marched from various parts of St. Petersburg and converged upon the Winter Palace to present a “Most Loyal and Humble Address” to tsar Nicholas II asking ... -
Counterfactual-seeking: The scenic overlook of the road not taken
(2011-07-25)Decision-makers faced with an opportunity to learn the outcome of a foregone alternative must balance anticipated regret, should that information be unfavorable, with the potential benefits of this information in reducing ... -
Understanding breast-cancer patients’ perceptions: Health information-seeking behaviour and passive information receipt
(2011-06-07)It is critical to understand patients’ information use from the patient perspective, especially when patients are from different cultures and levels of health literacy. A cross-sectional survey supplemented with ... -
Post–Breast Cancer Lymphedema and the Family: A Qualitative Investigation of Families Coping With Chronic Illness
(2011-06-07)The number of women who experience breast cancer is increasing. Meanwhile there have been improvements in technologies used for detection and intervention. As a result, more women are living as breast cancer survivors who ... -
Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: Implications for Family Leisure Participation
(2011-06-07)An estimated 20% of breast cancer survivors face the chronic condition of breast cancer related lymphedema. This study explored the ways in which women with this condition experienced changes in their participation in ... -
Women's literacy in Old Russia: hypotheses and facts
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Writing The Woman’s Documentary Voice in Perestroika Gulag Narratives
(2011-05-10)A substantial body of fictional and factual literature discusses labor camps, imprisonment, and exile as aspects of Russian culture both before and after 1917. However, while the Thaw opened public discussion of the Gulag, ... -
Publishing the Russian Soul? Women’s Provincial Literary Anthologies, 1990-1995
(2011-05-10)From 1990 to 1995 four collections of women’s writing appeared in northwestern Russia: Mariia (two volumes: one issued in 1990 and the other in 1995), Zhena, kotoraia umela letat’ (The Wife Who Could Fly, 1993), and Russkaia ... -
Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Literature of Tolerance
(2011-05-04)When Liudmila Ulitskaia published The Funeral Party in 1997 the novella received the critical scrutiny warranted by the latest work of an already prominent figure in postSoviet letters. The plot, set in New York in the ... -
Writing the Urals: Permanence and Ephemerality in Ol'ga Slavnikova’s 2017
(2011-05-04)Ol'ga Slavnikova’s novel 2017 (Vagrius, 2006) made her the second woman to win Russia’s coveted Booker Prize, garnering conflicting critical responses in the process. Many hurried to label the narrative a dystopia: 2017’s ... -
Regret and behavior: comment on Zeelenberg and Pieters
(2011-05-04)Zeelenberg and Pieter's (2007) regret regulation theory 1.0 offers a synthesis that brings together concepts spanning numerous literatures. We have no substantive disagreement with their theory, but instead offer 3 ... -
Rush of regret: a longitudinal analysis of naturalistic regrets
(2011-04-07)The current research examines immediate regrets occurring at the time of a meaningful life outcome to better understand influences on real-life regrets. This research used a longitudinal approach to examine both initial ... -
Repetitive regret, depression, and anxiety: findings from a nationally representative survey
(2011-04-07)Past research has established a connection between regret (negative emotions connected to cognitions about how past actions might have achieved better outcomes) and both depression and anxiety. in the present ...