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Dialogues on the Delta: Approaches to the City of Stockton
Martín Camps
This collection of essays examines the city of Stockton, California from an interdisciplinary perspective. Stockton is in the heart of the Central Valley, an agricultural region that comprises a diverse population and rich history. This book covers the economic downturn of the city that was ground zero for the housing market crisis during the Great Recession, which resulted in it becoming the first major American city to declare bankruptcy. Nevertheless, the city cannot be framed only on its economic misfortunes; Stockton has a vibrant community with important historical figures such as Martín Ramírez, an outsider painter who was a patient in the Stockton State Hospital. This book also covers topics such as food studies, religious communities, historical resources at the library at the University of the Pacific, business community programs such as “Puentes”, an overview of the city’s racial diversity, auto-ethnographies, the family connection to Mexican author Elena Poniatowska, and a program at the Stockton High School during WWII to send jeeps as part of the war effort. This book is informed by the perspectives of historians, sociologists, political scientists, economists, business scholars, and literary and cultural studies theorists to provide a wide range of approaches to a vital community in the Central Valley of California.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the New Music Industry
Keith Hatschek
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the New Music Industry offers inspiration and high level advice to any musician or performer striving to successfully juggle the creative and business expertise necessary to thrive in today’s music industry.
The book’s 70-plus articles provide a wealth of practical advice to the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) musician. It is written by Keith Hatschek, who has spent four decades in the music industry, with contributions from eleven other industry experts. The book is organized into two sections, “Creative Activities” explores various aspects of popular music performance including recording, songwriting, and getting gigs. It also offers useful advice on how to market and promote your music to a global audience in the Internet age.
The second section, “Making a Living,” covers the ins and outs of the business of music, including successful fan funding models, how to maximize earnings from your original songs, music copyright essentials, musician’s health and wellness, industry trends, career tips and how to leverage radio and videos to gain more fans. For those wishing to advance their chances of making it in music, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the New Music Industry offers an indispensable handbook on what’s necessary to reach the top. -
Historical Dictionary of the American Music Industry
Keith Hatschek and Veronica Wells
The US music industry is an exciting, fast-paced, marketplace which brings together creative and business interests to connect artists with audiences. This book traces the history of the music industry from the Colonial era to the present day, identifying trends and the innovative leaders who have shaped its course. This volume embraces the diversity of the American music industry, spanning classical to country and hip hop to heavy metal.
Historical Dictionary of the American Music Industry contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes that provide a comprehensive directory of college music business programs and a listing of all relevant music industry trade associations, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important artists, managers, companies, industry terminology and significant trade associations. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the business of music.
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The Stockton Challenge: Surviving the Misery of the Great Recession
Marcia D. Hernandez
This collection of essays examines the city of Stockton, California from an interdisciplinary perspective. Stockton is in the heart of the Central Valley, an agricultural region that comprises a diverse population and rich history. This book covers the economic downturn of the city that was ground zero for the housing market crisis during the Great Recession, which resulted in it becoming the first major American city to declare bankruptcy. Nevertheless, the city cannot be framed only on its economic misfortunes; Stockton has a vibrant community with important historical figures such as Martín Ramírez, an outsider painter who was a patient in the Stockton State Hospital. This book also covers topics such as food studies, religious communities, historical resources at the library at the University of the Pacific, business community programs such as “Puentes”, an overview of the city’s racial diversity, auto-ethnographies, the family connection to Mexican author Elena Poniatowska, and a program at the Stockton High School during WWII to send jeeps as part of the war effort. This book is informed by the perspectives of historians, sociologists, political scientists, economists, business scholars, and literary and cultural studies theorists to provide a wide range of approaches to a vital community in the Central Valley of California.
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Found in Translation: Essays on Jewish Biblical Translation in Honor of Leonard J. Greenspoon
Joel N. Lohr, James W. Barker, and Anthony Le Donne
This book is both a themed volume on translation and a Festschrift for Leonard J. Greenspoon, the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor in Jewish Civilization and professor of classical and near Eastern studies and of theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Professor Greenspoon has made significant contributions to the study of Jewish biblical translations, particularly the ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, known as the Septuagint. In this volume, an internationally renowned group of scholars presents a wide range of essays on Bible translation, the influence of culture on biblical translation, Bible translations’ reciprocal influence on culture, and the translation of various Jewish texts and collections, especially the Septuagint.
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Industry Transformation
Tammy Madsen and Dara Szyliowicz
During an industry’s evolution, events endogenous or exogenous to the industry may disrupt its development and trigger a period of transformation. A transformation period generally evolves through stages: an era of ferment followed by convergence towards a new, relatively stable structure. Industries, however, vary in the pace and severity of the transformation process. Because the way firms compete is altered after transformation begins, incumbents and entrants encounter strategic challenges that differ from those that incumbents faced pre-transformation. Thus, understanding how different sources and patterns of transformation influence competitive heterogeneity is an important line of inquiry in strategy.
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The Realm of Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) Computing
Vivek K. Pallipuram and Jinzhu Gao
The goal of the chapter is to introduce the upper-level Computer Engineering/Computer Science undergraduate (UG) students to general-purpose graphical processing unit (GPGPU) computing. The specific focus of the chapter is on GPGPU computing using the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) C framework due to the following three reasons: (1) Nvidia GPUs are ubiquitous in high-performance computing, (2) CUDA is relatively easy to understand versus OpenCL, especially for UG students with limited heterogeneous device programming experience, and (3) CUDA experience simplifies learning OpenCL and OpenACC. The chapter consists of nine pedagogical sections with several active-learning exercises to effectively engage students with the text. The chapter opens with an introduction to GPGPU computing. The chapter sections include: (1) Data parallelism; (2) CUDA program structure; (3) CUDA compilation flow; (4) CUDA thread organization; (5) Kernel: Execution configuration and kernel structure; (6) CUDA memory organization; (7) CUDA optimizations; (8) Case study: Image convolution on GPUs; and (9) GPU computing: The future. The authors believe that the chapter layout facilitates effective student-learning by starting from the basics of GPGPU computing and then leading up to the advanced concepts. With this chapter, the authors aim to equip students with the necessary skills to undertake graduate-level courses on GPU programming and make a strong start with undergraduate research.
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Biomaterials in Mechano-oncology: Means to Tune Materials to Study
Shelly R. Peyton, Maria Gencoglu, Sualyneth Galarza, and Alyssa D. Schwartz
ECM stiffness is emerging as a prognostic marker of tumor aggression or potential for relapse. However, conflicting reports muddle the question of whether increasing or decreasing stiffness is associated with aggressive disease. This chapter discusses this controversy in more detail, but the fact that tumor stiffening plays a key role in cancer progression and in regulating cancer cell behaviors is clear. The impact of having in vitro biomaterial systems that could capture this stiffening during tumor evolution is very high. These cell culture platforms could help reveal the mechanistic underpinnings of this evolution, find new therapeutic targets to inhibit the cross talk between tumor development and ECM stiffening, and serve as better, more physiologically relevant platforms for drug screening.
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Rethinking Environmental Impact Assessment in Guatemalan Mining
Rachael Salcido, Karrigan Bork, Julie A. Davies, and Blake Nordahl
Rachael E. Salcido, Rethinking Environmental Impact Assessment, in From Extraction to Emancipation Development Reimagined 71 (Raquel Aldana & Steven W. Bender, eds., Carolina Academic Press 2018).
Karrigan Bork, Community-Based Biomonitoring: An Antidote to Insufficient Governmental Water Quality Monitoring and Enforcement, in From Extraction to Emancipation Development Reimagined 93 (Raquel Aldana & Steven W. Bender, eds., Carolina Academic Press 2018).
Julie Davies, The Impact of Mining on Self-Determination of Rural Guatemalan Communities, in From Extraction to Emancipation Development Reimagined 153 (Raquel Aldana & Steven W. Bender, eds., Carolina Academic Press 2018).
Blake Nordahl, A Migration Story from the Sugar Fields of Southwest Guatemala: A Case for Treating Corporations as Persecutors under Asylum and Refugee Law, in From Extraction to Emancipation Development Reimagined 237 (Raquel Aldana & Steven W. Bender, eds., Carolina Academic Press 2018).
This edited volume uses Guatemala as a case study to examine broad global themes arising from development practices in emerging economies. It offers important lessons to investors and policymakers on strategies to improve distributional justice and respect for the rule of law, including human rights and environmental norms. The book examines global themes such as climate change, extractive industries, labor regimes, and forced migration, all of which have transborder implications and across-border commonalities.
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Strategies to promote effective secondary special education and transition content into teacher preparation coursework
Kendra L. Williams-Diehm, Amber McConnell, Mindy Lingo, and Belkis Choiseul-Praslin
Despite over 40 years of research discussing the importance of embedding secondary special education and transition education into teacher education content, institutions of higher education in the USA continue to fail at providing this content in programs. This chapter describes the process one university undertook to develop a program to ensure graduating students obtained the knowledge and skills necessary to deliver quality transition services to secondary students with disabilities. Details are provided regarding the process utilized to develop a fully aligned, graduate-level degree program with the Council for Exceptional Children Advanced Standards for Transition Specialists (CEC transition standards. Retrieved from http://community.cec.sped.org/dcdt/cec-transition-standards, 2013). Strategies are provided to promote transition education based upon both program evaluation and input from graduates on the most beneficial components.
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It’s Your History: Discovering Stockton’s Diversity in the Archives
Michael J. Wurtz
The Holt-Atherton Special Collections and Archives in the University of the Pacific library documents the diverse history and people of Stockton within its hundreds of archival collections. In a series of vignettes, Wurtz explores Stockton’s diversity as represented in Pacific’s archival holdings.
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Beans: A History
Ken Albala
This is the story of the bean, the staple food cultivated by humans for over 10,000 years.
From the lentil to the soybean, every civilization on the planet has cultivated its own species of bean. The humble bean has always attracted attention - from Pythagoras' notion that the bean hosted a human soul to St. Jerome's indictment against bean-eating in convents (because they "tickle the genitals"), to current research into the deadly toxins contained in the most commonly eaten beans.
Over time, the bean has been both scorned as "poor man's meat" and praised as health-giving, even patriotic. Attitudes to this most basic of foodstuffs have always revealed a great deal about a society. Featuring a new preface from author Ken Albala, Beans: A History takes the reader on a fascinating journey across cuisines and cultures.
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Chapter 31: Promoting sustainability initiatives in the hospitality industry
Bidisha Burman and Pia Albinsson
This chapter provides a review of recent research into the developments in promoting sustainability initiatives in the hospitality industry. Particular focus is given to the hotel industry. Based on third-party hotel organizations and academic literature, a summary of best practices for promoting sustainability efforts is provided. The contrasting approaches of two eco-friendly hotels to promoting their eco initiatives is showcased in two case studies. A brief discussion of the way that practitioners can improve said efforts concludes the chapter.
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Conclusion: Findings and Recommendations
Linda E. Carter and Jennifer Schense
Jennifer Schense and Linda Carter, Conclusion: Findings and Recommendations, in TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK: THE DETRIMENTAL EFFECT OF INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS, at 1 (Jennifer Schense and Linda Carter co-ed., International Nuremberg Principles Academy 2016).
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Introduction
Linda E. Carter and Jennifer Schense
Jennifer Schense and Linda Carter, Introduction, in TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK: THE DETRIMENTAL EFFECT OF INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS, at 1 (Jennifer Schense and Linda Carter co-ed., International Nuremberg Principles Academy 2016).
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A Brief History of the Idea of Opportunity
William B. Gartner, Bruce T. Teague, Ted Baker, and R. Daniel Wadhwani
A selection of books and book chapters written or edited by faculty at the University of the Pacific.
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