Browsing Faculty-Curated Special Collections by Title

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    • I Just Called to Say I Love You 
      Patwardhan, Nandini (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      I mistakenly thought the song “I just called to say I love you” was about a dystopian future, but it turned out to have the perfect message for the dystopian present.
    • The Impact of Selected Social Environmental and Individual Factors on Stress Responses 
      Montoya, Valerie C.; Barr-Bryan, Dorine; Perlaki, Kinga M.; Barchas, Patricia R. (2017-08-16)
      a. The authors attempt to clarify some factors in the relationships between high levels of stress and poor physical and mental health. They review many possible sources of individual variation in responses to stress, ...
    • Indices of Hemispheric Lateralization: A Methodological Analysis 
      Mills, D J; Perlaki, K M; Barchas, P R (2015-08-15)
      The authors describe and evaluate several indices of brain hemisphere lateralization. The methods use different data, including response accuracy, reaction times, and EEG asymmetry. They describe an index- free ranking ...
    • Interactionist Hypotheses of Self-Conception 
      Moore, James C. (2015-07-06)
      Moore replicated and extended a finding of Miyamoto and Dornbusch (1956) with a different population in a different setting. Self-concepts of married couples were closely linked with their spouses’ views, but even more ...
    • Interdependence, Interaction, and Productivity 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Arechavala-Vargas, Ricardo (2017-08-16)
      Group tasks require communication, but communication can be excessive and time-wasting. The authors develop propositions group productivity and interaction. High reciprocal interdependence in teams requires high levels of ...
    • Interdisciplinary Research Teams as Status Systems 
      Kruse, Ronald J; Anbar, Michael; Burns, Sarah E; Cohen, Bernard P (2015-08-15)
      Research teams may be studied as social systems organized along dimensions of status, such as rights to evaluate others and to allocate rewards. “Status consistency” is the degree to which salient statuses an individual ...
    • Interrupting Privilege is Different in the Year 2020 
      Sturgis, Meshell (2020-06-08)
      This essay describes the recent changes that have taken place with the Interrupting Privilege (IP) program. It explains how the program proceeded in the 2019-2020 academic year with new funding, location, and in light of ...
    • Introduction to a Theory of Group Structure and Information Exchange 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Silver, Steven D. (2017-08-16)
      This theoretical paper develops a framework for relationships between group structure and information exchange. Status orders among group members are important in situations that lack well-developed practices for work and ...
    • Introduction to continuum mechanics for engineers 
      Bowen, Ray M. (Plenum Press, 1989)
      This textbook is intended to introduce engineering graduate students to the essentials of modern Continuum Mechanics. The objective of an introductory course is to establish certain classical continuum models within a ...
    • Introduction to vectors and tensors, Vol 1: linear and multilinear algebra 
      Bowen, Ray M.; Wang, C. C. (Plenum Press, 1976)
      This work represents our effort to present the basic concepts of vector and tensor analysis. Volume I begins with a brief discussion of algebraic structures followed by a rather detailed discussion of the algebra of vectors ...
    • Introduction to vectors and tensors, Vol 2: vector and tensor analysis 
      Bowen, Ray M.; Wang, C.-C. (2006-06-20)
      This is the second volume of a two-volume work on vectors and tensors. Volume 1 is concerned with the algebra of vectors and tensors, while this volume is concerned with the geometrical aspects of vectors and tensors. ...
    • Investigation of Pseudo-Mutuality, Double Binding and Scapegoating: An Expectation States Approach. 
      Johnston, Janet R (2015-08-15)
      The author develops a theory, both discursively and formally, of communication ambiguity that can result in the three situations of the title. In a dependent relationship, such as parent-child or teacher-student, an ambiguous ...
    • An Iranian Narrative of COVID-19 
      Yavari, Mehri (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      Pandemics situation is very similar to life in Iran under a past war and the current sanctions.
    • Is this it? Speculation on the end of a marriage during the COVID-19 pandemic 
      Frazier-Kouassi, Susan C. (2020-06-08)
      The hope and survival of a marriage confronting the COVID-19 pandemic behind closed borders doors.
    • Islam in America: Faculty Development Workshop 
      Hankins, Rebecca (Kennesaw State University-African and African Diaspora Studies, 2014-06)
      Website devoted to a 2-day workshop for Kennesaw State University faculty to develop a methodology for infusing Islamic popular culture into the teaching curriculum for K-12 and undergraduate students.
    • La Frontera de COVID-19 
      Ramirez, Anthony (2020-05-30)
      In this essay, I discuss the various fronteras (borders) caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss how it has affected my hometown of El Paso, Texas.
    • Landsat TM Data Set 
      University of Maryland Global Land Cover Facility (2024-01-10)
    • Language and national development: Black English in Africa 
      Bokamba, Eyamba G. (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980?)
    • Leaves, Lemons and Lockdown 
      Vangal, Uma (2020-05-30)
      This blog post explores the motives, meaning, and role of food and the sharing of food and food pictures during this pandemic.
    • Legitimacy and Collective Action 
      Thomas, George M.; Walker, Henry A.; Zelditch, Morris Jr (2017-08-16)
      This is a revision of WP 84-4. The authors develop an explicit theoretical foundation for the common belief that legitimation is somehow important in mobilizing collective action. They distinguish validity of a rule ...