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Magic Within
Rhoda Shapiro
Magic Within is an empowering book for women, featuring rituals, meditations, and practices centered around healing the womb. When a woman can forge a deeper connection to her womb, she's able to realize her potential and connect to her own personal magic. In Rhoda Jordan Shapiro's newest book Magic Within, she shares ancient wisdom to support women in owning their feminine power more fully to create joy, peace, and clarity in their lives.
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Plastic Landscape - The Reversible World
Yoon Chung Han
My AI-generated 3D animated video design “Plastic Landscape - The Reversible World” was exhibited as a part of Seoul Light Gwanghwamun in Seoul, South Korea from December 15, 2023 to January 21, 2024 on the media facade of the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History. The work shows the apocalyptic and surreal world surrounded by artificial plastic mixtures and objects in the ocean, urban city, antarctica, and forest. Four different scenes are animated, with the camera panning slowly from left to right. Viewers can observe how the plastics are decomposed at a slower speed by looking at particle animations. Surreal objects/buildings in this animation made out of plastic look beautiful and mesmerizing at first glance. However, the viewers can notice that they are the decayed objects and destroyed nature impacted by human beings. This new multi-sensory artwork addresses the awareness of plastic pollution through the apocalyptic lens.
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Practical Battery Design and Control
Naoki Matsumura
Battery technologies play a vital role in day-to-day life. With the continued growth of the battery market, there is an increasing demand for a comprehensive text such as this, that encompasses aspects of chemistry, materials science, and artificial intelligence. Aimed at early-to-mid career battery engineers, this book addresses common problems that are likely to be encountered on the job, including how to extend battery longevity with machine learning algorithms. Designed to help readers obtain practical knowledge through intuitive explanations and broad coverage of battery topics, this one-of-a-kind book is a must have resource for practicing battery engineers throughout their career.
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Public Art as Resistance in San Jose
Katherine D. Harris, Kerri J. Malloy, and Alena Sauzade
Public Art as Resistance in San José, an ongoing project with a series of activities that investigates the history of resistance embedded in downtown San José public art. The research required to create a walking tour, panel of art experts, and community exhibit each act as sites of community dialogue and engagement that can afford agency through art. The primary resulting activity, a guided walking tour, begins on the urban campus of San José State University and continues through downtown San José, highlighting a history of resistance and community empowerment through twelve unique works of public art. While the art works that make up this tour are among the many murals, monuments, sculptures and ephemeral pieces of pieces of public art in this area and in the city at large, this particular walking tour takes a singular approach by considering how San José’s communities actively challenge narrow and exclusionary interpretations of local history through public art creation. The digital footprint for this project as a static website and a self-guided tour using a free mobile app, will be amplified with proposed funding requests to the National Endowment for the Humanities to create an augmented reality version in a unique mobile app that will create a sustainable digital representation of this tour and all of its collaborative partnerships. We continue to add works of art (and unfortunately retire some due to demolition of murals on buildings) with each successful funding. The activities inherent to building this project may become one of the future HonorsX courses and continue the tradition of our SJSU students becoming tour guides and experts about the social justice of public art.
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Reframing Community Engagement in Higher Education
Elena Klaw, Andrea Tully, and Elaine K. Ikeda
This book addresses assumptions and challenges inherent within community engagement as a catalyst for developing students’ sense of civic responsibility at a time of rampant social polarization. Promoting academic development and life skills through the high-impact practice of service-learning, the book explores a new ecological framework for reflecting on and improving practice. The book describes innovative models, offers advice on coalition building, and presents the narratives of community engaged professionals and faculty, offering a sense of the tensions and rewards inherent in the work. Guidance, examples, and benchmarks provided are particularly relevant to this time of crises and unrest.
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Scenic Design for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"
Andrea Bechert
I was the Scenic Designer for the musical production of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at the TheatreWorks which opened at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto on November 29, 2023. As the Scenic Designer, I oversee the design and visual aspects in three departments, and work directly with the people in those departments. These areas are Scenery (the architectural aspects of the setting), Scenic Art & Paints (the textures, painting, and finish of the scenery), and Properties (anything that you would move in or out of your house in a moving van including all décor). I can provide a ¼”=1’-0” scale color model, paint elevations, and drafting.
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Spatializing Language Studies: Pedagogical Approaches in the Linguistics Landscape
David Malinowski
This open access volume offers valuable new perspectives on the question of how mobility, locatedness and immersion in the physical world can enhance second language teaching and learning. It does so through a diverse array of empirical studies of language, literacy, and culture learning in the linguistic landscape of visible and audible public discourse. Written from conceptually rich and disciplinarily varied perspectives, its ten chapters address methodological and practical problems of relating language learning to the lived and rapidly changing places of the late modern world.
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Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish
Avizia Long
This volume offers a comprehensive snapshot of the breadth of empirical research currently being conducted on the second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in Spanish during study abroad. Research on this topic spans diverse methodological approaches, types of programs, linguistic structures, and learner characteristics, which is reflected in the contributions in this volume. This diversity of approaches illustrates how the second language development of sociolinguistic variation during study abroad depends crucially on a number of linguistic and extralinguistic factors and can be measured in distinct ways. Thus, this collection will be an indispensable resource to researchers and students of second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, education, and other fields interested in language development during study abroad.
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The Early Works of Luis Miguel Valdez in El Excentrico Magazine: El Machete Critiques of American Society
Rosanna Alvarez and Gregorio Mora-Torres
With his scathing criticisms of American society and its institutions, the published collection of Luis Miguel Valdez’s early writings as “El Machete” in El Excentrico Magazine are timely and important. A series of contributor essays reflecting on the themes and social, political, and cultural implications of the early writings of Luis Miguel Valdez accompanies the collection.
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The Latinx Guide to Graduate School
Magdalena L. Barrera
In The Latinx Guide to Graduate School, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. Barrera provide prospective and current students with a roadmap for surviving and thriving in advanced degree programs. They document the unwritten rules of graduate education, demystifying and clarifying the requirements for navigating graduate school for students who are often the first in their families to walk that path. Topics include finding the right program, developing a graduate student identity, nurturing relationships, and mapping a career plan. Equal parts how-to guide, personal reflection, and manifesto, this book gives a culturally resonant perspective for the unique Latinx graduate student experience.
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The Mindful Interview Method: Retrieving Cognitive Evidence
Gil Zamora
The Mindful Interview Method: Retrieving Cognitive Evidence has been written to assist public and private sector investigators in gathering reliable information from eyewitnesses. It’s a resource that offers the reader evidence-based techniques to enhance gathering reliable evidence and reveals the assessment component that measures the reliability of cognitive evidence. It is notable that eyewitness interview training is cursory at best, and most often nonexistent. This book aims to inspire a change in how we distinguish interrogations of suspects from interviewing eyewitnesses that are often victims and initial witnesses to certain events.
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Advances in Global Leadership (Volume 15)
Joyce Osland
Advances in Global Leadership (a blind-reviewed book and journal) collects insights from leading scholars and practitioners, as well as newcomers to the field. In addition to accepting chapters on traditional research, Volume 15 promoted the under-researched topic of power and global leadership. In the final chapter, Dr. Osland and co-editors synthesized the books' insights and identified research directions and gaps for other scholars in "Power and Global Leadership: Marking the Transition and Suggesting Future Directions." For this volume, Dr. Osland also co-authored two chapters with research teams: "Leading Effective Global Change: Three Design Imperatives That Support Success" (Johnson, Ludema & Osland, 2023) and "A Model of Trigger Events and Sensemaking in the Intercultural Context: A Cognitive Approach to Global Leadership Effectiveness" (Osland, Bird, Reiche & Mendenhall, 2023). Furthermore, she interviewed one of the field's founders: "Asking Big Questions That Matter: An Interview with Nancy Adler" (Osland, 2023) and co-edited the book.
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Data Science Inscription of the Jyotirlingas! Volume 1
Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
A Jyotirlinga or Jyotirlingam is a devotional representation of a Hindu Deity. The word is made up of Sanskrit ‘jyotis’ which means ‘radiance’ and linga, also spelled lingam, means ‘sign’ or “distinguishing symbol”. Hinduism defines Jyotirlingam as the radiant sign of the Almighty. In our data scientific view, nonetheless, Jyotirlinga represents the embodiment of time series. It exhibits stationarity and multi-model patterns of naturally occurring time series, a classical data science pattern, that has a causative relationship with historical events, world macroeconomics, agriculture, and other worldly events.
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Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology
Anand Vaidya
Recent work on knowledge of possiblity and philosophical methods
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Getting the Runaround: Formerly Incarcerated Men and the Bureaucratic Barriers to Reentry
John Halushka
Getting the Runaround takes readers into the bureaucracy of prisoner reentry, examining how returning citizens navigate the "institutional circuit" of parole offices, public assistance programs, rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and family courts. Tracing the lives of men returning to New York City after incarceration, the book argues that the very institutions charged with facilitating the transition from incarceration to community life perversely undermine reintegration by imposing a litany of bureaucratic obstacles. This "runaround" is not merely a series of inconveniences but rather an extension of state punishment that exacerbates poverty and diminishes citizenship rights. By telling the stories of men caught in vicious cycles of bureaucratic control, Halushka demonstrates the urgent need to shift reentry away from an austerity-driven, compliance-based framework and toward a vision of social justice and inclusion.
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Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Sarika Pruthi
In a globalized world, entrepreneurial ventures tend to function internationally across a range of different countries and regions to be successful. It is vital, therefore, for entrepreneurs, innovators, and business professionals to be thinking and acting with a global mindset. This comprehensive textbook helps to develop such a mindset by drawing on theory, research, examples and case studies. There is a strong focus on developing countries and emerging economies throughout the text given the centrality of these markets to successful business today. Dedicated chapters shine a unique spotlight on timely topics such as migration, immigration, ethnicity, and digitalization in relation to entrepreneurship. Case studies and examples are included from around the world and include small start-ups, SMEs and well-known international brands such as Amazon, Dyson and Uber. Written in an accessible style for readers, there are additionally a wide range of learning features in each chapter including learning outcomes, summaries and discussion questions, alongside visual aids.This text is essential reading for university and college courses related to international entrepreneurship and global innovation.
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Indigenous America in the Spanish Language Classroom
Anne Fountain
Provides teachers with key historical and cultural information about Indigenous Peoples throughout the Americas and explains how to incorporate relevant resources. It begins with an overview of the Iberian impact on Indigenous Americans and connects it to language teaching with practical ideas. The book includes ideas for Beginning classes, courses in Conversation, Composition, Linguistics, and Translation and for Advanced Placement Literature and Culture. A separate chapter covers Spanish American Literature and the chapter on Latin American Studies has a focus on Brazil. A distinctive feature of the Ebook lets readers access hundreds of active sites with a single click.
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Optical Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy
Christopher Smallwood
This book provides an introduction to optical multidimensional coherent spectroscopy, a relatively new method of studying materials based on using ultrashort light pulses to perform spectroscopy. The technique has been developed and perfected over the last 25 years, resulting in multiple experimental approaches and applications to a broad array of systems ranging from atoms and molecules to solids and biological systems.
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Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Communication, Computing and Electronics Systems: ICCCES 2022
Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
This book includes high-quality research papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Communication, Computing and Electronics Systems (ICCCES 2022), held at the PPG Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India, on September 15–16, 2022. The book focuses mainly on the research trends in cloud computing, mobile computing, artificial intelligence and advanced electronics systems. The topics covered are automation, VLSI, embedded systems, optical communication, RF communication, microwave engineering, artificial intelligence, deep learning, pattern recognition, communication networks, Internet of things, cyber-physical systems and healthcare informatics.
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Public Obsceneties
Sukanya Chakrabarti
When Choton returns to Kolkata on a research trip with his Black American boyfriend Raheem, his grandfather’s photograph stares down at him from the walls of his family home. Choton loves being the translator, toggling nimbly between Bangla and English, interviewing queer locals, showing Raheem his world. But through the lens of Choton’s grandfather’s old camera, Raheem begins to notice things Choton can’t. 'Public Obscenities' is a bilingual play about the things we see, the things we miss, and the things that turn us on.
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San Jose.STL
Yoon Chung Han
San José.STL is the culmination of a San José State University-based project that included two creative learning workshops intended to introduce community members to the technology and creative potential of 3D printing. Offered in partnership with Chopsticks Alley Art and the San José Museum of Art, the first workshop took place at the Olinder Community Center in March 2023, and was led by artist Behnaz Farahi. The second workshop, led by UK-based artist Michael Eden, was held at the San José Museum of Art a month later. The free workshops were organized by SJSU Professor Yoon Chung Han, and served a broad cross section of San José’s diverse community. The exhibition is not only a celebration of the outcome, but of curiosity and creativity, community connections, and the power of collaboration.
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Scenic design for "Fannie - The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer"
Andrea Bechert
I was the Scenic Designer for the production of "Fannie - The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer" at the TheatreWorks which opened at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto on March 8, 2023. As the Scenic Designer, I oversee the design and visual aspects in three departments, and work directly with the people in those departments. These areas are Scenery (the architectural aspects of the setting), Scenic Art & Paints (the textures, painting, and finish of the scenery), and Properties (anything that you would move in or out of your house in a moving van including all décor). I can provide a ¼”=1’-0” scale color model, paint elevations, and drafting.
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Specialty Crops for Climate Change Adaptation: Strategies for Enhanced Food Security by Using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops including floriculture. The value of specialty crop production in the United States accounted for 18.44 % of the $433.569 billion in agriculture cash receipts collected in 2021. In 2020, that ratio was 21.47% of the $363.464 billion. Specialty crops are gaining increasing attention across nation as demonstrated in the 2018 farm bill (Agricultural Act of the 2018 Farm Bill (P.L. 115-334)) with the increased number of provisions addressing specialty crop issues, reflecting their growing role in the global economy. The cultivation of Specialty crops, nevertheless, has its own challenges. Specialty crops are generally more sensitive to climatic stressors and require more comprehensive management compared to traditional row crops. Specialty crops face significant financial risks threatening US$1.6 Trillion global market due to their higher water demand. The mission of the book is to prepare current and future software engineering teams, agriculture students, economists, macroeconomists with the skills and tools to fully utilize advanced data science, artificial intelligence, climate patterns, and economic models to develop software capabilities that help to achieve Specialty crops and economic sustainability, through improved productivity for years to come and ensure enough food for the future of the planet and generations to come!
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