Student Works Collection
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The Student Works collection is designed to showcase and preserve the scholarly work being done by students at the University of Texas at Austin.
All students at UT Austin are eligible to submit their scholarly work to this collection. Examples of work deposited include: honors theses, term papers, substantial projects, posters, etc.
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Item The Index to the Library Chronicle(1996-05) Arvid Aho, Jon; Anghelescu, Hermina G.B.; Bailey-Ellett, Debra; Bogucka, Roxanne; Bradley, Lisa; Brickner, Marti Lynne; Carlino, Deidre A.; Creegan, Christopher J.; Crouch, Julie; Wood Davis, Virginia; Dempsey, Deon; Devlin, Leslie; Eichelberger, Lori K.; Ennis, Darlene Marie; Fance, Kristin Monique; Friede, Eric; Gardner, Courtney; Garza, Gloria; Guzman, Margo Lynn; Haaland, Maaren Amalie; Hultberg, Jane W.; Jones, Mari Lyn; Jones, Robin K.; Lamb, Trudy; Lanphear, Leslie W.; Lyons, Kimberly Anne; McCann, Katherine D.; McGinty, Carol; Pearson, Annette; Philley, Angela; Poitinger, Leigh; Pyrich, Paula Rae; Quick, Spring; Rabourn, Tanya R.; Rowe, Ronda; Sentesi, Barbara Diane; Schultz, Leah; Small, Jennifer D.; Sokoll, Susan Paula; Sparks, Anne-Frances; Tidwell, Jan; Kinsner, Lisa Tobias; Tran, Kim Uyen; Walker, Lisa; Wertzberger, Janelle Lynn; Wilson, Andrea; Wisdom, Laura Anne; Wrinkle, Sean ChristopherItem Media depictions of judicial decisions : a study of public response to the Bush v. Gore decision(2004-08) Monson, Kristofer S.While lawyers and judges see legal decision making in terms of the application of legal norms to particular fact situations, the public, especially in politically sensitive cases, perceives judicial decisions as an exercise of power. This paper is an attempt to account for public response to a politically sensitive judicial decision: the Bush v. Gore decision that ended the 2000 election. It does so by analyzing a set of letters to the editor collected from representative, local newspapers. Having set out to determine what effect the decision itself had on the way in which the public discussed the election debate, the paper concludes that, while the public tends to make arguments about the election dispute based on specific details and anecdote. The contents the Court’s opinion had little impact on discussion of the issues; instead, the letters to the editor indicate that the Court’s decision making is an exercise of power rather than the result of reasoning. The paper concludes by suggesting that it is precisely because judges are constrained to discuss controversial issues in systematic terms that judicial decisions are useful to the political processItem Silicon Chips with Everything: Preserving Arnold Wesker's Digital Manuscripts(2007-06-01) Kim, SarahIn the spring of 2007, Lorraine A. Dong, Megan Durden, and Sarah Kim conducted a digital preservation project at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center(HRC), as a final project of INF392K: Problems in Permanent Retention of Electronic Records class instructed by Dr. Patricia Galloway in the School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin. The main project tasks included the processing and depositing of the digital manuscripts of the British playwright, Sir Arnold Wesker (1932-) into the School of Information digital repository. This presentation covers the project challenges and approaches, batch archival processing workflow, results, and recommendations for long-term digital preservation of digital manuscripts. This presentation was prepared and presented by Sarah Kim at the Society of Southwest Archivists Session 17: Student Projects in Digital Preservation E-Manuscripts, E-Literature: Preserving Digital Manuscript Material at the University of Texas in June 2007.Item Automated Batch Archival Processing: Preserving Arnold Wesker's Digital Manuscripts(2008) Kim, Sarah; Dong, Lorrie; Durden, MeganMany cultural institutions and archives expect to acquire an increasingly copious amount of born-digital materials that will need to be processed at the item level. However, limitations in technology, labor, and funding resources often hinder small and medium-sized cultural institutions in their efforts to adequately implement and maintain long-term preservation methods for their digital archival holdings. This paper is about the Arnold Wesker Digital Manuscripts preservation project. This project focused on developing an automated batch archival processing work flow that minimized the labor and time required when handling large electronic archival collections. By working with various software and digital tools, it was possible to take advantage of affordable and accessible technology to successfully process more than five thousand digital files with a limited amount of time and resources. It is hoped that this automated batch archival processing approach will encourage other cultural institutions to initiate dynamic preservation projects for their digital collections.Item Instant Validation: Testing Identity in Facebook(2008-05) Dixon, Graham NicholsIdentity has been frequently conceptualized as a set of attributes a person processes (Faith 2007:3). However, the cyber-world of Facebook has brought a new focus of how people construct their identities online, demonstrating that identity is not just a process or list of attributes, but rather a dramatic performance in which one's identity never remains static - it is constantly undergoing construction (Ethier and Deaux 1994:243). According to Sociologist Erving Goffman, performance is "all the activity of a given participant on a given occasion which serves to influence in any way any of the other participants" (Goffman 1959:15). With this in mind, the concept of identity in Goffman's view is a performance that is deliberately engaged in,but not a constant conscious perception (Faith2007:4). Because of its easy-to-use and fast-paced digital features, Facebook has become an efficient tool in this form of identity exploration in which users actively engage in the social discourse of instant validation (i.e.publishing one's image in hopes of receiving instant and positive feedback). While instant validation can occur both online and offline,it is important to explore whether Facebook has changed the way people engage in that behavior.Furthermore, I will examine how instant validation is played in Facebook, and determine how it is used in online identity construction.Item Green Archives: Applications of green construction to archival facilities(The Primary Source, 2008-07-09) Kim, SarahThis paper covers how to build green, sustainable archival facilities using available green construction methods. This paper was submitted to the Primary Source, published by the Society of Mississippi Archivists.Item El Dia De Los Muertos: “Celebrating the Cycle”(2008-12-01) Peña, LaurenItem Islamic finance: a vehicle for economic development(2009-05) Mavrakis, NadiaIslamic finance is based on adherence to Shariah, or Islamic law, by prohibiting paying or charging usury or interest. This paper discusses the theological background for the differences between Islamic banking and conventional banking. It gives a picture of how and where the Islamic finance industry operates today. It also shows how the Islamic banking model is different from that of conventional Western finance through a discussion of various Islamic financial instruments. The paper then introduces ideas for how Islamic finance can be used as a vehicle for economic development.Item Romani Political Struggles in the European Union(2009-12-03) Wortmann, RebeccaItem A Case Study of The National Virtual Observatory as a Digital Curation Project(2009-12-03) Broussard, Ramona; Holte, Rebecca; Jones, Bridget; Vinson, EmilyItem The Perseus Digital Library: A Case Study(2009-12-03) Preece, Emily; Zepeda, ChristineItem Digital Humanities in Early Online Archives(2009-12-03) Ellison, Lela; Sampson, Walker; Risseeauw, KatherineItem Does Nativity Matter? Correlates of Immigrant Health by Generation in the Russian Federation(Demographic Research, 2011-06-07) Buckley, Cynthia J.; Hofmann, Erin Trouth; Minagawa, YukaThe Russian Federation has experienced simultaneous declines in health and rises in international migration. Guided by the “healthy migrant effect” found elsewhere, we examine two questions. First, do the foreign-born in the Russian Federation exhibit better overall health than the native-born? Second, to the extent positive health selectivity exists, is it transferred to the second generation? Using the first wave of the Russian Generations and Gender Survey, our findings support the idea of positive health selection among international migrants from non-Slavic regions. The effect of migrant status, regardless of origin, diminishes when age, sex, and native language are taken into account.Item Salt Merchant Culture in Qing Dynasty Yangzhou(2011-12-02) Wan, JessicaItem Library research: What were Shakespeare's views on commerce/economics?(2012-10-03) Briggs, JoshuaItem Literature & Video Games(2012-12-12) Bennett, Mitchell; Bui, Janet; Choi, Hojun; Dailey, Casimir; DeVoglaer, Ian; Hill, Matt; Kelley, Andrew; Kuan, Carol; Garris Malpass, Timothy; Morris, K.C.; Myers, Britannia; Price, Shannon; Rendon III, Carlos; Spalding, Audrey; Staggs, Kristine; Stearns, Kendall; Wells, Terral; Nelson, Scott