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2. African theatre in development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Banham, Martin (author), Gibbs, James (author), and Osofisan, Femi (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- International: Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08689
- Notes:
- 182 pages.
3. Building community through communication: the case for civic communion
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Procter, David E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D11519
- Journal Title:
- Journal of the Community Development Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 35(2) : 53-72
- Notes:
- 21 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, "This essay makes the argument for the centrality of communication in studying and developing community." Following discussion of general theoretical arguments affirming and advancing this case, the author examined a specific type of community-oriented communicative event - civic communion. "Civic communions are episodes of community interaction that function as rhetorical and performative civic sacraments bonding citizenry around the social and political structures of a specific locale."
4. Comparing farm financial performance across local foods market channels
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Schmit, Todd M. (author), Jablonski, Becca B. R. (author), and Laughton, Chris (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-04
- Published:
- United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12335
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 57, n. 2
- Notes:
- 9 pages, Financial performance benchmarks were estimated on the basis of samples of successful Northeast fruit and vegetable producers classified by primary local foods market channel. Comparisons across farm stores, large urban farmers' markets, and intermediated market channels were conducted for the purpose of identifying key differences in human and financial resource requirements. The benchmarks provide data useful for assisting individual farmers in assessing their performances and new and beginning farmers in identifying appropriate market channels for their businesses. Additionally, the benchmarks provide a rich source of information for use by Extension educators in developing programming around local foods marketing opportunities and business planning.
5. Creolizing Carmen: Reading Subversive Afra-Hispanic Performances of Maria Antonia and Isabel "La Negra" in the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sanko,Nadia Sophia (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- California: University of California, Los Angeles
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 221 p., Carmen (Mérimée 1845, Bizet 1875), the story about the (in)famous Gypsy dancer from Spain, is the second most adapted narrative in the history of world cinema, with over eighty global versions officially recognized to date. Despite the global reach of the Carmen phenomenon, many scholars claim that this tale has hardly been reworked in Spanish America and never in the Caribbean. Following Carmen from Spain to Spanish America, the author shows how the template of Carmen (a love story that reveals the racio-ethnic and gender stratification in Spain) has been artfully but unsuspectingly reappropriated and "creolized" in postcolonial Cuba in the controversial film María Antonia (1991) by Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sergio Giral, based on the landmark play María Antonia (1964) by Afro-Cuban playwright Eugenio Hernández Espinosa.
6. Curtain call - a few more thoughts on theater in the produce department
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dey, Brian (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2020-11-23
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11920
- Journal Title:
- Packer
- Notes:
- Online from publication. 7 pages., Merchandiser of fresh produce explains how theater events in a produce department can create fun and excitement and can make memorable impressions on customers.
7. Development of a small-scale power tiller for farmers in developing countries: A case study of Benin
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kantchede, Christian N. (author), Ahouansou, Roger H. (author), Ajav, Emmanuel A. (author), and Bizimungu, Gaspard (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-11-08
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12805
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 10
- Notes:
- 9 pages, This study examines the labour of small-scale farmers during ploughing and develops a power tiller with the view of reducing the hardness of work and increasing the field operation capacity. The machine is designed and fabricated based on standard engineering principles for part-sizing and selection of materials. It is tested and the performance results obtained are compared to manual ploughing. Performance parameters were determined from fieldwork and laboratory experiments. The average depth, width of cut and operation speed were 14.84 cm, 24.56 cm and 3.48 km/h, respectively for power tiller compared with 10.62 cm, 18.97 cm and 0.49 km/h, respectively for manual ploughing. Average field efficiency and theoretical field capacity were 88.23%, and 0.096 ha/h, respectively for the power tiller compared with 96%, and 0.0136 ha/h for manual ploughing. Fuel consumption revealed for power tiller is 1.99 l/h. The field capacity of the machine was 0.075 ha/h which was higher than 0.013 ha/h for manual ploughing. The results show that the machine is suitable for small-scale farmers. Economic assessment of the power tiller is work to be done.
8. Flight as improvisational solo in jazz and blues fiction
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kosse,Jeffrey P. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Lincoln, Nebraska: The University of Nebraska
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 204 p., This dissertation examines the roles played by jazz and blues in African American fiction of the post-World War II era. The author contends that scholars of jazz and blues fiction generally discuss the authors' treatment of the music in terms of how it shows up, is alluded to, or is played; however, few address performative elements that are central to much African American literature. Their performances, whether as narratives or geosocial movements, often draw upon forms of flight as defining actions that send them into new territories and necessitate acts of improvisation. Forms of flight manifest themselves as improvised solos in numerous ways, including in this dissertation the path of Ellison's narrator going north and ultimately underground in Invisible Man , brothers leaving their Harlem pasts and coming together while on ever-divergent paths in James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues," Milkman Dead discovering the secret of literal flight by improvising through a journey to his familial past in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon , or the members of Macon Street's "flesh-and-blood triangle" choosing the expatriate route of Paris instead of America in Paule Marshall's The Fisher King.
9. Harnessing Human Potential in Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cabrera,Angel (Author), Neville,Frank (Author), and Novick,Samantha (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Oct 2010
- Published:
- Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Innovations (Innovations)
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(4) : 143-149
- Notes:
- Part of a special journal issue dedicated to strategies for societal renewal in Haiti., Building back a better Haiti will require a radically different approach to education. A combination of improved funding, smart allocation of resources, and use of low-cost modern technology may allow Haiti to leapfrog to significantly higher performance levels.
10. Impact of computer-based peer review on college students' performance and perceived self-efficacy in an online graphic design course
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wagner, Sharon P. (author), Rutherford, Tracy (author), and Texas A&M University
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11062
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 103(4)
- Notes:
- 17 pages, via online journal, Prior research has indicated that the incorporation of computer-based peer review into writing instruction increases student engagement, improves student performance, and increases student perceptions of self-efficacy. This study used a quasi-experimental untreated control group design to examine the impact of computer-based peer review on student performance and perceived self-efficacy in an undergraduate agricultural graphic design course. The impact of participation in computer-based peer review on performance scores was investigated using a MANOVA. After two rounds of peer review, students improved their overall course performance by one-half letter grade. Perceptions of self-efficacy were further analyzed using a one-way repeated measures ANOVA. Most (54.17%) students who participated in the computer-based peer review process reported increases in perceived self-efficacy in graphic design. The findings from this study indicate the benefits of computer-based peer review extend to instruction in graphic design courses.
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