Ever since its founding in the 1970s, the field of instructional communication has regularly conducted comprehensive reviews of the research it produced to assess the discipline’s current state, quality of studies, and the merits of its contributions. . . .

In 1938 the first minimum wage was imposed (Fair Labor Standards Act) in the United States. It was $0.25 an hour. It had an immediate impact on low wageworkers across the country, particularly African-American women employed in the tobacco industry. T . . .

The numbers of vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) in the United States has declined with the development, administration, and effectiveness of vaccines during the 1970s and 1980s. As the eminent threat of VPDs to the public began to wane, parents sta . . .

Beginning in January of 2015, I had the privilege of working with Deaf West Theatre and California State University, Los Angeles on a co-production of David Mamet’s critically acclaimed play, American Buffalo. After three years of intense actor traini . . .

Thereare nearly 900,000 confirmed cases of child maltreatment in this country every year and in the state of California the number of child welfare removal cases isreaching the 60,000 mark. As the numbers of children that enter the child welfare syste . . .

While there seems to be a wealth of research on (mis)representations of athletes in traditional media, there is a lack of scholarship concerning online communities consisting of readers’ comments on sports websites and in social media. Moreover, such . . .

In January of 2015, we spent three weeks on Santa Rosa Island, California using remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to study fish populations relative to a large Marine Protected Area (MPA). We specifically investigated fish abundance in and out of a . . .

Statement of Problem Acute renal colic is a common chief complaint encountered in the emergency department. The traditional approach for the management of acute renal colic due to nephrolithiasis is aggressive intravenous fluid hydration, which is lar . . .