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Linking Local Ecological Knowledge and Management Perspectives on Oyster Predation in Mississippi and Alabama, Cynthia Lupton, Marcus Drymon, Nigel Temple, Steven Scyphers, Mark Woodrey, and Eric Sparks

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Robust Plant Segmentation of Color Images Based on Image Contrast Optimization, Yuzhen Lu, Sierra Young, Haifeng Wang, and Nuwan Wijewardane

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School Violence Is More Than Physical: The Association Between Intersecting Identities and Perceptions of School Climate, Michayla D. Mack, Sanna King, and David C. May

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Adventures in the enormous: a 1.8 million clone BAC library for the 21.7 Gb genome of loblolly pine., Zenaida V. Magbanua, Seval Ozkan, Benjamin D. Bartlett, Philippe Chouvarine, Christopher A. Saski, Aaron Liston, Richard C. Cronn, C. Dana Nelson, and Daniel G. Peterson

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Impression Of Contemporary Heat Stress Complexities In Agricultural Crops: A Review, Sagun Mahajan, Priyanka Thakur, Susmita Das, Raj Paul Sharma, Sandeep Manuja, Prakash Kumar Jha, Ankit Saini, Chinmaya Sahoo, and Mohammad Reza Fayezizadeh

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Implementing Good Practices Programs to Encourage Production of High-Quality, Safer Produce in Mississippi, Barakat S. M. Mahmoud, Eric T. Stafne, Christine H. Coker, Gary R. Bachman, and Nicole Bell

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Magnitude of the freshwater turtle exports from the US: long term trends and early effects of newly implemented harvest management regimes., Ivana Mali, Michael W. Vandewege, Scott K. Davis, and Michael R.J. Forstner

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Comparison of four ChIP-Seq analytical algorithms using rice endosperm H3K27 trimethylation profiling data., Brandon M. Malone, Feng Tan, Susan M. Bridges, and Zhaohua Peng

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Comparison of four ChIP-Seq analytical algorithms using rice endosperm H3K27 trimethylation profiling data., Brandon M. Malone, Feng Tan, Susan M. Bridges, and Zhaohua Peng

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Investigation of the role of TNF-a converting enzyme (TACE) in the inhibition of cell surface and soluble TNF-a production by acute ethanol exposure., Kristine von Maltzan, Wei Tan, and Stephen B. Pruett

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Cross-Ontology multi-level association rule mining in the Gene Ontology., Prashanti Manda, Seval Ozkan, Hui Wang, Fiona M. McCarthy, and Susan M. Bridges

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Cross-Ontology multi-level association rule mining in the Gene Ontology., Prashanti Manda, Seval Ozkan, Hui Wang, Fiona M. McCarthy, and Susan M. Bridges

The Impact of Temperature and Water Stress on Cotton Planting Windows and Fiber Quality in Mississippi, Jephthah Nimoh Marfo, Shrinidhi Ambinakudige, Sahila Beegum, and Kambham Raja Reddy

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Abraham Lincoln in the Collections, John F. Marszalek and Ryan P. Semmes

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Impact of ultraviolet-B radiation on early-season morpho-physiological traits of indica and japonica rice genotypes, Sonal Mathur, Raju Bheemanahalli, Salah Hameed Jumaa, Naqeebullah Kakar, Vangimalla R. Reddy, Wei Gao, and Kambham Raja Reddy

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Associations Between Changes in Habitual Sleep Duration and Lower Self-Rated Health Among COVID-19 Survivors: Findings from a Survey Across 16 Countries/Regions, Kentaro Matsui, Frances Chung, Adrijana Koscec Bjelajac, Ilona Merikanto, Maria Korman, Sérgio Mota-Rolim, Ana Suely Cunha, Bjørn Bjorvatn, Pei Xue, Christian Benedict, Charles M. Morin, Colin A. Espie, Anne-Marie Landtblom, Thomas Penzel, Luigi De Gennaro, Brigitte Holzinger, Harald Hrubos-Strøm, Damien Leger, Courtney J. Bolstad, Michael R. Nadorff, Giuseppe Plazzi, Catia Reis, Ngan Yin Chan, Yun-Kwok Wing, Juliana Yordanova, Yves Dauvilliers, Markku Partinen, and Yuichi Inoue

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Draft Genome Sequences of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa Strains OK3, VB11, and NOB1, Isolated from Bunch and Muscadine Grapes Grown in Southern Mississippi, Olga V. Mavrodi, Dmitri V. Mavrodi, Eric T. Stafne, John J. Adamczyk, and Ebrahiem M. Babiker

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Introduction to the Special Issue on School Safety: Increasing Understanding/Decreasing Misunderstandings in the Realm of School Safety, David C. May

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Going to Jail Sucks (And It Really Doesn't Matter Who You Ask), David C. May, Brandon K. Applegate, Rick Ruddell, and Peter B. Wood

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Do School Resource Officers Contribute to Net Widening? Evidence from a Southern State, David C. May, Raymond Barranco, Rick Ruddell, and Angela Robertson

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Do School Resource Officers Really Refer Juveniles to the Juvenile Justice System for Less Serious Offenses?, David C. May, Raymond Barranco, Ethan Stokes, Angela A. Robertson, and Stacy H. Haynes

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Survey of Factors for the Prediction of Human Comfort with a Non-anthropomorphic Robot in Public Spaces, David C. May, Kristie J. Holler, Cindy L. Bethel, Lesley Strawderman, Daniel W. Carruth, and John M. Usher

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Predicting Adolescent Fear of Crime Through the Lens of General Strain Theory, David C. May, Shelley Keith, Nicole E. Rader, and R. Gregory Dunaway

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Stress among Correctional Officers: an Organizational Justice Approach, David C. May, Eric G. Lambert, Matthew C. Leone, Linda D. Keena, and Stacy H. Haynes

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To Be Involved or Not to Be Involved: Testing Prison Staff Job Involvement Using the Job Demands–Job Resources Model, David C. May, Eric G. Lambert, Monica Solinas-Saunders, Linda D. Keena, Matthew Leone, and Stacy H. Haynes

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Do White-Collar Offenders Find Prison More Punitive than Property Offenders: Club Fed or Club Dread?, David C. May and Brian K. Payne

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A Gendered Assessment of the "Threat of Victimization": Examining Gender Differences in Fear of Crime, Perceived Risk, Avoidance, and Defensive Behaviors, David C. May, Nicole E. Rader, and Sarah Goodrum

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Does Military Service Make the Experience of Prison Less Painful? Voices From Incarcerated Veterans, David C. May, Kristen L. Stives, Makeela J. Wells, and Peter B. Wood

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Exploring Alternatives to Out-of-School Suspension in Kentucky: A Quasi-Experimental Study Examining the Effectiveness of Community Service Work, David C. May, Ethan Stokes, Ashlee Oliver, and Timothy McClure

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The Impact of Trusted Adults and Friends on Fear and Avoidance Behaviors at School, David C. May, Makeela J. Wells, Megan Stubbs-Richardson, Tawny N. Evans-McCleon, and H. Colleen Sinclair

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What Influences Offenders' Willingness to Serve Alternative Sanctions?, David C. May and Peter B. Wood

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Predicting Offender-Generated Exchange Rates: Implications for a Theory of Sentence Severity, David C. May, Peter B. Wood, Jennifer L. Mooney, and Kevin I. Minor

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Representation matters: Students choose their study expert, Kaitlyn May and Liza Bondurant

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Identifying Geriatric Patients at Risk for Malnutrition: A Quality Improvement Project, Lauren C. Mays, Jennifer W. Drummonds, Summer Powers, David R. Buys, and Penni I. Watts

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Examining Suicide Assessment Measures for Research Use: Using Item Response Theory to Optimize Psychometric Assessment for Research on Suicidal Ideation in Major Depressive Disorder, William V. McCall, Ben Porter, Ashley R. Pate, Courtney J. Bolstad, Christopher W. Drapeau, Andrew D. Krystal, Ruth M. Benca, Meredith E. Rumble, and Michael R. Nadorff

Automated Hyperspectral Feature Selection and Classification of Wildlife Using Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles, Daniel McCraine, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Leon Kohler, Timo Sullivan, and David Will

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Potential for TCDD to Induce Regulatory Functions in B Cells as Part of the Mechanism for T Cell Suppression in EAE, Amye McDonald, Ashleigh Nicaise, Erin Rushing Sears, Abigail Bell, Evangel Kummari, and Barbara L. F. Kaplan

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Rural Hospitals: Economic and Health Implications in Mississippi, M. Maya McDoom, Cyril Chang, John Gnuschke, and David Mirvis

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Why Don’t the Police Make Me Feel Safe? Using Black’s Theory of Law to Potentially Extend Current Findings on Crime Victims’ Fear, Shelly A. McGrath, Rachel Whaley, Jessica Abbott, and David C. May

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The Business of Recovery: A Novel Pilot Study Psychosocial Intervention to Build Self-Efficacy and Reduce Relapse Risk in Adolescent Substance Use Treatment, Ian T. McKay and Danielle K. Nadorff

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Cutting and Seed Propagation of Chickasaw Plum (Prunus angustifolia), Elizabeth A. McMahon, Bruce L. Dunn, Eric T. Stafne, and Mark Payton

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Perceptions of Opioid Misuse in Mississippi Agricultural Communities: Focus Group Findings, Devon Meadowcroft, Mary Nelson Robertson, Marina Denny, Martha Rayner, Amanda Stone, Jeff Johnson, and David R. Buys

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Effects of a Physical Exercise Protocol Combining HIIT and MISS in Adult University Administrative Officials (Efectos De Un Protocolo De Ejercicio Físico Combinando HIIT y MISS En Adultos Funcionarios Administrativos Universitarios), Oscar Adolfo Niño Mendez, Nelson Roberto Rincón Vargas, Luis Antonio Rodríguez, Francisco Javier Laguna Polania, Dennis Esmit Torres Rumie, Luis Rafael Hutchison Salazar, Cristian Núñez Espinosa, and Guillermo Rubén Oviedo

Solenopsis invicta x Richteri necrophagous Behavior Causes Post-mortem Lesions in Pigs Which Serve as Oviposition Sites for Diptera, Florencia Meyer, Madison D. Monroe, Heather N. Williams, and Jerome Goddard

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Amaranthus spp. Control and Sweetpotato Tolerance to Fluridone-containing Herbicide Programs, Stephen L. Meyers, Katherine M. Jennings, Mark W. Shankle, and Jeffrey L. Main

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Military Service in Lieu of Imprisonment: Voices from the Inside, Travis Milburn, David C. May, and Peter B. Wood

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Construction of Gold Micro-Bead Ultramicroelectrodes, Deon T. Miles, Andrew Knedlik, and David O. Wipf

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A Proportionate Mortality Study of Mississippi's Agricultural Industry, 2017-2021, Devon Mills, Mary Nelson Robertson, Brian E. Mills, and David R. Buys

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Teenagers as Health Screeners and Educators: The Evolution of the Mississippi State University Junior Master Wellness Volunteer Program and Results of a Pilot Study, Reagan Moak, David R. Buys, Ann Sansing, Jasmine Harris-Speight, Je'Kylynn Steen, and Richard D. deShazo

Effect of Repeated Juvenile Exposure to Δ9‑tetrahydrocannabinol on Anxiety-Related Behavior and Social Interactions in Adolescent Rats, Afzaal N. Mohammed, Navatha Alugubelly, Barbara L.F. Kaplan, and Russell L. Carr

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Altered community flammability in Florida's Apalachicola ravines and implications for the persistence of the endangered conifer Torreya taxifolia., John M. Mola, J. Morgan Varner, Erik S. Jules, and Tova Spector

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Offenders, Judges, and Officers Rate the Relative Severity of Alternative Sanctions Compared to Prison, Nathan T. Moore, David C. May, and Peter B. Wood

Evidence of Antibodies to Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Small Mammals and Quail from Mississippi, Gail Miriam Moraru, Jerome Goddard, Alexandria Murphy, Diana Link, Jerrold L. Belant, and Andrea Varela-Stokes

Experimental Infection of Cotton Rats and Bobwhite Quail with Rickettsia parkeri, Gail Miriam Moraru, Jerome Goddard, Christopher D. Paddock, and Andrea Varela-Stokes

Observations on Host Preference and Feeding Success of Immature Amblyomma maculatum (Acari: Ixodidae), Gail Miriam Moraru, Jerome Goddard, and Andrea S. Varela-Stokes

Morphometric Analysis of Adult Dermacentor parumapertus Neumann (Acari: Ixodidae) From Various Locations Within its Geographical Range, Gail M. Moraru, José Santos Portugal, Andrea Bednarova, Sarah J. McInnis, Christopher D. Paddock, Tom Becker, Travis C. Smith, Zdenka Svobodova, and Jerome Goddard

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Reduced Gene Flow and High Population Structure in Four Species of Chresta (Compositae, Vernonieae) from the Brazilian Caatinga Represent Challenges for their Conservation, Carolina Moriani Siniscalchi, Benoit Loeuille, Jose Rubens Pirani, and Jennifer Mandel

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Insomnia, Anxiety, and Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Collaborative Study, Charles M. Morin, Bjørn Bjorvatn, Frances Chung, Brigitte Holzinger, Markku Partinen, Thomas Penzel, Hans Ivers, Yun Kwok Wing, Ngan Yin Chan, Ilona Merikanto, Sergio Mota-Rolim, Tainá Macêdo, Luigi De Gennaro, Damien Léger, Yves Dauvilliers, Giuseppe Plazzi, Michael R. Nadorff, Courtney J. Bolstad, Mariusz Sieminski, Christian Benedict, Jonathan Cedernaes, Yuichi Inoue, Fang Han, and Colin A. Espie

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Examining the Effect of Work–Family Conflict on Job Stress Among Community Corrections Staff, Weston J. Morrow, Eric G. Lambert, Samuel G. Vickovic, Matthew C. Leone, Monica Solinas-Saunders, David C. May, and Stacy H. Haynes

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Evolution of genome size and complexity in Pinus., Alison M. Morse, Daniel G. Peterson, M. Nurul Islam-Faridi, Katherine E. Smith, Zenaida V. Magbanua, Saul A. Garcia, Thomas L. Kubisiak, Henry V. Amerson, John E. Carlson, C. Dana Nelson, and John M. Davis

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A 'Better Life'? The Universal Deception of Immigrants in the Narratives of Driss Chraïbi and J. M. G. le Clézio, Keith Moser

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A Biosemiotic Reading of J.M.G. Le Clézio’s Fiction: (Re-) Envisioning the Complexity of Other-Than-Human Semiosis and Trans-Specific Communication, Keith Moser

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A Biosemiotic Reading of Michel Onfray's Cosmos: Rethinking the Essence of Communication from an Ecocentric and Scientific Perspective, Keith Moser

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A Derridean Interpretation of the Biosemiosic Dance of Life in Yamen Manai’s L’Amas Ardent (2017), Keith Moser

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A Derridean Interpretation of Vercors’s Early Attempt to Problematize the Concept of the "Animal" in Les Animaux dénaturés, Keith Moser

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A Tribute to the Immortal Sailor-Philosopher Who Opened the Northwest Passage, Keith Moser

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Breaking the Silence or Using It to Speak? An Exploration of Silence as a Literary Device in Four Harki Narratives, Keith Moser

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Christian Signol’s Les vrais bonheurs and Michel Serres’s Biogée: Two Books of Joy for the Modern W`orld, Keith Moser

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Decentring and Rewriting the Universal Story of Humanity: The Cosmic Historiography of J.M.G. Le Clézio and Michel Serres, Keith Moser

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Derrida's "Chimerical Experimental Exercise": An Ecolinguistic Dream of a More Biocentric Language, Keith Moser

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Echoes of Laughter in a Decaying Republic: Amusing Ourselves to Autocracy in a Post-Truth Age of "Alternative Facts", Keith Moser

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Exhuming the "Dismal" Reality Underneath Banal Utopian Signs: Banksy's Recent Parody of the Disneyfication of the Modern World, Keith Moser

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Franco-Maghrebi Rap and Benyoucef's Le Nom du père, Keith Moser

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Is There an Exit Door?: The Baudrillardian Crisis of Simulation in The Truman Show, Keith Moser

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J. M. G. Le Clézio and Gérard Gouesbet’s Cosmic, Ecocentric Framework for Understanding the Nature of Human Violence, Keith Moser

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J. M. G. Le Clézio's Urban Phantoms and the Paradox of Invisibility, Keith Moser

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Launching a Transdisciplinary Call for Semioethical Virtue Ethics in the Anthropocene/Capitalocene, Keith Moser

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Le Clézio’s La Guerre and Les Géants: Counter-Hegemonic, Situationist, User Manuals for the Post-Modern Subject?, Keith Moser

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Le Clézio’s "Martin" and His Religion of Ecstasy, Keith Moser

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Le Clézio's "Monster Island:" The Derridean "Monstrosity of the Unrecognizable", Keith Moser

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Manufacturing a Suburban Hyper-Reality in the Film The Joneses: A Baudrillardian Reflection, Keith Moser

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Michel Onfray’s Decentered, Ecocentric, Atheistic Philosophy: A User’s Guide for the Anthropocene Epoch?, Keith Moser

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Michel Serres's Encyclopedic Philosophical Vision of an Ever-Changing Human Landscape, Keith Moser

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Philosophical Materialism as an Existential and Spiritual quest in Michel Serres’s Philosophy and Sylvain Tesson’s “La Particule”, Keith Moser

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Protecting the Fragile Splendor of the Universe: A Serresian Reading of Jean Giono’s L’Homme qui plantait des arbres, Keith Moser

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Reading the World through Somatic Encounters with the Universe in Michel Serres's Philosophy and Sylvain Tesson's Petit traité sur l'immensité du monde, Keith Moser

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(Re-)Awakening the Senses in Le Clézio's L'Inconnu sur la terre and Serres's Les Cinq sens, Keith Moser

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(Re)-Discovering the Sacred in the Material Universe: An Exploration of Cosmic Spirituality in the Works of Malcolm de Chazal and Michel Serres, Keith Moser

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Rending Moments of Material Ecstasy in the Meditative Essays of Two Nobel Laureates: Le Clezio and Camus, Keith Moser

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Reviving the Nuanced Concept of Mother Earth in an Era of Non-Sustainability: A Serresian Reading of Marcel Pagnol’s L’eau des collines, Keith Moser

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The "Beautiful Abyss" of Human Cruelty, Anthropogenic Violence, and Other-Than-Human Friendship in Yamen Manaï’s Bel Abîme, Keith Moser

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The "Big, Beautiful Bill:" the Ultimate Simulacrum or Post-Truth Exercise in Orwellian Doublespeak—Newspeak, Keith Moser

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The Derridean Gaze of the “Wholly Other” in Stephen King’s “Rat”, Keith Moser

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The Eco-Philosophy of Michel Serres and J. M. G. Le Clézio: Launching a Battle Cry to Save the Imperiled Earth, Keith Moser

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The Fiction of Michel Serres: Writing the Beauty, Fragility, and Complexity of the Universe, Keith Moser

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The Porosity of Interspecific Friendship and Mourning in Cédric Sapin-Defour’s Son odeur après la pluie (2023) and Dominique Lestel’s Philosophy, Keith Moser

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The Sensorial, Biocentric Philosophy of Michel Serres and Michel Onfray: Rehabilitating the Human Body, Keith Moser

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The Submerged, Post-Truth "Island of Happiness" in Michel Houellebecq's Extension du domaine de la lutte, Keith Moser

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The Symbolic Representation of Subversion as a Mental Illness: A Foucauldian Reading of Le Clézio's Le Procès-Verbal, Keith Moser

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Writing a Different Ending to the "World War" Pitting Humanity Against the Biosphere in Michel Serres and Jacques Derrida's Philosophy, Keith Moser