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Back from the U.S.S.R.: Soviet Jewish Immigrants in a Fractured Promised Land
(2020-11-30)Between 1989-2001, 1.5 million Soviet Jews emigrated to Israel, representing the largest immigrant wave in the country’s history. Since their arrival, the Former Soviet Union (FSU) immigrant community has formed a salient ... -
Balance
(2017-05-30)Balance, a three-song extended play album, was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee in March of 2017 and debuted during an evening length senior recital on April 15th, 2017 at Mount Holyoke College. This paper details the ... -
Basalt Inflation Plateau Escarpment Crack Patterns-Field, GIS & Implications for Mars
(2014-06-17)Fluvial and volcanic features on Mars are often difficult to distinguish just based on morphological observations. A better understanding of the possible processes that form features such as cracks that are associated with ... -
BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS PREDATION IN DUAL-SPECIES BIOFILMS OF E. COLI PREY AND M. LUTEUS DECOYS
(2011-02-16)Biofilms are matrix-enclosed microbial communities that grow at interfaces. They are highly robust and exhibit significant phenotypic changes that render them resistant to many antibacterial agents that can kill their ... -
Behind the Prosperity of the Video Game Industry: The Social Impacts and the Selling Strategies
(2020-05-06)The video game industry has become the most profitable form of entertainment since 2018. Despite the prosperity, probably few people could tell exactly what the social impacts of video games are and how video games generate ... -
Being a "Local Hero": An Ethnography of the Local Food System/Movement in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts
(2015-05-02)In the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, it is easy to discern the importance of local agriculture and food to the local community. Cars and businesses exclaim messages such as, “Be a Local Hero,” and “We Support Local ... -
“Beneath the colour there was the shape”: Clive Bell, Roger Fry and Artistic Vision in To the Lighthouse
(2020-07-06)Virginia Woolf’s novels are considered to be amongst the treasures of modernist literature. Revising the conventional realist novel, Woolf explores new techniques in her writings to examine and expand the notions of art, ... -
Beyond "I Can't Help It": Biological Determinism in American Queer Politics and Possibilities for Agency
(2011-02-16)I explore the ways in which political strategies promoting biological determinism as the basis of same-sex desire have historically been used to argue for the social and legal toleration of queer sexuality in the United ... -
Beyond Bread and Roses: Exploring Gender in the Communist Party of the United States
(2020-06-23)The History Department thesis “Beyond Bread and Roses: Exploring Gender in the Communist Party of the United States,” traces the experiences of women in the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) from 1928 through ... -
Beyond Britten's Boys: Singing Britten with Adult Treble Choirs
(2019-07-02)Can music intended for children have a place in a feminist choral classroom? What social considerations must we take in teaching music intended for children to adults? Does singing songs intended for children, songs which ... -
Beyond Survival: Jewish Day-To-Day Resistance in the Nazi-Occupied East, 1939-1944
(2019-05-22)“Beyond Survival: Jewish Day-To-Day Resistance in the Nazi-Occupied East, 1939-1944” examines everyday resistance to Nazi persecution by persons classified as Jews under Nazi law. Forced into ghettos after the Nazi occupation ... -
Beyond the Assault: Sexual Violence, Victim Support, and the State
(2015-06-26)This study was created to critically examine how post-assault services for victims of sexual violence work with each other. By examining services - including public health programs, the criminal justice system, rape crisis ... -
Beyond the Prison, Beside Ourselves: Affective Abolition and the Challenges of Transformative Justice
(2018-07-02)The United States represents less than 5 percent of the world’s population yet houses 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Over 2.3 million people are currently behind bars in the US, making our political era one of mass ... -
Beyond Via Sarpi: The Challenges of Chinese Immigration in Contemporary Italy
(2013-05-16)On April 13, 2007, Italy experienced a major ethnic riot by hundreds of Chinese residents in Milan. The riot was triggered by a parking ticket, which incited allegations of racial discrimination towards the Chinese and ... -
Big Damn Fans: Fan Campaigns of Firefly and Veronica Mars
(2011-02-16)My research analyzes fan campaigns as a new cultural form of online television fandoms. With the rise of widespread internet usage, the nature of media participation has changed, the distinctions between media authors and ... -
Binocular Vision Skills in Human Observers
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A Biological Approach for Obtaining Quantitative Data to Mathematically Model Transcriptional Regulation in Drosophila melanogaster
(2015-05-30)ABSTRACT Understanding the genetic control of development is both important and exciting because it has the potential to lead us to revolutionary discoveries that could provide advancements in numerous fields ... -
Bisexual Women’s Experiences of Microaggressions and Microaffirmations and their Relation to Suicidality
(2017-06-14)Bisexual women have been found to report worse mental health outcomes, including elevated rates of suicidality, compared to both heterosexual and lesbian women. The purpose of this study is to examine bisexual women’s daily ... -
Blossoms of the Apricot: Representations of Confucianism and Confucian China in the Writings of Henry Thoreau, Ernest Fenollosa, and Ezra Pound
(2018-05-22)Since the middle of the nineteenth century, Confucianism and Confucian China entered American literature through the efforts of three generations of leading writers. As a rich school of thought that had flourished for more ...