Browsing Student Theses and Honors Collection by Issue Date
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Dèyè mòn gen mòn : Géographies de colonisation et de résistance
(02-01-2023)In the indigenous language Taíno, Haiti or Ayiti, means "land of mountains." Haiti is an island two-thirds of which are covered by the mountainous topography of les mornes. Taking this specific geography as a starting ... -
Disability Rights: Activism and Agency in the United States
(2002-07-01)Disability rights has a complex history of social movements and legal change. This thesis spans from the American Civil War to the present day; I examine the effects of legislation that outlawed public displays of disability ... -
Variations of Solar Wind Parameters Over a Solar Cycle: Expectations for NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) Mission
(2011-02-16)The solar wind is plasma that flows outward from the sun into the heliosphere. Plasma consists of energetic particles, or electrically charged gas. Although the Sun is at the center of our solar system, not much is known ... -
A Study of Iron Oxide and TOPO-Capped Silver Nanoparticles
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Detecting Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adeleges tsugae) Impacts on Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) Stands in the Quabbin Reservoir Watershed Using AIMS-1 Imagery
(2011-02-16)The infestation of indigenous forest species by foreign pests plays an important role in ecosystem change, often altering stable stand composition and vigor. A recent and pressing infestation in the United States by a ... -
Open Complex Contacts: An Analysis of the T5 N25 Discriminator Region Interaction with E. coli RNA Polymerase
(2011-02-16)E. coli RNA polymerase (RNAP) is known to contact a promoter via the UP element and its -35 and -10 hexameric sequences during the first stage of transcription to transition into a catalytically competent open complex. ... -
Sisyphean Pursuit: Paper, Pixel, Unity of Being
(2011-02-16)Our lives seem to have grown increasingly dualistic in nature: Physical experience takes place alongside and often secondary to digital interaction. Modern platforms delivering instantaneous visual and audio communication ... -
Mössbauer Spectroscopy of Synthetic Olivine across the Mg-Fe Solid Solution
(2011-02-16)Olivine is a major mineral component on terrestrial planetary surfaces and, therefore, it is important to understand its spectroscopic characteristics at all wavelengths. This study presents a detailed Mössbauer investigation ... -
Examining Kinetic and Thermodynamic DNA Destabilization Caused by the cis-syn Thymine Dimer Lesion Using Small Molecule Probes
(2011-02-16)DNA alternates through continuous cycles of mutation and repair. When DNA is exposed to UV radiation, adjacent thymines within a strand covalently link together, forming a cyclobutane ring through saturation of the 5, 6 ... -
Waste Traffic(ing): An anthropological analysis of one situated event in the environmental justice discourse
(2011-02-16)This narrative examines the repercussions of the proposal to build a solid waste facility in an environmental justice community. It documents one solid waste transfer station s permitting process required by Massachuse ... -
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 ... -
Stoppard Gone Wilde: The Invention of Identity
(2011-02-16)Tom Stoppard is arguably best-known for two works the play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" (1967) and the film "Shakespeare in Love" (1998) that draw on the works of William Shakespeare. What many people don't ... -
When Does Warmness Become Warmth? An Investigation of Children's Vocabulary Acquisition Through Their Writing
(2011-02-16)This study examined differences between third and fifth graders in the use of morphologically complex words in written and oral storytelling, as well as how morphological awareness predicted the use of morphologically ... -
Mutational Analysis of T. brucei Components of Motile Flagella (TbCMF) Genes in the African Trypanosome
(2011-02-16)Flagella and cilia play significant roles in mobility and environmental sensing in microbes as well as organ and gamete function in more complex organisms. The African trypanosome, Trypanosoma brucei, is a model organism ...