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Imagined Landscapes: Geography, Identity, and Gender in the Early American Republic, 1785-1835
(2015-07-01)
In the decades that followed the American Revolution, members of the new nation began to embrace the American landscape as a point of connection between themselves and their fellow citizens. At the same time, geography ...
Narcocorridos: Mexican Immigrant Women and Chicano Youth Identities (1970s to Present)
(2015-04-06)
The narcocorrido is a popular genre of music that has crystallized with the formation of the narcocultura or drug culture, caused by the US-Mexican drug war. I examine the formation of the narcocorrido from the 1940s onward ...
Rationality and Moral Responsibility in Aesthetics
(2015-07-01)
If I find aesthetic value in an image depicting violence, have I done something wrong? Am I at fault for finding the image aesthetically appealing? Is my enjoyment of this work immoral? These are the sort of questions this ...
Adsorption of poly(vinyl alcohol) onto polydimethylsiloxane substrates: formation of continuous films, honeycomb structures, and fractal morphologies
(2015-05-05)
While polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) has many uses in analytical, biomedical, and electronic systems, its hydrophobicity hinders some of its applications by causing incompatibility with aqueous media. Specifically, this can ...
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 ...
Promoting denitrification in restored wetlands: The importance of soil carbon quality
(2015-06-29)
Wetlands contribute a wide variety of ecosystem functions, one of which is the improvement of water quality through denitrification. In order to offset the negative environmental impact of destroying wetlands for the sake ...
A Comparison of Methods to Quantify Homophily in Social Networks
(2015-06-11)
Individuals in social networks have a tendency to form connections with others who are similar to themselves in some given manner. This phenomenon, called homophily, can be found among many attributes of individuals such ...
From Ichiko to Ma-Kun: The Politics of Baseball in the US-Japan Bilateral Relationship
(2015-06-02)
At first glance, baseball, current controversies in the US-Japan bilateral relationship, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s recent increase in international diplomatic visits may appear to have little connection. ...
MUNICH: Reappraising the Munich Agreement and Repurposing the Munich Analogy
(2015-07-01)
On September 30, 1938, the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy signed an agreement detailing the procedure by which territory would be transferred from Czechoslovakia to Germany. Known as the Munich Agreement, ...
The Depression Questions: A Feminist Inquiry
(2015-07-02)
As psychological inquiry increasingly utilizes the medium of the scientific, the importance of the personal narrative is diminished. Disembodied, "objective" research studies are weighted heavier than first person accounts. ...