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Reduced Damage From Facing-Target Sputtering of Indium Tin Oxide Films
(2020-05-11)
This study addresses a current limitation in the development of high performance organic optoelectronic devices: depositing indium tin oxide (ITO), a transparent, conductive film, without damage to underlying organic films. ...
Do ectomycorrhizae follow market law? An analysis of functional trait distribution in response to anthropogenic environmental change
(2020-05-07)
Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) are considered instrumental mediators of numerous element cycles, including carbon (C). The ectomycorrhizal guild, however, is functionally diverse, rendering C mediation community-specific. ...
Painting Transplants: Processes in Healing
(2020-05-11)
My thesis work consists of a body of diptych paintings on paper. Conceptually, I seek to investigate how bodies, as boundaried forms, experience the boundarylessness of energies and moods. Through a three-step procedural ...
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 ...
Transformation and Totalization: Intimate Violence in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands, 1918-19, 1939, and 1941
(2020-06-25)
“Transformation and Totalization: Intimate Violence in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands, 1918-19, 1939, and 1941” examines the transformation of intimate violence—violence between and among neighbors—before and after ...
Tending the Ghosts: A Contemporary Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth Through the Lens of Intergenerational Trauma and Transmission Within the Chinese American Community
(2020-05-29)
The notion that the past never fully recedes into the past, and that memories and trauma can be passed on to another subsequent generation is one that is particularly relevant to second generation individuals, or the ...
Asian American Mental Health: Effects of Racism-related Stress and Emotional Regulation
(2020-06-15)
Asian Americans experience anti-Asian American racism (e.g., model minority) which can perform in different types such as subtle and overt. Various types of racism and racism-related stress have a detrimental impact on ...
A Modern Dance with Death: Percy Delf Smith and the Aesthetic of Direct Experience
(2020-05-25)
In 1919, immediately following the First World War, the English artist Percy Smith produced a series of seven etchings entitled Dance of Death 1914-1918. Contemporaries responded enthusiastically to his inventive treatment ...
Core-shell Colloidal Quantum Dots For Photovoltaics With Improved Open Circuit Voltage
(2020-06-09)
Over the past decades, research efforts have been dedicated to solution processed photovoltaics based on colloidal quantum dots (CQD). Due to its tunable band-gaps, good stability in air and earth-abundant nature, lead ...
Nineteenth-Century Italian Flute Culture
(2020-06-18)
Italy is often neglected in the histories of the flute, where the focus is primarily on France, Germany, and England. Additionally, what little has been written about Italian flutes is almost exclusively in Italian. In ...