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Metabolic inhibitors reshape Helicobacter pylori glycosylation Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Owen Templeton Tuck
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Hermeneutic Encounters: Hans-Georg Gadamer in North America, 1968-1986
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Ian Ward
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- Hans-Georg Gadamer’s myriad contributions to the continental philosophical tradition have been well documented, but his influence on North American intellectual life has gone largely gone unrecognized. This paper attempts to fill that gap, using primary and secondary source material to document Gadamer’s scholarly activities in the United States and Canada between 1968 and 1986. The paper also evaluates Gadamer’s influence using detailed accounts of “hermeneutic encounters” that occurred between Gadamer and four notable North American philosophers: Richard Palmer, Paul de Man, Charles Taylor, and Richard Rorty. Through these accounts, this paper argues that Gadamer made lasting contributions to ongoing debates in the humanities about the nature of literary interpretation, the social sciences, and analytic philosophy. Finally, the paper explores the philosophical and historiological possibilities that Gadamer’s hermeneutics opens up for intellectual history more broadly, especially in the field of reception history. Building on Gadamer’s own hermeneutics and Hans-Robert Jauss’s reception aesthetics, it develops the concept of the “encounter” as the starting point of a more hermeneutically-sensitive approach to intellectual history.
Living Upstream: Kennebec River Influence on Nutrient Regimes and Phytoplankton Communities in Harpswell Sound
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Siena Brook Ballance
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- Phytoplankton underpin marine trophic systems and biogeochemical cycles. Estuarine and coastal phytoplankton account for 40-50% of global ocean primary productivity and carbon flux making it critical to identify sources of variability. This project focuses on the Kennebec River and Harpswell Sound, a downstream, but hydrologically connected coastal estuary, as a case study of temperate river influence on estuarine nutrient regimes and phytoplankton communities. Phytoplankton pigments and nutrients were analyzed from water samples collected monthly at 8 main-stem rivers stations (2011-2013) and weekly in Harpswell Sound (2008-2017) during ice-free months. Spatial bedrock and land use impacts on river nutrients were investigated at sub-watershed scales using GIS. Spatial analysis reveals a 10-fold increase in measured phytoplankton biomass across the Kennebec River’s saltwater boundary, which demonstrates ocean-driven phytoplankton variability in the lower river. The biomass pattern is accompanied by a transition in phytoplankton community structure with respect to which groups co-occur (diatoms, chlorophytes, and cryptophytes) and which are unique (dinoflagellates in Harpswell). Upstream, the timing of each community depends on land-use proximity and seasonal discharge. In Harpswell Sound, the nutrient regime and phytoplankton community structure vary systematically: first diatoms strip silicate, then dinoflagellates utilize nitrate, followed by chlorophytes and cryptophytes that utilize available phosphate. These findings reveal, for the first time, patterns in phytoplankton communities and nutrient dynamics across the fresh to salt water interface. Ultimately the Kennebec River phytoplankton communities and nutrient regimes are distinct, and the river is only a source of silicate to Harpswell Sound.
Ideal Point Models with Social Interactions Applied to Spheres of Legislation Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Luca Ostertag-Hill
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The Colombo-Venezuelan Border Through the Lens of the Colombian Press
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Diego Rafael Grossmann
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- The Colombo-Venezuelan Border Through the Lens of the Colombian Press examines the dominant Colombian press coverage of crises of sovereignty at the Colombo-Venezuelan border, Venezuelan migration, and the February 2019 attempt to introduce humanitarian aid into Venezuela, as seen in El Espectador and El Tiempo’s coverage from the period of August 2018-November 2019. Through theories of nations and power, this thesis reveals the divergent editorial lines and dominant narratives within each newspaper’s construction of the relation between the Colombian and Venezuelan nations, states, and their people. The study details how both newspapers construct different “truths” through divergent constructions of similar events in a manner coherent with the ideological affinities and conceptions of Colombian national identity held by their respective audiences and editorial leadership, constrained further by economic factors. The thesis is split into three main chapters. Chapter 1 addresses the construction of Colombian nationhood rooted in militarism and the presentation of the Colombian state as a protector in El Tiempo’s coverage concerning binational tensions at the border. Chapter 2 traces the coverage regarding Venezuelan migration to Colombia within El Espectador, detailing the conception of national identity rooted in liberal-democratic values that the newspaper constructs and appeals to. Chapter 3 considers both newspaper’s coverage of the attempt to introduce humanitarian aid into Venezuela in 2019. Ultimately, this thesis argues that the discursive actor––and construction––of Venezuela permits the “imagining” of the Colombian nation, a project framed through a discussion of the Colombian conflict and official commitments to multiculturalism by the Colombian state.
Daily, seasonal, and yearly timescales of seawater carbonate chemistry variability in Harpswell Sound and the Gulf of Maine Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Eugen Florin Cotei
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Metabolic glycan inhibitors interfere with glycoprotein biosynthesis in the human pathogen Ralstonia pickettii Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Melissa G. Demczak
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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Probe Compounds at Predicting Anionic Pharmaceutical Sorption to Soils Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Ben Cook
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Albert Camus: An Ethical Politics in the Absurd World Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2015-05-01
Creator: Stephanie Lane
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Regional Identity, Devolution and Ethnic Outbidding: The Rise and Radicalization of Ethnoregionalist Parties in Spain Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Alex Baselga Garriga
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Localizing Resistance: How Southern Women Locate Sexual and Bodily Autonomy and Strategically Resist the Institutions Aiming to Shape Them
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Gillian Raley
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- This paper analyzes the methods of resistance enacted by women-identifying people in Mississippi against the institutions seeking to police how they understand their own sexuality and bodily autonomy. This analysis draws upon a series of in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted in the summer of 2020 focused on construction of community, intersectional identity, relationship with the body, and what inputs frame how women in Mississippi understand sex. This project puts these interviews in conversation with literature from a variety of subfields, including resistance studies, the Sociology of the South, and the Sociology of sexuality, all of which help bring the argument behind these data to light. Resistance looks different in different eras, and generally scholars like to analyze resistance as collective action, collective voice, collective struggle. These data instead argue that strategic, individualized resistance is just as vital to marginalized bodies, particularly when explosive action is not possible. Studying strategies of resistance that lurk beneath the surface not only expands what we now see as “radical,” but it also lends insight into where lasting change can begin.
Accretion onto endoparasitic black holes at the center of neutron stars
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Chloe B Richards
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- We revisit the system consisting of a neutron star that harbors a small, possibly primordial, black hole at its center, focusing on a nonspinning black hole embedded in a nonrotating neutron star. Extending earlier treatments, we provide an analytical treatment describing the rate of secular accretion of the neutron star matter onto the black hole, adopting the relativistic Bondi accretion formalism for stiff equations of state that we presented elsewhere. We use these accretion rates to sketch the evolution of the system analytically until the neutron star is completely consumed. We also perform numerical simulations in full general relativity for black holes with masses up to nine orders of magnitude smaller than the neutron star mass, including a simulation of the entire evolution through collapse for the largest black hole mass. We construct relativistic initial data for these simulations by generalizing the black hole puncture method to allow for the presence of matter, and evolve these data with a code that is optimally designed to resolve the vastly different length scales present in this problem. We compare our analytic and numerical results, and provide expressions for the lifetime of neutron stars harboring such endoparasitic black holes.
Silent Nation: a memoir of sorts This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Mishal Kazmi
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Cosmological gravitational waves: Refining a general rule of thumb for reheating
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: David Zhou
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- There are predictions for cosmological gravitational wave backgrounds from reheating based on various models. But, these predictions do not address the question of how an observed spectrum relates back to an unknown model or parameter. Given this problem, we have numerically and analytically investigated a variety of chaotic inflation models and their gravitational wave spectra. In doing so, we found a power law relation between gravitational wave peak frequency and an underlying chaotic inflation parameter. We found a two-class amplitude puzzle related to how strongly a matter producing field is coupled to the inflaton. We estimated the parameter describing how quadrupolar the gravitational wave source's energy density to good agreement with previous estimates.
Agent-Based Modeling of Asset Markets: A Study of Risks, Preferences, and Shocks This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Evan Albers
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Service Beyond Bars: How Correctional Chaplains Mediate the Movement of Religion in Prisons and Jails This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Lia F. Kornmehl
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"Proud Flesh and Blood": Phineas Fletcher, Gabriel Daniel, and Seventeenth-Century Theories of Embodiment
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Micaela Elanor Simeone
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- The human body was a site of discovery and redefinition in early modern Europe. This project traces the gradual arc from the mid-seventeenth century towards Cartesian notions of the body in the later part of the century through two fictions: Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650)’s The Purple Island (1633) and Gabriel Daniel (1649-1728)’s Voyage du Monde de Descartes (1690). This project views these two largely-overlooked texts as important literary works that represent the seventeenth century’s transformative debates about and explorations of the human body. I argue that Fletcher employs a dissective mode that embraces mind-body harmony while framing the human as both fragmented and whole. I then explore how Voyage du Monde de Descartes responds to an altogether different culture in the late seventeenth century, after Cartesian ideas extracted mind from body and no longer saw the body as a significant marker of humanity. I argue that Voyage ultimately reveals—through a captivating satirical fiction—how understanding Cartesian anatomy as the product of anxiety, uncertainty, and novelty helps us better see how we became motivated to transcend our bodies.
Searle’s Mind: Brains, Subjects, and Systems
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Saul Cuevas-Landeros
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- Throughout this project, I ‘step into the Chinese Room’ presented by philosopher John R. Searle and develop the areas where the Chinese Room Argument succeeds. I have aimed to pick out where Searle has succeeded with the Chinese Room Argument and introduce how it fits in with his school of biological naturalism, as it seems that he already had some conception of it when presenting the Argument. From here, I introduce some of the primary arguments against the Chinese Room Argument because they do not fit with Searle’s overarching theme of biological naturalism. Particularly, Searle’s conception of systems and system features is something he endorses for the biological but immediately labels as silly for the Chinese Room. Following the exposition of systems and system features, I expand on how there is a disconnect between Searle’s use of system features and his view of the Chinese Room Argument. What is so special about Searle’s conception of systems and the systems present in the Chinese Room Argument? Searle should claim that the Chinese Room is simply not the kind of thing that can think. Ultimately, Searle’s philosophy of mind leaves us with either a muddled philosophy or an invalid argument in the Chinese Room, but with much to learn and not forget to consider in the philosophy of mind, such as the important role of subjectivity in our conscious life.
Impacts of eelgrass (Zostera marina) on pore-water sulfide concentrations in intertidal sediments of Casco Bay, Maine
Date: 2016-05-01
Creator: Sabine Y Berzins
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- Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is a perennial seagrass that provides many vital ecosystem services including stabilizing sediments, maintaining water clarity, and providing complex habitat in the intertidal and shallow subtidal coastline. Historically, Maine supported dense eelgrass beds in shallow waters surrounding islands and along the coastal mainland. However, in 2012, high population densities of European green crabs (Carcinus maenas), which physically disturb and remove eelgrass as they forage, were correlated with widespread eelgrass declines. Over 55% of the area of eelgrass in Casco Bay was lost, mainly between 2012 and 2014. Eelgrass typically grows in low-oxygen sediments that produce a chemically reducing environment. Sulfate-reducing bacteria in these reduced sediments produce hydrogen sulfide, a toxin that can intrude into eelgrass tissues and impair the plants’ ability to photosynthesize. When eelgrass is not present, sulfide can build up in the pore-water. When eelgrass is present, it can oxygenate the sediments through its roots, thereby preventing the intrusion and buildup of toxic hydrogen sulfide. However, if the substrate is de-vegetated, oxygen levels drop as sedimentary organic matter is decomposed, and the accumulation of sulfides to harmful concentrations in the pore-water may make recolonization of eelgrass difficult or perhaps impossible even in the absence of green crabs. In an effort to monitor characteristics of Casco Bay eelgrass beds and determine spatially where eelgrass may be more likely to recover, four Casco Bay sites with varying degrees of vegetation loss were sampled in 2015 for pore-water sulfide concentration, sediment carbon and nitrogen content, and sediment grain size analysis. Measurements of sulfide concentrations showed correlations with the timing of eelgrass loss, such that vegetated sites had low pore-water sulfide concentrations and sites that had been de-vegetated for longer periods of time had high sulfide concentrations. Carbon and nitrogen content in the sediment was higher at de-vegetated sites, likely due to a higher percentage of finer sediments at those locations. Coarser sediments were more highly vegetated than finer sediments, perhaps displaying a preference of green crabs to forage in finer sediments. Catastrophic loss of eelgrass in Casco Bay has likely led to differences in sulfide levels, carbon and nitrogen content in the sediment, and grain size distribution, depending on degree of vegetation. Eelgrass restoration in Casco Bay will likely be limited by high pore-water sulfide concentrations.
Localizing Potential Messenger RNA Transport Protein Ips1 in Candida albicans Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
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Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Yi Peng Wang
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Surfing the Kali Yuga: Tracking the Alt-Right on Twitter
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Jaida Hodge-Adams
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- The alt-right is a hyper-extreme, decentralized network of far-right pundits and their doggish supporters that exists almost entirely online. Consumed by conspiracy and identity, the myths of bigoted ideologies like racism, antisemitism, and transphobia are taken for granted, and their ideology calls for violent ends by violent means. In the physical world, members of the alt-right often keep their rhetoric to themselves; Online, however, they find solace in a vast, international network of websites and forums that together form one giant echo chamber into which they can dump their darkest thoughts. Though any individual member of the alt-right may operate uniquely within the context of their home country, together they form a collective, international voice whose strongest claims often transcend borders and resist state-level analysis. Unspeakable acts of violence like mass shootings, senseless killings, and acts of terrorism are unpredictable but become significantly more likely when the rhetorical atmosphere breeds hostility. By demonizing minority groups and spreading ideologies of hate, the alt-right makes these acts of violence more likely. On massive platforms like Twitter, the alt-right’s rhetoric can seep into mainstream conversations; their framing of concepts like race, gender, sexuality, and national identity are forced into relevance. Their rhetoric is euphemistic, but their message is clear, and their hate poses a real threat to people’s lives. This honors project explores the ideological and geographic features of the alt-right and their international implications, concluding that the alt-right is a globally interconnected group of actors whose conspiracies motivate lone-wolf terrorists worldwide.
Effects of Origin Environment and Temperature Acclimation on the Temperate Coral Astrangia poculata This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Deva K Holliman
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Peace Be Dammed? Water Power and Water Politics in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin
Date: 2015-05-01
Creator: Camille E. Wasinger
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Examining the Ability of Remote Sensing to Characterize Turfgrass Stress Physiology
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Benjamin Ross
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- Remote sensing of solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is a valuable tool in understanding the global carbon cycle. While SIF is highly correlated with photosynthesis at the ecosystem scale, the role that remote sensing of SIF can play at smaller scales is still unclear. The goal of my research was to investigate the ability of SIF to detect changes in pigmentation, photosynthesis, and energy partitioning at the grass canopy and leaf level in response to water stress and abscisic acid (ABA) hormone treatments. Both treatments immediately inhibited photosynthesis by limiting gas exchange through stomatal closure, but SIF declined gradually. Recovery of photosynthesis after alleviation of water stress was not reflected in remote measurements of SIF. I found that senescence in the tips of grasses had been driving changes in remote measurements, which affected remote measurements even when measured leaf-level gas exchange in the lower living tissue recovered. This heterogeneous senescence pattern contextualizes the disconnect between SIF and photosynthesis in stressed turfgrass.
Impact of SR-Like RNA-Binding Protein (Slr1) Structure on Splicing in Candida albicans Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
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Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Michael Christopher Dean
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Infant and Maternal Health Outcomes Following Improved Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Pregnant Women This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Emma A. Bomfim
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An Exploration of the Room Temperature Growth and Tuning of Cobalt Hydroxide Carbonate Morphologies and Assemblies Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
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Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Zubin Jay Kenkare
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Do Voters Reward Incumbents for Service Provision? Electoral Accountability in South African Elections
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Rory Mayne Devlin
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- Democratic theory suggests that voters reward or punish incumbent political parties in elections by evaluating parties’ ability to provide services. But do voters reward incumbent parties for service provision in practice? This project explores the relationship between municipal-level service provision and voting in the South African context. I test whether the local provision of services, such as electricity, piped water, internet, trash collection, and flush toilets, impact the performance of South Africa’s two major political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) in municipal and national elections between 2009 and 2021. I observe this relationship in ANC- and DA-controlled municipalities using municipal-level data on public service provision, election results, and nighttime brightness levels. The municipal-level results show that DA-controlled municipalities with higher levels of service provision in 2016 offered more support for the DA in the 2021 and 2019 elections. However, ANC-controlled municipalities with higher levels of 2016 service provision did not support the ANC at higher rates. Additionally, ANC-controlled municipalities that improved service provision between 2011 and 2016 supported the ANC at higher rates in the 2021 and 2019 elections than they did in previous elections. DA vote share did not increase in DA-controlled municipalities where services improved over time.
Dispersive Shock Waves in Granular Chains This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Ari Geisler
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Comparing natural variation in enhancer usage within and among Drosophila species This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Justin K. Yang
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Mutual benefits of inducible defenses to crab predators in the blue mussel Mytilus edulis in a multi-predator environment
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Sophia Walton
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- The blue mussel Mytilus edulis alters its phenotype in species-specific ways in response to either green crab (Carcinus maenus) or sea star (Asterias sp.) predation. Previous studies have shown that only sea stars induce changes in abductor muscle morphology, while green crabs generally alter the shape and thickness of shells. In the Western Gulf of Maine, Blue mussels collected from wave protected sites with abundant green crab predators were shown to have significantly thicker shells and larger adductor muscles than mussels collected from wave exposed sites with few green crab predators. The phenotypes of mussels originating from wave-protected and high green crab abundance sites increased the handling time by A. forbesi compared to sites with low wave exposure and high green crab abundance. These results contradict the paradigm that shell thickness trades off with abductor morphology, and I propose that a likely candidate for increased energy allocation to these traits is a decrease in reproductive allocation. My results further suggest that the escalating “arms race” between invasive green crabs and blue mussels in the Western Gulf of Maine is leading to changes in the phenotypic response of mussel populations in ways that are likely impacting sea star foraging dynamics.
The Role of the Nitric Oxide Negative Feedback Loop in the Stability of the Lobster Cardiac Ganglion Homarus americanus Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Marie Marjorie Bergsund
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Radiation-induced changes in gene expression in Sciara coprophila Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
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Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Kodie R Garza
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Counter-Futurisms: Collaborative Survival and Communal Healing in a Climate-Changed World This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Lianna Harrington
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Rebellion as an Approach to Life in the Work of Albert Camus Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
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Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Emily Ruth Staten
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Minor, Ugly, and Meta: Feelings in Contemporary Korean American Literature
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Kyubin Kim
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- In 2019, Korean American writer Cathy Park Hong published her memoir Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning in the midst of a turning point in Asian American politics. Hong describes minor feelings as “emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic, built from the sediments of everyday racial experience and the irritant of having one’s perception of reality constantly questioned or dismissed.” Used as a concept to summate the Asian American experience in white America as living in a country where one’s reality is constantly questioned and made invisible, minor feelings forges an affective framework to study minoritized, diasporic literature. My project enriches Hong’s “minor feelings” by studying Korean American literature through a transnational and multimedia lens, considering how Korea’s colonial history and nation-building play roles in emoting Korean American self-realities. I structurally model my project after Sianne Ngai’s Ugly Feelings, split into four chapters, each focusing on one affect: shame, anger, han, and love. My project follows and documents the contemporary shifts occurring in Korean Americana, in how they perceive collective racial and diasporic identity, the intersectionality of layered identities, and the younger generations’ call for coalition. Since Korean American affects often are studied as an afterthought to Korean affects, my project retains a focus on the Korean American experience, recentering members of a diaspora whose globalizing homeland’s triumphs may eclipse their minor, invisible realities in America.
Nuevas posibilidades para la subjetividad feminista en la literatura del Cono Sur
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Kate Elizabeth Tapscott
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- ¿Cómo es que se puede escapar verdaderamente de la opresión patriarcal? Esta investigación aborda a través de un análisis de la literatura de escritoras del Cono Sur el asunto complicado de la liberación bajo un sistema en constante mutación. En el primer capítulo, a partir de aportes teóricos de Freud, Josefina Ludmer y Homi Bhabha entre otros, analizo cuentos de Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, y Clarice Lispector cuyas protagonistas intentan resistir su condición de víctima con diversos grados de éxito. En el capítulo que sigue, exploro una tendencia reciente en la literatura de escritoras del Cono Sur que incorpora elementos del horror y lo gótico para desestabilizar una cosmovisión humanista y patriarcal. Incorporando la teoría de Gabriel Giorgi, Rosi Braidotti, y Julieta Yelin, investigo los efectos que los animales, los cuerpos, y la materia tienen en la expansión de la agencia feminista y discuto si ofrecen o no nuevas e inesperadas posibilidades para resistir el sistema.
LE VAL ET LE CADRE : ESPACES MORTIVITAUX DE RIMBAUD ET DE MOUAWAD Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Dylan J. Bess
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A Comprehensive Survey on Functional Approximation
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Yucheng Hua
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- The theory of functional approximation has numerous applications in sciences and industry. This thesis focuses on the possible approaches to approximate a continuous function on a compact subset of R2 using a variety of constructions. The results are presented from the following four general topics: polynomials, Fourier series, wavelets, and neural networks. Approximation with polynomials on subsets of R leads to the discussion of the Stone-Weierstrass theorem. Convergence of Fourier series is characterized on the unit circle. Wavelets are introduced following the Fourier transform, and their construction as well as ability to approximate functions in L2(R) is discussed. At the end, the universal approximation theorem for artificial neural networks is presented, and the function representation and approximation with single- and multilayer neural networks on R2 is constructed.
The Price of Carbon: Politics and Equity of Carbon Taxes in the Middle Income Countries of South Africa and Mexico
Date: 2015-05-01
Creator: Bridgett C McCoy
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- This study provides the first analysis of the politics and ethics behind carbon taxation in South Africa and Mexico. Using the preexisting scholarly frameworks of climate change policy, tax policy, and Robert Putnam’s two level games, I determine that in both cases, international pressures from multilateral negotiations and international development funding sources initiated the carbon tax policymaking process within the environment and treasury ministries of both countries. Once environment ministry bureaucrats initiated the carbon tax a lack of politicization of climate change (both countries) and an additional gain of raising revenue (Mexico) allowed the taxes to become law. I then turn to the laws themselves, analyzing their implications for climate justice. In both cases, the government did not adopt any proposals made interest groups representing environmental concerns and poverty groups, and instead shaped the bills so as to tailor to the interests of heavy manufacturing. This policy decision had the main effect of weakening the climate change mitigation impact of the carbon tax, and exacerbating issues of regressivity by not recycling revenues towards projects aimed at poverty reductions. I conclude this paper with an analysis of the ethics of such a carbon tax in developing countries. The carbon taxes, as they currently exist, sacrifice the rights and needs of the present poor for those of the future generation while an ideal policy that addresses poverty betters the condition of both groups. In order to ensure climate justice and for all groups and prevent political backlash, policy makers in middle-income countries must make carbon reduction policies with the unique challenges of poverty and climate change mitigation in mind.
Building Home in Diaspora: New York’s Jewish Left and the History of the Bronx Housing Cooperatives
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Micah Benjamin Wilson
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- This thesis investigates three predominantly Jewish housing cooperatives that emerged in the Bronx in the late 1920s. The Amalgamated Housing Cooperative, the United Workers Cooperative Colony (the “Coops”), and the Sholem Aleichem Houses offered garment workers utopian retreats from the drudgery of Lower East Side tenements where Jewish immigrants arrived in droves between 1890-1920. With each cooperative housing a distinct faction of the Jewish Left––from socialists to communists to Yiddish nationalists––the Bronx housing cooperatives, more than experiments in communal living, were the site of a highly contested battle over competing Jewish cultural and political worldviews across the 1930s and 1940s. Transcending the era that is typically considered the movement’s “peak” in the 1910s, this thesis demonstrates that the era of the Bronx cooperatives must be central to any study of the Jewish labor movement by revealing the ways radical Jews attempted to maintain and negotiate their various worldviews against the backdrop of the threats posed by the capitalist housing market, assimilation, and sectarian struggles. I reconsider the disproportionate attention the “success story” of the Amalgamated Cooperative has received, situating its politics as but one of many responses to the contradictions embedded in the housing cooperative model. Finally, I analyze the role of nostalgia present across resident recollections of the cooperatives and situate it in the contexts of 1970s neoliberal urban reform and suburbanization, while considering the discursive power of this emotion to obscure the persistent legacy of anti-black racism entangled in the cooperative housing movement despite its progressive reputation.
Identification of genes involved in Helicobacter pylori glycolipid and glycoprotein biosynthesis Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Adedunmola Praise Adewale
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Bacterial Coat of Armor: Probing how Glycan Biosynthesis in Helicobacter pylori Modulates Host Immune Recognition Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Francis Jacob Kassama
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Growing Pains: Toward a Coalition-Based Theory of State Land Use Policy
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Patrick Rochford
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- In the decades following World War II, mass suburbanization remade the American landscape. While suburbs accounted for 83% of the nation’s growth between 1950 and 1970, cities bled their populations and natural resources dwindled. Treating the postwar era as a critical juncture, this thesis examines the political history of twentieth-century state land use policy to illuminate how competing interests have shaped policy outcomes across the United States. Specifically, the paper seeks to explain the passage of statewide growth management and smart growth programs. After providing a history of American suburbanization, the paper considers an emergent challenge to the postwar growth paradigm as manifested through resistance to urban renewal, open space loss, and diverse anti-freeway coalitions that combined actors from each movement. Thereafter, I detail the development of statewide growth management and smart growth programs before employing a set of case studies to discern causal factors associated with the success or failure of such legislation. Testing the theory that broad-based coalitions were essential to the passage of state growth management legislation, I perform a controlled comparison of two pairs of states, Maryland and Virginia and Oregon and Washington, employing additional within-case analysis for Washington. In so doing, I find evidence that diverse coalitions—from environmentalists and housing advocates to farmers and historic preservationists—were essential to the passage of state growth management programs. I conclude by considering the implications of these findings and the relevance of state land use policy to contemporary issues such as affordable housing and climate change.
The effect of early life adversity on basolateral amygdala projections to the prefrontal cortex in male and female rats during development Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Khushali N Patel
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Pathways: Montana Stories and Poems This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Tess Davis
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Characterizing Proteins of the Wall-Associated Kinase Signaling Pathway in Arabidopsis Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2016-01-01
Creator: Emily M King
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The Current Support Theorem in Context
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Ethan Winters
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- This work builds up the theory surrounding a recent result of Erlandsson, Leininger, and Sadanand: the Current Support Theorem. This theorem states precisely when a hyperbolic cone metric on a surface is determined by the support of its Liouville current. To provide background for this theorem, we will cover hyperbolic geometry and hyperbolic surfaces more generally, cone surfaces, covering spaces of surfaces, the notion of an orbifold, and geodesic currents. A corollary to this theorem found in the original paper is discussed which asserts that a surface with more than $32(g-1)$ cone points must be rigid. We extend this result to the case that there are more than $3(g-1)$ cone points. An infinite family of cone surfaces which are not rigid and which have precisely $3(g-1)$ cone points is also provided, hence demonstrating tightness.
The ELMO Family of Pectin Biosynthesis Scaffold Proteins Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Margaret Elizabeth Weinstock
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Investigating the effects of a glutamine-rich protein on the localization of a mutant RNA-binding protein and stress response in Candida albicans Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
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Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Christoph Anders Tatgenhorst
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