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Miniature of Determination of the Relationship Between Peptoid Catalyst Oligomeric Length and Catalytic Enantioselectivity of Trifluoromethylation of Aldehydes
Determination of the Relationship Between Peptoid Catalyst Oligomeric Length and Catalytic Enantioselectivity of Trifluoromethylation of Aldehydes
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    Date: 2020-01-01

    Creator: Katharine Toll

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      Sex Sells: The Iconography of Sex Work in Contemporary Art Since 1973

      Date: 2020-01-01

      Creator: Mackenzie Philbrick

      Access: Open access

      Sex Sells: The Iconography of Sex Work in Contemporary Art Since 1973, explores contemporary renderings of the sex worker as a response to the heavily constructed formalist ideology of the “pure gaze” which privileged the heterosexual male voyeur. The analysis covers a broad range of media, sectioned off into three chapters—painting and photography, body art, and systemic critiques—to explore the affordances of each in critiquing the position of the voyeur as well as the larger capitalistic system. The first chapter investigates the ways in which realistic pictorial renderings depicted the sex worker to impose the voyeuristic viewing position of pornography onto the art-viewer. The second focuses on the relationship between the viewer and the commodified female body, as performers replaced the art commodity with their sexualized bodies. The third chapter discusses larger institutional critiques which illuminate the processes of class structuring in capitalism by recreating the capitalist exploitation or institutional shortcomings of our current sociopolitical system. Taken together, these works respond to the modernist commodification of the art object and female sexuality, which formalist viewing dynamics both reflected and promoted. The artists emphasize the real ramifications of class construction and relational or performative identity to understand how larger social processes play out on certain marginalized bodies, thus highlighting the inherent problems embedded in these social, cultural, and economic systems.


      Miniature of Cultivating Community: Coastal Collaborations for Equitable Climate Survival and Adaptation in Rockland, Maine
      Cultivating Community: Coastal Collaborations for Equitable Climate Survival and Adaptation in Rockland, Maine
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          Date: 2021-01-01

          Creator: Lily Andra McVetty

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            Miniature of Ultrasonic vocalization playback as an affective assay at both neural and behavioral levels: Implications for understanding adversity-induced emotional dysfunction
            Ultrasonic vocalization playback as an affective assay at both neural and behavioral levels: Implications for understanding adversity-induced emotional dysfunction
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                Date: 2023-01-01

                Creator: Sydney M Bonauto

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                  Modeling and Testing Consumer Engagement in the U.S. Organic Food Market

                  Date: 2016-05-01

                  Creator: John L Anderson

                  Access: Open access

                  This study specifies the types of consumers that participate in the U.S. organic market and investigates their revealed preferences. I propose three theoretical consumer types – indifferent consumers, informed organic food lovers, and uninformed organic food lovers – and conduct cross-sectional and time-trend analyses utilizing organic fruit purchase data compiled by The Neilsen Company. The cross-sectional analysis is estimated with a two-stage Heckman selection model, while the time-trend analysis uses simple descriptive statistics and a differenced OLS regression technique. Households are most likely to participate in the organic fruit market if they have a well-educated white or Asian head, are located in a metropolitan area on the West coast, have higher income, have young children, are married, and are making decisions in the spring, summer, or fall. However, households are estimated to purchase more organic fruit, conditional on participating, if they live in a rural area in regions other than the West coast. Having a higher income, being married, having a child less than six years old, being college-educated, and living in a metropolitan area on the West coast are all associated with more dedication to the organic fruit market over time. Households who increased their organic expenditures from 2011 to 2012 likely lived in metropolitan areas on the West coast. Average per-household contribution to the nationwide increase in organic fruit expenditures from 2011 to 2012 on the extensive and intensive margins is estimated to have been about $7 and $14, respectively. I posit relationships between empirical results and the theoretical consumer types.


                  Miniature of Role of SR-like RNA-binding protein 1 (Slr1) in hyphal tip localization of She3-transported mRNA in <i>Candida albicans</i>
                  Role of SR-like RNA-binding protein 1 (Slr1) in hyphal tip localization of She3-transported mRNA in Candida albicans
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                    • Embargo End Date: 2025-05-13

                    Date: 2020-01-01

                    Creator: Emma Beane

                    Access: Embargoed



                      Miniature of The Forest Before Us: Storying the North Maine Woods
                      The Forest Before Us: Storying the North Maine Woods
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                          Date: 2024-01-01

                          Creator: Lillyana Browder

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                            The Ethiopian Student Movement and the Dilemma of Eritrean Sovereignty

                            Date: 2024-01-01

                            Creator: Liat G. Tesfazgi

                            Access: Open access

                            From the perspective of Ethiopian royalists, Pan-Africanists, Marxist internationalists, supports of union, and the broader international community, Eritrean nationalism revealed distressing fissures in many different arguments for preserving Ethiopian territorial unity– arguments not necessarily or explicitly problematic, but nevertheless in opposition to Eritrean demands for the right to national self-determination. For the Ethiopian Student Movement (ESM) specifically, Eritrean sovereignty demanded a reconfiguration of Pan-African unity that conflicted with Ethiopian exceptionalist historiography. Through an analysis of student politics at Haile Selassie University, from 1960-1974, this thesis seeks to complicate existing historiography on the ESM by examining the periodically divergent experiences of Eritrean student activists.


                            Neural compensation in response to salinity perturbation in the cardiac ganglion of the American lobster, Homarus americanus

                            Date: 2024-01-01

                            Creator: Josephine P. Tidmore

                            Access: Open access

                            Central pattern generator (CPG) networks produce the rhythmic motor patterns that underlie critical behaviors such as breathing, walking, and heartbeat. The fidelity of these neural circuits in response to fluctuations in environmental conditions is essential for organismal survival. The specific ion channel profile of a neuron dictates its electrophysiological phenotype and is under homeostatic control, as channel proteins are constantly turning over in the membrane in response to internal and external stimuli. Neuronal function depends on ion channels and biophysical processes that are sensitive to external variables such as temperature, pH, and salinity. Nonetheless, the nervous system of the American lobster (Homarus americanus) is robust to global perturbations in these variables. The cardiac ganglion (CG), the CPG that controls the rhythmic activation of the heart in the lobster, has been shown to maintain function across a relatively wide, ecologically-relevant range of saline concentrations in the short-term. This study investigates whether individual neurons of the CG sense and compensate for long-term changes in extracellular ion concentration by controlling their ion channel mRNA abundances. To do this, I bathed the isolated CG in either 0.75x, 1.5x, or 1x (physiological) saline concentrations for 24 h. I then dissected out individual CG motor neurons, the pacemaker neurons, and sections of axonal projections and used single-cell RT-qPCR to measure relative mRNA abundances of several species of ion channels in these cells. I found that the CG maintained stable output with 24 h exposure to altered saline concentrations (0.75x and 1.5x), and that this stability may indeed be enabled by changes in mRNA abundances and correlated channel relationships.


                            Miniature of Women’s Bodies Between Market and State: Lineages of the Transnational Indian Surrogacy Industry
                            Women’s Bodies Between Market and State: Lineages of the Transnational Indian Surrogacy Industry
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                                Date: 2018-05-01

                                Creator: Shea Cristina Necheles

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