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Monteverde: Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest
Date: 2000-01-01
Creator: Nalini M. Nadkarni, Nathaniel T. Wheelwright
Access: Open access
- The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve has captured the worldwide attention of biologists, conservationists, and ecologists and has been the setting for extensive investigation over the past 40 years. Roughly 40,000 ecotourists visit the Cloud Forest each year, and it is often considered the archetypal high-altitude rain forest. Featuring synthetic chapters and specific accounts written by more than 100 biologists and local residents, the 573-page book documents in a single volume everything known about the biological diversity of Monteverde, Costa Rica, and how to protect it. New short chapters which update and expand the research presented in the 2000 Oxford publication were written in 2014 and are now available.
Have No Fear: Stories Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Jiahn Son
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Between Orientalism, Tradition, and Nationalism:
Building Jewish Identity in Twentieth-century Libya
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Jonathan Gordon Lerdau
Access: Open access
- Libyan Jewry and Jews of the Italian peninsula have engaged in near-constant interaction at least as far back as the time of the Roman empire. This project seeks to add to the history of those interactions by discussing Italian Jewish colonial impacts on the Libyan Jewish population. Using ideas of Orientalism and the imagined nation, this project demonstrates how Libyan Jewish identity was shaped by interaction with Italy and how Italian Jews worked colonially to subjugate, define, and change Libyan Jewry. Through analyzing–among other things–newspapers, scholarship, and general Italian Jewish discussion of and interaction with Libyan Jews, I show how Italian Jews (and elite Libyan Jews) worked to Italianize and later ‘Hebraicize’ the Libyan Jewish community..
Modern Kernel Methods
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Alexander Richardson
Access: Open access
- The primary goal of this thesis is to bridge two powerful learning paradigms—kernel methods and deep learning—to design novel neural architectures. Kernel methods offer a strong theoretical foundation, in contrast to deep learning, which often operates as a black-box despite its widespread success in real-world applications. In an era where such opaque models increasingly shape the economy and daily life, it is crucial to develop architectures that combine the theoretical clarity of kernel methods with the empirical effectiveness of deep learning. At present, computer scientists largely lead the charge in advancing state-of-the-art models, while many mathematicians work retrospectively to understand why these methods are so successful. A key motivation for this thesis—admittedly a personal one—is the hope that mathematical theory can not only explain existing architectures, but also inspire the development of better ones from the outset.
Investigating Candida albicans sensitivity to environmental stress in SR-like RNA binding
protein 1 C-terminal mutants lacking expression of Pin3 protein. Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Matthew Joseph Morales
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Early life adversity-induced affective dysfunction and ketamine treatment: Exploring the role of parvalbumin and DNA methylation Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Yanevith A. Peña
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The Temperature Dependency of Myosuppressin’s Modulatory Activity on the Homarus Americanus Cardiac Neuromuscular system
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Yasemin Altug
Access: Open access
- In order to maintain circuit stability through environmental perturbations, such as increases in temperature, neural circuits are able to adjust their output via modulatory and ion channel regulation. For instance, peptide modulators enable the lobster cardiac neuromuscular system to sustain physiological function at temperatures that surpass the crash temperature of the organ in the absence of modulation. Crash temperature is defined as the temperature at which neural activity ceases. For a crash, this temperature induced loss of activity is recovered when temperature is returned within the permissible range. Thus, it is hypothesized that there are underlying physiological mechanisms employed by the nervous system that compensates for changes in temperature and provides stability within acute temperature fluctuations. Neuromodulatory mechanisms have been proposed as one hypothesis that provide this temperature compensation. In accordance with previously collected data (Lemus 2022), I hypothesized that myosuppressin, a crustacean neuropeptide, provides stability during acute temperature variations. Because myosuppressin acts on the cardiac neurons and muscles separately, we hypothesized that the myosuppressin-induced increase in heart contraction amplitude, and decrease in contraction period can offset each other to provide system stability as temperature is increased. To test whether or not myosuppressin stabilizes circuit output as temperature is increased, myosuppressin was applied to the lobster whole heart at 7ºC, 10ºC, 13ºC and 16ºC, for 20 minutes. Changes in cardiac output in response to temperature and modulation were assessed by measuring the contraction force, heart beat frequency, and minimum contraction force. Interestingly, and contrary to previous results, in this data set, the cardiac neuromuscular system was temperature compensated in saline alone (control), and was not temperature compensated when perfused with myosuppressin (10-6 M). These findings seemed to differ from Lemus’ data (2023), where the cardiac neuromuscular system was not temperature compensated in control conditions and became temperature compensated when perfused with myosuppressin. The seasons at which each data set was collected (June-August vs November-March) could underlie these observed discrepancies.
Age-dependent effects of capsaicin on the mammalian spinal CPG locomotor network Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Jasmine Jia
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Exogenous application of melatonin in drought-stressed tall fescue has no significant impact on photosynthetic capacity Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Elisabeth C. Chan
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Transcending the Clinical: Empathic Care Work, Moral Injury, and the Community Health Worker in Rural Maine
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Anneke Halliday
Access: Open access
- The Maine Mobile Health Program is a federally qualified health center and community health organization that provides healthcare to migrant and seasonal farmworkers in rural Maine. The MMHP employs community health workers to act as negotiators between unjust systems, physicians, and patients. This thesis investigates the ways in which community health workers provide patients with “empathic care” and details how this happens in practice based on field observations and interviews. It also addresses how empathic care benefits patients by creating empowerment, building trust, and giving patients agency in their healthcare decision making. Furthermore, this thesis discusses the cost of providing empathic care as “moral injury” and considers how community health workers are emotionally and psychologically impacted by the work that they do. Ultimately, this thesis illuminates the transformative capacity of empathic care and the burden it imposes on community health workers operating within inequitable systems.
Where the Dead Leave No Trace: The Darién Gap, Bare Life, and the Afterlives of Prevention Through Deterrence This record is embargoed.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Mariana Silvano Blay
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Crystal Engineering Pharmaceuticals: Combining Cocrystals and Additives to Tune Morphology Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Brendan J. Hill
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The Scientists of The Dawnland: Reframing the Boundaries of Knowledge Through Wabanaki Epistemologies
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Jonah Bussgang
Access: Open access
- This honors project explores how Wabanaki scientists navigate and reshape dominant paradigms of science, land use, and education by strategically integrating Western science with Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Through theoretical and historical analysis alongside three ethnographic interviews, I show how Indigenous knowledge is not simply surviving within colonial systems but actively transforming them from within. Framing the work through the concept of etuaptmumk (two-eyed seeing), I examine how my interviewees—Dr. Suzanne Greenlaw, Sam St. John, and Tyler Everett—use science as a relational, spiritual, and community-based practice to support cultural continuity and natural resource protection. Their work challenges the dominant binaries between science and religion, objectivity and identity, and knowledge and responsibility. They engage with Western institutions on their own terms to support their communities and uphold Wabanaki sovereignty. While the work of Indigenous scientists is increasingly studied across the U.S. and globally, Wabanaki communities remain underrepresented in this discourse. This project helps fill that gap and calls on Bowdoin College to invest more seriously in reciprocal relationships with Wabanaki communities, including institutional collaboration and the hiring of Indigenous faculty.
The Revolutionary Body & the Marxist Feminism of Wages for Housework, WITCH, and the Third World Women’s Alliance
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Talia Traskos-Hart
Access: Open access
- The Revolutionary Body traces three Marxist feminist groups which emerged in the late 1960s and organized through the 1970s: Wages for Housework, the Third World Women’s Alliance, and WITCH. These three groups have yet to be combined in secondary historical scholarship, and their grouping here evidences similarities in anti-capitalist organizing across demographic differences. This project delves into the groups’ conceptions of the home and the body as dual sites of oppression and sources of liberation. Through studying such issues as imprisonment, housework, and forced sterilization, this project uncovers the intensity of capitalist violence unto the body and the ensuing mysticism revolutionary women’s bodies were seen to hold.
Migrants at Risk:
How European Union Externalization Policies Challenge Accountability of Human Rights Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Clara Tunny
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Optimizing the Synthesis of 8-Quinolyl-Tetramethylcyclopentadiene for the Selective Dimerization of Linear Alpha Olefins Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Katie Lynn Rea
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Interview with Justin Weathers (Class of 2018) by Aisha Rickford This record is embargoed.
Date: 2019-11-09
Creator: Justin Weathers
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