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Miniature of An Exploration of the Room Temperature Growth and Tuning of Cobalt Hydroxide Carbonate Morphologies and Assemblies
An Exploration of the Room Temperature Growth and Tuning of Cobalt Hydroxide Carbonate Morphologies and Assemblies
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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

      Access: Open access

      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.


      Miniature of Dispersive Shock Waves in Granular Chains
      Dispersive Shock Waves in Granular Chains
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        • Embargo End Date: 2026-05-18

        Date: 2023-01-01

        Creator: Ari Geisler

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          Miniature of Comparing natural variation in enhancer usage within and among <i>Drosophila</i> species
          Comparing natural variation in enhancer usage within and among Drosophila species
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            • Embargo End Date: 2027-05-19

            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

              Access: Open access

              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.


              Miniature of The Role of the Nitric Oxide Negative Feedback Loop in the Stability of the Lobster Cardiac Ganglion <i>Homarus americanus</i>
              The Role of the Nitric Oxide Negative Feedback Loop in the Stability of the Lobster Cardiac Ganglion Homarus americanus
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                  Date: 2020-01-01

                  Creator: Marie Marjorie Bergsund

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                    Miniature of Radiation-induced changes in gene expression in <i>Sciara coprophila</i>
                    Radiation-induced changes in gene expression in Sciara coprophila
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                    • Restriction End Date: 2026-06-01

                      Date: 2021-01-01

                      Creator: Kodie R Garza

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                        Miniature of Counter-Futurisms: Collaborative Survival and Communal Healing in a Climate-Changed World
                        Counter-Futurisms: Collaborative Survival and Communal Healing in a Climate-Changed World
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                          • Embargo End Date: 2026-05-20

                          Date: 2021-01-01

                          Creator: Lianna Harrington

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                            Miniature of Rebellion as an Approach to Life in the Work of Albert Camus
                            Rebellion as an Approach to Life in the Work of Albert Camus
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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

                                Access: Open access

                                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.