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Miniature of Bacterial Coat of Armor: Probing how Glycan Biosynthesis in <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> Modulates Host Immune Recognition
Bacterial Coat of Armor: Probing how Glycan Biosynthesis in Helicobacter pylori Modulates Host Immune Recognition
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      Date: 2022-01-01

      Creator: Francis Jacob Kassama

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        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

        Access: Open access

        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.


        A Comprehensive Survey on Functional Approximation

        Date: 2022-01-01

        Creator: Yucheng Hua

        Access: Open access

        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.


        Miniature of Impact of SR-Like RNA-Binding Protein (Slr1) Structure on Splicing in <i>Candida albicans</i>
        Impact of SR-Like RNA-Binding Protein (Slr1) Structure on Splicing in Candida albicans
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          Date: 2022-01-01

          Creator: Michael Christopher Dean

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            Miniature of Localizing Potential Messenger RNA Transport Protein Ips1 in <i>Candida albicans</i>
            Localizing Potential Messenger RNA Transport Protein Ips1 in Candida albicans
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              Date: 2022-01-01

              Creator: Yi Peng Wang

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                Miniature of Identification of genes involved in <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> glycolipid and glycoprotein biosynthesis
                Identification of genes involved in Helicobacter pylori glycolipid and glycoprotein biosynthesis
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                    Date: 2022-01-01

                    Creator: Adedunmola Praise Adewale

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                      Miniature of Silent Nation: a memoir of sorts
                      Silent Nation: a memoir of sorts
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                        • Embargo End Date: 2026-05-20

                        Date: 2021-01-01

                        Creator: Mishal Kazmi

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                          Miniature of Albert Camus: An Ethical Politics in the Absurd World
                          Albert Camus: An Ethical Politics in the Absurd World
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                              Date: 2015-05-01

                              Creator: Stephanie Lane

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                                Miniature of Metabolic glycan inhibitors interfere with glycoprotein biosynthesis in the human pathogen <i>Ralstonia pickettii</i>
                                Metabolic glycan inhibitors interfere with glycoprotein biosynthesis in the human pathogen Ralstonia pickettii
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                                    Date: 2021-01-01

                                    Creator: Melissa G. Demczak

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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

                                      Access: Open access

                                      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.