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Delacenserie, Jessica | Utilizing classroom technology to strengthen elementary education | There is a disconnect in the current education system where there is an abundance of technology accessible to students but it is not being used in a way that enhances their education. The majority of software currently used in primary schools simply transfers books, homework assignments, etc. to mob... | Education, Elementary; Computer-assisted instruction; Education - Effect of technological innovations on | 2016-05 |
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Davidson, Olivia | Utilizing synthetic biology to improve platelet transfusion outcomes | Platelets are essential to blood clotting. Due to a high risk of bacterial infection, donor platelets have short shelf -lives. As a result, being able to maintain a constant supply of platelets in vitro would be clinically valuable. This could be accomplished by using synthetic biology to guide stem... | Blood platelets - Transfusion - Research; Stem cells - Therapeutic use; Synthetic biology; Hematopoietic stem cells; Erthropoientin | 2016-05 |
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Palmieri, Nikole | Validation of a nonlinear optimization algorithm for reconstruction of diffused images | Living tissue is a diffusive light-scattering medium, preventing traditional fluorescence microscopy from being used as a diagnostic imaging modality. To determine microscopy from being used as a diagnostic imaging modality. To determine whether the nonlinear optimization algorithm developed for C... | Diagnostic imaging; Mathematical optimization; Image processing; Diffusion distance; Computational Cannula Microscopy; Nonlinear optimization; MATLAB | 2016-04 |
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Bennion, David | Validation of force pedals for bilateral strength asymmetry testing | Over 125,000 anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgeries are performed each year in the United States. Rates of re-injury to the reconstructed ACL or contralateral ACL up to 49% have been reported in certain populations. Altered biomechanics-including bilateral asymmetry in knee extensor st... | Anterior Cruciate Ligament - Surgery; Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction - methods | 2014-12 |
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Chen, Cynthia | What are we teaching? The translation of exoticism as pedagogy in Schumann and Tchaikovsky | Musical scholars have often studied exoticism-the evocation and representation of cultures outside of one's own-through racial, national, gender, class, and other identities. These studies commonly lead to the taxonomical classification of musical gestures and further questions on the purpose and l... | Music - Philosophy and aesthetics; Music appreciation; Music - Instruction and study | 2016-05 |
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Smith, Enoch | When men are the victims: The incidence of sexual assault against men | Men's experiences of sexual assault have long been a controversial issue. Feminist thinkers like Catherine Mackinnon and Susan Brownmiller have theorized sexual assault as a natural outgrowth of or tool designed to perpetuate women's disempowerment, whereas more liberal thinkers perceive sexual assa... | Male rape victims; Sex crimes | 2016-04 |
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Chuaqui, Anna Magdalena | Why the left loses in Mexico | This paper explores the question: Why has the largest left-of-center party in Mexico, the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), failed to win a presidential election since democratization? Through an analysis of the presidential campaigns of 200,2006, and 2012, this paper seeks to explain the fa... | Partido de la Revolución Democrática (Mexico); Mexico -- Politics and government -- 2000- | 2016 |
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Bertelsen, Brandon | Word of the wild | Many people value and experience what the natural world has to offer and many people do not. The opportunities that exist outdoors include recreation, education, development, and therapy. Everything I do, school, work, volunteer, and play, is to better provide outdoor experiences for people of all... | Outdoor life - Psychological aspects | 2014-12 |
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Azuma, Mariko | Yin Yu Tang and the effects of re-contextualization on vernacular architecture | My paper on the cultural and architectural re-contextualization of Yin Yu Tang, or Hall of Abundant Shelter, at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA, has two main goals: 1) to consider the connections between architecture, space, and the family in a traditional Chinese house; and 2) to exami... | Peabody Essex Museum - Exhibitions, Hall of Abundant Shelter; Architecture, Chinese - Exhibitions | 2016-04 |