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Comm-Entary 43rd Edition, 2022-2023 - Full Issue May 2023

Comm-Entary 43rd Edition, 2022-2023 - Full Issue

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Studies Of Epigenetics And Properties Of B Cell Receptor In Waldenström Macroglobulinemia (Wm), Mona Karbalivand May 2023

Studies Of Epigenetics And Properties Of B Cell Receptor In Waldenström Macroglobulinemia (Wm), Mona Karbalivand

Doctoral Dissertations

Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) is an indolent lymphoproliferative disorder with aberrant monoclonal immunoglobulin M (IgM) production that is associated with disease symptoms. Despite significant advances in our understanding of disease biology, the cell of origin remains largely unknown. Although WM therapy options have improved over the last decade, WM is still an incurable disease. Many studies have identified epigenetic dysregulation as a regulatory factor in WM malignancy. Here, we investigated the role of Mixed-lineage leukemia 1 (MLL1) histone methyltransferase in WM. We showed that MLL1 and its partner Menin are upregulated in WM patients. We also found that MLL1 knockdown and …

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"A Wild Home For Wild Things": Forest Workers' Co-Creation Of Knowledge, Identity, And Place, Adrienne R. Brown May 2023

"A Wild Home For Wild Things": Forest Workers' Co-Creation Of Knowledge, Identity, And Place, Adrienne R. Brown

Doctoral Dissertations

This study addresses the relationship between environmental knowledge and place-based and occupational identities. I conducted fifty-five in-depth interviews with people involved in forest management in northern California. Participants belonged to one of three groups: logger- industrial, governmental-institutional, or organizational. In addition, I completed twenty-seven hours of observational fieldwork at logging sites in the region. From these transcripts, several themes emerge. Participants adopt a variety of ways of knowing and conceptions of care, and these correspond to different forest priorities, as well as attitudes toward global environmental issues. These groups also each construct distinct occupational identities, which sometimes form in response …

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Highly Dispersed Metal Sites On Semiconductor Surface For Small Molecule Activation, Ehab Shaaban May 2023

Highly Dispersed Metal Sites On Semiconductor Surface For Small Molecule Activation, Ehab Shaaban

Doctoral Dissertations

Heterogeneous catalysts have been extensively used in various chemical transformations that have important ecological and economical relevance. The rational design of such catalysts, however, is still not effectively implemented due to the ambiguity that encircles their structure-activity correlations. The origin of synergetic effects which make the binary system (metal/metal oxide) distinct from the individual components continues to elude researchers. In this work, binding and structural properties that emerge from metal/metal oxide interaction were investigated using in situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). Different catalytic structures, including highly dispersed Cu sites on TiO2, were …

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Domestic Shakespeares In The Antebellum United States, Daniel G. Lauby May 2023

Domestic Shakespeares In The Antebellum United States, Daniel G. Lauby

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines how early nineteenth-century female novelists developed a new mode of adapting Shakespeare, what I am calling “domestic Shakespeares,” that cite, reference, and rearrange plays based on women’s experiences in and of the home. I focus on popular women authors whose novels appeared between 1827 and 1862, a time when identity was especially apparent in the geographical formation of the United States. These women novelists used allusions to and adaptations of Shakespeare in their works to express their frustrations with conventional paradigms of womanhood and related disciplinary systems, such as coverture, that limited women’s citizenship. “Domestic Shakespeares,” I …

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“They Turn To Violence”: Active Shootings And The Convergence Of Hegemonic Masculinity, Race, And Perceived Injustice, Linda M. Fogg May 2023

“They Turn To Violence”: Active Shootings And The Convergence Of Hegemonic Masculinity, Race, And Perceived Injustice, Linda M. Fogg

Doctoral Dissertations

Public rampage shootings like Parkland, FL, the Las Vegas concert shooting, and Sandy Hook are a type of crime that captures national attention. As media covers these incidents and the perpetrators of them, they seek to explain why someone would commit such violence. Using active shooter data for incidents that occurred between 2000 and 2019, I examine shooter identity with particular focus on the shooter’s race, an often-unreported statistic. Finding 55.4% of active shooters are white men, interviews with 20 white men and 10 white women are analyzed for explanations for white men’s violence. These men and women describe active …

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Modernism On The Edge Of The Anthropocene: The Ecological Imagination Of Forster, West, Warner, Woolf, And Eliot, Leanna Jean Lostoski-Ho May 2023

Modernism On The Edge Of The Anthropocene: The Ecological Imagination Of Forster, West, Warner, Woolf, And Eliot, Leanna Jean Lostoski-Ho

Doctoral Dissertations

By reading modernist literature on the edge of the Anthropocene, I argue in this dissertation that modernist authors, through the experimental aesthetics of their works, are able to articulate the beginnings of anthropogenic climate change in the early-twentieth century. The early-twentieth century, and particularly the interwar period, in which British modernist authors such as E. M. Forster, Rebecca West, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot were writing coincides with the early-twentieth-century ramp up period of human activity rising to the level of a geological force before the beginning of the Anthropocene. While this dissertation does not argue …

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Cyclodextrin Impedimetric Biosensors For The Detection Of Hydrophobic Metabolites, Zahra Panahi May 2023

Cyclodextrin Impedimetric Biosensors For The Detection Of Hydrophobic Metabolites, Zahra Panahi

Doctoral Dissertations

Sepsis is a complicated medical emergency and critically ill patients suffering from infectious diseases are at a high risk for developing and dying from sepsis. According to a recent (2019) cohort study from six United States hospitals, suboptimal care (e.g., delay in antibiotics, inappropriate antibiotic therapy) is responsible for 22.7 % of in-hospital sepsis-associated deaths. In September 2020, the World Health Organization called on the scientific community to develop rapid, effective, and affordable tools to improve diagnosis, surveillance, and treatment of sepsis. Our long-term goal throughout this project is to develop a cyclodextrin (CD) impedimetric tongue that can provide early …

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Unions As Gendered Institutions: The Effects Of Union Membership And Occupational Gender Composition On Parental Leave Access, Meghan Cormier-O'Leary May 2023

Unions As Gendered Institutions: The Effects Of Union Membership And Occupational Gender Composition On Parental Leave Access, Meghan Cormier-O'Leary

Master's Theses and Capstones

In the absence of a national universal paid parental leave policy, access to parental leave is stratified in the United States. While several states have implemented paid family leave policies, workers typically rely on their employers to provide such a benefit. Previous qualitative research demonstrates that the share of women in labor unions may influence the provision offamily-friendly benefits. I utilize two nationally-representative datasets—the 2017-18 American Time Use Survey and the 2013-2017 American Community Survey—to analyze the relationship between union membership, occupational gender composition, and their interaction on access to paid and unpaid parental leave. Using weighted logistic regressions, I …

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Friends, Brothers, And Citizens: American Revolutionary War Patriots Of Color And Their Fight For Rights Across The Northeast, Benjamin D. Remillard May 2023

Friends, Brothers, And Citizens: American Revolutionary War Patriots Of Color And Their Fight For Rights Across The Northeast, Benjamin D. Remillard

Doctoral Dissertations

“Friends, Brothers, and Citizens” examines the lives of the American Revolutionary War’s Northeastern Patriots of color. While historians have focused on these men’s decisions and actions during the war itself, this work draws attention to another vital part of their stories: the rest of their lives. To best demonstrate their impact, “Friends, Brothers, and Citizens” frames these men as a multiracial and generational cohort whose commitment to those around them clearly shaped movements to win relief and rights for people of color throughout the early republic. Chapter 1 examines these men’s wartime strategies to support their families and wider communities. …

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The Effect Of Hypoxia On Gli Expression And Their Downstream Effect In Waldenström Macroglobulinemia, Estefania Yzar-Garcia May 2023

The Effect Of Hypoxia On Gli Expression And Their Downstream Effect In Waldenström Macroglobulinemia, Estefania Yzar-Garcia

Master's Theses and Capstones

Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) is a sub-type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma associated with excess secretion of immunoglobulin M (IgM) and the infiltration of the bone marrow by lymphoplasmacytic cells. There is a dynamic oxygen gradient consumption and diffusion in the tumor microenvironment, leading to regions of hypoxia (1-3% O2 concentration). GLI1, GLI2 and GLI3 are members of the family of Kruppel-like factors with highly conserved Zinc finger DNA-binding domains in mammalian cells. They signal trough the Hedgehog pathway which is a conserved pathway among species and is crucial in fundamental development processes and tissue homeostasis. They can also signal trough non-canonical pathways …

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2023 Staff Bios, Author Bios, And Abstracts Brochure May 2023

2023 Staff Bios, Author Bios, And Abstracts Brochure

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Content For Change, Kaley Lambert May 2023

Content For Change, Kaley Lambert

Comm-entary

This piece considers the perspectives of environmental activist Paul Kingsnorth, and author of Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture Mark Bould when assessing the power of storytelling in efforts for climate crisis action. Stories hold the potential to change perspectives and encourage new mentalities. Media content is able to perpetuate, develop, and share stories to a massive audience. This paper argues that if media content were, on a wide scale, to deliberately shift narratives to encourage compassion, action, and concern for the environment, and to discourage wastefulness and mentalities of expansion and colonialism, then it may become more feasible to mitigate …

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The Almost-Feminism Of Midsommar, Kaley Lambert May 2023

The Almost-Feminism Of Midsommar, Kaley Lambert

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This paper argues that the 2019 horror film Midsommar accomplishes almost-feminism. It includes a matriarchal society, respects older women, punishes toxic masculinity, rewards emotional vulnerability, has complex and unique female characters, and has a strong female protagonist. There is also, however an overt lack of intersectionality, as Midsommar exhibits a lack of consideration for class, ableism, racism, or body diversity. This film is nevertheless a worthwhile counterweight in a sea of actively sexist horror films.

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Pandemic Through The Lens: An Examination Of Repeat Photography During Lockdown, Lauren Cole May 2023

Pandemic Through The Lens: An Examination Of Repeat Photography During Lockdown, Lauren Cole

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The Covid-19 pandemic had sweeping effects on environments across the globe including, decreases in pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and many others. Repeat photography and social media became tools to document these changes for people to see. Generally, traditional climate imagery and repeat photography depict the degradation of the environment rather than its recovery. This paper works to show how the use of this unique situation, to promote positive environmental change, might work better as a persuasive tool in the fight for climate action.

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Art In Climate Argumentation, Matthew Morely May 2023

Art In Climate Argumentation, Matthew Morely

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My paper examines the role of art in the environmental crisis that we are currently facing. I believe that the climate emergency is largely the result of a disconnect between the scientific community and the non-scientific community. In other words, scientists are trying to portray scientific information to a non-scientist demographic. I believe that if we are to prevail during these uncertain times, we need a middleman between these two parties. We need someone who is able to take the information that the scientists are bringing to the table and break it down to non-scientists in a way that makes …

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Empathy Meditation To Soothe Division, Kaley Lambert May 2023

Empathy Meditation To Soothe Division, Kaley Lambert

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In that widespread lack of empathy and the presence of excess stress may be contributing factors toward harsh social division in the United States, programs to increase empathy and decrease stress may help to soothe these issues. Classrooms act as spaces which may be specially suited to trial and implement such programs. This research presents the foundational backing for such programs, and offers a detailed proposal for one set within the structure of a college level course.

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Remembering The Aids Crisis & Act Up: The Failures Of The American Public, Government, And Cultural Institutions, Céilí Flot May 2023

Remembering The Aids Crisis & Act Up: The Failures Of The American Public, Government, And Cultural Institutions, Céilí Flot

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This paper discusses the history of the AIDS crisis and the activist group ACT UP. During the early stages of the outbreak, there was much confusion and hysteria surrounding the nature of the illness. Many misconceptions about the illness had led to inaction from the public and government. In response, ACT UP had formed to address this inaction. This paper analyzes a set of six photographs taken during ACT UP’s protest efforts and analyzes the arguments within them.

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Kill ‘Objectivity,’ Save The Planet, Kaley Lambert May 2023

Kill ‘Objectivity,’ Save The Planet, Kaley Lambert

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This piece argues that objectivity is a flawed journalistic standard that is detrimental to pursuits for climate crisis action. Objectivity encourages practices that reiterate structures of injustice, disadvantage voices from marginalized communities while simultaneously advantaging stances with minimal scientific backing, and worsens matters of audience disengagement. In pursuit of reducing or eliminating this environmentally burdensome practice, this paper proposes a transition toward transparent objectivity as a possible alternative to objectivity for journalistic standards.

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Rhetorical Analysis Of 'Surviving R. Kelly', Grace Righini May 2023

Rhetorical Analysis Of 'Surviving R. Kelly', Grace Righini

Comm-entary

This essay discusses the documentary Surviving R. Kelly, which details allegations of sexual abuse against the musician Robert "R" Kelly. The documentary provides a platform for young black women to speak out against Kelly and explain why he is an abuser. It also sheds light on victims' difficulties in obtaining justice, particularly when a celebrity is involved. The essay analyses the impact of the documentary and how it has empowered women to come forward with their own stories, regarding other women speaking out during the #MeToo movement and paving the way for future documentaries speaking out against other powerful celebrities. …

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Sextually Active Youth: A Nationally Representative Study Of Youth Sexting And Peer Influence In The United States, Tori Sciara May 2023

Sextually Active Youth: A Nationally Representative Study Of Youth Sexting And Peer Influence In The United States, Tori Sciara

Master's Theses and Capstones

Purpose: This study aims to better understand adolescent sexting and peer influence in the United States. Sexting is defined as the sending or receiving of sexually explicit or suggestive photos and videos of oneself (Bianchi et al. 2019; Bragard and Fisher 2021; Döring 2014). This study builds upon current adolescent sexting literature by analyzing the impact of gender identity, sexual orientation, pornography consumption frequency, and peer sexting on youth sexting frequency. Methods: Data for this study came from the Technology Facilitated Abuse Survey from the Crimes Against Children Research Center. Respondents were ages 18-28 (N=1982); the sample was slightly older …

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State 4-H Horse Show Entry Packet, Mary Davis May 2023

State 4-H Horse Show Entry Packet, Mary Davis

UNH Cooperative Extension

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Unh Announces 2023 Granite State Award And Honorary Degree Recipients, Erika Mantz Apr 2023

Unh Announces 2023 Granite State Award And Honorary Degree Recipients, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Unh Announces Annual Poetry Festival & Programming, Erika L. Mantz Apr 2023

Unh Announces Annual Poetry Festival & Programming, Erika L. Mantz

Media Relations

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Mainers Open To Proposed Tiktok Ban, Want More Regulation Of Speech On Social Media 4/26/2023, Unh Survey Center Apr 2023

Mainers Open To Proposed Tiktok Ban, Want More Regulation Of Speech On Social Media 4/26/2023, Unh Survey Center

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Six in ten Maine residents believe the social media platform TikTok poses a high or moderate threat to national security and a slim majority support a ban on the platform. A plurality of Mainers believe social media companies should regulate more content on their platforms. A plurality also believe social media companies in general are biased against the political right. A majority disapprove of how Joe Biden has handled his job as president but six in ten approve of Janet Mills' performance as governor.

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Majority In Vt Support Federal Tiktok Ban, Approve Of Biden And Scott's Performances 4/25/2023, Unh Survey Center Apr 2023

Majority In Vt Support Federal Tiktok Ban, Approve Of Biden And Scott's Performances 4/25/2023, Unh Survey Center

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Two-thirds of Vermont residents believe the social media platform TikTok poses a high or moderate threat to national security and a majority support banning the platform. A majority of Vermont residents believe social media companies should regulate more of the content on their platforms. Majorities of Vermont residents approve of Joe Biden's performance as president and Phil Scott's performance as governor.

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Nh Supports Tiktok Ban; Divided On Social Media Platforms Regulating Speech 4/21/2023, Unh Survey Center Apr 2023

Nh Supports Tiktok Ban; Divided On Social Media Platforms Regulating Speech 4/21/2023, Unh Survey Center

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Nearly two-thirds of New Hampshire residents believe the social media platform TikTok poses a high or moderate threat to national security and a slim majority support a proposed ban on the platform. Granite Staters are evenly split on whether social media companies should regulate the content on their platforms more or less than they do currently. A plurality believe social media companies in general are biased against the political right. Republicans and Democrats are divided in their opinion of Elon Musk, while both groups have unfavorable views of Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Biden Struggles Against Potential Challengers In Nh 2024 Dem Primary, Less Than Half Of Primary Voters Want Him To Run 4/20/2023, Unh Survey Center Apr 2023

Biden Struggles Against Potential Challengers In Nh 2024 Dem Primary, Less Than Half Of Primary Voters Want Him To Run 4/20/2023, Unh Survey Center

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President Joe Biden holds a slim lead over possible 2024 Democratic presidential candidates in New Hampshire. However, half of likely 2024 New Hampshire Democratic primary voters don’t want Biden to run for re-election, particularly left-wing voters. Biden is also considerably less personally popular among Granite Staters than many other potential candidates.

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Trump Ahead, Desantis Falters In Race For 2024 Gop Nomination In Nh 4/19/2023, Unh Survey Center Apr 2023

Trump Ahead, Desantis Falters In Race For 2024 Gop Nomination In Nh 4/19/2023, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Following his recent indictment, former President Donald Trump has regained his lead in the New Hampshire 2024 Republican presidential primary. However, likely Republican primary voters are divided about whether Trump should run again. Support for Florida Governor DeSantis has been cut in half since January.

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Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, April 19, 2023, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Apr 2023

Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, April 19, 2023, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

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