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In The Hull Of The Uss Disregard: An Analysis Of Secretary Of State Cordell Hull’S Execution Of Foreign Policy In East Asia And The Precipitation Of Armed Conflict Between Japan And The United States, Eric B. Hawkins
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The political career of Cordell Hull was motivated primarily by trade policy and the courting of Central America through the negotiation of reciprocal trade treaties that helped stabilize, for the most part, the entire Western Hemisphere. He was an obvious choice for Roosevelt’s cabinet to address economic instability. But why was he chosen for Secretary of State? The Open Door Policy, adopted by many Western nations in East Asia during the early 20th century, was a petri dish primed for the growth of political strife and international conflict. With the warnings from Hull’s predecessor, Henry Stimson, placed on the back …
Draft Card Battler, Brian Moore
Draft Card Battler, Brian Moore
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This project investigates how design transparency and player interaction mechanics can enhance emotional connection and strategic depth in competitive digital card game environments. Draft Card Battler transforms traditional sequential turn-based Trading Card Game (TCG) gameplay into a structured round-based system featuring asymmetric card-play patterns (1-2-2-1) and simultaneous combat resolution. Beginning with a physical card game prototype, the project evolved through iterative design and digital implementation, informed by research in social capital theory and player psychology. Through reflective playtesting and technical development, this study explores whether visibility, pacing, and commitment mechanics foster trust, fairness, and cooperation alongside competitive tension. The implementation …
'In A Mirror, Dimly, Then Face To Face:' Reflecting On Bodily Sin And Spiritual Purity In The Central Female Figures Of Hugo Van Der Goes' Vienna Diptych, Sara Kluka
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This thesis seeks to examine the so-called Vienna Diptych (1478/1479) by Hugo van der Goes. The two panels of the diptych have been displayed together since the 19th century, yet difficulties in provenance and the dating of the artist’s oeuvre have resulted in the continued questioning of its intended creation as a single campaign. This research seeks to assert the diptych’s thematic unity through a concentrated analysis of its leading female figures, a vantage point that has not yet been fully addressed in the literature. This paper will therefore examine the iconographic precedents for the unique imagery of the panels …
Ambiguous Bodies: Third Gender Expressions In Ancient Maya Art, Jayme Horne
Ambiguous Bodies: Third Gender Expressions In Ancient Maya Art, Jayme Horne
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This thesis examines the interpretations of Lintels 23, 24, and 25 from Yachilán, Drawing 18 from Naj Tunich, and Stela H from Copán, with a specific focus on third gender expression. These artworks depict figures that blend masculine and feminine attributes, from costuming to actions, to present intentionally ambiguous representations of the body that all ancient Maya people would have understood. Third gender expression is defined through the blending of masculine and feminine signifiers. It is a gender identity for people who do not identify as male or female, but rather as neither, both, or a combination of male and …
Immersive Art, Nature, And Afrofuturism: Cultivating Wellness And Cultural Awareness, Jojo Abenaavi Wright
Immersive Art, Nature, And Afrofuturism: Cultivating Wellness And Cultural Awareness, Jojo Abenaavi Wright
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This research demonstrates how Afrofuturistic art, combined with nature and scent, enables powerful methods to transform African Diaspora perceptions and support holistic wellness through sensory-emotional engagement. The project introduces The Next Narrative: An Immersive Journey Through Black Time as a multisensory immersive exhibition that combines Afrofuturistic aesthetics with Harlem Renaissance cultural elements. The exhibition presents salons as a sequence that allows visitors to experience time through visual, sonic, and atmospheric transitions. The three senses of touch, scent, and sound operate as fundamental tools for grounding and transformation, which disable analytical thinking while using bodily experiences to perform decolonial memory work. …
The Mystical Kitchen: Feminist Magic And Alchemical Transformation In The Work Of Lenora Carrington, Theresa Burwell
The Mystical Kitchen: Feminist Magic And Alchemical Transformation In The Work Of Lenora Carrington, Theresa Burwell
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This thesis analyzes the inherent feminism in alchemical and magical symbolism, particularly in representations of kitchens in the art and writing of Leonora Carrington. The kitchen has historically been viewed as a gendered space for domestic work. By subverting cultural and religious conventions, Carrington’s kitchen becomes a site for transmutation and feminine ritual. Using feminist discourse, formal art historical analysis, and the history of alchemical symbolism, this thesis asserts that Carrington’s imagery transforms the kitchen from an oppressive domestic space to a mystical laboratory of feminine power. A thorough analysis of Grandmother Moorhead’s Aromatic Kitchen (1975) and The House Opposite …
Physicochemical And Structural Optimization Of Date (Phoenix Dactylifera L.) Syrup: Impact Of Extraction Temperatures And Pectin Addition, Afna Thaivalappil Abdul Asiz
Physicochemical And Structural Optimization Of Date (Phoenix Dactylifera L.) Syrup: Impact Of Extraction Temperatures And Pectin Addition, Afna Thaivalappil Abdul Asiz
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This thesis focuses on the optimization of date (Phoenix dactylifera L.) syrup, an emerging natural sweetener rich in glucose, fructose, and bioactive compounds, by investigating how extraction temperature and pectin incorporation influence its physicochemical and structural properties. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to examine how extraction temperatures (25°C, 50°C, 75°C, and 90°C), and the incorporation of lowmethoxyl pectin (LMP, DE 31%) and high-methoxyl pectin (HMP, DE 85%) prior to concentration, affect the quality, stability, and functionality of date syrup. The results showed that increasing extraction temperatures increased the total soluble solids (16 °Brix at 25°C to …
Illustrations For A Scientific Review Article Publication : Human Stem Cell-Derived Organoids, Sunghwan Bae
Illustrations For A Scientific Review Article Publication : Human Stem Cell-Derived Organoids, Sunghwan Bae
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This thesis explores the role of scientific illustration in improving the comprehension of complex scientific concepts. It traces the historical development of illustrations in scientific literature and examines their functions in both research and review articles. The central contribution of this work is the development of twelve vector-based illustrations that elucidate the applications of human organoids within a review article context. These visuals transform intricate ideas into clear, engaging representations, supported by extensive research and verification to maintain scientific accuracy. The thesis concludes by addressing the future of scientific illustration, advocating for reader-oriented design approaches and the use of innovative …
Democratizing Community Discourse Analysis In Computational Social Science, Md Towhidul Absar Chowdhury
Democratizing Community Discourse Analysis In Computational Social Science, Md Towhidul Absar Chowdhury
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Community resource inequities and undetected infrastructure vulnerabilities cost municipalities billions annually, with disproportionate impacts on marginalized communities. Current computational approaches to community needs assessment suffer from two critical limitations: they rely on aggregate-level analysis that obscures granular community expressions, and they implement sophisticated computational tools that remain inaccessible to stakeholders without technical expertise. This creates what we term the Community-Computational Gap—a persistent divide where domain experts with vital contextual knowledge cannot access the analytical tools they need, while computational experts develop models without sufficient community context. This dissertation addresses these challenges through a novel methodological framework for fine-grained utterance-level classification …
Impact Of Temperature On Larval Mortality And Performance Of The Acorn Barnacle Chthamalus Fissus In San Diego, Ca, Alberto Rivera
Impact Of Temperature On Larval Mortality And Performance Of The Acorn Barnacle Chthamalus Fissus In San Diego, Ca, Alberto Rivera
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Rising ocean temperatures and increasingly frequent marine heatwaves threaten the physiological performance and survival of marine larvae. This study quantifies the thermal tolerance, respiration, and swimming behavior of Chthamalus fissus cyprid larvae to establish a baseline for understanding their vulnerability under future climate scenarios. Larvae were collected from the Scripps Pier in La Jolla, CA and exposed to a range of temperatures (12–50°C, dependent on the experiment) to assess oxygen consumption, mortality, and swimming speeds. Oxygen consumption rates increased significantly with temperature, peaking at 30°C, with cyprids exposed to temperatures above 26°C showing significantly higher respiration rates than those below …
Enhance Telecom-Related International Indicators Using Machine Learning, Omar Alnemer
Enhance Telecom-Related International Indicators Using Machine Learning, Omar Alnemer
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This thesis investigates the enhancement of the Network Readiness Index (NRI) through the application of machine learning methodologies to refine indicator weighting, clustering, and dimensionality. The study builds on research promoting data-driven methods to address the limitations of equal-weighted indices in capturing indicator importance and interdependence. The research aims to evaluate how unsupervised and supervised learning methods can optimize the interpretation of NRI data. The study focuses on three primary research questions: (1) How can PCA be used to reduce the dimensionality of the NRI without significant loss of information? (2) Can k-means clustering reveal meaningful groups of countries with …
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Scale And Coping Mechanisms Among Internally Displaced Persons Of Typhoon Yolanda, Christian Paul S. Biluan
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Scale And Coping Mechanisms Among Internally Displaced Persons Of Typhoon Yolanda, Christian Paul S. Biluan
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The study aimed to determine the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Scale and the Coping Mechanisms utilized by the Internally Displaced Persons of Typhoon Yolanda. It sought to identify the profile, risk factors of the respondents, the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms manifested and coping mechanisms utilized. The study also distinguished the differences in PTSD and Coping mechanisms when respondents are grouped according to their profile and death of family members and examined the relationship of PTSD and Coping. The study adopted the PTSD Symptom Scale and Brief COPE Inventory questionnaires and were consequently translated to Visayan-Waray. These were then pilot-tested …
Spectroscopy Pre-Trained Transformer (Specpt): A Universal Spectroscopic Analysis And Redshift Measurement Framework, Rohan Pattnaik
Spectroscopy Pre-Trained Transformer (Specpt): A Universal Spectroscopic Analysis And Redshift Measurement Framework, Rohan Pattnaik
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Spectroscopic surveys are essential for measuring galaxy redshifts and probing the physical processes driving galaxy evolution. As datasets grow in scale and complexity, traditional analysis methods face increasing limitations, motivating the development of scalable, data-driven alternatives. This thesis presents SpecPT, a transformer-based deep learning framework for general-purpose spectroscopic analysis, with a focus on redshift estimation. The model is first trained on DESI Early Data Release spectra from the Bright Galaxy and Emission Line Galaxy samples, jointly performing spectral reconstruction and redshift regression while learning a latent representation that captures the intrinsic properties of galaxies. SpecPT is then extended to a …
The Case For Mass Media Communication Theories In The Study Of Artificial Intelligence: A Uses And Gratifications & Parasocial Interaction Theory Approach, Colin Farmer
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This study analyzes communication and relationship building between textual generative Artificial Intelligence programs and their users through the lens of parasocial interactions and uses and gratifications. It measures loneliness, knowledge gaining, and task completion as the primary reasons motivating perceived relationship development with AI applications. Through a quantitative survey, it explores the connections between time spent using AI, as well as the previously mentioned factors and seeks to determine what influences a user’s perceived relationship with an AI chatbot program. Comparisons are also drawn between the relationships with AI and the user’s relationships with celebrities, further expanding the justification for …
Analyzing Heat Transfer Mechanisms In Tapered Microgaps And Film Boiling With Computational Modeling Incorporating Nucleation Sites And Subcooled Fluids, Divyprakash Pal
Analyzing Heat Transfer Mechanisms In Tapered Microgaps And Film Boiling With Computational Modeling Incorporating Nucleation Sites And Subcooled Fluids, Divyprakash Pal
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Applications such as nuclear reactors, data centers, and microelectronics require an understanding of the hydrodynamic and thermal behavior of liquid and vapor phases on heated surfaces. Phase change and interfacial dynamics enhance heat transfer in evaporation and condensation systems. This study simulates film evaporation, subcooled nucleate boiling, and confined boiling in tapered microgaps using customized Ansys Fluent with user-defined functions (UDFs) for sharp interface tracking and temperature-gradient-driven mass transfer. In film evaporation, the peak local heat transfer coefficient (HTC) reached 2170 W/(m²·K) at 0.5 mm film thickness. The maximum Nusselt number was 5.69 at 0.5 mm and the minimum was …
Dyadic And Multiparty Turn-Taking In Two Deaf Preschool Classrooms, Savannah Tellander
Dyadic And Multiparty Turn-Taking In Two Deaf Preschool Classrooms, Savannah Tellander
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Conversational turn-taking skills are needed to succeed in most conversational interactions. Timing of turn-taking is crucial for young deaf signers, who need early, accessible, and consistent input in a signed and/or spoken language. For deaf children who acquire a language in either modality, they must acquire appropriate turn-taking skills. Without these abilities, children may miss critical language input, and in a cascading effect–they may miss opportunities both for input (and thus new knowledge) and expressive language. In addition to documenting deaf children’s turn-taking skills across development, it is important to also document timing data for further understanding of cognitive language …
Radio Emission As A Probe Of Astrophysical Sources And Ionized Media, Olivia R. Young
Radio Emission As A Probe Of Astrophysical Sources And Ionized Media, Olivia R. Young
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Broadband radio emission originates from a wide range of astronomical sources, such as the hot plasma of the middle solar corona and the exotic environments found around objects such as radio pulsars. For many of these sources, radio emission mechanisms and regions are not well understood, as they are complex and obscured from direct observation by the ionized media that the emission must traverse as it radiates outward toward the observer. Broadband radio waves from galactic astrophysical sources are delayed and distorted on their paths toward the Earth as they pass through the free electrons that compose a variety of …
Global Trail: Interactive Travel Memory System For Unesco Sites, Anne Sophie Beatrice Min Fa
Global Trail: Interactive Travel Memory System For Unesco Sites, Anne Sophie Beatrice Min Fa
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Global Trail is an interactive mobile app designed for travellers or culture seekers to reimagine how they discover new places, engage with cultural sites and remember their travel experiences. In this digital world, photos get easily lost in phone galleries and sometimes lack an organized way to find specific memories to places visited. Through design, the app experience addresses three core objectives: Discover — users explore Unesco sites represented by badges through an interactive world map; Engage — they unlock and earn those badges when they visit those sites where they can post their memories on a community platform; and …
Analytics Of Capstone Projects: Understanding Outcomes Through People, Products, And Processes, Hrushikesh C. Godbole
Analytics Of Capstone Projects: Understanding Outcomes Through People, Products, And Processes, Hrushikesh C. Godbole
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The capstone project is a bridge from the university to industry. During the project, students not only learn the process of integrating previously learned engineering concepts into an actual product but also practice essential professional skills such as communication, teamwork, and project delivery. How can universities ensure effective capstone student learning and good outcomes? To answer this question, the capstone project is studied as a system comprising of products, people, and processes. People refer to the students and instructors involved. Students develop products by following development processes. Instructors guide students using instruction processes. In educational context there limited control over …
Haunted Echoes, Stuti Kasat
Haunted Echoes, Stuti Kasat
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Haunted Echoes explores the narrative and emotional possibilities of interactive digital fiction by creating a room-based haunted experience. By placing the users within a haunted manor the project encourages emotional discovery through narrative exploration. As a room-based exploratory experience, users get to navigate a dollhouse-style 3D interface, interacting with objects to reveal layered micro-stories and uncover the manor’s haunted past. The experience turns spatial exploration into emotional discovery, drawing inspiration from immersive theater, point-and-click adventures, and environmental storytelling in video games. The thesis examines the intersection and overlap of interactive storytelling, visual communication, and emotional immersion, integrating 3D modeling (Blender/Cinema …
A Place To Pause: Designing Ritual Space In The Domestic Realm, Elise Miller
A Place To Pause: Designing Ritual Space In The Domestic Realm, Elise Miller
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Modern society in Western developed countries is focused on the rush and go, often leaving people feeling discombobulated from constant running around, task-oriented days and switching of roles one must play in different areas of their life, such as at home, work, socializing, parenting, etc. How can ritual bring a sense of calmness and order to lives of those on the go? Ritual studies are often only categorized under psychology, sociology, or religious studies. However, as industrial design encompasses human interaction with objects, often with an emotional quality, ritual can be studied more wholesomely with the added lens of industrial …
Design That Builds Communitites: An Evaluation Method For Analyzing, Assessing, And Improving The Way We Plan And Design The Places Around Us, Devine Karas-Gonzalez
Design That Builds Communitites: An Evaluation Method For Analyzing, Assessing, And Improving The Way We Plan And Design The Places Around Us, Devine Karas-Gonzalez
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The places around us shape and impact on the way we interact and live within our communities. As such, it is important to place greater emphasis on designing spaces which are meant to better respond to the needs and functions of a place. With an architectural design process this will result in the use of design strategies which will inform much of the design. In this research, multiple design strategies (Smart Growth, Placemaking, Place Value, and Street Experiments) are evaluated and compared using four regionally similar cities to analyze and assess how the different strategies impact the design process by …
Product, Process, And Behavior Influences On Value Retention Processes: Toward A Circular Economy In Consumer Electronics, Kyle Parnell
Product, Process, And Behavior Influences On Value Retention Processes: Toward A Circular Economy In Consumer Electronics, Kyle Parnell
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Consumer electronic products (CEP) manufacturing and retail contribute markedly to global industrial activity; worldwide estimates suggest revenue growth from $1 trillion in 2020 to $1.5 trillion by 2026. Consequently, the production, distribution, use, and end-of-life (EOL) disposition of these products are responsible for considerable social and environmental impacts, including 35 million metric tonnes of waste to landfill per year, 793 million metric tonnes (MMT)—and growing—of carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per year, and innumerable adverse effects on human health and development. Driving these impacts are the inherent characteristics of CEPs themselves, which increasingly require critical materials in design, …
Ambient Environment Effect On Color Perception, Eddie Pei
Ambient Environment Effect On Color Perception, Eddie Pei
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The ambient environment—including both background and surround conditions—is a critical factor influencing color perception. It affects not only how we perceive colors but also how we interpret complex visual scenes, impacting both sensory processing and cognitive interpretation. This thesis focuses on three major perceptual phenomena: simultaneous contrast, mixed chromatic adaptation, and color preference. First, the effects of simultaneous contrast on hue, chroma, and lightness in traditional displays were explored. This study was extended to a dual-display augmented reality (AR) environment that introduces layered perception. An extension to the CIECAM16 color appearance model is proposed to incorporate this effect. Second, the …
Engineering Tunable Collagen Fiber Alignment Gradients To Quantify Contact Guidance Effects On Cell Migration, Indranil Mandar Joshi
Engineering Tunable Collagen Fiber Alignment Gradients To Quantify Contact Guidance Effects On Cell Migration, Indranil Mandar Joshi
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Directional migration of cells is one of the most important physiological processes, necessary for tissue and organ development. It also plays a crucial role in pathological conditions such as cancer metastasis. This directed migration is influenced by various factors present in the native environment, which guide cells to migrate steadily in a specific direction. Due to its importance, over the years, a lot of emphasis has been placed on understanding and exploring the biochemical and biophysical factors that direct cell migration. In addition to the commonly studied biochemical and biophysical cues, contact guidance from collagen fibers, in the native matrix, …
3d Printing Of Short Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene: Novel Lattice Architecture And Material Characterization, Mohammad Ghazi Alshneeqat
3d Printing Of Short Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene: Novel Lattice Architecture And Material Characterization, Mohammad Ghazi Alshneeqat
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This study explores the enhanced compressive behavior of 3D-printed single and double gyroid solid-networks lattices. Where the double gyroids are constructed from two intertwined single gyroid structures. These structures were designed by nTop implicit modeling tool and then fabricated by material extrusion additive manufacturing method at optimized printing parameters, including optimized nozzle temperature and raster angle. The main objective of this study is to reveal the compressive behavior of the novel double gyroid lattice structure and then to tailor its response through variable gyroid heights. Standard polymer tests were performed, considering thermogravimetric analysis, to confirm the thermal stability of the …
Meta-Learning Coordinated Eye–Hand Dynamics, Chengkuan Zhao
Meta-Learning Coordinated Eye–Hand Dynamics, Chengkuan Zhao
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The analysis of fine-grained behavioral time-series, such as eye-hand coordination, offers a powerful lens for understanding neurodevelopmental disorders like Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Traditional assessments often miss subtle dynamic patterns that are critical for characterizing individual differences. This thesis investigates the temporal dynamics of coordinated eye and hand behavior in adolescents with and without ASD during a structured ”maze painting” tablet task. The goal is not to propose a new predictive model, but to use a state-of-the-art meta-learning framework based on latent Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs) as a ”computational microscope” to explore how these behavioral dynamics vary within …
Galaxy Tales: A Data-Driven Approach To Emotional Self-Expression, Bing Chen
Galaxy Tales: A Data-Driven Approach To Emotional Self-Expression, Bing Chen
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Galaxy Tales is a mobile application that transforms users’ social media activity into personalized planetary visuals, offering a novel way to document and reflect on life experiences. This project explores how data-driven design can create emotionally resonant and personalized representations of identity by extracting key elements—color, object shapes, and emotional atmosphere—from digital footprints. Grounded in psychological theories such as memory anchors and emotional attachment, Galaxy Tales enables users to form deep emotional connections with their virtual planets, turning abstract memories into tangible visual metaphors. The project also addresses current societal challenges, such as loneliness and emotional fatigue, by offering a …
Critical Black Expressionism: A Womanist Manifesto, Rolanda Jw Spencer
Critical Black Expressionism: A Womanist Manifesto, Rolanda Jw Spencer
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This thesis introduces Critical Black Expressionism (CBE) as a visual, spiritual, and intellectual methodology rooted in Black feminist traditions, ancestral knowledge systems, and artistic practice. Grounded in womanist theory and decolonial inquiry, the central argument asserts that Black women’s lived experiences, cultural memory, and spiritual cosmologies constitute a rigorous and sovereign framework for artmaking. Rather than borrowing from Eurocentric pedagogies, this approach draws from oral traditions, sacred ritual, and master-apprentice models that have long existed within African and African American communities. The Iyami Aje: Mothers + Witches collection is the visual embodiment of this research. Composed of multimedia sculptures, altar-based …
Impacts Of Permafrost Thaw And Methane Cycling In A Northern Peatland, Hannah Defelice
Impacts Of Permafrost Thaw And Methane Cycling In A Northern Peatland, Hannah Defelice
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Climate change is disproportionately impacting high latitude regions, resulting in thawing permafrost, changes in vegetation, hydrology and greenhouse gas emissions. As permafrost thaws in peatlands, ground subsidence occurs, resulting in a transition from elevated palsa to lower, wetter bogs and fens. Changes in vegetation and hydrology with thaw result in increased methane (CH4) fluxes and distinctive shifts in the carbon isotope signature of porewater and emitted CH4. Previous research has established the differences between these landcover classes; however, we know little about how CH4 cycling processes change during land class transitions. To address this gap, we compared recently formed bogs …