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The Institute Of Archaeology & Siegfried H. Horn Museum Newsletter Volume 33.1, Kevin Burton, Paul J. Ray Jr.

Institute of Archaeology & the Horn Archaeological Museum Newsletter

Nineveh Symposium, Kevin Burton

2011 ASOR Meetings, Paul J. Ray, Jr.

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Mechanistic Explanations And Animal Model Simulations In Neuroscience, Nina Atanasova

Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications

The ‘new mechanists’ assume that discovering neural mechanisms is a major aim of neuroscience where this constitutes a process of explaining. They strive to articulate the norms for good explanations. I argue that: the normative project of the ontic mechanistic explanation is unrealistic; the epistemological version of mechanistic explanation accounts for the practical epistemological constraints of neuroscience but fails normatively; hence a dilemma: either methodologically strong but unrealistic or epistemologically realistic but methodologically weak view of mechanistic explanation. I propose that the solution is in abandoning the idea that the study of mechanisms in neuroscience aims mainly at explaining. Model-building …

Salmon Aquaculture And Antimicrobial Resistance In The Marine Environment, Alejandro H. Buschmann, Alexandra Tomova, Alejandra Lopez, Miguel A. Maldonado, Luis A. Henriquez, Larisa Ivanova, Fred Moy, Henry P. Godfrey, Felipe C. Cabello

NYMC Faculty Publications

Antimicrobials used in salmon aquaculture pass into the marine environment. This could have negative impacts on marine environmental biodiversity, and on terrestrial animal and human health as a result of selection for bacteria containing antimicrobial resistance genes. We therefore measured the numbers of culturable bacteria and antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in marine sediments in the Calbuco Archipelago, Chile, over 12-month period at a salmon aquaculture site approximately 20 m from a salmon farm and at a control site 8 km distant without observable aquaculture activities. Three antimicrobials extensively used in Chilean salmon aquaculture (oxytetracycline, oxolinic acid, and florfenicol) were studied. Although none …

Moral Courage And Facing Others, Matthew Pianalto

Philosophy and Religion Faculty and Staff Research

Moral courage involves acting in the service of one’s convictions, in spite of the risk of retaliation or punishment. I suggest that moral courage also involves a capacity to face others as moral agents, and thus in a manner that does not objectify them. A moral stand can only be taken toward another moral agent. Often, we find ourselves unable to face others in this way, because to do so is frightening, or because we are consumed by blinding anger. But without facing others as moral subjects, we risk moral cowardice on the one hand and moral fanaticism on the …

Business Law And The Legal Environment, Don Mayer, Daniel M. Warner, George J. Siedel

Open Textbooks

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Does Iconicity Matter? Deaf And Hearing Preschoolers' Sensitivity To Symbols' Form-Meaning Similarities, Rachel Magid

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Men Of Word And Deed: Whiteness, Masculinity, And Popular Culture Productions Of The Texas Rangers, Kerry Knerr

Honors Thesis Collection

This work examines the processes by which whiteness and masculinity are producing in popular culture westerns, and engages that cultural work with its historical context. I examine the early institutional history of the Texas Rangers in the light of new scholarship on Texas Native American groups, especially the Comanche, and expose the myth-making inherent in the organization’s earliest history. Close readings of two specific Westerns that focus on Texas Ranger figures, Nelson Lee’s Three Years Among the Comanche and Zane Grey’s The Lone Star Ranger, further explicate later historical processes. Lee’s falsified memoir is placed in the broader national …

"All The Uncertainties About Innocence": Wendy Ewald And The Critique Of Romantic Childhood, Stephanie Anklin

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

A Magnetic Resonance Study Of The Gcpii+/- Mouse Model, Stephanie S. Huang

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Domestic And Subversive: The Roles Of Women In The Children's Novels Of Louisa May Alcott, Hayley Miller Lenahan

Honors Thesis Collection

This paper examines the roles of women in Louisa May Alcott’s children’s novels and the ways the author subverts and reinforces society’s expectations of women through her wildly popular writing. It primarily discusses Little Women (1868), An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Little Men (1871), Eight Cousins (1875), Rose in Bloom (1876), and Jo’s Boys (1886).

Understanding Phenotypic Plasticity: The Effect Of Temperature And The Roles Of Posterior Hox Genes On The Development Of Abdominal Melanic Pigmentation In The Milkweed Bug, Oncopeltus Fasciatus, Aabha Sharma

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

At Home: Explorations In Painting, Zsofia Schweger

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Emergence Of Human Episodic Memory And Future Thinking, Michelle Lee

Honors Thesis Collection

Episodic memory and future thinking are crucial capacities that emerge and undergo substantial development during the preschool years. However, their relationship has rarely been examined in tandem within development. Narratives were elicited from 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children (n = 36) to assess episodic memory and future thinking. The richness of children’s memory and imagined future episodes was measured by the number of episodic details in their narratives. Non-narrative measures of episodic memory and future thinking were also administered. As hypothesized, children’s ability to recall personal events and generate possible future events underwent substantial development during the preschool years on …

Challenging Religious Communalism With Theatre: Mahesh Dattani’S Final Solutions, Sohini Pillai

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

From Dabbling In The Curds To Feeding The Machine: The Modernization Of Agriculture In Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Meredith Ruhl

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Suspended Blue, Rose Heydt

Honors Thesis Collection

Driving in the deep plains, surrounded by a boundless plane of land and a sky that demands awe, I am aware of a profound feeling of endlessness. At the transitional moments between day and night, when the sky is filled with such a deep, bright blue that all of the air appears saturated with it, and the uninterrupted horizon turns to black silhouette, you could claim to see the curvature of the Earth. This particular moment has been among my most unforgettable, sublime experiences. It is an experience that words, images, and even film does not have the capacity to …

Cross Species Complementation Analysis Of Physcomitrella Patens Cow1 Orthologs: A Test For Functional Equivalence In Tip Growth, Jessica H. Lee

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Representing Expressive Types In Blocks Programming Languages, Marie Vasek

Honors Thesis Collection

In blocks programming languages, such as Scratch and App Inventor, programs are created by connecting visual program fragments shaped like jigsaw puzzle pieces. The shapes of these blocks help novices avoid frustrating syntax errors commonly encountered in textual programming languages by strongly suggesting how expressions and statements are composed to form programs. In statically typed programming languages, every expression has a type that indicates the kind of value it denotes (e.g. number, string, boolean). Types allow a programmer to more effectively reason about the behavior of their program. In blocks languages, the shapes of the block connectors can be used …

Behavioral And Physiological Changes In Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Queens During Swarming Events, Victoria Ellis

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

"Hollywood East": The Story Of The Massachusetts Film Industry, Alison Brace

Honors Thesis Collection

This is a story about the film industry in Massachusetts and the far-reaching effects it has on the state and its identity. Since I came to Wellesley, about 42 independent and Hollywood films have come to Massachusetts, including two movies nominated for Best Picture in the 2011 Academy Awards. Not only do the productions benefit the Massachusetts economy directly, but they also contribute to the state through identity and tourism. This film weaves through the politics, elements, and expanding effects of the activity in Massachusetts. It is a story of perseverance and identity, struggles and successes, and hopes for the …

The Return Of Colonialism's Repressed: Postcoloniality In The Art Of Walton Ford, Jaeun Ahn

Honors Thesis Collection

This thesis examines a selection of works by the contemporary American artist Walton Ford (b. 1960). Ford’s watercolors and prints feature animal and avian protagonists that are rendered in actual scale. His meticulous techniques recall those of eighteenth-and nineteenth century natural science illustrators. Ford often employs illustrations of the North American avifauna from John James Audubon’s Birds of America (1827-38) as a reference point. However, his images display complex appropriations that reach across art, literary, and cultural histories. His works are filled with not only embedded visuals with external reference points, but also with written inscriptions bearing complex connotations. As …

From Metamorphosis To Puberty: The Role Of Ventral Veins Lacking In Developmental Regulation, Cece Cheng

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Farewell A Separate Peace: The Great War In Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time And A Farewell To Arms, Esther Kim

Honors Thesis Collection

This thesis investigates Ernest Hemingway's short story collection In Our Time and his novel A Farewell to Arms as examples of modernist literature about the First World War. The form of In Our Time shows Hemingway's early experimentation with narration and temporality. The interchapters of In Our Time fragment the short story collection to create a formal complexity that defines the work's effort to convey the experience of the First World War. The cohesive retrospective narrative of A Farewell to Arms also conveys the experience of war and dwells on themes of fragmentation through Frederic Henry's conception of Catherine Barkley.

Identity Warfare: Constructions Of National Identity And The Rise Of Sectarian Violence In Modern Iraq, Melanie Bellini

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

“The Abomination Of Mankind”: Anti-Chinese Sentiment And The Borders Of Belonging In San Francisco’S Chinatown, Rachel G. Shuen

Honors Thesis Collection

My project builds upon historical studies about anti-Chinese racism and exclusion by addressing the creation of a problematic police force, the Chinatown Squad, which marked a racialized people and neighborhood for surveillance and discipline. The inauguration of the Chinatown Squad reflected important shifts in the policies of the municipal government and the San Francisco Police Department. Examining the expansion of the police force in the name of public safety alongside the municipally-directed policing of a racialized neighborhood will complicate our historical understanding of anti-Chinese rhetoric and violence.

Those Various Scalpels: Poetry Made New In Marianne Moore’S Observations, Claire O. Grossman

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

The Diffusion Of Luxury In Ancient Rome: An Analysis Of Funerary Practices During The Late Republic And Early Empire, Mannat Johal

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Performing Diasporic Subjectivities: Gendered Narratives Of Cultural Reproduction In A Community Of Tibetan Exiles, Shannon M. Ward

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Epigenetics And Obesity: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach To Research And Treatment, Constance A. Ohlinger

Honors Thesis Collection

Epigenetics is an up and coming field that investigates heritable changes in gene expression that are a result of our environment and, in many cases, our lifestyle and culture. In an effort to look at the current obesity epidemic from multiple disciplines, this thesis encompassed both a biological and an anthropological study. The biological aim was to investigate a possible correlation between lifestyle and the expression of genes related to obesity. The anthropological aim was to investigate mechanisms of lifestyle change and social understandings of epigenetic phenomena. The project resulted in a refined protocol for future multi-disciplinary research into obesity …

Creation Of An Iron Oxide Core/Gold Shell Nanoparticle For Targeting Pancreatic Cancer, Lisa Jacob

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.