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The Gender Divide In Humor: How People Rate The Competence, Influence, And Funniness Of Men And Women By The Jokes They Tell And How They Tell Them, Christina Rozek

Honors Thesis Collection

How has the gender divide in humor—the widespread belief that men are funnier than women—arisen? Some theories in evolutionary biology provide compelling explanations for why it is more crucial for men than for women to be funny. I offer an alternative sociolinguistic perspective on the formation of this divide that focuses on the frequent association of women with a less powerful speech style, and how it may be changing. I investigated responses to jokes told by men and women using powerful and powerless styles. Hypothesis 1 was that jokes attributed to male speakers would receive higher ratings of competence, influence, …

Finding Their Sphere: Feminist Communication In The Internet Era, Anna Diamond

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Natural Product Derivatives As Promising Anti-Pancreatic Cancer Agents, Hong Zhang

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Speciesism: What Is It? What Should We Do About It?, Bianka Takaoka

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Copper In The Oxidative Stress Response Of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii To Heat Shock, Michelle Brann, Adele J. Wolfson, Oana E. Marcu

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Modeling Lipid Binding In Sec14 Proteins Using Patellin1 (Patl1), Mwangala Akamandisa

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Thin Films Of Gold Nanoparticles: Temporal Stability And Mechanisms Of Degradation, Jeanne Xu

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Determining The Molecular Mechanism Modulating Interactions Between Cardiac Potassium Channel Α-Subunit Proteins Herg And Kvlqt1, Yeon Joo Lee

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Low-Energy Electron-Induced Reactions Of Water, Sebiha M. Abdullahi

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Constructing An Autocorrelation System To Identify Single Nitrogen Vacancy Centers In Diamond, Eunice Paik

Honors Thesis Collection

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is a defect in the structure of diamond, roughly the size of a single atom, that possesses properties that make it applicable to quantum information processing, high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging, and probing biological systems. When an NV center is excited by green light of wavelength 523 nm, it emits red light of in the range from 600-800 nm tens of nanoseconds later. A confocal microscope can be used to excite and collect emitted photons from NV centers. By detecting the intensity of the emitted red photons, we can determine the quantum state of a single NV …

Beyond Prosthetics: The First Steps Towards Identifying Key Regulators Of Limb Regeneration, Jacquelyn Chou

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Structural Determinants Of Promiscuous And Specific Binding In Protein—Protein Complexes Using Component Analysis Techniques, Aiman Sherani

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Cow1 Orthologs In Protonemal Development In Physcomitrella Patens, Elena Cravens

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Euler: An Interactive Sound Installation, Ariana Mora

Honors Thesis Collection

Given my diverse background, I wanted to develop a thesis that reflected my various interests in music and science. I discovered the thrill and freedom of electronic music in my junior year, and this sound installation, “Euler”, is an exploration of the intersections present between math, music, and nature. I found with continued investigation that these three aspects are intrinsically connected, which can be shown musically through careful compositional techniques. Using sounds recorded from nature, specifically sounds I recorded on my trip to the rainforests of Costa Rica this winter, I had my “notes” to form my composition, and my …

Interpreting Justice: A Critique Of Free Market Fairness, Bridgette Lemoine

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

True Fiction: Three Writers' Approaches To Fact And/Or Fiction, Anna Krauthamer

Honors Thesis Collection

This thesis examines how three writers challenge our understandings of the fiction and non-fiction genres.

Targets And Transmitters: The Fate Of Brain Cells Derived From Adoptive Transfers Of Hemocytes, Jody F. Platto

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

To The South! A Study Of Exoticism In Fanny Hensel‘S Lieder, Xi Zhang

Honors Thesis Collection

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-46) was a gifted pianist and composer of songs known as Lieder, among other music. Though educated together with her brother Felix Mendelssohn and encouraged to excel, their careers diverged at a certain point such that Mendelssohn pursued a public career as a performer and composer, while Hensel’s career was restricted to the domestic sphere. Her deep longing for travel and the exotic was reflected in her music. The two journeys from Berlin during her lifetime – Switzerland and France during her adolescence (1822), then Italy later in life with her husband and child (1839) – produced …

Modeling Partial Lipodystrophy Using Human Pluripotent Stem-Cell Derived Cide-C E186x Mutant Adipocytes, Audrey A. Tran

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Exploring Gender Identification Effects On Stereotype Threat, Lauren Westendorf

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Reproducible Pattern Of Cyanobacterial Mats On Sand Ripples Exposed To Wave Action, Rebecca Rubinstein

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Women, Autonomy, And Desire In Feng Menglong’S Short Stories, Rosa Hargrove

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Wellesley Magazine Winter 2015, Wellesley College Alumnae Association

Wellesley Magazine (Alumnae Association)

Featured in this issue:

Flight to the Arctic / by Deborah Cramer ’73

In Varsity Veritas / by Rebecca Binder

Portrait of an Activist as a Young Woman / by Catherine O'Neill Grace

The Writing Center Annual Report: 2014-2015, Kelly Webster

The Writing Center: Reports

At the Writing Center, we take seriously UM’s Strategic Issues, especially as they relate to student retention. Our programming promotes achievement of key Partnering for Student Success objectives, allowing us to engage in tremendously satisfying work with students. In short, we support student retention by directly strengthening students’ ability to read, think, and write and by enhancing faculty members’ ability to support student writers. We are privileged to work with students, faculty, and staff who recognize the Writing Center as a valued partner in their learning, teaching, and work.

Progressive Education: Why It's Hard To Beat, But Also Hard To Find, Alfie Kohn

Progressive Education in Context

Looks at the varying ways educators characterize progressive education, why progressive education makes sense, and why it might be the exception rather than the rule in educational philosophies.

Collagen Crosslinking Reagent Utilized To Modify The Mechanical Properties Of The Soft Palate In Equine Snoring And Apnea Applications, Stephanie L. Hunt

Theses and Dissertations--Biomedical Engineering

Snoring is a sleep disruption that can lead to obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), which interrupts breathing by obstructing the airway. Injecting a protein crosslinker, such as genipin, into the soft palate could decrease the severity of snoring and OSA by stiffening the soft palate. Equine soft palates modeled human palates due to a high incidence of awake snoring and apnea.

The pilot in vivo study treated six horses with two 100 mM injections of the buffered genipin reagent. The efficacy phase horses underwent respiratory audio recordings to document snoring changes using Matlab and ImageJ in the time and frequency domains. …

Transpersonal Space/Time Through The Arts, Lisa Herman

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

As transpersonal researchers and practitioners work to articulate the meaning of transpersonal individually and collectively, I suggest conceptualizing transpersonal space/time as real in a physically felt sense. This embodied knowing is best practiced and expressed through the arts. The premise is situated within a larger field using the term liminal as a parallel meaning construct for transpersonal I present my own work referencing a range of disciplines where scholars and practitioners using the terms liminal, transpersonal and others, artfully express their understanding of extra-ordinary experience. A personal example through creative writing is offered demonstrating the way my body/mind inquiring into …

2014 Touro College & University System Faculty Publications, Touro College & University System

Faculty Publications Books

This is the 2014 edition of the Faculty Publications Book of the Touro College & University System. It includes all eligible 2014 publication citations of faculty within the Touro College & University System, including New York Medical College (NYMC). It was produced as a joint effort of the Touro College Libraries and the Health Sciences Library at NYMC.

Health Studies Program Newsletter For 2015, Uri Health Studies Program

Public Health Department Publications

The 2015 issue of “Health-e-Newsletter,” a periodical focused on the Health Studies Program events, faculty research and highlights of student achievements.

2015-2016 Lindenwood University Undergraduate Course Catalog, Lindenwood University

Course Catalogs

Lindenwood University Undergraduate Course Catalog