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From Text To Screen: John Green And The Rise Of Digital Literacy, Jessica Pond

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Social media is rapidly becoming more prevalent in modern society. Businesses, politicians, and educators are using social media as an increasingly important tool of communication and information. In my thesis, I examine the implications of the growing importance of social media on young adult authors and the way that literacy is perceived. While social media is often seen as existing purely for entertainment, many educational professionals are bringing aspects of social media into classrooms as instructive and informational tools. Through close examination of the works of John Green and his activities on social media, this thesis addresses the ways in …

Discovery Of A Novel Nitric Oxide Sensing Protein, Nosp, Sajjad Hossain

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In nature, most bacteria live in surface attached communities called bacterial biofilms. Community living is beneficial to the bacteria, as it offers heightened resistance to environmental stresses due to the production of a protective exopolymeric matrix. When the growth of a bacterial community reaches a certain threshold, some bacteria disperse to find new frontiers to occupy and repopulate. Bacterial biofilms can be beneficial as is the case with those found in our gastrointestinal tracks that help us digest food particles. However, biofilms can pose a major threat to human health when they are composed of pathogenic bacteria that cause chronic …

Synaptonemal Complex Disassembly Activates Rad51-Mediated Double Strand Break Repair During Budding Yeast Meiosis, Evelyn Joann Prugar

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Meiosis is a highly conserved specialized cell division that occurs in many organisms, including budding yeast and mammals. Meiosis divides the chromosome number of the cell in half to create gametes for sexual reproduction. A single round of chromosome duplication is followed by two rounds of chromosome segregation, Meiosis I (homologs segregate) and Meiosis II (sister chromatids segregate). Proper segregation at Meiosis I requires that homologs are connected by both crossovers and sister chromatid cohesion. Crossovers are formed by the repair of double strand breaks (DSBs) preferentially by the homolog. The choice of repair template is determined at the time …

Mechanistic Evaluation Of Nsd3 In The Pathogenesis Of Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Chen Shen

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The bromodomain and extra-terminal (BET) protein BRD4 is a validated drug target in hematological malignancies, owing to its essential role in sustaining oncogenic transcriptional programs. To gain insight into the cancer-relevant mechanistic function of BRD4, I have investigated its mechanism of transcriptional activation in the MLL-fusion subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with experimental approaches including small hairpin RNA (shRNA) knockdown, clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9 knockout, biochemistry, RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) and chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-Seq). In this study, I demonstrate that the AML maintenance function of BRD4 requires its interaction with NSD3, which belongs to a subfamily of …

The Graphic Memoir And The Cartoonist's Memory, Alice Claire Burrows

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Graphic memoirs embrace the vibrancy and rich social and artistic history of comics, and the intimacy and imagination of autobiographies. Spanning from Justin Green’s 1972 Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary to Riad Sattouf’s 2014 The Arab of the Future, autobiographical comics capture the fragmented, subjective, and visual nature of memory. Reacting against the Comics Code, underground comics introduced the concept of portraying oneself in comics, a practice that achieved mainstream validation in 1992 when Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus. Drawing from classic comic strips like Richard Outcault’s The Yellow Kid and comic books like the …

Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese ‘Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations | Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese €˜Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations, I-Te Rita Sung

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the jun’ai (pure-love) genre has flourished in Japan, both in works of popular literature and in film. This phenomenon coincides with a time when the country is seen by the media as being characterized by soshitsukan (sense of loss). In jun’ai films, the heroine is often the object of loss. This theme of loss in jun’ai therefore resonates with the Japanese social context, but this connection has not yet been fully elucidated. In this dissertation, I seek to explain why Japanese women, who are arguably treated as “other†within Japan, embody a transnationalism …

Local Modeling Of Attributed Graphs: Algorithms And Applications, Bryan Perozzi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

It is increasingly common to encounter real-world graphs which have attributes associated with the nodes, in addition to their raw connectivity information. For example, social networks contain both the friendship relations as well as user attributes such as interests and demographics. A protein-protein interaction network may not only have the interaction relations but the expression levels associated with the proteins. Such information can be described by a graph in which nodes represent the objects, edges represent the relations between them, and feature vectors associated with the nodes represent the attributes. This graph data is often referred to as an attributed …

Enhancing Operating Systems With Network Provenance Based Policies For Systematic Malware Defense, Wai Kit Sze

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Todays OSes adopt users as the basic unit of trust. Every file and process owned by the same user has the same userid as the user. This design stems from the very first multi-user OS created, a time when computers were self-contained, and file contents were under the control of users. Today, users frequently download data and code from the Internet, without fully understanding their content or consequences. However, existing desktop OSes reuse the same old trust model and treat downloaded files as if users are fully responsible for them. This trust is exploited by today’s malware. In this dissertation, …

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A West Indian Jubilee In America: British Emancipation And The American Abolition Movement, Dexter Joey Gabriel

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation, “A West Indian Jubilee in America: British Emancipation and the American Abolition Movement,†charts the impact of British Emancipation on American abolitionism and free African-American communities from the 1830s through the 1860s. On August 1,1834 the British Abolition Act freed by proclamation 800,000 slaves in the West Indies. In the coming decades, in print and in public rituals, the success of the former slaves in the British West Indies became a crucial focal point in the debate on American slavery. This debate took place in the flourishing American print culture that emerged in the 1830s: antislavery newspapers, tracts, …

The Answer Was Cooperative: How Anthropologists In Peru Redefined The "National Problem," 1948-1975, Ying-Ying Chu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The scholarly literature has often depicted the agricultural cooperative model implemented during the Peruvian Agrarian Reform in 1969 as an imposed policy. This dissertation challenges the state-centric view by exploring intellectual and policy debates, which were strongly influenced by grassroots developments, between 1948 and 1975. It shows how the cooperative model evolved from a radical project of the left into a well-accepted strategy of rural development and flourished in Peru during the post-World War II era. This study highlights the critical role played by a new generation of anthropologists and other social scientists, who mediated between the government, international aid …

Cultural And Language Change Of Spanish Native Speakers Living In The Usa, Blanca E. Calderon

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Beginning with the reality that the participants in this study arrived to this country as children and were in their early stages of acquisition of their first language and culture, this paper seeks to find some of the factors that can influence the different language abilities for nine bilingual speakers. With a range of researches serving as a foundation, some of the factors that will be explored in this research are: age, education, profession, past and present language use, bilingual community factors, psychological reasons affecting attitude toward the Spanish language, cultural awareness and cultural identity. | 93 pages

Investigating Cellular And Molecular Interactions Between The Hard Clam (Mercenaria Mercenaria) And Its Pathogen Quahog Parasite Unknown (Qpx), Rachel Hartman

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Quahogs, or hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) are an economically important species of clam. They are often used for human consumption, but can also be indicators of water quality because of the bioaccumulation of contaminants within filter feeders. They are found abundantly on the east coast of the United States and Canada, and actively aquacultured from Massachusetts to Florida. The hard clam is a robust species with few naturally-occurring diseases. The most well-known disease of the hard clam is Quahog Parasite Unknown (QPX), a unicellular parasite found on the east coast of North America from Virginia up into Canada, causing well-documented …

An Investigation Of Pelagophyte Ecology, Yoonja Kang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Pelagophytes are important picoplankton in the open ocean and in coastal waters where Aureococcus anophagefferens and Aureoumbra lagunensis form ecosystem-disruptive brown tides. Despite decades of research, factors facilitating brown tides are not completely understood. This dissertation is a comparative study of pelagophytes assessing processes facilitating brown tides and transcriptional similarities among open ocean and coastal pelagophytes. During my dissertation, top-down (e.g. grazing) and bottom-up (e.g. nutrients) processes shaping phytoplankton communities were examined during brown tides in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, USA. While moderate levels of ammonium promoted Aureoumbra growth over picoprokaryotes, grazing pressure on Aureoumbra was near absent permitting …

Pathogenic And Non-Pathogenic Strains Of Vibrio Parahaemolyticus In Long Island Sound: Biotic And Abiotic Factors Promoting Abundance, Jake Thickman

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Food safety is a major concern in the shellfish industry, as severe illness can result from consuming shellfish that have accumulated waterborne pathogens. Shellfish harvesting areas are typically monitored for indicator bacteria such as fecal coliforms that serve as proxies for enteric pathogens introduced from surrounding waterways, but these indicators have shown little relation to some naturally occurring pathogenic bacteria such as Vibrio parahaemolyticus (Vp). To examine the dynamics and ecology of pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains of Vp and address the relevance of indicator bacteria in predicting Vp concentrations, field surveys and experiments were carried out in western Long Island …

Wave Gradiometry And Its Link With Helmholtz Equation Solutions Applied To Usarray, Yuanyuan Liu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Wave gradiometry is an array processing technique using the shape of seismic wavefields captured by dense seismic arrays to estimate fundamental wave propagation characteristics [Langston, 2007a,b; Liang and Langston, 2009]. We first explore a compatibility relation that links the spatial gradients to displacements and velocity seismograms through two unknown coefficients: A⃗ and B⃗. We show that the A⃗-coefficient corresponds to the gradient of logarithmic amplitude and the B⃗ -coefficient corresponds approximately to the local wave slowness. These coefficients are solved through iterative, damped least- squares inversions to provide estimates of four gradiometry products: dynamic phase velocity, back-azimuth, radiation pattern and …

Thermal And Near-Infrared Analyses For Understanding Martian Surface Mineralogy Through Orbital Measurements, Laboratory Studies And Statistical Models, Cong Pan

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Understanding the geologic evolution of Mars requires a detailed characterization of Martian surface compositions and their geologic settings. Because much of the Martian surface is covered with regolith or unconsolidated materials, in this work I focused on key locations in which to characterize Martian crustal materials as well as assess the degree of influence from physical sorting processes on measured surface compositions from orbit. In Chapter 2, I identified and characterized 26 crater central peaks with distinctive spectral signatures from surrounding plains with thermal infrared and visible/near-infrared data, based on a global survey of Martian impact craters between 10-200 km …

Jane Austen From Page To Screen: How Current Society And " Pride And Prejudice" Have Shaped " Northanger Abbey," " Persuasion," And " Mansfield Park" On Film, Stephanie Ann Reese

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

While Jane Austen’s novels were published over two hundred years ago, her stories continue to captivate audiences through print and the screen. There seems to be a growing tradition of adapting certain novels, such as Pride and Prejudice, over other ones like, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Mansfield Park. In this paper I explore how the former three novels differ from Pride and Prejudice from their heroines and heroes to the romantic relationships between the two protagonists. Then I take into consideration the large impact of Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy in influencing Austen’s other heroes such as Captain Wentworth, Henry Tilney …

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The History Problem: The Politics Of War Commemoration In East Asia, Hiro Saito

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Seventy years have passed since the end of the Asia-Pacific War, yet Japan remains embroiled in controversy with its neighbors over the war’s commemoration. Among the many points of contention between Japan, China, and South Korea are interpretations of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, apologies and compensation for foreign victims of Japanese aggression, prime ministerial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, and the war’s portrayal in textbooks. Collectively, these controversies have come to be called the “history problem.” But why has the problem become so intractable? Can it ever be resolved, and if so, how? To answer these questions, the author …

Review: Scholar, Courtier, Magician: The Lost Library Of John Dee [Exhibition At Royal College Of Physicians Museum, London, 18 January - 28 July 2016], Emily Soon

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In the mural the acclaimed illustrator Quentin Blake created to commemorate Cambridge University’s 800th anniversary (2009), the Cambridge alumnus and polymath John Dee (1527 – 1609) comes across as a delightfully demented figure. Cloaked in black and surrounded by books and odd objects, Dee looks intent on conjuring up visions from within a large crystal ball. Blake’s watercolour encapsulates the popular image of Dee as a dabbler in the dark arts, one whose quest for the philosopher’s stone represents the equally dark state of learning thought to exist before the emergence of modern science. Indeed, the contemporary cultural fascination with …

Social Media And Political Communication In The 2014 Elections To The European Parliament, Paul Nulty, Yannis Theocharis, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Olivier Parnet, Kenneth Benoit

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Social media play an increasingly important part in the communication strategies of political campaigns by reflecting information about the policy preferences and opinions of political actors and their public followers. In addition, the content of the messages provides rich information about the political issues and the framing of those issues during elections, such as whether contested issues concern Europe or rather extend pre-existing national debates. In this study, we survey the European landscape of social media using tweets originating from and referring to political actors during the 2014 European Parliament election campaign. We describe the language and national distribution of …

Niso-Nasig Webinar: How Librarians Use, Implement And Can Support Researcher Identifiers, Sofia A. Slutskaya

NASIG Newsletter

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Call For Volunteers, Steve Oberg

NASIG Newsletter

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Where Techs Rush In, Courts Should Fear To Tread: How Courts Should Respond To The Changing Economics Of Today, Melanie Defiore

Cardozo Law Review

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Interview With Bettina Love: Creating Spaces That Matter, Meca Williams-Johnson

Curriculum, Foundations & Reading: Faculty Publications

This is an interview with Dr. Bettina Love on her work with the Kindezi Schools, a small, high-performing charter group in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Love’s thought provoking responses provide insight into the dynamics that make Kindezi Schools successful at reaching their students. Additionally, she shares concerns about the dilemma of Opportunity School Districts (OSD) and the schism OSD’s create in minority communities. Lastly, she shares how Kindezi became an opportunity school for Atlanta youth. This interview will be beneficial for parents, principals, teachers, and stakeholders who are interested in understanding how and why creating spaces to nurture student learning matters.

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Why Teens Today Wear The Brands They Wear And How This Is Affected By Reference Groups, Moriah Houser

Marketing Undergraduate Honors Theses

This paper describes and reports the results of a study that examines how teenagers choose to purchase and wear different brands. I wanted to find out if they would be affected positively or negatively towards different brands when they were associated with their membership, aspirational, or dissociative reference groups as well as how a teenager decides what brands are relevant to them or convey what they want to convey about themselves. Through the exploration of friends, hobbies, advertising, social media, situational factors, parents, through interviews, along with the help of many scholarly articles, I was able to find out what …

From Footprint To Evidence: An Exploratory Study Of Mining Social Data For Credit Scoring, Guangming Guo, Feida Zhu, Enhong Chen, Qi Liu, Le Wu, Chu Guan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

With the booming popularity of online social networks like Twitter and Weibo, online user footprints are accumulating rapidly on the social web. Simultaneously, the question of how to leverage the large-scale user-generated social media data for personal credit scoring comes into the sight of both researchers and practitioners. It has also become a topic of great importance and growing interest in the P2P lending industry. However, compared with traditional financial data, heterogeneous social data presents both opportunities and challenges for personal credit scoring. In this article, we seek a deep understanding of how to learn users’ credit labels from social …

Bim Innovation Capability Programme: An Irish Bim Study, Barry Mcauley, Alan Hore, Roger West

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In 2011 the Royal Institute of Architects Ireland (RIAI) conducted a survey which found that BIM adoption within Ireland was quite low at 16%. Over the last five years these figures have risen significantly, with the 2016 Irish Digital Transition Survey reporting that 76% of respondents possess confidence in their organisation’s BIM skills and knowledge. This represents a significant shift of BIM adoption in Ireland over the last five years.

The BIM Innovation Capability Programme (BICP) Irish BIM study, builds on the findings from the BICP Global BIM Study by providing an in depth review of BIM in Ireland with …