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Rivalry In Toyer: The Impact Of The Male Gaze And The Final Girl On Theatrical Conflict, Sento Ashby Dec 2016

Rivalry In Toyer: The Impact Of The Male Gaze And The Final Girl On Theatrical Conflict, Sento Ashby

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Although much progress has been made in recent years, traditional gender roles still permeate society. This project investigated gender constructs in relation to choreographed violence and found that females are often victims unless they adopt masculine survival styles, while males are usually aggressors – particularly towards females. Analysis of the characters in the play Toyer by Gardner McKay supported this conclusion.

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Ubiquitination Of Zeta-Associated Protein Of 70 Kda Regulates The Activation Of T Cell Receptor-Proximal Signaling Pathways, Elitza Ivanova Dec 2016

Ubiquitination Of Zeta-Associated Protein Of 70 Kda Regulates The Activation Of T Cell Receptor-Proximal Signaling Pathways, Elitza Ivanova

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

The tyrosine kinase Zap-70 is a key regulator of T cell receptor (TCR) signaling downstream of antigen presentation. It plays an essential role in signaling pathways involved in T cell development and function. Loss of Zap-70 results in severe developmental and functional defects in the T cell compartment. Lack of Zap-70 or a complete loss of its function leads to the development of rare severe primary immunodeficiencies, while more common polymorphisms that lead to subtle defects in TCR signaling are paradoxically associated with autoimmunity. The coordinated regulation of Zap-70 kinase activity is critical for proper T cell proliferation, differentiation, and …

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Bet Inhibition Releases The Mediator Complex From Specific Cis Elements In Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells, Anand Shripad Bhagwat Dec 2016

Bet Inhibition Releases The Mediator Complex From Specific Cis Elements In Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells, Anand Shripad Bhagwat

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

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematologic malignancy with a 5-year survival rate of less than 30%. We recently identified the bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) protein Brd4 as a therapeutic target in AML, and several trials are currently evaluating the clinical utility of BET inhibitors for this disease. BET inhibitors displace Brd4 from chromatin and subsequently reduce the expression of key oncogenes, such as Myc, leading to AML blast differentiation and cell death. However, the mechanism by which Brd4 maintains oncogene expression in AML is still unclear. We hypothesized that Brd4 functions by working with other coactivators in AML to …

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Beyond Regietheater: The Oper Frankfurt Behind The Curtain, 1979 - 2015, Cordelia Elizabeth Chenault Dec 2016

Beyond Regietheater: The Oper Frankfurt Behind The Curtain, 1979 - 2015, Cordelia Elizabeth Chenault

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

This dissertation focuses on the Oper Frankfurt, a musical institution that has played an influential role in the development of operatic staging since the 1980s. Through an examination of productions staged at the house in two different periods (1979 – 1987 and 2010 – 2015), I pay particular attention to the ways in which these contemporary stagings contribute to a discourse about recent opera— particularly in Germany— and what has frequently been called Regietheater. This polemical term, often translated as “director’s theater,†connotes a provocative, theatrically experimental, even massively reenvisioned reading of an operatic work, propelled by a visionary stage …

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Effects Of Chemically-Modified-Curcumin (Cmc2.24) On Rat Experimental Periodontitis, Howard Hao Wang Dec 2016

Effects Of Chemically-Modified-Curcumin (Cmc2.24) On Rat Experimental Periodontitis, Howard Hao Wang

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

Periodontal disease is one of the most common chronic inflammatory diseases, and causes severe debilitation due to the loss of teeth. There are two main strategies utilized in the treatment of periodontal disease: (1) local mechanical therapy, such as scaling and root planing and/or periodontal surgery, as well as local adjunctive antimicrobial (Atridox, Arestin, and Periochip) therapy, and (2) addition of an adjunctive therapy such as host-modulation therapy (HMT). Regarding the latter, there is currently only one systemically administered FDA-approved medication for the treatment of chronic periodontitis, Periostat®, a non-antimicrobial doxycycline-based MMP-inhibitor, which was developed decades ago. The current study …

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The Specter Of Spinoza: The Legacy Of The Pantheism Controversy In Hegel’S Thought | The Specter Of Spinoza: The Legacy Of The Pantheism Controversy In Hegel’S Thought, Harrison Andrew Fluss Dec 2016

The Specter Of Spinoza: The Legacy Of The Pantheism Controversy In Hegel’S Thought | The Specter Of Spinoza: The Legacy Of The Pantheism Controversy In Hegel’S Thought, Harrison Andrew Fluss

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

This dissertation seeks to trace Hegel’s shifting attitudes towards Spinoza, and its significance for later interpretations of the Hegel-Spinoza relationship. In contrast to virtually all other approaches, it will be argued that Hegel’s earlier defense of Spinoza in Faith and Knowledge (1802) was superior to Hegel’s interpretation of Spinoza shaped after his break with Schelling. There is precious little in the Anglophone literature that compares and contrasts the approaches of the young and “mature†Hegel regarding Spinoza’s metaphysics. In most discussions, the young Hegel’s views on Spinoza are mentioned, but only perfunctorily, and not granted a sustained analysis. This hurts …

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Once Again From The Beginning: On The Relationship Of Skepticism And Philosophy In Hegel's System, Miles Martin Hentrup Dec 2016

Once Again From The Beginning: On The Relationship Of Skepticism And Philosophy In Hegel's System, Miles Martin Hentrup

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

This dissertation examines the relationship of skepticism and philosophy in the work of G.W.F. Hegel. Whereas other commentators have come to recognize the epistemological significance of Hegel's encounter with skepticism, emphasizing the strength of his system against skeptical challenges to the possibility of knowledge, I argue that Hegel develops his metaphysics in part through his ongoing engagement with the skeptical tradition. As such, I argue that Hegel's interest is not in refuting skepticism, but in defining its legitimate role within the project of philosophical science. Hegel finds that historical forms of skepticism have misunderstood their own activity and thus have …

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Sovereign Invulnerability: Sexual Politics And The Ontology Of Rape, Jane Clare Jones Dec 2016

Sovereign Invulnerability: Sexual Politics And The Ontology Of Rape, Jane Clare Jones

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

As Rebecca Whisnant has noted, notions of “national…and…bodily (especially sexual) sovereignty are routinely merged in rhetoric and metaphor.†(2008:155) Departing from this observation, this project explores the ‘existential infrastructure’ of the ‘logic of sovereign integrity’ in which personhood is thought as analogous to jurisdiction over a bounded territorial enclosure. It traces the philosophical history of this logic, and unfolds the post-Heideggerian French critique of sovereignty as an analysis of how sovereign imperatives are animated by a drive to deny the vulnerabilities of constitutive ontological relation, and are thus implicated in violent cycles of disavowal and appropriation. It then applies this …

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Defusing Transcendental Empiricism: Deleuze, Hume, And Empiricism, Scott Leigh Kravet Dec 2016

Defusing Transcendental Empiricism: Deleuze, Hume, And Empiricism, Scott Leigh Kravet

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

This dissertation addresses the problem of conflating the conditions of experience with the given of experience. The conditions of experience are by definition not contents of experience. There are ideal conditions and material conditions, which we find studied respectively in transcendental idealism and the neurosciences. The given of experience is a search towards originary experiences. This conflation between condition and given also confuses the distinction between the ground of experience, which is transcendental, and the foundation of experience, which is immanent. This confusion rises to the forefront of philosophical discourse when Deleuze calls his position ‘transcendental empiricism.’ I ask the …

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Physical Polymerization Mechanisms In The Chemistry-To-Biology Transition, Elizaveta Guseva Dec 2016

Physical Polymerization Mechanisms In The Chemistry-To-Biology Transition, Elizaveta Guseva

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

Studying complex systems and emergent phenomena is very popular today. The reason is that we desperately need more knowledge about many complex systems such as cells, organisms, society and emergent phenomena on the internet. Applying physical and quantitative methods to such systems resulted in many discoveries, yet a lot of knowledge is missing. In particular, we don’t fully understand living systems including their emergence. What are the minimal requirements for life? How to make a chemical system capable of inheritance and open ended evolution? If a system is capable of Darwinian evolution, is it necessarily a living system? Modern life …

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Topics In Statistical Physics: Protein Stability, Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, And, Michael John Hazoglou Dec 2016

Topics In Statistical Physics: Protein Stability, Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, And, Michael John Hazoglou

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

This dissertation will cover three distinct topics of protein stability, non-equilibrium thermodynamics and scientometrics. In senescent organisms aging is correlated with oxidative damage of proteins. The damage done to proteins destabilizes them inhibiting their function. The implications of a simplified model based on side-chain modification of charged residues using Debye-H\"{u}ckel theory will be presented. Short length and highly charged proteins are susceptible to destabilization from oxidative damage. Among these proteins already studied in aging several proteins fit this description of being short and highly charged. There is a noticeable enrichment of short-highly-charged proteins in categories of proteins known to be …

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Understanding The Dielectric Properties Of Water, Daniel C. Elton Dec 2016

Understanding The Dielectric Properties Of Water, Daniel C. Elton

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

Liquid water is a complex material with many anomalous properties. Three of these anomalies are an abnormally high dielectric constant, an abnormally high boiling point, and a solid phase which is less dense than the liquid phase. Each of these anomalies is known to have been critically important in the development of life on Earth. All of water's special properties can be linked to water's unique ability to form hydrogen bonds. Water's hydrogen bonds form a transient network. Understanding the average structure of this network and how it changes through the phase diagram remains the focus of intense research. In …

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Some Applications Of Superspace, Chia-Yi Ju Dec 2016

Some Applications Of Superspace, Chia-Yi Ju

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

Supersymmetry is a very popular topic in recent high energy physics theories. Especially, in order to make sense of string theory, we have to impose supersymmetry. Superspace method is proven to be a very useful approach to supersymmetric theories by treating supersymme- try as part of the geometry. In this dissertation, we use superspace method to investigate superconformal field theory and string/brane theory. The first part of the dissertation, we rewrite semi-shortening con- ditions using superspace approach. The rewritten expression is co- variant under superconformal transformation. We found that all the known semi-shortening condition are part of the covariantized ones …

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White Dwarf Mergers On Adaptive Meshes, Maximilian Peter Katz Dec 2016

White Dwarf Mergers On Adaptive Meshes, Maximilian Peter Katz

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

The mergers of binary white dwarf systems are potential progenitors of astrophysical explosions such as Type Ia supernovae. These white dwarfs can merge either by orbital decay through the emission of gravitational waves or by direct collisions as a result of orbital perturbations. The coalescence of the stars may ignite nuclear fusion, resulting in the destruction of both stars through a thermonuclear runaway and ensuing detonation. The goal of this dissertation is to simulate binary white dwarf systems using the techniques of computational fluid dynamics and therefore to understand what numerical techniques are necessary to obtain accurate dynamical evolution of …

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Anomalous Transport In Chiral Systems, Gustavo Machado Monteiro Dec 2016

Anomalous Transport In Chiral Systems, Gustavo Machado Monteiro

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

The experimental realization of Dirac and Weyl semimetals in 2014 and 2015 respectively has increased the interest in the topic. Similarly to graphene, the discovered materials are characterized by massless quasiparticles. In three dimensions these quasiparticles can be described by the Weyl Hamiltonian which exhibits so-called chiral anomaly at low energies. The chiral anomaly has a transport signature, namely, the enhancement of longitudinal conductivity along the direction of external magnetic field. This effect in new materials is the condensed matter version of the chiral magnetic effect (CME) predicted to happen in heavy ion collisions. Due to its topological nature the …

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Searching For Dark Matter With The Fermi-Lat And Through New Experimental Ideas, Andrea Massari Dec 2016

Searching For Dark Matter With The Fermi-Lat And Through New Experimental Ideas, Andrea Massari

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

The evidence for dark matter is overwhelming. We know where the dark matter is, how much there is, but we do not know what type of particle it consists of. Experimental efforts, as well as theoretical, have tried to shed light on its identity. On the experimental side, “indirect detection†aims to detect stable leptons, baryons, or photons resulting from the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles in outer space. On the other hand, “direct detection†experiments have the goal to reveal interactions of the dark matter particles with electrons or nuclei in a detector on Earth. To date, …

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New Designs And Characterization Techniques For Thin-Film Solar Cells, Yutong Pang Dec 2016

New Designs And Characterization Techniques For Thin-Film Solar Cells, Yutong Pang

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

This thesis presents a fundamentally new thin-film photovoltaic design and develops several novel characterization techniques that improve the accuracy of thin-film solar cell computational models by improving the accuracy of the input data. We first demonstrate a novel organic photovoltaic (OPV) design, termed a ``Slot OPV", in which the active layer is less than 50 nm; We apply the principles of slot waveguides to confine light within the active layer. According to our calculation, the guided-mode absorption for a 10nm thick active layer equal to the absorption of normal incidence on an OPV with a 100nm thick active layer. These …

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Molecular Strong Field Ionization Viewed With Photoelectron Velocity Map Imaging, Peter Sandor Dec 2016

Molecular Strong Field Ionization Viewed With Photoelectron Velocity Map Imaging, Peter Sandor

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

In this thesis, work is presented on molecular strong-field ionization, during which an electron is removed from polyatomic molecules in the presence of strong laser fields. This is a process which is the basis of a number of experimental techniques to uncover electronic dynamics in atoms and molecules on the femtosecond and attosecond timescale. ’Strong’ refers to an electric field strength which leads to a response from the system which can not be modeled perturbatively. These fields can be easily produced in the focus of femtosecond laser radiation, as is done in this work. With the use of velocity map …

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Funneling Electron Beams From Gallium Arsenide Photocathodes, Omer Habib Rahman Dec 2016

Funneling Electron Beams From Gallium Arsenide Photocathodes, Omer Habib Rahman

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

Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) is the most widely used source of polarized electrons around the world. Electrons are extracted from a GaAs surface, terminated by a cesium-oxygen layer. The electrons are accelerated to form a beam by a DC electric field. This beam can ionize residual gas in the chamber, and the DC field accelerates the resulting ions into the cathode surface, damaging the Cesium- Oxygen layer. This process, called Ion Back Bombardment, is the dominant mechanism for limiting photocathode lifetime. As a result, high average current operation yields charge lifetimes too low to be used in a collider design. One …

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Studies Of Entanglement Entropy, And Relativistic Fluids For Thermal Field Theories, Michael Spillane Dec 2016

Studies Of Entanglement Entropy, And Relativistic Fluids For Thermal Field Theories, Michael Spillane

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

In this dissertation we consider physical consequences of adding a finite temperature to quantum field theories. At small length scales entanglement is a critically important feature. It is therefore unsurprising that entanglement entropy and Renyi entropy are useful tools in studying quantum phase transition, and quantum information. In this thesis we consider the corrections to entanglement and Renyi entropies due to addition of a finite temperature. n this dissertation we consider physical consequences of adding a finite temperature to quantum field theories. At small length scales entanglement is a critically important feature. It is therefore unsurprising that entanglement entropy and …

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Investigations In The Crystal Growth And Neutron Scattering Of Superconductors And A Relaxor Ferroelectric, John Schneeloch Dec 2016

Investigations In The Crystal Growth And Neutron Scattering Of Superconductors And A Relaxor Ferroelectric, John Schneeloch

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

In this dissertation, I present research on four materials with properties that are not well understood, and illustrate the many roles inhomogeneity and disorder may play in material properties. First, we investigated materials synthesis and annealing conditions of the proposed topological superconductor CuxBi2Se3, finding that quenching above a minimum temperature was essential for superconductivity. Due to the inhomogeneity of CuxBi2Se3, we suggest that a metastable secondary phase may be responsible for the superconductivity. Second, we performed neutron scattering measurements on samples in the Fe1+yTe1−xSex family of iron-based superconductors, focusing on the anomalous phonon mode recently discovered near Bragg peaks forbidden …

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Electron Source Based On Superconducting Rf, Tianmu Xin Dec 2016

Electron Source Based On Superconducting Rf, Tianmu Xin

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

High-bunch-charge photoemission electron-sources operating in a Continuous Wave (CW) mode can provide high peak current as well as the high average current which are required for many advanced applications of accelerators facilities, for example, electron coolers for hadron beams, electron-ion colliders, and Free-Electron Lasers (FELs). Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) has many advantages over other electron-injector technologies, especially when it is working in CW mode as it offers higher repetition rate. An 112 MHz SRF electron photo-injector (gun) was developed at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) to produce high-brightness and high-bunch-charge bunches for electron cooling experiments. The gun utilizes a Quarter-Wave Resonator …

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Measurement Of Dielectron Invariant Mass Spectra In $Au+Au$ Collisions At $\Sqrt{S_{Nn}}=200gev$ With Hbd In Phenix, Jiayin Sun Dec 2016

Measurement Of Dielectron Invariant Mass Spectra In $Au+Au$ Collisions At $\Sqrt{S_{Nn}}=200gev$ With Hbd In Phenix, Jiayin Sun

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

Dileptons are emitted throughout the entire space-time evolution of heavy ion collisions. Being colorless, these electromagnetic probes do not participate in the final-state strong interactions during the passage through the hot medium, and retain the information on the conditions of their creation. This characteristic renders them valuable tools for studying the properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma created during ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. The invariant mass spectra of dileptons contain a wealth of information on every stage of the evolution of heavy ion collisions. At low mass, dilepton spectra consist mainly of light meson decays. The medium modification of the …

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Applications Of Tensor Network Algorithms In Quantum Many-Body Physics, Colin Gareth West Dec 2016

Applications Of Tensor Network Algorithms In Quantum Many-Body Physics, Colin Gareth West

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

The classical simulation of many-body quantum systems is an essential tool in understanding many fundamental aspects of condensed matter physics. But a major obstacle arises from the number of degrees of freedom involved in describing such systems, which is exponential in the system size. Recently, however, a class of numerical techniques based on structures called "tensor networks" has emerged, which allows many "typical" quantum states (such as the ground states of gapped, local Hamiltonians) to be represented much more efficiently. In this work we extend and apply these techniques to consider several central topics in quantum many-body physics. After reviewing …

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The Study Of Nonequilibrium Dissipative Quantum Dynamics And Its Applications To Energy Transport And Quantum Information Processes, Zhedong Zhang Dec 2016

The Study Of Nonequilibrium Dissipative Quantum Dynamics And Its Applications To Energy Transport And Quantum Information Processes, Zhedong Zhang

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

Nonequilibrium quantum physics is of fundamental importance and interest. It is still an extremely hard issue even in today's theoretical physics because of the lack of the knowledge on the basic theories, like the nonequilibrium quantum statistical mechanics. The recent advances on theory and experiments reveal the essentiality of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics on explaining as well as understanding many interesting phenomenon, i.e. | the ultrafast energy transfer \& long-survived quantum coherence in organic molecules, quantum phase transition and the novel transport properties of superfluid gas at low temperature. Here we will focus on the nonequilibrium quantum dynamics relaxing towards the …

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Searching For Dark Sectors, Yiming Zhong Dec 2016

Searching For Dark Sectors, Yiming Zhong

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

The existence of Dark Matter suggests the presence of a dark sector, consisting of particles neutral under all Standard Model forces. Various “portals†can connect the dark sector to the Standard Model sector. Two popular examples are the vector portal, which gives rise to a “dark photon†(A′), and the Higgs portal, which gives rise to a “dark Higgs†. Such dark forces appear in many well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model. In some cases, they may resolve discrepancies between experimental data and theoretical predictions, such as the muon anomalous magnetic moment. We show that dark sectors and forces can …

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A Study Of Vector Boson Scattering Process In The Semi-Leptonic Final State And Limits On Anomalous Quartic Gauge Coupling, Aungshuman Zaman Dec 2016

A Study Of Vector Boson Scattering Process In The Semi-Leptonic Final State And Limits On Anomalous Quartic Gauge Coupling, Aungshuman Zaman

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

In this dissertation we look into the vector boson scattering process in the semi-leptonic channel using 20.2 $fb^{−1}$ of 2012 proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV coming from the Large Hadron Collider. The final state considered is WVjj (V=W,Z) where the W decays into a charged lepton (electron or muon) and a neutrino and the other vector boson decays hadronically. The analysis requires one charged lepton, missing transverse energy and four jets, two of which are forward jets with a large invariant mass. Expected limits on the anomalous quartic gauge coupling (aQGC) parameters were estimated using Whizard+Pythia8 Monte …

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"The Cradle Of Things": Origins And Ontogenesis In The Late Landscapes Of Gustave Courbet, Nicole Georgopulos Dec 2016

"The Cradle Of Things": Origins And Ontogenesis In The Late Landscapes Of Gustave Courbet, Nicole Georgopulos

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

In the spring of 1864, Gustave Courbet returned to his home region of Franche-Comté and painted a series of landscapes that took as their subjects various natural points of origin: grottoes, caves, waterfalls, etc. Through his loose and expressive facture, Courbet renders visible in these landscapes the ongoing becoming of the world, investigating the nature of origination and evolution. Courbet’s interest in such subjects comes just two years after the publication of the French translation of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, which irreversibly unsettled the traditional understanding of humankind’s position within the world. The early years of evolutionary …

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Landscape Network, Xiao Sheng Dec 2016

Landscape Network, Xiao Sheng

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

Wen Zhengming’s Deep Snow in Guanshan Mountains, as many other landscape paintings in China, is usually interpreted and appreciated as the spirituality extended from the artist. It also relates the common value of aesthetics come from traditional Chinese philosophy, and the value system completes itself as a mature system of appreciating artworks. However, since traditional literature of art criticism and appreciation in China tends to be generalized, concise, and implicative, and there are certain viewpoints that are tacitly agreed among artists and art critics, it is often self-evident for people who are familiar with the system of Chinese aesthetics, but …

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Hito Steyerl's "Duty-Free Art" As Politics And Pedagogy, Rachel Carina Sigismondi Dec 2016

Hito Steyerl's "Duty-Free Art" As Politics And Pedagogy, Rachel Carina Sigismondi

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

How does contemporary art engage the contemporary, exactly? Artist Hito Steyerl actively engages this question in her recent works. One might notice upon visiting a Hito Steyerl exhibition that her video works often include recordings of lectures she has given to live audiences in art spaces. Because Steyerl is engaged in this pedagogical practice as an artist, can it be considered contemporary art? Steyerl’s written, lectured, and visual works engage the contemporary moment prodigiously, and cannot be eschewed in an analysis of the perpetually evolving nature of contemporary art. With the use of critical, theoretical and formal analytical tools, this …

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