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To Boldly Go From Zine To Ao3: A Study Of Fanfiction Culture In The Star Trek Fandom, Victoria Reep Jan 2022

To Boldly Go From Zine To Ao3: A Study Of Fanfiction Culture In The Star Trek Fandom, Victoria Reep

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Fanfiction, or the practice of writing fiction about characters from a specific movie, TV show, or book is a practice that has existed for decades. Commonly attributed to the fanzines created by Star Trek fans in the 1960s, fanfiction has become an international phenomenon. Fanfiction is largely shared online and as a result, my research was conducted in an online setting. After speaking to eleven Star Trek fans who read or write fanfiction and reading the stories they selected for me to illustrate their interests, I have concluded that fanfiction is larger than its written works. Fanfiction is a community …

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The Contention About Protection: Legal Status Of Protracted Refugees In Jordan, Bangladesh, India, And Kenya, Sierra Lamb Jan 2022

The Contention About Protection: Legal Status Of Protracted Refugees In Jordan, Bangladesh, India, And Kenya, Sierra Lamb

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The trend of international refugee crises lasting longer and longer leads to additional concerns and strains for host countries. Not only that, but long-term refugeehood creates continued dependence on the host nation and bars access to most durable solutions. One way to move from dependency to self-sufficiency for these refugees is to obtain a legal status that allows them to engage with their host society in a meaningful way. This study posits that the status of protracted refugees in a host state is to some degree dependent on the origins of the crisis (ethnic cleansing versus civil war) and on …

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Modern Art As Propaganda: Vera Mukhina's Soviet Pavilion Sculpture At The 1937 International Exhibition, Cecile "C" De Zotti Jan 2022

Modern Art As Propaganda: Vera Mukhina's Soviet Pavilion Sculpture At The 1937 International Exhibition, Cecile "C" De Zotti

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Since 1851, international exhibitions have impacted millions with their awe-inducing splendor and gigantic displays of cultural and technological innovations. The 1937 iteration stands out from the crowd for the strong political implications of its displays as World War II loomed in the future, especially the tense confrontation between the German and Soviet Pavilions. This thesis considers how the U.S.S.R. used this event as an opportunity to propagate an idealized image of itself to the rest of the world via Vera Mukhina’s Industrial Worker and Collective Farm Woman, which crowned the Soviet pavilion. It more specifically examines how this sculpture functioned …

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Corals, Cassiopea, And Climate Change: An Assessment Of Cassiopea Xamachana As A Model Organism For Coral-Algal Symbioses, Caroline Link Jan 2022

Corals, Cassiopea, And Climate Change: An Assessment Of Cassiopea Xamachana As A Model Organism For Coral-Algal Symbioses, Caroline Link

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The driving force between the high biodiversity and productivity of coral reefs is corals’ symbiotic relationship with photosynthetic dinoflagellates within the family Symbiodiniaceae. Recent studies have found that Symbiodiniaceae species differ in their physiological thermotolerances and that symbiont identity is a key determinant of a coral host’s susceptibility and acclimation to increased temperature. However, the specific thermotolerances between species and among species strains remain partially unknown. This is due in part to the difficulty associated with maintaining ex hospite symbionts in culture and sourcing intact coral-algal holobionts with a symbiont that has known physiology when in culture. Cassiopea xamachana jellyfish, …

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[S]Niffing [O]Ut [S]Pecies: Detection Dogs In Conservation Work, Antonio Opio Jan 2022

[S]Niffing [O]Ut [S]Pecies: Detection Dogs In Conservation Work, Antonio Opio

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Biodiversity has faced severe declines since the industrial revolution, with nearly 68% of monitored species actively declining worldwide. Among methods for conservation research, Conservation Detection Dogs (CDDs) have grown in popularity since the first program began implementing them for scat detection in the 1990s. CDDs have been utilized for work including the detection of live animals, biological remnants, carcasses, plants, pathogens, poachers, and poached contraband, among a variety of applications. Their usage has assisted in the management of introduced species, monitoring of endangered species, and prevention of wildlife crime. I evaluated a set of case studies within 3 categories: introduced …

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Conceptual Metaphor Games An Embodied Approach To Mathematics Pedagogy, Laura Perkins Jan 2022

Conceptual Metaphor Games An Embodied Approach To Mathematics Pedagogy, Laura Perkins

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In the theory of embodied cognition, mathematical activity is thought to be facili- tated in large part by epistemic “mappings” that translate bodily intuitions about the world into abstract conceptual domains. Since their popularization, these ideas have influenced discourse in mathematics education. Another currently popular topic in mathematics education is the growing evidence that learning games can enhance learning outcomes. Combining these facts, this work proposes to construct real- world or virtual games which directly map onto mathematical concepts via concep- tual metaphors. Games of this kind, which I dub conceptual metaphor games, intend to encourage learning as exploration, making …

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Sleeping With The (Cuttle)Fishes: Measuring Sleep Through Arousal Threshold In The Dwarf Cuttlefish, Sepia Bandensis, Hannah Nations Jan 2022

Sleeping With The (Cuttle)Fishes: Measuring Sleep Through Arousal Threshold In The Dwarf Cuttlefish, Sepia Bandensis, Hannah Nations

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Sleep is a fundamental part of life, not only for humans, but for countless species. Using behavioral criteria, sleep has been found to occur in species from a large range of phyla, including Mollusca. So far it has been found that one octopus species displays sleep behaviors, and one cuttlefish species fulfills multiple behavioral criteria for sleep. This study uses Sepia bandensis, the dwarf cuttlefish, to test a remaining criterion: an elevated arousal threshold that provides evidence of sleep behavior in cuttlefish. To test arousal threshold, the magnitude of stimuli required to evoke a response, when in and out of …

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Pepsi-Cola And Communion Wafers: Aesthetics Of Juxtaposition In Corita Kent’S Mid-Century Prints, Jessica Edmonds Jan 2022

Pepsi-Cola And Communion Wafers: Aesthetics Of Juxtaposition In Corita Kent’S Mid-Century Prints, Jessica Edmonds

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Often identified with the Pop art movement during the 1960s, Corita Kent is distinguished for her silkscreen prints that juxtapose contemporary advertising imagery with traditional biblical themes. Less well-known are her prints produced before the Pop decade, which exhibit similar juxtapositional strategies between commercial and spiritual realms. Examining prints from her mid-century oeuvre, as well as the cultural contexts with which contemporary viewers likely would have been familiar, this thesis explores the evolution of Corita’s aesthetics of juxtaposition and the possible implications of its relationship to the modernization efforts of the Catholic Church under the directives of the Second Vatican …

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How Effective Are Flowerpot Snakes When It Comes To Controlling Termite Pest Populations?, Skylar Gross Jan 2022

How Effective Are Flowerpot Snakes When It Comes To Controlling Termite Pest Populations?, Skylar Gross

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Flowerpot snakes, Indotyphlops braminus, are a fossorial snake species that is found in many parts of the world. The snakes are known to prey on ants and termites. This experiment was designed to answer the question, are flowerpot snakes an effective form of pest control? Feeding behavior of flowerpot snakes was tested using termite workers in the conditions: substrate absent with lights off, substrate absent with lights on, substrate present with lights off, and substrate present with lights on to determine a maximum feeding rate. The flowerpot snakes ate an average of two termites per feeding event, ranging between 1.60 …

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The Effects Of Climate Change On The Migration Phenology Of Juvenile Blacktip Sharks (Carcharhinus Limbatus), Victoria Goldner Jan 2022

The Effects Of Climate Change On The Migration Phenology Of Juvenile Blacktip Sharks (Carcharhinus Limbatus), Victoria Goldner

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Seasonal temperature change has been shown to be a key driver of migration for many species. Increasing ocean temperatures have been observed to cause shifts in the range and timing of migratory movements in marine animals, including sharks. For harvested species, these behavioral changes could have significant implications for fisheries management. The blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) is one of the Gulf of Mexico’s most recreationally and commercially important species. Terra Ceia Bay, FL, is a nursery for blacktip sharks that has been extensively studied. In the late 1990s through early 2000s, young-of-the-year sharks were found to reside in the bay …

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Pediatric Heavy Metal Toxicity: A Systematic Review Of The Association Between In-Utero Exposure To Heavy Metals And Behavioral/Neurological Problems In The Affected Children, Isabella Hochburger Jan 2022

Pediatric Heavy Metal Toxicity: A Systematic Review Of The Association Between In-Utero Exposure To Heavy Metals And Behavioral/Neurological Problems In The Affected Children, Isabella Hochburger

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The rates of children diagnosed with developmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have exponentially increased over the last 20 years, which has placed a heavy burden on both caregivers and psychiatrists. The neurobiology of these disorders has been increasingly well studied, but the root causes of these disorders remain poorly understood by the neuroscience/psychiatric community. Most neuroscientists suggest a combination of genetic and environmental factors are to blame, but the question remains: why are these disorders becoming so prevalent in our society, now more than ever before? One proposed genetic-environmental factor is heavy …

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Translating The Untranslatable: Russian Dialogic Profanity In Theater Play “Can I Bum A Cig?” By Oksana Savchenko, Serafima Kosacheva Jan 2022

Translating The Untranslatable: Russian Dialogic Profanity In Theater Play “Can I Bum A Cig?” By Oksana Savchenko, Serafima Kosacheva

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Can I Bum a Cig? is an English literary translation of a contemporary Ukrainian play written in Russian by Oksana Savchenko in 2019. The play is set in 1991 Soviet Ukraine and Russia and is a coming-of-age story about 15-year-old Ksala as she grows up in the turbulent period of the fall of the Soviet Union. I have adapted this play into the English language for the English-speaking audience which wants to learn about the history of the Soviet Union and what daily life was like for teenagers living through the major transitional period of the fall of the USSR. …

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The Behavioral Response Of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus Zimmerman 1780) To Scented Bait Stations, Nicholas Warmington Jan 2022

The Behavioral Response Of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus Zimmerman 1780) To Scented Bait Stations, Nicholas Warmington

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White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are large, herbivorous ungulates which are known to be selective browsers. They can heavily modify the botanical landscape of an area if their population size becomes too large. White-tailed deer populations are growing too fast, and overpopulation is becoming a serious issue across the United States. Deer will heavily browse saplings and herbs, causing issues with forest regeneration and the protection of endangered herbs. Overpopulation of deer has also become a major issue due to the rise of zoonoses and deer vehicle collisions due to development. In the present study, use of scents such as predator …

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Case Study Of Domoic Acid Toxicosis In A California Sea Lion: Diffusion Imaging Analysis Of Anterior Thalamus And Connectivity, Isabella Michal Jan 2022

Case Study Of Domoic Acid Toxicosis In A California Sea Lion: Diffusion Imaging Analysis Of Anterior Thalamus And Connectivity, Isabella Michal

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Populations of wild California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) are an opportunistic disease model for study of the effects of the algal toxin domoic acid. Common symptomology of chronic domoic acid toxicosis in these animals includes hippocampal atrophy and seizures. Distributed neural pathology is less well understood. The thalamus shares dense connections with the hippocampus, and there has been some evidence of thalamus lesioning in exposed sea lions and human cases, but these findings have been anecdotal. Relatedly, temporal lobe epilepsy in humans can lead to thalamus atrophy. In the present study, high resolution diffusion tensor imaging data obtained postmortem was …

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The Information Needed To Successfully Educate Florida Highschool Students On The Topic Of Artificial Coral Reefs, Eliot Greene Jan 2022

The Information Needed To Successfully Educate Florida Highschool Students On The Topic Of Artificial Coral Reefs, Eliot Greene

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The purpose of this thesis was to create a lesson plan that teaches the importance of artificial coral reefs to high school students. There are no lesson plans designed to teach about artificial coral reefs to high school students that are publicly available for educators to use. To write a lesson plan about artificial coral reefs an extensive amount of background research was done. This included general information about corals and how they are impacted by climate change, analyzing existing artificial coral reefs, understanding the process of doing an artificial reef project from scratch, and analyzing lesson plans designed to …

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Flight For Survival: The Past, Present, And Future Of The Florida Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus Savannarum Floridanus), Hope Sandlin Jan 2022

Flight For Survival: The Past, Present, And Future Of The Florida Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus Savannarum Floridanus), Hope Sandlin

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The Florida grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum floridanus) is a highly endangered subspecies endemic to the dry prairies of south-central Florida. They have the capacity to act as an umbrella species for this shrinking ecosystem, wherein their conservation will protect the other species that share their habitat. They are currently threatened by habitat loss, fragmentation, degradation, and invasive species. Their populations continue to decline even in protected areas. There is no unifying cause for this decline. Currently a captive breeding program aims to revive the species and create stable wild populations. The US Fish & Wildlife Service’s recovery plan for these …

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The Future Of Urban Agriculture: Community Gardening And Controlled Environment Agriculture, Bryton Calder Jan 2022

The Future Of Urban Agriculture: Community Gardening And Controlled Environment Agriculture, Bryton Calder

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Urban agriculture is the practice of cultivating and harnessing agriculture within cities, in order to provide for the people who live there. Our urban populations are sustained from the produce of industrial agriculture, grown far from where it is needed most. As urban populations expand many communities are being left behind, deprived of access to healthy and fresh produce. Urban agriculture offers a way to bring food production back to these communities and change urban landscapes into conduits for their own livelihoods. The act of growing and processing food within communities was the foundation of urbanization, and although cities today …

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Understanding The Design Considerations Of A Community Health Org App: A Case Study With The Multicultural Health Institute, Olympia Fulcher Jan 2022

Understanding The Design Considerations Of A Community Health Org App: A Case Study With The Multicultural Health Institute, Olympia Fulcher

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This thesis explores how software design concepts and implementation are unique when developing for public health organizations by developing an app for a local public health organization in Sarasota, Florida called The Multicultural Health Institute (MHI). In practice, public health organizations focus primarily on community trust building to foster widespread use of public health interventions. With this model in mind, and with feedback from MHI key staff and “Community Safekeepers”, an Android app was developed that allows users to access public health resources from different sources all in one screen, including content published by MHI related to public health issues …

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A Spark Of Shared Creation: A Review And Analysis Of Dungeons And Dragons, Its History, And Its Impact On Marginal Identities, Toni White Jan 2022

A Spark Of Shared Creation: A Review And Analysis Of Dungeons And Dragons, Its History, And Its Impact On Marginal Identities, Toni White

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Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is a game that pioneered the tabletop roleplay game genre. Given its foundational status within the genre, I pinpoint and analyze the ways D&D provides community and escapism, particularly considering the benefits minority and marginalized players gain from these concepts outside the game’s fiction. Conversely, this project points to examples in a larger pattern of D&D alienating those same marginalized players with complacent use of harmful stereotypes. I outline the ways the game has influenced pop culture and game design (with the creation of game mechanics such as the “Hit Point” and “Alignment Chart”) to center …

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Sex Differences In Greb1 Expression In Xenopus Laevis, Daria Paulis Jan 2022

Sex Differences In Greb1 Expression In Xenopus Laevis, Daria Paulis

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Transcriptomic studies are a great tool for trying to understand the molecular support mechanisms for behavior and physiology. This thesis builds on a previous transcriptomic study that was done in Xenopus (African clawed frogs). Xenopus use sex- and species-specific vocalizations to mediate reproduction. Differences in vocalizations are supported by the sexually dimorphic larynx, the muscle responsible for vocalizations. Work to understand Xenopus laryngeal physiology and morphology had found sex differences in the fiber type, size, and density. Our past transcriptomic study found greb1 (growth regulation by estrogen in breast cancer 1) to be differentially expressed between males and females in …

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Deconstructing The Viking Archetype: The Erasure Of Marginalized Groups From Viking History, Leviathan Fisher Jan 2022

Deconstructing The Viking Archetype: The Erasure Of Marginalized Groups From Viking History, Leviathan Fisher

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In the most authoritative early works on Viking history, there is a notable lack of discussion about Vikings that were nonwhite, queer, or gender nonconforming. These texts, nineteenth and early twentieth century creations of European/American men, instead focused on the interests of their authors: other Anglo-European men. The erasure of marginalized groups from the literature ensured that these groups were not a part of the Viking revival that introduced physical stereotypes to the public consciousness, and as a result Victorian popular culture crystallized the image of Vikings as blonde-haired, blue- eyed, cisgender-heterosexual, and white. This same image remains in modern …

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Seeking Transcendence: An Argument For The Ritual Use Of Psychedelics Among The Spiritual But Not Religious, Jackson Bove Jan 2022

Seeking Transcendence: An Argument For The Ritual Use Of Psychedelics Among The Spiritual But Not Religious, Jackson Bove

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Currently, the movement of “spiritual but not religious” people represents a growing population in the United States. This spiritual but not religious category, primarily characterized by the rejection of institutional religion and desire for firsthand spiritual experiences, overlaps with the concurrent resurgence of psychedelic research and culture. Psychedelics indeed may elicit those spiritually meaningful experiences without the need for hierarchies and churches to mediate them. However, there is a critical need to structure the use of psychedelics. This thesis thus argues to retain the ritual and ceremonial contexts which hallucinogenic drugs have traditionally been used in as we integrate psychedelics …

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Stories Told, Read, And Lived : Three Essays On Storytelling, Ambiguity, And The Realities Of The Unseen, Ella Rennekamp Jan 2022

Stories Told, Read, And Lived : Three Essays On Storytelling, Ambiguity, And The Realities Of The Unseen, Ella Rennekamp

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Nature Photography – A Unity Game, Addie Fluegge Jan 2022

Nature Photography – A Unity Game, Addie Fluegge

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Within this Thesis, I talk about the creation of a nature photography game created using C# and the Unity engine. In this game, the player begins in a nature center, and then travels between three different locations - A field, a plains river, and a volcano – each with different animals that would be native to that location in the wild. The player then can return to the nature center and view the pictures that they’ve taken. The art of the game was created using Blender, for the 3d models of the locations and buildings, and Clip Studio Paint, for …

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Empirical And Epistemic Justifications:A Comparative Assessment Of Mapping Validation Techniques For Evaluating Seagrass Abundance, Maria Guardado Jan 2022

Empirical And Epistemic Justifications:A Comparative Assessment Of Mapping Validation Techniques For Evaluating Seagrass Abundance, Maria Guardado

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Empirically, I perform three different mapping validation procedures (by eye, photo-quadrat, and point count) in order to compare their functionality as ground truth data. I calculate the benthic substrate coverage in a subset of the Sarasota Bay in Florida by using high resolution aerial images and perform accuracy assessments using the three validation procedures. Philosophically, I assess how the methodology of mapping validation procedures assumes a framework of scientific realism for practicing scientists, implying an absolutism about the truth in scientific claims. I then assess the procedures I used in the comparative study of mapping validation procedures through the epistemic …

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Native Representation In Typee And Heart Of Darkness: An Examination Of The Intersection Of Anti-Imperial Critique And Ethnography, Saoirse White Jan 2022

Native Representation In Typee And Heart Of Darkness: An Examination Of The Intersection Of Anti-Imperial Critique And Ethnography, Saoirse White

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About Us, No Longer Without Us: What A Disability Theory Lens Has To Offer The Cognitive Sciences, Mason Tedeschi Jan 2022

About Us, No Longer Without Us: What A Disability Theory Lens Has To Offer The Cognitive Sciences, Mason Tedeschi

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This thesis argues that producing knowledge about the brain and behavior can recognize variance in neutral terms rather than pathologizing ones. I begin by discussing the academic field of disability studies. Disability studies defines disability as separate from impairment, which describes the actual difference in body, brain, or behavior. I will then explain how redefining the way cognitive science looks at disabilities and intentionally moving away from the perspective of deficit doesn’t require the invention of new tools. Affordance theory, which discusses an emergent property between an environment and an individual that makes actions possible, has the potential to open …

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Multiple Raspberry Picamera Recording And Video Stitching Software, Zachary Carey Jan 2022

Multiple Raspberry Picamera Recording And Video Stitching Software, Zachary Carey

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Most animal behavior experiments constrain the experimental design to a single camera, small terrestrial animal and small arena. Advancements in modern technology have allowed for new designs of animal behavior experiments to be created like the multiple Raspberry Picamera recording system generated for the Pritzker Marine Laboratory’s flume tank. This system pilots an experimental design allowing for multiple cameras to be used, and large aquatic animals in large arenas to be studied. This Picamera system produces a single panorama-like output of the entire enclosure by using cost-effective and open-source materials, making it cheaper than standardized alternatives.

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Opera And Sound As Interpretive Frames For A Cbs And Warner Bros. Tv Show: The Hundred, Emma Garza Jan 2022

Opera And Sound As Interpretive Frames For A Cbs And Warner Bros. Tv Show: The Hundred, Emma Garza

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This thesis looks at a CBS and Warner Bros. (CW) television show, The Hundred, to examine prominent operatic themes and how it utilizes sound. The Hundred uses both its characters and plot to demonstrate a variety of dynamics, relationships and roles that are common opera staples. Todorov’s concept of the fantastic plays an essential part in the structure of the show, allowing a discussion of what qualifies as supernatural through the categorization of events under labels of the uncanny and the marvelous. Instances of sound are also highlighted through a lens of feelings such as fear. All examples are connected …

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Xenopus Muelleri Vocalizations And Their Social Contexts, Eliot Evans Jan 2022

Xenopus Muelleri Vocalizations And Their Social Contexts, Eliot Evans

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Anurans of the genus Xenopus provide us with an excellent model to study vocalization physiology and behavior. These frogs produce species and sex-specific vocalizations depending on their current social context. In this study, I look at the understudied species Xenopus muelleri in an attempt to elicit undiscovered vocalizations in this species as well as provide novel behavioral descriptions for each of their known vocalizations. To accomplish this, I primed male and female frogs with human chorionic gonadotropin to increase the likelihood of mating behaviors then paired males and females together both with and without a separation barrier. Temporal and behavioral …

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