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Towards Unbordered Worlds: Mutual Aid Amid Border Internalisation In New York City, Holly Maclean

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study explores the relationship between mutual aid and border regimes through the case of Tompkins Distro, a mutual aid group that organises a weekly food distribution in the East Village of New York City. It focuses specifically on two forms of border internalisation that have shaped the emergence and context of Tompkins Distro: welfare state bordering and interior border enforcement. Drawing on four months of participant observations, interviews with core organisers, and documentary analysis, the study examines how Tompkins Distro meets people’s needs each week through a framework of collective care that actively rejects border logics of deservingness and …

Postscript: A Digital Inquiry Into Inherited Memory, Alexander Lee

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This Capstone project explores the intimate mechanics of family memory through digital interfaces and media, centering on a set of more than fifty letters my late grandmother wrote in 1947 during a four-month journey across Europe. Through a series of digital interventions — including mapping, text analysis, and interactive storytelling — Postscript captures the process of my own memory formation as I connect to my grandmother's legacy. The project specifically engages with digital technologies' unique affordances (like interactivity and nonlinearity) to interrogate how digital methods of analysis and expression can develop, as well as distort, modes of relationality and identity. …

Visualizing Six Decades Of Polish Migration: An Interactive Analytics Approach (1966–2024), Alexandra Gilarowski

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This project presents an interactive, data-driven visualization of Polish migration patterns between 1966 and 2024. Using multi-series line chart, cumulative flow analysis, and an animated geospatial map, the project explores six decades of demographic mobility shaped by political, economic, and social forces. Major historical events - including the fall of the Berlin Wall, Poland’s accession to the European Union, Schengen integration, and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - are incorporated directly into the visualization to contextualize shifts in migration. The dataset, compiled from historical migration statistics published by the Polish Central Statistical Office (GUS), is transformed into a browsable …

Reimagining Safety And Justice: Experiences Of And Resistance To Police Sexual Violence In New York City, Priscilla Bustamante

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In the era following both Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, police sexual violence (PSV) currently constitutes the second most commonly reported police complaint after excessive force. Police across the U.S. are caught for some form of sexual misconduct once every five days, with on-duty officers found to commit sexual assaults at more than double the rate of the general population. The gendered and racialized perpetration of sexual violence extends far beyond policing; however, it has been intensified within the masculine, militarized carceral structures designed to legally control and punish.

Accordingly, this dissertation utilizes an interdisciplinary, multi-method approach to offer what …

Less Self, Less Fear: Manipulation Of The Self Using Virtual Out-Of-Body Experiences To Alter The Conscious And Unconscious Experience Of Emotion, Dillon Freed

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study investigated whether adopting an out-of-body perspective in virtual reality (VR) reduces subjective and physiological emotional responses to vicarious pain stimuli compared to inhabiting a first-person embodied avatar. Twenty-four participants experienced two counterbalanced VR conditions: (1) Avatar Embodiment (AV), in which they inhabited a photorealistic avatar from a first-person perspective, and (2) a Virtual Out-of-Body Experience (vOBE), in which they observed their avatar from a displaced third-person perspective. In both conditions, participants viewed a standardized series of vicarious pain images while electrodermal activity was recorded and self-report measures of embodiment (AV) and disembodiment (the vOBE state), emotional intensity (a …

How To Search For The Engram: Optogenetics And Network Dynamics, Claudia Garcia Jou

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Memories are thought to be encoded by ensembles of neurons called "engram cells", because their artificial activation with optogenetics leads to the behavioral expression of a memory. However, the physiological mechanisms that mediate this process remain unknown. In this thesis, I investigate how optogenetic stimulation of memory-tagged cells changes neuronal firing, spatial coding, and the geometry of neural manifolds. I used an active place avoidance task and a foraging task to label engram cells in the dorsal hippocampus with Channelrhodopsin2 (ChR2). I then recorded the hippocampal activity response to optogenetic stimulation in mice under anesthesia, head-fixed, or freely moving. I …

Loss Of Beta-Cell Identity And Function As A Mechanism Of Secondary Failure Of Sulfonylurea Therapy In Diabetes, Sumit Patel, Zihan Yan, Maria S Remedi

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Sulfonylureas, commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes (T2D), often lose effectiveness over time when used as monotherapy; however, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. To investigate the mechanisms of sulfonylurea failure, glibenclamide-releasing pellets were implanted in KK mice, a polygenic model that spontaneously develops T2D. KK mice receiving placebo pellets (KK-Placebo) developed hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, glucose intolerance, and insulin resistance. Notably, KK mice implanted with glibenclamide (KK-Glib) showed improved blood glucose levels during the first 7 days, returning to KK-Placebo levels thereafter. KK-Glib mice exhibited reduced plasma insulin levels and insulin secretion in response to a glucose challenge compared with the …

Hsta 405.01: Public Problems And U.S. Democracy, Corbin Page

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Hstr 102h.00: Western Civilizatoin Ii, Lily S. Scott

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Somatic Deficiency Of The Human E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Cbl In Leukocytes Impairs B Cell But Not T Cell Development And Function., Taja Vatovec, Anna-Lena Neehus, Katherine J L Jackson, Danielle T Avery, Ivan Bagarić, Lucia Erazo, Carlos A Arango-Franco, Masato Ogishi, Syed F Ahmed, Axel Cederholm, Amanda J Russell, Erika Della Mina, Dena Al-Rifai, Rowena Bull, Lori Buetow, Steicy Sobrino, Allison Zhang, Lara Wahlster, Marine Michelet, Nima Parvaneh, Jessica Peel, Federica Barzaghi, Davide Leardini, Quentin Philippot, Francesco Saettini, Jacques Dutrieux, Benedicte De Muylder, Francesca Vendemini, Francesco Baccelli, Albert Catala, Eleonora Gambineri, Marinella Veltroni, Vignesh Pandiarajan, Yurena Aguilar, Filomeen Haerynck, Michael Elliott, Stuart Turville, Fabienne Brillot, Taushif Khan, Filippo Consonni, Laureline Berteloot, William A Sewell, Geetha Rao, Laetitia Largeaud, Francesca Conti, Cecile Roullion, Cécile Masson, Francesco Pegoraro, Tianyi Ye, Samantha Joubran, Emily Villalpando, Boris Bessot, Yoann Seeleuthner, Tom Le Voyer, Jérémie Rosain, Hailun Li, Zarah Janda, Edoardo Muratore, Camille Soudée, Eric Delabesse, Claire Goulvestre, Mohammad Shahrooei, Anne Puel, Isabelle André, Christine Bole-Feysot, Laurent Abel, Miriam Erlacher, Vivien Béziat, Chantal Lagresle-Peyrou, Remi Cheynier, Emmanuelle Six, Nico Marr, Marlène Pasquet, Laia Alsina, Christopher C Goodnow, Nils Landegren, Alessandro Aiuti, Peng Zhang, Riccardo Masetti, Danny T Huang, Cindy S Ma, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Vijay G Sankaran, Jacinta Bustamante, Stuart G Tangye, Jonathan Bohlen

Faculty Research 2026

The E3 ubiquitin ligase Casitas B-lineage lymphoma (CBL) promotes positive selection and antigen responses in mouse T lymphocytes by ubiquitinating ZAP70. Conversely, mouse CBL and CBL-B mutually redundantly regulate SYK ubiquitination and B cell receptor signaling. Here we studied individuals with somatically homozygous CBL loss-of-function variants in leukocytes. Human CBL is largely redundant for the development and function of human T cells. Conversely, B cell development is altered at the immature stage, with a tenfold increase in transitional cells, enhanced survival of autoreactive clones and impaired tolerance manifested by autoantibody production. B cell maturation is intrinsically impaired by reduced apoptosis …

Patients Versus Profits, David A. Simon

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Two motives drive much of American health care. The first is the motive to heal the sick—the patient motive. The second is the motive to generate financial gains—the profit motive. This Article asks the following question: where do these two motives intersect and diverge? Using three emerging technologies as examples, this Article provides a framework for answering this question. It then uses this framework’s insights to explain when and how legal and extra-legal institutions can be used to improve care, either by constraining the profit motive or aligning it more closely with the goals of patient care. This Article concludes …

Transforming Indigent Appellate Advocacy, Rachel T. Goldberg, Estelle M. Mckee

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Indigent appellate advocacy has long been confined to a narrow, technocratic model—one that prioritizes legal expertise over client autonomy and treats appellate cases solely as isolated legal battles rather than opportunities for systemic change. Unlike their trial-level counterparts, appellate attorneys representing indigent clients have received little scholarly attention, leaving critical questions about client participation, ethical representation, and social justice largely unexplored.

This Article challenges the status quo, arguing that appellate attorneys should rethink their role in ways that empower clients and confront the broader injustices shaping their cases. We introduce two alternative frameworks—client-centered appellate representation and participatory appellate representation—that draw …

Variation In Food Web Reliance On Green And Brown Energy Pathways Across Ecosystem Gradients, James W. Sturges, W. Ryan James, Ryan J. Rezek, Rolando O. Santos, Mack White, Gina A. Badlowski, Shakira Trabelsi, Jordan Massie, Justin S. Lesser, Joel C. Trexler, James Nelson, Jennifer S. Rehage

Marine Science

Aquatic food webs typically include highly coupled fast, ‘green’ energy pathways driven by algae or phytoplankton and slower, ‘brown’ energy channels driven by detritus and terrestrial plants. Quantifying how much energy biological communities obtain from each of these pathways is essential, particularly across multiple interconnected food webs over large areas, because energy dynamics are known to influence ecosystem structure and function. Despite their importance, few studies track variance in energy channel contributions to food webs across interconnected habitats during distinct hydrologic seasons. In this study, we used tri-isotope Bayesian mixing models to quantify seasonal contributions of energy pathways to consumers …

Genomic Comparisons And The Adaptive Basis Of Brain Size Plasticity And Chromosomal Instability In The Eurasian Common Shrew, William R. Thomas, Tanya M. Lama, Cecilia Baldoni, Laia Marín-Gual, Diana Moreno Santillán, Marta Farré, Linelle Abueg, Jennifer Balacco, Olivier Fedrigo, Giulio Formenti, Nivesh Jain, Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Tatiana Tilley, Ying Sims, Alan Tracey, Jo Wood, David A. Ray, Dominik Von Elverfeldt, John Nieland, Angelique P. Corthals, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Dina K.N. Dechmann, Erich Jarvis, Liliana M. Dávalos

Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Sorex araneus, the Eurasian common shrew, has seasonal brain size plasticity (Dehnel's phenomenon) and many intraspecific chromosomal rearrangements. Genomic contributions to these traits, however, remain unknown. We couple a chromosome-scale genome assembly with seasonal brain transcriptomes to discover relationships between molecular evolution and both traits. While Positively Selected Genes (PSGs) enriched the Fanconi anemia DNA repair pathway (FANCI, FAAP100), which is likely involved in chromosomal rearrangements by preventing the accumulation of chromosomal aberrations, genes under positive selection or showing seasonal differential expression in the brain implicate neurogenesis (PCDHA6, SOX9, Notch signaling) and metabolic regulation (VEGFA, SPHK2) as key mechanisms underlying …

February 2026, Office Of Research

Research Update

No abstract provided.

Uab Libraries News, 02 2026, Uab Libraries

UAB Libraries News

No abstract provided.

The National Security Internet, Anupam Chander

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In response to widespread foreign surveillance and growing geopolitical distrust, governments are erecting a national security internet. Pioneered by China, national firewalls have gone global. But where firewalls sought to keep information out, they now seek to keep data in. Governments keen to avoid their citizens’ data from falling into foreign hands demand not only that personal data be stored on local servers, but also require that it be stored on local servers by local companies—what this Article calls “data localization squared.” Enforcing this demand requires a new mechanism of transnational control: immunity from foreign jurisdiction. Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, …

Biob 170n.01; Principles Of Biological Diversity, Scott R. Miller

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Russ 202.01: Intermediate Russian Ii, Clint B. Walker

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

M 132.02: Numers And Operations For Elementary School Teachers, Frederick Peck

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Phl 110e.50: Introduction To Ethics, Armond J. Duwell

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Vultures, Bryan M. Kluever, Lee A. Humberg, Scott C. Barras

Wildlife Damage Management Technical Series

Fact sheet about vultures including information about human--wildlife conflicts, the vulture roost, affects on livestock, structures, human health and safety, identification of damage, management methods, legal considerations, and economics. Also included is an overview of the species.

M 133.01: Geometry And Measurement For Elementary School Teachers, Frederick Peck

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Silent Messengers In The Nano-World: Harnessing Extracellular Vesicles As Theranostic Tools For Neonatal Surgical Conditions, Augusto Zani

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are lipid bilayer-enclosed nanoparticles secreted by all cells that mediate intercellular communication by transferring proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids. Among their cargo, microRNAs are key post-transcriptional regulators of organogenesis. In fetal lung development, EV-mediated signaling is essential for the coordination of epithelial, mesenchymal, endothelial, and immune cells. In congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), disruption of these interactions leads to pulmonary hypoplasia and pulmonary hypertension, the primary causes of morbidity and mortality. Amniotic fluid stem cell-derived EVs (AFSC-EVs) have emerged as a promising cell-free therapy to restore this impaired communication. In rodent, rabbit, and human models of pulmonary hypoplasia, …

How To Measure, Analyze, And Interpret Age-Related Changes In Caenorhabditis Elegans: Lessons For Mechanistic And Evolutionary Theories Of Aging, Zuzana Kocsisova, Brian M Egan, Andrea Scharf, Xavier Anderson, Franziska Pohl, Aaron Anderson, Kerry Kornfeld

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Aging is characterized by progressive degenerative changes in tissue organization and function, some of which increase the probability of mortality. Major goals of aging research are to elucidate the series of events that cause degenerative changes, and to identify environmental, pharmacological, and genetic factors that influence these changes; this information might lead to new strategies to extend health span and lifespan. Mechanistic studies of aging depend on accurate and precise descriptions of age-related changes, since these descriptions define the aging phenotype. Here, we review studies that describe age-related changes in C. elegans, including measurements of integrated functions such as behavior …

Cytotoxicity Of Ammonia- And Water-Based Silver Fluoride Treatments, Merve Uctasli, Roda Seseogullari-Dirihan, Mustafa Murat Mutluay, Arzu Tezvergil-Mutluay

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

This study aims to investigate the trans-dentinal and direct cell viability of ammonia- and water-based silver fluoride treatments. Deep dentin discs were prepared, balanced for permeability and autoclaved. Three-dimensional cultures of odontoblast-like cells were transferred to the pulpal aspect of the dentin slices inside perfusion split chambers designed for dentin-barrier cytotoxicity test, following ISO 7405. An experimental resin-based glass ionomer cement and a polyvinylsiloxane impression material served as positive and negative controls, respectively. The experimental treatments included: (i) ammonia-based silver fluoride = SDF, (ii) SDF + potassium iodide = KI, (iii) water-based silver fluoride = SF, and (iv) SF + …

The Death To Onchocerciasis And Lymphatic Filariasis (Dolf) Project: Accomplishments And Ongoing Research, Peter U. Fischer, Christopher L. King, Philip J. Budge, Gary J. Weil, Dolf Consortium

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The Death to Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis (DOLF) project conducts clinical and translational research to accelerate the global elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) and onchocerciasis (river blindness). Research needs were identified during several meetings of experts and helped study design. Over the last 15 years the project has conducted mass drug administration (MDA) studies and clinical trials with outstanding research teams in 11 countries that have led to many important discoveries. For example, DOLF studies showed that annual MDA was as effective as semiannual MDA for LF elimination and that semiannual MDA with albendazole alone can eliminate LF in areas …

Divergent Humoral Immune Signatures In Response To Klebsiella Pneumoniae Bacteremia, Paeton L Wantuch, Nadia Wattad, David A Rosen

2020-Current year OA Pubs

OBJECTIVES: Klebsiella pneumoniae is an increasingly threatening global pathogen with high rates of antibiotic resistance and no licensed vaccines available. Despite its worldwide importance, little is known about the human adaptive immune response to K. pneumoniae infection.

METHODS: Herein we observed the longitudinal antibody responses of three immunocompetent patients hospitalized with K. pneumoniae bacteremia. We analyzed the human serum for antibody titers and in vitro functionality. Further, serum function was evaluated via an in vivo mouse model.

RESULTS: We found that in each case, anti-K. pneumoniae antibodies against the infecting strain were still detectable a year after the initial infection. …

Ultrasound Applications In The Treatment Of Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review Of Techniques And Therapeutic Potentials In Clinical Trials And Animal Model Studies, Gansheng Tan, Hong Chen, Eric C Leuthardt

2020-Current year OA Pubs

OBJECTIVE: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a debilitating condition that inflicts significant personal and economic burdens and affects approximately 8% of the US population. Approximately 30% of patients with MDD do not respond to conventional antidepressant and psychotherapeutic treatments. Current treatment options for refractory MDD include transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and invasive surgical procedures such as surgical ablation, vagus nerve stimulation, and deep brain stimulation. In this context, therapeutic ultrasound emerges as a promising alternative for treating refractory MDD, which has the unique advantage of combining noninvasiveness with selective targeting. Over the past ten years, there has been growth in …

Accelerated Diffusion Basis Spectrum Imaging With Tensor Computations, Kainen L Utt, Jacob S Blum, Donsub Rim, Sheng-Kwei Song

2020-Current year OA Pubs

This paper introduces an advanced framework for accelerated processing of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) data that utilizes an entire-image modeling approach to optimize the estimation of diffusion parameters from DWIs by mapping input diffusion data to predicted signals and estimating parameter values via a stochastic gradient descent optimizer (Adam). To validate this approach, we applied this framework to diffusion basis spectrum imaging (DBSI) and analyzed in vivo human brain and ex vivo mouse brain DWIs. Results demonstrate significant improvements to computational speed and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in estimated parameter maps compared to standard DBSI. Our approach is applicable to any diffusion …