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Mainers Divided In Assessment Of Mills, But Is Preferred Challenger To Unpopular Collins In 2026 Senate Race 4/24/2025, Unh Survey Center

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Mainers are divided in their assessment of Governor Janet Mills. A majority of Mainers approve of Mills' performance as governor, but the partisan gap is wide: nearly all Democrats approve of her while almost all Republicans disapprove. More than two-thirds of Mainers believe incumbent Senator Susan Collins does not deserve to be re-elected in 2026, including a majority of Republicans. Mainers generally oppose state prison policy concerning transgender inmates and oppose two bills being considered by the legislature to loosen vaccines requirements in Maine schools.

Fractured Spectacle: Contrasting Reactions To Itaewon Stampede Across Korean And English-Language Networked Publics, Jin-A Choi, Saif Shahin

College of Communication and Media Scholarship and Creative Works

Late modern society has been conceptualized as a spectacle, a metaphor that brings to light not only its commodification but also the benumbing impact of mass media on the audience’s political agency. This study turns attention to the spectacle in the age of social media. Building on a growing body of research on the spectacle of suffering, we compare reactions to the 2022 Itaewon Halloween stampede, which claimed more than 150 lives, across Korean-language and English-language posts on the social networking platform, X (previously Twitter). Our research draws on two computational techniques, topic modeling and network analysis, to examine …

The Comment, April 24, 2025, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

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Bryant Literary Review

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Bryant Literary Review

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As The Waters Rose, William Brasse

Bryant Literary Review

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The Bureau Of Poetry, Lucas Jorgensen

Bryant Literary Review

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There Is No Bureau Of Dogs, Lucas Jorgensen

Bryant Literary Review

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Memoria Teneo, Richard Bertram Peterson

Bryant Literary Review

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At Heaven's Gate, Daniel Yetman

Bryant Literary Review

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Metamorphosis, V.P. Loggins

Bryant Literary Review

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Scene In Adoration, Daniel Edward Moore

Bryant Literary Review

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The Museum Of Everyday Life, Raphael Kosek

Bryant Literary Review

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Climate News, Raphael Kosek

Bryant Literary Review

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Jumpsuit Princess, Meghan Chou

Bryant Literary Review

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Cotton/Soybean Insect Newsletter, April 24, 2025, Jeremy K. Greene

Clemson University Cotton/Soybean Insect Newsletter

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Cotton/Soybean Insect Newsletter, April 24, 2025, Jeremy K. Greene

Clemson University Cotton/Soybean Insect Newsletter

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Uni Piano Studio Spring Recital, April 24, 2025 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recitals given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Who’S That?: Prevalence Of Anthropomorphism In Children’S Literature, Mary Beth Mihevc, Kaitlyn Moore, Larissa Martins Pina

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

Anthropomorphism, the attribution of human characteristics to animals or objects, is often present in children’s literature. Research has shown personification of non-human entities affects the way children experience the world and their thinking about non-human entities (Ganea et al., 2014). The rates of anthropomorphism that children are exposed to is unknown. Therefore, in our study, we analyzed the prevalence rates of anthropomorphism in children’s literature from the 100 most checked out books from two Indiana counties: Porter and Stark (a rural and an urban county), based on circulation data from 2023. To analyze the prevalence of anthropomorphism in children’s books, …

Finding Potential Binary Stars In A Hubble Space Telescope Sample Of Very Hot White Dwarfs, Peyton Mccallips

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

This project is the first step in determining precise temperatures for hot white dwarf stars using ultraviolet spectra from the Hubble Space Telescope. A way to get the temperature of a hot white dwarf is through performing binary modeling. This project used a list of hot white dwarfs that was obtained from Hubble Space Telescope Heritage project named, "A Treasury Far Ultraviolet Survey of the Hottest White Dwarfs", and evaluated if there was periodic variation in brightness or not. The list contained coordinates, which were put into the database Zubercal to obtain photometric (brightness) data and a light curve (or …

Investigating Π0 And Η Production From Star 2013 Endcap Calorimeter Data, Lucas Opiola, Quinten Metts

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) experiment, located at Brookhaven National Laboratory, uses collisions of longitudinally polarized proton beams produced in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study the gluon contribution to the proton spin. While the proton spin is known to be 1/2 ħ, the contribution from gluon spin is not precisely known. Our analysis uses 300 pb-1 of √s = 510 GeV collisions to determine the asymmetry of spin-dependent production of neutral pions (π0) and eta (η) mesons. This asymmetry is sensitive to the gluon contribution to the spin of the proton. Collisions at √s = 510 …

The Origin Of Unidentified Infrared Emission Lines In Planetary Nebulae Environments, Abigail Proskurniak, Joel Osterhus

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

Planetary nebulae emit unidentified infrared emission (UIE) lines that come from an unknown source. A proposed source for these UIE lines is polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) which are composed of fused carbon rings. We have calculated the absorption spectra from various PAHs and compare them to observed UIE lines to try to determine where the UIEs come from. Our goal is to observe how ionization and nitrogen or oxygen heteroatom substitutions affect the infrared (IR) spectrum. We used the Gaussian 09 program to calculate the structures and IR absorption spectra for about ninety different PAHs. These include linear and non-linear …

Soil Metric Analysis Around Engquist Nature Preserve, Jack E. Colwell, Kora Morgan Stephey, Nicole L. Smar, Jon-Paul Mccool

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

This project analyzed soil parameters from multiple locations owned by the Shirley Heinze Land Trust in Porter County, Indiana, some of which are being ecologically restored or have been restored in the past. The samples were collected from prairie, forested wetland, riverine wetland/floodplain ecological areas, and current agricultural areas that are to be restored to each of those same environmental types. To measure the effectiveness of the rehabilitation mentioned above, this project compared bulk density, soil chemistry, organic matter, aggregate stability, and particle size analysis from the agricultural area to those from restored and natural settings. This allowed the estimation …

Using Games And Movement In The Classroom To Help Boost Students Comprehension, Madison Lynn

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

The idea for this project is to see if using games and movement in a lesson will help students' comprehension of a lesson. I wanted to test this because students sitting for a long period of time will start to zone out and lose interest. When students zone out and you go to do an assessment the student won't remember as well because they weren't engaged in the lesson. The theory I used for research is Vygotsky's theory because it is about using play-based learning in the classroom and having a collaborative approach to learning. My hypothesis for this project …

Corporate Taxation And Income Inequality: Implications For Labor, Capital, And The Distribution Of Benefits, Aidan Obermueller

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

Since the 1980s, the United States has seen income increasingly accrue to firm and capital owners. Business productivity has grown 2.7 times as much as worker pay, indicating a growing percentage of profits that go to firm owners and shareholders – those who own capital in the economy. This trend is coupled with growing income inequality: the top 1% of earners, who own 54 percent of public equity markets, have seen their share of overall income double from 10% to 20%. The United States economy has gradually shifted away from labor during this period, with the labor share of income …

Micromobility Paths At Valparaiso University, Veronica Melo, Connor Mcmahon

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

This paper evaluates the need and potential benefits of creating micromobility routes on the Valparaiso University campus. Student education on college campuses is supported by not only the faculty and staff who run the campus, but by the infrastructure that enables its daily functions. A crucial part of this infrastructure comes in the form of transportation routes, including: sidewalks, walking paths and roads. On these routes, diverse modes of transportation interact, at times with varying levels of cohesiveness. Challenges can occur when these modes of transportation conflict, leading to a decrease in user comfort and safety. With its vast and …

Predicting Chronic Disease Onset Using Wearable Data, Irshad Shaik

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

Chronic diseases like cardiovascular diseases and diabetes account for a considerable proportion of worldwide mortality rates, and early detection and prevention are pivotal. The purpose of this project is to create a model that predicts the onset of chronic disease using available physiological data from wearable devices. The system aims to apply machine learning and deep learning methodologies to generate early warning alerts for the patient and their caretakers, as well as personalized preventive care based on continuous health monitoring of the patient. Wearable technologies, despite the current battery life and device bulkiness limitations, represent a promising avenue for collecting …

Predictive Models For Health Monitoring In Wearable Devices, Manideep Akkinapelli

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

Wearable health monitoring systems, integrated with data-driven predictive models, are transforming personalized healthcare by enabling early disease detection and proactive intervention. Traditional health monitoring relies on rule-based thresholds and prior medical knowledge, limiting adaptability to individual variations. This project leverages machine learning models—Random Forest, Support Vector Machines (SVM), and Neural Networks—to analyze physiological data from wearable devices, enhancing predictive accuracy in detecting conditions like heart disease and sleep apnea.

The study addresses the growing need for real-time, personalized health monitoring, particularly as populations age and chronic diseases become more prevalent. Arizona serves as a testbed for validating model …

Guitar Research, Thane T. Martin, Ruth Cook, Chris Noga

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

To better understand the effects bracing structures have on guitar sound quality, we are investigating how adding weight to an acoustic guitar's soundboard affects its resonant frequency. Based on the typical mass of a guitar soundboard (200 to 250 grams), we predict that even a few grams of additional weight will yield measurable differences in the frequency peaks. Our objective is then to determine the minimum mass required to produce noticeable changes. We measure resonant frequencies by striking the guitar bridge with an impact hammer and recording the resulting frequency by measuring the displacement of the soundboard with a capacitor …

Algorithm For Predicting Bitcoin Fees, Mason Tulacz, Matthew Landrum, Kristian Simakoski, Mason Ellerbroek

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

Bitcoin was designed to be a decentralized peer-to-peer cash system, which creates scarcity in two ways: the total supply of Bitcoin available, and the block size of each block. The blocks, which form what is called the Bitcoin Blockchain, can contain at most 4 MB of data. Since the size of blocks is limited, and each transaction takes up some size, the number of transactions included in a block is necessarily limited. To combat this, users incentivize their transaction to be included in a block through a transaction fee, or the price the transactor pays a miner to include their …