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Report On The 2021 Archaeological Mapping At The Potential Afro-Indigenous Burial Ground On The Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, Shelter Island, New York, John M. Steinberg, John W. Schoenfelder, Stephen A. Mrozowski, Heather B. Trigg, Nedra Lee Jan 2022

Report On The 2021 Archaeological Mapping At The Potential Afro-Indigenous Burial Ground On The Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, Shelter Island, New York, John M. Steinberg, John W. Schoenfelder, Stephen A. Mrozowski, Heather B. Trigg, Nedra Lee

Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research Publications

This report describes the scope and preliminary results of the archaeological mapping undertaken at the potential Afro-Indigenous Burial Ground on Sylvester Manor by the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research from the University of Massachusetts Boston in October of 2021 for the Sylvester Manor Educational Farm (SMEF). The data collection was prompted by Groundskeeper Gunnar Wisseman’s observation of a number of fieldstones that appeared on the surface of the area around the potential Afro-Indigenous Burial Ground. These stones were identified during and after a cleanup of the area. Because the SFEF master plan draft gives primacy to the potential Afro-Indigenous Burial …

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Preliminary Report 2021: Geophysics, Coring, And Excavations At Hólar; Geophysics At Kálfsstaðir, Guðný Zoëga, John M. Steinberg Jan 2022

Preliminary Report 2021: Geophysics, Coring, And Excavations At Hólar; Geophysics At Kálfsstaðir, Guðný Zoëga, John M. Steinberg

Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research Publications

This report outlines the 2021 work at Hólar in Hjaltadalur as part of the Hjaltadalur Archaeological Survey Project (HASP). The results of soil coring suggest that the farmstead of Hólar is the most extensive farmstead measured using this method in the area of Skagafjörður. After over 1200 cores and 17 excavations (6 of which were part of the 2021 research), there are still no confirmed pre-1104 cultural deposits at Hólar. This difficulty in identifying the pre-1104 domestic occupation implies that Viking Age Hólar was probably not large. The Hólar farmstead domestic space seems to be tightly defined and constrained rather …

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Defining Evolutionary And Developmental Patterns Of Lateral Line Scale Meristics Among Teleosts, Jenna Nadia O'Del Jan 2022

Defining Evolutionary And Developmental Patterns Of Lateral Line Scale Meristics Among Teleosts, Jenna Nadia O'Del

Open Access Master's Theses

Vertebral number and lateral line (LL) scale number are common meristiccharacters used to describe and compare species of bony fishes. These two characters have a spatial relationship originating in embryogenesis, with neuromasts located in register with myomeres, and each LL scale developing in association with a neuromast, resulting in typically one LL scale per vertebra (a 1:1 ratio). However, some fishes are known to have large numbers of lateral line scales, despite having a relatively small number of vertebrae, producing a 2:1 or even a 3:1 ratio. In Chapter 1, variation in this ratio (RLLS:V) is explored for the first …

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Electroporation And Cell Killing By Milli- To Nanosecond Pulses And Avoiding Neuromuscular Stimulation In Cancer Ablation, Emily Gudvangen, Vitalii Kim, Vitalij Novickij, Federico Battista, Andrei G. Pakhomov Jan 2022

Electroporation And Cell Killing By Milli- To Nanosecond Pulses And Avoiding Neuromuscular Stimulation In Cancer Ablation, Emily Gudvangen, Vitalii Kim, Vitalij Novickij, Federico Battista, Andrei G. Pakhomov

Bioelectrics Publications

Ablation therapies aim at eradication of tumors with minimal impact on surrounding healthy tissues. Conventional pulsed electric field (PEF) treatments cause pain and muscle contractions far beyond the ablation area. The ongoing quest is to identify PEF parameters efficient at ablation but not at stimulation. We measured electroporation and cell killing thresholds for 150 ns–1 ms PEF, uni- and bipolar, delivered in 10- to 300-pulse trains at up to 1 MHz rates. Monolayers of murine colon carcinoma cells exposed to PEF were stained with YO-PRO-1 dye to detect electroporation. In 2–4 h, dead cells were labeled with propidium. Electroporation and …

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About The Authors Jan 2022

About The Authors

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Table Of Contents Jan 2022

Table Of Contents

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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The Space Between, Mike Rutkowski Jan 2022

The Space Between, Mike Rutkowski

School of Art Graduate Exhibitions, Portfolios, and Theses

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These Aren't People, Benjamin Rosales Jan 2022

These Aren't People, Benjamin Rosales

School of Art Graduate Exhibitions, Portfolios, and Theses

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The Effect Of Training Dataset Size On Sar Automatic Target Recognition Using Deep Learning, Weidong Kuang, Wenjie Dong, Liang Dong Jan 2022

The Effect Of Training Dataset Size On Sar Automatic Target Recognition Using Deep Learning, Weidong Kuang, Wenjie Dong, Liang Dong

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an effective remote sensor for target detection and recognition. Deep learning has a great potential for implementing automatic target recognition based on SAR images. In general, Sufficient labeled data are required to train a deep neural network to avoid overfitting. However, the availability of measured SAR images is usually limited due to high cost and security in practice. In this paper, we will investigate the relationship between the recognition performance and training dataset size. The experiments are performed on three classifiers using MSTAR (Moving and Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition) dataset. The results show us …

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Sensitivity Of The Hippocampus To Objective But Not Subjective Episodic Memory Judgments, Preston P. Thakral, Sarah S. Yu, Michael D. Rugg Jan 2022

Sensitivity Of The Hippocampus To Objective But Not Subjective Episodic Memory Judgments, Preston P. Thakral, Sarah S. Yu, Michael D. Rugg

Psychology: Faculty Publications

We assessed whether neural activity in the hippocampus dissociates according to whether memory test items elicit a subjective sense of recollection or accurate retrieval of contextual information. We reanalyzed a previously acquired dataset from a study in which participants made both objective (source memory for spatial context) and subjective (Remember-Know) judgments for each test item. Results indicated that the hippocampus was exclusively sensitive to the amount of contextual information retrieved, such that accurate source memory judgments were associated with greater activity than inaccurate judgments, regardless of Remember/Know status. The findings add to the evidence that the hippocampus is insensitive to …

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Decoding The Emotional Valence Of Future Thoughts, Aleea L. Devitt, Preston P. Thakral, Daniel L. Schacter Jan 2022

Decoding The Emotional Valence Of Future Thoughts, Aleea L. Devitt, Preston P. Thakral, Daniel L. Schacter

Psychology: Faculty Publications

Affective future thinking allows us to prepare for future outcomes, but we know little about neural representation of emotional future simulations. We used a multi-voxel pattern analysis to determine whether patterns of neural activity can reliably distinguish between positive and negative future simulations. Neural patterning in the anterior cingulate and ventromedial prefrontal cortices distinguished positive from negative future simulations, indicating that these regions code for the emotional valence of future events. These results support prior findings that anterior medial regions contain representations of emotions across various stimuli, and contribute to identifying potential rewarding outcomes of future events. More broadly, these …

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Review Of A Leader's Guide To Competency-Based Education, Tyechia Paul Jan 2022

Review Of A Leader's Guide To Competency-Based Education, Tyechia Paul

College of Business and Economics

A Leader’s Guide to Competency-Based Education: From Inception to Implementation is an actionable and informative resource for establishing competency-based education (CBE) programs at institutions of higher education (IHE). It provides practitioner-focused, CBE program design methods, valuable exercises, and replicable resources

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Breaking Barriers: Creating Inclusive Dance Spaces For High School Students With Cerebral Palsy, Samantha Michelle Barnewolt Jan 2022

Breaking Barriers: Creating Inclusive Dance Spaces For High School Students With Cerebral Palsy, Samantha Michelle Barnewolt

Dance (MFA) Theses

Abstract This thesis explores the power of positive mindsets as it relates to creative movement development in dance for students living with Cerebral Palsy (CP) who also use motorized wheelchairs. This research dives into the development of movement mantras used to break negative mindsets and create thinking strategies that encourage movement development for varied bodies. As a result of collaborative efforts between the researcher, a student living with CP, and students living without CP, this study reveals that through the removal of mental barriers which complicate the accessibility of intentional movement in dance, students with CP may overcome obstacles that …

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Honor Thyself, Alonzo O. Williams Jan 2022

Honor Thyself, Alonzo O. Williams

Dance (MFA) Theses

The black male experience and identity in America are filled with complexity. We struggle to know ourselves. We work to see the way of love and the peace of an unviolated free spirit. We want to engage with ourselves with the highest degree of freedom and comfort, not to continue to question our identity in a life-threatening white patriarchal masculinity ideal. Honoring oneself from the lenses of the Reconstruction era of the United States is essential. Reconceptualizing this history explores the significance of emphasizing Reconstruction in my life as a black male to go through a process of self-discovery and …

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Traces: Embodied Ephemera From Here To There, Alice Svetic Jan 2022

Traces: Embodied Ephemera From Here To There, Alice Svetic

Dance (MFA) Theses

This thesis work explores contemporary queer dance making through the concept of ephemera - what is left after performances "end." Taking heavy inspiration from José Esteban Muñoz's Cruising Utopia: the then and there of queer futurity, the research situates one young queer dance maker’s own past, present, and future choreographies as a site for the extraction of queer embodied experience. The textual and written research culminates in a gallery installation which houses a series of vignettes that act as preserved documents of these queer performance histories. The live performance calls the alive, dancing body into the conversation of the ephemeral. …

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Healing Through Mother Earth, Taylor A. Russell Jan 2022

Healing Through Mother Earth, Taylor A. Russell

Dance (MFA) Theses

This thesis deals with mental health, with a focus on Black women. Historically, Black women are often so compromised, being constant caregivers and helping everyone else, that they forget to help themselves, not having the time and financial means to do so. If we go back in the time of slavery, many Black women were taking care of slave owners' children and suckling the white women’s babies instead of their own. By the time they got home and after diligently caring for other people’s children they were focused on their own children, who they had been away from for hours …

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The Means To Escape, Devonn Mckenna Jan 2022

The Means To Escape, Devonn Mckenna

Dance (MFA) Theses

This research interrogates what it means to utilize escapism, transforming it from passive to active consumption, drawing strong ties between performance and social media. Through audience awareness and participation, this research aims to cultivate a social collective within performance viewing and social media. Framing escapism as a social collective experience resists contemporary notions suggesting that escapism is an individual experience. This work argues that social media and performance have become a space allowing for social collective awareness. Thus, escaping together is the only way to move forward.

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Tapping In: A Movement Meditation For Wellness, Victoria Rodriguez Jan 2022

Tapping In: A Movement Meditation For Wellness, Victoria Rodriguez

Dance (MFA) Theses

Victoria Rodriguez’s thesis paper and accompanying video explore the somatic movement sequence Tapping In. Tapping In was born to facilitate the mind-body connection, muscular balance, and flexibility as well as implement tools for the physical and mental release of trauma. The written manifestation explores the practices that allowed for the creation of the Tapping In movement sequences such as Pilates, Yoga, Emotional Freedom Technique, Physical Therapy, and more. Each method provides a unique and valuable stance on navigating the previously mentioned goals, but no single technique led to the results Victoria was looking for. As a result, it is through …

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Unhsc Subsurface Gravel Wetland Design Specifications, Thomas P. Ballestero, James J. Houle Jan 2022

Unhsc Subsurface Gravel Wetland Design Specifications, Thomas P. Ballestero, James J. Houle

UNH Stormwater Center

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Impermanent Hi Stories, Michaela Westra Jan 2022

Impermanent Hi Stories, Michaela Westra

School of Art Graduate Exhibitions, Portfolios, and Theses

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Data Scraping Youtube For The Study Of Lieder Reception, Rachel E. Scott Jan 2022

Data Scraping Youtube For The Study Of Lieder Reception, Rachel E. Scott

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

A growing body of literature has shifted aesthetic attention from composition to performance, or the performing activity, and asserts that the act of performance creates meaning. Scholars have emphasized differences between the passive consumption and active making of – or even listening to – music. As I sought to understand the impact of performance on Alma Mahler's legacy, I identified the need to gather as much data as possible on who, what, where, when, why, and how her songs were performed. This need led me to evaluate the metadata associated with recordings of Alma Mahler's songs in the WorldCat union …

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Summer Research Fellowship Project Descriptions 2022, Clark Science Center's Summer Research Fellows Program Jan 2022

Summer Research Fellowship Project Descriptions 2022, Clark Science Center's Summer Research Fellows Program

SURF Abstracts (Women in Science)

A summary of research done by Smith College’s 2022 Summer Research Fellowship (SURF) Program participants. Ever since its 1967 start, SURF has been a cornerstone of Smith’s science education. Supervised by faculty mentor-advisors drawn from the Clark Science Center and connected to its eighteen science, mathematics, and engineering departments and programs and associated centers and units. At summer’s end, SURF participants were asked to summarize their research experiences for this publication.

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Progress In Protein Structure Prediction: An Xai Perspective, Yosef E. Granillo, Badri Adhikari Jan 2022

Progress In Protein Structure Prediction: An Xai Perspective, Yosef E. Granillo, Badri Adhikari

Undergraduate Research Symposium

The full extent of the impact of deep learning models on structural biology will depend on their ability to provide novel biological insights. The field of structure prediction, where deep learning has produced miraculously accurate results, is at a critical stage of benefiting from the methods in interpretable deep learning. The exact mechanisms by which advanced computational models learn to interpret protein shapes and functions during their training remain largely unclear. These questions underscore the need for further research, as understanding these mechanisms is crucial for researchers to trust the predictions of these models. However, interpretable machine learning is ripening …

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The Influence Of Menopause And Cardiorespiratory Fitness On Lipoprotein Particles In Midlife Women, Corinna Serviente, Melody Chalvin, Sarah Witkowski Jan 2022

The Influence Of Menopause And Cardiorespiratory Fitness On Lipoprotein Particles In Midlife Women, Corinna Serviente, Melody Chalvin, Sarah Witkowski

Exercise and Sport Studies: Faculty Publications

Lipoprotein particles may provide better information about cardiovascular risk than standard cholesterol measures for women. Whether lipoprotein subclasses change with menopausal stage is unclear. Given the high prevalence of low cardiorespiratory fitness in midlife women and benefit of cardiovascular disease risk, it is also important to understand the effect of fitness on lipoprotein profiles. This study evaluated the influence of menopausal status and fitness on lipoprotein particles in healthy midlife women. Lipoprotein particles were measured in high-(n = 25) and low-(n = 13) fit perimenopausal and late postmenopausal women, and in high-fit premenopausal (n = 10), perimenopausal (n = 12), …

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Teacher Candidates’ Pivot To Virtual Literacy Field Experiences: The Interplay Of Culturally Responsive Sustaining Pedagogies And Improvisation, Mary Coakley-Fields, Courtney Kelly, Katherine Egan Cunningham, Kori Krafick Jan 2022

Teacher Candidates’ Pivot To Virtual Literacy Field Experiences: The Interplay Of Culturally Responsive Sustaining Pedagogies And Improvisation, Mary Coakley-Fields, Courtney Kelly, Katherine Egan Cunningham, Kori Krafick

Education Faculty Publications

This qualitative investigation examines how teacher candidates enrolled in literacy courses navigated virtual field work experiences during summer and fall 2020. The study is grounded in theories of improvisation as a pedagogical practice and culturally responsive and sustaining approaches to teaching. Data show that teacher candidates took advantage of the affordances of the environment and adapted their practice to suit the new situation by improvising and growing their virtual teaching skillset for culturally responsive literacy instruction. Findings reveal the importance of teacher candidates developing improvisational culturally responsive and sustaining practices, including learning about students’ interests, cultures, and experiences and applying …

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Professional Development Schools And Future Teachers Of America Clubs: A Promising Pipeline, Maureen F. Ruby, Ernesto Davilla Jan 2022

Professional Development Schools And Future Teachers Of America Clubs: A Promising Pipeline, Maureen F. Ruby, Ernesto Davilla

Education Faculty Publications

This paper discusses the opportunity for universities and Professional Development Schools (PDSs) to engage with Future Teachers of America (FTA) clubs and similar groups in secondary schools to ensure the future of the profession. Student leaders and their mentor from an active high school FTA club share their perspectives on the benefits of membership in an active FTA. They aspire to engage in authentic educational experiences through relationships with teacher preparation programs and diverse classroom opportunities. In alignment with the National Association for Professional Development Schools (NAPDS) Nine Essentials, collaboration with FTA clubs is a boundary-spanning opportunity for faculty that …

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Receivership Management Program, United States: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Fdic) Jan 2022

Receivership Management Program, United States: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Fdic)

Documents

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European Union And Monetary Union In Permanent Crisis I: An Inventory, Dirk Meyer Jan 2022

European Union And Monetary Union In Permanent Crisis I: An Inventory, Dirk Meyer

Documents

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Annual Report 2021, Hong Kong Monetary Authority Jan 2022

Annual Report 2021, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Documents

No abstract provided.

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Bhutan Rma Ar 2021-22, Royal Monetary Authority Of Bhutan (Rma) Jan 2022

Bhutan Rma Ar 2021-22, Royal Monetary Authority Of Bhutan (Rma)

Documents

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