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North American Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2000-2025 - March 2025
No full textThe Media and Climate Change Observatory Data monitors 131 sources (across newspapers, radio and TV) in 59 countries in seven different regions around the world. Data is assembled by accessing archives through the Lexis Nexis, Proquest and Factiva databases via the University of Colorado libraries. More information may be found at: http://mecco.colorado.edu.</p
Selling Speed and Style: The Rise of Influencer Marketing on TikTok
Full text linkThis thesis explores how fast fashion brands leverage influencer marketing on TikTok to drive consumer engagement, urgency, and impulse purchasing behavior. Through a qualitative content analysis of 320 TikTok videos related to Zara, Brandy Melville, and Shein, this study identifies the visual, textual, and emotional strategies used by influencers to promote fast fashion. The findings reveal that scarcity marketing, aspirational storytelling, and sensory-driven content - especially in haul and unboxing videos - are central tactics for triggering consumer desire and encouraging frequent, often impulsive purchases. Influencers also serve as brand intermediaries, shaping audience perceptions through personal narratives and trust-based relationships, blurring the lines between entertainment and advertising. TikTok’s algorithm and commerce tools further amplify these strategies, creating a seamless environment for trend-driven consumption. While influencer marketing is shown to be highly effective in cultivating brand loyalty and social proof, viewer comment sections also reveal tensions around body image, financial burden, and inclusivity. This study contributes to emerging conversations around the psychological and societal effects of fast fashion advertising on digital platforms, offering insights for scholars, marketers, and ethically minded consumers. Future research should further investigate the neurological and behavioral effects of sensory and urgency-driven influencer content, particularly among Gen Z audiences.</p
Asian Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2004-2025 - June 2025
No full textThe Media and Climate Change Observatory Data monitors 131 sources (across newspapers, radio and TV) in 59 countries in seven different regions around the world. Data is assembled by accessing archives through the Lexis Nexis, Proquest and Factiva databases via the University of Colorado libraries. More information may be found at: http://mecco.colorado.edu.</p
German Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2004-2025 - June 2025
No full textThe Media and Climate Change Observatory Data monitors 131 sources (across newspapers, radio and TV) in 59 countries in seven different regions around the world. Data is assembled by accessing archives through the Lexis Nexis, Proquest and Factiva databases via the University of Colorado libraries. More information may be found at: http://mecco.colorado.edu.</p
Oceania Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2000-2025 - June 2025
No full textThe Media and Climate Change Observatory Data monitors 131 sources (across newspapers, radio and TV) in 59 countries in seven different regions around the world. Data is assembled by accessing archives through the Lexis Nexis, Proquest and Factiva databases via the University of Colorado libraries. More information may be found at: http://mecco.colorado.edu.</p
Middle Eastern Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2004-2025 - April 2025
No full textThe Media and Climate Change Observatory Data monitors 131 sources (across newspapers, radio and TV) in 59 countries in seven different regions around the world. Data is assembled by accessing archives through the Lexis Nexis, Proquest and Factiva databases via the University of Colorado libraries. More information may be found at: http://mecco.colorado.edu.</p
Across the Universe: Commercial Space Companies and International Cooperation
Full text linkThe space industry has grown exponentially since the end of the Cold War, and with it, the quantity and quality of commercial space companies. While past space enterprises were undertaken by national governments through joint and individual efforts, commercial space have permeated the industry. In this study, I research whether these commercial companies influence international cooperation in space, hypothesizing that increases in commercial space revenue will lead to fewer positive negotiations over space law. To research this, I analyzed changes in international legislation sentiment (hand coded to reflect sentiment towards international cooperation), dependent upon several variables to measure commercial revenue, including national space budgets, commercial infrastructure and support, commercial space products and services, launch attempts, and military expenditure. I included controls for international cooperation changes due to other causes via proxy variables, aggregate trade per capita and intergovernmental organization membership. The results found that commercial infrastructure and support industries often had a positive relationship with international cooperation, providing evidence against my hypothesis. This study provides a foundational insight into the role of commercial space companies in international cooperation and the positive role that they may play.
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Antidepressant Potential of Cannabidiol: Effects on Mood and Default Mode Network Connectivity
No full textMajor depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent psychiatric illness, but existing treatments can be ineffective or inaccessible. As such, identifying novel antidepressant interventions may provide critical mental healthcare to those with limited responsiveness or access to existing therapeutics. This study aimed to investigate the antidepressant potential of cannabidiol (CBD), a bioactive substance found in cannabis, which has been shown to have antidepressant effects in animal models of depression and in self-report studies. Antidepressant effects of CBD may involve the default mode network (DMN), a functional brain network implicated in depression. The DMN includes the medial prefrontal cortex, which is implicated in the antidepressant action of CBD in animal models. Twenty-eight participants, ages 18 to 34, with current full- or sub-threshold MDD were enrolled in a six-week research study while initiating naturalistic CBD use. Participants completed neuroimaging scans at baseline and two weeks after beginning CBD use. Results showed that depressive symptoms significantly decreased following four weeks of CBD use, and symptom reductions were significantly correlated with reductions in functional connectivity of the DMN. Together, these findings suggest that CBD may have antidepressant properties that target the DMN. Future research should seek to extend these findings to test causal relationships between CBD and mood changes to further investigate CBD as a potential intervention for depression.</p
Quantifying adiabatic motion in the outer radiation belt and ring current with invariant matching
Full text linkAdiabatic motion is a fundamental reversible process for geomagnetically trapped particle populations, including particles comprising the ring current and radiation belts. During adiabatic motion, a particle’s trajectory in configuration space responds to sufficiently slow changes in the magnetospheric magnetic field. Previous research has highlighted expected patterns in adiabatic motion, such as radial motion or the Dst effect. In this work, we introduce a method we call Invariant Matching for quantifying adiabatic motion between a pair of magnetospheres. This method can be applied to both simulation and semi-empirical magnetic field models, is computationally efficient, and in particular does not require tracing the particle trajectories. In this work, we use the Tsyganenko et al., Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2005, 110 (TS05) magnetic field model, and present adiabatic motion between a storm commencement, the time of the storm’s Dst minimum, and a nominal recovery time. We also analyze adiabatic motion which occurs in response to enhancements of individual major current systems (including the ring current, Chapman-Ferraro current, Birkeland current, and tail current). Our methodology yields vector fields quantifying the displacement of mirror points throughout the magnetosphere, prepared in a way appropriate for application to both outer radiation belt and ring current populations.
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Foundations of High-Performance Computing Micro-credential Checklist - Lily Strus
Full text linkThis micro-credentialed course provides a foundation for addressing computing-, memory-, or storage-intensive research problems using high-performance computing (HPC). Participants who complete the course will be able to navigate the Linux command line, apply data transfer protocols, find and use software on HPC, and use a scheduler to run batch and interactive jobs. Skills acquired in the course can greatly accelerate problem solving in the computational realm. </p
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