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Directionality influences gut microbiome composition but not diversity of the Ochotona princeps.
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Süleymaniye Mosque
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THE HARM OF LEGAL PEDAGOGY IN ELITE LAW SCHOOLS
No full textElite law schools play a critical role in shaping the legal profession, yet they also function as sites of racial exclusion and stratification. The harm of legal pedagogy refers to the ways that law school curricula negatively impact students of color and reinforce racialized structures that impact the legal profession outside of the classroom. While the American Bar Association (ABA) has recently mandated that law schools offer courses on race, it does not require students to take them, leaving racial equity on the periphery of legal education. This thesis explores how elite law schools, particularly Duke, UVA, UCLA, and Harvard, navigate curricular reform related to race and social justice. First through an analysis of Duke Law’s course bulletins from 1970-2024 and then via a comparative study of the four aforementioned schools from 2010-2024, I find that most law school curricula have been slow to incorporate race and, when they do, schools base their reforms on public standards of success rather than an institutional commitment to racial justice. Further, using ABA data, my examination of Black student enrollment at these schools demonstrates that the inclusion of race-related courses does not necessarily correlate with more diverse enrollment, complicating assumptions that curricular reform alone can transform law schools into racially equitable spaces. In the concluding chapter, I unpack how law schools’ resistance to meaningful curricular change reflects their broader positioning in whiteness and elite status, which shapes generations of legal professionals who remain largely unaware of the law’s role in reproducing racial inequality
Follis of Constantine X
No full textThe obverse of this coin depicts a frontal bust of Christ, with a long beard. He wears a tunic and himation (Greek outer garment), with a cross nimbus behind his head (halo encircling a cross.) Christ raises his right hand in the benediction, while he holds a book in his left hand. To his left and right are two monograms that abbreviate Christ’s name.
On the reverse of this coin is a frontal bust of the emperor, bearded. He wears a crown with a cross and pendilia (gemmed pendants), and a modified loros (long narrow scarf). In his right hand, the emperor holds a cross, and in his left hand, he holds an akakia (purple silk scroll.)
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Fabricating Femininity: Interwoven Threads of Gender, Race, and Empire in Burney and Brontë
No full textIn each interwoven thread, textiles archive the histories of a multitude of disparate yet interconnected people, from those who harvest the raw fibers of cotton and silk to those who buy and wear such fabrics. My thesis asks how the tensions of empire and nation embedded in textiles function within the eighteenth and nineteenth-century British novel to fabricate ideals of white, English womanhood. In my readings of two novels by English women writers, Frances Burney and Charlotte Brontë, I examine the process through which women are metonymically associated with the material qualities and histories in textiles and how the women in these novels actively assert their own agency and identities through their work with and self-fashioning of textiles. My chapter on Burney’s The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (1814) looks at the heroine Juliet’s interactions with silk and French textiles alongside the history of England’s small but symbolically important domestic silk industry, stereotypes of French fashion and silk, and the smuggling of fabrics between the two countries to further elucidate the conflicts of nationalism, race, and gender throughout the novel. Reflecting the dominance of cotton as the decades progress, my next chapter on Brontë’s Villette (1853) analyzes the muslin and cambric needlework of a young girl, Paulina, as well as the mass of fabrics in a painting of Cleopatra. I examine the veiled violence of Paulina’s needlework and the commodification of Cleopatra alongside the history of the East India Company’s trade in cotton to understand the shifting image of white British womanhood during the Victorian period
The Advent of the Astrolabe in St. Gallen and Notker Teutonicus’ Cosmographic Globe (c. 1015)
No full textLeveraging AI Agents and Multi-Agent Debate To Automate MLB Front Office Decisions and Roster Construction
Get PDFThis project leverages artificial intelligence Agents and Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) to evaluate Major League Baseball players and construct a twenty-six player MLB roster. The AI Agents evaluate each player based on statistics and grades them according to a five-tool scale, eventually resulting in a single numerical rating. MAD is then employed alongside optimization techniques to select thirteen hitters and thirteen pitchers, maximizing team performance according to agent consensus, while staying within a specified salary cap. The operating hypothesis is that AI agents can effectively evaluate Major League Baseball players based on performance statistics, even with large and complex datasets. By applying Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) and optimization techniques, a competitive team can be constructed that maximizes overall performance while adhering to a specified salary cap, mirroring real-world decision-making processes in sports management