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No fue la fiesta de todos: unidad y género bajo la dictadura argentina en La fiesta de todos (1979), Basta de mujeres (1977) y Pelota de trapo (1948)
No full textThe World Cup is the best stage for soccer. The Argentinian national soccer team is home to players who have shaped the sport of soccer such as Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi . Additionally, the team is the most recent winner of the Cup at the end of 2022. Soccer, at this level, is not just a way of training and pride in Argentina, but is also highly relevant to political discourse. The first time Argentina won the Cup in 1978, the country was host to this global event, with all eyes on the country for the first time in sports history. During this time, Argentina was under the control of the last military dictatorship, known as la junta, a period between 1976 and 1983, which is known as the Dirty War or El Proceso. The censorship of the arts led to the production of films that were commercial and supported the propaganda of the military junta. The films from the time of the Dirty War represent a false image of Argentina, and do not reflect the violence and crisis that was engulfing the country. The junta was much more concerned with portraying a modern, progressive, united, and strong image on the world stage. They used soccer, even the World Cup, to cover the truths of the country and promote the ideas of Argentine nationalism. Everyone\u27s Party (1979) directed by Sergio Renán, Enough of Women (1977) directed by Hugo Moser, and Pelota de trapo (1948) are representative of the junta\u27s efforts to portray a national image of unity and strength
Automated Urine Management System
No full textHealthcare workers monitor urine volume and rate output to inspect kidney function of catheterized patients. The current methods of measuring patient urine output are vague, imprecise and consist of approximating urine volume. Currently, volume readings are taken by visually identifying where urine resides in the collection bags. These volume readings are then used to calculate output per hour. With these techniques observed, we designed a urine collection device that addresses the inaccuracies and inefficiencies in current measurement systems in order to increase early recognition of kidney failure. This device identifies volume and weight to precisely and accurately measure urine output. This data can be used to calculate density of urine and supply healthcare professionals with automated and custom urine output rates individualized to patients
Peruvian Stalagmites as Indicators of Past Climate: an investigation of MIS 8 and 9
No full textBy studying past climates throughout Earth\u27s history, we can put current climate change into perspective. Over the past century, we have witnessed an unprecedented warming of the Earth but still do not understand how various regions, such as the tropics, will respond to global change. Through natural archives, paleoclimatology tells us the degree to which the human- induced warming taking place deviates from the past. Cave speleothems can be used to uncover historic precipitation patterns and monsoon cycles. I studied oxygen and carbon isotope records from a stalagmite collected from Huagapo Cave in the Upper Amazon Basin of the Peruvian Andes in order to investigate regional glacial cycles in comparison to other local paleoclimate records. The stalagmite grew from approximately 310 to 245 ka, with δ18O values ranging from - 12.44 to -17.34‰ and δ13C values from -5.82 to 1.90‰. Spanning the entirety of MIS 8, it captures a glacial period and the beginning of the interglacial MIS 9. The isotope record tracks solar insolation and supports the hypothesis that glacial periods in the tropics are wet. The precision of U-Th dating in stalagmites presents an opportunity to adjust chronologies from other paleoclimate proxies. This record was compared to sediment cores from Lake Júnin and a global record of benthic foraminifera in an effort to finely tune existing paleoclimate data. This stalagmite expanded Union College\u27s current isotope record by nearly 70,000 years and will assist in the creation of a high-resolution isotope record of the tropic region
Retrieval Practice and Context Reinstatement
Full text linkRetrieval practice is a powerful learning strategy, but the mechanism(s) behind it are not fully understood. One account of this testing effect (i.e., enhanced memory for information that was previously retrieved vs. restudied) is the episodic-context account (Karpicke et al., 2014). According to this theory, successful retrieval requires contextual reinstatement which updates the target memory representation to include features of the current test context along with features of the initial study context. The resulting composite trace provides varied features that are more likely to match those on the final test. However, the specific features necessary for reinstatement remain unclear. The current study was designed to clarify the nature of these features using a three-phase paradigm. In phase 1, participants studied targets paired with different cues (phonemic vs. semantic) and presented in one of two different lists. In phase 2, participants either: (a) restudied the words; (b) restudied and made cue discrimination judgments; (c) restudied and made list discrimination judgments; or (d) freely-recalled the words. In phase 3, a final recognition test assessed item and context memory (i.e., cue type and list number). Unconditionalized analyses of final test performance found no differences between learning conditions. However, when only looking at words successfully retrieved at practice and thus subjected to reinstatement, free recall practice generally outperformed all other conditions on item and context memory, aside from the Restudy + Cue Discrimination condition. These results suggest that semantic, rather than temporal, features may be most relevant to the learning benefits of retrieval practice
UC SAE Baja Steering Rack Design and Analysis
Full text linkThe steering system within a vehicle is a vital aspect of operation and performance. The Baja society of automotive engineering (SAE) challenges students to design and manufacture an off-road vehicle to compete in a series of racing challenges. The team of engineers works together to discover challenges in design, manufacturing, and business. The steering system for the Union College Baja Team 2023 vehicle is designed as a rack and pinion mechanism, fulfilling the team designated requirement of 1.5 inches of travel per side. The mechanism has a link-to-link distance of 17 inches, and a steering wheel rotation of 172 degrees to account for the length of travel. The system consists of a round gear rack, a 16 teeth metal gear, high load ball bearing, ultra-low friction oil embedded sleeve bearings, a press-fit drill bushing, and inline ball joint linkages. One of the focus points of the steering system was the durability of the middle housing, where failure has occurred in previous years. Using a static load of 3g (2100 lbf) the housing portion of the steering system achieved a factor of safety of 7.2 discovered using finite element analysis, while the key receiving a shear stress applied by the torque of the wheel achieved a factor of safety of 1.5. The manufacturing techniques for this system include CNC machining, water jet techniques, and various assembly and fitting methods. A bearing and support system was put in place to emphasize the stability of the system. On May 4-7, 2023, the vehicle competed at the annual competition in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, with a final overall score of 208.41
Seasonal Landscapes
Full text linkDue to Covid, some people may have lost touch with the beauty of our environment and being outside. The use of observation and just simple looking has been neglected. My plein-air experience, which is painting from observation, has taught me to be able to look and admire the unique treasures within my environment, while allowing me to create my own. Taking photographs and being surrounded by unlimited compositions, my large scale oil paintings have been a way for me to translate the natural world around us into vibrant and serene landscapes through my own perspective. By looking and admiring the Upstate New York environment around me, I take reference pictures of nature that draw my eye in. The colorful foliage of fall and the reflections through water, to sunny snowy landscapes, the use of my bright color palette helps me bring out the secret and exciting parts of nature. Recreating these scenes of nature through oil paint and working on large scale canvases has allowed me to draw in the viewers as if they are in the spaces themselves. I include references to camera glares to connect my paintings to the fact that they are from photographs. The process of searching and looking for my compositions by capturing them through photographs plays an important role in how I create these landscapes
Should Sex Education Be Taught in Schools? Sex Education Within the United States: Analyzing Social and Political Factors of Sex Education Within The United States
Full text linkSex education has been a prominent topic among society since the 1800s, coinciding with the prevention and relevance of current social issues. As years have passed, sex education has continued to evolve through the prevailing social situations. However, within the 21st century, sex education started to lack improvement and inclusion of social topics and issues that are prevalent in today\u27s society. This thesis analyzes the history behind sex education among the United States, and defines what it is that shapes sex education in today\u27s society. With society ever changing, and social and political concepts becoming a more central topic in today\u27s society, the issue of sex education has become more of an issue. This thesis addresses the development of sex education among schools within the United States, and emphasizes the difference between each district and state perspective on sex education. This thesis looks at sex education in not only a social light, but also a political standpoint. Sex education started as a solution to social circumstances, however, with legislation evolving and many social topics coming into play, there are many other factors that shape sex education. By researching eight different states with different political affiliations, this thesis was able to come to a conclusion as to what characteristics of a state or district shape that community\u27s sex education, but also how exactly a state\u27s political background influences and shapes their perspective on sex education. With sex education everchanging, and becoming more of a significant social issue in today\u27s society, it is important to understand why sex education is the way it is around the country, and how the structure of sex education impacts society and individuals as a whole. The result of the analysis and comparison of eight different states indicates how the political standpoint and authority of each state generalizes what type of stance that specific state has on sex education, and sex education within schools
Bipartite Intrinsically Knotted Graphs with 21 Edges
No full textA graph is intrinsically knotted if there exists a knotted cycle in every spatial embedding of the graph. Using the restoring methods, Kim, Mattman, and Oh construct a complete listing of intrinsically knotted bipartite graphs with 22 edges. In this study, we adapt their strategy to show the Heawood graph is the only intrinsically knotted bipartite graph with 21 edges
Strategic Management Surrounding Firm Specialization and Competitiveness in the Mobile Phone Industry: Impact of Firms\u27 Software Contributions on Time to Market
No full textGoogle\u27s Android Operating System (OS) is open-source software available for public use. Several smartphone manufacturers (Original Equipment Manufacturers or OEMs) like Samsung and LG use and contribute to the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP). These contributions can be tracked using their commits to the AOSP, a public data set. This research will explore the relationship between a firm\u27s or an OEM\u27s contributions to AOSP and marketing a product based on the contribution type and date, which could ultimately contribute to the success of a phone model and the firm. These contributions to AOSP can be in the form of a firm\u27s exploratory and exploitative learning, which can be related to the Time to Market (TTM) of a product, which would be a phone model in this research. I will use the mobile telecom data on Android commits (software contributions) to understand the difference between exploratory and exploitative learning of these Android OEMs. The dataset consists of the complete population of Android commits written by software engineers worldwide between 2008-2022 (approximately 16 million observations), which Prof. Dallas and his colleagues have collected over a period. Because Android is open source, this is free and open for public use. The data set highlights some handset (mobile phone) companies contributing to Android and to which release (different releases of Android), and how quickly they come up with a handset (or phone) after the new version is released that version of the Android OS. I will be re- searching the time and type (exploratory or exploitative) of these contributions and exploring what affects their TTM. This research could potentially lead to discovering strategic management techniques and timed marketing in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, focusing on firms that use and contribute to the Android OS
Guillermo del Toro y lo fantástico: Los monstruos y la inocencia en El espinazo del diablo y El laberinto del fauno
No full textMonsters, dictators, ghosts, and fairies; this is the world that Guillermo del Toro creates in his films, El espinazo del diablo (2001) and El laberinto del fauno (2006). This thesis delves deep into the fantastic worlds that del Toro creates in these films and how, by doing so, he transports his audience, allowing them to take away a new perspective on the Spanish Civil War and the long-standing impact it had on the Spanish people. Del Toro creates these fantastic worlds by surrounding his audiences in clouds of doubt. It is never confirmed if the ghosts in El espinzao del diablo and the monsters and underworld in El laberinto del fauno are real or if they are just parts of the children\u27s imaginations-coping mechanisms to help them get through the Spanish Civil War and Franco\u27s fascist dictatorship. Although the audience does not know whether or not they are real, del Toro\u27s grotesque monsters provide the audience with unclouded, morally black-and-white depictions of the true monsters behind the war and subsequent dictatorship. It is this symbolism that makes del Toro\u27s films such powerful communicators of the violence behind the Spanish Civil War