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Estimation of a Tourism Demand Function for Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Get PDFI estimate a tourism demand function for New Zealand using time series data from 1979 to 2019. The dependent variable is the sum of tourist visits from residents in the U.S., Australia, and China. The explanatory variables include the tourist-share-weighted exchange rate, tourist-share-weighted real GDP per capita for these countries, and the New Zealand Consumer Price Index. I also include dummy variables for the years 2007-2009 to control for the financial crisis and for years following the filming of the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit trilogies in New Zealand. The coefficients for all explanatory variables have their expected signs; all but 2 are statistically significant
France’s Abilities to Stand Up for Freedom
Get PDFWhile still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield University write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Logan Peterson describes observations during their study abroad program at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France
United to End Violence Against Women
No full textUnited to End Violence Against Women, taken by Siria Larmay on independent travel to Milan, Italy while participating in the Linfield University Semester Abroad Program in Ireland. 1st place, Linfield Students Abroad division, in the 2022 Linfield University Study Abroad Photo Contest.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/intl_photos2022/1012/thumbnail.jp
See You Soon, Galway
No full textSee You Soon, Galway, taken by Siria Larmay on the Linfield University Semester Abroad Program in Galway, Ireland. 3rd place, Judge’s Award division, in the 2022 Linfield University Study Abroad Photo Contest.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/intl_photos2022/1005/thumbnail.jp
Investigation of Skin Cancer-associated Melanocortin-1 Receptor Gene Variants
No full textSkin cancer is the most prevalent cancer in the United States, affecting one in five Americans, killing approximately 12,000 people annually. The goal of this project is to research the known skin cancer gene, the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R). While improper MC1R function can lead to skin cancer in all individuals, a subset of MC1R genetic variants are associated with increased skin cancer risk, independent of sun exposure. Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) from the sun activates melanocortin signaling pathways in skin pigment cells, called melanocytes, to produce brown/black eumelanin pigments. Eumelanin protects skin cell DNA from UVR and is produced by normally functioning melanocytes through activation of the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) by melanocyte stimulating hormone. In addition to melanin synthesis, MC1R signaling promotes the transfer of melanin to skin cell keratinocytes to protect skin DNA from UVR damage, which can cause cancerous mutations. Inhibition of MC1R signaling prevents eumelanin production and results in red/yellow pheomelanin production instead. Pheomelanin is not photoprotective, and individuals who produce predominately pheomelanin are at greater risk for developing melanoma skin cancer. Two of the most frequent melanoma-associated MC1R variants are MC1R-R151C and MC1R-D294H. How these genetic variants alter MC1R function in physiologically relevant melanocytes is not well understood. Our data suggest that MC1R- R151C decreases the amount of MC1R expressed at the surface of melanocytes, while MC1R-D294H increases MC1R surface levels. Future work will investigate how the altered localization of these MC1R skin cancer-associated genetic variants affects MC1R signaling in response to UVR
Weather and Climate Summary and Forecast: May 2021 Report
Get PDFThis report provides a summary of the weather and climate forecast for May 2021. It includes forecast information specific to the Pacific Northwest and the western United States, as well as forecast information for other portions of the United States and abroad
Vintage Report 2020: North Willamette Valley
Get PDFThis report describes the impacts of climate and phenology on vintage for the North Willamette Valley in Oregon in 2020. A mild and dry winter in 2019-20 was followed by a dry growing season continuing the ongoing drought concerns for Oregon and the majority of the western US. The spring was relatively cool with mild frosts in early April, then followed by wide swings between early season heat then cool, wet conditions leading up to and during flowering. The result was widespread issues with fruit set leading to generally high amounts of shatter, smaller berries and clusters for many in the region. A relatively heat stress free summer was leading into what looked like a decent September weatherwise until the Labor Day extreme wind event, which was followed by catastrophic fires and smoke for days. Growing degree-day totals for 2020 ended up similar to the 2004, 2006, 2013, and 2018 vintages. Across twelve sites in the region the phenological timing averaged April 11th for bud break, June 11th for bloom, August 17th for véraison, and September 27th for harvest. Growers reported generally low disease pressure, relatively low pest pressure, little to no bird pressure until later in the picking window, and a harvest that presented very good quality fruit at moderate to substantially lower yields
State Production, Chicha, Gender: A Stylistic Analysis of Eight Unprovenienced Chimú-Inka Ceramic Vessels at a Small Museum
No full textThis honors thesis uses an original stylistic analysis of eight ceramic vessels from the Duerst Collection, housed at the Linfield Anthropology Museum, to discuss the Chimú and Chimú-Inka period in the Andean region of South America. The vessels are positioned within an existing seriation developed by Scheele and Patterson (1966) to establish age, compared to other existing collections to establish context, and identified as chicha vessels that were burial goods through analysis and research. Once confirmed, the intersections of gender, state production, and chicha (corn beer) consumption and production in this time period and region, and how archaeological evidence can provide insight into human behavior in the past, are explored through the lens of style. Also examined are the implications of collections like this one for small museums, the legal and ethical obligations of museums, and the value of researching collections without provenience
Associations among Motivations for Media Use, Academic Self-Efficacy, Procrastination, and Grit in College Students
No full textRecent research has investigated the relationship between media use and grit, defined as trait-level “perseverance and passion for long-term goals” (Duckworth, et al. 2007, p. 1087) One limitation of this research is the focus on only amount of media use. Uses and Gratifications Theory suggests that there are a variety of reasons why individuals use media, and these different motivations alter media effects (e.g., Johnston, 1995). This study examined time spent with media and motivations for use.
Another variable that might alter the relationship is “media dependency,” the degree to which individuals rely on a medium to achieve goals. Related research on “technology separation anxiety” has found that individuals physically separated from their mobile devices experience stress, especially if they are heavy users (e.g., Cheever et al., 2014). Therefore, this study examined media importance (including media dependency and technology separation anxiety) as a moderator of the relationship between media use and grit.
Two additional variables that may influence the relationship between media use and grit are academic self-efficacy, an individual’s confidence in their ability to achieve academic success, and procrastination, the tendency to postpone activities. The current study examined academic self-efficacy and procrastination as mediators between media use and grit