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02. The Effects of Changing Electron Withdrawing Groups to Shift the Maximum Absorption Wavelengths (1st place Poster Submission)
No full textCaged compounds are organic compounds with the ability to temporarily deactivate biologically active molecules until those molecules are released by the light of a certain wavelength. We have studied how changing different peripheral groups around a coumarin scaffold affects the maximum absorption wavelength. By being able to select the wavelength at which these compounds are uncaged, we can choose when these compounds will be released even in the presence of other caged molecules. By controlling the wavelengths these molecules uncage at neuroscientists have used pairs of molecules with opposite effects to produce signals to essentially turn on and off neuronal signaling
2B: Symbolism of Oxbridge and Fernham
No full textVirginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own has been praised by many as being a guidebook on how to be successful in literature for woman, preaching that a woman must have both her own money and her own space in order to have a career in fiction. Although women were allowed educations during the time of the speech, they very rarely had both the factors that Woolf insists they need to have a successful career. To illustrate the difference in attention and funding shown between the two sexes, Woolf portrays two universities: Oxbridge, an all-male university, and Fernham, an all-female university. While Oxbridge is described as a bright and thriving place, Fernham seems to be dark and gloomy; however, Woolf suggests that there is something whimsical in the taboo practice of educating women. The speech begins as the narrator leads the audience throughout her day at the two universities as she tries to find an answer to why women do not often produce fiction. Woolf uses the symbolism of the two universities to both answer the narrator’s question of why women authors are not present in the publication of literature and better explain why women need their own money and space to pursue a career in fiction, this project will closely analyze Woolf’s symbolic use of the two universities, Oxbridge and Fernham, by examining the different amounts of funding that are put into the universities and the system that determines such funding
1A: Bless Me, Ultima (1972) and Masculinity on the Borderlands
No full textChicano fiction serves as a rich outlet for people of Mexican-American descent to explore, embrace, and commentate on their history and culture. Perhaps the most famous work of Chicano fiction is Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima. Through the eyes of its young protagonist, Antonio, Bless Me, Ultima tackles themes of gender and masculinity against the backdrop of the borderlands—particularly the toxic and often violent form of masculinity portrayed by the male characters. Though there is abundant literature on the expression of gender within the story, less is understood about how these masculine roles develop. In this paper, I analyze the sociocultural elements of the novel through the framework of hegemonic masculinity and gender performativity to determine the root of the dominant gender script. Furthermore, I analyze the character of Antonio to determine how he ultimately takes a different path. I argue that, through consolidating Western and indigenous elements of borderlands culture, Antonio escapes the dominant gender script while still remaining true to his Chicano identity. Bless Me, Ultima meditates on the toxic gender roles that become pervasive within a culture, but the message is not without hope—through Antonio, the author shows that, by understanding how gender roles within a community form, we can forge our own path while remaining true to our identity.
Key words: Chicano literature, borderlands, hegemonic masculinity, gender performativity, masculinity and gender issues
Part of pre-organized panel: Latinx Literature and Culture Production along the US-Mexico Border
13. The effect of spatial, temporal, and anthropogenic factors on the transmission of Ebola Virus Disease amongst Great Apes in West Central Africa
No full textPopulations of Great Apes, specifically chimpanzees and gorillas, are declining toward extinction. Initially, their extinction rate was attributed to habitat loss and poaching, but Ebola virus disease has become a major threat. Our research looks at the spatial, temporal, and anthropogenic factors that affect the transmission of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Great Apes in West Central Africa and mitigating the effects of these factors. Bats are considered a likely transmission vector through which Ebola virus is transmitted to apes. EVD is spread through contact with bodily fluids of an infected host. Spatially, bat and Great Ape population ranges overlap, providing the opportunity for bats to spread Ebola to apes. Temporally, Ebola emergence often occurs during the transition between rainy and dry season in West Central Africa. This transitional period also correlates to a decrease in food availability. With less food, apes and bats are likely to spend more time foraging in the same places, increasing interactions and potential Ebola transmission as a result. Anthropogenic habitat changes, such as logging and deforestation, also push apes and bats closer together. Additionally, hunting apes exposes both humans and apes to EVD when they come into contact with the bodily fluids of infected ape carcasses. Furthermore, human caused climate change affects rainy and dry season transition periods. Understanding how Ebola virus disease spreads can help us create the most effective solutions for reducing spread such as vaccinating bats and reducing anthropogenic effects to Great Ape habitat
07. malSET: An Automated Symbolic Execution Toolkit for Assisting Malware Classification Systems
No full textTraditional signature-based malware classification systems are unable to keep pace with the rapid expansion and sophistication of modern malware specimens. These systems commonly rely on the consistent influx of malware signatures into a centralized database of known malicious signatures, usually with some human interaction or curation involved. More modern forms of dynamic, behavioral-based categorization systems have been developed to account for new instances of unknown or polymorphic malware without the necessity for a consistently updated signature database or the need for time-consuming expert intervention. However, many of these automated classification systems are developed using machine learning-based technologies that require vast quantities of training data to construct models capable of successfully classifying malware samples into their respective families. Therefore, to optimize the use of training data, additional automated tools must be incorporated to reduce the threshold of training required to construct valid classifiers. Such tools must analyze malware samples for statistical trends that provide further insight into other methodologies for categorizing these specimens into their respective families to accomplish this goal. This research encompasses the development of an automated malware analysis tool for systematically identifying and extracting recurring behavioral traits in malware provided through well-known, publicly available datasets. Utilizing symbolic execution, this tool symbolically emulates the execution of malware samples to extract system calls and various other behavioral characteristics as input data for automated classification systems. Therefore, the resulting data generated from this tool can be integrated as additional training data for improving the efficacy of machine learning-based malware classification systems
05. Assessing scavenging dynamics in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
No full textVertebrate scavengers are a fundamental part in the nutrient cycling processes that drive unique ecological systems in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Scavengers are secondary consumers that ingest decaying biomass, thereby reintroducing vital nutrients back into the ecosystem. Animals such as opossums (Didelphis virginiana), coyotes (Canus latrans), turkey vultures (Cathartes aura), and raccoons (Procyon lotor) are all common dwellers of the north Georgia mountains and their comparative scavenging abilities have not yet been studied extensively. In this study we will be placing carrion of different species at specific locations on a 450+ acre private property that borders the southern portion of the Chattahoochee National Forest. Game cameras will be placed at each location to monitor scavenger activity. Data collected will include the number of days carrion remains uneaten, the species that feed off of the carcass, carcass drop-off location (e.g. GPS coordinates, habitat type, etc.), the average number of scavenger species, and individuals within that species, that feed on each carrion sample. To date, we have placed an opossum and a mature doe carcass at the site and have seen substantial scavenging activity, mainly comprised of coyotes and opossums. Our goal in the initial stage of this study is aimed towards the further understanding of resident scavenger-carrion dynamics and the prospective ways these interactions affect the Appalachian forest community. We hope this study will provide resolution to gaps in data related to the importance of individual scavenger species and their impact on local ecology
2H: Disappearing Discourse: Qualitative Analysis of Social Network Dynamics that Affect Political Discussions
No full textDisappearing Discourse: Qualitative Analysis of Social Network Dynamics that Affect Political Discussions
Introduction: In today’s political climate, Americans tend to find themselves identifying with one political party and viewing the opposite party as the “other.” To offer first insights into this phenomenon, the research focused on better understanding intragroup dynamics that may affect people’s willingness to have political conversations across the “divide.” Methods: 15 students from a large regional university in the South were interviewed using an unstructured interview format. Interviews were informed by grounded theory, and focused on the content, nature, and outcomes of the students’ political conversations. All interviews were recorded and transcribed using a QSR’s AI-based transcription service. These transcriptions then were proofread, coded, and finally analyzed in NVIVO 12.0 using an inductive-deductive coding approach. Results: Preliminary findings of the interviews suggest three main aspects may affect the nature of political conversations: potential obstacles, network facilitators, and network settings. Students may face potential obstacles such as being sanctioned or outcast by others within their networks for their opinions. The beliefs and attitudes of an individual within one\u27s social network group and the setting in which these conversations would take place also seems to impact the students’ willingness to engage in difficult discussions and shape the nature of political conversations within the group. Discussion and Conclusion: Theoretical explanations may be developed and discussed using an interactionist theory framework. Implications for future research may be discussed as well.
Keywords: political discourse, network dynamics, ideological divide, communicatio
Handbook of Research on Character and Leadership Development in Military Schools
No full textHiring managers in organizations seek college graduates who possess certain “soft skills” that enable them to be of value immediately upon entering the workforce. In response, many institutions of higher education are using and expanding high impact educational practices to not only improve knowledge acquisition and retention, but also to develop the soft skills that help make students “employable” after college. In U.S. senior military college corps of cadets, soft skills development is nothing new: it has always been part and parcel of their intensive and highly effective leader development programs. Although these programs exist primarily to produce leaders for the military—a public good—graduates contribute to the public good in other sectors of American society as well. This chapter depicts how cadets are transformed into highly effective leaders for the military, and how they contribute in other ways to the good of American society
Haimo of Auxerre\u27s Angry Smile: Emotional Experience in Ninth-Century Francia
No full textHaimo, the master of the monastic school at Saint-Germain (Auxerre) never wrote a treatise on emotions. Understanding his thoughts about anger, therefore, requires reconstructing them from the various references scattered throughout his commentaries and homilies. In this essay I perform that reconstruction. Haimo focused not on whether anger was good or bad, or on whether or not one should avoid it. Indeed, Haimo assumed that people would by nature become angry. Instead, he focused on the duration of anger once felt. Haimo\u27s concern was for emotion as experience, and for the transformation of one emotional experience into another
Amanecer desproporcionado en España (Disproportionate Sunrise In Spain)
No full textMy idea connects to the Spanish culture because the artist I chose to model my art after is famous in Spain and other Hispanic countries for his art and art style. (Artist: Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero was a Spanish artist that created paintings with objects in them that were not to scale. Often times things were blown out of proportion in the paintings or even misshapen. I intend on creating mine on Botero-Like creation