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Greener Pastures: Balancing Externalities and Market Elasticities to Craft an Optimal Marijuana Tax for Minnesota
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Neurodegeneration and Lipid Droplets: From Metabolic Buffer to Cellular Burden
No full textThe human brain relies on an intricate metabolic balance to sustain neuronal function and protect against cellular damage. Lipid droplets (LDs) were originally viewed merely as inert fat storage sites. However, recent studies have revealed that these organelles are dynamic players in lipid metabolism and cellular stress responses. LDs serve as buffers—sequestering excess fatty acids (FAs) and mitigating oxidative stress during periods of acute metabolic challenge. Over time, chronic dysregulation in LD formation and trafficking can overwhelm their protective capacity. The disruption of LD dynamics has been implicated in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). This dysregulation is a key driver of neurodegenerative disease progression, as its detrimental effects ultimately outweigh its protective role in shielding neurons from metabolic stress
From the Pioneers to #VanLife: Domesticity and Manifest Destiny in American Nomadism
No full textThere is a tension between the human need to value the home as a grounding place while also valuing freedom, which can sometimes be freedom from the home. In American culture, which has a long history of nomadism, this tension also takes shape as the strain between the ideals of American domesticity, which represents groundedness, and the myth of Manifest Destiny, which represents freedom. This shows up in the nation’s forced removal of Indigenous people during Westward Expansion. The contradiction also contributes to the popularity of the fantasized story of “the road” and nomadism in American literature, history, and pop culture and into modern van life
From Object to Agent: How Does Objectification Become Embodied and What Can We Do About It?
No full textMind Place
No full textMemory-based scenes on transitions in place, featuring my summer in Northfield and my family\u27s new home in Spokane, Washington
The Autumn Harvest: Collective Memory and China\u27s 1989 Democracy Movement
No full textAn examination of the intellectual roots behind the 1989 movement centered in Beijing\u27s Tiananmen Square. Argues that the primary propulsion of the movement was not a spontaneous iteration of contemporary protests in Eastern Europe, but the product of deep-seeded trends in Chinese intellectual history that have their roots in the radical reformism of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century China
S. aureus Biofilm Infections: Regulation of Dispersal Through Agr Quorum-Sensing and Therapeutic Challenges
No full textOptimizing Public Transportation Networks with Community Detection Algorithms
No full textIn graph theory and network science, the problem of community detection is one of importance in many fields--from social media to protein structures to cybersecurity. Solutions to this problem allow us to draw deeper understanding of the nature of networks, especially large and dense ones. While there exists previous research applying these types of algorithms to population or traffic data to draw conclusions about it, it is a minimally answered question. We sought out to explore the differences between how our implementations of five different community detection algorithms functioned on commuter data in Hennepin County, Minnesota, both in terms of the theory behind them and the results that they produced. These results were in the form of partitions of the county\u27s census tracts, which we proposed as starting points for areas that may be in need of increased access to public transit, where rail lines and networks could potentially be constructed. Using visual representations of these communities, we analyzed which ones were most suited for this application across all of the algorithms that we implemented
Wiki Wiki Refresh: Enhancing User Experience on the Makerspace Wiki
No full textThe Carleton College Makerspace is a hub for creativity and hands-on learning, providing students, faculty, and staff with tools like sewing machines, 3D printers, and soldering irons for interdisciplinary collaboration. While Aaron, the Technical Director, manages the space effectively, the complexity of overseeing resources and user needs presents challenges. As computer science majors with experience in software design and human-computer interaction, we aimed to analyze the Makerspace, identify areas for improvement, and develop a solution to enhance user experience, accessibility, and engagement as part of our Comps project.
Our project focuses on improving the accessibility and engagement of the Makerspace wiki by lowering barriers to contribution, increasing visibility, and enhancing usability. We built both paper-based low fidelity prototypes of our design and a high fidelity prototype using the software Figma. Our final design was implemented using the Mediawiki software, as well as Javascript and CSS