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Epstein-Barr Viral Proteins EBNA1 and vIL-10 Facilitate Immune Evasion by Supporting a Latent-Lytic Cycle of Infection
No full textThe Large-Scale Consequences of Ecological Mismatch between Bark Beetles and Their Host Trees
No full textWind Turbines and Property Values: Disamenity Costs in New Brunswick, Canada
No full textWind turbines are an important part of the necessary transition to renewable energy. While generally receiving public support, they frequently meet resistance from local communities over fears of decreasing property value. This paper examines wind turbines and their effect on property values in New Brunswick, Canada. Using percent change in value from 2018-2022 I estimate a mixed effects model. I find that increasing distance from a turbine is associated with positive percent change, though the association is relatively weak. The implications of my results are severely restricted given the quantity and severity of the limitations upon my research
Extending Loving Attention to Strangers
No full textI argue that when we understand the role knowledge and imagination play in loving attention, it is possible to extend loving attention to strangers. I use Murdoch’s conceptions of personal fantasy and moral imagination to explain how we could overcome our tendency to make caricatures of others by considering a wide range of possibilities and seeing any judgments we draw as open to revision. However, I argue that in doing so, we are limited to motivations and possibilities that are intelligible to us and may not reflect the “world” of a stranger. I clarify this problem using Lugones’ conception of “worlds” and “world”-traveling (Lugones, 1987, p. 17). I conclude that by recognizing that strangers contain complexities beyond those that are apparent, or even comprehensible, from the outside, we are nonetheless able to remain open to understanding them on their own terms, should the opportunity arise
The Physics of Non-Volatile Solid State Memory
No full textWith the increasing reliance on large data centers and high capacity memory in devices such as laptops and smart phones, the demand for hardware that can store large amounts of data reliably and efficiently is continuously growing. The quick read and write times, reduced price, and increased reliability of solid state drives (SSDs) has contributed to their rising popularity as a form of non-volatile computer memory. We will begin by discussing the physics of magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs) and the respective costs of HDDs that have led to the increasing popularity of SSDs. We will then describe the operation of the basic metal oxide field effect transistor (MOSFET) in order to understand how a variation on the basic MOSFET, the floating gate MOSFET, is used in SSDs. We will explain the physics of programming, reading, and erasing data from a single floating gate MOSFET cell. We will also discuss the evolution of SSDs, including an overview of the circuitry of modern NAND and NOR flash memory
Maintaining and Creating Relationships with Rural Homeland Communities: An Ethnographic Study of Regalitos Being Exchanged between México and Texas
No full textTypical scholarship on transnational identities and movements emphasize the movement of remittances, privileging economic transactions taking place and ignoring other non-monetary motivations at play. Although monetary remittances do help, this thesis explores the alternative non-monetary motivations in one rural place, Presa Verde. I propose that in addition to normal economic exchanges, people actively invest, construct and reproduce notions of community through a separate yet linked economy of exchange. I focus on the items being exchanged between the homeland community and migrants in Houston. These items help create a shared understanding of the community through notions of nostalgia to promote a sense of belonging, place attachment, and affective sentiments that are transnational, yet also anchored on fluid and renewable notions of the homeland. Using ethnographic data collected in Presa Verde and migrants from the same community now living in Houston, this study focuses on the outcomes of transnational exchange especially as it relates to the emotional connections formed with the homeland and people from the homeland
“By Virtue of a Bond”: Overseas Familial and Financial Connections between Loyalist Refugees and Americans after the Revolutionary War
No full textWives and Witches of the Thrice-Tenth Kingdom: Translation Politics and Gender Discourses in Belarusian Fairytales
No full textBelarusian magic folktales are embedded in gender discourses that can uphold social norms or disrupt hegemonic ideals. I translate eighteen wondertales from Belarusian to English, reflecting on the politics of translation. Coding the tales for gender performance and narrative function, I find that these stories uphold patriarchal models of women as nurturing and obedient mothers/men as agentic and protective characters, marriage as a key goal and the fulfillment of adult life, and motherhood as essential to appropriate femininity. Villains and witches are marked by their failure to correctly perform their gender or comply to expectations of marriage and motherhood, and are punished for this by the narrative. Using reparative interpretation methods, however, I find that these same tales offer opportunities for feminist and queer readings through unusual representations of gender and queer marriages. Belarusian wondertales, though influenced by their context, are dynamic and open to many interpretations of gender discourses as they are told, re-told, and translated across national borders
The Effect of the Liberalization of African Airline Markets on the Development of African Economies
No full textFor the longest time, air transport in Africa has been difficult. Airfares remain high, travel time long, and connectivity levels very low. While some countries like Kenya and Ethiopia have notably grown their airline industries in Africa, while at the same time boosting their economies, this is not the reality for the rest of the continent. My present paper seeks to evaluate the impact of airline market liberalization on the development of African economies. Precisely, if liberalization is a known factor that boosts the economy of a country, is it necessarily true for African economies in particular? I have found that in 2019, liberalization has had a positive effect on the number of people employed in the services industry. I believe that liberalization opens up air traffic, so people are able to travel for business or tourism, which in turn creates employment in the services industry