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“His stethoscope, his beard, her breasts”: Narrative gaps, automaticity, and the microfiction of Lydia Davis
Get PDFWhat could be the value of a story so short that it would be called “microfiction”? According to Marc Botha, short fiction mirrors “the short attention span of modern readers,” as well as “the gaps and fragmented-ness of modern consciousness.” While microfiction is not necessarily the only form of fiction that engages with cognitive processes, as there is a rich history of describing literary studies such as poetry through the lens of cognitive science. This article explores microfiction’s structure and its relation to cognitive processes. Using 2013 Man Booker Prize-awardee Lydia Davis’s microfiction as a sample oeuvre, applied are a range of cognitive science methodologies—an interdisciplinary approach encompassing psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, artificial intelligence, anthropology, and linguistics—to consider how certain genres of literature mimic and even refract the ways in which the human brain processes information. Putting microfiction as a literary work in dialogue with cognitive processing demonstrates seemingly disparate fields can provide insight into both literature and cognitive science
Madam President, BA: Women\u27s ascent to power in College Democrats of Oregon
Get PDFFounded in 2013, College Democrats of Oregon (CDO) is one of 47 state federations under the official youth branch of the Democratic Party, College Democrats of America. For several years, the majority of leadership positions in the organization have been held by women. Scholarship has established that women are at a distinctly gendered disadvantage when running for office, and this study shows its roots begin in student-led political parties like College Democrats, even when women’s leadership seems to thrive. Interviews conducted with current and former women officeholders in CDO have shown that despite the abundance of female leadership, women still experience hesitancy to run. Furthermore, socioeconomic status can either positively or negatively influence a woman’s sense of qualification and availability for involvement. What has moved to women to run for office in their chapter and the state is direct recruitment by those in power and appointment to office
Introduction: Special issue on gender and sexuality studies
Get PDFThe articles included in this special issue represent a selection of the thirty four gender and sexuality related projects that were scheduled to be presented at the 2020 Senior Projects Day event at Pacific University’s Forest Grove campus. The papers included in this special issue come from a variety of academic disciplines and speak to a wide range of topics, but unable to be disseminated due to the novel coronavirus pandemic
Balsa Wood Bridge
Get PDFThis senior paper outlined the design and construction of an articulating balsa wood bridge. Meeting specific criteria to hold 20kg of weight hanging from the center of the bridge. Also allowing a 32 mm wide by 25 mm high object to traverse the road deck of the bridge. The construction criteria required the use of only balsa wood and glue for the structural support, with exceptions for articulation components. The total weight of the bridge must not exceed 85 grams.
To achieve these goals, the bridge was designed using static equilibrium and material strength equations to span a 470mm body of water. A 45mm wide solid balsa wood road deck ran the entire length of the bridge. A lifting tower was constructed to facilitate the required bridge articulation, with a string attached to one side of the bridge and a counterweight on the other side. The bridge\u27s counterweight system provides efficient control for raising and lowering the bridge
The expected result was a functional articulating balsa wood bridge weighing 83 grams and capable of holding up to 24 kg before it failed. Several nondestructive tests were performed initially, followed by a final load-bearing test. The bridge was able to maintain its lifted position without any additional support for 15s. A block pulled with a string served as the vehicle, which could move unobstructed across the road deck
Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America
No full textClimate change models often assume similar responses to temperatures across a species range, but local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity can lead plants and animals to respond differently to temperature in different parts of their range. To date, there have been few tests of this assumption at the scale of continents, so it is unclear if this is a large-scale problem. Here, we examined the assumption that insect taxa show similar responses to temperature at 96 sites in grassy habitats across North America. We sampled insects with Malaise traps during 2019-2021 (N = 1041 samples) and examined the biomass of insects in relation to temperature and time of season. Our samples mostly contained Diptera (33%), Lepidoptera (19%), Hymenoptera (18%), and Coleoptera (10%). We found strong regional differences in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature, even within the same taxonomic group, habitat type and time of season. For example, biomass of nematoceran flies increased across the season in the central part of the continent, but it only showed a small increase in the northeast and a seasonal decline in the southeast and west. At a smaller scale, insect biomass at different traps operating on the same days was correlated up to about 75 km apart. Large-scale geographic and phenological variation in insect biomass and abundance has not been studied well, and it is a major source of controversy in previous analyses of insect declines that have aggregated studies from different locations and time periods. Our study illustrates that large-scale predictions about changes in insect populations, and their causes, will need to incorporate regional and taxonomic differences in the response to temperature
Symposium on American Values
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Serendipitous synthesis of cross-conjugated dienes by cascade deconstructive esterification of thiomorpholinone-tethered alkenoic acids
Get PDFFunctionalized 1,3-dienes are ubiquitous structural motifs in biologically pertinent molecules. They are frequently employed as precursors for a broad range of chemical transformations, including Diels-Alder reactions. The stereoselective construction of highly decorated 1,3-dienes therefore represents an important research objective. Medicinal chemists are becoming increasingly interested in synthetic methodologies that not only achieve expedient construction and peripheral editing of heterocycles, but also seek to modify their core framework in order to achieve skeletal remodeling. In a succinct manifestation of this \u27scaffold hopping\u27 concept, we herein describe a cascade reaction, which converts thiomorpholinone-tethered alkenoic acids to 1,1-disubstituted amino-1,3-dienes. This domino process involves esterification of the acid, base-assisted ring-opening, and concomitant 1,2-migration of the alpha-amino alkenyl group. Several control experiments have revealed that the alkenyl substituent is necessary for deconstruction to occur. Inherently more activated N-aryl-substituted thiomorpholinone acids react significantly faster than their less activated N-alkyl congeners
Symposium on American Values
No full textMen stretching and exercising in the gym as part of Mens Sana in Corpore Sano: A Descriptive Pageant highlighting the various programs of instruction in the Division of Physical Education during the 2nd Symposium on American Values, Thursday, April 25, 1963.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/john_foster_photos/4145/thumbnail.jp
Symposium on American Values
No full textA group of students performing tumbling, acrobatics, and gymnastics on a mat as part of Mens Sana in Corpore Sano: A Descriptive Pageant highlighting the various programs of instruction in the Division of Physical Education during the 2nd Symposium on American Values, Thursday, April 25, 1963.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/john_foster_photos/4162/thumbnail.jp
Symposium on American Values
No full textA large audience watches attentively during the 2nd Symposium on American Values, April 24-27, 1963.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/john_foster_photos/4164/thumbnail.jp