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Long-term persistence of wildlife populations in a pastoral area
No full text16 pages; Color IllustrationsDistributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.24 pages; color illustrations
Confession, Authorship, and Queer Identity in Poetry
No full text100 leaves.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-100).“Confession, Authorship, and Queer Identity in Poetry” explores critical theories around sexuality using confession-based poetry and draws on the authority of the poet with an LGBTQ+ identity. Confession is related to the “coming out” experience and the cultural significance of a queer identity is investigated and exemplified throughout the poems. The introductory essay also includes an analysis of how contemporary poets use language to explore their identity and how the author investigates the importance of identity to her work
Wheaton Magazine
No full textSpring 2020 issue of the Wheaton MagazineWheaton College (MA)Between the lines: Thank you for your patience and understanding, pg.2@DHANNO: A change of plans, pg.3Around the Dimple: Growing voter turnout, pg.4Around the Dimple: Commencement preview, pg.5Around the Dimple: Wheaton partners to serve first-generation students, pg.6Around the Dimple: Summer spark, pg.7Around the Dimple: Helping women take the lead, pg.8Around the Dimple: Playing with language, pg.9Around the Dimple: Unpacking lessons from Tanzania, pg.10Around the Dimple: Instrumental education, pg.11Conversation: Lessons from Bhutan, pg.12Publications, Honors and Creative Works, pg.13Lyons pride: Bravo, 2019 Yowell Hall of Fame inductees, pg.14Lyons pride: Senior day, pg.15Lyons pride: Bowling along, pg.15Campus scene: Academic growth, pg.16Campus scene: Senior scoop, pg.16Campus scene: Activities fair, pg.17Campus scene: MLK legacy celebration, pg.17Campus scene: A path for all, pg.18Campus scene: A powerful partnership, pg.22Campus scene: Ride of her life, pg.28Alumni association network: Announcing our 2020 Alumni Achievement Award winners, pg.32Alumni association network: Teaching teachers, pg.33Alumni association network: A Fulbright to Serbia, pg.34Alumni association network: Global insights from Japan, pg.35Class Notes, pg.36Class Notes: Lifting up others, pg.38Class Notes: Strong advice, pg.39Class Notes: In her nature, pg.40Class Notes: Focusing on homelessness, pg.41Class Notes: Wheaton in the Himalayas, pg.42Class Notes: Career insight, pg.43Class Notes (removed), pg.44In Memoriam, pg.62Perspective: Thinking big, pg.6
Understanding Emojis: Translating a Paralinguistic Device as an Adverb.
No full text75 leaves : illustrations.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-66).This study focuses on finding a grammatical correlate for paralinguistic emojis in order to explore translation of emojis into written word. By diagramming sentence structure, sentence adverbs proved to be the closest grammatical correlate to paralinguistic emojis. A survey taken at Wheaton College, MA, indicated that paralinguistic emojis act over the sentence to change the overall sentiment. Through attempts to translate emojis as sentence adverbs, it became clear that English lacks proper breadth of sentiment in sentence adverbs and it is necessary to translate some emojis as adverbs of manner
Synthesis and Reduction Potentials of Lanthanide Fluoroalkoxides
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 21).21 leaves.The syntheses and reduction potentials of the lanthanide fluoroalkoxides [K][La(OC4F9)4(THF)2] and [K][La(pinF)2(THF)3] (Ln = La3+, Sm3+, Ce3+; HOC4F9 = perfluorotertbutanol; pinF = perfluoropinacol) are presented. A preliminary investigation of the influence of fluorinated ligand environments on redox behaviors of lanthanides was pursued. Both complexes were synthesized by a Brønsted–Lowry acid-base reaction from an Ln[N(SiMe-3)2]3(THF)n precursor. Air-free cyclic voltammetry with a ferrocene/ferrocenium internal reference and single-crystal X-ray diffractometry were employed to characterize the reductive potentials and structural information for these materials
The role of septin-2 in the progression of epithelial ovarian cancer.
No full text45 leaves : illustrations.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39-44).Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer mortality in women and the second most common gynecological cancer. Epithelial ovarian cancer, the most lethal and most common form, has a five-year survival rate of 47% and accounts for 95% of ovarian malignancies. Limited development of effective therapies has led to a stagnate overall survival rate and lack of options for patients undergoing treatments, leading many researchers to continue to search for possible therapeutic targets. The septin protein family is a highly conserved family of GTP-binding proteins that interact with the cellular membrane, provide scaffolding for protein attachments, and assist in cell migration. Septin-2 has recently been implicated in the tumorigenesis of epithelial ovarian cancer through altering cellular metabolism and other mechanisms. The objective of this investigation is to continue to study the role of septin-2 protein expression in the pathogenesis of epithelial ovarian cancer. We will investigate tumorigenic properties of cells that overexpress septin-2 and septin-2 knockdown cells. Thus far, successful completion of knockdown cell lines was performed in ES-2 and SKOV-3 cell lines, but overexpression cell lines were not as successful, as a significant increase in the septin-2 protein was not observed. WNT1 protein localization changed from the nucleus to the cytoplasm in the SKOV-3 cell line only when septin-2 was downregulated, indicative of a change in the WNT1 signaling pathway in those cells. Furthermore, SKOV-3 knockdown septin-2 cells form less tightly compact spheroids than control SKOV-3 cells. This study may provide insights into septin-2 as a possible target for treatment
Towards a top-down method of translation: register and the morphosemantic hierarchy
No full text107 pages; Illustrations.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-107).This thesis addresses the issues of direct translation and how they can be resolved by translating from the top down—by first identifying and translating the register and semantic levels of a piece into the new culture and time period. This method is used to translate passages from Old English, Old Norse, and Gothic, and demonstrates the difference between translating formal and
informal registers
