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The effects of increasing mechanical pressure on Gallus gallus sympathetic neurons as measured by abundance of varicosities formed.
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Investigation of kinesin-2 and osm-3 during ciliogenesis in sea urchins embryos.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 70-75).75 leaves : illustrations1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction to cilia -- 1.2 Cilia structure -- 1.3 Intraflagellar transportation -- 1.4 Two anterograde IFT motor proteins -- 1.5 Cilia life cycle -- 1.6 Prior ciliogenesis research -- 1.7 Sea urchins as a model -- 1.8 Ciliogenesis in sea urchin embryos -- 2 Materials & methods -- 2.1 Sea urchin gamete collection & fertilization -- 2.2 Time-lapse recording of ciliagenis -- 2.3 Cilia growth pattern analysis -- 2.4 Immunofluorescene testing for kinesin-2 and osm-3 -- 2.5 Z-projection of confocal images and cilia 3d reconstruction -- 2.6 Immunostaining intensity measurement— 3 Results -- 3.1 Proposed staining pattern for cilia growth -- 3.2 Immunofluorescence to detect colocalization -- 3.3 Oscillating ciliary growth curve -- 3.4 Refinement of protocol -- 4 Discussion -- 4.1 Immunostaining methodology improvement to detect kinesin-2 and osm-3 -- 4.2 Possible indirect evidence to support the two-phase ciliogenesis model -- 5 Reference
Hidden markov models for music classification.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 67-70).iii, 70 leaves : illustrations1 Introduction -- 2 Music information retrieval -- 2.1 Music information retrieval -- 2.2 Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients -- 2.3 Implementation of MFCCs -- 3 Hidden markov model -- 3.1 Hidden markov model -- 3.1.1 Markov chain -- 3.1.2 Hidden markov models -- 3.2 Forward algorithm -- 3.3 Backward algorithm -- 3.4 Parameter estimation -- 3.4.1 Expectation-maximization algorithm -- 3.4.2 Baum welch algorithm -- 3.5 Similarity metric -- 4 Initialization -- 4.1 Initial parameter estimation -- 4.1.1 Model-based agglomerative hierarchical clustering -- 5 Experiments and results -- 5.1 Composers -- 5.1.1 Bach -- 5.1.2 Beethoven -- 5.1.3 Schubert -- 5.1.4 Chopin -- 5.1.5 Debussy -- 5.1.6 Schumann -- 5.1.7 Schoenberg -- 5.2 Experiments -- 5.3 Discussion -- 5.3.1 Validation -- 5.3.2 Analysis of the result -- 5.3.3 Accuracy -- 5.3.4 Problems and concerns -- 6 Conclusion and Future Wor
3D Modeling at Wheaton College
No full textWe are an interdepartmental team building and deploying a pilot workflow of effective practices for faculty and students as they create, catalog, manage, curate, and disseminate a growing collection of their digital works. By piloting with four faculty members and their students from multiple disciplines, we are developing a workflow where (i) pieces of digital scholarship are initially stored, managed, and shared on an individual’s personal digital space, and (ii) donated and curated pieces become a new type of collection elevated and promoted via multiple digital platforms for wider dissemination and use. Student projects born from both academic rigor and entrepreneurial experiences inspire future scholarship.Council of Independent College's Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and Researc
Comparison of two indigo dye derivatives in the spectrophotometric detection of copper in aqueous media.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 39-40).i, 46 leaves : illustrationsCopper is an essential element in the human body, playing a role in redox reactions and substrate activation reactions. Several diseases, including Menkes disease and Wilson’s disease, are associated with copper metabolism in the body. Copper primarily enters the body through our diet (by consuming foods like meat, bread, and beans) and through drinking water. Copper compounds can enter drinking water sources through copper pipes in plumbing infrastructure and through runoff from insecticides and fertilizers. The World Health Organization recommends that the amount of copper in drinking water does not exceed 2 ppm; for this reason the accurate detection of copper in aqueous media is needed. The objective of this investigation is to investigate the binding constants and thermodynamic parameters for two detection methods using indigo dye derivatives and spectrophotometric analysis. Copper cations (Cu2+(aq)) form a 1:1 complex with both indigo carmine (IC) and potassium indigotrisulfonate (KItS) in aqueous solutions. Both dyes selectively form a complex with copper and do not form a complex with other metal (II) cations like cadmium, magnesium, lead, or calcium. The Cu-KItS system in water was found to be the most favorable reaction because it had the highest binding constants and highest magnitude negative Gibb’s free energy. The detection limit of copper cations in water was found to be 0.031 ppm using the Cu-KItS system in water compared to 0.076 ppm using the Cu-IC system in water.1 Introduction -- 1.1 Copper -- 1.2 Other metals -- 1.3 Indigo carmine -- 1.4 Potassium indigotrisulfonate -- 1.5 Complex formation -- 1.6 Previous methods -- 1.7 Goals -- 2 Experimental procedures -- 2.1 Methods -- 2.2 Instrumentation -- 2.3 Methods -- 3 Results and discussion -- 3.1 Job’s plots -- 3.2 Temperature dependent measurements using indigo carmine -- 3.3 Temperature dependent measurements using potassium indigotrisulfonate -- 3.4 Sensitivity -- 3.5 Selectivity -- 3.6 Reproducibility -- 4 Conclusions -- 5 Limitations -- 6 Future wor
3D Modeling at Wheaton College
No full textWe are an interdepartmental team building and deploying a pilot workflow of effective practices for faculty and students as they create, catalog, manage, curate, and disseminate a growing collection of their digital works. By piloting with four faculty members and their students from multiple disciplines, we are developing a workflow where (i) pieces of digital scholarship are initially stored, managed, and shared on an individual’s personal digital space, and (ii) donated and curated pieces become a new type of collection elevated and promoted via multiple digital platforms for wider dissemination and use. Student projects born from both academic rigor and entrepreneurial experiences inspire future scholarship.Council of Independent College's Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and Researc
3D Modeling at Wheaton College
No full textWe are an interdepartmental team building and deploying a pilot workflow of effective practices for faculty and students as they create, catalog, manage, curate, and disseminate a growing collection of their digital works. By piloting with four faculty members and their students from multiple disciplines, we are developing a workflow where (i) pieces of digital scholarship are initially stored, managed, and shared on an individual’s personal digital space, and (ii) donated and curated pieces become a new type of collection elevated and promoted via multiple digital platforms for wider dissemination and use. Student projects born from both academic rigor and entrepreneurial experiences inspire future scholarship.Council of Independent College's Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and Researc
Wheaton Magazine
No full textFall 2019 issue of the Wheaton MagazineWheaton College (MA)Between the lines: Engaging connection, pg.2@DHANNO: Creating history, pg.3Around the Dimple: Going global, pg.4Around the Dimple: Three win Watson Fellowships, pg.5Around the Dimple: Fulbright winners ready to grow, pg.6Around the Dimple: Fatoumata Diallo '19 gets JET, pg.7Around the Dimple: Pursuing career development, pg.8Around the Dimple: Rooting out poverty, pg.8Around the Dimple: Cheers to the new job!, pg.9Around the Dimple: Crowdsourcing for gender equity, pg.10Around the Dimple: Exhibiting scholarship, pg.11Conversation: Inequality from four perspectives, pg.12Publications, Honors and Creative Works, pg.13Lyons pride: Recognizing leadership, pg.14Lyons pride: Reasons to cheer:, pg.14Lyons pride: And the award goes to..., pg.15Lyons pride: NEWMAC athletes of the year, pg.15Campus scene: Commencement 2019, pg.16Campus scene: Insightful intervention, pg.18Campus scene: Building partnerships in education, pg.22Campus scene: Leadership, inclusion, networking, pg.26Campus scene: Cures and melodies, pg.28Alumni association network: Reunion 2019, pg.32Alumni association network: Alumni board welcomes new members, pg.34Alumni association network: A helping hand, pg.35Class Notes, pg.36Class Notes: A community treasure, pg.38Class Notes: Voice lessons, pg.39In Memoriam, pg.40Class Notes (removed), pg.42Perspective: The art of collaboration, pg.6
