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The role of visual perception in the hopping locomotion of rhinella marina.
No full texti, 41 leaves: color illustrations.Includes bibliographical references: leaves 38-41.Hopping is a saltatory form of locomotion utilized by a diverse range of species across the animal kingdom. The Cane Toad, Rhinella marina, is a common model used to examine this movement, due to its ability to sustain continuous hopping over significant durations of distance and time. This locomotion requires immense muscular coordination, and is mainly achieved through anticipatory forelimb contractions prior to a landing, known as muscle tuning. Tuned reactions enable the toad to both dissipate landing forces through eccentric muscle contractions, as well as reduce the time necessary to prepare for its next hop. Forelimb tuning is a complex process with multiple mechanisms at play, including both visual and non-visual perceptive components. This research aims to understand what role visual perception plays in hopping. This was accomplished by observing hopping mechanics in Cane Toads with vision, and then with it eliminated. Five Cane Toads were marked at the elbow, wrist, midway on the humerus, and along the longitudinal axis of the back. Each toad was recorded performing 15 hops on two HiSpec Lite cameras (500fps). They were then anesthetized, and their optic nerves severed. Upon recovery, the Cane Toads performed another 15 hops. The three-dimensional position of each marker was digitized using DLTdataviewer2, a point-tracking MatLab script. Using custom MatLab scripting, elbow extension/flexion angle, humeral protraction/retraction angle, and humeral elevation/depression angle were calculated for each frame of each hop video. These angles were analyzed via mixed generalized linear models. General trends included that blind toads seemed to typically be more flexed, retracted, and depressed than sighted toads, who were consequently more extended, protracted and depressed. These results indicate that vision plays a role as more of a “fine tuning” mechanism
Wheaton Magazine
No full textSpring 2018 issue of the Wheaton MagazineWheaton College (MA)Between the lines: For goodness sake, pg.2@DHANNO: Acting on ideas, pg.3Around the Dimple: The right place for social justice, pg.4Around the Dimple: Commencement speakers, pg.5Around the Dimple: A minute with... Kevin "Joey" Batson '19, pg.6Around the Dimple: First Sight, pg.7Around the Dimple: Focusing on wildlife, pg.8Around the Dimple: A new frontier, pg.9Around the Dimple: Star turn, pg.10In the news: Planets, mosques, military life, pg.11Conversation: Andrew Howard close up, pg.12Publications, Honors and Creative Works, pg.13Lyons pride: Just-for-fun facts, pg.14Campus scene: An open invitation, pg.16Campus scene: Fun with food, pg.16Campus scene: Otis Social Justice Award, pg.17Campus scene: Women in law enforcement meet, inspire, pg.17Campus scene: A force of good, pg.19Good and evil, pg. 22Good and evil: 'What is the Good Life?', pg.22Good and evil: 'On Becoming Evil', pg. 23Campus scene: A voice for justice, pg.28Alumni association network: Do's of a docent, pg.32Alumni association network: Nobel pursuit, pg.33Alumni association network: Matchmaking for good, pg.34Alumni association network: A pro at promos, pg.35Class Notes, pg.36Class Notes: Victory at the polls, pg.37Class Notes: Taking off, pg.38Class Notes: Steward of history, pg.39Class Notes: Olympic Sound, pg.40Class Notes: Teaching the world, pg.41Class Notes: A scholar in Brazil, pg.42Class Notes: Dressing for success, pg.43Class Notes (removed), pg.44In Memoriam, pg.62Perspective: Beyond the facade, pg.6
Spine label: For love of countryside.
No full textii, 97 leaves.Includes bibliographical references: leaves 94-97.My thesis argues that the rural setting of provincial England depicted in popular Victorian novels reflects corresponding political changes introduced by Parliamentary acts, such as the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867. While there is an existing body of criticism on the rural English setting in Victorian fiction, critics generally have overlooked how these settings staged the rapid political and social changes that came with the rise of industrialism and the explosive growth in population. The Reform Bills proposed the redistribution of Parliamentary seats to underrepresented English counties, prompting questions regarding who was qualified to vote and who was not. Growing industrial towns like Manchester and Birmingham were given more seats, while smaller counties were deemed “rotten boroughs” and allocated fewer seats. Quite abruptly, geography and population mattered in a way they had not mattered before.As a result, authors and readers alike were attuned to the unprecedented relevance of location within the novel. Understanding the historical significance of setting in Victorian provincial novels allows us to read them not as works nostalgic for a simpler pre- Industrial era, but rather as literary creations that shed light on the shifting socio-political structures of rural England. In order to register the impact of these shifts, novelists experimented with different forms in genre and narrative: Eliot, for instance, embeds her third-person omniscient narrator among the townspeople of rural Middlemarch, while Gaskell utilizes the literary sketch to challenge the portrayal of the rural as timeless. To examine the complexity of the relationship between form and politics, I read George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Anthony Trollope’s Small House at Allington, and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford alongside contemporary reactions to Parliamentary Acts, supplemented by theorists such as Terry Eagleton and Amanpal Garcha.Chapter One: "All country towns are pretty much alike": Resisting ideological simplification in Eliot's Middlemarch -- 1.1 The reform act of 1832: Politicizing provincial England -- 1.2 Re: Form -- 1.3 Lydgate and middlemarch's "Petty politics" -- 1.4 "Put the figures and deduce the misery": Figuration and representation -- Chapter Two: Rewriting elysium in Trollope's The Small house at Allington -- 2.1 Innovating the pastoral -- 2.2 Villainous clerks and heroic hobbledehoys -- Chapter Three: Cranford's industrial resolution -- 3.1 Drumble to manchester: origins of Cranford's industry -- 3.2 Mary Smith: Industrial outsider -- 3.3 Industrial resolutio
Wheaton Magazine
No full textSummer 2018 issue of the Wheaton MagazineWheaton College (MA)Between the lines: Immersed in work, pg.2@DHANNO: History in the making, pg.3Around the Dimple: New dorm makes room for growth, pg.4Around the Dimple: A minute with... Christina DesVergnes '19, pg.6Around the Dimple: Focusing on first-gen students, pg.7Around the Dimple: Winter work break, pg.8Around the Dimple: Talking about healthy masculinity, pg.9Around the Dimple: An experiment in civics, pg.10Around the Dimple: Math association counts on professor to lead program, pg.11Conversation: Examining art and conflict, pg.12Publications, Honors and Creative Works, pg.13Lyons pride: Diving into my work, pg.14Campus scene: Fresh Check Day, pg.16Campus scene: MLK awards, pg.16Campus scene: Career fair, pg.16Campus scene: Going global, pg.17Campus scene: Risky business, pg.18Campus scene: Obstacle course, pg.22Campus scene: Now showing: Vision, drive, collaboration, pg.28Campus scene: Leadership transition, pg.30Alumni association network: Gathering to celebrate and reflect, pg.34Alumni association network: In the game, pg.35Class Notes, pg.36Class Notes: Reinventing the family business, pg.38Class Notes: Java and jobs, pg.39Class Notes: Sustaining the planet, pg.40Class Notes: Queen of the crop, pg.41Class Notes: Articulating politics, pg.42Class Notes (removed), pg.43In Memoriam, pg.62Perspective: Encore, pg.6
The effects of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lipopolysaccharides on axonal outgrowth in Gallus gallus sympathetic neurons.
No full text8 pages; illustrations
Rushlight: 2018 Spring
No full textWheaton College (Norton, MA) student literary magazine.Trust Issues: A Congratulatory LetterColonnade (Photograph)For What It's WorthUntitled (Photograph)Atomic TangerineWraithGetting Some Space (Oil on Canvas)In My Mind (Print)Where Does My Stuff Go After I Graduate?Cabo Punta Banda, Baja CA, Mexico (Photograph)Earthworm ElegyAbandoned (Photograph)Sea Shells (Pencil)Girl AquaticUntitledPavlov's Dogsthe dim light is like wineMountain Movement (Oil on Canvas)Ozhim and Him (Photograph)ReligiositySunday to SundayUntitled (Pen and Ink)When I PrayThunderstormsGielgud Theatre (Photograph)The Fairy QueenDana, Massachusetts (Photograph)Milford Sound (Photograph)Breuer (Photograph)tabula rasaMonochromaticEtherealGreenhouses: El Ejido, Spain (Woodcut, Pochoir)Abandoned (Photograph)Why I'm Studying Music Instead of Orthopedic
Our world is kind of strange : surrealism in postmodern picture books.
No full texti, 242 leaves.Includes bibliographical references: leaves 224-242.This thesis examines surrealist influences in postmodern picture books. Although Surrealism is a modernist movement, it shares many characteristics with postmodernism, showing that it continues to be relevant and provocative; both movements embrace subjective and provisional truths, reveal that our experience and perception of reality are distorted or limited, and prompt us to interrogate our perspective of the world so that we may better understand it. The body chapters explore books by three author-illustrators—Chris Van Allsburg, David Wiesner, and Shaun Tan—each of whose works combine his unique brand of surrealism with postmodern techniques. By pushing the boundaries of genre in drawing on a wide range of surrealist and postmodern conventions and traditions, as well as those of various types of visual narratives (e.g., comics and graphic novels), these artists’ picture books also raise questions of audience—that is, whether the works are for children, adults, or anyone—and thus redefine the picture book or contribute to the evolution of the form.List of figures – Introduction – Chapter 1: the extraordinary in the ordinary: Chris Van Allsburg’s mysteries – Ben’s dream – Bad day at riverbend – The mysteries of Harris Burdick – Chapter 2: applying logic to the illogical: David Wiesner’s “wordless” works – Tuesday – Free fall – Flotsam – Chapter 3: you don’t belong here nor there: Shaun Tan’s visual narratives – The red tree – Tales from outer suburbia – The arrival – Conclusion – Appendix – Works cite
Preliminary study on the effects of an autophagy agonist on axonal transport in Gallus gallus peripheral sympathetic neurons.
No full text11 pages; illustrations
Kings in generalized tournaments.
No full textiv, 58 leaves: illustrations.Includes bibliographical references: leaves 57.This thesis explores how to find and construct kings in three generalizations of tourna- ment: semi-complete digraphs, oriented graphs and quasi-transitive oriented graphs.In Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, we present a way to interpret semi-complete digraphs and oriented graphs as tournaments with “ties” (we call the “ties” in semi-complete digraphs “double ties”, and the “ties” in oriented graphs “ties”). In Chapter 3, we prove there exists an (n, k) semi-complete digraph if and only if n ≥ k ≥ 1, and all the (n, k) semi-complete digraphs that exist can be constructed with at most 1 double tie. In Chapter 4, we prove there exists an (n, k) oriented graph for all n ≥ k ≥ 0 except (1, 0), (2, 2), (3, 2), and (4, 4) oriented graphs, and we prove that all the (n, k) oriented graphs that exist can be constructed with at most 1 tie.The main focus of this thesis is quasi-transitive oriented graph, which is discussed in Chapter 5. We show an interesting fact that all the quasi-transitive oriented graphs can be condensed into tournaments by “tie component condensations”. Then, we show that the tie component condensation on a quasi-transitive oriented graph is a most efficient condensation to tournament in all the condensations to tournaments defined on all the oriented graph with the same tie structure. Finally we prove that the kings in a quasi- transitive oriented graph Q are related to the kings in the “underlying tournament of Q” (result of Q after tie component condensation). This result gives us a way to understand the properties of kings in quasi-transitive oriented graphs using the properties of king in tournaments.1 Introduction – 1.1 Summary of previous works – 1.2 Structure of this thesis – 2 Background – 2.1 Directed graph – 2.2 Beating relations – 2.3 Oriented graph and tournament – 2.4 Kings – 3 Semi-complete Digraph – 3.1 Definitions – 3.2 Properties – 4 Oriented graph – 5 Quasi-transitive oriented graph – 5.1 Definitions – 5.2 Tie and tie paths – 5.3 Tie components – 5.4 Graph condensations – 5.5 Tie component condensations – 5.6 Kings – 6 Further problem