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Get PDFNewly added work in the Open Repository @ Binghamton (ORB) from 2/1/2024-2/29/2024. Top downloads from same time frame
Addressing the need for both affordable and sustainable housing: a policy analysis on avoiding environmental gentrification
Get PDFThis article focuses on the threat of environmental gentrification in Binghamton and the surrounding municipalities. Given certain risks, including an increasing temporary student renter population, increasing rent prices, high population of renters overall and the need for updates to the housing stock, this area of Broome County is at high risk for environmental gentrification if clean energy upgrades to the housing stock are aggressively pursued. Since clean energy upgrades such as weatherization and clean technology installation will create safer housing and reduce residential greenhouse gas emissions, it is desirable to pursue them. Thus, this article will analyze four policy alternatives on their ability to facilitate the implementation of clean energy upgrades while also mitigating green gentrification. It will find that synthesizing the work of local land trusts and housing organizations with efforts to implement clean energy upgrades will best accomplish this
Diversifying the archival record through community archiving
Get PDFArchives have long marginalized the narratives of oppressed American populations, owing to their lack of representation in mainstream archiving. In turn, communities have opted to create their own archives that become the catalyst for more dialogue surrounding their histories, called community archives. This study looks at how other universities have partnered with their local communities to document richer local histories that help maintain partnerships between the two. Conversing with other community archivists helps to realize the process of making a community archive in their respective institutions, which furthers the relationships between the university and local communities and institutions. By generating important dialogues that concern their history, underrepresented communities now create their narrative through their own archives. The study also proposes a list of local organizations and communities central to the fuller understanding of the region\u27s local history that may be useful for any institution looking to create their own community archives.https://orb.binghamton.edu/library_research_scholars_2024/1002/thumbnail.jp
Signifying Identity with Makeup in the Late Roman Empire
Get PDFThe research revolves around the idea of “gender performativity,” in which a person’s gender identity is taught by society and reinforced by culturally-acceptable behaviors. I explore this theory through the lens of the late Roman Empire (between the third and sixth centuries, C.E.) and the cosmetic practices that women employed during that time. My findings include the fact that makeup was an integral part of the construction of Roman womanhood, and that social class was inextricably linked to beauty. For example, the image of an intellectual, wealthy woman became the image of beauty, and so cosmetic practices centered around this ideal. This linkage between femininity and social power is significant because it reveals many of the underlying ideals of the Roman Empire, as well as the ways in which women could achieve social mobility and influence in a society that systematically oppressed them in a myriad of ways.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2024/1001/thumbnail.jp
Auditory Learning of Seventh Chords
Get PDFBeing able to identify different types of musical chords is an essential skill for students pursuing a music degree. Unfortunately, it can be challenging to learn even after extensive traditional ear training. Based on prior studies demonstrating the effectiveness of implicit videogame training for learning difficult sound categories, this study investigated whether such a novel form of videogame training can serve as an alternative method to facilitate the learning of musical chords. 30 participants underwent either traditional or videogame training for 60 minutes across two days. Both training conditions resulted in significant, comparable improvements in accuracy and speed in identifying musical chords. However, the two conditions yielded slightly different levels of improvements depending on the chord types. These results suggest that even difficult musical chords can be learned effectively without explicit instructions. These findings will benefit music students as having alternative training may make this tedious process more enjoyable.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2024/1011/thumbnail.jp
Investigating Pseudomonas aeruginosa Outer Membrane Vesicles
Get PDFThe biofilm forming organism Pseudomonas aeruginosa, known for its virulence and pathogenicity, has 5 main stages of growth, with the final stage being dispersion. Dispersion is characterized by a rupture of the biofilm structure and release of free-floating cells. During this stage, the biofilm is more susceptible to antibiotic treatments. Pseudomonas biofilms produce Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMV\u27s), or membrane-enclosed structures containing toxins and signaling factors. OMV production is elevated during the dispersion stage. This investigation has tracked the impact of exogenous OMV addition on biofilm dispersion. This biofilm is also known to produce cis-2-decenoic acid (cis-DA), a hydrophobic signaling molecule with a similar structure to Pseudomonas Quinolone Signal (PQS), which induces OMV formation. This HPLC analysis has aimed to evaluate whether cis-DA is present within biofilm OMV\u27s. The long term impact of this project is to increase understanding of how OMVs increase Pseudomonas biofilms characteristic virulence and antibiotic resistance.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2024/1040/thumbnail.jp
The Association Between Frequency of Alcohol Drinking and Neurobehaviors
Get PDFDrinking culture is very prevalent in colleges across the United States. The effects of binge drinking and mindfulness habits/overall mood of students in college and their correlation have yet to be researched. An anonymous online survey was administered through GroupMe and iMessage chats. The survey included basic demographic questions of each participant and questions on their drinking, diet, resilience, exercise patterns, and overall mood. Pearson’s Correlation Analysis was utilized using SPSS version 28.0. Results suggest that there is a relationship between alcohol consumption, mental distress state, and mindfulness among college students. With college students, reducing alcohol consumption may modulate neurobehaviors.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2024/1066/thumbnail.jp
Women at Odds & Victim Blaming: Comparing Medusa’s Mythology in 21st Century Children’s Books with Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Get PDF21st-century children’s books are a medium through which we may consider the societal values and beliefs we pass onto children; but what about how we share ancient mythology that can be filled with antiquated tropes? This paper compares the origin of Medusa’s snake hair in Ovid’s Metamorphoses to two modern children’s books and analyze the similarities and differences between them. While omitting Poseidon’s rape of Medusa, both stories perpetuate the precedents of victim blaming and pitting women against each other in the form of Athena cursing Medusa as Ovid did in his poem. We must, then, consider the values our retellings of mythology normalize for our youth, but also what it reflects about our current beliefs so that harmful narratives are curbed in favor of more equitable morals.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2024/1067/thumbnail.jp
Selective Democracy: The Exclusion of Foreigners in Ancient Athens in the 5th Century BCE
Get PDFIn the 5th century BCE, there was an influx of foreigners coming into Athens. While foreigners were welcomed to the polis, they were excluded in Athenian society. This paper will analyze the treatment of foreigners by the Athenians, as well as the differences in treatment between males and females. It will be focusing on Athenian law and the prejudice that foreigners have faced, with a special emphasis on women. With this emphasis, new hypotheses and conclusions can be made as to where modern feminist attitudes originated from and how they have persisted across time. Also, these interpretations will be drawn from modern theories, like feminist theory and critical race theory. Ultimately, this analysis will bring light to the roots of the Athenians’ actions towards foreigners. I believe that this analysis will bring in new comparisons, and even solutions, to modern day views of foreigners that are regarded as hostile.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2024/1080/thumbnail.jp
From the Discard Pile to Special Collections: How Book Collectors Shape Today’s Information
Get PDFMany of the libraries we have today, the places we rely on for our most important knowledge and cultural heritage, were built from the private collections of people who lived centuries ago. Binghamton University’s copy of Danielis Heinsii In obitum v. illustr. Iosephi Scaligeri (1609), contains many ownership marks. This book survived over the centuries thanks to the many owners who valued it enough to preserve and pass it on. Using the names, dates, and other information from these ownership marks, I researched these owners’ lives and library collections. Each private and institutional owner valued the book to varying degrees and for different reasons. The book was treasured as a religious artifact by some owners, yet was discarded by the British Museum. Danielis Heinsii provides an exciting opportunity to trace how the interests and values of our book-collecting predecessors fundamentally shaped the information that is available to us today.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2024/1112/thumbnail.jp