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Degas and Photography: Influences? And Passions!
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Images of Women: Renaissance Courtesans--Personalities, Poetry and Portraits
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Beyond the Surface: A Look into Gender Politics and the Criticism of Post-World War II Abstract Art
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Sonia Delaunay and the Art of Fashion
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Degas and Daumier: Physiognomy and Caricature
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Christo: The Art of Democracy
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Regional Sequence Expansion or Collapse in Heterozygous Genome Assemblies
No full textHigh levels of heterozygosity present a unique genome assembly challenge and can adversely impact downstream analyses yet is common in sequencing datasets obtained from non-model organisms. Here it is shown that by re-assembling a heterozygous dataset with variant parameters and different assembly algorithms, assemblies whose protein annotations are statistically enriched for specific gene ontology categories can be generated. While total assembly length was not significantly affected by assembly methodologies tested, the generated assemblies varied widely in fragmentation level and collapse or expansion which are underlying the enrichment or depletion of specific protein functional groups. It is shown that these statistically significant deviations in gene ontology groups can occur in seemingly high-quality assemblies and result from difficult-to-detect local sequence expansion or contractions. Given the unpredictable interplay between assembly algorithm, parameter, and biological sequence data heterozygosity, here the need for better measures of assembly quality than N50 value, including methods for assessing local expansion and collapse, is highlighted.BioinformaticsAssembly quality, Genome assembly, HeterozygosityPsychologyDegree Awarded: M.S. Psychology. American Universit
How game design thinking becomes engagement design
No full textPublished in: AcademicMindtrek '16: Proceedings of the 20th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, October 2016, Pages 281–286.This paper is the product of 12 months of intensive study applying game design to the challenges of journalism and news community management. After conducting interviews and site visits with a wide variety of leaders in major print, web, television and news organizations, primary observations were made. The goal was to understand how the increasingly challenged news media industry could benefit from the knowledge that has sustained the success of the game industry. Our findings indicate that the formal practice of game design offers three key foci that may likely prove useful to industries and practices concerned with improving their audience engagement strategies. These three foci are experience, agency and play. We suggest that these three elements are the key to engagement in non-game contexts and are a likely path to improving the struggles facing not only the news industry, but other domains like activism, social impact, and civic participation
Facing Charlottesville's savage, racist history has the power to save us
No full textOpinion piece published on The Guardian