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Investigating the Capability of Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to Revitalize Antibiotics in Effort to Combat Antibiotic Resistance
No full textAs antibiotic resistance looms as a threat facing biomedical research and clinical settings it is imperative that researchers develop new methods to combat it. This paper reports the work conducted with the goal of utilizing covalently functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria strains. The covalently functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes were developed as a key starting point towards creating a disulfide bond between nanotubes and antibiotics, with the intention of creating a cleavable disulfide bond that will act as a drug delivery mechanism. The goal of this work is to demonstrate this delivery mechanism and covalently functionalized carbon nanotubes can be leveraged against antibiotic resistant bacteria. This work presents a straightforward synthesis of cysteine functionalized single-walled carbona nanotubes as well as struggles encountered when attempting to create a cysteine-ampicillin conjugate with the intention of attaching the conjugate to our functionalized nanotubes
Bars, Barristers, and Bias: A Content Analysis of Legal Plays
Get PDFThis content analysis paper investigates the portrayal of the legal profession onstage within legal dramas first performed in the twenty-first century. There has been no previous research that has focused on a comprehensive analysis of the specific content of legal dramas, so this study is exploratory in nature. This study emphasizes the importance of learning about the content characteristics of legal plays and legal characters. This content analysis seeks to answer two research questions. First, do playwrights of legal plays first performed between 2000-2024 belong to similar identity demographics, write about similar content, and/or have similar messaging regarding the notion of justice? Second, are there any patterns in how legal characters in legal plays first performed between 2000-2024 are characterized and portrayed? For example, are certain types of characters portrayed more negatively than others? A random sample of 40 legal plays (from a population of 106) were examined across 29 different content categories to determine findings such as: identity characteristics of the playwright (gender and racial demographics; whether due process, a just outcome, or justice overall was present; and whether legal characters engage in any negative behaviors or if they are victims of violence. This study provides a framework for more communication scholars to critically examine elements of theater for the purpose of understanding how characters are portrayed onstage, and how playwrights potentially influence that portrayal
Support For Progressive Taxation Amidst Economic Inequality
Get PDFProgressive taxation remains a heavily debated topic. Among mixed evidence on the effectiveness of progressive tax systems, there is also mixed evidence on what impacts public support for progressive taxation. It is important to explore this as it can better inform politicians or NGOs how to communicate with audiences to shape support for or opposition to this policy. This thesis approaches this question through the lens of relative deprivation, where one’s sense of economic security is influenced by the status of comparison groups. Using cross-national and cross-temporal survey data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), I use logit regression models with mixed effects to measure relative deprivation based on real income, perceived class status, and intergenerational job mobility. Results indicate that increasing real inequality lessens the likelihood of support for progressive taxation, but the perception of inequality improves the likelihood of support. Mobility had no effect. These results offer insight for policymakers to highlight specific examples of inequality to increase support for progressive taxation
Cultural Exchange
No full textI took this picture of Frank Turner, a famous British artist, at a concert I went to in Cambridge, England. This was right before he started crowd surfing.
Submitted as part of the Spring 2025 Study Abroad Photo Contest.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/study_abroad_photos/1039/thumbnail.jp
Rope Bridge Over Rio Sarapiqui
No full textIsabella Dolan, smiling on a rope bridge over the Sarapiqui River at the Tirimbina Reserve in Costa Rica.
Submitted as part of the Spring 2025 Study Abroad Photo Contest.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/study_abroad_photos/1052/thumbnail.jp
Basking in the Waterfall
No full textIsabella Dolan stands underneath a waterfall in Costa Rica.
Submitted as part of the Spring 2025 Study Abroad Photo Contest.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/study_abroad_photos/1051/thumbnail.jp
The Grizzly, March 27, 2025
Get PDFStand Up for Science Rally • Parlee Center Receives $3.2 Million Gift • Nowruz, the Persian New Year Celebration • Ritter Refresh • Breaking Biology Barriers • Opinion: Who Are You, the Fashion Police? • Wonderful Winter Stars! • Baseball\u27s Successful Springhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/2050/thumbnail.jp
The Grizzly, April 3, 2025
Get PDFThis is an April Fool\u27s parody edition of the Ursinus College Grizzly newspaper entitled The Goofly.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/2051/thumbnail.jp
BEAR Innovation Competition Pitch: Operation Chromosome
No full textAn interactive platform using storytelling and simulations to teach plant biology and genetics. Designed for students who don’t learn best through lectures
Is Religion A Necessity?
No full textThis book stack was created by a first-year student at Ursinus College participating in a Common Intellectual Experience event. After a group Stacks on Stacks activity in Fall 2024, students were invited to submit their own individual creations in Spring 2025.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/cie_stacks/1067/thumbnail.jp