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Gender-Identity and Gender-Ideology Discrepancies in Same-Sex Relationships
No full textGender-identity and gender-ideology discrepancies were examined in individuals currently in same-sex romantic relationships. Gender-identity discrepancy is a discrepancy between your biological sex and gendered behavior. Gender-ideology discrepancy is a discrepancy between your gendered behavior and your ideology towards gender roles. In this study, gender-ideology discrepancy predicted avoidant attachment, anxious attachment, low relationship satisfaction, and high commitment. Gender-identity discrepancy predicted avoidant attachment, anxious attachment, positive well-being, and high relationship satisfaction. In addition, avoidant attachment negatively predicted relationship satisfaction. Lastly, relationship satisfaction predicted positive well-being. Together, these findings suggest that gender-identity and gender-ideology discrepancies interact differently with various dynamics of romantic relationships, avoidantly attached partners are less satisfied with their relationship, and homosexuals who are more satisfied with their relationships have greater well-being
Implications of BLI-5 and NAS-37 Protein Localization in Caenorhabditis elegan
No full textWhen mutated, bli-5, a gene whose role in C. elegans molting is not fully characterized, causes fluid-filled blisters to form only in the head of the worm. This study aims to determine the interactions of the BLI-5 protein in the hopes of better understanding both the entire molting process and the restriction of the blistering phenotype to the head of the worm. Previous research indicates that the role of BLI- 5, a protease inhibitor, in molting is found in its inhibition of the collagen-degrading enzyme, NAS-37, which breaks down the old cuticle layer after it is shed. Through this research it was determined that NAS-37 is present in the head of the worm in a location where it could interact with BLI-5 and play a role in the bli-5 mutant phenotype due to increased destabilization of the cuticle, leading to blisters. Since C. elegans shares genetic and morphological similarities to lethal parasitic nematodes, this research could provide a more specific treatment target against these parasites for humans, pets, and livestock
The Application of CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing to target the BLD2 locus in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
No full textClustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 genome editing is on the forefront as a tool to alter genomes. This new tool can target a specific gene of interest within the genome and produce insertions, deletions or frameshift mutations that result in partial or complete loss of function. However, in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, application of CRISPR/Cas9 has had only limited success as a tool to study gene function (Jiang et al., 2014). The Johnson lab is working to develop vectors for the use of CRISPR/Cas9 in this model organism, and this thesis focuses on targeting the BLD2 locus in this cell for genomic editing. The BLD2 mutation locus is a divergent member of the tubulin family that encodes epsilon tubulin, an essential component of basal bodies/centrioles/microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs) (Dutcher et al., 2003). The BLD2 protein is conserved among algae, lower plants and mammalian cells; surprisingly, in Chlamydomonas bld2 loss-of-function mutants are viable but have severe structural defects in their MTOCs (Goodenough et al., 1975). In this thesis, CRISPR/Cas9 will be utilized to knock out a part of the epsilon tubulin encoding region to produce a phenocopy of the bld2 mutation. This research will provide information on the use of CRISPR/Cas9 in Chlamydomonas, while also targeting a gene whose product is of considerable interest
Modern Latin America
No full textHistory 209b introduces students to modern Latin American history. Throughout the semester we shall examine Latin America from the nineteenth-century emergence of modern republics through the present. Our readings will introduce us to all the major regions and cultural zones of contemporary Latin America, as well as the issues that have been of most concern for historians studying this area. Over the course of the semester, we will develop an introductory understanding of modern Latin America, while also enhancing our appreciation of the craft of historical research. Thus, we will combine the study of state-of-the-art historical monographs with a wide array of primary sources that ask you to be the historian! \ud
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Our monographs, or specialized studies, have been chosen to introduce widely varied approaches to the study of history. Thus, we will read an example of what some term “the new economic history” as we analyze slavery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the early to mid-nineteenth century; turn to visual culture and especially photography and film as we study the Mexican Revolution in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century; examine sexuality, youth culture and political repression in Argentina from the 1950s through the 1970s; and explore transnational history, ethnography and also the sobering reality of what the author terms the “politics of death” in a contemporary history of gangs in Guatemala City from the 1980s to the recent past. Out textbook, Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations, provides short essays and primary sources in translation that will fill in the regional and thematic gaps between these in-depth monographs, while also providing a thorough overview of historical scholarship on modern Latin America. Lectures, discussions, historical documents, literature, and films will supplement these sources. Our goal will be to develop an understanding of modern Latin America distinguished by breadth as well as depth. Though intellectual labor is challenging and inevitably involves hard work, we will also have fun (perhaps a surprising amount of fun!) as we deepen our understanding of this fascinating world region
Cracks in the Wall: An Analysis on the Empowerment and Advancement of Women in African Politics
No full textRina Bideri Ntagozera was a Haverford student
Interview with Ronald "Ron" Schwarz '66 by Krista Oldham
No full textInterview was conducted May 28, 2016 for Haverford College's 2016 Alumni Weekend Event: Sharing Our Stories: Voices from Haverford College, Scarlet Sages Series. Interviews took place in the Group Study Room in Magill Library, Haverford Colleg
Interview with Allen Irvine '56 by Krista Oldham
No full textInterview was conducted May 28, 2016 for Haverford College's 2016 Alumni Weekend Event: Sharing Our Stories: Voices from Haverford College, Scarlet Sages Series. Interviews took place in the Group Study Room in Magill Library, Haverford Colleg
Digging Deeper with Coda Story
No full textThis week, War News Radio’s Eduard Saakashvili interviewed Natalia Antelava and Ilan Greenberg about the creation of a new website changing how journalists report on global crises, Coda Story, focusing on delving deeper into global conflicts and crises than mainstream media