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No full textAlicia explores topics of identity, gender and race in art through photography, video-performance, and performance. Her work investigates the actions that live in the liminal space between what is controllable and uncontrollable, enjoyable and unpleasant, funny and serious. Drawing from conceptual ism, feminism, and body culture, she uses her own body to create narratives that examine human's capability to cope with systems of power. These narratives speak to the importance of the cycle of growth, knowledge, physical and mental strength, that battle the constant struggle of the women, LGBTO, and POC experience throughout their lives. Drifting away from the sexual and sexualized femme fatale, she shares her experiences to contemplate histories of representation, inner battles, insecurities, and the acts to overcome them.Keywords: Video, video installation, performance, race, gender, person of color, an immigrant Latina, visual artist, weightlifting, bodybuilding, gym, Cuba, Cuban artist
Throwing rocks in a blue glass city.
No full textMy work happens pretty compulsively; no matter how many sketches or blueprints I lay out beforehand, it doesn't seem to matter once I'm in front of the material. That being said, I think that a lot of my work is archival in nature. A majority of my pieces, in some way, document an intimate story, a character, or an environment. I want to create iconography for my contemporary story. It's important for me that I articulate these mythologies or stories because, in the process, I think I'm making peace with that memory or character for myself. Even if I'm just alluding to a personal story within this warped, romanticized world, there is still an experience grounded in reality there that I want to understand more. I tend to dissect characters or environments by making fun of everything. There's still a lot of romantic theatre to be found in even the most dreary moments here
#StandWith(out)StandingRock: Tracing how White activists move in decolonizing spaces.
No full textThis thesis spends time looking at how White activists participate in decolonizing resistance--with a specific focus on the Standing Rock resistance--and thinks through the ways in which Whiteness impacts that participation
Exploring Intranational Wealth Inequality: A Machine Learning Approach.
No full textOLS, Random Forests, Country Fixed Effects approaches to intranational wealth inequalit
TAKING A QUEER PULSE: The Impact of Medical Structure on Healthcare for Non-Binary Patients in Boston.
No full textIndividuals with non-binary gender identities must pass through medical bureaucracy to meet their healthcare needs. The present study sought to understand the associated experiences by employing semi-structured interviews in the Greater Boston Area for seventeen non-binary individuals. Non-binary medical patients are often faced with highly bureaucratized medical systems with intake forms without sufficient opportunity to reflect their gender identity, and insurance companies that have exclusive stipulations for transition care. Furthermore, physicians that are not a part of clinical systems labeled as “queer-friendly” are often not sufficiently educated on non-binary gender identity. The poor cultural competence that precipitates results in non-binary patients’ avoidance of care, and acquisition of transition-related information in online community spaces instead of in healthcare spaces. For participants with disabilities, or who were chronically in pain or chronically ill, it was not uncommon for participants to limit disclosure of associated symptoms or experiences to facilitate “getting in and out” of the doctor’s office. Lastly, participants expressed hesitance to disclose their gender identity because of the expectation that they may have to exert emotional labor for physicians who do not understand gender; This entailed participants expecting to have to manage their own emotions as they explain their gender identity, or as they experience instances of discrimination from physicians. The present study adds to literature on LGBTQ+ health using theories in sociology by elucidating a few social facets of the non-binary medical experience
Confronting Racism: the impacts of confronter race and the context of social media.
No full textSenior Honors Thesis by Jonathan Kuwada. Under the supervision and guidance of Professor Jessica Remedios
A role for dopamine D3 receptors in a murine model of social stress-escalated alcohol drinking.
No full textA Senior Honors Thesis examining the role of dopamine D3 receptors in social stress-escalated alcohol consumption, using a novel compound for D3 receptor antagonism
Lexical Variation in Central Taurus Sign Language.
No full textHartzell: Senior Honors Thesis on Lexical Variation in Central Taurus Sign Language (CTSL), an emerging sign language of Turkey
Determination of the Role of Irc20 in Preventing CAG Repeat Fragility.
No full textCAG repeat sequences pose a formidable challenge to DNA replication, transcription and repair due to their propensity to form stable secondary structures. Accordingly, CAG repeat tracts, which are common throughout the human genome, have been deemed prone to chromosomal breakage (fragility) and changes in repeat copy number (instability). Given these characterizations, CAG repeats are causally associated with a host of neurodegenerative disorders. It is thus valuable to identify and investigate the specific mechanisms by which hallmark disease pathologies diseases arise molecularly. This study utilizes the model organism S. cerevisiae, which can be altered to harbor CAG repeat tracts in various genomic locations, to characterize the role of Irc20 in preventing CAG repeat fragility, and more generally DNA repair. Irc20, previously categorized as an E3 ubiquitin ligase with chromatin remodeling capacity, was observed to prevent fragility using a YAC (yeast artificial chromosome) assay system. Subsequent epistatic analysis using this assay system yielded a synergistic relationship with Rad5, and function in the same pathway as Uls1. Moreover, Irc20 was shown to be necessary for efficient repair by sister chromatid recombination. These results point strongly towards a role in the Rad5-mediated error-free branch of post replication repair (PRR)
Observational evidence of change in extreme wind along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States
No full textAbstract: Extreme winds cause significant damage to infrastructure in the United States. Climate change effects to extreme winds including increasing trends have been predicted in climate change scenarios; however, little observational evidence exists to support the hypothesis of increasing winds in U.S. coastal communities due to climate change. In this study, we use the historical record of peak 3-s gust winds at sites along the Eastern Seaboard to determine if nonstationarity exists in the historic wind record. We evaluate nonstationarity at individual stations and within regional "superstation" clusters. In order to evaluate nonstationarity, both parametric (Student's t-test) and non-parametric (Mann-Kendall) trend tests are used. As Lombardo and Ayyub (2014) separated winds by storm types, we observe evidence of nonstationarity by storm types (commingled, nonthunderstorms, thunderstorms and tropical storms). For commingled data, 23 out of 108 stations exhibit evidence of nonstationarity. Roughly 16% of these stations show a positive trend from Florida to NY. In New England, 6% of stations exhibit a negative trend. In addition to the single station results, we cluster similar wind sites together using the k-means algorithm, to extend observation records and observe nonstationary behavior of extreme winds regionally. Incorporating L-moments in regional frequency analysis for clustering purposes requires regional standardized L-moment parameters (Eslamian et al., 2012; Parida et al., 1998). A combination of three parameters consisting of latitude, longitude and L-CV is used to define the k-means clustering. Regional frequency analysis (Hosking and Wallis, 1997) is carried out using L-moments to confirm homogeneity of the cluster prior to evaluation of nonstationarity. Once the clusters are defined, we employ the "superstation" (Peterka, 1992; Peterka and Shahid., 1993) method for each cluster to extend and regionalize the record. By creating a virtual "superstation", we have a single database with extended records and reduced sample errors. Using trend tests, we find evidence of statistically significant regional nonstationarity of 3-s gust wind speeds in 4 out of 7 clusters, all resulting in a positive trend. Two clusters are in Florida, one is along the mid-coast and the final one is New Englnad. The cluster in New England exhibits heterogeneity according to the L-moment homogeneity tests. The trend tests for three of the regional clusters do not exhibit a statistically significant trend. For the two statistically significant clusters in Florida, we apply a nonstationary homoscedastic trend model to identify return levels with time of interest at years 2010, 2030, 2050.Thesis (M.S.)--Tufts University, 2018.Submitted to the Dept. of Civil Engineering.Advisor: Laurie Baise.Committee: Richard Vogel, Franklin Lombardo, and Jonathan Lamontagne.Keyword: Civil engineering