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Miniature of The Roles of ROG1, REM1, and REM2 in a WAK Mediated Pectin Response
The Roles of ROG1, REM1, and REM2 in a WAK Mediated Pectin Response
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      Date: 2015-05-01

      Creator: Joshua A Benton

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        Digital Market Concentration: An Institutional and Social Cost Analysis

        Date: 2022-01-01

        Creator: Jack Shane

        Access: Open access

        In this thesis, I develop an analysis of the industry concentration seen in digital markets today. I begin with a description and argument for the use of institutional economics. This framework allows for the integration of an interdisciplinary approach to economics. My analysis details the socioeconomic and political impacts, as well as the underlying market dynamics that have pushed digital markets towards concentration. I offer novel explanations for the lack of firm behavior that should theoretically increase profit, the existence of barriers to competition, and consumer behavior that focus on the role of social institutions. I also detail many of the social costs of these concentrated markets, such as their impact on democracy, power to influence social institutions, and the impact they have on concentration in other markets. This is done to show that the fears surrounding monopolies do not end with prices. Even in digital markets, where many times prices are very low, if not zero, there are reasons that monopoly is economically inefficient and socially sub-optimal. However, due to the path-dependent nature of the extreme benefits associated with digital markets, policymakers cannot reasonably propose breaking up these companies. Instead, they must use the power of the government to counteract the conglomerations of social power seen in these private companies in search of an optimal outcome.


        From “a Journey for Peace” to the “Butchers of Beijing”: How Presidents have Used Rhetoric about China to Win the Two-Level Game

        Date: 2021-01-01

        Creator: Juliet Halvorson-Taylor

        Access: Open access

        This thesis is an exploration of how American presidents have used rhetoric for strategic ends in the US-China relationship. Whenever a president speaks, he is speaking to multiple audiences at the same time, yet he also must balance a number of important considerations. I used Robert Putnam’s “Two-Level Game Theory” as a framework for understanding the conditions surrounding a moment of significance in US-China relations in order to decipher a president’s rhetorical choices. The project is divided into five main parts. First, I used the UCSB American Presidency Project to identify broad trends in rhetoric towards China across presidencies. I found that every president has spoken more about China than his predecessor since the 1980s and that presidents are increasingly using negative rhetoric when talking about China. Then, I conducted three case studies, within the Putnam framework, on important points in three presidencies: Truman’s decision to withdraw aid from the KMT, Nixon’s visit to China, and Clinton’s reversal on the issue of MFN status for China. Lastly, I concluded that when “win-sets” on both sides (in these examples: on both the American and Chinese sides) are either large or small, a president should speak about China more frequently. I also looked at Trump’s presidency and the beginnings of Biden’s in order to see how these trends are playing out currently.


        Miniature of Maïssa Bey : comment dire le traumatisme et la violence des guerres en Algérie
        Maïssa Bey : comment dire le traumatisme et la violence des guerres en Algérie
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            Date: 2021-01-01

            Creator: Anna Bosari

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              Miniature of Cultivating Community: Coastal Collaborations for Equitable Climate Survival and Adaptation in Rockland, Maine
              Cultivating Community: Coastal Collaborations for Equitable Climate Survival and Adaptation in Rockland, Maine
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                  Date: 2021-01-01

                  Creator: Lily Andra McVetty

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                    Hot Boy Summer? Analyzing Managerial Reactions to Season-long Fluctuating Player Performance In Major League Baseball

                    Date: 2022-01-01

                    Creator: John Rodgers Hood

                    Access: Open access

                    This paper suggests numerical weights that a Major League Baseball (MLB) manager may use when comparing player performance across multiple past performance periods to predict future performance. By the end of the MLB regular season, current season performance becomes more predictive than prior season performance for pitchers but not hitters. After estimating weights for different past time periods of performance, this paper compares the weights with how managers value performance in high-stakes situations across these same time periods. I find that MLB managers overreact to recent performance by both hitters and pitchers in postseason settings.


                    Enlightenment as Global History: The Reception of Confucianism in Eighteenth-Century France

                    Date: 2022-01-01

                    Creator: Rachel Yang

                    Access: Open access

                    While the Enlightenment was once seen as a unique product of Western intellectual heritage, recent scholars have started to challenge this Eurocentric notion with the concept of a “global Enlightenment” by considering how it was shaped by cross-cultural encounters. To contribute to this body of scholarship, I trace the reception history of Confucianism in eighteenth-century France and examine how Chinese philosophy played a part in shaping and stimulating Enlightenment discourse. My research starts with the Jesuit missionaries who served as the intellectual intermediaries between China and Europe. Through a close reading of Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, a Latin translation of Confucian classics, I demonstrate how the Jesuits produced a Christianized reading of Confucianism that they could leverage for their spiritual and political ambitions. Then, I examine how some of the most notable figures of the French Enlightenment, such as Pierre Bayle, Voltaire, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau appropriated Confucian ideals to criticize religious orthodoxy and debate about subjects such as universalism, religious tolerance, and civilization. While the French thinkers mostly weaponized Confucianism for their own ends, their appropriation allowed this imported philosophy to become relevant in a new context and tangibly shape Enlightenment conversations. This understanding helps us see the Enlightenment as a junction, or even product, of a cross-cultural fertilization of ideas rather than an isolated European phenomenon.


                    Miniature of The Forest Before Us: Storying the North Maine Woods
                    The Forest Before Us: Storying the North Maine Woods
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                        Date: 2024-01-01

                        Creator: Lillyana Browder

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                          Miniature of Role of Polycomb group proteins in regulation of <i>eyes absent</i> gene expression in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
                          Role of Polycomb group proteins in regulation of eyes absent gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster
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                            Date: 2024-01-01

                            Creator: Joanne Du

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                              Miniature of Effects of the plasticizer tributyl phosphate (TBP) on the intrinsic properties of mammalian lumbar motor neurons
                              Effects of the plasticizer tributyl phosphate (TBP) on the intrinsic properties of mammalian lumbar motor neurons
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                                Date: 2024-01-01

                                Creator: Connor Joseph Latona

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