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It preserves the moment of destruction of First Nations culture as a result of white colonization in British Columbia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1123", "words": "12", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "88", "author": "Fahey, Eva Lin", "title": "Dalia in Mill River", "date": "2018", "keywords": "aisthesis", "summary": "Aisthesis Volume 9, 201844 Dalia in Mill River by Eva Lin Fahey", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1146", "words": "2417", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Macfarlane, Dana", "title": "Controversy Regarding the Obstetric Dilemma", "date": "2018", "keywords": "dilemma; human; pelvis", "summary": "Washburn laid out the obstetric dilemma as an explanation for human pelvic morphology variation, although the predictions made in this hypothesis have received criticism and have been met with conflicting evidence. Aisthesis Volume 9, 201827 Controversy Regarding the Obstetric Dilemma by Dana Macfarlane The evolution of human pelvic morphology has been extensively researched for several decades, with most studies referring back to an article published almost sixty years ago.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1178", "words": "3455", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Collar, Brett; Bikak, Marvi; Brown, Paul; Pitluk, Zachary; Adibuzzaman, Mohammad", "title": "Second Largest Eigenvalue of the Transition Probability Matrix for the Markov Chain Constructed from the Arterial Blood Pressure Waveform is Not Correlated to Shock Index in Hemorrhagic Human Subjects", "date": "2018", "keywords": "blood; correlation; data; markov; mixing; patients; pressure; rate", "summary": "Of the selected cohort, patients who were administered pressors accounted for 5 of the 7 largest decreases in Markov chain mixing rate, as shown in Table 1 (see Appendix). For the GI bleeding data set, the patients were identified using ICD-9 code for GI bleeding, and an algorithm was applied to define the time for acute hypotensive episode from arterial blood pressure data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1184", "words": "5164", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Tyrina, Anna", "title": "W. E. B. Du Bois and the Articulation of the Black American Double Consciousness: Social Fact or Fiction?", "date": "2018", "keywords": "american; black; consciousness; du bois; facts; owen; problem; veil; white", "summary": "The term \u2018soul\u2019 was used synonymously with consciousness both by idealistic psychologists and by the religiously orthodox W. E. B. Du Bois and the Articulation of the Black American Double Consciousness Aisthesis Volume 9, 201817 James McCosh, whose philosophy Du Bois has studied at Fisk. In this manner, Du Bois yet again shows the degree to which white and black Americans have W. E. B. Du Bois and the Articulation of the Black American Double Consciousness Aisthesis Volume 9, 201821 completely different social orders within society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1188", "words": "3823", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Laaninen, Mark", "title": "The Complexity of Modernization: How the Genbunitchi and Kokugo Movements Changed Japanese", "date": "2018", "keywords": "genbunitchi; ideas; japan; japanese; language; meiji; movements", "summary": "6 Shimoda, \u201cTongues-Tied: The Making of a \u2018National Language\u2019 and the Discovery of Dialects in Meiji Japan,\u201d 723. In fact, P.F. Kornicki argues literature changed more in the Tokugawa period due the introduction of the modern printing press than the Restoration and related movements.18 Many writers used their works to criticize the unabashed and rapid devotion to material progress that colloquial language represented, and by the 1890\u2019s, a strong 12 Shimoda, \u201cTongues-Tied: The Making of a \u2018National Language\u2019 and the Discovery of Dialects in Meiji Japan,\u201d 717. 13 Ueda Kazutoshi, \u201cKokugo to kokka to,\u201d cited in Hiraku Shimoda, 721.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1194", "words": "10", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Marks, Taylour", "title": "A Nation Divided", "date": "2018", "keywords": "aisthesis", "summary": "Aisthesis Volume 9, 201843 A Nation Divided by Taylour Marks", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1205", "words": "4911", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Fuson, Olivia", "title": "Marie Antoinette's Sacrifice and the Fragmentation of French Femininity", "date": "2018", "keywords": "antoinette; girard; marie; marie antoinette; revolution; rights; sacrifice; trial; women", "summary": "The Trial, Distortion, and Legacy of Marie Antoinette Examining Marie Antoinette through her role as a sacrificial victim\u2014instead of simply an unpopular monarch or a symbol of the bourgeoisie\u2014we can finally begin to grasp the logic of the grossly unjust and, oftentimes, ridiculously heinous trial which sentenced her to death. For once we divorce the caricatures of Antoinette which persist in our memory from the woman herself, we can begin the historical task of resurrecting Marie Antoinette the individual and, hopefully, dismantling the misogynistic paradigms which her sacrifice perpetuated.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1207", "words": "12", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "O'Hara, Bridget; Nguyen, Hoa; Ward, Matt; Smith, Kelsi; Lumsden, Chris", "title": "Encore: Music Education for Social Change", "date": "2018", "keywords": "encore", "summary": "Encore - Music Education for Social Change from City Sound Productions on Vimeo.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1213", "words": "6372", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Fortmeyer, Sophia", "title": "Why Can't I Find It?: Mining Transparency in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo", "date": "2018", "keywords": "african; companies; core; countries; data; drc; governments; mining; reporting; resource; state; transparency; world; zambia", "summary": "While Zambian and Congolese governments and mining companies see value in transparent reporting, strategic interests take precedence, dictating the type and amount of data publicly available. Mining companies investing in Zambia and the DRC, in conjunction with state governments, engage in established initiatives to increase transparent regulation and address economic discrepancies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1216", "words": "4241", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Aldridge, Sarah", "title": "Criminalization and Discrimination in Schools: The Effects of Zero Tolerance Policies on the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Black Girls", "date": "2018", "keywords": "girls; justice; law; pipeline; policies; prison; school; students; tolerance", "summary": "Through the reformation of school discipline policies, such as the implementation of Restorative Justice practices in the classroom, Morris (2016) argues that As a locus of learning, our schools can serve a greater purpose than just indoctrinating our girls with the politics of surviving racial, class, and gender bias. Zero benefit: Estimating the effect of zero tolerance discipline policies on racial disparities in school discipline.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1235", "words": "4656", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Elzarka, Mohamed", "title": "The Role of Religion in the Yugoslav War", "date": "2018", "keywords": "bosnia; conflict; croatia; milosevic; religion; role; serbian; serbs; war; yugoslavia", "summary": "With their new resources, the Ustase constructed concentration camps very similar to contemporary ones in Germany and Poland where they systematically killed ethnic Serbs en masse. Population dynamics and susceptibility for ethnic conflict: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1240", "words": "11", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "80", "author": "Miller, Julia", "title": "Cortisol: The Stress Hormone", "date": "2018", "keywords": "aisthesis", "summary": "Aisthesis Volume 9, 201843 Cortisol: The Stress Hormone by Julia Miller", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1244", "words": "5689", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Mudd, David", "title": "\u201cI Hear America Singing\u201d: The Relationship Between American Religion and Democratic Values in Whitman\u2019s Leaves of Grass", "date": "2018", "keywords": "american; democracy; democratic; lincoln; nation; people; religion; walt; war; whitman; world", "summary": "In American civil religion, pursuit of liberty is a transformative act that breeds holiness and creates new persons by bestowing them with civic virtue; it is this tradition that Whitman taps into and promulgates with his poetry. Aisthesis Volume 9, 20188 \u201cI Hear America Singing\u201d: The Relationship Between American Religion and Democratic Values in Whitman\u2019s Leaves of Grass by David Mudd Ezra Pound, one of America\u2019s most famous poets despite his confused relationship with the country, once declared that above all Walt Whitman was \u201cAmerica\u2019s poet\u2026He is America\u201d (Pound).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1252", "words": "3856", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Nash, Jackson", "title": "Photovoltaic Properties and Solar Cell Applications of Colloidal Quantum Dots", "date": "2018", "keywords": "cells; cqds; dots; et al; properties; quantum; synthesis", "summary": "Even though only 0.1% of our primary energy comes from sunlight (Raval and Gupta, 2015), colloidal quantum dot solar cells have properties that can be tuned and utilized to enhance energy conversion. Colloidal quantum dot solar cells on curved and flexible substrates.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1265", "words": "2959", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Murr, Ashley", "title": "Glass Pozzolans in Marine Concrete", "date": "2018", "keywords": "cement; concrete; glass; marine; pozzolans; properties", "summary": "Ground glass is currently under intense scrutiny for its potential as a pozzolan in portland cement concrete, as it differs from other pozzolans due to its high alkali content. The high silica and alumina of ground glass has been suggested to reduce the chloride ion penetration in portland cement concrete (Omran & Tagnit-Hamou, 2015; Peyvandi et al., 2013; Du & Tan, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1356", "words": "1374", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Biographies, Author", "title": "Author Biographies", "date": "2018", "keywords": "engineering; honors; hopes; research; studies; university", "summary": "Brett Collar is a junior at Purdue University, majoring in biomedical engineering with a minor in electrical engineering. Author Biographies Aisthesis Volume 9, 201845 Dana Macfarlane is a senior honors student, graduating from Temple University with a B.A. in biological anthropology.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1695", "words": "4085", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Leibin, Madeline", "title": "Crawford v. Marion County Election Board: An Assessment through the Frame of Democratic Theory", "date": "2019", "keywords": "board; county; crawford; election; indiana; state; u.s", "summary": "Furthermore, per Harper, the broader governmental promotion of \u201cinterest in civic responsibility\u201d was not valid enough to override Fourteenth Amendment securities. That is, interpretations of Fourteenth Amendment guarantees can evolve to meet the evolved socio-political norms and ideals.24 While this argument for adaptive capacity is 21 Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1728", "words": "2687", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Wong, Nicole", "title": "The Terroir of Chinatown", "date": "2019", "keywords": "chinatown; parents; soil; terroir", "summary": "The roots of Chinatown too are embedded in American soil and are not the same as those in Chinese soil, but the community of Chinatown has grafted its identities, values, and traditions to these American roots, so its members might adapt to a foreign land without losing the essence of their homeland. Aisthesis Volume 10, 201966 The Terroir of Chinatown by Nicole Wong The streets of Chinatown are wet with rain, dark with dusk, and empty.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1754", "words": "155", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Howard, Brianna", "title": "Zoom", "date": "2019", "keywords": "woman", "summary": "Aisthesis Volume 10, 201965 Zoom by Brianna Howard Oil on canvas | January 2019 Throughout art history, the female nude has been an object of interest by painters and sculptures since the start of the Italian Renaissance. The traditional color palette and realistic style of the Renaissance are discarded in favor of a more expressionistic palette, emphasized through the sweeping brushstrokes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1778", "words": "3470", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Brown, Kacie", "title": "Agenda-Driven Music in the Court of Louis XIV", "date": "2019", "keywords": "court; king; louis; louis xiv; lully; music; xiv", "summary": "He points specifically to the music in Louis XIV\u2019s court serving as a distraction to otherwise rebellious nobles at Versailles and advancing the king\u2019s portrayal as an absolute monarch.14 According to Donald Chae, Louis XIV used music as a kind of reward system for his subordinate nobles, \u201ccarefully [doling] out favors and [settling] debts in selecting which courtiers could participate in court entertainments. Louis XIV dans Le Ballet de la nuit (Art by Henri de Gissey, 1653.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1811", "words": "5184", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Selva, Sanjna", "title": "Through the Lens of Childhood: An Alternative Examination of the Armenian Genocide", "date": "2019", "keywords": "antoura; armenian; childhood; children; experiences; genocide; ottoman; panian; processes; watenpaugh", "summary": "This paper will therefore explore the lived experiences of Armenian children during the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1922, experiences rife with trauma, characterized by loss, and inherently complex, under the shifting legal parameters that defined a tumultuous interwar climate. Genocide and the Transfer of Armenian Children,\u201d recognized that the study of child transfer and recovery was indeed essential in understanding the history of human rights as it developed post-genocide.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1830", "words": "5375", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Gargagliano, Alyssa", "title": "Altruistic Behavior in Primates", "date": "2019", "keywords": "altruistic; behavior; breeding; inequity; primates; results; tolerance", "summary": "Current literature on primate prosocial behavior reflects conflicting or incomplete evidence for varying hypotheses, such as reciprocity, kin theory, cooperative breeding, and inequity, leaving the evolutionary foundation for this behavior poorly understood. This review paper explores the various proximate and ultimate factors influencing primate prosocial behavior and synthesizes an overarching hypothesis that functions to connect the current fragmented state of the literature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1839", "words": "5872", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Ellis, Emma Calhoun", "title": "Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Key Influences on a Continued Controversial Practice", "date": "2019", "keywords": "community; et al; female; fgm; practice; procedure; type; women", "summary": "Additionally, women who have undergone FGM/C often exhibit psychological issues, such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD (World Health Organization 2018; Vloeberghs et al. 2012). This review strives to explain why FGM/C continues to be practiced, specifically by women who have undergone the procedure themselves.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1842", "words": "4993", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Wright, Jaden", "title": "Trading on Tax Avoidance", "date": "2019", "keywords": "avoidance; firms; portfolios; returns; risk; tax", "summary": "Specifically, I show that tax aggressive firms produce higher returns than less aggressive firms. I regress each portfolio against an asset pricing model to capture mispricing within tax aggressive firms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1846", "words": "6851", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Karimi, Mateen", "title": "The Socioeconomic Integration of Second-Generation MENA Immigrants", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blacks; generation; generation mena; groups; immigrants; integration; mena; mena immigrants; study; u.s; whites", "summary": "On variables of educational attainment and salary income, second- generation MENA immigrants surpass both non- MENA majority whites and non-MENA minority blacks (Table 1). Occupations, however, are still considered for purposes of assessing intergenerational mobility, since first generation MENA respondents who are not in the labor force can list their previously held occupation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1852", "words": "3722", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Pack, Lydia", "title": "A Not-So Beautiful Mind: A Review of the Genetics of Schizophrenia", "date": "2019", "keywords": "et al; gene; genetics; research; schizophrenia; symptoms", "summary": "This review will discuss why research on schizophrenic genes has been difficult, what genes have been found, how the current treatments are being revolutionized, and how to progress in this field. The heritability estimates of schizophrenic genes are approximately A Not-So Beautiful Mind: A Review of the Genetics of Schizophrenia Aisthesis Volume 10, 201940 eighty percent, meaning heritability has been shown to have a much greater effect than the environment (Jia et al., 2010).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1856", "words": "4852", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Walters, Mara", "title": "Room to Grow: The Importance of Urban Greening", "date": "2019", "keywords": "children; development; environment; health; income; play; space; youth", "summary": "With the potential to mitigate negative impacts imposed by neighborhood risk, resilience can be understood to be a significant trait in urban children. Wolch et al. (2014) highlighted an important point in noting that the present method for implementation of urban green spaces is not entirely effective.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1873", "words": "3457", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Nekoonam, Rojina", "title": "Ocean-Dispersed Drift Seeds in Relation to Beach Slope and Particle Size: Fine-Scaled Patterns on a Tropical Shore", "date": "2019", "keywords": "beach; drift; sample; sediment; seeds; size; slope; species", "summary": "The frequency distribution of seed size is shown in Figure 11a for all seeds of all species in the 20 samples (n=1049). Seed size was not independent of sediment size.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1881", "words": "2387", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "86", "author": "Willis, Hannah", "title": "Felis Catus: Harbinger", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cat; cats; eyes; kittens; lake", "summary": "My lab\u2019s PI begins to wax poetic on the virtues of trap-and-kill, and all I can think of is Mama Kitty and her kittens, plump and happy, sustained on cheap cat food and songbirds. Eyes flash, green-yellow and phosphorescent, and I\u2019m hit with the unmistakable smell of cat.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1887", "words": "5443", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Flick, Justin", "title": "Hacking as a Metaphor: How #russianhacking Influenced Cybersecurity Discourse", "date": "2019", "keywords": "analysis; cybersecurity; hacking; individuals; metaphor; model; sentiment; technology; tweets; use", "summary": "Although there are many competing methods for rhetorical analysis, I find that metaphor analysis provides the unique benefits of both a) providing From Johnston and Warkentin (2010). Systematic metaphor analysis as a method of qualitative research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1902", "words": "456", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "95", "author": "Bermas, Jakob", "title": "Ode on a Birthday Card", "date": "2019", "keywords": "snake", "summary": "They will shoot the tires 78 yards away from corn snake freedom. Dear Son, Happy Birthday!", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1908", "words": "4944", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ahmed, Madiha", "title": "Ethnic Diversity in the Workplace: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bias; diversity; group; performance; research; workplace", "summary": "Work group diversity and group performance: An integrative model and research agenda.\u00a0 Past research has shown support for adding ethnic diversity into the workplace, as well as addressing the arguments that are against it.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1922", "words": "163", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "15", "author": "Johnson, Addie", "title": "Redefining Intimacy: Challenging the Margins, Boundaries, and Dimensions of Physicality and Emotionality within Interpersonal Relationships", "date": "2019", "keywords": "digital", "summary": "Composed of manipulated photographs through digital collage, scanned glass, and physically created analog and digital layered textures, the work explores the space and politics of physical figures within an image. It investigates and complicates the tension between physical anonymity and emotional sensuality and then reconciles the digital space through purposeful distortion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1924", "words": "215", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "86", "author": "Valentin, Julio Montalvo", "title": "If Lubriel Were Still Around, Maya Angelou Would Be Our Wedding Singer", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bang", "summary": "Aisthesis Volume 10, 201970 If Lubriel Were Still Around, Maya Angelou Would Be Our Wedding Singer by Julio Montalvo Valentin Lubriel shook with fear of the sound and held my hand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-1933", "words": "4964", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Henderson, Matthew", "title": "Moisture Content Fluctuation in Minnesota Road Subgrades", "date": "2019", "keywords": "content; design; groundwater; march; minnesota; moisture; pavement; road; soil; subgrade; water", "summary": "Abstract: Fluctuation in subgrade moisture content of road subgrades is known to reduce the quality and lifespan of the driving surface. While precipitation\u2019s impact is minimal and probably only affects small continuous water variations, groundwater can greatly change subgrade moisture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-2067", "words": "1731", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Authors, 2019 Aisthesis", "title": "Author Biographies", "date": "2019", "keywords": "college; honors; research; school; student; time; university", "summary": "Justin completed his undergraduate work at California State University, Chico in 2017, graduating with a B.S. in business information systems. Justin also volunteers as an assistant coach for the debate team at California State University, Sacramento.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-2979", "words": "5422", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Mic\u00e1n, Camila A.", "title": "Systems of Oppression or Emancipation? Understanding the Colombian Education System Through Critical Education ", "date": "2020", "keywords": "communication; education; individuals; march; perceptions; schools; ses; students", "summary": "Schools in Colombia have to follow a national curriculum; however, higher SES schools have more #exibility to incorporate additional content and dierent pedagogies than schools in lower SES communities. By using programs focused on the development of leadership skills, higher SES schools prepare students to pursue positions of leadership inside and outside the country. !", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3008", "words": "6184", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Nguyen, Katie", "title": "Deviating from the Norm: A Queer Theory Analysis of The Picture of Dorian Gray", "date": "2020", "keywords": "basil; class; dorian; gray; henry; lord; lord henry; male; queer; wilde", "summary": "Campbell \u201cwas an excellent musician\u201d and \u201cplayed both the violin and piano better than most amateurs; in fact, it was music that had #rst brought him and Dorian Gray together\u2014music and that inde#nable attraction that Dorian seemed to be able to exercise whenever he wished\u201d (Wilde 170). Even as multiple characters in Dorian Gray experienced tragedies, attraction, and revelations, Wilde only re%ected his society\u2019s views through Dorian\u2019s death.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3009", "words": "6805", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Jayden Delanoy", "title": "What Disparities Exist in the Compensation and Representation of Faculty in the Colleges of Business at Texas Public Institutions?", "date": "2020", "keywords": "analysis; business; data; education; faculty; gender; representation; study; texas; universities; university; women", "summary": "In attempts to overcome the stated limitations, institutions have been selected with variability in size and location, and data is gathered from university policies, the U.S. Census Bureau, NCES, e Texas Tribune, and several works on the history of women in higher education, gender gaps in college, and data analyses in the social sciences. is is a concern reinforced by the historical opposition faced by women and minorities in society, as well as the barriers faced in times of desired success or advancement dating back to the colonial era in the United States.3 e present study provides a history of the roles and advancement of women in higher education from the 17th to the 21st century.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3047", "words": "5118", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Sheth, Sohum", "title": "Assessing Lyme Disease Relevant Antibiotics through Gut Bacteroides Panels", "date": "2020", "keywords": "antibiotic; bacteroides; disease; gut; lyme; lyme disease; mic; microbiome; study", "summary": "Limited information is known about Bacteroides MIC values of speci&c species (i.e. B. vulgatus, B. nordii, etc.) with respect to clinically relevant antibiotics for Lyme disease. Taken together, these results suggest that antibiotic X may prove to be a more eective drug in the treatment of Lyme disease, as the antibiotic suppresses Lyme bacteria while preserving gut Bacteroides.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3068", "words": "4982", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Mogavero, Taylor", "title": "Sex and Length as Predictors of Vertical Movements in Smalltooth Sawfish (Pristis pectinata)", "date": "2020", "keywords": "data; depth; pectinata; pristis; saw!sh; sex; smalltooth; species; time", "summary": "#e results concluded that both male and female saw!sh spend more time in shallow depths over deeper depths, as expected from previous saw!sh literature (Carlson et al., 2014; Poulakis & Seitz, 2004; Simpfendorfer, 2001; Wiley & Simpfendorfer, 2010). Depth data were collected every four hours.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3096", "words": "1101", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Mathur, Diya", "title": "How to \u201cThread the Needle\u201d", "date": "2020", "keywords": "machine; mother; time", "summary": "She excitedly agreed and arranged boxes of thread and spare cloth on the kitchen table, waiting, days before my arrival. Days passed and my internship ended.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3130", "words": "4344", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "France, Katelyn", "title": "\u201cAnaphylactic Shocker!\u201d: The Use of a Dynamic QR Code Medical Bracelet to Administer a Practice Epinephrine Auto-Injector During a Staged Medical Emergency", "date": "2020", "keywords": "auto; bluetooth; bracelet; case; dynamic; emergency; injector; medical; qr code", "summary": "Abstract: Medical bracelets can save lives, but o!en lack the necessary information for appropriate medical care in emergency scenarios. is dynamic scannable-interface (QR code) medical bracelet is unique in its connectivity to Bluetooth and its aim in supporting bystanders (vs. medical professionals) in the case of a medical emergency.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3140", "words": "292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-47", "author": "Le, Annika", "title": "Two Poems", "date": "2020", "keywords": "laughter", "summary": "Aisthesis Volume 11, 202058 Two Poems by Annika Le Polydipsia Vietnamese words taste pickled in my mouth\u2014 saliva pools out from glands like rain gutters in a Saigon monsoon When I attempt to backbend my tongue into unfamiliar tones, my grandmother\u2019s forehead furls into a question mark, and the uncles burst into contractions of synchronized laughter To me, the glyphs on letters look like ranges of mountains or falling tides that mimic the moon\u2019s loop\u2014they taste meaningless against my teeth On the Lunar holiday, we must wish New Year blessings in Vietnamese before she bestows the lucky red parcels\u2014 they sit under her elbow and against her ribs like armor: Ch\u00fac m!ng nm m#i What leaves my lips is a windstorm of whispers, misspelled mush, a lotus $ower without its seeds, my jaw now severed like the lost string of a guitar Again, the contractions of laughter, this time from the aunts and cousins, too\u2014it descends from lips and pools on the tile I grab a sponge from the belly of the kitchen sink, and attempt to extract my mispronunciations from the $oorboards Plate of Plums Grandpa said to plant a plum pit and it will split the soil to sprout high Each evening, she cracks the blemished skin, gnaws away at yellow meat, and suckles the seed with her tongue till every pocket clears of $esh and it lays white like human bone in her palm With a toss, she whispers wishes and the ferns tuck the pit away into their pockets In early mornings, she checks her plot of land as though it\u2019s a wristwatch but all that\u2019s new are dabs of dew on grass blades from the sleeptalk of clouds.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3150", "words": "5795", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Sauer, Teresa", "title": "Spiders in a Wreath of Orange and Poppy: An Analysis of 19th and Early 20th Century Marriage Laws through the Lens of Literature and Traumatic Insemination", "date": "2020", "keywords": "century; female; husband; love; male; marriage; orange; rossetti; siddall; women", "summary": "As with Lily Bart, many women of the period were brought up only to be wives and were not taught the skills to pursue even the limited job options available to women. Abstract: American marriage laws in the 19th and early 20th centuries promoted a culture of oppression which was inherently detrimental to women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3151", "words": "4713", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Nityam Rathi", "title": "The Past, Present, and Future of Renal Cell Carcinoma Treatment: A Systematic Review", "date": "2020", "keywords": "cancer; carcinoma; cell; cell carcinoma; patients; sunitinib; survival; treatment", "summary": "Renal cell carcinoma patients who present with poor cardiovascular health are o&en administered Sunitinib in combination with drugs that moderate hypertension. Tumor B7-H1 is associated with poor prognosis in renal cell carcinoma patients with long-term follow-up.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3156", "words": "6029", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Woodrow, Christina", "title": "Indonesia Under the Radar: An Evaluation of the Archipelago\u2019s Climate Challenges and Policy Response", "date": "2020", "keywords": "change; climate; countries; emissions; energy; global; indonesia; land; people; radar; republic; technology; women; world", "summary": "http://www.mightyearth.org/heres-what- deforestation-looks-like-in-2019-and-what-we-can- do-about-it/ 37 Hurowitz, 2019 38 Bendix, 2019 39 Zoological Society of London Indonesia. (2019a). 40 Zoological Society of London Indonesia, 2019a 41 UNFCCC.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3176", "words": "295", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Johnston, Hannah", "title": "Translation in Color, Form, and Tone", "date": "2020", "keywords": "sequence", "summary": "Colors are assigned to each term of the sequence so that numbers with closer values are represented by colors closer to each other on the color wheel. ! e key areas of the development section are determined using the Fibonacci sequence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3342", "words": "4749", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Weiss, Kaelan", "title": "Novel Observations of Full-Depth Advection in Late Summer Lake Superior", "date": "2020", "keywords": "depth; lake; mooring; observations; site; superior; temperature; water", "summary": "Usually on the scale of 10-100 km across, these currents exist at all depths and contribute to horizontal variability of lake surface temperature (Ralph 2002). e temperature at 250 m depth from the SM site advanced in time by 48 hr is plotted in dotted-black on the right vertical axis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3343", "words": "2824", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Murner, Kate M.; Hessler, Eric E. ", "title": "The Effects of Difficulty and Individual Differences in Mindset on Persistence", "date": "2020", "keywords": "intelligence; mindset; participants; persistence; puzzle", "summary": "Findings suggest individuals with more intelligence growth mindset recover better from failure, indicating higher resiliency. Results also suggest that growth mindset individuals have greater persistence following failure than their #xed mindset counterparts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3345", "words": "109", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "68", "author": "Johnston, Hannah", "title": "Translation in Color, Form, and Tone (Fibonacci Recording)", "date": "2020", "keywords": "fibonacci", "summary": "Stream Fibonacci Recording.WAV by Aisthesis | Listen online for free on SoundCloud SoundCloud JavaScript is disabled You need to enable JavaScript to use SoundCloud Show me how to enable it Fibonacci Recording. WAV by Aisthesis published on 2020-06-16T22:27:04Z Users who like Fibonacci Recording.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3346", "words": "1320", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Aisthesis Authors and Artists, 2020", "title": "Author Biographies", "date": "2020", "keywords": "honors; plans; research; student; studies; university", "summary": "Aisthesis Volume 11, 202047 Author Biographies Diya Mathur is a junior at Vanderbilt University majoring in neuroscience and minoring in business. Annika Le is a third-year student at Seattle University, where she is majoring in creative writing and minoring in writing studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-36", "words": "3540", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Renner, Madison", "title": "Alienation in Agriculture: How the Shamba System Promotes the Degradation of Kenyan Montane Forests", "date": "2017", "keywords": "agriculture; farmers; forest; kenya; kikuyu; land; shamba; system; tree", "summary": "In the 1930s and 1940s, British authorities began allowing establishment of commercial tree plantations on formerly Kikuyu land to provide timber for building and firewood. In functioning montane ecosystems, native forests provide steady water supplies by storing water during rainy seasons and releasing it slowly into rivers during dry periods.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-37", "words": "5185", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Speight, Amelia", "title": "What You Call Yourself?: Nothingness, Naming, Abjection, and Queer Failure in Toni Morrison's Beloved", "date": "2017", "keywords": "abjection; baby; failure; naming; power; queer; suggs", "summary": "Her master attempts to shame her for this choice, saying that \u201cMrs. Baby Suggs ain\u2019t no name for a freed negro,\u201d but how can he when she is the one acknowledging and existing in her own dehumanization and presenting to him her nameless nothingness as one of the consequences of slavery and his specific slave-owing? (167). Their chosen names \u201cfail\u201d in many ways, leading me to questions about how Baby Suggs and Stamp Paid resist a dominant narrative and instead find power in, as Jack Halberstam would say, \u201cthe refusal of legibility, and an art of unbecoming\u201d (Halberstam 88).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3709", "words": "5907", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Ellerby, Petra", "title": "May the Grass Grow Long: Hierarchy and Destruction in Ancient Mesopotamian Lamentation", "date": "2021", "keywords": "city; enuma; gilgamesh; hierarchy; ibid; king; lines; mesopotamian; order; status; text", "summary": "They let another assume my duties, / And appointed an outsider to my prerogatives.5 The hardship of the sufferer recalls a terror of disorder housed within the loss of social place, social status. Through an holistic treatment of nine ancient Near Eastern literary works, I aim to provide a portrait of a key Mesopotamian conceit: the interaction of ruin and social order.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3717", "words": "3895", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Hesterman, Meghan", "title": "The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Long-Term Brain Development and Health", "date": "2021", "keywords": "aces; brain; childhood; development; health; stress; system", "summary": "These effects impact brain development, behavior, and health. The impacts of ACEs on brain development are still apparent throughout adulthood, particularly the stress response system in relation to health.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3787", "words": "2483", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Weltzien, Katherine", "title": "The Role of SNP Research in Identifying Biological Mechanisms Underlying Generalized Anxiety Disorder", "date": "2021", "keywords": "anxiety; disorder; gad; snps", "summary": "Identifying genetic variants linked to GAD aids in the develop- ment of hypotheses regarding which genes influence GAD risk and the mechanisms through which they do so. Fortunately, the benefits of such treatments would not be limited to GAD patients who have the SNPs at the SATB1 locus implicated in the study.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3797", "words": "3910", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Pollard, Jessica", "title": "What Is Happiness? A Study of Metaphoric Conceptualizations of Happiness in Poetry", "date": "2021", "keywords": "domain; happiness; lakoff; metaphors; poetry; poets; source", "summary": "One such classification happiness is a fluid in a container can be seen in the phrase \u201cShe was bursting with joy\u201d3 and in the poem \u201cThe Trickle- down Theory of Happiness,\u201d which says happiness falls down \u201cto the pitchers and pails on the ground. In \u201cSonnet 10: I have sought Happiness, but it has been,\u201d the poet said he had \u201csought happiness\u201d but it was \u201cbaffling all pursuit.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-38", "words": "6194", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Branstetter, Claire", "title": "Are Refugees Integrating Successfully in Wichita, Kansas?", "date": "2017", "keywords": "asylum; capital; community; data; government; health; integration; kansas; refugees; resettlement; social; state; status; wichita", "summary": "The federal government supports health services to Kansas refugees through the Office of Refugee Resettlement. I then employ social capital theory to explain refugee integration in terms of the relationships developed with other migrants, native-born citizens, and local institutions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3805", "words": "337", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Meyers, Sara", "title": "The One of Those Days: COVID-19 Feels", "date": "2021", "keywords": "days", "summary": "It\u2019s the same look and feeling of happiness that I yearned to feel once again, but could not conjure up the feeling for those three months. Fast-forward to Fall semester 2020, my classes were much more difficult, and it was harder to transition to taking them completely online, rather than in Spring 2020 semester, we were already some-what acquaintanced with our classes and what was expected of us.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3817", "words": "3667", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Jordan A. G. Jantz", "title": "Syntax Influences and Effects: A Syntactical Analysis of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Ender\u2019s Game by Orson Scott Card, and Skyward by Brandon Sanderson", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bradbury; card; ender; sanderson; uses; writing", "summary": "Indeed, Orson Scott Card (1951-Present), author of Ender\u2019s Game (\u201cAbout Orson Scott Card\u201d), cites Bradbury as a stylistic influence on his writing (Card, \u201cThoughts on Ray Bradbury\u201d). Also similar to Card (and contrasting Bradbury), Sanderson\u2019s text has a focus on exposition in addition to worldbuilding, for which Sanderson is well known.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3824", "words": "2326", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Wink, Sophie", "title": "Gandhi\u2019s Role in the American Farm Workers\u2019 Movement : How the Indian Activist Inspired an Agricultural Revolution a World Away", "date": "2021", "keywords": "american; change; ch\u00e1vez; gandhi; movement; violence", "summary": "It is clear that C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez was inspired by Gandhi\u2019s fasting because Ch\u00e1vez, too, utilized fasting in similar ways. What was so unique about Gandhi\u2019s breed of rebellion, and what truly drew international attention, was the fact that this man was able to create a revo- lution that overtook the massive Indian subcontinent and effectively created a system of democratic rule, all without violence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3829", "words": "5305", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "87", "author": "Rhodes, Amelia", "title": "Are You Beautiful (Enough?): An Internal Monologue with Your Average High School Teenage Girl", "date": "2021", "keywords": "ansley; instagram; jake; media; phone; pictures; time", "summary": "Phantom notifications, the idea that when you\u2019re addicted to social media, you think, you swear, you can hear notifications even when you don\u2019t have any(Parnell). She was talking about body image and social media, how we filter the way we look online to fit the idea of a \u2018perfect person.\u2019", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3838", "words": "3788", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Twomey, Grace", "title": "The Chicken and the Egg of the Sylvia Plath Effect", "date": "2021", "keywords": "depression; kaufman; plath; study; sylvia; writers; writing", "summary": "While recognizing Plath\u2019s many accomplishments unrelated to her mental health state, this paper will explore the Sylvia Plath effect, specifically focusing on correlation versus causation. The Sylvia Plath effect asserts that among all creative writers, female poets are more likely to suffer from depression than other writers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3847", "words": "2844", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Brown, Sarah", "title": "Alderozital Study Notes", "date": "2021", "keywords": "animal; day; group; research; study; subjects", "summary": "Test subjects in Group A (001-050) were injected with 0.05 mg of Alderozital in the upper left arm, and subjects in Group B (051-100) were injected with 0.50 mg of Alderozital in the upper left arm. Human subject studies found symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abnormal blood count levels, fatigue, hair loss/thinning, cloudy vision, and nerve damage (Cancer Research UK).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3860", "words": "3512", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Bathija, Sahil", "title": "What Caused the Bloodless Reconquest? Understanding the Spaniards\u2019 1692 Negotiated Reentry into Pueblo Lands in the Aftermath of the Successful 1680 Pueblo Revolt", "date": "2021", "keywords": "communities; ibid; ojeda; pueblo; reconquest; revolt; spaniards; vargas", "summary": "A council of many Pueblo communities, including the Hopi, Kewa, Pecos, San Filipe, Zuni, Jemez, and Cochiti, gathered to deliberate if things would really be different this time around as Ojeda claimed.35 When Vargas later arrived and toured Pueblo communities, he strikingly did so peacefully without firing a single shot\u2014 seemingly confirming the intentions reported by Ojeda.36 As Vargas toured from one community to another, he secured alliances with many as he went. Yet when the newly appointed governor Don Diego de Vargas returned to El Paso from his visit of Pueblo communities in 1692, the Cathedral of New Mexico\u2019s bells announced to the people of New Spain what is widely known as the \u201cBloodless Reconquest.\u201d3", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3864", "words": "198", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Aliyah Noh", "title": "Anxiety", "date": "2021", "keywords": "piece", "summary": "Even the creation of this piece was stressful, having knives hanging from my ceiling and balloons all over the floor. This piece was made for one of Drawing courses, however it was done in the basement of my home, without the use of a studio.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3871", "words": "295", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Camila Lee", "title": "This is no rap", "date": "2021", "keywords": "aisthesis", "summary": "And I let you see me as much As you let me see you while I\u2019m blind Aisthesis 2 Volume 12, 2021 Running Header Text Aisthesis 3 Volume 12, 2021 Running Header Text This is No RapThis is No Rap By: Camila Lee", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-39", "words": "3558", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Lechtenberg, Luke", "title": "The Debt-to-Threshold Effect On Output: A Country-Specific Analysis", "date": "2017", "keywords": "debt; figure; gdp; growth; threshold", "summary": "To explain, if Chudik et al.\u2019s findings hold, then countries without significant debt thresholds should have debt levels that are either falling or low. This paper reviews some of the theoretical and empirical economics literature on this topic, and unlike Reinhart and Rogoff (2010), who establish a general debt threshold for all countries, this paper establishes debt thresholds for individual countries through threshold regression analysis and supports the theory proposed by Chudik et al. (2015) that debt trajectory, not the level of debt, is what affects GDP growth.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3976", "words": "132", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "84", "author": "Datta, Poorvi", "title": "Voluntary Apnea", "date": "2021", "keywords": "sea", "summary": "You weep ocean and claw sand, self, foam and fury, scrabble for some semblance of seabed. Aisthesis 1 Volume 12, 2021 Voluntary ApneaVoluntary Apnea By: Poorvi Datta Have you ever been caught on the wrong side of the sea?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-3979", "words": "205", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "McLaughlin, Emily", "title": "Poems of Feminine Healing", "date": "2021", "keywords": "waves", "summary": "But the snow never stops It continues to come Day after day Suffocating the life below it Until we realize We\u2019ll never see flowers again Waves They come through like waves Terrible, ugly waves Which remind me of the pain you\u2019ve caused The times I\u2019ve been hurt By: Emily McLaughlin Former Playmates Old dolls in the basement Not played with since days of preteen shame Box reopened On an unexpected day in October Dusty and bruised Doubtful and ashamed Too big and too small Too smart but too dumb A sex doll crept into the toy box The Barbies watched and learned How to be a version of better they\u2019ll never be Snow in October Childhood should fade away Like soft December snowfalls Which slowly cover autumn grass", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-40", "words": "4639", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Maloney, Ean", "title": "Gettier and the Problem of Induction", "date": "2017", "keywords": "data; gettier; knowledge; sense", "summary": "A second concern about strange knowledge cases concerns the concept of knowing as a consciousness state. Is justified true belief knowledge?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-41", "words": "3005", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Fahkri, Christiana; Rudie, Lauren; Baker, Stephanie; Mann, Meredith; Bivens, Sarah; Spoonire, Laura; Ruble, Nichole M.", "title": "A Methodology for Extracting Bone Marrow from Cadavers", "date": "2017", "keywords": "biopsy; bone; decomposition; extraction; figure; marrow; pelvis; sampling", "summary": "Bone marrow was present in the femur, pelvis, and humerus of each cadaver throughout and upon completion of the project. \u00a0 As such, a method for extracting bone marrow is needed to undertake a study of bacterial succession inside marrow cavities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-42", "words": "7298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Petters, Noah; Downs, Edward", "title": "Perceptions of Women and Gaming: Exploring Implications of Intersectionality through Quantitative Analysis of Blog Comments", "date": "2017", "keywords": "comments; content; culture; female; games; gaming; gender; industry; intersectionality; race; study; white; women", "summary": "Conclusion The current study further builds upon past research concerning gender studies and videogames and provides two contributions: the content of study and findings. The text material first addressed the presence of sexism and harassment of women that leads to a hostile game culture and then mentioned the issue of diversity in game content and within the gaming community.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4227", "words": "2027", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Beard, David", "title": "Editorial Board and Reviewer Biographies", "date": "2021", "keywords": "communication; duluth; health; minnesota; professor; research; studies; studying; university", "summary": "He also holds a MM in Composition and a BM in Jazz Studies from Texas State University, San Marcos. Ray Langsten is Research Associate Professor at American University in Cairo.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4287", "words": "2487", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Skroch, Tiffani", "title": "Political Tolerance and Ideology: Ideology as a Determinant of Political Tolerance", "date": "2022", "keywords": "ideology; level; study; tolerance", "summary": "Political Tolerance and Ideology: Ideology as a Determinant of Political Tolerance TIFFANI SKROCH Abstract This study examines whether or not political ideology is a strong determinant of political tolerance, as has been found in previous studies. Sullivan et al. (1979) have questioned these earlier studies of political tolerance \u2013 specifically citing Stouffer (1954) and the 1973 General Social Survey.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-43", "words": "8", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Webster, Kaitlynn", "title": "Reflection", "date": "2017", "keywords": "aisthesis", "summary": "Aisthesis Volume 8, 201760 Reflection by Kaitlynn Webster", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-44", "words": "11", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Jones, Lindsey", "title": "Lying in an Alleyway", "date": "2017", "keywords": "aisthesis", "summary": "Aisthesis Volume 8, 201761 Lying in an Alleyway by Lindsey Jones", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4572", "words": "5648", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Macaluso, Eric", "title": "The Hidden Lives of Non-Migrant Migrant Workers", "date": "2022", "keywords": "community; dairy; farmworkers; health; healthcare; insurance; migrant; new; puerto; workers", "summary": "I then compared the lives and health of dairy migrant workers to those who perform more transient work on fruit and vegetable farms as described by Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD, in his book, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. Vaccination records and other health records are o%en missing for dairy migrant workers as well, making visits complicated and repetitive for the patient.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4578", "words": "4745", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Poisall, Madison; Daucourt, Mia C. ; Hart, Sara A. ", "title": "Sibling Influences on Math Achievement", "date": "2022", "keywords": "achievement; behaviors; child; math; math achievement; sibling; study; support", "summary": "What is the overall role of older siblings in younger siblings\u2019 academic achievement? Moreover, older siblings may display parent-like corrective behaviors like helping parents enforce family rules and setting an example for younger siblings (Amato, 1989), which could further emphasize the role model status of the older sibling in the younger sibling\u2019s eyes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4587", "words": "3140", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Brown, Kaira", "title": "I'm Speaking : Gender and Interrupting Behavior During Oral Argument at the U.S. Supreme Court", "date": "2022", "keywords": "court; gender; justices; lawyers; supreme; women", "summary": "E!ect of Lawyer Gender on Justices\u2019 Interrupting Behavior Patton and Smith (2020) studied the di$erence between male and female lawyers\u2019 speaking time and the interruptions they experience during U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments from 1979 to 2013. Between those same years, women made up between 22% and 33% of Supreme Court justices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4593", "words": "4898", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Wilhelmi, Abigail ", "title": "Environmental Impacts of Contact Lens Waste", "date": "2022", "keywords": "contact; contact lens; lens; lenses; material; microplastic; plastic; recycling; waste; water", "summary": "paper examines the evolution of plastic polymers used for contact lens material and discusses how current materials are contributing to plastic waste and microplastic contamination. To understand how contact lenses could be contributing to microplastic contamination, particularly in wastewater treatment plants, a review of the types of plastic used for contact lens materials will be discussed next.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4596", "words": "5793", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Barrett, Emma; Campbell, Charles", "title": "An Investigation of Telkwa Coal Limited\u2019s Proposed Tenas Project Coal Mine and the Potential Financial Impacts on the Bulkley Valley and Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en First Nation", "date": "2022", "keywords": "capital; coal; community; economy; industries; land; limited; project; tcl; telkwa; tenas; wet\u2019suwet\u2019en", "summary": "TCL can address Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en social capital by prioritizing internal understanding of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en traditional knowledge and social structures. Also, Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en social capital can be addressed by 72 An Investigation of Telkwa Coal Limited\u2019s Proposed Tenas Project Coal Mine Aisthesis Volume 13, 2022 Canadian governmental entities. !", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-46", "words": "5000", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Mulhall, Brenna", "title": "The Romanticization of the Dead Female Body in Victorian and Contemporary Culture", "date": "2017", "keywords": "body; death; dec; fig; lady; rossetti; shalott; women", "summary": "Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who also depicted dead and dying young women in his artwork and poetry, romanticized female death in his poem, \u201cThe Blessed Damozel,\u201d in which the male speaker imagines his love in heaven. Although many male artists and writers of the Victorian Age used and exploited dead and dying women through their work, Elizabeth Siddall and Christina Rossetti used their art forms as a way to challenge the exploitation of dead women as artistic inspiration.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4602", "words": "224", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Rodgers, Maggie", "title": "Eye of the Beholder", "date": "2022", "keywords": "women", "summary": "Use of magazine clippings, book clippings, personal drawings, graphic novel clippings, etc. !is work is meant to highlight society\u2019s view of women and femininity, specically analyzing how women are subjected to constant and unspoken observation in their daily lives. e goal of the piece is to invoke thought about the role of women as objects of the male gaze, and further illustrate how the male gaze has become present in virtually every aspect of society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4605", "words": "167", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Romero, Jacob", "title": "Color Me White", "date": "2022", "keywords": "people", "summary": "Color Me White (2021) Colored pencils and oil pastels on bristol paper 4 x 5 inches Children of Mexican immigrants grow up in an incredibly unique environment in the United States. ! I grew up consuming media focused on white people, and on top of that, my culture put lighter-skinned Mexicans as the beauty standard.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4635", "words": "4909", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Hawkins, Vanessa", "title": "Music-Color Synesthesia: A Historical and Scientific Overview", "date": "2022", "keywords": "brain; color; color synesthesia; concept; consciousness; curwin; history; ibid; music; perception; synesthesia; theory", "summary": "e deaf in this way will be able to see the music of the ears, the blind to hear the music of the eyes, and we who have both eyes and ears will enjoy music and colors better by enjoying them both at the same time.14 Castel conceived an instrument known as the color organ, in which each key produced not only a rich sound but also a dazzling hue.15 He even dreamed of having the music of an opera painted out on the walls of a room; to have concerts live on through color a)er the music fades away.16 While Pythagoras and Newton approached the link between music and color from a scientic standpoint (which is a logical conclusion, as both sound and light are composed of waves), Castel\u2019s perspective was to nd an emotional connection between the two. e condition was not even a respectable scientic subject until the end of the nineteenth century, following the research of a few pioneers in the eld.21 In 1881, Eugen Bleuler and Karl Bernhard Lehmann conducted the rst comprehensive study of synesthesia as young medical students in Switzerland.22 Blueler himself was a grapheme-color synesthete.23 A)er recognizing Bleuler\u2019s quality as unique, the two scientists began an investigation of this quality in their family members, eventually branching out to an inquiry into other sensory associations with a larger sample size (596 people, 17 Maria Konnakova, \u201cFrom the Words of an Albino, a Brilliant Blend of Color,\u201d Scienti!c American, Springer Na- ture, February 26, 2013, https://blogs.scienticamerican. com/literally-psyched/from-the-words-of-an-albino-a- brilliant-blend-of-color/https://blogs.scienticamerican. com/literally-psyched/from-the-words-of-an-albino-a- brilliant-blend-of-color.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4652", "words": "5738", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Duckworth, Emily", "title": "Medical Necessity Reimagined: Cosmetic Surgery through the Lens of Capabilitarianism and Resourcism", "date": "2022", "keywords": "ability; approach; capabilities; ethics; health; human; justice; medical; necessity; people; procedures; surgery", "summary": "Abstract: !is project seeks to investigate the circumstances in which cosmetic surgery can be deemed medically necessary based on competing political theories of justice. ! e literature review is focused on outlining various approaches to conceptualizing health, medical ethics, and medical necessity, and I explain the dierences in resourcist and capabilitarian interpretations of medical necessity and their application to cosmetic surgery.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-47", "words": "2558", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Rawwas, Lulua", "title": "The Genetic Relationship between Leaf Margin Regulation and Vascular Patterning in Arabidopsis thaliana", "date": "2017", "keywords": "arabidopsis; auxin; cell; et al; leaf; plant", "summary": "Along with its specificity for plant kinases and its distinct sequences, this trait distinguishes ICK1 from animal CDK inhibitors, suggesting that ICK1 represents a divergence of plant cell cycle regulation from other eukaryotes. The final shape of the leaf is in part determined by varying rates of cell growth along the developmental axes (Kalve et al. 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4726", "words": "5742", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Shraddha Patel", "title": "Enhancing Melatonin Secretion: The Methodical Consumption of Tryptophan from Whole Cow\u2019s Milk to Regulate Sleep Quality in Individuals Aged 18-30 with Delayed Sleep-Wake Phase Disorder", "date": "2022", "keywords": "dspd; individuals; levels; melatonin; milk; patients; quality; sleep; time; tryptophan", "summary": "Changes in Sleep Quality rough Chrono- nutrition Because research suggests that the e!ectiveness of dietary components can be associated with intake time, then milk consumed within 2 hours of a DSPD patient\u2019s desired sleep time could yield a net improvement in sleep quality and morning functionality on the following day because of the patient\u2019s susceptibility to changes in bodily hormones. Studies on chrono-nutrition indicate that dietary components absorbed by the bloodstream can alter the circadian schedule of melatonin secretion from the pineal gland, and the timed consumption of tryptophan-abundant foods, such as whole cow\u2019s milk, can consequently spike melatonin levels before a DSPD patient\u2019s desired sleep time and promote circadian rhythm advancement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4732", "words": "5271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Williams, Ann", "title": "The Chinese Diaspora in South Africa: The Gray Area", "date": "2022", "keywords": "africa; apartheid; black; chinese; community; diaspora; park; people; south; south africa; white", "summary": "Chinese South Africans today, then, do not trace their ancestry to these groups, but to independent migrants that began to trickle into South Africa in the early 1870s from Guangdong Province (Park 2012). Chinese South Africans largely believed that the Group Areas Act would be detrimental to their very livelihood and existence in South Africa, and community leaders and CASA appealed to authorities for an exemption to the Group Areas Act through individualized permits, which were considered and granted based on merit.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4734", "words": "5135", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Duggar, Allen", "title": "Let Every Land Their Tongues Employ: Ritualized Democracy among Shape Note Singers", "date": "2022", "keywords": "democracy; music; note; sacred; shape; singers; singing; square", "summary": "ey are shape note singers preparing for four hours of music making. ! e songs will be recorded for the minutes, entering them into the public record for the event, and the anecdotes from past singings, biographical tidbits on the composers and great singers, and testimonies of spiritual connection with the music, having been ritually o$ered to the community, will then come to make up the conversations for future singings across the country, broadening their reach from the individual to potentially the entire community of shape note singers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4738", "words": "217", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "92", "author": "Minu-Sepehr, Ava", "title": "When the Moon Took Maman Lila, It Took Me, Too", "date": "2022", "keywords": "curb", "summary": "e moon watched her leave and did not intervene. In her mouth was scarlet Persian, like paint.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-4855", "words": "1305", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "(2022), Vol. 13", "title": "Author and Artist Biographies", "date": "2022", "keywords": "honors; research; student; studies; time; university", "summary": "Charles Campbell is a rst-year Presidential Scholar and honors student at Florida State University. Emma Barrett is a freshman Presidential Scholar and honors student at Florida State University studying anthropology and international a!airs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-49", "words": "6003", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Stolerman, Katherine", "title": "The American Eugenics Movement: A Study of the Dispersal and Application of Racial Ideologies", "date": "2017", "keywords": "american; eugenicists; eugenics; germany; hansen; king; movement; people; race; states; sterilization; united", "summary": "While I contend that all four frames of reference are valid and valuable for gaining a thorough understanding of American eugenics, I propose that the first three frames can be understood as subsets of the racial nature of the movement. Additionally, California\u2014the state that singlehandedly sterilized half of all the people in the U.S. who underwent the procedure before WWII\u2014republished Nazi propaganda and arranged for Nazi scientific exhibits to support American eugenics in the late 1930s (Black, 2003).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-50", "words": "2757", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "DeJoy, Joshua", "title": "Deus, sive Natura: Substance and Determinism in Spinoza\u2019s Ethics", "date": "2017", "keywords": "determinism; god; nature; spinoza; substance", "summary": "In Part III, Proposition 2, Spinoza causally collapses the mind and body\u2014that is, he notes that they are both caused by God (or Nature)\u2014and thereby removes a place for the will to exercise any independent role in determining human action (Spinoza 279). But the fact is that Spinoza is made a testing-point in modern philosophy, so that it may really be said: You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-51", "words": "3542", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Krastins, Sara", "title": "The Feminist Essentialism of Mark Twain: Eve as the Empowered Feminine", "date": "2017", "keywords": "adam; eve; naming; twain; women", "summary": "Following the initial feeling of betrayal, suffragists were once again let down by their leaders in 1870 when \u201cthe The Feminist Essentialism of Mark Twain: Eve as the Empowered Feminine Aisthesis Volume 8, 201727 fifteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed, granting the right to vote to Black men, with no mention of women\u201d (Gianoulis), fifty years before women would be given the right to vote. In addition to his outright activism and outspoken nature in favor of women, Twain also used his writing, specifically The Complete Diaries of Adam and Eve, to positively represent women in the literary sphere.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5195", "words": "6228", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Ellerby, Petra", "title": "Alternate Arbitrios: Status, Justice, and Decline in Chapters I-XVIII of The Second Part of the\u00a0Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha\u00a0", "date": "2023", "keywords": "arbitrios; cervantes; don; elliott; ibid; knight; perception; quixote; self; spain; status; teresa; virtue", "summary": "As is true of Quixote's $rst volume, the conduct of Don Quixote himself serves to structure these assorted explorations, though a number of incisive assessments also stem from each episode's more peripheral inhabitants.5 In accordance with this overarching claim, close readings of a few critical passages will be combined with an inquiry into the opinions expressed by Cervantes (as narrator), Don Quixote, and the wife of Quixote's squire.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-52", "words": "1901", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Sezer, Yusuf", "title": "The New Nuke?", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cyber; obama; systems; weapons; world", "summary": "As such, the development of major cyber weapons by developed nations could in fact pose a similar situation to that of the nuclear arms race of the Cold War; developed nations could use cyber weapons as deterrents. However, there are a few critical differences between cyber weapons and nuclear weapons that make them particularly dangerous to world peace.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5274", "words": "4117", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Gill, Ainsley", "title": "The Not-So Livable Forest: An Environmental Autobiography", "date": "2023", "keywords": "community; development; elm; environmental; grove; harvey; homes; houston; kingwood; ooding", "summary": "More delays, denials, and victim-blaming in Elm Grove lawsuit. Additionally, though the e%ort is not as far reaching nor as intensive as that following Harvey, a small subset of the Kingwood community has demonstrated their own belief in Elm Grove\u2019s indispensability as they continue to show up to help muck out #ooded homes and began the rebuilding process once again.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5291", "words": "5147", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Hermann, Greta", "title": "The Effects of Fiber Arts on Mental Health: Happiness, Self-Esteem, and Emotional Regulation", "date": "2023", "keywords": "arts; ber; cra$ing; et al; happiness; health; self", "summary": "In addition, the ndings of the present study observing relatively high scores for emotional regulation across all types of ber arts shows a great versatility and variety that, in addition to choosing ber art type, yarn type, colors, and patterns (Hartz & #ick, 2005), would be e!ective in art therapy. However, when answers for \u201cwhy you learned your ber art\u201d were recoded, there was a large communal theme, suggesting that if someone learned through a community, then they are indirectly part of a community, even if they are not currently active in a \u201creal\u201d ber arts group.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5294", "words": "6281", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Nguyen, Lily", "title": "Don't Fight the Power: Expressions of Nationalism and Patriotism in Chinese Hip-Hop Lyrics", "date": "2023", "keywords": "artists; china; chinese; government; hip; hop; lyrics; nationalism; patriotism; rev; songs", "summary": "Additionally, artists used the theme of unity di%erently in nationalist/patriotic songs, with unity being used as imagery of a family in patriotic songs, and in nationalist songs, unity was almost exclusively used to refer to the One-China policy. e case of Chinese patriotic songs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-53", "words": "4279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Thompson, Hannah", "title": "The Regeneration of Renal Tissue", "date": "2017", "keywords": "blood; cells; development; function; growth; kidney; nephrons; regeneration; renal; stem; tissue", "summary": "Identifying these animal models and understanding kidney morphogenesis has allowed The Regeneration of Renal Tissue Aisthesis Volume 8, 201735 for advancements in the growth of kidney cells through human pluripotent stem cells.1, 8, 9, 10 Stem cells are currently being explored in both human and animal models. These MSCs restore the structure and function of damaged renal cells.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5304", "words": "5865", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Oleschuk, Samantha", "title": "Architectural Site and Imagined Landscape: The Foundation Lore and Perpetuated Mythology of the Round City of Baghdad", "date": "2023", "keywords": "abbasid; baghdad; caliph; city; construction; foundation; mansur; plan; round; site", "summary": "Abbasid capital is referred to as Madinat al-Mansur (City of al-Mansur), Madinat al-Salam (City of Peace), al-Zawra\u2019 (the bent, or the crooked), and al-Madina al-Mudawwara (Round City). ! \u201cGeneral plan of Round Baghdad,\u201d from Saba Sami al-Ali and Nawar Sami al-Ali, \u201cImages of Round Baghdad: An Analysis of Reconstruction by Architectural Historians,\u201d 2016.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5345", "words": "7374", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Conrad, Isaac", "title": "Cross-Cultural Comparison of Climate Change Opinions, Beliefs, and Risk Perceptions in Morocco and the United States", "date": "2023", "keywords": "americans; climate; climate change; moroccans; morocco; opinions; risk; states; survey; united", "summary": "2.2 Survey Design A$er demographic and consent questions were answered, participants completed a series of 18 questions targeted at climate change opinions and audience segmentation. Findings indicate that Moroccans are more likely to believe in climate change, perceive risk from climate change, support bold climate policy, and discuss climate change with their immediate social circles.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-54", "words": "2427", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "95", "author": "Grosso, Katherine", "title": "Everything's OK", "date": "2017", "keywords": "brian; garrett; lily", "summary": "Eventually, her father would lift his dark eyes from the paper\u2014 Lily shuddered as she felt Garrett\u2019s eyes on her, sizing her up the way they often did. Garrett turned away from him, and Lily felt her muscles relax and a small sigh escape her lips.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5405", "words": "5291", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Podolsky, Sophia", "title": "The Martyrdom of Carole Lombard and the Release of To Be or Not to Be (1942)", "date": "2023", "keywords": "carole; joseph; lombard; lubitsch; maria; nazi; pressbook; release; tura; war", "summary": "is essay departs from the previous literature by examining how the death of star Carole Lombard shortly before the ! Martyrdom of Carole Lombard and the Release of To Be or Not to Be (1942) by Sophia Podolsky A woman walks into the Gestapo headquarters from stage right, dressed in a white gown with her hair beautifully coi#ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5415", "words": "208", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Riedl, Jenna", "title": "they told us we could be weightless (they lied)", "date": "2023", "keywords": "weightless", "summary": "I concentrate primarily on themes of the body, particularly the queer and female body, and how bodies struggle to simply exist in the world without being judged, edited, restricted, degraded, or demonized. As we try to create a world where bodies are considered worthy of respect in their current state, not just in some future, unattainably perfect state, I think it is crucial for people to imagine the euphoric calm that comes from existing without the need for justication or apology.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5419", "words": "6636", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Markley, Sam", "title": "State Legislation\u2019s Impact on LGBTQ+ Student Wellbeing in U.S. Schools", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bills; gender; health; legiscan; legislation; lgbtq+; parents; school; state; students; teachers; youth", "summary": "Not only do teachers serve to actively address victimization in the moment, but LGBTQ+ teachers may passively serve as role models and present a safe space for LGBTQ+ students. Further, improved feelings of safety being correlated with inclusive curricula may be due to LGBTQ+ students feeling represented but may also be a result of other students engaging with the curricula and developing tolerant viewpoints.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5421", "words": "5903", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Kinsella, Madeline", "title": "The Effects of Colostrum Quality on Health and Development of Dairy Calves", "date": "2023", "keywords": "blood; brix; calf; calves; colostrum; dairy; days; development; health; quality; scores", "summary": "This measurement of solids has been shown to correlate with IgG levels, fat, protein, and lactose within dairy calf blood samples (Buranakarl et al., 2021). The authors believe that we may be able to find a greater significant increase in average Brix scores with a more comparable sample size to our sample size of Brix score samples taken while the reusable pitcher procedure was upheld.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5422", "words": "4150", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Held, Katherine", "title": "Defending ESG Fiduciary Duty", "date": "2023", "keywords": "act; advisers; client; company; duty; esg; fiduciary; investment; nineteen; return", "summary": "ESG Returns !e largest component of the Nineteen\u2019s points of contention is that ESG Portfolios have lower returns than a standard portfolio. By investing in ESG companies, investors are mitigating the risks their clients could encounter if they do not include ESG considerations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5428", "words": "6844", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Roher, Sallianne", "title": "Analysis of Novel Unknown D. melanogaster Mutation trex", "date": "2023", "keywords": "cross; dna; flies; gene; melanogaster; mutation; progeny; sequence; trex; type", "summary": "Further, using BLAST bioinformatic analyses, wild-type and trex gene sequences and protein products were compared to analyze the molecular nature of trex. When mutated, as in trex flies, vestigial is unable to perform its normal function and we see phenotypically abnormal wing formation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5535", "words": "1228", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Biographies, Author and Artist", "title": "Author and Artist Biographies", "date": "2023", "keywords": "honors; member; research; student; university", "summary": "As a member of University Honors at UMD, he served as President of the University Honors Student Association and was the recipient of the 2023 Zenith Award. Ainsley Gill is a sophomore and College Scholar at Vanderbilt University from Houston, Texas.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5536", "words": "4284", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Swenson, Sierra S.", "title": "The Relationship between Cognitive Function and Bilingualism in Young Adults", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bilingualism; brain; function; language; participants; research; study; tasks", "summary": "e current study aims to determine whether bilingual participants demonstrate higher cognitive functioning by result of their performance on neuropsychological working memory tasks. ! Comparisons in task performance were statistically tested, and contrary to expectations, performance of monolingual participants were marginally higher than those of bilingual participants in terms of task accuracy with the TMT-B, p=0.56.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-56", "words": "316", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "95", "author": "Park, Jianna Jihyun", "title": "Confessions I", "date": "2017", "keywords": "drip", "summary": "Blue jellyfish breathes in; water gravitates toward the marred heart She breathes out, and lets out a black hairball Collapsing bridge slow dives into the abyss Aisthesis Volume 8, 201749 Night falls like wine stain.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-57", "words": "1569", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Editoral Board, Aisthesis", "title": "Vol. 8 (2017) Author Biographies", "date": "2017", "keywords": "honors; research; senior; student; studies; university", "summary": "Katherine Grosso is a senior at Fairfield University, studying nursing. Sara Krastins is a senior at Fairfield University, where she is president of the Nu Tau chapter of Sigma Tau Delta and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5912", "words": "1962", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "84", "author": "Bittner, William", "title": "At Night", "date": "2024", "keywords": "barber; reverend; william", "summary": "Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II plodded to the pulpit. ! Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II began his speech with a message about peace.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5936", "words": "5487", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Cox, McKenzie", "title": "Reading Proficiency and Teacher Retention in Mississippi", "date": "2024", "keywords": "education; funding; mississippi; policy; program; public; reading; school; state; teacher", "summary": "Increases in Teacher Pay e state legislature passed the largest raise for public school teachers in the state\u2019s history in March of 2022, with an average $5,151 increase (Ballard and Breazeale, 2023). Keywords: Mississippi education, education policy, reading pro!ciency, teacher shortage, literacy reform Aisthesis Volume 15, 202468 Reading Pro!ciency and Teacher Retention in Mississippi by McKenzie Cox Introduction e New York Times called it \u201ce Mississippi Miracle\u201d (Kristof, 2023).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5964", "words": "2208", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ziegler, Johanna", "title": "Urban Horror Settings in the Works of Lovecraft and LaValle", "date": "2024", "keywords": "horror; lavalle; lovecra; red; settings", "summary": "e issue that arises, however, is when more than one author, across more genres than merely horror, begins to link racist fears to the same elements, like urban settings. While Lovecra# creates urban fear through a combination of cramped buildings and crowds of people of color, LaValle writes the exact opposite: urban fear is orderly neighborhoods and a vigilant community of white people. !", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-5982", "words": "3258", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Burjas, Karam", "title": "Literature Review: Security of the LGBTQ+ Community in Lebanon ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "community; health; individuals; lebanon; lgbtq+; literature; research; security", "summary": "Social Stigma and Risk Factors Exploring the social roots of stigma, entwined with religious dynamics, is an important component of the research on LGBTQ+ security in Lebanon. e plight of LGBTQ+ individuals transcends geographic boundaries.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6019", "words": "4417", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Flores, Chantelle", "title": "A Fusing of Horizons: Approaching Rosenberg\u2019s \u201cAmerican Action Painters\u201d Through a Hermeneutical Lens", "date": "2024", "keywords": "action; action painters; american; art; event; painters; rosenberg", "summary": "Although Harold Rosenberg is not credited within main hermeneutic publications, his argument of \u201cpainting as event\u201d presents a perspective on one\u2019s encounter with art common with the progression of literary hermeneutical thought.1 By analyzing Rosenberg\u2019s \u201cAmerican Action Painters\u201d through hermeneutic and constructivist literary theories, one can #nd relevancy of Rosenberg\u2019s work in the present day and in the work of literary criticism and theory. O!en, Rosenberg\u2019s \u201cAmerican Action Painters\u201d is viewed without the addition of an audience, but Christa Robbins argues that Rosenberg\u2019s \u201cAmerican Action Painters\u201d should be viewed within the habituses of socio-political thought Rosenberg was inherently a part of and the audiences he commonly interacted with.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6023", "words": "5929", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Karg, Lily", "title": "Pigment and Geochemical Markers of Past and Present Cyanobacterial Presence in the Southwestern Lake Superior Region", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bay; bloom; carbon; cyanobacteria; et al; fig; lake; pigment; presence; present; siskiwit; superior; water", "summary": "Both of these independent studies by Baustian et al. (2020) and Hobbs et al. (2021) substantiated that despite natural interferences, pigments served as useful molecular markers with long-term monitoring and considerate examination of sedimentary records in site-speci!c interpretations. As mentioned previously, work by Baustian et al. (2020) had also investigated an array of damaging anthropogenic stressors on the Great Lakes region.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6043", "words": "3746", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "O'Donnell, Kathryn", "title": "Environmental Uses and Pathogenic Potential of Paenibacillus lautus", "date": "2024", "keywords": "diesel; et al; lautus; paenibacillus; species; switching", "summary": "P. lautus Prevalence in Ticks Another environmental source of P. lautus is within ticks (Loong et al. 2018; Canpolat and Biterge- Sut 2019). P. lautus demonstrates pro!ciency in the degradation of cellulose and diesel, resistance to high temperatures and heavy metal exposure, bio!lm and endospore formation, and persistence in various digestive systems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6047", "words": "6565", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Taylor, Elizabeth", "title": "Preying on Predators: The Role of International Regimes in the Overexploitation of Shark Species", "date": "2024", "keywords": "commons; conservation; fisheries; fishing; governance; human; international; multispecies; overexploitation; shark; shark species; species", "summary": "Multispecies Politics When discussing shark conservation through the lens of the commons, shark species are labeled as a \u201cresource.\u201d Furthermore, the international community has contributed to this overexploitation of shark species by building upon negative shark imagery created by the media and perpetuating capitalist ideals that drive overexploitation in global fish markets.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6050", "words": "3596", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Longren, Benjamin", "title": "The Fall of the Establishment Clause: Bias & Originalism in the Supreme Court", "date": "2024", "keywords": "clause; court; establishment; supreme; u.s", "summary": "Recent controversial cases such as Carson v Makin, Dobbs v Jackson, and Kennedy v Bremerton have shown a distinct divide in Supreme Court rulings. ! e Supreme Court has slowly but surely been moving towards a pro-religion stance. !", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6058", "words": "6138", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Wang, Kelly", "title": "Impact of Deng Xiaoping\u2019s Economic Reforms in China\u2019s Modernization", "date": "2024", "keywords": "china; chinese; deng; deng xiaoping; development; economic; modernization; new; press; reforms; xiaoping", "summary": "e investigation not only provides insight on the shortcomings of Deng\u2019s economic reforms and their implications for China\u2019s future development, but also evaluates the \u201cno democratization, no modernization\u201d claim of Chinese student protestors in 1986.8 Overall, this investigation contends whether economic reform alone is su%cient for a country to \u201cmodernize.\u201d !is investigation consulted the works of experts on the history of modern China such as Jonathan D. Spence and Ezra F. Vogel, alternative perspectives on 5 Vince Cable et al., \u201cFrom Deng to Xi: Economic Reform, the Silk Road, and the Return of the Middle Kingdom\u201d (LSE IDEAS, May 2017), https://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/ publications/reports/deng-xi, 1. 6 Barry Naughton, \u201cDeng Xiaoping: ! Mao Zedong\u2019s authoritarian rule, intended to rejuvenate the nation, instead le China not only in extremely poor economic condition, but also with horri#c memories from the Great Leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.3 Upon coming to power, Deng Xiaoping was intent on maintaining the one-party state established by Mao.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6078", "words": "202", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Hamel, Krista", "title": "Construction vs Deconstruction", "date": "2024", "keywords": "construction", "summary": "Painted with water-mixable oils, this piece was built up layer by layer, relying on an alla prima painting technique, which allowed for the bright vibrancy of the colors and textural elements to shine through. !is technique of slowly building up layers also re#ects further upon the question of construction and its relation to intention. is piece speaks to the juxtaposition between what we as a human species consider to be construction and \u201cprogress\u201d versus what construction means for the native species that work in a harmonious rhythm with each other.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6084", "words": "108", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-10", "author": "Jones, Andy", "title": "Carpentry", "date": "2024", "keywords": "andy jones", "summary": "the word of the day is \u201cdeconstructing\u201d everyone in book club is reading something new I\u2019m still checked out with that poem I read about a missing cat, a mother\u2019s love, a night that becomes less lonely when the howling creatures feel understood I made a discovery, there\u2019s this rotted hole underneath my ribs\u2014 a giant maw with splintered teeth, all the more perfect to bite down on the little girl inside of me and shake her until she starts to understand the state of her future I\u2019ll rebuild this body better the second time around Aisthesis Volume 15, 202479 Carpentry by Andy Jones", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6085", "words": "4189", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Butler, Cliff", "title": "A Tale Told by Many Other Names: Films of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet", "date": "2024", "keywords": "act; film; juliet; romeo; shakespeare; story; william", "summary": "Whether her Romeo is found in Richard Beymer (Tony, West Side Story, 1961), Leonard Whiting (Romeo, Romeo and Juliet, 1968), Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo, Romeo + Juliet, 1996), Joseph Fiennes (William Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Love, 1998), James McAvoy (Gnomeo, Gnomeo & Juliet, 2011), or in Ansel Elgort (Tony, West Side Story, 2021), he always replies to be called only love, and never again be Romeo (or by what other name he happens to carry) Originally published in Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 2, 2001, pp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6090", "words": "310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Peschek, Allison", "title": "Rainbow Stag Snacktime", "date": "2024", "keywords": "stag", "summary": "Rainbow Stag Snacktime (2023) is a linocut relief print that was created to celebrate the life of a Rainbow Stag Beetle (Phalacrognathus muelleri). Additionally, Rainbow Stag Snacktime is an experimental take on the use of texture, layering, and color.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6205", "words": "1429", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Biographies, Author and Artist", "title": "Author and Artist Biographies", "date": "2024", "keywords": "honors; program; student; undergraduate; university; writing", "summary": "Kathryn O\u2019Donnell graduated cum laude with biology departmental honors and University Honors designation from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2024, with a BA in biology and a minor in history. Karam Burjas is a junior honors student at Temple University majoring in global studies with a concentration in global security.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6546", "words": "4484", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Ledoux, Rachel", "title": "Rewriting Racism with Prager University: How the Modern Political Propaganda Outlet is Shaping Global Slavery Curricula within the American Educational System", "date": "2025", "keywords": "education; history; modern; prageru; racism; slavery; states; system; united", "summary": "e United States is known for having especially brutal slavery when compared to countries like Brazil and South Africa,7 largely as a result of the lackluster legislation regarding the treatment of enslaved individuals by their masters and continued generational enslavement for the children of enslaved people. e United States is now tasked with repairing its portrayal of slavery in the educational sector, lest the true legacy of slavery be lost forever.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6560", "words": "1771", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "91", "author": "Skenderian, Sedona", "title": "Impermanence", "date": "2025", "keywords": "couple; house", "summary": "e house watched them standing in front of it, their prideful faces re#ecting o$ the window's glass like an image re#ected o$ an eye. e house was once again clean.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6588", "words": "3145", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Smith, Ansel", "title": "The Cost of Education: A Summary of Financial Transactions of Enslavement at the University of Alabama", "date": "2025", "keywords": "alabama; history; people; transaction; university", "summary": "e documents were created by enslavers under an institutionalized system through which African Americans were reduced to monetary value and labor value, referred to by names assigned by enslavers. Content Warning: !is paper contains references to documents in which African Americans are bought, sold, and referred to as chattel. !", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6612", "words": "4603", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Jenness, Rachael", "title": "Friend, Foe or Franco?: Judeo-Masonic-Bolshevik Propaganda in WWII Spain", "date": "2025", "keywords": "franco; jews; judeo; masonic; propaganda; spain; war; world", "summary": "2 Paul Preston, Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Anti-Semitism in Franco\u2019s Spain (London: William Collins, 2023), Preface; according to Paul Preston, a more accurate translation of this term would be \u201cthe %lthy Jewish-Masonic-Bolshevik concubinage.\u201d conation, Freemasonry threatened the control of the Catholic Church through its secrecy and radical secular ideals, and therefore the very foundation of Spanish society. Peman and Tusquets were convinced it was their duty to warn Catholics about the dangers of their Jewish neighbors.23 #e works of these two writers during the Spanish Civil War belied the revival of a dangerous political trend in Spanish society: the tendency to conate the international Jewish community with all of Spain\u2019s enemies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6622", "words": "2695", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Heinzerling, Mallory; Nunez, Estephania D.", "title": "Neuromuscular Deficits Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Require Increased Duration of Rehabilitation in Collegiate Athletes", "date": "2025", "keywords": "athletes; cruciate; de!cits; ligament; neuromuscular; rehabilitation; return; sport", "summary": "In order for rehabilitation to be comprehensive, it needs to include tasks for restoration of neuromuscular control and performance.2 To adequately reeducate the neuromuscular processes of the body, neuromuscular control de!cits need to be addressed throughout the stages of rehabilitation, and following return to sport. Despite advancements in surgical techniques and rehabilitation, reinjury rates remain a large concern with a considerable number of these instances attributed to neuromuscular de!cits.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6644", "words": "6625", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Laurin, Samantha", "title": "Postures and Perceptions: Expansive and Contractive Postures on Perceptions of Power and Likeability", "date": "2025", "keywords": "body; gender; likeability; participants; perceptions; poses; postures; power; women", "summary": "Gender and the embodiment of power postures. Expansive postures are often linked to dominance and power, while contractive postures are associated with approachability.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6656", "words": "6228", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Lindsey Hoffman", "title": "Preventing Language Deprivation Syndrome in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: A Focused Intervention in Philadelphia's 19144 Zip Code", "date": "2025", "keywords": "children; community; deaf; deprivation; hall; health; hearing; language; sign; states; united; years", "summary": "Addressing a lack of sign language exposure for Deaf children could improve their social, emotional, and cognitive developmental trajectories. Oralist and auditory approaches to language for Deaf children can negatively a!ect their developmental trajectories (Murray et al., 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6671", "words": "193", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Wang, Jason", "title": "Horyuji of the Southern Capital", "date": "2025", "keywords": "horyuji", "summary": "Drawn during the Covid lockdowns that stopped travel between East Asia and the United States, this drawing scroll depicts Horyuji Temple in Nara, Japan, the oldest extant wooden structures in the world, in an environment of steep cli!s and lonely pine trees reminiscent of the Yellow Mountains in Anhui Province in China. Although the $ve-story pagoda and the kondo of Horyuji serve as the main subject of the drawing, I also added a three-story pagoda on each end to reference the two pagodas at Taima-dera temple located south of Horyuji.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6687", "words": "7681", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Turkiewicz, Natalia", "title": "Carotid Dissection: A Stroke of Insight into Safer Work Conditions", "date": "2025", "keywords": "april; artery; blood; carotid; carotid dissection; conditions; dissection; image; left; march; n.d; patient; risk; stroke; symptoms; volume; work", "summary": "Thrombolytic drugs such as clot busters are given to patients who are having an ischemic stroke. In certain cases, carotid artery dissection can heal on its own, but other times it leads to compromised blood flow to the brain.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6699", "words": "144", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "93", "author": "Ella Hansen", "title": "Golden Shovel / Write Anything About Nothing", "date": "2025", "keywords": "middle", "summary": "nd between pink blooms on the deck that call circling bumblebees and their stripes. Addressed to You, Simon Shieh by Ella Hansen", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6736", "words": "5894", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Shah, Aashka", "title": "Historical Redlining Practices: Influences on Rising Contemporary Infant Mortality Rates in Richmond, Virginia", "date": "2025", "keywords": "birth; et al; health; holc; infant; mortality; neighborhoods; rate; redlining; richmond; white", "summary": "e purpose of this study was to analyze the e#ects of historical redlining on infant mortality rates in Richmond, Virginia. e redlining status of all the neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia was analyzed to $nd patterns related to infant mortality, and infant mortality rates were found to be signi$cantly higher in previously redlined neighborhoods due to less access to resources, worse environmental conditions, and racial disparities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6737", "words": "5935", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Hillary Sotomayor", "title": "Reproductive Coercion: A Systematic Review", "date": "2025", "keywords": "abuse; coercion; contraception; control; law; partner; pregnancy; reproductive; states; survivors; vawa; violence; women", "summary": "Reproductive coercion has been de#ned within medical parameters; however, an explicit de#nition for reproductive coercion in American legal frameworks has proven to be more complex. Ultimately, reproductive coercion remains a neglected issue, despite the strides that policies like VAWA have made to address barriers to reproductive healthcare access and protect reproductive rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6741", "words": "3824", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Segall, Avery", "title": "Assembling Disassembly: An Exploration of Normativity, Gender Performativity, and Assemblage Theory", "date": "2025", "keywords": "assemblage; butler; gender; identity; queer; theory", "summary": "rough this process, gender identity itself becomes a reied construct instead of a means for self-description, and is consequently restrictive. !is essentialized construction of identity\u2014in this paper, gender identity specically\u2014is harmful because it limits the intelligibility of the vast variety of human experiences. !", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-6872", "words": "1289", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Author and Artist Biographies, 2025", "title": "2025 Author and Artist Biographies", "date": "2025", "keywords": "honors; research; student; time; university", "summary": "Avery Segall is a current senior at Seattle University, set to graduate magna cum laude in June 2025. Rachel Ledoux is a !rst-year honors student at Simmons University, where she is double majoring in political science and economics within an accelerated public policy graduate program.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-746", "words": "993", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Editoral Board, Aisthesis", "title": "Author Biopraphies", "date": "2017", "keywords": "duluth; minnesota; time; university", "summary": "Huls is a sophomore at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Matthew McDermott- Matthew McDermott is a Junior at the University of Minnesota Duluth studying Civil Engineering.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-770", "words": "6509", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Davis, Benjamin", "title": "Education, Oppression, and Democracy: A Philosophical Approach to Educational Inequity", "date": "2017", "keywords": "achievement; democracy; dewey; education; freire; learning; oppression; process; public; society; students; teachers", "summary": "Could technology in the classroom provide the means to a more egalitarian society?4 Does closing the achievement gap address the major arguments linking public education with democracy and democratic processes? My reflections on the educational philosophies of John Dewey and Paulo Freire shed light on the issues of educational (in)equality and the achievement gap in public education, and on genuine social (in)equality, of which educational (in) equality is one part.6 As debates about No Child Left Behind and the Common Core suggest, education reformers today are asking numerous questions: What is the best way to close the achievement gap?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-774", "words": "4312", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Huls, Leah", "title": "Shakespeare\u2019s Use of Romantic Relationships: Western Romanticism Causing Inaccurate Readings and Misinterpretations", "date": "2017", "keywords": "benedick; century; juliet; love; romeo; shakespeare; women", "summary": "Rosaline, the woman to which Romeo refers, is the object of Romeo\u2019s affections despite her denial of him, and Romeo cries to Benvolio that he is \u201cout of her favour where I am in love\u201d (1.1.161). This article argues Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing show Shakespeare uses women and their various attributes as a means to an end for men, an end other than romantic love.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-781", "words": "4178", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "King, Jessica", "title": "The Violence of Heteronormative Language Towards the Queer Community", "date": "2017", "keywords": "bisexuals; community; gender; identity; language; queer; violence", "summary": "This is a form of heteronormative language violence, as it can cause asexuals to be pushed away from the broader queer community because their deviance from the heteronormative standard may not be as immediately obvious as, for example, a homosexual transgender person\u2019s might. Heteronormative language violence in the courtroom is not, of course, restricted to transgender individuals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-782", "words": "3703", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "McDermott, Matthew", "title": "The CCR Rule\u2018s Impact on Electric Utilities", "date": "2017", "keywords": "ccr; ccr rule; coal; environmental; epa; rule; waste", "summary": "This paper provides an overall summary of the history, make up, controversy, and implementation of the new CCR Rule so that members of the engineering community can gain a better understanding of the new regulation. Therefore the new CCR Rule (or simply the Rule) will need to be fully embraced.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-783", "words": "3161", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Murawski, Bailey", "title": "Zequanox: A Potential Solution to Zebra Mussels", "date": "2017", "keywords": "control; mortality; mussels; treatment; water; zebra; zequanox", "summary": "Abstract: Zebra mussels are an invasive species that are very harmful to the environ- ment and therefore cost society a considerable amount of money. Most of the previous attempts to eliminate zebra mussels were either ineffective or caused damage to other organisms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-784", "words": "2981", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Neukircher, Hannah", "title": "Application of the LIT Model to General Strain Theory, Situational Anger, and Social Networks: An Assessment of Condition Influences", "date": "2017", "keywords": "anger; leadership; model", "summary": "Agnew\u2019s (1992) GST only looks at individual anger, and the instrument used to test anger management and leadership skills only contains two questions asking about personal leadership skill responses and four measures of anger about individual reactions. Because the study of the LIT model did not examine the influence of specific leadership skills and specific measures of anger, the exact effect of the LIT model on anger management is unable to be determined.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-785", "words": "3544", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Pederson, Caitlin", "title": "Muscular Dystrophy: Stem Cell Therapy", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cells; dystrophy; muscle; stem; treatment", "summary": "Besides ethical concerns with stem cell treatments, there are also health concerns. Dystrophin acts as the shock absorbers for muscle cells and prevents fibre damage of the muscles; without this protein the muscles wear out.2", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-786", "words": "3242", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Prozinski, Rachael", "title": "The Controversy of Intercollegiate Sports", "date": "2017", "keywords": "athletes; minnesota; schools; sports; university", "summary": "Many student athletes carry the mindset that their primary academic goal is to \u201cjust pass\u201d (Cosh & Tully, 2014). Athletes have little time to pursue a The Controversy of Intercollegiate Sports Aisthesis Volume 7, 201645 competitive degree; therefore, many student athletes achieve degrees that are less notable or worthy to get them a job after college (Rheenen, 2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-787", "words": "1826", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "86", "author": "Shorter, Patricia", "title": "The Beekeeper", "date": "2017", "keywords": "deborah; eyes; iliana", "summary": "Even her eyes appeared metallic, shining a blue that was too silver, too penetrating, as she watched Iliana from a distance, never making eye contact, but still ever knowing the child\u2019s position. Iliana loved the bees.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-788", "words": "680", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Trenberth, Tahnee", "title": "A War in the Sky", "date": "2017", "keywords": "air; sky", "summary": "Next, as if on cue, drops of rain plunk down from the increasingly blackening clouds. Massive cumulonimbus clouds suddenly begin to swallow up the baby-blue summer sky, casting an eerie shadow of gloom over every bit of land that it engulfs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-792", "words": "7", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "90", "author": "Cerny, Stefnie", "title": "Joy", "date": "2017", "keywords": "aisthesis", "summary": "Aisthesis Volume 7, 201653 Stefnie Cerny Joy", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-793", "words": "7", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "78", "author": "Cerny, Stefnie", "title": "Vertigo", "date": "2017", "keywords": "aisthesis", "summary": "Aisthesis Volume 7, 201654 Stefnie Cerny Vertigo", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-794", "words": "11", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "87", "author": "Kuchibhatla, Sreekar S.", "title": "Flying Past the Everest", "date": "2017", "keywords": "aisthesis", "summary": "Aisthesis Volume 7, 201655 Sreekar S. Kuchibhatla Flying Past the Everest", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-795", "words": "8", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "82", "author": "Kuchibhatla, Sreekar S.", "title": "Synchrony", "date": "2017", "keywords": "aisthesis", "summary": "Aisthesis Volume 7, 201656 Sreekar S. Kuchibhatla Synchrony", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-796", "words": "9", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "80", "author": "Kuchibhatla, Sreekar S.", "title": "The Creator", "date": "2017", "keywords": "aisthesis", "summary": "The Creator Sreekar S. Kuchibhatla Aisthesis Volume 7, 201657", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aisthesis-797", "words": "342", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Editorial Staff, Aisthesis", "title": "Welcome to Aisthesis", "date": "2017", "keywords": "aisthesis; students", "summary": "Launched six editions ago as a print journal highlighting the best of undergraduate Honors student work, Aisthesis now continues as an annual journal created on-line by students in the University of Minnesota Duluth Honors Program. We hope you enjoy these pieces of undergraduate work and encourage undergraduate Honors students (or recently graduated Honors students) to submit in the future.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]