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Ultraviolet radiation in the 254nm wavelength can interfere with the first mitotic division in sea urchins.
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(Un)gendering the intersex body.
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Unconventional Production of Bright White Light Emission by Nd-Doped and Nominally Un-Doped Y2O3 Nano-Powders.
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Undeclared baggage: Do tourists act as vectors for seed dispersal in fynbos protected areas?
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Understanding Emojis: Translating a Paralinguistic Device as an Adverb.
(Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass.), 2020-05-10)This study focuses on finding a grammatical correlate for paralinguistic emojis in order to explore translation of emojis into written word. By diagramming sentence structure, sentence adverbs proved to be the closest ... -
Understanding the Reagan years.
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Unpacking the Food of Food Assistance
(Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass.), 2022-05-16)Food assistance is one form of aid that people in poverty can use to lighten the load of financial stress and ensure that they can maintain a nutritious, sustaining diet. Food pantries are a common final distribution site ... -
Unwrapping hidden histories : An analysis of redesigns at three international Egyptian exhibitions.
(Wheaton College (MA), 2019)This thesis addresses the large variation in the recent redesigns of three international museums with permanent Egyptian collections: the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy; the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Netherlands; ... -
Upper limb prosthetics.
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Using an energy balance model to determine exoplanetary climates that support liquid water.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)The purpose of this thesis is to modify an energy balance atmospheric model created by R. Pierrehumbert (Pierrehumbert 2011). His energy balance model gave an estimate of Gliese 581g’s, a tidally locked exoplanet, atmosphere. ... -
Using eclipses to probe physical conditions along the jet in SS433.
(Wheaton College (MA), 2019)The Galactic X-ray binary SS 433 is the only known astrophysical object to exhibit strong relativistically red- and blue-shifted lines from elements such as S, Si, Fe, Ni. The X-ray emission lines originate in a jet outflow ... -
Using Nile blue staining techniques to determine the effects of ethanol (EtOH) upon the necrotic cells developing chick embryo limbs.
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Using Nile blue staining techniques to examine necrotic cells in limb bud growth of chick embryos exposed to alcohol (EtOH)
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UV exposure to sea urchin gametes and success of fertilization envelope liftoff.
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The value of the Canadian index of wellbeing.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)This thesis examines the Canadian Index of Wellbeing and its potential uses alongside existing measurements of wellbeing. It examines the creation of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing and how it might inform policy decisions ... -
Vampires as 'meaning machines' : signifying the monster through race and sexuality.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)This thesis examines the complex imbrication of race and sexuality in the vampire figure during the course of its literary life. It examines traditional, nineteenth-century representations (Polidori's The Vampyre, Le Fanu's ... -
Vapor Pressure Measurements of Pentane at Low Temperatures (-160 ºC to -50 ºC) using Cost-Effective Equipment
(Wheaton College. (Norton, Mass.), 2022-05-16)Certain extraterrestrial environments like ocean worlds and icy satellites, are promising astrobiological places that can host a plethora of organic compounds trapped in their ices. The vapor pressure curves derived from ... -
Variation at the MHCI and MHCII gene regions in Squalus acanthias : evidence for selection.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2013-09-18)Determining levels of adaptive molecular variation can be important in understanding the long-term viability of a population and can provide essential information for conservation efforts. High levels of molecular variation ... -
Variation in toll-like receptor 21 within and among killifish (fundulus heteroclitus) populations from southeastern Massachusetts and northern Maine
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)Through polymorphisms occurring within immune system genes, the immune system is able to retain greater diversity and better co-evolve alongside pathogen populations. Adaptive molecular variation clearly indicates that ... -
Vertical foraging shifts in Hawaiian forest birds in response to invasive rat removal
(PLoS ONEWheaton College (Norton, Mass.)., 2016-08-26)
