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Preference Reversals in Donation
Generally, people make decisions based on available information. We tend to think that our decisions are originally from our own deliberation. However, these decisions can be influenced by choices presented to us. A previous ... -
Dissecting the Cortical Canonical Circuit of Auditory Cortex to Understand Gap Detection
Speech comprehension requires processing sound information with a high degree of temporal precision. As a standard metric for assessing temporal acuity, gap detection allows us to understand the neural circuitry involved ... -
Formulations of Intelligence: How implementing diverse perspectives of intelligence into curriculum can provide variety on learning about and from the world
When you speak, how do you visualize or think about the words in your head? Do you write them on paper, or perhaps by typing them on a keyboard? You may not visualize your speech at all, but you may have a personal regulation ... -
Hair Cortisol Measurement and Relationships with Growth Among Amazonian Shuar Children
Cortisol is a hormone secreted by the adrenal gland in response to stress. It is a widely-used biomarker of chronic stress. Measurement of cortisol from hair allows assessment of cumulative concentrations of cortisol, and ... -
Zebrafish gsdf mutant provides a disease model for human polycystic ovary syndrome
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most frequent problem when a couple comes to a fertility clinic. PCOS in women includes the accumulation of premature oocytes in ovaries. We discovered that zebrafish lacking activity ... -
Electrochemical Etching of Silver Scanning Tunneling Microscope Tips in Dilute Acetic Acid
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) is used to image, manipulate, and spectroscopically characterize individual atoms and molecules to further develop an understanding of materials that have application in the semiconductor ... -
Similarity Effect and Altruism
Many models try to explain people’s decisions in multi-alternative scenarios but these models have not yet tested for the effect of interpersonal relationship that might affect people’s choices. For example, Tversky (1972) ... -
Dissecting the Cortical Canonical Circuit of Auditory Cortex to Understand Gap Detection
Speech comprehension requires processing sound information with a high degree of temporal precision. As a standard metric for assessing temporal acuity, gap detection allows us to understand the neural circuitry involved ... -
Occupational and Gendered Differences Between Firefighter/Paramedics and Emergency Room Nurses
Emotional Labor is the active management of emotion derived from a specific social expectation. Paramedics, Firefighters, and emergency room Registered Nurses are a few examples of our high-stress medical service workers ... -
Quantification of the human skin microbiota
The skin is a primary interface for human-microbe interaction. Many studies are concerned with determining what bacterial taxa inhabit the skin, rather than the absolute quantities of bacteria inhabiting environmentally ... -
Variation in Seismic-Wave Attenuation Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone Determined from Tectonic Tremor
Many subduction zones worldwide are known to host devastating large earthquakes, such as the 2011 M9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. In addition to fast, seismic slip many subduction zones also host slow, largely aseismic slip. ... -
Identifying the neural mechanism of approach behavior: studying the role of superior colliculus during prey-capture behavior
In mammalian brains, there are two areas that process information important for image formation and goal directed visual behavior: primary visual cortex (V1), and the superior colliculus (SC). However, it is unclear how ... -
The Effect of Muscle Fatigue on Single- and Dual-Task Walking and Obstacle-Crossing in Young Adults
Previous research has demonstrated independent effects of fatigue or concurrent cognitive task on walking and obstacle-crossing; however, limited studies were performed to examine their combined effects and interaction. ... -
A Glimpse into the World of Jorge Luis Borges: An Exploration of Transculturation in “El evangelio según Marcos”
In “The Gospel according to St. Mark,” Borges weaves the idea of transculturation into his understanding of rewriting. “Transculturation” describes the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures, a process that encompasses ... -
Null Ship: Lighter-Than-Air Travel by Vacuum
The Vacuum Airship, or Null Ship, is a concept which has existed since at least the 17th century. The basic idea is to contain an empty volume within the aircraft, rather than filling that volume with a lighter-than-air ... -
Perspectives in Honeybee Production: A Gozo Case Study
The islet of Gozo, Malta is known for its rural landscapes and attractive tourist destinations. It’s also home to a variation of honeybees, maintained by the beekeepers of Gozo, and desired by farmers for the purpose ... -
Investigating the role of NPFs in the Arp3ΔC phenotype
The Arp2/3 complex is an assembly of seven protein subunits that nucleates branched actin networks involved in cellular functions such as endocytosis. Previous work has determined the complex is intrinsically inactive, and ... -
Well-Intentioned but Ineffective: A Legislative History of the California Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Repatriation is the policy of returning Native American human remains and other items from museums and agencies within the United States. It became federal law in 1990 with the passage of the federal Native American Graves ...