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Looking
(2024-05-14)
“Looking” is a suspenseful, literary memoir following Christina Veta, a young, female journalist who learns the shocking truth of who she is and what has happened to her by men in positions of power. At age nineteen, ...
Long-Term Impacts of Biochar and Mulch in a Compound Disturbed Lodgepole Pine Forest
(2024-05-14)
Fires are a natural and important element of lodgepole pine forests, however severe fires can adversely impact soil productivity, or a soils’ ability to sufficiently support nutrient availability and plant growth, for ...
A Feasibility Analysis of Regenerative Land Practices & Reciprocal Social-Ecological Impacts: A Case Study from Madeira Island
(2024-05-14)
The lack of resilient socio-ecological systems in a 1.5°C world, will result in significant agrosystem loss and, land degradation for highly vulnerable tropical, coastal, and geographically isolated island regions ...
The Potential of Assisted Natural Regeneration for the Health of Urban Forests
(2024-05-14)
Urban forest patches (UFPs) are small, naturalized areas that persist in the built environment. Previously regarded as self-sustaining “wild” areas, UFPs are gaining attention as valuable resources that can deliver important ...
$150 Cup of Coffee: Specialty Coffee, Third Wave Cafes, and Gentrification in Portland, Oregon 1995-2020
(2024-05-14)
The idea that a customer would pay $150 for a cup of coffee seems to many people absurd, exploitative, and cringeworthy. Looking deeper the question becomes: where is a third wave café able to justify selling a cup of ...
Comparing Financial, Environmental, and Governance Outcomes of Product Stewardship Funding for Plastic Packaging in the US by Consumer-Packaged Goods Firms
(2024-05-14)
The significant carbon footprint of the plastic lifecycle, rate of emissions of plastic pollutants, and proliferation of single-use plastic packaging for consumer-packaged goods threaten human health and essential Earth ...
Assessment of Metabolism and Circadian Rhythm in Frontotemporal Dementia Using a Drosophila melanogaster Animal Model
(2024-05-14)
Abstract
The purpose of this behavioral study was to establish proofs of concept in metabolism and circadian rhythm in Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) using a Drosophila melanogaster animal model that had been genetically ...
“I saw a terrific white play last night”: Integrated Casting in Iqbal Khan’s Othello and Keith Hamilton Cobb’s American Moor
(2024-05-14)
This thesis delves into the dynamics of integrated casting in contemporary Shakespearean theater as a means to challenge and confront entrenched systems of white supremacy. Focusing on two seminal productions—Iqbal Khan's ...
Monopoly Men: Political Cartoonists and Antitrust in the Gilded Age
(2024-05-14)
Most American children are familiar with the monocled and mustachioed man who graces the front of the Monopoly box. He has become instantly recognizable as the game has been marketed by Parker Brothers and Hasbro since the ...
Is coastal living positively associated with increased trait mindfulness?
(2024-05-14)
Trait mindfulness, defined as an active and enhanced attention to the present
moment, has been associated with a wide range of beneficial aspects of functioning, as
has seacoast living. The aim of this study was to determine ...