Both within and outside of South Asia, sadhvis are revered by Jain laypeople as paragons of the religion’s ascetic imperative. Yet while some might conceive of these renunciant women as unaffected by the nexus of relationships ...
Track 01. Tornami a vagheggair by George Frideric Handel --Track 02. Con que la Lavare by Joaquin Rodrigo -- Track 03. De los Alamos Vengo Madre by Joaquin Rodrigo -- Track 04. Fruhlingsmorgen by Gustav Mahler -- Track ...
The curse of knowledge refers to the common experience of having difficulty setting aside one’s own knowledge when inferring the knowledge of others. Within heuristics and biases research, the curse of knowledge is discussed ...
I introduce the older Korean population in Flushing, Queens, New York, with a historical review of Korean immigration to the United States. The emergence of a Korean-American community also entailed that of a new Korean-American ...
The solidarity economy is an umbrella term that represents a wide range of solidarity-‐based economic practices that have proliferated worldwide such as cooperatives, participatory budgeting, and community land trusts. ...
Realists and anti-realists about value acknowledge that we have and talk about evaluative experiences, but the status of our experiences and talk is contentious. What is up for debate is whether such experiences are ...
Both social support and expressive writing are known to function as coping tools whose usefulness is determined by culture. To integrate previous research on social support, expressive writing, and culture, we studied ...
This paper explores the limits of how established computer vision techniques can be applied to the problem of grading simple assignments. The goal is to allow teachers to be able to keep a traditional assessment format but ...
In this thesis, I examine contemporary stereotyping of Asian American students through the lens of the persistent and malleable legacy of Orientalism (Said 1978). I argue that Orientalism has evolved from a discourse of ...
As Rio prepares for the 2016 Olympics, the city and national government have tackled various issues that will define the city as “modern” on a global stage. This thesis examines how the redevelopment of transportation ...
Relationships between nature and the built environment of our cities often end up simplified and neglected, with urban planning focused on preserving park spaces, but not concerned with the city as a complete ecosystem. ...
In the mid-19th century, the spread of commuter rail service converged with growing demand for single-family homes amid open space and bucolic surroundings. By the late 19th century, a national class of elite inner railroad ...
This study is an aims to clarify the role of delta fos-b in the reinforcement of sexual behavior in Syrian (Golden) hamsters. We used a one-way ANOVA to compare levels of delta fos-b expression from experienced animals to ...
Past research has shown that children are able to implicitly learn the underlying melodic structure of their native culture's musical system, even without formal musical training. Although implicit musical learning has ...
This study aimed to investigate the effect of present extension on academic motivation, as mediated by psychological distance and construal of goal-oriented strategies. Present extension was manipulated by instructing ...
The way humans perceive and interact with time is a largely overlooked influence on behavior. Temporal perspective is the partition of subjective time into the past, present, and future. Little attention has been paid to ...
Social support is an invaluable component of our lives, and yet the way we perceive, use and benefit from support depends on one’s cultural background. Through two studies, we explored the differences between reciprocity ...
Naturally motivated behaviors, like sexual behavior, are subject to behavioral plasticity, which can affect neuronal function. The purpose of this study was to investigate the plasticity of sexual behavior and neural ...