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Browsing College of Arts and Sciences Honors Theses by Issue Date
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Sidney's Strangers: Language, Materiality, and Authenticity in Astrophil and Stella
(2006-04-17)This thesis examines the exegetical, intellectual-historical, and theoretical implications of a particular feature of Philip Sidney?s late sixteenth-century sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella: its continual anxiety over ... -
Reading Jacob's Room as a Transmission of Shocks
(2006-05-30)This thesis examines Virginia Woolf's 1923 novel Jacob's Room as a transmission of what Woolf in her unfinished memoir refers to as 'shocks.' In A Sketch of the Past, Woolf describes the experience of these shocks and her ... -
A better model for membrane study: Mapping the effects of SOPC in a quaternary phase diagram
(2008-05-09)In my study, I attempt to create a unique and more biologically relevant model of the cholesterol-rich exoplasmic leaflet of animal plasma membranes. Using electroswelling to create giant unilamellar vesicles, fluorescence ... -
A novel hydroxyapatite-containing 3-D model to study the effects of mechanical loading on breast cancer bone metastasis
(2013-05)Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women in the United States, and most of these deaths are due to metastasis to a secondary site, which is primarily the skeleton. The connection between ... -
Macrophage plasticity and manipulation of macrophage activation pathways by intracellular parasite toxoplasma gondii
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Optimization of non-viral transfection methods for equine mesenchymal stem cells
(2013-05)Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have exciting medical potential, especially those that are genetically modified. Non-viral methods for genetic modification present several advantages over viral methods, and hence, such methods ... -
Optimization of non-viral transfection methods for equine mesenchymal stem cells
(2013-05)Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have exciting medical potential, especially those that are genetically modified. Non-viral methods for genetic modification present several advantages over viral methods, and hence, such methods ... -
Exploring the functional role of the bacterial protein SeqA and co--?occurring genome stability systems in TnsE--?mediated Tn7 transposition using the E. coli model system
(2013-05)Transposon Tn7, is unique among transposons for both its target specificity and selectivity. One of its target selection pathways, mediated by the protein TnsE, has been found to allow Tn7 to preferentially transpose into ... -
A Comparison of Equine Infectious Anemia Virus, Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1, and Rous Sarcoma Virus Plasma Membrane Binding Requirements for Retrovirus Assembly
(2013-07-11)Plasma membrane (PM) association is an essential step in the retroviral life cycle that involves the complex association of the Gag polyprotein with cellular machinery, RNA, and specific lipid signatures of the inner ... -
The Effects of Small Molecule VU573 and Barium on Malpighian Tubule Electrophysiology of the Yellow Fever Mosquito Aedes aegypti
(2013-07-12)VU573 is a synthetic organic molecule weighing 350 daltons, found to block inwardly-rectifying potassium (Kir) channels in high-throughput screening. In order to evaluate VU573 as a novel pesticide capable of inducing ... -
Immunohistochemical quantification of serotonin and serotonin transporters in the lumbar region of the mouse spinal cord after spinal cord injury
(2013-07-12)Central pattern generators (CPGs) are important neuronal networks that are made up of interneurons that organize rhythmic motor output such as respiration, mastication, and locomotion. Locomotor CPGs are located in the ... -
Analysis of Selection Patterns in Germline Stem Cell Genes (Stonewall, Otefin) in Drosophila pseudoobscura
(2013-07-15)Previous experiments have shown two germline stem cell genes, bam and bgcn, to be under strong positive selection in Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans (Bauer DuMont et al. 2007). This prompted the question ... -
Kar2 modification as a response to reactive oxygen species generated from protein folding machinery inside the endoplasmic reticulum
(2014-01)Reactive oxygen species are generated as a byproduct of protein folding inside the endoplasmic reticulum. Hydrogen peroxide is a particular form of reactive oxygen that can damage and modify DNA as well as cellular proteins. ... -
Novel epoxide-based glutamate agonist class of pesticide: Synthesis, binding mechanism, and potency
(2014-05)Global food production poses one of the greatest challenges for the planet in coming decades, and synthesis of next generation safer pesticides ranks among the important methods in combating this challenge. The vast majority ... -
Through Athena's Eyes: The William Henry Sage Collection of Casts
(2014-05)This Anthropology honors thesis combines Anthropology, Archaeology, and Museum Studies to discusses the history and analyzes the importance of the William Henry Sage Collection of Casts, which was brought to Cornell ... -
Effect of female reproductive diapause on Drosophila melanogaster innate immune defense
(2014-05)Drosophila melanogaster females undergo reproductive dormancy, or diapause, under conditions of low temperature and short daylight hours. This stage is characterized by non-vitellogenic ovaries, increased lipid stores, ... -
Mutagenesis of a conserved cysteine in the Hsp70 molecular chaperone BiP: Impact of amino acid substitution on BiP’s ability to protect cells against endoplasmic reticulumderived oxidative stress
(2015-01)Recently, it has been shown that oxidative protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) produces potentially significant amounts of cellular reactive oxygen species (ROS). Although ROS accumulation can cause profound ...
