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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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Armstrong's Axioms and Navigation Strategies

Publication Date
2018-February-02
Document Type
conference
Authors
Deuser, Kaya
Naumov, Pavel
Department or Program
Computer Science Department
Document Type
Conference
Abstract

The paper investigates navigability with imperfect information. It shows that the properties of navigability with perfect recall are exactly those captured by Armstrong's axioms from database theory. If the assumption of perfect recall is omitted, then Armstrong's transitivity axiom is...

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Automatic control: the vertebral column of dogfish sharks behaves as a continuously variable transmission with smoothly shifting functions

Publication Date
2016-July-07
Document Type
article
Authors
Marianne E. Porter
Ewoldt, Randy H.
Long, John H., Jr.
Department or Program
Biology Department
Cognitive Science Department
Document Type
Article
Abstract

During swimming in dogfish sharks, Squalus acanthias, both the intervertebral joints and the vertebral centra undergo significant strain. To investigate this system, unique among vertebrates, we cyclically bent isolated segments of 10 vertebrae and nine joints….

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Elinor and Anne: Emotional Isolation, Family, and Society in Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion

Publication Date
2023-December-12
Authors
Cazzaniga, Grace
Department or Program
English Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

In her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, and her last, Persuasion, Jane Austen centers the perspectives of gentry women, Elinor Dashwood and Anne Elliot, who were socially successful because of their ability to regulate their own emotions and influence those...

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The Politics of Mobility: Study Abroad in an Era of Climate Change

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Gibson, Anna
Department or Program
Science, Technology, and Society Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This paper explores the fundamental tension between mobility and the environmental consequences of the transportation that allows for that movement, zeroing in on the paradox of studying abroad in order to learn about climate or environmental sciences. With this, I...

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