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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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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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Does Might Make Right? An Exploration of Policing in the Shanghai French Concession

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Sun, Alex
Department or Program
Asian Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This thesis examines the use of policing to quell social unrest as a form of state management in the Shanghai's French Concession during the early twentieth century.

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Rave Capital: Struggles over Space in Berlin’s Electronic Music Scene

Publication Date
2023-April-26
Authors
Koester, Alexander
Department or Program
Earth Science and Geography Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

This thesis examines the evolution and spatial manifestation of Berlin’s electronic music scene, particularly its techno and club subculture, as it struggles with the dominant culture of the city for space and the right to the city. Through a historical...

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The Moral of the Mulberry: Early Vernacular Reinterpretations of Pyramus and Thisbe

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Bronstein, Molly
Department or Program
Independent Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

This thesis concerns the transmission of Ovid's <em>Metamorphoses </em>and the story of Pyramus and Thisbe during the Late Middle Ages, and early reinterpretations of the tale in Italian, Old French, and Middle English in the fourteenth century. Ovid's original version...

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