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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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How Do We Learn and Think about Sex? An exploration into the effects of popular media and media literacy on sex education

Publication Date
2024-May-09
Authors
Puckrein, Gari
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

This project is an exploration of the ways popular media interacts with sex education and sex-positivity. This paper is a mixture of scholarly research and auto-ethnographic work. While data and critical analysis often feels reductive to lived experiences, I approach...

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Iteratively Linking Words Using Word2Vec and Cosine Similarity

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Kevin Ros
Department or Program
Computer Science
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

We propose an algorithm that constructs relationships among any number of seed words. A relationship consists of a set of iteratively-generated paths of similar words, where each path links one seed word to another. The similar words are generated using...

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Lighthouse principle for diffusion in social networks

Publication Date
2018-January-01
Document Type
article
Authors
Azimipoor, Sanaz
Naumov, Pavel
Department or Program
Computer Science Department
Document Type
Article
Abstract

The article investigates an influence relation between two sets of agents in a social network. It proposes a logical system that captures propositional properties of this relation valid in all threshold models of social networks with the same structure. The...

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Vincent and Vassar

Publication Date
2019-May
Authors
Streett, Laura
Johnson, Colton
Lieb, Gretchen
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
Document Type
Exhibition Catalog
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Vincent and Vassar Was organized by the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library and the Millay Society Board.

Layout and typography by George Laws, and print production oversight by Daniel Lasecki at Vassar’s Office of Publications. 500 copies were...

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