Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

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.

"It's Gotta be the Shoes": A Case Study on Shoes, Distance Running, and Technology in Sport

Publication Date
2021-January-01
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Over one weekend at the beginning of October 2019, Eliud Kipchoge's sub-two-hour marathon in the INEOS 1:59 Challenge and Brigid Kosgei's world-record-breaking Chicago Marathon win reset the clock in terms of what was believed to be humanly possible in the...

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Budget-Constrained Dynamics in Multiagent Systems

Publication Date
2017-January-01
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The paper introduces a notion of a budget-constrained multiagent transition system that associates two financial parameters with each transition: a pre-transition minimal budget requirement and a post-transition profit. The paper proposes a new modal language for reasoning about such a...

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Inform or A to Z

Publication Date
2016-January-01
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Department or Program
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Designed to call attention to itself and the network of ideologies that create it, INFORM is a typeface that intentionally disrupts the process of reading in order to display the ways in which gender norms and typefaces structure one another...

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