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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.

Deleting tonB4 and tonB6 in B. thetaiotaomicron

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2023-September-15
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Complex carbohydrates are composed of diverse monosaccharide subunits and various glycosidic linkages; a plethora of substrate-specific enzymes are needed to digest them for primary metabolism. A unique feature of the Bacteroidetes genome is the presence of polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs)...

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Techno-Orientalism in contemporary Hollywood cinema

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2016-January-01
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Within the last few decades, cyberpunk has burgeoned in various fields of art, literature, and cinema. "Techno-Orientalism," the depiction of the "orient" in a digitalized environment, has been a major theme in cyberpunk. In works like Neal Stephenson's <em>Snow Crash </em>...

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Thurman Opening Comments

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2024-February-15
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Opening comments by Jonathon Kahn for the "The Reverend Howard Thurman, Blackness, and Vassar College: Student Panel and Presentations" event on
Feb 15, 2024 5:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. in the Villard Room.

Black theologian Howard Thurman has been widely credited with...

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