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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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"Digital Punk Rock Spirit:" A Spatial Reorientation of Asian American Diasporic Subcultural Subjectivities

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Le, Richard
Department or Program
Urban Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This thesis is about Asian Americans creating and seeking a spaces of belonging, in and between essentialisms of racial, national, ethnic, and cultural borders. Starting from the 1800s, Chinese laborers formed ethnic communities and contested their belonging under the state-sanctioned...

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Deleting tonB4 and tonB6 in B. thetaiotaomicron

Publication Date
2023-September-15
Authors
Shu, George
Department or Program
Biochemistry Program
Document Type
Research
Access Level
Open
Abstract

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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Energy Consumption and Habit Formation: Evidence from High Frequency Thermostat Data

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
article
Authors
Ge, Qi
Ho, Benjamin
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Article
Abstract

Using minute-by-minute data from over 60,000 smart thermostats in households distributed across the United States, we analyze the persistence of energy consumption behaviors in response to external weather shocks. The analysis examines habitual behavior and provides insight into what affects...

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Trust and the Law

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Ho, Benjamin
David Huffman
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This chapter provides a selective review of the literature on trust and the law. We highlight the psychological and game theoretic mechanisms underpinning the role of trust in relationships with incomplete contracts. We also discuss evidence on whether behavioral trust...

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