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Becoming American/Becoming New Yorkers: Immigrant Incorporation in a Majority Minority City
(Center for Migration Studies of New York, 2002)Many observers have noted that immigrants to the United States are highly concentrated in the largest metropolitan areas of a relatively few states. Though immigrants diffused into many places that had previously seen ... -
Becoming Euro-Mediterranean: Reframing Urban Space and Identity in Southern France
(2016-05-16)This dissertation analyzes how changes in infrastructure interact with cultural programming and rhetoric in a multi-faceted urban redevelopment project by examining social interactions, physical construction, and symbolic ... -
Becoming Part of the City? Place Identity and Inter-group Boundaries in Urbanizing China
(2023-11-21)Based upon 121 interviews conducted from 2017-2018 in Chongqing, one of China’s largest and fastest-growing megacities, this dissertation investigates how different populations of urban residents subjectively understand ... -
Bedlam in the New World: Madness, Colonialism, and a Mexican Madhouse,1567-1821
(2015-08-31)In spite of a vast and robust literature on madness and its institutions, colonial Mexico remains unchartered domain and little is known about the Hospital de San Hipólito in Mexico City, the first hospital of the Americas ... -
The Bee Microbiome: Impact on Bee Health and Model for Evolution and Ecology of Host-Microbe Interactions
(American Society for Microbiology, 2016)ABSTRACT As pollinators, bees are cornerstones for terrestrial ecosystem stability and key components in agricultural productivity. All animals, including bees, are associated with a diverse community of microbes, commonly ... -
BEEtag: A Low-Cost, Image-Based Tracking System for the Study of Animal Behavior and Locomotion
(Public Library of Science, 2015)A fundamental challenge common to studies of animal movement, behavior, and ecology is the collection of high-quality datasets on spatial positions of animals as they change through space and time. Recent innovations in ... -
Before 1962: The Case for 1950s China-India History
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017-07-20)China-India history of the 1950s remains mired in concerns related to border demarcations and a teleological focus on the causes, course, and consequences of the war of 1962. The result is an overt emphasis on diplomatic ... -
Before discipline: philology and the horizon of sense in Quignard's Sur le jadis
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Before We Embrace the Future: Assessing Where We've Been and Where We Are
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)Barack Obama was elected president of the United States shortly before this issue of the Du Bois Review went to press. The historic nature of the 2008 presidential campaign was evident early in the process, particularly ... -
The Beggar's Opera
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Behaving Like Animals: Human Cruelty, Animal Suffering, and American Culture, 1900-present
(2013-08-21)What does it mean to be cruel to an animal? What does it mean for an animal to suffer? These are the questions embedded in the term "cruelty to animals," which has seemed, at first glance, a well defined term in modern ... -
Behavior quantification as the missing link between fields: Tools for digital psychiatry and their role in the future of neurobiology
(2023-05-16)The great behavioral heterogeneity observed between individuals with the same psychiatric disorder and even within one individual over time complicates both clinical practice and biomedical research. However, modern ... -
Behavioral and Experimental Insights on Consumer Decisions and the Environment
(2016-05-19)In the following essays, I apply theoretical insights and experimental methods from behavioral science to address three questions at the intersection of environmental economics and consumer behavior. In Chapter 1, I use ... -
A Behavioral and Molecular Approach for Understanding Angelman Syndrome
(2016-01-13)Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a set of human developmental disorders that affects ~1 in 68 children. The clinical features of ASD include deficits in social behavior and frequent co-morbidity of motor, emotional and ... -
The Behavioral and Neural Basis of Empathic Blame
(Center for Open Science, 2017-12-11)Mature moral judgments rely both on a perpetrator’s intent to cause harm, and also on the actual harm caused–even when unintended. Much prior research asks how intent information is represented neurally, but little asks ... -
Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Executive Functioning in Musicians and Non-Musicians
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Executive functions (EF) are cognitive capacities that allow for planned, controlled behavior and strongly correlate with academic abilities. Several extracurricular activities have been shown to improve EF, however, the ... -
Behavioral convergence and adaptive radiation: effects of habitat use on territorial behavior in Anolis lizards
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)Most studies of adaptive radiations focus on morphological aspects of differentiation, yet behavior is also an important component of evolutionary diversification, often mediating the relationship between animal ecology ... -
Behavioral correlates of cheating: Environmental specificity and reward expectation
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017)Academic dishonesty has been and continues to be a major problem in America’s schools and universities. Such dishonesty is especially important in high schools, where grades earned directly impact the academic careers of ... -
Behavioral Correlates of Parasite Risk Among Humans, Primates, and Other Mammals: Social Contact, Exploratory Tendency, and the Foundations of Culture
(2017-05-13)Social learning and innovation are the behavioral processes that together create the emergent phenomenon of culture, which allows organisms to behaviorally adapt to and thrive in new environments. However, these processes ...