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Item Comparative Phylogeography of a Coevolved Community: Concerted Population Expansions in Joshua Trees and Four Yucca Moths(PLOS, 2011-10-18) Smith, Christopher Irwin; Tank, Shantel; Godsoe, William; Levenick, Jim; Strand, Eva; Esque, Todd; Pellmyr, OlleItem The Conventional Housewife Takes on Quantum Physics: The Role of Margrethe in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen(2008-02-12T16:33:12Z) Winter, HollyItem Dictyostelium Myosin Bipolar Thick Filament Formation: Importance of Charge and Specific Domains of the Myosin Rod(Public Library of Science, 2004-11) Altman, David; Hostetter, Daniel; Rice, Sarah; Dean, Sara; McMahon, Peggy M.; Sutton, Shirley; Tripathy, Ashutosh; Spudich, James A.Myosin-II thick filament formation in Dictyostelium is an excellent system for investigating the phenomenon of self-assembly, as the myosin molecule itself contains all the information required to form a structure of defined size. Phosphorylation of only three threonine residues can dramatically change the assembly state of myosin-II. We show here that the C-terminal 68 kDa of the myosin-II tail (termed AD-Cterm) assembles in a regulated manner similar to full-length myosin-II and forms bipolar thick filament (BTF) structures when a green fluorescent protein (GFP) "head" is added to the N terminus. The localization of this GFP-AD-Cterm to the cleavage furrow of dividing Dictyostelium cells depends on assembly state, similar to full-length myosin-II. This tail fragment therefore represents a good model system for the regulated formation and localization of BTFs. By reducing regulated BTF assembly to a more manageable model system, we were able to explore determinants of myosin-II self-assembly. Our data support a model in which a globular head limits the size of a BTF, and the large-scale charge character of the AD-Cterm region is important for BTF formation. Truncation analysis of AD-Cterm tail fragments shows that assembly is delicately balanced, resulting in assembled myosin-II molecules that are poised to disassemble due to the phosphorylation of only three threonines.Item Love & Romance in 21st-Century Hollywood Superhero Films(2013-09-24) Lyman, NatalieSuperhero films and media culture constitute America’s contemporary mythology, taking elements from world cultures and mythologies to combine/remake them in fictional worlds heavily influenced by science-fiction and technological advancement. Since 2000, more than eighty Hollywood films and several TV shows focused on superheroes have appeared in the U.S. – and all of them include themes of romantic and other types of love. Yet, this topic remains almost entirely unexplored in the scholarly literature on superheroes and comics culture. Why is love so important to superheroes, and furthermore, what is “love” in the superhero universe? How realistic are these images of love, partnership, and family that today reach a massive audience and gross billions of dollars in the movie industry? This project explores the 21st-century Hollywood superhero film in terms of popular media myths about love and romance, as well as themes and qualities of love specific to the superhero genre. Issues of gender and spectatorship are also considered.Item The Princess and the Platformer: The Evolving Heroine in Nintendo Adventure Games(2008-02-12T16:29:05Z) Phelps, KatharineFemale characters, even as a token love interest, have been a mainstay in adventure games ever since Nintendo became a household name. One of the oldest and most famous is the princess of the Super Mario games, whose only role is to be kidnapped and rescued again and again, ad infinitum. Such a character is hardly emblematic of feminism and female empowerment. Yet much has changed in video games since the early 1980s, when Mario was born. Have female characters, too, changed fundamentally? How much has feminism and changing ideas of women in Japan and the US impacted their portrayal in console games? To address these questions, I will discuss three popular female characters in Nintendo adventure game series. By examining the changes in portrayal of these characters through time and new incarnations, I hope to find a kind of evolution of treatment of women and their gender roles.Item The Role of Freedom of Expression in a Multicultural and Democratic Society(Willamette University, 2007-03) Harmer, Peter A.; Basu, Sammy; Lathrop, Arminda; Hanson, Chris; Menely, Tobias; Binford, Warren; Kaczmarek, Joseph; McGaughey, Douglas R.; Farrin, Cassandra; Schmidt, Rich; Córdova, Nathaniel I.; Lawless, ShannonItem The Sackett Brothers(2015-05-08) Dod, BronteA biography of three brothers, Vernor Martin Sackett, Sheldon Frederick Sackett, and Leland Russell Sackett, told using the photographs of the Vernor Martin Sackett Negatives Collection in the University Archives.Item Science and the Staging of Copenhagen(2008-02-12T16:31:16Z) Riley, Alexandra E.Item Sunscreen or Smokescreen?(2015-07-13) Silverstein, ToddThis letter to the Editor of the Chemical & Engineering News brings up the potential for sunscreen use in relation to increasing cancer rates. This document is the unedited author's version of a Submitted Work that was subsequently accepted for publication in Chemical & Engineering News, copyright © American Chemical Society. To access the final edited and published work see http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i28/Sunscreen-Smoke-Screen.html and http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/articlesonrequest/index.html.