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Item TikTok poetry: the death of art or a new frontier?(Oklahoma State University, 2024-04-16)Poetry as an art form shifts and evolves alongside new developments in communication and technology. The emergence of TikTok has provided a new medium for poets to experiment with. My thesis will investigate how poets engage with TikTok’s trends, algorithms, and formats. Much like popular Instagram poetry during the 2010s, TikTok poetry tends to be broad in an effort to be relatable and easy to consume. However, the app’s unique combination of audio and visual elements adds a new dimension to poetry written for social media: sound. TikTok poets certainly draw inspiration from slam poetry, though with a few significant departures. TikTok poetry also follows trends and is largely written to gain followers and popularity, not just for the sake of writing poetry. Its surface-level nature also garners criticism from people who don’t consider it “real poetry.” However, there are some instances of TikTok users stumbling upon poetry as a vehicle for critiquing the state of society and internet culture at large. Alongside the poems reminiscent of popular Instapoetry, a whole new type of TikTok poetry is emerging—the type that can only exist because of TikTok itself.Item Pheromone binding to pest control: investigating olfaction mechanisms in Ostrinia furnacalis(Oklahoma State University, 2024-04-16)Understanding the molecular intricacies of pheromone binding and release in insects is paramount for developing innovative and eco-friendly pest control strategies. Pheromones are hydrophobic and volatile chemicals that are secreted by female insects to attract the male insects for mating. Pheromone-binding proteins (PBPs) in the antennae of male insects serve a crucial role in transporting hydrophobic pheromone molecules to olfactory receptor neurons (ORN). This process enables male insects to locate a mate. Unraveling this mechanism opens the door to designing synthetic ligands that can compete with natural pheromones, confusing male pests and impeding their mating. Such an approach offers an effective pest mitigation strategy without the reliance on traditional pesticides.Item The Deaf Experience, Deaf Expression project and how it is tied to the social determinants of health using thematic analysis(Oklahoma State University, 2024-04-16)The Deaf Experience, Deaf Expression (DXDX) project is a large-scale research study that was launched to serve members of our community. Our purpose is to gather interviews documenting real-life experiences from deaf people across the lifespan. We aim to create a database for newly diagnosed individuals, parents, friends, and professionals to use as a community resource. This collection will serve as a convenient guide to support deaf people and their family members through major life decisions.Item LASER pulse simulations on bilayer thin films for optimal high entropy alloy formation(Oklahoma State University, 2024-04-16)High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) are a new class of material where particles are composed of five or more elements in approximately equimolar proportion. One of the ways to form these materials are by layering thin films of pure metallic elements and melting these nanofilms with a laser pulse. In a fraction of a second, laser pulse melts the element layers which coagulate into spherical nanoparticles of mixed composition, cool, and solidify into HEA nanoparticles. An optimal temperature must be achieved during laser irradiation; otherwise, the metals will not form nanoparticles or will be vaporized. The purpose of this research is to determine the optimal thickness and orientation of a bilayer Silver and Cobalt thin film system in order to form nanoparticles containing these two elements in equimolar proportion. This will act as the prototypical studies to expand on HEAs. Because laser irradiation is costly, both in time and material, COMSOL Multiphysics will be used to simulate the laser pulse-induced melting and solidification on Ag-Co thin films. Various combinations of layer thickness and orientation will be simulated under a laser pulse, and the maximum temperature of each film combination will be recorded. R will be used to analyze the data acquired in this study. Using the temperature data, the film combination for optimal nanoparticle creation of an Ag-Co bilayer system will be determined. The results of this research can be used to predict the ideal thickness and orientation of more complicated thin film systems, such as those with more or different elements.Item Relationship of different bacterial strain food source qualities on Caenorhabditis elegans(Oklahoma State University, 2024-04-16)In most research regarding the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) the food source used to feed the worms is Escherichia coli (E. coli) not for the actual quality of the bacterium but because of its abundance and accessibility in the laboratory setting. The C. elegans have a preference for higher quality food sources which can lead to better growth and movement of the C. elegans. The use of different bacterial strains that vary based on quality, from high to low, would explain the movement of the C. elegans, and could be used to test the willingness of the worms to travel for a better food source. The smaller microbial size of the bacteria would promote easy uptake for the C. elegans which could also lead to greater movement to high quality souce. The three bacterial strains used in this study are as follows; Escherichia coli (E. coli) which is described as medium quality, DA1877 Comamonas which is described as high quality, and DA1880 Bacillus megaterium which is described as low quality. The C. elegans will be kept in maintenance on circular agar plates E. coli as their standard food source. There will be three different bacterial strains that will be placed on the trial square agar plates sized 100mm x 100mm. These trial agar plates will contain two of the three different bacterial strains to test movement between the two strains based on their quality. On each of the trial agar plates, the two different bacterial strains will differ in quality to determine the willingness of the C. elegans to move to the “higher” food source. For example, the agar plate will contain high-quality food source on one end and low-quality on the other. These trials will be in replicates of three. The agar plates will contain three L4 stage C. elegans on the plate after the resource has been added and will be incubated at 20°C for 120 hours and then counted to understand the distribution and population abundance of the C. elegans.
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