Mahir
Yasar
Sponsor: Fumika Hamada, Ph.D. Neuro Physio & Behavior Quality sleep is essential for maintaining health, as sleep deficiency heightens risks of injury and mortality, and decreases productivity. Our research aims to improve overall sleep quality by understanding how body temperature affects sleep. We use the common fruit fly, Drosophila, as a model system for human body temperature rhythm (BTR), as circadian rhythm is conserved across flies and humans. Specifically, both fly and human temperatures increase during wakefulness and decrease during sleep. To understand how BTR and sleep interact, we developed a method to monitor BTR and sleep which combines day-night video recording and open-source motion tracking to measure the frequency, length, and preferred temperature of sleep. Using past research that defines fly sleep as five minutes of inactivity, we selected flies with mutated clock genes (per01) and compared their sleep behavior to wild-type flies (w1118 and Canton-S) across a temperature gradient of 18-32ºC. Results show that longer sleep is achieved early in the night before shorter sleep in conjunction with the anticipation period. Flies exhibit longer sleep bouts coinciding with lower body temperature and shorter sleep bouts with higher body temperature. This pattern correlates with the sleep-body temperature relationship in humans. Analysis of the Representation of Iraqis in the 1960s by the New York Times
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How does the New York Times represent Iraqis in the 1960s? Using ProQuest and confining my search to front page articles, editorials, and articles, I screened a total of 867 articles, of which 17 were relevant to my research. The research was initially focused on NYT's portrayal of Iraq's new Prime Minister Karim Qasim and his sympathies with the socialist politics of the Soviet Union, which had increasing influence over the Middle East at the time, or the capitalist economic models of so-called "Western" states like that of the United States and the United Kingdom. The research focus then shifted going into 1962 and Qasim's socialist tendencies waned, the representation of Iraqi politics transitioned from an underdeveloped, politically unstable nation allying itself with the USSR to orientalism prominent among representation of the Arab world at large. One such depiction commonly found in this stage is that of Iraqi men as a primitive, barbaric demographic that is easily prone to violence and disruption. This research is part of a long-term analysis project of the NYT from 1850 to the present from the Suad Joseph Lab. The project analyzes the representation of Islam and Muslims over 150 years. Assessing 24-48 Month Old Visual Short Term Memory Using A Touch Screen Change- Localization Task Jessica Ye
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UC Davis / Anthropology / 2024
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