Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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(2024-03-22)Department: PharmacologyThe canonical Wnt signaling pathway is a master regulator of metazoan development and disease. The tumor suppressor APC negatively regulates Wnt pathway activation, and is conventionally thought to function primarily in ...
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(2012-03-28)Department: ReligionRELIGION “WOMANISH” MODES OF PLAY AS A CULTURAL SIGNIFICATION: WOMANIST TENETS AND ETHICAL DEVELOPMENT FOR BLACK FEMALE HUMAN FLOURISHING LAKISHA LOCKHART Thesis under the direction of Professor Victor Anderson ...
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(2019-06-17)Department: Creative WritingWomen and Children First is the story of the coastal Massachusetts town Nashquitten, and the ways a girl’s murder reverberates through the community. Told through the eyes of several women and girls of the town, these ...
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(2016-11-30)Department: HistoryIn 1600, literate Venetian society witnessed the publication of Moderata Fonte’s dialogue Il merito delle donne. Set in a sun-splashed garden, the text features a brigata of women who spar over the merits of men and married ...
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Women's Decisional Conflict, Anxiety and Coping Strategies Following Diagnosis of Fetal Abnormality (2008-05-12)Department: Nursing ScienceFor most women pregnancy is a positive transition in their life. The diagnosis of a fetal abnormality creates an uncertain outcome for the transitional process of becoming a parent. A prenatal diagnosis of fetal abnormality ...
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(2014-10-31)Department: Human GeneticsPersonalized medicine, the individualization of clinical care based, in part, upon an individual’s genetic background, can be thought of as a three step process: scientific discovery, validation, and clinical implementation. ...
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(2014-04-03)Department: GermanMy project reveals that German women around 1800 used the essay to participate in the emerging public sphere. I build on the work of Rohner, Schärf and McCarthy that positions the German essay as an established literary ...
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(2010-08-12)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores women’s decision-making and experiences with the medical, social, and moral issues of open-uterine surgery to repair spina bifida. Part I identifies the medical and ethical discourses that typically ...
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(2023-08-15)Department: Nursing ScienceBackground: Mind-body therapies can improve mental and physical health outcomes for women with trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, greater awareness of body sensations can lead to adverse responses ...
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(2017-04-05)Department: ReligionIn this thesis I offer a critique of the United States health care system and posit that a better relationship between the social sciences and theology could pave the way for better public health programs and services. My ...
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(2010-08-02)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of the current study was to extend the literature on decoding by bringing together two lines of research, namely person and word factors that affect decoding, using a crossed random-effects model. The sample ...
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(2018-04-02)Department: ReligionThis dissertation delineates an interlocking set of hermeneutic challenges that have historically beset Protestant biblical interpretation, particularly in Protestant communities that have maintained close allegiance to ...
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(2024-03-18)Department: Nursing ScienceNP burnout is on the rise, with factors in the work environment including lack of autonomy, inequities in practice support, and hierarchical leadership to blame. A framework, the Social Ecology of Burnout is presented to ...
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(2008-05-20)Department: PsychologyWork preferences, life values, and personal views of top math/science graduate students (275 males, 255 females) were assessed at age 25 and age 35. In Study I, analyses of work preferences revealed developmental changes ...
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(2019-08-14)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesPractitioners and policymakers agree that teachers and students can benefit when teachers spend more time working together. However, the nature and productivity of collaboration actually done in schools seems to vary widely. ...
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(2014-07-18)Department: PhilosophyAs the cognitive sciences reveal more and more to us about the ways in which ours brains function, legal scholars, philosophers, and bioethicists are but a few of the academics that will have accommodate this increasing ...
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(2015-03-23)Department: Computer ScienceRobotic technology is developing rapidly, and humans are beginning to be partnered with robots. Human-robot interaction is an interdisciplinary field encompassing research questions regarding the extent of the impact of ...
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(2022-04-21)Department: ReligionChristian worship creates a formative space which takes shape through the participation of individuals and shapes individuals in return. This dissertation builds a model based on George Herbert Mead’s developmental theory ...
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(2010-04-16)Department: SpanishSPANISH WRITING AND REBELLION IN PLÁCIDO’S POETRY JACKIE VERNON WILLEY Thesis under the direction of Professor William Luis Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés – popularly known as Plácido – is considered one of the most ...
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(2022-05-17)Department: Spanish & PortugueseThis dissertation is the most comprehensive survey of slavery in Afro-Latin American literary narrative to date. Of the approximately 12.5 million Africans trafficked in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, an estimated 7 million ...