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(2020-11-14)Department: GermanInspired by Hermano Vianna's 1996 book, O Mistério do Samba, that details the intersection of music, culture and politics, as well as the appropriation and nationalization of Samba in service to Getulio Vargas' government, ...
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(2014-11-25)Department: SpanishThis dissertation questions the viability of nation-building in nineteenth-century Mexico through an analysis of travel writing, the circulation of documents, and the representation of subjects in transit. I study a wide ...
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(2020-03-18)Department: English“[O]ur eyes locked,” reflects Chester Himes’s black protagonist Bob Jones about his mutual gaze with the “peroxide blonde,” “then she deliberately put on a frightened, wide-eyed look . . . as if she was a naked virgin and ...
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(2014-06-18)Department: Special EducationIn this study, 69 grade 4 students were randomly assigned to a writing to learn (n = 23), comparison (n = 23), or control (n = 23) condition. In treatment and comparison, students made predictions and recorded results for ...
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(2017-12-01)Department: Electrical EngineeringTotal ionizing dose effects are investigated on a physically unclonable function (PUF) based on CMOS breakdown. Devices irradiated to 2.0 Mrad(SiO2) show less than 11% change in current ratio at 1.2 V. The read-out window ...
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(2019-08-21)Department: HistoryThe following dissertation examines how the US Army created and utilized new technologies to address the problem of heroin abuse in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks the creation and implementation of urine drug ...
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(2017-04-12)Department: SociologyThe cultural practice of tattooing has a long and vibrant history, and previous scholars have explored their meanings from a variety of theoretical viewpoints ranging from their aesthetic qualities to their ability to ...
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(2006-12-05)Department: SociologyThe 2000 Census was the first time in United States’ history that citizens could indicate more than one race to describe their racial identity. Who does so is due to a multi-factored, complex process. For Black/White ...
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(2019-11-22)Department: ReligionRELIGION Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics Laine Walters Young Dissertation under the direction ...
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(2009-09-25)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis study provides information on the number of youth in Nashville who experience homeless episodes and describes the experience of literally homeless youth in Nashville. The study included two data collection efforts: a ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityVisualizing and reasoning about space are foundational to the epistemic enterprise of mathematics. However, current K-12 math curriculum largely neglects cultivating children’s mathematical understandings of and visualizing ...
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(2017-04-03)Department: PsychologyThe current research examines the effect of experience with smartphone photography and live video on children’s ability to use representational media as a source of information to solve a current problem. In research ...
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(2013-04-18)Department: PsychologyBy the time children reach the preschool years, they have become skilled in two social abilities: 1) dividing their world into social groups and evaluating people based on group dimensions; and 2) learning from social ...
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(2024-03-15)Department: Nursing ScienceEarly childhood experiences can impact lifelong well-being, and siblings of children with cancer face psychosocial risks. However, limited research has focused on young siblings under seven years of age, impeding effective ...
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(2011-06-30)Department: EnglishThis paper is concerned with the status of the object in late Victorian England. It involves a close analysis of Sir Richard F. Burton’s translation of “Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp” from his Thousand Nights and One ...
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(2012-12-12)Department: Community Research and ActionThis project was undertaken with the general goal of improving the wellness of disadvantaged young people. Low-income, urban youth face a variety of ecological barriers to their positive development. These young people ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Computer ScienceAs adolescents (ages 13-17) are increasingly engaging with others online, it is critical to understand the potential privacy and security risks they experience. Prior research on the digital privacy and security of youth ...
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(2010-07-29)Department: Community Research and ActionSociopolitical development (SPD) offers a promising approach to work with marginalized youth to help them negotiate ecological factors in their development. SPD refers to one’s consciousness of and engagement in action ...
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(2018-08-01)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Molecular PharmacologyTwo-component systems (TCSs) are an important class of signal transduction systems in bacteria. TCSs can control many aspects of bacterial physiology and are vital intermediaries that allow a bacterium to monitor its ...