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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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(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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(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 ...
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(2015-06-24)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesZero tolerance school discipline policies have garnered increasing attention from the public and policymakers as a source of racial disparities in school discipline. While the literature suggests that exclusionary discipline ...
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(2008-05-07)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe general purpose of this study was to understand how zero tolerance policies have been implemented in schools since the passage of the Gun Free and Safe Schools Acts of 1997 (Jones, 1997). There were two guiding research ...
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(2017-04-06)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThis research is focused on developing a new type of gamma-ray scintillator and is motivated by the need for more accurate positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. PET scans are used to display regions of high-metabolic ...
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(2009-12-08)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThis study employs combined U-Th radiometric age and trace element analyses of zircon from rocks of the Swift Creek stage (16 to 10 ka) of Mount St. Helens in order to obtain time-temperature-composition records of the ...
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(2010-08-03)Department: PhilosophyMy dissertation explores the significance of “biopower” to forms of life and language in the contemporary West. Generally defined, biopower is a type of regulatory power that directs and fosters the biological life of ...
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(2013-07-23)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines the relationship between literature and zoology in early twentieth-century Britain, arguing that modernist literature’s representations of animals drew on and revised zoological understandings ...
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(2009-04-21)Department: NeuroscienceSynaptic plasticity is proposed to be a molecular mechanism underlying multiple forms of learning. The modulation of synaptic plasticity, therefore, may have profound consequences over behavior and may mediate pathological ...
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(2016-02-25)Department: Cancer BiologyAngiogenesis expands the vascular network during normal development and in response to angiogenic stress. Dysregulation of this dynamic process contributes to the pathogenesis of many diseases including retinopathies. The ...