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Common interests, competing subjectivities: U.S. and Latin American avant-garde film theory and practice
(2009-07-25)
This study focuses on seven canonical filmmakers of the 1960s: Fernando Birri, Stan Brakhage, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Glauber Rocha, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, and Andy Warhol. By reading their manifestos and ...
Structural Investigations of N3-(2-Hydroxy-3-buten-1-yl)-2'-deoxyuridine DNA Adducts
(2009-07-25)
Butadiene monoepoxide (BDO) is the major metabolite of butadiene (BD), a widely used petrochemical and known human and animal carcinogen. BD metabolites may be involved in BD-induced carcinogenicity primarily through the ...
Predictors of Criminal Charges for Youth in Public Mental Health Services During the Transition to Adulthood
(2009-07-29)
This dissertation is a collection of three studies examining the overlap between mental health services and being charged with a crime during the time of transition to adulthood from 16 to 25 years of age. The first study ...
Power and Pure Experience: A Metaphysics of Education
(2009-07-25)
In this dissertation I use the philosophies of William James and Friedrich Nietzsche to draw a connection between metaphysical conceptions of experience and the meaning and practice of democratic education. I argue that ...
The role of dietary fat in hypothalamic insulin and leptin resistance and the pathogenesis of obesity
(2009-08-03)
MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS
THE ROLE OF DIETARY FAT IN HYPOTHALAMIC INSULIN AND LEPTIN RESISTANCE AND THE PATHOGENESIS OF OBESITY
KELLY ANN POSEY
Dissertation under the direction of Kevin D. Niswender, M.D., ...
The Politics of Transnational Feminist Discourse: Framing across Differences, Building Solidarities
(2009-08-03)
This dissertation intervenes at the nexus of the literatures on social movement framing, transnational activism, and feminist theory through an analysis of frame variation within the contemporary transnational women’s ...
Temperature swing adsorption compression and membrane separations
(2009-09-01)
CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING
TEMPERATURE SWING ADSORPTION COMPRESSION AND
MEMBRANE SEPARATIONS
JOSEPH R. MOATE
Dissertation under the direction of Professor M. Douglas LeVan
The feasibility of the capture and ...
Regulation of dynein-dynactin during <i>Drosophila</i> spermatogenesis
(2009-09-22)
Dynein is a minus-end directed microtubule motor complex that is required for a diverse range of biological processes, from intracellular-cargo transport to cell migration. Dynein is regulated at multiple levels and its ...
Complex Realities: Black South African Women, HIV/AIDS, and Pentecostalism
(2009-09-21)
This study employs qualitative methods to describe black South African women’s experiences of HIV/AIDS in two Pentecostal church communities. It analyzes beliefs and practices, connecting gender roles and divine healing ...
Information abstraction visualization for human-robot interaction
(2009-07-28)
Future emergency incident responses, including Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE), will incorporate robots. The ability to interact with robots and understand the resulting volumes of ...