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Crisis and Repair in Intercultural Relationships: A Theological, Psychological, and Postcolonial Analysis
(2010-04-16)
In this dissertation, I argue that pastoral theologians must better understand crises of intercultural misunderstanding and help repair them. Pastoral theologians study human suffering and fulfillment in relation to ...
Development of the SiliSPECT Small-Animal Imager
(2010-04-12)
SiliSPECT, a multi-pinhole, multi-detector SPECT system, was designed to image targeted regions of rodents at sub-300 micron resolution with stationary data acquisition. High spatial resolution is achieved with thick silicon ...
A Special Relativity
(2010-04-28)
A Special Relativity is the story of a family living in Orange County, California. The novella takes place during one summer. Vanden West—beautiful and cruel—has just returned home from college on the East Coast to find ...
Detection and characterization of glycans and glycoconjugates using ion mobility-mass spectrometry
(2010-04-12)
Many of the diseases associated with glycoprotein variation can be more effectively treated with earlier detection substantiating the need for high-throughput methodologies for glycoconjugate characterization. This remains ...
Nanoparticles as the sole building blocks of macroscopic solids
(2010-04-26)
Colloidal nanoparticles in an assortment of shapes (e.g., spherical, rod-like, tube-like, sheet-like) have been the focus of far-reaching research pursuits due to their attractive material-dependent and size-dependent ...
Monitoring the Long-Term Performance of Engineered Containment Systems: The Role of Ecological Processes
(2010-04-27)
A common approach used to isolate contaminants in the environment and mitigate associated human and ecological risks is to apply engineered covers over landfills used for disposal of radioactive, hazardous chemical and ...
Waiting and Being: Creation, Grace, and Agency
(2010-04-19)
This dissertation isolates and analyzes the different historical approaches to the systematic theological problem of the union of the doctrines of creation and grace. I argue that the history of Western theology’s grappling ...
An Analysis of Teachers' Use of Praise and Reprimands in Relation to Student Behavior
(2010-04-20)
The author presented an examination of teachers’ use of praise and reprimands in relation to student behaviors for students identified as exhibiting problem behaviors. Data were examined from student-centered observations ...
Bmp signaling in pulmonary vascular homeostasis and disease
(2010-04-22)
Bone morphogenetic protein (Bmp) signaling is critical for vascular development and homeostasis. Defects in this pathway lead to multiple vascular diseases, including Heritable Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (HPAH), which ...
Automaticity of Basic-Level Categorization Accounts for Naming Effects in Recognition Memory
(2010-04-26)
What is the consequence of calling objects by their names? Lupyan (2008) suggests that overtly naming objects at the basic-level impairs subsequent recognition memory because naming shifts the memory representation towards ...