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Enacting Youth: political agency and youth subjectivities in Tactic, Guatemala
(2019-07-29)
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Tactic, Guatemala, this dissertation explores the articulation of youth subjectivities and political agency in a context of social and political inequality. This research focuses on ...
The Emergence of the Ancient Kaqchikel Polity: A case of Ethnogenesis in the Guatemalan Highlands
(2019-07-29)
This dissertation explores the Kaqchikel ethnogenesis as an expression of resistance against the K’iche during the Late Postclassic period (1200 -1524 C.E.) in the highlands of Guatemala. Ethnogenesis is understood as a ...
Time-dependent and Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Routing using Federated Learning
(2019-07-30)
With rapid urbanization, route planning is gaining more importance. As transportation networks become more complex and mobility in our society more important, the demand for efficient methods in route planning increases ...
Radiation Effects on Breast Tissue-Derived Extracellular Matrix Hydrogels
(2019-08-01)
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer that lacks estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and HER2, making it difficult to treat with conventional medicine. One common form of ...
Characterizing Multiple Memory Systems in Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
(2019-08-08)
Cognitive rehabilitation following brain injury rests on the ability of clinicians to support their patients’ (re)learning of knowledge, skills, and strategies. Learning and memory are therefore central to the success of ...
An Archaeology of Taki Onqoy: Revitalization and Entanglement in Colonial Peru
(2019-08-13)
This dissertation presents the results from the first archaeological study of Taki Onqoy, a sixteenth-century religious revitalization movement practiced by Andean peoples in Peru in resistance to Spanish cultural traditions ...
Vibroacoustic methods for corrosion-state monitoring in nuclear power plant secondary piping structures
(2019-08-15)
Pipe wall corrosion in nuclear power plants has been identified as a critical cause of plant degradation. The application of risk-informed in-service inspection techniques has significantly improved the relative core damage ...
USING A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT TO EVALUATE PEDESTRIAN STREET CROSSING DECISIONS AT A TRAFFIC ROUNDABOUT
(2019-08-14)
Immersive virtual environments provide an opportunity to study phenomenon that would be difficult, hazardous, or expensive to study in the real world. This work presents the development of and controlled studies in an ...
A Defense of Angry Blame
(2019-08-21)
While blame is not a difficult practice to defend, in part because of its ineradicability in our moral lives, angry blame has been a tougher sell. Critics of angry blame cast it as an unnecessary, punitive, or unproductive ...
The Venezuelan Diaspora: Toward a New Understanding of Forced Migration
(2019-08-19)
I argue in this thesis that the massive flow of Venezuelan emigration started after 2015 must be understood as a non-voluntary kind of migration because of the similar patterns that this ongoing process shares with previous ...