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Geist und Macht in den 1960er Jahren: Drei Wege zu einer „kurzen Ehe“ oder wie die westdeutschen Schriftsteller politisch wurden
(2017-03-31)
This dissertation investigates the grounds for the West-German writer’s politicization during the 1960s with its most prominent manifestation being the brief alliance between the authors and the Social Democratic Party. ...
Empirical Bayes Methods for Everyday Statistical Problems
(2017-01-27)
This work develops an empirical Bayes approach to statistical difficulties that arise in real-world applications. Empirical Bayes methods use Bayesian machinery to obtain statistical estimates, but rather than having a ...
Electrospun Particle/Polymer Fiber Mat Electrodes for Li-ion Batteries
(2017-01-04)
Since their commercial debut in 1991, Li-ion batteries (LIBs) have revolutionized the functionality of portable electronic devices, and the LIB industry continues to grow today due emerging applications such as electric ...
Networks of Violence: Bioarchaeological and Spatial Perspectives on Physical, Structural, and Cultural Violence in the Lower Majes Valley, Arequipa, Peru, in the Pre- and Early-Wari Eras
(2017-12-21)
This dissertation examines mortuary traditions, cranial trauma, violent dismemberment, and cranial hyperostoses among a mortuary population from the cemetery of Uraca, in the Majes Valley, Arequipa, Peru. AMS dates show ...
Improvements in Friction Stir Welding Control System and an Extremum Controller for Tracking Friction Stir Extrusion Process
(2017-11-22)
Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is a solid state joining process that uses a reusable rotating tool to plasticize, mix, and join materials. For this thesis the control system of the lab’s FSW machine was redesigned to improve ...
Charlotte Brontë’s Domestic Refusal
(2017-12-19)
What we talk about when we talk about refusal is decidedly masculine in focus and perspective. Standard accounts of refusal locate it in Herbert Marcuse’s avowal that refusal represents the “protest against that which is” ...
A. Competition and allostery govern substrate selectivity of cyclooxygenase-2 B. Enzymatic oxidation of M1dG in the genome
(2017-12-06)
Part A: Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) oxygenates arachidonic acid (AA) and its ester analog, 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), to prostaglandins (PGs) and prostaglandin glyceryl esters (PG-Gs), respectively. Although the efficiency ...
Managing Hydraulic Fracturing: Approaches to Assessing and Addressing Transportation Impacts
(2017-12-04)
Advances in technologies associated with hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling in the first decade of this century have enabled a massive energy transformation in the United States. For the first time, carbon ...
Organizational factors that promote or inhibit the adoption and implementation of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in the United States
(2017-12-05)
The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) has support from numerous policy and regulatory bodies, and has been shown to be an effective intervention to encourage women to initiate breastfeeding at the time of birth. ...
Modulation of Synaptic transmission: Quantitative Analysis of Gβγ specificity to adrenergic α2a receptor and SNARE
(2017-12-05)
Modulation of neurotransmitter exocytosis by activated Gi/o coupled G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) is a universal regulatory mechanism used both to avoid overstimulation and to influence circuitry. One of the known ...