Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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(2024-03-20)Department: English“A Connected Idea of the Lesson”: Teaching and Learning in African American Literature, examines depictions of the classroom in African American literature in order to understand how well-known writers and activists from ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: ReligionAudre Lorde wrote A Litany for Survival where she posited that “it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive” and that in the end what we are seeking is “a now that can breed futures”. The ability to ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Nursing ScienceDelirium is a distressing and common condition among patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), with known associations with poor long-term outcomes in select patient populations. Little is known about this condition after ...
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(2024-03-12)Department: Biological SciencesThe ends of most linear chromosomes are protected by protein-bound repetitive sequences termed telomeres. Telomerase is the reverse transcriptase that extends the TG-rich 3’ overhang of telomeres. Rarely, telomerase acts ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Community Research & ActionAn approach to addressing complex social issues that has become ubiquitous in recent decades is the establishment of community coalitions and collaboratives. Prevailing theories of community coalition action suggest that ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Community Research & ActionAn approach to addressing complex social issues that has become ubiquitous in recent decades is the establishment of community coalitions and collaboratives. Prevailing theories of community coalition action suggest that ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Special EducationAlthough function-based treatments have been proven to decrease challenging behavior, it is unclear whether these results translate to socially significant outcomes. In fact, researchers rarely analyze what happens outside ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Special EducationAlthough function-based treatments have been proven to decrease challenging behavior, it is unclear whether these results translate to socially significant outcomes. In fact, researchers rarely analyze what happens outside ...
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(2024-03-27)Department: Biological SciencesIn order to accurately describe the evolution of traits, researchers must study both their biological and cultural transmission. Socially learned cultural traits have been important for both human and songbird evolution. ...
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(2024-03-27)Department: Biological SciencesIn order to accurately describe the evolution of traits, researchers must study both their biological and cultural transmission. Socially learned cultural traits have been important for both human and songbird evolution. ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityThe cradle-to-prison nexus (CTPN) refers to students from Educationally Indebted Communities (e.g., students of color that are also living below the poverty line), or EICs, are disciplined more frequently and severely than ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Mechanical EngineeringWorkers across multiple sectors of industry are often put at risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders such as carpel tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, and lower back pain. These work-related musculoskeletal disorders stem ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Mechanical EngineeringWorkers across multiple sectors of industry are often put at risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders such as carpel tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, and lower back pain. These work-related musculoskeletal disorders stem ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: PharmacologyThe canonical Wnt signaling pathway is a master regulator of metazoan development and disease. The tumor suppressor APC negatively regulates Wnt pathway activation, and is conventionally thought to function primarily in ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: PharmacologyThe canonical Wnt signaling pathway is a master regulator of metazoan development and disease. The tumor suppressor APC negatively regulates Wnt pathway activation, and is conventionally thought to function primarily in ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Mechanical EngineeringHummingbirds are perhaps the most agile flyers in nature. Studying the underlying physics of hummingbird flight may provide inspiration for developing highly maneuverable micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). In this work, we have ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Mechanical EngineeringHummingbirds are perhaps the most agile flyers in nature. Studying the underlying physics of hummingbird flight may provide inspiration for developing highly maneuverable micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). In this work, we have ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: AstrophysicsModeling core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) has been an on-going effort since the 1960s. Despite advances in physics theory, physics experiments, and technology, consistent, multi-dimensional CCSN explosions are still difficult ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: AstrophysicsModeling core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) has been an on-going effort since the 1960s. Despite advances in physics theory, physics experiments, and technology, consistent, multi-dimensional CCSN explosions are still difficult ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation consists of three papers related to the differences in power {power gap} and policy preferences {alignment gap} between states in the international system. The first paper considers the issue of moral ...