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(2012-03-31)Department: ReligionNarrative critics of the Hebrew Bible can describe the biblical narrators as “laconic,” “terse,” or “economical.” The narrators generally remain in the background, allowing the story to proceed while relying on characters ...
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(2016-04-08)Department: GermanThis project draws on work in cognitive science to examine the representation of emotions in several works of Germanic literature from an individual-psychological, as opposed to a collective-cultural perspective. The ...
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(2005-07-27)Department: GermanTo be sure, the state of medicine today is technologically, professionally and economically different from that of eighteenth century Germany; nevertheless, a continuous, humanistic thread exists and has existed since the ...
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(2020-04-14)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyPopular discourse in the media frequently frame and correlate mass shootings with an American mental illness epidemic. However, considering the media’s propensity to only extend this label to white shooters compels us to ...
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(2010-06-04)Department: NeuroscienceThe brain’s ability to bind incoming auditory and visual stimuli depends critically on the temporal structure of this information. Specifically, there exists a window of time within which stimuli are highly likely to be ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyIn the wake of President Trump’s refugee ban, hashtags such as “#veteransoverrefugees” circulated throughout Twitter, indirectly shaping public discourse on immigration. Memes questioning the government over “why we should ...
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(2019-07-18)Department: HistoryThe combination of federal Indian assimilation policies with settler movement to the western United States, and the continuance of the reservation system meant that more American Indians than ever before had to grapple ...
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(2013-04-24)Department: GermanIn the thesis entitled “Natur als Utopie: Novalis‘ Heinrich von Ofterdingen im Kontext der romantischen Naturphilosophie,” the concept of nature and its many different meanings developed throughout history will first be ...
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(2017-04-10)Department: HistoryThe overwhelming emphasis on Alexander von Humboldt’s American journey has marginalized the vital importance of his training and experience as a mining official in the 1790s. This essay builds upon the insights of historian ...
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(2022-06-14)Department: PharmacologyNatural products isolated from bacteria impact many current anti-cancer medical interventions. Some natural products induce injury processes in malignant tumors that recruit and activate host immune cells to produce an ...
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(2008-04-07)Department: ReligionRELIGION NATURAL THEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY IN DARWIN’S TIME: DESIGN, DIRECTION, SUPERINTENDENCE AND UNIFORMITY IN BRITISH THOUGHT, 1818-1876 BOYD BARNES Dissertation under the direction of Professor Dale A. ...
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(2017-08-08)Department: PhilosophyMy research centers on analytic pragmatist approaches to intentionality. One goal that defenders of such approaches set for themselves is to be able to provide a naturalistically sound account of intentionality without ...
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(2016-07-29)Department: EnglishEighteenth-century British culture expressed ideas of Nature – aesthetic, scientific, and otherwise – that have exerted colossal influence ever since. Studies of the era’s natural imagination have tended to prioritize such ...
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(2021-03-23)Department: HistoryThis dissertation studies the relationship between working and knowing over the course of the late eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries. It reinterprets the science of Prussian savant Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) ...
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(2011-04-14)Department: PsychologyEducational video games may offer a good platform for learning because they are highly motivating. Studies have already shown that adults can improve visual-spatial abilities through playing video games. This research ...
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(2023-07-10)Department: PsychologyThe current study sought to develop a novel paradigm for studying navigational decision-making during a ubiquitous navigation task, errand running. Participants learned the locations of twelve storefronts in a virtual ...
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(2014-04-04)Department: MathematicsWe show that several kinds of local behavior in a finite algebra A present obstructions to the decidability of the first-order theory of the finite members of HSP(A). In particular, we show that every solvable congruence ...
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(2014-04-11)Department: ReligionThis project analyzes the religious situation of mass incarceration in America. I employ the social phenomenology of Alfred Schutz to investigate the deeply sedimented meanings that legitimate and rationalize mass ...
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(2015-07-14)Department: PsychologyThe current study examined correlates of child negative cognitive style in a sample of 115 children and adolescents (age 9 to 15-years-old) and their mothers with varied depression histories. The present study also developed ...
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(2020-10-29)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityOver the past decade, teachers in the United States have felt an increase in the linguistic demands of the classroom due to three fundamental shifts: the curricular, the demographic, and the critical. The language demands ...