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(2005-08-11)Department: Biomedical EngineeringBIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING QUANTUM DOT-BASED IN VIVO IMAGING OF INFLAMMATION ASHWATH JAYAGOPAL Thesis under the direction of Professor Frederick R. Haselton The recruitment of leukocytes to tissue and their specific ...
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(2012-04-10)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceIn the ongoing struggle to resolve our current energy crisis, many agencies and researchers have spearheaded the application of direct energy conversion materials, such as thermoelectric and thermionic devices for waste ...
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(2012-08-12)Department: PhysicsFirst-principles simulations of quantum transport in nano-devices are presented in this dissertation. First, the extension of the complex absorbing potential quantum transport framework to the general case of N electrodes ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Community Research and ActionResearch on adolescents has taken great strides to acknowledge and celebrate the assets that young people have and can develop in and out of school. Queer youth, however, are often left out of these conversations, as ...
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(2007-03-31)Department: BiochemistryTopoisomerases play critical roles in maintaining DNA topology during cellular processes such as DNA replication in eukaryotes. Movement of the replication machinery through the double helix induces positive supercoiling ...
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(2008-03-19)Department: Cancer BiologyThe development of cancer in humans is characterized by the accumulation of genetic alterations that either enhance or diminish activity in signaling pathways mediating cellular growth and proliferation. Over time these ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: EnglishThe 1920s Harlem is famous for its cultural renaissance which included captivating literature, painting, expressive art of dance, theatre, and film, as well as the enchanting rhythms of jazz and blues that enraptured ...
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(2009-07-21)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation uses a sociological lens to investigate the roles that race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status — at the individual, school and neighborhood levels—play in three distinct contemporary educational policy ...
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(2023-03-24)Department: SociologyThis dissertation is composed of three studies that examine race and gender biases in criminalization and medicalization. Paper I examines how the relationships between personality traits and the likelihood of arrest vary ...
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(2017-03-28)Department: Latin American StudiesThe importance of an adequate description of the general population from which a researcher is sampling is a central premise of all epidemiological and public health research. Racial and ethnic categories are a critical ...
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(2016-03-28)Department: SociologyScholarship indicates that racial group identity is important to the psychological well-being and health of Black Americans. Racial group identity is beneficial, because it provides group members with a sense of belonging ...
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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: 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: 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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(2019-07-15)Department: SociologyThis dissertation examines racial disparities and racial bias in discretionary vehicle searches by police officers and how proactive police practices affect community mental health in Nashville, Tennessee. The first two ...
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(2020-06-16)Department: SociologyHealth disparities have existed in the United States between black and white Americans since indicators of morbidity and mortality were first formally recorded. This three-paper dissertation uses elements of the stress ...
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(2015-07-20)Department: PhilosophyIn this project, I combine theoretical resources from metaethics and philosophy of language with contemporary issues in critical philosophy of race. Drawing from these literatures, I examine the nature of racial norms by ...
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(2014-09-11)Department: SociologyI define racial limbo as belonging to a group positioned between a dominant and subordinate group in a racial hierarchy. Examinations of groups in racial limbo are important because they highlight hidden details of racial ...
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(2021-01-19)Department: SpanishA careful reading of the negrista verses of Guillén’s West Indies, Ltd. and the négritude poetic rhythms of Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal highlights a profound feeling relatively to the way the Guillenian ...
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(2018-11-16)Department: EnglishThis thesis examines 20th-century western hemispheric criticism of American imperialism as well as the hope for hemispheric cultural and racial multiculturation through education and cultural exchange. By analyzing the ...