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(2019-11-15)Department: NeuroscienceReading comprehension (RC) is a complex neural task that requires coordination across multiple brain systems. The majority of neurobiological research to date has focused on how “sounding out” words (i.e. decoding ability) ...
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(2018-08-14)Department: SociologyEvidence suggests that we live in a stalking culture; that is, a culture in which stalking is normalized, minimized, and romanticized through various cultural institutions. This study examines potential pathways in which ...
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(2016-04-11)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyDespite public health interventions, racial health disparities have proven very difficult to eliminate, particularly between Blacks and Whites. Each racial category carries its own health burden but most approaches use ...
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(2019-06-07)Department: ReligionThis dissertation develops a theological-political account of the criminalization of black and economically dispossessed peoples and sketches toward a political theology in pursuit of a world freed from it. It begins by ...
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(2015-10-14)Department: History"In this work, I have not attempted a full description of the many hellish torments and punishments those piratical sea-rovers invent and inflict on the unfortunate Christians who may by chance unhappily fall into their ...
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(2023-11-28)Department: SociologySince the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade (1973), antiabortion activists have organized efforts to protest the legality of abortion and prevent women from obtaining abortions by physically blocking the ...
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(2021-05-11)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores how Latin American liberation theology could disrupt the coloniality of humanitarian power by creating new humanitarian identities. In the humanitarian sphere, the power to act and be human—the ...
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(2007-04-14)Department: Social and Political ThoughtThis thesis examines the role of Reason-guided reason-giving in the deliberative democratic arena as a response to the theories of Iris Young, Chantal Mouffe and Lynn Sanders. I will aim to do two things. First, I will ...
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(2017-06-21)Department: ReligionExamining the turn to practices in contemporary theological method, a trend that has its roots in postliberalism but has become common in feminist theology, this dissertation identifies and challenges the ways in which ...
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(2013-01-04)Department: PhilosophyThe purpose of my dissertation is to develop a reading of three of the most significant concepts in Nietzsche’s thought, namely will to power, will to truth, and self-overcoming. Specifically, I argue that Nietzsche ...
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(2021-08-13)Department: EnglishThe Bachelor’s long run as a franchise has historically paralleled the hyper-acceleration of social media culture, and as a result its combination of fairy tale romance and media reflexivity serve as a useful site for the ...
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(2015-06-15)Department: Mechanical EngineeringRobot-assisted cochlear implant (CI) surgery is a new research area that emerged in the last decade. The goal of robotic assistance is to improve patient hearing outcomes through improved surgical access and the minimization ...
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(2012-12-18)Department: Mechanical EngineeringRobotic mechanisms promise to enhance the diagnostic abilities of capsule endoscopes, endow them with novel interventional capabilities and reduce the invasiveness of endoscopy. The success of traditional endoscopy 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: 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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(2012-03-28)Department: ReligionRELIGION “WOMANISH” MODES OF PLAY AS A CULTURAL SIGNIFICATION: WOMANIST TENETS AND ETHICAL DEVELOPMENT FOR BLACK FEMALE HUMAN FLOURISHING LAKISHA LOCKHART Thesis under the direction of Professor Victor Anderson ...
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(2019-06-17)Department: Creative WritingWomen and Children First is the story of the coastal Massachusetts town Nashquitten, and the ways a girl’s murder reverberates through the community. Told through the eyes of several women and girls of the town, these ...
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(2016-11-30)Department: HistoryIn 1600, literate Venetian society witnessed the publication of Moderata Fonte’s dialogue Il merito delle donne. Set in a sun-splashed garden, the text features a brigata of women who spar over the merits of men and married ...
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Women's Decisional Conflict, Anxiety and Coping Strategies Following Diagnosis of Fetal Abnormality (2008-05-12)Department: Nursing ScienceFor most women pregnancy is a positive transition in their life. The diagnosis of a fetal abnormality creates an uncertain outcome for the transitional process of becoming a parent. A prenatal diagnosis of fetal abnormality ...