Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
Now showing items 4626-4645 of 6747
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(2023-11-17)Department: Community Research & ActionThis dissertation aims to contribute to research on the causes and responses to homelessness by centering race in analyses of the macro-level forces that drive homelessness and by exploring the strategies homelessness ...
-
(2018-11-21)Department: SociologyDrawing on media framing theory and Bonilla’s Silva’s theory of color-blind racism this thesis analyzes the coverage of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party in two local Chicago newspapers between 1968 and 1970. ...
-
(2012-03-31)Department: ReligionThis dissertation seeks to connect the notions of race and religion to the scholarly construction of Judaism and Jewishness (Judentum) by analyzing the work of nineteenth–century German Protestant biblical scholar Wilhelm ...
-
(2021-07-26)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyStructural competency informed education has been proposed as a way to teach students how to recognize and critically analyze the role of race in health. This study aims to evaluate the degree to which their education in ...
-
(2021-08-18)Department: PhilosophyWhite supremacy is often conceptualized as an ensemble of affects, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and/or institutions that directly or indirectly harm people of color by virtue of their social status as people of color. ...
-
(2006-05-01)Department: Electrical EngineeringLow voltage differential signaling (LVDS) is becoming increasingly common in systems where high-speed, low-power data transfer across physical layer interfaces is required. In this work, the heavy ion and dose rate radiation ...
-
(2018-02-14)Department: Electrical EngineeringBlack phosphorus (BP) is a promising two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor material for future CMOS technology. Its tunable band gap from 0.3 eV in bulk samples to 1.5 eV for monolayers and high mobility overcomes the ...
-
(2019-07-25)Department: Electrical EngineeringMetal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) are the building blocks of modern integrated circuits. The semiconductor industry needs to continue scaling the dimensions of transistors to keep up with the ...