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(2015-07-21)Department: ChemistryPolyunsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFAs) are oxidized both enzymatically and by autoxidation to many inflammatory signaling molecules, which have been detected in multiple disease states. Oxidized PUFAs can further react to ...
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(2010-04-19)Department: ReligionThis dissertation isolates and analyzes the different historical approaches to the systematic theological problem of the union of the doctrines of creation and grace. I argue that the history of Western theology’s grappling ...
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(2022-07-22)Department: Special EducationLearning opportunities and academic achievement of English learners (ELs) continue to receive spotlight in the field. However, research in “new destination states” (e.g., Tennessee, Virginia)—where schools are experiencing ...
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(2020-04-02)Department: ReligionThe female body has historically been a site of struggle in western society. The dualism of the mind and the body, or flesh and spirit, has generally associated the female body with lesser nature or matter while associating ...
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(2013-04-15)Department: GermanThis dissertation is concerned with the topic of storytelling, and by extension narrative, in the works of Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. My interest is aimed not only at storytelling as a topic in the authors’ works, ...
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(2016-03-18)Department: ReligionTwo common doctrines in virtue ethics, eudaimonia and the unity of the virtues, simplify certain virtues that might otherwise prove troublesome. This dissertation is an exploration of what might become of those troublesome ...
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(2021-03-14)Department: EnglishThe concise packaging of war for either basic educational purposes or public memory produces a simplified collective perception — a “war myth,” to borrow Samuel Hynes’ term — through which a population can ascribe neat and ...
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(2008-03-27)Department: NeuroscienceChanges in the number, size, and shape of dendritic spines are associated with synaptic plasticity, which underlies cognitive functions such as learning and memory. This plasticity is attributed to reorganization of actin, ...
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(2015-03-23)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesEfficient management of freshwater resources is critical as threats to water security increase due to changes in climate, population, and land use. The water and agricultural sectors of Asian countries have been identified ...
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(2010-04-20)Department: Political ScienceBilateral environmental relations between Canada and the United States have been studied from the perspective of federal, state, and provincial governments including non-state actors. However, the role local governments ...
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Watering the Tree of Science: Science Education, Local Knowledge, and Agency in Zambia’s PSA Program (2015-12-02)Department: Community Research and ActionThis ethnographic study utilizes the case of the Preparation for Social Action (PSA) program in Zambia to explore the topic of science education for development. Specifically, it looks at how science education can be ...
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(2006-08-03)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe autonomic nervous system is a regulatory structure primarily responsible for the physiologic response to environmental change, which includes the regulation of heart rate and blood pressure. Accurate assessment of ...
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(2020-01-16)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyWDR5 is a highly-conserved nuclear protein that performs multiple scaffolding functions in the context of chromatin. Efforts to better understand WDR5 have been complicated by its many functions in the nucleus, and thwarted ...
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(2023-03-08)Department: Political ScienceEarly 21st century warfare is dominated by conflicts that occur within the boundaries of a state between a government and rebel groups. Nearly 40% of these civil conflicts are joined by an international third party who ...
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(2019-06-19)Department: Creative WritingWe Could Leave This Place Together is a collection of stories exploring the impulse to re-envision one's circumstances, one's life, and oneself. Similar to us, these characters are presented with opportunities to evolve ...
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(2013-07-30)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines political thought in the English colonies during the seventeenth century and investigates the role played by empire in the colonists' demands for political rights. Much of the existing scholarship ...
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(2002-04-29)Department: ReligionThis examination of the rhetorical form and logic of 2 Corinthians 10–13 accounts for the macro-rhetoric of the discourse, showing how it responds coherently and potentially effectively to the criticism that Paul is a weak ...
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(2021-05-12)Department: Political ScienceHow does the wealth of members of Congress affect electoral politics and governance, and what are the implications of wealth inequality among elites for their behavior and opportunities for influence? By expanding and ...
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(2020-04-21)Department: EnglishIn the United States, we call the battle of ideas in mass media “information warfare (IW).” The discourse surrounding IW focuses on the type of information transmitted and the technological means through which it travels ...
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(2004-08-12)Department: Biomedical InformaticsA traditional medical school curriculum consists of a large amount of information presented by a large number of faculty. Faced with a growing and evolving flood of information, medical educators require and seek assistance ...