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(2018-10-18)Department: EnglishJames Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind” received an unprecedented number of letters to the editor when it was published in the November 17, 1962 issue of The New Yorker. A cluster of these reader responses located ...
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(2015-07-29)Department: Computer ScienceAs the meteoric rise of publicly available web service APIs enables access to increasing amounts of useful data via network requests, and network requests are best handled asynchronously, asynchronous and concurrent ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: ReligionMy dissertation explores the otherness of minor characters in the Gospel of John beyond a model of binary opposition. The recent trend of Johannine scholarship is to perpetuate negative portrayals of the minor characters, ...
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(2009-08-12)Department: ReligionRELIGION JESUS THE BORDERLANDER: HYBRIDITY AS SURVIVAL STRATEGY AND MODEL FOR POLITICAL CHANGE——A CULTURAL REPRESENTATION FROM THE GOSPEL OF JOHN LETICIA AÍDA GUARDIOLA-SÁENZ Dissertation under the direction of Professor ...
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(2008-03-20)Department: ReligionRELIGION JOHN COTTON: THE ANTINOMIAN CALVINIST GREGORY ALLEN SELMON Dissertation under the direction of Professor James P. Byrd This project is a theological assessment of John Cotton’s life and ministry. This ...
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(2005-04-24)Department: PhilosophyPHILOSOPHY JOHN DEWEY AND PRAGMATIC ECONOMICS JENNIFER K. THOMPSON Dissertation under the direction of Professor John Lachs The study of economics and economic life was important to John Dewey throughout his work. In ...
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(2012-07-18)Department: PhilosophyUtilizing a brand of pragmatism influenced very largely by John Dewey, Pragmatism and Modern American Democracy examines the state of American democracy and the ways in which it falls short of its purported ideals. By ...
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(2011-07-29)Department: ReligionThe relationship of the Gospel of John to the Synoptic Gospels has been a perennial question since the patristic era, and yet there has been little sustained focus on John's connection to Matthew. Scholars have predominantly ...
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Joint Music Making and Prosocial Behavior in Preschoolers: Lyrics, Vocal-Motor Imitation, & the Beat (2018-03-29)Department: PsychologyResearch has shown that active musical engagement promotes prosocial behavior in preschool-age children under some conditions but not others. The current study consists of two experiments designed to examine preschool-age ...
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(2010-04-13)Department: ReligionThis study argues that the story of the book of Jonah may be interpreted as a transformation of a familiar topos in which the protagonist undergoes a rite de passage during a quest that takes him towards a foreign land. ...
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(2015-04-06)Department: Law and EconomicsEach branch of the federal government has a role in enforcing the federal nondiscrimination statutes. Congress creates and amends the statutes; the federal courts apply the law when parties file lawsuits under the statutes; ...
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(2005-12-02)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis study uses a theoretical model of education finance adequacy that combines the concept of qualitative and quantitative adequacy described by Ladd and Hansen with the concept of differing student needs addressed by ...
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(2008-12-30)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyDiverse families of viruses bind immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) proteins located in tight junctions and adherens junctions of epithelium and endothelium. However, little is known about the roles of these receptors in ...
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(2018-07-31)Department: SociologyBefore the cementation of Jim Crow laws, free black women tried to gain access to upper-class ‘Ladies Cars’ by asserting their status as ‘ladies’ upon the railroad, with some success. I am studying the legal ambiguity ...
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(2008-07-17)Department: MathematicsWe construct a uniform version of the analytic K-homology theory and prove its basic properties such as a Mayer-Vietoris sequence. We show that uniform K-homology is isomorphic to a direct limit of K-theories of certain ...
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(2008-12-30)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation develops a theory of symbolic rationality, which it posits as an affectively informed mode of cognition modeled on Kant’s conception of reflective judgment as presented in his Critique of Judgment but ...
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(2007-07-30)Department: Cancer BiologyKaposi's sarcoma Herpesvirus (KSHV) is the causative agent of Kaposi's sarcoma, primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) and multicentric Castlemen's disease (MCD). This ƒ×-herpesvirus infects endothelial cells lining the vascular ...
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(2022-01-06)Department: PharmacologyThe dynorphin/kappa opioid receptor (KOR) system within the nucleus accumbens (NAc) contributes to negative affective states following withdrawal from illicit drugs, pain, and stress. In the NAc, parvalbumin fast-spiking ...
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(2007-08-01)Department: NeuroscienceDuring postnatal development of the central nervous system, the response of GABAA receptor to its agonist undergoes a switch from excitatory to inhibitory, due to a developmental decrease in the intracellular Cl- concentration. ...
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(2016-08-04)Department: Biological SciencesAppropriate neuronal morphogenesis is essential for forming the distinct functional domains of each of the hundreds of types of neurons in the brain. Generating the correct size and shape of dendrites is essential for a ...