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(2011-08-15)Department: MathematicsIndices are analytical invariants to some elliptic operators and an index formula provides a way to interpret the analysis quantity using the topological invariants. The thesis computes the L2-index of a properly supported ...
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(2022-07-12)Department: SpanishThis dissertation sustains that Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s The Florida of the Inca (1605), a chronicle on the expedition led by Hernando de Soto to Florida (1539-1542), constituted a model for the Spanish conquest of ...
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(2015-10-29)Department: SpanishEsta trabajo de investigación tiene como origen la identificación dentro de las letras contemporáneas españolas de una serie de obras que comparten dentro de su temática central el extravío existencial del sujeto contemporáneo. ...
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(2020-07-20)Department: SpanishBetween 1956 and 1962, Spanish writers Alfonso Grosso and Juan Goytisolo traveled extensively in the south of the Iberian Peninsula. As a result of these travels, Grosso published Por el río abajo (1960), and A poniente ...
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(2008-08-25)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe need to develop highly sensitive, selective, and cost-effective biosensors spans the areas of medicine, the environment, food safety, and homeland security. Accurate and reliable detection of trace quantities of small ...
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(2019-03-20)Department: FrenchThis study shows how the romance plots in Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne de Lafayette’s three novellas, La Comtesse de Tende (1724), La Princesse de Montpensier (1662), and La Princesse de Clèves (1678), subtly engage ...
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(2019-07-18)Department: Special EducationChallenging behavior (CB) is prevalent among young children with disabilities and may stem from a reduced ability to clearly communicate their wants and needs. Functional communication training (FCT) is an evidence-based ...
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(2020-03-10)Department: ReligionA prominent female voice, that of the personification of “Daughter Zion,” emerges from the poetry of Lamentations 1-2, demanding divine justice in the wake of disaster. Using a theoretical framework that draws upon reception ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: GeologyEARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE LAND USE CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHOSPHORUS LOADING IN AN IMPAIRED STREAM, MILL CREEK, TENNESSEE VENA JONES Thesis under the direction of Professor Kaye Sawyer Savage Located in Middle Tennessee’s ...
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(2010-07-28)Department: ReligionThis study proposes that Deuteronomic debt release (Deuteronomy 15:1-11) in its contours and its performance is an extra-economic compulsion functioning as a legal paradigm for socio-economic organization in the struggle ...
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(2017-06-21)Department: GermanPinpointing the significance of places in the works of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Einar Schleef is the objective of a close reading that seeks to contextualize their social, historical, economical, technological, and ...
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(2014-06-20)Department: Teaching and LearningTeaching, Learning, and Diversity Language as an Identification Resource in Secondary English Teacher Preparation: An Analysis of Discourses Frank Blake Tenore Dissertation under the direction of Professors Kevin M. ...
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(2021-04-29)Objective: To determine and graphically represent the ways that language bilaterality is defined in Wada studies, and to estimate the prevalence of language bilaterality according to those definitions. Methods: A systematic ...
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(2017-11-27)Department: PsychologyLatino immigrants in the U.S. face language and cultural barriers in gaining access to resources. To overcome those barriers, many Spanish-speaking families engage in language brokering, in which children act as interpreters ...
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(2015-03-25)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThere is substantial heterogeneity within the population of children with language impairment (Bishop, 1998; Leonard, 2014). This heterogeneity has led the research community to consider the possibility of subtypes of ...
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(2017-03-21)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesChildren with hearing loss are at risk for vocabulary delays which can subsequently impact their language and literacy outcomes. Although direct vocabulary instruction can be effective, previous research indicates teachers ...
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(2020-08-20)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesTelepractice holds substantial promise in facilitating equitable access and cost-effective services for all school-age children, regardless of geographic locations, physical conditions, or socioeconomic status. The ...
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(2010-12-07)Department: PhysicsDevelopment of Lanthanide based nanomaterials and investigation of their optical and magnetic properties are explored in this dissertation. Europium sulfide is one of the most prominent classes of magnetic lanthanide ...
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(2008-04-01)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsReal time processing of hyperspectral imaging data of the kind acquired by Computed Tomography Imaging Spectroscopy (CTIS) presents some unique challenges in computational power and data storage. The general approach pursued ...
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(2014-12-30)Department: PhysicsIn the era of large-scale surveys for exoplanets, it is important to be aware of the pernicious false positives that can contaminate survey samples. In this dissertation, it is shown that all radial velocity surveys for ...