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(2012-04-24)Department: EconomicsHow are macroeconomic measures affected by local geography, housing and education? This study tests regional purchase parity data as a dependent variable subject to location, housing prices and estimations of post-secondary ...
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(2023-11-24)Department: GermanMy dissertation is a cross-disciplinary study of the Lustmord discourse from the late 19th century to the present that addresses questions of sexual violence, gender, and subjectivity through the framework of abject hegemony ...
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(2023-11-18)Department: ReligionIn this thesis, I examine legal documents of the Jewish community in the Cairo Geniza from c.1000 to 1150 CE to investigate the gap between loan agreements and actual repayment streams in medieval Egypt under Fatimid rule. ...
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(2011-03-29)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation develops and tests a theory of political survival of local elites in order to explain the uneven effects of decentralization on Latin American and Caribbean participatory democracies. This theory rests ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesAs states continue to implement merit-based financial aid programs, despite the well reported social ills of such programs, the research literature is surprisingly void of any systematic consideration of how states determine ...
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(2022-05-17)Department: Cancer BiologyThe tumor microenvironment (TME) is rich with proliferating tumor cells and infiltrating immune cells. In these niches, glucose, glutamine, and fatty acids are consumed. However, it was previously underappreciated to what ...
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(2022-05-14)Department: PharmacologyCatecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a lethal, stressed-induced cardiac channelopathy. CPVT is characterized by ventricular arrhythmias that are triggered by catecholamines released during exercise ...
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(2022-12-08)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyCholesterol is one of the major lipid components of the plasma membrane in all mammalian cells. It has been shown to modulate membrane fluidity, assembly, organization, and dynamics and alter integral membrane protein (IMP) ...
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(2014-07-23)Department: Cancer BiologyThere is a major need to better understand the molecular basis of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) in order to develop effective therapeutic strategies. Using gene expression data from 587 TNBC patients we previously ...
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(2020-04-02)Department: Environmental EngineeringEnvironmental decision making is difficult and complex, especially in the planning stages of a project. There are a variety of perspectives, data limitations, and uncertainties that hinder the ability to frame and evaluate ...
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(2018-04-12)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThe topic of cultural competency is a complex, often misunderstood tenant of medical education. Furthermore, because being culturally competent is central to providing patients with proper care, it is crucial for medical ...
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(2024-02-26)Department: ReligionThis dissertation delves into the multifaceted exploration of Afro-Caribbean feminist activism in Puerto Rico, shedding light on its significance and impact within the context of ongoing colonization. It critically examines ...
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(2016-11-21)Department: PsychologyThe consistent relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health has been widely covered in both the popular media and in scientific journals. These articles, both popular and scientific, draw strongly upon ...
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(2018-01-22)Department: PsychologyFor many, typing is ubiquitous and effortless. Nevertheless, it is a complex behavior that requires the cognitive system to direct specific fingers to specific keys in specific orders quickly and accurately. This study ...
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Deep Characterization of Multimodal Brain Changes Across Pregnancy and the Postpartum: A Case Study (2023-03-20)Department: PsychologyCarrying a fetus to term results in physiological, cognitive, and socioemotional changes in pregnant individuals’ bodies. Past non-human animal studies indicate that the maternal brain undergoes structural and functional ...
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(2016-04-13)Department: Computer ScienceDeep learning has been used successfully in supervised classification tasks in order to learn complex patterns. The purpose of the study is to apply this machine learning technique to classifying images of brains with ...
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(2022-05-16)Department: Computer ScienceDeveloping an optimal policy for building energy management is a difficult problem because the system exhibits non-stationary behaviors and the target policy needs to evolve with changes in the state transition and reward ...
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(2022-07-22)Department: Civil EngineeringA commercial civil aviation flight typically goes through multiple phases from flight planning to the final landing, including push back, takeoff, climb, cruise, descent, final approach, and landing. Among them, the final ...
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(2022-03-28)Department: Computer ScienceAdaptive control of robotic systems is challenging due to nonlinear system dynamics and time-varying parameters that govern the system’s behavior. Naturally, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a suitable choice for the ...
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Deepening Understanding of Parents' Role Construction for Involvement in Their Children's Education (2008-06-12)Department: PsychologyThis thesis examined the development of parents’ active role construction for involvement in their children’s education. Guided by cognitive, social, and cultural theories of development, this study investigated the influence ...