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(2016-07-22)Department: Computer ScienceThe popularity of online social networks has grown at an exponential scale since they connect people all over the world enabling them to remain in touch with each other despite the geographical distance among them. These ...
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(2001-05)Department: ReligionThe dissertation is a history covering the years from 1912-1963 of the Women's Department of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). COGIC, the largest African American Pentecostal denomination, founded in 1897, has a Women's ...
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A Pedagogy of Horror: The Counter-hegemonic Discourse of Latin American Short Narratives (1830-1920) (2020-05-14)Department: SpanishI examine the political function of short narratives during the period of nation formation in Latin America (1830-1920). I focus on Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba as case studies to show that the genre was a prominent platform ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: Special EducationLimited social interaction typically occurs between high school students with autism and their general education peers unless programming is introduced to promote interaction. However, few published social interaction ...
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(2018-03-13)Department: Latin American StudiesStarting in 1960, a 36-year Civil War ravaged Guatemala ultimately leaving 200,000 people dead and 45,000 people disappeared. The violence that drove Guatemalans from the country during the war eventually saw a boomerang ...
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(2021-03-29)Department: Computer ScienceCurrent solutions for software deployment in cloud computing and high performance computing (HPC) incur a significant amount of storage overhead in order to allow scalability while guaranteeing reproducibility. Containerization, ...
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(2023-05-03)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation rehabilitates the concept of social class for contemporary social and political philosophy. In much contemporary work, the concept of class is often uncritically presupposed in an unreconstructed Marxist ...
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(2010-04-16)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceWhite light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have attracted great interest recently due to their capability for higher efficiency and longer lifetimes compared to other current lighting technologies. In pursuit of a white LED that ...
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(2013-01-29)Department: Electrical EngineeringAvionics systems play a critical role in many aspects of aircraft flight control. As the complexity of these systems increase, the chances of in-flight malfunctions are also likely to increase. This drives the need for ...
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(2017-08-07)Department: English“Never give up your lands you now possess, for it is your right by God and nature, for the ‘earth was given to the children of men.’” Quoting Psalm 115-16, the Jamaican preacher Robert Wedderburn announces a political order ...
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A Piezoelectric Ink Jet Printing Platform to Engineer Microparticles for Drug Delivery Applications (2018-07-18)Department: Chemical EngineeringMicroparticles are widely researched for use as drug delivery vehicles for numerous applications due to their ability to eliminate side effects and decrease dose frequency. However, there lacks a comprehensive technology ...
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(2015-05-13)Department: ReligionI propose that five socio-ecclesial codes as an integrative homiletic-hermeneutic are essential in rendering Asian/Korean American diasporic Protestant preaching culturally relevant, theologically rich, and communicatively ...
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(2023-11-16)Department: BiostatisticsIn the field of high-throughput drug screening, particularly in relation to drug combinations, synergy scores have traditionally dominated as the most used method to determine the efficacy of drug pairs. However, for ...
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(2018-08-17)Department: HistoryUtilizing aspects of social, cultural, political, military and environmental history, this dissertation details the cycles of possession and dispossession of the lands of the Seneca Army Depot in upstate New York. It ...
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(2010-04-16)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is a study of the pneumatologies of Augustine and Karl Barth, and argues that pneumatology is the performative discourse of participation in Jesus Christ. I claim that for both theologians trinitarian ...
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(2013-07-31)Department: Biomedical EngineeringPoint-of-care diagnostics suitable for the resource-limited environment should be low-cost and simple-to-use while maintaining a clinically meaningful performance capability. This thesis explores harnessing the hydrodynamics ...
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(2015-03-31)Department: PhilosophyMy thesis aims to defend Wittgenstein’s concept of the “ordinary” as a unique conception of “home” which can model a form of political subjectivity crucial for our complex form of contemporary life. I use the term of the ...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Dying Man: Vladimir Nabokov and the Scandal of Posthumous Publication (2014-07-15)Department: EnglishIn 2009, the text that would have been Vladimir Nabokov’s final novel, The Original of Laura, was published against the late author’s explicit instructions. Although the controversy surrounding Laura’s publication ostensibly ...
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(2009-05-01)Department: ReligionThe focus of this dissertation is Michelangelo’s late-life development in his art and his life. While the recent decades in religion and personality have included more work on gender and ethnicity, there remains relatively ...
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(2012-03-05)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis thesis presents the design, implementation and testing of a lower limb exoskeleton that allows paraplegic patients to stand and walk. The device is supplemented with functional electrical stimulation (FES) at the ...