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(2015-06-24)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesZero tolerance school discipline policies have garnered increasing attention from the public and policymakers as a source of racial disparities in school discipline. While the literature suggests that exclusionary discipline ...
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(2008-05-07)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe general purpose of this study was to understand how zero tolerance policies have been implemented in schools since the passage of the Gun Free and Safe Schools Acts of 1997 (Jones, 1997). There were two guiding research ...
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(2017-04-06)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThis research is focused on developing a new type of gamma-ray scintillator and is motivated by the need for more accurate positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. PET scans are used to display regions of high-metabolic ...
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(2009-12-08)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThis study employs combined U-Th radiometric age and trace element analyses of zircon from rocks of the Swift Creek stage (16 to 10 ka) of Mount St. Helens in order to obtain time-temperature-composition records of the ...
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(2010-08-03)Department: PhilosophyMy dissertation explores the significance of “biopower” to forms of life and language in the contemporary West. Generally defined, biopower is a type of regulatory power that directs and fosters the biological life of ...
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(2013-07-23)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines the relationship between literature and zoology in early twentieth-century Britain, arguing that modernist literature’s representations of animals drew on and revised zoological understandings ...
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(2009-04-21)Department: NeuroscienceSynaptic plasticity is proposed to be a molecular mechanism underlying multiple forms of learning. The modulation of synaptic plasticity, therefore, may have profound consequences over behavior and may mediate pathological ...
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(2016-02-25)Department: Cancer BiologyAngiogenesis expands the vascular network during normal development and in response to angiogenic stress. Dysregulation of this dynamic process contributes to the pathogenesis of many diseases including retinopathies. The ...