item: #1 of 4945 id: 00000001r2s author: Stacey S Tiberio title: The Effects of Misspecified Measurement Interval in Multivariate Latent Differential Equation Models date: 2011 words: 213 flesch: 30 summary: The accuracy of the estimated model parameters of change was assessed through the use of Monte Carlo simulations. The amount of bias incurred in both the frequency and damping parameter due to the incorrect parameterization of time, however, does not appear to be substantial. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/00000001r2s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/00000001r2s.txt item: #2 of 4945 id: 00000001r4g author: Michael Paul Davis title: Experimental Investigation of the Cavitation of Aviation Fuel in a Converging-Diverging Nozzle date: 2008 words: 206 flesch: 55 summary: High-speed video showed an abrupt region of bubble collapse (a bubbly shock) in the diffuser section of the nozzle for water cases. In fuel cases, bubbles persisted through the entire length of the nozzle with no obvious collapse region. keywords: nozzle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/00000001r4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/00000001r4g.txt item: #3 of 4945 id: 00000001s0d author: Ryan Dee Ross title: Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles as Damage-Specific X-ray Computed Tomography Contrast Agents in Bone Tissue date: 2011 words: 247 flesch: 31 summary: In summary, the ability to utilize functionalized gold nanoparticles as targeted X-ray contrast agents for microdamage in bone tissue was found be to feasible with improved X-ray imaging techniques. Bisphosphonate functionalized Au NPs of varying particle diameter were also prepared to investigate nanoparticle size effects on X-ray attenuation and deliverability. keywords: ray cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/00000001s0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/00000001s0d.txt item: #4 of 4945 id: 00000001s1r author: Jeremy Thurston Newkirk title: Dynamic Performance Analysis of a Robotic System Using Reliability-Based Design Optimization date: 2007 words: 159 flesch: 33 summary: Here the DCE are used in conjunction with a reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) strategy in order to obtain designs with robust dynamic performance with respect to the end-effector reference point and additionally with respect to changing configurations with a fixed operational point. The dynamic capability equations (DCE) allow designers to predict the dynamic performance of a robotic system for a particular configuration and reference point on the end-effector (i.e.,point design). keywords: performance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/00000001s1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/00000001s1r.txt item: #5 of 4945 id: 00000001s3f author: Ryan Christopher Kennedy title: Identification and Annotation of Transposable Elements and Agent- and GIS-based Modeling of Pathogen Transmission date: 2011 words: 168 flesch: 41 summary: This dissertation presents a GIS aware agent-based model of pathogen transmission as well as methods and recommendations for incorporating GIS data into a simulation. Coupling geographical information system (GIS) data with agent-based modeling further increases the utility of such simulations. keywords: agent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/00000001s3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/00000001s3f.txt item: #6 of 4945 id: 00000001s4s author: Julieann Ulin title: The Stranger in the House: Domestic Invasion in Twentieth-Century Irish and American Literature date: 2008 words: 364 flesch: 30 summary: This project takes an interdisciplinary approach to twentieth century Irish and American political rhetoric, housing studies and literature to treat the trope of the stranger in the house (as colonizer, lodger, or domestic servant) as enacting both domestic and national tensions. Chapter 2 focuses on the boarding house as a site of competing constructions of Irish nationhood in James Joyce's Ì¢åÛåÏThe Boarding HouseÌ¢åÛå and Ulysses and Brian Moore's The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (a version of this chapter is forthcoming in James Joyce Quarterly in 2007). keywords: irish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/00000001s4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/00000001s4s.txt item: #7 of 4945 id: 00000001v32 author: Ryan Woodbury title: The Moral Self-Identity Q Sort date: 2016 words: 152 flesch: 27 summary: Cognitive developmental theory's claims about the fundamental role of moral judgments on moral functioning lack empirical evidence. We combine the use of moral prototypicality ratings and Q methodology to identify five groups of people with differing viewpoints about their self-identity. keywords: moral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/00000001v32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/00000001v32.txt item: #8 of 4945 id: 00000001x72 author: Chris Muravez title: The Body Full of Hell date: 1904 words: 83 flesch: 49 summary: The themes and content are drawn from autobiographical material, dream sequences, and existing texts such as Zelda Fitzgerald's correspondance with F. Scott Fitzgerald. The style and form can loosely be described as an obscene post-modern surrealist verse play. keywords: fitzgerald cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/00000001x72.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/00000001x72.txt item: #9 of 4945 id: 00000002p3s author: Yurii Morozov title: Semiconductor Nanostructures with High Photoluminescence Quantum Efficiency and Their Application for Laser Cooling date: 2019 words: 257 flesch: 35 summary: During anti-Stokes PL, the energy of the incoming laser photons is lower than the band gap energy, and necessary energy deficiency is supplied by thermal energy. Despite the simplicity of the underlying principle, actual realization requires remarkably high external PL quantum efficiency (near unity).This entails very high internal PL quantum efficiency and PL extraction efficiency. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/00000002p3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/00000002p3s.txt item: #10 of 4945 id: 00000002v4p author: Eleanor K. Choi title: New World Order? Thucydides' Speeches and the Breakdown of Greek Interstate Relations date: 2021 words: 230 flesch: 19 summary: After investigating a passage from the preface, in order to demonstrate how Thucydides views his speeches as both crucial and unclear when attempting to understand the War's αἴτιαι (1.23.6), I examine the speeches in light of how Thucydidean rhetorical strategies highlight Athenian and Spartan rejection of moral aspects of negotiation of interstate relations, namely the values of justice and reciprocity, balancing power, and restraint. By subverting assumptions about how such older, established methods of diplomacy between poleis have historically functioned successfully, Thucydides is able to drive forward his narrative about the death of interstate relations during the War. keywords: speeches cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/00000002v4p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/00000002v4p.txt item: #11 of 4945 id: 00000002v82 author: Roger Sargent Cadena Jr. title: #HispanicsforTrump: Ethnoracialization, Identity, and the Paradox of Hispanic Republicans? date: 2021 words: 149 flesch: 17 summary: I find Latinx Republicans interpret their identities relationally based on experiences of discrimination, socioeconomic mobility, ethnoracial boundary crossing with white Americans, and drawing boundaries between themselves and poor, urban, and undocumented immigrant Latinx and Black people. When challenged as sellouts, Latinx Republicans reinterpret the meanings of the group and the political party system by adopting ethnoracial frames that align Latinx identity with the Republican Party. keywords: latinx cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/00000002v82.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/00000002v82.txt item: #12 of 4945 id: 00000002w1z author: Michael Rotolo title: Seeking the Good Life: The Moral Development of Young People in America date: 2022 words: 347 flesch: 25 summary: Its analysis identifies distinct traumatic upbringing experiences among respondents, which condition heightened threat-sensitive emotions, giving Christian nationalists an enduring sense that their way of life is under attack and motivating reactionary sociological attitudes. The first essay proposes a new approach for studying religious engagement, which involves considering the moral orders that shape people's religious understandings. keywords: views cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/00000002w1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/00000002w1z.txt item: #13 of 4945 id: 02870v8507t author: Dori C. Woods title: Cellular mechanisms regulating follicle selection and granulosa cell differentiation in avian ovarian follicles date: 2007 words: 377 flesch: 24 summary: The hen provides an excellent model to study granulosa cell differentiation based on large follicle size and easy access to pure populations of granulosa cells from all stages of follicle development. In summary, these data support the hypothesis that alleviation from inhibitory signaling is required for granulosa cell differentiation. keywords: signaling cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v8507t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v8507t.txt item: #14 of 4945 id: 02870v85085 author: Claudia Kunze title: Acoustic and Velocity Measurements in the Flow Past an Airfoil Trailing Edge date: 2004 words: 180 flesch: 50 summary: In the second part, far field acoustic measurements and correlation measurements between x-wire probes and the micro- phones were made to investigate possible correlation between the flow physics and the far field acoustics. Therefore the flow around and inside a defined control volume was investigated using hot-wire probes (single and x-wire measurements) and pressure measurements. keywords: measurements cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v85085.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v85085.txt item: #15 of 4945 id: 02870v8509h author: Peter Svoisky title: Search for Mssm Higgs Boson Production in Ppbar Collisions at Sqrt(S)=1.96 Tev, With a Higgs Decaying Into Taus date: 2008 words: 112 flesch: 57 summary: The cross section for this process is enhanced in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM), such as in its Minimal Supersymmetric extension (MSSM) at large tan $eta$. In the absence of a signal a $95\%$ C.L. limit is set on the production cross section times branching ratio, and the results are also interpreted in the MSSM. keywords: cross cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v8509h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v8509h.txt item: #16 of 4945 id: 02870v8510q author: Sheng Li title: An Integrated Power, Area, and Timing Modeling Framework for the Design of Multithreaded and Multi/Manycore Architectures date: 2010 words: 411 flesch: 38 summary: This dissertation presents McPAT, an integrated power, area, and timing modeling framework that supports comprehensive design space exploration for multicore and manycore processor configurations ranging from 90nm to 22nm and beyond. We study the scaling trends of a multithreaded chip multiprocessor across technology generations from 90nm to 22nm. keywords: mcpat cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v8510q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v8510q.txt item: #17 of 4945 id: 02870v8512d author: Muhammad Owais Iqbal title: Coherent Structure in a Turbulent Axisymmetric Jet via a Vector Implementation of the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition date: 2006 words: 268 flesch: 32 summary: Results show a rapid energy convergence with POD mode number. For a given azimuthal mode number, the eigenvalue spectra exhibit a broad spectral peak which occurs at a constant value of Strouhal number based on local shear layer momentum thickness and jet velocity. keywords: pod cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v8512d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v8512d.txt item: #18 of 4945 id: 02870v85143 author: Elizabeth A. McNicholas title: Human Flourishing in the American City: A New Plan for Detroit's Underserved Population date: 2006 words: 150 flesch: 52 summary: By using the city of Detroit as a case study, this thesis aims to discover what physical elements are essential to the health and success of the metropolis as a whole, and to give clearer definition to the terms health and success as they apply to a city. Given that the purpose of a city is to be the physical framework within which people live, success is necessarily achieved when it provides its citizens with the support required in order to live their lives well. keywords: purpose cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v85143.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v85143.txt item: #19 of 4945 id: 02870v85174 author: Ralf Matthias Bendlin title: Intercell Interference Coordination Without Base Station Cooperation for Wireless Cellular Networks date: 2011 words: 367 flesch: 43 summary: Due to temporal multi-user scheduling, the spatial transmit signal processing changes with each time slot and base stations require non-causal information about future scheduling and precoding decisions of neighboring base stations in order to encode their data accurately. In reality, the temporal granularity of the scheduler does not allow for timely distribution of CSI among base stations. keywords: base cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v85174.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v85174.txt item: #20 of 4945 id: 02870v8518g author: Shannon Noelle Gayk title: 'Sensible Signes': Mediating Images in Late Medieval Literature date: 2006 words: 356 flesch: 24 summary: The final chapter considers Reginald Pecock's program for the production and circulation of vernacular religious texts in light of his extended defense of religious images. The second chapter argues that John Lydgate's insistence on reading images through the lenses of history and theological exegesis suggests both his unease with unmediated visual experience and his desire to promote an altogether different devotional model for the laityÌ¢ â an application of the practice of monastic lectio to religious images. keywords: images cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v8518g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v8518g.txt item: #21 of 4945 id: 02870v85201 author: Myriam Patricia Roy title: Structure-Activity Relationship of the Myriaporones and Biosynthetic Study of Tedanolide date: 2008 words: 428 flesch: 38 summary: Several analogues were designed to lock either of the two conformations in an attempt to find the biological active one; however, all of them exhibited a significant decrease in biological activity. Again, all of the analogues synthesized exhibited a significant decrease in biological activity. keywords: myriaporone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v85201.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v85201.txt item: #22 of 4945 id: 02870v85263 author: Kelly A. Warmuth title: Parent–Child Attachment Stability and Trajectories of Externalizing Behavior date: 1904 words: 351 flesch: 14 summary: Results showed that father–child attachment was moderately stable with no significant differences between assessments in the same time point or similar assessments over time; however, mother–child attachment stability appeared largely dependent upon the use of similar measures over time. Previous research has identified insecure parent–child attachments as a risk factor; however, additional research is necessary to understand not only how secure attachments buffer externalizing behavior, but also which insecure classifications (i.e., avoidant, ambivalent, or disorganized)—and to which parent—have the worst long-term prognoses. keywords: time cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v85263.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v85263.txt item: #23 of 4945 id: 02870v85294 author: Tanya Salyers title: Network Based Modeling in Social Sciences and Biology date: 2012 words: 518 flesch: 30 summary: Here we present a dynamic agent-based model of social network evolution that offers an explanation of the observed positive degree assortativity in social networks in terms of a simple mechanism of preference for reciprocity in communication flows: agents drop relationships in which they invest more than their partners and attempt to search and keep relationships in which they invest as much or less. In particular, social networks have the empirically observed property of assortativity by degree: a given individual is more likely to be connected to another individual with a similar number of contacts than expected by a uniformly random distribution of the connections. keywords: networks cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v85294.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v85294.txt item: #24 of 4945 id: 02870v8534q author: Kevin B Phaup title: Rebuilding Nepal: Applying Design Thinking to Sheltering in the Wake of Natural Disasters date: 1904 words: 297 flesch: 29 summary: This radically different approach to disaster relief distributes a system for building transitional shelters, rather than the costly and wasteful distribution of numerous tents and prefabricated temporary shelters. PACK focuses on addressing the challenge of delivering shelters to remote locations by enabling the rebuilding that is already occurring on the ground using existing materials, often without assistance. keywords: shelters cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v8534q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v8534q.txt item: #25 of 4945 id: 02870v85681 author: John P. Slattery title: Old Science, New Problems: A Theological Analysis of John Zahm's Attempt to Bridge Evolution and Roman Catholicism date: 1904 words: 107 flesch: 34 summary: In arguing so, the dissertation intends to exemplify the value of investigating the philosophical approach to science in historical theological discussions. In 1898, the Vatican issued a censure to John Zahm, a North American priest and scientist, for publishing the book Evolution and Dogma. keywords: censure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v85681.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v85681.txt item: #26 of 4945 id: 02870v85w4v author: Elise Estelle Wright title: Lagrangian Methods to Study Mixing and Reactions in Flows through Heterogeneous Porous Media date: 2019 words: 290 flesch: 42 summary: Many existing models inadequately assume perfect mixing, leading to the overprediction of reaction rates in laboratory and field observations. Non-uniform flows are generally expected to enhance mixing relative to a homogeneous one, which will impact reactions. keywords: mixing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v85w4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v85w4v.txt item: #27 of 4945 id: 02870v85x6v author: Joshua Mark Pauls title: Self-Propagating High-Temperature Reactions in Heterogeneous Reactive Nanocomposites date: 2019 words: 320 flesch: 21 summary: TiN/B belongs to a subset of combustion reactions, known as solid flame systems, where the adiabatic combustion temperature does not exceed any phase transition temperature or eutectic point of the reactants, intermediates, or products, but for which no ternary phases or substantial solid solutions form. The development of mechanical processing methods for fabricating nanostructured composites presents an opportunity to prepare novel reactive mixtures from systems for which thermodynamic calculations indicate substantial heats of formation but were not previously identified as feasible due to solid-solid diffusion limitations. keywords: solid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v85x6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v85x6v.txt item: #28 of 4945 id: 02870v8624p author: Nozomu Kato title: Flow Phenomena under a Backpressure in an Axisymmetric Scramjet Model date: 2019 words: 590 flesch: 55 summary: The wall pressure measurement showed that there were pressure gradients in the isolator imposed by the incident shock wave for α = 6 and 9, whereas minor pressure gradients were present for α = 0. Three angled-wedge inlets (α = 0-, 6-, and 9-degree) were used to investigate the effect of the incident shock wave on unstart. keywords: shock cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v8624p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v8624p.txt item: #29 of 4945 id: 02870v8633n author: Jude Galbraith title: Researcher Responsibilities in Climate Engineering: Values, Ethics, and Environmentally Disruptive Technology Innovation date: 2020 words: 336 flesch: 18 summary: It is the responsibility of scientists, therefore, to ensure the values they use in climate engineering research are morally and politically legitimate. In the second half of dissertation, I turn to a framework that provides alternative theoretical resources for legitimating scientific values in innovative climate engineering research. keywords: engineering cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v8633n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v8633n.txt item: #30 of 4945 id: 02870v86418 author: Ethan Fridmanski title: Crypto-Capital: The Political Economy of Cryptocurrencies date: 2021 words: 192 flesch: 27 summary: Cryptocurrency systems and their technical details are complex as well as unintuitive. Features and protocols underlying cryptocurrencies obscure and obfuscate an individual entity's transaction behavior and real life identity. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v86418.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v86418.txt item: #31 of 4945 id: 02870v86507 author: Jiale Shi title: Computing Free Energy Landscapes for Materials Design date: 2022 words: 183 flesch: 12 summary: This dissertation explores computational free energy calculations in different simulation scales, including lattice models, atomistic models, coarse-grained models, quantum models, via different molecular simulation methods, including Monte Carlo simulations, classical molecular dynamics simulations, and first principle molecular dynamics simulations to illustrate the inside mechanisms. Next, we explore the confirmation free energy in gold clusters via first principle molecular dynamics simulations. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v86507.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v86507.txt item: #32 of 4945 id: 02870v86538 author: Jeffrey T. DuBose title: Excited State Properties of Metal Halide Perovskites: Insights for Photocatalysis and Photovoltaics date: 2022 words: 131 flesch: 27 summary: Metal halide perovskites are an attractive material for a wide variety of optoelectronic applications, from solar cells (photovoltaics) to radiation detection. Understanding of these fundamental excited state processes is key to developing better perovskite materials with improved properties. keywords: perovskites cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v86538.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v86538.txt item: #33 of 4945 id: 02870v8654m author: Nicholas Joseph Estes title: Passive Gbps Envelope Detectors for Use in Compact, Low Resolution, Energy Efficient Wireless Communication Systems date: 2022 words: 216 flesch: 47 summary: An efficiency and noise model is presented and verified, and the implications for system design are discussed. This thesis demonstrates that nonlinear, nonstandard detector-based receivers can simultaneously achieve both high data rate and low power consumption over the air in a commercial millimeter wave band. keywords: low cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v8654m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v8654m.txt item: #34 of 4945 id: 02870v8669n author: Tee Chuanromanee title: Designing the Trans Experience: Technology and Common Gender Transition Narratives date: 2023 words: 352 flesch: 51 summary: In conducting these studies, this dissertation weaves together concepts of trans technology, storytelling, transition tracking, trans care, and community-based design to produce artifacts and learnings that can benefit those (both in and outside of the trans community) who wish to use technology to support gender transition. HCI researchers have only recently examined trans technologies, and there is a need for greater understanding of the role that technology plays in gender transition. keywords: trans cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v8669n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v8669n.txt item: #35 of 4945 id: 02870v86716 author: Bingyue Su title: Methods and Applications of Differential Privacy in Statistical Problems date: 2023 words: 332 flesch: 29 summary: Firstly, I investigate the utility of differentially private hypothesis testing, developing new methods and providing results for commonly used tests such as z-test, t-test, and chi-squared test in the settings of one-sample mean tests, two-sample tests, variance tests, goodness-of-fit tests, and independence tests and evaluate the utility of the tests in terms of statistical power while maitaining Type-I error rate. In the era of big data, ensuring data privacy during statistical analysis has become increasingly important, necessitating a rigorous definition of privacy. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/02870v86716.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/02870v86716.txt item: #36 of 4945 id: 05741r68945 author: Katherine Erin Cunningham title: With God on Their Side date: 2010 words: 51 flesch: 38 summary: The project is attempt at deconstructing the visual structure utilized by monotheistic fundamentalist groups to mythologize and promote their faith, while also seeking to understand the seduction of ideology on the individual, mainly the female. An outline of the major issues in my visual thesis project, With God on Their Side. keywords: project cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/05741r68945.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/05741r68945.txt item: #37 of 4945 id: 05741r6896v author: Delores (Lora) Anne Smitham title: Evaluating an Intuitive Eating Program for Binge Eating Disorder: A Benchmarking Study date: 2010 words: 205 flesch: 35 summary: This study of Intuitive Eating (Tribole & Resch, 2003) employed an eight-week group treatment for binge eating disorder that encompassed components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Binge abstinence rates of the current study were significantly different from those found in non-equivalent control groups. keywords: binge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/05741r6896v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/05741r6896v.txt item: #38 of 4945 id: 05741r68976 author: Theresa O'Byrne title: Dublin's Hoccleve: James Yonge, Scribe, Author, and Bureaucrat, and the Literary World of Late Medieval Dublin date: 2012 words: 353 flesch: 43 summary: Yonge uses the narrative to market Ireland as a pilgrimage destination and frames his work as part literary text and part notarial instrument, pitching it to a pan-European audience. This thesis explores Yonge's literary works, identifies his handwriting, and uses over eighty documents newly associated with the scribe to reconstruct his career and socio-professional circle. keywords: yonge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/05741r68976.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/05741r68976.txt item: #39 of 4945 id: 05741r6899w author: Margaret Nicola Abruzzo title: Polemical Pain: Slavery, Suffering, and Sympathy in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Moral Debate date: 2006 words: 352 flesch: 38 summary: This dissertation studies the role of slave pain in shaping moral evaluations of slavery. Criticisms of slaveholding cruelty emerged from two distinct sources, both concerned more with white morality than black pain: Quakers exalting martyrdom, and other Protestants and moral philosophers stressing sympathy and benevolence in moral formation. keywords: pain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/05741r6899w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/05741r6899w.txt item: #40 of 4945 id: 05741r68b2s author: Andrea M Dunn title: Air and LNAPL Entrapment in the Partially Saturated Fringe: Laboratory and Numerical Investigations date: 2006 words: 328 flesch: 37 summary: As the air entry pressure of the lens increased and/or the degree of sorting of the lens decreased, less air/LNAPL became entrapped in the system. Laboratory and numerical investigations focused on imbibition within simple heterogeneous systems. keywords: air cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/05741r68b2s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/05741r68b2s.txt item: #41 of 4945 id: 05741r68b34 author: Xiangning Li title: Radiative Heat Transfer through Fibrous Materials date: 2007 words: 364 flesch: 38 summary: Single scattering results for the fiber beds include analytical estimates of the effective emissivity with rigorous error bounds for different porosities, and local fiber surface emissivities. Knudsen diffusion occurs under low pressures, high temperatures, or in microporous film at normal pressures and temperatures. keywords: fiber cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/05741r68b34.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/05741r68b34.txt item: #42 of 4945 id: 05741r68b5t author: James W. Clancy title: ARF6 Regulated Tumor Progression: Glandular Disruption and Cell Invasion date: 2014 words: 373 flesch: 28 summary: Finally, upon release, ARF6, MT1-MMP and VAMP3 positive microvesicles can be isolated from ascites and serum of ovarian cancer patients. In addition to glandular disruption, ARF6 activation has profound effects on cell invasion, in particular the shedding of invasive microvesicles. keywords: arf6 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/05741r68b5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/05741r68b5t.txt item: #43 of 4945 id: 05741r68b65 author: LaReine-Marie Veronica Mosely title: Salvation Despite the Death of Jesus? The Cross in the Later Soteriology of Edward Schillebeeckx: African American Christian Female Perspectives date: 2008 words: 450 flesch: 35 summary: The cross in the Christian tradition has been a contested image and symbol since ancient groups began using the cross as a means of execution and terror and especially since a little known Jewish teacher, Jesus of Nazareth died on one around the year 4 C.E. The cross of Jesus, who came to be known as the Christ, and the metaphors used to talk about the mystery of salvation have engaged the Christian community for centuries. To that end, the first chapter offers a broad survey of the diverse ways that the meaning of the death of Jesus has been interpreted in the scriptures and the larger Christian tradition. keywords: jesus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/05741r68b65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/05741r68b65.txt item: #44 of 4945 id: 05741r6909c author: Saurabh Nagrecha title: Operationalizing Classification in Applied Machine Learning date: 1904 words: 214 flesch: 45 summary: The state of the art in domain-driven data mining, Actionable Knowledge Discovery, merely acts as a wrapper to transform domain data to feature matrices and class labels. Through this paradigm, we now have a formalized framework for structuring data and pipelines, time-censoring, Net Present Value considerations, interpretability and regulation compliance --- all using domain driven insights. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/05741r6909c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/05741r6909c.txt item: #45 of 4945 id: 05741r69170 author: Elizabeth R. Louden title: Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Studies of Metastable Vortex Lattice States in MgB2 date: 1904 words: 269 flesch: 41 summary: The distribution of vortex lattice domain orientations was examined using spatially-resolved SANS, and an upper limit of 100 μm was found for the domain size. An AC magnetic field can be used to induce vortex motion and drive the transition from the metastable state to the equilibrium state. keywords: vortex cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/05741r69170.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/05741r69170.txt item: #46 of 4945 id: 05741r69368 author: Judith Biesen title: Using Communal Activation to Increase Relationship Enhancing Behaviors and Attitudes and Decrease Vulnerable and Grandiose Narcissistic Tendencies date: 2019 words: 328 flesch: 6 summary: The current study examined a) whether a CA manipulation in the context of viewing psychoeducational videos about healthy relationships could link narcissism and desirable interpersonal behaviors/attitudes, and unlink narcissism and undesirable interpersonal behaviors/attitudes, and b) whether the degree to which CA links and unlinks narcissism and interpersonal behaviors/attitudes is different for vulnerable versus grandiose narcissism. Furthermore, although recent advancements in the definition and diagnostic criteria for narcissism in the DSM-5, Section III have improved our understanding of narcissism, these criteria heavily favor grandiose over vulnerable traits, despite substantial evidence that documents the distinct natures of vulnerable and grandiose narcissism. keywords: narcissism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/05741r69368.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/05741r69368.txt item: #47 of 4945 id: 05741r69c2c author: Rose E. Donohue title: Socio-Ecological Complexity and the Control of Helminthic Neglected Tropical Diseases date: 2020 words: 475 flesch: 17 summary: The overall aim of this dissertation is to apply a socio-ecological lens to comprehensively improve our understanding of helminthic NTDs and provide evidence-based policy recommendations to achieve sustainable helminthic NTD control. Overall, this work demonstrates the importance of accounting for socio-ecological complexity in understanding helminthic NTD transmission and sustainably controlling helminthic NTDs. keywords: ecological cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/05741r69c2c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/05741r69c2c.txt item: #48 of 4945 id: 05741r69d62 author: Navid Shervani-Tabar title: Predictive Molecular Latent Space Discovery with Graph Variational Autoencoder date: 2021 words: 131 flesch: 22 summary: A Bayesian formalism is considered to capture uncertainties in the predictive estimates of molecular properties. The model's performance is evaluated by generating molecules with desired target properties. keywords: molecular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/05741r69d62.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/05741r69d62.txt item: #49 of 4945 id: 08612n51j94 author: Georgiana Young Kramer title: On the Petrogenesis and Distribution of the High-Alumina Mare Basalts: An Integrated Approach Using Geochemical and Remote Sensing Data date: 2008 words: 300 flesch: 55 summary: The groups also represent three magmatic events that tapped compositionally distinct source regions, which exhibit an increase in KREEP component and decrease in ilmenite in the order A to C to B. The second part of the doctoral research used compositional remote sensing data to search the whole Moon for exposures of HA mare basalts, or areas where the regolith consists mainly of material derived from HA basaltic flows. They represent the oldest sampled mare basalts, and the return of HA basalt samples from four locations, separated by 2400 km, implies they may be widespread on the Moon. keywords: mare cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n51j94.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n51j94.txt item: #50 of 4945 id: 08612n51k0b author: Daniel Earl Saros title: The Progressive Era Regulationist Institutional Structure: A Case Study of the American Iron and Steel Industry date: 2004 words: 337 flesch: 21 summary: The industrial case study provides support for the hypothesis that regulated periods tend to increase the rates of profit, output growth, and capital accumulation relative to free market periods. A modified version of social structure of accumulation (SSA) analysis is employed to demonstrate how different periods in American history may be construed as being governed predominantly by free market or regulatory mechanisms. keywords: steel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n51k0b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n51k0b.txt item: #51 of 4945 id: 08612n51k21 author: Robert Jess Lavolette title: The Perils of Escapism date: 2011 words: 5 flesch: 35 summary: Creative thesis. No abstract available. keywords: creative cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n51k21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n51k21.txt item: #52 of 4945 id: 08612n51k4q author: Xiaowen Liu title: Performance Analysis and Topology Control of Large Wireless Networks With Fading date: 2008 words: 359 flesch: 39 summary: For random networks with nodes distributed according to a two-dimensional Poisson point process, the average throughput is analytically characterized and numerically evaluated. Uniformly random or Poisson distributions are widely accepted models for the location of the nodes in wireless sensor networks if nodes are deployed in large quantities and there is little control over where they are dropped. keywords: networks cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n51k4q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n51k4q.txt item: #53 of 4945 id: 08612n51k6d author: Matthew T. McNicholas title: The Relevance and Transcendence of Ornament: A New Public High School for the South Side of Chicago date: 2006 words: 159 flesch: 41 summary: The new century needs to reconnect with this language, which speaks to us of such concepts as function, space and symbolism, but also performs such work as direction, the designation of metaphysical transition and expression of movement, among other roles. Ornamented architecture will return enchantment and pleasure to the public realm while simultaneously educating and connecting humans with their past accomplishments and future endeavors. keywords: ornament cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n51k6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n51k6d.txt item: #54 of 4945 id: 08612n51k9f author: Anne Elizabeth Baker title: The Electoral Causes of Party Polarization in Congress date: 2011 words: 217 flesch: 30 summary: I find party leaders helped make congressional caucuses more ideologically homogeneous over time by providing party support to ideological challengers and open-seat contestants and thereby significantly improving their likelihood of gaining seats; by targeting resources toward races against moderate incumbents of the opposite party with great success; and by providing party monies to protect their own moderate incumbents at the expense of making those incumbents more vulnerable to seat-challenges and targeting by the other party. In response to this lacuna, in this dissertation I present evidence that over the past thirty years party leaders have helped bring about party polarization in Congress in the way they have distributed party campaign funds to candidates. keywords: party cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n51k9f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n51k9f.txt item: #55 of 4945 id: 08612n51m10 author: Ryan Russell Hemme title: Population Dynamics of the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti date: 2011 words: 296 flesch: 35 summary: However, a thorough understanding of mosquito vector dynamics is needed to increase the success of these interventions which is applied to interrupt pathogen transmission. Chemical, biological, source reduction and novel methods involving transgenic refractory mosquitoes have all been used or proposed to reduce vectorborne disease transmission. keywords: aegypti cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n51m10.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n51m10.txt item: #56 of 4945 id: 08612n51m2b author: Rendy Kartika title: Programs Towards Tetrahydropyran Containing Small Macrolides of Cyanobacterial Origins: Synthetic Methodology Development and Total Synthesis date: 2008 words: 355 flesch: 18 summary: This dissertation comprises two major components that sequentially describe literature reviews pertinent to tetrahydropyran-containing small macrolides of cyanobacterial origins and research in the field of synthetic organic chemistry that demonstrates synthetic methodology development directed for stereoselective production of highly functionalized oxacycles and their applications in complex molecule synthesis. More importantly, it was free of discreet installation steps for protecting groups, thus representing a rare example in complex polyketide synthesis. keywords: ether cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n51m2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n51m2b.txt item: #57 of 4945 id: 08612n51m5c author: Rebecca Anne Morrissey title: Change in Democratic Parenting during the Transition to Adolescence: The Role of Young Adolescents' Noncompliance and Mothers' Perceived Influence date: 2010 words: 171 flesch: 29 summary: In addition, the total effect was mediated by mothers' perceived influence, such that adolescents' regulated noncompliance at time one was associated with greater perceptions of influence at time two, which, in turn, was associated with greater maternal democracy at time three. Three years of self-report data were gathered from 166 mothers and their firstborn children (55% female), ages 9 - 11 years at time one. keywords: adolescents cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n51m5c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n51m5c.txt item: #58 of 4945 id: 08612n51m8d author: B. W. Benapfl title: Investigation of Resistive Losses in Type II Superconductors date: 1904 words: 543 flesch: 42 summary: This effect can be identified by measurements of the resistivity as a function of temperature, magnetic field strength, angle of field with respect to the crystal axis as well as with respect to an induced current density. Measurements were taken as a function of applied magnetic field, temperature, rf field intensity, and angle of the applied field with respect to the rf-induced current. keywords: field cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n51m8d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n51m8d.txt item: #59 of 4945 id: 08612n51m9r author: Michael Francis title: Borderline Bad: Philo of Alexandria on the Distinction between Voluntary and Involuntary Sin date: 1904 words: 444 flesch: 29 summary: Voluntary sin is, then, by its nature a very serious thing, a denial of the creator's claim on the creature and the mark of a thoroughly reprehensible soul. In contrast, involuntary sin is simply an unfortunate entailment of created human existence, an inevitability of life in the corporeal realm for those who cannot escape the non-rational within and without, even exemplary souls still in the process of striving for virtue. keywords: voluntary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n51m9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n51m9r.txt item: #60 of 4945 id: 08612n51n19 author: Javier Osorio title: Hobbes on Drugs: Understanding Drug Violence in Mexico date: 1904 words: 341 flesch: 30 summary: Based on a game theoretic model, the central argument indicates that democratization erodes the peaceful configurations between the state and criminal organizations and motivates authorities to fight crime, thus triggering a wave of violence between the state and organized criminals and among rival criminal groups fighting to control strategic territories. The statistical assessment relies on quasi-experimental identification strategies and time-series analysis to overcome problems of causal inference associated with analyzing the distinct ‒yet overlapping- processes of violence between government authorities and organized criminals and among rival criminal groups. keywords: violence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n51n19.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n51n19.txt item: #61 of 4945 id: 08612n5286w author: Michael J. Accurso title: Baroque Grandeur in the Hands of the Classical Genius: A Study of George Frideric Handel's Messiah as Arranged by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart date: 1904 words: 207 flesch: 43 summary: In 1788 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was contracted by Baron Gottfried van Swieten, prefect of the Imperial Library in Vienna, and distinguished patron of composers, to oversee a series of concerts of sacred works, especially those of Handel and Bach. The thesis concludes with a reconsideration of transcribed works within a conductor's repertoire, programming options and educational strategies. keywords: changes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n5286w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n5286w.txt item: #62 of 4945 id: 08612n52g5d author: Suzanna Krivulskaya title: Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism, 1832-1988 date: 2019 words: 302 flesch: 29 summary: Second, whereas other studies have mostly focused on single instances of scandal's reach, this dissertation traces long-term trajectories of pastoral sex scandal coverage, thereby presenting a more comprehensive picture of how scandal shaped American religion. Using the understudied intersection of scandal and religion, this project argues that scandal coverage allowed the press to compete with the pulpit as a source of moral authority, forced denominations to restructure, and emboldened sustained public scrutiny of religious piety. keywords: scandal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n52g5d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n52g5d.txt item: #63 of 4945 id: 08612n52m60 author: Joshua H. Lim title: Vidimus eum plenum gratiae et veritatis: Thomas Aquinas on the Co-Assumed Perfections: Christ's Grace and Knowledge date: 2019 words: 271 flesch: 44 summary: My dissertation highlights the central importance that the humanity of Christ plays in Thomas's understanding of the salvation and the communication of grace. For Thomas, Christ's perfection in grace and knowledge must be understood first and foremost with respect to the grace of headship. keywords: thomas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n52m60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n52m60.txt item: #64 of 4945 id: 08612n52n38 author: Kostiantyn Timchenko title: Characteristic Cycles for K-Orbits on Grassmannians date: 2020 words: 18 flesch: 33 summary: In this dissertation we compute characteristic cycles of the IC-sheaves associated to the K-orbits on Grassmannians. keywords: grassmannians cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n52n38.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n52n38.txt item: #65 of 4945 id: 08612n52n5z author: Devin Whitten title: Observational Constraints on Milky Way Halo Formation date: 2020 words: 73 flesch: 30 summary: Implications of the chemical abundance, spatial, and age distributions determined for a number of stellar populations in the stellar halo are discussed, along with the utility of such determinations for current- and next-generation simulations of Milky Way structure formation and chemical evolution. The formation of the Milky Way stellar halo is explored through the application of large-scale astronomical sky surveys. keywords: stellar cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n52n5z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n52n5z.txt item: #66 of 4945 id: 08612n52n9b author: Kathryn Burton Mulholland title: Generalized Cluster Structures Compatible with the Cremmer-Gervais Poisson Bracket on Rectangular Matrices date: 2020 words: 108 flesch: 37 summary: This dissertation continues the study of cluster structures in the rings of regular functions on the affine space of rectangular matrices that are compatible with Poisson structures. According to the conjecture given by Gekhtman-Shapiro-Vainshtein, each class in the Belavin-Drinfeld classification of Poisson-Lie structures on a semisimple complex group G corresponds to a cluster structure in O(G). keywords: poisson cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n52n9b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n52n9b.txt item: #67 of 4945 id: 08612n52q47 author: Lindy M. Sherman title: Analyte Detection Schemes Using Functionalized Nanomaterials and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering date: 2022 words: 412 flesch: 32 summary: Thiol ligands are the current standard for functionalizing metal nanoparticle surfaces, particularly silver and gold. The first section of this dissertation introduces an alternative ligand for nanoparticle systems: N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs). keywords: sers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n52q47.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n52q47.txt item: #68 of 4945 id: 08612n52s1t author: Chinedu Madukoma title: Examining the Role of Type IV Pili in Surface Motility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa date: 2023 words: 332 flesch: 38 summary: While investigating cluster development and TFP motility, I probed a lack of TFP activity in a rhlI mutant named (PDO100). Prior to my work, there was a discrepancy in the literature regarding TFP motility for this PDO100 strain. keywords: tfp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/08612n52s1t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/08612n52s1t.txt item: #69 of 4945 id: 0c483j34v42 author: Florencia Foxley title: Models of Motherhood? Alcestis and Medea as Hero Figures date: 2015 words: 150 flesch: 58 summary: Alcestis portrays an ideal wife and mother, revered by her slaves, children, in-laws, and husband, who dies for that husband in order to ensure his life and the security of her children. In this thesis, I will investigate the qualities of Euripides' early portrayals of tragic mothers. keywords: alcestis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j34v42.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j34v42.txt item: #70 of 4945 id: 0c483j34v6r author: Jarrett Haley title: We Americans date: 2008 words: 4 flesch: 54 summary: American Life, in essence. keywords: american cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j34v6r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j34v6r.txt item: #71 of 4945 id: 0c483j34v8f author: Satyaki Ganguly title: High Performance III-Nitride Heterostructure Devices Exploiting Polarization, Isotope Physics and Integrating with Silicon date: 2014 words: 451 flesch: 43 summary: High-performance GaN HEMTs on silicon by RF-plasma MBE growth, with low-resistance MBE-regrown ohmic contacts is demonstrated. The role of isotope and disorder engineering is demonstrated as a fundamentally new method to boost the speed of GaN HEMTs. keywords: gan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j34v8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j34v8f.txt item: #72 of 4945 id: 0c483j34w1b author: Xiaolong Li title: Improving Packet Caching Scalability Through the Concept of an Explicit End of Data Marker date: 2010 words: 164 flesch: 35 summary: Although past work has addressed mechanisms for detecting redundancy despite dynamic content, the scalability of such techniques is limited. The web has witnessed an explosion of dynamic content generation to provide web users with an interactive and personalized experience. keywords: content cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j34w1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j34w1b.txt item: #73 of 4945 id: 0c483j34w4c author: Drew Gorman-Lewis title: The Adsorption of Chemical Contaminants onto Environmental Surfaces With Special Consideration of the Bacterial Surface date: 2006 words: 358 flesch: 32 summary: Chapter 3 focuses specifically on the reactivity of the bacterial surface using the new technique of combining titration calorimetry with surface complexation modeling to produce site-specific enthalpies and entropies of proton and Cd adsorption. Adsorption reactions are one of many processes to consider when attempting to predict and understand the movement of contaminants through the subsurface. keywords: adsorption cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j34w4c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j34w4c.txt item: #74 of 4945 id: 0c483j34w5q author: YingYuan Zhou title: Ferromagnetic Resonance Study of Spin Dynamics in GaMnAs Films date: 2010 words: 322 flesch: 37 summary: In our study of magnetic anisotropy of GaMnAs we find that the magnetic anisotropy fields of samples grown on high-index GaAs can be resolved into a cubic magnetic anisotropy field oriented along the crystallographic <001> axes and effective uniaxial magnetic anisotropy fields along higher-index directions (e.g., [110] or [311]). In this thesis, FMR is used to determine all the fundamental magnetic properties of GaMnAs, including magnetic anisotropy, total magnetic moment, the Curie temperature, magneto-elastic coupling coefficients, and magnetization relaxation parameters. keywords: magnetic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j34w5q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j34w5q.txt item: #75 of 4945 id: 0c483j34w7d author: Mary Caitlin Sherman title: Nonadiabatic Dynamics and Path Sampling Methods: A New Perspective on the Simulation of Charge Transfer Reactions in the Condensed Phase date: 2015 words: 332 flesch: 33 summary: NAPS will enhance our understanding of charge transfer reactions in the condensed phase by modeling reaction timescales currently beyond the scope of molecular simulation, and identifying specific molecular motions that influence or control the mechanisms and kinetics of charge transfer reactions. TPS is a powerful statistical framework that provides mechanisms of complex reactions without the need to define reaction coordinates or identify transition states a priori. keywords: reactions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j34w7d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j34w7d.txt item: #76 of 4945 id: 0c483j34w8r author: Claire Therese Reising title: «C'était une grande victoire. Écrivez ça.»: Le nationalisme français et algérien et la réception des films autour de la guerre d'Algérie date: 2015 words: 148 flesch: 49 summary: *Days of Glory* (Bouchareb, 2006) portrays Algerians fighting for France during World War II, and *Of Gods and Men* (Xavier Beauvois, 2010) depicts French monks who are killed during the Algerian Civil War. My thesis analyzes the reception of four films that contributed to French national discussion on the Algerian War of Independence and colonization of Algeria. keywords: war cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j34w8r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j34w8r.txt item: #77 of 4945 id: 0c483j34z29 author: Marcelo Aybar Lagos title: Mechanisms of Gas Transfer and Biofilm Development in Membrane Aerated Biofilms date: 1904 words: 268 flesch: 33 summary: My research addressed a novel type of environmental treatment technology known as the membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR), or the membrane-aerated biofilm reactor (MABR). The presented results provided some details of critical factors that must be addressed in future studies and also opened new areas of biofilm research. keywords: biofilm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j34z29.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j34z29.txt item: #78 of 4945 id: 0c483j34z71 author: Hao Lu title: Development of Nanometer Ion Conductor for 2D-Crystal Memory and Universal Tunnel Transistor SPICE Model date: 2016 words: 360 flesch: 41 summary: Based on the Kane-Sze formula for tunneling, this model captures the distinctive features of TFETs such as steep slope, superlinear onset, ambipolar conduction, and negative differential resistance. The model has been implemented in SPICE simulators using Verilog-A and implemented into native AIM-Spice, available on Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS.Besides steep slope transistor models a further focus of this dissertation has been the exploration of new memory concepts. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j34z71.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j34z71.txt item: #79 of 4945 id: 0c483j35215 author: Melinda Varga title: Continuous-Time Dynamical Systems Approach to Hard Constraint Satisfaction Problems date: 1904 words: 363 flesch: 44 summary: We briefly present a proposal for a modular and programmable design for an analog hardware SAT-solver, which solves hard problems more than 10,000 times faster than state-of-the-art algorithms (MiniSAT) run on digital computers. This problem appears in many real-world applications, and it has a key role in the theory of computational complexity and in particular NP-completeness: if one would find an efficient (polynomial-time) algorithm to solve k-SAT (for k>2), then we would be able to generate solutions efficiently to all problems from the NP class (Cook-Levin theorem), i.e., to a very large number of hard problems. keywords: sat cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j35215.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j35215.txt item: #80 of 4945 id: 0c483j35k1t author: Cory M. Ayres title: Investigation of the Differential Dynamics of T Cell Receptors and Their Ligands: The Role of Dynamics in Immunological Recognition date: 1904 words: 330 flesch: 41 summary: This process is facilitated through the interactions between the T lymphocyte cell surface receptor, or T-cell receptor, and a major histocompatibility complex, or MHC, presenting a peptide on the surface of antigen presenting cells. Amazingly, while a single TCR can recognize over a million peptide-MHC ligands, it is still able to discriminate between peptides sourced from normal and aberrant expression. keywords: dynamics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j35k1t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j35k1t.txt item: #81 of 4945 id: 0c483j35q6s author: Zachary J Hanson title: Integrated Surface Water and Groundwater Modeling of Inland Lakes and Wetlands in a Changing Climate date: 2019 words: 299 flesch: 31 summary: Chapter 3 then investigates the response of the NHLD under scenarios of future climate change and highlights the variability not only in the projected future climate, but also in the responses across different lake types. Both studies address the responses of these inland waterbodies to changes in projected future climate over the Midwest for the late 21st century. keywords: climate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j35q6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j35q6s.txt item: #82 of 4945 id: 0c483j35z79 author: Xiaozhi Zhu title: Fast Sparse Grid Simulations of Fifth Order WENO Scheme for High Dimensional Hyperbolic PDEs date: 2021 words: 319 flesch: 35 summary: It leads to large amount of operations and computational costs in the numerical simulations by using nonlinear high order accuracy WENO schemes such as a fifth order WENO scheme. How to achieve fast simulations by high order WENO methods for high spatial dimension hyperbolic PDEs is a challenging and important question. keywords: order cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j35z79.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j35z79.txt item: #83 of 4945 id: 0c483j35z8n author: Louis Daudet title: Development of Speech-Based Neurological Assessment Tools and Biomarkers date: 2021 words: 436 flesch: 48 summary: In order to be portable, a mobile application is also created to facilitate the collection of speech samples and associated metadata from over 2,500 student athletes in the context of an analysis of mTBI's impact on speech. Using this application, we collect speech samples from over 80 participants. keywords: speech cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j35z8n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j35z8n.txt item: #84 of 4945 id: 0c483j3609k author: Philip-Neri Reese, O.P. title: Thomas Aquinas and the Demonstrative Character of Metaphysics date: 2022 words: 294 flesch: 47 summary: In the Aristotelian tradition to which Aquinas belonged, the highest sort of knowledge was demonstrative knowledge (episteme or scientia), in which the knower grasps—on the basis of universal and necessary principles—both that and why some subject necessarily has some property. The purpose of this dissertation is to show that Thomas Aquinas was among those who thought that metaphysics is a legitimate discipline that is in the business of produce knowledge of the highest sort, and that he had good reason to do so—at least by his own lights. keywords: metaphysics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0c483j3609k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0c483j3609k.txt item: #85 of 4945 id: 0g354f1841c author: Jie Su title: A Lateral-Drive Method to Address Pull-in Failure in MEMS date: 2008 words: 238 flesch: 42 summary: This dissertation investigates an effective lateral-drive method to solve this pull-in problem by building electrodes laterally offset rather than directly opposite to each other. Lateral gap less than a critical value are still susceptible to the pull-in problem. keywords: lateral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f1841c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f1841c.txt item: #86 of 4945 id: 0g354f1842q author: Jennifer Gorsky title: On the Cauchy Problem for a KdV-Type Equation on the Circle date: 2004 words: 228 flesch: 55 summary: We begin by proving well-posedness in Bourgain spaces for sufficiently small size initial data in the Sobolev space $H^s(mathbb{T})$, $s=1/2$, by using appropriate bilinear estimates. In the second part of this work we show that the periodic Cauchy problem for the mCH equation with analytic initial data is analytic in the space variable $x$ for time near zero. keywords: estimates cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f1842q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f1842q.txt item: #87 of 4945 id: 0g354f18432 author: Wenlong Zhang title: Acoustics and Hydrodynamics of Fluid-Structure Interaction in a Submerged Elastic Duct date: 2010 words: 406 flesch: 56 summary: For stiffened ducts, the magnitude of the acoustic response as well as the directivity vary strongly and show large peaks near the stiffened duct free modes. The acoustic radiation from the duct is calculated and correlated to the flow nonuniformities and the propeller and duct characteristics. keywords: duct cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f18432.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f18432.txt item: #88 of 4945 id: 0g354f1844d author: Alejandro Guajardo Cuéllar title: A heat conduction study at non-continuum scales date: 2011 words: 411 flesch: 45 summary: For macro-scale it is known that diffusive behavior is presented in heat conduction; here models that show different behavior than diffusive such as wave-like are presented. An extensive and detailed description of heat conduction at the micro- and nano-scale is presented. keywords: heat cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f1844d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f1844d.txt item: #89 of 4945 id: 0g354f18463 author: Scott Thompson Smith title: Writing Land in Anglo-Saxon England date: 2008 words: 339 flesch: 24 summary: Anglo-Saxon legal texts designed to control the ownership, use, and transmission of property produced a pervasive discourse for land possession with its own terminology and concepts. Land tenure practices were originally an instrument of ecclesiastical institutions, and tenurial texts, originally written in Latin, were heavily inflected with religious language. keywords: land cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f18463.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f18463.txt item: #90 of 4945 id: 0g354f1848s author: Stephen Karla title: A Meditation on Artistic Intent date: 2006 words: 85 flesch: 50 summary: I intend my artwork to present a critical view on humanity's use of its gift of creation in our own self-manifested race for progress. Our technological ingenuities have proven our abundance of applied scientific knowledge, while simulantaneously exposing our lack of the wisdom of restraint. keywords: creation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f1848s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f1848s.txt item: #91 of 4945 id: 0g354f1851p author: Charles Adam Bee title: Three Essays on the Causes and Consequences of Government Spending and Regulatory Programs date: 2011 words: 360 flesch: 43 summary: Chapter 1 assesses the impact of household car ownership on individual labor supply. The total cost of replacing this hydroelectricity is less than a third of the additional surplus generated by a natural flood regime's impact on fisheries production, implying changes in dam operation to provide environmental flows can be a cost-effective means of improving the material well-being of subsistence fishermen. keywords: total cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f1851p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f1851p.txt item: #92 of 4945 id: 0g354f1857r author: Bipasha Deb title: Study of Sequence Dynamics Relationship with Binding Affinity of Pin1-WW Domain date: 2010 words: 539 flesch: 49 summary: The binding affinity for the wild-type [1] and WW mutants has been calculated (by Tao Peng) and the Kd value for wild-type (wt) is observed to be much less than its mutants for the substrate cdc25. The model system used for this study is WW domain of Pin1. keywords: binding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f1857r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f1857r.txt item: #93 of 4945 id: 0g354f18610 author: Joungeun Lee title: Anger in Thomas Aquinas and Han-full Anger date: 2015 words: 135 flesch: 32 summary: The study of han-full anger offers Aquinas's normative language of anger a chance to encounter the etymological and phenomenological reality of embodied anger and further the life of its bearer living in a marginalized life. Finally, Aquinas's virtue ethics, taken together with han studies, suggests a modified way to work with the han-full anger. keywords: anger cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f18610.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f18610.txt item: #94 of 4945 id: 0g354f18t80 author: Jordan M. Sannito title: Religious Disaffiliation and Mental Well-Being date: 1904 words: 141 flesch: 40 summary: Research has just begun to investigate the role that religious disaffiliation plays in general well-being. I also note some potential avenues future research might take in order to expand our current understanding of the relationship between religious disaffiliation and mental well-being. keywords: disaffiliation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f18t80.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f18t80.txt item: #95 of 4945 id: 0g354f18v4x author: Amanda L. Nowak title: Social Support Moderates the Relation between Childhood Trauma and Prenatal Depressive Symptoms in Teen Mothers date: 1904 words: 116 flesch: 27 summary: We tested the degree to which childhood trauma predicted prenatal depressive symptoms and whether this relation was moderated by social support as well as risk status of the mother in 682 pregnant adults and teens. Using multigroup moderation analyses, however, moderation effects were significant for teens but not adults. keywords: prenatal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f18v4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f18v4x.txt item: #96 of 4945 id: 0g354f18w6x author: Nishant Kumar Singh title: Structural Drivers of Antigen Specificity in T Cell Receptors date: 2018 words: 173 flesch: 27 summary: Overall, our results show that the positions on the CDR loops associated with antigen specificity are broadly distributed among the germline and hypervariable loops, and include interactions with both the peptide and MHC protein, with significant implication for engineering TCRs with novel binding properties. I, in conjunction with our collaborators at University of Illinois and Loyola University, combined structural and functional analysis with deep mutational scanning to gain insight into the encoding of TCR specificity. keywords: specificity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f18w6x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f18w6x.txt item: #97 of 4945 id: 0g354f1908t author: Tangqiumei Song title: Gas Solubility in Ionic Liquids: Applications for Carbon Capture and Energy Storage date: 2019 words: 173 flesch: 50 summary: To this end, the solubilities of O2, NO, noble gases (Ar, Kr, Xe), and CO2 were measured in ionic liquids of widely varying sizes and structures. The main objective of this research is to elucidate different gases dissolution mechanism by studying the phase behavior of the ionic liquids and the gases. keywords: gases cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f1908t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f1908t.txt item: #98 of 4945 id: 0g354f1917s author: Andrea E. O'Rear title: Memory Performance and Event Structure date: 2019 words: 350 flesch: 49 summary: Theories of event cognition, cue overload, and priming make competing predictions about how different patterns of event structure will influence memory performance. Recent findings suggested that the number of events at both encoding and testing work together to influence prospective memory performance (remembering to do something in the future) when the cue is a location (O'Rear & Radvansky, 2019). keywords: event cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f1917s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f1917s.txt item: #99 of 4945 id: 0g354f1920p author: Mourad Takawi title: The Interreligious Context of Quran Interpretation: Early Arabic Christian and Muslim Exegesis of the Qurān, 8th-10th Centuries CE date: 2019 words: 252 flesch: 28 summary: In each case study I employ a two-tiered comparative structure: first, comparing early theological Muslim and Arabophone Christian approaches, and then comparing the interpretative approaches and priorities in these theological texts to those presented in select works of early classical Tafsīr. To this end, I investigate four key qurʾānic passages—Q 112; 4:171; 3:45-51; and 5:116-120—which are among the loci of Arabophone Christian and Muslim debates in the early centuries, and are therefore frequently cited and studied in theological writings early on. keywords: early cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f1920p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f1920p.txt item: #100 of 4945 id: 0g354f1925d author: Elizabeth E. Clemmons title: Social Elements and the Meaning of the Nuptial Union in the Song of Songs date: 2019 words: 350 flesch: 51 summary: Through focusing on the occurrences of eight categories of social features, it becomes clear that the social context is a continual presence in the Song. In chapter 4 the question of the structure of the Song is treated, with the function of social features in view. keywords: song cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f1925d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f1925d.txt item: #101 of 4945 id: 0g354f1967b author: David Eliaona Lyimo title: The Quest for Christ in Africa: Reimagining and Reconstructing African Christology date: 2020 words: 254 flesch: 26 summary: New cultural realities in turn reshape African communities and worldviews, so that religious beliefs also undergo transformation. Much African theology, including reflection on Christ in Africa — that is, Christology — has long reflected traditional African cultural values. keywords: african cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f1967b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f1967b.txt item: #102 of 4945 id: 0g354f19780 author: Amy Kryston title: Improving Climate-Robustness of Transboundary River Treaties: A Pareto-Optimization Approach date: 2022 words: 247 flesch: 34 summary: Climate change will alter the flow availability and expected water allocations in international river treaties, many of which were designed using historical flow records. This task is complicated by the fact that specific outcomes associated with each party's priorities are not necessarily public information, and the direction, amplitude and effect of long term changes in hydro-climatic drivers can be highly uncertain. keywords: climate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f19780.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f19780.txt item: #103 of 4945 id: 0g354f19858 author: Andrew A. Oliva title: Internal Flow Modeling and Compressor Inlet Distortion date: 2022 words: 490 flesch: 42 summary: Internal flow represents an important class of fluid dynamics problems involving flow through an object or device with one or more inflows and exit flows. This research focuses on two aspects of internal flows: analytical solutions for steady flow and an experimental investigation of unsteady flow. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f19858.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f19858.txt item: #104 of 4945 id: 0g354f1987z author: Qi Li title: New Network Biology Approaches Towards Advancement of Understanding Aging and Malaria From -Omics Data date: 2022 words: 442 flesch: 28 summary: This dissertation proposes novel computational approaches for both tasks -- network inference and network analysis -- in the context of studying two important biological processes -- human aging and malaria. The above two limitations emphasize the need for an important task in network biology -- that of network inference. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f1987z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f1987z.txt item: #105 of 4945 id: 0g354f19916 author: Chris Campbell title: Improving the Accuracy and Precision of Frequency Domain and Hybrid Broadband Diffuse Optical Imaging date: 2022 words: 246 flesch: 27 summary: Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (DOS) is a noninvasive technology that uses near-infrared (NIR) light (600-1100 nm) to investigate human tissue. Lastly, we evaluate a new technique called Structured Interrogation, which is based on the use of multiple in-phase modulated optical sources, to improve 3D localization and characterization of tissue heterogeneities. keywords: dos cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0g354f19916.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0g354f19916.txt item: #106 of 4945 id: 0k225b01d6n author: Allison Olivia Evans title: Between Something and Nothing: Phenomenological Light Studies date: 2015 words: 42 flesch: 40 summary: Influenced by phenomenology, the study of how first person experience structures consciousness, this work examines how the body navigates, and is impacted by, everyday interactions of light and space. This thesis is an exploration of the relationships between light, space, and perception. keywords: space cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b01d6n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b01d6n.txt item: #107 of 4945 id: 0k225b01d8b author: Lisa Marie DeBeer-Schmitt title: Aspects of Vortex Physics in CeCoIn5 date: 2008 words: 517 flesch: 53 summary: This is caused by the fact that the field at the center of the vortex must display cylindrical symmetry as it does at low fields. In contrast, CeCoIn5's form factor remains constant at low fields but rapidly starts to increase as the field is increased. keywords: field cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b01d8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b01d8b.txt item: #108 of 4945 id: 0k225b01f17 author: Beth Claire Isaksen title: Molecular Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata date: 2003 words: 107 flesch: 54 summary: We compare the results of calculations using several different levels of theory. Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is an approach to computing which eliminates the need for transistors by representing binary digits as charge configurations rather than current levels. keywords: qca cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b01f17.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b01f17.txt item: #109 of 4945 id: 0k225b01f3x author: Jody Samantha Nicholson title: Precursors to Paternal Identity: Antecedents and Consequences of Metaparenting date: 2010 words: 123 flesch: 40 summary: The present study explored the antecedents and consequences of metaparenting, or a mental plan for parenting, in a diverse sample of fathers (n = 66). In turn, metaparenting influenced parenting effectiveness. keywords: parenting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b01f3x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b01f3x.txt item: #110 of 4945 id: 0k225b01f48 author: Allison Ann Penner Regier title: A Flexible Comparative Genomics Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Sequence Data date: 2011 words: 184 flesch: 32 summary: Genome sequencing technologies have revolutionized biology in the past two decades, yet data analysis has lagged behind data production. We give results from applications of these tools such as genotyping strains of Plasmodium falciparum, finding diversity and divergence between strains of Anopheles gambiae, detecting inversions based on assembly and alignment information from A. gambiae, and exploring resequencing analysis using alignments to multiple reference sequences. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b01f48.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b01f48.txt item: #111 of 4945 id: 0k225b01f5m author: Pauline Bourbon title: Development of potential Niemann-Pick type C therapeutics and the synthesis of caged nicotinamide and cholesterol to gain a better understanding of cholesterol biosynthesis and trafficking date: 2012 words: 285 flesch: 45 summary: Also, as a tool to study cholesterol trafficking different caged cholesterol were made. In order to elucidate the mechanism of this reaction by Laue crystallography, model caged coumarin of nicotinamide were synthesized. keywords: cholesterol cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b01f5m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b01f5m.txt item: #112 of 4945 id: 0k225b01f6z author: Jason Kistler Keller title: Controls of Microbial Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands date: 2006 words: 349 flesch: 26 summary: This dissertation focuses on the controls of anaerobic carbon mineralization and aerobic CH4 oxidation in peatland ecosystems. For example, in peatlands from northern Michigan, anaerobic carbon mineralization in bog peat was consistently inhibited by increased phosphorus availability, but similar phosphorus additions had few effects in peat from an intermediate fen and stimulated CH4 production in rich fen peat. keywords: carbon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b01f6z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b01f6z.txt item: #113 of 4945 id: 0k225b01f79 author: Brian P Dunn title: Overhead in Communication Systems as the Cost of Constraints date: 2010 words: 194 flesch: 30 summary: For multi-access communication systems, we compute constrained capacity regions for two binary additive channels with feedback and develop inner and outer bounds on the capacity region of the packet collision channel with feedback that appear to be tight numerically. Finally, we study information-theoretic security in timing channels and show that non-zero secrecy rates can be achieved over the wiretap timing channel using a deterministic encoder. keywords: overhead cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b01f79.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b01f79.txt item: #114 of 4945 id: 0k225b01f90 author: Colleen Therese Cole title: Differential Targeting of Cytoplasmic Dynein During Mitosis by Site Specific Phosphorylation date: 2011 words: 369 flesch: 42 summary: These results suggest a model in which specific proteins at spindle poles are necessary for dynein function, whereas other spindle pole proteins are required for dynein recruitment. The motor protein cytoplasmic dynein has been implicated in mitotic functions that require dynein localization to specific cellular locations. keywords: dynein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b01f90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b01f90.txt item: #115 of 4945 id: 0k225b01g2w author: Caroline L. Wilky title: Chronicling Creation: Nature and History Writing, c. 1150–1240 date: 1904 words: 466 flesch: 36 summary: This dissertation examines a group of innovative historical texts produced at the turn of the thirteenth century that incorporated information about the material world, namely descriptions of animals, plants, stones, and geographical features, into their narratives of human history. The first two introductory chapters chart the ethics of history writing and the study of natural particulars during the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. keywords: history cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b01g2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b01g2w.txt item: #116 of 4945 id: 0k225b01h9m author: Adam R. Hickman title: The Transition from Rotating Stall to Surge in an Axial Compressor date: 2016 words: 262 flesch: 56 summary: A stalled compressor rotor can be considered to contain three main regions: stalled passages, recovering passages, and over-pressured passages. Over-pressured passages exhibit turning and pressure rise greater than pre-stall values. keywords: stall cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b01h9m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b01h9m.txt item: #117 of 4945 id: 0k225b01m3g author: Kurt Edward Milberger title: The Beasts' Progress: Animals in the British Religious Imagination, 1640-1800 date: 1904 words: 321 flesch: 28 summary: Preserved in Christian songs, poems, fables, allegories, and artworks resides the work of thinkers who employed biblical teaching and religious tradition to argue on behalf of animals, and their work must complicate the scholarly view of religious history and its relationship to the ecological crisis. In fact, beginning with the animal soul controversy in the seventeenth century, these writers always thought about animals and humanity's relationship with them in the context of religious beliefs, traditions, and communities. keywords: animals cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b01m3g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b01m3g.txt item: #118 of 4945 id: 0k225b0243d author: Jerry Scott Fisher title: Linear Forgetting date: 1904 words: 152 flesch: 50 summary: The possibility that this is due to a standard forgetting process involving multiple event components, partial matching or reconstruction at retrieval, and the passage of time is discussed, along with proposals for further studies. This pattern, commonly fit to a power function, has been observed across a variety of stimuli, tasks, and retention lengths. keywords: retention cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b0243d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b0243d.txt item: #119 of 4945 id: 0k225b02b69 author: Mehdi Golestanian title: Investigation of Range-Based and Range-Free Radio Frequency-Based Localization Techniques date: 2019 words: 794 flesch: 39 summary: The simulation results confirm the improvement of localization accuracy compared with popular range-free methods such as DV-hop, ZBLM, and EZBLM. For the parametric approach, we also studied different parameters such as beacon configuration having direct impact on localization accuracy. keywords: localization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b02b69.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b02b69.txt item: #120 of 4945 id: 0k225b02b9b author: Yide Zhang title: Super-Sensitivity and Super-Resolution Quantitative Multiphoton Microscopy date: 2019 words: 540 flesch: 38 summary: To improve the speed of image analysis, a novel and unbiased approach to segment FLIM images automatically by K-means clustering of FLIM phasors is presented. The integrated MPM-FD-FLIM imaging system possesses both the advantages of MPM, such as reduced photodamage and deep tissue penetration, and the strengths of FLIM, including error tolerance and the ability to discriminate different fluorophores with similar emission spectra. keywords: flim cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b02b9b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b02b9b.txt item: #121 of 4945 id: 0k225b02g6j author: Tatsunori Hayashi title: Differential Luminescent Imaging Method date: 2020 words: 298 flesch: 25 summary: In aerodynamic research, point measurements of a given quantity over the surface of a test article are widely utilized as the most straightforward and conventional approach. Although point measurements have several advantages such as sensitivity, linearity, and mechanical robustness, the invasiveness of many transducers creates additional disturbances in the observed flow. keywords: luminescent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0k225b02g6j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0k225b02g6j.txt item: #122 of 4945 id: 0p096684p35 author: Brian Bucher title: On the Production of the Light Heavy-Elements (A~90) date: 2014 words: 326 flesch: 44 summary: The s-process occurs in asymptotic giant branch stars (main component) and massive stars (weak component). The specific astrophysical site(s) of the r-process is not known for sure, but neutron star mergers and core-collapse supernovae appear to be good candidates. keywords: process cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096684p35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096684p35.txt item: #123 of 4945 id: 0p096684p4h author: Patrick Joseph Donoghue title: Computational Modeling of Metal Catalyzed Reactions for the Prediction and Improvement of Enantioselectivity date: 2008 words: 336 flesch: 35 summary: The rhodium catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of enamides to generate amino acid products and derivatives is a widely used method to generate unnatural amino acids. As before, new MM3* parameters were developed to describe the transition state and subsequent screening of a selection of chiral ligands against a common, symmetric aminodiyne. keywords: method cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096684p4h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096684p4h.txt item: #124 of 4945 id: 0p096684p5v author: Mary Catherine Wagner Fuhs title: A Latent Variable Approach to Examining Executive Functioning Development and Emerging Mathematics Skills in Preschoolers at Head Start date: 2011 words: 186 flesch: 20 summary: After controlling for both age and verbal ability, structural equation modeling analyses revealed that executive functioning skills in the fall predicted mathematics skills in the spring, and mathematics skills in the fall were also predictive of children's spring executive functioning scores. These relationships did not hold after controlling for fall scores on executive functioning and mathematics. keywords: functioning cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096684p5v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096684p5v.txt item: #125 of 4945 id: 0p096684p66 author: Clinton Waterman title: I Blew Up A Regional Airport date: 2011 words: 4 flesch: 75 summary: A collection of poems keywords: poems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096684p66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096684p66.txt item: #126 of 4945 id: 0p096684p8w author: Jeffrey Howard Green title: Work for a New Theory of Modality date: 2008 words: 311 flesch: 61 summary: Second, UMS introduces the concepts of explicit and implicit truth at a state of affairs while OMS relies merely on truth at a state of affairs. UMS evaluates modal claims not with respect to possible worlds but with respect to less than maximal states of affairs. keywords: ums cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096684p8w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096684p8w.txt item: #127 of 4945 id: 0p096684q0f author: Gwendolyn Anne Oxenham title: Essence Game date: 2011 words: 5 flesch: 100 summary: A Short Life in Soccer keywords: soccer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096684q0f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096684q0f.txt item: #128 of 4945 id: 0p096684q9j author: Christine Marie Steeger title: Predictors of Maternal Psychological Control: Adolescent Behavioral Antecedents and the Mediating Role of Mother-Adolescent Conflict date: 2010 words: 133 flesch: 19 summary: This study examined the direction of indirect effects for mother-adolescent conflict as a mediator between specific adolescent problem behaviors (i.e., aggression and depressive symptoms) and maternal psychological control over the transition to adolescence. This research corroborates other recent studies finding support for child effects on parenting behaviors during early adolescence. keywords: indirect cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096684q9j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096684q9j.txt item: #129 of 4945 id: 0p096685d0x author: Ian M. Gerdon title: Love in the Evagrian Tradition to Maximus the Confessor date: 1904 words: 347 flesch: 38 summary: Finally, in chapter five, I argue that, contrary to scholarly assessment, Maximus's Ascetic Dialogue is a text that fits well into the preceding Evagrian tradition, especially that of Palestine, while the Chapters on Love signal an innovative attempt in the tradition to recover Evagrian cosmology and separate it from Origenist implications, thus beginning the work that culminated in his more famous revision of Origenism in his Ambigua ad Johannem. I show that all three abandon Evagrian cosmology, place renewed focus on love in the initial stages of ascetic life, and find new accounts of divine intimacy. keywords: love cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096685d0x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096685d0x.txt item: #130 of 4945 id: 0p096685d49 author: Maria Gibbs title: A Framework for the Prediction and Mitigation of Flutter in Suspension Footbridges: A Human-Centered Approach date: 1904 words: 371 flesch: 25 summary: The framework offers a comprehensive approach for the prediction and mitigation of flutter in standardized footbridge designs. In contrast to current flutter prediction and mitigation efforts, the framework leverages data from multiple standard footbridges to eliminate the burden of detailed bridge by bridge analysis. keywords: flutter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096685d49.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096685d49.txt item: #131 of 4945 id: 0p096685f80 author: Cecilia Pe Lero title: Social Movements in New Democracies: Specialization and Ownership date: 2018 words: 354 flesch: 26 summary: Thus, when social movement organizations work together on a particular issue or campaign, a division of labor develops that can allow the movement to approach the issue on a variety of strategic fronts. Sectoral ownership, or framing a campaign or advocacy as being the demand of the affected sector itself, is important for social movement organizations to compete with both the state as well as other organizations as the legitimate representative of the people. keywords: movement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096685f80.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096685f80.txt item: #132 of 4945 id: 0p096685t10 author: Reid Comstock title: Aristotle's Ēthikoi Logoi: On the Pedagogical Purpose of the Ethical Treatises date: 2021 words: 358 flesch: 59 summary: This dissertation takes a new stab at an old question in Aristotle interpretation. Others interpret Aristotle as thinking that this process is a non-rational one: one pursues X because one has been habituated to find X good. keywords: aristotle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096685t10.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096685t10.txt item: #133 of 4945 id: 0p096685t5c author: Katherine Lindsley title: Instabilities in Concave Surfaces date: 2021 words: 233 flesch: 43 summary: The results from our simulations represent similar instability characteristics between flat, convex, and concave geometries which presents progress for the hope to find a unifying theory of instability between varying geometries under similar conditions. The purpose of this paper is to determine how instability characteristics change on concave geometries. keywords: convex cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096685t5c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096685t5c.txt item: #134 of 4945 id: 0p096685t72 author: Katherine E. O'Reilly title: Environmental Change in Great Lakes Coastal Ecosystems date: 2022 words: 399 flesch: 19 summary: Although much of this research took place in Lake Michigan, my dissertation has broad relevance to the Laurentian Great Lakes and large lakes globally because coastal ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic stressors due to their transitional location on the landscape. I then investigate differences in heavy metal accumulation between two sportfish species that use coastal ecosystems (Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, and walleye, Sander vitreus) and assess if otolith (ear stone) microchemistry can complement traditional contaminant monitoring approaches (i.e., using muscle tissue). keywords: coastal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096685t72.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096685t72.txt item: #135 of 4945 id: 0p096685w08 author: Kendall A. Ryan title: Membrane Digestion for Rapid Identification of Proteins Separated Using Capillary or Gel Electrophoresis date: 2023 words: 239 flesch: 39 summary: The conductivity of the membranes improves mass accuracy in MS, and the polyelectrolytes enhance capture efficiency. This work uses matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight (MALDI-TOF) MS to identify unknown proteins. keywords: proteins cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096685w08.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096685w08.txt item: #136 of 4945 id: 0p096685w50 author: Cynthia Mene title: Pathways to Financial Inclusion: Understanding Financial Well-Being in Middle- and Low-Income Countries in the Age of COVID-19 date: 2023 words: 253 flesch: 28 summary: The results are expected to contribute to the larger discussion on the role of digital financial services in promoting financial inclusion and financial well-being for all, particularly during times of economic uncertainty. Financial inclusion has grown in importance as a policy goal, both as an end and as a means to eradicating poverty and achieving 10 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. keywords: financial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0p096685w50.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0p096685w50.txt item: #137 of 4945 id: 0r967367z8x author: Deqiang Chen title: Noncoherent Communication Theory for Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Networks date: 2004 words: 185 flesch: 31 summary: Analysis based on the Bhattacharyya upper bound suggests cooperative diversity with decoding relays does not achieve full diversity order. Given the same spectral e ciency, simulation results suggest that cooperative diversity can perform better than non-cooperative single-hop in the block fading channel given both schemes use ML detectors designed for the i.i.d. fading channel. keywords: diversity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r967367z8x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r967367z8x.txt item: #138 of 4945 id: 0r96736800r author: Margaret E. Uttke title: New Directions in Editing Renaissance Drama: Reading, Performance, and the Digital Age date: 2011 words: 153 flesch: 8 summary: While Renaissance dramatists like Middleton have long stood in the shadow of Shakespeare's modern editorial presence, new critical spotlights have focused on the dearth of editions and neglected editorial consideration for Shakespeare's contemporaries, spurred by projects like the recently released Oxford Thomas Middleton. In this thesis, I examine current editorial trends and interpretations informing critical editions of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, acknowledging the continued impact of Shakespearean editing on the larger field of textual criticism. keywords: editions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r96736800r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r96736800r.txt item: #139 of 4945 id: 0r96736802f author: Cassi Elizabeth Shelly title: Effects of Fusion Mass Density and Fusion Location on the Strength of a Lumbar Interbody Fusion date: 2005 words: 179 flesch: 42 summary: Furthermore, when the density of the fusion mass became equal to or greater than the vertebral bodies, failure was seen in the vertebral body whereas for lesser densities failure was seen in the fusion. As the fusion was laterally displaced, failure load decreased, and as the fusion was posteriorly displaced, the failure load increased. keywords: fusion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r96736802f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r96736802f.txt item: #140 of 4945 id: 0r96736803s author: Weiyu Liu title: Development of Gradient-Enhanced Kriging Approximations for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization date: 2003 words: 336 flesch: 22 summary: An approach to develop response surface approximations based upon artificial neural networks trained using both state and sensitivity information is developed. Numerical simulation on selected problems shows that this approach possesses the capability to develop improved response surface approximations compared to the non-gradient neural network training approach. keywords: approach cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r96736803s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r96736803s.txt item: #141 of 4945 id: 0r96736805g author: Brent Spanjersberg Mitchell title: A Nonlinear Constitutive Model to Predict the Stress Strain Behavior of Small Intestinal Submucosa date: 2006 words: 221 flesch: 36 summary: However with its unique regenerative properties and nonlinear mechanical response, this material is a great choice for tendon or ligament replacement or repair. As the ultimate tensile strength of this scaffold is lower than that of most tendons and ligaments, a polydiaxanone (PDS) mesh was incorporated into the 20-layer scaffold, which showed an increase in applied load with a decrease in ultimate tensile strength. keywords: material cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r96736805g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r96736805g.txt item: #142 of 4945 id: 0r96736806t author: Paul Carl Stey title: The Moral Faculty in Adolescents: Investigating Age Differences in the Application and Justification of Three Principles of Harm date: 2011 words: 153 flesch: 43 summary: More recently, researchers have proposed that moral judgments may be the product of certain implicit principles. The study of moral cognition has been dominated by Kohlberg's stage theory, which emphasizes conscious deliberation as the source of moral judgments. keywords: principles cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r96736806t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r96736806t.txt item: #143 of 4945 id: 0r967368075 author: James Thomas Fetter title: The Great Man in Politics: Magnanimity in the History of Western Political Thought date: 2012 words: 171 flesch: 17 summary: I conclude that Cicero had a far greater influence on both Aquinas's and Machiavelli's understandings of this virtue and, more broadly, on statesmanship than generally thought, and I further conclude that Ciceronian magnanimity offers liberal democracies a useful model of magnanimous statesmanship apart from any commitment to virtue ethics or teleology. In this dissertation, I contend that the growing disenchantment with public institutions in Western democracies and the popular desire for leaders perceived to be of good moral character both justifies and calls for an investigation of the Western tradition of political philosophy to determine which, if any, models of virtuous statesmanship in that tradition may serve as a useful model of virtuous leadership for our own time. keywords: statesmanship cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r967368075.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r967368075.txt item: #144 of 4945 id: 0r96736808h author: Brian D. Fisher title: Surface-Functionalized Fish Bone to Stabilize Arsenic and Tungsten Removal from Groundwater date: 2009 words: 129 flesch: 16 summary: Bench-scale experiments demonstrated the ability of surface-functionalization using ferrous and ferric iron chloride amendments to modify Apatite IIÌ¢_å¢ and catfish bone, which resulted in significant improvement in arsenate and arsenite removal efficiency in a simulated groundwater. The effectiveness of surface-functionalization, or modification, using iron-amendments on a super cleaned (boiled, bubbled (density separation), bleached (H2O2), and baked) commercial biogenic fishbone product (Apatite IIÌ¢_å¢) and raw catfish head were examined. keywords: functionalization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r96736808h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r96736808h.txt item: #145 of 4945 id: 0r96736809v author: Christopher Jason Patrick title: The Causes and Consequences of Between-Stream Variation in Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Communities in Stream Networks date: 2011 words: 342 flesch: 34 summary: I found that the spatial arrangement of shredding invertebrates in an artificial stream had a significant impact on FPOM export when shredders were eating senesced leaves, but not green leaves. The stream communities were also affected by distance to other stream reaches by interspecific interactions. keywords: fpom cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r96736809v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r96736809v.txt item: #146 of 4945 id: 0r96736811d author: Jason Ronald Bader title: Regulation of Kinetochore Dynein Timing, Interactions, and Functions by Phosphorylation date: 2010 words: 348 flesch: 36 summary: During mitosis dynein function is critical at the cell cortex, spindle poles, and kinetochores. Several proteins have been implicated in targeting or retaining dynein at kintechores during these activities; however, mechanisms which coordinate kinetochore dynein targeting and function remain unclear. keywords: dynein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r96736811d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r96736811d.txt item: #147 of 4945 id: 0r96736812r author: Marina Christina Trejo title: A Model for Sustainable Growth and Alterative to Sprawl in Danbury, Connecticut date: 2006 words: 264 flesch: 46 summary: The intent of this thesis is to explore the relationship between a sense of place and the means to its restoration after its long negation by contemporary planning conventions. The new mono-functional zoned districts ignore all senses of public realm, human scale and local tradition. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r96736812r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r96736812r.txt item: #148 of 4945 id: 0r96736814f author: Haipeng Cai title: Cost-Effective Dependency Analysis for Reliable Software Evolution date: 1904 words: 205 flesch: 21 summary: In addition, current techniques have little utility when applied to distributed systems consisting of decoupled components. Finally, an efficient dynamic analysis is developed to discover method-level runtime dependencies both within and across multiple concurrent processes, which is shown instrumental in evolving distributed systems. keywords: analysis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r96736814f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r96736814f.txt item: #149 of 4945 id: 0r96736826f author: Elizabeth Anne Klein title: Augustine on Angels date: 1904 words: 261 flesch: 48 summary: In this dissertation, I pursue four main topics of discussion in order to illuminate the theological and pastoral implications of Augustine's understanding of angels: angels and creation (chapter one), angelic community (chapter two), angels and salvation history (chapter three) and spiritual warfare (chapter four). I argue that the chief theological import of Augustine's view of the angels is that they demonstrate his commitment to the idea of the goodness of created communion. keywords: angels cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r96736826f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r96736826f.txt item: #150 of 4945 id: 0r967368v1v author: Meiling Zhang title: Understanding the Thermostability and Interdomain Communications of Human Pin1 date: 2019 words: 293 flesch: 33 summary: Finally, we speculated that the broad interdomain surface and the ability of Pin1 to adopt versatile interdomain conformations allowed Pin1 to accommodate various substrates and post-translational modifications. We used NMR to map out the broad interdomain surface and used MD simulations to identify atomic passages in correlation with four sets of interdomain distances. keywords: interdomain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r967368v1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r967368v1v.txt item: #151 of 4945 id: 0r96736958b author: Mary Margaret Ryland title: Significant Other(ness): Deconstruction of the Other in Apollonius' Lemnian Episode date: 2023 words: 563 flesch: 30 summary: Building on the work of Thalmann (2011) and Clauss (1993), I argue that the Catalogue of Heroes (1.23-233) construes the Argonauts as quintessentially Greek figures who represent Hellenistic cultural identity to foreign peoples. This deconstruction has implications for Apollonius' Ptolemaic context since it exalts cultural nuance and diplomacy rather than the perpetuation of the Greek/Other binary which demands that Greekness be preferred. keywords: greek cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0r96736958b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0r96736958b.txt item: #152 of 4945 id: 0v83805175q author: Michael J. Bowler title: The Philosophical Context of Heidegger's Reappropriation of Aristotle date: 2005 words: 370 flesch: 29 summary: This reappropriation is hermeneutic insofar as it develops within a context in which the theoretical (objectifying) interpretation of the very nature of philosophy has gained pre-eminence but has also become questionable. Standing in the considerable shadow cast by Kant's critical project, these philosophers struggled to articulate a conception of philosophy that was scientifically adequate. keywords: philosophy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v83805175q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v83805175q.txt item: #153 of 4945 id: 0v838051762 author: Daniel Anthony Duffin title: Feed-Forward Adaptive-Optic Correction of a Weakly-Compressible High-Subsonic Shear Layer date: 2010 words: 337 flesch: 32 summary: With newer airborne laser systems using wavelengths nearer 1 Ì_å_m, this same turbulent flow now reduces system performance by more than 95%. Development of airborne laser systems began in the 1970s with the Airborne Laser Laboratory, a KC135 aircraft with a CO2 laser projected from a beam director mounted atop the aircraft as a hemispherical turret encased in a fairing. keywords: laser cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838051762.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838051762.txt item: #154 of 4945 id: 0v83805177d author: Sarah Elizabeth Morice Brubaker title: The Place of the Spirit: Toward a Trinitarian Theology of Location date: 2011 words: 302 flesch: 36 summary: Turning to Jean-Luc Marion's earlier and more explicitly theological works, the author argues that the significance he gives to place Ì¢ â and particularly to distance Ì¢ â creates problems for his trinitarian model, effectively demoting the Spirit. Secondly, the author considers contemporary trinitarian soundings Ì¢ â and particularly, those conducted in ways sympathetic to the classical tradition and to continental philosophy. keywords: trinitarian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v83805177d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v83805177d.txt item: #155 of 4945 id: 0v83805178r author: Joseph Small title: Imagining Whiteness in Art date: 2011 words: 143 flesch: 50 summary: Many non-white artists who examine whiteness through art are marginalized. The inability to distinguish between skin color and culture, nationality and race, and the personal and the political, often makes finding whiteness in art difficult and furthers society's inability to examine whiteness. keywords: whiteness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v83805178r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v83805178r.txt item: #156 of 4945 id: 0v838051809 author: Michael John Donovan title: Evaluation of the Host-Parasite Interphase: Understanding the Impact of Vector-Host Interaction on Plasmodium Development and Innate Immunity in Parasitic Diseases date: 2010 words: 357 flesch: 38 summary: In the case of Leishmania infection, the IDO protein is active and inhibits a mixed lymphocyte reaction. Chapter 3 demonstrates that IDO is induced in human dendritic cells in response to exposure to L. major, L.donovani, and P. falciparum. keywords: leishmania cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838051809.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838051809.txt item: #157 of 4945 id: 0v838051820 author: Timothy M Dale title: Toward a Post-Subjectivist Politics?: Reflections on Benhabib, Young, and Mouffe date: 2011 words: 162 flesch: 24 summary: This dissertation evaluates the post-subjective political theories of Seyla Benhabib, Iris Marion Young, and Chantal Mouffe, with specific interest in the way political identity, accountability, and agency are conceived. Over the last century some philosophers and political thinkers have begun to question the subject-centered conceptions of political existence that has largely characterized modern political thought. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838051820.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838051820.txt item: #158 of 4945 id: 0v838051851 author: Chad Patton Kiewiet de Jonge title: Political Learning and Democratic Commitment in New Democracies date: 2013 words: 350 flesch: 22 summary: defined as an abstract preference for democracy over non-democratic regimes and the rejection of non-democratic alternatives in the face of crisis ? The extent to which political contexts provoke pro-democratic political learning is determined by factors including socioeconomic modernization, governmental performance, international diffusion of democratic norms, and the occurrence of events such as mass protests that provide information about the desirability of different regimes. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838051851.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838051851.txt item: #159 of 4945 id: 0v838051971 author: Patrick T. Kelly title: The Influence of Resource Quality and Lake Physics on Zooplankton date: 1904 words: 351 flesch: 25 summary: There is an extensive history assessing how different ecological variables impact zooplankton productivity in lakes; however, there is still uncertainty as to the relative control of resources, predators, and lake physics in regulating zooplankton biomass in natural lakes. However, results from my dissertation suggest that the relationship between DOC and lake productivity may be non-linear, as zooplankton productivity increased in response to experimental additions of DOC to a manipulated lake. keywords: zooplankton cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838051971.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838051971.txt item: #160 of 4945 id: 0v838051b2m author: Victoria L Smith title: Characterizing Exosome Biogenesis and Function in Stimulating the Immune Response during a Mycobacterium Infection date: 1904 words: 131 flesch: 35 summary: While much of our published work has characterized host cell responses to antigen-loaded exosomes, we know little about the mechanism by which exosomes are generated. Furthermore, this dissertation aims to identify the role of exosomes in eliciting an acquired immune response in the context of an in vivo mycobacterial infection. keywords: exosomes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838051b2m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838051b2m.txt item: #161 of 4945 id: 0v838051b60 author: Sneha Polisetti Couvillion title: Raman Spectroscopy Based Toolkit for Mapping Bacterial Social Interactions Relevant to Human and Plant Health date: 1904 words: 355 flesch: 30 summary: The work described in this thesis develops a toolkit of analytical techniques centered around Raman microspectroscopy and imaging representing a powerful approach to non-invasively investigate bacterial communities, yielding molecular information at the sub-micrometer length scale. In combination with PCA, this allowed for non-invasive spatial mapping of bacterial communities and revealed differences between strains and nutrients in the secretion of virulence factor pyocyanin. keywords: bacterial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838051b60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838051b60.txt item: #162 of 4945 id: 0v838051c2x author: Nicholas Giovanni De Lucca title: Studies of the Pressure Field and Related Beam Jitter for Hemisphere-on-Cylinder Turrets date: 2016 words: 195 flesch: 42 summary: The jitter has two main forms: mechanical jitter from vibration induced by the unsteady pressure field over the turret and aero-optical jitter from large scale structures that impose aberrations with length scales larger than the beam aperture. This dissertation investigates the exact character of jitter over a specific turret geometry. keywords: jitter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838051c2x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838051c2x.txt item: #163 of 4945 id: 0v838051f47 author: Jessica M. Blaxton title: Interindividual Differences and Intraindividual Change in the Intraindividual Relationship between Stress and Negative Affect: Age, Resilience, and Stress Influences date: 1904 words: 346 flesch: 6 summary: Three-level multi- level models were used to analyze the data, and ultimately depicted how cross-sectional age, within-person age changes, dispositional resilience differences, within-person fluctuations in dispositional resilience, and global stress differences impact the daily stress-NA relationship. Examining the stress-NA relationship with multiple time scales and multi-level modeling, therefore, illustrates how the day-to-day relationship between stress and NA changes over time as well as how global characteristics, such as overall stress levels, dispositional resilience, and age relate to differences in the way in which the stress-NA relationship changes. keywords: stress cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838051f47.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838051f47.txt item: #164 of 4945 id: 0v838051z88 author: Syed M. Mahmudur Rahman title: Advanced Terahertz Detectors and Focal-Plane Arrays Based on Sb-Heterostructure Backward Diodes date: 1904 words: 443 flesch: 35 summary: Since submicron scale HBDs have high device impedances at terahertz frequencies, lens-coupled planar folded dipole antennas (FDAs) which have a wide range impedance tuning capacity at THz frequencies are adopted in the detector design to achieve conjugate impedance matching for maximum detector sensitivities without additional matching networks. To develop high performance detectors and FPAs, HBDs with submicron-scale device areas are preferred for their high detector bandwidth. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838051z88.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838051z88.txt item: #165 of 4945 id: 0v838052034 author: Ge Jiang title: Ridge Methods for Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Ordinal Variables date: 1904 words: 200 flesch: 8 summary: This dissertation has three major aims: (1) obtain a better formula for the optimal tuning parameters in rGLS methods; (2) correct the performance of sandwich-type standard errors to make them closer to empirical standard errors; and (3) improve the Type I error control of corresponding test statistics by rescaling their means to the degrees of freedom of their nominal chi-square distributions. The idea of the empirical modeling approach is to first conduct a simulation study in a wide variety of conditions, and collect parameter estimates/test statistics/standard errors for every condition; then compare these empirical results with their theoretical counterparts (e.g., compare parameter estimates with the population values used in the simulation study, compare sandwich-type standard errors with the empirical ones, and refer test statistics to their nominal chi-square distributions); if these statistics do not perform as expected in this simulation study, the empirical modeling approach can be employed to correct their behavior based on simulation results. keywords: empirical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838052034.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838052034.txt item: #166 of 4945 id: 0v838052510 author: Sara Y. Kim title: The Role of Sleep Spindles, Slow Oscillations, and Slow Oscillation-Spindle Coupling in Episodic Memory Consolidation date: 2019 words: 245 flesch: 42 summary: Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep is known to play a critical role in episodic memory consolidation. Although these findings suggest that a daytime nap may affect episodic memory consolidation via SWS-specific mechanisms, further research is needed to understand the role of spindles, slow oscillations, and their cooccurrence for episodic memory consolidation. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838052510.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838052510.txt item: #167 of 4945 id: 0v83805292k author: Yinhao Zhu title: Data-Driven and Physics-Constrained Deep Learning for Surrogate Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Physical Systems date: 2019 words: 218 flesch: 24 summary: Surrogate modeling is computationally attractive for problems that require repetitive yet expensive simulations of PDEs, such as uncertainty propagation, deterministic design or inverse problems, where the main challenges are curse of dimensionality, data efficiency, uncertainty quantification and generalization, especially for problems with high dimensional input. We further explore how to incorporate the governing equations of the physical models into the loss/likelihood functions of the physics-constrained surrogates to completely avoid any simulation (or labeled data) while achieving similar accuracy with the date-driven surrogates. keywords: uncertainty cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v83805292k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v83805292k.txt item: #168 of 4945 id: 0v838052b06 author: Lina Cao title: GaN-Based Impact-Ionization Avalanche Transit-Time (IMPATT) Diodes and Low-Loss Interconnects for Microwave and Millimeter Wave Applications date: 2020 words: 522 flesch: 37 summary: In terms of future work, the demonstration of functional GaN IMPATT diodes and oscillators based on them is proposed. In order to measure the impact ionization rates of electrons and holes in GaN, p-i-n avalanche diodes grown on native GaN substrates have been fabricated and characterized. keywords: gan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838052b06.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838052b06.txt item: #169 of 4945 id: 0v838052b1j author: Arnaud Zimmern title: Promising Panaceas in Early Modern English Literature date: 2020 words: 201 flesch: 25 summary: Through case studies of Francis Bacon's Essays Civil and Morall and Margaret Cavendish's Observations and Blazing World, I contend that panaceas in philosophical literature expose in new ways the role of boldness, hyperbole, and nuanced optimism in the healing arts, while in works such as William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 and John Milton's Paradise Lost, panaceas serve to reimagine the internal conflicts and motives of characters in otherwise familiar narratives about the rise of Henry V and the fall of Adam and Eve. Promising Panaceas is the first literary study to examine how pervasively panaceas were represented during the seventeenth century, a period of dramatic medical development in England during which panaceas became metaphors for fool's errands even as the pursuit of prolonged life and the cure of all diseases persisted unabated. keywords: panaceas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838052b1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838052b1j.txt item: #170 of 4945 id: 0v838052b99 author: Cassandra Schifano title: Things That Slip Through My Fingers - House of Breath date: 2021 words: 97 flesch: 44 summary: I use fabric as a connective medium because it naturally suggests memory as it is embedded with domestic significance and is connected to place and body. My thesis work examines the complexity of memory. keywords: fabric cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838052b99.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838052b99.txt item: #171 of 4945 id: 0v838052c26 author: Kisung You title: Topics in Geometric and Topological Data Analysis date: 2021 words: 205 flesch: 20 summary: Geometric and topological data analysis have recently attained much interests from the statistics community for their capabilities to perform inferential tasks on types of data that traditional statistical disciplines had not been able to handle and for their utility that enables to capture certain aspects of the data that had not been observed. On the topological domain, I first proposed a systematic approach to compare multiple latent space embeddings for networks of potentially varying size and invariant under label permutation in light of deriving inferential insights on how shapes of networks differ via clustering and hypothesis testing procedures. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838052c26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838052c26.txt item: #172 of 4945 id: 0v838052d15 author: Luyi Shen title: Some Advancements in Statistical Modeling of Complex Networks date: 2022 words: 532 flesch: 41 summary: Among various learning tasks with network data, community detection, which divides nodes into clusters or `communities', and change-point detection, which detects possible change points among multiple networks, have arguably received the most attention in the scientific community. The increasing prevalence of network data in a vast variety of fields and the need to extract useful information out of them have spurred fast developments in models and algorithms for the inference of networks. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0v838052d15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0v838052d15.txt item: #173 of 4945 id: 0z708w34j06 author: Michael Thomas Rusnell title: Morphing UAV Pareto Curve Shift for Enhanced Performance date: 2004 words: 219 flesch: 50 summary: Historically, UAVs were designed to maximize endurance and range, but demands in UAV designs have changed in recent years. In this investigation the morphing UAV concept under study is referred to as the buckle wing. keywords: uav cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w34j06.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w34j06.txt item: #174 of 4945 id: 0z708w34j2w author: Jusong Wang title: Non-Selective Oxidation of Aluminum Gallium Arsenide Heterostructures for High Performance Curved Waveguide Semiconductor Lasers date: 2010 words: 408 flesch: 50 summary: In particular, a 4 mm wide QD laser fabricated with this deep dry etch plus non-selective oxidation process shows a 1.8 times lower threshold current density Jth than similar HIC lasers passivated with deposited SiO2, and 6.5 times lower than conventional (shallow etched) index guided lasers. The use of a HIC structure is absolutely critical to the realization of low bend loss curved waveguides and laser resonators. keywords: bend cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w34j2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w34j2w.txt item: #175 of 4945 id: 0z708w34j4k author: Kyle E. Jones title: Percolation Mechanism in Orthopedic Implants date: 2010 words: 286 flesch: 42 summary: A new biomaterial, consisting of a three-dimensional woven composite of selected polymers was also examined for wear properties in bi-directional wear. Percolation effects can be divided into surface transport effects and volume transport effects. keywords: wear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w34j4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w34j4k.txt item: #176 of 4945 id: 0z708w34j5x author: Shanta Sarfare title: Mapping, Molecular Identification and Characterization of Ninag Affecting Rhodopsin Content in Drosophila Photoreceptors date: 2004 words: 155 flesch: 46 summary: Drosophila rhodopsin (Rh1) is the visual pigment of the photoreceptor cells. My results show a specific and post-transcriptional role for NinaG in the biogenesis of Drosophila rhodopsin. keywords: ninag cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w34j5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w34j5x.txt item: #177 of 4945 id: 0z708w34j7m author: Kamthorn Chailuek title: An Extension of Bergman Spaces and their Toeplitz Operators date: 2008 words: 108 flesch: 72 summary: We define new spaces,HL2(Bd,eta), which are the same as Bergman spaces if eta>-1 but non-zero for eta>-(d+1). A Bergman space HL2(Bd, du_eta) is non-zero if and only if eta>-1. keywords: hl2(bd cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w34j7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w34j7m.txt item: #178 of 4945 id: 0z708w34j8z author: Shannon Drysdale Walsh title: Engendering State Institutions: State Response to Violence Against Women in Latin America date: 2011 words: 302 flesch: 24 summary: Constructing state institutions in order to address violence against women is an important component to building a democratic state. When are countries, in varying degrees of development, likely to construct state institutions, and transform their practices, in order to implement norms that protect women from violence? keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w34j8z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w34j8z.txt item: #179 of 4945 id: 0z708w34j99 author: Ryan Thomas Haws title: Computation of Nitrile Vibrations as a Probe of the Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter Systems date: 2012 words: 192 flesch: 18 summary: The nitrile functional group is an interesting candidate for use as a vibrational probe because it has a good infrared absorption coefficient, can be used to monitor hydrogen bonding environments and local electric fields, and it absorbs in an uncluttered region of the infrared spectrum. The use of a nitrile vibration to measure structure and dynamical properties of complex chemical and biochemical systems with sub-picosecond resolution has been investigated computationally. keywords: nitrile cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w34j99.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w34j99.txt item: #180 of 4945 id: 0z708w34k0h author: Amy Jonason title: The Elusive, Inclusive 'We': Inclusion and Contradiction in a Prefigurative Social Movement Group date: 2011 words: 132 flesch: 24 summary: In this paper I apply Pierre Bourdieus theory of practice to the study of internal movement culture in a prefigurative social movement organization, using data from an ethnographic study of a nascent food cooperative. Organizers of the cooperative, who were white and highly educated, attempted to promote an inclusive movement culture and organizational structure that would facilitate cross-class and cross-race alliances with neighborhood residents. keywords: movement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w34k0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w34k0h.txt item: #181 of 4945 id: 0z708w34k1v author: Pius Ojo Adelani title: Syntheses, Structure Elucidation, and Properties of Novel Actinide Diphosphonates and Carboxyphosphonates date: 2011 words: 368 flesch: 29 summary: Two elliptical uranyl nanotubules were isolated along with other series of framework materials with voids that are filled with alkali metal cations and organic templates respectively. Uranyl cations display a high propensity for phosphonates over the carboxylate moieties of the bifunctional ligands examined in agreement with the hard-soft acid-base prediction. keywords: uranyl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w34k1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w34k1v.txt item: #182 of 4945 id: 0z708w34k3j author: Matthew Leming title: Light-Dark and Circadian Effects on the Visual Response of Aedes aegypti date: 2015 words: 312 flesch: 50 summary: This allows for heightened sensitivity during the morning peak activity when the mosquitoes are under low light conditions. This revealed that the circadian regulation of visual gene expression is conserved between both Ae. keywords: circadian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w34k3j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w34k3j.txt item: #183 of 4945 id: 0z708w34k6k author: Ethan Fridmanski title: Online Communities: A Case Study of Religion and Politics date: 1904 words: 164 flesch: 30 summary: Even though the nonreligious have been documented to be less politically and civically engaged, this group's identity has been created partly in reaction to developments in American politics and religion during the 20th century they will display some form of political activism. However, given their limited access to mainstream opportunities for political communication, I expect them to take their political activism online. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w34k6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w34k6k.txt item: #184 of 4945 id: 0z708w34k7x author: Justus T. Ghormley title: Inspired Scribes: The Formation of the Book of Jeremiah and the Vocation of Ancient Jewish Scribal Scholars date: 1904 words: 318 flesch: 41 summary: Both groups of scribes were authorized, inspired conduits of divine revelation. Each doublet marks an occasion of textual divination when a scribe would lift a set of verses from one context and copy them into another; and through vertical reading and intra-textual harmonization, and sometimes analogical reapplication, such moments of duplication would generate fresh revelation. keywords: jeremiah cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w34k7x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w34k7x.txt item: #185 of 4945 id: 0z708w35d38 author: Steven Lemke title: Deconstructed Paradise date: 2019 words: 179 flesch: 32 summary: Within the history of contemporary sculpture, most responses to this topic tend to focus upon individual relationships to specific places through acts such as documentation, preservation, or performance. This thesis examines the complex relationship between art and place in an age of translocality, hypermobility, and widespread displacement. keywords: research cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w35d38.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w35d38.txt item: #186 of 4945 id: 0z708w35m2s author: Veronica B. Hubble title: Novel Adjuvant Approaches for Disarming Antibiotic Resistance in Clinically Relevant Bacterial Pathogens date: 2020 words: 364 flesch: 6 summary: As a response to the rising emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria, President Barack H. Obama administered a National Action Plan in 2015 as incentive to raise awareness and re-invest in antibiotic development and alternative methods to fight bacterial infections. The work in this document describes multiple projects that focus on using antibiotic adjuvants to sensitize Gram-negative pathogens to Gram-positive selective antibiotics. keywords: antibiotic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w35m2s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w35m2s.txt item: #187 of 4945 id: 0z708w35p2d author: Kathleen Quinn title: Agnès Varda et Nathalie Sarraute : une amitié qui nourrissait des grandes œuvres date: 2022 words: 364 flesch: 60 summary: Mes recherches explorent comment les romans de Sarraute sont traduits de l'écran par Varda, sans jamais adapter les intrigues explicitement. Mon projet propose que le cinéma d'Agnès Varda, particulièrement ses chefs-d'œuvres antérieurs La pointe courte, Cléo de 5 à 7 et Sans Toit ni loi, sont largement inspirés par les contributions de Nathalie Sarraute au mouvement de « Nouveau Roman », surtout par son essai « L'ère du soupçon » et ses romans Tropismes, Martereau, et Le Planétarium. keywords: varda cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w35p2d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w35p2d.txt item: #188 of 4945 id: 0z708w35p5f author: Ethan Lane Addison title: Generalizing Kähler Metrics of Poincaré Type date: 2022 words: 212 flesch: 1 summary: To relate the gnarling construction to the extremal setting, we prove a local perturbation result showing the existence of cscK gnarled metrics in Kähler classes near to that of a standard product metric on N \ X, providing a significant step towards developing more general openness properties for extremal gnarled metrics. We define and explore various properties of a generalization of Poincaré-type Kähler metrics defined on the complement of a complex hypersurface X embedded in an ambient Kähler manifold N. After motivating interest in a generalization, especially from the viewpoint of extremal Kähler geometry, we construct a distortion potential ψτ V christened the gnarl associated to the vector field V due to its simulation of flowing along level sets of τ in the direction of V upon approaching X. Key subexponential estimates are derived to relate the gnarled metric to a starting Poincaré-type metric, allowing us to prove statements about the volume and integrals of the curvatures of the gnarled metric. keywords: kähler cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w35p5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w35p5f.txt item: #189 of 4945 id: 0z708w35q8s author: Sarah G. Pate title: Characterization of Amine-Functionalized Facilitated Transport Membranes for CO2 Separation date: 2023 words: 372 flesch: 26 summary: To address the fundamental issues of CO2 facilitated transport, we have developed a novel operando transmission FTIR spectroscopic permeation tool to directly observe the formation of CO2 transport intermediates through amine-based FTMs under realistic operating conditions, including dry and humid CO2 gas mixtures, and simultaneously correlate the formation of these intermediate species with the CO2 permeation rates through the same sample. These investigations allow us to clarify the effect of amine structure and the role of water for CO2 transport through amine-functionalized membranes, which ultimately allows us to propose new CO2 transport mechanisms based on the direct observation of intermediate species. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/0z708w35q8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/0z708w35q8s.txt item: #190 of 4945 id: 12579s17s7p author: Ted Alan Bryant title: Symbolic Control of Visual Attention: Indirect Cues date: 2005 words: 191 flesch: 34 summary: Part 2 (Experiments 5-8) includes experiments that determine if previous findings in this line of research actually do reflect attentional orienting or if they follow an alternative location compatibility account. Part 1 (Experiments 1-4) provides experiments that challenge the claim of involuntary made by previous studies (Eimer, 1997; Gibson & Bryant, in press; Hommel et al., 2001; Ristic et al., 2002, Tipples, 2002). keywords: experiments cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s17s7p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s17s7p.txt item: #191 of 4945 id: 12579s17s81 author: Bradley Charles Gregory title: 'Like an Everlasting Signet Ring': Generosity in the Book of Sirach date: 2010 words: 352 flesch: 51 summary: Through an exegesis of Sir 14:3-19 it is argued that, unlike other Hellenistic works, Ben Sira integrates the topic of generosity into the motif of carpe diem. Ben Sira displays an innovative approach to surety. keywords: ben cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s17s81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s17s81.txt item: #192 of 4945 id: 12579s17s9c author: Andrew Johnson title: Computational Studies of Natural and Nonnatural Nucleic Acids: Formation and Repair of Thymine Dimers and Structure/Dynamics of GNA date: 2011 words: 507 flesch: 45 summary: Thermodynamic analysis shows that GNA duplex formation is entropically less penalizing than the same process in DNA and RNA. The work here builds upon previous studies by testing this artificial photolyase on duplex DNA. keywords: photolyase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s17s9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s17s9c.txt item: #193 of 4945 id: 12579s17t0k author: Jacqueline G Garrison title: The Relative Importance of Stress State, Microarchitecture, and Damage Burden in the Failure Behavior of Trabecular Bone date: 2011 words: 505 flesch: 30 summary: In both bovine and ovariectomized ovine trabecular bone, small increases in volume fraction resulted in substantial increases in mechanical competence compared to increased damage accumulation. To elucidate the role of both damage burden and architecture on the mechanical behavior of trabecular bone, the microarchitecture and volume fraction was quantified and the compressive and shear mechanical properties were determined in both damaged and undamaged young bovine trabecular bone. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s17t0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s17t0k.txt item: #194 of 4945 id: 12579s17t28 author: Christopher Stockdon Seibert title: High-Index-Contrast AlGaAs Waveguide Scattering Loss Reduction via Oxidation Smoothing of Sidewall Roughness date: 2010 words: 223 flesch: 39 summary: Through optimized processing to reduce the initial sidewall roughness before oxidation, further loss reductions should be achievable for HIC structures, as well as possible loss reduction in more conventional low-index-contrast structures commonly used in many photonic devices Traditionally, the drawback of such HIC devices is their greater susceptibility to scattering losses from etch-induced sidewall roughness (s) and the greater index step (dn), losses which scale with at least s2 and dn2. keywords: loss cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s17t28.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s17t28.txt item: #195 of 4945 id: 12579s17t4z author: Michael Anthony May title: Experimental Evaluation of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Hybrid Coupled Wall Subassembalges date: 2011 words: 317 flesch: 52 summary: This thesis describes an experimental research program on the nonlinear behavior of coupling beam subassemblages in a new type of hybrid coupled wall system for seismic regions. Different from conventional hybrid coupled wall systems, the coupling beams of the new system are not embedded into the walls. keywords: wall cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s17t4z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s17t4z.txt item: #196 of 4945 id: 12579s17t70 author: Aaron J. W. Dingler title: Nanomagnet Logic: From Devices to Architectures date: 2013 words: 321 flesch: 46 summary: In order to evaluate the ultimate performance of NML, methods are needed to bridge the gaps between the device and circuit levels, and between the circuit and architecture and application levels. Next, this work considers the interaction between NML circuits and the clock required to re-evaluate the circuits. keywords: nml cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s17t70.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s17t70.txt item: #197 of 4945 id: 12579s17v3x author: Loren K. Higbee title: The Poetics of Fragmentation: Shared Modernity in Petrarch, Eliot, and Pound date: 2014 words: 177 flesch: 40 summary: Relying on close readings of their works, principally the lyric poems of Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta or Canzoniere, Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land, and Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and the Cantos, I describe and analyze a fascination with the literary fragment, which includes their heavy reliance on allusion, their emphasis on repetition and the passage of time, their fascination with personae and masks, and their frequent images of internal rupture and dissolution. Petrarch, a poet who pioneered a lyric subjectivity that would heavily influence subsequent European literature and a scholar who sought to bridge the gap between the ancients and his own generation, has often been called the first modern man. keywords: literature cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s17v3x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s17v3x.txt item: #198 of 4945 id: 12579s17w99 author: Semyon Khokhlov title: Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, and the Modernist Loss of Autonomy date: 1904 words: 286 flesch: 38 summary: The loss of autonomy that emerged, again and again, out of this contradictory position resulted in works of art and literature in which the qualities commonly associated with the aesthetics of modernist autonomy are embattled and transformed. Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, and the Modernist Loss of Autonomy proposes a new understanding of modernist autonomy and the ways in which it conditioned the features of modernist texts and works of art. keywords: autonomy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s17w99.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s17w99.txt item: #199 of 4945 id: 12579s18m5q author: Andrew Bartolini title: Advancements in Full-Scale Monitoring Hardware for Improved Modeling of Tall Buildings: A System Behavior Perspective date: 2019 words: 530 flesch: 37 summary: While these models are used to predict the structure's performance and thereby dictate the structural design of the building, the accuracy of the modeling techniques used in the design of tall buildings are rarely every verified despite the tremendous life safety and economic implications of these signature structures. The scale, cost and complexity of tall buildings prohibits the use of full-scale validation tests employed by other engineering disciplines. keywords: structure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s18m5q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s18m5q.txt item: #200 of 4945 id: 12579s18r1k author: Jin Dai title: Formal Synthesis of Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems: Resilience and Security date: 2019 words: 570 flesch: 21 summary: The ubiquitous development of information technology (IT) infrastructures has greatly enhanced the technological evolution from automated to autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as networked mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, flexible manufacturing systems and so on. Apart from the high-level performances, we take the dynamics of the robots into consideration and study the path planning problem with application to robotic systems. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s18r1k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s18r1k.txt item: #201 of 4945 id: 12579s18w1t author: Nazli Koca title: My Heart My Room My Name date: 2020 words: 57 flesch: 72 summary: My thesis My Heart My Room My Name consists of two sections: an excerpt from my novel-in-progress; A Cleaner's Diary and one separate, complete short story; Zurückbleiben Bitte. While these two works of fiction are set in the same neighborhood, they are not to be read as part of the same story or world. keywords: story cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s18w1t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s18w1t.txt item: #202 of 4945 id: 12579s18w7w author: Junyeol Kim title: Lab- and Field-Scale Studies on the Fate and Transport of Nanoparticles in Streams: Influence of Nanoparticle Characteristics, Macromolecules, and Environmental Parameters date: 2020 words: 349 flesch: 15 summary: The primary research originality of this dissertation were to (1) elucidate the interaction of NPs with environmental macromolecules (e.g., proteins and natural organic matter) under realistic lab-scale conditions, (2) evaluate the effect of physicochemical properties of NPs (hydrodynamic size and zeta potential) and environmental parameters (pH, ionic strength, and ionic species) on the fate of NPs at the lab-scale, (3) monitor the transport of NPs in field-scale streams under hydraulically controlled conditions, (4) evaluate the effect of natural organic matter, biofilms, and streambed substrate size on the transport of NPs in field-scale streams, and (5) develop a one-dimensional stochastic model to predict the transport of NPs in streams. Nevertheless, lab-scale studies are limited in incorporating all the environmental factors simultaneously, including mimicking seasonal variations (e.g., biofilms) and hydraulic factors (e.g., stream bed size and material), thus there exists a need to better understand the NPs behavior in realistic streams. keywords: nps cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s18w7w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s18w7w.txt item: #203 of 4945 id: 12579s18x14 author: Anjan Goswami title: Experimental Demonstration of Hyperbolic Dispersion in Metasurfaces at Visible Wavelengths date: 2021 words: 163 flesch: 16 summary: Metamaterials are engineered nanostructured materials having exotic properties which are beyond those observed in conventional materials. Hyperbolic metamaterials, a special class of metamaterials showing hyperbolic dispersion, exhibit some unique optical properties which make them exceptionally suitable for super-resolution imaging using structured illumination microscopy. keywords: hyperbolic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s18x14.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s18x14.txt item: #204 of 4945 id: 12579s18z2s author: Zihan Huang title: Microporous Iptycene-Based Polymers with Heterocyclic Rings for High Performance Gas Separation Membranes date: 2022 words: 445 flesch: 17 summary: A large body of polymers containing rigid heterocyclic ring structures have demonstrated promising gas separation performances, attributed to high fractional free volume owing to disrupted chain packing. Recently, macromolecular design strategies through the use of hierarchical triptycene moieties have emerged, which generated various microporous polymers with high gas separation performances that redefined the upper bound limits along with good resistance to physical aging and plasticization. keywords: polymers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/12579s18z2s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/12579s18z2s.txt item: #205 of 4945 id: 1544bp0134s author: Peter J. Baker title: The Politics of Taxation and State Building in Ukraine, 882-2004 date: 2010 words: 433 flesch: -1 summary: This dissertation utilizes an historical-institutionalist framework to expose deep historical continuities and critical junctures in the development of the Ukrainian state through the lens of fiscal policy. The analysis shows that the multiple veto gates generated by Ukraine's electoral system and constitutional system of separation and balance of powers--thereby leading to the emergence of numerous smaller political parties unable to form stable parliamentary majorities, weak party discipline in the policy-making process, and the strong pull of special interests and narrow geographic constituencies--restricted the state executive's ability to centralize fiscal policy making in ways that promote more coherent fiscal policy. keywords: fiscal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp0134s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp0134s.txt item: #206 of 4945 id: 1544bp0136g author: Sundaram Vanka title: Signal Superposition Strategies in Wireless Networks: Theory and Experiments date: 2012 words: 352 flesch: 30 summary: Furthermore, we use this prototype to show that the coding gain (rather than the spectral efficiency gain) from superposition codes significantly improves link reliability without the need to increase transmit power or bandwidth, opening up the possibility of novel medium access protocols that can leverage superposition codes. Current analytical tools provide limited insight into how such techniques impact large wireless networks, where interference from other nodes in the network is a significant concern. keywords: access cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp0136g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp0136g.txt item: #207 of 4945 id: 1544bp0137t author: Denise Ann Bruesewitz title: The Effects of Invasive Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) on Nitrogen Cycling in Freshwater Ecosystems of the Midwestern United States date: 2008 words: 388 flesch: 27 summary: The activities of zebra mussels may directly or indirectly affect substrate availability and oxidationÌ¢ âÂreduction (redox) potential, but this remains an understudied area linking invasion biology with ecosystem ecology. My dissertation investigates the interactions between changing nitrogen (N) biogeochemistry and the presence of a prevalent invasive species, zebra mussels. keywords: zebra cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp0137t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp0137t.txt item: #208 of 4945 id: 1544bp0139h author: Teresa Huffman Traver title: 'I have not a home': Catholic Conversion and English Identity date: 2008 words: 361 flesch: 22 summary: At the same time, as recent critics have shown, religious identity was an essential part of English national identity, and anti-Catholic literature used Roman Catholicism as an Other against which to construct a Protestant and domestic English identity. Throughout the nineteenth century, religious identity, national identity, and domesticity converge in the depiction of broken homes, foreign invaders, and homeless converts which abound in anti-Catholic literature. keywords: identity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp0139h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp0139h.txt item: #209 of 4945 id: 1544bp0140q author: Michael Stephen Crocker title: Design, Fault Studies, and Performance Analysis for Nanomagnet Logic PLAS and Other Nanomagnet Logic Architectures date: 2011 words: 301 flesch: 48 summary: We present a fault model for NML PLAs, and provide an improved technique for mapping logic to the NML PLA. We present area, energy, and delay estimates for the NML PLA, compare the area of NML PLAs to other reprogrammable nanotechnologies, and analyze how architectural-level redundancy will affect performance and defect tolerance in NML PLAs. keywords: nml cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp0140q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp0140q.txt item: #210 of 4945 id: 1544bp01412 author: Michael Tate Cochran title: Two-Dimensional Viscous Compaction in Compressible Granular Materials date: 2006 words: 158 flesch: 40 summary: One dimensional limits, such as shock tubes and piston-driven problems compare favorably to analytical solutions and experimental data of Sandusky, etal cite{sandlid}, respectively. The equations are then solved using simple two-dimensional extensions of these cases, and the results are compared to the one-dimensional data, with good agreement. keywords: dimensional cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp01412.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp01412.txt item: #211 of 4945 id: 1544bp0142d author: Todd Alexander Major title: Acoustic Vibrations of Single Suspended Gold Nanostructures date: 2014 words: 345 flesch: 43 summary: The acoustic vibrations for gold nanowires over the trench in air last typically for several nanoseconds, whereas gold nanowires in water are damped more quickly. The acoustic vibrations for single gold nanowires and gold plates were studied using time-resolved ultrafast transient absorption. keywords: gold cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp0142d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp0142d.txt item: #212 of 4945 id: 1544bp0143r author: Melinda D. Grimsley-Smith title: Politics, Professionalization, and Poverty: Lunatic Asylums for the Poor in Ireland, 1817-1920 date: 2011 words: 229 flesch: 26 summary: In spite of their protests and efforts to the contrary, and because of the nature of the population they served, these physicians ultimately functioned more as managers of medical poor relief than independent practitioners of medicine. This dissertation examines the bureaucracy created to administer one of the largest institutional structures in nineteenth-century Ireland, the system of district asylums for the lunatic poor. keywords: irish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp0143r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp0143r.txt item: #213 of 4945 id: 1544bp0145f author: Katia Pansa title: Psychoanalytic Studies in the Tarry Easty of James Joyce date: 2011 words: 169 flesch: 63 summary: The latter is a prose poem, a visualogue, made of fifty fragments, written with Joyce's best calligraphy in English, Italian, Triestine dialect and German. In the eleven years that Joyce spent in Trieste he matured as a man and as a writer too. keywords: joyce cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp0145f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp0145f.txt item: #214 of 4945 id: 1544bp0146s author: Mallary Claire Greenlee-Wacker title: CD93 regulates acute inflammation and innate immunity date: 2011 words: 355 flesch: 30 summary: Interestingly, CD93-/- mice have a defect in clearance of apoptotic cells, a phenotype associated with dysregulated inflammation; therefore, an investigation was undertaken that tested the hypothesis that CD93 regulated inflammation. CD93 is emerging as a novel regulator of inflammation. keywords: cd93 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp0146s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp0146s.txt item: #215 of 4945 id: 1544bp0187c author: Nameera Fatima Baig title: Molecular Imaging of Bacterial Communities of the Opportunistic Human Pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa date: 1904 words: 351 flesch: 20 summary: The research presented here describes the development of a multimodal imaging approach combining confocal Raman microscopy (CRM) and mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) and its application to the study of mechanisms involved in the formation and growth of biofilms of P. aeruginosa, principally through the characterization of alkyl quinoline (AQ) signaling molecules and secondary metabolities. Furthermore, Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) imaging is used to explore the strain and nutrient dependent secretion of the virulence factor pyocyanin in biofilms of P. aeruginosa laboratory and CF isolate strains cultured in media supplemented with either glucose or glutamate as the source of carbon. keywords: aeruginosa cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp0187c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp0187c.txt item: #216 of 4945 id: 1544bp01892 author: Luis Lopez-Maldonado title: Gay Poetics of the Passion or Proof Hangs on the Marble Walls date: 1904 words: 100 flesch: 48 summary: Some of the themes discussed in the manuscript include, but are not limited to: America, whiteness, racism, sexism, cannibalism, terrorism, migration, immigration, displacement, violence, silence, abuse, rape, love, queerness, gender, sex, and sexuality, among many others. The author blends genders, sexes, races, classes, and truths to create an over-satisfying fruit-smoothie intended to fill, over-fill, and spill. keywords: themes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp01892.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp01892.txt item: #217 of 4945 id: 1544bp01q5q author: Samuel Rostad title: Heirs of Augustine of Canterbury: Benedictine Popular Preaching in Late Medieval England, c. 1350-1500 date: 1904 words: 319 flesch: 37 summary: In this study I set out to examine Benedictine preaching, especially through their sermons to or about the laity, and what it reveals about their place in the religious landscape of late medieval England. This dissertation examines the preaching activities and sermons of Benedictine monks in England in the roughly two centuries before the Reformation. keywords: preaching cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp01q5q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp01q5q.txt item: #218 of 4945 id: 1544bp01s71 author: Michelle A. Pillers title: Nanostructures as Dopant Sources: Maskless Nanoscale Patterning of Silicon Using Shape and Size Controlled Nanomaterials date: 1904 words: 244 flesch: 29 summary: My work explores the stability of DNA origami when exposed to extreme thermal and solvent environments and identifies the limitations of using these biomolecules in multistep nanofabrication processes, particularly the effect on DNA origami functionalizability. My thesis research investigates the use of DNA origami, a designable, self-assembled nanostructure, as a chemical and dopant source for patterning silicon substrates. keywords: origami cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp01s71.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp01s71.txt item: #219 of 4945 id: 1544bp01t18 author: Miriam Susan Moore title: Approaching Design in Food Pantries: Influencing Food Choices and Meal Planning date: 1904 words: 371 flesch: 58 summary: This paper details the research and design solution that 1) Give food pantry shoppers the tools to make healthy meals out of food pantry options, and 2) Encourage healthier, fresher food donations to food pantries through a donation campaign to support the success of the first goal. In the United States one in seven Americans rely on food pantries and meal service programs to feed themselves and their families. keywords: food cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp01t18.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp01t18.txt item: #220 of 4945 id: 1544bp01t7b author: Matthew H. Hartman title: Strauss and Gadamer: Political Philosophy, Hermeneutics, and Historicism date: 1904 words: 263 flesch: 40 summary: Fortunately, Gadamer argues that through hermeneutics we can properly interpret truth as an endless conversation that—while always changing—represents a real set of understandings that enable discourse. Although` Gadamer and Strauss have many serious disagreements about the nature of historicism, they both agree that interpretive discourse is the one thing needful for approaching the political problems that undermine the possibility of practicing philosophy. keywords: historicism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp01t7b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp01t7b.txt item: #221 of 4945 id: 1544bp02253 author: Natalie Sargent title: Peculiar Positions of Power: Laywomen as Good Americans and Good Catholics, 1854-1907 date: 2019 words: 249 flesch: 30 summary: This dissertation explores laywomen's contributions in four key areas of U.S. Catholic history during the nineteenth century. Second, by featuring laywomen as protagonists, the project demonstrates that the transnational turn in U.S. Catholic history need not be defined by clergy, religious orders, or the longstanding immigrant paradigm long dominant in the field. keywords: catholic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp02253.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp02253.txt item: #222 of 4945 id: 1544bp0290j author: Lauren K. Callahan title: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry with the MONICA Detector at the Argonne Gas-Filled Analyzer and Ultra-Sensitive Detection of 39,42Ar date: 2023 words: 261 flesch: 35 summary: Existing AMS facilities are limited in their ability to separate medium to heavy radioactive nuclei of interest from their neighboring stable isobars, as such measurements require higher energies than available in most facilities. A feasibility test to see if AGFA could be used to conduct AMS measurements occurred in November, 2019, and succeeded in separating the stable isobars 92Zr and 92Mo. keywords: ams cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1544bp0290j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1544bp0290j.txt item: #223 of 4945 id: 1831cj84b9g author: Belinda Sue McSwain title: Molecular Investigation of Aerobic Granule Sludge Formation date: 2005 words: 365 flesch: 29 summary: Kinetics, species selection, and short settling times are the determinant factors of aerobic granule formation. In recent years, the Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) has been used to form even more compact sludge structures, in the form of aerobic granules. keywords: selection cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj84b9g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj84b9g.txt item: #224 of 4945 id: 1831cj84c2c author: Ivan Murgu title: Studies Of Xanthone Rotaxanes and Squaraine Rotaxane Endoperoxides date: 2011 words: 158 flesch: 29 summary: Rotaxanes with macrocycle containing 2,6-pyridine dicarboxamide bridges exhibited higher rotational barriers due to a cavity contraction effect which disfavors macrocycle breathing. The macrocycle pirouetting motion in xanthone rotaxanes was studied using variable temperature NMR. keywords: macrocycle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj84c2c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj84c2c.txt item: #225 of 4945 id: 1831cj84c42 author: Brian Matthew Babie title: An Experimental and Analytical Study of the Stability of Counter-Rotating Vortex Pairs with Applications for Aircraft Wake Turbulence Control date: 2010 words: 294 flesch: 41 summary: Having identified two bending instability modes in the experimental wake, it was possible to suggest a strategy by which these modes could be exploited for the control of aircraft wakes. A compilation of flow visualization results shows a design space of counter-rotating wake configurations, defined by the circulation and span ratios, where rapidly amplifying instabilities are consistently seen to exist. keywords: wake cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj84c42.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj84c42.txt item: #226 of 4945 id: 1831cj84c6r author: Pedro Berges title: Rebound, Compliance, and Configuration in the Modeling and Analysis of Discrete Impacts in Legged Locomotion date: 2010 words: 323 flesch: 46 summary: This thesis presents a novel method for analyzing impact for legged robots as well as any other rigid body. The first part of the approach resembles traditional impact analysis. keywords: impact cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj84c6r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj84c6r.txt item: #227 of 4945 id: 1831cj84c9s author: Stephen Reid Case title: Making Stars Physical: John Herschel's Stellar Astronomy, 1816-71 date: 2014 words: 362 flesch: 25 summary: His investigations and publications on double stars, nebulae, variable stars, and constellation reform extended throughout his career and form an important chapter in sidereal astronomy prior to the advent of astrophysics. After a survey of historical ideas regarding the physical nature of the stars, the study examines Herschel's relationship with nineteenth-century positional astronomy and argues that Herschel viewed star catalogues as a means of obtaining information on the physical nature of stars. keywords: herschel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj84c9s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj84c9s.txt item: #228 of 4945 id: 1831cj84d5q author: Matthew Paul Mischke title: Wavelength Dependence of the Photoresponse of a Yttrium-Barium-Copper-Oxide Thin Film date: 2004 words: 108 flesch: 54 summary: The bolometric portion of the photoresponse is then accounted for, and the residual non-bolometric response is compared to that found in other doping regimes and time scales. The observed wavelength dependence of the excess conductance is most likely caused by excitations into the conduction band from the filled copper bands in the CuO2 plane layer of the crystal. keywords: photoresponse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj84d5q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj84d5q.txt item: #229 of 4945 id: 1831cj84d8r author: Max Deardorff title: A Tale of Two Granadas: Tridentine Reform, Rebellion, and the Formulation of Christian Citizenship in Southern Spain and the Andes, 1563-1614 date: 1904 words: 358 flesch: 26 summary: After the 1560s, membership in Castilian society's institutions became contingent upon the demonstration of policía cristiana (Christian citizenship).This manuscript illustrates how Christianity and policía became central to the common identity of members of the Spanish kingdoms, while re-examining questions of race, ethnicity, and belonging in Spain and Latin America. Did any recognizable set of standards govern who was eligible to become a vecino (urban citizen) in Spanish cities, or who was able to present him or herself in front of a court of law as an Old Christian? keywords: spanish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj84d8r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj84d8r.txt item: #230 of 4945 id: 1831cj84f09 author: Tua Agustinus Tamba title: Forecasting Regime Shifts in Nonlinear Dynamical Processes date: 1904 words: 356 flesch: 38 summary: Such shifts occur because the system has alternative stable states and external disturbances force the system's operating point to shift from one stable state to another. Examples of regime shifts include the collapse of coastal fisheries as a result of human-induced nutrient enrichment and the voltage collapse in power network due to variations in storm frequency or user demand. keywords: regime cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj84f09.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj84f09.txt item: #231 of 4945 id: 1831cj84k0j author: Xin Liu title: Evaluation of Therapeutics in Three Dimensional Cell Culture Systems Using Mass Spectrometry date: 1904 words: 207 flesch: 24 summary: However, limited methodologies result in incomplete evaluation of the distribution of many anticancer drugs and their metabolites. Three-dimensional (3D) cell cultures have served as an important model system and have contributed to valuable assays in drug discovery studies. keywords: drug cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj84k0j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj84k0j.txt item: #232 of 4945 id: 1831cj85267 author: Fatemeh Elahi title: Dark Matter Beyond WIMP Era date: 1904 words: 309 flesch: 40 summary: 2) Dark matter annihilates to a pair of meta-stable mediators, which subsequently decay to standard model particles. One of the key ingredients of the standard model of Cosmology is dark matter. keywords: matter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj85267.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj85267.txt item: #233 of 4945 id: 1831cj8530g author: Sarah E. Peters title: Promoting Sustainable Peace and Development after Civil War: Rebels, States, and Security Sector Reform date: 1904 words: 291 flesch: 37 summary: In particular, I show that some types of security sector reforms reduce political violence against civilians, leading to both a reduction in the likelihood of conflict recurrence, and an increase in the level of post-conflict human development growth. After ending civil war in 1992, El Salvador implemented security sector reforms, saw an important reduction in politically motivated violence, and achieved reasonable improvement in health and educa- tion levels. keywords: violence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj8530g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj8530g.txt item: #234 of 4945 id: 1831cj85325 author: Thomas A.D. Cornell title: Object/Memory date: 1904 words: 278 flesch: 39 summary: It also examines my role as object maker and installation artist. My current body of work includes: steel, resin, wood, glass, and numerous found objects. keywords: installations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj85325.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj85325.txt item: #235 of 4945 id: 1831cj85f59 author: Zhiyu Liu title: Knowledge Representation and Automated Task Planning for Intelligent Robots through Spatial Temporal Logic and Learning date: 2020 words: 317 flesch: 35 summary: Intelligent robots have emerged as a hot research topic in the interdisciplinary study of control theory, robotics, and computer science as it demonstrates huge potential in fundamentally benefiting our society. The development of intelligent robots with the ability to independently solve a new task is an important yet challenging research problem. keywords: robots cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj85f59.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj85f59.txt item: #236 of 4945 id: 1831cj85h1j author: Michael J. Quevillon title: Using Molecular Simulations as an Integral Tool for Modeling Ionic Liquid Crystals and Colloidal Clusters date: 2021 words: 210 flesch: 32 summary: Ionic liquid crystals are a unique, not yet widely understood, class of materials that exist at the intersection of ionic liquids and liquid crystals. Here, we focus on the application of ionic liquid crystals as electrolytic materials, for battery applications or in dye-sensitized solar cells. keywords: ionic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj85h1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj85h1j.txt item: #237 of 4945 id: 1831cj85h4k author: Ben Craigie title: What Shadow Does Your Investment Leave? date: 2022 words: 23 flesch: 54 summary: This is a Master in Fine Arts thesis discussing the personal history and working sculpturual practice of the artist and author Ben Craigie. keywords: craigie cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj85h4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj85h4k.txt item: #238 of 4945 id: 1831cj85h5x author: Shannon Stoffel title: Dynamics of Molecular Machines date: 2022 words: 305 flesch: 37 summary: Historically used for biological molecular machines, we used these experiments to study artificial molecular machines. A deep understanding of how components govern the motions of molecular machines can aid in their design process. keywords: molecular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj85h5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj85h5x.txt item: #239 of 4945 id: 1831cj85j6k author: Xiuyu Jin title: Polymer Grafting for Inorganic Nanoparticles Surface Functionalization and Stabilization date: 2023 words: 215 flesch: 15 summary: This dissertation describes the development of polymer ligation for inorganic nanoparticle surface modification and stabilization. The applications of prepared magnetic nanoparticles in protein separation and water treatment were described in detail in the following Chapter 6. keywords: polymer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1831cj85j6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1831cj85j6k.txt item: #240 of 4945 id: 1c18df67n1c author: Charles Christopher Camosy title: Treatment of Imperiled Newborns: The Social Quality of Life Model in Light of Catholic Social Teaching date: 2009 words: 187 flesch: 31 summary: Though more research is needed on treatment outcomes and their long-term costs before most specific reforms could be prudently enacted, the dissertation argues that certain neonatal treatments are disproportionate with the common good and ought to be foregone. If one takes seriously the intrinsically social nature of persons, a preferential option for the poor, the universal destination of goods, and other like principles, the central thesis of the dissertation becomes clear: though all newly born human infants are full moral persons, what kind of treatments are beneficial or burdensome cannot be seen apart from complex social questions with regard to distribution of resources. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67n1c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67n1c.txt item: #241 of 4945 id: 1c18df67n2q author: David Robert Baker title: On the Advancement of Quantum Dot Solar Cell Performance through Enhanced Charge Carrier Dynamics date: 2011 words: 355 flesch: 51 summary: Anodically etched TiO2 nanotubes yield photocurrents 20% greater than TiO2 nanoparticles because of longer electron diffusion lengths. Several techniques which are able to increase electron transfer within the working electrode and at the counter electrode/electrolyte interface are discussed in this dissertation. keywords: tio2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67n2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67n2q.txt item: #242 of 4945 id: 1c18df67n4d author: Maria Audelia Kiskowski title: Discrete Stochastic Models for Morphological Pattern Formation in Biology date: 2004 words: 199 flesch: 34 summary: The formation of fruiting bodies in myxobacteria is a complex morphological process that requires the organized, collective effort of tens of thousands of cells. This thesis focuses on three stochastic lattice gas models for pattern formation in limb and myxobacteria fruiting body morphogenesis. keywords: formation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67n4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67n4d.txt item: #243 of 4945 id: 1c18df67n63 author: Derek Andrew Webb title: Paving the Rights Infrastructure: Civic Education in the Presidencies of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt date: 2009 words: 345 flesch: 20 summary: These presidents, then, were attempting to pave the rights infrastructure, encouraging the formation of certain character traits they believed particularly necessary to vindicate America's culture of rights from some of its own potential cultural contradictions. The reasons they believed character formation was necessary, I contend, were largely Tocquevillian in character, reflecting their concern about the effects individualism, antinomianism, and the industrial aristocracy can have upon the character of citizens and ultimately their various freedoms. keywords: character cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67n63.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67n63.txt item: #244 of 4945 id: 1c18df67n8s author: Yuan Liu title: WENO Computations and Pattern Stability date: 2012 words: 339 flesch: 40 summary: A major difficulty for unstructured WENO is how to design a robust WENO reconstruction procedure to deal with distorted local mesh geometries or degenerate cases when the mesh quality varies for complex domain geometry. We combine two different WENO reconstruction approaches to achieve a robust unstructured finite volume WENO reconstruction on complex mesh geometries. keywords: weno cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67n8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67n8s.txt item: #245 of 4945 id: 1c18df67n94 author: Daniele Puccinelli title: Arbutus: Reliable and Energy-Efficient Data Collection in Large-Scale Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks date: 2008 words: 316 flesch: 42 summary: There exists a complex interplay among routing performance (reliability, goodput, energy-efficiency), congestion control, and load balancing. While goodput degradation is contained at low levels of offered load, at relatively high offered load points Arbutus typically provides a significant goodput gain, as it exploits the inter-dependencies between reliability, routing and congestion control. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67n94.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67n94.txt item: #246 of 4945 id: 1c18df67p1p author: Leilani Arthurs title: Towards a more quantitative understanding of the complex interactions between natural organic matter, heavy metals, and goethite date: 2008 words: 359 flesch: 40 summary: To better understand the interactions between NOM, heavy metals, and mineral surfaces, this research (1) evaluated a bulk property approach to study NOM and potential aqueous complexation between NOM and heavy metals, (2) studied the mutual effects of NOM and cadmium on their sorption to goethite, and (3) began to develop a web-based computer simulator to model NOM adsorption at the mineral-water interface. In the first project, the effects of cadmium and lead on NOM properties and the potential effects of metals and counterions on analytical methods were investigated using a bulk property approach. keywords: nom cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67p1p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67p1p.txt item: #247 of 4945 id: 1c18df67p21 author: Anne Catherine McGowan title: In Search of the Spirit: The Epiclesis in Early Eucharistic Praying and Contemporary Western Liturgical Reforms date: 2011 words: 292 flesch: 0 summary: This study explores the theological and textual connections among ancient and modern epicleses, primarily through analysis of a selection of epicletic texts in contemporary Western eucharistic prayers and the theological principles that shaped themÌ¢ â principles derived in part from perceptions of the role played by the Spirit inherited from traditions ancient and modern. Although the location and language of the epicleses incorporated into Western eucharistic prayers during the last half century have varied, many of these pneumatic invocations were influenced at some stage of their development by early models (and often early Eastern models) of eucharistic praying. keywords: eucharistic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67p21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67p21.txt item: #248 of 4945 id: 1c18df67p3c author: Jesse David Davenport title: A Numerical Approach to Modeling the Geochemical Evolution of the Lunar Magma Ocean date: 2013 words: 188 flesch: 39 summary: This study is a reexamination of the LMO crystallization model proposed by Snyder et al. (1992) and the incorporation of recent studies using numerical modeling of the LMO, geochronology of the anorthosite highlands, and experimentally derived LMO crystallization scenarios. Lunar magma ocean theory has undergone extensive analysis and discussion throughout the past 40 years, ranging from observations by numerical modeling, lunar petrology and geochronology, to laboratory experiments. keywords: lmo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67p3c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67p3c.txt item: #249 of 4945 id: 1c18df67p52 author: Sean Patrick Lynch title: Search for Standard Model and Neutral MSSM Higgs Bosons Decaying to Pairs of Tau Leptons At 7 TeV date: 2012 words: 138 flesch: 57 summary: A search for neutral Higgs bosons decaying into two tau leptons is presented. Two separate searches are performed: a search for the Standard Model Higgs boson, and a search for neutral Higgs bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. keywords: search cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67p52.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67p52.txt item: #250 of 4945 id: 1c18df67p7r author: Jaqunda N. Patton title: Hydrogel Based Oxygen Carriers date: 2006 words: 255 flesch: 12 summary: Finally, numerical simulations of oxygen transport to the hamster retractor muscle are used to assess the efficacy of oxygen delivery and tissue oxygenation with hydrogel based oxygen carriers compared to current hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers under development. Hydrogel based oxygen carriers are introduced as a novel type of hemoglobin based oxygen carrier that addresses the issues and challenges associated with the development of artificial blood substitutes, which are designed to replace loss volumes of blood and restore tissue oxygenation to normal. keywords: oxygen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67p7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67p7r.txt item: #251 of 4945 id: 1c18df67p83 author: Bryan Joseph Cassone title: Ecological Adaptations and Trancriptome Evolution of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae date: 2011 words: 354 flesch: 26 summary: Chapter 7 focuses on the ecological segregation between M and S. Specifically, the divergence in larval breeding habitats in southern Cameroon, where M occupies polluted urbanized habitats. Transplantation experiments explored the genetic basis of M form larval tolerance to the environmental stressors in their habitats. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67p83.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67p83.txt item: #252 of 4945 id: 1c18df67q0n author: Christina Marie Arisio title: Self-assembled Monolayers on III-V Semiconductor and Silicon Surfaces date: 1904 words: 321 flesch: 37 summary: The APTES monolayers were modified via reductive amination with 3 different aldehydes: 5-bromo-2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde, for APTES binding confirmation, 4-formylbenzo-15-crown-5, to create a cation binding monolayer, and dipicolylaldehyde, to create dipicolylamine (DPA) ligands that coordinate Zn2+ and create an anion binding monolayer. The goal of the research presented in this dissertation is to develop new electrical biosensors through the direct chemical functionalization of semiconductor surfaces with self-assembled monolayers (SAMs).The monolayers serve as a linker that attracts a target analyte, connecting biology with technology. keywords: monolayers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67q0n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67q0n.txt item: #253 of 4945 id: 1c18df67r2n author: Timur Kupaev title: Multi-Scale Simulation Study of the Effect of Fiber Alignment and Bending and Stress–Strain Relation on Fibrin Networks date: 1904 words: 223 flesch: 28 summary: The novelty of the approach is in combining study of the mechanical properties of individual fibers and fibrin network, such as rigidity, bending, stiffness and elasticity, with the study of the structural properties of the network, such as fiber degree distribution, length distribution and density. Structural and mechanical properties of fibrin networks are essential factors determining growth and stability of blood clots. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67r2n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67r2n.txt item: #254 of 4945 id: 1c18df67t9p author: Neil T. Berkel title: Force Field Development for Ferrocene and the Prediction of Enantioselectivity date: 1904 words: 151 flesch: 29 summary: To accomplish this feat, force field parameters for ferrocene were optimized using Q2MM. Experimentalists commonly explore the use of ferrocene-based chiral ligands in enantioselective catalysis. keywords: force cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df67t9p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df67t9p.txt item: #255 of 4945 id: 1c18df68m7d author: Farbod Salahi title: Attempts towards Total Synthesis of Photocaged Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD+) and Its Analogues date: 2019 words: 146 flesch: 32 summary: Finally, palladium catalyzes the asymmetric conjugation addition to cyclic enones for generating quaternary carbon centers using novel chiral pyridine-oxazolines ligands, which were explored to experimentally test computational predictions of stereoselectivity. Different strategies for the synthesis of NAD+ and its analog were explored by applying the Zincke reaction and the addition of organozinc reagents. keywords: synthesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df68m7d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df68m7d.txt item: #256 of 4945 id: 1c18df68q60 author: Samantha Murray title: Romantic Attachment and Conflict Behavior: An Evaluation of a Mediating Model for Infant Behavioral Outcomes date: 2020 words: 202 flesch: 8 summary: Results indicate that more secure attachment leads to better conflict behaviors, and more secure attachment leads to better behavioral outcomes; however, conflict behavior does not significantly predict behavioral outcomes for infants at 16 months. The current study, alternatively, considers first the broader romantic context between parents and assesses conflict behavior as a mechanism of action for the modeling of partnership to children and consequential behavioral development. keywords: conflict cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df68q60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df68q60.txt item: #257 of 4945 id: 1c18df68s27 author: James Hentig title: Development of a Novel Blunt-Force TBI Model in the Adult Zebrafish to Explore TBI Sequelae and Injury-Induced Regeneration date: 2021 words: 223 flesch: 34 summary: Finally, this study describes the mechanism by which Shh signaling pathway can be leveraged as a prophylactic treatment increasing Eaat2a expression and reducing TBI-sequelae by regulating glutamate excitotoxicity. Nevertheless, humans therefore have the potential for regenerative recovery, although little is known about human progenitor abundance or capacity to produce a diverse neural linage. keywords: tbi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df68s27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df68s27.txt item: #258 of 4945 id: 1c18df68s4x author: Soumyadip Ghosh title: Event-Triggered Communication in High Performance Computing date: 2022 words: 216 flesch: 28 summary: High Performance Computing has enabled breakthroughs in computational science and engineering by allowing simulations on parallel computing platforms. In particular, we apply the concept of event-triggered communication from networked control systems to design faster, energy-efficient and scalable parallel algorithms for high performance computing. keywords: communication cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1c18df68s4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1c18df68s4x.txt item: #259 of 4945 id: 1g05fb50x1x author: Antonios Kontos title: Direct Capture in Nuclear Astrophysics: The Cases of 17O(ρ, γ)18F and 4He(3He, γ)7Be date: 2012 words: 325 flesch: 42 summary: The present thesis studies two such reactions, 17O(ρ, γ)18F and 3He(α, γ)7Be. 17O(ρ, γ)18F influences hydrogen-burning nucleosynthesis in several stellar sites, such as red giants, asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, massive stars and classical novae. In the absence of strong resonance inside the Gamow window, direct capture can be the dominant contribution to astrophysically important reaction rates. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1g05fb50x1x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1g05fb50x1x.txt item: #260 of 4945 id: 1g05fb50x4z author: Olena Korovnichenko title: Generalizations of Three-Term Relations in Solvable Models of Mathematical Physics date: 2011 words: 145 flesch: 37 summary: We study various aspects of three-term relations and their generalizations in solvable problem of mathematical physics. We introduce and study a classical analogue of Leonard pairs and show that functions forming Leonard pairs satisfy non-linear relations of the AW- type with respect to Poisson brackets. keywords: leonard cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1g05fb50x4z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1g05fb50x4z.txt item: #261 of 4945 id: 1g05fb50x6n author: Xiuquan Sun title: Algorithms for Modeling the Dynamics and Phase Transitions of Lipid Bilayers date: 2010 words: 123 flesch: 48 summary: Secondly, to obtain the dynamical properties of the ripple phase of lipid membranes, molecular dynamics simulations were performed on a more realistic molecular-scale lipid model. This phase typically exhibits surface buckling with wavelengths of 100 Ì¢è ' 250 angstroms and amplitudes of 10 Ì¢è ' 50 angstroms. keywords: phase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1g05fb50x6n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1g05fb50x6n.txt item: #262 of 4945 id: 1g05fb50x8b author: Shaun Horsman Yurcaba title: Timeless Architecture: A New Courthouse and Town Square, Embracing Tradition for the Good of the City date: 2006 words: 137 flesch: 48 summary: In order to embrace tradition and maintain a sense of place, cities must find ways to maintain their historic center, keeping important civic functions at the core and clearly defining the city edge. As a case study for this thesis, an alternative design for a new courthouse building and new town square in Monroe, Georgia will be proposed. keywords: cities cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1g05fb50x8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1g05fb50x8b.txt item: #263 of 4945 id: 1g05fb50z17 author: Julie Torborg title: The Charge Asymmetry in W Bosons Produced in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Center-of-Mass Energy 1.96 TeV date: 2005 words: 159 flesch: 49 summary: The primary mode of production of W+ bosons in a proton-antiproton collider is u + anti-d -> W+. This thesis presents the first measurement at DZero of the charge asymmetry of the W boson production cross section as measured in W -> electron + neutrino decays in 0.3 fb^-1 of proton-antiproton collisions collected with the DZero Detector. keywords: proton cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1g05fb50z17.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1g05fb50z17.txt item: #264 of 4945 id: 1g05fb50z79 author: William Scott Kinman title: Textural and Microanalysis of Igneous Rocks: Tools for Understanding Igneous Processes date: 2008 words: 353 flesch: 46 summary: Crystals act as physical vessels to carry compositional and temporal information about magma evolution beyond whole-rock compositions. During crustal processing of magmas, crystal populations may be recycled between geochemical reservoirs such as end-members involved in magma mixing, assimilated country rock, or from variably evolved zones of a solidifying magma body. keywords: magma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1g05fb50z79.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1g05fb50z79.txt item: #265 of 4945 id: 1g05fb51v5z author: Jeremy Steeger title: Quantum Probabilism: New Foundations for Subjective Quantum Probabilities date: 2019 words: 204 flesch: 41 summary: At the intersection of the foundations of statistics and the foundations of quantum theory, one comes across a hotly-debated question: what are the probabilities in quantum theories? I generalize the Deutsch-Wallace argument to defend the objective probabilities in a host of realist approaches to measurement, and I modify the accuracy-dominance argument for probabilism to defend the subjective probabilities in these approaches. keywords: probabilities cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1g05fb51v5z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1g05fb51v5z.txt item: #266 of 4945 id: 1g05fb51z8x author: Alexander J. Arndt title: Control of Stationary and Traveling Cross-Flow Modes in a Mach 6 Boundary Layer Using Passive Patterned Roughness and Unsteady Plasma Excitation date: 2019 words: 338 flesch: 49 summary: Spanwise-periodic roughness that was designed to excite selected wavelengths of stationary cross-flow modes was investigated in a 3-D boundary layer at Mach 6. Passive surface roughness, consisting of indentations (dimples) was evenly spaced around the cone at an axial location that was just upstream of the linear stability neutral growth branch for stationary cross-flow modes. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1g05fb51z8x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1g05fb51z8x.txt item: #267 of 4945 id: 1g05fb52195 author: Niloofar Adnani title: Coloniality of the Maximum Pressure Campaign: Re-reading the Imposition of Economic Sanctions against Iran date: 2021 words: 189 flesch: 20 summary: By shifting the locus of enunciation from the rogue Iranian state to that of human suffering and re-reading the pivotal historical moments of the imposition of economic sanctions against Iran, I argue that violent sanctions policies against one country are, in fact, the continuation of colonial projects. Through my research, I aim to challenge the categorization of economic sanctions as peaceful and shed light on the coloniality of the unilateral US economic sanctions policies against Iran – also known as the Maximum Pressure Campaign. keywords: sanctions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1g05fb52195.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1g05fb52195.txt item: #268 of 4945 id: 1g05fb5227s author: Derrick N. Poe title: Modeling Deep Eutectic Solvents: Linking Macroscopic Behavior and Molecular Level Features date: 2022 words: 327 flesch: 28 summary: This is the primary focus of this work, using CMD to study in depth (i) glycerol-choline chloride DES mixtures of varied concentrations to explain DES-unique characteristics and (ii) phenolic-derivative HBDs mixed with choline chloride to derive an understanding of how HBD molecular structure influences DES bulk behavior. Despite their broad appeal, a majority of DES applications are \ extit{ad hoc} and little is known about the fundamental, molecular-level interactions that effect their useful bulk properties. keywords: des cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1g05fb5227s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1g05fb5227s.txt item: #269 of 4945 id: 1g05fb5230p author: Atul Kedia title: Relativistic Matter in Neutron Star Mergers and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis date: 2022 words: 162 flesch: 23 summary: In the first part I will describe my investigation of the role of the high-density nuclear equation of state in the emergent gravitational radiation from the collapse to a black hole during neutron star mergers. In this dissertation I discuss my work on understanding the interactions of relativistic fluids and nuclear matter in two extreme environments: 1) the merger of two neutron stars and the subsequent collapse of the postmerger hypermassive neutron star to a black hole; and 2) the first few moments of cosmic expansion in the big bang. keywords: relativistic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1g05fb5230p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1g05fb5230p.txt item: #270 of 4945 id: 1j92g73463x author: Matthew Philip Prygoski title: Development and Analysis of a High Speed Bone Fracture Fixation Technology date: 2012 words: 290 flesch: 40 summary: In the proposed method, bone fractures are stabilized using multiple bioresorbable metallic or polymer dartsails that are inserted into bone at high velocity and which are subsequently incorporated/absorbed by the body so that removal is unnecessary. This dissertation investigates bone fracture fixation. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g73463x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g73463x.txt item: #271 of 4945 id: 1j92g734648 author: Thidapat Chantem title: Real-Time System Design Under Physical and Resource Constraints date: 2011 words: 289 flesch: 37 summary: Finally, as device sizes continue to shrink, physical constraints such as system temperature have become a main concern. Due to cost constraints, as well as our inability to foresee worst-case operating scenarios, many systems are designed based on average-case scenarios and must provide graceful performance degradation during occasional system overloads. keywords: system cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g734648.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g734648.txt item: #272 of 4945 id: 1j92g73466z author: Xiaolei Yin title: Study of Effect of Cable Yielding in Cable-Driven Robotic System date: 2004 words: 159 flesch: 39 summary: In effect the limitations on dynamic performance caused by cable yielding were added to the limitations caused by the bounds on actuator torque capacity, in order to give a more comprehensive description of the capabilities of the cable-driven system. This method involved a model of the cable tensions based on a rigid-body model of the system, where the tensions are considered as reaction forces. keywords: cable cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g73466z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g73466z.txt item: #273 of 4945 id: 1j92g73468n author: Jenny L. Vaydich title: The Influence of Emotion Regulation on Aggressive Behavior in the Face of Provocation date: 2011 words: 120 flesch: 23 summary: The current study tested the effect of manipulating emotion regulation strategies on aggressive behavior after being provoked, which has rarely been done in laboratory studies. Although provocation produced feelings of anger in all conditions, emotion regulation strategies were not related to differences in aggressive behavior among conditions. keywords: regulation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g73468n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g73468n.txt item: #274 of 4945 id: 1j92g734706 author: Qiang Ling title: Stability and performance of control systems with limited feedback information date: 2005 words: 358 flesch: 52 summary: This thesis analyzes the effect of dropout and quantization on stability and performance of control systems and develops synthesis methods that improve system performance in the face of such limited information. Based on the performance result, we propose a method to design the optimal dropout policy which minimizes the degradation of system performance under the given dropout rate constraint. keywords: performance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g734706.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g734706.txt item: #275 of 4945 id: 1j92g73471j author: Andrew Alexander Forbes title: Sequential radiation of the parasitoid wasp Diachasma alloeum. date: 2008 words: 450 flesch: 37 summary: 2) Apple, hawthorn and blueberry-origin D. alloeum showed preferences for the odor of their natal fruit and were antagonized by non-natal odors. Furthermore, patterns of differentiation were different from locus to locus; some loci showed pronounced differences between host-associated populations, others showed a marked isolation by distance effect, irrespective of host type. keywords: host cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g73471j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g73471j.txt item: #276 of 4945 id: 1j92g734737 author: Pascal R. Deboeck title: Smoothing-Independent Estimation of a Linear Differential Equation Model date: 2010 words: 181 flesch: 37 summary: Currently several methods can estimate derivatives for time series with measurement error. Although these methods can produce unbiased derivative estimates, parameters of differential equation models fit to univariate time series are frequently biased. keywords: time cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g734737.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g734737.txt item: #277 of 4945 id: 1j92g73474k author: Carlos Gervasoni title: A Rentier Theory of Subnational Democracy: The Politically Regressive Effects of Fiscal Federalism in Argentina date: 2011 words: 383 flesch: 31 summary: Intergovernmental revenue-sharing rules that produce large vertical fiscal imbalances and favor the economically smaller districts provide their incumbents with generous fiscal federalism rents that allow them to restrict democratic contestation and weaken checks and balances. Even in well-established national democracies like the USA in the 1950s or Argentina in the 1990s local regimes are often far from democratic. keywords: regimes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g73474k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g73474k.txt item: #278 of 4945 id: 1j92g734768 author: Qiang Wang title: Chemical Engineering of Nanoshell Chemical Reactors date: 2004 words: 196 flesch: 27 summary: Based on these results, the effect of nanoshell encapsulation on the kinetics of chemical reactions and their potential for future applications of these materials are evaluated. These materials may be useful in a wide range of areas including drug and gene delivery, biocatalysis, sensors, and photoactive devices. keywords: nanoshell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g734768.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g734768.txt item: #279 of 4945 id: 1j92g73477m author: Andrew Nugent Balhoff title: Compressed Air Energy Storage for Vehicle Start-Stop and Launch Assist date: 2012 words: 138 flesch: 50 summary: In an effort to provide a low cost and environmentally friendly system, compressed air energy storage (CAES) was pursued as an alternative to current hybrid systems. Engine start-stop (ESS) and launch assist (LA) were considered as two potential methods for energy reintroduction. keywords: caes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g73477m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g73477m.txt item: #280 of 4945 id: 1j92g734799 author: Pamela Marguerite Schaal title: Fiscal Federalism: The Effects of Divided versus Unified Government on Federal Grant-in-Aid Spending date: 2009 words: 337 flesch: 5 summary: During divided government, there will also be more bi-partisan deliberation and negotiation regarding substantive policy making and hence less partisanship and particularistic tendencies that are typical of unified government. It suggests that an increase in veto players through political parties will reduce the discretionary authority of the political branches, especially the Executive through the decrease in non-formulaic monies thereby facilitating more formulaic spending and hence greater genuine checks and balances between the branches. keywords: government cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g734799.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g734799.txt item: #281 of 4945 id: 1j92g73480h author: Yue Li title: Textured Surfaces for Orthopedic Implants date: 2008 words: 255 flesch: 52 summary: Combined with human walking biomechanics, the textured surfaces had the benefits of encouraging lubricant entrainment under high load and restricting lubricant escape from the surfaces under low load. The textured surfaces were the most effective for alumina-cup implants, with an over 300% increase of lubricant film thickness. keywords: implants cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g73480h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g73480h.txt item: #282 of 4945 id: 1j92g734d13 author: Indranil Palit title: Design and Evaluation of Circuits and Architectures Based on Beyond-CMOS Device Technologies date: 1904 words: 677 flesch: 36 summary: Case studies are performed by using these models, for a tactile sensing problem, and a pattern recognition problem to compare power and performance between tunneling field effect transistor (TFET) based non-linear CNN and conventional linear resistor based CNN.Traditional, CMOS based, von Neumann architectures face daunting challenges in performing complex computational tasks at high speed and with low power on spatio-temporal data, e.g., image processing, pattern recognition, etc. This work also proposes analytical models to estimate CNN power and performance. keywords: cnn cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g734d13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g734d13.txt item: #283 of 4945 id: 1j92g734z12 author: Paul Blaschko title: Theoretical Deliberation as Intentional Belief Formation: An Essay on the Voluntarist Grounds of Epistemic Responsibility date: 1904 words: 229 flesch: 38 summary: Secondly, however, I argue that locating such control in the doxastic case is far from straightforward: we do not have direct voluntary control over our belief formation, and the kinds of indirect voluntary control we most obviously have is unsuited to the task of grounding epistemic responsibility. In giving an account of these processes, then, we explain the possibility of epistemic responsibility by accounting for its grounds, and greatly clarify a number of issues regarding the role of the will in cognition and its evaluation. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g734z12.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g734z12.txt item: #284 of 4945 id: 1j92g73588j author: Oyekola Oyekole title: Development and Numerical Analysis of Partitioned Algorithms for Fluid-Elastic / Poroelastic Structure Interaction Problems date: 2020 words: 228 flesch: 37 summary: We prove its stability and second-order convergence properties, and then demonstrate its applicability to blood flow modeling under physiological conditions. Last of all, we introduce a new loosely-coupled partitioned scheme based on generalized Robin interface conditions, using a model in which the coupling conditions account for the flow entry resistance. keywords: method cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g73588j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g73588j.txt item: #285 of 4945 id: 1j92g73592s author: Alberto Roman Afanador title: Embedded Semi-Analytical Modeling of Small Scales in Simulations of Multiphase Flows date: 2020 words: 172 flesch: 47 summary: Multi-scale models provide the capacity to simulate complex flow problems without requiring high resolutions. Several multi-scale multiphase flow problems have been studied including two-dimensional and three-dimensional flow with topology changes. keywords: multiphase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g73592s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g73592s.txt item: #286 of 4945 id: 1j92g735c0q author: Xiao Liu title: Causal Mediation Analysis with the Latent Growth Curve Mediation Model date: 2022 words: 305 flesch: 27 summary: For effect estimation, I proposed the interaction LGCMM, which incorporates interactions among treatment, mediator intercept, and mediator slope and allows the residual covariance of mediator intercept and slope to differ between treatment vs. control groups. To handle the post-treatment confounding issue posed by the dependence between mediator intercept and slope, I extended the interventional effect definition for causal interpretation of the indirect effects via the mediator intercept (or slope) alone. keywords: mediator cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g735c0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g735c0q.txt item: #287 of 4945 id: 1j92g735c2d author: Alejandro Garciadiego Del Rio title: Multi-Scale Modeling for Ionic Liquid Enabled Separation Systems date: 2022 words: 227 flesch: 31 summary: This thesis explores methods to aid the search for novel materials integrating data science and process systems engineering tools to find property targets for separation agents and contemplate which data is more valuable to screen these separation agents. There exists ample opportunity for reducing and replacing high-energy separation processes with innovative separation agents. keywords: separation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1j92g735c2d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1j92g735c2d.txt item: #288 of 4945 id: 1n79h417g38 author: Larry Ricardo Gibson title: Rapid Detection of Lipid Biomarkers in Three-Dimensional Hybrid Microfluidicanofluidic Devices date: 2014 words: 361 flesch: 10 summary: Current biomarker measurements using benchtop analytical systems strongly suggest that real-time monitoring of the concentration of specific lipids and/or their derivatives in patient biofluids would enable physicians to more accurately track disease progression and swiftly administer therapeutic treatments. This dissertation introduces a three-dimensional hybrid microfluidicanofluidic device that performs electrophoretic separations of lipid biomarkers and discusses the development of this technology into a promising alternative to current analytical methods using benchtop CE separation units. keywords: methods cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1n79h417g38.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1n79h417g38.txt item: #289 of 4945 id: 1n79h417g69 author: Jeffrey William Pavlik title: Investigations of Diatomic Heme Ligands. Part I: Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy of Nitrosyl Iron Porphyrinates. Part II: The Characterization of Hydrosulfido Heme Models date: 2011 words: 273 flesch: 49 summary: Prior related single-crystal NRVS was conducted in two porphyrin defined directions, parallel to the porphyrin plane (in-plane but non-specific axis) and perpendicular to the porphyrin plane (out-of-plane or z-direction). Crystals of [Fe(OEP)(NO)] and [Fe(DPIX-DME)(NO)] were analyzed by NRVS along specific in-plane axes, along (x-direction) or normal to (y-direction) the Fe-N-O defined direction. keywords: plane cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1n79h417g69.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1n79h417g69.txt item: #290 of 4945 id: 1n79h417g80 author: Marcia Eileen Braun title: Do Individual Differences in Global Social Support Affect How Daily Support Buffers Daily Stress? date: 2010 words: 279 flesch: 34 summary: The Level-1 within-person analyses include the buffering role of daily social support perceived as cooperative (nondirective) support and that perceived as intrusive (directive) on the stress-negative affect relationship. Level-2 findings include the moderation of daily directive support-stress relationship for those endorsing more global social control; however, receiving greater daily directive support accentuates the stress-negative affect slope. keywords: support cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1n79h417g80.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1n79h417g80.txt item: #291 of 4945 id: 1n79h417h0j author: Eldon Franklin Coffman title: An Essay on the Logic of Warrant date: 2008 words: 357 flesch: 45 summary: Second, Foundationalism about knowledge and warrant should be reconceived in terms of justification. The first, rooted in work by David Lewis, infers Infallibilism from the oddity of concessive knowledge attributions. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1n79h417h0j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1n79h417h0j.txt item: #292 of 4945 id: 1n79h417h6m author: S. M. Niaz Arifin title: A Spatial Agent-Based Model and a Multi-Dimensional Data Warehouse for Malaria Research date: 2013 words: 168 flesch: 31 summary: Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) is a powerful tool for representing complex biological systems. Following a biological core model of An. gambiae for malaria entomology, we develop agent-based simulation models (ABMs). keywords: malaria cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1n79h417h6m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1n79h417h6m.txt item: #293 of 4945 id: 1n79h417h9n author: Shannon Valenzuela title: Mnemosyne's Son: Chaucer, Translation, and the Creation of English Textual Memory date: 2007 words: 333 flesch: 29 summary: Chaucer's use of translation as a means of rhetorical invention is deeply connected to medieval technologies of memory; Chaucer's poetry not only explores the theoretical possibilities of these activities, but also offers different perspectives on the relationship between right reading and right action. This dissertation considers the various ways in which Chaucer explores three distinct, though related, theoretical issues posed by the development of English as a literary vernacular: namely, the nature of translation, the construction of textual memory, and the relationship between reading and ethics. keywords: chaucer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1n79h417h9n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1n79h417h9n.txt item: #294 of 4945 id: 1n79h418d79 author: Douglas Duhaime title: Copyright and the Early English Book Market: An Algorithmic Study date: 2019 words: 295 flesch: 43 summary: In short, while book historians and legal scholars have written copious amounts of scholarship on the relationship between early copyright law and the eighteenth-century publishing industry, these studies have tended to focus on a small handful of pivotal writers and legal cases. This dissertation's focus on the relationship between copyright law and the eighteenth-century book market is motivated by the fact that English courts of the period revolutionized copyright law in ways that continue to influence contemporary legal thought. keywords: century cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1n79h418d79.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1n79h418d79.txt item: #295 of 4945 id: 1n79h418j7j author: Andrew Jahan Khajavipour (Jahan Khajavi) title: Jahan Jahan date: 2020 words: 37 flesch: 41 summary: A manuscript of original poetry to meet the requirements of a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. This collection is defined by uniform formal elements adapted from tradition Iranian poetry met with queer eroticism & politics. keywords: poetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1n79h418j7j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1n79h418j7j.txt item: #296 of 4945 id: 1n79h418m13 author: Daniella Rebouças-Ju title: Explanatory Item Response Time Modeling date: 2021 words: 168 flesch: 42 summary: Although much research has been done on response time models, there is large variability between assessments and the factors that may affect response times. On the person's side, familiarity with online environments may largely predict response times. keywords: response cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1n79h418m13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1n79h418m13.txt item: #297 of 4945 id: 1n79h418m9v author: Ashley G. Walker title: Using, Refusing, and Becoming Exempla: Debating Exemplarity in Heroides 5 and 16-17 date: 2022 words: 266 flesch: 38 summary: It argues that the letters of Oenone, Paris, and Helen participate in a debate about the use of exempla in elegiac rhetoric and even question exemplarity, the conventional elegiac strategy of reliance on exempla. Chapter 2 shows that Oenone (Her. 5), although struggling to insert herself into Paris and Helen's discourse, still engages with exempla more critically in her attempt to correct Paris's poorly chosen exempla. keywords: paris cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1n79h418m9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1n79h418m9v.txt item: #298 of 4945 id: 1n79h418n2r author: Hansheng Ye title: III-Nitride Based High Electron Mobility Transistors for RF Applications date: 2022 words: 264 flesch: 42 summary: III-nitride based high electron mobility transistors are ideal candidates for such systems due to their wide/ultra-wide bandgaps, high carrier concentrations, as well as high carrier velocities. Rapid development of wireless communication systems, including the deployment of 5G networks, calls for robust electronic components that can efficiently support the transmission of increasingly high data rates with wider bandwidths and at higher frequencies. keywords: gan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1n79h418n2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1n79h418n2r.txt item: #299 of 4945 id: 1r66j100r5h author: Michael William Handlogten title: Design of a Heterobivalent Inhibitor of Allergy and More Physiologically Relevant Allergy Models date: 2013 words: 348 flesch: 28 summary: These dual targeting HBIs had greater than 120 fold increased affinity for the target IgE compared to the monovalent hapten and prevented mast cell degranulation in a variant of the commonly used DNP/IgEDNP allergy model, however due to the many simplifications of this allergy model a more advanced heterotetravalent allergen (HtTA) model was developed. The HtTA allergy model allowed an integrative approach to study mast cell degranulation by presenting 2 haptens each with a valency of 2 and requiring both hapten specific IgEs to be present on the mast cell surface to stimulate degranulation. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100r5h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100r5h.txt item: #300 of 4945 id: 1r66j100r6v author: Alexander Grant White title: Selective Recognition of Bacteria Utilizing Zinc(II)-Dipicolylamine Conjugated Far-Red Fluorescent Probes date: 2012 words: 443 flesch: 33 summary: Planar fluorescence optical imaging proves that these Zn-DPA probes bind leg infections of Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus or Gram-negative Salmonella typhimurium in living mice. The Zn-DPA conjugated cyanine dye also bound bacterial cells in vitro and successfully targeted Gram-negative and Gram-positive infections upon intravenous treatment in living mice. keywords: imaging cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100r6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100r6v.txt item: #301 of 4945 id: 1r66j100s03 author: Steven Barbachyn title: Analytical Evaluation of Diagonally-Reinforced Concrete Coupling Beams Under Lateral Loads date: 2011 words: 158 flesch: 31 summary: To isolate the primary load-resisting components inside the beams, a two-dimensional nonlinear strut-and-tie analytical model is developed based on comparisons with measured coupling beam behavior from previous research. Most of these previous experiments were conducted on coupling beams free to displace axially, ignoring the axial restraining forces that develop in a coupled wall structure. keywords: beams cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100s03.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100s03.txt item: #302 of 4945 id: 1r66j100s2s author: Arun Francis Rodrigues title: Programming Future Architectures: Dusty Decks, Memory Walls, and the Speed of Light date: 2006 words: 272 flesch: 44 summary: LWP is an innovative technique which combines Processing-In-Memory, short vector computation, multithreading, and extended memory semantics. Many of these challenges revolve around the growing disparity between processor and memory speed - the Memory Wall - and difficulties scaling to large numbers of parallel processors. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100s2s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100s2s.txt item: #303 of 4945 id: 1r66j100s34 author: Irfan A Khawaja title: Foundationalism and the Foundations of Ethics date: 2008 words: 150 flesch: 39 summary: The basic aims of this study are to defend a particular conception of the problem; to offer the sketch of a solution; and to offer an extended critique of one attempted solution, namely, Christine Korsgaard's in The Sources of Normativity. It is also, despite its currency, a remarkably obscure and multifarious problem: it's rarely clear in the literature what the problem is, what the solutions are, and indeed, what counts as an instance of either problem or solution. keywords: problem cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100s34.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100s34.txt item: #304 of 4945 id: 1r66j100s5t author: Yury Pogorelov title: A Search for the Associated Higgs Production in the Tau Channel date: 2008 words: 152 flesch: 54 summary: The cross section for this process is enhanced in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM), such as in its Minimal Supersymmetric extension (MSSM) at large tanß. The results provide an upper limit for the production cross section of neutral Higgs bosons in the mass range of 90 to 150 GeV,and are interpreted in the MSSM. keywords: higgs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100s5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100s5t.txt item: #305 of 4945 id: 1r66j100s65 author: Zhi Zhai title: Technology-Facilitated Crowdsourcing Systems date: 2013 words: 151 flesch: 28 summary: While crowdsourcing system designs have progressed substantially through engineering breakthroughs, some challenges in the crowdsourcing model however remain unanswered, such as (1)System Design: in various crowdsourcing systems, what roles can crowds play and what contributions can they make? The latest advances in information and communication technology have made it possible for researchers to design innovative crowdsourcing systems that can harness the human intelligence of online communities. keywords: crowdsourcing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100s65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100s65.txt item: #306 of 4945 id: 1r66j100s8v author: Angel Eduardo Alvarez title: Political Funding Regulations in Latin America: Uncertainty, Equity and Transparency date: 2011 words: 337 flesch: 44 summary: Form this point of view, campaign and party funding rules would be always aimed at providing financial advantages for majority parties and to hinder financial activities of minority parties. Why do self-interested legislators regulate their own finances, allocate public money to minority parties and candidates, impose disclosure rules on politicians' financial accounts, and establish penalties for violations of financial regulations? keywords: politicians cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100s8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100s8v.txt item: #307 of 4945 id: 1r66j100s96 author: Patrick Howard Donohue title: Origin and Evolution of High-Titanium Mare Basalts date: 2013 words: 333 flesch: 45 summary: Finally, I investigate two rocklets found in the lunar highlands that were recently classified as basalts. I confirm their basaltic nature, extending the mare CSD database to include picritic basalt and Luna 24-type basalt. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100s96.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100s96.txt item: #308 of 4945 id: 1r66j100t1r author: Damon McGraw title: Apocalyptic Thought in John Henry Newman: Discerning Antichrist in Modernity date: 2014 words: 355 flesch: 22 summary: As such it fills lacunae in the fields of Newman scholarship and apocalyptic studies simply by showing that there is a significant amount of apocalyptic thought to be found in Newman's writings and that he deserves to be recognized as an important figure in this Christian theological tradition. To Christian thinkers interested in the criticism of modernity this dissertation shows how Newman's practice of apocalyptic thought yielded his interpretation and critique of the 'liberalism' that he identified in the modern Western reduction of religion to private sentiment and its attendant assertion of 'secular reason' as sovereign over all inherited authorities and traditions. keywords: apocalyptic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100t1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100t1r.txt item: #309 of 4945 id: 1r66j100t23 author: Leonard James DeLorenzo title: Those Who Hear Will Live: A Theological Explication of the Communion of Saints date: 2014 words: 315 flesch: 20 summary: Furthermore, this dissertation shows how the denial of the seriousness of death correlatively diminishes the apprehension of God's absolute gift of creatio ex nihilo and the separate though corresponding gift of new life in the resurrection of the dead. This work aims to present the communio sanctorum as an article of faith that is properly christological in that it concerns the complete action of the Incarnation, pneumatological in that it pertains to the Spirit's work of forming community in the bonds of charity, and ultimately trinitarian in that it fundamentally entails the graced participation in the divine life of persons-in-communion. keywords: communion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100t23.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100t23.txt item: #310 of 4945 id: 1r66j100t4s author: Timothy Ferdinands title: Groupoids with root systems in real vector spaces date: 1904 words: 213 flesch: 49 summary: We take the notion of signed groupoid set, introduced by Dyer to abstract primitive features of such groupoids with root systems, as our general framework. The main purpose of this thesis is to discuss realizations of root systems of signed groupoid sets in real vector spaces. keywords: groupoid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100t4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100t4s.txt item: #311 of 4945 id: 1r66j100v5f author: Yuriy Hulovatyy title: Exploring Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks: Novel Methods and Interdisciplinary Applications date: 1904 words: 355 flesch: 37 summary: For example, whereas traditional network data has been static, because it has become easier to record system evolution, more of dynamic network data is becoming available. We achieve this goal in two different ways, by: 1) answering novel research questions via established network approaches, and 2) developing novel network approaches for established research questions. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100v5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100v5f.txt item: #312 of 4945 id: 1r66j100v6s author: Margaret B. Owensby title: Quantifying the Uncertainty of Vegetation-Induced Wave Dissipation date: 1904 words: 147 flesch: 42 summary: Numerous sets of test runs were conducted to estimate the amount of wave dissipation caused by coastal vegetation, and the uncertainty and accuracy of the methods and results are analyzed. Some recent efforts to mitigate coastal damage caused by flooding and surge during storm events have focused on the use of coastal vegetation as a means of inducing wave energy dissipation. keywords: vegetation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100v6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100v6s.txt item: #313 of 4945 id: 1r66j100z3p author: Ruiwen Zhen title: Aided Blind Deblurring Image Degraded by Motion Blur date: 1904 words: 524 flesch: 39 summary: The key lies on how to address the noise amplification issue with using inertial sensors for motion estimation. By replacing the camera pose space in the geometric model with a motion trajectory set, an explicit trajectory can be generated, filling the gap between kernel estimation and motion estimation. keywords: motion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j100z3p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j100z3p.txt item: #314 of 4945 id: 1r66j101t11 author: Nabarun Dev title: Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays of Standard Model Higgs and Neutral Heavy Higgs Bosons to a Muon and an Electronically Decaying Tau Lepton date: 2019 words: 178 flesch: 66 summary: Observed (expected) upper limits on product of H cross-section and branching ratio of decay into a muon and a tau lepton range from 51.9 (57.4) pb to 1.6 (2.1) pb, at 95 % CL, for H masses in the range between 200 and 900 GeV. This dissertation presents searches for Lepton Flavor Violating decay of the Standard Model Higgs Boson (h) as well as neutral Heavy Higgs Bosons (H) into a muon and an electronically decaying tau lepton. keywords: limits cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j101t11.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j101t11.txt item: #315 of 4945 id: 1r66j101v00 author: Geoffrey Hall title: The Algebraic Structure of Propositions date: 2020 words: 420 flesch: 42 summary: This dissertation is about various puzzles that arise when we attempt to construct general theories of propositions, properties and relations. The principle of Distribution turns out to be surprisingly strong: for many theories of propositional fineness of grain, conjoining that theory with Distribution has implausible consequences. keywords: theories cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j101v00.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j101v00.txt item: #316 of 4945 id: 1r66j101v4c author: Monica C. Perez title: Maternal Self-Compassion as a Moderator of the Relation between Adolescent Aggression and Parenting Stress date: 2020 words: 210 flesch: 7 summary: The present study examined whether maternal self-compassion moderated the relationship between adolescent aggression and maternal parenting stress. Further, exploratory analyses were conducted to assess whether self-compassion would moderate the relationship between adolescent aggression and maternal parenting stress when controlling for maternal dysfunctional discipline, a significant predictor of adolescent aggression and maternal parenting stress, in the model. keywords: parenting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j101v4c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j101v4c.txt item: #317 of 4945 id: 1r66j101w7q author: Hao Zheng title: Data-Efficient and Robust Deep Learning Based Approaches for Biomedical Image Segmentation and Related Problems date: 2022 words: 341 flesch: 28 summary: However, it is not straightforward to apply known semantic segmentation algorithms directly to biomedical images due to different imaging techniques and special application scenarios (e.g., volumetric images, multi-modal data, small amounts of annotated data, domain knowledge from experts). In this dissertation, I develop new deep learning methods to save annotation efforts, improve model efficacy, and generalize well to different biomedical image segmentation tasks. keywords: annotation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j101w7q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j101w7q.txt item: #318 of 4945 id: 1r66j101z60 author: Adrian Navarro Hernandez title: Mathematical Problems in the Inference of Source Location with Applications to Cellular Directional Sensing date: 2023 words: 266 flesch: 26 summary: We identify several homogenization limits in which complex target configurations can be replaced by simpler ones while retaining overall capture characteristics. We consider the inverse problem of determining the source location of unbiased random walkers to complex target configurations in two and three dimensions. keywords: location cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1r66j101z60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1r66j101z60.txt item: #319 of 4945 id: 1v53jw8415w author: Zijun Ke title: An Empirical Comparison of Three Methods to Establish Directional Relationships Using Multivariate Time Series: Effective Connectivity Analysis with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies date: 2014 words: 195 flesch: 36 summary: Researchers in a variety of disciplines are interested in methods to establish causal links among several constructs. Three popular effective connectivity methods are multivariate autoregressive modeling (MAR) with Granger Causality testing, structural equation modeling (SEM), and dynamic causal modeling (DCM). keywords: methods cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw8415w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw8415w.txt item: #320 of 4945 id: 1v53jw8418x author: Francisco A Noria title: Physiological Implications for Murine Deficiencies of Key Proteins of the Coagulation Cascade date: 2011 words: 498 flesch: 30 summary: A partial deficiency of normal PC levels (≈60% of WT) supports a normal development and viability in PC+/- mice. Nevertheless, these levels in PC+/- mice are enough to cause significant phenotypical differences upon copper-based oxidative challenge. keywords: mice cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw8418x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw8418x.txt item: #321 of 4945 id: 1v53jw8420g author: Michael Stephen Crocker title: Study of Spacings and Defects in Molecular QCA and Design of a QCA-based Programmable Logic Array date: 2010 words: 164 flesch: 44 summary: The research contained in this thesis includes an investigation into the physical spacings of QCA devices and the harmful effects of defects and faults on basic QCA circuit elements. Because of the higher defect rates expected at the nanoscale, steps have been taken to design reprogrammable logic from QCA devices. keywords: qca cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw8420g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw8420g.txt item: #322 of 4945 id: 1v53jw84225 author: Bryan M Morales title: Company Towns Revisited: Historic Typologies as a Model for Stability and Growth in Developing Countries date: 2006 words: 77 flesch: 28 summary: This thesis represents a design solution for what is commonly known as a company town, a community built around a single industry or company, and to develop urban planning and architectural solutions that could realistically be implemented to improve the lives and conditions of people in developing countries. In order to accomplish this goal I have prepared the following chapters to explain both the current problems and potential solutions involving Haiti, company towns, urban planning, and architecture. keywords: company cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw84225.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw84225.txt item: #323 of 4945 id: 1v53jw84287 author: Darrell Paul Duffek title: Effects of Combined Thermal and Mechanical Loading on the Fatigue of Solder Joints date: 2004 words: 174 flesch: 55 summary: In the past, laboratory test data have been used to supplement, refine, and validate the FE models by means of a correlation between thermal variations and cycles to failure. In addition to the mechanical loading, the PCB is enclosed in a thermal chamber to provide synchronized cyclic thermal loading as well. keywords: failure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw84287.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw84287.txt item: #324 of 4945 id: 1v53jw84314 author: Vesela Yordanova Ugrinova title: Synthesis and Chemistry of Titanium(IV) Complexes with Triamido-Amine, Triaryloxo-Amine, Beta-Diketonate/Phenoxide and Bis(Beta-Diketonate) Ligands date: 2007 words: 355 flesch: 34 summary: The prepared acyl sulfonamides N(CH2CONHSO2R)3 gave complex mixtures of products with Ti(OtBu)4 and Ti(NMe2)4, and the tris(trifluoromethanesulfonamide) N(CH2CH2NHSO2CF3)3 was inert towards Ti(OtBu)4, and formed multiple products with Ti(NMe2)4. Titanium(IV) The synthesis of titanium(IV) complexes with tetradentate nitrogen- keywords: complexes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw84314.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw84314.txt item: #325 of 4945 id: 1v53jw84345 author: Matthew P. McDonald title: Absorption and emission spectroscopy of individual semiconductor nanostructures date: 1904 words: 347 flesch: 42 summary: Thus, this thesis seeks to show the delicate interplay between quantum confinement and dielectric screening effects in single CdSe nanostructures. This is followed by a study that focuses on the polarization selection rules of 1D excitons within single CdSe NWs. keywords: cdse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw84345.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw84345.txt item: #326 of 4945 id: 1v53jw8435h author: Everaldo Aguiar title: Identifying Students at Risk and Beyond: A Machine Learning Approach date: 1904 words: 241 flesch: 41 summary: To stem the tide of student attrition, these institutions continue to invest increasing amounts of resources to foster the early identification of students who may drop out. We compare the performance of such methods to that of more traditional approaches, discuss what specific student-level data features can be used to measure student risk, and delineate strategies that can be followed by academic institutions that wish to deploy and evaluate these predictive models. keywords: students cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw8435h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw8435h.txt item: #327 of 4945 id: 1v53jw8442s author: Andi Noakes title: Population Dynamics of Fraxinus pennsylvanica date: 1904 words: 342 flesch: 38 summary: In addition, I ascertain fundamental characteristics of genetic variation and population differentiation across the range of green ash, including a broad and fine-scale analysis of genetic structure. Although spatial factors did not estimate differentiation well, mean temperature of the driest quarter was the best single predictor of population differentiation. keywords: ash cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw8442s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw8442s.txt item: #328 of 4945 id: 1v53jw84763 author: Amy E. Jonason title: Growing the Good Food Revolution: Strategies of Sustainable Community in Two Urban Alternative Food Projects date: 1904 words: 292 flesch: 36 summary: These future projections, and the strategies that activists initially utilized to pursue them, were informed by dominant narratives about the lack of Good Food in urban neighborhoods, as well as activists' skills and prior knowledge. Ultimately, these findings explain why groups struggle to establish patterns of action that create viable economic opportunities and durable social relationships in inner-city neighborhoods. keywords: activists cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw84763.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw84763.txt item: #329 of 4945 id: 1v53jw84r73 author: Finola Prendergast title: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Moral Philosophy in Contemporary U.S. Literature date: 1904 words: 312 flesch: 39 summary: My dissertation explores the relationship between science fiction (SF)/fantasy and moral discourse in contemporary U.S. fiction. Therefore, when highbrow literature includes SF/fantasy as part of its formal experimentation, moral discourse becomes aesthetically licit for it again. keywords: moral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw84r73.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw84r73.txt item: #330 of 4945 id: 1v53jw84r8f author: Joshua Noble title: Common Property, the Golden Age, and Empire in Acts 2:42–47 and 4:32–35 date: 1904 words: 355 flesch: 47 summary: While Roman poets credit Augustus, Nero, and a host of other emperors with bringing about a new Golden Age, Luke implies that it is Christ, not Caesar, who has truly restored human harmony and reconciled humanity with God. This study argues that these summaries would also have led many readers to recall the Golden Age myth, a story that told of the ideal conditions that the first race of humans enjoyed. keywords: myth cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw84r8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw84r8f.txt item: #331 of 4945 id: 1v53jw85453 author: Katheryn J. Klukow Kelley title: Dysfunctional Individuation, Spiritual Struggle and Identity in Emerging Adults: A Developmental Approach date: 2020 words: 285 flesch: 21 summary: Path models linking dysfunctional individuation, religious and spiritual struggle, spirituality and religious identity indicate that individuation may still be an important component of religious identity development. These developmental tasks can result in spiritual growth even while religious participation declines, as the emerging adult shifts from a religious identity assigned in childhood by parental socialization to one chosen as an individuated adult. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw85453.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw85453.txt item: #332 of 4945 id: 1v53jw8561b author: Yang Zhang title: Towards Multimodal, Sparse, and Uncertainty-Aware Artificial Intelligence in Smart Urban Sensing date: 2022 words: 615 flesch: 22 summary: Examples of ASUS applications include deep convolutional network based model to automatically monitor the structural health conditions of the city-wide infrastructure, recurrent neural network based approach to accurately forecast the traffic risks at a fine-grained spatial granularity, and deep fusion learning based framework to rapidly detect infectious disease outbreaks in big cities using location-based crowd tracking services. 2) AI models are capable of judiciously analyzing the vast amount of structured and unstructured sensing data, which significantly improves the heterogeneity and efficiency of ASUS applications. keywords: asus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw8561b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw8561b.txt item: #333 of 4945 id: 1v53jw8579d author: Aurel Holzschuh title: Understanding Residual Plasmodium falciparum Transmission through Targeted Amplicon Deep Sequencing date: 2023 words: 564 flesch: 21 summary: Using AmpSeq data from 290 P. falciparum infections, I observed strong fine-scale spatial and temporal structure of local parasite populations, despite high genetic diversity, providing evidence for ongoing local transmission. This dissertation aimed to characterize the population structure of P. falciparum parasites, map antimalarial resistance profiles, and define parasite relatedness to provide new insights that will help inform malaria control policy in two pre-elimination settings in Zanzibar and Ethiopia. keywords: malaria cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1v53jw8579d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1v53jw8579d.txt item: #334 of 4945 id: 1z40ks67980 author: Chadwick C. Curtis title: Essays on the Macroeconomics of China date: 2012 words: 357 flesch: 59 summary: Finally, the third chapter investigates the extent that economic reforms that removed barriers to entry by private businesses in 1992 can quantitatively account for China's growth in total factor productivity (TFP). Specifically, it asks if the tools used to study business cycles in developed countries can also be used to study China. keywords: china cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks67980.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks67980.txt item: #335 of 4945 id: 1z40ks67b0j author: Yogesh B Wakchaure title: Low-Resistance Ohmic Contacts to P-Inas for High-Speed Device Applications date: 2005 words: 180 flesch: 49 summary: Contrary to simple contact models, this process resulted in increased contact resistance. Contact resistance was measured using the transmission line method (TLM) with a Kelvin probe connection to minimize measurement error. keywords: contact cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks67b0j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks67b0j.txt item: #336 of 4945 id: 1z40ks67b27 author: Michaela Bucchianeri title: Can Working Memory Interference Explain Need for Cognitive Closure Effects in the Perception of Discrimination? date: 2011 words: 258 flesch: 34 summary: Contrary to expectations, Study 1 demonstrated that prototype use in the perception of discrimination was in fact related to higher levels of verbal working memory capacity. In particular, the purpose of the studies presented here was to test whether a more basic and parsimonious explanation, situational interference with working memory, may account for previous studies' results regarding prototype use in the perception of discrimination. keywords: prototype cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks67b27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks67b27.txt item: #337 of 4945 id: 1z40ks67b4x author: Po Wu title: Symmetry and Dissipativity in the Design of Large-Scale Complex Control Systems date: 2013 words: 259 flesch: 30 summary: Overall, this dissertation provides new approaches in analyzing and synthesizing large-scale dynamical control systems with regard to energy and input-output relationships, where symmetry property provides interesting results for system analysis and control design. In this dissertation, the notion of symmetry in dynamical control systems is studied. keywords: symmetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks67b4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks67b4x.txt item: #338 of 4945 id: 1z40ks67b58 author: Nathan L. King title: The Epistemology of Disagreement: Puzzles, Solutions, and Applications date: 2009 words: 600 flesch: 56 summary: There I consider four disagreement-based arguments for skepticism about moral knowledge. An epistemic principle stating that if the relevant subjects' epistemic situations are as described in the first claim, then their attitudes toward the target proposition do not have such-and-such an epistemic status (e.g., these attitudes are not rational, or do not amount to knowledge). keywords: disagreement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks67b58.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks67b58.txt item: #339 of 4945 id: 1z40ks67b7z author: Diane M Lickenbrock title: Examining Infant Attachment Security with Mothers and Fathers: An Ecological Systems Perspective date: 2010 words: 223 flesch: 29 summary: Other systems such as marital functioning can also affect the parent-child attachment relationships, perhaps indirectly or directly, such that parents who are unhappy in their marriage may withdraw from their child and negatively affect the parent-child relationship. For example, socioeconomic status is generally considered a more distal factor but has been found to be related to maternal warmth and child aggression. keywords: attachment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks67b7z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks67b7z.txt item: #340 of 4945 id: 1z40ks67c0v author: Laura Kinnaman title: Structural, dynamic, and spectroscopic properties of self-consistent charge density functional tight binding water models date: 2011 words: 235 flesch: 34 summary: Ab initio models can accurately reproduce water properties, including reactions, but are limited to small systems. A wide range of empirical models which accurately reproduce bulk water have been developed, but are limited to nonreactive systems. keywords: models cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks67c0v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks67c0v.txt item: #341 of 4945 id: 1z40ks67c16 author: Quinn Nathaniel Lathrop title: The Impact of Within-Template Systematic Variation on Response Models date: 2013 words: 81 flesch: 41 summary: With item response data, systematic variation within nested groups of generated items may negatively impact the estimation of item and person parameters. First, explaining and removing non-random error may improve ability and item parameter estimates. keywords: item cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks67c16.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks67c16.txt item: #342 of 4945 id: 1z40ks67c3w author: Julia M Harris title: Dodge & Burn date: 2015 words: 1 flesch: 36 summary: Poetry. keywords: poetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks67c3w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks67c3w.txt item: #343 of 4945 id: 1z40ks67c47 author: Heather Leigh Eisler title: Genomic Study of Female Hybrid Sterility in D. simulans/D. melanogaster Hybrid Females with Differing Levels of Oogenic Development date: 2010 words: 316 flesch: 39 summary: Matching expression patterns seem to reduce regulatory conflict and also influence a hybrid's mate choice, as increased preference for mating with D. simulans males was seen with female hybrids expressing two pheromone loci, olfactory-specific C and odorant-binding protein 56h, like D. simulans. These hybrid females also have more loci dominantly expressed like D. melanogaster, especially female reproductive loci and transcription factors. keywords: hybrid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks67c47.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks67c47.txt item: #344 of 4945 id: 1z40ks67c8m author: Stephen M. Mattingly title: The Impact of Stress and Cortisol on the Emotional Memory Trade-Off Effect date: 2015 words: 114 flesch: 33 summary: These findings suggest that neutral memories that were consolidated in the presence of elevated cortisol are processed similarly to emotional memory, and that cortisol may be an important post encoding memory tag to preserve neutral memory. While both groups had better emotional object memory compared to background memory, the stress group had additional competition effects for neutral objects and associated backgrounds over 24 and 48 hour delays. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks67c8m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks67c8m.txt item: #345 of 4945 id: 1z40ks67d8x author: Renee Bouley title: Discovery of New Antibacterial Agents for the Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphyloccocus aureus date: 1904 words: 284 flesch: 37 summary: Two lead quinazolinones were identified that demonstrated good pharmacokinetic properties and thus achieved efficacy in mouse models of infections. We set out to develop new inhibitors of PBP2a by performing docking and scoring at the active site and testing top compounds for antibacterial activity. keywords: quinazolinones cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks67d8x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks67d8x.txt item: #346 of 4945 id: 1z40ks67h8v author: Li Tang title: Performance and Energy Aware Workload Partitioning on Heterogeneous Platforms date: 1904 words: 363 flesch: 29 summary: Heterogeneous platforms which employ a mix of CPUs and GPUs have been widely used in many different areas such as embedded computing and high performance computing. One reason is that a straightforward division of the workload of an application among the processors usually cannot efficiently utilize the distinct processors of heterogeneous platforms. keywords: heterogeneous cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks67h8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks67h8v.txt item: #347 of 4945 id: 1z40ks6817f author: Kate Finley title: Perception, Cognition, and Prediction date: 1904 words: 341 flesch: 22 summary: In this dissertation, I address theories in cognitive science which have recently challenged traditional understandings of our perceptual and cognitive systems. In my first chapter, I address Cognitive Penetration, which challenges traditional understandings of perception. keywords: cognitive cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks6817f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks6817f.txt item: #348 of 4945 id: 1z40ks68194 author: Jeremy A. Eberle title: Development of Novel Magnesium, Zinc, and Aluminum Organometallic Catalysts for the Copolymerization of CO2 and Epoxides date: 1904 words: 165 flesch: 16 summary: The aim of this dissertation is to describe the synthesis, characterization, and catalytic performance in the copolymerization of CO2 and cyclohexene oxide of various homogeneous metal complexes containing magnesium, zinc, and aluminum metal centers. Chapter 3 focuses on the synthesis of five salen-type ligands and the corresponding magnesium, zinc, and aluminum metal complexes. keywords: metal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks68194.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks68194.txt item: #349 of 4945 id: 1z40ks6863m author: Francisco A. Herrera Gallegos title: Fundamental Studies on the Effects of Catalyst on Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas for Ammonia Production date: 2019 words: 345 flesch: 31 summary: The literature has extensively reported plasma-catalysis manifests in an improvement of the performance of reaction kinetics when plasma and catalyst work together. These interactions between plasma and catalyst can be interpreted from two perspectives: the effects of plasma on the catalyst and the effects of catalyst on the plasma. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks6863m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks6863m.txt item: #350 of 4945 id: 1z40ks68g5s author: Cho Rok Christiana Oh title: Electrochemical Biosensors for Point-of-Care Diagnostics in Whole Human Fluids date: 2022 words: 843 flesch: 26 summary: Ideally, POC diagnostic devices should follow the ASSURED criteria: Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User-friendly, Rapid/Robust, Equipment-free and Deliverable. These requirements are challenging to meet in practice and thus require careful design, construction, and testing for the development of effective POC electrochemical sensors. keywords: electrochemical; poc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks68g5s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks68g5s.txt item: #351 of 4945 id: 1z40ks68h22 author: Daniel E. Hammers title: Finding a Match: The Role of Ion Transporters in Streptolysin S-Mediated Group A Streptococcal Infection date: 2022 words: 358 flesch: 24 summary: GAS is a versatile pathogen that utilizes several virulence factors to contribute to disease, and their effects include lysing host cells, manipulating host immune responses and coagulation, and enabling GAS to adhere to host components. Recent evidence has suggested that SLS targets the membrane-associated ion transporter Band 3 to lyse erythrocytes, challenging the traditional hypothesis that SLS lyses host cells by disrupting cell membranes. keywords: sls cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks68h22.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks68h22.txt item: #352 of 4945 id: 1z40ks68h84 author: Jennifer Thorup Birkett title: Early Modern Drama and Terms of Endearment date: 2023 words: 209 flesch: 21 summary: In this dissertation I look to terms of endearment shared by couples in plays by William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, and Margaret Cavendish to explore the performative function of pet names and its relationship with early modern notions of marriage, desire, and gender hierarchy. In this sense, this dissertation rescues terms of endearment from obscurity, revealing them as consequential not only for the negotiation of power hierarchies and the establishment of mutuality, but for modern theatrical and editorial practice. keywords: dissertation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/1z40ks68h84.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/1z40ks68h84.txt item: #353 of 4945 id: 2227mp50k7h author: Bradley Rettler title: Grounding Truthmaking date: 2014 words: 349 flesch: 61 summary: Generally, truthmaker theorists have accepted truthmaker necessitarianism, which has led them to reify states of affairs, facts, or tropes. The received view was that the language of the ontology room is English: words mean the same thing when doing ontology as they do at the fireworks show. keywords: ontology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp50k7h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp50k7h.txt item: #354 of 4945 id: 2227mp50m23 author: Andrew Koldewey Henrick title: Shock-Fitted Numerical Solutions of One- and Two-Dimensional Detonation date: 2011 words: 168 flesch: 35 summary: The one-dimensional Zel'dovich-von Neumann-Doering pulsating detonation problem is solved at a high order of accuracy, and the results compare favorably with those of linear stability theory. Two-dimensional detonation solutions are found and agree well with results from linear stability theory. keywords: detonation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp50m23.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp50m23.txt item: #355 of 4945 id: 2227mp50m4s author: Xiaowei Jin title: LDPC codes on fading channels: receiver design, performance analysis and code design date: 2008 words: 262 flesch: 44 summary: This thesis considered the design of receivers for systems employing LDPC codes for fading channels. LDPC codes are applied on each sub-channel. keywords: receiver cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp50m4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp50m4s.txt item: #356 of 4945 id: 2227mp50m7t author: Chrystyna D. Kouros title: Children's Responses to Everyday Marital Conflict: The Influence of Marital Aggression date: 2008 words: 151 flesch: 23 summary: Results suggested couples with a history of marital aggression use less constructive, more destructive conflict tactics, and display less positive and more negative emotions during everyday marital disagreements. This study examined parents' past marital aggression as a moderator of children's immediate responses to everyday marital conflict. keywords: marital cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp50m7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp50m7t.txt item: #357 of 4945 id: 2227mp50n0q author: Shaddy Abado title: An Approach to Spatial and Temporal Frequencies for Aero-Optics Correction date: 2012 words: 373 flesch: 29 summary: The research described in this dissertation explores new analysis techniques for analyzing and manipulating in-flight measured wavefronts that begin with determining the convective speed and direction of the aberration as functions of aperture location, azimuth and elevation, and flight conditions. Until recently, the only available experimental wavefront measurements of aero-optical disturbances around airborne turrets have come from wind-tunnel experiments and numerical simulations. keywords: aberrations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp50n0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp50n0q.txt item: #358 of 4945 id: 2227mp50n3r author: Jonathan Davis-Secord title: Theodcwidas: Compound Words, Language, and Social Context in Early English Literature date: 2007 words: 216 flesch: 36 summary: This dissertation explores the ways that Old and early Middle English texts use compound words within their linguistic and social contexts, combining a detailed study of linguistic and rhetorical phenomena with an informed approach to culture and language based on Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic theories of language. These texts are chosen in order to explore the characteristics of compound words in texts of different time periods as well as in different discourses. keywords: texts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp50n3r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp50n3r.txt item: #359 of 4945 id: 2227mp50p4d author: Katy Cousino title: THE GIRDLES: An Autobiology date: 1904 words: 14 flesch: 65 summary: THE GIRDLES is a satirical B-horror verse-play about American fatphobia and sizeism. keywords: sizeism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp50p4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp50p4d.txt item: #360 of 4945 id: 2227mp50p5r author: Lesley Grace Sullivan title: Textual Polyphony in Mozart's Don Giovanni date: 1904 words: 196 flesch: 43 summary: This linear reading informs the widely shared interpretation that over the whole opera, from overture to finale, looms the sinner's refusal to repent and inevitable condemnation to eternal punishment. The resulting interpretation descends from a literary tradition originating in counter-Reformation texts, starting with de Molina's El Burlador and continuing with such acclaimed comedies as the commedia-dell'arte L'ateista fulminato, to Goldoni's and Moliere's Dons. keywords: don cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp50p5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp50p5r.txt item: #361 of 4945 id: 2227mp50s8q author: Emily Marie Meixner title: The Sixth Organ Symphony of Louis Vierne (1870-1937): An Analysis date: 1904 words: 174 flesch: 45 summary: Detailed analysis of the work will reveal this style to consist of a synthesis of aspects of impressionism, dodecaphony, traditional elements such as sonata form, and nineteenth century methods such as cyclic treatment and thematic transformation. keywords: vierne cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp50s8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp50s8q.txt item: #362 of 4945 id: 2227mp5183m author: Michael R. Brandes title: Service and Ultimate Load Behavior of Precast-Prestressed Concrete Structures Using Recycled Concrete Aggregates date: 1904 words: 154 flesch: 37 summary: Since most precast concrete applications use prestressing, this research specifically investigates the effects of RCA on: (1) rate of concrete strength and stiffness gain; (2) strand bond strength; (3) prestress losses; and (4) service load and ultimate load behavior of precast-prestressed concrete beams. The effects of this variability can be better controlled in precast concrete applications. keywords: concrete cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp5183m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp5183m.txt item: #363 of 4945 id: 2227mp51c26 author: Jony Gregory title: The Role of Comprehensible Input in Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language: Applications for Instructing Bengali English Language Learners date: 2018 words: 156 flesch: 39 summary: In order to fulfill this language demand, native as well as non-native English speaking countries are constantly innovating techniques and strategies to enhance their English language instruction which will better help English language learners (ELLs) learn the language and thus, propel them into a global market. While focusing on the CI as one key piece in foreign and second language development, this paper will explore and explain the common techniques and strategies of creating CI as well as try to find new ways of creating CI in teaching English, especially outside the classroom. keywords: language cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp51c26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp51c26.txt item: #364 of 4945 id: 2227mp51g4t author: Christopher L. Ebsch title: Excitatory-Inhibitory Balance, Imbalance, and Amplification in Cortical Network Models date: 2019 words: 170 flesch: 18 summary: Dense recurrent connectivity in local cortical circuits can lead to counterintuitive response properties, raising the question of whether there are simple arithmetical rules for relating circuits' connectivity structure to their response properties. This amplification, which can be quantified by a linear correction to the classical mean field theory of balanced networks, explains several response properties observed in cortical recordings and provides fundamental insights into the relationship between connectivity structure and neural responses in cortical circuits. keywords: cortical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp51g4t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp51g4t.txt item: #365 of 4945 id: 2227mp51h3s author: Kyuhyun Byun title: A Comprehensive Framework for Projecting Regional Climate Change Impacts and Analyzing Non-Stationary Statistics of Hydrologic Extremes over the Midwest and Great Lakes Region date: 2019 words: 379 flesch: 20 summary: The overarching objective of this dissertation is to develop a comprehensive framework for analyzing regional-scale climate change impacts and quantifying non-stationary risk of hydrologic extremes over the Midwest and Great Lakes region under a changing environment. For example, the RCMs can successfully account for complex decoupling effects between summer averages and summer extremes (longer droughts, but more intense P from individual storms) over the Midwest and Great Lakes region. keywords: hydrologic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp51h3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp51h3s.txt item: #366 of 4945 id: 2227mp51p1n author: Melody Wauke title: Siblings in Sophocles' Antigone date: 2020 words: 171 flesch: 60 summary: In the first chapter, I provide a philological analysis of the words different characters use to discuss siblings in the tragedy. Here, I identify how Antigone and Ismene emphasize their status as overly-connected siblings by means of the sibling vocabulary they use. keywords: antigone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp51p1n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp51p1n.txt item: #367 of 4945 id: 2227mp51r18 author: Shawn Gu title: Novel Computational Approaches for Multi-network Analysis to Improve Protein Function Prediction date: 2022 words: 361 flesch: 40 summary: Such structures have been modeled using protein structure networks (PSNs), where nodes are amino acids and edges join those that are close in the 3D crystal structure, to great success. A protein-protein interaction (PPI) network (PPIN), in which nodes are proteins and edges are PPIs, is a popular type of biological network. keywords: networks cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp51r18.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp51r18.txt item: #368 of 4945 id: 2227mp51r3z author: Agust Olafsson title: Electron Beam Characterization of Infrared Plasmons date: 2022 words: 526 flesch: 22 summary: In particular, our work centers on resolving the detailed interactions between infrared active nanostructures and their surrounding resonant environments with the ultimate goal of directing and concentrating infrared energy. We interrogate these interactions with nanometer-scale precision using scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) coupled with electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS). keywords: infrared cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2227mp51r3z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2227mp51r3z.txt item: #369 of 4945 id: 2514nk33v98 author: Jason Robert Tomko title: Fluid-Loaded Vibration of Thin Structures Due to Turbulent Excitation date: 2014 words: 301 flesch: 47 summary: Internal acoustic wall pressure fields due to a ducted rotor were measured, and it was shown that the acoustic effects of the rotor can be approximated by replacing the rotor with a continuous ring of dipoles located at the blade tip. It was shown through a discretized string model that these results can be attributed to the increased damping induced by fluid loading. keywords: fluid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33v98.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33v98.txt item: #370 of 4945 id: 2514nk33w0g author: Matthew Aaron Meixner title: Supernovae Simulations and the Equation of State date: 2013 words: 201 flesch: 34 summary: Among them are: a reformulation in the context of density functional theory; the possibility of the formation of material with a net proton excess (Ye > 0.5); an improved treatment of the nuclear statistical equilibrium and the transition to heavy nuclei as the density approaches nuclear matter density; an improved treatment of the effects of pions in the regime above nuclear matter density; the effects of 3-body nuclear forces at high densities; and a first order or crossover transition to a QCD chiral symmetry restoration and deconfinement phase at densities above nuclear matter density. This EoS is based upon a framework originally developed by Bowers & Wilson, but there are numerous changes. keywords: nuclear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33w0g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33w0g.txt item: #371 of 4945 id: 2514nk33w25 author: Shyamkumar Thoziyoor title: Pim Lite: Vlsi Prototype of a Multithreaded Processor-In-Memory Chip date: 2004 words: 124 flesch: 67 summary: We give details about the RTL VHDL model, the floorplanning of the chip, design of its clock and power distribution networks and the deep-submicron DRC that was employed like antenna rule checking and minimum density rule checking. We describe the VLSI implementation of PIM Lite, a prototype of the first multithreaded PIM chip. keywords: chip cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33w25.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33w25.txt item: #372 of 4945 id: 2514nk33w4v author: Shawn Thomas O'Neil title: Non-Model Transcriptomics: Applications, Assessments, and Algorithms date: 2012 words: 346 flesch: 42 summary: To this end, we develop algorithms to seperately assemble diverse sequences (haplotypes) accurately in the face of both sequencing error and data ambiguity. Because sequences were sampled from wild-caught populations, we developed novel methods to ensure high quality results in this setting. keywords: sequencing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33w4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33w4v.txt item: #373 of 4945 id: 2514nk33w6j author: Matthew W. Bates title: Paul and the Hermeneutics of the Apostolic Kerygma: Reassessing Paul's Scriptural Interpretation in Light of His Hermeneutical Statements and His Prosopological Exegesis date: 2010 words: 361 flesch: 27 summary: Paul's interpretative statements are examined and two apostolic, kerygmatic pre-Pauline protocreeds are found to be especially vital: 1 Corinthians 15:3-5 and Romans 1:3-4. Other proposed hermeneutical centers --called typology (Romans 5:14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-11) and allegory (Galatians 4:21-31)--are determined not to be foundational generative techniques for Paul, but rather post hoc rhetorical tropes describing mimesis between text and world via the apostolic kerygma. keywords: paul cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33w6j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33w6j.txt item: #374 of 4945 id: 2514nk33w7w author: Gifford Andrew Grobien title: 'Be Transformed by the Renewing of Your Minds': Christian Worship as the Root of Righteousness and Ethical Formation date: 2011 words: 354 flesch: 34 summary: Considering Louis-Marie Chauvet's symbolic order and Bernd Wannenwetsch's understanding of worship as Christianity's unique form of life, this dissertation argues that worship practices are the foundational and determinative context in which grace is offered and in which the distinctively Christian ethos develops virtues consistent with Christian character. Yet Biermann's model does not adequately treat the conceptual roots of the question: that Christian righteousness is both imputed and imparted, and that a Christian receives and works with righteousness through Christian worship. keywords: righteousness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33w7w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33w7w.txt item: #375 of 4945 id: 2514nk33w9k author: Karen P. Hollingsworth title: Increased Use of Available Image Data Decreases Errors in Iris Biometrics date: 2010 words: 253 flesch: 44 summary: Our experiments suggest that human examination of pairs of iris images for forensic purposes may be feasible. However, governments interested in using iris biometrics have still found difficulties using it on large populations. keywords: iris cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33w9k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33w9k.txt item: #376 of 4945 id: 2514nk33x0s author: Alexis Nicole Thompson title: Event Boundaries and Memory date: 2013 words: 168 flesch: 52 summary: The results of this work show there is improved memory overall for the narrative as a whole, which has implications for theories of event cognition, as well as for theories of memory more generally. According to theories of event cognition, people parse information into event models, and this parsing can have meaningful influences on cognition. keywords: event cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33x0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33x0s.txt item: #377 of 4945 id: 2514nk33x2g author: Lee Allen Mayo title: Simulation without Replication: How Some Digital Computer Simulations Serve as Scientific Experiments date: 2011 words: 286 flesch: 22 summary: One common argument that has emerged in the literature is that computer simulations cannot count as experiments because (1) empirical theory testing cannot be performed with a computer simulation since it must assume the very theory that is supposedly being tested and (2) empirical theory testing is the only form of theory guided experimentation. Philosophers and historians of science have only recently begun to think about issues involving the use of computer simulations in scientific practice. keywords: computer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33x2g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33x2g.txt item: #378 of 4945 id: 2514nk33x3t author: Wei Zhang title: Data Mining for Biological Data Learning: Algorithm and Application date: 2013 words: 325 flesch: 35 summary: Then, we demonstrate a machine learning framework for trait based microbial ecology using whole genome sequence data. Data mining, which is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing them into useful information and patterns, is of immense importance in bioinformatics and biomedical science more generally. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33x3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33x3t.txt item: #379 of 4945 id: 2514nk33x5h author: Justin Farrell title: The Young and the Restless? The Liberalization of Young Evangelicals date: 2011 words: 124 flesch: 18 summary: This study examines popular and scholarly perceptions that young American evangelicals are becoming more liberal than older evangelicals. Examining a range of hot-button issues relating to sexuality and family, I find that young evangelicals are significantly more likely to have more liberal attitudes on same-sex marriage, pre-marital sex, cohabitating, pornography, and to a lesser extent, abortion. keywords: evangelicals cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33x5h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33x5h.txt item: #380 of 4945 id: 2514nk33x6v author: Paul C. Avey title: Tempting Fate: Interests, Escalation, and Conflict in Nuclear Primacy date: 2013 words: 319 flesch: 52 summary: However, conflict in these asymmetric nuclear balances, what I call nuclear primacy, occurs very frequently. I argue that such conflict occurs because nuclear primacy creates the opportunity for the inferior side to use limited force to redress political grievances. keywords: nuclear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33x6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33x6v.txt item: #381 of 4945 id: 2514nk33x76 author: Soul Park title: Deciding on Defeat: The Strategic Approach to War Termination date: 1904 words: 275 flesch: 44 summary: Ultimately and contrary to the established literature on war termination, the factors that impact the probability of continued resistance during wars serve as the major determinant in understanding war termination. Despite the wide variation in how wars end and the significance that variation holds to the making of post-war peace, International Relations (IR) scholars have generally neglected this key wartime behavior of states. keywords: war cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33x76.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33x76.txt item: #382 of 4945 id: 2514nk33z03 author: Rachael A. Purta title: Longitudinal Audio Data Collection and Emotional Analysis in the SCALE System Framework date: 1904 words: 182 flesch: 44 summary: The system involves both a mobile client for the smartphone and a back-end server and analysis process meant for analyzing and storing the audio features essential to emotion recognition. In the past decade, the number of people owning smartphones has increased rapidly, and the computational power and number of sensors available on these smartphones has increased as well. keywords: emotion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk33z03.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk33z03.txt item: #383 of 4945 id: 2514nk3400p author: Nathan Sawatzky title: Building Cities, Turning Souls: Necessity in the "City in Speech" of Plato's Republic date: 1904 words: 137 flesch: 29 summary: By distinguishing the elements of a true, healthy city discovered by a philosopher from those demanded by ambitious, courageous young men, I argue that Socrates's vision of just city requires institutions that respect, coordinate, and otherwise respond helpfully to individuals' needs and aptitudes, including those of women, and that Plato's Republic is primarily a response to the problem of courageous manliness in politics and private life. In this dissertation, I argue that paying close attention to whom Plato portrays speaking in the dialogue allows us to distinguish, as Socrates and his interlocutors construct the famous city in speech, the elements of the city Socrates endorses from those, all demanded by Glaucon and Adeimantus, that Socrates does not endorse. keywords: city cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk3400p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk3400p.txt item: #384 of 4945 id: 2514nk34r57 author: Georges Massinelli title: For Your Sake He Became Poor: Ideology and Practice of Gift Exchange between Early Christian Groups date: 2019 words: 334 flesch: 37 summary: This examination demonstrates that intergroup support was a widespread phenomenon in early Christianity, involving churches from most of the Mediterranean Basin and known even outside of Christian circles. Exchange of financial support between geographically distant groups was a characteristic practice in early Christianity. keywords: collection cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk34r57.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk34r57.txt item: #385 of 4945 id: 2514nk34r7x author: Cristobal Alessandri title: Ferroelectric Memory and Architecture for Deep Neural Network Training in Resistive Crossbar Arrays date: 2019 words: 325 flesch: 27 summary: In this thesis, this limitation is addressed in two ways:First, ferroelectrics are studied for multilevel memory devices in resistive crossbar arrays. For this reason, it has been proposed to use resistive crossbar arrays to minimize data movement and perform matrix-vector multiplications in the analog domain. keywords: resistive cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk34r7x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk34r7x.txt item: #386 of 4945 id: 2514nk34x5s author: Jillian P. Plummer title: Saving Latin America: Catholic Sisters, the Cold War, and Liberation Theology, 1946-1985 date: 2019 words: 238 flesch: 17 summary: While current scholarship on liberation theology emphasizes the importance of male authors and priests, my dissertation shows how women participated in the liberation theology movement and also implemented its theological praxis across the United States, even though their formal roles in the group remained restricted because of their status as women. I argue that Catholic sisters' encounter with the Peruvian critiques of development—especially those distilled in liberation theology—provided missionary sisters with the language to criticize their own charitable aid efforts in Peru. keywords: theology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk34x5s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk34x5s.txt item: #387 of 4945 id: 2514nk34z4r author: Joseph M. Chambers title: Increasing Our Understanding of Kidney Development and Disease: The Role of Ppargc1a in Segmentation and Ciliopathies date: 2020 words: 449 flesch: 32 summary: Because of this, we investigated the relationship further and found a drastic decrease in ppargc1a expression in hnf1ba mutants and ppargc1a overexpression is able to partially rescue the number MCCs in the zebrafish pronephros. Further, loss of ppargc1a results in phenotypes associated with ciliopathies including polycystic kidney disease (PKD). keywords: ppargc1a cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk34z4r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk34z4r.txt item: #388 of 4945 id: 2514nk3502n author: Audrey Seah title: Signs of Hope: Narratives, Eschatology, and Liturgical Inculturation in Deaf Catholic Worship date: 2021 words: 358 flesch: 28 summary: To this end, a study of American Deaf Catholic churches, whose congregations and liturgical practices exhibit postmodern traits which naturally critique the dominant method and theology of liturgical inculturation, is used as an empirical case study. Co-creation accents the relational aspect of inculturation, consequently requiring the consideration of social dynamics such as power inequities between and within cultural groups; eschatological signs of hope brings attention to the ethical dimensions of liturgical inculturation. keywords: inculturation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk3502n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk3502n.txt item: #389 of 4945 id: 2514nk35139 author: Katelyn Vendrely Brenneman title: Exploring the Genetic Basis of Fitness in Drug Resistant Malaria Parasites date: 2022 words: 353 flesch: 40 summary: The fitness cost of resistance mutations and the compensatory mutations that accompany resistance mutations play a role in determining whether resistance will spread in a population. Knowledge of the molecular basis of the cost of resistance is important for understanding how resistance mutations arise and stabilize in populations. keywords: resistance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk35139.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk35139.txt item: #390 of 4945 id: 2514nk3517p author: Bridget Ritz title: Peircean Pragmatism, Critical Realism, and Cultural Sociology date: 2022 words: 210 flesch: 13 summary: This dissertation brings into dialogue two traditions that have developed largely independently of each other, namely, pragmatism and critical realism, and brings insights from this dialogue to bear on questions of action and cultural change central to sociological theory. The third chapter, Revisiting the Peircean Foundations for Theorizing Action and Personal Cultural Change, thematizes the concept of potentiality, integral to Peirce's realism and critical realism alike, as central to Peirce's theories of action and inquiry, while reading the latter as together implying a theory of personal cultural change. keywords: realism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk3517p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk3517p.txt item: #391 of 4945 id: 2514nk3530w author: Kristyn Garza title: Venas de Oro date: 2023 words: 321 flesch: 50 summary: Through this, memory and, therefore, connections exist always and are to be kept sacred within the body, the self understood as origin. Compiled along with official documents lie: arias of two of many personas in the work, a recipe, haunted handwriting. keywords: self cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2514nk3530w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2514nk3530w.txt item: #392 of 4945 id: 2801pg1749m author: Jamie Lee Serrano title: Adult Alcohol Use Problems: Types of Childhood Maltreatment as Risk Factors, and the Mediating Effect of Age of Initial Alcohol Use date: 2015 words: 165 flesch: 29 summary: This study examined the contributions of different types of childhood maltreatment on adult alcohol use problems; examined the indirect effects of age of initial alcohol use and depressive symptoms on the relation between childhood maltreatment and alcohol use problems; and examined sex differences in these relations. Excessive alcohol consumption is among the leading causes of death in the U.S. Childhood maltreatment, early initiation of alcohol use, and depressive symptoms are all associated with problematic alcohol use in adulthood. keywords: alcohol cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2801pg1749m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2801pg1749m.txt item: #393 of 4945 id: 2801pg1752h author: Clifton T Harris title: Photoinduced Electron Transfer Processes Of Semiconductor Quantum Dots In Confined Media date: 2011 words: 362 flesch: 49 summary: Ultrafast events such as electron-hole recombination, as well as electron and hole transfer were monitored by femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. Reverse micelles were employed both as templates for particle growth and as nano-sized reaction chambers in order to produce monodisperse, transparent colloidal solutions of CdSe without the use of surface capping agents. keywords: mv⁺· cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2801pg1752h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2801pg1752h.txt item: #394 of 4945 id: 2801pg17546 author: Walter William Whitehouse title: The Musical Prelude to Vatican II: Plainchant, Participation, and Pius X date: 2011 words: 286 flesch: 25 summary: The liturgical reforms of Vatican II have issued in two signal developments in modern American Catholic worship: the rise of more fully active participation by the lay faithful, and the virtual disappearance of the historic body of western church music, Gregorian chant. In our day of liturgical retrenchment, this research adds a cautionary note to romanticized notions of pre-Vatican II music; it shores up the commitment to fully active liturgical participation both by historical precedent and the long theological grounding of the twentieth century; and it offers a (non-political) groundwork for re-appropriating the inestimable treasure of the Gregorian inheritance. keywords: music cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2801pg17546.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2801pg17546.txt item: #395 of 4945 id: 2801pg1756w author: Sejin Park title: The Festival of Weeks and Sinai date: 2007 words: 318 flesch: 55 summary: However, by the rabbinic period, the rabbis commonly associate the Festival of Weeks with the giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai. There are already indications that the Festival of Weeks was associated with covenant renewal (2 Chr 15:10), but this association is at best muted. keywords: weeks cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2801pg1756w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2801pg1756w.txt item: #396 of 4945 id: 2801pg1759x author: Daniel Matthew Custance Lawson title: The Effect of Wage Discrimination on Privileged Groups date: 2006 words: 343 flesch: 47 summary: These results, taken together, suggest that while a model of manager taste discrimination may explain some of wage discrimination based on sex, race wage discrimination needs another explanation, perhaps statistical discrimination. Wage discrimination reduces the wages of groups subject to discrimination. keywords: discrimination cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2801pg1759x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2801pg1759x.txt item: #397 of 4945 id: 2801pg1762t author: Ashley Kate Baldridge title: Invasive Rusty Crayfish (Orconectes rusticus): Community Impacts and Potential for Recovery date: 2013 words: 406 flesch: 32 summary: I studied aspects of intraguild predation between O. rusticus and smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) that were previously unknown using a combination of field surveys, video surveillance, diet reconstructions, and a controlled feeding experiment. I found that higher densities of O. rusticus increased rates of bass nest abandonment, but that consumption of crayfish by bass may overall lower abandonment. keywords: rusticus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2801pg1762t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2801pg1762t.txt item: #398 of 4945 id: 2801pg1765v author: Heng Yang title: Design and Fabrication of a Tunable Fabry-Perot Interferometer/Photodiode Microspectral Image Sensor date: 2007 words: 261 flesch: 49 summary: The result showed that for an FPI with 2.94 µ m original effective cavity length, 10 V of applied bias voltage can tune the FPI over a 0.4 µ m change in effective cavity length. The design and fabrication of a tunable Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) åÁV photodiode (PD) spectral image sensor using a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatible process on silicon is reported in the present work. keywords: fpi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2801pg1765v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2801pg1765v.txt item: #399 of 4945 id: 2801pg1768w author: Bryan Ostdiek title: Searching for Electroweakino Dark Matter at a Hadron Collider date: 1904 words: 439 flesch: 60 summary: The first strategy is based on final states with missing transverse energy, a photon, and a dilepton pair, $\slashed{E}_T + \gamma + \ell^+\ell^-$. This search method performs best when the mass splitting between the heavier neutralinos and the lightest neutralino is less than the $Z$ mass, which is when traditional search strategies break down. This so-called well tempering evades traditional collider searches because the compressed spectrum leaves soft decay products. keywords: abundance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2801pg1768w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2801pg1768w.txt item: #400 of 4945 id: 2801pg17c0p author: Noah Rankins title: Diplomacy, Proselytization, and Criticism in the Western Encounter: Japanese Religious Groups in the World's Parliament of Religions date: 1904 words: 152 flesch: 15 summary: Using speeches presented by Japanese delegates to the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions, this paper investigates how non-Western religious organizations were capable of responding to the Western encounter. However, for those who had attained a means of legitimacy, the possibility arose for them to engage in criticism of Western Christianity in both its institutional and state manifestations. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2801pg17c0p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2801pg17c0p.txt item: #401 of 4945 id: 2801pg17w0b author: Giselle N. Jacobson title: Effects of Translation Rate Changes on Protein Production, Folding and Fragmentation date: 1904 words: 343 flesch: 46 summary: Translation rate can be slower than the formation of stable secondary and tertiary structure, meaning that altering translation rate could potentially influence the folding pathway and even the final, folded structure of a protein. A method to isolate ribosome-nascent chain complexes from released GFP was presented and the association of nascent GFP with the ribosome in the complexes was verified. keywords: nascent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2801pg17w0b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2801pg17w0b.txt item: #402 of 4945 id: 2801pg17x41 author: Theresa C Aragon title: Type III Grouted Ductile Reinforcing Bar Connections for Precast Concrete Structures date: 2018 words: 366 flesch: 37 summary: This dissertation presents experimental and analytical investigations of a high-performance (Type III) grouted connection for ductile energy-dissipating (ED) deformed steel reinforcing bars across gap-opening joints in seismic precast concrete structures. Although tapered sleeves produced desirable results, straight sleeves with adequate corrugations also allowed large cyclic ED bar stresses and strains to be reached. keywords: bar cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2801pg17x41.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2801pg17x41.txt item: #403 of 4945 id: 2801pg18832 author: Sam Thomas title: Hindu Nationalism and Indian Christianity: Perceptions, Approaches and Prescriptions date: 2021 words: 364 flesch: 36 summary: Part B, chapters five to eight, examines their views on Christianity in general, and the history and present activities of Indian Christianity in particular. This dissertation seeks to understand Hindu nationalist perceptions regarding Indian Christianity, their approaches towards the same, and the prescriptions made to contain Christianity in India. keywords: christianity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2801pg18832.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2801pg18832.txt item: #404 of 4945 id: 2801pg18b41 author: Tiernan B. Kane title: Reevaluating Legal Liberty of Conscience date: 2022 words: 167 flesch: 17 summary: In all, this project seeks to show unsoundness in categorical objections to protections for religion and conscience, suggesting that debate on such protections is best undertaken on a case-by-case basis, weighing empirical effects of such protections against the presumptive reasonableness of promoting these basic human goods. Second, it argues that special legal protections for religion, including when they exceed special legal protections for conscience, are defensible as promoting an intrinsic aspect of human flourishing that is cognizable to human reason and human government. keywords: protections cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2801pg18b41.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2801pg18b41.txt item: #405 of 4945 id: 2b88qc00f1z author: Sean Borman title: Topics in Multiframe Superresolution Restoration date: 2004 words: 309 flesch: 15 summary: These methods extend classical single frame image restoration methods by simultaneously utilizing information from multiple observed images to achieve restoration at resolutions higher than that of the original data. Multiframe superresolution restoration methods register the observed images to a common reference frame in order to formulate multiple observed data constraints for a given region of the restoration. keywords: restoration cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc00f1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc00f1z.txt item: #406 of 4945 id: 2b88qc00f29 author: Christine M. Wallace title: Solution and Aggregation Behavior of the U60 Nanocluster and Post-Detonation Nuclear Forensic Analysis of Trinitite date: 2013 words: 263 flesch: 30 summary: Post-detonation nuclear forensic analysis was conducted on several trinitite samples, utilizing analytical techniques such as optical microscopy, alpha track and beta radiography, gamma spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS), and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). The results emphasize the importance of utilizing a combination of radiometric techniques and high spatial resolution mass spectrometry when characterizing post-detonation nuclear material. keywords: solution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc00f29.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc00f29.txt item: #407 of 4945 id: 2b88qc00f40 author: Jessica Ziembroski title: Socioeconomic Status, Race-Ethnicity, and the Health of Retirement-Age Women: The Paradox of Social Relationships date: 2004 words: 211 flesch: 30 summary: I investigate whether lower levels of income and minority status moderates the influence of social capital (measured as social networks, integration, and support) on depression, mobility limitations, and number of health conditions on a sample of American women age 55-65 in the Health and Retirement Study. Often, women who experience socioeconomic disadvantage are particularly deeply immersed within their social networks, and minority women have been shown to be most involved in social networks. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc00f40.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc00f40.txt item: #408 of 4945 id: 2b88qc00f6p author: Becky Akiko Miller title: Detection and biological assessment of genome structural variation in Plasmodium falciparum date: 2012 words: 535 flesch: 34 summary: Using comparative genomic hybridization (CGH), copy number fluctuation of parasite isolates adapted to in vitro culture was assessed and show little copy number fluctuation during the course of adaptation. A novel microarray (the CNV-SNP Array) with an optimized probe design for copy number variation and SNP genotyping in the P. falciparum genome is presented that demonstrates variable length and isothermal probes are superior to static length probes. keywords: parasite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc00f6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc00f6p.txt item: #409 of 4945 id: 2b88qc00f9q author: Nathan Gerth title: A Model Town: Tver', the Classical Imperial Order, and the Rise of Civic Society in the Russian Provinces, 1763-1861 date: 2014 words: 364 flesch: 45 summary: My work, however, shows that this development did not necessarily constitute a successful conclusion to the state-building project, as the civic culture in Tver' often depended on political mechanisms that appropriated or circumvented central government institutions. By the 1860s the tensions created by these extra-institutional networks pushed state authorities to create a new political system as part of the Great Reforms. keywords: state cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc00f9q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc00f9q.txt item: #410 of 4945 id: 2b88qc00g2m author: Richard Charles Kurker, Jr. title: Beyond O2: Biochemistry of Chlorite Dismutases from Klebsiella and Staphylococcus date: 2015 words: 507 flesch: 31 summary: In order to explore Cld diversity, Cld homolog proteins from the Gram-positive Firmicutes Staphylococcus aureus (Sa) and the Gram-negative Proteobacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp), two very different types of bacteria, were functionally characterized. Bioinformatic, biochemical, and genetic studies showed that SaCld, or SaHemQ, lacks Cld activity, instead playing a critical role in the heme biosynthesis pathway, particularly in the final few steps. keywords: cld cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc00g2m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc00g2m.txt item: #411 of 4945 id: 2b88qc00g49 author: Hilary Elizabeth Fox title: Mind, Body, Soul, and Self in the Alfredian Translations date: 2011 words: 355 flesch: 33 summary: This language articulates relationships between mind, soul, and body that have ramifications for our own understanding of the constitution of different forms of identity and a developing notion of a self; the language and metaphors employed by the translators allow us access to the various methods by which the Anglo-Saxons conceptualized a complex set of interactions that were not always described or thought of in specific, unchangeable ways. In Chapter Four, I explore how two terms, ingeÌ¡anc and inneweard mod, associate the mind with interior space, and how the metaphor MIND AS HOUSE articulates the construction of that interiority. keywords: self cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc00g49.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc00g49.txt item: #412 of 4945 id: 2b88qc00g5n author: Stefanie Celeste Wellons title: The Variable Effects of Perceived Discrimination: A Longitudinal Analysis of Latino Heterogeneity in American Identity date: 2013 words: 184 flesch: 20 summary: However, little is known about the variable relationship between perceived discrimination and American identity as youth transition from early to late adolescence and into adulthood. To fill this void, this analysis employs data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) to examine the extent to which unequal perceptions of discrimination explain Latino variation in American identity as well as the changing effects of perceived discrimination over the life course. keywords: american cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc00g5n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc00g5n.txt item: #413 of 4945 id: 2b88qc00g7b author: Belkys Torres title: Serial Storytelling, Female Audiences and Telenovelas: Television's Influence on Contemporary Latina/o Fiction date: 2013 words: 337 flesch: 29 summary: The motivation behind this investigation lies primarily in the tensions between the increasing presence of telenovelas in contemporary U.S. Latina/o literature and the adamant criticism of scholars directed at fiction writers who incorporate serialized narrative content and other melodramatic forms in their works. So, why are U.S. Latina/o writers critiqued for incorporating this distinctly Hispanic cultural referent in their narratives? keywords: latina cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc00g7b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc00g7b.txt item: #414 of 4945 id: 2b88qc00g8p author: Andrew Peter Michel title: Population Genetic Structure of the Malaria Vector Anopheles Funestus date: 2006 words: 311 flesch: 23 summary: Differentiation was also found across the country; populations did not follow an isolation by distance model, but grouped populations by chromosomal form regardless of distance. This dissertation analyzes the population genetics of A. funestus at three geographical scales, as well as estimating an important parameter for population genetic studiesÌ¢åÛåÓthe effective population size. keywords: population cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc00g8p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc00g8p.txt item: #415 of 4945 id: 2b88qc00j27 author: Fazle Elahi Faisal title: New Network Analysis Approaches and Their Computational Biology Applications, with Focus on Dynamic Network Analysis and Network Comparison date: 1904 words: 357 flesch: 26 summary: 3) Since current biological network data are noisy, we computationally de-noise the data to improve the prediction quality. 2) While current biological network research has been static, to better understand dynamic cellular functioning, we use the integrative framework to infer dynamic biological networks. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc00j27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc00j27.txt item: #416 of 4945 id: 2b88qc0136v author: Nevin Climenhaga title: Knowledge and Certainty date: 1904 words: 214 flesch: 49 summary: This is because infallibilism entails or makes plausible various intuitive claims about knowledge, such as that knowledge is evidence and that knowledge can be extended by deduction, whereas fallibilism is either inconsistent with these claims or has a much harder time explaining why they are true. I argue that infallibilists need not be skeptical of all claims to knowledge – some propositions really are certain for us – and they can give plausible error theories for why we often take ourselves to know propositions that are not really certain for us. keywords: knowledge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc0136v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc0136v.txt item: #417 of 4945 id: 2b88qc01643 author: Nishanth Sasankan title: Constraints on the Early Universe and Dark Energy from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis date: 2018 words: 189 flesch: 63 summary: In the second part of my thesis I constrain the free parameters of many dark energy models by modeling the evolution of dark energy density from a time before BBN till present time. The allowed values of dark energy density today and during BBN can be used to constrain dark energy models. keywords: dark cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc01643.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc01643.txt item: #418 of 4945 id: 2b88qc01b61 author: Eric A. Lewis title: Antagonistic Reading: Metalepsis and the Intrusive Reader date: 2019 words: 290 flesch: 28 summary: In Antagonistic Reading: Metalepsis and the Intrusive Reader, I argue that such antagonistic relationships between readers and characters typify the novel-reading experience. Each novel compares its readers to antagonistic observers present in the novel's fictional world, from imperial intelligence agents in Dublin Castle in Ulysses to unwanted voyeurs in Good Morning, Midnight to torturer-interrogators in The Unnamable. keywords: novel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc01b61.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc01b61.txt item: #419 of 4945 id: 2b88qc01j0t author: Raquel Montañez-González title: Molecular Karyotyping of Chromosomal Inversions in the Malaria Vector Anopheles gambiae date: 2020 words: 378 flesch: 42 summary: These complexes are characterized by the presence of inversion polymorphisms, a phenomenon where a chromosomal segment breaks and reattaches in reverse orientation. Inversion polymorphisms can suppress recombination between alternative arrangements in heterokaryotpes, making it possible to maintain groups of alleles within breakpoints. keywords: malaria cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc01j0t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc01j0t.txt item: #420 of 4945 id: 2b88qc01j46 author: Jake Coen title: Tyrannus Rex: Tyranny, History, and Carolingian Propaganda date: 2021 words: 329 flesch: 4 summary: As a result, this dissertation offers three significant contributions to discussions of medieval ideas about tyranny and Carolingian political history: firstly, that early medieval thinkers did not simply parrot earlier ideas about tyranny but rather creatively reshaped this concept for persuasive purposes in their specific sociopolitical contexts; secondly, that the manipulation of concepts and terminology like tyrannus in texts composed in support of the Carolingian dynasty constitutes an important dynastic power practice in keeping with others—capitularies, charters, shows of force, etc.—discussed more broadly by scholars of Carolingian history; and, finally, that the involvement of members and allies of the dynasty in the production and dissemination of persuasive, pro-dynastic representations of tyranny constitutes a kind of propaganda that served to advance or to reinforce the dynasty's claims to authority over a polity which they had usurped. The present dissertation aims to rewrite the history of ideas about the ancient notion of tyranny in the early medieval Frankish world. keywords: tyranny cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc01j46.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc01j46.txt item: #421 of 4945 id: 2b88qc01j8k author: Andrew Wightman title: Probing Effective Field Theory Models Using Associated Top Quark Production in Multiple Lepton Final States at 13 TeV date: 2021 words: 117 flesch: 41 summary: Limits are placed on 16 dimension-six operators by performing a simultaneous fit to the data of the corresponding Wilson Coefficients (WCs) that parameterize the effects of the EFT operators. Two standard deviation confidence intervals for the WCs are extracted; the standard model expectations for the WC values are within these intervals for all WCs probed. keywords: wcs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc01j8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc01j8k.txt item: #422 of 4945 id: 2b88qc01k66 author: Sarah Hoegler title: Evaluation of a Family-Based Conflict Intervention through the Lens of the Fathering Vulnerability Hypothesis date: 2022 words: 178 flesch: 29 summary: Prior evaluation studies have suggested that fathering and the father-child relationship may be particularly vulnerable to the effects of destructive conflict, and, as such, most amenable to interventions targeted toward reducing destructiveness and toward improving fathering and the father-child relationship. Thus, the intervention effects were unique to the father model, suggesting support for fathering vulnerability. keywords: father cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc01k66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc01k66.txt item: #423 of 4945 id: 2b88qc01k97 author: Kenneth Tyler Wilcox title: Jointly Modeling Participant-Level Data and Summary Statistics for Treatment Differences date: 2022 words: 384 flesch: 27 summary: Instead, multi-study applications have tended to exclusively use either IPD studies or AD studies. While adaptation of IDA continues to grow within psychology, MA remains the prevalent method of joint data analysis. keywords: ipd cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc01k97.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc01k97.txt item: #424 of 4945 id: 2b88qc01n2f author: Charles Sox title: The Struggle Is Real? date: 2023 words: 270 flesch: 50 summary: My chosen medium and processes deeply inform my concept of struggle and tension in everyday life. My autobiographical sculptures are an investigation into the complex and often conflicting emotions that arise from intra-personal struggle. keywords: struggle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2b88qc01n2f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2b88qc01n2f.txt item: #425 of 4945 id: 2f75r783q17 author: Mitchell Kajzer title: Memorability of Computer Security Posters as Affected by Message Type date: 2015 words: 151 flesch: 40 summary: 50 participants analyzed five themes of computer security messages in an attempt to determine which theme(s) were the most effective in encouraging end-users to make sound security decisions and adopt safe security practices. Finally, deterrent and feedback messages performed well in terms of influencing change, with feedback messages unexpectedly performing the best. keywords: messages cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2f75r783q17.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2f75r783q17.txt item: #426 of 4945 id: 2f75r783q8n author: Cosimo Carmelo Stephen Fuda title: The antibiotic resistance of penicillin-binding protein 2a of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus date: 2008 words: 350 flesch: 39 summary: Our incremental understanding of the interactions of PBP 2a with β-lactams and cell wall was used to elucidate the mechanism of action for three cephaloporins active against MRSA and VRSA. S. aureus normally produces four PBPs, which are susceptible to modification by β-lactam antibiotics, an event that leads to bacterial death. keywords: pbp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2f75r783q8n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2f75r783q8n.txt item: #427 of 4945 id: 2f75r783q90 author: Keke Lai title: Accuracy in Parameter Estimation for Targeted Effects in Structural Equation Modeling: Sample Size Planning for Narrow Confidence Intervals date: 2010 words: 169 flesch: 40 summary: With the goal to obtain sufficiently narrow confidence intervals for the model parameters of interest, sample size planning methods for SEM are developed from the accuracy in parameter estimation approach. Given a model with a good overall fit, it is entirely possible for the targeted effects of interest to have very wide confidence intervals, thus giving little information about the magnitude of the population targeted effects. keywords: confidence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2f75r783q90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2f75r783q90.txt item: #428 of 4945 id: 2f75r783r1j author: Lei Fang title: Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems with Information Flow Constraints date: 2010 words: 355 flesch: 31 summary: We examine the stability properties of the closed loop system using cascaded systems theory and nonlinear synchronization theory. The last part of the dissertation is dedicated to switched systems, which are natural mathematical models for time-varying topologies among agents and are of theoretical interest on their own. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2f75r783r1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2f75r783r1j.txt item: #429 of 4945 id: 2f75r783r4k author: Brian James Belliveau title: An Analysis of Rhodopsin Trafficking in the Secretory Pathway date: 2008 words: 462 flesch: 47 summary: Tet was determined to play a role in Rh1 maturation as the gene disruption in Tet resulted in an overall reduction in Rh1 production. In addition, the location and role of two proteins, Arf72, a small GTPase and the Drosophila tetracycline transporter known to affect Rh1 trafficking were probed. keywords: rh1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2f75r783r4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2f75r783r4k.txt item: #430 of 4945 id: 2f75r783r7m author: Lei Xiao title: Cooperative Relaying Strategies for Wireless Communication Systems date: 2009 words: 303 flesch: 34 summary: Cooperative diversity relaying is a viable strategy to gain transmit spatial diversity with single antenna transceivers. A union bound analysis is derived for the error performance of signal superposition coded cooperative diversity schemes. keywords: cooperative cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2f75r783r7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2f75r783r7m.txt item: #431 of 4945 id: 2f75r783t8k author: Wenjun Li title: Gallium Nitride Field-Effect Transistors for Low-Power Applications date: 2016 words: 384 flesch: 44 summary: By combining these features with the intrinsic material properties of GaN, such as high electron mobility and wide band gap, GaN nanowire MOSFETs appear promising for the low-power high-speed applications and sensors. To improve the process controllability and enable ultra-dense integration, vertical GaN nanowire MOSFETs may be preferred, a fabrication process flow for which is presented. keywords: gan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2f75r783t8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2f75r783t8k.txt item: #432 of 4945 id: 2f75r784v3f author: Baotong Zhu title: Constructing Innovative Engineered Enzyme Biocatalysts for Treatment of Emerging Environmental Contaminants date: 2021 words: 291 flesch: 9 summary: In order to address the aforementioned challenges, the primary focus of my Ph.D. study is to engineer yeast and bacterial microbial systems using advanced molecular biology and synthetic biology techniques to develop innovative enzyme biocatalysts for treatment of emerging environmental contaminants. However, it is not appropriate to use free enzymes in practical scenarios due to their short lifetimes, non-reusability, and laborious enzyme purification processes. keywords: environmental cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2f75r784v3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2f75r784v3f.txt item: #433 of 4945 id: 2f75r784v6g author: Obaidullah Rahman title: Low Signal Algorithms in X-ray Computed Tomography date: 2022 words: 455 flesch: 50 summary: However, simply lowering the radiation dose will introduce low signal artifacts and severely degrade the image quality and diagnostic capabilities. To reduce low signal artifacts while retaining the relevant anatomical details in CT images, low signal algorithms are heavily relied upon. keywords: signal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2f75r784v6g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2f75r784v6g.txt item: #434 of 4945 id: 2f75r784w6s author: Arman Kazemi title: Cross-Layer Design with Emerging Devices for Machine Learning Applications date: 2022 words: 301 flesch: 41 summary: Coupled with the vast amounts of data gathered on the web and the need to process large amounts of data, the von Neumann bottleneck can significantly thwart the speed and efficiency of computation. Modern-day computers heavily rely on the von Neumann architecture where the data is moved from memory to processing units for computation which is commonly referred to as the von Neumann bottleneck. keywords: neumann cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2f75r784w6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2f75r784w6s.txt item: #435 of 4945 id: 2f75r784x4d author: Jack Oster title: Greek Past, Roman Present date: 2023 words: 301 flesch: 41 summary: This thesis investigates the writings of three Greek-speaking Roman citizens, Plutarch, Cassius Dio, and the emperor Julian, to determine how they negotiate between the inheritance of Classical Hellenism and their present circumstances living in the Roman Empire. Cassius Dio, on the other hand, always calls himself a Roman and has very little interest in the culture of Ancient Greece, although he knew it well. keywords: roman cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2f75r784x4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2f75r784x4d.txt item: #436 of 4945 id: 2j62s467038 author: Belinda M. Byrne title: Signaling Mechanisms of Vitamin D3 Mediated Apoptosis in MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells date: 2008 words: 227 flesch: 43 summary: Characterization of MCF-7DR cells revealed lower expression and activity of VDR which probably underlies resistance of these cells to 1,25D. Disruption of redox balance and ROS generation is characteristic of 1,25D induced apoptosis in MCF-7 cells. The purpose of these studies was to further investigate the signaling pathways impacted by 1,25D in MCF-7 cells and a 1,25D resistant variant, MCF-7DR. keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s467038.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s467038.txt item: #437 of 4945 id: 2j62s46704m author: Matthew Bowers title: A study of 36Cl production in the early Solar System date: 2013 words: 328 flesch: 51 summary: From the experimental measurement and a study of the other reactions' contributions to 36Cl production, 36Cl could have been produced close to the protoSun by reactions on CA target using the x-wind model, or in a late-stage irradiation event on a volatile-rich reservoir by 3He and alpha reactions on S targets. Identifying the origins of SLRs can provide insight into the origins and timescales of our Solar System and the processes that shaped it. keywords: 36cl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46704m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46704m.txt item: #438 of 4945 id: 2j62s467069 author: Nathaniel Charles Crain title: Redesign and Refurbishment of a III-V Compound Semiconductor Wet Oxidation System date: 2004 words: 46 flesch: 32 summary: Improvements to the various subsystems are described in detail followed by processing techniques and concluded with a set of standard oxidations. The III-V compound semiconductoir wet oxidation system for the Nanofabrication Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame has undergone an extensive redesign and rebuild. keywords: improvements cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s467069.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s467069.txt item: #439 of 4945 id: 2j62s46707n author: Kristen Eliason title: Treatise on Drowning date: 2010 words: 19 flesch: 49 summary: An elegy written primarily in linked haiku and cultural surrealism based primarily on the author's experiences in Japan. keywords: japan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46707n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46707n.txt item: #440 of 4945 id: 2j62s467080 author: Michael David Jones title: Essays on the Economics of Education date: 2012 words: 466 flesch: 41 summary: In chapter 1, I investigate teacher performance under performance pay incentives. Performance pay also decreases participation in unpaid cooperative school activities, while there is suggestive evidence that teacher turnover decreases. keywords: teachers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s467080.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s467080.txt item: #441 of 4945 id: 2j62s46711w author: Christina Ann Progess title: Effects of Photoirradiation on the Adsorption of Dissolved Organic Matter to Goethite date: 2003 words: 162 flesch: 29 summary: The coupled decrease in UV light absorbance upon irradiation and adsorption may have dilatory environmental ramifications if water which was exposed to sunlight interacts with mineral surfaces and is then flushed into streams or lakes. Previous research has shown that intermediate and high molecular weight components of dissolved organic matter (DOM), as well as components rich in aromatic moieties, are preferentially adsorbed to mineral surfaces. keywords: dom cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46711w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46711w.txt item: #442 of 4945 id: 2j62s46713k author: Jacob Edward Montgomery title: Investigation of Müller Glial Responses to Retinal Injury in Zebrafish date: 2010 words: 385 flesch: 33 summary: Supporting conclusions drawn from regeneration in the ouabain model of inner retinal neuronal cell death, metronidazole-induced ablation of amacrine and horizontal cells suggested that photoreceptor cell death was not necessary to induce regeneration of lost retinal neurons. To identify the cellular damage cues that induce the Müller glia to divide, I developed a technique for targeted ablation of specific retinal cell classes. keywords: müller cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46713k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46713k.txt item: #443 of 4945 id: 2j62s46714x author: Marion Christina Rohrleitner title: Intimate Geographies: Romance and the Rhetoric of Female Desire in Contemporary Historical Fiction by Caribbean American Women Writers date: 2007 words: 208 flesch: 16 summary: In this dissertation I argue that by focusing on different forms of female desire contemporary Caribbean American women writers reinvent the literary genres of the romance and the historical novel and, in doing so, extend notions of what constitutes US-American literature and history. These authors challenge traditional representations of women's participation in nation building which link the female body to national territory and limit women to being suffering mothers, virgin lovers, or seductive traitors. keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46714x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46714x.txt item: #444 of 4945 id: 2j62s46716m author: Yingbo Zhao title: Fundamental Limitations in Networked Control Systems date: 2014 words: 549 flesch: 39 summary: In networked control systems, multiple components (e.g. plants, sensors and controllers) exchange information and cooperate to achieve a joint goal. On the other hand, controllers designed while ignoring the communication constraint cannot provide good performance or even stability. keywords: communication cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46716m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46716m.txt item: #445 of 4945 id: 2j62s46717z author: Ashley Marie Nettleman title: Symmetry Analysis Applied to Multi-Agent Systems date: 2014 words: 145 flesch: 43 summary: Since the formation control law does not specify the location and orientation of the formation in planar space, continuous symmetries arise. The multi-agent system of interest is a planar formation control problem, where each agent references a pre-specified number of agents. keywords: symmetries cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46717z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46717z.txt item: #446 of 4945 id: 2j62s46719n author: Justin Farrell title: The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict date: 2014 words: 521 flesch: 34 summary: Put more specifically, I argue that any sociological account of this conflict should be built upon a more empirically accurate and philosophically sophisticated model of human persons and cultures, that does not presuppose narrow or deterministic motivational frameworks, but understands that the why, in the end, is a question of morality - perhaps even spirituality - stemming from our lived experiences as part of human cultures, shaped by narratives and moral orders that tell us most fundamentally who we are, why we are, what we should do, and why it all matters. Accordingly, management decisions in the GYE rely on a hyper-rationalized form of governance that privileges technical facts, scientific analysis of nature, bureaucratic administration, and legal formalism. keywords: yellowstone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46719n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46719n.txt item: #447 of 4945 id: 2j62s46720v author: Alexander Dukalskis title: Ideology and Authoritarian Persistence: Shaping the Public Sphere in North Korea and Burma date: 2013 words: 196 flesch: 26 summary: This dissertation examines how circumscription and manipulation of the public sphere contributes to the persistence of authoritarian regimes. The dissertation illustrates how the ideologies of the DPRK and the Burmese junta worked to forestall critiques about authoritarian rule — even if many citizens were dissatisfied with the state's authoritarian practices — by limiting and manipulating discussion in the political public sphere. keywords: sphere cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46720v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46720v.txt item: #448 of 4945 id: 2j62s467216 author: Christopher J. Lane title: The Diversity of Vocations: Choosing a State of Life in Early Modern France date: 1904 words: 357 flesch: 38 summary: This advice on choosing a state of life illustrates the peculiar modernity of early modern Catholicism, which focused on the individual without jettisoning corporate identity, which held in tension the subjective good for the individual and an objective spiritual hierarchy, and which promoted a religiously-oriented individual liberty in the face of entrenched social and legal norms. The main source bases are works of spiritual advice and pastoral care from the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century, along with religious biographical sources and ecclesiatical records. keywords: catholic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s467216.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s467216.txt item: #449 of 4945 id: 2j62s467634 author: Aaron D. Sanders title: Potestas Indirecta: The Relationship between Temporal and Spiritual Authority in the Thought of St. Robert Bellarmine date: 1904 words: 255 flesch: 32 summary: After one chapter introducing Bellarmine and his modern interpreters, chapters 2 and 3 make use of Bellarmine's Controversies to establish his teaching regarding the temporal power of political rulers and the spiritual power of ecclesiastical rulers, respectively. Against the contention that Bellarmine's conception of the pope's indirect power over temporal affairs (potestas indirecta) is merely an attempt to retain the medieval papacy's direct control under new, more palatable terms, this dissertation argues that Bellarmine was fully committed to the natural autonomy of the political order and did not intend his theory of indirect power to be invoked apart from quite exceptional circumstances, which he did not judge to exist at the time of his writing. keywords: bellarmine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s467634.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s467634.txt item: #450 of 4945 id: 2j62s467w82 author: Taras I. Karaulshchikov title: A History of Georgian Scientific Intelligentsia: The Case of the Nikoladze Family 1860-1981 date: 2019 words: 311 flesch: 17 summary: It argues that under the Soviet regime, the memory of prerevolutionary lifestyle became the major self-identification criterion for the Nikoladze and many other old intelligentsia families, contributing to the development of a distinct identity that combined loyalty to the regime with emotional and intellectual attachment to the prerevolutionary traditions. By analyzing family's methods of child education, it reconstructs the intergenerational transmission of the intelligentsia's collective memory from the late nineteenth century to the Soviet period. keywords: family cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s467w82.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s467w82.txt item: #451 of 4945 id: 2j62s46819x author: Rene Celis Cordova title: Reversible Computing: The Design of an Adiabatic Microprocessor date: 2019 words: 321 flesch: 41 summary: Reversible computing is a viable alternative to traditional circuit implementations since it reduces heat generation by avoiding unnecessary dissipation. Modern microprocessors are limited by heat dissipation. keywords: adiabatic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46819x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46819x.txt item: #452 of 4945 id: 2j62s468266 author: Kaitlin C. Rasmussen title: Galactic Archaeology with Metal-Poor Stars date: 2020 words: 728 flesch: 60 summary: To achieve this, we have conducted a large-scale search for transits of metal-poor stars in TESS light curves and discovered 47 previously unknown planet candidates around host stars in the metallicity range -2.28 < [Fe/H] < -0.5, eight of which have lower [Fe/H] than any known transiting planet hosts. In ``Metal-poor Stars from the South African Large Telescope', the first release of a large-scale study of relatively bright (V < 13.5) metal-poor stars is presented. keywords: stars cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s468266.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s468266.txt item: #453 of 4945 id: 2j62s46830f author: Xihaier Luo title: Machine Learning-Based Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Dynamic Systems date: 2020 words: 170 flesch: 8 summary: In civil engineering, applications of data-enabled modeling, analysis, and control of complex structural systems can be found across multiple areas such as design optimization, reliability analysis, structural health monitoring, and multi-hazard modeling and prediction. This dissertation focuses on two directions of developing and deploying efficient algorithms for data-driven modeling, identification, and discovery of features embedded in complex engineering systems. keywords: modeling cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46830f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46830f.txt item: #454 of 4945 id: 2j62s468324 author: James W. Haring title: God and the Quest for Authenticity in Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant date: 2020 words: 355 flesch: 32 summary: Though personal authenticity is an organizing ideal of late-modern Western societies, it also is a site of some of our most contentious disagreements, lacks coherence in many of its formulations, is not fully understood in all of its implications, and is often unidentified in its function as a marker of social distinction. There is a need for conceptual clarification and deeper historical understanding of the ideal of authenticity. keywords: authenticity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s468324.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s468324.txt item: #455 of 4945 id: 2j62s468355 author: Yuanhao Niu title: Essays on Firm Dynamics and Macroeconomics date: 2021 words: 190 flesch: 40 summary: We find that a moderate counter-cyclical financial repression rule helps the government ``earn' reputation and brings welfare improvements. Empirical evidence suggests that the government may pressure the domestic agents to purchase their sovereign debt during turbulent times. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s468355.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s468355.txt item: #456 of 4945 id: 2j62s46836h author: Emily Spencer title: In Defense of Our Better Angels: On Empathy's Role in Ethics date: 2021 words: 346 flesch: 34 summary: After I have established my basic argument for empathy's role in moral perception and performance, I argue that because empathy plays this unique and important role, improving our empathic abilities leads to bettering our ability to both know when action is called for as well as understand what action is called for. My analysis takes the form of a descriptive reconstruction of moral performance, emphasizing the relation between moral perception and judgment in particular on the interplay between cognitive and emotional faculties in moral perception. keywords: moral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46836h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46836h.txt item: #457 of 4945 id: 2j62s46840r author: Kay Malte Bischof title: Engaging Spinoza and Spinozism date: 2021 words: 208 flesch: 45 summary: These engagements with Spinozism take three different forms: a kind of constructive/historical engagement (essay 1), a kind of internal consistency examination (essay 2), and a kind of methodological investigation (essay 3) – each making its own case for or against Spinozism. The recent popularity of arguments identifying pressures in theistic philosophy to become Spinozistic has ignited a new interest in a question that is also for the author of this dissertation of great (personal) significance: Should I be a Spinozist or theist? keywords: kind cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46840r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46840r.txt item: #458 of 4945 id: 2j62s46851d author: A. McGee title: Some Secret Aspects of the Modernist Novel date: 2022 words: 4 flesch: 35 summary: Early twentieth-century fiction. keywords: early cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2j62s46851d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2j62s46851d.txt item: #459 of 4945 id: 2n49t150833 author: Julie L Chaney title: Selection for Synonymous Codon Usage date: 2015 words: 341 flesch: 43 summary: Rare codons have been shown to have functional significance in specific protein coding sequences, but there is still no consensus on how widespread such mechanisms are or how to identify functional rare codon clusters. Here we report that rare codon clusters are enriched at predicted domain boundaries, at a genome-wide level, in both human and E. coli. keywords: rare cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2n49t150833.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2n49t150833.txt item: #460 of 4945 id: 2n49t150864 author: Rachel Elizabeth Bashor title: Dynamics of Wind Sensitive Structures date: 2011 words: 355 flesch: 21 summary: Through the investigation of full-scale measurements, it is the goal of this study focused on examining the uncertainty associated with defining the response of structures under habitability, serviceability, and survivability wind events to ensure human comfort, design strength, and robust building envelopes under service and extreme wind events. Uncertainties associated with damping, wind speed, and other variables are quantified and propagated to develop a probabilistic framework to evaluate a building's habitability performance, to assess occupant comfort, and to develop recommendations for load factors used in building standards for serviceability and strength considerations. keywords: wind cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2n49t150864.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2n49t150864.txt item: #461 of 4945 id: 2n49t15090c author: Teng Li title: The Design and Analysis of Successive Decoding for Channels With Memory date: 2008 words: 292 flesch: 27 summary: These results allow us to characterize accurately the binary-input capacity of correlated fading channels and to operate within 1.1 dB to the binary-input capacity using AWGN channel optimized LDPC codes. Many communication systems have to cope with channels with unknown and time-varying state, including fading, inter-symbol interference, and more general finite-state Markov channels. keywords: decoding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2n49t15090c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2n49t15090c.txt item: #462 of 4945 id: 2n49t15091q author: Geliang Song title: The Sorption Mechanisms of Metal Ions (Cadmium and Lead) to Bacterial Biomass, Siderophores and Minerals date: 2013 words: 601 flesch: 49 summary: Therefore to quantify the capacity and mechanism of metal sorption by bacterial biomass, it is essential to understand the fate of metals in the environment. Since both cell walls (of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria) and EPS are negatively charged and have functional groups that can bind metals at most pH values, they are capable of sorbing metals in the solutions. keywords: metals cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2n49t15091q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2n49t15091q.txt item: #463 of 4945 id: 2n49t15093d author: Brian Scott Bodnar title: The Synthesis of Mycobactin Analogs and Heterocyclic Scaffolds From Acylnitroso Hetero-Diels-Alder Cycloadducts date: 2008 words: 355 flesch: 38 summary: In chapter 3, the synthesis of mycobactin analog fragments is described from amino acids and acylnitroso HDA cycloadducts. Chapter 6 described the development of the addition of azides to acylnitroso HDA cycloadducts and the effect of alkene strain on reactivity. keywords: mycobactin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2n49t15093d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2n49t15093d.txt item: #464 of 4945 id: 2n49t15096f author: Elizabeth S Halpin title: Characterization of the early events of centrosome duplication in mammalian cells and the roles of tektin in centrosome duplication, midbody formation and cytokinesis. date: 2008 words: 351 flesch: 39 summary: While centriole number determines the number of centrosomes, it remains unclear whether or not centrosomes can duplicate in the absence of centriole elongation. Here, the possible roles of tektins in centrosome duplication and cytokinesis are examined in mammalian cells. keywords: centrosome cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2n49t15096f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2n49t15096f.txt item: #465 of 4945 id: 2n49t15099g author: Tamara Jo Van Dyken title: Singing the Gospel: Evangelical Hymnody, Popular Religion, and American Culture; 1870-1940 date: 2010 words: 209 flesch: 17 summary: Understanding how gospel hymns were being utilized by the interdenominational evangelicals also helps delineate the parameters of evangelical culture and its relationship to broader American culture. This work traces the importance of gospel hymnody in shaping popular theology and influencing American culture. keywords: gospel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2n49t15099g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2n49t15099g.txt item: #466 of 4945 id: 2n49t150c4c author: Matthew R. Bailey title: Sheath-Flow Microfluidic Approach for Combined Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering and Electrochemical Detection date: 1904 words: 169 flesch: 16 summary: The platform has also been used to investigate the role of surface adsorption in the SERS and electrochemical detection of neurotransmitters, as well as examine reversible changes in spectral features of riboflavin based on applied potential. This combination of SERS and amperometry in a single device provides an improved method to identify and quantify electroactive analytes over either technique independently. keywords: sers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2n49t150c4c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2n49t150c4c.txt item: #467 of 4945 id: 2n49t15106x author: Patrick B. Louden title: Discovering the Molecular Origins of Solid-Liquid Friction at Ice-Ih / Water Interfaces date: 1904 words: 436 flesch: 45 summary: A momentum transmission model is proposed, which relates the observed friction with the density of solid to liquid hydrogen bonds, the shear viscosity of the liquid, and the width of the interface. Structural and dynamic properties of the QLLs are compared with simulations of supercooled liquid water. keywords: liquid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2n49t15106x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2n49t15106x.txt item: #468 of 4945 id: 2n49t151d0k author: Paige Ambord title: How Buildings Become Problems date: 2021 words: 280 flesch: 20 summary: This paper asks: when does historic value insulate buildings from being perceived as problem properties?The third paper demonstrates how residents perceive buildings as social problems. Building upon critiques of the Broken Windows hypothesis which argue that not all physical disorder stands out to residents as disorder, this paper argues that buildings that violate expectations that residents hold about buildings as private property become seen as out of place, and therefore as disorder. keywords: buildings cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2n49t151d0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2n49t151d0k.txt item: #469 of 4945 id: 2n49t151d9p author: Nicholas Kempf title: Novel Methods for Thermal and Thermoelectric Material Measurement and the Effect of Irradiation on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials date: 2022 words: 389 flesch: 21 summary: Meanwhile, the irradiation studies provide new insight on the performance of advanced thermoelectric devices in the extreme environment of a nuclear reactor core, which in turn guides the design and development of thermoelectric materials for use in radioactive environments. This dissertation focuses on novel methods for the characterization of thermal and thermoelectric transport properties and their applications to investigate advanced thermoelectric materials. keywords: thermoelectric cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2n49t151d9p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2n49t151d9p.txt item: #470 of 4945 id: 2n49t151g06 author: Aidan Boyd title: Human-Machine Teaming to Improve Computer Vision date: 2023 words: 267 flesch: 40 summary: This refers to a hypothesis that humans can provide input to train better models by guiding them towards salient information and in turn these human-aided models can help future human examiners to solve the task more effectively. While this idea could theoretically be applied to any domain in which humans can provide meaningful input, for this talk it will be focused on computer vision applications, specifically post-mortem iris recognition, fake iris detection, synthetic face detection and physiological abnormality detection based on chest X-ray scans keywords: human cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2n49t151g06.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2n49t151g06.txt item: #471 of 4945 id: 2r36tx33j5p author: Michael Louis Dimino title: Synthesis, characterization, and modeling of novel bovine hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers date: 2007 words: 470 flesch: 43 summary: Second generation hemoglobin-based O2 carriers (HBOCs) are being developed with high O2 affinity (low P50) in order to suppress vasoconstriction elicited by over-oxygenating tissues, a problem associated with low O2 affinity first generation HBOCs. Furthermore, bHBOCs synthesized with 2-CEFP created Mw species centered at 63.6 and 96 kDa, correlating to intact tetrameric bHb and tetrameric bHb bound to a bHb dimer, respectively. keywords: bhb cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx33j5p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx33j5p.txt item: #472 of 4945 id: 2r36tx33j61 author: Carolyn M Rodak title: Observations on the Analysis of Time-dependent Health Risks from Groundwater Contamination and the Utility of RRV and NCP as Measures date: 2013 words: 358 flesch: 20 summary: Here, a continuous time-dependent method is developed and explored that allows estimation of chronic, carcinogenic risk as a function of when exposure to contaminated groundwater starts, thus producing a distribution of risk through time capable of capturing fundamentally different information than maximum risk. Estimation of health risks from exposure to contaminated groundwater traditionally focuses on the maximum risk. keywords: risk cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx33j61.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx33j61.txt item: #473 of 4945 id: 2r36tx33j8q author: Kenji Yoshida title: VLSI Implementation of Algebraically-Structured Low Density Parity Check Codes date: 2004 words: 110 flesch: 50 summary: By using this model, we find that these codes are well- suited especially for high code rate applications. Low density parity check codes are attractive because of their excellent perfor- mance with simple iterative message-passing algorithm. keywords: codes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx33j8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx33j8q.txt item: #474 of 4945 id: 2r36tx33j92 author: Allison Ann Muscolino title: Negotiating the Gendered Margins of Modernity: Tamara de Lempicka and Her Iconic Female Forms date: 2010 words: 196 flesch: 44 summary: Working within and around this framework of constructed spaces, I argue for an appreciation of Tamara de Lempicka as a successful modern artist who, through both her images of modern women and her life as a bisexual public figure, contributed significantly to the discourse of gender in modernity. In this role, Lempicka independently maneuvered through a variety of public spaces in modern Paris to stage her own melodrama full of intrigue, sex, and complete excess. keywords: lempicka cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx33j92.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx33j92.txt item: #475 of 4945 id: 2r36tx33k08 author: Cole Carnesecca title: 'Out for a Stroll' to 'Test the Waters': Opportunity Perception and Political Opportunity Structures in Four Chinese NIMBYs date: 2012 words: 149 flesch: 19 summary: Yet these movements, in interaction with both local and national state actors, were able to test out the extent to which movement opportunities existed and turn generalized opportunities into movement specific ones. This paper argues that as movements engage with institutions and state actors that vague structural opportunity contexts are concretized as specific opportunities for framing and acting. keywords: opportunities cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx33k08.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx33k08.txt item: #476 of 4945 id: 2r36tx33k39 author: Dhanesh Padmanabhan title: Reliability-Based Optimization for Multidisciplinary System Design date: 2003 words: 368 flesch: 27 summary: The reliability constraints are typically constraints on the probabilities of failure due to component failure events or a system failure event. In this work the class of design problems which are considered, are designs characterized by a minimum merit function and that satisfy certain reliability constraints. keywords: reliability cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx33k39.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx33k39.txt item: #477 of 4945 id: 2r36tx33k50 author: Deonna D. Neal title: Be Who You Are: Karl Barth's Ethics of Creation date: 2010 words: 510 flesch: 48 summary: Barth grounds the goodness of creation not in its own independent reality, but in the goodness of Jesus Christ, who, as Barth works out in CD II.2, is the concrete form of the command of God and fulfillment of the covenant between God and humanity. In this chapter we see that to be human is to be a creature who can transcend her nature and limits in an encounter with the other, yet such an encounter with the transcendent other allows the creature to exist more fully and properly as a covenant partner with God in creation and not outside of it. keywords: creation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx33k50.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx33k50.txt item: #478 of 4945 id: 2r36tx33k6b author: James David Pirnia title: Full-Scale Dynamic Characteristics of Tall Buildings and Impacts on Occupant Comfort date: 2010 words: 204 flesch: 19 summary: Finally a framework is developed to investigate occupant comfort directly from full-scale accelerations using existing motion simulator studies to project the likely number of occupants adversely affected by tall building motion when considering the effects of waveform, duration, and frequency of oscillation. With every decade, the average height of tall buildings has increased and with the near completion of Burj Dubai, tall buildings are now reaching unprecedented heights where the governing limit state has transitioned to occupant comfort. keywords: tall cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx33k6b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx33k6b.txt item: #479 of 4945 id: 2r36tx33k81 author: Wenjun Li title: InGaAs/InP Modified Uni-Travelling-Carrier Photodiode with a Cliff Layer date: 2014 words: 260 flesch: 32 summary: Due to the exceptional transmission property of optical fiber and the development of high-performance optoelectronic components, microwave photonic links have been used in many applications, including radio-over-fiber systems, optical beam forming and optical signal processing. An InGaAs/InP MUTC-PD epitaxial structure grown by MOCVD has also been processed into a frontside-illuminated photodiode by using optical lithography, wet and dry etch processes, dielectric planarization and metallization. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx33k81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx33k81.txt item: #480 of 4945 id: 2r36tx33k9c author: Bhargava Kumar Narayana title: Three-Dimensional Optical Measurements in an Ethylene Fuelled Model Scramjet Engine date: 2014 words: 351 flesch: 44 summary: Visualizing flow structures in a transient combustion system is a key to establish stable operational regimes. Prior to understanding the turbulent flame dynamics due to ethylene combustion in the model scramjet, it is necessary to reveal the role played by turbulent structures in a combustion free environment. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx33k9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx33k9c.txt item: #481 of 4945 id: 2r36tx33m1x author: Bin Xu title: New Algorithms for Spatial Data Clustering Problems date: 2008 words: 215 flesch: 31 summary: Due to the huge sizes and large number of attributes of the input data nowadays, achieving computational efficiency has become a primary objective and a big challenge to data clustering algorithms. Knowledge discovery in spatial (i.e., numerical) data sets is becoming more and more important since increasingly large amounts of spatial data are available and used in key application areas such as public administration, science, and business. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx33m1x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx33m1x.txt item: #482 of 4945 id: 2r36tx33n8n author: Joel Duncan title: The Song in the Machine: Organic Forms of American Poetry date: 1904 words: 359 flesch: 33 summary: This dissertation argues that their innovations, rather than mere freaks of fancy, have harnessed the machinery of capitalist development toward poetic ends. Chapter One considers Whitman's confrontation with industrial capitalism and slavery, elaborating how the hum produced by his loafer in the grass transforms the abstract equality inherent in wage labor toward poetic song. keywords: poetic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx33n8n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx33n8n.txt item: #483 of 4945 id: 2r36tx33r5j author: Zhongming Li title: Absorption-Based Spectroscopy and Microscopy on Nanostructures date: 1904 words: 324 flesch: 47 summary: MIR-PHI might find its potential in stain-free histology, as well as other biomedical applications. Since absorption effect scales with volume while scattering effect scales with volume squared, for particles with sizes in the nanometer range, absorption is usually stronger than scattering. keywords: phi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx33r5j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx33r5j.txt item: #484 of 4945 id: 2r36tx3482f author: Aleksandra Hernandez title: Patterns of Experience: Pragmatism, Perception, and Cultural Cognition in Modern American Literature date: 1904 words: 179 flesch: 16 summary: Patterns of Experience: Pragmatism, Perception, and Cultural Cognition in Modern American Literature, tracks experience-based forms of mimesis in the writing of Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston. From Melville's depiction of machine-mediated modes of perception in European navigational practices, to Hurston's pragmatist epistemology in which her subjective, participatory engagement with Haitian and Jamaican culture is a source of narrative authority and objectivity, Patterns of Experience suggests that how we think is not a transparent process in which ideas get transferred directly from world to body to mind. keywords: perception cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx3482f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx3482f.txt item: #485 of 4945 id: 2r36tx3485g author: Ashley R. Gans-Forrest title: The Design, Construction and Use of a Low-Temperature, Ultra High Vacuum Scanning Tunneling Microscope for Reaction Studies date: 1904 words: 163 flesch: 39 summary: Prior to 3D-printed metals being used in the LT-UHV instrument, they were used in a ambient-condition design that was vibrationally stable without the use of external isolation or dampening, and the 3D-printed metals were determined to be compatible with UHV. However, thermal impacts on the surface do not allow for the direct observation of reactions as they proceed. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx3485g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx3485g.txt item: #486 of 4945 id: 2r36tx34933 author: Agung Santoso title: Equivalence Testing for Anchor Selection in Differential Item Functioning (DIF) Detection date: 1904 words: 369 flesch: 50 summary: Therefore many methods of anchor selection procedure have been proposed, many of which utilizes Null Hypothesis Test (NHT) to select anchor items. A DIF analysis that uses a contaminated anchor set suffers from high false alarm rate and low power, making the analysis fails to identify DIF items and incorrectly detects DIF-free items as having DIF. keywords: anchor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx34933.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx34933.txt item: #487 of 4945 id: 2r36tx34n2v author: Rachel Jayne Oidtman title: Understanding and Forecasting Spatiotemporal Variation in Emerging Arboviruses date: 2020 words: 438 flesch: 35 summary: Third, to test the effect of alternative model assumptions on forecasts of incidence and spread of emerging infectious diseases, I designed an ensemble of forecasting models in the context of the 2015-2016 Zika epidemic in Colombia. In conclusion, my research demonstrates that both specific knowledge of spatiotemporal variation in emerging arboviruses and general knowledge about phenomena affecting emerging infectious diseases are necessary for mitigating uncertainty in forecasts of emerging infectious diseases. keywords: zika cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx34n2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx34n2v.txt item: #488 of 4945 id: 2r36tx34q3t author: Joaquin Pablo Moris Barra title: Wave and Debris Loading in Developed Coastal Regions date: 2022 words: 374 flesch: 39 summary: Results show that both the debris collision probability and the collision impulse magnitude are significantly reduced as the number of sheltering rows increases. The presence of structures in developed coastal regions has a significant effect on the water flow, affecting wave hydrodynamics, wave loading, and debris impacts on buildings. keywords: debris cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2r36tx34q3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2r36tx34q3t.txt item: #489 of 4945 id: 2v23vt16t5r author: Stephen J Schuyten title: Activity and In-Situ Xas Studies of Promoted Copper and Zinc Oxide Catalysts for Hydrogen Production by Methanol Partial Oxidation date: 2008 words: 334 flesch: 23 summary: However, promoter materials do not influence the methanol decomposition and water gas shift activation energies because of the similarity of catalyst state at high reaction temperatures regardless of promoter materials. Copper K edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy confirmed palladium promoted catalysts are more easily reduced to Cu0 under reaction conditions. keywords: palladium cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt16t5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt16t5r.txt item: #490 of 4945 id: 2v23vt16t8s author: Danielle DuBois Gottwig title: Before the Culture Wars: Conservative Protestants and the Family, 1920-1980 date: 2011 words: 360 flesch: 17 summary: It focuses on how members of five conservative Protestant groups - the fundamentalist movement, the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, the Southern Baptist Convention, the Assemblies of God, and the neo-evangelical movement - responded to sweeping changes in American family life and social thought during the middle decades of the twentieth century. In the 1970s Dr. James Dobson and Tim and Beverley LaHaye, all leaders in the emerging New Christian Right, established themselves as psychologists, counselors, and teachers invested in improving family life. keywords: family cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt16t8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt16t8s.txt item: #491 of 4945 id: 2v23vt16v21 author: Zhong Wang title: Software Partitioning and Scheduling for Improving Performance and Energy Consumption date: 2008 words: 355 flesch: 38 summary: Another target architecture is multi-bank memory architecture, which brings the scheduling complexity and difficulty of variable partitioning. The first targeted architecture is a system with memory hierarchy and processor comprising multiple processing and memory units. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt16v21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt16v21.txt item: #492 of 4945 id: 2v23vt16v3c author: Mingming Cai title: Design and Implementation of a Distributed Spectrum Access System date: 2014 words: 180 flesch: 28 summary: Competitive distributive spectrum access radios provide a solution to deal with malicious radios using the same spectrum. Cooperative distributed spectrum access radios provide a way to share the spectrum without prior knowledge of other radios' spectrum occupancy. keywords: spectrum cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt16v3c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt16v3c.txt item: #493 of 4945 id: 2v23vt16v83 author: Corey Ladd Barnes title: Christ's Two Wills in Scholastic Theology: Thirteenth-Century Debates and the Christology of Thomas Aquinas date: 2006 words: 344 flesch: 54 summary: The dominant concern of thirteenth-century theologians was to affirm the fullness of Christ's humanity while denying contrariety of wills in Christ. The thirteenth century witnessed developments in the affirmation of Christ's full humanity and in strategies for denying contrariety of wills in Christ. keywords: christ cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt16v83.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt16v83.txt item: #494 of 4945 id: 2v23vt16w10 author: Austin David Choi-Fitzpatrick title: Democracy, Ideology, and Congenital Inequality in Social Movement Organizations date: 2010 words: 168 flesch: 27 summary: Resolving tension in this way has the unintended effect of stifling the actual process of democratic participation, effectively excluding new and potentially valuable resources and mobilizing strategies. The congenitally undemocratic nature of social movement groups, and the strategies deployed to cover the subsequent democratic deficit deserve further investigation. keywords: democratic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt16w10.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt16w10.txt item: #495 of 4945 id: 2v23vt16x2n author: Shiyan Wang title: Transport and Mixing Induced by Swimming Organisms and Settling/Rising Particles date: 1904 words: 454 flesch: 40 summary: In order to understand corresponding mixing and transport phenomena, this study employs both analytical and numerical approaches, aided by experiments, to perceive the fundamental physics of transport of marine organisms, marine snow particles, and gas bubbles. From the standpoint of carbon sequestration, rising motion of bubbles containing carbon dioxide or methane gases acts as a carbon source from the ocean to the atmosphere while settling marine snow particles acts as a carbon sink, affecting global carbon cycle. keywords: organisms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt16x2n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt16x2n.txt item: #496 of 4945 id: 2v23vt16x7c author: Ronald J. Nowling title: Replacing Domain-Specific Methods in Bioinformatics with Machine Learning Techniques date: 1904 words: 123 flesch: 31 summary: We demonstrate how traditional domain-specific bioinformatics methods can be improved and replaced by machine learning techniques through studies of two problems (gene annotation and population genetics) arising from insect vector genomics. Challenges from debugging complex algorithms are compounded by the use of low-level languages and parallel processing to achieve optimal performance and scale to large data sets. keywords: algorithms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt16x7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt16x7c.txt item: #497 of 4945 id: 2v23vt17j8k author: Christopher M. Jasinski title: Experimental Fluid Mechanic Evaluation of Liner Drag and Acoustic-Drag Interaction date: 1904 words: 338 flesch: 44 summary: The purpose of this dissertation is to establish the current state of the art in acoustic liner drag research, describe recently designed and built facilities at the University of Notre Dame for conducting such research, discuss the coupling of aerodynamic drag and acoustic excitation with liners, and offer conclusions and recommendations for future work in the area. Lastly the coupling of acoustic excitation and liner drag will be explored as measured drag increases when in the presence of high levels of tonal noise. keywords: drag cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt17j8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt17j8k.txt item: #498 of 4945 id: 2v23vt17q22 author: Raphael Mary Salzillo, OP title: The Soul as a Part in Aquinas date: 2019 words: 163 flesch: 46 summary: I begin by setting out Aquinas's understanding of parthood and then proceed to look critically at the features Aquinas attributes to the soul that are particularly relevant to its parthood. I clarify and critically examine Aquinas's claim that the human soul is a part of the human substance, arguing that the claim that the soul is a part is the key to understanding his ontology of the human being. keywords: soul cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt17q22.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt17q22.txt item: #499 of 4945 id: 2v23vt17r3q author: Adam Moreno title: Alexandrov Geometry of Leaf Spaces and Applications date: 2019 words: 120 flesch: 40 summary: We develop a number of tools to analyze the geometry and topology of leaf spaces - quotients of singular Riemannian foliations with closed leaves. When applied to a given leaf space, these tools not only help describe the geometry/topology of the quotient, but can also reveal information about the leaves of the singular Riemannian foliation and the manifolds which admit such foliations. keywords: foliations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt17r3q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt17r3q.txt item: #500 of 4945 id: 2v23vt17r9s author: Joel Robert Gray Brogan title: Advancing Biometrics and Image Forensics through Vision and Learning Systems date: 2019 words: 427 flesch: 47 summary: 3) In the Image Forensics and retrieval chapters (Ch. 4, 5, and 6), we focus on building novel image retrieval algorithms that can retrieve and trace modified images back to their origins. We propose multiple new frameworks for image retrieval that model object-level regions, allowing for fine-grained object level retrieval results. keywords: facial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt17r9s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt17r9s.txt item: #501 of 4945 id: 2v23vt17x9b author: Sehrazat G. Mart title: Public Service in the Absence of Accountability: Street-Level Bureaucrats' Occupational Ideology and Responsiveness to Citizens date: 2021 words: 133 flesch: 16 summary: Because the social reality is much more complex than what written policies can cover, bureaucratic discretion is a fundamental component of policy implementation. By drawing from interviews conducted with municipal and ministry officials that implement large-scale urban transformation projects that target informal settlement neighborhoods in two cities of Turkey (Istanbul and Bursa), this thesis shows that, in the absence of accountability, occupational ideology becomes crucial in shaping how bureaucrats approach implementation and how they treat citizens. keywords: bureaucrats cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt17x9b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt17x9b.txt item: #502 of 4945 id: 2v23vt17z7z author: Ke Feng title: Spatial Analysis of Cellular Networks: Meta Distributions, Cooperation, and Joint Geometric Modeling date: 2021 words: 322 flesch: 40 summary: This approach is substantiated by the increasingly dense and irregular deployment of base stations as well as the need for tractability for advanced network analysis. These developments require guaranteed performance at the link level under varied propagation conditions, interference, and so on. keywords: scale cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt17z7z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt17z7z.txt item: #503 of 4945 id: 2v23vt18186 author: Colin Denzel title: A Physics Informed Stochastic Model for the Behavior of Particles in Rayleigh–Bénard Turbulence date: 2023 words: 210 flesch: 37 summary: We take inspiration from this setup and consider a particle-laden, convectively-driven turbulent flow using direct numerical simulation (DNS). A simple conceptual picture underlies the stochastic model, namely that the particles take repeated trips between the top and bottom boundaries, driven by the convective cells that occur in Rayleigh-Benard turbulence, and that their residence times are determined by the time it takes to complete one of these trips, which varies from one trip to another, and the probability of falling out to the bottom boundary after each trip. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2v23vt18186.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2v23vt18186.txt item: #504 of 4945 id: 2z10wq00378 author: Xuyang He title: Enolization reactions mediated by s-block metal amide reagents date: 2008 words: 456 flesch: 27 summary: A combination of NMR spectroscopy, kinetic studies, crystallographic analyses and theoretical investigations has been used to elucidate the mechanism for ketone enolization. The reactivities of magnesium bis(hexamethyldisilazide) Mg(HMDS)2, KHMDS, Ca(HMDS)2, several mixed-metal K/Ca amide combinations in enolization reactions are reported. keywords: enolization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq00378.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq00378.txt item: #505 of 4945 id: 2z10wq0038m author: Richard William Maass title: To Conquer Land or People: Democracy and the Domestic Political Costs of Annexationism date: 2013 words: 268 flesch: 26 summary: In short, I argue that state leaders consider domestic political consequences in addition to material benefits and military costs when determining the desirability of annexationism, and reject opportunities to annex territory where they fear it impairing their domestic influence (even where annexation would be materially profitable). After laying out my theory of annexation?s domestic political consequences, I test its causal logic against the conventional wisdom by process-tracing the decision making of US leaders facing major opportunities to expand into Canada and Mexico between 1774 and 1871. keywords: domestic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq0038m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq0038m.txt item: #506 of 4945 id: 2z10wq00405 author: Jerry Z Park title: The Ethnic and Religious Identities of Young Asian Americans date: 2004 words: 180 flesch: 25 summary: The evidence based on these samples suggests that traditional identities are a constructive effort or a form of personal agency. I show that not only do these public narratives produce different interpretations of ethnicity or religion when considered separately, but they also interact and inform one another in complex ways. keywords: identities cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq00405.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq00405.txt item: #507 of 4945 id: 2z10wq0041h author: Sara L Method title: Hybridity, Fragmentation, and Translation in the Embroidered Sculptural Works of Ghada Amer date: 2010 words: 249 flesch: 40 summary: In both visual and textual terms, Amer's work thus addresses language's instability, while her method of layering various sign systems on top of one another creates a multi-vocality that speaks to issues of cultural hybridity and the unpredictable processes of assimilation and acculturation. For instance, Amer converts written text from the page into embroidered text on cloth, from ink to thread, and from book to fabric structure. keywords: amer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq0041h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq0041h.txt item: #508 of 4945 id: 2z10wq0042v author: Kalsea Jo Koss title: Patterns of Adolescent Regulatory Processes: Links to Family Risk and Protective Factors and Mental Health Trajectories date: 2012 words: 271 flesch: 16 summary: While security in the parent-child relationship and about the marital relationship have been found to be important mechanisms linking family risk to maladjustment in children and adolescents, little is known about how individual differences in security processes about the larger family context may impact adolescent regulation and psychopathology. The present study sought to identify distinct patterns of adolescent regulatory processes important to relations between family risk and adolescents' mental health trajectories. keywords: adolescents cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq0042v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq0042v.txt item: #509 of 4945 id: 2z10wq0045w author: Sharon Lynn Hermes title: Essays on Elderly Labor Force Participation, Pension Structure, and Partial Retirement date: 2005 words: 364 flesch: 43 summary: Although partial retirement usually refers to workers voluntarily transitioning from full-time work to complete retirement, health or financial problems may be causing these changes. Defined contribution pension growth makes retirement wealth increasingly tied to financial markets, implying that older workers need to postpone retirement in recessions, precisely when jobs are scarce. keywords: retirement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq0045w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq0045w.txt item: #510 of 4945 id: 2z10wq00467 author: Cesar A Hidalgo title: Three empirical studies on the aggregate dynamics of humanly driven complex systems date: 2011 words: 214 flesch: 42 summary: Complex systems are characterized by having emergent properties that cannot be explained from their large number of interacting and heterogeneous components. Different aspects of human society can be described as a complex system, as large numbers of people aggregate into a host of complex structures. keywords: complex cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq00467.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq00467.txt item: #511 of 4945 id: 2z10wq0047k author: Christina Lynn Brinks Rea title: The Thematic, Stylistic, and Verbal Similarities Between Isaiah 40-55 and the Book of Job date: 2010 words: 530 flesch: 47 summary: This dissertation examines the evidence for a dependent literary relationship between Isaiah 40-55, commonly called 2 Isaiah, and the book of Job. While 2 Isaiah can be reliably dated based on internal evidence, the book of Job is very elusive in this regard, and scholars have posited historical contexts for Job that span hundreds of years. keywords: job cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq0047k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq0047k.txt item: #512 of 4945 id: 2z10wq0048x author: David M. Choate title: Cougar-induced behavioral plasticity: ungulate behavior under the risk of predation on the National Bison Range date: 2010 words: 365 flesch: 27 summary: Risk-induced changes in prey behavior have many important effects in predator-prey communities; however, fitness consequences of predation risk to prey remain unclear. Therefore, understanding the impacts of risk effects is critical for predicting the ecological impacts of predators on prey communities in the midst of changing anthropogenic (e.g., introduction or re-colonization) or climate-related factors. keywords: prey cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq0048x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq0048x.txt item: #513 of 4945 id: 2z10wq0050g author: Sherri Sue Smith title: Molecular Evolution, Localization, and Functional Analysis of Toxoplasma Gondii Coated Vesicle (Copi) Beta Subunit date: 2008 words: 354 flesch: 37 summary: Lastly, disruption in TgÌ¢COP localization occurs upon MAPTA-AM treatment and appears to be more responsive to the effects of calcium chelation than host cells. Protein secretion from three unique secretory organelles; the micronemes, rhoptries and dense granules, is pivotal for T. gondii infection and survival within host cells. keywords: golgi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq0050g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq0050g.txt item: #514 of 4945 id: 2z10wq0051t author: Abigail A Weaver title: The Development of Field Friendly Tools for Pharmaceutical Analysis date: 2014 words: 317 flesch: 33 summary: Chemical test cards combine twelve different colorimetric tests arranged in lanes to produce unique color bar codes for several pharmaceuticals, including beta lactam antibiotics and anti-tuberculosis medications. Medicines with reduced active ingredients can encourage antimicrobial resistance and can increase the likelihood of transmission for communicable diseases. keywords: test cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq0051t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq0051t.txt item: #515 of 4945 id: 2z10wq0053h author: Meredith Chase Whitnah title: Faith and the Fragility of Justice: Religious Responses to Gender-Based Violence in South Africa date: 2015 words: 418 flesch: 37 summary: I show here that the organizations' responses to GBV, an issue that emerged in broad public awareness in the context of the transition to democracy in South Africa, are rooted in their historical patterns of discourse. The differences in their approaches to GBV are partly due to structural influences, both internal and external, that have governed the organizations' actions over time. keywords: gbv cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq0053h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq0053h.txt item: #516 of 4945 id: 2z10wq00556 author: Alexis Michelle Chambers title: The Effect of Mood and Emotional States on Memory Consolidation date: 1904 words: 173 flesch: 34 summary: Although happy and fear emotion inductions similarly resulted in the mere suppression of neutral word recognition, sad emotion induction following learning resulted in a mood congruent memory bias for sad words. Emotion induction did not impact word recall or picture recognition. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq00556.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq00556.txt item: #517 of 4945 id: 2z10wq00t7s author: Marjorie Harrington title: Bilingual Form: Paired Translations of Latin and Vernacular Poetry, c. 1250-1350 date: 1904 words: 354 flesch: 26 summary: Medieval languages existed in a state of constant contact and interaction with other languages. In this project, I argue that thirteenth- and fourteenth- century English trilingual manuscripts show the coalescing of distinctive approaches to the literary and pragmatic possibilities of multilingual clusters of texts. keywords: translations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq00t7s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq00t7s.txt item: #518 of 4945 id: 2z10wq00t9g author: Raquael J. Joiner title: Support Dynamics in the Stress-Negative Affect Link: Within Individuals, within Dyadic Pairs, and across Dyads date: 2018 words: 255 flesch: 32 summary: The results of the present study suggest that visible support transactions are an integral component in the regulation of emotional responses to daily stress within married couples, and that wives and husbands may draw on different aspects of visible support to modulate their negative emotional responses to daily stressors. Of particular interest was the role of visible support, defined as recipients and providers reports of enacted support, and invisible support, expressed as the skillful provision of beneficial support happening outside of the support receiver's awareness, in moderating stress-negative affect linkages in individuals within a married couple. keywords: support cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq00t9g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq00t9g.txt item: #519 of 4945 id: 2z10wq01602 author: Maxime Berclaz title: Nosophoros date: 2020 words: 4 flesch: 75 summary: A collection of poems keywords: poems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq01602.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq01602.txt item: #520 of 4945 id: 2z10wq01695 author: Nicole A. DiBlasi title: Plutonium Interactions with Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid: Solubility, Redox Behavior, and the Influence of Aqueous Calcium and Iron Oxide Minerals date: 2021 words: 184 flesch: 7 summary: The second area of research highlights the role of aqueous Ca(II) and iron oxide minerals within Pu-EDTA systems through the use of undersaturation solubility studies, advanced spectroscopic techniques, theoretical modeling efforts, and ternary sorption studies. The first area of research utilized undersaturation solubility studies, spectrophotometry, and advanced spectroscopic methods as a function of pH and time to investigate the speciation, solubility, and redox reactions in binary Pu-EDTA systems. keywords: edta cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq01695.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq01695.txt item: #521 of 4945 id: 2z10wq01784 author: Jacob Landgraf title: Spaces of Spheres and the Torelli Subgroup of Out(Fn) date: 2021 words: 95 flesch: 64 summary: Using ideas from 3-manifolds, Hatcher--Wahl defined a notion of automorphism groups of free groups with boundary. We study their Torelli subgroups, adapting ideas introduced by Putman for surface mapping class groups. keywords: groups cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq01784.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq01784.txt item: #522 of 4945 id: 2z10wq0182c author: Wayde Z.C. Marsh title: The Politics of Trauma: Mass Tragedies in Polarized America date: 2022 words: 244 flesch: 24 summary: Using original survey experimental data, aggregate disaster response data, local-level panel data, and time-series cross-sectional data, the dissertation measures three major aspects of the politics of trauma: the effects of individual traumatic experiences on political behavior, public opinion regarding party response, and the polarizing impact of party elite response. In particular, mass exposure to traumatic events through expanded access to and supply of media in various mediums have made traumatic events more political in that Americans expect a governmental response. keywords: traumatic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq0182c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq0182c.txt item: #523 of 4945 id: 2z10wq01842 author: Hugh Michael O'Donnell title: Mission and Communion: The Catholic Integration of Biblical Faith, Greek Inquiry, and World Cultures in the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger date: 2022 words: 348 flesch: 31 summary: Today this inquiry is being raised once more in light of two realities: the experience of cultural pluralism within the universal Church and the necessity of cultural incarnation for the particular churches. Based upon the conviction that all theology is contextual, and therefore particular, contingent, and relative, these theologians claim that the purified Hellenic aspect of the early Church serves as but one example of cultural incarnation and accordingly ought no longer to be enduring or normative for Christianity today. keywords: christian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq01842.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq01842.txt item: #524 of 4945 id: 2z10wq0198r author: Natalie M. Ehret title: Direct and Indirect Relations between Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Social Impairment: The Role of Emotion Regulation Difficulties and Aggression date: 2023 words: 156 flesch: 28 summary: The first model examined peer impairment, whereas the second model examined family impairment as the outcome variable. There was an overall indirect effect for each model such that ADHD symptoms were associated with greater ER difficulties, which were associated with greater aggression, which in turn was associated with greater social-relational impairments. keywords: adhd cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/2z10wq0198r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/2z10wq0198r.txt item: #525 of 4945 id: 3197xk83c7t author: Ashraf N Al-Khateeb title: Fine Scale Phenomena in Reacting Systems: Identification and Analysis for Their Reduction date: 2010 words: 158 flesch: 24 summary: The required temporal scales to assure accuracy in modeling reactive systems and the required spatial discretization to formally capture all detailed continuum physics in the reaction zone are calculated. The slow invariant manifolds of dynamical systems arising from modeling closed reacting mixtures are constructed. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk83c7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk83c7t.txt item: #526 of 4945 id: 3197xk83d0q author: Brighid Corcoran title: Self Assembly of Air-Stable Cationic Lipid Bilayers on Mica and Silicon date: 2013 words: 522 flesch: 52 summary: One method to study these lipid bilayers is by making supported lipid bilayers on a solid substrate. The majority of studies on supported lipid bilayers is done with the lipid bilayer immersed in an aqueous phase. keywords: bilayers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk83d0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk83d0q.txt item: #527 of 4945 id: 3197xk83d5f author: Angela J Krumm title: 'I'm Not Prejudiced, But ....': Moral Credentials and Perceptions of Discrimination date: 2006 words: 156 flesch: 28 summary: Results indicate that moral credentials work better for observers who are majority group members than recipients who are stigmatized individuals. Additionally, the relationship between participant status (majority group members v. stigmatized individuals) and perceptions of scenarios presenting moral credentials was mediated by participants' identification with their ingroup. keywords: credentials cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk83d5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk83d5f.txt item: #528 of 4945 id: 3197xk83f01 author: Lauren Theresa Wendell title: Synthesis and Characterization of Heterobimetallic Alkaline Earth Metal Amides date: 2005 words: 289 flesch: 47 summary: This change in the bonding causes interesting solution behavior, where charge separated species are often seen in donating solvents. Complexes 1, 2, and 3 all undergo a dynamic equilibrium between the heterobimetallic structures and the homometallic precursors in arene solvents. keywords: solution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk83f01.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk83f01.txt item: #529 of 4945 id: 3197xk83f32 author: Jeffrey A. Bean title: Thermal Infrared Detection Using Antenna-Coupled Metal-Oxide-Metal Diodes date: 2010 words: 332 flesch: 33 summary: The measured performance of fabricated ACMOMDs is presented, including responsivity, noise performance, signal-to-noise ratio, noise-equivalent power, and normalized detectivity. These detectors are patterned using electron beam lithography and fabricated with shadow evaporation metal deposition. keywords: metal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk83f32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk83f32.txt item: #530 of 4945 id: 3197xk83f5r author: Chao Wang title: New Algorithms for Treatment Planning and Delivery Problems in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy date: 2008 words: 352 flesch: 26 summary: In this thesis, we study a set of combinatorial and geometric problems that arise in IMRT planning and delivery: (1) the 3-D static leaf sequencing (SLS) problem, whose goal is to deliver the prescribed IMs in the minimum amount of time; (2) the 3-D static leaf sequencing with error control problem, which aims to deliver the prescribed IMs in the minimum amount of time subject to the constraint that no unnecessary machine delivery error is introduced; (3) the field splitting problems, which seek to split a large width, undeliverable IM into several deliverable sub-IMs of widths no larger than a given threshold value such that the total beam-on time during delivery is minimized; (4) the shape rectangularization problems, which are useful in simplifying a complicated continuous dose distribution into a deliverable discrete IM; (5) the coupled path planning problems, which are directly related to dynamic leaf sequencing and single-arc dose painting, an emerging IMRT delivery technique. Our main ideas are to exploit the underlying geometric and combinatorial properties of the problems and transform them into graph problems such as shortest paths, optimal matchings, maximum flows, multicommodity demand flows, or linear programming problems. keywords: problems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk83f5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk83f5r.txt item: #531 of 4945 id: 3197xk83g21 author: Alissa J. Schunter title: Quantitative Phosphoproteomics of Colon Cancer Initiation and Progression date: 1904 words: 305 flesch: 35 summary: This dissertation compared two popular phosphoproteomics enrichment methods, immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) and titanium dioxide (TiO2)-based metal oxide affinity chromatography (MOAC). In the second study, a single-step TiO2 enrichment allowed characterization of signaling networks affected by low dose and high dose ionizing radiation in non-malignant breast cell line MCF10A. keywords: imac cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk83g21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk83g21.txt item: #532 of 4945 id: 3197xk83k81 author: Tong Wu title: Study on the Dispersion Quantification, Multi-body Coalescence Behavior and Application in Oil Water Separation of Pickering Emulsions date: 1904 words: 351 flesch: 38 summary: This thesis describes the investigation into three aspects of droplet size in Pickering emulsions—the quantification of size dispersion, the understanding of the unusual droplet size distribution caused by multi-body coalescence, and the study of droplet size effects in the oil-water separation using magnetic carbon nanotubes (MCNTs).To quantify size dispersion, researchers have proposed four different uniformity indices. Pickering emulsions have been developed into many applications. keywords: size cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk83k81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk83k81.txt item: #533 of 4945 id: 3197xk83k9c author: Edwin Mathews title: Numerical and Theoretical Analysis of Aero-Optics with Application to an Optical Turret date: 1904 words: 442 flesch: 36 summary: Wavefront statistics as functions of viewing angle are presented along with the effects of pressure and temperature fluctuations on optical distortions. Topics important to the design of aero-optical mitigation strategies, such as steady lensing, beam jitter and the connection between optical distortions and turret pressure fluctuations, are discussed and quantified. keywords: optical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk83k9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk83k9c.txt item: #534 of 4945 id: 3197xk84844 author: Qinfeng Wu title: Integrative Analysis of Cell Communication and Morphogenesis in a Multicellular System date: 2019 words: 385 flesch: 30 summary: Finally, future trends in how the advance in analytical tools will propel the study of cell communication and morphogenesis are discussed in the concluding chapter (Chapter 6). I reviewed the most up-to-date advances of technology that is used to reverse-engineer multicellular systems (Chapter 1). keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk84844.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk84844.txt item: #535 of 4945 id: 3197xk8497g author: M. Tahir Kilavuz title: Authoritarian Persistence and Regime Change in the Middle East and North Africa: Autocrats, Opposition, and Coalitions date: 2019 words: 616 flesch: 35 summary: I further draw on more than 120 interviews with key actors such as a former president, several prime ministers, ministers and party leaders to validate the argument about the importance of opposition coalition building on transition process. Using fieldwork and experimental data and relying on qualitative and quantitative analysis, the study distinguishes between the triggers of authoritarian breakdowns and the reasons behind democratic transitions. keywords: mena cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk8497g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk8497g.txt item: #536 of 4945 id: 3197xk84b1q author: Xunzhao Yin title: Cross-Layer Integrated Designs for Energy Efficient Computing date: 2019 words: 637 flesch: 32 summary: Our work paved the way to building pure emerging device based systems and emerging technology based hardware security primitives. Moreover, FeFETs offer advantages over other emerging technologies, including its three-terminal structure, voltage-driven write mechanism, high ON current, high on-off ratios, etc. keywords: emerging; sat cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk84b1q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk84b1q.txt item: #537 of 4945 id: 3197xk84g1z author: Arian Ahmadi title: Parameter Estimation and Energy Optimization in Connected Electric Vehicles date: 2020 words: 448 flesch: 40 summary: Mainly, the effect of the powertrain efficiency map on energy optimal speed trajectories is investigated. However, it has been shown that the driving range of EVs is notoriously sensitive to environmental conditions, especially wind conditions and street surface properties. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk84g1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk84g1z.txt item: #538 of 4945 id: 3197xk84g5b author: Brooke Chambers title: Decoding Kidney Development in Zebrafish: TFAP2A-KCTD15 Genetic Network Regulates Distal Nephron Differentiation date: 2021 words: 530 flesch: 33 summary: Lastly, we identified two discrete roles for the GRHL2 paralogs, grhl2a and grhl2b, in solute transporter program activation and epithelial maturation during distal nephron development. Tfap2a operates a circuit consisting of tfap2b and irx1a to activate the expression of distal nephron solute transporter genes clcnk, slc12a1, kcnj1a.1, and slc12a3. keywords: distal; nephron cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk84g5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk84g5b.txt item: #539 of 4945 id: 3197xk84g71 author: Katherine Barrett title: Microbialite Communities and Food Web Linkages in Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA date: 2020 words: 352 flesch: 27 summary: Great Salt Lake (GSL) is a large hypersaline lake with simple benthic and pelagic food chains characterized by high production of invertebrate herbivores, brine flies (Ephydra spp.) and brine shrimp (Artemia franciscana) that feed upon phytoplankton and attached algae on benthic microbialites. Over the course of its recorded history, GSL water levels have fluctuated in response to climate patterns and human interventions, which affect abiotic conditions and food web components. keywords: brine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk84g71.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk84g71.txt item: #540 of 4945 id: 3197xk84k4x author: Preethi Susan Mathew title: Ion Migration in Lead Halide Perovskites: Thermal and Photostability Insights date: 2023 words: 405 flesch: 47 summary: We have demonstrated that iodine expulsion can be used to (1) quantify ion migration in mixed halide perovskites with various A-site cations and (2) to compare ion migration at different electrochemical biases. For 2D perovskites to be integrated into devices, ion migration needs to be considered. keywords: perovskites cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3197xk84k4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3197xk84k4x.txt item: #541 of 4945 id: 3484zg66n9k author: Shawn Thomas O'Neil title: Expert Advice and the Newsvendor Problem date: 2010 words: 152 flesch: 48 summary: Finally, in a separate problem related to distributed computing, we discuss a new model and theoretical results for minimizing the time to distribute a file throughout a network using simple tools. Bounds of this type show that the approach will perform well in easy distributional demand situations while simultaneously giving guarantees for all situations. keywords: problem cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66n9k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66n9k.txt item: #542 of 4945 id: 3484zg66p0s author: Brandon Edward Haines title: Computational Studies on the Mechanism of HMG-CoA Reductase and the Grignard SRN1 Reaction date: 2014 words: 377 flesch: 37 summary: The enzyme is of considerable biomedical relevance because of the public health impact of its inhibitors called statins that are prescribed to control cholesterol levels and reduce the risks associated with coronary heart disease. The reaction involves a single electron transfer and was originally classified as a nucleophilic radical substitution (SRN1) reaction until radical clock experiments suggested that there is no radical intermediate. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66p0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66p0s.txt item: #543 of 4945 id: 3484zg66p2g author: Vishwanath Joshi title: Implementation of Locos (Local Oxidation of Silicon) Isolation Scheme in IC Fabrication date: 2004 words: 204 flesch: 59 summary: This is done by covering the active regions of the substrate with a thin layer of silicon nitride. Silicon nitride acts as a diffusion barrier to the oxidizing species. keywords: devices cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66p2g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66p2g.txt item: #544 of 4945 id: 3484zg66p3t author: John T Conroy, Jr. title: The Wages of Sin Is Death:' The Death of the Soul in Greek, Second Temple Jewish, and Early Christian Authors date: 2010 words: 681 flesch: 65 summary: Hence, he must have meant some kind of death other than physical death. The Wages of Sin is Death: The Death of the Soul in Greek, Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Authors. keywords: death cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66p3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66p3t.txt item: #545 of 4945 id: 3484zg66p76 author: Daniel Aaron Machiela title: The Genesis Apocryphon (1Q20): A Reevaluation of its Text, Interpretive Character, and Relationship to the Book of Jubilees date: 2007 words: 366 flesch: 50 summary: Based on a reappraisal of its language and comparison to Jubilees, the Apocryphon is dated to the early-mid second century B.C.E. It is an apocalyptic work concerned with the heavenly mysteries and interested in dream interpretation. The background of the division of the earth includes the Table of Nations from Genesis 10 (and other biblical passages), the Ionian world map, the broader geographic setting of the Genesis Apocryphon, and Noah's arboreal dream-vision (GenAp 13-15). keywords: apocryphon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66p76.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66p76.txt item: #546 of 4945 id: 3484zg66p8j author: William Felix Acosta Negrin title: Improving Search in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems date: 2008 words: 515 flesch: 55 summary: Optimizing the overlays or the search mechanisms itself was unlikely to resolve the mismatch between query terms and file annotations. In this thesis, I addressed the problem of unresolved queries due to query term and object annotation mismatches by transforming the original query and selectively removing terms from the original query in order to broaden its scope. keywords: peers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66p8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66p8j.txt item: #547 of 4945 id: 3484zg66p9w author: Errol J. Philip title: The 6th Vital Sign in Medicine: Evaluation of a Comprehensive Model of Distress in Cancer Care date: 2011 words: 338 flesch: 28 summary: A substantial minority of cancer patients experience clinically significant symptoms of psychological distress, which can be associated with a wide range of negative health outcomes. Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality in America and has a profound impact upon individuals, families, health care providers, and society at large. keywords: distress cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66p9w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66p9w.txt item: #548 of 4945 id: 3484zg66q03 author: Katherine Leigh Hull title: Advances in Geminal Organodimetallics: Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Reactivity date: 2010 words: 633 flesch: 36 summary: 1H NMR rate studies of the [L2Li3]-[Li(thf)4]+ to LLi2(thf)n equilibration process were performed (DHÌ¢ âÂåÁ = 12.6 Ìâå± 0.5 kcal/mol, DSÌ¢ âÂåÁ = -33.6 Ìâå± 1.8 kcal/molÌ¢è  ã¢K). The dianionic complexes have been characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and found to form a homologous series of dimeric structures in the solid-state, in accord with the previously reported structure of L2Li4. keywords: l2li3]-[li(thf)4]+ cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66q03.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66q03.txt item: #549 of 4945 id: 3484zg66q2s author: Srinivas Sridharan title: Compiler and Runtime Techniques for Software Transactional Memory in Partitioned Global Address Space Languages and Runtime Libraries date: 2010 words: 313 flesch: 41 summary: This dissertation makes the following contributions: First, we showcase the programmability benefits of providing language support for atomic transactions over lock-based approaches. STM mechanisms primarily guarantee that transactions, i.e. code sequences that access shared state, either execute as a single atomic operation or retry their operation in case such guarantees cannot be provided. keywords: stm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66q2s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66q2s.txt item: #550 of 4945 id: 3484zg66q34 author: Levente Borvák title: Direct Laser Absorption Spectroscopy Measurements of Transition Strengths in Cesium date: 2014 words: 118 flesch: 37 summary: Our motivation for constructing this apparatus is to perform high precision measurements of transition strengths and ratios important to the interpretation of parity nonconservation measurements and for testing electronic structure calculations in atomic cesium. We have measured directly via laser absorption spectroscopy the 6s2S1/2 → 7p2P3/2 to the 6s2S1/2 → 7p2P1/2 transition strength ratio in atomic cesium along with the individual electric dipole matrix elements for both of those transitions. keywords: 6s2s1/2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66q34.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66q34.txt item: #551 of 4945 id: 3484zg66q5t author: Sean Padraic Branagan title: Nanoporous Metallic Films In Micro-nanofluidic Structures date: 2012 words: 316 flesch: 26 summary: In this work, several types of microanofluidic structures are fabricated, and a diverse set of experimental tests are performed which quantify the ways in which nanoporous metal films can enhance the performance of the device in many unique ways. Miniaturized chemical analysis systems have the potential to become ubiquitous in everyday life, accelerating our access to chemical information in much the same way that integrated electronic circuits have improved our ability to communicate. keywords: nanoporous cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66q5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66q5t.txt item: #552 of 4945 id: 3484zg66q8v author: Amy Rose Klegarth title: Landscape Genetic Structure, Ranging Patterns, and Management of Urban Primates date: 1904 words: 361 flesch: 27 summary: Here, I examine three populations of urban macaques: long-tailed macaques from Bali, Indonesia, and Singapore, and Barbary macaques from Gibraltar. While each population has unique cultural, environmental, and ecological backdrops, the three sites share many commonalities, including extensive overlap between humans and macaques. keywords: macaques cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66q8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66q8v.txt item: #553 of 4945 id: 3484zg66r54 author: Beatriz Carrillo title: The Medicalization of Chilean Politics; An Analytical Catalogue of Physicians from the 1920s to the 1970s date: 1904 words: 69 flesch: 46 summary: During the early twentieth century Chilean doctors took a different approach to the relation between medicine and politics; they did not only publicly claim for the need of a Ministry of Health but they got involved in legislation. Doctors in Chile took the medical expertise they had learned while practicing their trade and moved it into the congress, helping promote and create new laws that would help socialize medicine. keywords: doctors cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66r54.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66r54.txt item: #554 of 4945 id: 3484zg66s0q author: Adam Asher Duker title: Providence under Pressure: Israelite Identity and Religious War in Early Modern France, 1550–1575 date: 1904 words: 465 flesch: 33 summary: It is a cross confessional and comparative study that examines dozens of eyewitness siege accounts and other sources born of the awful crucible of siege warfare, exploring how contemporary Christians understood their relationship to God, to each other, and to the distant past in the midst of chaos and trauma. This dissertation is composed of three large and moving blocks of material: a narrative of key siege campaigns in the French religious wars; a treatment of the written narratives which came out of those campaigns, and a thematic exploration and analysis of the place of ancient texts—particularly the Hebrew Bible—in informing and structuring the combatants' sense of themselves and their enemies. keywords: siege cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg66s0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg66s0q.txt item: #555 of 4945 id: 3484zg67d0k author: Scott K. Shaw title: Near-Infrared Molecular Probes for Biomembrane Recognition date: 1904 words: 136 flesch: 23 summary: This thesis describes the efforts toward developing new molecular probes which can target and report on biological membranes. These probes employ sophisticated fluorescence or photothermal reporting group, and one or more high affinity ligands for receptors of biological importance. keywords: probes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg67d0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg67d0k.txt item: #556 of 4945 id: 3484zg67r11 author: Daniel Contreras title: Primum cognitum: Bonaventure and Aquinas on the Foundations of Knowledge date: 2020 words: 557 flesch: 29 summary: The resolution of knowledge into its most basic components ultimately arrives at the knowledge of something whose own intelligibility is presupposed by, and included in, the intelligibility of everything else, but that does not presuppose anything beyond itself. This dissertation contributes towards reconstructing the origins and early stages of the development of this debate by closely examining Bonaventure and Aquinas's accounts of what is first known. keywords: bonaventure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg67r11.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg67r11.txt item: #557 of 4945 id: 3484zg67t09 author: Justin Greaves title: Fate and Transport of Emerging Viral Pathogens and Fecal Indicators in Environmental Waters date: 2021 words: 180 flesch: 10 summary: The results of these investigations will help develop promising viral fecal indicators for water quality monitoring purposes where they can improve upon the traditionally used fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) and other proposed bacterial indicators. The four main objectives addressed in this dissertation were to (1) understand the persistence of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB), viral indicators and pathogens in model freshwater systems, (2) characterize the particle associations of promising molecular fecal pollution indicators, (3) determine the transport characteristics of bacterial and viral indicators in flowing waters, and (4) determine the persistence of infectious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in wastewater and water. keywords: indicators cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg67t09.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg67t09.txt item: #558 of 4945 id: 3484zg67t3b author: Emily Mae Work title: Synergy of Computation and Experiment in the Development of Luminescent Steroids and Chiral Ligands date: 2022 words: 354 flesch: 28 summary: Molecular design of chemical tools has a broad range of applications, from the development of probes for use in chemical and cell biology to the development of chiral catalysts for use in enantioselective chemical synthesis. It also describes a new application of Q2MM and TSFFs in the in silico design of novel ligand classes, enabling a user to virtually screen new ligand designs prior to synthesis. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg67t3b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg67t3b.txt item: #559 of 4945 id: 3484zg67v5b author: Michael P. Maloney title: Computational Investigations of Transition Metal Catalyzed Reaction Mechanisms and the Verification of Q2MM Predictions date: 2023 words: 289 flesch: 18 summary: The second study focused on the mechanistic differences between the underlying vinyl cyclopropane rearrangement in vinyl isocyanates and vinyl ketenes. This method relies on understanding the stereodetermining step for the reaction of interest and allows one to quickly screen chiral ligand libraries, identifying the highest performing ligand for the transformation. keywords: development cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3484zg67v5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3484zg67v5b.txt item: #560 of 4945 id: 37720c49x9s author: Kristi Lynn Pellegrini title: Solid State and Aqueous Behavior of Uranyl Peroxide Cage Clusters date: 2015 words: 386 flesch: 33 summary: Solid state analyses are used to probe the complicated bonding environments between U24Pp12 and crystallized counterions, giving further insight into the importance of cluster protonation and counterions in uranyl cluster systems. In this thesis, I examine the aqueous behavior of U24Pp12, as well as aqueous cluster systems with added mono-, di-, and trivalent cations. keywords: uranyl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/37720c49x9s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/37720c49x9s.txt item: #561 of 4945 id: 37720c49z2p author: Yi Wei title: Monitoring, Configuration and Resource Management of Service Workflows in Virtualized Clusters and Clouds date: 2013 words: 214 flesch: 35 summary: Several algorithms are proposed throughout the dissertation, each focusing on a different aspect of the larger problem, from monitoring individual services, to placing a new service workflow in the cloud, to dynamically reallocating resources across different services to satisfy demands and reduce costs. We show through experimental results, from both real world cluster trace logs and synthetic data, that the proposed approaches can perform various management tasks for service workflows efficiently. keywords: cloud cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/37720c49z2p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/37720c49z2p.txt item: #562 of 4945 id: 37720c49z62 author: Daniel Paul Fogarty title: The investigation of hyperthermal gas collisions on heterogeneous surfaces using an in situ scanning tunneling microscope date: 2008 words: 252 flesch: 38 summary: The number of nearest-neighbor molecules (within the 5 å¡A lattice distance) is stongly predictive of molecular stability with respect to rare-gas bombardment, and the overall dependence of stability on nearest neighbors is well fit by a simple exponential curve for molecules with 0–5 nearest neighbors. Migration rates are calculated and compared for molecules in close-packed domains, at domain boundary defects, and along the perimeter of vacancy island defects. keywords: molecular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/37720c49z62.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/37720c49z62.txt item: #563 of 4945 id: 37720c5002r author: Aaron Wesley Buckner title: Optical Aberrations in a Subsonic, Compressible, Turbulent Boundary Layer date: 2005 words: 140 flesch: 25 summary: X-wire, surface pressure, and optical data were collected to document the coherence lengths of coherent flow structures in all three coordinate directions in a turbulent boundary layer. This result provides a direct link between optical aberrations and large-scale, coherent, vortical structures (and their concomitant pressure wells) in the outer portion of a turbulent boundary layer. keywords: layer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/37720c5002r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/37720c5002r.txt item: #564 of 4945 id: 37720c5005s author: Gregory Edward Snowden title: Population Level Variation in Growth of the C3 Salt Marsh Sedge, Schoenoplectus americanus, and Its Potential Effects on Ecosystem Function date: 2010 words: 151 flesch: 37 summary: Evolutionary variation could affect ecosystem processes like decomposition and marsh soil accretion as genotypes shift in abundance and distribution. As environments change, evolution may modify plant growth, and thus influence ecosystem processes. keywords: growth cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/37720c5005s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/37720c5005s.txt item: #565 of 4945 id: 37720c5007g author: Yuqian Zhang title: Generation and Characterization of Stable HEK293 Tet-on Advanced Cell Line Inducibly Expressing Rat NR1b NMDA Receptor Subunit date: 2010 words: 186 flesch: 28 summary: The establishment of this cell line provided the possibility of stably expressing different combinations of NMDAR subunits using Tet-On expression system for NMDAR related study in the future. N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors (NMDARs) are ligand-gated ion channels belonging to the family of ionotropic glutamate receptors. keywords: inducible cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/37720c5007g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/37720c5007g.txt item: #566 of 4945 id: 37720c5050m author: Gongchen Sun title: Nonlinear Ionic Circuits and Ionic Memristors for Integrated Liquid Biopsy Chips date: 1904 words: 452 flesch: 34 summary: To solve this problem, we urgently need microfluidic tools to rapidly detect and quantify multiple molecular biomarkers within a minimum amount of clinical sample --- and do so at high throughput so many samples can be processed. However, most molecular diagnostic techniques are disease/biomarker specific and cannot be used for point-of-care (POC) pan-disease screening of a multitude of molecular biomarkers. keywords: ionic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/37720c5050m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/37720c5050m.txt item: #567 of 4945 id: 37720c50p2z author: Kevin Leyden title: System Monitoring by Tracking Fractional Order date: 1904 words: 322 flesch: 29 summary: In analyzing simulated systems representing multi-robot vehicle formations, shifts in fractional order are evident in response to changes in both the severity and the location of damage. These results support the primary goal of this research: a monitoring method that can diagnose damage without complete sensor coverage, instead measuring fractional order to infer operational changes. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/37720c50p2z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/37720c50p2z.txt item: #568 of 4945 id: 37720c50p6b author: Heather M. DuBois title: To Be More Fully Alive: John of the Cross and Judith Butler on Transformation of the Self date: 1904 words: 357 flesch: 31 summary: Increasing sensibility can enable a second form of intrapersonal praxis that I call re-scripting. 'Re-scripting' combines insights from Tomkins' theory about personal patterns and Butler's theory about social norms to offer an understanding of intentional transformation of the self as activity at the nexus of the personal and the social. With this theory about the transforming self, I argue for a set of dispositions and practices that can foster positive transformation in and through ambivalent socio-material ecosystems. keywords: theory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/37720c50p6b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/37720c50p6b.txt item: #569 of 4945 id: 37720c50t6k author: Meagan K. Simpson title: Fictionalizing Adam and Eve in Nineteenth-Century British Literature date: 2019 words: 258 flesch: 30 summary: By annexing Adam and Eve into fictional texts, nineteenth-century writers suggest that referentiality need not be conceptualized as an either/or scheme, but rather allows for more complicated configuration in which any given referent can be nonliteral and still deeply meaningful. In its place, scientific empiricism offers an alternative interpretation, one which holds any referent, including Adam and Eve, can either be literally real and therefore incapable of conferring such grand cosmological meaning or else purely mythical and therefore only valuable within the closed system of its text. keywords: eve cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/37720c50t6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/37720c50t6k.txt item: #570 of 4945 id: 37720c50v9x author: Vinod Bruno Shah title: Disciplining Theology: Critically Retrieving Xavier Zubiri's Fundamental Theology of Experience date: 2019 words: 349 flesch: 26 summary: To show furthermore the purchase of Zubirian thought, two other critical comparisons are made—with John Zizioulas, an influential dialogue partner for Western theology, and his relational ontology; and with Maurice Blondel, a major inspiration behind the changes in conciliar era theology, and his actional account of the infinite. He calls this fundamental depth dimension of human reality theologal, and identifies the absolutely absolute as God.To keywords: zubiri cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/37720c50v9x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/37720c50v9x.txt item: #571 of 4945 id: 37720c51350 author: Karlyn K. Harrod title: A Non-Invasive Patient-Specific Modeling Approach for Predicting Group II Pulmonary Hypertension as a Clinical Indicator of Diastolic Heart Failure for Patients with Uncertain Clinical Data date: 2022 words: 600 flesch: 29 summary: Therefore, elevated pulmonary pressures are an important clinical indicator of diastolic heart failure and significantly correlate with associated mortality. This thesis uses the hemodynamic consistency of a differential-algebraic circulation model to predict pulmonary pressures in adult patients from other, possibly non-invasive, clinical data. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/37720c51350.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/37720c51350.txt item: #572 of 4945 id: 37720c51381 author: Kathryn Trentadue title: Investigating the Biosynthesis of the Ambruticins: Total Synthesis and Epoxidation of Intermediate Ambruticin J date: 2022 words: 358 flesch: 40 summary: We have completed a total synthesis of this molecule, providing access to ambruticin J for epoxidation-cyclization studies and synthetically confirming the proposed structure. Finally, chapter four discusses the development of epoxidation-cyclization conditions for ambruticin J and their application to ambruticin J model systems. keywords: ambruticin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/37720c51381.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/37720c51381.txt item: #573 of 4945 id: 3b59183371f author: Henry Clay Conner title: The Role of Notch Signaling During Retinal Regeneration in Zebrafish date: 2014 words: 362 flesch: 28 summary: At 14 and 28 days post injection, the number of Müller glia were significantly reduced in GSI-treated retinas relative to controls, while both UV and blue single cones were increased, suggesting that Notch signaling is required for Müller glia redifferentiation and plays a role in balancing cell fate choice of progenitor cells. While Notch has different functions in various cell types, it primarily regulates cell proliferation, cell fate choice and differentiation. keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b59183371f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b59183371f.txt item: #574 of 4945 id: 3b59183374g author: Jorge Gabriel Ganopolsky title: Inflammation in Protein C and Factor XI deficient mice date: 2004 words: 1053 flesch: 31 summary: Recently, mice with PC deficiencies were generated by targeted complete gene deletion and replacement by a neomycin resistant cassette. Additionally, renal and hepatic damage were more severe in $PC^{+/-}$ treated mice relative to similar {it WT} mice. keywords: mice cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b59183374g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b59183374g.txt item: #575 of 4945 id: 3b591833765 author: Rosanne E. Frederick title: Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenases Involved in Biosynthetic Pathways date: 2012 words: 360 flesch: 38 summary: Altogether these findings define the behavior of a new subclass of flavin-dependent monooxygenases that are involved in important biosynthetic processes. A look at the phylogenetically widespread class of flavin-dependent monooxygenases shows that little is known of those involved in biosynthetic pathways. keywords: flavin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b591833765.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b591833765.txt item: #576 of 4945 id: 3b59183378v author: Stephen Jacod Tueller title: Post-Hoc Comparisons and Classification Accuracy in the Factor Mixture Model and Taxometric Procedures date: 2010 words: 352 flesch: 32 summary: Users of both the FMM and taxometric procedures frequently assign subjects to latent classes and then perform post-hoc comparisons to estimate class covariate effects. Results show that the FMM can detect classes better than taxometric procedures, and that parameter estimates for post-hoc procedures can be quite biased, especially in conditions where assignment accuracy is poor. keywords: accuracy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b59183378v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b59183378v.txt item: #577 of 4945 id: 3b591833796 author: Brian Elliot Gloor title: Understanding the Local Backbone Dynamics of the pMHC and Kinetics of the TCR/pMHC Binding Interaction date: 2012 words: 420 flesch: 46 summary: Here, through the utilization of fluorescence anisotropy, we investigate MHC flexibility when different peptides are bound. The T cell receptor is a molecule found on the surface of T cells that is responsible for recognizing antigens presented by major histocompatability complex (MHC) proteins. keywords: mhc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b591833796.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b591833796.txt item: #578 of 4945 id: 3b59183380d author: Michael J. Strand title: Field Theory and Professional Transformation: American Psychiatry, 1945-1980 date: 2008 words: 151 flesch: 43 summary: I also draw links between field theory and more general accounts of institutions and institutional change. I illustrate these concepts with an account of the transformation of psychiatry, and I conclude by critiquing the systems approach to institutional change in the professions developed by Andrew Abbott. keywords: account cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b59183380d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b59183380d.txt item: #579 of 4945 id: 3b59183381r author: Xinguang Cheng title: Nonlinear Interfacial Dynamics at Nanoscale date: 2011 words: 368 flesch: 33 summary: A scaling theory that collapses the binary nanocolloid spatial distribution suggests that the nanocolloid-controlled Rayleigh fission cascade asymptotes towards a distinct size-sensitive charge and trajectory due to a balance between axial electrophoresis and Coulombic radial repulsion. 2.Different size nanocolloid selects different harmonics resulting in the size-dependent separation. keywords: nanocolloid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b59183381r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b59183381r.txt item: #580 of 4945 id: 3b591833823 author: Paul Michael Schneeberger Jr. title: The Functionalization and Reactivity of Germanium Clusters date: 2010 words: 106 flesch: 39 summary: This work contains three sections: (i) functionalization of the Ge9 monomer cluster by various organic functional groups, (ii) potential synthesis of a tri-substituted cluster, and (iii) synthesis of cluster oligomers and studies of their functionalization and reactivity by mass spectrometry. The work herein furthers the understanding of Ge9 clusters, as well as provides new insights into the functionalization that the cluster undergoes. keywords: cluster cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b591833823.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b591833823.txt item: #581 of 4945 id: 3b59183384s author: Zhiqing Zhu title: Probing Interactions Between Eb1, Microtubules and Actin date: 2010 words: 579 flesch: 54 summary: The dynamic behavior of MTs and actin are separately regulated by two groups of proteins: MT binding proteins (MTBPs) and actin binding proteins (ABPs). To resolve this issue and define the native EB1 activity, we developed a de novo purification strategy for EB1 proteins and successfully purified several native (untagged) EB1 constructs. keywords: eb1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b59183384s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b59183384s.txt item: #582 of 4945 id: 3b591833854 author: Bridget E. McCollam title: Zippeites: Chemical Characterization and Powder X-ray Diffraction Studies of Synthetic and Natural Samples date: 2004 words: 149 flesch: 43 summary: Although progress has been made toward understanding the crystal structure and chemistry of these minerals by studying synthetic analogues, very little work has been done with natural samples due to their small grain size and tendency to grow as mixtures with other minerals. This study compared natural samples to synthetic crystals using X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe techniques while conducting the first comprehensive study of the crystal chemistry of these minerals. keywords: minerals cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b591833854.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b591833854.txt item: #583 of 4945 id: 3b59183387t author: Esther Braselmann title: Investigating the secretion and folding mechanism of a beta-sheet rich virulence protein date: 2014 words: 358 flesch: 37 summary: The translocator domain is required for OM secretion of the central passenger domain. Previous studies indicate that the AT passenger domain is secreted from C- to N-terminus across the OM, and that, once outside of the cell, vectorial folding of the passenger could drive OM secretion. keywords: domain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b59183387t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b59183387t.txt item: #584 of 4945 id: 3b59183389h author: Charles J. Fagan title: Smothering the Baby in the Cradle? Reacting to the Rise of New Great Powers date: 1904 words: 333 flesch: 61 summary: How do we explain great power behavior towards emerging great powers? The goal of this dissertation is to refine existing theories to answer this question, both by providing explanations of past great power behavior as well as making predictions of how the United States will react in different situations in the future when it faces emerging great powers. keywords: great cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b59183389h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b59183389h.txt item: #585 of 4945 id: 3b59183390q author: Andrew Brinkerhoff title: Observation of Top Quark Pairs Produced in Association with a W or Z Boson in PP Collisions at the LHC date: 1904 words: 139 flesch: 52 summary: The ttW cross section is measured to be 382+117−102 fb, yielding evidence for ttW production with a significance of 4.8 standard deviations from the background-only hypothesis. The ttZ measurement is consistent with the standard model prediction, while the measured ttW cross section is higher than expected, but compatible with the standard model. keywords: ttw cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b59183390q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b59183390q.txt item: #586 of 4945 id: 3b591833x9d author: Sherwood Benavides title: Studies on Solute Recovery in Facilitated Transport and Osmotically Driven Membrane Processes date: 1904 words: 373 flesch: 24 summary: A three-pronged approach is pursued to assist in the design of these two systems: an analytical model describes performance as a function of membrane properties and operating parameters; numerical solutions of the governing equations corroborate the model; and bench-scale experimental modules demonstrate the ability of the model to predict performance. An analytical model that relates the performance (e.g., selective solute transport) to membrane properties (e.g., thickness, binding capacity) and operating parameters (e.g., feed solute concentration, oscillation frequency) of these inherently unsteady-state systems, is developed. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b591833x9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b591833x9d.txt item: #587 of 4945 id: 3b591833z1z author: Cara Jean Aspesi title: The Breviary of Lucca, Biblioteca Arcivescovile, MS 5: The Use of the Cathedral of Tyre date: 1904 words: 371 flesch: 52 summary: Instead, by excluding other major churches of Jerusalem for various reasons as the breviary's probable point of origin, this study argues that the breviary of Lucca, Bib. No obvious feature of the breviary connects it to the Crusader Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, but painstaking comparative study of the breviary's contents show that its liturgy was drawn from diverse European sources; this points to the breviary's composition outside of Europe. keywords: breviary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b591833z1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b591833z1z.txt item: #588 of 4945 id: 3b591834b09 author: Yunsong Pang title: Applications of Graphene in Improving Mechanical and Energy Conversion Materials date: 2020 words: 340 flesch: 34 summary: The related experiments show that such an improvement is a surface effect mainly attributed to the more hydrophilic feature of functionalized graphene, which influences the water meniscus profile at the vapor-liquid interface due to capillary effect. Since it was confirmed to exist in 2004, graphene has become a popular material for numerous researchers to study. keywords: graphene cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b591834b09.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b591834b09.txt item: #589 of 4945 id: 3b591834b4p author: Sarah Kathleen Johnson title: Occasional Religious Practice: An Ethnographic Theology of Christian Worship in a Changing Religious Landscape date: 2021 words: 349 flesch: 14 summary: Privileging the perspectives of occasional practitioners centers materiality, emotion, and relationship, although occasional practitioners also speak of God, tradition, and ethics. Sociologically, I argue occasional religious practice is a consistent yet underdeveloped theme in research on religious change in Canada, the United States, and Europe. keywords: occasional cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b591834b4p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b591834b4p.txt item: #590 of 4945 id: 3b591834c1z author: Kenya Lee title: The Criminalization and Remedialization of "Misfit" Students: Racial/Ethnic and Gender Inequalities in Alternative Education Program Placements date: 2021 words: 122 flesch: 23 summary: I find that Black students and emphatically Black girls have higher odds of behavioral placement than White schoolmates, but Latinx students do not. Using longitudinal data on students and program placements, I analyze the relationship between race, race-gender, and students' odds of being placed into AEPs for academic remediation (remedialization) or behavior (criminalization). keywords: students cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b591834c1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b591834c1z.txt item: #591 of 4945 id: 3b591834d7b author: Megan Vahsen title: Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Coastal Marshes in Response to Environmental Change date: 2023 words: 533 flesch: 25 summary: My dissertation provides novel insights to the magnitude and consequences of evolutionary trait change on ecosystem processes. I find that the utility of proxy measurements of plants traits varies by species and that process variance can dominate forecasts of ecosystem change. keywords: evolution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b591834d7b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b591834d7b.txt item: #592 of 4945 id: 3b591834f2x author: Katheryn J. K. Kelley title: Deconstruction and Identity Construction: The Role of Spirituality and Community in Religious Identity Development date: 2023 words: 374 flesch: 24 summary: Latent growth curve models failed to find support for the covariance of religious and spiritual struggle and identity exploration, but latent change score models found that changes in spirituality predicted changes in religious identity. This paper proposes a model of religious identity development by integrating multiple streams of identity development research to make sense of the puzzling religious trends seen in emerging adulthood. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3b591834f2x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3b591834f2x.txt item: #593 of 4945 id: 3f462516h1h author: Arvind Sridharan title: Design and Analysis of LDPC Convolutional Codes date: 2005 words: 348 flesch: 38 summary: LDPC convolutional codes are the convolutional counterparts of LDPC block codes. This dissertation describes techniques for the design of LDPC convolutional codes, and analyzes their distance properties and iterative decoding convergence thresholds. keywords: codes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3f462516h1h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3f462516h1h.txt item: #594 of 4945 id: 3f462516h36 author: James Gregory Radich title: Reduced Graphene Oxide-Based Nanoassemblies for Energy Storage Applications date: 2014 words: 355 flesch: 24 summary: Graphene oxide serves as a versatile precursor to reduced graphene oxide by offering unique opportunities to anchor nanostructured materials onto its surface and serve as a 2-D conductive support. The high surface area and excellent conductivity of reduced graphene oxide provide a suitable foundation for shuttling charges to redox-active materials such as those used in lithium ion batteries while maximizing the interfacial contact between the conductor (reduced graphene oxide) and redox-active nanomaterial. keywords: graphene cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3f462516h36.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3f462516h36.txt item: #595 of 4945 id: 3f462516h4j author: Kari Marie Hojara title: Running in Culture and Running into Culture: A Cultural Sociological Account of Why Meanings Matter date: 2014 words: 322 flesch: 44 summary: Also, what is the relationship between internal group cultures and external macro cultures? I use the cases of running groups to make contributions to the field of cultural sociology by employing a variety of research methods including textual analysis of online chatboard interactions and content analysis of popular running publications. keywords: running cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3f462516h4j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3f462516h4j.txt item: #596 of 4945 id: 3f462516h8x author: Stephanie M. Arnett title: National Variation in the Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Student Learning: Inequality and Stratification in Comparative Perspective date: 2008 words: 331 flesch: 25 summary: In many cases, low socioeconomic status students have a disadvantage that cannot be overcome by schools, and family socioeconomic status, not merit, often determines student academic success. Specifically, I find that countries with educational policies which aim to provide equal learning opportunities to all students have a weaker link between student socioeconomic status and learning outcomes, as do countries with more liberal social welfare policies. keywords: status cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3f462516h8x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3f462516h8x.txt item: #597 of 4945 id: 3f462516j4v author: Qi Liao title: Improving Network Insight Through Local Context Gathering and Analysis date: 2007 words: 259 flesch: 43 summary: By combining the full visibility at the end hosts (through such simple tools as netstat, ps, and lsof) and the global aggregate view at the central management server, it is demonstrated how local context improves network insight, and can be used for security auditing, finer network management and better policy mapping without costly deployment overhead. To that end, this work proposes a distributed network data collection and analysis system, eXpsicor, that pro-actively gathers the missing characteristics (local context) for the purpose of enterprise network management. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3f462516j4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3f462516j4v.txt item: #598 of 4945 id: 3f462516j9k author: Lideth Ortega-Villalobos title: Confirmation of the Structure and Validity of the Multicultural Supervision Inventory date: 2007 words: 349 flesch: 12 summary: Convergent validity tests confirmed the hypothesized theoretical relationships, demonstrating significant positive relationships between MSI scores and multicultural counseling competence scores, supervisory working alliance scores, the amount of time and quality of discussions addressing cultural variables in supervision, supervisors' intentionality, direct guidance, and perceived importance given to multicultural issues in supervision, and multicultural training and experience. This study presents the refinement of the Multicultural Supervision Inventory (MSI; Pope-Davis, Toporek, Ortega, 1999), a measure of multicultural competence in supervision developed for use by both supervisors and supervisees. keywords: toporek cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3f462516j9k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3f462516j9k.txt item: #599 of 4945 id: 3f462516k8j author: Dominic C. Babbini title: Multidentate PCsp3P-type Ligands with Engineered Avenues for Metal-ligand Cooperation and Their Iridium Complexes date: 1904 words: 230 flesch: 23 summary: Phosphine-chelated iridium complexes have been long known to exhibit unique reactivity with respect to bond activation and molecular manipulation. Our attempt is to engineer phosphine-chelated iridium catalytic systems which allow for heightened reactivity and specific selectivity with a focus on bond activation allowing for the functionalization of small molecules. keywords: activation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3f462516k8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3f462516k8j.txt item: #600 of 4945 id: 3f462516q32 author: Adrien Niyongabo title: Refugee Needs: Physiological, Psychological, Psychosocial, or Spiritual? Dignity Approach to Refugee Assistance in Kakuma Refugee Camp date: 1904 words: 391 flesch: 28 summary: I argue that Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory presents needs in a static progression, as if the satisfaction of needs was linearly determined, and furthermore ignores the value of psychological, psychosocial, and spiritual needs as basic human needs inherent to human dignity. Based on my findings, I suggest that relief providers understand that psychological, psychosocial, and spiritual needs are as important as bio-physical needs. keywords: needs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3f462516q32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3f462516q32.txt item: #601 of 4945 id: 3f46251774b author: Kathryn Del Vecchio title: Biophysical Analysis of Phosphatidylserine-Binding Proteins Lactadherin C2 and the Ebola Virus Matrix Protein VP40 date: 2018 words: 317 flesch: 31 summary: The biosensor LactC2 has been characterized as a tool to detect levels of phosphatidylserine (PS), an anionic, inner-leaflet plasma membrane lipid. SPR experiments have helped fill the void in the field regarding these interactions, noting particularly that cholesterol and membrane fluidity impact LactC2 affinity to membranes. keywords: protein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3f46251774b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3f46251774b.txt item: #602 of 4945 id: 3f462517f15 author: Monika Yadav title: Labor and Litigation: Effect of Unions date: 2019 words: 164 flesch: 50 summary: The finding is of particular importance as hostility towards unions grows and as labor movement seeks its revitalization through creative forms of union activism. Exploiting variation in state union density during the same period, I find that an increased union density positively affects the number of cases filed by nonunion workers. keywords: workers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3f462517f15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3f462517f15.txt item: #603 of 4945 id: 3f462517k8t author: Jamee Elder title: The Epistemology of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics date: 2020 words: 182 flesch: 37 summary: The second concerns the use of gravitational waves to observe binary black hole mergers. This field was launched in 2015 by the first direct detection of gravitational waves and the first direct observation of a binary black hole merger by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration. keywords: gravitational cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3f462517k8t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3f462517k8t.txt item: #604 of 4945 id: 3f462517k95 author: Baksun Kim title: Design of Optimized Peptide-Targeted Nanoparticles for Accomplishment of Selective Drug Delivery to Cancer Cells and Development of Inhibitors for Food Allergic Reactions date: 2020 words: 357 flesch: 24 summary: The 1st part of this dissertation will describe the design, synthesis, characterization, and optimization of peptide-targeted liposomal nanoparticles that show enhanced selectivity to cancer cells including HER2+ breast cancer, CD22+ blood cancer, GRP78+ metastatic breast cancer, and multiple myeloma. Multiple nanoparticle design parameters were both in vitro and in vivo optimized to accomplish enhanced target cancer cell selectivity in order to improve tumor growth inhibition efficacy of chemotherapeutic agents with minimal toxicity. keywords: cancer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3f462517k95.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3f462517k95.txt item: #605 of 4945 id: 3j333199s3g author: Haoyun Feng title: Ensemble methods for flux calculation date: 2015 words: 502 flesch: 37 summary: Numerical results on alanine dipeptide show significant improvement on efficiency of AWE using metastable states partition over AWE using Voronoi bins partition, especially when setting small number of states for underlying partition. Therefore, ensemble algorithms are developed to significantly accelerate MD simulations using distributed computing systems. keywords: states cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333199s3g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333199s3g.txt item: #606 of 4945 id: 3j333199s6h author: Ling Zhou title: Design and Fabrication of Nanomagnet Input and Output Structures date: 2005 words: 140 flesch: 43 summary: Input structures write a particular state to magnet dots, and output structures read out the state. Magnetic quantum-dot cellular automata (MQCA) is a new kind of unconventional computation structure that uses solitons or domain walls propagating in field coupled magnet dots to implement signal propagation. keywords: structures cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333199s6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333199s6h.txt item: #607 of 4945 id: 3j333199s7v author: David Wai Kui Lam title: Measurement of Top Quark Mass in the All Hadronic Channel in sqrt(s) = 1.96TeV, $par{p}$ Collisions at D0 date: 2008 words: 108 flesch: 58 summary: A measeurement of the top quark mass in proton-antiproton collisions at $sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$ using $1040 fb^{-1}$ of data collected in D0 detector at Fermilab is presented. The measured top masses in the six jets and seven or more jets events are:$m^{6j}{top} = 187.3 ^{+6.4}{-5.7} mbox{(stat.)} ^{+3.2}{-4.0}mbox{(syst.)} GeV/c2$$m^{7+j}{top} = 173.8 ^{+9.4}{-7.6} mbox{(stat.)} ^{+3.1}{-7.4}mbox{(syst.)} GeV/c2$ The results from both cases can be combined to give:$m{top} = 183.6 ^{+5.3}{-4.8} mbox{(stat.)} ^{+3.2}_{-4.6} mbox{(syst.)}GeV/c2$ keywords: mbox{(stat cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333199s7v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333199s7v.txt item: #608 of 4945 id: 3j333199s86 author: Beatrice Blanc title: Relationship between active site structure and chemistry in dioxygen producing chlorite dismutases date: 2012 words: 357 flesch: 42 summary: We mutated three conserved tryptophan residues in DaCld's active site in order to attempt to block off radical migration and stabilize Compound I. The ability of DaCld to produce such a great amount of oxygen can be used for other needs, for example in the prevention of tissue necrosis. This thesis focuses on understanding the relationship between the active site structure and function in the heme-containing enzyme chlorite dismutase from Dechloromonas aromatica (DaCld). keywords: dacld cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333199s86.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333199s86.txt item: #609 of 4945 id: 3j333199t0r author: Han-luen Kantzer Komline title: From Division to Delight: Augustine and the Will date: 2015 words: 326 flesch: 52 summary: Augustine depicts four different kinds of human will: the created will, which he describes as a hinge (cardo); the fallen will, a link in a chain (ansula catenae) that binds human beings to sin; the redeemed will, which is a root (radix) of love; and the fully free will to be enjoyed in the next life when perfection is made complete. Augustine's thinking on will, it demonstrates, deserves more than just a page in the story of the history of western thought. keywords: augustine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333199t0r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333199t0r.txt item: #610 of 4945 id: 3j333199t13 author: Santosh Kandel title: Examples of Riemannian Functorial Quantum Field Theory date: 2014 words: 130 flesch: 42 summary: Following Atiyah, Segal, Kontsevich and others, a $d$-dimensional Riemannian Functorial Quantum Field Theory $E$ assigns to a closed $d-1$ dimensional oriented Riemannian manifold a Hilbert space $E(Y)$ and to a bordism $Sigma$ from $Y_1$ to $Y_2$(which is a compact oriented Riemannian manifold with $partialSigma=Y_2sqcup overline{Y_1}$) a Hilbert-Schmidt operator $E(Sigma):E(Y_1) If we forget the Riemannian structure on the $Y$'s and the bordisms, then there are many examples which are known has Topological Quantum Field Theories. keywords: riemannian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333199t13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333199t13.txt item: #611 of 4945 id: 3j333199t2f author: Jennifer Cycon title: Design and Validation of a Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring System Interfacing Through a Local Area Network date: 2008 words: 458 flesch: 26 summary: Furthermore, the system is more reliable and sustainable than wireless systems, drawing both its power and communications paths from the existing infrastructure of the building. This project offers an alternative form of data acquisition for buildings using existing local area networks to offer much of the flexibility of the wireless system without the packet loss, synchronization and power issues. keywords: system cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333199t2f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333199t2f.txt item: #612 of 4945 id: 3j333199t3s author: Sundeep Venkatraman title: Information Rates and Capacity for Multi-Antenna Cellular Systems with Fading date: 2011 words: 344 flesch: 49 summary: The results show that spatial modulators offer a simple elegant design for Multi-antenna systems which performs better than conventional space-time codes in terms of achievable information rates. However, most literature on Multi-antenna systems does not make a clear distinction between the uplink and the downlink. keywords: dissertation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333199t3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333199t3s.txt item: #613 of 4945 id: 3j333199t44 author: Rhodora E. Beaton title: The Sacramentality of the Word: Contributions of Karl Rahner and Louis-Marie Chauvet to a Roman Catholic Theology of the Word date: 2010 words: 355 flesch: 39 summary: The fourth chapter examines Rahner's efforts to demonstrate the relationship between word and sacrament by contextualizing them within an understanding of an already graced world in which language is the privileged place of the self-expression of God. The second chapter treats classical sacramental theology: the work of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. keywords: word cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333199t44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333199t44.txt item: #614 of 4945 id: 3j333199t6t author: Jamie Lee Serrano title: Daughters' Body Dissatisfaction Partially Mediates the Relationship between Mother-Daughter Fat Talk and Daughters' Dieting date: 2011 words: 135 flesch: 31 summary: There are multiple variables related to negative body- and eating-related attitudes and behaviors in adolescent girls, including maternal weight-related comments, body dissatisfaction, and dieting behaviors. Disordered eating is one of the most common and problematic psychiatric issues among girls and young women. keywords: behaviors cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333199t6t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333199t6t.txt item: #615 of 4945 id: 3j333199t75 author: John Emory McRaven title: Theoretical Considerations for the Performance of Antenna-Coupled Metal-Oxide-Metal Diodes date: 2008 words: 114 flesch: 42 summary: Code was written based upon this method, and its results are compared to existing infrared antennas from other research groups. The Finite-Difference Time-Domain method for analyzing antenna structures is also presented. keywords: metal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333199t75.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333199t75.txt item: #616 of 4945 id: 3j333199t9v author: AnnaMaria Cardinalli-Padilla title: El Llanto: A Liturgiological Journey into the Identity and Theology of the Northern New Mexican Penitentes and Their Spiritual Siblings date: 2004 words: 335 flesch: 29 summary: One of the largest gaps in current scholarship lies in investigation of the medieval roots of Penitente devotion, another in the documentation and examination of their unique tradition of musical worship (the alabados), and a third in the role of women in Penitente society and spirituality. Further, work is still necessary to explore the theology expressed in Penitente art, ritual, and daily living. keywords: penitente cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333199t9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333199t9v.txt item: #617 of 4945 id: 3j333200h1v author: Monica B. Bykowski title: The Prince, the Bailiff, and the Mir: Power, Politics, and Agency on a Russian Serf Estate, 1810-1858 date: 1904 words: 435 flesch: 52 summary: Consequently, they relied on local institutions – namely the mir, or peasant commune, and estate bailiff – to fulfil their directives and inform them of estate affairs. This agency was possible, despite serfs' legal status as the property of others and place in the soslovie, social estate, hierarchy, because of local social dynamics. keywords: mir cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333200h1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333200h1v.txt item: #618 of 4945 id: 3j333200j15 author: Theresa Smart title: Navigating a Non-Ideal World: Political Prudence as a Civic Virtue in Aquinas date: 1904 words: 360 flesch: 27 summary: Aquinas' virtue of political prudence offers a valuable model for defending commitment to existing regimes while correcting for their inevitable deficiencies. The task of integrating civic loyalties into a unified life falls to citizens and their exercise of political prudence on a case-by-case basis. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333200j15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333200j15.txt item: #619 of 4945 id: 3j333200q9g author: Kelly Ann Heilman title: Vegetation Responses to Long-Term Environmental Changes at a Savanna Forest Boundary date: 2019 words: 467 flesch: 35 summary: Ongoing anthropogenic changes, such as land-use change, climate changes, and direct effects of CO2, can alter vegetation structure, composition, and growth rates. Positive effects of increases CO2 on plant water use efficiency (WUE) could aid forest resilience to future drought conditions, but may be complicated by climate changes. keywords: vegetation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333200q9g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333200q9g.txt item: #620 of 4945 id: 3j333200t9d author: Masoome Otarinia title: Absorbing Sets and Error Floor Performance of the 5G New Radio Code date: 2019 words: 226 flesch: 48 summary: LDPC codes are generally decoded using iterative message passing algorithms that yield performance that is close to capacity. Low density parity check (LDPC) codes are a class of error correction codes. keywords: ldpc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333200t9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333200t9d.txt item: #621 of 4945 id: 3j333200w2m author: Christopher Scott Temple title: Fostering Elite Science at an American Catholic University: The Rise of a Research Culture at the University of Notre Dame, 1842-1967 date: 2020 words: 323 flesch: 35 summary: During World War II, Notre Dame's lay faculty scientists conducted secret research for the Manhattan Project and biological weapons. By fostering research in science, Notre Dame aspired to be ranked among the nation's leading research universities and most prestigious academic institutions in American higher education. keywords: university cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333200w2m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333200w2m.txt item: #622 of 4945 id: 3j333200w5n author: Meena Said title: Microscopic and Spectroscopic Characterization of Solid-State Actinide Materials date: 2021 words: 140 flesch: 7 summary: The work presented herein studies solid-state actinide materials relevant to the nuclear fuel cycle, primarily actinide oxides in either powder or pellet form, using electron microscopy, digital microscopy, optical profilometry, vibrational spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction techniques to identify trends and potential signatures. This dissertation provides a glimpse into the complexities of solid-state actinide materials by using microscopic and spectroscopic techniques to probe chemical and physical properties, such as surface roughness, morphology, and susceptibility to aging and alteration. keywords: nuclear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333200w5n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333200w5n.txt item: #623 of 4945 id: 3j333200w60 author: PJ Lombardo title: PUSHER date: 2021 words: 3 flesch: 62 summary: Abstract not required. keywords: abstract cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j333200w60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j333200w60.txt item: #624 of 4945 id: 3j33320104h author: Wern Yeen Yeong title: Algebraic Hyperbolicity of Very General Hypersurfaces and Their Complements date: 2023 words: 317 flesch: 43 summary: More precisely, this circle of conjectures predicts that a variety of general type is hyperbolic outside of a proper subvariety called an exceptional locus, which may be empty if its canonical bundle has enough positivity. In this dissertation, we make several advances to the study of these conjectures with respect to the notion of algebraic hyperbolicity as defined by Demailly. keywords: general cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3j33320104h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3j33320104h.txt item: #625 of 4945 id: 3n203x83234 author: James P. Larentzos title: Molecular Modeling of Cation and Water Adsorption in Crystalline Titanosilicate and Polyoxoniobate Materials date: 2006 words: 367 flesch: 20 summary: Once a suitable potential model is obtained, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations are applied to predict preferred sorbent sites for cations and water molecules in various cation exchanged structures to supplement experimental x-ray diffraction studies. In particular, this study focuses on understanding the interplay between cations and water molecules in these ion exchangers. keywords: simulations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x83234.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x83234.txt item: #626 of 4945 id: 3n203x8325t author: Gaofeng Jia title: Kernel and Metamodel Based Methods for Analysis and Optimization of Systems under Uncertainty date: 2014 words: 357 flesch: 0 summary: The implementation and optimization of metamodels for efficient probabilistic performance assessment is studied, focusing on systems with very high dimensional output (something that becomes increasingly relevant with the trend of increasing complexity and scale of modern engineering problems), on the explicit incorporation of the metamodel prediction error in the performance predictions, and on real-time implementation that can support development of standalone applets. In this setting, the analysis and optimization of engineering systems involves a high computational demand, considered prohibitive for complex applications, despite recent advances in computer/computational science. keywords: optimization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x8325t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x8325t.txt item: #627 of 4945 id: 3n203x83265 author: chunlei li title: Computational Modeling of Microtubule Dynamic Instability date: 2014 words: 421 flesch: 35 summary: Moreover, we extended our computational model to include microtubule binding proteins (MTBPs) and studied the mechanism of a key MTBP, stathmin/Op18, which destabilizes microtubule structures. We extended our previous computational model to simulate dynamics of microtubules after instantaneously changing the nucleotide state of subunits in microtubule structure. keywords: microtubules cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x83265.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x83265.txt item: #628 of 4945 id: 3n203x8330d author: Stephanie Louise Morrison title: Relativistic Recoil: A Study of Highly Ionized Atoms date: 2008 words: 83 flesch: 45 summary: Recoil corrections, contributions to the energies of atoms and ions that are inversely proportional to the mass of the nucleus, are treated using a three-dimensional form of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for hydrogenic ions. The importance of these calculations for the interpretation of a number of high accuracy experiments on highly charged ions is shown, and directions for future research involving mass-polarization, a many-electron recoil correction, are discussed. keywords: ions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x8330d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x8330d.txt item: #629 of 4945 id: 3n203x8336g author: Brandyce Savannah St. Laurent title: Molecular and Behavioral Characterization of Anopheline Species in Indonesia and the Western Kenyan Highlands date: 2012 words: 369 flesch: 30 summary: In areas with many closely related species, which may belong to the same species group or cryptic species complex, molecular tools are essential for the accurate identification of vector species. These results will contribute to our understanding of the distribution of vector species, their behavioral patterns, and population structure, as well as provide new diagnostic tools. keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x8336g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x8336g.txt item: #630 of 4945 id: 3n203x8339h author: Alexandri Gregor Zavodny title: Analysis of Large-Scale Unstructured Urban Range Scan Data date: 2009 words: 163 flesch: 34 summary: Efficient 3D scanning technology has led to acquisition of very large datasets for application areas as diverse as terrain and urban modeling, but relatively few techniques exist to automatically extract meaningful regions from this data, and the largest datasets examined in the literature rarely exceed millions of points in size. In this thesis, we present an efficient algorithm for identification of locally planar regions in large-scale GPS-registered scan data containing hundreds of millions of points. keywords: points cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x8339h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x8339h.txt item: #631 of 4945 id: 3n203x83412 author: Joel Zachary Schmidt title: A Mediating Discourse: Congar's Pneumatology and Ricoeur's Philosophy of the Imagination in the Sacramentality of Preaching date: 2011 words: 352 flesch: 23 summary: Drawing on a great range of Paul Ricoeur's published works, I identify the role of the productive imagination in preaching in a variety of ways including, but not limited to: the split-level reference of poetic and religious language; the configuration of the preached word; epochÌÄåãÌ¢åÛåÏ, free variation, and metaphoric transfer in prophetic utopian projections; and the representation of the past. As a result, the basic agenda of this dissertation will be the following: to explore the sacramentality of preaching, construed in terms of an encounter with Jesus Christ, from the angle of its creativity through the coordinated contributions of the Holy Spirit and human imagination. keywords: preaching cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x83412.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x83412.txt item: #632 of 4945 id: 3n203x8343r author: Kara Lee Donnelly title: The Booker Prize: Literature, Britain, and the World, 1968-1999 date: 1904 words: 186 flesch: 39 summary: On the other, England has been displaced from the center of Anglophone literary culture as works identified as commonwealth, postcolonial, multicultural, and now global literature in English have become centrally important. Two issues define the contours of late 20th century and early 21st century literary culture in Britain. keywords: booker cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x8343r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x8343r.txt item: #633 of 4945 id: 3n203x8345f author: Juan Orlando Gonzalez-Lopez title: Regional and Coastal Hydrodynamics of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean Sea date: 1904 words: 284 flesch: 40 summary: Water level errors decreased with the inclusion of atmospheric forcing, and high- and low-frequency were generated by the model. The model validation included the tidal harmonic constituents, water levels, and currents. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x8345f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x8345f.txt item: #634 of 4945 id: 3n203x8360b author: Alexander Stern title: Fallen Names: Benjamin and Wittgenstein on the Aesthetics of Meaning date: 2016 words: 386 flesch: 39 summary: Benjamin's theory of language, espoused in early essays and in The Origin of German Tragic Drama, is notoriously dense and obscure. The famous Epistemo-Critical Preface to his book on German tragic drama is an extension of the theory of language into a metaphilosophy. keywords: language cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x8360b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x8360b.txt item: #635 of 4945 id: 3n203x8384b author: Audra White title: Genetic Analysis of Retinoic Acid Signaling in Pronephros Development date: 1904 words: 149 flesch: 48 summary: These functions protect the body form metabolite and waste buildup, which has been linked to developmental defects, cancer, and renal failure (DeBerardinis et al., 2012; Blaine et al., 2015). While some developmental effects of RA are known, others such as how mutations in RA regulation impact kidney segmentation are not. keywords: kidney cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x8384b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x8384b.txt item: #636 of 4945 id: 3n203x83s1z author: Mousa Mohammadian title: Theoretical Virtues in Science and Metaphysics date: 1904 words: 349 flesch: 26 summary: Theoretical virtues of scientific theories, also known as epistemic values or cognitive values, are taken by many philosophers of science as crucial factors in theory choice. In Chapter 1, I argue that in the context of scientific theory choice, there is no algorithm, no set of rules, for choosing the theory that best exemplifies theoretical virtues over its rivals. keywords: theoretical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x83s1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x83s1z.txt item: #637 of 4945 id: 3n203x83s5b author: Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo title: Essays on Social Relationships and the Making of Religious Tolerance date: 1904 words: 398 flesch: 23 summary: Lastly, I relate social relationships to one of the most hotly debated issues in American politics: polarization (Chapter 5). Pertaining to religious tolerance, I propose an explanation for why scholars have found a lower level of religious tolerance in Muslim than in non-Muslim countries. keywords: muslim cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x83s5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x83s5b.txt item: #638 of 4945 id: 3n203x83s6p author: Paige Rodeghero title: Behavior-Informed Algorithms for Automatic Documentation Generation date: 1904 words: 214 flesch: 47 summary: I discuss my eye tracking research with professional programmers and the areas of source code that are important to read for source code comprehension. I found the method signature to be the most important section of source code for reading comprehension. keywords: programmers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x83s6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x83s6p.txt item: #639 of 4945 id: 3n203x83z05 author: Jen Dwyer title: A World of Her Own date: 2019 words: 322 flesch: 50 summary: An Artist's job is to point at things - Miranda JulyIn the aftermath of the 2016 election, my practice shifted in response to contemporary gender politics. The female gaze was coined by Jill Soloway in response to Laura Mulvey's theory of the Male Gaze, where cinematic depictions of women are seen as the objects of male pleasure. keywords: female cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x83z05.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x83z05.txt item: #640 of 4945 id: 3n203x8403s author: Mark Brockway title: Secular Activism in Party Politics date: 2019 words: 431 flesch: 35 summary: Secular activists are also ideologically extreme, which suggests secular activists may push the Democratic to take more liberal policy positions. And can the Democratic Party benefit from the involvement of seculars in the Party? keywords: party cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x8403s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x8403s.txt item: #641 of 4945 id: 3n203x84509 author: Jermaine Marshall title: Foodpollo: Driving Reliable Food Recommendations from a Massive Online Food Portal date: 2021 words: 321 flesch: 45 summary: Utilizing relationships between recipe ingredient information would enable us to solve this problem and allow us to accurately recommend healthy and preferable meals to consumers. The need to provide reliable information in healthy food recommendations to consumers has become more imperative as misinformation continues to spread and obesity rates continue to rise. keywords: information cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x84509.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x84509.txt item: #642 of 4945 id: 3n203x8465b author: Jeya Pradha Jeyaraj title: Spatial Modeling and Analysis of Vehicular Networks date: 2021 words: 376 flesch: 41 summary: Due to the mission-critical nature of safety applications, high reliability is a key requirement of V2V systems. Having the binned SIR MD as the performance metric, we compare different stochastic geometry models to system-level simulations. keywords: v2v cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3n203x8465b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3n203x8465b.txt item: #643 of 4945 id: 3r074t66b55 author: Rebecca Weber title: A definable relation between c.e. sets and ideals date: 2004 words: 147 flesch: 53 summary: [N, 2^omega] for N nonprincipal, and a quotient structure of G, denoted G^diamond and thought of as G modulo principal classes disjoint from N. Using the setting of computably enumerable ideals, we present basic results for G and G^diamond and show that G^diamond is isomorphic to E*, the lattice of computably enumerable sets modulo finite difference. Related to the study of properties of individual classes is the study of the lattice of all Pi-0-1 classes, denoted E_Pi. keywords: classes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t66b55.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t66b55.txt item: #644 of 4945 id: 3r074t66b86 author: Ravi Kummamuru title: Experimental studies on Quantum-dot Cellular Automata Devices date: 2005 words: 456 flesch: 55 summary: We demonstrate clocking in QCA devices using a half cell containing three dots (triple-dot), with inputs applied to the top and bottom dots and clock applied to the middle dot. Finally a circuit for microwave frequency measurements of QCA devices using an RFSET is discussed. keywords: qca cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t66b86.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t66b86.txt item: #645 of 4945 id: 3r074t66b9j author: Chelsea M. Weaver title: A Longitudinal Study of Parenting Self-Efficacy in First-Time Mothers date: 2010 words: 289 flesch: 39 summary: Results are discussed in terms of maternal risk for low PSE, recommendations for PSE measurement, and the implementation of intervention programming designed to facilitate the development of PSE among at-risk mothers. The present study investigates (1) how PSE among first-time mothers changes over children's first two years of life, (2) how these patterns of change are associated with early maternal risk factors, and (3) how trajectories of PSE are related to children's cognitive development at age 2 among a racially diverse sample of 684 first-time mothers ranging in age from 15 to 35 years. keywords: pse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t66b9j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t66b9j.txt item: #646 of 4945 id: 3r074t66c0r author: Heath W. Carter title: Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago date: 2012 words: 347 flesch: 53 summary: The second thesis is that working people played an integral role in the eventual mainstreaming of social Christianities. The first is that wage earners cultivated a variety of social gospels well before the rise of the much-studied Social Gospel of Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and other middle-class reformers. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t66c0r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t66c0r.txt item: #647 of 4945 id: 3r074t66c2f author: Shashank V Maiya title: Cooperation and Latency in Channel Coding for Wireless Communications date: 2011 words: 358 flesch: 33 summary: The decoding algorithms considered are the Viterbi algorithm and stack sequential decoding for convolutional codes and iterative message passing for LDPC codes. It is shown that, at very low latencies, convolutional codes with Viterbi decoding offer the best performance, whereas for high latencies LDPC codes dominate -- and sequential decoding of convolutional codes offers the best performance over a range of intermediate latency values. keywords: decoding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t66c2f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t66c2f.txt item: #648 of 4945 id: 3r074t66c3s author: Yao Zhang title: Boussinesq-Green-Naghdi Rotational Water Wave Theory date: 2014 words: 722 flesch: 37 summary: The one-equation k-l turbulent kinetic energy equation coupled with rotational wave models are adopted to describe the eddy viscosity. Because the model is fundamentally rotational, it uses fewer ad-hoc assumptions than are found in many Boussinesq breaking wave systems. keywords: boussinesq; wave cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t66c3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t66c3s.txt item: #649 of 4945 id: 3r074t66c44 author: Patrick Mahaney Clark title: For the Greater Glory: Courage, Death and Virtue in Aquinas and His Philosophical Inheritance date: 2010 words: 163 flesch: 28 summary: This project ultimately intends to show the extent to which Aquinas' conception of virtue depends upon a theological, and specifically Christological, understanding of the relation between death and human perfection. Thomas Aquinas, on the other hand, considers the publicly shameful death of the martyr to be not only the highest exemplification of the virtue of courage, but also the greatest proof of moral perfection more generally. keywords: virtue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t66c44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t66c44.txt item: #650 of 4945 id: 3r074t66c5g author: John Spencer Thiede title: The Reality of Martyrdom in the Christology of Jon Sobrino date: 2012 words: 333 flesch: 52 summary: An expanded definition of martyrdom changes his Christology. This is evidenced by the differences between his work Christology at the Crossroads, the later works Jesus the Liberator and Christ the Liberator, and his writings on martyrdom since the early 1990's. keywords: christology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t66c5g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t66c5g.txt item: #651 of 4945 id: 3r074t66c6t author: Kaitlin R Peckham title: Diversification of the Squaraine Rotaxane Core date: 2010 words: 132 flesch: 51 summary: The first section deals with the design and synthesis of squaraine rotaxanes that were functionalized with a glucose derivative so that it might be used to target tumor cells. Squaraine rotaxanes have been developed previously, but here I present work toward creating a squaraine rotaxane core that can easily be functionalized using click chemistry, which has been shown to form products quickly and in high yields. keywords: squaraine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t66c6t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t66c6t.txt item: #652 of 4945 id: 3r074t66c8h author: Shengyan Hong title: Real-Time Scheduling in Cyber-Physical System date: 2014 words: 406 flesch: 48 summary: Such variations can come from a number of sources including task preemptions, variations in task workloads and perturbations in the physical environment. Lower transmission rates can greatly reduce transmission energy. keywords: end cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t66c8h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t66c8h.txt item: #653 of 4945 id: 3r074t66c9v author: Joseph James Foy title: Applying the New Federalism of 1996: Governors and Welfare Reform date: 2007 words: 214 flesch: 35 summary: Using a variety of measures of gubernatorial power, results of quantitative tests relating to a number of key policy choices, and the ability of states to achieve identified goals relating to these policy options, indicate that the state executive power does play a significant role in determining policy formulation and implementation in the states. A number of explanations have been offered to account for this variation, but few have focused on the impact of the state itself and the institutions and individuals that govern state action. keywords: state cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t66c9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t66c9v.txt item: #654 of 4945 id: 3r074t66d1d author: Andrea Lynn Christensen title: Motivation and achievement in classrooms:A comparison of relationships for high, average, and low achievers date: 2010 words: 144 flesch: 46 summary: Perceptions of a mastery goal structure and self-efficacy beliefs were significantly related to improved achievement of low achievers. Help-seeking behaviors were negatively related to performance goal structures only for low achievers, and self-regulation strategies were negatively related to change in grades only for low achievers. keywords: low cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t66d1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t66d1d.txt item: #655 of 4945 id: 3r074t66d33 author: Daniel John Sportiello title: The Primacy of the Practical in the History of Philosophy date: 1904 words: 300 flesch: 48 summary: For we are situated within the world that our philosophical theories describe—and so those theories must describe a world in which we arrive at justified theories. Philosophy is something that we do: it is a way of dealing with the questions and concerns that arise as we live our lives. keywords: philosophy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t66d33.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t66d33.txt item: #656 of 4945 id: 3r074t6727n author: Bo Hong title: Process and Material Design of Aprotic N-Heterocyclic Anion Ionic Liquids for Carbon Capture date: 1904 words: 72 flesch: 34 summary: In this thesis, we addressed this material design problem by developing simultaneous process and material optimization frameworks for post-combustion and pre-combustion carbon capture processes to identify the optimal properties of AHAs for achieving the best process performance. We also developed rate-based process models for techno-economic evaluation of the optimized AHAs. keywords: process cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t6727n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t6727n.txt item: #657 of 4945 id: 3r074t67327 author: Leanne A. MacDonald title: Transcending Boundaries: Non-Binary Gender in Old and Middle English Saints' Lives date: 1904 words: 367 flesch: 31 summary: Furthermore, I show that non-binary gender as it develops in these narratives adds nuance to our understanding of gender diversity as well as the intersectional relationships between gender, language, spirituality, and culture in medieval Britain. The Vernon Manuscript, which has not yet been studied for its inclusion of several gender non-binary saints' lives, presents these texts alongside other representations of gender in religious life, prompting its likely audience of women religious to consider the complexity of their own gender identities in relation to their spiritual occupations. keywords: gender cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t67327.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t67327.txt item: #658 of 4945 id: 3r074t67714 author: Tracie Lynn McGinnity title: Novel Nanoparticle Imaging Probes for Immunotargeting Cancer Cells and Maximizing X-Ray Contrast in Computed Tomography date: 2019 words: 516 flesch: 32 summary: Therefore, the overall objective of this research was to investigate novel NP imaging probes for immunotargeting cancer cells and maximizing X-ray contrast in CT. Hafnium oxide (HfO2) NPs of controlled size were prepared by a sol-gel process to investigate the interaction of HfO2 NPs with X-ray and mid-infrared radiation to assess potential as a multifunctional diagnostic probe for X-ray CT and mid-infrared biosensing, respectively. keywords: nps cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t67714.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t67714.txt item: #659 of 4945 id: 3r074t67d7r author: Jay David Miller title: Quaker Literary Agrarianism in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800 date: 2020 words: 299 flesch: 37 summary: After an introduction that gives an overview of the argument and the medieval and early modern roots of Quaker jeremiad, chapter 1 analyzes Quaker advocacy for agrarian justice in seventeenth-century England, and the theology of creation that informed it. This dissertation is a literary history of Quaker jeremiad, a genre of agrarian writing that developed throughout the Atlantic world from the English Civil Wars to the aftermath of the American Revolution. keywords: quaker cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t67d7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t67d7r.txt item: #660 of 4945 id: 3r074t67g19 author: Trevor Anderson title: Socrates, Knower date: 2021 words: 357 flesch: 55 summary: My third chapter responds to three separate charges to the effect that Socrates either fundamentally misunderstands the nature of human knowledge, or does not sufficiently attend to the way knowledge functions in human living, or both. I use Socrates' exchanges with Polus and Callicles in the Gorgias as evidence to argue that, while Socrates does destroy false self-conceptions and highlight inconsistency of beliefs, he also facilitates his interlocutors' awareness of their own acts of understanding, and encourages them to embrace the deliverances of those acts. keywords: socrates cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t67g19.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t67g19.txt item: #661 of 4945 id: 3r074t67g30 author: Deniz Enverova title: Social Complexity at the Time of Urbanization: A 'Grave' Perspective — Late Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze Age Northern Mesopotamia (6400-2000 BCE) date: 2021 words: 306 flesch: 32 summary: In order to contextualize my findings, I model North/South Mesopotamian interactions, North Mesopotamian social organization, and elite power as a heterarchical system. Thus, I am examining how social differentiation is or is not reflected in the ritualized behavior of burying the dead through the lens of 3000 years, and how we can possibly learn about these changes by employing human long bone cortical studies. keywords: mesopotamian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t67g30.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t67g30.txt item: #662 of 4945 id: 3r074t67g61 author: Andrea C. Peña-Vasquez title: Between the Patrón and the Padrón: How Municipalities Shape Access to Legal Status in Spain date: 2021 words: 272 flesch: 2 summary: Spain's Social Settlement regularization program is a prima facie inclusive policy that allows irregular immigrants to acquire residence permits after 3 years of continuous residence. Each municipality is enabled to designate its own housing requirements for registry on its census, which disproportionately impact racialized irregular immigrants. keywords: municipal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t67g61.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t67g61.txt item: #663 of 4945 id: 3r074t67j6n author: Daniel E. Schwandt title: A Responsibility to God and Man: The Life and Organ Works of David N. Johnson (1922–1987) date: 2023 words: 231 flesch: 35 summary: Formed by his early training at the Curtis Institute of Music, Trinity University, and Syracuse University, Johnson went on to teaching positions at Alfred University, St. Olaf College, Syracuse University, and Arizona State University. Organist, pedagogue, and composer David N. Johnson created an extensive body of organ and church music and influenced twentieth-century organ pedagogy through his teaching and writing. keywords: music cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3r074t67j6n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3r074t67j6n.txt item: #664 of 4945 id: 3t945q49m56 author: Mo Liu title: Robustness and power dissipation in quantum-dot cellular automata date: 2006 words: 146 flesch: 48 summary: Experimental and theoretical research on the switching of molecular QCA cells has been underway. The power dissipation and power flow in clocked molecular QCA circuits are explored. keywords: qca cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3t945q49m56.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3t945q49m56.txt item: #665 of 4945 id: 3t945q49m7w author: Michael Anthony Cruz Abril title: The Beginning of the End: Original Sin and Apocalypse in View of Karl Rahner and René Girard date: 2015 words: 343 flesch: 35 summary: They show not only that the universality of original sin is grounded upon the fact that sin happened at the beginning of human history, but also that the concrete historical effects of our decisions continue to have a deleterious influence upon the exercise of human freedom, such that all of our decisions are codetermined by a prior history of guilt and distorted desire. At the same time, from within human history the truth of the Gospel struggles against the escalation of sin and works to bring human history out of the meaninglessness of evil and toward realizing and revealing the deeper meaning of the world in view of the eschatological future. keywords: sin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3t945q49m7w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3t945q49m7w.txt item: #666 of 4945 id: 3t945q49m87 author: Han Liu title: A Plane Rational Map with Chebyshev-like Dynamics date: 2014 words: 59 flesch: 53 summary: The goal is to obtain a complete description of the dynamics of the map, something that is rarely possible for such examples and then go on to study dynamics of some nearby perturbations. This paper concerns a specific rational map of two complex variables whose dynamics are closely related to those of the well known one variable Chebyshev map. keywords: map cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3t945q49m87.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3t945q49m87.txt item: #667 of 4945 id: 3t945q49n8j author: Kristin Kobes Du Mez title: The Forgotten Woman's Bible: Katharine Bushnell, Lee Anna Starr, Madeline Southard, and the Construction of a Woman-Centered Protestantism in America, 1870-1930 date: 2004 words: 293 flesch: 21 summary: As participants in social reform movements particularly in temperance work and in the social purity movement they had become convinced that faulty religious teachings were at the root of modern social problems, and they turned to theology to expose and subvert what they perceived as the centuries-long manipulation of the faith by male translators and theologians. This dissertation brings together the study of Protestantism and feminism in modern American history, investigating the crucial transitional period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3t945q49n8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3t945q49n8j.txt item: #668 of 4945 id: 3t945q49p1f author: Ebrahim MolavianJazi title: Secure Communications over Arbitrarily Varying Wiretap Channels date: 2009 words: 205 flesch: 35 summary: We study this model for traditional wiretap codes and randomized wiretap codes, and develop insights about the corresponding secrecy capacity and randomized-code secrecy capacity, respectively. Additionally, we establish two upper bounds on the randomized-code secrecy capacity that suggest a single bad ``averaged' state can preclude secure communication, while certain superiorities of the legitimate receiver over the eavesdropper in all ``averaged' states result in a positive secrecy capacity. keywords: secrecy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3t945q49p1f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3t945q49p1f.txt item: #669 of 4945 id: 3t945q49p34 author: Joseph Workman title: When Sharing Hurts: Sibship Size, Resource Dilution, and Education date: 2014 words: 158 flesch: 32 summary: The study of the relationship between sibship and education provides insight on the processes by which family resources are mobilized to support children?s education. An extensive literature has documented that individuals raised with more siblings perform less well in school and complete fewer years of education. keywords: sibship cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3t945q49p34.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3t945q49p34.txt item: #670 of 4945 id: 3t945q50b75 author: Amber Shoaib title: Talk Baby to Me: Is Infant-Directed Speech Related to Vocabulary Size and Online Lexical Processing Skills? date: 1904 words: 289 flesch: 47 summary: For example, the exaggerated differences between speech sounds and attention-getting properties of IDS may support LPE; however, little is known about how experience with IDS impacts language development. Females who heard more IDS had larger receptive vocabularies at 12 months and 15 months and a hint of word-recognition. keywords: ids cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3t945q50b75.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3t945q50b75.txt item: #671 of 4945 id: 3t945q50p8m author: Nathan W. O'Halloran, SJ title: Soteriology in a Future Register: Expanding the Doctrine of Purgatory as a Process of Healing and Transformation for Victims date: 2020 words: 273 flesch: 48 summary: In its full doctrinal articulations at Lyons II, Florence, and Trent purgatory as a doctrine is concerned with personal sin. These sources are significant touchstones for us and guide us in our long journey through the history and doctrinal development of the doctrine of purgatory, as well as through our soteriological reflections on the salvation and healing of victims. keywords: victims cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3t945q50p8m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3t945q50p8m.txt item: #672 of 4945 id: 3t945q50q98 author: Elise Houcek title: TRACTATUS date: 2021 words: 10 flesch: 44 summary: Part philosophical treatise, part Bildungsroman, and part Girl's Diary. keywords: diary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3t945q50q98.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3t945q50q98.txt item: #673 of 4945 id: 3t945q50s14 author: Rachael Alvir title: Scott Analysis of Countable Structures date: 2022 words: 237 flesch: 56 summary: Finally, we consider the case when the Scott complexity of a structure is d − Σα or Σα. Next, we compute the Scott complexity for some well-behaved classes of structures. keywords: scott cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3t945q50s14.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3t945q50s14.txt item: #674 of 4945 id: 3t945q50t96 author: Nicolas Chavarria title: Some Results in Continuous Logic date: 2023 words: 177 flesch: 50 summary: Finally, we consider a double extension of the classical result of positive primitive elimination in modules, first to abelian groups with length functions, and then to abelian groups with length functions and homomorphisms to compact groups. This is described in the context of the dualities that underpin the logic and it is obtained through the use of maps to compact metrizable structures. keywords: logic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3t945q50t96.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3t945q50t96.txt item: #675 of 4945 id: 3x816m32w7f author: Jennifer Lynn Yonkoski title: Drunk Driving: Examining the Effects of Deterrence and Self-Control on Intention to Commit Future DUI date: 2005 words: 188 flesch: 46 summary: Building on the work of Grasmic and Bursik (1990) who propose an extended general model of deterrence, and the work of Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990) who propose that self-control is of central importance when considering the causes of crime, I combine these factors to develop a more comprehensive model to predict projected drunk driving. hey are likely to experience if they are caught has an important impact on intention to commit the offense in the future. keywords: dui cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m32w7f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m32w7f.txt item: #676 of 4945 id: 3x816m32x0b author: Sebastian Velez title: Biogeographic and Genetic Approaches to the Natural History of the Bioluminescent Jamaican Click Beetle, Pyrophorus plagiophthalamus (Coleoptera: Elateridae) date: 2010 words: 445 flesch: 30 summary: Previous studies have established the genetics of bioluminescent color variation in this beetle species to the level of the nucleotide base pair in the target gene luciferase. These newly developed markers will be useful in understanding the population structure of click beetles on Jamaica and in identifying possible selective factors responsible for bioluminescent color variation. keywords: color cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m32x0b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m32x0b.txt item: #677 of 4945 id: 3x816m32x1p author: Joseph B Herzog title: Infrared Reflectivity Spectroscopy of Short Period AlGaN/GaN Superlattice Optical Phonons date: 2010 words: 167 flesch: 16 summary: Through the examination of different AlGaN/GaN superlattice combinations, characterization of phonon energies versus material composition were obtained. Phonon characteristics were additionally measured as a function of temperature, confirming the expectation that phonon energies decrease with increasing temperature. keywords: gan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m32x1p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m32x1p.txt item: #678 of 4945 id: 3x816m32x21 author: Christine Hinz Lenzen title: (Re)Collections: Photography, Memory, and Forgetting date: 2012 words: 77 flesch: 21 summary: The installation is comprised of several individual pieces that when shown together reveal themselves as distinctive steps of an ongoing process which becomes a physical manifestation of the constant struggle between the desire to forget and the human propensity to remember. The work in Re:Collections draws from personal family history, thoughts on the photograph and the family album as mnemonic devices, and research on traditional and counter memorials to explore the dichotomy of remembering and forgetting. keywords: family cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m32x21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m32x21.txt item: #679 of 4945 id: 3x816m32x4q author: Liam Murphy Monahan title: Meeting Anscombe's Demand: Toward a Moral Psychology of Character date: 2004 words: 344 flesch: 29 summary: An agent-based account of right action claims that evaluations of human action are derived from the motivation or behavior of a virtuous agent. I argue that no normative account of the existence of objectively appropriate reasons for action can be derived from an agent-based account of right action. keywords: agent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m32x4q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m32x4q.txt item: #680 of 4945 id: 3x816m32x52 author: Veronica Eileen Roberts title: Romanitas Recast: Augustine's Reeducation of the Romans Against Idolatry and Towards Good Citizenship date: 2014 words: 260 flesch: 42 summary: In this dissertation, I argue that the City of God provides a helpful framework for concerned citizens to understand the dynamics that destroy political community. Together, he shows, these constitute the dynamic of the earthly city that undermines genuine political community. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m32x52.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m32x52.txt item: #681 of 4945 id: 3x816m32x6d author: Xuwen Yu title: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Behavior of Wireless Group Communication Systems date: 2010 words: 531 flesch: 41 summary: I show that wireless users are available for shorter durations and are unavailable for longer periods than was observed for wired users. In this dissertation, I expand on our understanding of the behavior of group communication systems to include wireless users. keywords: users cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m32x6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m32x6d.txt item: #682 of 4945 id: 3x816m32x7r author: Diane Macready title: Effects of Self versus Other Blame on the Benefits of Expressive Writing date: 2012 words: 285 flesch: 52 summary: Although the literature has clearly established the health benefits of expressive writing, the mechanisms that cause those benefits are still under debate. Expressive writing has been established over the last several decades as an effective way to cope with distressing life events. keywords: writing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m32x7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m32x7r.txt item: #683 of 4945 id: 3x816m32x83 author: Joseph A. Valerioti title: Pressure Dependence of Plasma Actuated Flow Control date: 2010 words: 157 flesch: 29 summary: Recurring trends in the experimental thrust were evaluated against simulations from the Space-Time Lumped Element Model, which was designed strictly for atmospheric pressure. Parameters in the model affected by ambient pressure (capacitance, resistance, and Debye length of the air) were then systematically adjusted to determine their effects on the plasma-produced body force. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m32x83.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m32x83.txt item: #684 of 4945 id: 3x816m32z0n author: Joanna Ho title: Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Wall Suction on Cross-Flow Absolute Instability in a Rotating Disk Boundary Layer date: 2014 words: 280 flesch: 39 summary: The proposed research is intended to investigate if wall suction in the boundary layer over a rotating disk will transform the absolute instability cross-flow mode into a global mode as postulated by Davies and Carpenter (2003). More recently, numerical simulations by Thomas (2007) determined that wall suction applied in the absolute instability region of the rotating disk could cause the absolute instability to become a global mode. keywords: instability cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m32z0n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m32z0n.txt item: #685 of 4945 id: 3x816m32z10 author: James H. Larson title: Interactions between dissolved organic matter sources and effects in stream ecosystems date: 2007 words: 358 flesch: 40 summary: My objectives were to determine (1) if watershed characteristics relate to DOM processing and production in aquatic ecosystems, (2) if DOM properties related to watershed characteristics influence DOM processing and interactions with stream biota, and (3) whether DOM alters the toxicity of anthropogenic pollutants. However, DOM processing within aquatic ecosystems may be important as well. keywords: dom cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m32z10.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m32z10.txt item: #686 of 4945 id: 3x816m32z3p author: Michael Valente title: What Lies Inside Us date: 2010 words: 12 flesch: 46 summary: A fictional explanation of what happens in a twisted and distorted world. keywords: world cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m32z3p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m32z3p.txt item: #687 of 4945 id: 3x816m32z6q author: Sarah E. Baechle title: Latin Glossing, Medieval Literary Theory, and the Cross-Channel Readers of Chaucer date: 2015 words: 354 flesch: 23 summary: Reading Chaucer's poetry as it was circulated in medieval England, accompanied by its marginal apparatus, significantly reshapes modern critical approaches to Chaucer's poetry in particular and to medieval critical practices in general. Under this hermeneutic rubric, medieval readers would seek moral instruction in their poetry; fictional narrative and literary style were integumenta concealing an ethical truth which was to be identified and clearly explicated. keywords: glosses cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m32z6q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m32z6q.txt item: #688 of 4945 id: 3x816m33s3d author: Tia S. Jarvis title: Supramolecular Chemistry Using Fluorescent Unsymmetric Squaraine Dyes date: 2019 words: 489 flesch: 38 summary: In contrast, macrocycle threading in water produces ~80 nm red-shift in absorption wavelength, indicating a large change in polarity surrounding the solvatochromic squaraine as it transfers from bulk water solution to the relatively non-polar macrocycle interior and a very large 70-fold enhancement of squaraine fluorescence. Chapter 1 of this thesis provides an overview of the photophysical and supramolecular chemistry of squaraine dyes. keywords: squaraine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m33s3d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m33s3d.txt item: #689 of 4945 id: 3x816m3418k author: Jessica K. Kim title: Unworlded Empires: Homotopic Narration and the Modernist Racial Unconscious date: 2021 words: 422 flesch: 0 summary: Through a special study of the common concerns about the historical and personal development of human worlding across these thinkers' philosophies of human being, my project introduces the mathematically-borrowed concept of homotopia, or the change in valence that an entity accrues as it moves from one symbolic domain to another, as a formal heuristic within modernist texts. I investigate homotopia as a structuring trope for re-imaginings of the existentially and culturally contingent, ultimately racialized, and thereby ever formally progressive, nature of human being-in-the-world amidst the decline of European imperialism in the interwar period in Germany, Britain, and Ireland in the (inter)national imaginaries of the canonical modernist fiction of Thomas Mann, Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. keywords: human cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m3418k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m3418k.txt item: #690 of 4945 id: 3x816m3421g author: Abbas Termos title: Spectrum Occupancy Mapping with Minimal Assumptions and Simple Sensors date: 2022 words: 536 flesch: 42 summary: Distributed spectrum sensing uses multiple sensors to measure spectrum power levels in multiple locations simultaneously, thus allowing the formation of a spectrum occupancy map at a given frequency. This dissertation considers using a neural network-based system to tackle the problem of estimating occupancy maps with minimal assumptions. keywords: number cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m3421g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m3421g.txt item: #691 of 4945 id: 3x816m34386 author: Paolo Giani title: Coupling Turbulence-Resolving and Diagnostic Simulations of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer with Large Scale Dynamics date: 2023 words: 179 flesch: 21 summary: We explore outstanding challenges in achieving NWP-LES coupling, such as the gray zone of turbulence in the convective boundary layer and the sensitivity of fine resolution LES driven by realistic surface fluxes, topography and gray zone tendencies. We demonstrate that coupling large scale dynamics with turbulence-resolving and diagnostic simulations is a promising tool for atmospheric problems in complex scenarios. keywords: large cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/3x816m34386.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/3x816m34386.txt item: #692 of 4945 id: 41687h16573 author: Stephanie M. Schmidt title: Shearing Oscillatory Interstitial Fluid Flows affect Solute Transport and Osteogenesis in Cortical Bone date: 2006 words: 363 flesch: 30 summary: The objective of this research was to: 1) propose a theoretical model for enhanced mass transport in cortical bone due to shearing oscillatory fluid flow dependent on molecular size, strain magnitude, and frequency; 2) demonstrate experimentally that oscillating fluid flows affect the mass transport of particles in sheep cortical bone; 3) prove that increased nutrient levels influence bone cell osteogenesis and metabolism in-vitro; 4) develop calcium phosphate nano-carriers for nutrients and drugs deliverable through the new mechanism. In addition, in-vitro experiments showed that bone cell osteogenesis was affected by core-shell and mesoporous calcium phosphate nano-carriers. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/41687h16573.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/41687h16573.txt item: #693 of 4945 id: 41687h1659s author: Morgen Elizabeth Anyan title: Physical and Environmental Factors Affecting the Swarm Motility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa date: 2015 words: 322 flesch: 23 summary: While previous studies have shown surface-attached bacterial biofilms to be highly resistant to heavy metal toxicity, little is known about the influence of heavy metals upon surface motile bacteria and developing biofilms. Metal resistance was shown to vary with motility mode (swimming vs. swarming), but did not correlate with rhamnolipid production, as was originally hypothesized; while cell products such as rhamnolipid were shown to bind heavy metals (as expected) and should limit metal bioavailability, the results suggest at least one additional mechanism (as yet undetermined) that promotes cell survival during swarming in the presence of these heavy metals. keywords: swarming cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/41687h1659s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/41687h1659s.txt item: #694 of 4945 id: 41687h16600 author: Manuela Fernandez Pinto title: Learning from Ignorance: Agnotology's Challenge to Philosophy of Science date: 2014 words: 306 flesch: 27 summary: The recent commercialization and privatization of scientific research has reconfigured the organization of science worldwide, fostering new scientific practices and new political tools to manage scientific research. In particular, agnotology has made evident the need for a well-articulated normative approach capable of identifying and evaluating the epistemic concerns raised by the private funding and performance of science. keywords: science cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/41687h16600.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/41687h16600.txt item: #695 of 4945 id: 41687h1664c author: Scott S Hampton title: An Analysis of Shadow Hybrid Monte Carlo Methods date: 2010 words: 337 flesch: 45 summary: In this dissertation, I discuss the development of an analytical framework for the analysis of shadow hybrid Monte Carlo methods. High order approximations to the shadow Hamiltonian are efficiently computed, thus, allowing significant acceptance of the MD step in SHMC. keywords: shadow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/41687h1664c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/41687h1664c.txt item: #696 of 4945 id: 41687h16709 author: Erzs bet Ravasz title: Evolution, Hierarchy and Modular Organization in Complex Networks date: 2004 words: 344 flesch: 36 summary: In hierarchical networks the clustering coefficient follows a strict scaling law, which can be used to identify the presence of a hierarchical organization in real networks. This model reproduces the observed scale free and hierarchical organization of metabolic networks using local wiring rules. keywords: networks cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/41687h16709.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/41687h16709.txt item: #697 of 4945 id: 41687h16751 author: Peter Choi title: George Whitefield, the Imperial Itinerant: Religion, Economics, and Politics in the Era of the Great Awakening date: 2014 words: 267 flesch: 40 summary: This dissertation examines the long trajectory of revival religion in the eighteenth century by following George Whitefield into his latter years beyond the height of the Great Awakening. By focusing on this prominent priest who declared the whole world his parish, the dissertation argues that the evangelical revivals became absorbed into larger processes of British imperial state formation over the course of the eighteenth century. keywords: whitefield cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/41687h16751.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/41687h16751.txt item: #698 of 4945 id: 41687h16949 author: Christopher Quiroz title: The Masculine Paradox: Decoupling Masculinity from Heterosexuality in the Firehouse date: 1904 words: 110 flesch: 19 summary: The relationship between hyper-masculine organizations and individual actions that violate heterosexual norms is explored in a study of the El Dorado Fire Department, a rural, wildland firefighting organization. The firefighters working at the station were able to engage in non-orthodox gender behavior because their masculinity stemmed from their status as firefighters rather than their individual actions. keywords: firefighters cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/41687h16949.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/41687h16949.txt item: #699 of 4945 id: 41687h16c89 author: Zhiqian Chang title: Statistical Reconstruction and Simultaneous Parameter Estimation for Iterative X-ray Computed Tomography date: 1904 words: 452 flesch: 36 summary: Statistical iterative image reconstruction methods for X-ray computed tomography (CT) have, over the past few years, shown promise in maintaining diagnostic image quality across a wider range of dosage than has been routinely practical with standard deterministic methods. To combat the challenge of increased sampling non-uniformity, we propose a joint system parameter estimation with image reconstruction algorithm. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/41687h16c89.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/41687h16c89.txt item: #700 of 4945 id: 41687h16x4w author: Allison Reinsvold Hall title: Search for Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking date: 1904 words: 201 flesch: 56 summary: The neutralino can decay to a photon and a gravitino, leading to final state signatures with one or more photons and significant missing transverse momentum. This dissertation describes a search for new physics in final states with two photons and missing transverse momentum. keywords: gmsb cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/41687h16x4w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/41687h16x4w.txt item: #701 of 4945 id: 41687h1780w author: Nathaniel Rupprecht title: Prediction and Retrodiction in Statistical Mechanical Systems Out of Equilibrium date: 2020 words: 286 flesch: 54 summary: We test this procedure on several Markov systems: an ensemble of random transition matrices, and a semi-classical quantum system, showing that we are in fact able to get moderate changes in predictability from small changes to the transition matrix. Statistical mechanics attempts to describe the collective behavior of systems composed of many small interacting parts. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/41687h1780w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/41687h1780w.txt item: #702 of 4945 id: 41687h1783x author: Munira Syed title: Learning and Inferring User Characteristics from Online Behavior and Content date: 2020 words: 112 flesch: 24 summary: Product and service-providers strive to improve user experience through personalization of services, recommendations, and understanding user interests. For this purpose, inferring user characteristics, such as demographic information, from their behavior, would help understand their preferences. keywords: experience cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/41687h1783x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/41687h1783x.txt item: #703 of 4945 id: 41687h17c2h author: Adam S. Braegelman title: Biomaterials Using Cucurbit[7]uril: Fundamental Supramolecular Dynamics and Therapeutic Applications date: 2022 words: 404 flesch: 17 summary: My final investigation of fundamental phenomena focuses on effects of bulk material properties arising from differences in guest orientation within crosslinks, leveraging asymmetric guest topology to underscore a key aspect of host-guest system design considerations previously unaddressed. This work transitions to a critical evaluation of the disconnect between in vitro and in vivo modeling of drug delivery by hydrogel encapsulation. keywords: guest cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/41687h17c2h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/41687h17c2h.txt item: #704 of 4945 id: 44558c99f92 author: Nathan James Silvernail title: Understanding the Structural and Vibrational Features of Heme Diatomics date: 2008 words: 194 flesch: 30 summary: These systems have been extensively studied using X-ray crystallography, Mössbauer spectroscopy, infrared absorption spectroscopy, resonance Raman spectroscopy, and Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy (NRVS), thereby providing new information regarding structural and vibrational characteristics of hemes coordinated with diatomic molecules. This dissertation concerns itself with the interaction of diatomic molecules with heme. keywords: heme cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558c99f92.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558c99f92.txt item: #705 of 4945 id: 44558c99g2z author: Paul John Schramm title: Interaction of Heavy Metals with Aerobic Soil Bacteria date: 2010 words: 150 flesch: 45 summary: TEM showed the formation of cell-associated precipitates that redissolved by death phase, while EXAFS indicated a cadmium-sulfide bonding character that increased over time and was not present in washed cells. Cadmium was found to delay the onset of exponential growth phase and decrease maximum population size. keywords: cadmium cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558c99g2z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558c99g2z.txt item: #706 of 4945 id: 44558c99g4n author: Gianluca Puliti title: Properties of Gold-Water Nanofluids Using Molecular Dynamics date: 2012 words: 360 flesch: 34 summary: In order to understand more fundamental physical phenomena at the gold-water interface, water confined between gold nanolayers is also studied at different plate separations. Our results of computed thermodymamic properties indicate that values are between 10% and 400% different than ideal mixture predictions. keywords: water cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558c99g4n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558c99g4n.txt item: #707 of 4945 id: 44558c99g6b author: Julie H Eike title: High Oxygen Affinity Polymerized Bovine Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers as Potential Artificial Blood Substitutes date: 2005 words: 361 flesch: 35 summary: The type and concentration of cross-linker and quenching agent, as well as reaction time, were all manipulated to yield oxygen carriers with various molecular weight distributions and oxygen binding properties. In this study, a parallel synthetic approach was used to produce a small library of oxygen carriers by cross-linking/polymerizing bovine hemoglobin (Hb) with glutaraldehyde and ring-opened saccharides. keywords: oxygen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558c99g6b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558c99g6b.txt item: #708 of 4945 id: 44558c99g7p author: Fengqiao Luo title: Can Nuclear Structure Be Revealed in a Reduced Model Space date: 2014 words: 329 flesch: 39 summary: Meanwhile, the Sp-NCSM offers a different approach to modeling light nuclei without the need to assume the presence of an inert core. Numerical evidence shows an important role of the symplectic Sp(3,R) symmetry in the ab initio no-core shell model results for light nuclei. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558c99g7p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558c99g7p.txt item: #709 of 4945 id: 44558c99g81 author: Christopher John Patrick Schmitt title: Equilibrium Charge State Distributions of Low-Z Ions Incident on Thin Self-Supporting Foils date: 2010 words: 183 flesch: 41 summary: Equilibrium charge fractions have been measured for 3 - 7 MeV lithium, boron,and carbon ions passing through thin carbon foils. The data are compared to the predictions of several semi-empirical models of charge equilibrium in the Ì¢¡å_ 1MeV/u regime. keywords: charge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558c99g81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558c99g81.txt item: #710 of 4945 id: 44558c99g9c author: Jing Zhao title: Single Molecule Enzyme Dynamics and Spectroelectrochemistry in Gold-Based Zero-Mode Waveguides date: 2013 words: 433 flesch: 35 summary: In contrast to its behavior in flavoenzymes, where the transitions are coupled to chemical redox events, the research presented here studies single FAD molecules that are chemically immobilized to the Au region of a ZMW array through a pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) linker. In this structure, the Au functions both to confine the optical field in the ZMW and as the working electrode in a potentiostatically controlled 3-elecrode system, thus allowing potential-dependent blinking to be studied in single FAD molecules. keywords: single cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558c99g9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558c99g9c.txt item: #711 of 4945 id: 44558c99h0k author: Brooke Elizabeth Underwood Fischer title: To Drink or Not To Drink: The Role of Religion and Family in Drinking Patterns Among Emerging Adults date: 2010 words: 325 flesch: 17 summary: However, the principal mechanism by which religion influences consumption is through the non-organizational act of reading sacred scriptures, suggesting the utility of spiritual capital in producing positive outcomes. Using data from all three waves of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR), which is a comprehensive investigation into the religious lives of American youth, I argue that religious belief and participation contributes something unique to the lives of young adults that shapes the way they behave in positive ways. keywords: religion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558c99h0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558c99h0k.txt item: #712 of 4945 id: 44558c99h28 author: Danielle Lee Cisler title: Modal Assignment and Post Hoc Testing in Factor Mixture Models: Effects of Incorrect Assignment on Power date: 2007 words: 169 flesch: 35 summary: After obtaining class membership, a researcher may be interested in seeing how classes of people differ on a background variable or covariate. The first aim of the study was to understand the extent to which incorrect class assignment decreases the power of detecting a significant post hoc effect. keywords: class cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558c99h28.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558c99h28.txt item: #713 of 4945 id: 44558c99h3m author: Biao Zhang title: Three-Dimensional Laser-Assisted Image Analysis for Robotic Surface Operation with Camera-Space Manipulation date: 2007 words: 158 flesch: 23 summary: The first, peg-in-hole assembly, is a challenging robotics application in industry today, one that requires high precision and robustness of five-component positioning. Two fundamental experiments -- thickness-reduction-gauging and five-component positioning -- prove experimentally that the high precision, robustness, and workspace-extent versatility of CSM can be extended to general robot operations. keywords: robustness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558c99h3m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558c99h3m.txt item: #714 of 4945 id: 44558c99h59 author: George M Kennedy title: Identification and characterization of novel loci required for ESX-1 protein secretion in Mycobacterium marinum date: 2015 words: 230 flesch: 27 summary: In summary, these studies identified two major genetic loci required for ESX-1 function and provide novel insights into the working model of ESX-1 secretion in pathogenic mycobacteria. We report here the identification and characterization of two mutant M. marinum strains that are deficient for ESX-1 function and attenuated in infection models. keywords: virulence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558c99h59.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558c99h59.txt item: #715 of 4945 id: 44558c99h70 author: Ryan S. Kemp title: On the Possibility of Radical Ethical Transformation: Med stadigt Hensyn til Kierkegaard date: 1904 words: 99 flesch: 38 summary: In this dissertation, I argue for three related theses: (1) that radical ethical transformation cannot be self-enacted, (2) that Søren Kierkegaard — against popular interpretations — agrees, and (3) that our inability to radically self-transform has implications for the way we relate to our received values. The third part of the dissertation attempts to stake out a positive position by offering a creative reading of Kierkegaard's *Fear and Trembling*. keywords: dissertation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558c99h70.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558c99h70.txt item: #716 of 4945 id: 44558c99p04 author: Quintin Ross Sheridan title: Simulation Study of CO2-Reactive Aprotic Heterocyclic Anion Ionic Liquids: Water Interactions, Liquid Structure, and CO2 Solubility date: 1904 words: 228 flesch: 41 summary: The methods used in this dissertation provide a means to compare different ILs within the same family, and to select ILs with promising properties prior to synthesis. The fact that the liquid structure functions do not change appreciably upon reaction with CO2 is used to explain why viscosities of AHA ILs do not change much upon reaction with CO2. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558c99p04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558c99p04.txt item: #717 of 4945 id: 44558d0057f author: Megan J. Austin title: High School Curricular Intensity: Inequalities in Access and Returns over Three Cohorts date: 1904 words: 327 flesch: 33 summary: In Chapter 3, I find that despite increased curricular intensity between 1982 and 2004, income- and education-based gaps did not narrow, and the association between higher levels of parental education and higher curricular intensity increased across cohorts. In Chapter 4, I find that students with higher curricular intensity were consistently more likely to enter postsecondary education and less likely to delay postsecondary entry in each cohort. keywords: intensity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558d0057f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558d0057f.txt item: #718 of 4945 id: 44558d00594 author: Timothy P. Riley title: Structure Guided Design and Computational Screening in Cellular Immunity date: 1904 words: 193 flesch: 25 summary: Here, we address these hallmarks of TCR recognition, emphasizing the use of computational models and structure guided design to examine the fine details of TCR interfaces. With broad implications to T cell based immunotherapies, we highlight how the 'imperfect' interfaces of TCRs bound to their ligands influences aspects of TCR design, T cell specificity, and epitope recognition of the immune system. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558d00594.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558d00594.txt item: #719 of 4945 id: 44558d0061p author: Ameer Armaly title: Complexity Reduction in Feature Analysis date: 1904 words: 427 flesch: 51 summary: Cost estimation tools use feature location algorithms to map requirements to the code that implements them. My work addresses three aspects of feature analysis: effort estimation, feature reuse, and comprehension of the underlying code by blind programmers. keywords: feature cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558d0061p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558d0061p.txt item: #720 of 4945 id: 44558d00j4t author: Christopher Ángel title: Ritual and Identity at the California Missions date: 2020 words: 108 flesch: 24 summary: This work has implications for the global, multicultural church of the present, providing historical evidence for modern theological tools such as multiple religious participation and liturgical inculturation. This dissertation examines the interaction between Franciscan missionaries and the indigenous people of California at the Franciscan missions (1769-1833). keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558d00j4t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558d00j4t.txt item: #721 of 4945 id: 44558d00j55 author: Ryan P. Egan title: Development and Validation of the Instrumental Support Inventory for Spouses date: 2021 words: 252 flesch: 32 summary: However, research on instrumental support, a domain of social support, has yielded inconsistent results, which may be attributable to shortcomings in extant instrumental-support measures, including insufficient content coverage and confounding with personality and cognitive variables. Competing hypotheses for the associations between instrumental support and depressive symptoms were also tested, but neither hypothesis was supported due to nonsignificant relations. keywords: support cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/44558d00j55.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/44558d00j55.txt item: #722 of 4945 id: 47429882r15 author: Anthony A. Battaglia title: Conversion Coefficient Measurements of 176Lu Using ICEBall date: 2015 words: 315 flesch: 50 summary: There is no direct decay to both the isomer and ground state due to selection rules. However, an intermediate state was found at 839 keV in the $K=4^{-}$ band and another intermediate state in the $K=4^{+}$ band at 709 keV which communicate to both the isomer and ground state. keywords: state cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429882r15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429882r15.txt item: #723 of 4945 id: 47429882r2h author: Feng Zhu title: Passivity Analysis and Passivation in the Design of Cyber-Physical Systems date: 2014 words: 298 flesch: 25 summary: Later, it is shown that the proposed methods can address the issues in the design of CPS, by considering hybrid systems and networked control systems (NCS), respectively. Overall, this dissertation provides new approaches to passivity analysis and passivation of CPS with the focus being on hybrid systems and networked control systems. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429882r2h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429882r2h.txt item: #724 of 4945 id: 47429882r6w author: Justin David Poche title: Religion, Race, and Rights in Catholic Louisiana, 1938-1970 date: 2007 words: 175 flesch: 19 summary: A close study of their experience reveals in important ways both the complexity and the intensity of the larger struggle over the meaning of race in twentieth century America. Into these confrontations, Louisiana Catholics wove intense religious struggles over the nature of religious authority, spiritual fulfillment, and social liberation. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429882r6w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429882r6w.txt item: #725 of 4945 id: 47429882s2t author: Utsaw Kumar title: Feedback Coding Schemes for Control Over Gaussian Networks date: 2012 words: 372 flesch: 35 summary: This dissertation looks at communication scenarios, in which there are feedback channels available for enhancing communication and control performance over noisy forward links. Moreover, transmission schemes with feedback can be used to stabilize unstable plants over communication channels, where a sensor transmits the plant state information to a remotely placed controller. keywords: channel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429882s2t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429882s2t.txt item: #726 of 4945 id: 47429882s5v author: Donald Wittich title: Subsonic Flow over Open and Partially Covered, Rectangular Cavities date: 2009 words: 184 flesch: 41 summary: When the cavity was open, the well known Rossiter modes were excited, but when the cavity was partially covered, peak frequencies arose which were lower than the Rossiter modes for a cavity with the same opening length. Additionally, the acquisition of time-resolved schlieren images of the shear layer allowed the development of a novel form of schlieren velocimetry, which revealed that coherent optical structures in the shear layer traverse the length of the cavity at speeds lower than those presupposed by the Rossiter or long-path formulations. keywords: cavity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429882s5v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429882s5v.txt item: #727 of 4945 id: 47429882s7j author: Patrick Gillen title: The Two Tablets: The Intellectual Origins and Original Understanding of the Religious Liberty Provisions date: 2006 words: 344 flesch: 27 summary: The thesis of this study is that the religious freedom provisions were understood to embody a consensus in favor of liberty of conscience which held that: (1) civil rulers had no authority to define, compel observance or punish the breach of, religious duties; and (2) the individual must be left free to define and observe his religious duties so long as he did not threaten the civil order. The author argues that the Americans who ratified the First Amendment conceived of liberty of conscience and understood the religious liberty provisions primarily in terms of a set of beliefs and concepts expressed in terms of a religious strain of discourse, and based on a new understanding of scripture that had been worked out over hundreds of years prior to the Revolution. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429882s7j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429882s7j.txt item: #728 of 4945 id: 47429882t1s author: Megan Trucano title: Boredom and Challenge: Emotional Correlates and Developmental Differences date: 1904 words: 161 flesch: 28 summary: Challenging classroom experiences were found to be related to positive emotions, and students reported that challenging classroom experiences are related to feeling that the teacher cares about students' thoughtful and effortful work. Differences between students' negative responses to an item using the word 'challenge' and the positive associations with challenging classroom experiences indicate that middle school students perceive 'challenge' and challenging classroom experiences differently. keywords: students cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429882t1s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429882t1s.txt item: #729 of 4945 id: 47429883g29 author: Michael J Vaclav title: Acting Shakespearean date: 1904 words: 148 flesch: 31 summary: Drawing on Jeffery Masten's evaluation of collaborative works as a separate authorial category, I argue that, given the assertion that Theobald's play is based on the lost History of Cardenio by Shakespeare and Fletcher, Double Falsehood should thematically resemble the two established collaborative works by Shakespeare and Fletcher, The Two Noble Kinsmen and King Henry VIII. This thesis examines the patterns of character agency in Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood and in both the collaborative and individual works of William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. keywords: works cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429883g29.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429883g29.txt item: #730 of 4945 id: 47429883h3z author: Anne E. Mattingly title: Environmental Impacts on Regulation of Swarming Motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa date: 2018 words: 359 flesch: 29 summary: Additionally, it is not related to any other obvious biochemical agent potentially used to promote swarm motility. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a prevalent, Gram-negative bacterium and opportunistic pathogen that employs several different methods of motility to colonize surfaces, including swarming. keywords: swarming cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429883h3z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429883h3z.txt item: #731 of 4945 id: 47429883t3r author: s.c.bostwick (Sebastian C. Bostwick) title: places we might find her body date: 2020 words: 94 flesch: 52 summary: places we might find her body is a book about memory, nature, addiction, place, transition, personhood, and, most of all, home. Whether that place is real, imagined, or no longer accessible, the speaker within these poems experiences home as both a yearning as well as a site of trauma. keywords: place cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429883t3r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429883t3r.txt item: #732 of 4945 id: 47429883t43 author: Tianchen Wang title: Statistical Neural Networks: Concepts, Frameworks and Applications date: 2020 words: 369 flesch: 33 summary: Although a large body of works exists in neural network parallelization, most of them focus on the training phase only or distributing a batch of instances to multiple computation cores. Various techniques have been explored to address this challenge, such as network compression and quantization, lightweight networks targeting resource-constrained platforms, dynamic computation graphs providing efficient early exits, and, on top of all these techniques, network parallelization. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429883t43.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429883t43.txt item: #733 of 4945 id: 47429883v32 author: Haley Kodak title: Estimating Genetically Based Phenotypic Variation and Local Adaptation in the Foundational Plant Species, Schoenoplectus americanus date: 2021 words: 273 flesch: 30 summary: Coastal marsh ecosystems provide a valuable system to explore the role of heritable trait variation on higher level processes by studying the variation in functional traits of coastal plants that contribute to marsh sediment accretion, a process that enables coastal marshes to keep pace with sea level rise and relates to carbon sequestration. Reproductive isolation due to flowering phenology could be a functional mechanism that enforces population genetic structure and heritable trait variation by altering rates of gene flow. keywords: variation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429883v32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429883v32.txt item: #734 of 4945 id: 47429883w4q author: Cody Robert Work title: Advances in the Chemistry of Group 10 Transition Metal Carbenes: Synthetic Routes, Decomposition Pathways, Structure, Reactivity, and Reversible Access via η2-Olefin Complexes date: 2022 words: 421 flesch: 43 summary: Since the time of their discovery in the 1960s, transition metal carbenes have fascinated chemists and been the subject of much research interest. However, many examples of transition metal carbenes fall outside of these classical descriptions and chemists have discovered that the electronics and reactivity of the M à C interaction depend on many different factors including choice of metal, substituents at the carbene carbon, oxidation state, coordination number, and the nature of the supporting ligands. keywords: carbenes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429883w4q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429883w4q.txt item: #735 of 4945 id: 47429883z19 author: Anila Shree title: Patchwork Fictions: Addressing Disruption in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British and French Women's Fiction date: 2023 words: 350 flesch: 40 summary: Century British and French Women's Fiction revisits works of English women authors such as Jane Barker and Eliza Haywood alongside the prose-fiction of influential French predecessors such as Madeleine de Scudéry and Charlotte de la Force. In considering this lesser-feted dialogue, Patchwork Fictions demands a renewed historiography of women's writing that acknowledges the longer history of prose fiction. keywords: patchwork cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/47429883z19.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/47429883z19.txt item: #736 of 4945 id: 4b29b56614t author: Colby Galen Davis title: Cartography date: 2010 words: 4 flesch: 54 summary: A collection on poetry. keywords: poetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4b29b56614t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4b29b56614t.txt item: #737 of 4945 id: 4b29b566155 author: Daniel D. Acorn title: The Function of Cultural Student Clubs in Student Adjustment to College date: 2010 words: 143 flesch: 41 summary: Students use cultural student clubs to aid them in maintaining cultural identity and utilize different strategies for balancing club responsibilities with academic responsibilities. The students in my study seek to maintain cultural identity in order to aid them in their transition to the college context. keywords: students cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4b29b566155.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4b29b566155.txt item: #738 of 4945 id: 4b29b56616h author: Troy William Raeder title: Evaluating and Maintaining Classification Algorithms date: 2012 words: 214 flesch: 41 summary: That is to say, some measurement of the classifier's performance on past data is used as an estimate of its performance on future data. Additionally, misclassification costs are rarely known at model-selection time and the characteristics of the population from which data are drawn may change over time. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4b29b56616h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4b29b56616h.txt item: #739 of 4945 id: 4b29b566186 author: Marcin Sikora title: Reduced-Complexity Algorithms for Decoding and Equalization date: 2008 words: 278 flesch: 33 summary: The detection problem for FSMs, termed decoding in the context of convolutional codes and equalization for frequency-selective channels, involve either finding the most likely input sequence given noisy observations of the output sequence (hard-output decoding), or determining a posteriori probabilty of individual information bits (soft-output decoding). For decoding of convolutional codes, two novel supercode heuristics are proposed to guide the search procedure, reducing the average number of visited incorrect nodes. keywords: decoding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4b29b566186.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4b29b566186.txt item: #740 of 4945 id: 4b29b56619j author: Walfre Franco title: Hydrodynamics and Control in Thermal-Fluid Networks date: 2003 words: 347 flesch: 40 summary: In addition the control properties of the network hydrodynamics are investigated using valves and pumps as control elements to manipulate branch flow rates and nodal pressures. The change in operating conditions and the output reachabilities of the control system are used as criteria to compare the relative merits of different configurations. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4b29b56619j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4b29b56619j.txt item: #741 of 4945 id: 4b29b566213 author: John Charles Goetz title: Analysis and Optimization of Multi-Layered Cellular Systems for Pulse Loading date: 2013 words: 345 flesch: 38 summary: Two methods and models are presented to solve the nonlinear wave equation with shock formation using mass, momentum, and energy conservation in multi-layer one-dimensional rods made of cellular material. These results indicate a significant leap in the understanding of multi-layer cellular materials subject to pulse loads. keywords: layer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4b29b566213.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4b29b566213.txt item: #742 of 4945 id: 4b29b56622f author: Snehashish Bhattacharya title: Non/Capital, Class, and Development: The Case of Informal Manufacturing in India date: 2010 words: 334 flesch: 28 summary: I develop a framework to account for processes of production, appropriation, and distribution of surplus labor in informal enterprises, and apply this framework to analyze the disaggregated, unit-level data from National Sample Survey (62nd round, 2005-06). Thus, the capitalist and noncapitalist spaces within informal manufacturing sector can be clearly delineated in terms of their capacity for realization and accumulation of surplus. keywords: surplus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4b29b56622f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4b29b56622f.txt item: #743 of 4945 id: 4b29b566244 author: Cristina Ricardo Carter title: Host-Pathogen Interactions: Evaluating the Role of Complement Receptor 3 in Immune Bias and Macrophage Cell Signaling Modulation During Experimental Cutaneous Leishmaniasis date: 2008 words: 465 flesch: 42 summary: Chapter 5 draws on our research and the extensive body of literature that dissects Leishmania-host immune interactions to attempt to build a framework wherein we can begin to unravel the often contradictory mechanisms involved in Leishmania infection. Leishmania species infect approximately 2 million people each year and 350 million people live in areas where they are at risk for infection. keywords: infection cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4b29b566244.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4b29b566244.txt item: #744 of 4945 id: 4b29b56625g author: Catherine A. Borck title: Becoming Friends in Speech and Deed: Socratic Friendship in the Platonic Dialogues date: 2010 words: 235 flesch: 32 summary: Thus philosophical friendship necessarily situates itself in a tense relation to political friendship. The dissertation offers three arguments about Socratic friendship in the Platonic dialogues: a) Socratic friendship solicits, enables, and sustains philosophic dialogue and rewards the search for wisdom; b) Socratic friendship moderates the eros of the potential tyrant by offering a good both noble and pleasurable; and c) Socratic friendship sets the conditions for inverting the ethical matrix of the friend/enemy dichotomy dominant in ancient Greek political life. keywords: friendship cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4b29b56625g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4b29b56625g.txt item: #745 of 4945 id: 4b29b566275 author: Iogann Tolbatov title: Electronic Structure Studies of Electron- and X-Ray-Irradiated Molecules date: 2015 words: 314 flesch: 13 summary: The observed ionic species resulting from the electron irradiation, their chemical structures and binding energies are computed and analyzed with an emphasis on the heterogeneous structure formation, particularly on molecules containing CN bonds important in understanding the synthesis and nature of organic species' formation in Titan's atmosphere. The process of monocarbon ionic cluster formation under low-energy electron irradiation in cold helium nanodroplets doped with nitrogen/methane mixtures is studied computationally. keywords: structure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4b29b566275.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4b29b566275.txt item: #746 of 4945 id: 4b29b56740n author: Claire D. Scott-Bacon title: An Exploration of Item Level Responses on Popular Psychopathy Measures Using Exploratory Factor Analysis and Item Response Theory Methods date: 2020 words: 284 flesch: 33 summary: The current study examined possible sex differences in measurement in three popular self-report psychopathy measures—the Short Dark Triad 3 Psychopathy (SD3: psychopathy), the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP), and the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM)—in a non-incarcerated community sample in a with high levels of psychopathology, and a undergraduate student sample with low levels of psychopathology. Using exploratory factor analyses (EFA), graded response modeling (GRM), and differential item function (DIF) methods based on item response theory, the study searched for statistical and visual evidence of sex differences in structure, category responses, item, test, and differential item functioning. keywords: psychopathy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4b29b56740n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4b29b56740n.txt item: #747 of 4945 id: 4b29b567441 author: Beth A. Facchine title: Proteolytic Cleavage of ZNF217 Generates Small Proteins That Promote Breast Cancer Tumors and Metastasis to the Lung date: 2021 words: 225 flesch: 33 summary: To investigate the function of smaller ZNF217 proteins, I overexpressed ZNF217 truncation mutants in human breast cancer cells. Identification of the smaller ZNF217 oncoproteins as tumor promoting factors may be clinically valuable in generating an assay used to generate personalized treatment strategies for patients with advanced metastatic breast cancer and high ZNF217 expression. keywords: znf217 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4b29b567441.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4b29b567441.txt item: #748 of 4945 id: 4f16c24991v author: Brendan Joseph McGann title: Simultaneous Species Concentration and Temperature Measurements Using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy with Direct Spectrum Matching date: 2015 words: 229 flesch: 39 summary: Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is used to simultaneously measure hydrocarbon fuel concentration and temperature in high temperature, high speed, compressible, and reacting flows, a regime in which LIBS has not been done previously. Three methods of emission detection are used and a new backward scattering direction method is developed that is beneficial in reducing the amount of optical access needed to perform LIBS measurements. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c24991v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c24991v.txt item: #749 of 4945 id: 4f16c24993j author: Vaidyanathan Subramanian title: Photoelectorochemical and Photocatalytic Aspects of Semiconductor-Metal Nanocomposites date: 2004 words: 355 flesch: 22 summary: Photoelectrochemical performance Deposition of metals on semiconductor films leads to increased light to energy conversion efficiency and demonstrates beneficial photoelectrochemical properties such as higher photocurrent and photovoltage compared to plain semiconductor. The presence of metal facilitates electron transfer from photoexcited semiconductor to the surroundings and decreases recombination rate between the electrons-holes in the semiconductor. keywords: semiconductor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c24993j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c24993j.txt item: #750 of 4945 id: 4f16c24994w author: Ailbhe Darcy title: Lyric Strategies for the Secular Republic: Poetry and Religion in the New Ireland date: 2015 words: 352 flesch: 37 summary: Their poems challenge the narrative in which Catholic Ireland is simply dead and gone, inviting us to think deeply about the legacy of organized religion in Ireland, and about the possibility, or otherwise, of moving imaginatively beyond that legacy into some different future. The work of these poets suggests that if we move on from Catholic Ireland too blithely, we risk losing something, too. keywords: ireland cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c24994w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c24994w.txt item: #751 of 4945 id: 4f16c249988 author: Chaunce R. Windle title: Husbands' Gender Role Conflict and Withdrawal During Marital Interaction date: 2010 words: 124 flesch: 38 summary: Two aspects of gender role conflict -- restricted emotionality and restricted affectionate behavior between men -- were associated with husbands' withdrawal. Husbands' withdrawal also moderated the association between gender role conflict and wives' marital adjustment. keywords: adjustment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c249988.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c249988.txt item: #752 of 4945 id: 4f16c249b46 author: Richard Paul Noffke title: An Experimental Study of the Wake Behind a Ten-Bladed Propeller With and Without Ingested Turbulence date: 2003 words: 182 flesch: 39 summary: A wake half width was calculated from the mean streamwise velocity component and the Karhunen-Lo$grave{e}$ve decomposition was used to separate blade wakes and turbulent velocity fluctuations with promising results. Plots of the mean and RMS velocities for each of the three directional components at all downstream locations have been created for comparison with computational results. keywords: wake cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c249b46.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c249b46.txt item: #753 of 4945 id: 4f16c249b77 author: Sajid Kabeer title: Indium-Gallium-Arsenide and Germanium Tunnel Junctions date: 2009 words: 249 flesch: 52 summary: High current density tunnel junctions are demonstrated as evidenced by forward bias peak current densities in the range 0.06 to 0.94 mA/Ì_å_m2, the latter comparable to the best reported results for In0.53Ga0.47As junctions. In the rapid melt regrown junctions, negative differential resistance characteristic was obtained with peak current density of up to 0.27 mA/Ì_å_m2 and peak to valley ratios of 1.1 1.23. keywords: junctions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c249b77.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c249b77.txt item: #754 of 4945 id: 4f16c249b9x author: Sean Patrick Walsh title: Modern Moral Theory and the Indeterminacy Objection to Aristotelian Virtue Ethics date: 2008 words: 197 flesch: 32 summary: Many such philosophers believe that modern moral theories, such as Kantian and consequentialist theories, can meet this determinacy criterion while Aristotelian moral theory cannot. This charge of indeterminacy has become a standard objection to Aristotelian moral theory. keywords: moral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c249b9x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c249b9x.txt item: #755 of 4945 id: 4f16c249c04 author: Dallin G. Lewis title: The Plantation Aesthetic: Political Economy and Literary Form in the British Atlantic World date: 1904 words: 347 flesch: 27 summary: The plantation's particular combination of slave labor, intensive agriculture, and financial capital transformed Britain's imperial project and upended ideals Britons held about their nation. Beginning in the early seventeenth century with the tobacco farms of Virginia and the sugar estates of Barbados, the plantation complex quickly emerged as the primary engine of Britain's colonial economy in the Western hemisphere and transformed the social, political, and economic spheres of the West Indies and southern American colonies. keywords: plantation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c249c04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c249c04.txt item: #756 of 4945 id: 4f16c25007w author: Justin J. Buol title: Bishop Martyrs: Authority and Suffering in the Second Century CE date: 1904 words: 347 flesch: 44 summary: Although studies of early Christian martyrs have blossomed in recent decades, surprisingly there exists no comprehensive study of bishop martyrs, despite the large number of martyrs who occupied positions of leadership within the church. These effective deaths include, among others, the Roman devotio ritual, the Greek φαρμακός ritual and myth, the Jewish martyrs of 2 and 4 Maccabees, Jesus's death, and Paul's suffering and anticipated death. keywords: bishop cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c25007w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c25007w.txt item: #757 of 4945 id: 4f16c250c79 author: Ashley Nicole Edewaard title: Food as Medicine of Body and Soul: Clement of Alexandria's Dietary Prescriptions in the Paedagogus date: 2020 words: 342 flesch: 39 summary: Clement's belief in the interdependence of body and soul demonstrates that the Paedagogus, in its attention to bodily behaviors, is no less grounded in philosophical commitments than Clement's more obviously philosophical treatises. Clement devotes significant attention to diet in the Paedagogus because he believes that the body and soul coexist in a symbiotic relationship. keywords: clement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c250c79.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c250c79.txt item: #758 of 4945 id: 4f16c250d5x author: Brian Pulverenti title: Posthumanism in Odysseus' Apologoi date: 2021 words: 65 flesch: 46 summary: I argue that, in contrast to the rigid hierarchy suggested by colonial readings of the narrative, the animal/man dichotomy is presented as imprecise and blurred. By acknowledging these ambiguities, I suggest that the poem repeatedly presents similarities between Odysseus and those he encounters rather than stark dichotomies. keywords: book cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c250d5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c250d5x.txt item: #759 of 4945 id: 4f16c250f0h author: Shuang Zhang title: Deep Image Deblurring Networks Aided by Auxiliary Information date: 2021 words: 670 flesch: 46 summary: Recent progress in deep learning has inspired a variety of image deblurring networks. This work explores the possibility of using auxiliary information in image deblurring networks to improve deblurring performance. keywords: image cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c250f0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c250f0h.txt item: #760 of 4945 id: 4f16c250f3j author: Ying Wu title: Engineering Bioactive Materials for Pollutant Removal and Microbial Control in Water Reclamation date: 2021 words: 351 flesch: 14 summary: The result of our study demonstrated the effectiveness and potential of engineered cell systems in advancing water treatment towards environmental sustainability. Coupled with the drive to minimize the energy and environmental footprints of cities, there is an urgent need to develop efficient and environmental benign technology for decentralized water treatment and reclamation. keywords: water cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c250f3j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c250f3j.txt item: #761 of 4945 id: 4f16c250f9m author: Bhavana Palakurthi title: Maximizing the Anti-Tumor Potential of Immune Checkpoint Blockade through Modulation of Myeloid-Specific CXCL16 and STAT1 Signaling date: 2022 words: 165 flesch: 29 summary: We found that metronomic chemother- apy (MCT) treatment led to an accelerated T cell exhaustion through CXCL16- mediated recruitment of peripheral immature myeloid cells and expansion of STAT1- driven PD-L1 expressing myeloid cells. Our study leveraged single-cell analyses to dissect the dynamics of breast cancer TIME and provides a pre-clinical rationale to translate the anti-STAT1 plus anti-PD-1 combinatorial immunotherapy regimen to maximize ICB's efficacy. keywords: icb cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c250f9m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c250f9m.txt item: #762 of 4945 id: 4f16c250h35 author: Brynne Volpe title: We're just like everybody else, only more so: On Queering Myth and Returning to the Present date: 2023 words: 220 flesch: 46 summary: This thesis places Andrea Lawlor's novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl in conversation with Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony to explore how the fairytales of Paul offer new, queered refashionings of familiar fairytales that exemplify refusal's relationship to the present. Using Matthew Spellberg's understanding of the function of myth, Maria Tatar's approach to fairytales, and Heather Love and Mari Ruti's conceptions of queer refusal as frameworks, this thesis examines the ways in which the repetition of mythic stories primes readers for each novel's culminating moments of refusal and rejection. keywords: paul cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4f16c250h35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4f16c250h35.txt item: #763 of 4945 id: 4j03cz32k3x author: Michael Patrick Whitehouse title: Manus Impositio: The Initiatory Rite of Handlaying in the Churches of Early Western Christianity date: 2008 words: 330 flesch: 15 summary: In addition to treating all of the extant witnesses of initiatory handlaying, other related uses of handlaying (e.g., for those baptized in the bishop's absence, for the reception of heretics) are also examined because of the common belief that such independent handlaying rites are equivalent to initiatory handlaying, thus attesting that a particular community also employed handlaying as a part of its normal initiatory ritual. By assessing the evidence from a critical historical perspective and with the aid of the principles of comparative liturgy, the picture of early Christian initiatory practice appears less clear than prior assumptions have stated it to be, yet does undoubtedly demonstrate the great deal of diversity present among early Christian communities in their ecclesial structures, theologies, and liturgical practices. keywords: handlaying cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz32k3x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz32k3x.txt item: #764 of 4945 id: 4j03cz32k6z author: Samuel Isaac Thomas title: The 'Mysteries' of the Qumran Community: The RAZ-Concept in Second Temple Judaism and in the Dead Sea Scrolls date: 2008 words: 226 flesch: 22 summary: It characterizes the raz-concept as one that arises out of Israel's prophetic and sapiential traditions, is an important feature of Jewish apocalyptic literature of the mid-late Second Temple period and becomes a central theological and cosmological reference point for the Yahad associated with the manuscript discoveries of Khirbet Qumran. As seen in compositions such as the Community Rule, Pesher Habakkuk, the Hodayot, the War Rule, the Mysteries texts, the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and related works, the content of such knowledge included aspects of both the cosmological structure of the created order and the unfolding of historical (eschatological) time, and such knowledge was evidently guarded by the Yahad as necessary for guiding its communal rationale, structure and praxis. keywords: raz cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz32k6z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz32k6z.txt item: #765 of 4945 id: 4j03cz32k79 author: Steven Mark Schroeder title: Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954 date: 2010 words: 351 flesch: 36 summary: During the decade between the collapse of the Nazi Empire and the end of Allied occupation of West Germany, a wide variety of individuals and groups in all four occupation zones began processes of reconciliation between Germans and their wartime enemies and victims. Rather than addressing exclusively the statist concerns that drove Allied policies, NGOs prioritized attempts at reconciliation between individuals and communities, provided a crucial link between Germans and the outside world, and fostered dialogue in ways that governments and military personnel did not. keywords: germany cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz32k79.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz32k79.txt item: #766 of 4945 id: 4j03cz32k8n author: Chun-Ting Lee title: An empirical evaluation of three procedures of confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal data date: 2013 words: 399 flesch: 37 summary: To examine the performances of different approaches under misspecified CFA models, different levels of model error are introduced into population covariance matrices. The chi-square test statistics and fit measures are also examined to understand the influences of the factors on model fit. keywords: approach cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz32k8n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz32k8n.txt item: #767 of 4945 id: 4j03cz32m06 author: James C. Kriesel title: Favole, Parabole, Istorie: The Genealogy of Boccaccio's Theory of Allegory date: 2008 words: 366 flesch: 30 summary: Boccaccio either composed allegorical fictions such as the Ameto, Amorosa visione, or Buccolicum carmen, or he theorized allegory's role in literature's semiotics, for example in his Trattatello on Dante and in the Genealogie deorum gentilium. Traditionally, scholars have considered Boccaccio to be the first Italian realist author, who criticized simplistic notions of God, theology, and medieval allegory. keywords: boccaccio cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz32m06.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz32m06.txt item: #768 of 4945 id: 4j03cz32m1j author: David Richard Parker title: The Social Effects of Ability-based School Integration date: 2003 words: 212 flesch: 12 summary: Contact Theory (Allport, 1954) was used as foundation to develop an Educational Experience Questionnaire (EEQ), which was designed to operationalize the tenets of Contact Theory based on the perceptions of nondisabled students who experienced intergroup contact with students who have disabilities in primary and secondary schools, as a predictor of attitudes toward persons who have disabilities. Correlational analyses found a strong relationship between the quality of intergroup contact in ability-integrated educational environments and long-term attitudes toward persons who have disabilities. keywords: contact cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz32m1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz32m1j.txt item: #769 of 4945 id: 4j03cz32m2w author: Brenda Daily title: Nitrous Oxide Formation and Consumption by Denitrifying Bacteria in Wastewater Treatment date: 2011 words: 243 flesch: 41 summary: When all the processes were combined in the biofilm model, a complex trend emerged revealing the interplay between oxygen concentration and microbial community composition. The modeling work predicted N2O formation due autotrophic nitrifying bacteria and heterotrophic denitrification bacteria under varying oxygen concentrations. keywords: n2o cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz32m2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz32m2w.txt item: #770 of 4945 id: 4j03cz32m37 author: Graham Edward Leach-Krouse title: Conceptions of Absolute Provability date: 2013 words: 349 flesch: 35 summary: I propose an alternative "top-down" approach to absolute provability, on which we devise a proof concept satisfying certain essential properties of proof. In the philosophical portion of this dissertation, I develop an account of absolute provability as this notion was understood by Gödel, Post, Tarski, and other twentieth century logicians. keywords: provability cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz32m37.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz32m37.txt item: #771 of 4945 id: 4j03cz32m4k author: Alexey Vitalyevich Kozlov title: Plasma Actuators for Bluff Body Flow Control date: 2010 words: 545 flesch: 42 summary: A primary goal of the study is the improvement of actuator authority for flow control applications at higher Reynolds number than previously possible. In this study the results of flow control experiments utilizing single dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators to control flow separation and unsteady vortex shedding from a circular cylinder in cross-flow are reported. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz32m4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz32m4k.txt item: #772 of 4945 id: 4j03cz32m68 author: Robert E. Brenneman title: From Homie to Hermano: Conversion and Gang Exit in Central America date: 2009 words: 339 flesch: 28 summary: In addition, highly public emotional conversion experiences provided some exiting gang members with opportunities for the discharge of chronic shame, a key emotion underlying male violence (Scheff 2004; Gilligan 1996). I conclude that conversion to evangelical-Pentecostal religion provides former gang members with new access to social and symbolic resources crucial for keeping safe, building trust, and finding work after leaving the gang. keywords: gang cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz32m68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz32m68.txt item: #773 of 4945 id: 4j03cz32m7m author: Natalie Adriana Griffiths title: Quantifying the impact of row-crop agriculture on carbon dynamics in Midwestern streams date: 2010 words: 349 flesch: 21 summary: My dissertation research quantifies organic carbon cycling in Midwestern agricultural streams, and examines the fate of Bt maize detritus in these systems. In addition, understanding the fate of transgenic maize detritus and associated Cry proteins in agricultural streams provides a necessary first step in investigating whether Bt maize may affect aquatic organisms and ecosystem processes. keywords: streams cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz32m7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz32m7m.txt item: #774 of 4945 id: 4j03cz32n4w author: Jun Chen title: Energy Efficiency Analysis of Packet-Based MIMO Communications Systems over Space and Polarization Radio Channels date: 1904 words: 355 flesch: 27 summary: The analysis considers MIMO systems with space diversity, polarization diversity, and combined space-polarization diversities. Anticipating the need for energy-efficient, spectrally-efficient, and interference-tolerant MIMO systems, this dissertation analyzes the energy efficiency (EE) and SE of full-multiplexed MIMO systems and adaptive MIMO systems under diverse channel and interference conditions. keywords: mimo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz32n4w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz32n4w.txt item: #775 of 4945 id: 4j03cz32p9x author: Dallas Jesse Rensel title: Bimetallic Iron Molybdenum Phosphide Catalysts for Selective C-O Bond Cleavage of Lignocellulosic Biomass Model Compounds date: 1904 words: 308 flesch: 32 summary: Co, Ni, and Ru catalysts produced significantly higher rates but catalyzed both a direct CAROMATIC-O bond cleavage pathway and a ring hydrogenation followed by dehydration pathway. Using a range of synthesis parameters and metal combinations indicated that the resulting bimetallic phosphide catalysts materials can be tuned to control rate, selectivity, and reaction pathway. keywords: catalysts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz32p9x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz32p9x.txt item: #776 of 4945 id: 4j03cz3395d author: W. J. Stover title: Making Pyrrhus: Contrasts and Consolidations in Epirote Identity date: 1904 words: 20 flesch: 38 summary: A Thesis examining the ambiguity of Epirote cultural identity, and the use of ethnic identity for political purposes by Pyrrhus. keywords: identity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz3395d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz3395d.txt item: #777 of 4945 id: 4j03cz33n6v author: Matias Sur title: The Spiritualization of Human Beings: Leopardi's Tristano date: 2020 words: 303 flesch: 38 summary: In Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico, the final dialogue of Giacomo Leopardi's second edition of the Operette morali (1834), the main character, Tristano, comments on how human beings in modernity value more the spirit over the body. Tristano's declaration formulates an important distinction found throughout Leopardi's works: human beings of antiquity were more concerned with the care of the physical body and human beings of modernity were more concerned with the care of the immaterial spirit. keywords: leopardi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz33n6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz33n6v.txt item: #778 of 4945 id: 4j03cz33p2s author: Robert D. Devine title: Prefabricated High-Strength Headed Steel Reinforcement with High-Strength Concrete for Accelerated Construction of Shear Walls in Nuclear Structures date: 2020 words: 373 flesch: 18 summary: These experiments demonstrated that: 1) HSR and HSC perform best when combined, providing improved lateral strength and deformation capacity; 2) using HSR with HSC, a wall with significantly reduced provided reinforcement (less than half) can achieve similar peak lateral strength as a state-of-practice wall; 3) state-of-practice methods are effective for the design of reduced volumes of HSR as trim reinforcement around wall web penetrations; 4) squat rectangular walls with increased normalized base moment-to-shear ratio can be susceptible to flexure failure, contrary to current code commentaries; and 5) intersecting end walls can significantly increase the flexural stiffness and flexural strength of squat walls and should be more accurately incorporated in design. Closed-form design methods from building codes and literature were evaluated through comparisons with the experimental measurements, resulting in recommendations for accurate and conservative design calculations of lateral stiffness, diagonal-cracking strength, and peak strength of squat walls with HSC and HSR. keywords: walls cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz33p2s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz33p2s.txt item: #779 of 4945 id: 4j03cz33p65 author: Suwen Lin title: Personalizing Temporal Multi-Modal Sensory Data Mining date: 2021 words: 353 flesch: 30 summary: These sensed multi-modal streams are often chronologically ordered (e.g. time series of heart rate measurements), which we refer to as temporal multi-modal sensory data in this thesis. However, temporal multi-modal sensory data poses its unique challenges. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz33p65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz33p65.txt item: #780 of 4945 id: 4j03cz33p96 author: Matthew Rhodes title: Investigating the Polyketide Metabolite GEX1A: A Splicing Inhibitor with Implications for Niemann-Pick Type C Disease date: 2021 words: 294 flesch: 32 summary: Accessory domains and post polyketide synthesis tailoring install many oxidative and stereochemically relevant elements necessary for biological activity. Our laboratory has utilized total synthesis, semi-synthesis, and fermentation of bacterial species to produce the natural products and analogs of the natural product to study the structures and conformational preferences and the respective relationships to biological activity. keywords: biological cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz33p96.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz33p96.txt item: #781 of 4945 id: 4j03cz33r9t author: Ziwei Dai title: Crosslinked Polymer Membranes with Model Network Structure for Gas Separation Applications date: 2023 words: 443 flesch: 12 summary: Based upon these considerations, this dissertation reports studies of crosslinked polymer gas separation membranes with model network structures based on triptycene-containing polybenzoxazoles (TPBOs) prepared via a fundamentally new end-linking approach. Several important challenges exist for polymer gas separation membranes. keywords: gas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4j03cz33r9t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4j03cz33r9t.txt item: #782 of 4945 id: 4m90dv15v3z author: Jung-Jae Lee title: Supramolecular Enhancement of the Menshutkin Reaction date: 2009 words: 290 flesch: 42 summary: This dissertation describes an acceleration of the Menshutkin reaction, a distortion of halide leaving group order, and fluorescence sensing of chloroalkanes. Likely reasons for this selective enhancement effect are: (a) increased transition-state stabilization due to hydrogen bonding in the macrocyclic pocket and (b) reduced entropic penalty in the transition state due to an increased fraction of pre-reaction complexes that are oriented in a near attack conformation. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv15v3z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv15v3z.txt item: #783 of 4945 id: 4m90dv15v60 author: Rashi Talwar title: Stellar Neutron Sources and s-Process in Massive Stars date: 2015 words: 529 flesch: 55 summary: Hence, the recommended 22Ne(&alpha,n) + 22Ne(&alpha,&gamma) rates, from the present work, strongly favour the reduction of s-process over-abundances associated with massive stars as well as AGB stars of intermediate initial mass. and Bisterzo et al. rates and by a factor of 3 above NACRE rate. keywords: alpha cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv15v60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv15v60.txt item: #784 of 4945 id: 4m90dv15w07 author: Xiaorong Xiang title: Service-oriented architecture for integration of bioinformatic data and applications date: 2008 words: 139 flesch: 30 summary: We present a practical experiment of building a service-oriented system for data integration and analysis using current web services technologies and bioinformatics middleware. Since their introduction, semantic web and web services technologies are increasingly gaining interest in the implementation of e-Science infrastructures. keywords: web cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv15w07.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv15w07.txt item: #785 of 4945 id: 4m90dv15w69 author: John Karim Kamel Ibrahim title: Chemical Vapor Deposition/Chemical Vapor Infiltration of Pyrocarbon in Porous Carbon date: 2007 words: 237 flesch: 35 summary: Moreover, such solution is beyond the capability of present computers for unsteady and multidimensional problems that include, multi-species, gas phase as well as surface chemical reactions, and surface to surface radiation. This method is based on operator decomposition where the pressure is obtained by solving a Poisson equation followed by a projection or correction step for the velocity field so that it satisfies the conservation of mass equation. keywords: surface cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv15w69.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv15w69.txt item: #786 of 4945 id: 4m90dv15w9b author: Robert Anthony Perera title: Bias and Precision of Parameter Estimates in Structural Equation Modeling and Multiple Regression date: 2009 words: 148 flesch: 37 summary: This decrease in bias does not come without cost as SEM suffers from decreased precision of parameter estimates as compared to multiple regression. This paper examines the bias, precision, accuracy, and confidence interval coverage of parameter estimates in SEM and multiple regression. keywords: estimates cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv15w9b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv15w9b.txt item: #787 of 4945 id: 4m90dv15x1w author: Faisal R Baluch title: Machiavelli on Liberty, Empire, and Necessity date: 2013 words: 404 flesch: 56 summary: Necessity, rather than liberty, I argue, is the central driver behind Machiavelli's recommendations. Machiavelli's recommendations do not only put liberty in danger at home. keywords: machiavelli cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv15x1w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv15x1w.txt item: #788 of 4945 id: 4m90dv15x27 author: Kai Xiao title: GPU Based Acceleration Techniques: Algorithms, Implementations, and Applications date: 1904 words: 320 flesch: 27 summary: Finally, we propose a series of techniques to accelerate nearest neighbor search algorithm on GPU, including a GPU-cache efficient data structure (k-pack tree), a coherent parallel search algorithm, and a cost model based performance optimization method. Our techniques can be implemented in various parallel programming models, such as CUDA and OpenCL, and applicable on many modern GPU architectures, including NVIDIA Kepler/Maxwell, AMD GCN, and Intel Xeon Phi. keywords: gpu cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv15x27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv15x27.txt item: #789 of 4945 id: 4m90dv1624f author: Victoria R. Zellmer title: Tumor-Induced Mammary Niche Alterations Stimulate Upregulation of Stromal STAT1 and Promote Tumorigenesis date: 1904 words: 243 flesch: 26 summary: Furthermore, depletion of STAT1 in CAFs significantly reduced periductal reactive fibrosis and delayed early breast cancer progression in vivo. The tumor microenvironment (TME) – the dynamic tissue space in which the tumor exists – plays a significant role in tumor initiation and is a key contributor in cancer progression; however, little is known about tumor-induced changes in the adjacent tissue stroma. keywords: tumor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv1624f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv1624f.txt item: #790 of 4945 id: 4m90dv16r08 author: Melonie-Auburn Mulkey title: Interiors date: 2019 words: 91 flesch: 27 summary: The psychology of space is defined by light, color, and transitions in architecture, and through the genre of constructed photography and the use of the miniature, I aim to bring an emotional and reflective experience to the viewer. By analyzing the architectural, metaphorical, and psychological conditions of place as it relates to the human psyche, I construct detailed diorama sets illustrating fictional worlds that represent altered perceptions of inhabitable spaces. keywords: spaces cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv16r08.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv16r08.txt item: #791 of 4945 id: 4m90dv1702d author: Hemanta Bhattarai title: Polarizable Potentials for Metals and Metal Oxides: Structural, Elastic, and Thermal Transport Properties date: 2021 words: 428 flesch: 36 summary: Vibrational densities of states on both sides of the interface exhibit interesting frequency modulation close to the surface, but no obvious differences due to metal polarizability. DR-EAM also captures some of the behavior of metals in the presence of uniform electric fields, predicting surface charging and shielding internal to the metal. keywords: eam cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv1702d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv1702d.txt item: #792 of 4945 id: 4m90dv17043 author: Maxwell Hong title: The Psychometric Properties of Text date: 2021 words: 226 flesch: 57 summary: LDA is topic model that can summarize a group of documents with a set of topics. With that in mind, the validity of scores from text needs to be evaluated in order to make sound scientific claims. keywords: lda cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv17043.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv17043.txt item: #793 of 4945 id: 4m90dv1705f author: John Arndt Hanson title: Descartes on Representation, Presentation, and the Real Natures date: 2021 words: 352 flesch: 45 summary: In the third chapter, I take up the objective sense, and the widespread interpretation of this sense of ideas as concerning current presentational or phenomenological content. In the first chapter, I take up the material sense, and argue against those interpretations which see it as a category for the contentless ontology of ideas. keywords: sense cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv1705f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv1705f.txt item: #794 of 4945 id: 4m90dv1708g author: Brendan Brown title: Plasmon Dephasing and Heat Dissipation in Gold Nanostructures date: 2022 words: 801 flesch: 54 summary: This thesis examines two topics, energy loss mechanisms for surface plasmon modes in metal nanostripes, and heat diffusion in photothermal experiments on gold particles and how it affects microscopy images. Electron motions which occur at the surfaces of conducting materials that have a definitive momentum are known as propagating surface plasmon polaritons (PSPPs).For a metal structure supported on a dielectric substrate, there exists two types of PSPP modes: the bound mode at the interface between the metal and dielectric and the leaky mode at the glass-air interface. keywords: beam cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv1708g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv1708g.txt item: #795 of 4945 id: 4m90dv17252 author: Thanh Binh Le title: The Impact of Birth Plannedness on Educational Outcome: A Cultural Approach date: 2023 words: 131 flesch: 37 summary: The thesis also unfolds the impacts of some Vietnam-customized patterns on educational achievements, such as geographical context and gender discrimination. This thesis uses the 2018 Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey data to answer this question in the context of Vietnam. keywords: birth cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4m90dv17252.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4m90dv17252.txt item: #796 of 4945 id: 4q77fq9945g author: Kaifeng Liu title: Mechanical Characterization and Simulation of Biphasic Viscoelastic Gels date: 2010 words: 539 flesch: 38 summary: The moduli measured via indentation are one order lower than those from creep tests. Injection molded PVA hydrogels have shown good mechanical strength compared to traditional freeze/thaw processing. keywords: hydrogels cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq9945g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq9945g.txt item: #797 of 4945 id: 4q77fq9949v author: Xia Lin title: Expression of Insect (Dendroides Canadensis) Antifreeze Proteins In Drosophila Melanogaster and Arabidopsis Thaliana date: 2010 words: 437 flesch: 49 summary: All transgenics had TH, but the highest TH of 6.78 Ìâå± 0.12Ìâå¡C was detected in 5-day adult flies containing two copies of both DAFP-1 and DAFP-4 genes. This difference between melting point and freezing point has been termed thermal hysteresis (TH). keywords: dafp-4 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq9949v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq9949v.txt item: #798 of 4945 id: 4q77fq99502 author: Anthony Robert Strathman title: Application of Statistical Mechanical Methods to the Modeling of Social Networks date: 2013 words: 208 flesch: 41 summary: We introduce an agent-based model of social behavior, designed to model the formation and dissolution of social ties. With the recent availability of large-scale social data sets, social networks have become open to quantitative analysis via the methods of statistical physics. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq99502.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq99502.txt item: #799 of 4945 id: 4q77fq9952r author: Alexis Nicole Thompson title: Event Boundaries, Inconsistency Detection, and Anaphoric Reference date: 2014 words: 201 flesch: 26 summary: The current study explores the idea that parsing a narrative into separate events can influence the monitoring of prior text information that occurs during comprehension, such as inconsistency detection and anaphor resolution. The results of four experiments revealed that narrative event boundaries did impede anaphor resolution, but not inconsistency detection, and reading interruption impeded both inconsistency resolution and anaphor resolution. keywords: event cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq9952r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq9952r.txt item: #800 of 4945 id: 4q77fq99533 author: Qun Ma title: Novel Multiscale Algorithms for Molecular Dynamics date: 2003 words: 240 flesch: 42 summary: In post-genomic computational biology and bioinformatics, long simulations of the dynamics of molecular systems, particularly biological molecules such as proteins and DNA, require advances in time stepping computational methods. The objective of this dissertation is to present original work in constructing multiscale multiple time stepping (MTS) algorithms for molecular dynamics (MD) that allow large time steps. keywords: time cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq99533.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq99533.txt item: #801 of 4945 id: 4q77fq9954f author: Daniel Lynwood Smith title: The Rhetorical Function of Interrupted Speech in Luke-Acts date: 2011 words: 282 flesch: 39 summary: This dissertation argues that Luke uses interruption rhetorically to underscore his twin theological emphases on the resurrection of the Christ and the mission to the Gentiles. In the end, the interrupted discourses are best understood not as historical accidents, but as rhetorical exclamation points intended to highlight key elements of the early Christian message and their varied reception by Jews and Gentiles. keywords: luke cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq9954f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq9954f.txt item: #802 of 4945 id: 4q77fq9955s author: Jeffrey Michael Seymour title: Moving Beyond Consistency In 'Pro-Life' Attitudes: Frames and Typologies of Varying Life Ethics date: 2013 words: 341 flesch: 25 summary: Second, how do individuals structure attitudes related to life issues? I conduct latent class analysis, examining the structures of attitudes related to life issues from 1977 to 2012 with nationally representative survey data. keywords: life cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq9955s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq9955s.txt item: #803 of 4945 id: 4q77fq99564 author: Oleg Kim title: The In-Flight Breakup of Drops Subjected to Electric and Ionic Fields of DC Corona Discharge date: 2010 words: 318 flesch: 46 summary: The size, velocity, and charge of mm-sized to nm-sized drops are measured for different initial parent drop sizes. The results of experiments on the break-up of electrically charged parent drops into progeny drops are described. keywords: drops cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq99564.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq99564.txt item: #804 of 4945 id: 4q77fq9958t author: Christopher Paul Nicholson title: A Complete Program Toward Polyketide Natural Products: Methodology, Synthesis, and Conformational Analysis date: 2010 words: 379 flesch: 35 summary: Supplemental data not included in the dissertation: NicholsonC_Data_MM2.zip (151 MB) NicholsonC_Data_MM3.zip (154 MB) NicholsonC_Data_OPLS.zip (19.1 MB) The systems of particular interest to this research are polyketides synthase derived natural products and, in particular, the epothilones and peloruside A. Toward the design of novel methodologies, this project has focused on development of 1,3-diols and their related monoethers with high diastereoselectivity. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq9958t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq9958t.txt item: #805 of 4945 id: 4q77fq99595 author: Katie Marie O'Sullivan title: Petrogenesis of Planetary Basalts Using Crystal Stratigraphy date: 2012 words: 281 flesch: 34 summary: Using the crystal stratigraphy approach, the complete crystallization history from the onset of pyroxene crystallization to the final dregs of crystallization are determined for the Martian meteorite Shergotty. This study finds that Shergotty formed from 2 discrete batches of magma, both with pyroxene on the liquidus, which then mixed with continued pyroxene crystallization. keywords: crystallization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq99595.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq99595.txt item: #806 of 4945 id: 4q77fq9961q author: Jeffrey Church title: Divided Individualism: On the Political Individual in Hegel and Nietzsche date: 2010 words: 317 flesch: 27 summary: After Rousseau, Hegel and Nietzsche argue that nature does not produce individuals, but rather individuals are human products. Since Socrates' trial and execution in Athens, reconciling the conflict between individual and community has remained a persistent and vital concern in politics. keywords: individual cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq9961q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq9961q.txt item: #807 of 4945 id: 4q77fq9966f author: Samuel C.R. Bruce title: Effect of Floc Size on Selection of Phosphate-Accumulating Organisms (PAO) in Wastewater Treatment Systems Without a Strictly Anaerobic Zone date: 1904 words: 154 flesch: 34 summary: Phosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) are commonly used in enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) to remove phosphorus from wastewater. This thesis explores the question can large flocs enhance selection for PAOs under non-ideal conditions, both in conventional activated sludge (CAS) and EBPR systems? keywords: paos cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq9966f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq9966f.txt item: #808 of 4945 id: 4q77fq9976r author: Kathryn M. G. Boehlefeld title: The Professions of Soldiers: A Critical Examination of the Assignment of Military Tasks Since World War II date: 1904 words: 175 flesch: 32 summary: The literature on private security companies examines the role of civilians in military operations, while the literature on military professionalism examines the role of soldiers in military operations. In this dissertation, I bridge the gap between these two literatures by considering civilian and military professions on equal terms: I suggest civilian professionals compete with one another over military tasks to be recognized as expert authorities on these tasks. keywords: military cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq9976r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq9976r.txt item: #809 of 4945 id: 4q77fq9981b author: Dimitris Apostolopoulos title: Logos and Phenomenon: A Reappraisal of Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Language date: 1904 words: 340 flesch: 31 summary: Merleau-Ponty's abiding interest in questions of language demonstrates that his philosophy of language is indispensable for properly understanding even non-linguistic arguments and concepts that are central to his work, and shows that it must take on a privileged role in appraising the broader development of his thought. Already in The Structure of Behavior (1938/1942), Merleau-Ponty struggles to define the role of language in phenomenology. keywords: merleau cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq9981b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq9981b.txt item: #810 of 4945 id: 4q77fq99b5b author: Hanyu Ma title: Size-Effect of Metallic Nanoparticles in Environmental Heterogeneous Catalysis date: 1904 words: 358 flesch: 35 summary: A variety of catalysts have been investigated to improve the reactivity of the reactions; however, little attention has been given to the possible influence of size-effect on catalyst design. In summary, size-effect is crucial for the design of environmental catalysts. keywords: nanoparticles cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq99b5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq99b5b.txt item: #811 of 4945 id: 4q77fq99b6p author: Himadri S. Dey title: Experimental Study of Exchange-Coupled Nanomagnets date: 1904 words: 340 flesch: 37 summary: Extending the nanomagnet logic (NML) concept, which is based on dipole coupling between neighboring nanomagnets, we attempt to use inter-layer exchange coupling as an additional coupling mechanism between two laterally adjacent nanomagnets. These measurements were the first dynamic, high-speed characterization of nanomagnet devices by the Notre Dame group. keywords: coupling cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq99b6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq99b6p.txt item: #812 of 4945 id: 4q77fq99v08 author: Ji Eun Kim title: Good and Bad Apologies: Determinants of Successful State Apologies date: 1904 words: 167 flesch: 36 summary: In order to close the gaps between theory and practice regarding the efficacy of state apology, I identify and test four causal factors that can affect victims' reception of state apologies. By assessing whether and how certain features of an apology affect its reception, this research aims to introduce cross-case empirical analyses and a new dataset on state apologies that could be shared and used for future research on apology and reconciliation. keywords: apologies cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fq99v08.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fq99v08.txt item: #813 of 4945 id: 4q77fr0077n author: Nayara Aguiar title: Flexibility-Based Market Design and Analysis to Increase Renewable Integration in the Power Grid date: 2021 words: 365 flesch: 39 summary: In this context, we propose the design of a new market structure which seeks to properly compensate flexible energy sources that can modify their production quickly to counterbalance renewable variability. Through the proposed market, renewable generators can hedge against their own production uncertainty by having contracts with flexible energy sources that can set aside some reserve to be used in case of renewable shortages. keywords: renewable cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fr0077n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fr0077n.txt item: #814 of 4945 id: 4q77fr00780 author: Kaitlin Fondren title: Internal State Language in the Context of Maltreatment and Maternal Depression: Predictors and Pathways Related to the Development of Child Psychopathology date: 2021 words: 214 flesch: 34 summary: There was not a significant association between maltreatment status and maternal ISL use, nor a significant indirect effect when considering child ISL use. Exploratory analyses suggested that mother and child use of cognition/perception ISL terms may be driving the effects between maternal depressive symptoms (and maltreatment) and ISL use. keywords: use cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fr00780.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fr00780.txt item: #815 of 4945 id: 4q77fr0081w author: Shubin Zhang title: Laser Cooling of Semiconductor Nanomaterials date: 2021 words: 204 flesch: 37 summary: The results in this thesis suggest that semiconductor nanostructures are promising cooling media for solid phase optical cooling. Two critical parameters for optical cooling (emission quantum yield and upconversion efficiency) are discussed in detail. keywords: cooling cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fr0081w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fr0081w.txt item: #816 of 4945 id: 4q77fr0099z author: Yini Zhu title: Targeting the Cancer-Cell-Intrinsic Mechanisms to Reverse the Immunosuppressive Landscape and Enhance Immunotherapy in Prostate Cancer date: 2022 words: 493 flesch: 28 summary: Here, we (1) discovered chromatin effector Pygo2, as a driver of PCa and have a significant amplification in PCa patients, induced the de novo resistance to immunotherapy through suppressing cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) infiltration in the tumor area, and (2) uncovered Speckle-type POZ protein (SPOP) and chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 1(CHD1) which frequently mutated and deleted respectively in PCa synergistically protected prostate epithelial cells from DNA damage and implied that the PCa patients with SPOP mutation and CHD1 deletion might be susceptible to poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors(PARPi) or DNA-damaging agents and immunotherapy because of the potential higher neoantigen expression. Our results indicated that SPOP and CHD1 could synergistically promote the repair of DNA damage in prostate epithelial cells. keywords: pca cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fr0099z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fr0099z.txt item: #817 of 4945 id: 4q77fr00b67 author: C. Bruce Mousseau title: The Methodological Proteome: Developing Novel Methods for Bottom-Up Proteomics date: 2023 words: 289 flesch: 32 summary: While the technology for mass spectrometry has been evolving, so too are the methods for preparing protein samples prior to MS analysis. In this thesis, I highlight how protein filters for bottom-up proteomics studies have greatly advanced the field and describe novel approaches and design new methods for protein preparation, isolation, long-term storage, and modify existing protocols to detect novel 'dark proteome' proteins. keywords: proteins cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fr00b67.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fr00b67.txt item: #818 of 4945 id: 4q77fr00b8x author: Alex C. J. Neroth van Vogelpoel title: Known in the Baking of the Bread: The Preparation of the Eucharistic Gifts in the East Syriac Tradition date: 2023 words: 349 flesch: 24 summary: Lastly, the dissertation explores how liturgical commentators in the East Syriac tradition (ancient and modern) have interpreted the Rites of Preparation, as well as making a few points of mystagogical interpretation. Throughout, the dissertation includes comparisons between the Preparatory Services in the East Syriac tradition and those in other Christian ritual traditions (Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Ethiopian, Maronite Syriac, West Syriac, and Latin). keywords: dissertation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4q77fr00b8x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4q77fr00b8x.txt item: #819 of 4945 id: 4t64gm82d51 author: Damiano Benvegnu title: Primo Levi and the Question of the Animal: Suffering, Techne, Creation. date: 2014 words: 293 flesch: 25 summary: In this dissertation, I investigate the mysterious presence of animal representations and references to animality in Levi's books in order to achieve a better comprehension of what aesthetic and ethical questions he left us. This dissertation concludes noticing how the animal representations displayed by Levi transform his whole oeuvre into a testimony about the possible limitrophy between human and non-human animals. keywords: animal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm82d51.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm82d51.txt item: #820 of 4945 id: 4t64gm82d7q author: John Matthew Drake title: Risk Analysis for Biological Invasions of the Laurentian Great Lakes and Inland Aquatic Ecosystems date: 2004 words: 344 flesch: 32 summary: My approach is to develop relevant aspects of theoretical population biology and quantitative biogeography for representative species, while focusing on features that can be generalized. I contribute to two areas of active research: population dynamics in (1) fluctuating environments and (2) open populations. keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm82d7q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm82d7q.txt item: #821 of 4945 id: 4t64gm82d82 author: Alexander Joseph Reisinger title: Assessing the role of the water column in nutrient dynamics of lotic ecosystems date: 2015 words: 343 flesch: 36 summary: I found that water column nutrient uptake occurs across a variety of streams and rivers. Nutrient dynamics in streams are controlled by benthic (i.e., bottom) processes, whereas water column processes are ignored in all but the largest rivers. keywords: water cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm82d82.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm82d82.txt item: #822 of 4945 id: 4t64gm82f29 author: Daniel W Shannon title: Flow Field and Acoustic Measurements of a Blunt Trailing Edge date: 2008 words: 156 flesch: 41 summary: Beamforming methods were utilized in conjunction with a pair of 40 microphone arrays to isolate trailing edge noise from unwanted tunnel noise. The objective of the present research was to experimentally measure flow field and acoustic variables in order to develop an understanding of the mechanisms that generate trailing edge noise in incompressible, high Reynolds number flows. keywords: field cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm82f29.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm82f29.txt item: #823 of 4945 id: 4t64gm82f8c author: Luling Yang title: Shear Stiffness Modeling of Cemented Sand and Cemented Clay date: 2008 words: 356 flesch: 34 summary: This research advances the understanding of cemented sand and cemented clay by providing a database of test results, and creation of models which can be used to predict the response of cemented soils to dynamic loads. New shear stiffness models, Simsoil-CS for cemented sand and Simsoil-CC for cemented clay, based on the model Simsoil by Pestana and Salvati, 2006 are proposed to represent dynamic properties such as maximum shear modulus, modulus and damping variation with the shear strain of the cemented sand and cemented clay. keywords: cemented cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm82f8c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm82f8c.txt item: #824 of 4945 id: 4t64gm82g18 author: Andrew Vincent Rosato title: Duns Scotus on the Redemptive Work of Christ date: 2009 words: 249 flesch: 36 summary: Unlike his Franciscan predecessors, Scotus claims that the hypostatic union does not necessarily confer grace on Christ's soul or augment its capacity for grace. In this study, I examine Scotus's account of Christ's redemptive work in light of his Christology and in light of thirteenth-century Franciscan theology. keywords: scotus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm82g18.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm82g18.txt item: #825 of 4945 id: 4t64gm82g3z author: Lance Roy Wescher title: Tax Rates and Employer-Provided Health Insurance: Who Responds and How? date: 2008 words: 364 flesch: 51 summary: In this paper I estimate the impact of the tax-preferred treatment of health insurance on the level of health insurance coverage. Tax exemptions for employer-provided health insurance have topped $1 trillion over the past decade, and tax strategies remain a central focus of proposed policies to expand health insurance coverage. keywords: tax cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm82g3z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm82g3z.txt item: #826 of 4945 id: 4t64gm82g49 author: Si Mou title: Advances in Protein Phosphorylation Analysis by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis with Online Microreactor Coupled with Mass Spectrometry date: 1904 words: 137 flesch: 15 summary: In the work, I demonstrate diagonal capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry for characterization of protein phosphorylation, the accurate determination of this stoichiometry and applied this technique in the study of kinase activities. By online dephosphorylation in the capillary, there is no bias in ionization efficiency, and phosphorylation stoichiometry can be determined by the ratio of the signal of the two forms. keywords: phosphorylation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm82g49.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm82g49.txt item: #827 of 4945 id: 4t64gm82h1k author: Andrew C. Helms title: Duns Scotus on Common Natures and Carving at the Joints of Reality date: 1904 words: 336 flesch: 58 summary: Then, I will discuss the rule or criterion by which Scotus posits common natures to account for certain cases of univocal predication – as opposed to cases of univocal predication for which he doesn't posit common natures. Despite the puzzles of interpretation it engenders, John Duns Scotus's theory of common natures is widely cited as an example of scholastic realism. keywords: common cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm82h1k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm82h1k.txt item: #828 of 4945 id: 4t64gm8348v author: Robbin D. Forsyth title: Mandala System: Design as a Response to the Struggles of Poverty date: 2021 words: 360 flesch: 51 summary: Ultimately the research has revealed that a combination of technology as a trainer to build the structure needed for behavioral change, as well as community support, could be a highly effective combination for behavioral change. The growth of access to more and more powerful devices in addition to ever cheaper data connections have created a unique opportunity to engage people of all demographics through mobile technology efficiently. keywords: system cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm8348v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm8348v.txt item: #829 of 4945 id: 4t64gm8354s author: Andrey Kuehlkamp title: Advancing Iris Recognition through Search Performance, Presentation Attack Detection and Soft Biometrics date: 1904 words: 205 flesch: 51 summary: Recent works show that the ability to identify artifacts in cross-domain scenarios is still limited. Evaluation shows the new approach outperforms the current state of the art in cross-domain PAD. keywords: iris cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm8354s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm8354s.txt item: #830 of 4945 id: 4t64gm8392b author: Kristina Krasich title: The Effects of Mind Wandering on Gaze Control date: 2019 words: 185 flesch: 32 summary: These findings demonstrate that gaze parameters typically considered to reflect greater engagement with scene processing (e.g., longer fixations) can also indicate MW. Together, the current research indicates which gaze parameters are reliable, real-time indicators of MW in a scene viewing task and offers insight into the complex—less understood—relationship between MW and the spatial aspects of gaze control. keywords: gaze cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm8392b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm8392b.txt item: #831 of 4945 id: 4t64gm83b19 author: Ting Cho Lau title: The Reasons Management Framework date: 2019 words: 274 flesch: 44 summary: To be specific, I motivate the following two theses from Lord (2018): Possessed Reasons: What we ought to do is determined by our possessed reasons Possession: What it is for agent A to possess reason R to φ provided by fact F is for A to be in a position to manifest knowledge about how to use R to φ. I make the case that RMF allows us to adopt a broadly realist view of normativity that is familiar to us: it (a) acknowledges the existence of objective reasons and values, but also (b) gives agents flexibility in deciding which objective reasons and values will play a role in determining what they ought to do. keywords: reasons cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm83b19.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm83b19.txt item: #832 of 4945 id: 4t64gm83g68 author: Corey Dethier title: Multiple Models, Robustness, and the Epistemology of Climate Science date: 2020 words: 200 flesch: 53 summary: First, that the use of multiple models is essential to the epistemology of climate science; agreement across such models is an interesting special case, but not the whole story. Third, that we can understand robustness in terms of agreement across sources of evidence that vary with regards to the conditions under which they are reliable--and that, in general, such agreement will tend to confirm the agreed-on result. keywords: agreement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm83g68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm83g68.txt item: #833 of 4945 id: 4t64gm83g99 author: Eve C. Wolynes title: Migrant Mentalities: Reconstructing the Community, Identity and World of Venetian Merchants in the Late Medieval Mediterranean date: 2020 words: 326 flesch: 39 summary: Merchant manuals of comparing weights, measures, exchange rates and common goods sold between regions, organized geographically, and the crusade propaganda letters of Marino Sanudo Torsello. As a result of that participation, they adopted new relations to communication and information that in turn informed a wide variety of attitudes: they focused on the value of connections between regions and shifted their perspectives of the Mediterranean to look at the way different cities tied to one another; their use of merchant manuals to spread information also predicated spreading shared senses of space and imaginary geographies. keywords: merchants cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm83g99.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm83g99.txt item: #834 of 4945 id: 4t64gm83h1v author: Anna Gabur title: We Know Your Pain. Cultural Dimensions of Pain and Suffering date: 2020 words: 118 flesch: 50 summary: Sociologists have studied pain as an individual experience, mostly through the lens of medical sociology, leaving the social aspect understudied. Through a series of semi-structured interviews, I examine the ways in which people talk about the pain of others as well as their own, and I apply the grounded theory method to uncover the patterns that structure the ways in which culture informs our concepts of pain severity. keywords: pain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm83h1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm83h1v.txt item: #835 of 4945 id: 4t64gm83h57 author: Sarah E. Dietz title: Constraining the Formation History of the Galactic Disk and Halo Systems through Kinematic Studies of Metal-Poor Stars date: 2020 words: 206 flesch: 37 summary: In particular, I use metal-poor stars, and their close associates, carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars, throughout my analyses as tracer populations (or stellar fossils) to map features of interest. The analyses presented in this work all fall under the umbrella term Galactic archaeology, the sub-field of astronomy dedicated to reconstructing the assembly and chemical-evolution history of the Galaxy. keywords: halo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm83h57.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm83h57.txt item: #836 of 4945 id: 4t64gm83k04 author: Amirhosein Begmohammadi title: Storm Surge Prediction Using Subgrid Model date: 2022 words: 337 flesch: 48 summary: Low resolution models are much faster but generally have lower accuracy and vice versa for high-resolution models. Two categories of storm surge models exist: (i) low resolution and (ii) high resolution, and these models are distinguished by run times and accuracy. keywords: storm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm83k04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm83k04.txt item: #837 of 4945 id: 4t64gm83k35 author: Joseph N. Laski title: Value Violations and Satisfactions in Intimate Relationships: The Value-Consistent Action Measure date: 2022 words: 157 flesch: 15 summary: How closely Partner A's actions align with Partner B's values likely affects the emotions and relationship quality of Partner B, with greater alignment predicting better scores in both outcomes for Partner B. Behaviors that conflict with the interpreting partner's values are considered value violations, and behaviors aligned with the interpreting partner's values are considered value satisfactions. To test these assumptions regarding the role of values in interpersonal behavior interpretations, a new measure called the Value-Consistent Action Measure (VCAM) was administered along with a variety of measures regarding emotions, values, and relationship quality. keywords: partner cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4t64gm83k35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4t64gm83k35.txt item: #838 of 4945 id: 4x51hh65p7s author: Daria E. Spezzano title: The Grace of the Holy Spirit, the Virtue of Charity, and the Gift of Wisdom: Deification in Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae date: 2011 words: 355 flesch: 42 summary: Thomas' theology of deification in the Summa theologiae demonstrates his mature vision of God's loving and sapiential ordering of predestined human persons to communion with himself, by a progressive participation in the divine likeness and activity, which accounts for both the primacy of divine causality in all its modes, and the fullness of graced human freedom. The deification of adopted sons reveals God's glory, by fully manifesting God's gracious plan to share the divine life with rational creatures. keywords: divine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh65p7s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh65p7s.txt item: #839 of 4945 id: 4x51hh65q0p author: Kristy Marie DiVittorio title: Phospholipid Flip-Flop and Molecular Transport Across Biomembranes date: 2008 words: 328 flesch: 43 summary: The first motivation for exploring these transport molecules was to better understand the minimal supramolecular requirements to achieve membrane transport. This research has lead to the development of compounds that can alter or sense the phospholipid asymmetry and composition of plasma membranes for use as biological sensors. keywords: membrane cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh65q0p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh65q0p.txt item: #840 of 4945 id: 4x51hh65q11 author: Brendan Michael Dunn title: The Original Functional Constitution: Democratic Means in the Service of Substantive Ends date: 2009 words: 346 flesch: 16 summary: Moral constitutionalists understand the Constitution in light of its substantive ends, diminishing the importance of constitutional procedures. And contemporary originalists too often elevate constitutional procedures at the expense of the Constitution's moral principles. keywords: constitution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh65q11.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh65q11.txt item: #841 of 4945 id: 4x51hh65q2c author: David Michael Morse title: A Search for New Physics in Events with Two Photons and Missing Transverse Energy in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s)=8 TeV date: 2013 words: 192 flesch: 53 summary: The results have been interpreted in the context of gauge-mediated supersymmetry in multiple model scans, resulting in 95% confidence level limits on signal production cross sections between 0.7 and 6.6 fb for a Bino-like neutralino and between 50 and 5000 fb for a Wino-like neutralino. The search makes use of an integrated luminosity ∫L=19.5/fb of data taken during the 2012 proton-proton collisions at center of mass energy sqrt(s)=8 TeV produced by the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. keywords: search cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh65q2c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh65q2c.txt item: #842 of 4945 id: 4x51hh65q42 author: Manuel Euripides Ruiz Sandoval title: 'Smart' Sensors for Civil Infrastructure Systems date: 2005 words: 351 flesch: 46 summary: Following a brief introduction to smart sensor technology, a literature review of the devices developed to date is presented. An agent-based paradigm is proposed that supports implementation of SHM/C algorithms on networks of smart sensors. keywords: smart cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh65q42.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh65q42.txt item: #843 of 4945 id: 4x51hh65q5d author: Laura Marie Grimes title: Theology as Conversation: Gertrud of Helfta and Her Sisters as Readers of Augustine date: 2005 words: 259 flesch: 41 summary: The fourth chapter analyzes Gertrud's 'Life and Revelations' in the compiled portions of Legatus, especially Books I and V. In Book I her sisters advocate a model of female holiness as converted scholarship, comparing Gertrud to Augustine as an inspired theological teacher formed by a holy community. The second chapter analyzes the work's composition history, described in its Prologue with the feminine and collaborative metaphor of childbirth. keywords: gertrud cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh65q5d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh65q5d.txt item: #844 of 4945 id: 4x51hh65q73 author: Andrea Kay Tamplin title: Interference from Emotional Items Within and Across Events date: 2013 words: 156 flesch: 27 summary: This research examines retroactive and proactive influences on memory for neutral information during language comprehension in the presence of emotional, distinctive and event boundary information. Findings suggest that an interaction between these two influences causes target information to be remembered better when emotional or distinctive information occurs without an event boundary (within the same event), but not when the emotional or distinctive information occurs across an event boundary, even though there is an overall benefit of the event boundary itself. keywords: information cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh65q73.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh65q73.txt item: #845 of 4945 id: 4x51hh65q8f author: Brigid Eileen Brown title: Metal-Binding Properties of Conus Parius Conantokin Variants and Their Inhibitory Effect on the NMDA Receptor date: 2010 words: 156 flesch: 26 summary: Synthesized variants of the wild-type conantokin Conus Parius 2 were tested by isothermal titration calorimetry, circular dichroism, and electrophysiology experiments to explore the variation's effect on structure and function. Little is known of the structure and function of conantokins from the species Conus parius. keywords: structure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh65q8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh65q8f.txt item: #846 of 4945 id: 4x51hh65r00 author: Andrew Charles Blaich title: Enhancing End-Hosts to Improve Computer Security and Wireless Performance for Networked Environments date: 2010 words: 492 flesch: 49 summary: This paucity of wireless devices made it acceptable for these devices to locally optimize their own performance without consideration for the performance of other devices around them. However, as the number of wireless devices increases, the decisions made by one device can have a detrimental effect on the performance of other devices. keywords: devices cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh65r00.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh65r00.txt item: #847 of 4945 id: 4x51hh65r1b author: Nachiket Kamatkar title: Rhamnolipid Independent Swarming of Pseudomonas aeruginosa date: 2012 words: 156 flesch: 41 summary: This is unexpected, as no previous rhamnolipid-deficient swarming has been documented for P. aerguinosa. This thesis details swarming in response to two types of environmental conditions: surface hardness and carbon source. keywords: swarming cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh65r1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh65r1b.txt item: #848 of 4945 id: 4x51hh65r31 author: David Wayne Williams title: Determination of Phosphorylation and Kinetics of Nucleosides and Nucleoside Analogs in Isolated Mitochondria from the Rat Brain date: 2010 words: 343 flesch: 41 summary: Deoxyuridine is phosphorylated to the monophosphate form in brain mitochondria which has also been shown in heart mitochondria, but not in perfused heart. The goal of the project presented here is to expand these studies to brain mitochondria, a tissue relatively resistant to NRTI toxicity. keywords: mitochondria cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh65r31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh65r31.txt item: #849 of 4945 id: 4x51hh65r8r author: Andrew D. Hoyt title: Linking Context and College: High School Hyper-Segregation, Social Capital, and Latino Postsecondary Transitions date: 1904 words: 133 flesch: 33 summary: Although studies emphasize the relationship between high school achievement and college outcomes for Latinos, few focus on how high school contexts influence Latinos' transitions to college. Upon high school graduation, Latinos disproportionately attend two-year colleges and lag behind other groups in college completion. keywords: college cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh65r8r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh65r8r.txt item: #850 of 4945 id: 4x51hh65t3n author: Andrew Schmudlach title: Bottom-Up Proteomic Analysis of the Secretome of Murine Islets of Langerhans date: 1904 words: 125 flesch: 36 summary: Dysregulation or damage of islets can cause diabetes, a metabolic disease characterized by persistent high blood glucose levels. Islets of Langerhans are critical for the homeostasis of blood glucose levels. keywords: islets cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh65t3n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh65t3n.txt item: #851 of 4945 id: 4x51hh66233 author: Paige Ambord title: Legislation as Anti-Hero: Determinants of Community Antidiscrimination Opposition date: 1904 words: 142 flesch: 15 summary: The recent spate of antidiscrimination ordinances, also known as bathroom bills, represents a new facet of American anti-LGBT policy. Using a unique data set, this paper finds support for the association between a neighborhood's normative traditional family structure or conservative religious environment and opposition to HERO, while finding that the presence of LGBT-friendly businesses and organizations is associated with support for antidiscrimination ordinances. keywords: lgbt cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh66233.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh66233.txt item: #852 of 4945 id: 4x51hh66t0w author: Sasha Padilla-Coley title: Supramolecular Enhancement of Cell Permeation and Intracellular Targeting date: 2021 words: 301 flesch: 32 summary: This thesis investigates different supramolecular methods to deliver fluorescent payloads into the cell including the use of nanoparticle delivery systems and small molecule imaging agents. Subsequent chapters focus on microscopy using small molecule fluorescent probes. keywords: fluorescent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh66t0w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh66t0w.txt item: #853 of 4945 id: 4x51hh66t3x author: Anna Fett title: Peace Education for the World: People-to-People Programs, American Youth, and U.S. Power, 1939-1961 date: 2021 words: 337 flesch: 35 summary: This dissertation surveys how American social scientists, especially social psychologists, produced knowledge about the nature of 'child development' as well as 'intergroup contact' from the interwar period through the early Cold War years. Finally, this dissertation examines why U.S. government officials and policymakers came to believe that these programs were useful to the expansion of U.S. power in the world during and after the Second World War and into the early Cold War period. keywords: people cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh66t3x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh66t3x.txt item: #854 of 4945 id: 4x51hh66v1j author: Mary Chang Leverett title: Effects of Hormonal and Social Factors Impacting Mating Behavior in Anurans: Lab, Field, and Computational Modeling Approaches date: 2022 words: 409 flesch: 33 summary: In active choruses where males are clustered, males near the center of clusters displayed call characteristics preferred by females significantly more often than the other members of their clusters, suggesting that males use the social cues of other males and their positions in the chorus to make behavioral decisions. I also administered leptin to calling gray tree frogs, Hyla versicolor, in the field, and observed a significant effect on call effort. keywords: behavior cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh66v1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh66v1j.txt item: #855 of 4945 id: 4x51hh66v5x author: Benjamin Sehnert title: The Common Life: Lebenswelt and Individual in the Political Thought of Arendt and Heidegger date: 2022 words: 195 flesch: 9 summary: I therefore argue that the work of these two authors can be best understood when seen in the light of philosophical movements such as Lebensphilosophie, phenomenology, and German Existenzphilosophie as well as alongside authors such as Wilhelm Dilthey, George Simmel, Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler, and Karl Jaspers. Through this historical-contextual approach, one can see the systematicity of both Arendt and Heidegger's political thought with greater clarity: both see politics as the practice of properly integrating an authentic individual into a common world of shared social meanings (defined similarly by both).Moreover, once the internal logic of their argument is clarified, I propose that the difference in Heideggerian and Arendtian political thought is primarily due to their different understandings of what constitutes an individual's 'selfhood' or 'personhood'. keywords: heidegger cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh66v5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh66v5x.txt item: #856 of 4945 id: 4x51hh66w88 author: Hui Xu title: CO2 Capture and Conversion Based on Polymeric Membranes date: 2023 words: 316 flesch: 30 summary: By integrating CO2 capture and conversion into a single system, the energy consumption and costs associated with CO2 transport and storage can be reduced. To integrate CO2 capture and conversion using a membrane-based system, our first step was to investigate the transport intermediates and kinetics of CO2 in a typical facilitated transport membrane (PVAm membrane) using an operando surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) platform and mathematical model. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/4x51hh66w88.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/4x51hh66w88.txt item: #857 of 4945 id: 5138jd48z75 author: Katherine Butler title: Clock Line Fabrication and Analysis for Nanomagnet Logic date: 2014 words: 158 flesch: 50 summary: The process has proven to be reproducible and result in a high yield of reliable clock line chips. In this thesis, we explore the fabrication steps required to build clock lines for NML. keywords: clock cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5138jd48z75.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5138jd48z75.txt item: #858 of 4945 id: 5138jd48z9v author: Brian Douglas Han Gregg title: The Historical Jesus and the Final Judgment Sayings in Q date: 2005 words: 242 flesch: 29 summary: THE HISTORICAL JESUS AND THE FINAL JUDGMENT SAYINGS IN Q Abstract By Brian Han Gregg This dissertation explores the twelve final judgment sayings found in Q in light of the historical Jesus. The next section, an analysis of the characteristics of the final judgment in late second temple Judaism, will seek to establish the cultural and conceptual contexts of Q's final judgment sayings. keywords: final cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5138jd48z9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5138jd48z9v.txt item: #859 of 4945 id: 5138jd4900b author: John Holmes title: The Cauchy Problem for Several Nonlinear Evolution Equations date: 2015 words: 564 flesch: 52 summary: This thesis begins with a introduction to heat equations, by studying the historical advances leading up to Fourier and several advances and applications of his ideas. There are many interesting phenomenon which can be modeled by nonlinear diffusion equations. keywords: equation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5138jd4900b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5138jd4900b.txt item: #860 of 4945 id: 5138jd4910n author: Jared Edgar Peterson title: Ionic Liquid / CO2 Co-Fluid Refrigeration: CO2 Solubility Modeling and Life Cycle Analysis date: 2013 words: 226 flesch: 36 summary: From these synthesis routes, and from an estimation of the refrigeration systems theoretical efficiencies, environmental impacts can be determined and analyzed. In this work properties of various ionic liquids are modeled using the SAFT equation of state. keywords: ionic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5138jd4910n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5138jd4910n.txt item: #861 of 4945 id: 5138jd4915c author: Robert Dean Van Horn title: The Origins and Rise of Chicago Law and Economics date: 2008 words: 328 flesch: 30 summary: Chapter four focuses on the development of Chicago law and economics in the field of antitrust law in the 1960s and 1970s. This thesis will explore the institutional and intellectual origins of Chicago law and economics and examine how these factors played a crucial role in the rise of Chicago law and economics. keywords: law cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5138jd4915c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5138jd4915c.txt item: #862 of 4945 id: 5138jd4916q author: Ioannis Gidaris title: Risk Assessment and Optimal Design of Seismic Protective Systems Through Surrogate and Reduced Order Modeling date: 1904 words: 384 flesch: -4 summary: This goal is achieved through numerous advances: by (i) providing a framework for the calibration/selection of parsimonious hysteretic structural models; by (ii) developing an efficient stochastic search technique within the context of a simulation-based seismic risk assessment framework to support life-cycle cost based optimal design of seismic protective devices under different design scenarios; by (iii) formulating a kriging surrogate modeling framework for seismic risk assessment when the earthquake hazard is described through stochastic ground motion models; by (iv) leveraging the remarkable computational efficiency of the latter framework to formulate a versatile approach for the multi-criteria design of seismic protective systems, adopting risk quantifications that can facilitate enhanced decision support for the various stakeholders. The fundamental component of the analysis/design methodologies that have been proposed within this context is the evaluation of seismic risk. keywords: risk cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5138jd4916q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5138jd4916q.txt item: #863 of 4945 id: 5138jd4958n author: Gabrielle M. Pawlowski title: Development of a Reactor for the Testing of Diesel Particulate Filters date: 1904 words: 296 flesch: 44 summary: Diesel engines have the highest efficiency of all combustion engines and release significantly less CO2 emissions than gasoline engines, but emit large quantities of particulate matter, or soot. To address the environmental and health dangers of soot, emissions standards for diesel engines have been implemented, and are becoming more stringent, worldwide. keywords: diesel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5138jd4958n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5138jd4958n.txt item: #864 of 4945 id: 5138jd49p3k author: Jill Wharton title: Dislocated Modernities: The Paradox of the Plantation in Twentieth-Century Irish and American Fiction date: 1904 words: 271 flesch: 22 summary: Elizabeth Bowen, Eudora Welty, and Molly Keane have seldom been considered as writers invested in transforming planter fiction from within and on their own terms; each author struggled with vitriolic reviews and discouragement from publication when her handling of big house culture did not accord with rhetoric defining a masculinist literary renaissance. In part, this study begins with the early 1930s to recapture the volatility of Irish and American critical reception around plantation fiction. keywords: plantation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5138jd49p3k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5138jd49p3k.txt item: #865 of 4945 id: 5138jd49w3f author: Xi Tan title: Fundamental Studies on Ion-Enhanced Field Emission-Driven Microdischarges for Tuning Engineering Systems date: 2019 words: 447 flesch: 37 summary: The work first investigates the resonant tunneling behavior in ion-enhanced field emission by solving the one-dimensional time-independent Schrödinger's equation in the presence of an ion, and evaluates the enhancement in field emission due to resonant processes. Further, when the energy level for resonant emission coincides with the Fermi level of a metallic cathode, the current density is particularly enhanced. keywords: emission cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5138jd49w3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5138jd49w3f.txt item: #866 of 4945 id: 5138jd5037f author: Olivia Cracchiolo title: Structure and Dynamics of Biophysical Systems via 2DIR of the Amide-I date: 2021 words: 289 flesch: 40 summary: Biofilms are a community of microorganisms irreversibly adhered to surfaces within the body increasing antibiotic resistance and reducing effectiveness of the hosts immune response. In addition to playing a vital role in biology, it has been shown that ions are able to modulate the stability of proteins. keywords: cross cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5138jd5037f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5138jd5037f.txt item: #867 of 4945 id: 5138jd50452 author: Paul David Wheatley title: Mark the Mystagogue: Ritual Narrative, Identity Formation, and Baptism in the Gospel According to Mark date: 2022 words: 398 flesch: 35 summary: Jesus's figurative reference to baptism in Mark 10:38–39 provides impetus for comparing the baptism of Jesus in Mark 1:9–11 with other baptism-like events in the Gospel, including sea crossings (Mark 4:35–41; 6:45–52; 8:13–21) and healings of sense perception (Mark 8:22–26; 9:14–29; 10:46–52), akin to Jesus's illuminating reception of the Spirit (1:10). This discourse presents who Jesus is and Jesus's call to discipleship in analogy to the baptismal ritual, shown in the Markan narrator's description of Jesus's baptism (Mark 1:9–11), figurative reference to baptism (Mark 10:38–39), as well as figural representations of baptism in the narrative structure of the Gospel. keywords: mark cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5138jd50452.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5138jd50452.txt item: #868 of 4945 id: 5425k93282k author: Lynne Yu-Ling Chien title: The Making date: 2010 words: 2 flesch: 36 summary: original poems. keywords: original cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k93282k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k93282k.txt item: #869 of 4945 id: 5425k93283x author: Chuan He title: Plasma Slats and Flaps: An Application of Plasma Actuators for Hingeless Aerodynamic Control date: 2010 words: 676 flesch: 51 summary: Details of the flow field were also examined through streamlines, vorticity magnitude, velocity vector field, surface static pressure contour, and surface streamlines. Currently a great deal of interest within the community is to utilize the emerging flow control technology to design revolutionary air vehicles without moving control surfaces while still maintaining controlled flight. keywords: edge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k93283x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k93283x.txt item: #870 of 4945 id: 5425k932848 author: Berardi Sensale Rodriguez title: Novel Terahertz Devices Based on Tunable 2DEG Systems date: 2013 words: 366 flesch: 36 summary: By employing graphene, an intrinsically 2D semiconductor as the active material, device design with unprecedented degrees of freedom, low-cost, and ease of fabrication is possible thus leading to a substantial improvement with respect to the existing art in terms of controllability of THz waves. Moreover, by combining graphene layers with other passive structures augmenting the electric field intensity in the graphene, the control over THz waves can be greatly enhanced. keywords: thz cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k932848.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k932848.txt item: #871 of 4945 id: 5425k93285m author: Jagadish Venkataraman title: A Practical Design Methodology for an All-Digital Transmitter Architecture via Binary Sequence Search and a Look-Up Table Approach to Modulation date: 2008 words: 529 flesch: 43 summary: When this all-digital transmitter structure is used in high-speed applications like Radar synthesizers, however, the output contains significant spurious signals that considerably degrade the spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) at the DAC output. This is because when the output clock speed approaches the intrinsic bandwidth of the DAC, even a 1-bit DAC which intrinsically avoids static nonlinearities exhibits dynamic nonlinearity that causes past output symbols to interact in a nonlinear fashion with the present symbol. keywords: dac cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k93285m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k93285m.txt item: #872 of 4945 id: 5425k93286z author: Nancy Elizabeth Johnson title: Living Death: Baptism and the Christian Life in the Writings of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa date: 2008 words: 354 flesch: 47 summary: Rather than seeking to explain how the Cappadocians fit into that shift, this dissertation focuses on how the death imagery of Romans 6 serves the theological purpose of linking baptism to the Christian life as a whole. The names used for baptism, descriptions of the rite, accounts of the effects of baptism, and a consideration of the importance of Romans 6 (and John 3) theology are given particular attention. keywords: baptism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k93286z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k93286z.txt item: #873 of 4945 id: 5425k932879 author: Ye Lu title: Finding all real solutions of polynomial systems date: 2006 words: 205 flesch: 43 summary: Recently in cite{SVW1,SVW2,SVW3}, new techniques have been successfully developed to numerically decompose complex algebraic sets into irreducible components. For the components of multiplicity at least two, we use the technique of deflation to make them into reduced components in a higher dimensional space. keywords: solutions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k932879.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k932879.txt item: #874 of 4945 id: 5425k93288n author: Emmanuel Adu Gyamfi title: Molecular Architecture of Ebola Virus Assembly date: 2013 words: 573 flesch: 45 summary: A number of in vitro and cellular methods have been employed to understand factors important for membrane targeting of Ebola virus proteins. Since there are no prescribed vaccines or therapeutic treatment, Ebola virus remains a viable candidate for biological warfare. keywords: virus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k93288n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k93288n.txt item: #875 of 4945 id: 5425k932890 author: Kenneth Ardrey Boyce title: Towards a Fictionalist Nominalism date: 2013 words: 340 flesch: 54 summary: Neo-Quinean objectors to nominalism argue (to a first approximation) that we seem antecedently committed to endorsing various sentences that can be shown to imply that abstract objects exist. It follows, they claim, that we are (on pain of logical inconsistency) 'committed' to the existence of abstract objects. keywords: objects cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k932890.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k932890.txt item: #876 of 4945 id: 5425k932906 author: Chunlei Li title: Computational Studies of Beetle Anti-Freeze Protein Binding to Ice Ih date: 2010 words: 151 flesch: 35 summary: In this thesis, I will present my research results on a computational study of beetle anti-freeze protein, specifically Dendroides Canadensis AFP (DAFP). Anti-freeze proteins (AFPs) can either prevent freezing by lowering the freezing point of internal fluids or (in combination with ice-nucleation proteins) reduce the damage by inhibiting recrystallization and stabilizing the cell membrane. keywords: dafp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k932906.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k932906.txt item: #877 of 4945 id: 5425k93292w author: Tessa Jae Pearson title: Top Pair Differential Cross Section Measurement in the Muon+Jets Channel at √s=8 TeV with the Compact Muon Solenoid date: 2013 words: 102 flesch: 52 summary: The following dissertation describes the measurement of the top pair differential cross section in the semi-leptonic, μ+jets, channel taken with respect to the invariant mass of the top pair system. The top pair differential cross section with respect to the invariant mass was found, within uncertainties, to agree well with the leading theoretical models. keywords: pair cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k93292w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k93292w.txt item: #878 of 4945 id: 5425k932937 author: Shenyu Kuang title: Atomistic Simulations of Nanoscale Transport Phenomena date: 2012 words: 216 flesch: 30 summary: We expect these methods can be used for more advanced applications in complex systems such as coupled transport properties. Our results demonstrate that these algorithms can provide reasonable estimates of transport coefficients as well as retaining desirable features of previous NEMD methods, while fixing defects in these previous methods. keywords: methods cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k932937.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k932937.txt item: #879 of 4945 id: 5425k93295x author: Jenica Moore title: Carsomnia date: 2014 words: 2 flesch: 35 summary: Poetry Thesis keywords: poetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k93295x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k93295x.txt item: #880 of 4945 id: 5425k932999 author: Anthony J. Pagliarini title: A Memory of Future Israel: Ezekiel 40-48 and the Potential for Warranted Reception date: 1904 words: 348 flesch: 45 summary: It examines the way the Book of Ezekiel prepares its own reception among latter audiences such that later readings might be judged not merely as happenstance reapplications of the text but as instances of authentic exegesis concerning what is in fact conveyed in the book. The aim is not to anticipate and privilege any one moment of reception but only to show, formally, the shape which any and all moments of warranted reception will take. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k932999.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k932999.txt item: #881 of 4945 id: 5425k932b0h author: Stephen Gaetano title: Fides Quae Per Charitatem Operatur: A Study and Translation of Domingo de Soto's De natura et gratia date: 1904 words: 242 flesch: 46 summary: The first chapter thus also considers Soto's explicit interaction with the Council of Trent's decrees concerning original sin (Fifth Session) and justification (Sixth Session). This dissertation offers the first English translation of the treatise *De natura et gratia* by the Spanish Dominican Domingo de Soto (c. 1494-1560), published shortly after his initial tenure at Trent during the first period of the Council. keywords: soto cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k932b0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k932b0h.txt item: #882 of 4945 id: 5425k932c5j author: Can Shao title: Aberrant Response Detection Using Change-point Analysis date: 1904 words: 432 flesch: 45 summary: The performance of speededness detection as well as the item parameter recovery before/after utilizing the cleansing procedure are evaluated. Different from the first two studies which both conduct CPA using item response information, the third study applies CPA to response time data in speededness detection. keywords: speededness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k932c5j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k932c5j.txt item: #883 of 4945 id: 5425k933011 author: Liuxian Zhao title: Structural Tailoring for Tomographic Damage Detection, Vibration Control, and Energy Harvesting date: 1904 words: 512 flesch: 28 summary: The performance of ABH structures was numerically and experimentally evaluated under both transient and steady state excitation conditions. An interesting property of periodic structures is the occurrence of vibration localization due to disorder or mistuning, that is a local lack of periodicity. keywords: vibration cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k933011.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k933011.txt item: #884 of 4945 id: 5425k933b45 author: Meyer Levy title: The American Upvoter: The Internet and Political Participation date: 2020 words: 368 flesch: 43 summary: The second study, Live, Laugh, Lurk finds that, on Reddit, political knowledge is unrelated to the rate at which individuals contribute political content, and that political interest is primarily involved with an initial political post rather than the motivation of further political posts. Additionally, I find that free time and civic skills, core components of the civic voluntarism model of political participation, are unrelated to posting political content. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k933b45.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k933b45.txt item: #885 of 4945 id: 5425k933b6v author: Liu Yang title: Membrane Modification for Ion Separations and Drug-target Identification date: 2020 words: 302 flesch: 32 summary: Selective elution of captured protein, tryptic digestion, tandem mass spectrometry analysis, and label-free quantification (LFQ) identify CAII as the dominant AEBSA target in diluted serum or cell lysate Global proteomics shows that the spiked CAII is the only protein with a log2 ratio (sample/control intensity) consistently >2, and the detection limit for CAII identification is 0.004 wt% of the total protein in 1:4 diluted human serum or 0.024 wt% of the total protein from breast cancer cell lysates. A model system of carbonic anhydrase II (CAII) binding to immobilized 4-(2-aminoethyl)benzenesulfonamide (AEBSA) demonstrates the efficiency and selectivity of affinity capture in modified membranes. keywords: membranes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k933b6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k933b6v.txt item: #886 of 4945 id: 5425k933c2s author: Jasmine Ortiz title: The Stories They Gave Me date: 2021 words: 13 flesch: 50 summary: A collection of stories about family, and culture, and the living Mexican landscape. keywords: landscape cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k933c2s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k933c2s.txt item: #887 of 4945 id: 5425k933c5t author: Jelena Jankovic Rankovic title: Nonlinearity and Convergent Modalities of Human Migration: A Biocultural Study of Quotidian Imperatives among Refugees in Transitional Settlements date: 2021 words: 435 flesch: 25 summary: Those who manage to cross multi-national borders routinely end up contained within the walls of temporary settlements, such as asylum centers. Once they leave their homeland, fleeing individuals face numerous constraints that significantly impede unauthorized movements across international borders. keywords: rsps cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k933c5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k933c5t.txt item: #888 of 4945 id: 5425k933g01 author: Adam M. Clark title: Detection of Trace Actinide Isotopes in Uranium-Rich Materials via Accelerator Mass Spectrometry date: 2023 words: 291 flesch: 32 summary: To both establish and characterize these capabilities, several uranium ores and NBS standard materials were measured to demonstrate agreement when compared to other AMS laboratories and provide measurements of ore material that, to our knowledge, have not been measured or reported in literature. Additionally, since this measurement technique may be applicable to a large range of actinide isotopes, we explored other rare isotopes present within the sample material to search for other possible characterizing signatures that may assist providing unique fingerprints of these materials. keywords: detection cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5425k933g01.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5425k933g01.txt item: #889 of 4945 id: 5712m615h9r author: Ellen Susanna Childs title: Maladapted to Change: How Routinized Practice Is Killing the United Methodist Church date: 2014 words: 108 flesch: 27 summary: Using data from interviews of pastors in the United Methodist Church of Indiana, along with observational and interview data from two congregations in a mid-sized, Midwestern City, I outline the ways in which the strength of laity within the United Methodist System, developed over years of shifting pastoral leadership, undermines the strength of pastoral leadership. Finally, I discuss ways in which the lack of leadership within congregations leads to a gap in vision within the congregations. keywords: united cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m615h9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m615h9r.txt item: #890 of 4945 id: 5712m615j19 author: Amber Marie Grundy title: Parental Awareness as a Mediator of the Relation Between Marital Conflict and Adolescent Behavior Conduct Competence date: 2005 words: 140 flesch: 14 summary: Marital conflict, maternal awareness, maternal behavior control, and adolescent behavior conduct competence were assessed at all four time points in order to apply a recent methodology for assessing longitudinal mediating patterns. Specifically, the present study considered whether maternal awareness or maternal behavior control, or both, mediated the relation between overt marital conflict and adolescent behavior conduct competence, as well as a number of alternative models. keywords: behavior cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m615j19.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m615j19.txt item: #891 of 4945 id: 5712m615j2n author: Anca Ostace title: Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Inertia on the Hydrodynamic Interaction of Microorganisms date: 2015 words: 154 flesch: 26 summary: We examine the effects of inertia on the interaction of a pair of model microorganisms in the small to intermediate Reynolds number regime, by means of direct numerical simulations. This causes a significant change in the contact time and dispersion dynamics of microswimmers, with potential important consequences on the collective behavior of microorganisms, as well as on decisive biophysical interactions such as same-species and predator-prey interactions. keywords: microorganisms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m615j2n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m615j2n.txt item: #892 of 4945 id: 5712m615k2z author: Lindsay Leigh Sweet title: Modulation of Macrophage Activation and Phagosome Maturation by Mycobacterium avium Glycopeptidolipids date: 2008 words: 367 flesch: 41 summary: Interestingly, the serovar 1 and 2 GPLs activated macrophages in a MyD88- and TLR2-dependent manner, while non-specific GPLs (nsGPLs) and the serovar 4 GPL were non-stimulatory. M. avium and M. intracellulare, which comprise this complex, are slow-growing mycobacteria noted for producing disseminated infections in persons with an advanced stage of AIDS, and pulmonary infections in non-AIDS patients. keywords: gpls cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m615k2z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m615k2z.txt item: #893 of 4945 id: 5712m615k50 author: Amy M. Donaldson title: Explicit References to New Testament Variant Readings among Greek and Latin Church Fathers date: 2009 words: 351 flesch: 34 summary: After a general assessment of New Testament textual scholarship by the early church (including recensional and scribal activity), patristic textual criticism is compared to modern practice to assess to what extent the church fathers engaged in textual criticism and what insights we can gain from them today. In his introduction to New Testament textual criticism, Eberhard Nestle stated a desideratum, later repeated by Bruce Metzger, for a collection, arranged according to time and locality, of all passages in which the church fathers appeal to New Testament manuscript evidence. keywords: textual cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m615k50.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m615k50.txt item: #894 of 4945 id: 5712m615k7p author: Kathryn Nicole Camarata title: The Relationship between Alternative Teacher Certification and Achievement in Kindergarten date: 2011 words: 82 flesch: 19 summary: This study adds important empirical knowledge to the existing body of research on teacher effects, achievement, and school sector. Net of all factors, alternative teacher certification is not shown to significantly affect student achievement. keywords: achievement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m615k7p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m615k7p.txt item: #895 of 4945 id: 5712m615k81 author: Gregory P. Siems title: It Happened Here: Electoral Strategies of Municipal Socialist Parties in the United States date: 1904 words: 91 flesch: 44 summary: It concludes that, given an often hostile electoral environment, socialist parties and candidates must adopt a degree of flexibility in order to win office. This thesis demonstrates that, at least at the municipal level, socialists managed to be successful in many respects. keywords: thesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m615k81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m615k81.txt item: #896 of 4945 id: 5712m615m1x author: Lauren Arta Assour title: Species Divergence: Computational Methods to Explore and Resolve Biological Questions Related to the Evolution of Species date: 1904 words: 211 flesch: 36 summary: From RAD sequencing to explore Rhagoletis divergence, to ancestral reconstruction to examine the history of Anophelines, to using ancestral gene blocks to improve Anopheles genomes for better analysis, this work provides biological researchers with tools they need to answer questions about species divergence in many stages. Species divergence is the formation of a new species by the accumulation of changes in the DNA between different populations of the same species. keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m615m1x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m615m1x.txt item: #897 of 4945 id: 5712m615m59 author: Xumin Jiang title: Boundary Expansions for Minimal Graphs in the Hyperbolic Space date: 1904 words: 55 flesch: 17 summary: With such a characterization, we establish optimal asymptotic expansions of solutions with boundary values of finite regularity and demonstrate a slight loss of regularity for nonlocal coefficients. We study expansions near the boundary of solutions to the Dirichlet problem for minimal graphs in the hyperbolic space and characterize remainders of the expansions by multiple integrals. keywords: expansions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m615m59.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m615m59.txt item: #898 of 4945 id: 5712m616755 author: Maryam Moosaei title: Using Facially Expressive Robots to Increase Realism in Patient Simulation date: 1904 words: 1081 flesch: 38 summary: We found that participants were able to distinguish pain from commonly conflated expressions (anger and disgust), and showed that patient-driven pain synthesis can be a valuable alternative to laborious key-frame animation techniques,This was one of the first attempts to perform automatic synthesis of patient driven expressions on avatars without the need of an animation expert. Automatic patient driven facial expression synthesis will reduce the time and cost needed for operators of RPS systems. keywords: expressions; robots cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m616755.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m616755.txt item: #899 of 4945 id: 5712m616c6r author: Luke R. Sadergaski title: The Behavior of Uranyl Peroxide Nanoclusters at the Mineral-Water Interface date: 2019 words: 375 flesch: 37 summary: This dissertation pioneers the macroscopic characterization of uranyl peroxide nanocluster interactions with different mineral surfaces. The incorporation of the pyrophosphate ligand (P2O74-) into the framework of uranyl peroxide nanoclusters leads to the formation of functionalized uranyl peroxide nanoclusters. keywords: u60 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m616c6r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m616c6r.txt item: #900 of 4945 id: 5712m616n2v author: Zeyu Liu title: Thermal Transport in Solid State: From First-Principles Simulation to Machine Learning date: 2021 words: 596 flesch: 36 summary: Besides the electrical transport properties, thermal transport properties also play significant roles in various applications, such as thermoelectrics and electronics thermal management, where thermal transport properties can affect both performance and reliability of the devices. With more data available on thermal transport properties, using machine learning techniques can help us understand and utilize the relations between thermal transport properties and materials structures without complex analytical expressions. keywords: thermal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m616n2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m616n2v.txt item: #901 of 4945 id: 5712m616p4v author: John Michael Templeton title: Towards a Comprehensive Mobile-Based Neurocognitive Digital Health Assessment System (NDHAS) date: 2022 words: 283 flesch: 5 summary: As mobile technology becomes increasingly accepted in healthcare among both users and clinicians, the ability to use device capabilities (e.g., device positional data and screen interactions) for subject monitoring also increases. Staging methods and clinical assessments including the Hoehn and Yahr Scale (H&Y), MDS - Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS), Dean - Woodcock Neuropsychological Assessment System (DWNAS), and the Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory (NFI) are among the current gold standards for doctors and clinicians in the preliminary assessment and monitoring of individuals with neurodegenerative diseases. keywords: mobile cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m616p4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m616p4v.txt item: #902 of 4945 id: 5712m616p56 author: Ukachi Irobereachi title: Bounding the Plotline: The Development of Hope Out of Popular Dystopia date: 2022 words: 116 flesch: 16 summary: In examining the interwoven meaning of dystopia and utopia I argue that America's slave past forms a hidden backdrop that challenges the desire to evade what I call the contemporary trend toward dystopia, which, because of its popularization as a result of commercialization, has blocked the exercise of utopic possibility. By analyzing this problem in the vector of America's problematic past, my project asserts that despite the trend toward dystopia, utopic possibility is still to be found nevertheless, hiding deep within dystopia itself. keywords: dystopia cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m616p56.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m616p56.txt item: #903 of 4945 id: 5712m616p7w author: Raymond Lawrence Drause title: In Word and Deed: Exiled Siberian Decembrists as Servants of the Russian Empire, 1826 - 1860 date: 2022 words: 237 flesch: 40 summary: Through their production of knowledge about Siberia, the Decembrists raised interest among readers in the European Russian metropole and allowed them to imagine the distant region and its people as part of the Russian Empire. European empires had long used the practice of criminal transportation to remove undesirables from their metropoles and to populate their colonies with a labor force for resource extraction. keywords: decembrists cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m616p7w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m616p7w.txt item: #904 of 4945 id: 5712m616r1f author: Erik Hoberg title: Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Flow Characterization, Condensation Detection, and Valve Modifications date: 2023 words: 549 flesch: 55 summary: In ANDLM6QT, a pitot probe, pitot rake, static pressure probe, and laser Rayleigh scattering were deployed. Modifications to the fast-acting valve in ANDLM6QT have led to operability of the facility in noisy conditions, and steps are being taken to achieve quiet flow conditions. keywords: pressure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5712m616r1f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5712m616r1f.txt item: #905 of 4945 id: 5999n298t4v author: Michael Perdriel title: Social Design: Challenges, Promises, Models, and Alternatives date: 2010 words: 226 flesch: 34 summary: Then, drawing on my field work in Nepal as a case study, I describe the valuable insights into the necessary functions, features, materials, and method of manufacture of products that I gained by living and working directly with the people who will eventually make and use the products I am designing. This thesis provides an account of how conducting research on location can enable the designer engaged in social design to create a product that truly addresses the needs of end users in cultures that have radically different traditions, resources and infrastructures. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n298t4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n298t4v.txt item: #906 of 4945 id: 5999n298t56 author: Andrea Kay Tamplin title: Emotional intensity and causal connectivity's influence on memory for narratives date: 2010 words: 109 flesch: 39 summary: Memories for events have been found to increase when the number of causal connections increases, and when emotional intensity increases. Using a text comprehension paradigm, memories for events that varied in terms of their causal connectivity and emotional intensity were examined for influence on memory performance. keywords: intensity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n298t56.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n298t56.txt item: #907 of 4945 id: 5999n298t6j author: Paul Timothy Kroeger title: Identification and analysis of factors that regulate the plasmatocyte lineage during Drosophila hematopoiesis date: 2013 words: 417 flesch: 39 summary: Understanding Drosophila blood cell development may elucidate genes and pathways that function in hematopoiesis of higher organisms, such as mammals. This approach identified a critical gene, Eip78C, which caused a three-fold decrease in cell number when compared to control. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n298t6j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n298t6j.txt item: #908 of 4945 id: 5999n298t7w author: Christopher M Moretti title: Flexible Object Based Filesystems for Scientific Computing date: 2010 words: 149 flesch: 51 summary: Experimentally, this work demonstrates that the overhead of indirection is low, a single client can write faster than disk speed, and multiple clients can harness aggregate disk throughput. The layer of indirection allows for filesystems larger than any single disk, permits multiple filesystems to share common objects, and enables users to create and manage private namespaces. keywords: storage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n298t7w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n298t7w.txt item: #909 of 4945 id: 5999n298t87 author: Paul Youngbin Kim title: The Moderating Role of Social Support on the Stress-Distress Relation Among Asian International Students: A Test of the Matching Hypothesis date: 2010 words: 178 flesch: 22 summary: It was hypothesized that international and co-national support would moderate the relation between unique stressors and psychological distress, and that college support would moderate the relation between college stressors and psychological distress. Although the results were not consistent with the original hypotheses, results from the post-hoc analyses indicated that college support interacted with college stressors to exacerbate the relation between stressors and anxiety and phobic anxiety symptoms, respectively. keywords: stressors cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n298t87.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n298t87.txt item: #910 of 4945 id: 5999n298t9k author: Adams Tong title: Fabrication of Deep-Submicron Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Devices date: 2010 words: 163 flesch: 43 summary: Through scaled size-reduction, CMOS devices can run at higher speed, consume less power and attain higher packing density. The aim of the thesis is to design the fabrication process for building CMOS devices with 0.25μm gate length and Quilt- Packaging protruding metal nodules. keywords: cmos cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n298t9k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n298t9k.txt item: #911 of 4945 id: 5999n298v0s author: Jeffrey Richard Paone title: Liberating the Biometric Menagerie Through Score Normalization Improvements date: 2013 words: 160 flesch: 31 summary: The biometric menagerie, or biometric zoo, is a classification system used to label the matching tendencies of a given subject?s biometric signature. Several experiments show the biometric menagerie to be an unstable classification system where subjects frequently change class labels. keywords: biometric cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n298v0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n298v0s.txt item: #912 of 4945 id: 5999n298v14 author: Jaime L. Shapiro title: A Multi-method Approach to Understanding the Role of Psychosocial Functioning in the Context of DSM-5 Personality Disorder Diagnosis date: 2013 words: 344 flesch: 18 summary: Furthermore, PD diagnosis can be improved when we better understand the empirical overlap of personality traits, personality functioning, and their consequences. Personality functioning describes functional difficulties that are considered a fundamental component of PD pathology. keywords: personality cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n298v14.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n298v14.txt item: #913 of 4945 id: 5999n298v2g author: Christyn L Fertenbaugh title: Chemical Measures to Characterize Coastal Groundwater: A Case Study in Benin, West Africa date: 2010 words: 355 flesch: 11 summary: These data also demonstrated the high level of 'preliminary' field characterization that is possible using a carefully planned combination of the field sampling design, water quality chemical analysis, and geostatistical analysis. In this study, Benin, West Africa, was used as a case study to show how a field measureable and relatively simple water quality analysis of shallow groundwater samples can be used to identify different hydrological zones for further study. keywords: analysis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n298v2g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n298v2g.txt item: #914 of 4945 id: 5999n298v45 author: Sue A Rozeboom title: The Provenance of John Calvin's Emphasis on the Role of the Holy Spirit Regarding the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper date: 2010 words: 275 flesch: 35 summary: Such pneumatological emphasis does not appear in Calvin's first doctrinal exposition on the sacrament, that is, in his 1536 Institutio, but emerges soon after: first, in 1536 in the midst of the Lausanne Disputation, when he speaks of the Spirit as the bond between believers and the ascended Christ; then, shortly after, in his first catechism for Geneva; and then again, more robustly, with patristic and biblical reference, in the 1539 revision of his Institutio. In his doctrine of the Lord's Supper, John Calvin emphasizes that Christ truly nourishes the souls of believers with his body and blood. keywords: calvin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n298v45.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n298v45.txt item: #915 of 4945 id: 5999n298v5h author: Thomas H. Q. Powell title: Ecological Divergence, Host Race Formation, and Speciation: Host Plant Adaptation as a Driver of Insect Diversification date: 2012 words: 365 flesch: 24 summary: These findings support the following conclusions regarding the five questions: (1) Sympatrically-formed species can represent host races writ-large; (2) The initiation of ecological speciation may proceed readily in Rhagoletis; (3) Both olfactory and diapause traits are important to ecological adaptation and reproductive isolation in Rhagoletis, but there are limits to their role in diversification; (4) Standing genetic variation, in the form of heterogeneous resource use in allopatric populations and latitudinal clines, has been a major factor in the radiation of the R. pomonella species complex; and (5) The transition from host race to species appears to involve the uplift of genomic 'continents of speciation' driven global reductions in effective migration. I addressed these questions by investigating two components of the R. pomonella species complex: 1) populations of R. pomonella infesting an array of hawthorn species in the southeastern U.S. and (2) the flowering dogwood fly, the sister species to R. pomonella. keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n298v5h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n298v5h.txt item: #916 of 4945 id: 5999n298v76 author: Brian Matthew Kakas title: Dimensional Transitions date: 2010 words: 506 flesch: 41 summary: The author's goal is to create works that inform and engage viewers and create conversations relating to a multitude of disciplines in an effort to seek out new answers and questions relating to one's own time and space in contemporary society. Upon examination, these formal qualities of ceramic objects exhibit many technical questions and challenges. keywords: author cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n298v76.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n298v76.txt item: #917 of 4945 id: 5999n298x7t author: Megan McCullough Hart title: Data-Driven Models: From Data to Knowledge for Extreme Events date: 1904 words: 469 flesch: 18 summary: Specific areas of focus include: Develop improved methods for the detection of key features in datasets, such as non-stationarity, using the method of surrogates; Assess current analysis procedures utilized for both stationary and non-stationary wind datasets and introduce more flexible averaging interval schemes for the proper determination of turbulence characteristics in non-stationary wind; Develop an efficient multivariate non-Gaussian simulation approach that considers non-Gaussianity of the joint probability density function in addition to considering non-Gaussianity of the marginal distributions; Improve upon existing non-stationary simulation approaches by also allowing for consideration of non-Gaussianity; and Develop a more flexible and robust approach for the detection and analysis of nonlinear coupling between two processes related to hazard loading/response or within the same process between two different modes. In the area of dynamic load effects, advanced analysis, modeling, and simulation tools are becoming increasingly important in order to address the non-stationarity, non-Gaussianity, and nonlinearity inherent in hazard related events and their associated structural response. keywords: non cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n298x7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n298x7t.txt item: #918 of 4945 id: 5999n29911z author: Nicole M Schiavone title: Developing a Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry Workflow for Metabolomics date: 1904 words: 173 flesch: 41 summary: Finally, I will describe the expansion of our CZE-MS capabilities by my work that allows operation of the CZE-MS interface with negative ion mode MS. Future work includes completion of an in-house metabolite library, system automation using a CZE auto-sampler, and incorporating metabolite quantitation into the workflow. keywords: cze cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n29911z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n29911z.txt item: #919 of 4945 id: 5999n299j39 author: Robert S. Perricone title: Towards Computing in the Beyond-CMOS Era: A Study of Beyond-CMOS Circuits and Architectures date: 1904 words: 598 flesch: 32 summary: For spintronic devices, my work has involved (i) the systematic design of functional 3D Nanomagnetic Logic (NML) layouts (i.e., logic gates), (ii) exploring the benefits of NML-based Stochastic Computing (SC), and (iii) the design of an analytical benchmarking model that is based on a processor-level drop-in approach to project the energy per operation of various spintronic technologies. As case studies, I evaluated the impact of NV technologies for both an energy harvesting non-pipelined processor and a general purpose processor executing scientific applications under varying degrees of parallelism. keywords: cmos cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n299j39.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n299j39.txt item: #920 of 4945 id: 5999n299w6f author: Chelsea King title: Hermeneutics of Sacrifice: Wrestling with the Death of Christ in a Feminist and Ecological World date: 2020 words: 503 flesch: 35 summary: Here, I argue that a Lutheran understanding of sacrifice is a deviation from the past three theologians and is responsible for putting forward a soteriology that has rightfully been critiqued by contemporary theologians. From a Catholic standpoint, sacrifice, and in particular, a sacrifice for sins has remained central to both theological and liturgical reflections on the death of Jesus. keywords: sacrifice cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n299w6f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n299w6f.txt item: #921 of 4945 id: 5999n299x0p author: Alec W. Houpt title: Control of a Flame Holding Cavity in a Mach 2 Combustor by Quasi-Direct Current Electric Discharge date: 2021 words: 383 flesch: 40 summary: Utilization of this plasma-generated shock wave as an active control technique in a supersonic combustor with a flame holding cavity is explored thoroughly in this work by examining the electrical parameters of the electric discharge, plasma parameters, plasma morphology, the resulting impact on the flow field, efficacy of the design/placement of the electrode array, and finally how the plasma influences combustion stability in a supersonic flame holding cavity. The Q-DC electric discharge generates a high power, filamentary plasma and is applied in Mach 2 airflows using the supersonic blowdown wind tunnel SBR-50 at the University of Notre Dame and Research Cell-19 at the Air Force Research Lab. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n299x0p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n299x0p.txt item: #922 of 4945 id: 5999n299x42 author: Jacob Petersen title: Investigations into Two-Dimensional Self-Assembly of Small Molecules date: 2021 words: 311 flesch: 35 summary: By geometrically and energetically optimizing both individual molecules and clusters of molecules, the binding energy of specific hydrogen bonds can be determined, giving rise to a quantitative understanding of the clusters. Beyond the instrument itself, the creation of a monolayer of small molecules upon a metallic surface is necessary. keywords: molecules cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5999n299x42.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5999n299x42.txt item: #923 of 4945 id: 5d86nz8231g author: Samantha Anderson title: Questioning Kindling: An Analysis of Cycle Acceleration in Unipolar Depression date: 2015 words: 242 flesch: 20 summary: Further, individuals did not significantly vary in their trajectories for change in intermorbid interval length over time. This fallacy maintains that intermorbid intervals may appear to be shortening solely due to the fact that individuals with consistently shorter intermorbid intervals become a larger proportion of the remaining sample with each recurrence. keywords: intermorbid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz8231g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz8231g.txt item: #924 of 4945 id: 5d86nz8232t author: Charles Hamlin Pence title: Chance in Evolutionary Theory: Fitness, Selection, and Genetic Drift in Philosophical and Historical Perspective date: 2014 words: 309 flesch: 33 summary: Work in the philosophy of biology (i) often conflates various clearly distinct notions of chance, and (ii) often approaches the analysis of chance from the perspective of a debate (on the causal potency of natural selection and genetic drift) that does not in fact profitably engage evolutionary theory. Discussions of the foundations of evolutionary theory -- especially natural selection, fitness, and genetic drift -- are saturated with terms referring to various kinds of chance, stochasticity, randomness, unpredictability, and so forth. keywords: chance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz8232t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz8232t.txt item: #925 of 4945 id: 5d86nz82335 author: Kyle Bruce Wheeler title: Load Balancing for High Speed Parallel Network Intrusion Detection date: 2005 words: 149 flesch: 46 summary: The simulation results confirm the viability of the SPANIDS architecture for scalable parallel network intrusion detection. The load balancer ensures that sensors do not become overloaded by shifting traffic between sensors while maintaining network flow continuity when possible. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz82335.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz82335.txt item: #926 of 4945 id: 5d86nz8244t author: Xinchen Zhang title: Managing Randomness in Wireless Networks: Random Power Control and Successive Interference Cancellation date: 2013 words: 464 flesch: 42 summary: Considering wireless networks whose channel quality and node distribution are random, this thesis studies two types of techniques that can potentially significantly boost the network performance: random power control and successive interference cancellation (SIC). In the first part of the thesis, we study random power control in two types of wireless networks: the noise-limited networks and the interference-limited networks. keywords: power cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz8244t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz8244t.txt item: #927 of 4945 id: 5d86nz8250r author: James S. Doyle II title: Improvements to the Iris Recognition Pipeline date: 1904 words: 233 flesch: 46 summary: The performance of state-of-the-art in iris biometrics is approaching perfect correct recognition rates in small deployments with controlled image acquisition. A method for detection of soft contact lenses using modified binary patterns is introduced and is shown to accurately detect the presence of a clear, soft contact lens, while not reducing the correct detection rate of textured lenses. keywords: iris cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz8250r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz8250r.txt item: #928 of 4945 id: 5d86nz8292p author: Aparna Bhattacharya title: Development of Space Based Microlensing Exoplanet Mass Measurement Method date: 1904 words: 425 flesch: 57 summary: In WFIRST era, it will help to measure the properties of the cold giant planets toward the galactic center with planet mass down to mars mass. It yielded a direct detection of the lens system and mass measurement of a Uranus mass exoplanet. keywords: microlensing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz8292p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz8292p.txt item: #929 of 4945 id: 5d86nz82f80 author: Dominic Leon Culver title: On the Cooperations Algebra for the Second Brown-Peterson Spectrum at the Prime 2 date: 1904 words: 135 flesch: 58 summary: This is a splitting into torsion concentrated in Adams filtration 0 and a torsion free component. From this we determine a basis for the second page of the Adams spectral sequence modulo torsion. keywords: splitting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz82f80.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz82f80.txt item: #930 of 4945 id: 5d86nz82v5p author: Amanda N. Marra title: Genetic Mechanisms of Multiciliated Cell Development during Renal Ontogeny date: 2018 words: 363 flesch: 39 summary: Disrupted multiciliogenesis can lead to hydrocephaly, respiratory disease and infertility in humans, and the abnormal presence of MCCs in renal biopsies of patient's with kidney disease has been observed in a handful of cases. In short, the work presented here uncovered an integrated network of etv5a, etv4, irx2a, and prostaglandin signaling in the specification and maturation of renal MCCs. keywords: pronephros cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz82v5p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz82v5p.txt item: #931 of 4945 id: 5d86nz82x1x author: Teresa Baumer title: Actinide and Lanthanide Interactions with Aluminum (Hydr)oxide Minerals: Equilibrium and Kinetics Analysis of Sorption and Desorption Processes date: 2019 words: 195 flesch: 24 summary: Minerals were characterized to monitor for phase transformations and aqueous metal ion concentrations were measured using inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Nuclear energy does not generate greenhouse gas emissions during power production, but the high-level nuclear waste generated in the commercial nuclear fuel cycle remains a barrier to increased nuclear power use in the United States. keywords: nuclear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz82x1x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz82x1x.txt item: #932 of 4945 id: 5d86nz82z8n author: Mark Evan Fraser title: Novel Anti-Viral Strategies for Lipid-Enveloped Viruses date: 2019 words: 768 flesch: 34 summary: By utilizing UCN-01 at lower concentrations than used for anti-cancer clinical trials it is hypothesized that viral replication in multiple lipid enveloped viruses can be inhibited in two ways: first, by inhibiting matrix protein localization to the plasma membrane and viral budding by localizing PS to endomembranes from the plasma membrane, and second, by inhibiting viral infection which utilizes apoptotic mimicry by reducing available PS on viral particles and by also inhibiting host cell kinase activity of receptor proteins known to interact with PS. Using these concentrations UCN-01 was shown to reduce plasma membrane localization of Ebola VP40, Marburg VP40, and HIV-1-Gag significantly using confocal imaging of recombinant GFP tagged viral proteins. keywords: vp40 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz82z8n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz82z8n.txt item: #933 of 4945 id: 5d86nz8355r author: Alejandro Corona-Espinosa title: The Generalized Assessment of Personality Dysfunction - Three Brief Factor Form (GAPD-3BFF) date: 2020 words: 301 flesch: 19 summary: However, it also shares limitations of existing measures of the construct (e.g., insufficient discriminant validity both among some aspects of personality dysfunction and with personality traits), indicating the need for a new measure that addresses such limitations. The construct of personality dysfunction has received considerable attention in the last two decades as both clinicians and researchers have sought to further our understanding of what constitutes personality pathology beyond maladaptive-range traits. keywords: personality cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz8355r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz8355r.txt item: #934 of 4945 id: 5d86nz8364q author: Craig Iffland title: Following and Not Following the Divine Law: Aquinas on Law, Morality, and Obligation date: 2021 words: 360 flesch: 23 summary: This dissertation explores Thomas Aquinas's understanding of the concept of obligation, and its relationship to law and the morality of human acts, in order to sketch Aquinas's account of moral obligation. This investigation proceeds through exegesis of central texts in Aquinas's corpus that illuminate his understanding of obligation and its relationship to law and morality of human acts as well as its contrast with the understanding of that same relationship provided by his contemporaries, later interpreters, and future moral philosophers and theologians. keywords: law cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz8364q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz8364q.txt item: #935 of 4945 id: 5d86nz83652 author: Jessica Zinna title: Enzyme-Based Paper Tests for Target Detection in Low-Resource Settings date: 2021 words: 639 flesch: 54 summary: I designed a colorimetric enzyme-on-paper test to detect lactose in illicit drug samples. I am currently working on extending this work into more enzyme-on-paper tests for other common cutting agents in illicit drug samples, such as mannitol. keywords: enzyme cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz83652.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz83652.txt item: #936 of 4945 id: 5d86nz8376q author: Matthew Kalensky title: Airborne Measurement of Atmospheric-Induced Beam Jitter date: 2022 words: 337 flesch: 44 summary: Using both simulated and experimentally-measured turbulence-induced tilt time series, realistic tilt compensation approaches could be studied. This is caused by propagating the laser through optical turbulence structures larger than or on the order of the size of the beam diameter. keywords: tilt cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz8376q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz8376q.txt item: #937 of 4945 id: 5d86nz8378d author: Govinda Anantha Padmanabha title: Deep Learning for Forward and Inverse Solutions of Physical Systems date: 2022 words: 275 flesch: 36 summary: This work focuses on investigating deep learning approaches for the inverse and forward solutions of physical systems. Overall, deep learning models developed in this work offer a significant acceleration in terms of computational cost and accuracy for both the inverse and forward solutions of physical systems. keywords: inverse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5d86nz8378d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5d86nz8378d.txt item: #938 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65c5x author: Gary Philippe Raczka title: The Lectionary at the Time of Saint John Chrysostom date: 2015 words: 39 flesch: 56 summary: This dissertation seeks to reconstruct the Lectionaries of Antioch and Constantinople as they existed at the time of John Chrysostom. It also relates them to the Byzantine Lectionary as appearing in the tenth century Typicon of the Great Church. keywords: chrysostom cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65c5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65c5x.txt item: #939 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65c68 author: Justin M Wozniak title: Overdrive Controllers for Distributed Scientific Computation date: 2010 words: 375 flesch: 32 summary: The design of the controller borrows from techniques used in a variety of disciplines including mathematical modelling, system theory, and autonomic systems to manage user jobs and data. Modern opportunistic middleware systems seek to congregate the potential of these existing systems into a powerful resource for scientific computation. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65c68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65c68.txt item: #940 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65c7m author: Qin Zhang title: Interband Tunnel Transistors date: 2011 words: 394 flesch: 37 summary: An analytic expression is derived, showing that the subthreshold swing of interband tunnel transistors is a function of the gate-to-source voltage and can be less than the thermionic limit of 60 mV/decade in MOSFET. For 20 nm channel length, GNR tunnel transistors with ribbon width of 2 and 3 nm can achieve high performance and low operating power simultaneously, meeting 2012 ITRS targets. keywords: tunnel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65c7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65c7m.txt item: #941 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65c8z author: Stephen M Metzger title: Gerard of Abbeville, Secular Master, on Knowledge, Wisdom and Contemplation date: 2013 words: 314 flesch: 38 summary: After a preliminary examination of his will, which reveals his social and ecclesiastical position, this dissertation probes Gerard's manuscripts for what they reveal about the way in which secular masters taught theology as well as the content of that teaching. Although the history of the University of Paris during the thirteenth century has received much scholarly attention, the contribution of secular masters to that history during the middle of the thirteenth century has been largely overlooked. keywords: gerard cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65c8z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65c8z.txt item: #942 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65c99 author: Tara Natasha Shepherd title: Comparison of the Macroscopic Viscoelastic Properties of Cortical Bone to its Nano-Indentation Response date: 2010 words: 178 flesch: 30 summary: As such, measurements of multiple length scales are useful in order to evaluate bone viscoelastic properties in different microstructural units. To understand the effect of viscoelasticity of bone at small length scales, cortical bone specimens were evaluated under torsional and tensile loads, by ultrasound and by nanoindentation. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65c99.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65c99.txt item: #943 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65d0h author: Dian Respati Arifin title: Cellular Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers as Potential Artificial Blood Substitutes date: 2005 words: 357 flesch: 28 summary: Polymersomes possessed superior PEG shielding ability compared to PEG-liposomes, due to 100% PEG surface coverage with longer PEG brushes. Cellular HBOCs were created by encapsulating bovine hemoglobin (Hb) into the aqueous cores of liposomes, poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) conjugated liposomes and polymersomes. keywords: peg cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65d0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65d0h.txt item: #944 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65d1v author: Matthew John Michel title: Influence of multiple environments on tadpole phenotypes: plasticity, adaptation, and conservation implications date: 2010 words: 329 flesch: 10 summary: Phenotypic plasticity is the ability of an organism to alter its phenotype in response to changing environmental conditions. However, the specific impact of these factors on an individual's phenotype depends on the foraging behavior employed by the predator, the type of competition experienced (interference vs. exploitative), and other environmental conditions. keywords: phenotypic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65d1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65d1v.txt item: #945 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65d26 author: Matthew Alexander Barnes title: Prediction, Detection, and Management of Aquatic Invasive Species date: 2013 words: 344 flesch: 17 summary: In my dissertation, I have evaluated uncertainties in current predictive methodologies and technologies to increase understanding of the ecology of invasive species and improve management and mitigation of damages due to aquatic invasions. My research has addressed methodological and technological uncertainties associated with the ecology and management of biological invasions, focusing on prediction and detection of aquatic invasions. keywords: aquatic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65d26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65d26.txt item: #946 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65d3j author: David Charles Rozek title: The Developmental Role of Perceived Competence on Depressive Symptoms date: 2013 words: 132 flesch: 63 summary: While much of Cole's work is done in younger children, the transition period of middle school to high school, a time of great change, is vastly understudied. Results show that this mediation model does not hold true for 7th-12th grade. keywords: cole cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65d3j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65d3j.txt item: #947 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65d4w author: Alexander Vorobiev title: An Experimental Investigation of Lift and Roll Control Using Plasma Actuators date: 2010 words: 165 flesch: 44 summary: The experiments are performed in the range of Reynolds numbers Re = 30,000- 370,000 and the angle-of-attack range: -3Ìâå¡ to +10Ìâå¡. This work describes an experimental investigation into the use of plasma actuators for lift and roll control. keywords: actuators cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65d4w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65d4w.txt item: #948 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65d6k author: Iulian D Toader title: Objectivity Sans Intelligibility: Hermann Weyl's Symbolic Constructivism date: 2011 words: 479 flesch: 20 summary: On this approach, contentual reasoning is indispensable for objectivity, which entails, as Weyl emphasized, that scientific concepts without contentual significance must be eliminated. While the former can be conceived of as syntactic elegance, the latter obtains if one shows, by contentual reasoning, that the deviation from actual observations of results based on purely symbolic reasoning is smaller than experimental error. keywords: objectivity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65d6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65d6k.txt item: #949 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65d7x author: Jinyang Li title: Antireflection Coating Application of Gallium Arsenide Native Oxide date: 2012 words: 138 flesch: 36 summary: The thicknesses and optical constants of the GaAs native oxide and the GaAs substrate used in the AR coating design have been determined by Variable Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometry measurements within the visible light wavelength range at room temperature. In this thesis, the development of high surface quality, broad bandwidth, low cost antireflection coatings using the low optical index GaAs native oxide processed by a new oxygen-enhanced wet thermal oxidation method is demonstrated. keywords: native cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65d7x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65d7x.txt item: #950 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65d88 author: Joseph Workman title: Sector Differences in Achievement During the Elementary School Years date: 2009 words: 50 flesch: 57 summary: I find that students who attend Catholic elementary schools have slightly slower rates of learning in mathematics than do public school students. This study examines sector differences in student achievement from Kindergarten through fifth grade. keywords: students cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65d88.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65d88.txt item: #951 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65d9m author: Julia A. Feder title: A Mystical-Political Theology of Posttraumatic Healing: Teresa of Avila, Edward Schillebeeckx, and Contemporary Trauma Theory date: 2014 words: 331 flesch: 21 summary: In the case of survivors of sexual trauma, political liberation involves bodily material well-being (i.e., safety and sexual integrity), relational well-being (i.e., the presence of healthy interpersonal relationships of support and mutual growth), as well as institutional well-being (i.e., participation in social structures that affirm safe and healthy sexual practices and promptly and appropriately respond if and when sexually violent actions occur). Because sexual violence threatens human wholeness in a diversity of arenas and its effects (described by the psychological term trauma) endure with the victim long after the violent event(s) has passed, the reality of sexual violence is a legitimate and serious theological topic. keywords: sexual cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65d9m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65d9m.txt item: #952 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65f3v author: Melissa Fletcher Pirkey title: Cultural Context, Organizational Processes, and Sensemaking in a Voluntary Organization: An Organizational Ethnography date: 1904 words: 286 flesch: 20 summary: By constraining the forms of exchange deemed normatively appropriate and priming sensemaking processes, State-Line's identity facilitated members' experience of social exchange as being consonant with community ideals and supportive of positive affective group bonds, even in instances where contemporary sociological exchange theories suggest that they should not. Using a combination of participant observation and semi-structured interviews, my research details the interrelated mechanisms and processes that supported shareholders' experience of community, shaped their perceptions of social exchange, and facilitated members' construction of coherent and convergent explanations in the face of unexpected and ambiguous organizational change. keywords: community cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65f3v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65f3v.txt item: #953 of 4945 id: 5h73pv65f46 author: Yue Wang title: Assessing Elemental Sulfur Based Denitrification as a Biofilm Process date: 1904 words: 280 flesch: 30 summary: It was found that biofilm development affects the relationship between denitrification fluxes and bulk nitrogen species (NO3-, NO2-) concentrations. Results suggest that So-based denitrification can achieve fluxes comparable to heterotrophic processes if the biofilm develops sufficiently, but fluxes may decrease with excessive biofilm development. keywords: denitrification cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv65f46.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv65f46.txt item: #954 of 4945 id: 5h73pv6635q author: Siyuan Jiang title: Improving Program Comprehension Using Neural Machine Translation date: 1904 words: 335 flesch: 45 summary: This project demonstrates that NMT can also be used in translating from diff (results of text differencing techniques) to English text. My project uses NMT to translate topics represented by lists of words to English text. keywords: software cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv6635q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv6635q.txt item: #955 of 4945 id: 5h73pv66409 author: Garrett Andrew Fontenot title: Voluntarism and Imperial Supremacy: Politics and the Military Establishment in the Expansion of the British Empire in French North America, 1760-1775 date: 1904 words: 227 flesch: 15 summary: This dissertation explores the tensions between two ideological facets of the British empire—voluntarism and imperial supremacy—that emerged after the Seven Years' War as British officials attempted to come to terms with the territorial expansion and the increased diversity of their empire. At the same time, the empire pursued a policy of imperial supremacy in North America: a deliberate attempt to exclude foreign competitors from the continent to ensure the security of the provinces. keywords: empire cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv66409.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv66409.txt item: #956 of 4945 id: 5h73pv66420 author: Joseph Hassan Aboki title: Design of Triptycene-Containing Poly(arylene ether sulfone) Multiblock Copolymers and Random Copolymers for Polyelectrolyte Membrane Applications date: 2018 words: 312 flesch: 22 summary: This combination of high water uptake and low swelling ratio of these copolymers resulted in excellent proton conductivity and membrane dimensional stability under fully hydrated conditions. However, the long hydrophilic sequences (typically >10,000 g/mol) required to achieve high proton conductivity usually lead to excessive water swelling which degrade membrane dimensional stability. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv66420.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv66420.txt item: #957 of 4945 id: 5h73pv66f8v author: Julaine D. Zenk title: A Further Exploration into Moral Decision-Making in a Military Context date: 2020 words: 376 flesch: 31 summary: This outcome was different from what is often found in Trolleyology research: namely, when moral decisions become more personal, more non-utilitarian choices are made. The two intelligence officer experiments showed that moral decisions are, indeed, affected by casualty numbers and the demographics of both targets and civilian casualties. keywords: decision cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv66f8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv66f8v.txt item: #958 of 4945 id: 5h73pv66f96 author: Jaime L. Shapiro title: Understanding the Extrinsic Disability Associated with Personality Disorder: Conceptual, Terminological, and Empirical Challenges date: 2020 words: 344 flesch: 4 summary: However, the literature lacks clarity in both its theoretical conceptualization of extrinsic disability constructs, particularly as they relate to disorder constructs, and also the empirical measurement of extrinsic disability. Although several studies have examined relations between personality pathology and its associated extrinsic disability, these studies rarely include a comprehensive assessment of both maladaptive personality traits and measures of extrinsic disability; moreover, studies of the DSM-5 Section III alternative dimensional PD model, with its component of impairment in personality functioning, are still developing. keywords: disability cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv66f96.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv66f96.txt item: #959 of 4945 id: 5h73pv66g7t author: David C Molik title: On the Genetic Information Processing of Metabarcodes: Adding Data Utility with Provenance and Metadata date: 2021 words: 357 flesch: 45 summary: I show an increase pf data utility in three ways: by looking at the different features of the metabarcode itself, and exploring how manipulation of those features can start to explain variance in the analysis of metabarcode data; In chapter two, agent based simulations are used to analyze features, such as the relative abundance of barcodes, to show their effect on resulting metabarcode datasets. This is done by implementing a genomic informatics processing framework, utilizing provenance and metadata to increase data utility of metabarcode data. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5h73pv66g7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5h73pv66g7t.txt item: #960 of 4945 id: 5m60qr48n39 author: Bong-Jun Ko title: International Opportunity and Domestic Policy Consensus: The Case of U.S. Missile Defense date: 2010 words: 266 flesch: 26 summary: This study examines U.S. policy toward missile defense (MD) focusing both on the international opportunities opened up for the U.S. after the Cold War and on the variation of domestic policy consensus at the governmental level that influenced the actual decision making regarding the deployment of the current MD system. This study also addresses how domestic policy consensus played an important role in determining the timing and nature of the decision toward the deployment of the current MD. keywords: u.s cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5m60qr48n39.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5m60qr48n39.txt item: #961 of 4945 id: 5m60qr48n4n author: AnnaMaria Cardinalli-Padilla title: El Llanto: A Liturgiological Journey into the Identity and Theology of the Northern New Mexican Penitentes and Their Spiritual Siblings date: 2004 words: 335 flesch: 29 summary: One of the largest gaps in current scholarship lies in investigation of the medieval roots of Penitente devotion, another in the documentation and examination of their unique tradition of musical worship (the alabados), and a third in the role of women in Penitente society and spirituality. Further, work is still necessary to explore the theology expressed in Penitente art, ritual, and daily living. keywords: penitente cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5m60qr48n4n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5m60qr48n4n.txt item: #962 of 4945 id: 5m60qr48n50 author: Christina Ann Risatti title: Synthesis of Cyclopropanes via Aldehyde Homologation date: 2005 words: 350 flesch: 15 summary: A heteroatom-stabilized route affords a two-step aldehyde homologation to provide cyclopropyl aldehydes and is readily amenable to iteration for the formation of contiguous cyclopropane structures. Introduction of allyltributyltin to our reaction conditions furnished interesting cyclopropane architectures. keywords: aldehydes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5m60qr48n50.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5m60qr48n50.txt item: #963 of 4945 id: 5m60qr48p6n author: Timothy Adam Wencewicz title: Development of Microbe-Selective Antibacterial Agents: From Small Molecules to Siderophores date: 2011 words: 371 flesch: 29 summary: Sideromycins were found to bring new life to antibiotics that fail to enter bacterial cells due to permeability problems. New methods for developing microbe-selective antibacterial agents including novel small molecules and molecular antibiotic delivery systems that challenge existing bacterial resistance mechanisms and limit the emergence of resistance are described in this dissertation. keywords: sideromycins cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5m60qr48p6n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5m60qr48p6n.txt item: #964 of 4945 id: 5m60qr48q17 author: Joshua Abram Kercsmar title: The Politics of Husbandry: Managing Animal and Slave Labor in England and America, 1550-1815 date: 2014 words: 309 flesch: 38 summary: As Britons on both sides of the Atlantic saw the improvement of nature as a mercantile rather than moral endeavor, and thus treated slaves as commodities, eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century century humanitarian reformers came to criticize slavery and animal cruelty alike. While colonists were slow to adopt British innovations as they related to animals, they supported and appropriated them in their interactions with Africans. keywords: century cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5m60qr48q17.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5m60qr48q17.txt item: #965 of 4945 id: 5m60qr49b9v author: Samuel K. Fisher title: Fit Instruments: Gaels, Indians, and the Diverse Origins of Imperial Reform and Revolution date: 1904 words: 352 flesch: 20 summary: The second half of the project tells the story of successive imperial attempts to do so, with emphasis on the ways that Gaelic and Indian people themselves contributed to imperial reform both as its targets and as active participants. This constitution began to crumble in the 1740s, when Gaelic and Indian people forced themselves onto the imperial agenda in a series of events that convinced imperial leaders that winning over indigenous people would be central to victory in the imperial struggle against France. keywords: imperial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5m60qr49b9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5m60qr49b9v.txt item: #966 of 4945 id: 5m60qr49r7w author: Jennifer S. Kaplan title: On Borrowing date: 2021 words: 272 flesch: 59 summary: In my role as an art-science-activist, I aim to facilitate access to the arts and actionable change through learning spaces built around shared ideas. Giving people tools to shift the world around us is a recognition of how our future lives with collaborative action. keywords: access cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5m60qr49r7w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5m60qr49r7w.txt item: #967 of 4945 id: 5m60qr49s9w author: YuTzu Kuo title: Bayesian Community Detection in Complex Networks date: 2022 words: 384 flesch: 49 summary: Among the many tasks in statistical network analysis, community detection has arguably received the most attention in the literature. To address these problems, we propose some Bayesian models for community detection in networks by employing novel random partition priors. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5m60qr49s9w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5m60qr49s9w.txt item: #968 of 4945 id: 5m60qr49t03 author: Shereen Khoo title: The Joint Structure of Detachment and Internalizing Symptoms date: 2022 words: 346 flesch: 9 summary: Internalizing was characterized by high neuroticism and low conscientiousness; in contrast, (high) detachment was characterized by low extraversion, and Reward Seeking was characterized by high extraversion and low agreeableness. However, there are several issues regarding the validity of one of these spectra, detachment, including (1) the detachment spectrum is primarily characterized by personality disorders, possibly reflecting a method effect; (2) detachment and internalizing are both characterized by low extraversion and are distinguished by the additional presence of high neuroticism for internalizing, indicating that detachment and internalizing may be more similar than currently characterized in the HiTOP model; and (3) the personality profile of avoidant personality pathology (high neuroticism, low extraversion), currently classified in HiTOP as a detachment disorder, is actually more similar to internalizing psychopathology. keywords: detachment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5m60qr49t03.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5m60qr49t03.txt item: #969 of 4945 id: 5m60qr49v0d author: Kelci Mohrman title: Search for New Physics Impacting Associated Top Production in Multilepton Final States Using the Framework of Effective Field Theory date: 2023 words: 205 flesch: 38 summary: While the results are consistent with the standard model prediction, the extracted limits can help to constrain theoretical models of new physics; interpreted in terms of the energy scale probed by the experiment, the results can also provide information about the energy frontier beyond which new physics discoveries may yet lie. In order to gain sensitivity to EFT effects by differentiating the admixture of processes and effects in each category, the events are subcategorized and binned in terms of kinematical distributions. keywords: eft cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5m60qr49v0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5m60qr49v0d.txt item: #970 of 4945 id: 5q47rn31x7h author: Yeqing Lu title: Design and Fabrication of Vertical Tunnel Transistors for Low-Power Logic Applications date: 2015 words: 266 flesch: 36 summary: Interband tunneling field effect transistors (TFETs) have come under intensive investigation for logic applications due to their promise for enabling low VDD operation because of their potential for achieving extremely low subthreshold swing. The DC and AC performance of single devices as well as complimentary circuits (logic inverters) as a function of fan-out loading have been investigated, showing that vTFET has the potential to replace CMOS technology for low power logic application in the future. keywords: tunnel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn31x7h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn31x7h.txt item: #971 of 4945 id: 5q47rn31x8v author: Ali Emre Pusane title: Analysis of LDPC convolutional codes derived from LDPC block codes date: 2008 words: 542 flesch: 39 summary: LDPC convolutional codes have been shown to be capable of achieving the same capacity-approaching performance as LDPC block codes with iterative message passing decoding. In particular, we show that the unwrapping process that is used to derive LDPC convolutional codes from LDPC block codes can 'break' some cycles of the underlying LDPC block code, but cannot create any shorter cycles. keywords: ldpc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn31x8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn31x8v.txt item: #972 of 4945 id: 5q47rn31x96 author: Lili Ji title: Domain Wall Trapping by Localized Field on Submicron Supermalloy Wires date: 2010 words: 372 flesch: 46 summary: Trapping domain walls by this method requires no lithographic constrictions on the magnetic wire, which provides a new prospect for the study of current-induced domain-wall motion and other magnetic devices. Simulation and experimental results indicate that for the same strength of the localized field, domain walls trapped on narrower wire require larger releasing field for depinning. keywords: domain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn31x96.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn31x96.txt item: #973 of 4945 id: 5q47rn31z0d author: Ethan Eric Uberseder title: Experimentally Constraining the Nucleosynthesis of 60Fe in Massive Stars date: 2013 words: 144 flesch: 24 summary: Meaningful comparisons between models and observation depend crucially on reliable inputs concerning the underlying nuclear reactions, and while much work has been performed by stellar modelers to resolve an initial disagreement with observation, the production and destruction cross sections for 60Fe nucleosynthesis have remained purely theoretical. Observations of the decay signature of the long-lived radioisotopes 60Fe and 26Al by γ-ray observatories have offered a unique observational constraint on massive star models. keywords: models cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn31z0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn31z0d.txt item: #974 of 4945 id: 5q47rn31z1r author: Heather Dawn Schlotthauer-Hannah title: Well-Posedness and Regularity for a Higher OrderPeriodic Mkdv Equation date: 2008 words: 107 flesch: 60 summary: We then show that the solution to the periodic Cauchy problem for this higher order equation with analytic initial data is analytic in the space variable x at any fixed time t near time zero. However, while this analyticity is not guaranteed in t, the solution does have Gevrey-m regularity with respect to the time variable t. keywords: order cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn31z1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn31z1r.txt item: #975 of 4945 id: 5q47rn31z3f author: Yao Shen title: Applications of Atomistic Modeling in Drug Design date: 2011 words: 365 flesch: 34 summary: My third project is studying a small molecule inhibitor Ì¢ âÂ' (+)-JQ1 targeting bromodomains for potential cancer therapy. My contribution to this project includes both computational prediction of potential inhibitors and experimental validation of their activities in both in vitro and bacterial cell viability. keywords: drug cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn31z3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn31z3f.txt item: #976 of 4945 id: 5q47rn31z4s author: Kristina Jipson title: New Spiritualism: Approaching the Dead in Twenty-First-Century American Poetry date: 2014 words: 311 flesch: 20 summary: Poets like Susan Howe, Kristen Prevallet, Rusty Morrison, Mary Jo Bang, and M. NourbeSe Philip are using the practice of writing as a means of cultivating felt spiritual contact with the deceased, with skepticism and the imperative for plausibility playing a vital role in each of their pursuits. The impulse to test and affirm the possibility of communicating with the dead has important roots in nineteenth-century American Spiritualism, which offered practitioners a 'scientific' approach to spiritual experience by figuring the séance in empirical terms. keywords: dead cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn31z4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn31z4s.txt item: #977 of 4945 id: 5q47rn31z54 author: Mioara Deac title: Mirror of the World or Submerged Unconscious? Hallucinations and the Victorians (1853-1901) date: 2005 words: 280 flesch: 28 summary: My analysis is a contextual history of hallucinations that explores intersections among psychology, psychiatry, physical sciences, theological debates, and religious practices. This dissertation is a history of some nineteenth-century English attempts to account for hallucinations. keywords: dissertation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn31z54.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn31z54.txt item: #978 of 4945 id: 5q47rn31z6g author: Travis L. Turnbull title: The Spatial Distribution of Fatigue Microdamage Accumulation in Cortical Bone and Factors Influencing Fracture Risk date: 2013 words: 343 flesch: 19 summary: The overall objective of this project was to nondestructively investigate the spatial distribution of fatigue microdamage accumulation in cortical bone and factors that, upon interaction with microdamage, influence fracture susceptibility. Spatial correlations between intracortical porosity, elevated mineralization, and fatigue microdamage were investigated by combining, for the first time, sequential, nondestructive, three-dimensional micro-CT measurements of each in cortical bone specimens subjected to cyclic loading followed by an overload to fracture. keywords: fracture cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn31z6g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn31z6g.txt item: #979 of 4945 id: 5q47rn31z85 author: Christopher L. Kelley title: Airfoil Leading and Trailing Edge Separation Control Using SDBD Plasma Actuators date: 2013 words: 525 flesch: 41 summary: The NASA energy efficient transport (EET) airfoil was a platform to study the effect of plasma actuators on leading edge stall and boundary layer separation in a strong adverse pressure gradient, while the V-22 Osprey airfoil was used to study trailing edge stall with separation in a weaker adverse pressure gradient. The second part of the experiment examined the efficacy of plasma actuators on a V-22 airfoil for trailing edge separation control in the presence of new factors such as moving separation location, crossflow, turbulent boundary layers, and weaker pressure gradients at the line of vanishing shear. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn31z85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn31z85.txt item: #980 of 4945 id: 5q47rn31z9h author: Timothy Lee Conrad title: Characterization of Hydroxyapatite Whisker Reinforced Composites and Scaffolds for Mechanical and Biological Function in Orthopaedic and Spinal Implants date: 2012 words: 303 flesch: 33 summary: Moreover, HA whisker reinforcement resulted in decreased creep deformation and minimal modulus degradation. The fatigue life decreased with increasing HA reinforcement. keywords: peek cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn31z9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn31z9h.txt item: #981 of 4945 id: 5q47rn32000 author: Nicholas Vincent Russo title: The Origins of Lent date: 2009 words: 116 flesch: 33 summary: These are: (1) Lent emerged as the result of a gradual prolongation of the primitive one- or two-day pre-paschal fasts; (2) Lent was modeled on Jewish Passover preparation; (3) Lent arose around a third-century hagiopolite lectionary cycle; (4) Lent emerged as the result of the transposition of an ancient Egyptian post-Epiphany fast. The project reexamines the origins of Lent in light of recent critiques of the generally accepted theories. keywords: fast cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn32000.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn32000.txt item: #982 of 4945 id: 5q47rn3216c author: Katharine S. Mahon title: Teach Us to Pray: The Lord's Prayer in the Sixteenth-Century Re-Ritualizations of Christian Formation date: 1904 words: 97 flesch: 31 summary: It examines the reformers' alterations to ritual aspects of Christian formation in the areas of catechesis, liturgical participation, and private prayer in the traditions of the Lutheran churches, the Church of England, and the Roman Catholic Church. It utilizes the Lord's Prayer, the ritual key to the Church's formation of laypeople for participation in the worship life of the Church, as a lens by which the sixteenth-century reforms of the medieval ritual system can be outlined and examined. keywords: formation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn3216c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn3216c.txt item: #983 of 4945 id: 5q47rn32s1g author: Christina Leo title: The Blue Bull & Other Stories date: 2019 words: 50 flesch: 57 summary: ; Other Stories is a collection of short stories which proceeds chronologically, from the present era to the distant future, through characters, settings, and themes—especially those related to ecology, memory, history, and sense of place—based largely in the Gulf Coast region of the American South. The Blue Bull & keywords: stories cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn32s1g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn32s1g.txt item: #984 of 4945 id: 5q47rn32v44 author: Jack Himelright title: An Austere Nominalist Strategy for Paraphrasing Away Properties and Relations date: 2019 words: 327 flesch: 36 summary: Chapter 4 extends the paraphrase strategy to include more sophisticated sentences about intrinsic properties of concrete objects as well as sentences about extrinsic properties of concrete objects, higher-order properties, and dyadic and greater adicity relations. Chapter 2 articulates a new paraphrase strategy for simple sentences about intrinsic properties of concrete objects. keywords: strategy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn32v44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn32v44.txt item: #985 of 4945 id: 5q47rn3310k author: Holly F. Levin-Aspenson title: Symptom-Level Explications of the Hierarchical Structure of Psychopathology date: 2020 words: 169 flesch: 25 summary: Models were based on relatively comprehensive symptom-level epidemiological data from the 2000 British Office for National Statistics Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity (N = 8,405). Study 3 compares results from Study 1 and Study 2 with those from corresponding models using diagnosis- and symptom count-level data. keywords: study cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn3310k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn3310k.txt item: #986 of 4945 id: 5q47rn3320w author: Sara E. Gilson title: Expanding Actinide Crystal Chemistry through Synthesis and Radiolytic Studies of Actinide Metal-Organic Frameworks and Construction of a Structural Hierarchy date: 2021 words: 242 flesch: 30 summary: In this work, the subset of thorium MOFs is expanded by exposing this actinide element to synthetic conditions typical of MOFs. Neptunium MOFs are also investigated. keywords: mofs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5q47rn3320w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5q47rn3320w.txt item: #987 of 4945 id: 5t34sj15655 author: Baiyuan Yang title: New Synthetic Applications of Nitroso Diels-Alder and Ene Chemistry date: 2010 words: 344 flesch: 28 summary: A solid phase supported iminonitroso ene reaction as well as asymmetric nitroso ene reactions were also investigated. The focus for this dissertation involved the development of new synthetic applications of nitroso Diels-Alder (NDA) reactions and nitroso ene reactions. keywords: reactions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj15655.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj15655.txt item: #988 of 4945 id: 5t34sj1566h author: Quinn S. Bastian title: Can People Choose Not to Smoke? A Study of Volitional Self-Control, Self-Efficacy, and Cigarette Use date: 2004 words: 155 flesch: 31 summary: Self-ratings of effort were found to mediate the effects of volitional instructions on smoking behavior, providing further support for an agentic (versus mechanistic) interpretation of volition effects. Following Howard and Conway's (1986) volitional instruction paradigm, the present study examined whether participants could willfully control their cigarette use. keywords: self cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj1566h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj1566h.txt item: #989 of 4945 id: 5t34sj1567v author: Paul David Mueller title: Shaving with Ockham's Razor: Complexity and Individual Politicial Behavior date: 2005 words: 276 flesch: 23 summary: The author outlines an alternative to the disciplinary norms of generating hypothesis that utilizes conditional hypotheses to produce 'thicker' explanations without sacrificing generalizability. The currently accepted quantitative methods generally used to test hypotheses are less suitable for analyzing conditional hypotheses. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj1567v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj1567v.txt item: #990 of 4945 id: 5t34sj1578h author: Katie Condit title: Special Education and Dropout: Does School Context Matter? date: 2014 words: 173 flesch: 38 summary: I combine relevant school characteristics as delineated on both sides of the bureaucratic/communal debate to formulate a theory of salient school characteristics for engaging students in special education, including fiscal and human resources and social climate. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of schools on the relationship between special education status and dropout. keywords: special cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj1578h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj1578h.txt item: #991 of 4945 id: 5t34sj15833 author: Margaret Mary Garvey title: Jacques Copeau, Maria Montessori and a Physical Theatre of Aristotelian Embodiment date: 2014 words: 440 flesch: 36 summary: Jacques Copeau, a seminal figure in 20th century theatre theory and practice, developed a distinctively Aristotelian approach to actor training, focused on sincerity and embodiment. Copeau's Montessorian child-centered perspective, with its important metaphysical presuppositions and ethical ramifications for the actor's process and the role of theatre, has a continuing influence in theatre theory and practice. keywords: copeau cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj15833.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj15833.txt item: #992 of 4945 id: 5t34sj1587g author: Robert W. Miller title: The Relative Contribution of Maternal ADHD Symptoms and Oppositional Defiant Behaviors to Parenting date: 1904 words: 147 flesch: 8 summary: Our findings suggest that maternal OD behaviors should be considered in future studies of parental ADHD, indicate OD behaviors may affect functioning for some adults, and have implications for the foci of future interventions for parents with ADHD. 107 mothers at-risk for ADHD completed self-report questionnaires assessing their current ADHD, OD behaviors, and depressive symptoms and parenting behaviors. keywords: behaviors cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj1587g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj1587g.txt item: #993 of 4945 id: 5t34sj15x19 author: Connor D. O'Rear title: Children's Performance Labeling Set Sizes without Counting Mediates the Effect of Counting Practice on Understanding of Cardinality date: 1904 words: 154 flesch: 29 summary: Increasing children's ability to label set sizes without counting may accelerate development by promoting analogical reasoning (Mix et al., 2012), or it may delay development by decreasing the immediate need for an abstract understanding of cardinality (Piantadosi et al., 2012). Both counting conditions improved understanding of cardinality indirectly by increasing children's ability to label set sizes without counting. keywords: label cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj15x19.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj15x19.txt item: #994 of 4945 id: 5t34sj15x7c author: Brandon LeVon Cook title: Parisian Scholastics and the Gregorian Dictum: Change and Continuity in the Latin Discourse on Images from St. Gregory to St. Bonaventure date: 1904 words: 467 flesch: 29 summary: This research project on the Gregorian tradition and medieval Franciscan image theory furnishes further textual resources and evidence relevant to the longstanding historiographical interest in the relationship between Scholasticism and French Gothic art from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. My dissertation examines the development of the textual tradition of the Gregorian dictum from the sixth century to the Scholastic thirteenth and asks what that textual history reveals about changing emphases in medieval image theory in the Latin West. keywords: bonaventure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj15x7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj15x7c.txt item: #995 of 4945 id: 5t34sj15x8q author: Edward A. Lamere title: Proton Induced Reactions on Molybdenum: Implications for Medical 99mTc Production date: 1904 words: 543 flesch: 30 summary: Using this experimentally guided model, we have estimated yields for various target impurity profiles. While not directly relevant to radiopharmaceuticals, Nb and Mo production will have an impact on target composition after repeated recycling and dosimetry in the case of incomplete chemical purification. keywords: production cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj15x8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj15x8q.txt item: #996 of 4945 id: 5t34sj15z9c author: Jamie L. Luther title: Development of Analytical and Synthetic Biological Tools for Use in Low-Technology Settings date: 2018 words: 337 flesch: 40 summary: This is problematic because consumption of substandard medicines, contaminated water, or poor quality milk can lead to a slew of health problems including disease, chronic illness, antibiotic resistance, and even death. Yeast have been engineered to detect heavy metals such as cadmium, fungal pathogens, antibiotics, and environmental estrogens. keywords: yeast cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj15z9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj15z9c.txt item: #997 of 4945 id: 5t34sj16225 author: Xingfei Wei title: Thermal Transport in Soft Materials and across Hard-Soft Interfaces date: 2019 words: 449 flesch: 36 summary: Polymers with high thermal conductivities are of great interest to both scientific research and industrial applications. However, in polyelectrolytes the mechanism of thermal conductivity enhancement with ionization ratio increasing is not due to the chain conformation change. keywords: thermal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj16225.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj16225.txt item: #998 of 4945 id: 5t34sj1632g author: Shereen Khoo title: Explicating the Comprehensive Facet Structure across Personality Measures date: 2019 words: 251 flesch: 38 summary: The study results indicate that Extraversion and Agreeableness are best represented in their aspect-level form rather than domain-level form, as well as that certain facet scales are better organized under domains other than their originally intended domains. However, this approach is problematic because unique facets, which may have substantial predictive validity, are not able to form their own factors. keywords: structure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj1632g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj1632g.txt item: #999 of 4945 id: 5t34sj16883 author: Michael Augugliaro title: Electrochemical Detection of Gold Nanoparticle Collisions Using Nanopore Electrode Array (NEA) Devices date: 2020 words: 232 flesch: 11 summary: Nanopore electrode arrays (NEAs) previously developed by Bohn and coworkers allow for single nanoparticle electrochemical collision experiments with 40 nm diameter silver nanoparticles (AgNP). The ability to perform single entity experiments on complex nanostructures is of significant research interest, as complete characterizations of individual nanoparticles can provide valuable insight that cannot be provided by ensemble measurements. keywords: single cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj16883.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj16883.txt item: #1000 of 4945 id: 5t34sj1689f author: Morgan L. Widhalm title: A TMS-EEG Exploration of Latent Working Memory date: 2020 words: 199 flesch: 23 summary: There has been much recent debate within the field of working memory (WM) on the storage mechanism (persistent delay-period activity vs. activity-silent) and storage location (frontal vs. sensory cortex) of latent WM items. Specifically, unattended items that received TMS to contralateral, retinotopic visual cortex showed significant reconstruction of orientation whereas those items that received TMS to ipsilateral visual cortex did not. keywords: items cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj1689f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj1689f.txt item: #1001 of 4945 id: 5t34sj1698d author: Tracy-Lynn E. Lockwood title: Development and Implementation of a Paper Analytical Device for Field Drug Detection date: 2021 words: 419 flesch: 34 summary: Tools most commonly used for field drug analysis include presumptive drug test pouches containing concentrated liquid reagents, immunoassay-based test strips, liquid dropper reagents, portable Fourier transform infrared spectrometers and mass spectrometers. Street drugs consist of unregulated and highly variable mixtures of illicit drugs and cutting agents, including diluents and adulterants, making them difficult to evaluate under field conditions. keywords: illicit cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj1698d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj1698d.txt item: #1002 of 4945 id: 5t34sj1699r author: Brandon RichardWebster title: Visual Psychophysics for Computer Vision date: 2021 words: 220 flesch: 24 summary: Psychophysics is the quantitative examination of the relationships between controlled stimuli and the behavioral responses they elicit in experimental test subjects. Instead of using summary statistics to gauge performance, psychophysics directs us to construct item-response curves made up of individual stimulus responses to find perceptual thresholds, thus allowing one to identify the point at which a subject can no longer reliably recognize the stimulus. keywords: visual cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj1699r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj1699r.txt item: #1003 of 4945 id: 5t34sj16b7c author: Anabel Rodriguez title: Understanding Functional Protein Production: Synonymous Codon Contributions and Development of a Cell- Based Protein Folding Screening Tool date: 2021 words: 708 flesch: 38 summary: An additional promising application of the folding reporter is to use it as a discovery tool for synonymous codon folding models to study synonymous codon effects experimentally. Progress in the field of protein folding has included the understanding that a sequence containing more rare codon substitutions is more likely to misfold, and that exchanging hydrophobic amino acids with polar ones is likely to significantly disrupt folding. keywords: folding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj16b7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj16b7c.txt item: #1004 of 4945 id: 5t34sj16c1m author: Phillip Spinella title: Eugénie beneath the Verticals date: 2022 words: 7 flesch: 78 summary: This manuscript is a work of fiction. keywords: fiction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5t34sj16c1m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5t34sj16c1m.txt item: #1005 of 4945 id: 5x21td98g9t author: Badi' Abdul-Wahid title: A Software Pipeline for Ensemble Molecular Dynamics date: 2015 words: 185 flesch: 41 summary: Proteins are the 'machines of life' and understanding their motions is crucial to understanding the nature of various diseases, for instance Alzheimer's and Huntington's. As a result, simulations require billions of steps to access slow motions such as protein folding. keywords: simulations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98g9t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98g9t.txt item: #1006 of 4945 id: 5x21td98h01 author: Scott Christley title: Modeling and Simulation of Vertebrate Limb Chondrogenesis and Algorithms for Comparative Genomics date: 2010 words: 111 flesch: 2 summary: Modeling and simulation serves to provide tests of the plausibility and robustness of proposed biological mechanisms, and they can suggest previously unknown but experimentally testable hypotheses from known biological interactions. This dissertation addresses the challenge of both approaches through modeling and simulation of limb chondrogenesis and novel algorithms and computational tools for multiple organism comparative genomics. keywords: biological cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98h01.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98h01.txt item: #1007 of 4945 id: 5x21td98h1c author: Chuanxin Lian title: Wafer-Fused AlGaAs/GaAs/GaN Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors date: 2010 words: 375 flesch: 53 summary: Unfortunately, the large lat-tice mismatch between GaAs and GaN makes it very difficult to epitaxially grow high quality GaAs on GaN. Com-bining the unity emitter injection efficiency and the large base transport factor of Al-GaAs/GaAs, and the high breakdown field of GaN, an AlGaAs/GaAs/GaN npn HBT is expected to operate at high speed and high power densities. keywords: gan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98h1c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98h1c.txt item: #1008 of 4945 id: 5x21td98h2q author: Jason M. Grant title: Exploring the Structure of the Similarity Score Space date: 2013 words: 116 flesch: 45 summary: Furthermore, image specific error rates (a tool for measuring the usefulness of iris images within a dataset) were extended to face images. Given the number of subjects in the dataset, we used hierarchical methods to aggregate images of the same subject. keywords: images cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98h2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98h2q.txt item: #1009 of 4945 id: 5x21td98h32 author: Kelley Ann Fennell title: Synthesis and studies of amamistatin B and analogs as potential mycobacterial growth inhibitors and anti-tumor agents date: 2008 words: 310 flesch: 39 summary: Amamistatins A and B are natural products that were isolated from the actinomycete Nocardia asteroides after their identification during a screen for growth inhibitors of human tumor cells. All three compounds, along with synthetic intermediates, were screened in several assays to study their effect on the growth of tumor cells and M. tuberculosis, as well as their ability to inhibit HDAC. keywords: amamistatin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98h32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98h32.txt item: #1010 of 4945 id: 5x21td98h4d author: Qi Liao title: Smarter Enterprise Network Security Management Through Intelligent and Interactive Visual Analytics date: 2011 words: 380 flesch: 18 summary: Besides the ability to visualize various combinations of HUA, the contribution of this study lies on its exploration and evaluation of the viability and efficacy of a unified approach by incorporating algorithmic data mining methods with interactive visual exploration process. The proposed data analysis algorithms can provide intelligence to start and guide an investigation process while the proposed visual transformations brings in experts' domain knowledge to the security and management problems that are infeasible by existing machine learning approaches. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98h4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98h4d.txt item: #1011 of 4945 id: 5x21td98h5r author: Yao Shen title: The Side Effects of Small Molecule Drugs: Connecting Network and Atomistic Modeling date: 2011 words: 184 flesch: 40 summary: My project aims at predicting new targets for old drugs, correlating targets and relating targets with side effects. Systems biology is very promising to understand the mechanisms of drug reactions at the systems level as well as revolutionize the drug discovery process in the pharmaceutical industry, mainly focusing on the three aspects, drug combinations, drug repurposing and predicting drug side effects. keywords: targets cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98h5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98h5r.txt item: #1012 of 4945 id: 5x21td98h63 author: Christina G. McDonnell title: Mother-Child Reminiscing At-Risk: Maternal Attachment, Elaboration, and Child Autobiographical Memory Specificity date: 2014 words: 250 flesch: 31 summary: Moreover, maternal attachment moderated associations between elaboration and child memory, such that emotional elaboration, primarily for stressful event discussions, negatively predicted child specificity at high levels of attachment avoidance and anxiety, a profile associated with fearful avoidance or disorganized attachment. Results indicated a significant interaction between structural and emotional elaboration predicting child memory specificity, wherein emotional elaboration predicted less specific memory at low levels of structural support. keywords: child cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98h63.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98h63.txt item: #1013 of 4945 id: 5x21td98h7f author: Owen Michael Phelan title: The Formation of Christian Europe: Baptism under the Carolingians date: 2008 words: 221 flesch: 31 summary: I study the religious metaphors and theological concepts which underlie the political and social ideas common to a variety of early medieval texts including law codes, theological treatises, land charters, ethical instruction, ritual commentaries, chronicles and other narrative sources. Careful study of early medieval books, especially how early medieval writers juxtaposed different genres of literature structured to privilege the implications of baptism, strengthen my argument and ground my study in the material culture of the early Middle Ages. keywords: study cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98h7f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98h7f.txt item: #1014 of 4945 id: 5x21td98j0b author: Orsolya Mezei title: The Effect of Soy Isoflavones on the PPAR alpha and PPAR gamma Pathways date: 2004 words: 342 flesch: 34 summary: In vivo, soy isoflavones also ameliorate some of the symptoms associated with atherosclerosis in both PPARγ wild-type mice and PPARγ KO mice. Soy contains several different components including protein, soy lipids, fiber, and other phytochemicals including isoflavones. keywords: soy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98j0b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98j0b.txt item: #1015 of 4945 id: 5x21td98j1p author: Ashley Elizabeth Ferraro title: The Use of Computational Methods to Develop Selective Antagonists Targeting the Mammalian Notch1-Notch4 Homologs date: 2013 words: 321 flesch: 33 summary: Stapled SAHM mutants disrupting analogous regions of interface homologs resulted in quick molecular dynamics convergence. The quick and cost-efficient computational techniques that help elucidate the mechanisms associated with binding and have been applied include: homology modeling, equilibration and molecular dynamics simulations, and MM/PBSA binding free energy calculations and rescoring. keywords: notch1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98j1p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98j1p.txt item: #1016 of 4945 id: 5x21td98j21 author: Wangqing Yuan title: Variable-Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of InAlP Native Oxide Gate Dielectric Layers for GaAs MOSFET Applications date: 2009 words: 152 flesch: 45 summary: The optical constants of InAlP-ox, In0.49Ga0.51P (InGaP), and InAlP have been determined by VASE measurements using a photon energy range of 1.45 to 5.45 eV at room temperature. The optical constants of InAlP and InAlP-ox are used to characterize a thick partially-oxidized InAlP epitaxial film grown on GaAs structure. keywords: inalp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98j21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98j21.txt item: #1017 of 4945 id: 5x21td98j3c author: Casey Marie Casias title: Novel Bridge Forms Composed of Temporary Modules for Transitional Bridging date: 2015 words: 164 flesch: 32 summary: An impact analysis comparing transitional forms to both a steel and concrete girder bridge of comparable length is completed, supporting the claim that transitional forms compare well to conventional construction practices. This thesis provides a proof of concept for transitional bridges. keywords: transitional cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98j3c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98j3c.txt item: #1018 of 4945 id: 5x21td98j83 author: Rachel M. Gentile title: Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Coastal Marsh Sedge Resurrected from a Century-Long Seed Bank date: 1904 words: 352 flesch: 44 summary: We used the results of these experiments to simulate marsh accretion under rising sea level and found notable differences in the sustainability of a marsh surface under sea level rise. In this dissertation, we present the results of a series of studies on the biology of Schoenoplectus americanus and its growth responses to sea level and rising CO2. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98j83.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98j83.txt item: #1019 of 4945 id: 5x21td98k3p author: Ae Hee Lee title: Blue Stone Dreams date: 1904 words: 105 flesch: 24 summary: Through poetic language and a surrealistic imagery, this thesis will explore the concept of Third Culture, a term first coined by researchers John and Ruth Useem in the 1950s to describe a synthesis of two cultures (one from the country which the individual's parents came from and the second one being the culture in which the family settled into) that produces a new individual culture. Extending itself cross-culturally, cross-linguistically, and multi-dimensionally, the three parts of this thesis present several worlds and an understanding of relationships that were born through the writer's experience of living a Third Culture of her own. keywords: culture cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98k3p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98k3p.txt item: #1020 of 4945 id: 5x21td98p70 author: Dipanwita Dasgupta title: An Evaluation of Tablet Based Solution Impacting Health and Wellness of Older Adults date: 1904 words: 425 flesch: 37 summary: Furthermore, these applications provide limited to no integration with care providers, which is becoming exceedingly important due to the increasing number of older adults and decreasing number of care providers. Our study also highlighted the importance of care providers, providing personal support and medication tracking. keywords: aging cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td98p70.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td98p70.txt item: #1021 of 4945 id: 5x21td99n0j author: Abigail Csik Doolen title: Examining Relations Among The Three Levels of Narrative Memory Representation Using Retrieval Practice date: 2022 words: 200 flesch: 44 summary: Discourse is thought to be represented in memory at three levels: surface form, textbase, and event model. In addition, surface form practice improved textbase memory and textbase practice improved event model memory. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td99n0j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td99n0j.txt item: #1022 of 4945 id: 5x21td99n58 author: Varun Mannam title: Overcoming Fundamental Limits of Three-Dimensional In Vivo Fluorescence Imaging Using Machine Learning date: 2022 words: 826 flesch: 33 summary: To develop the ML model, we need another massive training dataset that maps from the diffraction-limited images to super-resolution images, which is a cumbersome process. Currently, we have developed a prototype of the ML model that requires only an ultra-small training dataset (15 target SR images with 50 diffraction-limited images per target) to generate super-resolution images. keywords: images; resolution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/5x21td99n58.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/5x21td99n58.txt item: #1023 of 4945 id: 6108v981r70 author: Shu Liu title: Potential of Opportunistic Relaying date: 2014 words: 321 flesch: 26 summary: As a promising candidate to reduce the impact of cellular data growth, WiFi offloading appeals to be a cost-effective mean of offloading large amounts of mobile data traffic while delivering a variety of new services. A powerful concept that has only gained limited traction in practice has been the concept of opportunistic networks whereby nodes opportunistically communicate with each other when in range to augment or overcome existing wireless systems. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6108v981r70.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6108v981r70.txt item: #1024 of 4945 id: 6108v981r8b author: Matthew Eli Gordley title: A Prose Hymn of Christ: The Language, Form, and Content of Colossians 1:15-20 in Its Greco-Roman and Jewish Contexts and in the Context of the Epistle to the Colossians date: 2008 words: 350 flesch: 32 summary: A review of hymns in the broader Greco-Roman world will demonstrate that the Colossian hymn is equally indebted to conventions used for praising the divine in the Greco-Roman tradition, including the arrangement and order of the topics of praise, the style of the passage including prose rhythm, and the introduction of philosophical concepts into the hymn. A review of hymns in the literature of Second Temple Judaism will demonstrate that the Colossian hymn owes a number of features to Jewish modes of praise, including the clear movement from the work of God in creation to the work of God in redemption, key terminology in the hymn which derives from Hellenistic expressions of Judaism, as well as the prominent use of parallelism. keywords: hymn cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6108v981r8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6108v981r8b.txt item: #1025 of 4945 id: 6108v981r9p author: Zhuowen Sun title: Silicon-based passives fro integrated microwave and infrared applications date: 2008 words: 375 flesch: 38 summary: For infrared detector applications, dipole antennas backed by a dielectric-filled cavity were also explored to increase air-side directive gain for antenna-coupled diode detectors. Analysis of the model indicates that a full back-to-back metal-semiconductor junction contact model is required for CPWs on n-type substrates, while the higher Schottky barrier height of typical metal contacts to p-type Si permits a simpler one-sided junction model for CPWs on p-type substrates. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6108v981r9p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6108v981r9p.txt item: #1026 of 4945 id: 6108v981s90 author: Joshua Lioi title: Advancements in the Multiscale Modeling of Blood Clot Formation date: 2013 words: 240 flesch: 42 summary: Blood clotting is a remarkably complex process that includes a number of different aspects, including chemical reactions, cellular morphological changes, and the binding and aggregation of a variety of molecules. To try and compensate for this, a multiscale approach is used that combines several submodels, each focused on different aspects of the clotting process. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6108v981s90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6108v981s90.txt item: #1027 of 4945 id: 6108v981t06 author: Eric O Stinson title: Implementation of VectorBase Components: EnsEMBL Genome Browser, Search, and Database Tools date: 2007 words: 38 flesch: 51 summary: VectorBase is a web-based bioinformatics repository for insect vectors of human pathogens. This paper describes three of the components (the genome browser, search engine, and a collection of database tools) developed as part of the VectorBase project. keywords: vectorbase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6108v981t06.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6108v981t06.txt item: #1028 of 4945 id: 6108v981t8z author: Elizabeth A. Hendriks title: The Relation of Early Adversity to Trait Depression in Adulthood: The Mediating Role of the Trait Cortisol Awakening Response date: 1904 words: 284 flesch: 42 summary: The main objective of this study was to explore relations between early adversities and two associated risk factors for depression, trait depression and patterns of HPA axis function. Specifically, the study sought to test whether an indicator of hypothalamic-piuitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function, the cortisol awakening response (CAR), mediates the relation between early abuse and trait depression. keywords: trait cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6108v981t8z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6108v981t8z.txt item: #1029 of 4945 id: 6108v982g3d author: John Daniel Izzo title: The Logic of Verse in the Lucretian Kulturgeschichte date: 1904 words: 154 flesch: 39 summary: As evidence for this, I compare these poetic devices to those found in other locations throughout DRN, as well as to similar features in Latin and Oscan curse tablets, Ennius' Annales, and Varro's De Lingua Latina. Afterwards, by reference to the works of Epicurus, Hermarchus, and Demetrius Lacon, I demonstrate that these philosophical claims are orthodox Epicurean beliefs. keywords: lucretius cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6108v982g3d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6108v982g3d.txt item: #1030 of 4945 id: 6108v982n0x author: Brian R Joyce title: Modeling Tides, Storm Surge, and Coastal Hydrodynamics in Broad and Narrow Shelved Regions date: 2019 words: 352 flesch: 48 summary: The model also shows considerable skill at simulating coastal surge and overland flooding during both open and ice covered periods. The effect of sea ice on storm surge is included through a parameterized wind drag coefficient, modifying the air sea momentum transfer under ice coverage. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6108v982n0x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6108v982n0x.txt item: #1031 of 4945 id: 6108v982n49 author: Chen Dai title: Novel Metabolic Networks Identify Key Metabolic Hubs of Breast Cancer: The Effect of Aquaporin 7 on Breast Cancer Progression date: 2019 words: 350 flesch: 39 summary: Using an unbiased, discovery-based approach, this study shed light on important players in breast cancer metabolism from a new perspective that complements current guided network analyses. To further identify the critical metabolic players in breast cancer, we developed a correlation-based network analysis that captures the interactions between metabolic profiling and gene expression data. keywords: breast cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6108v982n49.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6108v982n49.txt item: #1032 of 4945 id: 6108v982t4v author: Kewei Chen title: Set-Theoretic and Game-Theoretic Estimation date: 2019 words: 339 flesch: 29 summary: These two proposed kernel SMF algorithms are equipped with several appealing features, including data-dependent selective update of filter parameter estimates without compromising MSE performance, sparse kernel expansions and asymptotically upper bounded filtering error magnitude. The first part of this dissertation is focused on parameter estimation problems where proper statistical description of the system uncertainties is not available. keywords: parameter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6108v982t4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6108v982t4v.txt item: #1033 of 4945 id: 6108v982v3t author: Kyle M. Conner title: Group 10 Bis(iminosemiquinone) Complexes and Their Propensity to Perform Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions date: 2020 words: 516 flesch: 37 summary: What has been observed is that the mechanism of hydrogen atom transfer is stepwise in all investigated reactions. Group 10 bis(iminosemiquinone) metal complexes of cis geometry were hypothesized to be able to accomplish a concerted transfer of a pair of hydrogen atoms from an organic substrate. keywords: hydrogen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6108v982v3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6108v982v3t.txt item: #1034 of 4945 id: 6108v982x23 author: Alexander H. Pierce title: Augustine's Theology of the Sacramental Economy date: 2022 words: 873 flesch: 45 summary: By sacramental economy I mean God's purposeful arrangement of visible sacraments in creation, Scripture, and the Church for the sake of human salvation. Implicit in my argument is the contention that Augustine's theological development is largely the story of his reckoning with the mystery or sacrament of Christ. keywords: augustine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6108v982x23.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6108v982x23.txt item: #1035 of 4945 id: 6395w66521j author: Ning Jia title: Essays in Education Economics date: 2015 words: 431 flesch: 29 summary: The results suggest that the effectiveness of math reforms on college STEM attainment depends on the specific features, and to effectively improve college STEM attainment for all groups, different policy interventions might be necessary. In the third chapter, I examine the gap in college STEM attainment between immigrant and native students. keywords: stem cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66521j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66521j.txt item: #1036 of 4945 id: 6395w66522w author: Shannon M. Kephart title: Picturing Locales of Resistance: Photographic Representations of the French-Algerian War date: 2010 words: 197 flesch: 33 summary: Investigating this performative transformation of race, and further, looking at the space of the bidonvilles outside the cities of Algiers and Paris, and the protests of October 17, 1961 in Paris, will show how the colonized body crossed spatial boundaries within the cities of Algiers and Paris as well as its imposed racial boundaries. During the Algerian War of Independence, a challenge to the colonial system arose through breaking the racial segregation and spatial division within both the cities of Algiers and Paris. keywords: algiers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66522w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66522w.txt item: #1037 of 4945 id: 6395w665237 author: Ellen Childs title: Happiness and Religious Attendance date: 2009 words: 181 flesch: 35 summary: In this paper, I compare these explanations by examining two key mediating variablesÌ¢ âÂ' self-reported relationship with God and strength of social ties from the religious organizationÌ¢ âÂ' to explain the correlation between religious attendance and happiness, finding that both mediate the relationship between religious attendance and happiness. In the second part of this analysis, I question the degree to which the assumed causal direction of religious attendance to happiness is accurate. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w665237.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w665237.txt item: #1038 of 4945 id: 6395w66524k author: Jared Edward Miller title: The Effect of Multimodal Rhythms on the Allocation of Attention Across Sensory Modalities date: 2013 words: 299 flesch: 34 summary: Specifically, we were interested in situations in which concurrently presented auditory, visual rhythms correspond temporally, and situations in which concurrently presented auditory and visual rhythms conflict temporally. Response time was fastest when targets matched the entrainment rhythm, verifying that entrainment occurred, and did not differ across rhythm type or target modality (auditory vs. visual), indicating that audiovisual entrainment was no more effective than auditory-only or visual-only entrainment. keywords: visual cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66524k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66524k.txt item: #1039 of 4945 id: 6395w66525x author: Mignon Angelé Montpetit title: Negative Affect and Stress: A Dynamical Systems Analysis date: 2007 words: 303 flesch: 25 summary: Finally, within the stress-and-coping framework, resilience is understood as a process whereby resilience resources intervene in the relationship between the experience of stress and feelings of well-being. Therefore, the relationship between daily perceived stress and daily NA was examined. keywords: resilience cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66525x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66525x.txt item: #1040 of 4945 id: 6395w665268 author: Matthew Thomas Brennan title: Spatial Diversity Gains in Wireless Sensor Networks through Controlled Limited Mobility: An Experimental Approach date: 2007 words: 231 flesch: 59 summary: Small movements on the scale of a fraction of the carrier wavelength can prove to dramatically change the received signal strength (RSS) and thus, link quality. This ability could have huge ramifications on the network, and new routing paths are enabled; therefore, new metrics and trade-offs need to be considered. keywords: mobile cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w665268.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w665268.txt item: #1041 of 4945 id: 6395w66527m author: James Kang Hoon Lee title: The Mystery of the Church in the Theology of Saint Augustine date: 2012 words: 356 flesch: 41 summary: This study seeks to recover the richness of Augustine's ecclesiology by exploring the development of his thought on the Church as a great 'mystery' and 'sacrament' (magnum sacramentum). In her celebration of the Eucharistic sacrifice, the Church learns to offer herself as a sacrifice in conformation to Christ, and so the Church is herself a 'sacrament' (sacramentum), a sacred sign, of the invisible sacrifice of the 'whole Christ' (totus Christus) offered in the daily sacrifice of Christians. keywords: augustine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66527m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66527m.txt item: #1042 of 4945 id: 6395w66528z author: Timothy M McCoy title: Mesh-Expanding Homotopies and Numerical Irreducible Decomposition Over a Number Field date: 2014 words: 217 flesch: 27 summary: On the other hand, the number of interesting solutions is often far smaller than the total count, and much effort is wasted on complex solutions with no physical interpretation. However, the number of isolated complex solutions tends to grow exponentially with respect to the number $N$ of equations and variables, limiting the size of tractable systems. keywords: solutions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66528z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66528z.txt item: #1043 of 4945 id: 6395w665299 author: Rebecca Lynn Stangl title: A Principled Sensibility: Rules and the Life of Virtue date: 2007 words: 354 flesch: 36 summary: Turning to the constructive task of giving a virtue-theoretic account of moral rules, I propose a novel analysis of non-trivial absolute moral prohibitions which articulates their importance without reducing the virtuous agent's moral deliberations to a mechanical application of rules. What is more, there are positive reasons for rejecting the latter; neither a satisfactory account of the role of generalities in moral discourse nor of moral motivation can be given if it is true. keywords: moral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w665299.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w665299.txt item: #1044 of 4945 id: 6395w665326 author: Carol Elizabeth Akai title: Enhancing Parenting During Pregnancy: An Intervention Project for At-Risk Mothers date: 2005 words: 124 flesch: 28 summary: Following the intervention, treatment mothers were less rigid, less intrusive and more flexible than control mothers, indicating reduced tendencies to exert control over infants. Treatment mothers also had better understanding of infants' cognitive needs, indicated by higher quality verbalizations, more demonstrative teaching, and less role reversal. keywords: mothers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w665326.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w665326.txt item: #1045 of 4945 id: 6395w66534w author: Kamal M Karda title: Low Power Bistable-Body Tunnel SRAM date: 2009 words: 117 flesch: 63 summary: A two-transistor based negative-differential -resistance element is analyzed as an alternative to tunnel diode in bistable-body Tunnel SRAM. This cell, using one transistor and two tunnel diodes, is a high speed, low power static memory cell, offering over four orders of magnitude reduction in static power compared to 6T SRAM at the 32 nm technology node. keywords: sram cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66534w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66534w.txt item: #1046 of 4945 id: 6395w665357 author: Katherine E. Ward title: Cytosolic Phospholipase A2: A Mechanistic Study of Lipid Binding and Its Effects on Membrane Morphology date: 2014 words: 477 flesch: 36 summary: Our recent work delivered evidence supporting the formation of large protein oligomers through the C2 domain that are capable of sensing and inducing membrane bending through a novel mechanism for C2 lipid binding domains. We found that cPLA2α C2 domain penetration into the membrane is a critical component of the protein's ability to bend membranes in vitro. keywords: cpla2α cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w665357.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w665357.txt item: #1047 of 4945 id: 6395w66545j author: Sydney J Blevins title: Analysis of T Cell Receptor Structure and Dynamics and Their Role in Antigen Recognition date: 1904 words: 414 flesch: 44 summary: While structures of TCR-pMHC complexes have failed to identify any conserved interactions between TCR and MHC [1], the existence of coreceptor-independent TCR-pMHC interactions muddles their role in imparting MHC bias for proper signaling [2]. Evolutionarily conserved amino acids in TCR V regions and MHC control their interaction. keywords: tcr cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66545j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66545j.txt item: #1048 of 4945 id: 6395w66579v author: Nicholas M. Myers title: Lab on Paper: Adapting Quantitative Chemical Techniques for Use in Low Resource Areas date: 1904 words: 353 flesch: 50 summary: The goal of my project was to design chemical analyses to work within the financial and infrastructure constraints of LMICs, thereby increasing testing capacity. Regulatory agencies can remove bad products from the market but only after the quality is confirmed with expensive testing techniques. keywords: products cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66579v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66579v.txt item: #1049 of 4945 id: 6395w665s12 author: Samantha K. Atkins title: The Hemodynamic Theory of Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease date: 1904 words: 552 flesch: 30 summary: This study found that AV tissue responds in a time-dependent manner to BAV leaflet WSS, with acute inflammatory and remodeling expression and activity within 24 hours that begins to decrease after 48 hours, except in the case of pro-inflammatory cytokine BMP-4 and cellular adhesion molecule VCAM-1. Despite increasing evidence for this hemodynamic etiology, the demonstration of the involvement of mechanical abnormalities in the pathogenesis of BAV disease requires the investigation of causality between the blood flow environment imposed on the leaflets and the aortic wall and the local biology, which has been lacking to date. keywords: bav cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w665s12.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w665s12.txt item: #1050 of 4945 id: 6395w665s74 author: Dianna Tran title: Indirect Effects of Parental Physical Discipline on Child Literacy through Child Externalizing and Internalizing Problems: A Longitudinal Mediation date: 2018 words: 154 flesch: 17 summary: Therefore, we tested a developmental cascade model in which child externalizing and internalizing problems mediate the relationship between parental physical discipline and child literacy development. Overall, findings suggest that parents' physical discipline may have cascading detrimental impacts on child literacy development through problem behaviors. keywords: physical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w665s74.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w665s74.txt item: #1051 of 4945 id: 6395w665x5p author: Yang Yan title: Dissipativity Analysis and Resilient Design for Cyber Physical Systems date: 2019 words: 225 flesch: 5 summary: This dissertation focus on the following problems: (1) how to quantitatively estimate and analyze the passivity of a plant from its approximate system representation considering model discrepancies; (2) how to design a joint disturbance observer and robust controller facing exogenous uncertainties and adversarial attacks; (3) how to preserve the passive and stable performances of interconnected systems over communication networks; (4) how to analyze dissipativity under a digital control framework for two-dimensional systems. CPS incorporate heterogeneous systems in dynamic environment and provide distributed coordination intelligently. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w665x5p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w665x5p.txt item: #1052 of 4945 id: 6395w66641f author: Emily de Wet title: 'Oh I Love the Vibe': Alternative Township Geographies in Cape Town date: 2020 words: 209 flesch: 52 summary: Taking vibes as a guiding analytic, this manuscript argues that vibes are a complex web of social aesthetics, embodied ways of being in the world, and emerge as a kind of social legibility. This manuscript explores townships as social margins through a social formation, a way of being in the world, an aesthetic form, that residents use to describe this social value: what they refer to as vibes. keywords: townships cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66641f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66641f.txt item: #1053 of 4945 id: 6395w66648v author: Bry Martin title: Court Dusk, Country Dawn: The Ideological Formation of the First Earl of Shaftesbury date: 2020 words: 373 flesch: 27 summary: The study argues that Shaftesbury inherited a conservative vision of English politics with roots in the Plantagenet past, a worldview that pictured government as a combination of top-down kingly authority and legitimacy, the Court, meeting a public virtue nursed on the land and through local government, the Country. The result was an eclectic set of often radical principles that few other Englishmen of his time could have completely shared, yet principles forwarded at the service of a desire to restore the harmonious bonds of Court and Country lodged deep in the English past. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66648v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66648v.txt item: #1054 of 4945 id: 6395w66656g author: Michelle A. Berg title: The Role of Dense Circumgalactic Gas in Shaping Galaxies date: 2021 words: 343 flesch: 50 summary: This dissertation is composed of two projects that study the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies at z < 1, searching for connections between the gas in galaxy halos and their host galaxy properties. This galaxy-selected survey uses luminous red galaxies (LRGs, logM★ > 11 M⊙) at z ~ 0.5 to observationally test model predictions for cold-mode and hot-mode accretion into galaxy halos by determining the cool HI gas content in LRG halos and the metallicity of the absorbers we detect. keywords: galaxy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66656g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66656g.txt item: #1055 of 4945 id: 6395w66659h author: Yalin Liu title: Towards Explainable and Trustworthy Traceability date: 2021 words: 409 flesch: 34 summary: We adopted this method to address two open challenges of generating trace links in bilingual project environments and supporting domain-specific traceability. To approach our second goal, we adopted data mining and natural language processing techniques to build a fully automated pipeline to construct a knowledge base that could be used to generate trace link rationales. keywords: trace cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66659h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66659h.txt item: #1056 of 4945 id: 6395w66660q author: Daniel Schor title: The Scope and Control of Attention: A Computational Pupillary Modeling Approach date: 2021 words: 217 flesch: 43 summary: Working memory capacity (WMC) is thought to be made up of two, more primitive, underlying constructs; scope of attention (SA) and attention control (AC). Their novel approach revealed individual differences in both constructs and proposed independence between them. keywords: constructs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w66660q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w66660q.txt item: #1057 of 4945 id: 6395w666674 author: Samantha Slaubaugh title: Liturgy and Ecstasy among the Beguines of Roubaud: Douceline of Digne's Vida as Liturgical Commentary and Customary date: 2022 words: 317 flesch: 38 summary: The community's hagiography about their founder wove Douceline's raptures into the community's liturgical and sacramental life by interpreting her ecstatic body as performing liturgical commentary and as promoting liturgical ideals. Chapter five concludes the dissertation with its summary findings and the import and relevance of this work to the fields of liturgical studies and medieval and church history. keywords: liturgical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6395w666674.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6395w666674.txt item: #1058 of 4945 id: 6682x348992 author: Shaofei Zhu title: Exotic Rotation in Weakly Deformed and Triaxial Nuclei date: 2004 words: 208 flesch: 40 summary: Although there are no chiral partner bands observed in even-even nucleus Nd135 from our data, TAC calculations indeed give chiral solutions related to several Delta(I)=1 bands in the nucleus Nd136. Antimagnetic rotation in weakly deformed nuclei Pd100,101, and chiral rotation in triaxial nuclei Nd135,136 have been investigated by means of gamma-ray spectroscopic measurements. keywords: observed cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6682x348992.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6682x348992.txt item: #1059 of 4945 id: 6682x348b08 author: Andrew Orr title: Mental Maginot Line: Anti-Republicanism, Gender, and Voting Rights in the Politics of the French Army, 1871-1940 date: 2008 words: 347 flesch: 27 summary: Drawing on papers from the Archives Nationales and the Service Historique de l'ArmÌøåÀå_e de Terre, the dissertation argues that French military leaders responded to pressure to weaken their control over their soldiers' lives and transition to a militia-style army by redefining military identity in opposition to the Third Republic and civilian society. The process of separation began with bataille conduite (Methodical Battle) theorists' focus on exercising political control over conscripts and escalated in the mid-1920s to include plans to use civil employees, including women, clandestinely to maintain a larger army than authorized by law. keywords: military cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6682x348b08.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6682x348b08.txt item: #1060 of 4945 id: 6682x348b1m author: Crystal D Champion title: Effects of Participant Disclosure Tendencies and Physician Verbal Behavior on Participant Willingness to Disclose Facts: An Analogue Study date: 2008 words: 260 flesch: 32 summary: The design of the study is a 2 (patient gender) x 2 (physician gender) x 3 (physician statement: symptom focused question, feeling focused question, or self-disclosure) factorial using perceived privacy and importance of facts and self-disclosure tendency as covariates. Participants were asked to put themselves in the place of patients while listening to audio files of three staged doctor visits (no problem scenario, fatigue scenario, and diabetes scenario). keywords: disclosure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6682x348b1m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6682x348b1m.txt item: #1061 of 4945 id: 6682x348c1x author: Patrick Lee Schoettmer title: Threat, Faith, and Community: The Transformation of American Muslim Political Identity in 21st Century America date: 2014 words: 313 flesch: 24 summary: The transformation of the importance and meaning of Muslim identity among those outside the group has lead to both social and political realignments within the Muslim community. By focusing on this transformation and the predictors that explain it, this dissertation tests hypotheses that link the perception of external threat to the way people process political information and allow it to shape their political behavior and belief systems. keywords: dissertation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6682x348c1x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6682x348c1x.txt item: #1062 of 4945 id: 6682x348c28 author: Sunil Srinivasa title: Statistical Mechanics for Wireless Systems: Application of Exclusion Processes to the Modeling and Analysis of Multihop Networks date: 2011 words: 423 flesch: 31 summary: We then demonstrate via a simple toy example that the PMFA procedure is quite general in that it may be used to accurately evaluate the performance of multihop networks with arbitrary topologies. Finally, we identify that when reliable delivery of packets is not very critical, a viable solution towards balancing end-to-end delay and reliability in multihop networks is to have the nodes forcibly drop a small fraction of packets. keywords: end cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6682x348c28.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6682x348c28.txt item: #1063 of 4945 id: 6682x348f37 author: Weichuan Li title: Algebraic Collective Model and Its Application to Core Quasiparticle Coupling date: 1904 words: 204 flesch: 43 summary: The present work involves comparisons of two theoretical calculations to experiment in the Pd, Ru, and Rh isotopic chains, with mass numbers around 100. The soft core is described by the collective model with rotation-vibrational motion, while the rigid core is described by the triaxial rotor model, which is a limiting case of the collective model with only rotational motion. keywords: core cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6682x348f37.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6682x348f37.txt item: #1064 of 4945 id: 6682x34915g author: Luis Ernesto Saumell title: Perverse Sheaves and Hyperplane Arrangements date: 1904 words: 147 flesch: 49 summary: By the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, there is an equivalence of categories between perverse sheaves and regular holonomic D-modules. In this thesis we look at a class of perverse sheaves arising from local systems on a complement of a hyperplane arrangement and give a concrete (combinatorial) formula to identify the simple ones; that is, those of length one. keywords: perverse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6682x34915g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6682x34915g.txt item: #1065 of 4945 id: 6682x34922r author: Erik Fuhrer title: Not Human Enough for the Official Census date: 1904 words: 14 flesch: 53 summary: A book of poetry focusing on the intersection between the human and the nonhuman. keywords: nonhuman cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6682x34922r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6682x34922r.txt item: #1066 of 4945 id: 6682x34946r author: Michael S. McConnell title: Adiabatic Reversible Computing: Measurement of Heat Dissipation Using Nanothermocouples and Fabrication of MEMS Power Clocks date: 2019 words: 347 flesch: 33 summary: Much research has been devoted to steep devices to circumvent the passive power term and enable a lower VDD, but an alternative approach is quasi-adiabatic reversible computing, which uses adiabatic transitions and reversible logic designs to minimize the amount of heat dissipated, and break the direct link between the bit energy and dissipation. This work describes quantitative measurement of the heat dissipation in an adiabatic reversible shift register and investigation of piezoelectric microelectromechanical (MEMS) resonators as possible clock sources for reversible logic. keywords: reversible cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6682x34946r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6682x34946r.txt item: #1067 of 4945 id: 6682x349c6x author: Ricardo Romero-Moreno title: Role of the CXCL5/CXCR2 Axis in Breast Cancer Metastasis to Bone and Initiation of Colonization date: 2019 words: 323 flesch: 50 summary: I discovered that bone co-cultures of cancer cells with cancer-primed bone induce cancer colonization and secrete higher levels of CXCL5 into the culture media when compared to co-cultures using healthy bones. A major challenge in the study of breast cancer metastasis to bone is the lack of experimental models that target the last steps of the metastatic cascade in the context of the bone microenvironment. keywords: cancer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6682x349c6x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6682x349c6x.txt item: #1068 of 4945 id: 6682x349g5h author: Mortaza Saeidi-Javash title: Microscale Additive Manufacturing of Functional Devices for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting and Sensing date: 2022 words: 465 flesch: 24 summary: Successful implementation of this methodology led to ultrahigh power factor and flexible TE films with a sintering time less than one second, whereas conventional thermal sintering requires hours of processing time at elevated temperatures which hinders the widespread development of flexible TEGs. We demonstrated aerosol jet printed high-performance TEGs using n-type bismuth telluride (Bi2Te2.7Se0.3) TE nanoplates for energy harvesting and flexible sensors using graphene and Ti3C2Tx keywords: sintering cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6682x349g5h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6682x349g5h.txt item: #1069 of 4945 id: 6682x349h65 author: Samuel Piccolo title: From Athens to Turtle Island: Indigenous Thought and Neo-Aristotelianism date: 2023 words: 252 flesch: 35 summary: Given that Indigenous accounts of sovereignty are also connected to Indigenous natural law, I argue that these debates on sovereignty reaffirms my overall argument that Indigenous philosophy finds more resonances with Western political philosophy rooted in the Aristotelian tradition. What is Indigenous philosophy and how does it relate to the Western tradition? keywords: indigenous cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6682x349h65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6682x349h65.txt item: #1070 of 4945 id: 6969z031m34 author: Nolan James Corry Locke Noble title: Long-Run Consequences of Short-Term Health Shocks date: 2015 words: 82 flesch: 46 summary: The first chapter examines how malaria in children in Indonesia impacts household well-being and subsequent compensatory behavior. The third chapter examines how parents respond to the risk and cost of influenza that their young children face in terms of their influenza vaccination decisions for those children. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031m34.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031m34.txt item: #1071 of 4945 id: 6969z031m4g author: Peter David Hoffman title: Segregation and Self-Assembly of Binary Colloidal Systems under Dielectrophoresis date: 2010 words: 109 flesch: 38 summary: We extend this idea into binary systems by using microelectrodes to control the segregation and assembly of different sized particles. Although dielectrophoretic separation of binary suspensions has been reported in the past, the bulk structure of the binary system under DEP has not been studied. keywords: binary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031m4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031m4g.txt item: #1072 of 4945 id: 6969z031m5t author: Patricia Marcela Rodriguez title: The Participatory Effectiveness of Land-Related Movements in Brazil, Ecuador, and Chile: 1990-2004 date: 2010 words: 257 flesch: 21 summary: Utilizing data derived from newspaper reports of protest events and interviews with movement leaders, government officials, and politicians this research explores the following argument: the policy influence of social movements is a consequence of movements' ability to sustain mobilization in face of the negotiations it engages in with political actors. The realization of the need to engage in a double-pronged approach (mobilization and politics) reflects a substantial distancing from the historical tendency for grassroots movements to adopt an either reform or revolution approach. keywords: mobilization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031m5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031m5t.txt item: #1073 of 4945 id: 6969z031m65 author: Kotchaphan Kanjana title: Chemical Kinetics in Reactor Cooling Loops: Metal Ion Hexahydrate Reactions and Suppression of Radiolysis by Hydrogen date: 2013 words: 468 flesch: 38 summary: The Critical Hydrogen Concentration (CHC) for suppression of water radiolysis has been studied at temperatures up to the supercritical regime in Hastelloy and sapphire tubing. The experimental results obtained from the sapphire system have been used to estimate some rate constants needed for water radiolysis modeling. keywords: reactions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031m65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031m65.txt item: #1074 of 4945 id: 6969z031m7h author: Elizabeth Strandberg title: AGB Star Nucleosynthesis of the Magnesium Isotopes date: 2008 words: 146 flesch: 39 summary: Resonance parameters were determined and reaction rates were calculated. The last reaction in this series, 24Mg(alpha,gamma)28Si, has not been examined with sufficient sensitivity at alpha energies below 1.5 MeV. Several 28Si states appear favorable for formation by this reaction in the alpha energy range of 1.0 - 1.5 MeV, motivating a new study of this reaction at the University of Notre Dame. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031m7h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031m7h.txt item: #1075 of 4945 id: 6969z031m8v author: Buket Korkut title: The Narrative Nature of Ethical Discourse date: 2011 words: 369 flesch: 33 summary: It pursues a comparative analysis with respect to modern moral theories, theories of practical reasoning, and action theories so as to explain how a unified approach can resolve the chronic problems in each area. So we inevitably turn to a form of description that shares the formal structure of action relations and reveals the evaluative qualities of particular actions. keywords: discourse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031m8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031m8v.txt item: #1076 of 4945 id: 6969z031m96 author: Jessica Mikels-Carrasco title: Closer to the ground: Environmental sociology of children date: 2014 words: 321 flesch: 38 summary: These findings point to the need to recognize the legitimacy of child-centered ways of knowing as pathways to engage youth and underscore the need for greater consideration and intentionality in the development of a nuanced pedagogy of humanature interaction in environmental education. The negative impacts of human behavior on the natural environment are increasingly apparent, and while environmental education offers the hope that teaching and engaging young people will lead them on alternative paths in their interactions with the natural world that worthy goal has not come to fruition. keywords: environmental cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031m96.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031m96.txt item: #1077 of 4945 id: 6969z031n0d author: Andrew Peter Arana title: Arithmetical investigations: a study of models of arithmetic and purity of methods date: 2003 words: 279 flesch: 48 summary: In Chapter 2, we investigate the complexity of m-diagrams of models of various completions of PA. In the mathematical part, we focus on computability-theoretic issues concerning models of first-order Peano arithmetic (PA). keywords: purity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031n0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031n0d.txt item: #1078 of 4945 id: 6969z031n1r author: Xiang Li title: Electrical properties and device applications of InAlP native oxide/GaAs MOS structures date: 2007 words: 367 flesch: 33 summary: Field-effect transistors using InAlP native oxide/GaAs structures have also been explored, resulting in the first demonstration of GaAs MOSFETs using InAlP oxide as the gate dielectric. The measured DC characteristics of fabricated InAlP oxide/GaAs MOSFETs fall below the theoretical predictions in terms of drain current and transconductance, while the measured RF results show that the devices have lower cut-off frequencies than expected from simple theoretical models. keywords: oxide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031n1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031n1r.txt item: #1079 of 4945 id: 6969z031n4s author: Sanchita Bhatnagar title: Modulation of Macrophage Biology and Host Immune Response by Mycobacterial Lipids date: 2006 words: 357 flesch: 28 summary: Further, we determined that exosomes purified from the culture supernatants of macrophages infected with M. avium, M. tuberculosis H37Rv or M. bovis BCG stimulate a pro-inflammatory response in uninfected macrophages. To further understand the mechanism of action of GPL, we investigated the trafficking of GPL in primary macrophages infected with M. avium. keywords: gpl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031n4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031n4s.txt item: #1080 of 4945 id: 6969z031n54 author: Andrew N. Downing, S.J. title: The Problem and Promise of History in the Theology of J. S. Drey date: 2013 words: 340 flesch: 24 summary: Drey's theology offers a distinctive response to these questions, at once acknowledging the problem history poses to religious belief in the modern age and maintaining the essential significance of historical revelation for Christian faith. He further advances a theory of living tradition, born through history by the Christian community, to explain how divine revelation is mediated through time to contemporary believers and thereby secures an historical basis for Christian faith. keywords: history cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031n54.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031n54.txt item: #1081 of 4945 id: 6969z031n6g author: Joseph Arthur Hagmann title: Magnetotransport Investigation of Bismuth Chalcogenide Topological Insulators date: 2014 words: 297 flesch: 22 summary: Additional structural and magnetic measurements including x-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy, x-ray absorption fine structure measurements, and superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry give further insight into the systems under study that allow for a complete description of electron transport through these materials. V2VI3 materials Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 with tetradymite rhombohedral layered structures consisting of repeating layers of Se(Te)-Bi-Se(Te)-Bi-Se(Te) are in a class of electronic materials called topological insulators (TIs) exhibiting a bulk band gap and band-crossing surface states supported by the non-trivial band topology of the TI. keywords: materials cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031n6g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031n6g.txt item: #1082 of 4945 id: 6969z031n7t author: Sara Bramsen title: Responding to Responsibility in the Fiction of the French Revolution (1789-1814) date: 2015 words: 169 flesch: 29 summary: My project examines three works from this traditionally understudied corpus of early revolutionary fiction to determine the early missing links in the conceptualization of responsibility and its migration from the political to the personal. By examining the theme of revolutionary madness and restoration, fictional representations and repercussions of the trial of Louis XVI, and the relationship of women to a modern ethic of responsibility, my dissertation offers a clearer insight into the way responsibility was envisioned by writers during the French revolutionary period in a way that continues to influence our thinking today. keywords: responsibility cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031n7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031n7t.txt item: #1083 of 4945 id: 6969z031n85 author: Jennifer Mary Fox title: Reading Slavery and Agency in the Ancient Novel: Contexts and Receptions date: 2014 words: 214 flesch: 36 summary: The effects of the legacy of African American slavery, the long literary history of the Captivity genre, psychoanalysis, and post-modern literary theories are examined as powerful influences on current academic reception of the novels. This project examines the reading of enslaved characters in Greek and Latin Roman era novels. keywords: slavery cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031n85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031n85.txt item: #1084 of 4945 id: 6969z031p2d author: Surya Prakash Tiwari title: Thermodynamics and Speciation of Actinide Materials in the Condensed Phase using Atomistic Simulations date: 2015 words: 667 flesch: 46 summary: An associative interchange exchange mechanism was observed for +2 charged actinyl ions, whereas a dissociative mechanism was observed for +1 charged actinyl ions. Di-oxo actinide cations (AnO$^{n+}2$, $n$=1, 2) or better known as actinyl ions are commonly found and important species in solutions and in nuclear fuel cycle. keywords: actinyl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031p2d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031p2d.txt item: #1085 of 4945 id: 6969z031p6s author: Shiran Zhang title: Catalysis on Cobalt Oxide-Based Nanocatalysts date: 1904 words: 553 flesch: 33 summary: Transition metal oxide is one of the key components of heterogeneous catalyst and is frequently used as catalyst support for noble metal nanoparticle catalysts due to low cost. For noble metal nanoparticle catalysts, only atoms exposed on surface participate in catalytic processes, while atoms in bulk do not. keywords: metal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z031p6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z031p6s.txt item: #1086 of 4945 id: 6969z032p31 author: A. Davis Richardson title: A Genova ci vanno tutti: Reimagining Representations of Homosexuality in Italy, 1942-53 date: 2020 words: 293 flesch: 28 summary: Despite official antipathy towards homosexual men under Fascism, homosexual characters in Italian cultural production began to emerge as early as 1942 with Alberto Moravia's novella Agostino and the production of Luchino Visconti's film Ossessione. It is now a commonplace that in films and literary texts of the early postwar years, representations of homosexuality fell almost exclusively into a tripartite paradigm of fascists-criminals-pedophiles—in line with cronaca of the time—with homosexual characters occupying one or more of those categories and often blurring the lines between them. keywords: homosexual cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z032p31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z032p31.txt item: #1087 of 4945 id: 6969z032q4p author: Bryan (Ning) Xia title: Learning Attentive Deep Representations for Object Re-Identification and Beyond date: 2021 words: 347 flesch: 24 summary: However, the designed attention mechanisms are designed from the root of solving object re-identification problems, they are also deep learning mechanisms with the capability of solving other problems. The attention mechanisms are versatile for solving a multi-label text classification problem, which takes advantage of the attention mechanism's capability of modeling pair-wise relationships to model the text representations and label representations. keywords: identification cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z032q4p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z032q4p.txt item: #1088 of 4945 id: 6969z032s5n author: Bradley Keegan title: Small Molecule Modulation of the Hsp90 Proteostasis Network for Neuropathic Protection date: 2022 words: 201 flesch: 19 summary: Within this context, my thesis work has focused on the design, synthesis, and evaluation of small molecule disruptors of Aha1/Hsp90 interactions for the reduction of tau aggregation; the development of a novel in vitrosplit Renilla luciferaseassay for assessment of Aha1/Hsp90 disruptors; and the biological evaluation of small molecule inhibitors of tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated protein 1 (TRAP1), the mitochondrial Hsp90 paralog. The work and methodologies described herein have provided a foundation for the evaluation of small molecule modulators of these specific Hsp90 networks, with the goal of identifying compounds that exhibit increased efficacy and potency toward their biological targets. keywords: hsp90 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z032s5n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z032s5n.txt item: #1089 of 4945 id: 6969z032s60 author: Bridgette J. Befort title: An Integrated Molecular and Process Design and Optimization Framework for Ionic Liquid Enabled Separation of Azeotropic Hydrofluorocarbon Refrigerants date: 2023 words: 346 flesch: 14 summary: This data-to-design framework is an example of highly collaborative, integrated research that bridges the perspectives and tools of the experimental, molecular science and engineering, and process systems engineering communities to develop novel solutions to an ongoing chemical engineering challenge. First, we demonstrate two workflows which harness machine learning and Bayesian optimization techniques to fit cheap-to-evaluate surrogate models as replacements for computationally expensive molecular simulations, enabling rapid calibration of molecular models for HFCs. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6969z032s60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6969z032s60.txt item: #1090 of 4945 id: 6d56zw14w1b author: Jiading Gai title: Robust Target Tracking: Theory, Applications and Implementations date: 2010 words: 492 flesch: 33 summary: Difficulties in real world robust target tracking can arise due to low resolution, abrupt object motion, loss of information caused by projection of the 3D world on a 2D image, changing appearance patterns of both the object and the scene, non-rigid object structures, occlusions, noise in the image and camera motion. Next, a novel synergistic approach for the robust contour tracking of a moving target undergoing non-rigid motion is introduced. keywords: tracking cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw14w1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw14w1b.txt item: #1091 of 4945 id: 6d56zw14w2p author: Benjamin Louis Fischer title: 'Opium Pushing and Bible Smuggling': Religion and the Cultural Politics of British Imperialist Ambition in China date: 2008 words: 358 flesch: 29 summary: The dissertation argues that the mission in China represents a shift in British thinking about mission and empire, which reflects the achievement of Evangelical hegemony in British culture. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, British missionaries disrupted the century-old tea-trade triangle by their insistence on penetrating the closed Chinese empire. keywords: mission cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw14w2p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw14w2p.txt item: #1092 of 4945 id: 6d56zw14w31 author: Timothy Finley Chilcote title: Lake Effect date: 2010 words: 15 flesch: 84 summary: A collection of short stories, all set in Michigan, often set on the Great Lakes. keywords: lakes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw14w31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw14w31.txt item: #1093 of 4945 id: 6d56zw14x3b author: Ying Cao title: Investigation of InAlP Native Oxides for GaAs Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Device Applications date: 2006 words: 154 flesch: 34 summary: GaAs-based metaloxide- semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) devices with InAlP wet oxides as the gate insulator have been fabricated and characterized on two heterostructures. The kinetics of wet thermal oxidation of InAlP epitaxial layers lattice-matched to GaAs and the electrical properties of the resulting InAlP wet thermal oxides when scaled to reduced thicknesses have been investigated. keywords: inalp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw14x3b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw14x3b.txt item: #1094 of 4945 id: 6d56zw14x4p author: Shanna Corner title: Religion and Gender Ideology: Uncovering the Relationship between American Religious Schools and the Gender Ideologies of American Young Adults date: 2012 words: 157 flesch: 35 summary: In contrast, Protestant school education and homeschool education maintain positive associations with support for these aspects of traditional gender role belief, though they differ in their levels of association. This project uses data from two nationally representative studies to examine whether or not past high school education in Protestant schools, Catholic schools, and homeschools is associated with differing levels of support for two measures of traditional gender role belief among American young adults when compared to past education in public schools. keywords: gender cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw14x4p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw14x4p.txt item: #1095 of 4945 id: 6d56zw15k7w author: Ryan Hammond title: Living Without Desire date: 1904 words: 151 flesch: 41 summary: In this dissertation, I attempt to return a more appropriate level of complexity to discussion surrounding desire, and I ultimately suggest that philosophers might do better to construct their theories in ways that lean less on the claim that they are working from the true account of desire. This push for simplicity and manageability results in a sort of ersatz clarity, where we have a seemingly straightforward account of desire, but such an account does not actually do justice to the complexity of the concept, and more significantly, leads to a flattened and sterile view of ethics and human living. keywords: desire cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw15k7w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw15k7w.txt item: #1096 of 4945 id: 6d56zw15m45 author: Juan Guillermo Albarracin Dierolf title: Criminalized Electoral Politics: The Socio-Political Foundations of Electoral Coercion in Democratic Brazil date: 1904 words: 490 flesch: 31 summary: My dissertation, while focused on contemporary Brazilian urban spaces, provides a more general framework to understand the linkage between criminal violence and electoral politics. In a second step, I employ an original dataset of criminal political violence in over 5,560 Brazilian municipalities (2000-2016) and find that high electoral volatility is associated with the occurrence and intensity of criminal political violence. keywords: criminal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw15m45.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw15m45.txt item: #1097 of 4945 id: 6d56zw15m8j author: Haiyan Liu title: Social Network Analysis in an Extended Structural Equation Modeling Framework date: 1904 words: 269 flesch: 48 summary: A primary focus of social network analysis (SNA) is to understand actor attributes from social structures in a network. As a generalization of the first model, the second model focuses on social networks with ordinal relations among actors. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw15m8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw15m8j.txt item: #1098 of 4945 id: 6d56zw15r4d author: Elizabeth Grace Jackson title: Belief and Credence: A Defense of Dualism date: 2019 words: 264 flesch: 56 summary: On a credence-first view, credences are more fundamental and beliefs are a species of credence, e.g. credence above some threshold. This raises the question: how do belief and credence relate to each other? keywords: credence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw15r4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw15r4d.txt item: #1099 of 4945 id: 6d56zw15x8b author: Brian R. Barrett title: The Clothing of Divinity: The Unity of Letter and Spirit in Origen's Exegesis date: 2019 words: 302 flesch: 41 summary: Chapter 1 establishes that the letter both reveals and constitutes the fullness of Scripture's meaning; the union of letter and spirit is perceived as the text's self-effacement. This dissertation is a study of the unity of Scripture's senses in Origen's exegesis. keywords: scripture cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw15x8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw15x8b.txt item: #1100 of 4945 id: 6d56zw15z48 author: Katherine Eva Neece title: Imagining Haunting: 'Elsewheres and Elsewhens' date: 2021 words: 539 flesch: 44 summary: These factors are rapidly altering the way we consume information, address political and social issues, navigate social spaces and shop. Physical space attempts to keep up with digital space. keywords: space cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw15z48.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw15z48.txt item: #1101 of 4945 id: 6d56zw15z5m author: Connor D. O'Rear title: Counting Book Features That Encourage Both Counting the Set and Labeling the Set Size during Shared Book Reading date: 2020 words: 368 flesch: 46 summary: The current dissertation considered both children's and parent's input together across a variety of counting books, offering an in-depth analysis of children's experience during counting book reading. By identifying relevant features within books that lead to different types of numerical input it offers insight for parents and educators choosing counting books, and it provides the foundation for future research aimed at designing effective counting books. keywords: input cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw15z5m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw15z5m.txt item: #1102 of 4945 id: 6d56zw16176 author: Ana Petrova title: The Party as a Promise: Political Parties' Organizational Strength in Latin America date: 2022 words: 292 flesch: 37 summary: I show how these dynamics work by focusing on the development and subsequent maintenance of two strong partisan organizations in Chile – the Party of Christian Democracy and the Chilean Socialist Party. Political parties in new democracies are frequently regarded as prone to (extreme) organizational weakness and vulnerable to swift death. keywords: parties cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw16176.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw16176.txt item: #1103 of 4945 id: 6d56zw16203 author: Dominic M. Verner, O.P. title: Saving Honor: A Thomistic Ethics of Honor date: 2022 words: 325 flesch: 4 summary: The central claim advanced over five chapters is that a Thomistic understanding of honor, excellence, and justice supports an ethics of honor in which true honor given in accord with a true objective standard is ordered to personal and communal flourishing, sustains just social order, and is due in various degrees to all people. A true objective standard of excellence is distinguished from false standards both by a consideration of Thomas's metaphysics of goodness, which provides principles to adjudicate the excellence of creatures and their actions as participating in divine goodness both as good in themselves and as possessing the dignity of moving others to goodness, and by a consideration of Thomas's doctrine of love, which show that true honorable goodness is ordered to friendship as enabling the conjunction of cooperation by which friends are united and give joy to each other. keywords: honor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6d56zw16203.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6d56zw16203.txt item: #1104 of 4945 id: 6h440r9855d author: James Richard Kramer title: AgeS: An Agent System Analysis, Comparison, and Applications date: 2004 words: 97 flesch: 54 summary: As its popularity has grown, there has been a corresponding growth of agent systems that support the design, development, and operation of applications that incorporate agents. The AgeS system is then described, highlighting the functionality it provides that is not found in other systems. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9855d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9855d.txt item: #1105 of 4945 id: 6h440r9856r author: Joseph M Gonzales title: Genetic Analysis of Gene Expression and the Underlying Polymorphisms in Plasmodium Falciparum date: 2010 words: 667 flesch: 38 summary: To further examine whether different parasite strains exhibit variation in gene expression, Chapter 3 describes the mapping of gene expression levels in the progeny of the HB3ÌÄ' Dd2 genetic cross as eQTL. Contrary to previous results suggesting little to no variation in gene expression levels between parasite strains, we observe significant expression level differences between HB3 and Dd2 and their progeny lines. keywords: parasite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9856r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9856r.txt item: #1106 of 4945 id: 6h440r98573 author: Jessica Martinez title: Destinations date: 2010 words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: a poetry manuscript keywords: manuscript cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r98573.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r98573.txt item: #1107 of 4945 id: 6h440r9858f author: Jason Anthony Rastovski title: Essays on the Causes and Consequences of Financial Globalization date: 2013 words: 509 flesch: 38 summary: The findings in this chapter inform the theoretical literature on sovereign debt defaults in that future work should consider the effect of domestic credit markets on sovereign debt default probabilities and the time it takes to resolve such a default. Access to domestic credit markets reduces this cost of external debt defaults. keywords: financial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9858f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9858f.txt item: #1108 of 4945 id: 6h440r9859s author: Smarajit Triambak title: The Isobaric Multiplet Mass Equation And Ft Value Of The 0+ ---> 0+ Fermi Transition In 32Ar: Two Tests Of Isospin Symmetry Breaking date: 2008 words: 13 flesch: 24 summary: This dissertation describes two high-precision measurements concerning isospin symmetry breaking in nuclei. keywords: nuclei cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9859s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9859s.txt item: #1109 of 4945 id: 6h440r98600 author: Hoang Bui title: A Rich Metadata Filesystem for Scientific Data date: 2012 words: 197 flesch: 51 summary: ROARS is a hybrid approach to distributed storage that provides both large, robust, and scalable storage and efficient rich metadata queries for scientific applications. Such data repositories must provide both data archival services and rich metadata, and cleanly integrate with large scale computing resources. keywords: roars cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r98600.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r98600.txt item: #1110 of 4945 id: 6h440r9861b author: Igor Frota de Vasconcelos title: X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Modeling Studies of Ion Adsorption to Kaolinite Clay Surfaces date: 2006 words: 339 flesch: 43 summary: Finally, analysis of samples with cadmium aqueous concentration of 3 uM, 10 uM, and 100 uM at pH 9 suggests the formation of inner sphere complexes adsorbed to both silanol and aluminol edge sites in different ratios. A small amount of sodium adsorbs on the siloxane surface as inner sphere complexes at diffuse sites. keywords: sphere cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9861b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9861b.txt item: #1111 of 4945 id: 6h440r9862p author: Jiying Liu title: Friction and Heat Transfer Models for Finite Element Simulation of Metal Forming date: 2005 words: 221 flesch: 43 summary: The lubricant film thickness is analyzed through the Reynolds equation; heat transfer coefficients are obtained from a new model specifically derived for metal forming geometries and surfaces are allowed to roughen according to semi-empirical rules. The current representations of constant friction and heat transfer coefficients is a serious shortcoming of modern finite element codes and leads directly to their limited capability to serve as a predictive design tool. keywords: transfer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9862p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9862p.txt item: #1112 of 4945 id: 6h440r98631 author: Alexei A Kudriavtsev title: Estimation of Performance and Power of SIMD Processors date: 2007 words: 229 flesch: 40 summary: This approach is applicable to general purpose processors, but specifically targets SIMD processors. A retargetable SIMDization phase was developed, which is capable of generating SIMD instructions, including data reordering instructions, or permutations. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r98631.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r98631.txt item: #1113 of 4945 id: 6h440r98662 author: Shane Michael Fimbel title: Retinal Regeneration in the Adult Zebrafish Following Intraocular Ouabain Injection date: 2007 words: 498 flesch: 32 summary: To identify gene expression changes during the ouabain-induced regeneration response, a microarray analysis was performed at four time points during the ouabain-induced damage time course, which included a time point during INL cell death (24 hrs), a time point during maximal proliferation of MÌ_ller glia (55 hrs), a time point during progenitor cell migration (96 hrs), and a 140 hr time point, which corresponds to the initial stages of ganglion cell differentiation. This demonstrates that inner retinal damage, without extensive photoreceptor damage, is sufficient to induce a regeneration response that is marked by the MÌ_ller glial cells re-entering the cell cycle to produce neuronal progenitor cells that regenerate INL and ganglion cells in the zebrafish retina. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r98662.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r98662.txt item: #1114 of 4945 id: 6h440r9867d author: Dulcinea Boesenberg title: Moses in Luke-Acts date: 2013 words: 356 flesch: 59 summary: Those Jews who do not obey Moses in this manner are cut out of Israel, and Luke revises Moses' life so that Israelite rejection of Moses is built into the narrative and serves as a pattern for Jewish rejection of Jesus and his followers. It argues that in his two volumes, Luke not only uses the figure of Moses to demonstrate that Jesus and his followers stand in continuity with Israel and the Scriptures, but he also shapes Moses into a source of division and means of drawing new boundaries around Israel. keywords: moses cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9867d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9867d.txt item: #1115 of 4945 id: 6h440r9868r author: Elizabeth C Strauss title: 'Cast me not off in my time of old age...': The Aged and Aging in the Łódź Ghetto, 1939-1944 date: 2014 words: 312 flesch: 55 summary: The collection of individuals that remained alive in the Łódź ghetto in the wake of this mass murder experienced the phenomenon of rapid collective aging. During the week of 5 September 16,500 Jews were torn from community institutions and family dwellings, contained in collections points, and loaded on trains bound for the death camp at Chełmno. keywords: ghetto cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9868r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9868r.txt item: #1116 of 4945 id: 6h440r98709 author: Joshua Edward Bennett title: Acid Gas and Nitrogen Solubility in Ionic Liquids for Carbon Capture Applications date: 2014 words: 300 flesch: 29 summary: Finally, H2S was measured to determine how IL structure effects the solubility of this hazardous pollutant often found in chemical processes. Currently, the common methods of CO2 capture involve the use of volatile, corrosive solvents and require substantial energy to be diverted for the process. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r98709.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r98709.txt item: #1117 of 4945 id: 6h440r9874p author: J. Pocahontas Olson title: A Density Functional Equation of State for Use in Astrophysical Phenomena date: 1904 words: 348 flesch: 45 summary: These low density definitions have further been updated to include an improved treatment of the nuclear statistical equilibrium and the transition to heavy nuclei as the density approaches nuclear matter density. The inclusion of thermal effects of matter enable nuclear Skyrme models, which have been highly tested and constrained at laboratory energy scales, to expand their domain to predictions of astronomical phenomena. keywords: matter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9874p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9874p.txt item: #1118 of 4945 id: 6h440r9883n author: Stephanie Lyons title: 20Ne(p,g)21Na Cross Section Study with the Notre Dame 5U Accelerator date: 1904 words: 152 flesch: 59 summary: GK, hydrogen burning can proceed via the NeNa cycle, which is important for the nucleosynthesis of Ne, Na, and Mg isotopes. The stellar reaction rate for 20Ne(p,g)21Na is dominated by direct capture and the high energy tail of a sub-threshold resonance. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9883n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9883n.txt item: #1119 of 4945 id: 6h440r9919t author: Whitney Liske title: On the Coordinate Ring of a Projection of a Degree Two Veronese Variety date: 2019 words: 278 flesch: 56 summary: We include both descriptions of the defining ideal in this manuscript because while the methods in Chapter 4 give explicit polynomial generators of the defining ideal, the methods in Chapter 5 are more likely to generalize to the larger class of m-primary Gorenstein ideals having a Gorenstein linear resolution. The goal of this thesis is to study Rees algebra R(I) and the special fiber ring F(I) for a family of ideals. keywords: ideal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9919t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9919t.txt item: #1120 of 4945 id: 6h440r9930b author: Dylan M. LeBlanc title: Empire's Callous Hands: British 'Government Men' in the Atlantic Slave Trade date: 2019 words: 325 flesch: 42 summary: Empire's Callous Hands traces the involvement of British government officials in the Atlantic slave trade and analyzes the consequences of that involvement for both human trafficking and the imperial state. On both sides of the Atlantic, intimate involvements in slaving offered a path for government men to assert their authority and build their own wealth. keywords: trade cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9930b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9930b.txt item: #1121 of 4945 id: 6h440r9982k author: Mengyu Xu title: Syntheses, Structures, and Solution Behavior of Organic-Functionalized Uranyl Peroxide Nanoclusters date: 2020 words: 270 flesch: 41 summary: Given that functionalized-clusters can be converted into other cluster species in water, uranyl peroxide clusters have been used as precursors to obtain other cluster species through their transformations in water. Uranyl peroxide clusters are mostly cage clusters that consist of U(VI) in the form of the uranyl ion bridged through peroxo or hydroxyl groups. keywords: cluster cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9982k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9982k.txt item: #1122 of 4945 id: 6h440r9985m author: Yao Wang title: Monitoring the Behavior of Bridges Using Digital Image Correlation date: 2021 words: 357 flesch: 30 summary: DIC can provide unparalleled data on bridge behavior, strength, and overall condition. DIC is also validated for bridge monitoring by comparing DIC and strain gauge measurements directly for field monitoring, which has never been done in published literature. keywords: dic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9985m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9985m.txt item: #1123 of 4945 id: 6h440r9986z author: Hyungwon John Park title: Sea Spray Aerosol Particle Transport in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer date: 2021 words: 94 flesch: 43 summary: The conclusions given by this dissertation can be used to better model, predict, and study sea spray aerosol particle transport. Sea spray aerosol particles in the atmosphere contribute to the fundamental processes of mass, momentum, and heat transfer. keywords: aerosol cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9986z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9986z.txt item: #1124 of 4945 id: 6h440r99937 author: Rachel Krohn title: Dynamics of the Early Life of Online Content date: 2021 words: 322 flesch: 29 summary: Reddit communities also interact via direct subreddit links, inducing changes to community activity levels and spurring the creation of new communities. Taken together, the work presented here underscores the complexity and nuance of user behavior and interaction within online social media communities, along with the challenges associated with predicting and understanding early content dynamics. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r99937.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r99937.txt item: #1125 of 4945 id: 6h440r9998z author: Sarajane Roenke title: Modeling the Effect of Hydroxylamine Addition on Nitrifying Biofilm Communities date: 2022 words: 210 flesch: 41 summary: For counter-diffusional biofilms, NH2OH supplied from the bulk was unable to induce nitritation, but when supplied from the base it was able to induce nitritation and fully eliminate NOB, even at low NH2OH concentrations. However, the retention of a small amount of NOB even at high NH2OH concentrations suggests that nitritation could be more easily compromised. keywords: nitritation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6h440r9998z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6h440r9998z.txt item: #1126 of 4945 id: 6m311n81f38 author: Rebeccah Lynn Schweers title: Whose Fault is it Anyway? The Role of Responsibility Attributions in the Association Between Wives' Marital Discord and Depression date: 2009 words: 141 flesch: 25 summary: We conclude that moderate levels of both self and partner responsibility attributions about the causes of negative marital events may be most adaptive in preventing marital discord and depression among married couples. Previous research has demonstrated that negative attributions are associated with both marital discord and depression, but few studies have explored the role of attributions in the strong relation between marital discord and depression. keywords: depression cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6m311n81f38.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6m311n81f38.txt item: #1127 of 4945 id: 6m311n81f4m author: Alicia D Guarracino title: Pink Batteries date: 2010 words: 19 flesch: 63 summary: Described by others as zany, tasty, and wild, Pink Batteries is a collection of poems that obliterates the envelope. keywords: envelope cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6m311n81f4m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6m311n81f4m.txt item: #1128 of 4945 id: 6m311n81f5z author: Jill Budny McCormick title: The Education of the Irrational in Plato's Laws date: 2010 words: 349 flesch: 35 summary: However, unlike Socrates who refrains from direct involvement in politics because he prefers private education, the Athenian continues to aspire to improve the city, despite his awareness that perfect, lasting resolution between the rational and irrational is not possible in political life. Through the argument and action of the Laws, Plato teaches his readers that political life will never reach a state of rational perfection, but progress is possible through incremental reforms introduced through gentle persuasion. keywords: athenian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6m311n81f5z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6m311n81f5z.txt item: #1129 of 4945 id: 6m311n81g58 author: Evelyn J. Boria-Rivera title: Policing the Maternal: Puerto Rican and Cuban American Literature and the Legacy of the Cold War date: 2010 words: 361 flesch: 0 summary: By historicizing images of maternity in Latina literature in the context of twentieth century immigration as a Cold War phenomenon, this project also seeks to intervene in important debates by Cold War historians about the influence of the Cold War on constructions of domesticity and femininity in the US. Building on recent discussions of the Cold War's profound influence on white women's bodies, my dissertation considers the lost narratives of maternal interventionÌ¢ âÂ' particularly with regards to the sterilization campaign (1937-1965) in Puerto Rico in which over one third of the island's women were sterilized and the Peter Pan program (1960-1962) in Cuba wherein over 14,000 Cuban children were relocated to US orphanages. keywords: war cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6m311n81g58.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6m311n81g58.txt item: #1130 of 4945 id: 6m311n81g6m author: Marcus P. Meuwese title: 'For the Peace and Well-Being of the Country': Intercultural Mediators and Dutch-Indian Relations in New Netherland and Dutch Brazil, 1600-1664 date: 2003 words: 355 flesch: 41 summary: Finally, this study of mediators in two different colonies demonstrates that the go-betweens did not bring the Indians and Dutch colonists closer together. One important aspect that has been largely neglected in this wider geographical approach is that of Dutch interactions with native peoples. keywords: dutch cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6m311n81g6m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6m311n81g6m.txt item: #1131 of 4945 id: 6m311n81j7k author: Erik Matthew Larsen title: Design and Conformational Analysis of Structurally-Related Analogues of Polyketide Natural Products date: 2016 words: 424 flesch: 28 summary: Finally, the misidentification of the bioactive conformation of the polyketide epothilone prompted us to investigate whether the notable structural elements that influence polyketide conformation could be affected by a solid state environment. As such, our research uses techniques based around high-field NMR and molecular modeling experiments to analyze polyketide conformational preferences. keywords: conformation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6m311n81j7k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6m311n81j7k.txt item: #1132 of 4945 id: 6m311n81n4g author: Hubert Turley title: Surface-Enhanced Hyper-Raman Scattering for Short-Wave Infrared Sensing and Probing Higher-Order Molecular Properties date: 1904 words: 315 flesch: 20 summary: The second study compares resonance hyper-Raman scattering of crystal violet from experimental SEHRS measurements and theoretical calculations over its two lowest-lying electronic states (12,700-27,400 cm-1). This dissertation describes the development and application of surface-enhanced hyper-Raman scattering (SEHRS) as a nonlinear spectroscopic probe in three studies. keywords: sehrs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6m311n81n4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6m311n81n4g.txt item: #1133 of 4945 id: 6m311n81t0n author: Benjamin Lewis title: Quantization Commutes with Reduction on Compact Lie Groups under the Adjoint Action date: 1904 words: 113 flesch: 39 summary: Over the last half-century mathematicians and physicists alike have done quite a bit of work on the problem of quantization commutes with reduction and its generalizations. It turns out that in general quantization commutes with reduction, but only weakly; that is the map between the first-quantized-then-reduced space and the first-reduced-then-quantized space is only a vector isomorphism, not necessarily unitary and therefore respecting the physically relevant inner product. keywords: reduction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6m311n81t0n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6m311n81t0n.txt item: #1134 of 4945 id: 6m311n8249t author: Satyaki Bhattacharjee title: Reduced Order Multiscale Modeling of Nonlinear Processes in Heterogeneous Materials date: 1904 words: 467 flesch: 22 summary: This novel reduced order model is able to predict the macro-scale as well as micro-scale deformation field for any unknown loading condition without any expensive simulation. This data-driven model can perform well in comparison with traditional CH.Proposed technique extracts the pattern in the solution manifold, which consists of an ordered set of microscale deformation fields. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6m311n8249t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6m311n8249t.txt item: #1135 of 4945 id: 6m311n8252q author: Ming Ma title: Using Direct Numerical Simulation and Statistical Learning to Model Bubbly Flows in Vertical Channels date: 1904 words: 306 flesch: 45 summary: Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of multiphase flows have progressed rapidly over the last decade and it is now possible to simulate motions of hundreds of deformable bubbles in turbulent flows. DNS simulation of a turbulent system with bubbles of different sizes at a friction Reynolds number of 250 shows that small bubbles quickly migrate to the wall, but the bulk flow takes much longer to adjust to the new bubble distribution. keywords: dns cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6m311n8252q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6m311n8252q.txt item: #1136 of 4945 id: 6m311n8296b author: Stefanie Israel de Souza title: Expiration Date: Mega-Events and Police Reform in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas date: 2019 words: 567 flesch: 43 summary: While state time is largely cyclical, mega-event time consists of a build-up period to a single major event. I argue that the spike in violence in 2016 and after was the direct result of a public security initiative implemented on mega-event time that had, as residents say, a prazo de validade keywords: event cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6m311n8296b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6m311n8296b.txt item: #1137 of 4945 id: 6q182j64q70 author: Mitchell Andre Chouinard title: Hessert Weakly Compressible Free Shear Facility date: 2004 words: 597 flesch: 38 summary: Both the static pressure data and the flow visualizations unequivocally vindicated the WCM's predictions of large static pressure wells concomitant with the coherent character of the vertical structures. While this model began to gain acceptance on its own merit, its acceptance was resisted due to its most-controversial result of large pressure fluctuations within a free shear layer concomitant with the coherent vertical structures in the layer which form naturally under the influence of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. keywords: layer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j64q70.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j64q70.txt item: #1138 of 4945 id: 6q182j64q9p author: Christopher W. Miller title: Reliable and Efficient Reprogramming in Sensor Networks date: 2010 words: 150 flesch: 49 summary: Making a physical connection with each individual node is impractical in large wireless networks. Re-tasking and remote programming of sensor networks is an essential functionality to make these networks practical and effective. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j64q9p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j64q9p.txt item: #1139 of 4945 id: 6q182j64r0w author: Megan Trucano title: Challenge, Control, Perceptions of Competence and Boredom During an Experimental Science Task date: 2013 words: 198 flesch: 45 summary: At four time points during the task students reported boredom, perceptions of challenge, control, and perceived competence. The present study explores the relationship between challenge, control, perceptions of competence and boredom during an experimental science task. keywords: boredom cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j64r0w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j64r0w.txt item: #1140 of 4945 id: 6q182j64r17 author: Julie Noel Schatz title: Prenatal Maltreatment Risk, Early Parenting Behaviors, and Children's Emergent Regulation date: 2007 words: 178 flesch: 22 summary: Moreover, children's regulatory difficulties, assessed by physiological, emotional, and behavioral scales of regulation, were influenced by parenting at 18 months; changes in specific parenting behaviors, especially the quality of the home environment; and prenatal maltreatment risk. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for understanding the effects of prenatal maltreatment risk on parenting and children's self-regulation and how prevention efforts can best target these domains in high risk families. keywords: parenting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j64r17.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j64r17.txt item: #1141 of 4945 id: 6q182j64r2k author: Richard Kim title: The Nature of Well-Being: Towards a Defense of Aristotelian Perfectionism date: 2012 words: 517 flesch: 46 summary: A central claim that I defend is that well-being (or welfare) is not just one kind of value or consideration among others, but one that can be taken to unify other values that can be realized in a person's life, by providing their purpose and point. In my dissertation I seek to provide an account of well-being that is wider in scope than other contemporary accounts, and has the power to play a much more substantial and fruitful role in moral theory. keywords: subjective cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j64r2k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j64r2k.txt item: #1142 of 4945 id: 6q182j64r3x author: Jonathan J. Den Hartog title: 'Patriotism and Piety': Orthodox Religion and Federalist Political Culture date: 2006 words: 326 flesch: 21 summary: The study brings together two sub-fields--the new political history of the early republic and religious history--to produce an interdisciplinary work which advances historical scholarship on a seminal period in American history. In so doing, they created a 'Federalist' expression of religion, in which orthodox religionists rallied to defend what they perceived as their embattled faith and endangered republic. keywords: religion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j64r3x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j64r3x.txt item: #1143 of 4945 id: 6q182j64r48 author: Wei Zhang title: Analysis and Design of Two Classes of Turbo-like Codes date: 2006 words: 484 flesch: 51 summary: As examples, three low complexity MTC's with 2-state or 4-state encoders are designed for rates $R=1/2 \sim 3/4$. Simulation results demonstrate that the obtained MTC's have better error floors than conventional turbo codes and comparable thresholds. To exploit the advantages of MTC's with respect to minimum distance and convergence threshold compared to conventional turbo codes, we present a BICM scheme using low complexity MTC's. keywords: codes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j64r48.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j64r48.txt item: #1144 of 4945 id: 6q182j64r5m author: Christopher C. Forbes title: Supramolecular Chemistry of Amide Containing Molecules date: 2007 words: 230 flesch: 32 summary: Bolaamphiphilic fumaramide-based rotaxanes and amide-based bolaamphiphilic thread molecules that are long enough to span a phospholipid bilayer membrane were shown to induce the translocation of phospholipid probes across vesicle membranes. Amide-based synthetic molecules have been prepared and examined in four separate research projects which investigate conformational isomerization, anion binding, phospholipid translocation and rotaxane formation. keywords: squaraine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j64r5m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j64r5m.txt item: #1145 of 4945 id: 6q182j64r90 author: Michele Anik Stanbury title: Metaphysics and Dialectic: Plotinus' Reception of Aristotle as Mediated by Alexander of Aphrodisias date: 2014 words: 356 flesch: 52 summary: In this thesis, I revisit the question of Aristotelian influences on Plotinus' thought, but mediated by Alexander of Aphrodisias. This methodological choice was guided by Porphyry's comments in the Life of Plotinus, to the effect that Aristotle's Metaphysics is condensed in Plotinus' writings, and that Plotinus studied Alexander's commentaries. keywords: plotinus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j64r90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j64r90.txt item: #1146 of 4945 id: 6q182j64s06 author: Kyu Sang Lee title: Rationality, Minds, and Machines in the Laboratory: A Thematic History of Vernon Smith's Experimental Economics date: 2004 words: 353 flesch: 20 summary: Our historical narrative in Chapter 3 is intended to clarify that computer experience and computational theory drove the development of Reiter' version of mechanism design economics, and that they also (partially) shaped some crucial events in the history of Smith's version of experimental economics. In Part 1, we describe the origin of mechanism design economics, and offer a detailed explanation of the analytical kinship between Smith's 'microeconomic system theory' and the standard theoretical framework utilized in mechanism design economics. keywords: smith cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j64s06.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j64s06.txt item: #1147 of 4945 id: 6q182j64s1j author: Jeffrey Michael Baumes title: The Chemistry of Anthracene-Containing Squaraine Rotaxanes date: 2011 words: 344 flesch: 35 summary: The results in this thesis suggest that squaraine rotaxanes and their corresponding endoperoxides have potential utility in a wide-array of scientific areas; from molecular machines to molecular imaging probes. This thesis also describes the effect of metal cations on the cycloreversion rates of squaraine rotaxane endoperoxides that have been designed with metal binding pockets. keywords: squaraine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j64s1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j64s1j.txt item: #1148 of 4945 id: 6q182j64s2w author: Shaojin Chai title: Enlightened Compassion and Global Governance with Chinese Characteristics: Oneness, Care, and Cosmopolitanism in the Political Philosophy of Wang Yangming (1472-1529) date: 2014 words: 233 flesch: 22 summary: Using textual and historical analysis, I examine and reconstruct Chinese cosmopolitanism and a theory of world order advocated by Wang Yangming (1472-1529), a Neo-Confucian philosopher and general of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).Wang's role as a philosopher-statesman provides an ideal case to investigate complex relations between Confucian ethics of compassionate care and the discourses of Sino-centric world order. Finally I turn to Wang's views on otherness by looking into his memorials on Buddhism as an ethical way of life and competing political culture as well as his commentaries on civilizing ethnic groups on the Southwestern frontier. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j64s2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j64s2w.txt item: #1149 of 4945 id: 6q182j64s68 author: Estefan Miguel Ortiz title: Pupil Dilation Analysis and Mitigation in Iris Recognition date: 1904 words: 192 flesch: 51 summary: We show that by including pupil dilation information into the enrollment phase there is an overall improvement in iris biometric performance. The research in each of these two areas improves our understanding of iris biometrics with respect to pupil dilation and template aging. keywords: dilation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j64s68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j64s68.txt item: #1150 of 4945 id: 6q182j65f3d author: Nur Mustafaoglu title: Design of Antibody-Based Diagnostics and Affinity Chromatography Systems Utilizing the Nucleotide Binding Site (NBS) date: 1904 words: 386 flesch: 8 summary: An underutilized, highly conserved binding domain located on the antibody variable fragment, known as the nucleotide binding site (NBS) was implemented for site-specific functionalization of antibodies and antibody Fab fragments, as well as developing antibody purification systems. A unique small molecule antibody purification was developed by targeting the antibody NBS with surface immobilized NBS analog, and a stable covalent bond between the antibody NBS and the NBS analog was formed through a photo-chemical reaction utilizing UV energy to homogenous site-specific conjugation of target molecules to the light chains of antibodies and antibody Fab fragments. keywords: antibody cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j65f3d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j65f3d.txt item: #1151 of 4945 id: 6q182j65f7s author: Lara Sisman Grotz title: Enhancing Nitrification Fluxes in Membrane-Aerated Biofilm Reactors (MABRs): Modeling and Experimental Approaches date: 1904 words: 77 flesch: 42 summary: The membrane-aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) is an emerging wastewater treatment process that can greatly decrease energy requirements for wastewater treatment. In order to maximize MABR nitrification fluxes, a basic understanding and assessment of MABR behavior is needed. keywords: mabr cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j65f7s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j65f7s.txt item: #1152 of 4945 id: 6q182j65s7w author: Aaron J. Pope title: Performance of a Subsonic Compressor Airfoil with Upstream, End-Wall Injection Flow date: 2020 words: 225 flesch: 49 summary: The exit of the cascade was interrogated by a five-hole-probe and a total pressure Kiel probe to provide total pressure measurements, which were used to calculate total pressure loss coefficients at the exit of the test section. The independent variables studied were airfoil incidence angle and mass flow rate of end-wall injection upstream of the stator. keywords: end cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j65s7w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j65s7w.txt item: #1153 of 4945 id: 6q182j65t45 author: Robert John Burton title: A Conscience Safe for Politics: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and the Formation of the Modern Conscience date: 2020 words: 234 flesch: 32 summary: These innovations had profound implications for both the epistemology of conscience and the freedom of conscience in modern political societies. Last, I argue that in contrast with Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau presents a much stronger – though no less modern – epistemology of conscience, while presenting the fundamental conflict between conscience and political society. keywords: conscience cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j65t45.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j65t45.txt item: #1154 of 4945 id: 6q182j65t5h author: Yukun Ding title: On the Uncertainty Estimation of Neural Networks: Bounds, Practical Issues, and Applications date: 2021 words: 238 flesch: 37 summary: Fourth, with a correction effort prediction model enhanced by uncertainty maps, we propose an ultrasound scanning framework that optimizes the data acquisition for improved automated segmentation by DNNs. In order for DNNs to gain humans' trust in making decisions reliably, uncertainty estimation is investigated as a promising way to competency-aware neural networks. keywords: uncertainty cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j65t5h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j65t5h.txt item: #1155 of 4945 id: 6q182j65t76 author: Patrick Barboun title: Plasma-Assisted Catalysis for the Activation of N2 date: 2021 words: 268 flesch: 28 summary: Direct observation of plasma-catalyst interactions through inelastic neutron scattering makes it clear that plasma activation of N2 facilitates the adsorption of N on a catalyst surface at atmospheric pressure and low temperature. This thesis examines the interactions between nitrogen activated by a dielectric barrier discharge plasma and supported metal catalysts primarily for driving low temperature atmospheric pressure ammonia synthesis, but also for the coupling of nitrogen with oxygen and hydrocarbons. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j65t76.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j65t76.txt item: #1156 of 4945 id: 6q182j65t8j author: Hannah Helena McGarraugh title: Supramolecular Probes for Imaging, Therapy, and Diagnostics date: 2021 words: 130 flesch: 46 summary: Chapter 3 describes the application of squaraine dyes in pre-assembly as fluorescent molecular probes for biological targeting. Chapter 4 describes the application of croconaine dyes as photothermal agents for use in targeted cell heating. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j65t8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j65t8j.txt item: #1157 of 4945 id: 6q182j65v65 author: Kristopher Murray title: Generalizable Properties of Dynamically Unstable Steady State Polymers date: 2021 words: 589 flesch: 32 summary: To clarify the definition of microtubule steady state, I have identified and named four different steady states a system of microtubules can achieve and demonstrated both how microtubules behave in these steady states and how to set up an experiment to ensure that it reaches each of these steady state. In this dissertation, I use three types of simulations of dynamic instability that mimic the behavior of microtubules to answer questions about dynamically instable polymers to answer a series of questions about microtubule behavior. keywords: microtubules cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j65v65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j65v65.txt item: #1158 of 4945 id: 6q182j65w0d author: Yihao Hu title: Data-Driven Approaches for Differential Equation Governing Systems date: 2022 words: 314 flesch: 41 summary: To tackle the training issue in learning switch systems with imbalanced scales, we propose a novel PINN-based neural network model that resolves the training issue of regular PINN in learning nonlinear switch systems. This dissertation explores data-driven methods in modeling and predicting differential equation governing systems. keywords: learning cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j65w0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j65w0d.txt item: #1159 of 4945 id: 6q182j65x12 author: Kenneth McClure title: Sample Size Requirements for Metropolis-Hastings Robbins-Monro Item Parameter Calibration in the Multidimensional Graded Response Model date: 2023 words: 148 flesch: 12 summary: Motivation for the use of high dimensional item response models and the associated computational difficulties are reviewed followed by an examination of existing work looking at item parameter recovery in the multidimensional graded response model. The present study is the first to systematically examine the impact of marginal trait skewness and excess kurtosis on item parameter recovery. keywords: parameter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6q182j65x12.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6q182j65x12.txt item: #1160 of 4945 id: 6t053f4805n author: Javier Ernesto Guzman title: Kinetics of Carbon/Carbon Composite Oxidation and Inhibition by Site Blockage date: 2004 words: 203 flesch: 30 summary: Carbon materials can adsorb oxygen and react, forming carbon oxides at temperature as low as 400'_aC, limiting their use in high temperature oxidative environments. We studied the inhibiting effect of phosphoric acid using powder samples, 75 åÁV 125 micrometers, from a carbon brake composite. keywords: acid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6t053f4805n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6t053f4805n.txt item: #1161 of 4945 id: 6t053f48060 author: Christopher Robert Carey title: Single Particle Spectroscopy: Ultrafast Studies and Absorption Technique Development date: 2010 words: 349 flesch: 43 summary: The second part of this thesis describes the development of a new single particle spectroscopy extension of the technique called polarization modulation microscopy (PMM). In this thesis, I present topics involved in single particle spectroscopy. keywords: technique cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6t053f48060.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6t053f48060.txt item: #1162 of 4945 id: 6t053f4807b author: Lori Anne Petersen title: The Effect of Concrete Objects on Counting Skill: An Interaction Between Perceptual Features and Established Knowledge date: 2010 words: 141 flesch: 46 summary: Concrete objects are used to help children understand mathematical concepts. Research suggests that perceptually rich objects may hinder children's performance on mathematics tasks relative to bland objects. keywords: objects cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6t053f4807b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6t053f4807b.txt item: #1163 of 4945 id: 6t053f4817n author: James Edward Ford title: Thinking through Crisis: 1930s African American Literature and Politics date: 2010 words: 132 flesch: 27 summary: In this dissertation I challenge the conventional literary history that 1930s black intellectuals were uncritical followers of mainstream American Communism. Through close readings of their literature, alongside other cultural productions, I conceptualize 'crisis' as a tool for analyzing the contradictory emergences of alternative agencies in moments of social breakdown. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6t053f4817n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6t053f4817n.txt item: #1164 of 4945 id: 6t053f48180 author: Carla Marie Ingrando title: The Moral Problem of Economic Inequality: An Analysis of the Roman Catholic and the Quaker Traditions date: 2006 words: 348 flesch: 28 summary: In this project I have explored the moral significance of inequalities of income and wealth through an historical examination of the Roman Catholic and the Quaker traditions' definitions, interpretations, and analyses of economic inequality. While the two traditions evaded the particular problem of inequality of income and wealth, both have conceptual resources which can be utilized to mount a vigorous critique of economic inequality both internally and in the public sphere. keywords: quaker cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6t053f48180.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6t053f48180.txt item: #1165 of 4945 id: 6t053f4819b author: Yen-Chun Lee title: Quilt Packaging Integration and Fabrication of Deep-Submicron Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Devices date: 2009 words: 200 flesch: 44 summary: Process and device simulation were executed to tune the various process parameters and predict the electrical behavior of such devices. Deep-submicron lithography and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) circuit with roughly 50000 transistors per chip require the high through-put of the G-line photolithography stepper tool and the high-resolution of the Electron Beam Lithography (EBL) tool. keywords: process cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6t053f4819b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6t053f4819b.txt item: #1166 of 4945 id: 6t053f4826m author: Andrew S. Clement title: Action-Based Compression of Spatial Memory for Multiple Nested Environments date: 1904 words: 150 flesch: 37 summary: To address this issue, I examined whether action-based compression could extend to surrounding objects or environments. By marking the boundary between regions, I also assessed whether interaction compresses memory for other environments. keywords: objects cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6t053f4826m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6t053f4826m.txt item: #1167 of 4945 id: 6t053f48q1s author: William Raymond Anthony Wichert title: Effects of Confinement and Crowding on Enzyme Kinetics Utilizing Lab-on-a-chip Devices date: 1904 words: 334 flesch: 28 summary: The effect of molecular crowding on enzyme kinetics studies are measured by increasing solution viscosity using varying concentrations of a viscogen, sucrose. A fluidic gradient mixer is designed and fabricated, so that it can be employed as a means to examine multiple concentration dependent enzyme reactions simultaneously. keywords: fluidic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6t053f48q1s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6t053f48q1s.txt item: #1168 of 4945 id: 6t053f4931g author: Qingyuan Jiang title: The Cold Smell of Sacred Stone Called Him: Modernist Novels and the Reimagination of Sacred Spaces date: 2020 words: 243 flesch: 34 summary: My argument is that in response to the increasing alienation between churches and characters in the 19th century literature, modernists very actively seek to address the need for religion through refashioning traditional religious sites, or finding new significance in buildings/environments that bear religious connotations. This dissertation is to explore the interactive relationship between English literary modernism and religion through modernist novels' using of sacred spaces. keywords: dissertation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6t053f4931g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6t053f4931g.txt item: #1169 of 4945 id: 6t053f4938w author: Justin Miller title: Intrinsic Density, Asymptotic Computability, and Stochasticity date: 2021 words: 303 flesch: 49 summary: Intrinsic density was introduced as a way to get around this unsettling fact, and which will be our main focus. Of particular interest for the first half of this dissertation are the intrinsically small sets, the sets of intrinsic density 0. keywords: intrinsic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6t053f4938w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6t053f4938w.txt item: #1170 of 4945 id: 6t053f49397 author: David Burney title: High-Resolution Analyses of Lunar and Martian Samples, and Impactor Material from the Chicxulub Basin Using ICP-MS date: 2021 words: 293 flesch: 39 summary: ICP-MS analyses on material recovered from the Chicxulub Impact Basin have indicated that platinum group elements are more concentrated in clast-free impact melt than other impact lithologies. This research provides a method to quantify and correct for this phenomenon, then applies the method to a suite of lunar samples and terrestrial impact samples to correct any artificial inflation of a signal for a suite of moderately volatile elements (MVEs) during a procedural run. keywords: elements cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6t053f49397.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6t053f49397.txt item: #1171 of 4945 id: 6t053f49544 author: Warren Campbell title: The Pauline History of Hebrews and the Memory of a Jewish Apostle date: 2022 words: 234 flesch: 24 summary: The various hypotheses, argumenta, and other kinds of prefatory markers for the letter, reinscribe Origen's interpretive lens for Hebrews as Pauline letter on the nature of Jewish reading. Eschewing 'acceptance' and 'rejection' as ways of describing ancient engagement with authorial claims, the Paulinity of Hebrews was guided and sustained primarily through manuscript transmission which fitted this text with material markers of Paulinity as it circulated within Pauline letter collections. keywords: pauline cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6t053f49544.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6t053f49544.txt item: #1172 of 4945 id: 6w924b3189j author: Khanh Dai Pham title: Statistical Control Paradigms for Structural Vibration Supression date: 2004 words: 352 flesch: 33 summary: Moreover, the research continues with a development of cost cumulants per unit time in infinite horizon control for the state-feedback kCC problem. Furthermore, constant controllers measuring Kalman state-estimates for the output-feedback kCC problem in infinite horizon control are also derived by a Lagrange multiplier theory. keywords: kcc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b3189j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b3189j.txt item: #1173 of 4945 id: 6w924b3190r author: Edouard Louis Crago title: End Of Nature date: 2010 words: 153 flesch: 77 summary: The leaps of technology we are making in Genetics present a frightening parallel to the leaps we made in nuclear sciences that led to the development of nuclear weapons. My work is about the fear of the unknown capabilities of biological sciences, specifically Genetics. keywords: genetics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b3190r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b3190r.txt item: #1174 of 4945 id: 6w924b31913 author: Yilin Wu title: Behavioral Principles of Swarming Bacteria date: 2010 words: 182 flesch: 33 summary: Bacteria that can swarm behave similarly in many ways, indicating that swarming is governed by some general behavioral principles of bacterial cells. Using a cell-based biomechanical modeling approach and taking Myxobacteria as the model system, we have found that (1) social interactions between bacterial cells, (2) directional reversal and (3) cell elongation all constitute the general behavioral principles that govern swarming. keywords: bacteria cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b31913.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b31913.txt item: #1175 of 4945 id: 6w924b3192f author: Tiancong Chen title: Smooth Local Solutions to Fully Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations date: 2013 words: 168 flesch: 56 summary: In the first chapter we discuss the geometric background of our equations, state our main results and describe the methods for proof. In this dissertation we discuss the local solvability of two classes of fully nonlinear partial differential equations. keywords: equations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b3192f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b3192f.txt item: #1176 of 4945 id: 6w924b3193s author: Zoltá n Rá cz title: Piezoflexure-enabled nanofabrication using translated stencil masks date: 2007 words: 366 flesch: 38 summary: Arrays of Al/AlxOy/Ge metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) structures deposited with varying evaporation conditions have been formed for rapid material characterization. In the PEN approach, a deposition substrate is translated under a stencil mask in an electron-beam evaporator between depositions of dissimilar materials. keywords: mask cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b3193s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b3193s.txt item: #1177 of 4945 id: 6w924b31944 author: Emmanuel Sifakis title: Routing Protocols for Wireless Networked Sensing and Control Systems date: 2006 words: 118 flesch: 54 summary: They have applications in various domains such as building monitoring, habitat and environmental monitoring. The deployed sensors are able to gather information about sensed phenomena and route them towards a base station for later processing and decision making. keywords: sensors cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b31944.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b31944.txt item: #1178 of 4945 id: 6w924b3195g author: Scott Charles Glancy title: TOPICS IN LINEAR OPTICAL QUANTUM COMPUTATION date: 2005 words: 341 flesch: 51 summary: It discusses methods for reducing and correcting errors and recovering from failed operations. A quantum computer is a computational device which is able to manipulate information by performing unitary operations on some physical system whose state can be described as a vector (or mixture of vectors) in a Hilbert space. keywords: quantum cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b3195g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b3195g.txt item: #1179 of 4945 id: 6w924b3196t author: Amanda Robyn Matthews title: The Technological Insularity Scale: A Scale Development date: 2006 words: 115 flesch: 18 summary: The psychometric quality of the TIS is supported by results of a factor analysis, and relationships found between the scale and social desirability, empathy, and social isolation scales. Technological insularity is defined as a psychological construct associated with technology-mediated communication in which the communicator is more isolated from and less mindful of the recipients or intended audience when engaged in computer-mediated communications than when engaged in face-to-face conversations. keywords: insularity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b3196t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b3196t.txt item: #1180 of 4945 id: 6w924b31975 author: Vladimir Sokolov title: Macroeconomic Volatility and Exchange Rate Regimes: Is 'fear of floating' a stabilizing policy? date: 2008 words: 442 flesch: 45 summary: Using a panel data set of 180 countries spanning from 1971 to 2000, I find evidence that exchange rate policy affects economic growth not directly but through its effect on macroeconomic volatility. I consider two measures of economic performance: i) per capita GDP growth and ii) the volatility of per capita GDP growth and investigate the nature of their dependence on two alternative characterizations of exchange rate policy. keywords: rate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b31975.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b31975.txt item: #1181 of 4945 id: 6w924b31b1d author: Katherine M. Rueff title: The Structure and Origins of the Thick Disk Interstellar Medium date: 2014 words: 204 flesch: 53 summary: The discovery of this thick disk star formation implies that the thick disk ISM has, like the disk, the necessary physical structure for star formation. These studies analyze the thick disk ISM in different ways but both reveal the thick disk to be a dynamic environment, capable of supporting a multi-phase ISM, with the physical condition necessary for star formation. keywords: disk cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b31b1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b31b1d.txt item: #1182 of 4945 id: 6w924b31b2r author: Brooke Elizabeth Crawford title: Moral Atmosphere and Pro-Social Collective Norms: A Case Study of Two Collegiate Softball Teams date: 2011 words: 194 flesch: 41 summary: The hypothesis is pro-social collective norms will be both prevalent and persuasive within collegiate athletic teams. The purpose of this pilot initiative is to identify a better measure for assessing the moral atmosphere on collegiate athletic teams. keywords: norms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b31b2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b31b2r.txt item: #1183 of 4945 id: 6w924b31b4f author: Yen-Chang Huang title: Singular solutions of the sigma_k equations date: 2011 words: 99 flesch: 47 summary: In this thesis, we study the boundary-blow-up problem for the negative $sigma_k$-Ricci equations in bounded domains of R^n. When $k=1,2,$ and $n$, the necessary condition for the existence of the solutions satisfying the $sigma_k$-Ricci equations is that the codimension of the portion of boundary has to be bounded from above by some constants depending on $n$ and $k$. For other cases, we believe that the similar argument can be developed. keywords: equations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b31b4f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b31b4f.txt item: #1184 of 4945 id: 6w924b31b8t author: Peter Sempolinski title: An Extensible System for Facilitating Collaboration, Crowdsourcing and Robust Long-Running Computing for Structural Engineering Applications date: 1904 words: 354 flesch: 36 summary: As one means to that end, this work proposes that some of the understanding gained in software design could be applied to other design domains, such as structural design. In the case of structural design, this includes software for modifying structural designs, evaluating designs through simulation, and discussing designs and simulation results. keywords: software cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b31b8t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b31b8t.txt item: #1185 of 4945 id: 6w924b3209b author: Peter Ivie title: A Workflow Management System to Facilitate Reproducibility of Scientific Computing Applications date: 1904 words: 198 flesch: 36 summary: I show that with a minimal amount of overhead, these capabilities can be available for large scale and complex workflows, such as an analysis of high-energy physics data, a bio-informatics application, and processing of U.S. census data. As a scientific workflow evolves in PRUNE, a growing but immutable tree of derived data is created. keywords: prune cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b3209b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b3209b.txt item: #1186 of 4945 id: 6w924b3249k author: Maria del Pilar Giannini Bravo title: Electoral Mobilization: Assessing the Importance of Individual, Institutional, and Party System Characteristics on Campaign Strategies date: 2019 words: 162 flesch: 34 summary: Are certain individuals more likely to be targeted by political parties?My work aims to contribute to the literature of comparative politics including the importance of social context in explain mobilization strategies. By investigating how the socio-political context influences the behavior of political elites, my research sheds light on an important phenomenon of campaigns and democracy keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b3249k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b3249k.txt item: #1187 of 4945 id: 6w924b3253t author: Ann Marie Raiho title: Seeing the Trees through the Forest: Understanding Community Ecology's Influence on Long Term Ecosystem Dynamics date: 2019 words: 816 flesch: 43 summary: The stand level process of succession over centennial time scales adds up to the process of regional vegetation redistribution over millennial time scales. Individual tree species interact over long time scales in an ecological process called succession where, after disturbance, fast growing, short lived tree species are able to establish in high light conditions. keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b3253t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b3253t.txt item: #1188 of 4945 id: 6w924b32d7c author: Irfan Khan title: Leveraging Phonon Polariton Modes in Polar Materials for Selective Thermal Emission and Absorption date: 2021 words: 348 flesch: 40 summary: Finally, we experimentally evaluate the role of ENZ substrates on the thermal emission profile of multi-mode optical antennas and provide a platform for engineering both the spectral response as well as the radiation pattern. We identify and characterize SPhP modes in finite crystals of ZnO. keywords: mode cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b32d7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b32d7c.txt item: #1189 of 4945 id: 6w924b32f1m author: Jaeho Shin title: Development of Rationally Engineered Peptide-Targeted Liposomal Nanoparticles to Achieve Enhanced Therapeutic Efficacy with Selectivity and Design of Novel Inhibitors for Allergy date: 2022 words: 443 flesch: 29 summary: This is accomplished by evaluating the liposomal formulation first in vitro, and then further optimizing it in vivo by adjusting the individual design parameters, such as peptide density, linker length, peptide hydrophilicity, and particle size, to achieve maximal cellular uptake while preserving the selectivity for specific target cancer cells. Furthermore, by taking advantage of multivalency in our design and using weak-to-moderate monovalent affinity ligand peptides as the targeting elements, we are able to achieve selectivity by designing avidity for cancer cells while avoiding healthy cells/tissue. keywords: liposomal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/6w924b32f1m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/6w924b32f1m.txt item: #1190 of 4945 id: 70795714j77 author: Yingping Huang title: Autonomic Web-based Simulation date: 2005 words: 181 flesch: 25 summary: We discuss mathematical models to simulate the execution of scientific simulations and formulate objective functions for the purpose of determining optimal checkpoint intervals. A self-manageable system is implemented for the NOM simulation project which allows scientists and other end users run NOM simulations anytime from anywhere. keywords: self cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/70795714j77.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/70795714j77.txt item: #1191 of 4945 id: 70795714j8k author: Taylor Richardson Murphy title: Investigation of Phosphatidylinositol Synthase in the Zebrafish Larval Lens and Photoreceptors date: 2011 words: 354 flesch: 26 summary: Through phenotypic, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses, the zebrafish cdipt alleles represent an excellent in vivo model to investigate the contribution of phosphoinositide-associated signaling pathways in maintaining lens clarity and photoreceptor cell integrity. In a complimentary approach, protein was isolated from cdiptlop/lop mutant and wild-type eyes and analyzed by fluorescent 2D difference gel electrophoresis, followed by mass spectrometry of differentially expressed proteins. keywords: lens cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/70795714j8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/70795714j8k.txt item: #1192 of 4945 id: 70795714j9x author: Camila Escallon title: Droog Design: Sense and Experience date: 2010 words: 1725 flesch: 56 summary: Like the experiences and designs of Droog, the life and work of Sottsass in his Memphis years is now treated as paradigmatic of postmodernism in design by historians and critics. Droog's designs and designers are featured in the discussion about the blur between art and design. keywords: design; designers; droog cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/70795714j9x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/70795714j9x.txt item: #1193 of 4945 id: 70795714k97 author: Sarah Elizabeth Frost-Murphy title: Reversibility for Nanoscale Systems date: 2010 words: 211 flesch: 28 summary: This work begins by providing the foundation for a theory of reversible computation by presenting a formal investigation of reversible finite automata and reversible regular languages that surpasses previous discussions of reversible finite automata that were insufficient to allow fundamental and important discussions to be held about the differences between reversible finite automata and reversible regular languages and their traditional counterparts. The work continues by discussing a new symmetry discovered in reversible gates that facilitates the identification of complete, reversible gate sets for emerging nanodevices. keywords: reversible cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/70795714k97.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/70795714k97.txt item: #1194 of 4945 id: 70795714m0f author: Reuben Peter Keller title: Ecological and Bioeconomic Risk Assessment for Invasive Species date: 2006 words: 350 flesch: 37 summary: Although ecological predictions of future impacts from invasive species are rarely used in management, they have great potential to guide risk reduction efforts. This is true for both preventing new invaders, and for preventing the spread of established invasive species. keywords: risk cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/70795714m0f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/70795714m0f.txt item: #1195 of 4945 id: 70795714m1s author: Melissa Dawn Moore title: Unpacking Heterogeneity: The Effect of Segregated Communities and Majority Group Status on Voluntary Association Participation date: 2010 words: 153 flesch: -5 summary: Findings generally support the hypotheses, underlining the need to take seriously segregation's interactive nature, group differences in the effects of segregation and heterogeneity, and more generally, the effect of context on voluntary association participation and community cohesion. Building on the fundamental sociological principle that individuals are embedded in social contexts and that varying contexts are probably related to varying individual behavior, this paper seeks to elaborate on characteristics of communities that explain decisions to participate in voluntary associations. keywords: heterogeneity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/70795714m1s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/70795714m1s.txt item: #1196 of 4945 id: 70795714p1d author: Zachariah Silver title: Mesoscale Modeling and Observations of Flow in Mountainous Terrain date: 1904 words: 267 flesch: 32 summary: The Advanced Research version of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) system was used to investigate the ability of a leading edge mesoscale atmospheric model to predict key atmospheric phenomena observed during the Mountain Terrain Atmospheric Modeling and Observations (MATERHORN) field campaigns. A challenge is that vector fields describing the flow are fully 3D and thus streamlines are not restricted to a single fixed 2D plane, causing presentational difficulties. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/70795714p1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/70795714p1d.txt item: #1197 of 4945 id: 7079571583n author: Jennifer Lea Garbett title: A Vertex Superalgebra via Spin Factorization Algebras with Point Defects date: 1904 words: 99 flesch: 16 summary: Factorization algebras are one approximation' to physicists' quantum field theories, and spin factorization algebras with point defects are a generalization of factorization algebras which allow us to take spin structures into account. In this thesis, we construct the spin factorization algebra with point defects of quantum observables for a particular free BV theory. keywords: factorization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7079571583n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7079571583n.txt item: #1198 of 4945 id: 7079571590x author: Carlos Alvarado title: Phenomenology beyond the Standard Model: Models for R-Symmetric Charginos, Flavored Dark Matter, and Higgs Lepton Flavor Violation date: 1904 words: 251 flesch: 39 summary: In this thesis work, I present three extensions of the Standard Model, corresponding to three independent attempts to improve our understanding of dark matter and Large Hadron Collider data in terms of new physics. The trademark of the model is that dark matter reaches its abundance mostly through annihilation into a pair of distinct mediators, with meson mixing observables imposing stronger constraints than current direct detection prospects. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7079571590x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7079571590x.txt item: #1199 of 4945 id: 7079571595n author: Nicole Winsor title: In the Wake of Revival and Revolution, 1915-2005: Postcolonial Modernist Theatre and Performance in Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand date: 1904 words: 379 flesch: 7 summary: By tracing the aftereffects of cultural, social, and political movements within postcolonial modernity as they intersect with theatre and performance practices in Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, I offer an account of how postcolonial modernist theatre and performance becomes a simultaneously funereal and celebratory vigil over the vicissitudes of modern life in newly reconfigured postcolonial nation-states. By comparing the lived experiences of subjects within these postcolonial modernities as well as the dramatic forms which such a milieu produces in Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, my work shows that while the narrative content of these modernisms differ, the various forms of aesthetic responses to these instances of postcolonial modernity have strong affinities which go beyond the particularities of each country's geohistorical context. keywords: postcolonial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7079571595n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7079571595n.txt item: #1200 of 4945 id: 70795715p1p author: Franklin Eduardo Mejia Frias title: Engineering Multivalent Systems for Improved Drug Delivery, Allergy Diagnosis, and Bioprocess Development date: 2021 words: 299 flesch: 12 summary: In chapter one, the rational design of multivalent systems is explained, suggesting a paradigm shift in the optimization parameters for targeted nanomedicines: prioritize selectivity, not avidity. Altogether, this work provides guideline for the rational design of targeted nanomedicines and highlights the value of systematic analysis for the basic understanding of biological problems, followed by application of this knowledge for engineering solutions that improve patient outcome. keywords: targeted cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/70795715p1p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/70795715p1p.txt item: #1201 of 4945 id: 70795715p9f author: Jordan Cockfield title: Investigating Molecular Mechanisms That Promote Survival or Death in ECM-detached Cancer Cells date: 2021 words: 987 flesch: 26 summary: By and large, metastasis, which is the spread of cancer cells from their original organ site, entrance into circulation, and re-establishment in distant, secondary organs, is responsible for 90% of fatalities caused by cancer. Detachment from the ECM is known to induce a caspase-dependent cell death program, termed anoikis, that cancer cells can circumvent by multiple means. keywords: cancer; death cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/70795715p9f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/70795715p9f.txt item: #1202 of 4945 id: 73666397v1r author: Angela Mary McKay title: The Infused and Aquired Virtues in Aquinas' Moral Philosophy date: 2005 words: 338 flesch: 27 summary: Given that parts of the treatment are clearly concerned with infused moral virtues and other parts are clearly concerned with acquired moral virtue, what portion of the discussion in the second part of the second part is devoted to each? Together these facts present a puzzle about the detailed accounts of the moral virtues in the second part of the second part: Might these be primarily accounts of the infused moral virtues, and only derivatively about acquired moral virtue? keywords: virtues cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397v1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397v1r.txt item: #1203 of 4945 id: 73666397v23 author: Carl Ashley Neblett title: Living in Tension date: 2010 words: 347 flesch: 25 summary: However, students with access to alternate sources of emotional energy are able to overcome this ambivalence and join the Notre Dame GLBTQ movement. The first substantive chapter discusses the problems of emotional ambivalence among potential GLBTQ activists on the Notre Dame campus. keywords: glbtq cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397v23.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397v23.txt item: #1204 of 4945 id: 73666397v3f author: Bradley Allan Dobrzenski title: Cognitive Consequences of Working Memory Training on a Typically Developed Population date: 2011 words: 130 flesch: 24 summary: Although additional studies have explored the effects of training on other populations such as the older adults and those who have experienced a stroke, they have not extensively examined whether or not training can improve working memory for typically developed populations. Two studies seek to address whether or not working memory can be trained in a population of college students, by examining how three constructs of working memory: interference control, the focus and scope of attention, and cue dependent retrieval, are impacted by working memory training. keywords: training cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397v3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397v3f.txt item: #1205 of 4945 id: 73666397v4s author: Yao Zhao title: Rigorous Methods for Dynamic Optimization date: 2013 words: 355 flesch: 33 summary: This approach provides guaranteed-feasible decision variable regions for robust design problems and locates an ε -global optimum over a confirmed feasible region for robust optimization problems. Solving dynamic optimization problems with a rigorous approach can be computationally challenging. keywords: global cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397v4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397v4s.txt item: #1206 of 4945 id: 73666397v54 author: Andrew Tayanjana Namanja title: Molecular Basis for Signal Transduction in the Bimodular Cell-Cycle Enzyme Pin1 date: 2010 words: 703 flesch: 35 summary: This suggests that the dynamic conduit links ligand binding activity at the PPIase active site and the interaction of the WW domain at the domain interface on Pin1-PPIase. It has become more evident that many proteins experience activity regulation via binding of small molecules or other proteins to sites that are distal from the active site. keywords: pin1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397v54.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397v54.txt item: #1207 of 4945 id: 73666397v6g author: Casey Cosner title: Potential Niemann-Pick Type C Disease Therapeutics: Synthesis of Pyrrolinones and Enolate-Derived Thiadiazoles, and the Development of a Palladium-Catalyzed Alpha Alkenylation Reaction as a Means to Prepare Trichostatin A date: 2011 words: 354 flesch: 46 summary: The alkenyl halides we employed included functionalized alkenyl bromides and iodides as well as conjugated dienyl bromides and iodides. Both esters and ketones can be utilized as substrates, furnishing a wide range of substituted thiadiazole products. keywords: synthesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397v6g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397v6g.txt item: #1208 of 4945 id: 73666397v7t author: Clint Christian Elison title: Layer Theory of Relationship Development: Factors Influencing Couples' Relationship Status date: 2010 words: 112 flesch: 26 summary: Combining stage and process models, the layer theory of relationship development suggests that relationship status can be predicted by layers of relationship/dyadic, individual, and family background characteristics that accumulate as relationships progress. The results show relationship/dyadic factors are the best and earliest predictors of relationship status, while family background factors begin to influence relationships at the serious dating status. keywords: relationship cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397v7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397v7t.txt item: #1209 of 4945 id: 73666397v85 author: Amit Kashyap title: Exploration of Chip Level Architecture of a Multithreaded PIM System date: 2010 words: 122 flesch: 46 summary: In particular, we measure the impact of memory latency and degree of banking, outstanding memory references per thread and the network on-chip (NoC) topology on the execution time of micro- benchmarks. Using this simulation tool, we present a bottom up approach for the evaluation of the architecture on a set of micro-benchmarks. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397v85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397v85.txt item: #1210 of 4945 id: 73666397v9h author: Megan L Vance title: Thread Management for Increased Throughput of Lightweight Threads date: 2006 words: 152 flesch: 41 summary: These polices are evaluated via simulation tools created specifically to model the novel aspects of LIMA as related to thread management. Two policies, RMA and Block, use simple marking mechanisms to guide thread management according to memory access, and show improvements in performance as the number of remote accesses in an application increase. keywords: threads cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397v9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397v9h.txt item: #1211 of 4945 id: 73666397w3r author: Fangzheng LI title: New Synthetic Applications of Nitroso Diels-Alder Reactions date: 2008 words: 395 flesch: 41 summary: Interestingly, apoptolidin was found to undergo ene reaction instead of DA reaction again in a highly efficient and stereroselctive fashion. Meanwhile, pyridine NDA reactions of piperine, oligomycin A, rifampicin quinone and flavofungin were also investigated. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397w3r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397w3r.txt item: #1212 of 4945 id: 73666397w43 author: David Carl Salyers title: Stealth Multicast: A New Paradigm in Bandwidth Conservation date: 2008 words: 155 flesch: 42 summary: Additionally, simulations are presented, showing stealth multicast approaches the efficiency of ideal multicast, with minimal increase in end-to-end delay. In this thesis, a novel approach, stealth multicast is presented, which offers a practical solution for the adoption of network-level IP multicast. keywords: multicast cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397w43.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397w43.txt item: #1213 of 4945 id: 73666397w5f author: John S Zintsmaster title: A Network of Residues Relevant to Enzymatic Function in Pin1: A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Approach date: 2013 words: 552 flesch: 51 summary: The third mutant, I28A, has been recognized as playing a role in the domain-domain interaction in Ch.6 and has been chosen to further identify key dynamics related to domain coupling. Next, the conditions with the greatest degree of agreement are used to simulate the dynamics of full length Pin1 vs. the two isolated domains, the WW domain and the PPIase domain. keywords: domain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397w5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397w5f.txt item: #1214 of 4945 id: 73666397w6s author: Courtney Luckhardt title: Connecting Saints: Travel and Hagiography in the Northwestern Atlantic, 500-800 date: 2011 words: 333 flesch: 32 summary: Religious travel often overlapped with secular travel and this dissertation's analysis of hagiographical and religious sources complements previous important work on political and commercial travel. This dissertation asks how and why connection, communication, exchange, and travel were such integral parts of early medieval hagiography in northern Europe and how this kind of religious travel fit into the larger picture of early medieval travel, which has previously focused on secular or commercial exchange. keywords: travel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397w6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397w6s.txt item: #1215 of 4945 id: 73666397x01 author: Luis G. Vera title: Tablets of Flesh: Memory, Media, and the Perfection of the Image in Digital Societies date: 1904 words: 357 flesch: 37 summary: This dissertation develops a theological ethics of media use in digital media societies. Since Christian theologians have long approached media as a way to form and extend memory, memory is also a fruitful focus point for consulting the tradition about the ethics and theological relevance of media use. keywords: media cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397x01.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397x01.txt item: #1216 of 4945 id: 73666397x63 author: Karrie Fuller title: Repurposing Piers Plowman: Literary Geography and the Codicological Remaking of Langland's Work date: 1904 words: 283 flesch: 22 summary: In particular, studies of single manuscripts and their scribal versions reveal individual audiences and responses as the scribes of each copy tailor their editions and revisions to specific audiences, whether or not their copies end up with the same intended and actual readers. Thus, these scribes adapt their copies of Piers to the local, global, or even cosmological scope they adopt as they adjust their compilations to the demands of individual reading communities situated in urban, intellectual, and religious centers throughout England. keywords: readers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666397x63.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666397x63.txt item: #1217 of 4945 id: 7366639819b author: Jade Avelis title: Stay-At-Home Fathers, Housedads, and Deadbeats: Social Class and Primary Caregiving Men date: 1904 words: 219 flesch: 47 summary: In this dissertation, I address the incompleteness of our understanding of primary caregiving fathers by studying a diverse sample of fathers. Shifting beliefs about gender and proper roles for men and women have brought about many changes in family life, including more men taking over the bulk of responsibility for their children's daily care. keywords: fathers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7366639819b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7366639819b.txt item: #1218 of 4945 id: 73666398q55 author: Catherine M. Flanley title: Leishmaniasis Two-Pronged Control Approach: Phlebotomus papatasi Saliva Vaccine Development and Age Estimation date: 2019 words: 356 flesch: 42 summary: Saliva has been shown to exacerbate skin lesions in mice when co-infected with Leishmania parasites but was observed to have a protective effect when mice were pre-exposed to saliva and then challenged with parasites. Here, near-infrared spectroscopy is validated to age-grade P. papatasi with greater than 80% accuracy when grouped into age cohorts <7 days old or ≥7 days old. keywords: proteins cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666398q55.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666398q55.txt item: #1219 of 4945 id: 73666398x1n author: Taylor R. Quinn title: Microsecond Simulations of the PmHMGR Second Hydride Transfer Transition State and Investigations into Molecule and Enzyme Dynamics date: 2020 words: 282 flesch: 41 summary: In this thesis, I will primarily discuss how molecular dynamics simulations of the transition state of PmHMGR compared to ground state simulations facilitated the prediction of allosteric residues that help stabilize the transition state of the enzyme. Molecular dynamics was used to help drug discovery efforts for the epigenetic HDAC and P300/CBP systems, which, in the case of the latter, shed light on the role of protein dynamics on the ligand-protein and protein-protein interface. keywords: state cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666398x1n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666398x1n.txt item: #1220 of 4945 id: 73666398x20 author: Nicholas E. Bonneau title: Unspeakable Loss: New England's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemics, 1735-1775 date: 2020 words: 300 flesch: 41 summary: This dissertation corrects that assumption and provides a method for examining epidemics similar to post-colonial techniques of recovering lost voices. While the mysterious throat distempers never achieved the notoriety of other diseases in the colonial era, no single epidemic of the period proved more deadly to European settlers. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666398x20.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666398x20.txt item: #1221 of 4945 id: 73666398z1z author: David A. Turner title: Scanning Tunneling Microscope Development and Use in Hydrogen Reaction Studies of Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers on Au(111) date: 2021 words: 378 flesch: 51 summary: With a functional instrument and means of introducing samples to a vacuum chamber, reactions of alkanethiols on Au(111) with atomic hydrogen can be examined on an atomic scale. A temperature increase of a few degrees Celsius resulted in a significant change in the dynamics of the reaction between 1-octanethiol and atomic hydrogen because of a phase that does not occur at room temperature. keywords: octanethiol cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666398z1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666398z1z.txt item: #1222 of 4945 id: 73666398z5b author: K.C. Barrientos title: Bodies Remembered: The Performance of Race, Class, and Gender in Contemporary Feminist Poetry of the Afro-Hispanic Caribbean date: 2021 words: 421 flesch: 29 summary: The dissertation is divided in two parts: Part 1: Bodies in Transaction, or power and violence being transacted through women's bodies in their relationships to other bodies; and Part 2: Bodies in Action, or the Black female voice reclaiming agency in narratives of objectification to assert herself as an equal member of society and politics. Based on the work of Judith Butler, bodies for the purpose of this project are defined as physical and discursive spaces of trauma and power, the chapters of this dissertation trace how power and violence are transacted and reproduced through Black female bodies in the context of enslavement and colonization in the Caribbean. keywords: black cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666398z5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666398z5b.txt item: #1223 of 4945 id: 73666399006 author: Yue Wu title: Computational Study of the Aeroacoustics of a Circulation Control Airfoil date: 2021 words: 170 flesch: 61 summary: High-frequency tonal noise is generated as a result of strong vortex shedding from the slot lip, and its magnitude and frequency also increase with increasing jet momentum coefficient. The Coanda jet is shown to suppress the low-frequency airfoil vortex-shedding noise, but at the same time causes a significant increase in broadband noise in the mid-to-high frequency range. keywords: jet cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666399006.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666399006.txt item: #1224 of 4945 id: 73666399037 author: Jessica Nicole Ross title: Identification and Evaluation of Synthetic Antimicrobial Peptide Variants Rationally Designed from the Bioactive Domain of AS-48 Bacteriocin Homologs date: 2022 words: 457 flesch: 25 summary: The circularized bacteriocin enterocin AS-48 produced by Enterococcus sp. exhibits antibacterial activity through untargeted membrane disruption. A total of 384 total peptides were assessed for antibacterial activity against a panel of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. keywords: peptide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/73666399037.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/73666399037.txt item: #1225 of 4945 id: 76537081391 author: Daniel Taller title: Surface Acoustic Wave Microfluidics: Droplets, Pinned Liquid Films, and Biodetection date: 2015 words: 335 flesch: 42 summary: In order to deliver on these promises, an effective actuation mechanism must be developed which can overcome the viscous and capillary forces that tend to dominate at small scales. The aforementioned SAW pressures are shown to capable of lysing exosomes, secreted membrane vesicles ~30-200 nm in diameter that are present in blood, saliva, urine, and other bodily fluids. keywords: acoustic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/76537081391.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/76537081391.txt item: #1226 of 4945 id: 76537081407 author: Candace K McLean title: 'Do This In Memory of Me': The Genealogy and Theological Appropriations of Memory in the Work of Johann Baptist Metz date: 2012 words: 356 flesch: 57 summary: Part one arises from critical appraisal of sources upon which Metz relies in formulating his idea of memory. While the thinkers Metz draws upon are secular Jewish philosophers, Metz appropriates key notions in specifically theological ways by linking them with the memoria passionis of Jesus Christ and the Jewish religious roots of memory. keywords: metz cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/76537081407.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/76537081407.txt item: #1227 of 4945 id: 7653708141k author: Joshua Leonard Rasmussen title: What Propositions Correspond To and How They Do It date: 2010 words: 431 flesch: 51 summary: Third, there is the problem of understanding how abstract propositions could correspond to concrete facts. I argue that if true propositions correspond to anything, then some correspond to abstract things and others to concrete things. keywords: correspondence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7653708141k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7653708141k.txt item: #1228 of 4945 id: 7653708151w author: Carolyn Marie Rodak title: Optimization and Application of the Polymer Film Poly(n-methylpyrrole) for Environmental Sensors date: 2010 words: 152 flesch: 43 summary: Further analysis concluded continuously sampled films showed a slower rate of signal decay for thicker films whereas stored films showed a slower rate of signal decay for thinner films. Comparisons between continuously sampled films and stored films showed a large loss in signal strength for the continuously sampled films when compared to the stored polymers. keywords: films cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7653708151w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7653708151w.txt item: #1229 of 4945 id: 76537081527 author: Patrick Mousaw title: Valuation of Flexible Fuel Energy Conversion Networks Under Uncertainty date: 2011 words: 172 flesch: 19 summary: This dissertation introduces a modeling framework, suitable for analysis, for systems that can be characterized either directly by the first and second laws of thermodynamics or indirectly by relating the fundamental equations characterizing a system or process to the first and second laws of thermodynamics. We illustrate the solution technique of the bilinear optimization problem applied to several energy systems. keywords: framework cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/76537081527.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/76537081527.txt item: #1230 of 4945 id: 76537082604 author: Feng Gao title: Influence of Surface Pattern Characteristics on Electrolyte Separations Using Charge-Patterned Mosaic Membranes date: 2020 words: 253 flesch: 28 summary: These findings demonstrate the promise of accessing transport mechanisms which could find utility in a diverse range of chemical separations and sensing applications through chemical-patterning of membranes. Simulations of the electrical potential near the membrane surface demonstrate that for symmetric electrolytes, the structural charge heterogeneity reduces the barrier to ion partitioning thereby promoting salt transport through the membranes. keywords: transport cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/76537082604.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/76537082604.txt item: #1231 of 4945 id: 7653708265v author: A.L. Castonguay title: Have You a Clear Authority? Dynasties, Da'was, and the Rise of Islamic States in Medieval Morocco date: 2020 words: 347 flesch: 36 summary: However, medieval Morocco was not the exclusive domain of the Mālikī Sunni sect wherein Mālikī Sunni dynasties fought one another for territorial control and material gains. According to this logic, questions related to the religiopolitical legitimacy of medieval Moroccan dynasties were seen as part of religious reform movements originating within the Mālikī sect rather than belonging to sectarian divisions outside of Mālikī sect. keywords: mālikī cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7653708265v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7653708265v.txt item: #1232 of 4945 id: 7653708273g author: Ryan Faraghi title: From the Impossible to the Imperative: Pleasure in the Thought of Leopardi and Nietzsche date: 2021 words: 188 flesch: 40 summary: The thesis then argues that Nietzsche's negative attitude towards factual truth is, at least in part, inherited from Leopardi himself, and explains how an analogous understanding of the role of pleasure and a radical skepticism towards a stoic system of morals is at the core of both of their works. This thesis discusses Leopardi's theory of pleasure as the motivating force behind human action, and its implications for the idea of truth. keywords: leopardi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7653708273g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7653708273g.txt item: #1233 of 4945 id: 76537082813 author: Alainna A. Wen title: Biased Executive Control of Emotional Information in Remitted Depression: A Meta-Analytic Review date: 2021 words: 322 flesch: 24 summary: This imbalance may then lead to other negative information processing biases and emotion dysregulation, thereby increasing the risk for depression recurrence. Cognitive theories of depression posit that maladaptive information processing increases the risk for depression recurrence. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/76537082813.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/76537082813.txt item: #1234 of 4945 id: 79407w64d35 author: Alexander John Buoye title: Capitalizing on the Extra Curriculum: Participation, Peer Influence, and Academic Achievement date: 2004 words: 133 flesch: 15 summary: This study utilizes hierarchical regression techniques to examine the effect of extracurricular participation on social capital and academic achievement. Membership in an academically oriented peer group is revealed to act as a significant mediator of participation effects and demonstrates a positive effect on mathematics achievement among male students. keywords: participation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w64d35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w64d35.txt item: #1235 of 4945 id: 79407w64d4h author: Chrystyna D Kouros title: Transactional Relations between Marital Functioning, Spouses' Depressive Symptoms and Children's Adjustment date: 2010 words: 258 flesch: 15 summary: The present study investigates (1) changes in depressive symptoms among married adults and the transactional relationship between husbands' and wives' symptoms, (2) changes in two dimensions of marital functioning (namely, marital satisfaction and conflict), as well as the transactional relationship between husbands' and wives' relationship satisfaction, (3) the dynamic, longitudinal associations between depressive symptomatology and marital processes both within and between spouses, and (4) transactional relationships between parental depressive symptoms, marital functioning, and children's adjustment. Transactional associations between marital processes and depressive symptoms were found separately for husbands and wives; however, different domains of marital functioning related to husbands' versus wives' symptomatology. keywords: marital cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w64d4h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w64d4h.txt item: #1236 of 4945 id: 79407w64d5v author: Steven Michael Rodenborn title: Hope in Action: Subversive Eschatology in the Theologies of Edward Schillebeeckx and Johann Baptist Metz date: 2010 words: 331 flesch: 21 summary: Chapter One begins by examining the interplay of creation and eschatology in Metz's early theological engagement with mid-twentieth century interpretations of secularization. In tracing the historical developments of their work, the study underscores the important relationship between each theologian's increasingly sophisticated social analysis and the emergence of eschatology as a practical and subversive theological category. keywords: eschatology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w64d5v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w64d5v.txt item: #1237 of 4945 id: 79407w64d66 author: Sebastiaan Roelands title: The Role of Banking in the Transmission of Monetary Policy date: 2013 words: 356 flesch: 57 summary: The final chapter examines why bank loan rates tend to adjust well when the monetary policy rate rises, but not when the policy rate falls. The finding that higher target capital-to-asset ratios cause BHCs to raise loan rates rejects the Modigliani-Miller Theorem that debt versus equity financing should not be a factor in corporate decision-making. keywords: banks cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w64d66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w64d66.txt item: #1238 of 4945 id: 79407w64d7j author: Bo Gao title: Patterning biomolecule at sub-30 nm resolution by electron beam lithography. date: 2010 words: 364 flesch: 38 summary: In order to effectively bind biomolecules to silicon surfaces without disruption to their structure, I studied the adsorption behavior of tailspike protein and cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) particles on cationic, anionic and hydrophobic surfaces. Cationic APTES demonstrated high binding affinity to protein, virus particles and DNA nanostructures through electrostatic interactions and did not promote aggregation, so it was picked as the anchor pad for biomolecule attachment on silicon. keywords: binding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w64d7j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w64d7j.txt item: #1239 of 4945 id: 79407w64d8w author: Shawn R Moulton title: Essays on Housing Policy and Community Development date: 2011 words: 503 flesch: 44 summary: This dissertation contains three essays on housing policy and community development. I find that the GSE Act's affordable housing goals had little to no effect on mortgage lending or purchasing. keywords: housing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w64d8w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w64d8w.txt item: #1240 of 4945 id: 79407w64d97 author: Hilma Macedo Vasconcelos title: Topics in Coherent State Quantum Computation and State Purification date: 2006 words: 323 flesch: 39 summary: We show how an universal set of logic operations can be performed using coherent states, beam splitters, photon counters, and a source of superpositions of coherent state, called 'cat states'. This dissertation discusses mainly transmission of coherent state qubits, generation of cat states, and entanglement purification of any stabilizer state. keywords: state cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w64d97.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w64d97.txt item: #1241 of 4945 id: 79407w64f0f author: Kristina Marie Peterson title: Interspousal Criticality Bias in Depression and Marital Discord date: 2010 words: 155 flesch: 17 summary: Reports of perceived criticism may better predict relapse from depression than ratings of actual criticism in part because they capture such cognitive tendencies. That bias was related to reports of global perceived criticism suggests that spousal reports of perceived criticism capture both actual criticism and reporters' cognitive bias towards over- or under-perceiving criticism. keywords: criticism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w64f0f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w64f0f.txt item: #1242 of 4945 id: 79407w64f1s author: Junying Liu title: Robust Transmission of Arithmetically Encoded Data date: 2006 words: 349 flesch: 46 summary: But widely used entropy codes, such as Huffman codes and arithmetic codes, are variable length in nature. With the wide popularity of arithmetic codes in a variety of standards including MPEG4, JPEG2000 and H.26L, joint design for systems involving arithmetic codes has generated interest. keywords: channel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w64f1s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w64f1s.txt item: #1243 of 4945 id: 79407w64f55 author: Hongmei An title: Development of Novel Catalysts For Use in Diesel Particulate Filters date: 2008 words: 360 flesch: 36 summary: Activity and stability tests performed in TGA and fixed bed flow reactor indicated that the activity and degradation of glass catalysts are related to their composition, particle size, glass/soot mixing method (contact), and ambient gas. Measurements in microwave-TGA suggested that the apparent reduction in soot combustion temperature with microwave heating might be not due to the enhancement of microwave, but the result of the inability to measure the interior temperature of the soot/catalyst mass. keywords: catalysts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w64f55.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w64f55.txt item: #1244 of 4945 id: 79407w64f86 author: Maria Aleksandrovna Rogacheva title: A History of a Town That Did Not Exist: The Soviet Scientific Intelligentsia in the Post-Stalinist Era date: 2013 words: 297 flesch: 47 summary: This was especially true under Khrushchev, whose Communist idealism, elitism, and absolute faith in the modernizing power of science and technology provided Soviet scientists with opportunities which were otherwise unthinkable in a rigidly centralized state. I argue that, after Stalin's death, the Soviet government was sometimes willing to allow - and even encouraged - autonomous thinking and actions among certain privileged groups of Soviet society — scientists above all — in order to infuse new life into the Soviet project. keywords: soviet cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w64f86.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w64f86.txt item: #1245 of 4945 id: 79407w64h1d author: Stephanie A Freed title: The Role of Wallenda in Inducing Autophagy to Regulate Neuronal Cell Body Responses in Drosophila Photoreceptor Cells date: 1904 words: 367 flesch: 40 summary: Overexpression of wnd in Drosophila photoreceptor cells induces degeneration of the rhabdomeres, the microvillar membrane of photoreceptor cells that houses the phototransduction machinery. wnd function is not required under wildtype conditions in photoreceptor cells. keywords: wnd cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w64h1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w64h1d.txt item: #1246 of 4945 id: 79407w64m4c author: Ying Shen title: Essays on Economics of High-Skill Immigration date: 1904 words: 485 flesch: 41 summary: I use exogenous factors driving a large inflow of Chinese students that began in 2006, in combination with variation in historical levels of foreign students to construct an instrument to predict enrollment patterns. I also find that admitting more foreign undergraduate students increases non-discounted tuition, and that the economic gains of enrolling foreign undergraduate students allow American universities to increase institutional grant aid. keywords: students cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w64m4c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w64m4c.txt item: #1247 of 4945 id: 79407w6567z author: Matthew R. Hall title: Identifying Long-Sought 18F(p,α)15O Resonances Affecting γ-Ray Emission from 18F in Novae date: 2019 words: 280 flesch: 53 summary: Because models don't reproduce observed nova properties, the successful detection of keV−MeV energy γ rays would provide further constraints on nova models. Annihilation radiation, which is produced via e+-e− annihilation, should be the most intense source of γ rays from the explosion. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w6567z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w6567z.txt item: #1248 of 4945 id: 79407w65g32 author: Kevin Koh title: Development of RT-TDDFT for the Interaction with the Explicit Solvent and for Correct Description of Excitation Process date: 2020 words: 294 flesch: 22 summary: The neural network force field was not successful to reproduce the conformer search through molecular dynamics simulations, presumably due to insufficient simulation times. The electronic energy transfer processes in natural systems, such as the light harvesting pigment protein complexes, and semiconductors, such as photovoltaic devices, occur via electron dynamics in complex systems. keywords: time cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w65g32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w65g32.txt item: #1249 of 4945 id: 79407w65g5r author: Margaret H. Regan title: Parameterized Polynomial Systems and Their Applications date: 2020 words: 210 flesch: 32 summary: Experiments are shown using real and synthetic data to demonstrate that challenging scenes can be reconstructed where standard methods fail. Third, we present a new definition of monodromy action over the real numbers which encodes tiered characteristics regarding real solutions. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w65g5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w65g5r.txt item: #1250 of 4945 id: 79407w65h0b author: Jeffrey A. Smith title: Novel Silicon and Non-Silicon Transistors for Low Power Logic Applications date: 2021 words: 341 flesch: 26 summary: Higher mobility channel materials for n and p channel transistors, channel architecture innovation and mitigation of device-to-device variation are focus of current research to further boost transistor performance at scaled technology nodes. This dissertation focuses on three key aspects of enhancing transistor performance, mitigating variation, and improving reliability in CMOS transistors. keywords: channel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w65h0b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w65h0b.txt item: #1251 of 4945 id: 79407w65h7r author: Hyein Do title: Spectroelectrochemistry for Bacterial Communities date: 2021 words: 554 flesch: 33 summary: Electrochemical determination of these factors using nanopore electrode arrays (NEAs) has been demonstrated for enhanced detection of these phenazines, again using both model systems and P. aeruginosa bacteria. Myxococcus xanthus is a common soil bacterium that exhibits various form of self-organizing behavior in response to changes in environment, for example, the development of multicellular fruiting bodies in response to constrained nutrient availability. keywords: cm-1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w65h7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w65h7r.txt item: #1252 of 4945 id: 79407w65j5c author: Matthew D. Hanson title: A Coupled Local Mode Method for the Analysis of Molecular Vibrations: Theory and Applications date: 2022 words: 349 flesch: 29 summary: A considerable amount of theoretical and experimental work has focused on the application of vibrational infrared spectroscopy to questions of molecular structure and dynamics of aqueous systems. Thus, a strong understanding of molecular vibrations and spectroscopy gives chemists the ability to directly probe chemical structure and environment of aqueous systems. keywords: molecular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w65j5c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w65j5c.txt item: #1253 of 4945 id: 79407w65j9r author: Emily J. Mahan title: Reading Animals in Medieval Fable date: 2022 words: 219 flesch: 22 summary: Chapters are organized according to several themes: cohabitation between wild animals and humans; human domination of working animals such as dogs and donkeys; and the exploitation of domesticated animals such as sheep and birds for food and other resources. Discussion is focused on relationships between humans and nonhuman animals, as portrayed in works written and circulated in Britain during the Middle Ages, particularly: Avianus's fables; the elegiac Romulus; Alexander Neckam's Novus Aesopus; Odo of Cheriton's Parabolae; the Fables ascribed to Marie de France; the Morall Fabillis of Robert Henryson; and William Caxton's Aesop. keywords: fables cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/79407w65j9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/79407w65j9r.txt item: #1254 of 4945 id: 7d278s47p1t author: Bren Christopher Mochocki title: Voltage Scheduling Techniques for Dynamic Voltage Scaling Processors with Practical Limitations date: 2004 words: 100 flesch: 36 summary: Though extensive research exists in this area, processor limitations such as transition overhead and voltage level discretization are not included simultaneously in any research processor model to date. Voltage scheduling is an essential technique used to exploit the benefit of dynamic voltage scaling processors. keywords: limitations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7d278s47p1t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7d278s47p1t.txt item: #1255 of 4945 id: 7d278s47p25 author: Dixie Dillon Lane title: Skipping School: Homeschooling in Los Angeles County, 1950-2010 date: 2015 words: 346 flesch: 48 summary: In a country famous for its early establishment of free schooling, American schools have historically provided foundational shared experiences for children, socializing them into American cultures and economies while also preparing them for intellectual adulthood. Yet in the 1950s, a small number of American parents began to reject normative schooling in favor of teaching their children themselves, an approach that had been out of favor for decades. keywords: american cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7d278s47p25.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7d278s47p25.txt item: #1256 of 4945 id: 7d278s47p3h author: Joel Brian Watkins title: Good Taste: Pleasure and Practice in Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment date: 2010 words: 339 flesch: 55 summary: For Kant, I claim, a beautiful object provides us with an excellent example for how we might make sense of something that lies beyond the boundaries of possible experience, for example, the perfect expression of love, the majesty of God's creative power, or what it's like to feel at home in the world. To have good taste is to become mature enough to determine for oneself which objects of art or nature offer an excellent example for how we might strive toward making sense of some of our deepest concerns as humans, that is, an example which always remains worth contemplating, an example from which we can always learn more. keywords: taste cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7d278s47p3h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7d278s47p3h.txt item: #1257 of 4945 id: 7d278s47q3t author: Julianne Bruneau title: Perceval the Welshman: Identity in Medieval British Romance date: 2010 words: 237 flesch: 48 summary: In my study I examine a series of texts which have hitherto been classified as 'Grail romances' and argue that they are instead Perceval romances: that is, tales preoccupied not with the object of the hero's quest but with his identity development. My dissertation examines the literary representation of Welshness in medieval Perceval romances, challenging the assumption that this category of identity is a remnant of the Celtic origins of Perceval and Grail romance. keywords: perceval cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7d278s47q3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7d278s47q3t.txt item: #1258 of 4945 id: 7d278s47q45 author: John D Young title: Neighbors, Partners, Enemies: Jews and the Monasteries of Germany in the High Middle Ages date: 2011 words: 324 flesch: 39 summary: It explores both the social/economic and the cultural aspect of contact between monks and Jews. Part one, comprising the first three chapters, examines the political context wherein Jews and monks interacted before investigating evidence of contact between Jews and monks in the social and economic spheres. keywords: jews cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7d278s47q45.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7d278s47q45.txt item: #1259 of 4945 id: 7d278s47q5h author: Heather Elaine Price title: School Networks As Social Resources: The Relationship of School Resources and School Community to School Effectiveness date: 2011 words: 264 flesch: 48 summary: The survey data collected for this dissertation maps the network of relationships between school staff and assesses their perceptions on various school community and engagement outcomes. There has been a long-standing discourse in the field of sociology of education regarding the relationship of school community to effective schools. keywords: school cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7d278s47q5h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7d278s47q5h.txt item: #1260 of 4945 id: 7d278s47s85 author: Luke J. Hollmann title: Autonomous Ocean Sensing: A Practical Approach to Modeling, Adaptive Whitening, and Location Estimation date: 1904 words: 433 flesch: 35 summary: Existing adaptive whitening techniques make no effort to avoid suppressing tonals in the whitening process, while existing spectral separation methods fail to whiten background noise. Such challenges include modeling of ambient noise spectra, adaptive whitening of background noise, and sensor location estimation. keywords: noise cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7d278s47s85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7d278s47s85.txt item: #1261 of 4945 id: 7d278s48c7c author: Mona Rahimi title: Leveraging Change Patterns and Software Traceability to Support the Evolution of Safety-Critical Systems date: 1904 words: 511 flesch: 38 summary: Constant changes are inevitable in large software systems including safety-critical systems for which failure may result in death or serious injury to humans, damage to property and/or environmental harm. Software evolution relates to the activity and phenomenon of software change. keywords: software cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7d278s48c7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7d278s48c7c.txt item: #1262 of 4945 id: 7d278s48t31 author: Di Zhou title: Computational Analysis of Noise Generation by a Rotor Ingesting Turbulent Boundary Layer on an Axisymmetric Body of Revolution date: 2021 words: 468 flesch: 47 summary: An examination of acoustic dipole-source distributions on rotor blades reveals that the leading-edge region is acoustically more important at low frequencies, whereas the trailing-edge region become dominant at high frequencies. The Sears theory accurately predicts the haystacking peaks in the sound pressure spectra, but the accuracy deteriorates at higher frequencies. keywords: tail cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7d278s48t31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7d278s48t31.txt item: #1263 of 4945 id: 7d278s48v09 author: Chissa-Louise Rivaldi title: Microbiomes of Long-Tailed Macaques in Southeast Asia: Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Interactions date: 2022 words: 369 flesch: 30 summary: Revealed in this work is evidence showing that, though oral microbes have greater diversity than gut microbiomes, they show greater similarity across geographic space, which reflects their role as a barrier between hosts and the environment in which they live. Next, I expand this work to Bali, Indonesia, and examine the differences of gut bacterial microbiomes across landscapes through host diet. keywords: host cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7d278s48v09.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7d278s48v09.txt item: #1264 of 4945 id: 7h149p30z5r author: Patricia L. Maazouz title: Reaction Dynamics and Charge Transfer in the Scattering of State-Selected Ions on Surfaces date: 2004 words: 351 flesch: 25 summary: The sensitivity of the emergence of Br– to the Br2+ incident energy suggests a collision-induced dissociation mechanism at higher collision energies and dissociative resonant neutralization at lower collision energies. The latter mechanism is further supported by the reduction of the Br– yield when the initial vibrational state changes from n=0 to n=2 at low collision energies. keywords: collision cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p30z5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p30z5r.txt item: #1265 of 4945 id: 7h149p30z63 author: Guillermo Ernesto Montt title: Cross National Differences in Achievement Inequality date: 2010 words: 177 flesch: 24 summary: By analyzing the variability in achievement directly, this paper goes beyond the existing literature on inequalities in educational opportunities by analyzing total achievement inequality directly. It identifies school and institutional practices related to achievement inequality in the form of variations of opportunities to learn and the intensity of schooling. keywords: inequality cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p30z63.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p30z63.txt item: #1266 of 4945 id: 7h149p30z7f author: Tian Fang title: Electronic Properties of Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbons date: 2010 words: 154 flesch: 42 summary: The electronic and transport properties of graphene and graphene nanoribbons (GNR) have ignited a lot of interests since its experimental realization in 2004 by Novoselov et al. Last, we applied non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism to evaluate transport degradation due to the edge roughness in short nanoribbons. keywords: graphene cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p30z7f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p30z7f.txt item: #1267 of 4945 id: 7h149p30z8s author: Anna G O'Meara title: Speaking the Language of Religion for the Last Time: Guy Debord's Critique of Religion in The Society of the Spectacle and In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni date: 2013 words: 1665 flesch: 41 summary: While writing a history of Guy Debord may sound highly specific and obscure to the vast majority of my contemporaries, it is in fact the general rather than the specific that informs the specific for Marx, for Debord, and in my own thinking. After reading the available writings by Debord, I have had the opportunity to visit the archives of Guy Debord, the 'Fonds Guy Debord' at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France where I was able to immerse myself in his working notes for The Society of the Spectacle (book), The Society of the Spectacle (film), Howls for Sade, and In Girum Imus Nocte keywords: debord; ideology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p30z8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p30z8s.txt item: #1268 of 4945 id: 7h149p30z94 author: Kai Liu title: Electrophile-Induced Ether Transfer and Application in Natural Product Total Synthesis date: 2010 words: 298 flesch: 24 summary: In laboratory syntheses of such natural products, discrete steps for generating a hydroxyl stereogenic center and subsequent methylation are typically bracketed by additional protecting group manipulation steps. This methodology is capable of significantly simplifying the creation of functionality common to polyketide natural products by controlling the generation of a stereogenic center simultaneous with ether incorporation. keywords: products cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p30z94.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p30z94.txt item: #1269 of 4945 id: 7h149p3100m author: Sarah Cotter title: Characterizing forking in VC-minimal theories date: 2012 words: 139 flesch: 17 summary: Finally, after introducing a slight generalization of the classical notions of forking and dividing, we prove that in any VC-minimal or quasi-VC-minimal theory whose generating family is unpackable or almost unpackable, forking of formulae over a model M is equivalent to containment in a global M -definable type, generalizing a result of Dolich on o-minimal theories in [8]. After covering some basic results, including a notion of generic types, we consider two kinds of VC-minimal theories: those whose generating directed families are unpackable and almost unpackable. keywords: minimal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p3100m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p3100m.txt item: #1270 of 4945 id: 7h149p3101z author: James Patrick Creech title: The Literature of Monarchy from William III to George I date: 2011 words: 324 flesch: 35 summary: Contrary to the general scholarly perception, the Revolution of 1688-89 and consequent changes to the institution of monarchy informed a large body of political literature. For the literary historian, these languages are best understood not as cohesive political theories but as reservoirs of ideas, metaphors, and images from which writers drew selectively to suit their individual beliefs and purposes. keywords: discourse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p3101z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p3101z.txt item: #1271 of 4945 id: 7h149p31029 author: Juan Luis Sanchez title: Spain, Politics, and the British Romantic Imagination date: 2008 words: 269 flesch: 7 summary: Focusing on the implications of literary representations of Spain in the development of British political thought, this project more specifically considers the complex ways in which romantic imaginings of Spain attempted to reconcile the ideological conflicts that tended to polarize British culture and society in the aftermath of the French Revolution. This dissertation is about why Spain matters to British romanticism and the political importance romantic era writers as diverse as Robert Southey, Felicia Hemans, and Lord Byron deduced from Spain and Spanish affairs during the early part of the nineteenth century. keywords: spain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p31029.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p31029.txt item: #1272 of 4945 id: 7h149p3103n author: James Chenkuo Tung title: Towards the synthesis of the cornexistins date: 2008 words: 265 flesch: 35 summary: We targeted a retro-aldol precursor through a series of aldol reactions. Utilizing a Johnson-Claisen rearrangement and an enantioselective Evans-type aldol to generate the starting fragments, a series of reactions was performed to find the appropriate conditions for a key bond-forming ester enolate aldol. keywords: cornexistin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p3103n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p3103n.txt item: #1273 of 4945 id: 7h149p31071 author: Brian J. Shula title: Effect of Welding Flaws on the Fatigue Life of High Strength Steel Structures date: 2007 words: 149 flesch: 46 summary: The fatigue behavior of welded specimens was shown to vary significantly from unwelded specimens as expected, but also varied based on the type(s) of welding flaws detected by radiography. LEFM principles and crack growth parameters from steels with similar microstructures were used to model fatigue crack propagation in specimens with sharp flaws. keywords: specimens cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p31071.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p31071.txt item: #1274 of 4945 id: 7h149p3108c author: Jing Zhang title: Fabrication and Performance of Submicron Gate Length GaAs-Channel MOSFETs Using InAlP Oxide as the Gate Dielectric date: 2007 words: 313 flesch: 43 summary: The microstructural properties of InAlP oxide have been examined, and the mechanisms governing the oxidation of InAlP have been explored. GaAs-channel MOSFETs using InAlP oxide as the gate dielectric have been fabricated and characterized. keywords: oxide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p3108c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p3108c.txt item: #1275 of 4945 id: 7h149p3109q author: James S Doyle title: Quality Metrics for Biometrics date: 2011 words: 118 flesch: 55 summary: This thesis evaluates current metrics and introduces a method for determining the ideal iris image from a set of iris images by using the Mean Self-Match algorithm to examine the set of true matches. This proposed method is shown to outperform other methods currently used for selecting an ideal image from a set of iris images. keywords: iris cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p3109q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p3109q.txt item: #1276 of 4945 id: 7h149p3110x author: Marco Carlos Emerson Hernandez title: The Seeds of Creation and New Creation: St. Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors on the Generative Principles of Natural and Supernatural Life date: 2014 words: 326 flesch: 50 summary: Seed imagery facilitates Aquinas' presentation of the totality of God's plan as emanating from the divine goodness, and the importance of the participation of creatures in creation and the supernatural order of new creation. Chapters Three and Four offer Aquinas' analysis of the seminal reasons and how miracles and wonders relate to the fullness of God's plan for creation, including the works of grace. keywords: creation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p3110x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p3110x.txt item: #1277 of 4945 id: 7h149p31536 author: Bryan Michael Santin title: Imagining the American Right: Postwar Fiction, Race, and the Rise of Modern Conservatism, 1945–2005 date: 1904 words: 355 flesch: 4 summary: This dissertation presents a fundamental reinterpretation of the cultural politics of postwar American fiction, arguing that the robust linkage between liberalism and highbrow literary fiction in the post-sixties United States must be understood in relation to the rise of modern conservatism and its evolving positions on race. But I argue that the conservative movement played an equally significant role in reshaping the dominant political order in ways that also reshaped normative assumptions about novelistic form, literary merit, and the value-laden implications of literary fiction. keywords: fiction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p31536.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p31536.txt item: #1278 of 4945 id: 7h149p31t95 author: Catherine M. Brix title: Transformative (Re)Inscriptions: Traumatic Memories and Testimonio in Chile date: 2019 words: 442 flesch: 9 summary: In considering the testimonios of traumatic experiences – this study focuses on the detention and torture of women political prisoners during the Pinochet dictatorship of Chile – this analysis recognizes testimonial texts as an important component in the construction and preservation of collective memory, and favors them as a key element in the development of transformative justice frameworks in post-conflict societies. In addition to highlighting the literary and theoretical richness of this genre of literature, this investigation also aims to illustrate the practical applicability of testimonial texts within interdisciplinary studies. keywords: approach cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p31t95.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p31t95.txt item: #1279 of 4945 id: 7h149p32090 author: Shawn Andrew Kern title: We're the Real Activists: Repression and the Dissident Republican Identity date: 2019 words: 143 flesch: 36 summary: Social movements literature views repression as a barrier to movement mobilization and success. This paper contributes a process of identity, repression, and resources that sustains activist identity and movement participation in the long-term without movement success, hinting that movements can be reliant upon state repression. keywords: repression cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p32090.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p32090.txt item: #1280 of 4945 id: 7h149p32137 author: Thomas Sherman title: Upscaled Stochastic Transport Modelling of Hydro-Geologic Systems date: 2020 words: 183 flesch: 24 summary: The benefit of random walk methods is that transport behavior can be accurately upscaled, meaning physical process governing transport at a range of scales can be effectively captured in bulk parameters. In natural hydrologic environments, the surrounding geologic media influences the flow field and associated transport behavior. keywords: transport cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p32137.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p32137.txt item: #1281 of 4945 id: 7h149p32257 author: Syed Eisar Haider title: Local Expressions, Global Arenas: The Case of Pakistani Shia Muslims to Iraq date: 2021 words: 194 flesch: 32 summary: Using ten semi-structured interviews of Pakistani Shia pilgrims to Iraq for the occasion of Arba'een, I argue that in this case, local understandings of religion and culture do not change substantially because of three factors: one, the nature of religious practice is steeped in a local idiom of affective expression and can be difficult to separate local culture from religious practice; two, the structure of pilgrimage participation is made possible by local institutions (family, congregations) and structure the practice in global space; three, pilgrims orient their meaning-making processes towards their localities, and thus local space mediates any changes brought about by the pilgrimage itself. Olivier Roy theorizes – from a macro perspective – that in the face of globalization and secularization, religion attempts to become autonomous in a global space and separates from local culture and politics. keywords: local cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p32257.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p32257.txt item: #1282 of 4945 id: 7h149p32377 author: Romain Thurin title: Nomadic Warriors on the Edge of the World Empire: The Early Karamanids (1225-1335) date: 2022 words: 233 flesch: 33 summary: This dissertation studies the formation, expansion, and growth of the early Karamanid Beylik (c.a. 1256-1340), from a weak warband of nomads into one of the most politically, economically, and culturally significant entities to emerge from the ashes of the Seljuks, analyzing the processes through which the Mongol invasions forced the ancestors of the Karamanids to abandon their homeland for the greener pastures of Anatolia. In Anatolia, the sixty years that followed the first Mongol invasion (1242/1243) saw the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, once the unchallenged dominant political power in the region, collapse into a myriad of smaller emirates, the so-called Anatolian beyliks. keywords: mongol cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p32377.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p32377.txt item: #1283 of 4945 id: 7h149p3247j author: Lauren Neilsen title: Answering the Call: Responses to Gendered Constraints within Military Chaplaincy date: 2022 words: 228 flesch: 28 summary: After identifying the gendered constraints present within military chaplaincy, I then assess how military chaplain women navigate them, and why they engage in the type of agentic action they do. Drawing on 15 in-depth interviews with military chaplain women, I offer an exploration of what intersecting individual, interactional, and institutional gender structure constraints exist within U.S. military chaplaincy. keywords: military cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7h149p3247j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7h149p3247j.txt item: #1284 of 4945 id: 7m01bk1473d author: James D. Rissler title: Divine Providence and Human Libertarian Freedom: Reasons for Incompatibility and Theological Alternatives date: 2004 words: 321 flesch: 24 summary: I approach the central issue of divine providence indirectly, by first considering principles that would lead one to 'stronger' incompatibility claims: that libertarian freedom is incompatible with prior truth and with divine foreknowledge. As I proceed from the problem of logical determinism to that of the compatibility of libertarian freedom with divine foreknowledge and finally to its compatibility with divine providence, I expect that more readers will judge that the principles that lead to the particular incompatibility thesis being discussed have greater plausibility than the implications of maintaining compatibility. keywords: libertarian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk1473d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk1473d.txt item: #1285 of 4945 id: 7m01bk1474r author: Ying Du title: Approximation Algorithms for Multicommodity Flow and Normalized Cut Problems: Implementations and Experimental Study date: 2004 words: 97 flesch: 12 summary: The thesis presents the theory, implementation and experimental validation of a fast approximation multicommodity flow algorithm and, as an important application of this multicommodity flow algorithm, the first provably good approximation algorithm for the minimum normalized cut problem. The normalized cut problem has been applied to segment static images. keywords: implementation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk1474r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk1474r.txt item: #1286 of 4945 id: 7m01bk14753 author: Ewa Misiolek title: Efficient Algorithms for Geometric Problems in Computer-Aided Manufacturing date: 2011 words: 357 flesch: 45 summary: For example, we reduce the space requirement for a class of problems that seek a path from among many shortest paths in certain weighted grid graphs, we develop new algorithms for processing an off-line sequence of insertions and deletions of convex polygons interspersed with certain point queries on the common intersection of the polygons, and for finding a line segment of a fixed-length that intersects the maximum number of given polygons. Our methods combine geometric modeling, new algorithmic techniques, and new data structures. keywords: algorithms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk14753.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk14753.txt item: #1287 of 4945 id: 7m01bk1485d author: Louis Francesco Pignatelli title: Toward a Transformative Democratic Literary Aesthetic: The Late Style of Don Delillo date: 2010 words: 317 flesch: 4 summary: Specifically of interest is the concept of literary experience as drawn from the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer which, when examined in the context of radical and transformational democracy - engaging the writings of a diverse selection of thinkers from Hannah Arendt, Pierre Rosanvallon, Jaques Rancière, Amy Gutman, Marian Iris Young and Alexis de Tocqueville to the New York Intellectuals, D.H. Lawrence and members of the Frankfurt school - reveals the possibility through an innovative and conceptual form of, borrowing again from Said, a 'democratic and meta-humanistic literature.' From Edward Said's *On Late Style*, the idea of 'late style' reveals a period of DeLillo's literature that proves to be - as F.O. Matthiessen wrote in the American Renaissance - 'literature for democracy.' keywords: literature cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk1485d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk1485d.txt item: #1288 of 4945 id: 7m01bk1486r author: Jie Jayne Wu title: Inductive Links With Integrated Receiving Coils for Mems and Implantable Applications date: 2003 words: 342 flesch: 38 summary: Here we demonstrate that inductive links with integrated receiving coils can provide sufficient voltage or power to many MEMS devices. To further improve the performance of the inductive link, an inlaid electroplating procedure is developed to reduce the internal resistance of integrated receiving coils. keywords: coils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk1486r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk1486r.txt item: #1289 of 4945 id: 7m01bk14873 author: Luis A Montestruque title: Model-Based Networked Control Systems date: 2004 words: 373 flesch: 46 summary: Popular models for network transmission times are used such as Markov-driven transmission times. The model is used to simulate plant conditions between transmission instants when no information about the plant is available. keywords: ncs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk14873.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk14873.txt item: #1290 of 4945 id: 7m01bk1495q author: Douglas R. Smith title: A Method for Estimating Entropy of Real Birational Maps with Constrained Critical Orbits date: 1904 words: 156 flesch: 56 summary: We particularly concern ourselves with the specific family of maps $f:\overline{\R} \ imes \overline{\R} \ ightarrow \overline{\R} \ imes \overline{\R}$ defined by $f(x,y) = \left(y\ rac{x+a}{x-1},x+a-1\ ight)$, where $a \in \R$ is a parameter subject to conditions specified later. Our method is combinatorial, using invariant and critical curves for $f$ to define a partition of $\overline{\R} \ imes \overline{\R}$ that is convenient for coding orbits under $f$. We may expand these codings to hold for points without well-defined orbits. keywords: entropy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk1495q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk1495q.txt item: #1291 of 4945 id: 7m01bk14c0m author: Peter J Barwis title: Power and Mobilization: The Problem of All-Volunteer Force Enlistment date: 1904 words: 335 flesch: 26 summary: Notable findings include significant, positive relationships between increased structural vulnerability and military recruitment office locations, and increased biographical vulnerability and enlistments. This dissertation argues that state officials did not relinquish power over military recruitment after conscription ended. keywords: state cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk14c0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk14c0m.txt item: #1292 of 4945 id: 7m01bk14x9p author: Mary Catherine Levri title: The Chant-based Organ Works of Anton Heiller date: 1904 words: 283 flesch: 39 summary: For the first four decades of his life, Heiller worked in an environment in which Tra le sollecitudini, Pope Pius X's declaration on sacred music, was the gold standard for composers of modern sacred music for the Catholic Church. In this document, Pius X referred to Gregorian chant as the supreme model of sacred music and encouraged composers to imitate the movement, inspiration, and savor of the Gregorian form. keywords: heiller cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk14x9p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk14x9p.txt item: #1293 of 4945 id: 7m01bk14z6z author: Eric R DeLeon title: Hydrogen Sulfide and Other Reactive Sulfide Species' Role in Cellular Signaling and Oxygen Sensing date: 1904 words: 343 flesch: 41 summary: Being able to delineate ROS from RSS and understanding the many potential routes for RSS production, the final goal of this research was to show RSS production in vitro, particularly in hypoxia. Catalase was found to generate H2S from certain RSS, showing that catalase can act as a sulfur oxidase or sulfur reductase. keywords: rss cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk14z6z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk14z6z.txt item: #1294 of 4945 id: 7m01bk1540q author: Andrew Wood title: Low Data Dialogue Act Classification for Virtual Agents during Debugging date: 2019 words: 239 flesch: 37 summary: Dialogue acts are usually only a few words long, and are divided by researchers into a relatively small set (often less than 10) of dialogue act types, such as eliciting information, expressing an opinion, or making a greeting. Research interest into automatic classification of dialogue acts has grown recently due to the proliferation of Virtual Agents (VA) e.g. Siri, Cortana, Alexa. keywords: dialogue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk1540q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk1540q.txt item: #1295 of 4945 id: 7m01bk1549t author: Sage Z Davis title: Deconstructing Artemisinin Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Using Genetic Crosses and Systems Biology Approaches date: 2019 words: 493 flesch: 37 summary: Using a recently generated genetic cross whose parents have diverging artemisinin resistance phenotypes, I aim to determine the genetic loci controlling artemisinin resistance. To combat the spread of artemisinin and artemisinin combination therapy resistances, an understanding of artemisinin's mechanism of action, the resistance mechanisms against artemisinin, and more rationally designed combination therapies are required. keywords: artemisinin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk1549t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk1549t.txt item: #1296 of 4945 id: 7m01bk15908 author: Kimberly J. Curtis title: Investigation of the Biochemical and Mechanical Cues Influencing Breast Cancer Metastasis to Trabecular Bone date: 2019 words: 477 flesch: 44 summary: Leptin, TNFα, IL-1β, and IL-6 were all found to increase due to the presence of bone marrow and may serve as potential chemoattractants for the cancer cells. These results provide information on the mechanical environment present in bone marrow that will be experienced by metastatic cancer cells residing in the tissue. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk15908.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk15908.txt item: #1297 of 4945 id: 7m01bk15b4z author: Dahyeon Kim title: Positive Attenuation of Autobiographical Memories in Depressed Mood: The Influence of Time and Positive Emotion Regulation date: 2021 words: 313 flesch: 20 summary: Consistent with the hypotheses, recalling positive autobiographical memories after a sad-mood induction elevated positive emotions for all participants. The participants' positive emotions were repeatedly assessed to elucidate whether the benefit of recalling positive autobiographical memory on positive emotions decays with time differentially in the high versus low dysphoric group. keywords: positive cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk15b4z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk15b4z.txt item: #1298 of 4945 id: 7m01bk15b70 author: Michael A Torcivia title: Unraveling the Mineral Components in Lunar Highlands Materials date: 2021 words: 233 flesch: 38 summary: In addition to this, individual samples also contain material representative of crystallization out of separate stages of LMO evolution. We then compare these results to five models of LMO evolution to determine likely provenance for the individual minerals in each sample. keywords: lmo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk15b70.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk15b70.txt item: #1299 of 4945 id: 7m01bk15c0w author: Liling Ko title: Towards Finding a Lattice That Characterizes the >ω2-Fickle Recursively Enumerable Turing Degrees date: 2021 words: 229 flesch: 60 summary: Turing degrees (RT, ≤T), we do not in general know how to characterize the degrees d ε RT below which L can be bounded. We introduced a lattice-theoretic property called 3-directness to describe lattices that are no wider or taller than L7 and M3 . keywords: lattices cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk15c0w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk15c0w.txt item: #1300 of 4945 id: 7m01bk15c90 author: Carly Olson title: Understanding Shifts in Limitation of Lake Primary Productivity across Scales and Its Implications for Water Quality and Carbon Cycling date: 2022 words: 307 flesch: 35 summary: In my first data chapter, I present the first experimental test of a new model describing how shifts from nutrient to light limitation control primary productivity in lake ecosystems as hydrologic inputs of nutrients and dissolved organic matter vary. Nutrient limitation and the potential shifts to other forms of limitation have important implications for the spatiotemporal variability of biogeochemical process rates and the ultimate fates of elements. keywords: limitation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7m01bk15c90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7m01bk15c90.txt item: #1301 of 4945 id: 7p88cf97h8n author: Joshua Kyle Bolger title: Regioselective Copper-Mediated Organometallic Ring Openings of Acylnitroso Cycloadducts and the Development of 5-Lipoxygenase Inhibitors date: 2010 words: 593 flesch: 33 summary: Recently, organometallic reagents were shown to open bicyclic acylnitroso cycloadducts and, more interestingly, the prospect of highly regioselective openings was raised. Allylic oxidations of the lead structure were attempted with numerous established reagents and conditions and in all cases failed to provide a useful intermediate. keywords: zone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf97h8n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf97h8n.txt item: #1302 of 4945 id: 7p88cf97h90 author: Fernando Carvalho title: Redesigning the Hospital Cradle to Promote Parent-Newborn Relationships date: 2010 words: 316 flesch: 44 summary: While the architecture of the environments for neonatal care have started to be revised to accommodate new conceptions of institutional care for sick infants, the support products utilized in these units seem to be responding at a much slower pace. This proposed solution for the hospital cradle is my attempt to engage in a necessary change that must occur within the universe of artifacts and technologies that compose neonatal care. keywords: hospital cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf97h90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf97h90.txt item: #1303 of 4945 id: 7p88cf97j06 author: Amanda Elizabeth Joseph title: Hometown Fantasy Girl date: 2013 words: 70 flesch: 39 summary: The work in Hometown Fantasy Girl seeks to explore the intersection of class, race, and gender through the lens of 'white trash,' which can be best understood as a complex set of social representations. The exhibition features drawings and paintings that are informed both by research and personal experience, culminating in portraits of young women that discuss the intricately woven relationship between one's class, race, and gender in America. keywords: gender cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf97j06.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf97j06.txt item: #1304 of 4945 id: 7p88cf97j1j author: Bradley Jourdan White title: Ecological Genomics of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae date: 2010 words: 430 flesch: 37 summary: Polymorphic chromosomal inversions shared between forms are non-randomly associated with multiple environmental factors further promoting adaptation. Anopheles gambiae is the primary mosquito vector of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. keywords: divergence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf97j1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf97j1j.txt item: #1305 of 4945 id: 7p88cf97j2w author: Stephen Flood title: Paths, trees, and the computational strength of some Ramsey-type theorems. date: 2012 words: 244 flesch: 53 summary: We begin by studying the computational strength of a version of Ramsey's Theorem that combines features of finite and infinite Ramsey theory. In reverse mathematics, we show that that this Packed Ramsey's Theorem is equivalent to Ramsey's Theorem for exponents n other than 2. When n=2, we show that it implies Ramsey's Theorem, and that it does not imply ACA. keywords: ramsey cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf97j2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf97j2w.txt item: #1306 of 4945 id: 7p88cf97j37 author: Mehrdad Aliasgari title: Secure Computation and Outsourcing of Biometric Data date: 2013 words: 361 flesch: 50 summary: In this work we explore solutions and techniques to provide secure computation over iris images and voice data. In addition, we provide the first solutions for secure multi-party computation and secure outsourcing to multiple servers of voice data. keywords: computation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf97j37.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf97j37.txt item: #1307 of 4945 id: 7p88cf97j4k author: Matthew P. Larner title: The American Worker in Transition: Insecurity, the Individualization of Work, and Job Values in the 1990's date: 2008 words: 351 flesch: 39 summary: Overall, the non-uniformity of work value change suggests a divergent experience of the 1990's labor market depending on occupation. This dissertation examines changes in work values during the 1990's in the United States. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf97j4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf97j4k.txt item: #1308 of 4945 id: 7p88cf97j5x author: John S. Zintsmaster title: Probing the Evolutionary Dynamics Of WW Domains Using the Gaussian Network Model and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance date: 2010 words: 270 flesch: 41 summary: This application constitutes new method for predicting the effects of mutations on protein dynamics. WWS19 mutant: single residue deletion (RSG ) 3. KSKK WW domain mutant: entire loop 1 mutation to alter binding specificity ( KSKK ) ÌøåÀå_ keywords: dynamics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf97j5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf97j5x.txt item: #1309 of 4945 id: 7p88cf97j99 author: Garnett Brendan Cross title: Investigation of a Laser-Induced Breakdown Spark as a Near Field Guide Star for Aero-Optic Measurements date: 2009 words: 333 flesch: 40 summary: The study of the optical aberrations produced by compressible nearfield turbulent flows is called 'aero-optics.' Topics addressed in the thesis include compensation of anisoplanatic differences between the spark beam and the outgoing laser beam, characterization of the optical behavior of the spark, and investigation of flow effects on the spark. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf97j99.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf97j99.txt item: #1310 of 4945 id: 7p88cf97k0h author: Jonathan Peter Hill title: Religious Pathways During the Transition to Adulthood: A Life Course Approach date: 2007 words: 416 flesch: 29 summary: Young people are most likely to decline in religious service attendance, but they are also likely to disaffiliate, convert, or change particular religious beliefs during this phase of the life course. Empirical studies have identified late adolescence and early adulthood as a period of the life course marked by relatively high levels of change in religious belief, practice, and identity. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf97k0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf97k0h.txt item: #1311 of 4945 id: 7p88cf97k1v author: Mary Katherine Lattari title: All of the Everything date: 2013 words: 262 flesch: 50 summary: Jagger?s deep, spiraling, and synesthetic consciousness creates porcelain plate curios out of the men in her life, turns guttering street lamps into photon death rattles, renders music a sensory phantasmagoria able to prime the body and consciousness for any number of possible outcomes, probabilities, or actions. All of the Everything, a novel, explores one night in the life of Tynan Jagger, a twenty-five year-old musician in the fictitious New England city of Port Harbor. keywords: night cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf97k1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf97k1v.txt item: #1312 of 4945 id: 7p88cf97k26 author: Marjorie Massel title: Thermodynamic and Thermophysical Properties of Ionic Liquid Mixtures date: 2014 words: 288 flesch: 34 summary: These results demonstrate the ability of tuning the aprotic heterocyclic anion (AHA)-based ILs, showing great potential for the design of cost efficient carbon capture technology. In order to assess the vialibility of ILs for heat transfer fluid application, their thermophysical properties (i.e. viscosity, density and thermal conductivity) must be well understood. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf97k26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf97k26.txt item: #1313 of 4945 id: 7p88cf97q5g author: Melissa D. McCoul title: Come Play with Me: Theorizing Child's Play, Narrative World-Building and Imaginative Embodiment in Literature, 1749-1911 date: 1904 words: 344 flesch: 47 summary: By sidestepping the question of what's really happening when children play, I am advocating for a reading sees both play processes and the objects, stories, and bodies that are wrapped up in such processes, as important sites of meaning. This dissertation argues that children's authors of the long nineteenth century imagined play as a creative way for child readers, collaborating with adults, to imbue physical reality with narratives which did not exist before. keywords: play cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf97q5g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf97q5g.txt item: #1314 of 4945 id: 7p88cf98773 author: Anna Adams Petrin title: The Egyptian Connection: Egyptian Elements in the Liturgy of Jerusalem date: 1904 words: 188 flesch: 30 summary: Chapter two provides an overview of three key strands of liturgical scholarship pertinent to the question of Egyptian influence on the liturgy of Jerusalem. This dissertation addresses a longstanding question in the scholarship on early Christian liturgy: namely, were the earliest-known liturgical rites of Jerusalem influenced by the Egyptian liturgical tradition? keywords: jerusalem cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf98773.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf98773.txt item: #1315 of 4945 id: 7p88cf98m03 author: Xiaoyu Ma title: Numerical Studies of Particle-Like Complex Systems date: 2020 words: 249 flesch: 41 summary: We further study how system stability depends on container symmetry, container size, and vortex number. We elucidate their effects and explain the emergent magic number states, which are extraordinarily stable states at specific vortex numbers. keywords: vortex cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf98m03.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf98m03.txt item: #1316 of 4945 id: 7p88cf98n9h author: Kreila E. Cote title: Neglect Potential in Adolescent Mothers, Predicting Reported Neglect and Psychopathology in Their Children date: 2022 words: 247 flesch: 22 summary: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of using the Mother Child Neglect Scale, a measure of neglect potential, to predict subsequent perpetration of neglect by evaluating associations between scores on this self-reported measure and child self-reported neglect at two subsequent time points, to determine whether maternal self-reported neglect potential is associated with child internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and to determine whether child self-reported neglect mediates associations between maternal neglect potential and child internalizing and externalizing symptoms. There was a significant direct effect of maternal neglect potential on child neglect at age 14. keywords: neglect cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf98n9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf98n9h.txt item: #1317 of 4945 id: 7p88cf98p0q author: Kimberlie Orr title: The Governance of Environmental Mobility date: 2022 words: 339 flesch: 32 summary: Chapter four ends with a call to action that focuses on the need for a universal terminology and definition of environmental migrants, the potential of regional Free Movement Agreements (FMAs), and the imperative that States implement initiatives that address the root causes of movement and create legal pathways that respect the dignity and agency of environmental migrants.[1] Pörtner, H. et al. (2022, February 27). This paper is a primer for academics and policymakers on the interrelated complexities, existing protection gaps, and future possibilities in the governance of environmental mobility. keywords: climate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7p88cf98p0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7p88cf98p0q.txt item: #1318 of 4945 id: 7s75db80s55 author: Katherine Anne Hennessey title: Memorable Barbarities and National Myths: Ancient Greek Tragedy and Irish Epic in Modern Irish Theatre date: 2008 words: 344 flesch: 33 summary: Partially because of its long-standing claim to the title of Ireland's "National Theatre," the Abbey has been the subject of the preponderance of scholarly criticism about the history of Irish theatre, while the Gate has received comparatively scarce academic attention. I contend, however, that the history of the Abbey--and of modern Irish theatre as a whole--cannot be properly understood except in relation to the strikingly different aesthetics practiced at the Gate. keywords: irish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7s75db80s55.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7s75db80s55.txt item: #1319 of 4945 id: 7s75db80s6h author: Shawn Elam Gano title: Simulation-Based Design Using Variable Fidelity Optimization date: 2005 words: 360 flesch: 27 summary: Higher fidelity models are then used in the final design stages to refine the design. A common engineering practice is to drive the preliminary design process using lower fidelity models as surrogates of expensive high fidelity simulations. keywords: fidelity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7s75db80s6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7s75db80s6h.txt item: #1320 of 4945 id: 7s75db80s7v author: Daniel Kurt Unruh title: The Crystal Chemistry of Uranyl Polyoxometalates and Uranyl Chromates date: 2011 words: 146 flesch: 26 summary: Study of the crystal chemistry of uranium compounds is essential for understanding the chemical and physical properties of materials necessary for the safe disposal of radioactive materials. These compounds include a unique family of uranyl peroxide polyoxometalates with closed topologies, and novel structures of uranyl chromate chain, sheet, and framework structures with interesting coordination geometry for solid-state hexavalent uranium. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7s75db80s7v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7s75db80s7v.txt item: #1321 of 4945 id: 7s75db80t8h author: Xuan Wang title: Electronic Dephasing in Bimetallic Gold-Silver Nanoparticles Examined by Single Particle Spectroscopy date: 2005 words: 108 flesch: 54 summary: The results show that core-shell nanoparticles have broader scattering spectra than the corresponding pure gold or silver nanoparticles. The scattering spectra of single gold, silver, bimetallic gold-silver particles (both core-shell and alloyed) were recorded by dark field microscopy. keywords: core cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7s75db80t8h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7s75db80t8h.txt item: #1322 of 4945 id: 7s75db80t9v author: Philip A Reed title: The Virtue of Vanity in Hume's Moral Theory date: 2009 words: 197 flesch: 48 summary: Finally, I contend that moral motivation by vanity does not, on Hume's view, take away from the virtue or moral worth of the action. Other scholars, reacting against this reading, insist that for Hume moral evaluations motivate only indirectly. keywords: moral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7s75db80t9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7s75db80t9v.txt item: #1323 of 4945 id: 7s75db80v7g author: Cory Juwuan Hayes title: Building Adaptable Robots: How Behavioral Metrics Can Enable Robots to Implicitly Learn from Humans date: 1904 words: 505 flesch: 40 summary: I also designed two experimental testbeds which focus on peoples responses to robot mistakes, which help enable future research in this area. I focus specifically on identifying human behavioral metrics which future robots could one day be trained to identify as a means for enabling this understanding. keywords: robots cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7s75db80v7g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7s75db80v7g.txt item: #1324 of 4945 id: 7s75db80w6f author: Emily O. Alberico title: Interactions between EB1, Microtubules and Actin date: 1904 words: 227 flesch: 45 summary: We have determined the EB1-MT binding location on the MT lattice as well as raised the possibility for EB1 regulation in vivo through EB1 dimerization. EB1 is a well-studied central component in the cytoskeleton field. keywords: eb1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7s75db80w6f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7s75db80w6f.txt item: #1325 of 4945 id: 7s75db81h38 author: Zachary Kyle German title: Spirit, Statesmanship, and the New Sciences of Politics: Montesquieu, the Federalists, and the Anti-Federalists date: 1904 words: 221 flesch: 42 summary: Scholars frequently note the relationship of Montesquieu to the American framers, usually emphasizing such topics as small republics or the separation of powers. Finally, they exhibit an awareness of the social dynamics of the separation of powers. keywords: montesquieu cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7s75db81h38.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7s75db81h38.txt item: #1326 of 4945 id: 7w62f764303 author: Kevin Quinn Walsh title: Behavior and Design of Unbonded Post-Tensioning Strand/Anchorage Systems for Seismic Applications date: 2010 words: 156 flesch: 45 summary: The research includes the following strand/anchor configuration parameters: (1) strand diameter; (2) anchor type [cast and barrel type anchors] and physical properties; (3) number of anchor wedges [2-piece and 3-piece wedges]; and (4) presence of a binding ring around the wedges. This thesis presents an experimental study on the ultimate stresses and strains of unbonded post-tensioning (PT) strands at wire fracture inside an anchor. keywords: strand cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f764303.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f764303.txt item: #1327 of 4945 id: 7w62f76431f author: Erica Elaine Hansen title: Static Renderings, Shifting Identities: Elbridge Ayer Burbank's Portraits of American Indians date: 2010 words: 148 flesch: 26 summary: The red drawings, on the other hand, suggest how Burbank used the concept of hybridity, the mixture of heterogeneous elements, in an attempt to reconcile his quest for a single authentic Indianness with his discovery of diverse individual Indians on reservations. The paintings of Elbridge Ayer Burbank (1858Ì¢ âÂ'1949) were admired in his lifetime, especially but not exclusively by the anthropological community of collectors and museum professionals who valued 'accuracy' and believed that Burbank delivered it, first in his paintings of African Americans produced between 1892 and 1897 and later in his oil paintings and red crayon drawings of American Indians. keywords: burbank cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f76431f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f76431f.txt item: #1328 of 4945 id: 7w62f76432s author: Mario Antonio Cossío Olavide title: Doble enunciación en el discurso para las murallas de Lima. Análisis de la Relación del Virrey Duque de la Palata date: 2013 words: 238 flesch: 49 summary: This thesis presents an analysis on sections of the Relación del Estado del Perú (1689) related to the construction of the city-walls around the capital city of the Viceroyalty, Lima. My main task is to determine the rhetorical devices used for presenting the genesis, negotiation and construction process of the walls, as given by the functionary to the King. keywords: city cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f76432s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f76432s.txt item: #1329 of 4945 id: 7w62f76434g author: Elizabeth E. Martinez title: Paths of Legitimacy: A Sociology of the First Amendment Examining Legal Change at the Boundary Between State and Society date: 2011 words: 351 flesch: 31 summary: The analysis develops a sociology of the First Amendment, tracing the political influences and institutional logics that shape judicial decisions and, conversely, the influence of First Amendment law on institutional logics and behavior in other spheres. In the first two parts of the study, it is shown that the juridical field is sometimes influenced by political codes, such as civil religion, a form of nationalism that governs the display of religious symbols in public; and, conversely, that legal categories influence the realm of civil liberties, for instance, media ethics, an area considered beyond regulation. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f76434g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f76434g.txt item: #1330 of 4945 id: 7w62f76435t author: Jieying Jiao title: Synthesis, Characterization and Surface Attachment of Square Mixed-Valence Complexes as Building Block for Molecular Quantum Cellular Automata date: 2005 words: 348 flesch: 52 summary: Based on the general ideas of building the square compounds, a series of square compounds are designed. By chemical methods, compound 18 can be oxidized to the monocationic and dicationic mixed-valence compounds, each of which are fully characterized by X-ray diffraction, FT-IR, EPR, magnetic susceptibility measurement and M ssbauer spectra. keywords: compounds cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f76435t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f76435t.txt item: #1331 of 4945 id: 7w62f764365 author: Yan Yan title: Silicon-Based Tunnel Diode Technology date: 2008 words: 251 flesch: 51 summary: Tunnel diodes were formed by rapid thermal annealing from an Al:B:Si source on Si with a peak current density of 2.7 Ì_å_A/Ì_å_m2. Rapid thermal diffusion from spin-on diffusants is the particular focus of this work as a basis for establishing a rapid thermal processing method compatible with commercial foundry processes. keywords: tunnel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f764365.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f764365.txt item: #1332 of 4945 id: 7w62f76437h author: Gabriela Cristina Pasat title: Characterization of the Ì¢-Lactam Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus On-Switch: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of The Sensor Domain BlarS date: 2010 words: 295 flesch: 42 summary: These results provide the first atomic resolution study of BlaRs and its associated signaling mechanism in the solution state, and supply initial data required for future studies. Responsible for this resistance are the sensing/transducing systems BlaR and MecR. Upon interaction with the Ì_å_-lactam antibiotic through its surface domain, BlaR initiates the signal transduction process. keywords: blar cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f76437h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f76437h.txt item: #1333 of 4945 id: 7w62f76441r author: Emily Diane Lambeth title: Relationship of Body Characteristics and Steroid Hormone Levels with Frog Mating Behavior date: 2009 words: 147 flesch: 54 summary: Call properties were not correlated with hormone levels. In female phonotaxis experiments, females with higher CORT levels were slower to reach the speaker. keywords: males cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f76441r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f76441r.txt item: #1334 of 4945 id: 7w62f764423 author: Hilary C. Cisco Reuter title: Using Shared Reality Theory and Social Tuning to Modify the Expression of Racial Profiling Behaviors date: 2007 words: 162 flesch: 23 summary: Results were consistent with the tenets of shared reality theory, which postulates that social regulation is central to social cognition and that social bonds are established and maintained to the degree that social beliefs are perceived to be shared by individuals. In the experiments proposed here, I tested the hypothesis that automatic racial prejudice, as evidenced in racial profiling behaviors, is subject to elements of common social influence. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f764423.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f764423.txt item: #1335 of 4945 id: 7w62f76443f author: Guowang Li title: MBE Growth and Device Characteristics of Aluminum Gallium Nitride with High Aluminum Composition date: 2010 words: 343 flesch: 41 summary: However, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) grown high Al composition AlGaN has been observed to suffer spontaneous phase modulation and the electron mobility was severely limited. For scaling down to deep sub-micrometer dimensions, high Al composition AlGaN barrier can offer higher two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) density and lower sheet resistance than low Al composition AlGaN. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f76443f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f76443f.txt item: #1336 of 4945 id: 7w62f76444s author: Joshua Morton Robinson title: Nicholas of Methone's Refutation of Proclus: Theology and Neoplatonism in 12th-century Byzantium date: 2014 words: 312 flesch: 42 summary: Chapter 2 then sets the stage for Nicholas' Refutation by tracing the Christian reception of Proclus from Dionysius the Areopagite until Nicholas' time. In this chapter I also explore the tensions and ironies involved in Nicholas' attempt to read Dionysius against Proclus. keywords: nicholas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f76444s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f76444s.txt item: #1337 of 4945 id: 7w62f764543 author: R. Ryan McCune title: Reducing Scope to Increase Scalability: Decentralization in Graph Processing and UAV Swarms date: 1904 words: 307 flesch: 34 summary: Together with these two applications, UAV swarms and distributed graph processing, I illustrate how centralized control must be relaxed, and component communication increased, in order for large systems to overcome limitations of central control and successfully scale. I comprehensively overview these frameworks, and observe the relationship between graph algorithmic scope and scalability. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f764543.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f764543.txt item: #1338 of 4945 id: 7w62f765473 author: Haley M. Brickman title: Evaluating the Efficacy of a Brief Prevention Program for Improving Marital and Family Conflict in Community Families: Direct and Indirect Effects on Long-Term Adolescent and Family-Wide Adjustment date: 2020 words: 364 flesch: 21 summary: Structural Equation Modeling was used to test main effects of the intervention as well as research-informed process models of family conflict and its effects on later family and adolescent psychological adjustment. In addressing the three aims that we set out to test (i.e., the direct effects of the intervention, whether or not these effects occurred through changes in family conflict behaviors, and whether emotional insecurity mediates the effect of the intervention on child psychological outcomes), we found support for the efficacy of the intervention itself at improving several long-term outcomes (both observed and reported). keywords: adolescent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f765473.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f765473.txt item: #1339 of 4945 id: 7w62f76558r author: Katherine Bermingham title: Hannah Arendt's Concepts of Time date: 2021 words: 204 flesch: 39 summary: Arendt is well known for her analyses of how political disasters, including the loss of democratic freedom, follow from effaced spatial boundaries, i.e. the inappropriate merging of public and private spheres. A theorist of hope as much as of political catastrophe, Arendt's work is particularly apropos in the precarious present we are collectively enduring. keywords: arendt cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f76558r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f76558r.txt item: #1340 of 4945 id: 7w62f76575b author: James P. Breen title: Fighting the Roman Corporation: How the American Protective Association Combined Anti-Catholicism and Antimonopolism in Gilded Age America date: 2022 words: 310 flesch: 27 summary: Many historians have tried to explain why economic reform movements and mass working-class political movements failed to curb the excesses of industrialization in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Antimonopolism in the Gilded Age often depended on Catholics, so the A.P.A.'s commitment to opposing both corporations and the Catholic Church fractured other antimonopoly political movements and organizations. keywords: a.p.a cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/7w62f76575b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/7w62f76575b.txt item: #1341 of 4945 id: 8049g447b7k author: Angel de Jesus Cortes title: Student Idealists and the Specter of Natural Science, 1870-1910 date: 2008 words: 442 flesch: 37 summary: Based on an extensive use of primary documents' especially essays written in student literary publications' I show how a segment of undergraduates I call idealists resisted natural science, its methods, and especially its application to the humanities: first, because they believed it would obscure certain principles that they wanted to see clearly; second, because they feared it would introduce a post-Christian and thus an amoral world. Led by some professors, student idealists turned the world of English letters into a romanticized space that functioned as a bulwark against the 'Papacy of Science.' keywords: art cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8049g447b7k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8049g447b7k.txt item: #1342 of 4945 id: 8049g447b8x author: Nguyen Phuoc Xuan title: Search for Quark-Lepton Compositeness in the Dimuon Final State at D0 date: 2005 words: 99 flesch: 50 summary: Preliminary limits on Lambda are set at the 95% confidence level for constructive and destructive interference between the DY amplitude and the contact interaction for various quark and lepton chiralities. We used the upgraded DO detector at the Tevatron at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV to collect data in a search for a compositeness signature of quarks and leptons. keywords: interaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8049g447b8x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8049g447b8x.txt item: #1343 of 4945 id: 8049g447b98 author: May Kim title: Testing Potential Buffers of The Acculturation Gap-Distress Relation Among Asian American College Students date: 2011 words: 243 flesch: 21 summary: Finally, the coping strategies did not buffer the relation between AFD and distress; however, post-hoc analyses revealed that interpersonal implicit social support exacerbated the relation between AFD and depressive symptoms. The current study tested a moderation model in which culturally-relevant coping strategies (i.e., primary/secondary control and interpersonal/intrapersonal implicit social support) were hypothesized to attenuate the relation between acculturative family distancing (AFD; Hwang, 2006) and depressive symptoms, somatization, and alcohol use. keywords: afd cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8049g447b98.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8049g447b98.txt item: #1344 of 4945 id: 8049g447c9k author: Mariana Magaldi de Sousa title: The Political Economy of Bank Regulation in Latin America: An Embedded-Agency Approach date: 2010 words: 256 flesch: 18 summary: Given that the regulation of commercial banks affects the level of performance of countries' financial systems, and the performance of financial systems in turn affects economic development, the consequences of deficient bank regulation and supervision are too grave to be disregarded. While the nature of the P-A relationship among regulators offers insights into who the relevant actors in bank regulation are and how a consensus among them can be achieved, the conjunctural determinants allow us to identify which regulatory objective is assigned priority. keywords: regulation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8049g447c9k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8049g447c9k.txt item: #1345 of 4945 id: 8049g447d0s author: Shannon Lawson Flynn title: Environmental Behavior of Metals and Radionuclides date: 2014 words: 298 flesch: 27 summary: A range of processes affects the distribution and bioavailability of metals in these systems, including aqueous complexation of metals, dissolution of minerals, aggregation of colloids, and adsorption of aqueous ions or complexes onto mineral surfaces or biological surfaces. Chapter 4 examines the aqueous behavior of a second isolated uranyl peroxide nanocluster, U24Py, to determine the effect of nanocluster size, composition and morphology on nanocluster aqueous behavior. keywords: aqueous cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8049g447d0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8049g447d0s.txt item: #1346 of 4945 id: 8049g447d14 author: Chandan Kumar Mozumder title: Topometry Optimization of Sheet Metal Structures for Crashworthiness Design Using Hybrid Cellular Automata date: 2010 words: 368 flesch: 38 summary: Design for prescribed FD response by minimizing the error between the actual response and desired FD curve is implemented. The existing commercial optimization tools utilize models under static loading conditions because of the complexities associated with dynamic/impact loading. keywords: method cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8049g447d14.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8049g447d14.txt item: #1347 of 4945 id: 8049g447f8v author: Zhao Wang title: Using Utility-Scale Microgrids in Deregulated Wholesale Power Markets date: 1904 words: 714 flesch: 35 summary: The proposed method generates lower average electricity prices, greater power output from new energy resources and larger total surpluses in power market operations. To solve operational problems, this dissertation investigates the impact of utility-scale microgrids on power market operations. keywords: power cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8049g447f8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8049g447f8v.txt item: #1348 of 4945 id: 8049g447j8s author: Daniel Murphy title: The Technics of Realism: Media and Social Reportage in Narrative Art after 1965 date: 1904 words: 284 flesch: 20 summary: A commitment to mimetic social reportage obtains in and after postmodernism, with realistic historical fiction emerging in recent years as the dominant mode of narrative art in American consensus culture. Focusing on a range of artists including Jenji Kohan, Don DeLillo, Kathryn Bigelow, Thomas Pynchon, Terrence Malick, and Rachel Kushner, and assessing texts such as Gravity's Rainbow and Libra alongside Zero Dark Thirty, The Wire, and Orange is the New Black, the project proposes a techno-epistemological account of new realism and shows how media-intensive strategies in docudrama work to theorize, and even justify, the perceived cultural work of narrative art. keywords: realism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8049g447j8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8049g447j8s.txt item: #1349 of 4945 id: 8049g448f1q author: Michael T. Waldrop title: Experimental Characterization and Modeling of Gaseous Cavitation of Dodecane in a Converging-Diverging Nozzle date: 2020 words: 632 flesch: 40 summary: Known nozzle inlet pressure, known nozzle outlet pressure and a measurement of throat outlet pressure are the only requirements for an accurate prediction for the full length of the nozzle. The first correction is shown to greatly improve prediction accuracy for pressure distribution and several of its features are shown to predict key aspects of aerated dodecane cavitation in a CD nozzle. keywords: pressure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8049g448f1q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8049g448f1q.txt item: #1350 of 4945 id: 8336h130n2q author: Morgan Haugen title: Inhibitory effects of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) on hen granulosa cell differentiation date: 2010 words: 151 flesch: 22 summary: The present study was conducted in cultured granulosa cells from prehierarchal follicles, and it was found that the effects of bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) on granulosa cells promote EGFL expression while inhibiting Fshr expression, by either promoting or inhibiting indvidual Id isoform expression. At the time of follicle selection, there is a release from inhibitory MAPK/Erk signaling initiating granulosa cell differentiation, causing an increase in FSHR in one selected follicle. keywords: granulosa cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h130n2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h130n2q.txt item: #1351 of 4945 id: 8336h130n32 author: David Gene George title: Jesus' Lack of Emotion in Luke: The Lukan Redactions in Light of the Hellenistic Philosophers date: 2010 words: 228 flesch: 40 summary: In the characterization of Jesus, the Lukan redactor has removed strong emotion (and the actions which would result from these strong emotions). It will be shown that Luke consistently depicts (with two exceptions in the special 'L' material) the persona of Jesus (and only the character of Jesus) as bereft of strong emotion. keywords: emotions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h130n32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h130n32.txt item: #1352 of 4945 id: 8336h130n4d author: Lauren Margaret Fleury title: Redox Titanocene Catalysis in C–C Bond Formations and New Discoveries in Phosphorus-Mediated Bond-Forming Reactions date: 2013 words: 338 flesch: 31 summary: Organic methodology allows us to target important bond disconnects and design reactions to improve overall synthetic efficiency. Reaction design may stem from a need to access fragments not easily obtained through current methods or overcome limitations present in existing methodology. keywords: bond cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h130n4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h130n4d.txt item: #1353 of 4945 id: 8336h130n5r author: Regan Deonanan title: Empirical Essays on the Macroeconomics of Developing Countries date: 2012 words: 352 flesch: 45 summary: Chapter 1 investigates the effect of workers' remittances on real per capita output growth in developing countries. First, remittances cause significant positive growth in developing countries. keywords: countries cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h130n5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h130n5r.txt item: #1354 of 4945 id: 8336h130n63 author: Jeffrey Lawrence Bain-Conkin title: The Refinement of Religious Practices in Nineteenth-Century Louisville, Kentucky date: 2014 words: 354 flesch: 31 summary: I focus on the most public and ordinary elements of religious practice in nineteenth-century Louisville. With the emphasis on the religious practices of local institutions in nineteenth-century Louisville, my dissertation examines community formation, identity, sermons, death practices, hymnody, liturgy, and architecture. keywords: louisville cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h130n63.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h130n63.txt item: #1355 of 4945 id: 8336h130n7f author: Youdong Lin title: Lp-Based Strategies for Deterministic Global Optimization Using Interval Methods date: 2005 words: 301 flesch: 28 summary: The procedure based on these techniques, LISS_LP, will then be demonstrated using several global optimization problems, with focus on problems arising in chemical engineering. In addition, LISS_LP has also been applied to some global optimization problems arising in molecular modeling, such as locating all stationary points of the potential energy surface of a sorbate particle in silicalite, locating all stationary points of the potential energy surface of triatomic molecules, and seeking molecular conformation with global minimum potential energy. keywords: problems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h130n7f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h130n7f.txt item: #1356 of 4945 id: 8336h130n8s author: Kyoung Nan Kim title: Self-Assembling DNA Nanostructures as Platforms for Placement of Fluorophores On Silicon [100] date: 2011 words: 360 flesch: 49 summary: Tamra-dT labeled oligonucleotides were purchased from Midland Certified Reagent Company Inc. to compare the properties of Tamra-dT modified DNA raft with pyrene attached DNA raft. The size of modified DNA raft is 8ÌÄ' 37ÌÄ' 2nm and it is verified by tapping mode AFM imaging on mica. keywords: dna cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h130n8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h130n8s.txt item: #1357 of 4945 id: 8336h130n94 author: Jesse David Covington title: Taken on Faith: The Concept of Religion in First Amendment Jurisprudence date: 2007 words: 267 flesch: 33 summary: First, the three-fold model for how justices think about religion proves a useful tool for describing and analyzing Supreme Court opinions regarding religious exercise. The Court's subsequent efforts to avoid ontology result in two distinct lines of religion decisions. keywords: religion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h130n94.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h130n94.txt item: #1358 of 4945 id: 8336h130p3c author: Sean Walsh title: Arithmetical Knowledge and Arithmetical Definability: Four Studies date: 2010 words: 348 flesch: 27 summary: The fourth chapter is concerned with arithmetical definability in the setting of descriptive set theory, where the relevant benchmark is between notions which may be defined without quantification over elements of certain topological spaces (Borel notions) and notions whose definitions do require such quantification (analytic, coanalytic, projective notions). The first two chapters contain respectively a critique of a logicist account of a preferred means by which we may legitimately infer to arithmetical truths and a tentative defense of an empiricist account. keywords: arithmetical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h130p3c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h130p3c.txt item: #1359 of 4945 id: 8336h130p52 author: Sandor Volkan-Kacso title: Theory of Fluorescence Intermittency in Quantum Dots and Other Fluorophores date: 2011 words: 347 flesch: 32 summary: The purpose of the dissertation is to provide a theoretical explanation to the phenomenon of fluorescence intermittency. This phenomenon is generically referred to as fluorescence intermittency or blinking. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h130p52.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h130p52.txt item: #1360 of 4945 id: 8336h130p6d author: Djibril Malick Sangare title: Breakpoint Analysis of the Anopheles Gambiae S.S. Chromosome 2Rb, 2Rc, and 2Ru Inversions date: 2007 words: 233 flesch: 39 summary: The 2Rb distal breakpoint contained an assembly of unique sequences and repetitive elements, including complete and degenerated transposable elements. Inversions 2Rb, 2Rc, and 2Ru are shared between chromosomal forms, Bamako, Mopti, Savanna, Forest and Bissau of Anopheles gambiae s.s. keywords: 2rb cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h130p6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h130p6d.txt item: #1361 of 4945 id: 8336h130t9p author: Zachary Anderson title: Wolf Jewel date: 1904 words: 4 flesch: 54 summary: A collection of poetry. keywords: poetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h130t9p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h130t9p.txt item: #1362 of 4945 id: 8336h131b6k author: Megan L. Welton title: Multiplex Virtus: Queens, Ruling Women, and the Discourse of Political Virtue in Tenth-Century Europe date: 1904 words: 281 flesch: 33 summary: In order to understand the elements of virtus and to see how it shaped early medieval political structures, it is necessary to investigate the language embedded in the widest range of available sources. It focuses particularly on the ways in which the early medieval discourse of political virtus shaped the actions and decisions of queens and empresses in this period. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h131b6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h131b6k.txt item: #1363 of 4945 id: 8336h131c15 author: Leo Guardado title: Church as Sanctuary: A Preferential Option for the Displaced and Persecuted Poor date: 1904 words: 354 flesch: 23 summary: This historical and political context becomes the foundation for a systematic theological reflection where I retrieve ancient traditions of refuge and sanctuary and place them in dialogue with the ecclesiology of Vatican II; analyze the sacramentality of the poor in Oscar Romero's preaching and witness in relation to the vision of a church of the poor as expressed at the Medellin conference; and develop four categories that constitute church as sanctuary: refuge, healing, holiness, and salvation. Among communities of faith the possibility of providing church sanctuary can become a point of controversy and division rather than unity. keywords: church cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h131c15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h131c15.txt item: #1364 of 4945 id: 8336h131c8k author: Rusha Chatterjee title: Single Nanostructure Visible and Infrared Microscopies date: 2018 words: 189 flesch: 23 summary: Finally, it describes a future extension of single particle extinction measurements to the infrared spectrum and discusses the application of infrared microscopies to novel photovoltaic perovskite materials. However, despite valuable knowledge gleaned, the limitations of single particle emission spectroscopy are now becoming apparent. keywords: single cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h131c8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h131c8k.txt item: #1365 of 4945 id: 8336h131f86 author: Joshua D Szczudlak title: Spanwise Transport of Total Enthalpy through a Turbine Nozzle date: 2019 words: 345 flesch: 44 summary: The facility used was capable of replicating engine relevant conditions including high inflow turbulence intensity, inflow non-uniformities in total pressure and total temperature, and vane exit Mach numbers. Detailed experimental surveys of total temperature and total pressure were obtained upstream and downstream of an annular turbine nozzle vane cascade. keywords: total cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h131f86.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h131f86.txt item: #1366 of 4945 id: 8336h131p5b author: Qinnan Zhang title: Development of Mixed Matrix Membranes Involving Hierarchical Iptycene Moieties for Gas Separation date: 2019 words: 359 flesch: 21 summary: Ideally, composite membranes combine the superior separation properties of inorganic fillers and the mechanical integrity and good processability of polymer matrices, synergistically leading to better performance. More importantly, the three-dimensional framework of triptycene is able to induce supramolecular interactions and strong π-π stacking, preventing particle aggregation and promoting filler-polymer adhesion, which makes triptycene-based polyimides promising candidates for MMMs fabrication. keywords: mmms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h131p5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h131p5b.txt item: #1367 of 4945 id: 8336h131p9q author: Dustin S. Stoltz title: The Sociology of Elite Advisors date: 2020 words: 229 flesch: 41 summary: Relying on a close reading of articles and books written by consultants, interviews with management consultants, and participant-observation at recruiting events, I find a contradiction between the front stage presentation of the work of consultants, and the back stage beliefs about how a consultant ought to think. In the first essay, I use a novel dataset of articles written by management consultants at the three most prestigious firms to measure the relationship between education, seniority, and innovativeness. keywords: consultants cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h131p9q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h131p9q.txt item: #1368 of 4945 id: 8336h131q0x author: David T. Omstead title: Optimizing the Selective Delivery of Chemotherapeutics to Multiple Myeloma through the Design of Peptide-Targeted Liposomes date: 2020 words: 317 flesch: 49 summary: Finally, Chapter 4 will cover and compare all previously evaluated targeted liposomes as well as using the tumor-penetrating peptide iRGD and their uptake in vitro and biodistribution and tumor cell uptake in vivo. In order to selectively target MM cells, we discovered or designed short targeting peptide sequences that specifically bind to receptors frequently overexpressed in MM cases such as VLA-4, LPAM1, CD38, and CD138. keywords: liposomes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h131q0x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h131q0x.txt item: #1369 of 4945 id: 8336h131r2x author: Allison L. Hendershot title: Understanding the Role of An. coustani Complex Members as Malaria Vector Species in the Democratic Republic of Congo date: 2021 words: 444 flesch: 31 summary: As prompted by conflicting data regarding vector status of An. paludis, the second objective of this research sought to evaluate molecular methods for vector incrimination—the COX-1 PCR and CSP-ELISA. These epidemiologically relevant bionomics have been shown to vary at the local level, leaving questions as to how members of this species group (including An. coustani, An. paludis, and An. caliginosus) contribute to malaria transmission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. keywords: vector cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8336h131r2x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8336h131r2x.txt item: #1370 of 4945 id: 8623hx13w9q author: Julia Henigan title: Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song date: 2009 words: 362 flesch: 26 summary: Because a different set of social, historical, and literary dynamicsÌ¢ âÂ' as well as theoretical questionsÌ¢ âÂ' are pertinent to individual genres of song, I devote an entire chapter to each one, and include a prefatory chapter on medieval Irish literature. Although a number of Irish folksong scholars have contested the idea of such a dichotomy, there is yet no comprehensive work on the subject in relation to traditional Irish song. keywords: irish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8623hx13w9q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8623hx13w9q.txt item: #1371 of 4945 id: 8623hx13x0x author: Mark Nathan Jensen title: A Theory of Civil Society date: 2008 words: 351 flesch: 50 summary: Many philosophers argue that civil society is crucial to democracy because it cultivates and sustains democratic moral character. In my view, the civil society that best solves the problem of democratic political culture is also one in which the grand conversation intrinsic to the second vision of democracy takes place. keywords: democratic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8623hx13x0x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8623hx13x0x.txt item: #1372 of 4945 id: 8623hx13x18 author: Andrea Nicole Alsobrook title: Understanding the Structural Chemistry of Heterobimetallic Uranyl Transition Metal Phosphonoacetates date: 2012 words: 241 flesch: 36 summary: With these types of behaviors, we demonstrated the unpredictable and diverse nature of uranyl phosphonates. There are many uranium(VI) families, such as borates, iodates, tellurites, phosphates, germanates, chromates, and phosphonates. keywords: compounds cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8623hx13x18.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8623hx13x18.txt item: #1373 of 4945 id: 8623hx13z2x author: Lauren Mackenzie Papp title: Dimensions of marital conflict in the home, parental psychological symptoms, and child adjustment: A family-wide investigation date: 2004 words: 290 flesch: 36 summary: The first question investigated linkages between spouses' psychological symptoms and ratings of marital conflict expressions in the home. The second question examined associations between child adjustment and marital conflict processes. keywords: conflict cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8623hx13z2x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8623hx13z2x.txt item: #1374 of 4945 id: 8623hx13z38 author: Michael Matthew Crouse title: Enabling one-dimensional nanostructured materials through electrochemistry with novel template development date: 2004 words: 416 flesch: 29 summary: This barrier-free nanoporous template enables the electrodeposition of a wide variety of materials and ultimately serves as the thread interconnecting the two projects of template development and nanowire synthesis. The project is presented as essentially two distinct components: nanoporous template development and control of the electrocrystallization of cadmium sulfide. keywords: template cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8623hx13z38.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8623hx13z38.txt item: #1375 of 4945 id: 8623hx1411g author: Kristen Drahos title: Dark Beauty: Toward a Catholic Theological Aesthetics date: 1904 words: 343 flesch: 42 summary: This study opens a discussion of a particular differentiation of theological aesthetics in Catholic thought that arises in the twentieth century in the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Erich Przywara. The dissertation also deeply considers the applications of dark beauty for Catholic thought. keywords: beauty cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8623hx1411g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8623hx1411g.txt item: #1376 of 4945 id: 8623hx1504g author: Wenbo Li title: Essays in Labor and Environmental Economics date: 2020 words: 327 flesch: 50 summary: In the second chapter, I estimate a fixed effects model to study the effect of air pollution in the origin on out-migration and a conditional logit model to study the effect of air pollution on location choice, employing air pollution from distant sources carried by wind as an instrument for local air pollution. In cities where road space rationing was implemented permanently, the policy reduced air pollution, while in cities where road space rationing was implemented temporarily, I cannot reject that the policy had zero impact. keywords: cities cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8623hx1504g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8623hx1504g.txt item: #1377 of 4945 id: 8623hx1505t author: Ashley Foster title: Scotland's Age of Reckoning: British Union and Enlightenment for a Covenanted People date: 2020 words: 318 flesch: 32 summary: Hence, the revival, occurring thirty-five years after the 1707 Act of Union, provides an excellent entry point for exploring the tensions arising in the first generations of post-Union Scots who had to navigate the push and pull of eighteenth-century imperial Britain. It reflected the process of how our subjects became eighteenth-century Britons, people who embraced particular Scottish frameworks to become imperial members. keywords: revival cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8623hx1505t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8623hx1505t.txt item: #1378 of 4945 id: 8623hx15243 author: Fernando J Alamos Domeyko title: Friction Behavior under Creep in High-Temperature Pressure Gas Forming Applications date: 2022 words: 312 flesch: 35 summary: Therefore, friction models that ignore creep-induced strains will underpredict asperity contact and friction levels. A design of experiment methodology is used to characterize the main parameters that affect asperity contact, and through the incorporation of a physics-based analytical model, a new contact area expression is established based on a characteristic time intrinsic to the asperity deformation behavior. keywords: contact cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8623hx15243.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8623hx15243.txt item: #1379 of 4945 id: 8910js9764v author: Stephanie Magdalena White title: Heavy Sky date: 2010 words: 2 flesch: -6 summary: Poetry Manuscript keywords: poetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js9764v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js9764v.txt item: #1380 of 4945 id: 8910js97656 author: Vishwanath Joshi title: Manufacturable Process for High Operating Temperature Silicon Single-Electron Transistors date: 2010 words: 397 flesch: 42 summary: CMOS has been the workhorse for the IC industry for past 3 decades and its enormous success is derived mainly from successive improvements in device scaling and the concomitant increase in device density and circuit complexity on a single chip. Work done by other researchers has shown that Si based devices are less vulnerable to background charge offsets, and by utilizing techniques developed for VLSI technology one can make the Si devices dimensionally smaller and hence operate at room temperature and above. keywords: device cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js97656.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js97656.txt item: #1381 of 4945 id: 8910js9766j author: Kirsten Lynn Milliard title: Architecture in the Design and Content of the Odbert Psalter (Boulogne-sur-mer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 20) date: 2013 words: 151 flesch: 54 summary: That design is not only conducive to the devotional and educational uses of the Psalter, but also to expression of Christ's place at the heart of scripture. The Odbert Psalter, made c. 1000 at Saint-Bertin, opens with Davidic imagery and includes innovative historiated initials containing scenes from the life of Christ. keywords: psalter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js9766j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js9766j.txt item: #1382 of 4945 id: 8910js9767w author: Benjamin Robert Bernard title: NGO-Business Partnerships: Risk, Trust, and the Future of Development date: 2012 words: 92 flesch: 24 summary: I propose a new Business Purpose classification for NGO-BPs and examine partnership risk analysis and the building of trust through a case study of an ambitious development project in Sub-Saharan Africa undertaken by Catholic Relief Services and supported through partnership with the Intel Corporation. This thesis examines the privatization of development and the changing interests, pressures, and demands that have brought NGOs and corporations into collaborative partnerships (NGO-BPs). keywords: development cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js9767w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js9767w.txt item: #1383 of 4945 id: 8910js97687 author: Thanasak Mouktonglang title: Numerical Implementation of a Class of Infinite-Dimensional Primal-Dual Algorithms and Control Applications date: 2004 words: 109 flesch: 35 summary: We apply this algorithm to two important control problems: multi-criteria linear-quadratic control problems and linear-quadratic control problems with quadratic constraints. We consider a class of infinite-dimensional optimization problems and its applications to optimal control problems. keywords: problems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js97687.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js97687.txt item: #1384 of 4945 id: 8910js9769k author: Michael Alan Tomko title: The Catholic Question in British Romantic Literature: National Identity, History, and Religious Politics, 1778-1829 date: 2005 words: 357 flesch: 0 summary: While Catholic emancipation's advocates hoped to quell Irish Catholic unrest, advance the cause of parliamentary reform, or break the Establishment alliance of Church and State, both opponents (like Southey) and proponents (like Shelley and Byron) were anxious about the prospective 'return' of a Catholic Other, often denigrated as primitive or superstitious, into a nation that imagined itself as Protestant, modern, and free. This analysis thus complements studies of the role of romantic era anti-Catholicism in constructing 'Britishness,' a sense of national identity that united Britain's domestic regions and its foreign empire. keywords: catholic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js9769k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js9769k.txt item: #1385 of 4945 id: 8910js9770s author: James Keith title: Group I Intron Mediated Trans-Splicing of Highly Conserved Dengue Virus Sequences and a Mutational Analysis of the PiggyBac Transposase date: 2008 words: 632 flesch: 45 summary: By specifically targeting these regions, trans-splicing products were detected both in vitro with T7 RNA transcripts and in situ from traditional RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) promoted transcripts. One alternative to vaccines currently being explored is the creation of mosquitoes unable to spread the virus from person to person. keywords: piggybac; tpase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js9770s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js9770s.txt item: #1386 of 4945 id: 8910js97714 author: Michael E DeGruccio title: Unmade: American Manhood in the Civil War Era date: 2007 words: 214 flesch: 27 summary: By weaving Cole into overlapping micro-narratives about violence between white officers and black troops, hidden war injuries, the personal struggles of fellow officers, the unbounded ambition of his highest commander, Benjamin Butler, and the melancholy life of his wife Mary Barto Cole, this dissertation fleshes out the essence of the emergent myth of self-made manhood and its relationship to the war era. The central character driving the narrative is a relatively obscure officer, George W. Cole, who gained modest fame in central New York for leading a regiment of black soldiers under the controversial General Benjamin Butler, and, later, for killing his attorney after returning home from the war. keywords: war cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js97714.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js97714.txt item: #1387 of 4945 id: 8910js9772g author: James Christopher Hebbeler title: Critical Belief in the Unconditioned: Kant's Antinomy as a Positive Response to Skepticism about Reason date: 2009 words: 364 flesch: 39 summary: My reading of Kant's account of the unity of theoretical reason has implications for Kant's account of the unity of reason as a whole. I provide an account of the nature of theoretical reason that reveals its teleological structure, including the aims both of the understanding and of reason as the highest intellectual faculty. keywords: reason cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js9772g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js9772g.txt item: #1388 of 4945 id: 8910js9775h author: Chelse M. Prather title: Invertebrate Consumer Influences on Ecosystem Processes in a Rainforest Understory date: 2010 words: 343 flesch: 26 summary: Detritivores reduced plant growth and nutrient availability, but did not affect decomposition rates. This shift would reduce resource quality for decomposers, consequently reducing decomposition, nutrient availability and plant production. keywords: nutrient cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js9775h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js9775h.txt item: #1389 of 4945 id: 8910js9776v author: Rebecca L. Geister title: Transcriptional regulation following Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection date: 2010 words: 158 flesch: 40 summary: Previous studies have shown that murine macrophages produce lower levels of TNF-Ì_å± and NOS2 following infection with pathogenic mycobacteria compared to non-pathogenic mycobacteria. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-Ì_å±) and nitric oxide synthase 2 (NOS2) are crucial in the control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. keywords: tnf cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js9776v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js9776v.txt item: #1390 of 4945 id: 8910js97776 author: Courtney McDermott title: The Bird and the Mountain date: 2011 words: 40 flesch: 63 summary: I worked as a secondary school teacher for year, where I faced the horrors of HIV, embezzlement, warped gender relations and extreme isolation, while forging lifelong friendships. This is a memoir about serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho. keywords: lesotho cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js97776.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js97776.txt item: #1391 of 4945 id: 8910js9778j author: Kathleen Nanette Bergman title: The Impact of Interparental Aggression and Parental Alcohol Use on Adolescent Adjustment: An Emotional Security Perspective date: 2011 words: 117 flesch: 6 summary: This study explored adolescents' emotional security as an intervening variable in the path from the interaction between interparental aggression and parental problem drinking and adolescents' internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. Results indicated a direct relationship between marital aggression and adolescents' internalizing behavior problems, and adolescents' emotional security was shown to mediate the relationship between marital aggression and adolescents' depression and anxiety. keywords: adolescents cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js9778j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js9778j.txt item: #1392 of 4945 id: 8910js9823j author: Pavel A. Brodskiy title: Calcium as a Signal Integrator in Drosophila Wing Imaginal Disc Development date: 2019 words: 253 flesch: 43 summary: Calcium signaling is a well-studied pathway central to cellular decision making. This thesis examines the role of cellular decision making at the cellular, tissue, and organ scale. keywords: calcium cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js9823j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js9823j.txt item: #1393 of 4945 id: 8910js9890p author: Daniel Vassallo title: Analysis of Gap Flow Phenomena and Machine Learning Strategies for the Prediction of Atmospheric Flows date: 2021 words: 400 flesch: 37 summary: A similar question is posed in the third investigation, but for wind speed forecasting. Finally, a study is performed which investigates optimal machine learning strategies for wind speed forecasting. keywords: wind cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js9890p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js9890p.txt item: #1394 of 4945 id: 8910js98942 author: Bryant Vande Kolk title: Cross Section Measurements of 10B(p,α)7Be date: 2021 words: 176 flesch: 35 summary: While this technique would be implemented at sub-MeV energies, higher energy resonances may interfere with those that lie within the plasma environment energies. Data overlap with previous comprehensive, lower-energy cross-section measurements now provides constraints on the interference effects of higher energy resonances. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js98942.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js98942.txt item: #1395 of 4945 id: 8910js98973 author: Chang Che title: A Longitudinal Social Network Mediation Method date: 2021 words: 276 flesch: 28 summary: There has been elevating research interest in social network analysis along with prosperous methodology and application studies in network science and other social sciences. In this dissertation, I propose a new approach to integrating the longitudinal mediation method and social network data. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js98973.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js98973.txt item: #1396 of 4945 id: 8910js98b93 author: Brian Boyd title: A Just Wage: Equality, Proportionality, and Solidarity in the American Economy date: 2022 words: 162 flesch: 40 summary: Finally, social justice, which gives form and content to solidarity, requires that citizens be committed to the common good, willing to make what sacrifices are necessary in order to ensure that each of their purchases contribute towards the provisioning of living wages. Distributive justice, which understands workers in firms and citizens in an economy to be true members of social bodies, requires due order and due proportion, with firms' profits proportioned out to workers through an equitable minimum and society's commitment to free labor upholding the rule of law to make this normative. keywords: justice cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8910js98b93.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8910js98b93.txt item: #1397 of 4945 id: 8c97kp80g2z author: Jeffrey Alan Rood title: Metal-Organic Frameworks as Functional, Porous Materials date: 2010 words: 587 flesch: 49 summary: Our group and others have found that the reaction of metal salts with carboxylic acids in polar solvents at elevated temperatures often leads the formation of crystalline MOF materials that can be examined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Further studies showed that the addition of chelating additives led to new solid-state structures and new ions in the mass spectrum, indicating that the Mg2(HCam)3+ ion is likely present in solution prior to MOF formation. keywords: mof cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp80g2z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp80g2z.txt item: #1398 of 4945 id: 8c97kp80g39 author: Sagnik Basuray title: Dielectrophoresis and its Application to Biomedical Diagnostics Platforms date: 2011 words: 469 flesch: 40 summary: With the advancement of soft lithographic techniques, the devices can be easily adapted for medical systems and bio-diagnostic devices to study mechanistic pathways of bio-molecules, bio-chemical reactions and as delivery modules for drug. We designed a rapid, inexpensive, sensitive real time polymerase chain reaction detector; the nano-slot that used dielectrophoresis and EIS to concentrate the DNA molecules for real time detection near a nano-slot. keywords: nano cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp80g39.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp80g39.txt item: #1399 of 4945 id: 8c97kp80g4n author: Kelley Melissa VanBuskirk title: Partial Immunological and Functional Characterization of Plasmodium vivax Duffy Binding Protein date: 2004 words: 466 flesch: 35 summary: Due to its critical role in maintaining blood-stage P. vivax infection, DBP is a candidate for inclusion in a vaccine against P. vivax. Serum samples were collected from individuals residing in an area of PNG highly endemic for P. vivax. keywords: binding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp80g4n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp80g4n.txt item: #1400 of 4945 id: 8c97kp80h4z author: Brenda Lynn Daily title: Stimulating Denitrification in Agricultural Headwater Streams Using Elemental Sulfur date: 2007 words: 154 flesch: 29 summary: Microbial community analysis of the sulfur-oxidizing biofilm suggested significant bacterial diversity existed within the mesocosm, with little variation in depth. I studied a stream mesocosm, simulating a headwater drainage ditch, amended with elemental sulfur. keywords: nitrate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp80h4z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp80h4z.txt item: #1401 of 4945 id: 8c97kp80h59 author: Richard E Pimpinella title: Fabrication and Physical Properties of Semiconducting Nanowires Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy date: 2013 words: 359 flesch: 44 summary: The study described in this thesis can be subdivided into four main topics: the formation of self-assembled eutectic nanoparticles, the formation of single crystal semiconducting nanowires, the formation of heterostructured semiconducting nanowires, and the magnetic properties of GaAs/Fe core/shell nanowires. This thesis is devoted to understanding the growth mechanisms and physical properties of a variety of nanowire structures grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). keywords: nanowires cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp80h59.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp80h59.txt item: #1402 of 4945 id: 8c97kp80k2w author: Angel Daniel Matos title: Feeling Infinite: Affect, Genre, and Narrative in Young Adult Queer Literature date: 1904 words: 353 flesch: 32 summary: Young adult queer literature presents us with a case in which a genre characterized by negative affect combines with a body of literature meant to instill hope. It demonstrates how positive affect and optimism in young adult queer literature possess the potential to not only to create a sense of futurity for past and present queer generations, but also to encapsulate an enduring change in terms of how queerness is (or can be) read, perceived, and experienced. keywords: queer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp80k2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp80k2w.txt item: #1403 of 4945 id: 8c97kp8164f author: David Ju title: Nonlocal Transformation Field Analysis of Heterogeneous Materials date: 1904 words: 373 flesch: 42 summary: Multi-scale formulations have been used to decrease the computational cost, making use of a periodic representative unit cell (RUC). Methods have been produced to further reduce the cost of multi-scale formulations by embedding the macro-scale solution with the relevant micro-scale features. keywords: scale cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp8164f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp8164f.txt item: #1404 of 4945 id: 8c97kp8191b author: Gerardo Silva-Oelker title: Thermophotovoltaic Cell Design Improvements through Numerical Simulations: Uncertainty Quantification and Geometry Optimization date: 2019 words: 516 flesch: 35 summary: The second avenue, also based on numerical simulations, focuses on the study of gratings as selective emitters to enhance TPV cell energy conversion efficiency. Calculations show that these optimized structures possess high hemispherical thermal emittance for the wavelength range that matches the optical response of GaSb photovoltaic cells. keywords: grating cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp8191b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp8191b.txt item: #1405 of 4945 id: 8c97kp81j2v author: Cody Baker title: Second-Order Moments of Activity in Large Neural Network Models date: 2020 words: 146 flesch: 25 summary: Later work showed that, under some connectivity structures, balanced networks can produce larger correlations between some neuron pairs, even when the average correlation is very small. We show that when spike trains providing feedforward input are correlated, the downstream recurrent network produces much larger correlations. keywords: correlations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp81j2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp81j2v.txt item: #1406 of 4945 id: 8c97kp81j4j author: Jeffrey Henry title: The Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Conformational Analogues of Dactylolide, Zampanolide and GEX1A date: 2020 words: 555 flesch: 19 summary: This thesis also addresses our efforts to study the relationship between the biological activity and conformational preferences of type-I polyketide GEX1A. GEX1A proves to be an interesting lead for a therapeutic in our acute myeloid leukemia and Niemann-Pick type C disease studies and requires further evaluation of the compound's potential as a drug candidate. These studies confirm previously predicted conformational preferences of the polyketide and identifies two previously undiscovered bond rotations that promote the identification of four potential conformational families. keywords: conformational cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp81j4j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp81j4j.txt item: #1407 of 4945 id: 8c97kp81j7k author: Yuan Gong title: Healthcare Applications and Security Concerns of Speech Processing Systems date: 2020 words: 286 flesch: 42 summary: Specifically, I explore the use of speech systems for monitoring and early diagnosis the autism spectrum disorders, emotional and behavioral disorders, and major depressive disorder. Specifically, we can develop speech processing systems for healthcare applications such as building convenient and low-cost diagnose, screening, or monitoring solutions. keywords: speech cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp81j7k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp81j7k.txt item: #1408 of 4945 id: 8c97kp81k4v author: Nikolaus G. Kleber title: The Design of Widespread Spectrum Monitoring Systems date: 2021 words: 521 flesch: 34 summary: We also conclude that omni-directional sensors are optimal in terms of emitter detection probability, regardless of emitter directivity. Additionally, assuming higher sensor quality results in higher sensor cost, we consider a fixed-budget deployment and observe that sensor quantity is more important than sensor quality for emitter detection. keywords: emitter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp81k4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp81k4v.txt item: #1409 of 4945 id: 8c97kp81m5h author: John Wilkinson title: Novel Nuclear Reactions for Medical and Environmental Applications date: 2022 words: 385 flesch: 35 summary: This method allows a real-time calibration of beam intensity on target to measured upstream currents for ion beam analysis at beam energies above 3.5 MeV.Light-ion production of nuclear medicine isotopes is the standard methodology, but some highly desired proton-rich isotopes have difficult production hurdles including yield, purity, cost, and availability. Using a complimentary approach and the experimental observations from the terbium project, 44mSc (58.6 h) was investigated from a less symmetrical 35Cl bombardment of natural Boron, natB. The reverse kinematics reaction limited the number of open channels and reaction products. keywords: ion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp81m5h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp81m5h.txt item: #1410 of 4945 id: 8c97kp81n8v author: Ruiyang Li title: Deep Learning for Modeling Multi-Scale Thermal Transport date: 2023 words: 603 flesch: 33 summary: On the other hand, while BTE is capable of describing heat carrier distributions and simulating thermal transport at the device level, the computational cost of solving BTE can be prohibitively high. PINNs have the potential to be a valuable tool for simulating thermal transport at the device level and may facilitate efficient inverse learning and thermal design. keywords: transport cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8c97kp81n8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8c97kp81n8v.txt item: #1411 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63r21 author: Alexander Selkirk Duff title: The Paradox of Heideggerian Politics date: 2011 words: 277 flesch: 25 summary: It concludes that Heidegger's bequest to his successors is the requirement, for which his thought does not supply adequate means, to negotiate the tension between the demand for the revolutionary transformation of politics and the retreat from politics. The 'paradox' of Heideggerian politics is the necessary proximity of these two inflections to one another. keywords: revolutionary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63r21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63r21.txt item: #1412 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63r6d author: Emily Kay Gustafson title: Past Acting Upon Itself date: 2010 words: 238 flesch: 68 summary: At times I have more questions than answers, but it all helps me navigate the current incarnation of the art world, the world at large and my place in both I pose this question to myself as a starting point for my written thesis in order to help layout what I have come to realize as the role of art and the artist is in these ever intensely changing times. keywords: art cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63r6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63r6d.txt item: #1413 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63r7r author: Yaya Chu title: Optical Characterization of Semiconductor Microresonaters with Self-Assembled Quantum Dots date: 2010 words: 227 flesch: 35 summary: Ultra-low lasing thresholds for InP MD and MR lasers at both room temperature and low temperature are demonstrated for the first time. Micro cavities (MCs) with a small effective volume (Veff ) and a high quality factor (Q) are promising for applications in nonlinear optics, sensing, low-threshold lasers, single photon sources, quantum information processing and cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) for individual quantum dots (QDs) in the low temperature emission spectra. keywords: field cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63r7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63r7r.txt item: #1414 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63r83 author: Holly Elizabeth Weiss title: Engineering a Replacement Bone Tissue with Adult Adipose-Derived Stem Cells date: 2013 words: 348 flesch: 28 summary: Cell pellets resulted in a greater amount of mineralized tissue which accumulated around a large volume exterior to the implants, while mineralized tissue deposits were confined to a smaller volume in cell seeded alginate beads. Upon implantation, the cell-scaffold constructs produced varying amounts of immature bone characterized by highly vascularized osteocalcin and osteopontin-positive matrix and an increase in mineralized tissue volume. keywords: tissue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63r83.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63r83.txt item: #1415 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63r9f author: Jude C Nnorom title: The Jos Conflict and Peacebuilding: Evaluating Activities of the Justice Development and Peace Commission of the Catholic Archdiocese of Jos, Using Principles of Catholic Social Teaching and Strategic Peacebuilding date: 2012 words: 158 flesch: 41 summary: Because of the bias towards religious causation, peacebuilding efforts by religious actors such as the Justice, Development and Peace Commission of the Catholic archdiocese of Jos, are understudied. However, other factors such as ethnicity, politics and contests for the use of wetlands in and around Jos play a major role in the conflict. keywords: conflict cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63r9f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63r9f.txt item: #1416 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63s0n author: Carlos Chaparro title: Micro-Calorimetric Study of Iron-Based Superconductor BaFe2(As(1-x)P(x))2 date: 2013 words: 167 flesch: 49 summary: These samples can be made with very high purity, the concentration of phosphorous was determined by x-ray energy dispersive spectra (EDS). The clean-limit nature of this material imposes additional restraints on theories aimed at explaining the BCN scaling since models based on specific electron scattering mechanisms appear to be inconsistent with our results. keywords: specific cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63s0n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63s0n.txt item: #1417 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63s10 author: Jonathan Kaima Kayondo title: Genetic Structure, Snp Establishment, and Cloning the 2la-Inversion Distal Breakpoint in the Malaria Vector Anopheles Gambiae date: 2008 words: 332 flesch: 30 summary: Evaluating the effectiveness of measures that involve genetic manipulation of vector populations will be facilitated by identifying small, genetically isolated vector populations. Samples of indoor resting adult mosquitoes collected over two consecutive years were genotyped at marker loci distributed broadly throughout the genome and analyzed for general population structure and for marker comparisons. keywords: populations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63s10.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63s10.txt item: #1418 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63s2b author: Matthew David Mendham title: Gentleness, Severity, and the System of Rousseau: Responses to Modern Commerce and Enlightenment date: 2010 words: 353 flesch: 36 summary: This dissertation comprehensively analyzes themes related to gentleness and severity in Rousseau, while also comparing him with other major political philosophers and social theories. However, he frames the 'softness' it generates as politically base in comparison with the stern virtues of the ancients, as resulting from moral indifference rather than genuine conviction, and as perfectly compatible with the ramification of cruel institutions. keywords: rousseau cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63s2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63s2b.txt item: #1419 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63s3p author: Haifeng Xu title: FVII stands on the crossroads of coagulation and inflammation date: 2008 words: 370 flesch: 34 summary: Here we demonstrated that low FVII mice exhibited impaired skin wound healing. The reduced inflammatory response in low FVII mice was also demonstrated using a thioglycollate induced inflammatory model. keywords: mice cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63s3p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63s3p.txt item: #1420 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63s41 author: David Charles Kneip title: The Church, the Bible, and the Sacraments: Neglected Aspects of Cyril of Alexandria's Pneumatology date: 2013 words: 325 flesch: 43 summary: The dissertation argues that Cyril ascribes a significant role to the Holy Spirit in all three areas and in a variety of ways, but that in all three the Spirit plays a rather hidden or subtle role. Nevertheless, when one consults Cyril's works, especially his biblical commentaries, one finds frequent mention of the Spirit, reflecting deep thought on the subject. keywords: spirit cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63s41.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63s41.txt item: #1421 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63s72 author: Ryan Kreager title: Investigating the automaticity of imitation: The role of action context date: 2010 words: 308 flesch: 30 summary: The present study attempts to replicate and extend this reference study by: 1) determining if action context matching could be demonstrated using a task that was not explicitly cooperative, 2) using a procedure offering a better measure of imitation fidelity, 3) discovering if action context matching would be revealed when employing more than just the two action contexts, and 4) determining if action context matching would result in the facilitation of multiple behaviors if each was context appropriate. Action context matching effects were found in most contexts and across multiple dependent measures of performance. keywords: action cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63s72.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63s72.txt item: #1422 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63s8d author: Shannon Kay Kuntz title: An Application-Driven Approach to Evaluation of a Lightweight Multithreaded Architecture date: 2010 words: 384 flesch: 28 summary: These applications arise from a variety of sources including physics, engineering, biology, sociology, and national defense, to name just a few, and many of them have characteristics that make them ill-suited to conventional high performance architectures. The lightweight processors utilize large numbers of lightweight threads of execution to tolerate latencies that conventional architectures cannot avoid. keywords: applications cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63s8d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63s8d.txt item: #1423 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63s9r author: Jade Avelis title: Religion and Ideal Age of Marriage Among Young Emerging Adults date: 2011 words: 210 flesch: 33 summary: Stating that faith is important to one's daily life, being female, supporting the male breadwinner model in marriage, and remaining sexually abstinent before marriage also help explain some of the relationship between religious tradition and ideal age of marriage. Using data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR), various religious and demographic factors are used to examine how religious emerging adults differ from their non-religious peers on the measure of ideal age of marriage. keywords: marriage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63s9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63s9r.txt item: #1424 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63t0z author: Sheila Kathryn Nowinski title: Peasants into Farmers: The Jeunesse Agricole Catholique and the Modernization of Rural France, 1930åÑ1960 date: 2012 words: 348 flesch: 30 summary: I argue that the Jeunesse agricole provided rural youth with a path to the modern worldÌ¢åÛåÓthat of France's Ì¢åÛåÏthirty glorious years,Ì¢åÛå marked by a burgeoning consumer economy and industrial growth, including industrial agriculture. With these new social identities, rural Catholic Action associations facilitated processes of social and economic change that emptied the countryside, consolidated industrial agriculture, and reinforced and legitimized an interventionist state. keywords: jeunesse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63t0z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63t0z.txt item: #1425 of 4945 id: 8g84mk63v9c author: Adam Foley title: Homer's Winged Words and Humanist Latinity: The Task of Translating Homer in the Italian Renaissance date: 1904 words: 326 flesch: 49 summary: In addition to translation practice, humanists also began to develop increasingly more sophisticated ways of thinking about the task of the translator and thus did much to advance the field of translation theory. Many humanists of the day and scholars thereafter held Homeric translations up to these standards and judged them a failure. keywords: translation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk63v9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk63v9c.txt item: #1426 of 4945 id: 8g84mk64s91 author: Guodong Zhang title: Topology Optimization of Nonlinear Structural and Material Systems date: 2019 words: 376 flesch: 10 summary: Mesh distortion under finite deformations is handled by an adaptive linear energy interpolation scheme wherein linear energy is adaptively interpolated in the system until the convergence of finite element analysis is achieved. This dissertation proposes novel frameworks for structural design under finite deformations based on density-based topology optimization. keywords: finite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk64s91.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk64s91.txt item: #1427 of 4945 id: 8g84mk64v27 author: Constance Davis title: Racial and Gender Disparities in Underemployment among College Graduates date: 2021 words: 281 flesch: 37 summary: Limiting the sample to college graduates, the hypothesis that gender and racial disparities in the labor market are mediated by college major choice was first tested to see if college major mediates the effect of race or gender on underemployment. Racial and gender disparities in labor market outcomes such as in pay, hiring, and promotion are also well documented. keywords: disparities cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk64v27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk64v27.txt item: #1428 of 4945 id: 8g84mk64v3k author: Gabriel J. Foster title: Refining Whole Transcriptome Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum Genetic Crosses date: 2021 words: 128 flesch: 26 summary: This approach includes a detailed analysis of the parental transcriptional time courses, a novel application of a correctional method for the cyclic nature of transcription, and a detailed solution for the difficulties of data curation and analysis of expression Quantitative Trait Locus analysis in P. falciparum. This body of work describes a complete, detailed approach to transcriptional analysis of a newly derived P. falciparum genetic cross, and the tools used to perform these analyses. keywords: analysis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk64v3k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk64v3k.txt item: #1429 of 4945 id: 8g84mk64v4x author: Adam C. Vilanova-Goldstein title: Agency-Driven Biases in Visual Selective Attention date: 2021 words: 193 flesch: 37 summary: Attentional selection is driven by a complex interplay between endogenous cues (e.g., words or symbols indicating the likely identities or locations of task-relevant objects), exogenous cues (e.g., salient stimulus features such as unique motion or color), and past experience (e.g., selection history). This benefit of agency augmented effects of valid endogenous cues as well as effects of selection history. keywords: selection cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk64v4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk64v4x.txt item: #1430 of 4945 id: 8g84mk64v6m author: Rebecca Greenes Gearhart title: Yid date: 2021 words: 13 flesch: 11 summary: Yid is a multigenerational novel exploring themes of Jewish identity, adolescence, and sexuality. keywords: sexuality cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk64v6m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk64v6m.txt item: #1431 of 4945 id: 8g84mk64w47 author: Mandana Saebi title: Learning from Complex Networks date: 2021 words: 199 flesch: 35 summary: We then explore the applications of higher-order networks in various real-world problems such as modeling species spread through the global shipping network and anomaly detection in dynamic networks. We explore the applications of these models in various real-world problems such as network embedding, relational reasoning, and predicting chemical reaction performance. keywords: real cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk64w47.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk64w47.txt item: #1432 of 4945 id: 8g84mk64x1h author: Jieye Lin title: Structure and Conformation Determinations of Saccharides and Peptides in Solution and in the Solid-State date: 2022 words: 304 flesch: 24 summary: The lab-developed MA'AT program, aims to use the redundant experimental J-couplings and the DFT-calculated Karplus-like equations to unbiasedly model saccharide conformation in solution. The fundamental structural properties of saccharides are investigated in solid-state using X-ray crystallography, as shown in Chapter 5 – 7. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8g84mk64x1h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8g84mk64x1h.txt item: #1433 of 4945 id: 8k71ng47142 author: Michael D. Lundin title: Multiphase Flow Management in Confined Geometries Applied to the Optimization of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells date: 2010 words: 586 flesch: 30 summary: Model predictions explain differences in the initial location of bubble formation for fuel solutions pre-saturated with CO2 as opposed to CO2-free solutions. Because CO2 bubbles are ubiquitous in direct methanol fuel cells, this finding is key to the optimization of these systems. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8k71ng47142.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8k71ng47142.txt item: #1434 of 4945 id: 8k71ng4715d author: James Kasuboski title: Mitotic Kinases That Build a Dynein-Binding Platform on Kinetochores date: 2011 words: 321 flesch: 40 summary: Zwint-1 phosphorylation is required during prometaphase for proper assembly of the kinetochore and coordinated Zwint-1 dephoshorylation is required for entrance into anaphase and SAC silencing. Overall, these findings provide a better understanding of proper kinetochore assembly and regulation of the SAC by phosphorylation. keywords: aurora cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8k71ng4715d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8k71ng4715d.txt item: #1435 of 4945 id: 8k71ng4716r author: Ronald R Cox title: By the Same Word: The Intersection of Cosmology and Soteriology in Hellenistic Judaism, Early Christianity and 'Gnosticism' in the Light of Middle Platonic Intermediary Doctrine date: 2005 words: 229 flesch: 25 summary: In particular Hellenistic Jewish sapientialism (Philo of Alexandria and Wisdom of Solomon) espouses a holistic ontology, combining a Platonic appreciation for noetic reality with an ultimately positive view of creation and its place in human fulfillment. On the other hand, Poimandres (CH 1) and the Apocryphon of John, both associated with the traditional rubric 'gnosticism,' draw from Platonism to describe how creation is antithetical to human nature and its transcendent source. keywords: principle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8k71ng4716r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8k71ng4716r.txt item: #1436 of 4945 id: 8k71ng47262 author: Natalia Baeza title: Contradiction, Critique, and Dialectic in Adorno date: 2012 words: 355 flesch: 40 summary: This dissertation argues that it is ultimately the logic of paranoid projection that makes contradiction determinate in negative dialectics, and that makes dialectical development possible. An account of how 'contradiction' is determinate in negative dialectics must thus go beyond Hegel. keywords: contradiction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8k71ng47262.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8k71ng47262.txt item: #1437 of 4945 id: 8k71ng4727d author: Matthew McIntyre Jobbins title: Scanning tunneling microscopy investigations of reactions between thiolate coated gold surfaces and gas-phase radicals. date: 2013 words: 290 flesch: 37 summary: This will hopefully allow us to further elucidate the kinetics of chemical reactions taking place at surfaces on the molecular level. Further, we have determined that, while chlorination and sulfur abstraction does occur over extended dose times, the principle reaction pathway is likely hydrogen abstraction followed by the recombination of surface radicals, leading to an extensively cross-linked surface. keywords: surface cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8k71ng4727d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8k71ng4727d.txt item: #1438 of 4945 id: 8k71ng4739d author: Jennifer Kolesari title: How the Physicality of Space Affects How We Think about Time date: 1904 words: 189 flesch: 49 summary: One mechanism to accomplish this mapping is a reference frame that has a number of parameters that are used to define space, including origin, orientation, direction, and scale. Experiment 1 changes temporal scale across trials, and illustrates that the scale parameter is set, as evidenced by a cost when the parameter value changes. keywords: scale cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8k71ng4739d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8k71ng4739d.txt item: #1439 of 4945 id: 8k71ng47w9j author: Lucia Tiscornia title: Who Calls the Shots? Police Reform and Organized Criminal Violence in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict date: 2019 words: 1052 flesch: 28 summary: In anticipation of the possibility of police violence, criminal groups will tend to arm up and recruit more members. At high levels of militarization in particular, accountability has no effect on police violence, suggesting that it operates to reinforce militarization. keywords: police; violence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8k71ng47w9j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8k71ng47w9j.txt item: #1440 of 4945 id: 8k71ng47x0r author: Kathryn J. Ralph title: Understanding Individual Differences in Attention Mechanisms, Lapses, and Complex Cognition date: 2019 words: 355 flesch: 40 summary: Exploratory factor analyses were used to determine the construct validity of tonic alertness, phasic alertness, and lapse constructs. However, the construct validity of AC remains untested, with earlier research suggesting it is comprised of variance from both goal maintenance and alertness tasks. keywords: alertness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8k71ng47x0r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8k71ng47x0r.txt item: #1441 of 4945 id: 8k71ng47x44 author: Christopher C. Huffman title: Flow Quality Assessment of the ACT-1 Arc-Heated Hypersonic Wind Tunnel and an Analytical Driver Tube Simulation date: 2019 words: 171 flesch: 57 summary: The results are displayed as comparisons of flow properties at the farthest downstream position in the tube (i.e. a notional inlet to a Ludwieg tube's nozzle) and overall mass fluctuation throughout the time of simulation. A two-phase flow problem is encountered in these tests and corrected for by a factor based on the fraction of carbon dioxide condensate. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8k71ng47x44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8k71ng47x44.txt item: #1442 of 4945 id: 8k71ng47x9v author: Brian Mulholland title: Holomorphic Polar Coordinates and Segal-Bargmann Space date: 2019 words: 129 flesch: 46 summary: In Real Euclidean Space, polar coordinates allow mathematicians to calculate the norm of higher dimensional SO-invariant functions with relative ease by reducing the problem to a 1-dimensional integral. A geometric approach for this was done by Areerak Kaewthep and Wicharn Lewkeeratiyutkul using the B_t transform in [9], but this method is not easily generalized to non-Euclidean Spaces. keywords: transform cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8k71ng47x9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8k71ng47x9v.txt item: #1443 of 4945 id: 8k71ng4800n author: Sidney H. Simpson title: Turning against Oneself: The Internalization of the Subject and the Critique of Culture date: 2019 words: 413 flesch: 34 summary: The Frankfurt School offers an apolitical hope for emancipation from the ills of society: namely, retreating into abstract art as the last refuge of political resistance. Within these four critiques, however, I look to the changing role of politics and its relationship to salvation from the ills of society. keywords: politics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8k71ng4800n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8k71ng4800n.txt item: #1444 of 4945 id: 8k71ng4839p author: Dani Green title: Postal Forms in the Nineteenth-Century British Naturalist Novel date: 2020 words: 343 flesch: 10 summary: The naturalist novel's impersonal orientation toward its content is a formalism it shares with the reformed post office's modes of handling personal content, and I examine three specific types of postal forms—enveloped subjectivity, postal postures, and juxtaposition—not to define or prop up British naturalism, but to observe habits among three naturalist writers. This dissertation explores how the British post office and the British naturalist novel handle the circulation of personal objects—letters and characters—in impersonal ways, with the postal system functioning as a useful analogy for understanding the narrative habits of British naturalism. keywords: postal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8k71ng4839p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8k71ng4839p.txt item: #1445 of 4945 id: 8p58pc3094w author: Erin Lee Cole title: Water-Soluble, Deep-Red Fluorescent Squaraine Rotaxanes date: 2013 words: 187 flesch: 31 summary: Bone targeted squaraine rotaxanes with non-bisphosphonate groups were found to be excellent in vivo imaging agents and their bone targeting ability was comparable to that of traditional bisphosphonate probes. Squaraine rotaxanes were functionalized with ionic groups and utilized as non-targeted tracers for in vivo imaging studies, including monitoring disruption of the blood-brain-barrier. keywords: squaraine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc3094w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc3094w.txt item: #1446 of 4945 id: 8p58pc30988 author: Troy Raeder title: Shopping with Networks: An Approach to Market Basket Analysis date: 2010 words: 256 flesch: 47 summary: One may use an interestingness measure to quantify the usefulness of various rules, but there is no single agreed-upon measure and different measures can result in very different rankings of association rules. The typical solution involves the mining and analysis of association rules, which take the form of statements such as ``people who buy diapers are likely to buy beer.' keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc30988.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc30988.txt item: #1447 of 4945 id: 8p58pc3099m author: Wenhui Zhang title: Solution Studies of Monosaccharide and Oligosaccharide Structure and Reactivity by NMR Spectroscopy date: 2010 words: 364 flesch: 24 summary: Saccharides are arguably the most talented molecules in the biological repertoire of molecular structures. In this dissertation, spin-spin coupling constants measured in these compounds are interpreted using theoretically-derived Karplus or Karplus-like relationships between molecular structure conformation and coupling magnitude. keywords: studies cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc3099m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc3099m.txt item: #1448 of 4945 id: 8p58pc30b0t author: Danut Andrei Maces title: Uncertainty Propagation in Models for Dynamic Nonlinear Systems: Methods and Applications date: 2013 words: 348 flesch: 30 summary: In the context of engineering and science, nonlinear dynamic models often involve uncertain quantities. For example, in an initial value problem (IVP) described by a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), the initial conditions may be uncertain, and there may be uncertain parameters in the ODE model. keywords: uncertain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc30b0t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc30b0t.txt item: #1449 of 4945 id: 8p58pc30b15 author: Teng Wu title: Modeling Hysteretic Nonlinear Behavior of Bridge Aerodynamics via Cellular Automata Nested Neural Network date: 2012 words: 209 flesch: 31 summary: This novel application of data-driven modeling has shown a remarkable potential for applications to bridge aerodynamics and other related areas. This approach can be extended to a full-bridge (3-D) model that also takes into account the correlation of aerodynamic forces along the bridge axis. keywords: approach cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc30b15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc30b15.txt item: #1450 of 4945 id: 8p58pc30b2h author: Mark Dwayne Allen title: The Man of God, the Old Prophet and the Word of the Lord: An Exegesis of 1 Kings 13 date: 2012 words: 160 flesch: 59 summary: The work of Uriel Simon is consulted in the pre-deuteronomistic stage. This dissertation addresses these problems through studying this text in three stages: first, in its pre-deuteronomistic form, second, in its setting within the Deuteronomistic History, and, finally, in its larger canonical context. keywords: deuteronomistic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc30b2h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc30b2h.txt item: #1451 of 4945 id: 8p58pc30b5j author: Timothy Raymond Brick title: TIDE: A Timing-sensitive Incremental Discourse Engine date: 2009 words: 293 flesch: 30 summary: TIDE is capable of performing backchannel feedback actions at appropriate times during the utterance, responding to utterances within the boundaries of human turn-taking, and even interrupting a speaker as necessary. We argue that TIDE operates at a level of incrementality required for natural language interactions with humans, and demonstrate TIDE's functionality as a framework for further expansion with the implementation of a model of reference resolution in a shared visual environment. keywords: utterance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc30b5j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc30b5j.txt item: #1452 of 4945 id: 8p58pc30b6w author: Li Yu title: Right-sizing Resource Allocations for Scientific Applications in Clusters, Grids, and Clouds date: 2013 words: 196 flesch: 37 summary: For static workloads, we show that distributed abstractions allow for accurate performance modeling on distributed, multicore, and distributed multicore systems and thus can automatically make better resource allocation decisions. While these platforms provide virtually unlimited computing resources, using more resources for an application does not always result in superior performance. keywords: performance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc30b6w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc30b6w.txt item: #1453 of 4945 id: 8p58pc30b9x author: Dolores G. Morris title: Physicalism, Dualism and the Mind-Body Problem date: 2010 words: 286 flesch: 44 summary: Finally, in Chapter Four, I turn my attention to the question of causal closure. In light of Hempel's Dilemma, causal closure is either false, compatible with dualistic interaction, or unacceptably stipulative. keywords: causal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc30b9x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc30b9x.txt item: #1454 of 4945 id: 8p58pc30c04 author: Xiaoling Zhong title: Effects of Outlying Observations on Standard Errors in Factor Analysis date: 2010 words: 185 flesch: 42 summary: When data contain outlying observations, the ML estimates can be biased and SEs may increase. However, effects of outlying observations on SEs have never been studied systematically under the framework of factor analysis. keywords: ses cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc30c04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc30c04.txt item: #1455 of 4945 id: 8p58pc30c2t author: Jaecheon Cho title: Philorhomaios: The Portraits of Herod Agrippa II by Josephus and Luke date: 2013 words: 342 flesch: 57 summary: Before delving into the portraits of Agrippa, we first investigate three Greco-Roman historians-Polybius, Livy, and Tacitus-who showed their own view of Rome and the Mediterranean world through their descriptions of client king figures. The distinctive identity and role of Marcus Julius (Herod) Agrippa II as a client king of Rome are a medium for the two near contemporary historians, Josephus and Luke, to shape their view of their ethnic and religious identities in the late first century CE. keywords: king cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc30c2t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc30c2t.txt item: #1456 of 4945 id: 8p58pc31109 author: Gabriela Maria Avelar Bonilla title: Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium between Aprotic Heterocyclic Anion (AHA) Ionic Liquids and Water, and the Effect of Water on CO2 Capture by AHA Ionic Liquids date: 1904 words: 157 flesch: 44 summary: In the context of post combustion CO2 capture, small tetraalkylphosphonium cations and different AHA anions were probed for CO2 capture. The effect of the cation and anion on the liquid-liquid equilibrium of aprotic heterocyclic anion (AHA) ionic liquids (ILs) and water was studied by volumetric Karl Fischer titration. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc31109.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc31109.txt item: #1457 of 4945 id: 8p58pc31d8g author: Andrew J. Volchko title: Uncertainty Quantification of Hypersonic Models date: 2021 words: 150 flesch: 37 summary: This system was influenced by design conditions for the new Notre Dame Mach 6 Quiet Tunnel (ANDLM6QT) to provide groundwork for future simulations. To do so, we will develop efficient methods based on the polynomial expansion of the output from a deterministic model, also known as Polynomial Chaos Expansion. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc31d8g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc31d8g.txt item: #1458 of 4945 id: 8p58pc31g3c author: Hannah Wilson title: Influence in American Legislatures date: 2022 words: 148 flesch: 28 summary: This project examines the process and implications of political influence in American state legislatures. Using ten years of temporal cosponsorship data from seven U.S. states, I test a theory of asymmetric polarization in co-partisan influence. keywords: influence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8p58pc31g3c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8p58pc31g3c.txt item: #1459 of 4945 id: 8s45q813k6n author: Steven Edward Broad title: Index formulas for higher order Loewner vector fields date: 2010 words: 209 flesch: 54 summary: Structurally, our index formula provides a defect term for Loewner's conjecture containing geometric data extracted from Hessian-like objects associated with higher order derivatives of f. In particular, our index formula computes the Fredholm index of the Toeplitz operator on the unit circle whose symbol is the nth order Cauchy-Riemann derivative of f. Recent work of F. Xavier produced a formula for computing the index of such vector fields in the case n = 2 using data about the Hessian of f. keywords: riemann cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q813k6n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q813k6n.txt item: #1460 of 4945 id: 8s45q813k70 author: Dayu Lv title: Construction, Analysis and Validation of a Mathematical Model of Human Metabolism date: 2011 words: 330 flesch: 29 summary: The forms of these equations are primarily based on qualitative understanding of the relevant physiological process and the related chemical reactions and experimental data. The parameters in the model come from chemical balances, ranges of normal values published in the literature, curve fitting of experimental data and tuning. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q813k70.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q813k70.txt item: #1461 of 4945 id: 8s45q813k8b author: Junhui Huang title: Separation Control over Low Pressure Turbine Blades Using Plasma Actuators date: 2005 words: 366 flesch: 46 summary: Separation control was performed using plasma actuators. The mechanisms of the steady and unsteady plasma actuators were studied. keywords: actuators cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q813k8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q813k8b.txt item: #1462 of 4945 id: 8s45q813m90 author: Darshana C Patel title: A Study of the Isoscalar Giant Monopole Resonance: The Role of Symmetry Energy in Nuclear Incompressibility in the Open-Shell Nuclei date: 2014 words: 374 flesch: 33 summary: Paving a path for the future experiments, in order to answer the haunting question of experimentally observed 'softness' in nuclear incompressibility, the third experiment was performed to test the feasibility of using deuteron as a probe to measure ISGMR in radioactive isotopes using inverse kinematics. The objective of this thesis work is to investigate the 'softness' in nuclear incompressibility observed in the open shell nuclei and the role of symmetry energy in the nuclear incompressibility. keywords: isotopes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q813m90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q813m90.txt item: #1463 of 4945 id: 8s45q813n4k author: Yu Yan title: Non-equilibrium Ion Transport in Nanofluidic Devices date: 1904 words: 361 flesch: 33 summary: With the help of asymptotic analyses and numerical simulations, we shed light on the physical mechanisms of nanofluidic devices like batteries and diodes, and designed new nanofluidic devices like inductors and oscillators. As simple as it may seem, conic-shaped nanopores can be used to design non-equilibrium devices such as diodes and inductors. keywords: nanofluidic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q813n4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q813n4k.txt item: #1464 of 4945 id: 8s45q813n68 author: Dane A. Grismer title: Single-Molecule Spectroelectrochemical Investigation of Freely Diffusing Redox-Active Fluorophores in Zero-Mode Waveguides date: 1904 words: 333 flesch: 26 summary: Spectroelectrochemical measurements of the redox-active fluorophore, flavin mononucleotide (FMN), were performed at single-molecule concentrations in a bulk solution above an indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode and in the approximately 200 zL observation volumes of individual electrochemical ZMWs (E-ZMWs). Single-molecule studies with optical techniques have become instrumental in shedding light upon the heterogeneities in molecular property distributions, which are averaged out in ensemble measurements. keywords: single cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q813n68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q813n68.txt item: #1465 of 4945 id: 8s45q813p6k author: Miranda Burnette title: Advanced Screening and Integrative Analysis for Biotechnology and Disease date: 1904 words: 259 flesch: 4 summary: This thesis describes several milestone applications that advance the state-of-the art in each field: the generation of the first chemically defined cell culture medium enabling long term culture of a Drosophila cell lines (Chapter 2); building on these results led to unexpected discoveries in the field of developmental biology with the discovery of novel spatiotemporal patterning of polyamines during organogenesis (Chapter 3); the optimization and application of an in vivo tumor screening approach to efficiently identify novel functional targets during secondary metastatic outgrowth in tumors (Chapter 4); and through a close, multidisciplinary collaboration, the characterization of novel compounds through both cytotoxicity and mechanism of action studies, along with the preliminary creation of an ultra-high-content screening platform for structure-activity analysis of compound libraries (Chapter 5). For each application, several avenues are available to further progress the technology, which is discussed in the concluding chapter (Chapter 6). keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q813p6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q813p6k.txt item: #1466 of 4945 id: 8s45q813s6h author: Jeffrey Lee Kurkewich title: The Role of Mirn23a/Mirn23b MicroRNA Clusters and Transcription Factor Arid3b in Hematopoietic Development date: 1904 words: 249 flesch: 29 summary: Differentiation from hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) to committed blood lineages is orchestrated by a network of transcription factors and cytokines that promote lineage specific gene expression while simultaneously repressing genes associated with alternative lineages. In addition to transcription factors and cytokines, small non-coding microRNAs (miRNAs) also have the potential to influence cell fate decisions through negative regulation of lineage specific genes. keywords: mirn23a cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q813s6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q813s6h.txt item: #1467 of 4945 id: 8s45q81494r author: Xin Gu title: Probe Mediated SERS-Based Ultrasensitive and Selective Detection of Targeted Analyte date: 1904 words: 308 flesch: 44 summary: Although our proposed scheme is not perfect for every molecule that possesses small Raman cross section, it still provides a method to consider when analyzing such class of molecules. We solved this problem by introduction of a probe molecule which can specifically interact with the analyte yielding a complex with greater Raman cross section than the original analyte. keywords: sers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q81494r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q81494r.txt item: #1468 of 4945 id: 8s45q814984 author: James D. Strasburg title: God's Marshall Plan: Transatlantic Christianity and the Quest for Godly Global Order, 1910-1963 date: 1904 words: 378 flesch: 29 summary: Seeing vibrant religious life as essential to a functioning democracy, these Americans worked to export American religious values such as lay activism, voluntarism, stewardship, and ecumenism to Germany. From the early twentieth century onward, American Protestant religious leaders and policymakers worked hand-in-hand to advance an international agenda of democratization and Christianization. keywords: american cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q814984.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q814984.txt item: #1469 of 4945 id: 8s45q814g2m author: J.D. Quigley title: Generalized Mahowald Invariants date: 2019 words: 210 flesch: 49 summary: In this thesis, we study the Mahowald invariant in the settings of motivic stable homotopy theory over Spec(C) and Spec(R), as well as C2-equivariant stable homotopy theory. In the complex motivic case, we use these computations to show that the Mahowald invariant of η^i , i ≥ 1, is the first element in Adams filtration i of the w1-periodic families constructed by Andrews. keywords: motivic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q814g2m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q814g2m.txt item: #1470 of 4945 id: 8s45q814n6j author: Bryson McKay Rytting title: Petroporphyrins: Their Purification and Impact on Asphaltene Aggregation and Interfacial Phenomena date: 2020 words: 348 flesch: 40 summary: Less functionalized porphyrins are shown to inhibit asphaltene aggregation while ore functionalized porphyrins, potentially having one or more intermolecular interaction sites outside of the central macrocycle, tend to promote aggregation. Film thicknesses of asphaltene films with and without petroporphyirns are estimated by fitting multiple models to small-angle neutron scattering curves. keywords: petroporphyrins cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q814n6j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q814n6j.txt item: #1471 of 4945 id: 8s45q814n9k author: Siti Raisah title: A Bienzymatic System Constituted by Horseradish Peroxidase and Glucose Oxidase for Phenol Contaminant Degradation date: 2020 words: 274 flesch: 36 summary: The result shown that the combination of GOx-HRP could reduce the issue of inactivation of HRP at H2O2-dependent oxidation for phenolic contaminant degradation. This study also showed the low degradation efficiencies of phenolic contaminants were observed at 3mM H2O2. keywords: gox cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q814n9k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q814n9k.txt item: #1472 of 4945 id: 8s45q814p0s author: Emily M. Nett title: Food Mechanical Properties and Masticatory Behavior in Llamas date: 2020 words: 346 flesch: 40 summary: Chewing frequency was unrelated to food mechanical properties, while chewing investment and chewing duration were related to both dietary stiffness and toughness. This suggests that variation in jaw morphology in extinct and extant mammals appears to be positively related to dietary stiffness and toughness, which requires a greater chewing investment and increased chewing duration. keywords: chewing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q814p0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q814p0s.txt item: #1473 of 4945 id: 8s45q814p14 author: Trevor Sprouse title: New Techniques for the Analysis of Astrophysical Nucleosynthesis date: 2020 words: 185 flesch: -11 summary: In this work, I develop a collection of computational tools and analytical techniques that provide insight into astrophysical nucleosynthesis, specifically in the areas of quantitatively propagating uncertainties from nuclear properties to nucleosynthesis calculations; isolating the specific role of individual nuclear properties in complex nucleosynthesis processes; and combining nucleosynthesis calculations with astrophysical observations to evaluate nuclear models. The extreme conditions that can arise in astrophysical environments enable nuclear transmutation processes to take place, by which atomic nuclei interact with their environment or decay to form new nuclei. keywords: nucleosynthesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q814p14.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q814p14.txt item: #1474 of 4945 id: 8s45q814p9w author: Stacy Sivinski title: Subversive Sensations: Reconsidering the Sensory in New Woman Literature date: 2021 words: 274 flesch: 23 summary: Using the theories of feminists such as Audre Lorde and Gloria Anzaldúa (who argue that sensory encounters—especially those that are pleasurable—can lead to moments of attunement and awakening), the critical work of sensory studies scholars such as David Howes and Constance Classen, and recent neurological findings, I investigate the ways that women writers who lived during the turn into the twentieth century root social transformation in sensory perception and explain how this kind of approach could be useful in a twenty-first century context. My dissertation, Subversive Sensations: Reconsidering the Sensory in New Woman Literature, explores how sensory studies can help inform our readings of authors who seek to destabilize traditional social categorizations and create space for forms of identity that prioritize in-betweenness, hybridity, and inclusivity. keywords: sensory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q814p9w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q814p9w.txt item: #1475 of 4945 id: 8s45q814q65 author: Yassin M. Elbatrawi title: Total Synthesis and Conformational Analysis of Cyclic Hydrazino Acid Natural Products and Peptidomimetics date: 2021 words: 362 flesch: 34 summary: We show that our submonomer approach is effective in installing this unusual motif when compared to other strategies that incorporate pre-formed Piz residues. The field of peptide chemistry has benefited greatly from the discovery of new peptide natural products and the unique amino acid residues encountered within them. keywords: piz cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8s45q814q65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8s45q814q65.txt item: #1476 of 4945 id: 8w32r496v6x author: Elizabeth Agnew Cochran title: Revelations of Love and Operations of Grace: Jonathan Edwards Human Virtues date: 2007 words: 397 flesch: 21 summary: Building on this body of scholarship, this dissertation explores the implications of Edwards' situation of virtue in God's being for Edwards account of 'human virtues,' and human character traits that fall under the heading of 'natural goodness.' Contemporary studies of Jonathan Edwards virtue ethics have tended to focus on the relation Edwards establishes between virtue and the perfections of God, a feature of Edwards thought that is indeed distinctive. keywords: edwards cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r496v6x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r496v6x.txt item: #1477 of 4945 id: 8w32r496w05 author: Cristian Florin Mihut title: Diachronic Agency and Narrative Understanding date: 2010 words: 335 flesch: 26 summary: Practical deliberation then implies inhabiting different dramatic personae in mutual dialogue. Narrative understanding opens up the fruitful possibility of conceptualizing agency as a chorus of dramatic personae. keywords: narrative cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r496w05.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r496w05.txt item: #1478 of 4945 id: 8w32r496w1h author: Siân Elin White title: Intimate Modernities: British and Irish Literature, 1922-1955 date: 2009 words: 358 flesch: 33 summary: I argue that these conditions, while genuine, also foster new intensities of human intimacy, on view for us in the novels of Virginia Woolf, Patrick Hamilton, Elizabeth Bowen, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. In the urban milieu of modernity — particularly in times of war — overcrowding, mobility, transience, and the breakdown of familial domesticity increase the opportunities for sudden intimacies to develop between strangers. keywords: intimacy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r496w1h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r496w1h.txt item: #1479 of 4945 id: 8w32r496w2v author: John A. Cooney, Jr. title: Increasing Power Generation in Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines Using Optimized Flow Control date: 2014 words: 439 flesch: 35 summary: The overall objective was the development of validated aerodynamic simulations and flow control approaches to improve wind turbine power generation characteristics. In order to effectively realize future goals for wind energy, the efficiency of wind turbines must increase beyond existing technology. keywords: wind cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r496w2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r496w2v.txt item: #1480 of 4945 id: 8w32r496w36 author: Peter S. Levi title: Responses in stream ecosystem function to salmon subsidies date: 2012 words: 353 flesch: 30 summary: In addition to the nutrient enrichment, salmon increased stream ecosystem function from before to during the run. Variation in nitrification rates was best explained by streamwater and exchangeable ammonium concentrations, which increased during salmon, demonstrating that SDN are actively transformed in stream ecosystems. keywords: salmon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r496w36.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r496w36.txt item: #1481 of 4945 id: 8w32r496w4j author: Tamara Lynn Johnson title: Screen for Enhancers of Mutant Dorsal Vessel Phenotypes and Transcription Factors Expressed in the Dorsal Vessel of Drosophila date: 2012 words: 259 flesch: 44 summary: Additionally, regions showing an increase in mutant dorsal vessel phenotypes have been further screened in an effort to isolate genes within the region that play a novel role in dorsal vessel development. The purpose of this screen is to isolate regions of the second chromosome that contain genes that enhance the effect of tin305 in dorsal vessel development and therefore interact with tin in dorsal vessel development. keywords: development cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r496w4j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r496w4j.txt item: #1482 of 4945 id: 8w32r496w5w author: Mary Catherine Wagner Fuhs title: The Structure, Stability, and Prediction of Executive Functioning in Preschoolers at Head Start date: 2009 words: 142 flesch: 22 summary: Research suggests that early executive functioning skill development may enhance the school readiness of children growing up in disadvantaged homes. Verbal ability was a significant predictor of spring executive functioning, but neither age nor negative emotionality was a significant predictor. keywords: executive cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r496w5w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r496w5w.txt item: #1483 of 4945 id: 8w32r496w67 author: James Upton DeFrancis title: My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His: Self-Knowledge in the Theology of Bernard of Clairvaux date: 2012 words: 383 flesch: 43 summary: Previous scholarship on Bernard's doctrine of self-knowledge has correctly emphasized the significance he attaches to humbling self-knowledge, or the soul's honest self-recognition as a disfigured image of God, in the soul's first conversion and the initial stages of its return to God. It is precisely because he recognizes the seductive power of this self-deception that Bernard so frequently insists upon the soul's humbling recognition of its own sad disfigurement as the prerequisite for its return to God. keywords: self cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r496w67.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r496w67.txt item: #1484 of 4945 id: 8w32r496w7k author: Jonathan Foelber title: The Protein C Pathway Exacerbates Eosinophilia in an Acute Asthma Model in Mice Deficient for the Endothelial Cell Protein C Receptor date: 2010 words: 369 flesch: 40 summary: While the airway hyperresponsiveness to OVA challenge in WT and EPCRÌ_å«/Ì_å« mice were similiar, examination of bronchioalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), lung tissue, and circulating blood showed significantly higher levels of eosinophils in EPCRÌ_å«/Ì_å« mice versus WT mice, and significantly higher levels of eotaxin and Interleukin-13. The current study examined the role of EPCR in mice challenged with the inflammatory agent ovalbumin (OVA). keywords: mice cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r496w7k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r496w7k.txt item: #1485 of 4945 id: 8w32r496x1t author: Lori Frances Cummins title: Introversion, Interpersonal Loss, and Symptoms of Depression date: 2011 words: 152 flesch: 29 summary: In the present research it was predicted that introverts experiencing a romantic break-up would be more depressed, have higher negative affect, and have lower positive affect than introverts without a break-up and extraverts regardless of break up. There is suggestive evidence that the personality trait of introversion may moderate the depressogenic potential of interpersonal life stress, yet this personality domain is understudied. keywords: life cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r496x1t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r496x1t.txt item: #1486 of 4945 id: 8w32r496x25 author: Wenguang Lin title: DFT Simulations of Re3 Metal Cluster Binding on Alumina in Hydrogen Environments date: 2010 words: 362 flesch: 39 summary: To compare the effects of surface hydroxylation on cluster-support binding, periodic supercell simulations are performed on Re3 clusters adsorbed on a hydrogen-free ('dry') and fully hydroxylated ('wet') ÌøåÁ-alumina (0001) surface. In this thesis, molecular-level density functional theory (DFT) simulations and periodic supercell and cluster models are used to describe a trinuclear rhenium (Re3) cluster adsorbed on an alumina (Al2O3) support as a function of reaction environments. keywords: hydrogen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r496x25.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r496x25.txt item: #1487 of 4945 id: 8w32r496x3h author: Rebecca McCumbers Flavin title: The Battle of the Unarmed Prophets: Religion and Republicanism in the Thought of Girolamo Savonarola and Niccolo Machiavelli date: 2014 words: 358 flesch: 25 summary: Although scholars of political theory do make note of Machiavelli's reflections on Savonarola's attempts at political reform in the Prince and Discourses, none provide any in-depth reflection on the similarities and differences between their writings. Taking history and personal experience as his guide, Machiavelli recommends political reforms that are similar in some ways to Savonarola's understanding that wicked clergy are to blame for the corruption and that harsh punishment is necessary for maintaining order. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r496x3h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r496x3h.txt item: #1488 of 4945 id: 8w32r496z76 author: Christopher P. McMillion title: Federalism and Freedom: The Precedential and Normative Roots of the Rehnquist Court's Federalism Revolution date: 1904 words: 397 flesch: 37 summary: I conclude with a discussion of how these principles of federalism are founded in something more than ideology. Properly understood, federalism can promote local decision-making and deference to individual choices in a non-partisan manner. keywords: jurisprudence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r496z76.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r496z76.txt item: #1489 of 4945 id: 8w32r497k2b author: Travis A. Olds title: The Structure and Formation of Several New Uranium Minerals and the Neutron Structure and Cation Dynamics of the Uranyl Peroxide Nanocluster U60 date: 1904 words: 361 flesch: 43 summary: I address their relationship to the broader family of uranyl structures, and explore crystal-chemical drivers for their formation. Natural processes leading to formation of novel uranyl structures motivate my work, and supplement our observations of the crystal-chemistry of uranium. keywords: uranyl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r497k2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r497k2b.txt item: #1490 of 4945 id: 8w32r497r2w author: Jonathan D. Riddle title: Prospering Body and Soul: Health Reform, Religion, and Capitalism in Antebellum America date: 2019 words: 213 flesch: 26 summary: Combining the moral agency of Arminian theology with the rising confidence of physiological science, health reformers offered Americans an optimistic program for self-improvement through self-discipline. These explanations require a broader inquiry into the ways early nineteenth-century Americans understood their bodies, their souls, and connections between the two in a world upturned by new sciences, changing theologies, and expanding markets. keywords: health cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r497r2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r497r2w.txt item: #1491 of 4945 id: 8w32r497x3s author: Kevin Siegl title: Impact of Precise β-Decay Information on Trapped Ion β-Delayed Neutron Spectroscopy date: 2019 words: 310 flesch: 42 summary: Due to the difficulty in determining the probability of neutron emission from a decay (Pn) and the emitted neutron energy it is one of the least studied aspects of the decay of neutron rich nuclei. This method is not subject to the low efficiency of direct neutron detection or neutron backgrounds. keywords: neutron cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r497x3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r497x3s.txt item: #1492 of 4945 id: 8w32r49800n author: Sebastián Murgueitio Ramírez title: On the Empirical Significance of Physical Symmetries date: 2021 words: 160 flesch: 35 summary: In the first one, I defend the claim that there can indeed be gauge symmetries that are empirically significant in a way analogous to boosts, and in the second chapter, I show that gauge symmetries cannot be empirically significant in a non-relational way and connect this issue to recent developments in theoretical physics (i.e., edge modes). In the second half of the dissertation, I clarify the conditions under which symmetry-related states can be taken to be representionally equivalent. keywords: significant cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r49800n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r49800n.txt item: #1493 of 4945 id: 8w32r49815p author: Lailatul Fitriyah title: Border Theologies: Divine Communion, Divine Justice, and Religious Practices among Indonesian Female Migrant Workers in Singapore date: 2022 words: 90 flesch: 31 summary: To do so, three major aspects in the lives of the FMWs (theology, theodicy, and religious practices) are analyzed through the lenses of feminist ethnography and anthropological theology in this dissertation. The concept of border theologies is introduced to denote the kind of theologies that come out of the embodied experiences of the FMWs who live at the liminal spaces of belonging/non-belonging in the diaspora. keywords: fmws cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/8w32r49815p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/8w32r49815p.txt item: #1494 of 4945 id: 9019s18048r author: Bradley Jefferson Thames title: Historicity, Contingency, and Virtue date: 2011 words: 408 flesch: 24 summary: Most virtue theories seek to maintain these ideals, at least to some extent; yet, the claim that virtuous practical knowledge depends upon conditioned frameworks seems to many critics hopelessly incompatible with the ideals, committing virtue ethics instead to a form of relativism or elitism. This theory distinguishes between (in my terms) 'transcendental' and 'immanent' virtues, a distinction that answers the initial worries by reconciling the thesis about the dependency of practical reason on conditioned frameworks with the philosophical ideals of critique, universality, and realism with respect to practical knowledge. keywords: virtue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9019s18048r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9019s18048r.txt item: #1495 of 4945 id: 9019s180493 author: Brett Frank Goodrich title: Experimental Measurements of Co2 Absorption in Ionic Liquids and Its Effect On Viscosity date: 2011 words: 192 flesch: 60 summary: All of the AAs had greater than 0.5 moles of CO2 per mole of IL, while the AHAs showed a range from only physical absorption to near 1 mole of CO2 per mole of IL. The chemical absorption of CO2 into AAs, except for [P66614][Pro], caused a dramatic increase in the viscosity. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9019s180493.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9019s180493.txt item: #1496 of 4945 id: 9019s180509 author: Christine Claire Willard Noria title: Teenage Moms Become 'Twenty-Something:' Paths to Self-Sufficiency date: 2005 words: 122 flesch: 20 summary: Additionally, resilience at 5 years mediated the relationships between prenatal characteristics and subsequent outcomes, suggesting that early success in educational attainment, employment, and socioemotional adjustment is the path through which important prenatal characteristics influence 10 year life outcomes. Three prenatal constructs – cognitive resources, school involvement and success, and adjustment – were used to predict resilience and evaluate its mediational role in maternal outcomes. keywords: resilience cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9019s180509.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9019s180509.txt item: #1497 of 4945 id: 9019s18060m author: Kedar K Aras title: Empirical Analysis of Design Patterns - A Case Study in CompuCell3D date: 2005 words: 109 flesch: 24 summary: Therefore, we investigate the effects of design patterns on application performance through a detailed measurement and profiling of CompuCell3D. By reverse engineering CompuCell3D subsystems with and without design patterns, we evaluate their impact on application performance and maintainability. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9019s18060m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9019s18060m.txt item: #1498 of 4945 id: 9019s18061z author: Dennis J. Ciancio title: Early Intervention: Effects Of Behavioral Regulation onLearning and Emerging Self-Competence date: 2003 words: 227 flesch: 2 summary: The purpose of this study was to establish: (1) that Head Start children's emergent literacy knowledge would benefit from developmentally appropriate and child-centered intervention; (2) that children's emotional expression and regulatory behaviors are important predictors of interindividual differences in within-individual change in emergent literacy knowledge; (3) that warm and supportive navigation through a childcentered intervention would positively affect a child's perceived-self competence; and (4) that regular (i.e., daily) contextual assessment of emergent literacy is predictive of less frequent and more decontextualized assessments of emergent literacy. Preschoolers therefore respond to and learn from age-appropriate literacy-targeted instruction; behavioral and emotional indices are important indicators of individual change in literacy ability; and successful and enjoyable experiences during age-appropriate activities can impact children's perceivedself competence. keywords: literacy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9019s18061z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9019s18061z.txt item: #1499 of 4945 id: 9019s18068c author: Sean F. Ryan title: An Evaluation of Spatio-Temporal Changes in the Population Genomics of a Butterfly Hybrid Zone Over a Thirty Year Period of Climatic Change date: 2015 words: 345 flesch: 26 summary: However, due to the complexity of biological communities, accurate predictions of species responses will depend on our understanding of the factors influencing these responses. Using simulation modelling I discovered that spatio-temporal changes in climate during this period of warming has led to differential phenological responses that were dependent on genetic background. keywords: climate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9019s18068c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9019s18068c.txt item: #1500 of 4945 id: 9019s180v6k author: Megan C. Rogers title: Faiths and Fortune: Religion and the Professional Middle Class in Urban China date: 1904 words: 351 flesch: 21 summary: My research examines how one portion of the Chinese population—the growing professional middle class—is engaging with religious practices and asks how they are using these practices to make sense of their success and their place in both their country and global society. Drawing on critiques of the standard sociological theories and ways of conceptualizing and measuring of religion, this project uses the lens of religious practice, based on the theoretical work of Martin Riesebrodt (2010) and Adam Yuet Chau (2011a), to demonstrate how educated professionals' social position orients them towards religion in a distinctly rationalized and individualistic way that transcends established religious lines. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9019s180v6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9019s180v6k.txt item: #1501 of 4945 id: 9019s180x35 author: Jeremy Hershberger title: Full-Polarization Characterizations of Time-Varying Targets via Software-Defined Radar date: 2018 words: 951 flesch: 25 summary: While SDR platforms are often not well-suited for radar implementation, radar operation can be achieved with significant customization efforts. An important constraint associated with radar operation is the signal isolation between the transmit and receive functions. keywords: polarization; radar cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9019s180x35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9019s180x35.txt item: #1502 of 4945 id: 9019s18114q author: Antonios Anastasopoulos title: Computational Tools for Endangered Language Documentation date: 2019 words: 346 flesch: 38 summary: This dissertation mainly focuses on spoken corpora of endangered and low-resource languages with limited translation annotations, tackling problems that cover every layer of linguistic annotation: speech-to-translation alignment: we present an unsupervised method for discovering word or phrase boundaries in the audio signal and aligning the discovered segments with translation words. speech translation: our novel multitask neural model jointly produces a transcription and a (free) translation of an audio segment. keywords: language cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9019s18114q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9019s18114q.txt item: #1503 of 4945 id: 9019s18168n author: Madeline Eberle title: Development of Paper Analytical Devices to Detect Chemotherapy Drugs and Urinary Iodine Levels date: 2020 words: 168 flesch: 59 summary: Low cost rapid testing devices can fill the need for lab tests in low resource areas, especially in low and middle income countries. Lab tests in low resource settings are often not readily accessible, however, problems that require lab tests to elucidate, such as, falsified drugs and health metrics are most needed in these areas. keywords: low cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9019s18168n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9019s18168n.txt item: #1504 of 4945 id: 9019s18186k author: Esteban Salas title: Making Portuguese Colonial Governance: Slavery, Forced Labor, and Racial Ideology in the Interior from Benguela, 1760-1860 date: 2021 words: 351 flesch: 28 summary: This dissertation examines the links between the expansion of slavery, forced labor, racial ideology, and early Portuguese colonialism over the Ndombe and Quilengues populations of Catumbela, Dombe Grande, and Quilengues, three areas surrounding the port town of Benguela, Angola, from 1760 to 1860. From the expansion of the Atlantic slave trade during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century to the period after its prohibition in 1836, the social and economic transformations experienced by these African communities intensified and laid the groundwork for further Portuguese colonization of Angola. keywords: portuguese cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9019s18186k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9019s18186k.txt item: #1505 of 4945 id: 9306sx63d8n author: Lauren L O'Neil title: Base Flipping: Detection, Structures and Energetics date: 2008 words: 363 flesch: 50 summary: As there are favorable interactions for an intrahelical base, both hydrogen bonding and base stacking, base flipping is expected to be energetically prohibitive for an undamaged DNA duplex. Using the novel method, the energetics of base flipping in various DNA sequences containing a thymine dimer have been calculated. keywords: base cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63d8n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63d8n.txt item: #1506 of 4945 id: 9306sx63f2w author: John Michael Densmore title: A Model Free Real Space Reconstruction of the Magnetic Field due to the Vortex Lattice date: 2010 words: 308 flesch: 44 summary: If higher order Bragg reflections are measured they are simply ignored. In our study, the measured higher order Bragg reflections allow us to perform a more comprehensive data analysis with minimum theoretical input. keywords: magnetic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63f2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63f2w.txt item: #1507 of 4945 id: 9306sx63f37 author: Heather Elaine Edwards title: Alternative Geographies: Uncovering the New Woman in Irish Literature date: 2010 words: 304 flesch: 24 summary: My analysis follows the lead of such recent critics as LeeAnne Richardson and Iveta JusovÌÄåÁ to uncover the varied intersections of the New Woman with Empire while arguing that a modernity capable of producing New Women also exists in the colonial periphery. Looking at the Irish authors Emily Lawless, Rosa Mulholland, George Moore and M.E. Francis, I outline how Ireland's particular situation as a British colony seeking cultural and political independence shaped Irish writers' representations of New Womanhood. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63f37.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63f37.txt item: #1508 of 4945 id: 9306sx63f4k author: Maria Felix Unger title: Cytogenetic Studies of Polytene Chromosomes and Physical Genome Mapping for the Mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus Say, 1823; Transposable Element Annotation of Several Insect-Vector Species date: 2014 words: 391 flesch: 43 summary: The first chapter is devoted to Culex quinquefasciatus, southern house mosquito, polytene chromosomes and an investigation of the non-trivial task of obtaining polytene chromosomes for cytogenetic studies. The making of a standard cytogenetic map for Culex quinquefasciatus is described, which is a base for physical mapping and finishing the Culex genome assembly, as well as a strong contribution to population genetic studies. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63f4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63f4k.txt item: #1509 of 4945 id: 9306sx63f5x author: Donald A Brower title: Aspects of stability in simple theories date: 2012 words: 155 flesch: 56 summary: Simple theories are a strict extension of stable theories for which non-forking independence is a nice independence relation. This work looks at three aspects of simple theories and uses them to give a better picture of the differences between the two classes. keywords: theories cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63f5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63f5x.txt item: #1510 of 4945 id: 9306sx63f7m author: Joshua Gareth Lollar title: To See into the Life of Things: The Contemplation of Nature in Maximus the Confessor's Ambigua to John date: 2011 words: 310 flesch: 49 summary: Here I show how Maximus accounts for the coherence of philosophy, specifically that between praxis and contemplation; I then give an analysis of his understanding of the contemplation of nature itself. Chapter 1 is an analysis of the place of the contemplation of nature amongst the ancient Greeks, beginning with the pre-Socratics Parmenides and Heraklitus and then proceeding to Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Plotinus. keywords: contemplation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63f7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63f7m.txt item: #1511 of 4945 id: 9306sx63f8z author: Shi-Hsin Lin title: Novel Bound States and Their Manipulations in Superconductor/Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Hybrids and Mesoscopic Superconductors date: 2012 words: 529 flesch: 37 summary: Besides hybrid samples, single-phase material with mesoscopic size can also harbor novel states that are vastly different from bulk states. The overarching theme presented in this thesis can therefore be formulated as follows: (a) I am exploring the conditions (such as geometric confinement and the proximity of another ordered state) leads to exotic vortex phases and order parameter landscape, and (b) provide a detailed quantum mechanical description of the electronic states hosted by the novel vortex matter. keywords: states cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63f8z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63f8z.txt item: #1512 of 4945 id: 9306sx63f99 author: Raymond Bautista Aguas title: Relating Faith and Political Action: Utopia in the Theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez date: 2008 words: 369 flesch: 41 summary: This dissertation argues that utopia's essential role of mediating between faith and political action, allowing for relation without collapse, is necessary for properly interpreting Gutiérrez's theology. The council's appropriation of liberation theology's insights fail to adequately relate faith and political action because of a lack of understanding of utopia's mediating role within Gutiérrez's three dimensions of liberation. keywords: gutiérrez cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63f99.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63f99.txt item: #1513 of 4945 id: 9306sx63g0h author: Kimberly S. Howard title: What About Dad? Adjusting to Parenting and Facilitating Children's Development date: 2006 words: 166 flesch: 29 summary: The present study used latent growth curve modeling to examine trajectories of parenting attitudes among fathers with young children. Information was obtained regarding their personal demographic factors, histories of child maltreatment, socioemotional functioning, and parenting attitudes and beliefs over the first 24 months of their children's lives. keywords: parenting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63g0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63g0h.txt item: #1514 of 4945 id: 9306sx63g3j author: Heather L Holleman title: Early Life Stress and Stress Generation in Recurrent Depression date: 2011 words: 192 flesch: 45 summary: This paper examined the phenomenon of stress generation as it relates to an individual's history of early life stress. From a stress generation perspective, these results partially support the notion of early life stress, namely physical abuse, as a risk factor for stress generation. keywords: stress cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63g3j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63g3j.txt item: #1515 of 4945 id: 9306sx63g4w author: Melissa Renee Ward George title: Family Processes and Children's Attachment at Age 6: Examining Marital Functioning and Parenting date: 2010 words: 156 flesch: 18 summary: Analyses indicated specific behaviors exhibited during marital conflict, such as anger, were related to attachment while global aspects of marital satisfaction and conflict were not supported. Less research has examined the impact of marital processes on attachment; however, support for marital quality and conflict have been linked to attachment in infancy and toddlerhood. keywords: attachment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63g4w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63g4w.txt item: #1516 of 4945 id: 9306sx63g57 author: Courtney Lynne Wiersema title: All Consuming Nature: Provisioning in Industrial Chicago, 1833-1893 date: 2015 words: 366 flesch: 53 summary: Not only do I show that the working class continued to know nature through domestic labors such as gardening and scavenging, but I also suggest that alienation was an upper-class project?a homespun effort to obscure the ties that bound them to nature and to their fellow urban dwellers. My study also challenges the prevailing belief that industrialization alienated urban dwellers from the nature that sustained them. keywords: nature cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63g57.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63g57.txt item: #1517 of 4945 id: 9306sx63g6k author: Luke Potter title: The Word Incarnate: Philosophical Essays on the Christian Doctrine of Scripture date: 2012 words: 511 flesch: 46 summary: In Chapter 3, I examine the most recent analysis of biblical authority, arguing for an alternative conception. This I provide, arguing that the Incarnational model works the way all models work: by raising to salience shared structure. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63g6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63g6k.txt item: #1518 of 4945 id: 9306sx63h46 author: Bin Hu title: Stochastic Safety and Efficiency for Vehicular Networked Systems: Theories and Applications date: 1904 words: 485 flesch: 51 summary: One of the great challenges faced by self-driving vehicles is finding ways of assuring system safety and efficiency in the presence of such unreliable communication channels. Active coordination between vehicles is often used to improve system safety. keywords: safety cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63h46.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63h46.txt item: #1519 of 4945 id: 9306sx63j5v author: Erin Marie Kraus title: Becoming American: Revolutionary Exiles and the Shaping of the Early American Republic date: 1904 words: 349 flesch: 37 summary: And, as they became American, these influential immigrants also helped shape American political culture, further cementing those contradictions rather than challenging them. While they struggled to adapt to their new lives, they came to terms with what it meant to be American—even if that meant accepting compromise and contradictions within American society. keywords: american cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63j5v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63j5v.txt item: #1520 of 4945 id: 9306sx63m9v author: Brittany J. Barrett title: Flexible Chelating Diphosphine Ligands and Their Interactions with Late Transition Metals date: 1904 words: 280 flesch: 37 summary: It is well known that the use of chelating ligands offer the metal center more stability, and additionally, chelating ligands can be tuned readily to influence the reactivity of the metal center. With these design features in mind, investigations centering around multidentate ligands possessing a central pi-system were carried out. keywords: ligands cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx63m9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx63m9v.txt item: #1521 of 4945 id: 9306sx6451b author: Jie Yang title: On the Use of Wavelet to Enhance the Performance of Electrical Impedance Tomography date: 1904 words: 499 flesch: 30 summary: Different types of wavelet functions are chosen as basis for the solution of the EIT inverse problem, and their performances are evaluated and compared. A detailed implementation of wavelet basis function approach in 1-D and 2-D will be presented. keywords: wavelet cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx6451b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx6451b.txt item: #1522 of 4945 id: 9306sx64h4g author: David Pirchio title: Unreinforced Masonry Italian Medieval Churches: A Holistic Framework for Seismic Risk Assessment from the National Scale to the Building Scale date: 2020 words: 329 flesch: -2 summary: The following goals of the seismic risk assessment were targeted in this study:- Developing an appropriate and cost-efficient methodology for seismic risk assessments for large portfolios of churches;- Quantifying the exposure and consequence components of risk by recording occupancy rates, heritage components, and equivalent replacement value of the churches;- Developing a risk ranking of churches surveyed in order to assist stakeholders by prioritizing churches for futher detailed assessment and potentially retrofit intervention;- Contributing to the innovation of engineering investigation techniques by introducing a rapid and reliable assessment methodology both on a regional or national scale, as well as on a higher resolution building scale;- Recording in a rapid and dependable way the geometry and material properties with respect to complex URM churches when the lack of architectural and structural drawing represents a significant obstacle to assessment; and- Developing a structural modeling approach for complex URM churches that is accessible by a significant portion of the practicing engineering community, based on the availability of the software utilized and the simplification of the robust analytical methods. keywords: risk cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx64h4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx64h4g.txt item: #1523 of 4945 id: 9306sx64h65 author: Joshua Siva title: Bluetooth Low Energy Characterization on Android Devices date: 2020 words: 150 flesch: 33 summary: My investigations into connection-less and connection-oriented BLE communication on a variety of Android smartphones have illustrated disparate BLE behavior across devices, unequal impacts from ambient and parallel interfering traffic, and an updated understanding of what BLE traffic looks like on modern smartphones. Android smartphones, specifically, suffer from a fragmentation problem amongst the operating systems found in the wild as well as an issue with extraordinary variability in hardware. keywords: ble cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx64h65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx64h65.txt item: #1524 of 4945 id: 9306sx64j1r author: Salvatore R. Curasi title: Understanding Vegetation's Role in the Arctic C Cycle: Lessons from E. vaginatum date: 2021 words: 288 flesch: 38 summary: Climate change is altering the productivity of arctic vegetation as well as the distribution of species within tundra ecosystems. Arctic ecosystems are responding to unprecedented climate change with implications for the carbon cycle and feedbacks to global climate. keywords: ecosystems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx64j1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx64j1r.txt item: #1525 of 4945 id: 9306sx64j54 author: Samuel B. Johnson title: A Sign for This Generation: The Life of Jesus in Origen's Gospel Commentaries date: 2021 words: 263 flesch: 36 summary: In addition to offering the first comprehensive study of the earliest extant commentaries on the Gospels (written c. 230 – 250 CE), this project tests David F. Strauss's astonishing claim that no prior understanding of the Gospels more nearly approached the modern mythical view—of which he was the founder—than Origen's (The Life of Jesus Critically Examined, 1835). In short: Origen doesn't just read the Gospels figuratively; he believes the Evangelists were themselves figurative readers of the life of Jesus. keywords: origen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx64j54.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx64j54.txt item: #1526 of 4945 id: 9306sx64k43 author: Fidelis Olokunboro title: AfroCathonomics: Challenging the African Poverty Context with the Christian/Maritainian Personalism and the Theology of Preferential Option for the Poor date: 2022 words: 191 flesch: 70 summary: And the fifth question captures the intent of this project - to transition theology into social policy on poverty. How do we translate the theology on the recovery of the full personhood of the poor to social policy?With the framing of the first and second questions, it is obvious that the interest of this research is poverty, and its context is Africa. keywords: poor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx64k43.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx64k43.txt item: #1527 of 4945 id: 9306sx64m5r author: Ricardo M. Morales title: Development of Cyclodextrin Derivatives for the Treatment of Niemann-Pick Type C date: 2023 words: 27 flesch: 41 summary: Synthesis of a novel beta-cyclodextrin conjugate for the use as a potential therapy toward treatment of Niemann-Pick Type C, a rare autosomal lipid storage disorder. keywords: synthesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9306sx64m5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9306sx64m5r.txt item: #1528 of 4945 id: 9593tt46q07 author: Karen Monique Gregg title: The Safe and Sacred Pajama Party: Social Processes in a Religious Youth Ministry for High School Adolescents date: 2012 words: 373 flesch: 39 summary: Since then, the Cursillo model of ministry -- using lay-persons to recruit new participants for a religiously-focused retreat -- has spread to many different groups, both religious and secular, throughout the world. This work is an ethnographic case study of the God Loves Everyone (GLE) group, one ecumenical ministry to high school adolescents following the Cursillo model. keywords: adolescents cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9593tt46q07.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9593tt46q07.txt item: #1529 of 4945 id: 9593tt46q1k author: Dhiraj D Pant title: Essays on Aggregate Fluctuations in the Least Developed Countries date: 2012 words: 307 flesch: 51 summary: An important body of work has been devoted to understanding both the extent and the causes of the decrease in output volatility in industrialized and middle-income countries since the mid-eighties. Chapter 1 establishes two empirical facts on output volatility - structural break and moderation. keywords: volatility cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9593tt46q1k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9593tt46q1k.txt item: #1530 of 4945 id: 9593tt46q2x author: Anthony Daniel Cak title: The Influence of Spawning Salmon on Nutrient Dynamics and Epilithon Growth in Southeastern Alaska Streams and Estuaries date: 2005 words: 157 flesch: 25 summary: With addition of salmon material (either from salmon runs or artificial salmon products), fluxes of streamwater ammonium (NH4+-N) and soluble reactive phosphorous (SRP) increased significantly in streams and estuaries, whereas nitrate and dissolved organic carbon did not. Responses in epilithon biomass and productivity in streams and estuaries to addition of salmon material varied widely across systems. keywords: salmon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9593tt46q2x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9593tt46q2x.txt item: #1531 of 4945 id: 9593tt46r27 author: Brenda R. Jackson title: Daily Spiritual Experiences: A Buffer Against the Effects of Daily Perceived Stress on Daily Mood date: 2010 words: 150 flesch: 41 summary: The present project examines the daily associations between Perceived Stress (PSS), Daily Spiritual Experiences (DSE), and Mood (Positive and Negative Affect; PAA), as well as how these associations are impacted by global levels of Religious Practices, Religious Belief, and Daily Spiritual Experiences. Participants were 244 older adults (aged 55-92) who filled out yearly questionnaires and daily assessments. keywords: daily cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9593tt46r27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9593tt46r27.txt item: #1532 of 4945 id: 9593tt46s16 author: Amy E. Seymour title: Presentism, Propositions, and Persons: A Systematic Case for All-falsism date: 1904 words: 376 flesch: 59 summary: In addition, I show that all-falsism provides a useful explanation of our behavior in lottery cases and the beginnings of a middle-ground position between contextualism and traditional epistemology. In chapter two, after showing that the all-falsist can account for truths about the past, I argue that if one thinks 'will' a kind of necessity operator, one should reduce times to possible worlds. keywords: falsism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9593tt46s16.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9593tt46s16.txt item: #1533 of 4945 id: 9593tt47f2q author: Aryanne D. de Silva title: Family, Cortisol Reactivity, and Emotional Insecurity: Moderated Mediation Models date: 1904 words: 159 flesch: 23 summary: Using a sample of 213 families, including mothers, fathers, and adolescents (Mage = 13.10 years), six moderated mediation models tested whether family conflict affects adolescents' emotional insecurity two years later, due to conflicts' effects on parent-adolescent relationship quality, and whether adolescents' cortisol reactivity moderates this indirect effect. Family conflict is a risk factor for a variety of outcomes, (e.g., suicidal ideation, Wright, 1985), including adolescents' emotional security. keywords: adolescents cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9593tt47f2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9593tt47f2q.txt item: #1534 of 4945 id: 9593tt47f63 author: Jonathan Martin Ciraulo title: The Eucharistic Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar date: 1904 words: 295 flesch: 40 summary: The fourth and final main chapter deals with various issues related to the intersection of eucharistic theology and eschatology, such as Balthasar's conception of a sacramental time, the tension between what he calls liturgy and slaughter, and the status of the communio sanctorum in the eschaton. This chapter also puts Balthasar's liturgical theology in dialogue with contemporary phenomenological approaches. keywords: balthasar cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9593tt47f63.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9593tt47f63.txt item: #1535 of 4945 id: 9593tt47k6b author: Jillian M. Snyder title: Sincere Performances: The Affective Scripts of the Pulpit and Stage in Post-Reformation England date: 2019 words: 223 flesch: 47 summary: Sincere Performances argues that the pulpit and stage engaged a series of bodily responses—weeping, trembling, blushing, sighing, and laughing—using a variety of affective scripts by which they could frame and interpret these responses for audiences. Through close analysis of sermons and plays, the project illustrates how the pulpit and stage possessed a common vision of sincere affects, which acted as visceral evidence of spiritual change and emotional legibility. keywords: stage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9593tt47k6b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9593tt47k6b.txt item: #1536 of 4945 id: 9593tt47v13 author: Natalie Bourman-Karns title: Gun Violence: Emotional Reactions and a Willingness to Mobilize date: 2021 words: 179 flesch: 43 summary: This study uses data from an original experimental survey to analyze three issues: the variation in emotional reactions to different forms of gun violence, the variation in a willingness to mobilize for gun-related issues, and the effects of racial identity on these potential patterns of variation. I find evidence that any form of gun violence will evoke strong emotional reactions but there is no significant difference across treatment groups; the willingness to mobilize is largely unaffected by the type of gun violence; and that there are suggestive differences in how white people compared to Black people react to gun violence that warrant further investigation. keywords: gun cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9593tt47v13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9593tt47v13.txt item: #1537 of 4945 id: 9593tt47v5g author: Christopher James Seymour title: Commissioning of the St. George Recoil Separator and Measurement of the 14N(α,γ)18F Reaction in Inverse Kinematics date: 2022 words: 135 flesch: 16 summary: This reaction is important to furthering understanding of nuclear astrophysical systems and reaction networks involved in nucleosynthesis, particularly as a precursor to a neutron source reaction in AGB stars for s-process nucleosynthesis. The St. George recoil separator (Strong Gradient Electromagnetic Online Recoil separator for capture Gamma Ray Experiments) has been commissioned by comparing its design parameters with the ones measured; the angular and energy acceptance has been characterized; the HIPPO gas target has been rebuilt and recommissioned; a scalable separator tune has been determined; and the rejection has been characterized. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9593tt47v5g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9593tt47v5g.txt item: #1538 of 4945 id: 9593tt47x0c author: Istvan Szepesi title: Unspoken Accommodations: A Century of Religious Coexistence in Catholic Cologne, 1517-1617 date: 2023 words: 162 flesch: 32 summary: Cologne thus became a place in which Catholics and Protestants could live together in a shared community despite the authorities' outspoken rejection of religious pluralism. This dissertation explores how this compromise functioned, what pressures led to its eventual collapse in the early seventeenth century, and what lessons it imparts about the larger history of religious coexistence. keywords: cologne cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9593tt47x0c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9593tt47x0c.txt item: #1539 of 4945 id: 9880vq30002 author: Shuao Wang title: New Insights in Actinide Borate Chemistry date: 2012 words: 358 flesch: 33 summary: The core of the this dissertation is focused on the crystal chemistry and the structure-property relationship of actinide borates that derived from the molten boric acid flux reactions including thorium borate (Chapter 3), uranium borates (Chapter 4-7,12,14), neptunium borates (Chapter 9-14), plutonium borates (Chapter 9,12,16,17), americium borate (Chapter 17), and curium borate (chapter 18). Finally, americium and curium borates show dramatic departures from plutonium borates, and form the first trivalent actinide compounds that do not have lanthanide analogues. keywords: borates cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq30002.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq30002.txt item: #1540 of 4945 id: 9880vq3004f author: Alexandre Chapeaux title: Extraction of Alcohols from Water Using Ionic Liquids date: 2010 words: 522 flesch: 41 summary: To evaluate various ionic liquids for this application, this study details the phase behavior of binary and ternary systems of ionic liquids with water and alcohols. We explore, here, the use of ionic liquids to remove alcohols from aqueous solutions. keywords: ionic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq3004f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq3004f.txt item: #1541 of 4945 id: 9880vq3005s author: David Johnson title: Effects of P190b Over-Expression on Mammary Epithelial Cell Morphology and Behavior date: 2010 words: 253 flesch: 42 summary: For this we have mimicked mammary gland ductal development using a three dimensional culture technique. In the developing mouse mammary gland p190B is expressed in the terminal end buds(TEBs), which are the proliferative structures responsible for expanding the ductal system into the mammary fat pad during virgin mammary gland development. keywords: mammary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq3005s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq3005s.txt item: #1542 of 4945 id: 9880vq30064 author: Jessica Muriel Kowalik title: Epidemiological Modeling of a Bioterrorist Attack on the I-95 Corridor date: 2014 words: 155 flesch: 20 summary: While a lower basic reproductive number (R0) and protracted generation time (Tg) produced the fewest fatalities, multiple attack loci accelerated peak of infection by as much as several months, complicating potential interventions. Contrastingly, a high R0 coupled with a brief generation time, irrespective of the number of populations attacked, yielded fatalities approaching one million individuals in as little as one month without containment. keywords: fatalities cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq30064.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq30064.txt item: #1543 of 4945 id: 9880vq3007g author: Ian V. Lightcap title: Excited State Interactions in Graphene Oxide-Semiconductor/Metal Nanoparticle Architectures for Sensing and Energy Conversion date: 2012 words: 358 flesch: 32 summary: On account of the advantageous electronic properties and improved device performance, the work described in this dissertation provides a basis for further exploration in the field of reduced graphene composite materials. Graphene oxide, a chemically modified form of graphene which can be produced economically and in large scale, is one of the most common starting materials for making graphene composite materials with improved conductivity, photovoltaic performance, and photocatalytic activity, to name a few examples. keywords: graphene cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq3007g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq3007g.txt item: #1544 of 4945 id: 9880vq3008t author: Raymond Kenney Walters title: Estimating Variance Explained by all DNA Loci in a Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis date: 2014 words: 365 flesch: 32 summary: In response, it has been variously hypothesized that genome-wide studies may lack statistical power to identify the small effects of individual SNPs, that heritability may be a result of other forms of genetic variation, or that twin studies may over-estimate the degree of heritability for common psychological traits (Bohacek, Gapp, Saab, & Mansuy, 2013; Maher, 2008; The current dissertation expands upon the method of So, Li, and Sham (2011) to provide more flexible and accurate estimates of the proportion of variance in psychological traits that can be explained by observed SNPs. keywords: studies cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq3008t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq3008t.txt item: #1545 of 4945 id: 9880vq3010c author: Juan Diwu title: Comparison of Transuranium Elements and Their Proposed Surrogates date: 2012 words: 394 flesch: 42 summary: Such results offer a great opportunity for a thorough comparison of transuranic elements with their surrogates in different structure topologies and oxidation states in the diphosphonate system. The Bond Valence parameters for Pu(IV), Np(IV) and Np(VI) was calculated and reported to assist the study the chemistry of transuranic elements. keywords: elements cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq3010c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq3010c.txt item: #1546 of 4945 id: 9880vq3011q author: John C. Traver title: The Sense of Amending: Closure, Justice, and the Eighteenth-Century Fictional Sequel date: 2008 words: 267 flesch: 33 summary: It considers works by both traditionally canonical writers (e.g., Daniel Defoe's Farther Adventures and Serious Reflections and Samuel Richardson's Pamela II) and less familiar authors (e.g., Sarah Fielding's Familiar Letters and Volume the Last and Frances Sheridan's Conclusion of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph). The literary sequel complicates our understanding of the eighteenth-century novel and enables us to engage with questions of justice and literary endings in a different way. keywords: sequels cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq3011q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq3011q.txt item: #1547 of 4945 id: 9880vq30122 author: Alice J Crohas title: Practical Implementation of a Cognitive Radio System for Dynamic Spectrum Access date: 2008 words: 245 flesch: 44 summary: Cognitive radio for dynamic spectrum access enables opportunistic use of the radio-frequency (RF) spectrum, allowing unlicensed users to utilize licensed bands under the condition that they interfere as little as possible with the licensees. This work focuses on the practical implementation of a cognitive radio for dynamic spectrum access. keywords: cognitive cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq30122.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq30122.txt item: #1548 of 4945 id: 9880vq30153 author: Mark Aaron Wacker title: Impacts of Drug Resistance on the Fitness and Metabolism of Plasmodium falciparum date: 2011 words: 348 flesch: 37 summary: Knowledge of the endogenous fuction of pfcrt is necessary to begin to understand how drug resistant parasites may have adapted to compensate for any fitness costs associated with resistance mutations. Knowledge of these pathways and mechanisms will also reveal new drug targets, unique to drug resistant parasites, and could facilitate the rational design of drug combinations to thwart the ever-emerging scourge of multi-drug resistant malaria. keywords: drug cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq30153.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq30153.txt item: #1549 of 4945 id: 9880vq3016f author: Corey John Zwikstra title: The Psychology of Wisdom in Old English Poetry date: 2009 words: 299 flesch: 40 summary: On the levels of characterization, narrative, and theme, wisdom performs often essential functions in a variety of Old English texts, most intensely in poetry and frequently in texts outside the approved canon of Old English wisdom literature. This dissertation challenges conventional wisdom by means of a lexical approach that clarifies the definition of wisdom in Old English, gives us a way to access an Anglo-Saxon understanding of literature about wisdom, and accordingly alters and revitalizes the canon of Old English wisdom literature. keywords: wisdom cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq3016f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq3016f.txt item: #1550 of 4945 id: 9880vq3017s author: Shavkat Karimovich Kasymov title: Water Disputes in Central Asia and the World: Assessing the Prospect of Conflict and Cooperation date: 2010 words: 140 flesch: 47 summary: Using the examples of the Jordan River Basin, the Ganges-Brahmaputra River Basin and the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin, the author illustrates the circumstances under which cooperation and military conflict are likely to develop in different contexts. The purpose of this thesis is to assess the potential for conflict and cooperation over water resources in Central Asia and the world. keywords: basin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq3017s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq3017s.txt item: #1551 of 4945 id: 9880vq30184 author: Maria Theresa Valenzuela title: Questioning the Authentic: Narratives of Nation in Philippine, Asian American and Latin American Literature date: 2012 words: 303 flesch: 36 summary: These four countries share an important connection, as all three manifest the literary reverberations of the War of 1898, which, connects Philippine literature, Latin American literature, Asian American literature and Latino/a literature. This dissertation examines the concept of authenticity as it relates to narratives about the Philippines and the juxtaposition of those narratives to Cuban, Puerto Rican, and American narratives. keywords: language cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq30184.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq30184.txt item: #1552 of 4945 id: 9880vq30618 author: Wei Xu title: Integration of Optical and Electrochemical Detections on Lab-on-a-Chip Devices for Chemical and Biochemical Sensing date: 1904 words: 430 flesch: 22 summary: Electrochemical and optical detection are popular techniques that are compatible with LOC devices for chemical and biochemical analysis. Scalability of electrochemical and optical detection schemes to smaller dimension enables the development of portable sensors with low background and enhanced sensitivity based on LOC devices. keywords: detection cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq30618.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq30618.txt item: #1553 of 4945 id: 9880vq30v6w author: Diya Li title: A CNT Switch for Identifying and Classifying Breast Cancer Tumor Cells in Plasma: Enhancing Selectivity of Molecular Assay with Nanoscale Hydrodynamic Shear date: 2019 words: 426 flesch: 32 summary: We also demonstrate in spiked serum sample high selectivity towards target HER2 proteins against non-target HER2 isoform of a similar KD. The goal of this research is to develop an inexpensive and non-invasive alternative to MRI scans and tissue biopsies currently used to detect metastatic breast cancer and its relapse. keywords: cancer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq30v6w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq30v6w.txt item: #1554 of 4945 id: 9880vq31172 author: Tobias Flattery title: A Leibnizian Package Deal: Essentialism, Causal Independence, and Existential Independence date: 2019 words: 283 flesch: 48 summary: That Leibniz accepts the first thesis, concerning substances' causal independence, has been nearly universally accepted by commentators. That Leibniz accepts the second thesis, concerning substances' existential independence, has been a prominent view but is still controversial among commentators. keywords: thesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq31172.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq31172.txt item: #1555 of 4945 id: 9880vq31459 author: Skye Elliott title: Optical Spectroscopic Characterization of Plasma Enhanced Fueling and Supersonic Combustion date: 2022 words: 381 flesch: 28 summary: A filtered chemiluminescent sensing technique is shown to detect modifications to the combustion mode using the ratio of radical species OH* and C2*. Effective mixing, ignition, and flameholding in a supersonic flow is an outstanding challenge critical for efficient operation of airbreathing supersonic combustion engines. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq31459.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq31459.txt item: #1556 of 4945 id: 9880vq3149p author: Susanna De Stradis title: Making Democracy Safe for Religion: The Catholic Argument for the "Nation Under God" (1939-1965) date: 2022 words: 346 flesch: 33 summary: In the short run, this vision ultimately clashed against the Warren Court's embrace of stricter church-state separation standards, while Rome finally let Murray help reframe Catholic doctrine on religious freedom at Vatican II. The conventional story of American Catholics and religious freedom on the eve of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) is fairly straightforward. keywords: vatican cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9880vq3149p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9880vq3149p.txt item: #1557 of 4945 id: 9c67wm13823 author: Douglas Allen Hines title: Excited State Reactions at the Quantum Dot Surface date: 2015 words: 414 flesch: 44 summary: However, due to their small size and large surface area to volume ratio, quantum dots are highly sensitive to their chemical environment. The importance of these molecules in dictating the excited state properties of quantum dots prompted the study of bi-functional organic linker molecules, which are typically employed to anchor quantum dots to TiO2. keywords: quantum cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9c67wm13823.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9c67wm13823.txt item: #1558 of 4945 id: 9c67wm1383f author: Jingying Zhang title: Electrical Transport and Chemical Sensing Properties of Gold Nanowires date: 2012 words: 138 flesch: 50 summary: Thiols cause positive resistivity change, while amines cause negative resistivity change. The resistivity of nanowires fabricated by EBL shows a size effect that thinner nanowires have higher resistivity. keywords: nanowires cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9c67wm1383f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9c67wm1383f.txt item: #1559 of 4945 id: 9c67wm1384s author: Alice C. Schermerhorn title: Child Agency, Marital Conflict, and Child Mental Health date: 2005 words: 360 flesch: 4 summary: Longitudinal analyses were consistent with these relations, and revealed that behavioral dysregulation predicts subsequent adjustment problems, but that adjustment problems do not predict subsequent behavioral dysregulation. Consistent with emotional security theory (EST, Davies & Cummings, 1994) and clinical theory and research, this research advances previous work by operationalizing and examining the independent contributions of agentic behavior, behavioral dysregulation, and perceptions of agency to subsequent marital conflict; examining links between behavioral responses, marital conflict, and mental health over time; and testing developmental change in children's behavioral responses to conflict. keywords: behavioral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9c67wm1384s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9c67wm1384s.txt item: #1560 of 4945 id: 9c67wm1390q author: Jamie Lynn Zigterman title: Toward the Synthesis of Iejimalide B date: 2005 words: 124 flesch: 43 summary: These three key subunits are necessary to complete the total synthesis of the originally proposed and the revised structures of iejimalides B. One subunit, the N-formyl serine subunit, is also necessary for labeling studies of the iejimalides to determine the biological mode of activation. Synthetic efforts are necessary to provide sufficient material for biological investigation. keywords: subunit cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9c67wm1390q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9c67wm1390q.txt item: #1561 of 4945 id: 9c67wm13943 author: Min Hu title: Ultrafast Spectroscopic Studies of Metal Nanoparticles date: 2005 words: 321 flesch: 51 summary: Both the extensional mode and the breathing mode results show that gold nanorods produced by wet chemical techniques have a smaller elastic moduli than bulk gold. In the first project, the rate of heat dissipation from Au nanoparticles to their surroundings was examined for different size gold nanospheres in aqueous solution. keywords: rods cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9c67wm13943.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9c67wm13943.txt item: #1562 of 4945 id: 9c67wm1395f author: Ellen Marie Flannery title: The Diverse Roles of Semaphorin-1a in Development date: 2012 words: 355 flesch: 35 summary: Specifically, we characterized the role of Sema1a in the central nervous system (CNS) and olfactory system development of the non-model species and deadly disease vector, Ae. aegypti CNS and olfactory system development and demonstrates the importance of studying the development of disease vectors. keywords: development cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9c67wm1395f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9c67wm1395f.txt item: #1563 of 4945 id: 9c67wm13c83 author: Emily A. Williams title: Characterization of Virulence and Survival Mechanisms in Mycobacterium marinum date: 1904 words: 354 flesch: 41 summary: We implemented targeted MRM mass spectrometry to monitor multiple Esx-1 substrates across multiple strains to elucidate distinct genetic requirements for Esx-1 export of several Esx-1 substrates. We built a saturating transposon library in M. marinum and screened for mutants deficient for Esx-1 export. keywords: export cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9c67wm13c83.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9c67wm13c83.txt item: #1564 of 4945 id: 9c67wm13z71 author: Xu Han title: Characterization and Interactions of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jets (APPJ) with DNA and Human Cells date: 1904 words: 362 flesch: 35 summary: Liquid-phase reactive species formed after plasma treatment are quantified mainly by a chemical dosimetry method. Next, a layer of cells in an aqueous solution is applied for probing the effective area, effectiveness, and selectivity of plasma treatment. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9c67wm13z71.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9c67wm13z71.txt item: #1565 of 4945 id: 9c67wm14b51 author: Aaron Roeder title: An Experimental Investigation of the Wake Response Downstream of a Spanwise-Oscillating Hemispherical Turret date: 2020 words: 324 flesch: 38 summary: The suppressive effects of the turret oscillations on the wake dynamics were found to become more robust at higher freestream Mach numbers, and the normalized wake response frequency was found to be higher than the normalized resonant frequency of turret oscillations. It was found that pressure fluctuations were less energetic for the oscillating turret and the wake was more organized in the spanwise direction, compared to the stationary turret wake. keywords: turret cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9c67wm14b51.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9c67wm14b51.txt item: #1566 of 4945 id: 9c67wm14c5b author: Anne Horcher title: Domesticity and Women's Confession in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Ellen Middleton, The Saint's Tragedy, and Villette date: 2021 words: 66 flesch: 40 summary: This thesis is an examination of the role that auricular confession played in the relationships between gender, religion, and domestic life in Britain in the 1840s and 1850s. It focuses in particular on three texts, Georgiana Fullerton's Ellen Middleton, Charles Kingsley's The Saint's Tragedy, and Charlotte Brontë's Villette, and examines the consequences of women's auricular confessions in each of these works. keywords: auricular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9c67wm14c5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9c67wm14c5b.txt item: #1567 of 4945 id: 9c67wm14c8c author: Aliya Whitehill title: Production and Applications of Isotopically Labeled Hydrogen Peroxide date: 2021 words: 77 flesch: 29 summary: These experiments confirmed peak assignments of studtite and challenged those of the UPC, indicating errors and unrecognized complexity in the traditional assignments. A method for gram-scale production of isotopically labeled hydrogen peroxide was developed. keywords: peroxide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9c67wm14c8c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9c67wm14c8c.txt item: #1568 of 4945 id: 9c67wm14d3z author: John Sontag title: Optical Characterization of Spanwise Uniform Turbulent Flows date: 2021 words: 367 flesch: 41 summary: It was demonstrated that in this case, some important fluidic statistics in the wall normal direction, like the local convective speed, fluctuating density profiles, and the spanwise integral scales, can be directly extracted from aero-optical distortions. In the case of the TBL externally forced by a shear layer, global wavefronts were found to be significantly affected by aperture effects. keywords: tbl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9c67wm14d3z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9c67wm14d3z.txt item: #1569 of 4945 id: 9g54xg96j2c author: Golnaz Karbasian title: Chemical Mechanical Polishing of Gold date: 2013 words: 20 flesch: 40 summary: This thesis presents a set of experiments dedicated to finding a reliable gold CMP process with satisfactory and reproducible results. keywords: results cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg96j2c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg96j2c.txt item: #1570 of 4945 id: 9g54xg96j6r author: Surajit Kumar Sutar title: Tunneling-Based Memory and Advances in Indium Phosphide-Based Processing date: 2010 words: 218 flesch: 35 summary: Tunneling-based static random access memory (TSRAM) uses the bistability of tunnel diodes to construct memory elements and requires tunnel diodes with peak currents exceeding transistor leakage currents, high peak-to-valley ratio (PVR) and low valley currents and voltages. Valley currents as low as 0.07 nA/ extmu m$^2$, which is the lowest reported for TSRAM tunnel diodes, and valley voltages as low as 250 mV were demonstrated. keywords: tunnel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg96j6r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg96j6r.txt item: #1571 of 4945 id: 9g54xg96j73 author: Justin Robert Perry title: The World's Room date: 2010 words: 7 flesch: 78 summary: This is a collection of short stories. keywords: stories cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg96j73.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg96j73.txt item: #1572 of 4945 id: 9g54xg96k00 author: Huijie Leng title: Micro-computed Tomography of Microdamage in Cortical Bone date: 2006 words: 352 flesch: 37 summary: The combined studies elucidated microdamage mechanisms in bovine plexiform bone under relatively low load and high cycle number. The new technique was validated qualitatively by comparison between the observed staining shape using micro-CT and finite element analysis, and quantitatively by positively correlating the amount of stain with the number of loading cycles. keywords: microdamage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg96k00.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg96k00.txt item: #1573 of 4945 id: 9g54xg96k2p author: Andrew William Bramsen title: Islamic Party Formation: The Role of Ideology, Institutions and Historical Memory date: 2012 words: 354 flesch: 34 summary: A history of Islamic rule' by which I mean having an indigenous government led by Islamic religious leaders or governed under Islamic law' is important because it provides Islamic leaders with a historical precedent to legitimate Islamic party formation. I argue that Islamic parties form when the country's initial electoral transition is dominated by an authoritarian power and when the country has historic examples of indigenous Islamic rule. keywords: islamic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg96k2p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg96k2p.txt item: #1574 of 4945 id: 9g54xg96k31 author: Harsh Vardhan Pant title: Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia and Middle East: The Centrality of Enduring Rivalries date: 2007 words: 322 flesch: 62 summary: Nuclear proliferation, however, has tended to remain confined to three regions of the world in the post Cold War era: South Asia, Middle East, and East Asia. North Korea's nuclear test in October 2006 came as a stark reminder that the problem of nuclear proliferation is alive and well and that the global nuclear arms control and non-proliferation regime is fighting for its survival. keywords: nuclear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg96k31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg96k31.txt item: #1575 of 4945 id: 9g54xg96k4c author: Anthony S. Lee title: From Sacrament of Salvation to Sign that Interrupts: the Evolution in Edward Schillebeeckx's Theology of the Relationship between the Church and the World date: 2011 words: 360 flesch: 36 summary: In conclusion, the value of the evolution of Schillebeeckx's view is assessed, and the strength of his developed thought reaffirmed, while some ambiguity and the need for further development are exposed in terms of the precise shape of the church's indirect but concrete involvement in the world of politics. To highlight continuity, this dissertation examines his multiple shifts, roughly divided into three periods: the period of his first major work, that of Vatican II, and that of his engagement with hermeneutics and critical theory. keywords: world cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg96k4c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg96k4c.txt item: #1576 of 4945 id: 9g54xg96k7d author: Michael Austin Giordano title: Screening Methods for Woven Materials as Artificial Cartilage date: 2011 words: 288 flesch: 40 summary: In the current work, various screening methods for fiber materials are evaluated and range from simple mechanical property testing using an atomic force microscope (AFM), direct fiber-on-fiber wear using a rig test, to pin-on-disk accelerated life wear testing. It is found that direct fiber-on-fiber wear tests provide distinguishable rankings of fiber materials according to wear coefficient and identify polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) as candidates for further investigation. keywords: wear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg96k7d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg96k7d.txt item: #1577 of 4945 id: 9g54xg96k8r author: Kathryn Michelle Armstrong title: Investigations into the Thermodynamic, Kinetic, and Structural Properties of TCR - peptide/MHC Interactions date: 2010 words: 340 flesch: 42 summary: This work examines TCR binding thermodynamics and compares these measurements to structural and functional features to gain insight into the determinants of TCR specificity, cross-reactivity, and binding affinity. Overall, the studies of A6 and A6c134 binding their cognate ligand, Tax/HLA-A2, have shown that each TCR binds with different thermodynamics and kinetics, despite maintaining similar binding footprints. keywords: binding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg96k8r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg96k8r.txt item: #1578 of 4945 id: 9g54xg96k93 author: Pu Wang title: From Human Behavior to the Spread of Mobile Phone Viruses date: 2010 words: 227 flesch: 39 summary: These results explain the lack of a major mobile virus breakout so far and predict that once a mobile operating system's market share reaches the phase transition point, viruses will pose a serious threat to mobile communications. In this dissertation percolation theory is used to study the diffusion process of mobile phone viruses. keywords: viruses cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg96k93.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg96k93.txt item: #1579 of 4945 id: 9g54xg96m09 author: Linda Marie Kawentel title: Getting Back into the Habit:The Significance of Dress for Young Women Religious date: 2012 words: 109 flesch: 38 summary: The paper concludes with suggestions for future research on Catholic religious life as well as veiling across religious traditions. Interview data highlights how the habit is valued as a tool in preserving sisters' religious identity as a brides of Christ as well as its function in religious witness. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg96m09.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg96m09.txt item: #1580 of 4945 id: 9g54xg96m82 author: Matthew K. Linford title: Explaining Attitudes of Political Contention in Yemen: Legitimacy, Protest, and Political Violence date: 1904 words: 245 flesch: 29 summary: In the second essay, I explore the micro-level mechanisms that relate to both attitudes regarding the validity of protest as a tactic of contention and participation in protest in Yemen. Specifically, my results show that for women in Yemen, religious networks are an important free space that predicts both attitudes about the validity of protest as a tactic of contention and the likelihood of engaging in this tactic. keywords: yemen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg96m82.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg96m82.txt item: #1581 of 4945 id: 9g54xg96n9q author: Fabrizio Sabba title: Mechanisms of Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Formation in Biofilm Processes date: 1904 words: 454 flesch: 42 summary: The denitrifying model showed that, in presence of excess of electron donor, denitrifying biofilms have two distinct layers of activity: an outer layer with net production of NO2- and N2O, and an inner layer with a net consumption. N2O emissions from AOB biofilms of different thicknesses were explored as a function of bulk dissolved oxygen (D.O.). keywords: n2o cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg96n9q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg96n9q.txt item: #1582 of 4945 id: 9g54xg97856 author: Steven M. Kobosko title: Multinary Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Photophysical Properties and Photovoltaic Applications date: 1904 words: 256 flesch: 33 summary: Multinary quantum dots such as AgInS2 and alloyed AgInS2-ZnS are an emerging class of semiconductor materials being explored in numerous applications such as bioimaging, LEDs, catalysis, and solar cells. These quantum dots can absorb much of the visible spectrum, making them potentially suitable for photovoltaic applications. keywords: agins2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg97856.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg97856.txt item: #1583 of 4945 id: 9g54xg97m8b author: Stuart Blood title: A Method for Mapping miRNA Transience as Biomarkers for Myocardial Infarction date: 2020 words: 267 flesch: 33 summary: Employing miR quantification, EV lysis, and nm-sized particle fractionation could open a series of pathology indicators in a simple point-of-care apparatus. As the tissue culture models better approximate clinical samples they may branch out beyond MI modeling and serve to model intersections between MI, CAD, and other cardiac pathologies. keywords: mir cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg97m8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg97m8b.txt item: #1584 of 4945 id: 9g54xg97m9p author: Pingjie Tang title: Multi-View Representation Learning: Approaches and Applications date: 2020 words: 135 flesch: 31 summary: How to generate the data representations by incorporating multiple aspects of data, such as text, network topological information, and data derived from various sources. Data representations can be obtained from multiple views. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg97m9p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg97m9p.txt item: #1585 of 4945 id: 9g54xg97n5m author: Hongyu Guo title: Modeling and Mining on High-Dimensional Biological Data date: 2021 words: 616 flesch: 42 summary: Note that this information about input features is ``qualitative' instead of ``quantitative'. Off-the-shelf classifiers typically require a fixed dimension of input, that is, the numbers of input features are the same for all observations. keywords: input cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg97n5m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg97n5m.txt item: #1586 of 4945 id: 9g54xg97q1v author: Toochukwu Agha title: Jeremiah, Prophetic Conflict, and the Catastrophe of 587/6 BCE date: 2022 words: 345 flesch: 27 summary: The main thrust of the following study is the Babylonian devastation of Jerusalem and exile of 587/6 BCE which resulted in the disintegration of Judah, and the contribution of prophetic conflicts between Jeremiah and his opponents to this national tragedy. What follows will be a critical investigation of the period surrounding the calamity of 587/6, the roles of Jeremiah and his rivals in the duel for prophetic legitimacy during this decisive period, and their divergent interpretations of the prevailing historical situation. keywords: book cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9g54xg97q1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9g54xg97q1v.txt item: #1587 of 4945 id: 9k41zc79t44 author: Nicole Perez title: To Leave or Not to Leave? Familism and the Alignment of Preferences in the Transition to College date: 2015 words: 138 flesch: 37 summary: Using data from the Educational Longitudinal Survey (ELS), I measure the alignment preferences between students and parents across all race-ethnic groups and find that Latino students and parents are more likely to state it is 'very important' to live at home while attending college. This study assesses the degree of alignment of preferences to live at home while attending college between students and parents. keywords: students cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc79t44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc79t44.txt item: #1588 of 4945 id: 9k41zc79t5g author: Olukunle Patrick Owolabi title: The Colonial Origins of Development and Underdevelopment, Democracy, and Authoritarianism: Forced Settlement, Occupation and the Divergent Consequences of Colonial Rule in the West Indies and Sub-Saharan Africa date: 2012 words: 362 flesch: 9 summary: First, I use statistical analysis to examine the long-term consequences of each mode of colonization on education attainment (1950 to 2008) and political regime outcomes (1946-2004) across countries and territories decolonized after World War Two. Second, I use comparative historical analysis to elucidate the causal mechanisms that link each mode of colonization to specific developmental and regime outcomes across pairs of former British and Portuguese colonies in the West Indies and Sub-Saharan Africa: Jamaica and Ghana, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau. keywords: outcomes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc79t5g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc79t5g.txt item: #1589 of 4945 id: 9k41zc79t6t author: Alejandro A Espinoza Orias title: The relationship between the mechanical anisotropy of human cortical bone tissue and its microstructure date: 2005 words: 299 flesch: 39 summary: Orthopedics research has made significant advances in the areas of biomechanics, bone implants and bone substitute materials. Inverse pole figures showed that bone mineral crystals had a preferred crystallographic orientation, coincident with the long axis of the femur, which is its principal loading direction. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc79t6t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc79t6t.txt item: #1590 of 4945 id: 9k41zc79v2r author: Yuxing Ben title: Nonlinear Electrokinetic Phenomena in Microfluidic Devices date: 2005 words: 331 flesch: 36 summary: Nonlinear electrokinetics have many advantages, such as low voltage, low power, high velocity, and no significant gas formation in the electrolyte. This polarization layer is reduced by convection at high velocity. keywords: electrokinetic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc79v2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc79v2r.txt item: #1591 of 4945 id: 9k41zc79v64 author: Dmitriy Mikhailovich Orlov title: Modelling and Simulation of Single Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators date: 2006 words: 188 flesch: 49 summary: The results were obtained for a range of angles of attack for uncontrolled ow, steady and unsteady plasma actuation. Improvement in the airfoil characteristics was observed in numerical simulations at high angles of attack in cases with plasma actuation. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc79v64.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc79v64.txt item: #1592 of 4945 id: 9k41zc79v7g author: Enrica Balboni title: Crystal chemistry of uranyl tungstates and actinide-mineral interactions date: 2014 words: 352 flesch: 35 summary: This work was conducted by reacting mineral powder with relative dilute peroxide bearing aqueous solutions with neutral to basic pH. A combination of chemical, spectrometric, and X-ray techniques was used to characterized solutions and reacted powders. The first analyzes factors that affect the structural incorporation of neptunium(V) and uranium(VI) in synthetic carbonate and sulfate mineral. keywords: elements cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc79v7g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc79v7g.txt item: #1593 of 4945 id: 9k41zc80h9t author: Roger Brewer Jr. title: Iterative Reconstruction in Multispectral Computerized Tomography date: 1904 words: 187 flesch: 20 summary: Due to advancements in detector technology, energy-specific information can be extracted from scans, yielding separate datasets for each of many energy levels of X-ray energy. This thesis presents a generalization of existing algebraic reconstruction to directly calculate the material decomposition of an object, with the sinogram partitioned into predefined energy bins as input. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc80h9t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc80h9t.txt item: #1594 of 4945 id: 9k41zc80q0k author: Shinan Xu title: Girl-Sphere date: 2019 words: 17 flesch: 25 summary: I explore femininity in retellings of Asian fairytales, family history and cultural heritage in this poetry collection. keywords: collection cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc80q0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc80q0k.txt item: #1595 of 4945 id: 9k41zc80w66 author: Sabrina Yve Strauss title: Conversion Electrons in 154,156Gd date: 2020 words: 326 flesch: 62 summary: Probing the 0+ states in nuclei requires spectroscopy of the 0+ states with respect to other states. It has a large number of known levels, lifetimes and mixing ratios, allowing for the study of mixed E0 transitions. keywords: transitions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc80w66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc80w66.txt item: #1596 of 4945 id: 9k41zc80w7j author: Julianne Dolan title: Being Laden with Love: A Theological Development of Jacques Maritain's Creative Intuition date: 2020 words: 365 flesch: 37 summary: Second, it offers a philosophical account of human creativity that is implicitly related to divine creativity by way of the analogy of being. I contend that Maritain's mature work on creativity, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, provides a sound philosophical basis on which to build a theology of human creativity. keywords: maritain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc80w7j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc80w7j.txt item: #1597 of 4945 id: 9k41zc80w8w author: Brigid Behrens title: Linguistic Markers of Maternal Focus within Emotional Conversations: The Role of Depressive Symptoms and Maltreatment date: 2020 words: 161 flesch: 22 summary: Results indicated maternal depressive symptoms were negatively associated with first person plural pronoun use. These findings extend work on the association between maternal depressive symptoms and maternal language to maltreating and non-maltreating families, and to a new linguistic context—reminiscing about children's past emotional events. keywords: maternal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc80w8w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc80w8w.txt item: #1598 of 4945 id: 9k41zc80x1s author: R.W. Olmstead title: Paths to Reconciliation date: 2020 words: 274 flesch: 38 summary: When background conditions are favorable, the implementation of justice practices that restore victims virtually guarantees a country will reach high levels of societal reconciliation. Using a configurational approach to account for the interactions of justice practices with background conditions, I find that there are many different paths that consistently result in reconciliation. keywords: reconciliation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc80x1s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc80x1s.txt item: #1599 of 4945 id: 9k41zc80x7v author: Francesca Leonardi title: Giacomo Leopardi and the Aesthetics of Ugliness: Body, Disease, and Materialism date: 2021 words: 132 flesch: 49 summary: Ultimately, I will show how Leopardi transformed his physical vulnerability and illness into powerful cognitive tools. I argue that Leopardi was perfectly aware of how the body – and especially the ugly body – is a bearer of social meaning and of how it functions as a site in which one's identity is challenged and within which it is shaped. keywords: body cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc80x7v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc80x7v.txt item: #1600 of 4945 id: 9k41zc80z2f author: Kathryn Scrafford title: Effects of Intimate Partner Violence, Mental Health, and Social Support on Perinatal Health date: 2021 words: 146 flesch: 44 summary: Posthoc analyses found parallel indirect effects of IPV on labor morbidity via mental health and social support. The current study proposes (1) to examine the effect of IPV exposure on pregnancy and labor morbidity; (2) to assess prenatal mental health as a mediator of the direct pathway, and (3) to examine the moderating role of social support on the direct and indirect pathways. keywords: health cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9k41zc80z2f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9k41zc80z2f.txt item: #1601 of 4945 id: 9p29086334c author: Melissa Davidson title: Continuity Properties of the Solution Map for the Generalized Reduced Ostrovsky Equation date: 2013 words: 86 flesch: 54 summary: Considering that for this range of exponents the gRO equation is well-posed with continuous dependence on initial data, this result makes the continuity of the solution map an optimal property. It is shown that the data-to-solution map for the generalized reduced Ostrovsky (gRO) equation is not uniformly continuous on bounded sets in Sobolev spaces on the circle with exponent s > 3/2. keywords: continuous cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p29086334c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p29086334c.txt item: #1602 of 4945 id: 9p29086338r author: Jocelyn Grace Oshrin title: Investigation into the petrogenesis of Apollo 14 high-alumina basalts through textural and compositional analysis date: 2010 words: 144 flesch: 30 summary: Petrogenetic modeling of Group A basalts suggest that the magma formed from a parental composition with higher Sr and Ba abundances than suggested by whole rock analysis, and that plagioclase rim compositions could contain late stage melt inclusions, or could indicate possible open-system AFC processes. Furthermore, most Group C equilibrium melt compositions fall beyond the FC and AFC trajectories, suggesting incorporation of an assimilant with lower Ba and higher Sr than suggested by whole rock studies. keywords: group cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p29086338r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p29086338r.txt item: #1603 of 4945 id: 9p290863393 author: Alexander Jech title: Wholehearted Love: An Augustinian Reconstruction of Frankfurt date: 2010 words: 346 flesch: 44 summary: I then argue that a superior account of moral life and the moral self can be constructed through greater reliance upon Augustinian ideas concerning the nature of love that is rooted in two concepts: affinity and peace. Thus Frankfurt develops concepts such as second-order desire, identification and dissociation, wholeheartedness, and love without incurring significant metaphysical costs. keywords: frankfurt cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p290863393.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p290863393.txt item: #1604 of 4945 id: 9p29086341n author: Kan Wang title: Computational Investigation of Aero-Optical Distortions by Turbulent Boundary Layers and Separated Shear Layers date: 2012 words: 459 flesch: 36 summary: The similarities and differences of distortion characteristics compared to those induced by turbulent boundary layers are discussed. The contributions from the viscous sublayer and buffer layer are small, while the wake region plays a dominant role followed by the logarithmic layer. keywords: layer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p29086341n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p29086341n.txt item: #1605 of 4945 id: 9p290863420 author: Thomas John Bushlack title: Justice in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas: Rediscovering Civic Virtue date: 2011 words: 332 flesch: 27 summary: In doing so, we seek to demonstrate that such an account of civic virtue has much to contribute to contemporary Christian theological discussions, on both a theoretical and practical level. Finally, the dissertation concludes with a constructive account of Thomistic civic virtue for contemporary moral theology by combining our historical and exegetical insights and research with the dialogue partners of Catholic social thought, political philosophy, and natural law. keywords: civic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p290863420.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p290863420.txt item: #1606 of 4945 id: 9p29086344p author: Lauren Grace Rich title: Food for Thought: Eating, Reading, and Being Modern in British and Irish Literature, 1900s–1950s date: 2012 words: 338 flesch: 37 summary: My work intersects with several vibrant strands of scholarly research, including food studies, women's studies, postcolonial studies, and the 'materialist turn' in modernist studies. My dissertation also explores several 'feminine middlebrow' writers including E.M. Delafield, Stella Gibbons, and Barbara Pym, whose work, I argue, envisions a more optimistic response to modernity's erosion of food-based ritual by creating consumption communities founded on shared tastes' both literary and gustatory. keywords: food cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p29086344p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p29086344p.txt item: #1607 of 4945 id: 9p29086346c author: Punit Bandi title: Design of Crashworthy Structures with Controlled Behavior in HCA Framework date: 2012 words: 343 flesch: 30 summary: In addition, a new methodology for controlling the behavior of a structure under multiple crash load scenarios by adaptively changing the contributions from individual load cases is developed. The ability of compliant mechanisms to efficiently transfer force and/or motion from points of application of input loads to desired points within the structure is used to design solid and tubular components that exhibit controlled deformation and collapse behavior under crash loads. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p29086346c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p29086346c.txt item: #1608 of 4945 id: 9p29086349d author: Jia Guo title: Lattice Matched Indium Aluminum Nitride High Electron Mobility Transistors with MBE Regrown Ohmic Contacts date: 2012 words: 410 flesch: 43 summary: To this end, this thesis describes the development of non-alloyed ohmic contacts regrown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and the resultant HEMTs at Notre Dame. The highlights of these efforts include: a minimum total contact resistance of 0.1 ohm-mm with a regrowth interface resistance of 0.02 ohm-mm; an output drain current of 1.8 A/mm, an extrinsic transconductance of 544 mS/mm, ft/fmax of 216/80 GHz on a 60-nm InAlN HEMT with non-alloyed ohmic contacts and without passivation. keywords: contacts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p29086349d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p29086349d.txt item: #1609 of 4945 id: 9p29086350m author: Jyotsna Osta title: A Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass with 1 Fb^{-1} of Dzero Run IIa Data date: 2009 words: 101 flesch: 64 summary: The data used for this analysis was collected from 2002 to 2006 with the dzero~detector, during Run IIa of the Fermilab Tevatron collider. It has been obtained by analyzing $W o e u$ decays. keywords: measurement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p29086350m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p29086350m.txt item: #1610 of 4945 id: 9p29086351z author: Hyae Jeong Joo title: Symbolic Boundaries in Music: Musical Tastes of Online Community Members in Korea date: 2010 words: 123 flesch: 38 summary: The survey results of 1037 members of online music communities demonstrate that people think that classical music is the most sophisticated genre among others. Considering cultural importance of music in Korea, this study explores Korean's musical taste and influences of parents' socio-economic on musical taste. keywords: taste cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p29086351z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p29086351z.txt item: #1611 of 4945 id: 9p290863529 author: Emeka Chikezie Ngwoke title: Newman: Universal Revelation and the Challenge of Inculturation in an African Church. date: 2012 words: 357 flesch: 22 summary: Chapter six brings the work to a close by suggesting a number of steps to be taken by Igbo dioceses in order to get inculturation decisively off the ground. Chapter five pairs Newman up against six twentieth-century theologians of religious pluralism to show why Newman is the preferred Ì¢åÛåÏauthority and guideÌ¢åÛå in this matter and ends with a speculative glimpse into what a slice of life might look like in an inculturated Igbo Catholic Church. keywords: doctrine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p290863529.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p290863529.txt item: #1612 of 4945 id: 9p29086371k author: Keelin Rosaleen Burke title: Gender and the Politics of the Irish Free State, 1922-1937 date: 1904 words: 336 flesch: 35 summary: This dissertation explores the ways in which gender influenced the construction and stability of the newly created Irish Free State, how national identity and citizenship were understood in gendered terms in those years, and how these gendered constructions of civic life affected Irish women and men. In the wider context of a post-war Europe, the Free State wrestled with issues of national identity and citizenship, working to distance itself from its past as a former part of the United Kingdom and to present an image to the world of a potentially strong sovereign state. keywords: gender cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p29086371k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p29086371k.txt item: #1613 of 4945 id: 9p290863t7x author: Moeen Mostafavi title: Control Design Based on Passivity Indices with Learning date: 1904 words: 200 flesch: 55 summary: We show how to find passivity indices of a system which has limited frequency inputs. Specially we review how system designer can use specific input-output sets to learn passivity indices of a system. keywords: passivity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p290863t7x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p290863t7x.txt item: #1614 of 4945 id: 9p29086401p author: Matthew Robert Kelly title: Hybrid Induction Heating and Linear Friction Welding date: 2019 words: 321 flesch: 43 summary: Preheating the workpieces prior to LFW showed no adverse effects on weld quality, and therefore represents a viable strategy to reduce the cost of LFW equipment in the future. Contact loss issues in DEFORM while modeling the initial phase of LFW thermo-mechanically led to the conclusion that the initial phase of LFW must be modeled purely thermally, before the latter phases are modeled thermo-mechanically. keywords: lfw cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9p29086401p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9p29086401p.txt item: #1615 of 4945 id: 9s161546c64 author: Kevin Christopher Elliott title: Scientific Anomaly and Biological Effects of Low-Dose Chemicals: Elucidating Normative Ethics and Scientific Discovery date: 2004 words: 350 flesch: 18 summary: Regarding scientific anomaly in general, the dissertation argues that researchers and policymakers have an ethical responsibility to take reasonable steps to identify, reveal, and provide representative information about all major, plausible characterizations of scientific anomalies to the public or its representatives. This dissertation analyzes the importance of scientific anomaly both for the philosophy of science and for ethical decision-making that draws on scientific information. keywords: dissertation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9s161546c64.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9s161546c64.txt item: #1616 of 4945 id: 9s161546c8t author: Timothy Schoenharl title: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach for the Exploration of Self-Organizing Neural Networks date: 2005 words: 185 flesch: 38 summary: This work applies the Agent Based Modeling paradigm to the simulation of biological neural networks, allowing rapid development of models, easy addition of features and a richness of expression that is not available with other tools. The focus of the ABNNSim toolkit is modeling neural networks at the network level. keywords: networks cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9s161546c8t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9s161546c8t.txt item: #1617 of 4945 id: 9s161546d4r author: Jean Marie Miesbauer title: An Assessment of Large Woody Debris, Fish Populations, and Organic Matter Retention in Upper Midwestern Forested Streams date: 2005 words: 150 flesch: 39 summary: On average, all particle types traveled less than 7 m. Overall, my research provides an ecological framework for the management of physical habitat in low-gradient streams of the upper Midwest. Even though streams in the UP had relatively low amounts of LWD compared to other regions in North America, LWD still influenced physical habitat variables. keywords: streams cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9s161546d4r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9s161546d4r.txt item: #1618 of 4945 id: 9s161546d84 author: Christopher O. Porter title: The Optical Environment from the Tip Vortices of a Helicopter in Different Flight Regimes date: 2011 words: 361 flesch: 33 summary: To date, aero-optics research has focused primarily on fixed-wing aircraft travelling at compressible-flow speeds, where compressible shear layers and turbulent boundary layers are the dominant source of aero-optic aberrations. Aero-optical aberrations associated with turbulent compressible flow fields can seriously degrade the performance of an optical system; the effect of these aberrations increases as the wavelength of the transiting light becomes shorter, and so is particularly strong at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. keywords: aberrations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9s161546d84.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9s161546d84.txt item: #1619 of 4945 id: 9s161546d9g author: Sukesh Shekar title: Part 1: Molybdenum Amidophenolates and Catecholates for Nonclassical Oxygen Activation and Atom Transfer Reactions / Part 2: Silicon-Carbon Bond Activation in Aryloxy-Iminoquinones and Enhanced Reactivity Over Tin Analogues date: 2014 words: 418 flesch: 33 summary: These amidophenolate ligands enable oxygen atom abstraction by the molybdenum(VI) in a ?nonclassical? fashion, as the required reducing equivalents for oxygen reduction are drawn from ligand oxidation and not the molybdenum center. The doubly deprotonated cis-dioxo complex (tBuClipH2)MoO2 readily loses water to form a series of monooxo complexes (tBuClip)MoO(L) in the presence of donor ligands. keywords: tert cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9s161546d9g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9s161546d9g.txt item: #1620 of 4945 id: 9s161546g1b author: Timothy Byron Webster title: Natural Law, Religion, and the Political Common Good date: 1904 words: 258 flesch: 31 summary: A strand of liberal thought called liberal egalitarianism wants to accommodate religious commitments on an equal basis with nonreligious or secular commitments. However, in accommodating religion, liberal egalitarians do not want to recognize religious commitments or activities qua religious as uniquely deserving of protection or accommodation. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9s161546g1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9s161546g1b.txt item: #1621 of 4945 id: 9s161546h20 author: Dana Townsend title: Political Violence in the Macrosystem: A Thematic Analysis of Northern Irish Newspapers date: 1904 words: 157 flesch: 29 summary: By identifying the most salient features of political violence in the macrosystem, this study may inform future research on the processes through which macro-level factors influence individual development. Assessing individual development in contexts of political violence requires a systematic macro-level measurement. keywords: reports cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9s161546h20.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9s161546h20.txt item: #1622 of 4945 id: 9s161547f7c author: Chungeun Yoon title: Essays in Labor Economics and Innovation date: 2020 words: 561 flesch: 45 summary: Innovation is the key to long-term economic growth, but we still know little about the determinants of innovation. The dissertation contains three essays on the causal relationship between labor supply and innovation. keywords: innovation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9s161547f7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9s161547f7c.txt item: #1623 of 4945 id: 9s161547g50 author: Molly J. O'Neill title: Sleep-Deprived Mothers: How Changes in Sleep Affect Parent Stress and Behavior date: 2020 words: 229 flesch: 44 summary: It is hypothesized that infant sleep quality increases parental stress and therefore negatively impact sensitivity over time. Mothers and infants participated in four home visits at 4-, 8-, 18-, and 30-months to assess parenting behaviors, infant behaviors, and parent-child interaction quality. keywords: study cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9s161547g50.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9s161547g50.txt item: #1624 of 4945 id: 9s161547g9c author: John A. Lindblom title: A 'Chinese Tunic for Christ': John C. H. Wu's Incorporation of the Chinese Classics in Translating the Psalms and New Testament date: 2021 words: 299 flesch: 38 summary: This dissertation analyzes many of these theological and linguistic features of the Wu Version, and offers an evaluation of the suitability of several of Wu's more important linguistic choices as analogous terms or phrases for ideas found in both Bible and Chinese humanistic tradition. It finds that Wu's work is striking and innovative in its use of these terms and styles, including such choices as the Chinese term dao to translate the Greek word logos, the abundant use of chengyu, or four-character set phrases, from classics such as the Analects, Mencius, the Tao Teh Ching (Dao Dejing), and the Diamond Sutra, the poetic styles of Tang dynasty poetry, and the imitation of marked or authoritative language found in many classical texts. keywords: chinese cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9s161547g9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9s161547g9c.txt item: #1625 of 4945 id: 9s161547h3m author: Lauren A. Trichtinger title: Missing Data Methods for Exploratory Dynamic Factor Analysis date: 2021 words: 405 flesch: 43 summary: Dynamic factor analysis, a procedure combining factor analysis and time series analysis, is a popular data analytic tool for ILD. However, none of them compared popular missing data methods and examined their effects on estimates in exploratory dynamic factor analysis in a variety of conditions. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9s161547h3m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9s161547h3m.txt item: #1626 of 4945 id: 9w032229n66 author: Yihui Ren title: Betweenness Centrality and Its Applications from Modeling Traffic Flows to Network Community Detection date: 2015 words: 415 flesch: 41 summary: One the most basic function of networks is transport; transport of vehicles/people, information, materials, forces, etc, and these quantities are transported along edges between source and destination nodes. We present an algorithm that solves both problems efficiently and accurately and demonstrate that on both benchmark networks and data networks. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032229n66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032229n66.txt item: #1627 of 4945 id: 9w032229p0f author: jennifer Irene Warfel Juszkiewicz title: The Iron Library: Victorian England and the British Museum Library date: 2010 words: 187 flesch: 35 summary: The first century of the British Museum Library and its Reading Room (1753-1860) illustrates the political, economic, and social considerations that were changing the larger British society, both in small scale (as in purchasing changes in the wake of the French Revolution) and in large scale (as in the submerging of aristocratic authority in a democratizing period). This influence plays out in admissions policies as well as government financial support. keywords: british cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032229p0f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032229p0f.txt item: #1628 of 4945 id: 9w032229p1s author: Qin Yang title: Computational Study of Sound Generation by Surface Roughness in Turbulent Boundary Layers date: 2012 words: 336 flesch: 38 summary: Large scale turbulent structures in the boundary layer have a relatively low influence on roughness dipoles, except for the first row of elements. Correlations and coherence between roughness dipoles and surface pressure fluctuations are analyzed, which reveals the importance of the impingement of upstream turbulence and surrounding vortical structures to dipole sound radiation, especially in the streamwise direction. keywords: roughness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032229p1s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032229p1s.txt item: #1629 of 4945 id: 9w032229p3g author: Jonathan D. Schwarz title: Degrees of Difference: Returns to Non-Profit and For-Profit Higher Education date: 2012 words: 193 flesch: 39 summary: We would expect returns to for-profit and non-profit institutions to be indistinguishable, if proprietary institutions are equally effective at fulfilling the selection, human capital improvement, or signaling roles of traditional higher education. As the college-for-all movement presses forward, public and non-profit institutions alone appear to have been unable to keep pace with the increasing demand for higher education and the share of students enrolled in for-profit institutions has increased. keywords: profit cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032229p3g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032229p3g.txt item: #1630 of 4945 id: 9w032229p4t author: Lori Anne Petersen title: How does the representational status of to-be-counted objects affect children's understanding of cardinality date: 2013 words: 177 flesch: 46 summary: The current study examined the effects of the representational status of to-be-counted items on preschoolers' understanding of cardinality. Children's counting skill and understanding of cardinality were assessed at pretest and posttest. keywords: children cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032229p4t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032229p4t.txt item: #1631 of 4945 id: 9w032229p6h author: Ann R. Dallman title: Flow and Turbulence in Urban Areas date: 2013 words: 254 flesch: 36 summary: Three experimental projects are described herein concerning different spatial scales of atmospheric flows in urban areas. Finally, a project studying street canyon flow induced by differentially heated surfaces was carried out. keywords: urban cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032229p6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032229p6h.txt item: #1632 of 4945 id: 9w032229p7v author: Pantelis E. Eleftheriou title: Groups definable in linear o-minimal structures date: 2008 words: 156 flesch: 49 summary: En route, we show that the o-minimal fundamental group of G is isomorphic to L. Finally, we state some restrictions on L. Let M = be a linear o-minimal expansion of an ordered group, and G an n-dimensional group definable in M. keywords: group cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032229p7v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032229p7v.txt item: #1633 of 4945 id: 9w032229p86 author: Aprell Loreal Sparks title: Characterization of the mitotic Stil gene in dopaminergic cell survival date: 2013 words: 415 flesch: 42 summary: It was hypothesized that STIL would have a multi-functional role in PC12 cells. The differentiation of PC12 cells by NGF stimulated STIL expression in low-serum conditions. keywords: stil cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032229p86.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032229p86.txt item: #1634 of 4945 id: 9w032229q13 author: Cheng Ji title: Exploiting Bacterial Iron Acquisition: From New Antibiotics to Pathogen Detection Devices date: 2012 words: 323 flesch: 31 summary: Design, syntheses and antibacterial activity of siderophore-drug conjugates with potential drug release linkers triggered by different microbial actions are described in chapter 3 and 4. In chapter 2, design and practical synthesis of a triscatecholate siderophore as an artificial enterobactin mimic for delivery of aminopenicillin are described. keywords: drug cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032229q13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032229q13.txt item: #1635 of 4945 id: 9w032229q3s author: John Joseph Hess title: 'Borrowed Without Apologies': American Fiction Since 2000 date: 2011 words: 177 flesch: 17 summary: This dissertation uses new media theories and developments in entertainment and publishing media during the first decade of the century in progress to argue for the significance of the fiction and multimedia projects of a new generation of American novelists. This set of novelists - Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Lethem, and David Foster Wallace - have adapted to radical changes in literary production and consumption in order to imagine new approaches to literary aesthetics, entertainment, and questions of audience in the new millennium. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032229q3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032229q3s.txt item: #1636 of 4945 id: 9w032229q44 author: Zhi Xu title: Dissection of the Multiple Functions of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 date: 2008 words: 333 flesch: 27 summary: These PAI-1 knock-in mice would serve to further elucidate mechanisms associated with the observed phenotypes in PAI-1 deficient mice in a number of challenge models. Interestingly, both antifibrinolytic-related and non-antifibrinolytic-related roles of PAI-1 function have been implicated in the process of angiogenesis, which might account for some discrepancies observed in angiogenic models using PAI-1 deficient and over-expressing transgenic mice. keywords: pai-1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032229q44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032229q44.txt item: #1637 of 4945 id: 9w032229q8h author: Brian Long title: Body and Soul: The Production and Reception of Medical Translations from Arabic in the Long Twelfth Century date: 1904 words: 361 flesch: 26 summary: Rather than characterized by newly ascendant medical practitioners, as has been suggested, a divide appears to have existed between the enthusiasm for medicine among learned readers and the humbler, often empirical world of Byzantine medical practitioners. Second, the translations of Constantine the African are examined, including both the contexts of their production and their connections to the other worlds of Mediterranean medicine. keywords: medicine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032229q8h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032229q8h.txt item: #1638 of 4945 id: 9w032229v93 author: Xiaobin Zhang title: Correct-by-Design Human-Robot Collaboration through Supervisory Control of POMDP date: 1904 words: 447 flesch: 35 summary: Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) studies how to achieve effective collaborations between human and robots to take advantage of the flexibility from human and the autonomy from robots. These applications motivate the requirements of HRC to have the performance guarantee to assure the task completion and safety of both human and robots. keywords: hrc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032229v93.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032229v93.txt item: #1639 of 4945 id: 9w032230j7c author: Joy H. Kim title: The Effect of School Climate on Teacher Satisfaction: Context of Perceptions and Peer Influence date: 2019 words: 117 flesch: 44 summary: Research on school context looks at school climate and workplace relations as related yet separate factors of teacher job satisfaction. Thus, two individuals with the same perceptions of school climate can express different levels of job satisfaction depending on their peers' perception of the climate. keywords: climate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032230j7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032230j7c.txt item: #1640 of 4945 id: 9w032230q3j author: Benjamin Wright title: Publishing The Imitation of Christ: The Distribution Circles of a Fifteenth-Century Bestseller date: 2019 words: 384 flesch: 44 summary: In early seventeenth-century Europe it was considered the most widely published work next to the Bible: The Imitation of Christ easily ranks as one of the most translated, printed, and circulated works of early modern Europe among Catholic, Protestant, and even some Orthodox confessional circles, yet until the present, the medieval origins of this work have received little attention. In the later period, the work expanded geographically from its earliest circle in the Northwest German lands to nearly every region of Europe. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032230q3j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032230q3j.txt item: #1641 of 4945 id: 9w032230r2h author: Lilly Watermoon title: Constructing (Trans)Gender Identity in Online Contexts date: 2020 words: 294 flesch: 6 summary: This dissertation is comprised of three substantive sections, covering how the trans community constructs and justifies a definition of gender and how this definition both conflicts and aligns with definitions proposed by anti-trans groups, how Twitter's affordances for both personal expression and collective organization are utilized to foster within-community solidarity and how structural tensions within these affordances also work to undermine it, and the role that pervasive anti-trans opposition plays on influencing both the structural and emotional composition of the online trans community. This dissertation is a virtual ethnography examining the ways in which trans and nonbinary individuals construct, discuss, and do gender through the medium of online social networking services, specifically through Twitter. keywords: trans cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032230r2h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032230r2h.txt item: #1642 of 4945 id: 9w032230r9x author: Louise Williams title: Exploring the Self: A Metaphysical, Practical, and Linguistic Perspective date: 2021 words: 361 flesch: 69 summary: While I do not explicitly explore how chapters two and three interact with the picture, I present in the first chapter, I hope to do so in future work. The account I propose is in part inspired by Buddhist no-self accounts. keywords: self cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032230r9x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032230r9x.txt item: #1643 of 4945 id: 9w032230s04 author: Trish Bredar title: Paths of Resistance: Walking Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature date: 2021 words: 269 flesch: 29 summary: In this way, women writers often expose one oft-critiqued aspect of liberal thought—that its endorsement of detachment neglected the situatedness and embodiedness of human experience—while often perpetuating another—that liberalism disavows its own violence and exclusivity. Although this form of self-assertion is closely associated with both male peripatetic theory and liberal thought, women writers are attuned to the embodied, situated, and uneven experiences of mobility in a way that is notably lacking in most peripatetic and liberal theory. keywords: walking cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032230s04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032230s04.txt item: #1644 of 4945 id: 9w032230t24 author: Federica Costantino title: Advanced Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Water date: 2022 words: 815 flesch: 30 summary: The AOPs use semiconductor materials that are activated by the UV or Visible light irradiation that are able to mineralize organic water pollutants. Currently, commercial available photocatalysts are mostly used in slurry or powder form, but this requires post-treatment processes in order to avoid secondary pollution, causing the increase of the overall treatment cost. keywords: treatment; water cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9w032230t24.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9w032230t24.txt item: #1645 of 4945 id: 9z902z12x87 author: Bharath Balu title: Genetic Analysis of Plasmodium Falciparum date: 2005 words: 651 flesch: 41 summary: To understand the role of MAEBL in erythrocyte invasion, maebl was disrupted in P. falciparum NF54 parasites by single homologous recombination. The 5' regions of all three genes expressed CAT from episomes in P. falciparum blood stages confirming the presence of promoter elements in 5' regions. keywords: maebl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9z902z12x87.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9z902z12x87.txt item: #1646 of 4945 id: 9z902z12x9k author: Steven M. VanDenDriessche title: Embedding Computable Infinitary Equivalence nto P-Groups date: 2013 words: 200 flesch: 26 summary: In an attempt to explore the boundary between computable infinitary Σα equivalenceand isomorphism, we show that for any computable , certain classes of countablereduced abelian p-groups are universal for ∼cα under Turing computable embedding. One may look at this program as eithera project in the computable structure theory of abelian p-groups, or as a projectin the construction of limits of sequences of uniform Turing computable operators. keywords: computable cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9z902z12x9k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9z902z12x9k.txt item: #1647 of 4945 id: 9z902z12z0s author: Seng Kai Wong title: A Cursory Study of the Thermodynamic and Mechanical Properties of Monte-Carlo Simulations of the Ising Model date: 2005 words: 357 flesch: 41 summary: In my phase separation simulations, I investigated a number of thermodynamical properties of the two-dimensional Ising model, including the surface energy, surface tension, partition function, free energy and entropy as a function of model parameters and algorithms. Researchers have adapted the Ising model to simulate materials as disparate as foams, cell aggregates and metallic crystals. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9z902z12z0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9z902z12z0s.txt item: #1648 of 4945 id: 9z902z12z6v author: Ping Yan title: Ear Biometrics in Human Identification date: 2008 words: 418 flesch: 49 summary: Furthermore, we develop the first fully automated biometric system using 3D ear shape. The results suggest a strong potential for 3D ear shape as a biometric. keywords: ear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9z902z12z6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9z902z12z6v.txt item: #1649 of 4945 id: 9z902z1300c author: James Edward Gentile title: Evaluations and Innovations in Face Detection date: 2008 words: 148 flesch: 52 summary: It shows that the Bayesian classifier is preferred under structured lighting conditions and the cascade classifier is preferred under unstructured lighting conditions. This thesis evaluates popular detectors on imagery with known conditions. keywords: face cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9z902z1300c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9z902z1300c.txt item: #1650 of 4945 id: 9z902z1301q author: Eugene Galyaev title: Inclusive high-pt b-jet cross section measurement at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV. date: 2006 words: 89 flesch: 64 summary: A measurement of the b-jet cross section as function of jet transverse momentum pT has been performed using 312 pb-1 of DZero data. The Run II physics program at the Tevatron started in the spring of 2001 with protons and antiprotons colliding at an energy of ps = 1.96 TeV, and is continuing with about 1.2 fb-1 of data currently collected by the CDF and DZero experiments. keywords: dzero cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9z902z1301q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9z902z1301q.txt item: #1651 of 4945 id: 9z902z1412n author: Lorenzo Dell'Oso title: How Dante Became Dante: His Intellectual Formation in Florence between Laici and Clerici (1294-1296) date: 2020 words: 254 flesch: 37 summary: Finally, I maintain that the doctrinal complexity of the Vita nova and Le dolci rime was essential for Dante to distinguish himself among the lay and clerical intellectuals of contemporary Florence, and helped him to build his reputation as vero filosofo as well as a leading intellectual in the second half of the 1290s. Since in Convivio II.XII.7 the poet claimed that he attended the disputations of the philosophizers in Florence's convent schools where Philosophy was truly revealed to him, this research presents the transcriptions of several hitherto unedited disputations that were held in the Franciscan convent of Santa Croce in 1295. keywords: dante cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9z902z1412n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9z902z1412n.txt item: #1652 of 4945 id: 9z902z14130 author: Colleen Cross title: 'Unlocking Human Dignity': A Theology of Liberation from the Context of US Immigrant Detention and Deportation date: 2020 words: 261 flesch: 22 summary: In light of the complex challenges posed by global migration and its impact on the human person, this dissertation brings peace studies, Latin American liberation theology, US Hispanic and Latinx theology, and migration theology into conversation, seeking to develop a constructive theology of liberation from the context of US immigrant detention and deportation. While it endeavors to develop a theology of liberation for the victims, it also examines the need for liberation for the perpetrators—for US society and for many in the US Church. keywords: liberation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9z902z14130.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9z902z14130.txt item: #1653 of 4945 id: 9z902z1424n author: Erin Archibeck title: Spatial Correlation of Trabecular Bone Tissue Strain Invariants and Sclerostin Expression date: 2021 words: 340 flesch: 27 summary: Quantifying the spatial relationship between mechanical deformation and signaling protein expression within trabecular bone is essential to understanding the mechanobiological signaling cascade that maintains bone health. Interventions such as pharmaceuticals that can leverage the mechanobiological signaling processes in trabecular bone can provide new therapeutic approaches for bone repair for bone diseases, such as osteoporosis. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9z902z1424n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9z902z1424n.txt item: #1654 of 4945 id: 9z902z1448n author: Jaynise M. Pérez Valentín title: Processes Guiding Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations in the Bay of Bengal date: 2023 words: 510 flesch: 35 summary: This prompted analysis using a novel spectral approach where MISO structure and evolution along the BOB was examined using admissible terms (state, stress and flux terms) regarding air-sea coupling processes. Considering that monsoons are a strongly coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon, a better understanding of the interplay between the different air-sea salient modes is needed for improving monsoons forecasting skills. keywords: miso cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/9z902z1448n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/9z902z1448n.txt item: #1655 of 4945 id: b2773t96683 author: Yang Zhao title: Bone Indentation Modeling via Analytical and Finite Element Methods date: 2012 words: 306 flesch: 35 summary: On micron scales, cortical bone consists of osteons surrounded by interstitial bone, while trabecular bone consists of structures similar to rods or plates. In recent years, mechanical behaviors of bone at the level of osteons or even lamellae have been assessed via nanoindentation of bone. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t96683.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t96683.txt item: #1656 of 4945 id: b2773t9672b author: Catherine Louise Elizabeth Young title: Vermin, Vectors, and Virus: The Mosquitoes of Northern Indiana, Their Role in Arboviral Transmission, and the Spread of West Nile Virus date: 2009 words: 288 flesch: 38 summary: Mosquitoes collected during the four-year survey were tested for infection with West Nile virus, and virus was detected in a total of 15 pools of mosquitoes, including nine pools of Cx. pipiens, five pools of mixed or undifferentiated Cx. pipiens and Cx. Mosquito collections were performed in St. Joseph County, Indiana in 2003-2006, the four years immediately following the initial epidemic of West Nile virus infection in Indiana, and the results were combined with historical data to provide an updated summary of the mosquito fauna of the region. keywords: virus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t9672b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t9672b.txt item: #1657 of 4945 id: b2773t9673p author: Benjamin Highsmith Meekins title: Controlling Interfacial Transfer Processes For Improved Photoelectrochemical Performance date: 2012 words: 421 flesch: 33 summary: Following Fujishima and Honda's demonstration of photolysis of water on TiO2 using simulated sunlight in 1972, the field of water photolysis and hydrogen generation has grown quickly. The scavenging of trapped holes by reduced oxygen radicals was enabled only in the presence of IrO2, and this scavenging occurred on a timescale approximately 1000 times faster than that of water oxidation, which means that it represents a serious obstacle to developing a water photolysis system that does not rely on external power input. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t9673p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t9673p.txt item: #1658 of 4945 id: b2773t96741 author: Heather Rachelle Parrish title: Homing: An Ontological Investigation into the Nature of Inhabitation, Phenomenology date: 2014 words: 60 flesch: 4 summary: Drawing on concepts from cognitive science and phenomenology, this paper takes an integrative look at the mutually creative relationship between inhabitant and environment, and the on-going effort necessary for establishing a sense of belonging. An exploration of the complex nature of inhabitation through bringing into question the boundaries between interior and exterior, material and ephemeral, and rational and emotional. keywords: emotional cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t96741.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t96741.txt item: #1659 of 4945 id: b2773t9676q author: Xin Chen title: Modeling the Human Face through Multiple View Three-Dimensional Stereopsis: A Survey and Comparative Analysis of Facial Recognition over Multiple Modalities date: 2006 words: 369 flesch: 30 summary: Also significant is the demonstrated flexibility of this system to successfully perform 3D recognition on a database acquired originally for 2D face recognition. I contribute to the growing body of work surrounding face recognition by examining novel approaches to face recognition beyond the traditional, two-dimensional intensity modality. keywords: face cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t9676q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t9676q.txt item: #1660 of 4945 id: b2773t9678d author: Patrick Mello title: Toleration, Persecution, and the Novel date: 2013 words: 321 flesch: 34 summary: Yet toleration, as defined in the 1689 Act of Toleration, functioned primarily to exclude any religious group seen as a threat to social stability, thereby maintaining religious belief as a legal standard for exclusion throughout the eighteenth century. Through her mere existence as a political and religious outsider, for instance, Jane Barker's Galesia disrupts Whig social norms. keywords: toleration cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t9678d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t9678d.txt item: #1661 of 4945 id: b2773t9679r author: Timothy Schoenharl title: Creating, Updating and Validating Simulations in a Dynamic, Data-Driven Application System date: 2008 words: 301 flesch: 31 summary: We present a thorough evaluation of the simulation in terms of model validation, simulation design and runtime characteristics. We introduce an aggregate method for online creation and updating of ABM simulations and evaluate the approach against alternatives. keywords: simulation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t9679r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t9679r.txt item: #1662 of 4945 id: b2773t9680z author: Erica Schiller Freeman title: Darwin on the 'More Interesting' and 'Most Intricate' Problems for Natural Selection date: 2013 words: 236 flesch: 31 summary: I show that human development toward moral perfection (the 'more interesting' problem) involves the development of humanitarian culture, and yet it is precisely the development of humanitarian culture that gives rise to the conditions Darwin acknowledged as necessary for the continued action of natural selection on the members of any population. My aim is to evaluate the adequacy of Richards's portrayal of Darwin as a moral sense theorist indebted to German Romanticism for the philosophical resources required to articulate a fully naturalistic account of the emergence of moral sense. keywords: darwin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t9680z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t9680z.txt item: #1663 of 4945 id: b2773t96830 author: Sabine Anna Krawietz title: Alleviating Choking Under Pressure Using Imagery date: 2012 words: 385 flesch: 35 summary: Experiment 2a sought to establish an equally high level of performance pressure as perceived by participants putting in scenarios induced with outcome and monitoring pressure and a significantly higher level of perceived pressure than other participants putting in the no pressure control condition. Choking is defined as suboptimal performance in situations filled with performance pressure. keywords: pressure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t96830.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t96830.txt item: #1664 of 4945 id: b2773t9684b author: Jonathan Carl Leiner title: Exchange Coupling in the Ferromagnetic Semiconductor GaMnAs date: 2012 words: 464 flesch: 29 summary: In addition, I describe efforts (and their unintended consequences on magnetic anisotropy) to control the incorporation of Mn in substitutional and interstitial positions of GaAs via increasing the Fermi level of GaMnAs during the growth by growing GaMnAs over Ge layers. In this connection, it is important to establish under what conditions the IEC between successive GaMnAs layers is antiferromagnetic (AFM) or ferromagnetic (FM), keywords: gamnas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t9684b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t9684b.txt item: #1665 of 4945 id: b2773t9685p author: Ailbhe Darcy title: Imaginary Menagerie date: 2011 words: 60 flesch: 60 summary: Ailbhe Darcy's debut collection is a set of urgent despatches from her point of origin, Dublin, and from her skirmishes further afield: London, Paris, Africa, Eastern Europe or the States. Driven less by metaphor than by wild conceits, semantic leaps, and startling juxtapositions, these are poems that itch and pluck at the pelt of what we think we know. keywords: states cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t9685p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t9685p.txt item: #1666 of 4945 id: b2773t96861 author: Teasel Elizabeth Muir-Harmony title: Tracking Diplomacy: The International Geophysical Year and American Scientific and Technical Exchange with East Asia, 1955-1973 date: 2010 words: 181 flesch: 11 summary: By examining the experience of American observers working at satellite tracking stations in Japan and India, this thesis argues that in order to understand the nature and impact of global scientific programs, the day-to-day workings of the scientific outposts, the backbone of the programs, have to be examined. At the beginning of the Space Age, under the auspices of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) was chosen to develop a network of optical satellite tracking stations in a number of countries around the world. keywords: scientific cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t96861.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t96861.txt item: #1667 of 4945 id: b2773t9699c author: Craig William Kinnear title: The Legend of Logging: Timber Industry Culture and the Rise of Paul Bunyan, 1870-1945 date: 1904 words: 356 flesch: 48 summary: Paul Bunyan helped the lumber industry reconcile an important contradiction that lay at the heart of capitalist expansion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lumber companies used nostalgic representations of logging to consolidate power over their timberlands. keywords: bunyan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t9699c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t9699c.txt item: #1668 of 4945 id: b2773t96d99 author: Lynette D. McCarthy title: Life After Death date: 1904 words: 116 flesch: 30 summary: These conditions are also investigated through analytical and formalistic observations, offering both data-driven research and theoretical inspection. The documentation of emotional and physical situations after the absence of a spouse provides insight into the experience of death, bereavement, and memory. keywords: death cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t96d99.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t96d99.txt item: #1669 of 4945 id: b2773t96x47 author: Aaron Pidel, SJ title: The Ecclesiology of Erich Przywara, S.J. date: 1904 words: 242 flesch: 36 summary: The fourth and fifth chapters designate two different attempts by Przywara to transpose this specifically Ignatian configuration of the analogia entis into an ecclesial register: first, an ecclesiology of discretion, in which Przywara models the relationship between Church as hierarchy and the Church as mystical body on the relationship between the ideal Jesuit superior and his subject; second, a nuptial ecclesiology, in which Przywara models the tenson between the Church from above and the Church from below on the relationshp between Christ and Mary. The Catholic Church turns out to be the true Church, according to Przywara, because it is the most analogical Church and thus the best school of creatureliness. keywords: church cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t96x47.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t96x47.txt item: #1670 of 4945 id: b2773t96z98 author: Yizhou Zhang title: Designing Block Polymer-Based Membranes with Tailored Surface Chemistry date: 2018 words: 316 flesch: 26 summary: In this dissertation, we address the most immediate concern of water stress by purposing a potential option for the freshwater production through engineered polymeric membranes. The rational design of block polymer-based membranes promises to provide new separation archetypes for advanced membrane applications yet to be precisely engineered. keywords: membrane cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t96z98.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t96z98.txt item: #1671 of 4945 id: b2773t9785z author: S. Sivaranjani title: A Novel Framework for the Analysis and Distributed Control of Congested Transportation Networks date: 2020 words: 502 flesch: 31 summary: In general, these models employ discontinuous dynamics or nonlinear terms to describe phenomena like shock waves and phantom jams. In the second part, we consider the problem of designing fast local control policies to mitigate traffic congestion arising from large disturbances in the traffic flow, such as accidents and peak-hour demand surges, before they develop into propagating traffic jams or shock waves. keywords: networks cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t9785z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t9785z.txt item: #1672 of 4945 id: b2773t97c36 author: Gonzalo J. Martinez Bas title: On the Challenges of Longitudinal, Multi-Modal, Ubiquitous Sensing Studies date: 2022 words: 502 flesch: 47 summary: In this thesis, we present a thorough analysis of the problem of data quality in ubiquitous sensing studies and suggest methods to increase participant compliance. Additionally, we show to what extent heart rate variability from wearables can be a predictor of stress in real life settings. keywords: sensing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t97c36.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t97c36.txt item: #1673 of 4945 id: b2773t97c7k author: Casey Mullaney title: Incarnating Welcome: Formation, Risk, and Hospitality at St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker date: 2022 words: 281 flesch: 26 summary: how racial and gender-based hierarchies influence our conception of hospitality and whether true hospitality is possible under conditions of exploitative patriarchy; 2.) In light of the contemporary racial reckoning which began with the founding of Black Lives Matter in 2013, the closing chapter looks to prison abolition and societal decarceration as areas where the Catholic Worker vocation of offering welcome to those on the margins of society might be employed in service to a creative, Black-led vision of broader hospitality. keywords: hospitality cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b2773t97c7k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b2773t97c7k.txt item: #1674 of 4945 id: b5644q79h0q author: Christopher William Norfolk title: Processing Mesocarbon Microbeads to High-Performance Materials fo Friction Applications date: 2005 words: 353 flesch: 25 summary: Based on this, it is recommended that beta-resin content be optimized, methods of increasing initial sample density be investigated, and techniques of reinforcement without increasing porosity be explored. Results show that this yields materials which are more tolerant of porosity content. keywords: sintering cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q79h0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q79h0q.txt item: #1675 of 4945 id: b5644q79h12 author: Ying Jin title: Processing and Characterization of Secondary Solid-State Li-Ion Batteries date: 2013 words: 329 flesch: 46 summary: The batteries exhibited high initial discharge capacities, but they encountered dramatic capacity decay problems when tested at RT. The intent was for the porous structure to greatly increase the contact area between solid electrolyte and electrode. keywords: solid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q79h12.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q79h12.txt item: #1676 of 4945 id: b5644q79h2d author: Neil Edmund Hoyt title: Re-humanizing the Commercial Core: A Masterplan for Chicago's Central Loop date: 2005 words: 112 flesch: 26 summary: Special attention will be given to the relationship of open public space within the urban fabric, as well as the correlative relationship of monumental buildings within open space. Ultimately, this plan will show how, through a process of defining and developing public spaces, establishing a hierarchical network of buildings and streets, and better addressing the notion of human scale, one can begin to re-humanize the American commercial core. keywords: core cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q79h2d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q79h2d.txt item: #1677 of 4945 id: b5644q79h8g author: Ying Shang title: Semimodule Morphic Systems: Realization, Model Matching, and Decoupling date: 2006 words: 345 flesch: 31 summary: We characterize fixed pole semimodules using pole semimodules, zero semimodules, and the extended zero semimodules of the given transfer functions. The concepts of reachability and observability are defined for semimodule morphic systems. keywords: semimodules cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q79h8g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q79h8g.txt item: #1678 of 4945 id: b5644q79j2q author: Katherine Waring title: Natural Product Derivatization Through Nitroso Diels-Alder Reactions date: 2007 words: 8 flesch: 71 summary: No abstract is included in my Masters thesis. keywords: thesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q79j2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q79j2q.txt item: #1679 of 4945 id: b5644q79j32 author: Sarah R Epstein title: Temperature Stress and Its Impact on the Aedes Aegypti Stress Response and Dengue Susceptibility date: 2009 words: 422 flesch: 51 summary: The current study focuses specifically on the role temperature stress plays in stress protein expression and dengue vectorial capacity. No effective vaccine exists to protect against dengue infection, and in recent years investigators have begun to focus on the vector to elucidate factors contributing to the vectorial capacity of Ae. keywords: dengue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q79j32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q79j32.txt item: #1680 of 4945 id: b5644q79k0b author: John A. Christie title: Molecular Quantum Cellular Automata: Synthesis and Characterization date: 1904 words: 359 flesch: 43 summary: Chapter 3 focuses on the synthetic extension of substituted 1,2-diferrocenylacetylene compounds from Chapter 2 to square planar tetraferrocenyl compounds. The synthesis of substituted 1,2-diferrocenylacetylenes supports two goals: to study substituent effects on electron transfer and redox chemistry in the 1,2-diferrocenylacetylene system, and to synthesize precursors for the preparation of more complex molecules found in later chapters. keywords: synthesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q79k0b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q79k0b.txt item: #1681 of 4945 id: b5644q79m6q author: Sean P. Phillips title: Pox and the Pulpit: The Catholic Church and the Propagation of Smallpox Vaccination in Early Nineteenth-Century France date: 1904 words: 197 flesch: 17 summary: This dissertation examines the collaboration between public health officials, government administrators, and Roman Catholic clergy in propagating smallpox vaccination as a case study for modern state building in post-revolutionary France. At a time when boundaries between secular and religious authority were questioned and refashioned, religious authorities served an important role as intermediaries between Parisian health officials and far-flung parishes and villages. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q79m6q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q79m6q.txt item: #1682 of 4945 id: b5644q8065d author: Paul Anh McEldowney title: Model-Theoretic Galois Cohomology date: 1904 words: 43 flesch: 39 summary: This thesis provides a self-contained and thorough exposition of Proposition 3.3 of Pillay's 1997 paper Some Remarks on Galois Cohomology and Definability. As such, this thesis includes all of the necessary background definitions, results, and proofs required to understand this proposition. keywords: thesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q8065d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q8065d.txt item: #1683 of 4945 id: b5644q80762 author: Sarah E. Naramore title: I Sing the Body Republic: How Benjamin Rush Created American Medicine date: 2018 words: 419 flesch: 40 summary: This informs the question this dissertation seeks to answer: Rush is a perennially-cited player in the history of medicine and that of the early United States, why? To recover Rush's significance and role in the development of early American medicine this project reflects the scope of his intellectual inquiry independent of modern disciplinary boundaries. keywords: rush cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q80762.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q80762.txt item: #1684 of 4945 id: b5644q80j6v author: Evan Jamison Gerbo title: Behavior and Design of an Adjustable Bolted Steel Plate Connection date: 2019 words: 360 flesch: 35 summary: Analytical, numerical, and experimental approaches are utilized to (1) develop a versatile connection geometry for greatest adaptability to manufacturing and erection tolerances, as well as member dimensions, (2) understand the residual strains induced during prefabrication via press brake, (3) understand the effect of field installation via bolt tightening on the plates and bolts, (4) investigate the behavior of the connection under service and ultimate loads, and (5) develop recommendations on the design and behavior of adjustable connections. This is the first investigation of cold bending via bolt tightening for a kit-of-parts adjustable steel connection. keywords: connection cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q80j6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q80j6v.txt item: #1685 of 4945 id: b5644q80k03 author: Rebecca M. West title: The Idea of Anglo-Scandinavian England: "Vikings" in Medieval English Memory date: 2020 words: 282 flesch: 20 summary: This reuse and repurposing of Anglo-Scandinavian materials and the demonstrably-continued historical influence of these on the religion, art, and politics of the later medieval England illustrate that elements of society and life conditioned by events and habits from the Anglo-Scandinavian period continued to influence post-Conquest English society. Alongside literary criticism, this study makes use of tools from music and art history and social linguistics to explore multiple possible social identities that existed in post-Conquest England. keywords: anglo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q80k03.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q80k03.txt item: #1686 of 4945 id: b5644q80k1f author: Robert G. T. Edwards title: Divine Providence and Biblical Narrative in the Thought of John Chrysostom date: 2020 words: 334 flesch: 38 summary: The recurrence of God's providential actions throughout biblical history also reveals a larger point: that God's providence is neither episodic nor interventionist, but is continual and consistent throughout all of history; Chrysostom is not interested in delineating ages of salvation history, or a history of covenants, but instead in showing his audience how providence operates according to the same love for humanity throughout all time, to the same end of salvation—no matter how at odds events might seem with one another. Finally, scripture's narratives of providence, from creation to the incarnation, and now in the life of the church, also put forward figures who have trusted in divine providence. keywords: providence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q80k1f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q80k1f.txt item: #1687 of 4945 id: b5644q80k5t author: Rebecca Carter title: Investigation of Rare Earth Element Signatures and Surrogate Nuclear Melt Glass for Nuclear Forensic Analysis date: 2020 words: 175 flesch: 20 summary: Advanced technical nuclear forensic capabilities act as a powerful deterrent to nuclear security issues such as nuclear smuggling, nuclear terrorism, nuclear extortion, and nuclear arms proliferation. The first is through the evaluation of signatures related to nuclear materials. keywords: nuclear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q80k5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q80k5t.txt item: #1688 of 4945 id: b5644q80m6g author: Travis Lacy title: The Catholicity of the Church: An Augustinian Account date: 2021 words: 555 flesch: 37 summary: In Chapter One, I offer a brief overview of Roman Catholic accounts of catholicity by focusing on four thinkers whom I argue embody four strands of thought in 20th century ecclesiology: Henri de Lubac (catholicity as qualitative fullness), J. B. Metz (global catholicity), J.M.R. Tillard (local catholicity), and Avery Dulles (catholicity as discipled mediation). In Chapter Five, I provide a phenomenological analysis of ecclesial catholicity through the work of Edith Stein. keywords: catholicity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q80m6g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q80m6g.txt item: #1689 of 4945 id: b5644q80n0q author: James (Jay) Martin, Jr. title: Žižek and the Death of God: Hegel or Lacan? date: 2021 words: 592 flesch: 20 summary: For Žižek, such ideological commitments (or the atheism they seem to imply) are neither necessary nor sufficient to discount the importance of the theological, and moreover, should not disqualify even the most militant of fighting atheists[1] from self-identifying as Christians, whatever the requisite caveats. To approach the status quaestionis of Žižek's theological orientation and religious typology, considerable preliminary work must be done to situate Žižek within milieux of the broad ideological movements in which he operates, namely, Marxism, German Romantic Idealist philosophy, and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. keywords: žižek cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b5644q80n0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b5644q80n0q.txt item: #1690 of 4945 id: b8515m62s08 author: Amy Loren Roberts title: Investigating Proton Pairing in 76SE with Two-Proton Transfer onto 74GE date: 2013 words: 213 flesch: 48 summary: However, understanding the ground-state pairing of neutrons in 76Ge and protons in 76Se is also crucial because 0νββ converts correlated neutron pairs to correlated proton pairs. Proton-pair transfer to excited 0+ states in 76Se is determined to be less than 4-8% of the ground-state pair-transfer strength. keywords: proton cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m62s08.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m62s08.txt item: #1691 of 4945 id: b8515m62s4n author: Peter Mundey title: The 'Neo-Parish': Willow Creek's Middle Ground between Small Groups and Mega Worship date: 2010 words: 216 flesch: 32 summary: By transitioning from a 'church of small groups' to a 'church of communities,' Willow Creek seeks to find a middle ground between mega-worship and small groups. However, by using measures of customer demand in order to change customer preferences--challenging congregants to grow spiritually--Willow Creek operates in a substantively rational manner running counter to rational choice theory. keywords: willow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m62s4n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m62s4n.txt item: #1692 of 4945 id: b8515m62s50 author: Carina Kathleen Finn title: Troubadorable date: 2012 words: 4 flesch: 75 summary: A manuscript of poems. keywords: poems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m62s50.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m62s50.txt item: #1693 of 4945 id: b8515m62s6b author: J. Andres Mejia Acosta title: Ghost Coalitions: Economic Reforms. Fragmented Legislatures and Informal Institutions in Ecuador (1979-2002) date: 2004 words: 281 flesch: 18 summary: When presidents increased their cooperation incentives, party leaders acting as political brokers played a crucial role in producing disciplined majorities by allocating and rewarding party members with policy concessions, pork, and patronage. Lowering the liability of coalition parties was crucial because public opinion ratings and the proximity of new elections reduced the incentives to cooperate with the executive. keywords: presidents cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m62s6b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m62s6b.txt item: #1694 of 4945 id: b8515m62s7p author: Sajeewani Upeka Samarakoon title: Role of recombination in genetic linkage and genome variation in the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum date: 2012 words: 608 flesch: 28 summary: This study was the first to sequence progeny clones to capture high resolution information on COs, NCOs and genetic variation in malaria parasites. Knowledge of the extent and distribution of genetic variation, as well as the mechanisms that generate variation is fundamental to understanding the evolution of parasite phenotypes, including drug resistance, prevalence and severity of the disease in humans. keywords: genome cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m62s7p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m62s7p.txt item: #1695 of 4945 id: b8515m62s81 author: Jennifer F Hsia title: Post-dispersal sugar maple (Acer saccharum) seed predation by sciurids and other small mammals in a northern hardwood forest date: 2010 words: 207 flesch: 52 summary: Although fewer seeds were cached in August, we found that small mammals, eastern chipmunks in particular, were predators of sugar maple seeds, with an increased proportion of seeds eaten with increasing seed predator and sciurid biomasses. Using live-trapping efforts and track boards with tagged sugar maple (Acer saccharum) seeds in June and August of 2006 at eight mixed forest sites in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, we asked: (1) are sugar maple seeds provided later in the summer more often cached? keywords: seed cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m62s81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m62s81.txt item: #1696 of 4945 id: b8515m62t0k author: Sara M. Fulmer title: Academic challenge in middle school: Teacher perceptions and student reactions date: 2013 words: 354 flesch: 29 summary: These findings suggest that, in the context of moderate reading difficulty, perceived difficulty and fluency have divergent effects on different motivational outcomes. The change in interest was predicted by perceived difficulty and fluency, whereas the change in affect was predicted only by perceived difficulty. keywords: students cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m62t0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m62t0k.txt item: #1697 of 4945 id: b8515m62t1x author: George P Nora title: The Synthesis and In Vitro Testing Of Structurally Novel Isoxazolidine Antibacterial Agents Via an Acylnitroso Diels-Alder Reaction date: 2010 words: 180 flesch: 40 summary: In order to increase the potency and broad spectrum antibacterial activity, additional isoxazolidines were synthesized which incorporate side chains which are analogous to physiologically relevant side chains that many effective ?-lactam antibiotics have. The current progress towards a diketopiperzine derived from an isoxazolidine is presented which could also exhibit antibacterial activity. keywords: antibacterial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m62t1x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m62t1x.txt item: #1698 of 4945 id: b8515m62t28 author: Elizabeth Jordan Daly title: Examining the Validity and Utility of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory date: 2013 words: 155 flesch: 44 summary: The NPI Likert-scale version was factor analyzed and correlated with these measures to determine the degree of structural similarity to that of the original format and to clarify the meaning of low-end NPI scores. Nevertheless, the inventory has several drawbacks that complicate score interpretation, including the existence of multiple versions, an unstable factor structure, and a psychometrically problematic format. keywords: npi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m62t28.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m62t28.txt item: #1699 of 4945 id: b8515m62t59 author: Kyanne Renee Reidenbach title: An Examination of Mosquito Evolution at Multiple Taxonomic Levels: from Genera to Subpopulation date: 2012 words: 390 flesch: 27 summary: We offer a hypothesis to explain the maintenance of such high divergence regions in the face of gene flow, namely, that occasional relaxation of environmental selective pressures allows temporary periods of introgression between sympatric M and S populations. Next, we proceeded to examine subpopulation divergence within An. gambiae. keywords: divergence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m62t59.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m62t59.txt item: #1700 of 4945 id: b8515m62t6n author: Robert Thuan Brathwaite title: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Secession and State Formation in the International System, 1815 - 2010 date: 2012 words: 303 flesch: 31 summary: The data comes from a variety of sources, which are listed in the appendix of my dissertation, but the majority of the data was collected from two sources; the Minorities at Risk data project and the Correlates of War data project. Selecting cases that are similar except for the variables of interest (norms of self-determination and liberal democracy, strength of secessionist movement, and proximity to major powers or contiguous rivals) allows me to explain in detail the causal mechanism that leads violent secessionist movements to become recognized as new states in the international system. keywords: international cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m62t6n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m62t6n.txt item: #1701 of 4945 id: b8515m62t70 author: Melissa Renee Gillette title: Rho GTPase Signaling in Epithelial-Stromal Interactions in the Developing Mammary Glad date: 2014 words: 293 flesch: 12 summary: Stromal activation characterized by increased extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition and remodeling in the p190B overexpressing mammary glands appears to be due in part to altered mechanical signaling between the epithelial and stromal compartments and increased paracrine TGFβ singaling from the p190B overexpressing mammary epithelial cells (MECs). Interestingly, Cdc42 overexpressing mammary glands were found to contain more senescent MECs and an altered secretory profile that appears to be contributing to the pro-inflammatory activation of the adjacent stroma. keywords: rho cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m62t70.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m62t70.txt item: #1702 of 4945 id: b8515m62t8b author: Thomas Buschman title: Pornography as a Taste: The Status, Omnivorousness, and Political Tolerance of Pornography Consumers in the 1990s date: 2010 words: 149 flesch: 25 summary: Despite a broadening of the research agenda on pornography in the late 1980s, pornography research largely remains its own distinct enterprise. This paper integrates pornography into the sociology of taste by examining the taste for pornography using the dominant theoretical perspectives and methods applied to other tastes, specifically the omnivore thesis. keywords: pornography cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m62t8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m62t8b.txt item: #1703 of 4945 id: b8515m63w3h author: Colin Dassow title: Social and Ecological Factors Affecting Management of Recreational Fisheries date: 2021 words: 308 flesch: 31 summary: Recreational fisheries exist across a range of scales from a single species within one waterbody to multiple targeted species across regional sets of waterbodies. Globally, recreational fisheries are situated within a diverse set of ecological settings and represent a wide array of targeted species and user desires. keywords: fisheries cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m63w3h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m63w3h.txt item: #1704 of 4945 id: b8515m63w9k author: Hui Yin Tan title: Functionalized Porous Membranes for Antibody Quantification date: 2021 words: 187 flesch: 26 summary: Elution with detergent/reducing agent solution and analysis of intrinsic tryptophan residues in eluted mAbs allows concentration measurement, using calibration curves established using mAb standards. We reduce detection of non-specific binding by employing fluorescently labelled secondary antibodies with specificity against human immunoglobulin G (IgG) to bind to immobilized mAb and the measured fluorescence intensity directly correlates with the level of mAb in samples. keywords: mab cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m63w9k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m63w9k.txt item: #1705 of 4945 id: b8515m63x5h author: Katherine C Crank title: Developing and Refining Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment Using Molecular Viral Fecal Indicators date: 2022 words: 383 flesch: 26 summary: Molecular human viral fecal indicators have great potential to reduce the burden of gastrointestinal disease in the United States and worldwide. Relating measurements of human viral fecal indicators to health outcomes can be conducted with Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessments (QMRA). keywords: indicators cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m63x5h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m63x5h.txt item: #1706 of 4945 id: b8515m63z5t author: Tim Shaffer title: Proactive Storage Management for High-Throughput Scientific Workflows date: 2022 words: 261 flesch: 18 summary: Next, it examines the scalability limits of shared filesystems, showing how large-scale application behavior leads to metadata storms that are difficult to handle without leveraging workflow information. It then proposes dependency-oriented container management strategies to improve storage usage and reproducibility over standard techniques that do not leverage workflow information. keywords: workflow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/b8515m63z5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/b8515m63z5t.txt item: #1707 of 4945 id: bc386h4622k author: Haixia Yang title: Lubrication Mechanisms for Oil-in-Water Emulsions date: 2005 words: 312 flesch: 51 summary: The effects of droplet size and initial oil concentration on the extent of oil pool are also discussed. Ignoring the interactions between oil droplets, all droplets segregate to the backflow region and are rejected from the contact zone regardless the rolling speed. keywords: oil cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bc386h4622k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bc386h4622k.txt item: #1708 of 4945 id: bc386h4623x author: Michelle Barron (Morton) title: Effects of Nitrogen Based Anions on CO2 Binding and Proton Affinity date: 2013 words: 152 flesch: 57 summary: A trend was found between the binding of CO2 and the proton affinity to determine which anion would be most successful at binding CO2 while not binding a proton. Experiments have also shown that the anion has the ability to re-protonate due to water content in the system, which would limit CO2 binding. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bc386h4623x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bc386h4623x.txt item: #1709 of 4945 id: bc386h46248 author: Ajit Nimbalker title: Design of High Throughput Low Complexity Turbo Codes date: 2005 words: 340 flesch: 52 summary: First, using EXIT chart analysis, puncturing patterns for code rates ranging from 1/4 to 3/4 are found. Turbo codes are powerful error-correcting codes that are already part of several wireless technologies. keywords: turbo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bc386h46248.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bc386h46248.txt item: #1710 of 4945 id: bc386h46306 author: Nicolas M. Somma title: Why Don't You Join Us? Grievances, Organizational Membership, Protest Opportunities, and Protest Participation date: 2010 words: 121 flesch: 41 summary: Using survey data from a representative sample of adults in the United States, this article examines the effects of grievances and voluntary organizational membership on protest invitation and protest participation. But only political organizations contribute to protest participation after controlling for the effect of protest invitation. keywords: protest cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bc386h46306.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bc386h46306.txt item: #1711 of 4945 id: bc386h4635x author: Han Yu title: Passivity and Dissipativity as Design and Analysis Tools for Networked Control Systems date: 2012 words: 152 flesch: 15 summary: The problems studied in this thesis consider complex but common situations in networked control systems and their solutions represent a practical benefit to the way we design and analyze the studied control systems. In this dissertation, several control problems are studied that arise when passive or dissipative systems are interconnected and controlled over a communication network. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bc386h4635x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bc386h4635x.txt item: #1712 of 4945 id: bc386h46488 author: Nichole Riggs title: LUMES date: 1904 words: 147 flesch: 56 summary: This figure represents, among many things, the seemingly invisible violence of war which looms in the lives of U.S. citizens in various ways -- whether that be through our own comfort, the films we watch, or the way we play as children. Ultimately, LUMES combines autobiography and situations of surreal violence in order to reveal truths about our ways of life as U.S. Citizens. keywords: citizens cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bc386h46488.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bc386h46488.txt item: #1713 of 4945 id: bc386h4658k author: Thomas Clemmons title: The Development of Augustine's Christology in the Early Anti-Manichaean Works date: 1904 words: 287 flesch: 52 summary: The second chapter provides an outline and diagnosis of Latin Manichaeism through a consideration of the hermeneutical focus of Manichaeism. While not dismissing this dimension, chapter one outlines the deficiency of such a narrow focus on Augustine's Platonism to the exclusion of Augustine's critique of Manichaeism. keywords: augustine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bc386h4658k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bc386h4658k.txt item: #1714 of 4945 id: bc386h4682f author: Aboutaleb Amiri title: Intercellular Interactions Promote Collective Behavior in Bacterial Colonies and Developing Epithelia date: 1904 words: 288 flesch: 24 summary: In this thesis, we study the impact of physical properties of individual cells and intercellular interactions on the swarming behavior in bacterial colonies and self-organization of epithelial cells during development. We also demonstrated that periodic reversals of motion direction with periods within the experimentally observed range, high flexibility of bacterial cells and a moderate level of strength of cell-cell adhesion are crucial for a colony of self-propelled rod-shaped Myxococcus xanthus to spread protein within the population efficiently. keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bc386h4682f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bc386h4682f.txt item: #1715 of 4945 id: bc386h46s3f author: Bethany Montagano title: Sites of Slavery: Gender, Race and Tourism in America's Slavery Memory date: 1904 words: 219 flesch: 34 summary: Investigating the lives, relationships and work of these women at the center of this story, provides a multi-dimensional view into the life cycle of a slave memory born from romantic fiction and tourism, charting its dangerous transition to history and into the American imagination. This dissertation argues that their ex-slave narratives have deep roots in cultural heritage tourism and romantic fiction, creating a distinct and problematic slavery legacy that because of its association with the WPA Slave Narrative Project, continues to play out in dangerous ways today. keywords: slave cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bc386h46s3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bc386h46s3f.txt item: #1716 of 4945 id: bc386h4739k author: William Temple Andrews title: Development and Application of Mass Spectrometric Imaging Protocols date: 2020 words: 201 flesch: 34 summary: This novel method provides the means to detect a unique subset of peptides from tissue sections when compared to unextracted tryptically digested tissue, all while minimizing the presence of contaminants and maintaining spatial localization. MALDI-TOF imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) is a common technique used for analyzing tissue samples, as it allows the user to detect multiple different analytes simultaneously. keywords: tissue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bc386h4739k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bc386h4739k.txt item: #1717 of 4945 id: bc386h4743t author: Patricia L. Huestis title: Exploration of Radiation Effects on Boehmite and Gibbsite date: 2020 words: 286 flesch: 27 summary: The changes in charging behavior were followed up with aggregation studies that revealed that irradiated boehmite aggregates differently than pristine boehmite, and those differences remain even with the addition of large amounts of salt. Initial studies of the radiolytic stability of boehmite and gibbsite with gamma rays and alpha particles revealed that the bulk structure of both boehmite and gibbsite are remarkably stable to high doses as probed by both Raman spectroscopy and powder x-ray diffraction. keywords: boehmite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bc386h4743t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bc386h4743t.txt item: #1718 of 4945 id: bc386h4755t author: Pratyush Pandey title: Ferroelectric Memory Based on Partial Polarization for Analog Weight Storage date: 2021 words: 368 flesch: 33 summary: A strictly symmetric pulse protocol, where the integral of the measurement waveform over a measurement cycle is zero, was developed to measure dynamic effects in FE capacitors. Using the strictly symmetric measurement protocol, partial polarization in metal-FE-metal capacitors was shown to be stable up to 250 ms. keywords: polarization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bc386h4755t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bc386h4755t.txt item: #1719 of 4945 id: bc386h4758v author: Jongsuh Lee title: Computation in Aristotle's Syllogistic date: 2021 words: 327 flesch: 39 summary: For multi-premise syllogisms with unordered premises, I suggest that the problem of finding all the relevant trees may be NP-complete. For such syllogisms whose premises are ordered, I show both that the problem is computationally solvable, and executable in polynomial time. keywords: syllogisms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bc386h4758v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bc386h4758v.txt item: #1720 of 4945 id: bg257d29b2n author: Erin Wilson title: Phosphorus Mediated Reactions Toward the Advancement of C-N and C-C Bond Formations date: 2015 words: 455 flesch: 27 summary: Overall, we have exhibited numerous methods showcasing the power of phosphorus to mediate or enhance reactivity for the synthesis of highly important functional groups such as amides, amidines, spirocyclopropane oxindoles, and propargyl alcohols. Carbonyl C=O bond activation can also be achieved using P(NMe2)3 toward the synthesis of the 3,3'-spirocyclopropane oxindole core via a Kukhtin-Ramirez reaction with a broad range of aryl and alkyl alkylidene oxindoles. keywords: phosphorus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29b2n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29b2n.txt item: #1721 of 4945 id: bg257d29b61 author: Brett Christopher Paice title: Postmodern American Gothic: The Politics of Fear in the Works of Thomas Pynchon, David Lynch, and Steve Erickson date: 2010 words: 362 flesch: 21 summary: Deconstructing the tropic elements of the gothic genre distinguishes these artists' creation of a gothic aesthetic that privileges the lived horrors of historical record (slavery, the Holocaust, imperial modernity, oppression engendered through male-centered master narratives) over the metaphorical monsters of the traditional Gothic narrative that represent actual cultural anxieties over lived social conditions. THE POLITICS OF FEAR IN THE WORKS OF THOMAS PYNCHON, DAVID LYNCH, AND STEVE ERICKSON Abstract by Brett Paice Whereas the Gothic traditionally relied upon supernatural figures of evil (vampires, ghosts, monsters) to produce the sensation of fear or terror, contemporary manifestations of the Gothic repudiate such abstracted constructions, favoring, instead, metonymical and everyday representations of terror. keywords: gothic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29b61.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29b61.txt item: #1722 of 4945 id: bg257d29b7c author: Alejandro Miguel de la Puente title: A Singlet Extension of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model: Towards a more natural solution to the Little Hierarchy Problem date: 2012 words: 271 flesch: 44 summary: The small and large limits of this mass parameter are studied, and I find that I can generate masses for the lightest neutral Higgs boson up to 140 GeV with top squarks below the TeV scale, all couplings perturbative up to the gauge unification scale, and with no need to fine tune parameters in the scalar potential. The two limiting cases of the S-MSSM, characterized by the size of the supersymmetric mass for the singlet superfield is analyzed, and I find that in the region of small singlet supersymmetric mass a large asymmetry can be obtained while being consistent with constraints arising from flavor physics, quark masses and top quark decays. keywords: supersymmetric cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29b7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29b7c.txt item: #1723 of 4945 id: bg257d29b8q author: Eduardo Cabral Balreira title: Detecting Invertibility from the Topology of the Pre-images of Hyperplanes date: 2008 words: 345 flesch: 52 summary: In recent years new topological and geometric ideas have been introduced in the subject of global invertibility, pushing the field in different directions. The emerging picture reveals that global invertibility is also influenced by more subtle topological phenomena. keywords: theorem cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29b8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29b8q.txt item: #1724 of 4945 id: bg257d29b92 author: Jill Suzanne Voreis title: Further Characterization of a Novel Membrane-Microtubule Binding Protein, CLIPR76 date: 2012 words: 375 flesch: 37 summary: The mechanism of CLIPR76-4 membrane localization was investigated by mutating a key conserved cysteine necessary for CLIPR-59 localization. CLIPR76-4, the smallest human splice isoform, contains a hydrophobic C-terminus that drives ER localization and aligns with the C-terminal Golgi-localizing domain of the CLIPR76 relative CLIPR-59. keywords: clipr76 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29b92.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29b92.txt item: #1725 of 4945 id: bg257d29c08 author: Raymond F. Hain IV title: Practically Virtuous: Instrumental Practical Reason and the Virtues date: 2009 words: 271 flesch: 37 summary: I work to show this by first confronting with one another four recent accounts of practical reason (those of Simon Blackburn, Candace Vogler, David Gauthier, and Philippa Foot) in order to develop a powerful account of instrumental practical reasoning as an irreducibly social practice. After showing how this Thomistic account of instrumental practical reasoning both accommodates the insights gained from the contemporary accounts and includes a clear and persuasive grounding for practical deliberation as a social activity, I argue that the resulting picture of practical reason gives us very good reason to be virtuous. keywords: practical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29c08.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29c08.txt item: #1726 of 4945 id: bg257d29c2z author: Erin E Drew title: The Usufructuary Enlightenment: Environmental Thought in Eighteenth-Century Literature date: 2013 words: 362 flesch: 35 summary: Tracing the concept of usufruct in eighteenth-century literature reveals that the period's writers grappled more profoundly and consistently with the need to reconcile the often-contradictory ethical imperatives to improve human life and steward non-human life than has previously been appreciated by either ecocritics or eighteenth-century scholars. Eighteenth-century writers, I show, were acutely aware of the interdependence of human and non-human beings, and believed that human beings had a responsibility to use nature in a way that would guarantee the ongoing stability of non-human and human life. keywords: century cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29c2z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29c2z.txt item: #1727 of 4945 id: bg257d29c39 author: Xuan Orali Minh Stevens title: Risk and Protective Factors in At-Risk Mothers' Aand Children's Socioemotional Adjustment date: 2008 words: 170 flesch: 20 summary: Such a model advocates for psycho-educational interventions that yield improved parent- focused interventions that are designed to lower the risk of these problems in children. This project examined relationships between maternal resources and the socioemotional development for 129 14-year old children born to adolescent mothers. keywords: children cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29c39.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29c39.txt item: #1728 of 4945 id: bg257d29c4n author: Yingxin Jiang title: Edge-Based QoS for Scalable Networks/Systems date: 2010 words: 342 flesch: 37 summary: This dissertation studies several schemes in the DiffServ environment to provide predictable QoS for scalable networks/systems. E3AC, an approach to make significant strides in practical end-to-end QoS, provides a framework for catalyzing QoS amongst end ISPs while dramatically reducing the setup latency for QoS negotiations. keywords: qos cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29c4n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29c4n.txt item: #1729 of 4945 id: bg257d29c7p author: David John Schmidt title: Cluster Expansion Studies of Oxygen Adsorption on Transition Metal Surfaces date: 2012 words: 329 flesch: 29 summary: Instead single crystal surfaces exhibit heterogenous catalytic behavior. On the Pt (111) surface, we find that electronic effects create strong first nearest neighbor repulsions between atomic oxygen adsorbates and that adsorbate induced surface strain reduces these first nearest neighbor repulsions but increase long-ranged repulsions and many-bodied interactions. keywords: surfaces cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29c7p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29c7p.txt item: #1730 of 4945 id: bg257d29c81 author: Jeannie A. Hoang title: Host Transcriptional Regulation During a Mycobacterial Infection and Developing a Mechanism of Drug Targeting Through Folate Drug Conjugates date: 2012 words: 151 flesch: 29 summary: Our work indicates that infection with isogenic strains of M. tuberculosis results in differential activation of various transcription factors. An improved understanding of host immune responses following Mycobacterium infection can provide insights into the pathogenesis of virulent mycobacteria and identify potential targets for rational anti-TB drug design. keywords: tuberculosis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29c81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29c81.txt item: #1731 of 4945 id: bg257d29c9c author: Jieon Kim title: Beatrice the Consummate Lady Wisdom date: 2015 words: 360 flesch: 45 summary: The final chapter systematically demonstrates Beatrice as a synthetic figure of Mary, Lady Philosophy, and Lady Wisdom. I demonstrate the identification of Lady Wisdom, Jesus, Lady Philosophy, Mary, and Beatrice in various texts through their common words and actions. keywords: lady cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29c9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29c9c.txt item: #1732 of 4945 id: bg257d29d0k author: Fasihun Nisa (Fasiha) Qadri title: Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons: A Social Justice Movement, Beyond Victimhood to Peace Bulding date: 2011 words: 444 flesch: 27 summary: The paper will be an important contribution towards understanding how women as victims of state violence under conditions of occupation can contribute to conflict transformation by advancing gendered claims for human rights, justice, and accountability. With civil society initiatives in general and human rights activism in particular being viewed as anti-state activities, I personally am in know of the immense hardships that human rights defenders face on ground to carry on their activities. keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29d0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29d0k.txt item: #1733 of 4945 id: bg257d29f3x author: Nathaniel Huston title: Silver Bullets, Subjugation, and Adaptation: Why Some Militaries Thrive and Others Falter in the Face of Technological Change date: 1904 words: 349 flesch: 30 summary: By examining the development of air power between World War I and the end of World War II, this work seeks to answer the following questions: Under what conditions can technological change contribute to a disruption in military affairs, and how and why do militaries fall short of achieving them? I argue, by contrast, that militaries vary systematically in how they process change and how they perceive and interact with technology, and that these variations help explain how and why some militaries are able to exploit technological discontinuities while others struggle. keywords: militaries cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d29f3x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d29f3x.txt item: #1734 of 4945 id: bg257d3069k author: Stephanie Ellickson-Larew title: Elucidating the Construct of Dissociation through Scale Development date: 2019 words: 312 flesch: 39 summary: The three scales are Reality Detachment (with facets Psychotic Dissociation and Neurological Dissociation), Overall, the MODE showed good structural validity as evidenced by a robust and stable structure, good content validity as evidenced by the item pool comprehensively including all potential constructs of dissociation, and good convergent and discriminant validity. keywords: phase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d3069k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d3069k.txt item: #1735 of 4945 id: bg257d30d4q author: Rebecca A. Scheidt title: Mechanistic Insights into Lead Halide Perovskite Transformations date: 2020 words: 278 flesch: 34 summary: Transient absorption spectroscopy is used to find optical properties of perovskite nanostructures and a band filling model is proposed. Cesium lead bromide nanocrystals are studied under elevated temperatures and the transformation process they undergo to change into bulk perovskites films is monitored. keywords: perovskites cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d30d4q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d30d4q.txt item: #1736 of 4945 id: bg257d30f3p author: Karina Andrea Soto Rivas title: Multiscale Analysis of Flows Past Marine Hydrokinetic Devices Using Numerical Simulations date: 2021 words: 340 flesch: 36 summary: In Chapter II , we used the hybrid turbulence model DES coupled with the actuator disk approach to simulate staggered turbine configurations with different separations between devices and channel depths on an idealized domain. We adopted a multi-scale approach to study the flow at the turbine scales and propose a parameterization for representing a group of turbines in the mesoscale. keywords: turbines cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d30f3p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d30f3p.txt item: #1737 of 4945 id: bg257d30f6q author: Guido Caponigri Guerra title: Mystical Sense and Experience in Thoreau's Journal; or, the Light in the Mist date: 2021 words: 162 flesch: 43 summary: I then move to the sites of Thoreau's most extensive use of the Chaldean Oracles, in his essay, Walking, and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, and the first notable instance of his association between mist and mystical thought. I conclude with the first five volumes of the Journal, leading to March 5, 1853, the date of Thoreau's self-designation as a mystic. keywords: thoreau cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d30f6q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d30f6q.txt item: #1738 of 4945 id: bg257d30g7c author: Deanna C. Childress title: Post-Conviction Employment: Navigating the "Free" Market with the Stigma of a Criminal Record date: 2022 words: 488 flesch: 39 summary: In this dissertation, I use a mixed-methods approach to investigate how criminal stigmatization is related to job search strategies and employment outcomes. In chapter 4, I explore the role of stigma more closely, operationalizing stigmatization as the decision of the formerly incarcerated to check the box acknowledging their criminal record on job applications, as opposed to the act of rejecting the stigma by not doing so. keywords: job cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d30g7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d30g7c.txt item: #1739 of 4945 id: bg257d30j3m author: Heather D. Whitehead title: Development of Analytical Methods for Highly Selective and Sensitive Analysis of Compounds Relevant to Human Health and the Environment date: 2023 words: 750 flesch: 41 summary: The second project centers on illicit substances found in street drug samples and is concentrated on those that contribute to both nonfatal and fatal overdoses in the ongoing opioid and synthetic opioid epidemic. This work seeks to demonstrate the applicability of LC-MS/MS analysis and workflows as a useful tool for independent, community and academic-based drug checking and harm reduction services to offer information on drug composition and concentrations in illicit street drug samples. keywords: analysis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bg257d30j3m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bg257d30j3m.txt item: #1740 of 4945 id: bk128912m4w author: Tao Li title: Isotopic Dependence of Giant Resonances in the Even-A 112-124SN Isotopes and the Asymmetry Term in Nuclear Incompressibility date: 2008 words: 211 flesch: 32 summary: Essentially all of expected isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR), isoscalar giant dipole resonance (ISGDR), isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance (ISGQR) and high energy octupule resonance (HEOR) strengths were identified in these nuclei. Because of the unique optical properties of the Grand Raiden magnetic spectrometer, it was possible to obtain inelastic scattering spectra free of all instrumental background. keywords: giant cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128912m4w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128912m4w.txt item: #1741 of 4945 id: bk128912m57 author: Qian Zhang title: Methods for Moderation Analysis with Missing Data date: 2015 words: 163 flesch: 27 summary: The factors are missing data mechanisms, population moderation effect sizes, sample sizes, missing data proportions, and distributions of predictor X. Influence of adding auxiliary variables is also discussed in terms of estimation accuracy for NML and NMI. In the study, I consider a simple moderated multiple regression (MMR) model, where the effect of predictor X on the outcome Y is moderated by a moderator U. My primary interest is to find ways of estimating and testing the moderation effect with the existence of missing data. keywords: random cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128912m57.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128912m57.txt item: #1742 of 4945 id: bk128912m6k author: Raluca Maria Manoliu title: Proposal for a School of Architecture and an Urban Rehabilitation in the City of Hermannstadt, Romania date: 2005 words: 485 flesch: 43 summary: The new building will have to be integrated in the site by means of volume, profile or silhouette in the urban landscape; by the coherence with the environment; by the presence of History – allusive or direct signs of the past in the materials used, in textures or compositions; and by the dialogue between History and contemporary needs in terms of new needs, of the composition of spaces and new technologies. Since ancient times, the creation of new cities or their regeneration went hand in hand with the evolution of architecture. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128912m6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128912m6k.txt item: #1743 of 4945 id: bk128912n2h author: Michael W Hull title: The Foundations of Organo-Zintl Chemistry date: 2010 words: 915 flesch: 42 summary: Zintl clusters in general are only soluble in a limited number of non-traditional solvents such as ethylenediamine and liquid ammonia, and occasionally dimethylformamide. Chapter 6 further develops the nucleophilic reactivity of Zintl clusters. keywords: clusters; zintl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128912n2h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128912n2h.txt item: #1744 of 4945 id: bk128912n6w author: Adam Knaack title: Sustainable Concrete Structures using Recycled Concrete Aggregate: Short-Term and Long-Term Behavior Considering Material Variability date: 2013 words: 359 flesch: 27 summary: To advance this sustainable material as replacement for coarse natural aggregates (e.g., gravel) in structural applications, a fundamental understanding of the behavior of RCA concrete is needed while also incorporating the variability in RCA properties. To this end, this dissertation investigates the short-term and long-term structural behavior of RCA concrete through material and member level experiments, accompanying analytical models, and statistical investigations. keywords: concrete cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128912n6w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128912n6w.txt item: #1745 of 4945 id: bk128912n77 author: Andrew L. Prevot title: Thinking Prayer: Doxology, Spirituality, and the Crises of Modernity date: 2012 words: 361 flesch: 8 summary: It includes a critical analysis of Martin Heidegger's somewhat doxological effort to overcome metaphysics in dialogue with Friedrich Hölderlin; an appreciative assessment of Hans Urs von Balthasar's form of analogical, aesthetic, and dramatic doxology, especially as crystallized by his reading of Charles Péguy; an account of the limitations of Jacques Derrida's and John Caputo's prayers of apophatic deconstruction; a fresh take on the 'theological turn' of French phenomenology, as represented by Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and Jean-Louis Chretien; a new interpretation of Johann Baptist Metz, which clarifies the prayerful character of his political theology (in contradistinction to those of Carl Schmitt and the Frankfurt School) and situates his remembrance of Auschwitz in relation to Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs; and an examination of the various doxological possibilities of Latin American liberation theology, including not only the problematic cases of Enrique Dussel and Juan-Luis Segundo, but also the more adequate proposals of Gustavo Gutiérrez, Leonardo Boff, and Ignacio Ellacuría. The concern is not only to resist processes of secularization that imply a loss of prayer but also to consider how a prayerful way of thinking (theology) and living (spirituality) enables one to overcome the most dangerous aspects of modern metaphysics and to counteract various structures of modern violence associated with economic injustice and identity-based exclusion. keywords: theology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128912n77.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128912n77.txt item: #1746 of 4945 id: bk128912r0r author: Jordan M. Rodgers title: Nietzsche and the Task of Philosophy date: 1904 words: 439 flesch: 28 summary: This dissertation is an attempt to reorient the study of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche around metaphilosophical questions: what is the proper task of philosophy, and, consequently, what relationship should philosophy bear to science? My thesis is that Nietzsche's conception of philosophy is intentionally revisionary – his work is an attempt to make philosophers reconceive themselves as creators of value, and to own up to and embrace the cultural significance of that task. keywords: nietzsche cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128912r0r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128912r0r.txt item: #1747 of 4945 id: bk128913993 author: Yuanyuan Lyu title: Process and Thermodynamic Modeling for Separation of Aromatics from Aliphatics with Ionic Liquids date: 1904 words: 584 flesch: 47 summary: For example, through fun- damental studies of the thermodynamic models for liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) and vapor-liquid-liquid equilibrium (VLLE), we can better understand the thermo- dynamic limits of the product purities one can achieve with various ILs, and we can evaluate energy and economic costs by building process models to compare the use of IL extraction solvents to traditional solvents for aromatic/aliphatic separation like sulfolane. For the IL process, the energy consumption is much lower than that of sulfolane process, but more ILs need to be explored to increase the product purity. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128913993.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128913993.txt item: #1748 of 4945 id: bk128913b51 author: Arash Rahnama title: Learning-Based Approaches to Control, Estimation and Modeling date: 1904 words: 362 flesch: 26 summary: Event-triggered network control designs are capable of decreasing the communication load amongst sub-systems while maintaining the desired performance index and robustness. QSR-Dissipativite and passive dynamical systems exhibit stability and robustness and preserve their properties over feedback and parallel interconnections. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128913b51.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128913b51.txt item: #1749 of 4945 id: bk128913b6c author: Mary Kate Blake title: An Organizational Analysis of the School Counseling Profession: Implications for Students, Counselors, and Schools date: 1904 words: 608 flesch: 42 summary: Unfortunately, there is much evidence to suggest that school counselors are not living up to their potential. Yet what the focus on the overworked nature of school counselors fails to consider is how deeply embedded the conflict between their counseling and non-counseling roles is within the structure of the profession and the schools as the organizations in which they work. keywords: school cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128913b6c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128913b6c.txt item: #1750 of 4945 id: bk128913p85 author: Daniel Mershon title: Three Essays on Exchange Rates date: 2020 words: 377 flesch: 50 summary: Exchange rate expectations are risk-adjusted futures prices implied by a term-structure model of FX futures. Chapter 3 employs the event study method to test if FXI causes changes in exchange rate expectations. keywords: exchange cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128913p85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128913p85.txt item: #1751 of 4945 id: bk128913p9h author: Raquael J. Joiner title: Depression Dynamics across a Decade: Density in Daily Depressive Affect and Yearly Depressive Symptoms date: 2020 words: 259 flesch: 24 summary: Given that individual differences do not necessarily elucidate intraindividual change, the present study aimed to further the study of depression as a system by exploring whether density of depressive affect at the daily timescale differs within individuals at five different timepoints across a ten-year span. Density of the depressive affect cluster was shown to have moderate to low, however, significant stability over time, and majority of the variance in depressive affect density was found to reside within, as opposed to between, individuals. keywords: depressive cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128913p9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128913p9h.txt item: #1752 of 4945 id: bk128913q43 author: Zhuoyue You title: Lust, Confusion and Solidarity in Saint Augustine's City of God date: 2021 words: 239 flesch: 38 summary: Specifically, this dissertation is based on the observation that three communities stand out in Augustine's discussion of civitas terrena: Rome, the first human communion of Adam and Eve, and Babylon; each of them points to one unique feature of earthly politics, and all three together form a whole picture of Augustine's understanding of politics: I argue that we need to examine three communities in City of God in order to better appreciate Augustine's insight on politics, and in particular his assessment of the relationship between the city and the philosophers, and between politics and reason. keywords: augustine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128913q43.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128913q43.txt item: #1753 of 4945 id: bk128913r01 author: Kristin Palacios title: The Non-P Jacob Story (Genesis 25–36) in the Neo-Babylonian Period: Its Composition and Its Theological Meaning date: 2021 words: 509 flesch: 53 summary: Either way, the author of Gen. 28:10–22 composed a narrative of Bethel's founding in order to promote this site as an important religious sanctuary alongside of Jerusalem, whether temporarily or permanently. The ending of the non-P Jacob story is comprised of Gen. 33:1–16, 18*; Gen. 35:1–2aα, 3, 6–8*, 16–20. keywords: gen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128913r01.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128913r01.txt item: #1754 of 4945 id: bk128913r4d author: Ryan Karl title: Quantitative and Qualitative Investigations into Trusted Execution Environments date: 2021 words: 157 flesch: 27 summary: I analyzed both Homomorphic Encryption (HE) and Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) in an effort to develop a quantitative and qualitative framework to assist computer science researchers and software engineers with determining whether they should integrate a TEE into their system design. However, when utilizing a library OS to simplify application development for TEE platforms, TEE performance degrades, and HE techniques can outperform TEEs in unexpected scenarios. keywords: tees cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128913r4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128913r4d.txt item: #1755 of 4945 id: bk128913s21 author: Chao Tang title: Highly Selective Ion Separations Based on Counter-Flow Electromigration in Isoporous Membranes date: 2022 words: 316 flesch: 35 summary: For ions with especially high electrical mobilities, electromigration results in a net flux that approaches zero, whereas ions with lower mobilities pass through the membrane to create high selectivity. Pressure-driven flow through negatively charged membranes yields a streaming potential that creates a cation electromigration flux that opposes advection and gives high selectivities among cations that have different electrical mobilities. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bk128913s21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bk128913s21.txt item: #1756 of 4945 id: bn999595w4d author: Kasra Pourang title: Growth and Characterization of Beta-Gallium Oxide Thin Films Using Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy date: 2015 words: 239 flesch: 57 summary: While GaSnO/Ga2O3 heterostructures could be successfully grown on (001) sapphire substrate by alloying of Sn into Ga2O3 crystal structure, InGaO/Ga2O3 could not be achieved due to non-uniform distribution of In inside the Ga2O3 crystal. For growth, flux-temperature measurements were done on Ga, In, and Sn cells to find the appropriate temperature for a specific beam equivalent pressure (BEP). keywords: ga2o3 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999595w4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999595w4d.txt item: #1757 of 4945 id: bn999595w8s author: Kristof Tahy title: Fabrication and characterization of 2D graphene and graphene nanoribbon field effect transistors date: 2010 words: 224 flesch: 51 summary: The impressive properties such as the linear energy dispersion relation near the charge neutrality (Dirac) point in the electronic band structure, field-effect mobilities as high as 15 000 cm2/Vs and carrier velocity of ~10^8 cm/s at room temperature make graphene a possible candidate for electronic devices in the future. In this work, fabrication and high field characteristics of 2D and nanoribbon graphene are described on back and top gated field effect transistors (FETs). keywords: graphene cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999595w8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999595w8s.txt item: #1758 of 4945 id: bn999595w94 author: Patricia May Connolly title: Recluse date: 2012 words: 14 flesch: 59 summary: This thesis is a collection of poetry written from the perspective of a recluse. keywords: recluse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999595w94.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999595w94.txt item: #1759 of 4945 id: bn999595x0b author: Jason E Gordon title: Improved Oxygen Delivery to Hepatic Hollow Fiber Bioreactors date: 2006 words: 339 flesch: 29 summary: Briefly, it was found that a C3A cell containing HF bioreactor maintained with media bRBC supplementation exhibited signs of an improved C3A cell space oxygen environment in comparison to a control (a C3A cell containing HF bioreactor not maintained with bRBC supplementation). The remaining sections present the results of experiments aimed at evaluating bRBC supplementation within a C3A cell containing HF bioreactor and at examining the ability to engineer bRBC properties. keywords: bioreactor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999595x0b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999595x0b.txt item: #1760 of 4945 id: bn999595x1p author: Audrey Christine Bentz title: Dynamics of Tall Buildings: Full-Scale Quantification and Impacts on Occupant Comfort date: 2012 words: 421 flesch: 30 summary: By then introducing a new wavelet-based system identification framework, large amplitude full-scale responses are mined to gain greater insight into the level of energy dissipation at critical design limit states that then drives a more robust and effective predictive model for inherent damping based on this system behavior descriptor. This research addresses the uncertainties associated with the habitability design of tall buildings by viewing the unique insights afforded by full-scale monitoring. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999595x1p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999595x1p.txt item: #1761 of 4945 id: bn999595x21 author: Kathleen Targowski Ashenfelter title: Simultaneous Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Data During Conversation: Symmetry and Turn-taking date: 2011 words: 340 flesch: 15 summary: A major goal of this work was to combine the well-established qualitative method of analyzing verbal (and more recently nonverbal) discourse known as conversation analysis (CA) with more recent quantitative methods for analyzing nonstationary time series data. This dissertation examines coordinated verbal and nonverbal symmetry in turn-taking behavior during conversation using three modern techniques for analyzing conversational data in nonstationary time series data: windowed cross-correlation, multifractal wavelet analysis, and recurrence quantification analysis. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999595x21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999595x21.txt item: #1762 of 4945 id: bn999595x52 author: Andras J Libal title: Simulation Studies of Nonequilibrium Collective Phenomena in Colloids date: 2008 words: 146 flesch: 39 summary: We also demonstrate that a bidisperse, phase segregated colloid system can be mixed efficiently in the absence of temperature by driving the colloids over a random substrate and inducing plastic flow. We use Brownian dynamics simulations of colloidal systems to explore new nonequilibrium collective effects. keywords: colloids cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999595x52.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999595x52.txt item: #1763 of 4945 id: bn999595x6d author: Philip K Nickell title: Tissue Specific Transcription of Antifreeze Proteins and the Role of Malpighian Tubule Antifreeze Proteins in the Overwintering Strategy of Dendroides canadensis date: 2011 words: 332 flesch: 42 summary: Also, when D. canadensis larvae were treated with juvenile hormone III (JH-III) and held under non-inductive conditions, THA in hemolymph and midgut fluid increased significantly after seven days. A maximum mean thermal hysteresis activity of 2.65 + .33oC was observed in primary urine of winter acclimatized D. canadensis larvae. keywords: thermal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999595x6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999595x6d.txt item: #1764 of 4945 id: bn999595x9f author: Guangle Zhou title: III-V Vertical Tunnel Field Effect Transistors with Tunneling Aligned with the Gate Field date: 2012 words: 286 flesch: 47 summary: To achieve high on current (ION) and steep SS in TFETs, TFETs based on III-V semiconductors with small effective mass and favorable band alignment have been investigated by several groups. A novel TFET geometry with tunneling direction normal to the gate was then designed; and the early generations of TFETs were fabricated on an InGaAs/InP heterojunction and an InAs/AlGaSb heterojunction, showing promising results: ION/IOFF ~ 106, ION > 30 μA/μm at VDS = VGS = 1 V and SSMIN = 93 mV/dec. keywords: tfets cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999595x9f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999595x9f.txt item: #1765 of 4945 id: bn999595z0n author: Kevin Anthony Estep title: Constructing a Language Problem: Paternalism, Power Devaluation, and the Legitimation of Nativism in the English-only Movement date: 2013 words: 109 flesch: 41 summary: Between 1984 and 2010, the 'English-only' movement successfully lobbied for legislation to make English the official language of 24 states and to restrict bilingual public education in three others. I find support for the status-based power devaluation perspective — an alternative to the dominant theories of symbolic politics — and for a 'new nativism' grounded in fiscal conservatism. keywords: support cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999595z0n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999595z0n.txt item: #1766 of 4945 id: bn999595z10 author: Ann Margaret Mazur title: Performative Thoughts in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda: Theatre, Gender, Sympathy, Power date: 2010 words: 299 flesch: 38 summary: Daniel Deronda, as a development away from Eliot's high realist fiction, offers a powerful model of the capacity and worth of female thought for consumption by a Victorian female readership. Evidence for my analysis is drawn from close readings of the text, as well as Victorian theatre theory, Eliot's other fiction, and concurrent work by Eliot's partner G.H. Lewes. keywords: eliot cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999595z10.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999595z10.txt item: #1767 of 4945 id: bn999595z2b author: Hyunju Kim title: On Two Fundamental Problems in Statistical and Functional Modeling of Complex Networks date: 2011 words: 132 flesch: 18 summary: Applications include all problem areas where network topology generators are needed, for e.g., the construction and enumeration of structural isomers of alkenes in chemistry, the construction and sampling of unbiased contact graphs for modeling the spread of diseases in human interaction networks, peer-to-peer communication networks and construction and enumeration of small functional building blocks of biological interaction networks. In the first part of the thesis we solve a fundamental problem that researchers face when modeling networked systems based on limited data, in particular degree-based data. keywords: networks cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999595z2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999595z2b.txt item: #1768 of 4945 id: bn999595z5c author: Yuning Zhao title: Fabrication and Performance of Advanced Photovoltaic and Plasmonic Devices date: 1904 words: 385 flesch: 44 summary: Backside contact technology has been demonstrated successfully in silicon solar cells, but has not been explored carefully or demonstrated in III-V multi-junction solar cells so far. While plasma-wave effects have been reported previously at cryogenic temperatures, this study seeks to characterize the potential of these effects for room temperature operation. keywords: wave cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999595z5c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999595z5c.txt item: #1769 of 4945 id: bn999596007 author: Andrew Gillman title: Predicting Effective Material Properties of Heterogeneous Composites from Well-Resolved Higher Order Statistical Description of Morphology date: 1904 words: 363 flesch: 15 summary: In order to limit assumptions made about the microstructural features, real materials are characterized in this work using micro-computer tomography, and a framework is developed for determining microstructure-statistics-property relations for a wide spectrum of microstructures. The geometrical arrangement of heterogeneous materials plays a critical role in a material's behavior, and this work illustrates that the detailed characterization of real materials is essential to accurately predict the macroscopic (overall/effective) behavior. keywords: order cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999596007.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999596007.txt item: #1770 of 4945 id: bn999596n1g author: Maria Cecilia Ulrickson title: 'Esclavos que fueron' in Santo Domingo, 1768-1844 date: 1904 words: 200 flesch: 46 summary: The dissertation expands what is considered an emancipation to include events in 1795, 1801, 1805, and 1822, all key moments when the future of slavery came into question. Freedom's meaning also changed under these emancipations, as slave owners amplified racial differences to draw free and freed people of African descent back into slavery. keywords: emancipations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999596n1g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999596n1g.txt item: #1771 of 4945 id: bn999596z18 author: Jessica H. Schiltz title: Additive Manufacturing of Orthopedic Ceramics date: 2020 words: 379 flesch: 27 summary: Preliminary experiments then established a size-strength dependency for SLA ZrO2 which supports that predictive strategies employed for brittle materials can be extended to the development and advancement of AM ceramics. The primary objective of this work was to advance material processing of AM orthopedic ceramics through tribological and mechanical evaluation. keywords: ceramics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999596z18.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999596z18.txt item: #1772 of 4945 id: bn999597088 author: Sean R. McGuinness title: A Heavy-Ion Approach to Radiomedicine date: 2021 words: 204 flesch: 25 summary: These reactions may also create significant amounts of proton-rich decay products which require chemical separation from the desired product in a highly radioactive environment. Production yields for these reactions were measured and compared to PACE4 calculations, and simple physical-chemical separation methods which will lead to very high radiopurity yields are proposed. keywords: reactions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999597088.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999597088.txt item: #1773 of 4945 id: bn99959730f author: Elizabeth Moison title: Ambiguous Identities: Nonbinary Individuals' Experiences with Crafting an Ungendered Self date: 2023 words: 167 flesch: 26 summary: I end by highlighting implications for the interrelatedness of ungendered interactions and ungendered selves. Analysis reveals that nonbinary young adults incorporate ambiguity in ways that allow them to embrace creative self exploration in the present while working towards an ideal ungendered future self. keywords: ambiguity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn99959730f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn99959730f.txt item: #1774 of 4945 id: bn999597355 author: Colin Davison title: Essays on Innovation Economics date: 2023 words: 216 flesch: 34 summary: The second chapter underscores the importance of the first chapter by providing evidence that product innovations generate more knowledge spillovers than process innovations. In the first chapter I introduce a novel dataset which classifies patents as product or process innovations and then examine how firms change their product and process innovation in response to increased competition. keywords: innovation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bn999597355.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bn999597355.txt item: #1775 of 4945 id: br86b27956f author: John Jacob Morris title: Solution and Solid-State Studies of Alkali Metal Aggregate Assemblies date: 2008 words: 663 flesch: 35 summary: Encapsulation of neutral molecules within alkali metal aggregates is rare. The objective was to utilize ferrocene, the prototypical metallocene, as a neutral, linear, ditopic pi-linker to bridge between preformed alkali metal aggregates The combination of M(HMDS), where M = Na, K, Rb, Cs, with ferrocene gives rise to one-dimensional polymeric chains of dimeric ring amides bridged through ferrocene. keywords: aggregates; metal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/br86b27956f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/br86b27956f.txt item: #1776 of 4945 id: br86b27957s author: Julieta Yung title: Essays on the Term Structure of Interest Rates and Exchange Rates date: 2014 words: 341 flesch: 41 summary: After analyzing the empirical applications of the yield curve and extracting the underlying factors that drive different assets and macroeconomic fundamentals, I pose the question: Can interest rate factors explain exchange rate fluctuations? My results suggest that yield curves do contain important information to determine exchange rates, and potentially other asset prices, particularly at longer horizons. keywords: factors cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/br86b27957s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/br86b27957s.txt item: #1777 of 4945 id: br86b279584 author: J. Jackson Bliss title: Blank date: 2010 words: 43 flesch: 21 summary: Blank is character-based, language driven, cinematically aspiring novel that explores double lives, graffiti, the parameters of public/private art, personal voids, Asian-American biculturalism, racism, Parkour, the question of gender and the institution of Hip-Hop in post 9/11 New York City. keywords: blank cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/br86b279584.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/br86b279584.txt item: #1778 of 4945 id: br86b279642 author: Ze Zhang title: Sb-Heterostructure Backward Diodes for Direct Detection and Passive Millimeter-Wave Imaging date: 2011 words: 318 flesch: 29 summary: To enhance detector sensitivity, structures with a p-type sheet doping plane in the cathode and an increased anode Al mole fraction of 12% have been studied and resulted in record high curvature, high sensitivity and low noise. This work presents further improvements in detector performance as a result of optimized heterostructure and device design. keywords: performance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/br86b279642.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/br86b279642.txt item: #1779 of 4945 id: br86b27968f author: Rajkumar Sankaralingam title: High-Speed Photodetectors and Receivers for Long-Haul Communication Systems date: 2005 words: 230 flesch: 37 summary: This dissertation details the design, fabrication, and characterization of InP-based photodiodes and HEMTs suitable for operating in the low-loss low-dispersion window of the optical fibers used in telecommunication systems. This design is shown to achieve improved responsivity-bandwidth product compared to conventional designs. keywords: photodiodes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/br86b27968f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/br86b27968f.txt item: #1780 of 4945 id: br86b27969s author: Ravi Kiran Yellavajjala title: Micromechanics Based Simulation of Ductile Fracture in Structural Steels date: 2014 words: 353 flesch: 26 summary: Based on the cyclic analyses, an uncoupled micromechanics based cyclic void growth model is developed to predict the ULCF life of ASTM A992 steels subjected to high stress triaxialities. Mechanical testing on different geometries of test specimens made of ASTM A992 steels is conducted to experimentally characterize the ductile fracture at different stress states under monotonic and ultra-low cycle fatigue (ULCF) loading. keywords: fracture cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/br86b27969s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/br86b27969s.txt item: #1781 of 4945 id: br86b279c69 author: Luis G. Perla title: Aggregation of Zintl Ions date: 2018 words: 529 flesch: 41 summary: Furthermore, the species is unique in that it strongly resembles condensed polyhedra seen in transition metal clusters. Development for such an endeavor began in the following manner: (1) identifying similarities with other fields of chemistry wherein successful aggregation was carried out (2) identifying suitable transition metal containing Zintl clusters as precursors for aggregation (3) combining both suitable materials and already published techniques to aggregate Zintl clusters (4) further improving the synthetic approaches presented to address the pitfalls in these syntheses. keywords: clusters cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/br86b279c69.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/br86b279c69.txt item: #1782 of 4945 id: br86b280922 author: Maria Sole Costanzo title: Leon Battista Alberti and the Languages of the Italian Humanist Quattrocento date: 2021 words: 419 flesch: 36 summary: My dissertation offers a reassessment of the linguistic situation of the Italian humanist Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), addressing specifically Alberti's bilingualism and the unique role that his switching between Latin and Italian, even within the same work, played in his program of self-fashioning and repatriation from exile. In fact, Leon Battista was the illegitimate offspring of the Florentine Alberti family which had been banished from Florence following the revolt of Ciompi in 1378.Born in exile in Genoa, Leon Battista was exceptional among Italian humanists of his time for his enlightened and spirited promotion of the Florentine language, which also represented a vehicle for his own social integration and repatriation from exile. keywords: alberti cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/br86b280922.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/br86b280922.txt item: #1783 of 4945 id: br86b280953 author: Satyaki Sikdar title: Scalable and Interpretable Graph Modeling with Graph Grammars date: 2021 words: 113 flesch: 41 summary: This dissertation demonstrates how a newfound link between formal languages, graph theory, and data mining helps to address this challenge. Extracted grammar rules also provide for a better understanding of the network's underlying topology and simultaneously provides for the ability to generate, extrapolate, and infer new graphs in a precise and principled fashion. keywords: graph cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/br86b280953.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/br86b280953.txt item: #1784 of 4945 id: br86b280b0p author: Fei Ding title: Morphing Building Profile under Winds date: 2022 words: 329 flesch: 30 summary: Uncertainties in CFD modeling could largely impact the reliability of CFD simulations. In particular, multi-fidelity surrogate modeling through fusing CFD simulation data of multiple fidelities is applied to aerodynamic shape optimization. keywords: cfd cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/br86b280b0p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/br86b280b0p.txt item: #1785 of 4945 id: br86b280c62 author: Marzieh Alireza Mirhoseini title: Efficient Hyperreduction via Model Reduction Implicit Feature Tracking with an Accelerated Greedy Approach date: 2023 words: 494 flesch: 23 summary: The nonlinear trial manifold is constructed using the proposed residual minimization formulation to determine domain mappings that cause parameterized features to align in a reference domain for training parameters. The space of domain mappings, originally constructed using high-order finite elements, is also compressed to ensure the boundaries of the original domain are maintained. keywords: domain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/br86b280c62.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/br86b280c62.txt item: #1786 of 4945 id: bv73bz62f6t author: Hartley Tyler Schmidt title: Calcium Phosphate Based Nanoshell for use in Biomedical Applications date: 2007 words: 355 flesch: 33 summary: Liposomes, emulsions, and micelles suffer from stability issues in high turbulence environments, polymer based materials require organic solvents for their synthesis that are disadvantageous for biological applications, while silica based materials are not biodegradable. Nanoshells from 5-200 nm are deposited around a 30-200 nm liposome template first (CHAPTER 2) followed by deposition around a 100-350 nm soybean oil and perfluorocarbon emulsions (CHAPTER 3). keywords: calcium cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz62f6t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz62f6t.txt item: #1787 of 4945 id: bv73bz62g02 author: Hua Jiang title: Seismic Behavior, Evaluation, and Retrofit of Older Reinforced Concrete Structural Walls date: 2010 words: 361 flesch: 33 summary: In this dissertation, a set of prototype and parametric walls is designed to represent concrete walls from the 1960s and early 1970s in regions of the U.S. with high seismicity. Comparisons between the analytical and test results of older reinforced concrete walls indicate that the models are able to reasonably estimate the wall behavior including nonlinear shear effects. keywords: walls cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz62g02.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz62g02.txt item: #1788 of 4945 id: bv73bz62g1d author: Ryan Connaughton title: Fusion of Face and Iris Biometrics Using a Stand-Off Video Sensor date: 2012 words: 162 flesch: 42 summary: Despite the recent growth in multi-biometrics research, little investigation has been done to explore the possibility of achieving multi-modal fusion from a single sensor. Multi-biometrics, or the fusion of more than one biometric modality, sample, sensor, or algorithm, is quickly gaining popularity as a method of improving biometric system performance and robustness. keywords: multi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz62g1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz62g1d.txt item: #1789 of 4945 id: bv73bz62g33 author: Gretchen Busl title: The Poetics of Ultimacy and the (Meta-)World Literature of John Barth and Italo Calvino date: 2012 words: 350 flesch: 28 summary: By rewriting texts like The Arabian Nights, Don Quixote, Faust, Hamlet, The Odyssey, and Orlando Furioso, they take up the idea that a finite number of narrative forms exist, and employ this principle against itself to produce original literature. This type of fiction operates as literature which is itself comparative: one that registers, explores, and comments on the relational position of texts. keywords: literature cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz62g33.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz62g33.txt item: #1790 of 4945 id: bv73bz62g4f author: Elizabeth C Koeman title: A Multi-Analytical Approach for Developing Nuclear Forensic Methods for Source Attribution using Trinitite Post-Detonation Material date: 2015 words: 273 flesch: 23 summary: Overall, the results reported in this doctoral research clearly indicate that a multi-analytical approach can effectively provide accurate and reliable chemical and isotopic signatures of Trinitite in a timely fashion (within hours to days), and these can be employed for source attribution in future investigations of nuclear post-detonation samples. This dissertation also includes development and application of novel techniques for the purposes of nuclear forensics; e.g., a methodology using a fluorinating thermal treatment to separate natural and anthropogenic components, and 3D imagery techniques (e.g., FIB-focused ion beam) to find bomb components at the nanoscale within Trinitite. keywords: trinitite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz62g4f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz62g4f.txt item: #1791 of 4945 id: bv73bz62g7g author: Timothy Edward Workman Gloege title: Consumed: Reuben A. Torrey and the Construction of Corporate Fundamentalism date: 2007 words: 354 flesch: 23 summary: Crowell transformed MBI into a multifaceted educational and religious media conglomerate that promoted this new theology to a middle-class audience using the tools of consumer capitalism. This dissertation studies the intersection of Protestant fundamentalism and modern consumer capitalism during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. keywords: torrey cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz62g7g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz62g7g.txt item: #1792 of 4945 id: bv73bz62g8t author: Andrew David Thrasher title: Leveraging Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Massive Biological Datasets date: 2013 words: 107 flesch: 46 summary: Developers must also take advantage of these systems and build tools and applications which are highly portable and have low overheads while being capable of running on a large variety of resources. The tremendous increase in available data in bioinformatics necessitates computational approaches which leverage a wide variety of computing resources. keywords: applications cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz62g8t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz62g8t.txt item: #1793 of 4945 id: bv73bz62h1q author: Karen Tang title: The Role of Individual and Familial Factors on Parental Adherence to Treatment Recommendations for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders date: 2012 words: 147 flesch: 18 summary: Questionnaires screened for accuracy of diagnosis, measured current ASD symptoms, adaptive functioning, and parental adherence to treatment recommendations. When prescribing treatment recommendations, professionals need to be cognizant of how individual and familial contextual factors influence parental adherence. keywords: adherence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz62h1q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz62h1q.txt item: #1794 of 4945 id: bv73bz62h3d author: Angela Kohlhaas title: The core of an ideal and its relationship to the adjoint and coefficient ideals date: 2010 words: 190 flesch: 35 summary: In order to prove our main result, we further develop the theory of coefficient ideals in regular local rings of dimension two and study the combinatorial properties of the core of a monomial ideal via the symmetry of its exponent set. We show for certain classes of monomial ideals in the polynomial ring $k[x_1,ldots,x_d]$ over a field of characteristic zero , $core(I)=adj(I^d)$ if and only if $core(I)$ is integrally closed. keywords: core cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz62h3d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz62h3d.txt item: #1795 of 4945 id: bv73bz62h4r author: David Michael Elliot title: Rethinking Happiness: The Role of Hope in Virtue Ethics date: 2014 words: 402 flesch: 52 summary: Since the virtue of hope encourages the agent with the prospect of perfect and lasting beatitude, I argue that the gap leaves room for the virtue of hope to be recognized as good news rather than just curious news within virtue ethics and in human life generally. As a practical application of hope, I develop the ars moriendi or art of dying as a resource for end-of-life care in an aging society where death is often seen as unintelligible and approached with despair. keywords: hope cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz62h4r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz62h4r.txt item: #1796 of 4945 id: bv73bz62j73 author: Breno Dantas Cruz title: Detecting Vague Words and Phrases in Requirements Documents in a Multilingual Environment date: 1904 words: 130 flesch: 40 summary: Currently, companies rely on human translators to maintain communication and limit vagueness by translating the requirement documents by hand, which is expensive and time consuming. In this thesis, I present two approaches to identifying vagueness in requirements documents in a multilingual environment. keywords: vagueness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz62j73.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz62j73.txt item: #1797 of 4945 id: bv73bz62k31 author: Nigel Bosch title: Automatic Face-Based Engagement Detection for Engagement date: 1904 words: 346 flesch: 30 summary: Computerized learning environments can provide a superior learning experience for students by automatically detecting student engagement (and, thus also disengagement), adapting to it, and providing better feedback and evaluations to teachers and students. This dissertation provides an overview of several studies that utilized facial features to automatically detect student engagement. keywords: engagement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz62k31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz62k31.txt item: #1798 of 4945 id: bv73bz6359n author: Michael J. Trujillo title: Development of Functionalized Nanostructure Surfaces for Trace Analyte Detection by Surface-Enhanced Raman and Hyper-Raman Scattering date: 1904 words: 487 flesch: 39 summary: The latter portion of this dissertation discusses progress made in alternative functional groups for surface modification. Previous SERS studies have almost exclusively relied on the functionalization of surfaces with thiol or amine containing molecules, as these groups have proven affinity for SERS-active surfaces. keywords: sers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz6359n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz6359n.txt item: #1799 of 4945 id: bv73bz63b34 author: Jeffrey V Peterson title: Social Traditions and Social Networks among Long-Tailed Macaques in Indonesia date: 2019 words: 244 flesch: 32 summary: This research offers a distinctive contribution to the literature on the evolution of primate societies by examining the patterns by which social traditions and social networks interface with, and shape, social structures among nonhuman primates. These data were assessed via social network analysis to understand individual social behavior in relation to other members of the social group. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz63b34.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz63b34.txt item: #1800 of 4945 id: bv73bz63h9r author: Kyle Gannon title: Approximation Theorems for Keisler Measures date: 2020 words: 206 flesch: 45 summary: We show that generically stable types correspond to {0,1}-valued frequency interpretation measures, and we give examples of finitely approximated measures which are not frequency interpretation measures and local dfs measures which are not locally finitely approximated (joint with Gabriel Conant). This dissertation is concerned with Keisler measures and their approximations. keywords: measures cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz63h9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz63h9r.txt item: #1801 of 4945 id: bv73bz63m59 author: Howard L. Eckdahl title: Herbert Howells: Educational Music, Texture, Equal Voices, and the Gloucester Magnificat date: 2022 words: 281 flesch: 25 summary: Thus, a quintessential piece of Howells' mature church music was significantly influenced by the educational music, and there is now a musical explanation to contribute to the current explanations of this moment and the larger matter of Howells' arrival as a master composer of church music. The much-discussed opening of the Magnificat dedicated to Gloucester Cathedral is a display of Howells' mastery of expressive use of texture, a novel use of three-part, equal-voice counterpoint in his church music, and a stylistic culmination that combines use of texture, expectation, and idiom with the incorporation of lesser-known practices associated with educational music. keywords: music cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bv73bz63m59.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bv73bz63m59.txt item: #1802 of 4945 id: bz60cv45q9x author: James Michael Donahue title: In Search of a Global, Godly Order: The Ecumenical Movement and the Origins of the League of Nations, 1908-1918 date: 2015 words: 347 flesch: 40 summary: The World Alliance possessed two intertwined aims: firstly, a union of Christian churches that could complete the Christianization of the globe in their generation; and, secondarily, the establishment of a international federation of states, bound together by a free covenant before God, that would prevent Christendom from ever again descending into civil war. Key figures include John Mott, Charles Macfarland, Adolf Deissmann, W. H. Dickinson, James Allen Baker, Nathan Söderblom, Andrew Carnegie, Wilfred Monod, Prince Max von Baden and Lord Robert Cecil. keywords: league cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bz60cv45q9x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bz60cv45q9x.txt item: #1803 of 4945 id: bz60cv45r04 author: Yuhui Lu title: Molecular Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata - Electronic Structure, Dynamics, Structure-Functionality Relation, and Self-Doping date: 2010 words: 288 flesch: 44 summary: A model Hamiltonian for each QCA cell is constructed based on first-principle calculations, and coherent vector formalism is applied to calculate the switching dynamics of QCA circuits, including switching speed, clocking frequency, energy dissipation, and the structure-functionality relation of molecular QCA. This thesis focuses on the theoretical study of molecular QCA. keywords: qca cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bz60cv45r04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bz60cv45r04.txt item: #1804 of 4945 id: bz60cv45r66 author: James Martell de la Torre title: Writing Derrida Thinking Beckett: A Study of the Limits Between Philosophy and Literature date: 2014 words: 151 flesch: 56 summary: The limits between modern philosophy and literature are difficult to define. In this dissertation, Writing Derrida Thinking Beckett: A Study of the Limits between Philosophy and Literature, I chose these two authors as a case study of the shifting boundaries between modern literature and philosophy. keywords: philosophy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bz60cv45r66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bz60cv45r66.txt item: #1805 of 4945 id: bz60cv45s0f author: Jigar Patel title: Genetic Analysis of Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum date: 2007 words: 390 flesch: 37 summary: Although, major gene effects such as the chloroquine resistance (CQR) determinant, pfcrt, have been identified, epidemiological studies identify a range of drug responses indicative of a complex trait that is impacted by multiple genes. We find that the degree of CQ reversibility by reversal agents is independent of CQR response, whereas reversed CQ response is dependent on levels of inherent CQR response. keywords: resistance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bz60cv45s0f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bz60cv45s0f.txt item: #1806 of 4945 id: bz60cv45s1s author: Houjin Zhang title: Nucleotide Analog Interference Mapping of TFIIIA and Ribosomal Protein L5 Binding Sites on 5S rRNA date: 2007 words: 396 flesch: 59 summary: In early stage Xenopus oocytes, transcription factor IIIA (TFIIIA) and 5S rRNA form a 7S RNP particle, which is used to store the RNA in cytoplasm. It is of importance to determine the topology of TFIIIA and L5 on 5S rRNA in order to understand the mechanism behind the exchange of 5S rRNA between these two proteins. keywords: tfiiia cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bz60cv45s1s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bz60cv45s1s.txt item: #1807 of 4945 id: bz60cv45s9j author: Golnaz Karbasian title: Fabrication of Metallic Single Electron Transistors Featuring Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of Tunnel Barriers date: 1904 words: 813 flesch: 38 summary: While Si-based SETs suffer from undesirable effect of dopants that result in irregularities in the device behavior, in metal-based SETs the device components (tunnel barrier, island, and the leads) are well-defined. Chemical mechanical polishing provides a path for tuning the dimensions of the tunnel junctions, surpassing the limits imposed by electron beam lithography and lift-off, while atomic layer deposition provides precise control over the thickness of the tunnel barrier and significantly increases the choices for barrier materials. keywords: tunnel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bz60cv45s9j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bz60cv45s9j.txt item: #1808 of 4945 id: bz60cv46s8g author: Cynthia L. Spires title: Near-Infrared Fluorescent Peptide Probes for Imaging Cancer date: 2020 words: 565 flesch: 42 summary: The second half of Chapter 1 provides a broad introduction to the concept of targeted cancer imaging using targeted molecular probes. This thesis describes cancer imaging studies using novel molecular probes based on two near-infrared dyes called squaraine dyes and heptamethine cyanine dyes. keywords: imaging cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bz60cv46s8g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bz60cv46s8g.txt item: #1809 of 4945 id: bz60cv46t32 author: Patricia Idoko title: Christian – Muslim Representation in Religious Education Textbooks: Implications for Religious Integration in Nigeria date: 2020 words: 358 flesch: 30 summary: Consequently, some studies have suggested the need for a paradigm shift in the education curriculum to enable religious education to meet the needs of Nigeria's pluralistic context. It juxtaposes the content of the religious education textbooks in Ghana and in Nigeria, and argues that unlike the religious education textbooks in Nigeria, the religious education textbooks in Ghana use religious education to form students to respect diverse religious beliefs and practices and promote integration. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bz60cv46t32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bz60cv46t32.txt item: #1810 of 4945 id: bz60cv46v1p author: William McCarthy title: A Reevaluation of the Genre of John Henry Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua date: 2021 words: 369 flesch: 47 summary: This thesis will argue that the Apologia, along with being an autobiography, is also a defense of Newman's life, and as such Newman treats the text as a trial in the court of public opinion. To refute both Kingsley's accusation and prejudice against the Catholic Church, Newman published his autobiography, the Apologia Pro Vita Sua. keywords: newman cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bz60cv46v1p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bz60cv46v1p.txt item: #1811 of 4945 id: bz60cv46v4q author: Katherine Grein title: Our Home a Refuge?: Trauma-Related Cognitive Distortions, Community, and Perceptions of Asylum-Seekers and Migrants among U.S. Military Veterans date: 2021 words: 264 flesch: 24 summary: The current study aimed to explore connections between these variables in a sample of N=101 veterans (87.1% male) across 3 time points, hypothesizing that higher T1 trauma-related cognitive distortions would predict higher T2 threat perceptions of asylum-seekers and lower T2 security in the community; T2 threat perceptions of asylum-seekers would mediate the association between T1 distortions and T3 security; T2 security would mediate the association between T1 distortions and T3 threat perceptions of asylum-seekers; and exposure to psychotherapeutic treatment would moderate the association between initial trauma exposure and trauma-related cognitions, with cognitions lower for treatment-exposed veterans. A post-hoc hierarchical regression analysis using only T1 data, however, suggests some support for associations between higher trauma-related cognitive distortions and lower security in the community (β = -0.53), and higher threat perceptions of asylum-seekers and lower emotional security in the community (β = -0.21). keywords: distortions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bz60cv46v4q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bz60cv46v4q.txt item: #1812 of 4945 id: bz60cv46w2b author: Emily McLemore title: Desiring Women: Pleasure and Power in Late Medieval English Literature date: 2022 words: 339 flesch: 27 summary: In Chapter Four, I focus on Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath to elucidate how Alisoun articulates a theory about women's desire that links the absence of sovereignty with sexual violence and discuss how this connection then carries over into her tale, where she fantasizes about female power and the reformation of male desire. Because discourse pertaining to medieval women's sexuality has traditionally been directed by virginity and violence, there remains a substantial gap in medievalist scholarship where women's desire and pleasure are concerned. keywords: desire cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bz60cv46w2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bz60cv46w2b.txt item: #1813 of 4945 id: bz60cv46x8q author: Max Smith title: Machiavelli's Conflictual Republic date: 2023 words: 151 flesch: 27 summary: I argue that his theory offers a uniquely valuable set of tools for thinking about conflict in democratic political life. Specifically, his distinction between productive public conflicts and destructive private partisan conflicts alongside his account of the causes and consequences of both can help us think through our own preoccupations with questions of difference, disagreement, and partisanship in democratic political life. keywords: theory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/bz60cv46x8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/bz60cv46x8q.txt item: #1814 of 4945 id: c247dr29087 author: Balazs Rakos title: Investigation of Metal-oxide-metal Structures for Optical Sensor Applications date: 2006 words: 162 flesch: 30 summary: In this work, we investigate metal-oxide-metal (MOM) structures for optical sensor applications in the case of low irradiances. MOM diodes can detect visible and infrared radiation in two different ways: using the rectifying properties of the diode (wave detection), or by thermal effects arising in the MOM junction upon irradiation. keywords: mom cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr29087.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr29087.txt item: #1815 of 4945 id: c247dr2912g author: Allen Chen title: Spiral Series date: 2010 words: 305 flesch: 71 summary: Working with steel and yarn gives me the strong yet flexible structure to form and apply the clay onto. The clay is now stronger than steel, yet the steel is softer and continues to provide support. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr2912g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr2912g.txt item: #1816 of 4945 id: c247dr2913t author: Amanda Megan Utzman title: Leviathan date: 2012 words: 91 flesch: 22 summary: 'Concerned first and foremost with what it means to 'become your character,' Leviathan carries performance theory to its logical extremes, illustrating all the dangerous and subversive power of theatre and spectacle. Seen through a foreign language and a fever, an avant-garde production of Richard Wagner's legendary opera Lohengrin becomes the nightmare landscape for a classic horror story: after accepting an ominous vocal invitation, a pair of talented young opera singers find themselves trapped within a playhouse whose patrons and producer are sincere in their desire to 'consume the arts. keywords: opera cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr2913t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr2913t.txt item: #1817 of 4945 id: c247dr29145 author: Courtney Ryan Gwaltney title: Reliable Location of Equilibrium States and Bifurcations in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems With Applications in Food Web Modeling and Chemical Engineering date: 2008 words: 425 flesch: 27 summary: Complete knowledge of the location and nature of all solutions to a set of nonlinear equations is necessary to reliably analyze model systems. Modeling food chains and food webs is the application of particular interest here because ecosystem models aid the proactive assessment and management of environmental risks. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr29145.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr29145.txt item: #1818 of 4945 id: c247dr2915h author: Vitalijs Permjakovs title: 'Make This the Place Where Your Glory Dwells': Origins and Evolution of the Byzantine Rite for the Consecration of A Church date: 2012 words: 297 flesch: 30 summary: This feature of the Barberini text raises an important question, namely, which of these major elements did in fact constitute the act of dedicating/ consecrating the church, and what role did the deposition of relics have in the ceremonies of dedication in the early period of Byzantine liturgical history, considering that the deposition of relics became a mandatory element of the dedication rite only after the provisions to that effect were made at the Second council of Nicaea in 787 CE. 336, as well as in the textus receptus of the rite, represents a unique collection of scriptural and euchological texts, together with the ritual actions, intended to set aside the physical space of a public building for liturgical use. keywords: liturgical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr2915h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr2915h.txt item: #1819 of 4945 id: c247dr2916v author: Viviana Andrea Bompadre title: Sources and Process of Cultural Innovation: A Comparison between Center and Border Communities in the Making of Mercosur date: 2004 words: 296 flesch: 37 summary: Scholars have studied culture either as a prerequisite of state formation or as an instrument of the state. This study focuses on the articulation between center and local (borderlands) practices and discourses in the creation of a transnational block in the Southern Cone, Mercosur, from 1985 to 2000. keywords: center cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr2916v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr2916v.txt item: #1820 of 4945 id: c247dr2918j author: Christopher Miller title: Configurable Integrated Monitoring System for Mobile Devices date: 2013 words: 256 flesch: 37 summary: While these new computing interfaces have begun to supplant much of our daily computing needs, individuals use mobile phones in a different manner than traditional computing systems. This service integrates traditional system performance monitoring with user activity monitoring and sensor data to provide a comprehensive monitoring solution. keywords: monitoring cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr2918j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr2918j.txt item: #1821 of 4945 id: c247dr2919w author: Coura Rosalie Diè ne title: Progress towards the Syntheses of Ambruticin and Its Putative Biosynthetic Intermediate date: 2010 words: 302 flesch: 28 summary: This thesis also highlights the progress towards the synthesis of ambruticin J, a putative biosynthetic intermediate recently proposed by Reeves following the characterization of the PKS gene cluster responsible for the biosynthesis of ambruticin. In light of the limited amount of ambruticin J available biosynthetically, its large scale preparation via organic synthesis was implemented in order to investigate the role of the epoxidase, AmbJ during the post-PKS modifications leading to the production of ambruticins and their analogues. keywords: cyclopropane cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr2919w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr2919w.txt item: #1822 of 4945 id: c247dr29203 author: Rachelle Esther Justice title: Synthesis and Characterization of Hydrogen-Bonded CobaltAmine-Disulfonate Extended Structures date: 2010 words: 156 flesch: 24 summary: Compounds 1 and 2 form sheets of hexa and aquopentamminecobalt, respectively, that are interconnected by galleries of disulfonates. Compounds 2-4 display pi-pi interactions between disulfonates. keywords: forms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr29203.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr29203.txt item: #1823 of 4945 id: c247dr29234 author: Kevin Joseph Haley title: 'In the Midst of the Congregation I Will Praise You' (Ps 22:23b): The Reinterpretation of the Psalms of the Individual in Judaism and Christianity date: 2013 words: 258 flesch: 57 summary: After a close reading of many psalms in Chapter 2, Chapter 3 considers the significance of psalms set within narratives in the Old Testament. Because many psalms of the individual later become collective in their focus, many times the community itself makes the 'I' of the psalms its own (Exod 15; Ps 129). keywords: psalms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr29234.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr29234.txt item: #1824 of 4945 id: c247dr2924g author: Michael John Schmitt title: Synthetic Methodology for the Construction of Structurally Diverse Cyclopropanes date: 2005 words: 1217 flesch: 43 summary: The goal was to investigate the closure of substituted cyclopropane precursors and determine the stereochemical course of the reaction. This methodology allowed us to prove our concept, but was limited toward the synthesis of trisubstituted cyclopropanes. keywords: cyclopropane; homoallylic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr2924g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr2924g.txt item: #1825 of 4945 id: c247dr2925t author: Ruth Anne Martini title: Accidentally Anna date: 2011 words: 14 flesch: 83 summary: This is a novel about a young woman who grapples with questions of identity. keywords: identity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr2925t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr2925t.txt item: #1826 of 4945 id: c247dr29265 author: Saibal Basu title: Transition and Development: A Case Study of West Bengal date: 2010 words: 322 flesch: 33 summary: I also explore the possibility of achieving sustainable agricultural practices and rural welfare through the expansion of political and economic democracy through popular control over societal resources, and cooperative-based initiatives. In my dissertation, I closely examine these issues, and analyze how the implementation of rural government programs can address the problem of rural and agrarian distress. keywords: rural cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr29265.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr29265.txt item: #1827 of 4945 id: c247dr2934s author: SM Moududul Islam title: Ultra-Thin Quantum Structures for Deep Ultraviolet Photonic Devices date: 1904 words: 430 flesch: 43 summary: With binary GaN we investigate the effect of the quantum structures on deep-UV emission properties related to compositional fluctuations in ternary alloy wells with a goal to obtain reproducible emission wavelengths in the deep-UV window. Though optical devices in the entire UV spectral window have been demonstrated by using III-N semiconductors and their alloys, the overall efficiency of such deep UV emitters is still well below 10%. keywords: deep cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr2934s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr2934s.txt item: #1828 of 4945 id: c247dr2945f author: Rumana Reaz Arifin title: Numerical Modeling of Thermal Behavior in Lake Ontario Using the EFDC Model date: 1904 words: 473 flesch: 32 summary: This comparative study establishes a baseline for the future coupling of EFDC Lake Ontario model with a regional climate model. Lake Ontario, being in temperate Great Lakes region, exhibits special thermal characteristics including thermal bar evolution in spring and thermal stratification patterns in summer. keywords: thermal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr2945f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr2945f.txt item: #1829 of 4945 id: c247dr29r9d author: Ye Zhang title: Tumor Microvesicle MicroRNAs: Profiling, Trafficking and Role in Cell Invasion date: 2018 words: 332 flesch: 43 summary: The communication between cancer cells and the tumor microenvironments is critical for metastasis. We also demonstrate that there is a set of miRNAs enriched in TMVs shed from breast, melanoma, and prostate cancer cell lines, that may represent a prototype of a potential general miRNA signature. keywords: mirna cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr29r9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr29r9d.txt item: #1830 of 4945 id: c247dr29w58 author: Will Jianyu Lu title: Essays on Trade and Firms in China date: 2019 words: 639 flesch: 46 summary: We empirically test this prediction using a comprehensive dataset of Chinese manufacturing firms, and find that firms that are more productive with capital do actually hold less capital and more liquid assets such as cash, a pattern that is not observed among U.S. firms. Firms with assets that exceed an upper ``payout' threshold pay out dividends, whereas firms with assets that fall short of a lower ``refinancing threshold must refinance at a cost. keywords: firms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr29w58.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr29w58.txt item: #1831 of 4945 id: c247dr3032v author: Robert Wyllie title: Envy in Spinoza's Political Science date: 2020 words: 454 flesch: 40 summary: The idea that envy tears communities asunder predates the history of political philosophy. However, the history of envy as a topic of political philosophy remains unwritten. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr3032v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr3032v.txt item: #1832 of 4945 id: c247dr3064g author: Anshuman Goswami title: Application of Spatially Resolved Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations in Microkinetic Modelling of Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions date: 2023 words: 196 flesch: 17 summary: The third system relates to non-steady microkinetic modelling of temperature programmed evolution of NH3 from plasma induced N, where temperature dependent surface hopping of reaction intermediates and reaction rate constants of surface reactions are explicitly incorporated through stochastic lattice-kMC methods. Microkinetic modelling occupies a central role in heterogeneous catalysis research by enabling a detailed mechanistic and kinetic understanding of catalytic reactions. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr3064g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr3064g.txt item: #1833 of 4945 id: c247dr30696 author: Brianna Felegi title: Essays on the Economics of Education date: 2023 words: 197 flesch: 42 summary: There are persistent disparities in educational outcomes across racial and socioeconomic groups, even when accounting for differences in academic preparation. In this dissertation, I contribute new evidence on the extent to which policies intended to increase access to schooling alter educational outcomes. keywords: policies cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c247dr30696.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c247dr30696.txt item: #1834 of 4945 id: c534fn1291p author: Amanda Jean Sgroi title: Exploration of the Impostor Distribution for Face-Based Biometrics date: 2015 words: 135 flesch: 46 summary: Many high performance face biometric systems now exist which rely on machine learnable features. Covariates, or metadata values, are then examined with respect to how they interact with score outcomes and influence the likelihood of a false accept occurring. keywords: errors cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c534fn1291p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c534fn1291p.txt item: #1835 of 4945 id: c534fn12921 author: Brandon Fogel title: Epistemology of a Theory of Everything date: 2009 words: 295 flesch: 35 summary: They both argue that, in a fully-developed theory, the behavior of measuring devices should not be taken as given but rather derived from first principles; i.e., as composite objects able to determine the properties of more basic entities, rigid rulers and regular clocks should arise as particular solutions of the fundamental equations. I argue that this requirement, though important for explaining how theories can make claims about the world that are capable of test through observation, leaves the task half-finished. keywords: weyl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c534fn12921.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c534fn12921.txt item: #1836 of 4945 id: c534fn12983 author: Matthew Brandon Lee title: Belief, Doubt, and Confidence: A Threshold Account date: 2014 words: 443 flesch: 54 summary: Belief is therefore vague: there are clear cases of belief, clear cases of non-belief, and borderline cases. The account of belief (Chapter 1) is compatible with most but not all of the main approaches to belief in the existing philosophy of mind literature (it is incompatible with realizer functionalism, but compatible with role functionalism, representationalism, dispositionalism, and interpretationism). keywords: threshold cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c534fn12983.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c534fn12983.txt item: #1837 of 4945 id: c534fn12b2b author: Sarah E. Eichler Inwood title: The Influence of Land Use on Denitrification in Headwater Streams in the Kalamazoo River Watershed, Michigan date: 2004 words: 150 flesch: 21 summary: Land use affected denitrification activity primarily via its effect on NO3- concentrations and sediment organic content. We should consider those factors when comparing denitrification rates across habitats, different methods, and when scaling denitrification rates for use in ecosystem modeling. keywords: denitrification cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c534fn12b2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c534fn12b2b.txt item: #1838 of 4945 id: c534fn12b3p author: Jason Eton Scott title: What's a Good Grade? Student Performance Standards and the Black-White Achievement Gap date: 2010 words: 72 flesch: 26 summary: My research then explores potential linkages between students' performance standards, effort, and academic performance. Based on statistical analyses, I find that African American students are, on average, significantly more likely to positively appraise lower letter grades as 'good.' keywords: students cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c534fn12b3p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c534fn12b3p.txt item: #1839 of 4945 id: c534fn1305j author: Neerajha Nagarajan title: Biomechanical Investigation of Engineered Muscle Tissue Constructs for Disease Modeling and Biorobotics date: 1904 words: 556 flesch: 37 summary: Contractility of heart muscle cells, or cardiomyocytes (CM), is the major parameter for determining their maturity and functionality. It was observed that myocardial cells on soft substrates (14 kPa) with a stiffness value similar to the healthy heart tissue exhibited higher contractile force (250 nN) and larger propagation distance of mechanical signals up to 800 μm. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c534fn1305j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c534fn1305j.txt item: #1840 of 4945 id: c534fn1312t author: Zhi Wang title: Spatial Systems Modeling and Control of a Microscale Additive Manufacturing Process date: 1904 words: 282 flesch: 27 summary: Microscale additive manufacturing (µ-AM) processes are a class of manufacturing processes used to fabricate micron-sized structures in a sequence of direct additions of materials as instructed by a digital file, as opposed to the lithographic patterning and subtractive etching used in traditional microscale manufacturing. This dissertation details the first experimental demonstration of a run-to-run feedback algorithm termed Spatial Iterative Learning Control (SILC), a framework enable robust, auto-regulation of sensitive µ-AM processes. keywords: µ-am cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c534fn1312t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c534fn1312t.txt item: #1841 of 4945 id: c534fn13d6m author: Daheng Wang title: Learning Complementarity and Dynamics for Contextual Behavior Modeling date: 2021 words: 209 flesch: 37 summary: Machine learning on the behavior data aims at finding effective representations (for calculation) to support functions such as recommendation, fraud detection, planning, and decision making. However, decision makers such as project leaders, course instructors, and doctors are often looking for complementary (instead of the most similar) resources and ideas to create an effective solution. keywords: similar cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c534fn13d6m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c534fn13d6m.txt item: #1842 of 4945 id: c534fn13f47 author: Jillian A. Fantin title: the Doughnut World date: 2022 words: 313 flesch: 45 summary: The Doughnut World nurtures, among other things, tattoo culture, The Cockettes, baking, haute couture, 1970s glam rock, the Club Kids, and general self-indulgence in the process of curating queer decadence. Besides taking cues from CAConrad's (Soma)tic Poetry, this collection remains inspired by the creative work of Lara Glenum, Shelley Feller, Kim Hyesoon, T. Fleischmann, David Bowie, Eileen Myles, Bob Dylan, Marilyn Hacker, and Val Kilmer. keywords: world cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c534fn13f47.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c534fn13f47.txt item: #1843 of 4945 id: c534fn13g4j author: Meredith Lee title: Low-Cost Point-of-Care Electrochemical Sensors for Rapid Detection of Target Biological Analytes date: 2022 words: 149 flesch: 22 summary: Two device geometries and applications are described in this thesis: The first device realizes portable sensing of illicit compounds using closed bipolar electrochemistry (CBE) that marries amplified electrical signals from IDEAs and converts it to more easily understandable optical signals. The second device explores continuous portable sensing of biomarkers in human fluid matrices, such as sweat and saliva, that can be tuned to allow selective and specific detection at concentration ranges that are relevant to human physiology. keywords: device cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c534fn13g4j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c534fn13g4j.txt item: #1844 of 4945 id: c534fn13h0g author: Paul Shaloka title: Essays on Labor Economics date: 2023 words: 124 flesch: 15 summary: In this dissertation, I provide novel descriptive and plausibly causal estimates of the effects of labor market attachment on important measures of individual and societal well-being, such as mortality, education, and intergenerational mobility. These considerations deserve the attention of economists because business cycle fluctuations, regional shocks, and long-term trends that affect labor market participation may impact the well-being of individuals and communities in unexpected and important ways. keywords: labor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c534fn13h0g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c534fn13h0g.txt item: #1845 of 4945 id: c821gh95k0m author: Christopher M O'Neill title: Selective Oxidation Reactions for C3 and i-C4 Hydrocarbons in a Membrane Reactor date: 2008 words: 347 flesch: 28 summary: Selective oxidation reactions pose a great challenge, as the combustion reactions to produce CO and CO2 are favored both thermodynamically and kinetically. Improved selectivity in selective oxidation reactions can be realized through catalyst and reactor design. keywords: aldehydes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh95k0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh95k0m.txt item: #1846 of 4945 id: c821gh95k40 author: Christina M. Maher title: On Embeddings of Computable Structures, Classes of Structures and Computable Isomorphism date: 2010 words: 253 flesch: 39 summary: Logicians have worked on finding the complexity of the isomorphism relation on a class of structures, the classification problem, and categorizing the relative complexity of the isomorphism relation on different classes of structures. One way of comparing the complexity of the classification problem for different classes of structures uses the notion of a Turing computable embedding. keywords: structures cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh95k40.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh95k40.txt item: #1847 of 4945 id: c821gh95k5b author: Shan-Yun Huang title: Growing Away: The Bildungsroman and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Irish Literature date: 2013 words: 354 flesch: 27 summary: In Chapter One I discuss James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as the precursor of post-independence Irish Bildungsroman, which not only sets up the pattern of growing away from Irish society but also designates 'home, fatherland, and church' as the problems confronting Irish youth. I argue that the pattern of stunted development, of protagonists constantly growing up not into but away from Irish society, is the sign of the individual's struggle with the postcolonial Irish state that is also struggling to be decolonized and to become modern. keywords: irish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh95k5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh95k5b.txt item: #1848 of 4945 id: c821gh95k6p author: Zhi Liang title: Towards Precursor-Directed Biosynthesis and Synthesis of Myriaporone-Tedanolide Analogues date: 2011 words: 165 flesch: 30 summary: With the recent completion of the total synthesis of the cytotoxic natural products myriaporones 1, 3 and 4 in our group, our focus has switched to prepare analogues of myriaporones, including more structurally complex myriaporone-tedanolide hybrids. This thesis details the synthetic progress towards the preparation of myriaporone-tedanolide analogues through novel precursor-directed biosynthesis as well as general organic synthesis. keywords: synthesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh95k6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh95k6p.txt item: #1849 of 4945 id: c821gh95k71 author: Thomas John Mulherin title: The Antinomy of Musical Meaning date: 2012 words: 340 flesch: 39 summary: Third and finally, I argue for the legitimacy of the debate itself, and hence my project, by showing that the concept of absolute music does not by itself preclude such music from expressing meaning. This falsity, in turn, gives the debate over absolute music's meaning an antinomial character, suggesting that the question of musical meaning is better pursued from a different starting point. keywords: music cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh95k71.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh95k71.txt item: #1850 of 4945 id: c821gh95k8c author: Carl Laurence Beckwith title: The Certainty of Faith in God's Word: The Theological Method and Structure of Hilary of Poitiers' De Trinitate date: 2004 words: 350 flesch: 44 summary: A close reading of the text reveals that Hilary's extensive comments on theological method at the beginning of De Trinitate is the main reason he attached De Fide to the books against the Arians. De Trinitate begins with what appears to be an autobiographical statement on Hilary's journey to faith. keywords: hilary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh95k8c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh95k8c.txt item: #1851 of 4945 id: c821gh95m0x author: Xin Tong title: Robust Semiparametric Bayesian Methods in Growth Curve Modeling date: 2014 words: 192 flesch: 15 summary: In this dissertation, three types of robust distributionalgrowth curve models are proposed from a semiparametric Bayesian perspective, in which random coefficients or intraindividual measurement errors follow either normal distributions or unknown random distributionswith Dirichlet process priors. An example about the development of mathematical abilities is used to illustrate the application of semiparametric Bayesian growth curve models, using school children's Peabody Individual Achievement Test mathematical test scores from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort. keywords: models cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh95m0x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh95m0x.txt item: #1852 of 4945 id: c821gh95m18 author: Catalina Perez Abreu title: Whence the Other Speaks: A Transnational Approach to Home and Discourse in the Fictional Narratives of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Teresa de la Parra date: 2010 words: 370 flesch: 39 summary: Californian Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-1895), considered the first U.S. Latina writer, and Venezuelan author Teresa de la Parra (1889-1936) shattered cultural boundaries as public critics who exposed social oppression and exclusion from citizenship while situating their works in the domestic, private sphere of patriarchal hierarchy and gendered subjectivities. Stemming from these concepts, my thesis draws on the Foucauldian rendition of discourse as a medium through which relations of power produce speaking subjects and the realities of which they speak. keywords: home cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh95m18.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh95m18.txt item: #1853 of 4945 id: c821gh95m5n author: Joshua Tepley title: Being in Heidegger's Being and Time date: 2012 words: 350 flesch: 40 summary: Heidegger divides the being of entities into two fundamental kinds: our kind of being, which he calls 'care' (Sorge), and the kinds of being possessed by every other kind of entity. Our kind of being, care, is just the flipside of this: care is the conjunction of engaging in human activities, finding things intelligible, and finding things significant. keywords: heidegger cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh95m5n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh95m5n.txt item: #1854 of 4945 id: c821gh95m60 author: Robert W. Lawrence title: John Milbank and the Creation of Truth: Dialectical Readings date: 2006 words: 367 flesch: 39 summary: This dissertation explores Milbank's attempt to walk the fine line between the postmodern turn to language and his commitment to a belief in God as the ultimate horizon of meaning and human practice. Thus, it investigates Milbank's account of the creation of meaning through human practice, a practice which in turn participates in the creative life of God. keywords: milbank cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh95m60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh95m60.txt item: #1855 of 4945 id: c821gh95m7b author: Changsheng Su title: Stabilization of Potassium in Soot Oxidation Catalysts and Their Application on Diesel Particulate Filters date: 2011 words: 454 flesch: 42 summary: Among the regeneration strategies, catalytic regeneration of PDFs by low temperature soot oxidation catalysts is the most promising. In addition, the nature of soot and contact condition between soot and catalysts play important roles in catalytic soot oxidation. keywords: soot cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh95m7b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh95m7b.txt item: #1856 of 4945 id: c821gh95m8p author: Charles L. Leavitt IV title: Reconciling Word and World: Theories of Literature in the Age of Neorealism date: 2010 words: 413 flesch: 18 summary: This study presents a comprehensive model of the divergent theories of representation and interpretation that renewed Italian literature and culture after Fascism. New, hybrid principles of narrativity and hermeneutics result from the clash between competing notions of literary representation and intellectual engagement. keywords: literature cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh95m8p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh95m8p.txt item: #1857 of 4945 id: c821gh95p7z author: Yuliya Klymenko title: Cadherin Switch, Ovarian Cancer Cell and Multi-Cellular Aggregate Dynamics and Metastasis-Associated Behavior date: 1904 words: 258 flesch: 8 summary: The designed study modeled and comprehensively characterized cell/MCA behavior in their free-floating state based on cellular cadherin composition and elucidated changes in metastasis-associated behaviors caused by alterations in cadherin expression. Finally, I presented a novel technique for feasible and reproducible long-term exposure of fragile and heterogeneous 3-dimentional cellular structures to clinically relevant compressive forces and discovered patterns in gene expression alterations which may modulate cadherin switch in the context of high intraperitoneal pressure caused by malignant ascites. keywords: cadherin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh95p7z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh95p7z.txt item: #1858 of 4945 id: c821gh96865 author: Jane Elizabeth Wageman title: Sympathy in the 21st Century: Zadie Smith's Victorian Roots date: 1904 words: 223 flesch: 28 summary: This thesis focuses on the contemporary novel's formal engagements with its Victorian predecessors, arguing that multiculturalism and immigration impact the ways in which contemporary novels utilize Victorian narrative structures and plots. The influence of the Victorian novel on 20th and early 21st century fiction takes many forms: from rewritings of classic works, to the creation of historical fiction, to the transposition of literature to different media. keywords: victorian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh96865.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh96865.txt item: #1859 of 4945 id: c821gh9693f author: Richard S Pinapati title: Understanding Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum through Genetic Crosses and Global Metabolomics date: 1904 words: 352 flesch: 28 summary: Generation of crosses using recently isolated parasites will allow for a quicker understanding of the mechanisms of resistance development. Generating a cross between strains with different phenotypes and studying intermediary phenotypes of recombinant progeny has been a highly effective approach for studying the genetic basis of drug resistance. keywords: crosses cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh9693f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh9693f.txt item: #1860 of 4945 id: c821gh9697t author: Aastha Nigam title: Beyond Who and What: Data Driven Approaches for User Behavior Modeling date: 1904 words: 254 flesch: 31 summary: To that end, the goal of this dissertation is to design data driven, context aware and user centered computational models that help us to understand, analyze, model and infer a range of individual and collective human behavior aspects from preference to engagement; from personality traits to political behaviors; from public opinion to relationship formation. Human behavior is highly complex and dependent on the interplay of various intrinsic and extrinsic variables making its study extremely challenging. keywords: behavior cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh9697t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh9697t.txt item: #1861 of 4945 id: c821gh96f72 author: Eric Wawerczyk title: Congruences between Ordinary Symplectic Galois Representations date: 2019 words: 114 flesch: 35 summary: First, we calculate lower bounds on the degree of the weight space map for Hida families given assumptions on the p-adic L-invariant (or the adjoint L-invariant) of a weight (3,3) automorphic representation on the Hida family when such an L-invariant is defined using theorems of Giovanni Rosso. We prove the existence of congruences between ordinary symplectic Galois representations in two different settings. keywords: galois cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh96f72.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh96f72.txt item: #1862 of 4945 id: c821gh96m7m author: Xia Allen title: Exploring Language and Interpersonal Dysfunction in Psychoticism date: 2019 words: 245 flesch: 15 summary: I also conducted regression analyses predicting interpersonal functioning from psychotic-spectrum pathology and category percentages to determine the predictive power of each and whether word use may be a mechanism of interpersonal dysfunction in individuals with psychotic-spectrum pathology. Although yet other research indicates that language use is associated with interpersonal functioning and that interpersonal dysfunction is central to the expression of pathological-range traits, there is scarce research dedicated to the questions of whether and how language use affects interpersonal functioning in individuals with psychotic-spectrum traits and symptoms. keywords: interpersonal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh96m7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh96m7m.txt item: #1863 of 4945 id: c821gh96n57 author: Mallika S. Sarma title: Acclimating to the Extreme: Energy Expenditure, Neuroendocrine Systems, and Social Dynamics in Novel and Challenging Environments date: 2020 words: 339 flesch: 20 summary: Further, we found that greater resilience predicted greater energy expenditure, on average, suggesting that resilient individuals worked harder and spent more energy. These findings have important implications for positive-perception building in small teams engaged in challenging environments can provide critical insights into how individuals successfully cope with the high-energy demands of new and difficult environments. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh96n57.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh96n57.txt item: #1864 of 4945 id: c821gh96q66 author: Wriddhi Chakraborty title: Cryogenic CMOS Technology and Monolithic-3D Integration for High Performance Computing date: 2022 words: 392 flesch: 28 summary: In order to address these challenges in future computing systems, this thesis work focuses on novel design space exploration of CMOS technology by investigating: (a) Cryogenic-CMOS logic and memory technology for achieving extremely-high performance and energy efficiency in compute intensive application space, and (b) Monolithic three-dimensional (M-3D) integration of high-performance amorphous oxide semiconductor (AOS) transistors for high-capacity and high bandwidth embedded memory in memory intensive application space. Moreover, high-capacity, high-bandwidth and pseudo-static 1T Floating body RAM (FBRAM) with record ultra-fast write speed (~5ns) is demonstrated for the first time at cryogenic temperature for cache memory to provide potential advantage in core-to-cache balance, cache miss rate and power consumption. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh96q66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh96q66.txt item: #1865 of 4945 id: c821gh96s2f author: Angela Chesler title: Politics after Autonomy: Repression, Rebellion, and Revision date: 2023 words: 405 flesch: 25 summary: This project investigates the causes and downstream consequences of political violence in the context of territorial autonomy, addressing three interrelated questions: 1) How does territorial autonomy affect state violence against civilians?; 2) How does state violence shape political power and resistance in autonomous territories?; and 3) How and under what conditions does political violence impact the survival of autonomous territories? Second, state violence in autonomous regions nearly always triggers armed uprisings. keywords: autonomy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/c821gh96s2f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/c821gh96s2f.txt item: #1866 of 4945 id: cc08hd78v30 author: Phillip S Harrington title: Compactness and Subellipticity for the D-Bar Neumann Operator on Domains with Minimal Smoothness date: 2004 words: 132 flesch: 44 summary: In this thesis, we shall examine a strong form of Oka's Lemma which provides sufficient conditions for compact and subelliptic estimates for the d-bar Neumann operator on Lipschitz domains. For the Lipschitz case, we will look at higher order estimates in the special case when the domain admits a plurisubharmonic defining function. keywords: condition cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cc08hd78v30.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cc08hd78v30.txt item: #1867 of 4945 id: cc08hd78v4b author: Karen Hollingsworth title: Sources of Error in Iris Biometrics date: 2010 words: 207 flesch: 55 summary: I experimentally quantify how much the Hamming distance is affected by iris dilation. The majority of iris research ignores the degree of dilation in processing iris images for biometric purposes. keywords: iris cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cc08hd78v4b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cc08hd78v4b.txt item: #1868 of 4945 id: cc08hd78w08 author: Kasey James Stanton title: Quantifying the Strength of the Relations Between Facets of Positive Emotionality and Psychological Symptoms date: 2014 words: 149 flesch: 19 summary: Cheerfulness and Elation related negatively to internalizing symptoms, and the former also showed moderate negative relations with externalizing symptoms such as distractibility and drug use. Warmth had mostly weak relations, although it showed notable negative correlations with antisocial symptoms. keywords: symptoms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cc08hd78w08.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cc08hd78w08.txt item: #1869 of 4945 id: cc08hd78w4n author: Mahesh Mahadevan title: Distributed Source Channel Coding of Correlated Sources date: 2006 words: 280 flesch: 48 summary: Distributed coding schemes are proposed for the transmission of both discrete valued and continuous valued sources over noisy channels. In their 1973 paper Slepian and Wolf described the achievable rate region for two correlated sources transmitting to a common destination over noiseless channels. keywords: scheme cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cc08hd78w4n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cc08hd78w4n.txt item: #1870 of 4945 id: cc08hd78w50 author: Satyaki Ganguly title: Electrical Characterization of ALD Al2O3/AlN/GaN HEMTs and Integration with Microano Magnets for Novel Device Application date: 2011 words: 400 flesch: 39 summary: In recent years High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) based on III-Nitride semiconductors have proved capable of high power, high voltage and high frequency operation. The successful integration of microano magnets (supermalloy made) with III-Nitride heterostructure and the ability of imaging the single/multi-domain featured nano/micromagnets on III-Nitrides presented in this work opens the possibility of active device driven switching of nanomagnets in MQCA logic operation. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cc08hd78w50.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cc08hd78w50.txt item: #1871 of 4945 id: cc08hd78x28 author: John Zane Dillon title: The Servants of Modernism: Aesthetics and Tradition in Yeats, Lorca, and Woolf date: 1904 words: 343 flesch: 36 summary: I argue that the nurses and domestic servants of these modernists were crucial to their aesthetic development. Servants played, in other words, a critical role in the development and maturation of modernism. keywords: servants cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cc08hd78x28.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cc08hd78x28.txt item: #1872 of 4945 id: cc08hd79s71 author: Xiaobin Wu title: Four Dimensional Hybrid Wireless Communication via Coherent Dual-Polarized Antennas date: 2019 words: 501 flesch: 34 summary: Thirdly, PAPR reduction phase codes, transparent to receiver processing, are proposed for PolSK/DPSK+PolSK modulated OFDM signals based on selective mapping. Over-the-air experiments are conducted to validate the principles and performance trends of proposed ML detectors, 4D hybrid constellations (both coherent and non-coherent), and PAPR reduction phase codes with external HPAs under an OFDM framework. keywords: phase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cc08hd79s71.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cc08hd79s71.txt item: #1873 of 4945 id: cc08hd79x2j author: Michelle Sawwan title: Not Just Poor People's Politics: Educational Capital, Job Networks, and Party Activism in Lebanon date: 2020 words: 253 flesch: 33 summary: This study adds to the literature on class and clientelism by using survey and interview data from Lebanon to demonstrate that middle class voters occupy a complex position within patronage structures. Consistent with the literature on class and contentious politics, I argue that being middle class may actually bolster party activism in clientelistic settings by providing the kinds of resources and social capital needed to sustain political activity over time. keywords: class cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cc08hd79x2j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cc08hd79x2j.txt item: #1874 of 4945 id: cc08hd79z5w author: Justin Donald DeBenedetto title: Multiset and DAG Automata for Abstract Meaning Representation date: 2021 words: 537 flesch: 44 summary: Specifically, we: Define a new translation from weighted multiset regular expressions to weighted multiset automata more direct and compact than previous work as well as a new composable representation of partial runs of multiset automata more efficient than previous work Show that the Transformer's sinusoidal positional encodings can be viewed as a multiset automaton Prove that complex-weighted multiset automata with only self-loops can approximate real-weighted multiset automata and extend DeepSets to compute the forward weights of complex-weighted multiset automata enabling it to handle a new task Modify and implement an extended DAG recognition algorithm to use complex diagonalized multiset automata in place of positional encodings in a Transformer network for AMR-to-text generation Demonstrate that these improvements now allow such a system to train on a GPU, opening new opportunities for future systems based on DAG and multiset automata These methods build upon existing work, utilizing in particular multiset automata and directed acyclic graph (DAG) processing algorithms. keywords: multiset cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cc08hd79z5w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cc08hd79z5w.txt item: #1875 of 4945 id: cc08hd8001k author: Brian Fitzpatrick title: Math People Need Not Apply: Mathematics Skill, Math Attitudes, and Gender Among Students and Teachers date: 2021 words: 169 flesch: 49 summary: Chapter 4 uses survey and U.S. classroom observation data from the Elementary Mathematics Study (EMS) and OLS regression to analyze the relationship between mathematics anxiety and time on math; this research provides evidence that math anxious elementary teachers spend less time on math instruction. The aim of this study is to examine possible sources of negative math attitudes as well as some possible effects. keywords: math cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cc08hd8001k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cc08hd8001k.txt item: #1876 of 4945 id: cc08hd8002x author: Jacob Piland title: Network-Based Approaches to Understanding Protein Structure and Folding Process date: 2021 words: 300 flesch: 49 summary: As protein function is closely related to protein structure, in this thesis we describe two novel, network-based approaches for capturing, describing, and understanding protein structure. In the long run the work discussed in this thesis may contribute to understanding of how protein structure is folded. keywords: protein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cc08hd8002x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cc08hd8002x.txt item: #1877 of 4945 id: cc08hd8010j author: Symone Johnson title: Making the Marvelous: Experiments in Care and Black Belonging date: 2022 words: 248 flesch: -2 summary: The dissertation draws from ethnographic research conducted in the Summers of 2018 and 2019 and from June 2020-April 2021 when the researcher was a participant observer with four communities of practice—two wellness centers in Brooklyn, New York and two racial justice organizations in Chicago, Illinois—with people who worked toward making sincere relationships and achieving greater personal well-being by experimenting with different traditional ways of healing illness and trauma, constructing restorative relationships, and establishing sustainable communities of mutual belonging based on Black identity, interracial solidarity, and shared spiritual epistemologies. The author applies an ecological framework to understand how care is mobilized, whereby personal healing grows people's capacity to function in right relationship with one another while the values, beliefs, and visions cultivated in and through these relationships can be articulated onto the social and cultural landscape through community action. keywords: care cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cc08hd8010j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cc08hd8010j.txt item: #1878 of 4945 id: cf95j96242f author: David M Schatzman title: A Study of Unsteady Turbulent Boundary Layer Separation Under Conditions Relevant to Helicopter Rotor Dynamics date: 2011 words: 253 flesch: 33 summary: The implications of the experimental results for the development of flow control strategies for unsteady boundary layer separation are discussed. Downstream of the flat plate, a convex ramp section imposes a streamwise adverse pressure gradient that gives rise to boundary layer separation. keywords: layer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96242f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96242f.txt item: #1879 of 4945 id: cf95j96246t author: Matthew James Van Antwerp title: Studying Open Source Versioning Metadata date: 2010 words: 139 flesch: 56 summary: We describe the downloading and warehousing of such data from SourceForge, BerliOS, and GNU Savannah and the interface and resources we offer for browsing and studying the data. SourceForge provides us with monthly data dumps mirroring their back-end database, but their versioning metadata is not provided. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96246t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96246t.txt item: #1880 of 4945 id: cf95j96248h author: Mamadou Brahima Coulibaly title: Cloning and Characterizing the 2RJ Inversion Breakpoints in the Malaria Vector Anopheles Gambiae S.S. date: 2011 words: 142 flesch: 60 summary: A BAC clone already known to map to the vicinity of the proximal breakpoints the 2Rj+ (standard) was used as a starting material to identify the 2Rj (inverted) breakpoints in Bamako chromosomal form. This fragment is made of two almost perfect 5.3kb inverted repeats separated by a 4 kb section and is structurally very similar to type 3 fold back transposable elements. keywords: breakpoints cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96248h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96248h.txt item: #1881 of 4945 id: cf95j96249v author: Farzad Talebi title: Statistical Modeling of Multi-Polarized MIMO Channels date: 2012 words: 201 flesch: 26 summary: The performance of the proposed transmission schemes are compared for different channel conditions using the developed channel model. In this thesis we synthesize a new model for correlated Rician dual-polarized MIMO channels that enables analysis of MIMO system performance in asymmetric channels. keywords: mimo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96249v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96249v.txt item: #1882 of 4945 id: cf95j96252r author: Katy Michelle Wright-Bushman title: Reading Lyric before Lyric: English Religious Poetry among Its Late Medieval Readers date: 2014 words: 367 flesch: 20 summary: In narratives like The Storie of Asneth, we see this understanding of the place of verse within religious practice confirmed through the literary construction of a lay, female penitential subject performing religious lyric. I argue that through both the reading practices in which these texts engage their readers and the construction of the imagined reader within them, as much as through their content, religious lyrics were read to effect ethical, affective, volitional, and epistemic change in a growing array of medieval readers. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96252r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96252r.txt item: #1883 of 4945 id: cf95j962533 author: Kimberly Hope Belcher title: Your Spirit Breathed on the Waters: A Trinitarian Gift of Identity in Postconciliar Infant Baptism date: 2010 words: 189 flesch: 31 summary: Infant baptism thus becomes an economic reality, one that reveals significant aspects of the trinitarian manifestation in salvation history. Sacramental theology has been grappling with the trinitarian mystery in recent years, trying to appropriate the pneumatic dimension of Christian liturgy which was all but lost in the West. keywords: trinitarian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j962533.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j962533.txt item: #1884 of 4945 id: cf95j96254f author: Thomas Joseph Murray title: Essays on the Economics of Immigration in the United States date: 2011 words: 321 flesch: 42 summary: Results show that native flight to private schools due to increased immigrant presence in public schools is largely driven by the white population; an additional 10 immigrants in public schools leads to approximately 2 additional white natives enrolled in private schools. In Chapter 1, I use a panel of school districts across the United States to investigate whether increased immigrant presence in U.S. public school districts between 1990 and 2000 has led to increases in native private school enrollment. keywords: school cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96254f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96254f.txt item: #1885 of 4945 id: cf95j96257g author: Michelle Comas title: Child Sexual Abuse and Use of Restraint and Seclusion: The Interactive Contributions of Early Environmental Factors and Child Characteristics date: 2012 words: 148 flesch: 13 summary: Results revealed that child temperament, specifically effortful control, and prenatal exposure to alcohol, tobacco, and/or illicit drugs were both significant moderating influences on the relation of child sexual abuse history to restraint and seclusion. This master's thesis further examined the relation between child sexual abuse history and subsequent restraint and seclusion incidents, and additionally evaluated the influence of three potential moderators on this primary relationship (namely, prenatal exposure to alcohol, tobacco, and/or illicit drugs, child temperament, and executive functioning). keywords: child cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96257g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96257g.txt item: #1886 of 4945 id: cf95j96258t author: Anubhav Khandelwal title: CdSe Nanowire Fielf-Effect Transitor date: 2008 words: 276 flesch: 59 summary: Pronounced photoconductivity is observed in the presence of visible lightwith current levels increasing from a few pAs to 100s of pAs for single NWs and a few nAs to few $mu$As for network of NWs. In dark, turn-on to turn-off current ratios between 10 and $~$10$^{3}$ for single NWs and between 10$^{3}$ and 10$^{6}$ for network of NWs FETs have been realized. keywords: nws cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96258t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96258t.txt item: #1887 of 4945 id: cf95j962595 author: Elizabeth Anne Franklin title: Wherein All Mye Lomas Make It date: 2011 words: 41 flesch: 66 summary: NOTE: PERMANENT PRIVATE STATUS; DO NOT RELEASE FILE OR RECORD; DO NOT CATALOG. Contact the Graduate School dissertation editor with questions. keywords: hill cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j962595.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j962595.txt item: #1888 of 4945 id: cf95j96260c author: Melanie C. Ross title: Ecumenism After Charles Finney: A Free Church Liturgical Theology date: 2010 words: 356 flesch: 19 summary: Twenty years ago, historian James White reported a startling lacuna in liturgical studies: nonliturgical evangelicalism åÐ the most prevalent worship tradition in American Protestantism åÐ lacked any recognized name or representation in liturgical scholarship. As a corrective, White introduced the term Frontier Tradition to liturgical studies and nominated Charles Finney as the most influential liturgical reformer in American history. keywords: liturgical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96260c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96260c.txt item: #1889 of 4945 id: cf95j96279s author: Michael D Hunckler title: Investigation of a Rabbit Ulnar Loading Model for Atypical Fractures in Cortical Bone during Long-Term Bisphosphonate Treatment date: 1904 words: 339 flesch: 29 summary: Treatment groups included a sham (control) and ovariectomized rabbits which were administered either vehicle (saline), a clinical dose, or a high dose of bisphosphonate (alendronate) over one year. Differences in tissue mineral density and fracture toughness between treatment groups were not statistically significant. keywords: treatment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96279s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96279s.txt item: #1890 of 4945 id: cf95j962v1m author: James C Sweet title: Enabling Implementation and Optimization of Scientific Algorithms via Graphics Processing Units date: 1904 words: 247 flesch: 45 summary: Secondly, the performance of molecular dynamics simulations can be improved by $\approx6\ imes$ whilst keeping the accuracy, allowing for faster drug research and development. Firstly, it looks at exploring better methods of creating accurate and realistic 3D models from laser scan data and photographic images. keywords: gpu cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j962v1m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j962v1m.txt item: #1891 of 4945 id: cf95j96309w author: Tuphan Devkota title: Optical Absorption-Based Studies of Single Nanostructures date: 2019 words: 357 flesch: 45 summary: Spatial modulation spectroscopy (SMS) has been used to image single organic nanoparticles doped with non-fluorescent, near-IR croconaine dyes. Based on the measured extinction cross-section of the nanoparticles, the number of dye molecules per particle has been determined. keywords: sms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96309w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96309w.txt item: #1892 of 4945 id: cf95j96359f author: Tyler E. Curtis title: Material Decomposition Using Photon-Counting Spectral Computed Tomography date: 2019 words: 411 flesch: 13 summary: Multiple discrete contrast agent compositions were able to be simultaneously evaluated with quantitative accuracy (RMSE) that was comparable to results for a single contrast agent and were able to be identified even against highly attenuating bone tissue. Image-based material decomposition was also able to identify contrast agents within murine models at an image acquisition time suitable for in vivo preclinical imaging. keywords: contrast cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96359f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96359f.txt item: #1893 of 4945 id: cf95j96368d author: Natalie M. Ehret title: Maternal and Adolescent ADHD, Aggression, and Dysfunctional Discipline: Mediating Roles of Maternal Emotion Dysregulation and Stress date: 2020 words: 162 flesch: 12 summary: The current study utilized a process-oriented approach to assess the associations of maternal and adolescent ADHD symptoms and OD and aggressive behaviors with dysfunctional discipline, as well as the mediating roles of maternal emotion dysregulation and stress. An indirect pattern of effects was observed such that maternal ADHD symptoms and OD behaviors were associated with maternal emotion dysregulation, which was associated with dysfunctional discipline. keywords: behaviors cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96368d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96368d.txt item: #1894 of 4945 id: cf95j96369r author: Emily Vanderbleek title: Personality Pathology, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Legal Offending date: 2020 words: 234 flesch: 16 summary: In this study, I investigated the relations among childhood adversity, personality pathology, and adult antisocial behavior to attempt to elucidate the complex pathways that lead to antisocial behavior and legal offending. The study included a wide range of adverse childhood experiences and antisocial behaviors and also used a trait-based dimensional framework of personality pathology, which has many advantages over the categorical models that have been used in most previous studies. keywords: antisocial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j96369r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j96369r.txt item: #1895 of 4945 id: cf95j963792 author: Taylor Nutter title: A Self Forgetful of Itself: Augustine and the Modern Oblivion of the Erotic Mind date: 2021 words: 459 flesch: 37 summary: For Augustine, then, objectivity is not the result of a dispassionate view from nowhere, but of ordinate desire. As that which allows the mind to grow into ordinate desire, faith is therefore a condition of the development of the mind toward wisdom. keywords: desire cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cf95j963792.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cf95j963792.txt item: #1896 of 4945 id: cj82k645d5j author: Frederick W. Jordan title: Between Heaven and Harvard: Protestant Faith and the American Boarding School Experience, 1778-1940 date: 2004 words: 345 flesch: 37 summary: Research for this dissertation was conducted in school archives accompanied by a wide reading in the secondary literature of the history of American Protestantism and the history of boarding schools. This dissertation is a study of the role of Protestant faith in six American boarding schools: keywords: protestant cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k645d5j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k645d5j.txt item: #1897 of 4945 id: cj82k645d6w author: Adam Benjamin Fung title: Wake date: 2010 words: 136 flesch: 47 summary: In the end, I ask viewers to question the potential of landscape, their navigation of landscape images and to confront the sense of loss that results from encountering this unstable, fractured scene. The icy landscape lacks human markings or other indicators of scale, as a result, we are doubtful we belong in these places and the potentiality of landscape is diminished by our exclusion. keywords: landscape cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k645d6w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k645d6w.txt item: #1898 of 4945 id: cj82k645f2t author: Sorour Abdulhadi Alotaibi title: Temperature Controllability in Cross-FLow Heat Exchangers and Long Ducts. date: 2003 words: 290 flesch: 46 summary: (a) The first is controllability for which conductive-convective systems and cross-flow heat exchangers are examined in detail. (b) The second is the control methodology for the outlet temperature in cross-flow heat exchangers. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k645f2t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k645f2t.txt item: #1899 of 4945 id: cj82k645f66 author: Joseph Stephen Ribaudo title: Probing Circumgalactic Gas with Lyman Limit Systems date: 2011 words: 583 flesch: 58 summary: Extending the analysis of the gas giving rise to LLS absorption, the galaxy- absorber connection was examined for LLSs found in the spectra of 31 QSOs observed with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer in the Cosmic Evolution Survey deep imaging galaxy field. Additional galaxy field imaging and spectroscopy was obtained from the LBC on the Large Binocular Telescope and LRIS on the Keck II telescope, respectively. keywords: gas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k645f66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k645f66.txt item: #1900 of 4945 id: cj82k645f7j author: Angel Georgiev Ugrinov title: Reactions of Nine-Atom Germanium Clusters in Solutions date: 2004 words: 213 flesch: 45 summary: The discovery of dimers of nine-atom germanium clusters, [Ge9–Ge9]6–, showed that 2-center–2-electron exo-bonds can exist between such clusters. This study revealed that these clusters can bond to each other in different modes to form larger oligomers such as trimers, [Ge9=Ge9=Ge9]6–, and tetramers, keywords: clusters cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k645f7j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k645f7j.txt item: #1901 of 4945 id: cj82k645g24 author: Naomi Fisher title: Kant, Schelling, and a New Philosophy of Nature date: 1904 words: 331 flesch: 47 summary: The philosophy of F. W. J. Schelling, namely the philosophy of nature he develops between the years of 1797 and 1800, is a developmental account of nature and rationality. Thus by looking at the precursors to rationality in animals and their capabilities, we can develop a conception of rationality according to which it emerges in harmony with nature. keywords: rationality cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k645g24.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k645g24.txt item: #1902 of 4945 id: cj82k645g9j author: Scott A. Sarver title: Capillary Electrophoresis for High Speed Small Molecule Analysis date: 1904 words: 119 flesch: 19 summary: Capillary electrophoresis is especially well suited for the analysis of small, polar metabolites because of its high resolution and aqueous running conditions. As a final demonstration of the capability of capillary electrophoresis to rapidly analyze the metabolome, I present a study of the metabolism of early Xenopus laevis embryos. keywords: electrophoresis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k645g9j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k645g9j.txt item: #1903 of 4945 id: cj82k64639d author: Emily R. Hershman title: The Deadliest Century: Gender and Modernism in the Age of Total War, 1895-1981 date: 1904 words: 340 flesch: 34 summary: This dissertation explores connections between the gender politics of British, Irish, and German Modernist drama and novels and total war discourse. A historically contested term, total warfare is chronicled here from Britain's late-nineteenth century New Imperialism to Europe in the decades following the Second World War. keywords: war cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k64639d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k64639d.txt item: #1904 of 4945 id: cj82k64645b author: Anna Elizabeth Woodard title: Effective Field Theory Interpretation for Measurements of Top Quark Pair-Production in Association with a W or Z Boson date: 1904 words: 136 flesch: 21 summary: An additional measurement of the same processes using 35.9/fb of proton-proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment is used to perform a more sophisticated study of eight dimension-six operators and present bounds on their Wilson coefficients. A measurement of the cross section for top quarks produced in association with a W or Z boson, using 19.5/fb of proton-proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, is extended within this framework to set constraints on the Wilson coefficients of five dimension-six operators. keywords: proton cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k64645b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k64645b.txt item: #1905 of 4945 id: cj82k64646p author: Victoria L. Bridewell title: Semiconductor and Graphene Oxide Nanomaterials for Sensing and Catalytic Degradation of Chemical Contaminants date: 1904 words: 414 flesch: 26 summary: Two major tasks focused on very distinct applications of reduced graphene oxide (RGO)-based multifunctional mats have been explored; the development of smart materials capable of sensing and degrading target compounds as well as designing graphene-supported catalysts towards the development of heterogeneous chemical fuel generation systems. Therefore, the discovery and development of materials and devices capable of not only promoting the clean energy agenda, but also serving as multifunctional systems to address additional issues has been the focus of my work thus far. keywords: cds cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k64646p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k64646p.txt item: #1906 of 4945 id: cj82k64650x author: Breanna J. Nickel title: Balthasar Hubmaier as a Scholastic Anabaptist Theologian date: 1904 words: 349 flesch: 38 summary: The first chapter reconstructs Hubmaier's studies at the University of Freiburg based on archival research and finds that he received a fairly traditional education in medieval scholastic theology, but his education was not limited to the via modernaas commonly assumed. On the basis of the preceding chapters, the third chapter examines Hubmaier's ongoing employment of medieval scholastic theology. keywords: hubmaier cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k64650x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k64650x.txt item: #1907 of 4945 id: cj82k646g5f author: Wei Qian title: Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics date: 2020 words: 324 flesch: 42 summary: Exploiting this information treatment as an exogenous source of variation in house price expectations, I show that a one percentage point increase in nationwide house price expectations over the next 12 months leads to about a 0.4 percentage point increase in intended total household spending growth over the same period. In chapter one, I examine the causal effect of house price expectations on individuals' spending decisions using a survey-based experiment. keywords: house cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k646g5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k646g5f.txt item: #1908 of 4945 id: cj82k646k2b author: Charlotte N. Kunkler title: Understanding the Structural Properties of Triple Helices and a Triple-Stranded RNA-Binding Protein date: 2022 words: 458 flesch: 53 summary: Overall, this work has increased our knowledge of base triples that stabilize triple helices and of protein-triple helix interactions Though triple helices were deduced to form in a test tube over sixty years ago, the function of triple helices in nature is only beginning to be appreciated. keywords: triple cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k646k2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k646k2b.txt item: #1909 of 4945 id: cj82k646m0z author: Elizabeth Boyle title: A Peace Which Unites: A Study of the Peacemaking Approach of the Community of Sant'Egidio date: 2023 words: 233 flesch: 37 summary: In the past decade non-state actors have been emerging as peace mediators, presenting their own unique approaches to peacemaking which has proven successful in a number of cases. Through the particular case study of Sant'Egidio's present-day parallel peace dialogue in South Sudan, I ask whether Sant'Egidio's engagement in South Sudan is truly inclusive and what approaches could be applied to increase the Rome Initiative's inclusivity. keywords: sant'egidio cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k646m0z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k646m0z.txt item: #1910 of 4945 id: cj82k646m5p author: Elise DeSomer title: Representations of Hypermobilty in Literature and Performance date: 2023 words: 182 flesch: 23 summary: When examined as a whole, these transatlantic examples of short stories and performances elucidate how the performance of hypermobility reflects and protests constraints of gendered and racialized oppression. This thesis foregrounds literary analysis of hypermobility with an overview of the historic medicalization of hypermobility, or an excessive range of motion, with attention to how the politics of pathologizing movement enforces normative standards for permissible ranges of physical and social mobility. keywords: hypermobility cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cj82k646m5p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cj82k646m5p.txt item: #1911 of 4945 id: cn69m328p4j author: Mark Edward Hope title: Examination and Validation of Winds, Waves, and Storm Surge Processes for Hurricanes Ike (2008) and Sandy (2012) and the Integration of Hydrologic Processes into a Coastal Circulation Model date: 2015 words: 347 flesch: 33 summary: It is the author's intent that the work presented in this dissertation aids the field of Civil Engineering through detailed model validation and analysis of storm surge processes for Hurricanes Ike (2008, Texas) and Sandy (2012, New Yorkew Jersey).Additionally, the integration of hydrologic processes into the ADCIRC coastal circulation model allowing for a more accurate depiction of flooding in the coastal environment during a tropical cyclone is presented. Either by innovation or invention, it is the duty of both the modeler and the Civil Engineer toutilize the most accurate model and tools available in order to provide the best understanding of storm surge and other catastrophic natural processes and how best to protect and prepare in the case of these catastrophes. keywords: surge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328p4j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328p4j.txt item: #1912 of 4945 id: cn69m328p8x author: John David Simon title: Polarization-Engineered III-V Nitride Heterostructure Devices by Molecular Beam Epitaxy date: 2010 words: 227 flesch: 34 summary: Polarization charges present in nitride heterojunctions can be engineered to enhance theperformance of different devices and introduce novel material physics not present in other semiconductors. Polarization charges can also utilized to enhanced the properties of other devices. keywords: polarization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328p8x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328p8x.txt item: #1913 of 4945 id: cn69m328p98 author: Sara Mónica Mata title: Myth and Mystery: Augustine's First Commentary on Genesis 1-2:3 date: 2013 words: 317 flesch: 33 summary: I first show that in interpreting each verse, Augustine presents the union between the letter, its immediate referent, and divine reality as one whose meaning and veracity are only discernible through an appeal to authorities or 'manifest realities.' I then show that in his interpretation of each verse, the 'manifest realities' Augustine turns to when examining this union include Genesis 1-2:3, the whole of Scripture, reality as experienced in creation and in being human, and reality as revealed most perfectly and fully in Jesus Christ's humanity, that is, His external teaching given in and through His words and deeds. keywords: reality cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328p98.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328p98.txt item: #1914 of 4945 id: cn69m328q0g author: Pamela E. Crane title: Implementation of a Sustainable Groundwater Quality Monitoring Program in Rural Benin, West Africa date: 2010 words: 145 flesch: 15 summary: Technical methods included test strips, colorimetry, and avoidance of methods requiring electricity or sterile conditions. Sociological methods included surveys, focus groups, and participant observation. keywords: methods cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328q0g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328q0g.txt item: #1915 of 4945 id: cn69m328q1t author: John M. Stringer title: Bringing Interests Back In: the Domestic Sources of Employment Protection Legislation date: 2012 words: 258 flesch: 28 summary: This dissertation explores the sources of employment protection legislation. Employment protection legislation, or 'EPL,' is regulation which restricts the hiring and firing of workers. keywords: employment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328q1t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328q1t.txt item: #1916 of 4945 id: cn69m328q25 author: James F. Wurtz title: A Very Strange Agony: Modernism, Memory, and Irish Gothic Fiction date: 2006 words: 295 flesch: 32 summary: The Gothic as a genre deals with historical processes of transition or change, and derives its gothic effects not simply from the presence of demons or haunted houses, but from the often violent interruption of the present by the return of the past, frequently depicted in supernatural form. Unsurprisingly, given the especially turbulent modern Irish experience, Irish writers often turned to the Gothic for images and narratives which would enable them to find new ways of articulating a stable identity in the midst of tremendous change. keywords: gothic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328q25.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328q25.txt item: #1917 of 4945 id: cn69m328q4v author: Irena Lanc title: Novel Methods for Assembly Validation and Improvement date: 2014 words: 185 flesch: 32 summary: The data gathered during validation is then exploited in a second application designed for assembly correction. The work presented here aims to facilitate both the validation and the correction of assemblies. keywords: assembly cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328q4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328q4v.txt item: #1918 of 4945 id: cn69m328q56 author: Andrea J. Fowler title: Linking Policy and Ecology in the Management of Aquatic Ecosystems: Stream Restoration and Invasive Species Legislation date: 2010 words: 301 flesch: 32 summary: While restoration of streams by the addition of large wood is a common management technique designed to increase populations of native fishes, the functions of the current, relatively low volumes of large wood on habitat use by brook trout, stream invertebrate drift, and brook trout diet remain understudied in midwestern streams. My thesis begins by investigating the role of current volumes of large wood in determining the location and diet of brook trout, and the content of stream drift. keywords: brook cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328q56.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328q56.txt item: #1919 of 4945 id: cn69m328q6j author: Claudia Vanessa Maldonado Trujillo title: The Political Economy of Conditional Cash Transfers in Mexico and Brazil 1997-2006 date: 2012 words: 332 flesch: 15 summary: I develop an original theoretical model of choice for program implementation in two dimensions (rules vs. discretion and centralization vs. decentralization), and posit that the choice for the implementation model of direct transfers for the poor –as a choice between clientelism and rules-based implementation- results from the electoral calculus of the federal government, which is a function of the relative brokerage capacity (partisan territorial presence) of the governing party in the regions where the poor are overrepresented. In the case of Brazil, I find a similar trajectory towards program depoliticisation that warrants, however, a different explanation: the relative brokerage capacity of the federal government in deprived regions also provided for incentives for depoliticisation (with a decentralized implementation model), but not directly as a function PTs territorial presence, but the territorial implications of the governing coalition of Lulaå«s first administration. keywords: implementation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328q6j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328q6j.txt item: #1920 of 4945 id: cn69m328q9k author: James W. Hamrick title: From Gaeltacht to Grub Street: The Eighteenth-Century Public Sphere in a Four-Nations Context date: 2012 words: 139 flesch: 24 summary: Focusing on bilingualism, translation and print culture, my project broadens the scope of recent 'four-nations' approaches and provides a comparative model for understanding important developments in eighteenth-century British literature. My dissertation examines how the different languages and literatures of eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland play important roles in the development of a multilingual British public sphere. keywords: british cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328q9k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328q9k.txt item: #1921 of 4945 id: cn69m328r0s author: Kejia Wang title: Optical Study of Hot-Electron Transport in Iii-V Nitride Semiconductors, and Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Indium Nitride date: 2008 words: 163 flesch: 46 summary: The rate of increase of electron temperature with the external electric field provides a signature of non-equilibrium hot-phonon accumulation. When the chief electron energy loss mechanism is by the emission of LOoptical phonons, a clear signature of a hot-phonon effect is observed, with a hot-phonon lifetime in the 3-4 ps regime. keywords: hot cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328r0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328r0s.txt item: #1922 of 4945 id: cn69m328r14 author: Jessica Maribeth Dougherty-McMichael title: Transformative Place: Liminal Place in Contemporary Irish and Native American Literatures date: 2011 words: 267 flesch: 35 summary: The first The American West, The Irish DreamÌøåÀå_ looks at the ways in which Irish writers, including Sir William F. Butler, Michael Mac Gabhann, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne and Gearoid Mac Lochlainn, use the American West and Native American inhabitants to create an Irish dream of prosperity and entitlement. My dissertation focuses primarily on the literary creation of liminal places. keywords: american cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328r14.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328r14.txt item: #1923 of 4945 id: cn69m328r2g author: Chaunce R. Windle title: Against Diversification: A Suggested Strategy for the Know-Something Investor date: 2010 words: 128 flesch: 35 summary: For know-something investors, portfolio diversification reduces risk at the expense of maximizing return, defeating the main purpose of investing in stocks. Results showed that portfolios of brokers' top picks outperformed their diversified portfolios after a one-year period. keywords: portfolio cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328r2g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328r2g.txt item: #1924 of 4945 id: cn69m328s1f author: Solomon Assefa title: Elucidating Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Co-Oxidation-Induced Missing-Row Reconstruction of Rh(110) via DFT Methods date: 1904 words: 102 flesch: 45 summary: This work used DFT calculations to study adsorbate induced reconstruction on Rh(110). Coverage dependent formation and binding energies of O and CO species on Rh(110) show a missing-row type (1 X 2) reconstruction of the Rh(110) surface as a result of adsorbate binding. keywords: rh(110 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328s1f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328s1f.txt item: #1925 of 4945 id: cn69m328w5r author: Laura Beth Thompson title: Affective Corporeality: Contemplations on the Body in the Postmodern Context date: 1904 words: 137 flesch: 46 summary: Through using visual iterations of affect and the abject, I instill in the viewer the heightened sense of empathy and/ or trauma. I discuss Affect Theory through the lens of Brian Massumi and Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection as a means to reveal postmodern humanity as fragmented and socially schizophrenic, in the Lacanian sense. keywords: sense cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m328w5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m328w5r.txt item: #1926 of 4945 id: cn69m329d30 author: Chao Luo title: Engineering and Economic Analysis for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure — Placement, Pricing, and Market Design date: 1904 words: 467 flesch: 33 summary: In the presence of renewable energy integration and energy storage system, EV charging service providers must deal with a number of uncertainties, e.g., charging demand volatility, inherent intermittency of renewable energy generation, and wholesale electricity price fluctuation. A fitness-score (FS)-based supply-demand matching algorithm is developed by considering consumer surplus, electricity network congestion, and economic dispatch. keywords: charging cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m329d30.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m329d30.txt item: #1927 of 4945 id: cn69m329d7c author: Maria A. Krug title: Use of Shared Vision Models in an Integrated Urban Stormwater Planning Process date: 1904 words: 154 flesch: 13 summary: Validation with observed data found that calibration of response time constants for specific elements captured combined effects of different factors (slope, material, etc.) without needing detailed field measurements. Workshops with community partners showed that integrating stormwater management with other neighborhood issues encouraged resident engagement and customizing the model to simulate specific lots and houses improved visualization of GI options. keywords: lots cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m329d7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m329d7c.txt item: #1928 of 4945 id: cn69m329k1v author: Guido Caponigri Guerra title: After the 'Spring of '59': Dante's Inferno in the 1860 Leaves of Grass date: 2019 words: 142 flesch: 52 summary: In this thesis, I will present evidence from the works of Walt Whitman to suggest he implemented his reading of Dante Alighieri's Inferno seven years earlier than current scholarship believes and that he used explicitly Dantean words in Leaves of Grass. Neglected is Dante's presence in the earlier, 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, which followed his initial, 1859 reading of the Inferno. keywords: dante cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m329k1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m329k1v.txt item: #1929 of 4945 id: cn69m329r7g author: José David Pastrana Chiclana title: Regularity Properties of the Solution Map of the Incompressible Euler Equations date: 2020 words: 207 flesch: 53 summary: In the non-periodic case we use the initial values of two sequences of bounded approximate solutions (which converge at time zero and remain apart at later times) to construct two sequences of exact solutions to the incompressible Euler equations. Second, we prove the non-uniform continuity of the data-to-solution map from bounded subsets of the Besov space into the space of continuous curves landing in the Besov space. keywords: solutions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m329r7g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m329r7g.txt item: #1930 of 4945 id: cn69m329r95 author: Michelle A. Marvin title: Remembering in Relation: Edward Schillebeeckx's Theological Anthropology and the Neuroscience of Memory Loss date: 2020 words: 411 flesch: 29 summary: Part two shifts to a neuroscientific analysis of memory loss in order to contrast the sociorelational memory of part one with the individualistic memory in contemporary neuroscience. This dissertation addresses the question of how to interpret and understand memory loss as a person of faith embedded in, and informed by, the contemporary medical-scientific milieu. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m329r95.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m329r95.txt item: #1931 of 4945 id: cn69m329s0c author: Jerry Scott Fisher title: Meaning and Learning in Linear Retention Patterns date: 2020 words: 155 flesch: 26 summary: This dissertation explored the influence of representational complexity on the observation of linear retention and forgetting patterns of episodic memory. The results revealed that original learning that involves either retrieval practice or elaboration can contribute to producing linear retention. keywords: linear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m329s0c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m329s0c.txt item: #1932 of 4945 id: cn69m329w6c author: Woori Kim title: Weightless, Nameless date: 2023 words: 196 flesch: 50 summary: My thesis questions whether there is an essential relationship between one's identity and name, exploring the interaction between the name and the owner of it and reflecting on the arbitrary nature of name. With an excerpt from Revelation and fragments of The Three Little Pigs, my thesis alternates between two stories of Sooji and Hyori, both of whom are alienated from themselves in a different sense: Sooji stuck in limbo, oscillating between her old and new names, and Hyori cognitively unaware of himself, deprived of an ability or freedom to see. keywords: stories cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cn69m329w6c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cn69m329w6c.txt item: #1933 of 4945 id: cr56n011z6s author: Julia Elizabeth Stephens title: Control of the Tip-Gap Flow of a Low-Pressure Turbine Blade in a Linear Cascade date: 2010 words: 358 flesch: 46 summary: Additionally, surface flow visualization was performed on the end wall and blade tip for a greater understanding of the flow behavior. Vortex generators on the end wall were designed to produce vorticity of opposite sign of the tip leakage vortex. keywords: tip cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n011z6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n011z6s.txt item: #1934 of 4945 id: cr56n011z74 author: Nicholas Michael Petruzzi title: Bacteria Mobilization and Diversity as a Function of Rate of Extraction from a Monitoring Well date: 2004 words: 467 flesch: 35 summary: It was hypothesized that total bacteria concentrations will increase with increasing pumping rate (consistent with the previously observed increase in total colloids with pumping rate). However, little work has been done to quantify the impact of pumping rate at a sampling point on bacterial and inorganic colloid concentrations, as well as the diversity of the bacteria population observed in a groundwater sample. keywords: pumping cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n011z74.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n011z74.txt item: #1935 of 4945 id: cr56n011z8g author: Bruce James Melancon title: Competitive Cationic Pathways and the Asymmetric Synthesis of 1,2-Disubstituted Cyclopropanes: Insight into the Cyclopropylcarbinyl Cation date: 2010 words: 341 flesch: 19 summary: Rooted in the classic homoallylic cation rearrangement, in situ generated aryl sulfonates readily provided vinyl cyclopropanes in excellent yields. Oligocyclopropanes were the target of synthetic methodology for the formation of contiguous cyclopropane units. keywords: formation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n011z8g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n011z8g.txt item: #1936 of 4945 id: cr56n01204p author: Ana Laura Rodriguez Gusta title: Evaluative Ratings and Gender: The Dynamics of Assessing Employee Performance in Three Organizations in the Uruguayan's Public Sector date: 2004 words: 315 flesch: 21 summary: This strategic use of organizational rules is rooted in the lack of fit between the institutional basis of the performance appraisals and supervisors' own assessments of the workplace, including the impact of ratings on their work groups, thus calling attention to the political nature of personnel management. As a determinant of inequality, I conclude that the political nature of organizational rules is a crucial factor in light of increasingly gender-integrated workplaces and continual managerial reforms of public bureaucracies. keywords: organizational cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n01204p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n01204p.txt item: #1937 of 4945 id: cr56n012082 author: Marcelo Carlos Leiras title: Parties, provinces and electoral coordination: a study on the determinants of party and party system aggregation in Argentina, 1983-2005 date: 2008 words: 296 flesch: 26 summary: The fragmentation of national party systems may grow when different parties compete effectively in different districts. The extent to which national fragmentation resembles district level fragmentation is a measure of the degree of aggregation of party systems. keywords: party cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n012082.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n012082.txt item: #1938 of 4945 id: cr56n01209d author: Ineke Murakami title: 'Public, Scurrilous and Profane': Transformations in Moral Drama and Political Economy, 1465-1599 date: 2006 words: 338 flesch: 30 summary: Challenging long held critical assumptions about the 'morality play's' 'tedious' rehashing of conservative religious doctrine, I argue that moral drama is an intensely political form from its inception, and that playwrights from the late fifteenth century to the height of Elizabethan playing use literary and performance conventions to both veil and articulate inflammatory perspectives on social justice, labor, and commercialism. By closely reading literary and performance conventions, I reveal that the difference between early and late moral drama is best grasped not as the break typically depicted in periodizing accounts but as a proliferation of the spirit of innovation intrinsic to moral drama. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n01209d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n01209d.txt item: #1939 of 4945 id: cr56n012218 author: Mary-Reginald Anibueze title: Eucharistic Communion and Rituals of Communion in Igbo Culture: An Integrative Study of Liturgy, Faith, and Culture date: 1904 words: 339 flesch: 26 summary: The study investigates some traditional rituals of communion in Igbo culture, and explores the significance of these communal rituals when integrated into the liturgical life of Igbo Catholics. In line with the clear expressions of the theological and relational aspects of Eucharistic communion in terms of thanksgiving, meal sharing, fellowship, reconciliation, and unity, this dissertation relates these themes to the traditional rituals of communion expressed in Igbo culture, for an enrichment of Igbo Catholicism. keywords: communion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n012218.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n012218.txt item: #1940 of 4945 id: cr56n01256x author: Paul Johns title: Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Gold Nanostructures: Conversion, Coupling, and Confinement date: 1904 words: 314 flesch: 50 summary: Other key issues include coupling between nanostructures and the interactions of multiple SPP modes launched simultaneously. Despite SPP usefulness, the effects of defects in the supporting substrate, the effects of defects in the nanostructures, and the effects of the geometry of nanostructures on the modes, the mode shapes, and various mode characteristics (such as damping as measured by propagation length) has not been well understood. keywords: mode cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n01256x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n01256x.txt item: #1941 of 4945 id: cr56n012p1v author: Patricia M Schnepp title: Integrative Bioinformatic and Experimental Investigation of the Mechanisms of Brain Metastatic Adaptation date: 1904 words: 376 flesch: 35 summary: Furthermore, I compared the surrounding microenvironment during the early and late stages of brain metastases. Based on a distinct metabolic transcriptome profile in brain metastases compared to their primary tumor counterparts, I hypothesized that metabolic transcriptome shifting during metastatic evolution is crucial for metastatic success to the brain. keywords: brain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n012p1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n012p1v.txt item: #1942 of 4945 id: cr56n012q2h author: Keith Joseph Feldman title: Beyond Modeling: The Emergent Role of Informatics in Advancing Healthcare Knowledge date: 1904 words: 324 flesch: 37 summary: This dissertation will present the notion that informatics techniques now provide an opportunity to advance health knowledge by providing evidence in a manner that realizes a broader set of Bloom learning objectives from understanding to synthesis. It will first highlight the ability of informatics to provide a deeper understanding of health data and models employed in practice and research. keywords: health cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n012q2h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n012q2h.txt item: #1943 of 4945 id: cr56n01312k author: Tyler Anderson title: Measurement of 36Cl Production Cross Sections for Nuclear Astrophysics date: 2020 words: 255 flesch: 44 summary: This goal led to the start of a campaign for measuring production cross sections for the SLR 36Cl, where Bowers et al. found higher cross sections for the 33S(alpha,p)36Cl reaction than were predicted by Hauser-Feshbach based nuclear reaction codes TALYS and NON-SMOKER. Reducing uncertainty on critical reaction cross sections can both enable more precise predictions and provide constraints on physical processes and environments in the early solar system. keywords: cross cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n01312k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n01312k.txt item: #1944 of 4945 id: cr56n013179 author: Yinan Li title: Noise Injection and Noise Augmentation for Model Regularization, Differential Privacy and Statistical Learning date: 2020 words: 382 flesch: -4 summary: My dissertation includes whiteout in Neural Networks, which adaptively inject noise into nodes to achieve regularization effects and promote robustness; fast Converging and Robust Optimal Path Selection (CROPS) in continuous-time Markov-switching generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (COMS-GARCH) process, CROPS is a Bernoulli NI enhanced Markov Chain Expectation Maximization (MC-EM) algorithm that improves accuracy in both hidden path identification and volatility estimation and achieve ensemble learning and robustness effects; AdaPtive Noise Augmentation (PANDA) in Generalized Linear Models (GLMs), PANDA realizes a wide range of existing regularization effects and also exact L0 regularization with little computational burden through the orthogonal regularization I proposed, PANDA also provides tighter confidence intervals with higher coverage probability for both zero and non-zero estimated parameters under variable selection regularization; PANDA in Undirected Graphical Models (UGMs), PANDA realized both likelihood based graphical L0, I proposed for Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) and existing Neighborhood Selection methods in UGMs; adaptive Noise Augmentation for differentially Private (NAP) As part of the future work, I extended PANDA L0 regularization into Support Vector Machine (SVM), I generalized the concept of orthogonal regularization to realize rank regularization in both multiple response GLMs and Tensor Regressions, I expect the combination of rank regularization and NAP-ERM show high utility while guaranteeing DP, I also expect there to be a more rigorous proof for graphical L0 by using duality. keywords: regularization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n013179.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n013179.txt item: #1945 of 4945 id: cr56n01318n author: Caitlin Smith title: Writing through Darkness: Doubt and Spiritual Life-Writing from Jonathan Edwards to Herman Melville date: 2020 words: 233 flesch: 33 summary: The authors in my dissertation approach doubt not just as a religious or philosophical problem, but as a literary one, generating a range of different poetics and different ways of reading. During this time period, the American religious landscape pluralized, expanded, and splintered dramatically, in response to both intellectual transformations—new scientific and philosophical paradigms—and changing social issues, such as growing awareness of slavery's abuses, North-South disunity among white-dominant denominations because of racism, the proliferation of new religious sects, and the rise of liberal Protestantism and early seeker-type spirituality. keywords: doubt cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n01318n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n01318n.txt item: #1946 of 4945 id: cr56n013326 author: Sara Y. Kim title: Stress, Sleep, and the Emotional Enhancement of Memory: An fMRI Investigation of Prioritized Encoding and Consolidation date: 2021 words: 203 flesch: 23 summary: This dissertation investigated (1) the effects of pre-encoding stress on neural correlates of emotional memory encoding and (2) interactive effects of stress, encoding processes, and subsequent sleep on emotional memory consolidation. However, there was no evidence for stress–sleep interactions, as defined in the present study, on emotional memory consolidation. keywords: emotional cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n013326.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n013326.txt item: #1947 of 4945 id: cr56n013446 author: Mette Evelyn Bjerre title: To Be, or Not to Be Danish: Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Racial Identity in a 'Raceless' Society date: 2022 words: 552 flesch: 33 summary: Multi-ethnic Danes grow up with more than one cultural orientation within their homes and between home and majority culture. I argue that young multi-racial Danes are uniquely positioned to push public discourse toward a better understanding of how Whiteness is integral to national identity and advocate for a broader Danish identity type that challenges White hegemony and Nordic exceptionalism. keywords: ethnic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n013446.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n013446.txt item: #1948 of 4945 id: cr56n013504 author: John Haug title: Hyperbolic Metasurfaces for Structured Illumination Microscopy date: 2022 words: 431 flesch: 28 summary: The performance and super-resolution capabilities of SIM are dictated in part by the illumination pattern, where using illumination patterns with higher spatial frequencies corresponds to the potential for better resolution enhancement. There have been a variety of techniques to overcome this resolution limit to produce what are known as super-resolution images. keywords: resolution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n013504.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n013504.txt item: #1949 of 4945 id: cr56n01357j author: Kalie Pead title: She Speaks date: 2023 words: 97 flesch: 65 summary: The title poem in which the collection is named, She Speaks, is crafted with tarot card erasures, utilizing multiple three card spreads. She Speaks is a collection of poetry that explores the depths of reader interaction, randomization, and fate. keywords: card cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cr56n01357j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cr56n01357j.txt item: #1950 of 4945 id: cv43nv95765 author: Maxwell Edward Agnew title: Surge and Wave Propagation over Wetlands with Respect to Storm Forward Speed date: 2012 words: 512 flesch: 48 summary: Finally, a sensitivity analysis is provided to determine the impact on surge levels with increased canopy coverage in the marshes, which effectively removes windstress from the governing equations. The second body of work focuses on surge and wave attenuation over wetlands in Southern Louisiana, with a sensitivity study of timing of wind-forcing, canopy coefficients, and bottom friction coefficients. keywords: surge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv95765.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv95765.txt item: #1951 of 4945 id: cv43nv9580d author: Robert K Garcia title: Nominalist Constituent Ontologies: A Development and Critique date: 2010 words: 603 flesch: 52 summary: And, as I will argue in Chapter 4, the strongest version of nominalism is a novel account, modeled after trope theory, that deploys AN's basic strategy at a more fundamental level than that of ordinary objects. Finally, in the Afterword I show how troper theory is subject to some of the traditional objections to which trope theory is subject. keywords: theory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv9580d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv9580d.txt item: #1952 of 4945 id: cv43nv9581r author: Michael Strand title: A Genealogy of Social Justice: Britain, 1834-1914 date: 2013 words: 423 flesch: -6 summary: My argument develops a purposive (or why) based account of the development and introduction of social policy paradigms that stands in contrast to approaches rooted in either political ideology or in social policy modeled as the rational response to social problems as brute facts. From this analysis, I develop an explanatory model for the effects of moral meanings derived from the genesis of shared normative categories; this offers a way of fostering mutually binding social critique that departs from the principles of communicative action; I contribute a new argument for the role that social justice meanings play in general processes of institutionalization; I also offer a moral and evaluative counterweight to contemporary neo-Polanyian understandings of the amoral market in economic sociology; finally, I identify endogenous mechanisms for theorizing macro-cultural change (like rationalization) as part of non-derivative cultural processes. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv9581r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv9581r.txt item: #1953 of 4945 id: cv43nv95823 author: Catherine M. Punsalan-Manlimos title: Langdon Gilkey's Theology of Culture: A Guide for Engaging Science and Religion in the Philippine Context date: 2007 words: 329 flesch: 44 summary: It argues that neither liberation theology nor current discourse in science and religion adequately engages all three elements. More specifically, it presents the development of Gilkey's thoughts on the relationship of science and religion, which moves his theology of culture into a theology of nature. keywords: science cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv95823.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv95823.txt item: #1954 of 4945 id: cv43nv9583f author: Christopher Porter title: Mathematical and Philosophical Perspectives on Algorithmic Randomness date: 2012 words: 554 flesch: 25 summary: Prior to evaluating the Martin-L f-Chaitin Thesis and related randomness-theoretic theses, in Chapters 8 and 9 we discuss two roles of definitions of randomness, both of which motivated much early work in the development of algorithmic randomness: the resolutory role of randomness, which is successfully filled by a definition of randomness that allows for the solution of problems in a specific theory of probability, and the exemplary role of randomness, which is successfully filled by a definition of randomness that counts as random certain sequences that exemplify the properties typically held by sequences chosen at random. Definitions filling the calibrative role allow us to calibrate the level of randomness necessary and sufficient for certain almost-everywhere results in classical mathematics to hold, while definitions filling the limitative role illuminate a phenomenon known as the indefinite contractibility of the notion of randomness. keywords: randomness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv9583f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv9583f.txt item: #1955 of 4945 id: cv43nv9584s author: Jennifer Suzanne Ross-Viola title: The Effect of Soy Isoflavones on Nucleotide, Lipid and Drug Metabolism date: 2008 words: 354 flesch: 41 summary: We hypothesize that consumption of soy isoflavones can alter gene expression in human and rodent models, and that this may be one mechanism by which soy lowers cholesterol. We have shown that mice consuming a diet containing both a triglyceride-lowering drug (fenofibrate) and soy isoflavones had lower serum and urinary and higher fecal fenofibrate concentrations than mice consuming a diet without isoflavones. keywords: soy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv9584s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv9584s.txt item: #1956 of 4945 id: cv43nv9586g author: Amin Doostmohammadi title: Settling and Swimming in Stratified Fluids: Rigid Particles to Self-Propelled Organisms date: 2014 words: 192 flesch: 25 summary: In addition, the results of our direct numerical simulations of the sedimentation of particles show that the presence of vertical density gradients in the water column can substantially affect the settling dynamics of a particle, interaction between pair of particles, and settling rates and microstructure of suspension of particles. Moreover, the role of stratification on reorientation of elongated particles at density interfaces is scrutinized. keywords: particles cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv9586g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv9586g.txt item: #1957 of 4945 id: cv43nv95885 author: David Charles Mengel title: Bones, Stones, and Brothels: Religion and Topography in Prague under Emperor Charles IV (1346-78) date: 2003 words: 381 flesch: 42 summary: It provides an alternative to the rubrics and narratives that have dominated the study of religion in medieval Prague, while contributing to the growing literature on the significances of space in the Middle Ages. Each chapter of this dissertation explores one aspect of Prague's urban topography, the people who produced and inhabited it, and the implications for local religion. keywords: prague cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv95885.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv95885.txt item: #1958 of 4945 id: cv43nv95912 author: Daniel Gregory Perett title: Calculated Insults: The Rhetorical Use of Invective by Latin Authors of the Imperial Age and Late Antiquity date: 2012 words: 263 flesch: 20 summary: The five main functions of invective are identified and discussed in a wide variety of texts, and are offered as a hermeneutic tool for a greater understanding of Latin texts, both imperial and patristic, in which artful insulting speech is used. Following a discussion of the definition of oratorical invective, the dissertation uses speech act theory to identify five main purposes that invective could serve in ancient oratory: social distancing, redirection of hostility or blame, polarization of a conflict, creation of plausibility, and the explanation of an event or situation. keywords: invective cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv95912.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv95912.txt item: #1959 of 4945 id: cv43nv9592d author: Lei Tong title: Implementation of Reliability Index Approach Analysis Tool for Missile Trajectory Simulation date: 2010 words: 91 flesch: 32 summary: In this thesis, the Reliability Index Approach, RIA, and the Monte Carlo simulation were implemented as a reliability analysis tool for missile trajectory simulation. Testing was performed to verify the fidelity of the RIA solution and to compare computational time of analysis with a baseline Monte Carlo simulation. keywords: simulation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv9592d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv9592d.txt item: #1960 of 4945 id: cv43nv9593r author: Thade Jude Correa title: The Falling Light date: 2013 words: 2 flesch: -6 summary: Poetry collection. keywords: poetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv9593r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv9593r.txt item: #1961 of 4945 id: cv43nv95943 author: Zhenqiu Lu title: Bayesian Inference of Robust Growth Mixture Models with Non-Ignorable Missing Data date: 2011 words: 358 flesch: 41 summary: Growth mixture models (GMMs) with non-ignorable missing data have drawn increasing attention in research communities, but few studies have discussed robust growth mixture models with non-ignorable missing data. Four non-ignorable missingness selection models are formulated with robust growth models. keywords: models cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv95943.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv95943.txt item: #1962 of 4945 id: cv43nv95b32 author: Victor L. Maqque title: From the Cacique to the Community: Political Transformations in the Altiplano 1750-1850 date: 1904 words: 685 flesch: 30 summary: Also, for relevant debates about peasant resistance and views on autonomy and nation, see James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak, Everyday forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985); Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, Reflections on the Origin and the Spread of Nationalism (NY: Verso, 1991), and Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1993). [2] See the case of Huachaca in Cecilia Mendes, The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State (Duke University Press, 2005); Bonilla, The Indian Peasantry and 'Peru' during the War with Chile in Stern Steve J., Resistance, Rebellion and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, 18th to 20th Centuries, ed. keywords: colonial; press cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv95b32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv95b32.txt item: #1963 of 4945 id: cv43nv95b8s author: Anjin Guo title: SINR Distributions in Cellular Networks: Spatial Stochastic Model Fitting and Analyses date: 1904 words: 453 flesch: 45 summary: For the fourth step, since the independent randomness in the positions of the BSs and the propagation conditions we usually assume does not comply with the real procedure of BS deployments, we propose a new class of cellular model, where BSs are deployed to make all users at cell edges achieve a minimum required signal power level from the serving BS. In this dissertation, we mainly study the SINR distributions and their properties in cellular networks. keywords: bss cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv95b8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv95b8s.txt item: #1964 of 4945 id: cv43nv95f7c author: Bailey Mestayer Pittenger title: Lawthy date: 1904 words: 57 flesch: 70 summary: This thesis includes the beginning excerpt from the novel Lawthy, and then a chapbook length set of micro prose titled Sad Sad. Sad Sad follows a woman who experiences a duplicity of self in the form of either human or raptor. keywords: sad cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv95f7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv95f7c.txt item: #1965 of 4945 id: cv43nv95z9q author: Elisabetta Drudi title: The Golden Age and Roman Imperial Autocracy: The Power of Myth-Making in Creating Political Consensus date: 1904 words: 199 flesch: 23 summary: The ideological association of the Golden Age with autocratic power did not emerge as a monolithic cultural program as soon as the first emperor Augustus established the Principate; it was the product of a progressive appropriation of the traditional constituents of the myth – peace, prosperity, justice, equity, social equality, harmony of men and nature, guaranteed by the rule of the god Saturn – in literary and material culture, which over time created a symbolism that immediately identified the imperial regime. The chronological trajectory of the myth which this project examines reveals how the rhetoric of the Golden Age came to be a cultural discourse in Roman society, which eventually substantiated imperial ideology. keywords: golden cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv95z9q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv95z9q.txt item: #1966 of 4945 id: cv43nv96d18 author: Brooke Stemple title: Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry of the Engineered Deep Biosphere Exposed to Carbon Storage and Hydraulic Fracturing Environments date: 2022 words: 667 flesch: 16 summary: Our microbial community analysis revealed important microbial taxa with putative functions including sulfide and acid production, and biofilm formation that could affect reservoir quality and the long-term storage of CO2 in this system. This dissertation work sheds light on microbial community composition in a potential carbon storage reservoir to understand how CO2-impacted microbial communities may influence the fate and permeance of stored CO2. keywords: microbial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv96d18.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv96d18.txt item: #1967 of 4945 id: cv43nv96d5n author: Paul Friesen title: Democratic Enculturation: Explaining Inaugural Party Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa date: 2022 words: 590 flesch: 26 summary: First, inaugural ruling parties continue to benefit from nationalist branding, the strength of which is determined by the degree of struggle against colonialist regimes. Inaugural ruling parties may be integrated into the military, state bureaucracy, and national vision of the country in ways that create both material and symbolic advantages that cannot be rivaled by opposition parties. keywords: party cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv96d5n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv96d5n.txt item: #1968 of 4945 id: cv43nv96f7n author: Han Gao title: Scientific Deep Learning for Forward and Inverse Modeling of Spatiotemporal Physics date: 2023 words: 94 flesch: 17 summary: To achieve this, modern deep learning models for complex systems were developed by integrating machine learning, numerical methods, and probabilistic modeling. Taken together, the frameworks presented in this thesis offer useful insight into the impact of modern deep learning models on solving challenging spatiotemporal systems in physics. keywords: learning cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cv43nv96f7n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cv43nv96f7n.txt item: #1969 of 4945 id: cz30pr78h8x author: Amy M McHenry title: Immunological characterization of the P. vivax DBP date: 2009 words: 354 flesch: 41 summary: Clinical symptoms of malaria are caused by the blood stage of the disease in which the parasites invade red blood cells, replicate inside them and then are released into the circulation to invade new red blood cells. This process results in the destruction of large numbers of red blood cells causing fever and chills and severe anemia among other symptoms. keywords: pvdbp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr78h8x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr78h8x.txt item: #1970 of 4945 id: cz30pr78h98 author: Gabriela Illiann Burgos Sol rzano title: Supercritical Fluid Technology: Computational and Experimental Equilibrium Studies and Design of Supercritical Extraction Processes date: 2004 words: 347 flesch: 19 summary: Among all the wide variety of interesting studies that can emerge from this technology, we focused on three main concerns to obtain a better insight into SCF's: (1) the computational study of high-pressure chemical and multiphase equilibrium and the importance of mathematical validation of the number of phases and composition after reaction, (2) the experimental and modeling of solubilities of solutes in SCF's, and (3) the design and optimization of supercritical extraction processes (SFE). Finally, a computational method for the optimization of SFE processes is studied. keywords: supercritical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr78h98.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr78h98.txt item: #1971 of 4945 id: cz30pr78j0g author: Paul Edward Slaboch title: Fluid Mechanics and Passive Control of the Flow-Excited Helmholtz Resonator date: 2010 words: 325 flesch: 49 summary: The forcing magnitude was found to increase with speed over a range of flow speeds. The resulting expressions were used to guide an experimental program designed to obtain measurements of the resonator pressure under flow excitation, as well as the dynamics of the shear layer in the orifice using Particle Image Velocimetry. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr78j0g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr78j0g.txt item: #1972 of 4945 id: cz30pr78j6j author: Feride Tiglay title: The Cauchy Problem for Two Nonlinear Evolution Equations date: 2005 words: 75 flesch: 52 summary: Modifying the techniques developed for Euler equations of hydrodynamics, we prove local well-posedness results in Sobolev spaces. Finally we describe the Hamiltonian structure of the Euler-Poisson equation on a semidirect product space. keywords: equation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr78j6j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr78j6j.txt item: #1973 of 4945 id: cz30pr78k0s author: Lindsay Ann Seders title: Experimental Studies of Geochemical Reactions that Affect the Mobility of Metals and Nanoparticles of Environmental Interest date: 2010 words: 228 flesch: 16 summary: Three experimental studies will be described: 1) flow-through column experiments to study the effects of NOM on Cd(II) mobility and of Cd(II) on NOM sorptive fractionation in various types of mineral sands; 2) an investigation of influence of pH, nanoparticle size, and nanoparticle concentration on the adhesion of titanium dioxide nanoparticles to silica and iron-coated silica grains; and 3) the use of potentiometric titrations and chemical equilibrium modeling to evaluate the proton binding of bacterial exudates collected from Gram-positive (Bacillus subtilis) and Gram-negative (Shewanella oneidensis) bacterial species. This research focuses on the interactions of NOM, cadmium (Cd(II)), and nanoparticles with geosorbents, as well as the potential reactivity of bacterial exudates, under a range of aqueous conditions. keywords: adhesion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr78k0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr78k0s.txt item: #1974 of 4945 id: cz30pr78k14 author: Nahyan A.G. Fancy title: Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: The Interaction of Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in the Works of Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288) date: 2006 words: 369 flesch: 35 summary: In the process, it provides a new framework with which to understand the relationship between reason and revelation in Islamic societies, and suggests new ways to revisit the entire problem of the decline of Islamic science. Traditionally, historians of science have only been interested in Islamic science because of its relationship to Greek science, and in the ways in which it was instrumental in transporting Aristotle, Ptolemy and Galen to the West. keywords: science cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr78k14.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr78k14.txt item: #1975 of 4945 id: cz30pr79730 author: Anh P Ha title: Parental Post Conflict Explanations: Implications for Children's Adjustment Outcomes date: 1904 words: 154 flesch: 15 summary: The identification of these post-conflict explanations represents a step forward in detecting destructive communication behaviors in hope of incorporating novel interventions in projects designed to improve communication and security within the family. Longitudinal mediation analyses were conducted for these subscales' effect on adolescent internalizing and externalizing outcomes and indirect effect as mediated by emotional security. keywords: conflict cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr79730.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr79730.txt item: #1976 of 4945 id: cz30pr79792 author: Alexander Wimberly title: Present Witness: The Confession of 1967 and the Travails of Presbyterians in American Society date: 1904 words: 354 flesch: 31 summary: In particular, studying the Confession of 1967 shows why the denomination's response to James Forman's Black Manifesto and its support of Angela Davis's legal defense fund crystallized divisions within and between Presbyterian denominations. In so doing, denominational leaders risked splitting their church along lines that divided Americans more generally, rather than uniting it around a shared belief and common purpose. keywords: church cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr79792.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr79792.txt item: #1977 of 4945 id: cz30pr79d4w author: Charles C. Yost title: The Thought and Ministry of a "Unionist Priest" (ἑνωτικὸς ἱερεύς): John Plousiadenos (†1500), the Council of Florence, and the Tradition of Byzantine Unionism date: 2019 words: 381 flesch: 26 summary: This dissertation examines the phenomenon of the unionists: medieval Greek Christians who were united to the Roman Church and urged their countrymen to do likewise through the lens provided by the life and writings of the still poorly-known Cretan polymath and priest John Plousiadenos (c. 1426-1500), a theologian, pastor, and defender of the union between the Greek and Latin Churches proclaimed at the Council of Florence (1439).Because of his unionist convictions, John was reviled by his own countrymen as a Λατινόφρων (Latin-minded). This dissertation strives to understand the unionist perspective on its own terms—rather than those of its contemporary or modern critics—through the investigation of the pastoral and polemical theology of John Plousiadenos: one of the final, and most outstanding, representatives of the Byzantine tradition of unionism. keywords: plousiadenos cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr79d4w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr79d4w.txt item: #1978 of 4945 id: cz30pr79k95 author: Linh Nguyen title: Essays in Development Economics date: 2020 words: 299 flesch: 37 summary: One stylized fact in development economics is that a large share of the labor force in developing countries is concentrated in agriculture even though their agricultural productivity is much lower than their non-agricultural productivity. The second chapter investigates the effect of land titling on employment migration and education migration of rural households as land market frictions can hinder labor mobility in developing countries. keywords: countries cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr79k95.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr79k95.txt item: #1979 of 4945 id: cz30pr79n0p author: Giovanni Di Cristina Torres title: Forced Convective Flame-Flow Interactions in Discrete Fuel Arrays date: 2021 words: 308 flesch: 49 summary: The array was set up at various element to element spacings and subject to a range of flow speeds. In order to incorporate the effects of the changing mixing conditions and flame behaviors, a stagnation point flow model is employed for the heat flux. keywords: flame cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr79n0p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr79n0p.txt item: #1980 of 4945 id: cz30pr79n3q author: Pitambar Sapkota title: Photoelectron Spectroscopic Studies of Energy Converting Semiconductor Materials and Their Interfaces with Molecular Gases date: 2021 words: 226 flesch: 32 summary: This increasing energy demand has forced policy makers and the scientific community to search for alternative energy sources and optimize the conventional sources of energy. For a long time, people have been trying to find more efficient ways to convert other forms of energies such as solar, wind, and geothermal energy to electrical energy. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr79n3q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr79n3q.txt item: #1981 of 4945 id: cz30pr79n42 author: Ross Jensen title: Love and the Politics of Place date: 2021 words: 209 flesch: 47 summary: For the most part, environmental virtue ethicists have not talked much about love. The first major claim of this dissertation is that love of home is the preeminent environmental virtue. keywords: love cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr79n42.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr79n42.txt item: #1982 of 4945 id: cz30pr79p1b author: Nicholas Geneva title: Modern Deep Learning for Modeling Dynamical Systems date: 2022 words: 119 flesch: 26 summary: Advances in deep learning have made constructing, training and deploying deep neural networks more accessible than ever before. By leveraging these recent deep neural network advancements and probabilistic frameworks, powerful deep learning surrogates of physical systems can predict complex mutli-scale features. keywords: learning cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr79p1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr79p1b.txt item: #1983 of 4945 id: cz30pr79q3b author: Timothy Tetrault title: Solution and Solid-State NMR Studies to Advance the Application of MA'AT Analysis for Structural and Conformational Analysis of Saccharides date: 2023 words: 355 flesch: 28 summary: The method relies on redundant NMR J-values and density functional theory (DFT) calculations to probability distributions of molecular torsion angles in aqueous environments and circular standard deviations (CSDs) to evaluate librational motions about these torsion angles. The results from Chapter 5 are to determine the context effects that the Glc3Man tetrasaccharide has on its individual O-glycosidic linkages, to determine the ability of MA'AT Analysis to detect the presence of two major conformers, and increase the robustness of the MA'AT method. keywords: ma'at cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr79q3b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr79q3b.txt item: #1984 of 4945 id: cz30pr79q9d author: Lance Carroll title: KAIROS date: 2023 words: 6 flesch: 45 summary: A hybrid memoir about conversion therapy. keywords: therapy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/cz30pr79q9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/cz30pr79q9d.txt item: #1985 of 4945 id: d217qn61s8s author: Peter James Bui title: AIR: Accelerated Image Registration date: 2010 words: 154 flesch: 29 summary: This compares favorably to recent image registration studies, but it also indicates that our implementation only reaches about 70% of theoretical peak performance. To analyze our results, we utilize profiling data to identify some of the underlying limitations of CUDA that prohibit peak performance. keywords: performance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61s8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61s8s.txt item: #1986 of 4945 id: d217qn61t21 author: Yuting Wang title: An Uncertain Future: Negotiating Multiple Identities in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Mosque in the Post-9.11 United States date: 2010 words: 197 flesch: 24 summary: This dissertation contributes to the growing literature on American Muslims, especially on their religious life and identity issues in the post-9.11 American society, as well as the general literature on immigrant religion. The core question is that how Muslim immigrants negotiate their multiple identities in relation to the racial/ethnic differences, divergent visions of Islam, varied socioeconomic status, competing views of gender roles and ambivalent attitudes toward American society among the younger generations. keywords: american cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61t21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61t21.txt item: #1987 of 4945 id: d217qn61t3c author: Drew Kalbach title: Planchette, Loud, Spooky Plan date: 2013 words: 21 flesch: 56 summary: Planchette, Loud, Spooky Plan is a manuscript of poetry that deals with media, culture, the internet, and other online-related issues. keywords: planchette cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61t3c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61t3c.txt item: #1988 of 4945 id: d217qn61t4q author: Xiangyi Liu title: Application of Mechano-Regulatory Tissue Differentiation Theory in Tendon Attachment Scaffold Design - A Finite Element Study date: 2008 words: 354 flesch: 36 summary: Taken together, the results of this research showed that mechano-regulatory models is capable of predicting tissue ingrowth into porous scaffold and can be useful for designing implant or ingrowth scaffold to stimulate ingrowth of different tissue, bone, dense fibrous tissue or fibrocartilage. The formation of different tissues from an initial population of stem cells after injury is referred to as tissue differentiation. keywords: tissue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61t4q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61t4q.txt item: #1989 of 4945 id: d217qn61t52 author: Jessica Mary Zekus title: Youthful Days date: 2012 words: 402 flesch: 67 summary: Our memories of both extremes (and everything in between) contribute to shaping who we are, how we see ourselves, and how we view others. It is a time during which self-discovery is dependent on the presence and affirmation of others. keywords: memories cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61t52.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61t52.txt item: #1990 of 4945 id: d217qn61t6d author: Matthew Van Hook title: Alexander Hamilton: A Theory of Statesmanship date: 2015 words: 347 flesch: 49 summary: In the apex of Hamilton's political career he distinguished two regimes—free and absolute—and offered a multi-tiered proposal on forms of government suited for the perpetuation of the free regime, accounting for the habits, mores, and present opinions of its citizens. He began with the public consensus that the American body politic was connected with free government and elucidated its natural rights source and the principle foundations of the English constitution and colonial charters which put it into practice. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61t6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61t6d.txt item: #1991 of 4945 id: d217qn61t83 author: Michael Thomas Hartney title: Turning Out Teachers: The Causes and Consequences of Teacher Political Activism in the Postwar United States date: 2014 words: 357 flesch: 20 summary: I first demonstrate that the wave of public sector collective bargaining laws enacted by states during the 1960s and 1970s helped catalyze teacher political activism by decreasing the costs for teachers unions to mobilize rank-and-file teachers to participate more in politics. Namely, if teachers and their unions are as dominant a force in education politics as the conventional wisdom portends they are, why is the quantitative research literature on teacher unions effects so inconclusive at establishing those effects? keywords: teachers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61t83.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61t83.txt item: #1992 of 4945 id: d217qn61t9f author: Yanghai Yu title: Photoelectronic Properties of CdSe and CdTe Nanowires date: 2010 words: 454 flesch: 42 summary: Additional studies were conducted to grow wires on other substrates such as silicon, glass, indium-tin-oxide coated glass coverslips and TeflonÌ¢_å¢. While the polarization sensitivity of single or aligned NW ensembles is a well known phenomenon, we surprisingly found the existence of a residual photocurrent polarization sensitivity even in random NW networks. The main conclusion from these studies, however, is that polarization sensitive devices can be made from random NW networks without the need to align component wires. keywords: nws cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61t9f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61t9f.txt item: #1993 of 4945 id: d217qn61v0n author: Marlene Leydy Daut title: Science of Desire: Race and Representations of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1865 date: 2008 words: 389 flesch: 40 summary: This dissertation reads representations of the Haitian Revolution with and against the popular historical understanding of the events as the result of the influence of enlightenment philosophy or the Declaration of the Rights of Man on Toussaint L'Ouverture; or what I have called a literacy narrative. In chapter three I analyze the trope of the tragic mulatto/a in French abolitionist Alphonse de Lamartine's verse drama Toussaint L'Ouverture (1850); the Louisiana born Victor S jour's short story, The Mulatto (1837); and Haitian author Em ric Bergeaud's Stella (1859). keywords: revolution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61v0n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61v0n.txt item: #1994 of 4945 id: d217qn61v3p author: Yvonne Anya Gaspar title: Between The Plant Sciences: Richard Bradley's Study of Horticulture, Botany and Landscape Design date: 2012 words: 228 flesch: 23 summary: Of particular interest are his efforts to develop technological solutions to aesthetic problems in design of the garden, such as his proposal for the construction of scale models of gardens that allowed designers to visualize the effects of different prospects by mapping the lines of sight at different views. Conclusions will argue for an understanding of the way in which horticulture might be seen to act as an intermediary for changes in eighteenth-century arts and sciences. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61v3p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61v3p.txt item: #1995 of 4945 id: d217qn61v41 author: Min Xie title: Channel Access and Packet Scheduling in Wireless Multihop Networks with QoS Guarantees date: 2008 words: 274 flesch: 37 summary: Packet dropping strategies are employed to guarantee delay constraints and reduce unnecessary energyconsumption. The Quality of Service (QoS) parameters under study include delay, packet loss rate, throughput, and capacity. keywords: wireless cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61v41.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61v41.txt item: #1996 of 4945 id: d217qn61v5c author: Lynda Brigytt Letona Rodriguez title: Fugitive Lovers date: 2014 words: 164 flesch: 34 summary: After reading an article in National Geographic titled The Mysterious End of Moctezuma, in a special History issue, I began thinking about the conquest and creating a fictional character whose name I would find a year later, after I read Bartolomé de Las Casas' A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, during a Caribbean Literature course taught by poet and Creative Director Orlando Menes. In the first part of this poetry series, I'm reimagining Bartolomé de Las Casas as a priest who is very invested in this subaltern narrative and trying to help their cause not merely out of duty to his faith, but out of love for the fictional figure of Anacaída. keywords: fictional cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61v5c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61v5c.txt item: #1997 of 4945 id: d217qn61v6q author: Karolina Serafin title: Culture in Second Language Acquisition date: 2006 words: 231 flesch: 54 summary: In order to understand the importance of culture for the second language acquisition the author analyzes the nature of culture within this specific context and its connection with language, and proves that the teaching of target culture brings benefits to teaching of foreign lanaguage. The author reviews the significance of the teaching of second culture looking for asnwers to several questions, such as: Is it possible to separate language from culture? keywords: language cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61v6q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61v6q.txt item: #1998 of 4945 id: d217qn61w5p author: MacKenzie Warren title: Neutrinos in Core-Collapse Supernovae date: 1904 words: 569 flesch: 38 summary: I have found that the accretion process itself does not does not provide sufficient X-ray luminosity to explain the observed gamma ray burst X-ray precursor. This equation of state is built upon the framework of the Bowers & Wilson EoS, but with many updates, including a reformulation to a Density Functional Theory approach, the incorporation of 3-body forces at high densities, an improved treatment of the transition to heavy nuclei at high densities, and the possibility of a first-order or crossover transition to a deconfined quark phase at densities above nuclear matter density. keywords: neutrino cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61w5p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61w5p.txt item: #1999 of 4945 id: d217qn61x50 author: Andrew John Allen Geist title: 'He Will Repay Him With Good': The Relationship Between Wealth and Piety in Mesopotamia and Ancient Israel date: 1904 words: 347 flesch: 42 summary: The study reveals a shared theological grammar of wealth and piety which surfaces in three forms: the dangerous or illusory quality of wealth, economic generosity as a form of piety, and economic metaphors for piety. In identifying these features of the relationship between wealth and piety the study explores the conceptual ancestry of Second Temple Jewish and early Christian theologies of wealth and almsgiving. keywords: wealth cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn61x50.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn61x50.txt item: #2000 of 4945 id: d217qn62j1g author: Anne L Tufts title: Numerical Investigation of Sound Generation by Airfoil Interaction with a Turbulent Shear Layer date: 1904 words: 303 flesch: 46 summary: Near the trailing edge of both the center and high airfoils an increase in high-frequency spectral levels is observed, confirming important trailing-edge contribution to the high-frequency radiated sound. Results show good agreement with experimental spectra of leading edge noise over a wide frequency range. keywords: airfoil cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn62j1g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn62j1g.txt item: #2001 of 4945 id: d217qn62j5v author: Jared A. Lamp title: Electrophoretic and Chromatographic Separations with Mass Spectrometry Detection for Peptide, Glycan, and Antibody Analysis date: 2018 words: 116 flesch: 24 summary: I first investigate the proteome of wing imaginal discs of Drosophila melanogaster larvae incubated in adult Drosophila melanogaster extract. 6G. Finally, capillary isoelectric focusing coupled to ESI-TOF-MS is used for the online focusing, separation, and identification of monoclonal antibody charge state variants. keywords: mass cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn62j5v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn62j5v.txt item: #2002 of 4945 id: d217qn62w4m author: Justin Saxby title: The Sublime Unselfing of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Sermons date: 2020 words: 113 flesch: 23 summary: This dissertation suggests that Ralph Waldo Emerson's sermons may be fruitfully read as Christian mystical texts in light of Bernard McGinn's discussion of Western Christian mysticism. More specifically: Emerson's sermons, read systematically with McGinn's historical survey in mind, describe the preparation, pursuit, experience and expression of a mystical encounter with the Divine. keywords: mystical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn62w4m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn62w4m.txt item: #2003 of 4945 id: d217qn62x1w author: Nicholas P. Roberts title: A Sea of Wealth: Sayyid Saʿid bin Sultan, His Omani Empire, and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace date: 2021 words: 272 flesch: 42 summary: Most broadly, I aim to show how the makings of the modern world lie as much in places like East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as in places like England or New England. I use the reign of Oman's longest serving ruler, Saʿid bin Sultan (1804/6-1856), as a lens for highlighting the formative role the Omani Empire played in uniting the Atlantic and Indian Oceans into a shared oceanic marketplace, a crucial step in the emergence of modern global capitalism. keywords: empire cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn62x1w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn62x1w.txt item: #2004 of 4945 id: d217qn62z78 author: Maria Cristina Miranda Vergara title: Microenvironmental Changes by Stromal MMP3 Regulate Primary Tumor Growth and Lung Metastasis in Breast Cancer date: 2022 words: 453 flesch: 38 summary: In contrast to the inhibitory role for stromal MMP3 in the primary tumors, stromal MMP3 was required for lung metastasis by orthotopic transplantation of breast cancer cells. In contrast, stromal MMP3 inhibited lung metastasis by tail vein injections of breast cancer cells, suggesting that MMP3 impacts metastasis by effects at the primary tumor site. keywords: mmp3 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn62z78.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn62z78.txt item: #2005 of 4945 id: d217qn6303g author: Craig Waitt title: First-Principles Studies of Heterogeneous Catalytic Systems: Reactivity and Stability of Surfaces and Zeolites date: 2022 words: 357 flesch: 37 summary: First, I describe and present several approaches to evaluate the free energy and entropy of adsorbed atoms and molecules on metal surfaces. These observations can then be extended to better understand how hydrolysis occurs in zeolites. keywords: present cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d217qn6303g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d217qn6303g.txt item: #2006 of 4945 id: d504rj4530p author: Joel N Jimenez Lozano title: Peristaltic Flow with Application to Ureteral Biomechanics date: 2010 words: 671 flesch: 46 summary: It is concluded that peristaltic pumping is affected as particle volume fraction is increased. This is motivated by the possible presence of particles accompanying ureteral peristalsis. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj4530p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj4530p.txt item: #2007 of 4945 id: d504rj45311 author: Kristen Nicole Fleming title: Total Synthesis of the Cytotoxic Natural Products Myriaporones 1, 3, and 4 and Related Analogues date: 2004 words: 342 flesch: 33 summary: Our interest in these molecules stemmed from their demonstrated antitumor activity, as well as their structural similarity to a highly potent class of natural products, the tedanolides. Through completion of the total syntheses and NMR comparisons with the natural products, the absolute stereochemistry of this class of natural products has now been determined. keywords: myriaporones cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj45311.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj45311.txt item: #2008 of 4945 id: d504rj4532c author: Brian Scott Dudley title: Flavor Physics Effect on Beyond the Standard Model Physics date: 2010 words: 498 flesch: 56 summary: A charged Higgs below $150$~GeV is allowed in both these scenarios, though for different ranges of $ aneta$.Finally, I will examine how quark flavor physics affects the lepton sector, particularly its effect on neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. After taking account that these operators themselves can induce neutrino masses, I find that there are only four neutrinoless double beta operators exist which both pass neutrino mass bounds and can be probed by both the LHC and current neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. keywords: susy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj4532c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj4532c.txt item: #2009 of 4945 id: d504rj4538f author: Mireya Garcia-Duran Huet title: Reconciliation: Seeking Peace and Justice Through Non-Oppression date: 2004 words: 144 flesch: 48 summary: This thesis argues that oppression can be seen as a continuum in which oppressive reactions to oppression appear, limiting the reconciliation process. Specifically, it looks at the wys in which non-violent peace seekers react to oppression. keywords: oppression cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj4538f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj4538f.txt item: #2010 of 4945 id: d504rj4542p author: Jeremy Newkirk title: Measurement and Quantification of the Human Shoulder Girdle Motion and Design of a Humanoid Shoulder Girdle Mechanism with Minimal Actuation date: 2013 words: 328 flesch: 40 summary: The results from the data collection were used to find the optimal configuration for this mechanism to mimic human shoulder girdle motion. The results indicate that the optimized mechanism well approximates the motion of the human shoulder girdle, making it the first mechanism that replicates human shoulder girdle motion with minimal actuation. keywords: motion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj4542p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj4542p.txt item: #2011 of 4945 id: d504rj45431 author: Tonia L. Warnecke title: The Incorporation of Gender in Economic Development date: 2007 words: 355 flesch: 39 summary: While, on the surface, this makes the importance of gender seem apparent, it also isolates gender research from other divisions such as macroeconomics and growth. Although many economists study issues of gender equality in microeconomic analyses, the ways that gender interacts with the macroeconomy have only recently become a subject of interest. keywords: gender cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj45431.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj45431.txt item: #2012 of 4945 id: d504rj45509 author: Matthew J. Meagher title: Engineering Synthetic Bone Graft Substitutes with Improved Mechanical Properties, Enhanced Bioactivity, and On-Demand Growth Factor Delivery date: 1904 words: 273 flesch: 11 summary: In a subsequent study using an orthotopic critical-size femoral defect model in rats, collagen scaffolds did not exhibit bone formation, while HA-collagen scaffolds exhibited bone formation but did not result in mechanically competent union, confirming the need to augment scaffolds with exogenous growth factors for functional bone regeneration. HA promoted angiogenesis and osteogenesis in collagen scaffolds that did not otherwise exhibit angiogenesis and osteogenesis, and the effect was dose dependent. keywords: scaffolds cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj45509.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj45509.txt item: #2013 of 4945 id: d504rj45551 author: Benjamin J. Wetzel title: American Crusade: Lyman Abbott and the Christian Nation at War, 1861-1918 date: 1904 words: 208 flesch: 26 summary: For Abbott as well as for these counterpoint groups, ideological orientation and social position did the most to shape perspectives on American warfare and influence their wartime commentary. An understanding of American history in the Civil War Era, Gilded Age, and Progressive Era remains incomplete without reckoning with the ways religion was mobilized to support or oppose warfare. keywords: american cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj45551.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj45551.txt item: #2014 of 4945 id: d504rj4556c author: Joseph S. Manser title: Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskites for Light Energy Conversion: Excited State Properties and Photovoltaic Applications date: 1904 words: 368 flesch: 20 summary: Advancements in thin film processing and our understanding of the underlying structural, photophysical, and electronic properties of these materials over the past several years have led to development of perovskite solar cells with power conversion efficiencies that rival much more mature first- and second-generation technologies. Time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy serves as a principle tool in these investigations to analyze excited state decay kinetics and optical nonlinearities in perovskite thin films. keywords: perovskite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj4556c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj4556c.txt item: #2015 of 4945 id: d504rj45s5m author: Lorraine V. Cuddeback title: Liberation, Resistance, and Agency in Intellectual Disability: An Ethnographic Study for Christian Ethics date: 1904 words: 275 flesch: 33 summary: The primary thesis of this dissertation is that in order to shape an adequate and inclusive response to disability, the Church must listen to the voices and experiences of those with disabilities — especially people with intellectual disabilities. Ethnography serves as a tool for accessing — albeit imperfectly, and mediated through myself as the researcher — the standpoint of people with intellectual disabilities (the epistemic privilege of the poor). keywords: people cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj45s5m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj45s5m.txt item: #2016 of 4945 id: d504rj45t1j author: Christopher R. J. Scheirer title: Written in Stone: The Roman Epigraphic Tradition and Anglo-Saxon Literature date: 1904 words: 320 flesch: 37 summary: This dissertation explores the transmission and reception of Roman epigraphic poetry in early-medieval England, using intensive source-study analysis to demonstrate its profound influence on native Anglo-Saxon literary culture. The dissertation also shows how Roman verse inscriptions not only influenced works composed by Anglo-Saxon authors in Latin, but also infiltrated their vernacular poetry in significant ways. keywords: anglo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj45t1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj45t1j.txt item: #2017 of 4945 id: d504rj45z6h author: Meenu Garg title: A Membrane-Based Biofilm Photobioreactor for Enhanced Algal Growth Rates date: 2019 words: 137 flesch: 50 summary: Results suggest the proposed system would lead to higher algae growth rates, especially when high light intensity is used. Both 1-D and 2-D biofilm models were developed to assess performance compared to conventional algal biofilm reactors. keywords: biofilm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj45z6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj45z6h.txt item: #2018 of 4945 id: d504rj46439 author: Nancy Aguillón Díaz title: White Stars and Stripes: The Effect of Race on Flag Displays at U.S. Protest Events date: 2019 words: 118 flesch: 39 summary: A critical analysis of the racist, colonialist, and exclusionary creation of the U.S. flag, theories on insider and outsider dynamics, as well as the racial formation process, demonstrate how the U.S. flag has been largely coopted by majority white protest groups, and majority non-white protest groups are less likely to use the flag in their claims making efforts. Protest participation speaks to group and individual civic engagement patterns, and collective identity mechanisms. keywords: protest cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj46439.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj46439.txt item: #2019 of 4945 id: d504rj4646b author: Cunjia Qiu title: Characterization of Plasminogen-Binding Group A Streptococcal M Proteins from the Aspects of Function, Structure, and Evolution date: 2019 words: 383 flesch: 49 summary: Although all PAMs tightly bind to hPg in a nM range at 25 °C, the reduction of α-helical content at 37 °C makes class II PAMs that only contain the a2-repeat interact with hPg ~1,000 times weaker, but impacts little to hPg-binding of class I/III PAMs containing complete a1a2-repeats. However, this protection disappears when the a1-repeat is absent in class II PAMs. keywords: pams cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj4646b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj4646b.txt item: #2020 of 4945 id: d504rj4663x author: Yunyang Gu title: Influence of Loading on Tissue Differentiation and Bone Ingrowth in a Three-Dimensional Finite Element Model with the Application of Mechano-Regulation Algorithm date: 2021 words: 217 flesch: 36 summary: Fourth, low levels of shear micromotion stimulated successful bone ingrowth in the model, while 20 µm or higher shear micromotion caused the interface's failure, which is similar to the clinical outcome for similar ingrowth surfaces. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of various mechanical loading scenarios on osseointegration of an additively manufactured surface coating for orthopedic implants. keywords: tissue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj4663x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj4663x.txt item: #2021 of 4945 id: d504rj46915 author: Melissa Yorio title: Early Christian Graffiti in the Basilica of Saint Felix, Cimitile date: 2023 words: 112 flesch: 41 summary: This thesis analyses the fourth-century hand-written wall inscriptions found in the Basilica of Saint Felix in Cimitile/Nola, and uses them to explore the non-Christian context of Campania in its relationship to the larger early Christian community in the Mediterranean. I introduce the history, context, and layout of the Basilica Vetus in Cimitile. keywords: context cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d504rj46915.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d504rj46915.txt item: #2022 of 4945 id: d791sf28c0q author: Amit Kumar Verma title: Modulating Extreme Electron Densities in Complex Oxides date: 2015 words: 434 flesch: 41 summary: We also demonstrate SrTiO3/GdTiO3 Schottky diodes and HEMTs on LSAT substrate modulating ~1014 cm-2 electron density, and SrTiO3/GdTiO3 Schottky diodes on (100) Si substrates modulating greater than 1.1 x 1014 cm-2 electron density. Using temperature-dependent capacitance-voltage measurements on SrTiO3 Schottky diodes, we have discovered a ferroelectric transition in compressively strained SrTiO3 grown on LSAT substrates. keywords: srtio3 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28c0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28c0q.txt item: #2023 of 4945 id: d791sf28c5f author: Katelyn Ann Seprish title: The Strange Hair and the Pretty Nipple date: 2015 words: 527 flesch: 53 summary: One traditional elicitor of pleasure is beauty, but this notion is problematic because there are innumerable definitions as to what exactly it means; simply put, what is considered beautiful varies greatly between historical periods and different cultures. The summation of my quest is eloquently stated by Carolyn Korsmeyer: The complexity of aversive emotions bound up with artistic beauty creates a zone where horrid, beautiful, sublime and sublate can be difficult to distinguish. keywords: beauty cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28c5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28c5f.txt item: #2024 of 4945 id: d791sf28c6s author: Carly M Kemmis title: Investigation of 1,25(OH)2D3 synthesis and vitamin D3 signaling in human mammary epithelial cells date: 2008 words: 310 flesch: 30 summary: In contrast, DBP blunted the efficacy of 25D in MCF-7 cells, suggesting altered vitamin D signaling in breast cancer cells. Furthermore, we demonstrated internalization of vitamin D binding protein (DBP), CYP27B1 activity and 1,25D synthesis in mammary cells. keywords: vitamin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28c6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28c6s.txt item: #2025 of 4945 id: d791sf28c74 author: Ayan Paul title: Charm Beyond the Standard Model date: 2012 words: 463 flesch: 52 summary: These modes are dominated by long distance contributions and for new dynamics to produce any enhancements to the decay rates, the short distance contribution to these modes have to be enhanced by orders of magnitude, a task which is difficult in most new dynamics scenarios. With current results from CDF and LHCb on the asymmetry in D^0vto pi+pi- and D^0 to K+K- the ambiguity regarding whether D physics can or is showing hints of new dynamics has been given a new life. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28c74.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28c74.txt item: #2026 of 4945 id: d791sf28c8g author: Mary L Beard title: Reaction Rate Calculations in Dense Stellar Matter date: 2010 words: 219 flesch: 45 summary: The primary of these reaction mechanisms are electron capture reactions, which are activated for different isotopes depending on the electron Fermi energy. In this context it has been found that with increasing mass density, the rigid Coulomb lattice of the neutron star crust dissolves into the isotopes 40Mg and 46Si, with an integrates energy release of between ~ 1.8 MeV/u and ~ 2.4 MeV/u, depending on lattice models. keywords: reactions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28c8g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28c8g.txt item: #2027 of 4945 id: d791sf28d01 author: Amaresh Malipatil title: Parameter Estimation in Distributed Sensor Networks and CFO Estimation in OFDM Systems date: 2014 words: 417 flesch: 35 summary: We also solve NLT maximization for the case of optimum energy with a constraint on total energy. This approach also leads to a solution framework that relates maximizing NLT to network performance, i.e., meeting a performance constraint defined based on the mean-squared-deviation (MSD) of the consensus estimate. keywords: nlt cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28d01.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28d01.txt item: #2028 of 4945 id: d791sf28d1c author: Jim Thomas title: Automated Damage Assessment from High Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery date: 2010 words: 166 flesch: 45 summary: A careful analysis of images from before and after an event facilitates rapid detection and assessment of building damage. First the pre-event and post-event images are registered automatically. keywords: damage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28d1c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28d1c.txt item: #2029 of 4945 id: d791sf28d2q author: Andrea Lindsay Turpin title: Gender, Religion, and Moral Vision in the American Academy, 1837-1917 date: 2011 words: 354 flesch: 28 summary: Instead, institutions transmitted moral visions whose particulars were grounded in a conception of the sex-specific types of future service students could render their communities. The advent of women's higher education helped shape a new understanding of student moral formation for a more secular age. keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28d2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28d2q.txt item: #2030 of 4945 id: d791sf28d5r author: Thomas Alan Duster title: Experimental Determination of Metal Sorption and Transport Parameters for Graphene Oxide date: 2013 words: 170 flesch: 36 summary: The goal of this dissertation is to measure the ability of graphene oxide (GO) to adsorb protons and metals, and to assess its mobility in saturated porous media. We use surface complexation modeling to calculate equilibrium constants for the surface sorption reactions between MLGO and protons, Cd, Pb, and U(VI), and we account for ionic strength effects as a competition between the target adsorbate and Na from the background electrolyte. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28d5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28d5r.txt item: #2031 of 4945 id: d791sf28d63 author: Alan Anthony Arico title: A Tribological Investigation of Carbon Carbon Composites and the Affect of Roughness and Waviness Parameters on Friction Performance date: 2010 words: 232 flesch: 47 summary: For waviness profiles, the comparison shows for an increase in torque and effectiveness, and a decrease in stop time, with a 90% confidence there is a 55% decrease in skewness (Rsk), 29% increase in high spot count (RHSC), a 31% increase in maximum valley depth (Rv), a 26% increase in mean spacing of local peak (RS), and a 4% increase in mean arithmetic wavelength (Rla). The comparison shows for an increase in torque and effectiveness, and a decrease in stop time, with a 90% confidence there is a 29% decrease in skewness (Rsk), 150% decrease in high spot count (RHSC), an 18% increase in maximum valley depth (Rv), a 38% increase in mean spacing of local peaks (RS), and a 20% increase in mean arithmetic wavelength (Rla) with an increase in torque when roughness is analyzed. keywords: increase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28d63.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28d63.txt item: #2032 of 4945 id: d791sf28d7f author: Karilyn Goden Sheldon title: Materia in the Material World of Butrint: Wooden Remains from the Roman Forum date: 2015 words: 61 flesch: 61 summary: Discovered several meters below the Roman Forum, the wooden remains shed light on Butrint's early history, between the 7th century B.C. and the Augustan period. This study discusses uses for wood in antiquity and available technologies, tools, and land use in Butrint. keywords: butrint cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28d7f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28d7f.txt item: #2033 of 4945 id: d791sf28d8s author: Gavin Maxwell Foster title: The Social Structures and Cultural Politics of the Irish Civil War date: 2010 words: 326 flesch: 40 summary: It argues that though the thorny political dilemma provoked by the controversial Anglo-Irish Treaty was the initial cause of the disastrous rupture in the Sinn FÌ©in movement, the political differences between the pro- and anti-Treaty camps reflected, drew upon, and became increasingly entwined with their divergent social outlooks, mentalities and material interests. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, a chapter demonstrates that pro- and anti-Treaty discourses åÐ particularly in terms of how the two sides perceived each other åÐ were freighted with powerful class and social status resonances. keywords: irish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28d8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28d8s.txt item: #2034 of 4945 id: d791sf28f3c author: Aaron S. Donahue title: A Pressure-Poisson Based Boussinesq-Type Phase Resolving Wave Model date: 1904 words: 474 flesch: 29 summary: The result is a Boussinesq--type pressure--Poisson model (PPBOUSS) that can be solved in a separate module and then coupled back into the SWE model. A straightforward numerics based wave breaking algorithm is employed in the nearshore and wave runup is captured using a globally mass conservative wetting/drying algorithm specifically designed for discontinuous Galerkin finite element models. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28f3c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28f3c.txt item: #2035 of 4945 id: d791sf28f7r author: Nathan T. Evans title: Improving Detection and Community Assessment of Rare and At-risk Fishes date: 1904 words: 352 flesch: 40 summary: I then evaluated how eDNA metabarcoding can be used to estimate fish species richness. I, however, caution that eDNA should not be viewed as a replacement for traditional sampling methods that provide unique information. keywords: edna cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28f7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28f7r.txt item: #2036 of 4945 id: d791sf28g72 author: Stephen J. Molvarec title: A City in the Wilderness: The Development of Social Relations in the Carthusian Order, 1084-1340 date: 1904 words: 409 flesch: 51 summary: Such involvement took a multitude of forms, including relations with donors, legal actions, involvement with Church governance, letter writing, and finally the establishment of monasteries in urban areas. The next three chapters explore images for Carthusian life found in the person of their founder, Bruno, in Guigo's Customary—the Carthusian rule, and in two twelfth-century polemics. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28g72.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28g72.txt item: #2037 of 4945 id: d791sf28k1x author: Meghan K. Cain title: ­­Fit for a Bayesian: An Evaluation of PPP and DIC date: 1904 words: 168 flesch: 50 summary: Posterior predictive p-values (PPP) and deviance information criteria (DIC) are now available in Mplus and WinBUGS for Bayesian model evaluation, but they remain under-utilized. Despite its importance to structural equation modeling, model evaluation remains underdeveloped in the Bayesian SEM framework. keywords: ppp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf28k1x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf28k1x.txt item: #2038 of 4945 id: d791sf2933j author: Brock E. Hedlund title: Measurement of Flow Perturbations Occurring Both Naturally and by Plasma Induction over a Mach 4.5 Corner Separation Zone date: 1904 words: 330 flesch: 39 summary: Three measurement methods were used to determine the frequency spectrum of flow perturbations: a high-frequency Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor, a laser differential interferometer, and high-frequency pressure sensors. Flow visualization was provided by a schlieren imaging system and planar laser Rayleigh scattering (PLRS) to characterize the flow structure with various Rel. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf2933j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf2933j.txt item: #2039 of 4945 id: d791sf2937x author: Alyssa C. Lesko title: Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Regulates Epithelial Membrane Protein 2 to Mediate 3D Morphogenesis and Apical-Basal Polarity date: 2018 words: 318 flesch: 29 summary: Through microarray analysis we made the novel observation that APC loss increased Epithelial Membrane Protein 2 (EMP2) expression. We previously demonstrated that APC knockdown (APCKD) in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cells altered cyst size and inverted polarity in 3D culture. keywords: apc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf2937x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf2937x.txt item: #2040 of 4945 id: d791sf2939m author: Trung T. Nguyen title: Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 as a Novel Target and a First-in-Class Therapeutic Agent for Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers date: 2018 words: 415 flesch: 46 summary: Topical application of ND-336-a MMP-9 selective inhibitor- accelerates wound repair of diabetic mice, and it demonstrates that upregulation of active MMP-9 is detrimental to diabetic wound healing. The enantiomerically pure (R)-ND-336 exhibits superior efficacy in inhibiting MMP-9, lowering ROS while improving diabetic wound healing significantly. keywords: diabetic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf2939m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf2939m.txt item: #2041 of 4945 id: d791sf2942h author: Julie W. Dallavis title: Does a School's Mission Matter? Exploring Changes in Statement Content, Use and Understanding, and Links to Student Achievement date: 2018 words: 495 flesch: 43 summary: Using mission statements from a state representative sample of schools in Indiana, I use measures of topic proportions within school mission statements calculated through structural topic modeling. In the first analysis, I examine the content of mission statements prior to the enactment of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program and seven years later to consider how mission statement topics may be changing in the presence of choice policies. keywords: mission cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf2942h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf2942h.txt item: #2042 of 4945 id: d791sf29f6p author: Lyda Urresta title: On Generalizing the Partial Semi-Group of Spheres with Tubes in Huang's Geometric Vertex Operator Algebra and the Algebraic Structures That Arise as a Consequence date: 2020 words: 170 flesch: 46 summary: Then, we introduce a new piece of data to our notion of unfurled worldsheet, which results in a new collection of objects, called the unfurled worldsheets with dilation. We construct a geometric analogue to the sphere with tubes model where there is one incoming and one outgoing tube in Yi-Zhi Huang's notion of a geometric vertex operator algebra (GVOA) in a generalized setting that resolves the multivaluedness resulting from a generalization of the grading axiom in a GVOA such that it is no longer semisimple; we call the objects in our geometric structure the unfurled worldsheets. keywords: unfurled cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf29f6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf29f6p.txt item: #2043 of 4945 id: d791sf29g49 author: Robert W. Mowry title: Jolted: The Political Causes and Consequences of Earthquake-Triggered Infrastructure Collapse date: 2021 words: 304 flesch: 18 summary: Part Two examines the political consequences of these collapses, with anti-viaduct campaigns forming in Oakland and San Francisco and successfully removing these unpopular structures from their host communities. I theorize that materiality primarily explains this stark difference in outcomes: while material conditions (i.e., the interaction of geological forces with the built environment) enabled successful anti-viaduct campaigns in the U.S., these same conditions constrained contentious political action in Japan due to their physical extremity. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf29g49.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf29g49.txt item: #2044 of 4945 id: d791sf29h5z author: Jinyu Yang title: Optical and Electrical Characterization of Piezoelectric Direct Discharges Generated Using Piezoelectric Crystals date: 2022 words: 404 flesch: 30 summary: The direct piezoelectric effect of non-centrosymmetric crystals, such as lead zirconate titanate (Pb[Zr(x)Ti(1-x)]O3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1), PZT), offers the opportunity to develop energy conversion plasma sources that remedy the reliance on a high-voltage power source by converting mechanical energy directly into plasma generation. Results show that this plasma shares many characteristics with conventional plasma jets but is not constrained by a guiding flow, so we refer to it as a PT free plasma jet. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf29h5z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf29h5z.txt item: #2045 of 4945 id: d791sf29k16 author: Vicky Zhu title: Fixed Points, Learning, and Plasticity in Recurrent Neuronal Network Models date: 2023 words: 299 flesch: 25 summary: I found that homeostatic synaptic plasticity alone is not sufficient to learn and perform non-trivial predictive coding tasks in unstructured neuronal network models. To link neuroscience and machine learning, I study models of recurrent neuronal networks to establish direct, one-to-one analogs between artificial and biological neuronal networks. keywords: learning cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/d791sf29k16.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/d791sf29k16.txt item: #2046 of 4945 id: db78tb11n27 author: Kari Marie Christoffersen title: From a Model of the Nation to Models for Citizens: Religious References in U.S. Presidential Addresses date: 2010 words: 138 flesch: 45 summary: The evidence suggests that religious references have not changed much in quantity but have shifted significantly in purpose. This paper finds three important shifts in religious references. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/db78tb11n27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/db78tb11n27.txt item: #2047 of 4945 id: db78tb11n3k author: Peter J. Wallace title: 'The Bond of Union': The Old School Presbyterian Church and the American Nation, 1837-1861 date: 2004 words: 352 flesch: 39 summary: How did a phrase from the Presbyterian constitution, describing the relationship of the Presbyterian General Assembly to its congregations come to play such a central role in how Old School Presbyterians thought of their role in the civil Union? An overwhelming proportion of Old School Presbyterians were of Scottish and Ulster descent. keywords: old cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/db78tb11n3k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/db78tb11n3k.txt item: #2048 of 4945 id: db78tb11n4x author: Adam Mitchell Knaack title: Stress-Strain Properties of Concrete Under Elevated Temperature date: 2010 words: 160 flesch: 33 summary: It is shown that at elevated temperatures, the concrete strength and elastic modulus are significantly reduced, whereas the strain at peak stress and ultimate strain are increased. Predictive multiple least squares regression relationships are proposed for the concrete strength, elastic modulus, strain at peak stress, ultimate strain, and stress-strain behavior, including the temperature, aggregate type, test type, and strength at room temperature as parameters. keywords: strength cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/db78tb11n4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/db78tb11n4x.txt item: #2049 of 4945 id: db78tb11p0v author: Hilary C. Cisco Reuter title: Racial Categorization of and Decision-Making Responses to Ambiguous and Unambiguous Facial Stimuli: An Examination of Racial Profiling Processes date: 2005 words: 131 flesch: 36 summary: Results indicated that participants did engage in racial profiling behaviors, and did so of African Americans and European Americans at statistically indistinguishable rates. In addition, results indicated that crime decision-making was dependent on racial categorization and participants made race categorizations before deciding crime apprehension, even when the order of judgments required a crime decision prior to a race categorization. keywords: categorization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/db78tb11p0v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/db78tb11p0v.txt item: #2050 of 4945 id: db78tb11p47 author: Eric William Hagedorn title: The Language of Scientia: Ockham's Mental Language as the Subject Matter of Aristotelian Science date: 2012 words: 180 flesch: 33 summary: William of Ockham's theory of mental language is among the most studied aspects of his thought; yet, surprisingly, there is little scholarly consensus on just what it is supposed to be a theory of. Ockham refrains from endorsing the key doctrines this interpretation attributes to him, and his actual discussions of mental language seem disconnected from the theory of cognition he does indeed hold. keywords: language cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/db78tb11p47.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/db78tb11p47.txt item: #2051 of 4945 id: db78tb11p5k author: Radha Krishna Ganti title: A Stochastic Geometry Approach to the Interference and Outage Characterization of Large Wireless Networks date: 2009 words: 509 flesch: 47 summary: But unfortunately the distribution of the interference is known only for few spatial distributions of node locations. The performance of a wireless link is governed by interference and signal power which in turn depend on the node locations. keywords: interference cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/db78tb11p5k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/db78tb11p5k.txt item: #2052 of 4945 id: db78tb12b7f author: Michael J. Petrin title: Saved by the God above Every Name: Salvation in the Theology of Gregory of Nyssa date: 1904 words: 291 flesch: 45 summary: In recent years, there has been growing recognition of the multiplicity of patristic soteriology, that is, early Christian authors' use of many different images to describe salvation. Chapter 3 focuses on salvation as a past event, Chapter 4 on salvation as a present event, and Chapter 5 on salvation as a future event. keywords: salvation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/db78tb12b7f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/db78tb12b7f.txt item: #2053 of 4945 id: db78tb12h8b author: Gabriella M. Di Palma title: 'The Magnificent and Progressive Destiny' of Unified Italy: History and Sicily in Il Gattopardo date: 2019 words: 181 flesch: 44 summary: Such an attitude towards progress might remind us of Giacomo Leopardi's skepticism vis-à-vis any optimistic theory of historical progress. The novel depicts a society rooted in tradition, but also suspended in time and skeptical towards historical progress. keywords: italy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/db78tb12h8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/db78tb12h8b.txt item: #2054 of 4945 id: db78tb12p8w author: Antonio Tlatenchi title: Sex Differences in Episodic Memory Perfromance: The Role of Endogenous Testosterone date: 2019 words: 173 flesch: 39 summary: Though results of our study fail to account for sex differences in episodic memory performance, previous research suggest a need to consider cortisol-testosterone interactions to understand emotional episodic memory performance. The aim of this study is to investigate the role of testosterone, in addition to cortisol, to account for the sex differences in episodic memory performance. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/db78tb12p8w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/db78tb12p8w.txt item: #2055 of 4945 id: db78tb12q6h author: William T. Barker title: Small Molecules That Synergize with Colistin date: 2020 words: 523 flesch: 22 summary: This study describes the potent antimicrobial activity of these molecules in drug resistant Gram-positive species and establishes that eukaryotic activity can be mitigated while maintaining bacterial activity. This work discloses numerous molecules with unprecedented activity through a comprehensive screening of an in-house library of nitrogen-rich small molecules and high content drug repurposing efforts using commercially available chemical libraries with known eukaryotic activity. keywords: colistin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/db78tb12q6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/db78tb12q6h.txt item: #2056 of 4945 id: db78tb12r75 author: Tan Chen title: Geometric Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems with Application Focus on Bipedal Robots date: 2021 words: 415 flesch: 29 summary: The application examples include bipedal robots, quadruped robots, flexible-link robots, underactuated manipulators, snake robots, acrobatic robots, robots on a mobile platform, spacecraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, surface vessels and underwater vehicles. The systems generally have highly nonlinear dynamics, and less control authority due to the underactuation; furthermore, some systems, such as bipedal robots, include a mixture of continuous and discrete dynamics and multiple switching events among different phases. keywords: robots cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/db78tb12r75.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/db78tb12r75.txt item: #2057 of 4945 id: db78tb12s5s author: Haimeng Wang title: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Molten Salts: Force Field Evaluation and Development date: 2022 words: 209 flesch: 40 summary: Molten salt reactors are considered to be a leading candidate for the next generations of nuclear reactors; they have a great potential to help with the energy problems the world is facing. Molten salt reactors have enhanced safety figures and higher energy production efficiency over traditional nuclear reactors. keywords: molten cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/db78tb12s5s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/db78tb12s5s.txt item: #2058 of 4945 id: db78tb12t0c author: Giovanni Vedovotto title: The Poet, the Saint, and the Friars: Dante, Francis, and Franciscanism date: 2022 words: 247 flesch: 52 summary: On the contrary, most Franciscans of Dante's time are not the rightful heirs of Francis, as they either are hypocrites who do not really care about renunciation, or they believe that poverty is an end in itself without understanding the spiritual principle of perfect renunciation which lies behind poverty. The key notion in what poverty means for Dante is detachment, or renunciation, which is the opposite of greed, the most terrible sin in Dante's view. keywords: dante cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/db78tb12t0c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/db78tb12t0c.txt item: #2059 of 4945 id: df65v694x2h author: Charles F Vardeman II title: Computational Studies of Metallic Glasses and Nanoparticles date: 2009 words: 532 flesch: 42 summary: Chapter 4 computationally explores experimental observations involving the transient response of metallic nanoparticles to the nearly instantaneous heating undergone when photons are absorbed during ultrafast laser excitation experiments. It was observed during the studies of metallic nanoparticles dissused on in Chapter 4 that the time scale for the cooling of these particle is very short (on the order of tens of picoseconds). keywords: nanoparticles cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v694x2h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v694x2h.txt item: #2060 of 4945 id: df65v694x6w author: Mark Hamilton Ross title: Radiated Sound Generated By Airfoils in a Single Stream Shear Layer date: 2010 words: 212 flesch: 41 summary: It was also found that a gust response function correction for flat, elliptic leading edge airfoils can be used for a thick, non-elliptic leading edge airfoil if the thickness parameter in the correction is taken to be an effective airfoil thickness. It was observed that sound predictions using either the model correlation length scale or the measured correlation length scale did not match the measured acoustics unless the attenuation of sound due to airfoil thickness was accounted for by applying an appropriate correction to Sears' gust response function. keywords: length cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v694x6w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v694x6w.txt item: #2061 of 4945 id: df65v694x77 author: Joshua Mitchell Lee title: Computational Studies on the Mechanism and Stereochemistry of Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Aldol Condensations and Other Molecular Modeling Studies date: 2014 words: 468 flesch: 28 summary: By combining insights about the transition state regarding preferred torsion angles, the preferred configuration of the stereocenter at the boron atom, and the preferred coordination geometry of the catalyst relative to the aldehyde, transition state conformational analysis is simplified. A model for diastereoselectivity in the Lewis acid-catalyzed Mukaiyama aldol reaction is presented based on computational scans of the Mukaiyama aldol reaction potential energy surface and optimized transition structures. keywords: mukaiyama cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v694x77.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v694x77.txt item: #2062 of 4945 id: df65v694x8k author: Jooyoung Cha title: Penicillin-Binding Proteins in Pathogens: Characterizations of Catalytic Properties in Antibiotic Resistance date: 2008 words: 339 flesch: 45 summary: The C-terminal domain of BlaR1 (BlaRS) is related to class D §-lactamases. Treponema pallidum is the causative agent of syphilis and is exquisitely sensitiveto penicillins and other §-lactam antibiotics. keywords: protein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v694x8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v694x8k.txt item: #2063 of 4945 id: df65v694x9x author: Darcy A. Davis title: Network-Centric Data Mining for Medical Applications date: 2012 words: 147 flesch: 17 summary: In order to facilitate the necessary changes, better tools are needed for assessing risk and optimizing treatments, which further require better understanding of disease interdependencies, genetic influence, and translation into a patient's future. These methods create a feedback loop where computational tools guide and facilitate research, leading to improved biological knowledge and clinical standards, which will in turn generate better data. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v694x9x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v694x9x.txt item: #2064 of 4945 id: df65v694z04 author: Kelsey M. Stocker title: Development and Application of Non-Periodic and Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulation Methods date: 2014 words: 355 flesch: 23 summary: Velocity shearing and scaling reverse non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (VSS-RNEMD) for periodic systems is used to study the effect of ligand chain length and mixtures of chain lengths on the interfacial thermal conductance (G) of Au(111) interfaces protected by a monolayer of alkanethiolate ligands and solvated in hexane. Non-periodic geometries present problems for traditional affine scaling techniques in constant-pressure constant-temperature simulations. keywords: non cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v694z04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v694z04.txt item: #2065 of 4945 id: df65v694z2t author: Caitlin Spencer Mills title: How Do Extrinsic Value and Text Difficulty Impact Engagement during Learning? An Experimental Approach date: 2014 words: 152 flesch: 37 summary: The current experiment attempted to address this question by investigating the effects of both extrinsic value (high vs. low value) and text difficulty (easy vs. difficult texts) on engagement and learning during an instructional learning task. Results indicated that extrinsic value and text difficulty impacted the two types of engagement differently. keywords: learning cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v694z2t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v694z2t.txt item: #2066 of 4945 id: df65v694z35 author: Leslie Danette Patterson title: Syntheses of Desferrioxamine B Conjugates for Use in Antibiotic Delivery and Iron Overload Diseases date: 2010 words: 323 flesch: 44 summary: The methodology needed to allow DFO conjugates to be easily prepared without the need for standard protecting groups has been discussed here. Many complex siderophore conjugates have been synthesized by the Miller group and others for the purpose of antibiotic delivery, the treatment of iron overload diseases and for the use of MRI contrast agents. keywords: dfo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v694z35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v694z35.txt item: #2067 of 4945 id: df65v694z4h author: Ebrahim MolavianJazi title: A Unified Approach to Gaussian Channels with Finite Blocklength date: 2014 words: 321 flesch: 43 summary: In this dissertation, we build upon a recent line of work on non-asymptotic information theory to characterize second-order approximations for channel coding rates over a variety of Gaussian settings at finite blocklength. For the non-ergodic fading channel with short blocklength, the Gaussian noise can have as significant an impact on the outage probability as fading can. keywords: gaussian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v694z4h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v694z4h.txt item: #2068 of 4945 id: df65v694z7j author: Raymond Paul Seekell title: Dynamics of Dense Microgel Suspensions date: 2014 words: 355 flesch: 39 summary: As dense suspensions of microgels tend to form colloidal glasses at high concentrations, the opening chapter provides a strong focus on the glass transition and details certain aspects including glass fragility, dynamic heterogeneity, and the confinement effects. In Chapter 5, these glassy suspensions are shown to be spatially heterogeneous and links are developed between glass fragility and dynamic heterogeneity. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v694z7j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v694z7j.txt item: #2069 of 4945 id: df65v694z8w author: Xiaofeng Wang title: Exotic Collective Excitations at High Spin: Triaxial Rotation and Octupole Condensation date: 2007 words: 203 flesch: 48 summary: Some striking differences exist between the level scheme and deexcitation patterns seen in 240Pu, and to a lesser extent in 238Pu, and those observed in 242Pu and in many other actinide nuclei such as 232Th and 238U, for example. Moreover, the Tilted-Axis Cranking calculations provide a natural explanation for the presence of wobbling bands in the Lu isotopes and their absence in the neighboring Tm, Hf and Ta nuclei. keywords: octupole cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v694z8w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v694z8w.txt item: #2070 of 4945 id: df65v694z97 author: Peng Zhou title: Roles of Chronic Alcohol Feeding and the ID2 Gene in the Regulation of Circadian and Metabolic Function date: 2015 words: 156 flesch: 31 summary: My studies revealed that hepatic circadian clock is disturbed in the alcohol-induced hepatic steatosis, and effects of chronic alcohol administration upon the clock itself may contribute to steatosis. My studies also found that chronic alcohol consumption and liquid diet can differentially modulate the daily rhythmicity of locomotor and feeding behaviors; aspects that might contribute to disturbances in the circadian timing system and development of hepatic steatosis. keywords: studies cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v694z97.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v694z97.txt item: #2071 of 4945 id: df65v69500q author: Kyle Stewart Haygarth title: Radiolysis Studies in Supercritical Water date: 2010 words: 637 flesch: 31 summary: In order to control the corrosion potential, a successful strategy employing hydrogen water chemistry inhibits radiolytic decomposition of the coolant by the minimum addition of hydrogen (the critical hydrogen concentration) to the primary cooling water.3 Experiments showing that this strategy can be successfully applied in supercritical water reactors are discussed. This dissertation will consist of three topics which fall under the general umbrella of studies of water radiolysis at supercritical temperatures and pressures for nuclear power applications. keywords: water cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v69500q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v69500q.txt item: #2072 of 4945 id: df65v695012 author: Elizabeth L. Antus title: The Doors of the Soul: A Critical Augustinian Account of Self-Love date: 1904 words: 416 flesch: 34 summary: However, this project also identifies certain inconsistencies in Augustine's articulation of human dignity. Specifically, this project centers around the experience of the self-hating person and contains a description of proper self-love in response to such a person. keywords: self cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v695012.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v695012.txt item: #2073 of 4945 id: df65v695132 author: Andre P. Audette title: The Religious Bases of Latino/a Political Participation date: 1904 words: 329 flesch: 23 summary: Previous research finds that religiosity and participating in church activities are frequently correlated with greater levels of political participation. While some religious beliefs lower rates of political engagement among Latinos keywords: latinos cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v695132.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v695132.txt item: #2074 of 4945 id: df65v695n5b author: Genevieve C. Lyons title: Alessandro Blasetti's Cinema and the Fantastic: A Re-Evaluation of the Unmarried Woman date: 1904 words: 140 flesch: 55 summary: This paper explores how Blasetti utilized the fantastic genre to maneuver around the established policy towards women, blurring gender lines and subtly challenging fascist authority. However, this campaign—both in Blasetti's later cinema and in general fascist policy—was far from straightforward. keywords: fascist cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v695n5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v695n5b.txt item: #2075 of 4945 id: df65v69608r author: Erika M. Holmbeck title: The Looking-Glass and Beyond: Using Observations and Modeling of Stellar Actinide Abundances as a Window into r-Process Events date: 2020 words: 219 flesch: 37 summary: I find that neutron star mergers have the potential to synthesize all observed levels of actinide abundances measured in metal-poor stars if astrophysical variations on the composition of the ejecta are allowed within the merger site. Using this principle, I then determine that if neutron star mergers produced the majority of r-process elements in the Galaxy, then the first mergers were primarily mass-asymmetric. keywords: process cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v69608r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v69608r.txt item: #2076 of 4945 id: df65v696151 author: Garrett M. Tow title: Molecular Models of Energetic Materials date: 2021 words: 192 flesch: 17 summary: Studies of energetic materials that employ classical atomistic models do exist, but the chemical space covered by these classical studies is small when compared to the literature of quantum mechanical studies. Only a handful of classical models exist for different energetic materials and the parameterization process is typically tedious. keywords: energetic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v696151.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v696151.txt item: #2077 of 4945 id: df65v696318 author: Sakib Haque title: Improved Source Code Summarization Using Context-Aware Inputs and Semantic Similarity Based Optimization date: 2022 words: 193 flesch: 46 summary: Current research in this area focuses on improving these models on the encoder-side by providing better representation of source code. The task of writing these descriptions is called ``source code summarization. keywords: code cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v696318.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v696318.txt item: #2078 of 4945 id: df65v696391 author: Cristhian Umaña Gamboa title: Designing Structural and Conformational Analogs from Polyketide Natural Products date: 2023 words: 264 flesch: 31 summary: Our laboratory has utilized total synthesis, semi-synthesis, and fermentation of bacterial species to produce natural product analogs to study the relationship between conformational preferences and biological activity. In the case of zampanolide, it was demonstrated that the linear analog exhibited potent biological activity due to the conservation of an allylic strain, which restricted the conformational flexibility of the molecule. keywords: conformational cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/df65v696391.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/df65v696391.txt item: #2079 of 4945 id: dj52w37864j author: Abigail L Palko title: Motherhood, Declined: Negotiating Maternal Subjectivities in Irish and Caribbean Novels, 1934 - 2007 date: 2010 words: 656 flesch: 27 summary: I argue that women writers evoke images of motherhood to envision a form of personhood and citizenship in the new, postcolonial state specifically for women, in contrast to their male counterparts, who use the trope to argue for the autonomy of the state. A careful chronological reading of twentieth-century Irish and Caribbean women's novels reveals the nuanced evolution of literary, critical, and social uses and reflections of the mother-daughter relationship that women writers from both traditions explore in their work. keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w37864j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w37864j.txt item: #2080 of 4945 id: dj52w378667 author: Jeffrey Munson Carney title: Intramolecular Hydroamination of Alkynes Catalyzed by Silver-Phenanthroline Complexes date: 2010 words: 152 flesch: 27 summary: The intramolecular hydroamination reaction is among the more versatile means of forming nitrogen-containing hetereocycles, compounds of interest in a variety of chemical disciplines. This thesis details the implementation of a readily-recyclable silver-1,10-phenanthroline catalyst which has demonstrated high efficiency for the hydroamination of a variety of aminoalkynes. keywords: hydroamination cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w378667.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w378667.txt item: #2081 of 4945 id: dj52w378725 author: Vesta Mai Coufal title: A Family Version of Lefschetz-Nielsen Fixed Point Theory date: 2004 words: 185 flesch: 58 summary: This gives us a base point free version of the Lefschetz invariant. Our goal is to develop a family version of Lefschetz-Nielsen theory, i.e., for a smooth fiber bundle p:E--> B and a fiber bundle endomorphism f:E--> E. A family version of the classical approach involves choosing a section s:B--> E of p and a path of sections from s to fs. keywords: lefschetz cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w378725.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w378725.txt item: #2082 of 4945 id: dj52w37876j author: Feng Shen title: A Visually Interpretable Iris Recognition System with Crypt Features date: 2014 words: 425 flesch: 47 summary: It is by far the largest dataset that has been used in performance evaluation for visible feature based iris recognition techniques. The results support the applicability of using crypt features for semi-automatic iris recognition. keywords: human cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w37876j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w37876j.txt item: #2083 of 4945 id: dj52w37877w author: John Anderson Hall title: The Sacraments in the Compilatio Questionum Theologie of Magister Martinus: Critical Edition with Commentary date: 2011 words: 270 flesch: 44 summary: This dissertation corrects a longstanding assumption that Martinus belonged to the school of Gilbert of Poitiers and complicates an incompatible but equally venerable assumption that he was a follower of Peter of Poitiers. This dissertation further suggests that because of its practical concerns, Martinus' text resembles contemporary works which scholars have identified as belonging to a literature of pastoral care. keywords: martinus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w37877w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w37877w.txt item: #2084 of 4945 id: dj52w378903 author: Evan Harris title: EMMA date: 1904 words: 4 flesch: 97 summary: EMMA is a novel. keywords: emma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w378903.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w378903.txt item: #2085 of 4945 id: dj52w378b0d author: John Salvatore Marchese title: Religion, Revolution, and the Realm of the Literary in Twentieth-Century Central American Prose date: 1904 words: 295 flesch: 16 summary: A key aspect of the argument is that these works deploy liturgical language to disrupt the discourse of a state that tries to dominate and control human subjectivity and, more specifically, that the Eucharist serves to articulate social mobilization through language that unites the discrete parts of a social body against domination by hegemonic forces. In line with the study's transnational approach, the historical particularities of each of the four countries are explored in detail, and the inclusion of nonfictional texts demonstrates that the social mobilization articulated through the Eucharist is not merely metaphorical or symbolic, since the liturgy has sometimes served as a site of actual historical resistance to violent oppression. keywords: works cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w378b0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w378b0d.txt item: #2086 of 4945 id: dj52w378d4d author: Hannah Zdansky title: Converting Romance: The Spiritual Significance of a Secular Genre in Medieval France, England, Wales, and Ireland date: 1904 words: 354 flesch: 53 summary: In order to understand the reception of these texts, the use of miscellanies, and to better grasp medieval reading practices, I show that we have to do two things: pay attention to material context and be open to questioning the secularity of medieval romances. My dissertation responds to the work of Derek Pearsall, John Thompson, Julia Boffey, Phillipa Hardman, Susanna Fein, Murray Evans, and others regarding miscellanies and the influence of manuscript contexts on reception. keywords: manuscript cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w378d4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w378d4d.txt item: #2087 of 4945 id: dj52w378w9g author: Brandon S. Gerig title: Controls of Contaminant Biotransport by Pacific Salmon to Great Lakes Tributaries date: 1904 words: 495 flesch: 27 summary: The experimental approaches described in CHAPTERS 4 and 5 provide strong inference that egg consumption results in elevated POP concentrations, consumption of salmon tissue leads to increased Hg concentrations, and that consumption of salmon eggs but not salmon tissue enhances the growth of resident fish. Moreover, because salmon eggs are enriched in POPs, but depleted in Hg, widespread consumption of eggs may be the primary pathway for biouptake of salmon-derived contaminants by resident fish. keywords: salmon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w378w9g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w378w9g.txt item: #2088 of 4945 id: dj52w378x6r author: Katie Sparrow title: Dante's Self-Characterization in the Vita Nova: Auctoritas through Love and Writing date: 1904 words: 134 flesch: 46 summary: Though Dante Alighieri deems writing of oneself inappropriate in his Convivio, he appears as a protagonist or source of exemplary poetry in almost every one of his works. His Vita Nova can be considered the most self-reflective of these works, since it recounts the personal emotions, thoughts, and events of Alighieri's youth, as part of and in addition to a commentary on his own poetry. keywords: vita cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w378x6r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w378x6r.txt item: #2089 of 4945 id: dj52w37930h author: Kangkang Li title: Topology-Aware Job Scheduling and Placement in High Performance Computing and Edge Computing Systems date: 2019 words: 460 flesch: 39 summary: Thirdly, I study the second case of job placement problem, in which the shapes allocated for communication non-sensitive jobs are not limited to convex prisms. Secondly, I study the first case of job placement problem, where each job is allocated a convex prism shape. keywords: job cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w37930h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w37930h.txt item: #2090 of 4945 id: dj52w379802 author: Gregory Michael Cruess title: Augustine's Biblical Christology: A Study of the In Iohannis Evangelium Tractatus CXXIV date: 2019 words: 385 flesch: 38 summary: It is demonstrated that this focus upon the normativity of the prologue and its proclamation of the wholeness of Christ in both humanity and divinity (totus Christus) functions as a guiding principle for Augustine's understanding of the complexity of the Gospel narrative concerning the Incarnate Word. The third chapter analyzes those portions of Augustine's homiletic commentary that focus upon episodes in the Gospel where Christ teaches particularly about the nature of his divinity. keywords: augustine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w379802.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w379802.txt item: #2091 of 4945 id: dj52w37997s author: Nicholas Ames title: Traversing the Hearth: Navigating the Structures of 19th Century Irish Migrations date: 2021 words: 303 flesch: 23 summary: This research provides a detailed analysis of the different ways in which migrants relied on personal agency and social community to contend with, and shape, the structures defining 19th century migration processes. This dissertations addresses 19th century Irish migration to the United States, and the ways in which migrants navigated the complex structures through which they moved. keywords: century cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w37997s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w37997s.txt item: #2092 of 4945 id: dj52w379b8f author: Dharsan K. Soundarrajan title: Dynamics of Calcium Signaling in Multicellular Systems: Quantitative Experiments and Computational Modelling date: 2022 words: 365 flesch: 13 summary: Development of fully functional organs from undifferentiated cells requires constant communication between various participating cells. In chapter 4, an experimental investigation using genetic tools along with omics analysis on the role of Gq mediated spatiotemporal Ca2+ waves in organ development is presented. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w379b8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w379b8f.txt item: #2093 of 4945 id: dj52w379c62 author: Tao Wang title: High Free Volume Ion-Containing Polysulfone Membranes for Fuel Cells and Water Purification Applications date: 2022 words: 467 flesch: 22 summary: Novel membranes are in high demand in both fields to address the challenges that existing membranes are facing, such as insufficient chemical stability (e.g., chlorine resistance for RO membranes) and mechanical stability (excessive swelling for PEMs). However, the classic bisphenol A (Bis-A)- or biphenol (BP)-based sulfonated polysulfones showed inferior proton conductivities and oxidative stabilities for fuel cell application, and their water/salt selectivity still has a lot of room for improvement as RO membranes. keywords: membranes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w379c62.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w379c62.txt item: #2094 of 4945 id: dj52w379d51 author: Todd P. Marek title: Textual Lives and Living Skills: Doctors and Their Texts in the Practice of Tibetan Medicine date: 2023 words: 349 flesch: 44 summary: I show that textual practice is a specific type of embodied skill and offer an alternative view of the relationship between this skill and other embodied skills to more common views. Drawing on anthropological theories of textuality, semiotics, apprenticeship, and embodied skill, using methodology from linguistic anthropology, philology, ethnopoetics, and microethnography, I look beyond the denotational meaning of the texts to analyze both their poetic structure and their relationships with other texts. keywords: texts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dj52w379d51.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dj52w379d51.txt item: #2095 of 4945 id: dn39x061g4c author: Lionel Nicolas title: Structural Revision, Stereochemical Assignment and Total Synthesis of Gephyronic Acid date: 2011 words: 342 flesch: 37 summary: The newly proposed structure of gephyronic acid provides further insights on the structural relation between these related inhibitors of eukaryotic protein synthesis. Thus, gephyronic acid represents a potential pharmacophoric link between structurally distinct classes of biological active polyketides with related modes of action. keywords: gephyronic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x061g4c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x061g4c.txt item: #2096 of 4945 id: dn39x061h09 author: Karsten J. K. Steinhaeuser title: Scalable Learning With Thread-Level Parallelism date: 2010 words: 214 flesch: 49 summary: This proliferation in dataset sizes is accompanied by the quandary of successfully mining this data to discover patterns of interest. Dataset sizes are quickly approaching Tera and Petabytes. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x061h09.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x061h09.txt item: #2097 of 4945 id: dn39x061h1n author: Erin Elizabeth Daly title: Stereotype and Generalization in Herodotus and the Temple of Athena Nike: The Creation of the Eastern Other date: 2015 words: 166 flesch: 28 summary: The purpose of this paper is to analyze a larger and more general context for the formation of Athenian/Panhellenic identity and its attitude towards and construction of Persian/barbarian identity during the fifth century BCE by employing Herodotus as a lens to examine the south frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike. Like Herodotus, this frieze offers an organized representation of not only Persian/barbarian identity but also of Athenian/Panhellenic identity during the period immediately following the Persian Wars. keywords: herodotus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x061h1n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x061h1n.txt item: #2098 of 4945 id: dn39x061h20 author: Paul Joseph Scherz title: Technology and Subjectivity in the Thought of Alasdair MacIntyre and Michel Foucault date: 2014 words: 357 flesch: 38 summary: MacIntyre requires the Christian biologist to isolate herself from the community of biologists, while Foucault describes techniques of the self analogous to Christian ascetic techniques that form the individual while she lives in a secular world. MacIntyre misses the productive aspect of managerial technique, which forms entrepreneurial subjects, and problematic aspects of technai, which form practitioners into a technological rationality. keywords: foucault cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x061h20.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x061h20.txt item: #2099 of 4945 id: dn39x061h4p author: Choonkeun Kim title: Aminoglycoside-Modifying Enzymes: Catalytic Mechanisms and Properties date: 2010 words: 552 flesch: 38 summary: Since these enzymes are expressed constitutively in resistant bacteria, the turnover of ATP is continuous during the lifetime of the organism both in the absence and the presence of aminoglycosides. [APH(3')s] are important bacterial resistance enzymes for aminoglycoside antibiotics. keywords: aminoglycoside cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x061h4p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x061h4p.txt item: #2100 of 4945 id: dn39x061h51 author: Marcée Marie Turner title: Personality Factors, Multicultural Exposure, and Cultural Self-Efficacy in a Model of White Fear date: 2011 words: 153 flesch: 45 summary: White fear, or distrust of non-Whites, has been identified as a key psychosocial cost of racism to Whites. The findings suggest that Whites' exposure to people of color can enhance cultural self-efficacy, which can account for the degree to which they will experience White fear. keywords: white cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x061h51.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x061h51.txt item: #2101 of 4945 id: dn39x061h6c author: Carl Ross Berntsen title: The Remote Microphone Probe for Unsteady Surface Pressure Measurement date: 2014 words: 227 flesch: 37 summary: Analytical and experimental transfer function methods in the frequency domain are provided to correct for tubing distortions resulting from viscous attenuation and acoustic impedance changes. The probe achieved a center-to-center tap distance of 0.81mm and a frequency response up to 15kHz, thereby facilitating discrete point surface measurements with high-spatial resolution and high-frequency response. keywords: probe cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x061h6c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x061h6c.txt item: #2102 of 4945 id: dn39x061h9d author: Enmamuelle Pardilla Delgado title: Does Sleep Influence the Persistence of False Memories Across Long Delays? date: 2014 words: 223 flesch: 66 summary: , true memory tends to deteriorate while false memory persists, but it is currently unknown how sleep influences this pattern. While the influence of sleep on memory has a long history, sleep's role in the formation of false memories is less clear. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x061h9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x061h9d.txt item: #2103 of 4945 id: dn39x061j0m author: Jennifer Michelle Couture title: A Search for Second Class Currents in the A=8 System date: 2007 words: 127 flesch: 27 summary: This work explores several possible explanationsfor the disagreement between simulation and experiment and suggests a myriad offuture improvements to be applied the next time the experiment is attempted. This work measures the &beta-delayed coincident &alphaparticles resulting from the decay of 8Li and 8B. Coupling these measurements witha detailed simulation of the experiment was intended to improve the limits on thesecond-class induced tensor component of the weak current. keywords: experiment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x061j0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x061j0m.txt item: #2104 of 4945 id: dn39x061j29 author: Marcia E Braun title: Sleep and Emotions in Midlife: The Value of Restorative Sleep date: 2010 words: 562 flesch: 45 summary: Although sleep quality begins to decline in early adulthood, sleep characteristics become more stable by old age, and the greatest changes are observed when comparing sleep between young and old adults. A global measure of sleep quality was also included in the measures collected. keywords: sleep cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x061j29.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x061j29.txt item: #2105 of 4945 id: dn39x061j9q author: M. Anthony Mills title: Émile Meyerson's Neo-Kantian Épistémologie: An Interpretation and Defense date: 1904 words: 353 flesch: 18 summary: This dissertation contextualizes Meyerson's épistémologie historically – focusing on both the preceding French traditions of positivism, spiritualism, neo-Kantianism, and conventionalism and how Meyerson's views anticipate such thinkers as Quine and Kuhn – and assesses its viability as a philosophical project today. Émile Meyerson (1859-1933) helped inaugurate a philosophical tradition in early twentieth-century France – épistémologie – which harkened back to Auguste Comte's historical method, analyzing science in order to grasp the nature of human reason, while rejecting orthodox positivism. keywords: meyerson cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x061j9q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x061j9q.txt item: #2106 of 4945 id: dn39x061k0x author: Kevin Rinz title: Consequences of Voucher Programs for Private Schools date: 1904 words: 350 flesch: 38 summary: Back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that the market effects of vouchers are large enough to substantially reduce the benefits of moving from public to private school for black students, reversing more than 100 percent of the gains in student-teacher ratio, 87 percent of the gain in per-teacher compensation, and 51 percent of the gain in instructional hours. By altering the market for private schooling, large-scale school voucher programs may have effects on the educational experience of private school students beyond the effects of small-scale programs. keywords: programs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x061k0x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x061k0x.txt item: #2107 of 4945 id: dn39x061p5k author: Christina N. Cheng title: Analysis of the Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms That Regulate Renal Progenitor Cell Fate Specification date: 1904 words: 346 flesch: 35 summary: Even so, regardless of the developmental or post-natal origins of kidney disease, the commonality of these debilitating states is dysfunction of the nephrons, which are the functional units of the kidney (McCampbell and Wingert, 2012). Consequently, our overarching goal is to delineate the genetic and molecular mechanisms that regulate the specification of these renal epithelial cells as a means to better understand how these pathways can go awry and result in kidney disease. keywords: kidney cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x061p5k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x061p5k.txt item: #2108 of 4945 id: dn39x06250g author: William Kye title: Social Disorganization and the Consolidation of Parameters: A Multi-Level Analysis of City Racial Segregation, Neighborhood Ethnic Heterogeneity, and Crime date: 1904 words: 151 flesch: 24 summary: However, such research has failed to examine how the effects of neighborhood ethnic heterogeneity vary by city level racial segregation. I find that under such conditions, the social cohesion consequences of neighborhood ethnic heterogeneity operate differently. keywords: heterogeneity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x06250g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x06250g.txt item: #2109 of 4945 id: dn39x06260s author: Jakub Voboril title: Democratic Political Leadership and Education in Thucydides and Plato date: 1904 words: 174 flesch: 58 summary: I conclude that the root of many, if not all, of these differences lies in Thucydides's willing acceptance and Socrates's insistent rejection of the common sense of ordinary political life. In an attempt to answer these questions, I turn to the ancient Greek political thinkers Thucydides and Plato. keywords: thucydides cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x06260s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x06260s.txt item: #2110 of 4945 id: dn39x06263t author: Julianna Poole title: Medicine, Then and Now: The Problem of Using Persistence as a Measure for Medical Efficacy date: 1904 words: 149 flesch: 30 summary: Modern Western biomedicine is in need of new drugs, and ethnopharmacologists are turning to premodern medical texts, such as the Anglo-Saxon Leechbooks, for remedies. In previous studies, historians have associated persistence of remedies in materia medica throughout the centuries with biomedical efficacy, but this association is problematic for two reasons. keywords: remedies cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x06263t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x06263t.txt item: #2111 of 4945 id: dn39x062676 author: Jennifer Kolesari title: How Features of Contextual Events Alter the Interpretations of Before and After date: 2018 words: 140 flesch: 49 summary: We systematically assessed the influence of contextual events on temporal prepositions (before, after) by asking participants to estimate the duration of events and the duration that passed between these events. We found that there is a strong relationship between the durations of events and the estimates of time that passed between them, corresponding to before and after. keywords: events cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x062676.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x062676.txt item: #2112 of 4945 id: dn39x06271f author: Stephen A. Long title: 'A God Who Repays': Dynamics of Charity and Reciprocity in the Book of Sirach date: 1904 words: 350 flesch: 50 summary: Both texts are concerned that gifts be coupled with proper speech, and both emphasize that words and gifts alike do things—having the potential to reinforce social solidarity (or to destroy it), and to elicit return gifts. This dissertation explores the role of reciprocity and gift exchange in the book of Sirach, contextualizing these themes within the author's understanding of charity. keywords: generosity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x06271f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x06271f.txt item: #2113 of 4945 id: dn39x062c1p author: Timothy Wanyama Machasio title: Democratizing Kenya's Financial Market: A Mobile Technology Blueprint date: 2019 words: 247 flesch: 20 summary: My thesis will consider the problem of low financial market participation in Kenya, where a paltry 5% of residents transact in the country's bourse. After reviewing literature that broadly establishes four factors (low levels of financial literacy, capital constraints, risk averseness, and the lengthy process of setting up a Central Depository System (CDS) account) as exhaustive culprits for low financial market participation in the country, this thesis will quantitatively analyze responses to online survey instruments administered to carefully curated pools of Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) participants and non-participants to determine the relative weighting of these factors within the target demographic for the proposed intervention. keywords: financial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x062c1p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x062c1p.txt item: #2114 of 4945 id: dn39x062k1j author: Ian H. Guldner title: Characterizing the Brain Metastatic Niche and Elucidating Its Functional Role during Brain Metastasis Outgrowth date: 2020 words: 399 flesch: 22 summary: Intriguingly, depleting microglia during brain metastasis outgrowth reduced metastasis number, while inhibiting the infiltration of BMDM to metastatic lesions did not change metastasis number, implicating microglia as the main myeloid effector during brain metastasis. Here, leveraging recently developed techniques, we sought to (1) characterize spatial and pseudo-temporal aspects of key components of the metastatic niche, (2) compositionally and transcriptionally profile the myeloid immune component of the brain metastatic niche, and (3) elucidate the functional role of myeloid cells during brain metastasis and the molecular mechanism by which they regulate metastatic outgrowth. keywords: brain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x062k1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x062k1j.txt item: #2115 of 4945 id: dn39x062k7m author: Caitlin O'Loughlin title: Development and Validation of the Self-Injury Stigma Scale date: 2021 words: 438 flesch: 51 summary: To examine clinical utility, relationships between the SISS and characteristics of NSSI behavior were examined, showing the SISS retrospectively predicted recent (i.e., last 3 months) frequency of NSSI, but not lifetime NSSI frequency or NSSI disclosure. As such, this study sought to validate the newly developed Self-Injury Stigma Scale (SISS), a measure of NSSI stigma based on a widely used four-step model of stigma. keywords: stigma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x062k7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x062k7m.txt item: #2116 of 4945 id: dn39x062m26 author: Khalique Newaz title: Novel Network Science Approaches for a Better Understanding of Protein Folding and Human Aging date: 2021 words: 232 flesch: 33 summary: This dissertation aims to help advance the current understanding of proteins' functions by developing network-based computational approaches to study individual protein structures as well as physical interactions between proteins. Additionally, we use PSNs to study a specific protein folding-related phenomenon, i.e., to understand relationships between protein 3D structures and synonymous codon usage. keywords: proteins cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x062m26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x062m26.txt item: #2117 of 4945 id: dn39x062n3v author: Emorja Roberson title: Donald Lawrence: The Concert Stage, the Church, the Theatrical date: 2022 words: 197 flesch: 55 summary: In this work, I present an overview of those aspects of the history of Black music that have been most influential to Donald Lawrence, and I outline those strains of scholarship that have been most useful in my own studies of his music. This thesis is the first study of Donald Lawrence, a highly influential composer, conductor, and impresario in the area of Black gospel. keywords: study cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x062n3v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x062n3v.txt item: #2118 of 4945 id: dn39x062p1g author: Bokai Yao title: Set Theory with Urelements date: 2023 words: 176 flesch: 43 summary: In Chapter 1, I present mathematical and philosophical motivations for studying urelement set theory and lay out the necessary technical preliminaries. Chapter 2 is devoted to the axiomatization of urelement set theory, where I introduce a hierarchy of axioms and discuss how ZFC with urelements should be axiomatized. keywords: theory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dn39x062p1g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dn39x062p1g.txt item: #2119 of 4945 id: dr26xw44r6z author: Pu Wan title: Event-triggered Distributed Algorithms for Network Optimization date: 2010 words: 354 flesch: 47 summary: This work investigates the use of event-triggered communication schemes in distributed network optimization algorithms. We develop an event-triggered distributed algorithm for the OPF problem and prove its convergence. keywords: algorithm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dr26xw44r6z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dr26xw44r6z.txt item: #2120 of 4945 id: dr26xw44r79 author: Sarah Elizabeth Hepinstall title: Comparison of the Effects of Hydroxamate Siderophores on Lead and Cadmium Adsorption to Kaolinite date: 2004 words: 162 flesch: 49 summary: These ligands also inhibited Cd adsorption at pH > 8, but had no effect at low pH. Modeling the systems with PHREEQC suggested that the siderophores in solution out-competed the kaolinite surface for the metal cations, thus causing decreased adsorption at high pH. At pH > 6, all of the ligands inhibited Pb adsorption with inhibition increasing in the order aHA < DFO-D1 < DFO-B < DFO-E. At lower pH, the presence of DFO-B slightly enhanced Pb adsorption. keywords: dfo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dr26xw44r79.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dr26xw44r79.txt item: #2121 of 4945 id: dr26xw44r8n author: Shannon Rae Zentall title: Early Parent-Child Relationship and Type of Parental Praise and Criticism as Predictors of Toddler Motivation on an Unsolvable Task date: 2009 words: 195 flesch: 31 summary: Finally, although feedback did not predict motivation, greater toddler persistence predicted, although not significantly, a greater proportion of maternal positive feedback (i.e., praise). In addition, the present study investigated the types of feedback mothers provide to their young children and the degree to which type of feedback (person vs. non-person) and positive or negative feedback influences young children's motivation. keywords: feedback cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dr26xw44r8n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dr26xw44r8n.txt item: #2122 of 4945 id: dr26xw44s06 author: Peng Li title: Enhanced Permeability Dielectrics in Nanomagnet Logic date: 2014 words: 184 flesch: 42 summary: Thus, magnetic switching behavior, magnetization states and coupling of nanomagnets are studied via various magnetic metrologies to understand the physics of nanomagnet switching in the context of NML. Low-power operation is the most important benefit of NML operation, which relies on magnetic ordering. keywords: nml cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dr26xw44s06.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dr26xw44s06.txt item: #2123 of 4945 id: dr26xw44s4k author: donglin Liu title: Firm Real-Time System Scheduling Based on a Novel QoS Constraint date: 2010 words: 137 flesch: 59 summary: However, for certain applications, these metrics may not be adequate measures of system performance. Examples of often used QoS metrics for rm real-time systems are average deadline miss rates and (m; k)- rm constraint. keywords: time cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dr26xw44s4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dr26xw44s4k.txt item: #2124 of 4945 id: dr26xw44s8z author: Victor Carmona title: Neither Slave Nor Free: A Critique of U.S. Immigration Policy in Light of the Work of David Hollenbach, Gustavo Gutierrez, and Thomas Aquinas date: 2014 words: 153 flesch: 25 summary: First, I show that American legislatures have developed this ability by setting immigration preferences throughout the nation's history to forge mixed settlements between multiple political, economic, and cultural interests with regard to immigration. I then draw preference systems from the Christian tradition-David Hollenbach's priority principles, Gustavo Gutierrez's preferential option for the poor, and Thomas Aquinas' order of charity-to argue that current U.S. immigration preferences are not simply wrong, but backwards. keywords: immigration cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dr26xw44s8z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dr26xw44s8z.txt item: #2125 of 4945 id: dr26xw44s99 author: Xue Rui title: The Adsorption, Mineralization and Reduction of Metal Ions (Cadmium and Uranium) by Microorganisms in the Aqueous System date: 2011 words: 354 flesch: 42 summary: Anaeromyxobacter dehalogenans strain K, Geobacter sulfurreducens, and Shewanella putrefaciens CN32, to reduce U(VI) in the form of biotically and abiotically formed HUP mineral. Soluble uranyl ion can form stable mineral with phosphate ligands. keywords: bacteria cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dr26xw44s99.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dr26xw44s99.txt item: #2126 of 4945 id: dr26xw44t6k author: Jessica Ann Hughes title: The Quest for a Novelistic Jesus: Literary Relationships with Jesus in Victorian Realism date: 1904 words: 349 flesch: 30 summary: Despite a few studies of Jesus in historical fiction regarding his role as a canvas onto which Victorian culture projected its own ideals, fears, and expectations, no one has seriously considered Jesus—and Victorian characters depicted in terms of Jesus' life— within successful realist novels by respected novelists. But scholarship on the matrix of beliefs, texts, practices and communities that comprise religion frequently ignores the central figure of the Christian faith: Jesus. keywords: jesus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dr26xw44t6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dr26xw44t6k.txt item: #2127 of 4945 id: dr26xw44v2h author: Sayanty Roy title: Genetic Architecture and Transcriptomic Basis of Cadmium Response in Daphnia magna date: 1904 words: 241 flesch: 18 summary: In addition, we use a functional genomic approach with RNA-Seq data to examine transcriptional responses to cadmium exposure. We evaluate the underlying genetic architecture and transcriptional responses of the freshwater microcrustacean keywords: environmental cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dr26xw44v2h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dr26xw44v2h.txt item: #2128 of 4945 id: dr26xw45t2g author: Benjamin A. Stone title: The Galant Style in Chorale-Based Organ Works of Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780) and Gottfried August Homilius (1714–1785) date: 2019 words: 268 flesch: 54 summary: By analyzing organ chorales of Krebs and Homilius through the lens of Gjerdingen's schemata, this study shows how the galant style operates in these works, even among the constraints imposed by preexisting chorale melodies. Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780) and Gottfried August Homilius (1714–1785) were both significant composers of organ music in the middle of the eighteenth century. keywords: organ cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dr26xw45t2g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dr26xw45t2g.txt item: #2129 of 4945 id: dr26xw45v1f author: Heejin Kim title: Heinrich Scheidemann's Motet Intabulations date: 2020 words: 431 flesch: 41 summary: I will examine several manuscripts, including the arrangements of motets in the Robertsbridge Codex of the fourteenth century, intabulations in the Buxheimer Orgelbuch, from fifteenth-century Germany, and Ammerbach's Orgel oder Instrument Tabulaturbuch, a collection of keyboard intabulations published in the sixteenth century. In chapter one, I will give an introduction looking at the history of vocal intabulation from its beginning in the fourteenth century. keywords: intabulations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dr26xw45v1f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dr26xw45v1f.txt item: #2130 of 4945 id: dr26xw45v34 author: Austin Boucher title: The Role of MiRNA Clusters Mirn23a and Mirn23b in Hematopoietic Development and Macrophage Function date: 2020 words: 243 flesch: 46 summary: MiRNAs are small, non- coding RNAs that have direct regulatory capacity over both the lineage commitment process as well as immune cell functions upon terminal differentiation. In chapter 2, I isolate primary bone marrow derived macrophages (BMDMs) from mirn23a germline knockout mice and observe that loss of mirn23a results in a more anti-inflammatory macrophage. keywords: mirn23a cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dr26xw45v34.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dr26xw45v34.txt item: #2131 of 4945 id: dr26xw45x3r author: Emma Rosenberg title: Rally around the Steeple: Religious Rhetoric and Nativist Parties in Central Europe date: 2022 words: 278 flesch: 29 summary: Why do nativist parties employ religious rhetoric when religious attendance and affiliation is declining? This project generated four main takeaways: First, interviews with German AfD officials revealed that for nativist parties seeking to promote ethno-nationalist agendas, religious rhetoric allows them to sidestep the historical baggage of Nazism and fascism. keywords: nativist cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dr26xw45x3r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dr26xw45x3r.txt item: #2132 of 4945 id: dv13zs28169 author: David Karapetyan title: On the well-posedness of the hyperelastic rod equation date: 2012 words: 124 flesch: 48 summary: It is shown that the data-to-solution map for the hyperelastic rod equation is not uniformly continuous on bounded sets of Sobolev spaces with exponent greater than 3/2 in the periodic case and non-periodic cases. The proof is based on energy estimates coupled with a delicate commutator estimate and multiplier estimate. keywords: periodic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs28169.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs28169.txt item: #2133 of 4945 id: dv13zs28227 author: Shashank V Maiya title: Spectral Efficiency and Its Relation to Routing Strategies in Simple Communication Networks date: 2010 words: 137 flesch: 39 summary: This thesis compares one-hop routing and two-hop routing in simple networks consisting of two mobile nodes and a single destination (base) node. The networks under consideration use time division multiple access (wherein the nodes co-operate only in that they do not try to access the channel simultaneously) for multi-hop transmission to mitigate interference and include a linear network (with unequal spacing) and a simple two-dimensional network. keywords: hop cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs28227.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs28227.txt item: #2134 of 4945 id: dv13zs2823k author: Geoffrey Henry Siwo title: Predictive Modeling of Complex Malaria Phenotypes date: 2014 words: 479 flesch: 30 summary: The diverging co-expression of the chloroquine resistance transporter gene (pfcrt) provides insights into the normal biological functions of the gene and highlights diverging biological processes in CQR and CQS clones, including diverging small molecule responses that are validated by dose response profiling and quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis. The systems approaches developed in the chapter allow the prediction of small molecule effects on specific biological processes, laying a foundation for future prediction of drug MOA. keywords: transcriptional cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs2823k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs2823k.txt item: #2135 of 4945 id: dv13zs2824x author: Maria O Jobbins title: Syntheses of Hydroxamic Acid-Containing Bicyclic ß-Lactam Cores date: 2014 words: 203 flesch: 35 summary: A palladium(II)-catalyzed oxidative amidation methodology was developed and used to synthesize several bicyclic cores, including two examples of unusual aminal-containing cores. Chapter four details how aminal-containing cores are accessed in two steps from allyl hydroxamates utilizing a ruthenium-catalyzed isomerization followed by Pd(II)-catalyzed oxidative cyclization. keywords: lactam cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs2824x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs2824x.txt item: #2136 of 4945 id: dv13zs2826m author: James Robert Hogan title: Analysis of the Genomic Architecture of Anopheles Gambiae date: 2008 words: 116 flesch: 39 summary: Malaria still kills over one million people a year, mostly children in sub-Saharan Africa. Anopheles gambiae is the main malaria vector in sub-Saharan Africa. keywords: gambiae cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs2826m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs2826m.txt item: #2137 of 4945 id: dv13zs2827z author: Kelly Elizabeth Lane title: Landscape Dynamics: Genetics and Parasitism in Balinese Long-tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) date: 2011 words: 252 flesch: 13 summary: Using traditional parasitological techniques, I show that the anthropogenic landscape is significant in determining the pattern of pathogen success of both individual parasite species and the community of gut parasites. Finally, in an effort to understand the effects of this anthropogenic landscape on dispersal patterns and pathogen transmission potentials, an agent-based model was developed and tested, with which it was determined that landscape complexity is significant in determining host dispersal and is a significant barrier to between-population transmission of highly virulent pathogens. keywords: landscape cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs2827z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs2827z.txt item: #2138 of 4945 id: dv13zs28289 author: Dylan Menzies-Gow title: Tests of Non-Standard Cosmological Theories date: 2006 words: 326 flesch: 53 summary: However, there are a great variety of ways that infinite universes can be 'wrapped up' and given a compact finite vol- ume, without the need to modify general relativity. The final part looks at an unusual explanation for galaxy rotation curves. keywords: flat cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs28289.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs28289.txt item: #2139 of 4945 id: dv13zs28316 author: Andr és Tovar title: Bone Remodeling as a Hybrid Cellular Automaton Optimization Process date: 2004 words: 343 flesch: 28 summary: Many theoretical models for bone remodeling use this concept as part of the strategy to simulate bone structural adaptation. The objective of this investigation is to develop an algorithm that incorporates tissue-level mechanisms of bone functional adaptation compatible with both phenomenological and optimization approaches. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs28316.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs28316.txt item: #2140 of 4945 id: dv13zs2832j author: Joseph Stever Gallagher title: The Impact of Host Galaxy Environment on the Photometric Properties of Type Ia Supernovae date: 2007 words: 501 flesch: 41 summary: Furthermore, we characterize the environmental property distributions for type Ia supernova host galaxies through a comparison with two larger, more general distributions of field galaxies using Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests. Our narrow focus allows for the simultaneous measurement of both global age and metallicity, further allowing for a direct identification of possible dependences between both SN peak magnitude and Hubble Residual on host galaxy age and metallicity. keywords: host cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs2832j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs2832j.txt item: #2141 of 4945 id: dv13zs2833w author: Peter Ryan title: Sacred Ambiguity: Group Inclusivity and Distinctiveness at First Community Unitarian Universalist date: 2015 words: 123 flesch: 35 summary: If strong social identities, which create clear boundaries between in-groups and out-groups, are more effective in retaining and recruiting members and increasing the salience of in-group identities, why, and under what circumstances, do groups persist in formulating weak, and ambiguous group identities and group boundaries? If we are to analyze group means for boundary maintenance, I argue that we must also analyze group processes and motivations for boundary disruption and decay. keywords: group cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs2833w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs2833w.txt item: #2142 of 4945 id: dv13zs28347 author: Katie Kristine Thorne title: An Experimental Investigation of Compressible Dynamic Stall on a 2-D pitching airfoil date: 2010 words: 119 flesch: 46 summary: A new facility has been designed and constructed at the University of Notre Dame to investigate dynamic stall and compressible dynamic stall on a 2-D pitching airfoil at high subsonic Mach numbers. The facility is able to pitch an airfoil at non harmonic frequencies at flight Reynolds numbers. keywords: dynamic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs28347.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs28347.txt item: #2143 of 4945 id: dv13zs2842v author: Kasey J Clear title: Molecular Probes for Biomembrane Recognition date: 1904 words: 321 flesch: 36 summary: The second study (Chapter 3) compares the cell death targeting ability of two new phenoxide-bridged Zn2BDPA deep-red fluorescent probes in cells and two animal models of cell death. Zn2BDPA coordination complexes are known to selectively recognize PS-rich membranes and act as cell death molecular imaging agents. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs2842v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs2842v.txt item: #2144 of 4945 id: dv13zs2853h author: Hao Wang title: Coupled Plasmonics for TERS and Understanding of Quantum Effects in Plasmonic Junctions date: 1904 words: 281 flesch: 36 summary: Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), by taking advantage of the enormous field enhancements arising from the excitation of the localized surface-plasmon resonances (LSPR), have both shown great potential in ultra-sensitive detection. In this dissertation, we focus on the effect of coupled plasmonics in TERS for the detection and nanoscale imaging of biologically relevant molecules such as proteins, in a non-invasive, label-free and selective manner. keywords: plasmonics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs2853h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs2853h.txt item: #2145 of 4945 id: dv13zs28s33 author: Martin P. Barron title: Statistical Machine Learning for Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data: Sparse Clustering for Cell Type Identification and Confounding Factor Removal date: 1904 words: 703 flesch: 43 summary: SparseDC is applicable to any situation where the simultaneous analysis of multiple populations consisting of independent observations is undertaken, such as examining data on individuals from different cities or countries, or stock market data taken from an index at different periods of time. Data coming from scRNA-seq experiments typically contain 100-10,000 cells and measurements for about 20,000-50,000 genes, this leads to a large \ extit{p} small \ extit{n} problem, leading to issues such as conventional clustering algorithms being ineffective due to the curse of dimensionality. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs28s33.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs28s33.txt item: #2146 of 4945 id: dv13zs2938w author: Katelyn E. Carothers title: A Puzzling Promiscuous Protease: Role of the Streptococcal SpeB Protein in Host Virulence and Polymicrobial Dynamics date: 2020 words: 339 flesch: 41 summary: We demonstrate that SpeB exhibits potent biofilm disruption activity at multiple stages of S. aureus biofilm formation. We first examined the effect of SpeB production using this non-invasive GAS strain in a model of host skin infection, hypothesizing that the proteolytic activity of SpeB would cause host cell damage and loss of viability. keywords: speb cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs2938w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs2938w.txt item: #2147 of 4945 id: dv13zs2949j author: Samantha Sherman title: Mechanism Analysis and Synthesis Using Numerical Algebraic Geometry date: 2021 words: 331 flesch: 41 summary: Next, we investigate coupling methods from numerical algebraic geometry with statistical models to estimate the number of solutions to polynomial systems arising from synthesis problems. Homotopy continuation is a standard tool from numerical algebraic geometry that can be used to solve systems of polynomial equations and analyze the resulting solution sets arising from problems in mechanism analysis and synthesis. keywords: platforms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs2949j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs2949j.txt item: #2148 of 4945 id: dv13zs2950r author: Chamara Moore title: Swapping Heels for Capes: Black Womanhood, Speculative Fiction, and the Black Imaginary date: 2021 words: 434 flesch: 38 summary: Reading characterslike Cora from The Underground Railroad, Maeve from Westworld, and even the infamous Marvel comics hero Storm, I attempt to read various types of Black womanhood through the lens of Black Speculation to demonstrate not only its breadth and meaning, but also how it is further complicated by gender and medium. I also read these texts and characters through a critical lens that not only acknowledges the epistemological barring of the Black Femme subject from the category of human, but also overlaps the lenses of Afro-Pessimism, Afrofuturism, and other lines of Black thought in a way that highlights their importance as a collective body of work that informs Black Speculation now rather than posing them against each other. keywords: black cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs2950r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs2950r.txt item: #2149 of 4945 id: dv13zs29784 author: Drew Blankstein title: Active Target Measurement of the 25,26Mg(α,n)28,29Si Total Cross Section date: 2023 words: 193 flesch: 50 summary: Models of supernova nucleosynthesis have failed to reproduce this ratio. The 26Mg(α,n)29Si has also been found to have a direct influence on the isotopic ratio of 29Si/30Si found in pre-solar grains formed from supernova. keywords: 26al cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dv13zs29784.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dv13zs29784.txt item: #2150 of 4945 id: dz010p1198p author: Lindsay Elizabeth Ficke title: Thermodynamic Properties of Imidazolium and Phosphonium Based Ionic Liquid Mixtures with Water or Carbon Dioxide date: 2010 words: 335 flesch: 34 summary: Ionic liquids (ILs) as absorbents in absorption refrigeration systems present the possibility of overcoming some of the safety and environmental concerns of current systems. In general, absorption refrigeration is attractive since electrical energy is replaced with low value heat energy. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p1198p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p1198p.txt item: #2151 of 4945 id: dz010p11991 author: Karthik Swaminathan title: Carbon Nanotubes: Growth and Single Electron Transistor Measurements date: 2004 words: 66 flesch: 63 summary: In this work, an attempt is made to study the factors behind carbon nanotube growth. Growth is carried out by thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) using a solid catalyst. keywords: carbon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p11991.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p11991.txt item: #2152 of 4945 id: dz010p11b07 author: Amanda Georgeanne Michaels title: Open Season: Fanfiction Theory Beyond 'Textual Poachers' date: 2010 words: 152 flesch: 41 summary: This emergence calls for a rethinking of fanfiction theory, as fan studies has relied heavily upon Henry Jenkins' *Textual Poachers* for the last sixteen years, despite the fact that it was written well before the Internet stepped in to completely revolutionize the field. After establishing that 1) fanfiction can be accepted as a new artistic medium, and 2) it is in need of fresher theory, this thesis will then offer performativity as another way into the fan-written text. keywords: fanfiction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p11b07.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p11b07.txt item: #2153 of 4945 id: dz010p11b2x author: Caroline Elizabeth Byrd title: Gesturing May Not Always Make Learning Last date: 2015 words: 152 flesch: 50 summary: We hypothesized that children in the eye movement and gesture conditions would retain more from instruction when compared to children in the speech only condition. Posttest performance was similar across conditions. keywords: children cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p11b2x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p11b2x.txt item: #2154 of 4945 id: dz010p11b69 author: Mitchell O. Stokes title: Quinean Meta-Ontology and Fictionalism date: 2005 words: 358 flesch: 61 summary: Once this is done, the philosophical geography surrounding Quinean meta-ontology (the meta-ontology proper as well as its use in arguments for platonism) should be apparent. Another goal is to show how Quinean meta-ontology is used, particularly in arguments for the existence of abstract objects. keywords: ontology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p11b69.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p11b69.txt item: #2155 of 4945 id: dz010p11c0j author: Brian Ray Novak title: Molecular Simulation Studies of Heterogeneous Bubble Nucleation: Effects of Surface Chemistry and Topology date: 2007 words: 349 flesch: 32 summary: Weak surface interactions created a region of tension near the surface and stronger surface interactions created a region of high pressure. Increasing the strength of surface-fluid interactions induced more ordering in the fluid near the solid surface causing nucleation to occur at the solid surface for weak interactions and above the surface for stronger interactions. keywords: surface cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p11c0j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p11c0j.txt item: #2156 of 4945 id: dz010p11c1w author: Martina Cucchiara title: 'Bitter Times:' The Poor School Sisters of Notre Dame in Hitler's Germany, 1933 to 1945 date: 2011 words: 739 flesch: 46 summary: These age-old tensions between the social and sexual demands placed on women and women's continued insistence on religious vocations reached a zenith in Nazi Germany. Catholic religious vocations in fact offered countless women an alternative to marriage, a higher education, and the chance to enter a profession at a time when opportunities for women contracted in the secular realm. keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p11c1w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p11c1w.txt item: #2157 of 4945 id: dz010p11c7z author: James Wismer title: Res Novae: Epicurean Metaphor in De Rerum Natura date: 1904 words: 29 flesch: 22 summary: An examination of the metaphor of revolution in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura which accounts for the metaphor in terms of Lucretius' Epicurean philosophy, Roman social reality, and rhetorical technique. keywords: metaphor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p11c7z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p11c7z.txt item: #2158 of 4945 id: dz010p1203f author: William R. Smith title: A Heavenly Correspondence: Benjamin Colman's Epistolary World and the Dissenting Interest date: 1904 words: 220 flesch: 29 summary: As Dissenters adjusted to a growing empire, letters became lifelines and indispensable social threads that knit them together despite their geographic distance and ecclesiastical diversity. Colman's world testifies to both the reshaping of transatlantic letter networks in this period and the crucial role of those networks that connected Dissenting communities across space and time. keywords: british cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p1203f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p1203f.txt item: #2159 of 4945 id: dz010p1216s author: Anshumaan Bajpai title: New Approaches for Describing Non-Ideal Adsorption and Reaction at Transition Metal Surfaces date: 1904 words: 169 flesch: 29 summary: In this work, we explored both the aspects of free energy, the contribution from creation of adsorbate-surface bonds and the estimation of entropic contribution to the free energy. The minimization of free energy is driven by two competing factors: energetic driving force for creating adsorbate-surface bonds and the entropic cost of reducing the degrees of freedom of an adsorbate as it moves from a fluid phase to the surface. keywords: free cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p1216s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p1216s.txt item: #2160 of 4945 id: dz010p12d04 author: G. C. Havrilak title: Upgrade date: 2020 words: 41 flesch: 54 summary: Upgrade is a collection of ten stories written and revised under the supervision of the creative writing faculty at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 2020. keywords: upgrade cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p12d04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p12d04.txt item: #2161 of 4945 id: dz010p12f86 author: Daniel Patrick Burdette title: Precision Tests of the Standard Model Using Nuclear β Decay at the Nuclear Science Laboratory date: 2021 words: 523 flesch: 46 summary: This can be accomplished by extracting Vud from the ensemble of superallowed mixed beta decays to an improved precision. The second aspect of this thesis includes the development of an experimental apparatus to measure the Fermi to Gamow-Teller mixing ratio of superallowed mixed decays, as this quantity is required to determine Vud with this ensemble of nuclei. keywords: measurement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p12f86.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p12f86.txt item: #2162 of 4945 id: dz010p12g13 author: Katherine Edler title: The Reminiscing and Emotion Training Intervention and Trajectories of Parental Reflective Functioning over One Year date: 2022 words: 230 flesch: 20 summary: Reflective functioning may be malleable following maltreating mothers' participation in Reminiscing and Emotion Training (RET; Valentino et al., 2019), a relational intervention aimed to enhance sensitive reminiscing. Moreover, longitudinal reflective functioning trajectories may be associated with patterns of change in sensitive reminiscing. keywords: mothers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p12g13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p12g13.txt item: #2163 of 4945 id: dz010p12g2f author: Bradley Rebeiro title: Natural Rights (Re)Construction: Frederick Douglass and Constitutional Abolitionism date: 2022 words: 203 flesch: 29 summary: Indeed, Douglass helped constitutional abolitionists popularize a natural rights theory of interpretation that excised slavery from the Constitution. Douglass's constitutional thought uniquely answered the question: What was the Constitution's posture toward slavery? keywords: douglass cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p12g2f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p12g2f.txt item: #2164 of 4945 id: dz010p12h95 author: Parinda Tennakoon title: Mechanisms of Endocrine Therapy Resistance in Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer by ZNF217 and ERBB3 Signaling date: 2023 words: 417 flesch: 41 summary: Moreover, by analyzing cell culture media in MCF7 cells ± siRNA ZNF217, I discovered that ZNF217 alters the cytokine/chemokine/growth factor profile secreted by ER+ breast cancer cells. Together, my results suggest that Zfp217 overexpression in ER+ breast cancer cells causes endocrine therapy resistance and that growth factor induction via NRG1 induces non-canonical ER binding to the genome and a ZNF217-dependent gene expression signature. keywords: znf217 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/dz010p12h95.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/dz010p12h95.txt item: #2165 of 4945 id: f1881j94k87 author: Jeffrey Thomas Wickes title: Out of Books, A World: The Scriptural Poetics of Ephrem the Syrian's Hymns on Faith date: 2013 words: 242 flesch: 36 summary: Chapter two analyzes Ephrem's understanding of Scripture's poetics (how Scripture itself works, and how it has come to be) and then chapters three through five trace three metaphors which Ephrem uses Scripture to refashion: metaphors of the self (chapter three), of others (chapter four), and of Christ (chapter five). This argument is pursued in chapters two through five. keywords: scripture cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94k87.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94k87.txt item: #2166 of 4945 id: f1881j94m2g author: Stephen L Erwin title: Extraction of Full-Scale Dynamic Properties from Short Duration Records date: 2010 words: 457 flesch: 23 summary: Once the reliability of the extracted dynamic properties was established, this thesis explored the influence of characteristics such as height, aspect ratio and structural system on the dynamic properties, demonstrating how damping and frequency characteristics for structural systems dominated by cantilever effects are more appropriately parameterized by variables such as height or slenderness, while those from systems dominated by frame action are more reliant on floor plate aspect ratio. While this database encompasses a number of structural systems and materials, the buildings were only instrumented for short periods of time under ambient vibration levels, making the extraction of parameters like damping quite difficult. keywords: dynamic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94m2g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94m2g.txt item: #2167 of 4945 id: f1881j94m45 author: David Andrew Pitt title: Revising the Rite of Adult Initiation: The Structural Reform of the Ordo Initiationis Christianae Adultorum, Ordo Catechumenatus per Gradus Dispositus, 1964-1972 date: 2008 words: 290 flesch: 38 summary: Chapter Six details the investigation of the experimental rite to the Consilium and to the Congregation for the Rites, and the emendation of the OCGD prior to its presentation to Paul VI and his approval for experimentation. Chapter Seven surveys the responses from experimentation and the resulting revisions to the OCGD. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94m45.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94m45.txt item: #2168 of 4945 id: f1881j94m5h author: Velmurugan Balaraman title: Hammerhead Ribozyme Mediated Suppression of Chikungunya Virus Replication in Vero Cells date: 2014 words: 395 flesch: 47 summary: hRz#1 and hRz#8 targeting the nsp1 and nsp4 genes, respectively, yielded 2 and 5 logs suppression of CHIKV replication as compared to wild type infected Vero cells. Homogenous cell populations were obtained by single cell sorting of hRz transformed cells using FACS, and the clones were challenged with CHIKV at a MOI of 0.0001. keywords: chikv cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94m5h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94m5h.txt item: #2169 of 4945 id: f1881j94m6v author: Kate Nicholls title: Europeanizing Responses to Labor Market Challenges in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal: The Importance of Consultative and Incorporative Policy-Making date: 2007 words: 272 flesch: 33 summary: It focuses specifically on Greek, Irish, and Portuguese responses to a set of labor market challenges in the higher education, immigration, and family policy fields, the latter concentrating on the evolution of policies for work-life balance. This dissertation investigates the relationship between policy-making institutions and processes and the Europeanization of policy content in three second- and third-wave members of the European Union. keywords: policy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94m6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94m6v.txt item: #2170 of 4945 id: f1881j94m8j author: David A. Hartman title: Toward an Understanding of How Religion Affects the Timing of Sexual Debuts: A Test of Smith's Framework date: 2010 words: 166 flesch: 35 summary: The direct effects of religious participation on the age at sexual debut become statistically insignificant in the presence of Smith's (2003) factors, supporting the idea that considering only religion's direct effects is a myopic view of how religion work. Smith (2003) proposes that religious participation creates its impact primarily through nine intervening religious mechanisms or factors. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94m8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94m8j.txt item: #2171 of 4945 id: f1881j94m9w author: Christopher David Chapman title: Taboo: The Real Modernist Aesthetic Made Real date: 2011 words: 430 flesch: 39 summary: Rather, I wish to offer a discussion and presentation of the theory of allegory which demonstrates its origins in the profound interest in natural history that held modernism in its nascent grip. This is due to the fact that natural history was an absorptive and expansive term that allowed for refinement without reduction as it came to signal entire processes of cultural, linguistic, and aesthetic practice. keywords: history cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94m9w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94m9w.txt item: #2172 of 4945 id: f1881j94n03 author: John M Holmes title: Sustainable Energy Development date: 2010 words: 132 flesch: 48 summary: Then, taking these constraints into account, we develop a basic model of energy production with varying levels of pollution in discrete time. Hence, we pose the problem in continuous time, which yields an analogous system of differential equations. keywords: equations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94n03.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94n03.txt item: #2173 of 4945 id: f1881j94n34 author: Keefe Roedersheimer title: A Study of the Impact of Multi-Leaf Collimator Rotation date: 2010 words: 262 flesch: 53 summary: Because tumor geometry is often irregular, it is useful to shape the beams to match the geometry of the tumor. The treatment planning problem in radiosurgery is the selection of a number of beams and the orientations of those beams, such that at their intersection they deliver a lethal dose to the tumor without exceeding the tolerance of any critical structure in their path. keywords: tumor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94n34.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94n34.txt item: #2174 of 4945 id: f1881j94n4g author: Yiying Luo title: Characterizing the Role of Cell Polarity Genes: Pard3, Lin7, and Scribble in Zebrafish Retina Development date: 2007 words: 346 flesch: 45 summary: Specification of retinal neural cells was abolished and the Ath5 differentiation signaling pathway required for ganglion cell differentiation was inhibited in the scrib morphant retina. The apical subcellular localization of Pard3 protien is dependent on the aPKC and Nok proteins. keywords: scrib cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94n4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94n4g.txt item: #2175 of 4945 id: f1881j94n5t author: Kathleen Targowski Ashenfelter title: Simultaneous Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Data During Conversation: Symmetry and Turn-taking date: 2007 words: 340 flesch: 15 summary: A major goal of this work was to combine the well-established qualitative method of analyzing verbal (and more recently nonverbal) discourse known as conversation analysis (CA) with more recent quantitative methods for analyzing nonstationary time series data. This dissertation examines coordinated verbal and nonverbal symmetry in turn-taking behavior during conversation using three modern techniques for analyzing conversational data in nonstationary time series data: windowed cross-correlation, multifractal wavelet analysis, and recurrence quantification analysis. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94n5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94n5t.txt item: #2176 of 4945 id: f1881j94n65 author: Daniel J. Kim title: The Political Economy of Corporate Governance and Reform: Industrial Policy, Financial Crises, and the Path of Corporate Governance Restructuring Policy date: 2010 words: 267 flesch: 31 summary: This dissertation explores the relationship between politics and economic policy. Yet, no matter the quality of various economic policy choices, the ultimate winner is commonly chosen, not because that particular policy is the best economic solution to the problem, but because it garners the greatest support from the political elites. keywords: economic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94n65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94n65.txt item: #2177 of 4945 id: f1881j94q5f author: Madeline Ahmed Cronin title: The Politics of Taste: Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen on the Cultivation of Democratic Judgment date: 1904 words: 148 flesch: 51 summary: Mary Wollstonecraft however, proposes dramatic revision of the extant model of taste driven by the spread of rational education. Proponents of the politics of taste, such as David Hume and Edmund Burke, suggested fostering existing standards of taste as a palliative to the modern democratic ills they diagnosed. keywords: taste cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94q5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94q5f.txt item: #2178 of 4945 id: f1881j94s9f author: Sean Myers title: The Contribution of Michael Mathis, C.S.C., to the Liturgical Movement in the United States date: 1904 words: 183 flesch: 24 summary: First, it treats Mathis' work with liturgical education, examining the origins and development of the graduate program in liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and considering related projects before comparing Mathis' work with similar liturgical education programs. Finally, it examines Mathis' contributions to the Liturgical Conference and the translation of the Collectio Rituum, as well as his work preparing American Catholics for the new rites of Holy Week in 1956 and organizing the American delegation for the First International Congress of Pastoral Liturgy in 1956. keywords: mathis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j94s9f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j94s9f.txt item: #2179 of 4945 id: f1881j9594n author: Rachel Banke title: Bute's Empire: Reform, Reaction, and the Roots of Imperial Crisis date: 1904 words: 350 flesch: 38 summary: Bute's successor, George Grenville, soon promoted policies constructed in contradistinction to the approach of Bute and his likeminded appointees. His sober-minded attitude toward post-war imperial policy emphasized security, from both external threats and internal instability, as the foundation for long-term colonial growth and development. keywords: bute cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j9594n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j9594n.txt item: #2180 of 4945 id: f1881j95b1x author: Daniel Uncapher title: Cityplace date: 1904 words: 153 flesch: 47 summary: A paranoid situation where the full explanation remains out of reach, Cityplace waits between two apocalypses, an ideology that only understands social contract in the language of social conspiracy, the production of truth as capital, and mediation—image, body and sound—as a transformational (disfiguring) process. Cityplace is the enduring tension between identity and self, history and the end of the world—presentness as impasse between past and future, positioned in the ontological space between the mirror and the source where reflection crosses back over itself. keywords: cityplace cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j95b1x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j95b1x.txt item: #2181 of 4945 id: f1881j95b59 author: Emmanuel Cannady title: To Help or Not to Help: Does Family Racial Configuration Matter? date: 1904 words: 151 flesch: 42 summary: Where most research on racial discrimination focuses on harm, this paper focuses on the process of withholding help. I end with a discussion proposing a racial hierarchy that considers the intersection of race, gender, and family racial configuration. keywords: racial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j95b59.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j95b59.txt item: #2182 of 4945 id: f1881j95p0p author: Sarah Wright title: Battling the Backlog: A Novel Bioanalytical Technology for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence date: 2020 words: 170 flesch: 35 summary: The separated components were deposited into individual wells of a microtiter plate using a computer-controlled fraction collector, and quantitative PCR was used to verify the collection of sperm cells by targeted amplification of male DNA. The technology was verified with simulated sexual assault samples that were aged for up to 18 months, as well as vaginal swabs from authentic forensic kits, demonstrating a clean separation and collection of sperm cells for downstream analysis. keywords: saks cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j95p0p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j95p0p.txt item: #2183 of 4945 id: f1881j95q5q author: Tyler Giles title: Essays on Risky Behaviors date: 2021 words: 166 flesch: 33 summary: Hence, in this dissertation, I provide novel descriptive and plausibly causal estimates of the effects of both policy and institutions on costly risky behaviors. This dissertation is a collection of research on risky behaviors such as criminal activity and substance abuse. keywords: behaviors cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j95q5q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j95q5q.txt item: #2184 of 4945 id: f1881j95r7q author: Char Brecevic title: A Philosophical Investigation of Patient Nonadherence: Imagining a Way Forward date: 2022 words: 193 flesch: 24 summary: However, the vast majority of these frameworks overestimate the importance of cognitive factors (e.g., beliefs, background knowledge, consciously articulated desires, etc.) while downplaying the importance of experiential and/or emotional factors. The one theory that does account for the latter features of health behavior, the Common Sense Model (CSM) of Illness Representations, ultimately succumbs to the asymmetric focus on cognitive factors. keywords: nonadherence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f1881j95r7q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f1881j95r7q.txt item: #2185 of 4945 id: f4752f77w0v author: Sean Michael Hoban title: Natural and anthropogenic influences on population dynamics in butternut (Juglans cinerea L.) date: 2010 words: 404 flesch: 22 summary: A current goal in conservation biology and population ecology is to quantify the short- and long-term impact of anthropogenic activities, including habitat degradation and global climate change, in order to predict changes in populations, species, and communities. While populations are inherently dynamic, contemporary environmental change may create population instability by altering processes such as migration, recruitment, and population growth and decline. keywords: populations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f77w0v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f77w0v.txt item: #2186 of 4945 id: f4752f77w16 author: Sean David Brittain title: Using High-Resolution Near Infrared Spectroscopy to Probe the Interstellar Medium and Circumstellar Disks date: 2004 words: 358 flesch: 46 summary: There is some controversy surrounding the interpretation of H3+ observations toward dense clouds. Some argue that most of the observed H3+ originates in diffuse material surrounding dense clouds rather than in the dense clouds. keywords: gas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f77w16.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f77w16.txt item: #2187 of 4945 id: f4752f77w2j author: Patrick Meredith Gardner title: Dante and the Suffering Soul date: 2010 words: 331 flesch: 31 summary: Most literary visions of the afterlife ignore such difficulties, silently granting pseudo-embodiment to the departed; but Dante, employing similar aerial bodies, directly questions their nature. I argue that Dante's explanation of the shades (primarily in Purgatorio XXV) is a coherent justification of the possible union of separated souls to aerial bodies: not a formal union allowing for sensation, but a virtual one allowing for manifestation—which is precisely parallel to angelic appearances. keywords: dante cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f77w2j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f77w2j.txt item: #2188 of 4945 id: f4752f77w8m author: David Andrew Teeter title: Exegesis in the Transmission of Biblical Law in the Second Temple Period: Preliminary Studies date: 2008 words: 349 flesch: 35 summary: The analysis of these cases offers important data for better understanding the pluriformity of the pentateuchal text in the period, for assessing the character and scope of scribal exegesis in the transmission of biblical law, and for charting the unclear literary boundaries between scriptural transmission and exegetical rewriting in the period. The present dissertation offers a specific contribution toward these larger ends by collecting and analyzing all examples of a single type of variant--namely, major textual pluses--preserved in extant witnesses to pentateuchal legal texts from the period. keywords: exegetical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f77w8m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f77w8m.txt item: #2189 of 4945 id: f4752f77x2v author: Luling Yang title: Shear Stiffness Modeling of Cemented Sand date: 2007 words: 268 flesch: 36 summary: Nonlinear site response analyses can provide more accurate predictions of ground motions during an earthquake than equivalent linear procedures, especially for higher amplitude ground motions. This can be useful for performing site response analysis for naturally cemented sites or sites that have been improved by cementation. keywords: cemented cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f77x2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f77x2v.txt item: #2190 of 4945 id: f4752f77x36 author: Jeffrey Allen Mayfield title: The Flavin-Dependent N-Hydroxylating Ornithine Monooxygenase from Aspergillus fumigatus and the Heme-Dependent O2-Generating Chlorite Dismutase from Dechloromonas aromatica: Studies of Oxygen Consumption and Production by Two Microbial Enzymes date: 2012 words: 385 flesch: 38 summary: At the biochemical level, this forced the production of enzymes and cofactors that were able to react with and bind oxygen, while limiting and elminating the toxic side products of its reduction. Modern species contain several oxygen-reactive biomolecules that are critical for survival; the following describes an in-depth examination of two enzyme systems with evolved highly sophisticated mechanisms for the use and production of molecular oxygen, respectively. keywords: oxygen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f77x36.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f77x36.txt item: #2191 of 4945 id: f4752f77x8x author: Nathaniel R. Myers title: Death Matters: Lyric, Affect, and Ethics in British and Irish Elegy, 1960-2012 date: 1904 words: 327 flesch: 21 summary: The scholarly turn to affect has begun to collapse distinctions between cultural networks of affect and the human bodies they influence; my analysis focuses on the lyric as one particular linguistic site in which to discern this intersection of the cultural and the somatic, attending specifically to what Mutlu Konuk Blasing refers to as the affective materials of language: its affectively charged sounds and rhythms, and the poetic techniques that harness these affective charges through prosody, form, and poetic convention. In the ethical concerns voiced by the poets – which range from the aestheticization of death and violence to the potential profit motives (artistic, commercial) of writing elegy – as well as in the formal techniques that can either mitigate these ethical concerns or, in some cases, generate them, these elegies betray the inextricability of private and cultural modes of grief. keywords: personal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f77x8x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f77x8x.txt item: #2192 of 4945 id: f4752f77z6j author: Ana M. Jimenez-Moreno title: Writing out of the Center: English Interwar Authors Reflect on the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution date: 1904 words: 315 flesch: 44 summary: Although Greene, Huxley, Lawrence, Lowry and Waugh straddle the border between modernism, thriller, and post-modernism, they converge on the use of the travelogue, a genre they change in key ways. My research makes an intervention in the field of modernist studies since it tests the bridge between phenomenology and post colonial studies. keywords: mexico cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f77z6j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f77z6j.txt item: #2193 of 4945 id: f4752f78002 author: Jiazhuo Wang title: New Approaches for Biological Structures Identification in Histology Tissue Images date: 1904 words: 232 flesch: 26 summary: As a result, the proposed algorithms not only provide useful tools for automatic identification of biological structures (which greatly releases the burden of visual examination of histology tissue images from pathologists), but also introduce an opportunity for quantitative analysis of the diseases (which substantially reduces the degree of subjectiveness of disease analysis, and provides novel insights into the diseases). However, the process of disease characterization by visual examination of histology tissue images is often labor intensive and requires expert knowledge. keywords: structures cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f78002.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f78002.txt item: #2194 of 4945 id: f4752f78k83 author: Jin L.C. Guo title: Semantically Enhanced Traceability across Software and System-Related Natural Language Artifacts date: 1904 words: 254 flesch: 31 summary: Trace links represent established associations between software requirements, design, code, test cases and other such artifacts. Traceability describes the potential to create and maintain trace links during the software development life cycle. keywords: trace cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f78k83.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f78k83.txt item: #2195 of 4945 id: f4752f78z2f author: Juan A. Valdez Jr. title: Democratizing the Lone Star State: How Mexican Americans Challenge Texas Authoritarianism date: 2020 words: 324 flesch: 31 summary: In my dissertation, I take a historically informed approach to analyze how Mexican-Americans managed to overcome 19th and 20th century authoritarian institutions in Texas, and in effect, initiated a transition to democracy in south Texas. I frame the political transformation of Texas as a form of localized regime change spearheaded by Mexican-Americans seeking the guarantee of democratic protections and political inclusion. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f78z2f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f78z2f.txt item: #2196 of 4945 id: f4752f79021 author: Valeria N. Mora-Hernández title: Víctimas y sobrevivientes: gestión de la violencia e identidad en la narrativa española premoderna date: 2021 words: 766 flesch: 32 summary: Argumento que en Lázaro de Tormes, El buscón de Quevedo, las Novelas ejemplares de Cervantes y los Desengaños amorosos de María de Zayas, la violencia física y sicológica afecta los comportamientos y las identidades de los personajes quienes, al mismo tiempo, intentan cumplir con expectativas socioculturales propias del periodo. Mi disertación se enfoca en las representaciones de la violencia, pues estudia los efectos de las agresiones en los personajes subyugados desde las perspectivas de las teorías de la discapacidad, los estudios de género y de violencia. keywords: las cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f79021.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f79021.txt item: #2197 of 4945 id: f4752f79141 author: Suraj Mishra title: Data-Driven Approaches for Biomedical Image Analysis date: 2022 words: 283 flesch: 25 summary: In this dissertation, multiple data-driven approaches are proposed for CNN based biomedical image segmentation and classification models. Operations like target object segmentation, and classification are principal tools used in biomedical image study. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f79141.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f79141.txt item: #2198 of 4945 id: f4752f7924b author: Emily LaPorte title: Infant Perceptual Sensitivity and Attachment Security with Mothers but Not Fathers Predict Cognitive Development at 20 Months date: 2022 words: 251 flesch: 29 summary: The three objectives of this longitudinal study were to examine temperamental perceptual sensitivity (IBQ-R; Gartstein & Rothbart, 2003) as a predictor of cognitive growth at 20 months, attachment style (Strange Situation; Ainsworth et al., 1978) as a predictor of infant cognitive growth (Mental Development Index scores; Bayley, 1993) at 20 months, and the moderating effect of attachment x perceptual sensitivity on cognitive growth at 20 months. Attachment security is associated with academic achievement, language competence, developed vocabularies in children (i.e. van IJzendoorn et al., 1995; Sroufe, 2005; Pallini et al., 2014), yet there is very little research on cognitive outcomes in infancy or toddlerhood (i.e. Ding, 2014). keywords: attachment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f4752f7924b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f4752f7924b.txt item: #2199 of 4945 id: f7623b6150p author: Brian Gerald Morgen title: Friction-Damped Unbonded Post-Tensioned Precast Concrete Moment Frame Structures for Seismic Regions date: 2008 words: 366 flesch: 35 summary: Large scale beam-column subassemblies are tested under pseudo-static cyclic lateral loading with the following varied parameters: damper normal force, type of friction interface, area and initial stress of beam post-tensioning steel, and beam depth. Comparisons of the prototype structures with structures that use only mild steel reinforcement crossing the beam-column joints as well as structures that use only post-tensioning steel and structures that use combinations of mild steel and post-tensioning steel are also provided. keywords: beam cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b6150p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b6150p.txt item: #2200 of 4945 id: f7623b61542 author: Nathan L Whitfield title: Hydrogen Sulfide and its Potential Role as an Oxygen Sensor date: 2010 words: 355 flesch: 43 summary: Using the methylene blue method we were unable to replicate blood sulfide measurements found in other studies, while showing unequivocally that this method should work in plasma if sulfide is present. In this thesis the focus is two-fold: whether H2S functions as a gasotransmitter in blood and whether H2S could act more locally as an endogenous oxygen sensor. keywords: sulfide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b61542.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b61542.txt item: #2201 of 4945 id: f7623b61573 author: Kuldeep Niraula title: Addressing the Neglect of Local Peacebuilding Practices Through Documentaries: A Case of Everyday Gandhis date: 2015 words: 148 flesch: 34 summary: While documentaries can witness and record local peace practices, the subject matter and presentation style can pose barriers for dissemination of documentaries to wider audiences. But, none of them envision autonomous functioning of indigenous peace practices. keywords: practices cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b61573.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b61573.txt item: #2202 of 4945 id: f7623b61600 author: Neal Manu Patel title: Crashworthiness Design using Topology Optimization date: 2008 words: 345 flesch: 29 summary: The results demonstrate that the methodologies provide a practical technique and tool to aid the design engineer in the generation of design concept of crashworthy structures. Vehicle crashworthiness design is one of the most difficult problems being addressed in design optimization. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b61600.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b61600.txt item: #2203 of 4945 id: f7623b6161b author: Kathleen Patricia McCoy title: Early Childhood Exposure to Constructive and Destructive Marital Conflict and Adolescent Social Adjustment date: 2011 words: 264 flesch: 21 summary: Additionally, initial levels of positive family expressiveness act as intervening variables between initial levels of destructive marital conflict and adolescent closeness in friendships, and initial levels of mothers' warmth act as intervening variables between initial levels of constructive marital conflict and adolescent prosocial behavior. Yet few studies have explored the impact of early exposure to constructive marital conflict and the transition to adolescence using a longitudinal study design that does not involve retrospective data, and especially few studies have attempted to identify pathways and mediators accounting for the positive effects of constructive conflict. keywords: conflict cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b6161b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b6161b.txt item: #2204 of 4945 id: f7623b6162p author: Lavaughn A Pritchard title: The Link Between Financial Liberalization and Financial Crisis: A Case Study of Trinidad and Tobago date: 2010 words: 94 flesch: 22 summary: I argue that financial liberalization leads to financial crisis and I show that the liberalization of TT's financial system allowed CLF to engage in financial practices which were responsible for CLF's difficulties which initiated a financial crisis. This dissertation examines the relationship between financial liberalization and financial crises and its impact on small open developing countries using Trinidad and Tobago (TT) and the fall of the CL Financial conglomerate as the case study. keywords: financial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b6162p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b6162p.txt item: #2205 of 4945 id: f7623b6165q author: Ryan M Sweeny title: Making Sense of the Mozart Effect: Correcting the Problems Created by Null Hypothesis Significance Testing date: 2006 words: 163 flesch: 51 summary: This finding, subsequently labeled the 'Mozart effect', resulted in a flurry of additional research aimed at exploring the nature and extent of the effects of music on cognitive tasks. Some studies failed to replicate or generalize the effects to additional cognitive tasks or types of music. keywords: mozart cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b6165q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b6165q.txt item: #2206 of 4945 id: f7623b61662 author: Sunil Srinivasa title: Modeling Interference in Uniformly Random Wireless Networks: Theory and Applications date: 2007 words: 173 flesch: 28 summary: As another application, we study the problem of path loss exponent (PLE) estimation in large wireless networks, which is relevant to several important topics in communications such as localization, energy-efficient transmission and handoff initiation in cellular networks. The MGF is used to compute the interference moments, which accurately depict the asymptotic behavior of the network interference as the number of nodes increases. keywords: interference cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b61662.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b61662.txt item: #2207 of 4945 id: f7623b6167d author: Song Guo title: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Dinuclear Organometallic Molecules on Au(111) date: 2010 words: 442 flesch: 56 summary: Submolecular structure of Ru2 was clearly discernible in STM images at room temperature, with a bright feature corresponding to each of the two Ru-centered end groups within each Ru2 molecule. Molecular QCA cells, with their sizes at the nanometer scale, are predicted to be able to function at room temperature. keywords: ru2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b6167d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b6167d.txt item: #2208 of 4945 id: f7623b6168r author: James E. Helmer title: The Rights of Peoples? A Theological Analysis of Cultural Rights date: 2010 words: 323 flesch: 0 summary: While endorsing the liberal-egalitarian premises of standard liberal accounts of cultural rights, it endeavors to provide a mediated defense of cultural rights that supports the legitimate attribution of various rights to minority cultural communities as moral entities possessing some dignity or inherent worth of their own, for various theological and philosophical reasons. It is a constructive theological analysis of the idea of cultural rights, and it attempts to provide a fundamental analytical and normative framework for conceptualizing and evaluating the various types of rights claims made by cultural minorities within contemporary culturally pluralistic political contexts. keywords: rights cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b6168r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b6168r.txt item: #2209 of 4945 id: f7623b61c1w author: Shahram Jevin Poureetezadi title: Prostaglandins as Regulators of Nephrogenesis date: 1904 words: 271 flesch: 25 summary: Taken together, these findings show for the first time that prostaglandin signaling is an essential component of nephron cell fate choice, and indicate that the prostaglandin family may have considerable implications in understanding how to treat kidney failure that arise from congenital kidney diseases and end-stage renal disease. Genetic abrogation or inhibition of the prostaglandin producing enzymes, Prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 1 or 2a (also known as Cox-1/Ptgs1 and Cox-2/Ptgs2a respectively), or the Prostaglandin E receptor 2a or 4a (Ptger2a, Ptger4a), which we found to be expressed in renal progenitors, triggered an alteration in the balance of distal segment fates. keywords: prostaglandin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b61c1w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b61c1w.txt item: #2210 of 4945 id: f7623b61c3k author: Stephen J. Kuhn title: Exploring Highly Anisotropic Vortex Lattices of Unconventional Superconductors Using Small Angle Neutron Scattering date: 1904 words: 175 flesch: 29 summary: One way to explore unconventional superconductors is to examine how these properties of superconductors behave differently along different crystalline directions in various materials. The magnetic behavior for many of these materials is highly anisotropic, meaning the basal plane superconducting length scales are quite different than that of the c axis. keywords: superconductivity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b61c3k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b61c3k.txt item: #2211 of 4945 id: f7623b61v6z author: Garima Agrahari title: Two-Component CovRS Regulatory System: Role in Host Innate Immunity Modulation and Bacterial Virulence date: 1904 words: 486 flesch: 42 summary: HtpA is a novel Histidine Triad Proteins (HTP) that is thought to be regulated by CovRS in other strain (M23ND), participate in Zinc binding, and considered as an effective vaccine candidate against GAS infections. CovRS regulates a large number of GAS virulence genes involved in invasiveness and antiphagocytosis, e.g., cysteine protease (speB), fibronectin binding protein (sfb1), hyaluronic acid capsule (hasABC), and streptokinase (sk). keywords: covrs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b61v6z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b61v6z.txt item: #2212 of 4945 id: f7623b61w37 author: Robert W. Miller title: Parenting among Mothers of Adolescents with ADHD: Maternal and Child Contributions and the Intervening Role of Parenting Stress date: 1904 words: 221 flesch: 22 summary: Compared to the parents of typically developing children, the parents of children with ADHD are likelier to engage in lower rates of positive and higher rates of negative parenting behavior. We tested three variations of this model with different measures of maternal parenting stress (global evaluative stress, stress due to feelings of guilt, and stress about children's academic achievement). keywords: parenting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b61w37.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b61w37.txt item: #2213 of 4945 id: f7623b61w7m author: Moonseok Choi title: Excessive Juice date: 1904 words: 280 flesch: 37 summary: Food and digestion serves not as comfort or nourishment, but as a primary method for (mis)communication and contamination in exchanges that weigh the speaker against what the president represents or compare the realities of queerphobia and misogyny between the US and Korea, raising a question towards American exceptionalism and Korean nationalism. Wading through racism and sexism, the speaker's foreign, Korean body acts as a canvas for tattooing dialogue between different selves, imaginary and processed but no less real. keywords: self cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b61w7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b61w7m.txt item: #2214 of 4945 id: f7623b62681 author: Yizhe Zhang title: New Algorithms and Deep Learning Methods for Object Detection and Segmentation for Biomedical Image Analysis date: 2020 words: 388 flesch: 33 summary: More specifically, we present two new methods for utilizing unlabeled data for model training: (1) deep adversarial networks for biomedical image segmentation utilizing unannotated images, and (2) a new deep learning method using algorithm-generated pseudo-annotations. A new data augmentation technique based on super-pixels is then presented as a new regularization technique for training biomedical image segmentation networks. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b62681.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b62681.txt item: #2215 of 4945 id: f7623b62879 author: Jin Jia title: Spatiotemporal Mapping of Quinolone and Phenazine Secretion in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms by Confocal Raman Imaging date: 2021 words: 619 flesch: 21 summary: Confocal Raman microscopy was also applied to investigate the response of P. aeruginosa biofilm grown on lithographically defined patterned or unpatterned mucin to antibiotic treatment and to characterize the spatial and temporal distribution of secreted metabolites from static biofilms on the substrate, from supernatant of the bacterial broth, and from pellicle biofilms at the air-liquid interface. The work described in this thesis uses multimodal chemical imaging – Raman microspectroscopy, mass spectrometric imaging and electrochemical measurements - together with micro- and nanofabricated structures of high spatial definition to investigate the mechanisms of P. aeruginosa biofilm growth by characterizing the spatial and temporal distributions of signaling molecules and other secreted metabolites. keywords: aeruginosa cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/f7623b62879.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/f7623b62879.txt item: #2216 of 4945 id: fb494744f2q author: Xiaoyang Chen title: Curvature and Riemannian Submersions date: 2014 words: 69 flesch: 47 summary: We study Riemannian submersions from positively curved manifolds and from Einstein manifolds. We first prove a diameter rigidity theorem for Riemannian submersions. keywords: manifolds cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494744f2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494744f2q.txt item: #2217 of 4945 id: fb494744f32 author: Gail Maureen Mulligan title: The Participation of Language Minority Families in Formal School Activities date: 2005 words: 293 flesch: 27 summary: The analyses show that the opportunities schools offer families to be involved vary by school characteristics such as size, resources, and sector. The study concludes with a discussion of several practices schools should consider adopting in order to increase language minority parent participation in formal school activities. keywords: school cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494744f32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494744f32.txt item: #2218 of 4945 id: fb494744f4d author: Joseph Paul Vasquez, III title: International Politics by Ordinary Means: Conscription's Constraining Effect on Democracies Waging War date: 2010 words: 358 flesch: 28 summary: In this dissertation, I examine whether democracies with conscript militaries (conscript democracies) experience greater constraints during military conflict than democracies relying on volunteers (volunteer democracies). I use a statistical approach to test my hypothesis that conscript democracies experience fewer military casualties during militarized interstate disputes than volunteer democracies. keywords: democracies cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494744f4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494744f4d.txt item: #2219 of 4945 id: fb494744f63 author: Ling Sun title: Role of Hemodynamic Shear Stress Abnormalities in Calcific Aortic Valve Disease date: 2014 words: 786 flesch: 23 summary: Specific aim 3 investigated how BAV hemodynamic FSS abnormalities contribute to early progression of CAVD. Supported by those observations, the central hypothesis of this thesis is that hemodynamic FSS abnormalities contribute to CAVD development by regulating AV inflammation, extracellular matrix remodeling and valvular osteogenesis. keywords: fss; valvular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494744f63.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494744f63.txt item: #2220 of 4945 id: fb494744g0b author: David R. Swartz title: Left Behind: The Evangelical Left and the Limits of Evangelical Politics, 1965-1988 date: 2008 words: 320 flesch: 22 summary: Powerful cultural and political forces shaped the evangelical left, which traveled a parallel journey with its secular counterpart through the civil rights movement, antiwar protests, New Left politics, and identity politics. Though the movement languished under the weight of identity politics and the dilemmas of abortion, it persisted into the 1980s as a key component of the postwar politicization of evangelicalism. keywords: evangelicalism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494744g0b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494744g0b.txt item: #2221 of 4945 id: fb494744g4q author: Manshu Yang title: Treatment Effects in Randomized Longitudinal Trials with Different Types of Non-Ignorable Dropout date: 2010 words: 243 flesch: 34 summary: Results suggest that the traditional ML method is well suited for MAR data whereas the proposed PM-AD model has the best overall performance for MNAR data. Analytical derivations are also provided to explain the source of bias across different estimation methods. keywords: method cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494744g4q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494744g4q.txt item: #2222 of 4945 id: fb494744h72 author: Linlin Liu title: Essays on Asset Returns and Portfolio Allocation date: 1904 words: 332 flesch: 38 summary: The optimal portfolio weight on stock depends on the relative magnitude of the correlation between aggregate stock return and equity risk premium, and the correlation between aggregate stock return and labor income. With the risk factors constructed from the asset return data and macroeconomic data, the model is able to generate considerably small pricing errors for aggregate stock return and Treasury yields. keywords: risk cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494744h72.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494744h72.txt item: #2223 of 4945 id: fb494744h8d author: Nicole Lyn Sund title: Preasymptotic Approaches to Upscaling of Diffusion Limited Transport of Solutes date: 1904 words: 142 flesch: 41 summary: We find that for conservative transport in steady flows velocity correlation plays a major role and cannot be neglected at preasymptotic length scales, yet in unsteady flows this correlation is weak and can be neglected. We assess the importance of accounting for preasymptotic velocity correlation in upscaling solute transport in a variety of situations. keywords: correlation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494744h8d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494744h8d.txt item: #2224 of 4945 id: fb494744t3g author: Karen Hooge Michalka title: Embodied Cultural Transitions in Latino Protestant Congregations date: 1904 words: 204 flesch: 18 summary: This study investigates how bodily discipline in immigrant religious communities contributes to shared cultural logics regarding how groups understand their presence and purpose in their host country. Immigrant Latino Protestants are a growing and important group in the increasing demographic and religious diversity of the United States. keywords: immigrant cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494744t3g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494744t3g.txt item: #2225 of 4945 id: fb49474552h author: Bonnie Jaskowski Huge title: Preparative Capillary Zone Electrophoresis date: 1904 words: 173 flesch: 34 summary: Instead, we employ a highly efficient automated fraction collector that interfaces CZE with a collection plate for seamless transition to downstream analyses. CZE instruments often employ absorbance, laser-induced fluorescence, or mass spectrometry for on-line detection and analysis. keywords: cze cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb49474552h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb49474552h.txt item: #2226 of 4945 id: fb494745546 author: Laura Christine Collins title: Shaping the Potential Landscape: A Study of Atomically Engineered Quasicrystals and Molecules date: 1904 words: 328 flesch: 34 summary: Second, the creation of synthetic molecules using quantum corrals of carbon monoxide molecules is detailed. The weighted recombination of these Kekul\'e structures illustrates the dependence of aromatic molecules on the individual Kekul\'e structures. keywords: synthetic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494745546.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494745546.txt item: #2227 of 4945 id: fb49474598t author: Jacqueline Smith title: The Loose date: 2019 words: 97 flesch: 58 summary: Ten years after his sister's mysterious death by asphyxiation, Johnny Longfellow, 21, is lured to Key West by the promise of clarity. There he meets the performers of Loose Associations who entertain their nightly crowds by combining social phenomena with acts of illusion. keywords: death cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb49474598t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb49474598t.txt item: #2228 of 4945 id: fb494745g8c author: Brandon Sepulvado title: Three Studies in the Cultural Sociology of Science date: 2019 words: 515 flesch: 37 summary: I conclude by noting how, in bringing Sociological Idea Analysis to bear upon individual thinkers, one may advance the new sociology of ideas, research on scientific/intellectual movements, and field theory. Bioethics is important because it has life and death consequences across public policy, medical research, and the civil sphere. keywords: bioethics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494745g8c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494745g8c.txt item: #2229 of 4945 id: fb494745j4m author: Junrong Sheng title: Whose Attitudes and Money Matter? The Way Gender Talks in His Housework Participation in China date: 2021 words: 164 flesch: 42 summary: Results suggest a dominant logic of patriarchal culture in China, that is, it is men's own attitudes and income, and men's comparisons with other men that affects their behaviors. I argue, however, that this emphasis on women's attitudes and income in affecting division of domestic labor leads to an overlook on the possibility that men's housework is only affected by their own or other men's attitudes and resources. keywords: men cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494745j4m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494745j4m.txt item: #2230 of 4945 id: fb494745j80 author: Timothy Campion title: Free Duals and a New Universal Property for Stable Equivariant Homotopy Theory date: 2022 words: 97 flesch: 36 summary: In this thesis, I study the left adjoint D to the forgetful functor from the ∞-category of symmetric monoidal ∞-categories with duals and finite colimits to the ∞-category of symmetric monoidal ∞-categories with finite colimits, and related free constructions. As an application, I show that, for any compact Lie group G, the ∞-category of genuine G-spectra is obtained from the ∞-category of naive G-spectra by freely adjoining duals for compact objects, while respecting colimits. keywords: ∞-category cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494745j80.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494745j80.txt item: #2231 of 4945 id: fb494745k0j author: Chaz Rich title: Examining the Emotional Memory Tradeoff Effect in Young and Middle-Aged Adults date: 2021 words: 214 flesch: 35 summary: The results indicated that there were no statistically significant differences among younger adults in memory consolidation for sleep compared to wake, no significant relationship between depressive symptomatology and emotional memory, nor interaction between poor sleep quality, high depressive symptomatology and the tradeoff. To address these gaps within the literature, the present study compared emotional memory consolidation after a period of active wakefulness and full night of sleep in young and middle-aged adults in an online study. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494745k0j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494745k0j.txt item: #2232 of 4945 id: fb494745k58 author: Alyssa G. Oberman title: Effects of Mechanical and Biochemical Stimulation of Bone Marrow on Bone Formation and Ingrowth date: 2022 words: 437 flesch: 38 summary: Current methods of joint fixation are limited to two methods: the use of bone cement to stabilize the orthopaedic implant in the bone and the use of osseointegration to encourage bone to integrate into the implant surface. Here an in situ bioreactor was used for modeling bone formation into porous, additively manufactured scaffolds. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494745k58.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494745k58.txt item: #2233 of 4945 id: fb494745m0v author: Zhao Gao title: Cohomology of Line Bundles on the Incidence Correspondence date: 2022 words: 265 flesch: 45 summary: This thesis is dedicated to characterizing the (non)vanishing of cohomology of line bundles on the incidence correspondence X = {(p,H) ∈ ℙV × ℙVv : p ∈ H}, where V is a vector space of dimension n ≥ 3 over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p > 0. Given a (partial) flag variety over algebraically closed field k, a fundamental problem is to determine the sheaf cohomology groups of line bundles on it. keywords: characteristic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494745m0v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494745m0v.txt item: #2234 of 4945 id: fb494745m78 author: Jacob Dillabaugh title: The Weight of an Anchor (Institution): Institutional Inequality, Status, and Mission in University-Community Partnerships date: 2023 words: 170 flesch: 14 summary: At the highest levels of institutional status, missions and status orientations are tightly aligned towards status maintenance, while lower status universities and colleges are more likely to adopt alternative status markers and are more willing to incorporate engagement across their institutions. This study finds that there is a deep tension in the field of higher education between maintaining institutional status and becoming an engaged university. keywords: status cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fb494745m78.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fb494745m78.txt item: #2235 of 4945 id: ff365427q65 author: Iris Amy Law title: Physics at the Dinner Table date: 2010 words: 41 flesch: 31 summary: In this collection of poems, I explore themes of lineage, ethnicity, and gender, and engage with the intersections between science and lyric language as played out in the stories of fourteen different historical women whose lives were deeply intertwined with science. keywords: science cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365427q65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365427q65.txt item: #2236 of 4945 id: ff365427q8v author: Nicholas Alan Lynchard title: Addictive Substance Familiarity: Prior Knowledge Effects in Comprehension and Recall date: 2010 words: 147 flesch: 33 summary: The role of prior knowledge as measured by sentence reading time and narrative recall is discussed. In a self-paced task, undergraduates at a private, Midwestern university read narratives involving the use of different addictive substances. keywords: addictive cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365427q8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365427q8v.txt item: #2237 of 4945 id: ff365427q96 author: Benjamin Chleboun title: Negotiated Gratitude: Resettled Refugees and Social Support date: 2015 words: 146 flesch: 39 summary: Gratitude and flexibility seem to open opportunities in a new context without denying the incredible difficulty of the challenges of the first months and years of resettlement. How, then, does one sustain flexibility through positive emotions while receiving significant support even for the most basic material needs? keywords: flexibility cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365427q96.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365427q96.txt item: #2238 of 4945 id: ff365427r0d author: Nadine Shillingford title: A Framework for Configuration and Management of Quality-of-Service (QoS) in Wireless Mesh Networks date: 2010 words: 151 flesch: 39 summary: Quality-of-Service (QoS) support for wireless mesh networks (WMNs) poses a significant challenge because they are increasingly used as multi-purpose networks, i.e., they serve multiple objectives and different applications simultaneously. Finally, CMR allows applications to customize the WMN to their own needs, that is, routes are discovered, monitored, and adapted based on application-specific requirements. keywords: qos cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365427r0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365427r0d.txt item: #2239 of 4945 id: ff365427r23 author: Meggan Evelyn Valrance title: Role of the Vitamin D Receptor in 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3-Mediated Growth Arrest and Apoptosis date: 2008 words: 381 flesch: 40 summary: KO cells stably expressing VDR were growth inhibited by 1,25D and its structural analogs, indicating that the vitamin D growth regulatory pathway could be reconstituted in VDR null cells. 1µ M. Collectively, these data indicate that functional VDR protein is required for the anti-cancer effects of 1,25D and structurally related vitamin D based therapeutics in vitro. keywords: vdr cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365427r23.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365427r23.txt item: #2240 of 4945 id: ff365427r3f author: Lai Wei title: Bandwidth-Efficient Partnering for Cooperative Diversity date: 2011 words: 224 flesch: 46 summary: The receiving partner employs trellis-pruning (TP), i.e., its knowledge of the relayed data helps to 'prune' the inappropriate edges from the code trellis, so the partner-to-partner link is enhanced. This thesis presents two new techniques that enable a pair of cooperating partners (source nodes) to convey their data to a common destination. keywords: partner cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365427r3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365427r3f.txt item: #2241 of 4945 id: ff365427r4s author: Janine Ruegg title: Biofilm responses to Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) spawners: the role of environmental context and scale date: 2011 words: 356 flesch: 36 summary: The dynamics of salmon runs and environmental conditions of streams in which they spawn can vary in space and time, potentially creating or reinforcing heterogeneity in these recipient ecosystems. The only consistent predictor across scales was sediment size, especially during the run, demonstrating the importance of salmon disturbance. keywords: salmon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365427r4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365427r4s.txt item: #2242 of 4945 id: ff365427r85 author: Rui Ma title: Apoptosis of Breast and Colon Carcinoma Cells by Inhibitors of Glycolipid and DNA Biosynthesis date: 2007 words: 551 flesch: 34 summary: Activation of both extrinsic and intrinsic apoptotic pathways by cis-Platin was observed in human breast cancer cells (MCF-7, MDA-468, and SKBR-3) with western blot using caspase-3, caspase-8, and caspase-9 antibodies. Apoptotic effects of potential anti-cancer agents (GSL-glycosphingolipid biosynthesis inhibitor L-PPMP, DNA biosynthsis inhibitor cis-Platin, disialosylgangliosides GD3 and GD1b, etc.) in human breast cancer cell lines were evaluated in this study. keywords: cancer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365427r85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365427r85.txt item: #2243 of 4945 id: ff365427s0q author: Xiaofei Cui title: Destruction of Escherichia coli in Combined Sewer Overflow by Ultrasonication and Electrochemical Processes date: 2010 words: 143 flesch: 38 summary: Nano-scale TiO2 was found to improve ultrasonic disinfection at high dosages and protect E. coli at low dosages. Ultrasonic disinfection performances were found to negatively correlate with ratios of initial turbidity to initial E. coli concentrations. keywords: disinfection cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365427s0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365427s0q.txt item: #2244 of 4945 id: ff365427s8g author: Bryant Crubaugh title: Not All Civic Action Is Equal: How Place-Based and Identity-Based Civic Organizations Differentially Impact Neighborhoods and Cities date: 1904 words: 145 flesch: 31 summary: It also overcomes a central tension in civil society research: some social scientists argue that civic organizations are the key to well-functioning democracy, allowing people the ability to collectively organize for the promotion of their interests, but others argue that civic organizations instead breed exclusion, leaving only organized communities in the position to reap the benefits of organization. Its fundamental premise is that the effects of civic organizations differ, depending on the form they take and the level of analysis at which they operate. keywords: organizations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365427s8g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365427s8g.txt item: #2245 of 4945 id: ff365427t32 author: Aryanne D. de Silva title: Marital Conflict Exposure and Emotional Security as Predictors of Adolescents' Dating Conflict date: 1904 words: 150 flesch: 9 summary: After controlling for marital conflict exposure, higher levels of emotional security predicted lower levels of destructive dating conflict behaviors. Results suggested that greater marital conflict exposure predicted higher levels of destructive dating conflict behaviors two years later. keywords: conflict cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365427t32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365427t32.txt item: #2246 of 4945 id: ff365427t4d author: Ashley Nicole Swanson title: Using Molecular Techniques to Define the Role of Glycopeptidolipids in Mycobacterium avium Pathogenesis date: 1904 words: 184 flesch: 25 summary: The outer leaflet of M. avium bacteria and other non-tuberculosis mycobacteria (NTMs) contain unique, surface-exposed, antigenic molecules known as glycopeptidolipids (GPLs) that are able to interact with host immune receptors including the mannose receptor (MR). As GPLs are likely one of the first molecules that the host immune cells interact with, determining the importance of GPLs in the context of an infection could be an important step for understanding how the host initially responds to M. avium. keywords: avium cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365427t4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365427t4d.txt item: #2247 of 4945 id: ff365427x19 author: Chrysovalantis Constantinou title: Natural Orbitals for the No-Core Configuration Interaction Approach date: 1904 words: 189 flesch: 30 summary: The convergence of the ground and excited state energies, radii, and electromagnetic observables of He, Li, and Be isotopes calculated using natural orbitals in ab initio NCCI calculations is discussed. The natural orbital basis builds in contributions from high-lying oscillator shells, thus accelerating convergence of wave functions, energies, and other observables. keywords: basis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365427x19.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365427x19.txt item: #2248 of 4945 id: ff365428d8b author: Nikhil Shukla title: Computational Device and Circuit Concepts Based on Insulator-Metal Transition Phenomena date: 1904 words: 205 flesch: 35 summary: On the other hand, the same materials and their properties can be leveraged to create new functionalities such as phase transition based synchronized oscillator devices which provide an alternate, and potentially, a more energy-efficient non-Boolean approach to certain problems such higher order distance computation and graph coloring which are difficult to compute in the conventional CMOS based framework. Our ever-expanding information eco-system demands energy efficient hardware platforms for computing and data storage. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365428d8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365428d8b.txt item: #2249 of 4945 id: ff365428f90 author: Caroline R Scheid title: Potential Predictors of Children's Positive Talk: The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence, Maternal Positive Talk, and Maternal Mental Health date: 1904 words: 156 flesch: 24 summary: Future research should examine children's positive talk with other positive outcomes, and promoting positive talk between mother-child dyads may stimulate facilitative communication, despite IPV and mental health symptoms. Children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) experience heightened risk for negative outcomes, and research needs to observationally analyze children's socialization components after IPV to improve positive outcomes. keywords: positive cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365428f90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365428f90.txt item: #2250 of 4945 id: ff365428v6p author: Monica Arul Jayachandran title: Application of Shapelet Transform to Time Series Classification of Earthquake, Wind and Wave Data date: 2022 words: 230 flesch: 25 summary: Autonomous detection of desired events from large databases using time series classification is becoming increasingly important in civil engineering as a result of continued long-term health monitoring of a large number of engineering structures encompassing buildings, bridges, towers, and offshore platforms. The efficacy of this proposed shapelet transform-based autonomous detection procedure is demonstrated by examples, to identify known and unknown earthquake events from continuously recorded ground-motion measurements, to detect pulses in the velocity time history of ground motions to distinguish between near-field and far-field ground motions, to identify thunderstorms from continuous wind speed measurements, to detect large-amplitude wind-induced vibrations from the bridge monitoring data, and to identify plunging breaking waves that have a significant impact on offshore structures. keywords: time cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365428v6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365428v6p.txt item: #2251 of 4945 id: ff365428w7b author: Jamie M. Trost title: Spatial Cueing Effects Reflect Direct Influences of Experience and Not Updated Goals date: 2022 words: 198 flesch: 31 summary: Conditions varied by competing context cue validity and distinctiveness; context choice and performance measures (response time and error rates) were used to measure the alignment of an individual's top-down goals and implicit performance. Further, the SCE associated with each context varied as a function of experience, supporting that spatial cueing effects reflect the direct influence of experience and not the top-down updating of goals. keywords: context cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365428w7b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365428w7b.txt item: #2252 of 4945 id: ff365428x4m author: Daniel Soskin title: Determinantal Inequalities for Totally Positive Matrices date: 2023 words: 213 flesch: 42 summary: Majorizing monotonicity of symmetrized Fischer's products were already known for hermitian positive semi-definite matrices which brings additional motivation to verify if they hold for totally positive matrices as well (joint work with M. Skandera). One of the approaches to describe canonical bases is to study their dual objects, so called dual canonical bases. keywords: matrices cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ff365428x4m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ff365428x4m.txt item: #2253 of 4945 id: fj23611103z author: Ryan N. Lichtenwalter title: Network Analysis and Link Prediction: Effective and Meaningful Modeling and Evaluation date: 2012 words: 181 flesch: 27 summary: It has important applications ranging from recommending beneficial relationships in social networks to discovering new protein-protein interactions in biological networks. This dissertation primarily focuses on link prediction in homogeneous, single-relational networks, but it also introduces new techniques for handling multi-relational networks. keywords: networks cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj23611103z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj23611103z.txt item: #2254 of 4945 id: fj236111049 author: Pedro Sztybel title: Automatic Shifts of Spatial Attention to Symbolic Cues that Convey Information About Direction and Distance date: 2015 words: 163 flesch: 30 summary: Results showed that observers have greater expertise using direction symbols than distance symbols to guide attention. As expected, results showed that direction symbols produced a larger automatic response than distance symbols. keywords: direction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj236111049.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj236111049.txt item: #2255 of 4945 id: fj23611105n author: Xiangning Luo title: Resistive CrOx Thin Film for Single-electron Devices date: 2005 words: 297 flesch: 28 summary: Based on our experimental results, we conclude that resistive microstrip itself can not provide sufficient barriers to observe Coulomb blockade oscillations, and the formation of tunneling barriers capable of fulfilling the two requirements of Coulomb blockade remains crucial for the observation of Coulomb blockade phenomenon. The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate single-electron devices using resistive microstrips, and to investigate their applicability for QCA device fabrication. keywords: qca cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj23611105n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj23611105n.txt item: #2256 of 4945 id: fj23611108p author: Elaine MacDonald title: Low Energy Orthopedic Instruments and Fixation Strategies date: 2014 words: 354 flesch: 31 summary: Small diameter pins in external fixators require less energy for insertion and are therefore well suited for low energy designs. An understanding of how geometric design parameters affect the performance of orthopedic drill bits is desired to guide future low energy designs. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj23611108p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj23611108p.txt item: #2257 of 4945 id: fj236111169 author: Joseph Bartholomew Gianino title: Development of Titanocene-Catalyzed Multicomponent Coupling Reactions date: 2014 words: 156 flesch: 18 summary: Additional investigation into the catalytic metalation capability of titanocene provides novel entries to chalcones from α-halo ketones and aldehydes, and homopropargyl alcohols from propargylic acetates and aldehydes. Using catalytic titanocene, phosphine, and zinc dust, zinc acetylides can be generated from the corresponding iodoalkynes to affect sequential nucleophilic additions to aromatic aldehydes. keywords: nucleophilic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj236111169.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj236111169.txt item: #2258 of 4945 id: fj23611117n author: Garrett Smith title: The Problem of Divine Attributes from Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus date: 2013 words: 349 flesch: 38 summary: My dissertation is a close examination of the Scholastic controversy concerning the divine attributes and the philosophical attempts to reconcile a plurality of divine attributes with the simplicity of God. This dissertation examines the perennial problem in philosophy and theology of reconciling divine simplicity with the plurality of divine attributes. keywords: god cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj23611117n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj23611117n.txt item: #2259 of 4945 id: fj236111645 author: Valentina Geri title: Testimony, Memory, and Intertextual References: Shakespeare's Presence in the Works of Primo Levi date: 1904 words: 333 flesch: 47 summary: Keywords: Primo Levi; William Shakespeare; intertextuality; memory; testimony; narration; literary creation; grey zone; interiority; poetry. Levi's work is very rich in references to other literary works and these seem to be even fundamental in some texts. keywords: levi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj236111645.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj236111645.txt item: #2260 of 4945 id: fj236111q55 author: Christopher R Vetter title: Stochastic Ground Motion Modeling: Impact on Probabilistic Seismic Risk Assessment and Enhancements through Hazard Compatibility date: 1904 words: 509 flesch: 13 summary: The impact of the use of stochastic ground motion models within the context of probabilistic seismic risk assessment is emphasized throughout the thesis. For applications involving dynamic analysis this hazard may be characterized through stochastic ground motion models. keywords: seismic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj236111q55.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj236111q55.txt item: #2261 of 4945 id: fj236111r5g author: Yin Liu title: Teaching the Secunda Lex: Deuteronomy and Church Reform at Lyon in the Age of Charlemagne date: 2018 words: 283 flesch: 41 summary: Paris, BnF, NAL 1740 is a Bible codex from early medieval Lyon. In the early ninth century, a scribe of Lyon cathedral copied more than 400 exegetical annotations alongside the Deuteronomic verses, either in page margins or between the two columns of the main text. keywords: lyon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj236111r5g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj236111r5g.txt item: #2262 of 4945 id: fj23611217x author: Laura C. Merrill title: Electrodeposition and Electrochemical Interfaces for Magnesium Batteries date: 2019 words: 635 flesch: 36 summary: Research efforts have focused on developing electrolytes with increased thermal stability and decreased corrosiveness in order to lead to the eventual application of magnesium batteries. Finally, the use of single ion conducting polymers and their application in magnesium batteries is discussed. keywords: magnesium cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj23611217x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj23611217x.txt item: #2263 of 4945 id: fj23611225j author: Christina Horr title: Creation of Breast Cancer Subtypes: A Consensus-Based Network Approach date: 2020 words: 446 flesch: 41 summary: Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease composed of multiple subtypes, each with its own distinct biological characteristics, therapy, and clinical outcomes. The advantage of this consensus-based subtyping method is that it does not produce subtypes based on a single unsupervised clustering method like PAM50, but rather produces subtypes that are based on multiple clustering strategies that are integrated together. keywords: subtypes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj23611225j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj23611225j.txt item: #2264 of 4945 id: fj236112366 author: Pauline Paris Buisch title: The Woman Facing the Threat of Childlessness: The Literary and Theological Development of a Biblical Motif date: 2021 words: 264 flesch: 36 summary: The remainder of the project is dedicated to demonstrating that the link between mother characters and the city of Jerusalem forged in prophetic texts was so strong that the authors of new narratives portrayed maternal characters in such a way that made them function as a parallel to the city of Jerusalem. Second Temple authors employed allusions to prophetic passages that feature the female city in order to make the mother's story indicative of the city's story while New Testament authors wrestled with this impulse to connect the mother character to Jerusalem in light of their changing views of the city. keywords: story cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj236112366.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj236112366.txt item: #2265 of 4945 id: fj236112486 author: Bumkyu Kim title: Effects and Control of Protozoan Predation on Biofilm Processes for Wastewater Treatment date: 2022 words: 388 flesch: 44 summary: However, the conclusions drawn are weakened by the fact that protozoan predation is largely ignored, despite their ubiquitous presence in biofilm systems. Three representative types of biofilm systems were studied: (1) a heterotrophic membrane-aerated biofilm reactor (MABR), (2) a nitrifying MABR, (3) a membrane-based biofilm photobioreactor (MBPR), and (4) a novel biofilm reactor that allows for control of protozoan predation. keywords: biofilm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj236112486.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj236112486.txt item: #2266 of 4945 id: fj23611264f author: Luiz Vilaça title: A Socio-Cultural Approach to Anti-Corruption Crusades: A Multi-Methods Study of the Lava Jato Prosecutions date: 2023 words: 339 flesch: 6 summary: Specifically, I draw on three distinct and original data sources: a) 130 in-depth interviews with judicial agents, b) an original dataset of appeals of corruption cases (N=1,136) constructed through supervised machine learning, and c) an original online experiment in which respondents were randomly assigned to watch videos that simulate a prosecutors' press conference where prosecutors use different frames when calling for public support (N=2,060). I argue that a socio-cultural approach to anti-corruption prosecutions contributes to existing accounts by 1) uncovering new causal drivers that were overlooked by prior studies, such as prosecutors' communication and decision-making practices at the group level; 2) highlighting the importance of looking at new outcomes, such as prosecutors' decisions to pay attention to some issues to the detriment of others; and 3) specifying the conditions under which already known causal drivers, such as prosecutors' outreach efforts, affect public attitudes toward corruption. keywords: prosecutors cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fj23611264f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fj23611264f.txt item: #2267 of 4945 id: fn106w9487f author: Zhanwei Sun title: Design and Implementation of Sequence Detection Algorithms for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks date: 2010 words: 198 flesch: 40 summary: Although existing research has demonstrated the utility of a Markov chain for modeling the spectrum access pattern of primary users over time, little effort has been directed toward spectrum sensing based upon such models. Spectrum sensing is a critical function for enabling dynamic spectrum access (DSA) in a cognitive radio system. keywords: spectrum cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w9487f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w9487f.txt item: #2268 of 4945 id: fn106w9488s author: Kathryn Lynn Gardner title: Constructing and Deconstructing Islam in the Western State: A Comparative Look at the Politicization of Religion in France, Great Britain, and the United States, 1945-2008 date: 2010 words: 272 flesch: 25 summary: In doing so, I provide an assessment of the post-9/11 context and how the development of state policies countering terrorism has affected Muslim incorporation policies. American elites in order to circumvent constraints imposed by politicization of national security and Muslim incorporation issues as well as harness the benefits of a more insulated process and third-party partnerships, particularly with Muslim leaders and organizations. keywords: state cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w9488s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w9488s.txt item: #2269 of 4945 id: fn106w9490b author: Jogender Singh title: Role of the ARF6 GTPase in Epithelial Gland Morphogenesis date: 2007 words: 361 flesch: 22 summary: Morphogenesis and differentiation of internal epithelial organs is dependent on various processes including cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, cell polarity and the interplay of cell survival and cell death pathways. Epithelial cancer progression is often accompanied by the disruption of epithelial gland architecture, although little is understood about the signaling pathways and cellular processes involved. keywords: arf6 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w9490b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w9490b.txt item: #2270 of 4945 id: fn106w9491p author: Qingmin Liu title: Tunnel Diode/Transistor Integrated Circuits date: 2008 words: 332 flesch: 39 summary: Circuit design requires accurate device models. The TDT differential comparator is of special interest for use indirect digital synthesis applications. keywords: tdt cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w9491p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w9491p.txt item: #2271 of 4945 id: fn106w94921 author: Patricia Snell Herzog title: People in Context: Perceptions of Social Dissonance and Community Involvement date: 2011 words: 164 flesch: 38 summary: What are the primary mechanisms by which community contexts relate to social outcomes? I focus in particular on perceptions of context and find that people's subjective experiences of their neighborhood context matter just as much, if not more, than their objective structural neighborhood situations. keywords: contexts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w94921.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w94921.txt item: #2272 of 4945 id: fn106w9493c author: David Alan Cieslak title: Finding Problems In, Proposing Solutions to, and Performing Analysis on Imbalanced Data date: 2009 words: 129 flesch: 40 summary: The data mining and machine learning research communities have focused on developing specializedalgorithms and methods to handle a multitude of potential complications which may confront the traditional supervised learning task. Less attention has been garnered for the set of problems in which the data distribution changes, potentially wiping out the gains from expensive data mining methods. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w9493c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w9493c.txt item: #2273 of 4945 id: fn106w9494q author: Travis A Eisenhour title: Experimental and Numerical Investigations of the Bending Characteristics of Laminated Steel date: 2008 words: 338 flesch: 42 summary: The objective of the study concerns bending operations, in particular how tooling and sheet geometry, material properties, and process parameters affect the shape and integrity of formed parts. Because of the particular construction of laminated steel, bending can involve some issues that are not of concern when bending solid steel sheet. keywords: bending cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w9494q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w9494q.txt item: #2274 of 4945 id: fn106w94952 author: Melinda Nielsen title: Impersonating Boethius in Middle English Literature date: 2011 words: 545 flesch: 30 summary: Vernacular translations, such as the Alfredian Old English Boethius, provide an on-site glimpse into early medieval applications of Boethius's persona to new circumstances. This dissertation focuses on the literary persona of Boethius, a classical sage turned Christian martyr, and its influence on later writers. keywords: boethius cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w94952.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w94952.txt item: #2275 of 4945 id: fn106w9496d author: Jennifer Rose Stutzman Rodriguez title: The Ethics of War and Peace: Competing Traditions date: 2012 words: 302 flesch: 36 summary: I will then argue that pacifism and just war tradition, given their underlying principles, are morally preferable to the alternatives, and more specifically, that a strong form of pacifism (that takes active responsibility for nonviolently combating injustice), and a strict form of just war (that is willing forego war when it is unjust), are morally superior to other forms. Over time, a number of traditions regarding war have emerged, ranging from categorical rejection (pacifism) to a limited acceptance (just war tradition) to an enthusiastic acceptance (crusading tradition); others ultimately reject the notion that war is subject to moral strictures at all (realism). keywords: war cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w9496d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w9496d.txt item: #2276 of 4945 id: fn106w9499f author: James Buckingham Leighton title: Pressure and Diffusion Driven Bubble Growth on a Static Surface date: 2010 words: 378 flesch: 52 summary: This thesis describes the growth of gas bubbles on a static surface. As an initial verification of the experimental apparatus, the surface tension of three separate fluid (distilled water, dodecane, and Jet-A) is calculated using a force balance involving measured quantities at the instant of bubble departure. keywords: bubble cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w9499f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w9499f.txt item: #2277 of 4945 id: fn106w94b0n author: Ivan Gregoretti title: Modeling Microtubule Dynamic Instability date: 2007 words: 332 flesch: 32 summary: The opening chapter presents an overview of microtubule dynamics and its pending questions. Quantitative analysis concludes that it is the relationship between the lengths of cracks and the GTP cap what dictates microtubule dynamics, not the GTP cap alone. keywords: microtubule cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w94b0n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w94b0n.txt item: #2278 of 4945 id: fn106w94b10 author: Elijah Park title: Flight Manifest date: 2010 words: 15 flesch: 78 summary: Collection of short stories and novel excerpts worked on between Fall 2008 and Spring 2010. keywords: collection cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w94b10.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w94b10.txt item: #2279 of 4945 id: fn106w94b2b author: Martin Beisswenger title: Petr Nikolaevich Savitskii (1895 åÐ 1968) and the Invention of "Eurasia" date: 2010 words: 330 flesch: 40 summary: They viewed the Bolshevik revolution as an elemental rebellion of the country's popular masses against unwanted Europeanization. The movement considered the Russian revolution not the result of an unfortunate coincidence or even a malicious conspiracy, but rather the logical outcome of Russia's historical development and the fatal consequence of the country's Europeanization. keywords: russian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w94b2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w94b2b.txt item: #2280 of 4945 id: fn106w94c19 author: Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed title: On Postcolonial Libya: The Structure of Ambivalence and the Ambivalence of the Structure in Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men date: 1904 words: 185 flesch: 30 summary: In this thesis, I analyze the theme of subject formation in the novel entitled In the Country of Men by the Libyan author Hisham Matar and connect this biopolitical process to structural conditions that marked Gaddafi's Libya. I explore the central mode of ambivalence that is enunciated in the narrative and interpret it to be both the affective blueprint of the productive effects of political power on the emerging subject as well as a structure of feeling that reflects the sense of life in a certain period of Libyan social organization under the Jamahiriya regime. keywords: libyan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w94c19.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w94c19.txt item: #2281 of 4945 id: fn106w94d1m author: Kyle Heintz title: Experimental Investigation on the Effects of Non-cyclical Frequency and Amplitude Variation on Dynamic Stall date: 1904 words: 258 flesch: 33 summary: Lastly, a novel dual harmonic pitch motion is devised which rapidly traverses dynamic stall regimes on an inter-cycle basis by modulating the static-stall penetration angle. Throughout all results presented, there is evidence that for consecutive pitch-cycles, the process of dynamic stall is affected when prior oscillations prior have undergone deeper stall-penetration angles. keywords: stall cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w94d1m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w94d1m.txt item: #2282 of 4945 id: fn106w9500t author: Seungmin Oh title: Structural Characterization of Ionic Liquids Containing Phenolate and Aprotic Heterocyclic Anions date: 1904 words: 381 flesch: 33 summary: The experimentally generated structure factors give structural information, such as pre-peaks, charge alternation peaks, and adjacency peaks. Furthermore, structure factors determined computationally by our collaborators are validated by comparing them with the experimentally generated structure factors here. keywords: structure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w9500t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w9500t.txt item: #2283 of 4945 id: fn106w95077 author: Shanna Corner title: Tactics and Transcendence: The Struggle to Create Common Understandings about Religion and Its Relationship to Women's Human Rights within the United Nations date: 1904 words: 359 flesch: 28 summary: In this dissertation, I help to correct this problem and answer these questions by looking at dynamics that take place at the micro-interactive level within one of the most important intergovernmental institutions at work in the world to address and resolve differences around human rights, gender, and religion. How do intergovernmental human rights regulatory institutions actually help to shape cultural understandings about the meaning of religion, including its relationship to women's human rights and the types of actions governments must take to protect them? keywords: rights cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w95077.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w95077.txt item: #2284 of 4945 id: fn106w9511g author: Matthias Alonyenu title: Salvation in Jesus Coming from God: Edward Schillebeeckx's Jesus-Project in the Context of Pluralistic Africa date: 1904 words: 511 flesch: 31 summary: In posing this question, this dissertation is aware of the ongoing challenges of religious pluralism as well as religious violence on the continent. This later method was informed by the problem of secularism, religious pluralism, suffering, interreligious dialogue, and religious violence in a postmodern world. keywords: god cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w9511g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w9511g.txt item: #2285 of 4945 id: fn106w95b2m author: Ebenezer Akesseh title: Relevance of the Virtue of Justice to Contemporary Discussions of Corruption date: 2020 words: 229 flesch: 28 summary: Since corruption occurs between actors and actants in a particular social setting, the dissertation uses anthropological theories of corruption and social relations to understand corruption in Ghana. Unlike studies which privilege the importance of institutions and policies to addressing corruption, this dissertation pivots the idea of corruption as a vice and, as such, argues the necessity of focusing on forming virtuous individuals who work in those institutions. keywords: corruption cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w95b2m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w95b2m.txt item: #2286 of 4945 id: fn106w95c07 author: Alireza Partovi title: Security Enforcement and Reactive Control of Cyber-Physical Systems date: 2020 words: 658 flesch: 28 summary: The recent development in communication networks and computational devices has greatly enhanced the technological evolution of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as networked mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, smart manufacturing systems, and other classes of systems that have a large degree of autonomy. This inspires this dissertation to focus on the cyber behavior of CPSs in the framework of discrete event systems (DESs), as this class of dynamic systems provides suitable formal models and analytical techniques to study event-driven systems. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w95c07.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w95c07.txt item: #2287 of 4945 id: fn106w95d1w author: Jenny Baranker title: Characterization of Large-Area Plasma Jet Discharges and Sintering Performance of Printed Thermoelectric Thin-Films date: 2021 words: 549 flesch: 42 summary: A proposed non- thermal alternative is low temperature, atmospheric pressure plasma jets, characterized as plasmas with electron temperatures far exceeding that of the ionized gas particles and neutral species. A common way to generate this type of plasma jet is a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD), or an electrical discharge between two electrodes separated by a dielectric surface. keywords: sintering cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fn106w95d1w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fn106w95d1w.txt item: #2288 of 4945 id: fq977s77j52 author: Yue Li title: Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms of Renal Progenitor Patterning During Zebrafish Nephrogenesis date: 2015 words: 169 flesch: 23 summary: The zebrafish pronephros arises from renal progenitors that are segmented into distinct epithelial regions including proximal and distal tubule domains, which consist of transporting epithelial cells and intercalated multiciliated cells (MCCs). Meanwhile, I have also discovered Notch signaling as a conserved factor in both zebrafish and mammalian nephron patterning that promotes proximal fates and restricts distal domains. keywords: zebrafish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fq977s77j52.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fq977s77j52.txt item: #2289 of 4945 id: fq977s77j6d author: Robert Lester title: Three Essays in Macroeconomics date: 2015 words: 297 flesch: 46 summary: Welfare is greater in high shock volatility regimes under plausible parameter values. Home production amplifies responses to technology and monetary policy shocks. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fq977s77j6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fq977s77j6d.txt item: #2290 of 4945 id: fq977s77j7r author: Min Zhang title: Study of Externalization in Organizations: Examining the Determinants of Using Workers Not On Payroll date: 2005 words: 142 flesch: 13 summary: Another finding is that Organizations use externalized workers to screen qualified workers for permanent organizations, which reduces the turnover and instability of an organization. Drawing on 1996-1997 National Organizations Survey (NOS Ì ), I study the use of externalized workers from five theoretical perspectives: numerical flexibility, dual workforce, organization transformation, matching efficiency, and internal labor market (ILM) screening flexibility. keywords: workers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fq977s77j7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fq977s77j7r.txt item: #2291 of 4945 id: fq977s77k0n author: Jakob Joseph Ollinger title: Popocalypse Now: The rise of the Boy-Men in Pop Culture date: 2015 words: 174 flesch: 65 summary: By investigating the Superhero mythos in a post-apocalyptic environment I hope to shed new light on a new group of young people who aren't interested in the former ideal of growing up and are searching for a new way to try and define themselves. My work examines perpetual adolescence as it manifests of Pop Culture. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fq977s77k0n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fq977s77k0n.txt item: #2292 of 4945 id: fq977s77k9r author: Elizabeth Hope Blodgett title: Marital Conflict and Mothers' Responsive Parenting Practices as Mediators of the Relation between Maternal Emotional Distress and Adolescent Adjustment date: 2010 words: 144 flesch: 13 summary: In contrast, only marital conflict mediated the relation between maternal emotional distress and adolescent internalizing behaviors. Results of structural equations modeling procedures using latent variables suggested that marital conflict and responsive parenting practices mediated the relation between maternal emotional distress and adolescent externalizing behaviors. keywords: adolescent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fq977s77k9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fq977s77k9r.txt item: #2293 of 4945 id: fq977s77r68 author: Nathan P. Vander Werf title: Screening Operators for Lattice Vertex Operator Algebras and Resulting Constructions date: 1904 words: 208 flesch: 33 summary: We then show how to construct subalgebras of $V_L$ by considering the kernel of a screening operator for $V_L$ when $L$ is of rank $2$, and how one can take the intersection of the kernels of certain commuting screening operators to obtain interesting vertex operator algebras that can be analyzed using this intersection of kernels structure. We give a rigorous treatment of the notion of screening pairs of screening operators $(\ ilde{Q},Q)$ for a rank $d$ lattice vertex operator superalgebra $V_L$. Certain such screening pairs proved to be useful machinery in the study of the internal structure of the $\mathcal{W}\mbox{-algebra}$ $\mathcal{W}(p)=\mbox{ker }\ ilde{Q}$ by Adamovi\'c and Milas and in proving the $C_2$-cofinite property in the rank 1 case. keywords: screening cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fq977s77r68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fq977s77r68.txt item: #2294 of 4945 id: fq977s7887j author: Ann E. Zeleniak title: Investigating the Role of MTSS1 in the Metastatic Progression of Pancreatic Cancer date: 1904 words: 352 flesch: 43 summary: It was established that loss of MTSS1 leads to increased invasion and migration in PDAC cells. Additionally, overexpression of MTSS1 in PDAC cells leads to a loss of migratory potential in vitro and an increase in overall survival in vivo. keywords: pdac cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fq977s7887j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fq977s7887j.txt item: #2295 of 4945 id: fq977s78955 author: Arman Mirhashemi title: Investigation of Thermal Transport in an Accelerated Turbulent Flow date: 2018 words: 178 flesch: 30 summary: This model was then also validated against independent experimental measurements of turbulent Prandtl number in jet flow, flat plate boundary layer, and turbulent pipe flow. A theoretical model for turbulent Prandtl number was developed based on the intermediate mixing length concept. keywords: turbulent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fq977s78955.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fq977s78955.txt item: #2296 of 4945 id: fq977s78f2c author: Amanda M Bohne title: Managing Death: Women's Networks of Private and Civic Responsibility in Medieval England date: 2019 words: 400 flesch: 33 summary: Medieval literary narratives and historical records show that medieval women navigated various spiritual and material postmortem concerns in their families and communities. The third chapter examines a network of wills of women from aldermanic families in late thirteenth-century London, particularly focusing on Isabella Bukerel, one of the wealthiest women in London during this period. keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fq977s78f2c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fq977s78f2c.txt item: #2297 of 4945 id: fq977s78q36 author: Carmen Orozco-Acosta title: A Black and Brown Rainbow? Levels of Policy Congruence and Cooperation between African American and Latino National Organizations in the 20th and 21st Centuries date: 2022 words: 439 flesch: 29 summary: The People of Color model was predicted for organizational behavior around the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Five hypotheses were examined to explain Black‐Latino organizational behavior and a fourth model, named the Power Asymmetry Model was developed. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fq977s78q36.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fq977s78q36.txt item: #2298 of 4945 id: fq977s78q4j author: Zixuan Song title: Machine Learning Methods for High-Dimensional Data and Multimodal Single-Cell Data date: 2022 words: 467 flesch: 36 summary: Deep neural networks are famous for their high prediction accuracy, but they are also known for their black-box nature and poor interpretability. We consider the problem of variable selection, that is, selecting the input variables that have significant predictive power on the output, in deep neural networks. keywords: variables cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fq977s78q4j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fq977s78q4j.txt item: #2299 of 4945 id: fq977s78r25 author: Lauren Finnigan title: The Necessary and the Ornamental: Women's Empowered Labor in Pullman, Chicago, 1880-1894 date: 2023 words: 354 flesch: 38 summary: Archaeology performed in Pullman by Jane Baxter indicated that some residents may have used their backyards less intensively during the period of company control than residents after, and she attributed this to alienation experienced due to surveillance and company oversight. Pullman had well-constructed homes and an aesthetically-appealing community that came with paternalist forms of company oversight that alienated some residents. keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fq977s78r25.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fq977s78r25.txt item: #2300 of 4945 id: fq977s78r6j author: Zhuoming Zhang title: Optical Refrigeration in Semiconductor Nanocrystals date: 2023 words: 243 flesch: 30 summary: This results in minimum cooling floors as low as 10 K.This PhD thesis begins by presenting an overview of the theoretical model in semiconductor laser cooling, which highlights key factors and concepts crucial to establishing valid laser cooling claims. The thesis then compares three different methods of all-optical thermometry: pump-probe luminescence thermometry (PPLT), differential luminescence thermometry (DLT), and up-conversion emission thermometry. keywords: cooling cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fq977s78r6j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fq977s78r6j.txt item: #2301 of 4945 id: ft848p60t90 author: Ryan Joseph Downey title: Maw Maw date: 2010 words: 55 flesch: 62 summary: This collection of poetry and hybrid forms of writing explores the mythologized space(s) of the American South. Interstates sprawl and inner states ball up into metastisizing knots of tumor. keywords: south cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p60t90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p60t90.txt item: #2302 of 4945 id: ft848p60v2w author: Philip W. Snowberger title: Sub-Identities: A Hierarchical Identity Model for Practical Containment date: 2010 words: 157 flesch: 42 summary: In this model, user identities form a hierarchy, and each user may create sub-identities at any time without the help or approval of an administrator. Further, in the face of increasingly common malware and spyware, users are not empowered to protect themselves. keywords: user cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p60v2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p60v2w.txt item: #2303 of 4945 id: ft848p60v37 author: Bradford Ray Houston title: The Marketplace as a Vehicle for Social and Economic Revitalization: A New Market Hall for LaGrange, Georgia date: 2006 words: 151 flesch: 38 summary: Providing a thriving commercial center that supports and encourages other local businesses and provides an atmosphere that encourages pedestrian activity. A case study for a new market hall in LaGrange Georgia will demonstrate how the traditional market hall typology can serve as a model for contemporary markets. keywords: market cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p60v37.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p60v37.txt item: #2304 of 4945 id: ft848p60v4k author: Eloy Garcia title: Model-Based Control over Networks: Architecture and Performance date: 2012 words: 359 flesch: 37 summary: This strategy is also used for decentralized control of networked systems and for computation of optimal sensor update instants and for design of optimal MB-NCS controllers. The use of a limited bandwidth network for control communication presents new challenges on the design and analysis of network interconnected systems due to quantization, time delays, and the absence of feedback measurements for long intervals of time. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p60v4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p60v4k.txt item: #2305 of 4945 id: ft848p60v5x author: Annalia Palumbo title: Alpha-Capture and Alpha-Elastic Scattering on P-Nuclei to Probe the Hauser-Feshbach Framework date: 2009 words: 307 flesch: 42 summary: The bulk of these rates are calculated theoretically with the statistical Hauser Feshbach Model (HF Model). The thirty five neutron deficient stable nuclei known as the p-nuclei are synthesized in a series of photodisintegration reactions of the (gamma,n), (gamma,p) and (gamma, alpha) type in a hot gamma-flux environment. keywords: alpha cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p60v5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p60v5x.txt item: #2306 of 4945 id: ft848p60v68 author: Changjun Zhou title: The Effect of Additives and Processing Conditions on Properties of Sintered Mesocarbon Microbeads date: 2008 words: 373 flesch: 44 summary: Mesocarbon microbeads are an excellent precursor for high performance carbon materials because of their ability to self-sinter. Similar results were also obtained for TiC/C and ZrB2/C composites but not for Ni/C composites, where the catalytic graphitization by nickel only leads to the formation of graphitic carbon. keywords: properties cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p60v68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p60v68.txt item: #2307 of 4945 id: ft848p60v7m author: Raúl Erick Juárez Hernández title: A Convergent Approach for the Syntheses of Sideromycins: Mycobactin T and Gallioxamine B Conjugates date: 2012 words: 286 flesch: 23 summary: In the case of pathogenic bacteria, the importance of iron-acquisition has resulted in the ability to recognize and utilize exogenous siderophores, which in turn has been met with the generation of drug-conjugates to combat siderophore-mediated iron-thievery. The identification of these molecules has sparked the interest of many laboratories to use siderophores as carriers to deliver antibiotics and other molecules of interest, inside bacteria Because in many cases, siderophores are exclusively recognized and acquired by a specific microorganism, the possibility of designing bacteria-specific antibiotics makes the study and synthesis of these molecules an exciting area of research. keywords: molecules cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p60v7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p60v7m.txt item: #2308 of 4945 id: ft848p60v8z author: Minjun Yan title: Electric Field Detection by Electrostatic Force Microscopy for Clocking Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Molecules date: 2006 words: 238 flesch: 49 summary: We demonstrate quantitative EFM-phase measurements. Also we discuss a source of error in EFM dual-pass measurement, which has been considered in our model for quantitative EFM-phase measurements. keywords: efm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p60v8z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p60v8z.txt item: #2309 of 4945 id: ft848p60w26 author: RaviKiran Gopalan title: Practicable Schemes for Multi-User Networks date: 2007 words: 311 flesch: 29 summary: There has been a lot of effort ondesigning transmission schemes for such networks, most of whichexploit spatial diversity to achieve improved throughputs. The thesispresents a low-complexity rotate-and-quantize algorithm based on extended scalar quantization that has a tremendouslyreduced complexity when compared to traditional feedback schemeswhile achieving comparable throughputs. keywords: thesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p60w26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p60w26.txt item: #2310 of 4945 id: ft848p60w3j author: Michaela Marie Logue title: Sound Generation and Scattering in Turbofan Engines date: 2010 words: 327 flesch: 34 summary: Third, as broadband noise has become an important component of the noise spectrum of turbofan engines, a broadband noise prediction model is presented for realistic engine cascade geometries. Hence, it is determined that linear cascade theory cannot adequately predict the noise spectrum resulting from unsteady disturbances interacting with a rotating cascade. keywords: cascade cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p60w3j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p60w3j.txt item: #2311 of 4945 id: ft848p60x8k author: Emma Vanhoozer title: Problems in Poetics: Robert Creeley in Theory and in Practice date: 1904 words: 188 flesch: 25 summary: Each chapter offers a close reading of a particular figure developed in Creeley's work, and asks how this figure both updates a paradigmatically modernist poetics and avoids the poststructuralist poetics soon to be developed in Language writing. Given the revisionist reading, I offer Creeley as an example of a poet whose work, although both under-theorized and underappreciated, might prove serviceable to conceptual problems arising in disciplines as apparently distinct as theology. keywords: creeley cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p60x8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p60x8k.txt item: #2312 of 4945 id: ft848p6117f author: Janna L. Hunter-Bowman title: Agency under Duress: A Political Theological Approach to Peacebuilding date: 1904 words: 292 flesch: 41 summary: The thesis is that the kinds of actions performed by war-torn communities in Colombia, South America, indicate a kind of agency that is undertheorized in peace studies but that can be illuminated by theology in a way that contributes to peace studies. This dissertation testifies to multiple forms of power, freedom, and agency contributing to peace, and the moral worlds embedded therein. keywords: messianic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p6117f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p6117f.txt item: #2313 of 4945 id: ft848p6168b author: Shinkyu Lee title: Communities of War and Peace: Arendt, Political Association, and International Relations date: 1904 words: 347 flesch: 37 summary: In my view, Arendt's writings evince an acute awareness of how difficult it is to balance the domestic need for robust political participation, public spirit, and care for a particular political world with the need, at the inter-state level, to create and maintain a framework of international law. Arendt underlines the need to maintain a tense equilibrium between these two poles, which is required if we are to avoid the cosmopolitan privileging of international law and institutions above all else. keywords: arendt cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p6168b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p6168b.txt item: #2314 of 4945 id: ft848p61j5d author: Sara Fathipour title: Electric Double Layer Doping and Process Development for Transition-Metal-Dichalcogenide Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors date: 1904 words: 303 flesch: 39 summary: The devices show clear rectification with a forward-to-reverse current ratio of 2000 to 28,000.As a part of the TFET process development, two techniques were utilized to deposit gate dielectrics on TMD channels: one suitable for planar channel geometries and the other suitable for nonplanar geometries. On exfoliated WSe2 channels, sheet carrier density and current density as high as (4.9±1.9) x 10^13 cm-2 and 58 μA/μm for electrons, and (3.5±1.9) x 10^13 cm-2 and 50 μA/μm for holes were achieved at a channel length of 3.5 μm, thickness of 6.5 nm, and a drain-source bias of 2 V.EDL p-i-n junctions were created in exfoliated WSe2 FET channels without the use of side gates. keywords: materials cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p61j5d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p61j5d.txt item: #2315 of 4945 id: ft848p61j73 author: Elizabeth Hannah Peuchen title: Analytical Approach to the Developmental Proteomics of Xenopus laevis date: 1904 words: 139 flesch: 17 summary: In this work, I assimilate known developmental biology and the capabilities of mass spectrometry to develop a pipeline to study the developmental proteomic changes occurring in Xenopus laevis beginning with oocyte development and tracing development through the basis of early neural formation, and into single cell analysis. I exploited the benefits and long history of Xenopus laevis to develop sensitive shot-gun proteomic mass spectrometry techniques for the analysis and monitoring of the proteome during development. keywords: developmental cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p61j73.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p61j73.txt item: #2316 of 4945 id: ft848p61k31 author: Rufino Enno H. Dango, CP title: Rationalist Hermeneutics: A Study of Muhammad Asad's Translation and Commentary of the Qur'ān date: 1904 words: 263 flesch: 37 summary: It also contextualizes its praxis of translation within the discourse of current theories translations. The Message of the Qurʾān (TMOQ) by Muḥammad Asad (formerly Leopold Weiss, d. 1992) ranks among one of the major influential works of translations and exegetical literature in the contemporary period. keywords: message cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p61k31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p61k31.txt item: #2317 of 4945 id: ft848p61k8r author: Matthew Jerry title: Collective Phenomena Based Solid State Devices and Their Natural Computing Applications date: 2018 words: 280 flesch: 13 summary: The systematic series of advances in semiconductor device manufacturing over the last 70 years has enabled previously unforeseen applications and allowed semiconductor device technologies to become a hidden yet central part of everyday modern life. However, in order to fulfill the demands of future computing systems, the continued scaling of current semiconductor device technologies alone will not suffice. keywords: technologies cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p61k8r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p61k8r.txt item: #2318 of 4945 id: ft848p61w3t author: Jeremy Mann title: Applications of Factorization Homology to Riemannian Field Theories date: 2019 words: 134 flesch: 33 summary: We begin by defining an abstract setting in which to model the local observables of field theories depending on a Riemannian structure. In this thesis, we relate geometric field theories with classical, homotopical invariants of algebraic objects. keywords: field cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p61w3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p61w3t.txt item: #2319 of 4945 id: ft848p61z0d author: Laura Taylor Steiner title: Féile agus Béaloideas: The Interconnection of Religious Folk Narrative and Popular Practice on Feast Days in the Irish Sanctoral Cycle date: 2021 words: 298 flesch: 23 summary: It is a constructive and corrective project that sheds light on obscured voices and devotional practices in Irish liturgical tradition and folklore, and raises important questions about nominal Christianization and secularization, and about the survival of loric power and even magical layers of Christian ritual in the face of encroaching anglicization and modernization. This dissertation is a case study of the sanctoral cycle of the liturgical year in conflict and transformation, and utilizes a range of sources from Irish oral tradition to explore the liturgical phenomenon of the Irish patron day in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. keywords: liturgical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ft848p61z0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ft848p61z0d.txt item: #2320 of 4945 id: fx719k4437n author: James Russell Johnson title: Targeted Delivery of Molecular Cargo and Fluorescent Bioimaging Agents date: 2010 words: 200 flesch: 35 summary: The dye described here, the squaraine rotaxane, shows significantly greater photostability and resistance to degradation in biological systems as compared to conventional fluorescent dyes. Fluorescence imaging provides a powerful and convenient method to monitor biological systems both in vitro and in vivo in real time. keywords: biological cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fx719k4437n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fx719k4437n.txt item: #2321 of 4945 id: fx719k44380 author: Gaurav Nigam title: Base Station Cooperation in Downlink Heterogeneous Cellular Networks date: 2015 words: 409 flesch: 27 summary: Motivated by this ongoing debate in standard settings, this thesis presents a stochastic geometry model to study base station cooperation in heterogeneous cellular networks. Unlike the typical network user, a user located at the cell boundary suffers from severe inter-cell interference, a problem which is aggravated by the deployment of small cells in heterogeneous networks. keywords: user cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fx719k44380.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fx719k44380.txt item: #2322 of 4945 id: fx719k4439b author: Paul A. Brink title: The Idea of a Pluralist Politics: Pluralism and Consensus in John Rawls's Political Liberalism date: 2005 words: 339 flesch: 26 summary: This assumption is made clear by reviewing Rawls's theory particularly with regard to the relationship between comprehensive views and political conceptions of justice, Rawls's arguments concerning human reason, and Rawls's views concerning public political culture. Focusing in particular on Rawls's Political Liberalism and later writings, the dissertation argues that although Rawls does seek to take account of the diversity of beliefs and worldviews present in society, his model assumes a particular perspective on this diversity, stemming from larger and more controversial assumptions concerning the purposes and meaning of public discourse and political life. keywords: rawls cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fx719k4439b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fx719k4439b.txt item: #2323 of 4945 id: fx719k4441w author: Ginger E. Sigmon title: Crystal Chemistry of Early Actinides (Thorium, Uranium, and Neptunium) and Uranium Mesoporous Materials date: 2010 words: 267 flesch: 36 summary: Uranium mesoporous materials may provide a waste form or nuclear fuel material that may selectively store other radionuclides. The research reported herein concerns the crystal chemistry of the early actinide elements as well as uranium mesoporous materials. keywords: thorium cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fx719k4441w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fx719k4441w.txt item: #2324 of 4945 id: fx719k44427 author: Bahman Aboulhasanzadeh title: Multiscale Computations of Mass Transfer in Bubbly Flows date: 2014 words: 248 flesch: 47 summary: We study the effect of void fraction and bubble interactions on the mass transfer from many bubbles using a 3D implementation of the code. Mass transfer and reaction in the liquid phase of gas-liquid multiphase flows usually takes place at a considerably slower rate than the transfer of momentum, so mass flux boundary layers are much thinner than momentum boundary layers. keywords: transfer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fx719k44427.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fx719k44427.txt item: #2325 of 4945 id: fx719k4450v author: Christopher Joseph Fennell title: Development of Molecular Dynamics Techniques for the Study of Water and Biochemical Systems date: 2008 words: 359 flesch: 41 summary: Accordingly, the first chapter starts by introducing the technique of molecular dynamics and discussing technical considerations needed to correctly perform molecular simulations. This dissertation comprises a body of research in the field of classical molecular simulations, with particular emphasis placed on the proper depiction of water. keywords: ice cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fx719k4450v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fx719k4450v.txt item: #2326 of 4945 id: fx719k44516 author: Sinead Howley title: Cloning and Characterization of Zebrafish Lengsin: A Lens-Specific Gene Expressed in Differentiating Secondary Fiber Cells date: 2006 words: 8 flesch: 82 summary: N/A (The abstract is optional for theses) keywords: theses cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fx719k44516.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fx719k44516.txt item: #2327 of 4945 id: fx719k4455k author: Erik A. Koenke title: Paul's Divided Patrimony: How Early Christian Commentators on Galatians Shaped The Reformation Debate Over Justification By Faith Alone date: 2014 words: 358 flesch: 26 summary: I document these disagreements among Western commentators from Late Antiquity and the sixteenth century from passages containing Paul's affirmations of justification by faith (2:16, 3:10-13) and Paul's statements about the moral law and eternal life (Gal 5:6, 5:21 6:8). Most Roman Catholic commentators after Luther, however, used the arguments of the majority view from the same eras to provide theological qualification to Paul's aforementioned denial of justification by the works of the law. keywords: law cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fx719k4455k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fx719k4455k.txt item: #2328 of 4945 id: fx719k4464j author: Allison E. Murphy title: Living Well with Others: Aristotle on Friendship date: 1904 words: 276 flesch: 44 summary: Second, Aristotle employs two related notions to account for the identification in question: that of living together (suzēn), and that of a sunaisthetic perception (sunaisthēsis), a special form of perception. Third, the relationship between suzēn and sunaisthēsis turns out to be a special instance of the activity-pleasure relationship that is central to Aristotle's account of human flourishing. keywords: aristotle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fx719k4464j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fx719k4464j.txt item: #2329 of 4945 id: fx719k4504z author: Xueying Wang title: Improving Information Extraction via Truth Finding with Data-Driven Commonsense date: 2019 words: 155 flesch: 53 summary: The task of temporal slot filling (TSF) is to extract values of specific attributes for a given entity, called ``facts', as well as temporal tags of the facts, from text data. Commonsense knowledge was automatically generated from data and used for inferring false claims based on trustworthy facts. keywords: temporal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fx719k4504z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fx719k4504z.txt item: #2330 of 4945 id: fx719k4570r author: Anna Katherine Johnson title: 'Seeing Is Believing in the End': Solidarity Tourism in Palestine date: 2021 words: 191 flesch: 27 summary: Analyzing interviews with 12 Palestinians working for local NGOs that offer lectures or tours to international visitors, I argue that Palestinians navigate a complex web of political, economic, social, and religious dynamics in order to achieve both local and international goals. International tourism is a powerful and growing force in Palestinian communities throughout the West Bank, yet scholarship on the topic has tended to focus on the experience of the tourists rather than the consequences for the Palestinian community. keywords: palestinians cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fx719k4570r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fx719k4570r.txt item: #2331 of 4945 id: fx719k4576t author: John R. Hoffman title: Designing Multi-Functional Copolymer Nanofiltration Membranes date: 2021 words: 361 flesch: 27 summary: This dissertation takes the approach of post-fabrication functionalization as a viable method to develop multi-functional membranes, by investigating the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction. Multi-functional membranes with surface anti-fouling chemistry and underlying charged chemistry were made which exhibited equivalent ion rejection performance compared to fully charged membranes, but with a much lower propensity for fouling. keywords: membranes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fx719k4576t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fx719k4576t.txt item: #2332 of 4945 id: fx719k4594r author: Nan Feng title: Applications of Stochastic Methods and Machine Learning Techniques in Computational Mechanics and Topology Optimization date: 2023 words: 284 flesch: 3 summary: Recent advances in stochastic methods and machine learning (ML) techniques have opened new pathways that can be explored for addressing uncertainty quantification and for accelerating computational tasks in various mechanics applications. Based on the performance studies on uncertainty quantification methods, an efficient 2nd-order stochastic perturbation technique is integrated with a density-based topology optimization framework for designing robust structures at finite deformations while considering load, material, and geometric uncertainties. keywords: methods cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/fx719k4594r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/fx719k4594r.txt item: #2333 of 4945 id: g158bg27d18 author: Sophia Meyers title: Giambattista Tiepolo: His Representations of the Sacrifice of Iphigenia and His Self-Identification with the Classical History Painter Timanthes date: 2010 words: 123 flesch: 49 summary: Some scholars have suggested that Tiepolo's treatment of the theme was primarily the result of contemporary trends in opera production. Recent scholarship has examined Timanthes' legacy and the exemplum of the sacrifice of Iphigenia to show its important place in the history of western art. keywords: tiepolo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg27d18.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg27d18.txt item: #2334 of 4945 id: g158bg27d49 author: Angela Nardoni Laws title: Effects of abiotic conditions and herbivore density on tritrophic interactions in an old field food chain date: 2008 words: 348 flesch: 42 summary: It is hypothesized that increased feeding in response to spider presence may be a mechanism to compensate for increased metabolic costs of foraging in warmer parts of the day. Furthermore, spiders modified grasshopper response to temperature. keywords: temperature cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg27d49.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg27d49.txt item: #2335 of 4945 id: g158bg27d5n author: Peter Michael LoGiudice title: Humanism and the Classical: The Expansion of the Art Institute of Chicago date: 2006 words: 154 flesch: 40 summary: Classical architecture tells a history of itself, tying together the past with the present and speaking of the future. The intention of this thesis is to demonstrate the relevance of Classical architecture to a modern institutional program in an urban setting. keywords: classical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg27d5n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg27d5n.txt item: #2336 of 4945 id: g158bg27d60 author: Kyle Pettijohn title: Causality and Expectedness in Establishing Event Boundaries date: 2014 words: 225 flesch: 48 summary: That is, to what degree do the processing differences observed with event boundaries reflect model updating and to what degree do they reflect an unexpected causal break in the flow of narrative action? The results of Experiment 1 revealed that readers do not expect event shifts, but providing prior knowledge of a shift eliminates the difference in expectedness. keywords: shift cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg27d60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg27d60.txt item: #2337 of 4945 id: g158bg27d7b author: Erin R. Hurley title: S-Block Metal Amide Complexes and Enolization Reactions date: 2010 words: 403 flesch: 44 summary: This dissertation focuses on the use of s-block metal amides in enolization reactions. The product ratios for stereoselective enolizations are shown to be dependent on the choice of solvent for the deprotonation reaction. keywords: magnesium cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg27d7b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg27d7b.txt item: #2338 of 4945 id: g158bg27d8p author: Michael Eugene Morris title: The Unity of Identity and Difference as the Ontological Basis of Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy date: 2010 words: 346 flesch: 50 summary: The unification of identity and difference presents the central problem or paradox of Hegel's philosophy. In order to central problem presented by the structure of the will, I argue that we must first recognize the will as the highest instantiation of the more general structures that constitute the notion. keywords: hegel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg27d8p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg27d8p.txt item: #2339 of 4945 id: g158bg27d91 author: Joshua P. Yoder title: Representatives of Roman Rule: Roman Governors in Luke-Acts date: 2012 words: 252 flesch: 31 summary: In order to better evaluate the significance of various aspects of Luke's characterizations for such an audience, the dissertation examines several other narratives from the first century that feature Roman governors as prominent characters. In the context of these works Luke's portrayals of Roman governors emerge as varied, nuanced and congruent with literary expectations of the early empire. keywords: roman cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg27d91.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg27d91.txt item: #2340 of 4945 id: g158bg27f07 author: Chad David Meyer title: Computational Models of Molecular Clouds -- Connection with Observation and Theory date: 2014 words: 352 flesch: 49 summary: These effects have implications in the observation of magnetic field strengths and could be used to deepen our understanding of the magnetic fields in molecular clouds. Star formation occurs in molecular clouds, which are turbulent, dense environments with strong magnetic fields and very low ionization fractions. keywords: magnetic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg27f07.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg27f07.txt item: #2341 of 4945 id: g158bg27f38 author: Sean Gregory Harmeyer title: Acceleration Capability Analysis as a Development Tool for Motion Control of Legged Robotic Systems date: 2006 words: 141 flesch: 17 summary: Legged motion is accomplished by determiningpostures which aid in the system's ability to resist impacts more effectively. An illustrative example, using a six degree-of-freedom robotic manipulator simulation, demonstrates themajor contributions of the method and allows some insight into the extension of the aforementioned method into motion generation of legged systems. keywords: method cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg27f38.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg27f38.txt item: #2342 of 4945 id: g158bg27f4m author: Jonathan Juilfs title: Creative and Daring Spaces in Speculative Theology: Literary Strategies for Doctrinal Self-Authorization in Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love and Marguerite Porete's The Mirror of Simple Souls date: 2010 words: 360 flesch: 3 summary: In the cases of the two remarkable late-medieval women who are the primary subjects of this dissertation, Julian of Norwich and Marguerite Porete, I have sought to understand more comprehensively both where the Bible appears in their texts, whether by direct citation or less overt allusion, and what larger impact biblical texts may have on the larger organization and structural features of their texts. Such a rare opportunity for comparative investigation of two very sophisticated texts ultimately renders various insights into how two clever, female interpreters of Scripture in the later Middle Ages elaborated on and challenged popular orthodoxies currently circulating among both the laity and the clergy of the late-medieval Church. keywords: texts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg27f4m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg27f4m.txt item: #2343 of 4945 id: g158bg27f5z author: MarÌa Alejandra Armesto title: Territorial Control and Particularistic Spending: The Provision of Local Public Goods by Subnational Governments in Mexico and Argentina date: 2010 words: 356 flesch: 20 summary: Governors provide regions with particularistic benefits in local public goods that differ in targetability depending on whether they are governed by allied or rival mayors because targetable and non-targetable local public goods are not equally susceptible to successful credit claiming attempts by local politicians. First, credit for local public goods that benefit clearly geographically circumscribed communities can be claimed by local mayors, while credit for local public goods that benefit more than a single municipality cannot be credibly claimed by local authorities. keywords: local cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg27f5z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg27f5z.txt item: #2344 of 4945 id: g158bg27g9n author: Salvatore Buonocore title: An Application of Fractional Calculus to Anomalous Diffusion and Imaging in Inhomogeneous Media date: 1904 words: 428 flesch: 19 summary: Anomalous diffusion models are applicable to complex and inhomogeneous environments where classical diffusion theory ceases to be valid. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the occurrence of anomalous transport mechanisms associated to wave-like fields propagating in highly scattering media and to diffusive fields propagating in inhomogeneous media. keywords: anomalous cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg27g9n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg27g9n.txt item: #2345 of 4945 id: g158bg27m14 author: Brian F. Hilbert title: The Design, Validation, and Application of an Inverse Heat Transfer Measurement Technique date: 1904 words: 188 flesch: 33 summary: Additionally, the presence of contact sensors, e.g. heat flux gauges, is known to disturb the near wall flow field and modify thermal boundary conditions in many applications. An internal sensor spacing criteria, i.e. the axial distance separating measurements and the appropriate wall normal distance between a thermocouple and an estimation boundary, is identified and evaluated for accurate inverse solutions. keywords: technique cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg27m14.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg27m14.txt item: #2346 of 4945 id: g158bg2845f author: J. David Woodington title: Disbelieving Disciples: Doubt in the Post-Resurrection Scenes of the Four Gospels date: 1904 words: 323 flesch: 45 summary: The Gospel of Mark uses the disciples as a negative foil and describes their doubt as completely unacceptable, whereas the Gospel of Matthew is less harsh and acknowledges the inevitably of doubt in the Christian life. The Gospel of Luke depicts doubts about the resurrection as a relic of the past, and the Gospel of John simultaneously mitigates any blameworthiness Thomas has for his skepticism and urges its readers to have none of their own. keywords: disciples cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg2845f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg2845f.txt item: #2347 of 4945 id: g158bg28c5m author: Chao Zheng title: The Challenges of Scaling Up High-Throughput Workflow with Container Technology date: 2019 words: 329 flesch: 22 summary: To containerize HTC workflows and scale them up on the cloud, I synthesize my experiences on using container technologies and develop a methodology that contains seven design factors: i) Isolation Granularity – the granularity of isolation should be determined by characteristics for target workloads; ii) Container Management – container runtimes must be adapted to the distributed environment, and the under-layer distributed systems best does the management of containers; iii) Im- age Management – a cooperated mechanism can help to speed up and improve the efficiency of image distribution in distributed environment; iv) Garbage Collection – timely garbage collection is necessary given the massive amount of intermediate data generated by the HTC workflow; v) Network Connection – excessive network connections should be avoided considering the plenty of small transmissions; vi) Resource Management – customized resource management mechanisms that fully consider the characteristics of the target workflow are required; vii) However, as most workflow systems are not liable for managing the task execution environment, HTC workflows are regularly limited in dedicated HTC facilities that have required settings. keywords: htc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg28c5m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg28c5m.txt item: #2348 of 4945 id: g158bg28f57 author: Nicholas Hazekamp title: Methods Enabling Portability of Scientific Workflows date: 2020 words: 302 flesch: 33 summary: I propose that workflows can be written for pure scientific intent, with the idiosyncrasies of execution resolved at runtime using workflow abstractions. I examine three methods for developing workflow abstraction on static workflows, apply these methods to a dynamic workflow, and propose an approach that separates the user from the distributed environment. keywords: workflow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg28f57.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg28f57.txt item: #2349 of 4945 id: g158bg28j3g author: Hannah N. Corman title: Characterization of a Select Series of Small Molecules as Potential Anti-Leishmanial Agents date: 2022 words: 327 flesch: 36 summary: As of 2018, cutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic in 92 countries and territories while visceral leishmaniasis is endemic in 83 countries and territories. In addition, we optimized both murine ear and footpad infection models of cutaneous leishmaniasis; using fluorescence allowed us to monitor an infection of a single mouse over time. keywords: leishmaniasis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg28j3g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg28j3g.txt item: #2350 of 4945 id: g158bg28j6h author: Bernardo Aquino title: Image Classification under Noise and Adversarial Attacks: Spatio-Temporal and Robust Designs date: 2022 words: 385 flesch: 36 summary: Our method can classify using as few as a single measurement and allows the use of low SNR sensors. We also analyze the problem of substance classification using a mid-infrared laser and sensors with a low signal-to-noise ratio. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g158bg28j6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g158bg28j6h.txt item: #2351 of 4945 id: g445cc10n98 author: Grant R. Brodrecht title: 'Our Country': Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War and Reconstruction date: 2008 words: 356 flesch: 20 summary: These evangelicals went to war to save the Union, with emancipation instrumental, yet incidental, to the cause of Union and the preservation of a Christian people under God's providential hand. Third, focusing on evangelical Unionism also contributes to our understanding of the place and importance of religion in relation to Reconstruction and the failure of the federal government to adequately prepare the ex-slaves for freedom; evangelical Unionists consistently functioned as a brake on radical visions for a racially equitable and inclusive American Union. keywords: union cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc10n98.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc10n98.txt item: #2352 of 4945 id: g445cc10p0g author: Kathleen Allan Targowski title: Semantic Complexity and Language Production: Simple vs. Complex Verbs date: 2004 words: 151 flesch: 23 summary: The results support a compositional view of verb meaning and have implications for the role of semantic features in lemma retrieval. Three experiments tested the hypothesis that more complex verbs replace their simpler counterparts more often than vice versa in contextual errors due to being associated with a greater number of activated semantic features at the point of lemma selection. keywords: semantic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc10p0g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc10p0g.txt item: #2353 of 4945 id: g445cc10p1t author: Christopher Dennis Middendorff title: A Hierarchical Swarm System for Robust Real-Time Feature Detection date: 2010 words: 227 flesch: 26 summary: We demonstrate the utility of the extension in an application system for dynamical facial feature detection and tracking, which uses the proposed 'real-time evolving swarms' for a continuous dynamic search of the best locations in a two-dimensional parameter space to improve upon feature detection with static parameters. Specifically, the feature detector/tracker uses the proposed 'hierarchical real-time swarms' for a continuous concurrent dynamic search of the best locations in a two-dimensional parameter space and the image space to improve upon feature detection and tracking in changing environments. keywords: space cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc10p1t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc10p1t.txt item: #2354 of 4945 id: g445cc10p3h author: Orfilio Ernesto Valiente title: Truth, Justice, and Forgiveness: Reconciliation in Jon Sobrino's Christology date: 2010 words: 445 flesch: 17 summary: It also argues that such a spirituality advances the theological conversation on reconciliation by: prioritizing the perspective, role, and contribution of the victims in the process of reconciliation; insisting on the need both for personal forgiveness and for a social restoration of justice inspired by Jesus' merciful praxis and the values of God's Kingdom; and by arguing that Christian discipleship must foster a ministry of reconciliation aimed at the eradication of structural sin, the corresponding humanization of its victims, and the rehabilitation of the oppressor. This dissertation proposes that Jon Sobrino's Christology offers the basis for a Christian spirituality and a theology of reconciliation that promotes both the mending of historical reality and the reconciliation of human beings with God and among themselves. keywords: reconciliation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc10p3h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc10p3h.txt item: #2355 of 4945 id: g445cc10p4v author: Mohammad Abu Jafar Siddiq title: Clock Line and Field-Coupled Input for Nanomagnet Logic date: 2014 words: 230 flesch: 44 summary: The generated field magnitudes estimated from magnetostatic simulations were related to the switching fields of nanomagnets using relevant experiments. The programmability of such inputs allows us to test the same NML device for all possible input combinations. keywords: nml cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc10p4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc10p4v.txt item: #2356 of 4945 id: g445cc10q2g author: Firat Demir title: Three Essays on Financial Liberalization, Country Risk and Low Growth Traps in Argentina, Mexico and Turkey date: 2005 words: 328 flesch: 20 summary: The second essay, by employing micro level company panel data, analyzes the impacts of domestic and external financial liberalization on real investment behavior of private sector firms under capital market imperfections, volatile macro-prices and changing country risk levels. Depending on the opportunity cost of fixed investments, profits from financial assets may as well be used for financing new financial investments. keywords: risk cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc10q2g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc10q2g.txt item: #2357 of 4945 id: g445cc10q3t author: Michael Stanley Evans title: Chain Length-Dependent Conformations of Co-Translational Folding Intermediates of P22 Tailspike date: 2008 words: 170 flesch: 32 summary: Newly synthesized proteins must form their native structure in the crowded environment of the cell, while avoiding non-native conformations that can lead to aggregation. These results suggest the aggregation-prone beta-helix domain pre-organizes co-translationally, prior to chain release, and that this conformation is distinct from the global energy minimum for the truncated free chain in solution. keywords: tailspike cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc10q3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc10q3t.txt item: #2358 of 4945 id: g445cc10q76 author: Jeremy A Bates title: Efforts toward the Total Synthesis of Sphinxolide date: 2010 words: 116 flesch: 49 summary: This compound has been shown to possesses potent activity against several cell lines of human carcinoma including several drug resisitant cancer cell lines. Efforts toward the total synthesis of the molecule have been made and will be discussed within which include synthesis of the East fragment, Joint fragment, and progress toward the South fragment. keywords: synthesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc10q76.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc10q76.txt item: #2359 of 4945 id: g445cc10r03 author: Quinn Culver title: Topics in Algorithmic Randomness and Effective Probability date: 2015 words: 534 flesch: 59 summary: However, for a fixed Lebesgue-random real, the set of random measures for which that real is random is small. Random measures fail Kolmogorov's 0-1 law. keywords: random cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc10r03.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc10r03.txt item: #2360 of 4945 id: g445cc10r65 author: Yan Zhang title: The Risky Rainbow of Artificial Food Dyes: A Visual Communication Campaign Designed to Raise Concerns about Potential Dangers of Petroleum-Based, Synthetic Food Dyes and Offer Healthier Choices to Consumers date: 1904 words: 273 flesch: 39 summary: Synthetic food colorings add absolutely no flavor or fragrance to the foods we are eating, but do in fact pose quite a few serious risks to human health. The design goal is to educate consumers on why synthetic food colorings are being used, the potential health hazards of consuming them, and the limited regulations the FDA imposes on their usage. keywords: food cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc10r65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc10r65.txt item: #2361 of 4945 id: g445cc11c8q author: Thomas A. Zirkle title: Investigation of the Dominant Noise Mechanism in MIM SETs at Low Frequencies date: 1904 words: 586 flesch: 50 summary: While this engineered solution provides a work around for current SET applications, this thesis uses the study of flicker noise in SETs as an opportunity to characterize material imperfections. This thesis will present the findings and conclusions on flicker noise from measurements made on Al/AlOx/Al SETs. keywords: noise cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc11c8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc11c8q.txt item: #2362 of 4945 id: g445cc11d1m author: Lei Li title: Topology Optimization of Structures with Microstructural and Elastoplastic-Damage Effects date: 1904 words: 316 flesch: 15 summary: This dissertation focuses on developing novel density-based topology optimization frameworks and optimization algorithms that can be used to obtain optimal structural designs while consistently incorporating the physics associated with higher-order continuum theories and inelastic constitutive models with plasticity/damage effects. It is envisaged that the proposed topology optimization frameworks will lay the foundations for the next-generation of design methods wherein accurate physics of a system response is consistently considered and incorporated in the topology optimization design process. keywords: optimization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc11d1m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc11d1m.txt item: #2363 of 4945 id: g445cc11j6k author: Rachael Purta title: Characterizing Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons for Studying Social Behavior date: 2019 words: 332 flesch: 30 summary: My research lies in the center of these three movements, characterizing and using BLE beacons, in conjunction with the smartphones that detect them, for the large-scale study of social behavior. In this work, I evaluate the use of BLE beacons for sensing social behavior in three ways. keywords: ble cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc11j6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc11j6k.txt item: #2364 of 4945 id: g445cc11v6c author: Kyson R. Smith title: Cation-Mediated Interactions of Uranyl Peroxide Nanoclusters date: 2023 words: 473 flesch: 46 summary: Tertiary structures were most prevalent among alkali metal cations, specifically for systems containing 9.5 mM Rb+ or 9.5 mM K+, but were also observed in the system containing 2.5 mM Ba2+. Our findings provide the basis for the application of uranyl peroxide nanoclusters throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, perhaps most specifically in the separation of used nuclear fuels. keywords: u60 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc11v6c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc11v6c.txt item: #2365 of 4945 id: g445cc11w0m author: Luning Sun title: Scientific Machine Learning for Modeling and Discovery of Physical Systems with Quantified Uncertainty date: 2023 words: 334 flesch: 41 summary: Deep learning models have nowadays gained increasing attention in the scientific computing field due to their inherent nature to capture nonlinear and high-dimensional features. The main motivation of my research is to leverage physics laws and data to develop predictive deep learning model for physics systems. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g445cc11w0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g445cc11w0m.txt item: #2366 of 4945 id: g732d793z3s author: Matthew A Quinn title: Beta Decay Half-Lives of Neutron Rich Isotopes in the Germanium-Bromine Region date: 2010 words: 330 flesch: 59 summary: More than half of these elements are thoughtto have been created by a process called the rapid neutron capture, or R process. This work details the measurement of several r-process nuclei that have neverbeen produced before. keywords: process cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d793z3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d793z3s.txt item: #2367 of 4945 id: g732d793z6t author: Aida Ramos title: Economy, Empire, and Identity: Rethinking the Origins of Political Economy in Sir James Steuart's Principles of Political Economy date: 2008 words: 354 flesch: 29 summary: Using historical and literary criticism to recast Steuart in his proper social, cultural, and political background his Principles can be read as a policy handbook for smaller nations struggling with political identity and economic survival in the face of the rise of the imperial power of Britain and France. Through the application of ideas from the sociology of scientific knowledge on how scientific communities and canons are formed, the dissertation also places Steuart in his proper Enlightenment context, and acknowledges that his work, which is reliant on local oversight and knowledge, is anathema to nineteenth century British needs for universal economic policies, and, in doing so, explores the political and intellectual reasons why he was written out of the canon of economics. keywords: steuart cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d793z6t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d793z6t.txt item: #2368 of 4945 id: g732d793z75 author: David A Cieslak title: A Clustering Defense Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks date: 2009 words: 213 flesch: 36 summary: In contrast to existing solutions that rely upon 'clean' training data, a live web service environment makes finding such training data difficult if not impossible. This thesis presents Randomized Algorithms for Packet InferencE and Rejection (RAPIER), an adaptive scheme for maintaining web service despite the presence of multifaceted attacks in a noisy environment. keywords: environment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d793z75.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d793z75.txt item: #2369 of 4945 id: g732d793z8h author: Wei Chen title: Deciphering Mantle Sources and Petrogenetic History of the Oka Carbonatite Complex, Québec, Canada date: 2014 words: 268 flesch: 34 summary: The overall distribution of ages indicates that alnöite was intruded first, followed by okaite and carbonatite, whereas ijolite defines a bimodal emplacement history. In-situ U-Pb ages for apatite, perovskite and niocalite define a ~15 Myr protracted history of magmatic activity. keywords: carbonatite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d793z8h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d793z8h.txt item: #2370 of 4945 id: g732d793z9v author: Xiaoling Zhong title: Model Selection, Evaluation and Tests of Invariance in Finite Factor Mixture Modeling Using a Two Stage Approach date: 2010 words: 233 flesch: 35 summary: Besides, the single-stage ML approach only allows relative model fit indices such as AIC and BIC, which do not support tests of model evaluation, hence tests for factorial invariance across components are not available. Three studies are included and results suggest that: (1) The two-stage approach identifies the model with the correct number of components more frequently when the model is misspecified or when the distribution assumption is violated; (2) Even when the model and distribution are both correctly specified, the classification-based criteria perform better with the two-stage approach when all components share the same factor loadings; (3) Most provided test statistics for overall model evaluation and tests of invariance across components perform well except for extreme conditions, while the conventional chi-square difference test statistics associated with either ML or GLS methods rejects the correct models too frequently and can not be trusted. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d793z9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d793z9v.txt item: #2371 of 4945 id: g732d79400b author: Namita Chatterjee title: The role of protein C signaling in inflammation-associated cancer in vivo date: 2011 words: 185 flesch: 30 summary: APC and its receptor, the Endothelial Protein C Receptor (EPCR), have also been linked to tumor malignancy. In the absence of aPC-mediated signaling, inflammatory cells may migrate from the vessels into the tumor more readily. keywords: apc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d79400b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d79400b.txt item: #2372 of 4945 id: g732d79401p author: Nicole Eddy title: Marginal Annotation in Medieval Romance Manuscripts: Understanding the Contemporary Reception of the Genre date: 2012 words: 304 flesch: 40 summary: Marginal notes in the romance, therefore, illuminate the genre, defining the most important, most noteworthy aspects, and helping to define our expectations both of the normative in romances' organizational apparatus, and of romance notes as a dependent genre. The apparent straightforwardness of romance notes, often summarizing or even quoting the text, is belied by the complexity of the choices made by annotators in deciding what aspects of the text require annotation. keywords: notes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d79401p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d79401p.txt item: #2373 of 4945 id: g732d794052 author: Shuangcai Wang title: Blowup in Nonliear Heat Equations date: 2006 words: 115 flesch: 35 summary: We show that if the even initial value is close enough to a 2-dimensional manifold of approximately homogenous solutions, the solution blows up in a finite time and the asymptotical profile is an approximate solution with parameters evolving according to a certain dynamical system plus a small fluctuation in $L^infty$.The result allows us to construct initial data with more than one local maximum while the solutions still blow up in a finite time according to the asymptotical profile. We also demonstrated that there is an open subset in the space of initial data and their solutions blow up according to the described asymptotical profile. keywords: profile cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d794052.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d794052.txt item: #2374 of 4945 id: g732d79406d author: Brian James Smith title: Design, Analysis, and Experimental Evaluation of Hybrid Precast Concrete Shear Walls for Seismic Regions date: 2013 words: 356 flesch: 27 summary: The results demonstrate that hybrid precast walls can satisfy all of the requirements for special reinforced concrete shear walls in high seismic regions with improved performance, while also revealing important design, detailing, and analysis considerations to prevent undesirable failure mechanisms. The primary goal of the dissertation is to investigate the seismic behavior and design of hybrid walls with practical details, while specifically focusing on the classification of the system as 'special' reinforced concrete shear walls according to the requirements of the American Concrete Institute (ACI). keywords: steel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d79406d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d79406d.txt item: #2375 of 4945 id: g732d79407r author: Amanda Goncalves title: Studies of Deep-Red and Near-Infrared Imaging Probes and Their In Vitro Applications date: 2010 words: 163 flesch: 31 summary: Comparative photobleaching and quenching studies of biotinylated squaraine rotaxanes demonstrated their higher photochemical stabilities when compared to fluorescein-4-biotin; likewise, streptavidin-conjugated squaraine rotaxanes displayed higher photostability when compared to commercially available Cy5-Streptavidin. Multivalent squaraine rotaxanes with ammonium and guanidinium surface groups exhibited similar affinity for bacterial cells but induced higher agglutination when compared to bis-DPA-squaraine rotaxane. keywords: squaraine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d79407r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d79407r.txt item: #2376 of 4945 id: g732d794172 author: Michael James Gonzales title: Safety-Critical Healthcare Technology Design date: 1904 words: 909 flesch: 50 summary: Likewise, tools like electronic health records might help the team document information during safety-critical scenarios or access critical patient information. Fourth, I designed and developed Visual TASK to support team situational awareness with the capability to adapt to end-user needs. keywords: safety cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d794172.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d794172.txt item: #2377 of 4945 id: g732d794219 author: Andrea E. Kalchik title: Location-Based Prospective Memory date: 1904 words: 148 flesch: 48 summary: Experiment 1 provided preliminary evidence that the virtual environment and location cues were effective, while Experiment 2 indicated that people improved performance when they received instructions from two locations and performed both tasks in one. The event cognition literature supports the idea that location-based cues will be effective, while leaving open the question of whether multiple events will improve or impair performance. keywords: location cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d794219.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d794219.txt item: #2378 of 4945 id: g732d79422n author: Peter Ulrickson title: Oriented One-Dimensional Supersymmetric Euclidean Field Theories and K-Theory date: 1904 words: 89 flesch: 19 summary: There have been other spaces of 1-dimensional supersymmetric Euclidean field theories related to the K-theory spectrum; novel aspects of the approach in this dissertation are the use of non-projective modules in the algebraic codomain of the functors defining 1|1−EFT and the use of an oriented bordism category whose space of connected endomorphisms of the super-point is connected. This dissertation defines a simplicial set 1|1−EFT of certain functorial quantum field theories and determines that it has the homotopy type of a representing space for K-theory. keywords: theory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d79422n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d79422n.txt item: #2379 of 4945 id: g732d794517 author: Todd A. Adkins title: Mercury Rising: How State Policy Diffusion Influences National Public Opinion date: 1904 words: 270 flesch: 32 summary: This dissertation examines the relationship between state policy diffusion and related national public opinion over time. In this dissertation, I offer a new dynamic underlying public opinion change in the United States, the diffusion-opinion-linkage, which reveals the influence of state policy diffusion on related national opinion over time. keywords: opinion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d794517.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d794517.txt item: #2380 of 4945 id: g732d794g8f author: Enmanuelle Pardilla-Delgado title: Strengthening Memory by Repeated Labilization-Reconsolidation Events: The Effects of Stress on Memory Retrieval date: 1904 words: 170 flesch: 38 summary: Memory consolidation was once thought to stabilize memories; that is, a memory was immune to alterations after the consolidation process had completed. Stress has been robustly shown to be detrimental to memory retrieval. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d794g8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d794g8f.txt item: #2381 of 4945 id: g732d794n69 author: Pedro Sztybel title: The Structure of Visual Spatial Representations date: 1904 words: 242 flesch: 25 summary: But conceptual representations depend on non-compositional, perceptual representations to bind the activations arising from their separate spatial dimensions, much like non-spatial feature dimensions do. Experiment 2 used non-compositional number cues to rule out an alternative account. keywords: compositional cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d794n69.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d794n69.txt item: #2382 of 4945 id: g732d794p27 author: Kun Yao title: Neural Network Model Chemistries date: 1904 words: 199 flesch: 30 summary: Several dierent approaches of applying neural networks have been tried in this thesis, such as constructing neural network based kinetic energy functional, combining neural networks with the many-body expansion, defining bond energies and developing a neural network based molecular simulation package TensorMol. Each approach has addressed certain aspects of the problem of building neural network model chemistries. keywords: neural cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d794p27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d794p27.txt item: #2383 of 4945 id: g732d794p3k author: Michelle Ngai title: Serotonin Receptors as Novel Insecticide Targets date: 1904 words: 329 flesch: 29 summary: Chemical compounds reported to effect invertebrate 5-HT receptors were tested for their impact on locomotion, sugar feeding, and blood feeding via in vivo behavioral assays. In particular, the serotonin (5-HT) GPCR family, subdivided into 5-HT1, 5-HT2 and 5-HT7, has been implicated in processes paramount to vectorial capacity including feeding and locomotion. keywords: receptors cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d794p3k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d794p3k.txt item: #2384 of 4945 id: g732d794p7z author: Sean P. Braniff title: Territorial Gains and Losses: The Political Psychology of Issue Indivisibility date: 1904 words: 192 flesch: 44 summary: I test these cases against prominent theories of indivisibility and find that issue indivisibility is an important factor in international relations and that the source of intransigent maximalist preferences lies in the psychology of loss aversion driven by shifting power dynamics. When reference points shift such that states view compromise as a loss they develop a preference for territory that is averse to loss, resulting in intransigent maximalist preferences. keywords: quo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d794p7z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d794p7z.txt item: #2385 of 4945 id: g732d79515n author: Carson L Running title: Global Measurements of Axisymmetric Hypersonic Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions date: 2020 words: 465 flesch: 42 summary: The mean and fluctuating components of the surface pressure were used to provide multiple mean and instantaneous metrics of the locations of boundary-layer separation and reattachment shock feet. The classical scaling analyses of Souverein et al. and Hung & Barnett for separation length and peak heating, respectively, have been extended for the use of axisymmetric cone/flare shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions. keywords: layer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d79515n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d79515n.txt item: #2386 of 4945 id: g732d795160 author: Amir M. Sadeh title: Mobilization and Maria: Demographic Change in Florida and the Future of American Politics date: 2020 words: 188 flesch: 30 summary: Qualitative data was gathered in the form of semi-structed interviews of local community organizations, government officials, and Puerto Rican migrants on the topics of political behavior, voter mobilization, and the Puerto Rican community in Central Florida. The dual identity of the Puerto Rican community endows a unique political salience, garnering the attention of political parties and community organizations. keywords: voter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d795160.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d795160.txt item: #2387 of 4945 id: g732d79524m author: Kayla D. R. Pierce title: Status, Influence, and Emotions: Emotional Contagion in Status Hierarchies date: 2021 words: 342 flesch: 42 summary: I find that the emotions of high status people are more contagious than those of low status people, and that anger is especially contagious. I find that, while low status people generally have little influence, they have significantly less influence when they express anger than when they express no emotion at all. keywords: status cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d79524m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d79524m.txt item: #2388 of 4945 id: g732d79527n author: Amy E. W. Maxey title: Erotic Entanglements with the Christian Mystical Tradition: A Heuristic Notion of Mysticism for Feminist Theology from Bernard McGinn, Sarah Coakley, and Catherine Keller date: 2021 words: 437 flesch: 24 summary: These understandings have impoverished considerations of the Christian mystical tradition and problematized feminist theological retrievals of Christian mysticism. In this dissertation I propose a heuristic notion of mysticism as a dynamism of eros by developing Bernard McGinn's understanding of mystical consciousness and enriching it with insights from Sarah Coakley and Catherine Keller, arguing that this notion critically anchors feminist retrievals of the Christian mystical tradition. keywords: mystical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d79527n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d79527n.txt item: #2389 of 4945 id: g732d79552v author: Ceara J. Talbot title: A Model-Based Evaluation of the Lateral Transport and Fate of Carbon Across the Terrestrial-Aquatic Continuum date: 2023 words: 373 flesch: 29 summary: I demonstrate that data collected in aquatic ecosystems can constrain vertical gross primary production fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems using a data assimilation approach. The lateral C transport (LCT) from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems is understudied and poorly constrained within the land C budget relative to vertical fluxes, yet determines when, where, and for how long C is stored. keywords: aquatic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/g732d79552v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/g732d79552v.txt item: #2390 of 4945 id: gb19f47771q author: Joseph William Thompson title: Iris Perturbation Methods for Improved Recognition date: 2012 words: 112 flesch: 48 summary: Perturbations of software provided circular segmentations Using ROC analysis of the true accept rate (TAR)at a given false accept rate of 0.001, many methods are discovered that performmuch better than the original algorithm, approximate the performance of usingevery perturbation to less than 0.2%, and require between 500 to 1000 times lesstime to verify a single image. keywords: rate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f47771q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f47771q.txt item: #2391 of 4945 id: gb19f477722 author: Jennifer M Moran title: Characterization of Toxoplasma Rack1: Implications for a Novel 'Interacktion' date: 2004 words: 149 flesch: 38 summary: Receptor for Activated C Kinase 1 (RACK1) has been implicated in multiple protein-protein interactions, although it was first described as the intracellular receptor for protein kinase C (PKC). FLAG-epitope-tagged-TgRACK1 colocalized and coprecipitated with the early secretory pathway marker Tgbeta-COP, providing evidence for a novel 'interRACKtion.' keywords: parasite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f477722.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f477722.txt item: #2392 of 4945 id: gb19f477753 author: Anna-Gay Nelson title: Understanding The Structural Chemistry of Actinide Phosphonates date: 2010 words: 319 flesch: 27 summary: A compilation of published results from my doctoral research will seek to provide a better insight and understanding of phosphonates with actinide elements; exploring the preparation, structural characterization, and physical properties in this class. In addition, the structural chemistry of actinide phosphonates is of great interest, and developing their structure-property correlations is one of the main goals in my research matriculation. keywords: actinide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f477753.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f477753.txt item: #2393 of 4945 id: gb19f47776f author: Karl Smith title: β-Delayed Neutron Emission Studies of Neutron-Rich Palladium and Silver Isotopes date: 2014 words: 164 flesch: 40 summary: The first measurements of β-decay half-lives and neutron branching ratios, Pn values, were performed for neutron-rich isotopes of palladium and silver. The r-process path traverses nuclei far from stability through many isotopes which have not yet been produced in the laboratory. keywords: process cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f47776f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f47776f.txt item: #2394 of 4945 id: gb19f477842 author: Jeanette Young title: Towards Characterization of the Polyketide Synthase Gene Cluster Responsible for the Production of Gephyronic Acid date: 2012 words: 415 flesch: 31 summary: Our recent total synthesis and structural reassignment of gephyronic acid incorporates a synthetic route that provides a means by which to prepare gephyronic acid efficiently and selectively and has provided significant quantities, thus facilitating further biological evaluation towards identifying gephyronic acids specific mode of action in cancer cells. An in vitro translation assay demonstrated that gephyronic acid is a specific inhibitor of eukaryotic protein synthesis (IC50 66-80 ng/mL). keywords: gephyronic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f477842.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f477842.txt item: #2395 of 4945 id: gb19f47785d author: Paul Tran title: Oxidative Stabilization of Mesophase Pitch: Permeabiltity Measurements and Kinetics date: 2007 words: 394 flesch: 29 summary: Mesophase pitch is a precursor material for both high quality carbon spun fibers, as well as the matrix in high temperature carbon composites. The oxidative stabilization reaction of pitch solid matrix for those composite materials is believed to be oxygen diffusion limited. keywords: carbon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f47785d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f47785d.txt item: #2396 of 4945 id: gb19f47789s author: Emily Stetler title: Poured Out Like an Offering: Toward an Anthropology of Kenosis date: 2012 words: 157 flesch: 43 summary: This dissertation considers current theological discussions about kenotic aspects of humanity and goes beyond them, imagining a theological anthropology in which kenosis is humanity's defining characteristic. The dissertation, thus, seeks to define kenosis in a way that makes it applicable to more than an act, but to a whole existential orientation. keywords: kenosis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f47789s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f47789s.txt item: #2397 of 4945 id: gb19f47791b author: Joseph William Brutto title: The Many Faces of Aristotle: Neo-Aristotelianism and Contemporary Political Theory date: 1904 words: 299 flesch: 42 summary: It argues that there can be a more authentic Aristotelian political theory in the twenty-first century—a theory that remains true to Aristotle's thought while at the same time addressing present political circumstances. After Aristotle's project has been explained and clarified, the dissertation concludes by applying Aristotelian insights to modern political problems. keywords: aristotelian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f47791b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f47791b.txt item: #2398 of 4945 id: gb19f47792p author: Vittoria Luchini title: Il Divo Dei Poveri: Totó's Journey from Rags to Fame date: 2015 words: 160 flesch: 44 summary: In an age of highly refined special effects and manicured filmic experiences, Totò's artistic contribution is still cherished within Italian culture. Sadly, though treasured by his compatriots, Totò has not won the proper exposure and appreciation within the field of Italian Cinema studies outside of Italy and, in particular, in the United States. keywords: italian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f47792p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f47792p.txt item: #2399 of 4945 id: gb19f47797d author: Haichao Lu title: Synthesis of Star Polymer to Explore the Effect of Structure on Loading Efficiency date: 1904 words: 128 flesch: 42 summary: Several parameters were tested during the synthesis of star polymers in solution condition, including the different arm lengths, different ratios of arms to cross-linkers, and different densities of cross-linked core in Chapter 1. In chapter 2, synthesis of star polymers in microemulsion system was explored, and various synthetic condition was deployed during this process. keywords: polymers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f47797d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f47797d.txt item: #2400 of 4945 id: gb19f477f4m author: ChiaFu Chang title: Total Syntheses of Two Classes of Polyketide Natural Products Lyngbyaloside C and Ambruticin J: Structural Verification and Application of Methodologies date: 1904 words: 149 flesch: 37 summary: Total syntheses of two classes of polyketides were completed. In the first project, we accomplished a structural reassignment of lyngbyaloside C via total syntheses of the nominal structure and two diastereomers. keywords: synthetic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f477f4m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f477f4m.txt item: #2401 of 4945 id: gb19f47836g author: Brooke Stemple title: Yarrowia lipolytica as a Microbial Platform for Waste-to-Value Biotransformation date: 2019 words: 156 flesch: 25 summary: Ionic liquid (IL) carryover from lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment inhibits microbial biotransformation of waste biomass into valuable fuels and chemicals during simultaneous saccharification and fermentation. We found that Y. lipolytica can utilize sole VFAs as a cost-effective substrate producing lipid contents up to 25% of cell biomass. keywords: waste cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f47836g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f47836g.txt item: #2402 of 4945 id: gb19f47842d author: Fanbo Meng title: Search for Lepton Flavour Violating Decays of the Higgs Boson date: 2019 words: 168 flesch: 63 summary: The search of tau lepton hadronic decay channels and the searches that are combined with tau lepton leptonic decays are presented. The H->e tau_h search utilizes the 2012 proton-proton collision dataset at LHC with an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb^(-1) at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected by CMS experiment. keywords: proton cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f47842d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f47842d.txt item: #2403 of 4945 id: gb19f478c5m author: Jeonghyun Ko title: Computational Study for Selective Ethane Dehydrogenation Using Metal Phosphide Catalysts date: 2022 words: 200 flesch: 27 summary: In this dissertation, density functional theory (DFT) calculations were employed to describe how I dealt with that diversity and investigated EDH performance on metal phosphides. A comparison of the trend in adsorbate-binding and elementary reactions of EDH on model Ni and Ni2P surfaces elucidates the role of P atom in improving EDH performance. keywords: edh cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f478c5m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f478c5m.txt item: #2404 of 4945 id: gb19f478f3j author: Eric Jovinelly title: Geometric Manin's Conjecture for Fano Threefolds date: 2023 words: 223 flesch: 53 summary: First, we describe how a recent, movable version of Mori's Bend-and-Break for free rational curves on Fano threefolds reduces Geometric Manin's Conjecture to a study of low degree free curves. This allows us to describe families of low degree free rational curves explicitly on such threefolds. keywords: curves cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gb19f478f3j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gb19f478f3j.txt item: #2405 of 4945 id: gf06g160h5n author: Lindsay Rebecca Starck title: Noah's Wife date: 2010 words: 2 flesch: 77 summary: A novel. keywords: novel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g160h5n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g160h5n.txt item: #2406 of 4945 id: gf06g160h8p author: April Irene Wilkins title: Submerged date: 2010 words: 85 flesch: 37 summary: The first half of the paper discusses the historical and theoretical aspects that have influenced this current body of work by talking about the role of portraiture in the beginning of photography, the relationship that is formed between the photographer, the subject, and the viewer, and photography's inherent relationship with death. This paper details the major issues and influences that are important to my photographic work. keywords: paper cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g160h8p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g160h8p.txt item: #2407 of 4945 id: gf06g160h91 author: Patrick James Kolesiak title: Architecture as a Diplomatic Tool: A Proposal for the New American Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq date: 2006 words: 120 flesch: 39 summary: The designsolution ranges from urban design issues to the development of ornamental patterns andmotifs. The architectural idiom used in the design is a hybrid of western classicalarchitecture and traditional Islamic architecture, with a primary focus on the study oflocal Arabic precedents keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g160h91.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g160h91.txt item: #2408 of 4945 id: gf06g160j07 author: Blanca Isabel Andia title: Nonstationary and Nonlinear Sinogram Filtering for Tomographic Image Reconstruction date: 2003 words: 290 flesch: 33 summary: The reconstruction of the image is non-iterative, reducing the cost of the method but achieving quality comparable to that of other statistical methods. Since the reconstruction problem posed in this manner usually reduces to an optimization problem, a variety of iterative numerical methods for solving this problem has been explored. keywords: methods cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g160j07.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g160j07.txt item: #2409 of 4945 id: gf06g160j1k author: Kara Leigh Huegel title: The Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Impact of Mutations in NPC1 date: 2011 words: 346 flesch: 37 summary: Small molecule inhibitors were utilized to increase the tubulation of NPC1 mutant membranes and improve cholesterol trafficking, indicating the mutant protein is not functionally dead. Proteins identified as absent from NPC1 mutant membranes include cytoplasmic dynein, dynactin, and STARD9, indicating a loss of microtubule based motility. keywords: npc1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g160j1k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g160j1k.txt item: #2410 of 4945 id: gf06g160j2x author: Inna V. Birchenko title: Genetic Diversity of Native Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra L.) Populations date: 2008 words: 160 flesch: 46 summary: In this study, I examined the biogeographical distribution of chloroplast and nuclear genetic diversity of Northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.) at 26 sites in the northwestern part of the species range. I detected fine-scale substructure at the northern edge of the range and found that an island population had higher allelic richness than three shoreline populations and had three private alleles not found in any of the other 25 sites suggesting that the island population has retained diversity lost elsewhere. keywords: diversity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g160j2x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g160j2x.txt item: #2411 of 4945 id: gf06g160j38 author: Ezequiel Alejo Gonzalez Ocantos title: The Collapse of Impunity Regimes in Latin America: Legal Cultures, Strategic Litigation and Judicial Behavior date: 2012 words: 406 flesch: 18 summary: This transformation involves the deinstitutionalization of formalist and positivist legal cultures, historically protective of conservative interests in Latin America, and the entrenchment of a juridical vision committed to the defense of human rights. Since the early 2000s, judiciaries across the region have become a beacon of progress in the area of transitional justice by fully embracing a set of juridical arguments and doctrines derived from international human rights law that enabled them to take bold jurisprudential steps against impunity. keywords: judicial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g160j38.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g160j38.txt item: #2412 of 4945 id: gf06g160j4m author: Timothy S. Miller title: Closing the Book on Chaucer: Medieval Theories of Ending and the Ends of Chaucerian Narrative date: 2014 words: 770 flesch: 28 summary: I argue that these endings demonstrate Chaucer's adherence to a Horatian rather than Aristotelian paradigm of ending, which privileges the harmonious congruence of parts over teleology and necessity. Finally, we must keep in mind that Chaucerian endings were not always written by Chaucer. keywords: chaucer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g160j4m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g160j4m.txt item: #2413 of 4945 id: gf06g160j7n author: Timothy Collin Faltemier title: Flexible and Robust 3D Face Recognition date: 2007 words: 185 flesch: 41 summary: In this dissertation, we introduce a new system for 3D face recognition that addresses many of the current challenges preventing this technology from becoming viable. Our research shows that using 3D face data for recognition provides a promising route to improved performance. keywords: recognition cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g160j7n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g160j7n.txt item: #2414 of 4945 id: gf06g160j80 author: Lyubov Titova title: Optical Studies of Low Dimensional Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Semiconductor Structures date: 2005 words: 362 flesch: 38 summary: We also show that the dots exhibit large Zeeman splitting observed in the photoluminescence emission, indicating that this growth method is suitable for fabricating magnetic quantum dots that exhibit strong spin polarization effects. In addition to preliminary success in fabricating ZnCdSe quantum wires in the ZnSe matrix, this work has also resulted in the observation of zero-dimensional ZnSe/ZnCdSe quantum structures ( natural quantum dots). keywords: quantum cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g160j80.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g160j80.txt item: #2415 of 4945 id: gf06g160j9b author: Santanu Chatterjee title: Coarse-grained Methods for Long Timescale Dynamics of Biomolecules date: 2010 words: 357 flesch: 47 summary: Finding reaction paths often require knowledge of a set of reaction coordinates, or collective variables, along which the transition takes place, which is non-trivial. Given the endpoints of transition, path sampling algorithms find a set of reaction path(s) of interest. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g160j9b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g160j9b.txt item: #2416 of 4945 id: gf06g160q3t author: Garrett McGrath title: Serverless Computing: Applications, Implementation, and Performance date: 1904 words: 145 flesch: 28 summary: Metrics are proposed to evaluate the execution performance of serverless platforms and conduct tests on the prototype as well as existing commercial platforms. In this work, I detail real world applications utilizing these platforms, and explore how existing applications can be adapted to run in serverless environments. keywords: serverless cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g160q3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g160q3t.txt item: #2417 of 4945 id: gf06g161685 author: Filippo Gianferrari title: Dante and Thirteenth-Century Latin Education: Reading the Auctores Minores date: 1904 words: 140 flesch: 35 summary: The study analyzes six Latin school texts—the Ilias latina, the Latin Aesop, the Disticha Catonis, the Ecloga Theoduli, Statius's Achilleid, and Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae—and integrates an analysis of selected medieval school books, their commentaries, and glosses to reconstruct these texts' medieval readership. As this study shows, these school authors offered a particular type of classical reception that provided a Christianizing access to the ancient authors and had a major impact on Dante's poetics. keywords: latin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g161685.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g161685.txt item: #2418 of 4945 id: gf06g16175f author: Justin Keith Trupiano title: Strange Loops: A Study of Computation in Art and Consciousness date: 1904 words: 91 flesch: 26 summary: By design, these technological devices experience fundamentally different qualia than their human creators; and yet through them humans are able to gain access to those qualia. Observations of astronomical objects as well as other aspects of the universe--previously out of reach of human observational capabilities--have become ubiquitous. keywords: humans cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g16175f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g16175f.txt item: #2419 of 4945 id: gf06g16179t author: Devin L Shirley title: Utilization of Genetic and Genomic Resources in Hardwood Forest Trees date: 1904 words: 499 flesch: 42 summary: 2018).My projects reveal how, even when working with challenging non-model species with long juvenile periods and complicated genomes, it is possible to answer important basic genetics and genomics questions while generating data that is immediately useful for conservation and protection of threatened forest tree species. This thesis addresses three research projects involving forest tree genetics and genomics. keywords: ash cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g16179t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g16179t.txt item: #2420 of 4945 id: gf06g161k2h author: Kevin Hans Waitkuweit title: A Contemporary Etymology of the American Medical Patient from 1980 to 2000 date: 2020 words: 122 flesch: 37 summary: I conclude proposing that a conceptualization of a patient using the social generalized form allows for future research on social phenomena to be undertaken in a shared language with physicians. While most research on patients explores the patient-physician relationship, this paper examines the conceptualization and meaning of patients. keywords: patient cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g161k2h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g161k2h.txt item: #2421 of 4945 id: gf06g161m5v author: Jiaji Guo title: Arsenic Treatment Using Directional Solvent Extraction and Application of Ionic Liquid in Directional Solvent Extraction date: 2021 words: 164 flesch: 39 summary: Secondly, the study demonstrates that a specific ionic liquid can have a greatly enhanced performance in water yield and energy cost of seawater desalination. The directional solvent extraction process can utilize low-quality and low-temperature waste heat generated by thermal power plants and solar energy. keywords: water cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g161m5v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g161m5v.txt item: #2422 of 4945 id: gf06g161m8w author: Shih-Kai Chiu title: On Calabi-Yau Manifolds with Maximal Volume Growth date: 2021 words: 257 flesch: 45 summary: Next, we show that if a ddbar-exact Calabi-Yau manifold with maximal volume growth has tangent cone at infinity which splits an Euclidean factor, then the metric is unique under subquadratic perturbation of the Kähler potential. As a first step toward understanding this picture, we construct new Calabi-Yau metrics on C^3 with tangent cone at infinity given by C x A_2, and we show that these metrics are inequivalent in the sense that they are not related by isometries and scalings. keywords: manifolds cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g161m8w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g161m8w.txt item: #2423 of 4945 id: gf06g161p9v author: Benjamin Rathman title: Design and Synthesis of Biologically Relevant N-Aminated Macrocyclic Peptidomimetics date: 2023 words: 611 flesch: 33 summary: Our work offers insight into the nature and extent of interresidue sidechain-to-backbone hydrogen bonding in proteins and suggests that several of these interactions may play an important role in protein folding as they are evolutionarily conserved. Peptides that emulate protein domains at protein-protein interfaces represent a promising strategy for drug development. keywords: protein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gf06g161p9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gf06g161p9v.txt item: #2424 of 4945 id: gh93gx43s3t author: Ryan Cole Thompson title: The Cauchy Problem for the CH2 System date: 2015 words: 95 flesch: 53 summary: For Sobolev exponent s > 5=2, it is shown that the data-to-solution map for the2-component Camassa-Holm system is continuous from Hs x Hs􀀀-1 into C([0; T];Hs x Hs􀀀-1) but not uniformly continuous. The proof of non-uniform dependence on the initial data is based on the method of approximate solutions, delicate commutator and multiplier estimates, and well-posedness results for the solution and its lifespan. keywords: solution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx43s3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx43s3t.txt item: #2425 of 4945 id: gh93gx43s45 author: Kevin David Neuman title: The Health Effects of Retirement: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation date: 2004 words: 339 flesch: 40 summary: The study develops a model of health investment where individuals maximize lifetime utility derived from consumption goods, leisure and healthy time and produce health using leisure and medical goods. Solving the model generates an equilibrium condition for health investment. keywords: health cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx43s45.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx43s45.txt item: #2426 of 4945 id: gh93gx43s5h author: Beth Couture title: An Encyclopedia of Living Ghosts date: 2011 words: 15 flesch: 39 summary: This is a collection of short stories dealing with psychological and cultural myths surrounding ghosts. keywords: ghosts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx43s5h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx43s5h.txt item: #2427 of 4945 id: gh93gx43s76 author: Ana Velitchkova title: Cosmopolitan Priming for Change: Transnational Social Movements in Communist Eastern Europe date: 2010 words: 266 flesch: 41 summary: My concrete research question is: What were the societal institutional environment and the political culture in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s within which protest movements could gather mass support and within which democracy could take root? Social movement scholars have argued that social movement mobilization at the micro level is a sequential multi-stage process but have ignored the first stage of this process, the creation of a pool of supporters from which movements can potentially draw participants, when analyzing the Eastern European protest wave of 1989. keywords: eastern cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx43s76.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx43s76.txt item: #2428 of 4945 id: gh93gx43s8j author: Marika K Kuspa title: Targeting and Recognition of Proteins Within the Mycobacterial ESX-1 Secretion System date: 2014 words: 149 flesch: 34 summary: We have created a possible model for the interaction of PepQ and EspN and subsequent acetylation of ESX-1 proteins. Accordingly, we identified the amino acids within the targeting sequence of the ESX-1 substrate EspC which are necessary for interaction with the ATPase EccA1 and for secretion of EspC. We also characterized the ESX-1 protein EspN, which we hypothesize plays a role in acetylation of ESX-1 substrates. keywords: secretion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx43s8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx43s8j.txt item: #2429 of 4945 id: gh93gx43t65 author: Hattie Rita Dambroski title: The role of diapause and host fruit odor preference in sympatric race formation of Rhagoletis pomonella. date: 2004 words: 348 flesch: 40 summary: The Rhagoletis pomonella species complex is a paradigm for sympatric speciation. Sympatric speciation hypothesizes that adaptation to alternative environments, without geographical barriers, is an initial trigger for population divergence. keywords: host cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx43t65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx43t65.txt item: #2430 of 4945 id: gh93gx43t7h author: Berlyn Rose Mellein title: Solvent Strength Effects on the Anti-Solvent Ability Of Carbon Dioxide With Ionic Liquid/Organic Mixtures date: 2008 words: 351 flesch: 55 summary: This work describes the solvent strength effects on the anti-solvent behavior of CO2 with ILs and IL/organic mixtures. Another measure of the anti-solvent ability of CO2 is the nucleation pressure of solid [Cu(acac)(tmen)][BPh4] dissolved in IL/organic mixtures. keywords: solvent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx43t7h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx43t7h.txt item: #2431 of 4945 id: gh93gx43v1r author: John D. Sehorn title: Origen of Alexandria's Homilies 1-14 on Ezekiel: Translation and Commentary date: 2014 words: 295 flesch: 40 summary: Chapter 4 asks what the Homilies on Ezekiel reveal about Origen's doctrine of the Church, and relates his ecclesiological convictions to difficult historical questions about his own ecclesiastical experience. Chapter 3 considers Origen's preached exegesis of an exceptionally difficult chapter in the book of Ezekiel, and puts him in explicit and critical conversation with contemporary interpreters. keywords: origen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx43v1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx43v1r.txt item: #2432 of 4945 id: gh93gx43v4s author: Temistocle Grenga title: Numerical Solution of Multi-Dimensional Compressible Reactive Flow Using a Parallel Wavelet Adaptive Multi-Resolution Method date: 1904 words: 122 flesch: 23 summary: This work demonstrates the great potential for the method to perform direct numerical simulation (DNS) of combustion with detailed chemistry and multi-component diffusion. The aim of this research is to further develop a dynamically adaptive algorithm based on wavelets that is able to solve efficiently multi-dimensional compressible reactive flow problems. keywords: problems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx43v4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx43v4s.txt item: #2433 of 4945 id: gh93gx43w0q author: Christopher Meyer title: A Convergent Synthesis of Imidazoles and Their Use in Task Specific Ionic Liquids for Carbon Capture date: 1904 words: 324 flesch: 39 summary: Development of this method would assist us in fine-tuning ILs and their chemical and physical properties by making site-specific modifications prior to generating the desired ILs, allowing us to easily access ILs with desirable properties for reversible CO2 capture. In order to do this efficiently, we developed a new method for synthesizing aprotic heterocyclic anionic ILs (AHA-ILs), allowing for a much cheaper, more time efficient route towards these compounds; both requirements necessary to make large scale application a viable possibility. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx43w0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx43w0q.txt item: #2434 of 4945 id: gh93gx44049 author: Matthew J. Kane title: Aeromechanical Response of an Axial Compressor in Stall date: 1904 words: 134 flesch: 53 summary: Information about the physics of stall is often obtained through the analysis of unsteady casing pressures, but no observed link has been shown between blade vibrations and unsteady casing pressures. Axial compressor stall causes unsteady aerodynamic loading that leads to blade vibration. keywords: unsteady cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx44049.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx44049.txt item: #2435 of 4945 id: gh93gx44h6n author: Jean E Yoon title: White Guise / Zen Party Mix date: 1904 words: 45 flesch: 29 summary: Its content was initially composed in poems, diaries, emails, phone notes, text messages, Tweets, and other aleatoric formats, and aggregated therefrom. This is a hybrid critical and lyrical poetic thesis in two parts that addresses insecurity, inscrutability, the performance of whiteness, and digitally-constituted speakerhood. keywords: speakerhood cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx44h6n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx44h6n.txt item: #2436 of 4945 id: gh93gx44p04 author: Kaitlyn E. Eckert title: Novel Transition Metal or Phosphine-Mediated Bond Activations for C-C/C-X Bond Formations date: 2019 words: 190 flesch: 31 summary: For decades, cycloaddition reactions have been a staple in the organic chemist's toolbox, providing access to a variety of biologically interesting heterocyclic compounds. Additionally, the variety of four atom components available would allow access to multiple heterocyclic motifs. keywords: access cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx44p04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx44p04.txt item: #2437 of 4945 id: gh93gx44v0p author: Richard Fahey title: Enigmatic Design and Psychomachic Monstrosity in Beowulf date: 2019 words: 313 flesch: 25 summary: This dissertation reads and interprets Beowulf in the historical and intellectual context of Latin learning and elementary education and argues for possible riddling rhetorical strategies and psychomachic allegory in the Old English poem. This project considers especially the Old English Riddles located in the Exeter Book and suggests that rhetorical strategies featured in Anglo-Saxon riddles (and enigmata) may operate also in Beowulf and constitute an enigmatic design in the poem. keywords: anglo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx44v0p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx44v0p.txt item: #2438 of 4945 id: gh93gx44x3b author: Mauna Dasari title: Age and Early Life Adversity in the Wild Baboon Gut Microbiome date: 2021 words: 361 flesch: 31 summary: My dissertation objective was to characterize how the gut microbiome changes in response to early life experiences and age across the lifespan, understand what host and environmental factors predict these changes, and determine whether microbial changes are linked to host maturation and survival. To accomplish this objective, I combine the ABRP's 50 years of demographic, environmental, social, and genetic data with a corresponding gut microbiome data set consisting of over 17,000 16S gut microbial profiles collected from 601 known individually-known, wild baboons over a 14-year period. keywords: gut cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx44x3b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx44x3b.txt item: #2439 of 4945 id: gh93gx44x82 author: Robert Stanley title: Plant Defenses in Non-Model Systems: A Multi-Year Analysis of the Chemical Defenses Deployed by Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) Against Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) and the Changes in Gene Expression Associated with Successful Defenses date: 2022 words: 282 flesch: 20 summary: A small number of green ash (0.1-1%) both survive for years after all surrounding green ash have been killed by EAB and kill more EAB larvae when challenged in greenhouse studies. The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis, EAB) invasion in North America threatens most North American Fraxinus species, including green ash (F. pennsylvanica), the mostly widely distributed species. keywords: ash cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx44x82.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx44x82.txt item: #2440 of 4945 id: gh93gx44z6p author: Roopak Karulkar title: Predicting Changes in the Desired Gait Speed of Lower-Limb Exoskeleton Users Via Intuitive Physical Human-Robot Interaction date: 2022 words: 595 flesch: 47 summary: Additionally, first principles cannot well model the decisions underlying an individual's realization of gait speed changes. This dissertation further shows that exoskeleton users' desire to change gait speed was apparent through their interactions with the robot and the environment. keywords: gait cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx44z6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx44z6p.txt item: #2441 of 4945 id: gh93gx4504k author: Yihao Fang title: Utilizing Geometry in Some Statistical and Machine Learning Problems date: 2023 words: 188 flesch: 27 summary: In this thesis, we demonstrate how geometry can be utilized to address crucial issues in statistics and machine learning for effective learning and inference. Specifically, we first present both intrinsic and extrinsic deep neural network (DNN) architectures as versatile deep learning frameworks for manifold-valued data. keywords: learning cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gh93gx4504k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gh93gx4504k.txt item: #2442 of 4945 id: gm80ht2727j author: Francis Kobina Insaidoo title: Dynamics of Peptides Bound to Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex Proteins: Implications for T-Cell Receptor Recognition in the Immune Response date: 2010 words: 427 flesch: 19 summary: Using the Tax11-19 peptide bound to the 45 kD human class I MHC HLA-A2 as a model system, it is evident that peptides generated in this manner can be well characterized in MHC binding grooves by NMR, providing the opportunity to more precisely study the role of peptide dynamics in TCR recognition, specificity, and cross-reactivity. This study describe methodologies for characterizing peptide dynamics within MHC binding grooves via NMR, using a biosynthetic approach for producing labeled peptide in which the peptide is fused to ubiquitin and a ubiquitin dehydrolase used to liberate the peptide. keywords: peptide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gm80ht2727j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gm80ht2727j.txt item: #2443 of 4945 id: gm80ht2730f author: Suzanne Orr title: Deporting the Red Menace: Russian Immigrants, Progressive Reformers, and the First Red Scare in Chicago date: 2010 words: 369 flesch: 23 summary: DEPORTING THE RED MENACE: RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS, PROGRESSIVE REFORMERS, AND THE FIRST RED SCARE IN CHICAGO, 1917-1920AbstractbySuzanne Elizabeth OrrThrough a case study of Chicago, this dissertation examines the role of humanitarianism in arguments against the government's plan to deport foreign-born radicals during the First Red Scare of 1919-1920. Russian immigrants and Progressive reformers framed their discussions about deportation and the protection of aliens in terms of preserving the integrity of the family and protecting men's roles as providers. keywords: immigrants cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gm80ht2730f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gm80ht2730f.txt item: #2444 of 4945 id: gm80ht2731s author: Alec Pawling title: Data Stream Summarization for Machine Learning date: 2011 words: 143 flesch: 25 summary: Our results indicate that while summarization based on equalwidth binning performs very well on data streams with a stationarydistribution,performance degrades on certain non-stationary distributions. Data stream summaries capture the essential characteristics of thestream in a managable amount of space. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gm80ht2731s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gm80ht2731s.txt item: #2445 of 4945 id: gm80ht27324 author: Richard Cameron Murphy title: Traveling Threads: A New Multithreaded Execution Model date: 2006 words: 82 flesch: 34 summary: This helps address the von Neumann problem by exposing additional concurrency within programs to tolerate long memory latencies, reduces two-way request/response network transactions typical of caching architectures to one way thread migration transactions, and reduces or eliminates cache coherency traffic. Computer architecture is plagued by the von Neumann bottleneck. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gm80ht27324.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gm80ht27324.txt item: #2446 of 4945 id: gm80ht2733g author: Nilay Saiya title: The Roots of Religious Terrorism date: 2013 words: 218 flesch: 35 summary: In this study, I argue that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, religious terrorism is not primarily the result of poverty, psychological alienation or foreign occupation, but rather a natural consequence of states that repress the religious and political rights of religious groups and individuals. Religious terrorism stems centrally from regimes that deny religious freedom to their people. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gm80ht2733g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gm80ht2733g.txt item: #2447 of 4945 id: gm80ht27355 author: Eric C. Rowe title: Called by the Name of the Lord: Early Uses of the Names and Titles of Jesus in Identifying His Followers date: 2012 words: 251 flesch: 34 summary: Recent scholarship on early Christianity has witnessed a great deal of interest in the identity of that movement, particularly with respect to the diverse forms of Christianity and their relationships to Judaism. One conclusion many scholars involved in studying these questions have reached is that there was an early period in the history of the Jesus movement in which it would be anachronistic to call it Christianity, which then leads to the problem of what to call this movement that would become Christianity. keywords: movement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gm80ht27355.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gm80ht27355.txt item: #2448 of 4945 id: gm80ht2736h author: Richard Ledet title: Evangelical Protestants, Individualistic Churches, and Economic (In)-Equality in the American States date: 2011 words: 141 flesch: 26 summary: Moreover, in the US conservative religious groups have thrived and now dominate the religious marketplace, taking up market share that could be held by churches promoting communitarian rather than individualistic religious perspectives, which conservative religious groups tend to promote. Religious groups have different ideas about the role of religion in the affairs of the broader community. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gm80ht2736h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gm80ht2736h.txt item: #2449 of 4945 id: gm80ht2740r author: Damon Lamar Woodard title: Exploiting Finger Surface as a Biometric Identifier date: 2005 words: 181 flesch: 32 summary: Performance results for both authentication and identification tasks are presented, which suggest that 3D finger surface is a viable choice as a biometric identifier. Using 3D range images of the hand, a surface representation for the index, middle, and ring finger is calculated and used for comparison to determine subject similarity. keywords: biometric cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gm80ht2740r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gm80ht2740r.txt item: #2450 of 4945 id: gm80ht27s0n author: Jenifer B. Gifford title: GRP78 Associated Chemoresistance Affects Drug Response in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma date: 1904 words: 274 flesch: 50 summary: Because GRP78 has been connected to poor prognosis across cancer types and treatments, it is possible that GRP78 targeting, via IT-139, can be used to improve the efficacy of chemotherapeutics in cancers beyond GEM therapy in PDAC. It was established that induction of GRP78, an endoplasmic reticulum chaperone protein, has a direct relationship with the GEM-resistant status of pancreatic cancer cell lines and tumors. keywords: grp78 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gm80ht27s0n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gm80ht27s0n.txt item: #2451 of 4945 id: gm80ht27s6q author: Triet S. Nguyen-Beck title: Development and Applications of the Real-Time Electronic Dynamics Method OSCF2 date: 1904 words: 254 flesch: 18 summary: To make progresses toward this goal, we have developed time-dependent open-system self-consistent field at second order (OSCF2), a real-time time-dependent functional theory method incorporated with open quantum systems theory. Many fundamental processes in nature and technology, from the electronic energy transfer in biological photosynthetic complexes to the charge mobility in solid-state photovoltaic devices, involve the dynamics of electrons in complex molecular systems and nanostructures. keywords: time cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gm80ht27s6q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gm80ht27s6q.txt item: #2452 of 4945 id: gm80ht27s72 author: Niccole A. Nelson title: Future Time Perspective: An Application of Exploratory Data Mining Techniques date: 1904 words: 264 flesch: 28 summary: Despite marked individual differences in FTP within age groups, however, there is a paucity of studies examining contributing factors to these individual differences. Although proponents of the Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST) have theorized that age and health are important contributing factors to FTP, scholars have also reported strong associations between FTP and stable personality traits. keywords: ftp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gm80ht27s72.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gm80ht27s72.txt item: #2453 of 4945 id: gm80ht28463 author: Kevin Richardson title: Ukrainian Language Policy, Identity, and Community date: 2020 words: 146 flesch: 31 summary: By utilizing Ukrainian language as the official state language and being tolerant of the ethnic minority languages within its borders, Ukraine can stay united under an inclusive Ukrainian identity that strives for the promotion of an imagined community of many languages, instead of an imagined community of one language that excludes others. This paper seeks to understand to what extent can civic identity be constructed while promoting ethnocultural language policies. keywords: identity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gm80ht28463.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gm80ht28463.txt item: #2454 of 4945 id: gm80ht2872n author: Brandy Sky Martinez title: Examination of the Dynamic Multi-Level Model of Emotion Regulation date: 2022 words: 313 flesch: 31 summary: Accordingly, the present study tested aspects of the Dynamic Multilevel Model of Emotion Regulation, which characterizes regulation processes as an emergent feature of the relational interaction between the individual and their surrounding environment (Martinez, Bergeman, Payne & Yoon, invited revision). This dissertation sought to align theoretical accounts of emotion regulation as a process-oriented system with quantitative approaches consistent with this perspective. keywords: regulation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gm80ht2872n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gm80ht2872n.txt item: #2455 of 4945 id: gq67jq10b5p author: Xavier Marquez title: The Stranger's Knowledge: Political Knowledge in Plato's Statesman date: 2010 words: 310 flesch: 55 summary: There, philosophy is shown to be different from political knowledge; it is at best a striving for such knowledge. This dissertation examines the Platonic view of the nature of political knowledge, its relations to other forms of knowledge, and its alienation from the political community. keywords: knowledge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq10b5p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq10b5p.txt item: #2456 of 4945 id: gq67jq10b61 author: Quan Zhou title: Achievement differences between Chinese and Non-Chinese Asians in America: Linking Parental Involvement with Student Academic Achievement by Race-Ethnicity date: 2004 words: 107 flesch: 34 summary: The Asian population is heterogeneous, yet many researchers continue to treat Asian American students as if they were a homogeneous ethnic category and overlook the differences within Asian ethnic category. This study explores whether there are between-group differences between Chinese Americans and Non-Chinese Asian Americans in linking parental involvement with student academic achievement. keywords: asian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq10b61.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq10b61.txt item: #2457 of 4945 id: gq67jq10b7c author: Elizabeth E. Martinez title: Placing the Public Figure in the Public Sphere: From Legal Solution to Internet Scapegoat date: 2008 words: 149 flesch: 46 summary: The related meanings of newsworthiness, public sphere, and public figure are traced as they are negotiated over time and across fields of power. This study applies the field theory of Pierre Bourdieu to show how the irresolvable conflict between free speech and privacy is managed by U.S. courts, newspaper editors, and Web publishers. keywords: public cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq10b7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq10b7c.txt item: #2458 of 4945 id: gq67jq10b92 author: Jennifer Claire Penkethman title: The Sympathetic Division date: 2010 words: 5 flesch: 66 summary: A collection of short stories. keywords: stories cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq10b92.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq10b92.txt item: #2459 of 4945 id: gq67jq10c08 author: Clara Elizabeth Seaman title: Characterization of Tricuspid and Bicuspid Aortic Valve Hemodynamics Under Normal and Calcified States date: 2014 words: 361 flesch: 41 summary: Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is the most prevalent form of heart valve disease, affecting 25% of the population 65 years and older with disease progression lasting 20-30 years. In the bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), which is the most common type of aortic valve defect and is characterized by the formation of two functional leaflets instead of three, the onset of CAVD typically occurs at an earlier age and progresses to severe stenosis much more rapidly than in the normal tricuspid aortic valve (TAV). keywords: valve cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq10c08.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq10c08.txt item: #2460 of 4945 id: gq67jq10c81 author: Katherine Leigh Hull title: A Solution-Based Approach to Semiconductor Nanowires date: 2005 words: 142 flesch: 65 summary: These NPs have diameters less than 5 nm and are catalytically active towards the growth of similar diameter NWs. Crystalline NWs with lengths up to 10 microns are grown in solution, where NW growth is initiated by Au/Bi core/shell nanoparticles (NPs). keywords: nws cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq10c81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq10c81.txt item: #2461 of 4945 id: gq67jq10c9c author: Wei Zhang title: Estimating Latent Variable Interactions with Missing Data date: 2010 words: 228 flesch: 31 summary: Parameter estimates from multiple imputation approach tend to exhibit severe negative biases when the rates of missing data are high, regardless of missing data mechanism. The goal of the present study is to investigate the estimation of such interaction effect in the context of missing data. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq10c9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq10c9c.txt item: #2462 of 4945 id: gq67jq10d3m author: Seyedehsaideh Eshraghi title: The Green Movement: Its Roots and Causes from a Gender Perspective date: 2011 words: 656 flesch: 54 summary: The women's movement was also an integral component of the Green Movement and it is still strengthening the Green Movement of Iran through requesting equality and fundamental rights for half of the Iranian population and introducing nonviolent tactics and strategies into Iranian democracy movement, the Green Movement. The women's movement began along with democracy movement with both emerging out of the Constitutional Revolution. keywords: movement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq10d3m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq10d3m.txt item: #2463 of 4945 id: gq67jq10f2k author: Christopher E. Kleven title: Vane Separation Control in a Linear Cascade with Area Expansion using AC DBD Plasma Actuators date: 1904 words: 360 flesch: 50 summary: Surface flow visualization, optical flow analysis, and wake pressure measurements are taken for the concurrent fence and plasma actuation case. Passive and active forms of flow control are employed to mitigate losses in the system. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq10f2k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq10f2k.txt item: #2464 of 4945 id: gq67jq1128h author: Kathryn M. Lance title: To Conceal or Reveal? Predictors of Adolescent Self-Disclosure to Mothers and the Mediating Role of Trust date: 1904 words: 352 flesch: 24 summary: Studies have consistently revealed adolescent disclosure as the strongest predictor of parental knowledge about adolescents' companions, whereabouts, and behaviors. It therefore becomes important to understand what promotes adolescent disclosure to parents. keywords: adolescent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq1128h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq1128h.txt item: #2465 of 4945 id: gq67jq1137g author: Joshua S. Hobgood title: Notch3 Acts as a Negative Regulator of Müller Glia Proliferation in the Adult Zebrafish Retina date: 2018 words: 361 flesch: 36 summary: Specifically, Notch signaling is suppressed in response to light damage in the adult zebrafish retina and inhibition of Notch is sufficient to induce a proliferative response in the absence of cellular damage. The expression levels of each Notch receptor gene was examined, and each receptor was inhibited prior to light damage via morpholino-mediated knockdowns. keywords: notch3 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq1137g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq1137g.txt item: #2466 of 4945 id: gq67jq11720 author: Ke Feng title: A Location-Dependent Signal-to-Interference Ratio Analysis in Cellular Networks date: 2019 words: 150 flesch: 47 summary: Due to the nature of the wireless medium, the link quality, captured by the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), strongly depends on the location of the users relative to the serving and interfering base stations (BSs). Two challenges arise with the trend: the need for advanced modelling and analysis of wireless networks and the need for interference mitigation. keywords: wireless cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq11720.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq11720.txt item: #2467 of 4945 id: gq67jq11c9n author: Dewen Yushu title: An Image-Based Multiscale Multigrid Framework for Heterogeneous Systems date: 2019 words: 413 flesch: 26 summary: This solver solves a macroscopic quasi-static boundary value problem in a domain that is composed of multiple multi-resolution microstructures. Heterogeneous systems exist in a variety of scientific and engineering fields. keywords: image cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq11c9n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq11c9n.txt item: #2468 of 4945 id: gq67jq11j7h author: Madison Hoaglund title: Motherhood in the Delphic Manumission Inscriptions date: 2023 words: 318 flesch: 44 summary: The mother-child clauses, which appeared decades before paramone clauses concerning motherhood, delineated the statuses of slave children and added legitimacy to the mother's and children's emancipation. In this way, the mother-child clauses represent a tangible example of both the societal concern surrounding the roles of these women and children as well as their attempt to address these concerns through the manumission inscriptions. keywords: child cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gq67jq11j7h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gq67jq11j7h.txt item: #2469 of 4945 id: gt54kk93m9b author: Elizabeth A. Covay title: The Emergence and Persistence of the Black-White Achievement Gap date: 2010 words: 314 flesch: 48 summary: However, black students benefit less from advanced math course taking and leave high school with a lower level of math skills despite advanced course taking compared to white students. When children enter kindergarten, black students receive biased estimates of ability from teachers at the beginning of the year, but this is reduced as teachers have more time to observe student ability. keywords: black cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk93m9b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk93m9b.txt item: #2470 of 4945 id: gt54kk93n27 author: Quanling Zheng title: A Multifluidic MEMS Microneedle date: 2010 words: 167 flesch: 51 summary: Several fabrication methods from other groups will be briefly presented, such as anisotropic wet etching method, buried microchannel method, double deep X-ray lithography method, and so on. In this thesis, I will give an introduction of the development of microneedle. keywords: method cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk93n27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk93n27.txt item: #2471 of 4945 id: gt54kk93n3k author: Thomas Lawrence Miller title: The False Histories: Seven Folktales date: 2010 words: 4 flesch: 75 summary: Seven short fake folktales. keywords: folktales cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk93n3k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk93n3k.txt item: #2472 of 4945 id: gt54kk93n4x author: Lindsay N Salem title: Does the Gender-Additive Model of Depression Apply? An Examination of Body-Image Related Risk Factors in Early Adolescent Boys and Girls date: 2004 words: 163 flesch: 40 summary: Body dissatisfaction did not completely mediate the relation between body mass and depressive symptoms for boys or girls. Early adolescents (73 boys, 91 girls) completed well-developed self-report measures of depressive symptoms, body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal internalization, self-esteem, and pubertal development. keywords: symptoms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk93n4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk93n4x.txt item: #2473 of 4945 id: gt54kk93n58 author: Atanas Ventzeslavov Koulov title: Using Small Molecules to Mediate and Influence Biomembrane Function date: 2005 words: 372 flesch: 33 summary: These triple-chain compounds were observed to promote negative membrane curvatures and most likely act through stabilization of membrane fusion intermediates that contain such inverse curvatures. A different example of ion transport across phospholipid membranes presented in this dissertation demonstrates symport of chloride-sodium/potassium ion pairs. keywords: membrane cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk93n58.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk93n58.txt item: #2474 of 4945 id: gt54kk93n6m author: Jody S Nicholson title: Get the Lead Out: Reducing Lead Exposure for Children in Poverty date: 2010 words: 153 flesch: 37 summary: The current intervention aimed to decrease blood lead levels (BLL) for children from low-income families identified as having subthreshold levels of exposure (i.e., below 10 Ì_å_g/dl) through a factorial design using educational brochures, cleaning kits, and home risk assessments as intervention components. The project was one of the first preventative interventions to approach the issue of subthreshold lead exposure. keywords: children cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk93n6m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk93n6m.txt item: #2475 of 4945 id: gt54kk93n7z author: Sarah Shafiq title: De-Secularizing Finance: Islamic Banking in Pakistan date: 2013 words: 365 flesch: 38 summary: I explore these questions using content analysis of the earliest publications of Islamic theory, semi-structured interviews with Islamic bankers and shari'a board members, and participant observation at an Islamic bank. How did Islamic economic theory begin to challenge conventional economic theory, and what were the barriers to its implementation? keywords: islamic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk93n7z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk93n7z.txt item: #2476 of 4945 id: gt54kk93n89 author: Jeffrey Matthew Hemmes title: Improving Data Availability in Mobile Applications Through Enhanced Cooperative Localization date: 2010 words: 414 flesch: 31 summary: A simulation environment for mobile ad hoc networks incorporating various models of localization error is presented. Two methods are presented which can account for and reduce localization error using shared data, exploiting the independence of error among nodes in close proximity. keywords: error cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk93n89.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk93n89.txt item: #2477 of 4945 id: gt54kk93p16 author: Lu Zhang title: Manipulation of the DNA and Colloids in Suspension and at Surfaces date: 2009 words: 361 flesch: 24 summary: Zeta potential measurements indicate that functionalized colloids remain negatively charged with increasing ionic strength, suggesting that screened electrostatic repulsion can account for enhanced DNA adsorption in high ionic strength media, despite the possible hydrophobic origin for DNA adsorption in low ionic strength media. This thesis explores the manipulation of DNA and colloids in suspension and at surfaces. keywords: dna cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk93p16.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk93p16.txt item: #2478 of 4945 id: gt54kk93p2j author: Xiang Wang title: Measurement and Analysis of Microdamage in Bone date: 2005 words: 352 flesch: 42 summary: Barium sulfate, used as the radio-opaque contrast agent to label microdamage in bone, had partial volume effects on adjacent bone tissue in micro-CT images. A method for accurate preparation of cylindrical trabecular bone specimens was developed. keywords: microdamage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk93p2j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk93p2j.txt item: #2479 of 4945 id: gt54kk93p3w author: Denise Audrey Ayo title: Modern Women of Letters: Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, and Mary Colum date: 2013 words: 295 flesch: 36 summary: By attending to Colum and overlooked works by West and Woolf, I uncover a repeated use of re-mediation as a mechanism for managing female literary authority. My dissertation joins Jaffe's work on male modernists with Faye Hammill's and Catherine Keyser's on female middlebrow authors by analyzing how female critics sought to position themselves as highbrow intellectuals. keywords: west cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk93p3w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk93p3w.txt item: #2480 of 4945 id: gt54kk93q36 author: Piyush M. Ranade title: Turbulence Amplitude Modulation in an Externally Forced, High Reynolds Number Boundary Layer date: 1904 words: 409 flesch: 37 summary: It is the first experimental study of its kind conducted at Mach 0.6, and has implications for the favorable manipulation of boundary layer structures. The experimental study was motivated by the results of a previous experiment using wavefront data obtained by passing a laser through a high-Mach-number, regularized shear layer. keywords: layer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk93q36.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk93q36.txt item: #2481 of 4945 id: gt54kk93q7k author: W. Robert Burns title: Statistical Learning Methods for Aero-Optic Wavefront Prediction and Adaptive-Optic Latency Compensation date: 1904 words: 330 flesch: 41 summary: Since the early 1970's research in airborne laser systems has been the subject of continued interest. Aero-Optics is recognized as a major technical issue that needs to be solved before airborne optical systems can become routinely fielded. keywords: airborne cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk93q7k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk93q7k.txt item: #2482 of 4945 id: gt54kk94b2q author: Angelica Frausto title: Mother Satisfaction with Father Caregiving and Multigenerational Coparenting date: 1904 words: 116 flesch: 43 summary: The moderating effects of mother sociodemographic factors, consistency in father-child contact, and paternal and maternal grandparent involvement were tested in a series of multilevel models. The present study examined the between and within-person effects of father-child contact on mother satisfaction with father caregiving in a sample of 682 first-time high-risk and low-risk mothers. keywords: father cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk94b2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk94b2q.txt item: #2483 of 4945 id: gt54kk94b8s author: Carolyn M. Shirey title: Methods for Studying Lipid-Protein Interactions and Studies of Ceramide 1-Phosphate date: 1904 words: 179 flesch: 39 summary: Here, we set out to discover new C1P binding proteins through several immunoprecipitation assays followed by mass spectrometry. Specifically, ceramide 1-phosphate (C1P) is an important signaling sphingolipid that has been shown to regulate physiological processes such as cell proliferation, inflammation, apoptosis, and macrophage chemotaxis. keywords: protein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk94b8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk94b8s.txt item: #2484 of 4945 id: gt54kk94h1x author: Abigail L. Mills title: Destructive Marital Conflict as a Risk Factor for Adjustment Problems in Adolescents: Differentiating the Causal Influence of Emotional Security and Attachment Security date: 2019 words: 143 flesch: 18 summary: Guided by Attachment Theory and Emotional Security Theory, the purpose of this study is to examine the differential influence of marital conflict on the psychological processes of emotional security about family relations, emotional security about marital relations, and attachment security, which in turn will contribute to a refined understanding of how and why marital conflict leads to adjustment problems in adolescents. Research indicates that marital conflict is a risk factor for the development of adjustment problems in adolescents. keywords: marital cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk94h1x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk94h1x.txt item: #2485 of 4945 id: gt54kk94p97 author: Carla I. Villanueva title: The Politics of Repressive Education Reform: The Institutional Relationship between the Secretaría de Educación Pública and Escuelas Normales Rurales in Mexico During the Cold War date: 2020 words: 296 flesch: 42 summary: Education officials reinforced the public anxieties of the period by using campus policies and disciplinary actions as a way to combat student activism. The SEP's systematic use of policy, as a tool to control student power on campus, escalated throughout the 1960s, and exploded in 1969, when the SEP implemented a punitive education reform that closed down half of the then twenty-nine campuses. keywords: education cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk94p97.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk94p97.txt item: #2486 of 4945 id: gt54kk94r3s author: Kayla Simone Knox title: Racial Habitus and Diversity: A Historical Comparative Analysis Amongst College Alumni date: 2021 words: 146 flesch: 19 summary: This project makes several important sociological contributions to racial habitus, meaning-making around diversity, and to diversity initiatives in higher education. Ultimately, I find: racial isolation leads to structural conceptualizations of diversity; black and white students seem to conceptualize diversity similarly, but with different effects; and structural conceptualizations of diversity have remained consistent over time. keywords: diversity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk94r3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk94r3s.txt item: #2487 of 4945 id: gt54kk94s4f author: Vítor Albiero title: Bias in Face Recognition: From Causes to Mitigation date: 2022 words: 465 flesch: 46 summary: First, we explore the problem by looking into differences in face recognition accuracy across race, where our experiments show a mixed set of results for African-American and Caucasians, but African-Americans usually have higher false match rates (FMR) and lower false non-match rates (FNMR). Second, we investigate face recognition accuracy across age groups. keywords: face cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gt54kk94s4f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gt54kk94s4f.txt item: #2488 of 4945 id: gx41mg76w7q author: James A Hussar title: Cycling Through the Pampas: Fictionalized Accounts of Jewish Agricultural Colonization in Argentina and Brazil date: 2008 words: 120 flesch: 18 summary: I reevaluate the literary legacy of Gerchunoff, the father of Jewish Latin American literature, by showing how his canonical Los gauchos judíos (1910; translated as The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas, 1955) offered a structural and thematic template for works by Mactas, Alexandr, and Voloch. Each author uses collections of independent but interrelated short stories, or short story cycles, to fictionalize his/her experiences as a child growing up in Jewish agricultural colonies in Latin America in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. keywords: jewish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg76w7q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg76w7q.txt item: #2489 of 4945 id: gx41mg76w82 author: Jonathan Peter Hill title: The Evangelical Advantage: A Test of the Subcultural Identity Theory of Religious Strength date: 2004 words: 152 flesch: 26 summary: Other major Protestant religious traditions do not maintain the correct balance between distinction and engagement with relevant outgroups – hence they display lower levels of religious strength. This paper examines the sources of the evangelical advantage in religious strength over other Protestant religious traditions. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg76w82.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg76w82.txt item: #2490 of 4945 id: gx41mg76w9d author: Hristina A Staleva title: Transient Absorption Studies of Single Metal Nanoparticles date: 2010 words: 297 flesch: 53 summary: Different particles show different periods and lifetimes. Fitting the data to a damped cosine function yields the periods and homogeneous lifetimes of the vibrational motion. keywords: vibrational cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg76w9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg76w9d.txt item: #2491 of 4945 id: gx41mg76x1z author: Ryan Edward Butler title: The Design and Development of Vectorbase: A Bioinformatic Resource Center for Invertebrate Vectors of Human Pathogens date: 2010 words: 94 flesch: 56 summary: VectorBase is a Bioinformatics Resource Center for Invertebrate Vectors of Hu- man Pathogens funded by NIAID. We hope this document can provide a sort of snap-shot of the status of the VectorBase project at the time of this writing, and may provide an initial look into VectorBase. keywords: project cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg76x1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg76x1z.txt item: #2492 of 4945 id: gx41mg76x29 author: Anne Elizabeth Martin title: Predictive Modeling of Healthy and Amputee Walking using a Simple Planar Model date: 2014 words: 321 flesch: 47 summary: The models were validated using new robotic hardware experiments and existing data from human subject studies. However, the nonlinear nature of bipedal systems combined with the intermittent contacts required for walking makes rigorous investigation of the influence of foot design difficult. keywords: human cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg76x29.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg76x29.txt item: #2493 of 4945 id: gx41mg76z0x author: Peter Ryan McHenry title: Elucidating the mechanism of action of the novel marine macrolide iejimalide date: 2008 words: 255 flesch: 43 summary: Iejimalides are a novel family of marine macrolides shown to be active against cancer cells in vitro that inhibit vacuolar H+-ATPase (V-ATPase) activity in osteoclast cells. At least one target of ATM/ATR phosphorylation is de-phosphorylated in PC-3 prostate cancer cells in the presence of Iej B, suggesting a block in cell cycle progression at the intra-S-phase checkpoint. keywords: iej cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg76z0x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg76z0x.txt item: #2494 of 4945 id: gx41mg76z18 author: Jody Peters title: Influence of Habitat, Predation, and Spatial and Temporal Scales on Species Diversity and Distributions: Interactions Involving Crayfishes in the Laurentian Great Lakes and Inland Lakes date: 2010 words: 582 flesch: 31 summary: In addition, the effectiveness of policies that have targeted invasive crayfish in the Great Lakes region are limited by a lack of consistency across the states/province in the region to address the vectors that are moving non-native crayfish species. I used long-term data sets and surveys across multiple lakes, combined with field experiments in one lake, to demonstrate that the availability of the three littoral habitats influences whether native virile crayfish (O. virilis) are displaced by or coexist with invasive rusty crayfish. keywords: crayfish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg76z18.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg76z18.txt item: #2495 of 4945 id: gx41mg76z5n author: Ashleen Kelly Menchaca-Bagnulo title: My City Before My Soul: Reading the Discourses on Livy as a Retelling of Augustine's City of God date: 2014 words: 206 flesch: 45 summary: I then turn to Machiavelli's use of rituals and other institutions, which parallels Augustine's use of rituals, and how Machiavelli uses these institutions and rituals to solve the problem of corruption. To elucidate this point, I begin with an analysis of Augustine's account of corruption and finitude and its implications for political life. keywords: machiavelli cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg76z5n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg76z5n.txt item: #2496 of 4945 id: gx41mg77386 author: Eliseo Marin-Rimoldi title: Monte Carlo Simulations for Phase Equilibria and Software Development date: 1904 words: 244 flesch: 30 summary: Next, a novel Monte Carlo method that aims to mitigate pathologies found in standard phase equilibria techniques is presented. The main motivation of this dissertation is the development, implementation and application of molecular simulation methods to predict phase equilibria thermodynamics. keywords: molecular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg77386.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg77386.txt item: #2497 of 4945 id: gx41mg77m34 author: Jacob B. Hoffman title: Utilizing Quantum Dot Assemblies for Light Harvesting Applications date: 1904 words: 318 flesch: 43 summary: First, energy transfer was studied between a squaraine dye used as a linker molecule in liquid junction solar cells and CdSe quantum dots as a function of quantum dot size. Second, the impact of surface chemistry on resonance energy transfer was investigated in quantum dot films. keywords: quantum cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg77m34.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg77m34.txt item: #2498 of 4945 id: gx41mg77n9h author: Sergiu Draguta title: Spatially-Resolved Photophysics of Hybrid Perovskite Thin Film and Solar Cell Devices date: 2018 words: 199 flesch: 32 summary: In order to increase PCE of these devices close to SQ limit, a better understanding of charge recombination mechanisms is necessary. In this regard, this thesis presents a new type of excitation-dependent microscopy which enables to reveals local charge recombination mechanism of thin film and solar cell device. keywords: phase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg77n9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg77n9h.txt item: #2499 of 4945 id: gx41mg77s2b author: John C. Sikorski title: Bearing Death Bravely and Undertaking it in Charity: Redemptive Suffering and the Ars Moriendi date: 2019 words: 354 flesch: 33 summary: The third part of the dissertation turns explicitly to the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274).In Christ, the perfect wayfarer who exemplifies virtue in suffering, human beings are presented with the exemplar of human suffering. Members of the mystical body of Christ participate intimately in Christ's virtuous suffering by means of their membership in the body, and sacramental participation in Christ allows human suffering to be redemptive within God's providential plan of history. keywords: suffering cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg77s2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg77s2b.txt item: #2500 of 4945 id: gx41mg7800s author: Micah J. Ferrell title: Investigations of the Virulence Mechanisms of Mycobacterium marinum date: 2020 words: 353 flesch: 36 summary: By utilizing M. marinum as a model we have gained new insights into protein homeostasis, virulence regulation and virulence factor secretion, which will inform future studies in M. tuberculosis. Using M. marinum we studied the modification, regulation and transport of mycobacterial virulence factors through biochemical, molecular and genetic approaches. keywords: virulence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg7800s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg7800s.txt item: #2501 of 4945 id: gx41mg7839t author: Toby Hale title: The Sacred and Infernal River: Mapping the Arno in Dante's Hell, Purgatory and Paradise date: 2023 words: 291 flesch: 53 summary: The second half of the chapter will trace the trajectory that the Arno – now superimposed onto the Phlegethon – will traverse across lower Hell, offering a close analysis of the passages in which the river is charted as it passes through the ditches of the Malebolge reserved for the hypocrites and the falsifiers in Inf. 23 and Inf. 20 respectively before making its descent into the final circle of Hell, where in Inf. The first chapter begins by proposing new evidence to suggest that Dante consciously establishes a parallel between the river Phlegethon of Inf. 14 and the river Arno of Purg. keywords: arno cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/gx41mg7839t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/gx41mg7839t.txt item: #2502 of 4945 id: h128nc60644 author: Lawrence P. Tardibono Jr. title: Methodology Development and Syntheses of Biologically Relevant Molecules from Acylnitroso Cycloadducts: Access to Benzodiazepines and Carbocyclic Nucleosides date: 2010 words: 299 flesch: 32 summary: In chapter two, the biological activity of several relevant carbocyclic nuleosides is explored and various synthetic strategies to the molecules and their analogs are discussed. Finally, a brief summary of synthetic accomplishments and an analysis of the biological activity of various molecules are given. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc60644.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc60644.txt item: #2503 of 4945 id: h128nc6066t author: Simone Brosig title: 'In the Secret of the Trinity': Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth-Century Southern Low Countries date: 2005 words: 332 flesch: 46 summary: In effect, the trinitarian context proves to be fundamental in all genres of eucharistic devotion from the strictly theological approach of the treatises of male scholastics and testimonies of mystical women through to the pastoral practice of ecclesial action, public ideals of sanctity, preaching, and liturgical practice. These texts present an ideal of sanctity and devotion that places ritual practices involving the eucharist squarely in the context of devotion to the Trinity. keywords: devotion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc6066t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc6066t.txt item: #2504 of 4945 id: h128nc60675 author: Joseph R Rausch title: Designing Longitudinal Studies of Negative Exponential Growth According to the Reliabilities of Growth Parameter Estimators date: 2005 words: 149 flesch: 16 summary: Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences frequently depend on linear models when designingand analyzing longitudinal studies. However, when attempting to precisely understand the underlyinggrowth process, nonlinear growth models are typically more useful. keywords: growth cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc60675.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc60675.txt item: #2505 of 4945 id: h128nc6068h author: Stacey B Scott title: A Multi-Perspective Examination of Stress in Later Life date: 2010 words: 364 flesch: 29 summary: Using a multi-pronged approach to assessing stress and synthesizing this information to create stress profiles in persons with and without psychopathology is a necessary next step. First, life events, perceived stress, and allostatic load were used as predictors of current depression. keywords: stress cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc6068h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc6068h.txt item: #2506 of 4945 id: h128nc6069v author: Lucrecia Garcia Iommi title: Thinking Institutions in 3-D: Ideas, Interests, and Power in the Creation of the International Criminal Court date: 2012 words: 360 flesch: 21 summary: The end of the Cold War was a necessary precondition to the definition of international crime as a common goods problem, and to the establishment of cooperation around it. Norms shaped the national security interests and security policy of states, creating incentives to cooperate through institution building around the issue of core international crimes. keywords: states cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc6069v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc6069v.txt item: #2507 of 4945 id: h128nc60702 author: Seyedehsaideh Eshraghi title: The Green Movement: Its Roots and Causes from a Gender Perspective date: 2011 words: 656 flesch: 54 summary: The women's movement was also an integral component of the Green Movement and it is still strengthening the Green Movement of Iran through requesting equality and fundamental rights for half of the Iranian population and introducing nonviolent tactics and strategies into Iranian democracy movement, the Green Movement. The women's movement began along with democracy movement with both emerging out of the Constitutional Revolution. keywords: movement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc60702.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc60702.txt item: #2508 of 4945 id: h128nc60733 author: Pramita Mitra title: Reliable and Efficient Group Communication in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks date: 2009 words: 180 flesch: 34 summary: Flooding also contributes to congestion and collisions; thereby degrading the performance of group communication. Therefore, performing membership updates while minimizing flooding is critical in the bandwidth efficiency of group communication in mobile ad-hoc networks. keywords: group cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc60733.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc60733.txt item: #2509 of 4945 id: h128nc6074f author: Christopher Bensing Boehnen title: A Multi-Modal Approach to Frontal and Non Frontal Facial Feature Detection date: 2010 words: 171 flesch: 35 summary: Before 3D face images can be used to identify an individual, they requiresome form of initial alignment information, typically based on facial featurelocations. After beginning with a discussion on biometrics and therole of automatic facial feature detection, we provide a comparative evaluation of3D sensors. keywords: biometrics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc6074f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc6074f.txt item: #2510 of 4945 id: h128nc6075s author: Chad Patrick Quaglia title: Novel, Deployable Origami-Inspired Shelters for Forward Operating Bases: Design and Optimization date: 2014 words: 151 flesch: 21 summary: This thesis will review existing shelter technology in the military and relevant work in origami engineering, present a series of novel origami-inspired concepts developed by the research team, present the structural design and analysis of one promising concept, optimize this design for structural performance and energy efficiency, and finally discuss conclusions and future work. Toward achieving these priorities, this thesis harnesses the art of origami as inspiration for rigid wall deploying shelters and introduces a novel erection strategy for these origami-inspired shelters based on the principle of counterweighting. keywords: origami cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc6075s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc6075s.txt item: #2511 of 4945 id: h128nc6084r author: Bret Nye title: The Yearning Sessions and a Lifestory date: 1904 words: 97 flesch: 29 summary: Though different in both form and content, these fictions share a number of thematic investigations: explorations of new masculinities in American culture, fabular and fantastical figurations of the Midwest region, and the artistic convergence of the theoretical concepts of memory and haunting. This thesis is made up of one half of a novel, titled The Yearning Sessions, and a long fiction story, titled Lifestory: A Memoir. keywords: fiction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc6084r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc6084r.txt item: #2512 of 4945 id: h128nc60853 author: Kevin J. Vaughn title: The Organ Masses of Gaston Litaize (1909-1991): The Culmination of a Twentieth-Century Liturgical Genre date: 1904 words: 367 flesch: 29 summary: He is remembered in particular for his long tenure as director of religious programming for French national radio, organiste titulaire at the church of Saint-François-Xavier in Paris, and professor of organ at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles and the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Saint-Maur des Fossés. Litaize's effortless facility with complex compositional devices, especially fugue and canon, also marks him as the heir to the contrapuntal tradition of organ music in France. keywords: organ cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc60853.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc60853.txt item: #2513 of 4945 id: h128nc60c9d author: Edithstein Taeyin ChoGlueck title: FUME date: 1904 words: 32 flesch: 55 summary: When their lives inevitably includes life-long jealousies, regrets, and misunderstandings, will their bond endure in the end? Fume explores two cousins' relationship that grows apart premised on having grown up together. keywords: fume cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc60c9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc60c9d.txt item: #2514 of 4945 id: h128nc60x08 author: Samantha F. Anderson title: Missing Data in Randomized Pretest Posttest Studies: A Growth Curve Perspective date: 1904 words: 356 flesch: 34 summary: Although missing data handling has seen advances over the past several decades, effective and practical solutions for handling missing data in RPP designs are lacking. However, missing data at posttest is a ubiquitous occurrence with this type of design. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc60x08.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc60x08.txt item: #2515 of 4945 id: h128nc6125h author: Yuan Tian title: New Applications of III-V Compound Semiconductor Native Oxides for Photonic Devices date: 2019 words: 300 flesch: 12 summary: Building upon previous work at the University of Notre Dame on oxygen-enhanced non-selective wet thermal oxidation of low Al content III-V compound semiconductor alloys, which has simplified the fabrication of advanced performance diode laser devices, this work has further expanded the application of III-V native oxides in photonic device fabrication and integration while stimulating additional materials related discoveries. The discovery of new materials, the improvement of processing, and the design of new devices are the three engines which boost our modern semiconductor industry. keywords: devices cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc6125h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc6125h.txt item: #2516 of 4945 id: h128nc61919 author: Christopher C. Rios title: Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Mikel Dufrenne at the Limits of Theological Phenomenological Cosmology: A Constructive Proposal date: 2021 words: 378 flesch: 12 summary: This dissertation develops a theological phenomenological cosmology in light of Christian revelation by examining the fundamental structures of incarnate lived experience as described by Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Mikel Dufrenne in order to understand better the significance of Christian revelation upon the cosmic stage. In their theological articulations, these schemata fail to provide cosmological frameworks that uphold the subject's concrete, free, dynamic, and creative relation to cosmos. keywords: life cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc61919.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc61919.txt item: #2517 of 4945 id: h128nc61d0w author: Santain Tavella title: Lost in Translation: Technical Aspects and Challenges in the Italian Dubbing of Miracle at St. Anna and Fargo date: 2023 words: 349 flesch: 37 summary: In the field of audiovisual translation, doubts and questions about the reliability of dubbing as a means of language transfer have increased, resulting in a split in public opinion between those who still appreciate dubbed film products and those who claim that this type of translation intervention inevitably changes the original product with often negative results. In the next part, through the analysis of selected scenes from both films, I show how in a multilingual film such as Miracle at St. Anna the dubbing did not consider this a fundamental aspect of the film and did not limit itself to language transfer but rewrote entire scenes depriving the target audience of the essence of the film product. keywords: product cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc61d0w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc61d0w.txt item: #2518 of 4945 id: h128nc61d17 author: Damien A. Dablain title: Linear Data Augmentation to Improve Generalization for Imbalanced Learning date: 2023 words: 195 flesch: 42 summary: During inference, they predict classes based on a combination of latent feature magnitudes that sum to a requisite threshold. Machine learning models struggle to generalize when the number of class instances is numerically imbalanced. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h128nc61d17.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h128nc61d17.txt item: #2519 of 4945 id: h415p843f9m author: Patrick Ormande Bowles title: Wind Tunnel Experiments on the Effect of Compressibility on the Attributes of Dynamic Stall date: 2012 words: 474 flesch: 42 summary: This work focuses on three distinct problems in regard to dynamic stall and the influence of Mach number, as follows:The stall vortex convection properties: The low pressure signature of the stall vortex's travel aft over the chord is tracked through deep dynamic stall conditions and moderate to high reduced frequencies. Shock induced dynamic stall and surface flow features: A focused schlieren system is designed and constructed to glean information regarding the temporal evolution of shock structures on the airfoil's upper surface. keywords: stall cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p843f9m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p843f9m.txt item: #2520 of 4945 id: h415p843g0t author: Thidapat Chantem title: Generalized Elastic Scheduling for Real-Time Systems date: 2010 words: 182 flesch: 43 summary: Second, it is shown in this thesis that the well-known task compression algorithm in fact solves a quadratic programming problem that seeks to minimize the sum of the squared deviation of a task's utilization from initial desired utilization. This finding indicates that the task compression algorithm may be applied to efficiently solve other similar types of problems that often arise in real-time applications. keywords: time cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p843g0t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p843g0t.txt item: #2521 of 4945 id: h415p843g15 author: Stephanie Rochelle Ahern title: Breaking the Organizational Mold: Why the Institutional United States Army has Changed despite Itself since the End of the Cold War date: 2010 words: 383 flesch: 42 summary: Second, despite its hierarchical structure, leadership priority and consensus were both critical in the Army making voluntary changes. Why has the institutional U.S. Army changed since the end of the Cold War? keywords: army cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p843g15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p843g15.txt item: #2522 of 4945 id: h415p843g3v author: Jianfeng Zhu title: Application of discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for vertebrate limb pattern formation date: 2010 words: 208 flesch: -2 summary: Major outstanding questions regarding vertebrate limb development are how the numbers of skeletal elements along the proximodistal (P-D) and anteroposterior (A-P) axes are determined and how the shape of a growing limb affects skeletalelement formation. A mechanism based on local autoregulation of a molecular activator of cell aggregation coupled to a laterally acting inhibitor (a LALI system), is consistent with in vivo and in vitro experimental results and provides qualitative interpretations of several genetic anomalies affecting limb development. keywords: limb cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p843g3v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p843g3v.txt item: #2523 of 4945 id: h415p843g46 author: Michael W Kennedy title: Visual Feedback in Balance Rehabilitation using Inexpensive Gaming Peripherals date: 2014 words: 342 flesch: 28 summary: Preliminary examination of the data from clinical sessions indicates that instrumentation of clinical balance therapy could provide a method for quicker balance assessment and quantitative insight into patient balance performance. This work focuses on implementation of visual feedback in balance therapy with the ultimate goal of improving the efficacy of clinical balance rehabilitation. keywords: balance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p843g46.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p843g46.txt item: #2524 of 4945 id: h415p843h2t author: Allison A.P. Regier title: Challenges in working with draft genomes date: 2008 words: 211 flesch: 54 summary: Whether draft or finished, the output of a genome sequence project serves as the input to a host of analysis tools such as gene finding or variation analysis. In this thesis we discuss specific challenges in working with draft genomes and show how methods can be adapted to be more effective in draft genomes. keywords: draft cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p843h2t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p843h2t.txt item: #2525 of 4945 id: h415p843h7j author: Na Fu title: Squaraine Rotaxanes: Highly Stable Fluorescent Bioimaging Probes date: 2009 words: 344 flesch: 38 summary: This dissertation describes a series of structural investigations of squaraine rotaxanes and their fluorescent properties. A series of squaraine rotaxanes with a pyridyl-containing macrocycle adopt an unusual boat conformation in the solid state. keywords: squaraine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p843h7j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p843h7j.txt item: #2526 of 4945 id: h415p843h8w author: Kathleen M. Kole de Peralta title: The Nature of Colonial Bodies: Public Health in Lima, Peru, 1535-1635 date: 1904 words: 160 flesch: 41 summary: These discussions emerged in response to the rapid rate of Lima's growth and the challenges it faced, including deforestation, food supply challenges, and the concentration of waste, disease, and illness. Its residents transformed the landscape to build a colonial capital and in the process, the landscape shaped local understandings of race, gender, social status and power. keywords: lima cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p843h8w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p843h8w.txt item: #2527 of 4945 id: h415p843p2c author: Vahideh Ghanbari title: Dissipativity/Passivity Based Control Design for Symmetric and Switched Systems with Application to Medical Robotics date: 1904 words: 393 flesch: 31 summary: To this end, the passivity-based approach is applied to the control of various types of challenging problems in control systems such as symmetric systems, switched systems, and the automatic cycle-rider systems. This dissertation studies the concept of dissipativity and passivity, in theory, in practice, and in design of control systems. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p843p2c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p843p2c.txt item: #2528 of 4945 id: h415p844j5f author: Dmitrii Gudin title: Stellar and Galactic Archaeology: Chemo-Dynamically Tagged Groups of Chemically Peculiar Stars in the Halo date: 2020 words: 350 flesch: 37 summary: The sample of RPE stars includes a total of 426 stars with available accurate dynamical information and high-resolution spectroscopic abundances of iron, carbon, strontium, barium, and europium. As a result, photometric and spectroscopic data for many millions of stars in the Galaxy, including hundreds of thousands of ancient metal-poor stars in the Galactic halo, have been obtained. keywords: stars cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p844j5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p844j5f.txt item: #2529 of 4945 id: h415p844k32 author: Trevor B. Demille title: Synthesis and Plasmonics of Surface-Truncated Noble Metal Nanostructures for Advanced Nanoantenna Engineering date: 2021 words: 152 flesch: 15 summary: Herein, is demonstrated a comprehensive study of the effects of surface truncation on the plasmon resonance and near-fields of substrate-truncated nanostructures, beginning with Ag nanospheres, and expanding to include Au nanostars and hexagonal Au nanoplates. The increasing interest in on-chip plasmonic devices underscores the importance of having a fundamental understanding of the interactions occurring when noble metal nanostructures are brought into contact with substrate materials. keywords: substrate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p844k32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p844k32.txt item: #2530 of 4945 id: h415p844m7r author: Adrianna Bickner title: Membrane and Monolith Enzyme Reactors for Rapid Digestion of Proteins Prior to Mass Spectrometry Analysis date: 2022 words: 348 flesch: 25 summary: Future work with the monolith-containing emitter tip may yield successful digestion after CE protein separations. However, electrodigestion after IEF has not yet allowed identification of protein PTMs. keywords: proteins cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p844m7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p844m7r.txt item: #2531 of 4945 id: h415p844p0z author: Kangling Ma title: Synthesis and Application of Hyperbranched Polytriazole-Based Unimolecular Nanocontainers date: 2023 words: 167 flesch: 6 summary: The application of these affordable HBPs as unimolecular nanocontainers for bioimaging, drug delivery, and template for inorganic nanoparticles are investigated by encapsulating various functional payloads. Unimolecular polymeric nanocontainers possess exclusive single molecular architecture with covalently bonded core-shell structure, which can maintain outstanding stability upon surrounding environmental changes and are suitable for various applications, including small molecules encapsulation for drug delivery, bio-imaging, reaction catalysis, and the generation of inorganic nanoparticles as templates. keywords: unimolecular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p844p0z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p844p0z.txt item: #2532 of 4945 id: h415p844p19 author: Gaofei Zhang title: Gradient Flow-Based Generative Model and Geometric Information Enhanced Learning date: 2023 words: 183 flesch: 36 summary: The other topic of this thesis is utilizing intrinsic geometric information to enhance learning. We propose two algorithms to extract intrinsic geometric information from the data. keywords: algorithm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h415p844p19.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h415p844p19.txt item: #2533 of 4945 id: h702q526r3x author: Krastyu G Ugrinov title: Co-translational folding properties of the beta-sheet protein green fluorescent protein (GFP) date: 2010 words: 362 flesch: 37 summary: Yet, the mechanisms by which co-translational folding might affect protein folding efficiency are not completely understood, primarily because only a small number of co-translational folding studies have been performed. Importantly, GFP nascent chains that have their C-terminus buried in the ribosome exit tunnel remain folding competent and fold to a native conformation with high efficiency after release from the ribosome; this efficiency is significantly higher than the folding efficiency of chemically denatured GFP. keywords: folding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q526r3x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q526r3x.txt item: #2534 of 4945 id: h702q526r6z author: Titik Firawati title: Overcoming Collapsed Peace Processes: Why Negotiations Were Sustained in Aceh but Disintegrated in South Thailand date: 2010 words: 168 flesch: 56 summary: The Indonesian government and GAM (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, Free Aceh Movement) needed five years to address the conflict in Aceh before finally reaching a peace deal in August 2005. To explain why negotiations were maintained in Aceh but not in South Thailand, this thesis looks at the influence of reconciliatory moves by each party in both regions and leadership change on the Indonesian and Thai government side in the peace process. keywords: process cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q526r6z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q526r6z.txt item: #2535 of 4945 id: h702q526r79 author: Michael A. Vidmar-McEwen title: Prolongational and Transformational Views of Sonata Form in the First Movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata in B-flat, D.960 date: 2010 words: 100 flesch: 41 summary: This thesis analyzes the first movement of Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960, with special attention to issues of sonata form. A Schenkerian viewpoint is adopted, and that choice is justified by Schenkerian analysis' ability to attend to the most important rhetorical moments of sonata form. keywords: sonata cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q526r79.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q526r79.txt item: #2536 of 4945 id: h702q526r8n author: Corey Bourassa title: An Experimental Investigation of an Accelerated Turbulent Boundary Layer date: 2005 words: 193 flesch: 22 summary: The favorablepressure gradient is generated using a linear contraction with a contraction ratio of $9.5:1$ and is characterized by a peak acceleration parameter, $K_{max}=4.4 imes10^{-6}$. Threecomponents of velocity are measured using multiple X-wires and the wall shear stress is directly measured using oil film interferometry. Modification of the normal stresses in the near-wall region, large-scale changes in the skewness and kurtosis of the velocity components, a change in integral length scales of the accelerated boundary layer, and a shift in the energy spectrum each lend support to this assertion. keywords: layer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q526r8n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q526r8n.txt item: #2537 of 4945 id: h702q526r90 author: Scott Robert Stolpa title: Spatially Resolved Near Surface Motions in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer date: 2005 words: 150 flesch: 50 summary: Conditionally averaging the velocity field based on high swirl strength yields inclined regions of low momentum and inclined streamlines. These results supplement the work of previous authors who have found these features in low Reynolds number flows. keywords: layer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q526r90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q526r90.txt item: #2538 of 4945 id: h702q526s06 author: Michael Jeehoon Lee title: American Revelations: Biblical Interpretation and Criticism in America, Circa 1700-1860 date: 2010 words: 311 flesch: 34 summary: By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Bible faced threats from German historical critics, who argued that the Bible must be interpreted as an amalgam of myth and history. In the early eighteenth century, most Christians could not imagine that the Bible was anything other than supernatural revelation from God. keywords: century cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q526s06.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q526s06.txt item: #2539 of 4945 id: h702q526s1j author: David M Lantigua title: Idolatry, War, and the Rights of Infidels: The Christian Legal Theory of Religious Toleration in the New World date: 2012 words: 412 flesch: 22 summary: Las Casas' theory of religious toleration offered an unprecedented defense of religious rights for persons in error. The culmination of these opposed doctrines of religious coercion and religious toleration in the sixteenth century surfaced at the Valladolid debate from 1550 to 1551 between Las Casas and his principal adversary, Juan Gin s de Sep lveda. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q526s1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q526s1j.txt item: #2540 of 4945 id: h702q526s2w author: Luma A Khudher title: Micah 4-5 and the Message of Salvation of the Eighth Century Prophet date: 2012 words: 360 flesch: 67 summary: Many claim that these chapters present a conflict in understanding the book in terms of a situation current in 8th century B.C.E. Jerusalem. It analyzes all of the salvation oracles, including 2:12-13 and 7:11-13, but focuses especially on chapters 4-5, studying the message of these chapters, the historical and social background of these chapters, and the function of chs. keywords: oracles cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q526s2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q526s2w.txt item: #2541 of 4945 id: h702q526s4k author: Douglas Edward Finn title: Life in the Spirit: Trinitarian Grammar and Pneumatic Community in Hegel and Augustine date: 2011 words: 471 flesch: 36 summary: Hegel's sublation of the Christological moment in Spirit issues in the displacement of the church by the state and an attendant realized eschatology that obviates psalmic lament as a form of communal Christian prayer, thereby leaving the suffering and the church that would speak on their behalf without a critical theological voice. Yet Hegel dominates the contemporary scene of Trinitarian theology and its reception of classical Trinitarian doctrine. keywords: hegel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q526s4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q526s4k.txt item: #2542 of 4945 id: h702q526s5x author: Janice Pauline Louvane Kenney title: Metal Adsorption to Bacterial Cells and Their Products date: 2010 words: 330 flesch: 33 summary: This strongly suggests that bacteria that grow under extreme conditions exhibit similar proton and metal adsorption behaviour to that of previously studied neutrophilic species, and that a single set of proton and metal binding constants can be used to model the behaviour of bacterial adsorption under a wide range of environmental conditions. Our results suggest that EPS contains functional groups that are similar to those on the cell wall, and that EPS and bacterial cell walls exhibit similar site concentrations and affinities for adsorbing protons and metal cations from solution. keywords: bacterial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q526s5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q526s5x.txt item: #2543 of 4945 id: h702q526s68 author: Reanna A. Ursin title: Slavery as a Site of Memory: Interracial Intersubjectivity in the Historical Novels of Sherley Anne Williams, Caryl Phillips and Edward P. Jones date: 2008 words: 243 flesch: 20 summary: Depicting an intersubjective experience of slavery through the foregrounding of mutually constitutive relationships, these novels critique the way contemporary social, cultural and political debates are invested in one-dimensional models of racial interaction. Rather than reinforce strict racial divisions or, conversely, suggest that the nation is somehow 'beyond' race, I contend that Williams, Phillips, and Jones advocate 'working through' slavery at the level of a shared narrative history. keywords: slavery cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q526s68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q526s68.txt item: #2544 of 4945 id: h702q526s7m author: Martino Rabaioli title: Alla sua Donna: Leopardi's Poetics of Absence date: 2014 words: 154 flesch: 49 summary: It immediately precedes the project Leopardi began in 1824: the Operette morali, a series of short prose narratives in which he starts to develop that negative philosophy that critics would label as cosmic pessimism. With the single exception of Al conte Carlo Pepoli, written in 1826, Alla sua Donna is the last poem that Leopardi wrote before a long period of poetic silence, interrupted in 1828 with the Canti Pisano-Recanatesi. keywords: leopardi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q526s7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q526s7m.txt item: #2545 of 4945 id: h702q526t7x author: Meng Qi title: Novel MBE III-Nitride Heterostructure Devices Enabled by Bulk Substrates date: 1904 words: 647 flesch: 50 summary: III-Nitride semiconductors have been of great interest and have been studied extensively for the applications in high frequency and high power devices. Ultra-thin body (UTB) GaN on AlN platform also enables high density of two-dimensional hole gases (DHG), by polarization-induced p-type doping. keywords: gan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q526t7x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q526t7x.txt item: #2546 of 4945 id: h702q527g2c author: Micayla A. Bowman title: The Earliest Steps of Protein Folding: Conformational Biases within the Unfolded Ensemble and during Folding date: 1904 words: 376 flesch: 33 summary: In order to natively fold and avoid intermediates that may lead to misfolding and aggregation, many proteins must fold under kinetic control. I develop a novel refolding assay with a fluorescent protein sensor to directly measure the effects of vectorial polypeptide appearance on protein folding. keywords: protein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q527g2c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q527g2c.txt item: #2547 of 4945 id: h702q527g3q author: Austin James Brady title: No Dads No Masters date: 1904 words: 146 flesch: 23 summary: The simultaneous operation of indulgence and criticism of masculinity complicates a narrative of hegemonic masculinity in favor of an infinitely richer and more difficult approach to identity. This interrogation/mutation is grounded within the liminal site of the garage, framing it as a Foucaultian heterotopia to highlight the intricate and often contradicting process of White, American, working class manhood--its praxis failure, and prototyping. keywords: interrogation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q527g3q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q527g3q.txt item: #2548 of 4945 id: h702q527m7b author: Elvin E. Morales title: Analysis of Renal Development: Genetic Mechanisms of Distal Nephron Cell Fate Specification Involving Emx Genes date: 2019 words: 346 flesch: 34 summary: Our overarching goal is to further our understanding of renal ontogeny by elucidating the molecular and genetic mechanisms of nephron tubule segment formation. In general, we observed that emx1 controls distal segment cell fate by promoting the distal late segment while inhibiting formation of the distal early. keywords: kidney cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q527m7b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q527m7b.txt item: #2549 of 4945 id: h702q527t3t author: Peter A. Ryan title: Religion in Majority and Minority Context: Lessons from the Mormon-Evangelical Encounter date: 2020 words: 402 flesch: 24 summary: Local religious majority contexts can sometimes, in contrast, normalize religious commitments and foster more open religious conversational rules, or even favorable sociolinguistic subcultures. Local religious minority contexts, for example, tend to increase opportunities for contact and engagement with local majority outgroups and decrease opportunities, or increase the associated costs, of some specific within-tradition forms of religious participation. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q527t3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q527t3t.txt item: #2550 of 4945 id: h702q527w4s author: Jessica Brockmole title: Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat date: 2022 words: 344 flesch: 44 summary: These demands increased after World War II, as suburban living and postwar spending brought more cars into American garages and more women onto American roads. Cars and Pocketbooks examines the fraught relationship between the automotive industry and female consumers throughout the twentieth century and how, through their purchases and their persistence, women bought their way into the automobile, into masculine car culture, and into an automotive future of their own making. keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q527w4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q527w4s.txt item: #2551 of 4945 id: h702q527w9h author: Junjun Zuo title: A Novel Role for Plakoglobin in Regulating Critical Stem Cell and Cancer Cell Functions Revealed by Using Pluripotent Stem Cells to Identify Embryonic Mechanisms Mediating Cancer Aggressiveness date: 2022 words: 277 flesch: 36 summary: To strategically identify relevant embryonic-like mechanisms exploited by cancer cells, we performed mass spectrometry of the cell surface proteome of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) and breast cancer cells to find surface molecules shared by both cell types. Accumulating evidence has shown the presence of embryonic stem cell programs in cancer cells that contribute to aggressive malignancy. keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h702q527w9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h702q527w9h.txt item: #2552 of 4945 id: h989r210119 author: Scott Hampton title: Improved Sampling of Configuration Space of Biomolecules Using Shadow Hybrid Monte Carlo date: 2004 words: 151 flesch: 43 summary: This thesis introduces shadow hybrid Monte Carlo (SHMC), a propagator through phase space that enhances the scaling of sampling with space dimensionality. We present the derivation of SHMC, along with: proof that it preserves microscopic reversibility; analysis of the asymptotic speedup of SHMC over HMC, which is shown to be $O(N^{1/4})$ when using Verlet integrators; and results evaluating correctness and efficiency. keywords: space cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r210119.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r210119.txt item: #2553 of 4945 id: h989r21012n author: Diana S. Hou title: Designing Microfluidic Components For Analyte Concentration and Identification Using AC Electrokinetics date: 2010 words: 442 flesch: 40 summary: The advantage of using microfluidics and AC electrokinetic mechanisms is that fluid forces and particle specific forces such as dielectrophoresis and electroosmotic flow can be combined to induce forces that are not only fast and far reaching into the bulk (~1 cm/s) but also specific to the particle's characteristics (permittivity, size, etc.). Microfluidics and nanofluidics have recently been on the forefront of new medical devices and new technologies. keywords: forces cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r21012n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r21012n.txt item: #2554 of 4945 id: h989r210130 author: Rachel B Getman title: Simulation of NO Oxidation Catalysis over Oxygen Covered Transition Metal Surfaces date: 2010 words: 331 flesch: 49 summary: âÂ'0.50 monolayer O. At these Ì_åüO, the kinetics of O2 dissociation (O2 + 2* ? The rate is promoted by high O2 pressures and inhibited by product NO2 . keywords: no2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r210130.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r210130.txt item: #2555 of 4945 id: h989r21015p author: Joseph Louis Niewiarowski title: Flow Control in an Inter-Turbine Duct date: 2010 words: 197 flesch: 50 summary: Two aggressive inter-turbine duct geometries differing in axial length but sharing identical inlet and outlet cross-sectional areas were tested at an inlet Mach number of 0.3. Inter-turbine ducts experience flow separation along their outer wall when either the radial offset from the inlet to the outlet is increased or the axial length is decreased. keywords: turbine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r21015p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r21015p.txt item: #2556 of 4945 id: h989r210161 author: Kaushik Viswanath title: To Stop Train Pull Chain & Variations on the Mahabharata date: 2014 words: 28 flesch: 60 summary: The thesis is divided into two sections: scenes towards a novel titled To Stop Train Pull Chain, and a collection of short stories titled Variations on the Mahabharata. keywords: mahabharata cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r210161.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r210161.txt item: #2557 of 4945 id: h989r21024n author: Joel Casey Dietrich title: Development and Application of Coupled Hurricane Wave and Surge Models for Southern Louisiana date: 2010 words: 555 flesch: 50 summary: The work described herein represents a significant step forward in the modeling of hurricane waves and surge in complicated nearshore environments. The recent introduction of unstructured wave models makes nesting unnecessary. keywords: surge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r21024n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r21024n.txt item: #2558 of 4945 id: h989r21029c author: Ali Vahdati title: Role of Fixation and Mechanical Properties of Implanted Cartilage Replacements in Integrative Repair of Articular Cartilage Injuries date: 2012 words: 401 flesch: 32 summary: In comparison to intact joint, load partitioning between different phases of cartilage was affected by inferior properties of the ICR. Analysis of the relative sliding at the ICRative AC interface suggested that when subjected to axial loading, an implant with inferior properties does not disrupt the integrative repair process anymore than an ideal implant. keywords: icr cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r21029c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r21029c.txt item: #2559 of 4945 id: h989r21038b author: Curtis Earl Marshall title: Plasma Anemometer and Pressure Sensor Design and Characteristics date: 1904 words: 458 flesch: 46 summary: The power-law exponent increased with increasing AC frequency, thereby, becoming more nonlinear. The effect of the electrode gap and input AC carrier frequency on the anemometer static sensitivity and dynamic response are investigated. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r21038b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r21038b.txt item: #2560 of 4945 id: h989r210t1f author: Cheyenne Caci Tait title: Mechanisms of Ecological Divergence and Speciation: Genetic and Neurophysiological Bases for Fruit Volatile Discrimination Behavior in the Apple Maggot Fly (Rhagoletis pomonella) date: 2018 words: 352 flesch: 28 summary: In Chapter 4, I attempted to resolve the genetic architecture of host fruit odor discrimination based on a genome wide association (GWA) study. I discuss whether host fruit odor discrimination is polygenic or due to large effect loci not detected in the GWA due to issues in phenotyping or marker coverage. keywords: host cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r210t1f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r210t1f.txt item: #2561 of 4945 id: h989r210w6s author: Jessica K Lukowski title: Mass Spectrometry-Based Spatial Analysis of Endogenous and Exogenous Molecules in Three-Dimensional Cell Culture date: 2019 words: 339 flesch: 35 summary: These multicellular aggregates referred to as tumor spheroids, display pathophysiological gradients that are more complex than conventional two-dimensional cell cultures in addition to being higher throughput than animal models. However, the techniques utilized within this document include Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MALDI MSI) and Stable Isotope Labeling by Amino Acids in Cell Culture (SILAC) followed by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).Tumors in vivo have a complex microenvironment and researchers have spent decades developing different models to test the efficacy of novel treatments. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r210w6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r210w6s.txt item: #2562 of 4945 id: h989r211258 author: Morgan E. Smith title: Data-Driven Modelling of Vector-Borne Macroparasitic Disease Transmission and Elimination date: 2019 words: 299 flesch: 17 summary: In this dissertation, I aim to leverage advances in computational science and data-driven mathematical modelling approaches to discover new knowledge about transmission heterogeneities and the dynamics of disease control to ultimately guide LF and onchocerciasis elimination programs. It is thus becoming clear that in order to design effective parasite management programs, there is a critical need to improve current understanding of how the complex and nonlinear characteristics of these biological systems influence transmission and elimination. keywords: elimination cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r211258.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r211258.txt item: #2563 of 4945 id: h989r211316 author: Devon Mason title: Transcriptional Control of Cytoskeletal Remodeling, Mechanotransduction, and Cell Motility date: 2020 words: 297 flesch: 16 summary: We found that global inhibition of transcription or translation does not impair initial spreading, polarization, or migration initiation, but causes eventual migratory arrest through excessive cytoskeletal tension and over-maturation of focal adhesions, tethering cells to their matrix. YAP/TAZ depletion increases adhesion maturation and actin polymerization, without affecting lamellipodial dynamics during cell attachment, consistent with global transcription inhibition. keywords: adhesion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r211316.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r211316.txt item: #2564 of 4945 id: h989r21133w author: Jacob Long title: Precision Half-Life Measurements of 13N, 25Al, and 29P for Testing the Standard Model date: 2020 words: 458 flesch: 53 summary: To aid in future measurements of correlation parameters, a new Fermi to Gamow-Teller mixing ratio ρ and correlation parameters for this mixed transition have been calculated assuming Standard Model validity using the new world half-life. This dissertation consists of precision half-life measurements for three superallowed mixed mirror β-decays: 13N, 25Al, and 29P. 13N is the second most sensitive decay to Standard Model violating currents. keywords: half cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r21133w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r21133w.txt item: #2565 of 4945 id: h989r21136x author: Jinhe Ye title: Analytification and Its Model Theory date: 2020 words: 595 flesch: 56 summary: Following Hrushovski and Loeser, Chapter 1 is dedicated to an attempt to study various analytification functors in various theories via the study of tame pairs as introduced by van den Dries and Lewenberg. We proved theorems analogous to Marker-Steinhorn theorem on o-minimal structures for various other theories. keywords: cohomology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r21136x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r21136x.txt item: #2566 of 4945 id: h989r21139z author: Benjamin Grisafe title: Investigation of Threshold Switching Phenomena and Their Application to Electronic Devices date: 2020 words: 203 flesch: 29 summary: The demand for enhancement of computational performance has been primarily driven by the continued scaling of CMOS transistors. The work will discuss the application of threshold switches to three device architectures – (1) a hybrid transistor design, Phase-FET, where the innate abrupt switching nature and orders of magnitude change in resistivity are used to surpass conventional transistor performance (2) cross-point selectors, where the large ON-OFF resistivity ratio can aid in the suppression of sneak-path leakage current for high density memory arrays and (3) a mm-wave RF switch, where the abrupt switching phenomenon in the threshold switch can be triggered using mm-wave pulses to enable RF circuits over wide temperature ranges. keywords: performance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r21139z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r21139z.txt item: #2567 of 4945 id: h989r21144j author: Catlin N. Schalk title: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Investigations of Alkanethiolate Self-Assembled Monolayer Surface Structure with Exposure to Atomic Hydrogen date: 2021 words: 559 flesch: 36 summary: Chain length dependence on reaction time and reaction pathway was found, with longer chain thiols reacting more slowly through a series of reactions, compared to the quick hydrogenation reaction for shorter chain thiols. Though it is likely that surface defect structure does cause acceleration of these reactions, the results presented here make a case for the larger role that surface phase transitions play in the mechanisms for alkanethiolate monolayer degradation. keywords: surface cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r21144j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r21144j.txt item: #2568 of 4945 id: h989r21156j author: Adam Kern title: Optimized Processing Methods to Produce LLZO based Solid-State Li Metal Batteries date: 2022 words: 552 flesch: 44 summary: Perhaps most importantly, a method for rapidly sintering LLZO to high density in short periods was developed. This thesis addresses several incremental advances to improve sintering and boost the performance of LLZO. keywords: llzo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r21156j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r21156j.txt item: #2569 of 4945 id: h989r21159k author: Michael Dale Vander Wal title: The Extension of Neural Networks to Compute NLTE Opacities for Multiple Elements and at Increased Fidelities date: 2022 words: 246 flesch: 40 summary: Further extending the capabilities of the neural networks, it is demonstrated that neural networks can be made to predict high-fidelity spectra through the use of transfer learning achieving median relative errors of the maximum radiative temperature can be on the order of 1\%-2\% and can very likely be made better with more training data. Neural networks have thus been turned to as an alternative for the standard computations of NLTE opacities. keywords: neural cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r21159k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r21159k.txt item: #2570 of 4945 id: h989r211676 author: Carl A. Friesen title: Theological Foundations for a Christian Land Ethic date: 2023 words: 228 flesch: 18 summary: However, despite overt attempts to incorporate evolutionary biology and ecology into moral and theological discourse, some of the central insights of these sciences—such as the symbiotic patterns of interspecies relationships and processes of regeneration by which ecosystems evolved and are sustained—are rarely accorded substantive moral weight, or worse, are explicitly theorized as problems to be overcome. The overlapping ecological, economic, and social crises created by our contemporary industrialized food system have increased moral attention to the human relationship to the rest of nature. keywords: land cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r211676.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r211676.txt item: #2571 of 4945 id: h989r21172s author: Jovian C. Lam title: The Role of Rumination in Memory Consolidation during Creative Problem-Solving Incubation date: 2023 words: 191 flesch: 21 summary: However, less is known about the relations between anxiety and creative problem solving, which is defined as the ability to generate unique solutions to problems. This might be due, in part, to the lack of clarity surrounding the mechanisms underlying incubation, a period of offline rest that benefits creative problem solving. keywords: problem cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/h989r21172s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/h989r21172s.txt item: #2572 of 4945 id: hd76rx9395s author: Joan Frances Arbery title: Remembering Purgatory: Contemporary Incarnations in Paris, London, and Dublin date: 2010 words: 412 flesch: 54 summary: While my dissertation focuses on Western cities with Christian underpinnings, I ultimately posit that even in a secular or non-Christian world, the idea of the purgatorial, of a restorative union to a more complete version of the city, exists in all cities. From these readings on Purgatory and the city, I address contemporary Paris, London, and Dublin as purgatorial spaces. keywords: city cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx9395s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx9395s.txt item: #2573 of 4945 id: hd76rx9398t author: Rahul Singh title: On LQR Control with Asynchronous Clocks and Control Oriented Code for AWGN Erasure Channel: Two Control-Communication Problems date: 2011 words: 188 flesch: 60 summary: The rst problem deals with control of a system over a constrained channel, while the other problem deals with using control techniques to analyze channels with state. Transmitter and receiver do not know about the occurrence of erasures. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx9398t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx9398t.txt item: #2574 of 4945 id: hd76rx93995 author: Anthony Edet Ekpenyong title: Acquisition of Channel State Information For Adaptive Transmission date: 2008 words: 159 flesch: 30 summary: This dissertation investigates the acquisition of channel state information for adaptive transmission systems. Adaptive transmission systems improve the throughput of wireless communication systems by utilizing some knowledge of the channel state to adapt or allocate transmitter resources. keywords: channel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx93995.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx93995.txt item: #2575 of 4945 id: hd76rx93b0c author: X+B454iaokai Wang title: Cloning and Characterization of Zebrafish Sill, a Gene Responsible for Night Blindness B Mutant Zebrafish date: 2007 words: 182 flesch: 55 summary: To further investigate the nbb phenotype, we also examined the development of TN in nbb mutants and forskolin treated fish. We found that the expression of the shh pathway target gene gli1, which play a role in inducing ventral neural tube development, was decreased in nbb mutants. keywords: sill cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx93b0c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx93b0c.txt item: #2576 of 4945 id: hd76rx93b1q author: Jason Edward Lennon title: Phenomenology of Supersymmetry With Large Tan Beta date: 2005 words: 223 flesch: 45 summary: Here I present two practical phenomenological studies of SUSY parameter space, which are now in ongoing experimental development. Thus I spend some time motivating large values of $ aneta$ to facilitate interest in this region of parameter space. keywords: susy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx93b1q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx93b1q.txt item: #2577 of 4945 id: hd76rx93b22 author: Valerie Goss title: Adsorbing, Desorbing, Jamming, and Burning DNA Origami date: 2012 words: 353 flesch: 50 summary: The placement of new and smaller features on a silicon chip is possible with directed DNA origami binding onto silicon surfaces. I will present the first set of results on the characteristics of DNA origami adsorption to and desorption from silicon and mica substrates, which speaks to the stability of these structures on surfaces, and their ability to anneal during deposition. keywords: origami cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx93b22.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx93b22.txt item: #2578 of 4945 id: hd76rx93b3d author: Douglas R Berry title: Evidence of the Higgs Boson Decaying into Two Photons date: 2013 words: 153 flesch: 71 summary: A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to two photons will be presented. The search reveals an excess of events near 125 GeV that is consistent with the standard model Higgs boson. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx93b3d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx93b3d.txt item: #2579 of 4945 id: hd76rx93b4r author: Louis James Antonelli title: A Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Tau Pairs at the CMS Experiment date: 2012 words: 160 flesch: 57 summary: The results are consistent with the background expectations and so upper limits are placed on the Higgs production cross-section times the branching ratio to tau leptons. This analysis attempts to identify events in which a Higgs decays to two tau leptons and one tau decays electronically and the other decays hadronically. keywords: higgs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx93b4r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx93b4r.txt item: #2580 of 4945 id: hd76rx93b7s author: Mandelle Ann Danser title: Beyond the Gas Phase: Towards Modeling Bulk Ionic Liquids with a Comparison of Density Functional Tight Binding (DFTB) to Density Functional Theory (DFT) date: 2010 words: 119 flesch: 52 summary: Since the expense of DFT methods is high with systems above 100 atoms, the DFTB method was used to study ionic liquid systems. This study proved that DFTB could accurately reproduce DFT results of neutral molecules, however, this was not consistently seen in ionic liquid systems. keywords: ionic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx93b7s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx93b7s.txt item: #2581 of 4945 id: hd76rx93b84 author: Christopher B Harrison title: Models and Mechanisms of DNA Damage Repair date: 2007 words: 385 flesch: 26 summary: In bacteria and archaea kingdoms, CPD and PP are repaired via CPD photolyase and (6-4) photolyase. After successfully demonstrating the function of the ar tificial photolyase in the repair of CPD models under physiological conditions, the reductive artificial photolyase was shown to successfully repair CPD with a phosphate backbone under physiological conditions. keywords: photolyase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx93b84.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx93b84.txt item: #2582 of 4945 id: hd76rx93b9g author: Leo Costigan title: Accounts of the Cold date: 2014 words: 4 flesch: 33 summary: No abstract: Creative Thesis keywords: thesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx93b9g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx93b9g.txt item: #2583 of 4945 id: hd76rx93c73 author: Matthew D. Mosby title: High Performance Multi-scale Modeling of Heterogeneous Interfaces date: 1904 words: 505 flesch: 29 summary: Furthermore, they can illuminate aspects of the complex coupling between macro-scale phenomena and micro-scale failure. Two metrics are proposed that describe the extent and character of micro-scale failure and its evolution. keywords: scale cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx93c73.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx93c73.txt item: #2584 of 4945 id: hd76rx93c8f author: Evan M. Peck title: Self-Assembly and Molecular Recognition Using Squaraine Rotaxanes date: 1904 words: 354 flesch: 37 summary: Finally, Chapter 5 describes the use of a targeted Synthavidin probe as a bone imaging agent in small animal models. The thesis next introduces SR endoperoxides (SREPs), storable SR analogues that emit light as they cleanly release singlet oxygen. keywords: thesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx93c8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx93c8f.txt item: #2585 of 4945 id: hd76rx93d31 author: Jongsik Kim title: Synthesis, Characterization, and Utilization of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Their Pyrolyzed Functional Carbons date: 1904 words: 370 flesch: 38 summary: Ultimately, these metal-modified IRMOF-3 templates were synthesized and pyrolyzed to produce novel carbon catalysts. Therefore, the ultimate goal achieved in this dissertation is to 1) synthesize novel MOFs and 2) tailor/modify the structure of the MOFs prior to pyrolysis, thereby directing/controlling the properties of the resulting functional carbons. keywords: mofs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx93d31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx93d31.txt item: #2586 of 4945 id: hd76rx93d5q author: Curtis Charles Urban title: An Emotional Revolution: Fearing France in New England, 1754-1794 date: 1904 words: 181 flesch: 24 summary: Fear of France shaped understandings of all other concerns and sensibilities for New England colonists during a tumultuous era, serving as the defining emotion which created a mindset that framed the decisions and dictated the actions of New Englanders as they engaged in a revolution and built a nation. This dissertation examines interactions between New Englanders and the French from the beginning of the French and Indian War to the beginning of the French Revolution to better understand how these exchanges informed New Englanders' conceptions of their roles first as provincials in the British Empire and then as citizens of a new republic. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx93d5q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx93d5q.txt item: #2587 of 4945 id: hd76rx9419z author: Phillip Jedlovec title: Hopf Rings and the Ando-Hopkins-Strickland Theorem date: 1904 words: 148 flesch: 42 summary: In particular, we prove that the so-called symmetry and cocycle relations hold in the E-homology of BU<2k> for any complex-orientable E and that these relations are the defining relations whenever E=HQ or k=1, 2, or 3. This new proof avoids the algebro-geometric perspective of Ando, Hopkins, and Strickland and instead uses the work of Ravenel, Wilson, and Yagita on the unstable homology of the truncated Brown-Peterson spectra, as well as the relationship between these spectra and BU<2k>. keywords: homology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx9419z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx9419z.txt item: #2588 of 4945 id: hd76rx94596 author: Thomas C. Samper title: Separation Control in 2-D Closed Channel Bends date: 2019 words: 305 flesch: 43 summary: Flow separation control by both passive and active means are investigated. Experiments were conducted over a range of pressures and Mach numbers to determine applicability of flow control techniques. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx94596.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx94596.txt item: #2589 of 4945 id: hd76rx9478g author: Sandipan Banerjee title: Exploring the Effects of Frontalization and Data Synthesis on Face Recognition date: 2019 words: 368 flesch: 41 summary: Our method, starting off with actual face images from an existing dataset, can generate a large number of synthetic images of real and synthetic identities, without the identity-labeling and privacy complications that come from downloading images from the web. In this regard, we propose a novel face synthesis method for augmentation of existing face image datasets. keywords: face cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx9478g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx9478g.txt item: #2590 of 4945 id: hd76rx94c8q author: Timothy Cuneo title: Controlling Polymer Architecture and Monomer Sequence Using Confined Space and Unequal Reactivity date: 2020 words: 167 flesch: 24 summary: In Chapter 3, acid-catalyzed Friedel-Crafts hydroxyalkylation polymerization of 1,4-disubstituted benzene and benzaldehyde derivatives is used to obtain multisegmented block copolymers. This polymerization takes advantage of the intriguing unequal reactivity in step-growth polymerization to control the structure and produce block copolymers from carefully tuned oligomers. keywords: polymerization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx94c8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx94c8q.txt item: #2591 of 4945 id: hd76rx94d50 author: Tianyuan Cao title: Confocal Raman Imaging of Signaling Molecules in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bacterial Communities date: 2021 words: 327 flesch: 18 summary: In summary, this thesis starts by describing the contributions made in advancing the development and application of confocal Raman imaging in bacterial studies mainly by investigating the molecular features of alkyl quinoline (AQ) signaling molecules used in P. aeruginosa quorum sensing system, showing the potential of confocal Raman imaging to elucidate chemical compositions and structures of heterogeneous biological samples. Approaches such as co-culturing different bacterial strains under various environmental conditions, alternating surface motility rate and biofilm growth conditions, developing a three-dimensional imaging set-up to characterize the aggregation depths in bacterial biofilms are used to provide new methodologies for bacterial studies. keywords: bacterial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx94d50.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx94d50.txt item: #2592 of 4945 id: hd76rx94d9c author: None title: Simón Bolívar and the Search for Modern Republican Foundations date: 2021 words: 209 flesch: 40 summary: By channeling human passions and sentiments, Bolívar sought to socialize the heterogenous inhabitants of Spanish America for republican life. The other involved knowledge of the mechanics of the human soul, the strings of passions and sentiments that a deft educator could manipulate to produce social harmony. keywords: human cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx94d9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx94d9c.txt item: #2593 of 4945 id: hd76rx94g17 author: Ankit Agrawal title: Human-Drone Collaborations in Human-on-the-Loop Emergency Response Systems date: 2022 words: 488 flesch: 35 summary: Second, We examined Human-to-UAV interactions in five different emergency response situations, which included River Search-and-Rescue, Defibrillator Delivery, Traffic Accident Surveillance, Water Sampling for hazardous chemicals, and Man Overboard to identify patterns of human interventions in the UAV autonomy. First, we presented a human multi-UAV intervention model that formalizes human intervention in the autonomy of the UAV. keywords: uav cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx94g17.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx94g17.txt item: #2594 of 4945 id: hd76rx94h4k author: Alex S. Brodersen title: Tree-Link: Semi-Parametric Item Response Theory Using Decision and Regression Trees as a Link Function date: 2023 words: 314 flesch: 47 summary: Likewise, the estimated item response function (IRF) is demonstrated to closely match the true IRF. Item response theory models typically assume the form of the link function between manifest variables and the typically discrete outcome variables is known. keywords: link cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hd76rx94h4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hd76rx94h4k.txt item: #2595 of 4945 id: hh63st76k35 author: Steven J. Schweitzer title: Reading Utopia in Chronicles date: 2005 words: 347 flesch: 38 summary: The book of Chronicles is examined using the methodology of utopian literary theory. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the state of scholarship on Chronicles, to the methodological approach of utopian literary theory, and to the applicability of this method to Chronicles. keywords: chronicles cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hh63st76k35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hh63st76k35.txt item: #2596 of 4945 id: hh63st76k4h author: Shannon Lynn Pelini title: The Biogeography of Adaptation and its Implication for Range Shifts under Climate Change date: 2010 words: 349 flesch: 33 summary: These shifts will change total species richness and biodiversity patterns because species likely differ in their capacity to shift under climate change. This more nuanced consideration of species could lead to different expectations for the biological consequences of climate change if species can not shift their ranges as previously projected. keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hh63st76k4h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hh63st76k4h.txt item: #2597 of 4945 id: hh63st76k5v author: Desmond Kon title: Colour Wheel Beside Scholem on a Koan behind the Dakinis: Four Disembodied Chapbooks date: 2010 words: 2 flesch: 35 summary: Not Applicable. keywords: applicable cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hh63st76k5v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hh63st76k5v.txt item: #2598 of 4945 id: hh63st76k7j author: Monica Mody title: This That Takes Shape date: 2010 words: 9 flesch: 37 summary: Poetry and an experimental screenplay written during 2008-2010. keywords: poetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hh63st76k7j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hh63st76k7j.txt item: #2599 of 4945 id: hh63st76k8w author: Dipanjan Ray title: Dynamics of Vortices and Active Matter on Structured Substrates date: 2014 words: 256 flesch: 34 summary: The 'conformal crystal' structure is investigated in the context of superconducting vortex pinning. Magnetization studies reveal a variety of novel vortex states at integer and fractional matching fields, which are not present in either periodic or conformal pinning. keywords: pinning cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hh63st76k8w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hh63st76k8w.txt item: #2600 of 4945 id: hh63st76m6h author: Patrick Anthony La Fratta title: Optimizing the Internal Microarchitecture and ISA of a Traveling Thread PIM System date: 2010 words: 208 flesch: 11 summary: To address these challenges, this work employs an iterative design methodology in the optimization of an innovative processor architecture that leverages the above features in the implementation of an advanced, powerful execution model called traveling threads for exploiting parallelism and data locality in tandem at multiple levels of granularity. The design of this Passive/Active Multicore (PAM) architecture and the development of mechanisms for locality-cognizant extraction of traveling threads offer insights into the benefits of utilizing computational migration at a granularity of parallelism between the conventional instruction and thread levels. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hh63st76m6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hh63st76m6h.txt item: #2601 of 4945 id: hh63st76n13 author: Roberto E.N. Rivera title: The Couples for Christ: Suborganizational Framing and Sociopolitical Mobilization in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal date: 2008 words: 389 flesch: -1 summary: Suborganizational frame alignment measures are also utilized to cognitively inculcate worldview elements upon organization adherents, leading to favorable judgments of the interpretative frames and suborganizational forms presented for their consideration. Using content analysis of organizational documents and other archival sources, key informant interviews, as well as participant observation in key CFC activities, I monitor how the transformation of worldview expressions, interpretative frames, and suborganizational forms lead to suborganizational frame resonance, i.e. individual participation in organizational mobilization initiatives. keywords: suborganizational cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hh63st76n13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hh63st76n13.txt item: #2602 of 4945 id: hh63st7789q author: Ewa A. Dzik title: Experimental Thermochemistry of Select Uranyl and Neptunyl Phases date: 1904 words: 326 flesch: 26 summary: In this thesis, I examine thermodynamic properties of a large family of uranium minerals from the meta-autunite group, as well as the uranyl vanadates from the francevillite group, and neptunium compounds, NpO2 and Np2O5. We also show experimental evidence why autunite is meta-stable relative to its lower hydrate, meta-autunite. keywords: thermodynamic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hh63st7789q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hh63st7789q.txt item: #2603 of 4945 id: hh63st77c3k author: Jordan Dorney title: Sage Against the Machine: The Politics of the Deus ex Machina date: 2018 words: 148 flesch: 46 summary: In argument and in action, the deus ex machina appears as arbitrary resolution. The god from the machine, however, regularly reveals an appreciation for the insolubility of politics and of the problems of political theory. keywords: deus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hh63st77c3k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hh63st77c3k.txt item: #2604 of 4945 id: hh63st77q8d author: Giulia Mondello title: Penetrare Non Possit Acumen: Fortuna and Ethics in Giovanni Boccaccio date: 2022 words: 151 flesch: 36 summary: Both texts contaminate the medieval literary genres with which they are affiliated, namely, the collection of exempla and the didactic treatise, making it possible for Boccaccio to propose an interpretive paradigm intended to be valid for informing human moral action. In this thesis, I focus on Boccaccio's conception of Fortuna, examining three of his texts. keywords: boccaccio cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hh63st77q8d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hh63st77q8d.txt item: #2605 of 4945 id: hm50tq59v7m author: Daniel E. Colón title: Vigencia de la vida y obra de Pablo Neruda: Un análisis del discurso autobiográfico y la sensibilidad social en su obra temprana date: 2010 words: 439 flesch: 27 summary: Through a detailed analysis of Neruda's early, unpublished works, I establish a model of continuous development and argue that his political orientation is rooted in notions of social justice that predate his exposure to formal Marxist thought. These democratic ideals form the underpinnings of Neruda's political convictions and explain the continued relevance of his poetry in a more nuanced manner than traditional Marxist interpretations. keywords: neruda cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq59v7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq59v7m.txt item: #2606 of 4945 id: hm50tq59w0h author: Angela Marie Schwenkler title: Prolegomena to a Kantian Theory of Moral Judgment date: 2011 words: 151 flesch: 34 summary: I turn to an examination of recent work in Kant's theory of theoretical judgment--in particular, the work of Beatrice Longuenesse in Kant and the Capacity to Judge--in order to find out what, for Kant, guides and makes possible theoretical judgment. Articulating a set of desiderata for a theory of moral judgment, I consider whether Kant has the resources from which we could construct a similar theory of moral judgment while also retaining what I take to be advantageous aspects of his moral theory more generally. keywords: judgment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq59w0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq59w0h.txt item: #2607 of 4945 id: hm50tq59w26 author: Rita George Tvrtkovic title: The Ambivalence of Interreligious Experience: Riccoldo da Monte Croce's Theology of Islam date: 2007 words: 318 flesch: 33 summary: Chapter One discusses the desirability of linking medieval and contemporary Christian views of other religions and defines three key terms: interreligious experience, theological authority, and theology of religions. Chapter Four focuses on Riccoldo's four major writings, all of different genres, and highlights the unique aspects of his theology of Islam, most notably his use of 'interreligious experience.' keywords: islam cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq59w26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq59w26.txt item: #2608 of 4945 id: hm50tq59w3j author: Nathan Wallace title: Culture, Reconciliation, and Identity in Edmund Burke, Matthew Arnold, and Edward Dowden date: 2004 words: 310 flesch: 43 summary: Third: as Arnold redefines culture and English national character he struggles to recuperate Burke's defense of English conciliatory government. First: Burke's and Dowden's crises of Anglo-Irish identity lead them to redefine both reconciliation and the idea of English national character. keywords: arnold cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq59w3j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq59w3j.txt item: #2609 of 4945 id: hm50tq59w4w author: Ankit Rohatgi title: Shear-Induced Diffusion in Dilute Suspensions date: 2012 words: 277 flesch: 52 summary: The particle and fluid interactions that occur in dilute suspensions of non-colloidal particles in shear flow are examined in this thesis. While shear-induced migration of particles in suspensions has been studied for several decades, most studies in the past have focused on concentrated suspensions. keywords: fluid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq59w4w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq59w4w.txt item: #2610 of 4945 id: hm50tq59w57 author: Xueying Wang title: Gregory of Nyssa on the Corporate Nature of the Human Body date: 2014 words: 358 flesch: 47 summary: An overemphasis on this aspect of Gregory's teaching has, however, somewhat obscured the fact that the bishop of Nyssa genuinely appreciates the value of embodiment'in particular, he emphasizes that the body constitutes an indispensable medium through which an individual person is connected to other human beings, including Christ, the God incarnate. Chapter 3 demonstrates that the body of Christ constitutes the crucial medium through which the salvation of Christ is transmitted to other human beings. keywords: gregory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq59w57.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq59w57.txt item: #2611 of 4945 id: hm50tq59w6k author: Adam Michael Alessio title: Statistical Modeling and Reconstruction of Rebinned PET Measurements date: 2003 words: 221 flesch: 41 summary: Along with refining the system model, this research improves the data model for rebinned PET measurements. Results prove that some of the new tailored methods significantly outperform conventional 2D reconstruction algorithms. keywords: measurements cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq59w6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq59w6k.txt item: #2612 of 4945 id: hm50tq59w88 author: Xin Tong title: Evaluation of Test Statistics for Robust Structural Equation Modeling with Nonnormal Missing Data date: 2012 words: 251 flesch: 18 summary: Several test statistics have been used to evaluate the two-stage robust method. The two-stage robust procedure for structural equation modeling with nonnormal missing data was developed, where the saturated mean vector and covariance matrix are obtained by robust M-estimators in the first stage and the robust estimates of means and covariances are then fittedby the structural model in the second stage. keywords: stage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq59w88.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq59w88.txt item: #2613 of 4945 id: hm50tq59x0t author: Kindalee Pfremmer De Long title: Surprised by God: Praise Responses in the Narrative of Luke-Acts date: 2007 words: 347 flesch: 39 summary: Vigorous praise responds first to angelic revelation, builds in response to healing miracles, and reaches a climax as Jesus approaches Jerusalem. In all three narratives, praise responses by characters introduce and resolve narrative tensions; mark climactic moments in the plots; show recognition of divine beneficence; interpret characters' experiences as paradigmatic for their communities; and to varying degrees, link these experiences with expectations about Israel's eschatological restoration. keywords: praise cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq59x0t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq59x0t.txt item: #2614 of 4945 id: hm50tq59z5v author: Kirk D. Farney title: Golden Mouths, Ethereal Pulpits: The Remarkable Radio Success of Reverend Walter A. Maier, Ph.D. and Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, Ph.D. date: 1904 words: 353 flesch: 38 summary: This study makes two arguments regarding network religious radio during the anxiety-laden period from the Great Depression, through World War II, to the Cold War. Fulton J. Sheen on the Catholic Hour, both of whom achieved popularity that rivaled top radio personalities and entertainers, but whose radio ministries largely have been forgotten, were cultural and religious forces with which to be reckoned, in broadcasting careers that spanned these early decades of radio's contribution to American civilization. keywords: radio cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq59z5v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq59z5v.txt item: #2615 of 4945 id: hm50tq60r1c author: Bethany Blakely title: Effects of Land Use and Long-Term Forest Development on Regional Energy Balance date: 2019 words: 262 flesch: 35 summary: Combined, I show that composition shifts have novel effects on energy balance that will be important to quantify in the future as forest regrowth and composition shift proceed. Finally, exploring the ecological and biophysical mechanisms of composition shifts in two ecosystem models, I find disagreement in leaf phenology and vegetation albedo relations that point to a need for more explicit treatment of composition shift in predictive models. keywords: composition cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq60r1c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq60r1c.txt item: #2616 of 4945 id: hm50tq60z0w author: Raúl G. Rodríguez title: The Foundations of Tocqueville's New Kind of Liberalism date: 2020 words: 367 flesch: 59 summary: Like Rousseau, Tocqueville longs for a more robust form of political community and freedom; but in contrast to Rousseau, he is more restrained, less willing to abandon individual rights for civic solidarity. The current scholarly consensus is that Tocqueville rejects the state-of-nature heuristic of early modern political thought. keywords: tocqueville cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq60z0w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq60z0w.txt item: #2617 of 4945 id: hm50tq60z3x author: Jing Li title: Socialist Ideology Legacy in a Chinese State-Owned Bank: From Red Engineers, to Colorless Cats, to Pink Bankers date: 2020 words: 153 flesch: 29 summary: Through empirically examining the exposure effects of socialist ideology on different generations of bureaucrats with semi-structured interviews, I found that socialist ideology influences individual attitudes differently by cohorts. The red engineers born in the 1950s and 1960s are staunch socialists; the colorless cats born in the 1970s and 1980s absorbed the state's nominal socialist attitude but practiced capitalist ideas as encourage by the state; and the pink bankers born in 1990s subscribe to socialist attitudes for both nominal legitimacy and organizational operations less relevant to their personal interests. keywords: socialist cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq60z3x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq60z3x.txt item: #2618 of 4945 id: hm50tq6101t author: Rachel Hanks title: Learning Linguistic Discrimination in the Grammar Classroom: Barbarismus, Xenophobia, and Non-Standard Language in Early Medieval English Texts date: 2021 words: 357 flesch: 26 summary: Examining the linguistic ideologies underlying the grammar textbooks students studied in schools, this dissertation argues that grammars associate linguistic error with xenophobic stereotypes of foreigners, teaching students to equate linguistic, moral, spiritual, and intellectual error, and to assume that second-language speakers will demonstrate all of these. The grammars associate linguistic errors with foreignness, immorality, heresy, and poor cognition, and restrict language to humans. keywords: linguistic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq6101t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq6101t.txt item: #2619 of 4945 id: hm50tq61265 author: Jieyu Li title: Information Fusion for Machine Perception in Challenging Environments date: 2023 words: 595 flesch: 39 summary: Then image processing modules, such as denoising, deblurring and image enhancement, can be implemented to improve quality of the captured images. For instance, image noise can introduce errors in localization and mapping, especially in low-light environments. keywords: exposure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hm50tq61265.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hm50tq61265.txt item: #2620 of 4945 id: hq37vm43451 author: Jacob William Johnson title: The Enlightenment In Praxis: An Experiment in Unifying Theories of American Political Development date: 2008 words: 409 flesch: 45 summary: What I do is give a richer and more accurate picture of the deep complexity of American liberalism: I demonstrate how America's three most influential philosophers intermingled four very different visions of liberalism, thereby setting America on a multifaceted, tortured, and convoluted developmental path. The trouble is that these two approaches cannot integrate each other's findings, and they maintain -- internally -- differing and opposing schools of thought about what exactly drives the evolution of America's politics. keywords: america cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm43451.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm43451.txt item: #2621 of 4945 id: hq37vm4346c author: Sarah Elizabeth Mordan-McCombs title: Role of the Vitamin D Receptor During Prostate Tumor Progression in the LPB-Tag Mouse Model of Prostate Cancer date: 2010 words: 335 flesch: 27 summary: To investigate the therapeutic potential of vitamin D3 for prostate cancer, we have utilized the LPB-Tag transgenic model of prostate cancer and a vitamin D receptor-null (VDRKO) mouse model to determine the effects of high dietary calcium on tumor progression, and the role of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) in prostate tumor progression. VDRKO tumors show increased epithelial proliferation, resulting in a larger epithelial compartment. keywords: vdrko cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm4346c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm4346c.txt item: #2622 of 4945 id: hq37vm4347q author: Valerie Goss title: Thermodynamics of Synthetic Zippeites date: 2010 words: 183 flesch: 31 summary: The stability of these phases is presented and discussed in the context of their crystal structures and related environmental implications. Monovalent potassium and sodium zippeite K3(H2O)3.78[(UO2)4(SO4)2O3(OH)], Na5(H2O)11.16[(UO2)8(SO4)4O5(OH)3], and divalent magnesium zippeite, Mg(H2O)3.5[(UO2)2(SO4)O2] were prepared using mild hydrothermal synthesis. keywords: zippeite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm4347q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm4347q.txt item: #2623 of 4945 id: hq37vm4349d author: Ana J Samuel Quesada title: Legislating Morality: Montesquieu's Case for the Regulation of Sexual Morals date: 2010 words: 351 flesch: 34 summary: Chapter four studies how the civil laws of Montesquieu's monarchy regulate marriage and procreation, divorce, adultery, homosexuality, polygamy, and modesty, and shows that his laws do regulate sexual behavior according to the requirements of his natural law, natural rights sexual morality. On the subject of his sexual morals, his essential view is that sexual behavior should be reserved for marriage between one man and one woman, and that sexual practices outside of marriage are violations of natural laws, rights, and the political and civil needs of free societies. keywords: natural cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm4349d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm4349d.txt item: #2624 of 4945 id: hq37vm4350m author: Rachel L. Harding title: Identification and Characterization of miRNA Expression During Zebrafish Retinal Regeneration date: 2014 words: 348 flesch: 27 summary: Dicer knockdown prior to light damage lead to decreased proliferation in regenerating retinas without affecting the number of Müller glia during retinal regeneration or cell death. Light-induced photoreceptor cell death causes inner nuclear layer Müller glia to dedifferentiate, reenter the cell cycle and produce proliferating progenitor cells. keywords: retinal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm4350m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm4350m.txt item: #2625 of 4945 id: hq37vm4358c author: Nishant Chetwani title: Preferential Entrainment of Macro Ions at Singular Interfaces in an Alternating Current (AC) Electric Field date: 2011 words: 240 flesch: 6 summary: The successful conclusion of human genome project partly owes its success to the advent of soft ionization techniques, namely electrospray ionization (ESI) and laser desorption ionization (MALDI), in mass spectrometry (MS). The second portion establishes the AC electrospray as a potential soft ionization method for mass spectrometry, with the added benefits of higher sensitivity, reduced ionization suppression and the frequency modulation of pH in the biomolecular analysis, which is direct contrast to the conventional DC electrospray. keywords: ionization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm4358c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm4358c.txt item: #2626 of 4945 id: hq37vm4363z author: Burcu Ekşioğlu Gürkan title: Kinetics of CO2 Absorption of Reactive Ionic Liquids date: 2011 words: 481 flesch: 52 summary: Cation functionalized and amino acid based ILs both suffer from dramatic viscosity increase during CO2 reaction. Novel task-specific ionic-liquids (TSILs) were screened according to their reaction characteristics for their potential use in CO2 capture. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm4363z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm4363z.txt item: #2627 of 4945 id: hq37vm43827 author: Anna Catherine Siebach-Larsen title: 'For in the Boke of God Is No Such Matter': Visual Epistemologies and Vernacular Reading Culture in Thirteenth-Century England date: 1904 words: 323 flesch: 17 summary: Each chapter of this project uses a manuscript of a popular vernacular text—Ancrene Wisse, Robert Grosseteste's Chasteau d'amour, the Miroir de seinte egylse, and the Enfaunces de Jesu Crist—as a site for which to approach the ways in which optics and the image were used as a means for exploring the creation of the self and its relationship to various communities, arguing that visual epistemologies were at the heart of vernacular literate experience. This dissertation contributes to current work exploring the interactions of language and culture in the thirteenth century, text and image in medieval culture, the history of the book, and cognitive studies. keywords: medieval cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm43827.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm43827.txt item: #2628 of 4945 id: hq37vm4410n author: Donya Ghavidel Dobakhshari title: Mechanism Design for Smart Infrastructure Systems with Strategic Agents date: 2019 words: 218 flesch: 25 summary: Human integration into cyber-physical systems, such as the smart grid, smart transportation systems, and crowdsensing, while possibly contributing to the efficiency and sustainability of the system, introduces the possibility of externalities due to the actions of various participants who act strategically to further their own interest. In order to ensure desired system performance in spite of such strategic decision making, the system operator may need to design appropriate incentives for the users. keywords: system cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm4410n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm4410n.txt item: #2629 of 4945 id: hq37vm4468z author: Roberto J. De La Noval title: Sophiology in Suspension: The Theological Condemnations of Fr. Sergius Bulgakov date: 2020 words: 260 flesch: 35 summary: By clarifying the mistaken assessments of Bulgakov's thought that were generated in the Sophia Affair, Bulgakov's sophiology is suggested as a resource valuable for contemporary theological retrieval. These condemnations of Bulgakov's theological system, known as sophiology, provoked a boom of theological literature in the years of 1935-1937, which period historians have named the Sophia Affair. keywords: bulgakov cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm4468z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm4468z.txt item: #2630 of 4945 id: hq37vm4471v author: Shilpi Sunil Kumar title: Household Uncertainty, Risk Attitude and Implications for Macro Economy date: 2020 words: 521 flesch: 32 summary: It uses cross-sectional dispersion in consumer confidence over time as a measure of consumer confidence uncertainty or disagreement among consumers. Further, smaller estimates of risk aversion casts doubt on the ability of precautionary saving channel to propagate and amplify aggregate uncertainty shocks in a way that is consistent with the observed co-movements during the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008.Chapter 3 uses dispersion in consumer confidence as an empirical measure of time varying household uncertainty and studies its consequences for the macroeconomy. keywords: uncertainty cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm4471v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm4471v.txt item: #2631 of 4945 id: hq37vm44726 author: Arash Ebadi Shahrivar title: Radio Frequency Exposure Compliance of Next-Generation Portable Wireless Devices date: 2021 words: 326 flesch: 39 summary: As transmitting emit electromagnetic waves, viewed as a potential health threat, wireless transmitting devices are regulated on how much exposure a person experiences during their use. Regulatory agencies impose limits on exposure measures such as specific absorption rate (SAR) and power density (PD) to ensure portable wireless devices are safe for public use. keywords: devices cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm44726.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm44726.txt item: #2632 of 4945 id: hq37vm44935 author: Eduardo Fernando Mello title: Minimizing Transportation Energy in Urban Environments: An Optimization Approach for Connected EVs date: 2022 words: 463 flesch: 32 summary: If the only term in the cost function is transportation energy, and all other conditions are formulated as constraints (maximum acceleration, average speed, etc.), substantial energy cost reductions are possible. The prime motivation of urban platooning comes from the fact that urban platoons efficiently utilize the available road space, at least partially alleviating the problem of ``mixed traffic' where some vehicles optimize transportation energy and others do not. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm44935.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm44935.txt item: #2633 of 4945 id: hq37vm4494h author: Jiahao Huang title: Low-Dispersion Metamaterials for Wideband Gradient-Index (GRIN) Lens Antenna date: 2022 words: 148 flesch: 42 summary: The proposed 40 GHz GRIN metamaterial in this thesis is based on printed circuit board (PCB) technology, with relatively low cost compared with other fabrication methods such as layered dielectrics and perforated dielectrics. Gradient-index (GRIN) lens antennas leverage spatially varying refractive structures to generate high directivity beams. keywords: grin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm4494h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm4494h.txt item: #2634 of 4945 id: hq37vm44b1s author: Mary S. Tarsha title: Investigating Early Life Experience on Sociomoral Development: The Mediating Role of Child Physiological Regulation date: 2023 words: 374 flesch: 15 summary: Observed quality of maternal parenting was assessed at 12 months of age (N=138 mother-child dyads) through the Keys to Interactive Parenting Scale (KIPS; Comfort & Gordon, 2006) and child cardiac vagal regulation (RSA; respiratory sinus arrhythmia) and social oppositionalism were assessed five years later. Lastly, the direct effect of parenting quality in early life on child social oppositionalism years later was not evident, providing evidence for the importance of child physiological regulation. keywords: child cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hq37vm44b1s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hq37vm44b1s.txt item: #2635 of 4945 id: ht24wh26d9g author: Xiutao Shi title: Effects of architecture on microdamage susceptibility in trabecular bone date: 2010 words: 394 flesch: 20 summary: Since the Weibull probabilistic model did not improve the ability of computational models to predict damage, the morphology, number, and mean volume of the predicted yielded regions were studied for overloading of trabecular bone specimens along two orthogonal directions. However, the primary loading mode was axial compression with superposed bending for on-axis loading in contrast to bending for transverse loading. keywords: trabecular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26d9g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26d9g.txt item: #2636 of 4945 id: ht24wh26f2c author: Bryant Alan Davis title: R. Budd Dwyer date: 2012 words: 146 flesch: 70 summary: A handful of teenagers in Titusville, Pennsylvania discover a genre of music called 'Noise' which requires minimal skill and minimal effort and use it as a cudgel against their enemies both perceived and imaginary. Two friends drive to New Jersey so that one of them can have sex with a middle-aged Iraq war veteran he met playing World of Warcraft. keywords: stories cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26f2c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26f2c.txt item: #2637 of 4945 id: ht24wh26f3q author: Anthony Joseph Schorer title: Buffer Management In Zero-Copy I/O Protocols date: 2007 words: 126 flesch: 41 summary: The relative cost of memory operations continues to increase as processor performance improvements outpace memory performance improvements. Buffering schemes such as Fbufs and Container Shipping incorporate virtual memory page remapping and exploit locality in I/O traffic in an effort to reduce memory copying in the kernel. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26f3q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26f3q.txt item: #2638 of 4945 id: ht24wh26f42 author: Juan Jiang title: Electrochemical Studies of Nanostructured Materials: The Synthesis and Size Effect Dependence of the Adsorption of Organic Molecules and Applications to Biosensors date: 2005 words: 264 flesch: 24 summary: Electrochemical transduction strategies, including Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) and equilibrium potential measurements were applied. For the hydrogen ion sensor, a linear calibration curve between the sensor output signal and the logarithmic concentration of hydrogen ion precursor was obtained in the concentration range from 10-5 M to 10-2 M. For the E.coli senor, the attachment of every 50 E.coli cells on the surface can be detected by EIS. keywords: electrochemical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26f42.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26f42.txt item: #2639 of 4945 id: ht24wh26f5d author: Yingqiong Gu title: Theoretical investigation of Triaxial Strong Deformation and Tidal Waves in Nuclei date: 2008 words: 467 flesch: 51 summary: The recent discovery of wobbling rotational bands is considered as first clear cut evidence for this type of nuclear shape. With present-day types of experiments, the two modes can only be disentangled if the wobbling states are the lowest excitations, as in the Lu isotopes, whereas in many other cases, including $^{163}$Tm, the particle-hole excitations make up the spectrum of observed rotational TSD bands. keywords: nuclear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26f5d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26f5d.txt item: #2640 of 4945 id: ht24wh26f6r author: Yen-Chun Lee title: Silicon Single Electron Transistors Fabricated by Chemical Mechanical Polishing date: 2012 words: 367 flesch: 38 summary: Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) removes material based on the surface topography instead of a mask, and the integration of CMP in device fabrication has provided us with new possibilities to construct an ideal SiSET.The fabricated devices show that the presence of dopants in the silicon causes Coulomb blockade oscillations (CBO) to be very irregular, which is an undesirable feature for SiSETs to be used as electrometers. In conclusion, we have developed a new type of SiSETs by integrating CMP in device fabrication. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26f6r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26f6r.txt item: #2641 of 4945 id: ht24wh26f73 author: Chengbang Huang title: Multiscale Computational Methods for Morphogenesis and Algorithms for Protein-Protein Interaction Inference date: 2006 words: 163 flesch: 20 summary: The genetic regulation is modeled by a combination of a rule-based state automaton and a set of partial differential equations (PDEs); the generic cellular mechanisms include cell adhesion, cell differentiation, cell growth, mitosis, secretion of morphogens, haptotaxis and chemotaxis. The predictions by MSSC preserve not only the topological characteristics of protein interaction networks, but also the protein co-expression. keywords: protein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26f73.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26f73.txt item: #2642 of 4945 id: ht24wh26f8f author: Annette Vitale Brown title: Total Synthesis and Precursor Directed Biosynthesis of Epothilone Analogues date: 2004 words: 249 flesch: 33 summary: However, when intermediates including the C14-Me group were subjected to epothilone producing enzymes, the desired products were not formed in quantities comparable to the natural substrate. The epothilones are a family of natural products isolated as secondary metabolites from the soil bacteria, Sorangium cellulosum. keywords: c14 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26f8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26f8f.txt item: #2643 of 4945 id: ht24wh26g00 author: Brandon Schneider title: Solute Transport Across an Angled Interface: Assessments of Spreading and Mixing date: 2012 words: 149 flesch: 27 summary: For homogeneous systems this is perfectly acceptable, however natural systems are generally heterogeneous. A commonly used method in the assessment of mixing relies on the evaluation of concentration breakthrough data at a well over time. keywords: mixing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26g00.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26g00.txt item: #2644 of 4945 id: ht24wh26g1b author: Elizabeth Ann Hendriks title: Moderation of the time-to-onset of depression by depression history date: 2010 words: 273 flesch: 34 summary: Since a history of depressive episodes is one of the strongest predictors of future episodes of depression, the present study examined the association of depression history (i.e., first episode versus recurrence) and the time-to-onset of depression following a severe life event. Post-hoc analyses were conducted to examine two potential moderators of the time-to-onset of depression, allelic variation in the serotonin transporter gene and the focus of severe life events. keywords: depression cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26g1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26g1b.txt item: #2645 of 4945 id: ht24wh26g2p author: Jeffrey Robert Spies title: Local sequence alignment as a method to detect temporal patterns in behavioral data date: 2007 words: 169 flesch: 38 summary: This project will describe methods of local sequence alignment as they existin the biological sciences and propose and implement analogous methods for use with temporal data. They developed local sequence alignment as a means to discovernontrivial patterns of similarity in long sequences of DNA and protein, each comprised of elements from an alphabetof size four and twenty respectively. keywords: patterns cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26g2p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26g2p.txt item: #2646 of 4945 id: ht24wh26g31 author: Christine Texeira title: Whatever Remains, However Improbable date: 2014 words: 16 flesch: 84 summary: Elle journeys through a strange world looking for her brother, who may or may not exist. keywords: elle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26g31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26g31.txt item: #2647 of 4945 id: ht24wh26h7q author: Bohang Chen title: The Death of Early Twentieth Century Vitalism date: 1904 words: 42 flesch: 32 summary: The theories of vitalism, exemplified by the doctrine of the entelechy put forth by Hans Driesch, were once popular in the history of science. However, current scholars reject vitalism as a metaphysical heresy because it violates the metaphysics of materialism or physicalism. keywords: vitalism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26h7q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26h7q.txt item: #2648 of 4945 id: ht24wh26h9d author: Erik Jensen title: Performance Evaluation of a Concrete Wall Panel-Frame Housing System for Informally Constructed Environments: A Case Study in Design Innovation for Haiti date: 1904 words: 384 flesch: 18 summary: These efforts ultimately verify the ability of this housing system to meet the demands imposed by regional hazards, even in the presence of mild local adaptations, while assuring a design that is readily implementable using local materials, technologies, and skillsets. In response, this thesis offers a Design Innovation: a precast wall panel and reinforced concrete frame housing system. keywords: system cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh26h9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh26h9d.txt item: #2649 of 4945 id: ht24wh2747k author: Andika Suhardjo title: Development of a High Resolution Hydrodynamic Model for the Asian-Pacific, Indian Ocean, and Associated Marginal Sea Basins for Tidal Predictions date: 1904 words: 233 flesch: 26 summary: Bottom friction parameterization based on seafloor sediment characteristics was developed and found to vary mainly in shallow continental shelf regions, while internal tide dissipation varied in deeper ocean depths. Dissipative effects are concentrated in two major parameters: bottom friction and internal tide dissipation. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh2747k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh2747k.txt item: #2650 of 4945 id: ht24wh2748x author: Dahyeon Kim title: Imagery, Valence, and Working Memory in Depression date: 1904 words: 221 flesch: 25 summary: Positive imagery was more vivid and longer maintained than negative imagery, reflecting the presence of an adaptive bias in the healthy population. Partially consistent with the hypotheses, however, with higher levels of depressive symptoms, positive imagery generated with a concurrent task was significantly less emotionally intense than positive imagery generated alone. keywords: imagery cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh2748x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh2748x.txt item: #2651 of 4945 id: ht24wh2753h author: Ya Su title: Money, Work, Norms, and Love: Reexamining Determinants of Divorce date: 1904 words: 119 flesch: 37 summary: Findings suggest that women are more likely to take the initiative to divorce, and there are some social determinants have stronger effects on her left than on his left. Using longitudinal data and multinomial logistic regression, this study revisits three well-known perspectives of divorce: the economic independence perspective, the financial strain perspective, and the gendered institution perspective. keywords: divorce cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh2753h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh2753h.txt item: #2652 of 4945 id: ht24wh2754v author: Abbie Thompson title: Who's Talking to Whom and Does It Matter? The Impact of Multiple Speakers, Overheard Speech, and Child-Directed Speech on Infants' Language Development date: 1904 words: 344 flesch: 56 summary: The number of CDS tokens produced by infants' primary caregivers was related to their novel word learning ability; such that hearing more CDS tokens from the primary caregiver was related to higher levels of accuracy. Infants who heard more CDS tokens from all individuals had larger vocabularies. keywords: infants cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh2754v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh2754v.txt item: #2653 of 4945 id: ht24wh2793r author: Heather Tucker title: Pose & Play: A Visual Literacy Guide for Girls' Virtual Self-Imaging Projects date: 2019 words: 233 flesch: 37 summary: In this paper and project, I offer an analysis that acknowledges some of the potential problems within our selfie culture regarding female body presentation and suggest a design intervention that advocates design as a tool for media and visual literacy. Twenty-first century technology and its uses has increased the visibility of girl's bodies in mass and social media, revealing a pattern in posing that is complicated by a long artistic tradition of female body presentation. keywords: visual cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh2793r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh2793r.txt item: #2654 of 4945 id: ht24wh27g4n author: Weiping Gan title: Construction of Branched Polymers with Different Topologies by Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition Click Reaction and the Application in Catalysis date: 2020 words: 113 flesch: 23 summary: The CuAAC reaction was applied to construct branched polymers with different topologies including molecular brushes, star polymers and hyperbranched polymers in this body of research. In this thesis, I developed the polymerization method by utilizing the self-accelerating CuAAC reaction with easy experimental setup, fast reaction rate, tunable external ligands addition. keywords: polymers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh27g4n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh27g4n.txt item: #2655 of 4945 id: ht24wh27j0w author: Emily Amenson-Lamar title: High Sensitivity CZE-ESI-MS/MS: Method Development and Applications date: 2021 words: 124 flesch: 39 summary: The Dovichi group uses capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) coupled to a mass spectrometry through electrospray ionization (ESI) to perform bottom-up analyses of complex proteomes. However, electrophoresis has emerged as a high-resolution separation method that can be coupled to various detection method for a thorough analysis of the proteome of any biological system. keywords: electrophoresis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh27j0w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh27j0w.txt item: #2656 of 4945 id: ht24wh27j3x author: Kelsey M. Reese title: Resilient Communities of the Mesa Verde North Escarpment, AD 890–1300 date: 2021 words: 591 flesch: -7 summary: Studies on contemporary subsistence-farming communities repeatedly call for increasing our understanding of: the impacts of climate change on subsistence-farming communities; the populations most vulnerable to climate change; the adaptive measures available to communities to mitigate the effects of climate change, and; how the perception of climate change impacts household- and community-level responses to extreme weather events. Each of these four lines of inquiry can be summarized under the larger umbrella of one centralized research question: what are the long-term impacts of sustained climate change on subsistence-farming communities?Archaeological datasets provide a longitudinal scale to observe the inter-generational effects of sustained climate change that inform the ultimate, rather than the proximate causes of collapse in social and ecological systems. keywords: climate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh27j3x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh27j3x.txt item: #2657 of 4945 id: ht24wh27m1v author: Jessica Ann Muhlenkamp title: Ni and Co Based Metal Phosphide Catalysts for Ethane and Propane Dehydrogenation date: 2022 words: 340 flesch: 32 summary: The results in this dissertation demonstrate the promise that metal phosphides have as alternative dehydrogenation catalysts. In addition, Co-P was found to have good phase and ethylene production stability when tested for high temperature ethane dehydrogenation (700°C). keywords: dehydrogenation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ht24wh27m1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ht24wh27m1v.txt item: #2658 of 4945 id: hx11xd09p7v author: Daniel Kraus Van Ness II title: A Study Of Tip Clearance Flow Loss Mitigation In A Linear Turbine Cascade Using Active And Passive Flow Control date: 2009 words: 316 flesch: 48 summary: These were carried out in order to understand the receptivity of the tip clearance flow to various types of flow control and the applicable range over which the flow control was effective. To improve on these methods, various active flow control methods were designed and tested. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd09p7v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd09p7v.txt item: #2659 of 4945 id: hx11xd09p86 author: Naomi V Ekas title: Adaptation to Stress Among Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Role of Positive Affect and Personality Factors date: 2009 words: 222 flesch: 28 summary: This daily diary study investigates (1) the relationship between daily stress, general life stress as well as stress related to the child's characteristics, and daily negative affect, (2) the role of daily positive affect in promoting resistance to stress and recovery from daily stress, (3) the moderating effects of optimism and perceived control on the relationships between daily stress, daily positive affect, and daily negative affect, and (4) whether daily positive affect serves to mediate both relationship between optimism and daily negative affect, as well as the relationship between perceived control and daily negative affect. Results from hierarchical linear models (HLM) revealed that higher levels of perceived stress were associated with decreased well-being, both within and across days. keywords: daily cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd09p86.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd09p86.txt item: #2660 of 4945 id: hx11xd09p9j author: Nancy Elaine Roback title: Crystal Chemistry of Uranyl Sulfates and Oxalates and Perrhenate Incorporation into Uranyl Phases date: 2010 words: 499 flesch: 46 summary: This research expands the knowledge of uranium crystal chemistry and the ability of uranyl phases to incorporate components of spent nuclear fuel. Technetium-99 is an important dose contributor in a geological repository (Burns et al., 1997a; Chen et al., 2000). keywords: uranyl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd09p9j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd09p9j.txt item: #2661 of 4945 id: hx11xd09q13 author: Marie Claire Keultjes title: Children's Understanding of Approximate Addition Depends on Problem Format date: 2010 words: 160 flesch: 54 summary: Recently, it was shown that preschool children have an advantage for canonical problems (i.e., arithmetic operations presented on the left-hand side of space). Children (M age = 7.93 years) viewed events that required them to add and compare large symbolic numbers, which disappeared quickly in order to get children to estimate. keywords: children cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd09q13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd09q13.txt item: #2662 of 4945 id: hx11xd09q2f author: Samuel Seo title: Chemically Tunable Ionic Liquids with Aprotic Heterocyclic Anions for CO2 Separation date: 2014 words: 340 flesch: 47 summary: To summarize, the new families of tunable ILs are explored as a viable alternative for current CO2 capture technologies. While the field of ILs is relatively new and ample opportunity should exist to optimize the properties of ILs for CO2 capture, this study offers a promising step forward in the search for energy-optimal carbon capture materials. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd09q2f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd09q2f.txt item: #2663 of 4945 id: hx11xd09r5s author: Samuel Stanford Chan Rund title: Circadian and diel rhythms of the Anopheles Gambiae mosquito date: 2013 words: 178 flesch: 33 summary: One prominent set of rhythmic genes identified included olfactory and blood-feeding behavior genes. Comparisons are also made to rhythmic gene profiling previously performed in the Aedes aegypti mosquito. keywords: dark cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd09r5s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd09r5s.txt item: #2664 of 4945 id: hx11xd09s3d author: Lei Meng title: Computational Strategies for Analyzing Dynamic and Heterogeneous Networks and Their Interdisciplinary Implications date: 1904 words: 344 flesch: 24 summary: In particular, we are interested in three key questions: 1) Will studying data via heterogeneous network analysis result in different findings compared to studying the same data via homogeneous network analysis? 3) How to efficiently compare two heterogeneous yet related networks via network alignment? keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd09s3d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd09s3d.txt item: #2665 of 4945 id: hx11xd10d3r author: Amanda M. Holland title: Iron Pincer Complexes with a Pyrrole-Based PNP Ligand: Synthesis and Reactivity date: 1904 words: 134 flesch: 31 summary: The development of homogeneous transition metal catalysts containing iron is desired due to iron's relatively high natural abundance and low toxicity compared to noble metals, such as platinum, ruthenium, and iridium. To further explore this area, iron complexes containing a pyrrole-based PNP ligand, PNpyrP (PNpyrP = 2,5-bis((di-iso-propylphosphino)methyl)pyrrolide), were synthesized. keywords: iron cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd10d3r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd10d3r.txt item: #2666 of 4945 id: hx11xd10g7r author: Calantha K. Phillips title: Metaphysics without Naturalness date: 2018 words: 350 flesch: 21 summary: In the second part of the dissertation I argue that one can secure determinacy of linguistic content without invoking metaphysically natural properties as reference magnets. In the first part of the dissertation I argue that metaphysics is methodologically well-founded, and that there is no need to appeal to irreducible metaphysical naturalness of quantifiers in order to resist arguments to the effect that ontological disputes (such as whether there are composite material objects, i.e., things with parts) aren't substantive. keywords: linguistic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd10g7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd10g7r.txt item: #2667 of 4945 id: hx11xd10s04 author: Ian Campbell title: Measuring Subpopulation Invariance in Test Equating with Equivalence Testing date: 2020 words: 275 flesch: 40 summary: Evaluating subpopulation invariance in test equating is crucial to establishing the fairness and interchangeability of scores that arise from multiple forms. Tests that are administered in multiple forms, including many high-stakes educational tests, often rely on test equating to produce directly comparable scores. keywords: dependency cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd10s04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd10s04.txt item: #2668 of 4945 id: hx11xd10s35 author: Qiyu Zhi title: Coupling Text and Visualization in Visual Storytelling for Data Communication date: 2020 words: 231 flesch: 25 summary: Recently, a growing community of visualization researchers has also emphasized the storytelling and communication potential of visualizations. News organizations and scientific platforms often use narrative content and visualizations to tell data-rich stories. keywords: visualization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd10s35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd10s35.txt item: #2669 of 4945 id: hx11xd10t4t author: Aaron Tyrrell title: Renormalized Volume and Area date: 2021 words: 67 flesch: 45 summary: This is followed by an investigation into renormalized area in the Singular Yamabe setting. In this dissertation we look at some problems on renormalized volume and area. keywords: manifold cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd10t4t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd10t4t.txt item: #2670 of 4945 id: hx11xd10t7v author: Nina Kikel-Coury title: Cellular and Molecular Regulation of Neural Populations in the Developing Peripheral Nervous System date: 2021 words: 218 flesch: 39 summary: This work establishes a connection between molecules and actin stabilization in the growth cone to complete circuit development. First, we study the somatosensory system by elucidating the molecular mechanisms that guide sensory axon growth cone navigation and entry into the spinal cord. keywords: system cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd10t7v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd10t7v.txt item: #2671 of 4945 id: hx11xd10w95 author: Kayla J. Hurd title: Beyond Nourishment: A Biocultural Analysis of Meaning Making, Dietary Practices, and Insect Eating in the Times of COVID-19 date: 2023 words: 262 flesch: 19 summary: As a whole, this dissertation brings together a comprehensive, integrative investigation of nutritional habits to operationalize what it means to go beyond nourishment—viewing food not just as something to eat, but as a bridge between lived realities and local biologies assisting people in making sense of the world around them, especially amidst unprecedented change. This research provides a grounded ethnographic and biocultural example of how people protect their bodies via their thoughts, perceptions, and behavior regarding food in order to make sense of the changing sociocultural world around them. keywords: people cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/hx11xd10w95.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/hx11xd10w95.txt item: #2672 of 4945 id: j098z89301d author: John Thomas Schmitz title: Experimental Measurements in a Highly Loaded Low Pressure Turbine date: 2010 words: 138 flesch: 52 summary: Measurements were acquired in a recently developed, high-speed turbine facility constructed to investigate the effects that Reynolds number, nozzle exit flow, freestream turbulence, vane-blade spacing, and rim seal flows have on the loss generating mechanisms of a highly loaded LPT stage. Flow control techniques were applied at the stage inlet with the intent of reducing a source of stage losses. keywords: stage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z89301d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z89301d.txt item: #2673 of 4945 id: j098z89304f author: Thomas Ryan Hoens title: Living in an Imbalanced World date: 2012 words: 194 flesch: 50 summary: An orthogonal problem to class imbalance arises due to concept drift in data streams. By the end of this dissertation, we will present a wide variety of solutions to the class imbalance problem, including the combination of class imbalance and concept drift. keywords: class cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z89304f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z89304f.txt item: #2674 of 4945 id: j098z89305s author: Gaiying Zhao title: Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel and Potentially 'Universal' β-Lactams date: 2010 words: 341 flesch: 41 summary: The preliminary results showed electron donating groups gave better anti-TB activity (33 with an MIC of 2.81 ÌøåÀå_0ÌøåÀå_8M against GAST NRP-TB). In addition, the direct amine-linked quinolone-cephem 74 and carbamate-linked quinolone-cephem 77, and their corresponding esters 73 and 76 were synthesized and evaluated for anti-bacterial activity. keywords: activity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z89305s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z89305s.txt item: #2675 of 4945 id: j098z893064 author: Paul James LeBlanc IV title: Measurement and R-Matrix Analysis of the 15N(p,g)16O Reaction Cross Section date: 2010 words: 272 flesch: 46 summary: The resulting S factor calculations were used to calculate new reaction rates for different temperature values, and gives up to a factor of 2 difference from currently used compilations~cite{Angulo1999}. Along with the p-p chains, the CNO cycle is the main source of energy production inside of stars with masses larger than the sun. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z893064.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z893064.txt item: #2676 of 4945 id: j098z89307g author: Vladimir Protasenko title: Electro-optical properties of CdSe nanowires date: 2008 words: 359 flesch: 44 summary: Similarly, the smaller density of electrons on the other side of the wire yields emission quenching. Our current working hypothesis is that mobile electrons driven by the external electrical field passivate emission quenching centers resulting in local emission enhancement. keywords: nws cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z89307g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z89307g.txt item: #2677 of 4945 id: j098z89308t author: Bin Zhang title: Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flow over Hemispherical Turrets with Application to Aero-Optics date: 2012 words: 320 flesch: 33 summary: At small elevation angles it decreases with increasing azimuthal angle and the change is nonlinear; however, when the elevation angle is large, the aberration does not decrease much, and even increases with azimuthal angle at small azimuthal angles but keeps decreasing at large azimuthal angles. Besides, the effects of elevation angle and azimuthal angle on optical aberrations are studied in a systematic way. keywords: angle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z89308t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z89308t.txt item: #2678 of 4945 id: j098z893095 author: Daniel Joseph Dentinger title: ITEAMS - An Intelligent Teaching Environment with Assessment Modules for Self-Study date: 2010 words: 199 flesch: 20 summary: Intelligent Tutoring Systems allow students to progress at their own pace through a single subject matter while receiving individually tailored content for their knowledge level but are either specific to a subject matter or limited to a small number of courses. ITEAMS incorporates key features such as (1) the infrastructure to organize lecture materials, (2) the ablity to track and assess a student's performance, (3) the abilty to dynamically select lecture materials based on the student's inferred knowledge level, (4) the automatic grading of quizzes and assignments, and (5) an interface to external applications through a unique 'plugin' system. keywords: tutoring cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z893095.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z893095.txt item: #2679 of 4945 id: j098z89310c author: Ronald Walter Diersing title: H-Infinity, Cumulants, and Games date: 2006 words: 362 flesch: 56 summary: Cost cumulant control is a generalization of linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control. MCC control is applied to various building problems. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z89310c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z89310c.txt item: #2680 of 4945 id: j098z893122 author: Georgios Poulios title: Peterzil-Steinhorn subgroups of Real Algebraic Groups date: 2013 words: 107 flesch: 57 summary: We consider Peterzil-Steinhorn groups defined in o-minimal expansions of the reals. Finally, for the case of polynomially bounded o-minimal expansions of the reals, we give a complete description of all Peterzil-Steinhorn groups. keywords: peterzil cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z893122.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z893122.txt item: #2681 of 4945 id: j098z89313d author: Rumana Reaz Arifin title: Evolution of Large Scale Three Dimensional Coastal Features During Hurricanes Using Bathymetric Lidar date: 2010 words: 208 flesch: 53 summary: We performed the analysis at four conditions: before the hurricane Ivan landfall (April-May, 2004), after hurricane Ivan (November-December, 2004), after hurricane Dennis (July, 2005) and finally after hurricane Katrina (November-December, 2005). We computed different bar characteristics (wavelength, extent, crest and trough elevations and cross-shore distances) to study the changes in formation patterns and length scales of the bar morphology at pre Ivan and post hurricane conditions. keywords: hurricane cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z89313d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z89313d.txt item: #2682 of 4945 id: j098z89314r author: Robert Vernon Bruggner title: A System for Integration And Management of Community Annotation for VectorBase.org date: 2007 words: 186 flesch: 17 summary: Due to the size and number of genomes that the Bioinformatic resource VectorBase.org maintains, VectorBase relies heavily on automated computational analyses for gene prediction and functional annotation. Although these per-gene investigations are numerically limited due to the time and effort entailed, the information ascertained through such experiments can be used as both a benchmark and training material for automated gene-prediction analyses in addition to simply providing trustworthy genomic annotation. keywords: gene cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z89314r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z89314r.txt item: #2683 of 4945 id: j098z893153 author: Peter Samir Jeries Twal title: Airplane Mode date: 2014 words: 44 flesch: 42 summary: Airplane Mode is, first and foremost, an homage to the TV show Community, emulating a voice similar to that of main character Abed Nadir. This collection of poems spins out of my interest in shifting identities and landscapes, (mis)communication, hyper-masculinity, and narrative bricolages. keywords: airplane cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z893153.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z893153.txt item: #2684 of 4945 id: j098z89319g author: Jonathan P. Callis title: Reading the Mind: Renaissance Allegory and Lockean Psychology in Eighteenth-Century English Literature date: 1904 words: 354 flesch: 50 summary: For eighteenth-century writers, Locke's comparison of allegory to the association of ideas would become a settled but unsettling truth. Descartes and Locke agree that the mind's perception of external reality cannot always be trusted. keywords: mind cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z89319g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z89319g.txt item: #2685 of 4945 id: j098z893p9c author: Matthias Wolf title: Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Hadronic Tau Pairs in Association with Top Quark Production date: 1904 words: 152 flesch: 56 summary: Limits and best-fit values on the Standard Model production cross-section are given, both for the channel alone and in combination with other Higgs boson decay channels. A search for the Higgs boson decaying to pairs of tau leptons is presented, where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a pair of top quarks. keywords: higgs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z893p9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z893p9c.txt item: #2686 of 4945 id: j098z894230 author: Rachel A. Miller title: Development of Yeast-Based Biosensors for Pharmaceutical Analysis in Technology Limited Settings date: 2020 words: 1681 flesch: 32 summary: In this thesis I will discuss the work I have done to develop whole cell yeast biosensors for detecting pharmaceuticals in low- and middle- income (LMICs). This work has shown that scent as a reporter modality has great potential for use in analytical technologies to be used in a field settingIn this thesis I will discuss the work I have done to develop whole cell yeast biosensors for detecting pharmaceuticals in low- and middle- income (LMICs). keywords: yeast cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z894230.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z894230.txt item: #2687 of 4945 id: j098z89443m author: Sarah Petersen title: Ravenel-Wilson Hopf Ring Methods in C2-Equivariant Homotopy Theory and the HF2-Homology of C2-Equivariant Eilenberg-MacLane Spaces date: 2022 words: 106 flesch: 49 summary: This thesis extends Ravenel-Wilson Hopf ring techniques to C2-equivariant homotopy theory. Our main application and motivation for introducing these methods is a computation of the RO(C2)-graded homology of C2-equivariant Eilenberg-MacLane spaces. keywords: equivariant cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z89443m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z89443m.txt item: #2688 of 4945 id: j098z894470 author: Amaryst Parks-King title: Demanding the Impossible: Abolition, Black Educational Spaces, and the Disruptive Agency of Black Imagination date: 2022 words: 137 flesch: 36 summary: Through leveraging in-depth interviews and productive methods (where participants produce drawings, poetry, etc.), I am asking young Black people in Chicago high schools to reimagine educational contexts. This project is interested in how schools are implicated in anti-Blackness, and how young Black people are affected by and reproduce/transform/interact with anti-Blackness in narrating their experiences and imagining learning communities otherwise. keywords: black cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z894470.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z894470.txt item: #2689 of 4945 id: j098z89453x author: Jack Consolini title: In Silico Model for Determination of In Vivo Pre-Stretch in Neonatal and Adult Murine Cranial Dura Mater date: 2022 words: 257 flesch: 36 summary: Cranial dura mater is a dense interwoven vascular connective tissue that protects the brain and helps regulate neurocranial remodeling during head development. Differences in neonatal and adult pre-stretch provided further insight into the age-dependency of murine cranial dura mater pre-stretch. keywords: stretch cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j098z89453x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j098z89453x.txt item: #2690 of 4945 id: j3860576792 author: Peter Joseph Fritz title: Sublime Apprehension: A Catholic, Rahnerian Construction date: 2010 words: 161 flesch: 37 summary: This uncoupling occurs in various phases, passing through Rahner's appropriations of Thomas Aquinas and Ignatius of Loyola and his teachings on grace, mystery, and eschatology, Martin Heidegger's readings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich HÌÄå¦lderlin, and Rainer Maria Rilke, and the sublime-aesthetics of Jean-FranÌÄå¤ois Lyotard, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jean-Luc Marion. This dissertation shows how the thought of Karl Rahner presents the ethos of Catholic Christianity, which, since the dawn of modernity, one might call the Catholic sublime, and its late modern instantiation, called sublime apprehension. keywords: rahner cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860576792.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860576792.txt item: #2691 of 4945 id: j3860576808 author: James Whitcomb title: The Role of Vitamin D and Vitamin D Receptor in Immunity to Leishmania major Infection date: 2010 words: 319 flesch: 38 summary: Additionally, VDR KO mice exhibit a decreased parasite burden at the height of infection. In response to vitamin D deficiency induced by deletion of 1-Ì_å± hydroxylase, mice exhibited smaller lesions similar to those observed in VDR KO mice. keywords: vdr cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860576808.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860576808.txt item: #2692 of 4945 id: j386057684n author: Beau Branson title: The Logical Problem of the Trinity date: 2014 words: 280 flesch: 47 summary: In any case, if there should turn out to be any problem with the doctrine of the Trinity at all, it will not be one of mere logical inconsistency in saying that 'These Three are One.' I further argue that any solution from the Historical Approach satisfies the concerns of the Puzzle Approach and mysterianism anyway. keywords: trinity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j386057684n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j386057684n.txt item: #2693 of 4945 id: j3860576928 author: Amanda Jean Sgroi title: An Analysis of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors for Iris Biometric Systems date: 2012 words: 166 flesch: 42 summary: Current research in iris biometrics works to enhance iris sensors, improve matching algorithms, and accommodate more characteristics of the human iris. Our experiments suggests that eye dominance does affect iris recognition performance, whereas variations in the use of the LG TD 100 does not. keywords: iris cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860576928.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860576928.txt item: #2694 of 4945 id: j3860576970 author: Oscar Pellon-Cardenas title: Regulation of Canonical Wnt Signaling in Epithelia date: 2012 words: 349 flesch: 20 summary: Wnt/ÌÄå_Ìâå_-catenin signaling also initiated a proliferation response that correlated with the luminal filling of epithelial glandular structures. In summary, this study identifies ARF6 as a new target of Wnt/ÌÄå_Ìâå_-catenin activation with a therapeutic potential in pre-invasive lesions of glandular epithelial tissue. keywords: ìäå_ìâå_-catenin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860576970.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860576970.txt item: #2695 of 4945 id: j3860576b5m author: Paul W. McBurney title: Improving Program Comprehension via Automatic Documentation Generation date: 1904 words: 160 flesch: 37 summary: Second, I present a novel approach to automatically generate documentation from Java source code method context. Programmers rely on documentation in order to understand source code. keywords: documentation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860576b5m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860576b5m.txt item: #2696 of 4945 id: j3860576c06 author: Kyle William Beam title: Future Primitive: The Politics of Militant Ecology date: 1904 words: 348 flesch: 25 summary: This study is the first to depict militant ecology as an intellectual as well as political movement, one with its own theorists and philosophical antecedents, which expresses a coherent and compelling alternative to the philosophical and political outlook of modernity. Comparisons with other schools of contemporary green political thought show that, despite its unsystematic nature, militant ecology offers the most consistent articulation of an ecocentric political theory. keywords: militant cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860576c06.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860576c06.txt item: #2697 of 4945 id: j3860576z56 author: McKenna LeClear title: Explaining Variation in Social Distance from Religious Out-Groups: A Cross-National Study of Muslims in Minority Contexts date: 1904 words: 131 flesch: 30 summary: Further findings indicate institutional religion mediates the relationship between state religious discrimination and religious out-group bias among Muslims in minority contexts. Social scientific studies have sought to characterize and explain the state of prejudice toward different religious groups in the United States, and Muslims have increasingly been the objects of this exploration since 9/11. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860576z56.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860576z56.txt item: #2698 of 4945 id: j386057701d author: Justin Jon Schader Wilcox title: Exploring the Ecology of Eukaryotic Symbionts in Long-Tailed Macaques (and Beyond) date: 1904 words: 361 flesch: 20 summary: I find that long-tailed macaques harbor diverse communities of eukaryotic symbionts with taxonomic richness comparable and functional diversity that is comparable to many free-living systems. The discipline of ecology has, in despite this reality, tended to focus on macroscopic free-living systems, and the ecological processes that govern symbiont communities remain poorly elucidated in comparison. keywords: communities cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j386057701d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j386057701d.txt item: #2699 of 4945 id: j386057702r author: Ingabirano I. Nintunze title: The Hero Fig date: 1904 words: 73 flesch: 55 summary: But when old friends seem to come back to life, political enemies gain steam, and the city itself begins to fight back, magic, technology, and lost loves lead them towards an inevitable rupture. After a war between highlanders (who have the ability to magically manipulate the land around them) and lowlanders (who do not) leaves their city in ruins, James and Oliver struggle to rebuild a life as the world around them recovers. keywords: life cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j386057702r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j386057702r.txt item: #2700 of 4945 id: j386057746c author: Justin Van Ness title: A Cognitive Ethnography of Meaning-Making and Social Interaction date: 2022 words: 140 flesch: 10 summary: In chapter two, I integrate the dual process framework and microsociological theories of interaction to develop a heuristic of signal transmission in interaction. In this dissertation, I integrate microsociology, cultural cognition, and material culture to theorize and analyze meaning-making and social interaction. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j386057746c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j386057746c.txt item: #2701 of 4945 id: j3860577b1h author: Jeremiah Coogan title: Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity date: 2020 words: 229 flesch: 23 summary: Third, I demonstrate the paradoxical centrality of marginal phenomena in the history of Gospel reading and beyond. By tracing how the Eusebian apparatus reconfigured Gospel literature, created new possibilities of reading, and developed in response to readers' changing priorities, I advance scholarship on textuality and knowledge in three major ways. keywords: apparatus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860577b1h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860577b1h.txt item: #2702 of 4945 id: j3860577b2v author: John E. Herr title: Development of Neural Network Models for Prediction of Molecular Properties date: 2020 words: 348 flesch: 41 summary: ML potential energy models are promising the accuracy of quantum methods at significantly reduced cost. This dissertation describes methods for collecting datasets of nonequilibrium geometries for training ML potential energy models and shows that enhanced sampling methods or methods which do not follow Boltzmann statistics are necessary for diversely sampling geometries. keywords: potential cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860577b2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860577b2v.txt item: #2703 of 4945 id: j3860577b5w author: Steven L. Claucherty title: Unsteady Surface Flow Measurements for Aerodynamic Testing with Reduced Uncertainty date: 2020 words: 509 flesch: 35 summary: Additionally, dynamic characterizations show that the sensor has a response time of approximately 20-30 us, which is comparable to current fast PSP sensors. To address challenges with coating a model to obtain surface temperature measurements, a sensor using phenolic resin is developed that acts as an integral sensor to optically measure temperature. keywords: temperature cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860577b5w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860577b5w.txt item: #2704 of 4945 id: j3860577c25 author: Matteo Bianchetti title: Geometric Representations in Mathematical Problem-Solving: Intuition and Creativity date: 2021 words: 173 flesch: 8 summary: I show this sense of intuitiveness of geometric representation to play a significant role in mathematical investigations. I consider Hans Hahn's objections against geometric intuition and, more briefly, other objections concerning contrasts within intuition itself. keywords: geometric cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860577c25.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860577c25.txt item: #2705 of 4945 id: j3860577c7w author: Kathryn Scrafford title: Motherhood and Intimate Partner Violence in the Context of Social-Ecological Resilience date: 2021 words: 272 flesch: 27 summary: MLM revealed a within-person effect such that mothers reporting more IPV also reported improvement in mother-child relationship quality over time. Both stated that mothers left partners for their children's sakes and expressed concerns about intergenerational transmission of IPV. keywords: ipv cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860577c7w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860577c7w.txt item: #2706 of 4945 id: j3860577d76 author: Diego Gundersen title: Experimental Studies on the Flow Past Mound-Bearing Craters and Flexible Vegetation Elements date: 2022 words: 303 flesch: 36 summary: The first research project investigated the intracrater and extracrater flow structures over mounded craters induced by unidirectional flow. The first is a study of the flow dynamics over impact craters that host a central mound by utilizing a model with an idealized geometry and another model with a geometry sourced from that of a Martian impact crater. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860577d76.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860577d76.txt item: #2707 of 4945 id: j3860577g1r author: Keaton Prather title: Probing Surface Electrostatics on Metal Chalcogenide Nanocrystals Using Surface-Bound Metal Carbonyl Fragments date: 2023 words: 431 flesch: 34 summary: Altogether, these results showed that CdSe-CdFe(CO)4 NCs were sensitive to changes to surface reduction and oxidation and that the metal carbonyl bonding interactions could be tuned by altering the NC surface. Appendix A describes efforts to probe the surface of metal chalcogenide nanocrystals during photoexcitation and photocatalytic conditions. keywords: surface cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j3860577g1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j3860577g1r.txt item: #2708 of 4945 id: j6731259j3c author: Brooke Michelle Vertin title: Writhing and Roaring date: 2010 words: 108 flesch: 66 summary: Caroline Walker Bynum has written extensively about identity and change. She states, 'Change and identity induce anxiety, a need to know what is different and threatening, as well as what is home, what is self.' keywords: identity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731259j3c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731259j3c.txt item: #2709 of 4945 id: j6731259j6d author: Lindsay A. Herko title: Air Hunger date: 2012 words: 126 flesch: 59 summary: A girl exponentially expands realizing she may have been an abusive man in a past life but finds redemption in a spiritual kinship with Laika the first dog in space, when a parent gets teriminal cancer she realizes Laika is really more destined for him, discovering an occult truth about air hunger. Fish-exhausted mothers compliment pastors who receive letters from dead girls. keywords: embodiment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731259j6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731259j6d.txt item: #2710 of 4945 id: j6731259j7r author: Matthew Aaron Ricke title: The Slow Curve date: 2011 words: 2 flesch: 77 summary: Short stories keywords: short cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731259j7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731259j7r.txt item: #2711 of 4945 id: j6731259j9f author: Erin Leigh Hunter title: A Spectroscopic Study of Lead (Pb(II)) and Siderophore Sorption to Montmorillonite date: 2010 words: 330 flesch: 49 summary: Solution analysis through the use of inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy was coupled with solids analysis by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy to investigate the sorption characteristics of Pb(II) and desferrioxamine B (DFOB) on montmorillonite. Modeling and FTIR showed that the presence of DFOB also decreased the formation of Pb-bearing precipitates. keywords: ftir cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731259j9f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731259j9f.txt item: #2712 of 4945 id: j6731259k0n author: Vipin Vijayan title: Three Dimensional Face Recognition of Identical Twins date: 2012 words: 205 flesch: 48 summary: This work consists of a study on the performance of 3D face recognition algorithms on a relatively large set of identical twins: the 3D Twins Expression Challenge (``3D TEC') dataset. The combination of factors related to the facial similarity of identical twins and the variation in facial expression makes this a challenging dataset. keywords: dataset cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731259k0n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731259k0n.txt item: #2713 of 4945 id: j6731259k10 author: William Felix Acosta title: Constructing Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Unstructured Peer-To-Peer Networks date: 2008 words: 422 flesch: 46 summary: Additionally, we show that Makalu overlays can support an indexed identifier-based searches with the use of attenuated Bloom filters. P2P networks have been used to support such diverse applications as file sharing, distributed storage and backup, and content distribution. keywords: p2p cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731259k10.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731259k10.txt item: #2714 of 4945 id: j6731259k2b author: Eric Shuler title: Almsgiving and the Formation of Early Medieval Societies, A.D. 700-1025 date: 2010 words: 351 flesch: 44 summary: The theology of charity revolved around a triangle of relationships between God, giver, and recipient; these relationships are best understood in light of anthropological insights into gift exchange. This dissertation undertakes an investigation of a behavior practiced by kings and commoners alike: charity to the poor or, to adopt the term favored then, almsgiving (eleemosina). keywords: charity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731259k2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731259k2b.txt item: #2715 of 4945 id: j6731259k41 author: Tiphaine Anne Williams title: Wind Effects on Tall Buildings date: 2003 words: 150 flesch: 35 summary: Empirical models, finite element computer models, and other analysis tools have been combined with scaled model wind tunnel testing to predict wind loads on structures and associated response. Therefore, designers are faced with the challenge to accurately predict building response and to ensure that survivability, serviceability, and habitability criteria are satisfied. keywords: response cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731259k41.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731259k41.txt item: #2716 of 4945 id: j6731259k5c author: Nicol ás M. Somma title: When the Powerful Rebel: Armed Insurgency in Nineteenth-Century Latin America date: 2011 words: 354 flesch: 43 summary: Therefore, I compare two countries with high insurgency (Colombia and Uruguay) and two with low insurgency (Chile and Costa Rica) during the century after independence (ca. 1820-1920). When most insurgencies come 'from above', why do insurgency levels vary across countries? keywords: insurgency cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731259k5c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731259k5c.txt item: #2717 of 4945 id: j6731259k6q author: Dinesh Rajan Pandiarajan title: Energy Management Mechanisms for Wireless Real-time Environments date: 2007 words: 208 flesch: 28 summary: It is shown that energy management in such environments has to be end-to-end in nature, requiring a coordinated approach among participating devices. This work observes existing energy management techniques in distributed wireless environments to be non-cooperative in the sense that they reduce the energy consumption of a single device, disregarding potential consequences for other constraints (e.g., end-to-end deadlines) and/or other devices (e.g., energy consumption of neighboring devices). keywords: end cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731259k6q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731259k6q.txt item: #2718 of 4945 id: j6731259k72 author: Dev Himanshu Varma title: No Man's Land date: 2015 words: 52 flesch: 32 summary: This collection of creative work investigates an author's relationship to the characters it creates, the words it uses for that creation, the landscapes it interacts with and receives inspiration from, everything that goes into what an author does--even the food one eats. Associated media files can be found at https://curate.nd.edu/concern/documents/9c67wm1380d. keywords: author cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731259k72.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731259k72.txt item: #2719 of 4945 id: j6731259m7c author: Jon Simpkins title: Modeling, Approximation, and Estimation of Spatially-Varying Blur in Photographic Systems date: 1904 words: 155 flesch: 14 summary: We also propose a quantitative measure of blur estimation accuracy, and of measuring the inaccuracy introduced by using an approximation to the true blur in deblurring. Finally, we introduce an improved method of non-blind blur estimation, and demonstrate the accuracy benefit of using the proposed active target estimation instead of the traditional passive target estimation. keywords: blur cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731259m7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731259m7c.txt item: #2720 of 4945 id: j6731259r1j author: Lorenzo Bonaiti title: Reactions to the Publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi date: 1904 words: 36 flesch: 48 summary: This essay offers an evaluation of the current state of Levi's reception in the Anglophone world, with a particular focus on the US, in light of the reviews to this edition of his opera omnia. keywords: omnia cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731259r1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731259r1j.txt item: #2721 of 4945 id: j6731260871 author: Benjamin C. Denison title: Strategies of Domination: Uncertainty, Local Institutions, and the Politics of Foreign Rule date: 1904 words: 336 flesch: 38 summary: I first broadly test my claims using an original dataset of over 160 cases of foreign rule, which includes original data collection and coding of foreign rule strategies across all cases. This dissertation asks two interrelated questions: What determines a foreign ruler's choice of strategy following armed intervention, and why do foreign rulers often fail to plan post-intervention strategies prior to the arrival of troops on the ground? keywords: foreign cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731260871.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731260871.txt item: #2722 of 4945 id: j673126088c author: Kaiyu Fu title: Nanopore Electrochemistry: The Development and Applications of Nanopore Electrode Arrays as High-Performance Sensors date: 1904 words: 388 flesch: 34 summary: Electrochemical reactions at the nanoscale possess unique characteristics that are not accessible to conventional electrochemistry. High areal density (109 cm-2) over large scale (3-inch wafer) NEAs with zeptoliter characteristic volumes are designed and fabricated to perform electrochemical measurements. keywords: neas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j673126088c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j673126088c.txt item: #2723 of 4945 id: j6731260m8g author: Alexandra E. Chirakos title: Novel Regulatory Functions of ESX-1 Associated Proteins in Pathogenic Mycobacteria date: 2020 words: 332 flesch: 44 summary: They are also required for virulence in M. marinum and M. tuberculosis, effectively connecting ESX-1 secretion and virulence with gene expression and fine-tuning of ESX-1 substrate production. WhiB6 is a transcription factor which activates expression of ESX-1 substrate genes. keywords: esx-1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731260m8g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731260m8g.txt item: #2724 of 4945 id: j6731260n63 author: Anh P. Ha title: Acculturation, Family Conflict, and Mental Health in Immigrants in Norway date: 2021 words: 185 flesch: 0 summary: Given the vast ethnic backgrounds and cultural differences expected in the immigration population, it is important to understand how psychological acculturation influences mental health outcomes in immigrant communities to identify specific challenges facing a particular community. Previous studies have found that acculturation affects different immigrant groups differentially, such that gender, context of emigration, and family conflicts are hypothesized to moderate the relation between psychological acculturation and adjustment outcomes. keywords: acculturation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731260n63.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731260n63.txt item: #2725 of 4945 id: j6731260p21 author: Weikai Cao title: Redox Cycling-Based Field-Effect Transistor: Fabrication Strategies and Characterization date: 2021 words: 320 flesch: 33 summary: Considering the similarity of nanofluidic FETs to NEAs in their functional mechanism (manipulation of ion transport through nano-sized channels), it is desirable to extend the abovementioned benefits of NEAs to other applications such as the fluidic field-effect transistor, with the aim to establish a redox cycling-based FET that possesses higher transconductance and can achieve ultrasensitive chemical sensing. The ultimate goal of this research is to fabricate the NEAs with three embedded electrodes, of which the middle electrode is specifically designed to be coated with electrochemical blocking layers. keywords: electrode cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731260p21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731260p21.txt item: #2726 of 4945 id: j6731260r19 author: Cheng Liu title: Compromised Item Detection for Computer-Based Testing date: 2023 words: 281 flesch: 40 summary: For instance, examinees who took the test earlier might share the encountered items with other test takers, resulting in item bank leakage and endangering the test's validity and fairness. Overall, our proposed models provide a more comprehensive and efficient approach to detect compromised items, which can improve test security and fairness. keywords: test cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731260r19.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731260r19.txt item: #2727 of 4945 id: j6731260r2n author: Noe Pliego Campos title: Crises, Rights, and Futurity: Youth in 1980s Mexico City date: 2023 words: 399 flesch: 24 summary: Drawing from a broad range of archival materials that include newspaper accounts, films, and songs, in conjunction with oral history, I examine four youth groups that were differently affected by neoliberalism in Mexico City: chavos banda, or marginalized youth who engaged in gang-like and punk-like subculture and developed a unique style as a form of resistance to their exclusion from the neoliberal project; queer youth (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans), whose response to neoliberal policies coincided with the AIDS crisis and the collapse of the Homosexual Liberation Movement (1978-1984); National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)-affiliated youth, middle-class university and high school students, who organized a massive student protest against the privatization of the UNAM in 1986 and made up a significant base of the left opposition that contributed to the defeat of the PRI; and yuppies and wealthy young people who welcomed and benefited from the neoliberal economic reforms and strengthened the conservative opposition. These questions, which are at the center of this dissertation, are particularly relevant in Mexico City, where youth (10-29 years old) made up 43% of the population during this period and composed the bulk of those who responded to the economic, political, and cultural crises that marked the Lost Decade with the rise of neoliberalism. keywords: youth cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j6731260r2n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j6731260r2n.txt item: #2728 of 4945 id: j9601z42t12 author: Alexis Michelle Chambers title: The Effect of Sleep on the Consolidation of Positive Emotional Memories date: 2013 words: 137 flesch: 51 summary: Results revealed that the sleep group had better memory than the wake group, especially for positive components of scenes. However, while previous investigations have only investigated negative scenes, the current study examined this effect for positive scenes. keywords: sleep cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j9601z42t12.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j9601z42t12.txt item: #2729 of 4945 id: j9601z42t2d author: Matthew Howell title: History on the Menu: An Examination of the Use of History as a Legitimating Marker of Status in Restaurant Websites on the Internet date: 2010 words: 124 flesch: 34 summary: These markers of success represent both culinary/cultural markers and entrepreneurial/economic markers, with smaller organizations focusing more on culinary terms while larger organizations utilize more economic terms. Internet websites produced by restaurants present information contained in a format designed to convey an image of the restaurant as the owner(s) see it, and as the owner(s) want it to be viewed by the potential customers. keywords: restaurant cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j9601z42t2d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j9601z42t2d.txt item: #2730 of 4945 id: j9601z42t3r author: Elizabeth E. Webster title: American Science and the Pursuit of Useful Knowledge in the Polite Eighteenth Century date: 2010 words: 210 flesch: 45 summary: Particularly, I explore the writings of three central figures in the early years of the American Philosophical Society, David Rittenhouse, Charles Willson Peale, and Benjamin Rush, to see how they variously used the language and ideals of politeness to argue for the promotion of useful knowledge in America. He criticized what he saw as a certain culture of useful knowledge by turning to the polite ideals of benevolence and open conversation. keywords: knowledge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j9601z42t3r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j9601z42t3r.txt item: #2731 of 4945 id: j9601z42t5f author: Ian Bentley title: Wigner X Resolved and Photo-Reaction Cross-Section Predictions: Improvements for Astrophysical Calculations date: 2010 words: 408 flesch: 32 summary: This is done in an automated procedure called AutoTAC which is used to find equilibrium deformation parameters corresponding to an energy minimum. Energy differences are calculated using groups of three nuclei along an isobaric chain in steps of Tz=2, starting near N=Z. The resulting energy dependence is of the form T(T+X) and appears to involve fluctuations about X=1 and X=4. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j9601z42t5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j9601z42t5f.txt item: #2732 of 4945 id: j9601z42v4d author: Hangyao Wang title: Atomistic Studies of Oxidation Catalysis and Surface Poisoning on Transition Metal Oxide Surfaces date: 2009 words: 324 flesch: 32 summary: As an attempt to understand how surface metal oxides develop on metal surfaces and what their exact role is during oxidation, we study the formation of oxide nuclei on Pt surface. In this study we employ plane-wave, supercell DFT calculations to examine the mechanisms of oxygen activation, COO oxidation as well as surface poisoning on RuO2(110) surface. keywords: surface cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j9601z42v4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j9601z42v4d.txt item: #2733 of 4945 id: j9601z42v94 author: Yu Cao title: Study of AlN/GaN HEMTs: MBE Growth, Transport Properties and Device Issues date: 2010 words: 390 flesch: 52 summary: As a theoretical work, remote surface roughness (RSR) scattering is studied as a new scattering mechanism in AlN HEMTs. To achieve high-speed nitride-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), both lateral and vertical scaling are required for future device fabrication. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j9601z42v94.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j9601z42v94.txt item: #2734 of 4945 id: j9601z42w7r author: Patrick Joseph Donnelly title: Data Locality Techniques in an Active Cluster File System Designed for Scientific Workflows date: 1904 words: 263 flesch: 35 summary: While today's large data analysis systems are highly effective at establishing data locality and eliminating inter-dependencies, they are not so easily incorporated into scientific workflows that are often complex and irregular graphs of sequential programs with multiple dependencies. The user does not need to redesign their workflow or provide additional consideration to the management of data dependencies. keywords: system cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j9601z42w7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j9601z42w7r.txt item: #2735 of 4945 id: j9601z4312j author: Christian K. Hunter title: Robust Water Resource Decision-Making Under Internal and External Uncertainties: A Study of Latin America date: 1904 words: 351 flesch: 14 summary: Comparing MoS and cost rankings of proposed water management schemes, this work determines that the traditional evaluation method not only underestimates future water deficits, but also espouses solutions without considering supply and demand uncertainties. Results from our application of Cost-Benefit Analysis to a robust outlook of future climactic and demand scenarios determine that substituting groundwater extraction with desalination for irrigation requirements could provide a potentially economically viable option for future water scarcity alleviation. keywords: water cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j9601z4312j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j9601z4312j.txt item: #2736 of 4945 id: j9601z43j3j author: Hythem Sidky title: Predicting Elastic Properties of Liquid Crystals from Molecular Simulation date: 1904 words: 247 flesch: 25 summary: The utility of molecular simulation in predicting elastic properties of liquid crystals has historically been limited due to the immense time and length scales needed to generate accurate estimates of quantities such as the bulk elastic moduli. Finally, we present the first direct simulations of the bulk and surface-like elastic constants for molecular 4-5-alkyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl which challenge indirect experimental observations that suggest spontaneous elastic curvature in certain geometries. keywords: elastic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j9601z43j3j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j9601z43j3j.txt item: #2737 of 4945 id: j9601z43x49 author: Gabriel Wright title: Computational Analyses of Codon Usage Bias and Its Effects on Protein Translation, Expression, and Folding date: 2021 words: 315 flesch: 41 summary: This algorithm has the ability to incorporate a number of codon usage models, and therefore allows each model's biological efficacy to be tested in vivo. The debate about how best to define CUB has resulted in the development of numerous codon usage models, all of which define preferred codons in a distinct way. keywords: codon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j9601z43x49.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j9601z43x49.txt item: #2738 of 4945 id: j9601z43z69 author: Dung Thi Hanh To title: Electrochemical Synthesis of Nickel-Molybdenum Alloys and Nickel-Molybdenum-Oxygen Composites from Citrate-Ammonium Baths and Their Electrocatalytic Properties for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction date: 2022 words: 372 flesch: 21 summary: To maximize the efficiency, electrocatalysts need to be optimized to further reduce the overpotential for hydrogen and accelerate the rate of water splitting. Besides the complicated fossil-fuel-derived synthesis methods, hydrogen gas can be generated simultaneously with oxygen gas through electrochemical water splitting. keywords: hydrogen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j9601z43z69.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j9601z43z69.txt item: #2739 of 4945 id: j9601z43z9b author: Emmanuel Cannady title: Black Lives Matter University: How Activist Knowledge Affects Organizational Sustainability date: 2022 words: 359 flesch: 40 summary: My participation in this nascent organization helped me develop a theory of knowledge convergence using an activist knowledge framework to explain variation between the three versions. A knowledge hierarchy developed that privileged those with global-theoretical knowledge, which was positioned closer to whiteness, and doomed any attempts at knowledge convergence. keywords: knowledge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j9601z43z9b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j9601z43z9b.txt item: #2740 of 4945 id: j9601z44135 author: Jacob Moniz title: The Pacific End date: 2023 words: 226 flesch: 52 summary: The protagonist, Caleb, is confronted with his past as he returns to his hometown after several years of being away. Furthermore, the novel delves into the themes of trauma and healing, as Caleb confronts his emotional wounds and learns to reconcile with his past. keywords: caleb cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/j9601z44135.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/j9601z44135.txt item: #2741 of 4945 id: jd472v26352 author: Christopher Paul Andrews title: Blood and Glitter: Monster Subjectivity in a Concentration of Camp date: 2010 words: 17 flesch: 35 summary: This paper deals with the philosophical implications of queer subjectivity in relationship with monster in horror film. keywords: film cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v26352.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v26352.txt item: #2742 of 4945 id: jd472v26383 author: Jun Yi title: DYNAMIC RESERVATION MEDIUM ACCESS FOR MULTIHOP WIRELESS REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS date: 2012 words: 278 flesch: 30 summary: However, providing timeliness support is challenging, mainly due to (i) the inherently unreliable nature of the wireless medium, (ii) the distributed nature of multihop wireless networks, and (iii) the resource-constrained (mainly bandwidth and energy) environments. Many wireless multihop networks carry streams of data with time-critical information (e.g., video streams in surveillance networks, sensor streams in monitoring and actuating applications, or command and control streams in factory automation applications). keywords: wireless cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v26383.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v26383.txt item: #2743 of 4945 id: jd472v2639f author: Christine Ann Kelley title: Pseudocodewords, Expander Graphs, and the Algebraic Construction of Low-density Parity-check Codes date: 2008 words: 364 flesch: 41 summary: Despite their tremendous success, LDPC codes lack a strong theoretical foundation and few explicit constructions of them are known that outperform their random counterparts. The second part of this thesis constructs LDPC codes having desirable properties. keywords: codes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v2639f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v2639f.txt item: #2744 of 4945 id: jd472v2640n author: Joseph Bruce Herzog title: Optical spectroscopy of colloidal CdSe semiconductor nanostructures date: 2011 words: 145 flesch: 28 summary: Temperature-dependent NSOM and micro-photoluminescence (Ì_å_PL) spectra produce s- shape peak emission energy dependence on temperature, which reveal the formation of band-tail states in the NWs due to the variation of the polytype structure along the length of the NW. Time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) measures emission decay data that shows type-I band alignment between the WZ-ZB heterojunction due to the spectral dependence of the emission decay: the decay times decrease as the energy decreases. keywords: temperature cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v2640n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v2640n.txt item: #2745 of 4945 id: jd472v26410 author: Lichun Li title: Event triggered state estimation and control with limited channel capacity date: 2013 words: 502 flesch: 43 summary: Our research is to analytically examine the trade-off between system performance and digital channel capacity in event triggered systems. The limited digital channel capacity, however, can degrade or even destroy control systems. keywords: event cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v26410.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v26410.txt item: #2746 of 4945 id: jd472v2642b author: Jennifer Newsome Martin title: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Press of Speculative Russian Religious Philosophy date: 2012 words: 325 flesch: -5 summary: It is the burden of this study to demonstrate, as evidenced by his critical excavation of the Russians, that Balthasar's own theological method can' contravening the opinion of some of his critics' be characterized as quintessentially non-nostalgic, structurally hospitable to non-theological categories, non-canonic sources, and modes of speculative thinking which probe, but do not exceed the elastic boundaries of tradition. Thematic, theological, and methodological affinities between Balthasar and the Russians include a shared broad-mindedness toward navigating between the ancient Christian tradition and modern philosophical developments, a variously critical reception of German Idealism and Romanticism, and in focused treatment of the relation of God and world, immanence and transcendence, freedom and necessity, as well as kenoticism, eschatology, Trinity, history, pneumatology, cosmology, and aesthetics. keywords: balthasar cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v2642b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v2642b.txt item: #2747 of 4945 id: jd472v2643p author: Heather D. Maxwell title: A Case Study of NCAA Division I Women's College Basketball Fans: Sport Fan Motivation and Game Enhancers date: 2010 words: 219 flesch: 50 summary: Four hundred and thirty-eight subjects completed a multi-section questionnaire containing demographic information, the Sport Fan Motivation Scale (SFMS; Wann, 1995), Game Enhancer scale, season ticket status, attendance habits, and the Sport Fandom Scale (Wann, 2002). Most previous research has failed to identify sport specific motivations of female collegiate basketball fans. keywords: sport cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v2643p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v2643p.txt item: #2748 of 4945 id: jd472v2646q author: Zhiguo Ge title: Magneto-Transport Studies of Ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As Heterostructures date: 2007 words: 352 flesch: 39 summary: For (Ga,Mn)As-based heterostructures (both EB structures and MTJ structures), we investigated the response of the magnetization of the (Ga,Mn)As layers to the sweeping magnetic field taking advantage of the PHE technique. We also found that in MTJ structures, the interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) between two (Ga,Mn)As layers oscillates between the FM type and antiferromagnetic type as a function of the spacer thickness. keywords: mn)as cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v2646q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v2646q.txt item: #2749 of 4945 id: jd472v2648d author: Jeffrey R Smith title: Religiosity, Social Support, Divine Support and Adolescent Subjective Well-Being date: 2007 words: 206 flesch: 23 summary: Further analyses indicates that the positive effects of religious social support for adolescents are linked to this subjective perception of congregational support, independent of the quantity of religiously affiliated peers and adults one trusts, or one's level of participation in religious communal activities like youth group or bible studies. Research hypothesizing the underlying causal mechanisms of positive religious effects on mental health and psychological well-being emphasize the potential social support found in religious communities, and psychological resources that provide comfort and security in difficult times. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v2648d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v2648d.txt item: #2750 of 4945 id: jd472v2649r author: Javier Mocarquer title: Políticas de género y sexualidad en el Cono Sur: Gabriela Mistral, Victoria Ocampo y Cecília Meireles en las esferas pública y privada date: 2015 words: 304 flesch: 28 summary: I propose that these three feminist writers and public intellectuals deployed strategies of self-representation to avoid being discriminated against because of their gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or social class. For instance, Mistral apparently desexualizes herself and creates a new maternal image; Ocampo represents herself as a cultural bridge between Argentina, Europe, and the United States; and Meireles sublimates androgyny in order to subvert gender binaries and boundaries. keywords: intellectual cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v2649r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v2649r.txt item: #2751 of 4945 id: jd472v2654b author: Ryan T. Kelly title: Numerical Prediction of the Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of the Aero-Optical Disturbance Produced by a Helicopter in Hover date: 1904 words: 223 flesch: 30 summary: The results indicate that the turbulence of the rotor-tip vortices contributes to the higher order aberrations measured experimentally and that the thermal exhaust plumes effectively limit the optical field-of-regard to forward- and side-looking beam directions. During hover the shed rotor-tip vortices and engine effluence convect with the rotor wake encircling the airframe and subsequently a helicopter mounted optical system. keywords: optical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v2654b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v2654b.txt item: #2752 of 4945 id: jd472v26592 author: Kai Cao title: Fluid-structure Interaction Modeling of Valvular Hemodynamics and Secondary Aortopathy date: 1904 words: 850 flesch: 40 summary: The simulations identified regions of WSS overloads and increased WSS oscillations in BAV leaflets relative to TAV leaflets. BAV leaflets also experienced larger radial deformations than TAV leaflets. keywords: bav; wss cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v26592.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v26592.txt item: #2753 of 4945 id: jd472v26639 author: Matthew J. Kuiper title: Indian Muslims, Other Religions and the Modern Resurgence of Da'wa: The Tablīghī Jamā'at and Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation date: 1904 words: 355 flesch: 45 summary: By investigating and juxtaposing the lineages, formative histories and inter-religious discourses of these movements and their founders, Part II elucidates both the unique contributions Indian Muslims have made to modern da'wa, and the diversity of Indian da'wa. In response to the political, social and inter-religious challenges they have faced in modern India, and through their fresh engagement with Islamic scripture and tradition, these movements have developed related, though distinct, bottom-­up styles of da'wa and da'wa modernities which have proven to be globally relevant. keywords: da'wa cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v26639.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v26639.txt item: #2754 of 4945 id: jd472v26s89 author: Alan Claude Liddell, Jr. title: Applications of Newton Homotopies date: 1904 words: 183 flesch: 35 summary: Finally, we present an application of Newton homotopies to the computation of saturation properties from fundamental equations of state, determining the coexistence curve for all vapor-liquid equilibrium conditions between the triple point and critical point. Using homotopies, we compute solution sets for systems of polynomial equations. keywords: newton cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v26s89.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v26s89.txt item: #2755 of 4945 id: jd472v26z7h author: Abigail Marie Csik title: Retrieval Practice of Event-Based Narratives date: 2019 words: 143 flesch: 37 summary: Surface form retrieval practice improved surface form memory but impaired event model memory for practiced sentences. Participants in the current study read narratives, had retrieval practice of a subset of sentences directed at surface form (Experiments 1 and 3) or event model memory (Experiment 2), and took a recognition test to measure three levels of narrative memory: the surface form (verbatim memory), textbase (propositional memory), and event model (gist memory). keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v26z7h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v26z7h.txt item: #2756 of 4945 id: jd472v2757n author: Jeremy Davidheiser title: Heroic Masculinity and the Problem of Violence in British Political Fiction, 1790-1850 date: 2020 words: 239 flesch: 13 summary: By focusing on how authors use heroic scenes of action not to promote but to question and reimagine the concept of heroic violence, this project complicates prevailing critical and historical narratives of British masculinity's nineteenth-century transformations. Exploring the subgenres of Jacobin and anti-Jacobin fiction, historical fiction, Chartist fiction, and social fiction, this dissertation reads scenes of political heroism alongside developing ideals of nonviolence in Britain—especially concerning typically violent political processes such as warfare and revolution—and it shows how these ideals place important limits on the motives for and kinds of heroic violence depicted in fiction. keywords: fiction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v2757n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v2757n.txt item: #2757 of 4945 id: jd472v2766m author: Jason Wiggins title: Journey to the Heart of Darkness - Exploring Void Galaxies date: 2021 words: 405 flesch: 44 summary: An earlier survey conducted by Kreckel using the SDSS found that void galaxies tended to be luminous blue star forming dwarfs but the result was limited by the magnitude cutoff of the SDSS at ∼ 17 in the r band. Candidates identified this way first had their estimated distances supported by their SDSS photometric redshifts because at z=0.3 the O[III] 5007 Angstrom line would be redshifted into the same bandpass as the Hydrogen-α emission from z=0.03 void galaxies. keywords: galaxies cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v2766m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v2766m.txt item: #2758 of 4945 id: jd472v2769n author: Ruimin Ma title: Polymer Design via Data-Driven Approaches date: 2021 words: 473 flesch: 34 summary: While PI1M is powerful as a benchmark database for polymer informatics, it does not contain polymer properties, i.e., labels, about which researchers care most. However, as more and more polymer data (both experimental and computational) are accumulated, data-driven approaches become a promising route to accelerate the polymer design, which is known as polymer informatics. keywords: polymer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v2769n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v2769n.txt item: #2759 of 4945 id: jd472v2781h author: Jonathan Rawls title: Three Essays on Fiscal and Monetary Policy date: 2022 words: 92 flesch: 35 summary: Together, they seek to understand how fiscal and monetary policies can better facilitate trade, stimulate demand, and reduce the volatility of macroeconomic aggregates in response to economic shocks. My first chapter studies the optimal maturity structure of government debt in response to demographic shocks. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v2781h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v2781h.txt item: #2760 of 4945 id: jd472v2793h author: Austin D. Nelson title: A Novel "In-Cathode" Activation Technique for 41Ca Production Cross Section Measurements Using Accelerator Mass Spectrometry date: 2023 words: 325 flesch: 39 summary: Production models rely on theoretical nuclear models, but theoretical reaction cross sections can be imprecise, making experimental measurements crucial to relieving some uncertainties on theoretical models. In particular, 41Ca is important as its half-life (t1/2= 9.94 x 104 yrs) is much shorter than other SLRs, thereby offering stricter constraints on the various irradiation scenarios from early stellar processes. keywords: solar cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jd472v2793h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jd472v2793h.txt item: #2761 of 4945 id: jh343r09c3f author: Zachary Terranova title: Exploring the Structure and Dynamics of Ionic Liquids Using Molecular Dynamics date: 2014 words: 304 flesch: 32 summary: Experimental studies of solvation dynamics in imidazolium-based ionic liquids (ILs) have revealed complex kinetics over a broad range of time scales from femtoseconds to tens of nanoseconds. Microsecond-length molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of coumarin 153 (C153) in a series of imidazolium-based ILs were performed to reveal the molecular-level mechanism for solvation dynamics over the full range of time scales accessed in the experiments. keywords: dynamics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r09c3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r09c3f.txt item: #2762 of 4945 id: jh343r09c4s author: Williams R Calderón Muñoz title: Linear Stability of Electron-Flow Hydrodynamics in Ungated Semiconductors date: 2010 words: 416 flesch: 40 summary: The main motivation of this work is to analyze from a hydrodynamic perspective the conditions under which instabilities occur in electron flow in ungated semiconductors. Applied voltage and room temperature can determine suitable operating conditions for THz electromagnetic sources based on semiconductors. keywords: electron cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r09c4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r09c4s.txt item: #2763 of 4945 id: jh343r09c54 author: Daniel E Hoehn title: The Effect of Shear Stress Magnitude on Aortic Valve Inflammation date: 2010 words: 131 flesch: 47 summary: This study investigates the role played by blood flow dynamics and prospective mechanosensitive molecules in the development of aortic valve disease. Blood exerts a combination of forces on the valve leaflets, which are believed to have a significant effect on valvular disease progression. keywords: valve cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r09c54.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r09c54.txt item: #2764 of 4945 id: jh343r09c7t author: Nicholas Patrick Miller title: The Religious Roots of the First Amendment: Dissenting Protestantism and the Separation of Church and State date: 2010 words: 229 flesch: 34 summary: This dissertation argues that commitments by certain dissenting Protestants to the right of private judgment in matters of Biblical interpretation, an outgrowth of the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers, helped promote religious liberty and religious disestablishment in the early modern West. The dissertation aims to show that religion played more than a pragmatic role in contributing to religious disestablishment in America. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r09c7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r09c7t.txt item: #2765 of 4945 id: jh343r09c85 author: Brian W. Neiswander title: Electron Density Measurements for Plasma Adaptive Optics date: 2014 words: 263 flesch: 47 summary: As a laser beam propagates from an aircraft in flight, it passes through boundary layers, turbulence, and shear layers in the near-region of the aircraft. This research investigated the use of plasma as a medium for adaptive optics for aero-optics applications. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r09c85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r09c85.txt item: #2766 of 4945 id: jh343r09d8g author: Ziheng Wu title: Measures of bone quality and their relationship to bone mechanical properties date: 2011 words: 430 flesch: 35 summary: The objectives of this dissertation were to investigate viscoelastic properties of bone tissue using nanoindentation, identify the effects of disease, aging, gender and tissue compositions on bone mechanical properties, and study crack initiation and propagation in bone samples subjected to multiple loading modes. Overall, this research provides insight into bone viscoelastic properties and microdamage by studying creep behavior, tissue composition, disease and crack initiation and propagation. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r09d8g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r09d8g.txt item: #2767 of 4945 id: jh343r09f1c author: John Karim Kamel Ibrahim title: Chemical Vapor Deposition/Chemical Vapor Infiltration of Pyrocarbon in Porous Carbon date: 2007 words: 236 flesch: 34 summary: This method is based on operator decomposition where the pressure is obtained by solving a Poisson equation followed by a projection or correction step for the velocity field so that it satisfies the conservation of mass equation. The direct solution of large scale coupled nonlinear differential algebraic equations (DAE) is extremely difficult if not impossible to obtain. keywords: surface cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r09f1c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r09f1c.txt item: #2768 of 4945 id: jh343r09f4d author: Eric M. Weaver title: Evaluating Tumor Microenvironments in Three Dimensional Cell Culture Models of Colon Cancer date: 1904 words: 298 flesch: 22 summary: Overall, these studies have evolved the application of IMS to three dimensional cell culture models into a robust and viable experimental technique that will have an enormous impact on the understanding of the complex interaction between tumor microenvironments and how drug treatment and chemotherapeutics affect tumor microenvironments. Although initially applied to thin sections of mammalian tissues, the application of IMS to sections of three dimensional cell culture tumor mimics has led to a dramatic increase in the ability to study and understand the complex interactions between tumor microenvironments. keywords: tumor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r09f4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r09f4d.txt item: #2769 of 4945 id: jh343r09f94 author: Ding Nie title: Matching Networks for Broadband Multiport Radio-Frequency Systems: Theory, Analysis and Design date: 1904 words: 509 flesch: 51 summary: In multiport systems where there are more loads than sources, we show that non-reciprocal components are essential to the design of matching networks that achieve the broadband bounds. Another class of networks are broadband matching networks, which approximately match sources and loads over a broad bandwidth. keywords: loads cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r09f94.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r09f94.txt item: #2770 of 4945 id: jh343r09g0b author: Angela M. Lake title: Children's Literature and Modern Thought: Bridging the Barrier of World War I date: 1904 words: 155 flesch: 37 summary: I believe that children's literature has a unique ability to topically anticipate trends in adult literature, and this project will prove that hypothesis in three ways. Second, I will perform a close reading of three texts—Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll and In Parenthesis by David Jones—illustrating specific examples of three very different stories with incredibly similar core elements. keywords: literature cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r09g0b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r09g0b.txt item: #2771 of 4945 id: jh343r1035d author: Kathryn Ann Sontag title: Computational Study of Upstream-Propagating Potential Disturbances in an Axial Flow Compressor date: 1904 words: 374 flesch: 31 summary: Historically, the primary source of the aerodynamic excitations has been limited to viscous wakes (and later the inclusion of shocks), even though several different types of blade row interactions are known to occur. High cycle fatigue is often the result of neighboring blade row interactions that cause an aerodynamic excitation to be resonant with a mechanical natural frequency. keywords: rotor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r1035d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r1035d.txt item: #2772 of 4945 id: jh343r1036r author: Abigail G. Jorgensen title: The Mommy Politic: Understanding Motherhood's Impact on Voting Behavior date: 1904 words: 154 flesch: 27 summary: In this article, I find that reconsidering the motherhood shift as a selected phenomenon and modeling it through fixed effects regression reverses our understanding motherhood's effect on voting. Academic work on the motherhood shift has defined two categories of women: mother and non-mother. keywords: motherhood cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r1036r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r1036r.txt item: #2773 of 4945 id: jh343r10373 author: Eredzhep Menumerov title: Novel Nanomaterial Fabrication Techniques for Catalysis, Sensing, and Electronics date: 1904 words: 430 flesch: 14 summary: These nanofabrication techniques were applied to the catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol, hydrogen gas sensing, and thermal management in electronics. Thermal dewetting is one of a number of unconventional methods for fabricating substrate-based nanomaterials and it was used to study the leaching of metal nanostructures through oxidative etching and its influence on the catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol. keywords: nanofabrication cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r10373.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r10373.txt item: #2774 of 4945 id: jh343r10g65 author: Yuliya Fedorovych title: The Holodomor: Expressing the Inexpressible date: 2021 words: 149 flesch: 50 summary: Moreover, there is a general lack of knowledge about genocide among broad audiences in the U.S., leading many Americans to believe that genocides are uncommon in the modern world. Therefore, it is necessary to stimulate awareness, discussion, and empathy around the theme of genocide. keywords: genocide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r10g65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r10g65.txt item: #2775 of 4945 id: jh343r10h23 author: Wen Qu title: A Framework for Analyzing Qualitative and Quantitative Data for Student Evaluation of Teaching date: 2021 words: 147 flesch: 36 summary: With digital tools, teaching evaluation data are more widely collected and effectively stored. Therefore, researchers are allowed to develop and apply mixed methods to analyze teaching evaluation data. keywords: teaching cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r10h23.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r10h23.txt item: #2776 of 4945 id: jh343r10h85 author: Si Li title: Development of Polymer Membranes Involving Crosslinked Model Network Structures for Gas Separation date: 2022 words: 533 flesch: 20 summary: While the permeability-selectivity tradeoff seems to be tackled by many new high-performing polymers pushing the upper bound limits further toward the upper right side, polymer gas separation membranes frequently suffer from physical aging (e.g., loss of permeability over time) and plasticization (e.g., loss of size sieving in the presence of condensable gases like CO2). The impact of these challenges is clearly evidenced by the fact that only a handful of polymers have made it into commercial applications despite hundreds of new polymers have been developed and evaluated for gas separation membranes. keywords: gas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r10h85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r10h85.txt item: #2777 of 4945 id: jh343r10k4d author: Brian DuSell title: Nondeterministic Stacks in Neural Networks date: 2023 words: 285 flesch: 26 summary: Human language is full of compositional syntactic structures, and although neural networks have contributed to groundbreaking improvements in computer systems that process language, widely-used neural network architectures still exhibit limitations in their ability to process syntax. In this dissertation, we remedy this discrepancy by proposing a method of incorporating nondeterministic stacks into neural networks. keywords: neural cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r10k4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r10k4d.txt item: #2778 of 4945 id: jh343r10k5r author: Hannah Resnick title: Plowing the Semantic Field in Book III of Apuleius's Golden Ass date: 2023 words: 346 flesch: 43 summary: Discourse analysis of Book 3 of Apuleius's Golden Ass reveals that multivalent vocabulary in both the narration and dialogue alerts readers to plot themes and events before they are explicitly addressed, and that Apuleius writes on multiple levels which may be detected by different readers. This analysis argues that Apuleius's twists are not universally unpredictable for a Roman first reader, for whom a single word or group of words can conjure up associated concepts and actions Searching for the presence of similar groups of polysemous words in the novel may reveal other instances of hints for the first reader. keywords: analysis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jh343r10k5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jh343r10k5r.txt item: #2779 of 4945 id: jm214m92n7k author: Krista E. Duttenhaver title: Love's Labor: The Relational Self in Simone Weil's Mystical-Political date: 2010 words: 353 flesch: 13 summary: This project, a new understanding of the manner in which justice and love intersect in the category of the mystical-political, develops out of the thought of twentieth-century French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil. Though her writing is notoriously difficult and demanding and her biography is not without controversy, her worth as an intellectual can in part be measured by the burgeoning cross-disciplinary influence of her thought: novelists, feminists, ethicists, political philosophers, and theologians have found in her work fruitful resources for reflection and constructive endeavors. keywords: weil cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m92n7k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m92n7k.txt item: #2780 of 4945 id: jm214m92p0g author: Julio Garí n title: Three Essays in Macroeconomics date: 2012 words: 354 flesch: 44 summary: While there has been a vast literature that has tried to explain and account for the short-run fluctuations in aggregate economic activity, several features of business cycles in the United States business are not well understood yet. In the study, we document some important changes at business cycle frequencies that have occurred in the US since the mid-eighties. keywords: financial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m92p0g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m92p0g.txt item: #2781 of 4945 id: jm214m92p1t author: Chuanxin Lian title: Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopic Study of Ni-(Al)GaN and Heterogeneous Integration of GaAs/GaN by Wafer Fusion date: 2008 words: 160 flesch: 54 summary: The bare surface barrier heights of unintentionally doped Al0.22Ga0.78N and n-GaN in air were estimated by comparing the SP of (Al)GaN and Ni. Scanning Kelvin probe microscopy was applied for the surface potential (SP) measurements across lateral Ni-(Al)GaN Schottky junctions. keywords: gan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m92p1t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m92p1t.txt item: #2782 of 4945 id: jm214m92p25 author: Sally Ann Entrekin title: The Response of Organic Matter Dynamics and Macroinvertebrates to Experimental Wood Additions in Three Michigan Streams date: 2008 words: 352 flesch: 31 summary: After wood addition, I measured an increase in organic matter standing stocks around the added logs, but no reach-scale responses and no changes in organic matter decomposition. One of the most common restoration activities in streams is to add in-stream structures, such as flow defectors, boulders, wood, and vegetation to stabilize banks, reduce erosion, increase habitat complexity, and retain organic matter. keywords: stream cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m92p25.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m92p25.txt item: #2783 of 4945 id: jm214m92p4v author: Austin David Choi-Fitzpatrick title: Letting Go: Resignation and Resistance Among Contemporary Slaveholders date: 2013 words: 213 flesch: 32 summary: When movement efforts combine with macro-economic forces to challenge this exploitative status quo, human rights violators must scramble to find new ideational and practical responses. Within the literature on social movements this lacuna manifests itself in an overemphasis on challengers, with less attention paid to those targeted by movements, or on tactical interactions between movements and their adversaries. keywords: movements cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m92p4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m92p4v.txt item: #2784 of 4945 id: jm214m92p56 author: Timothy J Dysart title: Defect Properties and Design Tools for Quantum Dot Cellular Automata date: 2006 words: 209 flesch: 46 summary: In this work, QCA wires of varying widths are examined to determine their resistance to certain individual defects and a specific subclass of manufacturing defects: missing cells. One common issue with these nanoelectronic devices is that many manufacturing defects are likely to occur. keywords: qca cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m92p56.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m92p56.txt item: #2785 of 4945 id: jm214m92p6j author: Gilberto Mej ía Rodr íguez title: A Computer Aided Multiscale Material Design Optimization Framework for Composite Materials Tailoring date: 2010 words: 357 flesch: 9 summary: The need and the opportunity for significant savings in both time and cost for the engineered development of advanced nanomaterials coupled with the tremendous growth in the past couple of decades in computational materials science has not yet materialized into significant material design tool developments. Also, a trust region managed variable fidelity optimization framework is proposed in this investigation to address the computational challenges and model management issues that are inherent to multiscale material design. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m92p6j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m92p6j.txt item: #2786 of 4945 id: jm214m92p87 author: Lisa Weaver Swartz title: 'This is My Father's World': American Evangelical Ambivalence Toward Climate Change date: 2010 words: 48 flesch: 25 summary: The analysis shows that evangelicals are at least as concerned about the effects of climate change as the reference group, but less willing to support governmental intervention. This sociological study, attentive to the historical context of postwar evangelical social and political practice, analyzes evangelical views of climate change. keywords: change cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m92p87.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m92p87.txt item: #2787 of 4945 id: jm214m92q0s author: Michael Yan-Kiat Lau title: Extreme Response Style: An Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Scale Response Format Fatigue date: 2007 words: 259 flesch: 47 summary: Existing research has demonstrated that such response biases potentially yield erroneous results in research findings that rely on scale responses that are susceptible to extreme responding. Study 2 involved examining the potential effect that extreme response style may have in mediating the relationship of individualism/collectivism on satisfaction with life (Bettencourt & Dorr, 1997). keywords: response cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m92q0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m92q0s.txt item: #2788 of 4945 id: jm214m92q14 author: Jacob Riyeff title: Making the Divine Economy: Imagination, Performance, and the Old English Poetry of Prayer date: 2015 words: 353 flesch: 37 summary: With this turn toward community within and beyond time, I bring together the various imaginal elements used to fashion the divine economy in Old English prayer poetry and assess how they work together to reveal a coherent vision of the Anglo-Saxon Christian world. By weaving together focused analyses of aspects of the Anglo-Saxon Christian world and detailed readings of how a wide variety of Old English poems imagine this world, I provide a more fully articulated picture of how Anglo-Saxon Christians understood themselves, the world around them, and their role within it. keywords: world cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m92q14.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m92q14.txt item: #2789 of 4945 id: jm214m92r7h author: Ji Hye Shin title: Instituting the Balance: Great Power Politics and Postwar Institutional Architectures in Western Europe and Northeast Asia date: 1904 words: 281 flesch: 33 summary: Despite striking similarities in their post-World War II security environments, Western Europe and Northeast Asia have since developed distinct types of regional security institutions. In Western Europe, an intricate set of multilateral institutions has arisen as the preferred form of interstate cooperation, whereas the governments of Northeast Asia have largely refrained from region-wide institution building. keywords: treaty cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m92r7h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m92r7h.txt item: #2790 of 4945 id: jm214m92v7f author: Brian Fitzpatrick title: Sector Differences in the Effects of Teacher Characteristics on Student Outcomes date: 1904 words: 278 flesch: 43 summary: This article tests conflicting theories of schools as institutions by studying how the relationship between teacher credentials and student learning is moderated by school sector. The model utilizes fixed effects at the student- and school-level, with the aim of identifying the causal effect of teachers and schools by leveraging students who move across school sectors. keywords: school cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m92v7f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m92v7f.txt item: #2791 of 4945 id: jm214m93c0z author: Angela M. Kurth title: Analyzing the Still Face Paradigm Using Longitudinal Techniques date: 1904 words: 160 flesch: 33 summary: The lab task interrupts contingent interaction between mother and infant, typically eliciting affective responses indicative of the infant's self-regulatory skills. The current study proposed implementation of longitudinal statistical techniques which allow for the examination of response patterns during the socially stressful task with the mother and infant, specifically examining and comparing the intercepts and slopes of affect within each segment of the task. keywords: infant cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m93c0z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m93c0z.txt item: #2792 of 4945 id: jm214m93j1v author: Mojtaba Kashani title: Differentiating Role of Race in the Processes of Collective Identity Construction: Black Lives Matter date: 2019 words: 127 flesch: 37 summary: Drawing on the literature on collective identity and boundary activation processes, I have done a content analysis on a sample of 30 opinion articles written by BLM activists and authors with concern about racial justice issues. While both black and white activists tend to activate racial boundaries, the emphasis on race and blackness is more common among black authors. keywords: black cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m93j1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m93j1v.txt item: #2793 of 4945 id: jm214m93q64 author: Michael Davis title: Synonymy date: 2021 words: 275 flesch: 30 summary: For every human being, bodily vulnerability and inevitable decay are a fact of life. Every human is gifted a miraculous biologically evolving body, a fascinating sense of psychology, and a limited tenure on Earth called life. keywords: human cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m93q64.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m93q64.txt item: #2794 of 4945 id: jm214m93q7g author: Owen Dominguez title: Optical Structures for the Mid–Infrared: Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Optical Phonon Polariton Devices date: 2020 words: 341 flesch: 41 summary: We demonstrate the ability to engineer the spectral response of the nanoantennas on ENZ materials and coupling to the ENZ modes. The ENZ mode is obtained from light interacting with a material at a frequency where the permittivity is vanishing, such material is known as an ENZ material. keywords: enz cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m93q7g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m93q7g.txt item: #2795 of 4945 id: jm214m93s0p author: Xinyue Zhao title: Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of Applied Free Boundary Problems date: 2021 words: 105 flesch: 35 summary: Many mathematical models in different disciplines, e.g., biology, ecology, physics, and material science, involve the formulation of free boundary problems. Free boundary problems (the time dependent problems are also often known as moving boundary problems) deal with systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) where the domain boundary is apriori unknown. keywords: boundary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m93s0p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m93s0p.txt item: #2796 of 4945 id: jm214m93s11 author: Wenjing Hu title: Statistical Methods for Clinical Trial Design, Climate Projection and Air Pollution Assessment date: 2021 words: 371 flesch: 30 summary: Physically constrained projections, in the presence of both observations and climate simulations, can be obtained by establishing an empirical relationship in the historical period, and use it to correct the bias of future simulations. Simulation studies are conducted to show the good operating characteristics of this design under multiple scenarios. keywords: climate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m93s11.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m93s11.txt item: #2797 of 4945 id: jm214m93s9s author: Jerry T. Crum title: Interrogation and Catalytic Influence of Al Site Proximity and Topology in Brønsted Acid Zeolites date: 2022 words: 309 flesch: 40 summary: We further relate the topology of zeolite frameworks to ion exchange energy siting preferences for various monovalent cations in a number of common frameworks. The topology of zeolite frameworks and of associated tetrahedral sites (T-sites) are commonly characterized by their associated rings, typically defined as some set of closed paths or cycles through a framework that cannot be decomposed into shorter cycles. keywords: zeolite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m93s9s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m93s9s.txt item: #2798 of 4945 id: jm214m93v51 author: Zoe Darsee title: Double Uncle or, What to Do about the Wife date: 2023 words: 3 flesch: 90 summary: A verse novel. keywords: novel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jm214m93v51.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jm214m93v51.txt item: #2799 of 4945 id: jq085h75x57 author: Jeremiah J. Gassensmith title: The Supramolecular Chemistry of Squaraine Dyes and Anthracene Macrocycles date: 2009 words: 275 flesch: 34 summary: Also presented are synthetic methods for functionalizing the rotaxane with different ``stopper group' in quantitive coupling reactions. The macrocycle shows interesting supramolecular directing effects, producing Diels-Alder products at the 1,4 carbons with N-ethylmaleimide. keywords: interesting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h75x57.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h75x57.txt item: #2800 of 4945 id: jq085h75x6k author: Timothy Everett Wright title: Privacy and Integrity in Collaborative, Virtual Environments date: 2010 words: 171 flesch: 29 summary: As immersive, multimedia-oriented systems, CVEs typically represent participants as avatars and operate in a variety of areas including, but not limited to: entertainment, commerce, education, and research. Finally, we carry out a realistic demonstration of Wonderland/WonderDAC with a small number of human participants. keywords: participants cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h75x6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h75x6k.txt item: #2801 of 4945 id: jq085h75x7x author: Erik L. Peterson title: Finding Mind, Form, Organism, and Person in a Reductionist Age: The Challenge of Gregory Bateson and C. H. Waddington to Biological and Anthropological Orthodoxy, 1924-1980 date: 2010 words: 399 flesch: 36 summary: Through their relationship, Bateson and Waddington found personal and intellectual support for continued work on their organismic evolutionary theory in the life and social sciences. A study of this kind is important not only because it addresses a historical lacuna, but because their holistic evolutionary theory was not the version of evolution that came to dominate the life and, eventually, social sciences in the mid-1970sÌ¢ âÂ' though there is growing support for organicism today. keywords: synthesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h75x7x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h75x7x.txt item: #2802 of 4945 id: jq085h75x9m author: Takhmina Shokirova title: Is Peace Achievable for Women? Comparative Study of Gender Relations in Private Sphere in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan date: 2010 words: 149 flesch: 58 summary: The hypothesis to this research is: the more peaceful the approach to conflict resolution, the more gender equal policies will result in private sphere, and more security is distributed equally for women and men. The study thoroughly analyses the governmental policies related to gender equity in private sphere and distribution of security for women and men. keywords: gender cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h75x9m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h75x9m.txt item: #2803 of 4945 id: jq085h75z0t author: Erin Elizabeth Hinz title: Mermaid Pinch: Investigating Identity and Sexual Subjectivity within a Gendered System date: 2015 words: 27 flesch: 67 summary: This paper will situate my paintings within the context of feminist theory and politics. I see my work as a continuation of past and present feminist thought. keywords: feminist cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h75z0t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h75z0t.txt item: #2804 of 4945 id: jq085h75z8k author: Manish Sushil Kelkar title: Computing Transport Properties of Molecular and Ionic Fluids Using Atomistic Simulations date: 2007 words: 331 flesch: 33 summary: We report the results of first atomistic simulation study to compute the thermal conductivity of ionic liquid as well as the effect of water content on the transport properties (such as viscosity and thermal conductivity) of these liquids. Atomistic simulations are conducted to examine the dependence of the transport properties of ionic liquids (1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide and 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethylsulfate) on temperature and water content. keywords: water cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h75z8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h75z8k.txt item: #2805 of 4945 id: jq085h7600d author: Chan Yong Schuele title: Control of Stationary Cross-Flow Modes in a Mach 3.5 Boundary Layer Using Patterned Passive and Active Roughness date: 2011 words: 317 flesch: 59 summary: Two had minute (20 - 40 åµm) 'dimples' that are equally spaced around the circumference, at a streamwise location that is just upstream of the linear stability neutral growth branch for cross-flow modes. Spanwise-periodic roughness designed to excite selected wavelengths of stationary cross-flow modes was investigated in a 3-D boundary layer at Mach 3.5. keywords: roughness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h7600d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h7600d.txt item: #2806 of 4945 id: jq085h7603f author: Lori Molinari title: The Ancient Republics and the Mixed Regime in Montesquieu's Political Thought date: 2014 words: 130 flesch: 41 summary: It discusses what Montesquieu and his sources reveal about the class structure of each regime and what laws and institutions each had in place to either eradicate inequality or manage/minimize the tensions it generated. This dissertation concludes by showing why and how Montesquieu thought that the English government represented a far more durable design for a mixed regime, and it argues that Montesquieu understood the English system to be a republic, despite the fact that a (hereditary) king and nobility were essential features of it. keywords: montesquieu cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h7603f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h7603f.txt item: #2807 of 4945 id: jq085h7604s author: Jeremiah J. Castle title: Rock of Ages: Subcultural Religious Identity and Public Opinion Among Evangelical Millennials date: 1904 words: 337 flesch: 30 summary: I find that accounts of a new generation of liberal young evangelicals have been overstated: in terms of their partisan identity, ideology, and attitudes on abortion, young evangelicals are as conservative as ever. Drawing on research from sociology, I argue that evangelicalism is a subculture that is engaged in society but holds certain values that are contrary to society. keywords: evangelicals cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h7604s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h7604s.txt item: #2808 of 4945 id: jq085h76112 author: Kyle Muntz title: The Holy Ghost date: 1904 words: 129 flesch: 56 summary: Along the way, the novel is a very serious exploration of the nature of goodness, knowledge, and belief in a strange, surreal world where human society and history are unrecognizable; prophets read the words of Holy Books embedded somewhere in their chest; and the stars are holes in the sky, letting the light of heaven shine through. A young boy's mother dies after being possessed by a demon—and, traumatized, the family leaves the village for the Holy City of Jerusalem: a place where, once every ten years, someone is sent to see God. keywords: holy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h76112.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h76112.txt item: #2809 of 4945 id: jq085h76n6c author: Christopher B. Wotta title: The Metallicity Distribution of the Circumgalactic Medium of Galaxies at z < 1 date: 1904 words: 483 flesch: 50 summary: As part of this work, we develop a new method to robustly derive the metallicity of ionized gas using only low-resolution spectra of H I and Mg II (Chapter 2); this significantly reduces the observational cost of such studies by a factor ~10. This dissertation is composed of two related projects focused on assessing the metallicity distribution of circumgalactic gas at low redshift. keywords: metallicity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h76n6c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h76n6c.txt item: #2810 of 4945 id: jq085h76n82 author: Michael Tze-Sung Longenecker title: The Contingently Non-Concrete: Uses and Nature date: 1904 words: 127 flesch: 53 summary: They can be used to develop new views of possible worlds, material objects, the nature of the past, and God's creation of the world that help us avoid some problems concerning these issues. One forceful objection to the existence of non-concreta is that their modal properties aren't grounded in their non-modal properties. keywords: non cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h76n82.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h76n82.txt item: #2811 of 4945 id: jq085h76t2j author: Chao Huang title: Spatial-Temporal Data Inference and Forecasting: Models and Applications date: 2019 words: 183 flesch: 17 summary: With the advances in wireless and location-acquisition communication technologies, spatial-temporal data is ubiquitous in real world ranging from social media to urban planning. The results of the work in this proposal are important because they provide a solid analytical foundation to accurate and effective modeling of spatial-temporal data, and directly contribute to the emerging field of computational sustainability, social science and urban planning. keywords: temporal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h76t2j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h76t2j.txt item: #2812 of 4945 id: jq085h7718r author: Hongshuo Wang title: Edge Termination Design of Vertical GaN High Voltage P-N Diodes and Current Leakage Study of GaN P-N Diodes date: 2021 words: 315 flesch: 50 summary: Gallium nitride (GaN) is a wide bandgap semiconductor with huge potential in power electronics devices due to its large direct bandgap (3.4eV), high critical electrical field, high electron saturation velocity, large electron mobility, and high thermal conductivity compared with other common materials like Si, GaAs and SiC. Based on this promise, vertical GaN diodes have been demonstrated that are promising for high-voltage power applications. Therefore, in order to improve the performance of high power GaN devices, it is essential to study the role of edge effects in these devices. keywords: gan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h7718r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h7718r.txt item: #2813 of 4945 id: jq085h7733n author: Connor Mullen title: Combining Hydrology with Data Science and Economics to Address Modern Water Resources Challenges date: 2022 words: 440 flesch: 33 summary: In that context, modern hydrology faces a range of fundamental and well-established challenges, three of which are addressed in this dissertation: (i) data scarcity, with only a few hydrological systems having in situ data globally, (ii) heterogeneity of hydrologic processes and variables and the need to provide high-resolution hydrologic information and data at local scales, while also generating consistent information and data at landscape scale, and (iii) feedback within water resource systems and determining cause and effect in observational data (e.g. feedback loops between human and natural systems). Proper attribution of hydrologic change requires sufficient data, understanding of landscape processes, and often the construction of models at a range of scales. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jq085h7733n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jq085h7733n.txt item: #2814 of 4945 id: js956d5969x author: Elizabeth Ann Buchta title: Self-Centering: Seeing Through Self-Distortion date: 2010 words: 109 flesch: 48 summary: Works by Robert Rauschenberg and Tracey Emin, two artists who have been major influences and research interests of the author during her time at Notre Dame, provide a contextual reference for the use of personal autobiographical materials. The author discusses two groups of work completed during her second year as an MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame. keywords: artist cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d5969x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d5969x.txt item: #2815 of 4945 id: js956d5972t author: Paul Louis Mikrut title: Vibration of Axial Turbomachinery Blades: Measurement and Fluid-Structure Interactions date: 2012 words: 266 flesch: 44 summary: The focus of this dissertation is on turbomachinery blade vibration measurements and unsteady fluid-structure interactions. Accurate blade vibration measurements are critical in product aero-mechanical design validation and can be difficult to obtain. keywords: blade cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d5972t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d5972t.txt item: #2816 of 4945 id: js956d59735 author: Wei Zhao title: Impact of Uniaxial Strain on the Electrical Characteristics of CMOS and Esaki Tunnel Diode date: 2008 words: 335 flesch: 24 summary: In this thesis, the impact of uniaxial strain on the peak tunneling current density of Esaki tunnel diodes is theoretically calculated, considering strain-induced changes in the bandgap, electron repopulation among different valleys (only for multi-valley conduction band minimum) and the reduced mass along the tunneling directions. From the theoretical calculation, it is found that uniaxial stress can be used to improve peak tunneling current density of Esaki tunnel diodes and the optimum directions for current and uniaxial stress are identified to achieve the largest increase in peak tunneling current for a given magnitude of uniaxial stress. keywords: strain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d59735.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d59735.txt item: #2817 of 4945 id: js956d5974h author: Patrick L. Hill title: How to Succeed in Morality without Really Trying: Testing the Influence of Implicit Prototypes on Moral Action date: 2009 words: 189 flesch: 30 summary: These results thus support claims that implicit moral actor prototypes do motivate moral action, and future research directions are discussed. Second, participants' perceptions of volunteer prototypes positively predicted their reported volunteer hours per week. keywords: participants cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d5974h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d5974h.txt item: #2818 of 4945 id: js956d5975v author: Thomas F Rzeznik title: Spiritual Capital: Religion, Wealth, and Social Status in Industrial Era Philadelphia date: 2007 words: 184 flesch: 16 summary: This research advances our understanding of American social and religious history in the modern era by revealing the prevalence and potency of religious belief among members of the upper class, and by giving heed to the ways in which social class affected religious institutions and their mission. In return for their outward commitment to religious principles, wealthy individuals obtained the spiritual capital necessary to secure social status and strengthen class identity. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d5975v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d5975v.txt item: #2819 of 4945 id: js956d59766 author: Mary L. Hirschfeld title: Virtuous Consumption in a Dynamic Economy: A Thomistic Engagement with Neoclassical Economics date: 2013 words: 356 flesch: 43 summary: To develop a meaningful account of economic justice requires an account of the role economic goods play in a good human life. Aquinas's nuanced views on private property accommodate the insights of economists about the role of markets and incentives, while still ordering economic goods to the virtues, including the virtue of economic justice. keywords: economic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d59766.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d59766.txt item: #2820 of 4945 id: js956d5977j author: Ching He title: Analysis and Design of Multiple Turbo Codes date: 2005 words: 347 flesch: 48 summary: Compared to conventional turbo codes using the best DRP permutors, significant improvement has been achieved by using multiple turbo codes with linear permutors. Two joint permutor construction algorithms are then presented, one for random permutors and another for linear permutors. keywords: permutors cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d5977j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d5977j.txt item: #2821 of 4945 id: js956d5978w author: Lucas Isaac Gonzalez title: Primus Contra Pares: Presidents, Governors, and the Struggles over the Distribution of Power in Federal Democracies date: 2010 words: 333 flesch: 35 summary: Relying on a statistical analysis, it also tests the main explanation and alternative arguments to account for changes in the distribution of resources and functions in federal democracies in a large-N study. It finally concludes with some theoretical and comparative implications for the study of fiscal federalism and the functioning of developing federal democracies. keywords: resources cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d5978w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d5978w.txt item: #2822 of 4945 id: js956d5980f author: Travis David Marsico title: Post-glacial migration, limitations to poleward range expansion, and growth responses to future climates of plants in the Garry oak ecosystem date: 2009 words: 365 flesch: 27 summary: Yet many species are not or not yet exhibiting range changes associated with anthropogenic climate change. My research uses a comparative approach to investigate patterns of post-glacial colonization, factors involved in geographic range limitation, and species responses to future climates using genetic techniques, a field experiment, and a chamber experiment, respectively. keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d5980f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d5980f.txt item: #2823 of 4945 id: js956d59824 author: Kimberly F. Baker title: Augustine on Action, Contemplation, and Their Meeting Point in Christ date: 2007 words: 358 flesch: 46 summary: It argues that Augustine resolves this question theologically in Christ with his doctrine of the totus Christus, L558the whole Christ with Christ as Head and the Church as Body, teaching that Christ united himself to all of humanity in order to transform humanity into his Body, the Church. Chapter 4 concludes the dissertation by describing the value Christ's love gives to daily life as it becomes a place for meeting Christ as well as the matrix for ongoing conformation to Christ as the Church joins his work of love. keywords: christ cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d59824.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d59824.txt item: #2824 of 4945 id: js956d5983g author: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint title: The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, A Haven date: 2015 words: 8 flesch: 82 summary: A collection of short stories and a novella. keywords: novella cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d5983g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d5983g.txt item: #2825 of 4945 id: js956d59d73 author: Laura Lemna title: Incremental Adjustments date: 1904 words: 90 flesch: 14 summary: This thesis is an exploration in the ways that painting and the specific historical languages of abstraction can represent attitudes, strategies and processes that arise under competing pressures to be unwavering in our decisions and our public and self-images, while also staying easy-going and adaptable in the face of recent technologies, social media platforms, and instantaneous and overwhelming access to information and opinions. Through a combination of gestural mark-making and wobbly geometric design, I reflect a human desire to create and contribute in productive and meaningful ways. keywords: ways cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d59d73.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d59d73.txt item: #2826 of 4945 id: js956d59x21 author: Lisa E. Irimata title: An Anatomic Breast Phantom Mimicking Varying Levels of Radiographic Tissue Density for Investigating Contrast-Enhanced Detection of Microcalcifications date: 1904 words: 236 flesch: 42 summary: The radiographic density of breast tissue varies between women depending on the relative amounts of low-density adipose tissue and high-density fibroglandular tissue. PEGylated bisphosphonate-functionalized gold nanoparticles (BP-PEG-Au NPs) enabled contrast-enhanced detection of µcals as small as 0.5 mm in hydrogels mimicking dense breast tissue using laboratory and preclinical micro-computed tomography. keywords: breast cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d59x21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d59x21.txt item: #2827 of 4945 id: js956d59x83 author: Eve A. Granatosky title: Biosynthetic Access to the GEX1A Scaffold: A Novel Therapeutic Approach for Niemann-Pick Type C Disease date: 1904 words: 351 flesch: 30 summary: We finally examined the effects of GEX1A on in vitro models of NPC disease at the cellular and molecular levels. A complete analysis of this expression data, which includes isoform-specific information relevant to GEX1A's role in splicing modulation, is underway, and will be a valuable contribution to understanding how this natural product, and potentially other structurally related scaffolds, has a beneficial therapeutic effect in the context of NPC disease. keywords: gex1a cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d59x83.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d59x83.txt item: #2828 of 4945 id: js956d6091v author: Louis Faust title: Modeling Physiological and Behavioral Data Streams Towards Health Insights date: 2020 words: 195 flesch: 45 summary: By successfully informing users of their health through their health behaviors, wearable devices will serve as a pervasive and convenient platform for engaging with personal health. The fine grained physiological and behavioral measurements these devices provide serve as invaluable tools for the fields of health and wellness. keywords: health cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d6091v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d6091v.txt item: #2829 of 4945 id: js956d6094w author: Rrezarta Krasniqi title: Detecting Emerging Quality-Related Concerns across Evolving Software Artifacts date: 2020 words: 486 flesch: 31 summary: In the broader context, this thesis makes an effort to further enhance comprehension of quality concerns during software maintenance and evolution, software reuse, code reuse, and supports consistency between design and the code. Seemingly, the architectural knowledge associated with quality concerns becomes fragmented across implemented code leading to architectural drift phenomena. keywords: concerns cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d6094w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d6094w.txt item: #2830 of 4945 id: js956d60c4h author: Audrey K. Taylor title: Biomarker Methods in Paleoclimatology: Applications to the Southeast African Margin and Mediterranean Region date: 2022 words: 353 flesch: 18 summary: The δDwax record produced for Chapter 3 represents the only one of its kind for the region, resolving seasonal rainfall dynamics and providing continuous, sub-millennial hydroclimatic context for early human dispersal out of Africa. Ultimately, Chapter 2 addresses a critical spatiotemporal gap in geologic records of African climate and helps establish regional rainfall controls related to the Indian Ocean and high-latitude glaciation that may inform forecasts of future climate. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/js956d60c4h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/js956d60c4h.txt item: #2831 of 4945 id: jw827942g7s author: Molly M. Zahn title: The Forms and Methods of Early Jewish Reworkings of the Pentateuch in Light of 4Q158 date: 2009 words: 349 flesch: 35 summary: The analysis conducted here provides empirical foundations for exploring issues that arise out of this discussion, such as the relationship between particular forms of reworking and particular exegetical goals; the connection between particular forms and purposes of reworking and the status of the resulting rewritten text; and the ways in which rewritten texts that constitute new compositions can be distinguished from expanded editions of biblical books. The methods of reworking in the 4QRP manuscripts are then compared with those evidenced in two related texts or text groups: the Samaritan Pentateuch and its Qumranic forebears, and the Temple Scroll (11QT). keywords: 4qrp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jw827942g7s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jw827942g7s.txt item: #2832 of 4945 id: jw827942g84 author: Haitao Wang title: Algorithms and Data Structures for Geometric Object Approximation Problems date: 2010 words: 317 flesch: 44 summary: In addition, for solving these problems, we develop a number of new data structures, e.g., vertical hull width query, 2-D sublist query, 3-D sublist query, q-range-minimia, simplicial thickness query, etc., which are interesting in their own rights and can easily find other applications. In this dissertation, we study a number of geometric approximation problems. keywords: problems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jw827942g84.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jw827942g84.txt item: #2833 of 4945 id: jw827942h2c author: Francis James Raycroft title: Characterization of the JAK1 / Stat3 pathway during zebrafish retinal development and light-induced photoreceptor regeneration date: 2015 words: 665 flesch: 28 summary: Also, previous studies demonstrated that tyrosine phosphorylation of Stat3 and downstream activation of Stat3-activated genes, including the two zebrafish paralogues of Socs3 (socs3a and socs3b), was associated with neuronal regeneration (Elsaeidi et al., 2014; Liang et al., 2012). The source of regeneration are M?ller glial cells that dedifferentiate into a more primordial stem cell-like state, divide, and yield transiently amplifying progenitor cells that migrate to the site of damage and replenish the lost neuronal cell types. keywords: stat3 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jw827942h2c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jw827942h2c.txt item: #2834 of 4945 id: jw827942j00 author: Kelsey Blomeke title: Stress Generation in Marital Interactions Among Currently Depressed, Past Depressed, and Never Depressed Spouses date: 2013 words: 161 flesch: 20 summary: Contrary to hypotheses, partners with a history of depression did not engage in more criticism-eliciting behaviors than never-depressed partners; however, they did engage in more support-eliciting behaviors (when controlling for dyadic adjustment) even though their spouses did not provide more support, which supports the excessive-reassurance seeking model. The stress-generation model of depression (Hammen, 1991) posits that people with current or past depression behave in ways that generate more frequent negative stressful life events, and that this, in turn, leads to the maintenance or recurrence of depression. keywords: comments cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jw827942j00.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jw827942j00.txt item: #2835 of 4945 id: jw827942j2p author: Lesley-Anne Dyer title: Translating Eternity in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance date: 2011 words: 412 flesch: 49 summary: The second section looks at twelfth-century works that are inspired by Platonic sources, primarily Calcidius' translation and commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Macrobius, and Martianus Capella. Most notable among these problems is that Platonic sources did not always consider the Maximum God to be eternal, even though the scriptures and Augustine presented the entire Trinity as eternal and maximum. keywords: eternity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jw827942j2p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jw827942j2p.txt item: #2836 of 4945 id: jw827942j5q author: Aanuoluwa Adeola Adelani title: Genetic Approaches and Therapeutic Strategies Against Severe Malaria date: 2014 words: 356 flesch: 40 summary: In this project, we investigated the role of members of merozoite surface protein 7 (MSP7) family for their modulatory effect on malaria invasion, death and cerebral malaria using in-vivo rodent models in acute infection BALB/c mouse and experimental cerebral malaria (ECM) C57BL/6 mouse. This formulation is thus proposed as a future treatment option for late stage cerebral malaria. keywords: malaria cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jw827942j5q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jw827942j5q.txt item: #2837 of 4945 id: jw82794370g author: Xin Mu title: Molecular Dynamics Study of Thermal Energy Transport in Graphene-Based Materials date: 1904 words: 832 flesch: 34 summary: The vibrational power spectral analyses showed that this large reduction in thermal conductivity was due to the significantly enhanced phonon scattering induced by the oxygen and hydrogen defects. In the last project, the interfacial thermal conductance of oxidized graphene /copper interface was studied. keywords: graphene; thermal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jw82794370g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jw82794370g.txt item: #2838 of 4945 id: jw827943876 author: Michael W. Altenburger title: Hans Urs von Balthasar: Apocalyptic, Politics, and the Church date: 2018 words: 354 flesch: 29 summary: The third chapter initiates the turn to political theology proper by placing Balthasar in conversation with Saint Augustine, the figure of architectonic significance for Christian political theology. Central features of Balthasar's apocalyptic theology are identified in this dissertation in order to open up the resources of those features for political theology. keywords: balthasar cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jw827943876.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jw827943876.txt item: #2839 of 4945 id: jw827943j9c author: Kristina Hook title: When the Ukrainian World Was Destroyed: Genocidal Narrative Convergence and Stakeholder Interactions during National Crises date: 2020 words: 364 flesch: 13 summary: Contextualizing this argument through 2.5 years of ethnographic fieldwork and participant-observation in Ukraine, I explore Holodomor narrative functions—including reclamation, resistance, absolution, and camouflage—and demonstrate the salience of this event and its legacy in understanding contemporary Ukraine. Since Ukraine's 1991 independence, narratives regarding the Holodomor have grown from a diffuse set of suppressed memories into an officially-sanctioned charter story for Ukrainian national identity as nuances decreased and stakeholder narratives converged during a series of escalating national crises. keywords: narratives cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jw827943j9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jw827943j9c.txt item: #2840 of 4945 id: jw827943n2w author: Hadrian Renaldo Olayvar Aquino title: Electrical-to-Spin-Wave Transducers for Spin-Wave Computing Devices date: 2022 words: 551 flesch: 55 summary: This work contributes new designs of electrical-to-spin-wave transducers for the realization of computing devices based on the interference and diffraction of spin waves in a magnetic thin film. These devices need a material in which spin waves will be excited. keywords: spin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/jw827943n2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/jw827943n2w.txt item: #2841 of 4945 id: k0698625s02 author: Alonso Faruck Morcos Gonzalez title: Multiscale Protein Networks: Interactions, Two Component Systems and Kinetics date: 2010 words: 354 flesch: 29 summary: This network based approach reproduced experimental studies in E. coli and produced a series of hypotheses of domain specificity that could extend our knowledge of interaction interfaces in two-component systems. This work presents a multiscale approach to study protein networks. keywords: domain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698625s02.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698625s02.txt item: #2842 of 4945 id: k0698625s1d author: Michael Joseph Keane title: Political Equality and the Empirical Analysis of Deliberation date: 2010 words: 342 flesch: 23 summary: I argue that these results should guide further empirical analysis of political equality within deliberation, can advise practitioners in constructing deliberative bodies, and suggest that traditionally disempowered groups can be successfully integrated into democratic deliberation without the aid of 'enclaves.' I find that members of these groups are more likely to find deliberation useful in helping them clarify issue attitudes, and that African Americans are more likely than other racial groups to feel efficacious within small groups. keywords: deliberation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698625s1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698625s1d.txt item: #2843 of 4945 id: k0698625s4f author: Marie Yvonne Bourgeois title: Inside Out: Graphic Design's Place in Beauty, Distortion and Ugly Truths date: 2012 words: 156 flesch: 40 summary: By contrasting the unattainable images of femininity presented in make-up ads with the ugly reality that cosmetics contain toxins, this thesis and the accompanying Fierce Cosmetics Campaign question the out-of-control nature of consumer culture in the United States and graphic design's role in contributing to, as well as subverting, the advertising industry. One can contribute to existing critiques of the advertising-design relationship by examining marketing practices for beauty products. keywords: advertising cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698625s4f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698625s4f.txt item: #2844 of 4945 id: k0698625s5s author: Jing Zhou title: Fabrication of ALGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors date: 2011 words: 166 flesch: 55 summary: Cl2-based GaN reactive ion etching, as a critical step of HEMT process flow, is investigated to obtain consistent etch rates with smooth etched surfaces. The atomic force microscopic study show the roughness of etched GaN surfaces is comparable with that of the as-grown surface. keywords: gan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698625s5s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698625s5s.txt item: #2845 of 4945 id: k0698625s64 author: Christopher M. Moretti title: Abstractions for Scientific Computing on Campus Grids date: 2010 words: 224 flesch: 45 summary: The discussion of the abstractions includes modeling of the problem, managing input data, organizing computation on the campus grid, and managing output data. These abstractions are used for several problems in bioinformatics, biometrics, and data mining. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698625s64.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698625s64.txt item: #2846 of 4945 id: k0698625s7g author: Joe Reese Haywood title: Numerical Relativistic Hydrodynamic Simulations of Neutron Stars date: 2006 words: 317 flesch: 47 summary: Also of current interest is the detection of gravitational radiation from binary neutron stars, black-hole neutron star binaries, binary black holes, etc. Numerical simulations of colliding neutron stars, having either a realistic or Gamma = 2 polytropic equation of state (EOS), are presented which confirm the rise in central density seen by [51, 89] for the softer EOS. keywords: neutron cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698625s7g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698625s7g.txt item: #2847 of 4945 id: k0698625s8t author: Nathan J. Alves title: Utilization of the Conserved Antibody Nucleotide Binding Site (NBS): From Antibody Purification and Advanced Medical Diagnostics to Next Generation Therapeutics date: 2013 words: 342 flesch: 6 summary: This method of crosslinking also has implications in the development of next generation pharmaceutical antibodies by providing a site-specific insertion of functional moieties such as: chemotherapeutics, cell penetrating peptides, targeting sequences for bispecific antibody preparation, imaging molecules, and immobilization of antibodies to various nanoparticle drug delivery platforms, without negatively impacting antibody-antigen binding interactions. This dissertation will demonstrate how an underutilized, highly conserved binding domain located on the antibody variable fragment, known as the nucleotide binding site (NBS), can be implemented for antibody purification, advanced medical diagnostic development and for next generation antibody based therapeutics. keywords: antibody cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698625s8t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698625s8t.txt item: #2848 of 4945 id: k0698625s95 author: Wenyi Zhang title: The Role of Correlation in Communication over Fading Channels date: 2006 words: 308 flesch: 37 summary: In the low-SNR regime, it is shown using asymptotic analysis that spatially correlated antennas lead to both multiplicative rate gain as well as peak power reduction, at no cost of additional transmit power. In wireless communication systems with no channel state information (CSI) available at the transmitter or receiver, channel correlation plays a pivotal role in analyzing system behavior. keywords: channel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698625s95.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698625s95.txt item: #2849 of 4945 id: k0698625t22 author: Sarita Reena Mendonca title: Function of P.falciparum MAEBL ligand domain M2 in the invasion of Anopheles salivary glands date: 2010 words: 280 flesch: 48 summary: The aims of my research are: 1) To gain insights into the structure of ligand domain M2 and to determine its function of in the invasion of mosquito salivary glands, 2) To study the role of glycosaminoglycans in MAEBL ligand-receptor interactions. To understand the function of MAEBL ligand domains in the invasion of mosquito salivary glands, the ligand domain M2, and the subdomains of M2, M2sd1 and M2sd2 were cloned and expressed in the BL21(DE3)pLysE strain of E.coli. keywords: glands cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698625t22.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698625t22.txt item: #2850 of 4945 id: k0698625t4r author: Jeremiah John title: The Moral Life of Law in Hegel date: 2007 words: 208 flesch: 23 summary: Hegel's philosophy of law is in the tradition of natural law, broadly speaking, but it is just as much an overcoming of modern natural law, since it proposes not only to provide a evaluative standard against which one might judge existing laws, but an account of how the potentially critical perspective of the moral individual can be brought to an attitude of free assent to and reverence for objective laws and institutions. It is a distinctive feature of Hegel's moral and political philosophy that it is characterized as a philosophy of right or law. keywords: law cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698625t4r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698625t4r.txt item: #2851 of 4945 id: k0698626g4x author: Erin M. Franks title: A Regional and Hierarchical Assessment of Cranial Plasticity and Dietary Adaptations date: 1904 words: 354 flesch: 14 summary: This is critically important as it suggests that physiological adaptation, and corresponding variation in skeletal performance, may reside differentially at one level of bony architecture, thus potentially affecting accurate behavioral reconstructions. It was hypothesized that masticatory regions would exhibit a more pronounced response to elevated loading and that cortical bone quantity and quality would be positively related to diet-induced loading levels in masticatory elements. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698626g4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698626g4x.txt item: #2852 of 4945 id: k0698626n4g author: Caitlin Stevenson title: Lay Reading, Writing, and Religious Authority in Fifteenth-Century Germany date: 2019 words: 271 flesch: 44 summary: Fifteenth-century German Christians were incubating questions about religious authority—but questions they did not recognize and could not ask. This inchoate unease, barely or not perceived by the writers at all, arose from their particularly strong affinity for religious literature. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698626n4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698626n4g.txt item: #2853 of 4945 id: k0698626w08 author: Francesco Mattiotti title: Cooperative Effects in Quantum Systems: Superradiance and Long-Range Interactions date: 2021 words: 886 flesch: 29 summary: Moreover, our analysis of solid state systems based on perovskite (CsPbBr3) quantum dot superlattices provides a theoretical framework able to explain recent observations of superradiant emission. Within such formalism, the interplay of superradiance and thermal noise is studied both for molecular nanotubes (of size smaller than the transition wavelength) that are present in the antenna complexes of photosynthetic Green Sulfur Bacteria, and also for novel solid state quantum dot superlattices, having size larger than the emitted wavelength. keywords: molecular; quantum cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698626w08.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698626w08.txt item: #2854 of 4945 id: k0698626w4n author: Liam de los Reyes title: By Nature Common: Foundations for a Natural Law Theory of the Convention of Property date: 2021 words: 376 flesch: 34 summary: In the penultimate chapter I show why Locke offers an unsuitable lens for interpreting CST: his approach is logically incoherent, conducive to imperialist thought and practice, and, contrary to the patristic and scholastic traditions, holds that property is primarily a power of personal use. It offers, in other words, a Christian theory of property: identifying key principles from patristic discourse; how these principles are explicated and systematized in twelfth- and thirteenth-century canon lawyers and theologians; and why this tradition offers a compelling lens to interpret Catholic Social Teaching. keywords: property cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698626w4n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698626w4n.txt item: #2855 of 4945 id: k0698626z3x author: Whitney M. Conard title: Integration of Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Aquatic Ecosystems of the Great Lakes Region date: 2022 words: 349 flesch: 29 summary: Finally, I adapt and optimize a rapid method for measuring total fluorine as a proxy for PFAS using Particle-Induced Gamma-ray Emission (PIGE) spectroscopy, which will increase sample through-put and reduce cost for processing PFAS samples when compared to Liquid Chromatography with tandem Mass Spectroscopy (LC-MS/MS). I also determine that an iteroparous species (steelhead trout) had higher total body burdens of PFAS compared to semelparous species (Chinook and coho salmon), suggesting that repeat spawners have more opportunities for PFAS exposure and acquisition. keywords: pfas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k0698626z3x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k0698626z3x.txt item: #2856 of 4945 id: k3569309196 author: Zhenhua Gong title: Interference, Outage, and Throughput in Mobile Wireless Networks date: 2013 words: 310 flesch: 41 summary: We quantify the temporal correlation of the interference and outage in mobile Poisson networks in terms of the correlation coefficient of the interference and conditional outage probability, respectively. Bounds of the local delay in mobile Poisson networks are derived for different mobility and transmission models. keywords: networks cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k3569309196.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k3569309196.txt item: #2857 of 4945 id: k356930920d author: Jennifer E. Rosato title: Opening Oneself to An Other: Sartre's and Levinas' Phenomenological Ethics date: 2010 words: 214 flesch: 19 summary: In this dissertation, I raise the question as to what sort of ethics might be gotten out of phenomenology, and begin to answer it by examining the ethical theories of Jean-Paul Sartre and Emmanuel Levinas. I then proceed to discuss these philosophers' accounts of relations with others, and discuss in detail the ethical theory that Sartre and Levinas develop on the basis of their respective descriptions of self and others. keywords: levinas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k356930920d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k356930920d.txt item: #2858 of 4945 id: k356930923f author: Ann Catherine Johnson title: Defining Working Memory Deficits in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: The Search for Impairment in Active Maintenance and Cue-Dependent Retrieval date: 2010 words: 154 flesch: 37 summary: With this knowledge, researchers developed working memory training programs for individuals with ADHD in the hopes of ameliorating working memory deficits and alleviating symptoms of the disorder. The reported experiments shed light on this area by utilizing a model of working memory that evaluates two components of working memory, active maintenance in primary memory (PM) and cue-dependent retrieval from secondary memory (SM). keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k356930923f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k356930923f.txt item: #2859 of 4945 id: k356930924s author: Michael Patrick Griffin title: The Politics of Penance: Proposing an Ethic for Social Repair date: 2014 words: 299 flesch: 48 summary: I then turn to Thomas Aquinas who understands penance as both a gift offered to sinners in the sacrament and a virtue which restores justice by capacitating sinners for right relationship. I show why these are distinct elements in a coordinated movement toward justice as the re-establishment of right relationship. keywords: penance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k356930924s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k356930924s.txt item: #2860 of 4945 id: k3569309312 author: Heather Claire Treseler title: Lyric Letters: Elizabeth Bishop's Epistolary Poems date: 2010 words: 358 flesch: 33 summary: While Bishop and her Middle Generation peers (b. 1910-1920) have been acknowledged for restoring 'personalit' to poetics after Modernism, this genre study explicates some of the specific narrative techniques and historical conditions that made their biographical aesthetic so appealing. By the mid-century, Bishop had honed her ambidexterity, drawing with two hands on literary inheritance and contemporary inference, gathering 'from the air a live tradition' with discerning acuity. keywords: bishop cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k3569309312.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k3569309312.txt item: #2861 of 4945 id: k356930932d author: David A Ams title: Experimental Studies of Bacterial Interactions with Aqueous Heavy Metal Cations and Mineral Surfaces date: 2005 words: 373 flesch: 43 summary: Metal adsorption onto bacterial surfaces, bacterial adsorption onto mineral surfaces, and bacterially mediated mineral dissolution can control mass transport in bacteria-bearing geologic systems. Chapter 3 describes a study of the effect of metabolism on Cd adsorption onto Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial cells. keywords: adsorption cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k356930932d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k356930932d.txt item: #2862 of 4945 id: k3569309343 author: Jonathan Simpkins title: Modeling and Estimation of Spatially-Varying Point-Spread Functions due to Lens Aberrations and Defocus date: 2011 words: 154 flesch: 37 summary: We propose a novel estimation algorithm for computing the parameters of the aberration model from a set of PSF observations, and we demonstrate through simulation that this yields a more reliable set of PSF estimates. In simulated PSF sets with spread measure noise as strong as 10 dB SNR, the proposed model consistently led to PSF estimates with a 5 dB SNR improvement over the observations, and typically a 10 dB SNR improvement. keywords: psf cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k3569309343.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k3569309343.txt item: #2863 of 4945 id: k3569309374 author: Erin Michele Johnson title: Tribology of Large Diameter Head Total Hip Devices date: 2014 words: 343 flesch: 32 summary: Finally, using wear equations and film parameter estimations, wear factor as a function of film parameter was calculated, resulting in distinct regions for particular bearing technologies, providing initial data for establishing formulas to calculate wear factor values for these bearings. Contact mechanics of these bearings confirmed that careful selection of design parameters, such as material, diameter, clearance, and surface roughness is needed in the design of the bearings in order to balance the magnitude and distribution of the contact pressure between the articulating surfaces, with surface roughness identified as a primary driver of film parameter and clearance as a primary driver of film thickness. keywords: wear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k3569309374.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k3569309374.txt item: #2864 of 4945 id: k3569309463 author: Somayeh Vojdani title: On Presburger Arithmetic, Nonstandard Finite Cyclic Groups, and Definable Compactifications date: 1904 words: 236 flesch: 52 summary: We consider nonstandard analogues of finite cyclic groups as a family of groups defined in an elementary extension of Presburger arithmetic. We show that the torsion-free divisible abelian group is densely ordered and we find the number of non-isomorphic expansions of the profinite group to a model of Presburger arithmetic. keywords: group cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k3569309463.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k3569309463.txt item: #2865 of 4945 id: k3569309808 author: Seog Joon Yoon title: Role of Mixed Halide on Photophysical Properties of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Compounds date: 1904 words: 334 flesch: 33 summary: The findings from this study further reflects the importance of halide treatment (e.g., CH3NH3PbI3) of perovskite films to improve the performance of solar cells. To apply the perovskite compounds to solar cell devices, it is undebatable that one must study the fundamental photophysical properties and basic chemistry of these perovskite. keywords: halide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k3569309808.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k3569309808.txt item: #2866 of 4945 id: k3569309t1k author: Clayton R. Johnson title: Modeling and Quantifying Bacterial Metal Adsorption in Aqueous Systems date: 2018 words: 307 flesch: 29 summary: The ability to predict the fate of metals in complex geological systems is dependent on: understanding bacterial adsorption mechanisms, being able to quantify bacterial metal adsorption, and creating accurate models for bacterial metal adsorption. The results show that the fluorescent probe technique is a viable option for quantifying bacterial Cd adsorption in multi-adsorbent systems and component additivity models predict Cd distribution with reasonable accuracy in systems containing bacteria, a mineral powder, and a chelating ligand. keywords: adsorption cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k3569309t1k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k3569309t1k.txt item: #2867 of 4945 id: k3569309t9b author: Stewart Clem title: Truth as a Virtue: A Thomistic Framework for the Ethics of Lying and Truthtelling date: 2018 words: 351 flesch: 58 summary: How should we interpret the crisis of truth in the 21st century?This project offers answers to these and related questions by viewing them through an unlikely lens: the writings of the medieval scholastic theologian, Thomas Aquinas. This approach generates a more precise taxonomy of speech acts, demonstrating the ways in which these acts and their corresponding habits are opposed to the virtues of truth and justice. keywords: aquinas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k3569309t9b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k3569309t9b.txt item: #2868 of 4945 id: k3569310027 author: Gregory Cousins title: Some Model Theory of Fields and Differential Fields date: 2019 words: 223 flesch: 40 summary: The fourth chapter is based on joint work with Quentin Brouette, Anand Pillay, and Françoise Point in which we prove that if T is a theory of large, bounded fields of characteristic 0 with almost quantifier elimination, and T' is the model companion of T together with the statement d is a derivation then for any model (U, d) of T', differential subfield K of U such that C(K) is a model of T, and logarithmic differential equation dlog(z)=a (defined over some algebraic group G that is definable over C(K)), there is a strongly normal extension L of K for the equation with L a differential subfield of U. The third chapter is dedicated to the study, and characterization, of differential fields with a notion of largeness for differential-algebraic sets. keywords: fields cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k3569310027.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k3569310027.txt item: #2869 of 4945 id: k356931058v author: Hrafn Traustason title: The Development of New Calorimetric Methods Aid the Understanding of Uranyl Peroxide Nanocluster Solution Behavior date: 2021 words: 206 flesch: 38 summary: In total, the energy landscapes for 10 UPCs, two Mo POMs, and one uranyl peroxide monomer (building block of UPCs) were analyzed by obtaining values for enthalpy of formation of POM crystals (ΔHf,(c)), enthalpy of formation of aqueous POMs (ΔHf,(aq)), and enthalpy of dissolution (ΔHdiss). The results allowed us to predict the conversion of LiNa-U24Pp12 to LiNa-U24 and Li-U28 to LiCa-U24 and elucidate their transformations; and the enthalpy of conversion from lithium uranyl triperoxide monomer to U24 and U28 was determined to be negative, which is in agreement with literature observations. keywords: upcs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k356931058v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k356931058v.txt item: #2870 of 4945 id: k3569310685 author: Jon Kara Shields title: Listen to the Word That God Has Spoken: The Study of Christian Communities in Christian Ethics date: 2022 words: 516 flesch: 25 summary: The interdependency of the practices of individual participants and their congregation in these particular congregations as well as the high levels of engagement reveal the fittingness of a participatory hermeneutic to Christian life when that life is believed to include a mandate to both a just distribution of formative care and the just (re)distribution of other shared relational goods of life together. Through discernment practices, Christian congregations act corporately to recognize God's presence and address. keywords: practices cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k3569310685.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k3569310685.txt item: #2871 of 4945 id: k3569310801 author: Sabrina Khan title: Developing Functional Nanoparticle Assemblies to Facilitate Enhanced Efficacy and Controlled Release of Therapeutic Payloads in Cancer Treatment date: 2023 words: 408 flesch: 19 summary: Furthermore, the approaches described in this thesis have the possibility to overcome existing challenges of poor clinical outcomes in cancer treatments, such as less effective treatment, shorter life expectancy, poorer prognosis, and greater risk of cancer relapse in already suffering patients. The majority of nanomedicine used in cancer treatment, vaccination, diagnostics, fungal treatment, or analgesics, are FDA-approved lipid-based nanoparticles, that have not been targeted yet. keywords: cancer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k3569310801.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k3569310801.txt item: #2872 of 4945 id: k356931081c author: Vanessa E. Rubio Ramos title: The Role of Deterministic and Stochastic Processes During the Assembly of Tropical Plant Communities through the Lens of Functional Groups date: 2023 words: 328 flesch: 30 summary: However, the integration of functional groups into forest dynamics has not been well explored. In the third chapter, I run process-based simulations to understand the relative role of neutrality, functional groups, and conspecific negative density dependence in predicting forest dynamics. keywords: functional cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k356931081c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k356931081c.txt item: #2873 of 4945 id: k6439z92b2p author: David Mark DiQuattro title: Learning to Speak: A Prelude to an Augustinian Conception of Practical Reason date: 2010 words: 281 flesch: 36 summary: This dissertation seeks to develop the outline of an Augustinian approach to ethics by bringing Augustine into contact with contemporary reflections on practical reason. The dissertation articulates an Augustinian understanding of practical reason by discussing ways that these debates can benefit from Augustine's insight that all exercises of practical reason which fail to recognize that the human heart is restless until it rests in God are self-defeating. keywords: practical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z92b2p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z92b2p.txt item: #2874 of 4945 id: k6439z92b31 author: Nicole Paxton Sullo title: Imagining Local Identity in Medieval Puglia: Wall Paintings in the Rock-Cut Churches of Casalrotto date: 2010 words: 85 flesch: 32 summary: This thesis examines the wall paintings in the rock-cut churches of Sant'Angelo, Santa Margherita, and San Nicola in the medieval village of Casalrotto in Puglia, Italy. This analysis seeks to understand these churches through their local particularities and idiosyncrasies in order to gain an understanding of their function and reveal elements of the religious identity in Casalrotto from the mid-twelfth to thirteenth-century. keywords: churches cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z92b31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z92b31.txt item: #2875 of 4945 id: k6439z92b62 author: Jessica Renee Stoller-Conrad title: Determination and Characterization of Novel Genes Influencing Drosophila Hematopoietic Development date: 2012 words: 251 flesch: 21 summary: Two genes whose functions have been studied in the differentiation of germline stem cells of Drosophila, bag-of-marbles (bam) and zero population growth (zpg), and have been found by our lab to be necessary for normal larval hematopoiesis. Though bam and zpg were originally thought to be specific to the germline, we hypothesize that these and other factors involved in germline stem cell maintenance and differentiation may also be important in hematopoietic progenitor maintenance and differentiation. keywords: differentiation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z92b62.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z92b62.txt item: #2876 of 4945 id: k6439z92b7d author: Sandra L. Dedo title: Violent Fragility date: 2010 words: 3 flesch: 6 summary: Creative Writing Thesis keywords: creative cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z92b7d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z92b7d.txt item: #2877 of 4945 id: k6439z92b8r author: Brian Joseph Seger title: Electrocatalytic and Photoelectrocatalytic Aspects of Proton Exchange Membrane Based Nanostructured Assemblies date: 2009 words: 438 flesch: 45 summary: It was shown that borohydride reduction is a more efficient method than the sonolytic deposition method for platinum reduction in terms of fuel cell activity. Activity of electrocatalyst/support systems were analyzed in regards to proton exchange membrane fuel cells. keywords: membrane cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z92b8r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z92b8r.txt item: #2878 of 4945 id: k6439z92b93 author: Craig Matthew Goehler title: Design of a Humanoid Shoulder-Elbow Complex date: 2008 words: 123 flesch: 36 summary: A difficulty with humanoid design is the kinematic interpretation of human joints and the development of mechanisms that can mimic human motion. Experimental results are presented highlighting the accuracy of this mechanism along with the similarities to human configurations. keywords: human cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z92b93.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z92b93.txt item: #2879 of 4945 id: k6439z92c09 author: Aaron Segal title: Hume-Inspired Metaphysics date: 2013 words: 382 flesch: 51 summary: It particular, it appears to imply that causal, nomic, and temporal-direction relations are all extrinsic (and always extrinsic to their bearers), and that the causal and nomic relations globally supervene on the non-causal non-nomic properties and relations. That principle says, very roughly, that scenarios that are patched together from other possible scenarios are themselves possible. keywords: principle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z92c09.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z92c09.txt item: #2880 of 4945 id: k6439z92c1n author: Kyle Daily title: Size-Dependent Cutoff Methods: A Statistical, Dynamic and Structural Comparison date: 2010 words: 140 flesch: 56 summary: The new MAX cutoff method uses the larger contacted distance of the pair to calculated cutoff. The new MAX and MIX cutoff methods are compared to the traditional cutoff method, in order to study what affects these new methods have on the dynamic and structural results. keywords: cutoff cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z92c1n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z92c1n.txt item: #2881 of 4945 id: k6439z92c4p author: Megan Halteman Zwart title: What Simple Description Can Never Grasp: Heidegger and the Plato of Myth date: 2009 words: 354 flesch: 40 summary: These close readings lay the groundwork to view Heidegger's later move towards non-theoretical discourse as a continuation of his early attention to muthos discourse in Plato, rather than as an abrupt transition. This Plato erodes the preeminence of logos to make space for alternative discourse and becomes Heidegger's ally in his effort to re-describe hermeneutic phenomenology as a descriptive method that allows beings to show themselves not merely by means of the theoretical discourse of logos, but also by means of non-theoretical, alternative discourse including myth and poetry. keywords: plato cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z92c4p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z92c4p.txt item: #2882 of 4945 id: k6439z92c6c author: Angela Bobeldyk title: Spread and impacts of freshwater invasive invertebrates in North America date: 2009 words: 348 flesch: 33 summary: I have examined the extent to which streams serve as pathways for the dispersal of invasive species, over both temporal and spatial scales. High densities of invasive species can also accelerate nutrient cycling, as in the case with the Chinese mystery snail. keywords: invasive cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z92c6c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z92c6c.txt item: #2883 of 4945 id: k6439z92c7q author: Edurne Zoco title: The Collapse of Party Systems in Italy, Peru, and Venezuela: A Cross-Regional Theory date: 2010 words: 262 flesch: 42 summary: This study contributes to the existing literature on collapse by offering a clear definition and operationalization of party system collapse and contending that causes of collapse are common across cases and that can be identified following a process-tracing methodology. This dissertation develops a cross-regional theory of party system collapse. keywords: collapse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z92c7q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z92c7q.txt item: #2884 of 4945 id: k6439z92f18 author: Mary Prokop title: La Battaglia de' Debili Cigli: Mending the Eyes in Dante's Commedia and George Herbert's The Temple date: 1904 words: 150 flesch: 55 summary: It explores both poets' presentation of la battaglia de' debili cigli— the battle of the weak eyelashes, in which human vision is strengthened in order to perceive divine revelation and love (Paradiso 23, 78). It then addresses Herbert's emphasis on how God mends human eyes (The H. Scriptures (I), 9). keywords: herbert cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z92f18.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z92f18.txt item: #2885 of 4945 id: k6439z92h9n author: Danyal Floisand title: Probing Structure and Dynamics Using Simulations That Connect to Vibrational Spectroscopy date: 1904 words: 397 flesch: 24 summary: This dissertation exploits the vibrational technique to examine the structure and dynamics of various liquids: water, dilute mixtures of water and alcohol, neat alcohol, IL mixtures, and water surrounding DNA. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of isolated water, methanol, and ethanol in the 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, [emim][NTf2], IL were performed to shed insight into the nature of coupled solute-ion dynamics. keywords: vibrational cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z92h9n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z92h9n.txt item: #2886 of 4945 id: k6439z9316j author: Jeff Snapper title: Ontological Commitment, Paraphrase, and Nihilism date: 1904 words: 330 flesch: 51 summary: This dissertation is a defense of a logical criterion of ontological commitment, an argument for neutral commitment pluralism, a defense of a useful paraphrase relation, and an examination of nihilism. Chapter one defends a logical, rather than modal, criterion of ontological commitment and argues for neutral commitment pluralism. keywords: commitment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z9316j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z9316j.txt item: #2887 of 4945 id: k6439z93663 author: Hannah Hemphill title: Sacrifice in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas date: 2019 words: 387 flesch: 48 summary: According to Aquinas, sacrifice is integral to Christ's own pilgrim journey and thereby to ours as well. Christ does not offer sacrifice merely in response to our sin. keywords: sacrifice cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z93663.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z93663.txt item: #2888 of 4945 id: k6439z93d2k author: Nathan P. Chase title: Rethinking Anaphoral Development in Light of the Barcelona Papyrus date: 2020 words: 330 flesch: 46 summary: This anaphora requires scholars to rethink questions concerning the construction, geographical provenance, and structural patterns of early anaphoras and their units. However, a close analysis of this anaphora can reshape liturgical historians' understanding of a number of classical anaphoras, and thus their approach to anaphoral development more broadly. keywords: anaphora cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z93d2k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z93d2k.txt item: #2889 of 4945 id: k6439z93d3x author: Fangchi Yan title: Well-Posedness of a Higher Dispersion KdV Equation on the Half-Line date: 2020 words: 134 flesch: 37 summary: The initial-boundary value problem (ibvp) for the m-th order Korteweg-de Vries (KdVm) equation on the half-line is studied by extending a novel approach recently developed for the well-posedness of the KdV on the half-line, which is based on the solution formula produced via Fokas' unified transform method for the associated forced linear ibvp. Replacing in this formula the forcing by the nonlinearity and using data in Sobolev spaces suggested by the space-time regularity of the Cauchy problem of the linear KdVm, gives an iteration map for the ibvp which is shown to be a contraction in an appropriately chosen solution space. keywords: ibvp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z93d3x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z93d3x.txt item: #2890 of 4945 id: k6439z93j1g author: Sean Field title: Climate, Community, and Connectivity in the Northern U.S. Southwest date: 2023 words: 238 flesch: 26 summary: Results from these studies suggest that: 1) the effect of acute climate stress is strongly dependent on the resilience of subsistence and social systems at individual communities; 2) irrigation-based maize intensification was critical to the persistence of certain large settlements in the CMV region; and 3) persistent settlements, and possibly people's willingness to endure climate stress, were also managed through regional connections and relationships. The following chapters present three articles pursuing a detailed understanding of the role of climate stress on subsistence practices at persistent settlements in the Central Mesa Verde (CMV) region of the northern U.S. Southwest. keywords: climate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k6439z93j1g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k6439z93j1g.txt item: #2891 of 4945 id: k930bv75m1d author: Daniele Puccinelli title: Mitigation and Exploitation of Multipath Fading in Wireless Sensor Networks date: 2005 words: 486 flesch: 46 summary: The minimization of energy expenditure in the sensing nodes is a natural direction for wireless sensor network research. Finally, we present the most interesting and commonly used hardware platforms that enable wireless sensor network research. keywords: sensor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv75m1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv75m1d.txt item: #2892 of 4945 id: k930bv75m2r author: Andrew Hofer title: Herald of the Word: Gregory of Nazianzus Evoking Christ date: 2010 words: 365 flesch: 54 summary: 'Herald of the Word: Gregory of Nazianzus Evoking Christ' is a study of Gregory's speaking of Jesus Christ with particular attention to its autobiographical features. When Gregory speaks of Christ, he does so through reflection on his own life. keywords: gregory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv75m2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv75m2r.txt item: #2893 of 4945 id: k930bv75m5s author: Jaime W Guaman title: Empirical Ground Motion Relationships for Maximum Incremental Velocity date: 2010 words: 121 flesch: 30 summary: This thesis presents basic attenuation relationships for the maximum incremental velocity,MIV, of earthquake ground motion records. Multiple regression analyses are conducted to determine relationships between the MIV and the relevant earthquake parameters, such as magnitude, distance, soil conditions, and fault type. keywords: miv cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv75m5s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv75m5s.txt item: #2894 of 4945 id: k930bv75m64 author: Katherine Michelle Byrd title: Design, Synthesis and Application of Cholesterol-Based Molecular Probes as Biochemical Tools for the Study of Cholesterol Trafficking date: 2014 words: 170 flesch: 47 summary: One such probe is a novel fluorescent cholesterol mimic that would serve as a general tool to track cholesterol movement in live cells or identify cholesterol localization in fixed cells. The overall goal of this project is to design, synthesize and apply cholesterol-based molecular probes that would aid in the understanding of cholesterol trafficking disorders. keywords: cholesterol cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv75m64.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv75m64.txt item: #2895 of 4945 id: k930bv75n3d author: Robert Thomas Davis title: Assessing the role of constructed floodplains on the biogeochemistry of agricultural streams date: 2014 words: 151 flesch: 44 summary: My thesis quantifies the effect of the two-stage ditch, which constructs 'mini-floodplains' adjacent to channelized streams to 1) retain nutrients and sediment, and 2) enhance ecosystem function. Constructed floodplains can improve water quality in agricultural streams, but is most likely to be successful when 'stacked' with other best management practices within a watershed. keywords: streams cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv75n3d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv75n3d.txt item: #2896 of 4945 id: k930bv75n4r author: Brandy Jean Ellison title: Does Getting A's Really Matter? A Conceptualization of Grades as a Measure of Educational Outcomes date: 2008 words: 485 flesch: 35 summary: Therefore, grades are expected to provide a more comprehensive evaluation of student achievement than standardized test scores. Grades are theorized to assess elements of both of these goals because they account for academic achievement and student behavior, while standardized test scores primarily reflect knowledge and instruction. keywords: grades cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv75n4r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv75n4r.txt item: #2897 of 4945 id: k930bv75n6f author: Nan Sun title: Electronic Noise in Graphene FETs date: 2011 words: 124 flesch: 67 summary: A new noise model based upon a random array of charge traps is presented, which not only reproduces the observed gate voltage offset of the noise peak from the CNP, but also explains the noise asymmetry between the electron and hole branches. Noise measurements were made under vacuum at room temperature. keywords: noise cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv75n6f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv75n6f.txt item: #2898 of 4945 id: k930bv75p0p author: Carlos Melendez-Guerrero title: Transitional Partisanships and Political Linkages after Post-Party System Collapse: The Case of Peru date: 1904 words: 423 flesch: 27 summary: Although political parties in Peru are based on extremely weak organizations with minimal levels of social rootedness, their national leaders have developed permanent connections that exceed mere personalistic appeals. Finally, negative partisanships represent a coherent, hardcore opposition to particular party identifications that also coalesce around programmatic and personalistic appeals (the cases of Anti-Aprismo and Anti-Fujimorismo). keywords: party cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv75p0p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv75p0p.txt item: #2899 of 4945 id: k930bv75p8f author: Philipp Gollner title: Good White Christians: How Religion Created Race and Ethnic Privilege for Immigrants in America date: 1904 words: 363 flesch: 27 summary: This dissertation's implications extend to the present: despite the contributions of their busy, world-bettering activism to the vitality of religious life in America, the immigrant religious groups I am interested in probably lost what could be a considerable gift to a culture still fraught with racial tensions: the instinct of ethnoreligious minorities that declined to exploit the advantages of their skin pigmentation, but opted instead for a wise provincialism – a position on the sidelines of dominant culture. This dissertation demonstrates that various European immigrant religious groups harnessed the cultural capital and coercive power of white Protestantism by adopting a posture of restless cultural activism and fervent missionary zeal, as well as a view of ethnic boundaries as harmful to proper religion. keywords: religion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv75p8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv75p8f.txt item: #2900 of 4945 id: k930bv75t2m author: Tania Sarfraz title: Metropolis date: 1904 words: 5 flesch: 66 summary: A collection of short fiction. keywords: fiction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv75t2m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv75t2m.txt item: #2901 of 4945 id: k930bv76b3w author: Levi UC Nkwocha title: Muslim-Christian Dialogue of Life via Hospitality: A Theology of Abrahamic Asymmetric-Mutual Substitutive Responsibility Applied in an African Context date: 1904 words: 308 flesch: 30 summary: In chapter three, Levinas' substitutive responsibility will be harnessed into a theological model (the Abrahamic pilgrim model), through which, ordinary Muslims and Christians in Nigerian are challenged to demonstrate their respective faith by outdoing each other in good works. Above all, it seeks to articulate them into an Abrahamic theology of hospitality for the sustenance of peaceful coexistence. keywords: hospitality cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv76b3w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv76b3w.txt item: #2902 of 4945 id: k930bv76b9z author: Mark Suhovecky title: Test Submission for Production AWS Sipity Instance date: 2018 words: 11 flesch: 41 summary: Testing the http thesis submission between Production Sipity and Batch Ingest keywords: ingest cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv76b9z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv76b9z.txt item: #2903 of 4945 id: k930bv76g8v author: Jacob Schepers title: Ugly Ground Swell Moss date: 2019 words: 26 flesch: 50 summary: A collection of original poetry for fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate Program in English at the University of Notre Dame. keywords: dame cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv76g8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv76g8v.txt item: #2904 of 4945 id: k930bv76j74 author: Matthew R. Kemnetz title: Analysis of the Aero-Optical Component of the Jitter Using the Stitching Method date: 2019 words: 368 flesch: 53 summary: The results were found to agree well with the results from other shear layer flows. The component of the jitter caused by mechanical vibration of the optical table, optical elements, etc. is called mechanical jitter. keywords: jitter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv76j74.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv76j74.txt item: #2905 of 4945 id: k930bv76p4b author: Carly A. Hagins title: Weft: A Framework for Well-being date: 2021 words: 143 flesch: 25 summary: College well-being is often approached topic-by-topic. The Satellite Team model proposes a new approach for health promotion professionals to act as subject matter experts, collaborating with stakeholders to develop meaningful, personalized, and lasting interventions. keywords: college cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv76p4b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv76p4b.txt item: #2906 of 4945 id: k930bv76p7c author: Leslie Elva MacColman title: Coercive Force, Symbolic Power, and Fragmented Urban Publics: Understanding Democratic Police Reform in Buenos Aires, Argentina date: 2020 words: 725 flesch: 36 summary: This dissertation asks how democratic police reform shapes police legitimacy. In light of this conceptualization, I argue that democratic police reforms can simultaneously strengthen police legitimacy among certain publics, while undermining it for others. keywords: police cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv76p7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv76p7c.txt item: #2907 of 4945 id: k930bv76q4n author: Jessica Wahlers title: Development of Transition State Force Field Parameters for Asymmetric Reactions to Predict Stereoselectivity and to Gain Insight into the Interactions Dictating Stereoselectivity date: 2021 words: 230 flesch: 47 summary: There has been immense interest in predictive methods that could search through ligand libraries and find which ligands could give the best selectivity rather than experimentally testing hundreds of ligands so just testing the 5-10 ligands give the best results. Asymmetric catalysis has been used to generate products with high yields and high selectivities. keywords: selectivity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv76q4n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv76q4n.txt item: #2908 of 4945 id: k930bv76q81 author: Brenna Gomer title: Quantifying the Impact of Missing-Data Mechanism Uncertainty: A Tailored Sensitivity Analysis Approach for the Behavioral Sciences date: 2021 words: 326 flesch: 34 summary: I provide two alternatives for conducting hypothesis tests in this modified sensitivity analysis framework: a classical ANOVA approach and Monte Carlo approach. Statistically, one approach to the issue of missing-data mechanism uncertainty is sensitivity analysis. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv76q81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv76q81.txt item: #2909 of 4945 id: k930bv76s6z author: Melody Grubaugh title: Precursor to Political Hebraism: What Aquinas Thinks We Can (and Should) Learn From the Mosaic Law date: 2022 words: 333 flesch: 39 summary: This dissertation argues that Aquinas deserves a place in the growing body of scholarship on political Hebraism, since the fundamental idea that gained prominence with political Hebraists during the early modern period—that the Hebrew constitution should be viewed as a standard and model for constitutions in general—is already present in Aquinas's writings on law. This dissertation seeks to broaden political theorists' understanding of political Hebraism, arguing that Thomas Aquinas should be regarded as an important precursor to this school of thought. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv76s6z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv76s6z.txt item: #2910 of 4945 id: k930bv76t37 author: Lily A. Polster title: Preliminary Testing of a Novel Precast Concrete Buckling-Restrained Brace date: 2023 words: 146 flesch: 27 summary: The thesis explains the experimental testing set-up, describes the casting process of the test specimens, explains the instrumentation and data acquisition system, presents the results from the tests, and draws conclusions and recommendations for future experimental research on precast concrete BRB components as well as precast concrete braced frame structures. While BRB frames are commonly used for primary lateral-load resistance in steel building construction with great success, they are currently not permitted for precast concrete structures due to extremely limited research. keywords: concrete cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/k930bv76t37.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/k930bv76t37.txt item: #2911 of 4945 id: kd17cr58w54 author: Jimena Holguin title: Communitarian Reintegration in DDR Programs: An Analysis of the Communutarian Component of the Reintegration Program in Colombia, 2002 - 2008 date: 2010 words: 189 flesch: 35 summary: Thus, a more equal and fair environment would be created in the process of reintegrating ex-combatants into civilian life. The second dimension is the community reintegration, which can be understood as the process by which the communities get the required tools and skills to accept and help the ex-combatants in their process of resettling and reincorporating into civilian life . keywords: process cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr58w54.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr58w54.txt item: #2912 of 4945 id: kd17cr58w85 author: Simon Peter Kanaan title: Inferring Protein-Protein Interactions from Protein Domain Combinations date: 2012 words: 224 flesch: 40 summary: The predicted interaction network preserves the characteristics of the initial web of known protein interactions. We extend our method to infer protein-protein interactions in multicellular organisms where protein-protein interaction data currently does not exist. keywords: protein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr58w85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr58w85.txt item: #2913 of 4945 id: kd17cr58w9h author: Christopher Raymond Green title: The Epistemic Parity of Testimony, Memory, and Perception date: 2008 words: 344 flesch: 27 summary: I first criticize the suggestion that perception is a generative epistemic source, while testimony and memory are not; I propose and defend counterexamples in which testimony and memory produce new beliefs. Extensive literatures exist on the epistemology of testimony, memory, and perception, but for the most part these literatures do not systematically consider the extent of the analogies between the three epistemic sources. keywords: testimony cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr58w9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr58w9h.txt item: #2914 of 4945 id: kd17cr58x0q author: Jian Ge title: Low Dimension Soul Theorems date: 2011 words: 93 flesch: 52 summary: These spaces occurs naturally as the blow-up limits of sequences of Riemannian manifold with a lower curvature bound. Our main tools are critical point theory for distance functions and Perelman's Fibration Theorem. keywords: spaces cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr58x0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr58x0q.txt item: #2915 of 4945 id: kd17cr58x12 author: Yin-Ting Yeh title: Development of a Hydrodynamic Technique for Rapid Concentration of Dilute Suspensions date: 2010 words: 220 flesch: 35 summary: The mechanism we employ is the shear induced secondary flow produced in the rotating upper plate and stationary lower plate system. Current techniques such as centrifugation, filtration, dielectrophoresis, and immunomagnetic separation are time consuming and have sample volume limitations. keywords: plate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr58x12.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr58x12.txt item: #2916 of 4945 id: kd17cr58x2d author: Kelly Allyn Kuznicki title: A Longitudinal Examination of Child Symptoms of Psychopathology as a Mediator Between Marital Conflict and Child Involvement in Interparental Disagreements date: 2013 words: 154 flesch: 15 summary: Though the links between marital conflict, child involvement in interparental disagreements, and child psychopathology are well-established, previous research has not viewed child psychopathology as a process by which child involvement in marital conflict may be influenced. Children (235 at 6-years, 220 at 7-years, and 217 at 8-years) completed the MacArthur Story Stem Battery as a measure of child involvement and mother, father, and teacher reports of study variables were collected. keywords: child cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr58x2d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr58x2d.txt item: #2917 of 4945 id: kd17cr58x3r author: Florin Dumitrescu title: Superconnections and Parallel Transport date: 2006 words: 167 flesch: 19 summary: The larger context is the Stolz-Teichner program (see cite{ST}) of relating field theories and cohomology theories, and our effort is to complete the understanding of the one-dimensional story. Before doing this, we extend the usual notion of parallel transport along paths associated to a connection to superpaths, and see how the super-parallel transport incorporates the analytical concept of a connection. keywords: transport cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr58x3r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr58x3r.txt item: #2918 of 4945 id: kd17cr58x6s author: Sarah Elizabeth Baker title: Effects of Time-Lapse and Contact Lenses on Iris Recognition date: 2009 words: 174 flesch: 43 summary: We present results debunking both of these common myths in iris recognition and show a real effect of time-lapse and contact lenses on iris biometric performance. However, before iris recognition can be implemented on a world-wide scale, important questions regard- ing its accuracy must be addressed. keywords: iris cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr58x6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr58x6s.txt item: #2919 of 4945 id: kd17cr58x8g author: Bin Wu title: InAs-on-SOI MOSFETs with Extreme Lattice Mismatch date: 2009 words: 275 flesch: 59 summary: MOCVD growth of InAs also generates single grain structures on Si islands when the size is reduced to 100 ÌÄ' 100 nm2. Post-growth pattern-then-anneal process, in which MOCVD InAs is deposited onto unpatterned SOI followed with patterning and annealing of InAs-on-Si structure, is found to change the relative lattice parameters of encapsulated 17/5 nm InAs/Si island. keywords: inas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr58x8g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr58x8g.txt item: #2920 of 4945 id: kd17cr5903n author: Robert A. McKee title: Renal Regeneration After Cisplatin Induced Acute Kidney Injury in Zebrafish and Expression Map of Tight Junction Components in Development date: 1904 words: 438 flesch: 32 summary: During the course of their everyday function the nephrons encounter toxins that in high concentrations can lead to an episode of acute kidney injury (AKI), characterized by a rapid loss of renal function. Hallmarks of this process include intratubular repair as well as de novo nephrogenesis, which can be visualized with histological staining. keywords: zebrafish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr5903n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr5903n.txt item: #2921 of 4945 id: kd17cr59358 author: Joseph R. Pauszek title: Incorporating Visual Asymmetries into a Semantic-Based Theory of the Symbolic Control of Attention date: 1904 words: 151 flesch: 31 summary: Humans routinely use spatial symbols to guide the attention of others towards relevant aspects of the environment. Contemporary research suggests that the various ways these symbols are semantically processed have important implications regarding how attention is subsequently distributed. keywords: spatial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr59358.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr59358.txt item: #2922 of 4945 id: kd17cr59k8n author: Brian Yong Lee title: Members of Christ: Reevaluating the Significance of Stoic Language and the Unity of Paul's Argument in 1 Corinthians date: 1904 words: 352 flesch: -1 summary: Modern biblical scholarship on 1 Corinthians has long recognized the presence of language and concepts most closely paralleled by Stoic descriptions of the sage, as in 3:21–23; 4:8; and 6:12–20, and the sage's perspective on their relationship to other human beings, as in 12:1–11, 12–27.For all the cultural backgrounds adduced in support of the scholarly theory that Paul addressed libertine believers at Corinth in the letter, from Gnosticism, to Hellenistic Judaism, to realized eschatology, and to the Cynic-Stoic hypothesis, one of the most enduring elements of the theory of libertine Corinthians is the assumption that 3:21–23; 4:8; and 6:12–20 in some manner reflect Corinthian claims to possess a perfect form of wisdom that justifies immoral conduct analogous to Stoic claims to perfect wisdom. Methodologically grounded in fresh comparative research on the native function of the Stoic elements that appear in 1 Corinthians within the Stoic ethical system, my dissertation demonstrates that Stoic descriptions of the sage and the sage's perspective did not function as self-descriptions of one's wisdom or to justify immoral behavior, but were used by Stoic teachers to orient their students' moral aspirations and training towards the goal of benefitting others in line with a normative understanding of the common good. keywords: sage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr59k8n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr59k8n.txt item: #2923 of 4945 id: kd17cr59m5x author: Madison McCartha title: Freakophone World date: 1904 words: 4 flesch: 54 summary: A manuscript of poetry. keywords: poetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr59m5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr59m5x.txt item: #2924 of 4945 id: kd17cr59p2h author: John (JJ) Shanley title: Catholic Freedom, Protestant Slavery? Reconsidering Anti-Catholicism in Maryland, 1688-1776 date: 2018 words: 272 flesch: 32 summary: Each emergence of anti-Catholic sentiment grew from the concerns of the day, rather than a consistent objection to that religion or its members. Anti-Catholic sentiment during the Glorious Revolution targeted actual Catholics in the colony, but also extended to their supporters (alleged and real) in Maryland and Virginia. keywords: anti cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr59p2h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr59p2h.txt item: #2925 of 4945 id: kd17cr59r7v author: Emily Maiden title: Beware the Magic Crocodile: The Role of Chiefs in Cultural and Political Reform in Malawi date: 2019 words: 298 flesch: 35 summary: I find that the dual positionality of chiefs as both political and cultural actors, invested with high levels of trust and support from their communities, contributes to their ability to address culturally embedded practices like child marriage, which actively promote violence against children. But chiefs are—paradoxically, many argue—taking their advocacy a step further by using their authority as the custodians of culture to address and reform the underlying cultural norms and practices that make child marriage acceptable. keywords: chiefs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr59r7v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr59r7v.txt item: #2926 of 4945 id: kd17cr6004r author: Ana V. Fleming title: Into the Chthulucene date: 2021 words: 139 flesch: 16 summary: Drawing from the genres of speculative and weird fiction; the visual paradigms of the grotesque and surreal; and the philosophical veins of speculative realism, my work posits potential futures—visions of a world unfurling, in uncertain balance, at the threshold of the Chthulucene. In Into the Chthulucene, I trace the literary, philosophical, and visual inheritances that inform my work, particularly the nonhuman worlds depicted in my paintings and drawings. keywords: visual cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr6004r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr6004r.txt item: #2927 of 4945 id: kd17cr60200 author: Jinfeng Lin title: Accurate Trace Link Generation for Querying Software Projects at Scale date: 2022 words: 527 flesch: 36 summary: The results show that our approach not only outperform other language model based deep learning models on resource rich scenarios, but also tackle resource limited scenarios that other deep learning models are incapable of handling. Traditionally, low availability of manually created trace links for training purposes, has limited the application of deep learning trace models. keywords: links cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr60200.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr60200.txt item: #2928 of 4945 id: kd17cr6034p author: Savannah Benjamin title: Exploring the Relationship between Uranyl Hydroxide and Uranyl Peroxide Phases: Alteration and Formation Studies date: 2023 words: 151 flesch: 25 summary: Nuclear materials subjected to various storage environments may undergo important chemical changes as a consequence of variables including atmospheric gases and ionizing radiation. This dissertation explores the relationship between two prominent uranyl mineral phases relevant to the nuclear fuel cycle through controlled storage, irradiation, and novel synthesis studies. keywords: nuclear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kd17cr6034p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kd17cr6034p.txt item: #2929 of 4945 id: kh04dn42538 author: Fei Liu title: Atomic Force Microscopy of Erythrocyte Cytoskeleton date: 2005 words: 159 flesch: 31 summary: This thesis provides evidence to demonstrate that AFM combined with quantitative image analysis is a promising approach to connect biochemical and structural data for the study of cytoskeleton physical properties. Also studied was the effect of free Ca2+ on the cytoskeleton structure and properties of healthy young erythrocytes. keywords: cytoskeleton cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn42538.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn42538.txt item: #2930 of 4945 id: kh04dn4254m author: GE LIU title: Peer Influence on Adolescents' Academic Outcomes date: 2011 words: 431 flesch: 39 summary: I found that the average GPA of students' friends have significantly positive effects on the academic outcomes of high school students of all races/ethnicities and that the effect of the racial heterogeneity of friends on student's academic outcomes is mediated in part through the effect of the average GPA of students' friends. Finally I examined the long-term influence of high school friends on 10th-graders' higher educational attainment process. keywords: peer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn4254m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn4254m.txt item: #2931 of 4945 id: kh04dn4257n author: Logan M. Axon title: Algorithmically random closed sets and probability date: 2010 words: 276 flesch: 55 summary: Others have meanwhile developed definitions of algorithmic randomness for different spaces, for example the space of continuous functions on the unit interval (Fouche), more general topological spaces (Hertling and Weihrauch), and the closed subsets of Cantor space (Barmpalias et al., Kjos-Hanssen and Diamondstone). We take a very different approach, however, from that taken by Barmpalias et al. keywords: random cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn4257n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn4257n.txt item: #2932 of 4945 id: kh04dn42580 author: Dinesh Rajan Pandiarajan title: Principles for the Design and Operation of Elastic Scientific Applications on Distributed Systems date: 2015 words: 213 flesch: 35 summary: To improve performance at scale, the partitions are operated in parallel on large pools of resources in distributed computing systems, such as clouds, clusters, and grids. In this work, I build and demonstrate elastic applications to provide the desired characteristics for operation on distributed computing systems. keywords: applications cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn42580.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn42580.txt item: #2933 of 4945 id: kh04dn42658 author: James Arthur Thompson title: Making North America date: 2008 words: 410 flesch: 33 summary: This argument thus demonstrates a manner in which the two schools of IR theory can not only be reconciled in terms of their theory concepts, but can also be combined to form a more useful theory than other theories which rely strictly upon either realist or liberal tenants. Mexico, conversely, sought an FTA with the US in order 1) to establish greater influence over US foreign policy, and 2) to make Mexico more attractive to the Europeans as a trading partner, with the idea being that, by establishing a Mexican-European FTA, Mexico would then be better able to balance against the US, which was now liberated from the constraints of the Cold War, and hence able to pursue a more aggressive foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere. keywords: fta cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn42658.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn42658.txt item: #2934 of 4945 id: kh04dn4266m author: Yuen Man Rebecca Cheung title: Testing a Model of Disclosure Benefits Based on Identifiability of the Discloser and Features of the Confidant date: 2010 words: 214 flesch: 31 summary: Previous research has demonstrated that public, as compared with private, disclosure can lead to greater psychological symptom reduction. Thus, humans today may have inherited the predisposition to disclose publicly; and when they do so, they may experience a reduction in psychological symptoms. keywords: psychological cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn4266m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn4266m.txt item: #2935 of 4945 id: kh04dn42689 author: Amelia Hicks title: Moral Particularism: The Nonexistence of Moral Principles and the Nature of Proper Moral Deliberation date: 2013 words: 325 flesch: 32 summary: Some versions of particularism claim that there are no true moral principles, while others claim that we shouldn't use moral principles in moral deliberation; I call the former view 'eliminativism' and the latter view 'abstinence.' Moral particularism is a family of views---a family unified by its rejection of moral principles---in moral metaphysics and moral epistemology. keywords: moral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn42689.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn42689.txt item: #2936 of 4945 id: kh04dn42716 author: chaojun shi title: Development of Ionic Liquids for Li-Ion Battery Applications date: 2013 words: 274 flesch: 19 summary: Even though there are many thousands of possible combinations of anions and cations for ILs design, the choice/selection of cations and anions commercialized in electrochemical devices is much less diverse due to strict industrial standards. More specifically, physicochemical property measurements cover density, viscosity and diffusivity, and electrochemical property investigation includes conductivity, electrochemical window, Walden plot behavior and ionicity. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn42716.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn42716.txt item: #2937 of 4945 id: kh04dn4272j author: Kyle D. Watson title: The Development of Metal-Mediated Methodologies for the Syntheses of Monocyclic and Bicyclic Oxamazins date: 1904 words: 418 flesch: 46 summary: The core backbone of bicyclic oxamazins were synthesized and used in intramolecular ring-closing olefin metathesis reactions. One way to combat resistance is to generate both new antibiotic compounds and new synthetic strategies to make these chemical entities. keywords: chemistry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn4272j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn4272j.txt item: #2938 of 4945 id: kh04dn4275k author: Lourdes Cecilia Hurtado title: 'Unido a la Historia por Fecunda y Viril Tradición': Gender, Race and the Military in Cold War Peru (1951-1960) date: 1904 words: 420 flesch: 29 summary: Based on archival research, discourse and visual analysis and oral history, this dissertation argues that during the Latin American Cold War the Peruvian military glorified some characteristics of Peruvian women and attempted to incorporate female images into its institutional narratives. These narratives shaped each other up by showing how the army was an institution where there was room for most Peruvians and how men's labor of defending the nation was fostered, sustained, and complemented by Peruvian women. keywords: peruvian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn4275k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn4275k.txt item: #2939 of 4945 id: kh04dn42805 author: Jishan Liao title: Using Ecological Niche Modeling to Support Species Conservation under Changing Climate date: 1904 words: 375 flesch: 29 summary: Ignoring the impacts of regulatory fragmentation on species movement under climate change can lead to over-estimation of the potential for geographic range change by species as the climate changes. In chapter two, I investigate geographic fragmentation induced from laws and regulations regarding species management, regulations that may affect the survival of species that might cross diverse land ownership and state lines due to range change under climate change. keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn42805.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn42805.txt item: #2940 of 4945 id: kh04dn42c4g author: Sarah Snider title: Grippled date: 1904 words: 39 flesch: 13 summary: This work is a collection of thematically and stylistically interconnected memoir essays and stories that explore themes surrounding gender, religion, family, and community in order to create a broad illustration of life as an Orthodox Jewish woman in America. keywords: america cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn42c4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn42c4g.txt item: #2941 of 4945 id: kh04dn42z3d author: Shlomo M. Wadler title: Genesis and Halakhah: An Analysis of the Relationship between Genesis and Law in the Second Temple Period date: 2018 words: 311 flesch: 62 summary: While the book of Genesis is part of a larger corpus referred to by terms related to law (torah in Hebrew and nomos in Greek), Genesis poses a problem, as it contains relatively little legal material, and takes place prior to the formal giving of the law at Sinai. This dissertation looks at the ways in which Jews in the second temple period grappled with the place and role of Genesis in the Torah, as they relate to halakhah, and focuses on the following questions: What was the status of the Law prior to Sinai? keywords: genesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn42z3d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn42z3d.txt item: #2942 of 4945 id: kh04dn4320k author: Kirsten Marie Kozlovsky title: Additive Manufacturing of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Under Applied External Pressure date: 2019 words: 322 flesch: 39 summary: This thesis demonstrated in-situ pressurization in AM of UHMWPE for the first time, leading to increases in strength and wear resistance even under moderate applied pressures. Unfortunately, AM materials currently are lacking with respect to wear resistance. keywords: uhmwpe cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn4320k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn4320k.txt item: #2943 of 4945 id: kh04dn43677 author: Salvatore Buonocore title: Anomalous Diffusion of Acoustic Fields in Periodic and Random Scattering Media and Its Application to Remote Sensing date: 2019 words: 482 flesch: 14 summary: The unique properties of fractional-order models and their ability to capture and simulate complex physical acoustic processes suggest they offer great potential for applications to inverse acoustic problems, and beyond. Particular attention is devoted to the analysis and characterization of anomalous acoustic transport and to uncovering the link between both geometric and material parameters and the fractional order of the governing continuum model. keywords: acoustic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn43677.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn43677.txt item: #2944 of 4945 id: kh04dn4375v author: Laura Josephine Wells Murray title: Equivariant Factorization Algebras: An Infinity-Operadic Approach date: 2020 words: 157 flesch: 17 summary: In this dissertation, we consider two particular types of factorization algebras: G-equivariant factorization algebras on a model space M, where G is a group acting on M; and factorization algebras on a site of manifolds which locally look like M and with geometric structure encoded by the G-action. We then generalize the definition of factorization algebras to the infinity-operadic setting, and utilize higher algebraic techniques to prove the comparison result. keywords: factorization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn4375v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn4375v.txt item: #2945 of 4945 id: kh04dn43855 author: Xiangyu Ni title: Frequency Response of Self-Similar Dynamic Networks with Applications to Health Monitoring and Control date: 2021 words: 364 flesch: 26 summary: No matter whether possessing interconnected appearances, those large-scale systems are often mathematically modelled as dynamic networks which involve abundant nodes and intricate rules regarding the interaction among those nodes. Hence, it can be anticipated that plentiful research concerning dynamic networks exist in literature, including studies about graph theories, multi-agent systems and materials' complicated behaviors. keywords: dynamic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn43855.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn43855.txt item: #2946 of 4945 id: kh04dn4390r author: Sarah Roumas title: Infernal Bodies: Lazarus Saturday in the Development of the Triodion date: 2021 words: 177 flesch: 37 summary: Concerning the content of the hymns, the project examines the relationship in the hymns of the sixth week of Lent between the Lazarus of Luke 16 and the Lazarus of John 11, the use of 'rewritten Bible exegesis', and the central theme of Lazarus Saturday: the anticipation and promise of the Harrowing of Hades, which will be celebrated a week later. This project examines early manuscripts of the Greek Triodion to investigate the development and celebration of Lazarus Saturday in centuries leading up to the Byzantine Rite. keywords: lazarus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn4390r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn4390r.txt item: #2947 of 4945 id: kh04dn43b2r author: R. Jordan Lavender title: The Subjective Turn: Phenomenal Consciousness and the Metaphysics of Experience in the Fourteenth Century date: 2022 words: 198 flesch: 32 summary: I call the shift by which conscious experience came to be at the heart of medieval debates about the metaphysics of cognition the Subjective Turn. This dissertation argues that fourteenth-century debates about the metaphysics of cognitio were debates about the metaphysics of conscious experience. keywords: experience cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn43b2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn43b2r.txt item: #2948 of 4945 id: kh04dn43c4r author: Jason Christopher Carley title: Low-Impact Production with Bioplastic Composites date: 2023 words: 308 flesch: 47 summary: Switching more of our products and packaging to biodegradable alternatives gives us a chance to clean our bodies, streams, beaches, and wildlife habitats. Most of it ends up in landfills and the rest either incinerated or leaked back into the environment to infiltrate our food, drinking water, and endocrine systems. keywords: project cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kh04dn43c4r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kh04dn43c4r.txt item: #2949 of 4945 id: kk91fj25f6b author: Jeff Allen Brooks title: Helping the Less Fortunate: The Interaction Between Cultural and Economic Conservatism date: 2011 words: 151 flesch: 31 summary: Analyses suggest that cultural conservatism moderates the impact that economic conservatism has on these variables. Cultural conservatism was positively related to social justice and taking action for the unfortunate. keywords: conservatism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj25f6b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj25f6b.txt item: #2950 of 4945 id: kk91fj25f7p author: Srinath Puducheri Sundaravaradhan title: Complexity-Feedback Tradeoffs and Capacity Results for Packet Erasure Networks date: 2010 words: 427 flesch: 36 summary: This dissertation investigates two problems related to communicating reliably over packet erasure networks, adopting two different views of the network, viz., (i) a point-to-point erasure channel (that models either a single link or end-to-end communication), and (ii) a network of erasure links. Many communication networks are well-modeled as 'packet erasure' networks, as packets transmitted over these networks are either received correctly at the destination or are 'erased'; a packet erasure occurs when an error-corrupted packet is detected and discarded, or when a packet is dropped due to congestion in the network. keywords: erasure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj25f7p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj25f7p.txt item: #2951 of 4945 id: kk91fj25g0k author: Daniel J. Hicks title: Scientific Practices and their Social Context date: 2012 words: 455 flesch: 35 summary: In the words of the title, the debate concerns the relationship between scientific practices and their social context. In the first few chapters, I develop a general conception of such practices, developing the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and drawing on John Dewey and work in philosophy of science of the past thirty years. keywords: science cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj25g0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj25g0k.txt item: #2952 of 4945 id: kk91fj25g1x author: Michael Shaw title: Mythological Lieder of Franz Schubert and Johann Mayrhofer date: 2010 words: 14 flesch: 65 summary: The thesis discusses five mythological Lieder by Franz Schubert with texts by Johann Mayrhofer. keywords: mayrhofer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj25g1x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj25g1x.txt item: #2953 of 4945 id: kk91fj25g3m author: Paul Raymond Brenner title: Parallel Algorithms and Distributed Systems for Computational Biophysics date: 2008 words: 481 flesch: 21 summary: In tandem to this development, I present the simulation and analysis of a target protein domain linked to cancer, Huntington disease, and Alzheimer disease. The understanding of atomic scale biomolecular function is a key component in the prevention and treatment of disease. keywords: biomolecular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj25g3m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj25g3m.txt item: #2954 of 4945 id: kk91fj25g4z author: Glenn Joseph Bradford title: Rate, Reliability, and Delay of Wireless Relays date: 2014 words: 288 flesch: 21 summary: Beyond significant modeling and theoretical analysis, ongoing integration of relays into the Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular standard promises many key benefits but also poses many challenges. Experimentation captures more effects of various protocol layers when evaluating the relationship between rate, reliability, and delay for different relay types. keywords: reliability cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj25g4z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj25g4z.txt item: #2955 of 4945 id: kk91fj25g59 author: D. Corbett Redden title: Canonical Metric Connections Associated to String Structures date: 2006 words: 271 flesch: 23 summary: In this thesis, we look at principal $Spin(n)$-bundles $P o M$ whose Pontryagin class $phalf (P)=0 in H4(M;R)$. We say that such a bundle admits a string structure, and a choice of string structure is given by particular elements in $H3(P;)$. This provides an analogue to the idea of a spin structure, where the topological group $String(n)$ is, up to homotopy, the unique 3-connected cover of $Spin(n)$ $(ngeq 5)$. Choosing a Riemannian metric on the base $M$ and a connection on $P$ determines a 1-parameter family of metrics on $P$. We prove that in a scaling limit known as the adiabatic limit, the harmonic representative of a string structure is equal to the Chern–Simons 3-form on $P$ minus a 3-form on $M$, denoted $Hin Omega3(M)$. This 3-form $H$ is closely related to the Chern–Simons form, and can be thought of as a reduction of the Chern–Simons form on $P$ to a form on $M$. The exterior derivative of $H$ is the $phalf$-form; the integral of $H$ on any 3-cycle is equal, modulo $$, to the integral of the Chern–Simons 3-form pulled back via a global section on the same 3-cycle. keywords: form cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj25g59.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj25g59.txt item: #2956 of 4945 id: kk91fj25g8b author: Alice M. Nightingale title: Adaptive-Optic Approach to Mitigating Aero-Optic Disturbances for a Forced Shear Layer date: 2010 words: 419 flesch: 36 summary: As a laser beam transverses through an optically active medium, containing index-of-refraction variations, several optical phenomena occur including beam wander, image distortion, and beam defocus. Subsequently, the resulting optical wavefront, and corresponding optical signal, emerging from the regularized flow becomes more periodic and predictable effectively reducing the bandwidth necessary to make real-time corrections. keywords: phase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj25g8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj25g8b.txt item: #2957 of 4945 id: kk91fj25h0w author: Daniel F Escher title: Revisiting Risk: Sensation-Seeking and the Sex Difference in Religiosity date: 2010 words: 132 flesch: 29 summary: Using direct measures from the 2006 Panel Study on American Religion and Ethnicity, I find that enjoying thrilling and frightening sensations and experiences has a direct negative effect on personal religiosity. These two effects provide plausible support for the partial-heritability thesis and demonstrate that biology and personality influence personal religiosity. keywords: religiosity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj25h0w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj25h0w.txt item: #2958 of 4945 id: kk91fj25h17 author: Matthew Henry Loverin title: Obedient Unto Death: The Person and Work of Jesus Christ in Karl Barth's Theological Ethics date: 2010 words: 340 flesch: 28 summary: Chapter Three discusses the work of Jesus Christ, specifically in terms of his obedience to God in the atonement; this obedience is constitutive of all other forms of human obedience and is the basis for Barth's description of the ethical event of encounter with the command of God. In Chapter Five, the dissertation brings Christology to bear on the criticisms of Barth's theological ethics highlighted in Chapter One, and recommends that Barth's Christological basis for theological ethics represents a constructive and positive way forward for Christian ethics more broadly considered. keywords: barth cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj25h17.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj25h17.txt item: #2959 of 4945 id: kk91fj25h90 author: Kimbra G. Turner title: Mechanisms of Miltefosine Resistance in Leishmania major date: 1904 words: 249 flesch: 29 summary: In Leishmania, the drug appears to have a similar effect, inducing oxidative stress to activate an apoptotic-like mechanism resulting in cell death. Additionally, none of the currently available therapeutic options for treatment of leishmaniasis were developed specifically for the disease, leading to many severe side effects. keywords: miltefosine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj25h90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj25h90.txt item: #2960 of 4945 id: kk91fj25j7m author: Adam C Clark title: The Creator Sovereign in Christ: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Protestant Natural Law Retrieval date: 1904 words: 357 flesch: 36 summary: Chapters Five and Six highlight Bonhoeffer's argument that God commands a christological lifeform focused on reconciliation and loving response to divine and human Others, which enables recognition of God's specified commands and, with a little help, fundamentally repositions the place and meaning of natural goods, rights, duties, and justice. Charles and VanDrunen agree that the natural law is ontologically and epistemologically universal, that it provides initial knowledge of what is good and right to church and world, and that it gives societies a shared life, morality, and praxis of justice, including rights. keywords: charles cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj25j7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj25j7m.txt item: #2961 of 4945 id: kk91fj26502 author: Maria Giulia Genghini title: Prophets of a New Israel — Jesuit Rhetoric in the New World date: 1904 words: 141 flesch: 25 summary: A large quantity of manuscripts survives from the vast network of libraries established by the Jesuits across colonial South America, including many examples of a distinctive kind of Jesuit scriptural meditation. Although the social and economic influence of the Jesuits in South America has been well documented, no study has focused on the literary and theological aspect of these scriptural meditations, or the significant extent to which they reflect the cultural practices of the indigenous communities that the Jesuits were preaching to. keywords: jesuits cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj26502.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj26502.txt item: #2962 of 4945 id: kk91fj26b0m author: Bradley M. Minrovic title: A Non-Toxic Small Molecule Approach to Combating Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria date: 2019 words: 473 flesch: 31 summary: Furthermore, a narrow-spectrum antibiotic synthesized within our lab showed increased worm survival against a multidrug resistant A. baumannii strain; tested at 50 mg/kg and 100 mg/kg, worm survival was 22% and 32% after a six-day study, respectively. Antibiotic-adjuvant concentrations, where the adjuvant is tested at 50 mg/kg or 100 mg/kg in combination with an antibiotic, have increased survival of inoculated worms up to 50% over the course of several days. keywords: colistin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj26b0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj26b0m.txt item: #2963 of 4945 id: kk91fj26b5b author: Christopher Quiroz title: Masculinity in Context: How Social Environments Frame Gender Based Actions and Attitudes date: 2019 words: 357 flesch: 29 summary: Much of this research has theorized that heterosexual men, specifically White men, are able to violate physical boundaries with other men due to the social acceptability of the same-sex touching within masculine contexts. The last study provides an answer to why women and sexual minority men encounter extraordinary and persistent barriers when entering masculine occupations, even as the gendered relations have grown more egalitarian over time. keywords: men cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj26b5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj26b5b.txt item: #2964 of 4945 id: kk91fj26j0g author: Julia Qiuye Zhao title: 'They Compel with Baptism as with a Monkish Vow': Baptism and the Monastic Vow in Medieval Monastic and Early Anabaptist Writing date: 2020 words: 331 flesch: 32 summary: Examination of the writings of early Anabaptists on adult baptism alongside the writings of monastic authors shows that structural similarities do indeed exist between monks committed to Rome and Anabaptists who rejected infant baptism. This study argues that it is the very transformation of Gelassenheit among early Anabaptists which allowed them to create communities which came to resemble monastic communities, built around the vows taken by believers at their baptism. keywords: anabaptists cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj26j0g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj26j0g.txt item: #2965 of 4945 id: kk91fj26j3h author: Vincent J Kitsmiller title: Next Generation Frequency Domain Near Infrared Spectroscopy date: 2020 words: 995 flesch: 36 summary: The details of integrating silicon photomultiplier detectors in fdNIRS imaging systems to provide performance improvements are further investigated to include the operation of SiPMs and how they differ from other fdNIRS photodetectors. Though SiPMs are typically employed in photon-counting or pulsed time-domain measurement applications, they provide increased signal to noise ratio (SNR) and deeper tissue sensitivity, as compared to avalanche photodiodes (APDs) in fdNIRS. keywords: fdnirs; imaging cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kk91fj26j3h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kk91fj26j3h.txt item: #2966 of 4945 id: kp78gf08q5b author: Sarah Elizabeth Frost title: Memory Architecture for Quantum-dot Cellular Automata date: 2005 words: 83 flesch: 55 summary: This work presents the H-memory architecture, a memory architecture that exploits the characteristics of QCA and results in order of magnitude density gains over end of the roadmap SRAM and DRAM. Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a novel nanotechnology with great potential for very dense memory and low power logic. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf08q5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf08q5b.txt item: #2967 of 4945 id: kp78gf08q6p author: Georgios Magkotsios title: Nucleosynthesis During Freeze-Out Expansions in Core-Collapse Supernovae date: 2011 words: 248 flesch: 33 summary: Non-monotonic profiles involve longer non-equilibrium nucleosynthesis intervals compared to the exponential and power-law profiles, resulting in mass fraction trends and yield distributions which may not be achieved by the monotonic profiles. We use exponential and power-law adiabatic profiles, and introduce additional non-monotonic profiles to mimic explosion asymmetries and reverse shock nucleosynthesis. keywords: profiles cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf08q6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf08q6p.txt item: #2968 of 4945 id: kp78gf08q9q author: Adam Thomas Biggs title: The Benefits of Distractors: Search Strategy Can Influence Attentional Allocation date: 2010 words: 145 flesch: 30 summary: Recently, Biggs and Gibson (2010) provided evidence that distractor interference depended upon the context of the task, suggesting top-down effects were responsible for distractor interference. Our findings suggest that top-down mechanisms can increase or decrease interference produced by irrelevant information depending on how this information is incorporated into visual search. keywords: distractor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf08q9q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf08q9q.txt item: #2969 of 4945 id: kp78gf08r0x author: Daniel Peter Fagnant title: Solubility and Solvation of Metal Species in Ionic Liquids date: 2015 words: 362 flesch: 40 summary: The effect on metal salt solubility in an IL when tuning the properties of the cation is important to designing processes that retain high metal solubilities but allow for adjusting other physical properties of the IL solvent. ILs with specialized functional groups, or task specific ILs, are investigated through UV-vis and Raman spectroscopy to understand the IL-metal complexes that are formed and how this behavior effects metal solubility. keywords: metal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf08r0x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf08r0x.txt item: #2970 of 4945 id: kp78gf08r7b author: Jessica Elizabeth Hornick title: Mitotic Spindle Assembly: Microtubules and the Role of the Centrosome date: 2009 words: 419 flesch: 41 summary: This suggests that centrosomes are indeed required to provide a strong bipolar cue to ensure that bipolar spindle assembly occurs without errors. Venous egg extracts and laser ablation of centrosomes have demonstrated that bipolar spindles can form in the absence of centrosomes. keywords: spindle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf08r7b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf08r7b.txt item: #2971 of 4945 id: kp78gf08r8p author: Roger Arthur Brooks title: An Analysis of Desired Breadth and Depth of Disclosure in Psychotherapy and Medicine date: 2011 words: 148 flesch: 39 summary: Contrary to the hypotheses, we found that female 'patients' desired more disclosure from male physicians and male therapists than from female professionals. Participants may be aware of the self-disclosure disparities between males and females and may have compensated by endorsing increased disclosure from the lower disclosing male professionals. keywords: disclosure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf08r8p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf08r8p.txt item: #2972 of 4945 id: kp78gf08s07 author: Andrew Hansen title: Geschichte und Glaube: Protestant Theologians and the Problems of History, 1815-1900 date: 2013 words: 347 flesch: 16 summary: This dissertation examines how Protestant theologians in Germany and the United States navigated the transition to historicism, the unprecedented awareness of qualitative historical change that marked Western historical consciousness in the nineteenth century. However, the mediating theologians' emphasis on justifying Christianity through contemporary historical scholarship, paired with their reliance on particular assumptions of early historicist thought to resolve problems related to the historicity of Christianity, left their mediations intellectually vulnerable to changes in historical scholarship that came at the end of the century. keywords: historicism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf08s07.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf08s07.txt item: #2973 of 4945 id: kp78gf08s38 author: Ryan T. Anderson title: Neither Liberal Nor Libertarian: A Natural Law Approach to Social Justice and Economic Rights date: 2014 words: 366 flesch: 45 summary: This dissertation develops a natural law account of social justice and economic rights. In these chapters I decipher what is true in the accounts of social justice and economic rights that they offer — as well as highlight what a natural law account could offer by way of correction. keywords: justice cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf08s38.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf08s38.txt item: #2974 of 4945 id: kp78gf08s7n author: Albertus Horsting title: Prosper of Aquitaine's Poetical Synthesis of Augustinian Theology: A New Edition of the Liber epigrammatum date: 1904 words: 188 flesch: 39 summary: By providing a new textual reckoning of the epigrams, it will be possible to fix the contours of Prosper's (and therefore Augustine's) influence and establish a sound textual footing for further investigations. Prosper of Aquitaine was Augustine's most important early interpreter, defender, and promoter. keywords: augustine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf08s7n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf08s7n.txt item: #2975 of 4945 id: kp78gf08t27 author: Suzi F. Garcia title: Dear Dorothy: Poems date: 1904 words: 25 flesch: 82 summary: This thesis contains poems about a fantasized matriarchal world, though the speaker does not know how it will be achieved, likely through her own blood. keywords: blood cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf08t27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf08t27.txt item: #2976 of 4945 id: kp78gf08t6m author: Sandhya Vasudevan title: The Effect of Nanoparticle Shape on the Electrical and Thermal Properties of Solid Polymer Electrolytes date: 1904 words: 298 flesch: 41 summary: Electrolytes of polyethylene oxide (PEO) and LiClO4 filled with TiO2 ellipse and TiO2 nanorods (NR) in the concentration range of 1-10 wt.% and 1-2.5 wt.% respectively, were measured at an ether oxygen to Li ratio of 10:1. While the filler concentration for maximum conductivity improvement is correlated to the nanoparticle shape, the magnitude of the improvement is correlated to the surface-to volume ( S V ) ratio. keywords: conductivity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf08t6m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf08t6m.txt item: #2977 of 4945 id: kp78gf09g6s author: Michael S. Hahn title: Augustine in the Teaching of Thomas: Aquinas's Reception and Use of Contra Faustum Manichaeum date: 2018 words: 366 flesch: 38 summary: Part I provides an introduction to the Contra Faustum, establishing a necessary background for considering Thomas's use of it, and filling an existing gap in Augustine studies, where analysis of the work in its entirety is largely absent. This dissertation examines Thomas Aquinas's engagement with the Contra Faustum, the largest and most comprehensive of Augustine's anti-Manichaean works, especially as it is deployed in Thomas's teaching on the Old and New Law in the Summa theologiae's treatise on law. keywords: thomas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf09g6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf09g6s.txt item: #2978 of 4945 id: kp78gf09m2n author: Steven M. Barbachyn title: Seismic Design, Analysis, and Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Coupled Shear Wall Systems with Post-Tensioned Coupling Beams date: 2019 words: 360 flesch: 38 summary: Ultimately, the high-fidelity data from these tests support the ACI validation of the design procedures and modeling/prediction tools for the use of post-tensioned coupled shear wall structures as primary lateral load resisting systems in moderate and high seismic regions of the U.S. Overall, both test specimens performed well and significantly better than previous tests of conventional RC coupled shear wall structures. keywords: wall cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf09m2n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf09m2n.txt item: #2979 of 4945 id: kp78gf09n81 author: Karl Cronberger title: Petrogenesis of KREEP Basalts date: 2019 words: 189 flesch: 53 summary: KREEP basalts are an oddity. Chapter 5 combines the data from chapters 2 and 3 and synthesizing these with the major and trace element compositions and calculated equilibrium liquids of pyroxene and plagioclase from additional KREEP basalts. keywords: kreep cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf09n81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf09n81.txt item: #2980 of 4945 id: kp78gf09s7x author: Patrick K. Kirkland title: Developing a Measure of Mature Number Sense with Valid and Reliable Scores date: 2020 words: 191 flesch: 51 summary: Therefore, the goal of this project was to develop a measure of student number sense with valid and reliable scores that can be used to assess the impact on student number sense of instructional practices such as Number Talks. By flexibly solving problems and learning from other students' strategies, Number Talks are claimed to increase students' number sense (Boaler, 2015; Boaler et al., 2018; Sun et al., 2018). keywords: number cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf09s7x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf09s7x.txt item: #2981 of 4945 id: kp78gf09v2t author: Hunter O. Ford title: Functional Polymers for Beyond-Li-Ion Batteries: Elucidating Structure-Chemistry-Property Relationships for Engineered Ion Transport in Gel Polymer Electrolytes date: 2021 words: 469 flesch: 31 summary: Further, it is shown that unless the cross-linked polymer is porous or sufficiently tough, Li-S batteries using polymer gel electrolytes will suffer quick and catastrophic dendritic failure. Taken in totality, the work presented here lays the foundation for directed engineering of gel polymer electrolytes that meet the specific ion transport needs of next-generation rechargeable batteries. keywords: polymer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf09v2t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf09v2t.txt item: #2982 of 4945 id: kp78gf09w0f author: Derek Shank title: Fractured but Whole: Towards Understanding the Smallest Substructure of the Milky Way date: 2022 words: 204 flesch: 49 summary: Associations of remnants to known Milky Way substructures are recovered, such as Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus, the Helmi Streams, Thamnos, the Splashed Disk, the Metal-Weak Thick Disk, and LMS-1 (Wukong). Previously discovered remnants are, for the first time, analyzed in exhaustive detail to compare relations between discoveries, showing remarkable consistency across the field even when using differing detection methods. keywords: milky cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf09w0f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf09w0f.txt item: #2983 of 4945 id: kp78gf09x6t author: Neha Mehra title: Active Site Models, Mechanisms, and Performance Predictions for Catalytic Ethylene Oligomerization and Hydrogenation date: 2023 words: 255 flesch: 35 summary: We construct atomistic models of metal sites grafted on (111) and (001) surfaces of beta-cristobalite, a silica polymorph. Results obtained aid in understanding trends across metal ions and factors governing their activity towards hydrocarbon conversion reactions relevant to today's economy based on oil and increasing production of shale gas. keywords: silica cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kp78gf09x6t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kp78gf09x6t.txt item: #2984 of 4945 id: ks65h99208d author: Kimberly Akiko Koga title: from the pseudoplague date: 2011 words: 15 flesch: 44 summary: This collection of poetry explores power dynamics at the intersections of love, sex, and violence. keywords: violence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h99208d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h99208d.txt item: #2985 of 4945 id: ks65h99209r author: Craig Richard Powers title: Monte Carlo Simulation of Adsorption and Ion Exchange in Nanoporous Materials date: 2011 words: 465 flesch: 33 summary: The results from the simulations are analyzed to obtain insight into the behavior of the materials and an understanding of how ion exchange simulations may be conducted moreeffectively in the future. In the final phase of this study, a new statistical mechanical ensemble is developed,denoted the ion exchange ensemble, and the corresponding move acceptance probabilities for Monte Carlo simulation in this ensemble. keywords: study cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h99209r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h99209r.txt item: #2986 of 4945 id: ks65h99212n author: Luke Ellis Chicoine title: Health and Human Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa date: 2012 words: 514 flesch: 48 summary: This dissertation includes two essays examining how changes in human capital levels have affected the lives of people in sub-Saharan Africa. First, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has had a detrimental impact in South Africa, killing over a quarter of a million people in 2007. keywords: fertility cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h99212n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h99212n.txt item: #2987 of 4945 id: ks65h992130 author: Darcy Danielle LaClair title: Optimization and Characterization of the Growth of the Photosynthetic Bacterium Blastochloris Viridis and a Brief Survey of Its Potential as a Remediative Tool date: 2006 words: 352 flesch: 36 summary: Exogenous carbon dioxide, added as 2.5 g sodium bicarbonate per liter media also enhanced growth and reduced the lag time. The Two-Point method, a rapid and reliable method to compare cell growth and health, was demonstrated. keywords: growth cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h992130.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h992130.txt item: #2988 of 4945 id: ks65h99214b author: Nicole Rae Kroeger title: Coisotropic Subalgebras of Complex Semisimple Lie Bialgebras date: 2014 words: 96 flesch: 30 summary: Furthermore, we view coisotropic subalgebras of inside the variety of Lagrangian subalgebras of the double. Given a complex, semisimple Lie biaglebra, we consider the coisotropic subalgebras--the Lie subalgebras of whose annihilator in the dual space is a Lie subalgebra of the dual space. keywords: lie cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h99214b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h99214b.txt item: #2989 of 4945 id: ks65h99215p author: Daniel Michael O'Hare title: 'Have You Seen, Son of Man?': Preliminary Studies in the Translation and Vorlage of LXX Ezekiel 40-48 date: 2010 words: 428 flesch: 35 summary: Based on this principle, analysis of the Vorlage of LXX Ezekiel 40-48 concludes that it preserves numerous secondary readings that harmonize Ezekiel's final vision with his earlier ones and thereby interpret Ezekiel in terms of the prophet's unique theology. On the other hand, a number of modernizing supplements bring the Hebrew text of Ezekiel 40-48 into conversation with developing Palestinian merkabah traditions (LXX Ezek 43:2-3) and the architecture of the Second Temple (LXX Ezek 40:38-40). keywords: ezekiel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h99215p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h99215p.txt item: #2990 of 4945 id: ks65h99217c author: Leann Elizabeth Smith title: Early Parenting Trajectories and Children's Language Development: Differences Between Adolescent and Adult Mothers date: 2006 words: 122 flesch: 46 summary: The present study used latent growth curve modeling to investigate changes in parenting over the first 18 months of life and how parenting is related to child language development at 24 months of age. Cognitive readiness to parent and support from fathers acted as predictors of initial parenting practices and changes in parenting over time. keywords: parenting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h99217c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h99217c.txt item: #2991 of 4945 id: ks65h992208 author: Rosanne Catherine Martyr title: Toward a Unified Parametrization of Bottom Friction for Riverine, Tidal and Hurricane Surge Analysis date: 2012 words: 285 flesch: 43 summary: This dissertation applies the high-resolution, unstructured-mesh, wave-current SWAN+ADCIRC model to examine river flows and water levels in the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers. Low-lying near-shore coastal features are shown to impact tidal flows in the Gulf region, while use of a lower limit on bottom friction is shown to directly impact hurricane surge water levels and currents. keywords: river cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h992208.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h992208.txt item: #2992 of 4945 id: ks65h99222z author: Michael Albrecht title: Design of a Data Repository for a Long-Running Physics Experimen date: 2010 words: 147 flesch: 49 summary: Challenges such as storing large datasets, interface design, fast data analysis, and large-scale data visualization are examined, and solutions are presented in the form of distributed storage and parallel computation. Furthermore, in areas like physics, scientists are frequently looking for interesting events or trends amongst a sea of boring data, making visualization and mass analysis very important. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h99222z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h99222z.txt item: #2993 of 4945 id: ks65h992239 author: David Joel Janetski title: Ecological Effects of Introduced Pacific Salmon in Great Lakes Tributaries date: 2012 words: 368 flesch: 34 summary: In a meta-analysis of Pacific salmon research in their native range, I found that dissolved nutrients and benthic communities respond positively to salmon overall, but that variability is driven by methodological and environmental factors, such as salmon abundance and sediment size. Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) can have substantial ecological effects on the stream ecosystems in which they spawn and die. keywords: salmon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h992239.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h992239.txt item: #2994 of 4945 id: ks65h992q2v author: Siyi Qu title: Development of Chemically-Tailored Copolymer Nanofiltration Membranes date: 1904 words: 257 flesch: 19 summary: Furthermore, functionalization using a novel micro-patterning technique allows the development of a fast and versatile modification of membrane chemistry, which results in more selective and chemically affiliated separations. The versatile and precise control over membrane chemistry at the microscale provided by the technique suggests the potential in future development of a variety of highly selective membranes. keywords: membrane cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h992q2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h992q2v.txt item: #2995 of 4945 id: ks65h992w3r author: Andrew J. O'Connor title: The Prophetic Vocation in the Qur'an: Kerygmatic and Theonomic Visions of Prophetology date: 2019 words: 213 flesch: 37 summary: First I situate the Qur'an's broader presentation of prophethood within the history of prophetic activity as a whole and demonstrate its connection to developments within the context of Late Antiquity. I argue that its sequential recollection of earlier prophetic figures (what I call messenger-reports)—the building blocks of much of the kerygmatic paradigm—suggest a typological reading of prophets as preachers of an eschatological message, but also demonstrate a certain adaptability in its understanding of prophethood. keywords: prophethood cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h992w3r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h992w3r.txt item: #2996 of 4945 id: ks65h993316 author: Leo Jimenez title: Internality in Families date: 2020 words: 202 flesch: 42 summary: In the first part, we generalize one of the fundamental tools of geometric stability theory, type-definable binding groups, to certain families of internal types, which we call relatively internal. Studying internal types, one often encounters uniformly defined families of internal types. keywords: internal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h993316.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h993316.txt item: #2997 of 4945 id: ks65h99339z author: Jose R. Berlioz title: Spin-Filtered Tunneling Device Using a Topological Insulator date: 2021 words: 293 flesch: 30 summary: Due to their unique electronic structure, these new materials have been an active area of research to discover new quantum phenomena and their application in new technologies. The alignment of the Fermi levels of the topological insulator layers and the thickness of the tunnel barrier were investigated using X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy. keywords: spin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ks65h99339z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ks65h99339z.txt item: #2998 of 4945 id: kw52j675874 author: Craig Bradshaw Woelfel title: Varieties of Aesthetic Experience: Religious Experience and Literary Modernism date: 2011 words: 355 flesch: 20 summary: As a pair of test cases, I look at the impact of the study of religious experience and Eastern religions on the art and aesthetics of T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster, focusing on their work from the early to late 1920's. Rather than seeing religion and secularity as mutually exclusive viewpoints in modernity Ì¢ âÂ' or, conversely, as possibly obtaining some kind of accomodationist relationship - I use Charles Taylor's conception of 'cross-pressures' from A Secular Age (2007), along with contemporary discourse surrounding the study of religious experience, as context through which to read modernist literature as a site of what I call dissociated belief: a fragmentary exploration of transcendent experience situated within a secular and skeptical background of understanding, and pressured equally by stances against orthodox religiosity or mystical epistemologies and against totally immanent or rational accounts of being, knowing, and art. keywords: experience cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j675874.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j675874.txt item: #2999 of 4945 id: kw52j67588g author: Brenda R. Whitehead title: Affect-Biased Health Perceptions: How Global and Daily Affect Influence the Correspondence Between Objective and Subjective Health in Older Adults date: 2013 words: 359 flesch: 43 summary: Additional models also tested the degree to which health bias is primarily a trait process (dependent on global affect) or a state process (dependent on day-level affect). On the global level, structural equation modeling was used to evaluate the presence of affective health bias, so that the relationship between an Objective Health factor and a Perceived Health factor is moderated by global NA and PA. keywords: health cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j67588g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j67588g.txt item: #3000 of 4945 id: kw52j67591c author: Anna Louise Heckmann title: Targeting the Dengue Genome with a Hepatitis Delta Virus Ribozyme date: 2010 words: 254 flesch: 52 summary: Our analyses provide validation of this ribozyme as a candidate effector gene for Dengue virus refractivity in mosquito cells, although future work is necessary to determine the extent of target cleavage. The ability of the ribozyme to cleave this conserved sequence was examined in cell culture using a 5' DENV/firefly luciferase fusion target and luciferase assays, RT-PCR, western dot-blot, and in-vitro cleavage assays. keywords: ribozyme cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j67591c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j67591c.txt item: #3001 of 4945 id: kw52j67592q author: Tihtina Zenebe Gebre title: Essays on the Effects of Education Policy Reforms in Developing Countries date: 2015 words: 672 flesch: 48 summary: The second essay attempts to fill this gap by examining the relationship between increased schooling by household heads on households' consumption in Malawi. Moreover, I find significant reduction in the fraction of children who died, due to increased schooling by the mother. keywords: schooling cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j67592q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j67592q.txt item: #3002 of 4945 id: kw52j675994 author: Angela Dawn Carpenter title: Sanctified Children: Natural Moral Formation and Sanctification in Reformed Theology date: 2014 words: 332 flesch: 25 summary: Prompted by such questions, this dissertation explores how natural processes of moral formation relate to divinely enabled moral change by placing a Reformed Protestant understanding of sanctification in conversation with recent social scientific research on early childhood development. Unresolved tensions in Calvin's thought, however, leave open the possibility that subsequent accounts of sanctification will either completely divorce it from natural human formation or collapse the work of the Spirit into our understanding of natural formation. keywords: sanctification cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j675994.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j675994.txt item: #3003 of 4945 id: kw52j675b0b author: Brian D Wilson title: Study of the Effects of Acylation within the Extracellular Domains of BlaR1 date: 2011 words: 650 flesch: 40 summary: The BlaRS sensor domain has high structural conservation with other penicillin binding proteins (PBPs) and the Class A and D Ì¢-lactamases, although the proteins have low sequence homology. The exact mechanism of signal initiation and signal relay from the extracellular to intracellular domains is currently unknown. keywords: domain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j675b0b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j675b0b.txt item: #3004 of 4945 id: kw52j675b21 author: David I Gregory-Negron title: A New Space for Aesthetics: Contemporary Literature and Filmic Representations of Alterity Within the Southern Cone date: 2013 words: 341 flesch: 43 summary: Chapter Three takes these considerations in terms of film language and how we can understand the collective identity of Chile. Chapter Four focuses on Argentina and how identity is build from memory and the language that forms that memory. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j675b21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j675b21.txt item: #3005 of 4945 id: kw52j675b52 author: Ian M Sander title: Protein Folding is Modulated by the Translating Ribosome date: 2012 words: 231 flesch: 39 summary: This co-translational folding represents an important restriction on the conformational ensemble populated by nascent proteins in vivo. In the cell, protein folding is coupled to synthesis of the protein by the ribosome. keywords: protein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j675b52.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j675b52.txt item: #3006 of 4945 id: kw52j675b6d author: William K. Bauder title: A Measurement of Actinide Neutron Transmutations with Accelerator Mass Spectrometry in Order to Infer Neutron Capture Cross Sections date: 1904 words: 224 flesch: 36 summary: The Measurement of Actinide TRAnsmutation (MANTRA) project aims to make a comprehensive set of energy integrated neutron capture cross section measurements for all relevant isotopes from Th to Cf. The ability to extract these cross sections relies on the use of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) to analyze isotopic concentrations in samples irradiated in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR).The AMS measurements were performed at the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS) and required a number of key technical developments to the ion source, accelerator, and detector setup. keywords: cross cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j675b6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j675b6d.txt item: #3007 of 4945 id: kw52j675c2b author: Kathryn M. Lance title: Troubling Trends: Predictors of Binge Drinking in Adolescents in Northern Ireland date: 1904 words: 192 flesch: 17 summary: The study focused on factors present in an adolescent's social-ecological system, including levels of anger/aggression, maternal psychological control, and community violence as predictors of adolescent binge drinking across two time points. The analyses indicated that an adolescent's anger/aggression level is not a significant predictor of binge drinking over time (p > .11); however, both maternal psychological control (ß = .215, p = .015) and the level of community violence proved to be significant predictors in the regression analysis (ß = .215, p = .015; ß = .184, p = .027). keywords: adolescent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j675c2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j675c2b.txt item: #3008 of 4945 id: kw52j675c3p author: Victoria Colleen Tomiczek Johnson title: Wave and Surge Vulnerability of Coastal Residences date: 1904 words: 350 flesch: 29 summary: Coastal communities are vulnerable to damage from hurricane or tsunami-generated water level rises, current velocities, and wave forces. Wave conditions in which waves broke on or just before a specimen caused maximum impulsive pressures. keywords: damage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j675c3p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j675c3p.txt item: #3009 of 4945 id: kw52j675c41 author: Tara C. Weigand title: Performance-Based Habitability Design and Assessment of Tall Buildings Using Full-Scale Data date: 1904 words: 149 flesch: 24 summary: In addition, a robust performance-based habitability design method is proposed that enables engineers and owners to define performance objectives specific to the project, with an accompanying assessment framework to support design validation and automated performance feedback through continuous monitoring. This evaluation demonstrated a significant overestimation of predicted damping and a non-negligible contribution from higher modes, in contrast with typical design assumptions. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j675c41.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j675c41.txt item: #3010 of 4945 id: kw52j675g8b author: Aamir Ahmed Khan title: 3-Dimensional, High-Resolution Oxygen Microscopy in Vivo through Multiphoton Phosphorescence Lifetime Imaging date: 1904 words: 439 flesch: 40 summary: However, MPM-FLIM for biological oxygen imaging requires water-soluble phosphorescent dyes that have high oxygen-sensitivity and a large two-photon cross-section. For example, quantitative information about oxygen levels in tumors can lead to optimized treatment methods in oncology, whereas oxygen imaging of brain vasculature can lead to a better understanding of brain activity in neurological research. keywords: oxygen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j675g8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j675g8b.txt item: #3011 of 4945 id: kw52j67615j author: Elizabeth A. Baker title: More Romance than Reality: Mary Carpenter, 'Native Gentlemen,' and the National Indian Association, 1830-1880 date: 1904 words: 96 flesch: 18 summary: This study tracks the beginning of native gentlemanliness, its deployment by Mary Carpenter, and the ways elite male Indian social reformers became native gentlemen to gain social capital, imperial prestige, and imperial funding for their education reforms. In doing so, it investigates the ways race, gender, and class all influenced who could participate, and ultimately control, the practice and ideology of imperial gender reform. keywords: imperial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j67615j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j67615j.txt item: #3012 of 4945 id: kw52j67652r author: Arturo Argueta title: Accelerating Natural Language Processing Algorithms Using Graphics Processing Units date: 2019 words: 365 flesch: 44 summary: We carry out experiments using different GPU architectures and compare the performance on different datasets. The word-level frequency in natural language creates irregular sparsity patterns, and these patterns generate sparse data structures that do not perform well on parallel architectures. keywords: sparse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j67652r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j67652r.txt item: #3013 of 4945 id: kw52j67670p author: Colleen E. Mitchell title: The Political Lessons of Rome: Augustine and Machiavelli on the Eternal City date: 2019 words: 233 flesch: 48 summary: My dissertation has three substantive parts: the first deals with Augustine, the second with Machiavelli, and the third with larger themes about the relationships between politics, religion, and morality in the writings of these two thinkers and in contemporary politics. Augustine is known for being a sharp critic of Rome, and his antipathy toward the Eternal City is often used to argue that Augustine is disdainful of earthly politics more generally. keywords: augustine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j67670p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j67670p.txt item: #3014 of 4945 id: kw52j676b5b author: John Conlan title: Altered States: Biopolitics and Precarious Life in Flann O'Brien and James Joyce date: 2020 words: 200 flesch: 42 summary: By considering groups of people that are politically ambiguous and economically precarious (like displaced women and radical labourers), I arrive at a model of biopolitics that is informed by the subversive political potential of subjects on the fringe of Irish civil society. In this dissertation, I will discuss the concepts of biopolitics and precarious life as they relate to Irish modernist fiction. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j676b5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j676b5b.txt item: #3015 of 4945 id: kw52j676c5n author: Kang Gao title: Computation of Mutual Information with Training and Its Applications in Quantized Large-Scale Systems date: 2020 words: 302 flesch: 33 summary: In the second part, we show that a quantized large-scale system with unknown parameters and training signals can be analyzed by examining an equivalent system with known parameters by modifying the signal power and noise variance in a prescribed manner. In wireless communications, we show that the number of training signals can be significantly smaller than the number of transmitting elements. keywords: training cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j676c5n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j676c5n.txt item: #3016 of 4945 id: kw52j676d4m author: Vu Anh Truong Nguyen title: Evolution and Control of Ecological Communities date: 2021 words: 110 flesch: 24 summary: It is possible to change communities with high specificity by modifying multiple interactions. A simple geometric interpretation for modifying interactions to displace the equilibrium abundance of communities towards some desired state is derived. keywords: evolutionary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j676d4m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j676d4m.txt item: #3017 of 4945 id: kw52j676g9z author: William Tjaden title: Cyclic Degradation of Clays within a Finite Element Framework under Various Dynamic Loading Characteristics date: 2023 words: 37 flesch: 30 summary: Using commercially available final element software, this research project investigates the cyclic behavior of clay and the current state of constitutive models in capturing the cyclic degradation of clay. Progress to rectify current state shortcomings is presented. keywords: clay cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/kw52j676g9z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/kw52j676g9z.txt item: #3018 of 4945 id: m039k358k1r author: Yuzhe Liu title: Analysis and Design of Systems with a Non-negative Impulse Response date: 2011 words: 400 flesch: 46 summary: The results explain the difficulties associated with non-negative impulse response filter design for systems other than lowpass filters. An approximation-based approach is presented for designing high-performance non-negative finite impulse response (NNFIR) lowpass filters, while NNFIR nonlowpass filters of various types can be obtained from a lowpass design via proposed transformations that preserve the NNIR feature. keywords: response cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k358k1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k358k1r.txt item: #3019 of 4945 id: m039k358k54 author: Nathan Daniel Gunsch title: Mishappening date: 2006 words: 3 flesch: 7 summary: Poetry Creative Thesis: keywords: creative cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k358k54.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k358k54.txt item: #3020 of 4945 id: m039k358k6g author: Sara Lynn Crosby title: Poisonous Mixtures: Gender, Race, Empire, and Cultural Authority in Antebellum Female Poisoner Literature date: 2005 words: 352 flesch: 24 summary: In short, this literature enabled a debate about how power should be distributed in a 'civilized' society, what boundaries and structures constituted that civilization, and which configurations of race, class, and gender should wield hegemonic authority over it. Narratives of these mixtures could figure structures of power and identity that ran the gamut from heterogeneous possibilities for establishing more egalitarian modes of authority and androgynous forms of identity to hegemonic possibilities for rigidifying social hierarchy and clarifying boundaries of identity. keywords: female cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k358k6g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k358k6g.txt item: #3021 of 4945 id: m039k358k85 author: Jonathan Stephen Wolff title: Essays Concerning the Nature of Business Cycles date: 2014 words: 359 flesch: 45 summary: Chapter two continues this focus on state dependent fiscal policy by studying the state-dependent effects of consumption, labor, and capital tax cuts. Output multipliers tend to be positively correlated with welfare multipliers for all three kinds of tax changes. keywords: change cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k358k85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k358k85.txt item: #3022 of 4945 id: m039k358k9h author: Faruk Eray DÌ_zenli title: Re/Presenting Labor: Economic Discourse, Value, Ethics date: 2006 words: 349 flesch: 26 summary: In the first essay, I analyze contemporary renditions of labor in nonacademic economic discourses' publications of international institutions' as well as postmodernist narratives to show that labor, rather than being a given category with a single definition, acquires different meanings in different theories, with different theoretical, economic and ethical implications. As it participates in the constitution of a unique discourse that renders certain aspects of reality visible, labor becomes a 'particular lens' with which one can understand, ascribe meanings to prevalent economic and social relations, and destabilize, subvert, and transform the status quo by potentiating counter-hegemonic discourses and mobilizing alternative movements. keywords: labor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k358k9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k358k9h.txt item: #3023 of 4945 id: m039k358m2d author: Jeremiah Ross Barr title: Gallery-Free Methods for Detecting and Recognizing People and Groups of Interest in the Wild date: 2014 words: 352 flesch: 38 summary: FACE forms high-fidelity identity clusters by integrating a minimal amount of human feedback with automatic face recognition results. Face detection typically serves as the first step in a facial analysis pipeline. keywords: face cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k358m2d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k358m2d.txt item: #3024 of 4945 id: m039k358m43 author: Ted Ritchie Kolberg title: Measurement of the Isolated Photon Cross Section with Conversions in pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV date: 2011 words: 132 flesch: 51 summary: We present a measurement of the isolated direct photon cross section using 36.1 pb−1 of pp collision data at √s = 7 TeV collected with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment during the 2010 physics run of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The transverse momentum of the conversion track pair is compared with the transverse energy measured in the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL), and is then used to subtract the background due to e.g. π0 → γγ decays. keywords: photon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k358m43.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k358m43.txt item: #3025 of 4945 id: m039k358m5f author: Alissa Russell title: The Influence of Control on Daily Affect Regulation in Later Life: Longitudinal and Developmental Approaches to Understanding Change date: 2012 words: 279 flesch: 22 summary: The main objectives of this thesis were to investigate whether: 1) there is a daily relationship between environmental control and negative affect, 2) that relationship changes within participants across three waves of data spanning five years, 3) the age of the participant (when the study began) influences the daily relationship between environmental control and negative affect, and 4) global levels of emotion or environmental control influence individuals' relationship between daily environmental control and daily negative affect. Global emotion control (but not global environmental control) moderated the daily relationship; specifically, on days of lower environmental control, individuals with higher global emotion control had lower negative affect than those with lower global emotion control. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k358m5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k358m5f.txt item: #3026 of 4945 id: m039k359848 author: Benjamin K. Mayala title: Climate Change and Variation on Malaria Transmission in Tanzania date: 1904 words: 179 flesch: 34 summary: This is true despite significant global reductions in the number of reported cases and associated mortality over the last decade as a result of the expansion and intensification of control programs. Finally, I assessed how climate change and development scenarios, will impact future malaria transmission in the various districts of Tanzania keywords: malaria cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k359848.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k359848.txt item: #3027 of 4945 id: m039k359906 author: Gabriel J. LaBonia title: Investigation of In Vitro Models for Colon Cancer Research date: 1904 words: 365 flesch: 38 summary: In this project, two novel in vitro platforms are employed to better understand the effects of chemotherapeutic treatments on colon cancer cells: tumor spheroids and paper-based cultures. Individual layers of paper are seeded with colon cancer cells, stacked together into a 3D structure containing a diffusion-limited environment generated with the use of diffusion limiting membranes and stainless steel holders. keywords: spheroids cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k359906.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k359906.txt item: #3028 of 4945 id: m039k359f55 author: Anne Malin Ringwalt title: What Floods date: 2019 words: 10 flesch: 78 summary: A stream-poem exploring memory-as-echo, voice and performance. keywords: performance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k359f55.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k359f55.txt item: #3029 of 4945 id: m039k359h5s author: Jesse Schupack title: The Socratic Foundations of Platonic Justice date: 2019 words: 293 flesch: 52 summary: Finally, I show of the Republic that, mature work though it is, we find in the essential features of its characterization of justice a clear continuity with the Socratic account of virtue in the Gorgias and Apology. On this view, the Republic represents Plato's progression from the early, largely negative Socratic ethics and the introduction of his better, more mature account of justice, built on the foundation of a highly un-Socratic metaphysical theory. keywords: plato cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k359h5s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k359h5s.txt item: #3030 of 4945 id: m039k359n4p author: Aparna Bharati title: Vision and Learning-Based Methods for Scalable and Generalized Image Forensics date: 2020 words: 406 flesch: 39 summary: The increase in sharing of images has also led to more ways to edit image content aimed towards achieving a certain goal. Our proposed pipelines solve important problems in the domain of image forensics and utilize techniques from image analysis, pattern recognition, and computer vision. keywords: image cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k359n4p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k359n4p.txt item: #3031 of 4945 id: m039k359q2m author: Monica Arul Jayachandran title: Machine Learning Techniques to Support Long-Term Monitoring Networks with Applications to Wind and Structural Health Monitoring Programs date: 2022 words: 366 flesch: 39 summary: Various machine learning frameworks have been developed in this study to better understand extreme wind characteristics and the performance of civil infrastructure under winds. With the wider availability of sensor technology through easily affordable sensor devices, many structural health monitoring (SHM) programs and wind field monitoring networks have been established to better understand the different meteorological phenomena and their effects on structures. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k359q2m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k359q2m.txt item: #3032 of 4945 id: m039k359q3z author: Justin Easa title: Surface Science Analysis of Catalytic Thin Films: Pd-Based H2 Separation Membranes and Pyridine-Assisted Cycloaddition of CO2 date: 2022 words: 203 flesch: 21 summary: For the thin metallic membranes I investigate common catalytic poisons, C3H6 and CO, on the activity of Pd during H2 separation at relevant permeation conditions. Many applications investigate catalytic materials far from reaction conditions with model systems. keywords: surface cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k359q3z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k359q3z.txt item: #3033 of 4945 id: m039k359q7b author: Morgan Munsen title: The Effect of Confirmation Bias and Perceptual Disfluency on Juror Decision-Making and Memory Retention date: 2022 words: 294 flesch: 17 summary: The decision-making results showed a dissociation where Juror Bias Scale score (a measure of pre-existing personal biases towards the criminal justice system) predicted verdicts while the experimentally-manipulated initial bias predicted suggested length of sentence—both in a direction that supported an effect of confirmation bias on decision-making. The second experiment also addressed the novel area of confirmation bias mitigation by implementing a perceptual disfluency manipulation—a manipulation which has been hypothesized to operate by shifting individuals from a heuristic mode of processing into an analytical mode of processing. keywords: bias cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k359q7b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k359q7b.txt item: #3034 of 4945 id: m039k359r38 author: Sukhwan Chung title: Emergence of Functional Modules in Multitasking Systems date: 2022 words: 199 flesch: 33 summary: Furthermore, functional modules emerge naturally from multitasking systems because specialized components are extremely more probable to form than multitasking components. It allows us to quantify functional modularity of a system in terms of functional specialization of individual components. keywords: functional cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m039k359r38.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m039k359r38.txt item: #3035 of 4945 id: m326m041t9r author: Nathan J. Ristuccia title: The Transmission of Christendom: Ritual and Instruction in the Early Middle Ages date: 2013 words: 345 flesch: 43 summary: Rituals of basic instruction, like Rogationtide and Lent, helped to form the local communities of the Latin West. Medieval law, theological treatises, narrative sources, sermons, and liturgy are all essential sources testifying to developments in the social and religious position of basic instruction across the early medieval Latin West. keywords: instruction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m041t9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m041t9r.txt item: #3036 of 4945 id: m326m041v0z author: Rebecca Carole Quardokus title: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Observations of Neutral and Mixed-Valence Organometallic Complexes date: 2013 words: 184 flesch: 34 summary: Investigation of mixed-valence dinuclear organometallic molecules with asymmetric electron state density may open up the possibility for their use in molecularly based electronic devices. STM images of mixed-valence molecules show an asymmetric distribution of the electron density, indicating that the metal centers are present in different oxidation states. keywords: molecules cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m041v0z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m041v0z.txt item: #3037 of 4945 id: m326m041v30 author: Matthew Passmore Smylie title: Magnetism and Superconductivity in Ruthenates, Ruthenocuprates, and Other Layered Oxides date: 2010 words: 314 flesch: 23 summary: Another controversial class of superconducting material, Ba2ARu(1-x)CuxO6 (A=Ln,Y) is examined and the compound Ba2YRu(1-x)CuxO6 is shown to be superconducting with simultaneous Cu magnetic order at temperatures near that of YBCO, without CuO2 planes. The magnetic and crystal structures of several members of the Ln series are examined by SQUID magnetometry, electron spin resonance, and x-ray and neutron diffraction, with discovery of simultaneous superconductivity and Cu magnetic order in only Ba2DyRu(1-x)CuxO6. keywords: superconductivity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m041v30.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m041v30.txt item: #3038 of 4945 id: m326m041v4b author: Raj K Jana title: Low-Power Electronic Devices for Energy-Efficient Applications date: 2015 words: 564 flesch: 34 summary: The goal is to design transistor switch in a way that the device dissipates less power during logic operation than conventional FETs, BJTs. We also developed compact models for III-nitride HEMTs incorporating polarization charge to calculate transistor characteristics, and device parameters. keywords: transistor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m041v4b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m041v4b.txt item: #3039 of 4945 id: m326m041w1m author: David C Salyers title: Improving Network Efficiency date: 2008 words: 197 flesch: 51 summary: Specifically, this work presents two techniques and related research with an aim in improving overall network efficiency by trading a small amount of delay for individual flows. This dissertation investigates various aspects of network efficiency, in both the wired and wireless forms. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m041w1m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m041w1m.txt item: #3040 of 4945 id: m326m041w2z author: Wei Zhang title: A Comparison of Four Estimators of a Population Measure of Model Misfit in Covariance Structure Analysis date: 2005 words: 155 flesch: 39 summary: A Monte Carlo simulation study is conducted to examine how the above four estimators of F0 perform across varying model misspecifications, data distributions, model complexities, and sample sizes. Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in various test statistics and so-called fit indices, most of which are actually based on or closely related to F0, a measure of model misfit in the population. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m041w2z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m041w2z.txt item: #3041 of 4945 id: m326m041w4n author: Mehrdad Babadi title: The Varieties of Everyday Religiosity Among Iranian Graduate Students in US Universities date: 2013 words: 141 flesch: 26 summary: My evidence suggests that these young Iranian students with Islamic background are neither secularists nor traditional orthodox Muslims. In this paper, I have attempted to uncover the processes of everyday religiosity and secularity among Iranian graduate students within the United States. keywords: religiosity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m041w4n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m041w4n.txt item: #3042 of 4945 id: m326m041w7p author: John Paul Abdelsayed title: Our Great Archpriest: St. Cyril of Alexandria's Approach to the Priesthood of Christ date: 2014 words: 191 flesch: 36 summary: Never losing cite of his exceptional contribution to the articulation of the seminal aspects of Christian doctrine, Cyrillian scholarship moved to explore related aspects of his teaching on the Trinity, the Eucharist, the Church, the Spirit, and Scripture. The notion of Christ's priesthood is doctrinally integral to the whole of Cyril's thought, including his reflections on the Eucharist, the Trinity, the Church, sanctification, divine filiation, anthropology, grace and pastoral ministry. keywords: christ cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m041w7p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m041w7p.txt item: #3043 of 4945 id: m326m041x59 author: Ryan M. Nell title: A Thermodynamic Modeling Approach to Metal Fate and Bioavailability in Aqueous Microbial Systems date: 1904 words: 437 flesch: 25 summary: Bacterial adsorption of metals can have a great impact on environmental metal cycling. A comprehensive understanding of the extent of metal adsorption onto bacteria in aqueous systems is imperative in order to predict the fate of metals in natural and engineered geologic systems. keywords: bacterial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m041x59.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m041x59.txt item: #3044 of 4945 id: m326m041x6n author: Lucas J. Korte title: Toxicity Is Agency date: 1904 words: 176 flesch: 38 summary: In doing so, I am offering an image in which matter exceeds human thought, with something of the material world always remaining resistant to conceptualization and instrumentalization. Is it merely the raw components of the universe to be manipulated by human beings? keywords: matter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m041x6n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m041x6n.txt item: #3045 of 4945 id: m326m041z0w author: Robinson Murphy title: Castration Desire: Less Is More in Global Anglophone Literature date: 1904 words: 266 flesch: 21 summary: In addition to providing a novel optic through which to read a diversity of text-types, castration desire provides analytical tools for responding to the current apocalyptic track over which the globalized logic of normative masculine individualism otherwise operates. In place of masculine egoism, Anglophone writers such as Sri Lankan-Canadian Michael Ondaatje, South African-Australian J.M. Coetzee, Japanese-British Kazuo Ishiguro, Chinese-American David Henry Hwang, and Irish-Canadian Emma Donoghue offer prototypes in their characters for generating the less-is-more ethos of castration desire. keywords: castration cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m041z0w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m041z0w.txt item: #3046 of 4945 id: m326m042203 author: Javier (Xavi) Lanao Cámara title: Lawless Possibilities: A Powers Account of Natural Modality date: 1904 words: 259 flesch: 19 summary: The resulting conceptual framework allows us to (i) accommodate a wide range of natural necessities, including natural necessities with different scopes, degrees of generality and strictness, as well as natural necessities with different degrees of modal force; (ii) systematically account for the variety of natural possibilities we find in scientific practice; and (iii) provide truth conditions for counterfactual conditionals regarding natural modality. This project presents a principled and systematic approach to how to understand natural modality taking powers as an ontological (and modal) primitive. keywords: natural cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m042203.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m042203.txt item: #3047 of 4945 id: m326m042m95 author: Dana Townsend title: Coming of Age in Post-Accord Belfast: Changes in the Political Climate and Exposure to Sectarian Violence as Moderators of Adolescents' Emotional Security date: 2019 words: 347 flesch: 22 summary: As macro-level threat increased, Catholics who had more cumulative exposure to violence became more secure, Catholics who had less cumulative exposure became more insecure, and Protestants who had more cumulative exposure remained more insecure than their peers. During periods of high intergroup tension in society, adolescents with more cumulative exposure to violence became more secure, regardless of their group. keywords: violence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m042m95.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m042m95.txt item: #3048 of 4945 id: m326m042q5q author: Cunlu Zhou title: Entropy, Optimization and Coding Theory date: 2019 words: 204 flesch: 29 summary: Entropy is a central concept in many different disciplines, and many important applications involving entropy can be viewed as entropy optimization problems. We develop a long-step path-following algorithm for such optimization problems. keywords: entropy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m042q5q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m042q5q.txt item: #3049 of 4945 id: m326m042x2j author: Jonathan F. Gondelman title: Thucydides and the Passions of City Life date: 2020 words: 127 flesch: 44 summary: This dissertation examines the role of the passions in political life in Thucydides' work, reading Thucydides to a large degree as a political psychologist, focused on what motivates citizens and cities to take the actions that they do. It does so by looking at paradigmatic episodes in Thucydides' narrative, namely those episodes that show a link between passions and the city. keywords: passions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m042x2j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m042x2j.txt item: #3050 of 4945 id: m326m042z2v author: Chuanqi Wang title: Machine Learning Methods for Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data Analysis date: 2021 words: 419 flesch: 42 summary: Further, FastDE is capable of handling data from multiple nominal or ordinal biological conditions, and it provides an intuitive visualization to facilitate the interpretation of DE results. This double-use of data brings a data snooping problem, bringing a high risk of overwhelming false positives. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m042z2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m042z2v.txt item: #3051 of 4945 id: m326m042z67 author: Felicity Sterling title: StARD9 Is a Multifunctional Kinesin That Couples LDL-Uptake to the Projection of Lysosomal Membrane Tubules date: 2021 words: 295 flesch: 35 summary: Similar to NPC disease cells, StARD9 depleted cells lack lysosomal tubulation and accumulate cholesterol. Oxysterol-X treatment, through activation of lysosomal tubulation, ameliorated cholesterol accumulation in both in vitro and in vivo models of NPC disease. keywords: lysosomal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m042z67.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m042z67.txt item: #3052 of 4945 id: m326m04321q author: Amal Sebastian title: Plasma Diagnostics through Experimental Data-Driven Predictive Modeling of Plasma-Induced Changes in Diverse Targets date: 2023 words: 376 flesch: 28 summary: Many of the physical aspects, such as reactive species formation, thermal properties of plasma, absorbed dose rate of plasma, diffusion properties of reactive plasma species, etc., are crucial for dictating the efficacy of plasma for numerous applications. The dose rate assessment capability I achieved using the DNA probe involved a creative strategy that combined the predictive modeling of DNA damage with correlations of absorbed dose versus DNA damage for other radiation types. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m326m04321q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m326m04321q.txt item: #3053 of 4945 id: m613mw2542t author: Juan Francisco Yepez Albornoz title: Essays of the Effectiveness of Capital Controls date: 2012 words: 282 flesch: 38 summary: The first chapter studies the effectiveness of capital inflow controls in insulating countries from foreign interest rate shocks. To examine the systematic effect of capital controls on the economy, counterfactual VARs are constructed by 'zeroing out' capital controls and their effects in the VAR system. keywords: capital cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m613mw2542t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m613mw2542t.txt item: #3054 of 4945 id: m613mw25435 author: Jason Joseph Cytacki title: Into the Sunset date: 2011 words: 49 flesch: 48 summary: I present research on how our national identity is created through a tension between nostalgia and progress. I explore the cultural construction of the American character using examples from history, mythology and popular culture. keywords: american cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m613mw25435.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m613mw25435.txt item: #3055 of 4945 id: m613mw2547j author: Erez Abittan title: A Model-Based Approach for Bridge Structural Health Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks date: 2006 words: 229 flesch: 46 summary: The goal has been to combine ideas from many fields in order to set the foundation for an approach in damage-detection using wireless sensors networks. The wireless network adds many constraints in the algorithm used, and this work focuses on low energy consumption, low computational power and wireless sensors which may have unsynchronized clocks. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m613mw2547j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m613mw2547j.txt item: #3056 of 4945 id: m613mw2550f author: James M Marr title: Atomic Force Microscopy and Raman Spectroscopy Experiments with Molecular Dynamics for the Study of Field-Dependent Chemical and Morphological Changes date: 2014 words: 615 flesch: 48 summary: Effect of Nano-confined Electric Field on Water Water was used as an initial test of applied fields with strengths on the order of those achievable in the experimental scheme. The data showed frequency distributions were largely unchanged as a function of applied field. keywords: fields cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m613mw2550f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m613mw2550f.txt item: #3057 of 4945 id: m613mw2551s author: Weng-Lee Lim title: Investigation of Magnetotransport Properties in III-Mn-V Ferromagnetic Semiconductors date: 2006 words: 372 flesch: 30 summary: III-Mn-V ferromagnetic semiconductors' GaMnAs, InMnAs, InMnSb, and GaMnSb' are studied experimentally using electrical transport techniques, with emphasis on resistivity, anomalous Hall effect (AHE), anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR), and planar Hall effect (PHE). This asymmetry allows one to obtain four distinct zero-field resistance states in vicinal GaMnAs films that depend on the history of the experiment, making it of potential interest for building a unique four-state memory device. keywords: gamnas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m613mw2551s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m613mw2551s.txt item: #3058 of 4945 id: m613mw2554t author: Marianne Alicia Malo Chenard title: Narratives of the Saintly Body in Anglo-Saxon England date: 2003 words: 358 flesch: 43 summary: Indeed, sanctity itself is a mutable discourse, variously shaped from text to text in order to uphold other key discourses therein, such as those of chastity, Christian kingship, penitence, and reformed monasticism. The saints depicted in these accounts' to whatever extent these narratives rewrote biblical, exegetical, or hagiographic texts' illustrate various manifestations of sanctity. keywords: body cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m613mw2554t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m613mw2554t.txt item: #3059 of 4945 id: m613mw2556h author: Angela Gugliotta title: 'Hell With the Lid Taken Off:' A Cultural History of Air Pollution – Pittsburgh date: 2005 words: 357 flesch: 40 summary: Changes in class structure and social geography encouraged elites to reject provincialism and frontier exceptionalism. Pittsburgh has been known for coal smoke since its founding. keywords: smoke cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m613mw2556h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m613mw2556h.txt item: #3060 of 4945 id: m613mw25b31 author: Fattaneh Bayatbabolghani title: Secure Biometric Computation and Outsourcing date: 1904 words: 448 flesch: 32 summary: These solutions can be provided by developing secure biometric computations in a way that no information gets revealed during the protocol execution. To the best of our knowledge, our unique contributions in different biometric modalities largely benefit the field of secure biometric computation. keywords: biometric cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m613mw25b31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m613mw25b31.txt item: #3061 of 4945 id: m613mw25r5f author: Karen Tang title: Great Expectations: The Influence of Parent Expectancies on Therapeutic Improvements in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder date: 1904 words: 333 flesch: 25 summary: Previous work has demonstrated that greater parent outcome expectancies lead to improved treatment attendance and adherence, which in turn subsequently leads to greater therapeutic improvements for the child; however, this relationship has yet to be examined in interventions for children with ASD.Participants were 19 children with ASD and their parents, who were part of a larger project evaluating the utility of a modified applied behavioral analysis type intervention. Parents of children who are older or who have more adaptive behavior functioning skills will report greater overall social functioning throughout the intervention. keywords: child cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m613mw25r5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m613mw25r5f.txt item: #3062 of 4945 id: m613mw25t6d author: Mazen Makkouk title: On the Possibility of a Muslim Hermeneutic across Religion and Literature: Imagining a Relation to the World through the Qur'an and the Novel date: 1904 words: 462 flesch: 29 summary: To investigate the possibilities of metaphor for readers of the novel, I offer a reading of Abdul Rahman Munif's Al-Tīh, and Hoda Barakat's Malakūt Hādhihi al-Arḍ, as novels portraying the failure of nation at the individual level, and offering the reader the opportunity to construct metaphors that may both acknowledge and overcome the social divisions that led to that failure. To investigate the possibilities of metaphor for readers of the Qur'an, I first examine the pre-modern exegete Al-Biqāᶜī, and his attempt at reading cohesion in Sūrat Al-Nisā', and show that his search for cohesion through metaphors is motivated by his political perspective as well as limited by it, in that his politics do not permit him the scope to posit the world towards which his metaphors might point. keywords: reading cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m613mw25t6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m613mw25t6d.txt item: #3063 of 4945 id: m613mw26663 author: Daniel (Yue) Zhang title: Social Edge Intelligence: Empowering Human-Centric Edge Computing, Learning, and Intelligence date: 2020 words: 444 flesch: 30 summary: There exist several major limitations of existing research in edge computing for supporting AI applications at the edge. The integration of edge computing, humans, and AI in SEI allows machines and humans to make collaborative and optimized decisions that drastically improves the performance of edge-based intelligent applications. keywords: edge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m613mw26663.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m613mw26663.txt item: #3064 of 4945 id: m613mw26b1m author: Levi Allen title: Political Heretics: Why Voters Act in Defiance of Their Social Identities date: 2023 words: 181 flesch: 31 summary: These findings have implications for American democracy as political heretics may reduce stereotypes around the parties, thus reducing Americans' negative views of the out-party. This dissertation analyzes voters who cannot be explained by their social identities, voters whom I call political heretics. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m613mw26b1m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m613mw26b1m.txt item: #3065 of 4945 id: m613mw26b39 author: Ashley Hastings title: Frontiers of Actinides and Metal–Organic Frameworks: Diversifying Metal/Ligand Selection and Probing Radiation Stability date: 2023 words: 250 flesch: 22 summary: The third frontier pivots from assembly to breakdown with understanding the role of metal selection in MOF radiation stability. While MOF applications continue to manifest and pervade many fields, MOFs are increasingly becoming relevant in matters of fundamental science, and this is especially true when it comes to the actinide elements. keywords: mof cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m613mw26b39.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m613mw26b39.txt item: #3066 of 4945 id: m900ns08d1j author: Jesse Patrick Sullivan title: Oxygen Transport within a Hepatic Hollow Fiber Bioreactor date: 2008 words: 233 flesch: 28 summary: Hepatic hollow fiber bioreactors are considered a promising class of bioartificial liver assist device (BLAD). In designing BLADs for clinical use, it is important to note that hepatocytes in vivo experience a spectrum of oxygen tensions (pO2 ranging from 25 – 70 mmHg). keywords: oxygen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns08d1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns08d1j.txt item: #3067 of 4945 id: m900ns08d2w author: James E. Gentile title: Development, Verification and Usage of a Model for the Primary Vector for Malaria date: 2013 words: 312 flesch: 39 summary: Modeling and simulation can help to evaluate the potential effectiveness of various control strategies and expose new ways to interrupt disease transmission. With this model, researchers can simulate a mosquito population, subject it to various intervention pressures, evaluate its response and its capability to transmit the disease. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns08d2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns08d2w.txt item: #3068 of 4945 id: m900ns08d5x author: Shamsia Wanjiru Ramadhan title: Religious Presence in Kenyan Politics, Culture and Civil Society: Peacebuilders or Partisans? date: 2010 words: 20 flesch: 51 summary: The thesis is about the role that religious leaders can play in peacebuilding but under condition that they remain impartial. keywords: impartial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns08d5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns08d5x.txt item: #3069 of 4945 id: m900ns08d68 author: Kara Marie Harmatys title: Fluorescence Molecular Imaging and Photothermal Therapy Using Small Molecules date: 2015 words: 588 flesch: 45 summary: Both probes were evaluated in cell culture and selectively targeted dead and dying cells over healthy cells. This was further evaluated with modified versions of the trigger in the presence of cells for eventual protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) production. keywords: bdpa cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns08d68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns08d68.txt item: #3070 of 4945 id: m900ns08d7m author: Stuart Ambler title: A Bundle Gerbe Construction of a Spinor Bundle from the Smooth Free Loop of a Vector Bundle date: 2012 words: 188 flesch: 47 summary: A polarization class bundle is constructed, choosing continuously over each point of the loop space a polarization class of Lagrangian subspaces of the complexification of the real vector space from which the Clifford algebra is made. From a trivialization of the bundle gerbe is constructed an irreducible Clifford module bundle, a spinor bundle over the smooth free loop space of the manifold. keywords: bundle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns08d7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns08d7m.txt item: #3071 of 4945 id: m900ns08f3j author: José E Lugo title: Integrating Product form Preference into Engineering Design date: 2014 words: 330 flesch: 40 summary: Subject ratings of preference and other perceptual dimensions yielded linear models that were appropriate for product form preference prediction, with the Gestalt model most suitable for design purposes. This can enable groups of designers to develop products design for form and function. keywords: gestalt cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns08f3j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns08f3j.txt item: #3072 of 4945 id: m900ns08f4w author: Maria-Elena D. Diaz title: Asian Embeddedness and Political Participation: An Examination of Social Integration, Asian Heterogeneity, Ethnic Organization, and Asian Voting Behavior date: 2009 words: 345 flesch: 14 summary: This nationally representative multilevel study examines variation in Asian voting behavior, focusing on the influence of county characteristics and characteristics of Asian communities on Asian voting behavior. When combined with national ethnic organizations, concentrations of Asian ethnic groups appear to have varying effects on Asian electoral participation: percent Chinese decreases it, percent Asian Indians increases it, and the interaction of larger Filipino communities with the presence of an ethnic organization increases it. keywords: asian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns08f4w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns08f4w.txt item: #3073 of 4945 id: m900ns08f6k author: Jill J Bouchard title: Ensemble Interpretation of Domain Mobility in Modular Protein Pin1 by NMR and Molecular Dynamics date: 2014 words: 274 flesch: 41 summary: Consequently, there is a lot of mobility between the domains of modular proteins. This thesis makes strides to describe the biophysical behavior of modular proteins and understand how their interdomain motions matter for function. keywords: proteins cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns08f6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns08f6k.txt item: #3074 of 4945 id: m900ns08f9m author: Ethan J Guagliardo title: The Limelight of the Idols: Political Theology as Fiction in Renaissance England date: 2014 words: 353 flesch: 44 summary: At the nexus of secularity and religion, political science and political theology, we find fiction. The poets in my study are no political scientists in the secular sense; for them, political authority was intrinsically tied to emotions and beliefs associated with religion — in this sense, they were political theologians. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns08f9m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns08f9m.txt item: #3075 of 4945 id: m900ns08g8k author: Augusto Stoffel title: Supersymmetric Field Theories and Orbifold Cohomology date: 1904 words: 167 flesch: 22 summary: As a basic example, we show that dimensional reduction of untwisted EFTs over a global quotient orbifold X//G recovers the equivariant Chern character. We begin with a classification of 0|1-dimensional twists for EFTs over an orbifold X, and show that the collection of concordance classes of twisted EFTs over the inertia ΛX is in natural bijection with the delocalized twisted cohomology of X (which is isomorphic to its complexified K-theory). keywords: dimensional cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns08g8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns08g8k.txt item: #3076 of 4945 id: m900ns08h2t author: Rebecca Anne Morrissey title: Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Bulimic-Symptom Expression in Adolescent Girls: Examining Contingencies of the Restraint Pathway date: 1904 words: 357 flesch: 8 summary: On one hand, the mediational sequence from body dissatisfaction through dieting to bulimia — often referred to as the restraint pathway — has been empirically validated across numerous methodologies and samples of adolescent girls; on the other hand, the prevalence rate of bulimic pathology in adolescent girls pales in comparison to rates of body dissatisfaction and dieting. 393-397), we found that: (1) thin-ideal internalization moderated the relation between body dissatisfaction and dieting, such that body-dissatisfied adolescent girls who reported a high, versus low, endorsement of sociocultural thinness norms engaged in greater dietary restraint; (2) interoceptive deficits and age multiplicatively moderated the relation between dieting and bulimia, such that only dieters who reported difficulty perceiving internal body cues and were of college age expressed bulimic tendencies; and (3) the indirect effect of body dissatisfaction on bulimic symptoms through dieting pertained only to college girls who reported high interoceptive deficits, but this effect was significantly stronger for those who reported high, versus low, thin-ideal internalization. keywords: girls cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns08h2t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns08h2t.txt item: #3077 of 4945 id: m900ns08m2r author: Tomer Levinboim title: Invertibility and Transitivity in Low-Resource Machine Translation date: 1904 words: 208 flesch: 30 summary: We integrate our techniques into the phrase-based machine translation pipeline and carry out translation experiments in the low-resource data scenario, which assumes the amount of training data is limited (a realistic assumption for most language pairs), and that syntactic analyzers of the source language are unavailable. However, we notice that these two properties are generally ignored by traditional statistical techniques for machine translation, and furthermore, that earlier research that does take them into account fails to fully utilize them. keywords: translation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns08m2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns08m2r.txt item: #3078 of 4945 id: m900ns09431 author: Julia L. Paulson title: Prenatal Sleep Quality and Mental Health Symptoms across the Perinatal Period: A Longitudinal Study of High-Risk Women date: 1904 words: 202 flesch: 40 summary: Trauma-exposed women may be at magnified risk for posttraumatic stress (PTSS) and depression symptoms in the perinatal period, but few studies have examined symptomatology across the perinatal period in high-risk samples. Results suggest past-year IPV is associated with elevated prenatal PTSS (ß=0.26, p< .01) and depression symptoms (ß=0.17, p<.001) and sleep difficulties are associated with a worsening trajectory in PTSS across pregnancy and postpartum (ß=0.01, p<.05). keywords: perinatal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns09431.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns09431.txt item: #3079 of 4945 id: m900ns09g4g author: Brandon W. Hollihan title: Rehearsal and Performance Issues in Steve Reich's Tehillim: Unlocking the Process date: 2020 words: 420 flesch: 42 summary: Given the rise in the appreciation of Tehillim as a landmark American work for a vocal-instrumental ensemble, it continues to gain interest among young conductors. Tehillim is an exceptionally challenging work for the conductor and ensemble performers alike, because of the rapidly changing time signatures, the phasing patterns found in virtually every ensemble section, the need for performers to constantly count repeated rehearsal sections in each part, and the effort represented in singing with non-vibrato technique for an extended period of time. keywords: tehillim cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns09g4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns09g4g.txt item: #3080 of 4945 id: m900ns09h4s author: Samuel Pérez-Ayala title: Extremal Eigenvalues for Conformally Covariant Operators date: 2021 words: 102 flesch: 33 summary: Riemannian metrics that extremize eigenvalues of conformally covariant operators are known to have a relationship with the existence of solutions of important partial differential equations (PDEs). Questions about the regularity of extremal metrics, possible obstructions to their existence, and to which PDEs are these associated with are discussed. keywords: metrics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns09h4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns09h4s.txt item: #3081 of 4945 id: m900ns09j6s author: Arambage Dushani Ranasinghe title: Exploring the Regulation and Role of the Signaling and Epigenetic Modulator S1P in Pulmonary Hypertension Lung Vasculature date: 2022 words: 214 flesch: 18 summary: Our findings are an important discovery for PAH, as novel and epigenetic roles for SPHK's were identified and represents a new therapeutic target that could provide opportunities for the development of novel PAH therapies. Thus, the underlying mechanism mediating the pathophysiological influences in PAH that modulate pulmonary vascular remodeling should be explored. keywords: pah cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns09j6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns09j6s.txt item: #3082 of 4945 id: m900ns09k01 author: Stella Jiayue Zhu title: Artifact and Social Intention: A Consideration in Three Parts date: 2022 words: 222 flesch: 26 summary: Furthermore, I argue that an explanatorily adequate ontology of artifacts that accounts for their existences, functions, and our behavioral phenomenology around them must appeal to intentional sources beyond the minds of their authors. I argue that seemingly ordinary artifacts often play institutional-functional roles in social institutions by contributing to the self-reproduction of those institutions. keywords: artifacts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/m900ns09k01.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/m900ns09k01.txt item: #3083 of 4945 id: mc87pn91p4k author: Ryan E Grady title: On Geometric Aspects of Topological Quantum Mechanics date: 2012 words: 114 flesch: 41 summary: Koszul duality and derived geometry allow us to encode topological quantum mechanics, a nonlinear sigma model of maps from a 1-manifold into a cotangent bundle as such a Chern-Simons theory. We construct a Chern-Simons gauge theory for dg Lie and L-infinity algebras on any one-dimensional manifold and quantize this theory using the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and Costello's renormalization techniques. keywords: theory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn91p4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn91p4k.txt item: #3084 of 4945 id: mc87pn91p5x author: Jason Matthew Miller title: Subjectivity in Hegel's Aesthetics date: 2011 words: 366 flesch: 32 summary: By contrast, this dissertation re-examines Hegel's philosophy of art through an in-depth analysis of what we might call 'aesthetic subjectivity' - the status of the individual subject in the context of aesthetic theory - that is overlooked by opponents and proponents of Hegel alike. Focusing primarily on Hegel's oft-neglected Lectures on Aesthetics, this dissertation identifies three distinct aspects of aesthetic subjectivity: aesthetic experience, aesthetic freedom, and aesthetic imagination (both creative and interpretive). keywords: hegel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn91p5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn91p5x.txt item: #3085 of 4945 id: mc87pn91p99 author: Mark N Mitchell title: Essays on the Determinants and Implications of the Choice of Undergraduate Major date: 2008 words: 481 flesch: 52 summary: This study finds that some students in higher earnings majors do tend to have higher total debt levels. Other studies have analyzed various aspects of the decision making process associated with the choice of college major, however, many questions remain unanswered. keywords: major cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn91p99.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn91p99.txt item: #3086 of 4945 id: mc87pn91q0h author: Todd Walatka title: The Opening of the Political: Grounding Political Action in Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Theodramatic Christology Through an Engagement with the Christology of Jon Sobrino date: 2011 words: 364 flesch: 43 summary: Through an engagement with the work of Jon Sobrino, Balthasar's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and the Christian life today is reconfigured in two ways: in his aesthetics by focusing our gaze on the particularity of Jesus Christ and his merciful love of the poor; in his theodramatics by attending to the role of historical oppression within our relation to God and one another and to the place of the preferential option within a theodramatics attentive to the suffering of the poor and vulnerable. The third chapter responds more directly to the second and third questions as it develops Balthasar's account of history, human action, and the Kingdom of God. keywords: balthasar cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn91q0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn91q0h.txt item: #3087 of 4945 id: mc87pn91q1v author: Lauren Marie Keane title: Sowing the Seeds for Grassroots Growth: How Recruitment Appeals Impact the Calculus of Citizen Engagement date: 2013 words: 129 flesch: 34 summary: I conclude with recommendations for future scholarship in this area, noting its practical importance for increasing participation rates generally and decreasing the participatory gap, which are two ailments of American Democracy today. Using this framework, I generate a number of hypotheses about what types of people should participate when solicited, as well as which appeals work best in particular contexts and for whom. keywords: appeals cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn91q1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn91q1v.txt item: #3088 of 4945 id: mc87pn91q26 author: Lindsay J Haney title: Performing Anxiety: Masculinities in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture date: 2014 words: 343 flesch: 33 summary: I concentrate on characters who attempt to adapt to new expectations of masculinity, but are nevertheless anxious about the erosion of male privilege or the assumption of new roles. Taking these characters as productively unreliable guides through this period of rapid change, I highlight the ways in which male privilege is continually reinscribed even as it is ostensibly challenged. keywords: texts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn91q26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn91q26.txt item: #3089 of 4945 id: mc87pn91q3j author: Lara Ostaric title: Between Insight and Judgment: Kant's Conception of Genius and Its Fate in Early Schelling date: 2006 words: 351 flesch: 23 summary: In this dissertation it will be argued that contrary to many current views the concept of genius is of considerable importance for understanding what is most significant in the aesthetics of German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). In the recent literature on Kant's aesthetics, it is commonly asserted that Kant's discussion of genius in the Critique of Judgment is 'parergonal,' or merely extrinsic to his aesthetics. keywords: genius cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn91q3j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn91q3j.txt item: #3090 of 4945 id: mc87pn91q6k author: Shiva Prasad Kotagiri title: State-Dependent Networks with Side Information and Partial State Recovery date: 2007 words: 429 flesch: 47 summary: In this thesis, we focus on studying state-dependent network models from an information theoretic perspective when the side information is available at some encoders and state recovery is considered at some decoders. For the state-dependent MAC with non-causal side information at some encoders and without state recovery at the decoder, we study bounds on the capacity region in the case of independent messages and derive the capacity region in the case of dependent or degraded messages. keywords: state cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn91q6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn91q6k.txt item: #3091 of 4945 id: mc87pn91q9m author: Hannah W. Matis title: Daughters of Jerusalem: Early Medieval Commentary on the Song of Songs and the Carolingian Reform date: 2013 words: 432 flesch: 38 summary: And finally, I examine how the Song of Songs formed one very important aspect of of an ongoing conversation between church and crown, providing Carolingian monks and clergy with a plethora of models to advise, to inspire, and occasionally to rebuke their sovereigns. In using the language of the Song of Songs to describe themselves and to form a common identity within the church, Carolingian elites also used that language to label and characterize the behavior of those they perceived to be tearing the church apart from within. keywords: song cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn91q9m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn91q9m.txt item: #3092 of 4945 id: mc87pn91r8k author: Kevin William Kastner title: Molecular Dynamics and Virtual Screening of the Octopamine Receptor: A GPCR Computational Biochemical Analysis date: 1904 words: 353 flesch: 24 summary: My results show that aMD simulations run on GPUs can successfully obtain the active and inactive state conformations of a GPCR on this reduced timescale. However, accelerated Molecular Dynamics (aMD) simulations can reduce this timescale to even hundreds of nanoseconds, while running the simulations on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) would enable even small clusters of GPUs to have processing power equivalent to hundreds of CPUs. keywords: simulations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn91r8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn91r8k.txt item: #3093 of 4945 id: mc87pn91r9x author: Thomas A. Metzger title: Experimental and Computational Investigation of Bone Marrow Mechanobiology date: 1904 words: 462 flesch: 38 summary: The goal of this dissertation research was to establish methods to assess the micromechanical environment of trabecular bone marrow and to apply these methods to investigate changes in bone marrow mechanobiology in disease. To assess the mechanical environment of the bone marrow during whole bone loading, bone marrow pressure was measured experimentally. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn91r9x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn91r9x.txt item: #3094 of 4945 id: mc87pn91w2r author: Elizabeth A. Miller title: Social Behavior and Host-Associated Microbes in Wild Baboons date: 1904 words: 350 flesch: 16 summary: Animal associated microbes—from single microbial taxa to whole microbial communities—have profound effects on animal health. Overall, my dissertation provides new information on when social behavior influences host-associated microbial community structure and contributes to our understanding of the forces responsible for inter-host, intergroup, and interspecies variation in commensal microbial communities. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn91w2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn91w2r.txt item: #3095 of 4945 id: mc87pn92d5q author: Katherine E Richards title: Pancreatic Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Exosomes Alter Pancreatic Cancer Cell Chemoresistance date: 1904 words: 267 flesch: 25 summary: CAFs are intrinsically resistant to gemcitabine, the chemotherapeutic standard of care for PDAC.Further, CAFs exposed to gemcitabine significantly increase the release of exosomes, which promote proliferation and chemoresistance of recipient PDAC epithelial cells. The goal of this research was to explore the effect of CAF-secreted extracellular vesicles, called exosomes, on the phenotypic traits of PDAC cells. keywords: pdac cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn92d5q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn92d5q.txt item: #3096 of 4945 id: mc87pn92h60 author: Alison Fitchett Climenhaga title: Reconciling Charisma: Healing, Conflict, and Identity in Catholic Charismatic Movements in Uganda date: 2019 words: 343 flesch: 11 summary: Chapters 5 and 6 analyze how the CCR and Bakaiso associations' devotional habits, outreach practices, and organizational patterns located participants differently in the church, fostering different relationships with Ugandan landscapes and the global church. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and ethnographic participant observation, this dissertation analyzes how the ritual practice and organizational cultures of the two associations cultivated divergent styles of Catholic practice. keywords: catholic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn92h60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn92h60.txt item: #3097 of 4945 id: mc87pn92j80 author: Jenna R. Davidson title: Informing Vector-Borne Disease Intervention Strategies in Biodiversity Hotspots: Indonesia date: 2019 words: 1314 flesch: 19 summary: The specific objectives of this dissertation were to (i) evaluate standard practices for mosquito surveillance in their ability to comprehensively survey local mosquito species compositions in biodiversity hotspots, (ii) evaluate trapping methodologies for mosquito surveillance in their ability to characterize mosquito bionomics in biodiversity hotspots, and (iii) evaluate the accuracy of morphological mosquito identification in biodiversity hotspots. For objective one, to evaluate standard practices for mosquito surveillance in their ability to comprehensively survey local mosquito species compositions in biodiversity hotspots, this dissertation found that indoor HLCs and larval surveys are insufficient sampling regimens. keywords: mosquito; species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn92j80.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn92j80.txt item: #3098 of 4945 id: mc87pn92m5k author: Sara M. Brackett title: Using Small Molecules to Disarm Antibiotic Resistance date: 2019 words: 362 flesch: 24 summary: This work describes a structure activity relationship (SAR) study based on a lead compound that has previously displayed biofilm inhibition and dispersion activity and β-lactam potentiation against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This SAR study revealed that the meridianin D analogues lack β-lactam potentiation capabilities, but replacing the 2-aminopyrimidine moiety attached to the indole with a 2-aminoimidazole group led to enhanced biofilm inhibition and dispersion activity. keywords: activity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn92m5k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn92m5k.txt item: #3099 of 4945 id: mc87pn92r4g author: Brittany Williams title: Unthought Known date: 2021 words: 77 flesch: 28 summary: Within the framework of affect theory, memory, and psychoanalytical approaches to trauma, I focus on the ways in which the encounter with the traces of trauma create a dissociated and disembodied experience of the self, time and space. Unthought Known is a multimedia photographic series that investigates the psychological and physiological lived experience of traumatic memory. keywords: trauma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn92r4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn92r4g.txt item: #3100 of 4945 id: mc87pn92s85 author: Caroline R. Scheid title: More than Words: Associations of Intimate Partner Violence, Psychopathology, and Observed Communication in Mothers date: 2021 words: 262 flesch: 19 summary: In study 1, observed communication data were used in variable-centered analyses to identify the potential emergence of macro-factors of communication and analyze possible risks for maternal communication. In person-centered analyses, latent profile analysis was implemented in study 2 to explore the emergence of maternal communication profiles, and analyses revealed a five-profile model of maternal communication, including Reserved, Harsh Directive, Warm Directive, Inquisitive Guidance, and Interactive typologies. keywords: communication cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn92s85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn92s85.txt item: #3101 of 4945 id: mc87pn92t6s author: Lan Dinh title: Essays in Firm Dynamics date: 2022 words: 315 flesch: 39 summary: By first calibrating the model to the U.S. manufacturing sector in 1997, then feeding in the observed trend in revenue productivity dispersion, aggregate TFP initially increases then declines when revenue productivity dispersion is 1.47 times the 1997 level. In my second essay, I study the effect of the recent increase in productivity dispersion on aggregate TFP. keywords: dispersion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn92t6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn92t6s.txt item: #3102 of 4945 id: mc87pn92v8s author: Maria Caterina Gargano title: Migration Experiences and Women's Perceived Impact of Migration on Their Community in Lima, Perú: Associations with Violence and Mental Health date: 2023 words: 341 flesch: 28 summary: The thematic analysis of migration experiences revealed trends in challenges, motivations, and adjustments for women who migrated to Lima, some of which (crime, nature differences, enjoyment, and being forced to migrate) significantly predicted mental health outcomes. These findings indicate that there may be protective factors associated with internal migration, which could inform future mental health interventions and research. keywords: migration cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn92v8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn92v8s.txt item: #3103 of 4945 id: mc87pn92w4q author: Sinyoung Lee title: Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics date: 2023 words: 322 flesch: 43 summary: Contractionary monetary policy shocks have negligible effects on necessities (and total) spending inequality but have statistically significant effects on luxury spending inequality. Chapter 1 investigates the transmission of monetary policy shocks to US state-level house prices. keywords: monetary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mc87pn92w4q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mc87pn92w4q.txt item: #3104 of 4945 id: mg74qj74z39 author: Irene N Kasumba title: Comparative Analysis of Midgut Gene Expression Profiles in DENV-2 Susceptible and Refractory Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes date: 2011 words: 456 flesch: 47 summary: The serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) technique was utilized. The first goal of this project was to investigate midgut gene expression variation elicited in dengue susceptible (SUS) and refractory (REF) Aedes aegypti mosquitoes during the first 96 hours following dengue infection. keywords: libraries cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj74z39.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj74z39.txt item: #3105 of 4945 id: mg74qj74z4n author: Wuming Luo title: Searching for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Top-Quark Pair in PP Collisions at the LHC date: 2014 words: 149 flesch: 59 summary: Selected events are divided into different categories based on the number of jets and the number of b-tagged jets. This search considers the final state in which H decays to a bottom quark pair and the top pair decays fully leptonically. keywords: search cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj74z4n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj74z4n.txt item: #3106 of 4945 id: mg74qj74z7p author: Bonnie Bradberry Smith title: Cores of Monomial Ideals date: 2010 words: 386 flesch: 64 summary: In this dissertation, we describe the cores of several classes of monomial ideals. The first class of ideals which we consider is one coming from graph theory, the strongly stable ideals of degree two. keywords: ideal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj74z7p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj74z7p.txt item: #3107 of 4945 id: mg74qj74z81 author: Brian Hamilton title: Pauperes Christi: Voluntary Poverty as Political Practice date: 2015 words: 350 flesch: 48 summary: Although those movements do in some ways confirm our worries about voluntary poverty, I also recover from them a way of thinking about voluntary poverty that is sensitive to the complex relationship between poverty and social power. Modern theologians attuned to the realities of poverty have usually kept their distance from classical Christian affirmations of voluntary poverty. keywords: poverty cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj74z81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj74z81.txt item: #3108 of 4945 id: mg74qj74z9c author: Harry Karahalios title: Differentiating National Identities: Cultures of Immigration in Europe's Peripheries date: 2012 words: 353 flesch: 34 summary: Furthermore, both countries overemphasize their affiliation with Europe, and downplay their cultural connections with non-Western nations like Morocco and Turkey. As a result, the new role of Spain and Greece as Europe's bulwarks against illegal migration has produced a series of internal cultural crises in both countries centered around the anxiety of Muslim infiltration and its impact on the European cultural make-up. keywords: europe cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj74z9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj74z9c.txt item: #3109 of 4945 id: mg74qj7505k author: Carol Elizabeth Akai title: Redefining Early Child Neglect: Subthreshold Pathways to Non-Optimal Development date: 2007 words: 212 flesch: 37 summary: Infants demonstrated significantly delayed development at both 12 and 24 months of age in social-emotional competence, the absence of social-emotional problems, cognitive development, and language development. Subthreshold neglect is defined as the absence of positive parenting behaviors that eventually results in delayed child development. keywords: months cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj7505k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj7505k.txt item: #3110 of 4945 id: mg74qj7506x author: Rachel Nduku Masyuko title: Correlated Imaging by Confocal Raman Microscopy and Mass Spectrometry for Studying Microbial and Plant Systems: Going Beyond Single Technique Limitations date: 2014 words: 305 flesch: 22 summary: Acquiring and correlating information from complementary imaging experiments has the potential to expose complex chemical behavior in ways that are simply not available from single methods applied in isolation, thereby greatly amplifying the information gathering power of imaging experiments. These requirements pose special challenges for image cross-correlation that go well beyond those posed in single technique imaging approaches. keywords: imaging cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj7506x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj7506x.txt item: #3111 of 4945 id: mg74qj7508m author: Jian Mu title: New Algorithms for Biomedical Image Processing and Computer Vision Problems date: 2014 words: 287 flesch: 40 summary: For the biomedical image processing problems, unlike traditional image processing approaches that are based on signal processing techniques, we design algorithms based on the geometric features of target objects (e.g., blood clots, bones, vessels, etc.), and apply graph algorithms, as well as other algorithms in computational geometry to solve the problems. In our new approaches, we extensively apply graph algorithms, optimization techniques and other algorithms in computational geometry, and achieve better performance than traditional methods. keywords: algorithms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj7508m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj7508m.txt item: #3112 of 4945 id: mg74qj7511h author: Michael Butler Kelly title: The Invasion of Things Sacred: Church, Property, and Sacrilege in Early Modern England date: 2013 words: 353 flesch: 40 summary: Sacred space, sacred things, and sacred doctrine lay at the heart of the religious upheavals in early modern Europe. Yet often Calvinists spearheaded measures for the protection of sacred things, and contributed enthusiastically to the contemporary sacrilege discourse. keywords: things cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj7511h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj7511h.txt item: #3113 of 4945 id: mg74qj7524v author: Teng Zhang title: Atomistic Simulation of Thermal Transport Physics in Soft Materials date: 1904 words: 566 flesch: 36 summary: We find that the thermal transport in amorphous polymers with weak inter-chain interaction is dominated by along-chain heat conduction, and thermal conductivity is a strong function of the radius of gyration of the molecular chains. For example, high thermal conductivity is desired for a wide variety of heat transfer applications, such as the thermal interface material and the heat spreader in microelectronic devices. keywords: thermal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj7524v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj7524v.txt item: #3114 of 4945 id: mg74qj7554s author: Clark R. Casarella title: Lifetime Measurements and the Feasibility of Vibrational Phonon Configurations in Deformed Rare-Earth Nuclei date: 1904 words: 163 flesch: 23 summary: Historically, low-lying excitations in deformed nuclei have presented unique challenges in the context of nuclear structure. Femtosecond to picosecond range nuclear lifetimes can be measured with the Doppler Shift Attenuation Method via Inelastic Neutron Scattering at the University of Kentucky Accelerator Laboratory, where we have performed a series of measurements of nuclear lifetimes in two rare-earth nuclei, 160Gd and 162Dy. keywords: nuclear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj7554s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj7554s.txt item: #3115 of 4945 id: mg74qj75n9v author: Justin Appel title: Perspectivism in the Passions of Ēriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977) date: 1904 words: 303 flesch: 25 summary: By combining eclecticism with a larger structural scaffolding, stasis with movement, and micro-narratives with the larger passion narrative, Ešenvalds constructs uniquely perspectival Passions. The thesis examines the narrative structure of each Passion, using narrative theory to explain Ešenvalds' process of characterization. keywords: passion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj75n9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj75n9v.txt item: #3116 of 4945 id: mg74qj75q4r author: Gregory K. Kline title: Exploring the Structure-Property Relationships of Linear and Crosslinked Poly(ethylene Oxide) Polymer Membranes for Gas Separations date: 2018 words: 222 flesch: 20 summary: Compared to conventional gas separation systems, such as absorption, gas separation membrane systems are inherently smaller in size and easier to operate, and potentially, more economically viable. The majority of this work explores strategies for incorporating rubbery poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) into gas separation membranes. keywords: gas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj75q4r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj75q4r.txt item: #3117 of 4945 id: mg74qj75r3q author: Jessica Lumsden Fisher title: The Rise and Fall of the Ribbonmen: Militant Irish Nationalism in Ireland and Abroad, c. 1810-1858 date: 2018 words: 351 flesch: 36 summary: The final chapters turn to the literature of William Carleton, who wrote obsessively about Ribbon Societies, and to the writings and aspirations of the Young Ireland movement that attempted to recreate the republican nationalism of the 1798 rebellion in their own image in 1848. It argues that Ribbon Societies created a blended organization that incorporated nationalist rhetoric and aims while continuing to use methods of resistance learned through agrarian societies. keywords: societies cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj75r3q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj75r3q.txt item: #3118 of 4945 id: mg74qj75v0m author: Joseph Earl Thomas title: Sink: A Memoir date: 2019 words: 24 flesch: 60 summary: Sink is a coming of age story in relation to the anthropocene, which attempts to reckon with loneliness and the impossibility of support systems. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj75v0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj75v0m.txt item: #3119 of 4945 id: mg74qj7616h author: Kenton Murray title: Learning Hyperparameters for Neural Machine Translation date: 2020 words: 219 flesch: 38 summary: However, these neural machine translation systems have complicated architectures with many hyperparameters that need to be manually chosen. Machine Translation, the subfield of Computer Science that focuses on translating between two human languages, has greatly benefited from neural networks. keywords: hyperparameters cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj7616h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj7616h.txt item: #3120 of 4945 id: mg74qj7626t author: Nirupama Sensharma title: Wobbling Motion in Nuclei: Transverse, Longitudinal and Chiral date: 2021 words: 404 flesch: 47 summary: Based on these observations, 135Pr has been proposed to be the first observed case of a chiral wobbler wherein chiral rotation has been observed in coexistence with wobbling motion. Beyond the A ∼ 130 region, the present work has also investigated the A ∼ 190 region to seek for evidence of nuclear wobbling motion. keywords: wobbling cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj7626t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj7626t.txt item: #3121 of 4945 id: mg74qj7632r author: Junchi Lu title: Far-Infrared Emission from Electrically Injected Phonon-Polariton Lasers date: 2021 words: 300 flesch: 33 summary: The emission is compared directly to thermal emission. Finally, to investigate the photon-electron-phonon tripartite coupling mechanism and thermal characteristics of such complex infrared emitters, we use Raman spectroscopy-based techniques to determine the temperature distribution and thermal conductivity from a continuous wave (CW) mode quantum cascade laser (QCL) at room temperature. keywords: emission cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj7632r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj7632r.txt item: #3122 of 4945 id: mg74qj7638t author: Cassandra C. Shaffer title: Intersection of Organic and Inorganic Supramolecular Chemistry date: 2022 words: 175 flesch: 35 summary: Chapter 4 describes fluorescent rotaxane probe molecules with potential applications in biological imaging, while Chapter 5 describes a novel method of synthesizing hollow silica nanoparticles for imaging and drug delivery. Though the field did not receive widespread recognition until the late 1980s when it won its first Nobel Prize, its organic roots can be traced back to the late 1800s in the study of enzymes and other related biological binding systems. keywords: chemistry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mg74qj7638t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mg74qj7638t.txt item: #3123 of 4945 id: mk61rf5876p author: Christopher S Seibert title: Properties and Characterization of Deeply-Etched High-Index-Contrast Ridge Waveguide Structures date: 2012 words: 213 flesch: 44 summary: In this work, the unique characteristics of HIC RWGs as well as the interface between the semiconductor and the native oxide have been examined. Utilizing this process, passive single mode HIC RWG devices have been fabricated which exhibit record low propagation losses. keywords: hic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf5876p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf5876p.txt item: #3124 of 4945 id: mk61rf58771 author: David A Deen title: Advanced Design of Ultra-Thin Barrier AlN/GaN HEMTs: A Study of Device Design, Modeling, and Analysis date: 2011 words: 317 flesch: 43 summary: Furthermore, the ultra-thin (< 5 nm) barrier and excellent transport properties of this all binary heterostructure make it well suited for high electron mobility transistor applications where high frequency and high currentare required. This work encompasses various design aspects of GaN-based High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) which ultimately result in the realization of several generations that utilize the AlN/GaN heterostructure. keywords: gan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf58771.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf58771.txt item: #3125 of 4945 id: mk61rf58818 author: Benjamin Isaac Huff title: Friendship and the Shared Life of Virtue date: 2008 words: 356 flesch: 47 summary: The view that happiness consists in virtuous action is an attractive view. However, I defend a version of the claim that happiness consists in virtuous action, and I show that when properly understood, happiness is an appropriate motive for virtuous action. keywords: happiness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf58818.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf58818.txt item: #3126 of 4945 id: mk61rf5882m author: Karen Cynthia Saavedra title: An Exploration into Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) Applied to Rural Drinking Water Systems date: 2011 words: 329 flesch: 28 summary: The research question asks whether the data necessary to estimate the probabilities of failure for each step can be collected from the field work methods, allowing for the potential application of FTA in the assessment of quantity and quality failures in local potable water resource systems. Increasing demand for water to meet a variety of needs places stress on shared sources, and gives rise to the requirement for effective techniques and practices in water resource development. keywords: water cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf5882m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf5882m.txt item: #3127 of 4945 id: mk61rf5883z author: Ernest Wylie title: Crystal chemistry and application development of uranyl extended structure and nanoscale materials and actinyl ion-substituted mineral phases date: 2014 words: 169 flesch: 33 summary: Ultrafiltration techniques were utilized to separate uranyl peroxide nanoclusters from complex aqueous solutions. Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy and mass spectrometry were used to quantify elemental distributions in the feed and permeate solutions while Raman spectroscopy, small-angle X-ray scattering, and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry were used to define the characteristics of the cluster species across a range different solution conditions. keywords: nuclear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf5883z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf5883z.txt item: #3128 of 4945 id: mk61rf58849 author: Sara Melissa Stasik title: Nosological Placement of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders: A Comprehensive Structural Analaysis date: 2014 words: 365 flesch: 34 summary: In DSM-5, OCD is newly classified in the Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (OCRDs) chapter, along with body dysmorphic disorder, hoarding disorder, hair pulling disorder, and skin picking disorder. Because these disorders have not been included in previous structural models, OCD's relative relation to the OCRDs, psychoticism/oddity symptoms, and anxiety disorder symptoms is unknown. keywords: oddity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf58849.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf58849.txt item: #3129 of 4945 id: mk61rf5885n author: Kent R. Walters title: Large Molecular Weight Antifreezes and Related Adaptations in Freeze-Tolerant Alaskan Insects date: 2010 words: 360 flesch: 41 summary: When in contact with ice, N. arctica froze at -1.5Ìâå±0.4ÌÜ ÁC, but individuals survived temperatures down to -15ÌÜ ÁC, making this the first described species of freeze tolerant stonefly. Although, the hemolymph of individual cold acclimated nymphs occasionally exhibited more than a degree of thermal hysteresis, typically the hemolymph exhibited only hexagonal crystal growth and recrystallization inhibition. keywords: threitol cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf5885n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf5885n.txt item: #3130 of 4945 id: mk61rf5888p author: Scott Daniel Moringiello title: Irenaeus Rhetor date: 2010 words: 114 flesch: 37 summary: With the study of rhetoric, I examine Irenaeus's theology under five headings: martyrdom, genealogy, apocalypse, prophecy, and eschatology. I then connect these five headings to the five moments in a rhetorical speech: prooimium, narratio, probatio, refutatio, and recapitulatio. keywords: irenaeus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf5888p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf5888p.txt item: #3131 of 4945 id: mk61rf5891k author: Jason Michael Baxter title: Two Sacred, Encyclopedic Poets: Dante and Bernard Silvestris date: 2014 words: 213 flesch: 40 summary: Chapter Three analyzes Dante's response to the encyclopedic Virgil, particularly as presented in Bernard Silvestris's commentary. Chapter Four explores Dante's use of the sacred, encyclopedic poetic tradition in Purgatorio XXVIII and discusses the significance of Dante's attempt to draw our attention to its presence. keywords: encyclopedic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf5891k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf5891k.txt item: #3132 of 4945 id: mk61rf58z66 author: Tyler R. Jaramillo title: Modeling and Optimization of a Friction Stir Extrusion Process Using Finite Element Methods date: 1904 words: 145 flesch: 51 summary: While some research has been conducted into computational modeling of varying FSE techniques, little has been done in terms of creating models to predict process parameter requirements, such as extrusion force or mandrel torque. Second, the sample FSE process was modeled and compared to physical trials. keywords: process cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf58z66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf58z66.txt item: #3133 of 4945 id: mk61rf59012 author: Alberto Lo Pinto title: The Representation of Urban Space in the Italian Cinema of the Economic Miracle date: 1904 words: 248 flesch: 44 summary: The three films offer criticism, that may also be found in a broad range of Italian films, of the dominant center-right culture of the Christian Democrats, and hence may be considered exemplary of a trend in contemporary Italian cinema. Italian films critiqued the urban politics of the Christian Democrats by offering a counternarrative to the positive image presented on television and in other media. keywords: italian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf59012.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf59012.txt item: #3134 of 4945 id: mk61rf5940z author: Alainna Wen title: Depression and Biases in Affective Set-Shifting following Stress date: 2019 words: 394 flesch: 30 summary: However, it is unclear if depression is associated with a negative bias in affective set-shifting (i.e., slower shifting from emotional aspects of negative stimuli to non-emotional aspects). In addition, a positive bias in affective set-shifting (i.e., faster shifting from emotional aspects of positive stimuli to non-emotional aspects), which might characterize healthy individuals, may be absent in depression. keywords: shifting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf5940z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf5940z.txt item: #3135 of 4945 id: mk61rf59c66 author: Samaresh Midya title: On the Spectral Decomposition of Skewness of Streamwise Velocity in a Zero Pressure Gradient Turbulent Boundary Layer date: 2021 words: 578 flesch: 59 summary: With an active ALSSA, despite having unchanged total event frequency in the region y + ≤ 30, the events occur more frequently in one half of the actuation cycle but less frequently in the other half. In fact, it is shown that, especially in the near wall region, the range of skewness producing frequencies matches closely with the probability density function of the frequency of the ejection-sweep and sweep-ejection events. keywords: skewness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf59c66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf59c66.txt item: #3136 of 4945 id: mk61rf59f5g author: Geneva Lark Hutchinson title: RESTORE/RECLAIM date: 2023 words: 69 flesch: 40 summary: Using the conceptual frameworks provided by trauma theorists and feminist artists, I am drawing attention to the abuse of power towards women within the church. Simultaneously, through creating the work, I seek healing and reclamation for myself and other women with this lived experience. keywords: church cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf59f5g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf59f5g.txt item: #3137 of 4945 id: mk61rf59f6t author: Mariama S. Dampha title: Perceived Social Support and Access to Postpartum and Newborn Care in Northern Ghana: Exploring Women's Experiences Using the Three Delays Model date: 2023 words: 363 flesch: 40 summary: However, there is limited literature on the role of social support networks as social support providers during the postpartum period on mother-newborn access to care in low-resource settings. The first 1000 days of life for a mother and her child are crucial, yet most preventable maternal and newborn deaths continue to occur (WHO, 2019; WHO, 2022a). keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mk61rf59f6t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mk61rf59f6t.txt item: #3138 of 4945 id: mp48sb41h55 author: Sameer Vijay title: Synthesis, Characterization and Isomerization Activity Studies for Modified Sulfated Zirconia Catalysts date: 2004 words: 348 flesch: 40 summary: A 3-step method consisting of calcining a sulfated zirconium hydroxide at high temperature prior to adding platinum, reduction of platinum followed by additional pretreatments is presented. Sulfated zirconia (SZ) is an attractive alternative for use in industrial processes because of its good alkane activation potential as well as being a non-toxic replacement for liquid acid catalysts currently in use. keywords: platinum cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb41h55.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb41h55.txt item: #3139 of 4945 id: mp48sb41h6h author: Kimberly A. Berg title: Essays on Exchange Rates date: 2014 words: 360 flesch: 42 summary: Under incomplete markets, the choice of exchange rate regime is nearly irrelevant for welfare whether export prices are set by LCP or PCP. The presence of third-country shocks are also largely irrelevant to the choice of exchange rate regime. keywords: exchange cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb41h6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb41h6h.txt item: #3140 of 4945 id: mp48sb41j0r author: Eva Van Leemput title: Essays on Macroeconomic Development and International Trade date: 2015 words: 434 flesch: 41 summary: I find that: (1) state-wise price data predict internal trade flows well; (2) internal trade barriers make up 30% of the total trade cost on average, but vary substantially by state depending on the distance to the closest port; and (3) the welfare impacts of domestic integration are substantial; reducing trade costs across states to the U.S. level increases welfare by 15% compared to a welfare gain of 7% when fully eliminating international import barriers. The first chapter quantifies the size of intra-country versus inter-country trade barriers and assesses the impact on patterns of trade and welfare. keywords: trade cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb41j0r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb41j0r.txt item: #3141 of 4945 id: mp48sb41j13 author: Madagama Gamage Buddika Sumanasena title: A Multidimensional Systems Approach to Grid Sensor NetworksNETWORKS date: 2012 words: 374 flesch: 43 summary: Realization algorithms to derive state space models of the desired form given an admissible transfer function are also presented. Stability of the system is analyzed with special consideration given to the influence of inter-node communication on system dynamics. keywords: models cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb41j13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb41j13.txt item: #3142 of 4945 id: mp48sb41j75 author: Nicholas Anderson title: Growth of Alumina from Aluminum Films Using Oxygen Plasma date: 2004 words: 115 flesch: 60 summary: A variety of experimental techniques and setups are described and explained. Final setups and techniques are shown to allow for reproduction. keywords: techniques cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb41j75.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb41j75.txt item: #3143 of 4945 id: mp48sb41j8h author: Eimear Mary Mullen title: The Effect of Soy Isoflavones on Cellular Sterol Regulation date: 2007 words: 281 flesch: 53 summary: It is our hypothesis that the hypocholesterolemic effects of soy are mediated at least in part by isoflavone-mediated regulation of the Sterol Regulatory Element Binding Proteins (SREBPs) and the Sterol Regulatory Element- (SRE) regulated genes. To see if similar results could be observed in vivo, we carried out a 10 day soy feeding study in C57BL/6J mice. keywords: increase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb41j8h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb41j8h.txt item: #3144 of 4945 id: mp48sb41k02 author: Cynthia Marie Nikolai title: SimEOC: A Virtual Emergency Operations Center (vEOC) Simulator for Training and Research date: 2015 words: 142 flesch: 47 summary: This tool is important because it enables emergency managers to train for crises more efficiently and effectively in a virtual environment. In this dissertation, we describe a socio-technical training simulator and research tool for upper level emergency managers. keywords: emergency cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb41k02.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb41k02.txt item: #3145 of 4945 id: mp48sb41k33 author: Edwin Siu title: The Impact of Gene Copy Number on Plasmodium falciparum Antifolate Drug Susceptibility date: 2011 words: 304 flesch: 36 summary: Our data raise the interesting possibility that the genetic background of resistant parasites, specifically dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) mutation background, influences the magnitude of effect of gch1 CNV on parasite drug response. Using the parents and progeny of the genetic cross between clonal parent lines, HB3 and Dd2, we identified a positive correlation between gch1 copy number (CN) and PYR IC50 values and confirmed the phenotypic effect of the gch1 CNV by amplifying the CN in HB3 parasites (a two-fold increase) using the piggyBac transfection system. keywords: gch1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb41k33.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb41k33.txt item: #3146 of 4945 id: mp48sb41m1q author: Andrew Brenner title: A Defense of Mereological Nihilism date: 1904 words: 333 flesch: 39 summary: Two of the objections I consider are deflationary, in the sense that they contend that the debate over the existence of composite objects is merely verbal, or trivially easy to settle via conceptual analysis in conjunction with basic empirical investigation. I go on to consider whether science gives us compelling reasons to believe in composite objects. keywords: nihilism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb41m1q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb41m1q.txt item: #3147 of 4945 id: mp48sb41m84 author: Peter Finocchiaro title: Structuring Metaphysical Disputes: A Foray into Meta-Ideology date: 1904 words: 337 flesch: 39 summary: According to this position, we ought to endorse theories that employ ideology we have reason to believe correspond to the objective features of the world, where these features can be things (e.g. electrons or properties) or non-ontic stuff (e.g. water and quantificational structure). In the first third, I provide a preliminary characterization of ideology and in so doing distinguish the multiple ways metaphysicians conceive of ideology. keywords: ideology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb41m84.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb41m84.txt item: #3148 of 4945 id: mp48sb41q51 author: Dasha Safonova title: Topics in Monetary Economics date: 1904 words: 422 flesch: 44 summary: I then study the implications of these mechanisms in a dynamic setting and relate these developments to central bank policies. I show that the aggregate loan rate increases in response to a shock that destroys a large fraction of bank relationships and decreases in response to a shock that destroys a small fraction of bank relationships. keywords: labor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb41q51.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb41q51.txt item: #3149 of 4945 id: mp48sb41q6c author: Julie A. Kessler title: The Exploration of Metal Ligand Cooperation and Bond Activations by Late Transition Metal Complexes Containing the PNpyrP Ligand date: 1904 words: 315 flesch: 28 summary: Overall, the ability of late transition metal complexes containing the (PNpyrP) ligand to undergo reversible structural changes was investigated as a means to leverage metal-ligand cooperation for the activation of small molecules and typically inert bonds. This dissertation describes the synthesis of late transition metal complexes containing a new PNP ligand comprised of a central pyrrole unit and di-iso-propylphosphine donors, bis[(dimethylamino)methyl]pyrrole, ((PNpyrP)H), 1.With this ligand, multiple transmetallation reagents including [(PNpyrP)Li]2 (7), (PNpyrP)Tl (8), and [(PNpyrP)Ag]2 (12) were synthesized in order to afford group 10 metal complexes of the form (PNpyrP)MCl (M = Ni (2), Pd (3), Pt (4)) as well as (PNpyrP)Ir(COD) (6) and (PNpyrP)Ru(PPh3)Cl (12). keywords: metal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb41q6c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb41q6c.txt item: #3150 of 4945 id: mp48sb41q82 author: Sarah Griffin title: Probing the Spectral Signatures of Energy Transfer in Metal-Decorated Plasmonic Nanoprisms date: 1904 words: 422 flesch: 39 summary: Like EELS, three-fold symmetry conservation results in a single dipolar LSPR mode; however, when the decoration breaks the three-fold symmetry of the nanoprism system, a distinct splitting of the dipole LSPR mode is observed. We are able to utilize EELS to spatially image the LSPR mode structure of gold nanoprisms and gold nanoprisms of the same size decorated with a catalytic metal, particularly, platinum. keywords: lspr cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb41q82.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb41q82.txt item: #3151 of 4945 id: mp48sb42d2g author: Xiaoxing Jin title: Darwin in China, 1870-1935 date: 2019 words: 629 flesch: 42 summary: This explores the development of science, particularly biology, by describing the establishment of the Science Society of China in June 1914, and its official publication, Kexue (Science), which remained the major, if not the only, intellectual site for Chinese biologists to debate Darwinism in the 1910s. Chinese biologists continued to be trained in the West, and a new age of biology, in China, was on its way. keywords: china cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb42d2g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb42d2g.txt item: #3152 of 4945 id: mp48sb42m2b author: Christianos A.G. Burlotos title: Advancing Resilience in Urban Residential Construction: Formalizing Housing Design and Delivery in the Developing World date: 2020 words: 294 flesch: 14 summary: Through collaborative research and proposed intervention in multiple stages of the housing delivery process, this thesis will develop practical, evidence-based designs, frameworks, processes, tools, and recommendations that seek to advance the resilience of urban residential construction by providing a pathway to formalizing housing design and delivery in the developing world. The advantages and disadvantages of a variety of relevant housing typologies are discussed, and a comparative material cost analysis is used to establish the masonry-infilled special moment frame as the most cost-effective seismically-detailed typology. keywords: housing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb42m2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb42m2b.txt item: #3153 of 4945 id: mp48sb42m8d author: Rebekah Fisher title: Double Look: A Study of the Characterization of Doubles in Roman Comedy and Its Impact on the Presentation of Traditional Roman Values date: 2021 words: 83 flesch: 47 summary: The second examines the characterization of doubles in Terence's Adelphoe to discover how doubles can complicate usual characterization techniques. This paper studies the effect of doubles on the characterization and message of Roman comedy. keywords: doubles cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb42m8d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb42m8d.txt item: #3154 of 4945 id: mp48sb42q0k author: David B. Stevenson title: Cyber-Weapons of the Weak: Understanding the Pursuit of Offensive Cyber-Capabilities by Smaller States date: 2022 words: 190 flesch: 29 summary: Cyber-weapons offer smaller countries significant strategic and tactical advantages across the international relations arena, yet not all smaller actors choose to prioritize cybersecurity and the development of offensive cyber-capabilities. This research project develops and tests a provisional theory about when and under what conditions smaller countries pursue offensive cyber-capabilities, arguing that smaller countries are more likely to develop offensive cyber-capabilities when threatened by a more powerful, cyber-armed rival, and when they demonstrate high-levels of military spending, a reliance on a high-tech military, or advanced national cyber-infrastructure. keywords: cyber cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb42q0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb42q0k.txt item: #3155 of 4945 id: mp48sb42q70 author: Shane Oh title: Seismic Behavior and Design of Precast-Concrete Buckling-Restrained Braces and Frames date: 2023 words: 267 flesch: 27 summary: The following research topics are addressed: Investigation of seismic design performance factors for precast concrete building frames with traditional commercial steel buckling-restrained braces. Quantification of the necessary design and validation requirements for the novel brace when used in multi-story precast concrete frame structures. keywords: concrete cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mp48sb42q70.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mp48sb42q70.txt item: #3156 of 4945 id: ms35t724s88 author: Michelle M Blum title: Development, Characterization and Simulation of Boundary Lubricant Functionalized Hydrogels for Use as a Low-Friction Cartilage Substitute date: 2012 words: 811 flesch: 20 summary: It was demonstrated that a significant decrease in friction occurred for the boundary lubricant functionalized hydrogels when compared with neat polyvinyl alcohol hydrogels, and that friction coefficients were within the range of reported values for cartilage. This decrease in tensile stress shown by the boundary lubricant functionalized hydrogels implies improved tribological performance with better wear potential than neat polyvinyl alcohol hydrogels. keywords: cartilage; hydrogels cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t724s88.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t724s88.txt item: #3157 of 4945 id: ms35t724s9m author: Susan Gundersen title: Second Language Learners' Use of Grammatical Cues in Their Second Language date: 2011 words: 227 flesch: 46 summary: Predictions are derived from the Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney, 1982; 1987; 1989) according to which subject-verb agreement (SVA) is a vertical cue, reflecting a correlation between word form and meaning (e.g., subject noun - agent role). Noun-adjective agreement (NAA) is a horizontal cue, reflecting a correlation between word forms only. keywords: sva cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t724s9m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t724s9m.txt item: #3158 of 4945 id: ms35t724t3v author: Ryan C. Kennedy title: Verification and Validation of Agent-based and Equation-based Simulations and Bioinformatics Computing: Identifying Transposable Elements in the Aedes aegypti Genome date: 2010 words: 129 flesch: 24 summary: Here, we identify transposable elements in the newly released Aedes aegypti genome using innovative approaches, while utilizing some standard bioinformatics tools. This work centers around two subjects: 1) verification and validation of simulation models and 2) identifying transposable elements through novel approaches. keywords: validation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t724t3v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t724t3v.txt item: #3159 of 4945 id: ms35t724t46 author: Robert Rene Rodriguez title: Health Effects of Disclosing Personal Secrets to Accepting Versus Non-Accepting Confidants date: 2005 words: 158 flesch: 44 summary: Eight weeks later, the accepting group' having imagined reactions that were more accepting and less judgmental than the non-accepting group' again reported fewer illnesses than did the non-accepting and trivial groups. Unlike the no-confidant group, the accepting group reported fewer illnesses at 8-week follow-up than did the non-accepting and trivial groups, especially to the extent that this group found their confidants to be accepting and discreet. keywords: accepting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t724t46.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t724t46.txt item: #3160 of 4945 id: ms35t724t6w author: Joseph William Thompson title: Simulation and Analysis of the Impact of Eye Morphology on Iris Recognition date: 2014 words: 154 flesch: 52 summary: An examination of relevant eye anatomy is presented along with visualizations of iris texture distortions caused by various morphological factors. Because of the difficulty in obtaining data to measure such factors, a model of the eye is used to create data sets varying each factor. keywords: eye cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t724t6w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t724t6w.txt item: #3161 of 4945 id: ms35t724t77 author: Daniel Govinda Rinzler title: Design and Implementation of an FPGA-Based Image Processor: Exploring a Distributed Data Multi-Core Co-Processor Architecture date: 2010 words: 184 flesch: 46 summary: This thesis explores using a hybrid processing approach for doing application specific memory intensive processing. The hybrid system uses a general purpose processor (GPP) in conjunction with an FPGA-based Image Processor (FIMP) to improve performance for image processing applications. keywords: system cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t724t77.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t724t77.txt item: #3162 of 4945 id: ms35t724v04 author: Yuping Zhu title: Synthesis and Conformational Studies of Isotopically Enriched Saccharides date: 2010 words: 441 flesch: 36 summary: These J-couplings were interpreted using Karplus-type equations derived from density functional theory (DFT) calculations and mathematical modeling. These parameters were used to assess the N-acetyl side-chain conformation in combination with DFT parameterized equations. keywords: couplings cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t724v04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t724v04.txt item: #3163 of 4945 id: ms35t724v2t author: Daniel Dominique Leger title: The Nafta's Chapter 11 and U.S. Regulatory Takings: Can International Trade Agreements Develop a Consistent and Principled Regulatory Takings Jurisprudence? date: 2005 words: 321 flesch: 34 summary: Its purpose is to examine the manner in which Chapter 11 authorized tribunals answer the question of how far is too far when reviewing disputed governmental regulation that may rise to the level of an expropriation and therefore compensable under Chapter 11's investor-protection provisions. Supporters and critics of the NAFTA's Chapter 11 investor-protection provisions claim that they are at once a boon to individual property rights or, alternatively, an assault on democracy and the right of a sovereign country to enact regulations through lawful and democratic means. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t724v2t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t724v2t.txt item: #3164 of 4945 id: ms35t724v35 author: Sally Suzanne Williams title: Modernizing the System Hierarchy for Tall Buildings: A Data-driven Approach to System Characterization date: 2015 words: 156 flesch: 26 summary: This implies that few modern systems obey this classical hierarchy, requiring a new approach to classify structural systems and their applicability to modern practice as both a design aid and educational tool for future designers. In the mid-1960s, Fazlur Khan created a hierarchy of structural systems, ranging from two-dimensional moment resisting frames to three-dimensional tubular systems, to aid designers in making efficient choices to resist lateral loads. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t724v35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t724v35.txt item: #3165 of 4945 id: ms35t724v5v author: Feng Li title: Functionalization of Nine-Atom Germanium Clusters with More Than Two Substituents date: 1904 words: 525 flesch: 43 summary: Studying the similarity in the reactivity of functionalized Ge9 clusters and the naked parent Ge94– anions has both experimental and theoretical implications. The primary goal of this research project is to develop methodologies for further functionalization of Zintl clusters in order to attach more than two substituents. keywords: clusters cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t724v5v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t724v5v.txt item: #3166 of 4945 id: ms35t72506q author: Christopher Matthews title: Reducing Spatial Errors in Ground-Based High-Contrast Imaging Systems date: 1904 words: 303 flesch: 32 summary: Scattered starlight limits the ability of high-contrast instruments to directly image extrasolar planets and other faint companions orbiting nearby stars. This result is the first step in the ultimate goal of developing and fully implementing a robust and efficient procedure to remove scattered starlight introduced by NCP spatial errors in P1640 and other high contrast imaging instruments. keywords: contrast cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t72506q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t72506q.txt item: #3167 of 4945 id: ms35t725h20 author: Adam Papp title: Spin-Wave-Based Computing date: 1904 words: 232 flesch: 42 summary: We borrowed ideas from the already well established optical computing theory, but instead of using optical waves, we redesigned these concepts for spin waves. Our approach is to directly use spin waves for wave-computing algorithms as opposed to designing novel logic gates using spin-wave signals -- which has been the more typical approach recently. keywords: spin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t725h20.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t725h20.txt item: #3168 of 4945 id: ms35t725h82 author: Brandon M. Tutkowski title: Studies Directed toward the Improvement and Mechanistic Understanding of Several Transition Metal-Catalyzed Organic Reactions date: 1904 words: 296 flesch: 34 summary: Transition metals can be used to catalyze chemical reactions, allowing rapid and selective access to fine chemicals. The discovery of new reactions, as well as the improvement and understanding of existing reactions is thus a highly important task for organic chemists. keywords: catalyzed cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t725h82.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t725h82.txt item: #3169 of 4945 id: ms35t725j3n author: Shirui Luo title: Non-Membrane, Low Temperature and Low Emission Water Desalination Using Directional Solvent Extraction date: 1904 words: 345 flesch: 28 summary: Rather than using costly electricity or high-quality heat for water treatment, the directional solvent extraction (DSE) process can utilize abundant low-quality waste heat from sources like power plant condensers and solar thermal energy to treat a wide variety of water sources, including seawater, brackish water, and condenser blow-down water. RO uses fine membranes and high-pressure pumps, and thermal distillation relies on intensive high temperature thermal energy, making both technologies very energy intensive. keywords: water cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t725j3n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t725j3n.txt item: #3170 of 4945 id: ms35t725k60 author: Mark Roosien title: The Liturgical Commemoration of Earthquakes in Late Antique Constantinople: At the Intersection of Ritual, Environment, and Empire date: 2018 words: 357 flesch: 39 summary: Prior to the practice of commemorating earthquakes liturgically, the late-fourth and early-fifth century preachers Severian of Gabala and John Chrysostom drew from this ritual repertoire to make theological sense of Constantinopolitan earthquakes. Those dedicated to augmenting Constantinople's political and ecclesiastical power disputed the theology of earthquakes as signs of divine wrath, and reframed local earthquakes as signs of divine blessing upon the city and its ambitions. keywords: earthquakes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t725k60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t725k60.txt item: #3171 of 4945 id: ms35t725p2j author: Frederick C. Nwanganga title: Optimizing Workload Resource Allocation in the Cloud: A Data-Driven Approach date: 2019 words: 264 flesch: 37 summary: Workload modeling and resource optimization in cloud environments is challenging for several reasons. This research presents an analytic approach to workload resource allocation in the cloud. keywords: cloud cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t725p2j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t725p2j.txt item: #3172 of 4945 id: ms35t725w12 author: Qian Liu title: Measurement of Alpha Capture Reactions on 10,11B date: 2020 words: 212 flesch: 40 summary: The nucleosynthesis in first generation stars is characterized by a completely different nucleosynthesis reaction pattern due to the lack of heavier nuclei impurities. R-matrix analyses are performed for both reactions in order to facilitate a comparison of the underlying nuclear structure with reaction measurements. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t725w12.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t725w12.txt item: #3173 of 4945 id: ms35t725x32 author: Justice Chiedozie Chukwu title: Inclusive Peacebuilding and Disability: The Lens of Vulnerability date: 2021 words: 198 flesch: 42 summary: And further, bringing the perspective of the disabled to peacebuilding approaches not only adds additional voices to the work of peacebuilding but also brings a new and different lens – the lens of vulnerability – that can generate a significantly different form of understanding of peace, one that is better able to generate positive and sustainable peace. In the following two chapters, I use the lens of vulnerability to assess efforts to include persons with disability within peacebuilding. keywords: peacebuilding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t725x32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t725x32.txt item: #3174 of 4945 id: ms35t725z1p author: Ann Franchesca Laguna title: Accelerating Memory Intensive Algorithms and Applications using In-Memory Computing date: 2022 words: 367 flesch: 37 summary: We propose an in-memory transformer network accelerator (iMTransformer) that uses a combination of crossbars and CAMs to accelerate transformer networks. These memory-bandwidth limited applications can be accelerated by minimizing the data movement between the memory and the compute units through in-memory computing (IMC). keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ms35t725z1p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ms35t725z1p.txt item: #3175 of 4945 id: mw22v408278 author: Daniel Patrick Moloney title: The Mirror of Justice: A Plea for Mercy in Contemporary Liberal Theory date: 2004 words: 360 flesch: 51 summary: As usually defined, the concepts of justice and mercy seem incompatible' if justice is the strict application of the law, and mercy lenient deviation from it, then mercy is unjust and justice is merciless. Perhaps for this reason, liberal political philosophers have mostly neglected the topic of mercy, despite its traditional role in contributing to political stability. keywords: mercy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v408278.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v408278.txt item: #3176 of 4945 id: mw22v40828m author: Faiza Afroz Faria title: MBE Growth of GaN Heterostructures for High Performance HEMTs date: 2015 words: 370 flesch: 52 summary: Additionally, we investigated crystalline AlN growth at a low temperature of ~ 480 °C. This was motivated by novel MBE grown AlN barrier HEMT structures with high mobility InGaN channels for Terahertz applications. To fully exploit the potential of MBE grown high quality HEMT structures, low resistance (< 0.1 Ω.mm) regrown source/drain ohmic contacts are essential. keywords: aln cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v40828m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v40828m.txt item: #3177 of 4945 id: mw22v40831h author: Kristof Tahy title: 2D Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbon Field Effect Transistors date: 2012 words: 226 flesch: 49 summary: Fabrication and electrical measurements of 2D graphene devices lead to the verification of the predicted T^2 dependence of the intrinsic carrier concentration in graphene. Process limitations lead to the utilization of a new e-beam lithography resist (HSQ) and to the switch to epitaxial graphene on SiC substrates. keywords: graphene cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v40831h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v40831h.txt item: #3178 of 4945 id: mw22v40832v author: Chad A. Stephenson title: Growth and Simulation of Direct Bandgap Germanium Alloys date: 2015 words: 355 flesch: 40 summary: A similar shift from electrical wires to optical interconnects could increase chip-level interconnect bandwidth by one to two orders of magnitude and allow continued performance enhancements. The splitting of the conduction band predicted by our BAC and HSE models is confirmed by a 50 meV band splitting by photoreflectance measurements. keywords: optical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v40832v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v40832v.txt item: #3179 of 4945 id: mw22v408336 author: Martin Aguirres Carrasco title: Elucidating the Biochemical Overwintering Adaptations of Larval Cucujus clavipes puniceus and Cucujus clavipes clavipes, Non-Model Organisms, via High Throughput Proteomics date: 2012 words: 1075 flesch: 33 summary: Proteins unique to DSC include alpha casein precursor, alpha-actinin, vimentin, tropomyosin, beta-lactoglobulin, immunoglobulins, tubulin, cuticle proteins and endothelins. Proteins up-regulated in winter relative to summer larvae include cytoskeletal elements (including myosin, actin, paramyosin, tropomyosin, and actinin), muscle proteins (myosin, actin, paramyosin, and tropomyosin), ATP synthesis proteins (ATP synthase), glycolysis proteins (glycogen phosphorylase), binding proteins (HSP70, nucleolin, DNA gyrase, and myosin) anti-microbial agents, and calcium binding proteins (alpha casein precursors). keywords: proteins; species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v408336.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v408336.txt item: #3180 of 4945 id: mw22v408398 author: Sarah Gillian Winikoff title: The Influence of Marine-Derived Nutrient Subsidies on Streams and Lakes at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge date: 2014 words: 206 flesch: 28 summary: In my second data chapter, I examined whether marine-derived nutrient subsidies from salmon and waterbirds differ in their effects on lake ecosystems. Although the effects of Pacific salmon spawners have been well-studied in the Pacific Northwest, their influence remains relatively unexplored across portions of their range including the North Pacific Rim and along the Alaska Peninsula. keywords: salmon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v408398.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v408398.txt item: #3181 of 4945 id: mw22v40840g author: Robin Andrew Joyce title: A System to Demonstrate the Bistability of Molecules for Application in a Molecular QCA Cell date: 2008 words: 347 flesch: 52 summary: As transistors are reduced in size problems such as device density, device interconnection and power dissipation become increasingly hard to overcome and short-channel effects degrade device performance. QCA provides this new architecture by encoding binary information in the bistable charge configuration of quantum-dot cells and by using the Coulomb interaction to couple neighboring cells. keywords: qca cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v40840g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v40840g.txt item: #3182 of 4945 id: mw22v408425 author: Stephanie Anne Ellickson-Larew title: Dissociation as a Cross-Cutting Dimension: Relations with Affectivity, Personality, and Psychopathology date: 2014 words: 233 flesch: 4 summary: At the multivariate level, Depersonalization/Derealization was adaptive for normal-range personality, yet related to several maladaptive personality traits and uniquely predicted psychotic disorder; Fantasy was adaptive via positive affectivity and extraversion, yet predicted antagonistic maladaptive traits and uniquely predicted manic episodes. Overall dissociation and Memory Disturbances were found to be cross-cutting symptom dimensions, at both the bivariate and multivariate levels; for example, it was related to low positive affectivity and high negative affectivity; Neuroticism (strongly), most maladaptive personality traits, and virtually all diagnoses (including internalizing, externalizing, and oddity). keywords: dissociation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v408425.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v408425.txt item: #3183 of 4945 id: mw22v408456 author: Isaac E. Choi title: Epistemic Expertise: Its Nature and Appraisal date: 2012 words: 342 flesch: 36 summary: Comparatively little has been written on expert testimony, despite our most pressing questions requiring expertise and experts often offering divergent answers. However, most of these indicators turn out to be often unreliable and not particularly useful in practice, particularly for laypersons faced with disagreeing experts. keywords: epistemic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v408456.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v408456.txt item: #3184 of 4945 id: mw22v40858j author: Andrew W. Klein title: Along English Borders: Imagining Transnational English Identity in the Premodern World, 1200-1500 date: 1904 words: 634 flesch: 23 summary: The plurality of these visions of English national identity, however, does not and cannot present us with a unified whole picture of a global medieval England, but it does open to us the variety of transnational experiences attached to a more widely conceived notion of national identity. This means, I suggest, that English national identity emerges, in different forms, out of the interplay between different ethno-national identities as they are literarily imagined. keywords: english cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v40858j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v40858j.txt item: #3185 of 4945 id: mw22v40888g author: Kelsey Castaneda title: RAM date: 1904 words: 140 flesch: 82 summary: Ram is at times a character and at times not. She is at once a woman and gender fluid. keywords: ram cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v40888g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v40888g.txt item: #3186 of 4945 id: mw22v408901 author: Dong Lu title: Krylov Integration Factor Method for High Spatial Dimension Convection-Diffusion Problems on Sparse Grids date: 1904 words: 398 flesch: 28 summary: Compact integration factor methods developed in [Nie et al., Journal of Computational Physics, 227 (2008) 5238-5255] provide an approach to reduce the cost prohibitive large matrix exponentials for linear diffusion operators with constant diffusion coefficients in high spatial dimensions to a series of much smaller one dimensional computations. This approach is further developed in [Wang et al., Journal of Computational Physics, 258 (2014) 585-600] to deal with more complicated high dimensional reaction-diffusion equations with cross-derivatives in diffusion operators. keywords: methods cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v408901.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v408901.txt item: #3187 of 4945 id: mw22v408s7s author: Diana L. La Torre title: Innate Immunology and Microbial Invasion in a Spontaneous Model of Colitis date: 1904 words: 410 flesch: 30 summary: To assess the role of TNFAIP3 on innate immune system driven colitis, we crossed RAG-1-/- mice, immunocompromised mice lacking T and B cells, and villin-TNFAIP3 transgenic mice, which overexpress TNFAIP3 in IEC, these mice hereafter are referred to as TRAG mice. The ILCs further propagate the inflammation with secreting on inflammatory cytokines and increasing inflammatory cells, thus, leading to the spontaneous chronic inflammation displayed by our model. keywords: tnfaip3 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v408s7s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v408s7s.txt item: #3188 of 4945 id: mw22v40934t author: Cary Balser title: Essays on Maternity Leave Policy and Educational Experiments date: 2021 words: 350 flesch: 45 summary: I find that the policy increases leave taking by 5 weeks, has minimal impacts on continued employment, and significant negative impacts on promotion. As a result, my estimates provide evidence which can help reconcile estimates of positive short run and negative long run impacts found in past research. keywords: leave cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v40934t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v40934t.txt item: #3189 of 4945 id: mw22v40951d author: Luis L. Schenoni title: Bringing War Back In: Victory and State Formation in Nineteenth Century Latin America date: 2020 words: 202 flesch: 42 summary: In a second part, it develops a multi-method strategy to test this claim by combining qualitative comparative analyses of state capacity at the year 1900 with difference-in-differences analyses and the synthetic control method, two estimators that identify the effect of losing vis-à-vis winning a war on levels of state capacity in a panel of Latin America (1865-1913). Scholars have often dismissed the effect of war on state formation in regions like Latin America where mobilization for war is deemed insufficiently intense and international conflict fails to out-select weaker states. keywords: war cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v40951d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v40951d.txt item: #3190 of 4945 id: mw22v40988r author: Qiushi Zhang title: Light-Generated Plasmonic Nano Bubble and Micro Surface Bubble in Gold Nanoparticle Suspension date: 2023 words: 590 flesch: 29 summary: Using the optical pulling or pushing force, we can directly deposit plasmonic nanoparticles onto optically transparent substrates when they are immersed in nanoparticle suspensions. When surface plasmonic heating effect occurs in nanoparticle suspension, a large amount of heat is produced locally around the irradiated nanoparticles, which can vaporize the surrounding liquid and generate plasmonic bubbles. keywords: nanoparticle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/mw22v40988r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/mw22v40988r.txt item: #3191 of 4945 id: n009w091c07 author: Bryan Andrew Smith title: In Vivo Optical Imaging of Cell Death Using Fluorescent Synthetic Coordination Complexes date: 2012 words: 538 flesch: 38 summary: Ex vivo imaging and histological analysis confirmed PSS-794 localization to site of brain cell death. Finally, multivalent Zn2BDPA were evaluated to determine the whether increasing the number of Zn2BDPA ligands enhances cell death imaging. keywords: imaging cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091c07.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091c07.txt item: #3192 of 4945 id: n009w091c1k author: Ryan Sanford Smith title: halcyon is a desolate city / In Every Frame A Mirror date: 2011 words: 11 flesch: 80 summary: This thesis consists of the work towards two books of poetry. keywords: poetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091c1k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091c1k.txt item: #3193 of 4945 id: n009w091c5z author: David Thunder title: Rethinking Modern Citizenship: Towards a Politics of Integrity and Virtue date: 2006 words: 317 flesch: 34 summary: Many current ideals of citizenship expressly or implicitly require citizens to subordinate their most cherished ethical commitments to the norms of liberal citizenship. There is a malaise at large in our modern liberal democracies arising from the failure of our public life to be grounded in, and in turn inspire, our deepest moral questions and our ceaseless quest for ethical integrity or wholeness. keywords: liberal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091c5z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091c5z.txt item: #3194 of 4945 id: n009w091c69 author: Timothy J Hoellein title: The effects of seasonality and restoration on stream nutrient cycling at multiple spatial scales date: 2008 words: 356 flesch: 22 summary: Overall, nutrient uptake rates are sensitive metrics for integrating changes in stream biological activity, and represent a powerful tool for characterizing the influence of seasonal change and restoration on stream ecosystem function. These conclusions are significant in the context of restoration, which often results in changes to the streambed 'landscape' I also used seasonal measurements of nutrient uptake to document the influence of two contrasting restoration strategies on stream ecosystem function. keywords: nutrient cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091c69.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091c69.txt item: #3195 of 4945 id: n009w091c7n author: Kelly J Johnson title: Bacterial Adsorption of Aqueous Heavy Metals: Molecular Simulations and Surface Complexation Models date: 2008 words: 362 flesch: 31 summary: We applied potentiometric titrations and metal adsorption experiments (Ch. 4) and found that changes in bacterial diversity do not impact proton and metal uptake of consortia grown from three locations and sampled throughout a year, strongly suggesting universal adsorption behavior for the species present. Simulation models (Ch. 2) enabled us to estimate the most stable configuration for bacterial surface complexes and to compare binding affinities and interatomic distances with experimental values to validate and predict metal adsorption behavior. keywords: adsorption cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091c7n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091c7n.txt item: #3196 of 4945 id: n009w091c80 author: Patrick David Slaney title: Problems of a Scientific Culture: The Task of Science Education in the Atomic Age date: 2010 words: 152 flesch: 55 summary: I show how Frank's program for science education had roots in the Viennese Unity of Science movement and that Frank sought to dissolve the boundaries between philosophy and science. I then show how Conant's educational proposals were a response to the Cold War: educational reform could provide the unity needed for national survival and education in the history of science would make the technocracy of the atomic age less alien. keywords: science cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091c80.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091c80.txt item: #3197 of 4945 id: n009w091c9b author: Ali Irmak Ozdagli title: Analytical Modeling of Diagonally Reinforced Concrete Coupling Beams under Lateral Loads date: 2009 words: 144 flesch: 22 summary: The diagonal reinforcement is modeled using nonlinear truss elements in the diagonal direction whereas the concrete beam is modeled using nonlinear fiber beam-column elements in the horizontal direction. This thesis describes an analytical model to investigate the nonlinear behavior of diagonally reinforced concrete coupling beams under reversed-cyclic lateral loading. keywords: beam cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091c9b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091c9b.txt item: #3198 of 4945 id: n009w091d27 author: James Craig Fryman title: Wear of a Total Ankle Replacement date: 2010 words: 195 flesch: 63 summary: This new total ankle replacement was found to have a wear rate that is lower than existing ankle implants and similar to that found in other total joint replacements. This leads to complications such as reduced range of motion, infection, non-union, and deterioration of adjacent joints. keywords: ankle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091d27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091d27.txt item: #3199 of 4945 id: n009w091d4x author: Aaron Joseph Couture title: 19F(p,g)20Ne and the Stellar CNO Burning Cycle date: 2007 words: 148 flesch: 42 summary: A new measurement of the 19F(p,g) breakout reaction to CNO cycle has been completed at the University of Notre Dame, covering energies from 200-800 keV. As part of the development for the measurements, an particle accelerator of nuclear astrophysics was refurbished and installed in the Nuclear Structure Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame. keywords: measurements cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091d4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091d4x.txt item: #3200 of 4945 id: n009w091d58 author: Jayme Christine Russell title: As the World Falls Down date: 2015 words: 5 flesch: 117 summary: As the World Falls Down keywords: world cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091d58.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091d58.txt item: #3201 of 4945 id: n009w091f5k author: Catherine A. Campos title: Titanocene as a Bifunctional Catalyst for the Rapid Assembly of All-Carbon Tertiary Centers date: 1904 words: 307 flesch: 32 summary: Developing solutions for the construction of biologically active compounds lies at the heart of the field of synthetic organic chemistry. In vitro toxicity to hematopoietic cells was not observed, providing a foundation for the synthesis of diarylheptanoid analogs that are cytotoxic to brain and peripheral nervous system cancers. keywords: analogs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091f5k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091f5k.txt item: #3202 of 4945 id: n009w091f9z author: Jeffrey Tolly title: Reliabilism and the Generality Problem date: 1904 words: 346 flesch: 35 summary: In chapter four, I argue that relevance theories that merely take into account causal features of the tokens aren't extensionally correct. According to the generality problem objection, there is some normative burden for the reliabilist to supply some account of type relevance. keywords: process cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091f9z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091f9z.txt item: #3203 of 4945 id: n009w091g1h author: Kathrin Kranz title: Armed with Good Intentions? Explaining Arms Embargo Compliance date: 1904 words: 121 flesch: 43 summary: Explaining arms embargo compliance—investigates why major arms exporters have come not only to comply with international arms embargoes, but also to embrace them as policy instruments. During the past 50 years, these countries moved away from treating arms embargoes as a nuisance they reluctantly navigated—and sometimes violated—to championing them as policy instruments. keywords: arms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091g1h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091g1h.txt item: #3204 of 4945 id: n009w091j9w author: Mayukh Raj Gangopadhyay title: Constraints on Inflation and the Origin of Space-Time date: 1904 words: 491 flesch: 58 summary: One such feature is the well known suppression of the l=2 moment of the CMB power spectrum observed both by Planck and by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). Both of these deviations occur in an interesting region in the CMB power spectrum because they correspond to angular scales that are not yet in causal contact when the CMB photons were emitted. keywords: power cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w091j9w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w091j9w.txt item: #3205 of 4945 id: n009w092301 author: Claire McKay Bowen title: Data Privacy via Integration of Differential Privacy and Data Synthesis date: 1904 words: 199 flesch: 43 summary: Many statistical methods of data privacy and confidentiality have little to no means in measuring an altered data set's privacy guarantee. Next, I created a method (called SPECKS) to compare DIPS data to real-life data, and another method to improve the statistical inferences of non-parametric DIPS approaches. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w092301.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w092301.txt item: #3206 of 4945 id: n009w092750 author: Garrison M. Crouch title: Nanoholes and Nanowires: Electrochemistry in Optically-Active Nanostructures date: 2019 words: 457 flesch: 8 summary: Experimentation and simulation showed that nanoparticles, otherwise electrically inaccessible within the electrolyte, act as bipolar electrodes and influence filament behavior within a large area of the electrolyte. These measurements constitute true unamplified studies into single molecule electron transfer events and thus may direct future study of fundamental electrochemical reaction events. keywords: behavior cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w092750.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w092750.txt item: #3207 of 4945 id: n009w092917 author: Elliott H. Smith title: Mozart's "Great" Mass: Sources, History, and Performance Practice date: 2019 words: 218 flesch: 41 summary: Further, this thesis examines the work's orchestration and its expressive devices such as tempo and dynamics and studies them from the mindset of the Classical Era musician using the writings of eighteenth and nineteenth century writers such as Leopold Mozart, Daniel Gottlieb Türk, and Heinrich Koch coupled with the writings of modern scholars and performers such as Leonard Ratner and Robin Stowell. This paper's ultimate purpose is to aid the modern conductor by presenting a well-rounded view of the work, its sources, and its performance history, as well as by offering performance suggestions. keywords: performance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w092917.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w092917.txt item: #3208 of 4945 id: n009w092g55 author: Valentina Geri title: Primo Levi and the Anglophone World: An Intertextual Itinerary date: 2021 words: 124 flesch: 33 summary: The aim of this dissertation is to shed light on the presence and meaning of Anglophone authors in Primo Levi's works through an intertextual itinerary that collects and organizes different Anglophone writers in three metaphorical temporal dimensions: the past, the future, and the present of Levi's writing. The main sections of the dissertation analyze how Levi re-elaborates, interprets, and inserts other authors' words in his writing. keywords: levi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w092g55.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w092g55.txt item: #3209 of 4945 id: n009w092j4f author: Taylor E. Hartson title: Regenerative Relationships: Mutuality, Identity, and Ethics in Sustainable Agriculture date: 2023 words: 156 flesch: 3 summary: A growing body of literature examines the gender and sexual dynamics inherent to agricultural production in the United States, and some sociological work engages with the symbolic and micro interactions between humans and non-human animals raised for agricultural purposes. As agricultural systems contend with an ever-changing environment, it becomes increasingly important to turn our attention to the web of living beings that structures these systems—including the relationships between humans and non-human animals. keywords: agricultural cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n009w092j4f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n009w092j4f.txt item: #3210 of 4945 id: n296ww74m9w author: Emma A Lynch title: Role and Regulation of the Proteasome in Epithelial Cell Adhesion and Migration date: 2006 words: 405 flesch: 31 summary: Epithelial cells disassemble their adherens junctions and 'scatter' during processes such as tumor cell invasion, as well as some stages of embryonic development. We have also begun to elucidate a role for the GTPase, Rap1, in the regulation of E-cadherin membrane traffic during adherens junction turnover in epithelial cells. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n296ww74m9w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n296ww74m9w.txt item: #3211 of 4945 id: n296ww74n03 author: Meng Xia title: Analysis and Design of Cyber-physical Systems Using Passivity and Passivation date: 2015 words: 297 flesch: 35 summary: In summary, this dissertation focuses on the analysis and design of CPS using passivity and passivation theory, concentrating on systems with human controllers and automotive systems. The passivation method can be applied in order to guarantee stability and optimize system performance in the presence of time delay. keywords: passivation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n296ww74n03.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n296ww74n03.txt item: #3212 of 4945 id: n296ww74n34 author: Bernadette M. Boyle title: On the Unimodality of Pure O-Sequences date: 2012 words: 327 flesch: 56 summary: In particular, for any r > 2, there exists a monomial Artinian level algebra in r variables whose Hilbert function fails unimodality with an arbitrary number of peaks. Finally we will show that for r greater than or equal to 4 and e greater than or equal to 7, there exists a non-unimodal pure O-sequence in r variables with socle degree e. keywords: unimodal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n296ww74n34.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n296ww74n34.txt item: #3213 of 4945 id: n296ww74n4g author: Michael W Penninger title: Simulation of NO oxidation Catalysis on Perovskite Catalysts date: 2015 words: 372 flesch: 43 summary: Thermodynamic models show nitrates and adsorbed NO2 as the most stable species on the LaO and CoO2 terminations, respectively. Finally, sulfur deactivation is a practical challenge for the application of perovskites as NO oxidation catalysts. keywords: oxidation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n296ww74n4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n296ww74n4g.txt item: #3214 of 4945 id: n296ww74n5t author: Quinn Darlington title: Modernism's Miniatures: Space and Gender in the Stettheimer Dollhouse and Duchamp's Boîte-en-Valise date: 2012 words: 334 flesch: 43 summary: More than simply a vessel for the display of diminutive works by prominent artists such as Marcel Duchamp, however, the Dollhouse is itself a work of art that engages the avant-garde spirit of playfulness that is highlighted by the works it contains. In addition to providing Carrie with an outlet from her everyday domestic life, her Dollhouse, along with her activities in her home, were part of a systematic attempt to create aesthetically pleasing, fantastical environments and a theatrical mode of life, which can ultimately be viewed as avant-garde in its combination of art and lived reality. keywords: dollhouse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n296ww74n5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n296ww74n5t.txt item: #3215 of 4945 id: n296ww74p23 author: Andrew Ward title: Improved Synthesis of the Novel Anti-Tuberculosis Drug SQ109 and Synthesis of Nitroso-ene Analogs date: 2011 words: 174 flesch: 46 summary: SQ109 (1) has shown very promising activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), but exhibits low oral bioavailability. Despite the advances made in the middle of the 20th century to combat tuberculosis, the current short-course therapy has been met with challenges from multi-drug resistant strains of bacteria as well as the inability of providing these drugs to immunocompromised patients with HIV. keywords: strains cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n296ww74p23.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n296ww74p23.txt item: #3216 of 4945 id: n296ww74p4s author: Jin Hao title: Aeroacoustics of Small Gaps and Steps in Low-Mach-Number Turbulent Boundary Layers date: 2014 words: 441 flesch: 41 summary: For swept steps, it is found that the sweep independence hypothesis holds for mean flow quantities for sweep angles up to 45?, and for fluctuating quantities including surface pressure fluctuations and Reynolds stresses for sweep angles up to 30?. Rouding the step upper corner is shown to cause reduced flow separation on the upper surface, increased level of peak surface pressure fluctuations and faster downstream relaxation to an equilibrium turbulent boundary layer. keywords: step cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n296ww74p4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n296ww74p4s.txt item: #3217 of 4945 id: n296ww74p7t author: Jordan Joseph Wales title: Sacrifice in the Theology of Gregory the Great date: 2014 words: 188 flesch: 33 summary: In the long-running late antique debate on the nature of Christian perfection, Gregory's sacrificial theology of human life with God makes a speculative contribution: a new theory of perfect love that makes possible an aspiration to contemplative perfection even in worldly life. His teaching on sacrifice accomplishes a theological re-negotiation of the clashing traditions of Augustine and Cassian, opening a broad horizon of new cultural possibilities by elaborating a theory of spiritual perfection capacious enough to embrace the secular. keywords: gregory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n296ww74p7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n296ww74p7t.txt item: #3218 of 4945 id: n296ww74q6s author: Alethea Magdalena Tusher title: A Mad Lush Alter date: 1904 words: 20 flesch: 42 summary: A collection of poetry that takes the quotidian and makes it weird by excavating the inherent violence in domestic spaces. keywords: spaces cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n296ww74q6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n296ww74q6s.txt item: #3219 of 4945 id: n296ww74r01 author: Kyle Pettijohn title: Selective Directed Forgetting and Event Models date: 1904 words: 182 flesch: 46 summary: The to-be-forgotten sentences could or could not be integrated into event models. An event model is a mental representation that contains elements of an episode such as when and where it took place. keywords: forgetting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n296ww74r01.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n296ww74r01.txt item: #3220 of 4945 id: n296ww75r82 author: Poorna Talkad Sukumar title: Contextual and Qualitative Approaches for Visualization Design date: 2021 words: 495 flesch: 21 summary: In addition to contributing visualization design guidelines to each of the four domain-specific problems, we reflect on the application of these methods for visualization design and how they differ from their traditional counterparts used in disciplines such as HCI and the social sciences. Existing guidelines that are commonly referred to in visualization design, such as, Shneiderman's Overview First, Zoom and Filter, Details on Demand, are predominantly informed by the state of knowledge and empirical research in visualization. keywords: visualization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n296ww75r82.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n296ww75r82.txt item: #3221 of 4945 id: n296ww75v07 author: Nikolai Konovalov title: Algebraic Goodwillie Spectral Sequence date: 2023 words: 215 flesch: 49 summary: As an essential ingredient of our calculations, we establish a general Leibniz rule in functor calculus associated to the composition of mapping spaces, which conceptualizes certain formulas of W. H. Lin. By the work of A. K. Bousfield et al. keywords: lie cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n296ww75v07.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n296ww75v07.txt item: #3222 of 4945 id: n583xs57x2v author: Andrea Lynn Christensen title: Characteristics of Effective Teacher Leadership in School-based Learning Communities date: 2012 words: 332 flesch: 36 summary: Without it, teacher interaction and practice may not change. Decades of research has also demonstrated that in order to bring about teacher change, teachers must have opportunities to engage in serious conversation with each other about practice, evidence, and alternatives. keywords: teacher cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs57x2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs57x2v.txt item: #3223 of 4945 id: n583xs57x36 author: Karen L. Williams title: Development of a high throughput impedance measurement device for new materials discovery date: 2011 words: 257 flesch: 30 summary: Testing on BaZr0.9Y0.1O2.95 (BYZ10), a candidate electrolyte for intermediate temperature fuel cell applications was inconclusive due to experimental difficulties in obtaining high quality data. Doped perovskites are a material of interest due to their ability to conduct protons in a temperature range desirable for intermediate temperature fuel cell applications. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs57x36.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs57x36.txt item: #3224 of 4945 id: n583xs57x7k author: Anees Attarwala title: Optimal Process Operations: Valuing Real Options date: 2010 words: 115 flesch: 41 summary: This thesis computes the value of flexibility embedded in production engineering processes. A stochastic dynamic programming evaluation of the value function is performed in discrete time via trinomial trees. keywords: flexibility cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs57x7k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs57x7k.txt item: #3225 of 4945 id: n583xs57x8x author: Rebeccah Schweers title: The Impact of Rumination on Anger and Forgiveness in Marital Relationships date: 2012 words: 233 flesch: 23 summary: We sought to determine whether rumination had a causal effect on anger, forgiveness, explicit attitudes, and implicit attitudes toward one's spouse. Following this thought manipulation task, we assessed subjects' anger, forgiveness, explicit attitudes, and implicit attitudes toward their spouse. keywords: rumination cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs57x8x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs57x8x.txt item: #3226 of 4945 id: n583xs57x98 author: Patrick Lawrence Hill title: Defining Salience During Reference Object Selection date: 2010 words: 149 flesch: 30 summary: Of interest to the current research is determining which salience dimensions speakers attend to during the process of reference object selection. These candidates were manipulated along conceptual, perceptual, and spatial dimensions to determine which are computed by speakers during reference object selection, and the relative importance of each type. keywords: reference cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs57x98.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs57x98.txt item: #3227 of 4945 id: n583xs57z0g author: Pascal R Deboeck title: Using Surrogate Data Analysis to Estimate Tau for Local Linear Approximation of Damped Linear Oscillators date: 2008 words: 198 flesch: 44 summary: This model can capture aspects of a series of measurements such as how quickly a set of data fluctuates between two extremes, or whether the magnitude of the fluctuations are increasing or decreasing over time. One increasingly common way to study individual level data is through the recording of a series of measurements on an individual over time. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs57z0g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs57z0g.txt item: #3228 of 4945 id: n583xs57z1t author: Kyle Chormanski title: Alkyne Substituent Effects in Radicals and Carbocations date: 2010 words: 124 flesch: 35 summary: In the methylenecyclopropane rearrangement all studied systems are moderate radical stabilizers, rearranging more quickly than the parent system. Solvolytic studies showed that the sigma + values for the para-substituted trifluoroacetates are relatively similar, with the para-acetylene group the only system that showed rate retardation in reference to the parent para-hydrogen system. keywords: studies cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs57z1t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs57z1t.txt item: #3229 of 4945 id: n583xs57z4v author: Cornelius Griggs title: A Sub-Kelvin Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Its Application to MgB2 and CeCoIn5 date: 2012 words: 169 flesch: 43 summary: The nodal direction has been confirmed, and evidence for multiband superconductivity is presented. Such an environment places many constraints upon the design of the instrument, but also allows the study of many exotic phenomena, in particular superconductivity. keywords: low cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs57z4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs57z4v.txt item: #3230 of 4945 id: n583xs57z6j author: Jacqueline A Whyte title: Mitotic Phosphorylation of Cytoplasmic Dynein date: 2006 words: 342 flesch: 46 summary: These results suggest that phosphorylation of dynein ICs modulates subunit composition during mitosis and plays a role targeting dynein ICs to specific functional mitotic sites. Both dynein and p38 have been independently implicated in kinetochore checkpoint roles during the spindle assembly checkpoint. keywords: dynein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs57z6j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs57z6j.txt item: #3231 of 4945 id: n583xs57z7w author: Alice Elizabeth Ladrick title: AUTOBITCHOGRAPHY date: 2015 words: 1 flesch: -132 summary: AUTOBITCHOGRAPHY. keywords: autobitchography cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs57z7w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs57z7w.txt item: #3232 of 4945 id: n583xs5807g author: Lindsey Passenger Wieck title: Contesting the Mission: The Cultural Politics of Gentrification in Postwar San Francisco date: 1904 words: 356 flesch: 42 summary: Through art and mural-making, residents made Mission spaces more beautiful, safe, and representative of their culture and identity. Rhetoric of safety and authenticity shaped these battles over Mission spaces fought by Latinos, corporate giants, municipal powers, and gentrifiers. keywords: mission cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs5807g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs5807g.txt item: #3233 of 4945 id: n583xs58n0z author: David J. Pattillo title: Reference and Ontology: How Can We Refer to Abstract Objects? date: 1904 words: 294 flesch: 55 summary: In chapter 3 I argue that once we distinguish truth or instantiation in a world or time from truth or instantiation at a world or time, we can see that there is nothing absurd about abstract objects being contingent or temporal (since we will still be able to say all the same true things about other worlds and times). This dissertation asks and discusses answers to the question: how can we refer to abstract objects? keywords: abstract cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs58n0z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs58n0z.txt item: #3234 of 4945 id: n583xs58n2n author: Meleah L. Ladd title: Liturgical Spirituality in the Kitchen: Glimpsing Domestic Churches through Books with Recipes for Food Practices to Celebrate the Church Year date: 1904 words: 353 flesch: 25 summary: The scholarly discussion takes a top-down perspective viewing domestic churches as imitations (miniature versions) or extensions of institutional churches. The sources also cite instances of bi-directional influence between domestic churches and institutional churches, indicating that domestic churches are not only receivers of, but also contributors to liturgical tradition. keywords: domestic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs58n2n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs58n2n.txt item: #3235 of 4945 id: n583xs58v3v author: Kevin D. Magas title: Integrating Liturgy and Life through Mystery: Re-Sourcing a Theme in Twentieth Century Sacramental-Liturgical Theology date: 2019 words: 318 flesch: 33 summary: It argues that the concept of mystery serves as a bridge between the liturgy and the wider life of the Church, especially the ascetical and mystical aspects of spiritual theology. It then uses insights from the Schmemann-Kavanagh-Fagerberg-Taft school of liturgical theology to illustrate how Bouyer unites asceticism and mysticism with liturgy around an integrative, multifaceted vision of the Christian mystery. keywords: mystery cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs58v3v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs58v3v.txt item: #3236 of 4945 id: n583xs59172 author: Megan Kathleen Levis title: A Microfluidics-Driven Study into the Biomechanics of Epithelial Organogenesis and Homeostasis date: 2021 words: 721 flesch: 27 summary: Chapter 1 introduces the complexities of epithelial tissues and discusses the tools available for studying fragile epithelial tissues. In particular, precise microenvironment control is required to study endogenous cell signaling in epithelial tissues. keywords: calcium; cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs59172.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs59172.txt item: #3237 of 4945 id: n583xs59292 author: Benjamin Stortenbecker title: The Entropic Concavity Framework: A Universal Formulation for Understanding Phase Transitions date: 2022 words: 156 flesch: 25 summary: Being a universal description, it can be applied to systems from both traditional physics, such as of interacting particles of arbitrary composition and interaction ranges, and more general systems of interconnected variables, e.g. networks, combinatorial structures, biological systems, etc. We present several examples such as the two-star model, Strauss' cluster model of transitive networks, gelation in random graphs (Erdös–Rényi), magnetic spin models with short range interactions such as the Ising model, the Blume--Emery--Griffiths model, which is characterized by long-range interactions and finally, the Van der Waals gas as a model system with continuous variables. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs59292.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs59292.txt item: #3238 of 4945 id: n583xs59350 author: Neil Butcher title: Impact of Memory System on Manycore Nodes date: 2022 words: 146 flesch: 53 summary: With expansion from multi-core to manycore,' including hundreds of cores per chip many HPC systems are beginning to include additional layers of memory between the main memory and the top of the cache hierarchy. The key strategy developed in this work uses a library that allows the user to explicitly manage the relationship between memory channels, directories, and cores. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n583xs59350.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n583xs59350.txt item: #3239 of 4945 id: n870zp4161b author: Florentiu Daniel Cibotaru title: Localization Formulae in odd K-theory date: 2010 words: 103 flesch: 42 summary: We describe a class of real Banach manifolds, which classify $K^{-1}$. These manifolds are Grassmannians of (hermitian) lagrangian subspaces in a complex Hilbert space. We use these Schubert varieties to describe the Poincare duals of the pull-backs to the parameter space of the cohomology ring generators. keywords: spaces cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp4161b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp4161b.txt item: #3240 of 4945 id: n870zp4165q author: Li Zeng title: Energy and Charge Transfer of Hyperthermal-Energy Heavy Ions Scattering on Target Surfaces with Low Atomic Mass date: 2012 words: 299 flesch: 32 summary: The results indicate that for the heavy projectile/light surface atom combination the interaction between surface atoms plays a key role in the energy transfer process. The variation of the distributions with initial kinetic energy reveals unexpected and complicated scattering dynamics which can not be properly described by simple models such as parallel momentum conservation or binary collision models. keywords: surface cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp4165q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp4165q.txt item: #3241 of 4945 id: n870zp41662 author: John A. DiTillo title: On Solid Ground: Critical Perspective on Peace, Ecology, and Education in the 21st Century date: 2015 words: 266 flesch: 40 summary: It asks questions about destruction and alienation, healing and reconnection, and seeks to address them through two case studies: (1) a land-based learning program at a K-Jr. High Montessori School, and (2) an expeditionary leadership program at Outward Bound Peacebuilding. This thesis explores obstacles and opportunities for building a durable peace that aligns with Johan Galtung's holistic vision: more than an absence of war, positive peace is marked by the presence of flourishing communities, both human and more-than human. keywords: peace cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp41662.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp41662.txt item: #3242 of 4945 id: n870zp4167d author: Andrew James McGregor Irving title: The Eleventh-Century Gospel Books of Montecassino: An Archaeology date: 2012 words: 325 flesch: 41 summary: Gospel books, central to the celebration of Christian liturgy, are frequently assumed to be in some way different to other books. Lucca, Archivio di Stato, Busta 9, c. 263, n. 45 (evangelary/mass evangelistary; s.XIex; fragment) Montecassino, Archivio dell'Abbazia, 191, pp. keywords: evangelistary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp4167d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp4167d.txt item: #3243 of 4945 id: n870zp4173b author: Kyle Harris Butler title: The Impact of Extreme Wind Events on Structures date: 2010 words: 577 flesch: 33 summary: This experimental work focuses on the development of multiple simulation frameworks to simulate salient features of severe wind events and to assess their load effects on prismatic scale models. Severe wind storm events, categorized as events which inflict a significant amount of damage as a result of wind, are difficult to both simulate and quantify with an acceptable degree of confidence. keywords: wind cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp4173b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp4173b.txt item: #3244 of 4945 id: n870zp4174p author: Xuan Orali Minh Stevens title: Religiosity, Parenting Support, and Successful Parenting Practices in Adolescent Mother Households date: 2004 words: 62 flesch: 24 summary: The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating role of parenting support and its effect on the dynamic of parenting quality and religiosity. Seventy-three adolescent mothers completed questionnaires for parenting, religiosity, and parenting support. keywords: parenting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp4174p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp4174p.txt item: #3245 of 4945 id: n870zp4176c author: Tony J Cunningham title: Stressing Sleep: The Impact of Psychosocial Stress on Sleep and Emotional Memory Consolidation date: 2014 words: 155 flesch: 44 summary: Stress subjects demonstrated an increase in memory for negative objects but poorer memory for their matched neutral backgrounds, resulting in a greater emotional memory trade-off compared to controls. Importantly, moderate stress responses have been linked to increased performance on emotional memory tests, but suppressed ability to remember neutral information. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp4176c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp4176c.txt item: #3246 of 4945 id: n870zp4179d author: Leonce Fabian Rambau, C.S.Sp. title: Paul and His Co-Workers: Equality in Pauline Letters date: 2014 words: 256 flesch: 48 summary: In Galatians 3:26-28, Paul states: In Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. keywords: paul cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp4179d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp4179d.txt item: #3247 of 4945 id: n870zp4180m author: Joshua A. Gargac title: Evaluation of Bone Healing, Damage, and Adaptation Using Computational Modeling and Image Processing Techniques date: 1904 words: 542 flesch: 34 summary: A poroelastic constitutive model enabled the calculation of pore pressures resulting from whole bone loading, and these were validated against experimental measurements. Although this is a simplified model, shear stress was estimated far in excess of the mechanostimulatory threshold, suggesting that whole bone loading is mechanostimulatory to marrow cells. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp4180m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp4180m.txt item: #3248 of 4945 id: n870zp41d2j author: Lenore VanderZee title: Concluding Conquest: Why States End Military Occupation date: 1904 words: 349 flesch: 36 summary: Using this data, I build my theory and develop hypotheses using diverse literatures, including territorial disputes, inter- and intrastate wars, failing states and falling empires, the demise of colonialism, and case studies of the individual cases of military occupation. Military occupation has been part of interstate relations the system existed. keywords: military cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp41d2j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp41d2j.txt item: #3249 of 4945 id: n870zp41x4w author: William R Smith title: Legitimizing Medical Practice date: 1904 words: 353 flesch: 35 summary: This paves the way to developing a general framework for understanding legitimate medical practice from this theory, the implications of which the dissertation illustrates by expounding both on the theory of special obligations of medical professionals and on the theory of healthcare resource allocation in regard to claims of medical necessity. This dissertation criticizes standard views of these foundations and then offers an alternative according to which the legitimate prescriptions of legitimate medical practices as well as those of legitimate governments. keywords: theory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp41x4w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp41x4w.txt item: #3250 of 4945 id: n870zp4286z author: Camilo Nieto-Matiz title: Integrating Subnational Peripheries: State Building and Violent Actors in Colombia date: 2020 words: 540 flesch: 32 summary: In contrast, state capacity will be more difficult to attain in areas with stronger rural elites and where violent groups do not pose a major threat to state authority. This dissertation studies why and how political elites differentially build state capacity in peripheral and marginalized areas of a country and in the midst of violent conflicts. keywords: state cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp4286z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp4286z.txt item: #3251 of 4945 id: n870zp4294k author: Misael Osorio-Conde title: tongues the sound of sand date: 2021 words: 6 flesch: 102 summary: Let the work speak for itself. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp4294k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp4294k.txt item: #3252 of 4945 id: n870zp4297m author: Julia L Paulson title: Patterns and Predictors of Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: A Latent Transition Analysis date: 2021 words: 272 flesch: 42 summary: Four latent classes of PTSS emerged: High PTSS class, Flight response class, Fight response class, and Low PTSS class. Childhood adversity, prenatal depression, and psychological IPV were associated with membership in higher severity PTSS classes. keywords: ptss cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp4297m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp4297m.txt item: #3253 of 4945 id: n870zp4298z author: Mirela Tumbeva title: Modular Joints for the Accelerated Fabrication and Erection of Steel Structures date: 2021 words: 355 flesch: 34 summary: The modular joints are prefabricated, steel nodal connectors composed of a weldment/built up section of webs and flanges, including a starter segment to connect wide flange members through bolted splice connections in double shear. To address these challenges, this dissertation introduces a new approach to the design of steel structures that modularizes the nodal connection between members and utilizes standard, rolled wide flange sections as structural members. keywords: modular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp4298z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp4298z.txt item: #3254 of 4945 id: n870zp42b6k author: Maria A. Videtta title: The Accidental Citizens of Bedford: The Representation of Italian Immigrants in Britain date: 2022 words: 151 flesch: 47 summary: This thesis looks at the history of the Italian community in Bedford and how it has been documented in two films currently held in the University of East Anglia film archive. The present thesis looks specifically at how the films address issues regarding integration and argues that Italian integration in Britain has not been as successful or as straightforward as the scholarship suggests. keywords: italian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp42b6k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp42b6k.txt item: #3255 of 4945 id: n870zp42d35 author: Laura M. Alderfer title: Engineering Tunable Synthetic Biomaterials for Mechanistic and Therapeutic Lymphatic Vasculature Applications date: 2023 words: 508 flesch: 16 summary: HA-based hydrogels were used to investigate the role of mechanical and biochemical cues in regulating lymphatic vessel formation within a synthetic matrix, and to evaluate their potential for in vivo functionality to progress towards a viable lymphatic vessel transplant therapy. Controlling lymphangiogenesis, the formation of new lymphatic vessels, exhibits potential as a novel therapeutic strategy for the treatment of lymphatic-related conditions and could provide the first-long term treatment, replacing current treatments which are limited in effectiveness and longevity of relief. keywords: lymphatic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/n870zp42d35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/n870zp42d35.txt item: #3256 of 4945 id: nc580k24g4v author: Daniel Robert Scott title: The Influences of Conformational Dynamics on T Cell Receptor Specificity and Cross-reactivity date: 2012 words: 269 flesch: 29 summary: Multi-specificity is a hallmark of T cell receptor (TCR) recognition, as a high volume of antigen must be identified by the T cell arm of the immune system. Protein-protein interactions have been characterized by a wide variety of biophysical and structural methods, which have resolved many key attributes of the interaction process. keywords: protein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k24g4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k24g4v.txt item: #3257 of 4945 id: nc580k24h0s author: Pierre Tran title: Computational Investigations of Thymidine Dimer Incorporated into a Double Strand DNA and Synthesis of a CPD Building Block and a Single Strand of DNA Containing a CPD date: 2005 words: 336 flesch: 47 summary: The CPD in the 'flipped out' form is also not the most thermodynamically favorable product; its concentration is not measurable by present analytical methods. Consequently, all organisms have developed DNA repair mechanisms to preserve the integrity of the genetic material. keywords: dna cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k24h0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k24h0s.txt item: #3258 of 4945 id: nc580k24h14 author: Nathan Robert Elliott title: Evolving Science Fictions: Biological Representation in Nineteenth-Century Britain date: 2006 words: 342 flesch: 25 summary: In attempting to make these representations, these writers and scientists gradually became aware that scientific representation complicated scientific claims to objectivity and philosophical realism. The last chapter explores the work of Max Nordau and H.G. Wells; both were concerned about the possibility of distinguishing artistic representation from scientific representation. keywords: scientific cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k24h14.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k24h14.txt item: #3259 of 4945 id: nc580k24h2g author: Patrick Q Mason title: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Mob: Violence against Religious Outsiders in the U.S. South, 1865-1910 date: 2006 words: 353 flesch: 25 summary: In addition to the many instances of violence against African American churches and ministers in the South, there were also dozens of episodes of anti-Jewish violence and literally hundreds of cases of anti-Mormon violence from 1865 to 1910. Although some episodes treated herein qualify as overt religious violence, in most of the cases religion was one among a number of variables that shaped and triggered violent interactions, including race, gender, family structure, politics, class, economics, and ethnicity. keywords: violence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k24h2g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k24h2g.txt item: #3260 of 4945 id: nc580k24h3t author: Gun Sunyeekhan title: Equivariant Intersection Theory date: 2010 words: 168 flesch: 56 summary: Fortunately, by using results of Petrie on equivariant transversality, Komiya on equivariant embedding, we are able to prove the main theorem for the equivariant case. Let f be a smooth self-map of a compact smooth manifold M. We may ask if f is homotopic to a fixed point free map. Wecken(1942) and Jiang(1981) showed that if dimension of M is bigger than 2 then there is an invariant in a framed bordism group which vanishes if and only if f is homotopic to a fixed point free map. keywords: point cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k24h3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k24h3t.txt item: #3261 of 4945 id: nc580k24h6v author: Kelly Ann McEnerney title: Observations and Dynamics of Low Salinity Cold Pools in the Bay of Bengal date: 2015 words: 380 flesch: 42 summary: Remarkably, the wind speeds on the mesoscale pool was almost twice that of the submesoscale pool, but the thermocline in the former was less active compared to the latter, as evident from gradient Richardson number and pycnocline displacement calculations. These observations were made in the Bay of Bengal (BoB), on board the Research Vessel Roger Revelle, operating out of Colombo, Sri Lanka. keywords: lscwp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k24h6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k24h6v.txt item: #3262 of 4945 id: nc580k24h8j author: Christian David McConnell title: Baptism in Visigothic Spain: Origins, Development and Interpretation date: 2006 words: 266 flesch: 42 summary: Spanish authors' rich range of interpretive motifs include a combination of regeneration language (both as rebirth and as recreation) with a Paschal context, and a seeming preference for Johannine language, all in a way that presents Paschal baptism as having a much wider range of meaning than Romans 6. It is generally assumed that the post-baptismal chrismation in Spanish baptismal rites is equivalent to confirmation, a distinctly Roman practice at the time. keywords: rites cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k24h8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k24h8j.txt item: #3263 of 4945 id: nc580k24h9w author: WonJae Shin title: Learning a Recursive Center-Embedding Rule and the Role of Test Method and Feedback date: 2014 words: 401 flesch: 36 summary: Although several previous AGL studies showed that adults were unable to induce a center-embedding rule, Lai and Poletiek (2011) demonstrated successful induction if the learning experience began with simple sequences with no embedding and then progressed to sequences with one- Numerous studies have investigated the rule induction process using the Artificial Grammar Learning (AGL) paradigm, which involves presenting sequences of meaningless elements generated from a rule to children or adult participants and testing their learning by having them judge the grammaticality of correct and incorrect novel sequences. keywords: rule cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k24h9w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k24h9w.txt item: #3264 of 4945 id: nc580k24j8v author: Amanda M. Weppler title: Dante's Stazio: Statius and the Transformations of Poetry date: 1904 words: 363 flesch: 47 summary: The changes Dante introduces into Stazio's biography illuminate the functions the poet intended Stazio to have in the Commedia. There is evidence to suggest that scenes from the later books of the Thebaid, either the story of Menoeceus' sacrifice or the prayers to Clementia, or both, may have influenced Dante's decision to Christianize Stazio. keywords: dante cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k24j8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k24j8v.txt item: #3265 of 4945 id: nc580k2564n author: Crystal Spring title: Expanding Freirean Praxis with Great Books Pedagogy date: 1904 words: 117 flesch: 10 summary: Though this paper is written in the spirit of generating further discussions that bring together apparently disparate educational ideas, the scope of this paper's argument is simply to show that there exist foundational commonalities between critical literacy and Great Books programs: that they both work towards the vision of democracy not only as a form of government but also as conjoint communicated experience (Dewey, 1916), support dialectical and inquiry-based pedagogy, and stand for a value-driven education system. This thesis argues not just that it is possible to use a Freirean critical stance to teach Great Books, but that Mortimer Adler's Great Books would be a natural and logical way to enact critical literacy. keywords: critical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k2564n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k2564n.txt item: #3266 of 4945 id: nc580k25j0c author: Christopher Thomas Brophy title: Perilous Ascent: The Education of Erōs in Plato's Symposium date: 2020 words: 418 flesch: 51 summary: Analyzing the preliminary speeches as an explanation of the nature of erotic ascent reveals a unique and important contribution to the study of Symposium. Reading Symposium through the lens of poles supporting the rungs of Socrates's ladder highlights the political and legal elements of the dialogue. keywords: speeches cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k25j0c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k25j0c.txt item: #3267 of 4945 id: nc580k25k0p author: Jude Ash (Majd Alshoufi) title: The Only Way Out Is Through: Development and Validation of the Multidimensional Executive Emotion Processing Schedule (MEEPS) date: 2020 words: 280 flesch: 18 summary: Overall, the results indicate that the MEEPS measures emotion processing with excellent reliability and promising validity, including predictive power for psychopathology, particularly internalizing domain symptoms. Finally, the MEEPS scales predicted internalizing psychopathology symptoms (i.e., depression, social anxiety, panic, and traumatic intrusions) more strongly than externalizing symptoms (i.e., ill-temper) and over and above all convergent measures (i.e., EACS, MEAQ, and KIMS/FFMQ) combined. keywords: emotion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k25k0p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k25k0p.txt item: #3268 of 4945 id: nc580k25k42 author: Angela R. Smith title: Peptide Anchor Modifications Modulate T Cell Receptor Recognition of a Melanoma-Associated Antigen date: 2021 words: 258 flesch: 31 summary: Finding that gp100209-specific TCRs are sensitive to peptide anchor modifications, I show that, in contrast to previously published work, the enhanced tumor control properties of the SILv44 TCR are a result of strong TCR binding affinity to the WT peptide antigen. The association between peptide binding affinity and immunogenicity has led to the engineering of modified peptides with improved MHC binding, with the hope that these peptides would be useful for eliciting cross-reactive immune responses directed toward their weak binding, unmodified counterparts. keywords: anchor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k25k42.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k25k42.txt item: #3269 of 4945 id: nc580k25k9s author: Joseph Farris title: Genotype-Phenotype Predictions in Rare Genetic Diseases: The Relationship between Glycine Decarboxylase Mutations and Non-Ketotic Hyperglycinemia Severity date: 2021 words: 341 flesch: 44 summary: The hundreds of mutations in GLDC that give rise to NKH disease, present a unique system to investigate how these mutations underlie NKH, as well as provide models for a broader understanding of functional annotation of mutations in hundreds of monogenic disorders at cellular and organismal levels. Monogenic defects that alter metabolism may cause complex pathological states including neurological diseases that show a wide range of symptoms such as, seizures, epilepsy, neuropathy, cerebral defects and movement disorders. keywords: defects cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k25k9s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k25k9s.txt item: #3270 of 4945 id: nc580k25n09 author: Meng (Simona) Jia title: The Novel Roles of the Hippo Pathway in Regulating Retinal Regeneration in Adult Zebrafish date: 2022 words: 309 flesch: 37 summary: I further analyzed the single-cell data sets and identified the Hippo-Adam10-Notch-Notch3 ICD axis in regulating Müller glia proliferation. In this research, I first identified another two Hippo pathway components Tead1a and Tead3a are required for Müller glia reprogramming via regulating Sox2 expression. keywords: glia cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k25n09.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k25n09.txt item: #3271 of 4945 id: nc580k25p40 author: David Pirchio title: Advancements in the Design of Pultruded Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Structures date: 2023 words: 296 flesch: 10 summary: The primary research goals can be summarized as follows: The derivation of strength reduction factors and reliability of the LRFD equations for connection design; The measurement of the tensile behavior of pultruded FRP composites and derivation of an equation for the tensile strength and elastic modulus at varying angles of loading relative to the pultrusion; The measurement of the flexural modulus of pultruded FRP profiles and the contribution of shear deformation to flexural rigidity; The development and testing of a novel lapped, adhered semi-rigid connection to promote the implementation of more versatile structural framing solutions; and The proposal and reliability analysis of novel predictive models for the design of lapped, adhered semi-rigid connections within the boundaries of the LRFD methodology. The publication of the Pre-Standard for the for Load & Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) of Pultruded Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Structures, hereafter referred to as the Pre-Standard, established the standardization of the design of structures in pultruded FRP composite. keywords: frp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nc580k25p40.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nc580k25p40.txt item: #3272 of 4945 id: ng451g07r3k author: Yifei Dai title: Subject-Specific Computational Modeling of Spinal Constructs date: 2010 words: 464 flesch: 34 summary: The modeling techniques were implemented and validated by rabbit spinal fusion study. This dissertation addresses four specific issues: modeling of the vertebral endplate, mesh generation for human vertebrae, material property variation in vertebral trabecular bone, and modeling spinal fusions in rabbits. keywords: spinal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g07r3k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g07r3k.txt item: #3273 of 4945 id: ng451g07r4x author: Elisa Gorla title: Lifting Properties from the General Hyperplane Section of a Projective Scheme date: 2004 words: 356 flesch: 36 summary: For curves in P^3, we show that any set of Betti numbers that satisfy that condition can be realized as the Betti numbers of the general plane section of an arithmetically Buchsbaum, non arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay curve. We also show that the matrices that arise as degree matrix of the general plane section of an arithmetically Buchsbaum, integral (or smooth and connected), non arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay space curve are exactly those that arise as degree matrix of the general plane section of an arithmetically Buchsbaum, non arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay space curve and have positive subdiagonal. keywords: section cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g07r4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g07r4x.txt item: #3274 of 4945 id: ng451g07r7z author: Jason Michael Mayes title: Reduction and Approximation in Large and Infinite Potential-driven Flow Networks date: 2012 words: 348 flesch: 38 summary: Complex systems often result in intractable mathematical models when classical methodological reduction methods are used in modeling. In this dissertation, several new reduction methods are proposed with the intent of extending the application of classical methodological reduction methods to complex systems. keywords: self cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g07r7z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g07r7z.txt item: #3275 of 4945 id: ng451g07r89 author: Nisha Srinivas title: Analysis of Facial Marks as Biometric Signatures for Forensic Facial Identification date: 2015 words: 204 flesch: 31 summary: We present three different facial mark systems: a manual facial mark system, a multi-scale facial mark system in which facial marks are detected automatically, and a semi-automatic facial mark system which integrates human knowledge within the multi-scale facial mark system. In this dissertation, we conduct a complete study on the usability of facial marks as biometric signatures to distinguish individuals. keywords: facial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g07r89.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g07r89.txt item: #3276 of 4945 id: ng451g07s5k author: Laura Taylor Johnson title: The influence of land use on the role of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in stream nutrient processing date: 2008 words: 372 flesch: 33 summary: By examining DOC and DON, relatively understudied solutes, my dissertation research has shed light on the complex effects of human land use on streams, the mechanisms behind stream N saturation, and the interactions between the biogeochemistry of multiple stream nutrients. I concluded that interactions between C and N, as well between organic and inorganic forms of N, should be considered when examining the effect of human land use on streams. keywords: streams cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g07s5k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g07s5k.txt item: #3277 of 4945 id: ng451g07s6x author: Manshu Yang title: Using State-Space Model with Regime Switching to Represent the Dynamics of Facial EMG Data date: 2008 words: 209 flesch: 36 summary: Facial electromyography (EMG) is a useful physiological measure for detecting subtle affective changes in real time. In this thesis, facial EMG data is analyzed using time series analysis methods. keywords: emg cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g07s6x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g07s6x.txt item: #3278 of 4945 id: ng451g07s8m author: Dawn Weseli Hopkins title: The Genetic Control of Hematopoietic Progenitor Fate in Drosophila date: 2014 words: 357 flesch: 39 summary: Forced expression of the C-terminal domain of qin with a MZ-specific driver caused significant expansion of the MZ, similar to the full-length construct and was able to rescue the reduced LG and MZ size characteristic of qin mutants, highlighting the importance of the Tudor domains located in this fragment. Furthermore, Bam was expressed in both the niche cells of the posterior signaling center (PSC) and the progenitors of the medullary zone (MZ). keywords: bam cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g07s8m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g07s8m.txt item: #3279 of 4945 id: ng451g07t1h author: James Zokoe, Jr title: Investigation of Potassium Containing Glass Coatings as Diesel Soot Oxidation Catalysts date: 2014 words: 335 flesch: 39 summary: A baseline glass compound (KCS-1) was found to sustain acceptable soot oxidation temperatures after this lifetime (T50 < 500°C) One means for reducing cost of the aftertreatment unit is to lower the required temperature for soot oxidation (DPF regeneration) by implementing a low cost, low temperature soot oxidation catalysts. keywords: diesel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g07t1h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g07t1h.txt item: #3280 of 4945 id: ng451g08f94 author: Hope B. Pearson title: BMP-2 Indirectly Induces Angiogenesis During Large Bone Defect Regeneration date: 1904 words: 350 flesch: 30 summary: To determine whether the angiogenic response to growth factor stimulation was a direct effect of endothelial cell activation or a paracrine effect induced by bone formation, we treated endothelial colony forming cells (ECFCs) with BMP-2, TPO, or hMSC conditioned media and evaluated migration, tubulogenesis, and SMAD 1/5/9 nuclear localization in vitro. These data suggest that the effect of BMP-2 on angiogenesis is secondary to bone formation-induced vascular recruitment rather than direct endothelial cell activation. keywords: bmp-2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g08f94.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g08f94.txt item: #3281 of 4945 id: ng451g08g6d author: Emerson Eads title: Joseph Haydn's Stabat Mater: A Question of Empathy date: 1904 words: 195 flesch: 43 summary: This study examines the history of lament or Planctus Mariae, from which the poem of the Stabat Mater sprang, briefly studies some of the musical antecedents to the 1767 setting, and illuminates the various musical gestures, forms, and tonal architecture, within the context of Haydn's Stabat Mater. When contextualized this way, Haydn's Stabat Mater emerges in a completely new light, and the question of empathy can be understood, not just by the text and the history of the tradition of lament, but by becoming fully immersed in rhetorical resources of the music. keywords: stabat cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g08g6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g08g6d.txt item: #3282 of 4945 id: ng451g08h0n author: Jingshan Wang title: High-Power Vertical GaN Electronic Devices Formed by Epitaxial Lift-Off date: 1904 words: 548 flesch: 42 summary: To investigate vertical GaN devices and the potential benefits of ELO processing, Schottky diodes and p-n junction diodes have been fabricated and tested. Unlike other power device options, most GaN devices are built on lattice-mismatched non-native substrates such as sapphire or SiC because of the high cost and limited availability of bulk GaN substrates. keywords: devices cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g08h0n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g08h0n.txt item: #3283 of 4945 id: ng451g08t9j author: Matthew J. Filmer title: Development of High Speed Nanoscale Sensors Based on Single-Electron Devices date: 2020 words: 284 flesch: 36 summary: The consistency between measurements and simulations then allows for straightforward design and implementation of improved impedance transformers, increasing the SNR of extremely sensitive measurements, with simple data-based simulations. These measurements typically employ basic resonant impedance transformers to bring the device impedance close to the characteristic impedance of the measurement apparatus. keywords: measurements cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g08t9j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g08t9j.txt item: #3284 of 4945 id: ng451g08v6t author: Abigail L. Mills title: Evaluating a Brief Family-Focused Preventive Intervention Program on Adolescent Adjustment Outcomes: Unveiling the Indirect Effects of Program Efficacy date: 2021 words: 261 flesch: 20 summary: The present study is an efficacy evaluation of the Family Communication Project (FCP), a randomized controlled trial of a family intervention designed to improve communication and conflict resolution strategies by educating families about the different types of conflict (destructive and constructive) and their implications on emotional security, parenting quality, and adolescent adjustment outcomes. More specifically, the current study investigated program effects on conflict behaviors at post-test, parenting quality and emotional security 6-months post-intervention, and adolescent adjustment outcomes 12-months post-intervention. keywords: post cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g08v6t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g08v6t.txt item: #3285 of 4945 id: ng451g08v9v author: Thomas H. Do title: Redox-Active Ligands and Their Role in Expanding the Reactivity of Silicon, Zirconium, and Iridium date: 2021 words: 827 flesch: 38 summary: The incorporation, design, and reactivity of redox active ligand metal complexes provide a rich, new area of chemistry to explore. Zirconium complexes are formed by reaction of XbicH4 with (TPP)Zr(OAc)2, to yield heteroleptic (TPP)Zr(XbicH2), or with Zr(acac)4, to give the homoleptic Zr(XbicH2)2. keywords: complexes; iridium cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g08v9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g08v9v.txt item: #3286 of 4945 id: ng451g08w2r author: Zachary D. Tucker title: Recent Advancements in the Synthesis, Functionalization, and Applications of Nitrogen-Containing Heterocycles date: 2021 words: 238 flesch: -4 summary: Our attention was focused on: unearthing methodologies which exploit transition metal-stabilized carbenes for the synthesis and functionalization of N-heterocycles; the total synthesis of biologically active alkaloids via resourceful retrosynthetic disconnects; the synthesis and discovery of N-heterocyclic/pnictogen based ionic liquid materials for various alternative energy applications. Therefore, technology related to the development of methodologies for the synthesis, derivatization, or applications of nitrogenated compounds which exhibit novel bond disconnects or functions are of high interest. keywords: synthesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g08w2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g08w2r.txt item: #3287 of 4945 id: ng451g08w8t author: Xiaoxiang Feng title: Investigation of Potassium Containing Glass Catalyst for Use in Diesel Particulate Filters date: 2022 words: 440 flesch: 29 summary: With more and more attention of the public shifting toward environmental concern, governments around the world are acting by implementing more stringent emission standards for particulate matter and NOx from diesel engine exhaust. Diesel engines have the highest engine efficiency of any practical combustion engine design, having a 30 percent better fuel economy and 25 percent less CO2 emissions than gasoline engines. keywords: diesel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g08w8t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g08w8t.txt item: #3288 of 4945 id: ng451g08z42 author: Zhuogang Peng title: Low-Rank Methods for Radiation Transport Calculations date: 2023 words: 361 flesch: 39 summary: The resulting system preserves the information on angular direction by applying separate low-rank decompositions in each octant where angular intensity has the same sign as the direction cosines. The numerical results in 2-D and 3-D Cartesian geometries demonstrate that the low-rank solution requires less memory and computational time than solving the full-rank equations using transport sweeps without losing accuracy. keywords: rank cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ng451g08z42.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ng451g08z42.txt item: #3289 of 4945 id: nk322b9116n author: Kyoung Nan Kim title: Self-Aligned DNA Oligomer and the Deposition of DNA Oligomers on EBL Patterned Cationic SAMs on SiO2/Si [100] date: 2012 words: 300 flesch: 41 summary: Aligned DNA origami chains were selectively deposited on 60 nm wide lithographically patterned lines of cationic SAMs on silicon chips, Preliminary studies were done to show that DNA origami could be deposited on hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ); this work establishes a pathway towards multilevel patterning of DNA origami. I compared several strategies to prevent π-stacking and investigated optimal annealing conditions for the oligomerization of DNA origami. keywords: origami cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b9116n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b9116n.txt item: #3290 of 4945 id: nk322b91170 author: Karsten Steinhaeuser title: Viewing the World Through a Network Lens date: 2011 words: 216 flesch: 38 summary: Most conventional data structures and data analysis methods were designed with simple transaction data in mind. First, we propose a methodological advance in the form of a novel algorithm for identifying community structure in networks that is relevant across many domains. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b91170.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b91170.txt item: #3291 of 4945 id: nk322b91217 author: Wayne L. Buckhanan title: Wideband Chip-to-Chip Interconnects for High Performance Computing date: 2013 words: 116 flesch: 33 summary: Initial exploration suggests that QP implementations of conventionally-packaged HPC nodes can result in improved performance through decreased latency and increased data throughput. This research suggests that alternative packaging methods can improve system performance. keywords: performance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b91217.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b91217.txt item: #3292 of 4945 id: nk322b9122k author: Samara Anne Cahill title: 'Intelligent Souls': Women, Reason, and Identity in England's 'Long' Eighteenth Century date: 2009 words: 353 flesch: 40 summary: Because the term 'soul' was associated with individual spiritual identity and public religious identity, it enabled women to engage in debates about national concerns while claiming that their duties were not limited to obeying temporal authority. A growing body of scholars has noticed the crucial importance of the concept of the soul (usually conceived as rational, immaterial, and immortal) to literature by Englishwomen writing during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b9122k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b9122k.txt item: #3293 of 4945 id: nk322b9123x author: Beth Anne McNally title: Use of Synthetic Transporters to Facilitate Anion Transport across Vesicle and Cell Membranes date: 2010 words: 295 flesch: 29 summary: This dissertation describes three classes of synthetic anion transporters which facilitate chloride transport across vesicle and cell membranes. Fluorescent and potentiometric transport assays uncovered the important structural features that produce high transport rates, and the effect of the transporters on cell functions was also evaluated. keywords: transport cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b9123x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b9123x.txt item: #3294 of 4945 id: nk322b91248 author: Stephen Robert Grimm title: Understanding as an Epistemic Goal date: 2006 words: 291 flesch: 53 summary: In this respect, I argue that a situation stands in need of explanation for us, and therefore inspires our why-questions, in virtue of our sense that there are various ways that we think the situation might have been. To say only this much still leaves a great deal underdetermined, however, for we might 'identify' what the difference depends on in a number of different ways: for example, by having a true belief about what the difference depends on, by knowing this on the basis of testimony, and so on. keywords: need cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b91248.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b91248.txt item: #3295 of 4945 id: nk322b9125m author: Catherine Rose Cavadini title: The Commercium of the Kiss Who Saves: A Study of Thomas the Cistercian's Commentary on the Song of Songs date: 2010 words: 381 flesch: 58 summary: This dissertation is a theological study of the twelfth-century commentary on the Song of Songs by Thomas Cisterciensis entitled In Cantica Canticorum. Thomas Cisterciensis, then, takes the traditional understanding of the commercium and reads the 'kiss' of 1:1 both as the 'exchange' of redemption and the monk's individual, spiritual experience of the amplexus Christi. keywords: thomas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b9125m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b9125m.txt item: #3296 of 4945 id: nk322b9128n author: Ethan Perez title: Entropy Generation in a Highly-Loaded, Axial Turbine date: 2014 words: 165 flesch: 23 summary: Entropy generation at on and off-design conditions was investigated. Investigation of the numerical simulation identified localized regions within the blade passage that were associated with significant entropy generation. keywords: entropy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b9128n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b9128n.txt item: #3297 of 4945 id: nk322b91306 author: Edward M Nik-Khah title: Designs on the Mechanism: Economics and the FCC Spectrum Auctions date: 2006 words: 249 flesch: 35 summary: Chapter 3 reviews the field of mechanism design, and finds three discrete and to some extent incompatible versions distinguished by modeling strategy and, importantly, by intended user of the expertise. Chapter 4 studies both the published accounts of the FCC mechanism design process as well as the unpublished materials in the FCC archives, and finds that the strategic imperatives of a handful of large telecommunications companies displaced the scientific imperatives of mechanism design. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b91306.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b91306.txt item: #3298 of 4945 id: nk322b9131j author: Benjamin Sunderlin title: Terms of Art date: 2015 words: 266 flesch: 45 summary: At the same time, this collection of work also renders these objects within the scope of human social activity, and situates these concerns against enlightenment era philosophies as a critique of the west-o-centric Humanist tradition. I seek to position these things in certain ways to expose the conditions and political nuances that shape how certain forms of national identity have — or may be — constructed, changed, destroyed, or are otherwise affected. keywords: identity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b9131j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b9131j.txt item: #3299 of 4945 id: nk322b9134k author: Andrew P. Baumann title: The Relative Influence of Material and Architectural Properties on the Mechanical Behavior of Bone Tissue date: 1904 words: 392 flesch: 20 summary: Bone tissue exhibits a unique multiscale hierarchical composite structure. This dissertation investigated the relative contributions of material and architectural properties on the mechanical behavior of bone tissue using combined numerical and experimental techniques. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b9134k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b9134k.txt item: #3300 of 4945 id: nk322b9141v author: Brad Vermurlen title: Reformed Resurgence: A Field-Theoretic Analysis of Religious Strength (and Weakness) in Advanced Modernity date: 1904 words: 325 flesch: 21 summary: This field-theoretic model of religious strength thus also implies a new vision of secularization as cultural entropy, in which religious meanings and coherence fall apart. Working at the intersection of the sociology of culture, religion, organizations, and movements—and highlighting issues related to power, conflict, ideologies, strategy, gender, and more—this project develops a new, field-theoretic model of institutional religious strength. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b9141v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b9141v.txt item: #3301 of 4945 id: nk322b91457 author: Xiao Fang title: Measurement and Extrapolation of Total Cross Sections of 12C + 16O Fusion at Stellar Energies date: 1904 words: 290 flesch: 39 summary: The total cross section of the 12C+16O fusion has been measured at low energies using the St Ana 5MV accelerator at the University of Notre Dame. The predicted results depend sensitively on the adopted model parameters, hindrance effects, and the possibility of resonances at relevant energies. keywords: burning cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b91457.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b91457.txt item: #3302 of 4945 id: nk322b9174t author: Joshua McCollum title: Hobbes on Political Union and Authorization date: 1904 words: 244 flesch: 35 summary: The first set of questions concerns Hobbes's argument for the rationality of union. Having considered why Hobbes regards union as rationally necessary, the dissertation turns to questions concerning Hobbes's descriptions of union and its consequences. keywords: hobbes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b9174t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b9174t.txt item: #3303 of 4945 id: nk322b91r65 author: Robert A. Jonson title: Processing and Implementation of Substituted Li7La3Zr2O12 Solid Electrolytes in Solid-State Lithium Batteries date: 1904 words: 365 flesch: 47 summary: A battery with a solid electrolyte would be a safer alternative to current Li-ion technologies utilizing organic liquid electrolytes. The addition of 3%wt. of nano-sized MgO is found to increase sintered tape sheet and pellet density while restricting grain growth and promoting a more homogeneous microstructure. keywords: llznbo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b91r65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b91r65.txt item: #3304 of 4945 id: nk322b91t43 author: Shireen Jayman title: Cellular Mechanisms in Epithelial Glandular Morphogenesis and Preinvasive Cancer date: 2018 words: 317 flesch: 22 summary: Multiple platforms have emerged that enable the study of cellular events preceding and contributing to glandular disruption, as it pertains to early epithelial tumor progression. While investigations of monolayers provide insight into interactions between cells, the 3D morphogenesis culture system allows for further analysis of hyperactivated cellular signaling and its effects on acinar structure development, reminiscent of glandular remodeling during epithelial cancer progression. keywords: epithelial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b91t43.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b91t43.txt item: #3305 of 4945 id: nk322b91x10 author: Kevin O'Brien title: Investigating Aberrant Gait Patterns in Individuals with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury date: 2019 words: 367 flesch: 23 summary: In terms of motion analysis, individuals with iSCI are compared to matched healthy controls to identify specific gait deficits. In particular, individuals with incomplete SCI (iSCI) avoid walking strategies that require energy absorption at the joints by means of eccentric muscle activity. keywords: individuals cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b91x10.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b91x10.txt item: #3306 of 4945 id: nk322b91z7c author: Caleb Hamman title: From Homer to Hemingway: The Place of the Soldier in Political Life date: 2019 words: 187 flesch: 50 summary: The reciprocity established between soldier and city in the classical polis—a reciprocity I find in Thucydides—does not obtain for the soldier in the modern world. The unity of soldierly practices and meanings encountered in Homer—around honor and glory, and wounding and healing—collapses, I suggest, for the soldier in modern society. keywords: soldier cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b91z7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b91z7c.txt item: #3307 of 4945 id: nk322b9236j author: Michael A. Skulski, Jr. title: Development of 129I AMS at the Nuclear Science Laboratory for Measurements of the Great Lakes Region date: 2020 words: 208 flesch: 37 summary: Two MCP detectors were used to obtain adequate timing resolution for discrimination against 127I, the primary contaminant in 129I measurement. Following the measurement, potential methods for improving the AMS system for 129I measurement were identified for future development, both in terms of sample preparation and technical developments that can improve the ease and consistency of an 129I measurement. keywords: 129i cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b9236j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b9236j.txt item: #3308 of 4945 id: nk322b92774 author: Sam Potier title: Advanced Wavefront Sensors for Enhanced Adaptive Optics date: 2023 words: 201 flesch: 44 summary: This dissertation investigates and develops the Fresnel WFS (FWFS) and Zernike WFS (ZWFS) as alternative designs to overcome the current state-of-the-art. In an AO system, the wavefront sensor (WFS) detects and reconstructs the input wavefront phase and amplitude. keywords: wfs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nk322b92774.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nk322b92774.txt item: #3309 of 4945 id: np19377495n author: Stephen Michael Little title: The Sacramental Poetics of Dante's Commedia date: 2010 words: 135 flesch: 37 summary: Using a close-reading methodology, I examine how three key passages from the Comedy--the encounters with Adam in Paradiso XXVI, Ulysses and Guido da Montefeltro in Inferno XXVI and XXVII, and Bonagiunta da Lucca in Purgatorio XXIV--reveal the human person as both a sign of God and (potentially) God by participation in Christ's divine nature. keywords: god cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np19377495n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np19377495n.txt item: #3310 of 4945 id: np193774960 author: Jason Thomas Daly title: Lifetime Measurements of Excited States in 19-Neon date: 2005 words: 220 flesch: 60 summary: These values agree with currently accepted values for the lifetime and support the belief that the 15O(alpha,gamma)19Ne reaction is not a probable breakout path from the HCNO cycle into the rp-process in novae, but may have an impact on breakout in x-ray bursts. The astrophysical rate of the 15O(alpha,gamma)19Ne reaction can be calculated using the branching ratios and radiative widths or level lifetimes of states in 19Ne. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193774960.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193774960.txt item: #3311 of 4945 id: np193774991 author: Brandon Rowekamp title: Planar Pixelations and Shape Reconstruction date: 2012 words: 101 flesch: 42 summary: This approximation converges to the original shape in a very strong sense: as the size of the pixels goes to zero we can recover important geometric and topological invariants of the original shape such as Betti numbers, area, perimeter and curvature measures. Any subset of the plane can be approximated by a set of square pixels. keywords: original cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193774991.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193774991.txt item: #3312 of 4945 id: np193774b07 author: Jamie L. Dawson title: Trans-Splicing Group I Introns Targeting Highly Conserved HIV-1 Sequences Coupled with Induction of Apoptosis Are Effective Mediators of Viral Suppression date: 2015 words: 349 flesch: 51 summary: Sequence analysis of the cryptic splice-variant revealed that targeting remained highly specific to the PAS/PBS sequences. No HIV was detected by p24 ELISA analysis, demonstrating that a homogenous population of GII expressing cells are capable of 100% viral suppression. keywords: viral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193774b07.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193774b07.txt item: #3313 of 4945 id: np193774b7n author: Matthew J Cooper title: Structure and Function of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands date: 2014 words: 322 flesch: 24 summary: Using nutrient-diffusing substrata, I found that algal biomass accrual was frequently nitrogen-limited and rarely phosphorus-limited, suggesting that nitrogen loading from agricultural lands and other sources has the potential to stimulate excessive algal growth and affect ecosystem function in Great Lakes coastal wetlands. I also documented water quality impairment and altered land cover to be associated with structural changes to algal, macroinvertebrate, and fish communities, illustrating the far-reaching impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on coastal wetland ecosystems. keywords: coastal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193774b7n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193774b7n.txt item: #3314 of 4945 id: np193774b80 author: Melissa Ann Mitchell title: A Comparison of the Diagonal and Cross-Sectional Designs When Assessing Longitudinal Mediation date: 2009 words: 148 flesch: 36 summary: This design is a compromise between the cross-sectional and longitudinal designs since it incorporates time in the model but only has one measurement of X, M, and Y. These two designs were compared to see whether the diagonal design assesses longitudinal mediation more accurately than the cross-sectional design when mediation is full or partial. It was found that the diagonal design does not assess longitudinal mediation more accurately than the cross-sectional design. keywords: mediation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193774b80.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193774b80.txt item: #3315 of 4945 id: np193774c0j author: Kelcie L. Vercel title: Imperfectly Compatible: The Problematic Integration of Leisure and Work in the Lives of Lifestyle Bloggers date: 2014 words: 150 flesch: 27 summary: Their actions illuminate those of creative entrepreneurs negotiating modern work, and have implications for work on symbolic boundaries, modern work and economic sociology. When individuals attempt to transform an interest or a leisure activity into paid work, meanings related to both leisure and work threaten to delegitimize their activities. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193774c0j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193774c0j.txt item: #3316 of 4945 id: np193774c3k author: Lauren Linn Whitnah title: Patrons of That Place: The Cults of Anglo-Saxon Saints in Twelfth-Century Northumbria date: 2014 words: 326 flesch: 53 summary: The saints who were most explicitly linked with specific places in the region, who were connected with other saints, and who had a local tradition for holiness were most likely to be venerated. There is a wide variety of evidence that reveals diversity of belief and practice in the veneration of saints. keywords: saints cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193774c3k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193774c3k.txt item: #3317 of 4945 id: np193774c6m author: Rafael O. Ruiz title: A New Type of Tuned Liquid Damper and Its Effectiveness in Enhancing Seismic Performance: Numerical Characterization, Experimental Validation, Parametric Analysis and Life-Cycle Based Design date: 1904 words: 348 flesch: 27 summary: The research presented here introduces a new type of liquid mass damper, called Tuned Liquid Damper with Floating Roof (TLD-FR) which combines the favorable characteristics of traditional Tuned Liquid Dampers (TLD) and liquid column dampers, and further examines its efficiency for seismic applications for Chile. This creates a vibratory behavior that resembles other types of a linear mass dampers and a framework is developed to characterize this behavior with a simple parametric description that can facilitate an easy comparison to such dampers. keywords: liquid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193774c6m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193774c6m.txt item: #3318 of 4945 id: np193775112 author: Vince Bagnulo title: Liberalism, Democracy, and Character: Mill, Nietzsche, Tocqueville and the Problem of Democratic Character date: 1904 words: 298 flesch: 36 summary: Against claims that concern for character has no place in liberalism, I contend that the liberal tradition does and always has recognized the importance of citizens' character and, further, recognizes that there is a problem of character in liberalism. Recent scholarship has increasingly recognized the importance of character to the liberal tradition from its inception, however, I argue that the problem of character in liberalism has drastically changed since this inception and this change has been neglected. keywords: character cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193775112.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193775112.txt item: #3319 of 4945 id: np19377515f author: Albert M Olszewski title: Lower Limb Control and Joint Stability During Stand-to-Sit Maneuvers in Subjects with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury date: 1904 words: 416 flesch: 41 summary: Deceleration phase duration was shorter in un-exercised subjects than in healthy control subjects. Valgus moment values were not significantly affected by downhill training, but more subjects exhibited negative training effects in a longitudinal study. keywords: training cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np19377515f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np19377515f.txt item: #3320 of 4945 id: np19377522q author: Tony J. Cunningham title: The Interaction of Stress and Depression and Their Effect on Sleep and Emotional Memory Consolidation date: 1904 words: 349 flesch: 39 summary: While there was no impact on memory consolidation for the negative components of scenes, individuals in the depressed group that participated in the stress task were found to have poorer memory for neutral scene information, particularly for the neutral central object. These results indicate that stress and depression interact to reduce veridical memory of neutral information. keywords: neutral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np19377522q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np19377522q.txt item: #3321 of 4945 id: np19377562z author: Etika Agarwal title: Compositional Control of Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems Using Hybrid Models and Dissipativity Theory date: 2019 words: 401 flesch: 22 summary: In the concluding chapters of this dissertation, we propose a solution to the open problem of making the synthesis of distributed subsystem-level controllers compositional for networked systems with no restrictions on interconnection topology. Modern-day infrastructure systems such as smart transportation, power grid and renewable energy, a fleet of industrial robots, and smart cities, are some examples of CPS, where the network of dynamical systems is capable of expansion, contraction, and reconfiguration. keywords: dissipativity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np19377562z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np19377562z.txt item: #3322 of 4945 id: np193775d8w author: Brittni L. Bertolet title: Disentangling Drivers of Lake Methane Dynamics across Scales date: 2021 words: 435 flesch: 15 summary: Recent advances in sequencing technologies now allow us to determine differences in microbial community composition across space and time and to explicitly consider the influence of these differences on ecosystem-scale processes. I find that pH is a driver of community assembly, and that microbial community composition influences sediment function independent of pH. Finally, I utilize the confirmed relationship between pH and microbial community composition to experimentally test whether variation in methane responses to organic matter supply is related to microbial community composition (Chapter 5). keywords: methane cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193775d8w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193775d8w.txt item: #3323 of 4945 id: np193775f9j author: Tsuyoshi Anthony Kohlgruber title: Synthesis and Characterization of Actinide-Bearing Compounds Using Ionic Liquid Media date: 2022 words: 331 flesch: 26 summary: The goal of this dissertation is to explore the fundamental chemistry of various hexavalent uranium and neptunium compounds with a focus on crystal structure determination to better understand the formation and stabilization of actinide compounds in the solid-state. Projects were also developed to investigate uranyl phosphate chemistry, which has importance to separations and environmental remediation strategies. keywords: uranyl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193775f9j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193775f9j.txt item: #3324 of 4945 id: np193775g0r author: Omar Coronel Cuadros title: Violent Protest in Weak Democracies: Conflict Prevention Agencies and Civil Society Organizations in Peru date: 2022 words: 386 flesch: 44 summary: Employing interviews, an original database of protests from 2008 to 2018, and archival data from local newspapers and reports in Arequipa, Puno, Lambayeque, and Cajamarca, I show that when robust local CPAs and a non-competitive ecology of CSOs are in place, the likeliness of violent protest will reduce. From a relational approach, my dissertation proposes a theory of violent protests that focuses on state accommodation capacity and on how the interaction of this capacity, through conflict prevention agencies, and civil society organizations generate higher or fewer chances to use violent repertoires. keywords: protests cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193775g0r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193775g0r.txt item: #3325 of 4945 id: np193775g3s author: Bumjun Park title: Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium and Magnesium Metal Batteries: Metal Ion Transport and Deposition date: 2022 words: 535 flesch: 42 summary: Unlike Li metal anodes, Mg metal anode chemistry for Mg-conducting solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer is not found and reported reversible Mg deposition/stripping with polymer electrolytes is limited. Polymer electrolytes are beneficial in terms of mechanical stability and safety, which can reduce electrolyte leakage and possible ignition upon a short circuit. keywords: polymer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193775g3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193775g3s.txt item: #3326 of 4945 id: np193775h02 author: Shanghui Huang title: Targeting Assembly in Colloidal Materials by Tilting the Free Energy Surface date: 2022 words: 220 flesch: 28 summary: Free energy calculation is a powerful tool to probe into the assembly process. However, application of such methods is often hindered by high energy barriers, complicated pathways and slow convergence of algorithms. keywords: material cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/np193775h02.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/np193775h02.txt item: #3327 of 4945 id: ns064457k93 author: Yeqing Lu title: Tunnel Transistor Modeling date: 2011 words: 188 flesch: 41 summary: The major advantage of tunnel transistors is the possibility to achieve less than 60 mV/decade sub-threshold swing, which is the thermionic limit in conventional MOSFETs. In this work, simulation of III-V semiconductor based tunnel transistors has been explored using both commercially available simulator (Synopsys TCAD) and novel analytical compact models. keywords: transistors cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064457k93.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064457k93.txt item: #3328 of 4945 id: ns064457m3b author: Andrew David Kosal title: New Discoveries in Titanium and Phosphorus Mediated Carbonyl Additions date: 2013 words: 297 flesch: 31 summary: After a detailed investigation by Fleury, catalytic loadings of titanium as low as 1 mol% were demonstrated to be effective at catalyzing organozinc and organomagnesium reagents derived from allyl, alkyl, aryl, and vinyl species. The scope of conjugated compounds includes cyclic and acyclic variations of ketones, esters, aldehydes, amides, as well as ynones, which contain an extra degree of unsaturation. keywords: amides cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064457m3b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064457m3b.txt item: #3329 of 4945 id: ns064457m4p author: Andrea Asztalos title: Applications of Random Walks: From Network Exploration to Cellulose Hydrolysis date: 2010 words: 236 flesch: 40 summary: We show that for STP walks site and edge exploration obey the same scaling ~n to the power of nu as function of time n, and therefore edge exploration on graphs with many loops is always lagging compared to site exploration. In the first part of the thesis we investigate network exploration by random walks defined via stationary and adaptive transition probabilities on large, but finite graphs. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064457m4p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064457m4p.txt item: #3330 of 4945 id: ns064457m51 author: David Bruce Stephens title: Sound Sources in a Low Speed Ducted Rotor date: 2008 words: 212 flesch: 51 summary: Measurements of the flow field around the rotor were found to provide insight to the mechanisms of sound that depend on mean loading conditions. Quantifying this function enables the study of the rotor sound source, without need of other methods for considering duct effects. keywords: rotor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064457m51.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064457m51.txt item: #3331 of 4945 id: ns064457m6c author: Matthew T. Loveland title: Civic Congregations: Congregational Dynamics and Individual Civic Involvement date: 2006 words: 308 flesch: 10 summary: I operationalize civic involvement from an action theory perspective and call for a more general understanding of civic engagement as collectively sustained, goal oriented, civic culture maintaining social action. The dissertation calls specifically for further consideration of the relationship between congregations and individual civic participation, and generally for common use of contextual modeling to adequately portray the role of religion in social life. keywords: congregations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064457m6c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064457m6c.txt item: #3332 of 4945 id: ns064457m7q author: Jonathan J Yip title: Can Social Comparison Lead to a Decrease in Prosocial Behavior? date: 2010 words: 126 flesch: 40 summary: Participants' prosocial behaviors were measured 2-days post-manipulation. Then they were randomly assigned to conditions in which they were told that their performance indicated that they were either inferior or superior to their peers on personal characteristics. keywords: prosocial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064457m7q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064457m7q.txt item: #3333 of 4945 id: ns064457n0m author: Hui Yu title: Function of Lipid Binding Ability of Nedd4 on Its Regulation of PTEN and Other Substrates date: 2014 words: 225 flesch: 31 summary: Several key regulators of cellular homeostasis, such as the tumor suppresser PTEN, are Nedd4 substrates. The ubiquitination of PTEN by Nedd4 proteins is involved in cellular proliferation and neuron survival. keywords: nedd4 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064457n0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064457n0m.txt item: #3334 of 4945 id: ns064457n29 author: Eric S Covey title: A wavelet method for estimating damping in oscillating systems date: 2008 words: 134 flesch: 18 summary: A combination of multiresolution analysis (MRA) and a modified Schroeder integration method is tested as a means of identifying unknown oscillating signals in time series data, and estimating signal decay. Given that the modified Schroeder integration procedure failed to produce a better estimate of signal decay than other currently available procedures, the single-value criterion method of identifying significant signals is retained as the simpler and more flexible of the two methods of determining signal significance. keywords: signals cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064457n29.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064457n29.txt item: #3335 of 4945 id: ns064457n3n author: Jace Brittain title: Dumm Film, A Novel date: 2015 words: 26 flesch: 56 summary: The fraying nerves of the geography of Los Angeles is explored through a deaf actress, the great-grandson of an experimental filmmaker, and a collections agent. keywords: agent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064457n3n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064457n3n.txt item: #3336 of 4945 id: ns064457n8c author: Jonathan R. Trotter title: The Jerusalem Temple in the Practice and Thought of Diaspora Jews during the Second Temple Period date: 1904 words: 352 flesch: 27 summary: It is often thought, therefore, that the temple was essentially irrelevant as an institution, even though it maintained a certain symbolic value, for most Diaspora Jews who reoriented their identity toward other universally accessible focal points, such as the Torah. More specifically, in part one, we suggest that most Diaspora Jews voluntarily adopted these practices, which increased in popularity during the Second Temple period, in order to maintain regular contact with and participation in the sacrificial cult. keywords: temple cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064457n8c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064457n8c.txt item: #3337 of 4945 id: ns064457p3z author: Yaoyi Guan title: Radiated Sound and Structural Vibration Induced by Flow over Asymmetrical Trailing Edges date: 1904 words: 225 flesch: 45 summary: The third and fourth part developed an understanding of sound and vibration induced by trailing edge flows, respectively. They provided a unique database for understanding the mechanisms and analyzing the characteristics of sound and vibration induced by trailing edge flows. keywords: vibration cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064457p3z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064457p3z.txt item: #3338 of 4945 id: ns064457p7b author: Patrick Gamez title: Foucault against Ethics: Subjectivity and Critique after Humanism date: 1904 words: 350 flesch: 40 summary: In brief the charge is that in revealing the power-relations that partially constitute Enlightenment institutions and the ideals that sustain them, Foucault deprives himself of the resources required to construct the kind of ethical theory needed to ground his critical project. I argue that Foucault's archaeological and genealogical works are best construed as an historical inquiry into the construction of spaces of reasons, in which we find ourselves subject to normative evaluation and direction. keywords: foucault cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064457p7b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064457p7b.txt item: #3339 of 4945 id: ns064457s78 author: Elena Smyrniotis title: Horizons of Utopia: From Realism to Abstraction date: 1904 words: 229 flesch: 42 summary: I will also discuss historical examples of artistic illustrations of dystopia based on literary texts such as Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and contemporary representations of utopian space in the works of land artists Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer. The discussed body of artwork focuses on three major schemes: the representation of history in an urban landscape, allegorical representation of utopia, and the metaphor of space. keywords: utopia cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064457s78.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064457s78.txt item: #3340 of 4945 id: ns064458h9r author: Audra Julia Dugandzic title: Cultivating a Catholic Neighborhood: Space, Place, and Subcultural Identity date: 2019 words: 150 flesch: 16 summary: This study extends subcultural identity theory, not only by offering another case (Catholicism) but also by showing how space and place – and their attendant dimensions of race and class – are crucial to the development of a subcultural identity. This study seeks to understand how a Catholic enclave simultaneously (re)constructs Catholic tradition and American community life in a Washington, D.C. suburb and the role that race, class, and neighborhood features contribute to this process of reconstruction. keywords: identity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064458h9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064458h9r.txt item: #3341 of 4945 id: ns064458s7j author: Luan Doan title: Large-N Limit of the Segal–Bargmann Transforms on the Spheres date: 2023 words: 180 flesch: 34 summary: It turns out that the limiting transform is still a unitary map from the limiting domain Hilbert space onto the limiting range Hilbert space. In this thesis, I study the limiting behavior of the Segal–Bargmann transforms on high dimensional spheres. keywords: measure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ns064458s7j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ns064458s7j.txt item: #3342 of 4945 id: nv935140v7x author: Plamen Boutachkov title: Toward Understanding of the Nuclear Force Via Detailed Spectroscopy of 208Bi and Development of New Techniques for Studies of Neutron Rich Exotic Nuclei: Spectroscopy of 7He. date: 2005 words: 142 flesch: 63 summary: It is shown that the developed methods can be used to study other exotic neutron rich nuclei. In the first part of the thesis the single particle structure of 208Bi is studied via the γ - γ coincidence technique. keywords: experimental cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935140v7x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935140v7x.txt item: #3343 of 4945 id: nv935140v88 author: Boris B. Skorodumov title: Resonance reactions induced by beams of light radioactive nuclei date: 2007 words: 341 flesch: 58 summary: In the analysis of the experimental studies reported in this thesis, three light nuclei were investigated via resonance elastic scattering using the Thick Target Inverse Kinematics technique (TTIK). The structure of the unbound proton-rich isotope 19Na was studied in resonance elastic scattering of a radioactive 18Ne beam on a proton target. keywords: state cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935140v88.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935140v88.txt item: #3344 of 4945 id: nv935140w15 author: Tian Fang title: Carrier Transport in Graphene, Graphene Nanoribbon and GaN HEMTs date: 2012 words: 219 flesch: 38 summary: This high carrier velocity and its perfect two-dimensional structure make it suitable for high speed electronic devices. In this work, we study the carrier transport in graphene and quasi-one dimensional graphene nanoribbons. keywords: graphene cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935140w15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935140w15.txt item: #3345 of 4945 id: nv935140w2h author: Ryne A Gorsuch title: Sox2 is necessary and sufficient to induce Müller glia reprogramming and proliferation in the regenerating zebrafish retina. date: 2015 words: 418 flesch: 31 summary: We investigated the role of Wnt/β-catenin signaling, which is required for Müller glia reprogramming and is a known regulator of sox2 expression during vertebrate retinal development. While β-catenin 2, but not β-catenin 1, was required for Müller glia proliferation, neither β-catenin paralog was required for sox2 expression following retinal damage. keywords: sox2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935140w2h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935140w2h.txt item: #3346 of 4945 id: nv935140w3v author: Michelle Marie Dolan title: Constraints on the Structure, Evolution, and Approach to Thermonuclear Runaway in Intermediate Mass and Massive Stars date: 2013 words: 79 flesch: 46 summary: This thesis provides an assessment of stellar evolution models for intermediate-mass and massive stars in advanced stages of evolution through a detailed cooperation between simulations and observations of nearby stars and eclipsing binary stars. We also make a detailed study of the approach to unstable helium burning, the core flash, and thermally pulsing phases. keywords: stars cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935140w3v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935140w3v.txt item: #3347 of 4945 id: nv935140w9x author: Soon-Hyung Yook title: From the Topology to the Dynamics of Complex Networks date: 2004 words: 235 flesch: 26 summary: Understanding the mechanisms governing the behavior of complex networks is a prerequisite for characterizing complex systems. Frequently, networks are modelled as unweighted graphs in which each link has the same strength. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935140w9x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935140w9x.txt item: #3348 of 4945 id: nv935140x04 author: Neil Benjamin Petroff title: Biomimetic Sensing for Robotic Manipulation date: 2008 words: 368 flesch: 45 summary: In manipulation tasks, humans have the advantage over machines due to an unparalleled ability to process information from various inputs, including touch. Experiments were conducted with fixed-point manipulation to produce a baseline for comparing reconfigurable manipulation experiments. keywords: manipulation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935140x04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935140x04.txt item: #3349 of 4945 id: nv935140x2t author: Brandon R. Sepulvado title: Disentangling Cultural Homophily from Confounding Mechanisms date: 2014 words: 148 flesch: 28 summary: A high level of clustering distinguishes social networks from other types of networks. Using novel data, this study employs statistical network analyses to infer how music tastes produce different structures within an emerging social network by influencing the number and similarity of friends that a person has. keywords: tastes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935140x2t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935140x2t.txt item: #3350 of 4945 id: nv935140x5v author: Stephen Morgan title: Shepherds of a Dying Flock: The Rhenish Mission, the Herero, and German Colonial Conquest in South-West Africa date: 2014 words: 302 flesch: 30 summary: At times contesting, at other times cooperating with the colonial regime, the missionaries attempted first to regulate Herero contact with colonialism, and then, in aftermath of war, to integrate them into the colonial order. It begins with a biological catastrophe that decimated Herero herds, impoverishing the Herero and forcing them to sell land to settlers, which threatened the basis for Herero economic and political autonomy. keywords: herero cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935140x5v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935140x5v.txt item: #3351 of 4945 id: nv935140x66 author: John P. D'Antonio title: Front Stage Axial Compressor Stable Rotating Stall: An Experimental Investigation of Pressure Field Spatial and Temporal Scales date: 1904 words: 344 flesch: 41 summary: Rotating stall is a phenomenon in axial compressors in which regions of separated, axially reversed flow propagate circumferentially in the direction of rotor rotation. The front stages of multi-spool axial compressors operate in rotating stall for off-design, but normal operation. keywords: pressure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935140x66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935140x66.txt item: #3352 of 4945 id: nv935141272 author: Quirine Astrid ten Bosch title: Insights from Mathematical Modeling on the Natural History, Dynamics, and Control of Dengue date: 1904 words: 360 flesch: 31 summary: When post-secondary infections were assumed to contribute to transmission, cross-immunity was found to be the most important factor for reproducing patterns characteristic of dengue dynamics. First, I present a quantitative analysis of how DENV-infected individuals across the spectrum of disease outcomes contribute to transmission. keywords: dengue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935141272.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935141272.txt item: #3353 of 4945 id: nv93514128d author: Michael B Machen title: Krylov Implicit Integration Factor Methods for Solving Fourth Order Equations date: 1904 words: 381 flesch: 37 summary: Previous methods that solve fourth order equations explicitly need small time steps. Most explicit numerical methods for solving fourth order partial differential equations (PDEs) have time constraints that require small time steps, which is not feasible for high dimensional problems. keywords: order cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv93514128d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv93514128d.txt item: #3354 of 4945 id: nv935141k3b author: Mohammed S. Kamel title: Aero-Optical Prediction of High-Reynolds Number Flows Using Wall-Modeled Large-Eddy Simulation date: 1904 words: 319 flesch: 36 summary: In this study, wall-modeled LES is employed to predict and analyze aero-optical distortions of subsonic and supersonic turbulent boundary layers and subsonic and transonic flows over cylindrical turrets at high Reynolds numbers. The results are compared to experimental measurements and previous results from wall-resolved LES at reduced Reynolds numbers. keywords: optical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935141k3b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935141k3b.txt item: #3355 of 4945 id: nv935141k7q author: Madeleine Marie Klem title: The Most Sacred Rights of Parents: English-Speaking Catholics and Parental Rights in the Schools Question date: 1904 words: 277 flesch: 42 summary: Catholic parental rights arguments, drawn from the tradition of natural law, were meant to appeal to their Protestant neighbors by emphasizing rights and appealing to religious liberty. In the United States, Catholics failed to create a coalition in favor of funding religious education, but they did manage to convince their neighbors that Catholic schools had a right to exist with minimal government interference. keywords: catholics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935141k7q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935141k7q.txt item: #3356 of 4945 id: nv935141p2x author: Chontel Syfox title: Rewriting and (Re)Negotiating Gender: A Study of the Depictions of the Matriarchs in the Book of Jubilees in Relation to Depictions of Heroines in the Greek Novel and Jewish Novella date: 2018 words: 321 flesch: 39 summary: Like the Greek novel and Jewish novellas, Jubilees simultaneously contains images of female characters who defy gender norms, as well as images of female characters who reinforce stereotypically patriarchal ideas about the performance of gender. It also asks whether Jubilees was unique in its elevation of female characters or dealt with them in a manner that was typical of the then literary Zeitgeist. keywords: jubilees cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935141p2x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935141p2x.txt item: #3357 of 4945 id: nv935141r2j author: Joshua D. Wright title: Supported Zirconium Hydride Catalysts for Ethylene Oligomerization date: 2019 words: 150 flesch: 32 summary: Ethylene oligomerization seeks to upgrade this feedstock to more value-added products though controlled carbon chain growth. Supported zirconium hydrides are a class of heterogeneous catalyst that are activated in the presence of hydrogen and have yet to be applied to ethylene oligomerization, despite their reported activity for other carbon-carbon bond forming reactions. keywords: ethylene cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nv935141r2j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nv935141r2j.txt item: #3358 of 4945 id: nz805x24500 author: Pramita Mitra title: Sensor Sharing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks date: 2013 words: 280 flesch: 26 summary: There are numerous situations where proximity-awareness (i.e., a device is aware of other mobile devices in its neighborhood) could be used to support spontaneous sharing of resources and information, thereby enabling a variety of new application scenarios. This dissertation presents a software architecture called SPontaneous Information and Resource sharing InfrasTructure (SPIRIT), which allows mobile devices to create, discover, join, leave, and control the sharing of resources and information in an efficient and automatic fashion. keywords: devices cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x24500.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x24500.txt item: #3359 of 4945 id: nz805x2455q author: Susy Mariela Sanchez Rodriguez title: From the Father to the Mother of the Nation: The Metamorphosis of the Politics of Commemoration in Nicaragua (1936-1997) date: 2014 words: 398 flesch: 26 summary: Political leaders take advantage of the symbolic and political power of the politics of commemorations to become sublime bodies of the nation, either as father or mother. My work argues that the degree of homogeneity of an 'imagined nation' illustrates how successful the government, elites and intellectuals, are in erasing the heterogeneity of the members of 'imagined nation.' keywords: nation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x2455q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x2455q.txt item: #3360 of 4945 id: nz805x24562 author: Justin Neil Cross title: Tuning Actinide Complexes Through Structure and Oxidation State date: 2014 words: 417 flesch: 41 summary: As the electronic properties of actinides are dependent on oxidation state, the ability to access and stabilize different oxidation states is of utmost importance. However, there is little indication of which ligands will express covalent interactions and which will express ionic interactions. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x24562.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x24562.txt item: #3361 of 4945 id: nz805x2457d author: Diane Marie Lickenbrock title: The Effects of Parenting and Marital Functioning on Affect in Early Infancy date: 2008 words: 160 flesch: 21 summary: This longitudinal study examined associations between marital functioning, parenting, and infant affect over time for infant-mother and infant-father dyads during the Still-Face Paradigm (Tronick, Als, Adamson, Wise, & Brazelton, 1978). Structural equation modeling results indicated that for fathers, marital functioning related both directly and indirectly to changes in infant affect during the Still-Face; parenting also mediated relations between marital quality and infant affect. keywords: infant cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x2457d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x2457d.txt item: #3362 of 4945 id: nz805x2458r author: Weihua Cai title: Nonlinear Dynamics of Thermal-hydraulic Networks date: 2010 words: 355 flesch: 42 summary: Experiments are conducted of the synchronization of coupled oscillators set up by the simultaneous action of multiple controllers on different secondary loops. Thermal-hydraulic networks are widely used in the heating and cooling of building complexes, industrial processes, power plants, and in many other applications. keywords: thermal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x2458r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x2458r.txt item: #3363 of 4945 id: nz805x24593 author: Eric William Smith title: Turbulence, Stability, and Imaging of Gas-Liquid Flows date: 2010 words: 253 flesch: 38 summary: An experimental investigation of dispersed multiphase flow was undertaken to determine a parameter space for gravity independent flow. Linear stability analysis was used to determine flow pattern transitions. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x24593.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x24593.txt item: #3364 of 4945 id: nz805x24620 author: Andrew Steven Yoder title: The Effects of Stress Inoculation on Stress Reactivity and Depression in Emerging Adults date: 2015 words: 202 flesch: 37 summary: The current study tested the stress-inoculation hypothesis, a resilience concept that suggests that those who have experienced a moderate amount of previous life stress will be better prepared to endure future life stress. Those with moderate CA did not produce a more resilient cortisol response to an acute stressor, and did not consistently report less depressive symptoms or greater levels of positive functioning when challenged by recent severe life stress. keywords: stress cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x24620.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x24620.txt item: #3365 of 4945 id: nz805x2464p author: Li Guo title: Adaptive Signal Processing for Multi-User Wireless Communications date: 2008 words: 470 flesch: 40 summary: In this dissertation, we developed multi-user multi-antenna techniques to suppress various severe interferences in multi-user systems. For multi-carrier multi-user systems, our research focused on the issue of user selection. keywords: multi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x2464p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x2464p.txt item: #3366 of 4945 id: nz805x24740 author: Kristina Krasich title: Gotta Capture 'Em All: How Appealing Distractors Capture Visual Attention date: 1904 words: 129 flesch: 27 summary: However, this effect reversed when neutral distractors appeared more frequently than appealing distractors (Experiment 2). Furthermore, slower performances reflected a covert capture of attention rather than an inability to disengage attention from distractors (Experiments 3 & 4). keywords: attention cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x24740.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x24740.txt item: #3367 of 4945 id: nz805x2475b author: Jeffrey Madsen title: Equations of Rees Algebras and Singularities of Rational Plane Curves date: 1904 words: 286 flesch: 52 summary: Finally, we connect one of these Fitting ideals to a slice of the ideal K. In particular, we give a complete list of the possible bidegrees of a minimal generating set of K when the degree of C is 7, as well as the correspondence between these bidegrees and the multiplicities of the points of C, which was previously known only for degree <= 6. We give a description of the part of K in degree greater than or equal to the second largest degree of a generator of the syzygy module of I. keywords: degree cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x2475b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x2475b.txt item: #3368 of 4945 id: nz805x24771 author: John E. Derwent title: On the Realization of the Morse Inequalities as Equalities date: 1904 words: 30 flesch: 49 summary: The purpose of this paper is to reformulate and generalize the recent work of S. Smale [13, 15, 16] on the use of handles in the study of differentiable manifolds. keywords: smale cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x24771.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x24771.txt item: #3369 of 4945 id: nz805x2479q author: Emily Vanderbleek title: A Dimensional Perspective on the Associations between Personality Disorder and Childhood Adversity date: 1904 words: 118 flesch: 4 summary: Understanding how negative experiences in childhood relate to later personality pathology has implications for implementing treatment strategies among individuals who have experienced childhood maltreatment and/or trauma, and deepens our knowledge about the development of specific personality traits that cause difficulties for individuals with PD. This study explores relations between personality disorder (PD) and childhood adversity, specifically childhood maltreatment and/or trauma. keywords: childhood cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x2479q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x2479q.txt item: #3370 of 4945 id: nz805x2514d author: Ian M. Walsh title: Testing the Effects of Synonymous Codon Usage on Co-Translational Protein Folding Using Novel Experimental and Computational Techniques date: 2019 words: 399 flesch: 45 summary: In this dissertation, I describe novel experimental and computational techniques that I developed to study co-translational protein folding. I also adapted a coarse-grained model of co-translational folding to simulate a protein with two native states, whose folding is known to be sensitive to changes in the translation rate. keywords: folding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x2514d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x2514d.txt item: #3371 of 4945 id: nz805x2515r author: Ken Newcomb title: A Molecular Dynamics Investigation of Actinyl Ions and Nanoclusters in Aqueous Solution date: 2019 words: 744 flesch: 45 summary: We sought to accurately determine the binding sites of water and various cations (Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+, and Ca(2+)) to the U20 nanocluster, and to better understand how the identity of the cation affects nanocluster aggregation. We first developed a new classical force field for the simulation of U20 nanoclusters in explicitly-modeled water using a combination of Lennard-Jones and Coloumb potentials. keywords: nanoclusters; nuclear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x2515r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x2515r.txt item: #3372 of 4945 id: nz805x25310 author: Rebecca E. Wiegel title: Reading Matrona: The Sixth Century Life of a Trans Saint date: 2019 words: 203 flesch: 32 summary: To articulate a trans hermeneutic for reading pre-modern texts, this dissertation engages critical theory from transgender studies, concluding that since Matrona moves from one position of sexed or gendered intelligibility to another within her culture, she can be read as trans. After analyzing each of Matrona's transitions within the text, this dissertation then shows how the hagiographer centralizes gendered transitions within the text as a whole, presenting Matrona as a universal exemplar. keywords: matrona cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x25310.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x25310.txt item: #3373 of 4945 id: nz805x2545p author: Harrison B. Yates title: Plasma-Actuated Flow Control of Hypersonic Crossflow-Induced Boundary-Layer Transition date: 2019 words: 361 flesch: 39 summary: Stationary crossflow vortex N-factors were calculated over the surface of a yawed circular cone using computationally predicted and experimentally observed wavenumber distributions. The purpose of this research was to control crossflow-induced boundary-layer transition on a cone at angle of attack in hypersonic quiet flow. keywords: wavenumber cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x2545p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x2545p.txt item: #3374 of 4945 id: nz805x2573x author: Mary S. Tarsha title: The Heart of Embodied Morality: Investigating the Role of the Evolved Developmental Niche on Autonomic Regulation date: 2020 words: 336 flesch: 20 summary: Due to its wide influence in numerous social and moral behaviors, RSA was utilized as an online biomarker for healthy neurobiological functioning, examining both tonic vagal tone and flexibility of vagal functioning. Optimal social and moral capacities are dependent upon healthy neurobiological functioning. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x2573x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x2573x.txt item: #3375 of 4945 id: nz805x25779 author: Ömer Faruk Özkaya title: Geochemical, Isotopic and Geochronological Investigation of the Magnet Cove Carbonatite Complex, Arkansas, USA date: 2020 words: 279 flesch: 22 summary: This thesis presents new geochemical, radiogenic (Sr, Nd, Pb) and stable (C, O) isotope data, and first-time reported stable B isotope compositions (δ11B values) for carbonatites and associated silicate rocks from the Magnet Cove complex. The Magnet Cove alkaline igneous complex, which was emplaced ~95 to 99 million years ago, is located within the northeastern region of Hot Spring County (Arkansas), and consists of alkaline silicate rocks such as nepheline syenite, ijolite, and jacupirangite along with associated carbonatite. keywords: values cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x25779.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x25779.txt item: #3376 of 4945 id: nz805x2593j author: Alexandra Niclou title: When the Cold Gets under Your Skin: The Variation and Metabolic Effects of Brown Adipose Tissue Activity in Samoans date: 2022 words: 352 flesch: 31 summary: My findings underline the importance of considering the inter-individual variation in BAT activity when developing evolutionary or health-related arguments centering around BAT. I also measured fasting glucose, cholesterol levels, and substrate metabolism by BAT, granting insight into the potential health benefits of BAT activation in a Samoan population with obesity. keywords: bat cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x2593j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x2593j.txt item: #3377 of 4945 id: nz805x25b15 author: Zhenyu Wu title: Developing and Evaluating Molecular Detection Tools for Water Quality Monitoring date: 2022 words: 493 flesch: 23 summary: Ultimately, my dissertation work advances water quality monitoring by demonstrating novel indicator performance through wastewater treatment processes, and methodologies to enable quantitative metagenomic water quality monitoring. CrAssphage has the potential to serve as a surrogate as human-specific pathogens removal through wastewater treatment process including anaerobic digestion. keywords: water cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/nz805x25b15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/nz805x25b15.txt item: #3378 of 4945 id: p2676t07d95 author: Karen Louise Hibbard title: A Genetic Screen To Identify Genes Affecting The Biogenesis Of Rhodopsin date: 2008 words: 246 flesch: 40 summary: The DEAD-box family of RNA helicases has roles in the numerous steps of RNA metabolism, which include transcription, splicing, translation, ribosome formation, and RNA degradation. Mutations in components of the phototransduction cascade or the maintenance of the rhabdomere usually result in retinal degeneration. keywords: rh1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t07d95.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t07d95.txt item: #3379 of 4945 id: p2676t07f0c author: Ze Zhang title: Fabrication and Characterization of Heterojunction Backward Diodes Based on the InAs/AlSb/GaSb Material System date: 2010 words: 183 flesch: 45 summary: Devices incorporating an Al0.1Ga0.9Sb anode instead of a GaSb anode show improved curvature coefficient. Based on estimates of potential for contact resistance improvement and device scaling (down to 1 um^2), improvement of the intrinsic cut-off frequency to over 500 GHz appears possible for this structure. keywords: junction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t07f0c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t07f0c.txt item: #3380 of 4945 id: p2676t07f3d author: Raymond Kenney Walters title: Evaluation of a Two-Stage Statistical Learning Design for Genome-Wide Studies date: 2013 words: 149 flesch: 34 summary: GBM is used as a first stage variable selection screen to substantially reduce the dimensionality of SNP data while maintaining sensitivity to additive, nonlinear, and interaction effects, allowing hypothesis testing with a reduced multiple testing burden in the second stage analysis. Thorough simulations shows the proposed two-stage design can substantially improve power to detect effect SNPs in a wide range of conditions. keywords: stage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t07f3d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t07f3d.txt item: #3381 of 4945 id: p2676t07f4r author: Brian Robert Helgans title: Turbulent Latent and Sensible Heat Flux in the Presence of Evaporative Droplets date: 2015 words: 149 flesch: 52 summary: Ocean spray could possibly influence hurricane intensity through latent and sensible heat exchanges yet these physics are not resolved by large scale hurricane simulations. The sea spray does not have an additive increase to sensible heat and latent heat because some of the sensible energy is taken from the air and transferred into energy carried by the vapor through the droplet evaporative mechanisms. keywords: heat cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t07f4r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t07f4r.txt item: #3382 of 4945 id: p2676t07f53 author: Alexander Jeffrey Skiles title: Getting Grounded: Essays in the Metaphysics of Fundamentality date: 2013 words: 269 flesch: 31 summary: I then argue that even though grounding neither entails nor is entailed by reduction, facts about grounding can be understood wholly and without circularity in terms of facts about reductive analysis (Chapter 4, 'Getting Grounded'). I begin by arguing that concepts of grounding ought to serve as a foundation for understanding the metaphysics of fundamentality more generally (Chapter 2, 'Grounding the Metaphysics of Fundamentality'), and then propose an account of reductive analysis that retains the traditional insight that a reductive analysis purports to describe the constituents of a property or fact and depict how they are structured together (Chapter 3, 'On What Consists in What'). keywords: metaphysics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t07f53.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t07f53.txt item: #3383 of 4945 id: p2676t07g11 author: Sarrah Marie Dunham-Cheatham title: Biomineralization and Biosorption Involving Bacteria: Metal Phosphate Precipitation and Mercury Adsorption Experiments date: 2012 words: 165 flesch: 36 summary: In Chapter 2, I investigated the effects of bacteria on the precipitation of metal phosphates and discovered 2 phenomena, passive cell wall mineralization and the decreased size of precipitated minerals due to the presence of bacteria. The research conducted in these chapters focused on the transport and fate of a range of metals in the presence of bacteria. keywords: bacteria cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t07g11.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t07g11.txt item: #3384 of 4945 id: p2676t07g2c author: Joseph Allen Van Nausdle title: Effects of Hydroxyapatite Morphology on MC3T3-E1 Osteoblast-Like Cells date: 2005 words: 196 flesch: 45 summary: A combination of biochemical assays and microscopy showed that cells cultured on HA whisker substrates exhibited greater initial attachment and spreading compared to the HA powder. Therefore, the overall objective of this study was to investigate the initial attachment, proliferation and differentiation of MC3T3-E1 osteoblast-like cells plated on HA powder and whisker substrates. keywords: powder cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t07g2c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t07g2c.txt item: #3385 of 4945 id: p2676t07g42 author: Zongyang Hu title: GaN HEMTs and MOSHEMTs for Power Switching Applications date: 2014 words: 162 flesch: 27 summary: While the material and device physics for GaN HEMTs have been studied extensively in the past decades, penetration of power device market relies on the development of high performance devices, which requires solving a series of critical issues including gate leakage, device passivation and threshold voltage control. In this work, development of enhancement mode GaN HEMTs and MOSHEMTs is discussed, with a focus on variation of device fabrication techniques and its impact on device characteristics, providing solutions to the aforementioned issues. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t07g42.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t07g42.txt item: #3386 of 4945 id: p2676t07g73 author: Hao Wu title: Dynamics and Water Solubility of Ionic Liquids for CO2 Capture Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation date: 2013 words: 304 flesch: 36 summary: These ionic liquids have properties that make them attractive candidates for use in CO2 capture applications, which undergo a solid to liquid phase transition when it reacts with CO2. This particular ionic liquid is one of several newly discovered TSILs containing aprotic heterocyclic anions designed specifically for CO2 capture. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t07g73.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t07g73.txt item: #3387 of 4945 id: p2676t07h00 author: Paul F. Rumbach title: Solvated Electron Chemistry at a Plasma-liquid Interface date: 2015 words: 444 flesch: 33 summary: Bulk measurements of OH-(aq) and H2(g) indicate that the electrons primarily react away via 2nd order recombination, 2e–(aq) + 2H2O → 2OH–(aq) + H2(g)­.Introducing known electron scavengers, such as H2O2, acid (H+), nitrite (NO2-), and nitrate (NO3-), into the solution quenches the signal in a manner consistent with reaction kinetics previously measured in radiolysis experiments. The optical absorption spectrum of solvated electrons at the plasma-liquid interface was also measured using a series of individual laser diodes. keywords: electrons cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t07h00.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t07h00.txt item: #3388 of 4945 id: p2676t07h62 author: Bretton Rodriguez title: Narratives of Power: Royal History and the Language of Legitimacy in Medieval Castile date: 1904 words: 275 flesch: 12 summary: In addition, I illuminate the progression of the role of royal historians from anonymous scribes to prominent literary figures, and I claim that the increased importance and sophistication of royal histories led to the professionalization of writing history in medieval Castile. Narratives of Power: Royal History and the Language of Legitimacy in Medieval Castile offers an interdisciplinary analysis – utilizing the skills of both literary criticism and historical inquiry – of the evolution of royal history and historians in medieval Castile between the reign of Alfonso X and that of the Catholic Monarchs. keywords: royal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t07h62.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t07h62.txt item: #3389 of 4945 id: p2676t08745 author: Katelyn Ludwig title: Proteomic Analysis of Biological Systems date: 2018 words: 150 flesch: 25 summary: Data analysis was performed using a number of mass spectrometry software platforms, including Proteome Discoverer 1.4, MaxQuant statistical software, Perseus, R, and Proteosign, an online statistical analysis platform. Further studies analyze various sample preparation and separation techniques to increase the information garnered from biological samples. keywords: mass cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t08745.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t08745.txt item: #3390 of 4945 id: p2676t08h50 author: Kevin B. Howard title: Structure Effects on the Giant Monopole Resonance and Determinations of the Nuclear Incompressibility date: 2020 words: 418 flesch: 37 summary: For example, the nuclear incompressibility is a fundamental quantity in the EoS and is directly correlated with the energies of the ISGMR in finite nuclei. Comparison of the measured ISGMR strengths with Random Phase Approximation calculations demonstrates that the molybdenum nuclei have ISGMR energies which are overestimated to a similar degree as seen in the tin and cadmium nuclei, while the strength of 208Pb is precisely reproduced. keywords: isgmr cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t08h50.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t08h50.txt item: #3391 of 4945 id: p2676t08k79 author: Sebastian F. Otárola-Bustos title: Studies of Wind and Turbulence in Complex Terrain at Multiple Space-Time Scales date: 2022 words: 288 flesch: 13 summary: The goal of the 2020 SWEX Experiment was to study the spatio-temporal characteristics of Sundowner Winds – a dangerous weather condition that may intensify wildfires in Coastal Santa Barbara, CA. The latter campaign was conducted by this author after the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s 2020 Sundowner Wind Experiment (SWEX) in Santa Barbara (CA) was postponed a few days before its official start (April 1st 2020) because of the presence of the new (at the time) COVID-19 virus in CA.The main goal of WFIP2 was to improve wind energy forecasts in regions of Complex Terrain by improving physical parameterizations of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models. keywords: santa cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p2676t08k79.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p2676t08k79.txt item: #3392 of 4945 id: p5547p90q2t author: Erica Jean Kistner title: A Grasshopper and Its Fungal Pathogen: A Model System for Disease Dynamics date: 2014 words: 332 flesch: 35 summary: This dissertation examined how disease affects host population dynamics using a fungal pathogen-grasshopper model system. This research indicates that the effects of pathogens on host population dynamics can be very complex depending on both abiotic and biotic factors. keywords: host cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p90q2t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p90q2t.txt item: #3393 of 4945 id: p5547p90q35 author: James R Young title: Essays on the Forward Premium Anomaly date: 2011 words: 280 flesch: 47 summary: The anomaly refers to the violation of uncovered interest parity (UIP) in the form of a negative estimate of the slope coefficient in the regression of the future percent change in the spot exchange rate measured in units of domestic currency per foreign currency on the interest rate differential between the home and foreign countries. I first reexamine conventional risk factors as explanations of the anomaly that were previously evaluated in the literature. keywords: anomaly cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p90q35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p90q35.txt item: #3394 of 4945 id: p5547p90q7j author: Kelly Renee Taylor title: Politics and wine don't mix: reconciling contradictions in Arrian's Anabasis date: 2015 words: 51 flesch: 45 summary: This thesis explains how this conflict can be resolved through analysis of Arrian's identity as a Roman Greek, his reliance on the classical literary tradition, and the social and political background of the second century A.D. Arrian presents two conflicting summaries of Alexander the Great's character in his Anabasis. keywords: arrian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p90q7j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p90q7j.txt item: #3395 of 4945 id: p5547p90q8w author: Piyush Milind Ranade title: Multi-Scale Grid Geometries for Internal Flow Turbulence Generation date: 2014 words: 155 flesch: 56 summary: Multi-scale grid geometries commonly found in literature were tested in the internal flow regime to determine which geometries generated high turbulence intensities that were also spatially homogeneous. Various grid geometries found in literature as well as new geometries were created. keywords: geometries cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p90q8w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p90q8w.txt item: #3396 of 4945 id: p5547p90q97 author: Alexandros Lamprou title: Probabilistic Life-Cycle Cost: Assessment and Sensitivity Analysis Through Stochastic Ground Motion Modeling for Seismic Hazard date: 2011 words: 352 flesch: 33 summary: This thesis investigated the application of stochastic ground motion models for characterization of seismic hazard within the context of life-cycle cost assessment for earthquake engineering applications. Description of the uncertainty for these characteristics and for the predictive relationships, by appropriate probability models, leads then to a complete description of seismic hazard, expressed in terms of ground-motion time-history. keywords: cost cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p90q97.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p90q97.txt item: #3397 of 4945 id: p5547p90r0f author: Michael Terry Scancella title: Synthesis and Characterisation of Extended Structures of Metal Atoms Interconnected by Polycarboxylic Linkers date: 2010 words: 72 flesch: 54 summary: Three polycarboxylic linkers were used in the synthesis, tetrahydrofuran 2,3,4 tetracarboxylic acid (THFTC), benzenepentacarboxylic acid (BPCA), and benzenehexacarboxylic acid (BHCA). A total of 9 different compounds were synthesized and characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction. keywords: compounds cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p90r0f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p90r0f.txt item: #3398 of 4945 id: p5547p90r1s author: Frank Fuqiang Li title: Laser Transmission Spectroscopy: A Discussion of Technique and Studies of Biological Systems date: 2010 words: 253 flesch: 38 summary: The precision of LTS's measurements allows not only the determination of the particle size distribution, but also the absolute number of particles with diameters in the range of 5 nm to 3000 nm. The measured transmittance as a function of wavelength is inverted using the Mie model for the extinction cross-section to obtain particle size and density distribution. keywords: lts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p90r1s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p90r1s.txt item: #3399 of 4945 id: p5547p90r4t author: Edward Kyung-Hoon Kang title: Design and Implementation of a Multithreaded, Wide Word Operation, Processing in Memory Architecture date: 2003 words: 146 flesch: 56 summary: To keep up this growth in computing power, new discoveries in semiconductor technology, processor architecture, operating systems, and programming models must be made. This includes a history of Dataflow and multithreaded machines, how it applies to the PIMLite processor, a description of the PIMLite Instruction Set Architecture, and also state diagrams and source code in VHDL. keywords: years cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p90r4t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p90r4t.txt item: #3400 of 4945 id: p5547p90r6h author: Brett Lantz title: Virtual or Reality? Elements of Masculinities Across Video Game Play Contexts date: 2010 words: 110 flesch: 47 summary: The systematic differences highlighted in this research across the three contexts are likely to be related to important differences in how male gamers perceive and construct masculine identities. The purpose of this project is to identify differences in the elements of masculinities associated with single player, online multiplayer, and offline multiplayer video game play contexts. keywords: differences cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p90r6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p90r6h.txt item: #3401 of 4945 id: p5547p90r7v author: Paul Edward Cunningham title: The House of the Tree of Sores date: 2015 words: 109 flesch: 40 summary: His English language, masculinity, sexuality, notions of whiteness and foreignness, notions of family and understanding of nationhood, is all severely disrupted as his body undergoes continuous mutation in fake living room scene after fake living room scene of what is referred to as ideal comfort. The House of the Tree of Sores, which was written in English and in Swedish, follows a white American male's late night activities in a phantasmal IKEA department store. keywords: english cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p90r7v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p90r7v.txt item: #3402 of 4945 id: p5547p90s6t author: Sean M. Kelly title: The Tension between Past and Present in the Chorus of Electra: Sophocles and Strauss date: 1904 words: 192 flesch: 17 summary: This thesis examines the dismantling of the chorus' functions in Sophocles' Electra in Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss' opera adaptation of the play in order to demonstrate that this action reflects Hofmannsthal's personal literary crisis, which involved the tension between literary tradition and innovation. The second chapter then offers a comparative analysis of Sophocles' play and Hofmannsthal's libretto, citing Freudian psychoanalysis as a formative context for Hofmannsthal's innovation and subsequent representation of his own literary crisis. keywords: hofmannsthal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p90s6t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p90s6t.txt item: #3403 of 4945 id: p5547p90t1d author: Rachel Baird title: The Effect of Misspecifying Random-Effect Time-Varying Predictors as Fixed on Estimates of Other Parameters date: 1904 words: 243 flesch: 26 summary: Although negative variance estimates are uninterpretable, results of the simulation show that estimates of the fixed effect of the time-varying predictor are as accurate for these cases as for cases with positive variance estimates, and that treating the time-varying predictor as random and allowing negative variance estimates performs well whether the time-varying predictor is fixed or random in reality. A second simulation study shows that treating the time-varying predictor as random may have poor convergence, except when allowing negative variance estimates. keywords: effect cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p90t1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p90t1d.txt item: #3404 of 4945 id: p5547p90x1b author: Kristi Donaldson title: The Implementation of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program: Equity, Access, and Effectively Maintained Inequality date: 1904 words: 386 flesch: 32 summary: Previous work in this area has largely taken place at the student level, focusing on student achievement and the sorting of students as a function of prior test scores, teacher evaluations, and socio- demographics. I then analyze the extent to which the program contributes to racialized tracking with second-generation segregation in the U.S., finding that schools in districts under desegregation orders have a higher predicted probability of racially tracking students in IBDP, hyper-segregating White students in, and Black students from, the program. keywords: program cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p90x1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p90x1b.txt item: #3405 of 4945 id: p5547p91d71 author: Adriana M. Solomon title: On Isaac Newton's Concept of Mathematical Force date: 1904 words: 141 flesch: 23 summary: Broadly speaking, this project is a contribution to the epistemology and metaphysics comprised in (i) the mathematical practices underlying the birth of dynamics and (ii) the philosophical foundations of the transition from natural philosophy to mathematical physics. As a contribution to the philosophy of science, it introduces a novel understanding of Newton's philosophy of science centered on the use of what have come to be called models based on mathematical concepts. keywords: mathematical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p91d71.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p91d71.txt item: #3406 of 4945 id: p5547p91k5w author: Prateek Mehta title: Computational Design of Multifunctional Catalytic Systems: Metal-Support Interfaces and Plasma-Enhanced Catalysis date: 2019 words: 284 flesch: 37 summary: All of these effects are potentially tunable---the work provides guidelines on how the metal/support synergy may be exploited to develop superior catalysts. Computational approaches have made significant contributions to our understanding of heterogeneous catalysis in recent decades. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p91k5w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p91k5w.txt item: #3407 of 4945 id: p5547p91k67 author: Bridgette Drummond title: Scaling Up to Study Kidney Development: Using the Zebrafish as a High-Throughput Model to Identify Novel Genetic Regulators date: 2019 words: 273 flesch: 46 summary: These findings improve what was previously known about the genetics of kidney development, which will be useful in the future avenues of diagnostics and targeted therapeutics. One of the limiting factors for developing new treatments to kidney disorders is a lack of knowledge about the pathways utilized to develop this cellularly diverse organ. keywords: kidney cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p91k67.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p91k67.txt item: #3408 of 4945 id: p5547p91m1t author: Ryan Pyle title: Dynamics and Computations in Recurrent Neural Networks date: 2019 words: 184 flesch: 26 summary: Accounting for the spatially dependent structure observed in real cortical networks increases the reliability of the reservoir network, allowing it work in realistic spiking networks. Existing RNN algorithms use simplified neuron models due to difficulties using more complex or realistic neuron models. keywords: rnns cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p91m1t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p91m1t.txt item: #3409 of 4945 id: p5547p91n3t author: Andrew F. Schranck title: Analysis of Electrochemical Systems for Decomposition of Urea in Urine date: 2019 words: 562 flesch: 23 summary: Two major barriers for implementation of electrochemical wastewater treatment include minimizing energy requirements and controlling treatment byproducts. Though RCS can produce hazardous disinfection byproducts such as ClO3- and ClO4-, RCS were very effective for electrochemical conversion of wastewater N to N2, while HO• species showed more diverse selectivity toward NO3- and TAN.Photocatalyst and H2 producing electrode systems present two options for decreasing the energy demand of electrochemical wastewater treatment. keywords: urea cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p91n3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p91n3t.txt item: #3410 of 4945 id: p5547p91s2q author: Qiuwen Lou title: Cross-Layer Energy Efficient Hardware Design and Benchmarking with CMOS and Emerging Technologies date: 2020 words: 688 flesch: 33 summary: We applied Eva-DNN on three accelerator architectures from the literature, namely: Eyeriss, ShiDianNao, and TrueNorth and demonstrate that the model can reliably estimate the energy (maximum error of 15%) required by different components of different accelerator architecture topologies for a given workload or network. Specifically, we present (i) the implementation of different layers, including convolution, ReLU, and pooling, in a CoNN using CeNN, (ii) modified CoNN structures with CeNN-friendly layers to reduce computational overheads typically associated with a CoNN, (iii) a mixed-signal CeNN architecture that performs CoNN computations in the analog and mixed signal domain, and (iv) design space exploration that identifies what CeNN-based algorithm and architectural features fare best compared to existing algorithms and architectures when evaluated over common datasets -- MNIST and CIFAR-10.We also focus on benchmarking and evaluating DNN architectures. keywords: architecture; energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p91s2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p91s2q.txt item: #3411 of 4945 id: p5547p91t3c author: Alexander N. Erickson title: Iminoxolene Complexes of Molybdenum, Vanadium, Chromium, and Osmium date: 2021 words: 661 flesch: 41 summary: This correlation suggests that the osmium oxo group shows a balance between both electrophilic and nucleophilic character in the oxygen atom transfer reactions with phosphorus(III) reagents.(Hap)2Os(L) complexes react with substrates such as styrene oxide. The electronic structure of both (MeClamp)Cr and (MeClamp)V is best described using a covalent model in which the metal center is supported by iminoxolene ligands with substantial π donation. keywords: complexes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p91t3c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p91t3c.txt item: #3412 of 4945 id: p5547p91t7r author: Bethany Wentz title: Impact of Outgroup Attitude and Emotional Security on Youth Engagement in Sectarian Anti-Social Behavior date: 2021 words: 151 flesch: 5 summary: Results indicate mother and adolescent outgroup attitudes are correlated at all time points and that emotional security does not mediate the relationship between mother and adolescent outgroup attitude. Hypotheses state that emotional security mediates the relationship between mother and adolescent outgroup attitudes, and adolescent outgroup attitude impacts adolescent engagement in sectarian antisocial behavior. keywords: adolescent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p91t7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p91t7r.txt item: #3413 of 4945 id: p5547p91v41 author: Logan Quigley title: There and Back Again: Spatiotemporal Navigation in Late Medieval Pilgrimage Literature date: 2022 words: 196 flesch: 22 summary: It should of course come as no surprise that accounts composed over two centuries may differ in their interests, goals, and source material, but nevertheless in each narrative, Jerusalem and the Holy Land writ-large seems to act as the testing ground for each author's theories on and beliefs about their place in time and their access to the past and future. In this dissertation, I turn to three major pilgrim accounts from fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England (and the nearby continent) in order to explore how these pilgrims situated themselves spatially in order to access times outside their own moment. keywords: accounts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p5547p91v41.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p5547p91v41.txt item: #3414 of 4945 id: p8418k7401t author: Robert McKeon title: Three-Dimensional Face Imaging and Recognition: A Sensor Design and Comparative Study date: 2010 words: 217 flesch: 53 summary: We also developed techniques to improve face recognition based on ICP using fusion techniques and score normalization techniques. Many commercially available 3D sensors suitable for face image capture employ passive or texture-assisted stereo imaging or structured illumination with a moving light stripe. keywords: recognition cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k7401t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k7401t.txt item: #3415 of 4945 id: p8418k74025 author: Fabian Ernesto Saenz title: Functional Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum MAEBL date: 2008 words: 309 flesch: 50 summary: Therefore, we investigated the function of P. falciparum MAEBL in the invasion of salivary glands. Using P. falciparum NF54 MAEBL knock outs, we confirmed that MAEBL is essential for the invasion of salivary glands. keywords: maebl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k74025.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k74025.txt item: #3416 of 4945 id: p8418k74056 author: Justin Dewayne Barfield title: The Dereliction of Place date: 2013 words: 349 flesch: 50 summary: Industrial landscapes have become graveyards with abandoned buildings towering like massive tombstones, a representation of progress and decline sealed in the confines of an oxidizing surface. Landscapes that are always in a state of flux. keywords: industrial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k74056.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k74056.txt item: #3417 of 4945 id: p8418k7406j author: Nathaniel Edward Reed title: Discomfort, Dissonance and Prioritization among Individuals with Two Stigmatized Identities date: 2015 words: 160 flesch: 35 summary: This project seeks to understand how discomfort with stigma influences LGBT-POC (people of color) identity selection, especially in today's social climate where many people assume we have progressed past prejudicial disadvantages. Using a data set titled the Social Justice Sexuality Project reported identity importance is measured. keywords: identity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k7406j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k7406j.txt item: #3418 of 4945 id: p8418k7407w author: Claudia Anewalt-Remsburg title: Candidate Cues: Race, Ethnicity, and Partisanship date: 2013 words: 355 flesch: 34 summary: Previous scholarship on the effect of candidate race on voter evaluations and behavior finds that black candidates are disadvantaged. With the election of the first African-American president, do voters still view black candidates as less qualified and more liberal? keywords: candidate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k7407w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k7407w.txt item: #3419 of 4945 id: p8418k7413t author: Elizabeth Ann Kerr title: Damage Mechanisms and Repairability of High Strength Concrete Exposed to Elevated Temperatures date: 2007 words: 297 flesch: 37 summary: However, concrete loses strength when exposed to elevated temperatures as a result of damage to the pore structure and chemical degradation. This work is intended to further the understanding of the behavior of concrete exposed to elevated temperatures, and the ability to repair that concrete, through the implementation of a comprehensive study. keywords: concrete cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k7413t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k7413t.txt item: #3420 of 4945 id: p8418k74145 author: Adam Christopher Beck title: STM Investigation of Phthalocyanines as Possible Building Blocks for Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata date: 2005 words: 159 flesch: 39 summary: Ultra-high-vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy was used to observe copper phthalocyanine molecules deposited on the Au(111) surface. STM imaging of single copper phthalocyanine molecules was demonstrated. keywords: molecules cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k74145.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k74145.txt item: #3421 of 4945 id: p8418k7416v author: Anne Siebels Peterson title: Hylomorphism in Aristotle's Metaphysics: Constituent Ontology without Derivative Diversification date: 2015 words: 432 flesch: 31 summary: My first chapter explores the two mainstream views on this question, both of which claim that the diversity of co-specific organisms is derivative (either from the diversity of their matter or from the diversity of their form), arguing 1) that both mainstream views are committed to what we might call a constituent ontological vision of hylomorphism (according to which matter and form are non-identical components of organisms) and 2) that there are considerable advantages to viewing Aristotle's hylomorphism as a constituent ontology, perhaps most notably for defending the coherence of generation and corruption. My fourth chapter argues that we need not throw away constituent ontology along with the mainstream views; rather, we can maintain both the thesis that diversity for co-specific organisms is underived and a constituent ontological understanding of hylomorphism. keywords: organisms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k7416v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k7416v.txt item: #3422 of 4945 id: p8418k7419w author: Mayuri Rebala title: Allopregnanolone: Synthesis, Genomic Mechanism of Action and Its Role in Intracellular Signaling Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity in the Adult Brain of Xenopus laevis date: 2011 words: 404 flesch: 7 summary: In amphibian brains, synthesis of various neurosteorids is well established, however the endogenous synthesis of 5 alpha and 5 alpha-3 alpha reduced neurosteroids such as allopregnanolone, THDOC and androstanediol, in amphibian brain is not demonstrated yet. To identify the potential role of allopregnanolone on intracellular signaling mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, isolated in vitro brains were treated with a wide range of allopregnanolone doses with or without an NMDA receptor blocker. keywords: allopregnanolone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k7419w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k7419w.txt item: #3423 of 4945 id: p8418k7428v author: Dania Straughan title: Tell Me, Hear Me: A Study on Participant Needs and Dialogue Structure date: 1904 words: 152 flesch: 50 summary: This paper presents an ethnographic study of the South Bend Study Circles on race, which explores how dialogue structure interacts with participant needs and organizational goals. Yet for dialogue to be productive and positive, facilitators need to be trained to welcome disclosure and manage emotions and social injustice. keywords: dialogue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k7428v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k7428v.txt item: #3424 of 4945 id: p8418k7434s author: Na Yu title: Model-Based Design Optimization and Predictive Control to Minimize Energy Consumption of a Building date: 1904 words: 396 flesch: 27 summary: Current research has shown that building energy consumption contributes to more than 40\% of the total energy use in United States. At the operational stage, a machine learning method is utilized to predict the occupants temperature schedule, and this schedule is input to the model-based predictive control for further optimization with the goal of minimizing energy consumption while maintaining comfort conditions. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k7434s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k7434s.txt item: #3425 of 4945 id: p8418k7461p author: Zhenguo Jiang title: Device and Circuit Technologies for Advanced Terahertz Receiver Systems date: 1904 words: 859 flesch: 31 summary: The accomplishments achieved in this work not only provide novel devices and circuits which are essential for realizing advanced THz receiver systems, but also a comprehensive set of techniques that can be extended to multiple directions and applied to broader applications. Although various THz devices and circuits have been developed in recent years in response to the needs of the above applications, the performance of current THz receiver systems still remains unsatisfactory. keywords: balanced; thz cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k7461p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k7461p.txt item: #3426 of 4945 id: p8418k74j7v author: Karie Cross title: Defining Critical Feminist Justpeace: Women's Peacebuilding Praxis and Feminist Political Thought date: 1904 words: 164 flesch: 34 summary: Entering an ongoing debate within peace studies about the United Nations' top-down, institutions-oriented liberal peace, I use ethnographic research with women's peacebuilding groups in India alongside feminist political thought to argue for a critical feminist justpeace, developed from the bottom-up and taking the diverse experiences of marginalized women as motivation. Women in Manipur, India, try to build peace across ethnic, religious, and class-based boundaries. keywords: peace cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k74j7v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k74j7v.txt item: #3427 of 4945 id: p8418k74q1b author: Brianna R. Mullins (Norris) title: Elucidating Mechanisms of Leishmania Signaling Pathways and Parasite Stress Response date: 1904 words: 396 flesch: 21 summary: In this dissertation, I address the significance of signal transduction cascades during Leishmania parasite differentiation for the purpose of identifying potential drug targets to be used for the treatment of leishmaniasis, a disease characterized by a spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from ulcerative skin lesions to fatal visceral infections. Though protein kinases, and their downstream targets, have been more actively studied for the potential development of anti-parasitic therapeutics, our understanding of the biology of protein phosphatases in Leishmania is poor despite their implication in critical post-translational modifications and differentiation. keywords: protein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k74q1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k74q1b.txt item: #3428 of 4945 id: p8418k74q31 author: Felicia M. Roland title: Molecular Probes for Cancer Imaging and Therapy date: 1904 words: 360 flesch: 40 summary: The following two chapters describe molecular imaging probes based on squaraine dyes linked to zinc(II) dipicolylamine (ZnDPA) for fluorescence imaging of anionic lipids on membranes of cancer cells and pathogens. Studies compared two constructs having different numbers of targeting units to reveal that a hexavalent probe is preferred for mammalian cell imaging while a dodecavalent probe is favored for microbial imaging. keywords: imaging cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k74q31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k74q31.txt item: #3429 of 4945 id: p8418k74q4c author: Carmella Vizza title: Chemical and Microbial Drivers of Pond Ecosystem Function in the Copper River Delta, Alaska date: 1904 words: 353 flesch: 27 summary: Ebullition, or bubbling, often dominated total CH4 emissions from these ponds and appeared to integrate alternate sources of CH4 other than current production. The predictability of processes in the CH4 cycle diminished from CH4 production to diffusive emissions to total emissions. keywords: ch4 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k74q4c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k74q4c.txt item: #3430 of 4945 id: p8418k74q8r author: Lucia Manzi title: The Effective Judicial Prosecution of Systemic Political Corruption: Italy date: 1904 words: 351 flesch: 31 summary: I argue that judicial effectiveness depends on the structure of professional relationships among judicial actors, both at the national and local level. The use of process tracing allows me to detail the significance of local judicial relationships for the judicial prosecution of systemic corruption in each of these case studies. keywords: judicial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k74q8r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k74q8r.txt item: #3431 of 4945 id: p8418k74r1n author: Anh H. Nguyen title: Quantitative Online Sheath-Flow Surface Enhanced Raman Detection for Liquid Chromatography date: 2018 words: 362 flesch: 34 summary: The excellent sensitivity of sheath-flow SERS has provided a new detection technique for proteins study. The SERS cell is connected directly with the LC outlet for simultaneous post-separation detection. keywords: sers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k74r1n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k74r1n.txt item: #3432 of 4945 id: p8418k74x47 author: Justin David Strong title: The Fables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke: Their Form, Origins, and Implications date: 2019 words: 393 flesch: 51 summary: The fable provides an answer to why Luke can depict a first-century Jewish figure as teaching in parables and it also resolves lighter matters, such as whether the parables attributed to Jesus are intended to make us laugh. Most New Testament scholars view it as axiomatic that the historical Jesus taught in parables. keywords: parables cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k74x47.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k74x47.txt item: #3433 of 4945 id: p8418k7526f author: Jinglan Liu title: Generative Adversarial Networks in Resource Constrained Environment date: 2020 words: 315 flesch: 46 summary: As a spin-off of DNNs, GANs require a large amount of resources as other DNNs, no matter in terms of physical resources like memory and computation cost, or data resources needed for training. This high resources demand hinders GANs from being widely used in various practical environments with limited resources. keywords: resources cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k7526f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k7526f.txt item: #3434 of 4945 id: p8418k75462 author: Ryan M. Wise title: Agamben and the Kingdom: A Theological Introduction date: 2022 words: 277 flesch: 16 summary: Unlike previous studies of this and other related topics, this project aims to show that Agamben's work is not only thoroughly informed by theology, but that it can also be productively interpreted as itself a kind of political theology, as presenting a constructive account of Christian theory and praxis in the space of modern politics. We will subsequently compare this account with other operative paradigms of political theology, focusing on the magisterial approaches of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and German theologian Johann Baptist Metz, the Radical Orthodoxy of Anglican theologian John Milbank, and the weak theology of Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo and American academic John D. Caputo. keywords: theology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k75462.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k75462.txt item: #3435 of 4945 id: p8418k7563n author: Monica C. Perez title: Material Hardship and Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing: Mediating and Moderating Roles of Mothers' Parenting Stress and Fathers' Social Support date: 2023 words: 239 flesch: 14 summary: The results showed that maternal parenting stress fully mediated the relationship between (1) food insecurity and adolescent internalizing (i.e., anxiety and depression) (2) food insecurity and adolescent externalizing and (3) housing instability and adolescent depression. There was evidence that maternal parenting stress partially mediated the relationship between (1) housing instability and adolescent anxiety and (2) housing instability and adolescent externalizing. keywords: adolescent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/p8418k7563n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/p8418k7563n.txt item: #3436 of 4945 id: pc289g57846 author: David Kopp title: Microwave Performance and Fabrication Of Quilt Packaging, a Novel Chip-To-Chip Interconnect Technology date: 2014 words: 284 flesch: 30 summary: For such millimeter-wave systems, the bandwidth of individual interconnects is paramount, and the packing densities are far less important. For modern digital systems, the number of interconnects is small compared to the number of active devices on the chip, and given the high data processing throughput of many modern systems, the interconnects are by necessity shared or multiplexed. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g57846.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g57846.txt item: #3437 of 4945 id: pc289g5785j author: Andrew J Peterson title: Understanding Election Violence in Burundi date: 2011 words: 141 flesch: 44 summary: Then, a brief historical overview of violence in Burundi provides context for recent events. This study conducts an analysis of the temporal and geographic distribution of violence linked to the 2010 communal elections in Burundi, including its forms, actors and targets to test alternative explanations for this violence. keywords: violence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g5785j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g5785j.txt item: #3438 of 4945 id: pc289g5789x author: Paul Stey title: Bayesian Analysis of Children?s Moral Judgments on the Trolley Cases date: 2014 words: 241 flesch: 50 summary: We also extended the research of Pellizzoni, Siegal, and Surian (2010), who utilized a sample of young children in an attempt to test Greene's theory that moral judgments are driven by differences in the directness of harm. Specifically, this project tested aspects of Greene's dual-process model (Greene, Sommerville, Nystrom, Darley, & Cohen, 2001) and Mikhail's (2000) theory of universal moral grammar. keywords: judgments cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g5789x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g5789x.txt item: #3439 of 4945 id: pc289g57904 author: Lauren Elizabeth Barton title: Size Dependent Structure and Reactivity of Nanohematite date: 2010 words: 369 flesch: 31 summary: DFOB adsorption remained minimal despite changes in particle size and pH. Kinetic dissolution experiments indicated that the presence of DFOB enhanced dissolution approximately 6 fold. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of particle size in the nanometer range on the physicochemical and reactive properties of hematite. keywords: surface cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g57904.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g57904.txt item: #3440 of 4945 id: pc289g5792t author: Joseph R Rausch title: Investigating Change in Intraindividual Factor Structure Over Time date: 2007 words: 189 flesch: 22 summary: Although changes in factor structure are sometimes seen as hindrances to scientific research, the investigation of factor structure changes can also provide new opportunities for the development of theory in psychology. A Monte Carlo simulation study was undertaken to evaluate the estimation and model evaluation procedures proposed for investigating changes in intraindividual factor structure over time. keywords: factor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g5792t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g5792t.txt item: #3441 of 4945 id: pc289g57935 author: JohnChristopher Adorno Keller title: Telling the Whole Truth: The Role of Paraphrase in Philosophical Inquiry date: 2010 words: 481 flesch: 48 summary: Moore argued that moral claims cannot be expressed using sentences containing only naturalistic language; platonists argue that reality cannot be adequately characterized without using sentences that refer to abstract objects; 'tensers' in the philosophy of time argue that tensed sentences cannot be adequately paraphrased by tenseless sentences; and dualists such as David Chalmers argue that certain facts about consciousness cannot be expressed using sentences containing only vocabulary amenable to reductive physicalism. It exposes a widespread misconception about JohnChristopher Adorno Keller the function of paraphrase: that its purpose is to remove unwanted commitments. keywords: paraphrase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g57935.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g57935.txt item: #3442 of 4945 id: pc289g57966 author: Marian Valentin Iordache title: Methods for the Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems Based on Petri Net Abstractions date: 2003 words: 421 flesch: 42 summary: The decentralized supervision problem is approached in three settings: no communication, unrestricted communication, and restricted communication. This dissertation proposes new methodologies for the supervisory control of concurrent systems. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g57966.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g57966.txt item: #3443 of 4945 id: pc289g5798w author: Di Liang title: High-Index-Contrast Ridge Waveguide Devices for Integrated Photonic and Optoelectronic Applications date: 2007 words: 378 flesch: 28 summary: Oxidation smoothing, a new technique allowing ultra-low loss HIC waveguides, is demonstrated for the first time in III-V compound semiconductor heterostructures via non-selective oxidation. The simplified HIC laser fabrication process developed in this work also shows the great potential of non-selective oxidation for future high density PICs. keywords: laser cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g5798w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g5798w.txt item: #3444 of 4945 id: pc289g57997 author: Sarah Elizabeth Roth title: Historical Bodies date: 2015 words: 58 flesch: 25 summary: Historical Bodies contains five book projects: Esperanto Pass, The Future, GypsieLand, Postnatural, and Historical Bodies. The collection is framed by two pieces of creative nonfiction, anchoring the creative pursuit in the story of my mother's illness. keywords: historical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g57997.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g57997.txt item: #3445 of 4945 id: pc289g57c3s author: Kathleen Patricia Ansaldi title: Regularity of Tor, LCM-Duals, and Hilbert Functions date: 1904 words: 384 flesch: 69 summary: The first class of ideals that arises from graph theory are Ferrers ideals, which are edge ideals of a Ferrers graph. The second class of ideals we consider are specializations of Ferrers ideals, strongly stable ideals of degree two. keywords: ideals cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g57c3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g57c3s.txt item: #3446 of 4945 id: pc289g57g3q author: Tyler C. Kreipke title: Structural, Mechanical, and Biological Relationships of Trabecular Bone In Osteoporosis date: 1904 words: 347 flesch: 25 summary: Trabecular bone is the primary site of osteoporosis. The relationship between structure, biology, and solid phase mechanics in trabecular bone was studied using the ovariectomized ewe. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g57g3q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g57g3q.txt item: #3447 of 4945 id: pc289g57z8s author: Duy Nguyen title: Sea Spray Concentration Profile in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer date: 1904 words: 183 flesch: 32 summary: The transport of sea spray is driven by a complex mix of winds, waves and turbulence.[15] Currently, only limited observation data as well as numerical data exist that can be used to study the concentration profiles of spray. Quantifying sea spray concentration in the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) is critical to understand the life time, dynamics and transport of sea spray processes. keywords: spray cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g57z8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g57z8s.txt item: #3448 of 4945 id: pc289g58040 author: Wenqi Liu title: Molecular Recognition Using Tetralactam Macrocycle and Development of Synthavidin Technology date: 1904 words: 249 flesch: 25 summary: Biotin/(strept)avidin binding is a remarkable molecular recognition process in nature with extraordinary high binding affinity (Ka ~ 10^15 M-1). As a new molecular recognition platform with high affinity in water, three practical applications of synthavidin technology are demonstrated. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g58040.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g58040.txt item: #3449 of 4945 id: pc289g5848m author: Maria Glenski title: Social News Consumption in Systems with Crowd-Sourced Curation date: 2019 words: 223 flesch: 32 summary: Here, I describe several analyses and predictive models of user-behavior in social news platforms such as: user-interactions that rely on or influence the aggregate, anonymous crowd-ratings used to identify news-worthy content and user-interactions with news sources of varied credibility in particular. People frequently supplement or have replaced their consumption of news from traditional print, radio, or television news sources with social news consumption from online social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit. keywords: news cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g5848m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g5848m.txt item: #3450 of 4945 id: pc289g58c1c author: Sandhya Vasudevan title: The Role of Broadband Near Infrared Spectroscopy in Breast Cancer Diagnosis date: 2020 words: 827 flesch: 27 summary: The high metHb concentration observed in malignant lesions compared to benign lesions reflects the angiogenic state of the lesions, and suggests variations in the composition of malignant tissue such as presence of neovascularization and hemorrhage. One is to determine the meaning of the tumor specific absorption signature and understand its relation to the underlying tumor containing tissue absorption. keywords: absorption; stc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g58c1c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g58c1c.txt item: #3451 of 4945 id: pc289g58c5r author: Pamela Bilo Thomas title: Measurements for Adoption, Spread, and Prediction of Online Human Behavior date: 2021 words: 342 flesch: 42 summary: As a consequence, news organizations, social media companies, and government policy makers are now grappling with how to balance questions of free speech with incitement to violence and harassment on social media platforms. The early part of the 21st century saw the creation and quick adoption of social media as a way for people to communicate with their friends and loved ones. keywords: media cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g58c5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g58c5r.txt item: #3452 of 4945 id: pc289g58d1p author: Shinjini Chattopadhyay title: Plurabilities of the City: Metropolitan Cosmopolitanisms in Modernist and Postcolonial British, Irish, and Bengali Novels date: 2021 words: 324 flesch: 17 summary: As a woman my country is the whole world, is now considered one of the defining moments in the formulation of modernist cosmopolitanism. Woolf's declaration of a world citizenship locates the crux of modernist cosmopolitanism in renouncing national loyalties and transcending cultural boundaries. keywords: cosmopolitanism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g58d1p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g58d1p.txt item: #3453 of 4945 id: pc289g58d52 author: Nazli Turan title: Development and Characterization of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jets for Low Temperature Sintering date: 2022 words: 298 flesch: 37 summary: Plasma jet sintering is a low temperature material processing method that employs non-thermal plasma species to treat surfaces. Due to its non-thermal, low temperature nature, it offers a solution to the technological challenge of high temperature activation of inks in producing embedded electronics on temperature-sensitive surfaces. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g58d52.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g58d52.txt item: #3454 of 4945 id: pc289g58f10 author: Nicholas Yeh title: The Role of Preparatory Cognitive Reappraisal Strategies on Emotional and Memory Outcomes date: 2022 words: 345 flesch: 14 summary: Importantly, across experiments participants were given either preparatory regulation cues (cognitive reappraisal, view) prior to the negative scene, preparatory regulation cues paired with emotional information about the upcoming negative scene (moderate, intense), preparatory emotional information prior to online regulation, or no preparatory cues prior to online regulation. The present work examined whether preparatory regulation cues facilitated success in generating cognitive reappraisals and if success or failure in implementing preparatory cognitive reappraisals was differentially associated with how events are experienced and subsequently remembered. keywords: preparatory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g58f10.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g58f10.txt item: #3455 of 4945 id: pc289g58f72 author: Ziqing Hu title: Graph Related Data Analysis and Neural Network Based Partial Differential Equations Solver date: 2022 words: 209 flesch: 32 summary: By using neural networks as tools for spatial discretization, we introduce a structure-preserving Eulerian algorithm to solve L2-gradient flows and a structure-preserving Lagrangian algorithm to solve generalized diffusions. For graph neural network, we modified the traditional training process of graph neural network by re-sampling the graph structure. keywords: graph cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pc289g58f72.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pc289g58f72.txt item: #3456 of 4945 id: pg15bc40j4r author: Gabriel LeVerne Converse title: Processing and Properties of Hydroxyapatite Whisker Reinforced Polyaryletherketones for Orthopaedic Applications date: 2010 words: 261 flesch: 35 summary: The compression molding/particle leaching technique used in this study facilitated the incorporation of high levels of bioactive HA whisker reinforcements into the polymer matrix. The effects of the reaction temperature and carboxylic acid on the morphology and composition of HA whiskers synthesized by chelate decomposition were first studied using a controlled heating rate under static conditions. keywords: whisker cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pg15bc40j4r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pg15bc40j4r.txt item: #3457 of 4945 id: pg15bc40j84 author: Amy Kathleen Nuttall title: Identifying Patterns of Adaptive and Destructive Parentification in Childhood date: 2015 words: 260 flesch: 21 summary: The present study sought to provide exploratory empirical support for parentification theory, which distinguishes between familial patterns of parentification that are destructive to child development and familial patterns of parentification that are an adaptive response to familial stress. Contrary to predictions, the classes did not differ on measures of child adjustment (internalizing, externalizing, social problems, prosocial behavior, cortisol reactivity to familial stress) concurrently or over time. keywords: familial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pg15bc40j84.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pg15bc40j84.txt item: #3458 of 4945 id: pg15bc40j9g author: Michael F Penta title: The Ol' Ball and Chain: Negative Effect of Intimate Long Distance Relationships on New Tie Formation in Personal Networks date: 2013 words: 97 flesch: 35 summary: Using data on the cell phone and email behaviors of 196 college freshman attending U.S. university, I examine the effect that the presence of an intimate long distance relationship has on the formation of ties during the first weeks of school. I theorize that the development of new relationships is limited by the presence of these relationships due to the time and energy required to maintain them. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pg15bc40j9g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pg15bc40j9g.txt item: #3459 of 4945 id: pg15bc40k5d author: Darcy A Davis title: Predicting Individual Disease Risk Based on Medical History date: 2008 words: 158 flesch: 40 summary: We present experimental results on a large Medicare dataset, demonstrating that CARE and ICARE perform well at capturing future disease risks. We propose CARE, a Collaborative Assessment and Recommendation Engine, which relies only on a patient's medical history using ICD-9-CM codes in order to predict future diseases risks. keywords: care cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pg15bc40k5d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pg15bc40k5d.txt item: #3460 of 4945 id: pg15bc40k6r author: Xiu Xing title: Small-Signal Modeling and Microwave Noise Characterization of InGaP/GaAs HBTs date: 2007 words: 175 flesch: 40 summary: Device physics, analytical extraction and numerical optimization are incorporated to extract small-signal equivalent circuit parameters (ECPs), improved by modeling interaction between contact metalizations and hybrid optimization of T and ? Combined with NF50 measurement, frequency- and bias-dependent noise parameters (NPs) up to 20 GHz are extracted using polynomial approximation of noise parameters for intrinsic device. keywords: noise cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pg15bc40k6r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pg15bc40k6r.txt item: #3461 of 4945 id: pg15bc40k8f author: Jindal Kiritkumar Shah title: Monte Carlo Simulations of the Ionic Liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate date: 2004 words: 293 flesch: 25 summary: Calculated molar volumes (or densities) are within 5 % of experimental values, and a reasonable agreement is obtained between computed and experimental values of the isothermal compressibility and volume expansivity. A united atom forcefield is developed using a combination of ab initio calculations and literature parameter values. keywords: results cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pg15bc40k8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pg15bc40k8f.txt item: #3462 of 4945 id: pg15bc40m1b author: Ali Zeeshan Raja title: Deciphering the Role of MPS-1 in the Regulation of Kinetochore Assembly date: 2014 words: 298 flesch: 51 summary: To test that hypothesis MPS-1 inhibition was achieved using reversine and compared to AurB inhibition by ZM447439. Expression of a triple-Ala (3A) mutant of Zwilch induced defects similar to MPS-1 inhibition and led to a loss of dynein, dynactin, spindly, RZZ complex and anaphase inhibitors from the kinetochores. keywords: mps-1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pg15bc40m1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pg15bc40m1b.txt item: #3463 of 4945 id: pg15bc40m4c author: Kelsey J. Weigel title: Microenvironment and Chemotherapeutic Modulation of Breast Cancer Cell Survival date: 2015 words: 474 flesch: 30 summary: With enhanced appreciation for the contributions of the tumor microenvironment to cancer cell survival and disease progression, it is imperative that we consider cell types such as CAFs in our treatment regimen for patients. In parallel to our studies understanding the contribution of CAFs to cancer cell survival and disease progression, we have also started exploring normal microenvironment fibroblasts (NMFs). keywords: cancer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pg15bc40m4c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pg15bc40m4c.txt item: #3464 of 4945 id: pg15bc4139q author: Mengyu (Miranda) Gao title: The Link between Marital and Parent-Child Relationship Quality: Test for the Spillover and Compensatory Hypotheses with a Daily Diary Design date: 1904 words: 250 flesch: 34 summary: When the cross-person association was examined, evidence was found supporting the compensatory hypothesis for mothers: poorer average marital relationship quality of fathers was related to increased level of mothers' daily relationship quality with the child. The findings illustrated the interdependent, changing, and dynamic patterns of family relationships and underscored the importance of differentiating the father-child and mother-child relationship. keywords: relationship cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pg15bc4139q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pg15bc4139q.txt item: #3465 of 4945 id: pg15bc4181h author: Yongho Francis Lee title: Bonaventure and Chinul: Christian and Buddhist Models for Integration of the Intellectual and Spiritual Life date: 1904 words: 312 flesch: 33 summary: In both Christianity and Buddhism, there has long been a conflict between the learned study of doctrine and spiritual practice, or between theology and spirituality. Acknowledging significant contributions made by both intellectual study and spiritual practice, some religious adepts have striven to integrate both ways. keywords: study cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pg15bc4181h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pg15bc4181h.txt item: #3466 of 4945 id: pg15bc41d9h author: Yingjia Ni title: Functional Screen Identifies Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Vulnerability Driven by Death Effector Domain-Containing Protein date: 2019 words: 248 flesch: 20 summary: Taken together, my study revealed a TNBC-specific vulnerability conferred by DEDD-driven dysregulated cell cycle progression and provided a rationale for the clinical application of CDK4/6 inhibitor containing combinatorial regimens for TNBC patients. Clinically, despite the successes of cyclin D kinase CDK 4/6 inhibitors in breast cancer, TNBC patients have been excluded from CDK 4/6 inhibitors clinical trials due to the perceived high frequency of Rb loss. keywords: dedd cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pg15bc41d9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pg15bc41d9h.txt item: #3467 of 4945 id: pg15bc41f0q author: Trung Duong Minh Ly title: Essays in Macro-Labor Economics date: 2019 words: 573 flesch: 40 summary: I show that a model with a binding minimum wage delivers lower Nash-bargained wages than one without that feature, and higher minimum wages negatively affect wages of those for whom the minimum wage is not binding. This finding helps explain why inequality falls as the minimum wage increases: wages are less dispersed because higher wage floors compress the wage distribution both from the bottom and from the top, i.e. they raise the wages of those at the bottom of the wage distribution and lower the wages of workers who earn the most in the economy. keywords: wage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pg15bc41f0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pg15bc41f0q.txt item: #3468 of 4945 id: pg15bc41n70 author: Ivan Navarrete Leschot title: Mineral Admixture-Based Rheological Design of Concrete date: 2021 words: 335 flesch: 21 summary: The specific objectives of this research are to experimentally investigate, develop and validate empirical models for the effects of: 1) SCM properties and their interactions with the primary mixture parameters on the increase of static yield stress on time of cementitious paste before initial set; 2) SCM properties and their interactions with the primary mixture parameters on the viscosity of cementitious paste before initial set; and 3) concrete mixture design (i.e., cementitious paste rheology and aggregate-to-cementitious paste ratio), building process (i.e., layer-to-layer free-fall height and delay time), and their interactions on the layer-to-layer flexural and shear bond strength in multilayer SCC. This thesis provides an experimental-based quantitative assessment and understanding of the effects of the particle size and physicochemical properties of SCMs and their interactions with the primary mixture parameters (such as water-to-cementitious materials ratio, SCM replacement, and reactivity of cement) on the rheology of cementitious paste (i.e., cementitious mixture with no coarse or fine aggregates). keywords: cementitious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pg15bc41n70.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pg15bc41n70.txt item: #3469 of 4945 id: pk02c823t6h author: Julie W Dallavis title: Religious High Schools and Gender Socialization: Examining Postsecondary Outcomes of College Degree and Choice of Major date: 2015 words: 171 flesch: 46 summary: Catholic school students are more likely and evangelical Protestant school students are equally as likely as public school students to earn a degree. Findings from logistic regression suggest that there are no differences by gender across school sector in earning a college degree. keywords: major cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c823t6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c823t6h.txt item: #3470 of 4945 id: pk02c823t7v author: Curtis Alan Holliman title: Continuity Properties of the Data-To-Solution Map for the Hunter-Saxton Equation date: 2011 words: 120 flesch: 52 summary: To achieve this result, approximate solutions that satisfy this property are chosen, after which actual solutions are found by solving the HS Cauchy problem with initial data taken to be the value of approximate solutions at time zero. To demonstrate this sharpness of continuity, two sequences of bounded solutions to the HS equation are constructed whose distance at the initial time converges to zero and whose distance at any later time is bounded from below by a positive constant. keywords: solutions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c823t7v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c823t7v.txt item: #3471 of 4945 id: pk02c823v13 author: Yuridia Caire title: Investigations of proteins important for antibiotic resistance date: 2005 words: 117 flesch: 41 summary: This project required isolation and purification of the OXA-10 beta-lactamase overexpressed in E. coli BL21 and the determination of kcat, Km, and Vmax parameters for different beta-lactam antibiotics at different viscosities of the reaction buffer. This protein is a gene repressor, believed to be involved in inducible expression of beta-lactamases in S. aureus. keywords: beta cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c823v13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c823v13.txt item: #3472 of 4945 id: pk02c823v2f author: Peter James Bui title: A Compiler Toolchain for Distributed Data Intensive Scientific Workflows date: 2012 words: 181 flesch: 26 summary: To address this need, I propose applying concepts from traditional compilers, linkers, and profilers to the construction of distributed workflows and evaluate this approach by implementing a compiler toolchain that allows users to compose scientific workflows in a high-level programming language. Altogether, these components form a compiler toolchain that demonstrates the effectiveness of applying traditional compiler techniques to the challenges of constructing distributed data intensive scientific workflows. keywords: workflows cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c823v2f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c823v2f.txt item: #3473 of 4945 id: pk02c823v3s author: Anand Kumar title: Combustion Synthesis of Novel Catalysts for Hydrogen Production from Light Alcohols date: 2011 words: 470 flesch: 37 summary: These findings were used to synthesize partially reduced catalyst with high surface area for hydrogen production from alcohols. The reactive mixture of the SCS was impregnated on a thin cellulose paper in order to enhance the heat transfer effects after combustion which would in fine particles with high surface area. keywords: combustion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c823v3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c823v3s.txt item: #3474 of 4945 id: pk02c823v44 author: Matthew J. Grow title: 'Liberty to the Downtrodden': Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer date: 2006 words: 363 flesch: 44 summary: While many remained traditionally religious, others, like Kane, reacted against evangelical reform because of their own antipathy to evangelicalism (though he converted in mid-life to Christianity). This dissertation explores social reform in antebellum and Civil War America through a biography of Thomas L. Kane (1822-1883). keywords: kane cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c823v44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c823v44.txt item: #3475 of 4945 id: pk02c823v5g author: Cody Daniel Christopherson title: Can Happiness Be Successfully Pursued? A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Pursuit and Assessment of Happiness date: 2011 words: 141 flesch: 56 summary: As a subset of this possibility, in separate experiment, the assessment of happiness is examined as a potential source of decreased happiness, N = 175. It is further found that the assessment of happiness is not self-defeating compared to control assessments. keywords: happiness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c823v5g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c823v5g.txt item: #3476 of 4945 id: pk02c823v8h author: Benjamin Patrick Roope title: Analysis of Elevated Uranium and Impact of the Cotton Industry on Groundwaters in Benin, Africa date: 2004 words: 377 flesch: 32 summary: By detailing characteristics of groundwater in Benin through elemental signatures, the previous phase of this research sought to better understand the hydrogeology and spatial distribution of groundwater quality in Benin. Conclusions were drawn about the characteristics of groundwater samples based on a full statistical perspective gained for each of the data sets. keywords: groundwater cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c823v8h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c823v8h.txt item: #3477 of 4945 id: pk02c823w02 author: Gilberto Libanio title: Three Essays on Aggregate Demand and Growth date: 2008 words: 353 flesch: 35 summary: This dissertation consists of three independent essays that explore different aspects of the relation between aggregate demand and growth. The first chapter revisits the debate on unit roots in macroeconomic time series and discusses the endogeneity of the natural rate of growth. keywords: growth cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c823w02.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c823w02.txt item: #3478 of 4945 id: pk02c823w1d author: Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis title: Ministers of Christ: Benedictine Women Religious in Central Medieval England date: 2015 words: 344 flesch: 16 summary: But most innovative and central to this study are the close paleographical and codicological analyses of the surviving liturgical manuscripts that were produced by and for houses of Benedictine women religious in central medieval England. This study shows that far from becoming wholly dependent on such care, many women religious in central medieval England continued to exercise prominent liturgical and pastoral roles in their communities, much like those assumed by their earlier Anglo-Saxon foremothers and by their contemporary Benedictine brothers. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c823w1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c823w1d.txt item: #3479 of 4945 id: pk02c823x53 author: Peter Sutcliffe title: Neural Network Feedforward Control of a Closed-Circuit Wind Tunnel date: 1904 words: 334 flesch: 24 summary: A novel neural network database generation method, developed through the use of fractional factorial arrays, was employed such that a neural network can accurately predict wind-tunnel parameters across a wide range of operating conditions whilst trained upon a highly efficient database. Accurate control of wind-tunnel test conditions can be dramatically enhanced using feedforward control architectures which allow operating conditions to be maintained at a desired setpoint through the use of mathematical models as the primary source of prediction. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c823x53.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c823x53.txt item: #3480 of 4945 id: pk02c823z0p author: Matthew W Eng title: Validation and Characterization of Host Factors for Dengue Virus in the Vector Mosquito, Aedes aegypti date: 1904 words: 323 flesch: 46 summary: Knockdown of these hub genes decreases DENV infection of adult mosquitoes. It is also been demonstrated as a protective mechanism against viral infection, including DENV infection in mammalian systems. keywords: denv cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c823z0p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c823z0p.txt item: #3481 of 4945 id: pk02c824159 author: Timothy Earl Neill title: Digital Artefacts (Chernobyl): Self-Organizing Matter date: 1904 words: 232 flesch: 33 summary: This new body of work shifts away from the culturally constructed myths surrounding human progress, and embraces natural patterns of the dynamic and the chaotic as a more complex and accurate view of the relationship humans have with perceived advancement. Contrary to the methodology of archaeology, that as the natural transition of material, or entropy, increases, information and thus meaning decreases, I am interested in the inverse, or that as entropy increases, meaning has the potential to increase. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c824159.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c824159.txt item: #3482 of 4945 id: pk02c824170 author: Rebecca Chan title: Making Metaphysics Matter: Essays on Reasons and Persons date: 1904 words: 303 flesch: 47 summary: Sometimes, the challenge arises because metaphysical disputes are thought to be unresolvable. The four independent essays that compose it are united by a central theme: to what extent does normative data—roughly, facts about value and what we ought to do—bear on metaphysical disputes? keywords: metaphysical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c824170.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c824170.txt item: #3483 of 4945 id: pk02c824d00 author: Peter E. Feist title: Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Intractable Samples date: 1904 words: 296 flesch: 29 summary: This document demonstrates my focus on sample preparation strategies for bottom-up mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Sample preparation approaches that are excessively time-consuming, incur massive sample losses, or fail to prevent irreversible damage require modification or replacement. keywords: mass cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c824d00.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c824d00.txt item: #3484 of 4945 id: pk02c824j4m author: Kristen A. Johnson title: A Mechanistic Study of the Ebola Virus Matrix Protein Membrane Binding Properties date: 1904 words: 486 flesch: 57 summary: VLPs are non-infections and thus an excellent tool to study VP40 function in live cells. PS was also required for VP40 hexamer formation at the PM. keywords: vp40 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c824j4m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c824j4m.txt item: #3485 of 4945 id: pk02c824r7h author: Evercita Cuevas Eugenio title: Some Methods for Differentially Private Data Synthesis date: 2019 words: 327 flesch: 32 summary: Many of the existing methods for data privacy and confidentiality do not quantify the amount of privacy that the data set may leak. Next my dissertation focuses on a exponential random graph model that incorporates differential privacy for social network data. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c824r7h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c824r7h.txt item: #3486 of 4945 id: pk02c824t12 author: Shenglong Zhu title: Algorithms for Assembly Consolidation and Prediction of Large-Scale Genome Structures date: 2019 words: 201 flesch: 24 summary: Our work on inversion prediction aims to predict and catalog inversions by exploring the well-known Range Maximum Query model and Max-Cut model for what we call ``global' inversions, and the novel Rectangle Clustering model and Representative Rectangle Prediction model for more localized inversions. Evaluated using both simulated and real genome data, our algorithms and implementations have shown substantial promise for accurate computational analysis of genome structure in significantly shorter time. keywords: genome cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c824t12.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c824t12.txt item: #3487 of 4945 id: pk02c824x6q author: Ariel Aguero title: The Role of Multimodal Synchrony in Visual Categorization date: 2021 words: 227 flesch: 40 summary: Previously we demonstrated that experience with audio-visual synchrony can lead a non-speech signal - sine-wave tones – to facilitate categorization, suggesting that parents' use of multimodal synchrony plays a role in the link between speech and concepts. Alternatively, multimodal synchrony may underlie the development of a link between signals other than speech (e.g., sign language) and concepts, but not speech-concept links per se. keywords: speech cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c824x6q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c824x6q.txt item: #3488 of 4945 id: pk02c824z19 author: Brady T. Russo title: The Role of Sortase A in the Maintenance of Cell Surface Properties and Cell Hardiness in Streptococcus pyogenes AP53 date: 2021 words: 470 flesch: 40 summary: The activity of SrtA is specific to cell surface proteins with a C-terminal LPXTG-motif followed by a hydrophobic region and a positively charged tail. Overall, the results of this study suggest the existence of an alternative mechanism for cell surface protein expression and the necessity for srtA activity for bacterial viability and hardiness. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c824z19.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c824z19.txt item: #3489 of 4945 id: pk02c82515k author: Joseph J. Liberko title: Exploring Light-Matter Interactions at the Nanoscale with Synchrotron Infrared Nanospectroscopy and Spatial Modulation Spectroscopy date: 2023 words: 522 flesch: 43 summary: Knowledge of the laser's focal parameters (such as its position and beam waist) are crucial to extracting extinction parameters. Transmitted laser intensity is measured versus blade position resulting in a sigmoidal response whose fit parameters yield the beam position and beam waist. keywords: beam cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c82515k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c82515k.txt item: #3490 of 4945 id: pk02c82516x author: Qing Lu title: Hardware-Efficient Automated Machine Learning Using Neural Architecture Search: Methods and Applications date: 2023 words: 321 flesch: 37 summary: During the past few years, neural architecture search (NAS) has demonstrated to be one of the most successful techniques in realizing machine-based architecture engineering for deep neural networks, and become the key component in automated machine learning (AutoML). While NAS has already achieved the state of art in many machine learning tasks, efficiency problem arises in both the development and deployment phases. keywords: nas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pk02c82516x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pk02c82516x.txt item: #3491 of 4945 id: pn89d50735r author: Kathryn L Wagner title: Essays in Medicaid Crowd-out for the Disabled date: 2015 words: 359 flesch: 41 summary: The two essays included in this dissertation investigate issues related to the crowd-out of private health insurance resulting from Medicaid expansions among the working age disabled. The first essay estimates the take-up and crowd-out rates that resulted from Medicaid expansions that began in the late 1990s among working age individuals with disabilities. keywords: medicaid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d50735r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d50735r.txt item: #3492 of 4945 id: pn89d507363 author: Donald Allan Tillotson title: Drag Reduction and Directional Control of a Projectile Using Plasma Actuators date: 2010 words: 187 flesch: 52 summary: Previous research has demonstrated the ability for plasma actuators to prevent flow separation as well as to vector a flow around a surface radius. The aft end of the model was removable to allow for different radii edges. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d507363.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d507363.txt item: #3493 of 4945 id: pn89d507394 author: Hyunjin Deborah Kwak title: State Repression and Religion: A Statistical Analysis of Religious Groups? Collective Responses to the State date: 2013 words: 139 flesch: 30 summary: As a result, we know very little about the process through which religious groups radicalize, the types of repression that motivate religious groups to radicalize and the kinds of collective action religious groups engage in. Religious groups employ and share various resources and symbols from their religious cultures, which help cultivate a culture of resistance and embattled identity. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d507394.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d507394.txt item: #3494 of 4945 id: pn89d50740b author: Amy Lyn Buchmann title: Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Bacterial Motility and Swarming date: 2015 words: 239 flesch: 37 summary: M. xanthus are able to share outer membrane proteins through direct cell contact, and the study of these properties is important for determining the populations' ability to efficiently share protein. To characterize cell-cell interactions, the contacts between cells in simulations are analyzed to determine how these properties influence the populations' ability to form and keep cell-cell connections. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d50740b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d50740b.txt item: #3495 of 4945 id: pn89d50741p author: Edit Varga title: Experimental Study of Novel Nanomagnet Logic Devices date: 2013 words: 377 flesch: 45 summary: We built new basic magnetic structures such as shape engineered majority gates, AND gate, OR gate, for the first time, and used wires, inverters and gates to construct more complex circuits, such as a fanout, an XOR, and a full adder. Our ultimate goal is to realize novel logic elements to extend the library of nanomagnet logic circuits. keywords: logic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d50741p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d50741p.txt item: #3496 of 4945 id: pn89d50747r author: Saivenkataraman Jayaraman title: Computing thermodynamic and transport properties of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids and Molten Salts from atomistic simulations. date: 2010 words: 294 flesch: 28 summary: Melting points were computed for lithium, sodium and potassium nitrate salts, which are being considered as candidates for heat transfer media in solar thermal applications. Ionic liquids and molten salts are being considered for many novel applications including for use as heat transfer fluids in thermal energy generation cycles. keywords: melting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d50747r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d50747r.txt item: #3497 of 4945 id: pn89d507483 author: Su Su title: Decentralized Damage Detection in Civil Infrastructure Using Multi-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks date: 2011 words: 444 flesch: -4 summary: These contributions include (1) a Bivariate Regressive Adaptive INdex (BRAIN) for damage detection that proves to be more robust and accurate than previous formats, (2) a Restricted Input Network Activation Scheme (RINAS) with a new image-based vehicle classification algorithm that not only reduces the size of reference databases and enhances detection reliability, but also relieves computational burdens and extends network lifetime and (3) an offline damage localization technique employing Dempster-Shafer Evidence Theory that is capable of effectively isolating damage positions even for minor loss levels. Thus the primary research tasks in this dissertation can be summarized as: Develop a wireless sensor network philosophy that provides reliable data for detection and localization of damage in complex Civil Infrastructure, while maximizing the performance and lifetime of the hardware Develop an assessment framework suitable for damage detection and localization using data measured from a distributed wireless sensors and suitable for operation within said network, i.e., recognizing the computational resources, communications constraints, and power available to the network Analytically and experimentally verify, at various scales and levels of complexity, the proposed network philosophy and assessment framework. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d507483.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d507483.txt item: #3498 of 4945 id: pn89d50750n author: Benjamin Lewis Fitzpatrick title: Negroes for Sale: The Slave Trade in Antebellum Kentucky date: 2010 words: 175 flesch: 36 summary: This study of slave speculation in Kentucky expands our existing definition of slave trading in the antebellum South to include the practices of slave hiring and slave catching and also reveals how the speculation in human beings affected the potency of antislavery movements in the Upper South. I argue that instead of slavery declining in Kentucky during the antebellum period, the state's system of intrastate slave speculation, which included the practices of slave hiring and slave catching, provided Bluegrass masters with a profitable and flexible system of circulating enslaved black labor throughout communities and within the state. keywords: slave cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d50750n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d50750n.txt item: #3499 of 4945 id: pn89d50753p author: Juan Argaez title: Structural Change and Regional Income Distribution: The Case of Mexico (1993-2003) date: 2010 words: 178 flesch: 8 summary: The analysis contributes to the understanding of the complex phenomenon of regional income distribution in Mexico by providing evidence that the internal dynamics of the Mexican economy work against the states with lower levels of per capita income, but that, contrary to what is found in the literature, external intervening factors contribute to the reduction in the dispersion of regional income per capita during the period. Two regionalized social accounting matrices (RSAMs) were constructed with households grouped according to geo-political area of residence to function as databases for the inter-temporal comparison of the economic structure, output and income multipliers, and the development of relative distribution measures. keywords: income cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d50753p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d50753p.txt item: #3500 of 4945 id: pn89d50756q author: Nicholas Dennis McNamara title: Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Performance of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and MOF-Templated Materials date: 2015 words: 340 flesch: 31 summary: To that end, this dissertation documents the synthesis, characterization, and utilization of MOFs and MOF-templated materials specifically designed and synthesized to perform as active and stable catalysts for the oxidation of thiophenic compounds. Initially, two existing MOFs, (V) MIL-47 and (Ti) MIL-125, were evaluated for catalytic activity and stability in the oxidation of thiophenic compounds. keywords: active cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d50756q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d50756q.txt item: #3501 of 4945 id: pn89d50762n author: Jihyun Won title: Phenotypic and Genomic Variations between and within Natural Populations in Daphnia pulex date: 1904 words: 197 flesch: 21 summary: Natural genetic variation is essential for organisms to adapt to their local environment and to changing environments. One of the key objectives in evolutionary biology is to understand the underlying sources of phenotypic variation in natural populations. keywords: variation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d50762n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d50762n.txt item: #3502 of 4945 id: pn89d507661 author: Austin Gregory Murphy, OSB title: The Bible as Inspired, Authoritative, and True according to Saint Augustine date: 1904 words: 335 flesch: 45 summary: Within the Christian system of these three authorities, the biblical texts mentor believers in wisdom, mediate the divine wisdom, teach purification, and impart the correct knowledge of how to use temporal things, so that God is attained. Suspecting that the patristic thinking about biblical inspiration has not been assessed correctly, this study considers what Saint Augustine says about the importance of believing in the divine inspiration of the Bible. keywords: biblical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d507661.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d507661.txt item: #3503 of 4945 id: pn89d50792k author: Brian Yoo title: Molecular Simulations of Surfactant Interfaces date: 1904 words: 329 flesch: 28 summary: Predicting the Adsorption Isotherms of Nonionic Surfactants at the Air-Water Interface In the former (comprising the majority of this thesis), molecular dynamics simulations of aqueous ionic liquids (ILs) are performed with a lipid bilayer as a model cell membrane. While ionic liquids have been the subject of extensive research in the past decade, the risks associated with their unknown toxicities have persisted as a major bottleneck in their commercialization. keywords: simulations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d50792k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d50792k.txt item: #3504 of 4945 id: pn89d50796z author: Alicia T. Specht title: Robust Inference and Network Analysis for Non-Gaussian Gene-Expression Data date: 1904 words: 586 flesch: 41 summary: Two methods for constructing gene coexpression networks are presented---a robust method for RNA-Seq data, and a method for estimating directed networks from scRNA-Seq data---as well as a novel method for testing differences in gene expression. The second proposed method is for constructing gene co-expression networks based on single-cell RNA-Sequencing data. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d50796z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d50796z.txt item: #3505 of 4945 id: pn89d507t6m author: Michael Rauschenbach title: Spinoza's Isolationism date: 1904 words: 355 flesch: 44 summary: My aims here are far more modest than establishing the EB's truth, however, for fairly strong critical consensus in Spinoza scholarship suggests that Spinoza did not have, and that there really could not really be, any good reason for believing it. I show this by giving a new reading of Spinoza's Short Treatise that reconstructs an argument for the EB as a response to this problem. keywords: spinoza cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d507t6m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d507t6m.txt item: #3506 of 4945 id: pn89d50801q author: Nathaniel Bristow title: Turbulent Flow Structure Associated with Interacting, Laterally Offset Barchan Dunes date: 2019 words: 365 flesch: 34 summary: Smaller, faster migrating barchans will overtake and collide with larger, slower moving ones, resulting in complex morphological changes, enhanced sediment erosion, modified flow dynamics. A combination of low and high frame-rate cross-plane stereo-PIV measurements were then made in a large-scale RIM flow facility to further elucidate the dynamics and three-dimensionality of characteristic flow structures induced in the wake of the barchan. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d50801q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d50801q.txt item: #3507 of 4945 id: pn89d508847 author: Bryce Frentz title: An Investigation of the Astrophysically Important 14N(p, γ)15O Reaction date: 2022 words: 573 flesch: 52 summary: This work also addresses the uncertainty coming from the lifetime of the excited state at Ex = 6.79 Mev, as previous measurements of this state's lifetime are significantly discrepant. To provide cross-validation of our method, the lifetimes of the states at 5.18 MeV and 6.17 MeV to be t = 7.5 +/- 3.0 and t = 0.7 +/- 0.5 fs, respectively, in good agreement with previous measurements. keywords: state cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pn89d508847.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pn89d508847.txt item: #3508 of 4945 id: pr76f190c8j author: Douglas Robert Rice title: Molecular Imaging Using Nanoparticles and Small Molecules date: 2015 words: 372 flesch: 32 summary: Fluorescence cell microscopy studies demonstrated that the multivalent liposomes selectively target bacteria in the presence of healthy mammalian cells and caused bacterial cell agglutination. Whole-body fluorescence imaging of living mice showed extensive accumulation of the fluorescent probe in the interscapular BAT and ex vivo analysis showed 3.5-fold selectivity for interscapular BAT over interscapular white adipose tissue (WAT). keywords: imaging cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190c8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190c8j.txt item: #3509 of 4945 id: pr76f190c9w author: Kevin Tvrdy title: Electron Transfer Reactions in Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells date: 2011 words: 329 flesch: 31 summary: A comparison of measured electron transfer rates from CdSe quantum dots to various metal oxide nanoparticles with quantum dot sensitized solar cell device performance demonstrated that this particular electron transfer rate is not the rate limiting step of photocurrent production, and therefore does not contribute to device inefficiencies. This dissertation addresses the inefficiencies of quantum dot sensitized cells from the standpoint of electron transfer reactions. keywords: quantum cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190c9w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190c9w.txt item: #3510 of 4945 id: pr76f190d34 author: Tomas Estrada title: Model-Based Networked Control Systems with Intermittent Feedback date: 2010 words: 329 flesch: 47 summary: The aim of this dissertation is to provide a set of results in stability, perfor- mance, and robustness of model-based networked control systems with intermit- tent feedback, which will serve as a nexus between the study of systems with instantaneous feedback and with continuous feedback. We begin by introducing the basic architecture for model-based control, then discuss the concept of intermittent feedback, its applica- tions in various fields, and its role as a link between instantaneous and continuous feedback. keywords: feedback cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190d34.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190d34.txt item: #3511 of 4945 id: pr76f190d4g author: James Brian Pitts title: General Covariance, Artificial Gauge Freedom and Empirical Equivalence date: 2008 words: 358 flesch: 30 summary: This dissertation updates the debate over the nontriviality of general covariance for Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (GTR) and considers particle physics in the debate over underdetermination and empirical equivalence. Particle physics provides case studies for empirical equivalence. keywords: theory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190d4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190d4g.txt item: #3512 of 4945 id: pr76f190d5t author: Kurt Henry Piepenbrink title: Understanding the Energetic Basis for T-cell Receptor Recognition date: 2011 words: 339 flesch: 53 summary: The interaction energy between those two residues is defined as native free energy change minus the free energy changes of the two single mutants, plus the free energy change of the double-mutant; ddGint = dG(Xwt-Ywt) - dG(Xz->A,Ywt) - dG(Xwt,Yz->A) + dG(Xz->A,Yz->A). In a double mutant cycle between two residues, binding experiments are performed between i) the native partners, ii) the two partners with one residue mutated to alanine, iii) the two partners with the other residue mutated to alanine and iv) the two partners with both residues mutated to alanine. keywords: tcr cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190d5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190d5t.txt item: #3513 of 4945 id: pr76f190d65 author: Philip Alan Wingert title: Nanoencapsulation of Luminol-Hematin-H2O2 Chemiluminescence in Calcium Phosphate Nanoshells date: 2008 words: 384 flesch: 25 summary: The effects of viscous additives and fluorophore sensitizers on luminol reactions in solution and inside nanoshells will be examined in CHAPTER 3. Luminol-hematin-H2O2 chemiluminescence was chosen for nanoshell encapsulation because 1) mechanisms for luminol chemiluminescence are well known, and 2) oxidation by H2O2 in aqueous alkaline solution leads to strong chemiluminescence when catalyzed by hematin, a biofriendly catalyst (CHAPTER 2). keywords: oxidants cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190d65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190d65.txt item: #3514 of 4945 id: pr76f190d7h author: Katherine Anne Isbell title: Preservation of a Labile Post-Translational Modification date: 2011 words: 173 flesch: 41 summary: In this work, the issue of preserving labile post-translational modifications (PTMs) for mass spectrometric analysis is studied. A new ionization method called alternating current (AC) ESI has been conjectured to be a 'softer' ionization technique, and, as such, is a candidate for preserving labile PTMs for high sensitivity and more efficient mass spectrometry. keywords: esi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190d7h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190d7h.txt item: #3515 of 4945 id: pr76f190f0d author: Laurie Ropel title: Diffusion Coefficients and 1-Octanol-Water Partition Coefficients of Ionic Liquids date: 2004 words: 144 flesch: 45 summary: Diffusion coefficients of CO2 into various ionic liquids (IL) were measured at atmospheric pressure because they are needed for properly designing processes. Values of the diffusion coefficients ranged between 1.8 x 10-6 cm2/s for an IL with viscosity of 603 cP and 1.2 x 10-5 cm2/s for an IL with viscosity of 14 cP. Diffusion coefficients increased in a linear fashion with the inverse of the IL's viscosity. keywords: coefficients cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190f0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190f0d.txt item: #3516 of 4945 id: pr76f190f23 author: Christina Di Gangi title: Lydgate's Mesure: The Echecs Amoureux Tradition and the Theme of the Fall of Princes date: 2012 words: 140 flesch: 39 summary: In tracking key nouns in the text of the Fall of Princes (resoun, sensualite, suffisaunce, mesure, remedie and others), this study relates the Fall of Princes to Reson and Sensuallyte, to the Echecs amoureux, and to Evrart de Conty's Eschez amoureux moralises, re-contextualizing and re-evaluating Lydgate's project in terms of his philosophic and literary antecedents, English and Continental. Although the Fall of Princes is a translation of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium (1363, 1370) via Laurent de Premierfait's Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, Lydgate is equally indebted to the Roman de la Rose tradition, and in particular to the Echecs amoureux, which he translated as Reson and Sensuallyte (c. 1410). keywords: fall cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190f23.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190f23.txt item: #3517 of 4945 id: pr76f190f3f author: Farzad Talebi title: Stochastic Multipath Modeling of Wideband Polarized MIMO Channels date: 2015 words: 325 flesch: 35 summary: In order to demonstrate the efficacy of the approach with real-world measurements, we designed a wideband MIMO channel sounder to capture channel impulse response snapshots. Results are applied in an algorithm that allows enumeration and estimation of LoS or specular reflections in a sequence of measured channel impulse responses. keywords: channel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190f3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190f3f.txt item: #3518 of 4945 id: pr76f190f54 author: Wann-Jiun Ma title: Learning and Optimization for Smart Power Grids date: 1904 words: 351 flesch: 34 summary: Second, we propose a distributed algorithm for online energy management in networked microgrids with a high penetration of distributed energy resources. In general, the state-of-the-art forecasting for distributed energy resources such as solar is not sufficiently accurate, which results in inaccurate energy scheduling. keywords: algorithm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190f54.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190f54.txt item: #3519 of 4945 id: pr76f190h2q author: Karen A. Bailey title: Multiplex Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Correlation Spectroscopy and Imaging date: 2016 words: 360 flesch: 29 summary: Dark-field SPT detects scattering from peptide-conjugated gold nanoparticles interacting with integrin receptors immobilized on glass surfaces and in intact cells to characterize ligand-receptor binding. Importantly, the CARS signals from cellular sheddings from OvCa429 and SKOV3ip cells with LPA treatment are consistent with cleavage of microvilli and proteins originally present. keywords: cars cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190h2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190h2q.txt item: #3520 of 4945 id: pr76f190k72 author: Margaret I Schmitt title: On the Activity of Theoretical and Practical Reason date: 1904 words: 185 flesch: 54 summary: The second joins the longstanding literature on free will and focuses on freedom as the property constitutive of agency and then argues that beliefs are among the things that instantiate freedom. There are two predominant ways in which participants in the so-called ethics of belief literature defend a unique form of epistemic (i.e. belief-forming) agency. keywords: beliefs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190k72.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190k72.txt item: #3521 of 4945 id: pr76f190k9r author: Huan Wang title: New Antibiotics and Enzyme Inhibitors against Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria date: 1904 words: 161 flesch: 31 summary: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that each year thousands of people die because of the E. faecium, P. aeruginosa and A. baumannii resistant infections. E. faecium is a Gram-positive bacterium; P. aeruginosa and A. baumannii are Gram-negative bacteria. keywords: gram cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f190k9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f190k9r.txt item: #3522 of 4945 id: pr76f19199j author: Rose Weisshaar title: Some Results in Computability Theory date: 2019 words: 227 flesch: 52 summary: Further, we indicate some circumstances in which, given computable ω-branching trees T0 and T1, a path through TKP helps the paths through T0 compute paths through T1.In a different line of work, we consider effective forcing notions. In particular, we define a class of effective forcing notions that are similar to versions of Mathias forcing and Cohen forcing defined in the literature, and prove some results about how these notions relate. keywords: forcing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f19199j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f19199j.txt item: #3523 of 4945 id: pr76f191f8f author: Minh Nguyen title: Investigation of Aero-Optical Wavefront Measurements using Laser-Induced Breakdown Sparks date: 2020 words: 195 flesch: 30 summary: Principal component analysis of experimentally obtained spark wavefronts revealed that the first principal component consists primarily of defocus and that next several principal components are combinations astigmatism, coma, and trefoil, all of which are predicted to arise from displacements of simple point source models. This research explores different models of LIB sparks to determine if the amplitudes of these Zernike aberrations can be predicted based on variations in spark attributes such as length and position that arise in spark to spark ignitions. keywords: spark cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f191f8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f191f8f.txt item: #3524 of 4945 id: pr76f191g93 author: Hernan E. Delgado title: Fundamental Studies of the Chemistry and Charge Exchange at a Plasma-Liquid Interface date: 2021 words: 516 flesch: 36 summary: On an opposite note, while the chemistry is different between plasma and solid electrodes, the experimental system can be very similar, and similar issues are experienced in both systems. In this work, an electrolytic cell consisting of a DC nonthermal, atmospheric-pressure argon plasma was used as with a submerged platinum counter electrode as an experimental system to study some of these issues. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f191g93.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f191g93.txt item: #3525 of 4945 id: pr76f191h3b author: Joshua Berwanger title: Functionalized Microporous Membranes for Capture and Analysis of Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies date: 2021 words: 285 flesch: 37 summary: Efficient treatment with therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) requires mAb concentrations above a lower limit in a patient's serum. Subsequent studies explored mimotope-modified alumina membranes and a fluorescent dye (Cy5)-labelled anti-human IgG secondary antibody to increase the sensitivity of mAb quantitation based on capture in a membrane. keywords: bevacizumab cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pr76f191h3b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pr76f191h3b.txt item: #3526 of 4945 id: pv63fx73n73 author: Weiye Chen title: Penalized Methods and Their Applications to Genetic Research and Economic Forecasting date: 2015 words: 312 flesch: 23 summary: Motivated by macroeconomic variable forecasting, the differences in the performance of forecasting from lasso regression and SCAD regression are examined and the improvements of forecast accuracy resulting from the inclusion of group structure, residual bootstrap and forecasts combination are investigated. With such recommendation, SCAD penalty is further extended to group SCAD regression, SCAD regression with residual bootstrap and group SCAD regression with residual bootstrap. keywords: scad cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pv63fx73n73.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pv63fx73n73.txt item: #3527 of 4945 id: pv63fx73n8f author: Matthew D Landrigan title: Evaluation of Methods for Measuring Microdamage Accumulation in Cortical Bone date: 2010 words: 350 flesch: 25 summary: The LEBT modulus was shown to include the combined effect of both elastic (recovered) and creep (accumulated) strain indicating that both the secant modulus and creep should be measured throughout a test to most accurately indicate damage accumulation and account for different damage mechanisms. Conventional techniques used to image damage accumulation in cortical bone are inherently invasive, destructive, two-dimensional, and tedious. keywords: accumulation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pv63fx73n8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pv63fx73n8f.txt item: #3528 of 4945 id: pv63fx73p1b author: Elizabeth Lee-Ellen Munnich title: Essays in Health Economics date: 2013 words: 338 flesch: 42 summary: My findings suggest that offsetting changes due to hospital closures and shifting staff within hospitals mitigated employment effects of the mandated minimum staffing legislation. Using annual financial data from California hospitals, I find that nurse-to-patient ratios in California hospitals increased substantially following the staffing mandate. keywords: health cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pv63fx73p1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pv63fx73p1b.txt item: #3529 of 4945 id: pv63fx73p2p author: Nathan Winshp Smith title: Chien D'Aveugle date: 2015 words: 10 flesch: 52 summary: Gender Assumptions and Stereotypes explored through ceramic art and imagery. keywords: gender cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pv63fx73p2p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pv63fx73p2p.txt item: #3530 of 4945 id: pv63fx73p31 author: Steven J Kurtz title: Nanomagnet Logic: Architectures, Design, and Benchmarking date: 2013 words: 307 flesch: 27 summary: NML devices offer numerous potential advantages including: low energy operation, steady state non-volatility, radiation hardness and a clear path to fabrication and integration with CMOS. However, maintaining both low-energy operation and non-volatility while scaling from the device to the architectural level is non-trivial as (i) nearest neighbor interactions within NML circuits complicate the modeling of ensemble nanomagnet behavior and (ii) the energy intensive clock structures required for re-evaluation and NML's relatively high latency challenge its ability to offer system-level performance wins against other emerging nanotechnologies. keywords: nml cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pv63fx73p31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pv63fx73p31.txt item: #3531 of 4945 id: pv63fx73p93 author: Michelle M. Kundmueller title: Politics and the Flight from Honor: Homer and the Human Good date: 2014 words: 338 flesch: 44 summary: This dissertation brings Homer's complex vision of the relative value of and interplay between the love of one's own and the love of honor to bear on enduring questions about politics, justice, and the meaning of human life. The observation that the love of one's own and the love of honor are powerful political forces is thus not new; but much less is it outdated. keywords: love cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pv63fx73p93.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pv63fx73p93.txt item: #3532 of 4945 id: pv63fx73q09 author: Marianne Arlene DiQuattro title: Unsettled Spectatorship: The Unforeseen Implications of Viewing the Works of Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, and Martin McDonagh date: 2011 words: 377 flesch: 36 summary: I expand on their work by linking this school of performance studies to phenomenological studies of the event by Jean-Luc Marion and Claude Romano. In the final chapter I examine the role of laughter in Martin McDonagh's Leenane Trilogy, and the role of postmodern kitsch and multimedia intertextuality in simultaneously globalizing and hyper-localizing McDonagh. keywords: performance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pv63fx73q09.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pv63fx73q09.txt item: #3533 of 4945 id: pv63fx73q51 author: Michael Arthur title: Separation Control Using Plasma Actuators in a High Pressure Bend date: 2014 words: 267 flesch: 41 summary: Wind tunnel experiments were performed with active flow control using a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma actuator to determine the effects of flow control in a test section simulating the bend in a centrifugal compressor. These experiments were performed over a range of pressures and Mach numbers to determine the applicability of plasma actuators under the extreme conditions of compressor flows. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pv63fx73q51.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pv63fx73q51.txt item: #3534 of 4945 id: pv63fx74c3h author: Mateusz Dembowski title: Synthesis, Characterization, and Spectroscopy of Uranyl Peroxides date: 1904 words: 312 flesch: 18 summary: This thesis explores the mechanisms by which uranyl peroxide complexes form, the detailed structural features of pyrophosphate functionalized nanoclusters, the spectroscopic signatures of uranyl peroxide monomers, the effect of pH on the identity of the products formed in the uranium-peroxide-pyrophosphate system, and stability of uranyl peroxide nanoclusters. Results indicate that formation of uranyl peroxide nanoclusters follows a well-defined stepwise mechanism consisting of multiple assembly/disassembly steps showing retention of basic uranyl peroxide building blocks (e.g. [(UO2)4(O2)4], {U4}).Finally, stability of [(UO2)20(O2)27(HPO4)6], {U20P6} nanocluster incorporating peroxide in an unusual µ:eta2:eta2 bridging mode is studied by combination of Raman, 31P DOSY NMR spectroscopy, small angle X-ray scattering, and single crystal X-ray diffraction. keywords: peroxide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pv63fx74c3h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pv63fx74c3h.txt item: #3535 of 4945 id: pv63fx74f7h author: Julaine D. Zenk title: A Modified Trolley Problem Procedure for Studying Dilemmic Decisions date: 2018 words: 156 flesch: 39 summary: Heart rate and decision time served as correlates for measuring emotional engagement. Further, emotional engagement varied across the three scenarios, evidenced heart-rate change and longer reaction times. keywords: decision cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pv63fx74f7h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pv63fx74f7h.txt item: #3536 of 4945 id: pv63fx74v2h author: Joseph Zepeda title: The Search and Study of CEMP Stars date: 2022 words: 214 flesch: 48 summary: We then separated our sample of CEMP stars with orbital parameters by CEMP morphological groups and performed a statistical analysis of the similarities between the elemental abundances within the different clusters of stars. We demonstrate that the carbon abundance of Group II CEMP stars can't be explained by local events, unlike Group I CEMP stars. keywords: stars cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pv63fx74v2h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pv63fx74v2h.txt item: #3537 of 4945 id: pv63fx74v9x author: Ayşe Bursali title: On Display: Crafting Refugees, Gendered Stories, and Moral Navigation in Neoliberal Istanbul date: 2023 words: 388 flesch: 25 summary: Focusing on a skills and livelihood project for refugee women that taught them crafting skills and facilitated the selling of their handcrafts in-person and on digital platforms such as Instagram and Etsy, I explore the political economy of neoliberalism in the context of NGOs and aid organizations, as well as the moral economy of neoliberalism in the scripts of the enterprising and individual subject in the marketing of handcrafts and through a TikTok protest started by Syrian refugees in Türkiye. Finally, this dissertation explores the global imperative to present oneself on social media, shaped by the neoliberal self-making industry, on multiple scales - personal, for the Project, for refugee communities, and for the state. keywords: refugees cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pv63fx74v9x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pv63fx74v9x.txt item: #3538 of 4945 id: pz50gt56z02 author: Quinn Nathaniel Lathrop title: IRT and SVD: Implementing Psychometric Methods in New and Complex Situations date: 2015 words: 323 flesch: 41 summary: This document provides analytical and empirical justification for SVD's use with psychometric data under missing data. Chapter 3 investigates the large sample properties of using SVD with psychometric data. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt56z02.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt56z02.txt item: #3539 of 4945 id: pz50gt56z1d author: Christopher M Osborne title: Written into the West: Print-Visions and the Revolutionary Inheritance in Early National America's 'Western Country' date: 2011 words: 355 flesch: 23 summary: With independence, the Western Country gained significance not only as a place hosting ever more settlers but as a vision of the nation's future; it would be the laboratory for testing the American experiment. There were, inevitably, divergences between this envisioned Western Country and its experienced reality. keywords: western cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt56z1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt56z1d.txt item: #3540 of 4945 id: pz50gt56z5s author: Dana Charles Wheeler title: High-k-InAs metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors formed by atomic-layer deposition date: 2009 words: 208 flesch: 40 summary: TEM and XPS data suggest the high trap densities in the HfO(2)-InAs capacitors are associated with an interfacial layer likely composed of native indium oxides. XPS measurements indicate that these oxides are not present after the Al(2)O(3) ALD process, eliminating a source of Fermi-level pinning and reducing the number of interface traps. keywords: inas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt56z5s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt56z5s.txt item: #3541 of 4945 id: pz50gt56z64 author: Jared F Stefanick title: Design of Ligand-Targeted Nanoparticles for Enhanced Cancer Targeting date: 2014 words: 364 flesch: 13 summary: To further improve tumor targeting and enhance the selectivity of targeted nanoparticles, a dual-receptor targeted approach was evaluated by targeting multiple cell surface receptors simultaneously. In vivo, targeted liposomes prepared in a traditional manner lacking the oligolysine chain demonstrated similar biodistribution and tumor uptake to non-targeted liposomes. keywords: targeted cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt56z64.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt56z64.txt item: #3542 of 4945 id: pz50gt56z7g author: James Alan Barham title: Teleological Realism in Biology date: 2011 words: 340 flesch: 37 summary: The concept of purpose, together with the closely related concepts of normativity and agency, stand at the crossroads of three academic disciplines: the philosophy of action, the philosophy of biology, and the nexus of theoretical biology and cognitive science that is concerned with the theory of the 'organization' of 'autonomous agents.' The scientific literature, on the other hand, tends to misuse 'teleology,' 'normativity,' 'agency,' and related terms, mistakenly ascribing such concepts to 'autonomous agents' conceived of as subject only to the ordinary laws of physics. keywords: biology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt56z7g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt56z7g.txt item: #3543 of 4945 id: pz50gt56z8t author: Weimin Yue title: Micromechanical Modeling of Hydroxyapatite Whisker Reinforced Polymer Composites and Cortical Bone Tissue date: 2006 words: 189 flesch: 14 summary: The orientation distribution of apatite crystals was shown to be a significant factor contributing to the elastic anisotropy of cortical bone tissue. The same micromechanical model developed and validated for HA whisker reinforced composites was also applied to the elastic properties of human cortical bone tissue. keywords: distribution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt56z8t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt56z8t.txt item: #3544 of 4945 id: pz50gt56z95 author: Sajanish Muchiruparambil Balagopal title: Counter-Flow Ionic Wind for Heat Transfer Enhancement date: 2011 words: 248 flesch: 42 summary: As corona discharge creates a charged environment, seeding particles may get charged, and this may result in deviation from fluid flow due to Coulombic forces on the particles. In the PIV experiments, seeding particles were used to obtain the fluid flow profile. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt56z95.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt56z95.txt item: #3545 of 4945 id: pz50gt5702b author: Ronghui Zhou title: Micro-Fluidics of Micro- and Nano-Colloidal Suspensions: Designing Future Miniature Diagnostic Devices date: 2006 words: 386 flesch: 39 summary: However, successful chip-size devices, even for common applications such as human blood and water pathogen tests, are still not available because of some key technological bottlenecks involving microfluidics of micro- and nano-colloidal suspensions, such as anomalous bioparticle migration due to hydrodynamic forces, insensitivity of many biosensors to low pathogen concentrations and the lack of rapid pathogen concentration technologies. Radial migration of deformable blood cell in the micro-needle is found to be responsible for the formation of a concentrated slug at the wetting interface (meniscus) which eventually stops the penetration of the blood sample into the micro-needle. keywords: pathogen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt5702b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt5702b.txt item: #3546 of 4945 id: pz50gt57041 author: Joshua David Cameron title: Stall Inception in a High-Speed Axial Compressor date: 2008 words: 250 flesch: 34 summary: The spatial correlation technique was then applied to the analysis of stall inception data from experiments with asymmetric tip clearance. The results of these experiments, along with the surface streak measurements, provide evidence in support of recent computational observations (found in the literature) that predict that short length scale stall inception is related to specific features of the rotor tip clearance flow. keywords: stall cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt57041.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt57041.txt item: #3547 of 4945 id: pz50gt5705c author: Jennifer Laura Starner-Kreinbrink title: Investigating beta-sheet folding and aggregation date: 2015 words: 211 flesch: 29 summary: While β-sheet rich proteins tend to have slower folding kinetics and increased population of aggregation prone intermediates (1, 2), β-sheet rich proteins can avoid aggregation and robustly fold (3). Understanding how proteins assemble into aggregate structures, such as the unstructured TIA or the large rope-like fibril aggregates (5) described in this thesis, can lead to controlled assembly for biomaterials applications and/or prevention of unwanted aggregation. keywords: aggregation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt5705c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt5705c.txt item: #3548 of 4945 id: pz50gt57072 author: Enrique Pacis Blair title: The Theory and Modeling of Power Dissipation and Quantum Decoherence in Molecular Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) date: 1904 words: 326 flesch: 39 summary: A model of a QCA molecule interacting with a simple, explicitly-modeled quantum environment is developed to study quantum decoherence in molecular QCA, revealing that environmental interactions tend to stabilize molecular QCA bits. A model of the energetics of QCA bit packets demonstrates that energy input from the clock required to form a bit packet may be returned to the clock upon erasure of the bit packet. keywords: qca cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt57072.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt57072.txt item: #3549 of 4945 id: pz50gt5709r author: Joseph Anthony Giambrone title: The One Who Did Mercy: Sacramental Charity, Creditor Christology, and the Economy of Salvation in Luke's Gospel date: 1904 words: 362 flesch: 41 summary: To expose the Jewish character of Luke's charity theology, each probe centers upon a key Old Testament text and line of Second Temple reception linked to Luke (i.e. Isa 61:1-2 and 11Q13; Lev 19:18 and CD 6:20; and Prov 10:2 and Tobit). This plotting of Luke within a Wirkungsgeschichte also includes attention to later rabbinic and patristic traditions; while the approach to Luke's parables investigates Christological allegory as a narrative device (metalepsis).The first probe demonstrates Luke's engagement with the pervasive Second Temple sin as debt metaphor. keywords: luke cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt5709r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt5709r.txt item: #3550 of 4945 id: pz50gt5710z author: Nikolaus G. Kleber title: Analysis of CSIR for an OFDM System Limited by a Frequency-Hopping Interferer date: 1904 words: 192 flesch: 41 summary: In particular, the Shannon channel capacity of the system is derived for two different cases of channel state information at the receiver (CSIR), namely Perfect CSIR and Partial CSIR. The gains in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) obtained by Partial and Perfect CSIR for various interference powers are considered. keywords: csir cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt5710z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt5710z.txt item: #3551 of 4945 id: pz50gt5714b author: Michael James Johnson title: Non-Centrosymmetric Materials for the Generation of Atmospheric Pressure Gas Discharges date: 1904 words: 273 flesch: 37 summary: To reduce the required input voltage, this works investigates inherent characteristics of certain polar non-centrosymmetric crystals to determine if they can be beneficial for discharge formation. Atmospheric air plasmas are driven through large electric fields (>3 kV/mm) generated between one or more electrodes. keywords: discharge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt5714b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt5714b.txt item: #3552 of 4945 id: pz50gt5715p author: Christopher Dant title: Worthy Sons date: 1904 words: 364 flesch: 58 summary: This thesis project presents moments of stasis amidst the action occurring in the surrounding space, whether in the home, the neighborhood or the skatepark, and allows the viewer to contemplate one's own perspective on this complex and complicated chapter of teenage life. With a large group of photographs on the gallery walls, along with the audio sounding through the space, the viewer is placed in the locations where they are forming their identity. keywords: viewer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt5715p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt5715p.txt item: #3553 of 4945 id: pz50gt57p16 author: A. E. McCoy title: Ab Initio Multi-Irrep Symplectic No-Core Configuration Interaction Calculations date: 1904 words: 345 flesch: 37 summary: In the symplectic basis, states are organized into subspaces forming Sp(3,R) irreducible representations (irreps). In no-core configuration interaction approaches, the accuracy of the predictions depends on our ability to solve the Hamiltonian eigenproblem in a basis large enough to capture the essential properties of a nuclear many-body system within limited computational resources. keywords: sp(3,r cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt57p16.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt57p16.txt item: #3554 of 4945 id: pz50gt57q5w author: Yue Ma title: Improving Reliability of Real-Time Embedded Systems date: 2018 words: 487 flesch: 36 summary: However, due to CMOS technology scaling, MPSoCs increasingly have higher power density and temperature, which reduce system lifetime reliability. Meanwhile, the decreasing feature size of transistors and low supply voltage and frequency make the chip more vulnerable to soft errors and degrade soft-error reliability. keywords: reliability cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt57q5w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt57q5w.txt item: #3555 of 4945 id: pz50gt57t5t author: Carlos Rondón Moreno title: Essays on Financial Crises date: 2019 words: 574 flesch: 38 summary: Since then, a rich and comprehensive literature on the causes and economic consequences of financial crises has arisen. This dissertation studies financial crises in emerging and developing countries. keywords: financial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt57t5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt57t5t.txt item: #3556 of 4945 id: pz50gt58107 author: Philip D. Byers title: How Firm the Foundation: The Lilly Endowment and American Christianity, 1937-1989 date: 2020 words: 303 flesch: 29 summary: Yet over and over, experience curbed their idealism, and they were forced to negotiate questions of power and interdependence as they cultivated external donors: the story of postwar American religion is, to some degree, a story of which religion managed to win funding. This dissertation addresses two related questions: what does attention to philanthropy reveal about Christianity in the postwar United States, and how does consideration of religion reorient stories about modern, organized giving? keywords: endowment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt58107.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt58107.txt item: #3557 of 4945 id: pz50gt5821w author: Janel M. Dempsey title: Noncovalent Assembly Using a New Class of Tetralactam Macrocycles date: 2021 words: 622 flesch: 27 summary: For in situ capture applications, squaraine affinity for this new macrocycle is increased to nanomolar through the supramolecular paradigm of guest back-folding. The use of a cationic tetralactam with an anionic squaraine provides a new host-guest pair with nanomolar affinity in water, leading to an additional method of modulating threading affinity. keywords: tetralactam cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt5821w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt5821w.txt item: #3558 of 4945 id: pz50gt5833w author: Kathleen H MacKay title: Who Gets to Drink the Water in Lake Michigan? date: 2022 words: 393 flesch: 49 summary: It is the further thesis of the dissertation that the act of the drafting of the Compact, and the organizing of the collective will of eight Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces, was an example of an effort made to further the common good. The successful ability to organize and distribute natural resources, such as water, is a fundamental, necessary task of any society. keywords: compact cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/pz50gt5833w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/pz50gt5833w.txt item: #3559 of 4945 id: q237hq40690 author: Guillermo Del Castillo title: Autonomous, Vision-Based, Pivoting Wheelchair With Obstacle Detection Capability date: 2004 words: 308 flesch: 40 summary: The vehicle has been tested extensively and successfully with disabled veterans at the Edward J. Hines, Jr. VA Hospital in Hines IL. The working paradigm is 'teach and repeat' a mode of control for typical industrial holonomic robots. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq40690.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq40690.txt item: #3560 of 4945 id: q237hq40706 author: Megan Patnott title: Arithmetically Gorenstein sets of points on general surfaces in P3 date: 2013 words: 148 flesch: 64 summary: We use a connection between such sets of points and rank two arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay vector bundles on the surface, as well as liaison techniques and Terracini's lemma. In the first two chapters, we study the minimal free resolution of a general set of points on a surface of degree d in P3. keywords: points cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq40706.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq40706.txt item: #3561 of 4945 id: q237hq40737 author: Aaron Allen Huus title: Modern Computing Paradigms: Mobile Applications and Infrastructure as Code date: 2013 words: 192 flesch: 38 summary: A benefit of this approach is the developers, testers, and system administrators all work on identical computing environments. An Android mobile application was created and will be tested during the summer of 2013 by a small group of engineering students in Ecuador, Uganda, and Costa Rica. keywords: computing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq40737.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq40737.txt item: #3562 of 4945 id: q237hq4074k author: Adam Edwin Smith title: Evaluation of Passive Boundary Layer Flow Control Techniques for Aero-Optic Mitigation date: 2015 words: 211 flesch: 24 summary: The effect of moderate levels of boundary layer wall cooling, both for full and partial wall cooling, on aero-optic aberrations is also experimentally investigated, and the results are compared to a statistical model derived using the temperature-velocity relation from the Extended Strong Reynolds Analogy and a simple model for the development of thermal sub-layers in partially cooled boundary layers. The effect of two passive boundary layer flow control techniques, Large-Eddy Break-Up (LEBU) devices and wall heating/cooling, on turbulent boundary layer induced aero-optical aberrations is experimentally investigated. keywords: boundary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq4074k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq4074k.txt item: #3563 of 4945 id: q237hq4075x author: Gergo Peter Szakmany title: Antenna-Coupled Nanowire Thermocouple for Infrared Detection date: 2013 words: 252 flesch: 41 summary: The atmospheric absorption in this range is relatively low making this band attractive for application, such as target detection and tracking. This phenomena opens the door for possible cheap implementation of these devices as well as the mass production for future application, since the complexity of fabrication is greatly reduced. keywords: thermocouples cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq4075x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq4075x.txt item: #3564 of 4945 id: q237hq4081v author: Yilan Li title: Botanical-Drug Interactions: Soy Isoflavones and Drug Metabolism date: 2007 words: 358 flesch: 43 summary: There is evidence showing that soy isoflavones may affect the expression of some of the genes in drug metabolism pathways. Cytochrome P450s (CYPs) are important phase I drug-metabolizing enzymes in the liver and the expression levels of CYP1, 2, and 3 subfamilies are the rate-limiting factor for the turnover of many drugs. keywords: isoflavones cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq4081v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq4081v.txt item: #3565 of 4945 id: q237hq40826 author: Richard Bryan Bademan title: Contesting the Evangelical Age: Protestant Challenges to Religious Subjectivity in Antebellum America date: 2004 words: 339 flesch: 27 summary: Concerned that religious and political cultures were too readily blending into each other--to the detriment of both--leading Protestants criticized populist evangelicalism for its easy accommodation to and sanction of American cultural norms. Most important, in their contest with evangelical notions of the church as an invisible and ideal community of truly regenerate humans, churchly Protestants insisted that the church was also a visible body of Christians who gather regularly for worship in specific locations. keywords: protestants cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq40826.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq40826.txt item: #3566 of 4945 id: q237hq4087x author: Daniel P. Castillo title: Foundations for an Ecological Theology of Liberation: Gustavo Gutiérrez's Concept of Integral Liberation, Political Ecology, and Salvation date: 2014 words: 103 flesch: 37 summary: Through a dialogue with the environmental and social sciences and a close reading of salvation history as it is mediated through scripture, I expand Gutiérrez's concept in order to elucidate a positive relationship between salvation, human liberation, and care for creation. Gustavo Gutiérrez's classic text, A Theology of Liberation, continues to stand as one of the most important works in liberation theology. keywords: liberation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq4087x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq4087x.txt item: #3567 of 4945 id: q237hq40b04 author: Laura Gamboa Gutiérrez title: Opposition at the Margins: The Erosion of Democracy in Latin America date: 1904 words: 322 flesch: 40 summary: Using comparative historical analysis focusing on the cases of Alvaro Uribe (Colombia) and Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), I show that when the opposition uses extra-institutional strategies with radical goals, it provides the president with legitimate reasons to remove opposition leaders from office, prosecute, and jail them, allowing him to push for more aggressive reforms that –without presence congress or the courts—the opposition cannot stop. Some of these presidents have eroded democracy. keywords: presidents cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq40b04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq40b04.txt item: #3568 of 4945 id: q237hq40f02 author: Mark Hoipkemier title: The Political Economy of Common Goods date: 1904 words: 343 flesch: 54 summary: But, self-description notwithstanding, if a given political or economic institution turns out to be an order of common action, then it is per se oriented toward some common end and should be evaluated by the standard of common good. Even in aspects of liberal politics and economics that may not seem to concern the common good, the concept proves indispensable to sound deliberation just because common goods are intrinsic features of any community. keywords: common cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq40f02.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq40f02.txt item: #3569 of 4945 id: q237hq4109d author: Hamed Pezeshki title: Anywhere Decoding: Low-Overhead Uplink Interference Management for Wireless Networks date: 2018 words: 182 flesch: 24 summary: We compare anywhere decoding to other uplink interference management schemes in the literature with varying levels of cooperation and observe considerable gains in outage probability performance compared to baseline, non-cooperative schemes. Considering macrocell-based cellular networks with centralized control, and wireless local area networks (WLANs) with decentralized control as two extremes, an interme- diate architecture is emerging that borrows specifications and technologies from both the cellular and WLAN worlds. keywords: wireless cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq4109d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq4109d.txt item: #3570 of 4945 id: q237hq4135z author: Ryan Alberdi title: Computational Methods for Multiscale Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Multifunctional Materials and Structures for Energy Management date: 2019 words: 318 flesch: 3 summary: This development concerns two areas: (a) A rational design framework for energy dissipating structures based on topology optimization and accounting for the complex interplay between physical phenomena such as inelastic mechanisms, material rate effects, large deformations, and inertia effects. The focus of this dissertation is on development of numerical methods for the analysis and design of materials and structures which can be used to better manage different energy transfer mechanisms. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq4135z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq4135z.txt item: #3571 of 4945 id: q237hq41667 author: Alan H. Duong title: Active Turbulent Boundary Layer Control: An Experimental Evaluation of Viscous Drag Reduction Using Pulsed-DC Plasma Actuators date: 2019 words: 205 flesch: 36 summary: Viscous drag reduction in turbulent boundary layers has been an exceptionally interesting topic within fluid dynamics for several decades. Viscous drag reduction over a flat plate in a zero-pressure gradient boundary layer was achieved over a decade of Mach numbers all while maintaining net power savings. keywords: drag cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq41667.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq41667.txt item: #3572 of 4945 id: q237hq4194g author: Michael C. Brennan title: Lead Halide Perovskites: Size-Dependent Properties and Photostability date: 2020 words: 161 flesch: 20 summary: In particular, the origin of universally observed size-dependent Stokes shifts in perovskite NCs and the precise crystal structure assumed by CsPbBr3 NCs remain of fundamental interest. Only by developing a truly comprehensive understanding of their fundamental properties and photostability can lead halide perovskites be successfully implemented into working devices. keywords: halide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq4194g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq4194g.txt item: #3573 of 4945 id: q237hq4195t author: Jovian C. Lam title: Emotion Regulation Effects on Anxiety and Intuitive Decision Making date: 2020 words: 247 flesch: 24 summary: Intuitive decision making relies on a quick and subconscious associative process. Research has suggested that intuitive decision making can be impacted by anxiety, which in turn can be modulated by emotion regulation. keywords: making cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq4195t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq4195t.txt item: #3574 of 4945 id: q237hq41b6g author: Niccole A. Nelson title: Purpose in Life, Stress Reactivity, and Cognitive Aging: A Longitudinal Investigation date: 2021 words: 356 flesch: 25 summary: Prior research indicates that purpose in life and affective stress reactivity are related, and that both relate to allostatic load and cognitive aging. Therefore, this study examined the time-varying relationship between purpose in life and affective reactivity to perceived stress, the trajectory of affective reactivity to perceived stress as it relates to both within- and between-person purpose in life, as well as the predictive utility of affective reactivity to perceived stress and its rate of change on later life cognitive ability and allostatic load. keywords: affective cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq41b6g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq41b6g.txt item: #3575 of 4945 id: q237hq41b85 author: Jorge Gómez Mir title: Functional Oxide-Based Electronics for Logic, Memory, and RF Applications date: 2021 words: 273 flesch: 47 summary: This phenomenon can be harnessed to provide a boost in logic transistor performance. Using these devices, we modeled, built, and tested a BEOL compatible embedded DRAM (eDRAM) with ultra-long refresh time. keywords: performance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq41b85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq41b85.txt item: #3576 of 4945 id: q237hq41c3r author: Michael T. Baker title: Essays in Labor Economics date: 2022 words: 651 flesch: 49 summary: In Chapter one I use variation in advertising exposure across the universe of U.S. television markets over the period 2010-2019 to identify the effect of advertising by components of the Department of Defense (DoD) on the quantity and quality of U.S. Army applications and hires. Using detailed administrative data covering all applications and enlistments into the U.S. Army from September 2005-September 2019 (1.5 million applicants, 847 thousand enlistees, and 29 thousand recruiters), I show that frictions in the selection and assignment of Army recruiters to recruiting stations leads to plausibly random within-recruiting station variation in the presence of a minority-race or female recruiter after conditioning on variables that could influence the recruiter assignment decision. keywords: advertising cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq41c3r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq41c3r.txt item: #3577 of 4945 id: q237hq41d32 author: Vivek title: Electrokinetically Driven Microfluidics Modules: Towards Patterned Evolution of Tissues date: 2022 words: 475 flesch: 33 summary: In Chapter 4, I will present a bias-free high-throughput and highyield continuous isoelectric fractionation (CIF) nanocarrier fractionation technology to purify protein nanocarriers (EVs, lipoproteins and ribonucleoproteins) and dispersed proteins in cell media (or blood) based on their distinct isoelectric points. Once fully realized, it will be a next generation experimental platform for applications ranging from drug discovery & development, cell therapy, whole organ transplant and fundamental biology studies on interorgan and intercellular signaling driving tissue growth/ regeneration and metabolic/immuno-system dynamics. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq41d32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq41d32.txt item: #3578 of 4945 id: q237hq41d4d author: Francisco Huizar title: Development of Computational Models and Platforms for Multicellular Development and Preclinical Therapeutic Screening date: 2022 words: 183 flesch: 13 summary: This dissertation builds upon the existing resources available to study crosstalk in developmental biology, identify therapeutic targets of interest, and evaluate efficacy of novel small molecule therapeutics. More specifically, efforts to develop computational, simulation-based models of multicellular development and high-throughput preclinical therapeutic screening assays are broadly needed to provide insight into novel treatment approaches in modern medicine. keywords: computational cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq41d4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq41d4d.txt item: #3579 of 4945 id: q237hq41f0b author: Grace Hamilton title: Design Is Not Neutral: A Feminist Approach to Design Pedagogy date: 2023 words: 261 flesch: 32 summary: Ultimately, this intervention leads to a more diverse, accessible, and empowering design education that challenges dominant patriarchal, Eurocentric, and heteronormative design education. The podcast, titled Design is Not Neutral, features design educators who research gaps in design education and seek to deconstruct the binaries that have traditionally excluded subaltern forms of making from the design field. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q237hq41f0b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q237hq41f0b.txt item: #3580 of 4945 id: q524jm23h2z author: Aaron Lukefahr Willis title: The New Laboratory for Empire: Quebec and the Reformulation of British Imperial Practice, 1760-1775 date: 2015 words: 344 flesch: 44 summary: The bill maintained French civil law, while instituting English criminal law. Quebec, then, was a laboratory for new practices of empire that drastically differed from that which came before. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23h2z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23h2z.txt item: #3581 of 4945 id: q524jm23h39 author: Elise M. Crull title: Quantum Decoherence and Interlevel Relations date: 2011 words: 326 flesch: 22 summary: Thus it has been frequently proposed by physicists and philosophers alike that decoherence explains the dynamical transition from quantum behavior to classical behavior. Statements like this assume the existence of distinct realms, however, and the present thesis is an exploration of the metaphysical consequences of quantum decoherence motivated by the question of the quantum-to-classical transition and interlevel relations: if there are in-principle ``classical' and ``quantum' levels, what are the relations between them? keywords: quantum cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23h39.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23h39.txt item: #3582 of 4945 id: q524jm23h7p author: Peyman Hesami title: Low-Complexity Incremental Transmission for Multiple-Antenna Wireless Systems date: 2011 words: 184 flesch: 41 summary: Finally, we analyze these systems in the limit of large number of transmit and receive antennas, and large number of transmissions which gives some useful insights for designing IMIMO systems. In this thesis, we develop and analyze low-complexity schemes that we call incremental multiple-input multiple-output (IMIMO) for exploiting multiple antennas for reliable high rate communications. keywords: multiple cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23h7p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23h7p.txt item: #3583 of 4945 id: q524jm23h81 author: Sarah Elizabeth Spengeman title: Saint Augustine and Hannah Arendt on Love of the World: An Investigation Into Arendt's Reliance on and Refutation of Augustinian Philosophy date: 2014 words: 269 flesch: 39 summary: Finally, this dissertation agrees with Arendt that Augustine's thought does not provide adequate resources for understanding the significance of human plurality, but also argues that Arendt discounts the great value an ethic of love can provide as a guide for political action. Arendt's concern for human plurality guided her inquiry into the origins of totalitarianism, namely anti-Semitism and imperialism, as well as her analysis of totalitarianism in power. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23h81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23h81.txt item: #3584 of 4945 id: q524jm23h9c author: Pavithra C Tiruppathi title: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ionic Liquid Nanodroplets in Electric Fields date: 2011 words: 162 flesch: 39 summary: The technique of molecular simulation allows for the study of ionic liquid nanodroplets in atomic detail which is a limitation in mass spectrometric experiments. Ionic liquids are appropriate for the application of electrospray thruster propulsion due to their physical properties such as low volatility and high electrical conductivity. keywords: ionic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23h9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23h9c.txt item: #3585 of 4945 id: q524jm23j0k author: Benjamin Daniel Hunt title: Knee Simulation, Creep, and Friction Tests of Poly(vinyl alcohol) Hydrogels Manufactured Using Injection Molding and Solution Casting date: 2006 words: 139 flesch: 30 summary: Poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogels (PVA-H) have the potential to be an articular cartilage replacement in the future with properties similar to those of natural articular cartilage. Further improvements must be made before PVA-H is a suitable material for articular cartilage replacement. keywords: cartilage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23j0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23j0k.txt item: #3586 of 4945 id: q524jm23j1x author: Christopher John Hausmann title: Profound Encounters: How Groups Cultivate Extraordinary Experiences of Social Realities date: 2011 words: 176 flesch: 35 summary: Based upon ethnographic research at a religious college retreat and with a group of paranormal investigators, I illustrate how both groups disrupted actors' implicit expectations, leading actors to reinterpret who and what was in their midst. This dissertation investigates how groups cultivate profound experiences of their circumstances. keywords: experiences cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23j1x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23j1x.txt item: #3587 of 4945 id: q524jm23j4z author: Marcee Marie Turner title: Multicultural Teacher Attitudes and Cultural Sensitivity: an Initial Exploration of the Experiences of Individuals in a Unique Alternative Teacher Certification Program date: 2007 words: 139 flesch: 17 summary: Findings indicate that female teachers scored significantly higher on the Teacher Multicultural Attitude Survey (TMAS) than male teachers. In addition, teachers with more experience in the alternative teacher certification program showed significantly less endorsement of color-blind racial attitudes than teachers with less experience. keywords: teacher cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23j4z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23j4z.txt item: #3588 of 4945 id: q524jm23j6n author: Christopher D'Andrea title: Analysis of Ground Level Events, Solar Flares, and Forbush Decreases date: 2008 words: 183 flesch: 51 summary: Project GRAND, an array of ground level secondary muon stations, with an angular resolution of 0.26 degrees on a projected plane and a counting rate of 1800 muons/s, is an excellent tool for detecting ground level events associated with solar phenomena. The sun, while normally not a source for high energy cosmic rays, does still at times produce energetic events such as solar flares or coronal mass ejections. keywords: ground cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23j6n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23j6n.txt item: #3589 of 4945 id: q524jm23j70 author: Terrance Garret Travis title: Glitterworld: A Novel (Excerpted) date: 2015 words: 9 flesch: 103 summary: The first two parts of a three-part novel. keywords: novel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23j70.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23j70.txt item: #3590 of 4945 id: q524jm23j9p author: Jeffrey Morgan title: Singular Self-Awareness with the Searcher of Hearts: Conscience in the Thought of Kant, Kierkegaard, and Barth date: 1904 words: 367 flesch: 47 summary: But I argue that for Kant, Kierkegaard, and Barth conscience is where we strive to approximate God's knowledge of our character before God as God makes a claim upon us. This dissertation examines and defends a theory of conscience as a person's individual moral self-awareness before God. keywords: conscience cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23j9p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23j9p.txt item: #3591 of 4945 id: q524jm23k2k author: Travis L. Brown title: Reaction Wheel Actuation for Stabilization and Efficiency Improvement in Planar Bipeds date: 2016 words: 598 flesch: 43 summary: RWS use also expands the range of dynamically feasible motions. In aperiodic motions such as speed and step length changes, RWS use is similarly beneficial, with significant efficiency gains in very demanding motions and expanded dynamic feasibility. keywords: rws cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23k2k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23k2k.txt item: #3592 of 4945 id: q524jm23m1j author: Abbie J. Thompson title: One or Many? The Influence of Talker Variability on Infant Word Learning date: 1904 words: 179 flesch: 50 summary: Our findings suggest that high amounts of speaker variability promotes generalization of mappings immediately after training, but that lower variability benefits recognition after a delay, at least for females. Females in the MT condition demonstrated generalization of the mappings immediately after learning, but not at the delayed test. keywords: mappings cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23m1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23m1j.txt item: #3593 of 4945 id: q524jm23p77 author: Michael A. Skaggs title: Reform in the Queen City: Religion and Race in Cincinnati in the Era of Vatican II date: 1904 words: 354 flesch: 32 summary: Second, Vatican II's neglect of race as a discrete social concern fueled intra-Catholic conflict over the Church's response to discrimination in local communities. How religious believers were to reform their own communities, then, was conditioned by their experience of reform within their own traditions, with local conditions taking priority over universal pronouncements at the highest levels of theological authority. keywords: vatican cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23p77.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23p77.txt item: #3594 of 4945 id: q524jm23q1g author: Robert William Graff title: Regulating the Synthesis of Nanostructured Polymers by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization in Microemulsion date: 1904 words: 200 flesch: 23 summary: Chapter 2 describes an in-depth and systematic investigation into the self-condensing vinyl polymerization of AB* inimer in microemulsion for the synthesis of hyperbranched polymers with controlled structures. These results represented the first comparison between hyperbranched polymers and cross-linked nanogels to explore the effect of branching structures on their loading efficiencies. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm23q1g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm23q1g.txt item: #3595 of 4945 id: q524jm2466t author: Jian Xu title: Representing Big Data as Networks: New Methods and Insights date: 1904 words: 145 flesch: 45 summary: For researchers who want to leverage the power of the network toolkit, and apply it beyond networks data to sequential data, diffusion data, and many more, the question is: how to represent big data and networks? Our world produces massive data every day; they exist in diverse forms, from pairwise data and matrix to time series and trajectories. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm2466t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm2466t.txt item: #3596 of 4945 id: q524jm2472r author: Leandro Lichtenfelz title: The Geometry of the Euler and the Navier-Stokes Equations date: 1904 words: 176 flesch: 50 summary: We prove that the set of conjugate vectors for the L2 exponential map contains an open and dense subset, called regular conjugate vectors, which forms a smooth, codimension one submanifold of the tangent space. These results apply, more generally, for infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with Fredholm exponential maps. keywords: dimensional cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm2472r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm2472r.txt item: #3597 of 4945 id: q524jm2477g author: Francis Bonenfant-Juwong title: Ever-Widening Circles: Private Voluntary Development, Colonialism, and Arab Palestinians, 1930-1960 date: 1904 words: 191 flesch: 24 summary: And I argue that rural development was the predecessor to community development and that, rather than Asia, it is to the Middle East that U.S. community development primarily owes its emergence. In this way, I encourage peacebuilding scholars to take seriously the everyday of colonial praxis and push historians of U.S. development towards the everyday of specific projects. keywords: development cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm2477g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm2477g.txt item: #3598 of 4945 id: q524jm24f3z author: Randal Marks title: A Catalytic Hydrogel Membrane Reactor to Treat Oxidized Contaminants in Drinking Water date: 2019 words: 355 flesch: 18 summary: Primary research objectives of this work were to (1) develop a structurally stable and catalytically active CHMR and demonstrate its efficacy for hydrogenation reactions, (2) evaluate the effect of water quality and operational parameters including reactive species concentration, pH, co-occurring aqueous species, and gas delivery mode on catalytic activity and hydrogel stability, and (3) develop a 1-D model of the CHMR to predict the effect of reaction conditions and reactor configuration on catalytic performance and optimize the reactor design for catalytic activity and contaminant conversion. These results show that CHMRs are a promising class of interfacial catalytic membrane reactor that deserves further investigation. keywords: catalytic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm24f3z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm24f3z.txt item: #3599 of 4945 id: q524jm24n6v author: Feiyang Geng title: Approaches for CO2 Utilization and CO2 Efficient Processes date: 2022 words: 305 flesch: 46 summary: However, the feasibility of this process is limited by the low product selectivity and low catalyst stability when using the state-of-the-art catalyst. The main approach is to develop steam methane reforming (SMR) at low temperature where thermal catalytic approaches are limited by low thermal equilibrium conversion. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm24n6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm24n6v.txt item: #3600 of 4945 id: q524jm24n8j author: Julian Chike title: Mari and the Bible: A Link to the Past? The Case of Šāpiṭum and Šōpēṭ Reconsidered date: 2022 words: 388 flesch: 47 summary: The following chapter traces the survival of šāpiṭum leadership after Mari's destruction (mid-18th c. BCE) until the late-13th c. BCE. Concomitantly, the study investigates the degree to which second millennium BCE sources from the ancient Near East help us evaluate the biblical traditions that describe the world of early Israel. keywords: šāpiṭum cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q524jm24n8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q524jm24n8j.txt item: #3601 of 4945 id: q811kh06s21 author: Kristen Koenig McCampbell title: Nephron regeneration after acute kidney injury in the zebrafish date: 2013 words: 271 flesch: 30 summary: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a devastating and often lethal condition in which kidney nephron cells are destroyed by damage from ischemia or toxin exposure. Interestingly, there is evidence that suggests nephron epithelial cells can regenerate after some forms of damage, but there is a poor understanding of the cellular and molecular events that mediate nephron regeneration. keywords: zebrafish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh06s21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh06s21.txt item: #3602 of 4945 id: q811kh06s6d author: Michael Edward Swoboda title: The Sensory Garden and Playscape: Applying Principles of Design to Create Effective Outdoor Multi-Activity and Multi-Sensory Environments for Use at Institutions That Treat Children with a Broad Range of Special Needs with a Particular Focus on Autism Spectrum Disorder date: 2015 words: 176 flesch: 22 summary: Situated in a setting that seamlessly integrates with the existing landscape, this project's eight distinct components facilitate and enhance communication, crisis de-escalation, compliment appropriate classroom curriculum-related learning, and promote the development of social and workplace skills. Designed to be safe and welcoming, ecologically sensitive, and maintainable by existing tools and equipment, The Sensory Garden & Playscape will engage children and clients in educational, therapeutic, and playful ways. keywords: designers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh06s6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh06s6d.txt item: #3603 of 4945 id: q811kh06s7r author: Andrew Kent Rider title: Data and Network Science for Noisy Heterogeneous Systems date: 2013 words: 215 flesch: 52 summary: In the fields of systems biology and healthcare, data mining is increasingly being used to create models that represent the current state of understanding of important problems. In this dissertation we apply data and network science to problems in the domains of systems biology and healthcare. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh06s7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh06s7r.txt item: #3604 of 4945 id: q811kh06t3p author: Jacquilyn Weeks title: Fairies, Fairy Tales, and the Development of British Poetics date: 2011 words: 340 flesch: 17 summary: Finally, by transcending traditional chronological and movement-based categorizations of British poetry, it facilitates fresh engagements with twentieth-century British poetry, inviting scholars to robustly reevaluate critically neglected fairy tale poems in the oeuvres of canonical poets (Wilfred Owen, Denise Levertov), substantiate the recovery of long-neglected fairy tale poets (Charlotte Mew, Anna Wickham), draw new attention to constantly reprinted but rarely analyzed fairy tale poets (A.A. Milne, Alfred Noyes), interpret the nationalist and colonial implications of fairy tale poems written in response to canonical British fairy tales (Jackie Kay, John Agard), and reinterpret key terms like "fairy tale" and "myth" in parallel poetic movements like mythopoesis (T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound). Second, it argues that the development of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary theory is heavily indebted to theorizations of fairy tales and that recognizing the politicized use of fairy tales in theory can both contextualize and illuminate the political implications of apparently innocuous and apolitical fairy tale poems. keywords: fairy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh06t3p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh06t3p.txt item: #3605 of 4945 id: q811kh06t41 author: Cédric Lorand title: A Theory of Synchronization Errors in Interconnected Systems date: 2004 words: 369 flesch: 33 summary: For the case of a two system control loop, it is shown that the nature of the period ratio $frac{T_1}{T_2}$ profoundly affects system behavior. Little is known about their effects on system stability and performance robustness. keywords: time cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh06t41.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh06t41.txt item: #3606 of 4945 id: q811kh06t6q author: Luke David Simoni title: Predictive Modeling of Fluid Phase Equilibria for Systems Containing Ionic Liquids date: 2009 words: 271 flesch: 19 summary: Potential applications that have been purported in the literature include using ILs as reaction media, electrolytes for electrochemical processes, heat transfer fluids, absorption refrigeration media, entrainers for extractive distillation, and extraction solvents among others. Furthermore, n-octanol/water partion coefficients are calculated as an assessment of toxicity for several ILs. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh06t6q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh06t6q.txt item: #3607 of 4945 id: q811kh06t9r author: Karen Clausen-Brown title: Remembering the Sabbath: Law, Labor, and Liberty in Milton and His Contemporaries date: 2014 words: 361 flesch: 42 summary: Chapters 4 and 5 show that Milton's understanding of Sabbath law changed throughout his career: during the early 1640s he agreed with the Puritans that Christians were bound to Hebrew Sabbath law, but in his later career he argued that Christ had freed Christians from the law. Chapters 1 and 2 consider the turn from theological to political explorations of Sabbath law in England, focusing on the writings of the Puritans, the Laudians, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, and Thomas Hobbes. keywords: sabbath cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh06t9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh06t9r.txt item: #3608 of 4945 id: q811kh06v5p author: Lawrence P. Zaino title: Electrochemical Techniques in Nanoscale Devices for Enhanced Chemical Measurement date: 1904 words: 259 flesch: 33 summary: Additionally, by fabricating pores at sub-wavelength dimensions (typically < 100 nm), the optical field becomes highly confined and creates effective sampling volumes < 200 zL. This extremely small sampling volume is particularly useful for studying propertied of single molecules at concentrations up to 100 µM.This work seeks to use nanoscale properties to develop new measurements not previously possible with current macro-scale techniques. An additional circuitry based approach is developed to couple electrochemistry and electrokinetic flow to allow for non-coupled measurements. keywords: scale cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh06v5p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh06v5p.txt item: #3609 of 4945 id: q811kh0704v author: Kasey Stanton title: The Dominance Behavioral System: Explicating Its Psychopathological Structure and Personality Relations date: 1904 words: 304 flesch: 18 summary: The structure of widely used measures of these forms of psychopathology was examined in two phases to determine the extent to which they cohered to define dimensions related strongly to dominance. Antisociality (defined by measures of antagonism and disinhibition) also was related to dominance to some degree, but Negative Affectivity (defined by vulnerable narcissism and affective lability measures) and Substance Use were weakly related to dominance. keywords: dominance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh0704v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh0704v.txt item: #3610 of 4945 id: q811kh07981 author: Courtney Smotherman title: Io ho deliberato di scrivere: The Personalization of Humanistic Historiography during the Italian Wars (1494-1559) date: 1904 words: 356 flesch: 40 summary: These authors used their own experience in and knowledge of the Wars to modify the traditional form of humanistic history to something that could narrate and explain the traumatic events between 1494 and 1559. In my final chapter, I look at the post-War work of Angelo di Costanzo to demonstrate that these personalization techniques were also put to use by post-War historians to write humanistic histories of their own. keywords: italian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh07981.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh07981.txt item: #3611 of 4945 id: q811kh07n6f author: Joseph Riordan, SJ title: Isaiah Unbound: The Transfiguration of Zion in Tobit 13-14 date: 2019 words: 333 flesch: 30 summary: Tobit makes this latter point explicitly in his final testament, and so in my third chapter I take his reflections as the point of departure for a broader survey of restoration eschatology within Second Temple literature. I argue for a more parsimonious approach to these redactional and historical questions that is grounded in a broader critical perspective in dialogue with early reception history, linguistic dating, and the ANE background to these oracles. keywords: isaiah cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh07n6f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh07n6f.txt item: #3612 of 4945 id: q811kh07n7s author: Kelcie L. Vercel title: Narratives of Livability in American Housing: Connecting Culture and Action in the Work of Home Stagers, Home Builders, and Realtors date: 2019 words: 340 flesch: 37 summary: This research bridges the gap between structural analyses of home buying and cultural analyses of domestic consumption by locating cultural meaning in the housing exchange. Narratives of livability are actionable configurations of cultural meanings drawn from the complex semiotic space that defines the home. keywords: home cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh07n7s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh07n7s.txt item: #3613 of 4945 id: q811kh07p8f author: Sichi Li title: Extra-Framework Cations in Zeolites: Relationship between Their Stability, Reactivity and Al Support Proximity date: 2019 words: 171 flesch: 12 summary: I will describe considerations important in model construction, applications of ab initio molecular dynamics to structure annealing and accurate computations of reaction and activation free energies, first-principles thermodynamics approaches for predicting site speciation at realistic conditions, and approaches for predicting heteroatom distributions into material models. Computational models of zeolites must capture their three-dimensional structure, the intrinsic microscopic heterogeneity introduced by heteroatom substitutions that underlie their interesting chemical behavior, and the dynamic nature of reactive sites within the pores of molecular dimensions. keywords: zeolites cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh07p8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh07p8f.txt item: #3614 of 4945 id: q811kh07x6x author: Joshua Wright title: Romanticism on the Battlefield: Representations of Conflict, 1793-1815 date: 2022 words: 307 flesch: 21 summary: I argue that through their invocation of the thematic qualities of the Romantic fragment many of the writers in this study reach towards an understanding of the ways in which violence fragments and distorts meaning—moving away from a traditional understanding of the Romantic fragment and gesturing towards a Modernist sensibility. While a majority of scholarly attention in the field has focused on Romantic era representations of war as a mediated form of deferral that sublimates war's damages, I argue that by focusing on poetic representations of the battlefield we can better understand how writers of this era open up a space in which they can consider the fragmenting and discordant effect violence has on the process of meaning-making and can represent what they themselves have not experienced. keywords: romantic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh07x6x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh07x6x.txt item: #3615 of 4945 id: q811kh0802f author: Karen Angeles title: Advancing Multi-Hazard Performance Assessments from Parcel to Regional Scale: A Data-Driven Approach to Wind Hazards Impacts on Commercial Buildings date: 2023 words: 579 flesch: 13 summary: These capabilities are exercised on individual buildings and then scaled up through the replication and extension of existing open-source workflows for hurricane regional loss assessment. Fortunately, today's open data landscape creates new opportunities to gather the data necessary to enable more granular, high-fidelity descriptions of hurricane impacts on actual constructed buildings. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/q811kh0802f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/q811kh0802f.txt item: #3616 of 4945 id: qb98mc90240 author: Damian Francis Zurro title: We All Work in Common: Medieval Cistercian Lay Brothers in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries date: 2015 words: 323 flesch: 48 summary: Cistercian monks brought in lay brothers as helpers in the goal of restoring manual labor to an important place in monasticism. It investigates the unique contributions they made to Cistercian life during the main period of their existence. keywords: brothers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc90240.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc90240.txt item: #3617 of 4945 id: qb98mc9025b author: Constance Lynne Slaboch title: Mechanical Characterization and Simulation of Murine Thrombi date: 2011 words: 149 flesch: 27 summary: In this investigation, a murine thrombus, formed from platelet-rich plasma, calcium, and thrombin, was nanoindented and the elastic modulus was determined via elastic contact theory. This information was used as input to an inverse finite element simulation, which synthesized optimal values for the elastic modulus and viscosity of the thrombus using a viscoelastic material model. keywords: thrombus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc9025b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc9025b.txt item: #3618 of 4945 id: qb98mc9026p author: Jay Nicholas Roudebush title: The Fence Line: Concerning the Human Interface date: 2013 words: 31 flesch: 57 summary: A thesis of research supporting the visual work of artist Nick Roudebush. His work employs clay and the ceramic process as metaphorical devices concerning the connection between humanity and its land. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc9026p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc9026p.txt item: #3619 of 4945 id: qb98mc90318 author: Yang Yang title: Bacterial Diagnostic System for Infectious Diseases: Siderophore-Mediated Capture and Development of a SPR-PI Sensing Platform date: 2013 words: 147 flesch: 26 summary: Future work target additional optimization of the sensing platform to resolve bacteria signal below 20 minutes. Dielectrophoresis used in conjunction with siderophore functionalized surfaces improved bacteria surface coverage by a factor of 30 for Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PA01, and showed an 8 fold improvement compared to PA6. keywords: bacteria cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc90318.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc90318.txt item: #3620 of 4945 id: qb98mc9032m author: Teng Lin title: Molecular Dynamics Methodology and Simulations of Phospholipid Bilayers and Liquid Crystals date: 2008 words: 262 flesch: 26 summary: As a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary science bridging physics, chemistry and biology, the study of soft condensed matter involves the kinetics, dynamics and geometric structures of complex materials like membrane, liquid crystal and polymers. In order to simulate large soft condensed systems for long times within a reasonable amount of computational time, some new coarse-grained models are presented in this dissertation to describe phospholipids and liquid crystals. keywords: dynamics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc9032m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc9032m.txt item: #3621 of 4945 id: qb98mc9033z author: Xue Rui title: Beam Hardening Correction in Iterative Tomographic Image Reconstruction date: 2011 words: 340 flesch: 40 summary: The reconstructed images present promising improvement with the table correction in ILIBO: the artifacts from dense bone structure are better removed; small bone structures are better defined and the edge of the bone structures are more sharp. However, the facts that the X-ray beam produced by X-ray tube has a widely distributed energy spectrum and the absorption coefficient of materials has a dependence on photon energy result in beam hardening artifacts. keywords: correction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc9033z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc9033z.txt item: #3622 of 4945 id: qb98mc90360 author: Jason Robert Baldwin title: A Social Requirement Theory of Moral Obligation date: 2008 words: 199 flesch: 37 summary: And contra Richard Joyce's recent argument for moral error theory, moral obligations need not be strictly metaphysically necessary to satisfy our prephilosophical intuitions about morality's inescapability. Social Requirement Theory is the view that moral obligations are reasons for action constituted by the actual demands of an agent's culture. keywords: moral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc90360.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc90360.txt item: #3623 of 4945 id: qb98mc9038p author: David Joseph Guseilla title: Efforts towards the Total Synthesis of 20-Deoxyapoptolidinone and 'Chimeric' Analogues date: 2010 words: 344 flesch: 29 summary: Fragment B in its various forms was synthesized from commercially available (L)-malic acid utilizing the purchased stereochemistry to influence the addition of several new stereocenters. Because of this structural complexity and cytotoxicity, apoptolidin has garner considerable interest in the scientific community resulting in several total syntheses, SAR work, and further isolations of compounds in the apoptolidin family. keywords: apoptolidin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc9038p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc9038p.txt item: #3624 of 4945 id: qb98mc9049b author: Troy Aiken title: Through the World of Replication and Consumption date: 1904 words: 32 flesch: 63 summary: This thesis paper details my research regarding mold making and slip-casting within ceramics. It is meant to be an addendum to my thesis exhibition held in the Snite Museum of Art. keywords: thesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc9049b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc9049b.txt item: #3625 of 4945 id: qb98mc9053k author: Darren Cheah title: Characterization of Sedimentary n-alkyl Lipids in a Holocene Record from Lake Kivu, East Africa date: 1904 words: 149 flesch: 17 summary: Lake Kivu is an East African rift lake unique for its hydrothermal activity that contributes to permanently stratified conditions and high concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane at depth. Further analyses on compound-specific isotopes, relevant biomarker classes, and the vegetation and microbial ecology surrounding Lake Kivu are needed to better constrain the sources of organic matter to Lake Kivu's sediment archive. keywords: lake cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc9053k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc9053k.txt item: #3626 of 4945 id: qb98mc90825 author: Daniel B. McArtor title: Extending a Distance-Based Approach to Multivariate Multiple Regression date: 1904 words: 198 flesch: 24 summary: MDMR, however, is not commonly used in the social sciences, and this is partially due to three key issues that are addressed in this dissertation: (1) the null distribution of the MDMR test statistic is unknown, so the computation of p-values is currently contingent upon permutation tests that can be computationally infeasible, (2) the MDMR framework does not provide a useful measure of effect size for specific outcome variables, and (3) the MDMR framework relies on the assumption of independent observations. The freedom to choose any distance metric to quantify the dissimilarity between these response profiles can result in the relaxation of several assumptions that are commonly required to conduct multivariate association tests. keywords: mdmr cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc90825.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc90825.txt item: #3627 of 4945 id: qb98mc90r8k author: Edward J. Ondrako title: Rebuild My Church: Peter Damian Fehlner's Appropriation and Development of the Ecclesiology and Mariology of Vatican II date: 1904 words: 1234 flesch: 43 summary: Fehlner develops this Franciscan understanding of the mystery of Christ, the Holy Spirit, and Marian mode of Franciscan theology and metaphysics. Fehlner's Franciscan thinking is a treasure trove for new Franciscan research on analyzing the positive and negative principles affecting global fraternity. keywords: fehlner; newman cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc90r8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc90r8k.txt item: #3628 of 4945 id: qb98mc90s04 author: Steven Marczak title: Beyond Equilibrium: Using Ion Concentration Polarization to Enhance the Detection and Selectivity of Nucleic Acids and the Isolation of Exosomes date: 1904 words: 368 flesch: 33 summary: In the same study, we illustrated the importance of designing selective DNA sensors based on nonequilibrium, or kinetic, properties rather than thermodynamic equilibrium properties. To avail the medical community of nucleic acid biomarkers, microfluidics has arisen to supplant traditional instrumentation by offering portable, affordable, and simple microfluidic chips which match the performance of conventional laboratory techniques. keywords: nucleic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc90s04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc90s04.txt item: #3629 of 4945 id: qb98mc90s4h author: Aylin Acun title: Aged, Human-Origin Engineered Myocardium Model to Study Reperfusion Injury date: 1904 words: 360 flesch: 38 summary: We then designed and fabricated myocardial model tissues using hiPSC-derived endothelial cells (ECs) and cardiomyocytes (CMs) from rats to study pathophysiology and potential ameliorations of RI. The current clinical approach after MI is reoxygenating the infarct heart tissue, however, this may lead to further damage due to the oxidative stress created, causing reperfusion injury (RI). keywords: tissue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc90s4h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc90s4h.txt item: #3630 of 4945 id: qb98mc90x9g author: Cesar L. Soto title: Religion and Revolution in a Transatlantic Frame: The Cases of English, Irish, and Mexican Literature (1789-1832) date: 2019 words: 285 flesch: 28 summary: I show how diverse writers such as William Godwin (England), Lady Morgan (Ireland), and Fray Servando Teresa de Mier (Mexico) constructed national imaginaries in light of pressures exerted on religion by revolutionary events. I widen this scholarly perspective to include how Mexicans writing in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries appropriated revolutionary ideas for their own designs, and I also engage comparative work on how the English and the Irish made different use of the same radical material. keywords: revolutionary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc90x9g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc90x9g.txt item: #3631 of 4945 id: qb98mc9146k author: Reginald (Brendan) Lynch title: The Reception of the Summa Theologiae on the Question of Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period date: 2020 words: 364 flesch: 37 summary: Because Aquinas' own teaching in the Summa is broader than Reformation polemics, in this thesis the term 'Eucharistic sacrifice' has been adopted in order to capture the full range of meaning that is associated with the concept of sacrifice in Aquinas' Eucharistic theology in the Summa. This thesis is concerned with the reception-history of Aquinas' teaching on Eucharistic sacrifice in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. keywords: aquinas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc9146k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc9146k.txt item: #3632 of 4945 id: qb98mc9170f author: Aikaterini P. Kyprioti title: Natural Hazard Risk Assessment: Promoting Computational Efficiency through Advances in Surrogate Modeling date: 2022 words: 404 flesch: 12 summary: Using synthetic storm databases developed for coastal studies as the foundation of the surrogate model development, various unexplored topics are investigated in detail for the formulation of surrogate models to predict the peak storm surge. Implementation greatly reduces the number of structural simulations for the calibration of the metamodel that approximates the EDP distribution, promoting significant computational savings in seismic risk assessment application. keywords: surrogate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qb98mc9170f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qb98mc9170f.txt item: #3633 of 4945 id: qf85n873b2c author: Qiang Yu title: The role of sulfhydryl sites in metal binding onto bacterial cells date: 2015 words: 359 flesch: 28 summary: Besides carboxyl, phosphoryl, and amine groups, the sulfhydryl sites have also been identified recently as potential metal binding sites, but the exact role of sulfhydryl sites has not yet been extensively studied. The research presented in this dissertation focuses on the role played by sulfhydryl sites in metal adsorption onto bacteria. keywords: sites cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n873b2c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n873b2c.txt item: #3634 of 4945 id: qf85n873b3q author: Alexandra Imre title: Experimental Study of Nanomagnets for Magnetic Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (MQCA) Logic ApplicationsExperimental Study of Nanomagnets for Magnetic Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (MQCA) Logic Applications date: 2005 words: 345 flesch: 36 summary: Magnetic random access memories (MRAM) store binary information in such nanomagnets, and fabrication of dense arrays of nanomagnets is also under development for application in hard disk drives (HDD). The networks of nanomagnets were imaged by magnetic force microscopy (MFM), with which magnetization states of the individual nanomagnets were distinguished and mapped. keywords: nanomagnets cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n873b3q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n873b3q.txt item: #3635 of 4945 id: qf85n873b42 author: Melissa Lauren Dinsman title: Radio at War: Literature, Propaganda, and the Emergence of New Modernist Networks During World War II date: 2013 words: 332 flesch: 29 summary: In the process of exploring modernism's second act in the early 1940s, this dissertation also exposes formal similarities between radio broadcasting and literary modernism, namely that radio networks, which simultaneously forge and deny effective communication, act as a fitting analogy for the contradictions of modernism, where authors' attempts to communicate with the public were often thwarted by esoteric forms. This comment on radio's martial power and extensive reach drives this dissertation, which explores the link between radio networks and destructive weaponry, and argues that while there is a historical correlation between radio and war, wartime broadcasting cannot simply be categorized as a weapon for disseminating nationalist propaganda. keywords: radio cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n873b42.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n873b42.txt item: #3636 of 4945 id: qf85n873b8f author: Carl Jonathan Wojtaszek title: Essays in Economics Using Military-Induced Variation to Study Human Capital Development, Excess Sensitivity to Income, and Labor Market Decisions date: 2015 words: 524 flesch: 34 summary: The third chapter examines the impact of military casualties and their salience on both the type and number of enlistments that occur in the following months. More importantly, I find, conditional on enlisting, that local casualties also reduce enlistments into riskier military jobs and reduce the length of initial contracts more strongly than national casualties - presenting additional manning challenges for the military. keywords: military cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n873b8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n873b8f.txt item: #3637 of 4945 id: qf85n873b9s author: John Milton LaBarge, III title: Rapid Infrastructure Digitization to Support High-Fidelity Hurricane Risk Assessment date: 2013 words: 150 flesch: 31 summary: The end result is a digitization schema that can be readily applied to wood frame residential structures and is readily expandable to other construction typologies. The framework has three main phases: exterior geometry extraction, interior geometry estimation, and subassembly modeling. keywords: digitization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n873b9s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n873b9s.txt item: #3638 of 4945 id: qf85n873c5q author: Randy Jeffrey title: Effects of the Anti-Androgen Bicalutamide on Prostate Cancer Cells date: 2012 words: 257 flesch: 41 summary: However these experiments identified a distinct threshold response to bicalutamide: at low doses of bicalutamide both cell lines induce cell cycle arrest but no significant level of cell death, while at higher doses both cell lines exhibit extensive cell death. Bicalutamide induces dose dependent effects on cell cycle and cell death in both cell lines. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n873c5q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n873c5q.txt item: #3639 of 4945 id: qf85n873c62 author: Alexander Arnold title: An Essay on Evidence date: 2011 words: 439 flesch: 52 summary: This conception of the fundamental evidential role helps us derive an ontology of evidence according to which all evidence consists in epistemically-usable facts, where facts here are not understood a true propositions, but as that which true propositions represent. My dissertation treats theories of evidence. keywords: evidence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n873c62.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n873c62.txt item: #3640 of 4945 id: qf85n873c8r author: Laura Marie Grande title: Understanding Disorder and Crystallographic Phase Changes in Metalloporphyrins date: 2009 words: 127 flesch: 41 summary: Crystal structures at multiple temperatures reveal that the system changes from a system with eightfold disorder at 250 K to one that is more ordered below 195 K. Interestingly, at 190 K, it was possible to trap the structure in its transition state, resulting in three distinct structures of [Co(TPP)(NO)]. The phase change is reversible and has given insight into the nature of nitrosyl disorder in the porphyrin system as a dynamic disorder. keywords: change cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n873c8r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n873c8r.txt item: #3641 of 4945 id: qf85n873d1n author: John Herrington title: Elucidation of the selection and roles of synonymous codons in protein biogenesis date: 2014 words: 128 flesch: 58 summary: In this thesis, the importance of rare codons on protein biogenesis as well as cell fitness will be discussed. The turbidostat, as well as batch culture, is used to test the extent to which rare codons affect an antibiotic resistance protein known as chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT). keywords: cat cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n873d1n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n873d1n.txt item: #3642 of 4945 id: qf85n873f0m author: John W. McCormack title: Wounded Faith: Monarchy and Memory in the French Wars of Religion, 1559-1629 date: 1904 words: 370 flesch: 38 summary: This study traces a transformation in the way French kings were ritually commemorated during the Wars of Religion, focusing on the deaths of Henry II (1559), Charles IX (1574), Henry III (1589), and Henry IV (1610). By 1589, the Catholic League emerged to combat the religious policies of Henry III and the succession of Henry IV, and when Jacques Clément assassinated Henry III and was celebrated as a martyr, it showed how contested the memory of a French monarch could become. keywords: henry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n873f0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n873f0m.txt item: #3643 of 4945 id: qf85n874198 author: Junye Wang title: Computation of Rotor Noise Generation in Turbulent Flow Using Large-Eddy Simulation date: 1904 words: 397 flesch: 45 summary: The noise of rotor ingesting a turbulent cylinder wake is studied at several advance ratios and wake striking positions. The noise spectra are broadband with small peaks at the blade passing frequency and its harmonics. keywords: rotor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n874198.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n874198.txt item: #3644 of 4945 id: qf85n87469t author: Margaret Blume Freddoso title: Spe salvi facti sumus (Rom. 8:24): Thomas Aquinas's Doctrine of Theological Hope and Its Role in the Human Being's Journey to God date: 2019 words: 342 flesch: 45 summary: The study is undertaken through a close reading of the Summa Theologiae according to which Aquinas's doctrine of theological hope is related to his doctrines of the divine ordinatio, human beatitude, providence, predestination, the Trinitarian missions, Christ, grace, sin, the theological virtues, the natural desire for happiness, human free choice, and the passions. This research addresses a lack of sustained attention to Aquinas's doctrine of hope within contemporary scholarship, especially regarding its evolution and significance within his larger account of God and God's activity ad extra. keywords: hope cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n87469t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n87469t.txt item: #3645 of 4945 id: qf85n87480b author: Jens Jakob Kjaer title: Homology of the Derivatives of the Identity Functor of Spaces date: 2019 words: 202 flesch: 55 summary: The derivatives of the identity functor on spaces in Goodwillie calculus forms an operad in spectra. In this chapter we recover Bousfield's computation of v_1-periodic homotopy groups of simply connected, finite H-spaces from Bousfield's work using the techniques of Goodwillie calculus. keywords: bousfield cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n87480b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n87480b.txt item: #3646 of 4945 id: qf85n874d59 author: Ruth Speidel title: The Effects of Early Adversity on Child Self-Regulation: Indirect Effects of Maternal Sensitivity and Child Internal Working Models date: 2020 words: 536 flesch: 14 summary: Results revealed unique effects of cumulative early adversity predicting increases in diurnal cortisol slope from T1 to T4 and lower child emotion regulation at T4, as well as lower maternal sensitivity during free play and lower maternal sensitive guidance during reminiscing at T2. Higher maternal sensitivity during free play at T2 predicted lower child representations of behavior dysregulation during child narratives at T3, and higher maternal sensitive guidance during reminiscing at T2 predicted higher representations of moral affiliative themes during child narratives at T3. keywords: child cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n874d59.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n874d59.txt item: #3647 of 4945 id: qf85n874h7x author: Kevin Manley title: Hypothesis Testing and Structure Learning for Directed Acyclic Graphs date: 2022 words: 185 flesch: 36 summary: These procedures are shown to theoretically and empirically control FDR while increasing power over existing methods under certain scenarios. This model incorporates graph edge sparsity through a sparsity inducing prior, while modeling each node as coming from a conditional distribution in which the variance is a quadratic function of its mean. keywords: dag cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n874h7x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n874h7x.txt item: #3648 of 4945 id: qf85n874h88 author: Helena S Kleiner title: Intraspecific Variation Explains Differences in Plant-Mediated Methane Emissions in a Coastal Marsh across Species Composition and an Environmental Gradient date: 2022 words: 150 flesch: 35 summary: It is well understood that sea-level rise both affects methane emissions directly and indirectly through shifts in plant community composition. The role of intraspecific genetic variation in explaining variation in plant traits and methane emissions is much less studied. keywords: methane cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n874h88.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n874h88.txt item: #3649 of 4945 id: qf85n874j46 author: Joshua Barthuly title: Modal Skepticism and Its Applications date: 2023 words: 144 flesch: 22 summary: I consider implications for modal skepticism in metaphysics and philosophy of religion, showing that divine revelation can play the role that secular modal epistemology cannot in advancing those debates. It also brings to bear highly-relevant, recent results in mainstream epistemology that have surprisingly gone overlooked in the otherwise thoroughgoing developments in modal epistemology, a sub-discipline that has burgeoned in the last two decades in response to van Inwagen's original, influential argument. keywords: argument cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n874j46.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n874j46.txt item: #3650 of 4945 id: qf85n874j5j author: John Middlebrooks title: Cross-Flow Instability Experiments on a Swept Fin-Cone with Variable Nose Bluntness in Mach 6 Flow date: 2023 words: 219 flesch: 47 summary: Infrared thermography was used to assess surface heating caused by stationary boundary layer disturbances. Pressure transducers were embedded in the surface of the fin to capture non-stationary boundary layer disturbance. keywords: boundary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qf85n874j5j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qf85n874j5j.txt item: #3651 of 4945 id: qj72p556m6t author: Seemit Praharaj title: Particle Migration in Confined Shear Flows date: 2015 words: 391 flesch: 48 summary: The presence of inertial secondary currents due to the higher gap widths and rotation rates employed for these experiments gives rise to a range of intriguing dynamics depending on the degree of counter-rotation. In Chapter 3, the migration of red blood cells is examined using the same approach and compared to various drop, vesicle and actual blood cell models. keywords: migration cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p556m6t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p556m6t.txt item: #3652 of 4945 id: qj72p556m75 author: Levi Bronson Sanchez title: Legends of Robert Alvarez and Collected Stories date: 2011 words: 15 flesch: 73 summary: The start to a novel, Legends of Robert Alvarez, and a collection of short fiction. keywords: fiction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p556m75.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p556m75.txt item: #3653 of 4945 id: qj72p556n1d author: Charles Laurin title: Lasso Meta-Regression and Its Application to Psychiatric Genomics date: 2014 words: 211 flesch: 47 summary: We found that precision was highly dependent on the number of study level covariates included, the number of studies included, and the relative sizes of the included studies. The criterion used in the comparison was the precision of the method in selecting covariates. keywords: covariates cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p556n1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p556n1d.txt item: #3654 of 4945 id: qj72p556n2r author: John Perry title: Subverting the Republic: Christian Faithfulness and Civic Allegiance in John Locke's America date: 2008 words: 353 flesch: 40 summary: Because of Locke's decisive role in launching political liberalism and his influence on the American founders, he remains an often-overlooked presence in todayÌøåÀå_s debates. This is supported by two lines of research: a careful study of Locke's texts (especially his Letter Concerning Toleration) and recent work by political theorists (especially Zuckert) showing how the American founding is an amalgam of republicanism and liberalism. keywords: locke cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p556n2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p556n2r.txt item: #3655 of 4945 id: qj72p556n33 author: Yong Huang title: Thermal Stability and Phase Transitions of Ionic Liquids date: 2013 words: 302 flesch: 27 summary: In addition, vaporization/decomposition products of several ILs were first studied by chromatoprobe gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) under a helium environment in both EI and NCI modes. In general, ILs have many promising properties, such as good solvation qualities for both polar and nonpolar compounds, wide temperature range for ILs to be liquid, high thermal stability and very low vapor pressure. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p556n33.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p556n33.txt item: #3656 of 4945 id: qj72p556n5s author: Brian Pocock Boeninger title: Partial Freedom and Degrees of Moral Responsibility: The Metaphysics of Influence and Libertarianism date: 2011 words: 505 flesch: 34 summary: This dissertation focuses on the concept of influence--the metaphysical middle ground between determinism and chance--in libertarian accounts of free will and moral responsibility, a concept that, despite its centrality to libertarianism, has not been given a satisfactory explication. One main project of the dissertation is to make significant progress toward an explication of influence; the other main project consists of tracing some of the implications of this explication, especially implications for theories of moral responsibility. keywords: responsibility cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p556n5s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p556n5s.txt item: #3657 of 4945 id: qj72p556n8t author: David M. Costello title: Effects of invasive species and chemical contaminants on biogeochemical fluxes across ecosystem boundaries date: 2009 words: 260 flesch: 33 summary: To control how chemical contaminants and non-native species negatively affect ecosystem functions, we must understand that seemingly separate ecosystems can be connected through resource subsidies and, thus, the impact of stressors can move across ecosystem boundaries. Anthropogenic disturbances, such as the transport and release of invasive species and chemical contaminants, can disrupt the functioning of ecosystems and I examined how these stressors caan influence the flux of resources across ecosystem boundaries. keywords: ecosystem cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p556n8t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p556n8t.txt item: #3658 of 4945 id: qj72p556p0c author: Ryan Matthew Connaughton title: Physics and Visualization in Swarm Agent Modeling date: 2010 words: 115 flesch: 34 summary: Extensions are made to the SimWorld environment, a simulator for multi-agent swarm experimentation, to provide rigid-body physics and three-dimensional renderings of simulations. This thesis investigates the role of physics and visualization in agent modeling. keywords: agent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p556p0c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p556p0c.txt item: #3659 of 4945 id: qj72p556p1q author: Eleanor Everett Pettus title: Reforming Boys: The English Reformation and the Conversion of Humanism date: 2015 words: 136 flesch: 34 summary: Thus, when Henry VIII and Edward VI attempted to disentangle schools from the fabric of English religious life, simultaneously stamping out practices they regarded as superstitious, many schools vanished with the institutions that had been outlawed. The humanists disseminated their grammatical priorities amongst England's student population and grammar schools during the early Tudor period. keywords: schools cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p556p1q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p556p1q.txt item: #3660 of 4945 id: qj72p556r1b author: Vaibhav Katewa title: Analysis and Design of Multi-Agent Systems under Communication and Privacy Constraints date: 1904 words: 457 flesch: 44 summary: We study another related privacy problem for a scenario where multiple agents cooperatively solve a quadratic optimization problem. The notion of cooperation level models the trust of an agent towards the information received from neighboring agents. keywords: privacy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p556r1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p556r1b.txt item: #3661 of 4945 id: qj72p556t40 author: Yuxiao Dong title: Computational Lens on Big Social and Information Networks date: 1904 words: 336 flesch: 16 summary: Finally, our work on diversity presents neural network based representation learning models for embedding heterogeneous networks in which there exist diverse types of nodes and edges, giving rise to important implications for traditional mining and learning tasks in heterogeneous network data, including similarity search, clustering, and classification. Accordingly, this thesis develops computational models to investigating the ways that individuals are embedded in and interact within a wide range of over one hundred big networks---the biggest with over 60 million nodes and 1.8 billion edges---with an emphasis on two fundamental and interconnected directions: user demographics and network diversity. keywords: networks cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p556t40.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p556t40.txt item: #3662 of 4945 id: qj72p556t5b author: Caroline Byrd Hornburg title: Optimizing Problem Format to Facilitate Children's Understanding of Math Equivalence date: 1904 words: 280 flesch: 41 summary: Results indicate that the role of encoding in children's solving of math equivalence problems depends on problem format, and specifically that the interpretation of what is encoded may matter more than accuracy encoding problem features. Unfortunately, most children (ages 7-11) struggle to understand it and have difficulties solving math equivalence problems, which have operations on both sides of the equal sign (e.g., 3 + 4 = __ keywords: problems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p556t5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p556t5b.txt item: #3663 of 4945 id: qj72p557b6m author: David Morris title: Apocalypse Now or Later: The Manuscript Tradition of the Super Prophetas (Super Esaiam) of Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore date: 2018 words: 347 flesch: 48 summary: This dissertation represents a preliminary, yet essential, step toward both a comprehensive analysis and a critical edition of one of the most important examples of the pseudo-Joachite corpus, a compilation called Super Prophetas—also known as Super Esaiam Prophetam. The bulk of the section consists of a catalog of manuscripts, presenting thorough codicological research on each version. keywords: joachim cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p557b6m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p557b6m.txt item: #3664 of 4945 id: qj72p557g9w author: Joseph R. Pauszek title: A Predictive Coding Account of Attention Control date: 2019 words: 150 flesch: 14 summary: On this account, virtually every aspect of human cognition serves the universal imperative of minimizing prediction error between implicit hypotheses about the state of the external world and data from sensory inputs, under a constraint that computational efficiency is prioritized. In particular, observers routinely exploited the task strategy associated with less cognitive demand, but their behavior was also flexibly adaptive and sensitive to alternative motives for goal-driven behavior. keywords: account cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p557g9w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p557g9w.txt item: #3665 of 4945 id: qj72p557j7t author: Marwa S Asem title: The Contribution of Malignant Ascites in Regulating Ovarian Cancer Metastasis date: 2019 words: 361 flesch: 34 summary: Furthermore, compression promoted the interaction between OvCa cells and peritoneal mesothelial cells (MC) through the induction of tunneling nanotube (TNT) formation, which modulated the transport of mitochondria from MC to OvCa cell. Our data identified Wnt5a as a host peritoneal-secreted factor that potentiates OvCa cell pro-metastatic behavior. keywords: ovca cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p557j7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p557j7t.txt item: #3666 of 4945 id: qj72p557p9r author: Kyle Dubiak title: The Proteomic, Transcriptomic, and Metabolomic Analyses of Developing Xenopus laevis Embryos date: 2020 words: 124 flesch: 4 summary: This has resulted in furthering single cell proteomic sensitivity, whole embryo metabolite imaging, N-­glycoproteome quantitation, conduction system analysis of the developing heart, and the integration of proteomics and transcriptomics investigating neural cell lineage commitment. Beginning with the largest developmental proteome dataset of any organism at that time, Xenopus laevis has since been utilized in countless analytical experiments, ranging from single cell proteomics and metabolomics, protein extraction optimization, and phosphoproteomics. keywords: xenopus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p557p9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p557p9r.txt item: #3667 of 4945 id: qj72p557q30 author: Sarah L. Bliese title: Developing Screening Technologies for Low Resource Settings date: 2020 words: 389 flesch: 33 summary: I collaborated with medicine regulatory agencies in Bangladesh and Tanzania to conduct specificity and sensitivity studies of paper analytical devices used for rapid screening of pharmaceuticals. Analytical instrumentation is critical for regulating medicine and environmental quality, yet in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) a lack of technological infrastructure prevents regulatory agencies from responding effectively to problems that affect the health of their populations. keywords: regulatory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p557q30.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p557q30.txt item: #3668 of 4945 id: qj72p557q7c author: Augustine M. Reisenauer, O.P. title: Augustine on the Resurrection date: 2021 words: 368 flesch: 32 summary: From the witness of Scripture, Augustine grasps that our integral resurrection consists of a twofold process: (1) the historical and spiritual resurrection of the human soul from its death in sin to life in Christ; and (2) the eschatological and fleshly resurrection of the human body from its temporal death to eternal existence, either in eternal death or in eternal life. It then investigates his articulations of the fleshly resurrection of Jesus Christ, of encountering the resurrected Lord even in the scriptural proclamation and preaching of his resurrection, and of the twofold application of Christ's paschal mystery to the whole human person, by way of sacrament and by way of example. keywords: resurrection cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p557q7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p557q7c.txt item: #3669 of 4945 id: qj72p557r1m author: Lau Ortiz Mercado title: Double Trouble: Queering and Disrupting Genre Conventions through Witches in Early Modern Drama date: 2021 words: 269 flesch: 41 summary: This dissertation argues that the presence of witches on the stage was an integral part of early modern English theatre that helped shape the conventions of different genres and transform theatre itself. Performing incantations, ritualistic spells, and making people and objects fly, among other things, allowed playwrights and theatre companies to exploit theatrical mechanisms and push the limits of the theatre, providing awe-inducing scenes for their audiences. keywords: witches cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qj72p557r1m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qj72p557r1m.txt item: #3670 of 4945 id: qn59q239w4g author: Patricia Snell title: 'Just Reproduce After What I Taught You': Spatial Segregation of Religious Youth Socialization and the Reproduction of Social Inequality date: 2009 words: 156 flesch: 13 summary: This analysis provides evidence for a spatially stratified pattern to religious youth socialization. This study extends the social reproduction literature by examining intended socialization of religious-based youth programs across socioeconomic status differences of the areas in which religious congregations are located. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q239w4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q239w4g.txt item: #3671 of 4945 id: qn59q239w5t author: Sean C. Kassen title: Characterization of Light-Induced Zebrafish Retinal Regeneration and the Role of Stat3, CNTF, and Olig2 During Light-Induced Zebrafish Retinal Regeneration date: 2008 words: 376 flesch: 36 summary: The zebrafish retina is an excellent model to study the molecular basis of neural cell regeneration. Injection of CNTF into the undamaged zebrafish eye induced Stat3 expression in Müller cells, and Müller glia proliferation. keywords: stat3 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q239w5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q239w5t.txt item: #3672 of 4945 id: qn59q239w65 author: John Harvey title: Around Palais' Covering Homotopy Theorem date: 2014 words: 215 flesch: 39 summary: Under mild topological hypotheses, it is shown that when a sequence of orbit spaces is 'close' to a limit orbit space, in some suitable sense, within a larger ambient orbit space, the G-spaces in the tail of the sequence are strongly equivalent to the limit G-space. The classification by Palais of G-spaces, topological spaces acted on by homeomorphisms by a compact Lie group G, is refined. keywords: spaces cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q239w65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q239w65.txt item: #3673 of 4945 id: qn59q239x0d author: Gregory Thomas Neumann title: Tailoring the Active Site and Mesostructure of ZSM-5 for Deoxygenation and C-C Bond Coupling Reactions date: 2015 words: 342 flesch: 38 summary: With an appropriate catalyst, these products or reaction intermediates can be upgraded to valuable and stable fuels and chemicals mimicking those currently produced from petroleum resources. The use of lignocellulosic biomass as a source of renewable energy has gained traction in recent years due to the finite supply, environmental effects, geopolitics, and overall sustainability of fossil fuels. keywords: biomass cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q239x0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q239x0d.txt item: #3674 of 4945 id: qn59q239x1r author: Joel Griffith title: Modeling Electromagnetic Properties of Hadrons date: 2013 words: 199 flesch: 31 summary: This work is motivated by the existence of edm enhancement in relativistic atoms; a novel calculation of this enhancement effect in alkali atoms is presented using a modification of the Furry representation that extends standard screening effects to a field-theoretical framework. The proton polarizability is found to agree with existing estimates using dispersion relation theory, indicating that this effect is incapable of resolving the outstanding proton size puzzle. keywords: proton cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q239x1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q239x1r.txt item: #3675 of 4945 id: qn59q239x7t author: Andrew M. Bailey title: Person and Animal date: 2011 words: 316 flesch: 42 summary: One argument exploits crowding problems that plague non-animalist views. I further argue for a priority principle according to which each of us thinks our thoughts in the primary and non-derivative sense and show that a number of non-animalist views are inconsistent with this principle. keywords: materialism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q239x7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q239x7t.txt item: #3676 of 4945 id: qn59q239x85 author: Seok-Hyeon Kim title: Impacts of Information Technology on Productivity and Linkage of the US Economy date: 2004 words: 322 flesch: 47 summary: Second, Information Technology industries made substantial contributions to reduce inflation as well as to productivity growth. The IT sector contributes to productivity growth of about 40 percent in growth-accounting and to factor saving in I-O analysis as of about 15 percent from 1987 to 2000. keywords: accounting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q239x85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q239x85.txt item: #3677 of 4945 id: qn59q239z0q author: Shanshan Yan title: Design, Syntheses and Biological Evaluation of Novel Cephalosporin and Oxazolidinone-Based Antibiotics date: 2010 words: 134 flesch: 34 summary: Chapter 2 described the synthesis of novel oxazine and aminocycloalkenol containing oxazolidinone antibiotics using nitroso DielsÌ¢ âÂ'Alder chemistry. In Chapter 1, the synthesis of cephalosporin-based antibiotics using nitroso DielsÌ¢ âÂ'Alder chemistry was rationalized and described. keywords: antibiotics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q239z0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q239z0q.txt item: #3678 of 4945 id: qn59q239z3r author: Lionel Obadiah Pittman Jr. title: Aerothermal Experiments in Turbine Rim Seals date: 2014 words: 243 flesch: 60 summary: Also a computational study was done on the low pressure turbine stage to add insight into the effect of purge flow on turbine stage performance. In addition, the computation results provide insight into the effect of purge flow on the low pressure turbine blade passage flow field. keywords: turbine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q239z3r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q239z3r.txt item: #3679 of 4945 id: qn59q240014 author: David N. DeJong title: A Prophet like Moses: Prophecy and Canon in Early Judaism and Christianity date: 1904 words: 317 flesch: 35 summary: This dissertation examines the scriptural concept of the prophet like Moses, both in its original context in Deuteronomy 18:15–22 and in its reception in the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism, and nascent Christianity. The absence of Mosaic prophets in the present was balanced by ascribing such status to an increasing number of figures in Israel's scriptural traditions (most notably Joshua) and, in some cases, holding to an eschatological interpretation of Deuteronomy 18:15, 18. keywords: mosaic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q240014.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q240014.txt item: #3680 of 4945 id: qn59q24036s author: Zhou Li Kastner title: Dissociative Electron Attachment to Gas Phase Biomolecules date: 1904 words: 311 flesch: 36 summary: Peptide bond cleavage induced by DEA clearly demonstrates bond selectivity, which is susceptible when the LEE energy falls between 5to 8 eV. Resonance states responsible for the cleavage are found by my stabilization calculations which show that an anti-bonding force is exerted on the peptide bond by the attached electron through forming a π* type orbital around this bond. This experimental procedure can be extended to investigate more radicals resulting from DEA processes. keywords: dea cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q24036s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q24036s.txt item: #3681 of 4945 id: qn59q240n2c author: Christina G McDonnell title: Emotional Reminiscing and Autobiographical Memory among Preschool Children with ASD: Considering Difficulties, Strengths, and Predictors date: 2018 words: 272 flesch: 31 summary: Children with ASD required more prompting to complete AM tasks and demonstrated difficulties with AM performance in independent and collaborative recall contexts, including reduced AM specificity. Regarding executive functioning, working memory only predicted AM specificity in the ASD group, supporting that EF is an important compensatory mechanism facilitating AM retrieval in ASD. keywords: asd cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q240n2c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q240n2c.txt item: #3682 of 4945 id: qn59q24107g author: Anna Thorne title: Luminous Visions: Expanding Awareness through the Undisclosed Lenticular Photograph date: 2021 words: 189 flesch: 37 summary: The ontological bond between photography and daily life invites us to recognize the simple presence of natural light appearing in our own everyday environments. These undisclosed photographs of light displace the mental impulse for creating meaning in order to draw us into the boundless unfolding of presence. keywords: photographs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q24107g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q24107g.txt item: #3683 of 4945 id: qn59q241362 author: Ernie Tsybulnik title: Efficient Sparse-Grid Implementation of a Fifth-Order Multi-Resolution WENO Scheme for Hyperbolic Equations date: 2023 words: 184 flesch: 22 summary: In our previous work (Lu et al. 2018, Zhu and Zhang 2021), sparse-grid techniques were applied to the classical finite difference WENO schemes in solving multidimensional hyperbolic equations, and it was shown that significant CPU times were saved while both accuracy and stability of the classical WENO schemes were maintained for computations on sparse grids. Numerical experiments on solving high dimensional hyperbolic equations including Vlasov based kinetic problems are performed to demonstrate that the sparse-grid computations achieve large savings of CPU times, and at the same time preserve comparable accuracy and resolution with those on corresponding regular single grids. keywords: weno cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qn59q241362.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qn59q241362.txt item: #3684 of 4945 id: qr46qz2358h author: Hailey Jane LaVoy title: 'Why have you been silent for so long?': Women's Letter Writing in the Early Middle Ages, 700-900 date: 2015 words: 350 flesch: 21 summary: Following an introduction which describes the extant letter collections, and a second chapter in which I contextualize women's letters and letter-writing within the larger corpus of male epistolary activity, I focus on three prominent themes which occur in letters to and from women: petition, gift-exchange, and land and spiritual administration. By unfolding the epistemological significance of these topics and examining individual letters in light of contemporary social, political, economic, and religious conditions of Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Europe, I highlight how women were not only engaging with their world, but how these engagements are actually documented through the ephemera of letters. keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz2358h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz2358h.txt item: #3685 of 4945 id: qr46qz2359v author: Mostafa Khoshnevisan title: Optimal Resource Allocation in Wireless Communications Subject to Several Power and Eneregy Constraints date: 2011 words: 213 flesch: 49 summary: It is known that adaptive power and rate allocation is a useful technique for combating channel variations induced by multipath fading in wireless systems. Finally, we consider an energy harvesting wireless system, and study rate allocation policies to minimize a delay criterion, e.g., average delay in the data buffer or probability of overflow, subject to the hard power constraints imposed by the available energy. keywords: power cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz2359v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz2359v.txt item: #3686 of 4945 id: qr46qz23633 author: Justin Van Ness title: Meaning Making in Protest Situations date: 2015 words: 159 flesch: 15 summary: Integrating cultural sociology and social psychology, I demonstrate processes of meaning-making that occur as bystanders enter protest situations and that mediate their engagement with the protests: (1) spatial dynamics as they mediate emotions and cognitions; (2) the presence of potentially polluting symbols; and (3) the consequences of emotional inconsistencies. Specifically, I shift focus from the individual to the situation to explore dynamic influences on bystanders' assessments of protest situations organized around two issues: attempts to 'reclaim' the clitoris in order to liberate women's sexuality and their use of the swastika inside the Star of David as their group's religious symbol. keywords: protest cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz23633.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz23633.txt item: #3687 of 4945 id: qr46qz2364f author: Amanda Leigh Klingensmith title: Np5+ Incorporation into Select Uranyl Phases and Thermal Analysis of Select Uranyl Phases date: 2008 words: 349 flesch: 36 summary: Np uptake in uranophane and kasolite was found to be dependent on synthesis pH, with an increase in Np uptake with higher pH. Uranophane, boltwoodite and Na boltwoodite showed an increase in Np incorporation in the presence of P. Boltwoodite showed an even higher Np uptake when Mg and P were both present in the synthesis. Incorporation of Np5+ into soddyite increased steadily with synthesis temperature. keywords: uranophane cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz2364f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz2364f.txt item: #3688 of 4945 id: qr46qz2365s author: May Kim title: The Influence of Cultural Context on Risk, Resilience, and Mental Health on Emerging Latino Adults date: 2014 words: 196 flesch: 25 summary: Informed by the cultural-ecological-transactional (CET) theoretical model (Kuperminc et al., 2009), the present study investigated culture-specific risk and resilience processes and mental health among Latino emerging adults in the United States. Specifically, the acculturation gap and perceived discrimination were identified as culture-specific risk factors and hypothesized to be linked to worse mental health outcomes (i.e., depressive symptoms, anxiety, alcohol use). keywords: mental cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz2365s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz2365s.txt item: #3689 of 4945 id: qr46qz23664 author: Angelina Maria Copeland title: The Interaction of Goal and Temporal Shifts in Situation Models date: 2006 words: 151 flesch: 25 summary: Three plausible relations among the dimensions (no relation, augmenting, and weakening) were investigated by manipulating discontinuities in goal and/or time information within a narrative. Several components of a situation model (including space, time, causality, entities, and information and protagonists) are updated into the situation model. keywords: time cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz23664.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz23664.txt item: #3690 of 4945 id: qr46qz2367g author: Aniruddha Konar title: Electronic and Optical Properties of Low Dimensional Systems: Effect of the Dielectric Environment date: 2011 words: 186 flesch: 33 summary: For perfect 2D crystals such as graphene, this mobility enhancement is only possible at low temperatures, whereas at room temperature polar phonon vibrations originating from the dielectric environment wash out the advantages of using high-Ì_å¼ dielectrics. In this work, the effect of the dielectric mismatch between a semiconductor and its dielectric envi- ronment on charge transport in 1D quantum wires and 2D nanoscale membranes is investigated. keywords: environment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz2367g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz2367g.txt item: #3691 of 4945 id: qr46qz2370c author: Hector Guillen Ahlers title: Sulindac Treatment and Fas Deletion: Effects on a Colon Cancer Mouse Model date: 2009 words: 525 flesch: 44 summary: However, ApcMin/+/Faslpr mice presented with dramatic increases in tumor burden relative to ApcMin/+ mice, with invasive lesions at advanced ages. In this study, ApcMin/+ mice were treated with sulindac, a NSAID that functions as a cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitor. keywords: mice cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz2370c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz2370c.txt item: #3692 of 4945 id: qr46qz23722 author: John Thomas Markiewicz title: Development of a Vinylogous Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Reagent: Syntheses of Siloxy Dienes, Aryl Amines and Medicinally Active Compounds date: 2010 words: 226 flesch: 57 summary: We have developed an efficient synthesis of 1-a-13, which allowed us to provide gram quantities of this pyrrolinone to our collaborators for biological evaluation as a Niemann-Pick type C disease (NP-C) therapeutic. Additionally we have used an analogous step-wise version of this synthesis to prepare trichostatin A. keywords: synthesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz23722.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz23722.txt item: #3693 of 4945 id: qr46qz2373d author: Ciara Máire Conneely title: Representation and Relocation: Aspects of Migration in an Irish and Francophone African Context date: 2015 words: 371 flesch: 42 summary: There is a movement from the general day-to-day life of the immigrant family and their interactions with the host society and public space to the more impersonal institutionalized setting of the hostel in which there is little contact with the outside world accentuating isolation for the male immigrants in both Britain and France and even less with the most intimate space of all, the home, but with the added complexity of homeplace as workplace for female immigrants, work abroad turns out to be an even more depersonalized environment for the female immigrant. I analyze the migrant's engagement with space in the host society with the lingering backdrop of home as not only physical but also psychological space. keywords: immigrant cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz2373d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz2373d.txt item: #3694 of 4945 id: qr46qz2377s author: Emery Ndjiho Longanga title: Interpreting a Christian Classic in an African Context: Pluralism and Inculturation in Light of David Tracy and Leonard Santedi date: 1904 words: 357 flesch: 15 summary: In Africa plagued with violence, war and poverty but also displaying exceptional signs of Christian growth, the dissertation contends, the poietic reception of the Incarnation – God pitching His tent among us – that integrates the hermeneutical criteria laid by David Tracy's critical correlation method and Leonard Santedi's paradigm of the theology of invention constitutes an asset to a new way of doing theology that challenges African imagination, and calls for African political, ecclesial and social transformation. It argues that every reception is a poietic interpretation of the truth of faith that leads to the invention of new expressions of the same truth of faith and a new-mode- of-being-in the world for, by and within the new community that experiences the encounter with the Christ event. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz2377s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz2377s.txt item: #3695 of 4945 id: qr46qz23c6p author: R. Rebecca Love title: The Anopheles gambiae Complex: Genetic Variation and the Tools to Study It date: 1904 words: 278 flesch: 21 summary: Finally, we perform the first known characterization of insertion-deletion mutations (indels) in An. coluzzii and An. gambiae, adapting methods and creating a data set that will be used for future studies of how this category of variants has affected divergence between the two species (chapter 6). We use whole-genome sequencing of the Bamako chromosomal form of An. gambiae s.s. to characterize its differentiation from its parent taxon, An. gambiae s.s., and clarify which genomic regions are most strongly implicated in that differentiation (chapter 3). keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz23c6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz23c6p.txt item: #3696 of 4945 id: qr46qz23r2q author: Jacob A. Zwart title: Hydrologic Regulation of Lake Carbon Cycling in Both Time and Space date: 1904 words: 345 flesch: 27 summary: Using cross-system surveys, I found that seepage lakes (evaporation dominates hydrologic export) process a greater fraction of carbon received from the watershed than drainage lakes (fluvial transport dominates hydrologic export) for a given hydrologic residence time. My dissertation research addressed the role of hydrologic behavior in regulating lake carbon cycling both within lakes through time and across lakes on a landscape. keywords: lake cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz23r2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz23r2q.txt item: #3697 of 4945 id: qr46qz23w81 author: John R. Haase title: Enhanced Thermionic Energy Conversion Using Microplasmas and Diamond Electrodes date: 1904 words: 146 flesch: 22 summary: Microplasmas can be used both in converters, canceling out the effect of negative space charge and enhancing emission current, and outside converters by synthesizing low work function materials such as diamond-containing materials. Thermionic energy converters are devices that convert heat directly to electricity using a process called thermionic emission. keywords: converters cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz23w81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz23w81.txt item: #3698 of 4945 id: qr46qz2422s author: Yushan Zhang title: Computational Methods to Assist in Material Discovery: Membranes and Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolytes date: 2019 words: 385 flesch: 25 summary: Two directly related areas are membranes for protein separation and lithium-ion battery electrolytes for energy storage. Molecular dynamics simulations, optimization algorithms, and quantitative structure property relationships are conducted to improve the predictive behaviors of electrolyte properties, which then could be used to design better liquid electrolytes. keywords: separation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz2422s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz2422s.txt item: #3699 of 4945 id: qr46qz24819 author: Allie Roos title: Marvels and Memory: Exploring Motivations for Travel in Antiquity date: 2020 words: 27 flesch: 29 summary: This thesis utilizes the works of Gaius Licinius Mucianus and Pausanias to demonstrate the presence of travelers who traveled for purposes of intellectual curiosity, escapism, and nostalgia. keywords: nostalgia cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz24819.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz24819.txt item: #3700 of 4945 id: qr46qz24b1x author: Shubha Raj Kharel title: Degree Preserving Network Growth date: 2022 words: 289 flesch: 50 summary: DPG can be used to grow networks with desired higher-order metrics (other than the degrees), allowing applications, for example, in epidemic control via network immunization, viral marketing, knowledge dissemination, and the design of molecular isomers with desired properties. We introduce a novel family of network growth models called 'Degree Preserving Network Growth' (DPG), in which new nodes join the network over time without changing the existing node's degrees. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz24b1x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz24b1x.txt item: #3701 of 4945 id: qr46qz24b59 author: Rene Celis Cordova title: Reversible Computing: Adiabatic Capacitive Logic date: 2022 words: 408 flesch: 38 summary: Adiabatic reversible logic devices require ramping clocks to implement reversible computing. This work presents the design and fabrication of adiabatic capacitive logic MEMS devices that pave the way to implement adiabatic reversible computing not limited by leakage. keywords: reversible cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qr46qz24b59.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qr46qz24b59.txt item: #3702 of 4945 id: qv33rv06f6w author: Pei Zhao title: Novel High Frequency Devices with Graphene and GaN date: 2015 words: 785 flesch: 49 summary: In chapter 4, we compared the performance of GaN Schottky diodes on bulk GaN substrates and GaN-on-sapphire substrates. The forward bias IV characteristics of GaN Schottky diodes on bulk GaN substrate and GaN-on-sapphire substrate are well explained by the thermionic emission model. keywords: current; gan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv06f6w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv06f6w.txt item: #3703 of 4945 id: qv33rv06f77 author: Rakshit Tirumala title: Corona Discharges in Asymmetric Electric Fields and its Impact on Ionic Wind Generation date: 2013 words: 431 flesch: 30 summary: An overview of fundamentals of corona discharges and ionic winds, and a literature survey of various ionic wind devices and numerical modeling procedures is included. Ionic wind devices, which operate on the principle of electrohydrodynamic interaction, are being studied as a replacement for conventional fans because of the inherent advantages of small acoustic signature, low weight, low power consumption, and the absence of moving parts. keywords: configurations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv06f77.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv06f77.txt item: #3704 of 4945 id: qv33rv06f8k author: Danielle Marie McDermott title: Pattern Formation in Micro and Nanosystems date: 2014 words: 233 flesch: 48 summary: We focus primarily on patterns which form from interacting grain-boundaries in an otherwise hexagonal lattice. After classifying groundstate patterns, we apply driving forces to the colloids. keywords: cluster cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv06f8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv06f8k.txt item: #3705 of 4945 id: qv33rv06g2t author: Lorenzo Delloso title: 'Litre de stampa son caliginose': The Role of Filippo da Strada (1450-1505) in the Debate on Printing in Renaissance Italy date: 2015 words: 383 flesch: 37 summary: d. 5 of the Hesburgh Library (University of Notre Dame), in which I found three unknown autograph texts by Filippo himself: here he stresses the higher pedagogical value of manuscript texts over printed ones, and highlights his fear of finding serious mistakes, especially in sacred printed texts: the same fear expressed by humanists. Fundamentally, Filippo's unique critique is based on three main concerns: an economic one, i.e. the economic loss for copyists (because of the great economic success of printed books); a humanistic reason, i.e. the praise of the accuracy in copying texts and the subsequent attention to not making errors that, in copying sacred texts, can distort God's word; and a pedagogical reason, i.e. the pedagogical value of the action of copying itself: only by copying, indeed, can students absorb and learn the text. keywords: filippo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv06g2t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv06g2t.txt item: #3706 of 4945 id: qv33rv06g35 author: Youngho Yoon title: Spectrum of Hyperplane Arrangements in Four Variables date: 2013 words: 68 flesch: 35 summary: In this thesis the main result is the formula for reduced hyperplane arrangements in four variables. It is known that the Hodge spectra of hyperplane arrangements are combinatorial. keywords: hodge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv06g35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv06g35.txt item: #3707 of 4945 id: qv33rv06g97 author: Cesar Cadena title: Molecular Modeling of the Thermophysical and Transport Properties of Ionic Liquids date: 2006 words: 405 flesch: 32 summary: Analysis of the dynamic properties of ionic liquid systems is also carried out yielding information on the rotational dynamics and transport properties such as self-diffusivity. In this research dissertation, thermophysical and transport properties of ionic liquids are theoretically investigated by means of molecular simulation techniques. keywords: ionic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv06g97.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv06g97.txt item: #3708 of 4945 id: qv33rv06h0f author: Hui Fang title: Control of Distributed Systems with Interconnection Constraints date: 2007 words: 527 flesch: 30 summary: From quantization systems for networked control systems (NCS) to fundamental limitations of control systems under information constraints, and from consensus problems to formation control and sensing and coverage problems, researchers have been interested in distributed control algorithms that achieve global objectives with minimum communication requirements. For distributed systems, a distributed stability condition to guarantee global quadratic performance under various communication constraints is presented. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv06h0f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv06h0f.txt item: #3709 of 4945 id: qv33rv06h24 author: Matthew Aron Bennington title: Tip Gap Flow and Casing Treatments in an Axial Compressor date: 2009 words: 340 flesch: 58 summary: It was found that an interface exists at the blade tip between incoming axial flow to the compressor and reverse leakage flow over the blade tip. The effects of circumferential groove casing treatments on both the performance and tip gap flow were investigated. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv06h24.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv06h24.txt item: #3710 of 4945 id: qv33rv06h55 author: Kevin Joseph Melchiorri title: The Collaborative Tribe date: 2014 words: 288 flesch: 35 summary: This includes immersing oneself in unfamiliar territories, striving to understand and become fluent in as many disciplines as possible, collaborating with those who can provide the expertise in other disciplines necessary to the success of an endeavor, and as John Bielenberg stated, one must think wrong from time to time. When design is used a vehicle for the communication of ideas among a diverse audience, the potential outcome can possess exponential and outlasting advantages over other mediums and outlets. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv06h55.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv06h55.txt item: #3711 of 4945 id: qv33rv06j44 author: Thomas Graff title: A Rhetoric of Suspension: Rethinking Salvation in the Commedia date: 1904 words: 51 flesch: 39 summary: My thesis attends to the relationship between Dante's reflection on salvation and the rhetorical development of the term sospeso throughout the Commedia. In their coming together, I offer that we discern a more profound realization of what it might mean for humanity to participate fully in the mystery of salvation. keywords: salvation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv06j44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv06j44.txt item: #3712 of 4945 id: qv33rv0753n author: Julia Beck title: Plasminogen Activation, Conformation, and Binding in the Context of Group A Streptococcus Virulence Factors, Streptokinase and PAM date: 1904 words: 285 flesch: 55 summary: Plasminogen (hPg) conversion to the serine protease plasmin via host and exogenous factors results in activation of the human fibrinolytic system and ultimately degradation of fibrin and extracellular matrices. Group A Streptococcus (GAS), a bacterial pathogen responsible for diseases including rheumatic heart disease, impetigo, and necrotizing fasciitis; activates Pg through the extracellular protein streptokinase (SK). keywords: kringle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv0753n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv0753n.txt item: #3713 of 4945 id: qv33rv0759q author: Jixin Si title: Fluorescence Intermittency in Graphene Oxide: Experiment versus Theory date: 1904 words: 212 flesch: 19 summary: In this thesis, we provide an extensive phenomenological analysis of the spatially resolved fluorescence trajectories in reduced graphene oxide (rGO). We argue that the number density of recombination centers can be linked to the microscopic number of optically active graphene quantum dots generated during the various photoreduction stages of graphene oxide. keywords: fluorescence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv0759q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv0759q.txt item: #3714 of 4945 id: qv33rv07b36 author: Marshall A. Taylor title: The Politics of Attention: The Case of White Nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980-2008 date: 2019 words: 323 flesch: 34 summary: In the case of peer attention-getting, I posit that any given organization has a higher capacity for garnering internal peer attention when they also have leaders that are high status enough to warrant external countermovement attention—but that the peer attention-getting capacity for these groups is positively moderated to the extent that the organization presents itself discursively with fearful language. In the case of grievance-based attention-focusing, I put forth a theory outlining the conditions under a white nationalist organization is more likely to shift attention to immigration-related issues. keywords: attention cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv07b36.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv07b36.txt item: #3715 of 4945 id: qv33rv07j5r author: Elizabeth McCourt Noonan title: Strategic Framing, Partisanship, and Philanthropy: The Story of the Charter School Movement date: 2020 words: 444 flesch: 34 summary: This finding partially supports my theory that the symbolic nature of abstract racial equality framing has failed to produce broad, multiethnic support for charter schools. However, the racial and ethnic composition of states has no effect on charter school adoption and mixed effects on charter school implementation. keywords: school cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv07j5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv07j5r.txt item: #3716 of 4945 id: qv33rv07n2n author: Farya J. Chattergoon title: Targeting Triple Negative Breast Cancer with Combinatorial Kinase Inhibitors date: 2022 words: 435 flesch: 34 summary: Based on this observed rewiring, and the known advantage of using sequential treatment to prevent reemergence of parallel signaling pathways, we theorized that sequential treatment would be more effective than concurrent combination treatment. Sequential treatment with Abemaciclib, Lestaurtinib and Defactinib, a FAK inhibitor, resulted in decreased cell proliferation and an increase in cell death. keywords: treatment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv07n2n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv07n2n.txt item: #3717 of 4945 id: qv33rv07n8q author: Janeala Morsby title: Enzyme Responsive Molecular Probes for Biomedical Optical Diagnostics and Imaging date: 2023 words: 381 flesch: 32 summary: Finally, Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8 describes optical imaging and quantification of tumor hypoxia biomarkers using novel fluorescent near infrared molecular probes. In this regard, optical-based methods are very attractive and there are many different assays to measure enzyme levels using colorimetric, UV-vis, fluorometric, or chemiluminescence detection techniques. keywords: disease cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv07n8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv07n8q.txt item: #3718 of 4945 id: qv33rv07n92 author: Vincenz Heereman title: All humans are cast into battle: Ephrem the Syrian's Theology of Spiritual Struggle and Ascetic Heroism date: 2023 words: 342 flesch: 47 summary: The Memra on Jonah and the Repentance of Nineveh, read against the backdrop of ancient epic literature, reveals that Ephrem seeks to create a Christian ideal in which repentance, construed as a battle, is the epitome of heroism (chap. A fascinating pattern emerges from Ephrem's construal of ascetic practices: even as he highlights human agency, he forestalls any potential lapse into voluntarism. keywords: ephrem cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qv33rv07n92.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qv33rv07n92.txt item: #3719 of 4945 id: qz20sq89r0d author: Michael L. Kamen title: The Science of the Bible in Nineteenth-Century America: From 'Common Sense' to Controversy, 1820-1900 date: 2004 words: 349 flesch: 17 summary: Moreover, these debates provided one of the chief avenues by which historicist assumptions about human culture infiltrated American intellectual life: large numbers of Americans, both the educated and the ordinary, encountered the claims of historicism most directly or for the first time in the arena of conflict over biblical criticism. After 1870, concerns about the encroachments of philosophical naturalism, associated with Darwinian theory, exacerbated concerns about the naturalistic overtones of historical biblical criticism. keywords: biblical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89r0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89r0d.txt item: #3720 of 4945 id: qz20sq89r1r author: Todd Kane title: Experimental Determination of Engineering Parameters for the Creation of a Mathematical Model of the Notre Dame Three Foot Wind Tunnel date: 2011 words: 167 flesch: 36 summary: Mathematical models of wind tunnels are very useful, cost-saving tools in the field of aerodynamic testing. An entire test can be run on a mathematical model to predict the reaction of relevant flight variables and to ensure that the test can be run without any unexpected results or the need for an emergency shut down. keywords: mathematical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89r1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89r1r.txt item: #3721 of 4945 id: qz20sq89r23 author: Brittani R Russell title: A Novel Rapidly Deployable Floating Causeway: Design and Optimization date: 2013 words: 151 flesch: 24 summary: In response to the increasing demand for improved systems, the Engineer Research and Development Center has designed the Lightweight Modular Causeway System, which possesses great improvements over current systems. This thesis will review existing deployable bridge and causeway systems, present this re-conceptualization, discuss the implementation of optimization to achieve this new design, and finally discuss conclusions and future work. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89r23.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89r23.txt item: #3722 of 4945 id: qz20sq89r54 author: Matthew Hatch title: Leopardi's Ironic Genesis: 'La storia del genere umano' date: 2015 words: 84 flesch: 32 summary: Due to what scholars have called a shift from historic pessimism to cosmic pessimism in the year 1824, this study focuses on his opening story of the Operette Morali, 'La storia del genere umano,' written in early 1820. The present study is primarily concerned with understanding Giacomo Leopardi's 'system' described in 1820 in his Zibaldone, which fuses the incongruent relationship between the myth-like 'origin story' of humanity described in Genesis and its modernity into a comprehensible reality through the medium of irony. keywords: study cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89r54.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89r54.txt item: #3723 of 4945 id: qz20sq89r6g author: Michael Joseph Chapple title: Security Management of Controlled Networks in a Resource-Constrained Environment date: 2009 words: 190 flesch: 22 summary: The growing complexity of enterprise networks and the proliferation of security devices creates a resource availability crisis for security professionals seeking to concurrently manage security controls and analyze voluminous log records for evidence of suspicious activity. The techniques presented in this research present practical approaches to security management. keywords: security cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89r6g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89r6g.txt item: #3724 of 4945 id: qz20sq89r7t author: Stephen L Armet title: Education Policy as a Mechanism for Secularization in a Catholic Majority Country: The Case of Uruguay, (1877 – 1932) date: 2014 words: 298 flesch: 21 summary: Competition and conflict between religious and secular projects generated a specific form of symbolic capital — representational capital — the capacity to contextualize the elite project through social representations to non-elites in order to affirm the project's relevance and legitimacy. Bourdieu's concepts of field and capital provide a useful theoretical framework for understanding how internal dynamics of competition and conflict between anti-religious and religious elites in the sub-field of education diminished Catholic socialization capacity. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89r7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89r7t.txt item: #3725 of 4945 id: qz20sq89r85 author: Heather Brooke Reilly title: The genetic dissection of differential growth in Plasmodium falciparum and its relationship to chloroquine drug selection date: 2008 words: 353 flesch: 42 summary: Anti-malarials used to treat malaria, such as chloroquine (CQ), exhibit increased failure and have an effect on the parasite genome potentially resulting in differences in parasite growth. Parasite growth is complex, composed of discrete biological steps contributing to differences in overall 'growth.' keywords: growth cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89r85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89r85.txt item: #3726 of 4945 id: qz20sq89r9h author: Erin Marie Daly title: Probing Tubuling Interactions with 14-Methyl Epothilone D Analogues date: 2011 words: 330 flesch: 21 summary: We have confirmed through computer modeling techniques that (14S)- and (14R)-methyl epothilone D preferentially exist as epoxide/olefinic conformer I and epoxide/olefinic conformer II, correspondingly. Computational methods and high-field NMR experiments on the epothilone pharmacophore have enabled us to distinguish epoxide/olefinic conformer I and epoxide/olefinic conformer II and, subsequently, to determine which most accurately describes the bioactive conformation for this region. keywords: epothilone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89r9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89r9h.txt item: #3727 of 4945 id: qz20sq89s2d author: Caitlyn Shea Butler title: Fundamental and Applied Studies of Microbial Fuel Cells for Sustainable Water and Wastewater Treatment date: 2009 words: 280 flesch: 30 summary: This research developed novel MFC-based processes for energy-efficient water and wastewater treatment, and contributed to the fundamental understanding of microbial communities within these processes. Water and wastewater treatment accounts for around 4% of energy consumption in the United States. keywords: wastewater cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89s2d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89s2d.txt item: #3728 of 4945 id: qz20sq89s43 author: Kyong Chang title: New Multi-Biometric Approaches for Improved Person Identification date: 2005 words: 348 flesch: 41 summary: The proposed method outperforms 3D eigenfaces when 3D face scans were acquired in different times without expression changes and also with expression changes. Also, a new algorithm for 3D face recognition is proposed for handling expression variation. keywords: recognition cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89s43.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89s43.txt item: #3729 of 4945 id: qz20sq89s5f author: Rachel Zavecz title: SIX date: 2015 words: 36 flesch: 66 summary: This manuscript is a collection of poems based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Six Swans. It is primarily concerned with the perversion of language and narrative form, and utilizes visually arresting text as art. keywords: swans cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89s5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89s5f.txt item: #3730 of 4945 id: qz20sq89s9t author: Danielle Fulmer title: Bridging Together: Boundary-Spanning Actors and Community Violence date: 1904 words: 149 flesch: 28 summary: This strategy builds on empirical successes as well as a theoretical tradition extolling the role of intermediary actors in bridging disconnected groups. Some communities are collaborating with local leaders to improve relationships between authority figures and the communities they serve. keywords: bsas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89s9t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89s9t.txt item: #3731 of 4945 id: qz20sq89t94 author: Sean P. Vilanova title: An Investigation of the Multiple Binding Modes and Secondary Interactions of N-Arylated PNArP Ligands on Iridium date: 1904 words: 301 flesch: 35 summary: Thermal stability and reactivity studies demonstrated that some of the backbones underwent decomposition to new anionic pincer ligands, some of which demonstrated metal-ligand cooperativity in the activation of H2 and iso-propanol. Sterically bulky polydentate ligands have been employed to aid in the stabilization of reactive catalytic centers. keywords: aryl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89t94.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89t94.txt item: #3732 of 4945 id: qz20sq89x8q author: Patrick J. Miller title: Boosted Decision Trees for Multivariate, Hierarchically Clustered, and Longitudinal Data date: 1904 words: 306 flesch: 29 summary: Exploratory regression analysis is beneficial because the results suggest testable hypotheses, can limit the number of plausible models, and help avoid errors in model specification. Mixed effects tree boosting takes hierarchically clustered data into account by treating a grouping variable as random. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq89x8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq89x8q.txt item: #3733 of 4945 id: qz20sq90f4r author: Elizabeth A. Loughran title: The Impact of Aging and Parity on Ovarian Cancer Metastasis date: 1904 words: 299 flesch: 46 summary: In this work, we demonstrate that multiparous mice are less susceptible to ovarian cancer metastasis than their nulliparous or primiparous age-matched counterparts. Using two different murine models of aging and metastasis, we demonstrated for the first time that aged animals are more susceptible to intraperitoneal ovarian cancer metastasis than young animals. keywords: ovarian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq90f4r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq90f4r.txt item: #3734 of 4945 id: qz20sq90f84 author: Patrick Conry title: Scale Continuum of Vertical Exchanges between Lower Stratosphere and Surface Layers date: 1904 words: 367 flesch: 31 summary: Exchanges of momentum, heat, and moisture between layers of atmosphere and upper ocean govern the variability of global climate down to local environments. The quasi-periodic WWBs were also studied using one-dimensional ocean mixed layer model to estimate response of upper ocean. keywords: upper cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq90f84.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq90f84.txt item: #3735 of 4945 id: qz20sq90g5d author: Lixing Song title: Fast Mobile Network Characterization: Design, Implementation and Evaluation date: 1904 words: 453 flesch: 38 summary: Therefore, the key challenge is how to conduct mobile network characterization in an accurate and efficient manner. In this dissertation, I propose a test suite of mobile network characterization using both active and passive approaches on WiFi and cellular networks. keywords: mobile cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq90g5d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq90g5d.txt item: #3736 of 4945 id: qz20sq90h8r author: Mitchell Springer title: Icons of Eco-Anxiety date: 2018 words: 232 flesch: 34 summary: This material treatment is a departure from traditional ceramic processes and intends to question pre-conceived definitions of the ceramic object. I pursue processes that usually foster the durability and permanence of ceramic objects in an effort to expand and transform the possibilities of the medium for the creation of seemingly fragile, ephemeral objects. keywords: objects cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq90h8r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq90h8r.txt item: #3737 of 4945 id: qz20sq90p1w author: Marjorie Housley title: Queer Time and the Ethics of Emotion in Medieval North Atlantic Heroic Literature date: 2019 words: 377 flesch: 31 summary: The fourth and final chapter examines how the spatiality of fear functions alongside processes of thinking and knowing, bringing the mind in proximity with possible futures; by linking the emotional to the embodied, readers engage affectively with the often-fantastical traumas experienced in heroic literature. Reading heroic texts from English, Irish, and Scandinavian literary traditions as figurations of a historical imaginary, this dissertation focuses on negative affects like anger and fear to examine how feelings illuminate a dialectic between nostalgia for a constructed past and concern about a dreaded future. keywords: heroic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq90p1w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq90p1w.txt item: #3738 of 4945 id: qz20sq90t3t author: Tierney C. Miller title: A Structural and Dynamical Analysis of Ionic Liquids and Aqueous Hydroxide Solutions via Molecular Dynamics date: 2020 words: 211 flesch: 25 summary: The latter part of this manuscript studies dilute aqueous solutions with ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. Branched alcohols slowed ionic liquid dynamics more than any other class, while primary alcohols and aromatic alcohols displayed similar time scales when the alkyl chain lengths were identical. keywords: dynamics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq90t3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq90t3t.txt item: #3739 of 4945 id: qz20sq90v5t author: Ankur Saxena title: Spatial and Temporal Evolution of an Electrohydrodynamic Flow Generated Off the Surface of a Piezoelectric Transformer date: 2021 words: 317 flesch: 50 summary: Results show that the maximum flow speeds increased linearly with increasing input voltage, and surprisingly, decreased with increasing duty cycle. The jet width initially tends to increase with increasing input voltage and eventually saturates for all input voltages as the duty cycle increases above approximately 20%. keywords: ehd cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq90v5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq90v5t.txt item: #3740 of 4945 id: qz20sq90w3f author: Sevda Arslan title: The Alevi Path through a Center: Transnational and Transgenerational Community in Berlin date: 2022 words: 399 flesch: 26 summary: The Turkish government does not legally recognize Alevi path rituals or their worship and communal space (called cemevi, in Turkish). They primarily define themselves by their faith – Alevism – a syncretic religion with roots in Islam which Alevis refer to as the path (yol, in Turkish). keywords: alevis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq90w3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq90w3f.txt item: #3741 of 4945 id: qz20sq90w7t author: Daniel Flynn title: The Hidden Rank: Civilian Education and Military Leadership date: 2022 words: 438 flesch: 37 summary: Unlike physicians, lawyers, and the clergy, military leaders do not depend on civilian education for their professional development or prospects for success. Despite the assumed benefits of higher education, does graduate education support or subvert the career prospects of military leaders? keywords: military cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq90w7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq90w7t.txt item: #3742 of 4945 id: qz20sq90x2d author: Elizabeth I. Harper title: Integrative Analysis of the Aging Peritoneum in Metastatic Receptivity date: 2022 words: 462 flesch: 36 summary: While many studies have been done on aged collagen in the skin, the effect of aging on omental collagen has not been investigated. While in vitro assays showed no significant difference in adhesion or proliferation of OvCa cells on Y vs A collagen, human cell line OVCAR5 showed increased invasion through Boyden invasion chambers lined with A collagen compared to Y. The relationship between tumors and aged collagen was further investigated by analysis of collagen hybridizing peptide (CHP) staining of paraffin-embedded omental tumor sections, which shows an increase of intratumoral collagen remodeling in A tumors despite no significant difference in overall collagen amount as shown by trichrome analysis of serial sections. keywords: collagen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq90x2d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq90x2d.txt item: #3743 of 4945 id: qz20sq90x3r author: Sharif Rahmy title: Overcoming Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapy date: 2022 words: 188 flesch: 19 summary: Here we show evidence that by altering epigenetic regulation using a histone deacetylase inhibitor we can simultaneously increase MHC-I expression on tumor cells and change the differentiation of infiltrating immune cells from immunosuppressive macrophages towards immunostimulatory antigen presenting cells (APCs). ICB therapy is based on reactivating exhausted T-cells (PD-1) and increasing T-cell activation (CTLA-4), one major mechanism of resistance is mediated through downregulation of the Major Histocompatibility Complex I (MHC-I) on cancer cells, as the MHC complex is responsible for presenting antigen to T-cells, and thereby crucial for facilitating T-cell mediated killing. keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/qz20sq90x3r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/qz20sq90x3r.txt item: #3744 of 4945 id: r207tm7309b author: Calli Anne Versagli title: Understanding the Metabolic Mechanisms Behind the Survival of Extracellular Matrix-Detached Breast Cancer Cells date: 2014 words: 272 flesch: 36 summary: In addition, these studies have unveiled a PI(3)K-dependent but AKT-independent signaling pathway involved in mediating metabolism and cell survival in detached cancer cells. In order to understand the implications of these studies, my project investigated the significance of metabolic regulation during ECM-detachment in cancer cells. keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm7309b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm7309b.txt item: #3745 of 4945 id: r207tm7314x author: Prashan De Visser title: The Role of Youth in Transforming Conflict date: 2015 words: 348 flesch: 38 summary: This thesis examines the role of youth in transforming conflicts through a multi-layered study of grassroots youth movements adopting conflict transformational approaches in conflict zones across the world. Grassroots youth movements that have adopted conflict transformational approaches have enhanced their relevance and capacity by using innovative methods to expose, challenge, and transform a the root causes of conflict. keywords: conflict cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm7314x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm7314x.txt item: #3746 of 4945 id: r207tm73158 author: Huijing Du title: Multiscale Modeling of Bacterial Swarming date: 2013 words: 362 flesch: 34 summary: We hypothesize that the cell wave formation is due to increased cell division rate and rhamnolipid production rate and cell alignment. The model predictions of wave speed and swarm expansion rate as well as cell alignment in tendrils were confirmed experimentally. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm73158.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm73158.txt item: #3747 of 4945 id: r207tm7322j author: Yunshan Wang title: Novel Optical Biosensors: Singular Intensity Amplification and Molecular Trapping Enhancement at Nanoscales date: 2014 words: 272 flesch: 43 summary: To reduce assay time, I use dielectrophoresis (DEP) force and electrophoretic force to trap molecules, which drastically speeds up detection process. I have demonstrated detection of a hundred molecules within fifteen minutes by driving molecules into detection region using electrophoretic force. keywords: integrated cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm7322j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm7322j.txt item: #3748 of 4945 id: r207tm73247 author: Matthew Zyskowski title: Cost Density-Shaping for Stochastic Optimal Control date: 2010 words: 362 flesch: 27 summary: The field of cost cumulant controls has made considerable advances towards this capability in the past few decades, largely because of the advantage gained from controlling the cost cumulants instead of the cost moments. Together MCCDS and STS enable the design of control laws with optimality among a family of target cost densities, which might be regarded as a new approach to robust LQG control design. keywords: cost cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm73247.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm73247.txt item: #3749 of 4945 id: r207tm73278 author: Peter Mundey title: American Christianity & Consumerism: Understanding the Relationship Between Christian Economic Culture and Secular Consumer Culture date: 2014 words: 187 flesch: 13 summary: I argue that that mainstream American Christianity is multi-vocal regarding consumerism, but the most widely accepted voices prop up the consumerist regime by dualistically compartmentalizing some aspects of economic life from religion—especially point-of-purchase situations—promoting unfettered consumerism through the prosperity gospel, and by encouraging prudent consumerism through a gospel of fiscal responsibility. This study examines the relationship between two influential moral orders in American culture: Christianity and consumerism. keywords: consumerism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm73278.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm73278.txt item: #3750 of 4945 id: r207tm7328m author: Jarred Robert Edward Pickering title: The Application of Polyketide Natural Product GEX1A to Niemann-Pick Type C Disease date: 2015 words: 368 flesch: 33 summary: Our laboratory determined that the novel cholesterol activity of GEX1A merited further investigation within the context of Niemann-Pick Type C.Through isolation of natural GEX1A from its producing organism, our laboratory has demonstrated that GEX1A represents a novel therapeutic candidate for Niemann-Pick type C. Specifically, GEX1A restores cholesterol homeostasis in NPC1 mutant cell lines and cells induced with the disease associated phenotype. Histone deacetylase inhibitors, such as trichostatin A and vorinostat, have recently been shown to restore cholesterol homeostasis in Niemann-Pick type C mutant cell lines. keywords: type cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm7328m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm7328m.txt item: #3751 of 4945 id: r207tm73305 author: Deanna C. Childress title: Cultural Resources and School Success: School Engagement as the Missing Link date: 1904 words: 235 flesch: 26 summary: A lack of school engagement has been determined to be a significant contributor to high school dropout. To this end, I investigate the relationship between cultural capital and school engagement, as well as the associations among cultural capital, engagement, and high school dropout. keywords: engagement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm73305.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm73305.txt item: #3752 of 4945 id: r207tm73r1d author: James Kapaldo title: The Spatial Dependent Interaction of Environment Controlled Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jets with Cultured Cells date: 1904 words: 384 flesch: 31 summary: This is a rarely reported aspect of plasma treatment due to the lack of techniques and analysis methods that are able to reveal spatial information over a large cell growing region (order of cm2) while also provide detailed cellular feature information. The spatial investigation of cellular effects induced by plasma treatment can also reveal essential information, such as the size of the treated area, and the effectiveness in the treated area. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm73r1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm73r1d.txt item: #3753 of 4945 id: r207tm73x3n author: Anthony James Ruth title: Quantum Confinement and the Emission of Visible Light date: 2019 words: 107 flesch: 57 summary: This document is (hopefully) a useful reference for those who want to understand how to model complex, dynamic systems over multiple orders of magnitude of length and time. Multiscale modeling was used to build up from the atomic scale and to test hypotheses of lattice dynamics. keywords: thesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm73x3n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm73x3n.txt item: #3754 of 4945 id: r207tm73z2m author: Daniel Schor title: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Latent Capacity and Attention Lapses in a Whole Report Visual Array Task date: 2019 words: 151 flesch: 33 summary: This research has concluded that attention lapses are better characterized as graded states, and more importantly that individual differences in performance appear to be due primarily to differences in lapse rate as opposed to capacity. Two studies are reported in this paper that further evaluated the relative importance of lapse rate and capacity in this task. keywords: lapses cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm73z2m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm73z2m.txt item: #3755 of 4945 id: r207tm74413 author: Dezhao Huang title: Thermal and Mass Transport at Hard/Soft Material Interfaces date: 2021 words: 54 flesch: 29 summary: It provides a comprehensive understanding of a variety of possible strategies to achieve this goal from solid-water interfacial thermal conductance, water slip behavior at the solid interface, hot gold nanoparticle Brownian motion. This dissertation discusses my research in understanding the thermal and mass transport at hard/soft material interfaces as the overarching goal. keywords: goal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm74413.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm74413.txt item: #3756 of 4945 id: r207tm7454f author: Naima Msechu title: Infestations: A Tetraptych & Other Stories date: 2022 words: 268 flesch: 35 summary: Characters do their best to cope with this onslaught, alternately embracing and fending it off with such coping mechanisms as befriending cockroaches, projecting whale sounds through a rainwater pipe, archiving scenes from a failed relationship, and metaphorically detonating earrings shaped like grenades—in short, these characters craft personal ideologies even as they are influenced, as all people are, by larger, societal ones. Infestations are closely tied to obsessions, which involve repetition; just as these stories prowl the same thematic territory in different ways, their individual narratives contain echoes, reiterations, copies good and bad. keywords: stories cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm7454f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm7454f.txt item: #3757 of 4945 id: r207tm7457g author: Xiaoyi Zhang title: Conservi sani li affetti suoi: Dante's Education of Affects date: 2022 words: 233 flesch: 34 summary: As I demonstrate, in conversation with the tradition of affective piety in his own stories of salvation and redemption, Dante brings important thinkers of affective piety—Augustine, Anselm, Bernard, Aquinas, and Bonaventure—onto stage in the Commedia as characters, who, with their life stories full of affections, and with their expressed affections towards each other and towards the pilgrim, teach Dante about affection and faith. This dissertation examines Dante's ideas on emotions or affects, and the literary, moral, and spiritual significance of affectivity in his writings— in the Commedia and the Vita nova—in the context of medieval affective piety. keywords: affective cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm7457g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm7457g.txt item: #3758 of 4945 id: r207tm74711 author: Carly B. Sherman title: Which is Witch? Authenticity, Aesthetic, and Pop Culture Representation in the Witchcraft Community date: 2023 words: 386 flesch: 27 summary: Only a few decades removed from the Satanic Panic, the moral uproar of the 1980s and onward that cast suspicion on a variety of occult practices and non-Christian spiritual practices, the trendiness of witchcraft is surprising, existing as it does alongside a real marginalized religious and/or lifestyle practice that is still stigmatized and discriminated against in many places. Ultimately, I argue that the mainstreamers are better positioned to take advantage of opportunities to generate emotional energy in interactions given the fresh enthusiasm coming into the community, but in this they are equally exposed and vulnerable to situations that drain and dilute the emotional energy available. keywords: witchcraft cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r207tm74711.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r207tm74711.txt item: #3759 of 4945 id: r494vh56928 author: Craig Matthew Goehler title: A Generalized Parameterization of T1 Motion and its Application to the Synthesis of Planar Mechanisms date: 2004 words: 102 flesch: 26 summary: Prior development of T1 motion theory has used a second-order parameterization which maximally simplifies the theory and allows for a description of the kinematic geometry. In the T1 motion theory presented here, this parameterization is generalized and not limited to the second-order. keywords: theory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh56928.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh56928.txt item: #3760 of 4945 id: r494vh5693m author: Michael Daniel Driessen title: Religiously Friendly Democracy: Framing Political and Religious Identities in Catholic and Muslim Societies date: 2011 words: 173 flesch: 17 summary: My analysis presents a theory for modeling the dynamics which are created when states allow hostile religions more access to the political and public spheres during moments of democratization (or lesser forms of political liberalization) by a) allowing religious political parties to contest elections and b) biasing religion-state arrangements in favor of religion. This research project explores the relationship between faith and nation, and the institutional entanglements of religion, state and democracy in Catholic and Muslim societies. keywords: religion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh5693m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh5693m.txt item: #3761 of 4945 id: r494vh5694z author: Xiu Xing title: Pseudomorphic In0.22Ga0.78As-Channel MOSFETs Using InAlP Oxide as the Gate Dielectric for RF Applications date: 2013 words: 425 flesch: 43 summary: Operation at high gate bias (to at least 1.5V) without significant gate leakage is demonstrated. However, despite the excellent performance obtained, the demonstrated devices do not yet exhibit the full advantages of the new gate structure and high mobility channel due to un-optimized device designs. keywords: gate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh5694z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh5694z.txt item: #3762 of 4945 id: r494vh56970 author: Erika A. Olson title: The Initial Value Problem for Two Nonlinear Evolution Equations date: 2008 words: 141 flesch: 31 summary: For the higher-order modification of the Camassa-Holm equation under consideration, we show that the non-periodic initial value problem is locally well posed for initial data in Sobolev spaces of index s greater than s' where s' is greater than or equal to 1/4 and less than 1/2 and the value of s' depends on the order of equation. We consider the initial value problem for two nonlinear evolution equations, first, the hyperelastic rod equation, which, under a certain choice of parameter, coincides with the Camassa-Holm equation and second, a higher-order modification of the Camassa-Holm equation. keywords: equation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh56970.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh56970.txt item: #3763 of 4945 id: r494vh5698b author: Huyen Thanh Pham title: Essays on Dynamic Competition and Academic Entrepreneurship date: 2012 words: 119 flesch: 45 summary: The third essay examines the effects of the Bayh-Dole Act (1980) and the Pasteur's Quadrant effects on a faculty's research efforts over a career life cycle, taking into account research preferences and productivities, spillovers among different types of research knowledge, and monetary payoffs. The first essay studies the dynamics and equilibrium outcomes of a duopoly in which firms make decisions about both capacity expansion and cost reduction. keywords: essay cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh5698b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh5698b.txt item: #3764 of 4945 id: r494vh5699p author: Gregory Daniel Shufeldt title: Unequal Parties: Partisan Differences in Political Behavior date: 2014 words: 339 flesch: 28 summary: Republicans appear more loyal by engaging in partisan political behavior because, quite frankly, they do not have to make the choice of group over party as often as Democrats. These partisan differences in political behavior and party loyalty persist even after controlling for the most obvious explanation: that demographic and socioeconomic differences in the type of people who identify with each party explain these observed behavioral differences. keywords: likely cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh5699p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh5699p.txt item: #3765 of 4945 id: r494vh56b0w author: Weiqiang Huang title: Synthetic Studies on Carbocyclic Nucleosides date: 2008 words: 256 flesch: 24 summary: The focus of this dissertation research was to develop efficient synthetic approaches to carbocyclic furanose nucleosides, which play an important role in the discovery for new anti-cancer, anti HIV and anti tuberculosis drugs. Norcarbovir and norabacavir were efficiently synthesized based on the cyclopentadiene-epoxide strategy, and their anti-cancer and anti-HIV activities were studied. keywords: carbocyclic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh56b0w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh56b0w.txt item: #3766 of 4945 id: r494vh56b17 author: Katharine Elizabeth Harmon title: 'There Were Also Many Women There': Roman Catholic Lay Women in the American Liturgical Movement, 1926-1959 date: 2011 words: 274 flesch: 18 summary: The advancement of the field of liturgical studies as a venue for contemporary critical historical and theological discourse depends upon liturgical scholars who effectively utilize gender in their method of analysis. A study of this nature offers a fresh perspective by recovering the integral role which lay women played in the development of liturgical life, including social action, education, worship practice, and familial activity. keywords: liturgical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh56b17.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh56b17.txt item: #3767 of 4945 id: r494vh56b48 author: Jai Kishan Verma title: Polarization Engineering for Novel III-V Nitride Device Structures date: 2010 words: 346 flesch: 47 summary: In addition a shoulder extending to energies higher than GaN band gap (3.4 eV) was observed in the EL spectra signifying recombination occuring in high band gap AlGaN layers. N-face growth can also help in solving the p-type doping problem for wide band gap nitrides. keywords: polarization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh56b48.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh56b48.txt item: #3768 of 4945 id: r494vh56b6z author: Alison Leah Dekoschak title: Active and Passive Flow Control of a High Reynolds Number Axisymmetric Jet date: 2005 words: 176 flesch: 59 summary: Several investigations have discussed ways of controlling the flow in order to enhance mixing by using tabs and other similar devices. The goal is to implement these flow control devices to perturb the flow structure dynamics, which is believed to be the source of noise production. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh56b6z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh56b6z.txt item: #3769 of 4945 id: r494vh56b79 author: Brian William Lysholm title: Labyrinths date: 2008 words: 71 flesch: 72 summary: Contact the Graduate School dissertation editor with questions. NOTE: PERMANENT PRIVATE STATUS; DO NOT RELEASE FILE OR RECORD; DO NOT CATALOG. keywords: graduate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh56b79.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh56b79.txt item: #3770 of 4945 id: r494vh56c68 author: Liang Wu title: High Order Fast Iterative Methods for Steady State of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations date: 1904 words: 343 flesch: 31 summary: The first order fast sweeping method for solving Eikonal equations has linear computational complexity, namely, the computational cost is O(N) where N is the number of grid points of the computational mesh. Fast sweeping methods are a class of efficient iterative methods for solving steady state hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs). keywords: sweeping cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh56c68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh56c68.txt item: #3771 of 4945 id: r494vh5710c author: Benjamin Cohen Rossi title: Internalism about Practical Reasons date: 1904 words: 272 flesch: 35 summary: Proponents of the view argue that its truth would best a number of important metaphysical facts about practical reasons: it would explain the plausible link between normative and motivating reasons; the intrinsic connection between normative judgments and motivation; the distinctive semantic import of reasons-claims as opposed to other kinds of normative claims; and the distinctive role of reasons in interpersonal practices such as advice giving. Internalism about practical reasons is the thesis that reasons for action depend upon the goals, aims, desires, and interests of the agent whose reasons they are. keywords: reasons cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh5710c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh5710c.txt item: #3772 of 4945 id: r494vh5711q author: Salvador Aguinaga title: Generating Networks by Learning Hyperedge Replacement Grammars date: 1904 words: 191 flesch: 28 summary: Experimental results demonstrate that hyperedge replacement grammars offer a new way to learn network features that facilitate compelling graphical structure generation that advances network science in areas of modeling and network analysis. Evaluating network models on their ability to automatically learn the underlying features is integral to algorithm development in many areas of computational science. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh5711q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh5711q.txt item: #3773 of 4945 id: r494vh57c25 author: Amanda L. Nowak title: Trajectories of Maternal Supportiveness during Toddlerhood Differentially Predicting Child Outcomes date: 2020 words: 221 flesch: 31 summary: The present study sought to understand whether there are multiple trajectories (classes) of maternal supportiveness across toddlerhood, whether supportiveness classes relate to unique child outcomes in middle childhood dependent race/ethnicity, and whether early childhood emotion regulation mediates these relations in a low-income sample. Ultimately, emotion regulation mediated the effects of class on child outcomes for all outcomes except parent-reported internalizing behavior. keywords: supportiveness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh57c25.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh57c25.txt item: #3774 of 4945 id: r494vh57d3t author: Canjia Zhai title: Self-Threaded Fluorescent Probes for Biological Imaging and Self-Assembly date: 2021 words: 215 flesch: 38 summary: The second part focuses on the engineering of SF8 probes by introducing chirality, incorporating a cancer cell targeting peptide RGD motif onto the loops, or preparing unsymmetric SF8 probes. The last part describes the unusual self-assembly properties of SF8 probes in aqueous media where rigid well-ordered aggregates produce coexisting H- and J-aggregate bands with large fluorescence Stokes shifts. keywords: sf8 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh57d3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh57d3t.txt item: #3775 of 4945 id: r494vh57d6v author: Amanda Brown title: Microkinetic Modeling of HCN Formation from Methane and Nitrogen with the Addition of Vibrational Energy Effects date: 2021 words: 94 flesch: 21 summary: A microkinetic model was constructed that modeled the formation of hydrogen cyanide from methane and nitrogen on the platinum (111) surface using elementary reaction data found in the literature and calculated using density functional theory. Vibrational energy effects were then added to the model to simulate the plasma effects for the nitrogen dissociation reaction and methane to methyl group reaction. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh57d6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh57d6v.txt item: #3776 of 4945 id: r494vh57g54 author: Rebeka Kelmar title: Using HECTOR to Study Capture Reactions Relevant to the Astrophysical γ-Process date: 2022 words: 193 flesch: 46 summary: With the results from these measurements a theoretical model was found that predicted cross sections within a factor of 2 of all four measured reactions. These reactions were studied at the University of Notre Dame's Nuclear Science Laboratory using the FN accelerator. keywords: reactions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r494vh57g54.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r494vh57g54.txt item: #3777 of 4945 id: r781wd39k10 author: Jeffrey Arnold Christians title: Mesostructured Thin Film Solar Cells: Examining Hole Transfer Mechanisms and Device Stability date: 2015 words: 353 flesch: 32 summary: This dissertation describes progress in the fundamental understanding of charge transfer processes in Sb2S3 ETA solar cells, and improving the stability of CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells. Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy was employed to track minority carrier (hole) behavior in Sb2S3 ETA solar cells. keywords: solar cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd39k10.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd39k10.txt item: #3778 of 4945 id: r781wd39k2b author: Tai-Wei Hwang title: Dynamics of Atomic Scale Metallic Junctions and Adsorbed Lewis Base Adsorbates Studied by Fluctuation Spectroscopy date: 2014 words: 202 flesch: 40 summary: The goal of this work was to fabricate robust ASJs for sensing applications that fully utilize this potential and detect chemical noise. Junction thinning could be performed via three different approaches: self-dissolution at low Ag(I) concentration, current-induced electromigration, or potential-induced oxidation. keywords: asjs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd39k2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd39k2b.txt item: #3779 of 4945 id: r781wd39k6q author: David Michael Eike title: Property Prediction of Novel Compounds Using Statistical Analysis and Molecular Simulations date: 2006 words: 354 flesch: 26 summary: In addition, there have been numerous theoretical studies to predict properties of ionic liquids and explore the underlying physical interactions that influence ionic liquid properties. In the past decade there has been rapidly growing interest in ionic liquids, molten salts that melt near room temperature. keywords: properties cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd39k6q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd39k6q.txt item: #3780 of 4945 id: r781wd39k72 author: Jason M. Bray title: Adsorbate Coverage Dependence in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Kinetics of Oxygen Adsorption on Platinum Surfaces from First Principles date: 2013 words: 349 flesch: 21 summary: Quantum-based computational methods play an important role in this discovery by allowing accelerated screening of new materials and providing a deeper, molecular-level understanding of how chemistry happens at catalyst surfaces. In this work, we combine DFT calculations with cluster expansion and Monte Carlo techniques to model reactivity at catalyst surfaces completely from first principles. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd39k72.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd39k72.txt item: #3781 of 4945 id: r781wd39m30 author: Roger G. Hanshaw title: Small Molecules for the Selective Recognition of Biomembrane Components date: 2006 words: 209 flesch: 34 summary: A second series of amphiphilic compounds designed to partition into the bilayer hydrocarbon region and interact with membrane proteins is also presented. These molecules include derivatives of the lipid phosphatidylcholine, and all have either thymine or urea functionalities that likely embed in the bilayer and form hydrogen bonds to targeted transmembrane protein residues. keywords: compounds cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd39m30.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd39m30.txt item: #3782 of 4945 id: r781wd39m4b author: Nathan Alan Meredith title: Influences on Neptunium Incorporation in Uranyl Phases date: 2014 words: 301 flesch: 35 summary: As the understanding of the factors that affect neptunium incorporation continues to improve, the future of this research needs to evaluate how incorporation affects the properties of the uranyl host compound, which will have a strong impact on mitigating the release of neptunium from a repository. The objective of this research is to study the factors that influence neptunium incorporation, particularly charge-balancing mechanisms and structural considerations, in order to gain a better understanding of the fundamental chemistry of this process. keywords: neptunium cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd39m4b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd39m4b.txt item: #3783 of 4945 id: r781wd39m61 author: Justin Michael Deuerling title: Effects of ultrastructural organization on the mechanical properties and anisotropy of human cortical bone date: 2010 words: 173 flesch: 13 summary: The overall objective of this project was to investigate the hierarchical structural features governing the anisotropic elastic constants of human cortical bone tissue. X-ray diffraction was used to study the apatite crystals, micro-computed tomography was used to study the intracortical porosity, and ultrasonic wave propagation was used to measure tissue elastic constants. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd39m61.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd39m61.txt item: #3784 of 4945 id: r781wd39n2z author: Meghan K. Cain title: Time and Other Considerations in Mediation Design date: 1904 words: 192 flesch: 33 summary: The cross-sectional mediation model, which has been shown to be biased when the mediation is happening over time (Maxwell & Cole, 2007; Maxwell, Cole, & Mitchell, 2011) is compared to longitudinal models: sequential, dynamic, and cross-lagged panel. Models were evaluated using power and type I error rates in detecting a significant indirect path, from which cross-sectional and sequential mediation analysis were found to have the best performance. keywords: mediation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd39n2z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd39n2z.txt item: #3785 of 4945 id: r781wd39r8z author: Lisa Weaver Swartz title: Gendered Gospel, Ungendered Mission: Identity Construction at Two Evangelical Seminaries date: 1904 words: 322 flesch: 32 summary: This project explores the construction of gender ideology at two evangelical seminaries. Understandings of evangelical gender ideologies cannot be limited to their function as symbolic boundaries. keywords: seminary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd39r8z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd39r8z.txt item: #3786 of 4945 id: r781wd39s26 author: Christopher Paolucci title: Theoretical and Computational Modeling of the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx in Cu-SSZ-13 Zeolites date: 1904 words: 28 flesch: 15 summary: The goal of my dissertation research is to develop a molecular level description of how selective catalytic reduction occurs on an important commercial heterogeneous solid catalyst, Cu-SSZ-13. keywords: ssz-13 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd39s26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd39s26.txt item: #3787 of 4945 id: r781wd4093z author: Michael Rotolo title: Imagining Religion: The Unconscious Substructures of American Religious Understandings date: 1904 words: 112 flesch: 20 summary: Systematically focusing on implicit knowledge structures rather than discursive language structures, its findings reveal five schemas, which are internally coherent, widely shared, but variably relied upon as scaffolds for understanding. These findings highlight the importance of attending to both embodiment and social environment for understanding culture. keywords: structures cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd4093z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd4093z.txt item: #3788 of 4945 id: r781wd4098p author: Yingying Chen title: Engineering Robust Yeast Microbial Systems for Beneficial Biotransformation in Energy and Water Sustainability date: 1904 words: 384 flesch: 19 summary: The research offers a practice to develop robust strains for enhanced lignocellulosic biofuel production and a novel category of enzyme biocatalysts for treating emerging contaminants for water reuse. Based on this study, we developed an engineered yeast strain YC1 with superior resistance to acetic acid, furfural and their mixture. keywords: lignocellulosic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd4098p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd4098p.txt item: #3789 of 4945 id: r781wd40b2x author: Kathryn Rose Sawyer title: Belief in Power: Building a National Church of Ireland, 1660-1689 date: 2018 words: 354 flesch: 38 summary: This dissertation explores the ways that Church of Ireland clergymen of the Restoration era (1660-1689) used religious beliefs to construct their identity as Ireland's national church. From it, we see that an understanding of religious belief changes our knowledge of matters previously considered solely through social or political lenses. keywords: church cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd40b2x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd40b2x.txt item: #3790 of 4945 id: r781wd40f7k author: Ek Raj Adhikari title: Electrical and Biochemical Performances of a Plasma Jet at Atmospheric Pressure date: 2019 words: 348 flesch: 40 summary: This dissertation starts with a study of the correlation between the plasma parameters (e.g., flow rate, voltage) and DNA damage level induced due to plasma irradiation. A significant increase in DNA damage level was observed for the closer treatment distance, longer irradiation time and higher flow rate of the feed gas. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd40f7k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd40f7k.txt item: #3791 of 4945 id: r781wd40p6d author: Jian Yang title: Edge Computing Based Real-Time Notification System for Vulnerable Road Participants date: 2021 words: 194 flesch: 24 summary: The proposed technology utilizes hybrid communications capabilities (among road participants and between road participants and edge computers), advanced machine learning based movement prediction, and edge computing principles to deliver a cross-platform solution with real-time efficiency. A typical application utilizing this technology is the protection of vulnerable road participants such as pedestrians or cyclists. keywords: road cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd40p6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd40p6d.txt item: #3792 of 4945 id: r781wd40p83 author: Amanda E Yamasaki title: Advancing Our Understanding of Normal and Disease-State Hematopoiesis: Leveraging the Unique Advantages of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Therapeutic Development and Disease Modeling date: 2021 words: 370 flesch: 6 summary: In short, these studies have identified novel miRNA-modulated regulatory pathways enriched in genes differentially-expressed between functional human HSCs and their genetically-matched iPSC-derived counterparts, providing previously unreported insights into recapitulating normal hematopoietic development in vitro. Although a comparatively recent discovery, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have enabled astonishing advancements in numerous fields of study – particularly in the areas of regenerative medicine and personalized disease therapeutics. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd40p83.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd40p83.txt item: #3793 of 4945 id: r781wd40q5c author: Aram Derdzyan title: Energy Markets and Consumer Behavior date: 2022 words: 98 flesch: 49 summary: Additionally, COVID-19 has created an unseen turmoil in energy markets, where all players have to deal with high uncertainty. I also shed light on the impact of gasoline prices, uncertainty, and consumers' information-seeking behavior on vehicle purchase decisions. keywords: markets cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd40q5c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd40q5c.txt item: #3794 of 4945 id: r781wd40q6q author: Daniel Sexton title: Rayleigh Number Effects on Direct Numerical Simulations of the "Pi Chamber" date: 2022 words: 302 flesch: 38 summary: In a previous study, the model matched the salient features of the Pi Chamber experiments and proved to be a valuable tool in understanding cloud microphysics in this context. From these observations, comments on the coupling of turbulence and cloud microphysics in this context can be made and the simulation's ability to be paired with the Pi Chamber experiments for further understanding can be evaluated. keywords: cloud cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd40q6q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd40q6q.txt item: #3795 of 4945 id: r781wd40q9r author: Ian E. Van Dyke title: Evangelical Multiculturalism in the Age of Fracture: U.S. Missionaries and Evangelicals' Search for Diversity and Social Justice, 1974–2010 date: 2022 words: 287 flesch: 17 summary: This dissertation examines the emergence of a multicultural sensibility among American evangelical Protestants and their global peers in the late twentieth century. Deeply influenced by the radical political currents of the global sixties, I argue that Global South evangelicals within the Lausanne Movement forced their peers to rethink their approach to mission work and develop new answers to charges of cultural imperialism. keywords: global cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd40q9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd40q9r.txt item: #3796 of 4945 id: r781wd40r4b author: Vincent L. Strand title: That They May Have Life: Trinitarian Deification in Matthias Joseph Scheeben date: 2022 words: 183 flesch: 13 summary: Chapter 3 (Grace: Becoming God's Adopted Children) analyzes Scheeben's theology of the divine missions, conception of the relation of nature and grace, and theology of human union with God understood as trinitarian deification, through which we become children of the Father, spouses of the Son, and temples of the Holy Spirit. Chapter 1 (Mysteric-Supernatural Deification: A Doctrine Emerges) argues that Scheeben's theology of deification, with its characteristic accents on mystery and the supernatural, emerged as a counterproposal to the theological rationalism Scheeben saw threatening Christian life and theology in nineteenth-century Germany. keywords: theology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd40r4b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd40r4b.txt item: #3797 of 4945 id: r781wd40r61 author: Alexander W Weig title: Synthesis of Small Molecule Disruptors of Bacterial Resistance Mechanisms date: 2022 words: 366 flesch: 17 summary: With the discovery of plasmid borne resistance to colistin found in 2015, the possibility of bacterial strains with pan-antibiotic resistance became a reality. Due to the lack of industrial interest, the challenges of developing new antibiotics and finding alternative approaches to fighting multi-drug resistant bacterial infections have fallen on small startup biopharmaceutical companies and academic research groups. keywords: resistance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/r781wd40r61.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/r781wd40r61.txt item: #3798 of 4945 id: rb68x922v1t author: Sergio Escobar Vargas title: Agglomerate Detachment of Microparticles date: 2004 words: 90 flesch: 28 summary: The experimental data obtained was characterized as detachment fraction versus free stream velocity. These methods gave different agglomerate structures and had an effect on the detachment fraction of the agglomerates. keywords: detachment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x922v1t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x922v1t.txt item: #3799 of 4945 id: rb68x922v4v author: Stephanie Marie Golden title: Effects of Photoirradiation on the Physicochemical Properties of Natural Organic Matter: Considerations of Nom Isolation Technique and Iron Content date: 2004 words: 183 flesch: 33 summary: Physicochemical properties monitored included: light absorbance, dissolved organic carbon concentration, fluorescence, average molecular weight, low molecular weight carboxylic acid concentration, and iron speciation. This indicates that the XAD isolation process may remove constituents in natural surface water which act as oxidant scavengers. keywords: nom cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x922v4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x922v4v.txt item: #3800 of 4945 id: rb68x922v56 author: Elaine M Mindrup title: Discovery of New Ionic Liquids for Co2 Capture date: 2011 words: 533 flesch: 54 summary: Unfortunately, when amino acid based ionic liquids react with CO2, their viscosity increases significantly, making them undesirable for CO2 capture. CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have been steadily increasing over the years, mainly due to CO2 being emitted from the burning of fossil fuels. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x922v56.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x922v56.txt item: #3801 of 4945 id: rb68x922v6j author: Wangqing Yuan title: Novel Design of Monolithically Integrated Photonic Devices: Teardrop Laser and Polarization Rotator-Splitter date: 2013 words: 489 flesch: 40 summary: The following adiabatic asymmetric Y-coupler splits the fundamental and the second order TE modes and also converts the second order TE mode into the fundamental TE mode. The mode converter, consisting of a bi-level taper and a width taper, effectively converts the fundamental TM mode into the second order TE mode without changing the polarization of the fundamental TE mode. keywords: mode cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x922v6j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x922v6j.txt item: #3802 of 4945 id: rb68x922v9k author: Hubert George title: Manufacture and Performance of Aluminum Single Electron Transistor for Ultra-Sensitive Charge Fluctuation Measurements date: 2010 words: 123 flesch: 40 summary: This work consists on the fabrication and implementation of SETs to measure charge fluctuations made by electrons, and establish the cause of the fluorescence intermittency seen in molecules and quantum dots (QD). One of the applications we are interested on, is using them as electrometers, SETs as the most charge sensitive devices, to perform ultra-sensitive charge fluctuation measurements. keywords: sets cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x922v9k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x922v9k.txt item: #3803 of 4945 id: rb68x922w0s author: David Christopher Post title: Robustness and Efficiency of Planar Biped Walking Robots date: 2013 words: 313 flesch: 31 summary: Robustness improvements were made by developing new controllers to reject velocity disturbances in experiment. This work seeks to experimentally demonstrate that the use of curved feet under hybrid zero dynamics (HZD) -based control offers efficiency benefits and to make HZD-based controllers more robust to velocity disturbances. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x922w0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x922w0s.txt item: #3804 of 4945 id: rb68x922w14 author: Gregory James Davis title: Modeling the Symbolic Control of Visual Attention date: 2014 words: 139 flesch: 38 summary: Much of the research investigating the orienting of attention, however, has focused on the form of attentional control these symbols elicit. The present study attempted to address this gap in knowledge by first developing three computational models of voluntary attentional control. keywords: cue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x922w14.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x922w14.txt item: #3805 of 4945 id: rb68x922w3t author: Daniel Smith Borkowski title: Rangewide Population Genetics and Genomics of Quercus rubra L. date: 2014 words: 200 flesch: 50 summary: I first investigated genetic diversity and differentiation of 6 populations in the UP (the Upper Peninsula, Michigan) and Isle Royale National Park. In the following set of studies, I investigate the neutral and adaptive genetic variation in Q. rubra and present a sequence of the LSC region of its chloroplast. keywords: rubra cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x922w3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x922w3t.txt item: #3806 of 4945 id: rb68x922w6v author: Amy Lynn Fagan title: Volcanic and Impact Processes on Mars and the Moon date: 2012 words: 262 flesch: 35 summary: Chapter 3 examines the depth-diameter relationship, cavity wall slopes, and morphologic characteristics of interior topographic formations within Martian North polar impact craters to constrain polar processes and possible target effects. This dissertation aims to provide better understanding of volcanism and impacts on Mars and the Moon through the use of topographic and petrologic analyses. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x922w6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x922w6v.txt item: #3807 of 4945 id: rb68x922w8j author: Harish Agarwal title: Reliability Based Design Optimization: Formulations and Methodologies date: 2005 words: 301 flesch: 10 summary: Original contributions of this research are the development of a novel efficient and robust unilevel methodology for reliability based design optimization, the development of an innovative decoupled reliability based design optimization methodology, the application of homotopy techniques in unilevel reliability based design optimization methodology, and the development of a new framework for reliability based design optimization under epistemic uncertainty. This investigation focuses on the development of efficient and robust methodologies for reliability based design optimization in a simulation based design environment. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x922w8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x922w8j.txt item: #3808 of 4945 id: rb68x922w9w author: Misty Yvonne Schieberle title: Feminized Counsel: Representations of Women and Advice to Princes in Late Medieval England date: 2010 words: 314 flesch: 32 summary: Even as the representation of women by medieval poets has been extensively studied, scholars have yet to explore how images of women have informed images of political counsel. I examine selected Middle English works by John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Stephen Scrope, as well as manuscripts and French sources, in order to evaluate the association of women with political counsel. keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x922w9w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x922w9w.txt item: #3809 of 4945 id: rb68x923k2z author: Xiang Li title: Investigation and Manipulation of Ferromagnetic Properties of GaMnAs and GaMnAsP Nanostructures date: 1904 words: 453 flesch: 18 summary: Ferromagnetic properties are investigated in GaMnAs and GaMnAsP diluted magnetic semiconductors by multiple experimental techniques, including magnetometry, magnetotransport, and ferromagnetic resonance (FMR), with emphasis on magnetic anisotropy and its manipulation by nano-patterning, strain, and interfacial exchange between layers of dissimilar materials. Experimental results unambiguously show that perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is strongly affected by the size of the ferromagnetic nano-scale elements, while their in-plane anisotropy remains unchanged in the range studied. keywords: gamnas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x923k2z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x923k2z.txt item: #3810 of 4945 id: rb68x923q9m author: Kimberly Swendson title: Ruinscape date: 2019 words: 29 flesch: 69 summary: The Ruinscape is a ruined landscape existing in the aftermath of obliteration. What emerges from the wreckage has potential to sound, to birth, to grip you by the throat. keywords: obliteration cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x923q9m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x923q9m.txt item: #3811 of 4945 id: rb68x923z5d author: Corinne M. Kuebler title: Boron Isotope Signatures of Carbonatites: Novel Insights into Magmatic Carbonate Processes and Deep Mantle Carbon Flux date: 2021 words: 360 flesch: 23 summary: The total range (up to ~16‰) in δ11B values for carbonatites examined suggests either the presence of enriched recycled subducted material in their mantle source region, or reflects the interaction between continental lithosphere and upwelling asthenospheric mantle. A comprehensive B investigation of worldwide carbonatites ranging in age from 2.0 Ga to 40 Ma was conducted so as to provide insights into the origin and flux of deep mantle carbon within carbonatite melts over time. keywords: mantle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x923z5d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x923z5d.txt item: #3812 of 4945 id: rb68x923z8f author: Katherine Carrasco Ramos title: An Image-Based Co-Designed Experimental and Computational Framework for Heterogeneous Materials date: 2021 words: 447 flesch: 21 summary: Specifically, an image-based modeling concept along side complex three-dimensional imaging techniques is used to understand the influence of microstructure and local damage phenomena on the effective mechanical response of particulate reinforced composites. Moreover, this co-designed framework is used in the development of a novel damage model to study particulate reinforced composites. keywords: damage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x923z8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x923z8f.txt item: #3813 of 4945 id: rb68x92423x author: Gozde Basara title: Development of Novel Bioinks and 3D Printing Methodologies for Cardiac Tissue Engineering Applications date: 2023 words: 641 flesch: 23 summary: Overall, in this dissertation I develop new bioinks and methods to utilize 3D bioprinting in various cardiac tissue engineering applications, such as post-MI tissue models and cardiac patches, which can be used as a guide for developing new models and treatment strategies. Three dimensional (3D) bioprinting is a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing technology allowing accurate spatial deposition of the biological materials and active cells in a pre-designed pattern and is thus considered a promising technique for fabricating biomimetic cardiac tissue models in vitro. keywords: tissue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rb68x92423x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rb68x92423x.txt item: #3814 of 4945 id: rf55z60643v author: Eric Clark Stewart title: Gathered around Jesus: An Alternative Spatial Practice in the Gospel of Mark date: 2005 words: 342 flesch: 54 summary: These works demonstrate several remarkable consistencies in the presentation of space among ancient authors, in particular the idea that certain spaces are inhabited by certain types of people because the place makes the person. Chapter four reexamines ancient spaces in light of the material discussed in chapter three. keywords: space cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rf55z60643v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rf55z60643v.txt item: #3815 of 4945 id: rf55z606446 author: Felix Vietmeyer title: Optical Properties of CdSe Nanowires — Experiment and Theory date: 2014 words: 279 flesch: 47 summary: It, in turn, allows identifying signatures that belong to photogenerated charges that exist as coulombically bound electron-hole pairs (excitons) and distinguish them from free charges. The tools used to carry out the characterization include a number of steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopic techniques that are used to probe semiconductor nanowires both on the ensemble and single nanowire level. keywords: properties cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rf55z606446.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rf55z606446.txt item: #3816 of 4945 id: rf55z60648k author: Jarrett Adrian Carty title: Machiavelli, Luther, and the Reformation of Politics date: 2006 words: 222 flesch: 43 summary: Essentially both men sought to restore temporal government to its place of honor and purpose beyond ecclesial control, and to restore an understanding of political reality so that temporal government could be well founded and efficaciously maintained. Both men argued against any kind of medieval universalism in government, utopian politics, or any withdrawal from or denunciation of temporal government. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rf55z60648k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rf55z60648k.txt item: #3817 of 4945 id: rf55z606566 author: Michael Edward Lee title: Transforming Realities: Christian Discipleship in the Soteriology of Ignacio Ellacur a date: 2007 words: 369 flesch: 17 summary: Ellacur a's hope and call for Christian engagement in historical reality provides a sober, integrated vision of the church that seems lacking in the exalted ecclesiologies of other contemporary theologians. Ellacur a articulated the Christian message of salvation with an emphasis on a discipleship that entails a creative and mutually-transformative engagement with historical reality. keywords: ellacur cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rf55z606566.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rf55z606566.txt item: #3818 of 4945 id: rf55z60658w author: Holly R. VandeWall title: Expertise and the Disunity of Science: A Case Study in the Difficulties of Providing Expert Advice for Policy date: 2010 words: 258 flesch: 24 summary: The information needed to meet the goals of environmental policy is rarely limited to the domain of any individual scientific discipline or technical field. Its particular focus is the failure of scientific and technical experts in different fields to effectively communicate across their disciplinary boundaries in order to provide coherent advice. keywords: technical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rf55z60658w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rf55z60658w.txt item: #3819 of 4945 id: rf55z60661s author: David Gary Flagel title: Trophic Cascades with Mammals in a Northern Great Lakes Forest date: 2014 words: 360 flesch: 54 summary: Twelve permanent sites were established in forest patches scattered throughout high- and low- wolf use areas (six each). Meanwhile we did not observe evidence for significant hare or rodent impacts on maple growth regardless of wolf use, suggesting no cascading effects. keywords: wolf cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rf55z60661s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rf55z60661s.txt item: #3820 of 4945 id: rf55z60670r author: Christian Cirhigiri title: Student Movements and Societal Accountability for Ethnic Reconciliation: Case Studies of the Eastern DR Congo, Burundi and Sri Lanka date: 1904 words: 222 flesch: 39 summary: The biggest contribution of these student organizations as agents of social accountability for ethnic reconciliation in three countries of study is that they engineer new agendas and raise new forms of consciousness about what alternative pathways can be followed by countries experiencing internal ethnic conflicts. In this thesis through analysis of case studies in eastern Congo, Burundi and Sri Lanka, I study the role of student movements as agents of ethnic reconciliation. keywords: ethnic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rf55z60670r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rf55z60670r.txt item: #3821 of 4945 id: rf55z606v52 author: Ian Giles title: Closed-Loop Control of Dynamic Stall date: 1904 words: 396 flesch: 47 summary: Baseline measurements were taken for freestream velocities ranging from U∞ = 10 m/s to U∞ = 50 m/s and stall penetration angles of three, seven, and ten degrees. In terms of cycle- integrated lift, closed-loop control produced a relatively constant increase for different stall penetration angles at a specific velocity, while showing a lessening increase in lift as velocity increased. keywords: stall cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rf55z606v52.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rf55z606v52.txt item: #3822 of 4945 id: rf55z60787r author: Kevin Schieman title: In View of Ourselves: On the Benefits of Neuroscientific Explanation in Machine Ethics date: 2022 words: 307 flesch: 28 summary: In this sense, the potential of cognitive neuroscience to benefit machine ethics is not a matter of modeling moral cognition in toto, but rather, one of understanding how the neural implementation of certain cognitive functions might inform our best efforts to realize similar functions in machine agents. However, human moral cognition is hardly a guarantee of morally correct behavior and machine ethics should be careful not to build machines so biologically faithful that they share our moral failings. keywords: moral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rf55z60787r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rf55z60787r.txt item: #3823 of 4945 id: rf55z60796q author: Xian Gao title: A New Economic Assessment Framework for Future Energy System Design date: 2022 words: 236 flesch: 21 summary: Moreover, the proposed general multiscale simulation framework creates abundant future research opportunities within the context of energy markets, e.g., advanced bidding, operation, and control strategies of energy systems. In this thesis, we present a new multiscale simulation framework that integrates process- and grid-centric modeling paradigms to better design, operate, and control energy systems in wholesale energy markets. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rf55z60796q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rf55z60796q.txt item: #3824 of 4945 id: rj430289d38 author: Faisal Ahmed Shah title: Exchange-Biased Magnetic Multilayers for Nanomagnet Logic Applications date: 2015 words: 368 flesch: 56 summary: In this regard, a double e-beam exposure technique with 3δ overlay accuracy of 4 nm was developed to fabricate NML datalines with sub-10-nm spacing. Types and causes of error in ultra-dense NML dataline were also investigated. keywords: nml cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430289d38.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430289d38.txt item: #3825 of 4945 id: rj430289d7n author: Gergo Peter Szakmany title: Fabrication of Antenna-Coupled Metal-Oxide-Metal Infrared Detectors Using Atomic-Layer Deposition (ALD) date: 2011 words: 159 flesch: 51 summary: Thin-film metal-oxide-metal diodes were fabricated in this research, where high quality uniform aluminum oxide was deposited by atomic layer deposition. Long-wave infrared detectors which are able to work at room temperature without cooling are of special interest. keywords: radiation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430289d7n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430289d7n.txt item: #3826 of 4945 id: rj430289d80 author: Paolo Pellecchia title: The Inescapable Importance of the Subject in 'Le Cosmicomiche' and 'Ti con Zero' by Italo Calvino date: 2013 words: 145 flesch: 51 summary: The study of the dialogue between literature and science has been a subject of increasing interest in recent years. My work addresses this conjunction by exploring Italo Calvino's two collections of short stories, 'Le Cosmicomiche' and 'Ti con Zero.' keywords: calvino cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430289d80.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430289d80.txt item: #3827 of 4945 id: rj430289f1w author: Shawn Patrick O'Brien title: Exploring the αp-process with high precision (p,t) reactions date: 2010 words: 572 flesch: 48 summary: The present results indicate a smaller rate compared to the statistically based Hauser Feshbach rates currently being used in X-ray burst models. With more accurate reaction rates, X-ray burst models are able to more reliably determine the characteristics of the physical environment near the surface of neutron stars. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430289f1w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430289f1w.txt item: #3828 of 4945 id: rj430289f27 author: Wenrui Hao title: Homotopy Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation Systems date: 2013 words: 101 flesch: 41 summary: The algorithms presented in this thesis can be applied to other problems arising in nonlinear PDEs and dynamic systems Examples from hyperbolic systems and tumor growth models will be used to demonstrate the ideas. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430289f27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430289f27.txt item: #3829 of 4945 id: rj430289f3k author: Kirstin Joy Hasler Brathwaite title: Symbols and Sacrifice: The Role of Nationalism in Combat Effectiveness date: 2014 words: 330 flesch: 44 summary: These soldiers take more initiative on the battlefield, have more faith in their leaders, and are more committed to their country than soldiers from authoritarian states. The second argument claims that soldiers who come from democracies are more effective in combat than non-democratic soldiers. keywords: soldiers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430289f3k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430289f3k.txt item: #3830 of 4945 id: rj430289f4x author: Yashan Sun title: Distributed coordination of multi-agent systems based on estimation over ad-hoc communication networks date: 2008 words: 331 flesch: 38 summary: In this work, we consider three important and related issues:communication logics, swarm cohesion under consensus and the convergence rate of consensus filter under network throughput limitations. The convergence rate of consensus filters under throughput limitations is examined. keywords: consensus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430289f4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430289f4x.txt item: #3831 of 4945 id: rj430289f58 author: Casey Lanea Hill title: The Holistic Influences and Dynamics of the Aedes aegypti Microbiome date: 2014 words: 320 flesch: 37 summary: We showed that fitness characteristics of the dengue vector, Aedes aegypti, vary largely between strains, including varying response to microflora presence or absence, but did not vary in response to dengue virus infection We were able to elucidate the microbiome composition of Ae. Finally, we investigated how the presence of the microbiome influence microRNA expression of Ae. keywords: host cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430289f58.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430289f58.txt item: #3832 of 4945 id: rj430289f89 author: Jim O Thomas title: Computer Vision Techniques for Damage Assessment from High Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery date: 2012 words: 170 flesch: 35 summary: Techniques in post-disaster assessment from remote sensing imagery have been studied by different research communities in the past decade. The results demonstrate that this work promises higher leaps in the field of automated damage classification and provides insights into the reliability of such analysis in real world scenarios. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430289f89.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430289f89.txt item: #3833 of 4945 id: rj430289g0v author: Lucas Q. Ton title: Positional Cloning and RNA Interference Assay Demonstrated Plasmodium-Melanizing Function of a Serine Protease Within the Plasmodium Encapsulation 1 Locus (Pen1) of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles Gambiae date: 2007 words: 459 flesch: 33 summary: We also show that RNAi knockdown abolishes CLIPB17 gene induction in L35 and significantly reduces refractoriness to both Plasmodium berghei and P. cynomolgi B. Melanotic encapsulation represents the fastest and most important endogenous refractory mechanism against pathogens too large or too numerous for other immune mechanisms to cope with (Vey, 1993). In a selected strain with a fully refractory phenotype (L35 strain), CLIPB17 gene expression is up-regulated at the time of parasite melanization. keywords: parasites cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430289g0v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430289g0v.txt item: #3834 of 4945 id: rj430289g16 author: Silpa Swarnapuri title: Tales of the Apocalypse date: 2008 words: 12 flesch: 60 summary: A creative thesis outlining the various myths about the event of apocalypse. keywords: apocalypse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430289g16.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430289g16.txt item: #3835 of 4945 id: rj430289g3w author: Nikhil Yadav title: Portable Concussion Assessment Using Speech Biomarkers date: 1904 words: 400 flesch: 36 summary: While speech analysis has a tremendous potential as the foundation for a new generation of diagnostic tools, the development and deployment of such tools has been hindered by two closely tied problems: (1) the lack of an in-depth understanding of the relationship between neurological disorders and speech production and (2) the small and incomplete sets of speech samples (and the lack of medical context) prior studies are based on. In this work, a portable speech collection and analysis system is designed and implemented to extract acoustic metrics from speech tests developed to study various aspects of speech production affected by concussions. keywords: speech cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430289g3w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430289g3w.txt item: #3836 of 4945 id: rj430290902 author: Anthony R. Rosales title: Development of Force Field Parameters for Predictions in Asymmetric Catalysis and a Foray into Mechanism Elucidation date: 2019 words: 253 flesch: 33 summary: A theoretical comparative DFT study of Ru, Rh, and Ir complexes suggest a TSFF can be developed describing reactions of all three metals. The quantum-guided molecular mechanics (Q2MM) method allows the development of transition state force field (TSFF) parameters which can be used to realize this goal of predicting stereoisomer ratios. keywords: tsff cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430290902.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430290902.txt item: #3837 of 4945 id: rj430290g6p author: Margaret Lee Butzen title: Experimental Studies of Bacterial Sorption: The Role of Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS), Sorption of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), and Controls on Sulfhydryl Site Concentrations date: 2020 words: 296 flesch: 41 summary: Our results suggest that total energy availability represents a strong control on the ability of bacterial cells to produce sulfhydryl binding sites and that there are factors other than electron donor concentration that also influence sulfhydryl site production by bacteria. I describe the results of a study of the effects of varying the concentration and identity of electron donors on bacterial surface and EPS sulfhydryl site concentrations. keywords: eps cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430290g6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430290g6p.txt item: #3838 of 4945 id: rj430290h7b author: Sean Dageforde title: The Role of Loss in Value-Based Attentional Selection date: 2021 words: 150 flesch: 49 summary: However, in two experiments, no effects of reward or loss were observed on antisaccade behavior. Few existing studies have ventured into the realm of loss research, with conflicting results. keywords: value cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430290h7b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430290h7b.txt item: #3839 of 4945 id: rj430290j07 author: Chang Liu title: Obfuscatory Work: Toward a Theory of Changes in Legitimacy of Rule of Law date: 2021 words: 216 flesch: 22 summary: Based on a comparative case study of two villages in China, this paper argues that grassroots bureaucrats' obfuscatory work - work on blurring the conflict between formal and informal rules - can gradually change the legitimacy of formal rules and thus have a long-term impact on the political ecology. Modern state interventions in society often encounter popular resistance, especially in developing countries where informal rules dominate and formal institutions that conflict with them find it difficult to gain legitimacy. keywords: rules cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430290j07.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430290j07.txt item: #3840 of 4945 id: rj430290k9n author: David Connelly title: Principles, Modeling, and Measurement Towards Efficient Microwave Spin-Wave Circuits date: 2022 words: 383 flesch: 30 summary: An end-to-end microwave/spin-wave transducer model is proposed that permits the use of classical microwave network analysis and matching theory towards analyzing and designing efficient transduction systems. Microwave spin-wave circuits also hold promise for wave-based computing and Boolean computing applications because of their miniature wavelengths at microwave frequencies. keywords: spin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430290k9n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430290k9n.txt item: #3841 of 4945 id: rj430290m6x author: Liana R. Arceri title: Exploring the Role of Endocannabinoid Signaling in Renal Multiciliated Cell Development in the Zebrafish Embryonic Kidney date: 2023 words: 211 flesch: 58 summary: in 2019 aimed to determine chemical regulators of MCC development in the zebrafish nephron. This finding indicates a possible role for endocannabinoids in MCC development. keywords: development cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rj430290m6x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rj430290m6x.txt item: #3842 of 4945 id: rn300z72p5b author: Mei Chen title: Multilevel Coding for ISI Channels and Fading Channels date: 2008 words: 235 flesch: 34 summary: For linear ISI channels and block fading channels, the complexity scales linearly with the channel length and the number of levels, and the process is shown to be asymptotically information lossless if a fixed input power is properly distributed over a sufficiently large number of layers. For nonlinear ISI channels, two nonlinear equalizers are introduced, the nonlinear ISI cancellation with linear complexity and the reduced-state BCJR algorithm with better performance and slightly higher complexity. keywords: channels cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rn300z72p5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rn300z72p5b.txt item: #3843 of 4945 id: rn300z72p6p author: Renato G. Bettiol title: On different notions of positivity of curvature date: 2015 words: 182 flesch: 37 summary: First, we discuss two notions of weakly positive curvature, defined in terms of averages of pairs of sectional curvatures. We study interactions between the geometry and topology of Riemannian manifolds that satisfy curvature positivity conditions closely related to positive sectional curvature (sec>0). keywords: curvature cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rn300z72p6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rn300z72p6p.txt item: #3844 of 4945 id: rn300z72q0x author: Matthew J Kennedy title: Second Naivete: Essays on the Structure of Experience date: 2008 words: 337 flesch: 42 summary: Sense-datum theorists, adverbialists, naÌøve realists, and representationalists disagree about the structure of sensory experience. According to naÌøve realism, veridical experience is an event in which one's mind reaches out to the world. keywords: experience cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rn300z72q0x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rn300z72q0x.txt item: #3845 of 4945 id: rn300z72q8p author: Jose Carmelo Interlando title: Toward a Theory of One-Way Functions via Gate Complexity of Boolean Functions. date: 2005 words: 309 flesch: 40 summary: However, the existence of such functions has yet to be proved. The focus of this work is on provable computational security via gate (or circuit) complexity of Boolean functions. keywords: security cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rn300z72q8p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rn300z72q8p.txt item: #3846 of 4945 id: rn300z72r07 author: Meredith Chase Whitnah title: American Evangelical Gender Ideology and Intimate Partner Violence date: 2010 words: 325 flesch: 29 summary: In this paper, I use cultural and feminist theory to examine the discourse of two evangelical Christian organizations whose missions are to promote different gender ideologies. I argue that such different performances of gender ideology stem from the same underlying cultural code, partly because of the socio-religious characteristics of evangelical subcultural identity (Smith 1998). keywords: gender cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rn300z72r07.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rn300z72r07.txt item: #3847 of 4945 id: rn300z72r38 author: Ruobing Xie title: Transformation of a Three Dimensional First Order Vortex Matter Transition with Induced Disorder date: 2010 words: 410 flesch: 34 summary: On the other hand, vortex matter can be considered as a new form of matter with solid, liquid and gas phases analogous to solid state materials, except that the building blocks in this case are vortices or magnetic flux quanta rather than atoms. The understanding of vortex matter in high temperature superconductors is important since vortex behavior determines the entire electromagnetic response of high Tc superconductors and hence holds the key to a variety of technical applications. keywords: vortex cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rn300z72r38.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rn300z72r38.txt item: #3848 of 4945 id: rn300z72r4m author: Craig M. Bonitsky title: Wear and Friction Characteristics and Crosslinked Properties of Genipin and Photochemical Crosslinked Articular Cartilage date: 2015 words: 348 flesch: 25 summary: However, there was no difference between impact damaged cartilage and undamaged cartilage in terms of the amount of collagenase digestion at the articular surface. Furthermore, genipin crosslinking decreased the amount of collagenase digestion at the articular surface but did not alter cartilage friction. keywords: cartilage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rn300z72r4m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rn300z72r4m.txt item: #3849 of 4945 id: rn300z72s27 author: Pablo Ruiz de Olano title: Epistemic Values in Theoretical Physics: Symmetries, Conservation Laws, and the Strong Nuclear Interaction date: 1904 words: 563 flesch: 44 summary: Having argued that symmetries and conservation laws played a crucial role during the early history of particle physics, and that the nature of the connection between symmetries and conservation laws varies from theory to theory, I go on to show how different accounts of the nature of this connection were used to sustain different research programs in particle physics, and to investigate how the particle physics community chose between different options available. As I show, different authors used symmetries and conservation laws in different ways, giving rise to different research programs. keywords: conservation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rn300z72s27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rn300z72s27.txt item: #3850 of 4945 id: rn300z72w56 author: Yi Liu title: Electrical Capacitance and Adsorption of Uranyl Peroxide Clusters and Photocatalytic Application of Uranium-Doped TiO2 date: 1904 words: 327 flesch: 33 summary: The electrical capacitance of uranyl peroxide clusters in water has been measured, and provides information concerning the electrical double layer formed in dilute cluster solutions. The behavior of uranyl peroxide clusters, such as solubility, stability, speciation, and aggregation are essential to control clusters in solution. keywords: uranium cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rn300z72w56.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rn300z72w56.txt item: #3851 of 4945 id: rn300z73k2n author: Gilbert C. Stockson III title: Charity, Reward, and "Mercenary" Intent in Thomas Aquinas and Gabriel Biel date: 2019 words: 353 flesch: 50 summary: By establishing a competitive relationship between self-love and love for God, Biel emphasizes restraint rather than spontaneity in Christian activity. Decisive differences regarding the relationship between God and the human good, the role of habits in the Christian life, and each thinker's appreciation for divine transcendence lead to very distinctive takes on motivations for Christian activity. keywords: god cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rn300z73k2n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rn300z73k2n.txt item: #3852 of 4945 id: rn300z73r88 author: Emily P. Bacher title: Shedding New Light on Squaraines: Utilizing Squaraine Dyes as Effective Tools in Organic Synthesis date: 2020 words: 231 flesch: 12 summary: To date, the applications of squaraine dyes have been successfully extended towards: (1) the development of squaraine dyes as thermo- and chemoreversible imaging agents, (2) accessing highly functionalized oxindoles and benzofuranones via a phosphine-mediated ring expansion of appropriately substituted dianiline squaraine dyes, (3) the utility of amino-acid bound 1,3-squaramides in Brønsted acid catalysis, and (4) the design of squaraine dyes as chiral transition metal ligands in enantioselective catalysis. First discovered in 1965 by Treibs and Jacob, fluorescent squaraine dyes are boldly colored compounds well known for their applications in physical and analytical chemistry. keywords: squaraine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rn300z73r88.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rn300z73r88.txt item: #3853 of 4945 id: rn300z73t2t author: Samuel L. Henderson title: Studies of Nuclear Structure via B(E2) Measurements in ⁷Be and ⁸Li date: 2021 words: 312 flesch: 51 summary: The ab initio B(E2) ratio calculations in the A=7 nuclei were consistent with each other within 20% for a variety of interactions and ab initio approaches and all agreed with the ratio of the measured transition strengths. Two measurements were made to support this end, the B(E2; 3/2⁻ →1/2⁻) transition strength of ⁷Be and the B(E2; 2⁺ → 1⁺) transition strength of ⁸Li. keywords: b(e2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rn300z73t2t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rn300z73t2t.txt item: #3854 of 4945 id: rr171v55z5p author: Qiang Shen title: Seismic Analysis, Behavior, And Design of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Hybrid Coupled Wall Structures date: 2007 words: 368 flesch: 34 summary: This dissertation focuses on the development of a new type of hybrid coupled wall structure for seismic regions. Finally, a performance-based seismic design approach is developed for unbonded post-tensioned hybrid coupled wall structures. keywords: wall cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v55z5p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v55z5p.txt item: #3855 of 4945 id: rr171v55z8q author: Tonia Sue Bock title: And the Message of the Story Is ...? Theme Comprehension in Children and Adolescents date: 2004 words: 172 flesch: 43 summary: Developmental differences were found among all ages for both types of theme comprehension, except for moral themes in early adolescence. In a multiple regression, social responsibility (or compliance) and ability-avoidance goals were predictors of moral theme comprehension. keywords: comprehension cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v55z8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v55z8q.txt item: #3856 of 4945 id: rr171v55z92 author: Crystal Harris Blount title: The Impact of Race-Related Stress in a Sample of African American Adults date: 2011 words: 307 flesch: 41 summary: Finally, the challenge of data collection across diverse social classes is also discussed as more studies rely on middle class, educated African Americans. Additional hypotheses tested race-related stress and stressful life events as predictors in both depressive symptoms and physical health problems. keywords: racial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v55z92.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v55z92.txt item: #3857 of 4945 id: rr171v5600j author: Autumn Brooke Wyant Palmiter title: The Effects of Adult Scaffolding and Child Executive Functioning on Vocabulary Learning During Shared Book Reading date: 2013 words: 230 flesch: 29 summary: Results indicated that children who heard extra-textual input during shared book reading were able to receptively identify more new vocabulary words than those who did not hear any extra-textual input. Results also indicated that children's general vocabulary level was a positive predictor of their new vocabulary word learning during shared book reading after controlling for age, and children's executive functioning skills moderated the effect of extra-textual input vs. no extra-textual input on children's expressive and definitional vocabulary learning. keywords: children cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v5600j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v5600j.txt item: #3858 of 4945 id: rr171v56027 author: Alison Elaine Adams title: Subliminally Liminal: Aeschylus' Agamemnon Through the Lens of Transitional Space date: 2013 words: 161 flesch: 32 summary: This study concludes that the same principles that dictate the ideals of monumental gateways, as physical and metaphorical boundaries and vehicles of transition between spaces of contrasting character, are also prevalent in the staging and representation of space in Aeschylus' Agamemnon. Gateways are entrances from one space to another and as such, they are intended to function as specific transition points between two delineated spaces. keywords: function cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v56027.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v56027.txt item: #3859 of 4945 id: rr171v5603k author: Michelle L Lute title: Demography and Behavior in Macaca fascicularis in the Anthropogenic Landscapes of Singapore date: 2010 words: 223 flesch: 30 summary: The costs of high density, intense resource competition and stress, may be outweighed by anthropogenic benefits of increased food sources to supplement forest resources. To explore primate dispersal dynamics, and investigate whether aggression and peripherilization are important predictors of dispersal, I conducted a behavioral and demographic study of two long-tailed macaque (M. fascicularis) groups was in Singapore for two groups, one located at the MacRitchie Reservoir which experiences much more pedestrian traffic than the other group located in an area of the Upper Seletar Nature Reserve predominantly visited by motorists. keywords: dispersal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v5603k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v5603k.txt item: #3860 of 4945 id: rr171v5604x author: Kimberly Dawn Burham title: 401(k)s as Strategic Compensation: Align Pay with Productivity and Enable Optimal Separation date: 2003 words: 147 flesch: 39 summary: Furthermore, additional tests show that 401(k)s increase workforce productivity by inducing less productive workers to leave their jobs in order to access 401(k) lump sum distributions. Other forms of compensation, including defined benefit (DB) pensions, are thought to affect employee behavior and improve workforce productivity. keywords: productivity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v5604x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v5604x.txt item: #3861 of 4945 id: rr171v56058 author: Elke Katrin Markert title: Connective 1-dimensional euclidean field theories date: 2005 words: 212 flesch: 47 summary: The spaces of this spectrum form connective covers of the spaces of euclidean field theories constructed by S. Stolz and P. Teichner in their expository paper 'What is an elliptic object?'. The ideas developed in this work might also help to prove the spectrum properties for the original spaces of conformal field theories of S. Stolz and P. Teichner, which is still an open problem. keywords: field cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v56058.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v56058.txt item: #3862 of 4945 id: rr171v5606m author: Daniel Jon McKaughan title: Toward a Richer Vocabulary for Epistemic Attitudes: Mapping the Cognitive Landscape date: 2008 words: 336 flesch: 25 summary: I then show how the emerging picture complicates traditional positions on the issue of epistemological voluntarism, casts light on deliberative processes important in scientific practice (such as the nature of theory choice and abductive reasoning), and provides tools for understanding the different ways in which attitudes enter into the debate over scientific realism. When we attend to the epistemic and practical judgments that real scientists make about their theories, we find them quite naturally and effortlessly adopting complex cognitive attitudes that display an extraordinary richness, nuance, and variety. keywords: attitudes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v5606m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v5606m.txt item: #3863 of 4945 id: rr171v5607z author: Peter Philip Campbell title: The Essence of War and Military Doctrine: Military Realism and US Army Warfighting Doctrine from 1960 to 2008 date: 2014 words: 179 flesch: 32 summary: Military Realism argues that major doctrinal changes are instituted by senior military leaders when the theories of victory and mission priorities of existing doctrine do not plausibly address the most dangerous threats. However, civilian intervention will not determine the essential characteristics of major doctrinal changes. keywords: military cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v5607z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v5607z.txt item: #3864 of 4945 id: rr171v5610v author: Alejandro Montecinos title: Essay on Strategic Behavior of Heterogeneous Agents date: 2014 words: 348 flesch: 46 summary: The first chapter studies how an initial asymmetry in the production costs between two firms affects aggregate R&D investment and equilibrium welfare under non-cooperative R&D and under a research joint venture. If there exists a spillover value for which welfare under the two regimes is the same, then increasing the initial cost asymmetry has an ambiguous effect on this critical spillover value. keywords: information cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v5610v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v5610v.txt item: #3865 of 4945 id: rr171v5612j author: Georgian Schiopu title: Latinos in Chicago: Is Assimilation Rewarded in the Job Market? date: 2006 words: 49 flesch: 19 summary: I find that assimilation, outside its acculturation dimension, has no significant effect on wages, concluding that the labor market offers few incentives for Latinos to assimilate. Using data from a recent Chicago survey among Latinos, this paper explores the economic situation of Latinos and their economic motivation for assimilation. keywords: latinos cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v5612j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v5612j.txt item: #3866 of 4945 id: rr171v5627k author: Katherine R. Comeau title: Where Can I Find More Money?: How the Challenges of Fundraising Impact the Religious Identity of Faith-Based Organizations date: 1904 words: 141 flesch: 35 summary: Little research has addressed how external sources of funding influence religious identity. International non-government organizations (INGOs) face a challenge of fundraising (AbouAssi 2015; Banks et al 2015). keywords: identity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v5627k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v5627k.txt item: #3867 of 4945 id: rr171v56q33 author: Laura M. Weis title: Interpreting Islam: U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1953-1968 date: 1904 words: 184 flesch: 27 summary: It examines not only the accuracy and nuance of U.S. officials' knowledge about Islam in Indonesia, but also religion's shifting salience in U.S. foreign relations during the height of the Cold War. It argues that religion mattered in the construction and implementation of U.S. policies toward Indonesia—but under specific, changing conditions, not as an overarching framework. keywords: u.s cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v56q33.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v56q33.txt item: #3868 of 4945 id: rr171v56q4f author: Xiaosong Cao title: A Novel Chain-Growth CuAAC Polymerization: One-Pot Synthesis of Hyperbranched Polymers with Well-Defined Structures date: 2018 words: 154 flesch: 24 summary: The living nature of this CuAACP is extensively explored to demonstrate the intriguing features of multiple-batch addition of various AB2 monomers to produce hyperbranched polymers with high molar mass, low dispersity, core-shell segmented structures and orthogonal functionalities. Although the perfectly branched dendrimers with degree of branching (DB) and molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 1 are very promising structures, the tedious multistep synthesis and inefficient chromatographic purification have led to attempts to replicate their structural properties via synthesis of hyperbranched polymers with high DB and low polydispersity in one-pot processes. keywords: polymers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v56q4f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v56q4f.txt item: #3869 of 4945 id: rr171v5718w author: Natalia Salamanca Balen title: The Effectiveness of Hope-Fostering Interventions in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2020 words: 151 flesch: 45 summary: Conclusions: The evidence suggested that interventions can be effective in increasing hope in palliative care patients. Selection criteria: The studies chosen were RCTs, quasi-experimental studies, and single pre-post studies that included interventions delivered to palliative care patients that measured hope/hopelessness as an outcome. keywords: hope cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v5718w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v5718w.txt item: #3870 of 4945 id: rr171v5724t author: Velena Alise Hernandez title: College Enrollment Outcomes: Impact of College Preparation Program Participation and Meeting with a Counselor date: 2020 words: 50 flesch: 35 summary: Student participation in college preparation programs and meetings with counselors are examined as a way to understand if there is an impact on college enrollment three years after anticipated high school graduation. This paper focuses on student enrollment in college, particularly focusing on the transition from high school to college. keywords: college cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v5724t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v5724t.txt item: #3871 of 4945 id: rr171v5733s author: Christian Villa Santos title: Molecular Modeling and Simulation of Ideal and Amorphous Soft Porous Coordination Polymers date: 2021 words: 114 flesch: 29 summary: Soft porous coordination polymers (SPCPs) are a new kind of porous material composed of metal-organic polyhedra and organic linkers. These novel adsorbents could combine the excellent properties of metal-organic frameworks and soft materials. keywords: organic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v5733s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v5733s.txt item: #3872 of 4945 id: rr171v5751q author: Barry T. Pawlowski Jr. title: A Study of Secondary Flow Generation Within a "Virtual-Duct" date: 2023 words: 544 flesch: 34 summary: The research also experimentally demonstrates that the virtual-duct is performing as intended by countering the effects of turret curvature by increasing the centerline pressure coefficient and delaying separation off the aft of the turret, however performance is reduced by the presence of the corner vorticies. Previous investigations revealed that the virtual-duct also generated secondary flows on the turret surface, in particular, oil-flow visualization showed regions next to the virtual-duct fences that were swept clear of oil that was pushed towards the centerline of the hemisphere. keywords: duct cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rr171v5751q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rr171v5751q.txt item: #3873 of 4945 id: rv042r3977q author: Christopher Wells title: Sacraments of the Incarnate Word: The Christological Form of the Summa theologiae date: 2009 words: 432 flesch: 35 summary: By taking Christ as Word as its focus, the present study aims to elucidate the most basic theological and rhetorical structure of Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae, without which claims of christological centrality in the work as a whole remain intuitive and gestural at best. First, Aquinas identifies Jesus Christ as Word in the prima pars in a series of questions on the Trinity that consolidate and elaborate his earlier claim in the first question that God is the 'subject' of the science of sacred doctrine. keywords: word cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r3977q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r3977q.txt item: #3874 of 4945 id: rv042r39782 author: Carolyn B Bond title: Does Increasing Black Homeownership Decrease Residential Segregation? date: 2004 words: 165 flesch: 28 summary: The increased share of mortgage loans received by blacks contributed to black homeownership and decreased segregation levels in MSAs with significant black populations. Theoretically, changes in home mortgage lending, which offer more lending opportunities to previously underserved populations and areas should reduce levels of residential segregation. keywords: lending cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r39782.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r39782.txt item: #3875 of 4945 id: rv042r39829 author: James Matthew Wilson title: Catholic Modernism and the Irish 'Avant-Garde' date: 2006 words: 355 flesch: 21 summary: The results were a variety of critical and poetic works simultaneously representative of modernist practices in general (particularly in the development of denaturalized, deracinated literary language and forms that absorbed but spoke above locale dialects), and yet shaped by Catholic cultural traditions and, more than that, the developments of Catholic theological modernism and neo-Thomist philosophy and theology. Each writer found ways to harness the ironic, ontological and mystical languages of literary modernism for explicitly Catholic ends, but the novelty of their efforts emerges most clearly in their success at making modernism itself appear as an adjunct of Catholicism. keywords: modernism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r39829.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r39829.txt item: #3876 of 4945 id: rv042r3989q author: Craig Michael Nelson title: Characterization of Danio Rerio Retinal Regeneration and the Role of TNFα, Stat3, and Ascl1a During the Initiation of MÌ_ller Glia Proliferation date: 2012 words: 369 flesch: 22 summary: Following retinal damage, the expression of transcription factors Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (Stat3) and Achaete-scute complex-like 1a (Ascl1a) are upregulated in MÌ_ller glia and are each required for maximal MÌ_ller glia proliferation following retinal damage. Damage-induced apoptosis of retinal neurons in adult zebrafish stimulates MÌ_ller glia within the inner nuclear layer to dedifferentiate and divide giving rise to undifferentiated transiently amplifying multipotent neuronal progenitor daughter cells. keywords: glia cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r3989q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r3989q.txt item: #3877 of 4945 id: rv042r3990x author: Kerry Gerard title: The Effects of Stream Restoration and Sediment Removal on Community Dynamics and Secondary Production Rates of Benthic Invertebrates in Juday Creek, Indiana date: 2008 words: 344 flesch: 36 summary: In addition, this study shows that secondary production rates are a sensitive indicator that may be used to evaluate the effectiveness of stream restoration projects. My dissertation focuses on the effects of stream restoration and the effect of sediment basins on the benthic macroinvertebrate community of Juday Creek. keywords: sediment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r3990x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r3990x.txt item: #3878 of 4945 id: rv042r3992m author: Jessica Mikels-Carrasco title: Media coverage of climate change and individual understanding of human/environment relations date: 2010 words: 136 flesch: 21 summary: This study explores how different mass media coverage of the consequences of climate change may impact individuals' perceived relationship between humans and the natural environment, the importance of climate change relative to other global problems, as well as behavioral intentions towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Results suggest that the perceived relationship between humans and the natural world is likely deeply engrained and enduring, but that media messages may indeed work to increase the saliency of climate change. keywords: climate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r3992m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r3992m.txt item: #3879 of 4945 id: rv042r3995n author: Megan Vance title: Evaluation of a Massive mNUMA Multicomputer with Graph Application Codesign date: 2010 words: 163 flesch: 27 summary: Active edge graph communication primitives provide building blocks to compose graph algorithms that avoid data hotspots found in other theoretical graph algorithm designs. In combination, these program and system design techniques are used to show efficient performance scaling of concurrent graph algorithms to over 64000 processing cores running over 1 million threads in simulation. keywords: graph cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r3995n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r3995n.txt item: #3880 of 4945 id: rv042r39991 author: Reid A. Johnson title: Data Science for Imbalanced Data: Methods and Applications date: 1904 words: 230 flesch: 37 summary: Class imbalance refers to when the frequency with which each class appears in data is not roughly equivalent, and the problem is that introduction of class imbalance into the task of classification poses serious challenges that must be addressed in order to provide knowledge and insight. Yet, the challenges that class imbalance gives rise to are in part due to its ubiquitous prevalence, and it stands as a problem that pervades almost every area of investigation under which data science has provenance. keywords: class cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r39991.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r39991.txt item: #3881 of 4945 id: rv042r39f7k author: Danilo H. Jara Quinteros title: Photophysical and Photovoltaic Properties of CuInS2 Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots date: 1904 words: 560 flesch: 53 summary: Therefore, CuInS2 QDs have recently been the subject of interest of several research groups because they may be an alternative to the conventional CdSe and PbS QDs. Nevertheless, the optical and electronic properties of CuInS2 QDs are yet to be fully understood. keywords: qds cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r39f7k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r39f7k.txt item: #3882 of 4945 id: rv042r39f98 author: Lien-Yung Kao title: Thermodynamic Formalism and Its Applications to Deformation Spaces date: 1904 words: 157 flesch: 34 summary: For spaces of metric graphs, we define two conformal but different pressure metrics and study Riemannian geometry induced by these two metrics. Moreover, we compare the Riemannian geometry features, such as curvature and completeness, of these two pressure metrics with the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichmüller spaces. keywords: metric cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r39f98.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r39f98.txt item: #3883 of 4945 id: rv042r4060r author: Mahboobeh Ghalehnovi title: Novel Computational Approaches for Network-Based Protein Structural Classification date: 2019 words: 304 flesch: 45 summary: However, in this thesis, we first model protein 3D structures as protein structure networks (PSNs). Moreover, because graphlets can deal only with unweighted PSNs, and because accounting for edge weights when constructing PSNs could improve PSC accuracy, we also propose a deep learning framework that automatically learns network features from the weighted PSNs. keywords: features cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r4060r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r4060r.txt item: #3884 of 4945 id: rv042r40b2p author: Paul Anh Trần-Hoàng title: Model-Theoretic Approaches to Theoretical Equivalence and Reduction date: 2020 words: 265 flesch: 36 summary: What does it mean to say that a formal theory is reducible to another?This dissertation seeks to better understand possible answers to these questions by employing methods and tools from model theory, a branch of mathematical logic that studies the relationship between formal languages and the mathematical structures that provide such languages with meaning. In Chapter 2, I motivate a a distinctively semantic view of mathematical theories according to which formalized mathematical statements are taken to specify conditions which describe a variety of possibly non-isomorphic structures. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r40b2p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r40b2p.txt item: #3885 of 4945 id: rv042r40d0m author: Joseph Baxley title: A Byzantine King in Jerusalem: Intellectual and Cultural Exchange in a Crusader State date: 2022 words: 403 flesch: 46 summary: The goal is to ascertain how Byzantine intellectual culture affected their neighbors and the state of Latin intellectual culture by the mid-twelfth century when the Franks were at their peak. Last, it contains a preliminary analysis of the Frankish states in Antioch and Edessa, seeking to broaden our understanding of known intellectual exchange in Frankish Syria. keywords: intellectual cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r40d0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r40d0m.txt item: #3886 of 4945 id: rv042r40f0x author: Charlotte M. Wood title: Testing the Top Rung of the Distance Ladder: Understanding Type Ia Supernovae Variations and Their Effects on the Hubble Constant date: 2022 words: 531 flesch: 49 summary: Overall, my thesis aims to understand type Ia supernovae, their intrinsic variations, and if those variations have any effect on the measurement of the Hubble constant. Using surface brightness fluctuations to measure the distances to 25 type Ia supernovae in elliptical galaxies, I can compare how the properties of type Ia supernovae in elliptical galaxies compare to those in spiral galaxies with distances measured by Cepheid variables. keywords: supernovae cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r40f0x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r40f0x.txt item: #3887 of 4945 id: rv042r40f8p author: Jonas Nauerz title: Essays on Labor and Climate Economics date: 2023 words: 559 flesch: 39 summary: Motivated by structural changes in female labor force participation in the past decades, cross-country differences in participation rates today, and political debates about constraints and disincentives for women to supply labor, the first two chapters study the effects of the policy tools of income taxation and public childcare on female labor supply. I contribute to the debate by highlighting that the effects of abolishing joint taxation on labor force participation and GDP are twofold. keywords: labor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rv042r40f8p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rv042r40f8p.txt item: #3888 of 4945 id: rx913n22j04 author: Parveen Kumar Chandila title: Strategy for Global Optimization and Post-Optimality Using Local Kriging Approximations date: 2004 words: 167 flesch: 28 summary: The non-linear response of the system is captured through local approximations. The global design space is divided into local regions. keywords: local cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n22j04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n22j04.txt item: #3889 of 4945 id: rx913n22j1g author: Jeremy Adam Montemarano title: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice: A Study of a Protocol for CBT Dissemination and Implementation in a Community Mental Health Center date: 2011 words: 150 flesch: 34 summary: This data suggests that the significant increase in therapist CBT competence may explain the significant decreases in patients' reported depression and anxiety symptoms when receiving CBT compared to TAU. This study tested a dissemination and implementation protocol for delivering Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for depression to therapists within a community mental health center (CMHC). keywords: cbt cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n22j1g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n22j1g.txt item: #3890 of 4945 id: rx913n22j2t author: Gang Li title: Constant Q-Curvature Metrics Near the Hyperbolic Metric date: 2013 words: 76 flesch: 41 summary: A similar analysis is applied to a class of fourth order equations arising in spectral theory. We prove that there are infinitely many asymptotically hyperbolic metrics with constant Q-curvature in the conformal class of an asymptotically hyperbolic metric close enough to g. These metrics are parametrized by the elements in the kernel of the linearized operator of the prescribed constant Q-curvature equation. keywords: curvature cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n22j2t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n22j2t.txt item: #3891 of 4945 id: rx913n22j4h author: Kamilah Kiana Campbell title: Home is What I Make It date: 2013 words: 55 flesch: 35 summary: Through the context of prior political movements in the United States and the work of African-American artists and writers, this paper serves to locate contemporary artistic endeavors as they relate to identity construction. This project investigates the potential of the African-American home to be political by challenging notions of collective identity and hybridity. keywords: identity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n22j4h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n22j4h.txt item: #3892 of 4945 id: rx913n22j5v author: Omar Sami Dahi title: Economic Development and South-South Trade date: 2008 words: 448 flesch: 45 summary: The goal is twofold: First to make a contribution to the cross-country empirical literature by focusing on structure of trade rather than overall trade as a relevant factor in growth. Instead I focus on the literature that has dealt with South-South integration and trade per se and their relation to development within the countries of the South. keywords: south cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n22j5v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n22j5v.txt item: #3893 of 4945 id: rx913n22j66 author: Qinxin Zhang title: Near-field Scanning Microwave Microscopy and its Applications in Characterization of Dielectric Materials date: 2006 words: 357 flesch: 21 summary: SMM characterization has been used to detect defects in single crystals, such as twinning structure in a LaAlO3 single crystal; to present topographic and grain boundary effects in bulk polycrystalline yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ); to differentiate chemical variations, such as oxygen-deficient 'cored' titania crystal, and Zn/Co varied BZCN312 matrices; to characterize inhomogeneities of dielectric properties in a co-fired CMT30/CMT40 ceramic; to discover a new phase with unknown dielectric properties, such as BZCN816 phase in BZCN312 matrices; to investigate stabilized components, such as La2/3TiO3 phase stabilized by LaAlO3 phase; to study solid solution, such as LT3-LAO solid solution and LAO-STO solid solution; to study phase separation and development, LaAlO3-TiO2 and CaTiO3-MgTiO3 diffusion couples; to observe critical feature size effect, such as in CT-MT eutectic system; and to rank the dielectric constant of dielectric materials in these demonstrated systems. All of theses studies indicate that near-field scanning microwave microscopy is a powerful nondestructive technique to characterize local dielectric properties variations, and relate them to local microstructure and chemical variations. keywords: dielectric cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n22j66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n22j66.txt item: #3894 of 4945 id: rx913n22j7j author: Hai Lin title: Robust Analysis and Synthesis of Uncertain Linear Hybrid Systems with Networked Control Applications date: 2006 words: 431 flesch: 32 summary: This dissertation investigates the robust analysis and control of uncertain hybrid systems, which are perturbed by time-variant parametric uncertainties and persistent disturbances. The problem of robust stabilization for uncertain hybrid systems is then formulated and studied in the framework of tracking and regulation control. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n22j7j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n22j7j.txt item: #3895 of 4945 id: rx913n22j8w author: David Gerardo Ortiz Canseco title: The Relationship between Contentious Collective Action and State Repression: A Dynamic, Continuous-Time Model. date: 2008 words: 351 flesch: 18 summary: Consideration of the multidimensional forms that state repression and contentious collective action can take, the influence of time on the process, and several geopolitical influences acting on the manner in which state repression and contentious collective action interact suggest that these are all important factors that researchers must consider if they hope to gain insight in to the true nature of the relationship between state repression and contentious collective action. Models of the effects of state repression on the hazard of contentious collective action show that, in the short-term, the application of state repression has a dampening influence on contentious collective action, but after a period of seven days, such dampening effects give way to a backlash of contention. keywords: action cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n22j8w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n22j8w.txt item: #3896 of 4945 id: rx913n22k24 author: Kaplan Page Harris title: The Inherited Self: Autobiography and History in American Avant-Garde Poetry date: 2004 words: 262 flesch: 49 summary: In another chapter I suggest that the documentary forms associated with historical poetry should be read as documenting inheritance rather than documenting history as such. If a poet assumes that the self is a product of history, then the historical poem becomes, in effect, a new form of autobiography. keywords: self cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n22k24.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n22k24.txt item: #3897 of 4945 id: rx913n22k4t author: Yonghui Chen title: Using FPGA to Accelerate Monte Carlo Superposition Based Radiation Dose Calculation date: 2009 words: 144 flesch: 45 summary: This thesis proposes a general method for finding fixed point data representation for floating point algorithms. The Monte Carlo Superposition (MCS) method provides a fast but accurate algorithm for radiation dose calculation. keywords: radiation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n22k4t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n22k4t.txt item: #3898 of 4945 id: rx913n22k7v author: Sandra Botero title: Courts that Matter: Judges, Litigants and the Politics of Rights Enforcement in Latin America date: 1904 words: 356 flesch: 35 summary: In Latin America, the transformation of courts into key scenarios for the discussion of public policy, the protection of rights, and the struggle for political change has been one of the most significant political trends following the third wave of democratization. In recent decades, citizens in young and established democracies alike have increasingly turned to courts seeking to solve political disputes and to enforce rights. keywords: courts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n22k7v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n22k7v.txt item: #3899 of 4945 id: rx913n22m9v author: Alexander Long title: An Indirect Study of the Astrophysical 34Ar(α,p)37K Reaction and its Influence on Type-1 X-ray Burst Light Curves date: 1904 words: 827 flesch: 47 summary: Therefore, to use these models to explore other parameters relevant to the double-peak bursting behavior, such as accretion rates and metallicties, this large uncertainty in the 34Ar(α,p)37K reaction rate must be significantly reduced. From these rate distributions, the 34Ar(α,p)37K reaction rate was found to be significantly lower than the corresponding HF predicted rate used in X-ray burst models. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n22m9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n22m9v.txt item: #3900 of 4945 id: rx913n2376p author: Catherine S. Kuiper title: Through the Features of Men's Faces: The Political Community in Francisco Suárez and John Locke date: 1904 words: 344 flesch: 21 summary: There is a great body of Catholic political thought, however, developed just prior to Locke's life and career, that also provided theoretical treatments of many of the same concerns that animated early modern liberalism. Although Suárez is less well-known now, he had an immediate connection to Locke: Robert Filmer, the man against whom Locke directed the entire First Treatise on Government, was himself writing against Jesuit political thought and mentions Suárez by name as an example. keywords: locke cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n2376p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n2376p.txt item: #3901 of 4945 id: rx913n2378c author: Xueheng Hu title: Efficient Content Delivery through Provider Accessible Storage Service date: 1904 words: 333 flesch: 31 summary: Solutions have been proposed along two primary tracks, namely instrumenting smaller areas with small cells for more capacity and / or mollifying the effect of data tsunami through better content management. This dissertation presents my research on investigating the potential for the said mechanism and discusses in detail how the proposed method has been implemented to show new opportunities for efficient content delivery. keywords: content cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n2378c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n2378c.txt item: #3902 of 4945 id: rx913n2380x author: Clyde A. Daly Jr. title: Modeling Carbon Dioxide Vibrational Frequencies in Ionic Liquids date: 1904 words: 359 flesch: 33 summary: It is found that the vibrational frequency of CO2 in ionic liquids can be calculated accurately by using a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics implementation of density functional theory to obtain the potential energy surface required for a discrete variable representation solution to the nuclear Schrödinger equation. Ionic liquids have attracted a great deal of attention in the past decade due to their unique physical and chemical properties. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n2380x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n2380x.txt item: #3903 of 4945 id: rx913n23n21 author: Patrick Heslin title: Two-Point Boundary Value Problems on Diffeomorphism Groups date: 2021 words: 148 flesch: 51 summary: We achieve like results in an array of other settings including 3D axisymmetric ideal fluids, symplectic Euler equations, Euler-alpha equations, and one dimensional integrable systems including the mu-CH and Hunter-Saxton equations. A well known result of Ebin and Marsden states that Lagrangian solutions to the Euler equations, when framed as an initial value problem, are exactly as smooth as their initial conditions. keywords: equations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n23n21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n23n21.txt item: #3904 of 4945 id: rx913n23n52 author: Saurabh Bansal title: Exploring Naturalness at Colliders and in Cosmological Observations date: 2021 words: 292 flesch: 42 summary: The naturalness problems of the Standard Model, like the Higgs hierarchy problem, have been some of the most prominent motivations for theoretical particle physics over the last few decades. Finally, in the third part of the thesis, we explore minimal flavor violating (MFV) scalar leptoquarks as the potential source of the anomaly in the measurement of R_D. MFV is a framework that can lead to a natural flavor structure for new physics models. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n23n52.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n23n52.txt item: #3905 of 4945 id: rx913n23p3p author: Alexander LeClair title: Neural Models of Automated Documentation Generation for Source Code date: 2022 words: 342 flesch: 52 summary: Source code summarization is the task of writing a short natural language summary for a section of source code. The research frontier is in improving these models through more comprehensive representations of source code in the encoder. keywords: code cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/rx913n23p3p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/rx913n23p3p.txt item: #3906 of 4945 id: s1784j05s8z author: Ben Reinhard title: 'God's Lore and Worldly Law': Archbishop Wulfstan, his manuscripts, and the Institutes of Polity date: 2014 words: 321 flesch: 51 summary: Even more importantly, the texts in the manuscripts help to connect Wulfstan's writings with the two most important developments in social theory from the continent: namely, the Three Orders of Society and the Peace of God movement. This project was rooted in clerical and liturgical reform, and looked forward to the later eleventh-century clash between regnum and sacerdotium. keywords: polity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j05s8z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j05s8z.txt item: #3907 of 4945 id: s1784j05s99 author: Chinmoy Nath title: Theoretical and Laboratory Modeling of Turbulent Jets in Low Aspect Ratio Cavities date: 2014 words: 471 flesch: 46 summary: This dissertation concerns a laboratory experimental and theoretical modeling program conducted to investigate: (a) mixing mechanisms and precession of turbulent jets in homogeneous fluids (b) mixing of turbulent jet in stratified fluids and (c) wall attachment of offset jet in a homogeneous fluid. Digital video recordings and particle image velocimetry are used to map the flow structures and velocity/vorticity fields, from which the frequency of jet switching, jet stopping distance, mean flow, turbulence characteristics and the influence of end-wall boundary conditions are inferred. keywords: jet cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j05s99.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j05s99.txt item: #3908 of 4945 id: s1784j05t0h author: Cheolho Sim title: Host Factors of the African Malaria Mosquito, Anopheles Gambiae In O'nyong Nyong Virus Replication date: 2008 words: 441 flesch: 36 summary: Hence, these observations provide direct evidence that HSC70B impedes ONNV replication in An. gambiae. In addition, to clarify the tissue tropism of An. gambiae in ONNV infection, ONNV infectious system (ONNV-eGFP) which is capable of express green fluorescent protein (Brault 2004), has been used to characterize tissue tropism and dissemination of ONNV in An. gambiae by intrathoracic injection. keywords: onnv cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j05t0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j05t0h.txt item: #3909 of 4945 id: s1784j05t4w author: Stacey Beth Scott title: Examining Social Support in Adaptation to Widowhood: A Mixed Methods Approach date: 2010 words: 159 flesch: 33 summary: Second, the core themes of social support in the lives of older widows were examined using qualitative methods. First, the trajectories of social support were examined using quantitative indicators of satisfaction with social support following the death of a husband through 98 days of daily assessment. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j05t4w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j05t4w.txt item: #3910 of 4945 id: s1784j05v15 author: Candice Yango Lumibao title: Genetic Legacies of 10,000 Years of Environmental Changes on Forest Trees date: 2014 words: 397 flesch: 33 summary: Global climate change and human land-use are two main threats affecting species and ecosystems, driving species extinction and biodiversity loss around the world. I examined two historical processes that have had the greatest impact in shaping genetic diversity among species and populations: past climatic oscillations since the last glacial period and the extensive regional forest clearance in the last 500 years. keywords: genetic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j05v15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j05v15.txt item: #3911 of 4945 id: s1784j05v2h author: Peter Wicks title: Everything Is What It Is: Ethical Theory and the Language of Judgment date: 2010 words: 188 flesch: 32 summary: Our moral concepts also play a role in the formation of moral beliefs as instruments of moral perception. However, a careful examination of our moral language suggests that this assumption is unwarranted and that by focusing on a small set of moral concepts ethical theories have ignored much of our moral thinking. keywords: moral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j05v2h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j05v2h.txt item: #3912 of 4945 id: s1784j05v46 author: Charles Leslie Penninger title: An Investigation in the Cellular Mechanisms of Bone Remodeling using a Hybrid Cellular Automaton Approach date: 2010 words: 351 flesch: 25 summary: Furthermore, these results provide unique insights regarding key parameters that influence cellular level remodeling activity. This framework uniquely combines established phenomenological remodeling paradigms with cellular mechanisms to predict remodeling activity for a damaged site in bone. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j05v46.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j05v46.txt item: #3913 of 4945 id: s1784j05v6w author: Philip Damien Little title: Online Algorithms for Dynamic Data and Query Shipping in Object Caching date: 2010 words: 144 flesch: 41 summary: Applications can involve requests for multiple data objects (or file bundles), queries with results much smaller than the data they access, or updates to data at the source. Database applications can involve all of these properties, and the increasing rate at which they transfer data necessitates an efficient, general, and rigorous approach to managing caches that serve their data. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j05v6w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j05v6w.txt item: #3914 of 4945 id: s1784j05v77 author: Nathaniel T. Hollingsworth title: Constitutive Modeling and Damage Mechanics of the Annulus Fibrosus date: 2011 words: 259 flesch: 36 summary: Although the these motions can induce annulus fibrosus damage, the stress-strain state of the annulus during these motions is not known. The objective of this project was to develop more complete constitutive models and to investigate annulus fibrosus damage mechanics. keywords: annulus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j05v77.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j05v77.txt item: #3915 of 4945 id: s1784j0609f author: Tahsin Ahmed title: Optical Quilt Packaging: A New Chip-to-chip Optical Coupling and Alignment Technique date: 1904 words: 611 flesch: 41 summary: These results represent lower loss than previously reported chip-to-chip MIR optical coupling via butt-coupling (~10 dB), fiber coupling (as low as ~10 dB), and grating coupling (tens of dB loss).The initial optical coupling results suggest, OQP is a low-loss chip-to-chip MIR optical coupling technique. In the next phase of the OQP research, QCL chips will be incorporated in this new OQP fabrication process to realize an on-chip modular scheme for explosive imaging. keywords: chip cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j0609f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j0609f.txt item: #3916 of 4945 id: s1784j06p6m author: Andrew P. O'Donnell title: Probabilistic Vulnerability Assessment of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings date: 2019 words: 366 flesch: 36 summary: Importantly, this model can quantify the contribution of different damage modes at different locations in a wall, including the effects of perforations from doors and windows. Then, the demands from Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA) on the four model scenarios of the prototype two-story wall are used to obtain estimates of damage considering scaled ground motion suites for Boston, Seattle, and Los Angeles. keywords: wall cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j06p6m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j06p6m.txt item: #3917 of 4945 id: s1784j06r2v author: Vikramjit Singh Rathee title: Modeling Weak Polyelectrolyte Behavior and Predicting Complexation Properties date: 2019 words: 271 flesch: 15 summary: Then we extend these routines by incorporating advanced sampling method to elucidate on the thermodynamics behind weak polyelectrolyte complexation. Weak polyelectrolytes are macromolecules that have titratable groups which may either protonate or deprotonate depending upon the environmental conditions such as pH and salt concentration, which contrasts with strong polyelectrolytes that completely ionize in solution. keywords: weak cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j06r2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j06r2v.txt item: #3918 of 4945 id: s1784j06x8g author: Sreya Banerjee title: A Study on Biologically-Inspired Recognition Using Multi-Platform and Multi-Modal Data date: 2021 words: 558 flesch: 32 summary: Our work on this research led to the following contributions – 1) a new video benchmark dataset, UG2 representing both ideal conditions and common aerial image artifacts, which is publicly available to facilitate new research 2) an extensive evaluation of the influence of image aberrations and problematic conditions on common object recognition and one stage detection models, 3) an analysis of the impact and suitability of basic and state-of-the-art image and video processing algorithms used in conjunction with common object recognition and detection models. To build a recognition system for any application these days, one's first inclination is to turn to the most recent machine learning breakthrough from the area of deep learning, which no doubt has been enabled by access to millions of training images, clean and correctly labelled from the Internet. keywords: recognition cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j06x8g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j06x8g.txt item: #3919 of 4945 id: s1784j0710x author: Nicole Cortes title: Market-Based Technoeconomic Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-Based Integrated Energy Systems date: 2023 words: 277 flesch: 29 summary: In this work, we develop a computational optimization framework for dynamic market-based technoeconomic comparison of IESs that co-produce low carbon electricity and hydrogen (e.g., solid oxide fuel cells, solid oxide electrolysis) against technologies that only produce electricity (e.g., natural gas combined cycle with carbon capture) or hydrogen. Using data from these models, we train algebraic surrogate models, which enable tractable multi-period optimization of electricity and hydrogen coproduction based on energy prices. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j0710x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j0710x.txt item: #3920 of 4945 id: s1784j07118 author: Abhishek Khanna title: Phase Transition Oscillators Based Ising Machines for Combinatorial Optimization Problem Solvers date: 2023 words: 357 flesch: 24 summary: Various proposals for building such special purpose Ising machines have recently been made, including superconducting qubits and trapped ions-based quantum computing and quantum annealing digital and mixed-signal complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) annealers and coherent networks of degenerate optical parametric oscillators. The novel hardware implementation of the oscillator network using ultra-low power and compact one-transistor and one-resistor (1T-1R) PTNOs allows us to harness the intrinsic stochasticity in the phase-transition device VO2, hence traversing complex energy landscapes and escaping local minima to reach an optimum solution. keywords: state cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s1784j07118.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s1784j07118.txt item: #3921 of 4945 id: s4655d8932r author: Qingling Hang title: Molecular Liftoff Technology by Electron Beam Lithography for Molecular Electronics Devices date: 2004 words: 322 flesch: 39 summary: For molecular nanopatterning, surface cleanliness is critical for molecular deposition and the investigation of deposited molecular patterns. Compared with PMMA resist, both of these two resists are not appropriate for molecular nanopatterning. keywords: molecular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d8932r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d8932r.txt item: #3922 of 4945 id: s4655d89333 author: June H Sun title: Father Involvement Differences by Race in Fragile Families date: 2011 words: 140 flesch: 55 summary: Hispanic fathers had difficulty in overcoming the 'hurdle' of reading to their children. Past studies on the intersection of class, race, and family have posited that class trumps race. keywords: children cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d89333.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d89333.txt item: #3923 of 4945 id: s4655d8934f author: Andrew Mercer Deines title: Environmental Change and Tradeoffs in Freshwater Ecosystem Services: Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) Introduction to the Kafue River, Zambia date: 2013 words: 337 flesch: 31 summary: I evaluate the value of the Kafue River fishery by modeling the tradeoff between fisheries production and hydropower generation, as imposed by dam-induced flow modification, and find that annual fishery production is $USD 7 million per year, but this production is not affected by flow modification. I also show the introduction of Nile tilapia to the Kafue River has decreased genetic diversity and threatens the long-term production of both aquaculture and capture fisheries. keywords: services cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d8934f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d8934f.txt item: #3924 of 4945 id: s4655d89364 author: Michael Benjamin Cover title: Lifting the Veil: 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 in Light of Jewish Homiletic and Commentary Traditions date: 2013 words: 366 flesch: 34 summary: Second, recognizing the presence of covenant renewal themes in both Paul's epistolary frame and in his midrashic excursus suggests that his opponents in 2 Corinthians were Hellenistic Jewish Christian missionaries. The contribution of this study is to read Paul's midrash through comparison with the forms and traditions of Hellenistic Jewish commentaries, particularly Philo of Alexandria's Allegorical Commentary. keywords: paul cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d89364.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d89364.txt item: #3925 of 4945 id: s4655d8937g author: Jennifer M. Sexton title: Subcloning and Partial Purification of Perchlorate Reductase from Dechloromonas aromatica RCB date: 2007 words: 243 flesch: 38 summary: Utilizing DEAE (diethylaminoethyl) reverse anion exchange as a first step resulted in an increase of perchlorate reductase specific activity from 0.0759 U/mg to 0.218 U/mg. Perchlorate reductase from Dechloromonas aromatica RCB is responsible for the enzymatic reduction of perchlorate to chlorate and chlorate to chlorite in two, two electron transfers. keywords: perchlorate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d8937g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d8937g.txt item: #3926 of 4945 id: s4655d8938t author: Xiaohai Shi title: Characterizing the Roles of Pitx3 and Foxe3 in Zebrafish Lens and Retina Development date: 2006 words: 360 flesch: 49 summary: Anti-foxe3 morphants exhibited a small lens with increased number of nucleated cells, disordered arrangement of fiber cells and alteration of lens cell fates. In the eye, expression of the Pitx3 protein was restricted to the lens epithelial cells and differentiating lens fiber cells. keywords: pitx3 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d8938t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d8938t.txt item: #3927 of 4945 id: s4655d89395 author: Srinivas Sridharan title: Implementing Scalable Locks and Barriers on Large-Scale Light-Weight Multithreaded Systems date: 2006 words: 275 flesch: 40 summary: This thesis focuses on computer architectures, which increase the opportunities for concurrency usually not possible in systems based on complex superscalar based cores. The primary objective of this thesis is to explore scalable synchronization mechanisms for LWP architecture. keywords: lwp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d89395.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d89395.txt item: #3928 of 4945 id: s4655d8940c author: Matthew Lynn Rissler title: Stochastic Models of Collective Motion of Myxococcus xanthus date: 2008 words: 132 flesch: 56 summary: It is demonstrated that a modified Lattice Gas Cellular Automata model of cells with reversals is capable of aggregation and mounding in fruiting body formation. The social aspect is also evident during swarming, or coordinated expansion of a colony with sufficient nutrient. keywords: swarming cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d8940c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d8940c.txt item: #3929 of 4945 id: s4655d8941q author: Daniel Robert Jackson title: Birational maps of surfaces with invariant curves. date: 2007 words: 164 flesch: 59 summary: In particular, invariant curves for AS birational maps of the projective plane must have degree 3 or less. By studying the induced real maps of the real projective plane we find a class of maps exhibiting maximal entropy in its real dynamics. keywords: maps cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d8941q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d8941q.txt item: #3930 of 4945 id: s4655d8944r author: Devin A. Brown title: Analysis of Wind-Induced Acceleration and Pressure Data from an Eight-Hundred-Foot Building date: 2003 words: 179 flesch: 41 summary: Structural properties, e.g., natural frequencies and damping of structures, as-built, can be determined from measured response time histories using system identification techniques. The data was statistically analyzed to gain better understanding of the action of wind on bluff structures with separated flow regions. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d8944r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d8944r.txt item: #3931 of 4945 id: s4655d8946f author: Thomas Bradley Apker title: Experimental Investigation and Modeling of Time Resolved Thrust of a Flapping Wing Aircraft date: 2010 words: 205 flesch: 52 summary: This motion was used to develop phenomenological linear models of flapping wing thrust generation. This study showed that the spectral content of the flapping wings extended to 15 times the flapping frequency, well above the resonant frequency of the mass-spring-damper system formed by a load cell and flapping mechanism. keywords: wings cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d8946f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d8946f.txt item: #3932 of 4945 id: s4655d8949g author: Thomas R. Coughlin title: Mechanobiological Signals in Trabecular Bone and Marrow date: 1904 words: 448 flesch: 31 summary: They were present on a small fraction of bone marrow cells and osteocytes, and were relatively short within the trabecular bone and marrow compartment, indicating that they may function as mechanosensors in concert with other mechanosensors or that only a small number of cells are responsible for mechanosensing in the trabecular bone and marrow compartment. There is little known about the contribution of bone marrow cells to mechanotransduction and keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d8949g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d8949g.txt item: #3933 of 4945 id: s4655d89t0k author: Jessica A. Brandwein title: Threat, Risk, and Repression: Exploring State-Sponsored Political Violence from a Prospect Theory Approach date: 1904 words: 336 flesch: 39 summary: A statistical analysis of government responses to dissent among African countries supports this argument, showing that governments in the domain of loss repress low levels of dissent at higher rates than governments in the domain of gain. Chapter 4 looks at how international actors influence the use of state repression, proposing that the effect of interventions on the use of state-sponsored violence is conditioned on government domain. keywords: domain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d89t0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d89t0k.txt item: #3934 of 4945 id: s4655d89t70 author: Ruth Speidel title: Longitudinal Development of Child Self-Regulation in the Context of Child Maltreatment: The Roles of Parenting Style, Family Expressiveness, and Maternal Reminiscing Quality date: 1904 words: 155 flesch: 10 summary: Maternal reminiscing quality mediated relations between maltreatment and lability/negativity at 6 months, and change across time in emotion regulation and inhibitory control. In this study, three mediators (positive parenting, positive family expressiveness, and maternal reminiscing quality) were examined as processes through which maltreatment influences three dimensions of child self-regulation (emotion regulation, lability/negativity, and inhibitory control) across three time points (baseline, 2 months, and 6 months later) using longitudinal mediation analysis with latent growth modeling. keywords: regulation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d89t70.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d89t70.txt item: #3935 of 4945 id: s4655d90090 author: Michael C. Magree, S.J. title: Shaped to the Measure of the Kenosis:The Theological Interpretation of Philippians 2:7 from Origen to Cyril of Alexandria date: 2019 words: 224 flesch: 38 summary: The dissertation opens with a significant survey of twentieth century interpretation of Philippians 2:7, in order to provide points of comparison with antiquity. This quickly comes to involve disputes concerning the understanding of who God is and how union with human nature is possible. keywords: emptying cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d90090.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d90090.txt item: #3936 of 4945 id: s4655d9071d author: Afzal Hossain title: Context-Driven and Resource-Efficient Crowdsensing date: 2021 words: 210 flesch: 33 summary: A typical crowdsensing application collects various sensor data and information from the participant's devices (e.g., smartphone), often continuously at higher frequencies. Therefore, an efficient sensing system maintains reasonable data quality while being resource conscious. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d9071d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d9071d.txt item: #3937 of 4945 id: s4655d90911 author: Amelia Mendelsohn title: Gone Home date: 2023 words: 86 flesch: 30 summary: My work depicts the subtle tension that exists within domestic spaces when destructive familial conflict and inherited gender roles are buried beneath familiarity. I draw on conceptualizations of the domestic sphere, memory, and feminist understandings of the uncanny to visualize the psychological unease that exists within the home. keywords: domestic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s4655d90911.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s4655d90911.txt item: #3938 of 4945 id: s7526972c0m author: Fernando Antonio Garcia title: Valuation of Chemical Operations Under Uncertainty date: 2015 words: 247 flesch: 45 summary: SSD also generalizes a widely used measure of risk, Value at Risk (VaR). This dissertation uses process synthesis formulations to develop models that explain how to value chemical processes and minimize financial risk. keywords: risk cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526972c0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526972c0m.txt item: #3939 of 4945 id: s7526972c1z author: Christopher John Hausmann title: The Best Laid Plans: Bodies, Thwarted Objectives, Stubborn Inequalities and Unexpected Encounters date: 2008 words: 150 flesch: 23 summary: Drawing upon ethnographic data collected at the 2007 World Social Forum and United States Social Forum, I demonstrate that the very ecological shifts that create opportunities to collaborate across geographical and social locations can also threaten participants' physical capacity to take advantage of those opportunities. To capitalize on the favorable, but fleeting opportunities at the USSF and 2007 WSF, participants both put forth intense physical effort and disrupted their typical strategies for maintaining their bodies. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526972c1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526972c1z.txt item: #3940 of 4945 id: s7526972c6p author: Jarren Thomas Gonzales title: The Acculturation Experience of International Graduate Students: A Qualitative Investigation date: 2006 words: 223 flesch: 24 summary: This study actualizes the consideration of social cognitions in the acculturation process through qualitative methodology and analytical techniques that are based on grounded theory. The immersion experience in the United States is best understood from the perspective of acculturation theory (e.g., Berry, 2003). keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526972c6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526972c6p.txt item: #3941 of 4945 id: s7526972d3z author: Philip P Schonewill title: Oscillatory Flow: Effect on Transverse Diffusivity and Inertial Migration of Particles and Bubbles date: 2008 words: 348 flesch: 40 summary: Oscillatory flow has numerous interesting and useful applications, many of which take advantage of oscillatory flow's unique features. Two processes which benefit from oscillatory flow are investigated herein: the first, using oscillatory flow to enhance mass transport in a porous medium, and the second, developing separation strategies from the study of inertial migration of particles and bubbles in oscillatory flow. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526972d3z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526972d3z.txt item: #3942 of 4945 id: s7526972d49 author: Amy Libardi title: Tribological and Thermal Properties of Ionic Liquids date: 2013 words: 127 flesch: 28 summary: Results show that ionic liquids have the potential to be suitable lubricants. The thermal conductivity, viscosity, and pressure-viscosity coefficient were measured for several ionic liquids using a Unitherm Thermal Conductivity Measurement System, a viscometer, and an Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication (EHL) rig, respectively. keywords: refrigerant cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526972d49.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526972d49.txt item: #3943 of 4945 id: s7526972d60 author: Charles Thomas Strauss title: Catholicism, Central America, and United States Politics During the Cold War, 1943-1988 date: 2011 words: 260 flesch: 36 summary: Historians have convincingly shown how ideological considerations acquired a primacy over practical matters in the making of United States policy on Central America during the Cold War. This dissertation explores how religion shaped United States foreign policy on Central America during the second half of the twentieth century. keywords: united cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526972d60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526972d60.txt item: #3944 of 4945 id: s7526972d8p author: William Benjamin Secunda title: In the Shadow of the Eagle's Wings: The Effects of Removal on the Unremoved Potawatomi date: 2009 words: 254 flesch: 45 summary: The resultant strategy of adaptive resistance ultimately allowed a significant number of Potawatomi to thwart forced removal and survive in their eastern homelands. The Michigan Road leadership embraced civilization, but manipulated it in such a way so as to preserve their lives, rights, and identity, and avoid forced removal. keywords: removal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526972d8p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526972d8p.txt item: #3945 of 4945 id: s7526972d91 author: Anne B. McGinness title: Atlantic Reformation: How Confessional Conflict Affected Brazilian Society, 1554-1654 date: 2013 words: 330 flesch: 25 summary: Starting from a reconsideration of the French and Dutch Protestant presence in colonial Brazil, I seek to understand how the Reformation affected Brazilian society. I approach these questions in a way that looks, first, at how contentious doctrines, rituals, and cultural practices from the era of Reformations in Europe arrived in Brazil and how they affected Catholic evangelization, Portuguese colonization and the inhabitants' lives. keywords: catholic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526972d91.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526972d91.txt item: #3946 of 4945 id: s7526972g27 author: Lauren Squires title: Dissecting the Anti-Vaccination Movement: Moving Beyond a Typical Dichotomy in Order to Understand Lifestyle Choice Non-Compliance date: 1904 words: 146 flesch: 34 summary: Due to a lack of consistent categorization, inconsistencies arise in demographic characteristics. However, when looking at the anti-vaccination movement in terms of complete non-, selective (MMR and Varicella), and fully-up-to-date, we capture the shift in types of non-compliance associated with non-vaccinators and limit demographic inconsistencies. keywords: movement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526972g27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526972g27.txt item: #3947 of 4945 id: s752697327h author: Lori F. Cummins title: Life Events and the Phenotypic Expression of Depression in Men date: 1904 words: 239 flesch: 25 summary: Results indicated that (1) the experience of a Severe life event predicts increases in typical depressive symptoms for both men and women, (2) a male-based model of depressive symptoms, which included indicators of depressed mood, social isolation, and alcohol abuse, best reflected the latent structure of depressive symptoms for both men and women, and (3) the experience of a Severe life event still predicted elevations in depressive symptoms even when only the core of symptoms identified in Study 2 were included. Participants included 401 emerging adults, nearly equally divided among men and women, who completed a gold-standard assessment of stressful life events; self-reported measures of typical depressive symptoms, externalizing behaviors, and alcohol use; and investigator-based assessments of typical depressive symptoms and alcohol abuse. keywords: symptoms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s752697327h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s752697327h.txt item: #3948 of 4945 id: s7526973296 author: Olivia F. Cox title: The Effects of Titanium Dioxide on Cell-Cell Contacts during Xenopus Embryogenesis and Targeted Depletion of SUMOylation in Cardiomyocytes of Xenopus Embryos date: 1904 words: 570 flesch: 33 summary: Expression of Gam1, an adenoviral protein that degrades the SUMO E1-activating enzyme, was placed under the control of three cardiac specific promoters (Nkx2.5, MLC2, and ANF), in order to reduce SUMOylation in cardiac progenitor cells at distinct embryonic stages. Targeted Depletion of SUMOylation in Cardiomyocytes of Xenopus EmbryosCHDs are the most common form of human birth defect with 36,000 American births and ~1% of worldwide births affected each year. keywords: nps cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526973296.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526973296.txt item: #3949 of 4945 id: s7526973772 author: Enrico Speri title: Synthesis and Biological Studies of New Classes of Antibiotic and Antibiotic Potentiators for Resistant Bacteria date: 2019 words: 348 flesch: 33 summary: Only vancomycin, linezolid, ceftaroline, and daptomycin are left against S. aureus infections and resistant strains against these antibiotics have already been reported. Only two years later, in 1961, a new variant of resistant S. aureus appeared, which became known as methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). keywords: aureus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526973772.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526973772.txt item: #3950 of 4945 id: s7526973b8b author: Maryann H. Kwakwa title: The Ambiguous Cohort: How Alternative Undergraduate Experiences Affect Civic Engagement date: 2019 words: 260 flesch: 28 summary: By shifting out focus from degree receipt to educational experience, we can capture the effect that the college environment has on civic engagement with greater precision. Thus, in my dissertation I ask: what is the effect of undergraduate college experiences on civic engagement? keywords: college cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526973b8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526973b8b.txt item: #3951 of 4945 id: s7526973f3j author: Maj-Britt K. Frenze title: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Romance: Translation and Transmission in England and Scandinavia date: 2020 words: 245 flesch: 24 summary: This dissertation examines nature and the supernatural in medieval romance, specifically how romance motifs were transmitted and incorporated into translated and original Middle English romances and Old Norse-Icelandic romances and legendary sagas. The dissertation is divided into four studies on different landscapes and beings common to medieval romance: the garden, the forest, the supernatural mistress, and the so-called Saracen giant. keywords: romance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526973f3j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526973f3j.txt item: #3952 of 4945 id: s7526973f4w author: Ellen Lehet title: The Explanatory Value of Category Theory date: 2020 words: 194 flesch: 29 summary: Category theory has proven to be useful in many distinct areas of mathematics and the usefulness of this applicability is often a result of the fact that the category theoretic approach produces explanation. In total, these three chapters clarify some important features of mathematical explanation and shed philosophical light on the success of category theory within mathematics. keywords: category cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526973f4w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526973f4w.txt item: #3953 of 4945 id: s7526973f9m author: Brian A. Page title: Scalability of Irregular Problems date: 2020 words: 196 flesch: 22 summary: While regular applications can be developed into highly optimized implementations such that they benefit from traditional architecture design, irregular problems often achieve a mere fraction of a systems computational power even when optimized. In this work we evaluate and analyze the performance of irregular problems on a range of modern architectures commonly used in high performance computing, as well as a novel migrating thread architecture. keywords: problems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526973f9m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526973f9m.txt item: #3954 of 4945 id: s7526973h5v author: Patrick Boyd title: Investigating Early Regulators of Injury and Regeneration in the Zebrafish Retina date: 2022 words: 356 flesch: 33 summary: Additionally, I demonstrate that iron contributes to retinal cell death, with chelation resulting in significantly less photoreceptor death during light treatment, and decreased Müller glia proliferation. Multiple iron homeostasis genes are differentially regulated within Müller glia prior to retinal cell death suggesting that iron might be a key regulator of retinal cell death and the Müller glia response. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526973h5v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526973h5v.txt item: #3955 of 4945 id: s7526973h66 author: Taylor Higgins title: Characterization, Estimation, and Realization of Human Intent for Exoskeleton-Assisted Walking date: 2022 words: 443 flesch: 32 summary: While this dissertation seeks to enable intent-informed control for the exoskeleton, the main contribution of this work is in expanding the fundamental understanding of physical HRI, including how to model HRI systems, how to analyze intent-related signals, and how to identify human intentions in real time. Existing strategies of modeling unassisted human gait have been useful for informing the control of bipedal robots in the past, but it is unclear how well these models characterize the salient features of exoskeleton-assisted gait. keywords: exoskeleton cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/s7526973h66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/s7526973h66.txt item: #3956 of 4945 id: sb397655n30 author: Joseph E. Lammersfeld title: Implementing Four-Dimensional Triangulations in CGAL date: 2011 words: 130 flesch: 33 summary: Computation of both basic triangulations of point sets and regular triangulations of weighted point sets using an incremental insertion algorithm is presented. The regular triangulation is the dual of the power diagram, which is the Voronoi diagram of weighted points under the power distance. keywords: triangulation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655n30.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655n30.txt item: #3957 of 4945 id: sb397655n4b author: William Anthony Pilcher title: High Strain Rate Testing of Bovine Trabecular Bone date: 2004 words: 288 flesch: 40 summary: Measurements of the dynamic deformation response of bovine trabecular bone with the marrow intact using a modified split-Hopkinson pressure bar apparatus are reported and compared to quasi-static deformation response results. If the failure occurs in the posterior portion of the vertebral body, spinal canal occlusion can occur and ejected trabecular bone can impact the spinal cord resulting in serious injury. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655n4b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655n4b.txt item: #3958 of 4945 id: sb397655n5p author: Carlos Mariano Lisoni title: Political Parties and Electoral Campaigns: Voter Mobilization Strategies in Argentine Provinces date: 2012 words: 295 flesch: 24 summary: This dissertation explores the particular mechanisms by which political parties attempt to win people's votes by embarking on specific electoral campaign strategies. This dissertation produces an argument in which the campaign strategies political parties use are influenced by, not only district factors such as socioeconomic development and electoral competitiveness, but also by party factors such as candidate nomination compromises and the dispersion of power within parties. keywords: dissertation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655n5p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655n5p.txt item: #3959 of 4945 id: sb397655n61 author: Jenica Abrudan title: A First Glance at the Phlebotomus papatasi Transcriptome and Genome and Pipeline for Validating Predicted G-Coupled Protein Receptors date: 2013 words: 831 flesch: 42 summary: The reservoir differs with different vector species. There are approximately 35 different sand fly species transmitting different species of Leishmania, the causative protozoa for leishmaniasis; a diasese with at least one non-human reservoir host. keywords: different; sand cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655n61.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655n61.txt item: #3960 of 4945 id: sb397655n8q author: Robert Anthony Perera title: Examining Simultaneous Power in Structural Equation Modeling date: 2013 words: 165 flesch: 43 summary: This project examined four ways for simultaneously testing structural coefficients in structural equation modeling in the special case of two exogenous latent variables. This expresses the need to explore ways to improve simultaneous power other than increasing sample size. keywords: power cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655n8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655n8q.txt item: #3961 of 4945 id: sb397655n92 author: Joel Kirk title: Potential Disturbance Interactions With a Single Igv in an F109 Turbofan Engine date: 2008 words: 331 flesch: 45 summary: The investigation included velocity measurements upstream of the fan, addition of an airfoil shaped probe upstream of the fan on which surface pressure measurements were acquired, and measurement of the velocity in the interaction region between the probe and the fan. This investigation sought to characterize the response on the upstream probe due to the fan potential field and the interaction between a viscous wake and the potential field; as such, all test conditions were for subsonic fan speeds. keywords: fan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655n92.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655n92.txt item: #3962 of 4945 id: sb397655p08 author: Leon Scott Downing title: The Hybrid Membrane Biofilm Process: A Novel System for Achieving Nitrogen Removal from Wastewater date: 2008 words: 926 flesch: 36 summary: A combination of experimental and modeling results were used to assess the impact of bulk liquid BOD concentration on nitrification in a MAB. Nitrification in the HMBP was sensitive to the bulk liquid BOD concentration, with BOD concentration as low as 0.5 g m-3 impacting nitrification rates. keywords: nitrification cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655p08.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655p08.txt item: #3963 of 4945 id: sb397655p1m author: Natalia Maria Imperatori-Lee title: The Use of Marian Imagery in Catholic Ecclesiology Since Vatican II date: 2008 words: 356 flesch: 34 summary: Her desire to return Mary to her proper place within the communion of saints, a symbol Johnson uses to describe the Church, forges a new direction in the link between mariology and ecclesiology. This is among the first significant attempts to link mariology and ecclesiology in the wake of Vatican II. keywords: church cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655p1m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655p1m.txt item: #3964 of 4945 id: sb397655p2z author: Edward J O'Neil title: Synthesis and Study of Membrane Active Compounds date: 2010 words: 166 flesch: 21 summary: Several types of conjugates were constructed including fluorescent versions suitable for microscopy, multivalent receptors designed for increased membrane affinity, and lipophilic derivatives. This dissertation describes the design, synthesis, and activity of molecules that interact specifically with vesicle or cellular membranes. keywords: synthesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655p2z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655p2z.txt item: #3965 of 4945 id: sb397655p39 author: Samuel Landon Sanchez title: The Intersection Of English Folk Song and Wind Band Composition of Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Percy Grainger date: 2011 words: 28 flesch: 45 summary: This paper explores the environmental factors that influenced Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Percy Grainger in their wind band compositions and their use of English Folk Song. keywords: song cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655p39.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655p39.txt item: #3966 of 4945 id: sb397655p6b author: Ewa Misiolek title: Efficient Algorithms for Simplifying Flow Networks date: 2003 words: 89 flesch: 64 summary: Computing maximum flow in a flow network is one of the important areas of research with many practical applications. In order to reduce the amount of work done by maximum flow algorithms, we want to detect and remove from the network all edges that have no impact on the maximum flow. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655p6b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655p6b.txt item: #3967 of 4945 id: sb397655p81 author: Andrew A Dreyfuss title: The Mean Curvature Flow of Polar Action Orbits date: 2009 words: 109 flesch: 51 summary: A polar action is noteworthy in this context because it admits complete submanifolds called sections that intersect each orbit orthogonally. The mean curvature vector of a polar orbit is tangent to this section, so the problem of solving for the flow of these orbits reduces to solving a system of ordinary dierential equations over a section. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655p81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655p81.txt item: #3968 of 4945 id: sb397655q8b author: Chen Qu title: Structural Dynamics of Weak Polyelectrolytes in Aqueous Solution date: 1904 words: 332 flesch: 37 summary: The effect of arm density and arm length on the conformations of polyelectrolyte stars was explored by fluorescence spectroscopy in aqueous solution. These groups dissociate in aqueous solutions (water), making the polymers charged. keywords: polyelectrolytes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655q8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655q8b.txt item: #3969 of 4945 id: sb397655v3v author: Thomson Guster title: The Clone Saga Omnibus, Volume 1 date: 1904 words: 45 flesch: 35 summary: THE CLONE SAGA OMNIBUS, VOLUME 1 presents a distorted literary adaptation of the oft-derided Marvel Comics Spider-Man storyline of the same name that explores the empty paranoia of identity, the portability of content across genres and platforms, and the limits of fan fiction. keywords: fiction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397655v3v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397655v3v.txt item: #3970 of 4945 id: sb397656c2f author: Cody Narciso title: Interrogating Three-Dimensional Structure and Response to Exogenous Stimuli in Multicellular Systems date: 1904 words: 319 flesch: 34 summary: Finally, the optical clearing strategies employed in Chapter 4 were modified to optically clear human blood clots and enable deep 3D imaging (Chapter 5). These advances include a detailed analysis of how cell geometries impact the propagation of intercellular calcium transients (Chapter 2). keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397656c2f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397656c2f.txt item: #3971 of 4945 id: sb397656c9v author: Robert E. McFadden title: A Tale of Ciceronian Christians: Spiritual Exercises and Friendship in the Cassiciacum Dialogues of St. Augustine date: 1904 words: 302 flesch: 43 summary: According to Pierre Hadot, ancient philosophers saw the Socratic Method as well as the oratio perpetua (continuous speech) as spiritual exercises, that is to say, exercises of reason (Philosophy as a Way of Life, 59).In the Tusculan Disputations, Cicero used these exercises as a means to become friends with Wisdom so that his fellow Romans could learn how to accept death and form philosophical friendships. Augustine adopted Cicero's Tusculans for his own purpose and utilized the Socratic Method and the oratio perpetua as spiritual exercises. keywords: augustine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397656c9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397656c9v.txt item: #3972 of 4945 id: sb397656h93 author: Reyes Ruiz Gonzalez title: Political Economy of Subnational Institutions: Essays on Subnational Institutional Framework, Public Policies and Their Impact on Economic Outcomes date: 2019 words: 461 flesch: 24 summary: The exposed framework, inspired by Mexican States, provides a setup such that it is optimal for a sovereign to acquire both off and on-balance-sheet liabilities, through banks and contractors. The essays are: 1.Don't Rush to Judgment: Justice Reform in Mexico and the Increase in Violence 2.Political Pension Contribution Cycles: Evidence from US States (co-authored) 3.The Adverse Consequences of Implicit Obligations: The Case of Mexican States Chapter 1 analyzes the short-term effects on violence of implementing the Justice Reform in Mexico at the municipal level. keywords: pension cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397656h93.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397656h93.txt item: #3973 of 4945 id: sb397656j7q author: Katherine R. Comeau title: The "Hinge" in Humanitarian Development: How Groups Affect the Work of NGOs in Cross-Cultural Settings date: 2019 words: 203 flesch: 35 summary: During these trips, groups from the United States travel to a foreign country and usually work on construction projects, provide orphan care, deliver medical services, or implement environmental improvement initiatives. My dissertation explains how group styles affect engagement with beneficiaries. keywords: group cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397656j7q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397656j7q.txt item: #3974 of 4945 id: sb397656k5b author: Anna M. McDermott title: Mechanical Regulation of Progenitor Cell Differentiation during Endochondral Ossification date: 2019 words: 314 flesch: 17 summary: This is the dominant pathway of bone formation in both long bone development and fracture healing and has emerged as an attractive tissue engineering template to address the lack of angiogenesis and poor engraftment seen in current intramembranous engineering approaches. Together these results suggest that mechanical loading is necessary to induce successful endochondral progression for bone tissue engineering. keywords: bone cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397656k5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397656k5b.txt item: #3975 of 4945 id: sb397656v5t author: Hongjie Li title: Bayesian Methods for Magnitude Estimation in Earthquake Early Warning Application date: 2023 words: 481 flesch: 10 summary: Results demonstrate the value of the formal implementation of Bayesian model updating for the calibration of predictive models for Earthquake Early Warning applications, as it accommodates a more comprehensive incorporation of the different sources of uncertainty/error impacting the development and implementation of these models. For developing robust predictive models, the resultant variability needs to be explicitly and formally considered in the model calibration stage. keywords: calibration cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sb397656v5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sb397656v5t.txt item: #3976 of 4945 id: sf268338x2q author: Nathan James Regola title: Flockfs: A Moderated Collaboration System for Weakly Connected Workgroups date: 2009 words: 362 flesch: 47 summary: Simultaneous modifications of the same file can either be addressed by requiring all other users to wait for updates to be completed or by using optimistic protocols that allow each user to independently operate on the various components of the project without cooperation with other group members. My prototype exhibits acceptable file system performance and update propagation latency. keywords: group cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf268338x2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf268338x2q.txt item: #3977 of 4945 id: sf268338x32 author: Baoyang Deng title: Bifurcations and Symmetries of Optimal Solutions for Distributed Robotic Systems date: 2011 words: 398 flesch: 33 summary: One goal of this thesis is to exploit symmetries in distributed control systems to reduce the computational effort to determine solutions for optimal control of such systems. The bifurcation parameter is the relative weight given to penalizing the deviation from the desired formation versus control effort. keywords: solutions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf268338x32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf268338x32.txt item: #3978 of 4945 id: sf268338x8s author: Steven Dale Foutch, Jr. title: The Pinnacle date: 2010 words: 182 flesch: 90 summary: My art is about story telling and myth building and the role that memory plays in these two things. I have found joy in both telling and listening to stories all of my life. keywords: story cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf268338x8s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf268338x8s.txt item: #3979 of 4945 id: sf268338z52 author: Micaela Anne Larkin title: Labor's Desert: Mexican Workers, Unions, and Entrepreneurial Conservatism in Arizona, 1917-1972 date: 2008 words: 282 flesch: 25 summary: This dissertation explores how struggles among labor unions, Mexican workers, and Sunbelt entrepreneurs shaped modern conservatism. Chronicling the business culture of Arizona in the twentieth century, I argue that an anti-labor ideology formed out of conflicts among entrepreneurs, labor unions, and Mexican workers before World War II, led to the politicization of many Arizona entrepreneurs, and the enshrinement in the local business culture and politics of an anti-labor ideology that contributed to the rise of modern conservatism. keywords: labor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf268338z52.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf268338z52.txt item: #3980 of 4945 id: sf268338z6d author: Matthew Joseph Breiding title: The Role of Observed Hostility and Observed Dominance as Mediators of Husbands' Gender Role Conflict and Outcomes for Wives date: 2003 words: 239 flesch: 44 summary: Each couple completed measures of gender role conflict, marital adjustment, and depressive symptomatology. Husbands who evidenced gender role conflict were more likely to engage in hostile behaviors during a marital interaction, and were also rated as being more critical in general. keywords: role cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf268338z6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf268338z6d.txt item: #3981 of 4945 id: sf268338z83 author: Amber Handy title: The Specula Principum in Northwestern Europe, A.D. 650-900: The Evolution of a New Ethical Rule date: 2011 words: 360 flesch: 37 summary: Also addressed is the Christian influence on these mostly traditional texts, as well as the changing nature of idealized masculinity revealed within the advice on leadership and personal behavior. Second, I demonstrate the interconnectivity of these regions by making a case for Irish influence on the Carolingian manuals, which most likely occurred when Irish missionaries and scholars brought ideas to the continent in the eighth and ninth centuries. keywords: irish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf268338z83.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf268338z83.txt item: #3982 of 4945 id: sf268339018 author: Sergio Bejar title: Party Systems, Information Flows,and Vote Buying in Latin America date: 2011 words: 177 flesch: 40 summary: In contrast to previous studies, my research not only explains how and why the nature of the party system influences the candidates' decision to engage in vote buying in some elections and not others, but also under what conditions voters are more likely to exchange votes for money. This dissertation takes a further step in the analysis of vote buying, exploring two fundamental questions on the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. keywords: vote cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf268339018.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf268339018.txt item: #3983 of 4945 id: sf26833914m author: Madan Lamichhane title: Development and Applications of Real-Space Electrostatic Interaction Methods for Charge-Multipoles in Condensed Phase Environments date: 1904 words: 337 flesch: 39 summary: The energies, forces, and torques calculated from the GSF method agree with the Ewald's result and produce excellent conservation of energy in MD simulations. Similarly, the GSF and TSF method are natural extensions of the original Damped Shifted Force (DSF) method developed. keywords: method cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf26833914m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf26833914m.txt item: #3984 of 4945 id: sf268339436 author: Peter Deak title: Inhibitors for Allergic Reactions to Peanuts and Drugs: Epitope Analysis, Molecule Design and Characterization date: 1904 words: 251 flesch: 38 summary: This dissertation describes the design, synthesis and characterization of a novel type of molecule for the inhibition of allergic reactions to food proteins and drug molecules. We characterized these molecules in chapter 3 by demonstrating their effectiveness in preventing allergic reactions to small molecule drugs. keywords: reactions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf268339436.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf268339436.txt item: #3985 of 4945 id: sf268339m9m author: Michael J. Lubben title: Ionic Liquids for Separation of Aromatics and Aliphatics: Extraction and Solvent Regeneration Using CO2 date: 1904 words: 308 flesch: 37 summary: Due to several drawbacks from the current industrial processes for this separation, ionic liquids (ILs) have drawn interest as potential solvents for this separation. In the production of aromatic compounds, it is necessary to separate aromatic products from aliphatic compounds. keywords: liquid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf268339m9m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf268339m9m.txt item: #3986 of 4945 id: sf268339n3v author: Christopher Eugene Shuck title: Microstructure-reactivity Relationship for Gasless High-energy Density Materials date: 1904 words: 363 flesch: 43 summary: The reactivity, including ig- nition and combustion parameters, for different RNCs was analyzed using high-speed infrared imaging. It was shown that this reaction proceeds solely due to solid state mechanisms. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf268339n3v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf268339n3v.txt item: #3987 of 4945 id: sf268339s95 author: Jacob J. Gerace title: Improving Molecular Simulation through Accessibility and Capability date: 2019 words: 298 flesch: 35 summary: Logistically, popular molecular simulation codes require users to develop their own complex multi-step workflow. MAPS provides a graphical user interface platform for users to conduct their entire simulation workflow cradle-to-grave, including visual system construction, force-field selection/application, simulation code selection. keywords: simulation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf268339s95.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf268339s95.txt item: #3988 of 4945 id: sf268339w00 author: Yenan Cao title: Characterization and Simulation of Near-Fault Ground Strains and Rotations, and Effects on Engineering Structures date: 2019 words: 433 flesch: 18 summary: Despite the growing interest in seismic ground strains and rotations within the seismological and engineering communities, the scarce number of direct measurements or indirect estimations of these motions in the near-fault region of strong earthquakes has hindered their thorough investigation. Finally, the contribution of synthetic low-frequency rocking components of ground motion to the seismic response of single-degree-of-freedom systems is investigated by generating coupled rocking and translational response spectra. keywords: fault cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf268339w00.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf268339w00.txt item: #3989 of 4945 id: sf26834005d author: Angela Silski-Devlin title: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Small-Molecule Self-Assembly date: 2020 words: 268 flesch: 35 summary: In addition, these findings may contribute to the fundamental understanding between molecular structure and supramolecular structure, a question of interest in the fields of crystal engineering and supramolecular chemistry. Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is used to investigate the self-assembly behavior of small organic molecules on metal surfaces at ultra-high vacuum conditions. keywords: molecules cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf26834005d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf26834005d.txt item: #3990 of 4945 id: sf268340282 author: Subhash Srinivas Pidaparthi title: Energy Dissipation in Molecular Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) Switching date: 2022 words: 358 flesch: 45 summary: This dissertation is a theoretical study of energy dissipation in molecular QCA cells during switching. We then introduce molecular reorganization energy to an open two-state system. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf268340282.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf268340282.txt item: #3991 of 4945 id: sf26834038c author: Steven Dabelow title: Cell Lineage Modeling of Stem and Progenitor Cells date: 2022 words: 637 flesch: 38 summary: Most adult organs retain a population of stem cells that can respond to changes in physiological conditions or injury by producing new cells to maintain tissue homeostasis or repair damage. Upon division, stem cells can produce stem cells or progenitor cells, i.e. cells that can then differentiate into more specialized cells. keywords: stem cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sf26834038c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sf26834038c.txt item: #3992 of 4945 id: sj13902265k author: Daniel James Bates title: Theory and Applications in Numerical Algebraic Geometry date: 2008 words: 176 flesch: 45 summary: The first algorithm is a way to increase precision as needed during homotopy continuation path tracking in order to decrease the computational cost of using high precision. The third method is a new way to approximate all solutions of a certain class of two-point boundary value problems based on homotopy continuation. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902265k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902265k.txt item: #3993 of 4945 id: sj13902266x author: Daniel Marcelo Brinks title: Legal Tolls and the Rule of Law: The Judicial Response to Police Killings in South America date: 2004 words: 289 flesch: 35 summary: Beginning with a heuristic model of the process of legal decision-making, and deriving implications for legal effectiveness from this model, the dissertation argues that disparate outcomes across cases are caused primarily by gaps in the supply of information to the legal system, compounded in certain systems by normative failures on the part of key decision-makers. The dissertation addresses such key themes as equality before the law, access to justice, judicial independence and legal reform. keywords: legal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902266x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902266x.txt item: #3994 of 4945 id: sj139022678 author: Jackson Stewart Zorn title: Your Vessel Sucks: The Inconvenience of Being Human date: 2012 words: 28 flesch: 68 summary: A Guide to Thesis Drawings of Jackson S. Zorn. Which is a visualization of the temptation to exist within the physical world, and the problems that this presents. keywords: guide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj139022678.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj139022678.txt item: #3995 of 4945 id: sj13902268m author: Kimberly Anne Wilson title: Conserved Functional Dynamics in the Cell Signaling Protein Pin1: Investigations by Bioinformatics and NMR date: 2013 words: 334 flesch: 37 summary: In the past few years, several functional site prediction methods have been introduced that aim to predict the biologically relevant amino acids in proteins based purely off of a multiple sequence alignment. Residues known to participate in conformational dynamics associated with substrate binding, as observed experimentally by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, are compared to those residues highlighted by the prediction methods. keywords: methods cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902268m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902268m.txt item: #3996 of 4945 id: sj139022705 author: Rory Carmichael title: Scaling Collaborative Bioinformatics date: 2013 words: 161 flesch: 27 summary: This document describes contributions to bioinformatics ranging from collaborative frameworks to the automation of common workflows to the development of novel algorithms. Next, we highlight several parallel workflow implementations developed to serve the needs of the University of Notre Dame's biologists. keywords: bioinformatics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj139022705.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj139022705.txt item: #3997 of 4945 id: sj13902271h author: Pablo Francisco Ros title: Rosana's Dream date: 2007 words: 11 flesch: 95 summary: A novel about the dream of catching up to the past. keywords: past cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902271h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902271h.txt item: #3998 of 4945 id: sj13902272v author: Stephanie Pocock Boeninger title: 'Submarine Roots:' The Drowned Body and Postcolonial Memory in Irish and Caribbean Literature date: 2011 words: 342 flesch: 46 summary: This dissertation argues that postcolonial Irish and Caribbean writers express their ambivalence towards memory in general and places of memory in particular in their representations of drowned bodies. Given the human desire to memorialize the dead, such bodies ought to become places of memory, at least for the families that mourn them. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902272v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902272v.txt item: #3999 of 4945 id: sj139022736 author: Matthew David Lynx title: An Investigation into 3'-Azido-3'-Deoxythymidine Toxicity: Inhibtion of Thymidine Phosphorylation date: 2008 words: 324 flesch: 50 summary: From this work, an alternative mechanism for AZT toxicity was proposed, wherein AZT's inhibition of thymidine phosphorylation leads to a depletion of the TTP pool, which causes mitochondrial DNA depletion. The toxicity of AZT is hypothesized to be due to AZT-5'-triphosphate (AZT-TP) inhibition of the mitochondrial DNA polymerase γ, leading to mitochondrial DNA depletion. keywords: azt cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj139022736.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj139022736.txt item: #4000 of 4945 id: sj13902274j author: Raymond Jensen title: Integral Boundary Invariants for Conformally Compact Einstein Manifolds and Generalizations date: 2010 words: 77 flesch: 47 summary: It is shown that the invariants under weakening to constant scalar curvature condition are different in general from those under Einstein condition. We then look at some cases of constant scalar curvature condition involving the measure of Chang, Gursky and Yang. keywords: condition cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902274j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902274j.txt item: #4001 of 4945 id: sj13902275w author: Hesham Abdel Ghafar Othman Bekhit title: Experimental Study of Absolute Instability over a Rotating Disk date: 2007 words: 286 flesch: 47 summary: Ensemble averages conditioned on the air pulses revealed wave packets that evolved in time and space. The lower amplitude produced wave packets with linear amplitude characteristics that agreed with linear-theory wall-normal eigenfunction distributions and spatial growth rates. keywords: wave cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902275w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902275w.txt item: #4002 of 4945 id: sj13902278x author: Kit Brandon Hoffman title: The 'Dark Side'' of Self-Esteem: Examining the Relation Between Overly-Positive Self-Perceptions and Aggressive Behavior in Adolescents date: 2003 words: 95 flesch: 29 summary: We examined both cross-sectional and longitudinal relations, and looked at both change in individual differences and individual differences in change. The current study examined the relation between aggressive behavior and self-perceptions in an adolescent population (grades 7-12). keywords: perceptions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902278x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902278x.txt item: #4003 of 4945 id: sj13902280g author: Susan Myers title: 'Come, Hidden Mother': Spirit Epicleses in the Acts of Thomas date: 2003 words: 346 flesch: 50 summary: The composite nature of the Acts of Thomas is emphasized, and it is suggested that the author of the unified second half of the work also edited the discrete tales that appear in the first half. Finally, the dissertation compares the epicleses in form and content with other prayers from the ancient world, and discusses their emphasis on a revelatory figure who is present in ritual action and who provides her adherents with a glimpse of an otherworldly reality. keywords: prayers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902280g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902280g.txt item: #4004 of 4945 id: sj13902281t author: Yan He title: The Effect of N-Type Doping on the Optical Spectra of Dilute Nitrides: Possible Applications date: 2011 words: 169 flesch: 25 summary: This dissertation investigates the effect of n-type doping on the optical spectra of the dilute nitride GaAsN alloy system. This model allows us to explain several debated issues, like the existence of quantum dots and the additional splitting of the photoreflection spectra, in a self-consistent way. keywords: dilute cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902281t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902281t.txt item: #4005 of 4945 id: sj13902283h author: J.T. Matta title: Exotic Nuclear Excitations: The Transverse Wobbling Mode in 135Pr date: 1904 words: 201 flesch: 42 summary: The theory of transverse wobbling was proposed to explain contradictions in the wobbling energy predicted by previous quasiparticle plus triaxial rotor calculations; this theory has been confirmed. In this model, the quasiparticle aligns with an axis perpendicular to the axis with maximal moment of inertia (in contrast to previous theories, which aligned the quasiparticle with the axis with maximum moment of inertia). keywords: wobbling cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902283h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902283h.txt item: #4006 of 4945 id: sj13902290s author: Luan T. Nguyen title: In-situ Studies of Catalysts for Understanding of Catalytic Reactions date: 1904 words: 275 flesch: 31 summary: Understanding of catalysis requires in-situ/operando studies of catalysts in their working condition. The results reveal a dynamic atomic packing at the step edge of the Pt(111) surface which suggests restructuring of step edges of metal catalysts under reaction conditions and during catalysis. keywords: catalysis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902290s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902290s.txt item: #4007 of 4945 id: sj139022x22 author: Joshua A. Mason title: SGK-1 as a Regulator of Metabolism and Survival of ECM-Detached Cells date: 1904 words: 348 flesch: 24 summary: Successful metastasis requires cancer cells to overcome both anoikis - caspase-dependent cell death triggered by extracellular matrix (ECM) detachment - and ECM-detachment-induced metabolic defects (namely loss of glucose uptake and ATP generation) that compromise cell survival. However, the precise signaling pathways utilized by cancer cells to overcome anoikis and promote ATP generation remain poorly understood. keywords: atp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj139022x22.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj139022x22.txt item: #4008 of 4945 id: sj139022z11 author: Luning Sun title: Numerical Simulation of Irregular Wave Run-Up on a Beach date: 1904 words: 313 flesch: 50 summary: Therefore, properly simulating this process is a supplement of in-situ field measurement and is of great importance for coastal structure design. The result shows that two dimensional run-up height is always higher than Stockdon's formula because two dimensional simulation doesn't consider directional spreading angle . keywords: run cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj139022z11.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj139022z11.txt item: #4009 of 4945 id: sj139023306 author: Michael T. Humbert title: Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Electrolyte Solutions for Next Generation Batteries date: 2019 words: 358 flesch: 31 summary: Adaptive biasing force was also used to calculate the free energy of association between lithium polysulfide in solution. The second half of this thesis looks at the molecular structures in electrolyte solutions for lithium sulfur-batteries. keywords: solution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj139023306.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj139023306.txt item: #4010 of 4945 id: sj13902386t author: Jason R. Devlin title: Structural and Biophysical Characterization of Cancer-Relevant T Cell Receptor–Peptide/MHC Interactions date: 2020 words: 168 flesch: 31 summary: The ability of T cells to recognize cancer establishes the basis for immunotherapies, which are approaches in which living immune cells infiltrate the tumor and kill tumor cells. T cells can also recognize tumor-associated or tumor-specific peptide/MHCs on cancer cells. keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902386t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902386t.txt item: #4011 of 4945 id: sj13902391d author: Galen H. Harden title: Improvements in Optical Spectroscopy: Rotationally Asymmetric Multipass Cells and Progress toward Optically Pumped Deep-UV Semiconductor Lasers date: 2020 words: 512 flesch: 44 summary: Optical detection methods are particularly useful because they are nondestructive, non-contact solutions, and can be used for standoff detection. In this work we present our work towards increasing the sensitivity of optical detection methods. keywords: optical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902391d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902391d.txt item: #4012 of 4945 id: sj13902392r author: Michael G. Yankoski III title: Building Peace in the Anthropocene: The Practical Wisdom of Hospitality amidst Climate Violence date: 2020 words: 330 flesch: 15 summary: In response to this question I argue that the tradition and practice of intentional hospitality toward the vulnerable other found within the larger Christian tradition is a practice that contains rich resources which may help empower communities that seek to welcome the vulnerable other in the context of anthropogenic climate change. Ultimately I argue that while the practice of intentional hospitality toward vulnerable others in the context of anthropogenic climate change is unlikely to be sufficient—that is to say, the needs are likely to far exceed the capacities of different communities to sustain the offer of hospitality—the practice of hospitality toward the vulnerable other is a vital practice that is worth engaging in pursuit of peace amidst the Anthropocene. keywords: hospitality cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj13902392r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj13902392r.txt item: #4013 of 4945 id: sj139023d62 author: Liao Chen title: Point-of-Need Pipette Droplet Microfluidics date: 2023 words: 739 flesch: 37 summary: The effective method takes advantage of the common pipette liquid handling process and simply by replacing the commercial round-orifice pipette tips with elliptical-orifice tips, uniform droplets could be generated via pipetting aqueous liquid into the oil phase. An open-source stepper-motor-based device is assembled and programmed to automatically pipette liquids into uniform droplets via the elliptical-orifice pipette tips. keywords: droplets; uniform cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sj139023d62.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sj139023d62.txt item: #4014 of 4945 id: sn009w05g44 author: Cara Cesario title: Syntheses of Carbocyclic Nucleosides and Relevant Biomolecules: Palladium(0)/Indium iodide-mediated Allylations and Ti(III)-promoted N-O Bond Reductions date: 2010 words: 278 flesch: 23 summary: The carbocyclic scaffolds are further functionalized to afford biologically significant molecules, including carbocyclic uracil polyoxin C analogs, carbocyclic aminonucleosides and (-)-epi-4'-carbocyclic puromycin. The synthesis of carbocyclic polyoxin C analogs is discussed in chapter four. keywords: carbocyclic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w05g44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w05g44.txt item: #4015 of 4945 id: sn009w05g5g author: Guillermo Montt title: Socioeconomic school composition effects on student outcomes date: 2012 words: 355 flesch: 15 summary: I find that the decomposition of socioeconomic composition effects is a useful way to understand the dynamics of composition effects: a student benefits from attending an advantaged school, but is simultaneously hurt by his lower relative status position. This dissertation analyses school socioeconomic composition effects by decomposing them into contagion and frog-pond effects and analyzes how the strength of these composition effects varies according to the way schools and school systems organize themselves by promoting cross-status relationships, differentiating opportunities to learn and providing information about students' possibilities of greater educational attainment. keywords: effects cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w05g5g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w05g5g.txt item: #4016 of 4945 id: sn009w05h02 author: Jin Xu title: Mining and Modeling the Open Source Software Community date: 2007 words: 677 flesch: 43 summary: A research study on how OSS developers interact with each other and how projects are developed will help researchers understand the success and failure of OSS projects. OSS developers can also benefit from this research, by being able to make more informed decisions for participating on OSS projects. keywords: oss cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w05h02.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w05h02.txt item: #4017 of 4945 id: sn009w05h7g author: Brandon Vaidyanathan title: Living in a Secular Age: Work, Lifestyle, and Religion in Bangalore and Dubai date: 2013 words: 353 flesch: 11 summary: Second, focusing on particular empirical cases of transnational capitalism and Roman Catholicism in Bangalore and Dubai, I argue that the overall relationship between religion and capitalism here is one of 'muted symbiosis': they predominantly enable one another, often inadvertently, despite providing mutual constraints. Specifically, I examine the relationship between 'mercenary professionalism' in the transnational corporate workplace, 'neoliberal consumerism' in the lifestyles of transnational professionals, and the 'Devoted' Christianity of religiously committed professionals. keywords: capitalism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w05h7g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w05h7g.txt item: #4018 of 4945 id: sn009w05h8t author: Benjamin Paul Bockstege title: The Motion-Based Gaming Peripheral Management (MBP-M) Framework for Robust and Accurate Program-Device Interaction date: 2014 words: 155 flesch: 33 summary: Explored in the thesis are examples of the use of gaming peripherals in non-gaming efforts and the core guiding principles, architecture, and data processing flow of the framework. When integrated inside a program, the framework controls all device and data handling, thereby allowing developers to focus entirely on the intended use of device data. keywords: framework cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w05h8t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w05h8t.txt item: #4019 of 4945 id: sn009w05j0c author: Patrick Murren title: Development and Implementation of a Design-Driven Harmony Search Algorithm in Steel Frame Optimization date: 2011 words: 149 flesch: 24 summary: Additionally, DDHS is implemented in optimizations in which frame sections and beam fixities are variable and the objective function considers the high cost of moment connections. When paired with standard harmony search in a two-phase method proposed herein, DDHS consistently identifies optimal designs for such connection topology optimizations. keywords: ddhs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w05j0c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w05j0c.txt item: #4020 of 4945 id: sn009w05j3d author: Kejia Wang title: MBE Growth and Characterization of Indium Nitride for Device Applications date: 2010 words: 283 flesch: 40 summary: The transport properties of InN have been studied using Hall effect measurements. A close correlation is found between the structural quality and the electron transport properties of InN. Magnetic field dependent Hall effect measurements were performed and a quantitative mobility spectrum analysis (QMSA) was used to extract the mobility spectrum for electrons in InN. With photoluminescence and absorption spectroscopy measurements, the optical band gap of InN was found to be ~ 0.67 eV. To study the conduction band offset between InN and GaN, n-n isotype InN/GaN heterojunction diodes were grown and fabricated. keywords: inn cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w05j3d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w05j3d.txt item: #4021 of 4945 id: sn009w05k6r author: Andrew Anil DeVries title: Feasibility of Sulfite-Based Autotrophic Denitrification in Wastewater Treatment date: 1904 words: 207 flesch: 29 summary: Past research has addressed the potential of elemental sulfur (S0) and reduced sulfur compounds such as thiosulfate (S2O32-) and sulfide (S2-) to serve as electron donors for denitrification in wastewater treatment systems. Autotrophic sulfur-based denitrification has gained significant interest in recent years as an alternative to conventional heterotrophic denitrification using expensive supplementary electron donors such as methanol. keywords: electron cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w05k6r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w05k6r.txt item: #4022 of 4945 id: sn009w06925 author: Suzanne M. Neidhart title: Exploration of Interfacial Thermal Conductance of Gold Nanoparticles Using Molecular Dynamics date: 2019 words: 388 flesch: 48 summary: The interfacial thermal conductance of various particle morphologies, as well as the thermal conductivity of nanoarrays, display trends of how heat transport is affected by particle size, shape, and volume fraction of a system. I examine the effect of particle size, ligand layer rigidity, and surface gold vibrational freedom. keywords: particle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w06925.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w06925.txt item: #4023 of 4945 id: sn009w06c96 author: Haylie L. Lobeck title: Transformation of Uranyl Phases to Nanoscale Cage Clusters and Hydrothermal Behavior of Uranyl Peroxide Nanoclusters date: 2019 words: 359 flesch: 45 summary: Uranyl phosphate solids in contact with solutions in which uranyl peroxide cage clusters formed dissolved extensively or completely. Uranyl peroxides formed under many of the experimental conditions examined including solid studtite and soluble uranyl peroxide cage clusters containing as many as 28 uranyl ions. keywords: uranyl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w06c96.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w06c96.txt item: #4024 of 4945 id: sn009w06d0d author: Alison Deatsch title: Subcellular Nanoparticle Size Distributions from Light Transmission Spectroscopy date: 2019 words: 340 flesch: 44 summary: Power law behavior, where , was observed in the PSD of both cell types, with average power law exponents of 3.04 ± 0.06 for normal human oral cells, 2.84 ± 0.06 for cancer human oral cells, and 2.96 ± 0.08 for spinach cells. A description of the physical and organizational properties of the cytoplasm can be realized from measurements of the particle size distribution (PSD), or the number density (N) of objects as a function of particle size (D). keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w06d0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w06d0d.txt item: #4025 of 4945 id: sn009w06d85 author: Minju Kwon title: Blacklisted Rebels: Commitment to Child Rights in Armed Conflict date: 2019 words: 341 flesch: 26 summary: The sequence of rebel groups' commitment to UN action plans is divided into four phases: violating child rights, listing violators, signing UN action plans, and complying with UN action plans. First, I argue that rebel groups consider their legitimacy in the eyes of domestic and international audiences throughout the phases of violating child rights, as well as signing and complying with UN action plans. keywords: groups cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w06d85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w06d85.txt item: #4026 of 4945 id: sn009w06m2z author: Dominique Aurilla Vargas title: Decolonial Continental Consciousness: Coalition and Performance in Multi-Ethnic Women's Literature after NAFTA date: 2021 words: 242 flesch: 34 summary: This project theorizes nonrepresentational and nonverbal discourses, in the form of gestures, embodied cartography, and rituals, which provide a basis for new forms of realism and continental coalition. Applying performance studies to prose and poetry by Claudia Hernández, Rosario Sanmiguel, Ana Maurine Lara, Achy Obejas, Dahlma Llanos Figueroa, Toni Morrison, Karen Tei Yamashita, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ana Castillo, Janet Campbell Hale, Jeannette Armstrong, and Calixta Gabriel Xiquín, I find embodied responses that constitute a framework for understanding emergent forms of realism and continental coalition. keywords: continental cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w06m2z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w06m2z.txt item: #4027 of 4945 id: sn009w06n0k author: Andrew D. Hoyt title: Sensemaking and Organizational Change at a Locally Elite High School date: 2022 words: 204 flesch: 6 summary: The locally elite independent school is defined as an ideal type, and its legitimating idea and organizational form create the conditions for the appropriation of resources by organizational actors and also for overlapping identities that blur the boundaries between work and personal roles, especially in the boarding school setting. Comparing the predictions of market and institutional theories for reform initiatives, this dissertation finds that a school leader crafts a legitimacy project using both selective isomorphism and market elements, but also that actors in the institutional environment add legitimacy to new reforms while demand-side forces from organizational stakeholders constrain innovation. keywords: organizational cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w06n0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w06n0k.txt item: #4028 of 4945 id: sn009w06p6z author: Gabriel Bravo-Palacios title: Engineering Mechanical Intelligence in Legged Robots date: 2023 words: 682 flesch: 29 summary: Moreover, often to alleviate the computational complexity, the consideration of isolated scenarios (i.e., tasks and environments) at design time ignores the uncertainty that legged robots need to face to operate in the real world. This dissertation aims to contribute toward the design of legged robots embodied with mechanical intelligence via the concurrent design (co-design) of their mechanical and control systems. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sn009w06p6z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sn009w06p6z.txt item: #4029 of 4945 id: sq87br88r7p author: Timothy Paul Ruggaber title: Detection and Control of Combined Sewer Overflows Using a Distributed Wireless Embedded Network and the In Situ Treatment of Wastewater Using Enzymatic Processes and Hydrogen Peroxide date: 2010 words: 151 flesch: 46 summary: This thesis examined two possible means to reduce the impact of combined sewer overflow events: to use a novel, inexpensive, distributed, decentralized, real-time network of wireless nodes called CSONet to maximize upgradient storage potential during wet weather and to create an in situ treatment method that could treat the stored wastewater to below wastewater treatment plant standards. A combination of enzymes and hydrogen peroxide was examined as a possible in situ treatment system. keywords: treatment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88r7p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88r7p.txt item: #4030 of 4945 id: sq87br88r9c author: Bryan Christopher Pilkington title: The Problem of Human Dignity date: 2012 words: 350 flesch: 57 summary: Though difficult to solve, the problem of human dignity is relatively easy to articulate: What is dignity and why should we take it seriously? A look at the debate over dignity illustrates that many critics are guilty of a lack of care in analyzing the concept and in assessing different accounts of dignity, and of, what is more egregious, failing to notice a central tension within the concept between its meritorious and egalitarian elements. keywords: dignity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88r9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88r9c.txt item: #4031 of 4945 id: sq87br88s0k author: Ruiwen Zhen title: Enhanced Raw Image Capture and Deblurring date: 2013 words: 186 flesch: 51 summary: Experiments demonstrate that the accelerometer-based deblurring algorithm on raw image data can generate improved results. However, the effectiveness of these algorithms has been limited by lack of access to unprocessed raw image data obtained directly from the image sensor. keywords: image cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88s0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88s0k.txt item: #4032 of 4945 id: sq87br88s28 author: Moushumi Hossain title: Molecular Description of How MART-1 Specific T-Cell Receptors Recognize Structurally Diverse Melanoma Antigens date: 2013 words: 155 flesch: 35 summary: The MART-1/HLA-A2 antigens - the nonamer, AAGIGILTV (AAG) and the decamer, EAAGIGILTV (EAA) - differ only by one amino acid, yet adopt strikingly different conformations when bound, therefore making this system ideal to study cross reactivity. T cell cross-reactivity is important for initiation of immune responses against pathogens and tumors. keywords: cross cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88s28.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88s28.txt item: #4033 of 4945 id: sq87br88s3m author: Janay C Cody title: Mistaking Conservatives for Racists and Racists for Conservatives: Threat and the Intertwining of Racial Resentment and Ideology date: 2015 words: 297 flesch: 23 summary: I argue that the anxiety produced by the threat of racially egalitarian changes in the status quo conditions the relationship between conservatism and racial resentment, ultimately increasing opposition to racial policies. I demonstrate that while political ideology, particularly conservatism, powerfully influences racial attitudes, the liberal-conservative distinctions in racial resentment evaporate under a perceived racial threat, making liberals who perceive such threats indistinguishable from conservatives. keywords: racial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88s3m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88s3m.txt item: #4034 of 4945 id: sq87br88s4z author: Barrett Kai-Bong Duan title: Studies of Metal/Gallium Nitride Gas Sensors: Sensing Response, Morphology and Sensing Applications date: 2012 words: 501 flesch: 42 summary: The potential utility of high surface area porous GaN was realized by decorating the confined nanopores with metal (Pt), thus increasing the surface area available for sensing and lowering the LOD. In discontinuous Pt films, increasing Pt surface area also increases the CO signal when the Pt/GaN interfacial area remains constant. keywords: gan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88s4z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88s4z.txt item: #4035 of 4945 id: sq87br88s59 author: Shyamkumar Thoziyoor title: A comprehensive memory modeling tool for design and analysis of future memory hierarchies date: 2008 words: 396 flesch: 63 summary: CACTI-D also supports the modeling of main memory DRAM chips. In this study we use CACTI-D to model all components of the memory hierarchy including L1, L2, last level SRAM, LP-DRAM or COMM-DRAM based L3 caches, and main memory DRAM chips. keywords: cacti cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88s59.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88s59.txt item: #4036 of 4945 id: sq87br88s70 author: Celestine Chukumba title: University License Agreements, Faculty Disclosures, Start-Ups, Entrepreneurship, Financial Market Conditions and Technology Transfer date: 2011 words: 484 flesch: 35 summary: This paper examines the factors contributing to university royalties and equity universities receive from commercializing technology to private industry. In Article 1, we examine the commercialization of university inventions in licensing to both start-up firms and established firms, and seek to determine when licensing to start-ups is more likely. keywords: university cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88s70.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88s70.txt item: #4037 of 4945 id: sq87br88t0w author: Matthew C. Halteman title: The Problem of Transcendence in Heidegger and Derrida date: 2003 words: 352 flesch: 38 summary: Chapter one motivates the project in view of the contentious standing of the problem in continental philosophy as it is characterized in the competing narratives advanced by Richard Rorty, John Caputo, and Rodolphe Gasch . This dissertation seeks to clarify the import of the transcendence problem in Heidegger and Derrida. keywords: problem cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88t0w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88t0w.txt item: #4038 of 4945 id: sq87br88t2k author: Stacey S. Tiberio title: Stochastic and Deterministic Differential Equation Modeling: The Accuracy of Recovering Dynamic Model Parameters of Change date: 2005 words: 185 flesch: 28 summary: In addition, the major advantages of utilizing continuous time differential equation models will be illustrated, and the classification criteria of such models will be discussed. Results are summarized in terms of practical implications and general guidelines for employing these two types of continuous time differential equation modeling techniques. keywords: differential cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88t2k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88t2k.txt item: #4039 of 4945 id: sq87br88t3x author: Christine Lynn Monteleon title: Investigating ARF6 Depletion in Glandular Organization and Matrix Remodeling date: 2011 words: 350 flesch: 19 summary: Tissue development and maintenance rely upon choreographed cell signaling, dynamic cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, and a precise interplay between the matrix and the cells to promote intercellular organization, differentiation, and cell survival. Cellular depletion of ARF6 expression results in the formation of inverted glandular units, although individual cell polarity remains unperturbed. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88t3x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88t3x.txt item: #4040 of 4945 id: sq87br88t79 author: Hongsheng Lu title: Improving the Scalability Performance of Dedicated Short Range Communications date: 1904 words: 194 flesch: 30 summary: These messages, without regulation, may saturate the channel, leading to significant packet loss and reduced message throughput. We leveraged adaptation of several control parameters including transmission power, message rate of a DSRC device to prevent channel from being saturated. keywords: dsrc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88t79.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88t79.txt item: #4041 of 4945 id: sq87br88v2w author: Alexander Diaz-Lopez title: Root Systems of Reflection Systems, and W-Graphs over Non-Commutative Algebras date: 1904 words: 146 flesch: 52 summary: We study two objects commonly associated to Coxeter systems: root systems and Hecke algebras. Finally, we show how this construction is a special example of a more general framework: D-graphs over non-commutative algebras. keywords: algebras cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88v2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88v2w.txt item: #4042 of 4945 id: sq87br88z66 author: Matteo Bianchetti title: Infinite Time Computation: Strong and Weak Infinite Time Turing Machines date: 1904 words: 103 flesch: 49 summary: Hamkins and Lewis have used infinite time Turing machines to extend the operations of Turing machines to infinite ordinal time. This project investigates some applications of these machines to basic operations and relations over the reals. keywords: machines cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br88z66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br88z66.txt item: #4043 of 4945 id: sq87br89g2r author: Jennifer Arceo title: Metabolomic Analysis of Complex Biological Samples via Capillary Zone Electrophoresis – Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry and MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry date: 1904 words: 156 flesch: 28 summary: In this work, I present the development of CZE-ESI-MS and MALDI-TOFMS methods to investigate the spatial and temporal alterations in metabolism in complex biological samples: breast cancer models and during key stages during early embryonic development. Imaging mass spectrometry allows us to gain the understanding of dynamic changes occurring spatially within specific cellular populations within a tissue which is lost in traditional platforms. keywords: metabolome cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br89g2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br89g2r.txt item: #4044 of 4945 id: sq87br89h3d author: Lin Yang title: New Deep Learning Based Approaches for Biomedical Image Segmentation and Related Problems date: 1904 words: 227 flesch: 23 summary: While biomedical image segmentation is in close relation to natural scene image segmentation, general deep learning methods for natural scene images may not work well on biomedical applications because of two unique properties of biomedical images. First, biomedical images can be true 3D volumetric images, which post significant challenges on computational approaches and computation resources, while most natural scene images are 2D images. keywords: biomedical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br89h3d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br89h3d.txt item: #4045 of 4945 id: sq87br89p5n author: Annunziata Pirro title: Dynamics of Waves and Currents in the Bay of Bengal during Summer Monsoons date: 2019 words: 174 flesch: 31 summary: The results suggest that variability and dynamics of ocean currents may have implication on the atmosphere, which in turn affect monsoon variability over the BoB. To this end, in-situ data collected during the ASIRI and MISO-BoB field campaigns by research vessels in 2015 and 2018, respectively, are used along with satellite products, laboratory experiments, model outputs and theoretical arguments Considering that monsoons are a strongly coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon, a better understanding of the upper ocean dynamics and air-sea interactions is needed for improving monsoons forecasting skills. keywords: ocean cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br89p5n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br89p5n.txt item: #4046 of 4945 id: sq87br89p91 author: James Cotton title: Destruction: A Renaissance Ideal from Spenser to Dryden date: 2019 words: 165 flesch: 43 summary: Through the metaphor of destruction, poets addressed the problem of social change, attacked opposing ideas, or held up an instructive mirror of warning for England. When they portrayed destruction as tragic, they likened it to a hostile attack on human life with the loss of unrecoverable beauty or cultural heritage. keywords: destruction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br89p91.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br89p91.txt item: #4047 of 4945 id: sq87br89v0g author: Michael A. Hartman title: Engineering Evaluation of Nearshore Bathymetric Change Using Remotely Sensed Data date: 2020 words: 450 flesch: 37 summary: In the third study, hydrographic surveys are used to develop an improved metric of navigation channel availability that considers channel navigability, instead of by the shallowest observed depth in the channel. The case studies illustrated the ability of this automated vessel routing algorithm to contribute to an objective assessment of navigation channel availability that more closely aligns with real-world observations. keywords: depth cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br89v0g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br89v0g.txt item: #4048 of 4945 id: sq87br89w6v author: Meghanne Tighe title: Development of Low-Cost Methods for Rapidly Measuring Environmental Contaminants date: 2021 words: 485 flesch: 43 summary: While the detrimental health effects of lead poisoning have been known for many decades, progress in identifying and remediating the sources of lead has been slow. Even though the major sources of lead in the environment and human exposure routes are fully understood, the current way to identify lead in the environment is to simply wait until a child exhibits symptoms of lead poisoning. keywords: lead cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br89w6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br89w6v.txt item: #4049 of 4945 id: sq87br89w76 author: Luis Alfredo Morales title: Study of the 20Ne (α, γ)24Mg Reaction in Inverse Kinematics with the St. George Recoil Separator date: 2021 words: 121 flesch: 59 summary: The reaction rate of 20Ne (α, γ)24Mg is important in advanced burning stages in massive stars such as carbon, neon and silicon burning. The St. George recoil mass separator at the University of Notre Dame has been used to study the 20Ne (α, γ)24Mg reaction. keywords: 20ne cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br89w76.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br89w76.txt item: #4050 of 4945 id: sq87br89z23 author: Vijay Kumar Naidu Velagala title: Mechanisms of Crosstalk and Signal Integration of Calcium Signaling in Epithelial Tissues date: 2023 words: 1423 flesch: 24 summary: A key motivation for this work is the long-term goal of inferring cell/tissue/organ states from dynamic measurements of a few 'hubs' within cell signaling networks that can capture a large percentage of the whole information processing network within cell systems. Epithelial tissues transduce key biochemical signals into specific cellular responses through second messenger dynamics such as calcium. keywords: signaling; study cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sq87br89z23.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sq87br89z23.txt item: #4051 of 4945 id: st74cn7217h author: Dirk Van Bruggen title: Studying the Impact of Security Awareness Efforts on User Behavior date: 2014 words: 228 flesch: 29 summary: First, a survey study is conducted which measures perceptions surrounding security threats and safeguards. These correlations point to the importance of considering individual motivations and perceptions surrounding security threats and safeguards. keywords: security cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/st74cn7217h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/st74cn7217h.txt item: #4052 of 4945 id: st74cn72223 author: Deborah Thomas title: Strategies for improving recognition performance from video using multiple frames date: 2010 words: 241 flesch: 64 summary: We exploit the fact that there are many such frames available in a few seconds of video data. We also survey the current approaches used for recognition in video including published techniques for addressing problems such as pose and illumination variations. keywords: video cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/st74cn72223.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/st74cn72223.txt item: #4053 of 4945 id: st74cn7229h author: Huadong Sam Chen title: Error Analysis of Camera-Space Manipulation date: 2007 words: 280 flesch: 28 summary: Eventually we can implement verified principles and effective measures into practice, and (ideally) realize robustly any desired level of end precision of a CSM system. There are several factors that can mitigate the effect of the three major error sources and ensure sufficient precision, factors such as 'preplan-trajectory' design (parameter initialization), robot end-tool cue configuration, and cue-data-weighting scheme. keywords: precision cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/st74cn7229h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/st74cn7229h.txt item: #4054 of 4945 id: st74cn7230q author: Kyle Bruce Wheeler title: Exploiting Locality with Qthreads for Portable Parallel Performance date: 2009 words: 242 flesch: 33 summary: Portable abstractions are needed that provide basic lightweight thread control, synchronization primitives, and topology information to enable scalable application development on the full range of shared memory parallel system designs. This thesis discusses the implementation of scalable software for massively parallel computers based on locality-aware lightweight threads and lightweight synchronization. keywords: parallel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/st74cn7230q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/st74cn7230q.txt item: #4055 of 4945 id: st74cn7232d author: Cora Fernandez Anderson title: The Impact of Social Movements on State Policy: Human Rights and Women Movements In Argentina, Chile And Uruguay date: 2011 words: 289 flesch: 46 summary: In addition, the social movement needs political allies in power for the issues to move forward: for bills, once introduced, to be debated and passed in Congress, for government programs to be implemented, and for institutions to be created that address the movements' demands. Non-bread-and-butter issues such as those espoused by the social movements studied here are not considered a priority by public opinion in developing countries, and thus have a hard time reaching the political agenda if no movement mobilizes behind them. keywords: movement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/st74cn7232d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/st74cn7232d.txt item: #4056 of 4945 id: st74cn7248s author: Cole Carnesecca title: Fate of the Gods: State Formation, Secularization and the Emergence of Religious Modernities in China and Japan date: 1904 words: 236 flesch: 22 summary: During the process of state formation, states must contend with the symbolic and institutional power of religious organizations and traditions. Out of this process, a variety of approaches toward religion's role in public life can take shape based on the extent to which religion's symbolic and ideological resources are both adopted by new states and able to penetrate the revolutionary process. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/st74cn7248s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/st74cn7248s.txt item: #4057 of 4945 id: st74cn72r3n author: Taehyun Ahn title: Happiness in Aristotle: Individual, Friends, and the City date: 1904 words: 344 flesch: 48 summary: Presumably, could it be because happiness, whether it be theoretical or ethical, involves practical pursuit and because practical virtue somehow enables the achievement of happiness? Given that happiness is the state of completion, we may think of two other points about happiness: one is that there should be some capacity to coordinate different goods in happiness and organize them into a structured whole, which will be shown to be the role of practical virtue; the other point is that happiness would be something that develops over time and in stages, which accords with Aristotle's idea that one should be educated in order to be happy. keywords: happiness cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/st74cn72r3n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/st74cn72r3n.txt item: #4058 of 4945 id: st74cn7346c author: Jinyang Li title: Compound Semiconductor Oxidation for Single-Mode High-Index-Contrast Ridge Waveguide and Quantum Cascade Lasers date: 2021 words: 434 flesch: 33 summary: Through extensive optimization of lithography, etching and OEWTO processes, single mode HIC RWG diode lasers are demonstrated for the first time. Notably, a circularly symmetric output beam HIC RWG laser is achieved for the first time, overcoming the traditional asymmetric, highly elliptical beam divergence limitation of edge-emitting lasers and well surpassing the ~2 mW maximum power of current symmetric single mode vertical cavity surface emitting lasers. keywords: mode cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/st74cn7346c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/st74cn7346c.txt item: #4059 of 4945 id: st74cn73540 author: Taylor Ball title: Various Special Fiber Ring Problems date: 2021 words: 266 flesch: 67 summary: Consider a rational map from projective d-1 space to projective m-1 space given by m many degree δ forms, g_1,...,g_m, in d variables. We then use this to give previously unknown bounds on the number of cusps for fixed splitting types. keywords: case cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/st74cn73540.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/st74cn73540.txt item: #4060 of 4945 id: st74cn7365n author: Zachary M. Miksis title: Sparse-Grid Implementation of Fixed-Point Fast Sweeping WENO Schemes for Eikonal Equations date: 2022 words: 274 flesch: 39 summary: As other types of fast sweeping schemes, fixed-point fast sweeping methods use the Gauss-Seidel iterations and alternating sweeping strategy to cover characteristics of hyperbolic PDEs in a certain direction simultaneously in each sweeping order. Moreover, an advantage of fixed-point fast sweeping methods over other types of fast sweeping methods is that they are explicit and do not involve inverse operation of any nonlinear local system. keywords: sweeping cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/st74cn7365n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/st74cn7365n.txt item: #4061 of 4945 id: st74cn7371k author: Abigail M. Staysa title: Aristotle on Pleasure and Prudence in the Nicomachean Ethics date: 2022 words: 331 flesch: 39 summary: This project strives to understand the significance of pleasure and pain in Aristotle's presentation of moral virtue and prudence in his Nicomachean Ethics. The central question of my analysis pertains to the manner in which pleasure and pain operate in moral virtue and how this is essential for the operation of prudence, the intellectual virtue that pertains to the legislative art and political science. keywords: pain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/st74cn7371k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/st74cn7371k.txt item: #4062 of 4945 id: st74cn7372x author: Jake P. Leporte title: Control and Dataflow in 28 nm CMOS for a FeFET-Based Compute-in-Memory Tensor Algebra Accelerator date: 2022 words: 173 flesch: 37 summary: This design includes a circuit for per-ADC asynchronous capture and forwarding of CIM outputs, a re-configurable adder tree taking advantage of the naturally ternary FeFET array weights, a memory system which uses banking and shift-registers to interface at high-bandwidth to the CIM array, and an abstracted programming interface suitable for further exploration of accelerator-algorithm co-design. This thesis proposes that a simple custom digital control system and a banked-memory-based dataflow and be effectively combined with a CIM array to exploit the unique architectural advantages offered by CIM. keywords: cim cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/st74cn7372x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/st74cn7372x.txt item: #4063 of 4945 id: sx61dj55998 author: Katherine Elizabeth Wilbanks title: Phase behavior of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the ionic liquid 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide date: 2010 words: 125 flesch: 42 summary: Noticeable enhancement was seen at pressures greater than 30 bar and was quantified by calculating enhancement factors and showing ternary diagrams. Measurements were carried out at equilibrium pressures from 18.7 to 72.5 bar and feed compositions of 25, 35, and 50 mole percent oxygen with the balance being carbon dioxide. keywords: dioxide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55998.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55998.txt item: #4064 of 4945 id: sx61dj55b0g author: Guangyue Han title: Space Time Coding with Multiple Antenna Systems date: 2004 words: 316 flesch: 37 summary: This dissertation analyzes and designs suitable signal constellations for such systems. In this dissertation we derive general upper bounds on the diversity sum and the diversity product for unitary constellations of any dimension and any size using packing techniques on a compact Lie group. keywords: diversity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55b0g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55b0g.txt item: #4065 of 4945 id: sx61dj55b1t author: Cameron Wade Harvey title: Collective Movement in Myxobacteria: Modeling and Experiments with Myxococcus xanthus date: 2013 words: 210 flesch: 30 summary: How cells coordinate movement is fundamental to many important areas of study from development biology where cells must form patterns and differentiate with precise timing to topics like infectious diseases where bacterial cells can colonize surfaces and infect tissue. A remarkable example of how patterns of movement and organization in populations of bacterial cells emerge from individual level interactions is seen with Myxobacteria. keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55b1t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55b1t.txt item: #4066 of 4945 id: sx61dj55b25 author: Sachidananda Krishnamurthy title: Graphene Based Assemblies: Electron Transfer Processes and Energy Conversion Applications date: 2014 words: 613 flesch: 33 summary: In the following chapters the electron transfer from photoirradiated semiconductors (ZnO and TiO2) nanoparticles to GO sheets suspended in ethanol is studied. Furthermore emission quenching of colloidal CdSe QDs was found to be dependent upon the extent of GO reduction. keywords: graphene; rgo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55b25.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55b25.txt item: #4067 of 4945 id: sx61dj55b4v author: Laura K. Taylor title: Does Violence Beget Violence? Factors Moderating Trajectories of Youth Aggression in a Context of Political Conflict date: 2013 words: 241 flesch: 16 summary: A common assumption is that a violent environment produces violent youth; this project interrogated this assertion in two ways examining if exposure to intergroup antisocial behavior increases youth aggression, and in turn, if changes in general youth aggression are related to participation in intergroup conflict. Regarding the continuation of intergroup conflict, being female and having a more cohesive family negatively predicted youth participation in sectarian acts, whereas the trajectory of general aggression (i.e., intercepts and linear slopes) predicted significantly more youth engagement in out-group antisocial behavior. keywords: aggression cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55b4v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55b4v.txt item: #4068 of 4945 id: sx61dj55b56 author: Dustin Gregory Coleman title: Towards a Low-Order Dynamic Stall Model using a Parametric Proper Orthogonal Decomposition date: 2015 words: 351 flesch: 37 summary: Measured unsteady surface pressures, which are a function of both space and time, of a harmonically pitching airfoil are expressed in terms of a parametric proper orthogonal decomposition (PPOD) in order to obtain an optimum (in the mean-square sense) modal representation. In each model, the parameter-independent modal shapes are determined from unsteady surface pressures of an arbitrarily chosen reference airfoil geometry operating over a large range of pitching trajectories. keywords: unsteady cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55b56.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55b56.txt item: #4069 of 4945 id: sx61dj55b6j author: Aranda R. Slabbekoorn Duan title: The Study of the Interactions of Tau with Microtubules date: 2012 words: 536 flesch: 39 summary: Tau has been widely studied both in its normal interactions with MTs and in its formation of Tau filaments that lead to hallmark disease-related aggregation. Recent studies have shown support for the formation of Tau oligomers on the MT surface, which would explain why traditional techniques have produced inconsistent reports on the Tau–MT binding affinity. keywords: tau cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55b6j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55b6j.txt item: #4070 of 4945 id: sx61dj55b7w author: Joseph Robert Teller title: Members of His Body: Christ's Passion and Community in Early Modern English Poetry, 1595-1646 date: 2010 words: 331 flesch: 12 summary: In examining the Passion as a set of discursive strategies visible in a variety of texts across confessional lines, this study challenges traditional scholarly accounts of devotional poetry in Renaissance England, accounts which typically isolate Catholic and Protestant writers from one another and which privilege theological or confessional identities over shared representational strategies. This dissertation studies representations of the most significant event of Christian history--the Passion of Christ--in English devotional poetry in the post-Reformation period. keywords: passion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55b7w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55b7w.txt item: #4071 of 4945 id: sx61dj55b87 author: Vilma C. Balmaceda title: The Human Rights Ombudsman in the Central Andes date: 2010 words: 328 flesch: 28 summary: This dissertation's most important theoretical contribution to the field of comparative politics and to Latin American politics is that formal institutional arrangements did not explain the significant degrees of variance in effectiveness and in behavioral independence of ombudsman chief officers. Instead of simply assuming the independence of ombudsman head officers based on the autonomy formally accorded to them in their respective constitutions and laws, this study analyzes and measures the actual behavioral independence demonstrated by the individuals that have served as ombudsman chief officers since the creation of the agency in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. keywords: ombudsman cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55b87.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55b87.txt item: #4072 of 4945 id: sx61dj55b9k author: Elena V Malofeeva title: A Meta-Analysis of Mathematics Instruction with Young Children date: 2007 words: 181 flesch: 42 summary: In addition, interventions including controlling task difficulty, additional explanations provided about taught concepts, sequencing activities, and small group games showed larger effect sizes than interventions not including these techniques. Weighted regression analyses indicated that such variables as the year of publication, sample size, whether a study was published or not, length of treatment, age, type of the control group, type of design, type of population employed, and percentage of attrition did not predict effect size estimates. keywords: size cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55b9k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55b9k.txt item: #4073 of 4945 id: sx61dj55c2g author: Eric Hill Matlis title: Controlled Experiments on Instabilities and Transition to Turbulence on a Sharp Cone at Mach 3.5 date: 2003 words: 223 flesch: 44 summary: An experiment was conducted which was aimed at documenting the linear and nonlinear development of pairs of oblique waves over a 7-degree half-angle cone in the Mach 3.5 'quiet' tunnel at NASA Langley Research Center. Azimuthal measurements showed these two modes to have azimuthal amplitude variations which were consistent with helicalmode pairs. keywords: azimuthal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55c2g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55c2g.txt item: #4074 of 4945 id: sx61dj55c45 author: Asako Melody Yamamuro title: Relationships Between Benthic Organic Matter and Invertebrates in Sand Substrates of Northern Michigan Streams date: 2005 words: 147 flesch: 36 summary: Relationships between benthic organic matter (BOM) and macroinvertebrates have been well studied in streams with coarse substrates, but such relationships have been little studied in sand habitats, despite the abundance of sand in many streams. BOM content of sand habitats likely represents one factor, among many components of this dynamic habitat, which shapes overall macroinvertebrate communities. keywords: sand cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55c45.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55c45.txt item: #4075 of 4945 id: sx61dj55c5h author: Seth Brian Oelbaum title: fat girl [elizabethan sonnets] date: 2012 words: 49 flesch: 66 summary: fat girl [elizabethan sonnets] is a composed entirely of elizabethan sonnets. The subject matter derives from numerous Holocaust, Nazi, and World War II books. keywords: elizabethan cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55c5h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55c5h.txt item: #4076 of 4945 id: sx61dj55j0b author: Trevor Kane title: Examination of a New Virulence Factor in a Select Strain of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus date: 1904 words: 475 flesch: 42 summary: In this dissertation, we examine the emergence of a streptolysin S like gene cluster (sag) gene cluster that has appeared in a select strain of MRSA. We generated an isogenic mutant in which one of the genes responsible for the biosynthesis of the putative SLS-like toxin was inactivated (JKD::ΔsagB) in order to more precisely determine the role of the presence of this gene cluster in the MRSA JKD6159 strain. keywords: gene cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj55j0b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj55j0b.txt item: #4077 of 4945 id: sx61dj5618q author: Jennifer Zupkosky title: Analyzing ARF6 and Non-Exosomal Extracellular Vesicles in the Context of Macrophages Infected with M. tuberculosis date: 1904 words: 435 flesch: 27 summary: The objective of this project centers around two major aims: 1) characterizing the role of ARF6 in host signaling and phagosome-lysosome fusion in macrophages upon M.tb infection and 2) characterizing both composition and function of microvesicles after infection. Our findings suggest that exosomes released from M.tb infected macrophages are more enriched in mycobacterial proteins than observed with microvesicles released from the infected cells. keywords: m.tb cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj5618q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj5618q.txt item: #4078 of 4945 id: sx61dj56777 author: Melissa R. Hoffbauer title: The Synthesis and Reactivity of [PC(sp2)P] Complexes of Iron and Palladium date: 2019 words: 280 flesch: 27 summary: In particular, the development of ligand systems capable of participating in metal ligand cooperativity (MLC) has become a popular area of research in the organometallic community. Credited for their tunability, tridentate, chelating pincer ligands are well-known for their ability to participate in MLC-type reactivity on a variety of different metal centers. keywords: reactivity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj56777.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj56777.txt item: #4079 of 4945 id: sx61dj5681g author: Thomas A. Zirkle title: A Parallel Single-Electron Box Array Scanning Probe date: 2019 words: 215 flesch: 43 summary: The two most common scanning CPD methods to date are electrostatic force microscopy (EFM) and Kelvin force probe microscopy (KFPM). These two methods, however, require relatively large potentials between the tip and the sample (1-3 V for KFPM). keywords: kfpm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj5681g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj5681g.txt item: #4080 of 4945 id: sx61dj56d7s author: Shelby Brantley title: A Molecular Dynamics View of Counterionic Effects on Structural Dynamics date: 2020 words: 535 flesch: 36 summary: Fluoroethylene carbonate is studied in this thesis by adding 5% by volume to a 1:1:1 mass ratio mixture of dimethyl carbonate, diethyl carbonate, and ethylene carbonate and simulating the mixture with fluoroethylene carbonate, the mixture without fluoroethylene carbonate, and a pure fluoroethylene carbonate solution. The addition of fluoroethylene carbonate also alters the structural orientation of ethylene carbonate in the mixture, which could cause the change in the overall solution behavior. keywords: carbonate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj56d7s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj56d7s.txt item: #4081 of 4945 id: sx61dj56g2p author: Spencer D. Golze title: A Hybrid Nanofabrication Route for the Synthesis of Highly Ordered Large-Area Arrays of Planar and Chiral Nanostructures date: 2022 words: 526 flesch: 20 summary: This process is demonstrated through the synthesis of large-area arrays of Au structures on sapphire substrates using plasmon-mediated liquid-phase syntheses to grow hexagonal and triangular nanoplates on the substrate surface, as well as chiral nanostructures exhibiting a spiral geometry. While impressive, these methods are limited by the homogeneity of the colloid, exhibit a reliance on electron beam lithography, and are challenged in providing consistent alignment for asymmetric structures. keywords: structures cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj56g2p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj56g2p.txt item: #4082 of 4945 id: sx61dj56g31 author: Kaden Ivy title: Closet Drama, Literary Form, and Politics in Early America date: 2022 words: 365 flesch: 45 summary: Questions such as these about closet drama have been explored by scholars in the contexts of early modern and Romantic England, and this dissertation seeks to explore them in the context of early America. It argues for a traceable archive of the genre in early America and proposes that we can conceive of authors' turning to closet drama at various times (and to various effects) in early American cultural history, demonstrating its effectiveness at exploring topics of immediate political concern. keywords: drama cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj56g31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj56g31.txt item: #4083 of 4945 id: sx61dj56h3b author: Tyler S. Moore title: Legal Interpretation's Disputed Terrain date: 2022 words: 329 flesch: 42 summary: This dissertation is structured around three recurring questions about legal interpretation. But these scholars disagree about law's purpose, and their answers help explain the divide between prevailing schools of legal interpretation. keywords: interpretation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj56h3b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj56h3b.txt item: #4084 of 4945 id: sx61dj56h9d author: Abigail Jorgensen title: Epistemologies of Motherhood: Investigations of Political Behavior, Visual Productive Methods, and Anticipatory Identity date: 2023 words: 376 flesch: 28 summary: Building on the sociological literature conceptualizing anticipatory motherhood as a social category, I argue for its existence and impact as many women's shared and lived reality as well. In the third chapter, I theorize a category of motherhood that exists beyond current understandings of women as mother and non-mother: anticipatory mother. keywords: motherhood cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj56h9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj56h9d.txt item: #4085 of 4945 id: sx61dj56j0m author: Ashley N Burk title: Friends Unlike Me: Affective Political Polarization, Hidden Heterophily, and the Work of Negotiating Boundary Conflict date: 2023 words: 124 flesch: 33 summary: Participants' reflection on their relationships in these interviews showed difficulty in reconciling their identities, group memberships, and existing relationships with those they disagree with politically. As result, they retained the relationships as weaker ties. keywords: relationships cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/sx61dj56j0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/sx61dj56j0m.txt item: #4086 of 4945 id: t148ff38k89 author: Claire Michelle Brown title: Supererogation for a Virtue Ethicist date: 2011 words: 326 flesch: 29 summary: The contemporary discussion of supererogation and how it fits within particular moral theories is strikingly thin when it comes to the question of whether or how virtue ethics can make room for supererogation. Indeed, whereas the debates about how utilitarianism and Kantianism ought approach the supererogatory are well-developed, although by no means exhaustive, to date there is but one article-length treatment of the topic of virtue ethics and supererogation. keywords: supererogation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff38k89.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff38k89.txt item: #4087 of 4945 id: t148ff38k9n author: Robert Daniel Gustin title: Kant's Argument for the Transcendental Ideality of Time date: 2015 words: 210 flesch: 49 summary: This dissertation presents a unified account of Kant's argument for the transcendental ideality of time as put forward in the Transcendental Aesthetic and the First Antinomy of the Critique of Pure Reason. Kant's transcendental ideality thesis for both space and time is that time and space are not fundamentally real entities but rather forms of intuition by which we are able to experience the world. keywords: ideality cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff38k9n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff38k9n.txt item: #4088 of 4945 id: t148ff38m47 author: Guanjun Zhang title: Robust Scalable Video Compression Using Multiple Description Coding date: 2008 words: 493 flesch: 43 summary: Network video, such as digital video broadcasting, streaming, or surveillance, involve various networks and diverse clients. In the effort to increase robustness of multiple description video streams, a modified multiple state video coding scheme is introduced for better error concealment results. keywords: video cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff38m47.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff38m47.txt item: #4089 of 4945 id: t148ff38n1h author: Lindsey Alison Esbensen title: The Centrality of Jesus Christ for Moral Theology: A Critical Appraisal of the Distinctively Religious-Moral Theology of Bernard H?ring date: 2008 words: 312 flesch: 33 summary: For H?ring, Christian moral formation and development requires ongoing conversion to the life of Jesus Christ. The call-and-response model serves as the recurring motif throughout H?ring's work that underscores the significance of Jesus Christ for moral theology, because Jesus Christ is the invitation of God and, at the same time, the response of humanity to God's offer of grace. keywords: christian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff38n1h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff38n1h.txt item: #4090 of 4945 id: t148ff38n2v author: Christopher Dennis Middendorff title: Multi-Biometric Approaches to Ear Biometrics and Soft Biometrics date: 2009 words: 192 flesch: 52 summary: We perform recognition using soft biometric features extracted from video. We find that using clothing color and height yield modest performance results that can be extended on their own or applied to other biometric systems. keywords: recognition cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff38n2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff38n2v.txt item: #4091 of 4945 id: t148ff38n7k author: Gergana T Ugrinova title: Characterization of a novel microtubule binding protein CLIPR76 date: 2007 words: 369 flesch: 29 summary: In recent years, extensive research to identify molecules that interact with membrane organelles and microtubules has led to the discovery of an array of non-motor microtubule associated proteins, which serve to connect motors with their cognate cargoes. These results imply a role for CLIPR76 proteins in membrane transport and ER microtubules interactions. keywords: proteins cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff38n7k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff38n7k.txt item: #4092 of 4945 id: t148ff38p0g author: Yvonne S. Mikuljan title: Lichama and Limu: Approaches to Impairment in Anglo-Saxon England date: 2015 words: 271 flesch: 13 summary: Drawing on modern disability theories, the chapters of this dissertation examine the material evidence, religious discourses, and literary representations of impairment and disability in order to highlight the dominant cultural perceptions concerning impairment and the treatment of people with impairment and disabilities. These prejudiced views of the past appear in modern histories of disability and have perpetuated the popular assumptions that illnesses and impairments were believed to be the result of sin or supernatural forces and that people with disabilities were marginalized, abused, and oppressed by the their societies. keywords: disability cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff38p0g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff38p0g.txt item: #4093 of 4945 id: t148ff38q0s author: Laura Bland title: Unfriendly Skies: Science, Superstition, and the Great Comet of 1680 date: 1904 words: 302 flesch: 37 summary: After an introduction, four thematic chapters explore responses to the comets of the 1680s in England, Spain, North America, and Spanish America respectively. Chapter Five elaborates on the Catholic background established for Spain by showing how broad religious trends intersected with local circumstances of patronage and norms of argument in shaping the debate in Spanish America. keywords: comets cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff38q0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff38q0s.txt item: #4094 of 4945 id: t148ff38s9h author: Laura Woods title: Design and Synthesis of Novel Cancer Therapeutics date: 1904 words: 599 flesch: 41 summary: There are six essential hallmarks of cancer that are targeted by current therapies to overcome the progression and metastasis of cancer cells. One such strategy to overcome these limitations that has been implemented involves targeting multiple sites within cancer cells. keywords: cancer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff38s9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff38s9h.txt item: #4095 of 4945 id: t148ff39b9r author: Scott Martin Hanson title: Cold Hardiness of Aedes Albopictus Eggs date: 1904 words: 64 flesch: 44 summary: Eggs of temperate strains are more cold hardy than those of tropical strains. Cold acclimation and diapause enhance cold hardiness of only temperate strains. keywords: cold cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff39b9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff39b9r.txt item: #4096 of 4945 id: t148ff39h4k author: Sudip Vhaduri title: Reliable Discovery of Places of Importance and Behavioral Patterns from Mobile Crowdsensed Datasets date: 2019 words: 371 flesch: 25 summary: However, instead of geographic locations, it is often more important to determine a locale that is relevant to the user, e.g., the place of work, home, homes of family and friends, social gathering places, etc. This work proposes a novel segmentation approach that opportunistically fills gaps in a user's location trace by either borrowing location data from other co-located users utilizing the power of mobile crowd sensing and computing (MCSC) paradigm or by utilizing a user's personal data obtained from multiple sensor sources and devices such as the battery recharge behavior (measured on smartphones), step counts, and sleep patterns (measured by wearables). keywords: user cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff39h4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff39h4k.txt item: #4097 of 4945 id: t148ff39p44 author: Dylan S. Belton title: The Sojourning Animal: An Anthropology of Detachment and Attunement date: 2020 words: 208 flesch: 36 summary: This dissertation develops a constructive and interdisciplinary reformulation of the classical Christian account of the human as a sojourner in this world for whom being at home in the world is a complex task. I offer what I call a biological-metaphysical account of habitus as the means by which the human comes to inhabit or be at home in both its body and its correlate umwelt or lifeworld. keywords: human cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff39p44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff39p44.txt item: #4098 of 4945 id: t148ff39q2r author: Karlie E. Cox title: Using Small Molecule Adjuvants to Combat Bacterial Resistance Mechanisms date: 2021 words: 400 flesch: 30 summary: To explore this concept, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Natural Product Library Set IV was screened for adjuvant activity using four classes of antibiotics (β-lactams, aminoglycosides, macrolides, and polymyxins) against three bacterial pathogens (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Acinetobacter baumannii, and Klebsiella pneumoniae). One such approach, is the identification of antibiotic adjuvants that re-sensitize resistant bacteria to an antibiotic, broaden the spectrum of an antibiotic, or decrease the needed antibiotic dose, while possessing limited or no antimicrobial activity itself. keywords: antibiotic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff39q2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff39q2r.txt item: #4099 of 4945 id: t148ff39r7s author: Jake McGinnis title: Disturbance Ecologies: Antebellum U.S. Travel Writing and Environmental Thinking date: 2022 words: 274 flesch: 20 summary: This dissertation examines American literary travel writing published from 1835-1862, a period during which changing environmental and social conditions began to reshape traditional narrative forms. While the modern tourism industry began to emerge, ushering in a proliferation of travel writing in books, periodicals, and guidebooks, some authors considered the more disturbing or unsettling elements of travel, experimenting with digressions, fragmentation, shifts in genre, and surprising breaks in readers' expectations in order to depict and to enact a disturbance to one's more established sense of the world. keywords: writing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t148ff39r7s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t148ff39r7s.txt item: #4100 of 4945 id: t435gb21w1r author: Amber Marie Grundy title: Change in Maternal Knowledge Over the Transition to Adolescence date: 2007 words: 268 flesch: 39 summary: The present paper examined multiple ways to measure change in maternal knowledge over the transition to adolescence. To summarize, the present study identified multiple patterns of change in maternal knowledge, indicating that our sample had underlying population heterogeneity. keywords: knowledge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21w1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21w1r.txt item: #4101 of 4945 id: t435gb21w23 author: Maria-Elena D. Diaz title: Hawaiian Men and Income Attainment: A Human Capital Analysis date: 2005 words: 136 flesch: 19 summary: Using 1990 U.S. Census Five Percent Public Use Microsample data for Hawaii and California, I examine the income attainment process for understudied Hawaiian men compared to white, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and African American men, using a human capital model with multivariate analysis. Possible theoretical explanations for income attainment are explored, including assimilation, cultural and structural theories, internal colonialism, and discrimination. keywords: income cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21w23.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21w23.txt item: #4102 of 4945 id: t435gb21w3f author: Megan Elise Komorowski title: This is why we can't have nice things date: 2013 words: 9 flesch: 37 summary: Poetry collection about childhood occurrences in a domestic space. keywords: poetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21w3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21w3f.txt item: #4103 of 4945 id: t435gb21w4s author: Clare Brogan title: The Leuktra Tropaion: A Case Study in Ancient Greek Victory Monuments date: 2014 words: 36 flesch: 43 summary: This is a an analysis of the political, cultural, and art historical precedents set by the Thebans in their construction of a permanent victory trophy after their victory over the Spartans at Leuktra in 371 B.C. keywords: victory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21w4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21w4s.txt item: #4104 of 4945 id: t435gb21w6g author: Dorrell McCalman title: Simulation of Aqueous Phase NOx Reduction Over Pd Catalysts date: 2013 words: 343 flesch: 33 summary: One implication of this work is that there might be some ratio of nitric oxide: hydrogen binding energy which will allow high nitric oxide coverage for desired selectivity as well as sufficient hydrogen adsorption for reaction. Nitrous oxide is most likely formed by reaction of NH with nitric oxide followed by water assisted deprotonation. keywords: oxide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21w6g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21w6g.txt item: #4105 of 4945 id: t435gb21w7t author: Thomas David Scheiding title: Paying to Publish: Using the Author Charge to Fund the Scholarly Journal date: 2006 words: 325 flesch: 28 summary: Chapter one outlines the elements of the economics of science and the economics of scholarly communication research agendas and the methodological changes both have endured over the past fifty years. These three chapters argue that paying for the scholarly communication process is more than just an economics problem and outline a framework for a revised economics of scholarly communication research agenda. keywords: communication cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21w7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21w7t.txt item: #4106 of 4945 id: t435gb21w85 author: Kathleen Nanette Bergman title: Disentangling Patterns of Influence: Marital Conflict and Adolescent Adjustment date: 2013 words: 226 flesch: 19 summary: The characteristics of destructive marital conflict were examined to probe the nature of destructive conflict between couples; of particular interest in this regard was the concept of active and passive types of conflict. In addition, the present study moved beyond the traditional focus on internalizing and externalizing behavior problems to also examine the impact of exposure to destructive marital conflict on adolescents? keywords: conflict cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21w85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21w85.txt item: #4107 of 4945 id: t435gb21w9h author: Deborah Kirubai Thomas title: Face recognition from surveillance-quality video date: 2010 words: 156 flesch: 46 summary: We show that we can exploit temporal continuity of video data to improve the reliability of the matching scores across probe frames. We conduct a study that compares face recognition performance using two different types of probe data and acquiring data in two different conditions. keywords: video cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21w9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21w9h.txt item: #4108 of 4945 id: t435gb21x0q author: Xochitl Bada title: Sociopolitical Remittances, Rural Development, and Mexican Migrant Hometown Associations: The Shifting Nature of Transnational and Trans-Local Connections in the Chicago-Michoacan Corridor date: 2010 words: 354 flesch: 16 summary: Using archival research, in depth interviews with key players, and participant observation, this work demonstrates that new patterns of binational civic participation in sending and receiving societies have made a modest contribution to more democratic and accountable socio-political environments in high expulsion regions in rural Mexico. In terms of organizational capacity, the evidence suggests that Michoacano migrant organizations in the United States are transplanted adaptations of rural village organizing systems, and not necessarily the result of an increased exposure to American democratic and philanthropic values during the adaptation process to the host society. keywords: htas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21x0q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21x0q.txt item: #4109 of 4945 id: t435gb21x12 author: William David Haynes title: Reliable Asymmetric Phase Stabilty Computations using Interval Analysis date: 2005 words: 418 flesch: 35 summary: The calculation of phase equilibrium is a fundamental and reoccurring problem in modeling of chemical engineering phenomena. That is, phase stability analysis serves as a global optimality test in solving the global optimization problem that determines phase equilibrium at constant temperature and pressure. keywords: phase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21x12.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21x12.txt item: #4110 of 4945 id: t435gb21x43 author: Deqiang Chen title: Diversity and Spectral Efficiency in Wireless Relay Networks date: 2007 words: 514 flesch: 39 summary: In this dissertation, we propose efficient relaying protocols for two types of wireless networks, ie, networks with one destination, one relay and multiple sources, and networks with one destination, one source and multiple relays. Motivated by the increasing demand for higher data rate, broader coverage, and lower infrastructure cost in wireless systems, a major effort is being made to study the use of relay stations in wireless networks. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21x43.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21x43.txt item: #4111 of 4945 id: t435gb21x5f author: Nathan Allen Konopinski title: meeting the computation demands for data driven biology at vectorbase date: 2011 words: 154 flesch: 53 summary: Along with providing genomic data to users, the site also makes available several sequence analysis tools. Great detail was put into improving the way users interact with this tool to provide a more efficient, intuitive, and beneficial experience for its users. keywords: site cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21x5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21x5f.txt item: #4112 of 4945 id: t435gb21x6s author: Thomas Francis Clarke title: Rare Codon Clusters: Enrichment, Functional Effects, Non-Random Localization and Conservation date: 2009 words: 220 flesch: 54 summary: Rare codon clusters can impede ribosome translation of the rare codon sequence and are not distributed randomly throughout genes: rare codons are enriched at the 5' and 3' termini of genes from E. coli and other prokaryotes. Furthermore, rare codon clusters can be conserved across multiple homologues, indicating additional selective pressures govern the use of synonymous codons, and specifically that local pauses in translation can be beneficial for protein biogenesis. keywords: rare cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21x6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21x6s.txt item: #4113 of 4945 id: t435gb21x74 author: Steve Douglas Owen title: The Chalk Tree: A Novella and Stories date: 2013 words: 6 flesch: 87 summary: No abstract needed for MFA thesis. keywords: thesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb21x74.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb21x74.txt item: #4114 of 4945 id: t435gb2231w author: Yuanxing Wang title: Cation Exchange Reactions for Varieties of Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Nanomaterials date: 1904 words: 291 flesch: 47 summary: Then, we elucidate the use of cation exchange to modify layered 2D SnS2 NSs to non-layered Cu2SnS3 NSs. Our work provides potential values for fundamental microscopic insights for photocatalysts in H2 generation field. keywords: nss cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb2231w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb2231w.txt item: #4115 of 4945 id: t435gb22k6z author: Pietro Bocchia title: Religion, Politics, and Art: Pier Paolo Pasolini and 1968 date: 1904 words: 331 flesch: 28 summary: By providing some of the sources through which Pasolini became acquainted with the American political and cultural situation, I demonstrate how Pasolini regarded certain American political realities as revolutionary, including the student movement SNCC (Social Non-violent Coordinating Committee). In keeping with his religious views, Pasolini saw the religiosità of some members of the SNCC, as well as their idea of anti-community––understood as the locus of authentic and real exchange between individuals of different races and education levels––as conducive to authentic democracy. keywords: pasolini cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb22k6z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb22k6z.txt item: #4116 of 4945 id: t435gb22r6h author: Corinne Dorais title: Enhanced Analytical Capabilities for Nuclear Forensic Applications date: 2019 words: 331 flesch: 25 summary: The work presented in this dissertation aims to contribute to the efficacy of nuclear forensic science by developing reference materials that allow for rapid analytical techniques to be implemented in nuclear forensic investigations. This synthesis can be tailored to be representative of a variety of urban and rural environments, making it a versatile method for nuclear forensic science. keywords: nuclear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb22r6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb22r6h.txt item: #4117 of 4945 id: t435gb22z3b author: Martin Imre title: GPU-Accelerated Summarization and Reconstruction Techniques for Big Data Analysis and Visualization date: 2020 words: 537 flesch: 47 summary: In this dissertation, I describe several ways to summarize and reconstruct time-varying multivariate, vector field data, and graph data. In this dissertation, I focus on data analysis using isosurface rendering, a commonly used volume visualization technique. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb22z3b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb22z3b.txt item: #4118 of 4945 id: t435gb2303x author: Wenzhao Li title: Numerical Studies of Vortex Dynamics in Superconductivity date: 2021 words: 336 flesch: 34 summary: The behavior of vortex matter is critical to the applications of superconductivity and the effective control of Abrikosov vortices can lead to higher dissipation-free current carrying capacity (critical current). Furthermore, with the large scale computing methods, we show that the system stability depends on the container symmetry, container size and vortex number. keywords: vortex cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb2303x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb2303x.txt item: #4119 of 4945 id: t435gb23079 author: Joshua Boggs title: Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Considering Matthew Shepard date: 2021 words: 162 flesch: 31 summary: These and other related social themes are demonstrated in Considering Matthew Shepard, a modern oratorio influenced by the Passion form. If Considering Matthew Shepard highlights the tension between viewpoints surrounding these difficult topics, its overwhelming conclusion is one of love, acceptance, unity, and the humanity in all of us. keywords: gender cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb23079.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb23079.txt item: #4120 of 4945 id: t435gb2315x author: Giorgi Piriashvili title: The Effects of Government Policies on Market Structure in the Presence of Dynamic and Imperfect Competition date: 2022 words: 360 flesch: 51 summary: However, when market concentration is low such a shift has the opposite effect. When market concentration is low, short-run transitory dynamics from the shift is associated with a fall in market concentration and rise in consumer surplus at a cost of large subsidies. keywords: market cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb2315x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb2315x.txt item: #4121 of 4945 id: t435gb2332h author: Cedric W. Williams title: Chemo-Thermo-Mechanical Modeling of Heterogeneous Reactive Materials date: 2023 words: 192 flesch: 28 summary: However, these efforts are often limited by issues with thermodynamic consistency, the inherent nonlinearity of the relevant fields of interest (chemical species, temperature, deformation, etc.), and complex physical coupling between said fields. To this end, this dissertation develops a chemo-thermal-mechanical model that considers phase transition phenomena, heat generation due to chemical reactions and mechanical deformations, and finite strain elasto-plastic behavior. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t435gb2332h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t435gb2332h.txt item: #4122 of 4945 id: t722h70550r author: Robert Portada title: The Dissident Cross: The Catholic Church and Political Confrontation in Cuba date: 2011 words: 278 flesch: 21 summary: I build a new paradigm for comparing confrontational church strategies by articulating new definitions and offering a theory about what conditions and factors lead to the adoption of certain confrontational strategies. Placing the Cuban Church in comparative analysis with the national churches of Brazil, Chile, Nicaragua, Poland, and Venezuela, I argue that a combination of regime type, institutional church reforms, and the world-historical time period during which the church began its contentious activities have a direct influence on the church's choice of confrontational strategy. keywords: church cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h70550r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h70550r.txt item: #4123 of 4945 id: t722h705513 author: Callan Maire Driscoll title: The Characterization of the Influence of Cations on the Surface Motility of P. aeruginosa and the Utilization of Novel Imaging Techniques. date: 2015 words: 420 flesch: 34 summary: The influence of these cations upon TFP motility at the community level as determined using standard twitch and chemotactic twitch assays was unclear, suggesting that the effect of cations on TFP motility are complicated and dependent upon multiple factors. Low levels of calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, or sodium stimulated an increase in P. aeruginosa TFP surface motility at the single cell level. keywords: tfp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h705513.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h705513.txt item: #4124 of 4945 id: t722h70556t author: Hao Zhou title: Synchronization in OFDM Systems date: 2008 words: 396 flesch: 34 summary: This dissertation addresses one of the critical issues in the development and implementation of OFDM systems, namely, synchronization. It is shown that the CFO estimation can benefit from receiver diversity gain under the setting of MIMO systems. keywords: ofdm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h70556t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h70556t.txt item: #4125 of 4945 id: t722h70564f author: Wenjie Chen title: Defects in Emerging III-V Materials for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications date: 2013 words: 462 flesch: 45 summary: For the InGaAs/GaAsSb MQW photodiodes, several device structures, including lattice-matched MQWs, conventional layer-by-layer strain-compensated MQWs, and a strained MQW, were evaluated. Deep level traps in two emerging classes of devices, InGaAs/GaAsSb multiple quantum well (MQW) photodiodes for mid-IR detection and GaAs-based MOSFETs using InAlP native oxide and Al2O3 as gate dielectrics for microwave-frequency circuit applications, are studied using several characterization techniques, with an eye towards using this information in order to further improve device performance. keywords: device cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h70564f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h70564f.txt item: #4126 of 4945 id: t722h705695 author: Lica Abu-Esba title: Studies of Multivalent Probes as Bacterial Imaging Fluorophores and Agglutination Agents date: 2009 words: 193 flesch: 47 summary: Selectivity to the bacteria and cross linking was observed even when treating bacteria in the presence of mammalian cells. Firstly, binding assays with planktonic bacteria show this probe to selectively bind cells best during the log phase of the cell cycle, with up to 99% binding efficiency. keywords: bacteria cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h705695.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h705695.txt item: #4127 of 4945 id: t722h705722 author: M. Windy McNerney title: No Stressing About Memory: An Investigation of Allopregnanolone and Nitric Oxide Effects on Long-Term Potentiation date: 1904 words: 151 flesch: 30 summary: The second experiment used fluorescence microscopy to create a temporal analysis of nitric oxide synthesis in response to high-frequency stimulation and found that the concentration of nitric oxide increased at two separate time periods following the induction of long-term potentiation. Future research should utilize the methods created in this study to further increase the knowledge of long-term potentiation, as well as determine the mechanisms behind abnormal nitric oxide levels found in various neurological diseases. keywords: term cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h705722.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h705722.txt item: #4128 of 4945 id: t722h70577s author: Benjamin J. Clifford title: Genomic and Regulatory Divergence between Sister Species of Daphnia date: 1904 words: 240 flesch: 41 summary: What follows in this text are an introductory chapter, three data chapters, and a conclusion, concerning the diversity and divergence among North American Daphnia pulex and Daphnia pulicaria. In this doctoral thesis, I overview the empirical and theoretical consequences of evolution by drift and/or natural selection, as it acts upon lineages during ecological speciation. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h70577s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h70577s.txt item: #4129 of 4945 id: t722h70582c author: Emily A. Ransom title: Redeeming Complaint in Tudor and Stuart Devotional Lyric date: 1904 words: 403 flesch: 31 summary: This dissertation explores an emerging fascination with devotional complaints in Tudor and Stuart poetry, written in the voice of the Preacher from Ecclesiastes, Peter, Christ, the Virgin Mary, and Mary Magdalene. Secondly, the dynamism of the complaint is not reducible to a secular-religious binary, and the widespread use of devotional complaint across confessions and continents indicates that it was a surprisingly cosmopolitan poetic voice. keywords: complaint cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h70582c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h70582c.txt item: #4130 of 4945 id: t722h705w1m author: Laura E Grieneisen title: Social, Environmental, and Genetic Predictors of Microbiome Composition in Wild Baboons date: 1904 words: 350 flesch: 26 summary: I found that baboon gut microbiomes were strongly predicted by host environments at multiple scales, including both social and abiotic environmental conditions. Over short time scales, social groups harbored distinctive gut microbiota, and immigrant males acquired the local microbiome when they joined a new group. keywords: gut cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h705w1m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h705w1m.txt item: #4131 of 4945 id: t722h705w39 author: Matthew J. Chandler title: Civil Resistance and the Processes of Contentious Politics in Egypt, 2010-2015 date: 1904 words: 176 flesch: 35 summary: Therefore, this dissertation shifts the analytical perspective to the processes of contentious political transitions in which civil resistance campaigns are embedded. It finds that civil resistance in Egypt operated through multiple mechanisms that interacted dynamically over time and were sensitive to changes in the wider structure of political relations. keywords: campaigns cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h705w39.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h705w39.txt item: #4132 of 4945 id: t722h706176 author: Angela M. Kurth title: A Micro-Level Examination of Infant Regulation Predicts Behavior Regulation in Early Childhood date: 2019 words: 152 flesch: 38 summary: Results showed that micro-level emotion regulation during the reunion segment was predictive of behavior regulation at age four. The current study examined both emotion and behavior regulation within the context of the parent-child relationship. keywords: regulation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h706176.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h706176.txt item: #4133 of 4945 id: t722h70618j author: Michael Lee Wood title: Three Essays in Culture and Cognition date: 2019 words: 373 flesch: 24 summary: The three essays vary considerably in method and content, but each develops new ways of conceptualizing and measuring personal culture found in text data, challenges common beliefs about the uses and limitations of interviewing, and opens new avenues for future research. I test this hypothesis using a combination of interview and survey data from the National Study of Youth and Religion, and I find that the concreteness with which adolescents discuss their religious beliefs and practices is positively correlated with the frequency of religious attendance when they are young adults. keywords: reasoning cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h70618j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h70618j.txt item: #4134 of 4945 id: t722h70625t author: Kelsey DiPietro title: Adaptive Moving Mesh Methods for Partial Differential Equations date: 2019 words: 349 flesch: 35 summary: Beyond the contribution of r-adaptive moving mesh methods based on the Monge-Ampére equation for fourth order PDEs posed on rectangular domains, this thesis gives a finite difference approximation of the Monge-Ampere equation for mesh generation and adaptation for solving PDEs on curved domains. We provide a boundary mapping between a fixed, uniform rectangular domain to an adaptive, curved physical domain that is applicable to convex and select non-convex domains. keywords: mesh cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h70625t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h70625t.txt item: #4135 of 4945 id: t722h70634s author: Clair E Mesick title: Paul and the "Interlopers": Apostleship and Antagonism in the Corinthian Correspondence date: 2019 words: 351 flesch: 42 summary: In short, apostles who valued Judaism and relied on community support would have ample reason, simply from 1 Corinthians, to react against Paul: against his claims of unique authority and spiritual exemplarity; against his promotion of financial abstention over Christ's command that preachers of the gospel receive support for their work; and against his brief but dismissive statements about Jewish ethics and Jewish identity. In 1 Corinthians, Paul speaks as an authoritative figure, legislating on a host of social and ethical issues for a divided community. keywords: paul cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h70634s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h70634s.txt item: #4136 of 4945 id: t722h70680z author: Martin Fevre title: Optimization and Robustness of Dynamic Biped Robots date: 2020 words: 344 flesch: 27 summary: Some groundbreaking advances provide glimpses of natural agility and efficiency, but practical challenges still limit the ability of dynamic biped robots to achieve their envisioned potential. Finally, robustness is improved using a novel gait switching method that enables dynamic biped robots to switch gaits autonomously following unexpected disturbances. keywords: robots cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h70680z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h70680z.txt item: #4137 of 4945 id: t722h706c2k author: Abigail Justice Mancinelli title: A 'Clean' Slate: Public Financing and Representation in American State Legislatures date: 2023 words: 185 flesch: 25 summary: This project examines the electoral and policy impacts of public financing on representation in American state legislatures. Results show that, not only does public financing increase electoral competition, but candidates and officeholders from historically underrepresented groups are uplifted in particular, and publicly financed legislatures experience a leftward ideological shift. keywords: public cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/t722h706c2k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/t722h706c2k.txt item: #4138 of 4945 id: tb09j388f3b author: David Hoekman title: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Effects in a Detrital Food Web: The Pitcher Plant Inquiline Community as a Model Food Web date: 2010 words: 346 flesch: 39 summary: This suggests that temperature may be an important regulator of top-down effects and that climate change can have major effects on biological communities. Ecologists have long been interested in understanding factors that regulate food web dynamics. keywords: effects cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388f3b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388f3b.txt item: #4139 of 4945 id: tb09j388f4p author: Branden James Moore title: Exploiting Large Shared On-Chip Caches for Chip Multiprocessors date: 2005 words: 151 flesch: 53 summary: Concurrency is achieved through ports gained from creating a multi-banked cache, and multiple paths to main memory. The off-chip memory organization impacts performance to a lesser degree, with providing multiple paths to memory outperforming a wider memory bus. keywords: cache cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388f4p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388f4p.txt item: #4140 of 4945 id: tb09j388f51 author: Eric Stefan title: Novel Access to Methyl Substituted Polyketide Structural Units Through 1,5-Hydride Shift and Ether Transfer: Application to the Syntheses of Diospongins A and B and Towards Lyngbyaloside C date: 2013 words: 325 flesch: 24 summary: This dissertation comprises three major components that sequentially describe the development of three methodologies for the formation of novel methyl substituted polyketide structural units and their application in complex molecule synthesis. Starting from 1,1-disubstituted alkenes, this transformation enabled us to stereoselectively access tertiary ethers. keywords: ether cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388f51.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388f51.txt item: #4141 of 4945 id: tb09j388f82 author: Michael J. McCourt title: Dissipativity Theory for Hybrid Systems with Applications to Networked Control Systems date: 2015 words: 341 flesch: 41 summary: A main goal of this dissertation is to provide generalizations of these concepts for hybrid systems. It also includes original definitions of dissipativity for discrete-event systems and hybrid systems in Chapters 7 and 8. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388f82.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388f82.txt item: #4142 of 4945 id: tb09j388f9d author: Jarett T DeAngelis title: Spin-Valve Interface for Magnetic Quantum Dot Cellular Automata date: 2010 words: 181 flesch: 35 summary: To move forward in the real-life implementation of new computing technologies, some new engineering will be necessary to bridge the gap between extant CMOS computing technology and this new area of magnetic logic and storage. CMOS technology is reaching its physical limits in terms of scaling, and this is leading many researchers to investigate alternative computing technologies. keywords: technology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388f9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388f9d.txt item: #4143 of 4945 id: tb09j388g0m author: Matthew Ryan Wilson title: Synthesis, Conformational Analysis, and Biological Evaluation of the Potent Microtubule-Stabilizing Agents, (–)-Zampanolide and (–)-Dactylolide date: 2015 words: 352 flesch: 25 summary: A detailed knowledge of zampanolide and dactylolide's solution conformational preferences not only helped identify its bioactive conformation but also significantly aided in the development of simplified analogues. Interestingly, Riccio and co-workers isolated a structurally related natural product, (+)-dactylolide, off the coast of the Vanuatu islands and reported dactylolide displays moderate cytotoxicity in the low μM range. keywords: zampanolide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388g0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388g0m.txt item: #4144 of 4945 id: tb09j388g1z author: Abhishek Tripathi title: Molecular Characterization of Endoplasmic Reticulum Deficient-2 (ERD2) in Toxoplasma gondii date: 2011 words: 494 flesch: 35 summary: ERD2 receptors help in maintaining protein homeostasis by retrieving mistargeted ER luminal proteins from the post ER compartment (mainly the Golgi) to the ER. In T. gondii, the PERLs are structurally similar to TgERD2, which functions in retrograde transport of proteins from the Golgi back to the ER. keywords: erd2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388g1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388g1z.txt item: #4145 of 4945 id: tb09j388g29 author: Jacob Allen Cress title: Optical Aberrations Caused by Coherent Structures in a Subsonic, Compressible, Turbulent Boundary Layer date: 2010 words: 153 flesch: 24 summary: A statistical model is derived using the 'extended' Strong Reynolds Analogy that allows the total temperature to vary and also presumes pressure fluctuations in the boundary layer are negligible compared to temperature fluctuations. This work concludes with a discussion of coherent vortical structures and how they are related to optical aberrations, and the relative contribution of pressure and temperature fluctuations to wavefront distortions. keywords: boundary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388g29.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388g29.txt item: #4146 of 4945 id: tb09j388g3n author: Claudio Ugalde title: The 19F(a,p)22Ne Reaction and the Nucleosynthesis of Fluorine date: 2007 words: 125 flesch: 53 summary: The 19F(a,p)22Ne reaction is considered to be the main source of fluorine depletion during the Asymptotic Giant Branch and Wolf-Rayet phases in stars. Several resonances were found in the energy range Elab=792-1990 keV and their energies and reduced width amplitudes have been determined in the context of the R-matrix theory of nuclear reactions. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388g3n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388g3n.txt item: #4147 of 4945 id: tb09j388g40 author: Shiliang Liu title: Design and Modeling for Nanomagnet Logic Circuits and Architectures date: 2013 words: 198 flesch: 35 summary: As much of NML studies need designs and simulations, an NML layout design methodology using energy states tackles the side effect of next nearest neighbor couplings in NML circuits, and a software package developed for assisting simulation is practical and effective for automating NML sim- ulation processes and saving time. To leverage the benefits of NML, the research in this dissertation has helped advance the state of the art of design and modeling of NML circuits and architectures. keywords: nml cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388g40.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388g40.txt item: #4148 of 4945 id: tb09j388g6p author: Scott Christley title: Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Limb Chondrogenesis date: 2007 words: 344 flesch: 25 summary: Simulations show that spot and stripe patterns (which also correspond to the nodules and bars of the developing limb skeleton in vivo), are close in parameter space and can be generated in multiple ways with single parameter variations. An important implication is that some developmental processes do not require a strict progression from one stable dynamical regime to another, but can occur by a succession of transient dynamical regimes tuned (e.g., by natural selection) to achieve a particular morphological outcome. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388g6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388g6p.txt item: #4149 of 4945 id: tb09j388g71 author: Krishnan Padmanabhan title: Multi-User Communication over Wireless Channels with Unknown Fading date: 2011 words: 447 flesch: 46 summary: The transmitters and receivers are distributed through space (in two or three dimensions) and the channels between any transmitter receiver pair are non-coherent Rayleigh block fading channels. Finally, the results are extended to more general channel models. keywords: fading cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388g71.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388g71.txt item: #4150 of 4945 id: tb09j388g8c author: John Travis Shafer title: Major Element, Trace Element, and Isotopic Composition of Emperor Seamount Chain and Ontong Java Plateau Basalts date: 2008 words: 338 flesch: 45 summary: ESC seamounts have been assumed to undergo similar stages of development as their younger Hawaiian counterparts despite the paucity of non-dredge samples. The investigation of a greater than 300 km thick sequence of basement from Nintoku Seamount confirms that a typical ESC volcano develops in a similar manner to modern Hawaiian volcanoes. keywords: ojp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388g8c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388g8c.txt item: #4151 of 4945 id: tb09j388g9q author: Mayra Alejandra Duarte title: An Applied Holistic Model for the Development of Strong Ethnic Identities date: 2013 words: 3 flesch: 62 summary: no abstract available keywords: available cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388g9q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388g9q.txt item: #4152 of 4945 id: tb09j388h49 author: Kelsey Blomeke title: Identification of Facial Expressions in Depression: Identifying Emotions of Strangers and Romantic Partners date: 1904 words: 358 flesch: 21 summary: However, depressed people have also been shown to have general deficits or biases with other emotions, although these have been less thoroughly studied (for a review see Bistricky, Ingram, & Atchley, 2011). As hypothesized, expressions by unfamiliar posers were processed similarly to expressions by significant others, though there were some differences. keywords: depressed cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388h49.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388h49.txt item: #4153 of 4945 id: tb09j388n2v author: Michael J. Grigalunas title: The Development and Application of the a-Alkenylation of Enolates and Related Multicomponent Reactions date: 1904 words: 124 flesch: 33 summary: The Pd-catalyzed procedure was used as a platform to develop new multicomponent reactions to rapidly access complex molecules from readily available starting materials. The improvement and discovery of new chemical reactions can provide a way to more rapidly access fine chemicals. keywords: reactions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388n2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388n2v.txt item: #4154 of 4945 id: tb09j388n36 author: Steven R. Brus title: Efficiency Improvements for Modeling Coastal Hydrodynamics through the Application of High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Solutions to the Shallow Water Equations date: 1904 words: 505 flesch: 33 summary: In addition to replacing low-order algorithms, many fundamental aspects of traditional surge modeling techniques must be reconsidered in order to fully realize the potential performance improvements of high-order methods for real-world problems. As a result, efficiency gains must come from using high-order solution approximations along with coarser discretizations to obtain a level of accuracy that would require higher resolution for a low-order approach. keywords: order cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j388n36.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j388n36.txt item: #4155 of 4945 id: tb09j389c19 author: Rodolfo Mario Capdevilla Roldan title: Unveiling New Physics through Angular Distributions in Dilepton and Diboson Final States at the LHC date: 2019 words: 70 flesch: 48 summary: Small deviations in dilepton distributions due to the presence of quantum interference effects involving dark matter particles, and 2. Signals from exotic heavy resonances in the rapidity distributions of Wgamma production. This thesis focuses on searches for new physics effects using angular distributions in particle colliders. keywords: distributions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j389c19.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j389c19.txt item: #4156 of 4945 id: tb09j389h7m author: Ala Fink title: Re-Forming Righteousness: Milton's Hebraic Poetics date: 2020 words: 337 flesch: 36 summary: The relational aspect accorded to righteousness in the Hebrew Bible largely stems from the etymological connectedness of righteousness and justice, which are derived from the same root in Hebrew. In each of the major poems, Hebraic righteousness serves as a model for the main characters' actions: In Paradise Lost, the Son reminds the Father that divine justice is also divine righteousness by calling upon Abraham's conversation with God regarding the destruction of Sodom, and Adam and Eve exercise their righteousness through discourse and hosting the angel Raphael; in Paradise Regained, the Son employs his understanding of Job's perfect righteousness and of Moses' mistake to sustain his rebuttals to Satan; and in Samson Agonistes, Samson's development is modeled after Psalmic repentance that requires a belief that a retrieval of personal righteousness is always available through appeal to divine righteousness. keywords: hebrew cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j389h7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j389h7m.txt item: #4157 of 4945 id: tb09j389j88 author: Arin S. Preston title: Synthesis, Shape Control, and Preservation of Novel Noble Metal Plasmonic Nanostructures date: 2021 words: 648 flesch: 26 summary: Metallic structures at the nanoscale exhibit numerous properties which enable fascinating uses. Alumina-hafnia laminates provide optimal thermal protection against oxidation and morphology altering surface diffusion, to temperatures as high as 600 °C.Strategic application and removal of ALD alumina is then used to facilitate the synthesis of advanced nanogap structures. keywords: structures cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j389j88.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j389j88.txt item: #4158 of 4945 id: tb09j389k3v author: Bingyu Shen title: New Approaches in Data for AI-Driven Forensics Applications date: 2021 words: 366 flesch: 50 summary: The training process is benefited from generating synthetic texts with spelling errors. Scene texts provide important forensics information and how to extract them accurately has been an active research area for years. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j389k3v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j389k3v.txt item: #4159 of 4945 id: tb09j389m7j author: Michael VandenBerg title: Supramolecular Engineering of Self-Assembled Biomaterials: Hierarchical Biomimetic Systems and the Controlled Delivery of Insulin for Type 1 Diabetes date: 2022 words: 582 flesch: 39 summary: Herein lies and examination and careful study of observable phenomena in molecular material systems, and the extraction and purposing of that knowledge toward the generation of novel, useful platforms. The work presented in Chapters 2 and 3 primarily focuses on the first two questions, putting forward designed molecular systems with projected properties/uses, and evaluating what the material actually demonstrates, what we learn from it, and how it can be used to improve our capacity to design. keywords: world cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j389m7j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j389m7j.txt item: #4160 of 4945 id: tb09j389n4t author: Alejandra Cartagena Sierra title: Plio-Pleistocene and Early to Middle Pleistocene Sea Surface Temperature, Productivity and Salinity Based on Organic Biogeochemical Proxies from Site U1475 date: 2023 words: 316 flesch: 38 summary: We suggest shifting westerly winds may exert a stronger influence over Agulhas Leakage variability than latitudinal migrations of the STF. This northward migration not only affected the upper water column hydrology and biogeochemistry at the Agulhas Plateau but significantly reduced Agulhas leakage during the period between 3.3 - 3.15 Ma. keywords: agulhas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tb09j389n4t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tb09j389n4t.txt item: #4161 of 4945 id: td96k071q3v author: Kishori T Deshpande title: Nanoscale Advanced Materials Using Aqueous Combustion Synthesis date: 2005 words: 783 flesch: 38 summary: Specifically, for LaxSr1-xCrO3 system used in solid oxide fuel cell interconnects, it is shown that synthesis of perovskites under the self-propagating high-temperature mode produced powders with high specific surface area (~40 m2/g) and well defined crystalline structure. For direct methanol fuel cell anodes, using the above synthesis method and a high throughput screening approach, a variety of high surface area catalysts including perovskites and oxides are synthesized and tested as anode catalysts. keywords: high; oxide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k071q3v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k071q3v.txt item: #4162 of 4945 id: td96k071q8k author: Scott James Hagele title: 'I Fain Would Tell Thee What I Am; But Dare Not!': Metadrama and Political Identity in Coleridge's Remorse date: 2010 words: 70 flesch: 45 summary: By having his play demonstrate the fluidity of political identity, Coleridge also presents a defense against the charge of 'political apostasy.' I argue that Coleridge employs metadrama in the form of Spain, Napoleon, the Gothic, the Incantation scene, and the main character's multitude of disguises in order to reveal the indeterminate nature of political identity. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k071q8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k071q8k.txt item: #4163 of 4945 id: td96k071r66 author: Jake J Beaulieu title: Controls on greenhouse gas emissions from headwater streams date: 2007 words: 336 flesch: 36 summary: Although N2O emissions from streams have received more attention than CH4, I found that CH4 emissions induced by anthropogenic activity had a global warming potential 12 times that of N2O. Methane emission rates were highest in streams affected by agriculture and urbanization, likely because the accumulation of fine sediments in these streams promoted sediment anoxia and methane production. My dissertation research demonstrates that headwater streams are sources of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but that N2O emissions have been overestimated while CH4 emissions have been overlooked. keywords: n2o cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k071r66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k071r66.txt item: #4164 of 4945 id: td96k071s1s author: Zhanwei Sun title: Performance Metrics, Sampling Schemes, and Detection Algorithms for Wideband Spectrum Sensing date: 2013 words: 373 flesch: 17 summary: We investigate the aliasing patterns inherent in sub-Nyquist sampling and identify two extremes, specifically, uniform aliasing and periodic aliasing, and develop corresponding detection algorithms that allow tradeoffs between primary protection and secondary opportunities relevant to the goal of channel detection characterized Pm, the probability of missed detection, and Pf, the probability of false alarm, as well as the goal of wideband detection characterized by PISO and PEIO. This dissertation studies the problem of wideband spectrum sensing for cognitive radio by partitioning into four fundamental elements: system modeling, performance metrics, sampling schemes, and detection algorithms. keywords: sampling cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k071s1s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k071s1s.txt item: #4165 of 4945 id: td96k071t44 author: Belen Vicens Saiz title: Negotiating Power and Privilege: Written Law, Monarchy, and the Nobility in Medieval Aragon date: 1904 words: 307 flesch: 34 summary: In demonstrating that the Vidal Mayor arose as a product of negotiation between varied political forces, not as an imposition from the crown, this dissertation further deepens our understanding of how law was negotiated at the local level and the fundamental role it played in mediating relations between the crown and the nobility. While the crown aimed at centralizing its power, the nobility struggled to preserve its customary privileges and patrimonial assets against the influx of ideas about unrestricted royal power coming from the universities. keywords: crown cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k071t44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k071t44.txt item: #4166 of 4945 id: td96k072d9d author: Chonghyun Choi title: Democracy and Distribution: How Democracy Affects Inequality of Market Income date: 1904 words: 407 flesch: 31 summary: Democracy, I argue, can reduce inequality of market income but only under the appropriate conditions. However, the almost exclusive focus on redistribution obscures the fact that market income distribution is logically and temporally prior to redistribution and, as such, shapes the policy leeway available for taxes and transfers. keywords: democracy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k072d9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k072d9d.txt item: #4167 of 4945 id: td96k072f40 author: Li Li title: Exosomes Released during a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Can Activate Endothelial Cells date: 1904 words: 695 flesch: 35 summary: To evaluate the effects more globally, we sequenced the transcriptome of endothelial cells following exosomes treatment. This dissertation aims to characterize the interaction between endothelial cells and exosomes derived from M.tb-infected macrophages. keywords: exosomes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k072f40.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k072f40.txt item: #4168 of 4945 id: td96k072f5b author: Ryan Scott Walker title: Addita Fati Peioris Manifesta Fides: Poetic Prodigies in Tacitus' Neronian Annals date: 1904 words: 175 flesch: 39 summary: In the process, this study also aims to show that Tacitus alludes to a number of poets, including Vergil and especially Lucan, to make his portent passages poetic. Through an examination of Tacitus' narrative in the Neronian Annals, particularly those passages describing portents, the current study aims to demonstrate that Tacitus' depiction of Neronian omens are meant to paint a picture of Nero's reign as a harbinger of civil war. keywords: tacitus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k072f5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k072f5b.txt item: #4169 of 4945 id: td96k072p0s author: David Benirschke title: Realization of a Low-Cost, Spectroscopic, Mid-Infrared Imaging Platform for Explosives Detection and Thermal Time-Harmonic Imaging date: 2019 words: 346 flesch: 45 summary: The laser-flash method is one method commonly used for measuring thermal properties of materials. This is due to the unique and strong absorption characteristics of many materials in this region. keywords: thermal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k072p0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k072p0s.txt item: #4170 of 4945 id: td96k072s6s author: Coleton Lunt title: Creatures of the Mud date: 2021 words: 194 flesch: 54 summary: Together they create a complex system of interdependent relationships where the individual and the collective depend upon one another. I seek to parallel the evolution of my craft with biological evolution as both are engaged in a constant state of becoming. keywords: evolution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k072s6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k072s6s.txt item: #4171 of 4945 id: td96k072t2q author: Niraja Suresh title: Omics Profiling and Spatio-Temporal Consequences of Mutations of PfKelch13 in Artemisinin Drug Resistance date: 2020 words: 498 flesch: 32 summary: Expansion of these vesicles (containing pathways of protein proteostasis and the UPR) might confer resistance by disseminating resistance intermediates to mitigate the promiscuous artemisinin-induced proteopathy throughout the infected erythrocyte. We can use this tool to distinguish between sensitive polymorphisms and resistance mutations in malaria endemic regions. keywords: resistance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k072t2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k072t2q.txt item: #4172 of 4945 id: td96k072t63 author: Jacob E. Olson title: Surface-Enhanced Raman and Hyper-Raman Scattering: From Fundamentals of Nonlinear Light Scattering to Practical Analytical Detection date: 2021 words: 398 flesch: 41 summary: The relationship of structure to SEHRS response is elucidated through experiment resonant SEHRS scans and computations to analyze the effect of chromophore symmetry. In a proof-of-principle study, we spatially map the SEHRS response from dye-functionalized nanoparticles in a mouse spleen under efficient collection conditions. keywords: sehrs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k072t63.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k072t63.txt item: #4173 of 4945 id: td96k072v3c author: Doan Le title: On the Coisotropic Subalgebras of a Complex Semisimple Lie Algebra date: 2021 words: 142 flesch: 37 summary: By studying the Lagrangian subalgebras of g+g, she generalizes Zambon's work by constructing a more general class of isolated coisotropic subalgebras in g.Motivated by Kroeger's method of studying coisotropic subalgebras, in this dissertation, we classify coisotropic subalgebras in the subset L_{G} of the Lagrangian subalgebras of g+g. Kroeger shows in her paper that coisotropic subalgebras give rise to Lagrangian subalgebras of g+g. keywords: subalgebras cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k072v3c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k072v3c.txt item: #4174 of 4945 id: td96k072w10 author: Kristin M. Haas title: The Theology of Louis Bouyer as Foundation for Catholic Ecological Theology date: 2022 words: 180 flesch: 38 summary: The chapters of Part Two of this dissertation interpret Bouyer's thought in relation to the thought of G. W. F. Hegel and to the ecological theological frameworks of Jürgen Moltmann and Catherine Keller. The dissertation thus demonstrates Bouyer's importance as a major Catholic figure who represents an alternative to the paradigms of Moltmann and Keller in terms of grounding ecological theology. keywords: bouyer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/td96k072w10.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/td96k072w10.txt item: #4175 of 4945 id: th83kw5505q author: Rumit Pancholi title: Fist & Urn date: 2010 words: 14 flesch: 41 summary: A collection of poems that encapsulate the coming-of-age of a bicultural American. keywords: american cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw5505q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw5505q.txt item: #4176 of 4945 id: th83kw5507d author: Dan Liu title: Genomic exploration of bacterial habitat adaptation date: 2013 words: 142 flesch: 18 summary: In this study we adopted a cross-habitat, comparative genomic approach to identify genetic markers of habitat adaptation in bacterial populations from human gut, marine and soil environments. For example, bacteria isolated from the human gut environment tended to have the least functional diversity and lacked pathways for amino acid biosynthesis and DNA repair. keywords: environments cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw5507d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw5507d.txt item: #4177 of 4945 id: th83kw5508r author: Timothy J Vasen title: Investigation of III-V Tunneling Field-Effect Transistors date: 2014 words: 387 flesch: 49 summary: Here, a second generation device architecture was explored with a raised drain to reduce parasitic resistances, and a buried channel, in an effort to mitigate high interface trap densities at the semiconductor/gate oxide interface. A maximum current of 277 μA/μm was achieved at VDS = 0.5 V, showing the promise of the GaSb/InAs heterojunction in delivering high current density. keywords: device cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw5508r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw5508r.txt item: #4178 of 4945 id: th83kw55109 author: Anna Katelynn Rogers title: The Temple of Roma and Augustus: Monumental Negotiations of Identity on the Athenian Acropolis date: 2015 words: 148 flesch: 44 summary: It was framed to offer a symbolic message appealing to Rome but in a context that glorified Athens. This paper attempts to show that while the construction of the monument was commissioned by the imperial cult, its design and location were influenced by the art and architecture of Augustan Rome. keywords: temple cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw55109.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw55109.txt item: #4179 of 4945 id: th83kw5511n author: Hilal Omar Al Jamal title: Colectivo Acciones de Arte: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Art Actions of CADA date: 2012 words: 246 flesch: 24 summary: Applying trauma theory in this analysis of CADA's art actions, I argue that these public interventions essentially promoted the development of a social discourse that would mediate between the official 'truth' proposed by General Augusto Pinochet's authoritarian regime and a truth generated from below, from the margins of Chilean culture, from the people, those exposed to hunger, poverty, brutal repression, alienation, and other oppressive realities. This investigation takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of CADA's work, drawing from the literature in the fields of social psychology, sociology, and political science, among others, in order to develop the argument that, as a social movement, CADA's art actions promoted democratization and may have even had a therapeutic effect on those who participated in CADA's collective action project keywords: cada cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw5511n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw5511n.txt item: #4180 of 4945 id: th83kw55120 author: Ana Velitchkova title: Esperanto, Civility, and the Politics of Fellowship: A Cosmopolitan Movement from the Eastern European Periphery date: 2014 words: 352 flesch: 27 summary: Ironically, while attempting to overcome established unfair distinctions based on differential accumulation of political and economic capital, the Esperanto movement creates and maintains new distinctions and inequalities based on cultural capital accumulation. In the course of several decades, the movement established a new global field based on the logic of equal communication through Esperanto and on the accumulation of cultural capital. keywords: movement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw55120.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw55120.txt item: #4181 of 4945 id: th83kw5513b author: Nathaniel Marx title: Ritual in the Age of Authenticity: An Ethnography of Latin Mass Catholics date: 2013 words: 352 flesch: 29 summary: Fieldwork in four Latin Mass communities and interviews with Latin Mass adherents reveal the viability of this approach to liturgical formation. In particular, this study seeks a better understanding of the motives of contemporary Latin Mass Catholics in America. keywords: mass cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw5513b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw5513b.txt item: #4182 of 4945 id: th83kw5514p author: Melissa Ann Mitchell title: Precision of testing the indirect effect for mediation studies date: 2012 words: 162 flesch: 58 summary: Coverage rates vary between methods in the models but it appears that the percentile bootstrap has the best coverage rates. This work focuses on the latter view on sample size planning for mediation studies (how large must a sample be to have an accurate estimate of the indirect effect). keywords: planning cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw5514p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw5514p.txt item: #4183 of 4945 id: th83kw55151 author: Dana Wheeler title: Optical Interference Logic in Silicon-on-Insulator Substrates date: 2011 words: 153 flesch: 44 summary: In this work, a novel means of realizing optical logic, called interference logic, using passive silicon-on-insulator waveguiding elements is described and demonstrated. The invention of the laser in 1958 generated great interest in optical logic, as a source of coherent light was now available. keywords: logic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw55151.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw55151.txt item: #4184 of 4945 id: th83kw5516c author: Duminda A. Dewasurendra title: Evidence Filtering and its Distributed Implementation on Grid Sensor Networks date: 2008 words: 245 flesch: 32 summary: A new framework named Evidence Filtering for processing multi-modality sensor data, and a novel distributed method to implement spatio-temporal filtering applications in grid sensor networks is presented. This approach yields significant advantages in distributed processing of information in grid sensor networks, and supports local actuation in response to local events. keywords: sensor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw5516c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw5516c.txt item: #4185 of 4945 id: th83kw55182 author: Emma Cohen de Lara title: The Lawgiver and the Physician: Medical Imagery in Plato's Laws date: 2010 words: 196 flesch: 61 summary: Whereas the philosopher aims to purge the soul of false opinions in order to create space for reflection, the lawgiver aims to train the emotions and instill correct opinions which would benefit life in the city. Moreover, the lawgiver suggests that the city itself is healthy when there is a balanced distribution of power. keywords: soul cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw55182.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw55182.txt item: #4186 of 4945 id: th83kw5519d author: Brendan T. McGrail title: Reactions and Electronic Structure of Actinyl Peroxide Complexes date: 2014 words: 377 flesch: 23 summary: This dissertation examines the mechanisms that lead to the formation of actinyl peroxide cage clusters, the mechanism of aggregation of actinyl peroxide cage clusters, the photochemical generation of actinyl peroxide complexes in nonaqueous solution, and the electronic structure of the neptunyl peroxide cluster {Np24}. Finally, a mechanistic study describing the formation of actinyl peroxide cage clusters in nonaqueous solvents is undertaken and shown to involve the photochemical of bridging (μ2) hydroxide ligands of a dinuclear actinyl complex with concomitant evolution of dihydrogen. keywords: clusters cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw5519d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw5519d.txt item: #4187 of 4945 id: th83kw5520m author: Yu Cao title: Studies of MBE-Grown Single and Multiple AlN/GaN Heterojunctions date: 2007 words: 221 flesch: 49 summary: The large polarization difference between AlN and GaN provides extremely high electron densities at the interface of AlN/GaN heterojunctions. At low temperature, Shubnikov-de-Haas oscillations have been observed for the first time in single AlN/GaN heterojunctions. keywords: aln cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw5520m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw5520m.txt item: #4188 of 4945 id: th83kw5521z author: Ronghua Wang title: High Speed InAl(Ga)N-Barrier HEMTs date: 2013 words: 313 flesch: 25 summary: While the conventional AlGaN-barrier GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) gradually matured in the past fifteen years, one of the recent research interests is focused on highly scaled structures to achieve high current gain and power gain cut-off frequency fT/fmax for high speed and power amplifying applications. In this dissertation, advanced epitaxial designs have been investigated in order to obtain excellent transport properties, good scalability, and improved electron confinement for high speed electronics. keywords: gate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw5521z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw5521z.txt item: #4189 of 4945 id: th83kw5525b author: Ryne Patrick Clos title: A Long Road to Canaan: The Capuchin Missionaries and the Rise of Liberation Theology in Eastern Nicaragua, 1939-1979 date: 1904 words: 344 flesch: 44 summary: Dozens of other missionaries in Latin America experienced similar vocational crises. The revisionist portrait of liberation theology emphasized here challenges existing understandings of the way this religious movement arose throughout Latin America. keywords: capuchins cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw5525b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw5525b.txt item: #4190 of 4945 id: th83kw55349 author: Rebecca A. Flaherty title: The Role of Streptolysin S in the Induction of Keratinocyte Death and Inflammatory Signaling during Group A Streptococcal Infection date: 1904 words: 357 flesch: 26 summary: Furthermore, our studies provide evidence that therapeutic targeting of this inflammatory signaling cascade may be a useful strategy to reduce SLS-mediated cell death and tissue destruction during the early stages of invasive GAS skin infection. To further elucidate the effects of SLS-mediated inflammatory signaling in epithelial keratinocytes, we performed cytokine array studies to identify inflammatory cytokines that are produced by keratinocytes in response to GAS infection. keywords: sls cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw55349.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw55349.txt item: #4191 of 4945 id: th83kw5565k author: Lawrence W. Funke title: Synthesis and Control of Planar Morphing Mechanisms for Industrial Applications date: 1904 words: 337 flesch: 39 summary: In the 21st Century, researchers have started to investigate using planar morphing mechanisms to increase the flexibility and real time performance of such systems. The structures of many revolutionary technologies, such as aircraft wings, antennas, wind turbine blades, and dies for polymer extrusion, have remained largely unchanged for decades. keywords: mechanisms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw5565k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw5565k.txt item: #4192 of 4945 id: th83kw55r15 author: Richard F. Klee title: Religion in Migration: Second Temple Worship According to Tobit date: 1904 words: 318 flesch: 33 summary: The exile of Tobit's community and the journey of Tobias and Sarah is thus an account of religion in migration, narrating how religious traditions develop with respect to foreign lands and experiences, written so as to guide Jewish life abroad. It is contended that Tobit is globally formed as a narrative by reference to Amos, and the Book of Tobit as a whole affirms prophesy as an interpretive guide for diaspora life. keywords: tobit cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw55r15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw55r15.txt item: #4193 of 4945 id: th83kw55s4h author: Scott G. Hefelfinger title: Common Goods and the Laws of Nations date: 2018 words: 428 flesch: 34 summary: The third chapter continues by showing how the primary sense of common good as a good, one in number and sharable by many, gives rise to an ordered array of various common goods, to which correspond various societies. Taken together, these first three chapters argue for and then carry out a retrieval of the framework developed within the Leonine renewal and a rejoining of this tradition with the recent revival of common good thinking in broadly Thomistic circles. keywords: good cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw55s4h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw55s4h.txt item: #4194 of 4945 id: th83kw55x3d author: Christopher J. Flanagan title: Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the American Revolution, 1774-1795 date: 2019 words: 339 flesch: 33 summary: Shifting concepts of empire allowed American leaders to combine power and liberty in a way that allowed imperial expansion alongside free government. I argue that American state-building was shaped by specific political debates of the period, fought within the intellectual constraints of empire, and forced to reconcile empire with republican government. keywords: empire cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw55x3d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw55x3d.txt item: #4195 of 4945 id: th83kw56457 author: Rafael Rodrigues Da Silva title: Active Perception and Control of Intelligent Systems date: 2021 words: 308 flesch: 29 summary: Our method automatically generates actions that improve confidence in a belief state when necessary, thus using active perception to satisfy PrSTL specifications. We separate discrete task planning and continuous motion planning on-the-fly and harness highly efficient Boolean satisfiability (SAT) and trajectory optimization solvers to find dynamically feasible trajectories that satisfy non-convex specifications for high-dimensional systems. keywords: specifications cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw56457.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw56457.txt item: #4196 of 4945 id: th83kw5652h author: Aaron Forbes title: Computational Studies Toward the Development of Virtual Screening Tools date: 2022 words: 452 flesch: 29 summary: In examining modern ligands that induce high selectivity in hydrogenation reactions to use within TSFF for the prediction of selectivity, ferrocene based ligands show high promise and a necessary inclusion in virtual screens. Asymmetric catalysis is fundamentally important in the creation of molecules that contain chiral centers, which is the case for many biologically active molecules. keywords: hydrogenation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/th83kw5652h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/th83kw5652h.txt item: #4197 of 4945 id: tm70ms3884f author: Eric Warner Chambers title: Development of Genetic Markers and Genetic Analysis of Brugia malayi Susceptibility in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti date: 2006 words: 360 flesch: 36 summary: In the third aim of this study we employed single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers to analyze an advanced intercross line for quantitative trait loci associated with Brugia malayi susceptibility. The 23 successful CATS primer pairs gave broad genome coverage in A. aegypti and demonstrate an efficient strategy for developing comparative anchor marker loci for any species of Culicidae. keywords: aegypti cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tm70ms3884f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tm70ms3884f.txt item: #4198 of 4945 id: tm70ms3885s author: Keith Eugene Hubbard title: The notion of vertex operator coalgebra: a construction and geometric interpretation date: 2005 words: 157 flesch: 29 summary: The notion of vertex operator coalgebra is presented, which corresponds to the family of correlation functions modeling one string propagating in space-time splitting into n strings in conformal field theory. Specifically, we describe the category of geometric vertex operator coalgebras, whose objects have comultiplicative structures meromorphically induced by conformal equivalence classes of the worldsheets swept out by propagating strings. keywords: vertex cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tm70ms3885s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tm70ms3885s.txt item: #4199 of 4945 id: tm70ms3890c author: Kathryn Lisa Hunter title: On the Breath of God date: 2010 words: 21 flesch: 28 summary: This is a collection of original poetry and translations exploring the mutability of human identity, language and conceptions of the divine. keywords: divine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tm70ms3890c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tm70ms3890c.txt item: #4200 of 4945 id: tm70ms38984 author: Sergio Jesus Almaraz Calderon title: Study of Resonances in Light Nuclei for Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics date: 2011 words: 514 flesch: 52 summary: Nuclear reactions proceed through resonance states in exotic nuclei. Resonance states with Isospin T = 3/2 in 9Be were studied by bombarding a C2H4 target with radioactive 8Li beam using the hybrid Thick/Thin Target in Inverse Kinematics approach. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tm70ms38984.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tm70ms38984.txt item: #4201 of 4945 id: tm70ms38b3q author: Kevin Matthew Whitton title: Creation of Dedicated Radiation Dose Calculation Hardware date: 2011 words: 153 flesch: 39 summary: Radiation dose calculation is an important step in the treatment of patients requiring radiation therapy. In this thesis, two different methods of radiation dose calculation have been implemented in hardware. keywords: radiation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tm70ms38b3q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tm70ms38b3q.txt item: #4202 of 4945 id: tm70ms38g5n author: Erica R. Machulak title: 'Is he a clerk, or noon?': Arabic Sources,Vernacular Aristotelianism, and Authorial Responses to the Evolving Social and Intellectual Context of Later Middle English Literature date: 1904 words: 352 flesch: 34 summary: Much like today's young humanities PhDs, university graduates in the fourteenth century faced a landscape in which the traditional trajectory of the professional scholar began to shift, and many sought to re-contextualize the status and utility of their training within new environments. Unable to procure a shrinking number of benefices, clerks flooded into secular communities and found new occupations. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tm70ms38g5n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tm70ms38g5n.txt item: #4203 of 4945 id: tm70ms38g60 author: Casey Ferris title: Investigations into Agent-Based Malaria Transmission Models date: 1904 words: 151 flesch: 52 summary: Agent-based models allow for more descriptive results than simpler mathematical models, especially for the individuals that reside and interact within the model. However, with an ever increasing ability to share information, it is becoming more common for many researchers one model that can be modified to fit many research purposes. keywords: models cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tm70ms38g60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tm70ms38g60.txt item: #4204 of 4945 id: tm70ms39016 author: Linda M. Kawentel title: The Intersection of Religion, Gender, and Family among U.S. Catholics: A Quantitative Analysis of the Relation of Religious Orthodoxy to Attitudes and Practices Concerning the Family date: 1904 words: 357 flesch: 12 summary: My findings illustrate how adherence to particular religious beliefs and religious practices inform family ideologies, as well as how family arrangements affect the religiousness of U.S. Catholics. In the second empirical chapter, I examine the relationship between full-time employment and the religious commitment of U.S. mothers, specifically investigating the moderating effect of religious tradition – the Catholic tradition included. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tm70ms39016.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tm70ms39016.txt item: #4205 of 4945 id: tm70ms39078 author: Elisabeth Rain Kincaid title: In a Prudent Way and without Rashness: Reclaiming Francisco Suárez's Theories of Legal Engagement date: 1904 words: 143 flesch: 28 summary: I then use Suárez's theory of law to point out how understanding law as developed in a dialectical process between the sovereign and the people can protect against the abuses that come from any one person or group's control over the law, and can also provide more possibilities for constructive communal engagement with law. In this dissertation, I argue that contemporary political theology struggles to hold together a commitment to the rule of law, a conviction that Christians should work to make law more just, the value of individual discernment of conscience, and the promotion of the common good. keywords: law cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tm70ms39078.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tm70ms39078.txt item: #4206 of 4945 id: tm70ms3912v author: Miao Yang title: Optimizing Ridge Generalized Least Squares for Structural Equation Modeling date: 1904 words: 202 flesch: 41 summary: For the formulas and corrections to have a wide scope of applicability, they are calibrated using Monte Carlo simulation with many conditions on population distribution, sample size, number of variables and model structure. Empirical results showed that, with nonnormally distributed data, parameter estimates by RGLS can be much more accurate than those by the traditional methods. keywords: rgls cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tm70ms3912v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tm70ms3912v.txt item: #4207 of 4945 id: tm70ms39523 author: Jake McCabe title: Passengers date: 2019 words: 7 flesch: 54 summary: Passengers is a collection of short stories. keywords: passengers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tm70ms39523.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tm70ms39523.txt item: #4208 of 4945 id: tm70ms39b7c author: Yichao Li title: Asymptotic Expansions of Solutions of the Yamabe Equation near Isolated Singular Points date: 2020 words: 63 flesch: 32 summary: Then, we study the existence of solutions with prescribed asymptotic expansions near singular points and an arbitrarily high order of approximation. We study asymptotic behaviors of positive solutions to the Yamabe equation near isolated singularities and establish expansions up to arbitrary orders. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tm70ms39b7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tm70ms39b7c.txt item: #4209 of 4945 id: tm70ms39b8q author: Sara Judy title: The Same Field by Different Light date: 2020 words: 146 flesch: 29 summary: The Same Field By Different Light is both ekphrasis and prayer--a visual and spiritual response to growing up as a part of the legacy of settler colonialism through mission work in Canada, a legacy which is deeply troubled by violence and oppression, but a rejection of which cannot fully account for the human relationships that make up the author's personal history, or her father's acts of service and witness within the Indigenous community. This collection contemplates issues of faith and doubt, race and witness, and meditates on the necessity of continuing to return to and interrogate the landscapes that both shape and exceed us. keywords: community cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tm70ms39b8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tm70ms39b8q.txt item: #4210 of 4945 id: tq57np21j79 author: Trevor M Cickovski title: Interacting Domain-Specific Languages With Biological Problem Solving Environments date: 2010 words: 268 flesch: 8 summary: I develop two radically different biological DSLs: XML-based BioLogo will model biological morphogenesis using a cell-centered stochastic cellular automaton and translate into C++ modules for an object-oriented PSE CompuCell3D, and MDLab will provide a set of high-level Python libraries for running molecular dynamics simulations, using wrapped functionality from the C++ PSE ProtoMol. Iteratively developing a biological model and verifying results with lab observations has become standard practice in computational biology. keywords: biological cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21j79.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21j79.txt item: #4211 of 4945 id: tq57np21j8n author: Katherine Cole Young title: Utilization of Natural Organic Matter (NOM) Substrates by Bacteria date: 2005 words: 355 flesch: 37 summary: The second and third studies combine field and laboratory work to: 1) examine how NOM bioavailability varies with microbial community structure, quantity, and chemical characteristics of NOM, and, 2) to determine how adsorption may affect NOM physicochemical properties. This work also compares bacterial growth with total initial Fe in a variety of NOM samples. keywords: nom cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21j8n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21j8n.txt item: #4212 of 4945 id: tq57np21j90 author: Amy Kathleen Nuttall title: An Examination of the Curvilinearity of Maternal History of Filial Responsibility and Child Adjustment in the Context of Difficult Child Temperament date: 2013 words: 150 flesch: 1 summary: The present study hypothesized that maternal history of filial responsibility would have a curvilinear effect on child externalizing and internalizing behaviors. A moderate amount of filial responsibility is normative whereas too much or too little filial responsibility is a pathological family dynamic. keywords: filial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21j90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21j90.txt item: #4213 of 4945 id: tq57np21k06 author: Matthew J. Smith title: Publishing as the Critical Practice of Graphic Design date: 2014 words: 170 flesch: 40 summary: Writing, editing, design, production, and distribution roles are restricted so as to be minimally influenced by outside concerns. As a result, the form and content of the books and pamphlets published by Are Not Books & Publications can be critically and self-reflexively about the practice of design and publishing. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21k06.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21k06.txt item: #4214 of 4945 id: tq57np21k2w author: Lauro VazquezRueda title: Composiciones date: 2013 words: 6 flesch: 73 summary: A poetry collection by Lauro Vazquez. keywords: vazquez cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21k2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21k2w.txt item: #4215 of 4945 id: tq57np21k37 author: Daniel Kofi Banini title: Regional Security Initiatives and Intrastate Peace and Stability: Appraising the Economic Community of West Africa's Convention on Non Proliferation of Small Arms date: 2015 words: 110 flesch: 37 summary: Despite a number of the few initiatives to limit small arms proliferation, the ECOWAS region is still awash with small arms. This hypothesis is based on the following premises: that effective nonproliferation regime should (a) have the political will and support at the state, and at the regional level; that (b) small arms trade is a multifaceted global problem, as such, a global cooperation with nonproliferation regimes is also vital for the success of such regimes. keywords: small cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21k37.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21k37.txt item: #4216 of 4945 id: tq57np21k4k author: Huade Tan title: Topography optimization of thin walled structures subject to blast loading date: 2010 words: 148 flesch: 34 summary: The protection of light-weight ground vehicle crews from rapid energetic events in hostile operating environments is an active field of study in defense research. The Hybrid Cellular Automata (HCA) framework has been adapted to develop improved designs of the target and supporting structures under blast loading. keywords: blast cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21k4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21k4k.txt item: #4217 of 4945 id: tq57np21k5x author: Krystin L Krause title: Supporting the Iron Fist: The News Media and Public Attitudes Towards Crime in Latin America date: 2013 words: 282 flesch: 32 summary: Using Guatemala, El Salvador, and Argentina as cases for a focused comparison, this dissertation relies on extensive content analysis of newspaper coverage of crime, an original survey experiment, and data from the AmericasBarometer surveys to tests the relationship between crime news and support for authoritarian crime control measures. Crime news also influences attitudes towards crime through its mediated relationship with citizen support for authoritarian crime control measures via its effects on fear of crime and self-reported victimization. keywords: crime cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21k5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21k5x.txt item: #4218 of 4945 id: tq57np21k68 author: Kirsten Melanie Prior title: Novel community interactions following species' range expansions date: 2011 words: 358 flesch: 44 summary: Overall, my dissertation contributes to our understanding of the community context of range expansions. The aims of my dissertation are to uncover the effects of range-expanding species on their recipient communities and to examine the responses of range-expanding species to altered community interactions. keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21k68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21k68.txt item: #4219 of 4945 id: tq57np21k7m author: Brian P Dunn title: Delay Constrained Multimedia Communications:Comparing Source-Channel Approaches for Quasi-Static Fading Channels date: 2008 words: 215 flesch: 40 summary: Without knowledge of the channel realization at the transmitter, separate source and channel coding is no longer optimal, and we must consider joint source-channel coding techniques. We analyze the performance of uncoded and rate-optimized digital transmission over both a single channel and parallel channels. keywords: channel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21k7m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21k7m.txt item: #4220 of 4945 id: tq57np21k8z author: Adam Thomas Biggs title: How Prior Information Influences the Guidance of Attention date: 2011 words: 411 flesch: 28 summary: In the low load condition, guidance by ancillary color information was predicted to be reflected by a reduction in distractor interference in the color mismatch condition relative to the color match condition. In the high load condition, guidance by ancillary color information was predicted to be reflected by an increase in distractor interference in the color match condition relative to the color mismatch condition. keywords: color cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21k8z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21k8z.txt item: #4221 of 4945 id: tq57np21m0h author: B. Lee Blackburn Jr. title: The Mystery of the Synagogue: Cyril of Alexandria on the Law of Moses date: 2009 words: 347 flesch: 22 summary: This is perhaps most evident in the way in which Cyril's exegetical account of the impurity of Jewish moral character supplies the theoretical underwriting for the strict separation of church from synagogue, a separation demanded by his incipient notion of Jewish space as marginal, polluted, and estranged from the divine presence localized in the church, the true tabernacle. Although many of Cyril's criticisms of the limitations of the law clearly stem from his Pauline theological commitments, certain motifs that figure prominently in his exegesis, such as that of Jewish pollution, are not without extra-theological implications. keywords: law cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21m0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21m0h.txt item: #4222 of 4945 id: tq57np21m1v author: Ahmed Eltaweel title: Numerical Investigation of Tandem-Cylinder Aerodynamic Noise and Its Control with Application to Airframe Noise date: 2013 words: 302 flesch: 37 summary: With validated flow field and acoustic solver, acoustic analysis is performed for the tandem-cylinder configuration to extend the experimental results and understand the mechanisms of noise generation and its control. The key to noise reduction is a full understanding of the underlying noise source mechanisms. keywords: noise cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21m1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21m1v.txt item: #4223 of 4945 id: tq57np21m26 author: John Paul Siegenthaler title: Guidelines for Adaptive-Optic Correction Based on Aperture Filtration date: 2009 words: 159 flesch: 42 summary: This dissertation presents and charts the development of a set of analytic formulas for judging and predicting the effectiveness of adaptive-optic corrective systems applied over finite apertures. This includes some simplified formulas and benchmarks as guides for the minimum requirements a system will need to meet to be effective, and the maximum degree of effectiveness such systems can reasonably achieve. keywords: aperture cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21m26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21m26.txt item: #4224 of 4945 id: tq57np21m3j author: Jean-Baptiste Thibault title: Iterative Image Reconstruction for Multi-Slice X-Ray Computed Tomography date: 2007 words: 196 flesch: 20 summary: The final objective of this research is to improve the imaging capabilities of CT scanners with advanced reconstruction methods, and ultimately re-define acceptable diagnostic image quality in clinical x-ray CT. These techniques are applicable to a far broader class of problems than conventional convolution back-projection, and offer significant opportunities for image quality improvement, although at the cost of greater computational load. keywords: image cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21m3j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21m3j.txt item: #4225 of 4945 id: tq57np21n6w author: Christopher L. Weaver title: Knowing Right from Wrong: The Role of Moral Confidence in Political Decision-Making date: 1904 words: 225 flesch: 39 summary: I contend that one's perceived level of moral knowledge, which I call moral confidence, accounts for this variation in respondents' willingness to translate their moral beliefs into legal positions. As a result, moral issues frequently play a critical and divisive role in U.S. politics. keywords: moral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np21n6w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np21n6w.txt item: #4226 of 4945 id: tq57np2286r author: Weixin Huang title: Chemical Transformations of Hybrid Perovskites under Environmental Conditions date: 1904 words: 556 flesch: 30 summary: The reversible cation exchange process opens up new possibilities of using post-synthetic cation interaction to flexibly and rationally tune the optical and structural properties of perovskite materials, bringing greater tailored functionalities to these materials. Following the remarkable success of applications of CH3NH3PbI3 perovskites in photovoltaics, a great focus has been placed on their stability for establishing foundations for the long lifetimes for perovskite solar cells. keywords: perovskite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np2286r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np2286r.txt item: #4227 of 4945 id: tq57np22b09 author: David A. Dik title: The Cross-Talk between Cell-Wall Recycling and Antibiotic Resistance of the Gram-Negative Pathogen date: 2018 words: 264 flesch: 32 summary: A mainstay of chemotherapy of P. aeruginosa infection of the skin (following burns) and the lungs (in cystic fibrosis) is the penicillin-class of antibiotics. My research addresses the nexus between the detection of these antibiotics and the initiation of resistance mechanisms by this bacterium. keywords: antibiotics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np22b09.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np22b09.txt item: #4228 of 4945 id: tq57np22p3f author: Ya Su title: She Left He Left: Marriage at the Crossroad in Contemporary China date: 2021 words: 292 flesch: 42 summary: Drawing on a probability sample of 1064 divorce litigation records and 33 in-depth interviews in a northern midsize city of China, my research demonstrates pronounced gender differences in motivations, experiences, and outcomes of divorce litigations. This dissertation investigates the role of gender in generating and processing divorce litigation. keywords: divorce cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np22p3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np22p3f.txt item: #4229 of 4945 id: tq57np22q12 author: Steven Theo Savides title: Unsettling the Settler Colonial Imagination: Decoloniality as a Theological Hermeneutic in South Africa? date: 2022 words: 354 flesch: 29 summary: It investigates whether decoloniality can disrupt the settler colonial imaginary that developed from Eurocentrism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and exploitative capitalist practices. How is theology implicated in the formation of the settler colonial imaginary in South Africa? keywords: decoloniality cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tq57np22q12.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tq57np22q12.txt item: #4230 of 4945 id: tt44pk04t61 author: Christopher V. Mirus title: Aristotle's Teleology and Modern Mechanics date: 2004 words: 123 flesch: 40 summary: In chapters four and five, I then consider the recent 'systems' or 'cybernetic' view of goal-directedness, along with some basic features of mechanical systems and laws more generally, in light of Aristotle's teleology. This dissertation addresses teleology in the writings of Aristotle and in relation to modern mechanics. keywords: teleology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk04t61.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk04t61.txt item: #4231 of 4945 id: tt44pk04t7c author: Brian L. Kramer title: Protestant Civic Art date: 2005 words: 771 flesch: 44 summary: Forced in the last century to seriously question its every bedrock precept, the Church has practiced the strategy of holding tight to its most central core beliefs, while allowing other important beliefs to be nearly lost or forgotten, or at least held so loosely that they are rarely seen by Christians as having immediate relevance in the actual activities of the Church. If the Church can reacquaint itself with its lost values, it can simultaneously restore both its own internal culture, and aid in the restoration of art, architecture and other cultural activities inside and outside of the Church. keywords: church cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk04t7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk04t7c.txt item: #4232 of 4945 id: tt44pk04v2z author: Jaelyn Renee Farris title: Adolescent Parenting, Subthreshold Neglect, and Infant Attachment date: 2007 words: 142 flesch: 36 summary: On average, teen mothers were more neglectful than low-resource and high-resource adult mothers; however, the rates of insecure and disorganized attachment did not differ significantly between teens and adults. Subthreshold neglect was defined as poor parenting that was not severe enough to mandate involvement of child protection agencies. keywords: subthreshold cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk04v2z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk04v2z.txt item: #4233 of 4945 id: tt44pk04w0k author: Jonathan Reed Lyon title: Cooperation, Compromise and Conflict Avoidance: Family Relationships in the House of Andechs, ca. 1100-1204 date: 2004 words: 352 flesch: 38 summary: This dissertation proposes a new model for examining the political strategies of noble families during the central Middle Ages. Part III proposes a series of new directions in the study of medieval noble houses. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk04w0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk04w0k.txt item: #4234 of 4945 id: tt44pk04w59 author: Stephen Adam Seagrave title: Beyond Ancients and Moderns: Solving the Puzzle of Natural Justice date: 2010 words: 340 flesch: 25 summary: Natural rights and natural law, or modern and pre-modern orientations in moral and political philosophy more broadly, need not be characterized in terms of opposition or even an order of priority; they are, rather, complementary elements that join to form a true conception of natural justice. Natural rights, such as the rights to one's life, liberty, and external property, are primarily justified by human beings' self-ownership through self-consciousness. keywords: natural cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk04w59.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk04w59.txt item: #4235 of 4945 id: tt44pk04x8n author: Ashley L. Greene title: Narratives of Power: History Education and Statecraft in Uganda date: 1904 words: 357 flesch: 33 summary: Tracing the development of history curricula through Uganda's transition from British colony to independent state, I explore how political elites have appropriated history education in their quests to win the hearts, minds, and votes of young people. Narratives of Power examines the interaction between history education and statecraft in Uganda since 1925. keywords: history cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk04x8n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk04x8n.txt item: #4236 of 4945 id: tt44pk0518v author: Enrique Colón title: Visual Expressions to Counter Digital Misinformation date: 1904 words: 171 flesch: 21 summary: Given the serious ramifications of digital misinformation, this study advances a new subcategory of Internet memes, identified as infoMemes, as viable countermeasures: First, by establishing infoMemes as a practical method for dissemination of verifiable facts; second, by advancing guidelines for their production and diffusion across social platforms. The objective is to empower practitioners such as journalists and activists with a better understanding of the techniques, tools, and skills required to produce content capable of countering the adverse effects of digital misinformation. keywords: misinformation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk0518v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk0518v.txt item: #4237 of 4945 id: tt44pk05j3s author: Hyunjin Deborah Kwak title: Building and Burning Bridges: Solidarity and Contention among Peace Activists in Mindanao date: 1904 words: 211 flesch: 25 summary: Organizational focus constrains group action over time, and differences in foci among activist groups often lead to tensions when they try to cooperate within the same network. Civil society organizations and networks of Christian, Moro, and Indigenous peace activists played a critical role in the peace accord negotiations and social reconciliation efforts. keywords: peace cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk05j3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk05j3s.txt item: #4238 of 4945 id: tt44pk05j9v author: Ronald Mau title: Financial Intermediation, Monetary Policy, and Macroeconomics date: 1904 words: 354 flesch: 41 summary: Chapter 1 investigates the role commercial banks play in this relationship by (i) providing business cycle facts for commercial bank balance sheet items (quantities) and balance sheet shares (allocation) along with standard macroeconomic business cycle facts and (ii) characterizing commercial bank responses to monetary policy shocks using local projection methods. A key result is the substitution by commercial banks between liability types in response to monetary policy shocks. keywords: policy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk05j9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk05j9v.txt item: #4239 of 4945 id: tt44pk05q3b author: Aurelio Valarezo-Dueñas title: 'Para el bien universal y quietud de esta república y provincia': Political Culture, Representation and Policy Making in Seventeenth-Century Northern Andes date: 2019 words: 337 flesch: 24 summary: I try to deepen knowledge on Morga´s career in an attempt to understand four aspects of political culture in the Real Audiencia in Quito in the seventeenth century:political practices, factions, means of political representation, and social inclusion. That Spanish authorities negotiated obedience with locally powerful and particular interests is not a new idea, but I contribute to the field by revealing and describing patterns of political behavior in the audiencias. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk05q3b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk05q3b.txt item: #4240 of 4945 id: tt44pk05r29 author: Andrew Mach title: Claiming America: Irish-Catholic Memory and the Nation, 1865-1925 date: 2019 words: 267 flesch: 46 summary: By placing Irish Catholics at the center of analysis, this study further advances the scholarship on Civil War memory in three significant ways. The narrative begins in the war's immediate aftermath and continues up to 1925, after which time interest in memorialization ebbed as a new generation who came of age during World War I took on leadership roles within Irish America. keywords: war cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk05r29.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk05r29.txt item: #4241 of 4945 id: tt44pk05x2v author: Ben Middleton title: A New Solution to the Curry Paradox date: 2020 words: 129 flesch: 31 summary: Second, I prove completeness for BQLCDR, the extension of BQLCD obtained by only allowing reflexive worlds to serve as counterexamples to logical consequence. First, I construct a canonical model for constant domain basic first-order logic (BQLCD), the logic obtained model-theoretically by dropping the requirement on the Kripke models for constant domain intuitionistic first-order logic that the accessibility relation is reflexive. keywords: logic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk05x2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk05x2v.txt item: #4242 of 4945 id: tt44pk05x36 author: Numan Sirin title: Interaction of Down-Valley Flow with Ambient Flow in Complex Terrain date: 2020 words: 280 flesch: 53 summary: Flow near the land surface is primarily driven by topography and temperature, whereas ambient flows aloft are primarily pressure driven. The study investigates and analyzes the complex interaction between the land surface, near-surface down-valley flow, and ambient flow aloft. keywords: valley cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk05x36.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk05x36.txt item: #4243 of 4945 id: tt44pk05z9k author: Pedro Henrique Amorim Valenca title: Nonequilibrium Trajectory Sampling (NETS): A New Unrestricted Trajectory Sampling Method date: 2021 words: 123 flesch: 37 summary: This method is based on tracking the initial and final positions of unrestricted trajectories that are launched in short simulations. This tracking populates a transition matrix, where each matrix entry corresponds to predetermined states defined in the initial step of the method. keywords: method cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tt44pk05z9k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tt44pk05z9k.txt item: #4244 of 4945 id: tx31qf8839m author: Stephanie Klem title: 'Peace and War' by Peter Paul Rubens date: 2011 words: 411 flesch: 54 summary: 'The Allegory of Peace and War' (National Gallery, London) by Peter Paul Rubens was painted as a gift for King Charles I during the artist's diplomatic sojourn in England from 1629 to 1630. 'Peace and War' has been understood as a means of celebrating the success of the peace negotiations between Spain and England and encouraging Charles I to quickly ratify the peace treaty once it was delivered to England. keywords: peace cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf8839m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf8839m.txt item: #4245 of 4945 id: tx31qf8840t author: Robert Eugene Brenneman title: Faith and the Foreigner: Exploring the Impact of Religion on Immigration Attitudes date: 2005 words: 139 flesch: 30 summary: This study uses data from the General Social Survey to determine whether religious affiliation or attendance affect attitudes about immigrants and immigration policy. Ordered logistic regression of data at the national level shows that Jews and the non-religious are the most likely to hold tolerant attitudes toward immigrants followed by Catholics even after controlling for a variety of socio-demographic controls. keywords: immigrants cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf8840t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf8840t.txt item: #4246 of 4945 id: tx31qf88415 author: Ling Sheng title: Thermodynamic Modeling of U(VI) Adsorption onto Bacteria: Implications for Quantifying Bioavailability Relationships date: 2013 words: 513 flesch: 30 summary: Based on the results of the first two studies, the third study (Chapter 4) focused on the enzymatic reduction of U(VI) by bacteria in systems with elevated concentrations of NaHCO3, revealing a strong positive correlation between the U(VI) reduction rate and the total concentration of adsorbed U(VI). The successful use of surface complexation modeling to relate U speciation to enzymatic reduction rates in this study may enable predictions of enzymatic U(VI) reduction kinetics or bioavailability of uranium to bacteria in complex geologic settings. keywords: u(vi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf88415.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf88415.txt item: #4247 of 4945 id: tx31qf8842h author: Jordan Leslie Scott title: A Biochemical Investigation of Mechanisms of Peripheral Phosphoinositide-Binding Proteins date: 2014 words: 291 flesch: 29 summary: Several conserved protein families dock at cellular membranes in order to target catalytic domains to membrane-localized substrates, to metabolize lipids, and to spatially re-organize or deform membranes. As these Nedd4 ubiquitin ligases have been shown to regulate important cellular processes such as membrane receptor endocytosis, growth factor signaling, epithelial to mesenchymal transition in cancer cells, and viral egress, this work provides a platform on which to understand how these proteins regulate cellular substrates via their localization to membranes. keywords: protein cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf8842h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf8842h.txt item: #4248 of 4945 id: tx31qf88446 author: Glen P Ryland title: Translating Africa for Germans: The Rhenish Mission in Southwest Africa, 1829-1936 date: 2013 words: 353 flesch: 43 summary: This dissertation examines German Protestant missionaries in Southwest Africa, their networks in Germany, and their notions of race. They took part in the German genocide of the Herero and Nama (1904-1907) and remained in Southwest Africa after Germany lost its colonies during World War I. After 1916, the Rhenish Mission struggled to regain support. keywords: missionaries cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf88446.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf88446.txt item: #4249 of 4945 id: tx31qf8845j author: Xiaoyi Zhang title: 'Il Sommo piacere' - The Crescendo of Love in the Commedia date: 2015 words: 48 flesch: 31 summary: My thesis explores the use of 'piacere' in the Commedia, and argues that there are the crescendo of 'piacere', the imitatio amoris, and the increase of the nuptial imagery which reflect the development of Italian lyric poetry and the importance of the Song of Songs to the Commedia. keywords: piacere cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf8845j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf8845j.txt item: #4250 of 4945 id: tx31qf8846w author: Kortny Daniel Hall title: Potential Flow Model for Plasma Actuation as a Lift Enhancement Device date: 2005 words: 167 flesch: 53 summary: This thesis describes potential flow models as first-order design tools for the application of plasma actuation as plasma flaps on airfoils and wings. The premise for this work is born from research indicating that a constant increment of lift enhancement can be achieved through the use of plasma actuation on the surface of airfoils. keywords: plasma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf8846w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf8846w.txt item: #4251 of 4945 id: tx31qf88477 author: Kristi Marie Bray title: Investigating the Role of Cdc42 in Mammary Gland Development and Breast Cancer date: 2013 words: 362 flesch: 35 summary: Using novel conditional knockout (KO) and overexpression (OE) mouse MG models, my studies revealed for the first time critical roles for Cdc42 in mammary epithelial proliferation, migration, adhesion, stromal interactions, and morphogenesis and support a working hypothesis for how Cdc42 is functioning during MG development. Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women and is responsible for the largest number of cancer related deaths in women across the globe. keywords: cdc42 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf88477.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf88477.txt item: #4252 of 4945 id: tx31qf8848k author: Anselma Dolcich-Ashley title: Precept, Rights and Ecclesial Governance: A Moral-Theological Analysis of the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis in the U.S. date: 2011 words: 347 flesch: 16 summary: In performing this task, church governance must pass the test of plausibility in practical application and of consistency with Catholic moral principles and doctrinal commitment in order to be effective and authentic. The Sixth Commandment demands well-functioning communal sexual boundaries, which in turn require protection of the community's members, a key task of church governing authority. keywords: church cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf8848k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf8848k.txt item: #4253 of 4945 id: tx31qf88504 author: Lei Wang title: Identification and Characterization of Protein Enhancers of Antifreeze Proteins from Overwintering Beetle Larvae Dendroides Canadensis date: 2007 words: 345 flesch: 56 summary: A yeast two-hybrid screen was performed using certain hemolymph DAFPs as'bait' to identify endogenous protein enhancers. Therefore, glycerol enhances activity by stimulating interactions between DAFPs and between DAFPs and enhancer proteins, such as the thaumatin-like protein. keywords: dafps cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf88504.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf88504.txt item: #4254 of 4945 id: tx31qf8852t author: Ann Staudt title: Identification of Environmental Factors Critical to the Production of Exopolysaccharides by Rhizobium tropici date: 2010 words: 203 flesch: 37 summary: Changes to the carbon source were found to significantly impact EPS production, in terms of yield as well as EPS chemical composition. R. tropici's growth environment was further optimized for EPS production by examining the roles of pH and carbonitrogen ratio, both which were found to impact EPS production. keywords: eps cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf8852t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf8852t.txt item: #4255 of 4945 id: tx31qf88535 author: Ann Catherine Johnson title: The Effects of the Cortisol Response to Acute Stress on Executive Functioning Among Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Disruptive Behavior Disorders date: 2013 words: 202 flesch: 36 summary: Current theory suggests multiple pathways to the onset of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and comorbid Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder based on evidence of variation in the impairments observed within this population. ratings of ADHD inattentive symptoms and aggression were predictive of cortisol as indicated by area under the curve with respect to ground. keywords: functioning cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf88535.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf88535.txt item: #4256 of 4945 id: tx31qf8854h author: Trevor Mendo Cickovski title: BioLogo, a Domain-Specific Language for Morphogenesis date: 2004 words: 126 flesch: 25 summary: Many of the patterning instabilities that result from cell interaction with membrane bound chemicals can be described by mathematical models. BioLogo is a domain-specific language (DSL) which we use to provide a higher level of abstraction to the framework with understandable syntax for morphogenesis researchers, further improving extensibility of the software. keywords: morphogenesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf8854h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf8854h.txt item: #4257 of 4945 id: tx31qf8869j author: Caitlin Mills title: A Real-Time Mind Wandering Intervention during Reading date: 1904 words: 315 flesch: 30 summary: Mind wandering can have a cascading detrimental effect on reading comprehension, starting with breakdowns at the perceptual level and ending with an overall impaired conceptual understanding of a text (Smallwood, 2011). However, little is known about whether interventions can help prevent these cascading negative effects. keywords: mind cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf8869j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf8869j.txt item: #4258 of 4945 id: tx31qf88t4d author: David W. Everson title: Red Power, White Discourse: Privilege Narratives and the American Indian Movement, 1973-2015 date: 1904 words: 197 flesch: 24 summary: This discursive field shift is argued to be an outcome of a sociocultural process whereby disrupted narratives of privilege encouraged the dominant culture's privileging of narrative in order to more effectively delegitimize AIM grievances. I lend empirical support to the theoretical model by drawing on an innovative longitudinal research design that matches bystander AIM narratives from the 1970s to 2014/2015. keywords: field cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf88t4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf88t4d.txt item: #4259 of 4945 id: tx31qf88w2b author: Jared W. Coughlin title: Time-Dependent Dark Energy and the Flux Power Spectrum of the Lyman α Forest date: 2018 words: 457 flesch: 45 summary: First, dark energy is estimated to be responsible for approximately 70% of the energy content in the Universe, which means that we cannot have a complete model for the evolution of the structure in the Universe without understanding dark energy. Second, the current Standard Model of physics does not provide an explanation for dark energy. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf88w2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf88w2b.txt item: #4260 of 4945 id: tx31qf8963r author: Garrett R. FitzGerald title: Pluriversal Peacebuilding: Decolonial Dialogue, Democracy, and the Epistemic Politics of Peace date: 2020 words: 406 flesch: 10 summary: Focusing on the work of two Western democratic theorists—Chantal Mouffe and James Tully—who draw on similar Wittgensteinian resources to engage with non-Westernized forms of democratic theory and practice, the project indicates the potential risks and rewards of using these resources as a method of approaching pluriversal dialogue around specific connectors from a Westernized positionality. However, recurrent failures within the field of peacebuilding to engage in sufficiently equitable dialogue with non-Westernized understandings of peace indicate an urgent need for new theoretical and practical resources to enable Westernized scholars and practitioners to participate in genuinely pluriversal dialogue. keywords: westernized cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf8963r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf8963r.txt item: #4261 of 4945 id: tx31qf89794 author: Dayane Alfenas Reis title: Circuits and Architectures for Data-Centric Computing date: 2021 words: 428 flesch: 27 summary: In this work, computing-in-memory architectures (CiM) are proposed as solutions for overcoming the latency and energy problems associated with data transfer, as they enable a subset of logic, arithmetic, and memory operations associated with a given task are performed in memory (without transfers from/to a processor).Finally, like speed and energy consumption, the security and privacy of computer systems have become a critical research topic. Second, the high volume of data movement may result in a slowdown in the performance of data-intensive programs, and high energy consumption due to the various memory accesses needed by the application. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/tx31qf89794.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/tx31qf89794.txt item: #4262 of 4945 id: v118rb71c84 author: Carlos D Tavares title: Why Can't We Be Friends: Why Religious Congregational-Based Social Contact Matters for Close Interracial Friendships Among Adolescents date: 2009 words: 150 flesch: 33 summary: I also expect increased interracial social contact in schools and neighborhoods to increase the likelihood of adolescent close interracial friendships. The findings suggest that increased intteracial social contact in religious congregations has a significant positive effect on close adolescent interracial friendships. keywords: interracial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v118rb71c84.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v118rb71c84.txt item: #4263 of 4945 id: v118rb71c9g author: Luca B Cottini title: The Translation of The Sentimental Journey by Ugo Foscolo, or The Beginning of Italian Literary Modernity date: 2011 words: 137 flesch: 30 summary: In confronting the world of the English novel, Foscolo sees a serious and concrete possibility for the renewal of Italian literary world, through the introduction of a foreign work in the literary marketplace of Italy as well as of a new prose for discussing the problems of the present. In imitating and re-creating SterneÌøåÀå_s Journey, Foscolo discovers also a critical discipline in translating and a candid engament in criticism, rooted in VicoÌøåÀå_s historicism, which will deeply renovate the motionless Italian debate. keywords: foscolo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v118rb71c9g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v118rb71c9g.txt item: #4264 of 4945 id: v118rb71d42 author: Ted Alan Bryant title: Linguistic And Non-Linguistic Control Of Visual Attention: An Examination Of Space-Based, Color-Based, And Form-Based Selection date: 2008 words: 169 flesch: 30 summary: Costs for non-spatial cues when compared to spatial cues are best accounted for by a binding hypothesis that posits a necessary binding of location information when non-spatial cues are being used to direct spatial attention. Alternative explanations that are addressed include the nature of space (Experiment 1), perceptual feature encoding (Experiment 2), cue processing (Experiment 3), attentional guidance (Experiment 4), and object-based attentional selection (Experiment 5). keywords: spatial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v118rb71d42.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v118rb71d42.txt item: #4265 of 4945 id: v118rb71f2p author: Melissa Renee Ward George title: Parent-Child Attachment Security and Children's Socio-Emotional Adjustment During the Early School Years date: 2010 words: 139 flesch: 12 summary: Analyses indicated insecurity with mother was associated with externalizing behavior and school adjustment difficulties, while insecurity with father was associated with friendship difficulties; the interaction was not associated with adjustment. Research has supported the prominent influence of attachment security on many facets of adjustment; however, findings are primarily based in examining attachment with mother in infancy. keywords: adjustment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v118rb71f2p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v118rb71f2p.txt item: #4266 of 4945 id: v118rb71f7d author: Alanna Elizabeth Sedgwick title: Cellular Mechanisms of Tumor Cell Invasion date: 2013 words: 357 flesch: 27 summary: Robust motility is also integral for tumor cell invasion, and we describe how signaling of the small GTPase ARF6 coordinates these activities. Critical to ARF6-mediated regulation of tumor cell invasion are the activities of the GTPase activating proteins (GAPs) and exchange factors (GEFs) that control its nucleotide status. keywords: arf6 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v118rb71f7d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v118rb71f7d.txt item: #4267 of 4945 id: v118rb71k5z author: Landon Lehman title: Counting Operators in Effective Field Theories date: 1904 words: 237 flesch: 43 summary: This problem can be extended beyond the Standard Model effective field theory to encompass generic effective field theories and the question of writing down a minimal Lagrangian at some desired mass order. Given this, it is of both theoretical and phenomenological interest to enumerate a minimal basis for the operators in this EFT at various mass dimensions. keywords: theory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v118rb71k5z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v118rb71k5z.txt item: #4268 of 4945 id: v118rb7241t author: Brendan J. Mahoney title: Understanding Response Mechanisms of Post-Translational Phosphorylation in Signaling Proteins date: 1904 words: 282 flesch: 42 summary: Enhanced understanding of the atomic-level response mechanisms to post-translational phosphorylation may lead to principles important in emulative drug design. While phosphorylation sites and their biological effects have been documented for numerous proteins, their atomic mechanisms are not well understood. keywords: phosphorylation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v118rb7241t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v118rb7241t.txt item: #4269 of 4945 id: v118rb7259w author: Michael T Moran title: Verification of Recoil Separator Properties through Direct Reaction Measurements date: 2018 words: 221 flesch: 39 summary: The St. George recoil separator is designed to measure (α,γ) cross sections of astrophysical interest in inverse kinematics. Utilization of the separator for measuring cross sections of astrophysical interest that were not considered during the design phase is an additional benefit of the commissioning work and expands the potential domain of study for the separator. keywords: separator cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v118rb7259w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v118rb7259w.txt item: #4270 of 4945 id: v118rb7286s author: Shreejan Shrestha title: Nepali Vernacular Aesthetics in New Light date: 2019 words: 225 flesch: 30 summary: My thesis aims to explore the potential of translating the vernacular traditional aesthetic of my home country Nepal into contemporary objects that promote cultural and emotional resonance, primarily through the medium of light fixtures. Our distinct Nepali aesthetics have been passed down through generations by skilled artisans in the form of handicrafts and religious objects. keywords: vernacular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v118rb7286s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v118rb7286s.txt item: #4271 of 4945 id: v118rb72g6n author: Sebastian Sensale Rodriguez title: DNA Kinetics and Resistive Signals in Nanopore Devices date: 2020 words: 425 flesch: 31 summary: A theory for the resistive signal of DNA molecules translocating through a charged nanopore is developed, which is extensively tested against finite element method simulations. In consistency with molecular dynamics simulations, it also shows that DNA molecules can adsorb into the pore walls, leading to higher current drops (and slower translocation times) than when translocating through the bulk. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v118rb72g6n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v118rb72g6n.txt item: #4272 of 4945 id: v118rb72g8b author: Mitsugu Hasegawa title: Micro-Fiber Coatings for Bluff Body Flow Control date: 2020 words: 483 flesch: 51 summary: The separation point of the cylinder with added micro-fiber coating is delayed compared to that of the baseline. The dominant wake-frequency and the Strouhal number of the cylinder with added micro-fiber coating is higher than that of the baseline. keywords: coating cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v118rb72g8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v118rb72g8b.txt item: #4273 of 4945 id: v118rb72m15 author: Maura R. Kraemer title: Race, Parents, and Schools: Understanding How Parental Racial Socialization Operates within Schools as Racialized Organizations date: 2023 words: 248 flesch: 42 summary: I find a significant difference in engagement in PRSOC between racial groups, whereby Black students, on average, engage in significantly higher levels of PRSOC than White students. These differences may have repercussions on students' educational experiences as Black PRSOC largely serves to protect students from racism, while White PRSOC ultimately maintains and exacerbates racial inequality in schools. keywords: students cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v118rb72m15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v118rb72m15.txt item: #4274 of 4945 id: v405s754p13 author: Karen C Chan title: The Conclusion to the Practical Syllogism: A Comparison of the Aristotelian-Thomistic and Contemporary Analytic Traditions date: 2012 words: 353 flesch: 26 summary: The practical syllogism, classically considered to be the dominant model of practical reasoning, has fallen out of favor in contemporary academic moral philosophy. I argue that this shift in conceptions about the conclusion to the practical syllogism is due to a broader shift in dominant theories of practical reasoning. keywords: practical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754p13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754p13.txt item: #4275 of 4945 id: v405s754p2f author: Ajay Kumar Gupta title: High-Bandwidth, High-Dynamic Range Signal Generation Using 1-bit Digital-to-Analog Conversion date: 2005 words: 354 flesch: 54 summary: The best prior art generates 68 dB at similar frequencies with 1 GS/s (albeit real-time) and employs quadrature upconversion for higher frequency signal generation. This dissertation provides hardware results for the generation of clean, high-dynamic range 1-tone and 2-tone signals over a wide range of sampling frequencies. keywords: sigmadelta$ cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754p2f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754p2f.txt item: #4276 of 4945 id: v405s754p3s author: Leila Amery Galang Ranis title: Synthesis and Characterization of Group VI Metal Complexes for Non-Classical Oxygenation Reactions date: 2014 words: 473 flesch: 36 summary: Reaction of M(DOPOCat)2 with a weaker amine N-oxide such as NMO only gives traces of MO2(DOPO)2, with the major product being H(DOPOQ) and paramagnetic products. Reaction of the molybdenum and tungsten complexes, M(DOPOCat)2, with excess Me3NO gives MO2(DOPO)2, with both DOPO ligands in the fully oxidized quinonoid form, in addition to paramagnetic products. keywords: metal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754p3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754p3s.txt item: #4277 of 4945 id: v405s754p44 author: Grady Charles Crahan title: Turret Optimization Using Passive Flow Control to Minimize Aero-Optic Effects date: 2014 words: 426 flesch: 33 summary: The investigation shows that the virtual duct technique is an effective passive flow-control approach for dealing with aero-optic flows on spherical turrets in subsonic to transonic flows. By the use of optimization techniques along with experimental validation, it is shown that significant increases of delaying flow separations up to an elevation angle of 162.4° while maintaining a critical Mach number over 0.7 can be attained on a hemispherical turret without a downstream fairing. keywords: optic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754p44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754p44.txt item: #4278 of 4945 id: v405s754p6t author: Sean Joseph Murphy title: Metal Nanoparticle-Graphene Oxide Composites: Photophysical Properties and Sensing Applications date: 2013 words: 451 flesch: 16 summary: Metal nanoparticles have been used for their optical properties in many applications including stained glass, cancer therapy, solar steam generation, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), and catalysis. Understanding electronic interaction between adsorbed photoactive molecules and metal nanoparticles may be of use for applications in photocatalysis or light-energy harvesting. keywords: nanoparticles cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754p6t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754p6t.txt item: #4279 of 4945 id: v405s754p75 author: James David Cotton title: Lavoro di Unificazione: Calvino's Nationalizing Fiabe date: 2014 words: 106 flesch: 47 summary: In the second and main part, I focus on various ways the Introduction suggests, alludes to, and defines an Italian national tradition through folktales. As 'lavoro di unificazione,' the Fiabe work to create a linguistic reality and participate in reforming and uniting Italian identity. keywords: italian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754p75.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754p75.txt item: #4280 of 4945 id: v405s754p8h author: Virgil Petrisor Andronache title: APOC and ADE: Theory And Practice in the Design Of Architectures for Behavior-Based Agents date: 2005 words: 247 flesch: 51 summary: We describe APOC, an architecture framework intended for the analysis and implementation of complex agent architectures. We then show how APOC can be used to implement agent architectures in various architectural design paradigms and how these designs can be analyzed in APOC. keywords: apoc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754p8h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754p8h.txt item: #4281 of 4945 id: v405s754p9v author: Nelson Eugene Walls title: Modern Forms of Prejudice in a Social Dominance Theoretical Framework: Positively Valenced Attitudes as Hierarchy-enhancing Legitimizing Myths date: 2006 words: 231 flesch: 5 summary: Using ambivalent sexism and modern heterosexism as exemplars, the dissertation finds mixed support for the hypothesis that modern forms of prejudice function as hierarchy-enhancing legitimizing myth as suggested by social dominance theory. Additionally, the dissertation uncovers a pattern whereby the opposition to equality subdomain of social dominance orientation predicts opposition to ameliorative public policies, but not subdomains of hostile or modern forms of prejudice. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754p9v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754p9v.txt item: #4282 of 4945 id: v405s754q02 author: Jacob Morley Carson title: Computational Complexity of Automatic Structures date: 2011 words: 204 flesch: 35 summary: It goes on to produce an automatic nested equivalence structure for which the set of isomorphic structures is more complicated than any set of isomorphic equivalence structures. The fourth section defines a generalization of equivalence structures, called nested equivalence structures. keywords: structures cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754q02.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754q02.txt item: #4283 of 4945 id: v405s754q1d author: Thomas Ethan Klepach title: Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Saccharide Structure date: 2008 words: 305 flesch: 14 summary: A large component of this work involved developing experimental and theoretical tools for the conformational analysis of carbohydrates, specifically parameterizing the conformational dependence of NMR spin-spin couplings for the interpretation of experimental couplings in structural terms. Broadly speaking the objective of this dissertation is the investigation of carbohydrate structure through an integrated theoretical and experimental approach. keywords: spin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754q1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754q1d.txt item: #4284 of 4945 id: v405s754q2r author: Nicholas Eugene Kottenstette title: Control of Passive Plants with Memoryless Nonlinearities over Wireless Networks date: 2007 words: 219 flesch: 16 summary: In particular we show how to: 1. synthesize discrete time passive, strictly-input passive, and strictly-output passive systems from their continuous counterparts using a inner-product equivalent sample and hold (IPESH) block (with an optional passive observer), 2. create a data-drop out, and delay tolerant l2-stable digital control network for a continuous passive plant in which: (a) the continuous passive plant can also be subject to various memoryless nonlinearities such as actuator saturation, (b) the digital controller only needs to be run when passive data is received over the wireless network, (c) the entire control network has been simulated on a theoretically validated wireless ring token network, (d) a new 'power junction' is introduced in which multiple plants and controllers can interact while preserving passivity, (e) a new distortion measure is used to evaluate these control networks, 3. determine the capacity, and mean delays of a wireless ring token network. This dissertation shows how to develop wireless networked embedded control systems (wnecs) in which the controller and the plant are isolated and can only interact over a wireless network. keywords: passive cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754q2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754q2r.txt item: #4285 of 4945 id: v405s754q4f author: Sarah Loretto Houser title: Loving Pimlico: Patriotism in the Age of the Cosmopolis date: 2009 words: 192 flesch: 30 summary: Patriotism is seen as something positive in our common political discourse; however, among political philosophers it is often seen as an unreflective and irrational love of the familiar. Secondly, I explore the concept of 'constitutional patriotism,' particularly in the work of Jan-Werner MÌÄå_ller. keywords: patriotism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754q4f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754q4f.txt item: #4286 of 4945 id: v405s754q5s author: Katherine Sorrell title: The Conditions of Legitimacy: Perceptions of Religion Among Elite Scientists in the United Kingdom date: 2013 words: 281 flesch: 41 summary: Indeed, the status quo that scientists are interested in preserving is not one of conflict between religion and science, but rather one where religion occupies an utterly separate realm from science, does not directly challenge scientific claims, and benefits society in a variety of ways that science cannot. In keeping with the dominant literature on legitimacy, I find that scientists are interested in preserving the status quo authority relationship between religion and science. keywords: science cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754q5s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754q5s.txt item: #4287 of 4945 id: v405s754q64 author: Pamela E Crane title: An Investigation of Data Collection Methods Applicable in Groundwater Research in Rural Regions of Developing Nations date: 2008 words: 348 flesch: 46 summary: It is hoped that these results will be applied to address the growing disconnect between the current direction of groundwater research and the great need for such research and monitoring in rural regions of developing nations. Monte Carlo studies and a case study in Benin investigated data collection methods applicable in rural regions of developing nations. keywords: studies cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754q64.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754q64.txt item: #4288 of 4945 id: v405s754q7g author: Tasha Keiko Matsumoto title: Dyslexicon date: 2010 words: 3 flesch: 6 summary: Creative Writing Thesis keywords: creative cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754q7g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754q7g.txt item: #4289 of 4945 id: v405s754w1z author: Samuel D. Jones title: Embedded Large Eddy Simulation for High Pressure Turbine Tip Clearance Analysis date: 1904 words: 245 flesch: 49 summary: This research proposes to study the effect of tip gap leakage flow in a High Pressure Turbine by means of a high resolution Embedded Large Eddy Simulation. These vortical structures affect the flow separation from the walls of the inter-turbine duct in multi-stage turbines. keywords: structures cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s754w1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s754w1z.txt item: #4290 of 4945 id: v405s755j6v author: Patrick Graff title: Teachers in Transition: The Effect of Teacher Turnover on Math Achievement date: 2019 words: 157 flesch: 55 summary: Reports in recent years have demonstrated math teacher shortages in hard-to-staff school contexts due to high rates of teacher turnover. I find that students grow only 57% and 76% as much in their math scores in years they are exposed to new and new-to-school teachers, respectively, as compared to years they are assigned to returning math teachers. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s755j6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s755j6v.txt item: #4291 of 4945 id: v405s755k5t author: Keith J. Roberts title: Unstructured Mesh Generation and Dynamic Load Balancing for Coastal Ocean Hydrodynamic Simulation date: 2019 words: 352 flesch: 29 summary: The toolkit is used to investigate the design of unstructured mesh resolution and its impact on the modeling of barotropic tides along the United States coastlines. This work examines and improves the efficiency of numerical modeling of tides, storm surge and associated flooding on unstructured meshes. keywords: mesh cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s755k5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s755k5t.txt item: #4292 of 4945 id: v405s755r2b author: Xian Wu title: Deep Learning for Sensory and Behavioral Time Series Analysis date: 2020 words: 216 flesch: 21 summary: To address this challenge, we propose three new learning architectures which capture temporal dynamics from different perspectives, including predefined resolution-aware forecasting, automated resolution-aware forecasting and customized forecasting. The key challenge in time series data is to comprehensively capture the underlying temporal pattern from sequential historical observations. keywords: series cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s755r2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s755r2b.txt item: #4293 of 4945 id: v405s755s7c author: J. Columcille Dever title: The God of Israel: A Theological Reading of Tertullian's Adversus Marcionem date: 2021 words: 627 flesch: 35 summary: I structure Chapters 5 and 6 in light of Tertullian's subtle distinction between God's uniqueness, or singularity (the claim that there is only one God) and God's unity, or simplicity (the claim that God is one). For Tertullian it is Christ, the Word made flesh, Son of God and Son of man, who reveals in all its fullness God's commitment to and involvement in creation from the beginning to the hoped-for end. keywords: tertullian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s755s7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s755s7c.txt item: #4294 of 4945 id: v405s755t4n author: Ilana Rothkopf title: Constituting Peace: Foreign Actors, Constitution-Making, and Armed Conflict date: 2022 words: 347 flesch: 25 summary: I find that contrary to my expectations, peace agreements are not necessary for international involvement in constitution-making and that there is only limited evidence of an association between international actors and constitutional substance, using the substantive case of constitutional federalism. Both CRCs and international involvement are, however, associated with reduced conflict recurrence. keywords: international cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s755t4n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s755t4n.txt item: #4295 of 4945 id: v405s755w17 author: Yuanyuan Qian title: Design, Synthesis, Evaluation and Mechanistic Elucidation of Antibacterial Agents for Gram-Positive Bacteria date: 2023 words: 326 flesch: 32 summary: The application of proteomics study leads us to two key proteins involved with C. difficile germination, which showed strong binding with oxadiazole antibacterial by microscale thermophoresis (MST) binding assay. An SAR study of the oxadiazole antibacterial was conducted to assess their bactericidal activity against C. difficile vegetative cells. keywords: difficile cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v405s755w17.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v405s755w17.txt item: #4296 of 4945 id: v692t437z0s author: Mostafa Khoshnevisan title: Intermittent Communication date: 2014 words: 376 flesch: 45 summary: One structure determines the transmitted codeword through exhaustive search, and the other structure rst detects the locations of codeword symbols and then uses them to decode. We formulate a model for intermittent communication that can capture bursty transmissions or a sporadically available channel, where in either case the receiver does not know a priori when the transmissions will occur. keywords: codeword cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v692t437z0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v692t437z0s.txt item: #4297 of 4945 id: v692t437z14 author: Martha E. Precup title: Affine Pavings of Hessenberg Varieties for Semisimple Groups date: 2013 words: 117 flesch: 43 summary: We provide a partial reduction from paving Hessenberg varieties for arbitrary elements to paving those corresponding to nilpotent elements. As a consequence, we generalize results of Tymoczko asserting that Hessenberg varieties for regular nilpotent elements in the classical cases and arbitrary elements of gl_n(C) are paved by affines. keywords: hessenberg cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v692t437z14.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v692t437z14.txt item: #4298 of 4945 id: v692t437z6v author: Tom M Trinidad title: The Word of God in Ecclesial Rites and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Comparison of Karl Barth and Louis-Marie Chauvet date: 2008 words: 232 flesch: 31 summary: Chauvet's work not only attempts to answer Barth's critique, but to incorporate contemporary trends in theology, philosophy, and anthropology in a sacramental interpretation of Christian existence. It culminates in an assessment of the particular contributions each makes to sacramental theology, suggestions towards an ecumenical sacramental theology informed by both, and a pastoral evaluation. keywords: theology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v692t437z6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v692t437z6v.txt item: #4299 of 4945 id: v692t43804r author: Zachary Zikoski title: A Parallel Adaptive Wavelet Method for Multidimensional Simulations of Hypersonic Propulsion date: 2011 words: 287 flesch: 41 summary: The Wavelet Adaptive Multiresolution Representation (WAMR) method provides a robust method for controlling spatial grid adaption --- fine grid spacing in regions of a solution requiring high resolution (i.e. near steep gradients, singularities, or near-singularities) and using much coarser grid spacing where the solution is slowly varying. Subsequently, a wide range of spatial scales often occuring in continuum physics models can be efficiently captured. keywords: method cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v692t43804r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v692t43804r.txt item: #4300 of 4945 id: v692t43809g author: Christian David McConnell title: Baptism in Visigothic Spain: Origins, Development and Interpretation date: 2006 words: 266 flesch: 42 summary: Spanish authors' rich range of interpretive motifs include a combination of regeneration language (both as rebirth and as recreation) with a Paschal context, and a seeming preference for Johannine language, all in a way that presents Paschal baptism as having a much wider range of meaning than Romans 6. It is generally assumed that the post-baptismal chrismation in Spanish baptismal rites is equivalent to confirmation, a distinctly Roman practice at the time. keywords: rites cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v692t43809g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v692t43809g.txt item: #4301 of 4945 id: v692t43812c author: Carmen J. Burlingame title: Reexamining Young Americans' Political Participation: An Optimistic Outlook for America's Future date: 2015 words: 222 flesch: 43 summary: This thesis will demonstrate through examining rates of young people's political participation in 1964, 1976, 1988, and 2000 that the current generation of young people is no less apt to vote than their ancestors and are actually more likely to participate in atypical forms of participation than individuals in their age range in previous decades. Young people (ages 18-29) historically vote at lower rates than older individuals. keywords: young cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v692t43812c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v692t43812c.txt item: #4302 of 4945 id: v692t43822p author: Jesse M. Coffman title: Wake Orientation and Its Influence on the Performance of Diffusers with Inlet Distortion date: 1904 words: 253 flesch: 47 summary: Inlet velocity distortion influences the pressure recovery and flow regimes of diffusers. Distortion at the inlet to diffusers is very common in internal flow applications. keywords: inlet cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v692t43822p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v692t43822p.txt item: #4303 of 4945 id: v692t438t8k author: Rachel M. Wiltshire title: Genomic Analyses of Anopheline Mosquitoes: Micro- and Macro-Geographic Population Structure of Two Important Malaria Vectors date: 2019 words: 362 flesch: 30 summary: This dissertation explored how the genetic and bionomic behaviors of two important anophelines might respond to alternative control interventions in attempts to interrupt sustained malaria transmission. A genome-wide approach to the analysis of population structure has the power to identify genetic processes (such as restricted gene flow or an insecticide-resistant genotype) and the genomic regions that regulate them, providing greater insight into how these mechanisms will impact upon control interventions. keywords: genetic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v692t438t8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v692t438t8k.txt item: #4304 of 4945 id: v692t438w4t author: Uryan Isik Can title: Investigation of Co-Culture Patterning and Electrophysiological Assessment Methods for Cardiac Tissue Engineering Applications date: 2019 words: 177 flesch: 23 summary: Finally, we design electrical circuit components utilizing cardiac cells, fabricate them using micropatterning techniques and characterized through electrophysiological assessment methods. We both electrically characterize and stimulate heart cells and report our results. keywords: methods cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v692t438w4t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v692t438w4t.txt item: #4305 of 4945 id: v692t439208 author: Gurdip Uppal title: Evolution and Control of Microbial Cooperation and Specialization in Dynamic Fluids date: 2020 words: 389 flesch: 45 summary: At intermediate nutrient distributions, slow microbes evolve to hitchhike on faster ones, leading to a tragedy of commons where there are no longer fast microbes left to exploit. Finally, when nutrient sources are distributed far apart, fast microbes evolve to adhere to each other, and cooperate to reduce their hydrodynamic drag, benefiting the whole population. keywords: microbes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v692t439208.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v692t439208.txt item: #4306 of 4945 id: v692t43946z author: Janice Gunther Martin title: Unburdening the Beasts: The Equine Doctors of Early Modern Castile date: 2022 words: 338 flesch: 39 summary: Despite the social and symbolic significance of equids and the dependence of Castile and so many other human societies on their health, historians have attended far less to veterinary compared to human medicine. I investigate what made these practitioners distinctive: their licensing and social organization, growing canon of texts and assertion of status, roles in legal medicine, and surgical skills. keywords: equine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v692t43946z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v692t43946z.txt item: #4307 of 4945 id: v979v12173x author: WonJae Shin title: Learning Grammar via Statistical Mechanism date: 2013 words: 112 flesch: 16 summary: The results indicate that token and category contingencies are learnable regardless of training conditions, but higher-order constituent contingency was only learnable in conditions that facilitated initial learning of bigram and trigram word frequencies. A novel word-by-word prediction paradigm, which employs a task similar to the one given to Elman's (1990, 1991, 1993) simple recurrent networks, is used in the current study to investigate whether adults exhibit learning higher-order contingencies corresponding to structural contingencies. keywords: word cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v12173x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v12173x.txt item: #4308 of 4945 id: v979v121748 author: Kathleen Ann Tonry title: William Caxton and the Labor of Literature in Fifteenth Century England date: 2005 words: 341 flesch: 33 summary: Focusing on the figure of William Caxton, the project analyzes the ways in which the advent of print intersected with late-medieval theories of literary production, and demonstrates that through his prologues, editorial interventions, and textual selections, Caxton sustained a rich and markedly literary dialogue with not only the new terms of printed production, but the complex political, economic and legal horizons of his enterprise. Thus, this project will focus on the years of Richard III's reign (1483-85) as crucial ones in understanding how Caxton constructed literary work within the new form of print, and how the role of incunables might emerge against the backdrop of fifteenth century politics. keywords: caxton cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v121748.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v121748.txt item: #4309 of 4945 id: v979v12175m author: Mary Fashbaugh title: Vulnerability inVisibility date: 2014 words: 144 flesch: 37 summary: The retreat from a more physical engagement with others and the world around us provokes me to explore and test personal boundaries of interaction, to question the integrity of sight, and to alter the viewer's relationship and role in art from visual observer to visual participant. As Western culture grows more and more touch-averse, we seem to rely on visual representation to navigate a majority of our interactions. keywords: visual cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v12175m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v12175m.txt item: #4310 of 4945 id: v979v12176z author: Victor A Ocasio title: Computability in the class of Real Closed Fields date: 2014 words: 535 flesch: 57 summary: We examine RCF and the non-elementary subclass of RCF composed of archimedean real closed fields, ARCF, from a computable structure theory perspective. Then K < ARCF.A computable structure A is relatively Delta-alpha categorical if for any copy B, keywords: computable cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v12176z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v12176z.txt item: #4311 of 4945 id: v979v12178n author: Susan M Gundersen title: How Do Word Meanings in One's First Language Influence Learning of Similar Words in a Second Language? date: 2013 words: 293 flesch: 35 summary: Results from both Experiments 1 and 2 confirm predictions of the Competition Model (2008) concerning the relative difficulty of differentiation versus unitization, and the effects of word frequency on L2 learning. This dissertation outlines two experiments aimed at investigating how adults learn words in a second language (L2) that do not have one exact equivalent in the first language (L1). keywords: words cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v12178n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v12178n.txt item: #4312 of 4945 id: v979v121790 author: Ryan A. Dombkowski title: Effects of Hydrogen Sulfide in Vertebrate Smooth Muscle date: 2008 words: 358 flesch: 39 summary: These studies found; (1) hypoxia and H2S produce temporally and quantitatively identical responses; (2) responses to hypoxia and H2S are mutually exclusive, the presence of one stimulus, substantially or completely eliminates the response to the other; (3) H2S is synthesized by SM; (4) increasing [substrate] for H2S production increases vessel response to hypoxia; and (5) inhibition of H2S synthesis inhibits responses to hypoxia. While mechanisms of H2S action have been proposed, these models require further testing and the biological role of H2S within the vasculature remains to be elucidated. keywords: h2s cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v121790.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v121790.txt item: #4313 of 4945 id: v979v121806 author: Bo Yang title: Micromachining of GaN using photoelectrochemical etching date: 2006 words: 418 flesch: 36 summary: It offers several advantages over conventional power sensors by allowing it to be easily integrated with low-loss coplanar transmission lines and GaN-based transistors. GaN and related materials have excellent electrical, optical and chemical properties for a wide range of applications including high power, high temperature electronics, LEDs and lasers, sensors, and MEMS in harsh environments. keywords: etching cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v121806.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v121806.txt item: #4314 of 4945 id: v979v12181j author: Justin Biddle title: Socializing Science: On the Epistemic Significance of the Institutional Context of Science date: 2008 words: 343 flesch: 37 summary: Given that scientific knowledge is intrinsically social, the question of how research should be organized takes on added epistemic significance. The second part of the dissertation is an attempt to do this, particularly in the area of pharmaceutical research. keywords: research cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v12181j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v12181j.txt item: #4315 of 4945 id: v979v12182w author: Cheng Wang title: Three Essays on Triadic Evolution in a Large-scale Mobile Phone Network date: 2012 words: 341 flesch: 43 summary: Real social networks are often compared to random graphs in order to assess whether their typological structure could be the result of random processes. I also review various theories of triangle formation and persistence – balance theory, predisposition theory, tie strength theory, status homophily theory and embeddedness theory – and assess the extent to which reported findings are consistent with these theories. keywords: random cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v12182w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v12182w.txt item: #4316 of 4945 id: v979v12184k author: John Dana Rothlisberger title: Human-mediated dispersal of aquatic nonindigenous species: impacts and interventions date: 2009 words: 629 flesch: 37 summary: I first investigate the pathways by which aquatic NIS are introduced to the GL to learn if introduction pathway is related to where species originate and how likely they are to have spread beyond the GL basin. Given the importance of ballast water release in bringing novel species to the GL, I use a novel technique to estimate the economic impacts in the region of ecological changes caused by populations of aquatic NIS introduced by this pathway. keywords: nis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v12184k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v12184k.txt item: #4317 of 4945 id: v979v121868 author: Prasad Sarangapani title: Experimental Investigation of Spatially Heterogeneous Dynamics in Dense Colloidal Liquids date: 2010 words: 326 flesch: 30 summary: In the second part of this work, we focus exclusively on heterogeneous dynamics and methods to extract dynamic length scales associated with spatially heterogeneous dynamics. Additionally, we examine how sensitivity to dynamic length scales is dependent on the sizes of tracers embedded in matrix suspensions that are close to the colloidal glass transition. keywords: heterogeneous cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v121868.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v121868.txt item: #4318 of 4945 id: v979v12187m author: Patrick Douglas Shirey title: An interdisciplinary approach to inform ecological restoration and environmental policy: Merging ecology, history, and law date: 2013 words: 331 flesch: 48 summary: Chapter 2 describes a study of the Namekagon River, WI, including a review of the river's history, temperature monitoring, and management options in the context of existing law and policy. A long-term monitoring of the fish community response in Juday Creek, IN is reported in Chapter 3. keywords: endangered cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v12187m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v12187m.txt item: #4319 of 4945 id: v979v12188z author: Jacob Matthew Plummer title: Development of New Phenanthroline-Based Chiral Ligands, Asymmetric Additions to Lactams, and the Completion of the Synthesis of Trichostatin A date: 2010 words: 296 flesch: 40 summary: Therefore, only a limited number of chiral 1,10-phenanthroline derivatives have been synthesized and used in asymmetric reactions. 1,10-Phenanthroline derivatives are important for a variety of synthetic applications and serve as effective ligands in a wide selection of reactions. keywords: ligands cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v12188z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v12188z.txt item: #4320 of 4945 id: v979v121899 author: Juan Andres Moraes title: Party Competition and Political Representation in Uruguay date: 2010 words: 351 flesch: 34 summary: This comparative analysis allows me to map the type of party competition for each country in the region, as well as the predominant type of representation provided by parties in the form of policy or service. Political parties and other agents, such as factions and individual politicians, represent citizens by providing either policies or particularistic services. keywords: parties cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v121899.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v121899.txt item: #4321 of 4945 id: v979v121d86 author: Mallory K. Smith title: Chasing Triaxiality: Probing Structure in the A ~ 110 Region via Lifetime Measurements of 109Ru and 109Tc with Fast Timing date: 1904 words: 392 flesch: 41 summary: This long-proposed axially asymmetric deformation has recently been the focus of many experimental and theoretical efforts, and while a handful of triaxial nuclei have been observed, rigid triaxial deformation in the nuclear ground state has not been established. Signatures of shape-phase transitions, triaxial deformations, shape coexistence and oblate configurations have been reported within a small window of the nuclear landscape, from both theory studies and experimental measurements. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v121d86.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v121d86.txt item: #4322 of 4945 id: v979v121x8v author: Holly T. Ferguson title: A Semantic Graph Based Approach for Automating Big Spatial Data Interoperability Used in Decision Support date: 1904 words: 1068 flesch: 20 summary: Created a Linked Data View methodology for automating data extraction using established semantic mappings; this approach enables information from several data schemas to be simultaneously translated into pattern-based RDF making interoperable spatial data. Resilience, Energy, LCA, and Built Environment Contributions: LD Views were used to automate semantic graph population with spatiotemporal data; these are implemented and in use currently for BIM, CityGML, OGC, IFCXML, and GBXML, but the method is extensible to other spatial data schema. keywords: data; semantic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v121x8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v121x8v.txt item: #4323 of 4945 id: v979v121z4s author: Baoxu Shi title: Improving Knowledge Graph Quality with Network Representation Learning date: 1904 words: 163 flesch: 38 summary: Knowledge graphs serve as an essential source for many tasks in data mining, artificial intelligence, and interdisciplinary challenges such as entity disambiguation, fact checking, and computational journalism. In this work, I present a representation learning-based approach to improve the quality of knowledge graphs through a process called Knowledge Graph Completion. keywords: knowledge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v121z4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v121z4s.txt item: #4324 of 4945 id: v979v121z6g author: Jason M. Grant title: Analysis of Crowd Behavior Based on Optical Flow: Detection, Classification, and Clustering date: 1904 words: 318 flesch: 44 summary: Crowd behavior analysis, a subdomain of human activity recognition, is a broad topic in computer vision that includes crowd management, public space design, virtual environments, visual surveillance, and intelligent environments. Lastly, we present a method for video clustering of crowd motion based upon optical flow. keywords: motion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v121z6g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v121z6g.txt item: #4325 of 4945 id: v979v121z9h author: Tyler Duane Gardner title: Writing Reality: The Master Chord and Wider Views in Antebellum America date: 1904 words: 292 flesch: 30 summary: In narrating Stowe and Thoreau's struggle to define America's highest priority, this project illuminates the contingencies and violence involved in forging the nation's modern values, while interrogating the limits of deliberative democracy and the possibility of peaceful coexistence. While some politicians attempted to continue the nation's founding protocol of compromising around the principle of unity, others decided that the only way out of the bog was locating a solid foundation—a higher law than the Constitution that could provide a transcendent standard from which to regulate national policy. keywords: nation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v121z9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v121z9h.txt item: #4326 of 4945 id: v979v122120 author: Mark J. Summe title: Inkjet Printed Chemically-Patterned Polymeric Nanomaterials for Aqueous Membrane Separations date: 2018 words: 332 flesch: 33 summary: Furthermore, printing enables the patterning of different, opposing chemistries onto a single support, which can engender different transport phenomena that either individual component. Template assisted ink-jet printing of polymeric materials is an effective method of patterning permeable surfaces to design different nanostructures (i.e., nanotubes, nanowires, thin films) by simply varying printing conditions. keywords: transport cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v122120.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v122120.txt item: #4327 of 4945 id: v979v12251w author: Hallie Nuzum title: Validity of Personality Ratings from the Self, Informants, Interviews, and Documents date: 2019 words: 239 flesch: 21 summary: Hierarchical regression analyses demonstrated the strength of within-source associations, with modest incremental contributions from other sources. In this study, I examined the validity of ratings via various methods: measurement reliability, cross-source agreement, and relations with psychosocial-functioning and psychopathology outcomes. keywords: sources cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v12251w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v12251w.txt item: #4328 of 4945 id: v979v122945 author: John William Nelson title: The Geography to Command a Continent: Native Peoples, Europeans, and the Chicago Portage date: 2020 words: 367 flesch: 28 summary: This study focuses on one five-mile stretch of muddy ground connecting the Des Plaines and Chicago Rivers, in order to explore the continued importance of environmental factors and local geographies within the wider history of indigenous-European relations on the North American continent. They adopted indigenous techniques of canoeing and relied on Native knowledge of local portage environments to extend maritime networks deep within the continent. keywords: north cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v122945.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v122945.txt item: #4329 of 4945 id: v979v12295h author: Scarlett Wardrop title: THE CREEK GENERATOR date: 2020 words: 19 flesch: 49 summary: A collection of poems that spins together flora, technology, and ritual, along with a computer program that generates poetry. keywords: poetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v12295h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v12295h.txt item: #4330 of 4945 id: v979v122b5t author: Anton (Povzner) Lahaie title: Bonds and Boundaries: Constructions of Community in Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Colonies date: 2021 words: 237 flesch: 28 summary: The conclusion briefly revisits the case studies in formulating a counter to nationalist appropriations of early colonial community visions. This dissertation surveys a range of community visions from the early stages of British colonization of North America. keywords: community cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v122b5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v122b5t.txt item: #4331 of 4945 id: v979v122b96 author: Nicholas J. Zak title: Use of Bimetallic Nanoparticles in the Catalytic Hydrogel Membrane Reactor to Treat Nitrate in Drinking Water date: 2021 words: 355 flesch: 42 summary: The primary goal of this thesis was to expand the CHMR technology to successfully treat nitrate (NO3-) in water by using bimetallic catalysts. Ex-situ catalysts incorporated into the hydrogel were shown to be more active than in-situ synthesized catalysts (99.6% vs 78.7% nitrite (NO2-) removal). keywords: chmr cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v122b96.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v122b96.txt item: #4332 of 4945 id: v979v122c3f author: Julian Breandán Dean title: Postcolonial Tragedy: Sacrifice, Failure, and the Resiliency of Hope date: 2021 words: 238 flesch: 45 summary: This dissertation looks at the legacy of tragedy in the postcolonies to ask questions about the interaction of form and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Engaging with and pushing back against the model of tragedy prescribed by Aristotle, these postcolonial tragedies open up new ways of thinking about hope and resiliency in the catharsis of staged tragedy. keywords: tragedy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v122c3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v122c3f.txt item: #4333 of 4945 id: v979v122f32 author: Lisa M. Hom title: A Role for Fibroblast-Derived SASP Factors in the Activation of Pyroptotic Cell Death in Mammary Epithelial Cells date: 2023 words: 369 flesch: 36 summary: Within the microenvironment, there exist many cell types including epithelial cells, tumor cells, immune cells, and stromal cells. Senescent cells exhibit alterations in gene expression and are characterized by substantial changes in their secretome; termed the senescence associated secretory phenotype (SASP). keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/v979v122f32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/v979v122f32.txt item: #4334 of 4945 id: vd66vx04h2g author: Robert J Kane title: Hydroxyapatite-Reinforced Collagen Tissue Engineering Scaffolds date: 2012 words: 304 flesch: 22 summary: Scaffolds have been fabricated from a wide variety of materials and most have showed some success, either as bone graft substitutes or as tissue engineering scaffolds. Biomimetic approaches to scaffold design using the two main components of bone tissue, collagen and hydroxyapatite, resulted in scaffolds with superior biological properties but relatively poor mechanical properties and scaffold architecture. keywords: scaffold cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx04h2g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx04h2g.txt item: #4335 of 4945 id: vd66vx04h3t author: Damien Gadomski title: Investigations Into the Presence Of PCDDs in Ball Clay Exhibiting the 'Natural Formation' Profile date: 2005 words: 365 flesch: 39 summary: Samples exhibiting this PCDD/F 'natural formation' profile include ball clay and kaolin from different regions throughout the world. Although the PCDD/Fs found in ball clay and kaolin are thought to be of natural origin, no definitive evidence has been brought forward to explain their presence in this specific environmental matrix. keywords: clay cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx04h3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx04h3t.txt item: #4336 of 4945 id: vd66vx04h8j author: Arun Ramachandran title: The effect of flow geometry on shear-induced particle segregation and resuspension date: 2008 words: 353 flesch: 27 summary: In chapters 2 through 4, we investigate the impact of these secondary currents on the concentration profiles developed in suspension flow through conduits of arbitrary geometry, and in resuspension flow through a tube. In chapter 5, we examine the radial segregation of particles in the squeeze flow of concentrated suspensions. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx04h8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx04h8j.txt item: #4337 of 4945 id: vd66vx04j4g author: Charles Gray Lawrence title: Dissecting the Role of Dectin-1 in the Interaction Between Mycobacteria and Macrophage date: 2010 words: 181 flesch: 17 summary: Recent studies in our laboratory indicate that Dectin-1 is also engaged upon macrophage infection with non-pathogenic mycobacteria and is required for the optimal macrophage pro-inflammatory response. Previous studies indicate that infection of macrophages with pathogenic mycobacteria like M. tuberculosis and M. avium result in limited production of pro-inflammatory mediators relative to cells infected with attenuated or non-pathogenic mycobacteria. keywords: dectin-1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx04j4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx04j4g.txt item: #4338 of 4945 id: vd66vx04j65 author: Timothy Ian Morrow title: Development and application of molecular dynamics methods to the study of ionic liquids date: 2006 words: 364 flesch: 24 summary: Many of the current computational methods for the prediction of phase equilibrium properties rely upon trial particle insertion/deletion steps or particle transformation steps. It is shown that dynamic particle transformations are nearly an order of magnitude more efficient than standard MC-type transformations. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx04j65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx04j65.txt item: #4339 of 4945 id: vd66vx04k1r author: Sarah Marie Ward title: The Role of Inhibitor of DNA Binding 2 (ID2) in the Mammalian Circadian Clock date: 2010 words: 495 flesch: 37 summary: Chapter 3 illustrates that ID2 has a role within the liver tissue as a regulator of clock output. It appears the most critical property of circadian clocks is the ability to anticipate environmental changes which can enable organisms to adapt and organize their physiology and behavior such that it occurs at biologically advantageous times of the day. keywords: clock cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx04k1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx04k1r.txt item: #4340 of 4945 id: vd66vx04k4s author: Wenting Lu title: The Development of 93Zr/93Nb Isobar Separation Technique for Future 93Zr AMS Measurement date: 2015 words: 387 flesch: 42 summary: 93Zr and the stable Zr isotopes (except 96Zr) are traditionally thought to be mainly produced by the s-process in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars and secondarily, by the r-process in massive stars. The main challenges in the AMS measurement of the 93Zr isotope are the separation of 93Zr from stable Zr isotopes (limited by the facility infrastructure) and the separation of 93Zr from its stable isobar 93Nb (one atomic number difference).The development of a technique for future 93Zr AMS measurements has been performed at the Nuclear Science Laboratory (NSL) of the University of Notre Dame. keywords: 93zr cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx04k4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx04k4s.txt item: #4341 of 4945 id: vd66vx04m43 author: Allison Edgren title: The Needy, the "Lazy," and the "Lying": Beggars and Begging in Late Medieval Germany date: 1904 words: 347 flesch: 39 summary: These studies nuance the negative view of beggars suggested by an isolated reading of the first begging laws, revealing instead a complicated interplay between local events, rising suspicions of begging, and continued impulses toward charity. As most of the early German begging legislation sought to regulate which people could beg and where they could do so, this section examines how perceptions of beggars were reflected spatially in attempts to regulate permissible begging locations, and then considers how and why medieval donors discriminated among the poor. keywords: beggars cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx04m43.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx04m43.txt item: #4342 of 4945 id: vd66vx0569c author: David P. Squires title: A Defense of Aristotle's Constituent Ontology date: 1904 words: 356 flesch: 31 summary: My first chapter is an introduction that contextualizes the arguments of my dissertation by reviewing the definitions of constituent and relational ontology and highlighting the features of constituent ontology that will be the focus of the main chapters. What can be said in defense of the coherence and truth of constituent ontology? keywords: constituent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx0569c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx0569c.txt item: #4343 of 4945 id: vd66vx0580w author: Sam VandenHeuvel title: Exploring Reaction Versatility of Nine-Atom Germanium Clusters date: 1904 words: 65 flesch: 42 summary: Contained in this dissertation are reaction pathways of the nine-atom germanium cluster with (i) a series of homo- and hetero-substituted alkynes, (ii) simple organic groups by suspension, and (iii) common nucleophilic reagents in the presence of partially oxidized cluster. The potential of organo-Zintl chemistry has been known for several decades and the aim of this work is to expand on this groundwork. keywords: cluster cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx0580w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx0580w.txt item: #4344 of 4945 id: vd66vx05b7x author: Ju-Young Kim title: Tandem Optical Detection Strategies Based on Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Spectroscopy date: 2019 words: 426 flesch: 26 summary: To that end, highly ordered nanopore electrodes arrays (NEAs) with a single Au ring electrode were used to electrostatically capture bis-MSB AgNPs, characterized by simultaneous amperometry and SERS spectroscopy of AgNP oxidation and enhanced Raman scattering by bis-MSB at silver-gold hot spots, respectively. By analyzing the spectra with multivariate curve resolution analysis, SPR-SERS spectroscopy demonstrated its potential to distinguish specific binding signals from the net sensorgram, thereby expanding the capabilities of SPR spectroscopy. keywords: sers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx05b7x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx05b7x.txt item: #4345 of 4945 id: vd66vx05c9x author: Zehao Pan title: Focused Electric Field: Nanoscale Hotspot and Droplet Electrokinetics for High-Resolution Bioanalysis date: 2019 words: 574 flesch: 32 summary: In contrast, enhancing the shear rate of a flow field by the same factor would require a bulky mechanical micropump with high pressure and high precision. As an alternative approach to the conventional flow-based microfluidic methods, electrokinetics offers new possibilities to tackle the current issues in high resolution bioanalysis. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx05c9x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx05c9x.txt item: #4346 of 4945 id: vd66vx05d8w author: Ruth Carmi title: The Israeli Kidnapped Prince – A Glance into the Phenomenology of Ethiopian Ethnicity, and Discrimination in Israel date: 2019 words: 318 flesch: 34 summary: On December 2013, a seven-justice panel of the Israeli Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that a three-year-old Ethiopian toddler would remain with his foster non-Ethiopian family rather than being adopted by his Ethiopian aunt. This supposedly specific case of adoption and the Israeli regulations and practices surrounding adoption work together to marginalize Ethiopian Jews under the cover of the law, and it proclaims to neutrality. keywords: ethiopian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx05d8w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx05d8w.txt item: #4347 of 4945 id: vd66vx05f6h author: Lydia R. Wermer title: Dual-Pulse Laser-Induced Breakdown for Ignition Applications date: 2019 words: 619 flesch: 52 summary: The breakdown perimeter, temperature, and electron number density all increase with increasing total laser pulse energy for DPLIB and SPLIB. For SPLIB, the hot plume region increased with increasing incident pulse energy. keywords: dplib cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx05f6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx05f6h.txt item: #4348 of 4945 id: vd66vx05p8c author: Mohsen Darayi title: Investigation of the Buckling Instabilities in Multilayer Systems under Constraints, Focusing on the Mechanics of Brain Folding date: 2022 words: 176 flesch: 16 summary: The process of gyrification, by which the brain develops the intricate pattern of gyral hills and sulcal valleys, results from biological and mechanical interactions during brain development. In addition to innovative experimental studies to answer these questions, researchers have developed various mathematical models to research aspects of brain development. keywords: brain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vd66vx05p8c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vd66vx05p8c.txt item: #4349 of 4945 id: vh53ws87s5s author: Steven M. Asiala title: Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for Characterization of Particles in Solution date: 2014 words: 305 flesch: 36 summary: Auto- and cross-correlation of the time dependent SERS signal allows for the monitoring of diffusion dynamics for particles ranging in radius from 50 to 500nm while simultaneously rejecting extraneous signal fluctuations. This dissertation focuses on the development of a 2D planar Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) substrate and demonstrates its utility through in situ detection and the monitoring of the dynamics of macromolecular particles via correlation spectroscopy. keywords: substrate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87s5s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87s5s.txt item: #4350 of 4945 id: vh53ws87s64 author: Dylan R. Reed title: By and By: Short Stories date: 2006 words: 2 flesch: 78 summary: Short Stories keywords: short cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87s64.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87s64.txt item: #4351 of 4945 id: vh53ws87s7g author: Elizabeth M. Planalp title: Determinants of Father Involvement with Young Children: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (Birth Cohort) date: 2014 words: 252 flesch: 38 summary: The current study used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (Birth Cohort) to explore determinants of father involvement. A theoretical framework for father involvement is presented. keywords: father cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87s7g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87s7g.txt item: #4352 of 4945 id: vh53ws87s8t author: Anjin Guo title: Coverage Performance in Cellular Networks: Spatial Stochastic Model Fitting and Asymptotic Deployment Gain date: 2014 words: 344 flesch: 45 summary: To demonstrate the usefulness of the ADG for the characterization of the coverage, we investigate the coverage probabilities and the ADGs for different point processes and fading statistics by simulations. Accordingly, in this thesis, we first use different spatial stochastic models, including the PPP, the Poisson hard-core process (PHCP), the Strauss process (SP), and the perturbed triangular lattice, to model the spatial structure by fitting them to the locations of BSs in real cellular networks obtained from a public database. keywords: probability cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87s8t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87s8t.txt item: #4353 of 4945 id: vh53ws87t0c author: Matthew Van Antwerp title: Temporal and Topological Analysis of Open Source Software Networks date: 2014 words: 115 flesch: 37 summary: One aspect of this study is the nature of developer ties, how repeat ties affect long-term project popularity and development on SourceForge, as well as the distributions of various temporal measurements. This document presents work examining Open Source Software (OSS) project and developer networks, built from Concurrent Versions System (CVS) log data, from topological and temporal perspectives. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87t0c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87t0c.txt item: #4354 of 4945 id: vh53ws87t1q author: David Aaron Deen title: Fabrication of Ultra-Shallow Channel AlN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors date: 2007 words: 199 flesch: 48 summary: Lower quality AlN barriers have large dislocation densities and are easy to form ohmic contacts on, however with higher crystalline quality AlN, conventional methods of forming ohmic contacts seem to be of little value. Conventional and unconventional ohmic contact experiments to high quality AlN have been performed and discussed. keywords: aln cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87t1q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87t1q.txt item: #4355 of 4945 id: vh53ws87t22 author: Heidi Oberholtzer Lee title: Appetite and Desire in Early American Travel Narratives date: 2006 words: 311 flesch: 24 summary: Early American travel writers record through a language of food and eating the physical transformations that they believe confirm their religious piety, their economic viability, their visions of themselves as citizens of a civilized nation, and the success of their nation's imperialist projects. In this dissertation, I take a comparativist American Studies approach to argue that travel writers from both North and South America, including the Caribbean, from the mid-seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century, read and write their environments through a hermeneutic of appetite. keywords: language cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87t22.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87t22.txt item: #4356 of 4945 id: vh53ws87t4r author: Everaldo Marques de Aguiar Jr. title: Private and Oblivious Set and Multiset Operations date: 2012 words: 219 flesch: 36 summary: This work describes the design and implementation of a comprehensive suite of multi-party protocols for set and multiset operations that are composable and optimized to have small interactive round complexities, making this approach highly suitable to secure outsourcing. With the recent advent of cloud computing and the constant maturing of computation outsourcing techniques, incentives for the adoption of such technologies have reached an all-time high. keywords: protocols cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87t4r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87t4r.txt item: #4357 of 4945 id: vh53ws87t6f author: Zoltan Dezso title: The Topology and Dynamics of Complex Networks date: 2005 words: 307 flesch: 40 summary: We start with a brief introduction about the topological properties of real networks. The scale-free nature of real networks leads to unexpected properties such as the vanishing epidemic threshold. keywords: law cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87t6f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87t6f.txt item: #4358 of 4945 id: vh53ws87t84 author: Christian Wolfgang Koller title: Analysis and Design of Asymptotically Good Concatenated Coding Schemes date: 2012 words: 525 flesch: 37 summary: By decreasing mu, a similar tuning behavior can be achieved for higher rate code ensembles, thereby allowing a system designer to trade off between code rate, iterative decoding convergence behavior, and error floor performance without changing the encoder structure. We introduce the concept of tuned turbo codes, a family of asymptotically good hybrid concatenated code ensembles, where asymptotic minimum distance growth rates, convergence thresholds, and code rates can be traded-off using two tuning parameters, lambda and mu. keywords: minimum cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87t84.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87t84.txt item: #4359 of 4945 id: vh53ws87t9g author: Michael Young Thompson title: Stratified flow past a hill: application of the dividing streamline concept date: 2013 words: 232 flesch: 38 summary: A new analytical solution for Sheppard?s formula is presented and compared with iterative solutions based on numerical computations, and the simple H_s/h=(1-Fr) formula based on the restrictive assumption of homogeneity of flow. The demarcation between the two types of flow is signified by the dividing streamline, and its height H_s from the ground is related to the Froude number Fr=U_∞/(N_∞ h) , where U_∞, N_∞ and h are the characteristic velocity and buoyancy frequency of the upstream flow and the topographic height respectively. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87t9g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87t9g.txt item: #4360 of 4945 id: vh53ws87v0p author: Glenn Joseph Bradford title: A Framework for Implementation and Evaluation of Cooperative Diversity in Software-Defined Radio date: 2010 words: 156 flesch: 32 summary: This thesis focuses on cooperative diversity, a concept that obtains spatial diversity via relaying. Cooperative diversity encompasses a broad range of issues, from the physical layer through network layer, making the emerging reconfigurable technology of software-defined radio ideal for experimentation. keywords: diversity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87v0p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87v0p.txt item: #4361 of 4945 id: vh53ws87v11 author: Nathan James Regola title: Infrastructure For Big Data date: 2012 words: 195 flesch: 44 summary: However, increased I/O performance alone will not address all of the issues with analysis systems. Security concerns and enterprise wide metadata are also necessary items to ensure that organizations are extracting the maximum benefit from centralized data warehouse and analysis systems. keywords: performance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87v11.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87v11.txt item: #4362 of 4945 id: vh53ws87v6r author: Megan J. Hall title: Learning and Literacy Outside the Convent: Early Middle English Women Readers and the Ancrene Wisse date: 1904 words: 475 flesch: 32 summary: This study builds on previous scholarship but goes beyond it in close textual and codicological analysis to argue for a greater Latinity and participation in manuscript culture by thirteenth century anchoritic readers of the Ancrene Wisse than has been demonstrated before in the scholarship. Critical consensus generally dismisses more advanced Latinity as exceptional, beyond the ability of such women readers to perhaps pronounce Latin, or follow it in the liturgy. keywords: ancrene cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87v6r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87v6r.txt item: #4363 of 4945 id: vh53ws87w00 author: Matt Pelkey title: Sad Young Men on Bikes date: 1904 words: 16 flesch: 26 summary: A collection of short stories that explores contemporary artistic subcultures in Chicago and other American cities. keywords: cities cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws87w00.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws87w00.txt item: #4364 of 4945 id: vh53ws88h47 author: Erich W. Kinder title: Gating of Two Dimensional Materials Using Solid Polymer Electrolytes and Ferroelectrics date: 1904 words: 348 flesch: 49 summary: By tuning the Erich Kinder glass transition temperature of the SPE, the EDL retention time can be increased by six orders of magnitude at room temperature while still achieving charge carrier densities in excess of 10^14 cm^−2 , enabling unique hardware security. While most properties can be characterized by measuring the unmodified materials, many electrical properties require the charge state of the material to be modulated. keywords: spe cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws88h47.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws88h47.txt item: #4365 of 4945 id: vh53ws88j1h author: Sam Glaser title: Strategic Cadre-Building in American Party Formation date: 1904 words: 320 flesch: 53 summary: I show that these variables are not easily specified and do not appear to distinguish between new party success and failure. As a result, new party success often has a surprisingly limited impact on the political order. keywords: party cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws88j1h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws88j1h.txt item: #4366 of 4945 id: vh53ws88j8x author: Mary M. Glover title: The Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Speciation in Walnut-Infesting Flies date: 2018 words: 339 flesch: 30 summary: However, ongoing climate change is presently shifting species distributions and changing interspecific interactions, which may in turn influence the future existence of species. Walnut flies diverged across the eastern Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range in Mexico, similar to other Rhagoletis species groups. keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws88j8x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws88j8x.txt item: #4367 of 4945 id: vh53ws88q74 author: Yingying Chen title: Study of High Energy Levels of 26Mg through the (d,p) Reaction and Its Implications for the Neutron Source in Nuclear Astrophysics date: 2019 words: 514 flesch: 51 summary: In terms of the astrophysical importance of the 22Ne + α system as a neutron source in the astrophysical region of interest, the reaction rates of the 22Ne(α,n)25Mg and 22Ne(α,γ)26Mg reactions, as well as their ratio were calculated in a different approach compared to the previous work of Talwar et Among α-capture reactions on light nuclei which provide potential neutrons for the s-process in massive stars, the reaction 22Ne(α,n)25Mg is of particular importance for the neutron production in massive Red Giant stars during core helium burning and AGB stars during helium shell burning. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws88q74.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws88q74.txt item: #4368 of 4945 id: vh53ws88v7c author: Kirsten Vail Aguilar title: Debris date: 2020 words: 11 flesch: 49 summary: A collection of short stories exploring grief, sex and natural disaster. keywords: disaster cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws88v7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws88v7c.txt item: #4369 of 4945 id: vh53ws88x1x author: Tyler J. Thomas title: Reason Reborn: Descartes, Philosophy, and the General Good of Men date: 2021 words: 398 flesch: 37 summary: This study attempts to establish the public relevance of Cartesian philosophy. Whereas the French theorists were primarily interested in the social effects of Cartesian philosophy, that is, the reduction of the authority of Aristotle and the Catholic Church, this study takes as its starting point the question of Descartes's own intentions in publishing his philosophy in the forms he chose. keywords: descartes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws88x1x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws88x1x.txt item: #4370 of 4945 id: vh53ws88x9p author: Lauren Partin title: Multitask and Multifidelity Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Networks date: 2022 words: 119 flesch: 17 summary: For the multifidelity fusion, we consider data regimes with varying input and output dimensionality. First, we characterize the properties of the noise generated from undersampled 4D flow MRI Fourier space data. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vh53ws88x9p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vh53ws88x9p.txt item: #4371 of 4945 id: vm40xp7125m author: Richard Marc Majerus title: Let's Talk About Race: Racial Teacher Matching and Student Achievement Growth date: 2010 words: 179 flesch: 19 summary: To answer this question, piecewise achievement growth models are fit to all seven data points in the Early Childhood Education Longitudinal Study in a test of the racial matching hypothesis, which posits that African American students experience greater rates of achievement growth when they have African American elementary school teachers. Should public school districts purposefully recruit African American teachers to help close the racial achievement gap? keywords: racial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vm40xp7125m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vm40xp7125m.txt item: #4372 of 4945 id: vm40xp71306 author: Jialin Zhao title: Engineering of Silicon and Germanium Tunnel Diodes for Integrated Circuit Application date: 2008 words: 290 flesch: 50 summary: To the author's knowledge, these accomplishments are the first demonstration of lateral Si tunnel diodes using spin-on diffusants and rapid thermal processing. A self-aligned lateral fabrication process, which forms the junction perpendicular to the substrate plane, has also been successfully developed and yielded backward Si tunnel diodes with peak current densities of 30 nA/ÌÂm2. keywords: tunnel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vm40xp71306.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vm40xp71306.txt item: #4373 of 4945 id: vm40xp71368 author: Xiaofeng Wang title: Event-Triggering in Cyber-Physical Systems date: 2010 words: 263 flesch: 51 summary: Based on these results, distributed event-triggering is considered in networked control systems with packet loss and transmission delays. We first study event/self-triggering in embedded control systems. keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vm40xp71368.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vm40xp71368.txt item: #4374 of 4945 id: vm40xp7138z author: Kevin Moore Cherry title: Aristotle's First Critique: The Eleatic Stranger and the Politics date: 2007 words: 324 flesch: 41 summary: The Eleatic articulates a view of nature which is hostile toward human life; therefore, he argues that the end of political life is primarily preservation. Moreover, it shows resemblances between the political theory of the Eleatic Stranger and that of modernity, which lends credence to neo-Aristotelian critiques of contemporary political life. keywords: aristotle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vm40xp7138z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vm40xp7138z.txt item: #4375 of 4945 id: vm40xp7143j author: Badri Nath Tiwari title: Antenna-Coupled Unbiased Detectors For LW-IR Regime date: 2011 words: 461 flesch: 42 summary: Different geometries of the interconnects present different electromagnetic boundary conditions to the antenna, and thus affect the far-field polarization characteristics of the antenna. The third part of this research focuses on the effect of DC read-out interconnects on polarization characteristics of the planar dipole antennas. keywords: antenna cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vm40xp7143j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vm40xp7143j.txt item: #4376 of 4945 id: vm40xp7146k author: Sheila McCarthy title: Healing the Body of Christ: Liturgy, Trauma, and the Works of Mercy date: 1904 words: 90 flesch: 45 summary: This dissertation shows how Aquinas, Augustine, and leaders of the Liturgical Movement (Virgil Michel, Dorothy Day, and Ade Bethune), offer a robust sense of mercy, accessed through the Eucharistic Liturgy, and practiced in the Works of Mercy, which allow those who have experienced trauma to know their deification. In the face of guilt and shame afflicting the morally injured, psychology has acknowledged there must be spiritual healing. keywords: trauma cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vm40xp7146k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vm40xp7146k.txt item: #4377 of 4945 id: vm40xp7155j author: Liyuan Sun title: Investigation of Ionic Liquids for Electrochemical Applications date: 1904 words: 419 flesch: 34 summary: Chromium coatings with comparable properties compared with the conventional commercial chromium coatings were obtained, revealing a potential of using this type of mixtures as a more environmentally friendly alternative to the conventional practice to produce chromium coatings from highly toxic hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) Consistent with previous studies, significant increase in viscosity and decrease in ionic conductivity with addition of lithium salts were observed for the three AHA RTIL based mixtures. keywords: lithium cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vm40xp7155j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vm40xp7155j.txt item: #4378 of 4945 id: vm40xp7156w author: David Charles Rozek title: Unpacking Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: The Effects of Completing a Thought Record on Affective and Neuroendocrine Responses to Stress date: 1904 words: 322 flesch: 41 summary: Theoretically, cognitive change is an important mechanism of CBT that is targeted through cognitive restructuring by clinicians using a variety of treatment techniques throughout therapy. Thought records are one of the widely used treatment techniques in CBT to target cognitions by providing a systematic approach to identifying, examining, and changing negative automatic thoughts that arise in emotionally arousing situations. keywords: thought cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vm40xp7156w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vm40xp7156w.txt item: #4379 of 4945 id: vm40xp7258v author: Shuo Yang title: Seismic Response of Bridges Crossing Strike-Slip Fault Rupture Zones date: 2021 words: 468 flesch: 28 summary: To investigate the effects of fault crossing conditions and structural properties on the seismic response of bridge structures crossing strike-slip faults, a parametric study of ordinary and seismically isolated bridges is presented by performing NLRHA using actual near-fault ground-motion records from earthquakes of different magnitudes and by varying the fault crossing angle, fault crossing location, pier height, and span length. This dissertation focuses on (a) developing and validating a simple method for generating across-fault seismic ground motions for the analysis of bridges crossing strike-slip faults, (b) investigating the sensitivity of the seismic response of bridge structures crossing strike-slip faults to different parameters and conditions by means of nonlinear response history analysis (NLRHA), and (c) evaluating the accuracy of the fault rupture-response spectrum analysis (FR-RSA) method against NLRHA in estimating the peak response of bridges crossing strike-slip faults for different fault crossing conditions. keywords: fault cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vm40xp7258v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vm40xp7258v.txt item: #4380 of 4945 id: vm40xp72801 author: Matthew Vale title: Christian Vijñānavāda: Yogācāra, Nondual Cognition, and Christian Theology date: 2022 words: 425 flesch: 30 summary: The result is a critical philosophical basis for wider Christian theological receptions of these Buddhist accounts of nondual cognition, from Yogācāra, to Indo-Tibetan Mahāmudrā and Dzogchen, to the East Asian Buddhist traditions likewise indebted to Yogācārin teachings. Chapter 6 uses all the foregoing to develop a Christian reception of Yogācārin accounts of nondual cognition. keywords: christian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vm40xp72801.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vm40xp72801.txt item: #4381 of 4945 id: vq27zk54b7n author: Natalie Anna Wasio title: Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of organometallic molecules on Au(111): Mixed valence states and quasicrystalline ordering date: 2014 words: 274 flesch: 44 summary: Generally, neutral molecules show a symmetric electronic charge distribution whereas MV molecules show an asymmetric charge distribution in STM images. Pulse deposition of molecules on a substrate removes bulk solvent and the charge-transfer properties of the molecules of interest can be studied. keywords: molecules cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54b7n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54b7n.txt item: #4382 of 4945 id: vq27zk54b80 author: Carrie S. Erlin title: Pathways to Parenthood: An Assessment of Family Structural Context Over the Transition to Parenthood date: 2010 words: 167 flesch: 26 summary: This research also compares the family experience of adding a child into these three main structures to determine whether family experience, initial family structure, or an interaction between the two has a greater impact on marital quality variables. Multivariate analysis of variance (MANCOVA) results indicate that while family experience, in the form of the transition to parenthood, appears to impact later values of marital quality variables, initial family structure has an effect on initial starting values which also impact later marital functioning. keywords: family cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54b80.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54b80.txt item: #4383 of 4945 id: vq27zk54b9b author: Rebecca Y. M. Cheung title: Linking Parental Depressive Symptoms and Adolescent Problem Behaviors: Mediating Roles of Family Emotional Expressiveness, Interparental and Family Conflict, and Adolescent Emotional Insecurity date: 2014 words: 151 flesch: 19 summary: Assessments included mothers' and fathers' depressive symptoms and family emotional expressiveness when their adolescent children were in 7th grade, interparental and family conflict and emotional insecurity when the adolescents were in 8th grade, and adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems in 9th grade. Guided by the family systems theory (Cox & Paley, 1997) and emotional security theory (Davies & Cummings, 1994), the present study examines multiple mediators linking parental depressive symptoms and adolescent behavior problems. keywords: family cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54b9b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54b9b.txt item: #4384 of 4945 id: vq27zk54c0j author: Josephine K. Dru title: In Light and Shadow of Multiple Wholes: How Theodore of Mopsuestia and Jerome of Stridon Read Joel among the Twelve as Scripture date: 2014 words: 352 flesch: 38 summary: While both interpreters treat Joel texts as simultaneously belonging to multiple contexts, they do so in strikingly different ways. Chapters 2-3 explain the book of Joel as an example of specificity deliberately blurred, a leading member of the Twelve, and a densely intertextual part of multiple collections. keywords: joel cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54c0j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54c0j.txt item: #4385 of 4945 id: vq27zk54c27 author: elisabetta drudi title: Lucan's Bellum Civile: The Struggle of Poetic Writing under the Imperial Autocracy date: 2015 words: 131 flesch: 13 summary: Their noticeable number and expressive content are marks of Lucan's rhetorical and poetical novelty, and therefore represent compelling keys to understanding the poet's conception of imperial autocracy, and his ability to engrain it in a literary discourse. In this thesis I propose a reading of how Lucan's Bellum Civile responds to its contemporary historical and political environment, the reality of the Roman imperial regime, and offers a reflection on the meaning of writing literature under imperial rule. keywords: imperial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54c27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54c27.txt item: #4386 of 4945 id: vq27zk54c3k author: Ozlem Kayhan Pusane title: Insurgencies, Counterinsurgencies, and Civil-Military Relations: When, How, and Why Do Civilians Prevail? date: 2009 words: 462 flesch: 38 summary: Most scholars of civil-military relations argue that the presence of domestic security threats increases the role of the military in politics. However, domestic security threats do not always increase the political involvement of the armed forces. keywords: military cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54c3k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54c3k.txt item: #4387 of 4945 id: vq27zk54c4x author: Jacqueline Marie Den Hartog title: A 'Wild and Ambiguous Medium': Letters and Epistolary Fictions in Early America, 1780-1830 date: 2006 words: 354 flesch: 31 summary: Epistolary writing was extremely popular during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but American works differ from their British literary predecessors. American authors recognized the ambiguities inherent in the epistolary form and used letters to complicate and destabilize the teleological narrative of national destiny that characterized political documents and popular rhetoric. keywords: epistolary cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54c4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54c4x.txt item: #4388 of 4945 id: vq27zk54c58 author: Cheman Rachel Roy title: With Universal Applause: The Exotic and Eighteenth Century Afterpieces date: 2008 words: 283 flesch: 22 summary: Future United Irish leader, barrister, and playwright Leonard MacNally combined the Robin Hood trope with earlier eighteenth century constructions and the subsequent eradication of piracy by the Royal Navy as a means of advocating for a more peaceful resolution that could include Britain's 'exotic' citizens rather than its usual approach of preemptive exclusion and extermination. As this work discusses, British theater became an emblem of the universality of British civility and British commerce even as its more popular form, the afterpiece, created a series of uncomfortable anxieties about the character and integrity of the Empire. keywords: empire cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54c58.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54c58.txt item: #4389 of 4945 id: vq27zk54c6m author: Jing Huang title: State Estimation and PEV Scheduling in Smart Grids date: 2012 words: 315 flesch: 37 summary: In this dissertation, we show that centralized scheduling algorithms can help the parking lot owner to balance distribution system load with quality of charging service. This dissertation studies state estimation (SE) and scheduling algorithms for modeling and managing smarter electric power systems. keywords: system cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54c6m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54c6m.txt item: #4390 of 4945 id: vq27zk54c89 author: Chad D. Mano title: Defending against Malicious Rogue System Threats date: 2006 words: 349 flesch: 33 summary: In addition, rogue threats in less traditional types of network environments, such as peer-to-peer and personal area networks, will be addressed in order to provide protection from all means of electronic rogue system attacks. The future direction of this work includes applying these techniques to newly identified threats for the purpose of gauging the effectiveness of the proposed methods and to aid in discovering new means of defending against rogue system attacks. keywords: rogue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54c89.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54c89.txt item: #4391 of 4945 id: vq27zk54d0v author: Karen M. Hooge title: Religion, Gender, and Body Satisfaction Among Emerging Adults date: 2013 words: 141 flesch: 43 summary: This is suggested to be due to both an increased importance in body satisfaction for young women and increased religious salience for young women. The effects of being religious vary by gender, with stronger positive coefficients for young women than for young men. keywords: body cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54d0v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54d0v.txt item: #4392 of 4945 id: vq27zk54d16 author: Mark Hamilton Ross title: Tip Clearance Flow Interaction with Circumferential Groove Casing Treatment in a Transonic Axial Compressor date: 2013 words: 329 flesch: 40 summary: Experimental and computational studies were conducted to study the role of the tip leakage flow in axial compressor stall and the relationship between the tip clearance flow field and surge margin extension from circumferential groove casing treatment. The axial position of this line moved upstream with decreasing flow coefficient in both the experiments and computations. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54d16.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54d16.txt item: #4393 of 4945 id: vq27zk54d3w author: David AJ Trujillo title: Jerry Spagnoli, Mark Osterman, and the Rebirth of Photographic Theory date: 2012 words: 175 flesch: 31 summary: The post-historical photographic movement, a loosely affiliated group of photographers who use historical photographic processes to explore contemporary themes, have sparked this need for a new approach to photographic discourse. Modernist photographic theory holds the art object dear, while postmodernist approaches believe the photograph to be a vehicle for the transference of power between larger cultural institutions. keywords: photographic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54d3w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54d3w.txt item: #4394 of 4945 id: vq27zk54d5k author: Daniel Escher title: Unmoving People, Removing Mountains: Coal Mining, Cultural Matching, and Micro-mobilization in Central Appalachia date: 1904 words: 312 flesch: 28 summary: I discovered the presence of cultural matching and mismatching in recruitment and enrollment: Social movement organizations tended to recruit participants who already fit culturally with the existing group's mobilizing style—a set of understandings, tactics, and modes of interacting that cohered around a group's theory of social change; local residents tended to join and support an organization on the congeniality of its mobilizing style. Mobilizing styles had semiotic import, most noticeably by placing social movement organizations on a relationally-defined scale of insider–outsider. keywords: cultural cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54d5k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54d5k.txt item: #4395 of 4945 id: vq27zk54d78 author: Raju R. Rayavarapu title: Mechanisms Utilized During the Survival of Extracellular Matrix Detached Mammary Epithelial Cells date: 2015 words: 588 flesch: 39 summary: Previous studies in our laboratory have found a direct correlation between upregulation of survival pathways in ECM detached cells and expression of ErbB2. ErbB2 and Ras are two oncogenes that have been implicated in the ability of cancer cells to avoid anoikis. keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk54d78.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk54d78.txt item: #4396 of 4945 id: vq27zk55263 author: Han Du title: Testing Variance Components in Linear Mixed Modeling Using Permutation date: 1904 words: 227 flesch: 32 summary: The permutation tests with different settings (i.e., constrained estimation vs. unconstrained estimation, specific test vs. generalized test, different ways of calculating p -values, and different ways of permutation) were examined with both normal data and nonnormal data. In addition, the permutation tests were compared with the likelihood ratio test with mixtures of chi-squared distributions as reference distributions. keywords: permutation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk55263.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk55263.txt item: #4397 of 4945 id: vq27zk5528s author: Aaron Wells title: Reason and Reality in Kant date: 1904 words: 239 flesch: 39 summary: On a standard reading, a major result of Kant's critical philosophy is the demotion of theoretical reason to a merely ideal and regulative role. This essay seeks to do justice to the systematic ambition of Kant's positive account of theoretical reason. keywords: reason cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk5528s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk5528s.txt item: #4398 of 4945 id: vq27zk5546q author: Anton Protasov title: The UN Security Council and the Settlement of the Syrian Crisis: Vetos and Post-Veto Scenarios date: 2019 words: 232 flesch: 49 summary: Chapter 1 analyzes all the twelve draft resolutions vetoed by Russia and China regarding the crisis in Syria, along with relevant Security Council meeting records. In particular, we identify the conditions under which the UN Security Council becomes paralyzed because of the veto power and analyze how draft resolutions develop after being vetoed. keywords: security cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk5546q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk5546q.txt item: #4399 of 4945 id: vq27zk55530 author: Jorge Morales Ferreiro title: Experimental and Simulation Study of Electron and Phonon Properties in Crystalline Materials date: 2019 words: 365 flesch: 37 summary: A good thermoelectric materials needs the simultaneous optimization of three key properties to reach a high efficiency, which can usually be characterized by the figure of merit (ZT): high Seebeck coefficient, high electrical conductivity, and low thermal conductivity. Regarding phonon transport, we applied first-principles lattice dynamics and semi-empirical Boltzmann transport to study the phonon properties and lattice thermal conductivity of NbSe2. keywords: thermal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk55530.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk55530.txt item: #4400 of 4945 id: vq27zk55817 author: Eryn L. Pritchett title: Sex and the Senses: The Poetic Process in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae date: 2019 words: 437 flesch: 48 summary: The connection between the sex and senses which is established by chapter one creates subtle expectations for the audience, which Aristophanes is able to challenge in the assembly scene, so that gender identity is always unstable, always unsure. [2] For an influential study which contributed to the development of this approach, see Butler and Purves 2013, and all the other volumes of The Senses in Antiquity series. keywords: senses cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk55817.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk55817.txt item: #4401 of 4945 id: vq27zk55g3s author: Elizabeth Williams title: Transgender Inclusion and Exclusion within the Women's March date: 2021 words: 145 flesch: 63 summary: The March claimed to be open to all in support of its cause; but this biological imagery centered an essentialist, binary understanding of womanhood. Based on 22 interviews with transgender individuals, this thesis will focus on this symbol, with special attention to the intersection of race and gender. keywords: march cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk55g3s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk55g3s.txt item: #4402 of 4945 id: vq27zk55h02 author: Patrick K. Kirkland title: Characterizing Mature Number Sense and Its Association To Other Constructs in Middle School Students date: 2022 words: 328 flesch: 48 summary: Students with mature number sense make sense of numbers and operations, use reasoning to notice patterns, and flexibly select the most effective and efficient problem-solving strategies (McIntosh et al., 1997; Then, using our developed measure, we analyzed 129 middle school students' scores on our brief assessment of mature number sense and measures of several related constructs, including grade-level mathematics achievement and rational number knowledge. keywords: number cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk55h02.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk55h02.txt item: #4403 of 4945 id: vq27zk55h95 author: Cale Harnish title: An Adaptive Wavelet Method for Multiscale Modeling with Applications in Dynamic Damage date: 2022 words: 177 flesch: 27 summary: The novel N-dimensional algorithm exploits the multiresolution nature of wavelet basis functions to solve initial-boundary value problems on finite domains. The implementation of this algorithm is verified, establishing mathematical correctness with spatial convergence in agreement with the theoretical estimates. keywords: wavelet cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk55h95.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk55h95.txt item: #4404 of 4945 id: vq27zk55j84 author: Marie-Claire Klassen title: Spring of Living Waters: A Theological Ethnography of Palestinian Liberation Theology: The Liberative Faith Practices of Women and Laypeople at Sabeel date: 2023 words: 210 flesch: 49 summary: What becomes clear through this study is that ongoing liberative practices, which constitute Palestinian liberation theology, allow for new responses to these questions to emerge in the ever-shifting political context. To date, research on Palestinian liberation theology has focused on texts. keywords: theology cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vq27zk55j84.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vq27zk55j84.txt item: #4405 of 4945 id: vt150g37m7v author: Vince Lombardo title: The Total Synthesis of 20-Deoxyapoptolidinone date: 2012 words: 227 flesch: 33 summary: Apoptolidin purportedly targets mitochondrial F0F1-ATPase (F-ATPase) and induces apoptosis selectively in cells transformed with the adenovirus oncogene, leaving normal cells unaffected. Apoptolidin retains activity in concentrations as low as 10nM; normal cells remain unaffected at concentrations as high as 80åµM. keywords: apoptolidin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g37m7v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g37m7v.txt item: #4406 of 4945 id: vt150g37n2f author: Stephen A. Luke title: A New Approach for Modeling Gravitational Radiation from the Inspiral of Two Neutron Stars date: 2008 words: 353 flesch: 38 summary: The two polarizations of gravitational radiation can then be computed at that point in terms of the linearized correction to the metric. From this simple numerical analysis, the correct general trend of gravitational radiation is recovered. keywords: cfc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g37n2f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g37n2f.txt item: #4407 of 4945 id: vt150g37n8h author: Amy Rohly title: Role of Membrane Tubulation in NPC1-Mediated Cholesterol Efflux date: 2010 words: 177 flesch: 34 summary: Results indicate that EHD1, Rab8, and Rab9 are necessary for NPC1 TVM formation and cholesterol was present in Rab8 TVMs. In order to determine the role of TVMs in cholesterol transport, TVM-associated proteins including EHD1 and Rabs7-9 were investigated in NPC1 TVMs through transfection of wild type and mutant constructs and immunoprecipitation studies. keywords: npc1 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g37n8h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g37n8h.txt item: #4408 of 4945 id: vt150g37p02 author: Dirk Van Bruggen title: A Modular Software Packet Router for Android date: 2012 words: 122 flesch: 26 summary: Current methods for evaluation of network protocols include network simulators and mobile testbeds but suffer from inaccurate models of physical interactions and time consuming network programming. Our work aims to create an easy to use, highly configurable software framework which will allow for the quick implementation of network experiments on mobile devices utilizing features such as packet interception, modification and injection. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g37p02.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g37p02.txt item: #4409 of 4945 id: vt150g37p33 author: Syed Tariq Ahmad title: Molecular and Genetic Studies Characterizing the Role of ninaG in Chromophore Biogenesis, Role of Rhodopsin in Maintenance of Photoreceptor Cell Structure, and Genome-Wide Transcript Changes during norpA Retinal Degeneration in Drosophila date: 2006 words: 385 flesch: 31 summary: Thus, NinaG oxidoreductase acts subsequent to the hydroxylation step in the biogenesis of rhodopsin chromophore, (3S)-3-hydroxyretinal. (4) Genome-wide transcript analysis during norpA retinal degeneration. keywords: rhodopsin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g37p33.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g37p33.txt item: #4410 of 4945 id: vt150g37p5s author: Kathryn Veeman title: Sende Ì_is booke ageyne hoome to Shirley: John Shirley and the Circulation of Manuscripts in Fifteenth-Century England date: 2011 words: 316 flesch: 25 summary: I argue that Shirley played a new role in the development of ideas of authorship and the English literary canon; during an age when poetry regularly circulated anonymously, his anthologies, which specifically attribute poems to various authors, are radically author-centered and embody a marked shift from the household books or thematically grouped anthologies of courtly and religious verse which usually circulated in England in his life time. Integrating manuscript studies and literary history, this project provides new insight into the profound transformations in the meanings of literature, authorship, canonicity, and pre-print publishing in fifteenth-century England. keywords: shirley cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g37p5s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g37p5s.txt item: #4411 of 4945 id: vt150g37t20 author: Zonggen Yi title: Optimizing Battery Electric Transportation: Energy and Infrastructure Considerations date: 1904 words: 399 flesch: 25 summary: Spatio-temporal models have been constructed to essentially describe three-dimensional (location and time) features of energy demand. Two different optimization requirements are addressed in this dissertation: maximum number of reachable households and minimum overall energy consumption. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g37t20.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g37t20.txt item: #4412 of 4945 id: vt150g38b38 author: Katrina A Button-Simons title: Genomics and Computational Techniques Facilitate Understanding Antimalarial Drug Mechanisms of Action and Mechanisms of Resistance date: 1904 words: 351 flesch: 39 summary: Understanding MoA and MoR for artemisinin and candidate drugs will enhance our ability to rationally identify optimal ACT partner drugs to overcome existing resistance and to buy time to allow new drugs to progress through the drug development pipeline. Historically, ACTs contain partner drugs with a long metabolic half-life to counteract the rapid metabolism of artemisinin. keywords: artemisinin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g38b38.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g38b38.txt item: #4413 of 4945 id: vt150g38h3t author: Francisco R. Fields title: From Plants to Pores: Selection, Design, and Optimization of Antimicrobial Peptide Scaffolds from Putative Bacteriocins date: 2019 words: 564 flesch: 18 summary: Traditionally, antimicrobial peptides are designed from naturally occurring eukaryotic peptides. Membrane active antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are linear, alpha-helical, cationic, amphipathic, peptides that defend the host against infection and are an attractive alternative to traditional antibiotics for the treatment of resistant organisms. keywords: peptides cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g38h3t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g38h3t.txt item: #4414 of 4945 id: vt150g38k0d author: Mina Asghari Heidarlou title: Synthesized WSe2 Field-Effect Transistors and Process for Steep Transistors date: 2019 words: 382 flesch: 42 summary: Atomically-thin two-dimensional semiconductors present new opportunities for minimizing transistor channel thickness and improving gate efficiency. Methods for gate stack nucleation were developed to deposit gate dielectrics on WSe2 channels. keywords: gate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g38k0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g38k0d.txt item: #4415 of 4945 id: vt150g38p7r author: Lauren A. Trichtinger title: Bootstrap Methods for Testing P-Technique Factor Analysis date: 2020 words: 156 flesch: 42 summary: P-technique factor analysis is a factor analysis model with time series data. We illustrate the test with an empirical study and explore its statistical properties with simulated data. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g38p7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g38p7r.txt item: #4416 of 4945 id: vt150g38q0n author: Martin Lukindu title: Molecular Tools and Genetic Approaches for Studying the Genetic Structure of Major Malaria Vectors in Sub-Saharan Africa date: 2020 words: 884 flesch: 35 summary: Knowledge generated in this research will not only help improving existing vector control strategies but also lay a foundation for implementation of novel vector control. In addition, the hypothesized roles of inversions (especially in An gambiae) in enhancing behaviors that may impact vector control approaches in sub-Sahara Africa are still largely unknown. keywords: inversions; malaria cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g38q0n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g38q0n.txt item: #4417 of 4945 id: vt150g38q6q author: Zhe Feng title: Microstructure-Based Modeling of Highly Nonlinear Behaviors of Cytoskeletal Proteins date: 2022 words: 512 flesch: 30 summary: Spectrin is characterized as the entropy dominated nonlinear elastic protein chain, which is the most important component of inner layer of red blood cell membrane. The modelings of microtubule and spectrin are closely associated with study of the biological function of cellular flow sensing and erythrocyte membrane modeling that can capture red blood cell nonlinear behaviors underneath large deformation. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g38q6q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g38q6q.txt item: #4418 of 4945 id: vt150g38q9r author: Prasanna Siddireddy title: Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays of the Higgs Boson to a Muon and a Tau Lepton or to an Electron and a Tau Lepton date: 2021 words: 132 flesch: 54 summary: This dissertation presents searches for lepton flavor violating decay of the standard model Higgs boson into a muon and a tau lepton or to an electron and a tau lepton. The observed (expected) upper limits on the branching fraction of Higgs boson decaying into a muon and a tau lepton were set at 0.15 (0.15)% at 95% CL and the branching fraction of Higgs boson decaying into an electron and a tau lepton were set at 0.22 (0.16)% at 95% CL. keywords: lepton cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g38q9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g38q9r.txt item: #4419 of 4945 id: vt150g38r2n author: Matyas Abel Tsegaye title: Non-Canonical Regulation and Function of Anti-Apoptotic Protein c-FLIP date: 2021 words: 361 flesch: 29 summary: The metastasis of cancer cells to distant sites accounts for over 90% of cancer related deaths. In order to metastasize, cancer cells must be able to survive during extracellular matrix (ECM) detachment, namely by blocking anoikis (a caspase-dependent cell death) and restoring metabolic deficiencies. keywords: cancer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g38r2n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g38r2n.txt item: #4420 of 4945 id: vt150g38r4b author: Christopher R. Mooney title: Iustitia Fidei: The Development of Augustine's Account of Justification by Faith date: 2021 words: 274 flesch: 43 summary: Third, following the different uses of faith in Scripture, Augustine distinguishes the bare assent that Christ is God (credere Christum) from believing in Christ (credere in Christum), meaning to long for incorporation into Christ, to love by believing. First, faith receives divine instruction, expresses trust in grace, and conforms one to Christ's humility. keywords: faith cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g38r4b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g38r4b.txt item: #4421 of 4945 id: vt150g38r8q author: Nelia Martsinkiv title: Unlikely Dissenters: Origins and Development of the Ukrainian Human Rights Movement from Khrushchev to Gorbachev date: 2021 words: 432 flesch: 31 summary: Utilizing sources both from the Soviet period and those produced retrospectively in post-1991 Ukraine, my research demonstrates how Ukrainian intellectuals of different backgrounds and dispositions to the Soviet regime, became one of the most dynamic and united dissident movements in the USSR. My argument is based on the extensive personal materials of Ukrainian dissidents, their personal and official correspondence, interviews, and documents from KGB archives. keywords: ukrainian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g38r8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g38r8q.txt item: #4422 of 4945 id: vt150g38t28 author: Carissa DiPietro title: The Interactive Effects of Sleep and Retrieval on Retention date: 2022 words: 302 flesch: 44 summary: In the retrieval study phases, participants answered multiple choice items with (retrieval practice plus feedback phase) or without (retrieval practice phase) corrective feedback, while in the re-read study phase, participants read-read passages. There was no measurable benefit of sleep for final test performance in any of the study conditions; however, sleep resulted in less forgetting between retrieval practice testing and the final memory test when feedback was provided during retrieval practice testing. keywords: retrieval cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g38t28.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g38t28.txt item: #4423 of 4945 id: vt150g38t8b author: Ebaa Elkalamawi title: How a Government's Operationalization of the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement Influences Drug Pricing – A Case Study on Hepatitis C Prescription Drugs in Public Health Systems in the United States of America and Egypt date: 2023 words: 230 flesch: 39 summary: However, there is a need for a more in-depth, long-term change in the structure of granting patents in countries facing high treatment costs due to its patent laws. This research concludes that it is important to reassess drug pricing under each country's patent granting laws and how such pricing influences the affordability of treatment in respective countries. keywords: countries cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vt150g38t8b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vt150g38t8b.txt item: #4424 of 4945 id: vx021c20w7d author: Kathryn M Docherty title: Toxicity, Mutagenicity and Biodegradability of Novel Green Chemicals: Imidazolium and Pyridinium Ionic Liquids date: 2008 words: 362 flesch: 31 summary: Before industrial release of ILs into the environment, we performed a comprehensive analysis of the toxicity, mutagenicity and microbial biodegradability of ILs in order to provide guidelines for further green chemical synthesis. Using this information, we focused on six imidazolium and pyridinium ILs for further toxicity and mutagenicity analyses. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c20w7d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c20w7d.txt item: #4425 of 4945 id: vx021c20w93 author: Changde Cheng title: Ecological and Functional Genomics of Chromosomal Inversions in the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae date: 2014 words: 484 flesch: 33 summary: However, ecological physiology and genetics of inversions in An. gambiae was not well explored, in contrast to numerous population studies of correlation of inversion frequency with ecological and environmental factors. Frequencies of inversions have been associated with multiple climate factors including aridity along transects starting from rain forests in southern Nigeria and Cameroon to arid savannas in the north. keywords: inversions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c20w93.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c20w93.txt item: #4426 of 4945 id: vx021c20x09 author: Erica Frances (Pirnie) Fisker title: Induced and Controlled Horizontal Flow in the Vadose Zone date: 2010 words: 255 flesch: 28 summary: Specifically this work demonstrates that through the use of suction-cup lysimeters, water can be injected / withdrawn from continuous zones of fine sediments, bordered by coarse sediments, without inducing significant vertical flux through underlying coarser sediments. A numerical model was used, in combination with published moisture retention and relative permeability parameters for a variety of sediment types, to demonstrate that such horizontal flow can be established within different mixtures of sediments and over substantially greater distances (e.g., 10 meters) for select classes of heterogeneity involving lens or layers of finer grained sediments bounded by coarser grained sediments. keywords: sand cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c20x09.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c20x09.txt item: #4427 of 4945 id: vx021c20x20 author: Hudda Omar Ibrahim title: The Role Of The Traditional Somali Model In Peacemaking: Why Reconciliation Was Maintained In Somaliland, But Disintegrated In The South Of Somalia date: 2015 words: 142 flesch: 46 summary: This comparative thesis examines peacemaking processes used by traditional elders in the North today in their efforts to build peace while the greater parts of Somalia remain chaotic. A thorough study of the two conflicts reveals that the conflict in the South of Somalia was far more intractable than in the North. keywords: somalia cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c20x20.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c20x20.txt item: #4428 of 4945 id: vx021c20x4p author: Megan Elisabeth McGann title: Wear Characteristics and Crosslinked Properties of Articular Cartilage date: 2015 words: 353 flesch: 38 summary: As mechanical wear is an important component of cartilage disease, the primary objective of this project was to investigate the wear characteristics of articular cartilage and factors that may improve the tissue's wear resistance. In developing test parameters for cartilage wear, two different cartilage surface geometries were compared: smaller flat specimen and larger curved specimens that made contact in the center but not at the edge. keywords: cartilage cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c20x4p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c20x4p.txt item: #4429 of 4945 id: vx021c20x51 author: Brad D. Weldon title: Behavior, Design, and Analysis of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Precast Concrete Coupling Beams date: 2010 words: 360 flesch: 36 summary: Using these models, the effects of several structural properties (such as beam length) on the behavior of unbonded post-tensioned precast coupling beams is analytically investigated to expand the results from the experiments. The results from eight half-scale experiments of unbonded post-tensioned precast coupling beams under reversed-cyclic lateral loading are presented. keywords: coupling cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c20x51.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c20x51.txt item: #4430 of 4945 id: vx021c20x6c author: Zengxiao Jin title: Fabrication and Measurement of Molecular Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA) Device date: 2006 words: 151 flesch: 67 summary: The fabrication of the device mainly involves the following steps: The formation of the P+ window, the deposition of metal pads and wires, the growth of the SET, and the growth of molecules. The principle of this experiment is to detect the switching activity of molecules using a single electron transistor (SET). keywords: set cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c20x6c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c20x6c.txt item: #4431 of 4945 id: vx021c20x7q author: Naomi Vanessa Ekas title: Toddlers' Behavioral Strategies with Mothers and Fathers date: 2010 words: 124 flesch: 37 summary: Results suggested moderate consistencies in toddler affect and strategy use, across mothers and fathers. One hundred and sixteen toddlers participated in a frustrating situation in a laboratory setting, with each parent, during which parents were instructed to ignore their child. keywords: toddlers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c20x7q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c20x7q.txt item: #4432 of 4945 id: vx021c20z0m author: Natalie A Kautz title: Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of reactive gas-phase interactions with alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers date: 2010 words: 405 flesch: 34 summary: Molecules positioned along surface defects (domain boundaries, gold-terrace step edges) are preferentially removed before molecules located in close-packed areas. While the overall net reaction is to remove the octanethiol SAM, molecules remaining on the gold surface undergo significant rearrangement: domain boundaries anneal into close-packed areas, film defects diffuse to monolayer edges, and molecules located along the edge of close-packed features reorganize and change the shape of the remaining monolayer. keywords: surface cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c20z0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c20z0m.txt item: #4433 of 4945 id: vx021c20z29 author: Marjorie Rose Willner title: Metal Removal by Sodium Graphene Oxide date: 2012 words: 124 flesch: 41 summary: Graphene oxide (GO) is a phenomenal nano-adsorbent for heavy metal cations; however, its acidic properties limit its practical application. This study shows that SGO retains GO excellent adsorption capabilities without caustic conditions. keywords: sgo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c20z29.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c20z29.txt item: #4434 of 4945 id: vx021c20z3n author: Victoria K. Lam title: Regulation and Development of the Drosophila Hematopoietic Progenitor Niche date: 2015 words: 346 flesch: 33 summary: Taken together, this signifies novel roles for bantam, SOCS36E, and EGFR in the PSC and provide a mechanism and pathway in which bantam operates during blood development. These findings support the study of miRNAs as a promising approach for further discovery of genes related to tumor suppression or oncogenesis during blood development and a means through which to gain valuable insights into the factors that cooperate to maintain proper hematopoietic homeostasis. keywords: blood cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c20z3n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c20z3n.txt item: #4435 of 4945 id: vx021c20z5b author: Anthony Patrick McDonald title: Between Philosophy and the Muse: A Fifteenth Century Versification of Boethius's 'Consolatio Philosophiae' date: 2013 words: 113 flesch: 63 summary: In this thesis, I began the process of identifying and commenting on the fifteenth century Venetian codex, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library, cod. The first was to draw young students back to Boethius in the face of strong criticism from humanists. keywords: notre cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c20z5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c20z5b.txt item: #4436 of 4945 id: vx021c20z71 author: Eli T. Plopper title: Protestants and the Acceptance of Contraceptives in Britain and the U.S.A. date: 1904 words: 483 flesch: 33 summary: At its heart was a desire to assist the wider social acceptance of contraceptives and a deep doubt about the plausibility of sexual abstinence within marriage. By the Lambeth Conference of 1930 an intense controversy had emerged, in which advocates for contraception pressed their case: self-restraint within marriage was untenable and unnatural; contraceptives could be a regular part of a healthy marriage. keywords: contraceptives cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c20z71.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c20z71.txt item: #4437 of 4945 id: vx021c2104k author: Michael S. McConnell title: Effect of Platinum Oxidation and Reduction on Single Electron Transistors Fabricated by Atomic Layer Deposition date: 1904 words: 276 flesch: 27 summary: Furthermore, comparison of devices at low temperatures (~4 K) showed that annealed devices displayed much closer to the ideal behavior (i.e., constant differential conductance) outside of the Coulomb blockade region and that untreated devices showed nonlinear behavior outside of the Coulomb blockade region (i.e., an increase in differential conductance with source-drain voltage bias). To test this theory, devices were exposed to forming gas at room temperature, which also reduces platinum oxide, and a decrease in resistance was observed, as expected. keywords: devices cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c2104k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c2104k.txt item: #4438 of 4945 id: vx021c21099 author: Michelle Comas title: Mother-Child Play in Maltreating and Nonmaltreating Families During the Preschool Years: Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 1904 words: 213 flesch: 14 summary: At post, however, mothers and children in the RET treatment condition demonstrated significantly more positive engagement and responsiveness in play. Together, these results provide critical information for informing and optimizing treatment and policy aimed at restoring adaptation for maltreated children and their families. keywords: play cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c21099.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c21099.txt item: #4439 of 4945 id: vx021c21m45 author: Patrick E. Rothstein title: Nucleophilic Palladium Carbenes Utilizing Metal-Ligand Cooperativity Towards Small Molecule Activations date: 1904 words: 224 flesch: 24 summary: Our efforts are to isolate various elusive carbene complexes, similar to those thought to be involved in important palladium catalytic processes, and to broaden the horizons of reactivity invoked by transition-metal carbenes. The reactivity studies focused on inert small molecule activations essential for more sustainable and renewable energy sources, continued improvements to chemical feedstock production methods and employment of feedstocks in the synthesis of higher value chemicals. keywords: reactivity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c21m45.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c21m45.txt item: #4440 of 4945 id: vx021c21m8j author: Bobby Habig title: Social Dominance in Male Baboons and Other Vertebrates: Benefits, Costs, and Evolutionary Implications date: 1904 words: 360 flesch: 36 summary: My research revealed that high parasite risk may be an unappreciated cost of high rank while reduced parasite risk might be a benefit of social subordination. Whether high rank confers more benefits or costs than low rank remains an open question. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c21m8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c21m8j.txt item: #4441 of 4945 id: vx021c21n03 author: Corey Pennycuff title: Synchronous Hyperedge Replacement Graph Grammars date: 1904 words: 256 flesch: 59 summary: My work has focused on using time-series data and the Hyperedge Replacement Grammars graph generation model to model graphs as they grow and change over time. As technology has advanced, so has our ability to record, store, and analyze data en masse. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c21n03.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c21n03.txt item: #4442 of 4945 id: vx021c21n5t author: Michael David Planer title: Measurement of the Higgs Boson Cross-Section and Couplings in the Two Photon Decay Channel date: 1904 words: 119 flesch: 39 summary: Events were classified to maximize signal efficiency and to study gluon fusion,vector boson fusion, vector boson associated production, and top fusion Higgs boson production modes. The results of the analysis of the Higgs boson decaying into two photons with the 2016 CMS dataset are described. keywords: boson cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c21n5t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c21n5t.txt item: #4443 of 4945 id: vx021c22234 author: Austyn Wohlers title: Hothouse Bloom date: 2022 words: 6 flesch: 102 summary: This is a work of fiction. keywords: fiction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/vx021c22234.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/vx021c22234.txt item: #4444 of 4945 id: w089280459q author: Kevin Twain Lowery title: Constructing a More Cognitivist Account of Wesleyan Ethics date: 2004 words: 305 flesch: 40 summary: Hopefully, the end result will be a version of Wesleyan ethics that is a more faithful development of Wesley's own thought and can withstand the scrutiny of higher intellectual standards. I suggest that Wesleyan ethics needs to be recast in a schema that more adequately emphasizes the cognitive aspects of religious knowledge and moral development. keywords: wesley cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w089280459q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w089280459q.txt item: #4445 of 4945 id: w089280462m author: Anthony E Clemons title: Conserved Developmental Cues of Aedes aegypti and their Impact on the Mosquito Vector date: 2014 words: 345 flesch: 46 summary: Doing so I was able to show that Netrin/Frazzled signaling at the CNS midline was conserved (Chapter 3) between the mosquito and fruit fly. Gene expression during embryogenesis impacts adult mosquito fitness, the ability of an organism to survive and transmit its genotype to offspring as compared to competing organisms. keywords: development cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w089280462m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w089280462m.txt item: #4446 of 4945 id: w0892804707 author: Jonathan P Rager title: Real-Time Detection of Plume Boundaries in a Chemical, Biological, or Radiological Event date: 2010 words: 153 flesch: 25 summary: Real-time plume evolution had previously been tracked through either physical detection of the plume by embedded sensors or by predictions made using simplified computational models. During a chemical, biological, or radiological (CBR) event, there is an immediate need for information on the transport of the agent so that evacuation and containment protocols can be executed. keywords: time cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w0892804707.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w0892804707.txt item: #4447 of 4945 id: w089280472x author: Katelyn Jean Grayshan title: Analysis of a Family of Shallow Water Waves date: 2012 words: 142 flesch: 53 summary: We prove that this map is not uniformly continuous using approximate solutions together with delicate commutator and multiplier estimates. We study a family of shallow water wave equations called the b-family equation. keywords: equation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w089280472x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w089280472x.txt item: #4448 of 4945 id: w089280475z author: Sarah Louise MacMillen title: The Trace of the Other: An Ethnography of Grief date: 2006 words: 158 flesch: 39 summary: At the group-level, the author discusses the interplay of communitas and diff rance as well as the norms of sincerity and authenticity in support groups. After a year of fieldwork and interviews with members of support groups in a medium-sized Midwestern city, the author explores the meanings of death in an American cultural and political context. keywords: author cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w089280475z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w089280475z.txt item: #4449 of 4945 id: w089280525p author: Aleksandar Dimkovikj title: Examining the Influence of the Nutritional Environment on Antibiotic Susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa date: 2019 words: 150 flesch: 30 summary: In this thesis, I explore the ability of calcium levels to influence antibiotic susceptibility when considering glucose or glutamate as carbon sources for bacterial growth. Antibiotic resistance is a crucial problem facing modern society as all pathogens inevitably evolve resistance to known antibiotics. keywords: antibiotic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w089280525p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w089280525p.txt item: #4450 of 4945 id: w0892805966 author: Tyson W. Lager title: Using Pluripotent Stem Cells to Identify Embryonic Mechanisms Mediating Cancer Aggressiveness Reveals a Novel Role for Cell Surface GRP78 in Regulating Critical Stem Cell and Cancer Functions date: 2021 words: 185 flesch: 28 summary: Lastly, we demonstrate that cell surface GRP78 is a specific and effective targeting moiety on stem cells and cancer cells, by developing a novel liposome nanoparticle drug delivery system for cancer therapeutic and regenerative medicine applications. To gain insight into the stem-like mechanisms that cancer cells exploit to achieve their aggressive oncogenic phenotypes, we utilized both induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and cancer cells in our studies. keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w0892805966.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w0892805966.txt item: #4451 of 4945 id: w0892805b0f author: Mengfei Li title: Characterizing the Viscoelastic Behavior of Biofilm: Modeling and Experimental Studies date: 2021 words: 393 flesch: 39 summary: Because biofilm deformation affects the flow regime, and because biofilms behave as complex heterogeneous viscoelastic materials, few models are able to predict biofilm deformation in these highly coupled systems. In this study, we firstly developed a phase‐field (PF) continuum model coupled with the Oldroyd‐B constitutive equation and used this model to simulate biofilm deformation. keywords: biofilm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w0892805b0f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w0892805b0f.txt item: #4452 of 4945 id: w0892805b86 author: Casey Duchesne Stefanski title: Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Regulates ABC Transporters and DNA Repair Mechanisms to Cause Doxorubicin Resistance date: 2022 words: 370 flesch: 37 summary: We hypothesized that APC loss prevents DOX-mediated apoptosis through: 1) reduced intracellular DOX and 2) alterations in DNA damage and repair with the goal to discover new combination therapies for APC-deficient cancer. Taken together, APC loss decreased intracellular DOX accumulation through increased efflux and decreased DOX-induced DNA damage. keywords: dox cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w0892805b86.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w0892805b86.txt item: #4453 of 4945 id: w0892805c44 author: Huacheng Ye title: High-Performance Back-End-of-Line Compatible Indium Tungsten Oxide (IWO) Transistors for Monolithic-3D Application date: 2022 words: 388 flesch: 45 summary: This approach can provide higher transistor density without scaling the transistor size and higher bandwidth due to its high-density MIVs. Moreover, an IL-free IWO ferroelectric transistor, based on our first proposed W-sacrificial-layer process, was also demonstrated, which showed the highest memory window, endurance, and read/write speed, as compared to other AOS ferroelectric transistors. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w0892805c44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w0892805c44.txt item: #4454 of 4945 id: w0892805d1d author: Lindsay Heldreth title: The Only Sexuality That Excludes Trans People Is Bigot: In Pursuit of Inclusivity date: 2023 words: 237 flesch: 50 summary: Given that these identities are gaining more visibility and there are more people claiming these identities in recent years, this raises a wide range of questions for sociologists, both in terms of how these identities are understood by the dominant culture, and how the inner dynamics of the community have been altered as a result of this increased visibility. Scholars have pointed out previously that sexualities that fall under the multisexual spectrum and transgender identities fundamentally unsettle the assumptions made about gender sexuality that allow people to be neatly sorted into categories. keywords: identities cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w0892805d1d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w0892805d1d.txt item: #4455 of 4945 id: w3763487f90 author: Gloria Ruth Frost title: Thomas Aquinas on Necessary Truths about Contingent Beings date: 2009 words: 317 flesch: 48 summary: Since both creatures and their essences are contingently existing beings that come to be and perish in time, many have concluded that the creatures themselves or their essences cannot be the res to which necessary propositions about creatures conform. The kind of necessary propositions that this dissertation concerns are essential propositions, such as Man is an animal or Dogs are sentient. keywords: propositions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487f90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487f90.txt item: #4456 of 4945 id: w3763487g1j author: Mark Ojonugwa Enemali title: The Danger of Transgression against Divine Presence: The Case of the Ark Narrative (1 Samuel 4:1b-7:1; 2 Samuel 6) date: 2014 words: 289 flesch: 54 summary: The ark, as the visible representation of divine presence, is a functional equivalent of ancient Near Eastern cultic statues, and thus should be construed not just as a symbol, but as something closely interwoven with the being of the God of Israel. The significance of divine presence in ancient Near Eastern cultic statues will be investigated in order to pinpoint its bearing on the understanding of divine presence in the ark. keywords: ark cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487g1j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487g1j.txt item: #4457 of 4945 id: w3763487g2w author: Jonathan David Hauenstein title: Regeneration, local dimension, and applications in numerical algebraic geometry date: 2010 words: 171 flesch: 36 summary: Algorithms in the field of numerical algebraic geometry provide numerical methods for computing and manipulating solution sets of polynomial systems. The algorithms presented in this thesis are applied to problems arising in kinematics and partial differential equations. keywords: algorithms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487g2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487g2w.txt item: #4458 of 4945 id: w3763487g4k author: Sara Troyani title: Italian America: Latin America as Italy in the Post-Unification Emigration Literature of Edmondo De Amicis date: 2015 words: 350 flesch: 7 summary: Composed during the decade following his 1884 transatlantic journey to visit Italian emigration settlements in Latin America, De Amicis' Italian-Latin American emigration narratives highlight the hardships faced by the author's emigrant compatriots. Concerned that mass emigration threatened efforts to project a geographically cohesive Italian nation that would attest to Italian political and economic parity with leading European powers, they supported imperialist plans to redirect Italian emigrants to state-sponsored colonial settlements and accommodate all Italian citizens on what had traditionally been Italian soil. keywords: italian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487g4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487g4k.txt item: #4459 of 4945 id: w3763487g68 author: Carrie Ann Weaver title: Assessing the Structure of Psychopathology Using the SNAP and the MMPI-2 Restructured-Clinical Scales date: 2015 words: 143 flesch: 37 summary: Empirical studies of the structure of personality and psychopathology have demonstrated the importance of hierarchical modeling for extending our understanding of relations among mental disorders, as well as between and among abnormal personality traits and dimensions of psychopathology. al., 2001) Restructured-Clinical (RC) Scales (Tellegen et al., 2003), and 'Axis II' personality pathology, the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP; Clark, 1993; Clark, Simms, Wu, & Casillas, in press) using a series of 'top-down' factor analyses, termed the 'bass-ackwards approach' (Goldberg, 2006). keywords: personality cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487g68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487g68.txt item: #4460 of 4945 id: w3763487g8z author: Konrad Jacob Kulacki title: Proactive aquatic ecotoxicology: A hazard assessment of room-temperature ionic liquids date: 2010 words: 360 flesch: 28 summary: 'Green' chemicals are those that minimize waste, maximize efficiency, and/or reduce toxicity; an emerging group of such green chemicals are room-temperature ionic liquids (ILs), which are under development to replace traditional volatile organic solvents. ILs clearly improve upon volatile solvents in many industrial processes, however their potential for negative effects if released into aquatic environments remains largely unknown. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487g8z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487g8z.txt item: #4461 of 4945 id: w3763487g99 author: Sally Brooke Cameron title: Bonds Between Women: Gender and Economics in Late-Victorian Literature date: 2008 words: 358 flesch: 38 summary: My first and second chapters look at representations of female bonds in New Woman fiction, a genre that most critics align with political economy and productive bodies. By thinking about gender and women's relationships with one another, all four fin-de-si cle authors overcome the split between classical political economy and new theories of neoclassical economics and consumption. keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487g99.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487g99.txt item: #4462 of 4945 id: w3763487h0h author: Keke Lai title: Meta-Analyzing Structural Equation Models with Study-Level Moderators: Explaining the Systematic Heterogeneity Among Covariance Structures date: 2012 words: 199 flesch: 37 summary: However, this is an unrealistic assumption because different studies usually have their own characteristics and a set of relationships usually behave differently in different situations. To investigate a certain phenomenon of interest, different researchers may carry out different SEM studies and report (seemingly or not) different results. keywords: sem cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487h0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487h0h.txt item: #4463 of 4945 id: w3763487h26 author: Michael Eugene Hawkins title: Development of Polymers for Minimally Invasive Orthopedic Implants date: 2005 words: 276 flesch: 46 summary: Nanometer sized barium sulfate was added to the blends replacing conventional sized barium sulfate. Minimally invasive implants are introduced and discussed. keywords: acrylic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487h26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487h26.txt item: #4464 of 4945 id: w3763487h4w author: Yong Li title: Multimodal Image Registration through Iteratively Searching Correspondences of Keypoints and Line Segments date: 2012 words: 532 flesch: 37 summary: Keypoints including Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) and partial intensity invariant feature descriptor (PIIFD) are detected from both the reference and test images. This work addresses the problem of multimodal image registration. keywords: similarity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487h4w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487h4w.txt item: #4465 of 4945 id: w3763487h57 author: Sahand Golnarian title: Energy-Efficient and Queue-Aware Resource Allocation in Uplink OFDM Systems for Wireless M2M Communication date: 2014 words: 216 flesch: 40 summary: Due to battery limitations of devices in most M2M applications, energy efficiency, defined as the number of information bits transmitted per unit energy, is utilized as a utility function instead of a sum-throughput, a traditional utility function for network utility maximization problems. It is well-known that for a bandlimited communication system, the price for achieving high energy efficiency is delay, i.e. spreading the total energy over a long time interval. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487h57.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487h57.txt item: #4466 of 4945 id: w3763487h7x author: Margaret Emma Brandl title: Gods and Nagasaki: Two Novellas date: 2013 words: 35 flesch: 57 summary: Two novellas: Gods and Nagasaki, a chorus of voices in and around Nagasaki, and Morning Sky, the story of a seventh-grade girl who deals with trauma by escaping into the world of Sailor Moon. keywords: nagasaki cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487h7x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487h7x.txt item: #4467 of 4945 id: w3763487k04 author: Glen Ray Hood title: Sequential Divergence and the Multiplicative Origin of Community Diversity date: 1904 words: 451 flesch: 19 summary: Results from a meta-analysis of 64 studies suggests that species differences in the timing of a key life cycle event, oviposition, into shared insect hosts may be an important life history strategy mediating competition between parasitoid species in general and allowing for multiple taxa to co-exist on shared hosts. In addition interspecific competition between wasp species for limited resource during larval development inside fly hosts is mitigated by their temporal subdivision of the shared host fly resource. keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487k04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487k04.txt item: #4468 of 4945 id: w3763487k1g author: Edward Burkard title: First Steps in Homotopy Results for Symplectic Embeddings of Ellipsoids date: 1904 words: 110 flesch: 63 summary: We identify a loop of symplectic embeddings E(a,b) U E(a,b) --> B^4(R) which is contractible when R > a+b and which is non-contractible when 2a < R < a+b, provided that b < 2a. The space of symplectic embeddings of ellipsoids has been an object of great study in recent years. keywords: space cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763487k1g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763487k1g.txt item: #4469 of 4945 id: w3763488600 author: Charles Mueller title: Evidence for a Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Top Quark Pair and Decaying to Leptons date: 1904 words: 136 flesch: 30 summary: A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top quark pair is presented, using the full pp collision dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb<sup>-1</sup> collected by the CMS experiment at a center of mass energy of &radic;s = 13 TeV. MVA-based event reconstruction techniques are used to identify final states where the Higgs boson decays to either a W, Z or tau pair by selecting events with two isolated same-sign leptons, and b-jets. The observed best-fit \ th signal strength is 1.7<sup>+0.6</sup><sub>-0.5</sub> times the Standard Model prediction, corresponding to a significance of 3.3 standard deviations above the background-only hypothesis. keywords: standard cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763488600.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763488600.txt item: #4470 of 4945 id: w3763488d3w author: Isaac Kimmel title: Rah Rah Ritual: Emotional Energy, Symbolic Salience, and Collective Identity in High School Athletics date: 2019 words: 172 flesch: 25 summary: Engagement in high school basketball creates emotional energy as enumerated by Randall Collins, which is then invested into symbols akin to Durkheim's totems. This is a grounded theory study attempting to answer the question of why high school sports are appealing to individuals without direct personal connections to contesting teams, incorporating observations from 16 high school basketball games that took place at 7 different gyms in Indiana over the course of the 2018-19 season. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763488d3w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763488d3w.txt item: #4471 of 4945 id: w3763488k9h author: Anna B. Holdorf title: A Harvest for Heaven and Earth: Agricultural Missionaries and the Religious Roots of U.S. International Development in Latin America date: 2021 words: 218 flesch: 16 summary: When the U.S. government began to embrace development as a foreign policy objective during the Cold War, state actors turned to agricultural missionaries for advice and used their projects as models for their own development programs. When government-run programs increasingly took an approach that favored large-scale modernization and top-down economic aid, agricultural missionaries distanced themselves from the state and its model of development, which they criticized for exacerbating political instability, socioeconomic inequality, and environmental problems. keywords: development cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763488k9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763488k9h.txt item: #4472 of 4945 id: w3763488m43 author: Peter Dore title: Pulse date: 2022 words: 122 flesch: 35 summary: Our failure to successfully to teach and therefore habituate stress management skills during the recovery process is the locus for many of the challenges individuals struggling with addiction recovery face. We are failing to address the many shortcomings in the treatment, definition, and conceptualization of Substance Abuse Disorder. keywords: recovery cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763488m43.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763488m43.txt item: #4473 of 4945 id: w3763488m5f author: Tong Zhao title: Learning to Augment Data in Graphs date: 2022 words: 235 flesch: 25 summary: In order to address these challenges, other than developing more advanced and complicated machine learning models, graph data augmentation allows researchers to improve graph machine learning from the perspective of data. Given the omnipresence of graph-structured data, graph machine learning has copious applications in multifarious fields such as social media, e-commerce platform, cyber-physical system, or chemical synthesis. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w3763488m5f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w3763488m5f.txt item: #4474 of 4945 id: w6634170r13 author: Ryan Durward Hutchinson title: Generic Properties of Convolutional Codes date: 2006 words: 225 flesch: 33 summary: More specifically, ideas from linear systems theory and algebraic geometry are used to 1. give an affirmative answer to the conjecture in~cite{gl03r} that convolutional codes possessing both the MDP and sMDS properties exist for arbitrary code parameters over finite fields of every prime characteristic and 2. show that the set of such codes may be seen as a generic set in a certain Quot scheme. In this dissertation, convolutional codes possessing the maximum distance profile (MDP) and strongly maximum distance separable (sMDS) properties are studied. keywords: codes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w6634170r13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w6634170r13.txt item: #4475 of 4945 id: w6634170r44 author: Theodore John Hoffman Williams title: Compliant Flow Designs for Optimum Lift Control of Wind Turbine Rotors date: 2014 words: 309 flesch: 49 summary: An optimization approach was formulated to determine geometric designs that are most compliant to flow control devices. A trailing edge retrofit with the plasma actuator located on the pressure side was able to achieve the target passive lift increase while using plasma flow control to reduce the lift to below the original design. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w6634170r44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w6634170r44.txt item: #4476 of 4945 id: w6634170r6t author: Jeffrey Michael Seymour title: 'Dry' Laws in the American South: A Social Context of Sustained Policy date: 2010 words: 145 flesch: 28 summary: Within the context of the new temperance era, it is found that religious institutions and measures of social homogeneity are positively related to the likelihood that a county will sustain dry policy. Particular attention is given to the presence of dominant cultural belief systems and varying patterns of social relations. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w6634170r6t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w6634170r6t.txt item: #4477 of 4945 id: w6634170s2r author: Kalsea J. Koss title: Interparental Conflict, Emotional Security, and Adolescent Adjustment: The Role of Family-wide Risk and Protective Factors date: 2010 words: 150 flesch: 20 summary: The current study examined the role of family cohesion, conflict, and emotional expressiveness; moderated mediation was conducted to examine if the strength of the paths in the model differed depending on family functioning. At the same time, results largely supported the notion that these processes did not differ as a result of broader family functioning, suggesting the robustness of emotional security as an explanatory mechanism. keywords: emotional cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w6634170s2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w6634170s2r.txt item: #4478 of 4945 id: w6634170s4f author: Roman V Kazban title: Effect of Tool Parameters on Residual Stress and Temperature Generation in High-Speed Machining of Aluminum Alloys date: 2007 words: 544 flesch: 46 summary: Force measurements show that at this speed, on the upper boundary of the range of cutting velocities for high-speed machining not high enough to be very-high speed or ultra-high speed cutting, the role of momentum is negligible and the cutting event is dominated by material deformation, making the fluid model less applicable. Namely, a potential flow solution is used to model the behavior of the material around a tool tip during machining at high speeds, i.e. greater than or equal to 100 $m/s$. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w6634170s4f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w6634170s4f.txt item: #4479 of 4945 id: w6634170t0c author: Yihua Zhang title: Secure and Verifiable Outsourcing of Computation and Storage date: 2015 words: 340 flesch: 31 summary: Therefore, it is essential to protect the privacy of sensitive data used in outsourced computation, and verify the integrity of computational results and data storage outsourced to the cloud. However, the top impediment that lies on the way of harnessing all of the benefits of cloud computing is security and privacy considerations that prevent users from placing their data or computations on the cloud. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w6634170t0c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w6634170t0c.txt item: #4480 of 4945 id: w6634170z1z author: Lainey Virginia Bristow title: Effects of Warming on the Endangered Karner Blue Butterfly: An Exploration of the Sensitivity of Life History Stages and Traits date: 1904 words: 48 flesch: 37 summary: The Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) is an endangered species living in fragmented landscapes within the Midwest and Eastern U.S. Being a specialist feeder and ectotherm, the Karner blue may be highly susceptible to climate change. Therefore, we pursued several experiments to explore its climate change sensitivity. keywords: change cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w6634170z1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w6634170z1z.txt item: #4481 of 4945 id: w6634171g3k author: Felicia Moralez title: From Immigrants to Citizens: Mexicans and Settlement Houses in Gary, Indiana, 1919-1965 date: 1904 words: 302 flesch: 36 summary: For settlement houses, the path to Mexicans' acceptance in public life was performing ethnic traditions and religious worship. This dissertation argued that Mexican immigrants in Gary competed with settlement house workers and religious leaders to manifest their own vision of recognition and acceptance in public life. keywords: public cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w6634171g3k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w6634171g3k.txt item: #4482 of 4945 id: w6634171g89 author: Michael Rubbelke title: A Constant Closeness to This God: Reconsidering Karl Rahner's Mystical Theology date: 1904 words: 348 flesch: 36 summary: Rather than a mysticism of everyday life, Karl Rahner advances an understanding of mysticism rooted in the ongoing historical interactions of human freedom with the life of the God of Jesus Christ. In Chapter Five, I offer a synthetic account of Rahner's approach to mysticism and situate it in relation to his theological system, with special attention to the relation of human freedom and knowledge, salvation and revelation history, as well as Christology and ecclesiology. keywords: mysticism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w6634171g89.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w6634171g89.txt item: #4483 of 4945 id: w6634171n65 author: Danae Jacobson title: Spiritual Geographies: How Nuns Changed the U.S. West date: 2019 words: 275 flesch: 53 summary: Catholic missions were not just run by male priests and brothers bent on saving souls. I probe these women's spiritual geography, which was both material and spiritual—it involved bodies, the land, and souls. keywords: nuns cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w6634171n65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w6634171n65.txt item: #4484 of 4945 id: w6634171p0d author: Danny Orton title: Cluster Structures on the Affine Space of Rectangular Matrices date: 2019 words: 186 flesch: 39 summary: Combinatorial conditions are given for when there exists a sequence of cluster mutations relating such cluster structures on the space of matrices of size n by m and the space of matrices of size (n-1) by m. This aforementioned sequence of mutations is an important ingredient in showing that the corresponding upper cluster algebra is isomorphic to the ring of regular functions on the space of matrices of size n by m. It has been conjectured that there exists a classification of regular cluster structures on simple complex Lie groups that is parallel to the Belavin-Drinfeld classification of Poisson-Lie Brackets. keywords: cluster cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w6634171p0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w6634171p0d.txt item: #4485 of 4945 id: w6634171t41 author: Pei Li title: Studying Unconstrained Degraded Face Recognition and Redaction with Applications in Real Surveillance Environment date: 2020 words: 350 flesch: 43 summary: First, a more reliable facial keypoint detector needs to specifically curated for LQ face images, contour or template matching could be applied when not detailed information on the face could be catching due to the image degradation. We address weakly-supervised LRFR in videos by incorporating pre-trained general face recognition models as prior and propose an approach to gradually adapting a general face recognition model into a more robust LQ face recognition model. keywords: face cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w6634171t41.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w6634171t41.txt item: #4486 of 4945 id: w6634171v8q author: Ahmad Aljawad title: On a Surface-Edge date: 2021 words: 4 flesch: 118 summary: It's a story. keywords: story cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w6634171v8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w6634171v8q.txt item: #4487 of 4945 id: w9504x54118 author: Jennifer Lynn Anthony title: Gas Solubilities in Ionic Liquids: Experimental Measurements and Applications date: 2004 words: 330 flesch: 41 summary: This work explores the solubility and associated thermodynamic properties, such as Henry's law constants, and enthalpies and entropies of absorption, of a variety of gases in various ionic liquids, mainly those with 1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium as the cation and [PF6], [BF4], and [Tf2N] as the anions. Ionic liquids, organic salts that are liquids in their pure states at ambient conditions, have many properties that are similar to conventional organic solvents. keywords: liquids cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x54118.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x54118.txt item: #4488 of 4945 id: w9504x5413z author: Sarah Catherine Reiff title: Radiation Induced Chemical Activity at Iron and Copper Oxide Surfaces date: 2015 words: 303 flesch: 49 summary: Slurries of varying amounts of water were also examined for hydrogen production, and they showed yields that were greater than the yield for bulk water. However, the yields of hydrogen from the copper compounds were much lower than those of the iron suggesting that the copper oxides are relatively inert to radiation induced damage to nearby water. keywords: water cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x5413z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x5413z.txt item: #4489 of 4945 id: w9504x54149 author: Joseph R Geary title: In-situ Optical Sensing for the Detection and Quantification of Pathogen Indicator Organisms date: 2010 words: 324 flesch: 29 summary: Additionally, it is found fluorescent reagents facilitate the induction of GUS in EC; increases in GUS activity per culturable EC cell in marine water is likely due to breakdown of cell wall and release of intracellular enzymes; EC GUS expression in natural waters does not significantly correlate to initial physiochemical water parameters or EC concentrations. Benefits of this research include a better understanding of GUS production in natural waters; a better understanding of GUS expression in typical sensor growing conditions; the characterization of a soluble fluorescent reagent ideal for in-situ optical sensing; the use of an optical sensor for the detection and partial quantification of pathogen indicator organisms. keywords: gus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x54149.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x54149.txt item: #4490 of 4945 id: w9504x54160 author: Nicholas Andrew Jaffa title: Unsteady Measurement Techniques for Turbomachinery Flows date: 2015 words: 246 flesch: 31 summary: The uncertainty analysis provided estimates for the uncertainty in the measurements as well as showing the sensitivity to various sources of error. The combined uncertainties for the measurements were quantified using uncertainty estimates from investigations into the elemental error sources. keywords: phase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x54160.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x54160.txt item: #4491 of 4945 id: w9504x5418p author: Matthew Charles Bean title: Lament of the Cyclops date: 2015 words: 151 flesch: 43 summary: My video installation, Lament of the Cyclops, evokes this anxiety we feel from our current mode of body understanding. A feedback loop exists between body images, especially medical images for this discussion, and the information coded into our understanding of others. keywords: body cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x5418p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x5418p.txt item: #4492 of 4945 id: w9504x54207 author: Stephanie Ann Storer title: Temporal Effects of Capture Zone Geometry in Fractured Rock date: 2010 words: 146 flesch: 44 summary: Capture zone delineation is a critical step toward sound wellhead protection plans ensuring groundwater safety where a community's sourcewater is groundwater. Well capture zone delineation is difficult where there is fractured rock in the subsurface, as the fractures transport the majority of the water and fracture location often includes substantial uncertainty. keywords: capture cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x54207.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x54207.txt item: #4493 of 4945 id: w9504x5421k author: Ardea Caviggiola Russo title: Behind the Heavenly Door: Earthly Liturgy and Heavenly Worship in the Apocalypse of John date: 2010 words: 357 flesch: 40 summary: This theory helps to explain some parts of these passages better then others, but most problematic is the fact that our evidence for worship practices in the first centuries remains incomplete, and we cannot be sure that liturgical dialogues were a part of Christian liturgy at this early date. Many previous treatments of this subject have overstated the conclusions that can be drawn from our evidence for Christian liturgical practice in the late-first century CE. keywords: christian cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x5421k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x5421k.txt item: #4494 of 4945 id: w9504x5422x author: Akaa Daniel Ayangeakaa title: Exotic Modes of Collective Excitations: Nuclear Tidal Waves and Chirality date: 2013 words: 266 flesch: 27 summary: Two exotic modes of collective excitations of nuclei have been investigated in this work: the multiphonon excitations in the vibrational nucleus, 102Pd and the phenomenon of chirality in the 133Ce nucleus. The extracted reduced transition probabilities, B(E2), for the yrast band display a monotonic increase with spin, in agreement with the interpretation based on rotation-induced condensation of aligned d-bosons, and the observed constant B(E2)/J ratios imply that the gain in angular momentum originates from the increase of the wave amplitude (deformation). keywords: nucleus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x5422x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x5422x.txt item: #4495 of 4945 id: w9504x5424m author: John C Tan title: The Dynamic Structural Genome of Plasmodium falciparum date: 2008 words: 393 flesch: 34 summary: Currently there is no approved vaccine to combat malaria, and drug resistance of parasites to antimalarial drugs is a real and growing concern. This approach identifies significant genomic changes of various types which may have implications for drug response and genome evolvability. keywords: genome cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x5424m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x5424m.txt item: #4496 of 4945 id: w9504x54269 author: Sheina Biason Sim title: The Frontier of Ecological Speciation: Investigating Western Populations of Rhagoletis pomonella date: 2014 words: 571 flesch: 31 summary: Lastly, we suggest the concept of 'invasivory,' meaning to eat invasive species, as a novel method for control of invasive species populations. Lastly, though 'invasivory' is an interesting experiment, the act of eating invasive species is unlikely to result in changes in invasive species populations. keywords: populations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x54269.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x54269.txt item: #4497 of 4945 id: w9504x5427n author: Travis Charles Douville title: The Effect of Gap Size and Reynolds Number on Turbine Blade Flat and Suction-Side Squealer Tip Flowfields date: 2011 words: 158 flesch: 43 summary: Blade surface and tip endwall static pressure, total pressure loss, and wake vorticity measurements were taken to document the effects of upstream axial Reynolds number, 100000 < Re2 < 500000, and tip gap height, 0.015 < Interaction of tip leakage and passage vortices proved critical, and an inverse relationship was observed between the two structures in terms of streamwise vorticity, core total pressure loss, and the vortex size denoted by the -Ì_åÈ2 criterion. keywords: tip cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x5427n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x5427n.txt item: #4498 of 4945 id: w9504x5429b author: Patrick Corbitt Kerr title: Astronomical Tide, Hurricane Storm Surge, Coastal Inundation, and Wind-Wave Modeling and Response Sensitivities date: 2013 words: 315 flesch: -6 summary: This Gulf of Mexico region specific study included: 1) a performance assessment in terms of skill and execution speed for leading coastal and ocean models at simulating astronomical tides, hurricane storm surge, coastal inundation, and wind-waves; 2) an investigation of the National Weather Service's operational forecast model, SLOSH, with respect to its internal wind model performance and sensitivity to domain size; 3) an evaluation of coastal and ocean model response sensitivity to mesh resolution and wave bottom friction formulation; 4) an analysis of the spatial and temporal contributions of wave radiation stress gradients and non-linear advection terms and a scaling of other components of the shallow water equations; and 5) an examination of the mechanistic role that anthropogenic features, discharge, and wetlands play in the generation and propagation of riverine storm surge. In order to facilitate the improvement of existing and the transition of additional models to operational use, this study seeks to clarify many of the assumptions that are generally made with coastal and ocean modeling, particularly by addressing model sensitivities to aspects of numerical approach, mesh design, parameterization, and physical components. keywords: coastal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x5429b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x5429b.txt item: #4499 of 4945 id: w9504x54r24 author: Jennifer L. Meloche title: Development of New C-C/C-N Bonds: Formation of Highly Substituted Centers in Diarylheptanoids and Indole Alkaloids date: 1904 words: 429 flesch: 21 summary: Containing all-carbon quaternary spirocenters, 3,3'-pyrrolidinyl-spirooxindole cores are found in many spirooxindole products and exhibits a range of biological activity. We demonstrated the use of diazooxindoles in a Rh(II)-catalyzed, formal [4+1]-cycloaddition toward the construction of spirooxindole pyrrolones employing vinyl isocyanates as 1,3-heterodiene surrogates. keywords: spirooxindole cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x54r24.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x54r24.txt item: #4500 of 4945 id: w9504x54r4t author: Christopher J. Dekker title: The Organ Works of Bert Matter date: 1904 words: 138 flesch: 50 summary: The compositions of Matter deserve greater attention due to their high motivic development which often combines traditional forms with modern techniques. This paper seeks to shed light on this important composer through a look at his life, teaching, and compositions, with particular attention on three of his most notable works. keywords: matter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x54r4t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x54r4t.txt item: #4501 of 4945 id: w9504x54r55 author: Bo Wu title: Formal Methods for Control of Markov Decision Processes date: 1904 words: 339 flesch: 33 summary: Sequential decision making under uncertainties in a complex and changing environment is a crucial research area with many practical applications, such as autonomous driving, human-robot interaction, multi-robot tasking and so on. Then we go on to consider the privacy problem in MDP control, which first makes use of the existing notion of opacity and later we propose our own notion defined in the belief state. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x54r55.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x54r55.txt item: #4502 of 4945 id: w9504x54r9j author: Yiyuan Li title: Molecular Evolution of Gene Families under Selection and Mitochondrial-Nuclear Interactions in Arthropods date: 1904 words: 252 flesch: 24 summary: This growing genomic data provides a great opportunity to study arthropod gene family evolution. Because of the different niches arthropods live in, arthropods are great organisms for studying gene family evolution. keywords: evolution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x54r9j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x54r9j.txt item: #4503 of 4945 id: w9504x55346 author: Magda Ivette Collazo Simonet title: Il fu Mattia Pascal: Humanity, Corporeality, and Bureaucracy in Pirandello's Narrative date: 2020 words: 39 flesch: 28 summary: My thesis aims to explore Luigi Pirandello's ideas on the nature of humanity, and how Pirandello represents the human through elements outside of corporality, whether it be through boundaries incorporated by law or through the perceptions of others. keywords: pirandello cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x55346.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x55346.txt item: #4504 of 4945 id: w9504x5545v author: Yueh-Fu Wu title: Evidence That CLIP-170 Induces Formation of Biomolecular Condensates to Promote Microtubule Polymerization, and Binds to Actin to Mediate Actin-Microtubule Crosstalk date: 2021 words: 1048 flesch: 44 summary: In this dissertation, I will discuss my two key findings and the hypotheses that were drawn from them: (1) A major +TIP called CLIP-170 can induce biomolecular condensate containing other members of +TIP network, which leads to the hypothesis that biomolecular condensates play a role in promoting MT polymerization. My competition assays further demonstrate that the CLIP-170:actin interactions compete with the CLIP-170:MT interactions. keywords: clip-170 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x5545v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x5545v.txt item: #4505 of 4945 id: w9504x5553g author: Aubrey Jeffries title: Rhodium Bimetallic Alloys for Furfural Hydrogenation date: 2021 words: 154 flesch: 13 summary: Platinum group metals are known for high catalytic activity in hydrogenation reactions, though, rhodium remains understudied compared to platinum, palladium, and ruthenium. Experimental results show second metal modifiers, metal molar ratio, and solvent environment influence the activity of furfural hydrogenation. keywords: hydrogenation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x5553g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x5553g.txt item: #4506 of 4945 id: w9504x5568h author: Patrick J. Fasano title: Ab initio Nuclear Structure and Electroweak Properties from Chiral Effective Field Theory date: 2023 words: 259 flesch: 31 summary: Modern internucleon interactions, derived from chiral effective field theory (χEFT), provide a systematic expansion of the nuclear force and all related currents. We implement and evaluate χEFT operators in light nuclei (A ≤ 17) using the Low Energy Nuclear Physics International Collaboration (LENPIC) formalism, with special attention paid to consistency of regulators, power counting, and low-energy constants (LECs). keywords: χeft cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/w9504x5568h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/w9504x5568h.txt item: #4507 of 4945 id: wd375t37939 author: Jeffrey M Squyres title: A Component Architecture for the Message Passing Interface (MPI): The Systems Services Interface (SSI) for LAM/MPI date: 2004 words: 251 flesch: 22 summary: Previous versions of LAM/MPI, as well as other MPI implementations, are based on monolithic software architectures that -- regardless of how well-abstracted and logically constructed -- are highly complex software packages, presenting a steep learning curve for new developers and third parties. Each component framework was designed from analysis of prior monolithic implementations of LAM/MPI and represents a major functional category: run-time environment startup, MPI point-to-point communication, MPI collective communication, and parallel checkpoint/restart. keywords: mpi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wd375t37939.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wd375t37939.txt item: #4508 of 4945 id: wd375t3796b author: Yueh-Ju Lin title: Connected sum construction of constant Q-curvature manifolds in higher dimensions date: 2014 words: 99 flesch: 29 summary: For a compact Riemannian manifold $(M, g_2)$ of dimension $ngeq 6$ with constant $Q$-curvature satisfying a nondegeneracy condition, we show that one can construct many other examples of constant $Q$-curvature manifolds by a gluing construction. In particular, we prove the existence of solutions of a fourth-order partial differential equation, which implies the existence of a smooth metric with constant $Q$-curvature on the connected sum $N#M$. keywords: constant cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wd375t3796b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wd375t3796b.txt item: #4509 of 4945 id: wd375t37b0k author: James Hallowell title: Donor Intervention Strategy in Peacebuilding and Impact on Program Outcomes: A Case Study of AusAUID Australia date: 2015 words: 152 flesch: 21 summary: The study recommends, adopting a comprehensive approach is critical for successful peacebuilding; and gradual phasing out of aid is critical to sustainability. Donor exit strategy has major implications for post-war peacebuilding process. keywords: peacebuilding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wd375t37b0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wd375t37b0k.txt item: #4510 of 4945 id: wd375t37b4z author: Sujin Khomrutai title: Regularity of Singular Solutions to Sigma_k-Yamabe Problems date: 2010 words: 149 flesch: 52 summary: Apart from their importance in conformal geometry, the blow-up solutions along a hypersurface or the boundary of a manifold have also received much attention in the study of AdS/CFT correspondence in physics. We prove some regularity results for singular solutions of $sigma_k$-Yamabe problem, where the singular set is a compact hypersurface in a Riemannian manifold. keywords: singular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wd375t37b4z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wd375t37b4z.txt item: #4511 of 4945 id: wd375t37b6n author: Richard N Besingi title: The N-Terminus of the Yersinia pestis yapV Autotransporter Protein Destabilizes the Entire Passenger Domain In Vitro: Implications for In Vivo Secretion date: 2012 words: 371 flesch: 38 summary: The AT outer membrane (OM) secretion mechanism is deceptively simple, in part because major determinants for AT OM secretion are contained within the AT sequence itself. However, this connection has been investigated for only two of the >1500 identified AT proteins, and it remains to be determined whether there is a universal connection between AT passenger stability and OM secretion efficiency. keywords: passenger cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wd375t37b6n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wd375t37b6n.txt item: #4512 of 4945 id: wd375t37b9p author: Lijuan Wang title: Stochastic Modeling and Simulation of Transient Events date: 2007 words: 564 flesch: 24 summary: This observation served as a key role in the development of a simulation methodology for non-stationary processes that preserves both amplitude and frequency modulation features of the process. Various attempts to realize numerical simulation of non-stationary random processes have been reported in the literature where non-stationarity in the frequency contents of target processes is often neglected due to modeling convenience. keywords: non cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wd375t37b9p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wd375t37b9p.txt item: #4513 of 4945 id: wd375t37c2k author: Zhen Tong title: Power Control and Full-Duplex Communication in Wireless Networks date: 2015 words: 612 flesch: 46 summary: Therefore, efficient MAC schemes are of great importance to achieving good performance of wireless networks. This thesis also investigates the throughput for wireless networks with full-duplex radios using stochastic geometry. keywords: wireless cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wd375t37c2k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wd375t37c2k.txt item: #4514 of 4945 id: wd375t3809v author: Francesco Pancaldi title: Mathematical Models of Bacteria Polarity and Fibrin Network Mechanics date: 1904 words: 134 flesch: 29 summary: Two novel mathematical models are described and used in this thesis to study important biological problems of blood clot formation and cell polarity during division. First, a model of Myxococcus xanthus internal protein dynamics is presented and its relation with the motility based bacterial polarity is discussed. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wd375t3809v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wd375t3809v.txt item: #4515 of 4945 id: wd375t3814f author: Kaveesha J. Wijesinghe title: Exploring Structural and Functional Properties of Marburg Virus Matrix Protein-VP40 date: 1904 words: 438 flesch: 33 summary: Although a wealth of information is available on how Ebola virus matrix protein-VP40 (eVP40) interacts with the plasma membrane to assemble the viral matrix and form VLPs, information on mVP40 plasma membrane interactions were scarce. Next, we investigated if mVP40 membrane association induced structural changes in mVP40 using Hydrogen-Deuterium exchange Mass spectrometry (HDX-MS). keywords: mvp40 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wd375t3814f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wd375t3814f.txt item: #4516 of 4945 id: wd375t3859d author: Nathaniel T. Blanchard title: Quantifying Internal Representation for Use in Model Search date: 2019 words: 560 flesch: 35 summary: A drawback with this evaluation is that internal behavior is defined in accordance with input similarity. Traditionally, a machine learning model is evaluated for generalizability by testing it on unseen data, unseen inputs. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wd375t3859d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wd375t3859d.txt item: #4517 of 4945 id: wd375t38760 author: Shikang Liu title: Heterogeneous Network Approach for Analyzing Nethealth Data: Linking Individuals' Social Interaction, Personality, Physical Health, and Mental Health Data date: 2019 words: 548 flesch: 34 summary: With this hypothesis, in a follow-up study, we fairly evaluate whether using dynamic social network data has more power than using static social network data in the task of predicting mental health. Since the existing RS methods work on static network data and extending them to dynamic network data is non-trivial, our constructed HIN aggregates the dynamic social network data from the considered study time period into a static network. keywords: health cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wd375t38760.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wd375t38760.txt item: #4518 of 4945 id: wd375t38f0s author: Jaylexia Clark title: Structuring Gig Work: An Investigation of the Relationship between Racial Residential Segregation and Labor Participation in the Gig Economy within U.S. Counties between 2010-2018 date: 2021 words: 183 flesch: 40 summary: To investigate this phenomenon, I ask the following question: Does variation in income inequality, unemployment rates, and racial segregation predict variation in the growth of labor participation in the gig economy across U.S. counties from 2010 to 2018. Through a fixed effect panel model, I find that racial residential segregation and income inequality do predict growth in labor participation in the gig economy, but I do not find evidence that unemployment rates predict growth in labor participation in the gig economy. keywords: gig cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wd375t38f0s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wd375t38f0s.txt item: #4519 of 4945 id: wd375t38f8j author: Chenguang Zhang title: Micro/Nanofluidics for Isolation and Quantification of Extracellular Nucleic Acids and Extracellular RNA Carriers date: 2022 words: 405 flesch: 26 summary: In recent years, extracellular nucleic acids and extracellular RNA carriers have been demonstrated as promising biomarkers for cancer diagnostics, treatment, and prognostics. In Chapter 1, I review current extracellular RNA carrier isolation and nucleic acids purification/quantification technologies. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wd375t38f8j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wd375t38f8j.txt item: #4520 of 4945 id: wh246q20k3v author: Abdelmaged Hafez Ibrahim Essawey title: Microparticle Detachment from Surfaces by Fluid Flow date: 2004 words: 354 flesch: 46 summary: Quantitative information on the increase of flow velocity at which 50 % of the microparticles detached (U_th) at different controlled conditions are presented. Microparticles of different sizes, materials and shapes (mostly microspheres) were deposited as monolayers onto the substrates under controlled conditions. keywords: microparticles cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q20k3v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q20k3v.txt item: #4521 of 4945 id: wh246q20k5j author: Brian Patrick Dunkle title: Nocturna Lux Viantibus: The Methods, Meaning, and Mystagogy of Ambrosian Hymnody date: 2015 words: 345 flesch: 38 summary: Third, close attention to the early reception of Ambrose's hymns illuminates both Ambrose's methods and the influences shaping the expansion of popular hymns and learned Christian poetry in the early Latin church. First, particular and original readings of words, phrases, and hymns contribute to the ongoing project of deciphering Ambrose's meaning. keywords: ambrose cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q20k5j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q20k5j.txt item: #4522 of 4945 id: wh246q20k6w author: Jerod Patzner title: Metal-Mediated Ring Opening Reactions of Acylnitroso Cycloadducts: Inter- and Intramolecular Enolate Additions and Application to Carbocyclic Nucleoside Synthesis date: 2010 words: 50 flesch: 17 summary: Methodology was developed on a library of cycloadducts derived from a Diels-Alder reaction involving acyl nitroso species using enolate species under varying conditions. Also, a palladium catalyzed decarboxylation reaction was developed as a key step in a new process to synthesize homoaristeromycin, a carbocylic nucleoside possessing anti-viral activity. keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q20k6w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q20k6w.txt item: #4523 of 4945 id: wh246q20k8k author: Jessica M. Blaxton title: A Process-Oriented Perspective Examining the Relationships Between Daily Coping, Stress, and Affect date: 2015 words: 195 flesch: 54 summary: Daily Altering the Situation related to lower negative affect and higher positive affect. The mean effect of Dispelling the Negative Effects of stress related to higher negative affect. keywords: affect cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q20k8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q20k8k.txt item: #4524 of 4945 id: wh246q20m04 author: Laura Rominger Porter title: From Sin to Crime: Evangelicals and the Public Moral Order in the Nineteenth-century Upper South date: 2013 words: 306 flesch: 19 summary: This dissertation examines the complex interconnections among local church discipline, competitive party politics, and the ordering of public morality in the nineteenth-century upper South, illuminating southern evangelicals' once-ambivalent view of the state and their contested path to supporting moral legislation. This dissertation argues that as regulatory bodies in their own right, churches were both sites of political conflict over what constituted 'sin' and local, voluntary governing institutions that fostered resistance to the political tactics and statist paternalism of moral reformers. keywords: public cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q20m04.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q20m04.txt item: #4525 of 4945 id: wh246q20m35 author: Jonathan Paul Renn title: Folding and Secretion of the E. coli Pet Autotransporter date: 2010 words: 477 flesch: 41 summary: Yet more than 97% of AT proteins are predicted to contain right-handed parallel β-helical structure, and the four of the five crystal structures available for AT passenger domains each contain a long right-handed parallel β-helix. Stable core structure in the β-helix of AT passenger domains could be important for efficient OM secretion of the passenger domain. keywords: domain cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q20m35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q20m35.txt item: #4526 of 4945 id: wh246q20m4h author: Maryam Meechka Zomorodian title: 'History Couched in a Play': Performing the Past on the Early Modern Stage date: 2013 words: 169 flesch: 17 summary: I argue that the relationship between the playhouse and historical culture was reciprocal: just as the theater contributed to an awareness and understanding of the past, historical matter helped legitimize theater in early modern England. This dissertation treats the contribution of the public playhouse to the development of early modern historiography and historical culture. keywords: modern cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q20m4h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q20m4h.txt item: #4527 of 4945 id: wh246q20m66 author: Kevin Goodman title: Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth & Characterization of Nitride Nanowires date: 2010 words: 288 flesch: 55 summary: Due to large lattice mismatch between materials with bandgaps near those needed for green emission and popular epitaxial substrates, dislocations prevent fabricating materials with high optical efficiencies. Siliconitride nanowire p-n junctions were grown and fabricated for the first time in Nitride MBE nanowire technology using p-type Silicon. keywords: nanowires cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q20m66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q20m66.txt item: #4528 of 4945 id: wh246q20m97 author: Xiaomei Liu title: Optimizations In Iris Recognition date: 2008 words: 322 flesch: 42 summary: We utilized an active contour model to refine the noise detection results and optimized the matching stage to compensate for the possible inaccuracy in iris segmentation and noise detection, which leads to another 0.95% increase in the rank one recognition rate and 0.85% decrease in the equal error rate. This research demonstrates that a more accurate iris segmentation helps to improve the overall system performance, and that the inaccuracy of iris segmentation and noise detection could be partly compensated for with optimizations in the matching stage. keywords: iris cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q20m97.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q20m97.txt item: #4529 of 4945 id: wh246q20n1s author: Jessica Baron title: Reforming the Raj: Florence Nightingale's Biomedical Liberalism in British India date: 2015 words: 198 flesch: 42 summary: But by contextualizing Nightingale's program within the colonial structure of nineteenth-century India, I also seek to discuss her work in terms of the history of Indian policy and political thought. Nightingale's suggestions came in the form of a systematic social reform, intertwining liberal politics, land rights, technological innovation, and health care. keywords: nightingale cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q20n1s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q20n1s.txt item: #4530 of 4945 id: wh246q21940 author: Yuan Wang title: Understanding the Molecular Basis for an Alloreactive T-Cell Receptor to Achieve Peptide and MHC Specificity date: 1904 words: 359 flesch: 34 summary: Surprisingly however, alloreactive T cells can achieve high peptide and MHC specificity [4]. In contrast with current theories of alloreactivity (MHC-centric or peptide-centric), our structural and biophysical data suggests that high specific allorecognition is critically depend on the unique features of allogeneic MHC and the antigen peptide, relatively. keywords: mhc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q21940.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q21940.txt item: #4531 of 4945 id: wh246q2195b author: Steven C. McDowell title: Dynamics of Settlement Failure and Litigation in Interstate Territorial Disputes date: 1904 words: 350 flesch: 29 summary: To remedy these shortcomings, I propose a theory of the timing of litigation in territorial disputes that focuses on the events that determine the ripeness of a dispute for the use of legal settlement methods. This means that current theories of litigation in territorial disputes provide relatively little information regarding when litigation is likely to occur, especially when a dispute lies dormant for an extended period of time. keywords: settlement cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q2195b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q2195b.txt item: #4532 of 4945 id: wh246q21h3h author: Sarah Hickam title: Expanding Actinyl Peroxide Chemistry through Dissolution of Uranium-Based Materials and Studies of Neptunyl Peroxide Compounds date: 2019 words: 284 flesch: 26 summary: In this work, uranyl peroxide cluster chemistry is expanded by applying the synthesis conditions of uranyl peroxide clusters to the dissolution of uranium-based materials, uranium dioxide and uranium nitride. These studies reveal interesting characteristics, such as ordering of Np(V) in specific sites on the cage in the solid state and lower solubility in water relative to uranyl peroxide clusters. keywords: peroxide cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q21h3h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q21h3h.txt item: #4533 of 4945 id: wh246q21h7w author: Huijie Lu title: Boundary Integral Simulations of a Red Blood Cell Squeezing through a Sub-Micron Slit under Prescribed Inlet and Outlet Pressures date: 2019 words: 451 flesch: 46 summary: A variety of cell shapes have been observed when they transmigrate the microfluidic slit, such as small tip, Jellyfish shape, half-moon shape and whale-tail shape. In addition, we found that the surface-area-to-volume ratio has a vita effect on cell front shapes. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q21h7w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q21h7w.txt item: #4534 of 4945 id: wh246q21n74 author: Sana Khan title: #ShowHerstory date: 2021 words: 93 flesch: 52 summary: #ShowHerstory is a design intervention that consists of a multifaceted campaign which uses advocacy channels and guerilla marketing tactics to stir conversations about the limited portrayals of Pakistani women in local TV series. In this thesis, I will deconstruct the stereotypes of women that dominate contemporary Pakistani TV series. keywords: pakistani cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q21n74.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q21n74.txt item: #4535 of 4945 id: wh246q21q1p author: Stephen W. Adams title: Thermodynamics of Ionic Bonding with Crown Ethers in Aqueous Solution date: 2021 words: 165 flesch: 51 summary: Concerns about lithium supply and battery waste have prompted interest in lithium recycling methods. It was found that 12-crown-4 did not form stable complexes with lithium in aqueous solution due to the binding geometry which was prone to interference by surrounding water molecules. keywords: lithium cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q21q1p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q21q1p.txt item: #4536 of 4945 id: wh246q21q83 author: Jun Han title: Deep Learning for Scientific Data Representation and Generation date: 2022 words: 289 flesch: 31 summary: In scientific data generation, I introduce a comprehensive pipeline for variable selection and translation through feature learning, translation graph construction, and variable translation. In this dissertation, I develop novel deep learning methods to enable more effective and efficient frameworks for scientific data representation and generation. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q21q83.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q21q83.txt item: #4537 of 4945 id: wh246q21s5p author: Jiachen Zhang title: Spatial-Temporal Methods and Models for Climate Prediction and Uncertainty Quantification date: 2023 words: 621 flesch: 27 summary: Future winds abundance will be determined for Saudi Arabia, a country with a recently established plan to develop a portfolio of up to 16 GW of wind energy. In the case of wind, there is a fundamental question related to the resilience, and hence profitability, of future wind farms to a changing climate, given that current wind turbines have lifespans of up to thirty years. keywords: wind cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wh246q21s5p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wh246q21s5p.txt item: #4538 of 4945 id: wm117m03v5m author: Matthew Jamin Asay title: Characterization of the GABAB receptor in the brain of the adult male bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana date: 2005 words: 323 flesch: 41 summary: Very little information about the GABAergic properties of the amphibian brain is available and even less is known about amphibian GABAB receptors. Receptor binding assays with the mammalian GABAB receptor antagonist, [3H]CGP54626A, revealed a single, high affinity binding site. keywords: receptor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m03v5m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m03v5m.txt item: #4539 of 4945 id: wm117m03v8n author: Nicholas M Contento title: Micro and Nanoscale Electrochemical Systems for Reagent Generation, Coupled Electrokinetic Transport and Enhanced Detection date: 2014 words: 369 flesch: 23 summary: At the nanoscale a significant fraction of the sample volume is in close contact with the device surface, i.e. most of the sample is contained within electronic or diffusion layers associated with surface charge or surface reactions, respectively. The work presented in this thesis aims to understand some fundamental different behaviors observed in microanofluidic structures, particularly those containing one or more embedded, metallic electrode structures. keywords: electrode cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m03v8n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m03v8n.txt item: #4540 of 4945 id: wm117m03w06 author: Kai Sun title: Optical Investigations of Semiconductor Quantum Dots with High Spatial Resolution date: 2010 words: 404 flesch: 38 summary: High spatial resolution PL and temperature-dependent PL study reveal the important role of quantum dot-like compositional fluctuations in suppressing the lateral carrier transport to nonradiative recombination centers and achieving high emission intensity at room temperature in the dilute nitrides. Two alternate techniques were utilized to break through the optical diffraction limit in order to obtain high spatial resolution: near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM), and nano-fabrication. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m03w06.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m03w06.txt item: #4541 of 4945 id: wm117m03w2w author: Benjamin Wickes Merritt title: The Effect of 1,4-Diaminoanthraquinone as a Conductive Linker in Chromophore Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles date: 2007 words: 143 flesch: 41 summary: Using AM1 calculations of the relative energies of the excited state of the light harvesting portion of the dye and the conduction band of colloidal AuNP in solution, a multi-component dye where electrons would be more likely to flow through this conductive linker than to follow other undesired deactivation pathways was designed. Chromophore functionalized gold nanoparitcles (AuNP) have been useful as light harvesting dyes in DSSCs, however one persistent problem is charge recombination which adversely affects the final electrical output of these systems. keywords: dye cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m03w2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m03w2w.txt item: #4542 of 4945 id: wm117m03w68 author: Tom Edgar title: Dominance and regularity in Coxeter groups date: 2010 words: 217 flesch: 56 summary: In the current work, we consider generalized length functions in Coxeter systems and show that these length functions lead to a larger family of finite state automata, which in turn recognize a larger class of natural subsets of Coxeter groups. This allows us to deduce some consequences about the growth type of Coxeter systems. keywords: coxeter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m03w68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m03w68.txt item: #4543 of 4945 id: wm117m03w8z author: Alexander G. White title: Selective Recognition of Bacterial Infection Using Fluorescent Probes Containing the Zinc(II)-Dipicolylamine Affinity Ligand date: 2008 words: 189 flesch: 39 summary: Molecular probes composed of Zn-DPA ligands linked to a near-infrared fluorophore have utility in detecting bacterial infections in vivo. Imaging studies of murine models infected with Staphylococcus aureus show that bacterial infections can be detected using whole animal imaging equipment within three hours of treatment with the molecular probe. keywords: dpa cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m03w8z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m03w8z.txt item: #4544 of 4945 id: wm117m03w99 author: Teng Wu title: Nonlinear Bluff-Body Aerodynamics date: 2013 words: 369 flesch: 27 summary: (3) What is the ability of existing nonlinear models to capture nonlinear and unsteady effects? The effects of nonlinearity and unsteadiness on bluff-body aerodynamics are evaluated by comparing aerodynamic responses derived from different analytical models. keywords: nonlinear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m03w99.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m03w99.txt item: #4545 of 4945 id: wm117m03x1v author: Qing Liu title: Quilt Packaging: A Novel High Speed Chip-to-Chip Communication Paradigm for System-in-Package date: 2007 words: 341 flesch: 49 summary: As state-of-the-art transistor features continue to shrink and the incorporation of high-k, low-k isolation dielectric materials and strained and SiGe layers on silicon becomes common, chip density and performance are improved. As a result, several technologies, such as system-on-chip, system-in-packaging and system-on-packaging, have been actively pursed to meet the demands of low power, high I/O counts and fast chip-to-chip communication. keywords: packaging cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m03x1v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m03x1v.txt item: #4546 of 4945 id: wm117m03x4w author: Pornthip Tongying title: Nano-hetero Functional Materials for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation date: 2015 words: 409 flesch: 35 summary: This is motivated by (a) the fact that CdSe NWs absorb light from the UV to the near infrared (b) the NW morphology simultaneously enables us to explore the role of nanoscale dimensionality in photocatalytic processes (c) a CdS coating can enhance photogenerated carrier lifetimes, and (d) metal nanoparticles are catalytically active and can also enhance charge separation efficiencies. Starting from cubic-phased Cu2-xSe NSs as a template, CdSe NSs are obtained by cation exchange of copper to cadmium. keywords: cdse cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m03x4w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m03x4w.txt item: #4547 of 4945 id: wm117m03z15 author: Sebastian Snowberger title: Crystal Synthesis and Optical Properties of Cesium Lead Halide Solar Cells date: 1904 words: 149 flesch: 33 summary: Fully-inorganic cesium lead halide (CsPbX3) perovskite is stable at higher temperatures than organic perovskite, allowing for control of the crystal structure through formation temperature, and potentially improving longevity in an active solar cell. Solar cells made with partially organic perovskites, such as methylammonium lead iodide, have surpassed 20% efficiency; but have been observed to degrade under high temperatures and after long-term light exposure. keywords: perovskites cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m03z15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m03z15.txt item: #4548 of 4945 id: wm117m03z6w author: Elizabeth Jordan Daly title: The Dimensionality and Structure of Trait Narcissism date: 1904 words: 356 flesch: 26 summary: Although trait narcissism has been studied empirically since 1980, there is still much debate and uncertainty about its conceptualization and assessment. Therefore, the current study concludes that trait narcissism itself is an antagonism-based construct, and that its noted manifestations and forms vary based on the amount of general personality pathology present. keywords: narcissism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m03z6w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m03z6w.txt item: #4549 of 4945 id: wm117m04263 author: Genevieve Vigil title: Label-Free and Super-Resolution Multiphoton Microscopy date: 1904 words: 563 flesch: 35 summary: Imaging of intrinsic two photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) is performed on humanized SCD mouse model splenic tissue. Additionally, this work describes a nonlinear microscopy technique which leverages saturation effects for the development of a fluorescence microscopy technology capable of super-resolution imaging in thick, scattering tissue. keywords: mpm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m04263.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m04263.txt item: #4550 of 4945 id: wm117m04m2p author: Gray Laughlin title: DFT Comparison of Exact and Approximate Free Energy Calculations for Polyatomic Adsorbates date: 1904 words: 131 flesch: 34 summary: Finally, we will quantify the differences in adsorbate free energy approximations by means of direct comparison and by looking at the sensitivity of model results to free energy calculation method. Furthermore, we show the impact of free energy model choice on equilibrium predictions of a catalytic reaction model involving polyatomic adsorbates. keywords: free cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m04m2p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m04m2p.txt item: #4551 of 4945 id: wm117m04z03 author: Sarah Elizabeth Coogan title: Chosen Homelands: Nostalgia and National Identity in the British and Irish Modernist Epic date: 2020 words: 585 flesch: 28 summary: The recent surge of nostalgia in American politics and popular culture has motivated scholars across humanities disciplines to ask whether the emotion can be a means of creatively redefining national identity, or if it inevitably reinforces reactionary visions of cultural heritage. The text juxtaposes everyday experience with ancient epic, thereby sidestepping a xenophobic account of national heritage while retaining the resonance of mythic parallels; in other words, it rejects an unhealthy obsession with the past through its use of nostalgia. keywords: nostalgia cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m04z03.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m04z03.txt item: #4552 of 4945 id: wm117m04z8v author: Isabel Hanisch title: Essays on Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy date: 2021 words: 699 flesch: 48 summary: The first chapter analyzes the implications of the recent rise in bank concentration for the effectiveness of monetary policy. I study how the structure of the banking system affects the transmission of monetary policy for stabilization and the credit cycle. keywords: policy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m04z8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m04z8v.txt item: #4553 of 4945 id: wm117m0509s author: Nicolas C. Garcia title: High-efficiency, Wideband Beam-scanning GRIN Lenses For Millimeter Wave Communications date: 2022 words: 395 flesch: 48 summary: We identify two primary research tasks: 1) designing flat lens systems with high aperture efficiency over a wide bandwidth and 2) designing flat lens systems with wide-angle beam-scanning. The goal of this thesis is to provide a framework for designing flat GRIN lens systems that simultaneously demonstrate high instantaneous bandwidth, high aperture efficiency, and high beam-scanning capability in a practical form-factor. keywords: lens cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wm117m0509s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wm117m0509s.txt item: #4554 of 4945 id: wme17m04r1k author: Margaret Hutchison McMillan title: I Improve This Opportunity to Write to You: Hawaiian Writers to American Readers in the Nineteenth Century date: 2019 words: 336 flesch: 28 summary: In each instance in which Native Hawaiians addressed an American audience through the medium of print, they provided a corrective to false representations of Pacific Islanders as uncivilized and passive—deconstructing expansionist rhetoric through the content as well as the context of their self-representations. Yet as the nineteenth century progressed and western literacy spread throughout the Pacific, such fictional portraits of Pacific Islanders did not reflect the complex, increasingly hybrid culture that became the reality of a globalized—and in many cases, forcefully colonized—Oceania, whose inhabitants survived despite all the forces poised for their annihilation. keywords: pacific cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wme17m04r1k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wme17m04r1k.txt item: #4555 of 4945 id: wp988g8745d author: Angela Wentz Faulconer title: Civic Excellence: Citizen Virtue and Contemporary Liberal Democratic Community date: 2004 words: 343 flesch: 50 summary: To better understand civic virtue, we must explore specific citizen virtues. First, if civic virtue is as important to the perpetuation of liberal democratic community as neo-liberal and communitarian thinkers have argued, then curiosity alone should motivate us. keywords: citizen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g8745d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g8745d.txt item: #4556 of 4945 id: wp988g87473 author: Cassandra Buchheit title: Elucidating cell death mechanisms in extracellular matrix-detached epithelial cells date: 2015 words: 248 flesch: 39 summary: When mammary epithelial cells become detached from the extracellular matrix (ECM), they undergo programmed cell death. Over the past twenty years, our knowledge regarding various mechanisms utilized by cancerous epithelial cells to overcome ECM-detachment-induced death has grown. keywords: ecm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g87473.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g87473.txt item: #4557 of 4945 id: wp988g8748f author: Daniel Dominique Leger title: The Third Way of Neoconservatism: An Analysis of the Political, Strategic, Moral, Philosophical and Epistemological Basis to Neoconservatism date: 2010 words: 546 flesch: 26 summary: On matters ranging from the importance of morality in foreign policy to the relevance of common sense as the standard for judging the effectiveness of public policy, the gulf between neoconservatism and the more mainstream traditions is very wide. The two lines are married by Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz and others into a unified approach to foreign policy. keywords: policy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g8748f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g8748f.txt item: #4558 of 4945 id: wp988g87500 author: Kevin Patrick McCabe title: Capacities and Capax Dei: Theological Anthropology and Intellectual Disability date: 2015 words: 160 flesch: 26 summary: I build upon Rahner's framework in order to show how freedom emerges through relations of dependence, and how vulnerable human relationships differ from fundamental human dependence on God. What emerges is a spiritual vision of human beings as creatures oriented to the infinite mystery of God. keywords: human cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g87500.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g87500.txt item: #4559 of 4945 id: wp988g8754c author: Apryle Marie O'Farrell title: Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Small Molecules as Potential Inhibitors of Bacterial Cell Wall Biosynthesis date: 2011 words: 148 flesch: 41 summary: Although hundreds of ÌÄ ü-lactam antibiotics have been developed and studied at great length, bacterial resistance continually threatens the efficacy with which bacterial infections may be treated. Since the use of penicillin during World War II, the cell wall biosynthesis pathway has been a target for antibiotic treatment. keywords: small cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g8754c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g8754c.txt item: #4560 of 4945 id: wp988g8755q author: Jason Todd Nightingale title: Geometric Analysis and Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems date: 2012 words: 449 flesch: 24 summary: Geometric analysis and control of underactuated mechanical systems is a multidisciplinary field of study that overlaps diverse research areas in engineering and applied mathematics. This thesis contains contributions to modeling, analysis and algorithm design for underactuated mechanical systems. keywords: underactuated cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g8755q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g8755q.txt item: #4561 of 4945 id: wp988g87562 author: Richard J Oosterhoff title: Mathematical Culture in Renaissance Paris; University, Print, and the Circle of Lefèvre d'Etaples date: 2013 words: 356 flesch: 29 summary: Joining the histories of the book and mathematical practice, it contributes to the history of manuscript and print, and the history of mathematics in early modern science. Part two examines Lefèvre's goals for mathematics. keywords: lefèvre cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g87562.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g87562.txt item: #4562 of 4945 id: wp988g8758r author: Jorge Alfredo Ferrer Perez title: Thermal Study of a GaN-Based HEMT date: 2012 words: 324 flesch: 38 summary: Simultaneous electron and lattice temperature maps, which have not been reported until now, provide a valuable tool for the study of hot spot formation within devices. If hot spots can be moved by changing operating conditions, it would be possible to decrease temperature peaks in regions where electrical performance is crucial. keywords: hot cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g8758r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g8758r.txt item: #4563 of 4945 id: wp988g8761n author: Chi Z+D760hang title: A Comparative Study of Quadrature Amplitude Modulation and Continuous Phase Modulation date: 2008 words: 130 flesch: 26 summary: This thesis also presents an idea of nonuniform QAM constellations, which can potentially improve bit-error-rate performance in the presence of phase noise. Both analytical results and simulation results show that nonuniform constellations are superior to uniform constellations in the presence of phase noise. keywords: modulation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g8761n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g8761n.txt item: #4564 of 4945 id: wp988g8763b author: Andrew Scott Paluch title: Efficiently Modeling the Solution Phase Behavior of Soluble Solid Solutes via Molecular Simulation and Solution Theory date: 2014 words: 354 flesch: 39 summary: Next, it is demonstrated how solution theory may complement molecular simulation, and reduce the computational demand required to make solubility predictions. The focus of this dissertation is on developing molecular simulation tools useful for design purposes by a novice. keywords: phase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g8763b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g8763b.txt item: #4565 of 4945 id: wp988g87771 author: Karen Ostdiek title: Measurement of the Half-Life of 60Fe for Stellar and Early Solar System Models Using the Direct Decay of 60mCo and Accelerator Mass Spectrometry date: 1904 words: 211 flesch: 65 summary: The presence of these isotopes (specifically 60Fe) can identify progenitors of SNe, give evidence for nearby SNe, and can be used as a chronometer for ESS events. The 60Fe half-life, which has been in dispute in recent years, can impact calculations for the timing of ESS events, the distance to nearby SNe, and the brightness of individual, non-steady state 60Fe gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy. keywords: 60fe cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g87771.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g87771.txt item: #4566 of 4945 id: wp988g87b6m author: Kyle Lambelet title: ¡Presente! Political Theology at the Gates of Ft. Benning date: 1904 words: 341 flesch: 41 summary: Each chapter examines a different dilemma that SOA Watch activists face and examines how the coordination of these three dynamics impacts that dilemma. Through the course of this study I construct a political theology that coordinates the dynamics of messianism, liturgy and practical reason. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g87b6m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g87b6m.txt item: #4567 of 4945 id: wp988g87v2w author: Pierre Miranda title: Precipitation of Antibodies Using the Nucleotide Binding Site date: 1904 words: 131 flesch: 25 summary: Antibodies have generated a breakthrough within the biotechnology industry over the past decades in both pharmaceutical areas for treatment of immunological, cancer and cardiovascular diseases, as well as endless applications for biomedical research specifically for molecular diagnostics, cellular imaging, among others. However, the production is still maintained at a high cost mainly due to the current purification method used based on the use of packed columns with proteins A / G.In this way, the present study shows a variant to a method proposed in the scientific literature based on the precipitation of the antibodies through the formation of complexes and their precipitation with ammonium sulfate. keywords: antibodies cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g87v2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g87v2w.txt item: #4568 of 4945 id: wp988g87v68 author: Justin Christy title: Aspects of Visual Awareness date: 1904 words: 354 flesch: 33 summary: For example, the spatial orientation of an object relative to the subject who sees it can make a difference to her experience, and some naïve realists have argued that this is grounds for construing visual experience not as a two-place relation between a subject and an object, but as a three-place relation between a subject, an object, and the subject's standpoint on the object. I argue that the former conception of visual experience can account for all of the facts that allegedly militate in favor of the latter conception. keywords: visual cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g87v68.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g87v68.txt item: #4569 of 4945 id: wp988g8868b author: Anna Vincenzi title: Imagining an Age of Revolution? Interpretations of the American Revolution in the Italian States, 1765–1799 date: 2020 words: 268 flesch: 48 summary: For the notion of an Age of Revolution to emerge, the French Revolution had to happen, introducing a radically new notion of revolution: revolutionary change as a radical break from the past and an occasion to establish a new, truly egalitarian and democratic society. Instead, it calls attention to what seems to be the true core of the age—the invention of a new model of revolution—and recasts Paris as the birthplace of that model. keywords: revolution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g8868b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g8868b.txt item: #4570 of 4945 id: wp988g8869p author: Henriette Balinda title: Elucidation of MLK3 Signaling in Tumor Cell Invasion date: 2020 words: 177 flesch: 33 summary: MLK3 is a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase (MAP3K) that more recently has been recognized as an important regulator of tumor invasion and metastasis. We also investigate MLK3 signaling on uveal melanoma invasion. keywords: invasion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g8869p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g8869p.txt item: #4571 of 4945 id: wp988g88790 author: Elizabeth A. Sunshine title: Intercession and Reconciliation: A Canonical Reading of Exodus 32–34 date: 2021 words: 245 flesch: 42 summary: Exodus 33:18–23 and 34:29–35, take up the theme of divine glory, which is found in the original story in 34:1–9, further emphasizing the connection between God's glory and his goodness, adding a recognition of the danger that divine glory poses to mortals, and connecting the golden calf story to the tabernacle narrative that surrounds it. One such insertion is the non-P tent of meeting in Exodus 33:7–11, which was added because it connects on the one hand to God's refusal to dwell among the Israelites and on the other hand to the unique relationship between God and Moses that leads God to overcome that refusal. keywords: exodus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g88790.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g88790.txt item: #4572 of 4945 id: wp988g88b15 author: Boyang Li title: Proof-of-Deep-Learning Consensus in Blockchain Systems date: 2022 words: 332 flesch: 51 summary: To further improve the consensus, I enhanced the feasibility to exploit the computation power of blockchain for deep learning algorithms. To mine cryptocurrency more efficiently, people developed GPU mining, FPGA mining, and ASIC machine mining. keywords: learning cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/wp988g88b15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/wp988g88b15.txt item: #4573 of 4945 id: ws859c70d7n author: Paul Giesting title: Uranyl Complexes with Organic Ligands: Classification, Crystal Structures, and Applications date: 2006 words: 294 flesch: 41 summary: First, the uranyl ion may readily catalyze the oxidation of other carboxylic acids to oxalate at elevated temperatures, resulting in uranyl oxalate complexes in a variety of organic-rich environments. Hundreds of crystal structures of uranyl complexes with organic ligands have been published. keywords: uranyl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c70d7n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c70d7n.txt item: #4574 of 4945 id: ws859c70f0j author: Fanghui Fan title: Risk Management of Energy Commodities — Valuation and Optimization of an Energy Swap for a Flexible Fuel Process and Energy Commodity Storage date: 2015 words: 478 flesch: 48 summary: In this dissertation, two problems in energy risk management are considered. An energy swap is a contract between energy utility owner/operators and a banker, where the energy utility owner/operators pay the banker a certain amount of money initially and the banker will take care of the energy cost of the energy utility during an agreed period of time. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c70f0j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c70f0j.txt item: #4575 of 4945 id: ws859c70f27 author: Cody Daniel Christopherson title: Addiction and volition in problematic Internet use among college students date: 2010 words: 164 flesch: 39 summary: Participants were assessed according to a battery of Internet addiction scales to determine which, if any, of the tests can predict lack of volitional control of Internet use. Addiction, or lack of volitional control, is central to the fervor over Internet use and mental health. keywords: use cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c70f27.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c70f27.txt item: #4576 of 4945 id: ws859c70f4x author: Andrew J Lombardi title: Closed-Loop Dynamic Stall Control Using a Plasma Actuator date: 2011 words: 402 flesch: 49 summary: When the signal reaches a sufficiently high value, set by an adjustable threshold, the actuator is triggered to a high-powered ``Control State' with more flow control authority. In the light stall regime, the closed-loop case, which only operated in control mode 11% of the pitch cycle, reduced the maximum nose-down moment by 59% and improved the integrated lift coefficient by 12%. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c70f4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c70f4x.txt item: #4577 of 4945 id: ws859c70f89 author: Ryan Nicholas Lichtenwalter title: Beyond Static Data: Tackling Class Imbalance and Concept Drift in Data Streams, Link Persistence and Prediction in Dynamic Networks, and Autonomous Composition in Computer Music date: 2010 words: 138 flesch: 44 summary: This is the first work to formally cast the problem of link prediction as a class imbalance problem, and it greatly outperforms a number of contemporary and popular methods. Bach chorales are first uniquely transformed into a feature vector space, and then a sliding window approach is used to generate classifiers for subsequent autonomous music composition. keywords: problem cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c70f89.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c70f89.txt item: #4578 of 4945 id: ws859c70g0v author: Steven John Battin title: Intercommunal Ecclesiology: Re-Envisioning the Church as God's Response to Intergroup Disunity date: 2013 words: 385 flesch: 34 summary: Within God's plan of historical salvation, the Church functions as God's communal response to intercomunal disunity, a role it fulfills with integrity only when and where it enacts itself as a counterperformance to aggression, conflict, and indifference between human communities. Chapter 6 examines Jesus as the initiator of the group that would eventually be called the Church, and draws attention to how the resurrected Christ's association with ecclesial community points toward the broadening of Jesus' ministry to include the realm of intergroup relations. keywords: church cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c70g0v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c70g0v.txt item: #4579 of 4945 id: ws859c70g16 author: Joshua Edwin Dinsman title: Breaking Institutional Isomorphism: Urban Branding in Four American Cities date: 2014 words: 392 flesch: 31 summary: However, in practice cities tend to adopt a similar set of branding strategies that make them look not more distinct, but more alike. Because cities are in competition with one another for low-cost residents, new investors, and tourists, urban branding is used by local leaders as a political-economic tool to ensure that their city is an attractive destination for these target audiences. keywords: branding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c70g16.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c70g16.txt item: #4580 of 4945 id: ws859c70g3w author: Hye Young Lee title: The 18F(α,p)21Ne Reaction and Its Astrophysical Implications date: 2008 words: 178 flesch: 43 summary: In this scenario, the 14N from preceding CNO burning is converted to 18F, via the reaction 14N(Ì_å±,γ)18F and subsequent Ì_å_+-decay forms 18O, which then produces neutrons via 18O(Ì_å±,n) or 18O(Ì_å±,γ)22Ne(Ì_å±,n) reactions. Recent observations of the abundance distribution of heavy elements in metal-poor old stars suggest an existence of more than one r-process site, proposing a different site for the synthesis of light r-process nuclei. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c70g3w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c70g3w.txt item: #4581 of 4945 id: ws859c70g6x author: Nara Pavão title: The Failures of Electoral Accountability for Corruption: Brazil and Beyond date: 1904 words: 294 flesch: 31 summary: This dissertation sheds light on why accountability for corruption fails and corrupt politicians survive democratic elections. Rather than working just like accountability for other components of government performance, accountability for corruption follows a particular dynamic, one that is distinct from accountability for other electoral issues. keywords: corruption cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c70g6x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c70g6x.txt item: #4582 of 4945 id: ws859c70h36 author: Yong-Siou Chen title: Organometal Halide Perovskites and Gold Nanoclusters for Solar Energy Conversion date: 1904 words: 502 flesch: 31 summary: The solar to hydrogen conversion efficiency of this device is 2.5 % under simulated sunlight illumination. The resulting co-sensitized solar cells show greater energy conversion efficiency compared to the solar cells composed of single photosensitizer. keywords: solar cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c70h36.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c70h36.txt item: #4583 of 4945 id: ws859c71494 author: Abigail Burns title: Storied Women date: 1904 words: 136 flesch: 38 summary: At the heart of the novella is a desire and failure to write new philosophies of love—new poetry—free from unnecessary gendered binaries and their patriarchal cultural contexts. Modeled after work by Roland Barthes, Maggie Nelson, and Marguerite Duras, among others, Storied Women pushes against the limits of auto-fiction, combining critical and theoretical writing with fictional narrative. keywords: marguerite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c71494.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c71494.txt item: #4584 of 4945 id: ws859c7193m author: Kevin X. Rodriguez title: Carbenoid Strategies for the Development of Fully Substituted Carbon Centers date: 2019 words: 145 flesch: 27 summary: Albeit nontrivial, the long withstanding challenge of developing new chemical space for natural products of biological importance depends heavily on the development of new synthetic methods. With the increase in drug-resistance today, the expansion of chemical knowledge within the realm of natural products continues to play a vital role in biomedical research. keywords: natural cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c7193m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c7193m.txt item: #4585 of 4945 id: ws859c71h24 author: Jeremy C. Graham title: A Tale of Two Dilemmas: Military Coups and Interstate Conflict date: 2020 words: 206 flesch: 44 summary: Leaders need the armed forces to protect the state from external threats. Increasing the capacity of the military increases the ability to deal with external threats also increases the threat of the military as a challenger. keywords: military cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c71h24.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c71h24.txt item: #4586 of 4945 id: ws859c71j44 author: Evan Schultz title: Self-Knowledge in Plato's Apology and Charmides date: 2021 words: 325 flesch: 42 summary: In Chapter 1, I use the Apology to sketch an outline of Socratic philosophy, and argue that Socrates' so-called human wisdom—what is therein portrayed as something at the center of the sort of examined life Socrates evangelizes throughout the dialogues—is a complex form of self-knowledge. In Chapter 2, I explore how Socrates' method induces this self-knowledge in others—specifically, I argue that his portrait of it in the first half of the Charmides, wherein Socrates compares himself to a therapist or doctor of the whole soul, indicates that Socrates conceives of his practice as having the power to generate in his interlocutors positive progress with respect to self-knowledge. keywords: knowledge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c71j44.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c71j44.txt item: #4587 of 4945 id: ws859c71j75 author: Jessica R. Carney title: Elucidating the Relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Severity date: 2021 words: 154 flesch: 51 summary: Results indicate that child maltreatment ACEs predict PTSS significantly better than household dysfunction ACEs, controlling for past-year IPV. The ACEs scale has two subscales: child maltreatment and household dysfunction. keywords: aces cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c71j75.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c71j75.txt item: #4588 of 4945 id: ws859c71k2r author: Tanner J. Corrado title: Development of Iptycene-Containing Polysulfones And Ladder Polymers for Gas Separation Membranes date: 2022 words: 358 flesch: 15 summary: To combat these challenges, molecular level design of polymer membranes to incorporate bulky structures that disrupt chain packing, linkages that rigidify the backbone, and introduction of shape-persistent architectures containing configurational free volume elements is a promising strategy. This tradeoff originates at the molecular level, where undesired free volume architectures (small, indiscriminate microcavities) arising from random chain packing in glassy polymer membranes makes it difficult to simultaneously achieve fast and selective gas transport. keywords: polymer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ws859c71k2r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ws859c71k2r.txt item: #4589 of 4945 id: ww72b853p7q author: Michelle Abadilla Favila title: Host and Pathogenic Features That Drive Cellular Immune Response to Leishmania spp. Infection date: 2013 words: 662 flesch: 35 summary: Visceral leishmaniasis, the fatal form of the disease, results from infection with Leishmania donovani parasites while cutaneous leishmaniasis generally develops following infection with Leishmania major parasites. In this work, the overall goal of my research dissertation was to investigate the role of both host cell and pathogenic features that contribute to the IL-12 response elicited during Leishmania infection. keywords: il-12 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b853p7q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b853p7q.txt item: #4590 of 4945 id: ww72b853p9d author: Lorna Louise Whyte title: Role of Clusterin in Murine Mammary Gland Development and Progression of Human Breast Cancer date: 2005 words: 310 flesch: 33 summary: All of these characteristics are common to the highly aggressive phenotype observed in late stage breast cancer patients. Although clusterin in the mammary gland has not been extensively studied, clusterin has been implicated in mammary gland development and in breast cancer progression. keywords: clusterin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b853p9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b853p9d.txt item: #4591 of 4945 id: ww72b853q0m author: Shaoping Shen title: Optical and Transport Studies of Magnetic Semiconductor date: 2010 words: 366 flesch: 48 summary: The magneo-transport study involved the investigation of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in (Ga,Mn)As epilayers with low Mn concentration, grown in ultra-high vacuum molecular beam epitaxy (UHV MBE) chamber. Experiments were carried out in National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) on a series of samples with same Mn concentrations (x = 1.4%) but with various Be co-doping levels. keywords: magnetic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b853q0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b853q0m.txt item: #4592 of 4945 id: ww72b853q29 author: Elizabeth Anne L'Arrivee title: Converting the Soul from Politics to Philosophy: The Philosophic Way of Life in Plato's Republic date: 2015 words: 243 flesch: 46 summary: In contrast to Plato's Laws, which is intended to show the degree to which philosophy can transform existing political communities, the Republic (1) depicts three identifiable moments in the experience of philosophic conversion, and (2) connects this experience to the founding of a new, philosophic community. This thesis argues that Plato's Republic provides an outline of conversion to the philosophic way of life, and in doing so founds a new kind of community that is distinct from the political community and its way of life — the philosophic community. keywords: way cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b853q29.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b853q29.txt item: #4593 of 4945 id: ww72b853q40 author: Elizabeth Margaret Springer title: The Development and Syntheses of Nitroreductase Triggered Releasable Linkers for Use in Siderophore Drug Conjugates date: 2015 words: 315 flesch: 46 summary: After this proof of principle, a first generation linker was prepared, however a nitroreductase assay suggested that linkers with adjusted reduction potential might be necessary for drug release. Initially, test molecules were synthesized and reduced to demonstrate the feasibility of triggered drug release. keywords: drug cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b853q40.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b853q40.txt item: #4594 of 4945 id: ww72b853q6p author: Kristina M. Peterson title: An Ecological Momentary Investigation of Spousal Interactions and Affect in Couples with Chronic Low Back Pain date: 2011 words: 340 flesch: 38 summary: Results from lagged models of criticism and depressed affect suggested that there are bidirectional relationships between spouse criticism and spouse depressed affect; as well, they highlighted the role of spouse depressed affect in predicting patient criticism. These results highlight the implications of being critical and providing support as well as the role of spouse affect in generating marital conflict. keywords: affect cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b853q6p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b853q6p.txt item: #4595 of 4945 id: ww72b853q71 author: Michael George Mawson title: Christ Existing as Community: The Ethics of Bonhoeffer's Ecclesiology date: 2012 words: 402 flesch: 32 summary: Chapter Three explores how Bonhoeffer uses the doctrine of creation as a basis for appropriating from existing social theory, and for developing his own 'specifically Christian social-philosophy and sociology.' It argues that this dogmatic structure is crucial for understanding Bonhoeffer's engagement with social theory and his account of the church. keywords: bonhoeffer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b853q71.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b853q71.txt item: #4596 of 4945 id: ww72b853q8c author: Julia T Philip title: Development of a yeast-based sensor for environmental monitoring date: 2013 words: 150 flesch: 37 summary: Part 2: Yeast-based Biosensors for Environmental Monitoring The development of small continuous culture devices for growing yeast and their application as environmental sensors is described. Part 1: MTBindingSim MTBindingSim is a program that simulates binding curves for proteins binding to microtubules. keywords: mtbindingsim cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b853q8c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b853q8c.txt item: #4597 of 4945 id: ww72b853r0x author: Sharon Irene Gundersen title: Conjugation of Methoxypolyethylene Glycol to Bovine Red Blood Cells as a Potential Universal Oxygen Therapeutic date: 2007 words: 360 flesch: 43 summary: The overall oxygen binding affinity of PEGylated bRBCs was moderately increased with greater initial SPA-mPEG concentrations when reacted with bRBCs. Control bRBCs exhibited a P50 of ~28 mmHg, while bRBCs reacted at 6 mM SPA-mPEG exhibited a reduced P50 ~21 mmHg. keywords: brbcs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b853r0x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b853r0x.txt item: #4598 of 4945 id: ww72b853r3z author: Stephen Louis Armet title: Intrinsic Religion: The Relationship Between Religious Socialization and Identity Formation in Adolescents of High Tension Religion date: 2008 words: 137 flesch: 25 summary: Youth of high tension religion were found to have a strong religious commitment while parental constraints were found to be insignificantly associated to religious outcomes and parental solidarity showed mixed results. A line of inquiry explored by Smith and Sikkink emphasizes the effect of socialization and identity formation on religious outcomes, finding correspondence to Marcia's typology based on commitment and exploration. keywords: religious cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b853r3z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b853r3z.txt item: #4599 of 4945 id: ww72b853r5n author: Guojing Liu title: The interaction between heavy metals and NOM during drinking water treatment processes date: 2008 words: 288 flesch: 31 summary: The results suggest that the presence of Cu(II) in raw waters can facilitate NOM removal by coagulation. This research addresses the important issue of how interactions between select heavy metals and NOM affects their ultimate fate during drinking water treatment processes. keywords: nom cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b853r5n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b853r5n.txt item: #4600 of 4945 id: ww72b854d8v author: Shaunasee M. Kocen title: miRNA Biomarkers from Human Cardiac Stress Model date: 1904 words: 153 flesch: 48 summary: Cardiac disease models superior to current human and animal models are necessary to advance our understanding of cardiac diseases and biomarkers. With optimization, this disease model can be used to study the release pattern of miRNA biomarkers in various cardiac conditions. keywords: disease cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b854d8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b854d8v.txt item: #4601 of 4945 id: ww72b854s0h author: Chuxu Zhang title: Learning from Heterogeneous Data date: 2020 words: 168 flesch: 17 summary: Extending from the fusion learning, we further investigate the principles and methodologies for label-efficient fusion learning from heterogeneous data, with the emphasis on the applications of web personalization and knowledge graph reasoning. Besides the difficulty of extracting and representing useful information from such complex data, it is hard to fuse the extracted knowledge in a unified and customized manner so as to facilitate various applications. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b854s0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b854s0h.txt item: #4602 of 4945 id: ww72b854t5j author: Xue Li title: Ensemble Finite Element Solvers for Cardiovascular Modeling under Uncertainty date: 2021 words: 149 flesch: 13 summary: Computational models are increasingly used for diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. In this dissertation, we show how an explicit-in-time ensemble cardiovascular solver offers superior performance with respect to the embarrassingly parallel solution with implicit-in-time algorithms, typical of an inner-outer loop paradigm for non-intrusive uncertainty propagation. keywords: cardiovascular cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/ww72b854t5j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/ww72b854t5j.txt item: #4603 of 4945 id: x059c536z9s author: Rachel Elizabeth Kasuboski-Polando title: The role of pattern recognition receptors in host cell signaling and phagosome maturation during infection with Leishmania date: 2010 words: 339 flesch: 27 summary: Macrophages have several cell surface receptors recognizing pathogenic organisms, in particular major receptors for Leishmania entry are complement receptor 3 (CR3), mannose receptor (MR), Fc receptor (FcR), and toll-like receptors (TLRs). This dissertation focuses on identification of host cell signaling and characterizing phagosome maturation during Leishmania infection. keywords: leishmania cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c536z9s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c536z9s.txt item: #4604 of 4945 id: x059c53702z author: Ashley Nicole Ferreira title: Dissecting brain circuitry of fear and anxiety: The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)- Amygdala- periaqueductal grey (PAG) circuit date: 2015 words: 156 flesch: 22 summary: Comparison of mPFC neurons projecting to the PAG versus amygdala revealed significant differences in intrinsic properties, local circuitry, and neuromodulation by stress peptides. Anxiety, a debilitating sense of fear, involves an interconnected brain network that includes the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), amygdala, and periaqueductal grey (PAG). keywords: pag cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c53702z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c53702z.txt item: #4605 of 4945 id: x059c53704n author: Brenna M. Casey title: The Map Precedes the Territory: Essays of Place date: 2010 words: 151 flesch: 40 summary: In short, these essays, I think, encapsulate revelatory moments enjambed in everyday life, singular experiences that imbue all else. 'Such maps require us to distance ourselves,' writes the cartography scholar Michael Gaudio, 'from modern mapping practices with their 'transparent' schematizations of objective space, so that we can recognize this cartography for what it is -- 'not a primitive version of our own but a positive form of organizing space in a world in which signs are not tied to their referents and meanings are never final.' keywords: maps cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c53704n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c53704n.txt item: #4606 of 4945 id: x059c53706b author: Jing Yang title: Characterization of the Drosophila ninaB And ninaD Genes Involved in Rhodopsin Chromophore Biosynthesis date: 2006 words: 335 flesch: 41 summary: Despite their importance to the synthesis of the chromophore of rhodopsin, genetic mosaic analysis showed that ninaB and ninaD are not required in the retina, and exclusive retinal expression of either gene or both genes simultaneously does not support rhodopsin biogenesis. In contrast, nonretinal neuronal expression of ninaB and ninaD allows for rhodopsin biogenesis. keywords: ninad cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c53706b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c53706b.txt item: #4607 of 4945 id: x059c53710k author: Jiyun Zu title: Robust Procedures for Mediation Analysis date: 2009 words: 172 flesch: 25 summary: To circumvent these problems, this dissertation proposes to utilize robust methods for parameter estimation, and then to evaluate the mediated effect based on robust estimates. Theoretical details of robust procedures for mediation analysis are provided. keywords: robust cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c53710k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c53710k.txt item: #4608 of 4945 id: x059c537128 author: Jillian M Mueller title: Conservation Management Under Climate Change: On Tropical Drought Resistance, Non-native Species Response to Increasing Disturbance, and Assisted Migration date: 2009 words: 154 flesch: 40 summary: Non-native species had traits indicative of higher growth rate, but not plasticity, than native species, suggesting that disturbance may promote non-native species. To further predictions of species response, I examine plant functional traits in tropical forests with two goals: 1) identify traits indicative of resistance to projected drought in native seedlings, and 2) ascertain if non-native species can capitalize on disturbance over native species through high growth rates and plasticity. keywords: species cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c537128.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c537128.txt item: #4609 of 4945 id: x059c53713m author: Juan Pablo Pavissich Bartolozzi title: Effects of Biofilm Morphological and Mechanical Heterogeneity on Treatment Systems: An Assessment via Experiments and Modeling date: 2014 words: 349 flesch: 20 summary: In this study, three novel topics were addressed regarding biofilm heterogeneity: effects of morphological heterogeneity on counter-diffusional biofilms, the development of a biofilm model capable of predicting deformation and detachment, and the determination of spatial distribution of biofilm mechanical properties. A novel biofilm model was developed using an energetic variational approach and phase-field method to simulate biofilm mechanical response to fluid flow. keywords: biofilm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c53713m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c53713m.txt item: #4610 of 4945 id: x059c537159 author: Annette Fernandez Raigoza title: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayers date: 2012 words: 250 flesch: 38 summary: At equal octanethiol-to-DTC ratios, molecular exchange hinders octanethiol monolayer formation. Defects in the octanethiol monolayer are prime sites for molecular exchange. keywords: surface cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c537159.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c537159.txt item: #4611 of 4945 id: x059c53718b author: David Russell Komline title: The Common School Awakening: Education and Religion, 1800-1848 date: 1904 words: 334 flesch: 42 summary: The American reformers who used these innovations consistently framed their goals in terms of introducing their students to a broad, nonsectarian ChristianityIn the late 1820s, the same reformers who had earlier imported European teaching methods began to look to European educational models as ways to organize systems of government sponsored schools. From about 1800 to about 1828, school reformers of various sorts experimented with different methods of schooling that they had imported from abroad. keywords: school cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c53718b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c53718b.txt item: #4612 of 4945 id: x059c537604 author: Majd Alshoufi title: It's Easier to Blame: Emotion Avoidance in Victim-blame/derogation in Just World Theory date: 1904 words: 163 flesch: 55 summary: Typically, people are expected to empathize with innocent victims, yet many resort to victim-blaming and derogation. According to Just World Theory, a belief in a just world drives the blaming and derogation of innocent victims. keywords: emotion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c537604.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c537604.txt item: #4613 of 4945 id: x059c537q6v author: Cristal R. Thompson title: Deciphering the Role of N-Terminal Acetylation in Pathogenic Mycobacteria date: 1904 words: 406 flesch: 33 summary: However, the biological mechanisms for targeting of NTA on mycobacterial proteins are not known. Our approach utilizes a filter assisted sample preparation method compatible with mass spectrometry analysis of mycobacterial protein digests enriched for protein N-termini. keywords: mycobacterial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c537q6v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c537q6v.txt item: #4614 of 4945 id: x059c537x2b author: Rieti G. Gengo title: Biosociality and Political Economy of Waiting at Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya date: 2019 words: 456 flesch: 33 summary: Refugee camps and other settlements have consistently operated under an ideology of biopolitical humanitarian governance, characterized by enforced dependency on humanitarian agencies for basic necessities of food and shelter, curtailed human rights, restrictions on movement, severely limited access to quality education and healthcare, and idleness. As global political and economic conditions that cause people to flee their homes continue to intensify and become entrenched, millions of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons occupy managed settlements for years or decades. keywords: refugee cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c537x2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c537x2b.txt item: #4615 of 4945 id: x059c53822v author: Natasha Ali title: Santander date: 2020 words: 2 flesch: 120 summary: A novella. keywords: novella cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c53822v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c53822v.txt item: #4616 of 4945 id: x059c538325 author: Allan Leishman title: Measuring Energetics of Magnetic Vortices Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering date: 2021 words: 458 flesch: 39 summary: By modelling this hysteresis with a simple Preisach free energy and comparing it with atomistic spin simulations, the activation barrier is found to be several eV/ skyrmion. Skyrmions are of direct interest for future spintronic memory applications due to their intrinsic topological protection. keywords: skyrmions cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c538325.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c538325.txt item: #4617 of 4945 id: x059c53840s author: Lauren Green title: Glial Cells at the Border of the CNS During Development and Disease date: 2021 words: 444 flesch: 28 summary: and further reveals crucial roles CNS and PNS cells play in reconstructing this crucial immune protected CNS/PNS boundary. This presents a significant gap in our understanding of normal CNS boundary development and further how to reconstruct this crucial boundary during injury and disease. keywords: cns cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c53840s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c53840s.txt item: #4618 of 4945 id: x059c53843t author: James J. Ostrander title: The Self, Or Stranger date: 2022 words: 153 flesch: 26 summary: These juxtapositions foreground the tensions inherent to the performance of self, and enable exploration of those forms of cultural inscription which drive identity formation. Within these scenes, grotesque bodies emulate cultural roles, producing situations that are alternately humorous and serious, disturbing and tender, realistic and idealized. keywords: self cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c53843t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c53843t.txt item: #4619 of 4945 id: x059c53860d author: Md Raju Kalam title: Inside Violence Violence Inside date: 2023 words: 66 flesch: 63 summary: This is likely a study or remedial study of violence that seeks resolution for existing trauma or justice for a half-dead mother, and/or is exhausted by experiencing different forms of violence. These poems not only talk about gun violence but also domestic and climate violence. keywords: violence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x059c53860d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x059c53860d.txt item: #4620 of 4945 id: x346d22079m author: Ali Snedden title: Evolution of Baryons in Cosmic Large Scale Structure date: 2015 words: 280 flesch: 59 summary: z = 3 occurs in low contrast regions of filaments, but as the density contrast increases at lower redshift, star formation switches to high contrast regions or the inner parts of filaments. Since filaments bridge between void and cluster regions, this suggests that the majority of star formation occurs in galaxies in intermediate density regions prior to the accretion onto poor clusters. keywords: filaments cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d22079m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d22079m.txt item: #4621 of 4945 id: x346d220815 author: Justin Michael Dubas title: Exchange Rate Misalignment: Causes and Consequences date: 2005 words: 353 flesch: 42 summary: My dissertation explores the often neglected aspect of exchange rate misalignment in such a context. Using the same sample and improved measure of misalignment from the first chapter, the second chapter employs standard growth regressions to determine how exchange rate misalignment affects economic growth. keywords: misalignment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d220815.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d220815.txt item: #4622 of 4945 id: x346d22082h author: Hilary Anne Davidson title: Checks and Balances: Family Structure and Religious Financial Giving date: 2010 words: 146 flesch: 23 summary: Though some progress has been made in ascertaining how family structure impacts giving, the extant literature offers limited insight into how decisions about religious financial giving are made at the household level. Religious financial gifts are crucial to the survival of religious institutions; parishioners collectively supply upwards of 90% of the annual revenue at three-quarters of American congregations (Chaves 2004). keywords: giving cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d22082h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d22082h.txt item: #4623 of 4945 id: x346d220846 author: Thomas R Gohndrone title: Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism of the Absorption of CO2 in Amine-Functionalized Ionic Liquids date: 2015 words: 542 flesch: 58 summary: This study examines the reactive properties of amine functionalized ionic liquids and their use as a solvent for absorbing CO2. Therefore, this work determines how the ILs behave at temperatures above room temperature in the presence of CO2. keywords: co2 cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d220846.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d220846.txt item: #4624 of 4945 id: x346d22086w author: Jessica Marie Morrison title: Actinyl Ion Crystal Chemistry and Its Impact on Structural Topologies and Environmental Fate date: 2015 words: 256 flesch: 27 summary: This research demonstrated (1) the structural differences between U(VI) uranyl germanates and silicates by introducing new (VI) uranyl germanate compounds with uncommon structural features, like cation-cation interactions and chains of GeO5 tetrahedra; and (2) the potential for structural incorporation to play a role in neptunium mobility in the subsurface by showing that calcite has a higher affinity for neptunium than gypsum during synthetic growth. Here two major themes are presented in which one explores the structural properties of U(VI) uranyl germanates as they relate to U(VI) uranyl silicates and the emergence of cation-cation interactions as a structural feature, and the other offers a glimpse at the behavior of Np(V) and U(VI) during the growth of rock- forming minerals for the purpose of understanding the inorganic controls of crystal growth on environmental remediation. keywords: u(vi cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d22086w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d22086w.txt item: #4625 of 4945 id: x346d22088k author: Joshua Bandoch title: On Political Particularism: De l'sprit des lois and the Politics of Statecraft date: 2012 words: 271 flesch: 33 summary: I will argue in this study that Montesquieu's primary purpose in writing De l'Esprit des lois is to educate legislators by giving them practical advice that will teach them how to address the following question: How is it possible to advance universal goals like security, liberty, and prosperity in the context of particular societies that change over time? He wants to instruct legislators how to understand particular societies in order to effect positive change (by making them more secure, free, and prosperous), or in order to maintain a state's goodness once the state has achieved it. keywords: legislators cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d22088k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d22088k.txt item: #4626 of 4945 id: x346d22089x author: Joshua David Mengers title: Slow Invariant Manifolds for Reaction-Diffusion Systems date: 2012 words: 343 flesch: 35 summary: The results cast into doubt the SIM as a robust rational reduction technique for reaction dynamics. The extension of SIMs to adiabatic reaction systems is also considered, and results are shown for the Zel'dovich mechanism. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d22089x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d22089x.txt item: #4627 of 4945 id: x346d220904 author: Sarah Dawson Ellison title: Until the Resurrection: Poetic Fame and the Future of the Body in English Renaissance Lyric, 1590-1641 date: 2014 words: 349 flesch: 27 summary: Resurrection would make poetic fame superfluous, but in the mean time, the poem could anticipate resurrection, providing an image or foretaste of eternity. This study explores how English lyric poets between 1590 and 1641, facing the question of whether and how their poems might escape Time's threat to destroy every material thing, brought together classical tropes of poetic immortality with the Christian expectation of bodily resurrection. keywords: resurrection cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d220904.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d220904.txt item: #4628 of 4945 id: x346d22092t author: Timothy David Hall title: Performance Enhancement of Low Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells by Catalyst and Support Layer Modifications date: 2007 words: 366 flesch: 43 summary: Possible enhancement of low temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) or direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) was investigated by modifying catalyst and support layers. Composite supports composed of either commercial multi-walled nanofiber (MWNF) mats or MWNF layers on a commercial backing were also investigated. keywords: mwnf cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d22092t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d22092t.txt item: #4629 of 4945 id: x346d22095v author: Senem Suzek title: The Decoration of Cave Churches in Cappadocia under Selcuk Rule date: 2010 words: 166 flesch: 48 summary: These churches not only mark the strangeness of a Christian community under Muslim rule, but have also provided historians an outlet for views regarding the Greek community and their acculturation under Turkish rule. The churches of interest to this present study belong to an 'exotic' and ambiguous group as they are not only located in the enigmatic province of Cappadocia but also date to the Selcuk period. keywords: selcuk cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d22095v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d22095v.txt item: #4630 of 4945 id: x346d22097j author: Julia Agnes Schneider title: Theology and Liturgy in De mysterio missae: A thirteenth-century Commentary on the Mass Attributed to Albertus Magnus date: 2011 words: 337 flesch: 35 summary: In addition, it contains a comparison of De mysterio missae with liturgical commentaries by Innocent III, William of Melitona, Hugh of St. Cher, and Guerric of St. Quentin; Innocent III's commentary was extremely influential on Albertus' own and that of others; those written by the other three of these demonstrates its relationship to the work of fellow thirteenth-century mendicant theologians. De mysterio missae has received relatively little recent scholarly attention from liturgical historians and theologians. keywords: mysterio cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d22097j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d22097j.txt item: #4631 of 4945 id: x346d220997 author: Robert L'Arrivee title: The Roots of Islamic Political Philosophy: A Comparative Study of Al-Farabi's Virtuous City and Political Regime date: 1904 words: 231 flesch: 42 summary: The Virtuous City contains a political teaching aimed at citizens that depicts the universe as governed by reason and promotes the freedom to pursue virtue in civic life. The Political Regime, however, when contrasted with the Virtuous City, questions whether we can actually know with philosophical certitude the principles that undergird the opinions meant for virtuous citizens. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d220997.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d220997.txt item: #4632 of 4945 id: x346d220c13 author: Haley M. Gedek title: Effects of Family Conflict on Adolescent Adjustment: Testing the Effectiveness of an Intervention Targeting Family Communication date: 1904 words: 153 flesch: 15 summary: Family conflict was directly related to both internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and indirectly related to internalizing symptoms through the adolescent's insecurity about the family and marital relationships. The intervention was effective at increasing constructive conflict behaviors, decreasing destructive conflict behaviors, and increasing the degree of resolution families reached in an in-lab problem-solving task; however, no differences were found between treatment conditions. keywords: conflict cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d220c13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d220c13.txt item: #4633 of 4945 id: x346d220z63 author: Stephen M. Mattingly title: Stress during Survival Memory Retrieval: Adaptive or Not? date: 1904 words: 319 flesch: 36 summary: Within source memory, stress increased survival memory, as well as incorrectly identifying moving encoded words as survival words. These findings suggest that stress effects on retrieval of survival relevant memory may be more subtle, altering response biases so that in stressful situations, contextual information is more available for survival relevant stimuli. keywords: memory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d220z63.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d220z63.txt item: #4634 of 4945 id: x346d22100m author: Mingming Cai title: Modeling and Mitigating Beam Squint in Millimeter Wave Wireless Communication date: 1904 words: 380 flesch: 43 summary: Analysis shows that beam squint decreases channel capacity, and therefore, path selection should take beam squint into consideration. However, the gain provided by a phased array is frequency dependent in the wideband system, an effect called beam squint. keywords: beam cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d22100m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d22100m.txt item: #4635 of 4945 id: x346d221029 author: Sara Esfahani title: Essays on Agricultural Productivity and Economic Development date: 1904 words: 154 flesch: 26 summary: And since poor countries allocate a large share of their economic resources to the agricultural sector, understanding the sources of low agricultural productivity in these countries is key to understanding underlying reasons for low agricultural incomes. The first chapter studies how agricultural productivity can be increased by a more efficient allocation of resources. keywords: agricultural cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d221029.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d221029.txt item: #4636 of 4945 id: x346d221071 author: Philip Alan Smith Jr. title: Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Uranyl and Neptunyl Coordination Complexes date: 1904 words: 319 flesch: 12 summary: This dissertation focuses on exploring the fundamental chemistry of solid-state uranyl and neptunyl coordination complexes to better understand actinyl crystal chemistry and probe the nature of structure directing factors leading to their formation. Several classes of ionic liquids were employed to develop coordination compounds and hybrid materials that expand on the topological diversity of solid-state uranyl structures and systematically investigate, through judicious selection of incorporated moieties, the importance and role of various structure directing factors (i.e. steric affects, hydrogen bonding, pH, temperature, etc.)A second area of research investigates transuranic cyanometallates, and demonstrates marked differences between pentavalent neptunium and hexavalent uranium chemistry. keywords: chemistry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d221071.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d221071.txt item: #4637 of 4945 id: x346d22163h author: Jacob Thomas Schepers title: Making Do: Towards a Poetics of Limit through Technological and Embodied Means date: 2019 words: 253 flesch: 15 summary: The basic premise of Making Do supposes that this interrelated network of aesthetic experience operates roughly in the following way: As poets seek to incorporate new writing technologies and technological concepts into their poetics, they encounter the inescapable influence of their own embodiment as they make use of (and at times struggled with) these technologies that grow increasingly multi-mediated and thus enable new conceptions of poetic materiality and representation but, in doing so, highlight the limitations present in diverse embodied experiences. Stated otherwise, writers of the last seventy years have broadened their use of poetic media and, in so doing, ran up against the primary medium of—and the state of being materially situated within, and thus limited through—their own bodies. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d22163h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d22163h.txt item: #4638 of 4945 id: x346d221d21 author: Jonathan Wells title: Thermodynamic Behavior of a Weakly Compressible Shear Layer date: 2021 words: 152 flesch: 41 summary: The objectives of this research are to explore the validity of solutions from commercial solvers with respect to WCSL physics and to continue investigation into the Weakly Compressible Model (WCM), which was developed and used at the University of Notre Dame to model the behavior of such weakly compressible flows. To model such flows, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is often used to save time and money compared to the cost of full-scale experiments. keywords: flows cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d221d21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d221d21.txt item: #4639 of 4945 id: x346d221g19 author: Jenna N. Sjoerdsma title: Multivalent Design in Nanomedicine: Diagnostics, Therapeutic Targeting, and Inhibitor Development date: 2023 words: 352 flesch: 31 summary: Second, this work studies multivalent nanomedicines in the design and optimization of targeted nanoparticle systems for delivering chemotherapeutics to cancer. In chapter four, multivalent inhibitor designs are evaluated in vitro for two protein allergy systems: peanut and HDM. keywords: multivalent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x346d221g19.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x346d221g19.txt item: #4640 of 4945 id: x633dz03j12 author: Jared Edward Miller title: The Effect of Auditory Entrainment on the Allocation of Visual Attention date: 2011 words: 152 flesch: 34 summary: We examined how entraining auditory attention to a rhythm affects the allocation of visual attention. Saccade latency was fastest for the in-synch condition, indicating that entraining auditory attention similarly entrains visual attention such that both are maximized concurrently. keywords: attention cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz03j12.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz03j12.txt item: #4641 of 4945 id: x633dz03j43 author: Gary Frederick Gerlach title: Development of the Zebrafish Pronephros: Cellular and Genetic Analysis of Nephron Tubulogenesis and Segment Patterning date: 2015 words: 362 flesch: 32 summary: These studies provide a foundation for further analysis of MET during nephrogenesis and have implications for understanding nephron epithelial cells during kidney disease and regeneration. pax2a knockdown was sufficient to rescue ectopic tubule gene expression in prkcι/ζ morphants. keywords: epithelial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz03j43.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz03j43.txt item: #4642 of 4945 id: x633dz03j6s author: Elizabeth D. Willis-Kochly title: Advances in Carbocation Chemistry: Carbocations in Ionic Liquids, beta-Silyl Cyclopropyl Carbocations, and beta- and gamma-silyl Cyclobutyl Carbocations date: 2010 words: 383 flesch: 43 summary: A similar study was undertaken involving cyclobutyl carbocations. Incorporation of a beta-silyl group into cyclobutyl carbocations led again to a smaller than expected b-silyl stabilization. keywords: silyl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz03j6s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz03j6s.txt item: #4643 of 4945 id: x633dz03j8g author: Michael Loren Dickens title: Surfer: Any-core Software Defined Radio date: 2012 words: 207 flesch: 44 summary: Runtime statistics allow a system supervisor to assist in mapping and scheduling, dynamically during runtime, in order to meet waveform requirements. Within a waveform graph consisting of processing blocks, each connection is a buffer that holds the data being generated by one block and consumed by others. keywords: runtime cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz03j8g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz03j8g.txt item: #4644 of 4945 id: x633dz03k2q author: Joseph Raphael Zepeda title: Descartes and his Critics on Space and Vacuum date: 2010 words: 347 flesch: 51 summary: This dissertation comprises a comprehensive interpretation of Descartes' treatment of space and vacuum, particularly in the Principles of Philosophy (1644). The central thesis argued here is that Descartes' position on space and vacuum is more plausible in its context than has been recognized. keywords: descartes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz03k2q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz03k2q.txt item: #4645 of 4945 id: x633dz03k4d author: Alexandri Gregor Zavodny title: Change Detection in LiDAR Scans of Urban Environments date: 2012 words: 252 flesch: 46 summary: Modern acquisition platforms facilitate data collection rates of over two billion points per hour, enabling the collection of massive datasets with ease. To correct for this, we utilize a variety of point cloud alignment techniques, including a novel point descriptor, to bring overlapping pieces of data into alignment. keywords: datasets cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz03k4d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz03k4d.txt item: #4646 of 4945 id: x633dz03k5r author: Yingjie Li title: Analysis of Ion-Enhanced Field Emission and Field Emission-Driven Microdischarges date: 2014 words: 332 flesch: 43 summary: By investigating several interesting examples of how microscale discharges behaves differently from large scale discharges, this dissertation reveals how field emission and microscale discharge interact with each other in detail. A current-driven PIC/MCC mode is introduced to simulate microscale glow discharges, and the effect of field emission on the discharge is discussed. keywords: field cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz03k5r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz03k5r.txt item: #4647 of 4945 id: x633dz03k7f author: Julia Ann Henkels title: Abrasion Resistance Screening of Fibers for Woven Materials Using Atomic Force Microscopy date: 2008 words: 138 flesch: 46 summary: The goal of this project was to characterize the relative abrasive wear of several polymer fibers of different diameters that are suitable for in vivo use, including polyetheretherkeytone (PEEK), polypropolyene, and polyethylene fibers. With every loading, fibers in woven materials encounter micro-scale sliding and potential abrasion. keywords: fibers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz03k7f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz03k7f.txt item: #4648 of 4945 id: x633dz03m21 author: Jeffrey Fisher title: Nothing in Excess: The Ethics of Measure and the Mean in Plato and Aristotle date: 1904 words: 357 flesch: 41 summary: Aristotle's doctrine of the mean is one of a handful of ancient philosophical theories that is widely known among philosophers generally. By contrast, Plato's discussions of measure are hardly known even among ancient philosophy specialists. keywords: aristotle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz03m21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz03m21.txt item: #4649 of 4945 id: x633dz03m7r author: Sheri A. Sanders title: Conservation Transcriptomics of Ambystomatid Salamanders and Their Polyploid Hybrids date: 1904 words: 349 flesch: 38 summary: I found that different genomic copies within the polyploids maintain their own regulation patterns under normal conditions, but are disrupted in disease conditions. Additionally, I investigated the expression patterns of polyploid salamanders in comparison to the parental taxa in normal and disease conditions. keywords: salamanders cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz03m7r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz03m7r.txt item: #4650 of 4945 id: x633dz0435p author: Katherine Flood Elliot title: Personal Transformation in the Theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez: Seeds for a Theology of Liberating Vulnerability date: 1904 words: 332 flesch: 25 summary: Therefore, if, as Gutiérrez himself argues, macro-level, structural justice depends upon micro-level, interior healing, then it follows that being vulnerable in primary personal relationships is essential for liberation theology in practice. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of liberation theology, insists that this-worldly socioeconomic and political dynamics bear on a person's and a community's ability to realize the liberation/salvation that God desires for human beings. keywords: gutiérrez cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz0435p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz0435p.txt item: #4651 of 4945 id: x633dz0481v author: Henry M. Vu title: Extreme Temperature Resilience Conferred by Antifreeze Biomolecules in Distant Taxa date: 1904 words: 353 flesch: 42 summary: One possible explanation for increased winter high temperature survivorship could be the presence of antifreeze proteins in D. canadensis. With the decreased high temperature tolerance as the season progresses from winter to summer, it was observed that environmental temperatures are closest to upper lethal temperatures in spring. keywords: winter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz0481v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz0481v.txt item: #4652 of 4945 id: x633dz04888 author: Erin E. Hillard title: Testing a Self-Affirmation Intervention to Improve Healthy Eating Behavior in Mothers of Elementary School Children date: 1904 words: 218 flesch: 33 summary: However, health information combined with targeted application of psychological principles surrounding behavior change holds much promise for improving health. Public education increases knowledge about health, yet often fails to motivate healthier behavior. keywords: self cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz04888.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz04888.txt item: #4653 of 4945 id: x633dz04d75 author: Heather Stanfiel title: Imperial Heritage: Empire and Commemoration in Pre-Independence Ireland date: 2019 words: 335 flesch: 17 summary: Yet historians of Irish memory have focused on particular memorial cultures in isolation either geographically or socially from the broader history of the island, thus marginalizing the central role of imperialism in the development of Irish memorial culture. This dissertation recovers that centrality by analyzing the development and shifts of memorial culture and conflict as Ireland progressed from a British imperial territory to a pair of multifaceted European nation states. keywords: irish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz04d75.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz04d75.txt item: #4654 of 4945 id: x633dz04p80 author: Zhiyi Wei title: Essays on Incomplete Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy date: 2022 words: 167 flesch: 31 summary: According to the model, the observed long-term trends in the US credit market can be explained by a steady improvement of uncollateralized lending in mitigating financial frictions. The model that combines the costly state verification model and collateral constraints suggests that the credit market favors the type of debt that mitigates the credit frictions more efficiently. keywords: credit cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x633dz04p80.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x633dz04p80.txt item: #4655 of 4945 id: x920ft86t1b author: Kai Zhao title: Kinematic Synthesis of Planar, Shape-Changing Mechanisms date: 2014 words: 296 flesch: 28 summary: This same idea is also applied to the design of path generating compliant mechanisms whose complete output paths are examined within a two-objective GA. This rigid-body synthesis procedure can be extended to generate partially compliant shape-changing mechanisms by including two Pseudo-Rigid-Body (PRB) models: flexural pivots and flexible beams. keywords: mechanisms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft86t1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft86t1b.txt item: #4656 of 4945 id: x920ft86t31 author: Keith G. Calkins title: Absolute Optical Frequency Measurements of the Cesium D1 Transitions and Their Effect on Alpha, The Fine-Structure Constant date: 2005 words: 343 flesch: 52 summary: Although known precisely via experiments in each subfield, there is disagreement within and between subfields. These new neutral 133Cs 6s2Så_→6p2På_ transition (D1) frequencies, when combined with the 2002 CODATA values of the Rydberg, proton/electron mass ratio, cesium atomic mass, and cesium recoil frequency, provide an almost QED-free value of alpha: αe=1/137.036 0000(11) or 7.7 ppb. keywords: value cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft86t31.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft86t31.txt item: #4657 of 4945 id: x920ft86t4c author: Deanna M O'Donnell title: Short-Lived Aqueous Benzoate Redox States Examined by Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy date: 2010 words: 478 flesch: 31 summary: To date there has been little understanding of the vibrational spectra, structure and electronic absorption of these transients in water. We have applied time-resolved resonance Raman (TR-RR) spectroscopy to structurally identify isomers of cyclohexadienyl radicals formed in pulse radiolysis, using aqueous benzoate solutions as a model system. keywords: absorption cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft86t4c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft86t4c.txt item: #4658 of 4945 id: x920ft86t62 author: Shailaja Kunda title: Structural and functional properties of N-methyl-d-aspartate-receptor specific antagonistic peptides from the conus species of marine snails date: 2015 words: 373 flesch: 40 summary: The Gla residues are integral for their structure, function, and subunit-selective antagonism of ion channels of the N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptors (NMDAR). The optimum spacing of Gla residues in conantokins stabilize the structure when complexed to divalent ions and mediate NMDAR-subunit selective properties. keywords: conrl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft86t62.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft86t62.txt item: #4659 of 4945 id: x920ft86t8r author: Maria Cowan title: The Effect of Creep on Steel Columns at Elevated Temperatures date: 2015 words: 181 flesch: 39 summary: With knowledge of the general framework for high temperature creep models, a creep model for ASTM A992 steel is proposed. The model is calibrated to high temperature experimental creep data and then used to assess the differences in steel column behavior when creep is included in the analysis. keywords: creep cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft86t8r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft86t8r.txt item: #4660 of 4945 id: x920ft86v09 author: Matthew F. Dowd title: Astronomy and Compotus at Oxford University in the Early Thirteenth Century: The Works of Robert Grosseteste date: 2003 words: 319 flesch: 39 summary: The first portion of the dissertation provides an intellectual and institutional context for Grosseteste's work, outlining the translation movement and the rise of the universities, especially Oxford, as they pertain to the questions of this dissertation. By the end of the dissertation, it is suggested that Grosseteste's time spent in Hereford was formative for his later work in astronomy and compotus, and that his work in these areas was important for the development of natural philosophy at Oxford. keywords: grosseteste cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft86v09.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft86v09.txt item: #4661 of 4945 id: x920ft86v1n author: Collin Lines title: Simulations and Experiments of Photon Propagation in Biological Tissue and Liquid Crystal Waveguides date: 2014 words: 688 flesch: 43 summary: As one of the strongest chromophores in human tissues, hemoglobin concentrations in human tissue greatly affect the MFP of photons in visible wavelengths (i.e. bruising). The development of non-invasive methods to probe human tissue is an ongoing challenge in biomedical optics. keywords: tissue cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft86v1n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft86v1n.txt item: #4662 of 4945 id: x920ft86v20 author: David Allen Wood title: Shifting Science, Shifting Politics: Understanding Conservative Illustrations of the Science Cultural Object, 1975–2000 date: 2015 words: 181 flesch: 11 summary: I document how conservative elites' depictions of science changes as milestones occur in United States history, while also documenting the way in which the discourse grows increasingly nuanced to the concepts of science: how 'science' and 'academia' occasionally intertwine, how depictions of science collide with conservative opinions on journalism and mass media, and how the 'scientific community' becomes estranged from the cultural object of science itself. In this thesis I lay out the hypothesis that the concept of science is a cultural object whose 'meaning' transitioned since the 1970's in depictions by conservative cultural elites. keywords: science cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft86v20.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft86v20.txt item: #4663 of 4945 id: x920ft86v9d author: Katherine Elizabeth Cornwell title: Tides date: 2012 words: 51 flesch: 40 summary: From Publishers Marketplace: eighteen-year-old Noah moves to New Hampshire's remote Isles of Shoals for the summer, where he learns of his grandmother's romance with a selkie woman, falls for the selkie's daughter, and works with her to save her siblings from his mentor's cruel experiments. keywords: selkie cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft86v9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft86v9d.txt item: #4664 of 4945 id: x920ft87135 author: Meredith Meagher title: Ireland, The United States and The Nation of Immigrants, 1914 - 1965 date: 1904 words: 368 flesch: 18 summary: However, changes to United States immigration policy – in particular, the national origins quota system within the 1924 Immigration and Nationality Act challenged many of the assumptions amongst the Irish about the legitimacy and recognition they sought for Irish-American ethnic nationalism in the United States. This dissertation argues that this popular movement culminated in the radical changes to United States immigration policy within the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Services Act. keywords: immigration cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft87135.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft87135.txt item: #4665 of 4945 id: x920ft87r10 author: Aliyah Abu-Hazeem title: Bound by Narrative: An In-Depth Exploration of the Effects of Racialized, Gendered, and Sexualized Scripts on Black Boys' Socialization in and out of School Contexts date: 2019 words: 204 flesch: 9 summary: These findings reveal the bounded masculinity that gets propagated within school and has implications for Black boys' consequent socialization outside of school contexts. Using data collected from surveys, 32 in-depth interviews, and over 40 hours of classroom observations within an all-boys-all-Black high school, The Brotherhood Academy, this project explores two critical questions: 1) how do schools shape narratives of hypermasculinity and 2) how do these narratives inform Black boys' performance and understanding of what it means to be man? keywords: boys cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft87r10.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft87r10.txt item: #4666 of 4945 id: x920ft87z7x author: Brian Lowell Catron title: Filtering of Acoustic Information from Aero-Optical Measurements date: 2022 words: 359 flesch: 46 summary: One of the primary sources of signal noise in these measurements, is acoustics. With development of new airborne optical systems, there is a significant amount of effort being put into maximizing the farfield performance of these optical systems. keywords: optical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft87z7x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft87z7x.txt item: #4667 of 4945 id: x920ft8807h author: Eva M Gulotty title: Elucidation of Reactive Intermediates and Bonding in [4+1]-cycloadditions and Ionic Liquid Materials date: 2022 words: 414 flesch: 24 summary: Second, I will present my work probing the intermolecular bonding driving thermoresponsive ionic liquid phase separation, material properties leveraged for use in the fields of energy storage, desalination, separations, and refrigeration. Rather than size, the effective nuclear charge of the anion paired in balance with the hydrophobic pocket provided by the alkyl chain, to control the temperature and nature of IL phase separations. keywords: development cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft8807h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft8807h.txt item: #4668 of 4945 id: x920ft8813f author: Mariana Alifa title: Data and Model Improvements to Quantify the Impacts of Air Pollution in Health and Environmental Justice date: 2023 words: 353 flesch: 6 summary: Lastly, we propose an expansion of the information entropy method for the study of socioeconomic disparities in the correlations between air pollution levels, epidemiological effects, and mortality assessment uncertainties, highlighting the important influence of minority representation in the uncertainty reduction of air pollution health assessments. These impacts are often disproportionally suffered by marginalized populations, and even in regions where air pollution has decreased with time, the same groups experiencing higher exposures a few decades ago are still overexposed today. keywords: pollution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/x920ft8813f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/x920ft8813f.txt item: #4669 of 4945 id: xd07gq70334 author: Michael Albert Tomchaney title: Examination of the Developmental Neurogenetic Basis of Sexual Dimorphism in Aedes aegypti date: 2014 words: 328 flesch: 33 summary: Whole mount in situ hybridization was used to both validate the microarray experiment and to identify regions of the brain with dimorphic gene expression. In many cases, dimorphic gene expression was localized to the optic lobe of the brain. keywords: expression cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq70334.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq70334.txt item: #4670 of 4945 id: xd07gq70365 author: Wenzhao Sun title: A Computational Model for Developmental Biology with Parallel Implementation on Graphical Processing Unit date: 2015 words: 415 flesch: 31 summary: Epithelial cells appear as polygon-shaped in model simulations as a result of mechanical interaction. The model provides a flexible representation for cellular geometry, without imposing assumption of polygon cell shape. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq70365.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq70365.txt item: #4671 of 4945 id: xd07gq7038v author: Sara B. Quinn title: Algorithmic Complexity of Algebraic Structures date: 2008 words: 376 flesch: 35 summary: Another idea explored in the present work is that of comparing the complexity of the classification problem for various classes of structures, using the notion of a Turing computable embedding.oindent extbf{Definition}.A Turing computable embedding of $K$ into $K'$ is an operator $Phi = varphi_e$ such that egin{enumerate}item for each $mathcal{A}in K$, there exists $mathcal{B}in K'$ such that $varphi_e^{D(mathcal{A})} = chi{D(mathcal{B})}$, anditem if $mathcal{A},mathcal{A}'in K$ correspond, respectively, to $mathcal{B},mathcal{B}'in K'$, then $mathcal{A}congmathcal{A}'$ if and only if $mathcal{B}congmathcal{B}'$. end{enumerate}oindentThe ordering of classes of structures that arises from this embedding allows us to compare the complexity of the classification problem for those classes. In the present work, we give characterizations for the classes of structures that embed into the class of equivalence structures, as well as into the class of reduced Abelian $p$-groups of various lengths. keywords: complexity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq7038v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq7038v.txt item: #4672 of 4945 id: xd07gq7040d author: Simone J. Hamrick title: 'An Amalgamation of Incompatibles': Sydney Owenson, Gaelic Ireland and the National Tale date: 2014 words: 174 flesch: 32 summary: Giving due attention to her later works, including Florence Macarthy (1818), Manor Sackville (1833) and The Princess (1835), I explore how Owenson's identity is far more complex when taking into account her Gaelic-speaking Catholic father, her nearly native, Gaelic approach to Irish history and her move away from using any kind of allegorical marriage plot, unionist or otherwise, in her later writings. I also argue that Owenson's writings have important implications for the unresolved issues relating to the contemporary political relationships between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain. keywords: owenson cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq7040d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq7040d.txt item: #4673 of 4945 id: xd07gq7044s author: Brian J Miller title: Not All Suburbs Are Created Equal: The Dynamic Development, Interaction, and Character of Three Chicago Suburbs date: 2010 words: 112 flesch: 30 summary: This study answers three questions: how these communities began with similar features and arrived at very distinct outcomes in terms of population, wealth, prestige, character, and other traits; how suburbs, particularly railroad suburbs, mature over time; and how the interaction between these three towns and other suburbs influence their development. I draw upon three paradigms in urban sociology, the Chicago School, the political economy model, and the Los Angeles School, to answer these questions and develop an approach that emphasizes deep studies of small groups of suburbs due to their unique histories, character, and growth trajectories. keywords: suburbs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq7044s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq7044s.txt item: #4674 of 4945 id: xd07gq7046g author: Ying Zhou title: A Case Study of Collecting PDA-Based Geo-Tagged Malaria-Related Survey Data, and an Agent-Based Entomological Model With Two Applications date: 2013 words: 426 flesch: 38 summary: Read et al. proposed hypothetical evolution-proof late-life-acting (LLA) insecticidal strategies to deal with mosquito insecticide resistance, and found that LLAs could provide more effective malaria control while more weakly resistance evolution in a mosquito population than the current insecticides approved for LLINs and IRS. The emergence and prevalence of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes greatly undermines the effectiveness and sustainability of vector control measures such as long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) that use insecticides. keywords: mosquito cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq7046g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq7046g.txt item: #4675 of 4945 id: xd07gq7047t author: Ashley Lynn Hill title: The Development of Effortful Control: Links with Parenting, Infant Emotion Regulation, and Social Competence in Early Childhood date: 2004 words: 142 flesch: 21 summary: Hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that infants who showed more regulation during the stranger approach later showed higher effortful control scores, compared to infants who showed more reactivity to the stranger approach. Relationships among effortful control, parenting strategies, and social behavior were examined contemporaneously for 4- and 5- year- olds. keywords: effortful cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq7047t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq7047t.txt item: #4676 of 4945 id: xd07gq7049h author: Dustin Mix title: Empowerment Model for Post-Earthquake Reconstruction of Urban Housing in Haiti date: 2014 words: 150 flesch: 37 summary: For the first time in human history, the majority of the world?s population lives in urban areas and of the 15 most populated cities, 11 are located in developing countries. The latter half of the thesis details the design of the new system, as well as constructability issues in urban Haiti. keywords: thesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq7049h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq7049h.txt item: #4677 of 4945 id: xd07gq7052d author: Yugon Kim title: Imagining the Radical Middle: Asian Philosophy and Contemporary American Avant-garde Poetry date: 1904 words: 224 flesch: 24 summary: Ultimately, through the experimental texts of four American poets, I seek to provide a new reading model for transnational literary studies by taking the transpacific as an important site for literary innovation. Reflecting this transpacific turn in academic research, I examine four contemporary American poets whose literary innovations are rooted in the Buddhist and Daoist lineages of Asian philosophy. keywords: american cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq7052d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq7052d.txt item: #4678 of 4945 id: xd07gq70543 author: Victor A. Hernandez-Huerta title: Post-Election Disputes in Democracies: Challenging the Outcome of the Election as a Negotiation Strategy date: 1904 words: 291 flesch: 43 summary: Using an original dataset that codes the behavior of runner-up candidates in 180 presidential elections (1974-2012) and 966 years of electoral legislation, I find evidence that, in democracies, losing parties with an unfavorable negotiating position in Congress are more prone to dispute presidential election outcomes, even after controlling for the quality of the election and the margin of victory. However, post-election disputes have also occurred in 21% of the democratic presidential elections worldwide since the beginning of the third wave of democracy. keywords: election cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq70543.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq70543.txt item: #4679 of 4945 id: xd07gq70930 author: M. Itrat B. Shams title: Photo-Induced Tunable/Reconfigurable Terahertz Circuits and Components date: 1904 words: 365 flesch: 23 summary: Such functional THz devices are still scarce but in high demand for sophisticated circuits and systems needed in advanced THz sensing, imaging and communications. However, for THz applications such as advanced imaging and adaptive high-speed wireless communication, tunable and reconfigurable THz circuits and components are needed. keywords: thz cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq70930.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq70930.txt item: #4680 of 4945 id: xd07gq70s9d author: James Joseph Wright title: Drama and Devotion at Chiesa Nuova: Translating Anerio's Teatro Armonico to Jazz Oratorio date: 1904 words: 315 flesch: 35 summary: To this end, this thesis presents a study of Anerio in his historical context, a study of influential examples of jazz sacred music, as well as an analysis of the cultural politics relative to the music of Counter-Reformation Rome and Post-Vatican II America. This study is then related to contemporary sacred music, including a discussion of theories of cultural translation that are relevant to the creative component of my project. keywords: anerio cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq70s9d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq70s9d.txt item: #4681 of 4945 id: xd07gq70t3n author: Rodrigo Castro Cornejo title: Do Campaigns Matter (in New Democracies)? Campaign Effects, Strategic Behavior, and Party System Institutionalization date: 1904 words: 110 flesch: 25 summary: This research challenges conventional wisdom in comparative political behavior in two important ways. It finds that partisanship in Latin America is not as weak as prior comparative studies have suggested. keywords: comparative cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq70t3n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq70t3n.txt item: #4682 of 4945 id: xd07gq70t5b author: Justin M. Luningham title: Evaluating Psychometric and Imputation-Based Methods for Data Integration date: 1904 words: 316 flesch: 33 summary: Chapter 3 covers simulation studies investigating multiple imputation IDA performance with a novel imputation model, namely, boosted decision trees as an extension of single-tree imputation. IDA is an alternative to meta-analysis, which synthesizes summary statistics (such as effect sizes or standardized parameter estimates) from multiple studies. keywords: ida cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq70t5b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq70t5b.txt item: #4683 of 4945 id: xd07gq70v7b author: Jiayun Hu title: Whole-Cell Bacterial Detection Using a Versatile Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensing Platform date: 2018 words: 309 flesch: 29 summary: Bacterial sensing is gaining lots of interest in the scientific community as well as health and food industries due to its profound impact in human health. The whole-cell bacterial sensing platform developed in this work exhibits (i) rapid detection (~3 h) with minimal sample preparation, (ii) extraordinary sensitivity – down to the level of a singlePseudomonas aeruginosa cell and 80 Acinetobacter baumannii cells, (iii) a broad, yet clinically relevant, linear range (10 – 106 cfu mL-1), (iv) excellent selectivity over other tested bacteria, (v) versatile detection (simply switch pathogen specific-affinity reagents), and (vi) long shelf-life (2 weeks to 2 months) when stored in ambient conditions. keywords: bacterial cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq70v7b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq70v7b.txt item: #4684 of 4945 id: xd07gq7170m author: Toan Q. Nguyen title: Improving Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages date: 2021 words: 364 flesch: 48 summary: On data, I propose two simple methods to improve NMT performance by better exploiting training resources. The second one is a simple data augmentation via concatenation which can yield on average +1 BLEU on several language pairs. keywords: nmt cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq7170m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq7170m.txt item: #4685 of 4945 id: xd07gq7176p author: Bradley W. Ellis title: Development of a Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Myocardium on a Chip and Its Use to Diagnose and Treat Ischemic Reperfusion Injury in Cardiovascular Disease date: 2022 words: 492 flesch: 35 summary: In recent decades, tissue engineering has developed model tissues utilizing human derived cells to better mimic human physiology in vitro. Due to an extreme limit on viable human hearts available for transplant, let alone research, the use of animal models has become a common alternative for CVD study. keywords: heart cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xd07gq7176p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xd07gq7176p.txt item: #4686 of 4945 id: xg94hm53c35 author: Christopher A. Morrissey title: Peace or War? Religion in the Debate Before the Iraq War date: 2012 words: 315 flesch: 32 summary: Additionally, I analyze patterns of discourse that differentiated between war supporters and war opponents' war supporters used less secular discourse than war opponents. In this dissertation, I analyze religious actors debating the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 as well as the religious cultural dimensions of the larger public discussion. keywords: war cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm53c35.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm53c35.txt item: #4687 of 4945 id: xg94hm53c5v author: Karrie-Ann Kubatko title: Crystallography, Hierarchy of Crystal Structures and Chemical Thermodynamics of Select Uranyl Phases date: 2005 words: 359 flesch: 27 summary: Despite their environmental importance, the crystallography and chemical thermodynamics of uranyl phases remains largely unexplored. The primary objectives of the research presented herein are to (1) expand the current foundation of uranyl crystal chemistry, (2) collect calorimetric data to assess the enthalpies of formation of environmentally relevant uranyl phases and (3) examine the relationship between crystal chemistry and chemical thermodynamics of select uranyl phases. keywords: uranyl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm53c5v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm53c5v.txt item: #4688 of 4945 id: xg94hm53c66 author: Joshua Alan Enszer title: Verified Probability Bound Analysis for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems date: 2010 words: 345 flesch: 31 summary: Process models frequently involve uncertain parameters and inputs. Mathematical modeling can also be used together with experiments to improve the design of further models and experiments. keywords: models cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm53c66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm53c66.txt item: #4689 of 4945 id: xg94hm53c8w author: Aaron S Mann title: Reading Military Character in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Phil Klay's Redeployment date: 2015 words: 140 flesch: 38 summary: I propose that O'Brien and Klay present an alternative to plot structure as a means of presenting the experience of the combat soldier in war literature. If we are to embrace the belief that war's inherent confusion, anxiety, and resistance to coherent storytelling makes a construction of narrative through the traditional modes of plot unsatisfying, then what do O'Brien and Klay present as an alternative? keywords: war cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm53c8w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm53c8w.txt item: #4690 of 4945 id: xg94hm53d24 author: Andrew John Locock title: Crystal Chemistry of Uranyl Phosphates, Arsenates and Oxysalts of Chromium(V): Implications for Remediation date: 2005 words: 336 flesch: 31 summary: Study of the crystal chemistry of uranium minerals and compounds can help to lead to effective approaches to remedy uranium contamination in the environment, and aid in the development of reliable strategies for the long-term disposal of spent nuclear fuel nuclear waste. Of the refined structures, twenty-five are uranyl phosphates, twenty-seven are uranyl arsenates, and four are uranyl chromium(V) oxysalts. keywords: uranyl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm53d24.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm53d24.txt item: #4691 of 4945 id: xg94hm53d3g author: Jan Hryniewiecki title: Stress Analysis in Automotive Vacuum Booster date: 2005 words: 151 flesch: 43 summary: The numerical model was validated by direct comparison of meridional strains to experimental measurements at selected locations. The master cylinder which provides hydraulic pressure to the components on the wheels, is mounted directly on the booster shell using threaded bolts. keywords: booster cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm53d3g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm53d3g.txt item: #4692 of 4945 id: xg94hm53d6h author: Limin Yuan title: The Effect of Foundation Flexibility on the Dynamic Behavior of a Rigid Block date: 2005 words: 373 flesch: 35 summary: A parameter study is conducted separately for two types of earthquake ground motions: pulse-type (near-source) and random-type earthquake ground motion. Preliminary studies verify the full nonlinear equations of motion when a rigid block sits on two-spring-dashpot foundation, and highlights the importance of foundation flexibility on rigid body overturning. keywords: foundation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm53d6h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm53d6h.txt item: #4693 of 4945 id: xg94hm53d9j author: Michael Austin Kuelbs title: The Role of Complement Protein C1q in Mycobacterial Pathogenesis date: 2010 words: 5 flesch: 68 summary: Master's Thesis - No Abstract keywords: master cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm53d9j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm53d9j.txt item: #4694 of 4945 id: xg94hm53f13 author: Edward Peace Trefts title: Ascending/Descending date: 2012 words: 8 flesch: 71 summary: This thesis is a collection of short stories. keywords: stories cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm53f13.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm53f13.txt item: #4695 of 4945 id: xg94hm53g4f author: Tomás Aquino title: Lagrangian Random Walk Methods in Hydrologic Settings date: 1904 words: 129 flesch: 30 summary: Specifically, we address solute reactions and mixing in the presence of nonuniform background flow fields, mixing through bioturbation in freshwater systems, tracer tests in river and stream transport, and broad return time distributions in hydrologic and other settings. We develop numerical particle tracking methods and theoretical descriptions relying on random walk theory and apply them to a va- riety of problems with an impact on the hydrologic sciences. keywords: hydrologic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm53g4f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm53g4f.txt item: #4696 of 4945 id: xg94hm5489k author: Mark Edward Therrien title: Origen's Theology in the Context of Valentinian Gnosticism: A Comparative Essay date: 2019 words: 365 flesch: 52 summary: In this dissertation, I call into question an interpretative trend that assimilates Origen's theology to Valentinian Gnosticism. I argue that Origen's discussion of incorporeality is foundational for his theology, especially in the context of Gnosticism. keywords: origen cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm5489k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm5489k.txt item: #4697 of 4945 id: xg94hm5493t author: David B. Green title: Qualitative and Quantitative Modeling of Molecules by Corralling Electronic States date: 2019 words: 353 flesch: 48 summary: Our approach can measure charge-density, bond order, bond length, and other molecular properties. Using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to perform atomic manipulation, we present techniques that confine electrons into quantum corrals and demonstrate real molecular properties. keywords: molecules cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm5493t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm5493t.txt item: #4698 of 4945 id: xg94hm54f7f author: Jiaqi Ma title: The Talking Dead: Characterization through Deceased Speakers in Hellenistic Funerary Epigrams date: 2020 words: 66 flesch: 18 summary: Focusing on voice and characterization, I approach these text through both intellectual and embodied models of reader-response, and argue that deceased's voices employ diverse strategies to evoke multifaceted responses from the readers and present particularly individualized and affective self-characterization. This thesis focuses on select Hellenistic funerary epigrams from Book 7 of The Greek Anthology that feature the deceased as a first-person speaker. keywords: characterization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm54f7f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm54f7f.txt item: #4699 of 4945 id: xg94hm54h9r author: Sara Judy title: Singing in the Late Season: Prophetic American Poetry in the Post-War Period date: 2022 words: 535 flesch: 35 summary: While critical conversations commonly identify these poets in the traditional vein of American prophetic poetry, my dissertation questions the foundational assumptions of that tradition, providing new insight into the ways in which these poets actively work both within and against the category of American prophecy. This dissertation shows how social protest poetry written in the U.S. after the second World War, by Robinson Jeffers, Muriel Rukeyser, and Jorie Graham, challenges and complicates traditional notions of prophecy in American poetry. keywords: poets cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm54h9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm54h9r.txt item: #4700 of 4945 id: xg94hm54j30 author: Martin Figura title: Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Decentralized Networks date: 2022 words: 371 flesch: 34 summary: We show that in the presence of Byzantine agents, whose estimation and communication strategies are arbitrary, the estimates of the cooperative agents converge to a bounded consensus value, provided that there are at most H Byzantine agents in the network that is (2H+1)-robust. This dissertation aims to address two challenges in decentralized cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, a new training paradigm that features scalability and privacy guarantees for cooperative agents. keywords: agents cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xg94hm54j30.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xg94hm54j30.txt item: #4701 of 4945 id: xk81jh36n5x author: David Michael Borrok title: Predictive Modeling of Metal Adsorption Onto Bacterial Surfaces in Geologic Settings date: 2005 words: 339 flesch: 17 summary: These studies are successful in bringing us closer than ever before to predicting the true extent of bacterial surface adsorption reactions in real systems. (Ch. 3 & 4) Do consortia of bacteria from natural and contaminated systems exhibit universal adsorption behavior? keywords: systems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh36n5x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh36n5x.txt item: #4702 of 4945 id: xk81jh36n8z author: Lisa E Cole title: Bisphosphonate-functionalized gold nanoparticles as a targeted X-ray contrast agent for breast microcalcifications date: 2015 words: 279 flesch: 32 summary: However, the detection of breast microcalcifications and correct diagnosis of breast cancer are limited by the sensitivity and specificity of mammography, especially in women with radiographically dense breasts. Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer related deaths among women. keywords: microcalcifications cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh36n8z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh36n8z.txt item: #4703 of 4945 id: xk81jh36p0h author: Deborah Kraklow title: Unmasking Heterogeneity: The Impact of Three Increasingly Complex Family Typologies on Academic Achievement date: 2010 words: 139 flesch: 28 summary: Further research on nationally representative data is needed to test whether it is important to pursue issues of family structure heterogeneity or whether measures of family processes may reduce the potential need for more complex family structure typologies. Because family structure is increasingly complex, it is important to examine whether its effects on achievement are from the structure itself or from processes within families. keywords: family cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh36p0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh36p0h.txt item: #4704 of 4945 id: xk81jh36p26 author: Magdalena Nerio title: Morally Speaking: Anglo-American Women's Life Writing and the Literature of Social Concern, 1844-1877 date: 2014 words: 856 flesch: 18 summary: The nonfiction of these women also exhibits formal concerns relating to the limitations of the prophetic voice and the difficulty of sustaining the aspiration toward critical objectivity while elaborating a moral rhetoric of rights sensitive to the plight of women and other marginalized, or disenfranchised Victorian social groups. In chapter three, 'Man (and woman too) has a soul to unfold: Florence Nightingale's Suggestions for Thought,' I read Nightingale's sprawling religious manuscript (privately printed in 1860) largely as a failed experiment within existing modes of self-expression: namely, with sage discourse, religious rhetoric, the novel, and literary criticism. keywords: nightingale; women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh36p26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh36p26.txt item: #4705 of 4945 id: xk81jh36p88 author: Brandon Reed Peterson title: 'Being Salvation': A Reinterpretation of Rahner's Christ as Savior date: 2014 words: 106 flesch: 22 summary: While Christ's salvific role as 'primal Sacrament' is a widely documented part of Karl Rahner's soteriology, another major and yet underappreciated part is Christ's identity as 'Representative' (both our representative before God and God's before us). The dissertation uncovers this identity within Rahner's theology, situating it in relation to other historical examples of representative soteriology (e.g., Irenaeus of Lyons) and to Rahner's more familiar sacramental soteriological categories. keywords: rahner cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh36p88.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh36p88.txt item: #4706 of 4945 id: xk81jh36p9m author: Sally M Vance-Trembath title: The Pneumatology of Vatican II with Particular Reference to Lumen gentium and Gaudium et spes date: 2003 words: 330 flesch: 47 summary: This trajectory indicates which ideas acquired increasing importance and which ideas and concepts consistently lost in importance. Using pneumatology as a basis of measurement, we shall study the varying understandings of the Holy Spirit of the Council members, their theologian advisors, the powerful Vatican Cardinals and, of course, the two Popes of the Council, John XXIII and Paul VI. keywords: council cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh36p9m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh36p9m.txt item: #4707 of 4945 id: xk81jh36q15 author: Allison Janette Cross title: Catalyst Design for Hydrogen Production from Ethanol date: 2015 words: 276 flesch: 36 summary: In this thesis, catalysts for hydrogen production from ethanol were designed and characterized to draw correlations between the chemistry and structure of said catalysts and their activity, selectivity, and lifetime during ethanol dehydrogenation. It was determined that the mechanism of metal formation in the combustion front is due to reduction by gases released during the combustion reaction when producing bulk Ni catalysts. keywords: catalysts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh36q15.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh36q15.txt item: #4708 of 4945 id: xk81jh36q3v author: Daniel Immerman title: Now That's a No Know! The Best Arguments for External World Skepticism date: 1904 words: 210 flesch: 45 summary: I conclude that the two best types of argument for external world skepticism are (i) arguments that turn on claims about the nature of evidential support and (ii) arguments that turn on the prevalence of lottery-like situations. I also conclude that the best arguments for external world skepticism target relations that are eitherinternal (i.e. reflectively accessible) or maximal (i.e. at the extreme point along a certain scale). keywords: world cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh36q3v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh36q3v.txt item: #4709 of 4945 id: xk81jh36q46 author: Yiji Zhang title: Static Probabilistic Slicing and Its Application in Fault Localzation date: 2015 words: 253 flesch: 45 summary: Static slicing is a popular program analysis used in software engineering to find which parts of a program affect other parts. In this thesis, we first present a novel static analysis that predicts the likelihood of occurrence of data dependences. keywords: static cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh36q46.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh36q46.txt item: #4710 of 4945 id: xk81jh36q6w author: Maria B. Fahs title: The-Author-Who-Lived: J. K. Rowling's Refusal to Accept the Death of the Author in the Internet Age date: 1904 words: 152 flesch: 34 summary: She has recently released enhanced digital editions of Harry Potter, another Cormoran Strike novel, a redesigned Pottermore website, and new information about the Fantastic Beasts movie and the Cursed Child play. J. K. Rowling's prominent online presence reveals her fear that she will be forgotten as the Harry Potter phenomenon continues to grow. keywords: rowling cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh36q6w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh36q6w.txt item: #4711 of 4945 id: xk81jh37c1b author: Kevin Estep title: Opting Out: How Political Context, Political Ideology, and Individualistic Parenting Contribute to Vaccine Refusal in California, 2000-2015 date: 1904 words: 271 flesch: 35 summary: This dissertation addresses three important puzzles related to vaccine refusal: How can we explain the sharp increase in vaccine refusals over the past 15 years? I conclude that the combination of increased residential segregation by political orientation, higher rates of PBEs in Republican contexts, and electoral pressures on Republican lawmakers to relax compulsory vaccination laws could lead to dangerously low vaccination rates in communities where most residents share neoliberal conservative values. keywords: vaccine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh37c1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh37c1b.txt item: #4712 of 4945 id: xk81jh37c5q author: Melika Sharifironizi title: Determination of Thermodynamic Properties of Select Uranyl Compounds date: 1904 words: 521 flesch: 25 summary: The results obtained from this work demonstrate that the energetics of uranyl peroxide cluster crystals are largely driven by the alkali cation oxide thermodynamics, rather than negatively charged uranyl cages. In the second component of this work, I studied the chemical thermodynamics of selected members of the family of nanoscale uranyl peroxide cage clusters. keywords: uranyl cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh37c5q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh37c5q.txt item: #4713 of 4945 id: xk81jh37k47 author: Graham Clay title: Hume on Knowledge date: 2019 words: 226 flesch: 47 summary: Second, I argue that knowledge infallibilisms like Hume's—views that maintain that a knower could not err with respect to what she knows—are compatible with the negation of external world skepticism, contrary to the consensus in the field. First, I argue that Hume runs afoul of the widespread contemporary dogma that knowledge entails belief, both in cases involving sense perception and in cases involving abstract philosophical reasoning. keywords: knowledge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh37k47.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh37k47.txt item: #4714 of 4945 id: xk81jh37k8m author: Amanda Daniela Cortez title: Framing Women and Animals: Visibility, Multispecies Care, and Photography Tourism in Cusco date: 2019 words: 385 flesch: 40 summary: I argue that relational visibility occurs while humans and animals walk with one another in-ayllu (in-community) and through pacha (spacetime).In the first section, I argue that by participating in photography tourism and photographic refusal, Quechua women work to make themselves visible and known as Indigenous women on their own terms. I trace what it means for Quechua women to make themselves visible in Cusco city's tourism industry and for Quechua women and animals to care for one another as they do so. keywords: care cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh37k8m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh37k8m.txt item: #4715 of 4945 id: xk81jh37r85 author: Elizabeth H. Trudeau title: The Anatomy of a Social Justice Field: The Growth, Collaboration, and Dissonance of the Modern U.S. Anti-Trafficking Movement date: 2021 words: 431 flesch: 37 summary: This research contributes to our understandings of social fields, and moral problems. I explore what factors contribute to the start and growth of human trafficking task force formation across the fifty states and conclude that a domino effect pattern best describes how environment, media and politics has affected task force formation. keywords: trafficking cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh37r85.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh37r85.txt item: #4716 of 4945 id: xk81jh37s2d author: Sejoo Kim title: American Postcolony: Imperial Citizenship and the Rise of Garment Metropolis in the Pacific, 1944-1999 date: 2021 words: 379 flesch: 23 summary: Furthermore, their multilayered interactions in the Marianas suggest that histories of U.S. territories are not reduced to the metropole-colony binary but unfold in larger regional and global contexts that give distinct meanings to places like the Marianas. My dissertation explicates why and what followed after the Northern Marianas, a dependent territory under the UN trusteeship, renounced sovereignty at the height of anticolonial movements around the globe and joined the U.S. political union in 1976.To answer these questions, my dissertation traces the long lineage of the Marianas garment industry, one of the most controversial byproducts of the Marianas' membership in the U.S. political union. keywords: marianas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh37s2d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh37s2d.txt item: #4717 of 4945 id: xk81jh37v6d author: Daniel Erickson title: Mammalian N-Glycosylation of Monoclonal Antibody Trastuzumab in Middle Silk Gland of Bombyx mori Silkworms date: 2023 words: 412 flesch: 40 summary: We tested the hypothesis that anti-HER2 mAb (HER) co-expressed in the B. mori middle silk gland with MGAT2 and B4GALT1 would exhibit extended glycosylation leading to improved protein stability and greater efficacy of the mAb in both the ADCC and CDC pathways. Expression cassette insertion of anti-HER2 mAb and MGAT2/B4GALT1 into the silkworm germlines was identified after 2 generations through use of co-expressed fluorescent eye markers. keywords: mab cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xk81jh37v6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xk81jh37v6d.txt item: #4718 of 4945 id: xp68kd19x7z author: Brian J. Miller title: Redeveloping the Cabrini-Green Housing Project: A Sociological Perspective, 1989-2004 date: 2010 words: 155 flesch: 40 summary: These theories also uncover three major issues underlying the Cabrini-Green narrative: the problems of moving public housing residents to new mixed-income neighborhoods, the issue of affordable housing in the Chicago metropolitan area, and the efforts of the public housing residents to shape their own future through collective action. In this paper, we utilize theories of poverty concentration to explain the protracted conflict at Cabrini-Green, illustrate why proposed policies have been met with opposition, and provide insights for future action that might ease the skirmish. keywords: housing cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd19x7z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd19x7z.txt item: #4719 of 4945 id: xp68kd19x89 author: Prerna Bihani Juhlin title: Fine Structure of Dependence in Superstable Theories of Finite Rank date: 2010 words: 232 flesch: 51 summary: Pillay has shown that CBP (and hence also LDP) holds in compact complex spaces, and together with Ziegler he has shown that CBP holds in differentially closed fields and difference fields. We prove that LDP is equivalent to the Canonical Base Property (CBP) of Moosa and Pillay for every superstable theory of finite rank. keywords: rank cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd19x89.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd19x89.txt item: #4720 of 4945 id: xp68kd19z0v author: Cheng-Zong Bai title: On the Application of Relative Entropy in Sequential Detection and Cyber-Physical Security date: 2015 words: 431 flesch: 35 summary: By partitioning the state space for sensor selection into three regions, we propose a novel approach that solves the on-line sensor selection problem by minimizing the cost-to-go at every step. In particular, a special class of problems in which the algorithm has complexity that is linear in the number of sensors is identified. keywords: sensor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd19z0v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd19z0v.txt item: #4721 of 4945 id: xp68kd19z2j author: Tuan Hoang title: Ideology in Urban South Vietnam, 1950-1975 date: 2013 words: 362 flesch: 34 summary: Instead of the socialist person as advocated by communist revolutionaries, urban South Vietnamese promoted a bourgeois petit vision of the postcolonial person. The last aspect has to do with the relationship with Americans: The views of urban South Vietnamese on the U.S. were generally positive during the early years of the RVN. keywords: vietnamese cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd19z2j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd19z2j.txt item: #4722 of 4945 id: xp68kd19z47 author: Thomas Butler title: Writing at the Edge of the Person: Lyric Subjectivity in Cambridge Poetry, 1966-1993 date: 2005 words: 367 flesch: 36 summary: Like Prynne, she deals with perceptual multiplicity through experiential reflection, which allows her in her poetry to assert subjective identity and a willingness to meet the challenges to stable lyric form and self-identity. Her most recent poetry is deeply invested in contemporary painting in part because painting's ability to have colors bleed into one another suggests to her the active, constructive symbiosis of disparate identities. keywords: poetry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd19z47.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd19z47.txt item: #4723 of 4945 id: xp68kd19z5k author: Margaret Windy McNerney title: An Evaluation of the Realization of Delayed Intentions Using Task Switching date: 2010 words: 160 flesch: 28 summary: The goal of the first experiment was to test the efficacy of prospective memory models under increasing attentional demands, by comparing prospective memory performance in conditions with and without task switching, and determine which component of prospective memory is effortful. The goal of the second experiment was to create an examination of the relationship between task switching and prospective memory, by including consecutive prospective trials. keywords: prospective cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd19z5k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd19z5k.txt item: #4724 of 4945 id: xp68kd19z6x author: Louisa Catharina Schneider title: Fabrication of Single Electron Transistors using Atomic Layer Deposition date: 2014 words: 128 flesch: 47 summary: Currently, the choice of SET material is limited to metals that can be thermally oxidized, which has its limitations in terms of thickness control for ultra-thin tunnel barrier oxides. Our goal is to establish a fabrication process that uses alumina as tunnel barriers sandwiched between two platinum electrodes. keywords: set cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd19z6x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd19z6x.txt item: #4725 of 4945 id: xp68kd19z78 author: Richard Sunil Gejji title: Using Continuous Limit Techniques and Stochastic Computational Modeling to Predict the Biological Behavior of Aggregating Cells date: 2010 words: 291 flesch: 44 summary: In this thesis, results on modeling the predatory bacteria myxococcus xanthus and the slug forming amoeba dictyostelium discoideum are presented as well as results on random placement of non-overlapping cells in an individual based model, and continuous limits of discrete stochastic systems. A connection is described between a one dimensional cell-based stochastic model of reversing non-overlapping bacteria and a non-linear diffusion equation. keywords: able cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd19z78.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd19z78.txt item: #4726 of 4945 id: xp68kd19z8m author: Thomas M Durcan title: Centrosome duplication in mammalian cells arrested prior to entry into S phase and the role of tektin 2 in centrosome duplication, mid body formation and cytokinesis date: 2007 words: 481 flesch: 52 summary: This demonstrated that centrosomes could duplicate in G1 arrested cells. In the absence of tektin 2, the mid body condensed, however as a result of tektin 2 being absent, the mid body unravelled permitting cells to 'refuse'. keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd19z8m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd19z8m.txt item: #4727 of 4945 id: xp68kd20018 author: Utsaw Kumar title: Network Communications with Feedback via Stochastic Approximation date: 2009 words: 203 flesch: 41 summary: In addition to being simple, the strategies can be shown to provide doubly exponential error decay in the case of noiseless feedback and appealing tradeoffs between effective transmission rate and reliability in the case of noisy feedback. This thesis first develops a new class of coding schemes for additive white noise channels with feedback corrupted by additive noise, focusing much of the results and discussions on additive white Gaussian noise channels. keywords: feedback cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd20018.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd20018.txt item: #4728 of 4945 id: xp68kd2003z author: Sarah Miglio title: 'Civilizing the World': Progressive Religion and Politics from Chicago to the Middle East, 1890-1925 date: 2012 words: 328 flesch: 16 summary: I follow the pathways of practical Christian reform from Chicago to Turkey, where American missionaries and philanthropists provided disaster relief for Armenians as they suffered considerable violence from the 1890s-1920s. Just as Chicago practical Christians labored to civilize their immigrant neighbors and encourage their adoption of Christian and American habits, Americans worked to Christianize and modernize Armenians and the Middle East. keywords: practical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd2003z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd2003z.txt item: #4729 of 4945 id: xp68kd20467 author: Xufei Wu title: The Role of Multi-Carrier Interaction in Thermal Transport and Energy Conversion in Crystal Materials date: 1904 words: 372 flesch: 30 summary: It is so far the most accurate approach and is essential for the prediction of thermal conductivity in crystal materials. This helps providing a general guideline for the design of high thermal conductivity materials. keywords: thermal cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd20467.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd20467.txt item: #4730 of 4945 id: xp68kd20n8k author: Arial Joy Shogren title: The Transport, Retention, and Fate of Novel Materials in Flowing Waters date: 1904 words: 213 flesch: 15 summary: A significant amount of material is continuously exported from headwater streams, and via advection can be moved long distances downstream prior to processing. Despite many potential controls over material transport in streams and rivers, we often treat the transport of these materials as a homogenous process in the environment because we lack empirical observations addressing the complexity inherent in natural systems. keywords: materials cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd20n8k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd20n8k.txt item: #4731 of 4945 id: xp68kd20p66 author: Kaijun Feng title: Mid-Infrared Sub-Diffraction Optical Resonators in Polar Semiconductors and Hyperbolic Metamaterials date: 2018 words: 235 flesch: 22 summary: Optical resonator is an essential element in modern optical and optoelectronic devices. In this work, we demonstrate subdiffraction optical resonators based on two material systems: the polar semiconductors and all-semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs).We first introduce the basic dielectric property of polar semiconductors as well as the concepts of travelling and localized surface phonon polaritons (SPhP). keywords: optical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd20p66.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd20p66.txt item: #4732 of 4945 id: xp68kd20x3b author: Tianze Peng title: Thermodynamic Feedback of Sea Spray at Air-Sea Interface date: 2019 words: 206 flesch: 36 summary: With high-fidelity simulations with mono- and poly-dispersed droplet size distributions, the dissertation covers topics on: (1) the sensitivity of air-sea heat fluxes on various droplet and flow parameters; (2) fundamental assumptions on the microphysics and the poly-dispersity of spray droplets using bulk air-sea algorithms; and (3) potential improvements and corrections to the bulk algorithms on parameterizing spray effects. However, questions regarding the appropriate method for modeling the effects of spray on air-sea fluxes still exist due to untested assumptions in existing models and low fidelity in the measurements. keywords: sea cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd20x3b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd20x3b.txt item: #4733 of 4945 id: xp68kd21157 author: Ian Klupar title: Strong N and P Co-Limitation Constrains Community Composition and Productivity of Post-Fire Tundra date: 2020 words: 241 flesch: 30 summary: Since historic research has shown that low nutrient soils largely limit the composition of undisturbed tundra, we hypothesize that the trajectory of post-wildfire community composition will be controlled by the availability of nitrogen and phosphorus in post-burn soils and that changes in composition will lead to changes in community productivity. However, we observed a marked shift in community composition towards more deciduous vegetation as a result of combined nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization which, consequently, stimulated community productivity. keywords: composition cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd21157.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd21157.txt item: #4734 of 4945 id: xp68kd21304 author: Donghao Li title: Structural Optimization of Heptamethine Cyanine Dyes date: 2022 words: 390 flesch: 30 summary: Fluorescence imaging experiments in cells and animals compared the shielded heptamethine dyes (and several peptide and antibody bioconjugates) to benchmark heptamethine dyes in Chapter 5, and found that the shielded systems possess an unsurpassed combination of photophysical, physiochemical and biodistribution properties that greatly enhance bioimaging performance. The study in Chapter 7 shows how supramolecular encapsulation of a newly designed series of cyanine dyes by cucurbit[7]uril (CB7) can alter the π-electron distribution within the cyanine chromophore alter fluorescent properties. keywords: dyes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd21304.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd21304.txt item: #4735 of 4945 id: xp68kd2131g author: Jonathan W. L. Kusnerek title: Nature of Longing date: 2022 words: 110 flesch: 36 summary: I engage with theoretical concepts relating to affect, queer theory, and merging theoretical positions on medieval concepts with material feminist ideas of object agency as conceptual underpinnings behind my work. These ideas manifest in work that draws on references to folklore, sacred objects, and various codes of iconography as a lens to express narratives from personal experiences as a queer person. keywords: work cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd2131g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd2131g.txt item: #4736 of 4945 id: xp68kd2147v author: Alexander Carmen title: When the Unexpected Becomes Reality date: 2023 words: 89 flesch: 79 summary: Upon the spring of 2021 my life would be altered forever, this spring would bring the sudden passing of my grandmother and mother. The life I once knew crumbled right in front of my eyes. keywords: life cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd2147v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd2147v.txt item: #4737 of 4945 id: xp68kd21486 author: Kevin M. Scott title: A Foundational Theory for Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics date: 2023 words: 192 flesch: 29 summary: Alongside this claim, some have argued that moral philosophy should also require a regard for absolute moral prohibitions. In this dissertation, I seek to develop the existing work on Neo-Aristotelian ethics to better address the reconciliation of a eudaimonistic account of morality with certain absolute moral prohibitions. keywords: moral cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xp68kd21486.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xp68kd21486.txt item: #4738 of 4945 id: xs55m90367s author: Shuliang Li title: Lipid- and Polymer-Based Drug Delivery Vehicles date: 2008 words: 429 flesch: 28 summary: Evaluation of the in vitro cytotoxicity of paclitaxel-polymersome formulations showed that the ability of paclitaxel-loaded polymersomes to inhibit proliferation of MCF-7 human breast cancer cells was less compared to free paclitaxel. Liposome based drug delivery vehicles were created by encapsulating a polymeric actin matrix. keywords: actin cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xs55m90367s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xs55m90367s.txt item: #4739 of 4945 id: xs55m90370p author: Tian Jiang title: Krylov Implicit Integration Factor WENO Methods for Stiff Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Equations date: 2015 words: 328 flesch: 53 summary: When we are dealing with time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) with linear high order terms and stiff lower order nonlinear terms, implicit integration factor (IIF) methods are often a good choice as a class of efficient 'exactly linear part' time discretization method. In complex systems (e.g. advection-diffusion-reaction (ADR) systems), the highest order derivative term can be nonlinear, and nonlinear non-stiff terms and nonlinear stiff terms are often mixed together. keywords: methods cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xs55m90370p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xs55m90370p.txt item: #4740 of 4945 id: xs55m90372c author: Sean Timothy O'Brien title: Irish Prison Writing and the Victorian Penitentiary date: 2010 words: 357 flesch: 29 summary: The literary analysis of prison writing reveals the ambitious scale of this technology by depicting its human consequences. In the final chapter I map further study of Irish prison writing, suggesting directions for the extension of the theoretical tools available to understand the institution, the inmate's experience and the possibility of resistance. keywords: prison cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xs55m90372c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xs55m90372c.txt item: #4741 of 4945 id: xs55m903742 author: Joseph Sarro title: DROSOPHILA MODELS OF HUMAN CANCERS ASSOCIATED WITH MODULATION OF DCC/FRAZZLED SIGNALING date: 2014 words: 339 flesch: 55 summary: In order to determine whether fra/DCC is a tumor suppressor we generated fra loss of function clones in Drosophila eye discs. From this we determined that fra is a tumor suppressor and that second site mutations in addition to loss of fra/DCC, result in highly invasive carcinomas. keywords: fra cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xs55m903742.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xs55m903742.txt item: #4742 of 4945 id: xs55m903800 author: Peggy Sue Keller title: Parenting and Marital Functioning as Possible Mediators between Parental Problem Drinking and Child Adjustment date: 2003 words: 135 flesch: 17 summary: The present study proposes to explore dimensions of parenting and marital functioning as possible mediators of the relationship between parental problem drinking and child adjustment. Previous research indicates that exposure to parental problem drinking places children at risk for a number of emotional, behavioral, and social problems. keywords: marital cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xs55m903800.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xs55m903800.txt item: #4743 of 4945 id: xs55m90381b author: Lideth Ortega-Villalobos title: Initial development of the Multicultural Supervision Inventory: Exploring Validity and Reliability date: 2004 words: 119 flesch: 21 summary: MSI scores yielded adequate reliability coefficients (supervisor MSI γ = .88, supervisee MSI γ = .92) for both samples. Exploratory factor analyses yielded distinct underlying factor structures for the supervisor and supervisee versions. keywords: multicultural cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xs55m90381b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xs55m90381b.txt item: #4744 of 4945 id: xs55m90385q author: Michael J. Deem title: Norms and Nature: Engagements between Ethics and the Biological Sciences date: 1904 words: 193 flesch: 32 summary: Chapter 1 enters into an on-going debate over whether evolutionary explanations for widespread patterns of basic evaluative judgments threaten certain kinds of normative realism. I argue that normative realism can be shown to be compatible with a plausible view of the evolution of human evaluative judgment. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xs55m90385q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xs55m90385q.txt item: #4745 of 4945 id: xs55m90394p author: Chris Holdaway title: CODE: Equinox date: 1904 words: 136 flesch: 41 summary: Just as the Anthropocene lives at both molecular & planetary scales (CO2 & the climate), our myopic digital activities are inextricably related to global human devastation. Graphic novels such as Transmetropolitan & The Invisibles, as well as anime series such as Serial Experiments Lain & Neon Genesis Evangelion, serve as models of quasi-spiritual relationships to technology, & points from which to consider how to mediate our present. keywords: amp cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xs55m90394p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xs55m90394p.txt item: #4746 of 4945 id: xs55m903b0m author: Tamuto Takakura title: Entropy Generation in the Tip Region of a High-Pressure Turbine date: 1904 words: 200 flesch: 48 summary: Unshrouded tips of turbine blades are subject to a pressure-driven flow phenomenon from the pressure to suction surface. Metrics such as corrected mass flow rate, total-to-total pressure and temperature ratios, and various efficiencies were examined. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xs55m903b0m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xs55m903b0m.txt item: #4747 of 4945 id: xs55m904014 author: Monica M. Schroll title: Analysis of Nutrient Based Intervention for Colorectal Cancer Treatment Using Mass Spectrometry date: 2018 words: 271 flesch: 35 summary: Nutritional intervention is used as a method to combat disease by itself as well as in tandem with current cancer treatments. Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, in the past several decades the incidence of colorectal cancer has decreased, yet the overall mortality of colorectal cancer has remained unchanged. keywords: cancer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xs55m904014.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xs55m904014.txt item: #4748 of 4945 id: xs55m904c4k author: Dmytro Voloshyn title: Multiple Generalized Cluster Structures on D(GLn) date: 2022 words: 95 flesch: 41 summary: The program naturally extends to Poisson duals and Drinfeld doubles of simple Poisson-Lie groups. We produce a large class of generalized cluster structures on the Drinfeld doubles of GLn and SLn compatible with a large class of Poisson brackets given by Belavin-Drinfeld classification. keywords: poisson cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xs55m904c4k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xs55m904c4k.txt item: #4749 of 4945 id: xs55m904d26 author: Christopher F. Cain title: Synthesis of Biologically Relevant Compounds Harboring Unusual Hydroxamate or Proline Amino Acid Residues date: 2022 words: 312 flesch: 41 summary: This work explores the synthesis of two natural products possessing unusual amino acid residues, as well as a bioinspired unnatural prolyl residue. This molecule possesses an unusual ethylideneproline core with E alkene geometry. keywords: synthesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xs55m904d26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xs55m904d26.txt item: #4750 of 4945 id: xw42n586g72 author: Hubert C George title: Studies of Light Illumination and Substrate Material Effects on Aluminum Single Electron Transistors: Towards an Understanding of Background Charge date: 2011 words: 240 flesch: 44 summary: Among the most important outcomes of this study is the realization of the significant influence that the substrate material has on SET devices. Based on the results of this study, we developed a fabrication processes for producing SETs on wide bandgap insulating substrates (quartz and sapphire), and the fabrication of metal shields on top of the SET devices (which demonstrates the possibility of post-processing of SETs). keywords: sets cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586g72.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586g72.txt item: #4751 of 4945 id: xw42n586g9r author: Dale Lee Kling title: Conformationally Constrained Aminoglycosides: Ribosomal Binding Probes and Potential Antibiotics date: 2006 words: 51 flesch: 26 summary: Conformational constraints were placed on derivatives of neamine, a subclass of aminoglycosides, via an N3-N6' linkage in order to investigate the relevance of conformational states in binding the bacterial ribosome. Additionally, an understanding of how this new class of compounds behaves in the presence of aminoglycoside modifying enzymes was sought. keywords: conformational cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586g9r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586g9r.txt item: #4752 of 4945 id: xw42n586h0z author: Brett Wescott Peters title: Evaluating Strategies for Controlling Invasive Crayfish Using Human and Fish Predation date: 2010 words: 400 flesch: 24 summary: Furthermore, the optimal fish species for controlling crayfish populations has never been rigorously identified. This thesis investigates ways to improve both crayfish trapping techniques and the manipulation of predatory fish communities to control crayfish populations. keywords: crayfish cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586h0z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586h0z.txt item: #4753 of 4945 id: xw42n586h2n author: Yifan Wang title: An Industrial Design Proposal Responding to Unmet Transportation Needs in the United States date: 2015 words: 285 flesch: 46 summary: These extremely limited choices of supplemental transportation has exacerbated public's perception about personal safety and security concerning two-wheelers, and statistical evidence supports the fact that two-wheeled supplemental transportation can be unsafe. Thus a more reliable, sustainable, efficient and affordable means of supplemental transportation, residing between the car and the motor scooter, could provide a solution. keywords: transportation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586h2n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586h2n.txt item: #4754 of 4945 id: xw42n586h4b author: Kelly Martin title: Effect of Counter-Diffusion, Fluid Dynamics, and Biofilm Morphology on Membrane-Supported Biofilms date: 2014 words: 365 flesch: 34 summary: MBfR biofilms exhibit unique behavior due to substrate counter-diffusion, where the electron donor and acceptor enter the biofilm from opposing sides. Back-diffusion of inert gases from the bulk liquid and biofilm into the lumen of the membrane can be detrimental to MBfR performance, though the extent of gas back-diffusion and its effect on denitrification is highly interdependent upon substrate concentrations, membrane properties, and biofilm thickness. keywords: mbfr cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586h4b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586h4b.txt item: #4755 of 4945 id: xw42n586h61 author: Dimitar Borisov Iliev title: Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern (PAMP)-Modulated Gene Expression in Mononuclear Phagocytes of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) date: 2006 words: 357 flesch: 26 summary: These observations, together with additional data from in vitro and in silico analyses, led to the hypothesis that the mechanisms for endotoxin recognition, that have been described in mammals, may not be present in non-mammalian vertebrates. On the other hand, innate immunity relies on a restricted number of genotypically encoded molecules such as TLRs, integrins, scavenger receptors etc. (known as pattern recognition receptors, PRRs) to recognize and respond to pathogens or their pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). keywords: immune cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586h61.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586h61.txt item: #4756 of 4945 id: xw42n586h7c author: Anna Rita Salamone title: Kinetics of a Perchlorate-Reducing Bacterium that Accumulates High Levels of Chlorate date: 2006 words: 157 flesch: 51 summary: HCAP-1 accumulate chlorate at around 20 % and 13 % of the initial perchlorate concentration, respectively; conventional PCRB accumulate less than 3% chlorate. Two novel PCRB isolates accumulate high levels of chlorate during batch perchlorate reduction. keywords: perchlorate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586h7c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586h7c.txt item: #4757 of 4945 id: xw42n586h8q author: Juan Camilo Medina title: Optimization under Uncertainty: Adaptive Variance Reduction, Adaptive Metamodeling, and Investigation of Robustness Measures date: 2014 words: 320 flesch: 11 summary: The third advancement extends to a different application and considers the assessment of the appropriateness of different candidate robust designs. A novel implementation is considered, establishing a metamodel with respect to both the uncertain model parameters as well as the design variables, offering significant computational savings. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586h8q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586h8q.txt item: #4758 of 4945 id: xw42n586h92 author: Benjamin Emery Mertz title: Refinement, Validation, and Implementation of Lumped Circuit Element Model for Single Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators date: 2010 words: 274 flesch: 30 summary: Finally, the utility of the model was demonstrated by simulating the use of actuators for flow control of the flow over a circular cylinder and a modified blunt trailing edge wind turbine blade. Single dielectric barrier discharge (SDBD) plasma actuators have been applied to a wide variety of aerodynamic flow control applications ranging from stall suppression of airfoils at high angles of attack to reducing tip leakage in jet engine turbine blades. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586h92.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586h92.txt item: #4759 of 4945 id: xw42n586j08 author: Latasha Chanell Marshall-Scott title: Jacobs and Slave Law: Psychoanalyzing Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl date: 2003 words: 23 flesch: -4 summary: Placed in historical context conventional of 19th-century sentimental narration, this paper explores a psychoanalytic approach to understanding Harriet Jacobs' gothic slave narrative. keywords: narrative cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586j08.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586j08.txt item: #4760 of 4945 id: xw42n586j39 author: Edit Varga title: Experimental Study of New Magnetic Circuit Elements Built from Nanomagnets for Magnetic Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Logic Applications date: 2009 words: 257 flesch: 39 summary: In this thesis, we perform a shape study of asymmetric magnets for MQCA gate design, and we demonstrate for the first time room temperature operation of a programmable MQCA majority-logic gate, i.e. the basic majority gate, with different length of the driver magnet. Magnetic quantum-dot cellular automata (MQCA) systems are networks of closely-spaced, dipole-coupled, single-domain nanomagnets designed for digital computation. keywords: mqca cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586j39.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586j39.txt item: #4761 of 4945 id: xw42n586j50 author: Jiyoon Lee title: Foreigner's Folly: A Tale of Attempted Project date: 2012 words: 178 flesch: 46 summary: These poems are not in traditional poetic form, for the nature of foreign is impossible to contain; there are constant intrusions of various voices: voice of standard English, sometimes manifested as an entity called 'Spellcheck machine'; voice of coy foreigner; voice of mimicry; voice of Death drive; voice of seductress; voice of unidentifiable Machines in these poems, which I seemingly have failed to contain in the form of a Singular Project with a sense of coherency; writing a Project poetry, a collection of poems with coherence, with a definite sense of singular motive, a driving force of certainty is impossible for a foreigner. Thus I call this Foreigner's Folly: A Tale of Attempted Project. keywords: voice cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586j50.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586j50.txt item: #4762 of 4945 id: xw42n586j7p author: Scott B. Hagaman title: Content and Justification: Prospects for Epistemological Rationalism date: 1904 words: 314 flesch: 18 summary: This conception of content requires a view on which a cognizer's representing a proposition is utterly distinct from an experience's having representational content. Once these positions are accepted, significant ground is cleared which permits us to consider revisionary conceptions of representational content. keywords: content cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586j7p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586j7p.txt item: #4763 of 4945 id: xw42n586k0k author: Samuel RW Hulett title: Boron Abundances and Isotope Systematics of Carbonatites from Worldwide Sources date: 1904 words: 285 flesch: 33 summary: The origin of carbonatites and their associated alkaline silicate rocks has been linked to metasomatized upper mantle sources and related to mantle plume activity. The latter may be sampled by carbonatite melts associated with mantle plume activity, and their corresponding emplacement ages coincide with major tectonic events in Earth's history; these are linked to episodes of supercontinent formation and consequently significant periods of subduction at a global scale. keywords: mantle cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586k0k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586k0k.txt item: #4764 of 4945 id: xw42n586k4z author: Erik Larsen title: American Vitalism: Life, Matter, and the Crisis of American Liberalism date: 1904 words: 348 flesch: 15 summary: American Vitalism refocuses analysis of the social crises that challenged antebellum American liberalism by investigating their connection to representations of physical nature that sharply differentiated living organisms from dead matter. Situating its discussion of racial difference within an interdisciplinary discourse on the status of life and matter, American Vitalism recasts the crisis of American liberalism as one inextricably linked to human violence against non-human nature. keywords: american cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586k4z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586k4z.txt item: #4765 of 4945 id: xw42n586k9p author: Margarita Konaev title: Power and Purpose: The Durable Settlement of Self-Determination Conflicts date: 1904 words: 358 flesch: 29 summary: More specifically, why do some governments and ethnonational groups striving for greater autonomy or independence revert to violence, while others manage to avoid repeat civil conflicts? The findings have important policy implications for intrastate conflict resolution and international security. keywords: conflicts cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n586k9p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n586k9p.txt item: #4766 of 4945 id: xw42n58766h author: Kevin G. Vance title: American Religious Liberty Jurisprudence in Comparative Perspective date: 1904 words: 298 flesch: 28 summary: While the Founders generally agreed that there was a natural right to religious liberty, they disagreed about how much government should accommodate religion from otherwise valid laws. Therefore, the German court does not forbid government from showing favor to religion in general, so it avoids a contradiction with its generous approach to religious accommodations. keywords: court cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n58766h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n58766h.txt item: #4767 of 4945 id: xw42n58782r author: Adrian A. Valverde title: Precision Measurements to Test the Standard Model and for Explosive Nuclear Astrophysics date: 2018 words: 349 flesch: 42 summary: Finally, a new facility is under development at the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System to allow for precision measurements necessary for the determination of the r-process path around the N=126 shell closure. First, the precision determination of the Ft value in T=1/2 mixed mirror transitions is discussed. keywords: new cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n58782r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n58782r.txt item: #4768 of 4945 id: xw42n587f1z author: Nicolas Daniel Kamas title: Humbert of Silva Candida and the Byzantine Rite date: 2019 words: 208 flesch: 46 summary: The first examines Humbert's life in the Abbey of Moyenmoutier and his work under Popes Leo IX, Victor II, Stephen IX, and Nicholas II. This dissertation concludes first, that Humbert was strongly influenced by the preoccupations of the reformation movement in the Western Church and the tradition of Latin liturgical exegesis in his approach to the Byzantine rite, and second, that his evaluation of these liturgical topics is nuanced and well-informed, if strongly biased in favor of his own tradition. keywords: humbert cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n587f1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n587f1z.txt item: #4769 of 4945 id: xw42n587m1h author: Valerie Vargas title: House of Oranges date: 2021 words: 8 flesch: 71 summary: A collection of poems and poems in translation keywords: poems cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n587m1h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n587m1h.txt item: #4770 of 4945 id: xw42n587m5w author: Kirsten H. Anderson title: Gregory of Nyssa on Evil and Freedom date: 2021 words: 312 flesch: 47 summary: He sees the production of evil as a function of the powers of the soul, not decreased or out of commission, but employed in new directions, contrary to the good, serving the actualization of something new. In this project, I seek to reinterpret Gregory's theory of evil, specifically in relation to negativity—that is, insofar as he handles it in terms of non-being and privation of the good. keywords: evil cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n587m5w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n587m5w.txt item: #4771 of 4945 id: xw42n587n0g author: Minami Hattori title: Exploratory Factor Analysis of an Incomplete Correlation Matrix date: 2022 words: 400 flesch: 36 summary: There are currently no methods of factor analyzing incomplete correlation matrices. I obtain bootstrap versions of discrepancy function values, rotated factor loadings, and factor correlations. keywords: correlation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/xw42n587n0g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/xw42n587n0g.txt item: #4772 of 4945 id: z029p269r94 author: Michael C. Kochly title: Validation of Global Positioning Systems for Monitoring Civil Infrastructure Systems: Performance Assessment and Removal of Multipath Effects date: 2011 words: 275 flesch: 35 summary: The end result is a better understanding of GPS technology and practical tools that will enable its effective use for SHM, even for deployments in dense urban areas. The final issue is of most concern, as it poses the largest untreatable error source for GPS monitoring in dense urban zones. keywords: gps cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z029p269r94.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z029p269r94.txt item: #4773 of 4945 id: z029p269s21 author: Yang Yang title: Network Dynamics: A Social Influence Perspective date: 2015 words: 212 flesch: 35 summary: Social influence is believed to drive both off-line and on-line human behavior, however it has not been considered as a driver of social network evolution. At microscopic level, we test whether or not the dynamics of individuals embedded in social networks can be attributed to the effects of social influence. keywords: social cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z029p269s21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z029p269s21.txt item: #4774 of 4945 id: z029p269s4q author: Lisa Workman Gloege title: An Analysis of Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination in Wages in Firms Unlikely to Comply with Equal Employment Opportunity Legislation date: 2010 words: 341 flesch: 21 summary: Federal antidiscrimination regulations differ by size and type of firm, resulting in lower costs to discrimination in firms not subject to the laws or less likely to be prosecuted under them. This dissertation explores the possibility that statistical discrimination in wages may be more likely in firms that are not subject to antidiscrimination legislation. keywords: firms cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z029p269s4q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z029p269s4q.txt item: #4775 of 4945 id: z029p269s6d author: Edoth M Mukasa title: 'Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.' The Grace of the Law: A Study of Augustine's Enarratio in Psalm 118 date: 2015 words: 179 flesch: 51 summary: In particular, the study highlights the use of the notion of the Totus Christus, through which Augustine develops the description of the Church as a people walking on the way of the Lord that is Christ, the end of law. Augustine's commentary on this Psalm of the law thus becomes the narratio of a Church graced with God's guidance and mercy in Christ. keywords: augustine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z029p269s6d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z029p269s6d.txt item: #4776 of 4945 id: z029p269t2b author: Nyrée Valeah McDonald title: Diffusion Interactions for a Pair of Reactive Spheres date: 2005 words: 347 flesch: 41 summary: The mutualism study, when both the sink and source are impenetrable, produced a surprising maximum in sink reaction as it approaches the larger source when the sink is very reactive and much smaller than the source. Various source and sink reaction types, reaction rates, and size differences are considered. keywords: sink cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z029p269t2b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z029p269t2b.txt item: #4777 of 4945 id: z029p269t3p author: Thomas R. Szarek title: On the Use Of Microcontrollers for Data Acquisition in an Introductory Measurments Course date: 2003 words: 157 flesch: 33 summary: A microcontroller-based, miniature data acquisition system was developed for use in a sophomore-level Introduction to Measurement course. The details of the electronic board, rocket, and boat design, along with the results of the experiments carried out by the students, will be presented. keywords: rocket cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z029p269t3p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z029p269t3p.txt item: #4778 of 4945 id: z029p269t5c author: Guowang Li title: Nitride Channels on Aluminum Nitride: Materials and Devices date: 2015 words: 480 flesch: 53 summary: Nitride devices on AlN platform stand also to benefit from the symmetry of electronic polarization: high density hole gases can be generated in much the same way as the high density 2DEG in GaN HEMTs, thus enabling p-channel FETs (pFETs) on the same material platform as nFETs in a logical manner. Various channels (InGaN, AlGaN etc.) could be explored in the future to improve carrier mobility, induce higher carrier density or enhance breakdown characteristics. keywords: aln cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z029p269t5c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z029p269t5c.txt item: #4779 of 4945 id: z029p269v0z author: Sarah Michelle Bobby title: Probabilistic Performance-Based Topology Optimization of Structural Systems date: 2015 words: 353 flesch: 18 summary: The use of deterministic topology optimization methods for structural design leads to structures with reduced redundancy when inefficient material is removed since the structures are essentially pushed to their limiting capacities. To address this need, this thesis presents a series of methods that are a first effort towards the development of a topology optimization framework for structural design that rigorously includes the effect of the uncertain and stochastic nature of the structural design problem using first excursion probabilities. keywords: optimization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z029p269v0z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z029p269v0z.txt item: #4780 of 4945 id: z029p269z90 author: Haiyan Meng title: Improving the Reproducibility of Scientific Applications with Execution Environment Specifications date: 1904 words: 348 flesch: 18 summary: The time and space overheads to preserve and reproduce applications, and the correctness of preserved artifacts are evaluated through applications from high energy physics, bioinformatics, epidemiology and scene rendering. This dissertation proposes two broad approaches for improving the reproducibility of scientific applications and explore their feasibility and applicability for both single-machine scientific applications and complex scientific workflows. keywords: execution cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z029p269z90.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z029p269z90.txt item: #4781 of 4945 id: z029p270h9q author: Mark A. Hawk title: RIPK1-Dependent Mitophagy: A Novel Mechanism to Eliminate ECM-Detached Cells date: 2018 words: 218 flesch: 12 summary: For cancer cells to survive during extracellular matrix (ECM) detachment, they must inhibit anoikis and rectify metabolic deficiencies that cause non-apoptotic cell death. Previous studies in ECM-detached cells have linked non-apoptotic cell death to reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, although the mechanistic underpinnings of this link remain ill defined. keywords: ecm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z029p270h9q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z029p270h9q.txt item: #4782 of 4945 id: z029p270n5k author: Samuel F. Murray title: Vigilance: Self-Control for Planners date: 2019 words: 242 flesch: 44 summary: In particular, the theory of vigilance outlined here explains self-control limitations without appealing to limited resource consumption. This opens up the need for a capacity to manage psychological resources implicated in acting over time. keywords: vigilance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z029p270n5k.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z029p270n5k.txt item: #4783 of 4945 id: z029p270p4j author: Angela J. Lederach title: Feel the Grass Grow: The Practices and Politics of Slow Peace in Colombia date: 2019 words: 331 flesch: 28 summary: Drawing on twenty-two months of ethnographic research, 103 interviews, and twelve focus group sessions with grassroots peace activists, youth, (I)NGO workers, state bureaucrats, private sector actors, and members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), I analyze peacebuilding as a site of contestation where universalized notions of 'peace' are negotiated, reworked, and recast within a particular locale. I draw on the distinct social, environmental, and temporal dimensions of everyday peacebuilding in Montes de María to develop a grounded theory of slow peace. keywords: peace cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z029p270p4j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z029p270p4j.txt item: #4784 of 4945 id: z029p271007 author: Vince Kurtz title: Scalable Autonomy for High-Degree-of-Freedom Robots date: 2023 words: 511 flesch: 39 summary: But human competence in locomotion, manipulation, and task planning masks their fundamental complexity. Why are locomotion, manipulation, and task planning so deceptively difficult? keywords: task cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z029p271007.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z029p271007.txt item: #4785 of 4945 id: z316pz5319s author: Yongqin Gao title: Computational discovery in evolving complex networks date: 2008 words: 219 flesch: 26 summary: To demonstrate the methodology, we applied this methodology in the study of Open Source Software movement, in particular, a study of the SourceForge.net development community. The field of study in evolving complex networks has more and more researchers working using various methods. keywords: network cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz5319s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz5319s.txt item: #4786 of 4945 id: z316pz5321b author: Rebecca Ann Bryant-Fritz title: Sense of Control: Differential Effects on the Outcomes of Assault and Theft date: 2010 words: 130 flesch: 48 summary: The current research is discussed within the framework of Control Balance Theory, although it does not contend to be a direct test of this theory. The current research seeks to clarify the relationship between sense of control and the criminal outcomes of theft and assault for an adult sample, using the 1992 Oklahoma City Survey. keywords: control cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz5321b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz5321b.txt item: #4787 of 4945 id: z316pz5324c author: Sarah Edmands Martin title: The Princess & The Beast: Worlds of Storied Experience in the Ribbon City date: 2015 words: 168 flesch: 31 summary: Using methods of subversive fantasy as defined by Freud, and folklore as defined by Jack Zipes, this paper argues that graphic design and storytelling can function as mechanisms for change in communities of long-standing de-personalization and stereotype. In an effort to combat isolated, inflated, and artificial images of misrepresented marginal identities, particularly those of the Potawatomi Native Americans of Northern Indiana, this paper hypothesizes a design practice that intervenes as a world of storied experience. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz5324c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz5324c.txt item: #4788 of 4945 id: z316pz53262 author: Megan Rogers title: Conceptualizing and Measuring Religion in China: Theory and Measures Appropriate for the Case date: 2013 words: 220 flesch: 28 summary: China, however, complicates efforts to apply standard sociological definitions of religion in two main ways: the Chinese government's official conceptualization of religion has dominated Chinese religious discourse over the past century, and the exclusive, belief-centric, and congregational conceptualizations of religion developed in the Western, Judeo-Christian context are of little use in understanding the largely local, ritual-based practices common in places like China. In short, such complications illustrate the fact that we will never understand and measure 'religion' in China well until we theorize 'religion' well, and understanding religion in China requires adequate measures that are appropriate for the case. keywords: religion cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz53262.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz53262.txt item: #4789 of 4945 id: z316pz5328r author: Maxim M Suvorov title: Regulation of Cell Wall Biosynthesis and Resistance to Antibiotics date: 2008 words: 332 flesch: 45 summary: One such mechanism is production of Ì_å_-lactamases, enzymes that hydrolyze Ì_å_-lactam antibiotics. In some Gram-positive bacteria expression of Ì_å_-lactamases is induced by Ì_å_-lactam antibiotics. keywords: cell cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz5328r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz5328r.txt item: #4790 of 4945 id: z316pz53293 author: Benjamin F Jones title: On the Singular Chern Classes of Schubert Varieties Via Small Resolution date: 2008 words: 87 flesch: 59 summary: We use these formulas for CSM classes to prove new cases of a positivity conjecture of Aluffi and Mihalcea. We compute the Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson (CSM) class of a Schubert variety in a Grassmannian using a small resolution introduced by Zelevinsky. keywords: class cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz53293.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz53293.txt item: #4791 of 4945 id: z316pz53309 author: Michael T. Westrate title: Under the Falling Red Star: Living Soviet in Kharkiv, Ukraine From the 1960s to the Present date: 2014 words: 715 flesch: 46 summary: The study of these men, their families, and their contemporaries—as individuals—provides insights into Soviet society and the continuing transition of that society in eastern Ukraine, especially in the areas of gender, ethnicityationality, and religion. As their history shows, a diaspora is not always created by the movement of people; in post-Soviet Ukraine, it was possible to be a transnational individual without ever travelling. keywords: soviet cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz53309.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz53309.txt item: #4792 of 4945 id: z316pz5331n author: Clint C. Elison title: Disharmony: Premarital Relationship Dissolution date: 2010 words: 332 flesch: 37 summary: Using data from the RELATE Institute, this dissertation explores three aspects of premarital relationship dissolution: 1) the experience of breaking up; 2) the occurrence of positive breakups; and 3) a comparison of the factors that lead some couples to break up and others to stay together or marry. Overall, breakups do not have long-term negative consequences for people, even if they get dumped. keywords: relationship cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz5331n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz5331n.txt item: #4793 of 4945 id: z316pz53320 author: Amaresh V Malipatil title: Novel Approaches to Nonlinear Adaptive Filtering and Their Applications to Communications date: 2005 words: 250 flesch: 33 summary: Practical systems often encounter nonlinearities which call for techniques for the compensation of nonlinear systems and/or signals. UKF is based on the concept of Unscented Transformation (UT), which is a deterministic sampling method to determine the statistics of a random variable undergoing nonlinear transformation. keywords: nonlinear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz53320.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz53320.txt item: #4794 of 4945 id: z316pz53351 author: Goal Auzeen Saedi title: Loss of Face as a Mediator Between Acculturation and Trust in Mental Health Researchers and Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health Services in Iranian Americans date: 2009 words: 149 flesch: 34 summary: It was hypothesized that loss of face mediates the relationship between acculturation and both trust in mental health researchers and attitudes toward seeking mental health services. Given the small body of Iranian mental health literature, an examination of issues related to lack of participation in mental health studies is needed. keywords: iranians cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz53351.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz53351.txt item: #4795 of 4945 id: z316pz5337q author: Raé Nicole Lundy title: Dimensions of Racial Identity as Moderators of the Depression-Discrimination Relationship in Blacks date: 2012 words: 219 flesch: 19 summary: Additionally, at low levels of depression, men were less likely to perceive discrimination than women in the relationship between mental health functioning and perceived discrimination. However, a three-way interaction revealed that having stronger private regard for one's racial group buffered the relationship between racial centrality and depression to predict lower levels of perceived discrimination. keywords: discrimination cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz5337q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz5337q.txt item: #4796 of 4945 id: z316pz5339d author: Priya Mishra title: Antiviral Hammerhead Ribozyme Strategy for Developing Transgenic Suppression of Arboviruses date: 1904 words: 415 flesch: 43 summary: Engineered transgenic mosquitoes having high resistance to CHIKV replication can be potentially utilized in population replacement strategies to achieve elimination of endemic CHIKV. TCID50 analysis confirmed complete suppression of CHIKV replication at an MOI of 0.0001 and 0.001 confirming the advantage of maxizyme over hRzs. keywords: chikv cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz5339d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz5339d.txt item: #4797 of 4945 id: z316pz5340m author: Roberto Iván Canales Muñoz title: Liquid-liquid Separation of Aromatics from Ionic Liquids Using CO2 date: 1904 words: 340 flesch: 36 summary: Ionic liquids are solvents successfully tested for the separation of aliphatic/aromatic mixtures obtaining, in some cases, better distribution ratios and selectivities for the aromatic than common organic solvents such as sulfolane. Since ionic liquids present a wide thermal stability, several authors propose the recovery of the solvent from the extract with simple distillation or stripping, but binary mixtures of aromatic + ionic liquid are barely studied in order to determine an optimal separation procedure. keywords: liquid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz5340m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz5340m.txt item: #4798 of 4945 id: z316pz53518 author: Jacob L. Weidman title: Development of Next-Generation Membrane Platforms from Self-Assembled Block Polymer Precursors date: 1904 words: 247 flesch: 34 summary: The efficient removal of heavy metal ions shows the applicability to critical separations needed in our society today. In this dissertation, the development of a new membrane technology that can be utilized as a template for separation devices in a broad variety of fields is discussed. keywords: membranes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz53518.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz53518.txt item: #4799 of 4945 id: z316pz53s0h author: Brittany R. Hanrahan title: Exploring Land Cover and Other Controls on Ecosystem Function in Open-Canopy Streams date: 1904 words: 386 flesch: 19 summary: These findings emphasized the role that managing benthic substrate can play in restoring ecosystem function to agricultural streams, particularly in the face of increasing disturbance events. Finally, I found that planting cover crops increased N and P retention in agricultural fields thereby preventing nutrient loss to adjacent streams and downstream systems. keywords: agricultural cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz53s0h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz53s0h.txt item: #4800 of 4945 id: z316pz53s26 author: Andrew S. Clement title: Updating Perception and Action across Real-World Viewpoint Changes date: 1904 words: 254 flesch: 52 summary: These effects were not due to viewpoint dependence, and occurred for different types of movement, including rotations of the body and minimal changes in viewpoint. While this movement has consequences for how spatial knowledge is updated at new viewpoints, it is unclear whether action-specific distortions are similarly influenced by movement. keywords: participants cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz53s26.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz53s26.txt item: #4801 of 4945 id: z316pz53s7x author: Christopher Haw title: Monotheism and the Paradox of Intolerance: The Refusal to Divinize Victims and the Mosaic Distinction date: 1904 words: 211 flesch: 23 summary: Discussions of monotheism's political consequences often emphasize either its intolerance of other gods and religions as a source of bigotry and conflict, on the one hand, or emphasize monotheism as a source of pacific, universalistic, transcendent tolerance on the other. I argue that monotheism's intolerance opens up historic potentials that are both enlightening and dangerous: it dissolved the ancient link between God and the political sphere, helped us see past the distortions of divinized politics, and deepened concern for the victims of politics—while it nonetheless makes possible a uniquely absolutist, violence. keywords: monotheism cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz53s7x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz53s7x.txt item: #4802 of 4945 id: z316pz54657 author: Dimitrios Patsialis title: Exploring Modeling Fidelity for Computationally Efficient Seismic Performance Assessment date: 2022 words: 381 flesch: 15 summary: These methodological advancements supported additional advances across two different earthquake engineering practical applications: a) design of seismic protective devices (SPDs), focusing on the impact of the fidelity of the structural response estimation on the device effectiveness; b) accuracy of seismic performance assessment within a Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) setting, examining the potential vulnerabilities of alternative approaches to achieve computational efficiency by approximating either the uncertainty propagation or the fidelity of the structural response estimation A multi-fidelity Monte Carlo (MFMC) framework for seismic risk assessment is also proposed to guarantee unbiased predictions. keywords: fidelity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz54657.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz54657.txt item: #4803 of 4945 id: z316pz5476w author: Chelsea Weibel title: Developmental Origins of Reproductive Timing, Health, and Aging in Wild Baboons date: 2023 words: 477 flesch: 38 summary: The developmental constraints model posits that organisms experiencing poor early environments make tradeoffs that promote survival in early life. Discovering which model dominates is critical to understanding evolved responses to early adversity in long-lived species, and how early-life environments shape individual life-history trajectories, health, aging, and fitness. keywords: early cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z316pz5476w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z316pz5476w.txt item: #4804 of 4945 id: z603qv36b4f author: Christopher Michael Romick title: On the Effect of Diffusion on Gaseous Detonation date: 2015 words: 272 flesch: 29 summary: The inclusion of viscosity in the model, delays instability to a higher activation energy and enlarges the activation energy range of the bifurcation process that leads to chaotic detonation. The development and propagation of detonations is examined in the presence of diffusive processes. keywords: flame cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z603qv36b4f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z603qv36b4f.txt item: #4805 of 4945 id: z603qv36b64 author: Daniel Aaron Warner title: Utopia/Dystopia: An Experiment in Design Journalism date: 2010 words: 287 flesch: 28 summary: In its initial pages, this paper also traces foundational connections between design, design journalism, and values capable of guiding design activities. The exhibition work involves motion animation pieces, including sound, as well as print work, all surrounding the theme of bio-technological innovation. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z603qv36b64.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z603qv36b64.txt item: #4806 of 4945 id: z603qv36b8t author: Shashi Rani Regmi title: Civil Military Relation in Nepal: Drawing Lessons from Mozambique and El Salvador date: 2014 words: 128 flesch: 44 summary: Amid this situation, through structured focused comparative case studies of El Salvador and Mozambique, this paper draws lesson to improve CMR in Nepal in terms of civilian control and military professionalism. The debate over integration of former rebel combatants in the Nepalese Army remained at heart of the peace process. keywords: military cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z603qv36b8t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z603qv36b8t.txt item: #4807 of 4945 id: z603qv36c4r author: Brian Gloor title: Development of a Fluorescence Anisotropy Assay for Measuring the TCR-pMHC Interaction date: 2008 words: 289 flesch: 44 summary: The T cell receptor (TCR) is a molecule found on the surface of T cells that is responsible for recognizing antigens presented by major histocompatability complex (MHC) proteins. MHC proteins are expressed on the surface of cells and display fragments of molecules from invading microbes or dysfunctional cells to the TCR. keywords: cells cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z603qv36c4r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z603qv36c4r.txt item: #4808 of 4945 id: z603qv36c53 author: Thad Botham title: Rendering Free Will Intelligible: A Defense of Agent-Causation date: 2006 words: 349 flesch: 50 summary: I attempt to get very clear about several pre-theoretic features of free action. Although widely discussed at the pre-theoretic level, scholars rarely use the notion of ultimate origination when constructing rigorous arguments for, against, or in defense of particular theories of free action. keywords: agent cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z603qv36c53.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z603qv36c53.txt item: #4809 of 4945 id: z603qv36c7s author: Stefanie Israel title: Pacification of Rio's Favelas and the Pacification of the Pacifying Police: The Role of Mediation in Community Policing date: 2014 words: 252 flesch: 40 summary: Not only does the Residents' Association cooperate with the UPP by sharing its knowledge of the community, its residents, and its norms, but it receives complaints from residents regarding offensive police behavior. The Residents' Association and other informal mediators ease the acculturation of officers to the community who would otherwise be oblivious to community norms and likely to offend residents by their actions. keywords: residents cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z603qv36c7s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z603qv36c7s.txt item: #4810 of 4945 id: z603qv36h9q author: Joseph James Fillion title: Physical and Chemical Properties of Ionic Liquids: Application for Co-Fluid Vapor Compression Refrigeration Cycle date: 1904 words: 610 flesch: 47 summary: Due to the enormous ways ionic liquids can be designed, they offer great opportunity to be adjusted to meet the needs of various applications. For applications that require CO2 to have a chemical reversible reaction with the anion, our group has proposed using ionic liquids with Aprotic Heterocyclic Anions (AHAs).For those applications, trihexyltetradecylphosphonium ([P66614]) cations tend to be used most often because they are thermally stable and generally make ionic liquids that do not have a melting point. keywords: viscosity cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z603qv36h9q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z603qv36h9q.txt item: #4811 of 4945 id: z603qv36j18 author: Xiaofeng Wang title: Application of Controlled Radical Polymerization in the Development of Polymers with Branched Architectures date: 1904 words: 230 flesch: 14 summary: Various synthetic methodologies for preparation of functional polymers with branched architectures by using atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of AB* inimers (containing initiator fragment B* and monomer vinyl group A in one molecule) and reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization of polymerizable chain transfer agents (transmers) are discussed. Research progress on the use of radical polymerization to introduce branching points into polymers via CRP methods is discussed in the introductory chapter. keywords: polymerization cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z603qv36j18.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z603qv36j18.txt item: #4812 of 4945 id: z603qv3728m author: Mimi Ensley title: Re-Forming the Past: The Medieval Romance Book as a Dynamic Site of Memory date: 1904 words: 329 flesch: 28 summary: After Chapter One grounds my research theoretically, methodologically, and historically, the dissertation's remaining chapters examine four sites of material romance memory: the library, the manuscript, the monument, and the museum. In Chapter Two, I study the act of building a collection or library as a means by which readers could materially fashion their own versions of literary history. keywords: romance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z603qv3728m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z603qv3728m.txt item: #4813 of 4945 id: z603qv3735w author: Kaitlin Fondren title: Maternal Speech Quality and Child Language in the Context of Maltreatment date: 2018 words: 148 flesch: 41 summary: Further, maternal speech quality did not significantly mediate the association between maltreatment and child language skill. Maltreated children tend to have deficits in language skill throughout childhood, regardless of socioeconomic status. keywords: language cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z603qv3735w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z603qv3735w.txt item: #4814 of 4945 id: z603qv37g28 author: Roy A. Stillwell title: Real-Time Handheld Frequency-Domain Near Infrared Spectroscopy date: 2021 words: 332 flesch: 33 summary: provides quantitative noninvasive measurements of tissue optical absorption and scattering, as well as a safe and accurate method for characterizing tissue composition and metabolism. The system can display single frequency, single wavelength fdNIRS amplitude and phase data at a maximum rate of 36,600 Hz, and provides tissue optical property and chromophore concentrations at a maximum of 17,891 and 10,211 Hz, respectively, all of which are world records 100x to 3,600x faster than previous systems in literature. keywords: high cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z603qv37g28.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z603qv37g28.txt item: #4815 of 4945 id: z603qv37g6n author: Karla Adriana Gonzalez-Serrano title: Nanoscale Solid Polymer Electrolytes in Metal–Insulator–Conductor Systems for Logic and Neuromorphic Devices date: 2022 words: 652 flesch: 39 summary: This research is intended to deepen the understanding of the static and dynamic response of ultrathin PEO in metal insulator semiconductor (MIS) and metal insulator metal (MIM) structures with and without CsClO4. Estimates of the dielectric constant, energy band diagram, charge trap density, and conductivity in ultrathin PEO are obtained. keywords: csclo4; peo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z603qv37g6n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z603qv37g6n.txt item: #4816 of 4945 id: z603qv37j2w author: Jordan Roach title: Investigations into the Solution Combustion Synthesis of Uranium Oxides and Their Mechanisms date: 2023 words: 416 flesch: 39 summary: Electrospraying of reactive solutions generate thin uniform oxide films. Spin coating of precursor solutions onto aluminum backings and subsequent heat treatment produce uniform thin films. keywords: films cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z603qv37j2w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z603qv37j2w.txt item: #4817 of 4945 id: z890rr19m1f author: Florence Francoise Morel title: Synthesis of 10-Membered Ring Analogues of Epothilone date: 2004 words: 3 flesch: 62 summary: No abstract available keywords: available cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19m1f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19m1f.txt item: #4818 of 4945 id: z890rr19m2s author: Jiyun Zu title: Examining Nonlinear Changes of Coefficients in Time-Varying Dynamic Factor Models date: 2008 words: 154 flesch: 37 summary: To better investigate complex nonstationary multivariate time series, the current thesis aims to extend earlier work on using time-varying dynamic factor models to represent linear changes of coefficients to nonlinear cases. Results suggest that (i) the EKS recovered dynamics of latent factors and time-varying coefficients rather faithfully; (ii) the GML and the bootstrap worked well, expect for certain parameters in the dynamic model; (iii) the amplitude of changes of the time-varying coefficient played a crucial role in whether the coefficient can be assumed to be fixed and the accuracy of estimates. keywords: time cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19m2s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19m2s.txt item: #4819 of 4945 id: z890rr19m4g author: Patrick Flavin title: Political Inequality in the American States date: 2010 words: 352 flesch: 36 summary: I also construct an original Political Inequality Index that ranks the states according to the degree to which the opinions of citizens with low incomes are neglected in state policies compared to the opinions of the middle class and the wealthy. First, I assess political and behavioral explanations and find that representation is more equal in states that have more competitive legislative elections, where the poor turn out to vote at higher rates, and states with a larger interest group community, provided that the community is not dominated by for-profit interests. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19m4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19m4g.txt item: #4820 of 4945 id: z890rr19m65 author: Lai Wei title: Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes and Cooperative Communication date: 2015 words: 645 flesch: 33 summary: We show that WD of q-ary SC-LDPC codes provides significant threshold gains compared to corresponding (uncoupled) q-ary LDPC block code (LDPC-BC) ensembles when the window size W is large enough; we also show that these gains increase as the finite field size q=2^m increases. Analysis shows that, compared to standard flooding-schedule decoding, WD of q-ary SC-LDPC code ensembles results in significant reductions in both decoding complexity and decoding latency, and that these reductions increase as m increases. keywords: ldpc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19m65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19m65.txt item: #4821 of 4945 id: z890rr19m8v author: Marcos Eric Perez-Blanco title: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ionic Liquids: Interfacial and Transport Properties date: 2013 words: 438 flesch: 37 summary: This thesis discusses the applications of molecular dynamics simulations to ionic liquids (ILs). A viscosity screening study has been performed to identify ionic liquids with low viscosity for use in refrigeration systems. keywords: liquid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19m8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19m8v.txt item: #4822 of 4945 id: z890rr19n0d author: Todd Russell Hanneken title: The Book of Jubilees Among the Apocalypses date: 2008 words: 264 flesch: 43 summary: The Book of Jubilees uses the genre 'apocalypse' to express a worldview that differs significantly from the cluster of ideas typically expressed by contemporary apocalypses. Although the apocalypses express great variety in worldview, they form a cluster of compatible views around these issues inherent in the use of the genre. keywords: jubilees cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19n0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19n0d.txt item: #4823 of 4945 id: z890rr19n1r author: Weiming Li title: Micromorphic Theory of Multiphase Mixtures date: 2010 words: 339 flesch: 36 summary: We subsequently derive the balance equations of micromorphic mixtures of grade one where only first order microdeformations are considered. To demonstrate the generality of the results, we apply our theory to a two-phase model of micromorphic bubbly mixtures. keywords: equations cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19n1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19n1r.txt item: #4824 of 4945 id: z890rr19n23 author: Sara Skiles title: Aesthetic Taste Expression and Symbolic Boundary Work date: 2014 words: 224 flesch: 27 summary: I also analyze respondents' perception of solidarity with the groups they were told about, and find that differences in taste between respondents and the group are a stronger predictor of the perception of social distance than were differences in status (measured by education and occupation). One of cultural sociology's most important contributions to the study of social inequality has been the explication of the role that the possession of cultural resources plays in the ordering of society and social groups. keywords: status cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19n23.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19n23.txt item: #4825 of 4945 id: z890rr19n3f author: Mohmmad Tanvir Alam title: Design, Fabrication and Modeling of Clocked Nanomagnet Logic Circuit Elements date: 2010 words: 286 flesch: 39 summary: Although current carrying wires can generate magnetic fields, it is not trivial to generate strong enough magnetic fields required for the excitation of prototype NML devices and gates. With proper design and material selection, magnetic fields were obtained that are strong enough to switch individual nanomagnets as well as NML gates and data paths, without using excessive current. keywords: magnetic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19n3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19n3f.txt item: #4826 of 4945 id: z890rr19n4s author: Nicole M Windmon title: The Development of Novel Heteroatom-Activated Acylating Agents: Potential Beta-Lactam Mimics date: 2014 words: 338 flesch: 37 summary: Lastly, each compound synthesized was evaluated for antibacterial activity by conducting zone of inhibition assays against a broad range of bacterial isolates, determining MIC values for active compounds, and submitting all the compounds for β- lactamase inhibition assays. It had been previously demonstrated that isoxazolidines appended with a phenyl acetyl side chain exhibited antibacterial activity when tested against a strain of bacteria sensitive to β-lactam antibiotics such as E. coli X580. keywords: antibiotics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19n4s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19n4s.txt item: #4827 of 4945 id: z890rr19n7t author: Yong Tang title: Experimental demonstration of radio frequency quantum-dot cellular automata devices date: 2009 words: 328 flesch: 48 summary: This dissertation is focusing on investigating the time evolution of the binary state in QCA logic devices, as well as experimentally verification of the high-speed capabilities of clocked QCA devices. Functional QCA logic devices such as binary wires, majority gates, shift registers and fan-outs have been demonstrated in metal-dot systems at dilution refrigerator temperatures (< 100 mK). keywords: qca cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19n7t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19n7t.txt item: #4828 of 4945 id: z890rr19n9h author: Gilbert Saint Jean Jr title: The Effects of Geography and Host Plant Relationships on the Population Genetics of Fruit Flies in the Rhagoletis cingulata (Diptera: Tephritidae) Sibling Species Group date: 2015 words: 1027 flesch: 32 summary: Finally, in the GLOBES interdisciplinary Chapter Five, information generated from the North American microsatellite survey of cherry fly populations was used to address an applied question to determine the identity of unknown Rhagoletis larvae that were discovered in the annual field survey of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Washington State Department of Agriculture to be infesting feral Chinese crabapple Malus spectabilis (Aiton) Borkhausen, near a commercial apple orchard in Kennewick, Benton County, Washington in 2011. In particular, patterns of genetic differentiation were compared within and among pairs of R. cingulata populations that have likely alternately diverged via sympatric host shifting versus allopatric speciation modes. keywords: cherry cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19n9h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19n9h.txt item: #4829 of 4945 id: z890rr19q32 author: Christopher Galeucia title: The Effect of a Secondary Task's Location on Lane Position date: 1904 words: 223 flesch: 40 summary: Across both experiments, the average lane position of drivers was biased away from the location of the secondary task on straight and curved sections of roads, and the additional objects in Experiment 2 magnified this effect. The current experiments examined how using a secondary task to orient the cognitive and visual attention of drivers towards locations to the left of, in front of, or to the right of the driver affected their ability to keep a car in the middle of their lane on straight and curved sections of roads. keywords: drivers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19q32.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19q32.txt item: #4830 of 4945 id: z890rr19t30 author: Moiz Hasan title: Foundations of Science in the Post-Classical Islamic Era: The Philosophical, Historical, and Historiographical Significance of Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī's (d. 1413) Project date: 1904 words: 389 flesch: 19 summary: This dissertation examines the foundations of scientific knowledge, and its philosophical, historical, and historiographical significance, in the relatively understudied post-classical Islamic era (post-1100 CE). By focusing on the epistemological underpinnings of science, such a study can reveal much about the nature, attainability, and justifiability of scientific knowledge. keywords: knowledge cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr19t30.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr19t30.txt item: #4831 of 4945 id: z890rr2098t author: Jeehoon Han title: The Effect of Food Assistance Programs on the Behavior and Well-being of Low-income Individuals and Families date: 1904 words: 351 flesch: 41 summary: Exploiting the variation in SNAP eligibility across states and over time, I find strong evidence of program interactions: when a state moves from the federal rule to the most extensive SNAP eligibility rule, enrollment in free school lunch increases by 4 percentage points. In chapter two, I investigate the interactions between health and nutritional assistance programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, and school lunch programs. keywords: snap cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr2098t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr2098t.txt item: #4832 of 4945 id: z890rr20b22 author: Caleb R. Wenzel title: Sebastian Knüpfer's Super Flumina Babylonis: Dramatic and Homiletic Expressivity in the Seventeenth-Century Sacred Vocal Concerto Genre date: 1904 words: 346 flesch: 45 summary: From among this collection of works, I closely examine one Latin psalm concerto, Super flumina Babylonis, from the perspective of musical language and theological content. Scholars and performers of seventeenth--century music have long been aware of Sebastian Knüpfer (1633-76) and his place in the history of the city of Leipzig and its famous Thomaskirche. keywords: knüpfer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr20b22.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr20b22.txt item: #4833 of 4945 id: z890rr20k89 author: Jun Ren title: Photo-Induced Tunable and Reconfigurable Terahertz Circuits and Components Based on Waveguide Configurations date: 2019 words: 623 flesch: 19 summary: Those devices are critical for the implementation of unique functionalities and superior system performance for THz applications such as advanced THz imaging and adaptive high-speed wireless communications at THz band. In this thesis, we explore and demonstrate the use of high-performance reconfigurable THz waveguide components based on spatially-resolved optical modulation technology to implement key tunable and reconfigurable circuits that are required in advanced THz sensing and adaptive THz wireless communication systems. keywords: thz cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr20k89.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr20k89.txt item: #4834 of 4945 id: z890rr20p56 author: Anna H. H. de Bakker title: Writing the Cistercian Office in the Thirteenth Century Low Countries date: 2020 words: 373 flesch: 41 summary: First, this study considers the techniques for office writing present in the office for the order's most prominent early saint, Bernard of Clairvaux. Offices for Katherine and Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins compiled at the convent of Beatrice of Nazareth demonstrate that embellishment and arrangement of borrowed material was also a method of office-writing available to new Cistercian convents. keywords: office cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr20p56.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr20p56.txt item: #4835 of 4945 id: z890rr20r65 author: Astghik Mkhitaryan title: Essays on Sovereign Debt date: 2022 words: 304 flesch: 52 summary: We study the impact that such borrowing from China has on the equilibrium quantities and prices for marketable sovereign debt. However, standard models of sovereign debt cannot jointly explain the debt-to-output ratio and the default frequency observed in the data. keywords: debt cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr20r65.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr20r65.txt item: #4836 of 4945 id: z890rr20r8v author: Elvis A. Eugene title: Foundations of Molecular-to-Systems Design: Frameworks for Data-Driven Multiscale Process Systems Engineering date: 2022 words: 371 flesch: 18 summary: I briefly discuss how this work provided the impetus for data-driven design of dynamic experiments which sped up membrane characterization experiments. 2. Data-driven design of experiments utilizes nonlinear parameter estimation and leverages time-series data from dynamic experiments to fit differential-algebraic equation models for the system. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr20r8v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr20r8v.txt item: #4837 of 4945 id: z890rr20t3r author: Jiacheng Liu title: Lithium-Ion Transport in Polymer Electrolytes with Ion Clusters date: 2023 words: 224 flesch: 36 summary: But ionic conductivity in common polymer electrolytes, such as poly(ethylene oxide)-based polymer electrolytes, is limited by the segmental relaxation of the polymer matrix that is solvating the lithium cation. Polymer electrolytes are non-flammable, processable, and more inert towards lithium metal and electrochemical side reactions. keywords: polymer cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/z890rr20t3r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/z890rr20t3r.txt item: #4838 of 4945 id: zc77sn02w60 author: Qili Liu title: Turbulent Combustion in High Mach Number Flows date: 2015 words: 363 flesch: 34 summary: Flow structures visualized using this novel technique depict that the jet-induced secondary flows significantly affect the subsequent flow structures. The turbulence levels in flows are measured qualitatively and quantitatively using Rayleigh scattering and Pitot probe, respectively. keywords: turbulence cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zc77sn02w60.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zc77sn02w60.txt item: #4839 of 4945 id: zc77sn02w8p author: Christian Andre DeLeon title: Documenting the Impermanence of Clay date: 2010 words: 55 flesch: 55 summary: With a background including Horticulture, Landscape Design, Multimedia Design and Ceramics, my work has paved a concept around a system of lifecycles. This concept is universal and through the use of scale, abstraction, movement and sound, I have achieved not only new visuals for clay as material but for the nature of our own existence. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zc77sn02w8p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zc77sn02w8p.txt item: #4840 of 4945 id: zc77sn02x07 author: Yan Zhou title: Optimization of Fiber Shapes in Biocomposites date: 2005 words: 351 flesch: 42 summary: Fibers can be used to improve the mechanical properties of acrylic bone cement. Results demonstrated that both the stiffness and the fatigue life of VDF reinforced bone cement are significantly improved compared with the unreinforced cement. keywords: fiber cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zc77sn02x07.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zc77sn02x07.txt item: #4841 of 4945 id: zc77sn02x69 author: Christopher M Hocut title: Multi-Scale Flow and Turbulence in Complex Terrain Under Weak Synoptic Conditions date: 2013 words: 361 flesch: 33 summary: Turbulence in slope and valley flows, upslope flow separation, flow collisions and interactions between different types of flow are discussed in this thesis, with particular emphasis on quantitative results of consequence for numerical modeling. Once calibrated, these probes can measure from mesoscale flow down to the Kolmogorov scale. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zc77sn02x69.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zc77sn02x69.txt item: #4842 of 4945 id: zc77sn02x7n author: Christopher Ryan Rodriguez title: Hail to the Chief: Presidents as Goal-Seeking Actors in the Nineteenth Century date: 2007 words: 342 flesch: 19 summary: The case studies show how pre-modern executives exploited the dynamics of American party politics by using strategic tools for policy action. Researchers for the most part have incorrectly applied modern theories to the pre-modern presidency, devising inaccurate empirical indicators for presidential activity in the nineteenth century. keywords: modern cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zc77sn02x7n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zc77sn02x7n.txt item: #4843 of 4945 id: zc77sn02x9b author: Goal Auzeen Saedi title: A Qualitative Study of Islamophobia Post 9/11 in the United States: Building a Theoretical Model of Identity Development of Muslim American Youth Ten Years Following the Aftermath date: 2012 words: 348 flesch: 50 summary: Nine students (3 females, 6 males) participated in the current study, and represented undergraduate (4) and graduate students (5). It was defined by four interconnected dimensions: connection with a spiritual community; a sense of uniqueness and pride; appraisal of student attitudes; and overcoming challenges and barriers. keywords: study cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zc77sn02x9b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zc77sn02x9b.txt item: #4844 of 4945 id: zc77sn02z4x author: Lailatul Fitriyah title: Muslim Peacebuilders of Ambon: Story of Building Peace after Interreligious Violence date: 2015 words: 512 flesch: 43 summary: The third finding is concerned with the development of interreligious discourse among Muslim community in Ambon that is limited to some elite circles, such as scholars and peace activists. My argument is that, to achieve a deeper level of interreligious dialogue between Muslim and Christian communities in Ambon, the discourse of interreligious dialogue in Muslim community must be expanded to include the grass-root level of participation. keywords: islamic cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zc77sn02z4x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zc77sn02z4x.txt item: #4845 of 4945 id: zc77sn03333 author: Jing Wang title: Essays on International Trade and Financial Frictions date: 1904 words: 397 flesch: 25 summary: This dissertation studies the role of firm heterogeneity in (1) explaining the impact of unilateral trade liberalization on industry labor productivity, (2) reconciling micro estimates that attribute an important effect of credit constraints on export collapse with macro findings that the impacts are minimal, and (3) interpreting the relationship between firm productivity and liquidity management when financing is costly. The first chapter theoretically and empirically investigates the impact of trade liberalization on industry labor productivity (i.e. output per worker). keywords: trade cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zc77sn03333.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zc77sn03333.txt item: #4846 of 4945 id: zc77sn03m12 author: Jennifer R. Weidman title: Triptycene as an Architectural Motif in the Macromolecular Design of Polyimides for Gas Separation Membranes date: 1904 words: 328 flesch: 32 summary: Polymer membranes offer a more energy-efficient method for separations compared to many typical industrial techniques, such as distillation. This challenge can be combatted at the macromolecular level by strategically designing the polymer backbone to have bulky moieties and/or rigid, tortuous elements to disrupt polymer chain packing and increase the fractional free volume of the material. keywords: gas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zc77sn03m12.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zc77sn03m12.txt item: #4847 of 4945 id: zc77sn03r92 author: Hannah K Freeman title: Going Beyond date: 2019 words: 203 flesch: 47 summary: Referring to the history of landscape painting and abstraction, I will analyze how artists have used visual languages to respond to times of change and uncertainty. I will also explain how I have been influenced by Romantic landscape painting and abstraction to reinforce the conceptual basis of my paintings. keywords: painting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zc77sn03r92.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zc77sn03r92.txt item: #4848 of 4945 id: zc77sn03s81 author: Umamaheswara Rao Tida title: Through-Silicon-Via Inductor in Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits: Modeling and Design for On-Chip Applications date: 2019 words: 273 flesch: 44 summary: However, different from conventional 2-D spiral inductors, TSV inductors are fully buried in the lossy substrate, thus suffering from low quality factor at high frequencies. Towards this, we propose to use TSV inductor instead of the spiral inductor to reduce the inductor area overhead. keywords: inductor cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zc77sn03s81.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zc77sn03s81.txt item: #4849 of 4945 id: zc77sn03t6n author: Homayoon Hatami title: An Absorbing Set Analysis of Quantized LDPC Decoders date: 2019 words: 395 flesch: 48 summary: Therefore, we introduce a novel modification of the MSA for quantized decoding of LDPC codes, called the threshold attenuated min-sum algorithm (TAMSA) (or the threshold offset min-sum algorithm (TOMSA)) This dis- sertation demonstrates that, for quantized LDPC decoders, the AMSA and OMSA underperform the MSA at high SNRs, i.e., in the error floor region of the FER curve, and that the MSA, AMSA, and OMSA all suffer from a relatively high error floor. keywords: ldpc cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zc77sn03t6n.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zc77sn03t6n.txt item: #4850 of 4945 id: zc77sn0418g author: Brandon Moskun title: The Student Body and Covid-19: An Anthropological Perspective on Higher Education Organization During a Pandemic date: 2022 words: 273 flesch: 43 summary: Rhythms consist of time, space, and energy according to Henri Lefebvre. The 2020-21 academic year highlighted the importance of bodily dimensions for learning in higher education, both individually and through bodies being brought together (i.e. the student body).In this dissertation I argue that the organization of space and time are central components of what makes a college campus a particular type of experience. keywords: space cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zc77sn0418g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zc77sn0418g.txt item: #4851 of 4945 id: zg64th8653h author: Lionel Sebastien Belveze title: Modeling and Measurement of Thermodynamic Properties of Ionic Liquids date: 2004 words: 152 flesch: 45 summary: As a first step towards modeling the phase behavior of IL solutions, we will show how the electrolyte nonrandom two-liquid model can be applied to model activity coefficients of quaternary ammonium salts (potentially interesting ILs) in water. The measurement of this constant for imidazolium based ILs show they do not bioaccumulate. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th8653h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th8653h.txt item: #4852 of 4945 id: zg64th8654v author: Dongyoung Shin title: Molecular Genetics and Genomics of the Meiotic Drive System in Aedes aegypti date: 2011 words: 373 flesch: 41 summary: The third aim in this dissertation describes mapping transcripts statistically significant for T37 expression, based on whole transcriptome microarray analysis, to pathways by gene function and subsequent construction of gene networks. Because the meiotic drive gene is located on chromosome 1, genes located on known genome scaffolds for chromosomes 2 and 3 were excluded from detailed analysis. keywords: drive cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th8654v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th8654v.txt item: #4853 of 4945 id: zg64th86556 author: Lora A Smitham title: Re-Evaluating the Microanalytic Relationship between Reassurance Seeking and Rejection in Marriage date: 2010 words: 156 flesch: 18 summary: The existing literature on reassurance seeking suggests that this behavior leads to interpersonal rejection (Joiner, Alfano, & Metalsky, 1992; Joiner & Metalsky, 1995). Observed reassurance seeking was associated with observed rejection by spouses in both depressed and non-depressed husbands and wives. keywords: seeking cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th86556.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th86556.txt item: #4854 of 4945 id: zg64th8656j author: Samantha D. Schalk title: Physical Education date: 2010 words: 42 flesch: 64 summary: This book of poems represents work created during the 2008-2010 school years for the Notre Dame Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. The book attempts to tackle issues of race, gender, and sexuality in personal, narrative, image-drive poems. keywords: book cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th8656j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th8656j.txt item: #4855 of 4945 id: zg64th86587 author: Vishwanatha K Chandrahas title: Sequence Diversity in Streptokinase and M-Proteins, Their Co-Inheritance and Functional Relationships in Group A Streptococcal Virulence date: 2015 words: 618 flesch: 53 summary: Although antibiotics are effective drugs against GAS diseases, GAS infections have undergone resurgence since the 1980s. These studies demonstrate that GAS virulence in different bacterial strains can be dictated by differences in the hPg activation properties of SK2a and SK2b. keywords: gas cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th86587.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th86587.txt item: #4856 of 4945 id: zg64th8660s author: Joongol Kim title: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Concept of Number date: 2004 words: 106 flesch: 48 summary: As regards the latter, the basic concepts of arithmetic are explicated in terms of pure logic alone, and all the truths of arithmetic are shown to follow from those explications solely by logical means. A conception of numbers as modes of existence, that is, ways or manners in which things exist, is introduced and defended instead. keywords: numbers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th8660s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th8660s.txt item: #4857 of 4945 id: zg64th8663t author: Timothy J Dysart title: It's All About the Signal Routing: Understanding the Reliability of QCA Circuits and Systems date: 2010 words: 303 flesch: 33 summary: This is used to identify how reliable the components should be to achieve a target circuit or system reliability and to identify which components are the most critical to circuit reliability. Throughout this dissertation, a constant theme is observed: the organization and reliability of the signal routing has a major impact on circuit and system reliability. keywords: reliability cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th8663t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th8663t.txt item: #4858 of 4945 id: zg64th86645 author: Jodi Lynn Bruhn title: Polity and Cosmogony: A Study of Three Myths date: 2007 words: 134 flesch: 41 summary: The myths and societies examined are Enuma Elish in the context of ancient Mesopotamia, Genesis 1 – 2:4a in that of ancient Israel, and two modern myths – Thomas Mann's Roman der Seele and the National Socialist myth of Volk, Reich, and FÌ_hrer – in the context of modern Germany. This dissertation addresses the formative power of myth from the standpoint of political philosophy. keywords: myth cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th86645.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th86645.txt item: #4859 of 4945 id: zg64th8665h author: Sean Patrick Mannion title: Celtic Arc Light: The City, Technology, and Irish Modernism date: 2011 words: 361 flesch: 18 summary: By demonstrating how impoverished, underdeveloped Dublin could cultivate modernism, I argue for need to attend to the social meanings of urban technologies within specific cultures as a prerequisite for pursuing a truly global modernist studies. I place Ireland's experience of technology within the context of its colonial history, a history that undermines the electric light's traditional association with urban modernity. keywords: urban cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th8665h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th8665h.txt item: #4860 of 4945 id: zg64th8666v author: Margaret Martin Dudley title: Microbial Ecology of Perchlorate-Reducing Bacteria that Accumulate High Levels of Chlorate date: 2007 words: 154 flesch: 28 summary: Based on these kinetic parameters, these novel perchlorate reducers are unlikely to play a significant role in perchlorate reduction at concentrations below 200 mg/L, but may contribute to faster degradation at high concentrations. In this study, it was estimated that these novel perchlorate reducers have similar qmax values to conventional PCRB (8.3mgClO3-/mgX-day and 11.5mgClO4-/mgX-day) and much higher K values (58.3mg/L for chlorate and 192.6mg/L for perchlorate). keywords: perchlorate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th8666v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th8666v.txt item: #4861 of 4945 id: zg64th8669w author: Annabella España Nájera title: Party Systems and Democracy after the Conflicts: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua date: 2009 words: 349 flesch: 37 summary: To explain the development of these systems, I propose a path dependent argument that identifies the transition process as a critical juncture (Pierson 2000:75; Collier and Collier 1991:29). Early decisions shaped future possibilities and self-reinforcing mechanisms make the probability of departing from the set pattern increasingly unlikely (Pierson 2000:74-6; Collier and Collier 1991:29-31). keywords: party cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th8669w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th8669w.txt item: #4862 of 4945 id: zg64th86854 author: Robert W. Mowry title: The Embodiment of Protest: How Gender Moderates the Individual-Level Effects of Demonstration Participation date: 1904 words: 185 flesch: 14 summary: Women protesters, however, exhibit mixed results, with boosts in empowerment on the measure of internal political efficacy, but not external political efficacy. This suggests that institutional barriers to political participation and the relatively high risk-potential of protest—even when legal and routine—continue to affect women and men differently. keywords: participation cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th86854.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th86854.txt item: #4863 of 4945 id: zg64th86c21 author: Han Xia title: Thermal Analysis and Thermal Hazard Analysis of Ionic Liquids date: 1904 words: 339 flesch: 41 summary: In this work, these properties were measured using thermal analysis tools Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC).ILs are often described as thermally stable based on their relatively high decomposition onset temperatures from TGA with open sample crucibles. Thermal stability is an important factor in many potential applications of ILs, such as heat transfer fluids, electrolytes in batteries, and high-temperature lubricants. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th86c21.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th86c21.txt item: #4864 of 4945 id: zg64th86w00 author: Horacio Vela III title: The Inner Human Being: The Transformation of a Platonic Metaphor in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity date: 1904 words: 265 flesch: 45 summary: Paul blends Hellenistic motifs and apocalyptic expectations in his exposition of his ministry and example of suffering and transformation. The Stoics and later philosophers in the Platonic tradition also created their own unique images of the soul in order to explain, teach, and instill moral values. keywords: soul cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th86w00.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th86w00.txt item: #4865 of 4945 id: zg64th86w4c author: Kevin A Mueller title: Out-of-Plane Strength, Stability, and Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Bearing Walls during and after Elevated Temperatures from Fire date: 1904 words: 373 flesch: 47 summary: Accordingly, the overall objective of this dissertation is to develop experimental evidence on the behavior of RC bearing walls under one-sided fire, which is the most probable fire exposure for wall structures. The primary design direction for RC walls is for in-plane loads. keywords: fire cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th86w4c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th86w4c.txt item: #4866 of 4945 id: zg64th86w62 author: Hongfei Zhu title: Design of Thin-Walled Metastructures for Advanced Elastic Wave Management date: 1904 words: 606 flesch: 27 summary: Consequently, this thesis proposes a single-material based thin-walled system with carefully tailored internal geometries while providing the same level of elastic wave control capabilities enabled by multi-material designs, therefore introducing the concept of elastic \ extit{metastructure}. This is a key aspect to maintain structural integrity and to be able to transfer metamaterial concepts to structural element design. keywords: design cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th86w62.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th86w62.txt item: #4867 of 4945 id: zg64th86x82 author: Weijing Liu title: Functionalized Porous Membranes for Rapid Protein Capture and Digestion Prior to Mass Spectrometry Analysis date: 2018 words: 371 flesch: 36 summary: Adsorption of either star polyelectrolytes or NTA-containing polymers in porous membranes could create materials that serve as ion-exchange or metal-ion affinity disposable membranes. Subsequent adsorption of these polymers in membrane pores gives porous nylon membranes that capture 46 mg of His-tagged ubiquitin per mL. Due to the high affinity of NTA for metal ions, Ni2+ leaching in binding and rinsing buffers is minimal. keywords: membranes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th86x82.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th86x82.txt item: #4868 of 4945 id: zg64th87215 author: Kathryn S. Van de Loo title: Practice What You Preach: A Consideration of Augustine's Rhetorical Style in Enarrationes in Psalmos 69 date: 2019 words: 326 flesch: 59 summary: Chapter two considers one specific aspect of style, prose rhythm, to determine how Augustine uses it as he preaches, and whether it helps him achieve his goals in preaching. Since Augustine was a prolific preacher, the question arises: when Augustine preached, did he follow his own theory of preaching as outlined in de Doctrina Christiana? keywords: augustine cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th87215.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th87215.txt item: #4869 of 4945 id: zg64th8737j author: Marcela Vega title: Enhancing Selection for Perchlorate-Reducing Bacteria in Presence of Competing Electron Acceptors date: 2019 words: 577 flesch: 44 summary: Before chlorate addition, nitrate and perchlorate were reduced to low levels, but after 17 days sulfate reduction took place, leading to a decrease in perchlorate reduction. When chlorate was added, it increased perchlorate reduction and decreased sulfate reduction. keywords: perchlorate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th8737j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th8737j.txt item: #4870 of 4945 id: zg64th87873 author: Nathaniel Kremer-Herman title: Log Discovery, Log Custody, and the Web Inspired Approach for Open Distributed Systems Troubleshooting date: 2021 words: 201 flesch: 36 summary: Through the lens of TLQ, this work presents a data model for debug output, a comparison of multiple querying approaches, a distributed querying architecture for open distributed systems troubleshooting, and considerations for more effective debug log design. This is exacerbated in open distributed systems where membership of resources within the system is transient, placement of computations to resources is not known before runtime, and resources can be shared across multiple administrative jurisdictions (i.e. multiple independent clusters, clouds, or grids). keywords: system cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th87873.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th87873.txt item: #4871 of 4945 id: zg64th8791b author: Christopher Romanoski title: Compliant Wall Motion Effects on the Unsteady Surface Pressure in a Turbulent Boundary Layer date: 2021 words: 156 flesch: 54 summary: Increases in unsteady pressure magnitude up to 7 dB were observed with passive wall motion. The objective was to observe how the pressure spectra change due to a section of wall that is vibrating. keywords: pressure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th8791b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th8791b.txt item: #4872 of 4945 id: zg64th87b09 author: Vivek S. Moorthy title: The Economics of Life and Death date: 2022 words: 994 flesch: 36 summary: In my second chapter, Blue Collar Booms and American Mortality: Evidence from US Counties, which is joint work with Paul Shaloka, we study whether a long-run technology-induced increase in economic opportunity for prime aged men can reverse rising mortality trends in the U.S. Around the turn of the 21st century, the U.S. has experienced a precipitous rise in mortality driven by suicides, drug overdoses, and alcoholic liver disease for lower-skilled men, coined 'deaths of despair.' This suggests that some components of 'deaths of despair' are economically driven and speaks to the efficacy of using policies that promote local employment growth as a tool to combat rising mortality. keywords: day; technological cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zg64th87b09.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zg64th87b09.txt item: #4873 of 4945 id: zk51vd69f89 author: Jie Liu title: Design Problems in Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems date: 2015 words: 388 flesch: 43 summary: We model the problem as a static price competition between competing charging stations with the customers deciding among the stations based on their own utility function. Distributed control of multi-agent systems is known to be a difficult problem. keywords: problem cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd69f89.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd69f89.txt item: #4874 of 4945 id: zk51vd69g0v author: Heather L. Holleman title: Early Adversity and Severe Events: Sensitizing Factors for Depression date: 2010 words: 69 flesch: 30 summary: Consistent with the kindling hypothesis (Post, 1992), stressful life events were found to be more important for first lifetime episodes of depression than for recurrent episodes. Examining the contribution of early adversity and current life stress to recurrent depression. keywords: early cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd69g0v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd69g0v.txt item: #4875 of 4945 id: zk51vd69g2j author: Alberto Lo Pinto title: 'Des enfantements estranges et contre nature': In Search of a Meaning in Primo Levi's Early Fiction date: 2012 words: 19 flesch: 63 summary: Primo Levi's short stories collections Storie Naturali and Vizio di Forma, and the topics of 'creation' and 'invention'. keywords: invention cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd69g2j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd69g2j.txt item: #4876 of 4945 id: zk51vd69g3w author: Matthew Salafia title: Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River, 1787-1851 date: 2009 words: 351 flesch: 61 summary: The river linked borderland slavery with borderland free labor, as wage labor and chattel slavery became points on a capitalist continuum rather than mutually exclusive categories for black Americans. This dissertation examines how antebellum Americans understood the Ohio River as the geographical division between slavery and freedom. keywords: river cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd69g3w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd69g3w.txt item: #4877 of 4945 id: zk51vd69g8m author: Jason Lee Quinn title: Photometry of Astronomical Sources: A Search for New Members of the Eta Chamaeleontis Open Cluster and the Case for a Light Echo for Type Ia SN 1995E date: 2008 words: 208 flesch: 54 summary: We compare the properties of the known Type~Ia supernova echoes and test various models of light echoes. If confirmed, this echo brings the total number of observed non-historical Type Ia light echoes to three --- the others being SN 1991T and SN 1998bu --- suggesting they are not uncommon. keywords: echo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd69g8m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd69g8m.txt item: #4878 of 4945 id: zk51vd69g9z author: Bren Christopher Mochocki title: The Impact of Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling on the Energy Consumption, Schedulability and Predictability of Real-Time Embedded Systems date: 2008 words: 243 flesch: 48 summary: Next, the applicability of DVFS as a power-management technique for real-time 3D graphics applications on portable embedded systems is evaluated and an effective graphics-workload prediction technique used to facilitate DVFS is introduced. Jitter constraints are also met through DVFS to increase the stability and predictability of such systems. keywords: dvfs cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd69g9z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd69g9z.txt item: #4879 of 4945 id: zk51vd69h1h author: Kerry Mina Bauer title: Using Quantitative Transcriptomic and Proteomic Methodologies to Interrogate Biomarkers in Colon Cancer date: 2014 words: 239 flesch: 31 summary: Colon cancer is a common and deadly disease characterized by aberrant genetic alterations. We are using quantitative tools to measure biological macromolecules that are altered in expression between different states associated with colon cancer. keywords: colon cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd69h1h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd69h1h.txt item: #4880 of 4945 id: zk51vd69h2v author: Evan Bryson title: Prisoner Exchange date: 2015 words: 28 flesch: 51 summary: After a not-particularly gentle break-up in the winter of 2011/12, Ethan, a graduate student, ruminates on war, friendship, desire, his many books, and the contemporary moment. keywords: moment cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd69h2v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd69h2v.txt item: #4881 of 4945 id: zk51vd69h4j author: Melissa Ann Mayus title: Accepting Fate and Accepting Grace: Conceptions of Free Will in Anglo-Saxon Poetry date: 1904 words: 260 flesch: 41 summary: Yet rather than just borrow ideas about free will, fate, providence, and grace from both Germanic sources and Christian sources, Old English poetry weaves all of these ideas together so thoroughly that at times they stop being distinguishable and become something new. It also shows that free will was prominent among the theological and philosophical issues investigated in Anglo-Saxon poems from a number of different manuscripts. keywords: anglo cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd69h4j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd69h4j.txt item: #4882 of 4945 id: zk51vd69h67 author: Lindsey Sargent Reisinger title: Contemporary Evolution and Parasitism Alter the Ecological Impacts of an Invasive Crayfish date: 2015 words: 351 flesch: 24 summary: I found that trematode parasites (Microphallus spp.) were associated with declines in O. rusticus population growth. My research also indicates that parasitism affects O. rusticus invasion success and impacts. keywords: rusticus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd69h67.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd69h67.txt item: #4883 of 4945 id: zk51vd69j56 author: Leslie Elva MacColman title: Explaining Feelings of Safety in Honduras: Demographic Vulnerabilities, Perceptions of Local Order, and Organizational Participation date: 1904 words: 189 flesch: 31 summary: Despite this, little scholarly attention has been given to how safe (or unsafe) the residents of such neighborhoods feel and how their levels of fear vary based on demographic attributes, perceptions of disorder, social relationships, and participation in local organizations. I then turn to the issue of collective efficacy, showing that individuals with higher levels of participation in community organizations are less likely to express feelings of fear, with this effect being the strongest for state-oriented - rather than civic or religious - organizations. keywords: fear cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd69j56.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd69j56.txt item: #4884 of 4945 id: zk51vd69n1r author: Jingling Li title: Characterization of the Roles of ADAM17a and ADAM17b during Zebrafish Retinal Regeneration date: 1904 words: 326 flesch: 30 summary: The recombinant soluble TNFα rescued Müller glia proliferation in damaged adam17b morphant retinas, but not adam17a morphant retinas. In response to retinal cell loss caused by injury or disease, zebrafish Müller glial cells re-enter the cell cycle to produce neuronal progenitor cells that continue to proliferate and differentiate into any retinal neuronal type that was lost. keywords: tnfα cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd69n1r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd69n1r.txt item: #4885 of 4945 id: zk51vd69n54 author: Weijia Wang title: Closure Operator And Lattice Property of Root Systems date: 1904 words: 344 flesch: 51 summary: First we consider the signed groupoid set, a concept which was developed by Dyer and generalizes many notions including Coxeter groups, Coxeter groupoids and Coxeter-like groupoid studied by Brink and Howlett. In particular it is a crucial tool for understanding Coxeter groups and various groupoids which demonstrate Coxeter like properties. keywords: coxeter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd69n54.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd69n54.txt item: #4886 of 4945 id: zk51vd7055j author: Maggie Shum title: The Politics of Policy Diffusion: Party Organization versus Individual Motivations in the Diffusion of Participatory Budgeting in Brazil date: 1904 words: 515 flesch: 43 summary: On the other hand, weak party organizations are characterized by a decentralized structure and a lack of formal communication channels that link members from different levels. Characterized by a hierarchical structure, institutionalized channels that connect members both horizontally and vertically, a clear and consistent platform, high level of internal cohesion and discipline, strong party organizations have the prerogative over their members' behavior and decision-making power. keywords: party cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd7055j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd7055j.txt item: #4887 of 4945 id: zk51vd70k1w author: Ilia M. Pavlovetc title: Super-Resolution Photothermal Infrared Imaging and Its Applications in Materials Science date: 2021 words: 221 flesch: 22 summary: This has led to better understanding of fundamental physical and chemical ions-related phenomena inside the working perovskite solar cells. It provides an overview of the different near field microscopy techniques developed to address the problem of chemically imaging specimens in the mid-infrared fingerprint region of the spectrum with high spatial resolution. keywords: thesis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd70k1w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd70k1w.txt item: #4888 of 4945 id: zk51vd70k6m author: Reagan Meredith title: Design and Application of MA'AT Analysis, a New Method for Conformational Analysis of Molecules in Solution date: 2021 words: 318 flesch: 33 summary: These studies developed new equations that describe the Karplus-like relationships between molecular conformation and coupling magnitudes as determined by DFT. This problem has led to a heavy reliance on theoretical calculations to produce models of solution conformations with limited or no experimental validation. keywords: ma'at cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd70k6m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd70k6m.txt item: #4889 of 4945 id: zk51vd70m0v author: Kevin G. Sanchez title: Transcriptional Regulation of the Mycobacterial Weapons System date: 2022 words: 260 flesch: 35 summary: We discovered a mechanism allowing mycobacteria to tune the levels of ESX-1 substrates. Pathogenic mycobacteria permeabilize phagosomal membranes using the ESX-1 protein secretion system, a complex bacterial weapons system. keywords: espm cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd70m0v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd70m0v.txt item: #4890 of 4945 id: zk51vd70m3w author: John Varkey title: Adiabatic Clocking Circuit date: 2022 words: 212 flesch: 44 summary: Traditional CMOS discards energy during each switching event in the form of heat to the surrounding environment. To reduce this loss of energy, a new approach must be taken which will allow the system to reuse this energy without dissipating it as heat to the system. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zk51vd70m3w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zk51vd70m3w.txt item: #4891 of 4945 id: zp38w952q53 author: Cory Allen McElrath title: Experimental Investigation of Suction on the Boundary Layer Flow Over a Rotating Disk date: 2009 words: 197 flesch: 50 summary: Thus, an understanding of the transition to turbulence in flow on the rotating disk can help in future research and development of laminar flow control on swept wings. Previous research has shown that the absolute instability of Type I crossflow modes can initiate transition to turbulence in the boundary layer flow over a rotating disk. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w952q53.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w952q53.txt item: #4892 of 4945 id: zp38w952q6f author: Matthew Becker title: Toward the Structural Understanding and Improved Performance of Quantum Dot Solar Cells date: 2012 words: 424 flesch: 43 summary: In this dissertation, three aspects of quantum dot solar cells are addressed with the objective of understanding the nature of the nano-materials utilized and improving efficiencies of the devices based on those nano-materials. Using x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS), the identity of deposited species is shown to depend on the order in which the Cd and Se are deposited, and the interface is only affected during the first few cycles of deposition. keywords: solar cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w952q6f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w952q6f.txt item: #4893 of 4945 id: zp38w952q7s author: Elizabeth Hope Blodgett Salafia title: The Roles of Parents, Peers, and the Individual in Predicting Adolescent Girls' Bulimic Symptoms: A Four-Year Longitudinal Investigation date: 2010 words: 279 flesch: 35 summary: Body dissatisfaction would then lead to dieting behaviors and depressive symptoms, which in turn would predict the development of bulimic symptoms. This study therefore examined the role of parents, peers, and the individual in predicting bulimic symptoms during the transition to adolescence. keywords: peers cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w952q7s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w952q7s.txt item: #4894 of 4945 id: zp38w952q84 author: John David Wallbaum title: Computability of Algebraic Structures date: 2010 words: 211 flesch: 71 summary: First we consider computable free groups. Finally, we study presentations of partial orders. keywords: computable cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w952q84.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w952q84.txt item: #4895 of 4945 id: zp38w952r0p author: Paul William Schermerhorn title: The Cost of Communication: Efficient Coordination in Multi-agent Territory Exploration Tasks date: 2008 words: 261 flesch: 27 summary: A subsequent analysis of the results establishes constraints on the cost of communication must be satisfied in order for it to provide a benefit in relative performance} (i.e., absolute performance scaled by agent cost), required for communication to evolve. To address this shortcoming, an extensive series of simulations is presented that explore the effect of such parameters on the utility of communication for coordinating agent behaviors in the multi-agent territory exploration (MATE(n)) task. keywords: communication cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w952r0p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w952r0p.txt item: #4896 of 4945 id: zp38w952r2c author: Yang Zheng title: Size-Dependent Cutoff Methods for Molecular Dynamics date: 2011 words: 249 flesch: 59 summary: This results in a large number of 'extra' solvent interactions due to the fact that solvent molecules greatly outnumber solute molecules. In a typical biological system studied using computer simulations, a few large solute molecules are scattered in a bath of tiny solvent molecules. keywords: molecules cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w952r2c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w952r2c.txt item: #4897 of 4945 id: zp38w952r5d author: Daniel John Robertson title: New Measurements for the Astrophysically Important 40Ca(α,γ)44Ti Reaction date: 2010 words: 219 flesch: 42 summary: The new reaction rates derived in this work results in an increased expected yield of 44Ti in proposed supernova environments (for example Cassiopeia A) by ~ 40 %, when compared to 1D supernova models using reaction rates based on previous prompt γ-ray studies . Production in the Ì_å±-rich freeze-out zone of a core-collapse supernova makes 44Ti an important nuclide in the understanding of nucleosynthesis in explosive stellar environments. keywords: reaction cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w952r5d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w952r5d.txt item: #4898 of 4945 id: zp38w952r6r author: Jacob Robert Heidenreich title: Stability Theory Modulo a Predicate date: 2008 words: 106 flesch: 43 summary: We analyze this relation in a nice setting (where every formula has PMR) in terms of the eight axioms of stability theory. In this thesis we develop the analysis of the structure of a model, modulo the structure induced by a part of the model interpreting a predicate, P. We develop the 'Morley Rank Modulo a Predicate', PMR, and define an independence relation based on this rank. keywords: model cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w952r6r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w952r6r.txt item: #4899 of 4945 id: zp38w952r73 author: Craig Nolan Brewer title: Mixed Genre and the Politics of Early Modern Romance date: 2011 words: 365 flesch: 25 summary: Finally, Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania looks at the mastery of political genre in fiction, using generic mixture to articulate a rhetorical control and literary autonomy over the rhetoric of political genre to compensate for her lack of political agency in her life. The particular authors I discuss show a growing attention to the relationship between political content and political form in romance. keywords: political cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w952r73.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w952r73.txt item: #4900 of 4945 id: zp38w952r8f author: Tori M Forbes title: The Crystal Chemistry of Neptunium Compounds: Structural Relationships to U6+ Mineralogy date: 2007 words: 305 flesch: 36 summary: The difference in valency of the actinyl ion combined with a prevalence for cation-cation interactions in Np5+compounds causes a significant divergence in the crystal chemistries of Np5+and U6+ compounds. This lack of knowledge poses a problem in regards to accurately describing and interpreting the physical and chemical properties of neptunium compounds. keywords: compounds cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w952r8f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w952r8f.txt item: #4901 of 4945 id: zp38w952s1b author: Michael R Olson title: New Methods for Assembly and Validation of Large Genomes date: 2009 words: 141 flesch: 43 summary: The pipeline is successful in finding structural variation, but less so in improving assembly quality. This thesis presents a mate-pair based method of validating assemblies and identifying structural variation that relies on already existing draft assemblies. keywords: pipeline cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w952s1b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w952s1b.txt item: #4902 of 4945 id: zp38w953f1h author: Olivia Choudhury title: Expediting Analysis and Improving Fidelity of Big Data Genomics date: 1904 words: 416 flesch: 26 summary: Genomics, or the study of genome-derived data, has had widespread impact in applications including medicine, forensic science, human evolution, environmental science, and social science. This forms the basis of the following research questions: (i) Can we design frameworks that can expedite data analysis and enable efficient utilization of computational resources? keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w953f1h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w953f1h.txt item: #4903 of 4945 id: zp38w953f36 author: Dustin Crummett title: Committing to Equality: Essays on Distributive Justice, Community, and Economics date: 1904 words: 352 flesch: 44 summary: The political implications of this conclusion will be most obvious for utilitarians and others who think that distributive justice is intimately related to making people better off, but I'll also discuss some reasons why other people should find this conclusion interesting, even if they don't think it justifies preventing people from becoming extremely rich. Chapter II begins by arguing that being too rich probably tends to be bad for people. keywords: chapter cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w953f36.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w953f36.txt item: #4904 of 4945 id: zp38w953m2d author: Nicole A. Perez title: At the Crossroads of America: New Latino Immigrants in Northern Indiana date: 2019 words: 241 flesch: 37 summary: Latina/os are increasingly represented in new immigrant destinations, where educational institutions are poorly equipped to handle the unique challenges immigrants bring with them. I find immigrants interfaced with educational contexts that had never considered the needs of this new Latina/o demographic presence. keywords: educational cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w953m2d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w953m2d.txt item: #4905 of 4945 id: zp38w953s9c author: Wendy V. Alvarez Barrios title: Multidisciplinary Investigation Identifies Novel PTEN-Dependent Mechanism of Selective Tumor Cell Survival to Shear Stress Mediated by Mitochondrial Dynamics date: 2020 words: 434 flesch: 22 summary: Although at all of these stages surviving tumor cells hold a potential for colonization, mechanical arrest is particularly important since cell entrapment is absolutely necessary for tumor outgrowth. However, the subcellular response of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) to the extreme shear stress exerted during transit through the vasculature prior to and during mechanical arrest remains largely unknown. keywords: arrest cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w953s9c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w953s9c.txt item: #4906 of 4945 id: zp38w953t28 author: Dianna Tran title: Effects of Parenting Efficacy, Partner Support, Parents' and Other Kin's Child Care Support on Child Problem Behaviors within African American and Latino/Hispanic Families date: 2020 words: 178 flesch: 24 summary: In many minority families, relying on extended kin for child care support is embedded within cultural values of familism. Results indicated that parents' and other family members' child care frequency, maternal parenting efficacy, and partner support were not significantly associated with child problem behaviors. keywords: child cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w953t28.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w953t28.txt item: #4907 of 4945 id: zp38w953v3x author: Maryam Rokhideh title: The Political Economy of Insecurity: Livelihoods, Mobilities, and Social Networks of Women Traders on the Congo-Rwanda Border date: 2021 words: 366 flesch: 34 summary: Emerging crises like the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of strengthening social safety nets that safeguard inclusive access to basic goods and services, especially in areas underserved by government systems. Importantly, women traders have cultivated important social safety nets in the absence of social protection mechanisms and institutional support systems. keywords: women cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zp38w953v3x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zp38w953v3x.txt item: #4908 of 4945 id: zs25x636101 author: James Benn title: The L^2 Geometry of the Symplectomorphism Group date: 2015 words: 204 flesch: 34 summary: Our primary objective is to describe the structure of the set of singularities of associated weak Riemannian exponential mapping, which are known as conjugate points. Finally, using the Fredholm properties of the exponential mapping, we give a new characterization of conjugate points along stationary geodesics in terms of the linearized geodesic equation and coadjoint orbits. keywords: conjugate cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x636101.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x636101.txt item: #4909 of 4945 id: zs25x63614d author: Ricky Garza Villarreal title: Laboratory Experiments on Dispersive Transport Across Interfaces: the Role of Flow Cell Edges and Corners date: 2013 words: 201 flesch: 31 summary: A second experiment was conducted featuring glass balls of reduced diameter while retaining the same diameter ratio across the interface. Contrary to solutions given by the advection dispersion equation, asymmetric break through curves dependent upon flow direction have been experimentally produced for the conceptual system of two equal length sections of different homogeneous porous media separated by a sharp, macroscopic interface perpendicular to flow. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x63614d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x63614d.txt item: #4910 of 4945 id: zs25x63615r author: Matthew Nathan Holbreich title: Between Sovereignty and Freedom: Tocqueville and the Project of French Liberalism date: 2011 words: 306 flesch: 35 summary: French liberalism after Rousseau sought to empower popular sovereignty so as to enable political freedom, while also restraining political power so as to ensure individual freedom. Indeed, the French Revolution revealed that the constituent power that made political freedom possible also endangered individual liberty. keywords: freedom cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x63615r.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x63615r.txt item: #4911 of 4945 id: zs25x63620b author: Jessica Lynn Anderson title: Tunable Ionic Liquids for Gas Separation: Solubility Studies for Thermodynamic Analysis date: 2008 words: 361 flesch: 32 summary: Additionally, even common ILs like 1-hexyl-3-methyl-imidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ([hmim][Tf2N]) were found to have excellent selectivity for CO2 relative to N2 and other components in flue gas based on pure physical absorption. ILs are being investigated for a variety of applications including reaction media, separation solvents, non-volatile electrolytes, heat transfer fluids, and gas capture. keywords: ils cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x63620b.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x63620b.txt item: #4912 of 4945 id: zs25x63621p author: Teresa Leann Reeve title: Luke 3:1–4:15 and the Rite of Passage in Ancient Literature: Liminality and Transformation date: 2007 words: 311 flesch: 43 summary: This study explores ways in which the anthropological model of rite of passage is useful for interpreting the portrayal of Jesus' baptism and wilderness experience in Luke 3:1–4:15, and for considering the place of this account in the narrative of Luke-Acts. After considering recent interpretations of the place of the passage in the work of Luke-Acts, a review of the last one hundred years of rite of passage studies and their application to biblical text provides the groundwork for establishing the approach of the study. keywords: luke cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x63621p.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x63621p.txt item: #4913 of 4945 id: zs25x63623c author: Major Gooyit title: Gelatinase Inhibition as a Therapeutic Approach for Treatment of Diseases of Matrix date: 2013 words: 444 flesch: 34 summary: The high water solubility, metabolic stability, lack of toxicity, and favorable PK properties make the thiirane class of selective gelatinase inhibitors suitable for iv administration in treatment of acute gelatinase-dependent neurological diseases. Pharmacokinetics and brain distribution of gelatinase inhibitors were explored to correlate with the in vivo efficacy of SB-3CT in animals models of neurological diseases. keywords: gelatinase cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x63623c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x63623c.txt item: #4914 of 4945 id: zs25x63624q author: Brandon E Bruning title: The Making of the Mishkan: The Old Greek Text of Exodus 35-40 and the Literary History of the Pentateuch date: 2014 words: 350 flesch: 50 summary: OG Exodus attests a Hebrew text that is prior to, and the basis of, subsequent editions of Exodus represented by MT and SP and thus closer to, and more reliable evidence for, the formation of the Pentateuch and its precursors (Chapter Six). The shorter ending, more independent of both the wording and order of the commands, survives only in the Septuagint; scholars have wondered how to assess the Old Greek (OG) witness to the text of Exodus in Hebrew. keywords: exodus cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x63624q.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x63624q.txt item: #4915 of 4945 id: zs25x636283 author: Timothy W. Rodts title: Welded-Woven Fabrics for Use as Synthetic, Minimally Invasive Orthopaedic Implants date: 1904 words: 331 flesch: 37 summary: The wear performance was benchmarked against identical fabrics without welding reinforcement. The wear rates were significantly reduced and the lifespan of the fabrics was markedly improved due to surface welding. keywords: fabrics cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x636283.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x636283.txt item: #4916 of 4945 id: zs25x636341 author: Lindsey Bantel Turnbull title: Whole Genome Expression Profiling to Assess Transcriptional Plasticity in the Malaria Parasite Species Plasmodium falciparum date: 1904 words: 346 flesch: 35 summary: Cumulatively, this project addresses the hypothesis that existing variation in gene expression, both among parasite cells with identical sequences, and between genetically distinct parasite strains, provides a foundation for malaria parasites to adapt to new environments. Recent reports from the Thai/Cambodia border clearly show the emergence of artemisinin resistance, re-emphasizing an urgent need to prevent or slow the spread of drug resistance. keywords: parasite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x636341.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x636341.txt item: #4917 of 4945 id: zs25x636372 author: Yi Gu title: Big Data Visualization Using Graph-Based Representations date: 1904 words: 659 flesch: 44 summary: Nowadays, with the extensive use of computers, huge amount of data are generated everyday. However, due to the complicated patterns, complex hidden relationships, and multidimensional and multimodal natures of data, it is not easy for users to glean insights. keywords: data cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x636372.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x636372.txt item: #4918 of 4945 id: zs25x63638d author: Joseph S. Khalil title: What Has Ur of the Chaldeans to Do with Sinai? The Abrahamic and Sinaitic Covenants in Second Temple Biblical and Extra-Biblical Texts date: 1904 words: 314 flesch: 42 summary: The primary aim of this project is to study how three Jewish texts in the Second Temple period portrayed the relationship between God's covenant with Abraham and God's covenant with Israel at Sinai. Paul pointed to God's covenant with Abraham to justify his position, quoting Gen 15:6 in his Epistle to the Galatians (3:6). keywords: covenant cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x63638d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x63638d.txt item: #4919 of 4945 id: zs25x636n1z author: Jianxu Chen title: New Approaches for Biomedical Image Segmentation, Cell Tracking and Related Applications date: 1904 words: 186 flesch: 31 summary: When applied to biomedical images, general computer vision algorithms for segmentation or tracking may not achieve satisfactory results, due to special characteristics of biomedical images (e.g., highly anisotropic dimensions of 3D biomedical images). In this dissertation, we will introduce new deep learning based segmentation algorithms for 2D and 3D biomedical images, and new tracking algorithms for identifying the motion of bacterial cells as well as other related applications (i.e., visible feature based iris recognition). keywords: images cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x636n1z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x636n1z.txt item: #4920 of 4945 id: zs25x636r58 author: Ryan P. Egan title: Does Rumination Have Adverse Interpersonal Consequences? A Test of an Emotion-Dysregulation Extension to Stress-Generation Theory in Depression date: 2018 words: 148 flesch: 30 summary: In a sample of 135 pairs of same-sex friends, I conducted an experimental test of two predictions: first, that individuals induced to ruminate will be rated poorer in interpersonal functioning during a discussion with a friend than individuals induced to distract themselves; and second, that friends will ruminate more during discussions with individuals induced to ruminate versus distract themselves. The present study proposes an extension to the existing stress-generation framework to include emotion dysregulation as a precursor to interpersonal stress. keywords: stress cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x636r58.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x636r58.txt item: #4921 of 4945 id: zs25x63730x author: Cana Short title: Sympathy and Empathy for a Rival Lover: A Comparative Study of Chariton's Callirhoe and the Acts of Andrew date: 2020 words: 309 flesch: 36 summary: This thesis advances comparative scholarship on the ancient novels by demonstrating that similarities between the Greek novels and Apocryphal Acts are not limited to motifs and themes, but extend to narrative strategy. Furthermore, this study demonstrates the usefulness of the distinction between sympathy and empathy in reader-response approaches to the ancient novels and Christian Apocryphal Acts. keywords: rival cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x63730x.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x63730x.txt item: #4922 of 4945 id: zs25x63732m author: Daniel J. Simmons title: An Experimental Investigation of Smooth-Body Flow Separation date: 2020 words: 426 flesch: 32 summary: Three flow experiments are investigated over a single two-dimensional ramp geometry—two undergoing flow separation (one larger-scale and one smaller-scale) and one attached flow—all of which result from a user-imposed adverse pressure gradient (APG) applied to a turbulent boundary layer. It is found that this pattern is an ubiquitous feature of flow separation. keywords: flow cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x63732m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x63732m.txt item: #4923 of 4945 id: zs25x637407 author: Emily Pitts Donahoe title: Propaganda and Deliberation: The Rhetoric of the Early Modern English Public Theater date: 2021 words: 572 flesch: 27 summary: Scholars frequently consider early modern drama in terms of rhetoric, detailing how rhetorical education influenced the composition of plays, how playwrights employed rhetorical tropes and figures, and how they thought about rhetorical ethics. In dramas that are designed to reveal and subvert the strategies of theatrical propaganda and that employ rhetorical tools like the argumentum in utramque partem (or the argument on both sides of a question), playwrights seek to develop their audiences' political judgment. keywords: rhetorical cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x637407.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x637407.txt item: #4924 of 4945 id: zs25x637527 author: Jessica Hocking title: Internalization of Media Appearance Ideals and Academic Intrinsic Motivation: Indirect Effects through Self-Objectification and Appearance Monitoring date: 2022 words: 188 flesch: 3 summary: Specifically, the internalization of media appearance ideals was associated with increased trait self-objectification, which was in turn associated with increased appearance monitoring. The present study seeks to add to the literature by examining relationships between the internalization of media appearance ideals, trait self-objectification, appearance monitoring, and academic intrinsic motivation among college women. keywords: appearance cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x637527.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x637527.txt item: #4925 of 4945 id: zs25x637558 author: Robert Douglas Neal title: Advances in Catalysis and Functional Surfaces Utilizing Plasmonic Noble Metal Nanomaterials date: 2022 words: 398 flesch: 21 summary: The significant contributions I have made to the field of nanoplate fabrication are then presented where the main contributions are 1. The work presented in this dissertation focuses on two key areas of research, namely i) the use of 4-nitrophenol reduction as a model reaction for benchmarking the performance of metallic nanoparticle catalysts, especially with regards to developing best practices for catalytic benchmarking as well as developing a holistic mechanistic understanding of the reaction and ii) the development of advanced fabrication techniques towards the synthesis of periodic arrays of substrate-immobilized plasmonic gold hexagonal and triangular nanoplates. keywords: nitrophenol cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x637558.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x637558.txt item: #4926 of 4945 id: zs25x63768m author: Stefano Toso title: One, Two, Many Nanocrystals: Characterizing Lead Halide Nanostructures from Single Particle to Bulk date: 2023 words: 328 flesch: 27 summary: Superlattices of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals are used to develop a novel approach for characterizing the nanoscale structure of self-assembled nanocrystal solids. Microcrystalline samples of hybrid layered Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites, composed by nanoscale stacks of organic and inorganic layers, are investigated through a geometric analysis of their unit cell parameters to determine the inhomogeneous distribution of different halides alloyed within their structure. keywords: structure cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zs25x63768m.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zs25x63768m.txt item: #4927 of 4945 id: zw12z319876 author: Jonathan C Silver title: The Acoustics and Unsteady Wall Pressure of a Circulation Control Airfoil date: 2014 words: 229 flesch: 58 summary: The focus of this work can be divided up into three main categories: characterizing the unsteady surface pressures, characterizing the radiated sound, and understanding the acoustics from surface pressures. The primary goal of the present work was to study the radiated sound and unsteady surface pressures of a CC airfoil. keywords: airfoil cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z319876.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z319876.txt item: #4928 of 4945 id: zw12z31988j author: Michelle Marie Bertke title: The Role of Sumoylation in Early Development of Xenopus laevis and Regulation of 5S Ribosomal RNA Genes date: 2014 words: 397 flesch: 30 summary: Gam1-induced decrease in SUMOylation activity relieves repression of the oocyte 5S rRNA genes and is correlated with a decrease in methylation of H3K9 and H3K27. These results reveal a novel function for TFIIIA as a negative regulator that recruits histone modification activity, through the CtBP repressor complex, exclusively to the oocyte 5S rRNA genes, resulting in their terminal repression. keywords: genes cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z31988j.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z31988j.txt item: #4929 of 4945 id: zw12z31989w author: Jennifer Lynn Jensen title: The Grounding Objection to Molinism date: 2010 words: 269 flesch: 47 summary: I suggest that there are broadly two kinds of grounding objections: truthmaker-style grounding objections and causal-style grounding objections. However, with respect to both kinds of grounding objections, I argue that the Molinist can satisfactorily reply. keywords: grounding cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z31989w.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z31989w.txt item: #4930 of 4945 id: zw12z319903 author: Ryan R Bantz title: Remanufactory date: 2010 words: 70 flesch: 53 summary: The installed works are analyzed for their significance to ceramics as well as the subject matter of reuse of urban industrial sites that informed their creation. Remanufactory is the title given to the ceramic sculpture exhibition created by Ryan Bantz at the Snite Museum of Art that was shown March 28, 2010 to May 16, 2010. keywords: remanufactory cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z319903.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z319903.txt item: #4931 of 4945 id: zw12z31992s author: Shannon Shamiel Carothers title: Implementation Strategies for Adventures in Parenting date: 2006 words: 175 flesch: 25 summary: The current study was designed to assess the differential impact of three intervention conditions, utilizing Adventures in Parenting, on knowledge of RPM3 principles, parenting behaviors, and children's behavior. Pretest father involvement and maternal adjustment were consistent predictors of posttest measures of knowledge of intervention principles and maternal parenting behavior. keywords: parenting cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z31992s.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z31992s.txt item: #4932 of 4945 id: zw12z31994g author: Peggy Sue Keller title: Parental Depressive Symptoms and Children's Emotional Security date: 2006 words: 274 flesch: 9 summary: Because parental depressive symptoms are associated with parenting and marital problems, this study hypothesized that parental depressive symptoms would predict children's emotional insecurity about parent-child relations (attachment insecurity) and insecurity about marital relations, leading to greater emotional and behavioral problems. These results indicate that (1) children's emotional security about multiple family relationships may serve as important explanatory processes for the link between parental depressive symptoms and children's maladjustment; (2) the marital relationship was somewhat more sensitive to parental depressive symptoms, undermining children's sense of security about the marital relationship; and (3) fathers' depressive symptoms were more disruptive to children's emotional security than mothers' symptoms. keywords: children cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z31994g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z31994g.txt item: #4933 of 4945 id: zw12z31997h author: Carolyn Anna Heitzmann title: An Item Response Theory Approach to the Examination of the Construct of Self-efficacy for Coping for African American and White Persons with Cancer date: 2010 words: 142 flesch: 45 summary: DIF was tested across groups of African Americans (N = 245) and Whites (N = 407) with cancer. In this project, an Item Response Theory (IRT) approach to examining Differential Item Functioning (DIF) was conducted on the Cancer Behavior Inventory (CBI), a 33-item measure of self-efficacy for coping with cancer. keywords: dif cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z31997h.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z31997h.txt item: #4934 of 4945 id: zw12z31998v author: Charles Raymond Anthony title: Effects of Fe on the Absorbance, Fluorescence, and Molecular Weight of Natural Organic Matter date: 2010 words: 181 flesch: 50 summary: It was found that addition of Fe caused an increase in visible absorbance, a decrease in fluorescence, and a shift from intermediate molecular weight components to higher molecular weight components. These results have important implications for the concept of 'molecular weight' as applied to NOM, and for NOM reactivity including bioavailability, adsorption to minerals, and other processes. keywords: nom cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z31998v.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z31998v.txt item: #4935 of 4945 id: zw12z319996 author: Xiaomin Liu title: Identification, Segmentation and Analysis of Objects in Biomedical Images date: 2011 words: 187 flesch: 25 summary: In this dissertation, we present algorithms for the identification, segmentation and analysis of biomedical objects in several problems, most of which pose difficulties because of their high dimension, high quantity and high complexity. Our approaches either provide tools for automatic and reliable analysis, or significantly reduce the human effort involved in interactive analysis. keywords: analysis cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z319996.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z319996.txt item: #4936 of 4945 id: zw12z319b0d author: John Geoffrey Turner title: Selling Jesus to Modern America: Campus Crusade for Christ, Evangelical Culture, and Conservative Politics date: 2005 words: 344 flesch: 18 summary: Through their willingness to retain only a small number of theological essentials and continually adapt themselves to cultural change, evangelicals kept their gospel an attractive product in the marketplace of modern American religion. Campus Crusade exemplifies the contribution of these parachurch organizations to evangelical vitality, the ability of evangelicals to adapt quickly to changes in popular culture, and the theological pragmatism and fundraising prowess central to modern evangelicalism. keywords: evangelicals cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z319b0d.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z319b0d.txt item: #4937 of 4945 id: zw12z319b3f author: Alec Pawling title: Data Warehousing for Social Networking and Human Mobility Research and Detecting Real-World Events in Space and Time Using Feature Clustering date: 2010 words: 160 flesch: 18 summary: In this dissertation, we address two problems associated with the development of an emergency response system that utilizes a cell phone network as a sensor network to facilitate the initiation and online validation of predictive simulations. The detection and alert system provides an automatic mechanism for initiating the simulation system without intervention by emergency response managers. keywords: system cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z319b3f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z319b3f.txt item: #4938 of 4945 id: zw12z319b6g author: Qian Li title: Measurement of the 14N(p,γ)15O Reaction in the CNO Cycle date: 1904 words: 231 flesch: 58 summary: In stars more massive than the Sun, the density and temperature is high enough for the CNO cycles to dominate energy production over the pp chains. During the main-sequence stage, stars generate energy through hydrogen burning: the pp chains and the CNO cycles. keywords: energy cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z319b6g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z319b6g.txt item: #4939 of 4945 id: zw12z319c9t author: Jonathan D. Schwarz title: Lost in Translation: Elite College Admission and High School Differences in Letters of Recommendation date: 1904 words: 238 flesch: 29 summary: The shared language between teachers and counselors at privileged high schools and admission officers at elite universities has implications for the inter-generational transmission of advantage through the process of effectively maintained inequality. Using interviews with admissions officers at internationally renowned universities that accept fewer than 12% of applicants, this project presents elite university admission as a two-stage process of screening. keywords: elite cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z319c9t.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z319c9t.txt item: #4940 of 4945 id: zw12z32004f author: Jonathan M. Kaltenbach title: Christ the Priest in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas date: 1904 words: 346 flesch: 36 summary: Finally, Chapter 6 argues that a profound development on this topic is discernible from some of Thomas' earliest works (Commentary on the Sentences; De veritate), through the middle of his career (Summa contra Gentiles; Compendium theologiae; Commentary on Hebrews), to his more mature work (De perfectione; Summa theologiae). This dissertation explores Thomas Aquinas' complex teaching on Jesus Christ as priest through close readings of the primary texts, attentiveness to the numerous ways he structures this teaching, and persistent investigation into its development over the course of his career. keywords: christ cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z32004f.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z32004f.txt item: #4941 of 4945 id: zw12z32010c author: Jairo Campuzano-Hoyos title: The Quest for Material Progress in Global Perspective: Colombia 1840s-1900s date: 1904 words: 247 flesch: 35 summary: I argue that Colombian progress brokers sought models of material and intellectual progress from among other Latin American countries between the 1840s and the 1900s, an issue largely ignored in the historiography on Colombia and on Latin America in general. Thus, although the way Colombians conceived of progress was to some extent linked with ideological principles, the traditional conservative-liberal dichotomy does not work to circumscribe a group of scattered Colombians looking for models of material progress in a global perspective. keywords: century cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z32010c.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z32010c.txt item: #4942 of 4945 id: zw12z320153 author: Ali Shahbazi title: Computer Vision-Based Approaches to Neural Circuit Tracing at Scale date: 1904 words: 467 flesch: 37 summary: New imaging technologies and tissue preparation techniques are enabling such studies at an unprecedented scale, allowing the same neural volume to be imaged in vivo and ex vivo. This approach generalizes across different modalities and sample targets, including serially-sectioned scanning electron microscopy (sSEM) of genetically labeled and contrast enhanced processes, spectral confocal reflectance (SCoRe) microscopy, and high-energy synchrotron X-ray microtomography (μCT) of large tissue volumes. keywords: volume cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z320153.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z320153.txt item: #4943 of 4945 id: zw12z320540 author: James Martin Kelly title: Precision Measurements and Development of a Spectrometer to Determine Atomic Masses of High Impact for the Astrophysical r-Process date: 2019 words: 390 flesch: 38 summary: Finally, a new experimental facility in development at Argonne National Laboratory will allow for Penning trap mass spectrometry on a swath of N=126 isotopes previously inaccessible, and of critical importance for understanding the r-process. Changes in two-neutron separation and neutron pairing energies show systematic deviations from theoretical mass model predictions. keywords: mass cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z320540.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z320540.txt item: #4944 of 4945 id: zw12z32063z author: Xiao Bo title: Improving Human Action Recognition Using Regression Analysis and Data Cleaning date: 2019 words: 234 flesch: 44 summary: These works provide a guideline to improve HAR performance from both training data and parameter optimization. However, to the best of our knowledge, the user-provided data is prone to human error, and the impact of each input parameter on classification performance is not fully understood. keywords: har cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z32063z.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z32063z.txt item: #4945 of 4945 id: zw12z320f4g author: Anyastassia Seboldt title: Numerical Methods and Analysis for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems date: 2022 words: 307 flesch: 39 summary: The proposed schemes are then analyzed for stability and convergence and their performance is investigated in numerical examples. Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems help to describe many physical phenomena in our world, including topics such as aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, geophysical flows, engineering, and biomedical applications. keywords: fluid cache: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/cache/zw12z320f4g.txt plain text: /shared/reader-patron-library/emorgan/etds/txt/zw12z320f4g.txt