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Res Publica and the Macy's on 34th Street (thesis)
(2019)This shift in perspective in turn articulates the protean nature of New York City's worldbuilding projects--their intentional and unintentional uses--provides the framework for the history of the department store type, and ... -
If Walls Could Talk: A Case Study at Pompeii (thesis)
(2019)Building upon the work of Bettina Bergmann, who shows the critical importance of memory in the creation and reception of Roman domestic painting, I will explore the complexity and multivalence of Roman collective social ... -
A Possible Conserved Role for SR Protein Kinases in the Regulation of Cell Death (thesis)
(2019)Apoptosis, programmed cell death, is a process that mammalian cells frequently undergo to suppress tumors and regulate cell growth. It is unclear whether or not apoptosis is conserved across both multicellular and unicellular ... -
Timber Harvests and the Opportunity Cost of Capital: Evidence from the US Southland (thesis)
(2019)The optimal timber rotation problem appears in many introductory environmental economics textbooks and has been a standard illustration of the relation between market rates of return and economic decision-making for decades. ... -
Does Language Translate to Executive Functions? Investigating the Bilingual Advantage in Executive Control (thesis)
(2017)Given that twenty-percent of the U.S. population speaks a language other than English at home, it is imperative to assess the effect of a second language on brain structure and function. The bilingual advantage hypothesis ... -
The Democratization of American Art: Horatio Greenough's George Washington and the Era of the Common Man
(2017)Considering that Greenough’s Washington represents the first federal commission granted to an American sculptor, art historical literature on this sculpture is surprisingly limited. The leading scholar on Greenough and his ... -
At the Forefront of Feminism: William Merritt Chase and the American New Woman
(2017)Chase married Alice Gerson, whose father managed a large lithography firm, in 1886. She proved to be an inspiration for Chase throughout the rest of his life and frequently appears in his work. While other artists painted ... -
Dating of lacustrine molluscan subfossil assemblages using AAR techniques to contextualize the introduction of Zebra mussels to a Wisconsin lake
(2017)In order to accurately track paleoecological change, researchers must first gain detailed knowledge of respective sample dates and thus the degree of time-averaging among those samples. Understanding the degree of ... -
The Role of Social Support on Academic Buoyancy and Academic Stress
(2016)The current study examined the association between academic stress and academic buoyancy with social support as a moderator. . . . By understanding the roles of differing types of social support in protecting academic ... -
High resolution isotope sclerochronology reflects seasonal cycle changes at Rocky Point, Belize between the last interglacial and present
(2016)The last Pleistocene interglacial period is thought to be characterized by warmer temperatures, higher precipitation, higher sea level and lower ice volume than today due to different orbital forcing parameters at that ... -
Unilateral primary afferent nerve cut causes altered pruning of dendrites in the developing central taste system (thesis)
(2011)The development of the taste system mirrors that of other sensory systems, and thus an understanding of gustatory developmental phenomena can provide insight into developmental processes in general. Changes in taste ...
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