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Gadolinium-Based Macrocyclic MRI Contrast Agents
The early detection of diseased and cancerous cells leads to a dramatic increase in the survival rate of the patients. The limitations of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to differentiate many types of cancerous tissues ... -
The Game of NAFTA: Winners, Losers and Policy Implications
The North American Free Trade Agreement, which took effect in 1994, lacks a social component. It has hindered economic development in Mexico. -
Gatekeeping Between Government and Religion: Faith-Based Initiative Competition and Supervision
Communities of the world's major religions have always incorporated care for others into their central teachings. Politicians have recently seized upon the relative success of these faith-based organizations' services. ... -
The GED Program & Outcomes for Disadvantaged Students
The GED certification program started as an alternative education route for war veterans. It has greatly expanded to serve individuals of all ages and backgrounds who lack a high school diploma. Over one-half million ... -
Gender Inequality in African Education: How Can the Lessons of South Africa Apply to the Rest of the Continent?
The worldwide problem of unequal female education cannot be solved by domestic policies alone, and the global institutional order must bend to the necessity of human rights and equality. Promoting growth is not a sufficient ... -
The General's House: The Lee House as Building, Home, and Shrine (thesis)
Houses that still fill their intended role of "family home" rarely can be described as a shrine or memorial, yet that is the best way to describe the Lee House. While built to house a university president, a function it ... -
Geochemical Variability of Obsidian in Western New Mexico with Laboratory- Based pXRF (thesis)
Mule Creek and Mt. Taylor, located in southwestern and western New Mexico respectively, are obsidian source regions for archaeological lithic artifacts. Trace element concentrations can be used to distinguish obsidian from ... -
Geochemistry and Petrography of Amphibolites from the Spuhler Peak Metamorphic Suite: Near the Branham Lakes Area, Tobacco Root Mountains, Southwestern Montana
Located in the west-central Tobacco Root Mountains in southwestern Montana, the Archean-aged Spuhler Peak Metamorphic Suite (SPMS) of Gillmeister (1972) consists of lensoid amphibolite beds, more equant bodies of "wispy" ... -
GeoEye-1 Multispectral Satellite Imagery Classification: An Accurate Method for Identifying Populations of Acropora spp. Corals Prior to a Field Study (thesis)
In recent decades Caribbean coral reefs have experienced drastic decline in live coral cover. Some of the main framework-building coral species Acropora cervicornis, Acropora palmata, and the new hybrid species Acropora ... -
Geology of the Precambrian Igneous-Metamorphic Complex of the Blue Ridge in the Snowden Quadrangle, Virginia
The Snowden 7.5 minute quadrangle is located entirely within the Blue Ridge physiographic province of Virginia. Early Cambrian sediments of the Chilhowee Group occur in the northern half of the quadrangle, while the southern ... -
Geopolitics, Ideology, and the Frontier: Understanding the Continuity in Motivations behind Conquest and Administrative Policy in Xinjiang, 1688-Present
. . . By attempting to trace the origins of the ideological and geopolitical motives behind the Chinese administration in Xinjiang throughout the Qing period and the Communist era, this paper will attempt to answer several ... -
Georg Buchner's Dantons Tod as a possible source for Peter Weiss's Marat/ Sade
E. M. Fleissner writes that "revolt is central to the drama . . ." and in Georg Buchner's Dantons Tod and Peter Weiss's Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu ... -
[Georgia's Public Defense System]
During the second half of the 20th century, the United States Supreme Court increased the financial burden on state public defender systems by requiring that every defendant actually imprisoned – whether for a felony or a ... -
Germany's Free Democrats: Party Development and Post-Reunification Challenges (thesis)
The increased fragmentation of the German party system is not a crisis, although the Volksparteien may see it as such, but rather a symptom of the parties' failure to represent and serve German voters. The FDP attempted ... -
The Gerund in Old English: A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Washington and Lee University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Although the gerund is widely familiar to students of languages, and despite the fact that it is used perhaps more freely in Old English than in any other language, I have been unable to find any complete treatment of the ... -
Gesang ist Dasein: Nietzsche, Aesthetics, and Why Art is Worth More than the Truth
What, then, are we to make of Nietzsche's exaltation of art? The goal of this study is to examine why Nietzsche might have declared art to be worth more than the Truth and, with sufficient prudence so as not to attempt to ... -
Getting Kicked When You Are Down: The Criminal Law and the Homeless in the United States
In recent years, both local and federal efforts to solve the homelessness epidemic have concentrated on criminalizing the chronic population, currently about 84,000 nationwide. In this paper I intend to examine how this ... -
Getting personal: Perceptions of Male and Female Candidates' Trustworthiness and Personability in Facebook Campaigning (thesis)
Stereotypes of women impact their decisions to run for office and the way they campaign if they do run. This is carried over to social networking sites, in which female candidates have to strike a balance between optimizing ... -
Glucoprivic Regulation of Puberty Onset
The purpose of our studies was to determine 1) if rats experience hypoglycemia during diet-restriction when puberty is delayed, and 2) if histaminergic pathways mediate glucoprivicinduced delay in puberty onset. Plasma ... -
Go Green: An Examination of Alternative Energy in Germany
This thesis examines the development of German alternative energy technology since the early 1990s. It explores the various motivating factors behind Germany's expansion of alternative energy, including the nation's growing ...