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The Cutting Room Floor explores the life of Frankenstein's monster, as narrated by the creature himself. True to Mary Shelley's original book, the monster has no name but recognizes that he is often mistakenly called 'Frankenstein, '...
The British in colonial India: reformers or preservationists?
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In the context of colonial India, the British who overtook the country were sometimes intent on preserving traditional Indian cultural practices while others saw themselves as reformers who wanted to transform the country along lines...
In this thesis we investigate post-model selection properties of L1 penalized weighted least squares estimators in regression models with a large number of variables M and correlated errors. We focus on correct subset selection and on...
Contingency tells the story of Richard MacMurray, a political analyst and advocate for freedom of expression. On New Year's Day, Richard learns that his estranged sister has been killed in a plane crash, and that he will be asked to...
The Greenhouse Project: using art to empower the "lost generation" of Uganda
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"The Greenhouse Project: Using Art to empower the 'lost generation' of Uganda" began in the summer of 2008 as a part of an undergraduate research project. Last summer I spent 6 weeks in an orphanage teaching art and documenting my...
In this thesis, based on an orthonormal series expansion, we propose a new nonparametric method to estimate copula density functions. Since the basis coefficients turn out to be expectations, empirical averages are used to estimate these...
The laparoscopic onlay patch repair is associated with less recurrence, shorter hospital stay, lower wound morbidity, and lower postoperative pain when compared with open suture repair. (SOR B, based on a single cohort study.) Open...
Storm-Relative Eulerian Absolute Angular Momentum Tendency in Atlantic Tropical Cyclones: Advection and Torques and Their Relative Roles in Vortex Strengthening
This study examined inner-core sources and sinks of angular momentum in Atlantic tropical cyclones. Each advective and torque term in the Eulerian absolute angular momentum tendency equation was calculated in a storm-relative reference...
Recent studies investigating cognitive-behavioral approaches to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have shown significant relationships between certain beliefs and OCD symptoms. Inflated perceptions of responsibility for harm and the...
High Resolution Microclimate Study of Hollow Ridge Cave: Relationships Between Cave Meteorology, Air Chemistry, and Hydrology and the Impact on Speleothem Deposition
Long term, near continuous, in situ monitoring of cave meteorology, cave aerochemistry, and surface meteorology allows quantitative assessment of cave ventilation and the effect on CO₂ outgassing from cave systems. Because advances in...
Postmodern theorists and authors have long argued that history is a constructed system of knowledge, and therefore prone to error. Yet, despite memory's connection to history, postmodern authors have continued to utilize it as a stable...
This dissertation hypothesizes the effects of membership change within teams on team coordination and effectiveness. When member change occurs, teams are likely to make attributions relating to how unexpected is the member change, based...
During the Progressive Era (1890-1920) instructors taught gymnastic and dance practices in American settlement houses. Developed by white, educated middle-class women, settlement houses offered these classes to reflect the "progressive...
This dissertation will focus on the representation of ideal, white masculinity in the films of the Cold War period and how those representations, as they appeared in the form of art, served either to flatter or criticize the times in...
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are becoming increasingly prevalent in embedded digital signal processing applications. Faster clock speeds (now at 500 MHz), greater logic density, and dedicated embedded DSP hardware blocks are...
Understanding the Journals That Write Us: Exploring the Relationship Between the Field of Composition and the Subdiscipline of Computers and Composition
This project works to explore the relationship between the larger field of composition and the smaller subdiscipline of computers and composition by examining articles published in College Composition and Communication (CCC) and...
John Boda (1922-2002) was a highly accomplished pianist, conductor, composer, and professor. His diverse musical talents and eclectic hobbies defined him and influenced countless students, colleagues, friends and family members. During...
This collection of short fiction, Hoop Dancing: A Novella and Seven Stories, focuses on working class men and women living in eastern North Carolina. The majority of the characters are a single generation removed from the family farms...
The most potent, naturally occurring estrogen, estradiol, is involved in the physiological control of food intake. Estradiol appears to exert its anorexigenic effect by activating nuclear estrogen receptors (ERs), which are expressed...
Previous research revealed that team communication via message exchange effects team performance outcomes (Fiore et al., 2001). Additional studies confirmed that the amount of communication might distinguish between superior and inferior...
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a major pathway for nutrient transport in coastal marine systems. There are indications that SGD may also release large amounts of dissolved organic matter (DOM) to the coastal ocean and thus...
"That Inimitable Art": Magic in Early Modern English Culture examines representations of magical practitioners and their beliefs and practices as they appear in a variety of canonical and non-canonical early modern cultural productions....
This dissertation explored HIV-related information seeking among residential university students in three Caribbean countries. The study was one of the first to investigate this phenomenon in the English-speaking Caribbean within the...
Introduction: Evidence suggests that disturbed sleep may constitute an important and modifiable vulnerability factor for acute suicidal risk and completed suicide. Sleep complaints are closely coupled with mood problems, and depression...
Concrete is a poor conductor of heat due to its incombustible nature and low thermal diffusivity, which guarantee a slow propagation of thermal transients within the structural members. Despite exhibiting a good behavior at high...
The Long-Term Influence of Family Contexts and Processes in Biological Families and Stepfather Families on Young Adult Children's Intimate Relationships
The main purpose of the present study was to examine the influences of parental relationship instability, parental relationship happiness, and parent-child relationships on young adult intimate relationship outcomes. The effects of...
Molecular modeling of proteins and DNA is an attractive goal because it allows to gain insight into dynamic behavior of molecules on atomistic level. Such studies have a great potential to complement existing experimental techniques in...
The management and prognosis of HIV disease has changed dramatically since the introduction of combination HIV antiretroviral therapy in 1996. Thus, the number of older adults with HIV is increasing partly because people with HIV are...
The purpose of this study was to determine how errors in performance affect perceptions of performance quality by musicians while listening to an excerpt of Bach's Bourrée from the Suite for Unaccompanied Cello #3. Subjects (N=129) heard...
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