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The People's Republic of Capitalism: The Making of the New Middle Class in Post-Socialist China, 1978-Present

Hui, Ka Man Calvin (2013)

My dissertation, "The People's Republic of Capitalism: The Making of the New Middle Class in Post-Socialist China, 1978-Present" draws on a range of visual cultural forms - cinema, documentary, and fashion - to track ...
Context and Place Effects in Environmental Public Opinion

Bishop, Bradford Harrison (2013)

Environmental attitudes have interested scholars for decades, but researchers have insufficiently appreciated the low salience of the environment, and the enormous complexity of this issue area. In this dissertation, ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomics With Policy Implications

Geissler, Christopher Scott (2013)

My dissertation focuses on employing microeconomic techniques to study markets and questions that are important and complex, and also have potential policy implications. Two of my chapters analyze the health industry ...
Study of Lorentz Effect Imaging and Neuronal Current MRI Using Electromagnetohydrodynamic Models

Pourtaheri, Navid (2013)

Neuronal current MRI (ncMRI) is a field of study to directly map electrical activity in the brain using MRI, which has many benefits over functional MRI. One potential ncMRI method, Lorentz effect imaging (LEI), has ...
Wayward Christians, Worldly Scriptures: Disarticulating Christianities in the Black Atlantic Public Sphere

Tucker Edmonds, Joseph Lennis (2013)

This dissertation will engage in a historical-critical encounter with a peculiar subset of lived Christian traditions in the black Atlantic world, and the ways in which black theology as a disciplinary formation has ...
Articulating the Core Realist Committment

Morton, Nathan D. (2013)

This thesis comprises an investigation into a very well known and perennial philosophical debate over the interpretive status of our most well confirmed scientific theories, known as "scientific realism." I do not defend ...
"Under one Flag"? Race, Nation, and Migration in the Early Twentieth-Century

Extian-Babiuk, Tamara (2013)

My dissertation project on colonialism and immigration in Canadian history explores the complex intersections of discourses of race, nation, and empire. With an emphasis on the role of visual and popular culture, I ...
Asymmetric Correlations in Financial Markets

Ozsoy, Sati Mehmet (2013)

This dissertation consists of three essays on asymmetric correlations in financial markets. In the first essay, I have two main contributions. First, I show that dividend growth rates have symmetric correlations. Second, ...
Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase as an Integrative Synapse-to-Nucleus Signal

Zhai, Shenyu (2013)

The late phase of long-term synaptic potentiation (LTP) at glutamatergic synapses, which is thought to underlie the long lasting memory (at least hours), requires gene transcription in the nucleus. However, it remains ...
The Relation Between Self-Regulation and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis Exploring Variation in the Way Constructs are Labeled, Defined, and Measured

Dent, Amy L. (2013)

Guided by an integrative conceptual framework, a meta-analysis was conducted to explore the relation between the capacity aspect of self-regulation and academic achievement across childhood and adolescence. This ...
'Any Name That Has Power': The Black Panthers of Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 1948-1977

Angelo, Anne-Marie (2013)

The US Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was an organization of the Black Power Movement, a cultural and a political nationalist movement central to the history of the African-American Freedom Struggle. The Black ...
Jose Rizal and the Spanish Novel

Castroverde, Aaron C. (2013)

This dissertation is a preliminary attempt to define and theorize Spanish literature of the late nineteenth century from the perspective of the colonized. I take as my starting point the novels of the Filipino writer ...
High Resolution Transcriptional Profiling and Characterization of Cellular Inclusions in Arabidopsis thaliana Roots Grown in Low Sulfur Conditions

Jackson, Terry Lynell (2013)

Environmental stress affects plant development and productivity. Sulfur deficiency is a key nutrient deficiency that adversely affects crop yield. The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana has played an informative role in ...
The Role of the Family as an Informal Insurance Mechanism

Dalton, Michael Robert (2013)

This dissertation examines the extent of different forms of informal insurance provided by both co-resident and non-co-resident family members. Primarily relying on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a unique, longitudinal ...
The Modernist Bildungsroman: End of Forms Most Beautiful

Ever, Selin (2013)

This dissertation explores the modernist novel's response to the Bildungsroman. Through extensive close readings of the three modern versions of the genre -- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, The Magic Mountain ...
Gersten-Witt Complex of Hirzebruch Surfaces

Kim, Hyeongkwan (2013)

Gersten-Witt cohomologies of Hirzebruch surfaces are computed.
Strengthening Self-Control by Practicing Inhibition and Initiation

Davisson, Erin Kathleen (2013)

An abstract of a dissertation that examines the effect of practicing different forms of self-control, inhibition and initiation, on the occurrence of subsequent behaviors reflecting one or both types of self-control. ...
Beyond Public and Private: A Theological Transfiguration

Larsen, Sean (2013)

In this dissertation, I argue that the conceptual grammar of Augustine's thought provides a way of re-thinking the public/private distinction as it has been developed in modernity. The dissertation consists of two parts. ...
Syntax of Phase Transition Peptide Polymers with LCST and UCST Behavior

Garcia Quiroz, Felipe (2013)

"Smart" polymers that sense stimuli in aqueous environments and that respond with a pronounced change in their solvation are of great utility in biotechnology and medicine. Currently, however, only few peptide polymers ...
Effects of Dysregulated Diacylglycerol-Mediated Signaling on T Cell Function

Krishna, Sruti (2013)

Diacylglycerol (DAG), a lipid messenger generated upon T cell receptor (TCR) engagement, mediates signaling through the IKK/NF-κB and Ras/ERK pathways. Further downstream of the Ras/ERK pathway are mammalian target ...