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K-Ville: A World of Its Own

Hanna, Andrew Leon (2014-09-26)

"K-Ville: A World of Its Own" is an ethnography of one of the most storied and well-known Duke University traditions: the weeks-long campout on the grounds near Cameron Indoor Stadium before the Duke-UNC home basketball ...

Karl Barth and the Beauty of God

Helmich, Kurtis Kyle (2017)

ABSTRACTThis dissertation examines the theme of beauty in the theology of Karl Barth and explores its fruitfulness for the practice of theology and two key areas of the Christian life. It offers a close, contextual reading ...

Keep It Dirty Durham: A Social Marketing Strategy for Altering Public Littering Behavior

Doolin, Heather; Zhang, Qi (2015-04-23)

The city of Durham, North Carolina has a population whose chant is “Keep It Dirty, Durham.” With a unique character, the location of the food hub of the south, and an increasingly growing population, Durham’s citizens must ...

Keeping in Touch: Relationships between Parenting Style, Parent-Child Electronic Communication, and the Developing Autonomy and Adjustment of College Students

Golonka, Megan Marie (2013)

Traditionally seen as a time for increasing independence and autonomy, the college experience is often the first major, long-term physical separation from parents (Chickering, 1969; Chickering & Reisser, 1993). For previous ...

Keeping it Beta: Social Innovation & The Black Church. A Case for Strategy, Design & Social Change.

Cudjoe-Wilkes, Gabriella Elizabeth (2022)

God created . . . and it was good. People of faith are a part of God’s work of creation that from the beginning of time has created and innovated without fail. A mantra of the ecumenical Black Church is that we serve a God ...

Kenotic Leadership: A Model for Clergy

Nyland, Amy (2021)

Leadership in the church today must be able to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances and availability of resources in order to allow for the thriving of congregations. In order to serve as Christ served, church leaders ...

Kenotic Leadership: A Model for Clergy

Nyland, Amy (2021)

Leadership in the church today must be able to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances and availability of resources in order to allow for the thriving of congregations. In order to serve as Christ served, church leaders ...

Kenya Market Analysis-An Evaluation for Emerging Food Technology Companies

Ares, Natalya (2017-04-18)

The reduction of waste along the food production chain will help increase sustainability of the agricultural sector and help improve the quality of the environment overall. The use of active packaging technology (AP) has ...

Kernel Averaged Predictors for Space and Space-Time Processes

Heaton, Matthew (2011)

In many spatio-temporal applications a vector of covariates is measured alongside a spatio-temporal response. In such cases, the purpose of the statistical model is to quantify the change, in expectation or otherwise, in ...

Key Stakeholder Perspectives on the Feasibility of Implementing Early Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Interventions in South Africa

Adewumi, Konyinsope (2017)

Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a major public health challenge worldwide. Early intensive intervention services have been shown to reduce core ASD symptomatology, but there are many barriers to implementing ...

Keys to the Past: Building Harpsichords and Feeling History in the Postwar United States

Wood, Jessica (2010)

This dissertation traces the range of popular forms and practices associated with the harpsichord in the twentieth century in the United States, focusing on the 1950s, 60s and 70s. It draws on archives of period correspondence, ...

Killing Iraq: A look at agency and power in relation to the U.S. mainstream media

Ighile, Osagie (2009-05-01)

Killing Me Softly in a Metropolis: Tales of Murder and Murderous Passion in Republican Shanghai (1911-1937)

Yan, Yuchen (2021)

The relationship between metropolitan cities around the world and tales of murder has encompassed the complicated nature of modern life, and such is also the case of Shanghai in the Republican era. The prosperity of the ...

Kinetic Characterization of the Coupled Folding and Binding Mechanism of Bacterial RNase P Protein: an Intrinsically Unstructured Protein

Chang, Yu-Chu (2009)

Understanding the interconversion between the thermodynamically distinguishable states present in a protein folding pathway provides not only the kinetics and energetics of protein folding but also insights into the functional ...

Kinetics and Energetics of Feeding Behaviors in Daubentonia madagascariensis

Toler, Maxx Camden (2017)

The primary aim of this thesis was to quantify the ways Daubentonia uses its specialized feeding apparatus during naturalistic feeding behaviors. This can be divided into two main objectives. The first objective was to ...

Kinetics of Coupled Binding and Conformational Change in Proteins and RNA

Daniels, Kyle Gabriel (2015)

Ligand binding can modulate function of proteins and nucleic acids by changing both the populations of functionally distinct conformational states and the timescales on which they interconvert. For this reason, both thermodynamic ...

King Democracy: Do Democratic Nations Mitigate Conflict Over Transboundary Freshwater Resources Better Than Other Nations?

Abendroth, Kathryn (2016-06-27)

The prospect of water wars and conflict over water are ideas that are frequently dramatized in media and also studied by scholars. It is well-established that bona fide wars are not started over water resources, but conflict ...