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L'art et la terreur dans l'après-attentats, Paris 2015 – Fred Le Chevalier et Renald Luzier
(2017-05-08)This thesis explores the intersection of terrorism and art in response to the two high profile terrorist attacks in Paris: Charlie Hebdo, and the attacks of November 13th, 2015. First, I examine the historical and political ... -
L'Épilepsie comme "crise" de la conscience: Perspectives narratives, philosophiques, et neuroscientifiques
(2019-04-16)“Each seizure is like a sort of hemorrhage of innervation. The center of image formation in my brain suffers a seminal leak, a hundred thousand images erupt at once, in visual fireworks. There is an atrocious clenching of ... -
L2 Index Theory and D-Particle Binding in Type I' String Theory
(2009)In this work, we apply $L^2$-index theory to compute the index of a non-Fredholm elliptic operator. The operator arises in Type I' string theory, and the index is found to be non-zero, thus implying existence of bound states. -
La Colonización del Tlacauhtli y la Invención del Espacio en el México Colonial
(2015)Este trabajo estudia el proceso de invención del espacio en el México colonial durante el siglo XVI y XVII, entendiendo la invención del espacio como la inserción de una conceptualización del entorno ajena a la experiencia ... -
La Promoción de la Salud en Intibucá, Honduras: Empoderamiento, Conexión Comunitaria, Confianza en Atención Hondureña
(2022-04-11)Esta tesis tiene una colección de conocimientos que adquirí por la curiosidad que tenía acerca de las brigadas médicas y su impacto en la confianza en servicios de salud, la influencia neocolonial estadounidense en el ... -
La República de las Letras: De escribanos y letrados a escribientes y lectores
(2017-05-05)Historians generally accept that after the introduction of the movable type printing press, literacy expanded broadly, but rarely do researchers stop to ask why. The simple fact of easier access to the written word does ... -
La République réinventée: littératures transculturelles dans la France contemporaine
(2012)This dissertation theorizes the complex contemporary phenomenon of literature produced in French by writers of allophone origins, which is to say, writers born in non-Francophone countries. Vassilis Alexakis, Gao Xingjian, ... -
Label-free Biodetection with Individual Plasmonic Nanoparticles
(2010)The refractive index sensitivity of plasmonic nanoparticles is utilized in the development of real-time, label-free biodetection. Analyte molecules that bind to receptor-conjugated nanoparticles cause an increase in local ... -
Labor Attrition between South Africa’s Public and Private Health Sectors: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of KwaZulu-Natal Dietitians
(2018-04-25)The South African health care system has a highly inequitable distribution of human and financial resources. The private sector only serves 28-38% of the population but has 59% of medical specialists. Applying the concept ... -
Labor, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mid-Twentieth Century Texas
(2011)What happens when the dominant binary categories used to describe American race relations--either "black and white," or "Anglo and Mexican"--are examined contemporaneously, not comparatively, but in relation to one another? ... -
Labor/Environmental Alliances
(2007-05-24)While energy policy has become a talking point for everything from national security to rural economic expansion to job stimulation, the environmental community has had rather little success in effectively engaging these ... -
Laboratories of Consent: Vaccine Science in the Spanish Atlantic World, 1779-1840
(2020)This dissertation examines the colonial history of medical rights in Latin America through a study of the world’s first vaccine. The Spanish introduced the smallpox vaccine to their empire in 1804, along with royal orders ... -
Laboratorios-isla: Monstruos, enfermedades y farmacopeas literarias en el Caribe hispano
(2018)This dissertation examines how fiction from the 1950s to the present exposes the historical functioning of Caribbean territories as laboratories for political, economic, and scientific experimentation. Through close-readings ... -
Lack of Transferrin Receptor 1 in the Heart Causes Lethal Cardiomyopathy and Disruption of Mitophagy in Mice
(2015)Iron is an essential nutrient involved in numerous cellular functions and tightly regulated within cells. It is extremely important to maintain both systemic and intracellular iron homeostasis by orchestrating iron uptake, ... -
Lactate Metabolism in Cancer Cell Lines
(2013)Pathophysiologic lactate accumulation is characteristic of solid tumors and has been associated with metastases and poor overall survival in cancer patients. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in tumor ... -
Laminin-Functionalized Polyethylene Glycol Hydrogels for Nucleus Pulposus Regeneration
(2013)Intervertebral disc (IVD) disorders and age-related degeneration are believed to contribute to low back pain. There is significant interest in cell-based strategies for regenerating the nucleus pulposus (NP) region of the ... -
LAND CONVERSION AND THE CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM (CRP) IN NORTH CAROLINA
(2007-05)This paper will explore the economic factors that influence a rural landowner’s decision to either continue planting crops or to enroll land in CRP. Specifically, I will estimate the extent to which federal commodity subsidies ... -
Land Cover Change and Ecosystem Services on the North Carolina Piedmont 1985 to 2005
(2008-04-25)Analyses of ecosystem processes are advanced through remote sensing and geostatistical modeling methods capable of capturing landscape pattern over broad spatial and temporal scales. Many ecological studies rely on land ... -
Land Surface-Convective Precipitation Feedbacks: Theory and Application
(2011)In this thesis, an intermediate-level complexity model of a coupled land-surface and atmospheric boundary layer is developed. The model is used to investigate the controls on soil moisture-precipitation feedbacks and vegetation ... -
Land Trust Carbon Credit Market Participation Plan
(2013-04-26)As a Southeastern highlands land trust, Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (SAHC) is interested in participating in an emerging forest carbon market as an examination of new conservation strategies. They are eager ...
