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Browsing Theses and Dissertations by Submit Date
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(2017-06-21)Sexual assault on college campuses is a longstanding and pervasive problem. Increasing media coverage has led to growing concern about sexual violence on college campuses and most universities’ failure to respond appropriately. ...
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(2017-06-20)Half of the world’s population (2.7 billion people), of which 95 percent is in ‘poor’ countries, rely on solid fuels including biomass fuels like wood, dung, agricultural residue and coal, to meet most of their energy ...
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(2017-06-19)A growing body of evidence suggests that public investment in high-quality preschool programs improves school readiness, and produces significant and lasting impacts on children across a wide variety of outcomes. Research ...
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(2017-06-19)By utilizing low-cost, behavioral economic "nudges," we achieved a significant increase in the rate of on-time property tax payments in Guilford County, North Carolina. Using a large-scale randomized control trial, we ...
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(2017-06-17)HIV infection can be characterized as a brain disease with 47 percent of infected patients experiencing neurocognitive disorders. MRI studies of HIV patients reveal alterations in gray and white matter. Individuals addicted ...
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(2017-06-11)This project analyzes whether writs of mandamus filed by victims of sexual assault in the military justice system should be reviewed at the standard of an ordinary interlocutory appeal. The project conducts a policy ...
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(2017-06-09)In the sixteen years since the 9/11 attacks, the United States government continues to execute a military-centric counterterrorism (CT) strategy in the Middle East and Africa, absent an integrated and synchronized information ...
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(2017-06-09)The Last Column, the final steel beam removed from Ground Zero, is the centerpiece of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York. This paper demonstrates the Last Column’s significance in the visual narrative of the September ...
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(2017-06-05)In Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Anthony Appiah writes “people tell and discuss stories in every culture as far back as the record goes.” Donald Brown agrees in his comprehensive cross-cultural anthropological survey, Human ...
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(2017-06-05)The ten-year Cultural Revolution exerts a tremendous influence on the domain of cultural production in contemporary China. After the Cultural Revolution, many filmmakers delved into the representation of this traumatic ...
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(2017-06-02)In this paper, I examine whether MLB teams are capable of using players’ past performance data to sufficiently estimate future production. The study is motivated by the recent trend by which teams have increasingly signed ...
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(2017-05-30)As a performance whose functioning relies heavily on sociocultural rules, humor does not easily transcend cultural and language lines. In most cases, humor comprehension requires more than fluency in a language. Linguistic ...
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(2017-05-24)This research examines various data dimensionality reduction techniques and clustering methods. The goal was to apply these ideas to a test dataset and a healthcare dataset to see how they practically work and what conclusions ...
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(2017-05-23)The old adage for authors is to ‘write what you know,’ and I believe the same can be said for any other artistic medium. I was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome about four years ago and it has been a life-altering ...
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(2017-05-22)The joy of finding unspoiled beaches on the island of Ocracoke led to inquiring how these areas escaped the rampant development prevalent in coastal North Carolina. This project’s primary purpose was to investigate a mostly ...
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(2017-05-21)Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating, progressive, irreversible brain disorder. Previous research has identified genes associated with the risk of developing AD. Variations in the Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ...
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(2017-05-21)Killing prey from a distance using complex projectile weapons is a behavior unique to Homo sapiens. The archeological remnants of these weapons are mostly limited to their lithic points, as their organic components have ...
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(2017-05-20)Songbirds learn their songs through a trial and error process that shows remarkable similarities to human language learning, making them an ideal model for studying the neural substrates of vocal learning. Although adult ...
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(2017-05-18)In this project I explore how Spanish visual culture (in addition to select works of art from other European nations), especially but not solely Spanish Baroque painting and the works of Francisco Goya, inspired the ...
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