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    “Conquest without Rule: Baloch Portfolio Mercenaries in the Indian Ocean.” 

    Lutfi, Ameem (2008)
    The central question this dissertation engages with is why modern states in the Persian Gulf rely heavily on informal networks of untrained and inexperienced recruits from the region of Balochistan, presently spread across ...
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    Selling America: U.S. Public Diplomacy Programs in the Middle East and South Asia in a Post 9/11 Environment 

    Berger, Elana (2009-12-04)
    Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, foreign policy experts and U.S. government officials have emphasized the importance of public diplomacy in combating terrorism and ensuring national security. In the current ...
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    Analysis and Error Correction in Structures of Macromolecular Interiors and Interfaces 

    Headd, Jeffrey John (2009)
    As of late 2009, the Protein Data Bank (PDB) has grown to contain over 70,000 models. This recent increase in the amount of structural data allows for more extensive explication of the governing principles of macromolecular ...
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    Affect before Spinoza: Reformed Faith, Affectus, and Experience in Jean Calvin, John Donne, John Milton and Baruch Spinoza 

    Leo, Russell Joseph (2009)
    Affects are not reducible to feelings or emotions. On the contrary, Affect Before Spinoza investigates the extent to which affects exceed, reconfigure and reorganize bodies and subjects. Affects are constitutive of and ...
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    Integrability of Second-Order Partial Differential Equations and the Geometry of GL(2)-Structures 

    Smith, Abraham David (2009)
    A GL(2,R)-structure on a smooth manifold of dimension n+1 corresponds to a distribution of non-degenerate rational normal cones over the manifold. Such a structure is called k-integrable if there exist many foliations by ...
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    "Choosing the Jesus Way:" the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians and the Development of an Indian Pentecostal Identity 

    Tarango, Angela (2009)
    This dissertation explores the history of the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians, the development of an American Indian leadership in the denomination and the development of a Pentecostal Indian identity. ...
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    Mitochondria as a Target of Benzo[a]pyrene Toxicity in a PAH-adapted and Naive Population of the Atlantic Killifish (Fundulus Heteroclitus) 

    Jung, Dawoon (2009)
    Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are important contaminants that are found in increasing amounts in aquatic ecosystems. One of the sites that that is contaminated by extremely high levels of PAHs is the Atlantic Wood ...
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    The Impact of Intellectual Property, University Licensing Practices, and Technology Transfer on Regional Manufacturing of and Access to the HPV Vaccine in Resource-Poor Regions 

    Padmanabhan, Swathi (2009-12-04)
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    Wife's labor supply and marital dissolution: evidence from the NLSY79 

    Wibulpolprasert, Wichsinee (2009-04-15)
    In response to the changing family and social structures in the United States, an accurate understanding of mechanisms and the driving forces of marrital dissolution is important in many aspects. For one, the knowledge helps ...
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    Fundamental Volatility's Effect on Asset Volatility 

    Beard, Evan Allen (2009-04-15)
    This paper examines the e ect of macroeconomic variable volatility on implied and realized asset price level volatilities in the U.S. using monthly data from 1986 - 2008. Two approaches are taken: An autoregressive distributed ...
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