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“Conquest without Rule: Baloch Portfolio Mercenaries in the Indian Ocean.”
(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 ...
Selling America: U.S. Public Diplomacy Programs in the Middle East and South Asia in a Post 9/11 Environment
(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 ...
Analysis and Error Correction in Structures of Macromolecular Interiors and Interfaces
(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 ...
Affect before Spinoza: Reformed Faith, Affectus, and Experience in Jean Calvin, John Donne, John Milton and Baruch Spinoza
(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 ...
Integrability of Second-Order Partial Differential Equations and the Geometry of GL(2)-Structures
(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 ...
"Choosing the Jesus Way:" the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians and the Development of an Indian Pentecostal Identity
(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. ...
Mitochondria as a Target of Benzo[a]pyrene Toxicity in a PAH-adapted and Naive Population of the Atlantic Killifish (Fundulus Heteroclitus)
(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 ...
Wife's labor supply and marital dissolution: evidence from the NLSY79
(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 ...
Fundamental Volatility's Effect on Asset Volatility
(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 ...