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Calcite-Graphite Isotope Thermometry of Marble Mylonites in the Bancroft Shear Zone
(2015-05-04)The Bancroft Shear Zone is an extensional collapse structure that formed in the Grenville Province due to the over thickening and resulting crustal weakening during the Ottawan orogeny, ~1030-1070 Ma (Cosca et al., 1995). ... -
Calibrating annual sedimentation in a glacial lake Lake Linné, Svalbard, Norway
(2012-07-03)This study will focus on the most recent depositional year, fall 2010 through summer 2011. The study is a continuation of previous projects and investigates modern sedimentation in Lake Linné in order to formulate a ... -
Campus Police 09
(2012)All building footprints were obtained from Facilities Management and are updated annually as necessary. -
Campus Police 10
(2012)All building footprints were obtained from Facilities Management and are updated annually as necessary. -
Can Community Supported Agriculture be an Economically Viable Approach to Sustainable Agriculture?
(2012-12-17)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the economic viability of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) . The growing concern over food safety and a desire to be closer to the source of their food has led consumers to ... -
Can't Help but Help: Should We Praise Good Deeds that Result from Mental Illnesses?
(2023-05-09)We hesitate to blame kleptomaniacs for stealing. Should we be similarly hesitant to praise people for doing good deeds if their actions are motivated by similar compulsions? My thesis project considers how to evaluate good ... -
Cancer by Another Name: The Quest for a Better Linguistic Taxonomy
(2015-05-26)Drawing on the disciplines of psycholinguistics, medicine, and medical anthropology, this thesis evaluates the suggestion to rename breast Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS) to remove the reference to cancer. Chapter 1 focuses ... -
Capturing the Personal in Politics: Ethnographies of Global Environmental Governance
(Global Environmental Politics, 2014)In writing about Barack Obama’s efforts to entice Republicans into ending US Congressional gridlock, news columnist John Avalon wrote, “All politics is personal and at the end of the day, in a representative democracy, ... -
Capturing, persisting, and querying the provenance of scientific data
(2012-06-04)Scientists use technology ubiquitously to collect and process data. They often use software to handle massive datasets and produce scientific results, which they post on the web, making them readily available to the public. ... -
Carbon Accumulation at the Harvard Forest: A Comparison of Methods for Measuring Tree Biomass for Regional Extrapolation of the Eddy-Flux Tower Footprint
(2011-02-16)Questions about regional carbon cycling dynamics are particularly important for northeastern forests because of their significance in the North American terrestrial carbon sink. The long-term study of CO2 exchange at ... -
Caregiving, Elderly Couples and Research in Psychology
(2018-03-26)The physical and mental challenges faced by older adults are unique. Accompanying this is the equally important issue of caregiving. What role does caregiving and social support play in addressing health challenges among ... -
Carr Laboratory 08
(2007)All building footprints were obtained from Facilities Management and are updated annually as necessary. -
Carr Laboratory 09
(2007)All building footprints were obtained from Facilities Management and are updated annually as necessary. -
Carr Laboratory 10
(2007)All building footprints were obtained from Facilities Management and are updated annually as necessary. -
Catching Babies: The Politics of Midwifery in Documentary Birth Narratives
(2015-06-29)Culture is a salient factor in a woman’s experience of pregnancy and childbirth. Expectations of a hospital birth, continuous electronic fetal monitoring, epidurals, and ultrasounds (among other “normal” maternity care ... -
CD8+ T-cell Response Potential, as Determined by Expression of the High Affinity Interleukin-2 Receptor, in Murine AIDS
(2011-02-16)Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), which can follow infection with the virus, is a major health issue worldwide. Murine AIDS (MAIDS) is a model system used for the study of ... -
Ceaseless Languages: José Lezama Lima's Paradiso as a Challenge to the Bildungsroman
(2013-07-31)This project argues that the novel Paradiso (José Lezama Lima 1966) is not a bildungsroman (a coming-of-age novel), contrary to popular and scholarly opinion. Instead, it constructs a world of symbols and metaphors, and ... -
Centering C-Section Narratives in Birth Discourse
(2018-05-03)This thesis examines narratives of C-section experiences to understand the personal perspective of a national conversation on medicalized birth. Birth statistics, child health, and reproductive rights, are often the focus ...