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Using Thermal Profiling to Monitor Optical Feedback in Semiconductor Lasers
(2011-02-16)Semiconductor lasers are extremely sensitive to back-reflections that arise in practical applications, potentially resulting in mode hopping, coherence collapse, strong excess noise, and chaotic dynamics. When semiconductor ... -
Utility Maximization Function and Optimum Wage-Investment Split in a Labor Managed Firm
(2013-01-29)This paper presents a theoretical model showing how a labor managed firm (LMF) would determine the optimum trade-off between salary levels and investment decisions with the maximization of total utility of its workers as ... -
Validation and Invalidation: Advising Interactions as Contexts for Understanding Nontraditional Student Experiences in Higher Education
(2016-09-02)Nontraditional students, typically defined as students over the age of 24 years old, comprise almost 40% of all college students; often, they possess intersecting social identities, such as being first generation college ... -
Validation of a Novel Marking System to Enhance Automated Behavioral Phenotyping in Mice
(2016-06-06)There is an increasing need to move to automated, computer-driven detection software to measure mouse behavior. In a prior study, we identified a method for marking and identifying multiple mice for tracking in the ... -
Variability of the Unresolved X-Ray Background
(2019-02-01)The cosmic x-ray background is diffuse, uniform x-ray radiation originat- ing from outside our galaxy. Over the past several decades since its discovery, much of it has been resolved into discrete sources. However, a ... -
Variance of Female Genital Shape in Spiny Dogfish, Squalus Acanthias, a 2-D and 3-D Approach
(2018-07-02)This study aimed to investigate the presence and significance of morphological variation in the internal female genitalia of spiny dog sharks, Squalus acanthias. We used traditional linear morphometrics to examine ... -
Variations in Resistance: Responses of Oppressed Ethnic Minorities to Ethnonational Issues
(2014-07-01)South Azerbaijanis have faced systemic discrimination in Iran since 1848, to the extent that they are not allowed to give their children “Azerbaijani” names. However, their aspirations for self-government or separation are ... -
Variations of Solar Wind Parameters Over a Solar Cycle: Expectations for NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) Mission
(2011-02-16)The solar wind is plasma that flows outward from the sun into the heliosphere. Plasma consists of energetic particles, or electrically charged gas. Although the Sun is at the center of our solar system, not much is known ... -
Velando y desvelando la moda: La novela rosa y sus trajes de emancipacion
(2011-02-16)The role of fashion in the construction of the 'Nueva Mujer Moderna' in the 1920s and 1930s in Spain using romance novels as a cultural artifact and lens for this period and its socio-political phenomenon of female emancipation. -
Virginia Woolf and the Art of Biography
(2017-05-24)This project examines Virginia Woolf’s relationship to biography throughout her career. I trace the influences of biography that impact her development as a life-writer, as well as her own experimentations and mediations ... -
Viscous Knowledge: Water, Gender, and Learning
(2016-06-29)What constitutes ‘knowledge’ that we acquire, and how do we acquire it? Through Donna Haraway’s theoretical reconfigurations of objectivity in conversation with D.W. Winnicott’s theory of transitional phenomena, I explore ... -
Vocabulary Knowledge and Its Effects on Reading Behavior and Vocabulary Acquisition in Native and Non-Native Speakers of English
(2016-06-27)The current study examined whether vocabulary depth and breadth knowledge affected online reading behavior and incidental vocabulary acquisition in native and non-native English speaking adults. Morphological knowledge was ... -
The Voice of the American Female Poet: Tradition and Innovation
(2016-12-19)The subject of my thesis involves the art of imitation: a practice that has spanned over two millennia. Imitation was originally used as a pedagogical practice for early Roman writers and continued as a central part of ... -
Voicing the Feminine in J.M. Coetzee's Fiction
(2013-06-14)JM Coetzee, the Nobel Prize-winning South African author, often defies categorization. His thirteen novels vary in style greatly, although all are written with a striking self-consciousness and anxiety of authority. My ... -
Voting Tournaments and The Linear Ordering Polytope
(2016-06-29)This thesis explores a geometric structure called the linear ordering polytope. The linear ordering polytope, L^n, is the convex hull of a collection of vertices constructed from every permutation of a set of size n. Because ... -
Waste Traffic(ing): An anthropological analysis of one situated event in the environmental justice discourse
(2011-02-16)This narrative examines the repercussions of the proposal to build a solid waste facility in an environmental justice community. It documents one solid waste transfer station s permitting process required by Massachuse ... -
"Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to drink": The Impact of Commodification of Water through Social Business on Poverty Alleviation in Rural Bangladesh
(2013-06-18)Water is an abundant natural resource in Bangladesh. Yet around 57 million people living in the Bengal basin lack access to potable water. Pollution and arsenic contamination of groundwater, especially in the rural ... -
"We are strong as men and we cannot be bent": The impact of women's political activism on the transition from British trusteeship to Nigerian self-government between 1914 and 1960.
(2016-06-09)British colonial indirect rule mediated through ethnic divisions, "native" courts, and warrant chiefs led to the deterioration of women's political, social and economic influence in southeastern Nigeria between 1914 and ... -
"We Hid Books in Bags of Sugar": South African Histories in Opposition
(2013-05-05)In this thesis on teacher resistance to apartheid in South Africa, I argue that teaching against the prescribed curriculum constituted a form of subversion to the National Party-led government. Students, teachers and parents ...