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D. Dwight Davis’s Legacy: A Morphological Examination of the Evolutionary Synthesis
(2017-06-05)D. Dwight Davis was a morphologist who worked at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, publishing between 1932 and 1964. Best-known for an authoritative monograph on the comparative anatomy of the giant panda, ... -
DACA and its Economic Impacts on Undocumented Immigrants
(2018-06-04)This study focuses on how the introduction of legalization impacted DACA eligible undocumented immigrants in comparison to the ineligible group. DACA is expected to increase wages and the propensity of the eligible immigrants ... -
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany, 1933-1940
(2015-06-01)On March 4, 1933, Frances Perkins became the first female Cabinet Secretary in American history. As FDR’s Secretary of Labor, she was a key architect of the New Deal. This thesis tells the story of a lesser-known aspect ... -
Decolonizing English: Reimagining English Language Learning and Teaching through Critical Pedagogies
(2013-12-16)At the turn of the century, nearly a quarter of the world’s population (1.5 billion people) was estimated to speak English with some fluency. English has gained an official or special status in at least seventy-five countries ... -
A Dedicated Follower of Fashion: The Ahistoric Rake in Restoration Literature
(2011-02-16)Perhaps no literary era is more closely associated with a character type than the Restoration with the flamboyant, self-important seducer. From 1660 through the early eighteenth century, the rake fired the popular ... -
Deepening the Defense for Diversity: Affirmative Action, Social Science, and the Quest for a Compelling Interest
(2015-07-09)This project will explore the attendant benefits and constraints of incorporating social science research into legal resolution – and more narrowly, of incorporating “contact literature” on intergroup relations in higher ... -
Defoe's Mercantilist Ordeal: Understanding the Demise of Credit and the Rise of Racism
(2019-07-01)British businessman and writer Daniel Defoe’s intellectual trajectory evolved alongside his personal history and British political and economic history. From 1719 to 1722, Defoe wrote about slavery, mercantilism, and racial ... -
Dehumanization-type Stereotypes as a Mediator between Generalized Racial Essentialism and Punishment
(2020-06-18)This study examined whether dehumanization-type stereotypes acted as a mediator in the relationship between essentialist thinking and punishment given to Blacks and Asians. White participants were selected for inclusion ... -
Delivery of Nucleotides for Gene Silencing of Cancer-Promoting Genes in Breast Cancer Cells
(2016-07-05)Gene silencing through RNA interference (RNAi) is a common tool for cancer therapy via the delivery of siRNA. While this siRNA is effective at knocking down genes, a problem arises due to the inability of siRNA to ... -
Demographic Differences in Access to Formal Sex Education in the United States
(2019-06-03)This paper examines differences in access to formal sex education among adolescents in the United States by demographic characteristics. Previous research has found disparities in access to sex education by demographic, ... -
Den "Gast" Integrieren, Das "Ich" Konstruieren: Herausforderungen des Zweitspracherwerbs im Schüleraustausch
(2011-02-16)Secondary exchange students are commonly expected to adapt to their host country and language through a model of "natural" language and culture learning. I unpack the notion of what is considered "natural" in secondary ... -
Denitrification Along a Restoration Gradient of Southeastern Massachusetts Cranberry Bogs
(2015-06-22)American cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon, is a wetland fruit native to North America. Cranberries are commercially grown in bogs, which are a type of wetland. The industry has dominated southeastern Massachusetts for over ... -
DENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF THREE POPULATIONS OF CHRISTIANS AND NON-MUSLIMS IN POLLENTIA, MALLORCA
(2017-06-30)The diet, health, nutrition, and genetics of an individual leave unique and identifiable markers on dental remains. Those markers can be used to understand the diet and health of an ancient population. This study presents ... -
Dependency, Multiculturalism and Agency: Marriage Migration in Singapore and South Korea
(2014-06-06)An understudied dimension of recent cross-border movement in Asia pertains to marriage migration, defined as women from countries in East, Southeast and South Asia migrating to marry men in more economically prosperous ... -
The Depression Questions: A Feminist Inquiry
(2015-07-02)As psychological inquiry increasingly utilizes the medium of the scientific, the importance of the personal narrative is diminished. Disembodied, "objective" research studies are weighted heavier than first person accounts. ... -
Design of a radio-frequency facing-target sputtering system for low-damage thin film deposition
(2013-06-03)Thin film devices are becoming increasingly important in the electronic semi- conductor industry. For example, organic light-emitting diodes provide many advantages for the development of flat panel displays used in mobile ... -
Designing Simulated Radio Frequency Ultrasound Traces for the Training of Machine Learning Algorithms
(2019-06-24)In the field of ultrasound imaging, it has been theorized that imaging noise, known as speckle, is the product of microscopic scatterers and abnormalities within the imaged tissue. This would result in certain speckling ... -
The Destined Corner-Stone of the New Social Order : The Evolution and Effects of Edward Bellamy's Utopian Vision
(2011-02-16)A man who summed up his occupation as writing books, contributing to magazines, newspaper work, general scribbling, Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) wrote hundreds of editorials, twenty-three short stories, a three-volume ... -
Detecting Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adeleges tsugae) Impacts on Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) Stands in the Quabbin Reservoir Watershed Using AIMS-1 Imagery
(2011-02-16)The infestation of indigenous forest species by foreign pests plays an important role in ecosystem change, often altering stable stand composition and vigor. A recent and pressing infestation in the United States by a ... -
Determining and Understanding Long-Range Proton Conduction Pathways and Patterns in Perovskite Systems
(2013-05-06)Fuel cells with solid oxide electrolytes (SOFCs) have attracted increasing interest as efficient alternatives to combustion-based energy production. Doped perovskites have displayed mechanical stability and high proton ...