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Fabrication and Characterization of "Nano-Beakers" for the Synthesis of Ceramic Colloids
(2011-05-09)Microreactors are devices containing microscale channel networks, called microfluidics, in which a variety of reactions and analysis schemes can be performed. They allow for precisely controlled reaction times and mixing ... -
Fabrication and Characterization of Ferromagnetic Nanorings
(2011-02-16)Ferromagnetic nanorings are model systems for the study of magnetic phenomena in thin film structures. Unique closed flux states with potential applications in memory storage have also been observed in nanorings. A ... -
Factors of Female Aggression in a Polygynous Mating System
(2013-05-08)When ecological and genetic success is defined by the number of offspring left behind, mating systems that allow for the maximum number of offspring tend to arise. Within these mating systems, aggression often arises to ... -
Failure to Launch: Characterization of a Flightless Strain of Drosophila hydei
(2011-02-16)Drosophila hydei is a fruit fly that last shared a common ancestor with the model organism D. melanogaster 60 million years ago. A domesticated strain, flightless D. hydei, is a feeder fly for amphibians, and breeders ... -
The Faith-Based Initiatives Debate:
(2011-02-16)An examination of The New York Times and The Washington Times on the Faith-Based Initiatives debate. -
FASHION MEETS GREEN AT THE PLACE CHARLES DE GAULLE, PARIS
(2013-06-30)With one of the most visited monuments of Paris, the Arc de Triomphe standing in its center, the Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly known as Place de L’Étoile is also the meeting point of three arrondissements and twelve ... -
Fears of Immobility
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Feather Characteristics in Extinct Stem Birds and Extant Species
(2016-05-19)Flight requires a coherent surface that generates lift. In birds, surface integrity of a feather depends on the locking mechanism of barbs and barbules that preserves the integrity of the feather surface by resisting ... -
Female Friendships: The Impact of Traumatic Experiences on Personal Beliefs and Relationship Functioning
(2011-02-16)Differences in quality of close female friendships between women with and without trauma history were explored. Self-report measures were used to examine trauma history and cognitive schemas of 149 college women. Conflict ... -
Feminism, Womanism, and the Christian Liturgical Year: A Trinity of Spiritual Memoir, Exegesis, and Theology
(2014-06-30)Through a synthesis of personal narrative, liturgical theology, and feminist/womanist Biblical exegesis, this project explores the six major seasons of the Christian liturgical year. I seek to re-conceptualize these seasons ... -
Fighting the Good Fight: Challenge Scenes in Ovidian Poetry
(2011-02-16)Through his presentation and interpretation of contest scenes in the Fasti, Metamorphoses, and Tristia, Ovid offers a non-Augustan reading. His intentions through his poetry were neither to praise the Emperor or bring ... -
Flattened Architecture
(2011-02-16)This project discusses my exploration into depth and space using three-dimensional elements within a two-dimensional surface. Individually drawing different elements from sculptures I have previously created and then ... -
Flesh and Mud: Bodily Deconstruction through Handmade Paper
(2020-05-11)My art practice primarily utilizes handmade paper to create works that are both alluring and repulsive in the ways they represent the human body. As a transmasculine nonbinary artist, I am challenging representation that ... -
For the Love of Carrots and Community: Examining The Food Project's Youth Engagement in the Context of Dominant Discourses About Food and Health
(2016-08-22)Salad is good, and French fries are bad. People who eat salad are healthy, and those who eat French fries are not. These are some of the assumptions and dichotomies produced by dominant discourses around food and health ... -
Foreign Policymaking and Perspective
(2011-02-16)"Neoconservatives" have consistently mistrusted the traditional intelligence bureaucracy in America. This fact and the tendency of neoconservative policymakers to politicize (skew for political purposes) intelligence ... -
The Formation of Religious Identity and Practice among American Muslim College Students
(2011-05-13)The Muslim identity in Western media and politics is often represented in opposition to the secular and rational West. Utilizing ethnographic work and interviews among local American Muslim college students and Dorinne ...