Browsing Student Theses and Honors Collection by Title
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"I'm Positive. So What?" HIV Illness Narratives from Zimbabwe and the United States
(2011-05-03)Storytelling is potentially an important resource for HIV-positive individuals as they grapple with the changes HIV brings to their lives and seek ways to make meaning of their experiences. Illness narratives in particular ... -
(I) "The Girl and Her Balloon" and (II) Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety": Intricacy Grounded in Programmaticism
(2014-08-18)The following two-part thesis focuses on programmaticism, that is, the depiction through music of extramusical elements. In the first part, I present an original orchestral composition that musically tells the story of a ... -
IDENTIFICATION OF A DEGRADATION SIGNAL IN THE ANTI-SIGMA FACTOR CSFB REQUIRED FOR THE SWITCH TO LATE GENE EXPRESSION DURING BACILLUS SUBTILIS SPORULATION
(2017-02-20)In response to adverse environmental conditions, the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis undergoes an adaptive process known as sporulation, culminating in the production of a metabolically dormant, extraordinarily ... -
Identifying Genes Involved in Larval Fat Body Remodeling in Drosophila melanogaster
(2017-06-29)Tissue remodeling is an essential process that occurs in multicellular organisms and is essential for the growth, development, and health of any organism. Drosophila melanogaster is an important organism for the study ... -
Identifying Infrastructure Impediments to Higher-Speed Rail in the Cascadia Megaregion Using GIS Analysis
(2014-07-01)Increased interest in rail transportation, and specifically high-speed rail, has led to research on how can people and goods be transported more efficiently by the United States rail system. Rail is an important form of ... -
"Identity Danish Modern" Trampoline House and the Prototyping of an Inclusive Denmark
(2015-05-26)Located in inner city Copenhagen is Trampoline House: a non-governmental, member-driven culture house that aims to bring together refugees, mostly Muslim males, and other residents of Denmark, for the purpose of modeling ... -
“Identity Danish Modern”: Trampoline House and the Prototyping of an Inclusive Denmark
(2019-08-06)Located in inner city Copenhagen is Trampoline House: a non-governmental, member-driven culture house that aims to bring together refugees, mostly Muslim males, and other residents of Denmark, for the purpose of modeling ... -
Identity Politics or "Minority Nationalism?" The Scottish Referendum Through Welsh and Ulster Scots Eyes
(2015-06-22)This study examines how quickly British attitudes have changed on devolution following the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. In studying both the Welsh and the Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland, I predict that attitudes ... -
IFN-γ and IL-10 Regulation in the MuLV-Infected MAIDS Model
(2013-05-07)Those infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) classically progress to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), an illness typified by an increase in opportunistic infections ranging from influenza to tuberculosis ... -
IL-10 and Suppression/ Susceptibility in MAIDS Model
(2012-05-11)Individuals infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) typically progress to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). AIDS is characterized by an increase in opportunistic infections like tuberculosis, as well ... -
Imagination in Reading to Abstract Art
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Imagined Landscapes: Geography, Identity, and Gender in the Early American Republic, 1785-1835
(2015-07-01)In the decades that followed the American Revolution, members of the new nation began to embrace the American landscape as a point of connection between themselves and their fellow citizens. At the same time, geography ... -
Imaging the Cytoskeleton of Migratory Cells
(2011-05-16)Cell migration is a complex and important process by which cells move along a surface or within a three-dimensional matrix. The mechanics of motility involve cytoskeletal rearrangement, membrane dynamics, and cell-substrate ... -
Immigration Politics & Marginalized Workers: West African Street Merchants in Bologna
(2015-07-01)Since the 1980s, Italy has rapidly shifted from a country of emigration to a host country of international immigrant communities. Today, immigrants make up 8.1% of the Italian population (Osservatorio Regionale 2014: 4). ... -
Immunomodulation in the Murine AIDS Model
(2011-05-11)Murine acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (MAIDS) is a model of immunodeficiency useful for studying human AIDS. Murine leukemia virus (MuLV) produces a fatal disease course in some strains of mice with symptoms mimicking ... -
The Impact of Maternal Immune Activation on Social Cognition in a Mouse Model of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
(2015-07-01)Many neurodevelopmental disorders like Autism and Schizophrenia are characterized by pervasive social behavior deficits, etiologically explained through both genetic and environmental factors. Epidemiological reports ... -
The Implications of the Built Environment and Individual Sovereignty: An Examination of New York Skyscrapers and Lakota Tipis
(2017-07-05)My senior thesis research explores how spatial theory is linked to social systems. I argue that the built environment reflects and reinforces societal values. After all, social systems are enacted through a physically lived ... -
Implicit Prosody: Similarities in Reading and Listening
(2015-06-11)The purpose of this study was to assess whether readers treat words presented with font emphasis as being implicitly accented during silent reading. In two ERP experiments, we compared the effect of capitalizing critical ... -
IMPORTANCE OF THE TAIL IN ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS FOR CONTROLLING IN-AIR STABILITY
(2014-06-17)Anolis carolinensis, a species of arboreal lizard, relies on jumping as its principal form of locomotion. Previous studies suggest the importance of tail movements for stabilizing the body in mid-air in the pitch and roll ... -
In But Not Of the Model Minority: Myth and Discipline in Asian American Literature
(2017-07-05)It is perhaps the worst-kept secret of race relations in the United States, that the Asian American “model minority” is, in fact, a myth. But badly kept secrets are usually more useful when revealed than hidden. As a ...