Browsing Student Theses and Honors Collection by Title
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Macrophage Phenotype Differentiation in the Rat Uterus during Normal and Diabetic Pregnancies
(2011-05-19)Macrophages are the most common type of immune cell in the pregnant uterus. Depending on the tissue microenvironment, macrophages assume one of two broad phenotypes. In general, M1 macrophages destroy extracellular pathogens ... -
Macrophage-Mediated Efferocytosis in Rat Uterine Remodeling
(2018-06-21)Macrophages are professional phagocytes that survey the body for pathogens and secrete biomolecules relevant to many cellular processes. Our lab identified the presence of macrophages around the rat uterine lumen and within ... -
Making Bridge Accessible To The Visually Impaired
(2012-06-20)Bridge is an entertaining card game enjoyed by many, particularly senior citizens. In addition to being enjoyable, playing bridge involves a large amount of strategy and challenges the player's memory. Studies have shown ... -
The Making of the Black Woman
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Manipulation of Individual Magnetic Domain Walls with a Local Circular Field
(2012-05-07)Understanding domain wall (DW) motion in nanoscale ferromagnetic structures reveals intriguing physics, with tremendous potential applications in logic devices and racetrack memory. Work has been done to move a series of ... -
Mapping a Genetic Mutation involved in Larval Fat Body Remodeling Disruption in Drosophila melanogaster
(2020-06-04)Tissue remodeling plays an important role in the development of many multicellular organisms. It is also a key process in wound healing and tumor metastasis, and studying the control of tissue remodeling could lead to ... -
Mapping Emotions: Visualizing Affective Impact on Our Internal Framework
(2014-07-02)Specific mental and physical phenomena activate our experience of emotions. In response, our bodies attempt to counteract and overcome the heightened affective state that results from these forcible episodes. Through ... -
The Marketable Swamp People: The Effects of Commodification on Louisiana’s Cajun Culture
(2012-05-11)The Cajuns are a cultural group that lives almost exclusively in Southwest Louisiana. Today they are portrayed in mainstream media through reality television shows and cook books, but how did this 'Cajun fever' emerge? ... -
Marking Time on Material: An Artist s Investigation of Natural Processes
(2011-02-16)Material is impermanent. This fact is the key point to my artistic investigation of time. In time, everything decays, breaks down and becomes something else. Through my artwork, I try to visualize the changing qualities ... -
Matrices in Motion
(2011-02-16)This thesis studies the patterns found in contra dance, representable by manipulations of 2x2 matrices, and investigates their use onstage in performance dance idioms. On March 26 and 27, 2010, eight dancers explored these ... -
A Matter of Medical Faith: The Anti-Vaccination Debate from 1880 to 1910
(2018-06-25)The History Department thesis “A Matter of Medical Faith: The Anti-Vaccination Debate from 1880 to 1910,” explores the first anti-vaccination movement in the United States, and its eventual culmination in the 1905 Supreme ... -
The meaning of symbolism in tattoos: A qualitative inquiry into the relationship between individuals and their body art
(2017-06-29)This study investigated the nature of the relationships between individuals and their own tattoo(s). Through considering the personal construction of symbolic meaning involved with getting and having a tattoo, this research ... -
Measuring Charge of Individual Quantum Dots
(2013-05-28)Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots (QDs) have been a subject of interest for many years due to their favorable optoelectronic properties arising directly from their small size through quantum confinement ... -
Measuring forest biomass using AIMS lidar and aerial high-resolution imagery
(2012-05-18)Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are a leading cause of climate change (Malhi et al. 2002). At least half of the Earth’s terrestrial carbon is stored in forest biomass (Gower et al. 1996) by the ... -
Mechanical characterization of modulus-tunable and surface-modifiable polydimethylsiloxane with AFM
(2015-07-14)In this study we investigated two polymeric reaction systems to fabricate stiffness-tunable and surface-modifiable polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), a biomaterial commonly used in microfluidic devices for medical diagnostics ... -
Mechanical Characterization of Photo-crosslinkable Hydrogels with AFM
(2012-05-11)Photo-crosslinkable hydrogel films are versatile materials for controlled drug delivery devices (Duncan, 2003), three-dimensional micro-assemblies, and components in microfluidic systems (Beebe et al., 2000). A hydrogel ... -
Melodies of Distant Realms: World Music in the Context of Video Games
(2015-07-01)When players discuss video games, their attention often gravitates towards graphics, gameplay, story, or even the company that produced the game first. There is another component that is as significant to complete the video ... -
Mentor Relationships and Feared Selves: A Qualitative Study
(2011-05-02)The current study explored the ways in which mentors helped Black college students to avoid feared selves grounded in negative stereotypes. A purposive sample of 21 undergraduates (11 male, 10 female) who had completed at ... -
Mentoring Initiaition of Adolescents: Examining the Role of Identity Style and Constructivist Epistemology
(2011-02-16)Research has documented many benefits of mentoring for adolescents. However, less is known about what factors make it more likely for adolescents to initiate mentoring. Previous work focused on the mentoring of adults ... -
A Message Hidden But Always Seen: The Influence of the Spiritual Franciscans on the Works of Dante Alighieri
(2011-02-16)In the early 14th century, Dante Alighieri wrote the Commedia, a work which has influenced the minds and souls of those who have been privileged to read it. The late 13th and early 14th century also witnessed the rise of ...