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Analysis of the RNA-binding properties of Hfq proteins from the bacteria Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, and Caulobacter crescentus
(2018-06-28)Bacterial small, noncoding (s)RNAs play important roles in post-transcriptional gene regulation through complementary base-pairing interactions with target messenger (m)RNA molecules,. Many sRNAs rely on protein partners ... -
Analyzing Social Movement Theory and Sport: Exploring the Presence of Athlete Activism in Brazil and the United States
(2019-07-01)The relationship between athletes and activism is ubiquitous in United States (US) history. I became curious as to how this relationship operates in other countries. Comparing US athlete activism to Brazil athlete activism ... -
Analyzing the Summertime Hunger Paradox: How We Can Improve the USDA’s Summer Meals Program for U.S. Children from Low-Income Households
(2015-07-07)This study examines regular access to healthy food in summertime as a social determinant of health affecting children in the United States. Through a close study of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s ... -
Anne Conway's Intellectual Neighborhood
(2013-06-20)Anne Conway (1631-1679) fits into standard narratives of seventeenth-century natural philosophy only as a footnote, that rare example of a well-documented educated woman. The focus placed on print publication by the history ... -
The Antecedents and Outcomes of Self-Regulation in Early Childhood
(2013-07-01)Interpersonal success requires effective self-regulation. Thus, researchers must discern the developmental origins of self-regulation, in addition to understanding the impact of self-regulation on later social competence. ... -
Antipredator Behavior in Pavement Ants, Tetramorium sp. E
(2013-06-20)Pavement ants, Tetramorium sp. E and antlions, Myrmeleontidae, compete with each other for survival. The interplay between the species suggests coevolution, an evolutionary arms race between predators and prey. Learning ... -
Application of the Branched Glycerol Dialkyl Glycerol Tetraether (brGDGT) Temperature Proxy on Tropical Lake Bosumtwi in West Africa: Assessment of the Proxy and the Resulting 2,000 Year Paleotemperature Record
(2015-04-28)Little remains known about the Holocene temperature history of West Africa, partly due to the fact that a paleoclimate proxy with the ability to reconstruct tropical temperatures has not been available. The branched ... -
Are All the Fairies Dead? Fairy Tales and Place in Victorian Realism
(2011-02-16)This thesis examines the role played by fairy tales and folklore in the settings and geographical imagination of five Victorian novels: Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," George Eliot's "Silas Marner" and "Felix Holt," ... -
Are We in Hot Water?: Comparing Macroinvertebrate Communities and Water Quality over Time
(2018-05-08)Freshwater ecosystems, which support a significant portion of the world’s biodiversity, are often plagued by pollution, particularly excess nitrogen and phosphorus. Additionally, freshwater ecosystems are strongly impacted ... -
THE ART OF LOOKING: ART, SCIENCE, AND OBSERVATION IN LATE ENLIGHTENMENT BRITAIN
(2019-06-28)This project will examine the artistic and visual culture of the late Enlightenment (roughly 1750-1830) with a focus on Great Britain. Specifically, I will be examining how the New Science of the Enlightenment, with its ... -
Asian American Mental Health: Effects of Racism-related Stress and Emotional Regulation
(2020-06-15)Asian Americans experience anti-Asian American racism (e.g., model minority) which can perform in different types such as subtle and overt. Various types of racism and racism-related stress have a detrimental impact on ... -
Assessing the potential use of microtraces of gastropod predation as a diagnostic for predator-prey interactions in the fossil record
(2018-05-17)Predatory gastropods have left signs of boring predation in the fossil record as early as the Cambrian (McMenamin and Schulte McMenamin, 1990; putative Proterozoic examples [e.g., Bengtson and Zhao, 1992] remain controversial). ... -
Assessing the Role of GAP-43 in Learning using Zebrafish in a Conditioned Place Preference Assay
(2011-02-16)The use of zebrafish in behavioral studies is becoming increasingly popular due to our extensive knowledge of the zebrafish genome which offers the possibility of studying the genetic basis of behavior I developed a spatial ... -
Asthma-induced ASD-like Behaviors in Offspring of Maternal Allergic-Asthma Dams: A Model of the Double Hit Hypothesis
(2018-07-27)Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social and communication impairments and restricted repetitive behaviors (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). While ASD is based ... -
At German and Polk: An Artist's Autobiography
(2011-05-18)As a printmaker and conceptual artist I work within notions of autobiography to move swiftly between the perspectives of my child-self and that of my current-self. My artwork is heavily process oriented allowing these ... -
At the Edge of Print
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Automated Protein Classification Using Rigidity Analysis
(2011-06-01)Proteins are one of the most important biological structures found in nature. Consequently, the ability to determine a protein’s function quickly and accurately is of considerable importance to the scientific community. ... -
Automatic Methods To Disambiguate Geospatial Queries
(2011-02-16)Today an unprecedented amount of digital information is available, but locating information of interest can be difficult. Information Retrieval (IR) is the area of Computer Science that aims to locate information by ... -
Awaawaa Tuu: “I Open My Arms and Embrace You” Addressing the Impediments on Special Education in Order to Embrace Disabled Students in Ghana.
(2013-07-01)Examining the perceptions of disability and the state of special education in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, this research argues that the education system in Ghana intends to serve children with disabilities, but ... -
Back from the U.S.S.R.: Soviet Jewish Immigrants in a Fractured Promised Land
(2020-11-30)Between 1989-2001, 1.5 million Soviet Jews emigrated to Israel, representing the largest immigrant wave in the country’s history. Since their arrival, the Former Soviet Union (FSU) immigrant community has formed a salient ...