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PREPARATION OF HOMOGENOUS OCTANOIC ACID COATED 𝜸-Fe2O3 NANOPARTICLE MONOLAYERS USING A MIXED SOLVENT SYSTEM
(2016-06-06)While magnetic nanoparticles have many exciting potential applications, one common obstacle that needs to be overcome is their instability in air and solution. We investigated a less common surfactant, octanoic acid, to ... -
Preschoolers' Acceptance of Peers with Disabilities: A Cross Cultural Analysis
(2011-02-16)The purpose of this study was to examine Indian and American children‟s acceptance of peers with disabilities through 108 interviews with preschoolers and survey data from 113 parents. Analyses of the data showed that ... -
Primary Culture of Drosophila melanogaster Glial Cells
(2014-05-06)Glial cells are one of the most abundant cell types in human brains, yet there is very little that we actually know about these cells. We do know that glial cells are important and vital regulators of the function of the ... -
PROBLEMS MOTIVATED BY CRYPTOLOGY: COUNTING FIXED POINTS AND TWO-CYCLES OF THE DISCRETE LAMBERT MAP
(2015-06-30)In this thesis, we begin with a brief introduction to some relevant number theory and to digital signature schemes (DSS). We explain how information about the discrete Lambert map (DLM) [2] relates to DSS security. ... -
Promoting Democracy: My Summer in Washington DC
(2019-04-22)This summer, I interned for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, a Washington, DC-based international, non-profit organization that provides assistance and support for elections in new and emerging democracies. ... -
Promoting denitrification in restored wetlands: The importance of soil carbon quality
(2015-06-29)Wetlands contribute a wide variety of ecosystem functions, one of which is the improvement of water quality through denitrification. In order to offset the negative environmental impact of destroying wetlands for the sake ... -
Promoting the Next Zuckerburgs: Social Media for Startups
(2018-03-26)How do small start-ups get their funding and make a name for themselves? Public relations! With the PR firm I worked for this summer, I helped small start-ups get funding and reach out. They may not all be the next Zuckerbergs ... -
Prosody, Poetry and Processing: an Event Related Potential Investigation of Auditory Imagery
(2017-06-13)The aim of the current study is to understand the role of metrical structure in implicit prosody during silent reading as an attempt to draw parallels between auditory imagery and auditory perception. Implicit prosody can ... -
Prospero's Astrolabe: A Collection of Poems
(2015-06-01)Prospero’s Astrolabe is a poetry collection exploring the connections between the history and mythology of astronomy and the human condition. Originally inspired by Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s 2014 television miniseries, "Cosmos", ... -
PROTEASE ACTIVITY IN LYMPHOID ORGANS OF BALB/C AND C57BL/6 MICE FOLLOWING MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION
(2011-02-16)Current HIV research uses murine leukemia virus (MuLV) as a mouse model. There are two strains of mice that are used for this study,BALB/c and C57 BL/6. Both strains of mice will be infected with the virus, but the BALB/c ... -
Ptolemy Comes to America: Cartographic Objectivity and European Imperial Ambition, 1500-1630
(2019-07-17)This project connects the evolution of European cartography to the developing culture of objectivity in European knowledge-making communities. Just as the proto-scientists of the Renaissance revived the knowledge-making ... -
Public Financing of Professional Sports Stadiums
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Punishment beyond Prison: Denying Housing to Formerly Incarcerated People in Greater Boston
(2019-07-01)Every year over 600,000 people are released from incarceration in the United States. Upon their return to the free world, a big portion of this population faces housing insecurity or outright homelessness. Although research ... -
Quantifying Changes in Heat Shock Protein Expression in a Drosophila Model of Neuronal Tauopathy
(2016-05-02)Aggregation of misfolded, hyperphosphorylated tau protein is a hallmark of several etiologically diverse age-related neurodegenerative diseases called tauopathies, which include Picks’ disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and ... -
Quantifying Chemotaxis in Escherichia coli and Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus Using A Flow-Based Microfluidic Device
(2014-02-03)Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is a small, highly motile, predatory bacterium. It preys on a wide variety of gram-negative bacteria, including some human pathogens. As a result, Bdellovibrio has been proposed as a non-pharmaceutical ... -
Quantifying Physical Characteristics and Weathering of Bedrock in Relation to Landscape Development in the Colorado Front Range
(2012-06-07)Bedrock weathering is a fundamental component of critical zone geomorphology that can be influenced by rock strength, fracture spacing, mineralogy, and topoclimate. By quantifying rock strength, we can characterize bedrock ...