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John Buchan: The Antonyms of Scottish Nationalism
(2011-02-16)An examination of Scottish nationalism during the Interwar Period (1918-1938), this paper seeks to explore and complicate the role played by intellectual elites in shaping national character and identity by investigating ... -
Joseph Allen Skinner and the Culture of Collecting in the Gilded Age
(2017-05-18)I examine the development of the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum through a critical study of Joseph Allen Skinner’s collecting habits and display strategies. I argue that while Skinner follows some Gilded Age collecting trends, ... -
Jumping behavior and the effects of caudal autotomy on performance in Anolis carolinensis
(2011-02-16)Maximal locomotor performance in Anolis lizards has been studied extensively within and across species. Hindlimb length is correlated with jump distances in a number of species of anoles, and differences in the structural ... -
Justice at Work: Towards an Adaptive Workplace
(2017-05-30)Why is it that some bodies, but not others, are able to comfortably navigate the workplace? What would it mean to imagine a workplace that allowed all bodies to exist and succeed in it fully? In this thesis, I explore how ... -
The Kamikaze Pilots of World War II and their Image in American Media
(2011-02-16)In October of 1944, during the late stages of World War II, Admiral Ōnishi Takijiro of the Japanese Navy proposed one final solution to Japan s situation: to organize suicide attack units composed of Zero fighters armed ... -
Kenya: Decolonization, Democracy and the Struggle for Uhuru
(2015-07-01)The former British colony of Kenya achieved independence in December 1963, but separation from the policies and legacy of the British Empire is an ongoing process. In 2011, a British High Court case brought by detainees ... -
Ketogenic Diet and Seizure Susceptibility in a Whole-Animal Drosophila melanogaster Model: Effects and Mechanisms
(2016-05-18)Seizures are abnormal epochs of neuronal hyperexcitability. The lowcarbohydrate, high-fat ketogenic diet (KD) is an effective treatment for epilepsy in juveniles especially for drug-resistant seizures. KD produces ketone ... -
Khayali Pulao: Dreaming up the Family
(2015-12-07)Khayali Pulao is a collection of poetry and prose that weaves my family’s oral accounts into a non-linear family history. The title, an Urdu phrase that could be translated as “Imagined Pilaf,” typically used to describe ... -
The Kindness of Strangers: Genetic Diversity Within Social Insect Colonies
(2011-05-20)It is generally believed that high relatedness between sisters, a characteristic of the hymenopteran method of sex determination, is what allows this insect order to build harmonious social organizations. However, at least ... -
Knowledge and Death in Animal Care: An Ethnographic Project in a Chicago Animal Shelter
(2018-04-30)This thesis traces the development of authoritative knowledge about animal care and euthanasia as developed in the Anti-Cruelty Society, a Chicago animal shelter. -
L'esthétique baroque et l'être brisé
(2011-02-16)If a number of critical works have found traces of the Baroque diffused in the novels of Québécois writer Hubert Aquin, it is due in part to the consciousness and the pronounced interest that Aquin had for this aesthetic. ... -
La escritora española y el prólogo como género literario (pre-1700)
(2011-02-16)Oh my reader, no doubt it will amaze you that a woman has the nerve, not only to write a book but actually to publish it, for publication is the crucible in which the purity of genius is tested. This opening line to María ... -
La ortodoxia heterodoxa de María de Santo Domingo y María de Ajofrín: Espiritualidad corpórea y autoría femenina entre siglos
(2021-06-11)The end of the fifteenth century saw the emergence of new forms of Iberian popular spirituality emphasizing individual religious practice and personal connection to the divine. In this project, I focus on María de Santo ... -
La Primera Barrera Somos Nosotros: Society, Stigma, and Adolescent Sexual Health
(2013-07-01)Drawing on the disciplines of Anthropology and Philosophy, this thesis examines the influence of societal conditions and attitudes on adolescent sexual health. Chapters I, II, and IV focus on the United States, where the ... -
La Traduccion de Emocion: Llegando a una Equivalencia
(2011-02-16)The objective of my thesis is to identify the strategies of various Spanish<>English translators and interpreters in their translation of emotions in relation to Eugene Nida s concept of dynamic equivalency. Nida contrasts ... -
LA TRADUCTION DU VIDE : LES POÉTIQUES DE LA DISTANCE CULTURELLE DANS L’ACCÈS AU CORPS DE MALEK ALLOULA
(2015-06-05)In this work, I present my original translation from French into English of Malek Alloula's book-length poem L’Accès au corps, published in 2005. In the first chapter of my introduction, I summarize my background ... -
Land Grabs: The Political Ecology of the Construction and Production of Potential Areas for Land Investments in Gambella, Ethiopia
(2013-07-01)In recent years, countries in the Global South have experienced a significant increase in the concession of large tracts of land by domestic and transnational companies, as well as governments, primarily for the production ... -
Land, Water, Truth, and Love - Visions of Identity and Land Access: From Bain's Bushmen to Khomani San
(2011-02-16)Entitled Land, Water, Truth, and Love Visions of Identity and Land Access: From Bain s Bushmen to Khomani San this thesis situates the current Khomani claims to land in their historical context. Examining the nexus ... -
Language, Image, Action: Experiments in Self-Expression through Multimedia Choreography
(2011-06-16)Communication is a seemingly simple concept focused on the way we give and receive information, both from significant events and from each other. There are a myriad of ways in which communication takes place, but three ... -
Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate change on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska: Interpretation of a marl record from Kelly Lake
(2019-07-01)Kelly Lake, located in the lowland of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, is a non-glacial, organic-rich, subaqueous spring-fed lake. A sediment core (KLY18-4) recovered from 4 m water depth offers multiple proxies including ...