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The ends of love : vice and charity in The End of the Affair.
(, 2012-11-29)The End of the Affair offers a compelling portrait of the two possible ends of natural love. Sarah Miles and Maurice Bendrix are confronted with the choice to let their natural love be subsumed into the love of God, ... -
Engage, explore, enjoy : an internship at the Mayborn Museum Complex.
(2014-06-11)This internship was at the Mayborn Museum Complex, a part of Baylor University, in Waco, Texas and was completed in the summer of 2013. I interned in the Promotions and Events Department full-time for ten weeks. My main ... -
Engaging visitors in historic buildings : Dallas Heritage Village's revitalization project in the Citizen's Bank building.
(2012-08-08)Although most museums have transformed from dim, dusty, quiet places of private intellectual pursuits into vibrant, educational institutions, many historic homes and buildings have struggled to make the leap into the ... -
Enzymatic and non-enzymatic reactions of flavonol and flavonolate ruthenium complex with small molecules: HNO and O2
(2016-11-17)Quercetin 2,3-dioxygenase (QDO) enzyme catalyzes the degradation of flavonols by incorporating both atoms of dioxygen. HNO, nitroxyl or azanone, is isoelectronic with 1O2, and acts as a reactive species for enzymatic and ... -
Establishing the foundation of Impatiens walleriana as a nectar model system.
(2016-11-28)Rapid proliferation of mosquito‐vectored viruses require affordable and effective methods are necessary in poor, urbanized tropical regions. Designing a plant‐based drug‐delivery system would provide this technology. ... -
An evaluation of the conceptual similarities and differences between the strategic logic of the religiously motivated suicide attacks of Tokkotai kamikaze and al-Qaeda shahid.
(, 2013-09-16)What motivated members of al-Qaeda to hijack commercial airliners and crash them into the sides of buildings? Is it similar to what motivated Japanese fighter pilots to crash their jets into the sides of American aircraft ... -
Evangelical Democrats and role conflict.
(2008-06-09)Evangelical Protestants have increasingly aligned with the Republican Party in their voting patterns and opinions since the late 1970’s. As a result, this alignment of Evangelical Protestantism with the GOP could present ... -
Evangelical Jeremiads and consuming Eves : the relationship of religion and consumerism in Eighteenth-Century Colonial America.
(2015-07-28)This thesis examines the commercial world of the American British colonies from the Great Awakening to the American Revolution through the lens of eighteenth century American religious history. It examines evangelical and ... -
The evidential support relation.
(, 2012-08-08)Evidentialist views in epistemology, like that of Earl Conee and Richard Feldman, define epistemic justification at least partially in terms of evidential support. According to these views, a person is justified in believing ... -
Evolution to pollution in Gulf killifish (Fundulus grandis) from Galveston Bay, TX, USA.
(2017-07-27)Anthropogenic contamination associated with industrial activity is a widespread and active threat to the stability of organisms. The Houston Ship Channel (HSC) is one example of a heavily impacted environment, where ... -
Evolutionary forces driving population differentiation in Lake Malawi rock-dwelling cichlids (Pisces: Cichlidae)
(, 2014-01-28)The East African cichlids with more than 2000 species represent the most diverse vertebrate radiation known. Lake Malawi harbors the most species rich flock with more than 700 endemic cichlids. In this work I use a ... -
The evolving narrator in the Spanish novel (1884-1958) : La de Bringas, Niebla, and Entre visillos.
(, 2013-09-16)The function of the narrator in Spanish literature is evolving, but the narrative voice continues to play a crucial role in communicating the message of the work, whether forcefully, playfully, or subtly. La de Bringas ... -
Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem : Wilfrid Ward and the art of Newman.
(, 2013-09-24)This dissertation investigates John Henry Newman's understanding of the imagination and its role in religious and aesthetic experience. Newman’s fictional and poetic works fell into the background in scholarly discussions ... -
Examining the role of expectancies during a mind-body intervention for hot flash reduction in postmenopausal women : is the relationship between treatment condition and symptom improvement mediated by response expectancy?
(2015-07-16)Hypnotherapy has been shown to be an effective intervention for the treatment of a variety of physical and psychological symptoms. However, the mechanisms of action responsible for hypnotherapy’s beneficial effects are not ... -
Existence and uniqueness of solutions of boundary value problems by matching solutions.
(, 2013-09-24)In this dissertation, we investigate the existence and uniqueness of boundary value problems for the third and nth order differential equations by matching solutions. Essentially, we consider the interval [a, c] of a BVP ... -
Existence of positive solutions to right focal three point singular boundary value problems.
(, 2013-09-16)In this dissertation, we prove the existence of positive solutions to two classes of three point right focal singular boundary value problems of at least fourth order. -
Existence of positive solutions to singular right focal boundary value problems.
(Orlando, FL : International Publications., 2005-05)In this dissetation, we seek positive solutions for the n^th order ordinary differential equation, y^(n)=f(x,y), satisfying the right focal boundary conditions, y^(i)(0)=y^(n-2)(p)=y^(n-1)(1)=0, i=0,...,n-3, where p is a ... -
The existential search for national, individual and spiritual identity in selected works of Miguel de Unamuno.
(2008-06-10)Miguel de Unamuno, a well-known twentieth century Spanish writer and member of the Generation of ’98, exemplified the human struggle with collective and individual identity in many of his essays, dramas and novels. As a ... -
Expanding the new paradigm: winners and losers among exclusive and nonexclusive religious firms in the Chinese and Japanese communities in the United States, 1850-1945.
(2006-07-24)From the perspective of a refined religious economy theory, the present paper is the first to empirically study the interplay between exclusive and nonexclusive religious bodies. Through reconstructing the historical facts ... -
Explanation in metaphysics.
(, 2011-09-14)One of the primary tasks of the philosopher is to explain what it is for something to be the case – what it is for one event (substance, fact) to cause another, what it is for an action to be obligatory, what it is for an ...