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Catholic liberation theology and Islamic Jihadism : a comparative analysis.
(2010-10-08)This thesis compares Catholic liberation theology which gained notoriety in the late 1960s and early 1970s as popularized by the works of Gustavo Gutierrez with modern Islamic Jihadism, which was ideologically driven by ... -
Causes and differences in retention of white, African American, and Hispanic students who progressed toward graduation after first year in college.
(2010-10-08)African American and Hispanic students' retention rates in college have revealed that minority students are much more likely than white students to drop out of college. Additionally, minority students' graduation rates ... -
Changing patterns in marijuana use among high school seniors : latent modeling of time-series cross-sections (1976 – 2013).
(2016-04-19)Public support for the legalization of marijuana is on the rise. As states are increasingly passing legislation decriminalizing marijuana possession and consumption, a great deal of research is needed to inform policy-makers ... -
Chaos in dendritic and circular Julia sets.
(2016-07-01)We demonstrate the existence of various forms of chaos (including transitive distributional chaos, w-chaos, topological chaos, and exact Devaney chaos) on two families of abstract Julia sets: the dendritic Julia sets DT ... -
Chaotic properties of set-valued dynamical systems.
(2016-04-04)In this thesis, many classical results of topological dynamics are adapted to the set-valued case. In particular, focus is given to the notions of topological entropy and the specification property. These properties are ... -
Characteristic measurements within a GEC rf Reference Cell.
(2010-10-08)Since its introduction, the GEC rf Reference Cell has provided a baseline for comparison among various experiments performed within the complex (dusty) plasma community. The GEC cell, while providing for data comparison ... -
The characteristics of parent-child relationships and their effects on God images.
(2011-05-12)It has been proposed that an individual's attitudes and beliefs strongly reflect their concepts of what God is and what God represents. However, where do these attitudes and beliefs originate? I theorize that they come ... -
Characterization of a nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) copper regulon.
(2015-07-17)The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway was originally identified as a pathway that degrades mRNAs harboring premature termination codons. NMD is now also recognized as a pathway that degrades natural mRNAs. In ... -
The characterization of Aaron : threshold encounters in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers.
(, 2012-11-29)This study presents a reader-constructed portrait of Aaron, the high priest of the ancient Israelite people. The portrait was developed according to the literary theory which proposes that a narrative character is an ... -
The characterization of Jesus in the book of Hebrews.
(, 2012-08-08)This dissertation accomplishes three things. First, it identifies the literary and rhetorical devices that the author of Hebrews uses to construct his characterization of Jesus. Second, it reconstructs the portrait that ... -
The characterization of the Christ as ideal king in Ephesians.
(2010-06-23)Lack of consensus regarding an historical situation that occasioned the writing of Ephesians has led to a recent trend in research, which seeks to read the letter as addressing more broadly the related issues of identity ... -
Characterization of the metallo-ß-lactamase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, IMP-1.
(, 2014-06-11)The rate at which pathogenic bacteria are gaining antibiotic resistance has become increasingly alarming. Major contributors of this antibiotic resistance in microbes are a class of enzymes known as β-lactamases. These ... -
Characterizing action : Sir Thomas Malory's development of character in Le Morte Darthur.
(2009-08-25)Sir Thomas Malory too often is considered to be a redactor of other tellings of the Arthuriad, uninterested in developing characters and overly invested in narrating action scenes in Le Morte Darthur. This thesis brings ... -
Characterizing Jesus : a rhetorical analysis on the Fourth Gospel's use of Scripture in its presenation of Jesus.
(2011-01-05)This dissertation explores how the Fourth Gospel's use of Scripture contributes to its characterization of Jesus. Utilizing literary-rhetorical criticism, it approaches the Gospel in its final form, paying particular ... -
Charcoal chemistry : developing a proxy for paleofire regimes.
(, 2013-09-16)Wildfires have occurred over geologic time since the evolution of land plants and affect global biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem processes. Charcoal particles in the geological record may contain information on several ... -
Charging of aggregate grains in astrophysical environments.
(, 2011-12-19)Plasma is a gas in which a portion of particles are ionized. Dust is a ubiquitous component of the universe, and when present in plasma, can form dusty plasma system. Dust in the plasma is generally charged due to the ... -
Charles Dickens’s Bleak house: Benthamite jurisprudence and the law, or what the law is and what the law ought to be.
(2008-06-09)Dickens’s foggy world of the nineteenth-century Chancery Court is famous, and infamous, for keeping its litigants in a constant and never-ending state of legal confusion, costs, and “conglomeration” (Bleak House 1873 I: ... -
Chasing Flutie : a closer look into the impact of collegiate athletics on admissions.
(2017-04-20)As the cost of maintaining a competitive athletic program continues to rise, many are questioning the true benefit of these programs. For some universities, athletic expenditures have increased at a higher rate than its ... -
Chemical toxicity distributions in aquatic toxicology : relative sensitivities of estrogenicity assays and ecotoxicity of parabens in model freshwater organisms.
(2008-12)A probabilistic ecological hazard assessment technique, chemical toxicity distributions, was used to examine the relative sensitivities of in vitro and in vivo assays for detecting estrogenicity, and to assess the hazards ... -
Chemistry of picolyl substituted phosphines.
(2009-08-26)The study and understanding of the coordination behavior of functional ligands with d¹⁰ "closed shell" metals has been active for many years, as it will continue to expand along with advances in characterization techniques ...