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MacDonald’s Antiphon : literary traditions and the "lost church" of English worship.
(, 2012-08-08)This dissertation examines the ways in which Victorian novelist and fantasist George MacDonald re-imagines Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ideas about the religious function of literary traditions. Each chapter of this project ... -
Machine learning-assisted prediction of structure and function of cystine-stabilized peptides and optimization of expression in an E. coli system.
(2018-03-22)Cystine-stabilized peptides are promising prospects for the pharmaceutical industry as biologics. These peptides carry out a variety of useful functions which could be exploited to treat diseases and kill unwanted organisms. ... -
Macro-level modifiable variables affecting breastfeeding rates.
(, 2012-08-08)The World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding followed by at least six additional months of complementary feedings. Current rates in the ... -
Made in God's Image: A Multidisciplinary Study of Personhood and Faith
(2019-05-22)The question "what is a person?" haunts countless disciplines and debates, from theology to neuroscience, abortion to artificial intelligence. For Christians to engage meaningfully in such areas in a way consistent with ... -
MADE TO ORDER: HOW ENGLISH SOCIETY USES THE BOARDING SCHOOL SYSTEM TO FORM THE IDEAL BOY
(2016-08-09)English society uses the British boarding school system as a means to mold children into proper adults. The boarding schools encourage virtues and ideas that society demands of adults and it shuns ideas that society ... -
Magic, Sorcery, and Sacraments: Combating and Using the Supernatural in Ancient Christian Literature
In the first four centuries of this era, Christians of the Greek-speaking Roman world displayed a range of attitudes toward rituals and behaviors that they labeled as "magical," i.e. as mageia, goeteia, or pharmakeia. ... -
The magnetic field inside a protoplanetary disk gap opened by planets of different masses
(Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2017)We perform magnetohydrodynamic simulations of protoplanetary disc gaps opened by planets of various masses, with the aim of calculating the strength of the vertical magnetic field threading such gaps. We introduce a ... -
Magnetic investigation of the continental-oceanic crustal boundary ; northern Gulf of Mexico.
(, 2012-11-29)Current mapping of magnetic intensity data shows that the Gulf Coast magnetic anomaly is not one anomaly but two distinct anomalies, with one portion trending parallel to the margin before curving northward through central ... -
Magnitudes of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte infiltration and secretion of their targeting chemokines are bimodally distributed among a population of colorectal tumor microenvironments.
(2014-11-14)T-cell infiltration varies among colorectal tumors and directly impacts patient survival. Chemoattraction and infiltration of CD8⁺ T-cells are mediated by surface chemokine receptors CXCR3 and CCR5, and are associated with ... -
Make America Populist Again: Examining the Causes and Effects of Populism in the 2016 Presidential Election
(2017-05-23)This paper examines American populism in its historical context and in relation to the current political landscape. Populism has a long history in the United States, taking multiple forms and pursuing manifold goals at ... -
Making a molehill out of a mountain : creating a policies and procedures manual for the Confederate Reunion Grounds.
(2014-09-05)The goal of this project was to assist Dixie Hoover, Site Manager for the Confederate Reunion Grounds (CRG) in Mexia, Texas, in creating a cohesive set of policies and procedures for the site. The CRG was recently transferred ... -
Making their own faith : Lutheranism and American culture in the Civil War era.
(2018-07-11)From 1830 to 1900, the American Lutheran church grew from less than 50,000 members to more than 1,600,000—five times the growth rate of the U.S. population—and became the nation’s fourth largest religious denomination. ... -
The Malady of Busyness: A Philosophical and Psychological Approach to Curing a Modern Problem
(2018-05-21)Humanity has ever sought to distract itself from introspection and boredom; however, with the rapid development of technology in the digital age, and with the pressing need for productivity which seems to be pressed on us ... -
Male characters in Nada (1945) and Entre Visillos (1958)
(, 2014-01-28)This study demonstrates how male characters in Nada (1945) and Entre visillos (1958), two twentieth-century novels written under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, play a pivotal role in the development of two impressionable ... -
"Man is made a mystery" : the evolution of Arthur Machen's religious thought.
(2010-10-08)Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author now known almost exclusively for his late nineteenth-century weird horror tales such as The Great God Pan (1894) and The Three Impostors (1895). The few Machen critics who have ... -
"A man may have wit, and yet put off his hat" censorship in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew fair and A tale of a tub.
(, 2013-09-24)Ben Jonson’s career gives us an interesting window into English Renaissance censorship, since a number of his plays were scrutinized, altered, or suppressed by the authorities. In response to the critical consensus that ... -
Managed Arboreal Spaces: Moral Expectations of Human-Nature Interactions in the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Gary Snyder
(2017-05-23)In the face of the environmental difficulties plaguing 21st century America, poetry from across the Anglo-American literary tradition can provide useful ways to understand how we should interact with nature. While facing ... -
Manic depression : Lyndon Johnson and the 1965 Watts Riots.
(2009-08-26)When Lyndon Johnson inherited the presidency from President Kennedy, he attempted to fulfill the social vision JFK left behind, while at the same time harnessing the unique opportunity to institute his own, even further-reaching ... -
Manifestations of transcendence in twentieth-century American fiction : F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carson McCullers, J.D. Salinger, and Cormac McCarthy.
(, 2014-01-28)At the beginning of the twentieth century, the secularization of American society poses a unique problem for fiction writers. As a number of scholars in various fields have established, humans desire and are oriented ... -
Manuduction and the Passion : the grammar of participation in selected seventeenth-century Good Friday lyric poems.
(2016-01-27)Drawing on the distinction between a “grammar of participation” and a “grammar of representation,” this study focuses on the Good Friday lyric poetry of George Herbert, Robert Herrick, John Donne, and Aemilia Lanyer. The ...