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X-wire investigation of turbulent flow in simulated additively manufactured turbine blade cooling channels.
(2020-02-03)Gas turbine blades may be additively manufactured (AM) using processes such as direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) to create more complex shapes and produce more effective cooling than otherwise feasible with traditional ... -
Xiaofan and The Horseman
(2019-05-22)Inspired by classic horror genre tropes that turn benign objects like dolls and clowns into monsters that terrorize children, this thesis seeks to invert that process. The screenplay explores the possibilities of using ... -
Yeast As a Model Organism To Assay the Functional Relevance of nsSNPS in Mitochondrial Disorders
(2013-12-20)This thesis explores two yeast experiments. The first experiment, which was performed during the summers of 2011 and 2012, involved developing several yeast strains (including yeast strains with human wild-type orfeomes ... -
"YHWH, remember!" : place, memory, and ritual in Psalms 120-137.
(2017-08-04)This dissertation examines the collection of psalms with the superscription šîr hamma‘ălôt (120-134) along with the triad of psalms, 135-137, that follows the collection. The project begins with a history of scholarship ... -
You are Who You Fight: The CIA, Covert Action, and National Security
(2017-05-24)Hollywood thrillers, conspiracy theories and political discourse, often depict the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an uncontrollable, enigmatic organization populated by James Bonds. The agency’s mandate, set out in ... -
You Should Have Expected Us - An Explanation of Anonymous
(2012-05-07)Anonymous is a decentralized activist collective that has evolved using the technology of the information age. This paper traces its origins as a way of contextualizing and better understanding its actions. The groups ... -
You think it's hot here? : the theological influences on evangelical leadership concerning the politics of climate change.
(, 2011-12-19)This dissertation examines the theological influences on evangelical leadership in America concerning the politics of climate change. In the United States, the controversy surrounding climate change elicits strong debate ... -
Your own personal Jesus : individualized religious sectarianism in the mid-victorian novel.
(2018-11-16)This Dissertation explores four novels from the mid-nineteenth century, two of which are by canonical authors, Charles Dickens and George Eliot; two not as well known, Charles Kingsley and Charlotte Yonge. The nineteenth ... -
Zebra Mussel Awareness in Central Texas
Since the introduction of the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, into the United States, freshwater food webs have been drastically altered. This mussel filters phytoplankton, the basis for aquatic food chains, which ... -
The Zombie Argument and Its Implications for Naturalism
(2014-06-02)In the discipline of philosophy today, the nature of consciousness is an extremely popular topic. Additionally, there is a general consensus on the truth of naturalism. This thesis investigates whether a naturalist conception ... -
The zombie manifesto : the Marxist revolutions in George A. Romero’s Land of the dead.
(2009-06-10)Four decades after re-inventing the zombie film into its modern understanding, George A. Romero continues to use the zombie film to assert his leftist political ideologies and social satire. With each subsequent film, ...