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Valerie: A Screenplay
Animated movies by Disney and Pixar make millions of dollars every year. Great stories and great art capture audiences and can create a cultural movement, as evidenced by Frozen. This impact and its importance in society ... -
Valuing the environment : a comparison of Western Europe, the US, and Canada.
(2011-01-05)Using the World Values Survey, we evaluate the differences in environmental preferences between the United States and two other global leaders, Western Europe and Canada, in order to discover whether there is evidence, at ... -
Variation in fluctuating asymmetry among nine damselfly species.
(, 2012-08-08)Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), measured as random deviations from bilateral symmetry, likely results from developmental disturbances by internal or environmental stresses. However, comparisons of FA in single damselfly species ... -
Variations in the sociology of Islam and gender : a multi-level analysis of Islam and gender in majority Muslim contexts.
(2011-05-12)This dissertation answers two main questions: First, what is the relationship between Islam and gender? In other words, where can we find the intersection of religion and gender in the beliefs and actions of Muslims in a ... -
Vasopressin decreases excitability in rat lateral amygdala neurons through inhibition of hyperpolarization-activated cationic current.
(2011-05-13)The amygdala is a critical part of the limbic system with important roles in social behavior. Abnormal activity in the lateral amygdala nucleus (LA) has been implicated in several disorders, including autism spectrum ... -
Verbal and working memory deficits in an impulsive aggressive college sample.
(2008-06-09)Impulsive aggressors often report difficulties remembering details of their aggressive outbursts. Additionally, researchers have found impairments in working and verbal memory and in executive functions in both impulsive ... -
"Verie needfull for this time" : representations of women in sixteenth-century English prayer manuals.
(, 2014-06-11)Using three texts written by different authors, this thesis argues that sixteenth-century English prayer manuals set rigid boundaries for women by representing them in limited ways. Analyzing and comparing Thomas Becon's ... -
Vertical Interaction Between Dust Particles Confined in a Glass Box in a Complex Plasma
(IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2013-04)In this experiment, falling particle trajectories within and without a glass box placed on the lower electrode in a Gaseous Electronics Conference reference cell are recorded and analyzed, and the electrostatic forces ... -
Vertical probe-induced asymmetric dust oscillation in complex plasma
(Physical Review E, 2013-05-24)A complex plasma vertical oscillation experiment which modifies the bulk is presented. Spherical, micron-sized particles within a Coulomb crystal levitated in the sheath above the powered lower electrode in a GEC reference ... -
Vestals Remembered: An Examination of the Myths of Rhea Silvia, Tarpeia, and Tuccia
(2014-06-02)This thesis examines three legendary Vestal Virgins and analyzes how they functioned as symbols of the inviolability of Rome. It begins with a preliminary chapter which outlines the cult’s regulations and the role of the ... -
Veterans as teachers? A qualitative study of the inhibitors and enabling factors for OIF/OEF-era active duty veterans to complete a teacher education program and initial certification using military educational benefits.
(, 2013-09-24)Over two million veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq may be coming to American colleges and universities as a result of the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Veterans have education benefits available to them, such as the ... -
Vibrational Modes and Instabilities of a Dust Particle Pair in a Complex Plasma
(IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2010-04-10)Vibrational modes and instabilities of a dust-particle pair in a terrestrial aboratory complex plasma are investigated by employing an analytical method whereby the plasma wakefield induced by an external electric field ... -
Vibrational spectroscopy in cryogenic solutions: application of thermal lensing and Fourier transform techniques to the study of molecular C-H overtone transitions.
(2007-01-22)This dissertation explores the application of thermal lensing to vibrational overtone spectroscopy in cryosolutions. Specifically, C-H (delta v = 6) overtone spectra of hydrocarbons dissolved in liquefied rare gases are ... -
Vigilant justice and insurgent freedom : a post-9/11 film study.
(2009-08-24)In a post-9/11 America where national security is critical for preserving American values, power that the government exercises can be subject to abuse. Because United States citizens place a copious amount of power in their ... -
Violence in Civil War: Understanding Insurgencies and Civilian Casualties
(2018-05-21)Civilian deaths during times of war is usually seen as a horrific tragedy that armed forces should take care to avoid. Insurgent groups like ISIL have terrorized the local population with deadly attacks that often end in ... -
Virtue embodied : fathers and daughters in the eighteenth-century novel.
(2010-06-23)In this study of five eighteenth-century British novels, I explore the connection between an author's definition of virtue and the portrayal of the father-daughter relationship. Both the father-daughter relationship and ... -
Virtue in the tragic vision of Cormac McCarthy.
(2011-01-05)Cormac McCarthy's novels evoke a more complex perspective than many conventional descriptions—e.g., redemptive or nihilistic, modern or postmodern—allow. Focusing primarily on his Western novels, I demonstrate in contrast ... -
Virtues, divine commands, and the debt of creation: towards a Kierkegaardian Christian ethic.
(Southwestern Philosophical Society, 2006-01)Though Kierkegaard's ethic in "Works of Love" frequently has been a target of harsh — and often uncharitable — criticism, a number of recent treatments have sought to defend both its viability and its relevance to the ... -
Visual constitutive rhetoric and the transformative power of public art.
(2017-04-13)In his germinal essay, “Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple Québécois,” Maurice Charland posits that rhetors can call audiences into being to motivate them toward specific goals. Rhetorical critics initially ... -
Voices of reform : an oral history of the impact of mathematics reform on Texas public schools : 1960 - 2010.
(2011-01-05)Since the launch of the Soviet satellite, Sputnik, rocked America's confidence as a strong nation, mathematics education reforms have been the focus of much debate in public schools for more than fifty years. Math education ...