• The Effect of Fertilizers on Methanotrophic Microbes in Wetland Environments 

  Thompson, Pierce (2022-05-09)

  Climate Change is perhaps the greatest threat to life on Earth. As anthropogenic carbon emissions increase, the amount of methane released from wetlands increases. To combat large amounts of methane that are produced each ...

• Extraction of body wave arrivals from seismic interferometry using time series features and machine learning methods and their applications to seismic tomography. 

  Thangraj, Joseph Soloman, 1992- (2021-12-03)

  The development of seismic interferometry methods in the last decade has increased the utility of passive seismic surveys for seismic modeling and monitoring. Since passive seismic surveys do not require manual efforts in ...

• Transcendent moral motives and virtue : a meditation-based experiment exploring the roles of self-transcending and self-enhancing motives in virtue development. 

  Williams, Emily G., 1996-; 0000-0003-4790-8748 (2021-10-27)

  Current virtue theories emphasize the role of self-transcendent morality in virtue development, but there is limited empirical work that explores this. A three-week meditation-based intervention (N = 877) experimentally ...

• Understanding the singlet oxygen reactivity of salarin C through synthesis of a simplified macrocyclic analogue; multicomponent, enantioselective organocatalytic synthesis of tetrahydropyridazinones. 

  Jourdain, Roxane M., 1991-; 0000-0002-7045-939X (2021-10-27)

  Natural products are a valuable source of inspiration for the discovery of new anticancer therapeutic agents. Sponges, especially, produce a wide variety of cytotoxic chemical defense agents. The macrolide salarin C is one ...

• Memory as the political art in Plato's Statesman. 

  Craig, Catherine, 1995- (2021-12-03)

  The nature and purpose of memory is central to Plato’s Statesman. Explicitly a pursuit of the political art, the dialogue has substantial epistemological and ontological concerns, suggesting the order of the whole and the ...

• Design and delivery of novel antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) targeted towards specific microbial pathogens. 

  Choudhury, Ankan, 1990-; 0000-0003-2060-8884 (2021-10-22)

  Targeted therapies selectively eliminate a pathogen without disrupting the native microbiota. Traditional antibiotics, in contrast, destroy the native microbiota along with pathogens, causing adverse health outcomes for ...

• Effects of nutrient stoichiometry and environmental conditions on the growth, toxin concentration, and nitrogen uptake of cyanobacteria. 

  Osburn, Felicia S., 1993- (2021-10-27)

  Anthropogenic influences are negatively affecting water bodies by both increasing the concentrations of nutrients as well as contributing to increased temperatures from climate change. Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are ...

• The soil and the soul : religion and agriculture in colonial New England, 1650-1800. 

  Craven, Alyssa Gerhardt, 1989- (2021-11-15)

  This dissertation explores published literature of the New England colonies relating to agriculture from the point of English settlement to 1800. While many works have sought to recover the realities of agriculture during ...

• Approximation and interpolation with Bernstein polynomials. 

  Allen, Larry J., 1993- (2021-11-03)

  Bernstein polynomials, long a staple of approximation theory and computational geometry, have also increasingly become of interest in finite element methods. In this dissertation, we investigate fundamental problems in ...

• Wealth and poverty and the occasion of First Clement. 

  Bailey, Jeremiah N., 1985-; 0000-0001-5455-5448 (2021-11-02)

  This dissertation investigates the conflict in the Corinthian church described by 1 Clement. Using primarily social, rhetorical, and intertextual methods, it proposes a reading of the conflict that attributes it to root ...

• Ought we kiss the hand that smites us? : Black Protestants in the age of lynching, 1890-1919. 

  Foley, Malcolm B., 1990-; 0000-0002-6419-4735 (2021-10-26)

  The decades-long phenomenon of racialized lynching in the United States took thousands of lives, but beyond the death toll, it also created a culture of terror in Black communities. These communities powerfully resisted ...

• From thaumaturgy to dramaturgy : staging occult modernism. 

  Higgins, Sørina. 1979-; 0000-0003-1766-2126 (2021-11-02)

  Between 1890 and 1945, at least nine British and Irish dramatists—including W. B. Yeats, Charles Williams, and Aleister Crowley—were initiated into occult secret societies; yet scholarship has failed to acknowledge the ...

• Rural/urban health disparity of the oldest old in China. 

  Liu, Yingling, 1986- (2021-10-26)

  China is the fastest aging country in the post-industrial world. The oldest old, aged 80 and above, in China are an extremely selective group, as they are the survivors of brutal historical events which decimated the birth ...

• Extremal conditions in early universe cosmology. 

  Lee, Jeff S., 1964-; 0000-0001-9278-4014 (2021-10-22)

  Some aspects of Special Relativity have remained largely unresolved and unexplored even after more than a century since its formulation; this is particularly true in the case of relativistic thermodynamics. Attempts to ...

• Peptidoglycome of gram-positive bacteria. 

  Rimal, Binayak, 1988- (2021-10-08)

  Our modern healthcare system faces imminent threats from multidrug-resistant pathogens due to their unprecedented increase in the frequency of infections in clinical environment compounded by the lack of novel antibiotic ...

• Unveiling the orientation, conformations, and contacts of replicative hexameric DNA helicases that govern DNA replication dynamics. 

  Perera, Himasha M., 1990-; 0000-0003-1533-9640 (2021-11-10)

  Replication of chromosomal DNA is an intricate process carefully orchestrated in all living organisms by a multiprotein molecular machine known as the replisome. The replicative DNA helicase motor protein is at the forefront ...

• Rapamycin improves social and stereotypic behavior abnormalities induced by neural subset specific Pten deletion. 

  Narvaiz, David A., 1985-; 0000-0002-5434-5771 (2021-11-17)

  In both patients and rodent models, mutations to the phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome ten (PTEN) gene result in hyperactivation of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway – a signaling system ...

• "Gods in human form"? A study of the acclamations of divinity in the Acts of the Apostles. 

  Glover, Daniel B., 1993-; 0000-0003-4621-7099 (2021-08-25)

  This study evaluates five divine acclamations in the Book of Acts by situating them within the broader ancient Mediterranean context of deification. It demonstrates that divine acclamations in Acts do not conform to a ...

• Design and activation of small organic molecules for localized immunosuppression. 

  Plunk, Michael A., 1992-; 0000-0003-4818-6492 (2021-08-27)

  Since the implementation of the Edmonton Protocol in the early 2000s, many efforts have been made to further improve the long-term viability of transplanted islets in recipients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. These efforts ...

• Metabolism and mechanistic toxicity of environmental pollutants in fish models : integrating in vitro and in vivo systems for ecotoxicological studies. 

  Franco, Marco E., 1991-; 0000-0002-9081-3966 (2021-09-15)

  The presence of legacy and emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment represents a significant threat to aquatic biota, often leading to significant declines of biodiversity. This issue is further aggravated by the ...

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