• Investigation of electrically-induced light emission in epsilon near zero (ENZ) heterostructure. 

  Rokunuzzaman, Md Kazi, 1991-; 0000-0002-9038-5623 (2021-05-04)

  Electrically driven plasmonic nanostructures can generate and guide highly confined light. Light emission and the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons by inelastic electron tunneling have been shown in metal-insulator-metal ...

• Multi-modal delivery of microRNA-203 to suppress migration and stemness in triple-negative breast cancer cell lines via repression of distinct target profiles. 

  Song, Shuxuan, 1990- (2021-04-28)

  Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a crucial embryonic program and an important mechanism for cancer cells to facilitate cellular dissociation from the primary tumor and entry into the blood circulation to drive ...

• The compassionate college woman and the confident college man : examining gender and race at American colleges from 1890 to 1910. 

  Reifsteck Gage, Cynthia, 1996-; 0000-0002-1815-4193 (2021-04-27)

  Students attending higher education institutions during Progressive Era America consistently admired confidence in men and compassion in women. With the immense social changes during this time period, a mix of gender ideals ...

• A cognitive poetic exploration of Elena Poniatowska’s La noche de Tlatelolco. 

  Boyd, Megan Michelle, 1996-; 0000-0002-0011-8741 (2021-05-04)

  This study of Elena Poniatowska’s La noche de Tlateloco is based on a cognitive poetic approach to explore readers’ perceptions of the work. It affirms both the historical veracity and literary ingenuity of the text by ...

• Hyperstitional communication and the reactosphere : the rhetorical circulation of neoreactionary exit. 

  Zoda, Greg Michael, 1996- (2021-04-29)

  This thesis evaluates the communicative means through which neoreactionaries compose a broader alt-right reactosphere. By retrieving the concept of hyperstition from the archives of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit—an ...

• The radical idea of the priesthood of foreigners : understanding the inclusivism in Isaiah 56:1-8. 

  Chae, Moon Kwon, 1979-; 0000-0002-1063-9460 (2021-04-02)

  This dissertation examines how the radical idea of the priesthood of foreigners in Isa 56:1-8 (and 66:18-24) developed in the Persian period by investigating Isa 56:1-8 in relation to its literary context in Isa 56-66 and ...

• The (Re)emergence of eco-fascism : white-nationalism, sacrifice, and proto-fascism in the circulation of digital rhetoric in the ecological far-right. 

  Smith, Jacob Kenton, 1997-; 0000-0001-8456-9568 (2021-05-05)

  Environmentalism is no longer the sole domain of progressive and leftist politics. A recent uptick in violent outbursts by white nationalists espousing eco-fascist political beliefs indicates a troubling trend in environmental ...

• Forcing ℵ1-free groups to be free. 

  Pasi, Alexandra V., 1993- (2021-04-12)

  ℵ1-free groups, abelian groups whose countable subgroups are free, are objects of both algebraic and set-theoretic interest. Illustrating this, we note that ℵ1-free groups, and in particular the question of when ℵ1-free ...

• Sick and tired of being sick and tired : visual rhetorical practices of black feminist clapback. 

  Nave, Nicole D., 1994- (2021-05-07)

  This thesis analyzes the discursive practices of US Vice President Kamala Harris, US Representative Maxine Waters, and US Representative Ilhan Omar. It posits Black femme style as a productive way to analyze the rhetorical ...

• Red power in the age of Nixon : an analysis of the official memory of Native protest. 

  Egli, Mattilyn, 1996- (2021-05-04)

  The Nixon administration is remembered for being one of the most progressive presidencies in history in terms of federal Native policy, and yet was still thoroughly colonial. One of the easily visible facets of its coloniality ...

• The role of identity negotiation in father involvement : Southern, evangelical, and professional identities' influence on father involvement. 

  Wuthrich, Michaela, 1996-; 0000-0002-2659-2310 (2021-05-05)

  Despite efforts advocating heterosexual marital equality in the United States, barriers to father involvement (FI) persist. In effort to identify the causes of this disparity, FI research frequently examines how various ...

• Inclusion in fandom : how Harry Potter fans rhetorically create representation. 

  Simpson, Johanna Consuelo, 1996- (2021-05-03)

  Drawing on Jenkins’ concept of textual poachers, this thesis looks at how Harry Potter fans rhetorically invent representation by drawing on aspects of the original story and reinterpreting them in more inclusive ways. I ...

• Quareosonics : beyond respectable sonics in hip-hop/rap. 

  Harrington, Michael Jose, 1997- (2021-05-04)

  The notion that ‘Black life is not monolithic’ is a sentiment many Black queer folks would confirm. Black queer folks often inhabit a place of disownment from queer folks, Black folks, and even intricacies that occur within ...

• Gravitational waves and cosmology. 

  Fier, Jared Robert, 1992-; 0000-0001-9439-5063 (2021-04-14)

  The recent discovery of GW140915 and the confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves (GWs) has garnered the attention of many physicists as they seek to understand their behavior as they travel across the universe. ...

• “Now what?” : understanding the organizational exit experience of nonprofit board members. 

  Hammon, Ayra M., 1996-; 0000-0002-8808-6317 (2021-04-28)

  Organizational exit is an inevitable phenomenon that organization members experience. However, extant research disproportionately focuses on the onboarding process, which overshadows the exit process. Understanding exit ...

• Power struggle and systematic oppression as reflected in twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American novels. 

  Lassiter, Lindsay N., 1995-; 0000-0002-2913-2889 (2021-04-30)

  This thesis examines three novels: Sonata de otoño (1903) by Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Los santos inocentes (1981) by Miguel Delibes, and El indio (1935) by Gregorio López y Fuentes to identify the similar socioeconomic ...

• El desarraigo en la narrativa latinoamericana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX : el caso de Juan Rulfo = Unhomeliness in the Latin American narrative of the second half of the 20th Century : the case of Juan Rulfo. 

  Escamilla, Patricia E., 1978-; 0000-0002-2649-6337 (2021-04-23)

  En base a una perspectiva analítica ecléctica con énfasis en la crítica cultural, esta tesis analiza el concepto del desarraigo que se reitera en textos narrativos latinoamericanos publicados a partir de la segunda parte ...

• Plasmonics and epsilon-near-zero photonics in optical fiber and thin film platforms : from extreme light nanofocusing to enhanced spontaneous emission. 

  Minn, Khant, 1985-; 0000-0001-8089-5913 (2021-04-12)

  The major challenges in the study of light-matter interaction in the deep subwavelength regime are the inefficient conversion of nearfield to farfield energy, low signal-to-noise ratio, complicated device designs requiring ...

• Coping with COVID-19 : employee use of virtual communities. 

  Lanier, Rebecca Jane, 1997-; 0000-0001-6055-7546 (2021-05-01)

  The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of employee participation in virtual communities while coping with organizational change. The current coronavirus pandemic offers a unique and unprecedented context ...

• Contributions to algebraic pattern recognition and integrated likelihood ratio confidence intervals. 

  Ma, Qida, 1990- (2021-04-12)

  Nonlinear polynomial equations describing positive-dimensional solution sets are called real varieties that in general may be quite complex but locally look like smooth manifolds. In the first chapter, we describe ways to ...

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