College of Arts and Sciences: Recent submissions
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Investigation of organic dyes for dye-sensitized and organic solar cell applications.
(2018-06-28)Theoretical chemistry can be a driving force for experimentalists. Using computer software, molecules can be easily changed and studied, which can save experimentalists on laboratory costs and time. This work focuses on ... -
Roles and the ethical life.
(2018-06-06)Role ethics, broadly speaking, is a normative ethical theory that has a prominent emphasis on roles. Although it was prominent in ancient cultures, such as in China and Greece, role ethics waned during the Enlightenment ... -
Ordering desires : rhetoric and virtue in Milton's Paradise Lost.
(2018-05-23)Critics have long recognized that the writings of John Milton unite elements of biblical narrative with imaginative construction. However, despite Milton's explicit appreciation for Spenser, less critical attention has ... -
Reforming manners, redeeming souls : Sunday schools, childhood, and the formation of early nineteenth-century American religious culture.
(2018-06-07)Merging religious history with childhood studies, this dissertation analyzes Sunday schools from 1790-1860 to show how concepts of childhood, and young people themselves, helped shape American religious culture. Recent ... -
In the shadow of death : insecurity and miracles in Latin America.
(2018-06-22)The difference between a miracle and luck relies on the interpretation of events. Existential threat theories would predict religious experiences are not necessarily related to individual education or income, but rather ... -
A brief seizure prior to learning selectively impairs hippocampal learning and memory and is associated with alterations in PI3K/Akt/mTOR and FMRP signaling.
(2018-06-11)Studies utilizing rodent models of acute seizures have indicated that a single brief seizure impairs retention of spatial and contextual memory. However, the timespan for which a solitary seizure can impact memory or which ... -
A multimethod examination of the relevance of executive control to disgust and mental contamination among female sexual assault survivors.
(2018-06-06)Sexual assault among women is a significant and ongoing public health problem in the United States, and studies indicate a particularly high prevalence of sexual assault among college-aged women. A large body of research ... -
The search for true hospitality in the travel writing of Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain.
(2018-05-22)In their travel books, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain participated in a nineteenth-century debate about American hospitality. Having inherited a Puritan perspective regarding land and ... -
Bayesian approach to partially validated binary regression with response and exposure misclassification.
(2018-06-09)Misclassification of epidemiological and observational data is a problem that commonly arises and can have adverse ramifications on the validity of results if not properly handled. Considerable research has been conducted ... -
Weibull mixture model for grouped data and pattern identification in spatial and spatial-temporal data.
(2018-06-22)Motived by problems in geology, civil engineering, and material science, we develop statistical models and apply statistical tools for characterizing patterns that exist in different types of data. In the first project, ... -
Chemical kinetics and dynamics of M+(organic) molecules using single photon initiated dissociative rearrangement reactions (SPIDRR) measurements.
(2018-07-17)Gas-phase studies are important to many areas of science and technology. The ability to prepare molecular species in an environment devoid of complexities present in the condensed phase allows for high resolution measurement ... -
Acculturative stress and obesity : the moderating role of emotional eating in a community sample of Latino/a adolescents.
(2018-07-20)Acculturating to American culture is often a stressful experience for Latino/a adolescents and has been associated with negative health outcomes and obesity. Previous research suggests that maladaptive coping increases the ... -
The effect of alcohol cue exposure on working memory in individuals with alcohol use disorder.
(2018-06-24)Alcohol use disorder (AUD) represents a grave public health concern in the U.S. with high prevalence and relapse rates, and a major risk factor for relapse is inability to cope with cravings. A possible explanatory factor ... -
Influences of nutrients and salinity on Prymnesium parvum elicited sublethal toxicity in two common fish models.
(2018-07-12)The magnitude, frequency, and duration of harmful algal blooms (HABs) are increasing worldwide primarily due to climate change and anthropogenic activities. Prymnesium parvum is a euryhaline and eurythermal HAB forming ... -
The complexity of disadvantage : examining the effects of moral ecology on adolescent educational outcomes.
(2018-06-27)Popular methods of addressing educational inequality emphasize structural barriers to educational attainment such as access and affordability, or individual barriers that highlight a lack of character traits such as grit ... -
Boundary conditions associated with left-definite theory and the spectral analysis of iterated rank-one perturbations.
(2018-05-24)This dissertation details the development of several analytic tools that are used to apply the techniques and concepts of perturbation theory to other areas of analysis. The main application is an efficient characterization ... -
Under confinement : molecular dynamics investigations of ions and molecules in nanopores and at nanoscale interfaces.
(2018-07-20)The behavior of molecules in nanopores and at nanoscale interfaces are of fundamental importance in chemical applications such as electrical energy storage and water desalination. Investigations into carbon based structures ... -
"What was repeated had weight" : ordinary rituals in the poetry of Donald Hall, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Louise Glück.
(2018-06-07)Twentieth- and twenty-first century poetry swells with the ordinary; poets chronicle mundane parts of daily life in their work, often describing these quotidian details with surprising reverence. While this fascination ... -
Inhibition of TLR4 minimizes islet damage due to sterile inflammation and improves islet transplant outcomes.
(2018-06-01)Islet transplantation has emerged as an important treatment option for brittle type 1 diabetes and as an adjunct procedure after total pancreatectomy to prevent brittle diabetes. The efficacy and long-term function of islet ... -
Revolutionary style : parrēsia and the rhetoric of self-care in the autobiography of Angela Davis.
(2018-07-19)This thesis explores the rhetoric of self-care in the autobiography of Angela Davis. Staging a conversation between Davis, Michel Foucault, and Audre Lorde, I question how Davis navigates the rhetorical quagmire of writing ...