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Patriotic piety : the ideals and experiences of conservative Protestant women on the American home front during World War II.
(, 2013-09-24)
Rosie the Riveter remains the most iconic image of the United States home front during World War II. However, not every American woman subscribed to the ideals set forth by the mainstream media, patriotic femininity. ...
In heaven as it is on earth : the development of the interpreting angel motif in biblical literature of the neo-Babylonian, Persian and early Hellenistic periods.
(, 2013-05-15)
The motif of angelic interpretation of symbolic visions is a major feature of late prophetic and apocalyptic literature, yet the development of this literary motif has remained largely unexplored within biblical scholarship. ...
High-throughput analysis of emerging and historical pollutants in biological matrices.
(, 2013-05-15)
The Deepwater Horizon Gulf Spill highlighted key deficiencies associated with our ability to analyze contaminants in biological tissue in a timely manner. These deficiencies in laboratory capacity and preparedness ...
Graduation rates, success and high school quality.
(, 2013-09-24)
The efficacy of high school grades in retention modeling has been criticized as ineffective, owing to the diversity in both grading standards in high schools and competitiveness of high school curriculums. Informed by ...
Improved analytical methods for carbohydrate analysis in biofuel research.
(, 2013-09-16)
Essential for continued growth of the biofuels industry is the need for continued development of rapid, robust, and accurate carbohydrate quantitation methods. As new feedstocks are identified and developed, understanding ...
Algorithmic specified complexity.
(, 2013-09-24)
Information theory is a well developed field, but does not capture the essence
of what information is. Shannon Information captures something in its definition
of improbability as information. But not all improbable ...
Measurement of the single top quark cross section in the lepton plus jets final state in proton-antiproton collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV using the CDF II detector.
(, 2013-05-15)
We present a measurement of the single top quark cross section in the lepton
plus jets final state using an integrated luminosity corresponding to 7.5/fb of
collision data collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. ...
Rereading Zora Neale Hurston through the lens of "What white publishers won't print".
(, 2013-05-15)
During Zora Neale Hurston’s life, she wrote many controversial statements on
race. Scholars continually suggest that Hurston was merely pandering to the white nation or tricking her audience. By using Hurston’s own ...
From Neo-orthodox theology to rationalistic deism : a study of the religious influences on the development of John Rawls's political philosophy.
(, 2013-05-15)
The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate that John Rawls’s early religious beliefs guided the development of his later political philosophy. By first analyzing A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin & Faith, I ...
"A man may have wit, and yet put off his hat" censorship in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew fair and A tale of a tub.
(, 2013-09-24)
Ben Jonson’s career gives us an interesting window into English Renaissance censorship, since a number of his plays were scrutinized, altered, or suppressed by the authorities. In response to the critical consensus that ...