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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 ...
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, ...
Going up Bell's Hill : a social history of a diverse, Waco, Texas, community in the industrial new south.
(, 2018-01-22)
A historical study of Bell's Hill, an older section of Southwest Waco, Texas, 1885-1955, reveals a complex community characterized by social/cultural, ethnic/racial, and economic diversity. From its early history when ...
Music and suggestion : an exploration of the effects and mechanisms of an arts-based mind-body intervention for pain.
(2018-07-16)
Pain is a growing public healthcare challenge that affects millions each year. Despite recent scientific advances in the diagnosis and treatment of pain, pain is often undertreated. Undertreated pain is associated with ...
A Thomistic principle of virtue individuation.
(2018-10-16)
In this dissertation, I aim to accomplish two goals. The first goal is to draw contemporary moral philosophers' attention to the need for a principal approach to virtue individuation. When we individuate virtues, we answer ...
A neural inspired grid cell aid for robot intertial navigation.
(2018-05-08)
Accurate position information is needed for a robot's guidance and control systems. Therefore, the navigation system is foundational for a robot's interactions with the world. This thesis explores a biologically inspired ...
Making their own faith : Lutheranism and American culture in the Civil War era.
(2018-07-11)
From 1830 to 1900, the American Lutheran church grew from less than 50,000 members to more than 1,600,000—five times the growth rate of the U.S. population—and became the nation’s fourth largest religious denomination. ...
Organic matter structural changes during catagenesis : implications of kerogen chemical structure on petroleum yield and composition.
(2018-04-16)
This work describes the machining of cost-efficient hydrous pyrolysis reactors and furnaces used to simulate natural oil forming (catagenesis) processes. These reactors were used to generate petroleum products from both ...
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 ...
Robust and efficient methods for proton computed tomography.
(2018-07-23)
Proton computed tomography (pCT) is a recent promising imaging modality with the goal of generating accurate 3D maps of relative stopping power (RSP) with respect to water. Since the early developments of this imaging ...