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Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of dihydronaphthalene and chalcone-based anticancer agents inspired by the natural product combretastatin A-4.
(2019-04-17)
Hallmarks of tumor progression include, abnormal tumor-associated vasculature, regions of hypoxia, and overexpressed proteins. These abnormalities provide opportunities for therapeutic intervention though various targeting ...
Adaptation and alienation : persuasive strategies and audience responses in the rhetorical handbooks, Polybius, Josephus, and the Acts of the Apostles.
(2019-05-29)
This dissertation evaluates the rhetorical strategies and persuasive impact of speeches in the Acts of the Apostles and select other ancient Greek historical narratives against the template provided by Greco-Roman rhetorical ...
The relationship between psychological inflexibility and the interpersonal needs underlying suicidality in a juvenile offender sample.
(2019-07-11)
According to the interpersonal theory of suicide, thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness are necessary components underlying suicidal desire (Van Orden et al., 2010). Theorists suggest that psychological ...
A mirror for the republic : mimesis, racial justice, and American literary realism.
(2019-12-03)
The following study examines the degree to which the American Literary realist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century worked to undermine the racial stereotypes that justified the continued marginalization ...
Persons, perception, and play : human Christological inscape in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(2019-07-11)
This thesis will argue that Hopkins presents a consistent dynamic of “human” inscape which explains a noticeable disparity expressed across his early, middle, and late periods regarding the felt presence of Christ. In the ...
Prayers from the wreck : shipwreck narratives and imagined spiritual communities in nineteenth-century Britain.
(2019-05-30)
Shipwrecks in nineteenth-century literature have commonly been interpreted as metaphors for religious crisis or loss of faith. Yet by reading shipwreck as only a metaphor, I argue that we have lost a sense of the historical ...
Design and automated testing of PCI express interface of proton computed tomography detectors.
(2019-04-16)
Throughout this thesis, I will propose a transmit-received-engine based logic design proposed by this thesis works at the PCI Express Transaction Layer in collaboration with Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs Integrated Block for PCI ...
The global war on terror memorial and the rhetoric of commemoration.
(2019-04-30)
This paper will discuss the rhetoric surrounding the plan to construct a national memorial for the Global War on Terror. It looks at three distinct areas of discourse relating to the project: the congressional debates over ...
Beauty as transcendent in Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Rumer Godden.
(2019-05-28)
Sacramentality—the close interrelation between the spiritual and the physical—plays an important role in the Catholic Church. To most Catholics, almost any object can be a means of receiving the grace of God and entering ...
Philosophical inheritances: Nietzsche and the twentieth century American novel.
(2019-04-23)
In this dissertation, I argue for the influence of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy on four significant writers of twentieth century American literature: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Richard ...