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Is that my heart? A hylomorphic account of bodily parthood.
(2020-03-19)
This dissertation investigates the metaphysics of human body parts; particularly, the epistemic conditions under which something can be said to be a “body part of” some particular human being. In this dissertation I draw ...
The influence of engineering identity, harmonious passion, and obsessive passion on grit in engineering students.
(2020-04-22)
Research has shown that individuals tend to remain committed to long-term goals when they are passionate about what they are doing and when some part of their self-concept is tied to their goals. This study uses engineering ...
Personifying dynamic video game music through live performance : a rescoring of RiME.
(2020-05-01)
My central argument for this thesis is that video game music loses its adaptive functionality when performed outside of a gameplay context. My goal is to use technology to incorporate live performance into dynamic game ...
Second language acquisition : the need for explicit pragmatic instruction in beginning-level language classes.
(2020-04-02)
Conventional classroom instruction leaves a void in the formation of communicative competence among language learners. This communicative competence deficiency can in part be attributed to learners’ deficient pragmatic ...
Efforts toward an enantioselective total synthesis of (–)-oxazolomycin B and simplified chemical probes for proteomics studies; pharmacophore-directed retrosynthesis applied to gracilin A : simplified bioactive derivatives.
(2020-11-20)
The oxazolomycins are bioactive peptide-polyketide hybrid natural products first isolated in 1985 by Uemura and co-workers from Streptomyces bacteria. Their complex structure and wide-ranging bioactivity against various ...
The development and initial validation of the Baylor Emotional Reasoning Questionnaire (BERQ).
(2020-07-02)
Anxiety disorders are a classification of mental disorders characterized by excessive fear or anxiety that is difficult to control and hinders daily functioning. Anxiety disorders are maintained by information-processing ...
Helping or hurting : dismantling poverty stigma in nonprofit organizations’ strategic messaging.
(2020-07-19)
Charitable nonprofit organizations are often described by their supporters as noble, servant-hearted, caring, accommodating, and considerate, thanks in part to strategic messaging that underscores the organizations’ emotional ...
More than metaphor : Felding, Sterne, Austen, Browning and the rising novel as drama.
(2020-07-29)
In his 1749 novel, Tom Jones, Henry Fielding quips that “Every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ” (Fielding 83). It is the contention of this dissertation that though we have ...
The fate of nature : ethical naturalism in historical and critical context.
(2020-07-08)
Ethical naturalism is an ethical theory that holds that practical norms are a species of natural norms. It was a position held by almost all ancient ethical theorists, but despite a renaissance among some in the past three ...
Early Paleocene fossil floras, paleoclimate, and magnetostratigraphy from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA.
(2020-04-14)
The San Juan Basin, located in northwestern New Mexico, preserves an excellent early Paleocene floral and faunal records in North America making it an ideal location to study the tempo and processes of terrestrial ecosystem ...