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The faunal remains of Bosutswe
(2005-12-24)Bosutswe was occupied for approximately one thousand years during the African Iron Age, providing an ideal opportunity to study changes in animal exploitation over time at this large site. This chronological study of the ... -
Development of a three dimensional in vitro vascularized tumor platform for investigating the role of the tumor stroma on inflammatory breast cancer
(2019-05-15)Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is an aggressive disease with poor prognosis, accounting for 10% of breast cancer mortality. A contributing factor to this is the lack of therapeutics targeting IBC. IBC exhibits clinical ... -
Hard lines : affect and aging in post-industrial place
(2022-07-01)The landscape of contemporary Britain is littered with towns and villages in various states of post-industrial decline and recovery: fishing villages reinvented as holiday destinations; old steel towns where the only ... -
The São Paulo neo-avant-garde art, collaboration, and print media, 1970–1985
(2017-06-12)This study analyzes artists’ dynamic experimentation with new printing technologies of mass media in São Paulo between 1970 and the early 1980s. This was a charged period in Brazil, marked by the rule of a military ... -
Celebrities of the digital era : conceptualization of social media celebrities as brand endorsers
(2018-05-07)The digital era is full of enhanced opportunities for advertising. A new phenomenon rises as an effective marketing communication strategy: the rise in fame and status of ordinary social media users to “social media ... -
Components and principles of streaming principal components
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a fundamental pillar of modern data pipelines, but its traditional implementation is woefully inadequate for modern data problems. In this work we present our contributions to the field ... -
Arc Hydro data model for Ethiopian watersheds
(2005-12-24)Ethiopia is endowed with a substantial amount of water resources. The country’s renewable surface and ground water amounts 123 and 2.6 billion cubic meters per annum, respectively, but its distribution shows high temporal ... -
The Age of Consumer Distrust : exploring the role of consumer expectations and brand crisis in the formation of brand distrust
(2020-05-01)A confluence of trends – the increase in brand crises in tandem with the increase in consumer distrust of corporations and brands – calls for empirical research into how consumers develop distrust toward a brand. Furthermore, ... -
The past in the present : rock ideology and canon in the 1980s
(2022-06-24)By the 1980s, much rock writing and other rock media were, in various degrees, participating in a “heritage discourse,” with roots in Romantic and Modernist ideologies, in which there was a noticeable preoccupation with a ... -
Playing war : US military experimentation and innovation during peacetime
(2022-05-04)The military innovation process takes on different characteristics during wartime and peacetime. Wartime innovation has the immediate feedback of the battlefield. Peacetime innovation must account for various possible ... -
Precambrian geology of the southeastern Llano uplift, Texas
(1963)In central Texas sedimentary rocks and associated intrusive mafic and silicic igneous rocks underwent a single episode of regional metamorphism about 1,100 million years ago. In the final stages of metamorphism great masses ... -
Late Quaternary geomorphic evolution of the Colorado River, Bastrop and Fayette counties, Texas
(1977)Ancient and modern flood plain and channel morphology was mapped in the late Quaternary alluvial valley of the Colorado River between Utley and La Grange, Texas. The analysis of N.A.S.A.-generated color aerial infrared ... -
Devolution's discord : resolving operational dissonance with the UBIT exemption
(1998)This Report addresses a pressing problem in tax policy: the federal government has asked public charities to take on its role in providing social services without properly subsidizing charities efforts. The Report defines ... -
Constructed and contested meanings of the Tex-Son garment strike in San Antonio, Texas, 1959 : representing Mexican women workers
(1997)This thesis examines the 1959 Tex-Son garment workers strike in San Antonio, Texas. It discusses how the local press constructed a particular meaning of the strike through its daily coverage, and how the striking workers ... -
Doctoral thesis recital (piano)
(2022-04-22)Sonata no.2 for cello and piano in F major / Johannes Brahms -- Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano in E flat major / Farrenc, Louise -- George Gershwin tribute / Kaitlin Gustafson -
Master's thesis recital (piano)
(2022-05-05)Six moments musicaux / Schubert -- Piano sonata no.2 in B flat minor / Chopin -- Suite Bergamasque / Debussy -
Defining the DTR : what it is, what it isn’t, and how it functions in romantic relationship development
(2022-05-04)The DTR, or define the relationship, conversation is a commonly understood scenario that has yet to be fully explicated by communication scholars. While it is widely acknowledged in the field of communication that all ... -
Irritations in romantic relationships : testing and extending the Revelation-Risk Model as a predictive mechanism for disclosure decisions and relationship power effects
(2022-05-04)Feelings of irritation often emerge in romantic relationships, but the theoretical mechanisms determining whether individuals reveal or conceal these specific feelings to their romantic partner remain underdeveloped. Using ... -
Deaf-hearing marital relationships and conflict
(2022-05-02)This dissertation explored conflict within deaf-hearing marital relationships utilizing bimodal patterns of communication. Building on previous literature exploring deaf-hearing relationships and pulling from the fields ... -
How language use on Facebook drives affective polarization
(2022-05-06)Social media has changed people’s experience with political language. Social media platforms have become places where political tolerance is rarely preserved and expressions of high levels of intense dislike proliferate ...
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