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Choosing Repertoire for the Percussion Methods Course
(2024-05-11)
This document serves as a guide to finding band literature that is relevant and pedagogically beneficial for beginning percussion students. It can be an essential tool for the collegiate percussion methods instructor. In ...
DEVELOPING AN ALGORITHM INTEGRATING VOICE AND IMAGING ANALYSIS TO RECOGNIZE FACIAL FEATURES AND DEFICIENCIES AFTER ORAL SURGERY
(2024-05-10)
According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), oral cancer is one of several major types of head and neck cancer (HNCs) and affects approximately 54,000 individuals in the United States each year. Recognized risk ...
Modelling, Additive Manufacturing, and Testing of Knitted Materials
(2024-05-10)
Knitting is a centuries-old textile fabrication technique utilizing a method of “interlooping,” where loops are pulled through each other until the final product is created. Certain patterns curl in on themselves, which ...
THE HEDGE FUND NEWSPAPER OWNERSHIP ERA: FACTORS THAT MAKE THE INDUSTRY VULNERABLE, AND THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON MEDIA MANAGEMENT AND THE ROLE OF JOURNALISM IN DEMOCRACY
(2024-05-11)
This dissertation sheds light on the relationship between ownership and media management, particularly focusing on the impacts of hedge fund ownership in journalism. While the effects of hedge fund ownership have been ...
WHEN TO FOLLOW, WHEN TO BREAK, WHO TO BLAME: CITIZEN PERCEPTIONS OF STREET-LEVEL SERVICE INTERACTIONS
(2024-05-10)
In this dissertation, I combine insights from public administration with those of political science, public policy, and social psychology to better understand how citizens think about and understand their governments. In ...
CARBON DIOXIDE AND WATER INJECTION-INDUCED FRACTURING: IMPLICATIONS FOR CARBON GEOSEQUESTRATION
(2024-05-03)
To safely sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) in the subsurface, it is vital to maintain the injection pressure below the formation breakdown pressure, which is dominantly governed by lithology, principal stresses, and presence ...
ACTIVATION OF MURINE DENDRITIC CELLS THROUGH STING PATHWAY INTERACTIONS WITH GLYCATED CHITOSAN
(2024-05-10)
N-dihydrogalactochitosan (Glycated Chitosan, GC) is a promising immunoadjuvant for cancer therapeutics. Synthesized from chitin and galactose, GC stimulates the innate and adaptive antitumor immune responses more potently ...
THE RUNNING BACK BY COMMITTEE APPROACH AND ITS EFFECT ON THE RUNNING BACK LABOR MARKET IN THE NFL
(2024-05-10)
Running back salaries in the National Football League have been a major point of discussion for the last two offseason cycles. The league has seen some of the highest performing players struggle to receive satisfactory ...
MULTI-CONTRAST OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR VARIOUS BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
(2024-05-10)
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a label-free optical imaging technique that provides noninvasive visualization of biological tissue microstructures with micrometer-scale resolution and millimeter-scale penetration ...
Only the Young: The Rhetoric of Youth-Led Social Movements In the 21st Century
(2024-05-10)
In this dissertation, I examine several examples of contemporary youth-led protest in conjunction with some of the specific challenges of organizing in the present day. In each chapter, I pair one circumstance that makes ...