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Some Types And Covers For Quaternionic Hermitian Groups
(2014-08-15)
In this dissertation we determine the reducibility of certain induced representations. We do this using Bushnell and Kutzko's method of types and covers. We consider certain quaternionic hermitian groups over a $p$-adic ...
ESSAYS ON CORPORATE BOND MARKETS
(2014)
The aim of my dissertation is to provide new insights into corporate bond markets from empirical corporate finance and bond market microstructure vintage points. The first chapter introduces the topic. The second chapter ...
UNDERSTANDING A + B BIDDING PATTERNS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR ODOT PROJECT LETTINGS
(2014-10)
A key challenge for Departments of Transportation around the country is to keep the cost of construction low while ensuring that projects will be completed in a timely manner. Those goals can often be conflicting. The ...
AN INVESTIGATION OF SUSTAINABLE FLUORIDE WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES WITH A FOCUS ON ETHIOPIA
(2014)
Human consumption of unsafe drinking water from an unimproved source is a global issue affecting approximately 748 million people worldwide. While this number has been decreasing in recent years, an additional 1.2 billion ...
THE MUSLIM FEMALE BODY IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY DISCOURSES BY ARAB AND ARAB AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
(2014-08-15)
Abstract
The Muslim Female Body in Twenty-First-Century Discourses by Arab and Arab American Women Writers employs a culturally symptomatic approach in its reading of various modes of representation of the Muslim female ...
Gender and Status Offending: Judicial Paternalism in Juvenile Justice Processing
(Feminist Criminology, 2014-07-01)
This study examines the relationship between gender and juvenile justice processing outcomes for status offenders. The feminist criminological concept of judicial paternalism suggests that official justice systems, as ...
Robert M. Jones and the Choctaw Nation: Indigenous Nationalism in the American South, 1820-1877
(2014-05)
This project examines the social, political, and economic transformations that shaped Choctaw nationhood following Indian Removal in the 1830s. Specifically, I argue that, unlike the other Five Tribes, the Choctaw Nation ...
THE ALAN SHEPARD (SHEP) GENE REGULATES NEURONAL REMODELING DURING METAMORPHOSIS
(2014)
Peptidergic neurons are a group of neuronal cells that synthesize and secrete peptides to regulate a variety of biological processes. To identify genes controlling the development and function of peptidergic neurons, our ...
Action sports athletes as entrepreneurs: Female professional wakeboarders, sponsorship, and branding
(2014-11)
This teaching case explores the sport of wakeboarding to examine how its female practitioners need to become entrepreneurial in order to make a living from the sport. Students ponder the financial pressures of becoming a ...
PTSD and Breastfeeding: Let It Flow
(2014-08)