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Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists' Palestine Questions
(2015-12)
Today, evangelical Christians are the largest pro-Israel constituency in a United States population that is very supportive of the Jewish state generally, with evangelicalism and Christian Zionism often understood as ...
Roles of TLR/MyD88/MAPK/NF-κB Signaling Pathways in the Regulation of Phagocytosis and Proinflammatory Cytokine Expression in Response to E. faecalis Infection
(PLos One, 2015-08-28)
Enterococcus faecalis is a commensal bacterium residing in the gastrointestinal tract of mammals, but in certain situations it is also an opportunistic pathogen which can cause serious disease. Macrophages have been shown ...
Ada Lovelace: First Computer Programmer
(2015)
In Ada Lovelace's translation of one of the first introductions to Charles Babbage's "Analytical Engine," she included at length analyses of the significance and potential of Babbage's machine. These explanations, totaling ...
The Presence, Nature, and Impact of Caregiver Stress and Self-Care in Informal Caregivers for Veterans with Alzheimer's or Other Dementia
(2015-08-14)
This preliminary research explores the relationships between caregiver stress, self-care, and overall quality of life (QOL) in adult informal caregivers providing care for veterans with dementia. Demographic and care-related ...
Screening for Problem and Pathological Gambing: An Exploratory Study
(2015-05-08)
Problem and Pathological Gambling are serious issues that may be difficult to identify in clients because of a lack of overt symptoms and the frequent presence of feelings of shame related to the problem. It is therefore ...
THREE ESSAYS ON EXCHANGE RATE POLICY AND ECONOMIC CRISIS RECOVERY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL METHODS APPROACH
(2015-05-08)
My research explores the effect of monetary systems on how quickly developing countries recover from economic crises. Existing research typically assumes that countries that do not take on a given policy are an appropriate ...
SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE RESOLUTION VIEW OF GENE EXPRESSION IN ESCHERICHIA COLI K-12 UNDER VARIOUS PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
(2015-05-08)
We analyzed the transcriptome of Escherichia coli K-12 by strand-specific RNA sequencing at single-nucleotide resolution during logarithmic- growth and upon entry into stationary phase under carbon, nitrogen, and phosphate ...
SYNTHESIS AND REDOX BEHAVIOR OF GROUP 8 METALLOPORPHYRINS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS
(2015)
This dissertation describes the Chemistry of Group 8 Metalloporphyrins and related compounds. Chapter one describes linkage isomerization in NOx-coordinated metal complexes with emphasis on Group 8 metals, and part of this ...
THE SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION, PROSECUTION, AND PUNISHMENT OF AMERICAN ECOTERRORISTS
(2015-05-08)
This study analyzes differences in conviction outcomes of ecoterrorists compared to left-wing and right-wing terrorists using a mixed-methods approach. I use quantitative analyses to investigate differences in conviction ...
Pythagorean Solids: Five Regular Solids
(2015)
Throughout history the regular solids were a point of intrigue by astronomers, mathematicians, artists, and philosophers. The Pythagoreans proved that there are only five regular solids: the cube, triangle, octahedron, ...