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Dietary Pectin Increases Intestinal Crypt Stem Cell Survival following Radiation Injury
(PLos One, 2015-08-13)
Gastrointestinal (GI) mucosal damage is a devastating adverse effect of radiation therapy. We have recently reported that expression of Dclk1, a Tuft cell and tumor stem cell (TSC) marker, 24h after high dose total-body ...
Motivating the Self to Virtue in Western and non-Western Countries: Does Nation or Faith Matter More in the Development of the Moral Self?
(2015-03-14)
‘Self’ has long been a contested term within psychology and religion; however, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism all acknowledge that individuals struggle to embody narratives of a virtuous life—a life motivated to do good, ...
The Politics of Partisan Issue Attention: Connecting Congress and Policy Subsystems
(2015-05)
Attention is a disruptive force in politics; it is also a scarce resource. Decision-makers must prioritize which issues receive attention—typically educing policy change—and which issues are ignored. While issue attention ...
On the Methodological and Normative Foundations of Probabilism
(2015-12-18)
This dissertation is an elaboration and defense of probabilism, the view that belief comes in various degrees of strength, and that the probability calculus provides coherence norms for these degrees of belief. Probabilism ...
Motivating Virtuous Selves: The Impact of Gender and Culture
(2015-03-14)
The self is defined differently both across and within disciplines and cultures. The traditional Western view of self as an ethical or economic subject is challenged by process philosophers as misplaced and by feminists ...
Have They Said Something? Examining Changes in Citizen Reporting of Possible Terrorism to the Police
(2015-05-08)
This mixed-method study examines how terrorism affects civilian reporting behaviors. I conducted a content analysis of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) designated domestic terrorism cases between the years of 1985 and ...
UNDERGRADUATE MUSIC STUDENT RECRUITMENT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MUSIC FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTITIONERS
(2015)
This large-scale qualitative study was initiated to explore, examine, and document undergraduate music student recruitment from the perspective of faculty and administrators at institutions chosen to represent a range of ...
Three Essays on Credit Market
(2015-05-08)
My dissertation focuses primarily on credit markets from a corporate finance perspective, with a concentration on corporate bonds and security offerings. My dissertation consists of three essays. Essay One is titled ...
Decision-Making for Well Placement Optimization in Oil Field Development
(2015)
Well placement is a method to improve oil recovery by drilling new infill wells in a reservoir. Drilling new wells is a critical yet very challenging task in field development, because the optimal well locations are rarely ...