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American ideals reinforced through advertisements Undergraduate
(2016)
The economic and housing boom that followed World War II paved the way for America to become the consumer-driven economy that it is today. These booms also created competition among companies, therefore leading to the ...
Type I Interferons Induce T Regulatory 1 Responses and Restrict Humoral Immunity during Experimental Malaria
(PLoS Pathogens, 2016-10-12)
Author Summary Humoral immunity is essential for host resistance to pathogens that trigger highly inflammatory immune responses, including Plasmodium parasites, the causative agents of malaria. Long-lived, secreted antibody ...
Determinants of Salivary Cotinine among Smokeless Tobacco Users: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Bangladesh
(PLos One, 2016-08-09)
Introduction More than 80% of all smokeless tobacco (ST) products in the world are consumed in South Asia; yet little is known about their consumption behaviour, addictiveness, and toxic properties. This paper, for the ...
Freshwater zooplankton: ecology, cryptic species, and global change
(2016-08)
Modern threats to freshwater biota include anthropogenic eutrophication and invasive species, both of which may impact biodiversity. My four chapters focus on different aspects of these global changes. In Chapters 1 and ...
Epizoic Diatom Assemblages on Freshwater Turtles
(2016-05)
Although freshwater turtles and their epibiotic hosts are a good model for studying epibiotic interactions (including basking, the effects of turtle species, and geographic variation), information on diatom-turtle relationships ...
Left Out?: The Political Left in Contemporary German Politics
(2016)
This thesis argues that the left wing in Germany is primed to form a governing coalition in Germany following ten years of center-right rule. Thuringia is the case study within this paper because of the unique position of ...
THREE ESSAYS ON THE U.S. AIRLINE INDUSTRY
(2016)
My research uses cutting-edge econometric techniques to isolate and identify the impact of various changes in the U.S. airline industry, whether coming from an endogenous change in the market structure such as merger, or ...
National Identity in Higher Education: The Guardianship of a Kingdom
(2016-12-17)
Changes in the structure of higher education in Saudi Arabia and through advanced scholarship programs abroad have resulted in an educational reformation within the country. Though the Saudi Monarchy desires to create a ...
Effect of Carbon Nanotubes on Moisture Absorption Properties of Epoxy Laminates
(2016-08)
There have been conflicting studies for how multi-walled carbon nanotube reinforcement will affect the moisture absorption properties of an epoxy laminate. The carbon nanotubes were meant to act as a hindrance for the ...