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Decolonizing the Concrete Wave: Visual Sovereignty in Native American Skateboarding Culture
(2017-05-12)
This thesis focuses primarily on skateboard deck graphics and the cultural and political implications of skateboarding within the context of settler colonialism in the contemporary United States. It examines the intersection ...
Methods for Mapping Land Cover Change in Shrinking Cities in the United States
(2017-05-12)
Urbanization is generally understood as the process of growth in both population and developed areas. However, this perception is not entirely reflective of the types of change that are occurring in the heart of the United ...
Ring-like N-fold Models of Aβ42 fibrils
(2017-07-26)
When assembling as fibrils Aβ40 peptides can only assume U-shaped conformations while Aβ42 can also arrange as S-shaped three-stranded chains. We show that this allows Aβ42 peptides to assemble pore-like structures that ...
Political Theology and Social Hope
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation intervenes in political theology to offer a constructive and wide-ranging theological proposal for Christian cultural engagement and peacemaking in the context of the globalization, perpetual violence, ...
What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships
(2017-05)
Research has shown that exposure to specific fiction genres is associated with theory of mind and attitudes toward gender roles and sexual behavior (e.g. Fong, Mullin, & Mar, 2013, 2015); however, relatively little research ...
ASSOCIATIONS AMONG FRIENDSHIP JEALOUSY, FRIENDSHIP QUALITIES, RELATIONAL AGGRESSION, AND GENDER IN ADOLESCENCE
(2017)
The present study investigated the associations among specific friendship qualities, friendship jealousy, and relational aggression among ninth graders. Friendship qualities and gender were explored as potential moderators ...
Resistance Distance, Kirchhoff Index, Foster's Theorems, and Generalizations
(2017-05-12)
The emerging area of network science studies structural characteristics of networks and dynamical processes on networks such as spread of epidemics, vulnerability of power grids to cascading failures etc. In this area, ...
Investigation of a Frequency and Pattern Reconfigurable Slot Array Utilizing Ring Resonator End Loads
(2017-12)
Fixed-bandwidth wireless systems are forced to operate in preallocated blocks of frequencies, often wasting valuable spectrum. Whereas, systems with reconfigurable antennas that can tune resonant frequency, polarization, ...
Biased Neutrality: Examining the Existence of Gender Segregation and Clustering in the Retail Industry
(2017-12-15)
A significant portion of existing research on gender segregation in the workplace is devoted to the study of gender dominance across professions, but few studies have focused on job segregation within specific industries. ...
Early Middle Archaic Placemaking: A Faunal Analysis of Three Pit Deposits from Silver Glen Springs (8LA1), Florida
(2017)
In this thesis I examine the vertebrate faunal remains from three pit deposits dating between approximately 8500-7000 calibrated years BP, which were recovered from the site of Silver Glen Springs (8LA1) in northwestern ...