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Is Gangaikonda Cholapuram built based on Vaastu Sastra?
(2019-12-13)The Cholas (848 CE – 1279 CE) established an imperial line and united a large portion of what is now South India under their rule. The Cholas, known worldwide for their bronze sculptures, world heritage temples and land ... -
IS THERE A MARRIAGE OR PARENTHOOD INCOME PENALTY AMONG POLICE?: A CASE STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
(2018-05)Research has found an earnings advantage for married men as well as men with children. In contrast, married women and women with children often receive a much smaller wage premium, or even face a wage penalty. Most research ... -
Isolation and structural analysis of secondary metabolites from the fungi Aspergillus terreus and Remersonia thermophila
(2022-05-13)Aspergillus terreus has shown to inhibit M. genitalium whereas Remersonia thermophila has shown to exhibit antitrichomonal activity. The compounds that were responsible for activity in their respective assays were rapidly ... -
"It Turns You Inside Out": The Emotional Effects of Working Within the Capital Punishment System
(2022-08-04)While previous literature on the emotional effects of capital punishment has examined the experiences of the family members of victims and the family members of accused or convicted capital murderers, little research has ... -
"It's Not A Treaty, It's A Legal Binding Agreement": Fort Lawton, Red Power, and the Struggle for Indigenous Land Reclamation
(2023-05-12)In 1970, over one hundred Native American activists occupied the Fort Lawton military base in Seattle, Washington. The protestors, disgruntled over the federal government’s termination of tribal lands and lack of support ... -
Ittibaapishiꞌat Ittachapa: Chickasaw and Choctaw Relations in Indian Territory, 1839-1856
(2022-05-13)My thesis explores the relations between the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations from 1839 to 1856. In 1839, the majority of Chickasaws were living in Indian Territory under the Choctaw Nation tribal government and in 1856, the ... -
Javanese Wayang Kulit Performed in the Classic Palace Style: An Analysis of Rama's Crown as Told by Ki Purbo Asmoro
(2016)The wayang kulit is the most widespread form of wayang (theatrical play/performance) in Indonesia, and is considered to be one of Indonesia’s highest art forms. In the modern Indonesian language, wayang can be translated ... -
Jews and Other Okies’: How Jews Extended the Frontier in Indian Territory and Oklahoma, 1867-1952
(2024-05-10)The topic of this thesis revolves around Oklahoma Jews and how their lives and works have shaped and challenged conceptions of Oklahoma History. Like many in the American West, Jews came to Oklahoma for economic opportunities ... -
Joining Up with the Union: California's Place in the Nation and the Meaning of Military Service in the Civil War
(2020-05-08)Prior to the start of the Civil War, California had been a state for less than a dozen years and was populated by a diverse group of people from around globe, many of whom had been lured to the state by the call of gold. ... -
Keeping Calm and Carrying On: Relating Proactive Personality, Affect Spin, and Affect Pulse to Learning and Adaptive Task Performance
(2018-07-20)The purpose of this laboratory study involving 214 undergraduate students learning a complex videogame was to address the gaps in the empirical literature regarding the non-cognitive traits that comprise the construct of ... -
THE KEROGEN 3D SOLID STATE STRUCTURE MODELING AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN RESERVOIR SIMULATION
(2016-12-16)A 3D solid state Green River Oil Shale kerogen model was built in this thesis through the following two steps: 1. a molecular nanocluster model of kerogen composed of seven molecules was built based on an adsorption method; ... -
Kidney OCT 3D images classification using machine learning
(2023-12-15)The goal of this research is to make a classification program for 3D images by using a CNN model. The images to classify are kidney images that have 3 different classes: Pelvis, Medulla and Cortex. To do so, a data ... -
Kinematics, Thermodynamics, and Microphysics of the 25-26 June 2015 Kansas MCS during PECAN
(2018-05)This case study analyzes a nocturnal mesoscale convective system (MCS) that was observed in northeast Kansas as part of the Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) field experiment on 25-26 June 2015. Over the course ... -
A Kinetic Distance-to-Mean Based Routing Algorithm for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
(2017-12)Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) allows vehicles to send information to each other or to roadside equipment in an instant and a wireless manner. It represents a considerable step forward in terms of transportation. Indeed, ... -
Kusama's Polka Dots and Kawara's Dates: Finding American Success Through Differing Uses of Identity, Temporality, and Artistic Expression
(2023-05-12)American art spaces have been established as areas that allow for greater acceptance and recognition for artists thus drawing in artists from multitudes of cultural backgrounds. Due to social unrest and change during the ... -
La vida es sueño and the Archetypes: A Jungian Literary Analysis
(2016-12)To date there have been no comprehensive Jungian analyses of La vida es sueño, despite the play’s extensive bibliography. A Jungian analysis provides a novel perspective on the fraught relationship between Basilio and ... -
Label-Free Flow Cytometry to Understand Nanoparticle-Cell Interactions
(2023-08-04)Understanding nanoparticle-cell interactions at single-nanoparticle and single-cell resolutions is crucial to improving the design of next-generation nanoparticles for safer, more effective, and more efficient applications ... -
Label-Free, Live Cell Nanoparticle Imaging for Real-Time Uptake Pathway Analysis
(2022-05-13)Nanoparticles are biomedical devices capable of a wide range of applications ranging from drug delivery to molecular sensing and bioimaging agents. Within bioimaging, nanoparticles face numerous obstacles in both in vitro ... -
Laboratory Characterization of Foamed WMA Containing RAP
(2019-08-01)For more than two decades, the asphalt paving industry has been using Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) and various types of Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) technologies in the production of asphalt mixes to reduce impact on the ...