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"'One guy goes to jail, two people are ready to take his spot': Perspectives on drug-induced homicide laws among incarcerated individuals" and "Pre-exposure prophylaxis awareness and interest among participants in a MAT program..."

Description:
Abstract Background As overdose deaths have increased in the United States, some lawmakers have explored punitive, “supply-side” interventions aimed at reducing the supply of fentanyl. …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Peterson, Meghan (creator)
Rich, Josiah (Advisor)
Brinkley-Rubinstein, Lauren (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Social policy
Prisoners
Qualitative research
Collection:
Public Health
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"A Land Cleansed of Heretics”: Cult Practice and Contestation in the Christianization of Late Antique Constantinople

Description:
In November 324 CE the Roman emperor Constantine founded a new city soon to become the center of a Christian empire. At its inception, however, …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
Falcasantos, Rebecca Stephens (creator)
Harvey, Susan (Director)
Kraemer, Ross (Reader)
Papaioannou, Stratis (Reader)
Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Late antique Christianity
Religious Competition
Constantinople
Religious Violence
Ritual
Violence--Religious aspects
Collection:
Religious Studies
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"A Mirror to Turke": "Turks" and the Making of Early Modern England

Description:
This study examines how relations with – and discourses of – the “Turk” within England shaped the contours of critical political and religious debates from …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
Perille, Laura Ann (creator)
Harris, Tim (Director)
Nummedal, Tara (Reader)
Brummett, Palmira (Reader)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Ottoman Turks
discourse
Elizabeth I
Charles I
Cromwell
Exclusion Crisis
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Propaganda
Public opinion
Muslim converts
Pirates
Exclusion Crisis (Great Britain : 1678-1683)
Elizabeth I, Queen of England > 1533-1603
Charles I, King of England > 1600-1649
Cromwell, Oliver
England
Collection:
History
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"By the Power of Signs and Wonders": Paul, Divinatory Practices, and Symbolic Capital

Description:
This dissertation is largely a project of redescription and taxonomy. In it, I redescribe, reclassify, and recontextualize the divinatory practices of the apostle Paul. Throughout …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Eyl, Jennifer T (creator)
Stowers, Stanley (Director)
Kraemer, Ross (Reader)
Harvey, Susan (Reader)
Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
divinatory practices
paul
apostle paul
ancient christianity
mediterranean religions
wonder workers
roman religions
practice theory
taxonomy
Divination
Miracle workers
Romans--Religion
Paul, the Apostle, Saint
Collection:
Religious Studies
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"Canned History": American Newsreels and the Commodification of Reality, 1927-1945

Description:
By examining the history of the sound newsreel in the 1930s and 1940s, this dissertation illustrates how moving picture news changed the way Americans experienced …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Clark, Joseph E.J. (creator)
Smulyan, Susan (Director)
Rosen, Philip (Director)
Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
Brown University. American Civilization (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
newsreel
documentary
film history
moviegoing
media history
cultural history
Lindbergh
Sino-Japanese War
Motion picture journalism
Documentary films
Mass media and history
Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
United States
Collection:
American Studies
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"Come Hear our Merry Song": Shifts in the Sound of Swedish Radical Nationalism

Description:
Organized opposition to immigration, globalization, and minority groups in Sweden exploded during the 1980s and 1990s, energized in large part by the spread of skinhead …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Teitelbaum, Benjamin R (creator)
Perlman, Marc (Director)
Titon, Jeff (Reader)
Miller, Kiri (Reader)
Tucker, Joshua (Reader)
Bohlman, Philip (Reader)
Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
extremism
immigration
Nationalism
Music
Radicalism
Emigration and immigration
Racism
Sweden
Scandinavia
Collection:
Music
Ethnomusicology
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"Drama Sustains the Spirit": Art, Ritual, and Theater in Jin and Yuan Period Pingyang, 1150-1350

Description:
Pingyang (modern Linfen, Shanxi) was a major art and theater center in North China during the Jin and Yuan periods. Soon after the Jurchen conquered …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Zhang, Fan (creator)
Bickford, Maggie (Director)
Bickford, Maggie (Reader)
Zerner, Catherine (Reader)
Hansen, Valerie (Reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Zhugongdiao
Chinese archaeology
Cizhou pillow
Quanzhen Daoism
Conquest Dynasty
mortuary art
Filial piety
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
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"El melancólico vacío": Poesía, poética y melancolía entre La Galatea de Cervantes y las Soledades de Góngora (1585-1614)

Description:
This dissertation studies the philosophical implications and formal repercussions of melancholy in Spanish poetry at the turn of the seventeenth century, along with the constructions …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Valencia, Felipe (creator)
Gaylord, Mary (Director)
Merrim, Stephanie (Reader)
Bass, Laura (Reader)
Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Spanish Golden Age poetry
Renaissance poetics
pastoral
Cervantes
La Galatea
Huarte de San Juan
Juan de Arguijo
Francisco de la Torre
lyric theory in the Renaissance
Góngora
Soledades
Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
Melancholy
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de > 1547-1616
Huarte, Juan > 1529?-1588
Arguijo, Juan de > 1567-1628?
Collection:
Hispanic Studies
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"From a Calmer Height of Love and Wisdom": Emerson, Religious Sentiment, and Environmental Intimacy

Description:
While it has long been acknowledged that Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work has had an important impact on religious thought in America, he is often treated …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Friesner, Nicholas Aaron (creator)
Cladis, Mark (Advisor)
Lewis, Thomas (Reader)
Bush, Stephen (Reader)
Willis, Andre (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Religious ethics
Environmental ethics
Ethics
Pragmatism
Transcendentalism
Collection:
Religious Studies
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"Half-read Wisdom": Classics, Modernism and the Celtic Fringe

Description:
The "half-read" knowledge of classical and Celtic languages exerted a major ideological impact on the development of political and linguistic nationalisms in twentieth-century Ireland, Scotland …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Baker, Gregory Edward (creator)
Haynes, Kenneth (Director)
Blasing, Mutlu (Reader)
Konstan, David (Reader)
Brown University. Comparative Literature (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Modernism
Classical Reception
James Joyce
W. B. Yeats
Hugh MacDiarmid
David Jones
Saunders Lewis
Celtic
20th Century
Multilingualism
Nationalism
Poetics
Celts
Classics
Joyce, James
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) > 1865-1939
MacDiarmid, Hugh > 1892-1978
Lewis, Saunders > 1893-1985
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Collection:
Comparative Literature
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"He can run away, life goes on;" Factors in Partner Disclosure among HIV Positive Adolescents in Cape Town, South Africa

Description:
Background: Home to around 7.7 million HIV positive individuals, South Africa holds 20% of the global HIV population. HIV presents many challenges, such as stigmatization, …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Belsky, Mikaela S. (creator)
Harrison, Abigail (thesis advisor)
Pellowski, Jennifer (reader)
Brown University. Biology Undergraduate Education (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
HIV-positive persons
Africa, Sub-Saharan
Teenagers--Sexual behavior
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
Theses and Dissertations
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"I Made a New Man in My Mind": Gender and the Making of the University of Paris, c. 1100-1300

Description:
Universities were among the most consequential institutions of the later middle ages, but in their formative years their success was threatened by the vehement critiques …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Carroll, Charles Scott (creator)
Remensnyder, Amy (Advisor)
Conant, Jonathan (Reader)
Castiglione, Caroline (Reader)
Brown University. Department of History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Gender
Masculinity
Middle Ages
Rhetoric
Higher Education
France--Paris
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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"In other words... Crab sticks are VR too!"

Description:
A virtual environment coded in A-frame with audio recordings, text, interaction, and video. Available online at https://crab-stick-vr.glitch.me.
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Stine Su Yon An (Creator)
Brown University. Literary Arts (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
imitation crab meat
vr
a-frame
Virtual reality
Collection:
Literary Arts
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"Inflamed by Daily Practices": John Cassian and Ethical Formation

Description:
"'Inflamed by Daily Practices': John Cassian and Ethical Formation" is the first inter-disciplinary treatment of the ethical program fostered by the fifth-century Christian ascetic John …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Clements, Niki Kasumi (creator)
Lewis, Thomas (Director)
Harvey, Susan (Reader)
Cladis, Mark (Reader)
Bush, Stephen (Reader)
Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
John Cassian
ethical formation
human agency
self
person
Ethics
Subjectivity
Collection:
Religious Studies
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"It could have been me": Empathy, civic engagement, and violence in Mexico

Description:
Why do some citizens pursue civic engagement after exposure to violence while others retreat from civic life? Existing theories point toward the trauma of victimization. …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Bell-Martin, Rebecca V. (creator)
Snyder, Richard (Advisor)
Andreas, Peter (Reader)
Weitz-Shapiro, Rebecca (Reader)
Blair, Rob (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Democracy
Violence
Political science
Political violence
Empathy
Political participation (Mass political behavior)
War
Collection:
Political Science
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"Meeting the Needs of Today's Girl": Youth Organizations and the Making of a Modern Girlhood, 1945-1980

Description:
In the 1910s, groups of middle-class women began organizing voluntary youth organizations to provide a blend of recreation, spirituality, patriotism, and character development for America's …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Foley, Jessica L (creator)
Buhle, Mari (Director)
Self, Robert (Reader)
Meckel, Richard (Reader)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Girlhood
Childhood
Activism
Postwar
Women
Girls
Children
Education
Collection:
History
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"Melodramma," Market and Modernity: Opera in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy

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Abstract of “MELODRAMMA,” MARKET AND MODERNITY: OPERA IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ITALY by MICHELA RONZANI, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015. My dissertation “Melodramma,” Market, and Modernity: …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
Ronzani, Michela (creator)
Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne (Director)
Castiglione, Caroline (Reader)
Riva, Massimo (Reader)
Campana, Alessandra (Reader)
Brown University. Italian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Italian Opera
Nineteenth-Century Italy
Collection:
Italian Studies
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"Micro-valences": Affective valence in "neutral" everyday objects

Description:
Affective valence influences both our cognition and our perception of the world. For example, the speed and quality with which we recognize objects in a …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Lebrecht, Sophie (creator)
Sheinberg, David (Director)
Tarr, Michael (Reader)
Badre, David (Reader)
Bar, Moshe (Reader)
Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Cognitive Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Affective processing
Valence
Micro-valence
Object Perception
fMRI
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
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"Monuments to a Nation Gone By": Fortified Houses, King Philip's War, and the Remaking of a New England Frontier, 1675-1725

Description:
During King Philip's War (1675-1676) in New England, English colonists and a small number of enslaved Africans and "friendly" Indians used dwelling houses as places …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Porter, Colin Arms (creator)
Rubertone, Patricia (Director)
Simmons, William (Reader)
Anderson, Douglas (Reader)
McBride, Kevin (Reader)
Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Garrison houses
King Philip's War
Historical archaeology
War and memory
King Philip's War (1675-1676)
Archaeology and history
New England
Collection:
Anthropology
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"Not the Boss of Me": Reviving the Relationship Between Political and Parental Authority

Description:
Contemporary political theorists have tended to ignore the question of parental authority in their exploration of the nature and origins of political authority. Nevertheless, seminal …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Silverstein, Jed Daniel (creator)
Estlund, David (Director)
Larmore, Charles (Director)
Brettschneider, Corey (Reader)
Brown University. Philosophy (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Parental authority
Political Authority
Children
Parents
Collection:
Philosophy
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"Prevalence of proteinuria among the Orang Asli aborigines and ethnic minorities of Malaysia" AND "Survival of elderly and non-elderly end stage renal failure patients with and without dialysis"

Description:
This thesis consists of two studies related to kidney disease. The first paper explored the prevalence and risk factors for proteinuria, an early marker for …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Ch'ng, Chin Chin (creator)
Ong, Loke Meng (Advisor)
McGarvey, Stephen (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
chronic kidney disease
Proteinuria
Dialysis
Collection:
Public Health
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"Such a Method of Doing Business": Local Shipping Agents, the Hajj, and the Divide between Corporate and Colonial Priorities in Late 1870s Jeddah

Description:
Captain George de Jong Beyts served as the British consul in Jeddah from 1874 through 1878. He was also a shipping agent, sent to Jeddah …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Follett, Margaret (creator)
Ahmed, Faiz (thesis advisor)
Toksöz, Meltem (reader)
Brown University. Middle East Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Islam
Indian Ocean
Saudi Arabia--Jiddah
Turkey
British Empire
Steamboats
Singapore
Indonesia
Hajj
Hadrami (Arab tribe)
Collection:
Middle East Studies
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"Svetlana Alexievich : Fiction and the Nonfiction of Confessions"

Description:
This dissertation examines literary style and problematics of genre in the writing of Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Hniadzko, Iryna (creator)
Mihailovic, Alexandar (Advisor)
Golstein, Vladimir (Reader)
Levitsky, Alexander (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Slavic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Russian literature
Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-
non-fiction
Interviews
super-literature
Svetlana Alexievich
historic trauma
Collection:
Slavic Studies
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"The Way Comes about as We Walk It": The Huainanzi and Classical Daoist Ethics

Description:
This dissertation is a detailed study of ethics in the second-century BCE text Huainanzi, and its implications for our understanding of classical Daoist ethics in …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Duperon, Matthew Lee (creator)
Roth, Harold (Director)
Rosemont, Henry (Reader)
Lewis, Thomas (Reader)
Cladis, Mark (Reader)
Bush, Stephen (Reader)
Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
daoism
huainanzi
Dewey
Taoism
Ethics
Huainan zi
Collection:
Religious Studies
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"To Serve the Race...and Redeem the South":Gender and the Southern Interracial Network, 1919-1949

Description:
Abstract of "To Serve the Race...and Redeem the South": Gender and the Southern Interracial Network, 1919-1949, by Caroline C. Cortina, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011.Drawing …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Cortina, Caroline C. (creator)
Patterson, James (Director)
Self, Robert (Reader)
Campbell, James (Reader)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
gender
Will W. Alexander
Howard W. Odum
Mary McLeod Bethune
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Jessie Daniel Ames
American South
Sex
Civil rights
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
Southern Regional Council
Odum, Howard Washington > 1884-1954
Bethune, Mary McLeod > 1875-1955
Brown, Charlotte Hawkins > 1883-1961
Ames, Jessie Daniel > 1883-1972
Southern States
Collection:
History
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"Until We Weep": Rhode Island Protestant Christian Churches and Moving Beyond a Diversity Paradigm to Feeling Equality

Description:
Underlying, interweaving with, and impacting the implementation of diversity paradigms are racialized emotions present in an organization. However, emotions are under-engaged in literature on organizations’ …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Bell, Jocelyn Tirzah (creator)
Pacewicz, Joshua (Advisor)
Hirschman, Daniel (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
emotions
Church
Nonprofit organizations
Focus groups
Racial justice
Collection:
Sociology
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"You Divided Sea by Your Might": The "Conflict Myth" and the Biblical Tradition

Description:
In "'You Divided Sea by Your Might': The 'Conflict Myth' and the Biblical Tradition," I analyze the ancient west Asian theme of divine combat between …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Ballentine, Debra Scoggins (creator)
Olyan, Saul (Director)
Rutz, Matthew (Reader)
Kraemer, Ross (Reader)
Stowers, Stanley (Reader)
Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Baal
Anzu
Marduk
Bible
Myth
Baal (Canaanite deity)
Enuma elish
Anzu (Epic)
Leviathan
Marduk (Babylonian deity)
Collection:
Religious Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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$L^p$ Dirichlet problem for second order elliptic operators having a BMO anti-symmetric part

Description:
In this thesis we study the $L^p$ Dirichlet problem for second order divergence-form operators having a BMO antisymmetric part. To be precise, for the divergence-form …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Li, Linhan (creator)
Pipher, Jill (Advisor)
Dong, Hongjie (Reader)
Pausader, Benoit (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Mathematics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Differential equations, Partial
Harmonic analysis
Collection:
Mathematics
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'Make me a Fruitfull Vine:' Dealing with Infertility in Early Modern England

Description:
Reproduction was of crucial social and cultural importance in early modern England. It mattered because of the need to produce heirs for families that had …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Oren-Magidor, Daphna (creator)
Harris, Tim (Director)
Nummedal, Tara (Reader)
Sluhovsky, Moshe (Reader)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
gender
early modern England
Infertility
Medicine
Sex
Religion
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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'Population Prescriptions': State, Morality, and Population Politics in Contemporary Russia

Description:
This dissertation explores how post-Soviet Russia's demographic reality came to be conceived of as a dramatic national problem and as an object of government intervention. …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Leykin, Inna (creator)
Smith, Daniel (Director)
Lutz, Catherine (Reader)
Brown, Keith (Reader)
Rivkin-Fish, Michele (Reader)
Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Population Politics
Postsocialism
Anthropology of the State
Kinship and Family
Collection:
Anthropology
Theses and Dissertations
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'The Feel of Not to Feel It': British Romanticism, Melancholic Historiography, and the Degree Zero of Emotion

Description:
The dissertation identifies the waning of emotion that attends Romanticism's desire for an evocative past. My readings of poetry, prose fiction, belles lettres, and philosophy …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Block, Daniel Robert (creator)
Keach, William (Director)
Khalip, Jacques (Reader)
Bernstein, Susan (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
British Romanticism
affect studies
Hume
Wordsworth
Scott
Keats
Historiography
Wordsworth, William
Scott, Walter > 1771-1832
Collection:
English
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'There Goes HOBBS, the Atheist!' On Hobbes on Religion

Description:
Interpreters of Thomas Hobbes take two distinctive approaches to his views on religion, either rendering God foundational to his vision or giving primacy to human …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
MacMillan, Alissa Amy (creator)
Bagger, Matthew (Director)
Larmore, Charles (Reader)
Cladis, Mark (Reader)
Lewis, Thomas (Reader)
Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Hobbes
Religion
Naturalism
Hobbes, Thomas > 1588-1679
Collection:
Religious Studies
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'Unhackneyed Solitudes': Recycled Fragment as Lyric Voice in the Poetry of Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath

Description:
My dissertation argues that lyric is best defined as an indirection of voice rather than the subjective experience of a persona. Following Paul de Man, …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Rayburn, Laurel G (creator)
Blasing, Mutlu (Director)
Katz, Tamar (Reader)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Lyric voice
Moore
Bishop
Plath
recycled
genre
Literary form
Plath, Sylvia
Collection:
English
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(Re)configuring Dirty Bodies: Early AIDS, Melodramas, and the Work of Remembering and Reimagining

Description:
Andy’s honors thesis in Ethnic Studies critically examines visual representations of AIDS and perceived associated communities. Through a deployment of cleanliness as an analytic, “(Re)configuring …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Pham, Andy (creator)
Weinstein, Debbie (thesis advisor)
Ramos, Nic (reader)
Brown University. American Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Public health
AIDS (Disease)
Hygiene
Visual Culture
Collection:
American Studies
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(Re)Imagining Brown 250+: histories of violence in the making of an American university

Description:
This thesis asks, what histories are forgotten in order for the campus to uncritically celebrate its origins in 1764? And, how does this present-day process …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Young, Phoebe (author)
Martinez, Monica (advisor)
Hu-DeHart, Evelyn (reader)
Brown University (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Brown University
Slavery
Colonization
Collection:
American Studies
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(RE)PRODUCING THE CITIZENRY: REPRODUCTION AND THE PALESTINIAN (QUASI) STATE-BUILDING PROJECT

Description:
While exceptionally high Palestinian fertility has been featured prominently in the academic literature and the news press, dramatic drops in fertility have been noted in …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Hammoudeh, Weeam S (creator)
Hogan, Dennis (Director)
Chorev, Nitsan (Reader)
White , Michael (Reader)
Brown University. Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Palestine/Palestinians
state-building
Fertility
Demography
Population policy
Nation-building
Collection:
Sociology
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(Un)Making the Racial State: Decolonization, Race, and the Ideal Bureaucrat in Bolivia

Description:
Despite the increasing presence of formerly excluded ethnoracial populations in state spaces across the Americas, research seldom investigates how race shapes their experiences within the …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Bohrt, Marcelo A. (creator)
Itzigsohn, José (Advisor)
Heller, Patrick (Reader)
Henry, Paget (Reader)
Loveman, Mara (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Latin America
Political sociology
Racism
Anti-racism
Bolivia
Racial movements
Race in organizations
Ethnography of the State
Racial State
Racial Bureaucracy
Collection:
Sociology
Theses and Dissertations
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1)The Role of Sucrose Non-Fermenting Related Kinase in Ameliorating Aortic Endothelial Dysfunction & Atherosclerotic Risk 2)Can Literature Weighted GRS for Height Predict Beta Cell Function and Insulin Resistance in Han Chinese?

Description:
The Role of Sucrose Non-Fermenting Related Kinase in Ameliorating Aortic Endothelial Dysfunction & Atherosclerotic Risk Background - Atherosclerotic complications such as ischemic heart disease and …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Teng, Chih Yun Angelica (creator)
Liu, Simin (Advisor)
Xu, Haiyan (Reader)
Chan, Juliana (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Inflammation
Atherosclerosis
Genome Wide Association
Genetic Risk Score
Height
Pancreatic beta cells
SNRK
Han Chinese
Hong Kong
Primary Aortic Endothelial Cell
Collection:
Public Health
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1-Motives with Torsion and Cartier Duality

Description:
We define a category of smooth 1-motives with torsion over a locally noetherian base scheme and prove its Cartier duality. More precisely, we prove that …
Year:
2009
Contributor:
Park, Donghoon (creator)
Lichtenbaum, Stephen (director)
Lichtenbaum, Stephen (reader)
Goncharov, Alexander (reader)
Rosen, Michael (reader)
Brown University. Mathematics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
smooth 1-motives with torsion
Cartier duality
Collection:
Mathematics
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1. Substance use patterns and in-hospital care of adolescents and young adults attending music concerts. & 2. The negative relationship between digital media exposure and childhood flourishing.

Description:
ABSTRACT #1: Substance use patterns and in-hospital care of adolescents and young adults attending music concerts. Introduction: There are few studies that describe medical complaints …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Ruest, Stephanie (creator)
Amanullah, Siraj (Advisor)
Vivier, Patrick (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
flourishing
Youth--Substance use
Digital media
Collection:
Public Health
Theses and Dissertations
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1: The Association of Length of Hospital Stays and Number of ED Visits with Executive Functioning Among Childhood Cancer Survivors. 2: The Association of Neighborhood Poverty Status and Executive Functioning Among Childhood Cancer Survivors.

Description:
Abstract 1: The Association of Length of Hospital Stays and Number of ED Visits with Executive Functioning Among Childhood Cancer Survivors Background: Childhood cancer survivors …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Gorsi, Hamza (creator)
Trask, Christine (Advisor)
Renaud, Thomas (Reader)
Vivier, Patrick (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Cancer--Patients
late effects
Executive functions (Neuropsychology)
Collection:
Public Health
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2D Nanochannels in Textured Graphene Films – Intercalated Templating, Nanofluidic Transport and Controlled Release

Description:
There is great interest in exploiting van der Waals gaps in layered materials. Two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets of graphene oxide (GO) films are of great potential …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Liu, Muchun (creator)
Sun, Shouheng (Reader)
Colvin, Vicki (Reader)
Hurt, Robert (Advisor)
Brown University. Department of Chemistry (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
2D Materials
nanochannels
Graphene
Collection:
Chemistry
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3D CNN Transfer Learning in CT Lung Scans for Pulmonary Nodule Classification

Description:
It is a great burden of labor for radiologists to examine each CT image and recognize the nodule by its distinctive shape since some nodules …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Wang, Wei (creator)
Duan, Fenghai (Advisor)
Chrysanthopoulou, Stavroula (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Biostatistics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Deep Learning
CT Image
CNN
Transfer Learning
Collection:
Public Health
Biostatistics
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3D Neutron Diffraction Studies on the Vortex Lattice

Description:
In condensed matter physics the vortex lattice of type-II superconductors provides a prototype for studying the effect of random pinning on elastic systems. One important …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Wang, Xi (creator)
Ling, Xinsheng (Director)
Kosterlitz, J. (Reader)
Mitrovic, Vesna (Reader)
Brown University. Physics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
neutron diffraction
vortex lattice
screw dislocation
Neutrons--Diffraction
Collection:
Physics
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3D/1D COMPUTED FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE COMPARISON IN CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

Description:
Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) has become the gold standard for diagnosing coronary artery disease (CAD) since Gould et al. [11] claimed so whilst the most …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Yin, Minglang (creator)
Karniadakis, George (Advisor)
Brown University. Engineering: Fluid, Thermal, and Chemical Processes (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Computational fluid dynamics
Reduced-order model
Computed fractional flow reserve
Collection:
Engineering
Fluid, Thermal, and Chemical Processes
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5 little boxes

Description:
A journey of discovery through the senses: imagining, remembering- feel.
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Fialho, Ana (creator)
Maso, Carole (Advisor)
Brown University. Department of Literary Arts (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Fiction
Experimental fiction
Collection:
Literary Arts
Theses and Dissertations
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9 Attempts

Description:
No More Connections
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Post, Emma Atlanta Parrish (creator)
de la Torre, Mónica (Advisor)
Brown University. Department of Literary Arts (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Experimental poetry
Experimental fiction
Collection:
Literary Arts
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[kimchi suite] Instagram Story collection: "suite"-ness

Description:
Instagram story accompaniment for [kimchi suite] installation: What is “suite”-ness? Is it a series of dance music, a set of rooms, a retinue, a belonging, …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Stine Su Yon An (Creator)
Brown University. Literary Arts (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Poetry
kimchi sounds
sound art
Collection:
Literary Arts
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[kimchi suite] Instagram Story collection: #kimchisuite

Description:
Instagram story accompaniment for [kimchi suite] installation: Documentation and commentary on the kimchi-making process. Includes documentation of the making and installation of [Kimchi Suite].
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Stine Su Yon An (Creator)
Brown University. Literary Arts (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Poetry
kimchi sounds
sound art
Korean diaspora
Collection:
Literary Arts
Theses and Dissertations
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[kimchi suite] Instagram Story collection: hashwellsharp

Description:
Instagram story accompaniment for [kimchi suite] installation: What are the resonances between the symbols for a hash, a well, and a sharp? How do they …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Stine Su Yon An (Creator)
Brown University. Literary Arts (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Poetry
kimchi sounds
sound art
Korean diaspora
Collection:
Literary Arts
Theses and Dissertations
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