This study examines how relations with – and discourses of – the “Turk” within England shaped the contours of critical political and religious debates from …
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: …
In June 1941, a Central Press wire story declared, “The latest and strangest recruit in Uncle Sam’s defense line-up is—the museum!” The release quoted the …
Harmonic analysis is an artform of understanding how mathematical objects behave. In this thesis, we develop a framework for understanding Calder\'on-Zygmund Singular Integral Operators (CZOs), …
This dissertation examines differences in affective response to music among players of Appalachian old-time music, primarily in Appalachian Virginia and North Carolina. While a small …
This dissertation describes three primary contributions to the field of medical imaging: (1) a mathematical model ("Blockhead") of the macroscopic and microscopic structure of the …
Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria present an ever-growing challenge to physicians. The growing antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria has caused the Centers for Disease Control …
ABSTRACT Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the most common adult-onset motor neuron disease in the world, can be caused by mutations scattered along the full length …
Notch signaling is a key regulator of developmental processes in many metazoans. However, it is also active in the adult nervous system of animals ranging …
The goal of this thesis was to use non-invasive quantifiable MR parameters of volume, signal intensity and T2* relaxation time to predict the biomechanical or …
Call a diagram D of spaces ``absolute'' if, for all enriched homotopy functors F, the induced map F(holim(D)) -> holim(FD) is an equivalence of spaces. …
A generalized thermoelastic model for adhesion was developed to elucidate the mechanism of dissipation within the viscoelastic bulk of a hydrogel. Results show that in …
Underage drinking is a serious public health concern in the US in part because earlier ages of drinking onset are associated with more severe alcohol …
In nineteenth-century San Francisco, black community leaders sought to reach beyond the geographical limits of the Bay Area in their battle for equal rights in …
The mesoscopic description of molecular systems is investigated by using the memory function approach, and uncertainty quantification methods are developed for the evaluation of time …
“Pink” Mg-spinel is a rare mineral among rock samples returned during the Apollo missions and is typically associated with the lunar highlands Mg-suite (a small …
There are two primary issues facing database systems designed for on-line transaction processing (OLTP): scalability and performance. Traditional disk-based OLTP architectures are the result of …
The growing interest in genealogy for African Americans is one expression of a longstanding desire to find answers to questions about ancestors, family, and heritage …