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'Population Prescriptions': State, Morality, and Population Politics in Contemporary Russia

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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 ...
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2013
Contributors:
Leykin, Inna (creator) Smith, Daniel (Director) Lutz, Catherine (Reader) Brown, Keith (Reader) Rivkin-Fish, Michele (Reader) Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
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theses
Keywords:
Population Politics Postsocialism Anthropology of the State Kinship and Family
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'The Feel of Not to Feel It': British Romanticism, Melancholic Historiography, and the Degree Zero of Emotion

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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 ...
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2012
Contributors:
Block, Daniel Robert (creator) Keach, William (Director) Khalip, Jacques (Reader) Bernstein, Susan (Reader) Brown University. English (sponsor)
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theses
Keywords:
British Romanticism affect studies Hume Wordsworth Scott Keats Historiography
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'There Goes HOBBS, the Atheist!' On Hobbes on Religion

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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 ...
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2013
Contributors:
MacMillan, Alissa Amy (creator) Bagger, Matthew (Director) Larmore, Charles (Reader) Cladis, Mark (Reader) Lewis, Thomas (Reader) Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
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theses
Keywords:
Hobbes Religion Naturalism
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'Unhackneyed Solitudes': Recycled Fragment as Lyric Voice in the Poetry of Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath

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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 ...
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2012
Contributors:
Rayburn, Laurel G (creator) Blasing, Mutlu (Director) Katz, Tamar (Reader) Nabers, Deak (Reader) Rooney, Ellen (Reader) Brown University. English (sponsor)
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theses
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Lyric voice Moore Bishop Plath recycled genre Literary form
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(Re)Imagining Brown 250+: histories of violence in the making of an American university

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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 ...
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2017
Contributors:
Young, Phoebe (author) Martinez, Monica (advisor) Hu-DeHart, Evelyn (reader) Brown University (sponsor)
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theses
Keywords:
Slavery Colonization
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(RE)PRODUCING THE CITIZENRY: REPRODUCTION AND THE PALESTINIAN (QUASI) STATE-BUILDING PROJECT

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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 ...
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2016
Contributors:
Hammoudeh, Weeam S (creator) Hogan, Dennis (Director) Chorev, Nitsan (Reader) White , Michael (Reader) Brown University. Sociology (sponsor)
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theses
Keywords:
Palestine/Palestinians state-building Fertility Demography Population policy Nation-building
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(Un)Making the Racial State: Decolonization, Race, and the Ideal Bureaucrat in Bolivia

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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 ...
Copyright Date:
2018
Contributors:
Bohrt, Marcelo A. (creator) Itzigsohn, José (Advisor) Heller, Patrick (Reader) Henry, Paget (Reader) Loveman, Mara (Reader) Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
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Latin America Political sociology Racism Anti-racism Bolivia Racial movements Race in organizations Ethnography of the State Racial State Racial Bureaucracy
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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?

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

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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 ...
Copyright Date:
2009
Contributors:
Park, Donghoon (creator) Lichtenbaum, Stephen (director) Lichtenbaum, Stephen (reader) Goncharov, Alexander (reader) Rosen, Michael (reader) Brown University. Mathematics (sponsor)
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theses
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smooth 1-motives with torsion Cartier duality
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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.

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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 ...
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2017
Contributors:
Ruest, Stephanie (creator) Amanullah, Siraj (Advisor) Vivier, Patrick (Reader) Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
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theses
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flourishing Youth--Substance use Digital media
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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.

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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 ...
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2017
Contributors:
Gorsi, Hamza (creator) Trask, Christine (Advisor) Renaud, Thomas (Reader) Vivier, Patrick (Reader) Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
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theses
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Cancer--Patients late effects Executive functions (Neuropsychology)
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3D Neutron Diffraction Studies on the Vortex Lattice

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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 ...
Copyright Date:
2012
Contributors:
Wang, Xi (creator) Ling, Xinsheng (Director) Kosterlitz, J. (Reader) Mitrovic, Vesna (Reader) Brown University. Physics (sponsor)
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theses
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neutron diffraction vortex lattice screw dislocation Neutrons--Diffraction
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3D/1D COMPUTED FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE COMPARISON IN CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

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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 ...
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2018
Contributors:
Yin, Minglang (creator) Karniadakis, George (Advisor) Brown University. Engineering: Fluid, Thermal, and Chemical Processes (sponsor)
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theses
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Computational fluid dynamics Reduced-order model Computed fractional flow reserve
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A Biophysical Analysis of Neutrophil Force Generation in a Biochemical Environment

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Neutrophils are the most abundant circulating white blood cell in the human body, and play a crucial role in the innate immune response to infection ...
Copyright Date:
2018
Contributors:
Andrews, Christina (creator) Franck, Christian (Advisor) Lefort, Craig (Reader) Reichner, Jonathan (Reader) Wong, Ian (Reader) Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Biomedical Engineering (sponsor)
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theses
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Immunology Immune system Septicemia Cells--Mechanical properties soft materials traction force microscopy
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A BMP-dependent feedback loop regulates dpp expression by direct and indirect mechanisms in the Drosophila wing imaginal disc

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Morphogen activity gradients assign positional information within fields of cells in a concentration-dependent manner. As transcriptional changes respond to signaling activity thresholds, cells must encounter ...
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2012
Contributors:
Aldrich, Maryanna M (creator) Wharton, Kristi (Director) McKeown, Michael (Reader) Freiman, Richard (Reader) Johnson, Mark (Reader) Raftery, Laurel (Reader) Brown University. BIOMED: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry (sponsor)
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theses
Keywords:
BMP signaling dpp negative regulation Min jin dang (China) Transcription Drosophila
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A Bohemian Monastery: The Last Bishop of Prague (1301-1343) and the Monastery of Augustinian Canons at Roudnice (Raudnitz) on the Elbe

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Roudnice monastery in the Kingdom of Bohemia has fascinated scholars due to two facts regarding its cultural context; first, the Prague bishop Jan IV of ...
Copyright Date:
2013
Contributors:
Klima, Alice (creator) Bonde, Sheila (Director) Zerner, Catherine (Reader) Fidler, Masako (Reader) Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
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theses
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Medieval Architecture Architecture Gothic Roudnice on the Elbe Kingdom of Bohemia Patronage ecclesiastical Bishop John IV of Drazice Architecture, Medieval Church architecture Architecture, Gothic Augustinian architecture Monasteries Monastic and religious life Patronage, Ecclesiastical
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A Case Report of Healthy Bodies on the Inside: A Pilot, Weight Management Intervention in Women’s Medium Security Prison in Rhode Island

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BACKGROUND: Incarcerated women are disproportionately at risk of being obese and are gaining weight behind bars. However, few interventions to stop weight gain and/or ...
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2017
Contributors:
Scharff, Allegra Louise (creator) Macmadu, Alexandria (Reader) Rosenthal, Samantha (Advisor) Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
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theses
Keywords:
Public health Prisoners--Health and hygiene Weight Managment Public Health Intervention
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A Compositional Assessment of the Enormous South Pole - Aitken Basin Grounded in Laboratory Spectroscopy of Pyroxene-Bearing Materials

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The South Pole - Aitken Basin is the largest confirmed impact basin on the Moon, and one of the largest in the entire solar system. Because ...
Copyright Date:
2016
Contributors:
Moriarty, Daniel P. (creator) Pieters, Carle (Director) Head, Jim (Reader) Parmentier, Edgar (Reader) Parman, Stephen (Reader) Sunshine, Jessica (Reader) Brown University. Geological Sciences (sponsor)
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theses
Keywords:
Spectroscopy Lunar Science Spectrum analysis Planetary science Geology Pyroxene
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A computational approach to mitigate visualization design barriers

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This thesis advances visualization design research by developing and evaluating new theoretical knowledge and computational techniques, which target the rising complexity of data and growing ...
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2017
Contributors:
Gramazio, Connor Casey (creator) Laidlaw, David (Advisor) Huang, Jeff (Reader) Raphael, Benjamin (Reader) Schloss, Karen (Reader) Brown University. Department of Computer Science (sponsor)
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theses
Keywords:
Information visualization human-computer interaction Visual analytics
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A Continuous Probabilistic Scene Model for Aerial Imagery

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Given a set of images of a scene, it is possible to estimate both the 3-d position of points in the scene and images from ...
Copyright Date:
2009
Contributors:
Crispell, Daniel Elting (creator) Taubin, Gabriel (director) Mundy, Joseph (reader) Kimia, Benjamin (reader) Brown University. Division of Engineering. Electrical Sciences and Computer Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Keywords:
3-d modeling Computer vision Computer graphics Three-dimensional modeling
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