The relationship between women’s employment and fertility generally shows an inverse relationship in industrialized societies. Italy is an exception in this regard because it exhibits …
Background: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective biomedical HIV prevention method first introduced in the South African public sector in 2012 to MSM and sex …
This thesis investigates contemporary queer identity in the Maghreb and in Maghrebi diaspora in France through the works of Nina Bouraoui. It forges a queer …
This is a study of formal, royal Egyptian stelae that were carved into living-rock outcrops. The driving research question is twofold: under what circumstances did …
Throughout 2011, Chile was swept by a wave of protests using performance to communicate demands for educational reform. Ranging from flash mobs to kiss-ins, these …
Work is a social determinant of health that creates and sustains health inequities. This dissertation aims to elucidate pathways and quantify associations between work and …
Prefrontal cortical dysfunction is well-established in schizophrenia and is thought to contribute to working memory (WM) impairment, which occurs early in development before the onset …
North Africa’s densely occupied urban landscape, well-documented sources of historical and archaeological data, and long history of colonial interactions make the region a natural fit …
Abstract of World Donut: Cambodians, Donut Shops, Los Angeles, 1975-Present, by Erin Michelle Curtis, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2016 At the turn of the twenty-first …
Worldbuilding in Our World: Queer/Trans Oral Histories of Friends at the Table Fandom documents the experiences of six queer and/or trans fans of the actual …
The dissertation examines how poetry from the mid seventeenth century to the mid eighteenth century sought to dissociate allegiances from their political implications and disentangle …
This dissertation examines the emerging cultural question of vernacular writing during the mid-sixteenth century in France. Combining cultural history, literary studies, and critical theory, it …
Troubled by the uncertain status of language as an instrument of knowledge, early modern writers sought new means to discover, communicate, and even produce knowledge. …
Taking as my point of departure the work of early social scientist and dramatist Henry Mayhew, I examine how early social research appropriates sentimental themes …
The primary objective of research described in this dissertation was the development of an X-ray imaging technique to enhance normal X-ray phase contrast imaging. Phase …
The primary objective of the research presented in this dissertation is the development and application of Spatial Frequency Heterodyne Imaging (SFHI), a novel x-ray imaging …
The question of compositional unity has intrigued Pindaric scholarship for centuries. I seek a new approach to the question by examining the role which the …