Wallace Stevens' reconciliation, Brown University honors theses, 1961. Vol. 1, American civilization, American literature, Applied mathematics, 1-SIZE 1-N HO 1961 1, …
Sixty-two three- and four-year old children were tested in Day Care Centers in the Providence, R. I. area. Three experiments were administered. In Experiment I, …
Constraint Query Languages assume that the relations in the database represent data implicitly by constraint specifications. Unlike standard database query languages, Constraint Query Languages allow …
The goal of this work was to provide a foundation for quantitative assessment of H2O abundance of terrestrial and extraterrestrial geologic materials using visible-near infrared …
Researchers have long sought to identify the factors contributing to individual differences in vocabulary development. Some attributed these to individuals' speech processing abilities, and others …
To become productive language users, learners must assign words to grammatical categories such as noun, verb or adjective. This supports linguistic productivity as newly learned …
Various mechanisms govern pattern formation in chemical and biological reaction systems, giving rise to structures with distinct morphologies and physical properties. The self-organization of polymerizing …
In my dissertation, "Women Healers Crossing Gender Role Boundaries in Old French Narrative," I examine the role and representation of women healers in the literature …
Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) with poor physico-chemical properties such as low solubility or inappropriate lipophilicity often present significant challenges in formulation developments and preclinical investigations. …
Two dimensional electronic systems exhibit a wide variety of phenomena including the quantum Hall effect, weak and strong localization, and metal-insulator transitions, including the superconductor …
The delineation and description of objects in an image is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Current approaches that delineate objects from an image in …
This dissertation studies Arturo Pérez-Reverte's literary work in relation to Spanish canonical writers Benito Pérez Galdós and Miguel de Unamuno. It explores how Pérez-Reverte's social …
This dissertation develops a theory of maritime procurement that focuses upon the fishing strategies of small-scale commercial fishers who work in a highly stressed estuarine …
The purpose of this dissertation is to gain a better understanding of how American adults in established relationships make decisions about contraception. The data consist …
This doctoral work is mainly motivated by statistical challenges emerging from personalized medicine in the context of care for cancer patients. We propose methodology to …
Psychologists tout many prosocial benefits of empathy, including helping and moral behaviours, the inhibition of aggression, the encouragement of forgiveness and trust and the reduction …
The study of shapes and their similarities is central in computer vision, in that it allows to recognize and classify objects from their representation. One …
This dissertation is centered on two areas: (i) rational design and synthesis of robust porous metal-organic frameworks using well-defined building blocks and (ii) synthesis of …
In order to understand the stress behaviors in thin films, three related topics were investigated. First, intrinsic stress generation mechanisms were studied by in-situ stress …
My dissertation explores the problem of experience in the work of three twentieth-century American poets: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill. In the broadest …
This thesis studies the shergottite family of martian meteorites using a variety of experiments performed on natural and synthetic samples. The study determines the crystallization …
Studies of two nanoscale systems with important engineering applications, Al-Si nanocomposites and Au nanoasperities, are investigated using molecular dynamics. The first system is studied in …
It is widely assumed that differences in wing morphology among bat species are reflected by interspecific differences in flight performance, and consequently, in the way …
In this thesis, new aspects of localized surface plasmon polaritons and their applications are considered in nanoscale structures. First, the optical response of pairwise electromagnetically …
The high rate of migration of young people to urban and economic centers in the context of persistent poverty and devastating HIV/AIDS burden raise intricate …
Many lithic analyses in recent decades have focused on the influence of lithic production techniques and artifact stages in the discard form of stone tools. …
In this thesis, we develop the medial scaffold (MS) technology, a graph-based medial axis (MA) representation, which is applied to model 3D shapes in a …
This thesis presents the techniques we have developed in analyzing brain signals obtained from the most commonly used brain imaging methods, e.g., EEG/MEG and fMRI …
Background: Although depression is prevalent among working-aged Medicaid enrollees with physical disabilities, the association of depression and health service utilization has not been examined in …
This dissertation discusses two related clinical applications of visible regime diffuse reflectance spectroscopy as well as two new configurations of liquid crystal microspectrometer suitable in …
The volatile metabolite geosmin is a degraded sesquiterpene that is responsible for the characteristic smell of moist soil. Geosmin is produced by a wide range …
We explore the interactions between engineered nanoscale structures (primarily nanopores and nanotubes) and biomolecules on three inter-related fronts: DNA and protein separation, drug delivery, and …
Little recent research exists identifying home health agency (HHA) organizational and market characteristics that influence home health quality. This study, grounded in organizational sociology, had …
Most protocol analyses only address security properties. However, other properties are important and can increase our understanding of protocols, as well as aid in the …
Partial melting of the mantle occurs predominantly in the spinel lherzolite stability field, where pyroxenes are consumed to produce olivine and basaltic melt. The phase …
Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection in the United States, 1965-1990 explores how social and political movements redefined the meaning of citizenship …
For non-stoichiometric oxide thin films (e.g. ceria and titania) in constrained geometries the variation in oxygen partial pressures lead to stresses, thus termed compositional stresses. …
Pulsed gradient spin-echo (PGSE) diffusion NMR spectroscopy was designed to measure diffusion coefficients and deduce the hydrodynamic radii of molecules in solution. By incorporation of …
This study used a signal detection approach to examine two possible psychophysical time scales, log timing and linear timing, with rats and human subjects. Subjects' …
This dissertation explores the historical determinants of comparative economic development. The first chapter examines theoretically and empirically the economic origins of ethnic and linguistic diversity. …
The aim of this dissertation is to bring to light innovative ? and until recently, thoroughly ignored ? theoretical discussions of the concepts of "actuality" …
An experimental study of electric field induced surface diffusion is presented. A FEM analysis and a stability analysis of conducting surfaces subjected to a normal …
This thesis describes a theoretical and experimental investigation of the photoacoustic effect generated by the thermal nonlinearity of water, and the subsequent bubble production in …
Recently, there has been significant interest in applications where high-volume, continuous data streams need to be processed with low latency. Such applications include financial market …
Hypervelocity collisions generate extreme pressure and temperature conditions at the point of impact. Materials that reach high enough temperatures will emit light in the visible …
Detailed textural, mineralogical and chemical analyses of extraterrestrial materials have raised numerous questions about the igneous evolution and cooling histories of their parent bodies. Remote …
Desirable cytocompatibility properties of nano-sized ceramics were combined with the tunable degradability and deformability of a select polymer (poly-lactide-co-glycolide, or PLGA) to optimize biological and …
My dissertation uses the lens of migration to examine the relationship between mobility and migrant social networks for the black population of South Africa. It …
Nanometer-scale roughness on a solid surface has significant effects on friction, since inter-surface forces operate predominantly within a nanometer-scale gap distance in frictional contact. This …
This dissertation examines the role of entertainment films in negotiating the meaning of national identity in interwar Hungary. Fragmented and traumatized by WWI and its …
This study examines how various gendered forces?social, cultural, and other?combined to shape a new national identity in France following the Second World War. During the …
Developing nanoparticle (NP) catalyst with controlled size and surface structure is the key to achieve high catalytic efficiency. Of numerous NP catalysts studied, platinum (Pt) …
The method of phase inversion nanoencapsulation was utilized to develop an oral insulin microsphere delivery system fabricated from poly(fumaric-co-sebacic anhydride) (p(FASA)). As particle uptake in …
An appealing approach to manufacturing future generation nanoscale devices envisioned for electronic, magnetic and photonic applications is to exploit the natural tendency of small material …
This dissertation argues that gothic conventions in antebellum fiction revise Enlightenment categories of the individual, sympathy, and the social contract for a cultural environment made …
By high temperature decomposition, magnetic nanoparticles (MFe2O4, Co, Fe, Au-Fe3O4, M=Fe, Mn, Co) were synthesized. The nanoparticles' size and composition can be well controlled through …
My dissertation focuses on the persistence of national consciousness in postcolonial and contemporary British literatures. Theories of globalization after 1945 represent nationalism and culture as …
Micron-size paramagnetic particles suspended in viscous fluid will aggregate to form linear chains when subject to a uniform magnetic field. This process provides a way …
Particles other than bosons and fermions can exist in two dimensions. One possibility is that when one particle makes a circle around another particle the …
Theatre architecture reform in the second half of the eighteenth century in France shows the cross-infiltration of philosophical and scientific discourses with those generated by …
Liquid crystal lasers are dye-doped distributed feedback lasing systems. Fabricated by coupling the periodic structure of a liquid crystal medium with a fluorescent dye, the …
I investigated factors that influence microbial diversity and composition and the consequences of this diversity for plant communities. First, I used cloning and sequencing of …
In this work we develop and apply numerical methods for quantifying parametric uncertainty in mathematical models. In Part I, we introduce the Multi-Element Probabilistic Collocation …
My project addresses the Fantastic ? particularly what I consider the outcomes and implications of its language ? within the post-unification Italian journals of the …
Continental climate experiences significant changes and severely affects human's life. Quantitative reconstruction of past continental climate changes is extremely important for understanding their mechanisms in …
This dissertation studies global movements that occur structurally, thematically, syntactically, and semantically in postwar poetry through reading poets Jacqueline Risset (France), Anne Teyssiéras (France), Edouard …
Representative of the phenomenon of media convergence felt across the globe, the state of contemporary Japanese animation (or anime) is characterized by the proliferation, interrelation …
This thesis contains three related topics on the multiscale discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods and applications. In the first part, we present a multiscale model for …
This dissertation maintains that nostalgia played a formative role in animating several competing diasporic American nationalisms in the nineteenth century. Nostalgia is often dismissed as …
This dissertation provides three empirical essays on contemporary China's development. It deals with the institutional reform, organization and finance of industrial enterprises in contemporary China …
The relationship between alcohol and emotion is extremely complex. Prolonged heavy alcohol consumption and acute alcohol administration both affect emotional processing in the brain. In …
This dissertation, a social and cultural history of media and education in postwar Philadelphia, examines the concurrent struggles against racial discrimination on American Bandstand and …
The top quark pair production cross section measurement in the lepton+jets channel with b-tagging is described. About 900 pb-1 data collected by the DØ detector …
The dispossession of the Native American land base during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is at once a well-recognized historical process and a process seldom …
This dissertation provides an explication of fitting actions (kathêkonta) within the broader context of Stoic ethics and philosophy. Specifically, I address the Stoics' contentious definition …
My graduate work examined the reaction of neuronal cells to the shape of their extra-cellular environment. Over the last century, many studies have confirmed that …
Finite-temperature quantum field theory, with a focus on Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), and its application to the scattering of an ultra-relativistic particle in a hot plasma, …
Observations of the surface of Mars suggest that the nature and intensity of valley formation changed over time. Early in its history, valley networks were …
Generations of archaeologists have identified and examined craft production, specialization, and technological development as defining characteristics of sociopolitical complexity. Yet, the significance of North American …
Bone anchored prosthetic attachments, like other percutaneous devices, suffer from poor soft tissue integration, seen as chronic inflammation, infection, epithelial downgrowth and regression. We looked …
Dataflow programming provides an elegant model for computing with values that change over time. While many domain-specific dataflow languages have been developed, this dissertation presents …
The Most Interesting Girl of this Country is the Colored Girl: Girls and Racial Uplift in Great Migration Chicago, 1890-1950, focuses on the relationship between …
This dissertation reports the development of the PDMS-glass microfluidic chips that integrate nanostructured electrode arrays as the working electrodes in the three-electrode electrochemical cell configurations. …
The problem of detecting changes in images taken by a stationary camera has been well studied and many algorithms now exist which perform robustly in …
The first two thirds of this thesis are concerned with the properties of a single server using the weighted-serve-the-longest queue policy (WSLQ). It addresses three …
In this thesis, we explore the underlying science and device potential of carbon nanotube arrays in infrared photodetection. In Chapter 2, we will present the …
Non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) proofs can be an extremely powerful tool, allowing one to prove a statement in a single message without revealing any information besides …
This dissertation investigates how communities and advocacy groups in Appalachia, Maine, and Alaska use biomonitoring to work toward environmental health and justice. Biological monitoring, or …
Traumatic injury to the spinal cord often results in irreversible loss of function as the central nervous system fails to spontaneously regenerate. The application of …
Nanopore system is important for its many promising applications in rapid DNA sequencing, large biological molecule detection, polynucleotide-enzyme interaction study and etc. Following the first …
The Siddhantasundara is a comprehensive treatise on astronomy written in Sanskrit by Jnanaraja in the beginning of the sixteenth century CE in what is now …
A combination of features of contemporary Nepal creates an ideal scenario for the study of ways women negotiate and reproduce social hierarchies: changes in social …
This thesis contains two topics on high-order accurate methods for solving Maxwell's equations. The first topic is the application of high-order accurate methods to the …
Oral absorption of many potential pharmaceuticals is limited due to problems of enzyme degradation, dissolution and permeation. Bioadhesive poly(fumaric-co-sebacic) anhydride microspheres have been investigated as …
Mucoadhesion is defined as the adhesion between a biomaterial and mucus. Mucoadhesion enhances drug delivery by increasing transit time and causing intimate contact with intestinal …