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"Come Hear our Merry Song": Shifts in the Sound of Swedish Radical Nationalism

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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 ...
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2013
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Teitelbaum, Benjamin R (creator) Perlman, Marc (Director) Titon, Jeff (Reader) Miller, Kiri (Reader) Tucker, Joshua (Reader) Bohlman, Philip (Reader) Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
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extremism immigration Nationalism Music Radicalism Emigration and immigration Racism
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"El melancólico vacío": Poesía, poética y melancolía entre La Galatea de Cervantes y las Soledades de Góngora (1585-1614)

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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 ...
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2013
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Valencia, Felipe (creator) Gaylord, Mary (Director) Merrim, Stephanie (Reader) Bass, Laura (Reader) Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
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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
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"Half-read Wisdom": Classics, Modernism and the Celtic Fringe

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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 ...
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2013
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Baker, Gregory Edward (creator) Haynes, Kenneth (Director) Blasing, Mutlu (Reader) Konstan, David (Reader) Brown University. Comparative Literature (sponsor)
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Modernism Classical Reception James Joyce W. B. Yeats Hugh MacDiarmid David Jones Saunders Lewis Celtic 20th Century Multilingualism Nationalism Poetics Celts Classics
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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

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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 ...
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2013
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Porter, Colin Arms (creator) Rubertone, Patricia (Director) Simmons, William (Reader) Anderson, Douglas (Reader) McBride, Kevin (Reader) Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
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Garrison houses King Philip's War Historical archaeology War and memory King Philip's War (1675-1676) Archaeology and history
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"The Way Comes about as We Walk It": The Huainanzi and Classical Daoist Ethics

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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 ...
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2013
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Duperon, Matthew Lee (creator) Roth, Harold (Director) Rosemont, Henry (Reader) Lewis, Thomas (Reader) Cladis, Mark (Reader) Bush, Stephen (Reader) Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
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daoism huainanzi Dewey Taoism Ethics Huainan zi
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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
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Leykin, Inna (creator) Smith, Daniel (Director) Lutz, Catherine (Reader) Brown, Keith (Reader) Rivkin-Fish, Michele (Reader) Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
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Population Politics Postsocialism Anthropology of the State Kinship and Family
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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
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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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Hobbes Religion Naturalism
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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 ...
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2013
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Klima, Alice (creator) Bonde, Sheila (Director) Zerner, Catherine (Reader) Fidler, Masako (Reader) Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
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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 Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Lepton + Jets Channel using the Ideogram Technique at D\O\

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This thesis presents a measurement of the mass of the top quark. The top quarks are produced through proton-antiproton collisions with $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 ...
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2013
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PARIHAR, Vivek Singh (creator) Heintz, Ulrich (Director) Cutts, David (Reader) Narain, Meenakshi (Reader) Brown University. Physics (sponsor)
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top quark mass ideogram D0 Tevatron Jets
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A Seismological Perspective on the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary

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The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary is the world’s most ubiquitous plate boundary system, separating the high viscosity lithosphere from the underlying convecting mantle asthenosphere. Thoroughly characterizing ...
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2013
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Ford, Heather Anne (creator) Fischer, Karen (Director) Forsyth, Donald (Reader) Hirth, Greg (Reader) Saal, Alberto (Reader) Abers, Geoff (Reader) Brown University. Geological Sciences (sponsor)
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receiver functions asthenosphere San Andreas Fault system Seismology Lithosphere Cratons
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Addiction and Responsibility

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Addiction is often thought of as an excusing condition. All else being equal, addicts who commit crimes to procure drugs are usually seen as less ...
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2013
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Paul, Klumpe Andrew (creator) Arpaly, Nomy (Director) Dreier, Jamie (Reader) Estlund, David (Reader) Brown University. Philosophy (sponsor)
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Addiction Real-Self Theories Irresistible Desires Responsibility
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Advancing Point-of-Care Applications through Ultraviolet Protective Mechanisms and Disease Diagnostics

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Our research works to 1)understand protective mechanisms for improving sunscreens through the study of ultra violet light absorbers and 2) develop a novel detection ...
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2013
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Morabito, Kenneth B (creator) Tripathi, Anubhav (Director) Mathiowitz, Edith (Reader) Morgan, Jeffrey (Reader) Hurt, Robert (Reader) Kantor, Rami (Reader) Brown University. Biomedical Engineering (sponsor)
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UV protection Disease Diagnostics Point-of-Care Point-of-care testing
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Aeromechanics of highly compliant structures: Bat wings, compliant membranes and flexibly mounted flat plates

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We present a study of the aeromechanics of highly compliant structures in the context of animal flight, with special attention paid to bat flight. Bats ...
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2013
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Song, Arnold J (creator) Breuer, Kenneth (Director) Swartz, Sharon (Reader) Mandre, Shreyas (Reader) Brown University. ENGINEERING: Fluids, Thermal, and Chemical Processing (sponsor)
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aeromechanics flapping flight Aeroelasticity Animal flight Micro air vehicles Bats
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After the Animal: Predatory Pursuits in Antebellum America

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The dissertation examines forms of cultural production that assimilated capture as an epistemological model in the modern period. The project looks to canonical works in ...
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2013
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Traisnel, Antoine G (creator) McLaughlin, Kevin (Director) Smith, Barbara (Reader) Bewes, Timothy (Reader) Redfield, Marc (Reader) Brown University. Comparative Literature (sponsor)
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Modernity Animals Literature Civilization, Modern Science
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Age-Associated Arrhythmogenic Substrate and Trigger in a Rabbit Model of Cardiac Aging

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Aging is associated with an increased risk of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD). Yet, much remains unknown about the mechanisms that underlie the age-related ...
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2013
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Cooper, Leroy Leon (creator) Koren, g (Director) Koren, Gideon (Director) Mende, Ulrike (Reader) Harrington, Elizabeth (Reader) Sedivy, John (Reader) Lakatta, Edward (Reader) Brown University. BIOMED: Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology (sponsor)
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senescence calcium dynamics ryanodine receptor Heart Arrhythmia Aging Calcium Ryanodine--Receptors
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Algorithms for Identifying Structural Variants in Human Genome

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Variation in genomes occurs in many forms, from single nucleotide changes to gains and losses of entire chromosomes. Large-scale rearrangements, called structural variants (SVs), are ...
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2013
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Ritz, Anna M (creator) Raphael, Benjamin (Director) Dunn, Casey (Reader) Laidlaw, David (Reader) Upfal, Eli (Reader) Brown University. Computer Science (sponsor)
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structural variation array-comparative genomic hybridization DNA sequencing
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Amorphous IZO-based Thin Film Transistors: Native Defect-based Doping, Amorphous Phase Instabilities, Threshold Voltage Shifts, and Metallization Strategies

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Amorphous oxide semiconductor (AOS) thin film transistors (TFTs) based on In2O3 have attracted much interest for use as pixel switching elements in next generation active-matrix ...
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2013
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Lee, Sunghwan (creator) Paine, David (Director) Zaslavsky, Alexander (Reader) Chason, Eric (Reader) Brown University. ENGINEERING: Materials Science (sponsor)
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Amorphous oxide semiconductors Amorphous indium zinc oxide (a-IZO) Thin films transistors (TFTs) DC magnetron sputtering
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An Investigation of miRNA Repertoires in Bdelloid Rotifers

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An exceptional group of aquatic invertebrates makes up Class Bdelloidea. Bdelloid rotifers are the only group of ancient asexual animals known. A second distinction that ...
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2013
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Dutta, Anupriya (creator) Mark Welch, David (Director) Mckeown, Michael (Reader) Bennett, Richard (Reader) Arkhipova, Irina (Reader) Chen, Kevin (Reader) Brown University. BIOMED: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry (sponsor)
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miRNAs microRNAs rotifers bdelloid rotifers let-7 miR-100 miRNA editing Evolution Rotifera RNA editing
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Analysis of the Human Microtubule Interactome Using Multidimensional Chromatography and Tandem Mass Spectrometry

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Recent developments in mass spectrometer technology has increased the sensitivity and speed to an unprecedented level, along with the continuing improvements of high performance liquid ...
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2013
Contributors:
GONG, CHAO (creator) Bazemore-Walker, Carthene (Director) Sun, Shouheng (Reader) Salomon, Arthur (Reader) Brown University. Chemistry (sponsor)
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microtubule associated protein MAP two dimensional reversed phase HPLC peptide separation peptide diethylation Microtubules Peptides--Separation
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Anxiety of Influence: Artistic Identity in Interactive New Media

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Motivated by questions posed to the new media artist, concerning the difficulties with coming up with an innovative artistic style in interactive media performance, this ...
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2013
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Byron, Robert (creator) Winkler, Todd (Director) Rovan, Joseph (Reader) Dannenberg, Roger (Reader) Dubois, Luke (Reader) Brown University. Music: Computer Music and Multimedia Composition (sponsor)
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new media intermedia 3D animation live performance electro-acoustic performance audiovision interactive design UX design embedded development Mapping techniques digital performance dance performance human/computer interaction. sound design real-time sound & image surround sound New media art Intermediality OpenGL Interactive multimedia--Design Dance--Performances Surround-sound systems
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