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Items
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Teitelbaum, Benjamin R (creator)
- Perlman, Marc (Director)
- Titon, Jeff (Reader)
- Miller, Kiri (Reader)
- Tucker, Joshua (Reader)
- Bohlman, Philip (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- extremism
- immigration
- Nationalism
- Music
- Radicalism
- Emigration and immigration
- Racism
- Sweden
- Scandinavia
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Valencia, Felipe (creator)
- Gaylord, Mary (Director)
- Merrim, Stephanie (Reader)
- Bass, Laura (Reader)
- Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- 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
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de > 1547-1616
- Huarte, Juan > 1529?-1588
- Arguijo, Juan de > 1567-1628?
- Collection:
- Hispanic Studies
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Baker, Gregory Edward (creator)
- Haynes, Kenneth (Director)
- Blasing, Mutlu (Reader)
- Konstan, David (Reader)
- Brown University. Comparative Literature (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Modernism
- Classical Reception
- James Joyce
- W. B. Yeats
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- David Jones
- Saunders Lewis
- Celtic
- 20th Century
- Multilingualism
- Nationalism
- Poetics
- Celts
- Classics
- Joyce, James
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) > 1865-1939
- MacDiarmid, Hugh > 1892-1978
- Lewis, Saunders > 1893-1985
- Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales
- Collection:
- Comparative Literature
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 places …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Porter, Colin Arms (creator)
- Rubertone, Patricia (Director)
- Simmons, William (Reader)
- Anderson, Douglas (Reader)
- McBride, Kevin (Reader)
- Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Garrison houses
- King Philip's War
- Historical archaeology
- War and memory
- King Philip's War (1675-1676)
- Archaeology and history
- New England
- Collection:
- Anthropology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Duperon, Matthew Lee (creator)
- Roth, Harold (Director)
- Rosemont, Henry (Reader)
- Lewis, Thomas (Reader)
- Cladis, Mark (Reader)
- Bush, Stephen (Reader)
- Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- daoism
- huainanzi
- Dewey
- Taoism
- Ethics
- Huainan zi
- Collection:
- Religious Studies
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 intervention. …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Leykin, Inna (creator)
- Smith, Daniel (Director)
- Lutz, Catherine (Reader)
- Brown, Keith (Reader)
- Rivkin-Fish, Michele (Reader)
- Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Population Politics
- Postsocialism
- Anthropology of the State
- Kinship and Family
- Collection:
- Anthropology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- MacMillan, Alissa Amy (creator)
- Bagger, Matthew (Director)
- Larmore, Charles (Reader)
- Cladis, Mark (Reader)
- Lewis, Thomas (Reader)
- Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Hobbes
- Religion
- Naturalism
- Hobbes, Thomas > 1588-1679
- Collection:
- Religious Studies
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Klima, Alice (creator)
- Bonde, Sheila (Director)
- Zerner, Catherine (Reader)
- Fidler, Masako (Reader)
- Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- 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
- Czech Republic
- Collection:
- History of Art and Architecture
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 TeV at the …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- PARIHAR, Vivek Singh (creator)
- Heintz, Ulrich (Director)
- Cutts, David (Reader)
- Narain, Meenakshi (Reader)
- Brown University. Physics (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- top quark mass
- ideogram
- D0
- Tevatron
- Jets
- Collection:
- Physics
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 the …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Ford, Heather Anne (creator)
- Fischer, Karen (Director)
- Forsyth, Donald (Reader)
- Hirth, Greg (Reader)
- Saal, Alberto (Reader)
- Abers, Geoff (Reader)
- Brown University. Geological Sciences (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- receiver functions
- asthenosphere
- San Andreas Fault system
- Seismology
- Lithosphere
- Cratons
- Australia
- North America
- Collection:
- Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Paul, Klumpe Andrew (creator)
- Arpaly, Nomy (Director)
- Dreier, Jamie (Reader)
- Estlund, David (Reader)
- Brown University. Philosophy (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Addiction
- Real-Self Theories
- Irresistible Desires
- Responsibility
- Collection:
- Philosophy
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 and …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Morabito, Kenneth B (creator)
- Tripathi, Anubhav (Director)
- Mathiowitz, Edith (Reader)
- Morgan, Jeffrey (Reader)
- Hurt, Robert (Reader)
- Kantor, Rami (Reader)
- Brown University. Biomedical Engineering (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- UV protection
- Disease Diagnostics
- Point-of-Care
- Point-of-care testing
- Collection:
- Biology and Medicine
- Biomedical Engineering
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Song, Arnold J (creator)
- Breuer, Kenneth (Director)
- Swartz, Sharon (Reader)
- Mandre, Shreyas (Reader)
- Brown University. ENGINEERING: Fluids, Thermal, and Chemical Processing (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- aeromechanics
- flapping flight
- Aeroelasticity
- Animal flight
- Micro air vehicles
- Bats
- Collection:
- Engineering
- Fluid, Thermal, and Chemical Processes
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Traisnel, Antoine G (creator)
- McLaughlin, Kevin (Director)
- Smith, Barbara (Reader)
- Bewes, Timothy (Reader)
- Redfield, Marc (Reader)
- Brown University. Comparative Literature (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Modernity
- Animals
- Literature
- Civilization, Modern
- Science
- America
- Collection:
- Comparative Literature
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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, …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- 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)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- senescence
- calcium dynamics
- ryanodine receptor
- Heart
- Arrhythmia
- Aging
- Calcium
- Ryanodine--Receptors
- Collection:
- Biology and Medicine
- Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Ritz, Anna M (creator)
- Raphael, Benjamin (Director)
- Dunn, Casey (Reader)
- Laidlaw, David (Reader)
- Upfal, Eli (Reader)
- Brown University. Computer Science (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- structural variation
- array-comparative genomic hybridization
- DNA sequencing
- Collection:
- Computer Science
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Lee, Sunghwan (creator)
- Paine, David (Director)
- Zaslavsky, Alexander (Reader)
- Chason, Eric (Reader)
- Brown University. ENGINEERING: Materials Science (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Amorphous oxide semiconductors
- Amorphous indium zinc oxide (a-IZO)
- Thin films transistors (TFTs)
- DC magnetron sputtering
- Collection:
- Engineering
- Materials Science Engineering
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- 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)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- miRNAs
- microRNAs
- rotifers
- bdelloid rotifers
- let-7
- miR-100
- miRNA editing
- Evolution
- Rotifera
- RNA editing
- Collection:
- Biology and Medicine
- Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- GONG, CHAO (creator)
- Bazemore-Walker, Carthene (Director)
- Sun, Shouheng (Reader)
- Salomon, Arthur (Reader)
- Brown University. Chemistry (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- microtubule associated protein
- MAP
- two dimensional reversed phase HPLC
- peptide separation
- peptide diethylation
- Microtubules
- Peptides--Separation
- Collection:
- Chemistry
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Byron, Robert (creator)
- Winkler, Todd (Director)
- Rovan, Joseph (Reader)
- Dannenberg, Roger (Reader)
- Dubois, Luke (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Computer Music and Multimedia Composition (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- 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
- Collection:
- Music
- Computer Music and Multimedia Composition
- Theses and Dissertations