This paper analyzes whether the rise in anti-Muslim attitudes in Northwestern Europe is also expressed in disparate treatment of Muslims in the labor market. While …
Despite having by international standards some of the most extensive socio-economic rights in the world, refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa are consistently unable …
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 …
My dissertation investigates connections between the family sphere and politics during the rise of Algerian nationalism through the French-Algerian War (1954-1962). Specifically, it examines ways …
This dissertation examines the critical anti-Zionist literary and cultural movement surrounding al-Jadid, the Arabic journal of the Israeli Communist Party (MAKI) in Israel/Palestine. This study …
The sigma-2 receptor is a pharmacologically-defined protein receptor present in a variety of tissues, and interest in its role in a wide array of diseases …
The surface morphologies of different soft material systems comprise various ruga phases (wrinkle, crease, fold or ridge). In the past a few decades, despite that …
The Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics has proven to be an incredible mathematical framework for describing the observed elementary particles that make up the …
A new model, based on matched asymptotic analysis, for the simulation of two-dimensional unsteady flows around structures, has been developed and tested on a wide …
Aberrant endothelial cell (EC) proliferation plays an important role in the vascular remodeling observed in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). Anoctamin-1 (Ano1), a calcium activated chloride …
This dissertation comparatively examines the acquisition, military organization, and historical development of the last provinces fully incorporated into the Roman Empire – Dacia and Arabia …
Abstract of “Admirable but Not Imitable: Brazilian Interpretations of the United States, 1910-1960” by Benjamin Legg, PhD., Brown University, May 2016. This dissertation examines texts …
The central nervous system (CNS) contains a complex assortment of cell types and extracellular matrix proteins, which are arranged into an intricate architecture and ultimately …
This dissertation investigates the role of institutions in mitigating the effects of adverse shocks to health and how adverse shocks to health in turn, impact …
This dissertation focuses on a unique corpus of cuneiform tablets from southern Babylonia written during the Seleucid period (roughly 3rd- 2nd c. BCE) that preserve …
Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic disease thought to manifest in response to exposure to antigens that induce eosinophil infiltration of the esophagus. Due to …
This dissertation examines representations of antisecular religion (herein referred to as the “religion of the disinherited”) in the late nineteenth and twentieth century American novel, …
In this thesis, I first focus on the study of the optical properties of three kinds of amorphous germanium (Ge) nanostructures: Ge ultra-thin films, Ge-SiO2 …