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"Svetlana Alexievich : Fiction and the Nonfiction of Confessions"

Description:
This dissertation examines literary style and problematics of genre in the writing of Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Hniadzko, Iryna (creator)
Mihailovic, Alexandar (Advisor)
Golstein, Vladimir (Reader)
Levitsky, Alexander (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Slavic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Russian literature
Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-
non-fiction
Interviews
super-literature
Svetlana Alexievich
historic trauma
Collection:
Slavic Studies
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(Un)Making the Racial State: Decolonization, Race, and the Ideal Bureaucrat in Bolivia

Description:
Despite the increasing presence of formerly excluded ethnoracial populations in state spaces across the Americas, research seldom investigates how race shapes their experiences within the …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Bohrt, Marcelo A. (creator)
Itzigsohn, José (Advisor)
Heller, Patrick (Reader)
Henry, Paget (Reader)
Loveman, Mara (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Latin America
Political sociology
Racism
Anti-racism
Bolivia
Racial movements
Race in organizations
Ethnography of the State
Racial State
Racial Bureaucracy
Collection:
Sociology
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3D/1D COMPUTED FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE COMPARISON IN CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

Description:
Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) has become the gold standard for diagnosing coronary artery disease (CAD) since Gould et al. [11] claimed so whilst the most …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Yin, Minglang (creator)
Karniadakis, George (Advisor)
Brown University. Engineering: Fluid, Thermal, and Chemical Processes (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Computational fluid dynamics
Reduced-order model
Computed fractional flow reserve
Collection:
Engineering
Fluid, Thermal, and Chemical Processes
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A Biophysical Analysis of Neutrophil Force Generation in a Biochemical Environment

Description:
Neutrophils are the most abundant circulating white blood cell in the human body, and play a crucial role in the innate immune response to infection …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Andrews, Christina (creator)
Franck, Christian (Advisor)
Lefort, Craig (Reader)
Reichner, Jonathan (Reader)
Wong, Ian (Reader)
Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Biomedical Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Immunology
Immune system
Septicemia
Cells--Mechanical properties
soft materials
traction force microscopy
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
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A Dividing Sea: The Adriatic World from the Fourth to the First Centuries BC

Description:
The Adriatic Sea both connected and divided the shores of the Italian and Balkan peninsulas in the Hellenistic period (fourth to first centuries BC). The …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Fairbank, Keith Robert (creator)
Oliver, Graham (Advisor)
van Dommelen, Peter (Reader)
Mignone, Lisa (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Economic History
Roman history
Imperialism
Mediterranean Sea--Adriatic Sea
Hellenistic
Piracy
Greek history
Polybius
Collection:
Classics
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A Mobile High-Performance Neural Processing Platform for Practical Intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces

Description:
Intracortical brain­computer interfaces (iBCIs) that record from microelectrode arrays (MEAs) provide high spatial and temporal resolution access to human cortical activity. Current iBCIs for human …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Heelan, Christopher David (creator)
Nurmikko, Arto (Advisor)
Simeral, John (Advisor)
Reda, Sherief (Reader)
Brown University. School of Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Biomedical engineering
Brain-Computer Interface
High performance computing
Field programmable gate arrays
Embedded computer systems
Mobile computing
Electrical engineering
Collection:
Engineering
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A Murmur from Earth

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2018
  • Concentration: Music
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Sternlicht, Max (creator)
Winkler, Todd (reader)
Moses, James (reader)
Brown University. Department of Music (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
multimedia
opera
performance
space
turtle
Collection:
Music
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A Parameterization of Convex Projective Groups

Description:
In the hyperbolic plane, fix a triangle with angles π/α, π/β, π/γ (so, 1/α +1/β +1/γ< 1). The set of reflections over the edges of …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Silletto, Lewis (Creator)
Schwartz, Richard (advisor)
Brown University (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Convex Geometry
triangle groups
projective geometry
hyperbolic geometry
convex projective groups
Collection:
Mathematics
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A Qualitative Analysis of Sexual Consent among High School Students

Description:
Sexual violence is common in adolescence. Education on sexual consent is considered to be a critical component of many sexual assault prevention programs, and it …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Righi, Mary Kirtley (creator)
Kuo, Caroline (Advisor)
Orchowski, Lindsay (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Sexual consent
Sexual Violence
Teenagers--Sexual behavior
Collection:
Public Health
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A tale of two moduli spaces: Hilbert schemes of singular curves and moduli of elliptic surfaces

Description:
Moduli spaces play a central role in algebraic geometry. In this thesis we study the geometry of two particular moduli spaces. In Part I we …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Bejleri, Dori (creator)
Abramovich, Dan (Advisor)
Hassett, Brendan (Reader)
Chan, Melody (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Mathematics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Geometry, Algebraic
Collection:
Mathematics
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A Thermodynamics-Based Algorithm for Optimizing HIV Drug Resistance Probe Designs

Description:
There is a high demand for developing a computational platform for global analysis of position- specific sequence variation within HIV-1 subtypes. Undesirable probe designs can …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Lizbinski, Rico Leonardo (creator)
Tripathi, Anubhav (Advisor)
Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Pathobiology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
HIV/AIDS
Algorithms
Drug resistance
Thermodynamics
Probes
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
Pathobiology
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A Universal Architecture for Cross-Cutting Tools in Distributed Systems

Description:
Recent research has proposed a variety of cross-cutting tools to help monitor and troubleshoot end-to-end behaviors in distributed systems. However, most prior tools focus on …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Mace, Jonathan Christopher (creator)
Fonseca, Rodrigo (Advisor)
Herlihy, Maurice (Reader)
Krishnamurthi, Shriram (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Computer Science (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Cloud computing
Debugging in computer science
Computer networks
Collection:
Computer Science
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Acculturation and Binge Drinking among Major Immigrant Groups in the United States: A Literature Review

Description:
The purpose of this literature review was to observe the nature of the association between acculturation and binge drinking in major immigrant groups in the …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Singh, Samyukta (creator)
Carey, Kate (Advisor)
Merill, Jennifer (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Immigrants
Substance abuse
Acculturation
Binge drinking
cultural identity
Collection:
Public Health
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Action-Focused, Plain Language Communication for Overdose Prevention: A Qualitative Analysis of Rhode Island’s Overdose Surveillance and Information Dashboard

Description:
Objectives: To determine how people who use drugs (PWUD) perceive and utilize overdose prevention material, and to evaluate action-based, plain language content on Rhode Island’s …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Waye, Katherine Mary (creator)
Marshall, Brandon (Advisor)
Yedinak, Jesse (Reader)
Lurie, Mark (Advisor)
Colvin, Christopher (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Qualitative research
Drugs--Overdose
plain language
Fentanyl
Collection:
Public Health
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Active Metamaterial and Waveguide Devices with Applications in Terahertz Communications

Description:
This work was motivated by the need to demonstrate new capabilities in the terahertz frequency range for modulation, multiplexing and beam steering. Which is driven …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Karl, Nicholas (creator)
Mittleman, Daniel (Advisor)
Zia, Rashid (Reader)
Rose, Chris (Reader)
Brown University. School of Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Photonics
Terahertz technology
Metamaterials
Optoelectronics
Modulation (Electronics)
Collection:
Engineering
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Adolescent Access to Patient-Centered Medical Homes; Assessing Adolescent Outcomes by Patient Center Medical Home Access

Description:
Adolescent Access to Patient-Centered Medical Homes Background: Adolescents have specific health and developmental needs that make access to patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) especially important. We …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Martone, Christina Marie (creator)
Brown, Dr Joanna (Reader)
Gjelsvik, Dr Annie (Advisor)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Epidemiology
Public health
Adolescence
Collection:
Public Health
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Advancing the Use of Three-Dimensional Spheroids for Quantitative, Live-Cell, Fluorescence Microscopy in a High-Throughput Format

Description:
All disciplines of biomedical research utilize in vitro models to answer a range of biological questions. Traditional in vitro models, two-dimensional (2D) cell monolayers, fail …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Leary, Elizabeth A. (creator)
Morgan, Jeffrey (Advisor)
Boekelheide, Kim (Reader)
Coulombe, Kareen (Reader)
Creton, Robbert (Reader)
Mende, Ulrike (Reader)
Ruch, Randall (Reader)
Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Biomedical Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
three-dimensional culture
self-assembled spheroids
Image analysis
Fluorescence microscopy
3-D
live-cell
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
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Aging Effects on Task-Evoked Pupillary Responses

Description:
Abstract of Aging Effects on Task-Evoked Pupillary Reponses, by Mingjian He, Degree ScM., Brown University, May 2018. Previous studies have found decreased cell counts and …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
He, Mingjian (creator)
Heindel, William (Advisor)
Frank, Michael (Reader)
Badre, David (Reader)
Festa, Elena (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
cognitive functioning
Aging
Pupillometry
Locus coeruleus
Noradrenaline
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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Algorithms for the Personalization of AI for Robots and the Smart Home

Description:
Just as an interconnected-computerized world has produced large amounts of data resulting in exciting challenges for machine learning, connected households with robots and smart devices …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Brawner, Stephen Andrew (creator)
Charniak, Eugene (Reader)
Littman, Michael L. (Advisor)
Cakmak, Maya (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Computer Science (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence
Robotics
Collection:
Computer Science
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ALIEN YEAR

Description:
n/a
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Akers, Louise (creator)
Swensen, Cole (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Literary Arts (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Experimental poetry
Collection:
Literary Arts
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