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When Aid Replaces Ideology: Corruption as a Hegemonic Device in Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Bulgrin, Connor ( 2020-12 )For the last two decades, Afghanistan has consistently been listed among the world's most corrupt nations in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. While many efforts have been made to discover how ... -
High School Counselor Access and Benefit: Do They Differ by Social Strata
Leopold, Morgan ( 2020-12 )Having contact with school counselors is known to have a positive effect on students' postsecondary paths (Bryan et al., 2011). However, it is unclear if all students have similar access to and enjoy similar benefit from ... -
Functionalization of Polycaprolactone via Aminolysis for Optimal Oxygen Sensor Biodegradability
Abdalbaqi, Amna ( 2020-12 )A primary amine was utilized to react with and chemically modify a specific polyester, polycaprolactone (PCL), enabling biomedical sensing functions along with additional biological utility. PCL is a good substrate for ... -
Populism, PiS, and Poland: Multivariate Analysis of Populist Voting
Weiland, Ethan ( 2020-12 )Recent years have seen a global surge in populism, with populist politicians rising to power in countries as diverse as the United States, Brazil, and the Philippines. Often, populism is seen as a shocking and negative ... -
Ostracism Affects Levels of Pessimism but Not Risk-taking Behavior
McNerney, Alyssa ( 2020-12 )Ostracism, the experience of being excluded and ignored, can threaten one's sense of well-being by adversely affecting fundamental needs and inducing negative mood. Both ostracism and negative mood can, subsequently, ... -
Siblings' Impact on Caregiver-Infant Interactions and its Relationship with Language Outcomes
Fern, Lauren ( 2020-12 )Objectives: Child early language environment is a critical factor in children's language development and future achievement. This thesis explored whether birth order affects one aspect of language environment, namely ... -
MicroRNA-21 deficiency promotes the early Th1 immune responses and resistance towards visceral leishmaniasis
Holcomb, Erin ( 2020-12 )MicroRNA-21 (miR-21) is known to inhibit IL-12 expression and impair the development of a Th1 immune response necessary for control of Leishmania infection. It has been recently shown that Leishmania infection induces ... -
The Wristwatch: Changing Times
Nevius, Nickolas ( 2020-12 )This thesis examines the impact of the development of the wristwatch on the First World War. It does so by laying out a pre-war conception of time in the first chapter. Chapter two traces the development of the trench watch ... -
Measuring Elemental Abundances in Metal-Poor Stars
Kolecki, Jared ( 2020-12 )By analyzing the elemental abundance profile of a star, insight can be gained into the composition of its initial dust cloud. Using this insight, it is possible to determine the likelihood that the star was able to form ... -
An Adaptive Dynamic Model of a Vigilance Game in Group Foragers
McAlister, John ( 2020-12 )There is a well observed relationship between group size and time spent being vigilant in group foragers. The many eyes hypothesis supposes that individuals exhibit lower vigilance in larger groups because of the benefit ... -
The Role of Protein Kinase C Isozymes on the Zebrafish HSC Microenvironment
Deruelle, William ( 2020-12 )Long-lived hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are cells that self-renew and generate all mature blood cell types.1 HSCs reside in a microenvironment composed of multiple distinct cellular niches that provide critical signals ... -
Virtual Person Perception: What Does Your Personal Computer Desktop Say About You?
Boley, Ross ( 2020-12 )People provide insight into their personality through the physical and digital environments they inhabit. To what extent are these personality cues perceivable through more restricted digital environments? The current study ... -
The Local Environments of Low-Redshift Supernovae
Cronin, Serena ( 2020-12 )I aimed to characterize the local (~2 kpc) environments of Type Ia, II, and Ibc supernovae (SNe) by measuring the ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) emission at supernova (SN) sites. Measuring the amount of host galaxy ... -
The Semantic Network: Uncovering the Mechanisms of New Language Integration
Vallampati, Apoorva ( 2020-12 )Semantic relations between words (e.g., between drink and soda) are crucial for language fluency. Language is replete with statistical regularities from which people can potentially form these links. We focus on two such ... -
Evidence of Symbiotic Zooxanthellae in a Rugose Coral, Siphonophrentis, from the Devonian of Ohio
Kube, Johnathan ( 2020-12 )The evolution of zooxanthellate endosymbionts in modern coral lineages is relatively well known, originating in the Triassic with the rise of scleractinian corals. It has been suggested that this symbiotic relationship may ... -
Phonological Analysis of the Southern Dialect of Istro-Romanian/Vlashki as Compared to Daco-Romanian
Cantemir, Maria ( 2020-12 )Istro-Romanian is a Balkan Romance language with two dialects spoken by less than 120 fluent and active speakers (Vrzić and Singler 2016). The language is spoken on the Istrian peninsula, where it has historically come ... -
STABILITY ANALYSIS OF THE ANCIENT SEVIER GRAVITY SLIDE, SOUTHWEST MARYSVALE VOLCANIC FIELD, UTAH
Schneider, Samuel ( 2020-12 )The Sevier Gravity Slide (SGS) is a long-runout landslide, part of the Markagunt Gravity Slide Complex in the Marysvale Volcanic Field, southwest Utah. The SGS was a single catastrophic emplacement event, hypothesized to ... -
The Good, The Beautiful and The True: Lessons from a Temperance Lady on Facing Change and Moving Forward
Fusek, Katie ( 2020-12 )This is an interdisciplinary project between the English and History departments, as I am a double major. It is on a local woman I discovered while interning for the Delaware County Historical Society named Harriet Calista ... -
Anna Rüling: Lesbian Fiction and a Short History of German Sexology
McCaslin, Sarah ( 2020-12 )During the late 19th and early 20th century in Germany, fiction written by and for homosexual women was uncommon. Anna Rüling, a pseudonym used by Theo Anna Sprüngli in her younger years, wrote a collection of short stories ... -
Coarticulation in Second Language Spanish: Learning to Connect Sounds in a Second Language
Meyer, Rachel ( 2020-12 )Because of the continuous nature of speech, productions of discrete sounds often overlap. This overlap, called coarticulation, occurs cross-linguistically. As coarticulation differs between languages, it must be learned ...