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- In this dissertation I examine the impact of core values on foreign policy opinion, the dynamics of value change, and the differences between elites and the mass public in their values change. I find that two core values - humanitarianism and democracy - strongly affect citizens' support for various anti-terrorism...
- Keyword:
- humanitarianism, democracy promotion, values, foreign policy, public opinion, and elites
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Dukhong Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-31
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Behavioral activation (BA) trains depressed clients to engage in more positive activities in order to increase their experience of pleasure and accomplishment, thereby reducing depression. Recent research suggested that BA might be as effective in treating depression as current leading treatments, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and antidepressant medication (Jacobson,...
- Keyword:
- sudden gains, behavioral activation, therapy process, treatment mechanisms, treatment outcome, and depression
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Tomasz Andrusyna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- By combining cultural theory with empirical data, this dissertation asserts that late-twentieth-century mainstream theatre had the potential to support emergent ideologies in the U.S. context. The study finds fault with those who dismiss mainstream theatre based on its commercialism and shows how a production's mainstream status may position its emergent...
- Keyword:
- theatre, Kramer, mainstream, theater, political, and Kushner
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Jacob M. Juntunen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-29
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis presents results and analysis on a series of donor-bridge-acceptor (D-B-A) charge transfer systems in which we use time-resolved spectroscopy and magnetic resonance techniques to study the relationship of molecular structure to energy, charge, and spin transfer dynamics. We find that the sequence of events following the initial charge...
- Keyword:
- Charge, Spin, Photoinduced Energy, Transfer, Organic Molecular Materials, EPR, and Energy
- Subject:
- Chemsitry
- Creator:
- Zachary E Dance
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Markov models are widely employed in cost-effectiveness analysis of healthcare interventions. Although such models are usually formulated at the individual level, it is also useful to examine outcomes at the population level. Analysts may wish to know the impact of a health intervention on a whole population instead of an...
- Keyword:
- Industrial Engineering
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Huang Min
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A comprehensive understanding of how image processing occurs in the primary visual cortex (V1) requires learning what aspects of neuronal responses are driven by strong feed-forward input from the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), and what aspects arise due to the densely recurrent network operating within the cortex itself. From an...
- Keyword:
- Neuroscience and Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Ian Micah Finn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Although non-viral gene therapy has great potential for use in the lung, several problems including inefficient gene transfer and expression and the relative lack of cell-specific targeting have limited its applications. The two approaches that have been used to target genes to desired cell types are through specific ligand-receptor interactions...
- Keyword:
- nuclear import, SP-C, gene therapy, plasmid, and non-viral
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- James Vincent DeGiulio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Middle childhood is an important but often overlooked developmental period. Similarly, a large literature examines the importance of child care as a developmental context, focusing almost exclusively on pre-school child care experiences. Through three related empirical studies, this dissertation aims to address these two gaps in the extant literature. These...
- Keyword:
- Achievement, Child Care, Socioemotional Development, and Middle Childhood
- Subject:
- Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Amy E Claessens
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The first chapter of this dissertation investigates the pricing of systematic variance risk in the equity options market. Cross sectional tests on synthetic variance swap returns reveal no evidence of a negative market variance risk premium. Furthermore, we show that a class of linear factor models cannot simultaneously explain index...
- Keyword:
- dispersion trading, pairs trading, correlation trading, equity options, variance swaps, and volatility forecasting
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Vadim di Pietro
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In the age of what George W. Bush has called a global democratic revolution, the freedom to consume an ever-expanding variety of images and goods in the global marketplace is often equated with the conditions of democratic freedom. With just such rhetorical elisions in mind, this dissertation examines the discursive...
- Keyword:
- media and politics, spectacle, television, popular entertainment, rhetoric, and liberalism
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Meghan A Sutherland
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Until the late twentieth century, the American small town at the turn of the century was popularly conceived as the quintessential nostalgic object: an "ideal" moment of lost "innocence," albeit one never existing in reality. This conception is belied, however, by my study of its representation in film and television...
- Keyword:
- post-war Hollywood, nostalgia, Hollywood musicals, and cinema studies
- Subject:
- Media, Technology and Society
- Creator:
- Linda A. Robinson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Preventing the build-up of indoor pollutants represents an emerging goal in environmental chemistry. Heterogeneous catalysis provides an attractive method of remediating indoor air pollution, but optimization through rational catalyst design requires a detailed understanding of the catalytic surface and surface-pollutant interactions. In this work, a chemical ionization mass spectrometry (CIMS)...
- Keyword:
- Indoor air pollution, TiO2, chemical ionization mass spectrometry, environmental remediation, and acetone
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Catherine Margaret Schmidt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Packaging of DNA into nucleosomes and chromatin not only enables DNA to fit within the nucleus, but it also protects and organizes DNA. However, the wrapping of DNA around histones occludes DNA from binding proteins in solution. Proteins that regulate, express and repair DNA are able to function only when...
- Keyword:
- Unwrapping, FRET, Mapping, Nucleosome, Chromatin, and Remodeling
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Hannah S. Tims
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- What is the nature of the relation between a verb and its arguments? In this dissertation, I look to evidence from language acquisition for answers. Any theory of ditransitives must explain certain structural asymmetries noted for both double-object (DO) datives (e.g. Alfonso gave Derek the bat) and prepositional datives (Alfonso...
- Keyword:
- possession, ditransitive, argument structure, dative, spatial, and acquisition
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Joshua Baird Viau
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This work investigates children's early semantic representations of gradable adjectives (GAs) and proposes that infants perform a probabilistic analysis of the input to learn about abstract differences within this category. I first demonstrate that children as young as age three distinguish between relative (e.g., 'big', 'long'), maximum standard absolute (e.g.,...
- Keyword:
- semantics, word learning, comparison, language acquisition, adjectives, and adverbs
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Kristen L Syrett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Nelson and Staum derived ranking-and-selection procedures that employ control-variate (CV) estimators instead of sample means to obtain greater statistical efficiency. However, control-variate estimators require more computational effort than sample means, and effective controls must be identified. In this dissertation, we present a new CV screening procedure to avoid much of...
- Keyword:
- Operations Research
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Shing Chih Tsai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis contains four essays on the organization (both internal and external) of health care in the US. The first essay examines a mechanism through which individual workers acquire (or maintain) competence, namely that of experience. Specifically, I analyze whether cardiac surgeons who perform more procedures experience an improvement in...
- Keyword:
- Health Sciences
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Subramaniam Ramanarayanan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the Old Northwest, networks of activists across dispersed communities took controversial direct action against prejudice and slavery. By largely eschewing the growing cities that disproved the Old Northwest rule, this is a study of reform as it would have impacted most people, at the local level in the smaller...
- Keyword:
- abolition, race, black laws, freedom of speech, grassroots activism, and mob violence
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Dana Elizabeth Weiner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-31
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Angiogenesis, the formation of blood vessels from a pre-existing vasculature, is a process whereby capillary sprouts are formed in response to chemical stimuli that can be either supplied externally or produced locally. Understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that govern angiogenesis suggests a powerful therapeutic approach that will allow to combat...
- Keyword:
- General and Biophysics
- Subject:
- Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Anna Tikhomirov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Encouraging honest behavior and discouraging deceptive behavior has become a very important issue with respect to ethics and moral behavior in the workplace. As such, a critical practical and theoretical goal has been to directly study the likelihood of individuals punishing deception and rewarding honesty. The growing assumption within the...
- Keyword:
- Deception, Punishments, Rewards, Honesty, and Ethical Decision-Making
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations
- Creator:
- Cynthia S Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation