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A Critical Evaluation of Social and Eco-Labels Used in the Textile Industry: Their Possible Impact Demonstrated Through Environmental and Social LCA
(2018-08-02)This thesis evaluated and compared social criteria of ecological (eco) and social labels used in the textile and apparel industry. Information about relevant end consumer facing labels was collected through standardsmap.org ... -
A Cross-case analysis of Ethiopian Care Leavers
(2021-05-18)International research studies report that young adults transitioning from out-of-home care to independent members of their communities face significant emotional, social, health, employment, and educational challenges ... -
A cross-sectional study of endogenous tissue plasminogen activator, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and apolipoproteins A-I, A-II, and B-100
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A Cultural Approach to Conserving Water: A Case Study on the Azraq Oasis
(2018-03-15)My dissertation aims to design a proposed solution by studying and better understanding the specific cultural related issues of water conservation. Water, a valuable element of life, has had and continues to have a ... -
A Culture of Candor: Leveraging Developmental Principles to Create a Learning Culture within a Non-profit Startup
(2021-10-15)The Principal Impact Collaborative (PIC) at the University of North Texas at Dallas creates transformative learning experiences for principals in school districts across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. In its fifth year, ... -
A Declarative Specification for Machine Learning Architectures
(2023-06-30)Going from the description of a model architecture in a figure to its implementation can be a fraught process. This work presents a markup language for specifying model architectures; an associated Python package used to ... -
A dedicated chaperone system essential for biogenesis of eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1A
(2023-07-25)Protein folding is aided by molecular chaperones that prevent aggregation of unfolded or partially folded intermediates and guide them to their native states. Chaperones engage clients through cycles of binding and release ... -
A Deep Chandra Survey of the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae: Catalog of Point Sources
(American Astronomical Society, 2005)We have detected 300 X-ray sources within the half-mass radius (2.'79) of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae in a deep (281 ks) Chandra exposure. We perform photometry and simple spectral fitting for our detected sources and ... -
A Deluge of Tears: The Conflux of Persian Shiʿi Literature, Ritual, and Identity in Martyrdom Narratives
(2021-05-13)This dissertation presents the first English in-depth study of one of the most important maqtals (martyrdom narratives) ever written in Persian, the Rowz̤at ol-Shohadā’ (Meadow of the Martyrs) by Ḥoseyn b. ʿAlī Beyhaqī ... -
A Demographic Analysis of the Distribution of Farmers Markets and Grocery Stores in Northern Virginia
(2017-12-13)Increasingly, consumers are seeking opportunities to buy locally grown fresh foods at farmers markets in lieu of conventionally sourced foods at grocery stores due to perceptions of environmental, economic and social harms ... -
A Diasporist Guide to Camping Here
(2024-05-15)At Camp Doikayt, the landscape is a vehicle for remembering histories of diaspora and reimagining Jewishness beyond Zionism. Summer camps proliferated in the United States after the Shoah, using the Zionist invention of ... -
A Diasporist Guide to Camping Here
(2024-05-17)At Camp Doikayt, the landscape is a vehicle for remembering histories of diaspora and reimagining Jewishness beyond Zionism. Summer camps proliferated in the United States after the Shoah, using the Zionist invention of ... -
A dietary pattern that is associated with C-peptide and risk of colorectal cancer in women
(Springer (part of Springer Nature), 2012)Higher serum C-peptide concentrations have shown to be associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). Therefore, we used diet information to identify food groups that correlated with fasting serum concentrations ... -
A dipolar erbium quantum gas microscope
(2021-05-12)Quantum gas microscopy is an exciting platform for the study ofin situatom-atom interactions.Erbium, a dipolar atom, presents an opportunity to extend previous quantum gas microscopy ex-periments to more complex systems ... -
A direct fate exclusion mechanism by Sonic hedgehog-regulated transcriptional repressors
(Company of Biologists, 2015)Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling patterns the vertebrate spinal cord by activating a group of transcriptional repressors in distinct neural progenitors of somatic motor neuron and interneuron subtypes. To identify the action ... -
A Discipline for the Nation: Turkish Classical Music Choirs in History and Practice
(2024-05-31)While Turkish classical music claims a history of over 1,000 years in the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, the advent of the koro (choir) as an ensemble format in the early twentieth century marked a radical reimagination ... -
A discontinuous Galerkin method for solving the fluid and magnetohydrodynamic equations in astrophysical simulations
(Oxford University Press, 2014)A discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method suitable for large-scale astrophysical simulations on Cartesian meshes as well as arbitrary static and moving Voronoi meshes is presented. Most major astrophysical fluid dynamics codes ... -
A Discriminative Model to Predict Comorbidities in ASD
(2016-06-21)Children with autism spectrum disorders face a higher comorbidity burden than the general pediatric population. Machine learning applications have been applied to structured medical data, specifically electronic health ... -
A Discussion of Gröbner Bases and the Hilbert Scheme
(2022-05-23)In this expository thesis, we want to present an introduction to computational algebraic geometry through the lens of Gröbner bases and describe the construction and some pathological examples on the Hilbert scheme. In ... -
A DNA-binding Gd chelate for the detection of cell death by MRI
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2009)GadoTO, a MR contrast agent for the detection of cell death, consists of a nucleic acid-binding fluorophore attached to a gadolinium chelate.