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1485: Noble Watershed or Business as Usual?
(2022-05-10)Henry VII ruled England for nearly a quarter-century, from 1485 to 1509. While he was on the throne, the civil wars that tore the country apart through much of the previous century burned themselves out, and a new period ... -
$150 Cup of Coffee: Specialty Coffee, Third Wave Cafes, and Gentrification in Portland, Oregon 1995-2020
(2024-05-14)The idea that a customer would pay $150 for a cup of coffee seems to many people absurd, exploitative, and cringeworthy. Looking deeper the question becomes: where is a third wave café able to justify selling a cup of ... -
27 Doors
(2016-03-14)This novella is a fantasy thriller that wants to deal with death and its various shapes throughout a surreal journey, where a superior power challenges the protagonist to face his own guilt, or original sin. Characters ... -
3-Dimensional Printing and Bio-Based Materials in Global Health: an Interventional Approach to Addressing Healthcare Disparities in Low and Middle-Income Countries
(2017-01-23)Approximately 2 billion people in developing countries around the world lack access to essential surgical care and services, resulting in the avertable deaths of over 1.5 million individuals each year. These startling ... -
A Brazilian, a Politician, and a Jew Walk Into a Gay Bar: How the Satirical ‘Fake News’ of the Daily Show With Jon Stewart Adapted Augusto Boal’s Joker System for Its Coverage of LGBTQ Rights
(2018-01-09)This thesis examines modern interpretations of Augusto Boal’s politically engaging and transformative theatrical theory, the Joker System and its derivatives. The concentration of the research uses Boal’s system as the ... -
A Closer Lens on Gut Health, Stress, Mental Health in the Middle East: A Focus on Kuwait
(2021-11-08)Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), is a highly prevalent and disruptive disorder as it is highly resistant to both pharmacological and psychological treatments (Borkovec et al., 2002), and has a high financial burden on ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Engagement Methodologies in Community Resilience Initiatives
(2022-05-12)Millions of dollars, not to mention invaluable community trust and energy, are wasted every year on ineffective community redevelopment programs and projects that fail to live up to their goals due to lack of community ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Funds: How Sustainable Are SRI Funds?
(2018-04-01)Between 2012 and 2014, socially responsible investments (SRI) grew by 76%, with over $6.5 trillion now being held in managed SRI assets (Schueth et al., 2014). This remarkable growth accentuates the blossoming interest ... -
A Comparative Analysis of the Transmission and “Translation” of Tibetan Buddhist Teachings in the American Context
(2021-05-18)In the history of the transmission and adoption of the practice of Tibetan Buddhism in the American context, two teachers from the Kagyu tradition, His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (Rang byung Rig ... -
A Comparison of Co-stimulatory HVEM Domains in Second Generation CAR-T Cells
(2022-10-05)Chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T) are T cells that have been genetically modified to express a receptor that recognizes a specific target molecule. When T cells bind to their target molecule, usually a surface ... -
A Crisis In the Republic: The Shifting American Political System
(2023-09-15)The American Political System has undergone several changes throughout the two-hundred-plus years the country has been alive. One of those transformations has been the continuous development of party systems. The goal of ... -
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 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 Doll’s House: Gender Performativity, Quest for Identity and Production Shifts Over Time
(2022-02-03)This work details how Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House reveals social constructs, gender relations, and collective identity struggles. Ibsen depicts the awakening and liberation of Nora Helmer from her confined, domestic ... -
A Feasibility Analysis of Regenerative Land Practices & Reciprocal Social-Ecological Impacts: A Case Study from Madeira Island
(2024-05-14)The lack of resilient socio-ecological systems in a 1.5°C world, will result in significant agrosystem loss and, land degradation for highly vulnerable tropical, coastal, and geographically isolated island regions ... -
A Formative Evaluation of a Video Game to Educate on Gender-Based Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(2021-05-07)Gender-based violence (GBV) impacts one in three women in the world. GBV encompasses physical, psychological, economic, emotional and other abuses within the home, on the street, at work, and in other social structures. ... -
A Foundational Understanding of Late Discovery Adoption
(2023-05-03)Abstract This thesis aims to provide a foundational understanding specific to late discovery adoption (LDA) in order to provide an information source specific to the LDA experience apart from the broad experience of all ... -
A Framework for The Study of Compound Interactions in L1000
(2024-05-09)Treatment combinations are used broadly in clinical settings and are used to treat a variety of diseases and disorders. Despite the potential power of combination therapies to improve the lives of more patients, the complete ... -
A Lesson in Patience: Cooperative Chair Training of Rhesus Macaques
(2018-03-01)Awake-behaving non-human primates (NHPs), specifically rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), are often used in experiments involving psychophysics, electrophysiology, and cognition; these tasks involve physical restraint of ...