Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Title
Now showing items 546-565 of 1331
-
Hip Hop as Ironic Faith: Rappers Performing as Totemic Prophets through Trickster Figures
(2023-10-25)Hip hop is often treated as music, or a form of performance. Yet hip hop heads do more than just listen to songs. They engage with the lyrics as words of wisdom and apply those teachings to their day-to-day lives. Such ... -
Histone Lactylation Dynamics in Plasmodium falciparum
(2023-05-02)Epigenetic modifications of the histone are a rapidly unfolding field of research with new posttranslational modifications being uncovered at a rapid pace. Histone lactylation is a newly identified modification associated ... -
Historical Memory in Post-Franco Spain: Remembering a Purposely Forgotten Past through Memorialization at the Valle de los Caídos in Cuelgamuros
(2024-05-06)The Valley of the Fallen, built within the mountains of the valley of Cuelgamuros, in Madrid, Spain, represents both the monumentality and decadence of dictator Francisco Franco’s thirty-six-year regime in Spain. Newly ... -
Home and the Unheimlich in the Arabian Nights: Shahrazad's Curative Themes Linking the Story-cycles to the Frame-Story
This study examines the unheimlich themes Freud defines in his essay "The `Uncanny'" and asks if an unconscious presence of home links the tales in the Arabian Nights to the frame-story. If so, how is this curative? ... -
Honor-related social contract disconnects and a bilateral U.S.-Russia modus vivendi
(2023-04-20)Is strategic stability between the United States (U.S.) and Russia realistic or are post-Cold War U.S.-Russian relations destined to fail? Is it possible for U.S.-Russian negotiations to result in a mutually acceptable ... -
How Bluegill Sunfish Maneuver: Analysis of Body and Fin Motion Under a Horizontal Obstacle
(2017-10-31)This study investigates how bluegill sunfish control fin motion to deal with the added locomotor complexity of swimming under a horizontal obstacle. While previous studies have focused on upright swimming in the forward ... -
How Environment and Natural Space Reflect Cultural Power Struggles in the Novels of Leslie Marmon Silko
This study investigates how Leslie Marmon Silko's treatment of the natural world in her three novels Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead, and Gardens in the Dunes, represents both the differences among the novels' featured ... -
How Facebook Played an Active Role in Bringing Democratization During the Arab Spring
The cry for democracy in the Arab world began in 2010, and in countries like Tunisia and Egypt, it quickly spread throughout the entire region. In the Middle East in 2010, governments primarily operated as utilitarian ... -
How Headscarves Have Shaped Muslim Experience in America
(2019-01-17)This study focuses first on the role of the headscarf in creating space for Muslim women in the social fabric of America and shaping their American experience. I examine the symbolism of the headscarf from two different ... -
How Many Moralities? a Bottom-Up Approach to Mapping the Brain’s Natural Moral Categories
(2015-10-07)The external structure and internal boundaries of the moral domain are not sharply defined. Substantive definitions of morality struggle to cleanly encapsulate the full diversity of human moral concern without including ... -
How Neo-Confucianism Influenced Decision-Making of the Joseon Elite During the Imjin War of 1592-98
(2024-05-03)There are several ways in which the philosophy of Neo-Confucianism influenced the decision-making process of the Joseon ruling elite during the Japanese invasion of 1592-1598. First, it influenced leadership selection ... -
How Policymakers Started the Federal Charter School Movement: A Case Study in Policy Entrepreneurship
(2016-05-28)The objective of this study is to show how policy entrepreneurship can serve as a theory of policy change. The federal charter school movement served as a prime example of policy entrepreneurship in action. Four policymakers ... -
How the Civil War Civilized Seattle
(2017-10-26)Founded in 1851, Seattle was little more than a rough-and-tumble frontier town at the onset of the Civil War. However, by 1880 the young community had developed into a small, but prosperous city. Not only did the population ... -
How the House of Morgan Cooperated to Develop the Large-Cap US Multinational Corporation, 1895-1913
(2015-12-06)The following investigation is intended to determine how the large-cap US multinational corporation was further advanced during the pivotal years of 1895-1913 by a leading private unincorporated institution—House of Morgan. ... -
How to Feel Wonderment: Ritual Frameworks for Developing Emotional Intention Regarding the Rasa Adbhuta
(2022-09-08)Emotional intention, how can one access or martial their feelings at will? This paper will examine feeling, namely wonderment, how it has been accessed, and how it has been regulated according to three ritual philosophies ... -
Huey: Intelligent Agents for Natural Human to Machine Communication
(2021-05-25)This thesis presents a novel architecture including two new programming languages, allowing software developers to create intelligent agents operating anywhere on the internet, independent of vendors' proprietary ecosystems ... -
Human Trafficking: A Rural and an Urban Problem
(2021-10-15)It has to be recognized that human trafficking is a problem in all American states. Small towns do, in fact, face this international problem. Human trafficking can happen in any community, large or small, in cities and ... -
Hunger in Conflict: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Armed Conflict on Food Security in West Africa and Afghanistan
(2022-09-21)Half of the world’s undernourished population lives in a country experiencing armed conflict or violence (FAO, 2021). As the main driver of food insecurity, conflict has pushed some 99.1 million people into acute food ... -
Hunger sensitivity: How high interoceptive awareness of hunger impacts eating behaviors and body mass index in those over 40
(2024-05-06)The present study examined the concept of hunger sensitivity as theorized in a study conducted by Walker et al. (2015a), who determined that hunger sensitivity could be assessed using their newly developed Hunger Sensitivity ... -
Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria and Potential Symbiosis with Deep-Sea Organisms: Using Ctenophores as a Model
(2024-05-13)Microbiomes and the functions of microbes as they relate to their host have been of interest in many areas of research. Microbes have been of great interest in the deep sea as they serve as potential symbionts for the ...