Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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D. H. Lawrence and Studies in Classic American Literature
Although D. H. Lawrence is still considered by many critics one of the most significant English writers of the early twentieth century, a general perception of racist and misogynist tendencies in Lawrence's writing has ... -
D. H. Lawrence and Studies in Classic American Literature
Although D. H. Lawrence is still considered by many critics one of the most significant English writers of the early twentieth century, a general perception of racist and misogynist tendencies in Lawrence's writing has ... -
Damned Cascades: The Stochasticity of Behavioral Models vis-à-vis the Motivations of First Movers, and the Mechanics of Popular Movements
(2022-12-20)This study shows that there is a correlation between the founders and co-founders of start-ups and first movers in popular uprisings in terms of their motivations at different points in their respective journeys. It argues ... -
Dark Side of the American Dream - Reinventing Noir Fiction for the 21st Century
The critical essay portion of my thesis provides an overview and analysis of classic noir fiction. The essay explores Dashiell Hammett's groundbreaking work in the early twentieth century and takes into account the further ... -
"De-Funding" and "De-Biasing": A Comparative Analysis of Two Models of Police Reform
(2022-02-07)Despite legal enjoinments and social efforts, bias persists within the public sphere of law enforcement, with people of color most disproportionately affected. Recent protests over highly publicized police killings have ... -
“Dead, to begin with”: The Role of Ghosts in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
(2022-05-10)An exploration of the role of the ghosts in Charles Dickens’s "A Christmas Carol", specifically considering the influence of religion, the eighteenth century Gothic tradition, and the nineteenth century ghost story on ... -
Decreased Expression of the Protein Orhodenticle Homeobox 2 (Otx2) in Individuals With Schizophrenia: A Postmortem Investigation
(2016-06-22)The purpose of this thesis was to determine if the amount of the protein Orthodenticle homeobox 2 (Otx2) is reduced in individuals with schizophrenia. Otx2 is a transcription factor that plays an essential role in the ... -
Defending Desdemona, Reclaiming Cordelia: A Woman-Centric Defense of Shakespeare's Heroines in Othello and King Lear
(2017-02-07)Since the debut of Othello and King Lear more than 400 years ago, the characters of Desdemona and Cordelia have largely served to highlight the despair and fall of their male counterparts. The rise of women’s power in the ... -
Defining Neo-Shamanic Practices Involving Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) from Shamans’ Perceptions on Transcendence and Transformation
(2023-05-02)N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT or N,N-DMT) is a chemical compound that has been used in entheogenic concoctions such as ayahuasca by Amazonian indigenous cultures for centuries. When Westerners started to come to the jungles ... -
Defining the Silk Road Borders: Central Asia Regional Dynamics and the Soviet Legacy in Sino-Kazakh Bilateral Relations in the Belt and Road Era
(2023-09-27)Despite being the setting for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s 2013 announcement of the country’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—a project of monumental economic and geopolitical consequence—Kazakhstan did not officially ... -
Deifying Diet: The Slow Food Movement as an Emergent Religion
(2017-10-13)This thesis investigates the food movement, in particular the incipient Slow Food movement, and puts forth that the creation and development of this trend exhibits many characteristics of an emerging religion and has ... -
Democratic Taiwan in the Twenty-first Century
(2023-04-25)This thesis frames the Taiwanese struggle to defend democracy in the face of growing aggression from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Despite past agreements between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, ... -
Desegregating Boston’s Public Housing
(2016-06-28)This study examines racial desegregation efforts made by the Boston Housing Authority during the 1970s and 1980s in order to identify policies that housing agencies in the United States can implement to desegregate tenant ... -
Design and Characterization of a Stealth Immunoliposome Encapsulating a Large Molecule Biotherapeutic (Antibody)
(2017-04-13)This thesis project will endeavor to solve the obstacles around synthesis of Immunoliposomes loaded with an antibody therapeutic. Most steps in the preparation of liposomes in most of the methods include harsh conditions ... -
Designing for and Understanding the Adult Learner in a Mathematics Course
(2016-10-20)Currently, there is ample research on mathematics education in formal settings for K-16 populations, but very little research in the domain of adult education. There is very little to no extant research on how or why adults ... -
Designing self-amplifying replicons for transient gene expression of interleukin-18
(2021-05-14)RNA-based therapeutics are on the rise as a re-emerging technology bolstered by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. However, issues such as storage, protein expression, and delivery are major challenges for the broad applicability. ... -
Desperate Acts: Women and Suicide on the Fin-De-Siècle Scandinavian Stage
(2016-04-05)This thesis investigates the treatment of suicide in three pivotal dramatic works of the same era – Victoria Benedictsson’s Den bergtagna, Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, and Strindberg’s Miss Julie. The study pays particular attention ... -
Detection of Intracellular Cytokeratin 20 in CD14dim Monocytes: A Potential Tool for the Screening of Colorectal Adenocarcinoma in Peripheral Blood
(2017-04-06)Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. Early and accurate detection is essential as it can effectively attenuate the dismal prognosis of this disease. Current screening/detection techniques are limited by ... -
Determining Synthetic Lethal Targets in DNA Polymerase Epsilon P286R Mutants Using Genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 Knockout Screens
(2022-05-23)Genomic instability is an important hallmark of cancer development and is often a product of impaired or abnormal DNA replication. For instance, DNA Polymerase Epsilon (POLE) is responsible for the bulk of DNA replication ... -
Determining the Feasibility of a Liposomal Prototype Formulation for GC-C Agonist Peptide Drug Delivery
(2016-05-02)The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of using a liposomal formulation for the systemic delivery of a GC-C agonist peptide drug. Peptide drugs have increased in numbers lately but are limited by ...