Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Fact or Fiction: The Social and Cultural Beliefs That Drive Dooms Day Prophecies
(2016-03-31)Throughout history, people have been predicting the end of the world. This thesis will explore different dooms day prophecies and attempt to learn why humans are so fascinated with the end of their own existence. From the ... -
Factors of Climate Change and Their Influence on Lyme Disease Infection Rates
(2023-12-15)Lyme disease is carried solely by the Blacklegged Tick, or Ixodes scapularis, which transmit it from host animal to host animal. I. scapularis causes most Lyme disease infections as they are the best at feeding on animals ... -
Factors Preventing U.S. Adoption of Triple-Bottom-Line Sustainability Frameworks and Performance Indicators in Museum Strategic Planning
(2019-04-10)This thesis investigated the potential factors preventing the adoption of triple-bottom-line (TBL) strategies and indicators in U.S. museums. Previous research has examined what makes museums sustainable or proposed ... -
Factors that Moderate Parent’s Experience of Ambiguous Loss in Families with Gender Incongruent Youth
(2021-09-28)Ambiguous loss is an identified type of loss that occurs when a loved one is here but not here; they are physically there but different from how you have known them. This study investigated feelings of ambiguous loss (AL) ... -
False Security; Dynamics of and Influences on Rape and Sexual Assault Laws: A Comparison of Argentina and Bulgaria
(2023-05-05)This paper examines the influence of key sociopolitical and cultural variables, and how they impact rape laws using a comparison of two countries, having different ethnic backgrounds, strong religious and cultural values, ... -
Fear and Healing Through the Serpent Imagery in Greek Tragedy
(2015-10-15)This work explores how the tragic poets, by means of snake imagery, convey the notion of disease. Moreover, it examines how snake imagery contributes to the process of healing through the emotion of fear that it triggers. ... -
a Feasibility Study for Transitioning Louisville, Kentucky’s Transportation and Electricity Generation to Renewable Sources
(2016-05-15)Climate change is caused mainly by humans and there is a great risk of “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems” (IPCC, 2014). It has been proposed by many that America can address climate ... -
Fetch to Final Boss – Classifying Quest Motifs, Functions, and Tale-Types in Western Video Games
(2021-10-04)Folktales have existed for thousands of years. Video games have existed for a few decades, and yet the video game market makes even more money than the century-old worldwide film industry. Despite the existence of a ... -
Field Dependence-Independence and Extraversion: Predicting Susceptibility to Demand Characteristics in the Context of a Positive Velten Mood Induction Procedure
(2022-01-13)MIPs were created so that researchers could study the relationship between mood and behavior (Kenealy, 1986; Lessard, 1993). However, they cannot always be sure that the target mood has been induced because of demand ... -
Fifteen Years at His Majesty's Pleasure: The Relationship of King James I of England and His Prisoner, Sir Walter Ralegh
(2017-04-17)Sir Walter Ralegh, renowned Elizabethan gentleman, explorer, and courtier, would experience a radical change of fortune when James VI of Scotland became King of England. In 1603 Ralegh found himself implicated in a treasonous ... -
Financial Analysis of Biosimilar Development Candidates: A Case Study on the US Biosimilar Business
(2015-10-20)This case study investigates the US biosimilar business and the approach that should be implemented when financially analyzing biosimilar development candidates. To challenge the theory that the biosimilar business will ... -
Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Growth in Egypt
(2020-04-08)Abstract Financial Inclusion has recently emerged as a strategic priority to the governmental agenda in Egypt. Financial inclusion has long been associated with poverty reduction, reduced income inequalities and economic ... -
Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments and Their Impact on Income and Tax Revenue Around the World
(2017-04-17)This study investigates and quantifies the impact of financial inclusion and digital payments on income and individual government tax revenues for countries around the world. Of the almost two billion people in the world ... -
Finding Fingerprints in the Fabric of Verse: Unearthing Style in Old English Poetry Using Machine Learning
(2017-10-10)This study hypothesizes that poetic styles exist in Old English literature and that these styles, whether they pertain to an individual or a school of poets, can be identified and categorized by examining verse syntax, ... -
Fizzling the Plutonium Economy: Origins of the April 1977 Carter Administration Fuel Cycle Policy Transition
This study examines the scientific advocacy that shaped President Carter's April 1977 policy decision to block the domestic implementation of so-called "plutonium economy" technologies, and thereby mandate the use of an ... -
Flipping the High School Mathematics Classroom: The Reception, Perception, and Criticism From Students
(2017-11-20)Since its start in 2007, the flipped classroom has grown in popularity among secondary school educators as resources have developed and as more students have gained access to technology. This thesis investigates how students ... -
Floodwater Governance as Key Urban Challenge in Beira, Barranquilla and Ho Chi Minh City
(2017-11-27)Urbanization will be one of the major global trends of the years to come. And, although cities are seen as engines of growth, if not planned carefully they also can be responsible for increased CO2 emissions, depletion of ... -
Food Allergy and Attentional Coping in Adults
(2017-06-14)Food allergy affects approximately 9 million adults in the Unites States. The only medically approved treatment is avoidance of the allergenic food. Research has found food allergy to be associated with anxiety, depression, ... -
Forging new just war principles for the virtuous war era
(2023-01-10)The Just War ethic, with its two pillars jus ad bellum and jus in bello, is central to the evaluation of the morality of entering into and the conduct of war. Whether grounded in custom and tradition, or based on developments ... -
Formulaic Definition of the Strength of a Gene-Edited EGFR CAR-T Drug Product
(2021-05-14)The goal of this work was to define a relative formulaic potency score for use in autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T drug products (DP), as an alternative to the use of absolute potency reporting of identity, ...