Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Hacking Moral Code: Can Cognitive Stimulation Impact Moral Semantic Processing?
(2023-04-28)Can targeted cognitive stimulation impact the semantic processing of moral words like “fair?” When individuals apply a word like “fair” to different situations, do they make these judgements consistently or can they be ... -
Happy Time: Participatory Rural Appraisal of Time Use, Happiness, and Gender in Rural Uganda
(2016-04-15)We all want to be happier, but how can we achieve that? The first step is to understand the factors that contribute to happiness. This thesis focuses on one central factor that contributes to happiness—time use. How can ... -
Hardly a Blunder: Trollope's Creation of Phineas Finn and Representations of Irishness to English Readers
(2022-09-08)Abstract Anthony Trollope wrote in his autobiography that it had been a blunder to present an Irish character as a dominant figure in two of the six books which comprised his Palliser or Parliamentary novels. Given that ... -
Haven
(2022-12-20)Haven is a middle grade fantasy novel that tells the story of seventh-grader Ella Davis, who has been the class pariah ever since the unicorn debacle three years ago. One night, when an argument between her parents gets ... -
Health and Economic Impacts of Vehicle Fuel Types and Energy Sources in Japan’s Top Ten Cities
(2023-04-25)Japan's roadmap to the "Beyond-Zero" carbon emissions target starts with a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 46% from 2013 levels by 2030. Transportation accounts for 18.5% of the total carbon ... -
Health Based Criteria for Use in Managing Airport and Aircraft Noise
(2018-05-19)This thesis questions whether an exposure-dose relationship between measurable aircraft sound and health can be established. The significance of this research is that highly concentrated global populations live near ... -
Health Literacy Helps to Explain Heterogeneous Treatment Effect in Depression Treatment for Older Adults
(2022-02-16)This study aimed to identify factors related to mental health improvement as a function of health literacy. More specifically, it examined whether older adults with higher levels of health literacy exhibited greater reduction ... -
Hebrew Transformed: Machine Translation of Hebrew Using the Transformer Architecture
(2022-02-07)This thesis presents the first known end-to-end application to Hebrew language of Google’s state-of-the-art Transformer architecture for natural language processing (NLP). The state of the art in machine translation (MT) ... -
Hello! from the Flyover States: Four Short Stories Set in the American Midwest
(2023-04-20)The middle of the United States must seem dull to most of the rest of the country. Here you will find no ocean and no mountains. The most populous U.S. city is not located here. We are not surfers. We are not Wall Street ... -
Hemin Decreases Pro-Inflammatory Th17 Cells and Cytokines in an Adoptive Transfer Model of Colitis
(2016-09-06)The goal of this research was to reduce disease in an adoptive transfer model of colitis using an immunomodulatory therapy, hemin, while correlating this response to changes in cytokines and effector T-cell differentiation. ... -
Henry Timrod's "Ethnogenesis" and the Untold Poetic Voices of the Confederacy's Reverse Epic
(2021-05-21)In a time when cotton was king, slavery was endemic, and secession represented Southern hope, the literati of the Confederate era hoped to assemble a foundation of words to support their new nation and declare their ... -
Herbert Hoover's Apologia of His Chinese Mining Career 1899-1912 -- Untangling the Refutation Campaign
(2018-01-18)The overarching aim of this study is to reposition the records of the refutation campaign preserved at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library (HHPL) in West Branch, Iowa as essential in the historiography of Hoover. In ... -
Herland's Utopian Society Constructed in the Literature and Discourse of Federica Montseny
(2017-04-11)This thesis examines the commonality in literature and discourse between female writers Federica Montseny and Charlotte Gilman Perkins. At the turn of the twentieth century, women had begun to question the gender disparities ... -
Heroism, Race, and Minority Lead Roles in Global Cinema Blockbusters
(2023-08-04)The purpose of my research is to determine whether race primarily affects the overall success of a movie across genres if the lead role or hero of the movie is of racial minority status. Factors such as racial stereotypes ... -
Hey Teacher! We Need More Education: A Study of the Experiences of Irish Young People of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
(2019-03-09)Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is an emerging tool that governments around the world are increasingly implementing in their education systems to address the changes that are required for society to transition ... -
High-Throughput Mapping of Diverse Functional Genomic Elements Governing BRCA2 Expression
(2017-04-07)The goal of this work is to develop a high-throughput approach to quantify the functional impact of the regulatory genome on target gene expression, and apply this system to catalogue functional cis-regulatory elements ... -
Higher Education in Brazil: The Role of Grassroots NGOs in Preparing Low-Income Youth
Higher Education in Brazil is undergoing major reform. During the past 15 years the number of private universities has doubled and the number of students enrolled has tripled. In support of these trends, the federal ... -
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 ... -
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? ...