Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Obama’s vs. Trump’s Taiwan Policies: Understanding China’s Military Incursions in the Taiwan Strait
(2022-09-21)For decades, China has utilized credible threat as a means of coercive diplomacy to deter U.S. policies that indirectly support Taiwan’s sovereignty (Ross, 2000). The growth of Chinese military capabilities, tension in the ... -
OceanPaths: Visualizing Multivariate Oceanography Data
(2016-07-13)Geographical datasets are ubiquitous within the realm of oceanography. While map-based visualizations are useful for many different domains, they can suffer from clutter when used for multivariate data sets. As a result, ... -
Octopus Stories
(2023-04-25)In this psychological suspense novel, the grip of a metaphoric octopus takes hold when Ursula, a bright, manipulative child is killed after falling from a cliff while on vacation with her family. Her younger sister, ... -
Official Development Assistance (ODA): Are There Correlations Between ODA and Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa?
(2023-06-21)Abstract Taking a broad-brush view of the past 60 years of official development assistance (ODA) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), leading to a decision that ODA is a total failure for all SSA countries, is both misleading and ... -
“Oh, I was a rebel”: The Limits of Transgression in Ottessa Moshfegh’s Gothic Fiction
(2023-04-25)In this thesis, I argue that two novels by Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation, are contemporary iterations of the Gothic genre, specifically the Female Gothic. Ultimately, I argue that Moshfegh ... -
Oman, Iran, and the United States: An Analysis of Omani Foreign Policy and Its Role as an Intermediary
(2017-10-20)In a world where power is equivalent to water for the thirsty, foreign policy plays a key role in every country’s strength. Today, the Middle East is a battleground for several struggles for power, with civil unrest, ... -
On Alternative Measures for Dynamic Large-Scale Online Learning
(2016-07-13)The purpose of this thesis project is to propose a theoretical construct to configure forward- looking alternative measures for dynamic large-scale online learning. This unifying construct could function as a platform and ... -
On Domestic Angel’s Wings, the Impact of the Mother in the American Family Drama
(2016-10-11)The American Family Drama rarely dramatizes the iconic American family as found on a Hallmark card. Plays like Eugene O’Neill’s A Long Day’s Journey into Night, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Sam Shepard’s Buried ... -
On Not Knowing Death: The Figure of the Soldier in the Novels of Virginia Woolf
(2017-02-14)I find that of all the things that drive Virginia Woolf’s work, war is most important. To understand war in her writing, I study the three soldier characters appearing in her novels: Jacob Flanders, Jacob’s Room (1922); ... -
On Sails Dark as Night
(2023-01-09)Two decades before the American Revolution, Zynora Blackrock and her adopted brothers run a privateering concern dedicated to helping slaves escape their bonds, a scheme devised by their mother, Oriah. Two years prior, ... -
On-Treatment DNA Damage Response Biomarkers in Surrogate Tissue Types
(2016-02-18)Given the challenges associated with collection of tumor specimens for biomarker monitoring, collection of surrogate tissues (e.g., normal tissues such as hair or blood) may enable the assessment of pharmacodynamic (PD) ... -
One Bad Apple: Introducing the Study of iSR-CSR Dissatisfaction Relationship to Moral Disengagement
(2020-06-23)As the saying goes, “one bad apple can spoil the whole barrel.” Building on the seminal report, “Why employees do bad things: Moral disengagement and unethical organizational behavior” (Moore et al., 2012), I present ... -
One Hundred Years of Habitude: Russian Comedy on the British and American Stage
This study investigates the causes and effects of the ways in which Russian comedy has been understood by British and American scholars and theatre practitioners from the time it was introduced in the beginning of the ... -
Opportunities for Improved Warship Energy Efficiency: A Canadian Patrol Frigate’s Operational Energy Use Patterns
(2016-11-10)This project explores a Canadian warship’s propulsion and electrical energy use patterns to define energy baselines and determine if the ship would be able to save energy without compromising mission capability. The study ... -
Optimization of rAAV Manufacturing at the Triple Transfection Step
(2023-05-02)The recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) is the vector of choice for the delivery of gene therapies for a wide range of monogenic disorders because of its track safety record in clinical trials and prolonged gene ... -
Optimizing and Implementing a Renewable Micro-Grid for a Remote Alaskan Village
(2018-05-17)Renewable power is quickly becoming a driving force behind a global energy renaissance. Despite the magnitude of this phenomenon and the often-significant cost savings, there are remote locations that utilize none or very ... -
Ordinary People: The Reader’s Changing Relationship to Kazuo Ishiguro’s Narrators
(2018-02-20)This study explores the role of the narrator in Kazuo Ishiguro’s work, concentrating on the middle three of his seven novels (The Remains of the Day, The Unconsoled, and When We Were Orphans). Critics note the fragmented ... -
The Origin and Development of the Interstate Commerce Commission and Its Impact on the Origination of Independent Regulatory Commisssions in the American Legal System: A Historical Perspective.
(2016-04-18)The early history of the Interstate Commerce Commission is usually presented as the Congressional response to the exorbitant rates and exploitation by the railroads. Later it is seen as an example of how powerful industrial ... -
The Origins of the Underline as Visual Representation of the Hyperlink on the Web: A Case Study in Skeuomorphism
(2016-08-24)This thesis investigates the process by which the underline came to be used as the default signifier of hyperlinks on the World Wide Web. Created in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee, the web quickly became the most used hypertext ... -
OTX2-Astroglia Map a Path Through the Human Amygdala Towards the Olfactory Bulb
(2021-05-20)Orthodenticle homeobox 2 (OTX2) is a highly conserved homeoprotein transcription factor that performs a variety of functions throughout the lifespan. Past research establishes OTX2 as necessary in pre-natal head and eye ...