Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Unbounded: Susie King Taylor's Civil War
(2016-03-24)The goal of this thesis—a literary, historical, and biographical analysis of Susie King Taylor’s virtually-forgotten 1902 Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33D United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers—is ... -
Uncommon Unity: the Promise of American Civil Religion, Post-Pluralism
(2018-03-05)In 1967, Robert Bellah formulated the concept of American Civil Religion (ACR) to help explicate what it means to be an American. Underlying ACR is the premise that a common civil religion unifies Americans. With that ... -
Underreporting of Rape and Sexual Assault Incidents as an Indicator of Inequality in Greece
(2023-09-27)This thesis examines the correlation between societal equality and the prevalence of sexual assault, comparing data from Greece and Sweden - two nations with starkly different positions on the European Gender Equality ... -
Understanding and Developing Appropriate Museum Debt Policy: Practical Capital Structure Analysis for Museums
(2011-11)This thesis provides a template, in three parts, designed to enable museum financial management to comprehensively address and analyze museological capital structure both from a theoretical and practical perspective. To ... -
Understanding Canals in Bangkok Using Historic Maps and GIS
(2018-01-02)Bangkok the capital of Thailand is a semi –aquatic city. Constructed in, rather than around, the Chao Phraya delta for centuries it has relied on canals for irrigation, flood mitigation and transportation. As the city has ... -
Understanding Decisions and Tradeoffs of Neural Style Transfer
(2021-05-21)A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style introduced an artificial system to create artistic images. It does so by generating a set of feature maps from a content image and a style image. These feature maps are used to generate ... -
Understanding Fat Cadherins from an Evolutionary and Contextual Point of View
(2022-01-06)Fat cadherins are an essential planar cell polarity molecule that is conserved throughout evolution. Yet little is known about what regions of these molecules has been conserved over time. This thesis describes the importance ... -
Understanding Harassment Inside Online Communities: The Role of Social Identity Threat
(2023-04-25)This research used two survey studies to investigate how situational factors can cause online harassment by measuring the level of support for harassment in reaction to social identity threats inside online communities. A ... -
Understanding Land Change, Resultant Invasive Species Distribution and Management Potential in a Small Coastal Rhode Island Community
(2023-04-20)Invasive species and resultant degradation of native ecosystems is the most significant threat to biodiversity on the planet (GBO3, 2010, as cited by Hawthorne et al., 2015). In New England, the establishment of invasive ... -
Understanding the Effects of Polydispersity on Protein Conjugation
(2016-12-01)The level of polydispersity or aggregation in a protein population is an important factor to consider when performing conjugation or labeling reactions. In such reactions, the more aggregated portions of a polydispersed ... -
Understanding the Impact of Consumer Awareness of Utility Regulatory Framework on Energy Efficiency Program Participation
(2021-08-20)It is not often that we come across an advertisement that asks us to spend less. As consumers, we are accustomed to being pressured into using, buying, and spending more. So, when a utility advertises a program to reduce ... -
Understanding the Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Gap in U.S. High Schools: Do Teacher Mindset and Prior SEL Exposure Predict Receptiveness to SEL Adoption in Secondary Schools?
(2021-05-21)Decades of research have indicated that social and emotional learning (SEL) programs in schools broaden students’ psychological resources and improve their outcomes–from better grades to fewer mental health struggles. ... -
Unfettered Dreams: The Portrayal of Intoxication by Nineteenth-Century Women Writers as Seen in Charlotte Bronte’s Villette and the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(2021-05-24)Intoxication in nineteenth-century Britain was a ubiquitous practice, a behavior helpfully documented by both men and women writers of the era. Those authors whose personal experiences with intoxicating substances are ... -
University of California Sustainability: A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis of Distance Learning
(2019-03-30)Achieving sustainability in universities is key to achieving a resilient society. Universities educate students, engage local communities, raise awareness about impacts, and encourage the incorporation of sustainability ... -
Unleashed: John Lindsay and the Vietnam War
(2021-05-24)This thesis examines New York City Mayor John Lindsay’s calculated decision to side with the Vietnam anti-war movement as part of his re-election strategy in 1969 and how that stance influenced the pro-war movement’s role ... -
An Untimely Co-Arising: Friedrich Nietzsche, the Presocratic Greeks, and Taoist Thought
(2017-04-06)For most of the century following his death in 1900, the three things most people knew about Friedrich Nietzsche were false: that he “killed God”; that his work was a blueprint for Nazi ideology; and that he died a madman ... -
The Use of Nothing: the Abiding Disappearance of Lear's Fool
(2017-04-13)This study investigates the disappearance of the Fool in Shakespeare’s King Lear and how that disappearance affects our conception of the character and experience of the play. The investigation begins with the question ... -
Using Azure, Office 365, C# and Xamarin to Make a Multiuser, Multiplatform Extensible Law Practice Management Cloud Application
(2016-06-25)Besides the strictly legal duties and tasks of legal professionals, law practice requires also management; keeping track of cases and their related resources, such as files, deadlines, clients, and tasks. Managing these ... -
Using Cyclic Immunofluorescence (CyCIF), Deep-learning, and Human Tumor Microarrays (hTMAs) for Antibody Validation and Creation of an Atlas of Cancers Emphasizing Unique Phenotypes
(2023-01-10)All cancers are different from each other, in their mutation spectrum, primary location of occurrence, and metastases as well as their phenotypic traits and tumor composition. For years, clinicians and pathologists have ... -
Using Digital Implementation Intentions to Enhance Habit Formation in Users of an Awareness-Enhancing Wearable Device for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors
(2023-04-20)Although wearable devices have become popular vehicles for contemporary health behavior change interventions, early discontinuation by users is an enduring challenge. Not only do long-term wearable device users rely on ...