Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Vacant Land Conversion in Detroit, Michigan: A Spatial Analysis of Neighborhood Stabilization and Communal Access
(2017-05-20)This research explores vacant land conversion in Detroit, Michigan and the extent to which vacant land is being utilized towards sustainability through urban agriculture. The main statistical hypotheses of this study are ... -
Value Premiums of Sustainable Elements in Residential Homes in the Greater Philadelphia Area
(2019-06-13)Energy consumption in the United States has critical implications for national security, health, the environment, scarce resources, and the overall economy. Residential energy consumption is a major component of overall ... -
Vertically Aligned Arrays of InSb Nanostructures for Tuning Light Absorption in the Mid-Infrared
(2018-01-24)Infrared detection is valuable across a diverse range of fields. Military applications have long been the focus of development of infrared detection technology, but as accessibility to infrared detectors grows, industries ... -
Viability of Biological Material Found in Sterilized Surgical Instrument Trays
(2022-05-12)Viability of microorganisms left in surgical instrument trays after use is a challenging topic to observe. The following paper outlines a study conducted that reviewed two main components of the Sterile Processing Department ... -
Victorian Novels and Educational Reform: A Study of Dickens, Hughes, and Peacock
(2016-02-16)This thesis analyzes how Victorian novelists Charles Dickens, Thomas Hughes, and Thomas Love Peacock depict the influences of educational reformers in their three works: Hard Times, Tom Brown’s School Days, and Gryll Grange ... -
Violence & Misconstruction: Understanding Why CounterTerrorism Measures Are Failing - the Case of Pakistan
(2016-02-22)For the past ten years, Pakistan has been implementing counterterrorism strategies to eradicate terrorism, yet cessation of violence has not been achieved. In this thesis I explore the reasons for failure of counterterrorism ... -
Virtual Immortals: Optional Death in Cyberspace
(2022-05-12)This thesis focusses on the desire for individuals to continue maintaining virtual existences after natural death and future implications for intellectual property rights law. It highlights the conditions that currently ... -
Waking Experience and Circadian Rhythms Result in Differential Modulation of Sleep and Wake States
(2021-10-15)Sleep is thought to be tightly regulated by two processes, a homeostatic and a circadian process, which interact in a complex way to integrate prior wakefulness and circadian time (Borbély et al., 1982). Despite extensive ... -
Walt Disney’s Visual Interpretation of the Fairy Tales: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty
(2016-04-07)Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and other classic fairy tale characters were reborn through Walt Disney’s hands. For nearly a century, his unique adaptations of European fairy tales in animated films have provoked ... -
War With Cold Characteristics: How China Used the WTO Against America, a Historical Case Study
(2022-10-05)In the 1989-2012 period, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) gained influence on the world stage vis-à-vis the United States of America (USA) in virtually all spheres of geopolitical competition, emerging in its present ... -
A Watershed Moment: Development of a Multimetric Stream Index of Biotic Integrity to Assess the Ecological Integrity of the Credit River in Ontario, Canada
(2017-03-08)The Stream Index of Biotic Integrity (S-IBI) was developed in order to measure the ecological integrity of Credit River watershed streams. One goal of this research is to offer a predictive tool using a select suite of ... -
A Wave of Destruction: Time's Inexorable Effects in Hamlet and Macbeth
(2015-10-06)This thesis explores the typically cited character flaws of Macbeth and Hamlet and asserts that these flaws are not the main cause of their tragic downfalls, but, rather, it is the immense psychological and corporeal ... -
We Did It Together
(2022-12-07)Set in mid-twentieth century Jonesborough, Tennessee, We Did It Together is a two-act play based on true-life stories of people who helped shape this small Appalachian town during a tumultuous era of change. These ... -
Web Based Multidimensional Interactive Visualizations as Supplemental Material for Biological Research Articles
(2017-10-30)The goal of this study is to give a proof of concept model of a multidisciplinary interactive visualization that can be easily hosted in an online format as supplemental material for research papers. The hope is that by ... -
What Are the Greenhouse-Gas-Emission Impacts Associated With Vegan, Vegetarian, and Meat Diets in the United States?
(2016-03-25)The United Nations estimates that the growing human population will reach approximately 9.6 billion by 2050. In order to accommodate the subsequently higher demand for food and related strain on resources, careful consideration ... -
"What Ceremony Else?" Shakespeare, Hamnet, Prospero, and Ariel in The Tempest
(2021-05-21)Hamnet Shakespeare, the son of William Shakespeare, died at eleven years of age. Many critics have posited this death to have influenced many of Shakespeare's subsequent plays, including Hamlet and Twelfth Night. I explore ... -
What Difference Does It Make? The Impact of Religious Literacy on Engaged Pluralism in Service of A Just World at Peace
(2024-01-08)The field of religious studies has been increasingly emphasizing the importance of religious literacy as a means of addressing many societal and global challenges such as prejudice, discrimination, marginalization, and ... -
“What is this world?”: Confronting Conspicuously Literary Realms in Shirley Jackson’s Later Novels
(2023-01-10)This thesis addresses the presence of noticeable literariness within the later novels of Shirley Jackson, including the carefully crafted and repetitive inclusion of intertextual and metafiction techniques. Within what I ... -
What Led the United States to Encourage Authoritarian Governments in Iran and Saudi Arabia?
(2016-05-05)This study investigates the process by which the United States became the main supporter of authoritarian governments in Saudi Arabia and Iran during World War II. Prior to the war the U.S. had little involvement in the ... -
What Water Holds
(2023-04-20)This work blends prose with verse in an attempt to understand ancestry. I’m trying to excavate the historical archives that exist within my own body by excavating the historical archives embedded in the spaces of New Orleans ...