Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Incidence of Bar Discipline in Millennial Attorneys
(2018-03-23)Data on the numbers of attorneys disciplined by age, to include millennials (born 1980-1992) were obtained from the disciplinary organizations of 17 states and the District of Columbia, in order to determine whether ... -
Incommunicable Consciousness: A Study on Perspective in Middlemarch
This study investigates the function of communication and its correlation with perspective in George Eliot’s sixth novel Middlemarch. In particular, it focuses on the function of communication in disclosing communal ... -
Increasing Livestock Consumption and Its Impact on Climate Change Mitigation Targets
(2017-12-04)The goals of this research were to assess how global meat consumption rates could impact climate change mitigation targets and analyze where and in what form preventing increased consumption patterns will have the greatest ... -
Indefinite Pleasures and Parables of Art: An Investigation of the Aesthetics of Edgar Allan Poe
(2018-04-17)This investigation examines the origins and development of Edgar Allan Poe’s aesthetic theory throughout his body of work. It employs a tripartite approach commencing with the consideration of relevant biographical context, ... -
IndoLib: A Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Low-Resource South Asian Languages
(2022-10-11)Out of 7,151 living languages, 665 languages (9.299%) are spoken by nearly 2 billion people across Southern Asia. Of these, 37.74% (251 languages) are endangered, while the vast majority remain underrepresented in language ... -
Influence and Culture in Virtual Spaces: Population health campaigns and the role of social media on beliefs, bias and stigma during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2023-10-12)The “digital revolution” is both an overused term and at the same time perhaps the only way to approach a description of the times we find ourselves in. Instances of digital human interaction, interface, and use of computers ... -
Information Access and Scholarly Communication in Post-publication Peer Review Online Social Networks
(2021-05-24)PubMed Commons was launched in 2013 by the National Institutes of Health and established an online community of medical and health science scholars to contribute post-publication peer-reviews to citations indexed within ... -
Inherited Risk of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma in Familial Clusters
(2021-08-20)Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare form of cancer which is typically caused by exposure to asbestos. Previous studies have identified some genes passed through the family germline involved in tumor suppression, ... -
Innovative Pricing Models Potentially Drive Payer Coverage: A Market Access Case Study for RNAi Therapeutics
(2017-01-30)The objective of this thesis is to establish a strong understanding of the US payer landscape and key influencers in the orphan disease space. This investigation will also provide a foundational understanding of the payer ... -
Inside Henry Cato: A Novel
(2024-05-16)Inside Henry Cato is a modern bildungsroman and family saga that spans critical events in American history from the early 1930s through the mid-1970s, culminating in the mid-2000s. Told in three parts through the narratives ... -
Integrating Tools From Business and Industry to Encourage Effective Academic Laboratory Management.
(2018-04-12)For those interested in the pursuit of knowledge there may be no more noble path than that of basic research. In most of the public-sector laboratories that take part in this basic research, a principal investigator hires ... -
An Interactive Deep Learning Toolkit for Automatic Segmentation of Images
(2016-06-25)This thesis presents the design, analysis, and implementation of an interactive deep learning toolkit to reduce the manual labeling effort and improve the automatic segmentation of image data. While deep neural networks ... -
An Interdisciplinary Math and Science Curriculum for Middle School
(2016-06-22)Mathematics and science are often taught separately, rendering students with a fragmented knowledge base unable to naturally integrate math and science into a coherent whole. Movements have arisen to offer solutions to ... -
Interference Induces Improvement across Wake but not over Sleep in the Weather Prediction Task
The ability to make predictions based on information extracted from patterns and frequencies of past events is a critical aspect of learning. This study investigates the effect of a nap on performance in a task that has ... -
International Collaboration to Stop Human Trafficking: Using Lessons From the Field to Create a Framework for Data Sharing in Eastern Europe
(2017-09-29)Human trafficking is a problem faced all over the world. Recent estimates by the International Labour Organization estimate that approximately 21 million people are in situations of forced labor alone (ILO, 2012). Although ... -
Interpersonal Criticism, Self-Criticism, And NSSI: A Cross-Cultural Study In Collectivistic And Individualistic Cultures
(2024-05-03)Nonsuicidal self-injury is commonly reported as a regulation strategy for those who experience aversive emotions. Previous studies have revealed associations between NSSI and intrapersonal factors, such as self-criticism ... -
Intimate Parallels: The Art, History, and Activism of Civil War-Era Women's Quilt Art
(2016-03-07)The Civil War era was the most chronicled and transformational period in United States history. Narrated in art and text by mainstream publications, information regarding the era was readily available to most Americans. ... -
Intratumoral, multiplexed and polymer-assisted dosing of drugs as a new method for assessment of efficacy of new oncology drug candidates or drug combinations.
(2023-10-16)Motivated by the global toll of cancer-related health issues and death, this work identifies some of the key issues facing the pharmaceutical development industry and presents a technological solution to these challenges. ... -
Intrusion of Trichloroethylene (TCE) Vapors From Groundwater Into Buildings in Northeast MA
(2019-03-16)People can be exposed to trichloroethylene (TCE) in homes and businesses from vapors that intrude into buildings from subsurface groundwater and soil. Estimation of health risks is based on measured or modeled vapor ... -
Intrusive thoughts of infant harm in postpartum women: The impact of psychoeducation on disclosure and help-seeking attitudes and behaviors
(2021-10-20)This study examined the occurrence of repetitive, intrusive thoughts about infant harm in postpartum women and the role psychoeducation plays in encouraging disclosure and promoting help-seeking attitudes and behaviors. ...