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Techno-Intransigence: The Resistances to Representation in Video Games
(2022-10-11)
Though video games are the new dominant media in entertainment, there is a significant disparity in representation of gender, race, and sexuality. Upon examination of major titles and their supporting texts such as The ...
Role of GFAP, IL-6 and EEG in Gut-Brain Nexus
(2023-01-10)
The gut-microbiota-brain axis has significant clinical implications but the extent
of influence and mechanisms of communication between different systems remain
uncertain. The interplay between different brain areas, ...
NATO and the Arctic: Theorizing NATO's Twenty First Century Problem
(2022-05-10)
Understanding how constructivist theory applies to the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) can help us to understand not only its beginning,
but also where it is going. Constructivist theory reflects the importance ...
Identifying Non-canonical, Keap1-independent Regulators of Nrf2 Degradation in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
(2022-12-21)
Nrf2 (nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2) is a transcription factor responsible for cellular antioxidant response to oxidative and electrophilic stress. Keap1 (Kelch ECH associating protein 1) has been demonstrated ...
WHERE ARE HER REAL PARENTS? Race, Adoption, and Lies in the 1970s
(2023-04-28)
When I was a baby, I was adopted by a 54-year-old white widow who lived on the coast of Maine. She insisted that I, too, was white and had the birth certificate to prove it. But the boys at the bus stop called me “nigger,” ...
Ecological Factors and Jaw Morphology in Lepidosauria: A Geometric Morphometric and Biomechanical Approach
(2023-04-20)
Lepidosauria consists of two reptilian orders, with squamates, the larger of the orders, consisting of about 11,000 species and are widespread globally. As a group, lepidosaurs are very diverse in habitat, leg development, ...
The 13 Bookson Architecture, Love and Villainy, by Cletus
(2023-01-10)
Juxtaposing text and illustration can induce a state of subtle confusion in the
reader and “defamiliarize” select elements of literary craft—in the case of this thesis, the
authorial mask in a work of historiographic ...
Using Primary Sources in United States History Textbooks to Create Social Justice Connections from Past to Present
(2022-05-12)
Primary sources are tools that can be used in education to provide rich opportunities for helping bring history to life for students. They aid in fostering historical thinking allowing students to understand the present ...
Simulation of GHG Impact and Calf Production from Converting Degraded Croplands to AMP Grazing in Southeast USA
(2022-05-23)
Within the global food system, beef cattle is the single largest contributor at 8.5% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally (Xu et al., 2021). On the other hand, rangelands cover nearly half of the ...
Gender, Sexuality and the Cultural Understanding of Witchcraft Surrounding the Decline of the Early European Witch Trails
(2021-05-25)
Complex understandings of early modern European female sexuality changed as religion became more prominent, and this transformation contributed to the frequency and density of witch trials across Europe. This thesis has ...