This dissertation takes Chinese advertisements as the research subjects to see in what way a quantifiable large number of advertisements with its metaphorical nature and instrumental mission can reflect social cultural change, in specifics,...
This dissertation demonstrates an elegant method, known as 'micro-origami' or strain architecture to design and fabricate three-dimensional MEMS structures which are assembled using actuation of a metal-oxide bilayer with conventional planar...
Psychic trauma in art; Psychoanalysis and art; Art--Psychological aspects; Salomon, Charlotte, 1917-1943. Leben oder theater?
This thesis explores the presence of the dialectic of trauma in Charlotte Salomon’s magnum opus, Life? or Theatre?, a series of more than seven hundred paintings created during her time in exile in France between 1941 and 1942. In this series,...
The focus of this dissertation work is the formulation and improvement of anemia management process involving trial-and-error. A two-stage method is adopted toward this objective. Given a medical treatment process, a discrete Markov representation...
Green tea--Health aspects; Green tea--Therapeutic use; Polyphenols--Physiological effect; Drug delivery systems; Lungs--Cancer--Treatment
Green tea polyphenols (GTPs) are gaining increasing attention because of their potential anti-tumor effects. However, poor oral bioavailability limits their efficacy in vivo. In this dissertation, two hypotheses were tested: 1) GTPs administered...
Park containing a pond, circular fountains, grassy areas, and a statue of a man on a horse. Trees and buildings are in the background. Text on left: America Illustrated. Text on right: Boston & Suburbs. Descriptive information on back of card:...
View of a narrow city street with buildings on either side and at the end. Some of the buildings have awnings. Horse-drawn carriages and wagons are on the street. Text on left: America Illustrated. Text on right: Boston & Suburbs. Title...
Close-up view of a tree-lined cobblestone street with houses on either side. Text on left: America Illustrated. Text on right: Boston & Suburbs. Series information: 1874-5. Broadway, East from F. Street, South Boston.
Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Commons in Boston, Massachusetts. The monument was dedicated in 1877 as a memorial for soldiers and sailors from Massachusetts who died in the Civil War. Column mounted on a pedestal. At the top of the column...
Panoramic view of a neighborhood with rows of houses and other buildings. Title: Panorama from Bunker Hill Monument. Text on left: Boston & Suburbs. Text on right: American Illustrated.
Historic sites; Monuments & memorials; Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.)
Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Obelisk-shaped monument made of granite with a small building next to it on a grassy area. A city skyline is in the background. Title: Bunker Hill Monument. Text on left: Boston & Suburbs....
The thesis deals with the political career of John Marshall Harlan prior to his appointment in 1877 as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Throughout the majority of those twenty-three active years in Kentucky politics, Harlan...
Technical writing; English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers; Academic writing--Study and teaching
This dissertation examines how nonnative English speaking (NNES) faculty and
students in engineering respond to language variation and how that response influences
their teaching and learning of academic writing. Using grounded theory approach...
Temple of Zeus (Olympia, Greece); Sculpture, Greek--Greece; Olympia (Greece : Ancient sanctuary)
Built during the Early Classical period, the Temple of Zeus at Olympia and its sculptural program presented many new ideas in Greek society. I will argue that the Temple, in particular its metopes depicting the twelve Labors of Herakles,...
General. – The Characaeae is the only extant family of an ancient and unique group of nonvascular aquatic plants which are classified as a separate division, the Charophyta (Groves and Bullock-Webster, 1920; Zaneveld, 1940; Imahori, 1954; Bold,...
In this dissertation research, we aim to solve problems of two types of survival data, clustered survival data with potentially informative cluster size and sojourn time data. The methods for these two types of data are different. However, both...
A careful perusal of Shakespeare’s works leads to one outstanding conclusion. Shakespeare was preeminently interested in words, as such. His every play shows a painstaking attention to words in their various shades of meaning. It is our interest...
Football teams--Ratings and rankings; Ranking and selection (Statistics)
A new method to rank football teams with the concepts associated with the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) and Graph theory is developed in this thesis. A set of games is interpreted as a graph, in which every vertex represents a team, and every...
Two ships or ferries in the water heading towards land in the background. Buildings are along the shore. Text on left: America Illustrated. Text on right: Boston & Suburbs. Title supplied by cataloger.
Ship or ferry with the name 'D.D. Kelly' painted on the side in the water heading towards land in the background. Buildings are along the shore. Text on left: America Illustrated. Text on right: Boston & Suburbs. Handwritten on back: Ferry Boat...
