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On Both Sides - A Novel
(2020)On August 11 and 12, 2017, Charlottesville, Virginia was the site of a rally for Unite the Right, an Alt-Right (neo-Nazi) group. This group sought to further white nationalist ideals and to protest the proposed removal of ... -
AudioCNN: Audio Event Classification With Deep Learning Based Multi-Channel Fusion Networks
(2020)In recent years, there is growing interest in environmental sound classification with a plethora of real-world applications, especially in audio fields like speech and music. Recent research works have proven spectral ... -
Great Expectations: Women's Help Wanted Ads In Kansas City, 1920-1936
(2021)The question of the nature of women’s paid work has been a frequent point of historical inquiry. Using a source previously only tapped quantitatively, this paper seeks to expand our understanding of how women’s employment ... -
Strategic Mourning: America's Journey After the Death of George Washington
(2020)This thesis examines the eulogies delivered after the death of George Washington in 1799, identifying themes in the texts and motivations of the authors. The death of the first president occurred during a series of national ... -
The canonical Wnt signaling pathway affects regeneration of mechanosensory hair cells in Danio Rerio
(2020)In vertebrates, mechanosensory hair cells are located in the inner ear and mediate hearing. When damage to these specialized cells occur, it leads to irreversible hearing loss. Not only do aquatic vertebrates have inner ... -
Associations Between Benefit Finding, Disease Severity, Positive Affect, and Health Outcomes Among Patients in Cardiac Rehabilitation
(2020)Following a stressful event, individuals may attempt to create meaning or find benefit from the stressor. Benefit finding (BF) may act as a buffer to minimize the effects of stress on health outcomes. The literature is ... -
Eleanor of Provence: Virago
(2020)Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife to King III and mother to King Edward I lived and reigned in the thirteenth century. Contemporary chroniclers maligned her as both a foreign presence in England and a controlling wife who ... -
The development and validation of the appearance satisfaction questionnaire - the first culturally appropriate measure for body image in black women
(2020)Current theories in body image postulate that body dissatisfaction predicts eating disorder pathology. Previous research in body image with Black women claims that Black women do not experience body dissatisfaction and ... -
A Family Affected By Autosomal Dominant Non-Syndromic Tooth Agenesis - A Genetic Study
(2020)This study evaluated a family exhibiting the phenotype of non-syndromic tooth agenesis through whole exome sequencing to potentially identify pathogenic variants. Four family members, three with tooth agenesis and one ... -
Effects of fluoride varnish application and phosphate buffered saline solution with or without demineralizing conditions prior to bracket bonding on subsequent enamel-bracket shear bond strength
(2020)This study examined the effect of sodium fluoride varnish (V) and phosphate buffered saline (PBS) solution with or without demineralization (DM) prior to bracket bonding on subsequent enamel-bracket shear bond strength ... -
Retreatment following in-person clear aligner therapy, direct-to-consumer clear aligner therapy, and conventional fixed orthodontic appliances
(2020)This study examined the effect of original orthodontic treatment modality, in particular, in-person clear aligner therapy (CAT), direct-to-consumer clear aligner therapy (DTC CAT), and conventional fixed appliances, on ... -
Healthy Eating Information and Food Choices
(2020)The obesity rate amongst American university students has become an item of concern for many colleges and universities across the country. College students are heavily exposed to many unhealthy dietary trends, being reliant ... -
Late Holocene Stratigraphic History of the Gulf of Aqaba Coastal Plain, Jordan
(2020)Construction of the lower tidal lagoon at the Ayla Oasis Development in Aqaba, Jordan provided a unique opportunity to study the 3-D architecture of coastal plain sediment of the northern Gulf of Aqaba. Previous studies ... -
Caregiver Level Predictors of Self-Regulation in Preschool-Aged Children
(2020)Self-regulation is regarded as a key developmental skill that underlies children’s success throughout their life. When children enter kindergarten with under-developed self-regulation skills, they are at a greater risk for ... -
Deep Open Representative Learning for Image and Text Classification
(2020)An essential goal of artificial intelligence is to support the knowledge discovery process from data to the knowledge that is useful in decision making. The challenges in the knowledge discovery process are typically due ... -
Class Representative Projection for Text-based Zero-Shot Learning
(2020)There have been significant advances in supervised machine learning and enormous benefits from deep learning for a range of diverse applications. Despite the success of deep learning, in reality, very few works have shown ... -
Perceptions of Sex Trafficking Legislation By Sex Workers
(2020)In April of 2018, President Donald Trump signed into law the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act/Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA/FOSTA) package. This set of bipartisan legislation was ... -
The record of magma storage conditions in mineral compositions below a glacial to ice-free Askja volcano, Iceland
(2020)Askja is a caldera volcano located in central Iceland that was glaciated approximately 70,000 to 10,500 years ago. Askja’s basaltic lavas have been classified into one preglacial, six glacial, one Early Holocene and thirteen ... -
Mineral ecology and network analysis of chromium, platinum, gold and palladium
(2020)Data collected on the location of mineral species and related minerals from the field have many great uses from mineral exploration to mineral analysis. Such data is useful for further exploration and discovery of other ... -
Retirement Satisfaction of Married Individuals in the Health and Retirement Study
(2020)High levels of satisfaction in retirement are as much a guarantee as promising immigrants to the United States happiness in their new American life. The authors of the United States Constitution understood this concept and ...