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Civil Wars, from Beginning … to End?
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The Civilizing Project in Medieval Korea: Neo-Classicism, Nativism, and Figurations of Power
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the adoption and maturing of a neoclassical form of Confucianism in medieval Korea (875-1545) in relation to the long and complex roads to building a centralizing aristocratic order. In the tenth ... -
The Civilizing Sea: The Ideological Origins of the French Mediterranean Empire, 1789-1870
(2016-09-13)This dissertation examines the religious, diplomatic, legal, and intellectual history of French imperialism in Italy, Egypt, and Algeria between the 1789 French Revolution and the beginning of the French Third Republic in ... -
Civitas: Toward a Secure Voting System
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2008)Civitas is the first electronic voting system that is coercion-resistant, universally and voter verifiable, and suitable for remote voting. This paper describes the design and implementation of Civitas. Assurance is ... -
Claiming Human Dignity
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)In the concluding line of his opening note to Black Reconstruction in America, W. E. B. Du Bois, wrote “I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the ... -
The Claims of Animals and the Needs of Strangers: Two Cases of Imperfect Right
(Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, 2018)This paper argues for a conception of the natural rights of non-human animals grounded in Kant’s explanation of the foundation of human rights. The rights in question are rights that are in the first instance held against ... -
Clarification of Peziza fimeti with notes on P. varia collections on dung
(Mycotaxon, Ltd., 2013)The smooth-spored species inhabiting dung, mainly of the Peziza fimeti group, were studied morphologically and through ITS sequence comparison. The results established that Peziza varia is also able to fruit on dung, ... -
Clarify: Software for Interpretng and Presenting Statistical Results
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Clarifying Psychological Risk Factors for Self-Injury and Suicidal Behaviors: Clinical Applications of Behavioral Measures
(2015-05-19)Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors are life-threatening, prevalent, and challenging clinical outcomes to predict. This dissertation explores the use of behavioral measures to improve prediction of nonsuicidal self-injury ... -
Clarifying the Pathway to Suicide: An Examination of Subtypes of Suicidal Behavior and Their Association With Impulsiveness.
(2015-08-06)Suicide is a leading cause of death around the world. Yet research seeking to uncover the causes of suicide has made little advancement. The purpose of this dissertation is to advance the understanding of one understudied ... -
The Clash of Brothers: Wars to Avoid Diffusion in a Contagious World
(2015-05-18)My dissertation explores macro-level questions in Political Economy. Using the toolbox of Economics, I find a new reason for international conflict: cultural similarity. Two culturally similar nations may have very different ... -
The Clash of Internationalisms: Prometheism, National Communism, and the Fate of the Soviet Borderlands, 1889-1939
This dissertation charts an intellectual genealogy of internationalist visions of the reorganization of the imperial Russian space that were frustrated and foreclosed by the emergence of the Soviet Union between 1917 and ... -
Class and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany: The Center Party and the Social Democrats in Württemberg
(Cambridge University Press, 1976)Between 1890 and 1914 the Center party was, in Friedrich Naumann's words, “the measure of all things” in German politics. Throughout this period it possessed a quarter of the seats in the Reichstag, and held the balance ... -
Class III Presents in Tocharian
(Dept. of Linguistics, Harvard University, 1975) -
A Class of Human Proteins that Deliver Functional Proteins into Mammalian Cells In Vitro and In Vivo
(Elsevier BV, 2011)We discovered a class of naturally occurring human proteins with unusually high net positive charge that can potently deliver proteins in functional form into mammalian cells both in vitro and also in murine retina, pancreas, ... -
Class, Dismissed: Working-Class Youth and the Evasion of Socioeconomic Inequality in an Affluent Suburb
(2021-07-12)Despite rising income inequality and persistent racial disparities, in many communities, people struggle to talk about inequality. Scholars have found evidence of an aversion to open discourse about race in both the general ... -
Classical and fluctuation-induced electromagnetic interactions in micron-scale systems: designer bonding, antibonding, and Casimir forces
(Wiley, 2015)Whether intentionally introduced to exert control over particles and macroscopic objects, such as for trapping or cooling, or whether arising from the quantum and thermal fluctuations of charges in otherwise neutral bodies, ... -
Classical and quantum optimization of quantum processors
(2022-05-16)Quantum interactions are strikingly different from their classical counterparts, and they lead to counter-intuitive effects such as quantum entanglement. The advances in quantum science and technology over the past two ... -
Classical Conditioning Alters Short Noncoding RNA Expression in Drosophila
(2015-05-14)MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and other classes of short non-coding RNAs regulate essential processes in the development and function of the nervous system. Regulation of miRNAs by neural activity has also been reported. Recently, ... -
A Classical Perspective on Non-Diffractive Disorder
(2016-01-28)The unifying themes connecting the chapters in this dissertation are the profound and often surprising effects of disorder in classical and quantum systems and the tremendous insight gained from a classical perspective, ...