Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Game, Set, Match: A Study of Sports Illustrated and Women in Sport following the “Battle of the Sexes"
(2023-04-28)The “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match was one of the most viewed sports events of the 1970s. It featured Billie Jean King and Robert ‘Bobby’ Riggs, in a tennis match that was meant to determine if women could actually ... -
Gamma Induction Using Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation in Alzeihmer’s Disease
(2021-05-12)Thanks to technology and advances in the medical field, our population's lifespan continues to lengthen. As a result, aging related neurodegenerative disorders become more prevalent. Manipulating brain oscillations is a ... -
Gender All the Way Down: Proposing a feminist framework for analyzing gendered climate security risks
(2022-11-22)According to mythical world views from many traditions, there is a World Turtle that rests on a larger turtle, and that larger turtle rests on an even larger turtle, and on and on the turtles go. In other words, earth is ... -
A Gender Analysis of Cyber War
(2016-04-17)This thesis is a gender analysis of cyber war. Cyber war is a relatively recent domain within the context of international conflict. Thus far, neither a gender analysis of cyber warfare, nor of those who carry out cyber ... -
Gender and Domestic Medicine: Analysis of a Seventeenth-Century Receipt Book
(2016-08-09)Research into how men and women participated in domestic medicine, or medicine in the home, has typically focused on the female experience. Indeed, early modern historians have often dichotomized medicine in the early ... -
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 ... -
Gene Flow among Candidatus Endoriftia persephone Symbionts of Riftia pachyptila across Hydrothermal Vent Systems in the Guaymas Basin
(2024-01-04)Deep-sea hydrothermal vents, which are commonly found along mid-ocean ridge systems and spreading centers in the deep ocean, are home to many endemic species of animals. While much of the deep sea is limited in primary ... -
Generation and Functional Characterization of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines That Report on INSULIN and GLUCAGON Expression
(2018-10-31)Diabetes is characterized by high levels of blood glucose due to malfunction (Type II) or destruction (Type I) of the INSULIN producing beta-cells (β-) in the pancreatic Islets of Langerhans. INSULIN action in muscle and ... -
Generation of Lymph-Node-on-a-Chip Device Utilizing 3D Cell Culture Bioprinting of Conduit Mimicking Towers
(2023-10-11)In the modern immune oncology field, currently there are challenges for allowing for effective immunotherapeutic drug screening systems for immune cell populations in a biologically relevant design for process development ... -
Genetic and Pharmacological Investigations into a Zebrafish Model of ADPKD
(2021-05-24)This research aimed to identify molecular mechanisms underlying autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) using genetic and pharmacological approaches in a zebrafish model of ADPKD. Specifically, our goal was ... -
Genetic Diversity in Urban and Rural Indigenous Mexico
(2016-02-18)The goal of this study was to examine the genetic diversity of indigenous (and semi-indigenous) populations in Mexico and determine if any genetic variation correlated to culture and language. Mexico’s indigenous populations ... -
Genetic Expression Assessment of N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) in Relation to Migraine Remission After Pregnancy
(2024-01-16)Migraine is a complex neurological disorder with its cause most likely stemming from polygenic and environmental factors (Aczél et al., 2021; Vetvik & MacGregor, 2021). Migraine attacks involve the activation of the ... -
Genetic Pre-aetiologies and How the Patterns of Mutation Incidence in Cancer Risk Genes Might Suggest a Non-genetic Origin for “Genetic Cancers”
(2022-01-13)Cancer is a relatively common disease. This study investigated the hypothesis that mutation rates are higher in genes that can influence the onset of cancer when mutated than in genes that do not, rather than the prevailing ... -
Genetic Variation in the BRCA2 Gene and Prostate Cancer Risk in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS) and Physicians' Health Study (PHS)
(2016-03-22)There is an urgent need to identify biomarkers that may be linked to aggressive and early-onset forms of prostate cancer. Previous studies have identified a link between mutations in the BRCA2 tumor suppressor gene and ... -
Genomic Analysis of the Population Structure and Virulence of the Human Pathogen, Cryptococcus Neoformans Var. Grubii
(2017-02-02)This study examined a large cohort of clinical and environmental strains of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii to better understand its population structure and identify potential markers significantly associated with ... -
Geopolitical Challenges of Utilizing Nuclear Power as the Foundation for Achieving Global Non-Carbon Energy Goals
(2023-04-20)Fossil fuel power plants remain the largest source of global electric generation, accounting for over 60% of worldwide power. Achieving a zero carbon electric infrastructure requires replacing fossil fuel plants with a ... -
George Washington’s Wine Cooler: A Reflection of Post-Revolutionary America
(2021-05-11)In 1789, George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the new nation of the United States of America. Thereafter, he embarked on setting up a household that emphasized a “dignified and lasting American style, ... -
Getaway
(2024-01-03)Getaway follows a young Afghanistan War veteran Laurie E. who has returned to civilian life, restless and haunted by her time in combat. When police connect her mother’s sudden death to phone scammers in Jamaica, where her ... -
A GIS Analysis of Commercial Food Waste and Anaerobic Digestion/Combined Heat and Power in Massachusetts
(2016-05-21)This thesis examines a set of geospatial and economic factors bearing on the development of anaerobic digestion/combined heat and power (AD CHP) infrastructure in Massachusetts relative to the Commonwealth's renewable ... -
Global Teleconnections of Food and Land Use: The China-Brazil Connection
(2016-05-20)China’s current nutrition transition to increased meat consumption has subsequently set in motion the need for increased imports of soybean for use in livestock feeds as in-country soybean production decreases but direct ...