Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Issue Date
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Understanding and Developing Appropriate Museum Debt Policy: Practical Capital Structure Analysis for Museums
(2011-11)This thesis provides a template, in three parts, designed to enable museum financial management to comprehensively address and analyze museological capital structure both from a theoretical and practical perspective. To ... -
The Political Economy of Caribbean Regionalism in the Twenty-First Century: Rebirth or Resuscitation?
(2012-11-06)Although the states comprising the English-speaking Caribbean have much in common, integrating them politically and economically has proven to be an extremely challenging endeavor. All three integration initiatives since ... -
Party of the Century: Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball
(2014-10-14)Party of the Century: Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball is a cultural history exhibition designed to transport museum visitors back to Capote’s masked dance held in New York City on November 28, 1966 in the Plaza Hotel’s ... -
Early American Silver at the Currier Museum of Art
(2015-10-02)This project-based thesis has added five stops and an introduction to American Silver to the Currier Museum of Art’s mobile tour. The Museum has an extensive silver collection but has very little information readily available ... -
Reliving the Life of Louis Bachelier
(2015-10-06)This thesis is made up of two parts: a critical essay (I) and (II) an original epic length screenplay – 210 pages script plus fifteen pages appendix. The critical essay contains a short essay on The Yin-Yang Creative Writing ... -
Acoustic Characteristics of Phonological Development in a Juvenile African Grey Parrot (Psittacus Erithacus) Who Is Learning Referential Speech
(2015-10-06)Although young children can sometimes produce words in a near perfect form at a very early stage, several diary studies revealed that these correct first productions are usually followed by less faithful renditions, only ... -
A Wave of Destruction: Time's Inexorable Effects in Hamlet and Macbeth
(2015-10-06)This thesis explores the typically cited character flaws of Macbeth and Hamlet and asserts that these flaws are not the main cause of their tragic downfalls, but, rather, it is the immense psychological and corporeal ... -
The Rocket and the Whale: A Critical Study of Pynchon’s Use of Melville
(2015-10-06)Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow are two American novels that intersect stylistically and thematically. This thesis argues that Pynchon’s novel mirrors and reinvents Melville’s novel. ... -
How Many Moralities? a Bottom-Up Approach to Mapping the Brain’s Natural Moral Categories
(2015-10-07)The external structure and internal boundaries of the moral domain are not sharply defined. Substantive definitions of morality struggle to cleanly encapsulate the full diversity of human moral concern without including ... -
Black Ships and Fair–Flowing Aegyptus: Uncovering the Late Bronze–Early Iron Age Context of Odysseus’ Raid on Egypt
(2015-10-07)While the “Second Cretan Lie” of Odyssey xix 199–359 and xvii 417–44 is presented as fictional tales within Homer’s larger myth, some elements have striking analogs in Late Bronze–Early Iron Age reality. This thesis examines ... -
Being in a Landscape: Reconsidering the Poetry of Robert Frost as a Model for Environmental Engagement in an Era of Accelerating Climate Change
(2015-10-13)This thesis re-examines several of Robert Frost’s poems in light of his identification as a synecdochist and aim of reaching an ever-widening audience to provide that audience with a “momentary stay against confusion.” ... -
Bloody Hilarious: Animal Sacrifice in Aristophanic Comedy
(2015-10-15)This thesis seeks to understand the portrayals of animal sacrifice in the Old Comedy of classical Greece, a genre commonly considered for vulgarity, personal invective, and roots far removed from sacred acts. Recognizing ... -
Fear and Healing Through the Serpent Imagery in Greek Tragedy
(2015-10-15)This work explores how the tragic poets, by means of snake imagery, convey the notion of disease. Moreover, it examines how snake imagery contributes to the process of healing through the emotion of fear that it triggers. ... -
Spatial Organization of Local Inputs to Spiny Projection Neurons in the Striatum
(2015-10-19)GABAergic interneurons are important for balanced activity of the principal projection neurons of the striatum (spiny projection neurons, SPNs) and dysfunction of striatal GABAergic interneurons can lead to movement-related ... -
A No-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Poker Jam/Fold Endgame Equilibrium
(2015-10-20)Omaha Hi-Lo Poker is a variant of the game of Poker, with more possibilities resulting from having four cards per player and a split Hi and Lo pot, compared to Texas Hold’em Poker. Recently published algorithms, commodity ... -
Aggregation Propensity: Characterization of Monoclonal Antibody Stability
(2015-10-20)The study of aggregation propensity of a monoclonal antibody (mAb) and its sensitivity to applied stresses is believed to correlate with the overall stability of the mAb. As such, the aggregation propensity under various ... -
Financial Analysis of Biosimilar Development Candidates: A Case Study on the US Biosimilar Business
(2015-10-20)This case study investigates the US biosimilar business and the approach that should be implemented when financially analyzing biosimilar development candidates. To challenge the theory that the biosimilar business will ... -
Examining the Anti-Inflammatory Characteristics of Translocator Protein Through IL-10 Modulation
(2015-10-20)Several central nervous system related diseases involve various cellular inflammation related components. Among others these components include increases in complement activation and synthesis of inflammatory signaling ... -
The Association Between Film Industry Success and Prior Career History: A Machine Learning Approach
(2015-10-20)My thesis project is a means of understanding the conditions associated with success and failure in the American film industry. This is carried out by tracking the careers of several thousand actors and actresses, and the ...