Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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27 Doors
(2016-03-14)This novella is a fantasy thriller that wants to deal with death and its various shapes throughout a surreal journey, where a superior power challenges the protagonist to face his own guilt, or original sin. Characters ... -
3-Dimensional Printing and Bio-Based Materials in Global Health: an Interventional Approach to Addressing Healthcare Disparities in Low and Middle-Income Countries
(2017-01-23)Approximately 2 billion people in developing countries around the world lack access to essential surgical care and services, resulting in the avertable deaths of over 1.5 million individuals each year. These startling ... -
The Abenomics Difference: Three Arrows of Roosevelt Resolve in Japan
(2016-03-07)This study investigates Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policy package, known as “Abenomics.” Abenomics is intended to end two decades of deflation in Japan, based on a Three Arrow approach (monetary policy, ... -
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 ... -
Activation of Guanylate Cyclase-C With Heat-Stable Enterotoxin Fails to Potentiate Celecoxib-Induced Reduction in Colorectal Cancer Cell Growth in Vitro
(2016-03-21)This study evaluated the use of heat-stable enterotoxin (ST), a guanylate cyclase receptor type C (GC-C) agonist, in combination with celecoxib, a cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor, for the prevention of colorectal cancer ... -
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 ... -
Agriculture Expansion in Franklin County Massachusetts: Analysis of Trade-Off Scenarios Between Agriculture Production and Ecosystem Services
(2016-05-10)Proposed food system developments outlined under the New England Food Vision (NEFV) require clearing over 6 million acres of forested land for conversion into agriculture. Franklin County, Massachusetts was used as a proxy ... -
American Foreign Policy Toward the Syrian Civil War
(2017-04-17)This thesis investigates the shift in the “schizophrenic” American foreign policy toward the Syrian Civil War from 2011 to 2015, following the Arab Spring protests. What objectives were outlined, and what events on the ... -
Analysis of Carbon Disclosure Data for U.S. Equities Within the Electricity Generation Sector
(2016-05-21)With the historic international climate agreement made in Paris still fresh in their minds, investors are looking at Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data to increase alpha in the upcoming low carbon economy. ... -
An Analysis of the Potential Environmental Remediation and Economic Benefits Anaerobic Digesters Offer to the Dairy and Swine Industries: A Comparison of China and the U.S.
(2015-10-29)The purpose of this research is to investigate the environmental remediation and energy potential of anaerobic digesters on pig and dairy farms and to demonstrate how incorporating those benefits into a cost-benefit analysis ... -
An Analysis of the SmartCells Business Model and Its General Applicability Toward Building Successful Early-Stage Ventures in the Pharmaceutical Industry
(2017-03-29)SmartCells developed a technology that would re-engineer the existing pharmaceutical, insulin, to perform in a way that was safer and more efficacious than the original underlying drug (Zion, 2004). This novel approach ... -
An Analytical Method for Inferring Library Identity From Illumina NGS Read Groups
(2017-04-04)When working with genetic sequence data, it is important to know the individual, sample, and sequencing library from which the data derives. While multiple software packages exist that can detect when data has been swapped ... -
The Announcement: Tacitus' Dialogus De Oratoribus as the Prelude to His Annales
(2016-03-21)This paper investigates the chronological, contextual, and literary placement of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, a work by the Roman historian Tacitus. The work is atypical for this author, and scholars tend to situate it ... -
Annow: BLAST Based Analytical Sequence Annotation Software
(2017-01-26)As gene sequencing becomes more common the annotations that give meaning to biological data change. The large quantity of –omics data generated by these projects maintain static linkages to annotations that change as ... -
Applying Ecological Gap Analysis as a Tool for Restoration Planning
(2017-04-17)Following oil spills, such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, or the release of other hazardous materials, natural resources and their services can be lost or diminished. Under several federal statutes, natural resource ... -
The Archaeological History of the Sixteenth-Century French Fort Caroline in Northeast Florida
(2016-12-19)This study investigates the history and archaeology of the sixteenth-century French Fort Caroline in North Florida. In the last 150 plus years, all amateur and professional attempts to locate Fort Caroline have failed. ... -
Arduino-Based Small Scale Electric Brewing System
(2015-10-20)The goal of this project is to create a small-scale, low cost, electric home brewing system that allows a user to more easily brew large (5 gallon) batches of beer in an enclosed space. This is accomplished by using an ... -
Armed With Knowledge: the Wartime Schools at Harvard Business School, 1941-1946
(2016-02-21)This thesis examines the experiences of the Army and Navy student-officers who attended the six Wartime Schools hosted at Harvard Business School during World War II, and seeks to answer the question, in what ways did the ... -
Artisans and Nobles: The von Kraus Family Across 350 Years of War and Social Change in Eastern European History
(2017-03-07)The recorded history of the von Kraus family started in 1663 with the birth of Thomas Kraus who was ennobled thirty-nine years later by Leopold I of Austria for bravery in the 1697 Battle of Zenta. The patent of nobility ... -
Assessing the Influence of Educational Interventions on the Climate Change Beliefs of Evangelical College Students
(2016-02-19)Despite an overwhelming scientific consensus, much of the American public remains skeptical of anthropogenic climate change. This disparity seems particularly evident among evangelical Christians, who consistently demonstrate ...