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 ... -
A Brazilian, a Politician, and a Jew Walk Into a Gay Bar: How the Satirical ‘Fake News’ of the Daily Show With Jon Stewart Adapted Augusto Boal’s Joker System for Its Coverage of LGBTQ Rights
(2018-01-09)This thesis examines modern interpretations of Augusto Boal’s politically engaging and transformative theatrical theory, the Joker System and its derivatives. The concentration of the research uses Boal’s system as the ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Funds: How Sustainable Are SRI Funds?
(2018-04-01)Between 2012 and 2014, socially responsible investments (SRI) grew by 76%, with over $6.5 trillion now being held in managed SRI assets (Schueth et al., 2014). This remarkable growth accentuates the blossoming interest ... -
A Critical Evaluation of Social and Eco-Labels Used in the Textile Industry: Their Possible Impact Demonstrated Through Environmental and Social LCA
(2018-08-02)This thesis evaluated and compared social criteria of ecological (eco) and social labels used in the textile and apparel industry. Information about relevant end consumer facing labels was collected through standardsmap.org ... -
A Demographic Analysis of the Distribution of Farmers Markets and Grocery Stores in Northern Virginia
(2017-12-13)Increasingly, consumers are seeking opportunities to buy locally grown fresh foods at farmers markets in lieu of conventionally sourced foods at grocery stores due to perceptions of environmental, economic and social harms ... -
A Lesson in Patience: Cooperative Chair Training of Rhesus Macaques
(2018-03-01)Awake-behaving non-human primates (NHPs), specifically rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), are often used in experiments involving psychophysics, electrophysiology, and cognition; these tasks involve physical restraint of ... -
A Poly (Lactic Co Glycolic) Acid Based Dry Powder Inhaler for the Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
(2017-11-13)The goal of this paper was to investigate the feasibility of a novel Poly (Lactic Co Glycolic) Acid (PLGA) based Dry Powder Inhaler in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. First line TB drugs are highly effective in ... -
A Revised Biosocial Analysis to Social Suffering: Reframing a Paradigm on Mental Health for Palestinians Living Under Trauma
(2018-04-17)The goal of this research is to shed light on the chronic, systematic violence that the Palestinians endure on a daily basis using a different approach from the Western model of PTSD and war trauma. The Palestinians have ... -
A Study of Differential Glycosylation of IgG on Fcγ Receptor Mediated Neutrophil Recruitment Model of SLE Nephritis
(2018-03-24)The goal of this research was to evaluate cellular binding interactions to glycoengineered IgGs to further investigate the role neutrophils play in the pathogenesis of Lupus nephritis in an SLE nephritis model. Lupus ... -
A Sweet Legacy? Thomas Jefferson and the Development of the Maple Sugar Industry in Vermont
(2017-08-16)When Thomas Jefferson and James Madison headed north from New York City on May 21, 1791 for a trip through New York and New England, Americans were sweetening their tea and baked goods with white cane sugar produced by ... -
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, ... -
Achieving Vast Restoration: Incentivizing Grassland Regeneration in Eastern Montana
(2017-12-05)This thesis examines the potential for federal, state and local government environmental incentives to be leveraged by for-profit impact investors pursuing grassland restoration. Nearly 20% of the continental United States ... -
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 ... -
AggrGator: A Platform for Collaborative Discoverability and Annotation of Media
(2017-09-28)There are very few good tools available that allow people to digitally categorize recorded videos. This is a problem because with the rise of digitization of recordings previously created on magnetic and other non-digital ... -
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 ... -
Amyloid Based Ceramic Biofilm and Its Applications in Building Materials
(2018-03-02)Biofilm-Integrated Nanofiber Display (BIND) (Nguyen, Botyanszki, Tay, & Joshi, 2014a) is a platform for the engineering of the bacterial extracellular matrix material in amyloid. In this platform an engineered version of ...