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Evaluation of Silk and Rose Biomaterials in the Nano-Cosmeceutical Industry: the Claiming Balance Between Nature, Science, and Regulation
(2018-01-24)
Human beings are constantly trying to find the next way to sustain youth and vitality with new creams, pills, and supplements – it is no wonder the cosmeceutical industry is one of the fastest growing segments of the ...
Indefinite Pleasures and Parables of Art: An Investigation of the Aesthetics of Edgar Allan Poe
(2018-04-17)
This investigation examines the origins and development of Edgar Allan Poe’s aesthetic theory throughout his body of work. It employs a tripartite approach commencing with the consideration of relevant biographical context, ...
Correlation and Predictive Modeling of Extracellular Cell Culture Metabolites to Drug Product Titer and Cellular Viability Using Untargeted High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
(2018-04-13)
The goal of the thesis project was to investigate the outperformance of one media to another using untargeted mass spectrometry metabolite analysis. Media 1 had previously consistently outperformed Media 2 throughout growth ...
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 ...
The Affordability of Public and Private Housing in Boston and Greater Boston
(2018-05-16)
This thesis examines the cost of public housing and the market cost of non-public housing, why there is at present a continually escalating cost of housing since 2000, and how the financially challenged residents in ...
Willa Cather’s Love Stories and the Land: The Interconnection of Human Emotion and Environmental Consciousness in O Pioneers!, the Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia
(2018-01-22)
Willa Cather is well known as a writer whose early novels’ narrative subtexts are environmentally focused. However, these interpretations of Cather’s Prairie Trilogy (O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and ...
Ciudad Juárez Hope: Medellín’s Case as a Pathway for Social Transformation
(2018-04-23)
This thesis examines the outcomes of a series of social, cultural and educational policies and strategies that have been developed in Medellín, Colombia to recover the city from drug cartels, from 2001 to the present day ...
Evaluating the Cost Effectiveness of Using Lubricant Impregnated Surface Technology on Intravascular Catheters to Reduce Healthcare-Acquired Infections
(2018-04-13)
This case study evaluates the cost effectiveness of developing lubricant impregnated surface technology (LIST)-coated intravascular catheters to decrease medical costs related to catheter-related blood stream infections ...
Anti-Terrorism Policy Reform in Indonesia: Consequences and Implications for Internal and External Counterterrorism Cooperation
(2018-04-17)
This thesis investigates the implications and consequences for Indonesia's counterterrorism efforts should its military succeed in carving out a greater internal security role through the passage of the proposed revision ...
Effects of American Media Representation of South Asian Americans
(2018-03-23)
In my research I explored the role of American media representation has on the lives of South Asian Americans and Americans of differing racial, ethnic, and sexual backgrounds. I predicted that such representations had a ...