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Minerva’s Army and the Battle for Green Gold: Leiden University as a Catalyst for the Seventeenth Century Spice Trade
(2016-02-17)
This thesis examines the socio-cultural climate of the Dutch Republic and its primary established knowledge systems that aided in the identification, access, production, use and transmission of plant-based knowledge. A ...
A Role for DOCK4 in Intestinal Barrier Properties
(2016-02-16)
Restoration of epithelial and endothelial barrier function is critical for tissue homeostasis. Yet, the molecular pathways response for modulating barrier properties remains largely unknown. This study investigates the ...
Reframing the Bloody Hell: Menstrual Rituals and Practices Among Arab and Arab-Americans
(2016-03-26)
This study investigates menstrual rituals and practices in the Arab and Arab-American population, in order to better understand if menstruation is taboo. Scholarly work has led us to believe that menstruation in the Arab ...
Evaluation of Cellular Mechanisms Involved in Recombinant Antibody Expression in Transiently Transfected Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells
(2016-05-02)
Transient recombinant antibody production in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells is often used to screen large panels of candidates for potential therapeutic use. However, a significant proportion of antibodies express at a ...
The Role of Conflict in Shaping Iraqi Identity
(2016-04-14)
This thesis shows how four sources of conflict have been particularly divisive to Iraqi identity: sectarian legacies, ethnic tensions, internal political conflict, and foreign involvement and intervention. This thesis ...
Fact or Fiction: The Social and Cultural Beliefs That Drive Dooms Day Prophecies
(2016-03-31)
Throughout history, people have been predicting the end of the world. This thesis will explore different dooms day prophecies and attempt to learn why humans are so fascinated with the end of their own existence. From the ...
Establishing Novel Immunoaffinity Purification Methods for Fusion Proteins
(2016-03-31)
The experiments in this thesis were performed to determine if novel uses of three fusion proteins could be established as a means of improving the protein purification process, and in particular, the elution step, thus ...
An Interdisciplinary Math and Science Curriculum for Middle School
(2016-06-22)
Mathematics and science are often taught separately, rendering students with a fragmented knowledge base unable to naturally integrate math and science into a coherent whole. Movements have arisen to offer solutions to ...
Creatine Assay for Use on Bench Top Chemistry Analyzer: Quick Analysis of Creatine in Human Serum Smaples
(2016-05-02)
Creatine (Cr) was initially discovered in the 1830s by a Frenchman named Chevreul. In subsequent years, it was discovered that creatine was utilized by the musculatory system, which fueled research on its overall use as a ...
PyBio: An Open Source Bioinformatics Library for Python.
(2016-06-25)
PyBio is an easy-to-install, open-source library for working with bioinformatics data in Python, designed to encourage interactive data exploration and scripting.
The Pybio API is designed to be explorable in an IPython ...