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Methods for Measuring Ciliary Calcium Dynamics: Potential Role for the Ciliary Inversin Compartment
(2017-03-28)
The primary cilium is a cellular organelle at the nexus of many human disease syndromes that include polycystic kidney disease (PKD), embryonic developmental defects and retinal degeneration. While the whole organism ...
The Boston & Maine and Malden: The Railroad's Impact on the Development of Malden's West End Neighborhood, 1845-1900
(2017-04-05)
This thesis explores the impact of the Boston & Maine Railroad on the development of the West End neighborhood in Malden, Massachusetts. Specifically, I will examine the time-period between the opening of the Boston & Maine ...
From Supernumerary to Principal: The Role of Trauma as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(2017-04-06)
Through the lens of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this thesis examines Williams’s characters, Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar named Desire and Brick Pollitt from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as trauma survivors who ...
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 ...
Detection of Intracellular Cytokeratin 20 in CD14dim Monocytes: A Potential Tool for the Screening of Colorectal Adenocarcinoma in Peripheral Blood
(2017-04-06)
Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. Early and accurate detection is essential as it can effectively attenuate the dismal prognosis of this disease. Current screening/detection techniques are limited by ...
Extricating Sycorax From the Tempest's Baseless Fabric
(2017-03-30)
Sycorax, although dead in The Tempest, continues to be disinterred like a centuries-old cold case. The intrigue that one dead witch generates has transcended time and scrutiny. This thesis examines the mental power struggle ...
Building the Bildungsroman: How Jonathan Swift’s Early Satire Helped James Joyce Find His Voice
(2017-04-04)
This study investigates the stylistic affinities between Jonathan Swift and James Joyce, in particular those resemblances which are present in their earlier works—A Tale of a Tub, The Battel of the Books, and A Portrait ...
Quantifying Sovereignty: A New Way to Examine an Essential Concept
(2017-04-12)
There were three primary reasons for this study. First, the study attempted to create a quantitative framework for measuring the concept of sovereignty in order to facilitate easier comparative analyses. This framework, ...
Jimmy Carter’s Policy Toward the El Salvador Civil War: The Demise of Human Rights as a Priority
(2017-04-23)
This thesis investigates the roots of Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy towards El Salvador and how it changed throughout his presidency. In his candidacy for the president in 1976, Carter stated his commitment to leading a ...
Do Juries Let Some Defendants Get Away With Murder? Examining the Effect of Pre-Cognitive Decision Making on Insanity Defense Cases
(2017-04-13)
This research examines the effect of bias on Insanity Defense cases, theorizing that juries treat Insanity Defense cases differently from other types of cases because they are ill equipped to contemplate them. Insanity ...