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The History of Algerian Immigrants’ Search for Identity in France. An Analysis through French Film: Historical and Political Context between France and Algeria.
(2019-05-15)How did France’s legacy of colonization impact Algeria? How significant was the FLN’s role in the Algerian War of Independence and the conceptualization of historical problems (immigration and integration) that follows in ... -
Plastered Crania and Community Rituals in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Levant
(2019-04)During the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, complicated mortuary ritual developed in the Levant, which expanded upon traditions of earlier time periods. During the earlier Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A periods there was already ... -
Engineering melting temperatures of carbohydrate binding modules through site-directed mutagenesis
(2019-05-01)Biofuels are a promising alternative to environmentally harmful fossil fuels. However, in order to displace fossil fuels, biofuels must be competitive in cost. Currently, the production process is the most significant issue ... -
The Intersection of Race and Cultural Production
(2019-05)This paper views the intersection between race and cultural production as related to Native American identity, the shifting racial composition of the sport of lacrosse, and the social and moral paradigms of the Holocaust. ... -
Is Laughter the Best Democratic Medicine? Political Comedy and its Effect on Tolerance and Trust
(2019-04-29)Through utilizing survey methodology with an experimental manipulation, this paper analyzes political comedy's role in contemporary media. The focus of these effects are examined through trust and tolerance because they ... -
Rebellion, Republic, and Resistance: Exploring the Politics of Disney's Star Wars Films
(2019-04-29)Star Wars is arguably one of the most significant cultural franchises in the United States of the past 40 years. George Lucas’ original trilogy has spawned an abundance of media, the most prominent of which is the film ... -
Free Markets and Carceral States: The Sixth Party System
(2019-04-29)Reevaluates how Party realignment occurred in American Politics during the 1960's; and with the implementation of the Southern Strategy. -
Development of an Assay for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Coxiella burnetii
(2019-04-29)Coxiella burnetii, a small Gram-negative bacterium, is the causative agent of Q fever, a zoonotic disease with initial flu-like symptoms that lead to both acute and chronic stages of infection. As with many obligate ... -
What's Partisanship Got to Do With It? Racial Disparities of Maternal and Infant Mortality in North Carolina
(2019-04-29)This research aims to examine whether there are common conditions such as, race, poverty level, rural or urban location, and partisanship that lead to higher rates of infant and maternal mortality among African-American ... -
Targeted Mutagenesis of Human BRCA2 via Recombineering for Functional Evaluation of Unclassified Variants
(2019-04-29)Breast cancer is a significant area of research, as it is the most common type of cancer to affect women. BRCA2 is a cancer susceptibility gene that, when carrying a mutation, has a high chance of causing hereditary breast ... -
Predicting Mortality of Diabetic ICU Patients
(2019-04)Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major public health concern that requires continuing medical care. It is also a leading cause of other serious health complications associated with longer hospital stays and increased mortality ... -
Libertad de expresión con mordaza: Limitaciones y consecuencia de la Transición en la presente democracia española
(2019-04-29)Este trabajo analiza la limitación de la libertad de expresión en la España actual. La libertad de expresión es uno de los derechos fundamentales de los ciudadanos en las sociedades democráticas y su buena salud también ... -
Investigating the Effects of FlyNap (Triethylamine) on Behavior and Related Gene Expression in Wildtype and White Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster
(2019-04-29)The current study examines the effect of FlyNap (triethylamine) on gene expression in three target genes (Dop1R1, Rgk1, and Inx6) of Drosophila melanogaster relative to two housekeeping genes (Rap2l and Sdha). I hypothesized ... -
Examining the Impact of Social Support Accessibility on Frederick County K-12 Students
(2019-04)This research examines influential accessibility factors, including geography, process complexity, and educational attainment, that affect the procurement of social supports by households that care for low-income children ... -
Evaluation of Biological and cDNA Clone-Derived Stocks of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus TC-83 Vaccine Strain
(2019-04)The objective of this research study was to evaluate the potential antibody escape mutations identified. The specific aims of this study were as follows: Aim 1: Generate mutant virus stocks containing the identified ... -
The Impact of Arts Education on Student Success
(2019-04)This study will examine the impact of arts education on the academic achievement of students. The goal of this project is to compile and analyze existing research to support the hypothesis that arts education positively ... -
How American Popular Culture Embraced Cynicism in the Digital Media Age
(2019-04-29)The purpose of this research is to identify analyze a connection between popular culture media in the 21st century and the attitude of being cynical. Content creators of the 21st century have bound their cynical outlook ... -
Dramatic Aspirations at Villa Borghese: The Theatrics of Bernini's Sculptural Group
(2019)This paper focuses on both the display and subject matter of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculptures at Villa Borghese in Rome, Italy. Utilizing research with primary source material, including biographical accounts of Bernini’s ...
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