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Baltimore's Desires: Mapping Intimacy Through Letters From Slavery To Civil Rights
(2015)"Baltimore's Desires: Mapping Intimacy through Letters from Slavery to Civil Rights" provides a new lens of Baltimore through the examination of preserved and unpreserved intimate letters which passed through Baltimore by ... -
Barriers And Facilitators To Hiv Testing Among Residents Of A High Risk African American Community
(2009)HIV/AIDS is a leading cause of death among African Americans living in the United States. HIV testing is both an essential mechanism to support the accurate epidemiological tracking of the disease, and a crucial entry point ... -
Beyond Social Structure: Predicting Influence in Online Review Communities
(2019-10-30)The intelligence derived from this dissertation provides businesses and online review communities (ORCs) with ways to exploit opportunities to predict influence for these communities. To my knowledge, there is little ... -
Bijections Among Linear Trees, Lattice Walks And Rna Base-Point Mutations
(2009)The combinatorics of RNA is one of the main mathematical tools used for RNA sequence analysis. In 1994 Schmitt and Waterman established an explicit bijection between RNA secondary structures and a certain subclass of linear ... -
Biochemical Assays Of The Neisseria Meningitidis Serogroup W Capsule Polymerase
(2018)The leading cause of bacterial meningitis is one of three bacteria: Streptococcus pneumonia, Haemophilus influenza or Neisseria meningitidis. Our goal in this work is to gain insight into the molecular mechanism of ... -
Bioinformatic Analysis and Design of a GLUT3 Construct to Examine Cell Surface Expression
(2019-10-25)Glucose transporter type 3 (GLUT3) expression at cell surface plays a vital homeostatic function in neurons. However, the mechanism involved has yet to be fully examined. We devise a strategy to tag a rat GLUT3 cDNA clone. ... -
Biological Sequence Analysis Using Hadoop/Mapreduce As A Distributed Computing Model
(2012)Most Biological (DNA, RNA or Protein) sequence analyzing algorithms are complex and require extensive execution time and memory. Serial Biological Sequence Processing Algorithms do not use the computing power of present ... -
Biologically-Inspired Empirical Mode Decomposition Fusion Of Visible And Infrared Images
(2012)Visible and infrared image fusion technology effectively enhances image information content and rendering quality. They are many image fusion approaches that can be utilized to produce high quality fused images. Outdoor ... -
Bioremediation Of Chlorinated Toxic Chemicals Using Plant: Microbial Interactions
(2009)The impact of chlorinated organo-chemicals on human health and the environment has received wide attention because of their long geochemical half-lives and ecotoxic nature. Due to the presence of highly electro-negative ... -
Biotechnological Approaches To Enhance Halotolerance And Photosynthetic Efficacy In The Cyanobacterium, Fremyella Diplosiphon
(2017)Growing concerns over dwindling energy supplies linked to nonrenewable fossil fuels have driven profound interest in biofuels as a clean and sustainable alternative. Cyanobacteria are a promising source of third-generation ... -
Black Awareness And Social Unrest In The U.S. Virgin Islands: A Case Study Of Black Nationalism, 1968-1986
(2009)From 1968 to 1986, the influences of black nationalism--primarily self-determination in place of white hegemony--impacted the U.S. Virgin Islands politically, socially, and economically. This dissertation uses a black ... -
Black Entrepreneurship: Literature And Reality
(2008)This dissertation provides two major contributions to the entrepreneurship literature. First, it provides the first comprehensive survey of the papers published on black entrepreneurship that are contained in the literature. ... -
Black Leadership Strategies Of The Louisiana Deacons For Defense And The African Party For The Liberation Of Guinea Bissau And Cape Verde
(2012)This thesis is a comparative analysis of the leadership of The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) led by Amilcar Cabral (1956- 1973) and the Louisiana Deacons for Defense and Justice (DDJ) ... -
Black Male Pespectives On The Implications Of Zero Tolerance Policies: A School-To-Prison Pipeline?
(2013)This study examines the lived experiences of African American male students who have attended schools that implement zero tolerance policies as a disciplinary strategy and how these lived experiences have shaped their ...