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Permanent Exile, Permanent Fear? Gender-Based Violence In Refugee Camps, Rosalie Capps
Permanent Exile, Permanent Fear? Gender-Based Violence In Refugee Camps, Rosalie Capps
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis explores the structure and maintenance policies of camps as forces driving gender-based violence. People in camps find themselves in a state of utter dependence on UNHCR or whatever state or NGO actor is providing for them. This experience deprives individuals of their identity and creates and environment that exacerbates gender-based violence. In order to effectively address this issue, perceptions of camps must change. While they are often considered temporary reactions to exceptional situations, they are in fact part of a larger policy implemented by developed countries to confine displaced people from the developing world to their own regions. …
Food Security: At What Cost? Dietary And Behavioural Coping Strategies Of Low-Income Households In Cairo And Implications On Children’S Food Security, Radwa Saad
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This study explores the dietary and behavioural coping strategies employed by low-income households in urban poverty pockets of Greater Cairo in response to food price fluctuations. It investigates the impact of nutrition-related coping behaviours on the food security of households, focusing namely on children and youth. The study uses qualitative research in the form of in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and key informant interviews with mothers residing in one of the largest informal settlements of Cairo, to arrive at an in-depth analysis of the problem. The research reveals that low-income households employ poor coping strategies in response to high food …
Makings Of Imagination In Alternative Cultural Spaces In Cairo, Mariz Kelada
Makings Of Imagination In Alternative Cultural Spaces In Cairo, Mariz Kelada
Theses and Dissertations
To speak of space as a concept, how it is produced, de/reconstructed, and imagined is a process that involves multiplicities of understanding about the makings that take place. My concern is in this research is exploring the dynamic relationships that take place between cultural spaces in Cairo, the subjectivities of their participants and the possibilities that might be offered through these relations for a different social imagination that could be manifested in the details of their everydayness. The main question of my thesis is; In which ways and conditions can some of the contemporary cultural spaces in Cairo situate their …
Head Or Foot, Right Or Left: Analyzing The Positions Of Isis And Nephthys On Coffins And Sarcophagi From The Old Kingdom (2663-2160 Bc) Through Ptolemaic-Roman Periods (332bc-395 Ad), Kenaya Camacho
Theses and Dissertations
Isis and Nephthys, two iconic sister goddesses of ancient Egypt are well known for their presence in funerary scenes. In representations of the goddesses as a pair on coffins and sarcophagi dating from the Old Kingdom through the Ptolemaic-Roman Period, there is an alternating dominance between which goddess is placed on the headboard and footboard as well as who is placed on right and left proper of vignettes on these objects. This dissertation will examine what influences the positioning, dominance and orientation of Isis and Nephthys, on coffins and sarcophagi to determine how these positions affect our knowledge of female …
Feeling Images: Subjectivities And Affective Experience In The Egyptian Revolution, Brice Woodcock
Feeling Images: Subjectivities And Affective Experience In The Egyptian Revolution, Brice Woodcock
Theses and Dissertations
During the Egyptian Revolution, beginning in 2011 and continuing throughout this project,, images were used to garner support for or against various movements. When viewers disagreed with the version of events suggested by the images, these viewers remained unmoved by them even if the image depicted violence or death. In order to understand how this is possible, this work undertakes a study of the intimate relationship between affect and the viewer's point-of view, also known as their “subjectivity" in the context of images from the Egyptian Revolution. The participants of this project were not passive observers, but rather almost instantaneously …
Language Attitudes In An Egyptian Discourse Community, Emily Reigh
Language Attitudes In An Egyptian Discourse Community, Emily Reigh
Theses and Dissertations
This study investigates language attitudes in an elite university in Egypt, addressing all codes spoken in the community: Fusha (Classical Arabic/Modern Standard Arabic), Egyptian Arabic, English and Egyptian Arabic-English code-switching. Some attitudinal research in the region has been conducted (e.g. Bentahila, 1983; Chakrani, 2011; Lawson & Sachdev, 2000), though most neglects to position the discourse community in larger society and uses limited methodological approaches. In this study, attitudes are interpreted with attention to prevailing language ideologies, including the notion of a standard language, tension between modernity and tradition and language as symbolic capitol. Overt and covert attitudes in terms of …
Transcriptomics Of Iron Limitation In Phaeocystis Antarctica, Mariam Reyad Rizkallah Issak
Transcriptomics Of Iron Limitation In Phaeocystis Antarctica, Mariam Reyad Rizkallah Issak
Theses and Dissertations
Phytoplankton, the hidden trees of the ocean, are responsible for nearly half of global oxygen production. Phytoplankton growth and productivity in high-nitrate low-chlorophyll (HNLC) regions have been demonstrated to be limited by iron availability. One of the most important HNLC regions is the Southern Ocean, as it regulates Earth system climate due to its unique hydrography and consequently its phytoplankton assemblage drives the global carbon cycle. Iron fertilization experiments were conducted to understand the response of its photosynthetic assemblage to iron addition, and the nanoflagellate Phaeocystis antarctica has been reported the first to bloom. P. antarctica is ecologically important due …
Participation Of 414dddd417 And 432kpar435 In The Thermostability Of Mercuric Reductase Isolated From The Deep Brine Environment Of Atlantis Ii In The Red Sea, Ayman Eid
Theses and Dissertations
Mercuric reductase (MerA) is an essential enzyme for the survival of microorganisms that reside in environments containing mercuric compounds. The enzyme converts the extremely toxic mercuric ions (Hg2+) into the less toxic volatile elemental mercury form (Hg0). A novel MerA molecule that has undergone multiple evolutionary adaptations to allow its host to cope with the harsh multiple abiotic stressors of the lower convective layer (LCL) of the Atlantis II (ATII) brine environment in the Red Sea has been recently characterized catalytically and structurally (JBC, 2014, 289,1675–1687). The brine pool at Atlantis II Deep covers an area of about 60 km2 …
The Impact Of Nutrition And Feeding Time On The Regulation Of Gene Expression In The Central Circadian Clock Of Drsosophila Melanogaster, Arwa Diab
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The circadian clock plays an essential role in most organisms by allowing their adaptation to the daily environmental changes mainly light/dark cycles and also temperature. Circadian rhythms persist in constant conditions indicating an auto regulatory molecular circadian clock. Here, we investigated the possibility that the circadian clock of Drosophila can also be entrained by scheduled feeding. Cycles of 12 hours feeding and 12 hours starvation could entrain the molecular circadian oscillation in key pacemaker neurons of Drosophila. Clock proteins CLOCK (CLK) and PERIOD (PER) showed a 24 hour oscillation in the small and large ventral lateral neurons after entrainment by …
Herding Behavior In The Egyptian Stock Market, Noha Allam
Herding Behavior In The Egyptian Stock Market, Noha Allam
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This paper tests for the existence of herding behavior in the Egyptian stock market using daily and monthly data of listed companies on the Egyptian stock Exchange. We follow the methodology of Christie and Huang (1995) and Chang, Cheng, and Khorana (2000) to test for the presence of herding behavior in general, during up and down times (times of stress in the market), and during bearish and bullish market phases. We also split the sample into pre-revolution and post-revolution periods to test the effect of 25th January, 2011 revolution on herding behavior in the market. We found that: first, the …
Amethyst, Apotropaia, And The Eye Of Re, Laurel Hackley
Amethyst, Apotropaia, And The Eye Of Re, Laurel Hackley
Theses and Dissertations
Two specific aspects of Middle Kingdom Egyptian apotropaia, amethyst amulets and inscribed ivory wands, are connected by their religious, magical, and mythological connotations. The shared significance of these objects is made clear by iconographic similarities and textual references. The wands in particular are shown to represent a particular mythological moment, the return of the Solar Eye of Re to Egypt. Both amethyst objects and ivory wands reference this important mythological event in ways that illustrate the multi-level importance of the myth in the cultural landscape of the Middle Kingdom Egyptians.  
Mariko Mori's Sartorial Transcendence: Fashioned Identities, Denied Bodies, And Healing, 1993-2001, Jacqueline Rose Hibner
Mariko Mori's Sartorial Transcendence: Fashioned Identities, Denied Bodies, And Healing, 1993-2001, Jacqueline Rose Hibner
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is an examination of contemporary artist Mariko Mori's use of fashion in her work from 1993 to 2001. Contained within her sartorial phrasing is an involved relationship with the body, female and Japanese, as it exists within technological modernity. Tumult characterizes Mori's body as she images it early on in her career. This highly alienating space in which she positions herself gradually transitions to a space of respite for the performative body of another actor by 2001's Wave UFO. Wave UFO creates a mediated space for healing the modern body plagued with isolation through transcendence provided by technological …
America's Heroes And Darlings: The Media Portrayal Of Male And Female Athletes During The 2014 Sochi Games, Matthew K. Curtis
America's Heroes And Darlings: The Media Portrayal Of Male And Female Athletes During The 2014 Sochi Games, Matthew K. Curtis
Theses and Dissertations
It has been well documented that female athletes receive much less media attention than male athletes, with estimates placing coverage of male athletes at 95% of all sport-related media (Coakley, 1986). While not to that extent, studies focusing on media portrayals of Olympic athletes also confirm that the media dedicates the majority of coverage to male athletes (Duncan, 1990; Duncan & Hasbrook, 1988; Hambrick, Simmons, Greenhalgh, & Greenwell, 2010; Higgs, Weiller, & Martin, 2003; Lee, 1992; Kinnick, 1998; Pfister, 1978). Some evidence suggests that media coverage of female athletes and the recognition of their achievements are slowly increasing (Higgs et …
Roles Of Seed Dispersal And Environmental Filters In Establishment Of The Dominant Shrubs: Morella Cerifera And M. Pensylvanica, On An Atlantic Barrier Island, Benjamin Dows
Theses and Dissertations
Patterns of the expansion of woody cover into grasslands on barrier islands of the Virginia coast were investigated. Seed dispersal of the dominant shrub Morella spp., was sampled deploying seed traps (n = 82) throughout a landscape under shrub encroachment pressure on Hog Island, VA. Traps were placed underneath: fruiting Morella, non-fruiting Morella, co-occurring species (Iva frutescens and Baccharis halimifolia) and in grass land, (no shrub cover). Environmental filters that act upon dispersed seeds and subsequently determine establishment patterns were also investigated. Dispersal distribution throughout the encroachment zone was leptokurtic and dispersal among cover types suggest co-occurring shrub species facilitate …
(Untitled), Christine Navin
(Untitled), Christine Navin
Theses and Dissertations
For millennia humanity’s preoccupation with time and its own mortality has proven to be elemental in what makes a civilization tick. This concern has been a focal point of philosophy, science, and religion. The measuring system of time asserts itself daily through the Danse Macabre, daily motions and memento mori — the things at every corner of civilization.
Development Of The Tocoflexols: A New Kind Of Tocotrienol Analogues With Enhanced Bioavailability, Awantika Singh
Development Of The Tocoflexols: A New Kind Of Tocotrienol Analogues With Enhanced Bioavailability, Awantika Singh
Theses and Dissertations
Vitamin E is composed of two series of closely related compounds, tocopherols and tocotrienols, which show a widely varying degree of biological effectiveness. In recent years, the tocotrienols have gained considerable attention because of their beneficial effects in areas such as cholesterol reduction, neuroprotection, radiation protection and cancer treatment and prevention. Unfortunately, the potential of the tocotrienols has been hampered because their short circulation half-life that limits their bioavailability. The short circulation half-life of the tocotrienols is related to their low affinity for the &alpha,-tocopherol transfer protein, the protein responsible for maintaining the plasma level of the vitamin E. Tocotrienols …
"It's Always Been Home To Me": Obligation And Sacrifice On The World War Home Front In Arkansas, Eric Robert Mills
"It's Always Been Home To Me": Obligation And Sacrifice On The World War Home Front In Arkansas, Eric Robert Mills
Theses and Dissertations
This paper examines the ideology of obligation on the American home front in Central Arkansas during World War I and the World War II national defense period from November 1940--February 1941. Fundamental to the research is historian Robert Westbrook's contention that America, as a liberal democracy, relied on alternate means to encourage the discharge of obligations and commitments during the Second World War. The state appealed to private responsibilities, such as the family, in order to promote service when unable to rely upon the thicker sense of citizenship emblematic of republican ideology. In order to test Westbrook's theories of obligation, …
Assignment Design: Developing Writing Projects Using Open Access Www Tools To Increase Student Engagement And Learning, Joshua R. Johnson
Assignment Design: Developing Writing Projects Using Open Access Www Tools To Increase Student Engagement And Learning, Joshua R. Johnson
Theses and Dissertations
Assignment Design: Developing Writing Projects using Open Access WWW Tools to Increase Student Engagement and Learning is a thesis that began with the research question of how can first-year composition instructors use free online tech tools to create effective writing assignments, which are based on and assessed using the Writing Program Administrators' Outcome Statements (WPA OS)(1999)? To answer the question, I researched pairing effective educational technology tools with the WPA OS, in order to engage student writers and enhance learning. I developed three writing projects, included as appendices, incorporating technology tools as scaffolding tasks and containing multiple writing genres. The …
The Abstraction Of Toys, Dan Ruben Thornhill
The Abstraction Of Toys, Dan Ruben Thornhill
Theses and Dissertations
painting style. The toys depicted in the paintings were used at on time by my two grandchildren, Kaylee Smith and Brennan Thornhill, and serve as inspiration for this body of work. These compositions are based on direct observations of the toys used in this series, and relate to abstraction as defined in this thesis as simplification, distortion, exaggeration, invention, and erasure. The works that date later in the series fall under this definition. My work draws heavily upon Pablo Picasso and is influenced by his use of abstraction. The series tries to capture the essence of the toys and evoke …
Localization And Functional Analysis Of Dictyostelium Discoideum Gtpases, Rabs And Rab2, Katherine V. Maringer
Localization And Functional Analysis Of Dictyostelium Discoideum Gtpases, Rabs And Rab2, Katherine V. Maringer
Theses and Dissertations
Dictyostelium discoideum is a simple eukaryotic amoeba that has proven useful in studying various aspects of endosomal and lysosomal membrane trafficking, as well as development. The Rab family of small molecular weight GTPases has been implemented in several cellular processes to include various vesicle trafficking roles, cell-cell signaling, and development. This study focuses on the localization and function of two Dictyostelium GTPases, RabS, and Rab2 which we hypothesized to both localize to the Golgi, and the contractile vacuole system. Expression of GFP-tagged DdRab2, and DdRabS proteins revealed similar localization to ER-Golgi membranes as well as the contractile vacuole system. Microscopic …
Geophysical Applications For Levee Assessment, Hussein Khalefa Chlaib
Geophysical Applications For Levee Assessment, Hussein Khalefa Chlaib
Theses and Dissertations
Levees are important engineering structures that build along the rivers to protect the human lives and shield the communities as well as agriculture lands from the high water level events. Animal burrows, subsurface cavities, and low density (high permeability) zones are weakness features within the levee body that increase its risk of failure. To prevent such failure, continuous monitoring of the structure integrity and early detection of the weakness features must be conducted. Application of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Capacitively Coupled Resistivity (CCR) methods were found to be very effective in assessing the levees and detect zones of weakness …
Microwave Assisted Synthesis And Characterization Of Selected Heteroatom Doped Carbons From Tannin For Alkaline Fuel Cell Applications & Ammonia Gas Sensors From Tanninsulfonic Acid Doped Polyaniline - Tio2/Al2o3 Composites, Venu Gopal Bairi
Theses and Dissertations
An alternative for depleting fossil fuel resources would be the development of fuel cells, batteries and solar cells. The current project aims at development of the cathode electrode material for alkaline fuel cells which is utilized for the reduction of oxygen to water. A simple, highly efficient, and rapid microwave method for the synthesis of doped carbons from different precursor sources like tannin, aminated tannin and tannin-melamine-hexamine has been developed. Different dopants include phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and silicon. The method uses no inert or reducing gas during the transformation. Yields resulting from this particular technique are as high as …
Identification And Estimation Of Concentration Of Metal Bearing Minerals In Lunar Soil Using Ground Penetrating Radar, Mehmet Mert Su
Identification And Estimation Of Concentration Of Metal Bearing Minerals In Lunar Soil Using Ground Penetrating Radar, Mehmet Mert Su
Theses and Dissertations
NASA's plan to build a base on the Moon necessitates employing a vital lunar resource to support life on the Moon due to the high cost of transportation and logistics. Ilmenite is believed to be one of the best performing minerals to serve the need. In order to detect Ilmenite within lunar regolith, a robust and a non-invasive technique is required. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is advanced electromagnetic (EM) probing equipment that facilitates high frequency pulses to image subsurface. Due to its significant metal content, Ilmenite has prominent reflection characteristics to the EM waves. The EM waves transmitted from an …
Characterization Of Secondhand Smoke (Shs) And Materno-Fetal Interactions In Receptors For Advanced Glycation End-Products (Rage)-Targeted Mice, Duane Ray Winden
Characterization Of Secondhand Smoke (Shs) And Materno-Fetal Interactions In Receptors For Advanced Glycation End-Products (Rage)-Targeted Mice, Duane Ray Winden
Theses and Dissertations
Receptors for advanced glycation end-products (RAGE) are pattern recognition receptors of the immunoglobulin superfamily highly expressed in the lung. Likely functions include the modulation of pulmonary inflammation during disease. However, the contributions of RAGE in the developing lung in cases where secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure occurs are unknown. In order to test the hypothesis that RAGE misexpression adversely affects lung morphogenesis, we exposed gestating dams to a controlled dose of SHS during the last four critical days of in utero lung morphogenesis. We discovered that both maternal and fetal lungs respond to SHS by up-regulating RAGE. Exposed fetuses were markedly …
Ultra-Wideband Microwave Ablation Applicators, Mustafa Asili
Ultra-Wideband Microwave Ablation Applicators, Mustafa Asili
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The increasing demand for efficient cancer treatment inspired the researchers for new investigations about an alternative treatment of cancer. Microwave ablation is the newest ablation technique to cure cancer. This method is minimally noninvasive and inexpensive compared to the other methods. However, current microwave ablation systems suffer due to narrowband nature of the antenna (dipole or slot) placed at the tip of the probe. Therefore, this study developed an ultra-wideband ablation probe that operates from 300MHz to 10 GHz. For this purpose, a small wideband antenna is designed to place at the tip of the probe and fabricated. These probes …
The Role Of Otolin-1 In Cardiac Matrix Remodeling Following Myocardial Infarction, Courtney Anne Cates
The Role Of Otolin-1 In Cardiac Matrix Remodeling Following Myocardial Infarction, Courtney Anne Cates
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Otolin-1 is a collagenous, C1q domain-containing extracellular matrix protein that has been identified and characterized in the inner ear. Recently, mass spectrometry analysis of left ventricular cardiac tissue detected a peptide of Otolin-1. Experimental analysis confirms Otolin-1 is an insoluble protein present in the left ventricular extracellular matrix whose expression decreases dramatically post-myocardial infarction beginning at day 5 post-MI. The protein is localized to the gap junctions of cardiac myocytes, and depletion of protein levels in the infarcted region of the left ventricle shows strong association with ventricular dimensions, observed via echocardiography.
Effect Of Double Ovulation On Peripheral Concentrations Of Progesterone, Luteal Blood Perfusion And Hepatic Steroid Inactivating Enzymes, Benjamin Eugene Voelz
Effect Of Double Ovulation On Peripheral Concentrations Of Progesterone, Luteal Blood Perfusion And Hepatic Steroid Inactivating Enzymes, Benjamin Eugene Voelz
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Progesterone is essential for the maintenance of pregnancy in cattle. Recent trends in decreased reproductive efficiency in dairy cattle have led researchers to believe that increased catabolism and decreased peripheral concentrations of progesterone are at fault. The objective of this study was to determine if the induction of an accessory corpus luteum (CL), via human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), alters blood perfusion of CL, peripheral concentrations of progesterone, or hepatic steroid inactivating enzymes. We hypothesized that the induction of an accessory CL would decrease blood perfusion of the CL, decrease peripheral concentrations of progesterone, and increase clearance of progesterone in the …
Bahamian Quaternary Geology And The Global Carbon Budget, Erik Bond Larson
Bahamian Quaternary Geology And The Global Carbon Budget, Erik Bond Larson
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Sea-level change during the Quaternary has had significant impacts on the geology of the Bahamas and the global carbon budget. During periods of low sea-level position conduit caves form in the Bahamas as a function of their respective water budgets. These conduit caves can then collapse and if this collapse reaches the surface a progradational collapse blue hole can be made. Upon subsequent sea-level rise these blue holes can become sediment inilled. Tidal pumping through these sedimentilled blue holes can result in the formation of whitings. Whitings are formed when the tidally pushed water warms and degasses CO2, driving the …
Preliminary Investigation Of Cellular Lipid Extraction Using Electroporation As An Enhancement Technique, Robert Mccomas
Preliminary Investigation Of Cellular Lipid Extraction Using Electroporation As An Enhancement Technique, Robert Mccomas
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This study investigated the use of electroporation as an extraction method of lipids in oleaginous microorganisms. Electroporation is the process of placing a voltage gradient across a lipid membrane to create pores that vary in size and longevity with voltage magnitude and pulse duration. Once the voltage gradient is removed, the lipid membrane will seal the pore. The use of electroporation on oleaginous microorganisms to extract stored lipids could be a useful tool if the microorganism is allowed to regenerate and produce more lipids. Three high-lipid media were investigated: soybeans, Rhodococcus opacus (bacteria), and Rhodotorula glutinis (yeast). This study investigates …
A Multi-Compartment Model Of The Normal Menstrual Cycle: Integrating Hormonal, Ovarian, And Endometrial Elements, Victoria Lea Wolf
A Multi-Compartment Model Of The Normal Menstrual Cycle: Integrating Hormonal, Ovarian, And Endometrial Elements, Victoria Lea Wolf
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The uterine endometrium undergoes cyclical phases of cell proliferation, cell differentiation, and menstruation under the influence of the ovarian hormones, estrogen and progesterone. Since the data necessary to create a classical kinetic model of these signaling pathways is lacking, we used a Boolean network approach that includes the influences of various growth factors and the differential expression of their receptors under the influence of estrogen and progesterone. Results show a gain in endometrial tissue and loss of tissue during menstruation that mirrors what can be expected over the course of a normal menstrual cycle in women, where the endometrium typically …