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Political Polarization And Networking In The Modern Internet Campaign, Alan Michael Pate Jan 2009

Political Polarization And Networking In The Modern Internet Campaign, Alan Michael Pate

Honors Theses

For this study, the methods and techniques employed by internet campaign managers and major online interest groups from 1996 to 2008 were studied. Additionally, for the 60 days leading up to the 2008 presidential election, e-mail and online newsletter communication disseminated to supporters from the major presidential parties, candidates, and interest groups were tracked and analyzed. Since the 1996 presidential election, presidential candidates have increasingly used the internet to interact with supporters. This study examines the evolution of this relatively recent phenomenon and theorizes about its potential effects on democratic participation. Specifically, this paper argues that although the modem internet …

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Finding Humanity In Dystopia: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale And Oryx And Crake, Emily Thrash Peters Jan 2009

Finding Humanity In Dystopia: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale And Oryx And Crake, Emily Thrash Peters

Honors Theses

This thesis explores the relationship of humanity and literature in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake. Through personal narration, Offred tells the story of being a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian government in which language is forbidden. She struggles to remain human in a world that treats her as a reproductive machine. Offred’s experiences lead her to forbidden games with the Commander, an affair with the Commander’s guardian, and escape because of love and trust in a world void of emotion. In Oryx and Crake. Jimmy/Snowman thinks he is the last genuine human being …

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The Motivational Forces Behind China's Foreign Policy In Africa: A Historical Comparison Between The 1960s And Today, Tatiana Claire Sarasin Jan 2009

The Motivational Forces Behind China's Foreign Policy In Africa: A Historical Comparison Between The 1960s And Today, Tatiana Claire Sarasin

Honors Theses

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Guztien Gogora Egitea, Da Gauza Nekea, Pleasing Everyone Is Tiresome: A Theory Of How Domestic Policy Affects Foreign Policy, Ashton Mclean Seip Jan 2009

Guztien Gogora Egitea, Da Gauza Nekea, Pleasing Everyone Is Tiresome: A Theory Of How Domestic Policy Affects Foreign Policy, Ashton Mclean Seip

Honors Theses

The goal of this thesis is to provide an adequate answer to the question of how domestic politics affect foreign policy, specifically examining Spain’s refusal to recognize Kosovo as an independent nation because of the Basque independence movement within its own borders. By examining the various aspects of domestic politics, including the election of officials, as well as the historical context of the political situation in both Spain and Kosovo, the question is answered. Foreign policy decisions are made based on the process of domestic politics. Spain refused to acknowledge Kosovo’s independence for fear that the Basques might separate in …

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China's Role In The Darfur Crisis: An Inquiry Into Global Ethics, Katie Malone Swain Jan 2009

China's Role In The Darfur Crisis: An Inquiry Into Global Ethics, Katie Malone Swain

Honors Theses

As the rise of globalization allows for greater trade, communication, and information sharing than ever before, the way states interact with one another and the world as a whole is being redefined. The rapid economic development that has occurred globally in the last century has not necessarily been accompanied with improvements in human rights worldwide. Now more than ever, there is a need to consider a global code of ethics. Though the role of states in advancing and policing human rights has been explored in innumerable treaties, conventions and other documents, there is currently no clearly defined standard of conduct …

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Change In The European Court Of Human Rights: Accession Of Eastern And Central European Member States, Rachel Morgan West Jan 2009

Change In The European Court Of Human Rights: Accession Of Eastern And Central European Member States, Rachel Morgan West

Honors Theses

The research idea originated as a result of interest in Russian human rights which then expanded to include all of Eastern and Central Europe. This work seeks to explore the effects of the Council of Europe’s (COE) Eastern and Central European member states on the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR or the “Court”). The in-depth publishings of ECHR itself provided the greatest source of information for this work. Part I provides a brief history of the ECHR up to 1989 when expansion to Eastern and Central European states first became possible. Parts II, III, and IV focus on three …

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Evidence For High Bi-Allelic Expression Of Activating Ly49 Receptors, Arefeh Rouhi, C. B. Lai, Tammy P. Cheng, Fumio Takei, Wayne M. Yokoyama, Dixie L. Mager Jan 2009

Evidence For High Bi-Allelic Expression Of Activating Ly49 Receptors, Arefeh Rouhi, C. B. Lai, Tammy P. Cheng, Fumio Takei, Wayne M. Yokoyama, Dixie L. Mager

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Nematode.Net Update 2008: Improvements Enabling More Efficient Data Mining And Comparative Nematode Genomics, John Martin, Sahar Abubucker, Todd Wylie, Yong Yin, Zhengyuan Wang, Makedonka Mitreva Jan 2009

Nematode.Net Update 2008: Improvements Enabling More Efficient Data Mining And Comparative Nematode Genomics, John Martin, Sahar Abubucker, Todd Wylie, Yong Yin, Zhengyuan Wang, Makedonka Mitreva

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The Osmolytic Effect And Its Action On Topoisomerase-I, Matthew Paul Dukes Jan 2009

The Osmolytic Effect And Its Action On Topoisomerase-I, Matthew Paul Dukes

Honors Theses

While the presence of water within biological systems is acknowledged to be of utmost importance, its specific role at the molecular level within these systems has only recently been studied carefully. Of particular interest are the effects of water on the interactions that occur between topoisomerase-I and DNA. Topoisomerase-I relaxes supercoiled DNA, a process critical for cellular processes such as transcription and replication. Relaxation occurs when the enzyme breaks one strand of the double-stranded DNA, rotates a broken end around the intact strand, and rejoins the two broken ends. consequently changing the linking number of the supercoiled DNA by an …

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Connections, Aynslee Elizabeth Moon Jan 2009

Connections, Aynslee Elizabeth Moon

Honors Theses

I am a painter and my thesis work talks about connecting to people through a shared experience. I spent Christmas break and spring semester as a traveling painter, putting all my brushes, paints, mediums, boards and my travel easel in my car. I sought to find the quiet, simple moments in people’s lives and put them on a surface. By sharing these simple moments with people I found a connection in painting from life that I cannot find when painting from a photograph. As I continued painting and writing I began to think about modem technology and how it has …

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Hadwiger's Conjecture Applied To Mycielski And Kneser Graphs, Anne Marie Nicholas Jan 2009

Hadwiger's Conjecture Applied To Mycielski And Kneser Graphs, Anne Marie Nicholas

Honors Theses

Graph theory is the study of graphs that represent a specific relation between pairs of objects from a collection. The objects are represented by vertices that are connected by edges defining the existence of such relation ship. A crucial result in graph theory, the Four Color Theorem, was first proposed in 1852 by Francis Guthrie but was not proven until 1976 by Ken neth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. The Four Color Theorem says that any graph on a plane is four colorable. Then in 1943 Hugo Hadwiger presented generalization of the Four Color Theorem which is still an important and …

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An Exploration Of Factors Increasing Male Involvement In Couples' Hiv Testing In Malawi, Mary Margaret Peterson Jan 2009

An Exploration Of Factors Increasing Male Involvement In Couples' Hiv Testing In Malawi, Mary Margaret Peterson

Honors Theses

Each year HIV is responsible for approximately 75,000 deaths in Malawi and for creating 550,000 (75%) of Malawi's orphans (UNdata, 2006). UNAJDS and the World Healtli Organization recommend HIV testing as an important measure in preventing transmission to future sexual partners and children. However, only 20% of Malawians aged 15 years and above had ever participated in HIV testing (Machinjili, 2006, p.l3). Heterosexual contact is the primary' mode of HIV transmission and is responsible for 90% of Malawi’s HIV infections, making couples an important target for testing (Zanera & Miteka, 2004, p.l85). In Malawi, 93% of pregnant women receive antenatal …

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On Generalized Mersenne And Fermat Primes, Bette Catherine Putnam Jan 2009

On Generalized Mersenne And Fermat Primes, Bette Catherine Putnam

Honors Theses

The classical Merseniie and Fermat primes are, respectivel3^ primes of the form 2^' - 1 and 2^‘ + 1. The Mersenne primes have been studied since antiquity. It is known that if 2^ - 1 is prime then k is prime. As of September 2008, there are forty-six such primes known. Fermat primes, of the form 2^’ -h 1, seem to be more rare. It is known that if 2^' -I- 1 is prime, then k must be a power of 2. To date only 2“*^ -I- 1, 2^* -f 1, 2^^ -f-1, 2'^^ -t-1, and 2^^ -|-1 are known …

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Use Of Empirically Supported Interventions For Psychopathology: Can The Participatory Approach Move Us Beyond The Research-To-Practice Gap?, Carolyn Becker, E. Stice, H. Shaw, S. Woda Jan 2009

Use Of Empirically Supported Interventions For Psychopathology: Can The Participatory Approach Move Us Beyond The Research-To-Practice Gap?, Carolyn Becker, E. Stice, H. Shaw, S. Woda

Psychology Faculty Research

Dissemination, or distribution, of empirically-supported interventions (ESIs) for psychopathology remains a significant challenge. This paper reviews the principles of community-partnership research (CPR) and explores why CPR might improve distribution of psychological ESIs. Benefits of CPR include building trust, pooling resources and knowledge, and better serving a community by directly involving its members in the design and implementation of research. In addition, after establishing a community’s trust using CPR, researchers are likely to be better positioned to partner with communities in the further distribution of ESIs via community networks. This paper reviews the case of dissonance-based eating disorder prevention interventions to …

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Law Enforcement Preferences For Ptsd Treatment And Crisis Management Alternatives, Carolyn Becker, Glenn Meyer, J. S. Price, M. M. Graham, Ashley Arsena, D. A. Armstrong, Elizabeth Ramon Jan 2009

Law Enforcement Preferences For Ptsd Treatment And Crisis Management Alternatives, Carolyn Becker, Glenn Meyer, J. S. Price, M. M. Graham, Ashley Arsena, D. A. Armstrong, Elizabeth Ramon

Psychology Faculty Research

Evidence-based treatments (EBT) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remain underutilized. Analog research, however, indicates that patients may be more amenable to receiving EBT for PTSD than utilization rates suggest. This study sought to extend previous studies by investigating PTSD treatment preferences among law enforcement individuals (i.e., active duty officers, cadets, criminal justice students). We asked 379 participants, with varying trauma histories, to read a police traumatic event and imagine they had developed PTSD. Participants rated the credibility of six treatment options which they might encounter in a treatment setting, and chose their most and least preferred treatments. Next, they evaluated …

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Early Verb Learners: Creative Or Not?, Jane B. Childers Jan 2009

Early Verb Learners: Creative Or Not?, Jane B. Childers

Psychology Faculty Research

This monograph describes a longitudinal study of eight children's first verb uses including an analysis of the variety of words used in conjunction with 34 targeted verbs, the variety of utterances produced, and the patterns of developmental change in the first 10 uses of these verbs. These data are important because most diary studies have included very few children at a time and have not focused on the beginnings of verb learning. Thus, these results advance our understanding of an early stage of verb learning that has received relatively little attention.

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Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons React To Semaphorin 3a Application Through A Biphasic Response That Requires Multiple Myosin Ii Isoforms, Jacquelyn A. Brown, Robert B. Wysolmerski, Paul C. Bridgman Jan 2009

Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons React To Semaphorin 3a Application Through A Biphasic Response That Requires Multiple Myosin Ii Isoforms, Jacquelyn A. Brown, Robert B. Wysolmerski, Paul C. Bridgman

Open Access Publications

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Systematic Review Of The Role Of Sedation In Diagnostic Spinal Interventional Techniques, Howard S. Smith, Pradeep Chopra, Vikram B. Patel, Michael E. Frey, Rahul Rastogi Jan 2009

Systematic Review Of The Role Of Sedation In Diagnostic Spinal Interventional Techniques, Howard S. Smith, Pradeep Chopra, Vikram B. Patel, Michael E. Frey, Rahul Rastogi

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Greater Occipital Nerve Stimulation Via The Bion Microstimulator: Implantation Technique And Stimulation Parameters Clinical Trial: Nct00205894, Terrence L. Trentman, David M. Rosenfeld, Bert B. Vargas, Todd J. Schwedt, Richard S. Zimmerman, David W. Dodick Jan 2009

Greater Occipital Nerve Stimulation Via The Bion Microstimulator: Implantation Technique And Stimulation Parameters Clinical Trial: Nct00205894, Terrence L. Trentman, David M. Rosenfeld, Bert B. Vargas, Todd J. Schwedt, Richard S. Zimmerman, David W. Dodick

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Detection Of Newly Described Astrovirus Mlb1 In Stool Samples From Children, Stacy R. Finkbeiner, Binh-Minh Le, Lori R. Holtz, Gregory A. Storch, David Wang Jan 2009

Detection Of Newly Described Astrovirus Mlb1 In Stool Samples From Children, Stacy R. Finkbeiner, Binh-Minh Le, Lori R. Holtz, Gregory A. Storch, David Wang

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2009 - 92nd Annual Summit, "On The Mountain With God: Exodus Expedition, Abilene Christian University Jan 2009

2009 - 92nd Annual Summit, "On The Mountain With God: Exodus Expedition, Abilene Christian University

Lectureship and Summit Programs

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Islam’S Fourth Amendment: Search And Seizure In Islamic Doctrine And Muslim Practice, Sadiq Reza Jan 2009

Islam’S Fourth Amendment: Search And Seizure In Islamic Doctrine And Muslim Practice, Sadiq Reza

Faculty Scholarship

Modern scholars regularly assert that Islamic law contains privacy protections similar to those of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Two Quranic verses in particular - one that commands Muslims not to enter homes without permission, and one that commands them not to 'spy' - are held up, along with reports from the Traditions (Sunna) that repeat and embellish on these commands, as establishing rules that forbid warrantless searches and seizures by state actors and require the exclusion of evidence obtained in violation of these rules. This Article tests these assertions by: (1) presenting rules and doctrines Muslim jurists …

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The Place Of History And Philosophy In The Moral Reading Of The American Constitution, James E. Fleming Jan 2009

The Place Of History And Philosophy In The Moral Reading Of The American Constitution, James E. Fleming

Faculty Scholarship

Dworkin argues that commitment to interpretive fidelity requires that we recognize that the Constitution embodies abstract moral principles rather than laying down a particular historical conception, and that interpreting those principles requires fresh judgments of political theory about how they are best understood. This interpretive strategy — Dworkin's ‘moral reading’ of the Constitution — stands in opposition to the narrow originalists' claim that interpretive fidelity requires following the rules laid down by the framers of the Constitution. Some theorists have responded to the originalists by attempting to carve out an intermediate theory between narrow originalism and the moral reading. Dworkin …

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Foreword – Will Hpv Vaccines Prevent Cervical Cancers Among Poor Women Of Color?: Global Health Policy At The Intersection Of Human Rights And Intellectual Property Law, Kevin Outterson Jan 2009

Foreword – Will Hpv Vaccines Prevent Cervical Cancers Among Poor Women Of Color?: Global Health Policy At The Intersection Of Human Rights And Intellectual Property Law, Kevin Outterson

Faculty Scholarship

Cervical cancer is a disease of social inequality. Women with access to effective screening and treatment rarely die from cervical cancer. The burden of cervical cancer mortality falls most heavily among the poorer women of the world. Cervical cancer starkly illustrates global inequality across race, sex and class. Cervical cancer disproportionately kills poor women of color. The HPV vaccine is a triumph of science.

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Accounting For Productivity Growth When Technical Change Is Biased, James Bessen Jan 2009

Accounting For Productivity Growth When Technical Change Is Biased, James Bessen

Faculty Scholarship

Solow (1957) decomposed labor productivity growth into two components that are independent under Hicks neutrality: input growth and the residual, representing technical change. However, when technical change is Hicks biased, input growth is no longer independent of technical change, leading to ambiguous interpretation. Using Solow's model, I decompose output per worker into globally independent sources and show that technical bias directly contributes to labor productivity growth above what is captured in the Solow residual. This contribution is sometimes large, generating rates of total technical change that substantially exceed the Solow residual, prompting a reinterpretation of some well-known studies.

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Key Role Of T Cell Defects In Age-Related Vulnerability To West Nile Virus, James D. Brien, Jennifer L. Uhrlaub, Alec Hirsch, Clayton A. Wiley, Janko Nikolich-Zugich Jan 2009

Key Role Of T Cell Defects In Age-Related Vulnerability To West Nile Virus, James D. Brien, Jennifer L. Uhrlaub, Alec Hirsch, Clayton A. Wiley, Janko Nikolich-Zugich

Open Access Publications

West Nile virus (WNV) infection causes a life-threatening meningoencephalitis that becomes increasingly more prevalent over the age of 50 and is 40-50x more prevalent in people over the age of 70, compared with adults under the age of 40. In a mouse model of age-related vulnerability to WNV, we demonstrate that death correlates with increased viral titers in the brain and that this loss of virus control with age was the result of defects in the CD4 and CD8 T cell response against WNV. Specific age-related defects in T cell responses against dominant WNV epitopes were detected at the level …

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Trem-2 (Triggering Receptor Expressed On Myeloid Cells 2) Is A Phagocytic Receptor For Bacteria, Elsa-Noah N'Diaye, Catherine S. Branda, Steven S. Branda, Lisette Nevarez, Marco Colonna, Clifford Lowell, Jessica A. Hamerman, William E. Seaman Jan 2009

Trem-2 (Triggering Receptor Expressed On Myeloid Cells 2) Is A Phagocytic Receptor For Bacteria, Elsa-Noah N'Diaye, Catherine S. Branda, Steven S. Branda, Lisette Nevarez, Marco Colonna, Clifford Lowell, Jessica A. Hamerman, William E. Seaman

Open Access Publications

Phagocytosis, which is essential for the immune response to pathogens, is initiated by specific interactions between pathogens and cell surface receptors expressed by phagocytes. This study identifies triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM-2) and its signaling counterpart DAP12 as a molecular complex that promotes phagocytosis of bacteria. Expression of TREM-2-DAP12 enables nonphagocytic Chinese hamster ovary cells to internalize bacteria. This function depends on actin cytoskeleton dynamics and the activity of the small guanosine triphosphatases Rac and Cdc42. Internalization also requires src kinase activity and tyrosine phosphorylation. In bone marrow-derived macrophages, phagocytosis is decreased in the absence of DAP12 …

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Cdc42 Antagonizes Rho1 Activity At Adherens Junctions To Limit Epithelial Cell Apical Tension, Stephen J. Warner, Gregory D. Longmore Jan 2009

Cdc42 Antagonizes Rho1 Activity At Adherens Junctions To Limit Epithelial Cell Apical Tension, Stephen J. Warner, Gregory D. Longmore

Open Access Publications

In epithelia, cells are arranged in an orderly pattern with a defined orientation and shape. Cadherin containing apical adherens junctions (AJs) and the associated actomyosin cytoskeleton likely contribute to epithelial cell shape by providing apical tension. The Rho guanosine triphosphatases are well known regulators of cell junction formation, maintenance, and function. Specifically, Rho promotes actomyosin activity and cell contractility; however, what controls and localizes this Rho activity as epithelia remodel is unresolved. Using mosaic clonal analysis in the Drosophila melanogaster pupal eye, we find that Cdc42 is critical for limiting apical cell tension by antagonizing Rho activity at AJs. Cdc42 …

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Perceptions Of Nursing Students Regarding Patient Suffering, Molly Marie Shivers Jan 2009

Perceptions Of Nursing Students Regarding Patient Suffering, Molly Marie Shivers

Honors Theses

The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the experience of nursing students in situations involving the suffering of a patient. Through analysis of interviews of senior nursing students, six themes were gathered. The themes discovered were: Student nurses in the face of suffering, desire knowledge and support from faculty: allowing time for student interaction and sharing prior to and post experience is important; Student nurses in most cases have prior experiences with suffering that color the student nurse professional view of suffering; Student nurses stay busy in the face of suffering, feel helpless and without interventions, however, …

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Accounting For Negative Goodwill Arising From Business Combinations, Jere Matthews Sights Jan 2009

Accounting For Negative Goodwill Arising From Business Combinations, Jere Matthews Sights

Honors Theses

The purpose of this study is to determine both the long-term and short-term effects of negative goodwill- the result of acquiring a company for less than its fair valueupon the acquiring company in a business combination, researcher hypothesizes that while the new accounting standard of SFAS 141R will make acquiring companies more attractive to stakeholders in the year of acquisition, the long term effects of acquiring negative goodwill will be detrimental to the company's long-term success, as there has to be some reason that a company would be sold for less The than it is worth. The study takes into …

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