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Protecting The " House Beautiful" : Eco-Consciousness In The Victorian Novel, Margaret Kennedy Dec 2013

Protecting The " House Beautiful" : Eco-Consciousness In The Victorian Novel, Margaret Kennedy

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation discusses how literary writers of the Victorian age render toxicity and toxic behaviors visible in order to encourage reform, as well as offering models of healthy environmental engagement. This literary trend reveals what I call a rising eco-consciousness, the awareness of our relationship to the environment and the exchanges between human and nonhuman. This project emphasizes the novel, which offers a rich ground of inquiry by looking at a set of characters interacting with a space over time; in other words, it focuses on how authors mapped a complete ecology into their fiction, participating in a genre that …

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The Significance Of Famously Queer Writers In The Book Of Salt And The Hours, Caitlin Nelson Dec 2013

The Significance Of Famously Queer Writers In The Book Of Salt And The Hours, Caitlin Nelson

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Monique Truong's The Book of Salt and Michael Cunningham's The Hours include fictional portrayals of famous writers who interact with similarly queer protagonists. These writers, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Virginia Woolf, are significant because of their reputations as iconic queer figures. Stein and Toklas are remembered as a progressive lesbian couple; Woolf is celebrated as an influential feminist writer. While initially it would seem that the protagonists and the writers could unite based on a shared queer identity, the novels imply that the hierarchies that are prevalent in these queer communities prevent the characters from becoming allies. Such …

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Milton's Ideal Orator: God And Ethical Eloquence In Paradise Lost, Libby Newhouse Dec 2013

Milton's Ideal Orator: God And Ethical Eloquence In Paradise Lost, Libby Newhouse

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Modern criticism on John Milton's Paradise Lost has figured the poem as anti-rhetorical in its depictions of God, Satan, and their respective speaking styles. Such critiques, however, reveal a disregard for the rhetorical tradition and Milton's self-proclaimed humanism, and as a result reduce Milton's conception of rhetoric to a rejection of the art form. With an overview of humanist and Renaissance Christian understandings of rhetoric, this paper argues for a reconsideration of the poem's treatment of rhetoric. This paper demonstrates how Milton's depiction of the speech of God and Satan presents the reader with examples of ideal and corrupted eloquence …

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Bilingual Cognitive Control And Perspective-Monitoring In Dialogue, Karla Maria Batres Dec 2013

Bilingual Cognitive Control And Perspective-Monitoring In Dialogue, Karla Maria Batres

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The bilingual experience is fundamentally different from the monolingual experience. This is due in part to the bilingual's need to be ready to process multiple languages, while at the same time, needing to choose which language to speak while keeping in mind which language(s) the addressee understands. As a result of these demands on bilingual language comprehension and production, some have claimed that bilinguals have enhanced cognitive control when compared to monolinguals (e.g. | Bialystok, 2009). Bilinguals may have more experience in adapting to a partner's perspective (as advantage in perspective-taking has been established for bilingual children, e.g. | Goetz, …

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The Peculiarities And Distinctions Of (Puerto Rican) Spanish In New York, Nicholas James Figueroa Dec 2013

The Peculiarities And Distinctions Of (Puerto Rican) Spanish In New York, Nicholas James Figueroa

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The purpose of this study is to investigate and compile a better understanding of the peculiarities and distinctions of the current Puerto Rican dialect of the Spanish Language, spoken particularly in selective neighborhoods within the boroughs of New York State. The main focus of this research thesis will be a historical overview of the characteristics of the Puerto Rican dialect from how it began to form to its transpiration to its current level, elaborating on a better understanding of the context. Within an intensive dissection and study of the dialect, I will focus on the phonological, morphological, lexical and other …

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Eikonal Scattering At Strong Coupling, Melvin Eloy Irizarry-Gelpi Dec 2013

Eikonal Scattering At Strong Coupling, Melvin Eloy Irizarry-Gelpi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The scattering of subatomic particles is a source of important physical phenomena. Decades of work have yielded many techniques for the computation of scattering amplitudes. Most of these techniques involve perturbative quantum field theory and thus apply only at weak coupling. Complementary to scattering is the formation of bound states, which are intrinsically nonperturbative. Regge theory arose in the late 1950s as an attempt to describe, with a single framework, both scattering and the formation of bound states. In Regge theory one obtains an amplitude with bound state poles after analytic continuation of a nonperturbative scattering amplitude, corresponding to a …

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Uncovering The Structure Of (Super)Conformal Field Theories, Pedro Liendo Dec 2013

Uncovering The Structure Of (Super)Conformal Field Theories, Pedro Liendo

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Conformal field theories (CFTs) are of central importance in modern theoretical physics, with applications that range from condensed matter physics to particle theory phenomenology. In this Ph.D. thesis we study CFTs from two somehow orthogonal (but complementary) points of view. In the first approach we concentrate our efforts in two specific examples: the Veneziano limit of N=2 and N=1 superconformal QCD. The addition of supersymmetry makes these theories amenable to analytical analysis. In particular, we use the correspondence between single trace operators and states of a spin chain to study the integrability properties of each theory. Our results indicate that …

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Translational Symmetry Breaking In Materials: First-Principles Wannier Function Study, Chia-Hui Lin Dec 2013

Translational Symmetry Breaking In Materials: First-Principles Wannier Function Study, Chia-Hui Lin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The spatial periodicity of the crystal structure dictates the electronic band structure theory as the fundamental paradigm in solid state physics. The original translation in materials is commonly broken with an enlarged unit cell required by spontaneously developed long-range order or multiple competing periodicities. The former happens in the systems undergoing the phase transition to antiferromagnetism, charge/spin density waves or lattice distortion. The latter originates from the intrinsic arrangement of the multiple atom system or the externally introduced impurities. The emergence of the broken symmetry can significantly modify the electronic structure, shift the chemical potential, and change the electric, magnetic …

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Measurement Of The Azimuthal Anisotropy For Charged Particle Production In Pb+Pb Collisions At $Sqrt{S_{Rm Nn}}$=2.76~Tev And In $P$+Pb Collisions At $Sqrt{S_{Rm Nn}}$=5.02~Tev With The Atlas Detector At The Lhc, Soumya Mohapatra Dec 2013

Measurement Of The Azimuthal Anisotropy For Charged Particle Production In Pb+Pb Collisions At $Sqrt{S_{Rm Nn}}$=2.76~Tev And In $P$+Pb Collisions At $Sqrt{S_{Rm Nn}}$=5.02~Tev With The Atlas Detector At The Lhc, Soumya Mohapatra

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In this work, detailed measurements of the $p_T$, $eta$ and centrality dependence of the flow harmonics $v_{n}$ in Pb+Pb collisions at $sqrt{s_{rm NN}}=2.76$~TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. Consistent values of harmonics $v_{2}$-$v_{6}$ are measured the via event-plane and two-particle correlation methods. Dipolar flow $v_{1}$ associated with initial dipole asymmetry is measured via two-particle correlations. The long-range correlations in the two-particle correlations such as $ridge$ and the $cone$ are shown to be accounted for by collective flow. Sizable values of the odd harmonics especially $v_{3}$ are measured that indicate significant event-by-event (EbyE) fluctuations in the initial …

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Holographic Pomeron, Alexander Stoffers Dec 2013

Holographic Pomeron, Alexander Stoffers

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This thesis discusses the approach to hadronic scattering at high energies and the description of the pomeron within holographic QCD. Based on a stringy Schwinger mechanism in curved space, the pomeron emerges through the exchange of closed strings between two dipoles and yields Regge behavior for the elastic scattering amplitude. Our holographic result for the dipole-dipole cross section and the wee-dipole density in the conformal limit are shown to be identical in form to the BFKL pomeron result when the non-critical string transverse dimension is $D_\perp=3$. Thus, we have obtained an evolution for the wee-dipole density as a function of …

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Behavioral Polarization And Partisan Sorting: How Identity Alignment Drives Polarized Politics, Lilliana Hall Mason Dec 2013

Behavioral Polarization And Partisan Sorting: How Identity Alignment Drives Polarized Politics, Lilliana Hall Mason

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Partisan sorting is capable of driving mass political behavior. As work in social psychology demonstrates, social identities such as party, ideology, religion and race are powerful motivators of bias, activism and anger. Furthermore, when multiple social identities come into alignment, this alignment strengthens the effects of these identities on behavior, and strengthens the cognitive and motivational bases of ingroup bias and negative emotion by increasing the perceived differences between the groups, regardless of the true differences between them. Thus the effect of political identities and the alignment between them can occur independently of the extremity or importance of an individual's …

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" Don't Mask It, Fix It" : Distinguishing Characteristics Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine Patients With Chronic Pain And Their Pathways Toward Pain Resolution, Misty Amadona Curreli Dec 2013

" Don't Mask It, Fix It" : Distinguishing Characteristics Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine Patients With Chronic Pain And Their Pathways Toward Pain Resolution, Misty Amadona Curreli

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The sociological literature on pain and the body largely emphasizes the social and cultural dynamics of suffering. Within this realm, the medical institution is often paramount in regulating how pain is understood and the responses that are appropriate in managing pain. Less is known about other forms of healthcare that treat pain, namely Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). While most research explains the overall " who" of the population of CAM users, few studies address the " why" and the overall effects of using a nonconventional system of medicine. This research is aimed at discerning health beliefs and behaviors that …

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Multi-Dimensional Workload Analysis And Synthesis For Modern Storage Systems, Vasily Tarasov Dec 2013

Multi-Dimensional Workload Analysis And Synthesis For Modern Storage Systems, Vasily Tarasov

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Modern computer systems produce and process an overwhelming amount of data at an increasing rates. The performance of storage hardware components, however, cannot keep up with the required speed at a practical cost. To mitigate this discrepancy, storage vendors incorporate many workload-driven optimizations in their products. Emerging applications cause workload patterns to change rapidly and significantly. One of the prominent examples is a rapid shift towards virtualized environments. Virtual machines mix I/O streams from different applications and perturb applications' access patterns. In addition, modern users demand more convenience features, such as deduplication, snapshotting, and encryption. Stringent performance requirements, changing I/O …

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Jury Jokes And Legal Culture, Valerie P. Hans Dec 2013

Jury Jokes And Legal Culture, Valerie P. Hans

DePaul Law Review

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A Good Name: Applying Regulatory Takings Analysis To Reputation Damage Caused By Criminal History, Jamila Jefferson-Jones Dec 2013

A Good Name: Applying Regulatory Takings Analysis To Reputation Damage Caused By Criminal History, Jamila Jefferson-Jones

West Virginia Law Review

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At What Is The Supreme Court Comparatively Advantaged?, R. George Wright Dec 2013

At What Is The Supreme Court Comparatively Advantaged?, R. George Wright

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Paradoxes Of Restitution, Mark A. Edwards Dec 2013

The Paradoxes Of Restitution, Mark A. Edwards

West Virginia Law Review

Restitution following mass dispossession is often considered both ideal and impossible. Why? This Article identifies two previously unnamed paradoxes that undermine the possibility of restitution: the time-unworthiness paradox and the collective responsibility paradox. After developing these ideas, the Article examines them in the context of a particularly difficult and intractable case of dispossession and restitution. The Article draws upon interviews with restitution claimants whose stories reveal the paradoxes of restitution.

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Aiding The Enemy Or Promoting Democracy? Defining The Rights Of Journalists And Whistleblowers To Disclose National Security Information, Candice M. Kines Dec 2013

Aiding The Enemy Or Promoting Democracy? Defining The Rights Of Journalists And Whistleblowers To Disclose National Security Information, Candice M. Kines

West Virginia Law Review

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The Wrong Kind Of Innocence: Why United States V. Begay Warrants The Extension Of "Actual Innocence" To Exclude Erroneous, Non-Capital Sentences, Greg Siepel Dec 2013

The Wrong Kind Of Innocence: Why United States V. Begay Warrants The Extension Of "Actual Innocence" To Exclude Erroneous, Non-Capital Sentences, Greg Siepel

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Racial Differences In Human Platelet Par4 Reactivity Reflect Expression Of Pctp And Mir-376c., Leonard Edelstein, Lukas M Simon, Raúl Teruel Montoya, Michael Holinstat, Edward S Chen, Angela Bergeron, Xianguo Kong, Srikanth Nagalla, Narla Mohandas, David E Cohen, Jing-Fei Dong, Chad Shaw, Paul Bray Dec 2013

Racial Differences In Human Platelet Par4 Reactivity Reflect Expression Of Pctp And Mir-376c., Leonard Edelstein, Lukas M Simon, Raúl Teruel Montoya, Michael Holinstat, Edward S Chen, Angela Bergeron, Xianguo Kong, Srikanth Nagalla, Narla Mohandas, David E Cohen, Jing-Fei Dong, Chad Shaw, Paul Bray

Cardeza Foundation for Hematologic Research

Racial differences in the pathophysiology of atherothrombosis are poorly understood. We explored the function and transcriptome of platelets in healthy black (n = 70) and white (n = 84) subjects. Platelet aggregation and calcium mobilization induced by the PAR4 thrombin receptor were significantly greater in black subjects. Numerous differentially expressed RNAs were associated with both race and PAR4 reactivity, including PCTP (encoding phosphatidylcholine transfer protein), and platelets from black subjects expressed higher levels of PC-TP protein. PC-TP inhibition or depletion blocked PAR4- but not PAR1-mediated activation of platelets and megakaryocytic cell lines. miR-376c levels were differentially expressed by race and …

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Granite State College, University System Of New Hampshire 2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog, Granite State College Dec 2013

Granite State College, University System Of New Hampshire 2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog, Granite State College

Granite State College Catalogs

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Does Criminal Diversion Contribute To The Vanishing Civil Trial, John B. Meixner, Shari Seidman Diamond Dec 2013

Does Criminal Diversion Contribute To The Vanishing Civil Trial, John B. Meixner, Shari Seidman Diamond

DePaul Law Review

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Constructing The Rod Bipolar Cell Signalplex Using Animal Models Of Retinal Dysfunction., Thomas Andrew Ray 1986- Dec 2013

Constructing The Rod Bipolar Cell Signalplex Using Animal Models Of Retinal Dysfunction., Thomas Andrew Ray 1986-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Glutamate mediated neurotransmission from the rod photoreceptors to rod bipolar cells is critical for vision under low light levels. Disruption of this pathway results in the blinding disorder Congenital Stationary Night Blindness (CSNB), which is hallmarked by the inability to see under dim light. Mouse models of CSNB have been critical to identifying proteins required for glutamate signaling and understanding the mechanism of signaling. Currently, our understanding of rod bipolar signaling is incompletely understood because not all of the protein components of the signalplex have been identified. It was known that the glutamate receptor mGluR6 is coupled to the TRPM1 …

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The Impact Of Kindergarten Teachers' Theoretical Orientation To Reading On Curricular Planning And Classroom Practice In Literacy., Jacquelyn J. Singleton Dec 2013

The Impact Of Kindergarten Teachers' Theoretical Orientation To Reading On Curricular Planning And Classroom Practice In Literacy., Jacquelyn J. Singleton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Using case-study analysis, this dissertation is a qualitative examination of kindergarten teachers’ beliefs, theoretical orientation toward reading, and outside pressures and their impact upon the educators’ classroom practice for literacy instruction. Selected for the study based upon their scores on DeFord’s Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile (1985), eight teachers participated in two in-depth interviews and two separate 30-minute classroom observations for which they provided lesson plans. They also completed the Reading Interest-A-Lyzer (Reis, 2005). The results were coded with a coding scheme developed around the Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile and Vygotsky’s Activity Theory—the theoretical framework for the current study. …

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A Multiple Objective Optimization Approach To The Decommissioning And Dismantling Of A Nuclear Power Plant., Sven Sudholt 1974- Dec 2013

A Multiple Objective Optimization Approach To The Decommissioning And Dismantling Of A Nuclear Power Plant., Sven Sudholt 1974-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The complexity, relevance and critical nature of the decommissioning of nuclear power plants (NPP) are of great significance in today's society. Following the catastrophe in Fukushima a shift in the general public's perception of NPP took place throughout the world and in Europe in particular. In this dissertation interdisciplinary methods will be discussed to identify solutions which take into account the technological complexity and organizational issues involved in the dismantling and decommissioning process of NPP. Operations research, lean management, simultaneous engineering, cost analysis, multiple-objective optimization, project management, software tools are powerful concepts and methodologies when undertaking the dismantling and decommissioning …

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Discursive Affordances : Police, Transfer, And The Performance Of Identity., Robert John Terry Dec 2013

Discursive Affordances : Police, Transfer, And The Performance Of Identity., Robert John Terry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is an analysis of how the performance of identity affects the possibilities for the transfer of writing strategies. It begins with a literature review of the existing research on transfer within the field of composition and posits that an undertheorized understanding of identity may be leading to misunderstandings related to the transfer of knowledge. It then provides a framework for understanding the performance of identity developed through James Paul Gee's Discourse theory and provides a framework for understanding and identifying Discourse conflicts related to the performance of identity. After providing an overview of the research site, the Administrative …

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A Cost Model For Managing Producer And Consumer Risk In Availability Demonstration Testing., Randall L. Walker Dec 2013

A Cost Model For Managing Producer And Consumer Risk In Availability Demonstration Testing., Randall L. Walker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Evaluation and demonstration of system performance against specified requirements is an essential element of risk reduction during the design, development, and production phases of a product lifecycle. Typical demonstration testing focuses on reliability and maintainability without consideration for availability. A practical reason considers the fact that demonstration testing for availability cannot be performed until very late in the product lifecycle when production representative units become available and system integration is completed. At this point, the requirement to field the system often takes priority over demonstration of availability performance. Without proper validation testing, the system can be fielded with reduced mission …

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Navigating The Field : An Examination Of Rhetorical Spaces In The Journal Of Sex Research., Deanna Mcgaughey-Summers Dec 2013

Navigating The Field : An Examination Of Rhetorical Spaces In The Journal Of Sex Research., Deanna Mcgaughey-Summers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation, I adopt a praxical theory of rhetorical space to identify and examine how members of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality draw on or invoke rhetorical spatiality in their research published in the Journal of Sex Research. My specific research questions were: (1) What types of rhetorical spaces do sexologists create? and, (2) What rhetorical strategies do sexologists use to create rhetorical spaces? The dissertation is divided into five chapters that present different investigations of the production of rhetorical space in The Journal of Sex Research. Chapter One introduces the theoretical and methodological foundation for …

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Community Level Impacts Of Microstegium Vimineum On Arthropod Community Structure And Foodweb Dynamics In A Temperate Deciduous Forest., Judith L. Metcalf Dec 2013

Community Level Impacts Of Microstegium Vimineum On Arthropod Community Structure And Foodweb Dynamics In A Temperate Deciduous Forest., Judith L. Metcalf

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Invasion by non-native primary producers are generally expected to lead to a decline in native species richness, however in some cases, these invasions can actually lead to an increase in diversity and abundance of certain groups of organisms. Arthropods are extremely sensitive to changes in the plant community, particularly herbivores, and the response of these primary consumers can influence predator populations. Microstegium vimineum is an invasive C4 grass that has developed strong populations in the understory of temperate deciduous forests along the east coast of the U.S. This work evaluates the influence that this invader may have on insect and …

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Success On Their Own Terms : Youths' Perspectives On What It Means To Be Successful In Foster Care., Justin Miller Dec 2013

Success On Their Own Terms : Youths' Perspectives On What It Means To Be Successful In Foster Care., Justin Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Foster care is a fundamental component of the child welfare system. Traditionally, foster care has been viewed as the primary mechanism for caring for children placed outside of their home, and is considered one of the central intervention strategies for child welfare practitioners. Foster care services are regularly recommended for children who are abused and neglected. In 2011, there were an estimated 401,000 youths in foster care and approximately 646,000 youth were served by the foster care system. Yet, despite the importance of foster care to child welfare, social work literature in general, and child welfare literature specifically, is devoid …

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