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The Application Of Trajectory Analysis For An Early Warning System In Stem Courses, Un Jung Lee Dec 2015

The Application Of Trajectory Analysis For An Early Warning System In Stem Courses, Un Jung Lee

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

The retention of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) majors has become a national concern. “Early warning systems†(EWS) are being developed to identify students who perform poorly early in the semester so that interventions can be implemented. The research reported here utilizes clicker scores and review quiz scores collected in every class session for the longitudinal analysis, as well as pre-course concept inventory scores and self-reported student characteristics. Pre course concept inventory scores were significantly predictive of final course grade. Student demographic characteristics had a smaller fraction of final course grade explained. The cumulative average student clicker score was …

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Designated Pages: Bradbury Thompson's Inspirations For Paper, Mi Seok Huh Dec 2015

Designated Pages: Bradbury Thompson's Inspirations For Paper, Mi Seok Huh

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

How do Bradbury Thompson’s designs in Westvaco Inspirations work as a guide for design and paper? Westvaco Inspirations was a promotional magazine first published in 1925 by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. The main purpose of the magazine was to promote paper and to show an intricate relationship between print, paper and design. Bradbury Thompson was the designer for the magazine from 1939 to its final year of publication in 1962. This thesis shows how Thompson’s designs promoted the quality of each particular paper brand and its effectiveness in presenting a printed image. The thesis aims to show …

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Essays On The Macroeconomic Consequences Of Market Frictions, Xin Tang Dec 2015

Essays On The Macroeconomic Consequences Of Market Frictions, Xin Tang

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

This thesis studies the implications of firms' and households' decisions on macro and environmental aggregates in economies with market frictions using quantitative macroeconomic methods. The thesis consists three chapters. In each chapter, I study respectively the effects of product market frictions on firms' emission decisions, the effects of financial frictions on firms' hiring decisions, and those on households' consumption-saving choices. In Chapter 2, I study the effects of product market frictions on firm size distribution and its subsequent impact on aggregate output and industrial pollution in China. Using a unique micro-level manufacturing census, I find that larger firms generate and …

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Writing At The Intersection: Understanding International Student Writers, Soni Adhikari Dec 2015

Writing At The Intersection: Understanding International Student Writers, Soni Adhikari

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

In U.S. colleges and universities, non-native English speaking international students are generally described in terms of their challenges with the English language. Even after the focus of scholarship has recently shifted to these students’ strengths as “multilingual†writers, their challenges and strengths in other areas of their development as writers are still overlooked. This thesis addresses the need to inform and influence teaching/learning practices about international multilingual students by using multidimensional frameworks. Considering that international students’ challenges (and strengths) of language intersect with a variety of other academic skills and also their motivation to learn, I argue that in order …

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In Defense Of Magic: Using Fantasy Literature In The Classroom, Marisa Florence Cignarella Dec 2015

In Defense Of Magic: Using Fantasy Literature In The Classroom, Marisa Florence Cignarella

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

This thesis argues for the greater inclusion of fantasy literature in high school and middle school English classrooms. Through an analysis of the popularity of fantasy series, including recent movies and their widespread pop cultural appeal, this thesis illustrates that fantasy resonates with many readers. A close examination of various works of fantasy literature appropriate to be read in full or excerpted in the classroom demonstrates that fantasy usefully illustrates various literary concepts, such as symbolism, metaphor, allusion, allegory, and character foils; provides clear examples of the hero's journey, which appear in various canonical texts as well as other media; …

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Molly's Lips: Telephonic Interiority In The " Penelope" Episode Of Ulysses, Lennox Nicholas Debra Dec 2015

Molly's Lips: Telephonic Interiority In The " Penelope" Episode Of Ulysses, Lennox Nicholas Debra

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

Molly Bloom's episode “Penelope†at the end of Ulysses is a pronounced narrative of her unique consciousness, yet it is the only first person narrative in the entire work that is interrupted by the gaze of the author. When the final episode of Ulysses begins, Molly’s narrative is one that seeks to give her a voice and narrative and there by constructs a gaze from which we as readers seek to in order to gain a better understanding of her character’s consciousness; yet, Molly’s acknowledgement of “Jamesy†alludes to a veiled characterization inherent to Molly Bloom. Why is she given …

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Festivity And Malvolio In Twelfth Night, Lixian Huang Dec 2015

Festivity And Malvolio In Twelfth Night, Lixian Huang

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

Twelfth Night is a play full of merrymaking, wish fulfillment and laughter because of its close relation to festivity in Elizabethan times. In the overall jolly atmosphere in the Twelfth Night, Malvolio is the one character in this play that acts as an opponent to revelry. This essay aims to study the festival theme in Twelfth Night, and Malvolio’s disruptive role in it. It includes a study of Malvolio’s understanding of himself, his changes through the development of the play and how those work on the audience especially his unresolved ending. I argue that though Malvolio is positioned as the …

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Beyond Compare: Nineteenth Century Poets And The Stigmatization Of Genre, Elizabeth Julia Hershman Dec 2015

Beyond Compare: Nineteenth Century Poets And The Stigmatization Of Genre, Elizabeth Julia Hershman

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

What is " a classic" ? The OED defines it as: " A writer, or a literary work, of the first rank and of acknowledged excellence" . Significantly the etymology also links it with another English noun: " class" . This suggests that the idea of literary worth conveyed by " classic" , and the idea of categorization implied by " class" are deeply intertwined. Starting in what is usually referred to as the Romantic Period, many writers seemed eager to reject such labels altogether. I believe that this is because, around the turn of the nineteenth century, genre itself …

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Motivating Students With Learning Disabilities To Achieve Through The Use Of Authentic Projects And Technology, Meagan King Dec 2015

Motivating Students With Learning Disabilities To Achieve Through The Use Of Authentic Projects And Technology, Meagan King

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

The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate effective methods that help students with learning disabilities achieve better quality writing. The types of methods that were reviewed were authentic writing projects, process writing, and peer work through the analysis of scholarly and personal research. Using technology to enhance understanding was also evaluated in relation to these methods. The study concluded that these effective methods increase student motivation because of their applicability to the real world. The study also concluded that as a result of the motivation produced by authentic writing projects, students develop more confidence in themselves as writers and …

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Address To The Letter: Frankenstein, Pamela, And The Epistolary Novel, Peter Walsh Dec 2015

Address To The Letter: Frankenstein, Pamela, And The Epistolary Novel, Peter Walsh

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

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, is rarely classified as an epistolary novel. Many readers actually forget that the novel begins as a series of letters between an arctic explorer and his sister. The framing device of the letter used by Shelley cites the revered history of the epistolary novel in the previous century, most notably those of Samuel Richardson. Richardson used the epistolary form in his novels to create what Ian Watt refers to as “formal realism†. Richardson presents his novels as truth objects by employing the epistolary frame, but Shelley uses the form to reject the …

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Heroes In Patrick Mchale's Over The Garden Wall, Justine Nicole Wilson Dec 2015

Heroes In Patrick Mchale's Over The Garden Wall, Justine Nicole Wilson

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

The presented Thesis asserts Patrick McHale’s Over the Garden Wall as a Modern Epic. It identifies the piece as Dantesque in its structure of a journey through an underworld, while noting that Dante is not the hero of his own epic. The argument is made that while Dante is too inactive in determining his fate to be given the title of epic Hero, McHale’s protagonists Wirt and Greg follow the structure of epic heroes, of the ancient tradition. The purpose of two protagonist on the same personal journey that is a spiritual odyssey, is maintained as a catalyst that allows …

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The Modal Use Of The Present Progressive (Estar+Gerundio) In Spanish Speakers Of Lima's Variety, Jessica Cairo-Chrysafi Dec 2015

The Modal Use Of The Present Progressive (Estar+Gerundio) In Spanish Speakers Of Lima's Variety, Jessica Cairo-Chrysafi

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

The verbal periphrasis estar+gerundio (EG) conjugated in simple present (estoy viajando) is the aspectual expression of progression in Spanish of an event that develops during the moment that is spoken (speech time S). Within Reichenbach's system of temporal relations, there is a coincidence relation with expression in the present tense between S and its point of reference R, and the relation is represented as S,R. The system identifies another time interval of the event E. With EG of progressive aspect the temporal relation is of coincidence between S and E, and it is represented as S,R,E. EG has also a …

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Amicitia Among Women: Fellowship & Pious Practice In The Vitae Of Italian Saints, Andrea Rebecca Boffa Dec 2015

Amicitia Among Women: Fellowship & Pious Practice In The Vitae Of Italian Saints, Andrea Rebecca Boffa

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

Very broadly, friendship can be defined as a particular relationship between individuals that is reciprocal in nature. On the one hand, it is a relationship that is universal, but on the other hand friendship is a concept that is socially constructed and historicized through the meanings and functions a particular society gives to it and the ways in which the relationship is realized and performed. Furthermore, friendship is as much an idea as it is a lived experience. This dissertation examines friendship among women in medieval Italian cities of the thirteenth– and fourteenth– centuries. The primary focus of this study …

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Community Belonging And Community Building: Women In Early Modern Granada, Nichole Suzanne Prescott Dec 2015

Community Belonging And Community Building: Women In Early Modern Granada, Nichole Suzanne Prescott

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

This dissertation addresses community belonging, community building, and community identity of women in the city of Granada during the early modern period, showing how women made use of their Granadan social context. It situates the women of Granada in the context of the economic and social turmoil throughout the early modern period, and in particular of the seventeenth century. Non-elite urban women in early modern Granada actively shaped the civic economy, culture, and religious life of the city and, in turn, their lives were shaped by the interplay of these elements. Women played indispensable commercial roles in the market economy, …

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The Role And Regulation Of Sphingosine Kinases In Cancer Biology, Mohamad Adada Dec 2015

The Role And Regulation Of Sphingosine Kinases In Cancer Biology, Mohamad Adada

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

Sphingolipids have emerged as bioactive constituents of eukaryotic cells. The bioactive sphingolipid ceramide mediates cellular senescence, apoptosis and cell cycle arrest. Acted upon by ceramidase, it is transformed to sphingosine that in turn gets phosphorylated by sphingosine kinases (SK1 and SK2) to generate sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P). This lipid, on the contrary, mediates cellular proliferation, mitogenesis, inflammation, angiogenesis, and cancer metastasis through its actions on specific G-protein coupled receptors (S1PR1-5). ERM (ezrin, radixin, and moesin) proteins are a group of adaptor molecules linking the cortical actin cytoskeleton to the plasma membrane, and are emerging as critical regulators of cancer metastasis and progression …

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Keratin 17: A Prognostic Marker And Nuclear Oncoprotein In Cancer, Luisa Fernanda Escobar Hoyos Dec 2015

Keratin 17: A Prognostic Marker And Nuclear Oncoprotein In Cancer, Luisa Fernanda Escobar Hoyos

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

Cancer is a fundamentally heterogeneous at virtually every level, ranging from the anatomic site of origin to the histologic type, degree of differentiation, and the underlying pathogenetic mechanisms. Despite dramatic progress in our ability to define cellular and molecular heterogeneity, there has been limited progress in the identification of the cellular mechanisms that define the tumor biology, treatment response, and patient outcome. Prognostic markers have the potential to not only identify patients at greatest risk for disease progression and death, but may also be the underlying drivers that mediate tumor aggression. In turn, these markers could also represent therapeutic targets. …

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Secularization As Pastoral Power: Governmentality And Christianity, Maria Angeles Prado Ballarin Dec 2015

Secularization As Pastoral Power: Governmentality And Christianity, Maria Angeles Prado Ballarin

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

I focus on Foucault's Lectures at the Collège de France in order to show how his genealogy of the modern normalizing society leads him to trace the historical beginnings and the condition of possibility of bio-disciplinary practices of individual and collective government- together with the discourse of the hermeneutics of the subject that serves to justify them- to the organization and development of the Christian pastorate from the fourth century onwards. Taking up Nietzsche's critique of Western Christianity, Foucault analyses the emergence and deployment of the procedures or modalities of modern governmentality as effects of the extension or generalization of …

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Racialized Partisan Identity: The Role Of Pan-Ethnic Identity In Partisan Movement Among Asian Americans, Richard Cho Dec 2015

Racialized Partisan Identity: The Role Of Pan-Ethnic Identity In Partisan Movement Among Asian Americans, Richard Cho

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

I conduct empirical and experimental tests to highlight the impact of perceived commonality with racial-minority groups and its effects on subsequent political behavior among Asian Americans. This includes an exploration into how a shared identity interacts with Asian Americans’ racial identity to shape their subsequent political behavior. Using experimental treatments adopted from real-world messages in the news media, I show how exposure to the political derogation of both illegal and legal immigrant groups in the United States activates Asian Americans’ own racial identification and that the extent to which this identity affects political attitudes related to this derogation are largely …

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Folk Couture: A Fashion Exhibition At The American Folk Art Museum, Alexis Carreno Dec 2015

Folk Couture: A Fashion Exhibition At The American Folk Art Museum, Alexis Carreno

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

This dissertation describes the conceptual framework and the materialization of the exhibition I guest-curated at the American Folk Art Museum, Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art. Based on the tradition of artists using fashion to produce artworks, (for instance, Sylvie Fleury’s installation Poison, which commented upon issues of consumerism); couturiers appropriating images from art to create garments (such as Yves Saint Laurent’s Mondrian Dress, in which the designer replicated a painting made by the Russian constructivist artist), and collaborations between fashion designers and artists (for example, designer Marc Jacobs’s and artist Yayoi Kusama’s collaboration for Louis Vuitton), thirteen New York …

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Painting Against The Grain Of History: Radical Traditionalism In Twentieth Century German Art, Travis William English Dec 2015

Painting Against The Grain Of History: Radical Traditionalism In Twentieth Century German Art, Travis William English

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

Focusing on the years immediately following World War I and concluding with the present, this dissertation examines the connections across a range of artists and periods in German art in terms of what I will call radical traditionalism. This analysis involves the work of George Grosz, Otto Dix, Gerhard Richter, and Neo Rauch, all artists who, despite their differences in styles and contexts, can be grouped together in their commitment to bringing forth a heterogeneous vision of figurative painting that looks beyond the limitations that have tended to frame the discussion of artistic modernism, namely, the opposition between abstraction and …

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The Effects Of Ketorolac And Its Enantiomers On Breast Cancer Proliferation And Metastasis, Amanda Sheree Peretti Dec 2015

The Effects Of Ketorolac And Its Enantiomers On Breast Cancer Proliferation And Metastasis, Amanda Sheree Peretti

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in women. Advanced breast cancer can metastasize to the lungs, liver, bones and brain becoming fatal conditions for many patients. There is a dire need for metastasis preventing medications, however the process required for a medication to become FDA approved for clinical use is long and arduous. Studies have found promising benefits for breast cancer patients given ToradolTM, or racemic ketorolac, as an NSAID during resection surgery. However, long-term use of racemic ketorolac is not recommended. Currently FDA-approved for use in the racemic form, ketorolac has the potential to …

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Hilltopics: Volume 12, Issue 3, Hilltopics Staff Dec 2015

Hilltopics: Volume 12, Issue 3, Hilltopics Staff

Hilltopics

No abstract provided.

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University Of Dayton Magazine, Winter 2015-16, University Of Dayton Magazine Dec 2015

University Of Dayton Magazine, Winter 2015-16, University Of Dayton Magazine

University of Dayton Alumni Publications

This issue includes articles "Still Crazy After All These Years"; "What the Pope Says (And Why We Care)"; and "Seeking to be Safe".

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Mohamed Alduhbani Honors Portfolio, Mohamed Khaled Alduhbani Dec 2015

Mohamed Alduhbani Honors Portfolio, Mohamed Khaled Alduhbani

Honors Capstone Portfolios

Mohamed AlDuhbani's honors portfolio captured in December 2015.

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Mariah Haffield Honors Portfolio, Mariah Jean Haffield Dec 2015

Mariah Haffield Honors Portfolio, Mariah Jean Haffield

Honors Capstone Portfolios

Mariah Haffield's honors portfolio captured in December 2015.

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October To December 2015 Dec 2015

October To December 2015

All Summaries

No abstract provided.

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Postpartum Psychological Birth Trauma Among African American Adolescents, Uman Gahlot Dec 2015

Postpartum Psychological Birth Trauma Among African American Adolescents, Uman Gahlot

2015 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Background: Adolescent pregnancy is a current social problem, and despite a recent decline it continues to be a societal issue. At-risk behaviors potentially culminating in unintended pregnancies have been noted to be frequent among African American (AA) adolescents and are often related to a history of abuse and/or depression. Adverse outcomes such as preterm births also are high among AA adolescents. Abuse, depression, and infant outcome have been recognized to impact the birth experience for adults. Yet, little research has been conducted examining the AA adolescent’s experience with birth and the potential for birth trauma when disclosing a history of …

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An Examination Of The Effectiveness Of Required Audit Firm Rotation By Public Companies, David Austin Boutwell Dec 2015

An Examination Of The Effectiveness Of Required Audit Firm Rotation By Public Companies, David Austin Boutwell

2015 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

This paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the implementation of mandatory audit firm rotation by companies publicly listed in the United States. Currently, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requires lead engagement partners auditing public companies to rotate off public company audit engagements after a period of five years, without returning for an additional five years. Further, SOX also required a mandatory study of the feasibility of mandatory audit firm rotation. Proponents contend that this might enhance independence while increasing objectivity and professional skepticism. The author’s findings suggest that these perceived advantages are greatly outweighed by the disadvantages that might result …

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Tuning The Metal-Insulator Transition In Delta-Doped Thin-Film Strontium Titanate, Patrick Conlin Dec 2015

Tuning The Metal-Insulator Transition In Delta-Doped Thin-Film Strontium Titanate, Patrick Conlin

2015 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Transition Metal Oxides (TMOs) that exhibit metal-insulator transitions have tremendous potential for use in future electronic devices. Understanding how metalinsulator transitions can be controlled on silicon is an essential first step in the development of such devices. Here we explore the effects of epitaxial strain, imparted by a silicon substrate, on the metal-insulator transition exhibited by La0.5Sr0.5TiO3 sandwiched between layers of SrTiO3. By varying the thickness of the SrTiO3 layer situated between the La0.5Sr0.5TiO3 and silicon substrate, the strain on the La0.5Sr0.5TiO3 layer can be tuned. This tuning of the strain can induce a change in the metal-insulator transition of …

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Implementation Of Broad Band Ambient Light Activated Opsins To Treat Neurodegenerative Diseases In Retinal Cells, Gregory Cervenka Dec 2015

Implementation Of Broad Band Ambient Light Activated Opsins To Treat Neurodegenerative Diseases In Retinal Cells, Gregory Cervenka

2015 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Retinitis Pigmentosa is a degenerative eye disease that can eventually lead to blindness. This disease is caused by light desensitization of retinal cells resulting in a lack of neural impulses from the eye to the brain to form an image. Scientists are attempting to treat this condition by bringing light sensitivity back to retinal cells. They are accomplishing this by transfecting the cell with light activated channel proteins called opsins. However, researchers are facing a difficulty using these opsins as the proteins can only be activated by intense narrow band light that can damage cells further. Our objective was to …

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