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Buletin Jabatan Sejarah, No. 3, 2016, Department Of History University Of Malaya Dec 2016

Buletin Jabatan Sejarah, No. 3, 2016, Department Of History University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2010s)

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The Political Ideologies Of American Lawyers, Adam S. Chilton, Adam Bonica, Maya Sen Dec 2016

The Political Ideologies Of American Lawyers, Adam S. Chilton, Adam Bonica, Maya Sen

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Litigating The Blue Wall Of Silence: How To Challenge The Police Privilege To Delay Investigation, Aziz Huq, Richard H. Mcadams Dec 2016

Litigating The Blue Wall Of Silence: How To Challenge The Police Privilege To Delay Investigation, Aziz Huq, Richard H. Mcadams

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The Constitutional Law Of Agenda Control, Aziz Huq Dec 2016

The Constitutional Law Of Agenda Control, Aziz Huq

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Sovereign Invulnerability: Sexual Politics And The Ontology Of Rape, Jane Clare Jones Dec 2016

Sovereign Invulnerability: Sexual Politics And The Ontology Of Rape, Jane Clare Jones

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

As Rebecca Whisnant has noted, notions of “national…and…bodily (especially sexual) sovereignty are routinely merged in rhetoric and metaphor.†(2008:155) Departing from this observation, this project explores the ‘existential infrastructure’ of the ‘logic of sovereign integrity’ in which personhood is thought as analogous to jurisdiction over a bounded territorial enclosure. It traces the philosophical history of this logic, and unfolds the post-Heideggerian French critique of sovereignty as an analysis of how sovereign imperatives are animated by a drive to deny the vulnerabilities of constitutive ontological relation, and are thus implicated in violent cycles of disavowal and appropriation. It then applies this …

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Beyond Regietheater: The Oper Frankfurt Behind The Curtain, 1979 - 2015, Cordelia Elizabeth Chenault Dec 2016

Beyond Regietheater: The Oper Frankfurt Behind The Curtain, 1979 - 2015, Cordelia Elizabeth Chenault

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

This dissertation focuses on the Oper Frankfurt, a musical institution that has played an influential role in the development of operatic staging since the 1980s. Through an examination of productions staged at the house in two different periods (1979 – 1987 and 2010 – 2015), I pay particular attention to the ways in which these contemporary stagings contribute to a discourse about recent opera— particularly in Germany— and what has frequently been called Regietheater. This polemical term, often translated as “director’s theater,†connotes a provocative, theatrically experimental, even massively reenvisioned reading of an operatic work, propelled by a visionary stage …

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Local Modeling Of Attributed Graphs: Algorithms And Applications, Bryan Perozzi Dec 2016

Local Modeling Of Attributed Graphs: Algorithms And Applications, Bryan Perozzi

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

It is increasingly common to encounter real-world graphs which have attributes associated with the nodes, in addition to their raw connectivity information. For example, social networks contain both the friendship relations as well as user attributes such as interests and demographics. A protein-protein interaction network may not only have the interaction relations but the expression levels associated with the proteins. Such information can be described by a graph in which nodes represent the objects, edges represent the relations between them, and feature vectors associated with the nodes represent the attributes. This graph data is often referred to as an attributed …

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Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese ‘Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations | Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese €˜Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations, I-Te Rita Sung Dec 2016

Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese ‘Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations | Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese €˜Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations, I-Te Rita Sung

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

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the jun’ai (pure-love) genre has flourished in Japan, both in works of popular literature and in film. This phenomenon coincides with a time when the country is seen by the media as being characterized by soshitsukan (sense of loss). In jun’ai films, the heroine is often the object of loss. This theme of loss in jun’ai therefore resonates with the Japanese social context, but this connection has not yet been fully elucidated. In this dissertation, I seek to explain why Japanese women, who are arguably treated as “other†within Japan, embody a transnationalism …

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Dna Damage Induces Invasion Of Mcf-7(Human Breast Adenocarcinoma) Cells, Ronald Steven Chavez Dec 2016

Dna Damage Induces Invasion Of Mcf-7(Human Breast Adenocarcinoma) Cells, Ronald Steven Chavez

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

Abstract of the Thesis DNA Damage induces invasion of MCF-7 (Human Breast Adenocarcinoma) Cells by Ronald S. Chavez Master of Science in Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University 2016 Breast Cancer is a common malignancy in American and European women, and approximately one-third of these women develop metastasis and die from the disease. Chemotherapy is widely used to treat breast cancer and is known to extend survival of patients. Despite this fact, a small percentage of cells can endure and gain resistance to these treatments. Clinicians have sought to increase the time and intensity of these doses to reduce …

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Each Body Is A Strange Beach, Myda El-Maghrabi Dec 2016

Each Body Is A Strange Beach, Myda El-Maghrabi

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

What drives not merely the individual but our society as a whole? How do we regard our own experiences, and, as an extension, how does that affect how we relate to the experiences of another? How do our individual motivations affect our societal motivations and vice versa? These core questions serve as the catalyst for my work. By developing artwork with this line of inquiry in mind, which includes research into contemporary as well as historic social criticisms, I come closer to finding answers to the questions that fuel my artistic practice. Throughout the process, I mine the many ways …

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The Appearance Of My Abstraction And Exploration Of Its Identity, Ye-Seul Choi Dec 2016

The Appearance Of My Abstraction And Exploration Of Its Identity, Ye-Seul Choi

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

In order to specifically articulate my work’s progress, I will organize this thesis focusing on the experience of my inner point of view as an artist. This will provide the intimate interaction and communication between me and my work. I have arranged the order of development to show how my work has changed since 2009. Each chapter will deal with procedural subjects in the advance of my art. I began with the inspiration of materiality, and this interest was evolving in the exploration of paintings by focusing on pictorial materials. Major streaming of its whole structure will be built on …

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Influence Propagation Modeling And Applications In Finance, Li Zhang Dec 2016

Influence Propagation Modeling And Applications In Finance, Li Zhang

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

To appropriately use the information from social media for finance-related problems is typically challenging to both finance and data mining. Traditional schemes in finance focus on identifying the trading activities and financial events that generate asset abnormal returns, while the usage of data typically only covers regular events such as earning announcements, financial statements, and new stock issuance. Related data-driven implementations mainly focus on developing trading strategies using social media data, while the results usually lack theoretical explanations. This work is designed to fill the gap between the usage of social media data and financial theories, with comprehensive evaluations using …

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Evolution Of Immiscibly Blended Functionalized Polymers With Respect To Cure Parameters And Formulation, Nicholas Walter Heller Dec 2016

Evolution Of Immiscibly Blended Functionalized Polymers With Respect To Cure Parameters And Formulation, Nicholas Walter Heller

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

Powder coatings are becoming ubiquitous in the coating marketplace due to the absence of solvents in their formulation, but they have yet to see implementation in low-reflectance outdoor applications. This demand could be met by utilizing polymer blends formulated with low loadings of matting agents and pigments. The goal of this research is a thorough characterization of prototype low-reflectance coatings through several analytical techniques. Prototypical thermoset blends consist of functionalized polyurethanes rendered immiscible by differences in polar and hydrogen bonding characteristics, resulting in a surface roughened by droplet domains. Analysis of both pigmented and control clear films was performed. This …

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Molecular Strong Field Ionization Viewed With Photoelectron Velocity Map Imaging, Peter Sandor Dec 2016

Molecular Strong Field Ionization Viewed With Photoelectron Velocity Map Imaging, Peter Sandor

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

In this thesis, work is presented on molecular strong-field ionization, during which an electron is removed from polyatomic molecules in the presence of strong laser fields. This is a process which is the basis of a number of experimental techniques to uncover electronic dynamics in atoms and molecules on the femtosecond and attosecond timescale. ’Strong’ refers to an electric field strength which leads to a response from the system which can not be modeled perturbatively. These fields can be easily produced in the focus of femtosecond laser radiation, as is done in this work. With the use of velocity map …

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Fabrication Of A Novel Biosensor For Macromolecules Detection Through Molecular Imprinting Technique, Yingjie Yu Dec 2016

Fabrication Of A Novel Biosensor For Macromolecules Detection Through Molecular Imprinting Technique, Yingjie Yu

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

There is an increasing need for precise molecular detection as a diagnostic tool for early identification of diseases, pathogens, and abnormal protein levels in the body. Typical chemical analytical methods are generally costly, unstable, and time-consuming. Molecular imprinting (MI) technique，based on the “lock and key model†, could be a simple method to overcome those shortcomings. In this study, a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) was employed as a platform to fabricate MI biosensor for detection of macromolecules. I demonstrated that, when the monolayer was formed on a rough surface, this method was in fact templating molecules in three dimensions, and hence …

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Pathogenic And Non-Pathogenic Strains Of Vibrio Parahaemolyticus In Long Island Sound: Biotic And Abiotic Factors Promoting Abundance, Jake Thickman Dec 2016

Pathogenic And Non-Pathogenic Strains Of Vibrio Parahaemolyticus In Long Island Sound: Biotic And Abiotic Factors Promoting Abundance, Jake Thickman

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

Food safety is a major concern in the shellfish industry, as severe illness can result from consuming shellfish that have accumulated waterborne pathogens. Shellfish harvesting areas are typically monitored for indicator bacteria such as fecal coliforms that serve as proxies for enteric pathogens introduced from surrounding waterways, but these indicators have shown little relation to some naturally occurring pathogenic bacteria such as Vibrio parahaemolyticus (Vp). To examine the dynamics and ecology of pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains of Vp and address the relevance of indicator bacteria in predicting Vp concentrations, field surveys and experiments were carried out in western Long Island …

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Investigating Cellular And Molecular Interactions Between The Hard Clam (Mercenaria Mercenaria) And Its Pathogen Quahog Parasite Unknown (Qpx), Rachel Hartman Dec 2016

Investigating Cellular And Molecular Interactions Between The Hard Clam (Mercenaria Mercenaria) And Its Pathogen Quahog Parasite Unknown (Qpx), Rachel Hartman

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

Quahogs, or hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) are an economically important species of clam. They are often used for human consumption, but can also be indicators of water quality because of the bioaccumulation of contaminants within filter feeders. They are found abundantly on the east coast of the United States and Canada, and actively aquacultured from Massachusetts to Florida. The hard clam is a robust species with few naturally-occurring diseases. The most well-known disease of the hard clam is Quahog Parasite Unknown (QPX), a unicellular parasite found on the east coast of North America from Virginia up into Canada, causing well-documented …

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The Music Of Romantic Poetry And The Mediation Of Romanticism, Matthew J. Gilbert Dec 2016

The Music Of Romantic Poetry And The Mediation Of Romanticism, Matthew J. Gilbert

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

In the poetry of British Romanticism, “music†has a significance that stretches across versification, figurative conceits, rapidly evolving generic modes, song lyrics, the cultural practice of music, impassioned recitation, the conspicuous silence of print, and the sale of printed books—in other words, an interrelated spectrum of issues that reaches through formalism to historicism and beyond. Music’s relevance to various romantic cultures, as well as its many tropes and topoi, mirrors a conceptual versatility that poets found abundantly instrumental when sitting down (or walking along) to contemplate the relation of self and craft, craft and culture, and, above all, sound and …

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The Missouri Miner, December 1, 2016 Dec 2016

The Missouri Miner, December 1, 2016

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

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The Irrelevance Of Nanotechnology Patents, Emily Michiko Morris Dec 2016

The Irrelevance Of Nanotechnology Patents, Emily Michiko Morris

Faculty Scholarly Works

Although scientists have for decades now had the ability to manipulate matter at the atomic level, we have yet to see the nanotechnological revolution that these scientists predicted would follow. Despite the years of effort and billions of dollars that have been invested into research and development thus far, nanotechnology has yielded surprisingly few end-user applications. A number of commentators have blamed this lack of progress on the Bayh-Dole Act and other changes to patent law, arguing that, although these laws are supposed to stimulate technological development, they have in fact had the exact opposite effect when it comes to …

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Uchunguzi (Journal Watch/Montre De Journal) December 2016, Benjamin Wachira Dec 2016

Uchunguzi (Journal Watch/Montre De Journal) December 2016, Benjamin Wachira

Emergency Medicine, East Africa

Uchunguzi means investigation in Swahili and provides a summary of some of the most recent international literature as presented in other leading journals, but with an emphasis on what is relevant to our continent

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Sustainable Gender Equality Framework: A Justice Perspective, Bonita Bhattarai Sharma Dec 2016

Sustainable Gender Equality Framework: A Justice Perspective, Bonita Bhattarai Sharma

Social Work Dissertations - Archive

The current study emphasizes gender equality discourse within the frame of overarching sustainable development goals and proposes a shift in attention to the sustainability of components of a larger holistic social system that is built on moral imperatives of intra and intergenerational justice. The continued and building importance of the holistic and transferability of a just and inclusive system is indicative of the new global policy shift in addressing the lessons learned from past developmental approaches and the urgent need to protect the earth system. There are three key related issues that stand out within the broad context of Our …

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Member Background: Implications For Incivility In The U.S. Congress, Aimee C. Arvayo Dec 2016

Member Background: Implications For Incivility In The U.S. Congress, Aimee C. Arvayo

Honors Capstones

Politicians often receive criticism regarding their uncivil conduct as elected officials. There is no exception for members of the U.S. Congress. Instances in which elected officials act inappropriately while performing the official duties of their elected offices constitute acts of incivility, the phenomenon this research aims to study. This research investigates whether certain background qualities, specifically the procurement of a law degree, state legislative experience and gender, influence U.S. Congress members’ likelihood of being implicated in uncivil acts. Upon reviewing the historical databases for both the New York Times and the Washington Post using keywords relating to incivility, the researcher …

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Public Transit Equity Analysis At Metropolitan And Local Scales: A Focus On Nine Large Cities In The Us, Greg P. Griffin, Ipek N. Sener Dec 2016

Public Transit Equity Analysis At Metropolitan And Local Scales: A Focus On Nine Large Cities In The Us, Greg P. Griffin, Ipek N. Sener

Journal of Public Transportation

Recent studies on transit service through an equity lens have captured broad trends from the literature and national-level data or analyzed disaggregate data at the local level. This study integrates these methods by employing a geostatistical analysis of new transit access and income data compilations from the Environmental Protection Agency. By using a national data set, this study demonstrates a method for income-based transit equity analysis and provides results spanning nine large auto-oriented cities in the US. Results demonstrate variability among cities’ transit services to low-income populations, with differing results when viewed at the regional and local levels. Regional-level analysis …

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Is Applied Behavioral Analysis Education, Medicine, Or Both?: A Study Of The Funding Challenges That Accompany An Autism Diagnosis, Yaakov Pollak Dec 2016

Is Applied Behavioral Analysis Education, Medicine, Or Both?: A Study Of The Funding Challenges That Accompany An Autism Diagnosis, Yaakov Pollak

Seton Hall Law Review

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An Investigation Of Critical Thinking Outcomes In An Online Developmental Psychology Learning Environment, Michael C. Natishyn Dec 2016

An Investigation Of Critical Thinking Outcomes In An Online Developmental Psychology Learning Environment, Michael C. Natishyn

Psychology Dissertations - Archive

Critical thinking (CT) has become a hot topic in academic and mainstream media, where the development of these skills may influence efficacy and productivity in educational and career environments, potentially impacting academic success, employability, and even routine decisions encountered in everyday life. Since the learning environment is germane to reinforcement of CT skills and as institutions shift towards online learning, the online classroom has potential for influencing CT skills and cultivating technically adept high-quality college graduates. The current project sought to investigate relationships between CT and course outcomes within multiple semesters of an online Developmental Psychology course. Data were comprised …

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Human Trafficking In Dallas: An Assessment Of Local Law Enforcement Traning, Awareness, And Effectiveness In Recognizing Victims, Nazeeya Pervaiz Zubairie Dec 2016

Human Trafficking In Dallas: An Assessment Of Local Law Enforcement Traning, Awareness, And Effectiveness In Recognizing Victims, Nazeeya Pervaiz Zubairie

Criminology & Criminal Justice Theses - Archive

The purpose of this study was to examine the training, awareness, and effectiveness of a local law enforcement agency in recognizing victims of human trafficking. The research questions of this study were: are local law enforcement officers able to recognize victims of human trafficking during their beat, and does time in service effect their ability to recognize victims. This research study was conducted as a blind study, and provided a sample of local law enforcement officers with a self-administered survey that evaluated their perceptions of recognizing human trafficking victims. The officers' effectiveness in recognizing the victims was evaluated by whether …

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Design Of Flow Control Device For Dynamic Cold Plate And Optimization Of Servers To Decrease Junction Temperature Of Heat Sinks, Kunal Atulkumar Shah Dec 2016

Design Of Flow Control Device For Dynamic Cold Plate And Optimization Of Servers To Decrease Junction Temperature Of Heat Sinks, Kunal Atulkumar Shah

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

Electronics cooling research is facing the challenges of high heat flux removal and increased pumping power. Not much attention has been focused related to server and module level cooling. The continued increase in heat fluxes at the chip level due to new and robust technology nodes following Moore’s law is starting to push the limits of air cooling and especially for high end servers. An alternative to air cooling is liquid (water and oil immersed) cooling. The optimized dynamic cold plates that use water as the cooling fluid have shown over 28 % and 52% of reduction in pumping power …

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Evaluating Increasing Hospital Closure Rates In U.S: A Model Framework And A Lean Six Sigma Deployment Approach For Quality Improvement Initiatives To Prevent Further Closures In Rural And Disadvanaged Locations, Soma Sekar Balasubramanian Dec 2016

Evaluating Increasing Hospital Closure Rates In U.S: A Model Framework And A Lean Six Sigma Deployment Approach For Quality Improvement Initiatives To Prevent Further Closures In Rural And Disadvanaged Locations, Soma Sekar Balasubramanian

Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Hospital Closures occur from time to time. Several rural hospitals were closed in the U.S recently in an unprecedented manner and hundreds of others are at the risk of closing. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) which was amended in 2010, has brought sea of changes in the healthcare industry right from changing the way how hospitals receive reimbursements by introducing several new programs targeting hospitals’ quality of care to expanding health insurance for millions of poor and underprivileged populations in the country. The goal of this study is to understand the closure of rural hospitals in line …

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In Pueblo's Wake; Flawed Leadership And The Role Of Juche In The Capture Of The Uss Pueblo, James A. Duermeyer Dec 2016

In Pueblo's Wake; Flawed Leadership And The Role Of Juche In The Capture Of The Uss Pueblo, James A. Duermeyer

History Theses - Archive

On January 23, 1968, North Korea attacked and seized an American Navy spy ship, the USS Pueblo. In the process, one American sailor was mortally wounded and another ten crew members were injured, including the ship's commanding officer. The crew was held for eleven months in a North Korean prison. Today, the ship remains in North Korea as a gray, steel museum, glorifying the success of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's Navy in its struggle against the imperialist American aggressors. This thesis examines two primary question: How could the capture and retention of a U.S. Navy warship by a …

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