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'Spoiler' Violence And Other Myths: A Mixed Methods Study Of Paramilitaries’ Use Of Force In Northern Ireland, Claire Tam

Honors Thesis Collection

While many scholars have written about ‘spoilers,’ actors committed to the use of violence in an effort to undermine political negotiations, there have been few attempts to systematically test whether theories of spoiling behavior truly effectively explain armed nonstate actors’ use of force. Using a combination of GIS mapping, statistical analysis, and qualitative data gathered from interviews in Belfast, Northern Ireland, I examine the lines of division that formed within Northern Irish paramilitaries during the peace process of the 1990s. By focusing in particular on what I define as intra-movement violence, I examine the way divisions formed and test whether …

Filling Political Spaces: Iraqi, Humanitarian-Oriented Ngos In The Context Of American Military Occupation, Jillian Seymour

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Context Effects In Memory Through The Lens Of The Outshining Hypothesis, Mashiwat Mahbub

Honors Thesis Collection

Memory performance is often better for events or items that are retrieved in a context similar to the context in which they were experienced. The presence or absence of such context effects can be explained by the outshining hypothesis (Smith & Vela, 2001), which states that, at retrieval, there are two types of cues that memory depends on, the context cue and the item cue. The stronger of these two cues suppresses, or “outshines” the weaker cue thus strengthening or eliminating context effects. Context effects are eliminated when memory performance is driven by the stronger item cue, which then ‘outshines’ …

Implications Of Adolescent Narcissism For Psychological Health In Late Adulthood, Haruka Notsu

Honors Thesis Collection

Data from a long-term longitudinal study were used to investigate the relationship between grandiose narcissism in adolescence (ages 15-18) and psychological health in late adulthood (age 70s). Participants were born in 1920s in the San Francisco Bay Area and were assessed in adolescence and four times in adulthood (age 30s, 40s, 50s and 70s). Narcissism was assessed with the observer-based California Q-set and psychological health in late adulthood was measured with an index comprising of self-reported ratings of depression, life satisfaction, and mental health. Adolescent narcissism predicted poor psychological health in late adulthood even after accounting for socio-demographic characteristics, psychological …

Interpreting Justice: A Critique Of Free Market Fairness, Bridgette Lemoine

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

To The South! A Study Of Exoticism In Fanny Hensel‘S Lieder, Xi Zhang

Honors Thesis Collection

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-46) was a gifted pianist and composer of songs known as Lieder, among other music. Though educated together with her brother Felix Mendelssohn and encouraged to excel, their careers diverged at a certain point such that Mendelssohn pursued a public career as a performer and composer, while Hensel’s career was restricted to the domestic sphere. Her deep longing for travel and the exotic was reflected in her music. The two journeys from Berlin during her lifetime – Switzerland and France during her adolescence (1822), then Italy later in life with her husband and child (1839) – produced …

Is Democracy The Answer: Differential Outcomes In The Treatment Of The Global Hiv Epidemic, Kathleen Zhu

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

A Cross-Cultural Study: Student Protest Movements At University Of Cape Town And University Of California-Berkeley From 1960-1965, Brianna White

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Prosjekt Nytt Nasjonalmuseum: Negotiating A Norwegian Identity, Diana Huynh

Honors Thesis Collection

There is a vast amount of attention in Norway going into cultural institutions that is supposed define the image of the capital and Norwegian society. The focus on ‘building culture’ has nevertheless left a lacuna of what or where the Norwegian identity is in relation to this process. Former definitions of the state and the general consensus of what it means to be Norwegian have in many ways changed over the past three decades.

I am therefore interested in crafting a response to the fleeting conditions of this Norwegian identity at the start of the century, by considering the way …

Women, Autonomy, And Desire In Feng Menglong’S Short Stories, Rosa Hargrove

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Capitalizing On The One Percent: Income Inequality And Private Educational Finances, Katherine Di Lucido

Honors Thesis Collection

In response to increasing income inequality, many private educational institutions have adapted new approaches to financial aid, tuition, and campus investment. Implications of this changing strategy include the rise of an ‘educational arms race’—in which institutions compete to enroll the best (and, at times, wealthiest) students by funding non-academic services (e.g. luxury dorms)—and the risk of relying on such policies to establish socioeconomic diversity. My analysis examines the consequences and implications of rising income inequality on higher education finances and supply-side decisions. In particular, I assess the changes instituted by private, non-parochial high schools, which have policies that closely resemble …

A Vibrant And Vocal Community: Establishing An Archival Outreach Plan For The Lgbtq Community In Utah And Similar States, Julia Huddleston

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Despite being both politically and culturally conservative, Utah has a vocal and vibrant lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community that has been making history and headlines for decades. However, there is a demonstrated lack of primary source material documenting these movements. The lack of archival material highlights the need for archives in Utah to actively seek out collections from LGBTQ individuals and organizations through a concentrated outreach effort.

This paper addresses the unique concerns associated with acquiring LGBTQ collections—building trust, respectfully arranging and describing materials in a way that maximizes access, and creating inclusive physical spaces through reference …

Aftershocks: The Human Impact Of U.S. Deportations To Post-Earthquake Haiti, University Of Chicago Law School - Global Human Rights Clinic, University Of Miami Law School Immigration Clinic, University Of Miami Law School Human Rights Clinic

Global Human Rights Clinic

Haiti still reels from the devastating effects of the January 12, 2010 earthquake that killed over 300,000 people, rendered one in seven Haitians homeless, and wreaked $9 billion of damage in a country whose 2009 GDP was only $7 billion. At least 85,000 people still live in internally displaced person camps (IDP camps) and many have moved back into shoddy structures that would not survive another earthquake. The cholera epidemic that struck Haiti in the wake of the earthquake has been characterized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as “the worst cholera outbreak in recent history,” killing …

Annual Reports Of The Town Of Gilford, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2014., Gilford Town Representatives

Gilford, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report 2014-2015, Student Affairs And Enrollment Management

Student Affairs Reports

This report provides information about the breadth of programs and services sponsored by a team of dedicated and talented student affairs educators and academic enrichment professionals.

Town Of Harrisville, Cheshire County, In The State Of New Hampshire Annual Report For The Year Ending December 31, 2014., Harrisville Town Representatives

Harrisville, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report For The Town Of Hebron, New Hampshire For The Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2014., Hebron Town Representatives

Hebron, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Reports Of The Town Officers Of Hancock, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2014., Hancock Town Representatives

Hancock, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Durham, New Hampshire 2014 Annual Report For The Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2014., Durham Town Representatives

Durham, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

"Softness" In International Instruments: The Case Of Transnational Corporations, Harri Kalimo, Tim Staal

Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Governance And Uncertainty, Justin R. Pidot

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Government actors create law against a backdrop of uncertainty. Limited information, unpredictable events, and lack of understanding interfere with accurately predicting a legal regime’s costs, benefits, and effects on other legal and social programs and institutions. Does the availability of no-fault divorce increase the number of terminated marriages? Will bulk-collection of telecommunications information about American citizens reveal terrorist plots? Can a sensitive species breed in the presence of oil and gas wells? The answers to these questions are far from clear, but lawmakers must act nonetheless.

The problems posed by uncertainty cut across legal fields. Scholars and regulators in a …

Ontogenic Expression Of Human Carboxylesterase-2 And Cytochrome P450 3a4 In Liver And Duodenum: Postnatal Surge And Organ-Dependent Regulation, Yi-Tzai Chen, Lynnie Trzoss, Dongfang Yang, Bingfang Yan

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

Human carboxylesterase-2 (CES2) and cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) are two major drug metabolizing enzymes that play critical roles in hydrolytic and oxidative biotransformation, respectively. They share substrates but may have opposite effect on therapeutic potential such as the metabolism of the anticancer prodrug irinotecan. Both CES2 and CYP3A4 are expressed in the liver and the gastrointestinal tract. This study was conducted to determine whether CES2 and CYP3A4 are expressed under developmental regulation and whether the regulation occurs differentially between the liver and duodenum. A large number of tissues (112) were collected with majority of them from donors at 1–198 days …

Deadline: Ethics And The Ethnographic Divorce, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

In the summer of 2009, the author receives a call from a New York Times reporter about her book Between Gay and Straight. The book portrays her (now-ex) husband’s and her integration into a network of gay male friends. “Deadline” explores tensions between private and public as the private turmoil of divorce clashes with the public construction of the author’s marriage and with her determination to continue the social justice work of Between Gay and Straight.

Novel Mechanisms Of Herbal Therapies For Inhibiting Hmgb1 Secretion Or Action, A. H. Wu, L. He, W. Long, Q. Zhou, S. Zhu, P. Wang, S. Fan, H. Wang

Journal Articles

High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) is an evolutionarily conserved protein and is constitutively expressed in virtually all types of cells. In response to microbial infections, HMGB1 is secreted from activated immune cells to orchestrate rigorous inflammatory responses. Here we review the distinct mechanisms by which several herbal components inhibit HMGB1 action or secretion, such as by modulating inflammasome activation, autophagic degradation, or endocytic uptake. In light of the reciprocal interactions between these cellular processes, it is possible to develop more effective combinational herbal therapies for the clinical management of inflammatory diseases.

Comorbid Profile Rather Than Age Determines Hip Fracture Mortality In A Nonagenarian Population, A. Graver, S. Merwin, L. Collins, N. Kohn, A. Goldman

Journal Articles

BACKGROUND: In light of poor outcomes with nonoperative management of hip fractures, orthopedic surgeons are faced with difficult decisions about which patients are too ill or too old for surgical treatment. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES: This study sought to investigate if patients over 90 years had different preoperative laboratory, clinical, and injury characteristics than younger patients with the same injury. We compared our cohort with previously published data. We wished to identify if there were pre-injury risk factors associated with 30-day mortality, which could be modified to enhance postoperative outcomes. METHODS: This is a retrospective review of 198 operatively managed hip fractures in …

Age Influences Inflammatory Responses, Hemodynamics, And Cardiac Proteasome Activation During Acute Lung Injury, H. M. Linge, J. Y. Lee, K. Ochani, K. Koga, N. Kohn, K. Ojamaa, S. R. Powell, E. J. Miller

Journal Articles

Background: Acute lung injury (ALI) is a significant source of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. Age is a major determinant of clinical outcome in ALI. The increased ALI-associated mortality in the older population suggests that there are age-dependent alterations in the responses to pulmonary challenge. The objective of this observational study was to evaluate age-dependent differences in the acute (within 6 hours) immunological and physiological responses of the heart and lung, to pulmonary challenge, that could result in increased severity. Methods: Male C57Bl/6 mice (young: 2-3 months, old: 18-20 months) were challenged intratracheally with cell wall components from …

Approaching The Next Revolution? Evolutionary Integration Of Neural And Immune Pathogen Sensing And Response, K. J. Tracey

Journal Articles

Mammalian immunity evolved by the process of natural selection that produced differential survival and reproduction advantages through combinations of hereditary traits underlying the response to pathogens. Primitive animals sense the presence of microbial pathogens through recognition of pathogen-derived molecules in their rudimentary immune and nervous systems. No molecular biological mechanism assigns primacy of pathogen sensing mechanisms to immune cells over neurons. Rather, in animals as diverse as Caenorhabditis elegans to mammals, neural reflexes are activated by the presence of pathogens and transduce neural mechanisms that control the development of immunity. A coming revolution in immunological thinking will require immunologists to …

Tlr7 Influences Germinal Center Selection In Murine Sle, A. Boneparth, W. Huang, R. Bethunaickan, M. Woods, R. Sahu, S. Arora, M. Akerman, M. Lesser, A. Davidson

Journal Articles

TLR7 enhances germinal center maturation and migration of B cells to the dark zone where proliferation and somatic hypermutation occur. Our goal was to determine how Tlr7 dose influences selection of the autoreactive B cell repertoire in NZW/BXSB. Yaa mice bearing the site-directed heavy chain transgene 3H9 that encodes for the TLR7 regulated anti-CL response. To create a physiologic setting in which autoreactive B cells compete for survival with non-autoreactive B cells, we generated bone marrow chimeras in which disease onset occurred with similar kinetics and the transferred 3H9+ female non-Yaa, male Yaa or male TLR7(-/Yaa) cells could be easily …

Weight Trends In United States Living Kidney Donors: Analysis Of The Unos Database, M. Sachdeva, L. M. Rosen, J. Varghese, S. Fishbane, E. P. Molmenti

Journal Articles

AIM: To analyze the national trends associated with body mass index (BMI) and living kidney donation. METHODS: Forty-seven thousand seven hundred and five adult living kidney donors as reported to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network from 1999 to 2011 were analyzed using their pre-donation BMI. Predictor variables of interest included age, gender, ethnicity, relationship, education status, and transplant region. RESULTS: Sixteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-one of the living kidney donors were normal weight (35.6%); 19337 were overweight (40.5%); 9007 were mildly obese (18.9%); 1992 were moderate to morbidly obese (4.2%). Overweight and mildly obese kidney donors have increased …

The Role Of B-1 Cells In Inflammation, M. Aziz, N. E. Holodick, T. L. Rothstein, P. Wang

Journal Articles

B-1 lymphocytes exhibit unique phenotypic, ontogenic, and functional characteristics that differ from the conventional B-2 cells. B-1 cells spontaneously secrete germline-like, repertoire-skewed polyreactive natural antibody, which acts as a first line of defense by neutralizing a wide range of pathogens before launching of the adaptive immune response. Immunomodulatory molecules such as interleukin-10, adenosine, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, interleukin-3, and interleukin-35 are also produced by B-1 cells in the presence or absence of stimulation, which regulate acute and chronic inflammatory diseases. Considerable progress has been made during the past three decades since the discovery of B-1 cells, which has improved not only …