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Melancholy and the Early Modern University
(2011-09-27)
Critics have observed that in early Stuart England, the broad, socially significant concept of melancholy was recoded as a specifically medical phenomenon—a disease rather than a fashion. This recoding made melancholy seem ...
"The Black Imprint of Sandals in White Mosaic Floors": H.D.'s Mythomystical Poetics
(2011-09-01)
My dissertation examines the traces of inverse (mytho)mysticism, more synchronous with mythical alchemy than transcendent mystery, in H.D.’s mature work (1946-1961). Whereas H.D.’s earliest works respond to a fin de siècle ...
Contact zone dynamics and the evolution of reproductive isolation in a North American treefrog, the spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer)
(2013-03-04)
Despite over seven decades of speciation research and 25 years of phylogeographic studies, a comprehensive understanding of mechanisms that generate biological species remains elusive. In temperate zones, the pervasiveness ...
MRI Registration for Human Hip Kinematics
(2016-07-05)
Measurement of joint kinematics can provide knowledge to help improve joint prosthesis
design, as well as identify joint motion patterns that may lead to joint degeneration
or injury. More investigation into how the hip ...
Waking (To) Thinking Being: A Study of Education, Metaphysics, Mind, and Language
(2016-09-29)
This dissertation articulates the basic aims and achievements of education. It recognizes language as central to thinking, and philosophy and education as belonging profoundly to one another. The first step is to show that ...
Evidence for Mechanical Strains Influence in Osteophyte Development
Purpose: Osteophytes are osteo-cartilaginous metaplastic tissue outgrowths of bone capped by cartilage usually found in degenerative and inflammatory joint disease. The presence and degree of maturity of osteophytes, along ...
Vibrational Feedback Training System for Use with SEMG Controlled Powered Prostheses
(2016-10-01)
Loss of limb results in loss of function and a partial loss of freedom. A powered prosthetic device can partially assist an individual with everyday tasks and therefore return some level of independence. Powered upper limb ...
Sequence and Structure Based Protein Folding Studies With Implications
(2011-09-30)
As the expression of the genetic blueprint, proteins are at the heart of all biological systems. The ever increasing set of available protein structures has taught us that diversity is the hallmark of their architecture, ...
The application of PCA as a movement pattern recognition technique: A proof of principle
(2016-10-05)
Quantitative methods can help us understand how underlying attributes contribute to movement patterns. Applying principal components analysis (PCA) to whole-body motion data may provide an objective data-driven method to ...
Reducing Diesel Dependence in Nunavut: Integrating Renewable Energy Technologies Through Policy Actions
(2011-09-30)
In the last fifty years, Nunavut has developed a deep dependence on diesel for virtually all of its energy needs, including electricity. This dependence has created a number of economic, environmental and health related ...