Tardive dyskinesia is a serious and limiting side effect in long-term neuroleptic treatment that is still poorly understood. This study examined the expression of enkephalin (ENK), dynorphin (DYN), and D1 dopamine receptor ...
Scholars have long mined the voluminous archive of the Committee of Fourteen (1905–1932) ––a powerful, privately funded law enforcement and anti-prostitution organization backed by influential industrialists and social ...
Like a constellation of variable stars, these poems grow brighter and darker, depending on their proximity to loss. Throughout, the poems grapple with various kinds of losses, and attempt to find solace and half-answers ...
This study aims to understand the risk of mortality in relation to vertebral canal
growth disruption at the Pueblo Bonito (AD 800-1200, n=47) and Hawikku (AD 1400-
1680, n=102) sites in the pre- and protohistoric American ...
This research investigates the social organization of Corvette clubs and their membership in order to examine the wind of social change in community structures in American society during the period following industrial ...
This thesis intends to review and integrate disaster research and their myths, media’s use of frames, and theory of homo sacer and marginalization to determine how disaster victims can potentially be marginalized through ...
Victim impact statements were introduced as a means to help victims heal through
their participation in the adjudication process. Although victims do seem to benefit from
the composition of these statements, when they ...
This thesis explores Victorian middle-class ideology through the lens of W. S. Gilbert’s
Savoy Operas, focusing on three general categories: intelligence and aptitude, morality
and gentlemanliness, and domesticity and ...
This thesis explores the uncertain nature of representation and focuses on the precious failures of language and memory. In doing so, remembered narratives of a young-adult speaker are encountered as they’re confronted ...
When Adam Smith advocated a specific approach for political discussion in regard to the
public opinion, he recommended and utilized strategic yielding and caution when
necessary. The approach involves a willingness to ...
This thesis is the first part of a novel in progress. The novel, entitled, Vivid, tells the story of Henry, a quiet, introspective young man who, after the tragic death of his childhood friend, decides to leave the country. ...
This thesis provides an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of the role of the female investigative characters in four cultural productions that center on the femicides in Ciudad Júarez, Mexico: Bordertown (2007), ...
Previous research has documented the social, physiological and cognitive properties of the Duchenne smile. No previous studies have been conducted to assess accuracy during repeated, prompted imitation of the Duchenne ...
This thesis serves as an examination of the debates which took place in the public
discourse during the First Federal Congress (1789-1791), by examining public opinion
articles written in newspapers. The authors’ use of ...
Between the first appearance of the Sunday newspaper comic supplement in 1895 and the early 1920s, the status of the comic supplement in the field of cultural production was being questioned and navigated by publishers, ...
This thesis is the first section of a three part novel. In this section Kevin, an undergraduate student whose past parodies the film Home Alone, is introduced. The text follows Kevin throughout a day in his life as he deals ...
This thesis examines how first-generation Salvadoran immigrants transfer their
home culture to their children, born in the U.S. It examines the complex dynamics of this
transfer, focusing on four different aspects that ...
Dominant medical discourse of fatness primarily focuses on weight and weight
loss as a means to achieve health, rather than focusing on overall wellbeing and
implementing healthy behaviors without weight loss as a central ...
Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are enrolling in higher education at a
rapidly increasing pace. Though there is a growing body of research about this newest
generation of student-veterans, what is lacking ...