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  • Obesity: A Study of the Body in Popular Science Discourse 
    Price, Suzanne (2010-01-12)
    This thesis evaluates how the fat body is constructed in the popularizations of scientific obesity studies. This is accomplished through discourse analysis, including examination of the vocabulary used in describing the ...
  • On Bread Alone 
    Boothe, Monica
    In this novel, three narratives, woven together, tell the story of hunger. They follow a Kenyan orphan through her attempts to survive on the streets of Nairobi, an anorexic high school graduate through her last summer in ...
  • On Commodities: An Essay Collection 
    McDonald, Ryan
    A memoristic essay collection that investigates the intangible aspects of economic and social life surrounding a different specific concrete thing, a commodity, each chapter. On an individual level, our pursuit of commodities ...
  • On Hills Like Gods Together 
    Ivey, Jay (2013-09-09)
    This thesis is a novel concerning the disappearance of a prominent Atlanta real estate czar during the 2008 financial meltdown. His privileged Classicist stepson, Tyler, embarks on a quest to learn the truth about why this ...
  • On Motherhood 
    Gupta, Maria A (2014-04-16)
    This thesis is a collection of linked essays about motherhood – looking back, and letting go. The essays address the author’s roles as mother, homemaker, wife, daughter, and nurse in taking care of others, and her attempt ...
  • On Selection Bias Magnitudes 
    Najab, Julius (2014-05)
    Selection bias remains the most prominent threat to validity in social and behavioral sciences. Non-equivalence between groups prior to an intervention reduces our ability to evaluate or infer intervention effects. Some ...
  • On-Set with Body-Worn Cameras in a Police Organization: Structures, Practices, and Technological Frames 
    Koen, Marthinus Christoffel (2016)
    Existing research on body-worn cameras (BWCs) has primarily focused on outcomes (e.g., use-of-force incidents, complaints, and arrests) rather than the processes related to BWC implementation and use by officers. This ...
  • Once More with Feeling 
    Moore, Clare
    This thesis is a creative project that explores character, plot, theme, and setting. The novel follows the story of Sara Ellis and her two brothers as they embark on a journey to “make it” as a band in Los Angeles. ...
  • One in a Million: Navigating Health Information and Advocacy in Rare Disease Diagnosis and Treatment 
    Hughes, Lindsay (2013)
    Background: Rare diseases represent an important public health issue; prevalence is an estimated 30 million patients in the United States. Efforts from advocacy organizations and governmental outreach based on assumptions ...
  • One Was There, One Was Not There 
    Isaacs, Corey
    This thesis takes the form of a novel that follows an Iranian-American family living in Laurel, MD. After their son, Darren, is arrested on charges of making terroristic threats, the family begins to disintegrate, and the ...
  • The One Who Left 
    McGlone, Chris
    I’m from near Grayson, in Carter County, in eastern Kentucky, in Appalachia, but left after college. This thesis examines aspects of my relationship to Appalachia through a set of essays, each of which addresses some ...
  • Online Gaming Communities: A Virtual Ethnography of StarCraft II 
    Flyte, Kelly (2015-10-23)
    This thesis follows a group of gamers who regularly play StarCraft II together, and explores how gaming communities are created, sustained, and dissolved in cyberspace. Offered first is an introduction to the StarCraft ...
  • Online Social Support: Buffering Deployment Stress Among Marine Corps Spouses 
    Desens, Linda (2013)
    During recent years, Marines, along with the other Services, have experienced a heightened operational tempo where deployments are more frequent with limited time at home. The stressors of deployment on the non-deployed ...
  • “Oops, I Did it Again?” Behavioral and Electrophysiological Indices of Error Processing Predict Adaptive Post-Error Compensations 
    Paul Beatty (2021)
    Empirical research suggests that when an error is committed during forced-choice decision-making tasks, a network of brain regions including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), pre-supplementary motor area (preSMA), and ...
  • Open-Label Placebo Cognitive Training May Be Ineffective for Cognitive Improvement 
    Michael Waltrip (2020)
    Recent research suggests that deception is not required to elicit placebo effects. So-called “open-label” placebos are honestly given placebo treatments with beneficial effects, primarily on self-report outcomes. In a ...
  • OPINION LEADERS FOR HEALTH: FORMATIVE RESEARCH WITH BLOGGERS ABOUT HEALTH INFORMATION DISSEMINATION 
    Burke-Garcia, Amelia (2017)
    The area of opinion leadership is a concept found in a number of health promotion models, theories, and frameworks (Valente & Pumpuang, 2007), and it has received a substantial amount of empirical and theoretical attention ...
  • An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of the Source and Patterns of Phonological Opacity in Developing Grammars 
    Waybright, Jill (2014)
    This dissertation applies an Optimality Theory Candidate Chains (OT-CC: McCarthy 2007) analysis to transient opaque productions which appear during early L1-acquisition (Smith 1973; Velten 1943; Cho and Lee 2003; Ettlinger ...
  • Optimism and Inmates: Uncharted Territory 
    Heigel, Caron P (2009-10-02)
    National statistics indicate that the rate of incarceration is rising (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2006). A high percentage of these inmates exhibit mental health issues and substance dependence upon entry into correctional ...
  • Organic Monuments: The Changing Landscapes of Augustan Rome 
    Endres, Alexandra (2015-08-04)
    This thesis explores the manner in which the shrinking landscape of an early Imperial Rome led to an increased utilization of vegetal motifs in Roman art. Beginning in the late first century BCE, Augustus attempted to ...
  • Organizational Justice at the Front Lines of Probation – Agents’ and Supervisors’ Perspectives 
    Goldberg, Victoria Lauren (2013-09-09)
    This thesis compares the perceptions of mid-level managers and frontline staff in a mid-Atlantic state’s parole and probation department. Specifically, this paper looks at staff perceptions of the organization’s culture ...

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