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Tesis doctoral 2028

Looming lives: everyday lives of women weavers in Assam’s handloom industry

Das, Nandini

This thesis critically examines how women weavers in Assam’s handloom industry navigate their everyday lives by commodifying their weaving skills and engaging in various forms of debt and migration to sustain their livelihoods. Their experiences are analysed in relation to institutional interventions that claim women’s...

• University of Southampton
• United Kingdom
• English
• DOI: 10.5258/soton/01/t001

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Tesis doctoral 2028

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING

Alyobi, Mazen Hamady

This dissertation explores the emerging role of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in English language teaching and learning. The dissertation comprises two complementary studies. The first study is a systematic review, utilizing the PRISMA model, that examines empirical research studies on the use of intelligen...

Automated Feedback English as a second language Computer-Assisted Language Learning Educational Technology languages and literature

• Washington State University
• English
• DOI: 10.7273/000008420

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Tesis doctoral 2028

THE GLAMOROUS WORKING BODY

Sinha, Arpita

This dissertation investigates the labor of female fashion models in India through a combination of ethnographic and autoethnographic approaches, with particular attention to gendered precarity, health and bodily management (specifically, menstruation), and complicit participation. It traces the emergence of India’s co...

social sciences gender India health

• Washington State University
• English
• DOI: 10.7273/000008345

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Tesis doctoral 2028

CENTRAL CARBON METABOLISM AND OBGE-MEDIATED CONTROL OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS DEVELOPMENTAL TRANSITIONS

Monahan, Colleen Ceja

Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that causes significant disease in humans. Within the species, serovars A-C are associated with blinding ocular infections while serovars D-L are associated with sexually transmitted infections. Blinding ocular infections, known as trachoma, are a pu...

basic medicine medical and health sciences riboswitch CRISPRi-knockdown

• Washington State University
• English
• DOI: 10.7273/000008378

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Tesis doctoral 2028

Examining the role of organizational and contextual factors on school counselors’ perceived social determinants of health competency

Middleton, Tevin

Adverse social determinants of health, such as poverty, racism, trauma, and other systemic inequities, negatively impact K-12 students' mental health and educational success. In alignment with other helping professions, there is an explicit call to integrate the social determinants of health across the practice, identi...

interorganizational collaboration school-family-community partnerships school counseling social determinants of health

• The University of Iowa
• English
• DOI: 10.25820/etd.008365

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Tesis doctoral 2028

Commit to Be Fit: Antecedents and Consequences of Goal-Directed Health and Fitness Technology Use

Li, Yafang

My third essay focuses on understanding individuals' discontinuance and habitual use of fitness trackers from the perspectives of fitness tracker identity and exercise identity. Drawing on Carter and Grover's (2015) theoretical model of IT identity, this research investigates how the technological, personal, and social...

Fitness Tracker Habitual Use Fitness Technology Affordances Fitness Tracker Discontinuance Fitness Tracker Identity

• English
• DOI: 10.7273/000004532

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Tesis doctoral 2028

Identification and evaluation of putative pathogens of treponeme-associated hoof disease in free-ranging elk (Cervus canadensis)

Goldsmith, Elizabeth Willis

Treponeme-associated hoof disease (TAHD), an emerging disease causing lameness and apparent increased mortality in free-ranging elk (Cervus canadensis), is characterized by ulceration, hoof overgrowth, and undermining of the heel bulb. TAHD diagnosis and surveillance relies on identification of grossly abnormal hooves...

veterinary science Animal diseases Mycoplasma pododermatitis

• Washington State University
• English
• DOI: 10.7273/000008385

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Tesis doctoral 2028

DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS TO ACCELERATE DERMATOLOGICAL DISCOVERY

Makkar, Jasson

The skin is the largest and outermost organ that surrounds the human body and provides a physical barrier that protects the more delicate internal tissues from the harsh surrounding environment. Over the course of evolution, specialized structures have also arisen in the skin, including sweat and sebaceous glands, nail...

Translation Trichology Commercialization Computer Vision

• Washington State University
• English
• DOI: 10.7273/000008421

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Tesis doctoral 2028

MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF HOST DEFENSE TO POTATO POWDERY SCAB DISEASE

Jayasinghe, Samodya Kushani

Powdery scab is a significant disease in potato, caused by the obligate biotrophic pathogen Spongospora subterranea f. sp. subterranea (Sss). This pathogen not only causes substantial yield and quality losses but also vectors the potato mop-top virus (PMTV), the causal agent of tuber necrosis. No effective chemical con...

Host resistance Powdery scab Potato mop-top virus Spongospora subterranea

• Washington State University
• English
• DOI: 10.7273/000008357

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Tesis doctoral 2028

Boron-mediated C–O and C–F bond cleavage

Leventis, Theodora Ephrosinie

Boron Lewis acids form strong bonds with oxygen and fluorine, enabling activation of robust C–O and C–F bonds— key functionalities found in pharmaceuticals, polymers, and chemical-resistant materials. A notable example is lignocellulose, the structural component of plant cell walls and the most abundant biopolymer on E...

Lignin valorization Plastic recycling Regioselectivity PFAS

• The University of Iowa
• English
• DOI: 10.25820/etd.008235

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