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Testimonios of resilience, struggle, and hope

Márquez Ponce, María Leonor

This project analyzes several examples of Latinx life writing, focusing on the authors/narrators' journeys as students and their paths toward higher education. This dissertation also addresses the uses of oral history and testimonio as praxis to narrate marginalized experiences within the United States education system...

DECLINING LEGITIMACY

Cassidy, Steven P.

This dissertation investigates the breakdown of social cohesion within the 91st Psychological Operations Company during its deployment, using the concept of organizational legitimacy to frame the analysis. Although many participants attributed dysfunction to poor leadership, the findings reveal that leader behavior is...

The voice of feelings: Exploring emotion regulation processes in voice-hearers

Cusworth, Kelly R

The experience of voice-hearing, clinically known as auditory verbal hallucinations, is defined as the perception of speech in the absence of any corresponding external auditory stimulus. Evidence indicates emotion processing difficulties are associated with the experience of voice-hearing. However, the research on spe...

Assessment of dynamic treatment regimens effects on longitudinal outcomes through clustering and causal inference

Lafontant, David-Erick

This dissertation presents methodologies for summarizing treatment dose trajectories, clustering longitudinal data, and evaluating the impact of dynamic treatment regimens on clinical outcomes over time. First, we propose a method to compare disease progression across treatment dose trajectories by clustering participa...

Two sides of the same coin

Debreceni, Ivy Lynne

Here, I defined T cell-intrinsic effects of IL-27 in lacrimal gland disease in NOD mice. IL-27 receptor was required by both CD4 T effector (Te) cells and CD8 T cells to mediate focal lacrimal gland inflammation in immunodeficient recipients. Intrinsic IL-27 signaling drives T follicular helper (TFH) cells and CD39hi e...

Combinatorial Signaling in the Dopamine Receptor System

Gregrowicz, Jan M.

The brain coordinates animal behavior through neuromodulators acting on a large family of G protein-coupled receptors. Dopamine acts through five receptor subtypes divided into two functionally opposing families. The type-1 family couples to stimulatory G proteins and increases cyclic adenosine monophosphate, while the...

Analytical applications in Geoscience

Horkley, Lawrence Kenneth Squire

The third chapter focuses on electron microprobe-based methods applied to olivine diffusion chronometry and geothermobarometry from two eruptions in the central Snæfellsnes peninsula and application of geothermobarometry methods on a compiled database of glass and cpx analyses to assess any variations in magma storage...

Engineering A Mimetic Environment For Articular Cartilage Production

Robertson, Terreill Joseph

Human articular cartilage (AC), an anisotropic tissue lining the subchondral bone, functions to regularly resist deformational changes applied by daily activities such as walking, running, and more. Upon joint loading, a myriad of mechanical stresses and strains arise. Hydrostatic pressure is one of many mechanical fac...

The experience of leadership

Kemp, Kayla M

Aligning with the transcendental phenomenological research approach, the researcher followed up with each participant after the initial interviews to offer the opportunity to amend any part of their narrative to ensure accuracy of their lived experience. After a comprehensive analysis of the participant interviews, fou...

Interaction proteomics of the glycine receptor alpha1 and alpha2 subunits: implications for human neurological disease

Fraser, Sean