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Dancing in the Diaspora: An Investigation of Contemporary Indian Dance Practices
(2018-09-19)
My research focus is to develop my own personal choreographic voice by contextualizing and investigating the works of three contemporary Indian dance choreographers in the diaspora who have trained in the classical dance ...
Contractile Activity-Induced Signaling Mechanisms in Aged Skeletal Muscle: Influence on Mitochondria
(2019-03-05)
The process of aging has an influential impact on the quality of skeletal muscle. With advancing age, even in the absence of disease, skeletal muscle has been acknowledged to decline in quantity and quality, a phenomenon ...
Re-Enchanting Human Ecology: Identity and Difference, Process Metaphysics, and Emergence
(2018-08-27)
Drawing from historical political thought and 20th century western philosophy, this dissertation advances a theory of secular enchantment of nature, humanity, and their relationship. Its underlying social and political ...
The Positivistic Mysticism of Alexander Scriabin: An Analysis of the Three tudes, Op. 65
(2018-03-01)
Over the past several decades, scholarly writings on Scriabins late piano music have largely focused on one topic: the pitch organisation of his unusual sonorities. A great variety of analytical techniques and methodologies ...
Hamdard and Unani: The Contested Terrain of Indo-Muslim Medical Knowledge
(2016-11-25)
This thesis is a historical anthropological study of the Indian branch of herbal pharmaceutical company Hamdard. I examine Hamdards commercial representation of the Indo-Islamic tradition of medicine called Unani, through ...
Signal-Dependent Transcriptional Regulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation
(2015-08-28)
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) play a key role in development as they are the major source of extracellular matrix components of vessel walls. During development, VSMCs will both proliferate and differentiate to form ...
Hybrid Electric Propulsion Using Gas Mixtures
(2015-08-28)
Hybrid electric propulsion is a new technology that combines electrostatic and electromagnetic propulsions. The goal of this engineering study is to design a hybrid electric propulsion system that can provide a specific ...
Development of High Efficiency Partial Nitrification as a First Step of Nitrite Shunt Process using Ammonium-Oxidizing Bacteria (AOB)
(2018-03-23)
Shortcut biological nitrogen removal is a non-conventional way of removing nitrogen from wastewater using two processes either nitrite shunt or deammonification. In this research, a complete partial nitrification as a first ...
Prevalence and Predictors of Metabolically Healthy Obesity in Adolescents
(2015-08-28)
Background: A subset of individuals with obesity display a normal cardiometabolic profile, termed metabolically healthy obesity (MHO).
Objectives: To examine the prevalence and predictors of MHO in adolescents.
Methods: ...
Equivalence Tests For Repeated Measures
(2015-12-16)
Equivalence tests from the null hypothesis significance testing framework are appropriate alternatives to difference tests for demonstrating lack of difference. For determining equivalence among more than two repeated ...