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The Young Women Leaders' Program: Exploring Factors and Outcomes Associated with Emerging Adult Female Mentors' Experience
(2012-11-08)
The purpose of this study was to understand young adult female mentors’ experiences in a mentoring program that pairs undergraduates with at-risk female junior high school students. There is extremely limited research ...
Your Brain on Plastic: Measuring the Physiological to Transcriptomic Responses of Human Microglia to Consumer-Grade Micro- and Nanoplastics
(2026-04-23)
The production of plastics has reached record levels, with nearly half a billion metric tonnes produced annually. As such, there have been staggering increases in the amount of mismanaged- along with landfill-bound plastic ...
Your Experience on Your Terms: A survivor-based analysis of the impact caused by the miscommunication surrounding sexual violence on college campuses
(2022-04-29)
This thesis explores the perspectives of female survivors of campus sexual violence as they shed light on their disclosure and support seeking processes. Through the lens of communication privacy management (CPM) and social ...
"Yr most obedt. Servt.": Eliza Lucas's Epistolary Voice and the Construction of a Southern Female Identity
(2010-04-08)
Since the first publication of her Letterbook in 1972, Eliza Lucas Pinckney has become one of the most anthologized southern women of America’s early history. In addition to making an appearance in almost every historical ...
Zero-Shot Multi-Label Topic Inference
(2024-08-15)
Despite significant progress in NLP research, we still lack a general-purpose inference tool that can effectively serve users from a wide range of application domains. One way to address this challenge is to create supervised ...
Zinc Nanoparticle Enhancement of the Olfactory Neuron Response to Odorants Associated with Explosives
(2011-04-25)
Many odorants related to manufacturing explosives have low volatilities and have no detectable odor. We found that zinc metal nanoparticles in picomolar concentrations strongly enhanced olfactory receptor neuron responses ...
Zombie as Parody: The Misuses of Science and the Nonhuman Condition in Postmodern Society
(2009-04-30)
For this project, I will focus on those zombie films/texts that locate scientific and medical advances (or “advances”) as the source of cultural critique. Like Frankenstein in his laboratory, these particular zombie texts ...
Zoo Ecology of a Primate Species: Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri sciureus)
(2009-04-14)
Understanding how captivity affects the behavioral and development traits of a species is important for management and conservation in zoos. The ecology of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sp.) may be different in captivity than ...