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  • Opening a Trapdoor in Your Soul: Tim O’Brien’s Pursuit of a True War Story

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    Gallagher, Molly J.
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    This thesis project explores Tim O’Brien’s use of fiction to go beyond simply recounting an experience in the Vietnam War to write a true war story through examination of his writing, interviews, and their impact on me as a reader. I dissect three of O’Brien’s fictional narratives for their similarities...
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    Opening a Trapdoor in Your Soul: Tim O’Brien’s Pursuit of a

  • Volume minimized generalized cross entropy for learning with label noise

    Creator:
    Wolnick, Daniel
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    The types and rates of label noise in real-world data sets present a challenge to machine learning projects. In this thesis, we propose a novel approach to address this issue. Our method combines a noise modelling technique for correcting label noise across the entire data set with a robust loss...
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    Volume Maximized Generalized Cross Entropy for Learning

  • Efficiency of bioswales in positively effecting storm water quality

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    Grenz, Natalie S.
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    Because of the increased need for sustainable construction in an ever urbanizing culture, new sustainable drainage systems are being developed and implemented. Bioswales are becoming an increasingly popular form of sustainable urban drainage used for parking lots and subdivisions. But little is known regarding the effectiveness of bioswales in really...
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    to this thesis: Tim Acker of Applied Technology Dr. Jack Istok and his employees at the

  • Efficiency of bioswales in positively effecting storm water quality

    Creator:
    Grenz, Natalie S.
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    Because of the increased need for sustainable construction in an ever urbanizing culture, new sustainable drainage systems are being developed and implemented. Bioswales are becoming an increasingly popular form of sustainable urban drainage used for parking lots and subdivisions. But little is known regarding the effectiveness of bioswales in really...
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    to this thesis: Tim Acker of Applied Technology Dr. Jack Istok and his employees at the

  • Things I Thought I Knew : An Exploration and Experimentation in Autobiography as Literature

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    Sundberg, Brittany Kay
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    Autobiography is usually categorized with essays and other technical writings, and rarely considered creative or artistic literature in the public eye. This project explores the elements of autobiography and two authors who break the barriers of conventional practices to create works that also function as creative and artistic literature. Maya...
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    Caged Bird Sings and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried serve as examples of such works, and this

  • The Effects of the Immunity Factor Relish on Aging Phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster

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    Kumar, Nandita
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    Aging is a complex biological phenomenon that alters many different physiological processes. Although many age-related phenotypes, such as neurodegeneration, weakening circadian rhythms, and inflammaging, are well-studied, the links between them are not. To elucidate these links we created an inflammation-like state in Drosophila melanogaster by overexpressing Relish (Rel), an NFκB...
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    ) and timeless (tim) by binding to DNA sequences called the E-boxes in the promoter regions of these

  • Mining Public Microbiome Datasets to Identify Specific Microbial Taxa Associated with Anxiety-Related Disorders

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    Martin, Austin N.
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    Over the last ten years, clinical, pre-clinical and animal studies have shown associations between the microbiota and neurological functions. Recent work by the scientific community on the gut-microbiome-brain axis have revealed that gut dysbiosis and specific microbial taxa are associated with a myriad of neurological conditions, such as autism spectrum...
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    in a random forest model (using 10 fold cross validation), these ASVs allowed the model to perform

  • Investigating the Impact of Teaching Inclusive Design Concepts on Ecampus Students’ Mindsets

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    Garcia, Rosalinda
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    Although computer science (CS) education researchers and practitioners have found ways to improve CS classroom inclusivity, few researchers have considered inclusivity of online CS education. We have begun developing a new approach that we term “embedded inclusive design” to address inclusive CS. The essence of the approach is to integrate...
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    with me. I wish you all the best and hope our paths cross in-person again in the future. And

  • Effects of Oxidative Stress on Circadian Gene Expression during Aging

    Creator:
    Bonar, Tara
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    All organisms possess circadian clocks, which generate daily oscillations in clock controlled gene expression that regulate many essential biological functions in synchrony with the 24-hour light/dark cycles. When the genes that control the internal clock are weakened, accelerated aging symptoms are observed. Past research in Drosophila demonstrated that aging flies...
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    .......................................................................................................................18 3.1 Clock genes per and tim function under hyperoxic stress .................................18

  • Oxidative Stress Response Genes: A Circadian Connection?

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    McAllister, Marisa C.
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    Circadian clocks are internal mechanisms regulating many physiological processes. Research suggests that the circadian clock may regulate repair of cellular damage caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS), but molecular pathways from the clock to ROS repair are not known. The gene cncC, known in mammals as Nrf2, and its repressor...
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    to oxidative stress……….…12 4. Diurnal profiles of tim, cncC/Nrf2, keap1 mRNA levels in heads of