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A "telling" uproar: Young women, feminism, and the making of the third wave
(2013)In the late 1980s and early 1990s, young feminists burst onto the social, cultural, and political scene in the United States. Hailed as the "next" generation of feminism, third wave feminists, as they became known, were ... -
A (mis) encounter of the post - 2000 Mexican nation - state: The democratic alternatives of Vicente Fox and the EZLN (and the reapproriation of the popular)
(2014)In the post - 2000 Mexican nation - state the implementation of democratic methods has become essential to the nation's modernization. The conflict between populism, subalternity and the hybridity of Mexican culture can ... -
A -20 dB airlifted Klopfenstein coupler for ultra wideband applications
(2010)A -20dB Airlifted Klopfenstein coupler is designed and micro-fabricated. The structure is fabricated on a glass substrate Er = 6.7. It is elevated 100um from the ground plane and is supported by SU-8 pillars. The coupler ... -
A 2-Step Noise Shaping Time-to-Digital Convereter
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)In this work, a 2-Step Noise Shaping Time to Digital Converter is designed. This 2-step TDC attempts to combine classical TDC architectures with modern circuit techniques to overcome the limitations inherent ... -
A 39fJ Analog Artificial Neural Network Classifier Circuit For Breast Cancer Classification In 65nm CMOS
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)An analog artificial neural network (ANN) classifier using a common-source amplifier based nonlinear activation function is presented in this work. A shallow ANN is designed in 65nm CMOS to perform binary classification ... -
A 600-year-long record of environmental change inferred from varves, Ayr Lake, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada
(2011)A 600-yr-long varve record is developed from proglacial Ayr Lake, Baffin Island, Canada, (70°16'7.86"N, 70°37'1.70"W) to improve our understanding of the complex relationships between varve thickness and glacier and climate ... -
A barbaric contrast to the eye: The city of Edinburgh reflected in Robert Louis Stevenson's “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
(2010)Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , is widely regarded to be intrinsically concerned with the inner-workings of the human subconscious and is therefore subject to be read with somewhat ... -
A bio-adjuvant combination approach for the chemoprevention of oral cancer: Preclinical trials
(2015)Purpose: Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) activation is an early event in head and neck carcinogenesis. As a result, targeting EGFR has become an attractive strategy for chemoprevention. We examined the impact of ... -
A Bio-inspired Neural System for Energy Optimal Collision Avoidance by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(2017)In this thesis, we develop an online collision detection/avoidance approach for multi-rotor (autonomous) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). One-on-one collision detection is performed by a UAV based on the observation of its ... -
A biomechanical characterization of intramedullary reaming in the human tibia
(2015)Intramedullary reaming is a technique used in orthopaedic trauma surgical procedures in which the intramedullary canal of a long bone is enlarged and prepared for the implantation of a nail to repair a fracture. Several ... -
A Bootstrapped Approach to Multilingual Text Stream Parsing
(2017)The ubiquitous hashtag has disruptively transformed how news stories are reported and shared across social media networks. Often, such text streams are massively multilingual with 50 different languages on an average and ... -
A brief alcohol use and sexual behavior risk-reduction program for inpatient adolescent girls: Stage I development
(2014)Adolescence is a period of significant vulnerability for risky behavior. These behaviors often cluster together, creating a condition of aggregated risk, which disproportionately affects adolescent girls. Alcohol use, risky ... -
"A Brother is to be Loved, and an Indian to be Hated": The Native American Struggle for Equality Under the Nineteenth-Century New American Ideology
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)Native Americans are repeatedly the unfortunate recipients of racial stereotypes by the American ideological hegemony, beginning with early nineteenth-century American Literature. Literature is one of the primary cultural ... -
A call to the pen and the gun: The neo-colonial novel as a writer's allegory – An analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's “A Grain of Wheat, Petals of Blood and Devil on the Cross”
(2010)This in depth analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s novels A Grain of Wheat (1967), Petals of Blood (1977), and Devil on the Cross (1982) assesses the role of the writer in the struggle against neo-colonialism in Kenya. Ngugi ... -
A Carousel for Missoula & Dragon Hollow Play Area
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A case for ...fine art ...community service ...documentary video
(2011)My thesis, "A Case For ...Fine Art ...Community Service ...Documentary Video" literally makes a case for how visual symbols, more than any other vehicle, routinely perform the heavy lifting in communicating vital messaging ... -
A case study of a migrant school responses to the needs of transient students
(2008)Transient migrant students are at great risk of dropping out of school due to their frequent mobility and limited English proficiency. This population of students faces severe discontinuity in their education, as well as ... -
A case study of a teacher study group in Taiwan
(2005)The purpose of this qualitative research examined the extent to which and the way in which Taiwanese educators in one selected high school in Taiwan viewed their English language study group as a form of staff development ... -
A case study of the development and implementation of a balanced literacy intervention program
(2008)In January 1999, The Tonawanda City School District administered the fourth grade New York State English Language Arts assessment for the first time. The results indicated that 55% of the total population of students who ... -
A case study of the development of symbolic and intercultural competence among Chinese learners of English in the context of a Taiwanese university
(2013)While there is ample literature that has discussed intercultural communication and intercultural competence of Chinese learners of English, ethnographic accounts and interactional analyses of development of learners' ...