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U.S. Latina Theater: Scripting Feminine Subjectivity
(2016-05)Since the 1980s, U.S. Latina Theater has focused on presenting realistic portrayals of the feminine subject on stage. Such an undertaking by Latina playwrights has been to challenge to the representations of women in ... -
Ultrafast Dynamics of Transition Metal Oxides and Rare-Earth Chalcogenides
(December 2)Understanding physicochemical processes at their fundamental timescale is crucial for design and applications of materials. Using femtosecond laser spectroscopy, light-induced dynamics in highly-correlated materials can ... -
Ultrasensitive Magnetometry for the Quantitation of Magnetic Assays
(August 201)The accessibility of reliable diagnostic, play a vital role in health care costs, decisions, treatment and possible survival rates. Point-of-Care (POC) diagnostic is currently the most accessible form of medical diagnostic ... -
ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENTS AND ROCK PHYSICS MODELING OF IRATI SHALE FROM BRAZIL
(2012-12)Unconventional shale reservoirs have gained significant attention in recent years in terms of hydrocarbon reserves and production potential. However, exploration and production from shale reservoirs are still very challenging. ... -
Un/Plugging into Life: Activating the Collective Identity Through the Musical Autonomy
(2017)How do individual headphones influence the socialization of a community through its shared environment? This research looks at portability, public and private spaces, types of devices, and change over time to formulate an ... -
Uncertainty Medicine: The Development of Radiation Therapy, 1895-1925
(December 2)This dissertation offers an overview of the development of x-ray and radium therapy in both the United States and Great Britain in the period from 1896 to 1925. Specific attention is paid to the early work of pioneering ... -
Unconstrained Variational Principles and Morse Indices for Linear Elliptic Eigenproblems
(2013-12)Variational principles for finding eigenvalues, and associated eigenvectors, for symmetric matrices and compact self-adjoint linear operators have been studied by many authors for some time now. Here we shall introduce ... -
Uncovering Dynamical Equations for Coarse-Graining
(2018)The enormous amount of molecular dynamics data available calls for an ever-growing need for extracting macroscopic features while discarding less relevant information; coarse-graining (CG) is a viable strategy to accomplish ... -
Under Pressure: Measuring Constituent Attitudes on Immigration and its Effects on Legislative Behavior
(5.2019)Immigration is a highly contested topic that has divided political lines in much of recent history. Edwards and Gimpel (1999) show that immigration has not always been as polarized of an issue among voters, nor has it ... -
Undergraduate Student Instrumentation Project: A New Approach on Sampling Microorganisms from the Lower Stratosphere
(2017)Summary. Obtain cross-sectional data of microorganisms collected in the lower stratosphere using an efficiently designed, lightweight, balloon-borne suctioning mechanism. Data useful for further studies in field of ... -
Undergraduate Students’ Attitudes toward Creativity: The Development of the Undergraduate Perceptions of Creativity Survey
(2012-05)The need for an instrument which measures undergraduate attitudes towards creativity prompted the development of a survey. Using the published literature as a theoretical basis, the items for a survey were constructed, and ... -
Underlying Motives, Moral Agendas and Unlikely Partnerships: The Formulation of the U.S. Trafficking in Victims Protection Act through the Data and Voices of Key Policy Players
(Advances in Social Work, 08/07/12)In response to the overwhelming amount of attention to human trafficking, the debates surrounding its definition, and its focus on the sex industry, the purpose of this study was to understand the motivations behind the ... -
Understanding Academic Momentum and Enrollment Outcomes for International Students at an Urban Community College System
(2016-05)International students are increasingly choosing community colleges as a pathway to pursue their postsecondary education and eventually transfer to a four-year institution (Anayah & Kuk, 2015; Hagedorn & Zhang, 2013; Zhang, ... -
UNDERSTANDING AND MEASURING CARING
(2012-05)This study sought to understand whether prolonged involvement in activities that potentially elicit generative behaviors had an impact on the overall generativity of university staff. To date, the research on an ethic of ... -
Understanding Democracy
(2017)I investigated the stability of Athenian democracy at the end of the 5th century. Direct democracy can give us a new perspective on the characteristics of the form that the elective republics of today cannot. Athenian dem. ... -
Understanding Gendered Racial Identity Among Black Women Using an Intersectional Approach
(August 201)Gendered racial identity (GRI) has emerged as a construct used to describe Black women’s distinct intersected identity as Black and woman (Thomas, Hacker, & Hoxha, 2011; Thomas, Hoxha, & Hacker, 2013). Despite the importance ... -
Understanding health literacy in the Latino population
(University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, 2019)The National Institutes of Health (NIH) defines health literacy as the “degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health ... -
UNDERSTANDING LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN READING AS A PREDICTOR OF AYP REPORTING STATUS AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
(2013-05)The 2010-2011 Texas Education Agency’s Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) reported 16.9% of all students tested on Texas’ state accountability test were identified as Limited English Proficient (AEIS, 2011). ... -
Understanding Members’ Active Participation in Online Question-and-Answer Communities: A Theory and Empirical Analysis
(Journal of Management Information Systems, 8/28/2015)Community-based question-and-answer (Q&A) websites have become increasingly popular in recent years as an alternative to general-purpose Web search engines for open-ended complex questions. Despite their unique contextual ...