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Murder In The Digital Age: Rethinking Crime Fiction Theory through the Medium of Videogames
(English, 2012-07-25)Videogames are a multibillion-dollar industry. Their high definition graphics and sophisticated gameplay cater to a continuously growing crowd of enthusiastic players. But what is their standing in the academic community? ... -
Music Piracy Or A Permanent Passive Revolution
(Sociology, 2007-09-17)The goal of this thesis is to examine a classic interpretation of Antonio Gramsci's notion of hegemony in the modern era and the emergence of counter-hegemonic forces through technology. The individualization of modern ... -
Muslim American Perspectives On The Global War On Terrorism
(Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2007-08-23)This study examines the perceptions of Muslim Americans with regards to anti-terrorist policies and efforts in the U.S. with a specific emphasis on the U.S. led U.S. led Global War on Terrorism post-9/11. The perceived ... -
Mutual Funds: Governance and Holdings
(2020-09-02)In this dissertation I examine the role of governance and holdings within the mutual funds industry to determine if active managed fund strategies are affecting fund flows and increasing returns. My first two essays focus ... -
The Mutual Influences Of Law, Medicine, And Fictional Literature Regarding The Disposition Of A Somnambulist In Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Literature
(English, 2014-07-14)Somnambulism derives from the Latin words somnus- sleep and ambulare- to walk around, meaning a person appears to conduct waking actions, but is actually asleep. Classified as a disease, somnambulism raises questions of ... -
Mutual Information Based Non-rigid Image Registration Using Adaptive Grid Generation: GPU Implementation And Application To Breast MRI
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2008-09-17)In this dissertation a new approach for non-rigid image registration using mutual information is introduced. A fast method for non-rigid registration is developed by adjusting divergence and curl of an intermediate vector ... -
MUX/DEMUX OF HEVC/H.265 VIDEO STREAM WITH HE-AAC V2 AUDIO BIT STREAM AND TO ACHIEVE LIP SYNCH
(2016-08-10)The increasing demand for video and the increase in the number of devices enable of supporting digital media facilitate the enormous demand for video streaming over internet and and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) ... -
My Child And My Life: Sacrificial Obligation And Chaucer
(English, 2011-07-14)Medieval literature demonstrates that Christians of that era took their Bible seriously, particularly the Old Testament account of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. For them, the story was both fascinating and perplexing. Not ... -
“My Mother Hates Her Body, She Swears She Loves Mine”: The Effects of Socialization Through Mothering on Daughters’ Body Talk and Intuitive Eating.
(2023-08-10)This study examines the effects of early socialization about the body within mother/daughter relationships and its impact on the practice of Intuitive Eating (a practice of listening to one’s own body regarding food, rather ... -
Mystical Experience And Its Defense On The Mystical's Proper Understanding And Usage
(Humanities, 2013-03-20)This document will closely examine the issue of mystical experience by reviewing its origins in sacred concepts and leading arguments in the field of philosophy of mysticism. Ultimately, this document will attempt to prove ... -
N-HETEROCYCLIC CARBENE AND BIS(PYRAZOLYL)METHANE SUPPORTED COPPER(I) AND SILVER(I) COMPLEXES OF ORGANOTRIFLUOROBORATES
(2019-05-23)Organotrifluoroborates have gone from capturing the imagination of the scientific community to being used extensively in a host of applications ranging from being employed to study boron intermediates to being used as a ... -
N-MODEL METHODOLOGY FOR ENHANCEMENT OF OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE
(2019-05-22)Software maintenance typically consumes an average of 60\% of software life costs, of which more than 60\% are spent on enhancements. These are a challenge for the software community, in which hundreds of millions of lines ... -
The Nadir Of Alliance: The British Ultimatum Of 1890 And Its Place In Anglo-Portuguese Relations, 1147- 1945
(History, 2008-09-17)As has been stated many times before, the Anglo-Portuguese alliance is the oldest pact still currently in force in the world. It has been the bedrock cornerstone of Lisbon's foreign policy as a means of insuring Portuguese ... -
Naked And Alone In A Strange New World: Early Modern Captivity And Its Mythos In Ibero-American Consciousness
(History, 2008-09-17)This study compares and contrasts early modern (1500 - 1650) American captivity narratives of Jerónimo de Aguilar, Gonzalo Guerrero, Juan Ortiz, Cabeza de Vaca, Hans Stade, Hernando d'Escalante Fontaneda, Fray Francisco ... -
Nano-modified Cement Composites And Its Applicability As Concrete Repair Material
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2011-10-11)Nanotechnology or Nano-science, considered the forth industrial revolution, has received considerable attention in the past decade. The physical properties of a nano-scaled material are entirely different than that of bulk ... -
Nano-morphology Of Polymer Bulk Herojunctions Studied By Time-resolved Synchrotron X-ray Scattering
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)This study investigates the phase transformation of an active layer in organic photovoltaics (OPV) during film deposition and post thermal treatment as well as effects of phase transformation on OPV performance. For this ... -
NANO-PETROPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OIL WINDOW OF EAGLE FORD SHALE FROM SOUTHWESTERN TO CENTRAL TEXAS, U.S.A.
(2020-08-05)Eagle Ford Shale and the overlying Austin Chalk are the main producing plays throughout Central Texas. Due to the high clastic nature of Eagle Ford Shale and its ability to produce and maintain fractures from hydraulic ... -
Nano-Petrophysical Properties of the Bone Spring and the Wolfcamp Formation in the Delaware Basin, New Mexico, USA.
(2019-05-09)The Permian Basin is one of the largest oil producing basins in the United States. The Permian Basin is 260 miles by 300 miles in area and encompasses 52 counties in southeast New Mexico and West Texas. In the past decade, ... -
Nano-petrophysical study of the Dean, Wolfcamp, and Canyon formations of the Midland Basin, Texas, USA.
(2019-12-05)The prolific levels of oil and gas production from the shale revolution have been plagued by steep initial production decline and inefficiencies in recovering the total hydrocarbons in place. Even the widespread practice ... -
NANO-PETROPHYSICS OF AVALON SHALE OF THE DELAWARE BASIN OF WEST TEXAS & SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO
(2019-01-17)The Avalon Shale is a Permian-aged stratum and represents a significant rock unit within the Bone Spring, of the Delaware basin of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico. The Delaware Basin has witnessed increased drilling ...