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"The silent soliloquy of others": language and acknowledgment in modernist fiction
(2018)This study claims that formally experimental novels written in the early twentieth century place urgent, if often implicit, demands for acknowledgment upon their readers. Scholars have long held that the economic and ... -
Serio-Comic Journal of a Cruize, 1847-1848: annotated edition with introduction and commentary on sea journals
(2018)When he began his journal seaman Hugh Calhoun had high hopes for the outward-bound voyage ahead of him. Ship-of-the-Line Ohio was back from the Siege of Veracruz, being prepared for her next mission, and the War was at ... -
The unique and conditional effects of interoceptive exposure in the treatment of anxiety: a functional analysis
(2018)Panic disorder (PD) and claustrophobia are commonly co-occurring anxiety disorders associated with high distress and impairment. Interoceptive exposure (IE; exposure focused on anxiety about somatic sensations) is a ... -
Essays on the influence of experience and environment on behavior
(2018)This dissertation explores how experience and environment impact behavior. In the first chapter, I provide behavioral foundations for a model of taste uncertainty with endogenous learning through consumption. In this ... -
Emergent emotion regulation: identifying early sociocontextual and physiological correlates in preschool children
(2018)Emotion regulation refers to processes of modifying emotional reactions and is critical to adaptive functioning. Early childhood is a crucial time to study emotion regulation because of the rapid development of cognitive ... -
Hiding secrets in public random functions
(2018)Constructing advanced cryptographic applications often requires the ability of privately embedding messages or functions in the code of a program. As an example, consider the task of building a searchable encryption scheme, ... -
Materiality and Christianity in Nanping: making God present
(2018)This dissertation investigates what Christianity implies for contemporary Chinese Christians, and theorizes the interplay between unity and diversity within the Christian phenomenon. I collected data from January 2015 to ... -
Stress and depression among veterinary medical students
(UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC, 2017-03-01)While existing literature suggests that professional students (e.g., medical, dental, law, nursing, etc.) experience high levels of stress and depression, the experiences of veterinary medical students have been less well ... -
The intersection of race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, trans identity, and mental health outcomes
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2016-10-01)The present study examined patterns in trans individuals’ multiple identities and mental health outcomes. Cluster 1 (socioeconomic and racial privilege; n = 239) was characterized by individuals who identified as trans ... -
The politicization of Muslims and national security policy
(2018)Existing literature suggests evidence that American citizens have implicit and explicit biases against Muslims that influence or allow biased policies. In general, many of these biases stem from media framing, ethnic ...
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