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  Essays on the influence of experience and environment on behavior 

  Cooke, Kevin (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 ...
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  Emergent emotion regulation: identifying early sociocontextual and physiological correlates in preschool children 

  Kao, Katie (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 ...
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  The unique and conditional effects of interoceptive exposure in the treatment of anxiety: a functional analysis 

  Boettcher, Hannah (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 ...
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  Hiding secrets in public random functions 

  Chen, Yilei (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, ...
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  "The silent soliloquy of others": language and acknowledgment in modernist fiction 

  Chase, Greg (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 ...
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  Serio-Comic Journal of a Cruize, 1847-1848: annotated edition with introduction and commentary on sea journals 

  Atabay, Turhan Alp (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 ...
• Materiality and Christianity in Nanping: making God present 

  Chambon, Michel (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 ...
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  The politicization of Muslims and national security policy 

  Anwar, Anima (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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  Felon disenfranchisement and black voter turnout 

  Cushing-Daniels, Michaela (2018)

  State laws disenfranchising felons and ex-felons have existed in many American states since before the Civil War. However, in the aftermath of the Civil War, new, more severe restrictions were passed as part of the Jim ...
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  Studies towards the syntheses of rocaglate natural products and synthetic analogues via ESIPT photocycloaddition 

  Wang, Wenyu (2018)

  The total syntheses of isomeric aglain natural products (±)-foveoglin A and (±)-perviridisin B have been achieved via ESIPT (excited states intramolecular proton transfer)-mediated selective (3+2) photocycloaddition of ...

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