Browsing Theses and Dissertations, Electronic (ETDs) by Title
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BACE1 activity levels inversely influence peripheral axon regeneration: a potential therapy for nerve injuries and diseases
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-12-11)One of the many unsolved mysteries in neuroscience is why the peripheral nervous system can extensively regenerate its axons while the central nervous system is limited. Despite its capacity for regeneration, peripheral ... -
Back to the Land
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-03-23)Opening excerpt of a novel. Committee: Alice McDermott chair. Dora Malech second reader. Alice McDermott: armotts@aol.com -
BACTERIAL CELL DIVISION IN-SIGHT: A SUPER-RESOLUTION STUDY OF THE ESCHERICHIA COLI DIVISOME
(Johns Hopkins University, 2013-10-09)The polymerization of FtsZ into an annular structure (Z-ring) at midcell is the first recognized step in E. coli cell division, and is required for the recruitment of the remaining essential division proteins. Further ... -
BALANCING NATIONAL SECURITY AND FREEDOM: REACTIONS TO TERRORISM AND ITS EFFECT ON CITIZENS’ CIVIL LIBERTIES, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND PRIVACY
(Johns Hopkins University, 2015-01-29)This thesis portfolio analyzes the balance between national security and freedom, and the safe guards in place designed to protect liberty while increasing security. This portfolio finds that the impact of national security ... -
Balancing National Security and the Constitution: The Security Blanket Over Civil Liberties
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-06-04)In a letter from Benjamin Franklin to the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1775, Franklin wrote, “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” While ... -
BALANCING THE ASSUMPTIONS OF CAUSAL INFERENCE AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-08-30)Drawing conclusions about real-world relationships of cause and effect from data collected without randomization requires making assumptions about the true processes that generate the data we observe. Causal inference ... -
BALANCING THE THREE-LEGGED STOOL: SUSTAINABLE CHILDREARING ROUTINES, FAMILY, AND WORK IN TWO AMERICAN CITIES
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-10-25)Within a policy regime built on an ideal of “implicit familialism,” American parents experience a great deal of conflict between the spheres of work and family. By using childrearing as the potential realm of social ... -
Ball Milled Al/Zr Reactive Composites for Bio-Agent Defeat: From Synthesis to Application
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-04-20)The introduction of novel reactive metal fuels into bio-agent defeat applications requires an understanding of how ignition, combustion, and large-scale performance properties are coupled and how they depend on powder ... -
Ballet d'Action to Ballet-Pantomime: Dance, Text, and Narrative in French Ballet, 1734-1841
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-03-19)My dissertation, “Ballet d’Action to Ballet-Pantomime: Dance, Text, and Narrative in French Ballet, 1734-1841,” examines the relationship between literary text, narrative structure, pantomime, and dance in the context of ... -
Bangles, Breath, and Machines - Evaluation of Novel Personal Exposure Methods to Measure Household Air Pollution in Puno, Peru
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-10-28)Household air pollution (HAP) adversely affects nearly three billion people worldwide who rely on biomass fuels for cooking and other household energy needs. The incomplete combustion of these types of biofuels leads to ... -
BANKS UNCHAINED: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BANK REGULATION IN THE UK 1945-2015
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-21)This dissertation seeks to understand why banking regulation has not led to banking stability. In broader terms it looks at how the state tries to control the market and why this fails. Specifically this dissertation ... -
BARCODE SEQUENCING SCREEN IDENTIFIES SUB1 AS A NOVEL REGULATOR OF YEAST PHEROMONE INDUCIBLE GENES
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-10-16)The yeast pheromone response pathway serves as a valuable model of eukaryotic mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways, several components of which are actual and potential therapeutic drug targets. Here we present ... -
Bargaining Citizenship: Women's Organizations, the State, and Marriage Migrants in South Korea
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-06-12)Since 1948, South Korea has maintained restrictive immigration and citizenship policies that promote ethnic homogeneity and discourage the settlement of immigrants who do not have marital or family ties to ethnic Koreans. ... -
BARRIERS AND FACILITATORS TO AUTOMATED PATIENT SELF-SCHEDULING FOR HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS: SCOPING REVIEW, CONSENSUS FROM A DELPHI PANEL OF KEY STAKEHOLDERS, AND EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-10-13)Appointment management in the outpatient setting is important for provider organizations as waits and delays lead to poor outcomes and inefficiencies. Automated patient self-scheduling of outpatient appointments has ... -
BARRIERS AND FACILITATORS TO ENGAGING IN HEALTH PROMOTING BEHAVIORS AMONG NURSES IN AN URBAN SETTING: A MIXED-METHOD STUDY
(Johns Hopkins University, 2013-11-25)ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of health-promoting behaviors among nurses and to examine the barriers and facilitators to engaging in health-promoting behaviors. Health-promoting behaviors ... -
Barriers to HIV-Positive Organ Transplantation: The Role of Organ Procurement Organizations
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-04-14)The HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act was passed in 2013 and permits the transplantation of HIV-positive organs into HIV-positive recipients. Analysis prior to the passage of the law suggested there could be at least 500 ... -
BARRIERS TO SUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT IN CARE AMONG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA
(Johns Hopkins University, 2015-03-26)Background: Globally, men who have sex with men (MSM) face a high and disproportionate burden of HIV infection. The framework of the HIV care continuum provides both an individual and population-based approach to addressing ... -
Basal Cell Carcinoma in United States Radiologic Technologists
(Johns Hopkins University, 2014-06-13)Abstract Background: High doses of ionizing radiation (IR) are a known risk factor for basal cell carcinoma (BCC). Few studies have analyzed protracted low doses of IR exposure (<100 mGy) and excess BCC risk, and ... -
Batlas: variational reconstruction of a digital, three-dimensional atlas of the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus)
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-10-24)Bats are an ideal model for auditory perception due to their highly discriminative and dynamic sound processing capabilities. To understand auditory brain function, neuroscientists must spatially resolve complementary ... -
Baustellen der Zerstörung. Literatur, Architektur und Dekonstruktion
(Johns Hopkins University, 2014-10-24)My dissertation analyzes representational and epistemological modes of architectural destruction in literature, theory, and film since the 1960s. I argue in my thesis that architectural destruction challenges the limits ...