Browsing Theses and Dissertations, Electronic (ETDs) by Title
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Rabbis, Rabbas, and Maharats: Aspiration, Innovation, and Orthodoxy in American Women's Talmud Programs
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-10-25)Based on several years of fieldwork in Orthodox Jewish Women’s Talmud programs in New York City, and the organizations that support them, this dissertation focuses on both the embattled process of religious legal education ... -
Race and Romantic Visions: A Tragic Reading
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-05-08)My dissertation explores a set of creative intersections between romanticism, black political thought, and Nietzschean philosophy. In so doing it asks two overarching questions. First, how do different ethical theories, ... -
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Awareness of Genetic Testing in the U.S. Population: A Secondary Data Analysis Using the Health Information National Trends Surveys
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-03-20)Members of ethnic and racial minority communities report lower awareness of genetic tests than others (Pagan et al, 2009). Previous studies have examined predictors of testing awareness in cross sectional studies reflecting ... -
RACIAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC DIFFERENCES IN ORGAN DONATION AND ACCESS TO SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-05-17)Solid organ transplantation, a curative healthcare intervention for patients with end-stage disease of the liver or kidney, precipitates fervent discourse around supply, from who are deceased donor organs recovered, and ... -
RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN MAGAZINE COVERAGE OF MAMMOGRAPHY
(Johns Hopkins University, 2008-05-21)This study examined messages regarding mammography in mass circulation African- American and European-American women’s magazines. There were significant differences in the content of African-American and European-American ... -
Racial Disparities in Blood Pressure Control and Implications of Hypertension Guidelines
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-04-20)This dissertation examines key issues for improving hypertension management and the implications of recent guidelines for cardiovascular health and disparities. We used multiple data sources and study designs to inform our ... -
Racial Politics and Social Policy in Urban Canada
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-10-24)The dissertation presents findings from a comparative study of urban policies the provincial governments of Quebec and Ontario introduced simultaneously, yet independently, in the year of 2006. Its central purpose is to ... -
Racial School Segregation and the Transition to College
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-06-24)Prior studies generally find that attending black-segregated schools is detrimental across a range of academic outcomes, but much research on the causes and consequences of school segregation rely on single time-point ... -
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the HIV Care Continuum: Better Targets and Better Measures
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-05-30)Background: The United States (US) National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) prioritized reductions in disparities in HIV care and improvements in HIV care retention, antiretroviral therapy (ART) use, and viral suppression ... -
Racialized Discourse at the Intersection of Meaning, Mind, and Metaphysics
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-02-19)Racialized discourse is language that transmits potentially harmful representations of racial groups. It is also a tool for maintaining status quo racial hierarchies. A theory of racialized discourse should describe the ... -
RACISM AND CANCER PREVENTION: THE ROLE OF PERCEIVED RACISM AND RACE-BASED RESIDENTIAL SEGRETATION ON BEHAVIORAL CANCER RISK PROFILES
(Johns Hopkins University, 2008-04-24)Problem statement: Cancer is a significant public health problem in the United States; since 1999 cancer has been the leading cause of death among those 85 years and younger. Racial/ethnic disparities in cancer exist. ... -
Radiation-driven, geometrically thick, dusty obscuration in active galactic nuclei
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-10-05)Substantial evidence points to dusty, geometrically thick tori obscuring the central engines of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), but so far no mechanism satisfactorily explains why cool dust in the torus remains in a puffy ... -
RADICAL SAM ENZYMES IN THIENAMYCIN BIOSYNTHESIS
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-12-07)Despite its broad anti-infective activity, the biosynthesis of the paradigm carbapenem antibiotic, thienamycin, remains largely unknown. Apart from the first two biosynthetic steps shared with a simple carbapenem, the ... -
Radicals and the Center: Action and Reaction in American Politics
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-08-31)This thesis proposes that radical actors interact with the political center in several distinct modes: reactive, cooperative, and confrontational. In the reactive mode, they respond to undesired changes imposed by the ... -
Radio-morphology: Parametric Shape-Based Features in Radiotherapy
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-12-18)In radiotherapy, it is necessary to characterize dose over the patient anatomy to target areas and organs at risk. Current tools provide methods to describe dose in terms of percentage of volume and magnitude of dose, but ... -
Raghav Goyal - Understanding sex determination in the female germline of Drosophila melanogaster
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-01-16)Germline sex determination is a key aspect of sexual development that allows germ cells to develop along either a male or female path to produce sperm or eggs. In most animal models, signals from surrounding somatic cells ... -
Raman spectroscopy of isogenic breast cancer cells derived from organ-specific metastases reveals distinct biochemical signatures
(Johns Hopkins University, 2015-05-01)Characterizing the subtle divergence of the metastatic lesions from the primary tumor is critical to understanding organ-specific adaptations that regulate further disease progression as well as the development of targeted ... -
RAMBO FIRST BLOOD PART III: THE ROLE SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES CAN PLAY IN THE ASIA PACIFIC
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-05-14)The People’s Republic of China (PRC) increasingly seeks to assert its interests as it approaches its national centennial. This desire to be the predominant power in the Asia Pacific by casting the United States as a kind ... -
RANDOM DOT PRODUCT GRAPHS A MODEL FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS
(Johns Hopkins University, 2008-02-01)We develop a new set of random graph models. The motivation for these mod- els comes from social networks and is based on the idea of common interest. We represent a social network as a graph, in which vertices correspond ... -
RANDOM DRIFT: CHANCE AND EXPLANATION IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
(Johns Hopkins University, 2006-08-03)The central claim for which I argue in this dissertation is that there are important phenomena that occur by random drift that evolutionary biologists explain using a strategy I term “process explanation.” This claim ...