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Addressing Thoracic Cancers: Biomarker and Pre-Clinical Drug Discovery in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Thymic Carcinoma
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Thoracic cancer is a term that encompasses numerous malignancies within the thoracic cavity; the term includes malignancies such as lung cancers and thymic epithelial tumors. Lung cancers are the leading cause of cancer ...
Characterization and Analysis of Novel Antimalarial Drug Targets: Plasmodium falciparum Phosphatidylinositol Kinases
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is the first-line treatment recommended for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum infections by the World Health Organization (WHO). ACTs are composed of an artemisinin (ART) drug ...
Storytelling in Virtual Reality: A Narratological Study of Maqtal
(Georgetown University, 2020)
How can a story like Maqtal (account of martyrdom) of Imam Husayn be told be in Virtual Reality (VR)? The reason why this is a meaningful question is that the notion of telepresence, by which VR is theoretically defined, ...
Creeds of Death: The Impact of Ideology on Terrorist Organization Lethality
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Few empirical studies examine the relationship between ideology and lethality among terrorist organizations. In this paper, I test how ideological affiliation may affect a terrorist organization’s overall lethality. I ...
Zeitschrift, Text und Bild. Der bürgerliche Realismus im Kontext der visuellen Massenmedien des 19. Jahrhunderts
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The dissertation focuses on German realist literature of the late nineteenth-century and its interplay with the visual and media culture of its time. While realist writers dedicated themselves to showing the “true essence” ...
Rapid, Non-Classical Mechanism of Leukocyte Recruitment to Staphylococcus Aureus Skin Infection
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Swift recruitment of phagocytic leukocytes is critical to prevent infections when bacteria breach through the protective layers of the skin. While this process is commonly believed to be dependent on the prior activation ...
Illocution on Twitter: The Construction and Analysis of a Social Media Speech Act Corpus
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In the years since J.L. Austin (1962) first proposed Speech Act Theory (SAT), the literature has taken it in many directions. One recurring point of discussion is the extent to which the direct illocutionary force of an ...
Immune Responses During Resolution of Acute Hepatitis B in Woodchucks and Their Modulation for Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Understanding the innate and adaptive immune responses during resolution of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is important for exploring new treatment options for chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Studying acute hepatitis B (AHB) ...
There's No Pride in Anti-Semitism": Framing the 2019 DC Dyke March Ban of the Jewish Pride Flag through Facebook Comments
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In this study, I investigate the ways in which Facebook users, through public comments they post on an LGBTQ+ organization’s page, multimodally construct diverse interpretations and meanings of an event. Bringing together ...
“Subtle Asian Traits”: Multimodal Construction of Dialogue and Identity on Facebook
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This study examines multimodal constructed dialogue in “subtle asian traits”, a Facebook group for ethnic Asian young adults living in Anglophone countries to share their experiences of the Asian diaspora. In this study, ...