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Shī‘ī Scholars on Legal Change, Iran's Guardian Council and Expediency Discernment Council (Majma‘ Tashkhīṣ Maṣlahat Niẓām)
(Georgetown University, 2021)
This dissertation studies theories of legal change among Shī‘ī jurists and legal scholars as well as institutional legal change in post-1979 Iran. I demonstrate how Shī‘ī legal theorists formulated the theories of Variable ...
No Longer Forgotten: Pupation as a Critical Link in the Lepidopteran Life Cycle
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Holometabolous insects, those that undergo complete metamorphosis, owe their tremendous evolutionary success in large part to an efficient division of labor between a larval phase that focuses on feeding, and an adult phase ...
Nitric Oxide Signalling of RSNOs and Nitrite Mediated by Lewis Acids
(Georgetown University, 2021)
As an important signaling molecule, nitric oxide (NO) contributes to numerous biological effects such as vasodilation, angiogenesis and respiration control. The freedom of action for NO, however, is limited by its high ...
Modernizing Topic Models: Accounting for Noise, Time, and Domain Knowledge
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Data has evolved rapidly since the inception of topic models over twenty years ago.The most popular topic models perform poorly on large contemporary data sets that contain short, noisy texts.
This dissertation aims to ...
Lifetime Stability, Maternal Effects, and Fitness Outcomes of Socio-Ecological Strategies in Wild Bottlenose Dolphins
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Individuals within a population differ in behavior along both social and ecological axes. These differences are proposed to be governed by niche theory at the individual level, but empirical evidence is sparse, especially ...
Associations between Polymorphisms in Genes in the Nitrite Synthesis Pathway and Mammographic Breast Density, a Biomarker of Breast
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The nitrite synthesis pathway may play a role in breast cancer by activating the estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) through an interaction with the ligand-binding domain of the receptor in the absence of estradiol. ERα plays a ...
Citizens and Comrades: Entangled Revolutions and the Production of Knowledge Between Russia and France, 1905-1936
(Georgetown University, 2021)
What did Russian people know about 1789 in 1905? What did French people know about 1917 in 1936? Historians of France and Russia have long argued that the French-Russian revolutionary connection is central to both French ...
Charity in Dialogue: A Reflection on Hermeneutics, Religion, and Human Dignity
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The central argument in this thesis is that religion, and in particular the Christian religion, has an essential cultural function to play in the first half of the twenty-first century as a cultural educator par excellence ...
Dissecting Malarial Anemia Using Rodent Malaria Models
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Malaria continues to be a global issue, with many deaths arising from severe malaria anemia. Rodent malaria models are a well-known tool for studying malaria disease pathology. Initial microarray data revealed changes to ...
Articulating Non-Native Vowel Contrasts
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The goal of this dissertation is to better understand the targets of vowels in speech production. Three experiments investigate vowel production in non-native speech, probing how new vowel categories, and thus targets, are ...