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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 ...
The Eastern Question, Great Game, and Modern Hot Wars: Policy Lessons and Statecraft Implications for US Relations with Russia, Turkey, and Iran in the 21st Century
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This study provides additional context for unacknowledged but sustained Russian and Iranian hot wars against the United States that unfolded and became normalized in the 2010s. It examines key events through four constructs: ...
Humanizing Fiscal Costs: Creating the Incentives for Criminal Justice Reform and Reducing Recidivism
(Georgetown University, 2020)
HUMANIZING FISCAL COSTS: CREATING THE INCENTIVES FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM AND REDUCING RECIDIVISM
"Fighting the Enemy with Fists and Daggers": The Chinese Communist Party’s Counterterrorism Policy in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under Xi Jinping, 2012-2019
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This dissertation examines Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s ethno-religious policy in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Successfully countering the so-called “three evil forces” of ...
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 ...