Eightmile River (New London County and Middlesex County, Conn.); Water quality -- Connecticut
Anthropogenic influences have significant deleterious impacts on the integrity of aquatic environments. Recent conservation efforts have been directed towards whole watershed management, whereby the quality of surface water is maintained through...
Césaire, Aimé -- Criticism and interpretation; Guillén, Nicolás, 1902-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation; Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation; Palés Matos, Luis -- Criticism and interpretation; McKay, Claude,...
This research represents a comparative study of the poetry and politics of the afro voice in the literature across the Americas in the post-colonial period. The works of Aim Csaire from Martinique; Nicols Guilln from Cuba; Langston Hughes from ...
Archaeology -- Connecticut -- Data processing; Geographic information systems; Historical geographic information systems; Archaeology -- Connecticut -- Methodology
Cultural resources in the form of historic and prehistoric archaeological sites can be found throughout the State of Connecticut. Such resources offer society numerous benefits when properly studied, protected and managed. In order to protect and...
Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia are the two most commone forms of dementia.
Approximately 65-90% of all dementia cases represent one of these two types. Early
differentiation of the two diseases is crucial to proper therapeutic treatment...
Exercise-induced asthma, more accurately called exercise induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) has been defined as a clinical syndrome characterized by transient airflow obstruction following several minutes of exercise. EIB is also recognized as...
Frizzy (fr) is a spontaneous recessive mutation in mice characterized by curly vibrissae, a disheveled coat and short hair (Snell 1951). Previous linkage analysis located the mutant fr allele on Mus musculus Chromosome 7 (Falconer and Snell 1952)....
American literature -- African American authors; Realism in literature; Idealism in literature; Patriarchy in literature; Womanist theology
"Getting Real: Beauty and Politics in Contemporary African American Literature," offers a close reading of five literary texts, published during the years of 1959-1990, to track African American literature's emphasis transcending the stereotypical...
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Family; Women -- Conduct of life -- 19th century; Women -- Social conditions -- 19th century; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Oriental influences
"Harriet Beecher Stowe Had Moorish Slippers: The Oriental Roots of Domesticity" is an attempt to chart the nineteenth century relationship between the creation of woman's sphere, the gender segregated world of American elite women, and the Oriental...
The purpose of this investigation is to examine the breakdown in both the personal and cultural identities of Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican immigrants who reside in the United States. Through various literary contributions made by contemporary...
Normally public opinion about the Islamic religion is often negative. The Muslim people are seen as violent oppressors of women. Although it may be true in some countries, the fact is Muslim people represent a variety of societies and communities...
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote; Don Quixote (Fictitious character); Moriscos in literature
Miguel de Cervantes' El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha relates the adventures of Don Quijote and his sidekick Sancho Panza in a world in which reality and appearance are blurred together. This thesis observes that this dual reality...
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction; Duras, Marguerite. Douleur. English -- Criticism, Textual
The Second World War has profoundly impacted French literature from its onset and continuing to today. The literary work of Marguerite Duras is tied to this period not only through the events of her life during the Occupation of France and her...
steps required to represent the knot as a polygon in the cubic lattice. Several lower bounds for the lattice step numbers of different knots have been obtained by computer simulations but the exact value of the lattice step number seems to be ...
Multivariate analysis; Stratified sets; Bayesian statistical decision theory
Data mining, at times, involves applying cluster analysis to large databases
containing multivariate normal parameters. Most finite mixture clustering methods use
the expectation-maximum (EM) algorithm to find solutions to the unknown parameters,...
It is argued that rapid neighborhood change has long been characteristic of
American cities. Whether experiencing a demographic change, a decline in physical
condition, or renewal and revitalization, thousands of U.S. urban neighborhoods have...
Learning, Psychology of; Child development; Cognition in children
Young children perceive and respond to their environment in a variety of ways based upon their unique combination of approaches to learning. They use a range of intelligences in interacting with their classmates and the classroom setting:...
This study examined peer mediation programs in Connecticut to determine how closely they are aligned with the new "Recommended Standards for School-Based Peer Mediation Programs" and what they might need to meet them. These national standards have...
Latin American drama -- History and criticism; Latin American drama -- 20th century
In this research study, based on eight contemporary Latin American plays. I examine the characterization strategies utilized by the authors in order to reflect the crisis of the modern Hispanic man. The titles and playwrights are the following:...
Urban residential structure has been shown to be differentiated by three main factors: socioeconomic status, family status and ethnic status. Additionally, socioeconomic inequality in urban areas has been shown to increase over time. These...
Tarantino, Quentin; Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures
Quentin Tarantino's four films of the 1990s-True Romance, Reservoir Dogs,
Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown-look at the complexities of cultural and racial identity
in postmodern American society. The films illustrate the ways in which identity...
