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Solutions For Challenges Medical Entrepreneurs Face When Creating Biotechnology Startups
(2017-05)Many obstacles impede the success of biotechnology startups. The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) clinical trials is one of the primary challenges. The FDA currently imposes rigorous standards before a biotechnology ... -
Writing Arabizi: Orthographic Variation in Romanized Lebanese Arabic on Twitter
(2017-05)Over the past few decades, a new form of writing has emerged across the Arab world. Known as Arabizi, it is a type of Romanized Arabic that uses Latin characters instead of Arabic script. It is mainly used by youth ... -
Women's Empowerment And Child Nutritional Outcomes In Modern-Day India
(2017-05)India still struggles to mitigate its severe childhood malnutrition rates despite its impressive economic growth and reduced poverty rates. In exploring effective ways to improve child nutritional outcomes in South Asia, ... -
Coffee and Conservation: The Ecology and Marketing of Bird Friendly Coffee
(2017-05)Coffee is one of most valuable traded commodities in the world and a major source of foreign exchange earnings in many developed countries. Over the past 30 years, shade-grown coffee cultivation has become widely recognized ... -
The Sphynx; or, Ishmael's Scholarship in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
(2017-05)Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is, in some sense, a work of art composed of two distinct books—distinct, but the one means nothing with the other. Moby- Dick is a drama, and The Whale a monograph; the or does ... -
Live Music Capital of the World? The Effects of Austin's Urban Branding on Its Local Musicians
(2018-05)Since 1991, Austin has branded itself and been heralded as the “Live Music Capital of the World,” drawing people from all over to take part in a culture fueled by its creative residents. This thesis aims to answer the ... -
Me and Earl and the Adapted Girl: Learning to Write a Young Adult Adaptation
(2018)Since the late 2000s, the movie industry has experienced a boom in Young Adult (YA) book-tomovie adaptations, from the wildly popular Twilight series to romantic drama The Fault In Our Stars. Having been an avid YA ... -
A Surrealist Homecoming: An Investigation of Corporeal Metamorphosis in Leonora Carrington's Down Below
(2018-05)During the 1920s, war, political flux, and social revolution ravaged Western Europe as xenophobic and violent rhetoric fueled political ambitions. Starting with the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto written by French author André ... -
An Unsettled Return: Memory and Self-Identity in Lina Meruane’s Volverse Palestina
(2018-05)Chile is home to one of the largest Palestinian communities outside of the Arab world. Despite its significant size of more than 400,000 people, few have undertaken comprehensive studies of the group and the literature it ... -
Conceptualization of Space within the Tang Landscape Quatrain
(2018-05)The thesis explores the poet’s creation of conceptualized space within the Tang landscape quatrain in the Tang dynasty (618-907) by usage of literary techniques, the focal point being that of temporal and spatial progression ... -
"A Community Unlike Any Other": Incorporating Fansubbers into Corporate Capitalism on Viki.com
(2018-05)Viki.com, founded in 2008, is a streaming site that offers Korean (and other East Asian) television programs with subtitles in a variety of languages. Unlike other K-drama distribution sites that serve audiences outside ... -
Kind, Brave, & Zesty: Leveraging Character Strengths In Impactful Social Entrepreneurs Across Cultures
(2018-05)This thesis is a search to answer the first principle questions of: How can we leave the world a better place than I found it? and How can we be happy? That exploration led to research on social entrepreneurship, positive ... -
An Analysis of Socio-demographics and Public Space in Austin, Texas
(2018-05)Past research has shown that access to and use of public spaces is connected to quality of life, sense of community, overall public health. With this is in mind, the understanding of how the availability of public spaces ... -
"He takes false shadows for true substances": Madness and Metadrama in The Spanish Tragedy and Titus Andronicus
(2018-05)Although scholars have written extensively about madness and metadrama, they have rarely discussed the relationship between the two on the early modern stage. In many plays, however, mad characters become acutely metatheatrical, ... -
Evaluating Effective Altruism And Its Implications On The Fight Against Malaria
(2018-05)While malaria cases and fatalities have fallen since 2000, there were still an estimated 216 million cases and 445,000 deaths worldwide in 2016 -- comprising 0.8% of global deaths. One movement calling great attention and ... -
Campus Place-Making: Assessing Outdoor Spaces at the University of Texas to Improve Student Experience
(2018-05)In this thesis, I aim to answer the question: How can the University of Texas’ campus be improved to better utilize outdoor spaces to serve the needs of the students? To address this question, I take a multifaceted approach ... -
Martyrs & Meists
(2018-05)Martyrs & Meists attempts to deconstruct World War II in terms of individuals and the choices they made rather than as Axis vs. Allies. Each song focuses on the perspective of a different individual from that time period. ... -
A Spatial Theory of Precapitalist Money: Evidence from Feudal Europe
(2018-05)In this study, we seek to interrogate and explain how relations of exchange respond to changes in relations of production. To explain the interaction between the underlying processes of production and their epiphenomenon ... -
Revolutionary Fervor: The History and Legacy of Communism in Abd al-Karim Qasim's Iraq 1958-1963
(2018-05)The 1950s were a time of political and social upheaval in the Middle East as exemplified by the Iraqi Coup of 1958. Within the country there existed the classic internal economic and social strife that so often leads to ... -
Big Data in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Promising Courtship
(2018-05)The energy industry remains one of the highest money-producing and investment industries in the world. The United States’ own economic stability depends greatly on the stability of oil and gas prices. Various factors ...
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