Background: Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) is a life-threating condition accounting for 90% of all cancers in the oral cavity (with the majority of cases affecting the tongue). Early and loco-regionally oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma (OTSCC) is treated with surgical re…
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Since their successful reintroduction, the eastern wild turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) has expanded its range north. Due to different and potentially more severe limiting factors, management approaches generalized from studies within the historical range may not be app…
This dissertation is a study of US foreign policy that aims at maintaining its regional hegemonic status and preventing the emergence of another regional hegemon by implementing the offshore balancing strategy. US intervention during the 2003 Iraq War, strained US-Iran relations…
This dissertation consists of three substantive essays. Each essay is rooted in the experiences that I had in conducting a qualitative study on survival within `precarious contexts', using Palestine/Israel as the geographical context. Essay One (Chapter 2) explores, through a co…
Clinical and epidemiological studies, which have examined the relationship between antioxidants and risk of breast cancer recurrence or mortality are limited in number, despite the protective associations observed with breast cancer incidence. A meta-analysis of six previous stu…
In the absence of welfare institutions, a Roman woman was expected primarily to look to her children for assistance in widowhood and in old age. Many women, however, had no family members left by the time they reached old age. The aim of this dissertation is to determine how low…
As post-colonial theory notes, women's lived-experiences, particularly women of the “third world,” have not been present in the narratives of nation-states. By listening to and reading stories of decolonization, narratives of legitimacy, and narratives of the inheritance of cult…
In order to meet their energy budget animals must often increase their risk of predation, either through their choice of foraging location or by decreasing anti-predation behaviours, which are incompatible with foraging. I investigated the starvation-predation risk trade-off in …
Noncompliance to treatment allocation is likely to complicate estimation of causal effects in clinical trials. The ubiquitous nonrandom phenomenon of noncompliance renders per-protocol and as- treated analyses or even simple regression adjustments for noncompliance inadequate fo…
Population structure and vital rates of Gulf of Maine (GOM) humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, were studied by a combination of longitudinal data, region-wide surveys and modern mark-recapture statistical methods. Demography and rates of exchange were examined among six GO…
This thesis was based on a collection of my published works. Chapter 1 introduced the idea that infections, both acute and chronic, were risk factors for stroke. Various infections and micro-organisms associated with stroke were discussed. Specifically, the relationship between …
The Book of Ezekiel, composed in response to the devastating events of the siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E. and the resulting exile of the Judeans, confronts readers with a wide array of intricate, strange, and disturbing imagery. Drawing on a conversation with c…
Prior studies conducted on businesses owned by immigrants in the United States focused on small ventures operated by Asian, Arab and Hispanic immigrants. The objective of this phenomenological study was to identify and explain constraints African immigrants faced in operating co…
This dissertation argues that the traditional connection between chivalry, noble identity and noble violence persisted in France until the middle of the seventeenth century. It therefore contributes both to the scholarly literature on noble culture in early modern France and to …
Throughout the history of Lukan studies, the imperial positivism of the historical-critical method has served to privilege and strengthen the now widespread conception of the Lukan writings as supportive of or, at least, uncritical toward Rome in particular and imperialism in ge…
Quiescence, or dormancy, is a strategy for microbial survival through an environmental stress such as lack of a resource. To investigate when quiescence is a beneficial strategy, fitness of a microbial population is quantified; it is defined as the top Lyapunov exponent of certa…
Very little is known about the drill Mandrillus leucophaeus, a primate species. This dissertation details research on life-history and behavioral characteristics for a growing semi-wild population housed in forested enclosures at the Drill Rehabilitation and Breeding Center (DRB…
Chlorine dioxide (ClO2 ) has been investigated as an antimicrobial in meat washing systems and brine chillers. This study was designed to observe the antimicrobials effectiveness of ClO2 applied in an ice form. An ice machine with a ClO2 generator produced ice containing 0 or 20…
Survival, nesting success, and habitat selection of wild turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) populations in South Carolina were evaluated. The study was conducted on the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site (SRS) in the Upper Coastal Plain of South Carolina. Portions of the stu…