# Browse Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois by Title

• (2017-03-27)
This thesis focuses on using techniques from probability to solve problems from extremal and structural combinatorics. The main problem in Chapter 2 is determining the typical structure of $t$-intersecting families in ...

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• (2016-05-04)
Since 2000, the comic-book superhero blockbuster has become Hollywood's most salient genre. "Heroes, Incorporated: A Political Economy of the Superhero Blockbuster" examines these seemingly reactionary fantasies of American ...

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• (1954)

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• (1967)
We present here a new theory of non-leptonic weak interactions based on neutral F-spin currents of the SU, current algebra. Both CP conserving and CP violating non-leptonic processes are generated by the same primary ...

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• (1967)

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• (2019-04-17)
Gender-based violence affects women globally. Such violence has become a salient concern for women in India, where communities are becoming increasingly aware of the risk of gender-based violence that women face on an ...

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• (1994)
Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, writer of the Spanish Baroque "novela corta", (Novelas amorosas y ejemplares, 1637, and Desenganos amorosos, 1647) has been called a feminist by most scholars who study her work. This dissertation ...

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• (1998)
Compounding this differentiation are the college-educated Saraguro youths who, unlike older generations, are well-versed in a nation-wide discourse of ethnic legitimacy and cultural politics. Given the diversification of ...

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• (2016-04-20)
Viruses are pervasive evolutionary forces and key players shaping natural populations. Our understanding of viral impact on host physiology however, is based on a few model systems that represent a small fraction of the ...

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• (2006)
We examined the performance of VEER by comparing the existing real-time embedded systems and the migrated and reorganized version of the same systems. The performance overhead of RT-VMM is about 1.7% if self-contained, or ...

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• (2012-09-18)
Stream flow records are typically estimated with the use of empirical rating curves. The conventional rating method relates stage to discharge, however at sites prone to flow reversals, changes in stream bed roughness, ...

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• (2015-01-21)
Virtual Reality (VR) is a multifaceted area with great potential from pure entertainment to scienti c research. Due to technological limitations, VR for the last thirty years has not really caught on since users were ...

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• (2015-04-28)
The ability to cross the street successfully requires physical and cognitive proficiency. Multiple sclerosis (MS), a progressive neurological disease affecting the central nervous system, leads to impairments in physical ...

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• (2016-03-08)
Musicians produce virtual performance videos of themselves and others on websites like YouTube. In a society with ubiquitous Internet and prominent social media interactions, music education can benefit by exploring the ...

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• (2011-05-25)
A series of forty-two circular and oval engravings dating from 1465 to 1475 depict playful scenes of lovers, putti, and exemplary women. These engravings, known to scholars as the “Otto prints,” were likely pasted onto ...

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• (1969)

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• (1974)

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• (2018-11-19)
The spread of viruses in biological networks, computer networks, and human contact networks can have devastating effects; developing and analyzing mathematical models of these systems can provide insights that lead to ...

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• (1984)
A stable and time-efficient numerical algorithm has been developed to study the problem of homogeneous axisymmetric flow of a third order fluid past a spheriodal body. The numerical solution was shown to agree well with ...

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