Browsing Stony Brook Theses & Dissertations [SBU] by Title
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Tactical Response: Art in an Age of Terror
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-May-10)This dissertation takes as its point of departure the crisis of perception that photojournalism cannot adequately take into account the problems of representing atrocity without repeating the violence and considers the ... -
Tailored Synthesis and Characterization of Selective Metabolite-Detecting Nanoprobes for Handheld Breath Analysis
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 2008-12-01) -
A Tale of Two Lipids: A Role for Compartmentalized Generation of PIP2 in Yersinia Infection, & Characterization of a Small Molecule Inhibitor of PA Generation by Phospholipase D Enzyme Family Members
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Tamar's Secret
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-May-11)Tamar's Secret -
Targeting and roles of complexins in zebrafish ribbon-containing neurons
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Dec-10)The primary receptor cells of the visual, auditory, vestibular and lateral line systems encode a broad range of sensory information by modulating the tonic release of the neurotransmitter glutamate in response to graded ... -
Task Mapping on Supercomputers with Cellular Networks
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 2008-08-01) -
The Taste of the Great, Wide World: The Cigarette, Public Health, and Consumer Culture From the Third Reich to the Federal Republic
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Abstract of the Dissertation"The Taste of the Great, Wide World": The Cigarette, Public Health and Consumer Culture From the Third Reich to the Federal RepublicbyKraig Thomas LarkinDoctor of PhilosophyinHistoryStony ... -
Teaching Tanzania: Education and the Creation of Tanzania in a Cold War World
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-May-12)This dissertation used education to highlight local and global dimensions of nation building in Tanzania. It examines the process by which the late colonial and early postcolonial education officials in Tanzania experimented ... -
The Technological Art of Bernd and Hilla Becher: Reading the Becher's Photography through Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology
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Teichm??ller Space of a Once Punctured Disk: Complex Coordinates on the Space of Abelian Differentials and the Takhtajan-Zograf Metric
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-May-12)We construct an embedding of T(Z), the Teichm??ller space of Z--a Fuchsian group with a single parabolic generator--into the space of abelian differentials on the Riemann surface M = Z \ H. This "pre-Bers embedding" is ... -
TelaraÇñas: Rosa Chacel y la narrativa femenina de la vanguardia espaÇñola
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-May-11)This dissertation analyzes the narrative of Rosa Chacel (Valladolid 1898-Madrid 1994), comparing her to other women writers who participated in vanguard circles in Madrid and Barcelona, including the philosopher MarÇða ... -
Tell Me Who I Am: Representations of Prostitution and the Construction of Masculinity in Five Contemporary Asian-American Novels
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-May-11)This dissertation examines the ways five contemporary Asian-American authors portray their protagonists' attempts to construct viable masculine subjectivities contravening popularly sanctioned, institutionally dictated ... -
Temperament Intervention for Problem Behavior in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Dec-11)Problem behavior is a major barrier to good quality of life for families who have children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The concept of modifying the environment to produce a better match with a child's temperament ... -
Templating biomineralization: surface directed protein self-assembly and external magnetic field stimulation of osteoblasts
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-May-11)Biomineralization is a wide-spread phenomenon in the biological systems, which is the process of mineral formation by organisms through interaction between its organic contents and the inorganic minerals. The process is ... -
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families in the Advent of Welfare Reform: How Household Composition Impacts Participation in Public Assistance Programs
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-11)Abstract of Dissertation Temporary Assistance to Needy Families in the Advent of Welfare Reform: How Household Composition Impacts Participation in Public Assistance Programs By Sylvia Ann Diaz Doctor of Philosophy in ... -
Terrorism and Counterterrorism: A Comparative Cross-National Analysis
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)What factors influence with the way in which particular countries at specific times respond to the threat of terrorism? This dissertation shows that the answer for this question is more multifaceted than the literature on ...
