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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"ESRA"”.
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Marriage safe and sound: subjectivity, embodiment and movement in the production space of television in Turkey
… ethnographic study of a television show titled Esra Erol’da Evlen Benimle (Marry Me on the Esra Erol Show), the most popular of the televised matchmaking formats in Turkey since it premiered in 2007. The marriage show is part of the daytime flow of television broadcasting in Turkey that, as an …
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La comunità ebraica di Istanbul sospesa tra nostalgia neo-ottomana e memoria repubblicana
… and future in close relationship since, as Esra Özyürek states, “nostalgia is far from being just an imagination of the past. Rather it is a powerful and versatile means of relating and transforming the present ” (Özyürek, 2007:177). Considering that the Ottoman Empire is also considered …
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Ekolojik dünya tasarımı: Medya ve reklamcılık endüstrisinde sürdürülebilirliğin temsili ve alımlanması üzerine karşılaştırmalı bir analiz
üm insanlığı etkisi altına alan iklim değişikliği, artık önem ve aciliyetinden ötürü iklim krizi olarak adlandırılmaktadır. Aşırı üretim ve tüketim; beraberinde aşırı hava olayları, doğal kaynakların tükenişi, biyoçeşitlilik kaybı, gıda ve enerji krizi ile zorunlu iklim göçleri gibi pek çok …
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Privacy Preserving Efficient Data Dissemination in Decentralized Online Social Networks
A growing concern for users of Online Social Networks (OSN) is the privacy and control of user data due to the client-server architecture of the popular ecosystems. In this dissertation, we discuss how to develop a decentralized OSN platform so that the user has direct control of his/her …
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Anonymous Communication Networks: Usage Analysis and Attack Mechanisms
Privacy in communication has been an essential security requirement with the rapid growth of Internet. This has resulted in growing interest in methods for anonymous communication. Several system designs have been developed with the common aim of preserving communication privacy within the shared …
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The Investigation of the SKA3 Circular RNA Role in the Ovarian Cancer Progression
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are becoming increasingly more recognized in cancer biology as novel biomarkers due to their high stability as well as tissue- and developmental stage-specific expression. Despite massive improvements made in treatments, ovarian cancer (OC) still is considered one of the …
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Language, identity and parenting in acculturation: A case study of Saudi Arabian mothers sojourning in New Zealand
The international education sector is rapidly growing in New Zealand, with increasing numbers of students arriving from Saudi Arabia under the scholarship scheme, with the firm intention of returning home at the end of their study. These sojourning students are typically accompanied by their …
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Genetic and Molecular Studies of Endometrial Cancer
Endometrial cancer, which develops from the inner lining of the uterus, is the most common cancer of the female reproductive tract. Endometrial cancer is comprised of two epidemiologic, molecularly and genetically different subtypes known as type I and type II. Because of its clinical significance …
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Site and Mechanism of Leptin's Antisteatotic and Insulin Sensitizing Actions in Lipodystrophic Liver
<p>An adipocyte hormone which functions as the afferent signal in a negative feedback loop regulating energy balance, has profound effects on glucose and lipid metabolisms. Lipodystrophic humans and mice have a complete or partial absence of adipose tissue and a secondary reduction of leptin. This …
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Firm heterogeneity and political economy of international trade
In this dissertation I examine a set of crucial topics in the political economy of international trade, with an emphasis on firm-level heterogeneity. The first chapter is an empirical study of the new trade theories in which firm heterogeneity and trade costs play central roles in shaping the …
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Experiences and management of conflict in family and peer relationships of bicultural emerging adults
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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The biocompatibility and characterization of aromatic thermosetting copolyester
The current designs of new biomaterials for bone substitutes or scaffolds focus on achieving biocompatibility and sufficient mechanical properties. In this thesis, we investigated the biocompatibility of synthetic polymers called aromatic thermosetting copolyesters (ATSP) as potential biomaterials …
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The association between the oral and vaginal microbiome of young South African women
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) and periodontal disease (PD) are conditions characterised by reduction of healthy bacterial communities in the vaginal and oral microbiomes respectively. Both BV and PD are associated with an increased risk of preterm labour and negative birth outcomes, yet it is unknown …
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Mathematical modelling of the population impact of screening for Chlamydia Trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in South Africa
A large proportion of chlamydial and gonococcal infections are asymptomatic. In lower- and middle-income countries like South Africa, where syndromic management is practiced, it is likely that a large proportion of curable STIs go untreated, as screening for asymptomatic STIs is rarely conducted. …
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Executive coaching : crafting a versatile self in corporate America
In recent years, coaching has become a major form of personal and professional development service offered to executives to help develop leadership skills, enhance performance, and remediate patterns of problematic workplace behavior. This dissertation examines the emergence and development of …
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Optimization-based Logistics Planning and Performance Measurement for Hospital Evacuation and Emergency Management
This dissertation addresses the development of optimization models for hospital evacuation logistics, as well as the analyses of various resource management strategies in terms of the equity of evacuation plans generated. We first formulate the evacuation transportation problem of a hospital as an …
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unclosure: Workstation for Aquarcheology
This project is a story of findings. The main intention is to design a workstation for nautical archeologists who are excavating and researching the ruins of the oldest known shipwreck of the world. The use of the building is projected to change over time to house the findings of the research and …
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