Browsing ETDs: Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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« L'illusion de l'amour n'est pas l'amour trouvé » : Camp and queer desire in Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, and Peau d'âne
(Virginia Tech, 2020-11-03)Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964), Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967), and Peau d'âne (1970), though quite popular with the public at their time of release and continuing to leave an aesthetic stamp on ... -
L'impérialisme linguistique au Québec des années 1965-1975: Analyses littéraires de Speak White (Michèle Lalonde) et Salut, Galarneau! (Jacques Godbout)
(Virginia Tech, 2019-02-15)Dans la foulée de la Révolution tranquille qui démarre au début de 1960 et s’étend jusqu’à la fin des années 1970, le Québec connaît une période de secousses terribles liées à la demande d’un statut défini de la langue ... -
L2-Indices for Perturbed Dirac Operators on Odd Dimensional Open Complete Manifolds
(Virginia Tech, 1994-05-03)For perturbations of the Callias and Anghel type the L2-index of the perturbed Dirac operator on a Spin c -manifold is realized as the result of pairing an element in K -homology with an element of compactly supported K ... -
La Causa Para La Raza: The Educative Processes and Development of Knowledge in the United Farm Workers from 1962 to 1970
(Virginia Tech, 1998-02-16)This historical study examined the educative processes and development of knowledge in the social movement of the United Farm Workers from 1962 to 1970. Materials for this study were found in the archives of Labor History ... -
La Costa Residences: A Tower by the Shore
(Virginia Tech, 2015-09-11)This thesis choreographs the procession around and within a tower. An alternating sequence of compression and expansion of space creates a rich spatial experience. Each moment along the sequence is meant to complement or ... -
La Crosse virus and Dirofilaria immitis: Abundance of Potential Vectors in Southwestern Virginia and the Effects of Dual Infection on Aedes albopictus and Ochlerotatus triseriatus
(Virginia Tech, 2006-12-04)Microfilarial enhancement of viral transmission is well documented, however only one previously studied model used components that occur together in nature and therefore has realistic implications. La Crosse (LAC) virus ... -
La Crosse Virus in Southwestern Virginia: Role of Exotic Mosquito Species and Effect of Virus Infection on Feeding
(Virginia Tech, 2009-05-29)The family Bunyaviridae is the largest of vertebrate diseases and includes the mosquito-borne disease La Crosse (LAC) virus. Vectors include the major vector Aedes triseriatus and two accessory vectors Aedes albopictus and ... -
La littérature française du vingtième siècle entre la mémoire et l’oubli: Proust, Beckett, Perec, et Blanchot; Twentieth Century French Literature between memory and forgetting: Proust, Beckett, Perec, and Blanchot
(Virginia Tech, 2010-04-06)In the course of the twentieth century, the representation of the relationship between time, narrative, and memory in French literature undergoes a change. Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu evidences the power ... -
La Marginal: A Coastal Promenade Park
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-10)This thesis explores alternate typologies for a coastal promenade park in the town of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The proposal acts as a link between the town, the park and the coastal edge. The coastal promenade park is created ... -
La Serenissima
(Virginia Tech, 1995-12-08)I am proposing the construction of a monumentally-scaled building nested in the waters of Venice's Bacino San Marco adjacent to the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Programmatically, the building contains a theater, exhibition ... -
La Vida en el Norte [Life in the North], Three Mexican Women in the Roanoke Valley
(Virginia Tech, 2005-12-12)The purpose of this work was to investigate how identity is transformed by the experience of immigration. Two research questions were conceptualized in order to address the essence of the inquiry. How do Mexican immigrant ... -
Lab on a chip rare cell isolation platform with dielectrophoretic smart sample focusing, automated whole cell tracking analysis script, and a bioinspired on-chip electroactive polymer micropump
(Virginia Tech, 2014-07-18)Dielectrophoresis (DEP), an electrokinetic force, is the motion of a polarizable particle in a non-uniform electric field. Contactless DEP (cDEP) is a recently developed cell sorting and isolation technique that uses the ... -
Label-Efficient Visual Understanding with Consistency Constraints
(Virginia Tech, 2022-05-24)Modern deep neural networks are proficient at solving various visual recognition and understanding tasks, as long as a sufficiently large labeled dataset is available during the training time. However, the progress of these ... -
Label-free DNA Sequence Detection Using Oligonucleotide Functionalized Fiber Probe with a Miniature Protrusion
(Virginia Tech, 2006-08-08)DNA is the substance that encodes the genetic information that cells need to replicate and to produce proteins. The detection of DNA sequences is of great importance in a broad range of areas including genetics, pathology, ... -
Label-Free Microfluidic Devices for Single-Cell Analysis and Liquid Biopsies
(Virginia Tech, 2023-01-05)Mortality due to cancer is a global health issue that can be improved through further development of diagnostic and prognostic tools. Recent advancements in technologies aiding cancer research have made significant strides, ... -
Label-free Photothermal Quantitative Phase Imaging with Spectral Modulation Interferometry
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-18)The photothermal effect is a way in which chemical contrast can be measured as an optical pathlength or phase change. When a chemical species in a sample absorbs optical energy at a particular wavelength, this absorption ... -
A label-free, fluorescence based assay for microarray
(Virginia Tech, 2004-08-12)DNA chip technology has drawn tremendous attention since it emerged in the mid 90 s as a method that expedites gene sequencing by over 100-fold. DNA chip, also called DNA microarray, is a combinatorial technology in which ... -
Labeling Schemes or Labeling Scams?: Auditors' Perspectives on ISO 14001 Certification
(Virginia Tech, 2011-05-23)Hundreds of thousands of organizations have chosen to boost their competitive position by demonstrating compliance to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System standard. In order for these standards to become credible ... -
The labeling theory: an empirical test
(Virginia Tech, 1974-05-15)Proponents of labeling theory argue that the labels we use to identify things are not merely harmless words, but, in fact, shape and control experience to some degree. Others, such as W. E. B. Dubois, argued that names ... -
Labile Ligand Variation in Polyazine-Bridged Ruthenium/Rhodium Supramolecular Complexes Providing New Insight into Solar Hydrogen Production from Water
(Virginia Tech, 2015-12-15)Mixed-metal supramolecular complexes containing one or two RuII light absorbing subunits coupled through polyazine bridging ligands to a RhIII reactive metal center were prepared for use as photocatalysts for the production ...
