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  The adopted child's experience in schools and methods to improve it. 

  Manguilli, Emory (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)
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  Zebrafish aging is a determining factor in breast cancer cell xenotransplant efficacy. 

  Zhang, Raymond J (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)

  Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and a leading cause of cancer death in women. Studies that examine the effects of certain environmental factors, which can mimic estrogen function and thus mediate ...
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  Vampires as 'meaning machines' : signifying the monster through race and sexuality. 

  Turner-Debs, Isabel (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)

  This thesis examines the complex imbrication of race and sexuality in the vampire figure during the course of its literary life. It examines traditional, nineteenth-century representations (Polidori's The Vampyre, Le Fanu's ...
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  Yi Sheng Er Shu Ge : Hearing multiple tones at the same time a study of The Dream of the Red Chamber, The Canterbury Tales and their readers. 

  Shi, Wenzhuo (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)
• Cilia dynamics in cardiac regeneration in zebrafish (danio rerio). 

  Shi, Ao (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)

  Ischemic injury in the human heart can lead to massive cell death and inelastic scar tissue formation, resulting in diminished cardiac function. In contrast, zebrafish (Danio rerio) can regenerate injured heart tissue ...
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  Back to the land : the revival of american communes in the late 1960s. 

  Regan, Lydia (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)

  Back to the Land: The Revival of American Communes in the Late 1960s argues that the revival of communes was the result of many Americans felt an absense of community and were frustrated with increasing violence. Commune ...
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  Spectators of war : gendered witnessing, age, and red tape in the First World War writings of Edith Wharton and May Sinclair. 

  Lytle, Hannah (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)

  This thesis examines the intersection of age and gender in the First World War life writings and short stories by Edith Wharton and MaySinclair. It was generally believed that women could not witness the war and produce ...
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  Survey of mesomycetozoans in millipedes and terrestrial isopods of southeastern New England. 

  Langlois, Stephanie (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)

  Trichomycetes are a group of symbiotic organisms found in the gut of arthropods. They were recently split into two fungal groups and two protistan groups. The protists have been recatagorized as Mesomycetozoa (also known ...
• The positivity effect and its influence on financial decision-making ability. 

  Gould, Sarah (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)

  This research examined the relationship between the positivity effect and financial decision-making ability. The positivity effect refers to an attentional bias observed in older adults for positive over negative stimuli ...
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  Meter? I barely even know'er! Encoded information in the formal qualities of poetry. 

  Dubois, Audrey (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)
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  Let's get it on : the development of adolescent sexual autonomy, 1960-1979. 

  Brnger, Paige (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)

  This thesis examines the reproductive rights of adolescent girls in the Northeast between 1960-1979. Starting in the 1960s the Women’s Rights Movement and Sexual Revolution transformed the American landscaped regarding the ...
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  "Don't worry, you can still be a flight attendant." Examining implicit and explicit gender bias in the classroom, teacher-student relationships, and their effect on student math achievement. 

  Hodge, Elisabeth. (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)

  The purpose of this study is to discover how students perceive gender bias and the teacher-student relationships in the math classrooms surveyed, to determine if the teachers involved in the study are aware of any implicit ...
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  An examination of the global savings glut hypothesis and secular stagnation hypothesis. 

  Zhang, Teng. (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)
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  It will never happen quite this way again : stories. 

  Veinot, Christina. (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)
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  The value of the Canadian index of wellbeing. 

  Towle, Jackson B. (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)

  This thesis examines the Canadian Index of Wellbeing and its potential uses alongside existing measurements of wellbeing. It examines the creation of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing and how it might inform policy decisions ...
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  Lines of imperfection. 

  Thompson, Mei Lan B. (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)

  Lines of Imperfection is artwork created in response to the story of Sadako Sasaki, a famous Japanese girl who was a cancer victim in Hiroshima. Her story inspired a site-specific installation comprising a thousand paper ...
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  Variation in toll-like receptor 21 within and among killifish (fundulus heteroclitus) populations from southeastern Massachusetts and northern Maine 

  Sanborn, Jeffrey S. Jr. (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)

  Through polymorphisms occurring within immune system genes, the immune system is able to retain greater diversity and better co-evolve alongside pathogen populations. Adaptive molecular variation clearly indicates that ...
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  The ethical foundations for animal rights. 

  Prober, Clare. (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)

  In my thesis, I accept the premise that animals possess inherent value and as a result, are deserving of certain protections. I argue that a rights-based approach is required to sufficiently ensure such protections, since ...
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  Genomics approaches to analyzing ciliary gene functions and regulation. 

  Mullings, Javon R. (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)
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  The effects of methylmercury on breast cancer progression in zebrafish 

  Morrow, Sara N. (Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)

  Breast cancer is defined as a group of malignant cells that originate in the breast and have the potential to spread to distant sites in the body, most commonly the liver, lungs, bones and brain. Many factors increase the ...

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