Ph.D. Dissertations in Italian Studies

Recent Phd Dissertations in Cultural and Communication Studies

PhD Students and Dissertations by Cohort Year 2005

This dissertation consists of two articles written to address the context of type 2 diabetes care in African American women. In addition, the proposal and required Institutional Review Board (IRB) documentation are included as Appendices. The first article is a review of the existing literature regarding the psychosocial and spiritual aspects of type 2 diabetes management and outcomes in Africa...

Impacts of Brooks Iyengar Algorithm on PhD Dissertations

The SDSN-Aggregation: The SDSN aggregation method uses a combination of methods ”Brooks-Iyengar algorithm” and ”Witness based approach for data fusion assurance” to achieve the aggregation. The aggregation method should work for multiple data types and for different densities of the network. The SDSN-aggregation is event-based, it is triggered on an aggregation request by another node or when n...

A Comparative Analysis of Self-Mentions in Applied Linguistics PhD Dissertations Written by Native and Non-Native English Writers

The purpose of the present study was to compare the PhD dissertations written by native and nonnative English writers in the field of Applied Linguistics with regard to the use of self-mentions. To this end, 40 Applied Linguistics PhD dissertations (20 written by native English writers and 20 by non-native English writers), were selected randomly among academic texts written in 2007-2017. The p...

Semmelweis University, School of PhD Studies

Abbreviations Introduction 1. Functional aspects of drusen regression in AMD 1.1. Etiology and pathogenesis of AMD 1.2. Clinical manifestations of AMD 1.3. Drusen 1.4. Functional characteristics of the retina in aging and AMD 1.5. Fundus autofluorescence 1.6. Fundus autofluorescence imaging and its limitations 1.7. Fundus autofluorescence anomalies associated with AMD 1.8. Functional correlates...