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The role of cell-cell adhesion in the survival of inflammatory breast cancer tumor emboli

Maria Miguel Ferreira Pinto Menezes de Castro

Strategic Magaement Decisions of European SMEs under Uncertainty

Hawach Said, Fadi

[EN] This doctoral thesis examines how economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and political stability shape the strategic decisions of European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across three distinct margins of adjustment, survival, scaling, and international reallocation. While prior research has focused mainly on...

Entre las dos orillas: un recorrido por la creación de Cristina Peri Rossi desde una perspectiva transatlántica

Huang, Yunyi

[ES] Esta tesis doctoral analiza la obra de Cristina Peri Rossi desde una perspectiva transatlántica, con el objetivo de examinar cómo la experiencia del exilio y el desplazamiento entre América Latina y Europa transforma su producción literaria y periodística. Aunque la crítica ha estudiado ampliamente aspectos como e...

Isolationism & God in the Great Debate: Conservative & Progressive Approaches 1939-1941

Trost, Bradley

This thesis compares two major non-interventionist groups and examines how they used religion to shape the debate over the US entry into World War II. The two groups represented two different wings of the non-interventionist movement. The debate, which occurred primarily from 1939 to 1941, was led on the non-interventi...

Artificial Intelligence and Asymmetrical Power in African Conflicts: Mozambique and Ahlu Sunnah wa-Jama’a

Huffaker, Ethan

This thesis examines how artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape conflict, and information ecosystems in Africa, with a particular focus on Mozambique. While much of the global literature on AI and security is centered on highly digitized environments, this study argues that AI can also affect low-connectivity...

Towards Metabolic Circularity in South Korean Housing

Bae, Geonwoo

This thesis challenges South Korea’s demolition first approach to aging apartment complexes, arguing that wholesale reconstruction intensifies carbon emissions, material waste, and repetitive residential form. Using Eunma Apartment as a material extraction site and Mido Apartment as a site of architectural intervention...

The Afterlife of Industrial Modernity: Decline and Growth in Palpalá, Argentina

Soraire, Facundo Mauricio

After deindustrialization, many Latin American cities transitioned from engines of regional development toward fragile economies, adapting to the challenges of this premature process. This thesis takes as a case study Palpalá, a city in northern Argentina that grew around the state-owned steelmaker Altos Hornos Zapla a...

Moral Courage and Principled Leadership: Examining Voices of Dissent in Witchcraft Trials Throughout Seventeenth Century New England

Brady, Brigid O'Rourke

More than 300 years ago, colonial New England experienced a surge of witchcraft accusations. For centuries, countless historians have examined these outbreaks and posited why they happened. However, in contrast, this thesis is concerned with how the witchcraft trials ended. On several occasions over a few short decades...

Rupture, Ruin, Reconstruction | Reading the Spatial Legacies of Ethnic Conflict

Rangarajan, Anandita Ayesha

Prolonged violence in a city reshapes infrastructural and social systems through cycles of rupture, ruin, and reconstruction, generating unique urban forms of segregation and an architecture of defense that persists long after active conflict ends. While political, social, and economic frameworks are crucial to underst...

Seeking Begumpura: Making an Anti-Caste City Within Mumbai

Dekhane, Ajinkya

This thesis examines how Indian urbanism is structured by caste through planning, policy, and ritual practices that reproduce spatial hierarchies across the city. It shows how Hindu ritual extends beyond temples into streets, festivals, and temporary structures, forming a distributed system that stabilizes dominant soc...