Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008. / Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Kevin C. Robbins. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137).

The thesis examines the role of women in the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1920s. The author seeks to analyze the following aspects: the main goal is to prove that the foundation and the very existence of the women's auxiliary (WKKK) points to inner tensions within the movement. The WKKK, therefore, can be used as a model or a case study in order to highlight all the issues the Klan had to face, from financial struggles and various allegations to transient and unstable membership. Secondly, the author sets out to verify whether and to what degree WKKK members legitimized the Klan, be it from the outside (public opinion) or from the inside. The author also places emphasis on the fact that the Klan should not be primarily viewed as a violent racist organization, but as a group of members who felt threatened by the outside world from which they needed to shelter themselves. Social life of the Klan and what role Klanswomen had, charity work, or interventions in local affairs play a vital role in this thesis as a result. Last but not least, proper understanding of primary sources is essential. They are obviously highly subjective and serve as a prime example of how reality differed from what was stated. (W)KKK pamphlets and writings were colored by fear of the so-called "other". Most texts written by...

ITC/USA 2005 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-First Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2005 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The NASA Space-based Telemetry and Range Safety (STARS) program has developed and tested a low cost Ku-Band transmitter alternative for TDRSS applications based on an existing IRIG shaped offset quaternary phase shift keying (SOQPSK) transmitter. This paper presents information related to the implementation of this low cost system, as well as performance measurements of the alternative TDRSS transmitter system compared with an existing QPSK TDRSS transmitter.

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The American movie industry did not have to develop into the Hollywood dream factory. There were educative, religious, explicitly political, and other non-commercial alternative arrangements to America’s film industry. These alternatives, along with principles such as film free speech and movie propaganda, had to be cast aside by the emerging moguls of Hollywood. Conflicts with the vanquished liquor industries, moral and economic regulatory concerns, Republican Party politics, and the resurgent Klan all shaped the classic Hollywood system from 1906 to 1927, a 20-year period in which the American film industry depoliticized the Hollywood movie screen, shedding its democratic and propagandistic definitions for the politics of publicity and entertainment as a service to Americans. Developments in this infant industry also shaped the broader trajectory of American consumer capitalism toward big producer control and the self-regulation of the industry’s social effects.

Thesis advisor: Anne E. Stellwagen / Thesis advisor: Clare O'Connor / In most eukaryotes, the enzyme telomerase adds telomeric DNA repeats to the 3' ends of chromosomes in order to stabilize them and protect them from degradation. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex consisting of multiple protein subunits and an approximately 1.3 kb RNA component termed TLC1. Among the various proteins involved in telomerase, Ku is a heterodimer that binds both to double-stranded DNA and to a 48 nucleotide stem loop on the TLC1 RNA. Beyond its function of extending telomeres at the ends of chromosomes, telomerase can also be instrumental in repairing double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) by adding telomeric repeats at the site of the break. This stabilizes the damaged chromosome, but also silences genes proximal to the break. Ku is an important factor in the recruitment of telomerase to these double stranded breaks, so this investigation explored whether TLC1 structural variants with relocated Ku-binding sites are still capable of healing chromosomes via the addition of telomeres. It was determined that the TLC1 RNA is flexible and can retain its function with relocated and additional Ku-binding stem loops. / Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2008. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Biology. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Le cancer du sein est le cancer le plus fréquent chez la femme (Boyle and Ferlay, 2005; Ferlay et al., 2007). Même si les traitements sont de plus en plus efficaces, il est responsable denviron 130 000 décès en Europe. Environ 20-30% des cancers du sein surexprime le gène ERBB2. Cette surexpression confère à la cellule un profil tumoral très agressif, et résistant aux chimiothérapies conventionnelles. Létude des facteurs responsable de la surexpression du gène ERBB2 dans les cancers du sein est le thème principal de recherche du laboratoire doncologie moléculaire. Notre laboratoire, a étudié les mécanismes moléculaires responsables de la surexpression du gène ERBB2 dans les cancers du sein. Nous avons montré que la surexpression est la conséquence dune stimulation de la transcription et non de la stabilisation de lARN (Pasleau et al., 1993). Pour étudier la régulation de la transcription un fragment de 6 kb du promoteur du gène ERBB2 a été cloné et séquencé. Différentes régions régulatrices ont été identifiées (Grooteclaes et al., 1994). Plusieurs sites de liaison pour des facteurs AP-2 ont été identifiés (Delacroix et al., 2005; Grooteclaes et al., 1999; Vernimmen et al., 2003a). La fixation des facteurs au promoteur a été vérifiée par Chromatin Immuniprecipitation (ChIP assay) (Begon et al., 2005; Delacroix et al., 2005). Afin de mieux comprendre le fonctionnement des facteurs de transcription AP-2, nous avons cherché les protéines interagissant avec ce facteur et contribuant à la surexpression dERBB2 dans des lignées de cancer du sein. Précédemment, Dominique Begon a montré linteraction de la protéine YY1 avec le facteur de transcription AP-2α et leur implication sur le promoteur du gène ERBB2 (Begon et al., 2005). La première partie de mon travail a été de mettre en corrélation par immunohistochimie lexpression des protéines YY1 et AP-2α avec la surexpression dERBB2 dans des tumeurs primaires. Nous avons également voulu étudier leffet dune diminution des protéines YY1 et AP-2 sur lexpression dERBB2, à laide de siRNAs (Voir article 1 en annexe, (Allouche A and Nolens G. et al., 2008). La deuxième partie de ce travail a porté sur lidentification dautres protéines pouvant interagir avec les protéines AP-2. Après purification, les protéines Ku70 et Ku80 furent identifiées. Nous avons voulu étudier leffet de cette interaction sur lactivité des protéines AP-2 (α et γ) et sur lexpression dERBB2 (voir article 2 en annexe).

The Ku Klux Klan was a major force in American political and social life throughout the better part of the nineteen-twenties. This study examines the Klan, its growth, role, and demise with respect to the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is largely the story of the Klans failure to develop successfully as it was inhibited by local political factors throughout the Commonwealth.

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This thesis has traces the legal encounters of a crusading newspaper editor by the name of George R. Dale in Muncie, Indiana, during the 1920's. The influence a revived Ku Klux Klan had upon the local courts was explored in detail. This study explored in depth the legal harassment suffered by one who challenged Klan supremacy in Indiana.Local court records were diligently researched in an attempt to properly analyze the charges of criminal libel, carrying a concealed weapon, violating the liquor laws held against the independent editor in the local circuit court. In addition, the work dealt specifically with the contempt citations received by the fiery newspaperman while defending the above mentioned charges. Moreover, the costly and tortuous course of appeal was discussed as most of these proceedings were appealed to the Indiana and United States Supreme Courts.Moreover, the latter portion of the paper attempts to predict the changes that might result in our Anglo-American system of jurisprudence as a result of this series of cases.