Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-134). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1995. / Includes abstract and vita. "March 1995." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 139-143).

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Communication, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-108).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-134). Also available on the Internet.

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This thesis addresses a significant, though largely unexplored, part of the Marian Counter-Reformation. Queen Mary and her ministers expected the University of Oxford's contribution to the success of their plans for the English Church to be decisive. From her letter to the University in August 1553, only weeks after her accession, in which she announced her intention of laying the foundations of her ecclesiastical policy in Oxford, the academy underwent a transformation. After decades of trauma which had left the University poor, empty and (literally, in some parts) crumbling, Mary's reign gave the University a purpose, something which had been difficult to discern since the Dissolution of the Monasteries had deprived it of a large proportion of its students and lecturers. Mary and, after November 1554, Reginald Cardinal Pole undertook an extensive programme designed to reform and restore the University, a programme which was willingly and tirelessly taken up by those sympathetic to it in the University. This had its theological, ecclesiastical, liturgical and architectural elements, each of which will be considered in this thesis. Its central claim is not just that the existing picture of Mary Tudor's Church is incomplete without the inclusion within it of the restoration of Catholicism in Oxford, but that it is in Oxford, and perhaps only there, that all the different elements of her religious policy can be seen for what they are: a consistent whole, conceived and executed with one purpose: the reintegration of the English Church into the universal Catholic body.

Young men's consumption, especially that of students at Oxford, has not received much attention from scholars although they participated fully in the economic life of the University town by becoming customers, indeed often compulsive shoppers, as numerous Chancellor's Court and bankruptcy court cases suggest. My thesis provides a window onto male students' consumer culture and indebtedness, especially their link to the 'credit system'. 'Conspicuous consumption' and overspending was a marker of undergraduate culture which had two dialectical dynamics: students tried to position themselves in their community by displaying the signs and habits of the elite; and, simultaneously they went through a process of individualization, expressing particular tastes and their own extravagance. These processes reflect how students learnt their future roles as rulers by managing their private interests and public image, but also by developing a consumer experience, a majority of them becoming prudent economic agents. This dissertation explores consumption from both an individual and collective perspective. In particular it examines juvenile agency, going beyond the clichés of the 'great masculine renunciation' and the idea of prominent female shopping, reconstructing the different paths undertaken by young men, from their first steps into consumption, to consumption routine. It builds on diverse disciplines including social and economic history, retailing and advertising, education, law and gender studies to tackle a gap in the history of consumption, capitalism and trade in Oxford. Between 1830 and 1880, student consumerism was intertwined with the university reforms and the rise of competition between tradesmen. This study assesses education costs and budget constraints; commercial practices such as 'touting freshmen'; students' social background and insolvency; the use of long-term credit as a tool to drive consumption; and the formation of male identities through the purchase and display of different goods.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Non-coding RNAs across the genome have been associated with various biological processes, ranging from regulation of splicing to remodeling of chromatin. Amongst the repertoire of non-coding sequences lies a critical species of RNAs called long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). LncRNAs significantly contribute to a large spectrum of human phenotypes, including cancers, Heart failure, Diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease. This dissertation emphasizes the need to characterize the functional role of lncRNAs to improve our understanding of human diseases. This work consolidates a resource from multiple computational genomics and natural language processing-based approaches to advance our ability to functionally annotate hundreds of lncRNAs and their interactions, providing a one-stop lncRNA functional annotation and dynamic interaction network and multi-facet omics data visualization platform. RNA interactions are vital in various cellular processes, from transcription to RNA processing. These interactions dictate the functional scope of the RNA. However, the multifaceted functional nature of RNA stems from its ability to form secondary structures. Therefore, this work establishes a computational method to characterize RNA secondary structure by integrating SHAPE-seq and long-read sequencing to enhance further our understanding of RNA structure in modulating the post-transcriptional regulatory processes and deciphering the influence at several layers of biological features, ranging from structure composition to consequent protein occupancy. This study will potentially impact the research community by providing methods, web interfaces, and computational pipelines, improving our functional understanding of long non-coding RNAs. This work also provides novel integration methods of technologies like Oxford Nanopore-based long-read sequencing, RNA structure-probing methods, and machine learning. The approaches developed in this dissertation are scalable and adaptable to investigate further the functional and regulatory role of RNA and its structure. Overall, this study accelerates the development of RNA-based diagnostics and the identification of therapeutic targets in human disease.

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