The polymorphism of swine leukocyte antigens (SLA) has been repeatedly associated with swine immune responses, vaccine effectiveness and agricultural performance. It also has significant implications for using pigs as ...
The amygdala has been shown to be involved in both epilepsy and emotional disturbances such as in mood and anxiety disorders. It is suggested that anxiety and mood disorders may be the result of sub-seizure hyperexcitability ...
A large number of Z and W bosons will be produced at the LHC. A careful study of their properties in the presence of QCD background processes, will be important in studying the Standard Model more rigorously and to uncover ...
This dissertation will argue that it is in the American public’s interest to make lightly regulated religious schools available as a common school alternative through some manner of school choice. My argument recognizes ...
Throughout his writing, Nathaniel Hawthorne is interested in the power of art to bring about positive ethical change. In his tales, he questions the ability of aesthetic taste (as it was understood by Scottish Common Sense ...
In Ellen Douglas's novels, characters must negotiate the rules of their professions
to act justly. Truth and justice neither vanished nor became irrelevant with the collapse of metanarratives that formerly defined these ...
While Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando (1928) is often considered a light, autobiographical fantasy, it in fact is the summation and execution of Woolf’s theories of fiction as expressed in her critical and non-fiction essays. ...
This dissertation seeks to show that popular American affinity for the State of Israel draws from the taproot of apocalyptic hope informing American identity and national vocation from the revolutionary era to the present. ...
Exhibitions can be powerful forms of persuasion because audiences tend to have an innate trust in them to be factual and objective. However, this trust has often been manipulated by those who recognize the influence ...
Women in Colonial New England were empowered by a female community operating under masculine authority but also outside it. Although women seem to have first been politicized by the American Revolution, the power inherent ...
From the 1970s into the 1980s, Argentina and Guatemala were both ruled by ruthless military dictatorships that systematically killed and tortured men, women and children as a part of their respective wars on subversion. ...
This project analyzes the rhetoric of the 2010 West Virginia special senate primary election paying particular attention to the candidates’ discussion of mountaintop removal mining—a controversial type of mining in which ...
The detailed design document covers the basic theory, related technique, and
implementation details of the MovieOracle system. It first provides a high-level system
overview. Then it discusses the usage of Twitter API, ...
!MPACT is an eighteen-minute percussion concerto for solo percussion, saxophone quartet, brass quartet, and string quartet. The original composition, written by Ben Johansen, was commissioned by Todd Meehan, Director of ...
With the rise of social history over the past several decades, educational institutions have increasingly been called upon to represent and showcase different cultural and minority groups within their walls. This has ...
Select environmental contaminants can disrupt normal functions of aquatic invertebrate endocrine systems. While ecological risk assessments often rely on standardized laboratory toxicity tests to assess ecological impacts, ...
Participant-based technologies enable users to contribute resources to a shared pool that in the aggregate provides valuable services, such as social networks, massive multiplayer online games, file exchange, etc. Such ...
A descriptive study was performed to investigate specific health variables (exercise, stress, alcohol use, and self-esteem) among a college population (n = 74). Study participants completed four online surveys (Core Alcohol ...
In this work, we discuss multiplicity results for nonhomogeneous even-order boundary value problems on both discrete and continuous domains. We develop a method for establishing existence of positive solutions by transforming ...
Various chemometric analyses were applied to spectroscopic data with goals to develop alternative methods that could be employed in government or industrial settings. With the concerns of these organizations in mind, the ...