While many organizations are susceptible to fraud, there is evidence that churches are especially vulnerable. Unfortunately, most fraud prevention suggestions are not tailored to churches in developing countries. This paper ...
In 1878, the U.S. Supreme Court defined, and applied, the free exercise clause of the First Amendment for the first time. The case, Reynolds v. United States, concerned the constitutionality of the Morrill Act of 1862, ...
This paper reexamines the effects of state religion on religious service attendance across countries. Using attendance data from the World Values Survey and Gallup World Poll, it pays special attention to the variables ...
Seneca's fame arises from three different personas: he was the advisor to Nero, a brilliant rhetorician, and a Stoic philosopher. Seneca employs all three of these personas in his De Clementia, which is a treatise advising ...
The rising consumption of alcohol in Western societies and subsequent alcoholrelated
life problems that develop has been labeled a major health and social issue.
Finding an effective treatment for alcohol dependence has ...
The retention of minority populations plays a significant role in establishing institutional diversity, bringing benefits that are often exclusive to students’ ability to reinforce their cultural competence during the ...
The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway is a mechanism by which eukaryotic cells degrade mRNAs with nonsense codons and some natural mRNAs. CTR3 mRNA is a natural mRNA degraded by the pathway and codes for a copper ...
In developing countries characterized by traditional gender roles in the context of women’s very limited economic and social power, the issue of nonconsensual sex is even more complex than in cultures where women have ...
Cell polarity, the correct positioning of membrane proteins in the apical and basolateral domains, is critical for the proper development of retinal photoreceptor cells. The regulation of cell polarity is controlled by ...
Research implicates the mTOR pathway, now known to be a regulator of protein synthesis, as a major player in both neuronal development and cognition. This study demonstrates, both through experimentation and a review of ...
The debate about same-sex marriage is fraught with emotion, often making fruitful discussion of the issue virtually impossible. In this project, I distill the important points of contention both for and against same-sex ...
Introduction. Incidence of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer is increasing worldwide. Melanoma is the sixth most common cancer in the United States, making skin cancer a significant public health issue.
Background ...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has performed exceptionally well so far, delivering more than 10^15 proton-proton collisions with center-of-mass energy up to 8 TeV. It has already provided the data that enabled the CMS and ...
Despite reductions in rates of tobacco use in recent years, smoking remains an important public health concern. Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of death in the United States, and regular smoking is usually established ...
Ethnographic field work conducted with Deportivo Santa Isabel, an adult male recreational soccer team in Momostenango, Guatemala. The team provides a story of local adaptations to the forces of globalization. Soccer is an ...
Although the concept of Asian Americans being “model minorities” has been referenced in relation to racial/ethnic differences in educational and socioeconomic achievement, criminologists have not explored whether the ...
Society puts a lot of pressure on its members, much of which the members of
society do not even consciously realize is being placed upon them. There is
simultaneously pressure to conform to the things society deems ...
This thesis examines the virtue of concord as it appears in the Faerie Queene and how it links together the various titular virtues in a “golden chain of concord”. Before discussing the image of the golden chain as it ...
This project sets out to explore the form and function of storytelling as it applies to the sociological, emotional, and spiritual aspects of human life. The first portion of the project is a preface to the project itself ...
In Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus the character of Faustus is defined by the striving that leads to his fatal despair. After the Enlightenment alters the course of Western thought, the experiences of Goethe’s Faust ...