Organized opposition to immigration, globalization, and minority groups in Sweden exploded during the 1980s and 1990s, energized in large part by the spread of skinhead …
This dissertation studies the philosophical implications and formal repercussions of melancholy in Spanish poetry at the turn of the seventeenth century, along with the constructions …
The "half-read" knowledge of classical and Celtic languages exerted a major ideological impact on the development of political and linguistic nationalisms in twentieth-century Ireland, Scotland …
During King Philip's War (1675-1676) in New England, English colonists and a small number of enslaved Africans and "friendly" Indians used dwelling houses as places …
This dissertation is a detailed study of ethics in the second-century BCE text Huainanzi, and its implications for our understanding of classical Daoist ethics in …
This dissertation explores how post-Soviet Russia's demographic reality came to be conceived of as a dramatic national problem and as an object of government intervention. …
Interpreters of Thomas Hobbes take two distinctive approaches to his views on religion, either rendering God foundational to his vision or giving primacy to human …
Roudnice monastery in the Kingdom of Bohemia has fascinated scholars due to two facts regarding its cultural context; first, the Prague bishop Jan IV of …
This thesis presents a measurement of the mass of the top quark. The top quarks are produced through proton-antiproton collisions with $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV at the …
The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary is the world’s most ubiquitous plate boundary system, separating the high viscosity lithosphere from the underlying convecting mantle asthenosphere. Thoroughly characterizing the …
Our research works to 1)understand protective mechanisms for improving sunscreens through the study of ultra violet light absorbers and 2) develop a novel detection and …
We present a study of the aeromechanics of highly compliant structures in the context of animal flight, with special attention paid to bat flight. Bats …
The dissertation examines forms of cultural production that assimilated capture as an epistemological model in the modern period. The project looks to canonical works in …
Aging is associated with an increased risk of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD). Yet, much remains unknown about the mechanisms that underlie the age-related, …
Variation in genomes occurs in many forms, from single nucleotide changes to gains and losses of entire chromosomes. Large-scale rearrangements, called structural variants (SVs), are …
Amorphous oxide semiconductor (AOS) thin film transistors (TFTs) based on In2O3 have attracted much interest for use as pixel switching elements in next generation active-matrix …
An exceptional group of aquatic invertebrates makes up Class Bdelloidea. Bdelloid rotifers are the only group of ancient asexual animals known. A second distinction that …
Recent developments in mass spectrometer technology has increased the sensitivity and speed to an unprecedented level, along with the continuing improvements of high performance liquid …
Motivated by questions posed to the new media artist, concerning the difficulties with coming up with an innovative artistic style in interactive media performance, this …
