Animated Prosthetics has combined recentadvances in battery chemistry with a microcomputer control systern and a unique method of battery charging to provide new products for the externally powered upper extremity patient. ...

<p>This dissertation examines the use of personae, the rhetorical artifices by which an author creates different voices, in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. I argue that the Confessio attempts to expose how discourses of ...

Many policies have been proposed to address America’s growing energy needs, but a broad-based compromise is often constrained by regional differences. It is important to highlight the regional benefits of potential energy ...

<p>During infection of epithelial cells, the obligate intracellular pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis secretes the serine protease chlamydial protease-like activity factor (CPAF) into the host cytosol to regulate a range of ...

<p>In the last two decades, bacterial infections have reemerged as a serious public health threat. In the United States, nosocomial infections alone cost several billion dollars and are responsible for 100,000 deaths ...

The effect of concentrating semi-volatile aerosols using a water-condensation technology was investigated using the Versatile Aerosol Concentration Enrichment System (VACES) and the Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS) ...

The goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of the role of institutional arrangements and ecological factors that facilitate the emergence and sustainability of successful collective action in small-scale fishing ...

This paper explores the relationships between sovereign debt ratings and institutions, with the goal of showing how institutions impact the rating that is assigned. The thesis uses a regression model to investigate this ...