<p>Traditionally seen as a time for increasing independence and autonomy, the college experience is often the first major, long-term physical separation from parents (Chickering, 1969; Chickering & Reisser, 1993). For ...

<p>This dissertation traces the range of popular forms and practices associated with the harpsichord in the twentieth century in the United States, focusing on the 1950s, 60s and 70s. It draws on archives of period ...

<p>Understanding the interconversion between the thermodynamically distinguishable states present in a protein folding pathway provides not only the kinetics and energetics of protein folding but also insights into the ...

<p>The goal of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment plan optimization is to produce a cumulative dose distribution that satisfies both the dose prescription and the normal tissue dose constraints. The ...

<p>The refractive index sensitivity of plasmonic nanoparticles is utilized in the development of real-time, label-free biodetection. Analyte molecules that bind to receptor-conjugated nanoparticles cause an increase in ...

<p>I argue that the pastoral genre is a literary response to changes in the agrarian economy as landed property is freed from older notions of obligation and political dependence on the monarch. Thus, the Renaissance English ...

<p>This dissertation focuses on the artistic, archaeological, and literary representation and commemoration of the Classical Athenian navy. While the project stresses the various and often contradictory ways in which the ...

<p>This dissertation theorizes the complex contemporary phenomenon of literature produced in French by writers of allophone origins, which is to say, writers born in non-Francophone countries. Vassilis Alexakis, Gao Xingjian, ...

<p>Last Wave Reached:</p><p>Last Wave Reached is a setting of poems by Kay Ryan , U.S. poet laureate, 2008 - 2010, for three female singers and large chamber ensemble. Ryan writes compact, intricate miniatures full of ...

<p>Early life exposure to mitochondrial toxicants, including paraquat, rotenone, and manganese, has been hypothesized to promote early onset of genetic mitochondrial disorders as well as common degenerative diseases such ...