The central question this dissertation engages with is why modern states in the Persian Gulf rely heavily on informal networks of untrained and inexperienced recruits from the region of Balochistan, presently spread across ...

Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, foreign policy experts and U.S. government officials have emphasized the importance of public diplomacy in combating terrorism and ensuring national security. In the current ...

As of late 2009, the Protein Data Bank (PDB) has grown to contain over 70,000 models. This recent increase in the amount of structural data allows for more extensive explication of the governing principles of macromolecular ...

Affects are not reducible to feelings or emotions. On the contrary, Affect Before Spinoza investigates the extent to which affects exceed, reconfigure and reorganize bodies and subjects. Affects are constitutive of and ...

A GL(2,R)-structure on a smooth manifold of dimension n+1 corresponds to a distribution of non-degenerate rational normal cones over the manifold. Such a structure is called k-integrable if there exist many foliations by ...

This dissertation explores the history of the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians, the development of an American Indian leadership in the denomination and the development of a Pentecostal Indian identity. ...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are important contaminants that are found in increasing amounts in aquatic ecosystems. One of the sites that that is contaminated by extremely high levels of PAHs is the Atlantic Wood ...

In response to the changing family and social structures in the United States, an accurate understanding of mechanisms and the driving forces of marrital dissolution is important in many aspects. For one, the knowledge helps ...

This paper examines the e ect of macroeconomic variable volatility on implied and realized asset price level volatilities in the U.S. using monthly data from 1986 - 2008. Two approaches are taken: An autoregressive distributed ...