From 1351 to 1828, women who killed their husbands were not charged with murder but instead with petit treason, a special category to designate the killing of one’s superior. Petit treason was a capital crime, and convicted ...

California’s water resource management relies on the Central Valley Project. This network of dams, canals, pumps, and diversions extracts water from the northern, wetter parts of the state and subsequently conveys water ...

How do we interpret in ways that elevate justice? This is a question posed by Buddhist studies scholar Karen Derris in her article responding to recent scholarship by Reiko Ohnuma; in her book, Ohnuma uses particularly ...

Tauopathies are a broad class of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by aggregates of the microtubule-associated protein tau in both neurons and glia. Many tauopathies exhibit sexual dimorphism in their onset, ...

Virginia Woolf’s novels are considered to be amongst the treasures of modernist literature. Revising the conventional realist novel, Woolf explores new techniques in her writings to examine and expand the notions of art, ...

Acceptor doped barium zirconate is one of the most promising materials for stationary hydrogen fuel cells due to its high proton conductivity while maintaining thermodynamic stability. Many studies have shown that the ...

Tissue remodeling plays an important role in the development of many multicellular organisms. It is also a key process in wound healing and tumor metastasis, and studying the control of tissue remodeling could lead to ...

In order to develop a more efficient cathode oxygen vacancy conduction fuel cell, it is important to understand the oxygen vacancy structure and conduction in perovskites and double perovskites. Previous research using a ...

What, how, and who is transbutch? In this thesis, I examine memoirs and personal essays that define and defy boundaries between “butch" and “transmasculine" subjectivity –– and investigate my own queer experience in the ...

In this project, I ask how successful medical crowdfunding campaigns mobilize discourses of worth and community to imbue charitable giving with notions of reciprocity, as well as how the news media participate in such ...