Circadian rhythms are endogenous time-keeping machines that allow organisms to anticipate and respond to environmental changes. In the past decade, accumulating evidence has pointed at the direct association between circadian ...

America’s White Whale: The Inescapable Search for an Impossible Identity is concerned with questions of American identity as explored in American literature. It explores how Sinclair Lewis, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain, ...

There is a constant push for innovative applications of electronics. The traditional materials used to construct these devices, such as inorganic silicon, are expensive and brittle. Semiconducting conjugated polymers ...

With the proliferation of social media and community discussion and forum websites, interest in understanding and explaining communication on the Internet (with an emphasis on language-based communication) is on the rise. ...

The relationship between athletes and activism is ubiquitous in United States (US) history. I became curious as to how this relationship operates in other countries. Comparing US athlete activism to Brazil athlete activism ...

Anne Conway (1631-1679) fits into standard narratives of seventeenth-century natural philosophy only as a footnote, that rare example of a well-documented educated woman. The focus placed on print publication by the history ...

What comes to mind when one wants to eliminate poverty in the United States? Education? Healthcare? Job Training? There are many possible solutions, but one that is often overlooked is access to legal services. When one ...

Little remains known about the Holocene temperature history of West Africa, partly due to the fact that a paleoclimate proxy with the ability to reconstruct tropical temperatures has not been available. The branched ...

This thesis examines the role played by fairy tales and folklore in the settings and geographical imagination of five Victorian novels: Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," George Eliot's "Silas Marner" and "Felix Holt," ...