This thesis investigates the development of the biography of the Baroque portrait painter, Mary Beale (1633-1699), through historiography. The conventional gendered construction of Mary, primarily as a wife and mother, and ...

Liquid water management in the cathode of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) is crucial to efficient transport of gases and to maintaining electrochemical activity in the catalyst layer. Cracks and interfacial ...

This inquiry explores experiences and interpretations of transformation within the arena of Restorative Justice. Qualitatively guided by a descriptive-exploratory design this study employed a mixed ethnographic-phenomenological ...

My dissertation examines the correlations between the natural and supernatural, agency and authority, and meaning and language in the work of the modernist American writers H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) and Djuna Barnes. Using ...

The last two decades have witnessed the CMOS processes and design techniques develop and prosper with unprecedented speed. They have been widely employed in contemporary integrated circuit (IC) commercial products resulting ...

The spatial evolution of control over hotels in Chiang Mai, Upper Northern Thailand is examined using a geographical multiple research strategy and Keller's model of hierarchies of control and capital input. The spatial ...

The primary purpose of this explorative study was to develop a therapeutically relevant theory of emotional well-being. The developed theory focuses on coping skills because they are observable, measurable, and teachable. ...

Hydrothermal vent communities exhibit great taxonomic novelty with 88% of species, 51% of genera, and 21% of families new to science. Given the severe physiological barriers to invasion presented by hydrothermalism and ...

Hexactinellid sponges differ substantially from other sponges in having syncytial tissues and the ability to propagate signals rapidly, causing the arrest of the feeding current. To confirm existing light and electron ...

The syntheses of many cycloalkene and cycloalkeneone annelated DHPs have been achieved. A late ring formation approach was used to synthesize the dicycloalkeneone annelated DHP 63 (Scheme 4) and the unsymmetrical ...