The novelty of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of literature is a product of the ethical and political demands he makes of art and literature. Though Bourdieu's work ranges from research in social housing to a book length study ...

Interactions of electromagnetic fields with the human body have been a subject of scientific interest and public concern. In recent years, issues in power line field effects and those of wireless telephones have been in ...

The present research study was conducted in partial fulfillment of the dissertation requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy. The small scale pilot process and outcome study examined: (a) the therapeutic efficacy ...

Determining the minimum distance between two objects is a problem that has been solved using many different approaches. Most methods proposed so far are, in essence, limited to solve the problem amongst convex polyhedra. ...

Perfectionism, a condition which has been linked with psychopathology, has been conceptualized somewhat disparately. This study was concerned with scrutinizing past and current conceptualizations of perfectionism, with ...

This dissertation brings together two well known interpretative problems in the understanding of the formation of the American nation and self how a meaning of an American self arises as different from traditional cultures, ...

Semiconducting single crystals are vital to the electronics industry. A number of methods have been developed to produce or ’’grow” these materials. A widely used group of growth techniques is known as the growth from ...

In order to gain an understanding of the interaction of probe molecules with NaCh aggregates, steady-state and time-resolved photophysical methods were used. By employing several probe molecules, an understanding of how ...

The focus of this research was a comparison of the values of elderly people and health care professionals (HCPs) that underlay the care decisions they made for a hypothetical marginally incompetent elderly person living ...

The goal of this research was to develop a synthetic strategy to synthesize voltage-gated (end-differentiated) ion channels with a minimal synthetic effort and this goal was pursued in two different ways with two different ...