This thesis analyzes how and within what context the Supreme Court of the United States has interpreted excessive force and police brutality since 1968, when Terry v. Ohio was decided, and the ramifications that these ...

Examined through the lens of moral psychology, we investigate when and why employees’ unethical behaviors may be tolerated versus rejected. Specifically, we examine the interactive effect of employees’ unethical behaviors ...

This thesis will argue that although much has been written about Charles Darwin, his religion has often been misrepresented or oversimplified into a linear trend of secularization leading to atheism. Instead, I will argue ...

When modern readers encounter sensory experiences in medieval literature, we often assume that they look, sound, smell, taste, and feel as they do today. However, while the physiological experience may be similar across ...

The purpose of this thesis is to introduce the reader to Sufjan Stevens’s 2012 fifty-eight track album Silver & Gold, and specifically the final song, “Christmas Unicorn,” a twelve and half minute anti-epic pop song that ...

Edmond Rostand wrote Cyrano de Bergerac during a time when realism was beginning to assert its dominance over French theatre. Rostand’s masterpiece, with its neo-Romantic attributes, is often perceived as a reaction against ...

Behçet’s disease (BD) is a multi-system inflammatory disease primarily affecting patients along the historical silk road. Current attempts to develop an animal model for BD have proved to be only partially successful; they ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs (18~24 nt) that regulate diverse cell functions in mammalian cells, including proliferation, differentiation, metabolism, stress resistance, and death. There is increasing ...

The process of ovulation is an integral part of sexual reproduction in Caenorhabditis elegans. Various genes and signaling pathways are responsible for the successful process of ovulation to occur. Identification of these ...

The Greater Houston Area is currently an EPA designated non-attainment area for the secondary pollutant, ground level ozone. The underestimation of certain volatile organic compound precursors may be behind the discrepancy ...