Angiogenesis in the heart requires cell-cell communication between fibroblasts and endothelial cells (ECs). We have demonstrated that fibroblast-EC interactions involve the cell surface molecule N-cadherin. In tube formation ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), lead poisoning accounts for 0.6% of the global disease burden. It has been described as the silent epidemic plaguing developing countries. Children have been found to be ...

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are known as the gatherers and editors of tales collected in Nursery Tales for Children, or Kinder‐ und Hausmärchen. These tales were originally collected by the brothers as part of a mission ...

A close examination on what it means to die by looking at the different works of literature by Lucretius Carus, Theodore Roethke, and Walt Whitman. Each poet described differing perspectives on death that range from the ...

In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the boundaries of vocal technique have been expanded into realms heretofore unexplored. The physical nature of singing has not changed; only the ends to which it is employed. ...

The concept of heroism is a pervasive idea in literature. Figures such as Odysseus, Oedipus and Hamlet have shaped our perception of what it means to be a hero in the midst of hardship and tragedy; namely, these characters ...

In 1993, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice began a prison expansion project. From 1993 to 1995, Texas prison capacity nearly doubled. The prison expansion led to a large, exogenous increase in Texas worker ...

The Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) is a useful algorithm for describing local features in an image. This research successfully demonstrates a model for optimizing SIFT using a Field Programmable Analog Array ...

This thesis looks at the Univariate Box-Jenkins Models for time series analysis. It introduces readers to the concepts of time series and this analytical model. Starting from underlying principles of time series, we cover ...

This thesis proposes to analyze the representation of women in the urban mimes of the Greek Hellenistic poet Theocritus. Best known for his bucolic poetry which incorporates aspects of mime into a country setting, Theocritus ...