The method of characteristics is a powerful and intuitive tool for obtaining solutions to the PDEs that model various waves. This method takes advantage of the underlying geometry of the physical phenomena to find a family ...

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a retinal degenerative disorder that affects about 1 in 3,000 people. The disease is genetic in cause, and currently there is no cure. The genetic cause of the disease may be contributed to one ...

The gay rights movement is perhaps the most rapidly progressing social and political movement of our generation. Within a mere sixty years, gay rights advocates arrived at the Supreme Court in pursuit of national recognition ...

At the core of economics is the idea that humans behave rationally and will maximize their own utility in any given situation. Illegal behavior, then, can be hard to explain; a criminal must reason that breaking the law ...

Mosquito-borne diseases, such as malaria, are a persistent problem, leading to numerous deaths across the world that could be easily prevented by better control of mosquito populations. Because the main source of energy ...

In early 2014, citizens of the largest democratic nation on the planet turned up in record-breaking numbers to vote in India's sixteenth Lok Sabha elections. This election was particularly monumental for several reasons: ...

It has been established that a homeless population demonstrates impairment in various areas of memory executive functioning, such as decision making and verbal fluency (Davidson, Chrosniak, Wanschura, & Flinn, 2014). ...

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will upgrade the photodetectors and readout systems of the endcap hadron calorimeter during the technical stop scheduled for late 2016 and ...

Currently, the spectrum is allocated using fixed methods, where the spectral bands are all purchased by individual users. Part of the current system is the idea that a spectral mask is static and is based upon a set of ...

Immigration has been and still is a major policy issue in the United Kingdom. A prediction into how the United Kingdom will react to future waves of immigration requires a study into how the United Kingdom reacted to past ...