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The Jeffersonian Revolution and Multiple Modes of Institutional Change in Reconstructive Presidencies
Using Thomas Jefferson's Presidency as an overarching example, the way Presidents reconstruct and implement lasting institutional change is examined. The idea that the only way presidential reconstruction occurs is in ...
The Beauty of Nothing: A Personal Experiment on Wassily Kandinsky's Color Theory and Search Toward Pure Abstraction
(2019-05-23)
The work of Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky produced at the start of the 20th century has long been regarded as the turning point in the history of artistic abstraction. He took known principles and dissected them into ...
Dostoevsky’s View of the Russian Soul and its Impact on the Russian Question in The Brothers Karamazov
(2014-05-01)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of Russia’s most renowned novelists, profoundly
affected the way that Russia would think of itself in the years following his death. One of
the most important issues for Dostoevsky and other ...
Effects of Ethanol on Ion Transport in the NavMs Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel: A Molecular Dynamics Study
(2014-05-02)
The behavioral effects of alcohol on the human nervous system are well-characterized, yet molecular mechanisms for these effects remain largely unknown. Studies have suggested effects on ion transport as a viable cause for ...
The Long Tail: An Evaluation of the Causal Assumptions in Market Determination
(2013-05-23)
The “Long Tail,” is a market distribution wherein obscure products sell in large aggregate amounts, allowing them to compete comparatively well with the few popular products in the same market that sell well individually. ...
Influence of Rapamycin on Zea Mays Seedlings
(2013-05-24)
The Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signal Transduction Pathway is a conserved mechanism that plays a significant role in the regulation of cell growth. Autophagy inhibition is one method in which the TOR kinase pathway is able ...
Physician-Assisted Dying: A new Model for Current Clinical Application
(2014-05-02)
Physician-Assisted Dying is a practice that has become more prominent in medicine in the last two decades. In its long and varied history, it has affected multiple cultures and garnered diverse responses from the people ...
Political Leadership and Morality: Shifting American Leadership Responses to Scandal
(2014-06-02)
Politicians have always walked on the shaky ground of public opinion, but now more than ever it seems their personal lives have come into play in the political arena. The American People are no longer satisfied with leaders ...
Risk Aversion and Probabilistic Punishment
(2017-05-23)
This paper studies the intersection between risk aversion and willingness to punish in an experimental Voluntary Contributions Mechanism (VCM) game. The analysis focuses on the differences between high and low risk averse ...
Body Worlds: Spectacularization and Its Role in Democratizing Anatomy
(2017-05-23)
Since 1993, Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds has been visited by over 40 million people worldwide. The plastinated displays marketed as “real human bodies” have elicited both praise and condemnation. Through an analysis of ...