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The Method of Characteristics: A Study of Waves
(2016-08-10)
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 ...
Using a bioinformatics approach to identify genes that have possible candidacy of association with retinitis pigmentosa: GeneWeaver
(2016-08-10)
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 ...
Equality or Liberty: an Examination of Obergefell v. Hodges
(2016-08-09)
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 ...
Re-defining Rationality: An Analysis of Criminal Behavior
(2016-08-09)
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 ...
Evaluating and Isolating Promoters in Impatiens walleriana: Towards the Development of Mosquitocidal Nectar
(2016-08-10)
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 ...
Out of Saffron Ashes: Revival of Hindutva in India
(2016-08-10)
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: ...
Relationship Between Cognitive Functioning and Activities of Daily Living in Homeless Adults
(2016-08-11)
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). ...
Performance of the Prototype Readout System for CMS Endcap Hadron Calorimeter Upgrade
(2016-08-08)
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 ...
Dynamic Spectral Mask Construction for Radar Transmission Based on Communication Receiver Locations
(2016-08-10)
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 and the United Kingdom: An Analysis from the late 1800s to 2015 and Future Prediction
(2016-08-09)
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 ...