Since its formation >400,000 years ago Lake Victoria has expanded and contracted in response to climate change, but little data are available prior to the Last Glacial Maximum during an important interval in human evolution ...

What is the relationship between liberalism and Christianity? In this thesis, I analyze this question from both a historical and philosophical perspective. Historically, liberalism owes something to Christianity, as liberal ...

Throughout history, humans have been plagued by vector-borne diseases such as dengue fever, malaria, and yellow fever. These particular diseases are spread by mosquitoes, and they cause severe losses to human growth and ...

Enterococcus faecalis is a leading cause of nosocomial infections, and the clinical emergence of vancomycin-resistant E. faecalis (VRE) makes studying this bacterium increasingly urgent. This study investigates a vanB-type ...

Financial distress is a condition where a company has difficulty paying off its financial obligations to its creditors. Failing to relieve financial distress can lead to bankruptcy, which is very costly to the firm’s ...

Malignant glioblastoma multiforme, or glioma, is one of the most frequent central nervous system tumors in adults, with a dismal prognosis despite aggressive treatment. With median survival less than a year, a multimodal ...

Modern American rights claims spring from a wide array of historical, legal, and metaphysical sources, but these different sources often lead to radically different ideas about which rights are most important. This confusion ...

A school garden was established at the Bethlehem Home Academy by the Straw to Bread non-profit organization in rural western Kenya in 2012. This school serves very poor and often malnourished children from the Luo tribe ...

As the Baby Boomer generation retires over the next two decades, there will be a great need for a new place for them to call home that offers the opportunity for medical assistance as needed. As such, assisted living ...

By 2025 India will overtake China as the country with the largest population in the world. The World Bank in 2007 noted that the prevalence of disability in India could be as high as 80-­‐90 million individuals by that ...