Historically, it has been difficult for blind students to pursue careers in biochemistry-related fields. The reasons for this under representation are complex, but partially caused by: (i) the preponderance of visual-oriented ...

L’Arche communities are Christian, faith-based communities where people with and without disabilities share life with one another. This international organization is a unique example of what it looks like to fully embrace ...

Some inconsistency is found in past literature on backward priming effects on the basis of proficiency in an L2. Simultaneous bilinguals generally display strong backward priming effects, but sequential bilinguals may ...

Self-serving bias is a cognitive process by which an individual distorts reality in order to protect their ego. This bias frequently manifests as a tendency to attribute success to the self and failure to external causes, ...

Responsible for more than 200,000,000 cases and 600,000 deaths in 2012, the malaria epidemic continues to be a devastating international public health crisis. Although many current public health studies focus on the ...

Prenatal stress is known to affect a variety of measures of stress in mature offspring, including corticosterone. The purpose of this experiment is to examine the effects of unpredictable, chronic prenatal stress on serum ...

Since bacterial pathogens are able to develop resistance after exposure to antibiotics, antibiotic resistance is a serious problem in medicine. Resistance to antibiotics occurs by the production of β-lactamases, which ...

For the better part of the last century, the literary and rhetorical term ekphrasis has been applied primarily to poetic descriptions of art and architecture. Best known for its application to such famous examples as the ...

The singlemost misunderstood aspect of twentieth century art is the advent of abstraction. In the aftermath of the first half of the twentieth century, modern man felt that in order to regain his humanity, in order to ...

The Middle East is the birthplace of Christianity. It appears, however, that Christianity has found its home further west of its birthplace, and in fact, may not be able to maintain any significant existence there for much ...