Global pediatric surgery has remained a neglected area of concern, despite the disproportionate health care burden surgical conditions cause on the already vulnerable pediatric populations living in low and middle-income ...

For dynamical systems with the shadowing property, the omega-limit sets can be characterized by a condition of internal chain transitivity. In this thesis, we define four limit sets in the case of finitely-generated free ...

Forensic Phylogenetics is a scientific technique used to compare different disease strands in order to discern which of the strands is the parental strand. This technique is used in forensic science when a malicious ...

Music has been shown to influence the behavioral responses of individuals in real- world scenarios, but little research exists on the effects that music has on the in-game behaviors of video game players. A song can be ...

The socioeconomic gradient in health is well established in the field of public health, but studies of this phenomenon as it relates to chronic disease in vulnerable populations yield mixed results. This thesis statistically ...

Providing person-centered care has been a longstanding mission of medicine. Since Hippocrates’ writing of the Hippocratic Oath, considering the patient and their wishes first and foremost has been the common goal of ...

The Fifteenth Amendment ratified during Reconstruction ensured that no man would be denied equal access to the ballot based on the color of his skin. Although it took nearly a century to realize the full mandates of ...

In the Netherlands, an influx Muslim refugees has caused incredible strain as Christians struggle to respond to their new neighbors. This a familiar feeling around the world as many people often come face-to-face with ...

The Algerian Revolution provided two distinct avenues for approaching irregular, population centric conflicts typical of the post-World War II world. Captain David Galula’s counterinsurgency campaign (1956-58) provided the ...

The twentieth century saw a great deal of upheaval in the liturgical practices of the Catholic Church. Many of the changes that were made to the liturgy were on account of what liturgical theologians called “active/actual ...