The ability to mobilize large armies for the purposes of national defense and territorial expansion is a key feature of the modern state. Post-revolutionary France was among the first European powers to adopt large-scale ...

Nucleosidases or nucleoside hydrolases are a class of enzymes that hydrolyze nucleosides into a pentose sugar and a nitrogenous base. These enzymes are widely distributed, and are found in parasitic protozoans, plants, ...

The opioid crisis has reached a boiling point in Tennessee. As a result, a comprehensive plan, entitled TN Together, was launched by the State of Tennessee to address the growing epidemic. However, an area remarkably ...

Applications in various fields of technology like microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), Energy Harvesting, sensing and energy storage, etc., made graphene a unique material of all the carbon allotropes. Barium titanate ...

Carbonyl compounds are important to study because of their biological and industrial significance. A database of critical point descriptors for valence-shell charge concentrations and depletions of carbon atoms in a range ...

A benzenoid system $H$ is a finite 2-connected plane bipartite graph in which every interior face is bounded by a regular hexagon. A benzenoid system is called as cata-condensed if it is outer planar. A perfect matching ...

Of all the actors in the American Civil War, marginalized groups have been vastly underrepresented on the commemorative landscape. Cherokee soldiers were among the minorities who contributed to both the Union and the ...

One aspect of machine learning is that it has sought to mimic how the brain learns. In 1992, Kruschke published a computer model called ALCOVE which sought to model category learning. In 2004, Phillips and Noelle made this ...

This dissertation argues that the intersection of the civil rights movement and the space program in the Huntsville, Alabama in the 1960s created a unique opportunity for black leadership in the city to develop a comprehensive ...

The portrayal of female friendships are a significant and influential feature of American situation comedies. This study conducts a comparison of female friendships pairings in four popular sitcoms that span across six ...