This thesis endeavors to shed light on institutional slavery at the University of Alabama. Chapter one examines the historiographical threads which undergird the study of American slavery, particularly in the institutional ...

This study seeks to better understand the heterogeneous lives and political cultures of the poor majorities during a period in Mexican history (1970s-1990s) of capitalist transition to neoliberalism and political ...

The Orson Welles Chaos is a linear feature located between the Orson Welles crater and Ganges Chasma in Xanthe Terra, Mars. Within the Chaos system there are two neighboring deposits of white sediment that are uniquely ...

ABSTRACT Closo-decaborane ([closo-B10H10]2-) is a three-dimensional, electron rich, sigma aromatic system with orbital symmetry that allows for efficient electronic interaction with π-substituents at the apical positions. ...

In Paradise Lost, John Milton invokes the etymologies of both the Greek daimon (“demon”) and the Hebrew satan (“satan”) to bolster Satan’s narrative role of modeling one’s severance from God’s love. Milton’s multilingualism ...

Reading achievement of students is one of the most significant predictors of their academic performance and competitiveness in society. Researchers have been investigating the reading achievement related factors for ...

Acinetobacter baumannii is a bacterium identified as a serious threat to human health by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ). A. baumannii has this designation because of its prevalence in hospitals ...

Ecological disturbance is a key factor in structuring biotic assemblages. Microbial assemblages are subject to disturbance and react predictably to it. This study aimed to determine if host- and pathogen- associated processes ...

Hannah Arendt argues that the erosion of the arts and culture in the modern age is inextricably linked with the threat to democratic freedom in the political realm, and she concludes that one of the greatest hopes for ...

Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages are becoming more important aswe move into the Exascale era. The complexities brought on by the architectures of thesemachines make traditional message passing approaches ...