The Etruscan Athena and the Afterlife
Figures of the Etruscan underworld and the afterlife appear on funerary mirrors and already have been addressed by Alexandra Carpino and others like Nancy Thompson de Grummond. These characters...
View ArticleSurface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Surface Adsorbed MetalloOctaethyl...
Modern fuel cell technology faces the challenge of developing efficient and long-term catalysts to reduce oxygen (ORR). As the catalyst, metalloporphyrins have been of great interest, but the...
View ArticleSynthesis of Gold Nanoparticles Capped With Phosphotungstic Acid
Nanoscience and nanotechnology research are rapidly growing research areas in chemistry, physics, and biology due mainly to nanoparticles’ unique properties associated with their size. These...
View ArticleThe Cornell College Press and Its Place in Cornell History
Though it is now quite unknown, Cornell College owned a printing press in the past that operated out of South Hall. The Cornell College Press, run by the English Club at Cornell, ran from 1935-1967. In...
View ArticleBorrowed Memory: The Creation and Impact of a Public Memory in Buenos Aires,...
During Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship of 1976-1983, the Naval Mechanics School (ESMA) in Buenos Aires became a clandestine military detention center where around 5,000 victims were tortured,...
View ArticleAllowing Trees to Stand on Their Own: An Investigation of Legal Standing for...
In 1972, Professor Chris Stone published an article titled “Should Trees Have Standing?” In his essay, Stone called upon the Supreme Court to expand the legal concept of standing, which determines...
View ArticlePutting Preservation in Perspective: Comparing the Historic Sites of Knossos...
The Bahamas and Greece are both countries with rich histories, yet they provide examples of extremely different approaches to preserving that history and making it accessible to the public. Measures...
View ArticleWhite Hat Hacking: How Hacking Keeps You Safe
Hacking frequently gets a bad rap from media outlets and is a widely misused term. The truth is that techniques and software developed by hackers help to improve the level of security for all computer...
View ArticleQuantum Information Processing Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
The speed of modern computing algorithms is limited by the basic operations allowed by classical physics. With the advent of quantum computing, there could be faster and more unique methods to solve a...
View ArticleThe Importance of Trust: A Comparative Look at Parallel Passages of the Gospels
In my research, I have looked at one story that occurs throughout the Gospels. My goal was to compare and contrast one story that occurs in different books, and to look at what that means for the main...
View ArticleEvaluating the Impact of Moneyball on Player Valuation in Major League...
The 2011 release of the movie Moneyball has sparked renewed interest in the impact the book left on the game of baseball. It is now claimed that Major League Baseball teams have embraced new methods of...
View ArticleAssociation of Proactive Personality with Academic Success and Stress Among...
Previous research has indicated that proactivity may be an important personality trait in determining a number of behavioral outcomes that might otherwise appear to be results of environmental factors....
View ArticleEffects of Public Policies on Treatment of Patients with Schizophrenia
The number of inmates with severe mental disorders in correctional facilities has been increasing at an alarming rate. Individuals with mental conditions appear in courts in much higher frequencies...
View ArticleSynthesis of Gold Nanoparticles Using Titania Functionalized-Phosphotungstic...
Colloidal metals, otherwise known as metallic nanoparticles, have many applications in optoelectronics, semiconductors, catalysis, and magnetic devices, while colloidal gold specifically has...
View ArticleComputational Investigations of Ion-Carbon Dioxide Reactions
Computational chemistry is a largely theoretical approach to studying chemistry. In this field of chemistry, sophisticated mathematical models and computers are used to calculate properties of chemical...
View ArticleSynthesis of Organic Precursors for Photochemical Reactions
2+ 2 cycloaddition reactions provide a means by which solids can react in the presence of light without any solvent. The reactants are oriented by metal-organic complexes that act as templates. These...
View ArticlePlane Selection for Nonparallel Contouring
The segmentation of medical images to extract anatomical structures is an important problem in medical image analysis. Traditionally, this is done through a time-consuming and error-prone process in...
View ArticleVariation in the Red Coloration of the Antebrachial Scales in the Male Ornate...
The ornate box turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata, displays significant sexual dimorphism. Males generally have thicker and longer tails, modified hind toes, a concave plastron, more muscular hind legs,...
View ArticleSubcloning of IRF4 to Investigate Its Role in Development of Plasma Cell...
Multiple myeloma (MM), a malignancy of plasma cells, accounts for ~13% of all hematological malignancies. Many genes have been identified in the pathogenesis of MM including interferon regulatory...
View ArticlePhosphorylation of the α7 Subunit of the Ubiquitin Proteasome System: A...
The ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) is responsible for maintaining protein equilibrium and the degradation of damaged and misfolded proteins. Dysfunction of the UPS has been observed in...
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