American Protestants adopted organizational efficiency as a spiritual virtue in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Driven by a devotional impulse to manage and systematize the practice of their faith, they ...

This study examines southern opposition to the Mexican War. The story of such opposition is essential to a complete understanding of the Mexican War and the growing sectional conflict in the late antebellum period. It ...

This dissertation explores several existing challenges of evolutionarystellar population synthesis models in integrated light:age-metallicity degeneracy, initial mass function (IMF), elementalabundances, and compositeness. ...

This dissertation concerns the study of two classes of molecular machines from a physical perspective: enzymes and membrane proteins. Though the functions of these classes of proteins are different, they each represent ...

Options are a fundamental and important type of financial derivatives with stocks as the underlying asset. Investors frequently trade options, making option pricing an important research area in both finance and applied ...

This study explores the relationship between college students’ first mathematics course and persistence to graduation with a bachelor’s degree in a Scientific, Technical, Engineering, or Mathematical (STEM) field. Half of ...

Previous research has determined that both street crime and environmental hazards are more likely to occur in poor and minority communities that lack the ability to create and draw upon systems of social control. In an ...

This dissertation presents an investigation of the ultrafast carrier dynamics in thin film hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) and silicon germanium alloys (a-Si_(1-x) Ge_x:H). These materials have attracted considerable ...

It is clear that statistics show vast differences in arrest rates between males and females for criminal behavior, with the most drastic differences found among violent offenses. However, the extent to which sex impacts ...

Declines in wild cat populations across the world have led to international efforts to conserve the remaining, declining populations of some species. The Sierra Madre Occidental in Sonora, Mexico is a remote region containing ...