Recent scholarly and media attention claims the United States policing institution is growing more militarized in behavior and values. With this renewal of attention towards police militarization, common recommendations ...

The majority of veterans end their military service on good terms, suggesting a future unencumbered by the justice system. Yet veterans made up approximately 8 percent of the United States’ incarcerated population in ...

Simultaneous use of two distinct projectile technologies in interior Alaska, during the end of the Pleistocene and early Holocene, is a study domain that has generated many diverse hypotheses. Some researchers view the ...

The people of the Columbia Plateau have been frequently characterized as a homogenous culture despite a 2,500-year depth of history and large spatial extent. Moreover, differences in artifact form, assemblage composition, ...

Management of problematic tetravalent fission products and actinides present in the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle presents important scientific and technical challenges concerning the reprocessing and disposal of used ...

Both climatic and geologic activity can shape the distributions of species by altering the habitat in which they live and necessitating populations to either migrate, adapt, elsewise they may go extinct. Migration offers ...

Arogenate dehydratases (ADTs) are enzymes found within the aromatic amino acid pathway. They are responsible for catalyzing the final step in phenylalanine (Phe) biosynthesis in vascular plants. While being essential for ...

Chilling tolerance describes the ability of a plant to grow and reproduce in low, but non-freezing, temperatures between 2°C to 12°C. Many important agricultural crops that evolved in warm climates lack the mechanisms to ...

Life history theory posits a trade-off between investment in self and reproduction depending on environment. Because of their increased investment in prenatal offspring, females in particular may exercise prudence if ...

The carbon-concentrating mechanism of C4 photosynthesis requires a complex set of anatomical and biochemical adaptations. Although there is growing interest in using components of C4 photosynthesis for enhancing photosynthetic ...