The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was built to produce and study Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) the phase of matter thought to exist under conditions sufficiently hot and dense to create a medium in which the degrees ...

This dissertation explores the inner logic of the novels written by women in Spain and Latin America during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on their literary construction of feminine identity. I argue ...

This dissertation examines the process of institutionalization for cultural social movement organizations, drawing on twelve months of intensive ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in four LGBT (lesbian, gay, ...

The control system of the Tandem Van de Graaf (VDG) electrostatic accelerator was upgraded in situ, replacing analog control devices with digitally programmable devices, in order to make the control system more intuitive, ...

The Ganges and Brahmaputra drainage systems make up one of the largest source-to-sink systems in the world. Together, the rivers carry >1Gt of sediment annually from the Himalayas to the continental margin where approximately ...

American regional theatres are in crisis. The economic downturn of the past four years has resulted in an intensification of existing challenges facing nonprofit theatre institutions, and the result has been a resurgence ...