This dissertation theorizes the urgency of creolist epistemology--emphasizing the non-identitarian self-making process rooted in experiences of migration, colonialism, and transculturation--to the studies of Chinese diaspora. ...

Understanding how species adapt to spatial climate gradients can provide clues to potential evolutionary responses to climate change. Species distributed across broad environmental gradients, such as those that occur ...

The Atlantic silverside, Menidia menidia, is a widely distributed marine species along the east coast of North America that has been shown to exhibit local adaptation, despite evidence of high gene flow. This species ...

The tissue level mechanical properties of bone are a product of bone quantity and quality. Although bone quantity is easily defined, bone quality is much harder to define as it includes contributions from both bone chemistry ...

This work is part of a project which aims to describe algebraic structures on the chains and cochains of closed manifolds that characterize those manifolds up to homeomorphism. Once knows from the rational homotopy theory ...