A good storage system provides efficient, flexible, and expressive abstractions that allow for more concise and non-specific code to be written at the application layer. However, because I/O operations can differ dramatically ...

This dissertation examines two previously unexplored concepts in Spanish nineteenth-century culture, those of the fallen man and the male angel. It explores these two categories in canonical texts such as Tormento (1884), ...

With reduced size and dimensions, semiconductor nanostructures have dramatic difference in electrical properties than their bulk counterparts. These differences have raised many interesting topics, such as quantum Hall ...

My dissertation attempts to understand the value of sociality and solitude in a good life. I explore this question in the writings of the Basque poet, novelist and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno and the foremost American ...