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Celebrity Feminism: Exploring the Influence of a Famous Feminist
(2016-07-01)
Celebrities enjoy widespread recognition and occupy a space of influence in popular culture. This dynamic affords celebrities the opportunity to use their fame as a mechanism of influence. As popular culture took a unique ...
Capturing pathogenic plant waterborne viruses: A novel tool for agricultural diagnostics using three model viruses
(2016-12)
With continued growth of world population, a greater demand of natural resources is generated. Water, a natural resource used directly or indirectly by all is an essential resource capable of being contaminated with ...
Compressive Versus Decompressive Soft Tissue Therapy on Acute Hamstring Flexibility and Pain in Male Athletes with Percieved Hamstring Tightness
(2016-07-01)
This study examined the effects of two different soft tissue therapies on hamstring flexibility, strength, and perceived pain and function. The compressive therapy, the Graston Technique (GT) was compared to the decompressive ...
Middle Class Is Moving into the Slums
(2016-07-01)
Gentrification, the dramatic demographic shift in a community to a younger, more affluent population, has become a topic of debate in policy, academic and community circles. Using Shaw and McKay�s social disorganization ...
Ripley Scrolls: Alchemical Patronage in Early Modern England
(2016-12-01)
The British Library Series (Add MS 5025 fol. 1-4) is a group of four alchemical scrolls that depict the process of creating a Philosopher’s Stone, a mythical gem fabled to transform base metals to gold. The British Library ...
Negotiating "Indian-ness": Transnational identities of Indians in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area
(2016-12)
Historically, research on immigrants in the U.S. has relied heavily on interpreting various ways in which they socially and spatially assimilate into urban areas. Since the September 11 attacks, this research has begun to ...
Sampling the stream landscape: Factors influencing detection and distribution of stream fishes
(2016-12)
Stream fishes are among the most threatened species due to natural flow regime alterations and fragmented habitats stemming from both anthropogenic activities and climate change. A fundamental challenge of establishing ...
Lights, Camera, Action: Romantic Comedies from the Male Perspective
(2016-05-01)
Romantic comedies are cited as the highest-viewed film genre of the twenty-first century, yet there is a lack of academic research concerning film consumers� attitudes toward the genre and the plausibility of learning and ...
Seed-centric Approach to Detect Overlapping Communities in Networks
(2016-12-01)
Community Detection is a trivial task in Network Analysis and Data Mining. A widely accepted definition of a Community or a Cluster is the group of vertices that are densely connected within and sparsely connected to the ...
Synthesis and applications of tungsten and vanadium oxides/oxyhydroxides in both bulk and nanoparticulate forms
(2016-12)
The reactions of tungstic acid towards alkenes, alkynes, and nitriles were explored in order to determine the scope of its reactions with unsaturated hydrocarbons. The chemistry was found to be complex with small changes ...