This dissertation studies theories of legal change among Shī‘ī jurists and legal scholars as well as institutional legal change in post-1979 Iran. I demonstrate how Shī‘ī legal theorists formulated the theories of Variable ...

Holometabolous insects, those that undergo complete metamorphosis, owe their tremendous evolutionary success in large part to an efficient division of labor between a larval phase that focuses on feeding, and an adult phase ...

As an important signaling molecule, nitric oxide (NO) contributes to numerous biological effects such as vasodilation, angiogenesis and respiration control. The freedom of action for NO, however, is limited by its high ...

Data has evolved rapidly since the inception of topic models over twenty years ago.The most popular topic models perform poorly on large contemporary data sets that contain short, noisy texts. This dissertation aims to ...

Individuals within a population differ in behavior along both social and ecological axes. These differences are proposed to be governed by niche theory at the individual level, but empirical evidence is sparse, especially ...

The nitrite synthesis pathway may play a role in breast cancer by activating the estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) through an interaction with the ligand-binding domain of the receptor in the absence of estradiol. ERα plays a ...

What did Russian people know about 1789 in 1905? What did French people know about 1917 in 1936? Historians of France and Russia have long argued that the French-Russian revolutionary connection is central to both French ...

The central argument in this thesis is that religion, and in particular the Christian religion, has an essential cultural function to play in the first half of the twenty-first century as a cultural educator par excellence ...

Malaria continues to be a global issue, with many deaths arising from severe malaria anemia. Rodent malaria models are a well-known tool for studying malaria disease pathology. Initial microarray data revealed changes to ...

The goal of this dissertation is to better understand the targets of vowels in speech production. Three experiments investigate vowel production in non-native speech, probing how new vowel categories, and thus targets, are ...