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Discovering Life in the Modern Age: A Study of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints
Debate over prayer in schools, priests convicted of child molestation, the potential of yet another denominational split, and low attendance on Sunday mornings have invaded news cameras across America. At first thought, ...
Plessy v. Ferguson: The Culmination of a Judicial Avalanche
The Plessy decision represented the final capitulation of the Union to racism. Beginning with the Slaughterhouse decision in 1873, the Supreme Court gradually whittled away the rights of blacks in a series of decisions ...
Nicola Pisano's Pisa Baptistery Pulpit: Baptism, Papal Orthodoxy, and Joachite Heresy
Nicola Pisano's Pisa Baptistery Pulpit has garnered a vast amount of art historical attention. The artist's use of a classical style provides a starting point for any discussion of the Renaissance. However, the identification ...
The Chinese Eastern Railway: Storm Center in Asia
In attempting to gain a true perspective of Russo-Chinese relations I have examined certain historical aspects of Russia's penetration into China in both the Tsarist and Soviet periods and China's subsequent reactions in ...
An Investigation of Intersubunit Bridges Important for Ribosome Stability in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
The ribosome, a large ribonucleoprotein complex responsible for protein
biosynthesis, is composed of two unequal subunits that must correctly associate for
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proper function. X-ray crystallographic and cryo-EM studies have ...
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Lipid Bilayer with Dissolved Solutes
This paper considers a computer simulation of a lipid bilayer with solute particles dissolved between the monolayers. The objective is to examine the bilayer system and to determine what effect, if any, the solutes have ...
Potential Policy Options to Improve Sport Fishing in Balbina: A Choice Experiment Analysis
This research is developed within the framework of environmental economics, which attempts to value non market goods that provide individuals with specific values that are not elicited through market transactions. Environmental ...
Chaos and the Dynamics of Quadratic Mappings
The immediate aim of this paper is to systematically investigate dynamical systems governed by a certain class of difference equations. The results obtained do not, however, constitute an isolated piece in a sprawling ...
A Philosophical Analysis of the Traditional Christian Orthodox Concept of Hell
This thesis opens with the distinction between two models of hell -- the so-called static and dynamic. The static model asserts that damned individuals are punished only tor their sins accumulated during their temporal ...