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Solving Slavery in Sudan: Solving a Social Problem Through Nation Building
(2006-08-16)
Almost unique in the world, chattel slavery persists in Sudan into the 21st century. The U.N. and various NGOs have provided evidence that slavery exists in modern Sudan and that the government has done little, if anything, ...
ECONOMIC REFORM AND COMMUNIST REGIME SURVIVABILTY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
(2006-08-16)
While the collapse of communist rule and process of transitioning to democracy in the former-Soviet Union and its numerous satellite states certainly warrants the wealth of attention received, by no means does this signal ...
The Effect of Gender on Student Writers' Evaluations of Peer Tutors
(2006-08-16)
This study examines how the genders of both student writers and their peer tutors affect the dynamics of writing tutoring sessions and influence the student writers’ subsequent evaluations of their peer tutors. Even though ...
Discovering the Founders' Attitudes Toward the United States Supreme Court
(2006-12-13)
This research was meant to discover whether, amid accusations they have become the super branch, the judiciary envisioned by the Founders is mirrored today. Reviewing constitutional origins led to the discovery that the ...
Effects of Prenatal Methylmercury Exposure on Motor Coordination, Activity Levels and Mitochondrial Membrane Potential in Adult Mice
(2006-08-16)
Methylmercury has cytotoxic effects on animals and humans and a major target
organ for methylmercury is the central nervous system (CNS). Methylmercury
(MeHg) is a developmental neurotoxicant and the prenatal CNS appears ...
EXPRESSION OF BRUCELLA GENES REQUIRED FOR LIPOPOLYSACCARIDE PRODUCTION UNDER THE CONTROL OF ARAC AND PTAC PROMOTERS
(2006-08-16)
Brucella spp. are gram-negative, facultative intracellular pathogen that causes an infectious and contagious bacterial disease, brucellosis, in humans and animals. Previous research showed that lipopolysaccaride (LPS) is ...
Effect of the NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801 on recovery from spinal cord injury in rats given uncontrollable stimulation
(2006-08-16)
The eventual outcome of spinal cord injury is largely influenced by damage that occurs after the injury. Damaged connections between spinal cord cells and the brain allow a positive feedback mechanism to go unchecked when ...
Museum Culture in the Anglo-American Atlantic World, c. 1750-1815
(2006-08-16)
During the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries, the Anglo-American Atlantic world saw a rise in the number and popularity of museums as cultural institutions. By concentrating on the premier museums in ...
OPTICAL BIOPSY: COMPLEMENTING HISTOLOGY WITH NONLINEAR OPTICAL MICROSCOPY
(2006-08-16)
Histology, though widely used for cellular imaging, suffers from its destructive nature; cells are not viewed in their natural living environment. Nonlinear optical microscopy (NLOM) has been widely used to view cells in ...
The Visual Impetus and the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien
(2006-08-16)
Visual illustrations were critical to Tolkien's creativity—they preceded his creation of lexical texts, helped to define the world in which he set most of his literature, and continued to hold a great significance in the ...