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Church, Drama, & the Cool Hand Luke Effect: The Decline of Mainline Churches in America
(2012-07-11)
In 1967, Warner Bros. released the film Cool Hand Luke and out of this film came one of the most famous quotes in the history of motion pictures: “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” That same year marked ...
Music and Architecture
(2012-04-22)
Often, both music and architecture reflect a certain zeitgeist of the era in which they were created; the underlying ideas and changing social principles are reflected in the art forms these societies create. This thesis ...
Spectrally-Quantified Chemical Reactivity of Optical Fluids and Materials in the GMACS Spectrograph for GMT
(2012-04-19)
We present a preview of compatibility tests for index-matching fluids with commonly used optical assembly materials. The optical coupling fluids used in the Giant Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph (GMACS) for the Giant ...
Does Daylight Savings Time Affect Traffic Accidents?
(2012-04-20)
This paper studies the effect of changes in accident pattern due to Daylight Savings Time (DST). The extension of the DST in 2007 provides a natural experiment to determine whether the number of traffic accidents is affected ...
6+9+12: EVERYONE CAN BE TAUGHT TO DELIBERATELY FAKE A SMILE WITH THE “GENUINE ENJOYMENT DUCHENNE MARKER”
(2012-07-11)
It is generally believed that people cannot deliberately contract the orbicularis oculi pars orbitalis (“Action Unit 6,” "Duchenne Marker" or "Cheek Raiser") muscle together with the zygomaticus major (“AU12” or "smile" ...
EVALUATION OF COMPRESSION TESTING METHODS FOR THE CORTICAL RING IN THE DISTAL FEMUR METAPHYSIS OF ADULT MALE RATS
(2012-04-26)
The characterization of bone loss in astronauts continues to be a pressing health concern for astronauts who spend months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Through the use of the hindlimb unloaded rat model, ...
Effects of Estrogen and Phytoestrogens on the Development of Colonic Inflammation
(2012-04-26)
Colon cancer exhibits the third highest cancer mortality rate of the US. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) display a much higher risk for development of the disease. Women experience protective effects against ...
Optical Multiplexing for High-Throughput Spectroscopic Analysis.
(2012-05-03)
Implantable optical biosensors are being developed as aids for medical monitoring. Such optical biosensors are analyzed for performance in dynamic sensor testing environment. Multi-Frequency Phase Fluorometer (MFPF) is a ...
Mate Choice and Personality in the Swordtail Fish Xiphophorus birchmanni
(2012-04-23)
Mate choice behavior underlies many significant phenomena in biology including sexual conflict, selection, hybridization and speciation. Members of the genus Xiphophorus provide an excellent model for studying these processes ...
Role of Galectin in the regulation of neural excitability by Drosophila Sialyltransferase
(2012-05-03)
Galectins belong to a family of endogenous lectins with affinity for β-galactosidase-containing oligosaccharides. They are differentially expressed by several types of cells of the immune system in vertebrate organisms. ...