Few people are aware of Breedlove Foods Inc. This thesis will help shed light on the importance and impact of this food dehydrating plant in Lubbock, Texas. It demonstrates through research in documents and interviews how ...

The physiological stress response will become increasingly important as medicine shifts to preventative methods of healthcare. Chronic stress can manifest itself as bodily dysfunction and exacerbation of existing disease. ...

Graphene exhibits a unique chemical and physical structure that enables it to have numerous biomedical applications; however, various researchers have reached different and conflicting conclusions, and thus the safety and ...

An analysis of physical movements of pianists provides a unique application of biomechanical engineering to piano pedagogy. This research presents a method of analyzing and comparing joint-center movements when pianists ...

The United States has experienced an oil and gas production boom since 2000 after the development of advanced hydraulic fracturing techniques made production from shale plays viable. Argentina has comparable shale hydrocarbon ...

Nearly all animals maintain a large electrochemical gradient for Na+ across the plasma membrane. This gradient is generated by the Na+/K+ pump, which exports 3 Na+ and imports 2 K+ per ATP molecule hydrolyzed. The ...

Current research has explored the interface of mental illness and criminality as well as the interactions between these two constructs. The purpose of this study was to conduct an initial ...