This dissertation examines the form of the nineteenth-century sonnet in order to demonstrate how this poetry reshapes expectations of Victorian desire, love and marriage. The amatory sonnet sequence, a poetic form which ...

We ask a lot of our jurors. The financial and emotional burdens of jury duty can be significant even in mundane cases. Deciding another's fate is often a trying ordeal, aggravated by unintelligible instructions, hostile ...

Calorimetry has many applications in the physical and life sciences including measuring phase changes, determining reaction equilibria, detecting protein binding events, and quantifying enzyme kinetics. Towards the goal ...

Microcalorimetry is an established technique in the biological sciences for determining energy generation and consumption. With recent developments in microfabrication techniques, nanocalorimeters or even picocalorimeters ...

Properties such as high electrical conductivity; chemical and electrochemical stability over a wide range of conditions; rapid electron transfer kinetics for different redox systems; and reproducible electrical, microstructural ...

Carbon nanomaterials have been widely used in many applications owing to their unique physical, chemical, and mechanical properties. For energy storage applications, the high surface area and high electrical conductivity ...

PHARMACOLOGY Nanonetworks as Innovative Platforms for Therapeutic Solubilization and Delivery David Michael Stevens Dissertation under the direction of Professor Eva M. Harth Solubility remains the biggest obstacle in ...

Cytokinesis is the final step in the cell cycle where one cell is physically divided into two. Animal and fungal cells perform cytokinesis with an actin- and myosin-based molecular machine, the contractile ring. A complete ...

Different applications using gold at the nanoscale level are discussed in this dissertation. The first section includes relevant background into nanoparticles, specifically, monolayer protected gold clusters (MPC), and ...