Altogether, the five pieces I created for this project reflect a yearlong journey into fairy tale and folklore. I have met witches and anthropomorphized bears on this journey, and discussed life and men with princesses and ...

As a student of literary theory, I am fascinated by how literature explores and elucidates ideology and its concomitant social and cultural impact in the real world—a sort of meta-ideology. With a background in poverty and ...

In changing the ending of the play, then, Shakespeare was rewriting history in a bold fashion. This is not merely a question of characterization, like Richard III, or condensation for dramatic purposes, like Macbeth, but ...

Nonfunctional ribosomal RNA decay (NRD) is a eukaryotic degradation pathway that targets and eliminates structurally intact but functionally defective ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs). Two separate NRD pathways for 18S and 25S rRNA ...

High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and saturated fats are two of the main ingredients in the Western-style diet that have been implicated in the etiology of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), which is associated with obesity ...

Writers of diverse backgrounds within the classical tradition, whether composing histories of the Roman Republic or treatises on geography, all had something to say about the Celts, and in particular the Gauls, a group of ...

The current research investigated the implications of ingroup transgressions on identity threat, ingroup directed anger, and collective action about ingroup transgressions. It also considered the moderating role played by ...

I develop a concept of computer-assisted Socratic dialogue, aimed to enable productive and efficient argumentation. The goal is a framework for argumentation that is as rigorous as a formal debate, yet as convenient as an ...

BreezySLAM is a simple, efficient, multiplatform, open--‐source Python library for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. By using Python C extensions to wrap existing implementations of existing SLAM algorithms, BreezySLAM ...

My thesis focuses on a little-known backdrop Twombly painted for a children’s Christmas program in 1953. The backdrop was first brought to my attention after The News-Gazette, the local Lexington newspaper, ran an archival ...