The small satellite eld has become popular amongst academia, amateur satellite (AM- SAT) community, and commercial businesses due to the miniaturization of components and smaller form factors. Speci cally, the PocketQube ...

This thesis discusses the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop’s ( or USCCB) civic engagement as a means to understand the secular and sacred in Catholic activism. In order to better comprehend the religious ...

Some organizations, such as construction companies, advertise the importance of employee safety on their websites; however, few research efforts have sought to understand if this safety information has any effect on potential ...

SALAD DAYS is the story of Anne Roberts’s coming of middle age. Anne has enjoyed an uneventful, uninspired life as a mother, wife and English teacher, but that all begins to change once she and her husband become empty ...

Latin America’s rising indices of criminality make it now one of the world’s most troubled regions. In 2016, 43 of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world were in Latin America, and one-third of the world’s murders now ...

This study examines the growing population of married and formally committed same-sex couples by performing a qualitative investigation of their wedding rituals and the ways in which they negotiate gendered wedding ...

This thesis describes the interaction between SARS-CoV-2 Open Reading Frame 3a (ORF3a) and the Heme Oxygenase 1 (HMOX1). SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus and the causative agent of COVID-19, the highly contagious infection ...

The impact of forest disturbances, especially those caused by hurricanes and wildland fires, on forest ecosystems and forest carbon sequestration has become more pronounced in recent years. Remote sensing of these two ...

This thesis is a collection of poems centering around experiences of travel and social location. The poems consider speech acts and cultural preservation in various forms through sectioned narratives, establishing surprising ...

Migration studies have a long history in sociology and the social science though the discipline has matured in notable ways over the past several decades. One such way is the attention that has been paid to forced migration ...