Early exposure to multiple languages shapes children's experiences and language background as well as influences later functioning. Prior research indicates that students who speak a minority language at home experience ...

Early emotional competencies--emotion expression, emotion understanding, and emotion regulation--are believed to be the foundation of social success. There are few studies, however, that have considered how early emotional ...

This study seeks to understand how populations in the Lambayeque Valley Complex on the north coast of Peru, were affected by Spanish colonialism through the study of linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH). Here, stress chronologies ...

American silver design, like most design, does not exist in a vacuum. It is a reflection of the culture and society that creates it. Throughout the nineteenth century there was an explosion of designs that “revived” past ...

This thesis investigates the evolution of Confucian ethics that affected Emperor Kangxi (1622-1762) ranging from 1644 to 1762, China. During the period of late Ming and Early Qing dynasties around 16th -17th CE, business ...

These essays are an attempt to understand Rawls’s use of economics in developing his system in A Theory of Justice. The intensive use of and reference to economic theory, I will argue, is deeply involved with how the theory ...

By the end of 2007, China’s current account surplus represented 11.1 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. Many have argued that an appreciation of the RMB would help to reduce this surplus and restore order ...

The purpose of this research study was (1) to verify whether nicotine results in the same dendritic remodeling in the dorsal striatum that has been shown to occur in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) (Ehlinger et al., 2014) and ...

Dietary manipulation incorporates not only changes in nutritional content (e.g. biometal concentration) but also alterations in base formulas. This thesis is comprised of two separate experiments that aim to elucidate the ...

Biometals play a large role within the human body where a deviation from normal levels can result in behavioral abnormalities. Copper (Cu) is a transition metal with physiological importance and has been shown to have a ...