Facebook is a site rich with public discourse among its 410 million users and it is changing the way we fundamentally communicate. Among its varied users, Facebook is continually evolving into multiple genres, meeting ...

Since 1997 the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) has been used to measure human performance by evaluating speed and accuracy of participant responses. To expand on the existing research a series of 3 studies were ...

In the field of intimate partner violence, research often explores differences among ethnic groups in the experience of and responses to abuse. This study investigated the possibility that such differences are caused by ...

Improvements in modern medicine have changed the trajectory of terminal illnesses. That, along with an already burdened health care system, has resulted in an exponential growth in the number of family caregivers now ...

Public health practitioners and researchers often use persuasive messages to inform, convince, and motivate people to practice healthy behaviors or abandon unhealthy ones. For this reason, designing culturally appropriate ...

Preservational bias in the fossil record presents difficulties when knowledge of biodiversity in paleoecosystems is needed. In such cases paleobiodiversity must be assessed without having direct knowledge of undiscovered ...

Inconsistent with traditional event-related potential (ERP) studies on feature-based attention, there has been some evidence within the literature to suggest feature-based attention can occur independent of and as early ...

This thesis describes a gendered conflict between missionaries at the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) station in Chuuk, Micronesia from 1884 to 1899. A thorough investigation of the missionaries’ ...

This thesis adds to the anthropological literature of morality as it seeks to understand the innerworkings of the moral economy of waste-to-energy incineration in Baltimore. The objective of this thesis is to ascertain ...

Herein lies a critique of various artworks by the Raw and Bold Beauty Projects NYC (2006 & 2015), Olivier Fermiello’s “Je t’aime moi aussi” (2014) photographs, and Marc Quinn’s Alison Lapper Pregnant (2000) statue, created ...