Obesity has become an epidemic with more deaths attributed to being overweight and obese than underweight. Bariatric surgery is an effective means to achieve sustained weight loss and metabolic improvements when performed ...

As gene sequencing becomes more common the annotations that give meaning to biological data change. The large quantity of –omics data generated by these projects maintain static linkages to annotations that change as ...

The goal of this work was to investigate whether there was a relationship present between extracellular free water and gray matter volumes in the brains of retired professional football players. A study done by Maier-Hein ...

This thesis examines the original correspondence of John Talbot Pitman, a Rhode Islander serving in the Civil War (1861-1865), in an effort to contribute a greater understanding of Rhode Island Civil War History. While ...

This study investigates the educational consequences for blacks after the Kentucky State Legislature passed the Day Law in 1904. In its literal form, the law mandated the end of mixed-race education at private schools in ...

The history of the United States is a history of immigrants. From the Irish in Boston and New York, and the Chinese drawn to the open American west in the 1800s, to the French-speaking Canadians drawn to New England’s ...

Failing infrastructure and environmental degradation threaten access to water resources for millions around the world. Water resource management is particularly complex in developing countries because of limited financial, ...

Despite the prevalence and impact on society of Schizophrenia (SZ) and Bipolar Disorder (BD), their precise etiology and pathophysiology remain uncertain. Growing evidence points to a disruption of cortico-thalamo-cortical ...

Sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) are a set of transcription factors that bind to the SRE element. This element is involved in regulating expression of genes involved in cholesterol and fatty acid synthesis ...

This thesis investigates the food movement, in particular the incipient Slow Food movement, and puts forth that the creation and development of this trend exhibits many characteristics of an emerging religion and has ...