During the nineteenth century, China, which had always been an agricultural nation, suffered from the penetration of the industrialized Western Empires. With their much more sophisticated artillery, the West defeated China ...

The black female played an important part in the construction of exotic female sexuality in French painting for nearly two hundred years, yet her symbolic complexity has not been fully explored. This thesis is a contextual ...

The representation of purgatory in painting was very popular after the Council of Trent. While Protestant denied the existence of purgatory, the Catholic Church, with the help of religious orders and brotherhoods, fostered ...

The objective of this research was to explore the effects of humor, in the form of video-tapes of stand-up comedy performances, on the levels of depression and hopelessness of incarcerated males. The major finding was ...

A seasonally fluctuating water table may be an important factor in the formation of spodic horizons in sandy, quartzose sediments on the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland. This study was conducted to examine spodic ...

Reconstruction following a major disaster has farreaching impacts which can alter the functioning of a city. Understanding this process is therefore vital. The results of such a study add to the small body of literature ...

The purpose of this study was to systematically document helping development of foraging in juvenile Palila, an endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper found only on Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii. Though incidental ...

The thesis concentrates on an icon of st. Peter from the Dumbarton Oaks Collection. The author reexamines its present dating to the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th centuries, and attribution to Macedonia, and ...

Mikio Sato devised microfunctions as a means of measuring the singularities of hyperfunctions. In 1970, Kawai and Sato introduced Fourier hyperfunctions in their study of partial differential operators. The class of Fourier ...

This study quantified historical changes in the coastline of the west shore of Delaware Bay. Shoreline changes were measured through the compilation of historical maps and photographs utilizing the Metric Mapping ...