Protein crystallization has been studied for over 150 years but is still not well understood. Protein crystals are extremely difficult to grow since protein crystallization is sensitive to many parameters. In this thesis ...

Hard tissue gives the body its shape and structure and literally provides its backbone. Mineralized tissue, including bone and tooth enamel, is composed of minerals whose hardness and brittleness can be attributed to its ...

Fluorinated compounds have an extensive role in modern chemical applications. An estimated 20% of all pharmaceuticals and 30% of synthetic agrochemicals contain at least one fluorine atom. Furthermore, radioactive ...

The concept of a dielectric constant is ill-posed in systems at the nanoscale because the classical definition of a dielectric requires the presence of a very large number of elemental dipole particles. Here we asses ...

One of the major concerns in contemporary Bible scholarship is the problem of dating biblical texts. Our aim is to use an algorithmic approach known as supervised machine learning to utilize linguistic features of a ...

On June 26, 1889, Major John Mason returned to Connecticut. Dead for over two centuries, the English military leader and colonial politician received immortality on this day in a twenty-three ton, granite memorial statue, ...

Born in Argentina in 1899, Jorge Luis Borges inherited the Spanish culture of his mother’s family, mixing it evenly with his father’s half-English roots throughout a life in South America and Europe. Reading fluently in ...

Breast cancer is one of the most well-known and widespread forms of cancer in the United States today with over 40,000 deaths being attributed to it annually. According to the American Cancer Society, over 90% of these ...

Perhaps no part of the New Testament has been as completely assimilated into contemporary imagination as the number 666. The Number has been used to varied effect in religion, politics, and media. However, the imagined ...