Man, according to Aristotle, is meant to live within a society1 . To maintain society, people developed a system for keeping the peace, a system of law. Codified by kings and rulers, these laws created a sense of order. ...

Do Jews live longer than the general population? In this paper, the question of a potential extended lifespan associated with the Jewish community is explored. The hypothesis claimed that Jews would be associated with ...

In recent years, there has been much research conducted regarding the alleged adverse effects of marijuana (cannabis) on male fertility. This thesis will discuss: 1) spermatogenesis and the factors regulating male ...

In this thesis, I study the static properties and dynamics of a quantum system of interacting particles. For this, I employ the laws of quantum mechanics, which differ from the laws of classical mechanics used to interpret ...

Forensic DNA profiling currently plays a dominant and crucial role in the interface of science and criminal justice. At its core, DNA fingerprinting serves to identify an individual, as will be thoroughly described in ...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative movement disorder. Biochemical analysis has revealed that soluble monomeric alpha-synuclein (α-syn) protein aggregates into insoluble fibrillar species in the ...

In the late 19th century, the projective disc arose as a Euclidean model for nonEuclidean geometry. To understand this development, however, one must first examine the concept of Euclidean geometry itself. A fundamental ...

N-glycosylation is a widely occurring post-translational modification in which an oligosaccharide is linked to the amide nitrogen of an Asn side chain in the sequence Asn-XThr/Ser (where X≠Pro). This modification has ...

The writing process is difficult. From the endless research to the countless number of drafts that aren’t even used, it can feel fruitless at times. I had a really difficult time narrowing down my topic because I fel ...

In 1994, Dr. May-Claire King and her research team at the University of Washington, discovered a region of DNA that was associated with breast cancer and which soon became identified as the BRCA1 gene. A year later another ...