Who created The Pickwick Papers: Charles Dickens, Robert Seymour, or publishing pirates? What is Great Expectations: a shiny trade paperback, a film about an artist starring Ethan Hawke, or a South Park television episode? ...

I find that a CEO who is better monitored tends to have smaller total contractual incentive pay, measured by the delta of the CEO's total portfolio. The realized wealth-to-performance sensitivity (WPS) of such a CEO, ...

Oxidation of monomethyl PtII to monomethyl PtIV followed by reductive elimination of methanol are key consecutive steps in homogenous catalytic oxidation of methane to methanol. The development of a catalytic system that ...

Two individuals are identical by descent at a genetic locus if they share the same gene copy at that locus due to inheritance from a recent common ancestor. Identity by descent can be thought of as a continuous process ...

This dissertation, challenging critiques of postmodern and contemporary metafiction as humanly, politically, and socially irrelevant, acknowledges the incredible diversity of self-reflexive literature and then goes on to ...

A collection of personal essays detailing the existential angst (and its uselessness) of a young man in the Great Recession.

This exploratory research study seeks to identify reasons why museums begin citizen science programming, why they continue to do citizen science, and how and why their programs have changed over time. Citizen science is a ...

The growth, morphological, and photosynthetic responses of cottonwood hybrid 47-174 to nitrogen (N) stress and leaf rust stress and their interaction are summarized herein. High nitrogen (HN) fertilization enhanced ...

Introduction. Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the bladder is a rare form of bladder cancer with unique clinical features. Prior studies have shown that gender and race influence survival following the diagnosis of bladder ...

The goal of this research was to expand understanding of menopausal experiences and women's aging process through a biopsychosocial approach and lifespan perspective. More specifically, the purpose of this study was to ...