This study argues that Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings’s artistic output at and founding of the Cabaret Voltaire and subsequently Dadaism, despite their ephemeral and sometimes tenuous official involvement with the movement ...

Circadian rhythms take place over the course of 24 hours, and ultradian rhythms are categorized as anything less than 24 hours. The recently discovered mutation of the shaggy gene in Drosophila has been shown to display ...

Recent changes to special education law and teacher certification requirements have become a catalyst for a change in the role of special educators in today's schools. IDEA 2004 directly defines the "highly qualified ...

Practitioners of BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism and masochism) sexuality utilize a model of explicit sexual consent including pre-event discussion and "safe words". This research project attempts ...

This exploratory research investigates trends in Escherichia coli densities in the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh. Bacteria densities were monitored following combined sewer overflows during summer 2011. Using the Colilert-18 ...

Steven Bryant is one of the truly gifted composers of his generation. This thesis is a comparative analysis of four of his works for band. Written over a fifteen year period, Chester Leaps In, MetaMarch, ImPercynations, ...

Pennsylvania is home to hundreds of coal mining communities that sprang to life at the turn of the century. As mining increased in importance these towns created a lasting landscape, but as the mines closed people living ...

This thesis examines the synthesis and characterization of trans-dialkene platinum complexes with cycloalkenes. The first step was to synthesize trans-[PtCl2(η2-cot)2] (cot = cyclooctene) which have been previously reported ...

The Department of Defense is dedicated to the development of new munitions and propellants. The types of munitions/propellants that are of specific interest are those which meet certain criteria. Specifically, that it ...

Vertical jump is an important component of fitness in competitive sports which could result in the decision of important competitions. The current study compares increases in jump height as a result of a nine week resisted ...