According to the typical interpretation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Dr. Victor Frankenstein is the true monster, rather than the socially maligned monster created from his experiment. While Dr. Frankenstein's complicity in the monster's suffering . . .

Black holes can gain a weak magnetic field from the matter accreting around it. In order to characterize the properties of a black hole with a magnetic field, we are required to study the motion of a test charged particle around a rotating black hole . . .

Background: Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that can cause life-threatening infections in immunocompromised individuals. Due to ethical and budgetary concerns associated with the use of vertebrate animals in research, interest in . . .

In the midst of the Cold War, the International Council of Scientific Unions declared an International Geophysical Year (IGY) for world-wide cooperation in geophysics in 1957-1958. The United States and the Soviet Union each announced plans to contrib . . .

This study focuses on mitigation of earthquake induced pounding effects between adjacent buildings. Pounding is the event of two structures colliding with each other due to excessive horizontal sway. It can occur between adjacent buildings with signif . . .

Bilingual speakers' two languages are highly coactivated and compete for selection even when speaking one language alone (Kroll et al., 2006; Blumenfeld & Marian, 2007; Marian & Spivey, 2003). The constant state of language coactivation and competitio . . .

Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is a trenchless tunneling technology that is becoming increasingly popular especially for installing utility. However, this technology was developed somewhat recently in the 1970s, and it still makes up a relative . . .

As female oriented companies like Dove and Mattel and male oriented companies like Coors Light and Ram Trucks start to branch out from their mainly one sided gender markets to start targeting opposite gender consumers, a new trend is starting to arise . . .

Precise activation of sperm cells is critical for prospective fertilization for most organisms and the same is true for the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Sperm cells from C. elegans remain as inactive spherical spermatids and only activate after an . . .

Air pollution and its effects on population health are one of the most important environmental and public health issues today. Socio-economics, population growth, and transportation are major factors in a city’s air quality. Though air pollution level . . .