This dissertation investigates the literary style of four modernists—Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Mae West—in terms of camp. As Susan Sontag suggests in her essay about camp, the concept is useful in reexamining the interrelationship between form an…
Background: After five years of programming, the SeriousFun Global Partnership Program (GPP) is looking to evaluate their model for programmatic and financial sustainability: specifically, among camp directors. To date, little is known about the facilitators and barriers camp di…
Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is an essential cofactor for neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS), yet the question of whether neurons that secrete nitric oxide (NO) synthesize BH4 remains unanswered. Cerebellar granule cell cultures (CGC) offer a model system of NO-producing neurons…
BACKGROUND: Children who are exposed to war are at great risk of suffering mental health and developmental problems. The care children receive from parents during and after conflict is highly important, acting as a significant protective factor. The stress and difficulties of wa…
The author presents the lack of deep-level change in the lives of sincere Christians in relation to emotional maturity challenges as a problem in ministry for the Evangelical Christian Alliance Church in Damascus. He created an intervention called the Emotional Health Disciplesh…
This thesis reexamines the site of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II as a site of architectural precedent. The Camps occupy what has become a quiet chapter in the history textbook, often regarded as an eccentric aberration within American history. Yet the…