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The motion of drops and bubbles through tubes of constant cross-section can serve as a model problem for studying the pore-scale dynamics of two-phase flow through porous media. Due to its practical importance in a variety of natural physical processes and industrial application…

Through a critical examination of mobility as a social, cultural, and historical concept in and through Chicana/o communities in Southern California, Transit-Oriented Performance Through Chicana/o Spaces in Southern California argues mobility to be a consubstantial element in Ch…

This dissertation investigates the concept of motion as a fundamental aesthetic element in the devotional music, dance, and rituals performed in honor of the celebrated thirteenth-century Persian mystic poet and saint, the Mevlana Celal ed-Din Muhammad Rumi. The main focus of th…

This dissertation offers a new and comprehensive analysis of Abu Nas[dotbelow]r al-Farabi's (d. 950) cosmology by focusing on various important issues that have been largely neglected by the modern scholarship. It provides an examination of the physical, metaphysical, and astron…