In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, “Health-is the thing!” Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized...
Stories of supernatural or miraculous acts have existed since religion itself. One does not have to look far for stories of people or beings having the power to heal others, move unmovable objects, levitate, acquire unforeseen...
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is the most common acute leukemia in adults and is
characterized by transformed hematopoietic progenitor cells that fail to reach terminal
differentiation, are continuously proliferating, and...
The Institute of International Education (IIE) and Dickinson College have produced a new publication, Models of Change: Equity and Inclusion in Action in International Education, summarizing their partnership to reimagine an...
Jack Walker’s Mobilizing Interest Groups in America (1991) was groundbreaking both in terms of its theoretical and methodological contributions to political science and the unfortunate and challenging circumstances surrounding...
The evolution of constriction and of large prey ingestion within snakes are key innovations that may explain the remarkable diversity, distribution and ecological scope of this clade, relative to other elongate vertebrates....
This study examines the narrative(s) that surround the development of the Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (2SFCA) family of GIS-based accessibility statistics. It identifies what has been omitted from the pre-GIS era in its...
Both gender and narrative are foundational to the ways in which humans engage in meaning-making. Arguing from evolutionary, psychological and feminist theoretical perspectives, we posit that narratives and gender are culturally...
Natale sul Reno (Christmas on the Rhine) is a semi-autobiographical account of Pirandello’s life when he studied at a university in Bonn, Germany. The story is about a Sicilian...
The Native American Culture Group: Indigenous Community Organizing and Activism at a Federal Prison in 1970s Oklahoma, presented by John Truden, is part of “Perspectives in History,” the 2022 Oklahoma History Symposium. ...
We've all experienced, from time to time, a kind of compulsive web surfing in which we follow link after link, browsing content that becomes less and less relevant to the task at hand. This happened to me only yesterday: while...
Dan Schubert is a professor of Sociology at Dickinson College., Elizabeth Lewis is a professor of Educational Studies at Dickinson College., Schubert, Dan, and Elizabeth C. Lewis. "The Obsolescence of Freedom? Inequality,...
Few studies have addressed how Spanish nationals who are racialized as Black challenge essentialist and ethnic notions of Spanish identity and create spaces of enunciation from which to tell their stories as minorities in a...
We investigate the dynamics of the function family ffcg = fc smg, where c is a nonzero
complex number and sm is the Dixon elliptic function. Our interest is in analyzing the
iterates of fc and understanding how their behavior...
The beef industry endures major economic losses from a complex of flies that feed on bovine blood and mucus. For cattle on pasture, the most important of these pests are horn flies (Haematobia irritans [L.] [Diptera: Muscidae])...
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The aim of this study was to examine the processes involved in a guided self-help (GSH) pre-treatment intervention (RecoveryMANTRA) for patients with anorexia nervosa (AN), by measuring the levels of...
For more information on the published version, visit University of Pittsburgh Press's Website. Peach State was named to the 2022 list of “Books All Georgians Should Read” by the Georgia Center for the Book., Su, Adrienne....
We present detailed analytical and experimental results for a system of two comparator-based relaxation oscillators that are coupled via threshold modulation. Starting with the op-amp circuit equations, we derive parameter...
Evidence suggests that boreal-lake ecosystems are changing rapidly, but with variable ecological responses, due to climate warming. Paleolimnological analysis of 27 undeveloped northern forested lakes showed significant and...