The aspirations of many of England's greatest poets seem to indicate that there is more than a little to be said for the theory that the poet, as he perfects his art, tend to move from the lyric to the epic and thence to ...

Tails & Tales is a collection of work that explores the construction of identity within a contemporary painting practice. Based on an autobiographical use of my own body as source material, this series of paintings and ...

In this study of modern historical fictions by female writers I argue that there is an "invisible intertext" in women's writing in Ireland that challenges the tradition discerned by mainstream critics. The mainstream ...

This thesis interrogates the continued statelessness of more than 12 million stateless people around the world, in the face of Article 15 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which provides that everyone ...

The Type 2 Secretion System (T2SS) is responsible for the transport of toxins and enzymes across the outer membrane of many Gram-negative bacteria. A crucial component of the T2SS is a large pore, composed of a multimer ...

Actualistic, sedimentological, and experimental approaches to the study of vertebrate trace taphonomy in the Kenya Rift Valley have permitted the characterization and even quantification of factors that influence trace ...

Two trials were conducted to determine the effects of breed-type, backgrounding program, and endpoint on the feedlot and carcass performance of beef steers, and to evaluate the 1996 National Research Council (NRC) Beef ...

The objectives of this study were (i) to investigate the feasibility of targeting liposomes reconstituted with P0 protein (an immunoglobulin [Ig] superfamily cell adhesion molecule from peripheral nerve myelin) to melanoma ...

Traditionally, cancer treatments focus on proteins impacted by either an increase in expression or a gain-of-function mutation. Loss-of-function mutations or especially down-regulation usually cannot be targeted directly ...

There has been active development and implementation of agri-environmental policies dealing with the provision of ecosystem goods and services over the years. However, these policies have often not been directed towards ...