My creative thesis, Little Wonders: A Memoir in Four Parts, is a manuscript of literary nonfiction. I reflect on the past with respect to marriage and motherhood in the lives of my grandmother, my mother, myself, as well ...

Public spaces are central places in a community where people will gather to socialize and discuss politics or other community matters. Formal regulations on public spaces, where bylaws can be seen as a way to control for ...

Sagebrush ecosystems are one of the most imperiled ecosystems in North America. The cumulative effects of habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation of the sagebrush ecosystem threaten the persistence of the Greater ...

In the past decades, Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA), one of brominated flame retardants (BFR), has been widely used in a variety of commercial and industry applications to improve fire resistance, and it is also commonly ...

Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is the tendency to fear the unknown and is a transdiagnostic dispositional vulnerability and maintenance factor for anxiety and anxiety-related disorders (Carleton, 2016). Researchers have ...

Clinicians typically rely on neuropsychological and balance tests to track concussion recovery. These balance and neuropsychological tests only imply impairments that are based on performance – the tests do not directly ...

Inequality causes feelings of relative deprivation and envy. Inequality has almost exclusively been examined as an environmental variable, characterized by skewed distribution of resources; however, inequality can also ...

Since 1993, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly has debated calls for reform to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Proposed reforms have included amendments to the use of the veto, improved representation ...

Multistage hydraulic fracturing along a horizontal well is the key to effectively recover hydrocarbon from tight reservoirs. Improving the hydrocarbon recovery requires detailed production information of each hydraulic ...

Due to modernisation and industrialisation, an increase in the global energy demand is inevitable. Nuclear, fossil fuels, renewables, hydro and biomass are the major sources of energy. However, considering the current ...