SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE “Dramas of Memory: Slavery and African Oral Traditions in the Historical Novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves” John Thomas Maddox IV Dissertation under Professors Earl E. Fitz ...

At the beginning of the 21st century, new adaptations of classical plays appear to serve as a means of cultural criticism for minority writers in Germany as well as in the US. In contrast to other scholars who have defined ...

Researchers are increasingly interested in working memory (WM) training. However, it remains unclear whether it strengthens WM and comprehension among young children. We investigated whether training verbal WM would improve ...

The word “drone” once evoked primarily a bulbous, space-gray Predator. The drones we see now look different, and they are small, up close, out in the open, and unarmed. Drones are now everywhere and used for nearly everything, ...

This thesis demonstrates the feasibility of designing and building a Drosophila automated training and testing system for Pavlovian classical associative learning/memory analyses using inexpensive hardware and software ...

Substance use disorders and depression are significant societal burdens. Both pathologies are associated with alterations of the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a reward center of the brain. The NAc is composed of two types of ...

As design choices within a single CMOS technology become ever more complex with each new technology generation, and power consumption constraints push operating voltages lower, this research provides guidance into the ...