This thesis examines Voodoo's evolution in the context of New Orleans's political and social climate during the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1935, African American anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston published a collection ...

Much remains unknown about the effect of timing and prioritization of vaccination against pandemic (pH1N1) 2009 virus on health outcomes. We adapted a city-level contact network model to study different campaigns on influenza ...

Many vaccines require an adjuvant to induce a strong immune response. Aluminum–containing adjuvants have been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for human use for many years. There are two main ...

The design of 157 nm materials for photolithography presented many challenges, stemming from the inherently strong absorbance of the majority of organic compounds in the vacuum ultraviolet (V-UV). A spectrophotometer designed ...

Determination of three dimensional orbit accuracy to the 1-cm level is a difficult problem for even today's most well-tracked satellites. Gravity fields that are extracted from low earth orbit (LEO) satellites operating ...

River deltas are fragile ecosystems that have immense ecological, economic, and social importance. The ability to understand them is facilitated by numerical models that can resolve the complex hydrodynamics and morphodynamics ...

The Kepler mission has discovered more than 2500 exoplanet candidates in the first two years of spacecraft data, with approximately 40% of those in candidate multi-planet systems. The high rate of multiplicity combined ...

Introduction: Parasitic infections are one of the most common human infections around the world, especially in refugees. The current standard of diagnosis for parasitic infections is microscopy of stool specimens. However ...