Attempts to define play have highlighted its complexity, making it a difficult concept to fully pin down, particularly in its relationship to game. However, the focus on transformation and creation remain consistent within ...

“Closed Captioning: Reading Between the Lines” argues that captions are a series of rhetorical choices created by captioners influenced by ideological networks which value specific types of bodies, pleasure, language, ...

This dissertation explores how visual cues, such as a victim’s image or the color used in a donation appeal, can influence consumers’ donation intention. The first main chapter, “Less is More: The Benefit of Using Blurry ...

Monumental architecture was an important and widespread component in the emergence and dynamics of many past human societies. These features figure prominently in global dialogues about the evolution of social complexity, ...

The current dissertation aims to further our understanding of the impoliteness phenomenon in language by investigating how impoliteness is connected to the construction of identity and the exercise of power in on-going ...

This dissertation study intended to explore the validity of items by modeling the relationship between the item and person properties and item difficulty a reading comprehension assessment, the Multiple-choice Online Causal ...

Empirical thresholds for landslide warning systems have benefitted from the incorporation of soil-hydrologic monitoring data, but the mechanistic basis for their predictive capabilities is limited. Although physics-based ...

Many questions remain regarding the molecular mechanisms by which proteins evolve new properties and functions. How do proteins evolve new functions without perturbing existing ones? How do changes in protein biophysics ...

Animal cells display a variety of shapes and functions that require specific cellular machinery to achieve. For many cells, functions are derived by the molecularly distinct collections of molecules in different regions. ...