John Weaver, an early-eighteenth century dancing master, sought to professionalize dance and raise its status by severing its dependence on words. He published scholarly texts on pantomimic dance, a style of dance with no ...

This paper aims to contribute to the agency-oriented scholarships studying state-civil society relations in authoritarian regimes like China by looking into the relationship between the Chinese government and queer civil ...

We present an exploration of data mining and machine learning techniques applied to a materials science dataset, with the goal of improving a lab's efficiency when running experiments. The primary product of our work is ...

The parallel computing community has produced various cluster computing frameworks to process the immense amounts of data we generate in the modern age. Two in particular, Hadoop MapReduce and Spark, rose above the rest ...

Daughter of Mothers addresses the ways that young adult daughters of LGB mothers understand motherhood, both in the abstract and as a possibility for their own lives. Considering the current controversy regarding homosexuality ...

Elisabeth‐Céleste Vénard née le 27 Décembre 1824 à Paris, fût la grande et fameuse courtisane Parisienne du XIXème. Ce siècle ne connut aucune autre courtisane aussi audacieuse que Céleste Mogador—nom dont la notoriété la ...