In order to test the merits of Paul Ekman's neurocultural (1975) versus Alan Fridlund's Behavioral-Ecology (in press) views of facial expression, an experiment was done to test the affects of what Fridlund calls "imaginary ...

Deeply influenced by the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky, French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas was fond of quoting Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, especially its insistence that “we are all responsible for everyone else – ...

In the field of scientific computation, loop tiling is an indispensable technique for improving cache performance, and thereby the overall performance of the code. Research so far has predominantly been focusing on optimizing ...

The years preceding puberty can be seen as a time when life is basically black and white. Certain things are right and certain things are wrong, and the difference between the two is determined by outside forces which are ...

The purpose of my thesis was to evaluate the influence of the norm of humanitarian intervention and determine whether it has been internalized in U.S. foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. Using the framework of ...

In this thesis, I focus on Oedipus' sense of himself, regarding his kingship, social identity, and fate in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, and then draw out Oedipus' reactions and how emotions change when these subjects are ...