This project was completed with contributions from Lena Simine, Thomas Allen, and Peter Rossky from the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University.

This paper adds to the empirical literature on the effects of tax structure on investment with a panel data analysis of up to 120 countries from 1980 to 2015. Specifically, this paper uses the relative percentage between ...

Future human exploration missions to Mars are partially Earth-dependent. The inherent risk and complexity of these missions warrant precursor robotic systems to prepare infrastructure critical to the survival of humans ...

Untethered magnetic navigation of millirobots within a human body using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner is a promising technology for minimally invasive surgery or drug delivery. Because MRI scanners have a large ...

Here we report new magnetic slippery surfaces outperforming state-of-the-art icephobic surfaces with a ice formation temperature of 34 C, 2–3 orders of magnitude higher delay time in ice formation, extremely low ice adhesion ...

Iron-based high temperature superconductors (HTS) were discovered in 2008; many experimental and theoretical studies have been initiated since then. Driven by several interesting experiments and based on a phenomenological ...

Soft materials are everywhere around and inside us. Because of their abundance, low cost and ease of fabrication along with interesting physical properties, they have numerous promising applications such as artificial ...

Magpie: a collection of poems.

To ensure robust, reliable, retrievable and sharable metadata, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries initiated a Metadata Upgrade Project in 2013 to systematically audit and refine the quality of the metadata in the ...

Since Carl Schorske’s seminal Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, an explosion of scholarship has focused on the capital city’s years leading to the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s collapse. While the veritable Petrie dish of nationalism in ...