Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, Valerie Renak and Yung-Tse Hung (2020). Cationic surfactant analysis with good laboratory practice. In: “Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEM)”, Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang and Nazih K. Shammas (editors). Volume 2020, Number 4, April 2020; 42…[Read more]

LK Wang, MHS Wang, NK Shammas, and MS Holtorff (2020). Independent physicochemical wastewater treatment system consisting of primary flotation clarification, secondary flotation clarification and tertiary treatment. In: “Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)” , Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, and Nazih K S…[Read more]

This thesis is the result of an investigative work on the formulations and defense ofreligious tolerance in the Catholic Enlightenment of Portugal, to a greater extent, butalso touching on some transits with Brazil. It is assumed that the secularization processthrough which the Iberian kingdom passed, during the eighteenth century, was…[Read more]

This thesis is the result of an investigative work on the formulations and defense ofreligious tolerance in the Catholic Enlightenment of Portugal, to a greater extent, butalso touching on some transits with Brazil. It is assumed that the secularization processthrough which the Iberian kingdom passed, during the eighteenth century, was…[Read more]

This graduate reading seminar examines some of the historical literature on migration in a global perspective, focusing on the nineteenth century through the present. It focuses on theoretical approaches to the study of migration as well as on case studies, moving between longue-durée and comparative issues on the one hand and local effects of…[Read more]

Yuriy I. Pankivskyi (2000). COMBINED PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER UNDER COLD WEATHER CONDITIONS, ME Thesis, Lenox Institute of Water Technology, USA; May 2000, 67 p. In: “Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)” , Lawrence K Wang., Mu-Hao Sung Wang, and Nazih K. Shammas (ed…[Read more]

English abstract: A 2005 note on exaptation, a concept coined by Stephen Jay Gould, and its relationship with a famous dictum by William Gibson according to which ‘the street finds its own uses for things’. These uses can be studied only retrospectively, not prospectively or intentionally, as they are the products of history and of the contingency…[Read more]

This chapter examines the process by which Puerto Rican nationalists engaged with the Olympic Movement in their struggle for decolonization. Sotomayor shows not only shifting meanings of colonial Olympic sport for nationalists, but, more generally, that the Olympic Movement has been used and serves as a platform to negotiate nationalism and…[Read more]

Program of the Sensory Histories of Place workshop, organized by me and Elvan Baştürk Cobb, at ANAMED in 2015.

In Kant’s Critique of Judgment, his exploration of how something like life (organized matter) can appear to the faculties of a finite consciousness makes life as possible as it is impossible. A passing reference Kant makes to the idea that every organ of an organism can be seen as a parasite is taken as a lever to deconstruct his notion of…[Read more]

In Kant’s Critique of Judgment, his exploration of how something like life (organized matter) can appear to the faculties of a finite consciousness makes life as possible as it is impossible. A passing reference Kant makes to the idea that every organ of an organism can be seen as a parasite is taken as a lever to deconstruct his notion of…[Read more]

Environmental engineering education is enhanced by the internet with web pages full of information, instructions, photos, and videos of installations and equipment, and with means of communication that facilitate alerts to new developments. Students who have grown up with years of using the internet have different expectations and computer…[Read more]

DEDICATION: This technical paper is published in memory of our senior author, Dr. Donald B. Aulenbach, who worked closely with Professors Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, William A. Selke, Milos Krofta and Daniel Guss from 1981 to 2019 for developing a humanitarian engineering program at the Lenox Institute of Water…[Read more]

This paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]

Examines evangelical encounters with the arts as: consumer and performer in the ‘neutral’ sphere of the home; as users of the arts in public worship; as evangelists; and as moralists and reformers of the pursuits of others. It deals mainly with music, literature, the visual arts and drama, and its examples are drawn chiefly from Britain and the…[Read more]