We define a category of smooth 1-motives with torsion over a locally noetherian base scheme and prove its Cartier duality. More precisely, we prove that …
Prokaryotic microbes, commonly termed bacteria, are essential components of the ecosystem in the open ocean. They are major primary producers, major diazotrophs that fix dinitrogen …
A Deeper Science explores how novelist Richard Wright and psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, along with an interracial group of intellectuals, doctors, clergy, and artists, attempted to …
This dissertation demonstrates how a transnational conception of poor people as 'backwards' and culturally distinct emerged from the nexus of intellectuals, activists, and administrators who …
This thesis concerns the formulation and derivation of a generalization of a collection of basis functions originally devised by Norbert Wiener for function approximation over …
Recent advances in the speed and sensitivity of mass spectrometers and analytical methods, the exponential acceleration of computer powers, and the availability of genomic databases …
Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas form a heterogeneous group of cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract, arising from the surface epithelium of the oral …
We combine the spectral element method with the smoothed profile method (SPM) to obtain an efficient method for flows with moving boundaries in complex geometries. …
High-order methods are emerging in the scientific computing community as superior alternatives to the classical finite difference, finite volume, and continuous finite element methods. The …
The HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is both invisible and ubiquitous: seemingly indiscernible on one's face and undetectable within a population, and pervasive in its …
In this thesis,alpha-bungarotoxin (Bgtx) was validated as a tool for exploring the function and regulation of three otherwise Bgtx-insensitive ion channels: the first is a …
Online stochastic combinatorial optimization problems are problems in which a decision maker is trying to minimize or maximize an objective by making a sequence of …
Recently, some researchers have attempted to exploit state-aggregation techniques to compute stable distributions of high-dimensional Markov matrices. While these researchers have devised an efficient, recursive …
The confluence of ubiquitous, high-performance networking and increased availability of online information has led to the emergence of a new class of large-scale stream processing …
This thesis work is motivated by the specific challenges in analyzing data from clinical trials in behavioral medicine. Specifically, smoking cessation and physical activity trials. …
Current efforts in syntactic parsing are largely data-driven. These methods require labeled examples of syntactic structures to learn statistical patterns governing these structures. Labeled data …
"Apostolic Memories: Religious Differentiation and the Construction of Orthodoxy in Syriac Missionary Literature" is a dissertation project on Syriac hagiography and apocryphal narrative. I argue …
The AdS/CFT correspondence is a conjecture which relates gauge theories to string theories. In order to better understand this duality, several avenues can be taken, …
This dissertation examines ekphrasis in literary modernism?the verbal representation of visual artworks. In modernist studies the relationship between literature and painting has long been conceived …
This dissertation presents and analyzes the letters that Françoise de Graffigny wrote to her long-time correspondent François-Antoine Devaux, concerning the highly successful production of her …
This dissertation explores the political, cultural and social identities of middle class Americans in the post-World War I period - their greatest moment of class …
Information retrieval (IR) has become a ubiquitous technology for quickly and easily finding information on a given topic amidst the wealth of digital content available …
The agricultural frontier of the Brazilian Amazon is one of the fastest growing agricultural regions in the world, and rapid deforestation makes it one of …
Today bone defects such as bone fractures, osteoporosis or bone cancers represent a common and significant clinical problem. However, traditional micron size implant materials have …
Streptomyces are Gram-positive, filamentous, soil-dwelling saprophytic bacteria that are the source of a vast array of bioactive secondary metabolites. The albaflavenone biosynthetic gene cluster in …
By looking into the role of Blackness, or negritud, in nineteenth-century discourses of nation I seek to formulate a new understanding of Mexico's national identity, …
On a typical night at the opera, the musico-dramatic synthesis that takes place on stage is saturated in atmosphere, but the proceedings off-stage are no …
Traditional explanations of health system change have tended to focus on such factors as institutional configurations and provider power. I posit the potency of patients …
Integrability of both sides of AdS/CFT has enabled many quantitative checks of the correspondence. The Bethe ansatz determines the anomalous dimensions of gauge theory operators, …
Burgers turbulence (1-D inviscid Burgers equation with random initial data) is a fundamental non-equilibrium model of stochastic coalescence. In this work we demonstrate that at …
Under the current paradigm of Mars history, the planet is thought to have undergone a global climatic change, from relatively warm and wet conditions during …
This dissertation describes the development of a novel technique for complex pattern formation and shape control in carbon and graphite films which has significant importance …
A detailed understanding of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) structure is essential to understanding its function in the cell. Here we present a new comparative phylogenetic analysis …
Cross-linked polymer shells are coated at the surface of gold nanoparticles through surface-initiated ring-opening metathesis polymerization followed by selective cross-linking. The stability of the cross-linked …
The mechanics of biological contact are important in many natural processes, motivating extensive study of biological adhesive systems as well as attempts at biomimickry through …
Internal plans for movements comprise a major element of arm behavior and movement control. In the work presented in this thesis, we have identified kinematic …
A series of 1,5-bis(alkoxymethyl) anthracene derivatives was designed and synthesized for development of structure - monolayer morphology relationships. The morphologies and unit cells of the …
The dissertation, based on fieldwork from September 2006 to September 2007, ethnographically examines the multiple meanings of illegality and how notions of illegality permeate, and …
Malignant mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer of the mesothelial lining causally linked to asbestos exposure and is highly resistant to current therapies. We hypothesize a …
The increasing demand for materials that can perform at high temperatures beyond the capabilities of Ni-base superalloys has generated interest in refractory metal-based systems (Mo-based …
In the wake of the American Civil War, Southerners faced a cultural crisis. Emancipation and military defeat ensured that the slave economy, which had formed …
Alkenones are lipids produced by certain haptophyte algae and are excellent sensors of temperature change. This dissertation investigates the stable isotopic and organic geochemical aspects …
Alkenones are lipids produced by certain haptophyte algae and are excellent sensors of temperature change. This dissertation investigates the stable isotopic and organic geochemical aspects …
This dissertation describes translational research conducted to develop a rapid diagnostic for the detection of endotoxin using liquid crystal sensor technology. Due to the elastic …
Overweight, obesity, weight gain, and weight cycling are associated with increased health risk. The purpose of this dissertation was to characterize weight trajectories during middle …
Traditional analyses in nutritional epidemiology relate single nutrients or foods to disease risk. Dietary pattern analysis is increasingly preferred to analysis of single nutrients as …
I examine Javier Marías's later novels' temporal structures and narrative techniques, relating them to Henri Bergson's and Martin Heidegger's thought. This interdisciplinary approach aims to …
The principal question the dissertation addresses is why the advent of democracy has not brought about progressive social reform in South Africa. Using a combination …
This work addresses a cluster of problems in action theory, philosophical aesthetics, and moral psychology. The first three chapters present an account whereby a class …
The development of electrochemical sensors and responsive drug delivery systems are current challenges in the field of orthopedics. Micro and nanotechnology enable the development of …
Human beings live in societies, yet we are self centered. Therefore, the collective decision making problem is, as well as being complex, of great importance. …
In this paper, panel data model is applied to two different subjects in public economics---media and education. The first chapter studies media market. It shows …
This thesis comprises two related papers on spatial competition and product variety and a third paper on voting momentum in sequential elections, co-authored with Brian …
This dissertation reveals the importance of deep, historically-rooted determinants of comparative economic development. Chapter 1 advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that migratory distance from …
Voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM) public good experiments aim to analyze economic behavior of individuals in a prisoners dilemma type setting. In the most basic set-up …
A Monte-Carlo Simulation is presented for Radiation Transport in water. This process is of outmost importance, having applications in oncology and therapy of cancer, in …
The Human Genome Project has stimulated interest in translating research on gene-disease associations into clinical and public health practice. I explore how this research influences …
The derived didactyl limbs of most extant artiodactyls have traditionally been viewed as adaptations for fast locomotion. The most primitive condition for artiodactyls is a …
Exploiting the exceptional mechanical properties of nanostructured carbon for improving wear and erosion resistance of various surfaces is the main objective of the research presented …
We study Serre functors and related constructions. A Serre functor on a triangulated category was defined by Bondal and Kapranov to be an auto-equivalence inducing …
The current thesis is an attempt to interpret the Portuguese New State and its Brazilian counterpart between 1933-1945 from literary and cultural perspectives. By dissecting …
This dissertation examines the femme fatale and her relation to the breakdown of masculine discourses in the Decadent novel. In considering texts by Octave Mirbeau, …
Beginning from Mark Payne's recent argument that Theocritean fiction does not adhere to real-world patterns, this study contends that Theocritus use of fiction is consistently …
The role that dispersal limitation plays in regulating the diversity of local sites in marine systems is poorly understood. Because the delivery of larvae and …
"Foreign Correspondences" investigates nineteenth-century print culture in Latin America and the United States through the lens of news. In the 1880s and 1890s, as daily …
As a black feminist project, this dissertation contends that late twentieth-century black diasporic literature intervenes in debates about shifts in black communal formation in the …
Vehicle surveillance is the task of measuring moving road vehicles to automatically obtain information about vehicle shape, appearance, identity, path of motion, and, ultimately, driver …
In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest surrounding the study of the asymptotics and global attractor structure for scalar parabolic PDEs …
This dissertation brings into focus the interactions of Renaissance English literature with foreign, especially classical, languages and cultures. The incorporation of foreign words into early …
The mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) is a Ser/Thr kinase that regulates cell growth through its control of cell cycle progression, translation, ribosome biogenesis and …
Current heightened interest in alternative energy technologies have made nanostructured materials which integrate contrasting electronic materials subject to investigation for applications such as next-generation solar …
Immunity to Toxoplasma gondii infection is principally mediated by the activation of CD8+ T cells producing the protective cytokine IFN-?. To characterize primary CTL activation, …
FeSb2 is a narrow band semiconductor, whose magnetic susceptibility strongly resembles that of FeSi, an archetype example of Kondo insulator. The unusual spectral weight transfer …
Among the emerging issues of National concern are the health risks associated with vapor intrusion into structures that might exist or be built on or …
Neurons have highly developed pathfinding abilities, but in any part of the nervous system, during development or after the challenge of injury, cues provided by …
Although recent studies have identified the biochemical components required to generate motile forces by actin polymerization, how the forces are generated remains unclear. To elucidate …
This dissertation covers fundamental studies and application motivated research exploring the coupling between LC and polymers in unique systems. The interaction of these materials link …
This dissertation focuses on the long term health outcomes of prenatal exposure to cigarette smoke. We hypothesize that exposure to toxins through maternal smoking could …
We have fabricated and investigated the electrical and magnetic behavior of polycrystalline and epitaxial CrO2 nanostructures, grown using selective-area growth technique. Magnetic domain structures were …
"Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women's Activism in the United States, 1945-1960" examines gender, citizenship, and postwar political culture. It focuses on the bi-partisan General Federation …
As the processor industry marches to a multi-core architecture implemented in an increasingly complex process technology, the burden of producing functionally correct and optimal processors …
Cell-matrix adhesion depends on the collective behavior of a large number of molecular bonds. While the behavior of a single molecular bond is governed by …
Melanopsin ganglion cells are a new class of mammalian photoreceptor involved in non-image forming visual reflexes including photoentrainment of circadian rhythms and the pupillary light …
We study the rheological properties of reconstituted actin networks by tracking the thermal motion of embedded micron-sized probe beads with four types of surface coatings. …
Using a life-course approach, this dissertation investigates the effect of migration on the process of family formation in Mexico. Several mechanisms by which migration can …
Carbohydrate-carbohydrate interactions (CCIs) make up a separate genre of interactions that have been implicated in intercellular adhesion and signaling. As with most carbohydrate-binding interaction, CCIs …
Over the last decade, there has been increased interest in "nanomaterial", which describes materials with structure on one dimension between 1nm and 100nm. A variety …
This thesis proposes to solve the problem is of segmenting independently moving objects which is specifically useful in applications for compression, initialization for tracking, input …
There have been intensive studies on not only the structure of quinonoid metal complexes but also the metal-organometallic coordination polymers by the use of quinone …
When deformed at elevated temperature and slow strain rates, some Al alloys exhibits superplasticity, the ability to sustain very large tensile elongations (sometimes over 1000%) …
This dissertation demonstrates, in multiple ways, that nanotechnology can be used to engineer effective solutions. This dissertation employs the colloidal route for synthesis of elemental …
More than 17,000 Catholic priests and seminarians were conscripted into the German armed forces during World War II. 500 of them served as chaplains, the …
Real-world events produce both auditory and visual signals that, together, comprise our perceptual experience of that event. At issue is how the brain integrates information …
Monodisperse nanoparticles (NPs) below 20nm are of intense current interests, not only for the general miniaturization of the size, but also for their novel properties. …
Xeroderma pigmentosum Group A protein (XPA) is essential in the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway. Patients without functional XPA have extreme sensitivity to ultraviolet (UV) …
The experimental realization of a two dimensional quantum spin liquid has been eagerly sought since first proposed by Anderson in 1973. Recently, Cs2CuCl4, a frustrated …
The neural networks consisting of the axonal tracts that interconnect the thalamus and the neocortex are central to information processing where the thalamus acts as …