Upon hypervelocity impact, projectile and target materials are frequently shocked to pressures and temperatures sufficient to induce complete vaporization. Vaporization associated with impacting comets and …
Neutrophil-mediated host defense against pathogens includes the extrusion of a lattice of DNA and microbicidal enzymes known as Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs). The receptor:ligand interactions …
The question of how to interpret precipitation isotope records in East Asia is an ongoing debate and has implications for understanding climate dynamics in East …
Communication between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes is vital for cellular function. The assembly of mitochondrial enzyme complexes that produce the majority of cellular energy …
Changing expectations of future house price growth are thought to play an important role in housing boom and bust cycles, but investigating such hypotheses is …
In today's networks, non-administrative users have little interaction with a network's control-plane. Such users can send probe traffic to develop inferences about the network's present …
Chapter 1 investigates the role of group procurement in targeting a distributional program. Food security programs in developing countries often provide transfers in the form …
Nitrogen oxides (NOx=NO+NO2) play a key role in atmospheric chemistry, contributing to production of ground-level ozone, aerosol chemistry, and acid deposition through the conversion to …
Heritage designation is everywhere today—attached to buildings, monuments, landscapes, expressive practices, and entire ways of life. Official institutions hurry to stamp places, traditions, and people …
Stimulation of estrogen receptor (ER)-negative human breast cancer cells with 17β-estradiol (E2β) results in fibronectin (FN) matrix assembly and transactivation of the epidermal growth factor …
The DNA base excision repair (BER) pathway is compromised of several enzymes, including DNA glycosylases, apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease 1 (APE1), DNA polymerase β (pol β) …
This thesis introduces mechanism domains as a cognitive representation underlying causal reasoning. It has been observed that people believe they understand causal workings in more …
Extending work of Kapouleas and Yang, we construct sequences of closed minimal surfaces embedded in the round unit 3-sphere and converging to a Clifford torus …
Non-allelic homologous recombination (NAHR) plays a major role in genome rearrangement and is implicated in numerous genetic disorders. But detection of NAHR poses a serious …
In the last couple of decades, categorization experiments using natural images have started to unravel the way our brain represents and categorizes visual information. Unfortunately, …
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how grain boundary (GB) strength and separation mechanisms affect strength and ductility of nanocrystalline materials. Such nanoscale …
Animals live in complex environments where multiple cues can provide either consistent or conflicting information about how to behave most effectively in the current environment. …
According to the numbers, Peru’s economy is growing rapidly with poverty rates declining apace. Yet Peruvians themselves remain skeptical of this success. They argue that …
During Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s nearly fifteen years in office, he was both celebrated as a revolutionary hero and vilified as an autocratic populist. The …
This dissertation offers preliminary answers to the question of what scholars and practitioners interested in democratization and urban change in the developing world can learn …
This dissertation examines the topic of animal sacrifice in ancient Judean/Jewish religion (Judaism) with a historical focus on the late Second Temple period. It analyzes …
In the modern digital society, individuals, businesses and governments perform numerous everyday tasks such as shopping, banking and commuting using electronic media. Although these electronic …
One of the ubiquitous impacts of climate change on the terrestrial ecosystem is the shifting plant phenology, which is the periodic events in the life …
This dissertation offers a reevaluation of the Synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) and a hypothetical document thought to be common to Matthew and Luke, …
Olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, garnet and plagioclase are major rock-forming minerals in the Earth mantle and other planetary bodies. The partitioning of trace elements into these …
This dissertation explores the intersections of class relations, social mobility, and bodily self-care. In recent years, yoga has become increasingly accessible to Mexicans through state-sponsored …
This dissertation examines the production of caste data during India’s first nationwide caste count in the post-colonial period. Building upon a scholarly tradition that makes …
Biofilms are communities of bacterial cells that are encapsulated in a self-produced polymeric matrix that can attach to almost any surface [10]. Formation of these …
Racial minorities have had an ambiguous history with state intervention. At times, the state has prevented racial minorities from achieving political power and at other …
Ancient Greeks regarded their gods as beings with whom they could interact in either helpful or harmful ways. The negative dimension of human-god interaction has, …
Coordinate gene regulation is critical to promote normal development and prevent disease. How domains of co-regulation are established in vivo remains poorly understood. X-chromosome dosage …
O estudo realizado nesta dissertação debruça-se sobre a relação incontestável entre o escritor e o militante político no contexto revolucionário africano, por via do caso …
Far from being solely a passive messenger between DNA and protein, RNA is a complex molecule involved in regulation at many levels. While the best-known …
This dissertation investigates the thought of Mill and Nietzsche in order to consider the relationship between democracy and human flourishing. Chapters One and Two argue …
Making a Living Poetry investigates modern and contemporary American poetry’s reworking of the religious and romantic valences of a vocation in order to resist and …
Through a Glass Darkly: Secrecy in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Novella explores secrecy's role in the development of the literary genre of the French …
A wealth of astrophysical evidence confirms that 26% of the energy density of the universe is comprised of a mysterious, non-baryonic, dark matter. A leading …
This dissertation examines a series of strange intimacies in twentieth-century literature by focusing on works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright, Graham Greene, …
My dissertation places rural-urban migrants at the center of an exploration of urban inequality by examining their success as urban residents in India. Along with …
Energy storage is a crucial aspect of integrating renewable energy sources in power grids, portable electronic devices and vehicle applications, making the development of efficient …
The nanocrystals (NCs) dispersed in solution are promising ink materials for solution-process because they can be readily deposited on substrates in thin films by self-assembly …
The bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling pathway is an essential regulator of developmental and cellular processes. Secreted ligands initiate BMP signaling by binding to a …
The dissertation examines competing theories that explain national origin variations in residential assimilation of Asian Americans in the United States with a particular attention to …
Rational design and controlled synthesis of metallic nanoparticles (NPs) is the key to developing highly efficient and stable catalysts for some new alternative energy conversion …
The dominant component of matter in the universe, referred to as dark matter, cannot be explained by the standard model of particle physics. A leading …
Aspartyl-asparaginyl-β-hydroxylase (AAH) is a ~86 kD protein abundantly expressed in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and downregulated by chronic ethanol exposure, contributing to alcoholic liver disease (ALD). …