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. …
While current antibiotic agents provide suitable and cost effective means of inhibiting bacterial infiltration of biomedical devices, they are slowly becoming obsolete as microbial species …
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, …