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 …