At its core environmental management is achieved through the design and control of human behavior. Land use planning provides an excellent tool for the management of a variety of influential human activities by controlling ...
Malaria is the leading cause of death in Tanzania, killing 100,000-125,000 people
annually, the majority of which are children under five. Environmental conditions play an
important role in transmission of the disease, ...
In 2005, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. released a development plan for open pit and
underground copper and gold mining of the Oyu Tolgoi porphyry deposits in Mongolia’s
Gobi desert. Ivanhoe refers to the project as the largest ...
While it may be difficult to prove that children, as well as people of all ages, are spending less time in nature than in past decades, few people will argue that indoor attractions, often related to the television or the ...
<p>Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), encoded by the Aicda gene, is indispensable for secondary antibody diversification through somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class switch recombination (CSR). It is expressed ...
<p>Escherichia coli is a typical constituent of the enteric tract in many animals, including humans. However, specialized extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli strains (ExPEC) may transition from benign occupation of the ...
<p>Low-dose ionizing radiation (LDIR) exposure (under 10.0 centigray (cGy)) from man-made sources, such as diagnostic imaging, predominates in the US population and comprises nearly 50% of an average individual's yearly ...
<p>The centromere is essential for chromosome segregation and genome stability. It is the site of kinetochore assembly and chromosome attachment to the spindle microtubules, and it is important for chromosome movement ...
<p>Soft matter systems exhibiting spatially modulated patterns on a mesoscale are characterized by many long-lived metastable phases for which relaxation to equilibrium is difficult and a satisfactory thermodynamic description ...
<p>My dissertation focuses on employing microeconomic techniques to study markets and questions that are important and complex, and also have potential policy implications. Two of my chapters analyze the health industry ...
<p>The three essays in this dissertation explore the role of fluctuations in aggregate volatility and global temperature as sources of systemic risk. </p><p>The first essay proposes a production-based asset pricing model ...
<p>The costs and constraints to financing, and the factors that influence them, play critical roles in the determination of corporate capital structures.</p>
<p>Chapter 1 estimates firm-specific marginal cost of debt ...
<p>This dissertation explores issues regarding the design of consumer financial contracts and their implications for market structure and economic efficiency. These questions are important because, as the recent mortgage ...
<p>I study the effect of human capital on firms' leverage decisions in a structural dynamic model. Firms produce using physical capital and labor. They pay a cost per employee they hire, thus investing in human capital. ...
<p>This dissertation explores three important topics in the Development Economics literature. The first chapter provides further evidence on the consequences of illness episodes on earnings and consumption in Indonesia. ...
<p>This dissertation consists of three essays in economics of crime. The first chapter examines the relationship between economic inequality and crime, and provides a new theoretical explanation and empirical evidence. ...
<p>This dissertation consists of three essays in empirical macroeconomics. In the first essay, I explore the dynamic effects of aggregate news about</p>
<p>future technology improvements on sectoral fundamentals. I ...
<p>My dissertation, consisting of three related essays, aims to understand the role of macroeconomic risks in the stock and bond markets. In the first chapter, I build a financial intermediary sector with a leverage ...
<p>The central puzzles in financial economics commonly include</p><p>violations of the expectations hypotheses, predictability of excess returns, and the levels and volatilities of nominal bond yields, in addition to ...
<p>In my dissertation, I study the link between economic growth and asset prices in stochastic endogenous growth models. In these settings, long-term growth prospects are endogenously determined by innovation and R\&D. ...