Advances in server virtualization offer new mechanisms to provideresource management for shared server infrastructures. Resourcesharing requires coordination across self-interested systemparticipants (e.g., providers from ...
<p>The late phase of long-term synaptic potentiation (LTP) at glutamatergic synapses, which is thought to underlie the long lasting memory (at least hours), requires gene transcription in the nucleus. However, it remains ...
<p>Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) are thought to have produced a state of matter called the Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP). The QGP forms when nuclear matter governed by ...
<p>An important problem in the analysis of gene expression data is the identification of groups of features that are coherently expressed. For example, one often wishes to know whether a group of genes, clustered because ...
We have investigated how the loss of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in the water column due to photobleaching allows for increased penetration of UV radiation near coral reefs in the Florida Keys. Extended ...
<p>AbstractAbstractAbstractAbstract Abstract</p><p>Spacing the inter-pregnancy interval to more than two years reduces maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Modern contraceptive use can reduce maternal morbidity ...
Existing studies on corn ethanol allege that US government policies encouraging its production have lead to higher food prices and an expansion of land used for corn production, raising concerns that the impoverished will ...
<p>This dissertation considers incentives arising from equilibrium influences that affect the sequence of decisions that lead to family formation. The first chapter examines how state regulations directly aimed at abortion ...
<p><bold>Abstract</bold></p><p>More than 300,000 soldiers have returned from Southwest Asia (i.e., Iraq and Afghanistan) with combat-related mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) associated with exposure to improvised ...
<p>Over the past three decades, the phenomenon of children's health in China has been marked by a co-existence of overweight and underweight. As the primary institution for a child, family is an opportune place for child ...
<p>Fan Jing (Folk Images), an orchestral trilogy, is based on folk elements of the three main ethnic groups in Taiwan: Min-nan, Hakka and aboriginal. As each of these groups has its own spoken language, folk music and ...
<p>Fanny Hensel wrote much of Felix Mendelssohn's music. Or so goes the popular misconception. It is true that Felix did publish six of his sister's Lieder under his own name, in his Op. 8 and Op. 9, but there is no evidence ...
<p>Whether through sea level rise, farmland abandonment, or wetland restoration, agricultural soils in coastal areas will be inundated at increasing rates, renewing connections to sensitive surface waters and raising ...
Private land conservation in the United States has increased in recent years, largely through the efforts of non-profit land trusts, willing private landowners, and state and federal grant programs. As a reaction to ...
Farm to School is a phrase used to describe programs that connect locally-grown foods to schools (Farm to School, 2009). The medium that provides this connection varies, but it is typically made through school gardens, ...
As a result of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has increased consideration and implementation of newer and more efficient innovative ...
The financial cost of private industry’s pollution is often unfairly transferred to the public. Decades can pass between a pollution release and its discovery, making it very difficult for regulators to hold responsible ...
Asheville is a rapidly growing city in western North Carolina, nestled in the Blue Ridge
Mountains. Asheville draws drinking water from two artificial reservoirs, Bee Tree and North Fork,
located northeast of the city. ...
<p>The goal of this research was to investigate the feasibility of using a weighted dual-energy subtraction method in dedicated breast CT using quasi-monochromatic x-ray beams, to better distinguish soft tissues in the ...