Since 2003, the United States and North Korea have been at odds over the
creation and continuation of a North Korean nuclear weapons program. While
North Korea lobbies strongly for these differences to be sorted out ...
<p>This thesis presents an analysis of the material properties and phase behavior of divalent ionic surfactant salts, and protein and polymer glasses. There has been extensive interest in understanding the phase behavior ...
Cancer morbidity and mortality is greatly reduced when the disease is diagnosed and treated early in its development. Tissue biopsies are the gold standard for cancer diagnosis, and an accurate diagnosis requires a biopsy ...
In the first part of the thesis, we study the problem of estimating the intrinsic dimension of point cloud data sampled from a noisy manifold. We show that a multiscale algorithm succeeds with high probability.
The ...
<p>The thesis contains two directions in the simulations of biomolecular systems. The first part (Chapter 2 - Chapter 4) mainly focuses on the simulations of electron transfer processes in condensed phase; the second part ...
<p>Image acquisition time is one of the most important considerations for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This is especially true for dynamic imaging (such as functional MRI or dynamic contrast enhanced MRI) which require ...
<p>My research centers on the cohomology of arithmetic varieties. More specifically, I am interested in applying analytical, as well as topological methods to gain better insight into the cohomology of certain locally ...
Following 100 years of intense timber harvest and in the face of potential future
development, the northeastern forest ecosystem is in a period of transition. To protect
forest biodiversity, wildlife habitat, water quality ...
<p>As the human population grows, Earth’s natural resources are under increasing threat
from deforestation, biodiversity loss, pollution, and habitat fragmentation. For many years
conservation scientists have set aside ...
<p>The thymus is the primary lymphoid organ responsible for generation of functional T lymphocytes. The loss of thymic function, either as a consequence of physiological senescence or the result of disease- and/or ...
<p><bold>Background:</bold> The garment industry in Sri Lanka employs an estimated 400,000 individuals, the majority of which are women. Garment factory workers are exposed to physical demands and repetitive nature of ...
<p>Contrary to later Muslim tradition, the first Muslims initially looked favorably upon assimilating Jewish and Christian religious and cultural practices. As Muslim collective religious identity conjoined with political ...
<p>Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling pathways have been demonstrated to be important in many aspects of innate and adaptive immunity. Binding of TLRs by their respective ligands initiates signaling cascades which promote ...
Hawaiian spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris longirostris) rest in shallow bays off the Kona Coast of Hawai‘i Island. Tourism operations exploit this behavior, placing tourists into the water to swim, kayak, and ...
<p>This dissertation presents a study of the Aphrodite Anadyomene type in its cultural and physical contexts. Like many other naked Aphrodites, the Anadyomene was not posed to conceal the body, but with arms raised, naked ...
<p>Ankyrin repeats (ARs) are polypeptide motifs identified in thousands of proteins. Many AR proteins play a function as scaffolds in protein-protein interactions which may require specific mechanical properties. Also, a ...
<p>Nucleic acids are subjected to many different mechanical loadings inside. These loadings could cause large deformations and conformational changes to these molecules. This is why the mechanical properties of nucleic ...
<p><italic>Narrating Infanticide: Constructing the Modern Gendered State in Nineteenth-Century America</italic> traces how modern ideas about gender and race became embedded in the institutions of law and government between ...