<p>On-board imaging is useful for guiding radiation to patients in the treatment position; however, current treatment-room imaging modalities are not sensitive to physiology - features that may differentiate tumor from ...

<p>Current techniques for nucleic acid analysis often involve extensive sample preparation that requires skilled personnel and multiple purification steps. In this dissertation, we introduce an on-chip, isothermal, ...

<p>Contemporary political events reveal a serious partisanship divide in which serious, non-bombastic political conversation appears limited. The theatrical effect is to make Americans appear as enemies of each other. And, ...

<p>Central to the explosive growth of the Internet has been the desire</p><p>of dispersed buyers and sellers to interact readily and in a manner</p><p>hitherto impossible. Underpinning these interactions, auction</p><p>pricing ...

Here we prove that the “Knotter” in the T(4, 3) “Knotter vs. Unknotter Game” has a winning strategy, provided she goes second.

Using a combination of hydrographic data and the trajectories and profiles of isobaric floats, this dissertation evaluates the connections between remote regions in the North Atlantic. First, I establish that the production ...

Collections of hardware components are the foundation of computation and consist of interconnections of different types of the same core elements: processors, disks, memory cards, I/O devices, and network links. Designing ...

The wind industry in the United States has been growing rapidly over the past decade, fueled by climate change concerns, financial incentives, performance improvements and a wave of investments in “green” technology. ...

Forest ecosystem provides us enormous benefits including good water and air quality, mitigation of flood and drought, maintenance of biodiversity, and timber. In the context of climate change, the value of the forest has ...

<p>This dissertation is comprised of two chapters. In the first chapter, I investigate the role of systematic U.S. monetary policy in the presence of oil price shocks. The second chapter is devoted to studying different ...