Since the 1980s, the market structure of vaccines has become increasingly oligopolistic,
and in some cases, monopolistic. Alongside these supply trends, we see the emergence and growth of group procurement schemes on the ...
In 2007, the Connecticut General Assembly passed Public Act No. 07-242, An Act Concerning Electricity and Energy Efficiency, requiring electric distribution companies to offer voluntary critical peak pricing or real-time ...
This paper reviews machine learning methods on forecasting financial data. Although many authors such as (Hutchinson et. al) has explored this topic intensely, their methods ignore possible interrelations amongst different ...
<p>In recent years, the pervasiveness and importance of post-transcriptional regulation has reshaped the underlying principles of the organizational logic of gene expression. RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) and non-coding RNAs ...
The structural complexity of old-growth forests allows them to play many distinctive functional and compositional roles that are not fulfilled by younger forests. Left undisturbed by humans, these forests function as ...
The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust, along with twenty other organizations, participates in the Cape Fear Arch Conservation Collaboration, a partnership to conserve high quality natural areas and biodiversity in the Cape ...
Hawai’i has 25% of the United States’ federally listed endangered species and nearly 75% of the nation’s recorded extinctions. Although no such list or datasets exists for cultural and historical landmarks, these resources ...
The National Wilderness Preservation System protects especially pristine public lands that have been designated by Congress as wilderness. But wilderness areas are designated without consideration of existing protected ...
The use of geospatial information systems (GIS) by land trusts to locate and prioritize lands critical for conservation has become a crucial step in making the process of land acquisition more strategic, proactive, and ...
In response to the growing awareness of climate change across the globe, innovative conservationists have begun employing market approaches to capture the true value of carbon emissions and encourage sequestration. The ...
<p>Evolution by natural selection can occur at multiple biological scales. This is particularly the case for host-pathogen systems, where selection occurs both within each infected host as well as through transmission ...
<p>The intent of the work discussed in this dissertation is to apply the engineering methods of theory/modeling, numerics/computation, and experimentation to a diverse assemblage of projects. Several projects are discussed: ...
The relative importance of agent confidence and rational expectations has fluctuated in the course of economic thought, and remains an important issue in the discipline today. Positions on the formations of expectations ...
<p>This dissertation is devoted to building Bayesian models for complex data, which are geared toward specific inferential aspects of applied problems. This broad topic is explored via three methodological case-studies, ...
<p>Boundary quantum phases ---a special type of quantum phenomena--- occur in the boundary part of the system. The boundary part can be a surface of a bulk material, an interface between two distinct system, and even it ...
<p>Toughness, the measure of how much energy a material can absorb before rupture, is an important property of materials. It has been demonstrated that the toughness of a single polymer chain of <italic>gem</italic>-diha ...
<p>The primary goal of this dissertation research is to develop an experimental system and associated techniques that can be used to investigate the bioeffects produced by cavitation bubbles at the single cell level. Such ...
<p>This essay explores majority decisions to give up majority power. In particular, it analyzes a majority's decision to institute judicial review as a method of final decision-making on questions of constitutional rights ...
On April 18, 2003, twenty-eight short-finned pilot whales stranded in the shallow waters
near Content Keys Passage, about five miles north of Big Pine Key in the lower Florida
Keys. Of the twenty-eight, 21 animals died ...
<p>Organizational researchers have long considered innovation a critical activity. While insightful regarding the nature of the innovation process and the rewards and risk associated with innovation, prior work has neglected ...