<p>Changes in gene transcription driven by the activation of intracellular calcium signaling pathways play an important role in neural development and plasticity. A growing body of evidence suggests that stimulus-driven ...
<p>This dissertation contains two related documents: a piece of music entitled <italic>Hallmarks, Sigils & Colophons</italic> for three female singers and chamber orchestra setting excerpts from Christian Bök's ...
Recent years have witnessed a rapid rise of a new class of data-intensive applications in which data arrive as transient, high-volume streams. Financial data processing, network monitoring, and sensor networks are all ...
<p>Aberration is a correctable phenomenon that degrades diagnostic quality in a significant number of ultrasound images. Previous aberration correction studies have focused on development of aberration estimation algorithms ...
<p>My dissertation explores how constructions of memory, space, and violence intersected in the history of early Christianity. It analyzes the crucial roles of memory and space/place in the formation, practice, and ...
<p>This dissertation explores two important development policies, the introduction of microcredit, and access to free anti-retroviral medications, including the causal impact of providing access through a randomized control ...
<p>Sonic hedgehog (Shh) is a critical secreted signaling molecule that regulates many aspects of organogenesis. In the absence of Shh, many organs, including the foregut, larynx, palate, cerebellum and heart do not form ...
While a vast amount of research in marketing has examined how information prior to purchase helps consumers to make purchase decisions, relatively little work has considered how marketers can increase the value consumers ...
<p>Spatial variability of the Earth's surface has a considerable impact on the atmosphere at all scales and understanding the mechanisms involved in land-atmosphere interactions is hindered by the scarcity of appropriate ...
<p>The idea that integrates parts of this dissertation is that high-frequency data allow for more precise and robust methods for forecasting financial volatility and elucidating the role of volatility in forming asset ...
<p>The lifetime of $^{19}$Ne is an important parameter in precision tests of the Standard Model. Improvement in the uncertainty of experimental observables of this and other $T=\frac{1}{2}$ mirror isotopes would allow for ...
<p>Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has emerged as a unique method to characterize brain tissue microstructure non-invasively. DTI typically provides the ability to study white matter structure with a standard voxel resolution ...
<p>Double-stranded DNA breaks are potentially lethal lesions that can be repaired in mitotic cells by either homologous recombination (HR) or non-homologous end- joining (NHEJ) pathways. In the HR pathway, the broken DNA ...
<p>Environmental stress affects plant development and productivity. Sulfur deficiency is a key nutrient deficiency that adversely affects crop yield. The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana has played an informative role in ...
<p>Research using mice and rats has gained interest because they are robust test beds for clinical drug development and are used to elucidate disease etiologies. Blood vessel visualization and blood flow measurements are ...
<p>Germ cells represent the immortal line: they are guardians of a totipotent genome and are essential for the genetic survival of an individual organism and ultimately a species. An error at any stage in development ...
<p>No corner of the world's oceans is untouched by humans. Yet in marine science, management, and conservation, oceans are consistently treated as 'unpeopled', that is, human systems are divorced systematically from ...
<p>HOGARTH'S PROGRESS: `MODERN MORAL SUBJECTS' IN THE ART OF DAVID HOCKNEY, LUBAINA HIMID AND PAULA REGO</p><p>An Abstract by</p><p>Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd</p><p> Hogarth's Progress: "Modern Moral Subjects" in the Work of ...
<p>This dissertation examines racial socialization in Afro-Brazilian families in order to understand how phenotypically diverse families negotiate racial hierarchies and ideologies of white supremacy. As an inductive, ...
<p>In this thesis we explore and extend the theory of persistent homology, which
captures topological features of a function by pairing its critical values. The
result is represented by a collection of points in the extended ...