<p>Today, large-scale scientific applications are both data driven and distributed. To support the scale and inherent distribution of these applications, significant heterogeneous and geographically distributed resources ...

<p>Cellular dynamics arise from intricate interactions among diverse components, such as metabolites, RNAs, and proteins. An in-depth understanding of these interactions requires an integrated approach to the investigation ...

<p>Clinical imaging within ophthalmology has had transformative effects on ocular health over the last century. Imaging has guided clinicians in their pharmaceutical and surgical treatments of macular degeneration, glaucoma, ...

<p>This dissertation examines the translation and printing of the Qur'an in the late Ottoman Empire and the early years of the Republic of Turkey (1820-1938). As most Islamic scholars deem the Qur'an inimitable divine ...

<p>The Wingless (Wg)/Wnt signal transduction pathway directs a variety of cell fate decisions in developing animal embryos. Despite the identification of many Wg pathway components to date, it is still not clear how these ...

<p>Since its inception in the 1970's, computed tomography (CT) has revolutionized the practice of medicine and evolved into an essential tool for diagnosing numerous diseases not only in adults but also in children. The ...

<p>Prior studies of groundwater systems have associated increasing salinity and anoxic conditions with increasing radium (Ra) activities in water due to the decreasing effectiveness of Ra removal processes. However, the ...

<p>This dissertation focuses on raiding and sovereignty in the Central African Republic's (CAR) northeastern borderlands, on the margins of Darfur. A vast literature on social evolution has assumed the inevitability of ...

<p><italic>Cryptococcus neoformans</italic> pathogenesis results from the proliferation of yeast-phase fungal cells within the human host. The Ras1 signal transduction cascade is a major regulator of <italic>C. neoformans</italic> ...

<p>The Ras proteins, composed of H, N, and KRas, are a family of small GTPases that normally transmit extracellular cues to the cell in a regulated manner. However, Ras is commonly mutated to be inappropriately activated ...