Folates are a class of metabolites that are essential to living cells across all life. Because these molecules are especially important in aiding cell division, folates are targets for antibiotics, such as trimethoprim. I ...

Since the beginning of the Bretton Woods era, currency crises and speculative attacks have affected the world economy. This paper presents a model, originally derived by Blanco and Garber, that predicts one-period ahead ...

We do not want arbitrariness in our moral judgments. In the first half of my thesis, I will discuss moral luck and the problem it poses for assigning moral responsibility in a non-arbitrary manner. Once I have discussed ...

Currently, there are over 20,000 North Korean refugees in South Korea with at least 2,000 entering each year. North Koreans hope to experience freedom and comfort in their new home but tend to find only poverty and ...

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 ...

This project examines the African National Congress’ most recent proposal for national health insurance in South Africa. By analyzing its ability to build upon the successes and avoid the pitfalls of past policies, this ...

This study explores how the demolitions of particularly distressed public housing units, through the Home Ownership for People Everywhere (HOPE VI) grants program, have affected academic outcomes for children in adjacent ...

In this paper we examine two specific models of dynamical systems in which noise plays a central role. The first is a stochastic differential equation (SDE) modeling a particle in a potential well; the second is a simplified ...

For most Cubans, Fidel Castro’s revolution was an enormous relief. Castro promised to bring democracy to a country that was only six decades old, to halt social corruption and to end economic dependence on the U.S. In ...

We consider several types of information with which to di erentiate preferential ballot voting systems. After establishing a formalism with which to discuss voting methods in a mathematical context, we show that the ...