Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder with 22 disease-causing genes reported to date. In some FA genes, monoallelic mutations have been found to be associated with breast cancer risk, while the risk ...

Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacteria that infect arthropod species worldwide and are deployed in vector control to curb arboviral spread using cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). CI kills embryos when an infected male ...

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, from graphene to transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), have attracted tremendous attention from researchers in various fields owing to their exceptional properties. This dissertation ...

In Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, the Supreme Court reinterpreted the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to permit judges to dismiss claims at the very outset of a case whenever they think the claims ...

A number of states, as well as foreign jurisdictions, impose a community property regime. Under this regime, regardless of the title to property, each spouse is deemed to own a fifty percent interest in assets. When a ...

The research described herein was performed in an effort to determine how federal transportation expenditures benefit the freight industry. This study focused on two objectives: 1) determining relevant federal investments ...

This dissertation explores how US activists involved in US Latin American Solidarity campaigns from the 1980s to the present developed a political consciousness of their own relationship to and role in influencing political ...

Historically, medical therapy for ulcerative colitis (UC) was limited to corticosteroids. Excitingly, over the past just 1-2 decades, the options for medical therapy have expanded and include biologics and small molecules, ...

The oxides of rare-earth elements (rare-earth sesquioxide: RE2O3) are known for their optical and dielectric properties. Europium oxide is known for characteristic red luminescence and gadolinium oxide has excellent ...

Colloid quantum dots (QDs) are semiconductor nanocrystals that can be tuned to emit specific wavelengths of light based upon their size. Maintaining long-term brightness of QDs is crucial towards their applications. Achieving ...