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The evolutionary ecology of an insect-fungus interaction: <i>Botryosphaeria dothidea</i>, symbiotic with the goldenrod-galling midge <i>Asteromyia carbonifera</i> (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)
(2010-08-05)
Arguably, the process of adaptive ecological speciation and radiation has been the most important mechanism in contributing to the world’s immense biological diversity. Initial theoretical treatments of adaptive speciation ...
Hemozoin: a case of heme crystal engineering
(2010-07-28)
During the pathogenic blood stage of a malaria infection, the Plasmodium parasites degrade hemoglobin as a source of nutrition. As a consequence, free heme, known to be toxic to the parasite, is released. It is believed ...
The development and genetic origin of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies
(2012-07-30)
Several of the most broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies (bnAbs) contain unique genetic or structural elements, including long heavy chain complementarity determining region 3 (HCDR3) loops and extensive somatic hypermutation. ...
Essays on Statistical Discrimination and on the Payoff to Publishing in Economics Journals
(2010-08-10)
This dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first essay tests the empirical validity of a statistical discrimination model that incorporates employer's race. I show that if an employer statistically discriminates ...
Multimedia Streaming Rate Optimization in Peer-to-peer Network
(2011-08-22)
The recent advancement in compression techniques
and networking technologies have resulted in
wide deployment of novel content distribution applications. These applications enable the
end-users to have ubiquitous access ...
Against a "System of Soothing": Poe's Deviance
(2010-08-16)
Much recent historically-focused scholarship has revealed the ways in which the deviant criminality in the work of Edgar Allan Poe can be read as ideologically conservative. This criticism is understandably concerned with ...
Towards population based characterization of neuronal fiber pathways with diffusion tensor imaging
(2010-07-27)
Diffusion tensor imaging has been widely used to reconstruct neuronal fibers in the human brain. Studying these fibers often requires them to be grouped into bundles that correspond to coherent anatomic structures. Several ...
Documentation management and generation for domain-specific models
(2010-07-29)
Documentation is essential to every system as it captures knowledge and design intent that are otherwise hidden in the implementation or not available at all. Automatic documentation has been of interest mainly because of ...
Competing Germanies: The Freie Deutsche Buehne and the Deutsches Theater in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1938-1965
(2010-08-02)
COMPETING GERMANIES: THE FREIE DEUTSCHE BUEHNE AND THE DEUTSCHES THEATER IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, 1938-1965
ROBERT VINCENT KELZ
Dissertation under the direction of Professor Meike G. Werner
Based on extensive archival ...
Democratization Under Assault: Criminal Violence in Post-Transition Central America
(2010-08-05)
This research project aims to answer the question as to why some new democracies develop astronomically high levels of criminal violence, whereas in others, violence is far more limited. This inquiry is related to a more ...