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Ghoul
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)This thesis is a novel that plunges into the depths of one man's obsession with death, dying, and the past as he struggles with guilt over the accidental killing of his parents. Through his seemingly narrow view of the ... -
Local Adaptation in the Atlantic silverside (Menidia menidia): Fine-scaled geographic variation in vertebral number and the adaptive significance of Jordan's Rule
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)The Atlantic silverside, Menidia menidia, is a widely distributed marine species along the east coast of North America that has been shown to exhibit local adaptation, despite evidence of high gene flow. This species ... -
Terrorism and Counterterrorism: A Comparative Cross-National Analysis
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)What factors influence with the way in which particular countries at specific times respond to the threat of terrorism? This dissertation shows that the answer for this question is more multifaceted than the literature on ... -
The Untenable Subjectivity of PTSD: A Foucauldian Analysis
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)The field of problems that comprise Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) here in the early 21st Century may best be described as a maelstrom, one that implicates public health policy, the epistemological status of mental ... -
Ratio Method of Measuring the W Boson Mass
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)This dissertation describes an alternative method of measuring the W boson mass in Dzero experiment. Instead of extracting W mass from the fitting of fast Monte Carlo simulations to data as in the standard method, we make ... -
Identification of Process Conditions and Stress Evolution in Thermal Spray by Detailed Simulation
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Thermal sprayed Yttria stabilized Zirconia coatings are fabricated with melted or semi-melted particles solidifying on substrates. This process results in the unique layered, porous and cracked morphology of thermal sprayed ... -
Leading Together: A Grounded Theory Study of Women Religious, the Power of Collaborative Leadership and the Development of an Extensive Social Services Network
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)The external events that initiate organizational change can have a significant effect on workers. Today human service organizations are being asked to adapt and adjust to an ever changing external environment causing a ... -
Nitrogen Mustard Reloaded: Synthesis and Structural Studies of DNA Interstrand Crosslinks
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Many of the drugs used in cancer chemotherapy target DNA to kill malignant cells. Some of them form DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs), which are extremely cytotoxic lesions that block essential metabolic process such as ... -
A study of cell death pathways and innate immunity in cancer chemotherapy
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Dysregulation of apoptosis is associated with the development of human cancer and resistance to anti-cancer therapy. The ultimate goal of cancer treatment is to selectively induce cancer cell death and to overcome drug ... -
Role of Serotonin (5-HT) in Hypoxic and Hypercapnic Ventilatory Responses
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Breathing is fundamental to life, and responding appropriately to hypercapnic and hypoxic conditions is essential to survival. Abberant respiratory behavior is a feature of a wide variety of clinical conditions, and appears ... -
In-situ Kinetics and X-ray Computed Microtomography Imaging Studies of Methane Hydrates in Host Sediments
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Methane hydrates naturally occur in abundance in permafrost and marine environments. Methane hydrates are ice-like inclusion compounds in which water molecules form a framework through hydrogen bonding and encapsulate ... -
Decolonize Philosophy/Being Life: The Power of Discourse in Western and Africanist Epistemologies of Life and the Revolution of Language in AIDS Narratives
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Since Plato, Western Philosophy has offered accounts of creation entwining discussions from the philosophy of history, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of race. These particular discussions are implicated by ... -
Making the Vulnerable: Role of the State in Creating Inequalities in Urban China
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)In the sociological literature of stratification structure in post-reform China, the market transition debate in the 1990s has dominated this field by proposing competing arguments on who, redistributors or direct producers, ... -
Static Disassembly Of Stripped Binaries
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Disassembly of binaries plays an important role in computer security.Tools for binary analysis and reverse engineering rely heavily on staticdisassembly. Current disassemblers are not able to reliably disassembleexecutables ... -
Identification and Characterization of an Insulin Based Inhibitor of Amylin and Aβ40 Amyloid Formation
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)The formation of amyloid fibrils plays a role in a wide range of diseases collectively known as amyloidosis. Amyloid fibrils are formed when peptides or proteins misfold and deposit in tissues and organs. These deposits ... -
Modulation of Monocytic Activation following Spinal Cord Injury Reduces Secondary Injury and Neurodegeneration
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Spinal cord injury (SCI) sets off a cascade of biochemical and cellular events that destroy neurons, cause demyelination, and trigger an inflammatory immune response. Microglia, the immune-competent cells of the central ... -
Identification of L1334, a unique glycopeptidolipid isolated from a M. smegmatis MSMEG1604 mutant and functional characterization of Rv3409c from M. tuberculosis
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)M. tuberculosis has a cholesterol oxidizing activity that initiates sterol metabolism, which may be related to its virulence. Rv3409c of M. tuberculosis H37Rv was annotated as a putative cholesterol oxidase, an enzyme that ... -
Non-recurrent dynamics in the exponential family
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)This dissertation deals with the dynamics of non-recurrent parameters in the exponential family $\{e^z+c\}$. One of the main open problems in one-dimensional complex dynamics is whether hyperbolic parameters are dense;this ... -
A Home Divided: A Post-National Approach to Family, Gender and Region in Modern Galician Narrative
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)By focusing on the case of Galicia, A Home Divided represents an attempt to understand the multiple linguistic and gendered subjectivities that are enclosed within and excluded from larger regional/national Iberian identities. ... -
Tissue Plasminogen Activator & Plasminogen System in Chondroitinase-mediated Axonal Plasticity
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Following Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) the injured neurons are unable to regenerate as they face an inhibitory external environment and the lack of guidance cues for direct regrowth of severed axons. A component of the inhibitory ...
