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The Doctrine of Self-positing and Receptivity in Kant's Late Philosophy
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)In the doctrine of self-positing Kant provides both a logical structure for and a genetic account of the subject knower's insertion into a natural world that is simultaneously of its own making. These correspond to two ... -
Determining the role of natural selection in plant invasion: a study of introduced Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) and a native relative, woodland knotweed (Persicaria virginiana)
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)The ecological and evolutionary study of plant invasion processes is of exceeding importance in today's changing environment. However, few studies have addressed the impact of natural selection on invasive plant species. ... -
Where and When to Cut: Regulation of ERCC1-XPF Activity in Nucleotide Excision Repair
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)The nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway deals with a wide variety of lesions caused by UV-light, environmental mutagens and chemotherapeutic agents such as cisplatin. Deficiencies in NER are associated with the ... -
Exploring a Role for PLD3 during in vitro Myogenesis
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Phospholipase D 3 (PLD3) is an atypical and uncharacterized member of the phospholipase D (PLD) superfamily. First discovered as the mammalian homologue of the vaccinia virus K4L protein, PLD3 is a type II glycoprotein ... -
Benthic-pelagic coupling in eutrophic estuaries from the temperate and sub-tropical zones: The contrasting roles of benthic suspension-feeding and nutrient loading
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Coastal waters have suffered from multiple stressors that have diminished habitat value and living marine resources in estuaries. Excess nutrient loading, leading to eutrophication, has been identified as a primary driver ... -
Reasoning about Uncertainty and Correlated Beliefs
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Reasoning about uncertainty has been an active area of research for over thirty years. With the advent of networked systems, especially the Web, it became important to be able to combine uncertain information that comes ... -
Family Predictors of Quality of Life and Child Problem Behavior in Families of Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Previous research on young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) has primarily focused on the affected child, while often overlooking the family of the child with ASD. Multiple child-related variables have been ... -
Thinking Can Be Dangerous: How Increased Cognitive Deliberation about Political Candidates Impedes Political Decision Making
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Recent empirical evidence suggests that unconscious thinking, or the problem-solving that occurs when a person's conscious attention is directed at some other task, improves the quality of decisions that people make. This ... -
Novel Spectroscopic Probes to Study Protein Folding
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Protein folding is one of the most important unsolved questions of structural biology because of the desire to understand the link between the primary sequence and structure. Proteins can fold on a microsecond to millisecond ... -
Regulatory mechanisms of the non-receptor tyrosine kinase Ack1
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Ack1 is a non-receptor tyrosine kinase that participates in tumorigenesis, cell survival and migration. Relatively little is known about mechanisms that regulate Ack1 activity. First, this dissertation will address the ... -
Neutral Atom Lithography Using the 389 nm Transition in Metastable Helium
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Resist based neutral atom lithography with metastable 2<super>3</super>S<sub>1</sub> helium(He. ) has been used to produce small structures in both goldand palladium. A beam of He. from a reverse flow, DC dischargesource ... -
Local Poincare Duality
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)This work is part of a project which aims to describe algebraic structures on the chains and cochains of closed manifolds that characterize those manifolds up to homeomorphism. Once knows from the rational homotopy theory ... -
How does groundwater impact eelgrass in Long Island? The role of nitrogen and herbicide in reducing eelgrass growth,survival and photosynthetic efficiency.
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Eelgrass communities in the Peconic estuary of Long Island NY have been in decline for several decades prompting resource managers to reduce nitrogen loads into the estuary. Despite improved water quality in recent years, ... -
Genetic analysis of the GABA synthetic enzymes: from synapse development to activity dependent transcription
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)GABA mediates inhibitory synaptic transmission in the mammalian brain. GABA is synthesized through two glutamate decarboxylases, GAD67 and GAD65. My thesis addresses two questions of GABA signaling through the genetic ... -
Simulation studies of hydrodynamic aspects of magneto-inertial fusion and high order adaptive algorithms for Maxwell equations
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Three-dimensional simulations of the formation and implosion of plasma liners for the Plasma Jet Induced Magneto Inertial Fusion (PJMIF) have been performed using multi-scale simulation technique based on the FronTier ... -
A common telomeric gene silencing assay is affected by nucleotide metabolism and the DNA damage response: implications for the role of PCNA in heterochromatin formation.
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)In budding yeast, telomere position effect variegation (TPEV) was discovered when prototrophic markers were placed near chromosome ends and was interpreted to reflect a reversible form of heterochromatin. Selection for or ... -
Sequence Specific Inhibition of Adenoviral Replication by the AAV Rep78 ORF
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Hybrid Adenovirus/Adeno-associated viruses (Ad/AAV) combine the capacity, tropism and ease of production of Ad with AAV's ability for site-specific integration (SSI) into chromosome 19 AAVS1. The AAV Rep78 protein is ... -
Using Horn Clauses and Binary Decision Diagrams for Program Analysis
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Logic programming languages have been widely used to express program analyses. In this dissertation, we present a framework of program analysis using Horn clauses and Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs). In contrast to previous ... -
Essays on the Empirical Analysis of U.S. Home Video Game Market
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)This dissertation focuses on the empirical analysis of U.S. home video game market and contains three essays.The first essay investigates one aspect of competition among the console manufacturers. SONY launched its latest ... -
Interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in high-temperature superconductors La(2−x)Ba(x)CuO(4) and Fe(1+y)Te(1−x)Se(x): crystal growth and neutron scattering studies
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)In this Dissertation, I combined neutron scattering with susceptibility, and transport measurements on two types of high-temperature superconductors La<sub>2-x</sub>Ba<sub>x</sub>CuO<sub>4</sub>, and Fe<sub>1+y</sub>Te<s ...
