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Legislative Consequences of Changing Judicial Doctrine: How U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Affect Congressional Policymaking
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)The constitutional structure of the federal government means the three branches often must interact during the policymaking process. Despite this need for interaction among the branches, few scholars have given attention ... -
Storm Tracks in the Southern Hemisphere: Strength and Trends
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)In this work, some fundamental characteristics of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) storm tracks are investigated by using the reanalyses, observational data as well as IPCC 20th Century simulations. Large discrepancies exist ... -
Grassroots Human Rights Activism in Contemporary Colombia
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Activists who become involved in radical politics often put themselves in dangerous situations to achieve objectives that seem highly improbable. More often than not, their efforts are thwarted, yet many activists keep ... -
Charge Fluctuations in Lattice QCD with Domain-Wall Fermions
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)In this work, we undertook an exploratory study of QCD thermodynamics with domain-wall fermions. This had been studied before but with much smaller lattices and a heavier pion. In this new study, we report on results ... -
Frequency, Gradience, and Variation in Consonant Insertion
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)This dissertation addresses the extent to which linguistic behavior can be described in terms of the projection of patterns from existing lexical items, through an investigation of Korean reduplication. Korean has a ... -
La Po tica Material del Exilio en el Cine Latinoamericano y Espa¤ol
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)This dissertation is the result of a study of selected Latin American and Spanish films that deal with the topic of exile. Following a thematic and stylistic criterion closely related to Hamid Naficy's notion of"accented ... -
The Effect of chr16p11.2 Microdeletions and Microduplications on Gene Expression in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Schizophrenia.
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)The number of rare variants found to be associated with multiple psychiatric disorders is growing. One such locus is a recurrent ~600kb copy number variant (CNV) at 16p11.2, occurring in approximately 1% of autism and 0.3% ... -
Assessing and accommodating addressees' needs: The role of speakers' prior expectations and addressees' feedback
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)In dialogue, a conversational partner's behavior is not solely the product of one individual mind, but instead reflects a process of mutual coordination between both conversational partners. This project investigates how ... -
Algorithms for Optimizing Multiple Routes Through Constrained Geometric Domain
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)We study optimization problems associated with routing multiple moving objects through a two- or three-dimensional geometric domain. We focus primarily on trajectories for moving disks, which can be used to model motion ... -
Modeling the tagged neutron technique for the identification of Unexploded Ordnance
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Abstract of the ThesisModeling the tagged neutron technique for the identification of Unexploded OrdnancebyYuanyuan WangMaster of ScienceinMechanical EngineeringStony Brook University2010This research is a collaboration ... -
Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling 3 Blocks Breast Tumor Kinase Activation of STAT3 Transcription Factor
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)The Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription (STATs) are a family of transcription factors that play important roles in cytokine signaling. Following cytokine stimulation they are tyrosine phosphorylated by ... -
Orbifold Degeneration of Conformally Compact Einstein Metrics
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)In his investigation of the Dirichlet problem for conformally compact Einstein metrics, Anderson showed that there are (at most) three possibilities for the behavior, under subsequences, of a sequence of conformally compact ... -
A Nuanced Perspective of Sexual Orientation and its Relationship with Well-being: Differentiating Sexual and Non-sexual Attractions in Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Women and Men
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Research has demonstrated that violating the norm of heterosexuality by endorsing a sexual minority identity is associated with poorer psychological well-being. Such studies have failed to take into account the multifaceted ... -
Exploring the Structure and Dynamics of HIV-1 PR by MD Simulations
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Proteins are known to be dynamic molecules that undergo conformational fluctuations. A fundamental issue that remains to be clarified is whether there is a linkage between the dynamic nature of proteins and their catalytic ... -
Know Thyself: Plato's Alcibiades I and the Foundation of Philosophical Knowing
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)Plato's Alcibiades I, the principle topic of which is self-knowledge, was held in great respect by Neoplatonist commentators and philosophers generally for over 2000 years before its authenticity came into question in the ... -
What We Can Intend: Recognition and Collective Intentionality
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-10)The concept of recognition plays an integral role in political philosophy, often serving as a standard by which to secure a community's unity or to remedy injustice. It also plays a role in ethics, where it is understood ... -
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 ...
