Brain cells such as microglial, neurons, and astrocytes, undergo varieties of morphological and functional changes during their life cycle, or responding to micro environmental perturbation. To better understand the functions ...

The dissertation consists of two studies on decision making of the elderly in India and the United States. The first study uses data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS), a nationally representative survey in ...

Non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasmas are increasingly attracting more attention from the scientific community for their potential use in surface treatment and biomedical applications. Even though considerable progress ...

The backdrop of Paolo Zardi’s XXI Secolo is immediately familiar to readers of dystopian fiction: widespread poverty, major environmental degradation, the masses fighting to survive in a world on the brink of collapse. ...

The Clinton Sandstone is a tight, laterally discontinuous sandstone that was deposited in the Early Silurian in both deltaic and shallow marine environments. This interval is well known in the western Appalachian Basin as ...

This thesis focuses on the topic of defining how a metadata-driven security model can provide an organization with the ability to dynamically manage information security for enterprise content management systems, through ...

With Vp, Vs, and density well logs, we can do isotropic AVO forward modeling, using isotropic Zoeppritz equations or its approximations, and a wavelet extracted from the seismic data, to get synthetic seismic data. Compared ...

In the presented work we display experimental evidence of the effective photocatalytic activity of (CoTiO3) – Titania (TiO2) for dye degradation and H+ evolution. We present analysis of the photo catalytic activity of the ...

This essay traces the emergence of music for organ and orchestra in France. Félix-Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor were the first two Frenchmen to compose and perform such works. Guilmant premiered his Symphonie ...

Diblock copolymers are amphiphilic molecules, which spontaneously form micelles in a selective solvent. Through careful selection of polymer composition, solvent, temperature, and pH, the physical characteristics of the ...