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Developing An Ecosystem-Based Approach To Management Of The Gulf Menhaden Fishery Using Ecopath With Ecosim, Tess Misak Geers Dec 2012

Developing An Ecosystem-Based Approach To Management Of The Gulf Menhaden Fishery Using Ecopath With Ecosim, Tess Misak Geers

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is a valuable ecosystem both socially and economically, and fisheries contribute substantially to this value. Gulf menhaden, Brevoortia patronus, support the largest fishery in the Gulf (by weight) and provide forage for marine mammals, seabirds and commercially and recreationally important fish species. Understanding the complex interactions among multiple fisheries and myriad unfished species requires tools different from those used in traditional single-species management. Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) is increasingly being used to construct food web models of aquatic ecosystems and to evaluate fisheries management options within a broader, ecosystem context. An EwE model was developed …

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Novel Polymer Thin Film Process Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide As An Environmentally Green Solvent, Peter Gin Dec 2012

Novel Polymer Thin Film Process Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide As An Environmentally Green Solvent, Peter Gin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The utilization of supercritical fluids (SCFs) has recently become prominent in a number of polymer processes such as inducing the ordering of block copolymer templates, synthesizing nanoporous material, and spatially distributing nanoparticles in a matrix. For such processes, conventional techniques have relied heavily on the use of toxic organic solvents such as chloroform and toluene. In contrast, certain SCFs, such as supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2), have been distinguished as a "green" alternative because they are nontoxic, nonflammable, and inexpensive. Furthermore, the easily attainable critical temperature and pressure (Tc=31.3 ??C and Pc=7.38 MPa, respectively) make it an ideal solvent choice for …

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Interneuron Subgroups Identified In The Mouse Visual Cortex, Jessica Helm Dec 2012

Interneuron Subgroups Identified In The Mouse Visual Cortex, Jessica Helm

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

As information flows through a cortical circuit, layers 2/3 provide an important area for signal processing and integration, and inhibitory interneurons are crucial to this function. Diversification of inhibitory interneurons provides the means for diversification of function. Inhibitory interneurons have been classified based on morphology, electrophysiology, and molecular markers, and each classification provides additional insight into how an interneuron type could shape information flow in the cortical circuit. Parvalbumin (PV) and somatostatin (SOM) are markers for two of the most common, distinct, and well-characterized groups of inhibitory interneurons in the cortex. Studies in the somatosensory cortex have divided SOM interneurons …

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Screening For Steroid-Derived Immunomodulatory Metabolites Biosynthesized By Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (M. Tuberculosis), Xiaoqian Jin Dec 2012

Screening For Steroid-Derived Immunomodulatory Metabolites Biosynthesized By Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (M. Tuberculosis), Xiaoqian Jin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Tuberculosis (Tb) is a serious worldwide threat to human health killing 1.4 million people every year. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), the causative agent for Tb, has infected 30% of the world's population. The emergence of multidrug, extensively drug, and total drug resistant organisms (MDR/XDR/TDR TB) creates an urgent demand to develop new drugs with novel mechanisms to be effective against both sensitive and drug-resistant strains of M. tuberculosis. The cholesterol metabolism pathway in M. tuberculosis is important for mycobacterial survival in the host macrophage. We proposed that cholesterol serves as a starting material for biosynthesis of steroid-derived immunomodulators that down-regulate …

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Hyperkahler 4n-Manifolds With N Commuting Quaternionic Killing Fields, Joseph Malkoun Dec 2012

Hyperkahler 4n-Manifolds With N Commuting Quaternionic Killing Fields, Joseph Malkoun

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

We consider a hyperk? hler 4n-manifold M. Using local holomorphic Darboux coordinates with respect to a compatible complex structure I on M, we find local necessary and sufficient conditions for a real smooth vector field X on M to be quaternionic Killing. We then apply this result to the case of a hyperk? hler manifold M admitting n commuting quaternionic Killing fields, X^1,... | X^n, the first n-1 of which are further assumed to be triholomorphic and quaternionically linearly independent pointwise. We then have two cases: if the self-dual part of DX^n vanishes, we get back the Hitchin-Karlhede-Lindstr??m-Roček result, and …

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Use Of Native Dna Binding Domains Tethered To The Fok1 Endonuclease To Target Nodal Related Genes Via The Activin Response Element, Jessica Lauren Minder Dec 2012

Use Of Native Dna Binding Domains Tethered To The Fok1 Endonuclease To Target Nodal Related Genes Via The Activin Response Element, Jessica Lauren Minder

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Use of zinc finger nucleases is an established method for gene targeting in zebrafish. Such strategies are efficient in targeting a single gene of interest. Our study attempts to target many Nodal related genes by targeting the Activin Response Element (ARE) through the use of native DNA binding domains tethered to the Fok1 endonuclease. In this light, genes are targeted in a Nodal-dependent manner, and can retain transcript levels sustained by other signaling pathways. This technique holds the potential to be a high throughput means of generating mutations in the regulatory regions of various Nodal responsive genes with the use …

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The Paradise Within Thee: The Undying Promise Of Transcendence In Paradise Lost, Thomas Christopher Mistler Dec 2012

The Paradise Within Thee: The Undying Promise Of Transcendence In Paradise Lost, Thomas Christopher Mistler

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

John Milton's Paradise Lost in its simplest sense is a poem about disobedience, loss, and sin. Borrowing much of its inspiration and material from the Book of Genesis, the great English epic tells of the Fall of Man, or the choice of Adam and Eve to disobey God by eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. The consequences of this action are, according to Milton and Christian tradition, tremendous. The very first lines of Paradise Lost emphasize this point, telling how "Man's first disobedience" brought "death into the world and all our [humanity's] woe" (I.1, 3). In my …

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Modeling Guidance And Recognition In Categorical Search: Bridging Human And Computer Object Detection, Yifan Peng Dec 2012

Modeling Guidance And Recognition In Categorical Search: Bridging Human And Computer Object Detection, Yifan Peng

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Although various object detection methods have been widely studied, state-of-the-art performance of object detectors still lag far behind human performance. Humans can perform object detection tasks on various object categories hundreds of times a day in an effortless manner. The main effort in computer vision community is aiming at improving the performance of object detectors, while on the other side only little research has been done on understanding how humans perform in the object detection process. In this thesis, we analyze the relationship between human behaviors and object detection methods in computer vision on both guidance and recognition task. In …

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Pluralism, Democracy, And The `Empty Place Of Power': Using Lefort's Political Theory To Address The Problem Of Tolerance, Michael Roess Dec 2012

Pluralism, Democracy, And The `Empty Place Of Power': Using Lefort's Political Theory To Address The Problem Of Tolerance, Michael Roess

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Though widely adopted since the European wars of religion in the 16th and 17th centuries, liberal solutions to the problem of tolerance continue to face difficulties over issues, such as abortion and religious freedom, where deeply held values and matters of governance intersect. In this dissertation I provide a new argument for political tolerance that is supported by a Lefortian conception of democratic political legitimacy. In the first half of the dissertation I argue that two forms of liberalism, public reason liberalism and liberalism of conscience, fail to adequately address the difficulties posed by religious pluralism. In its Rawlsian form, …

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A Classroom Research Study On Strategies To Promote Vocabulary Retention In The Lote Classroom, Rosalia Scafidi-Iannone Dec 2012

A Classroom Research Study On Strategies To Promote Vocabulary Retention In The Lote Classroom, Rosalia Scafidi-Iannone

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Stony Brook University The Graduate School Doctoral Defense Announcement Abstract A classroom research study on strategies to promote vocabulary retention in the LOTE classroom By (Rosalia Scafidi-Iannone) Vocabulary is an essential component of second language acquisition. Second language learners are faced with the challenging task of remembering many new words. Exactly how learners can best accomplish that task is disputed. The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of certain types of activities on long-term retention of vocabulary. In this dissertation the literature in the field of vocabulary retention is reviewed. Unlike to the vast majority of research …

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Runtime Verification Of Kernel-Level Concurrency Using Compiler-Based Instrumentation, Justin Seyster Dec 2012

Runtime Verification Of Kernel-Level Concurrency Using Compiler-Based Instrumentation, Justin Seyster

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

To approach the challenge of exploiting the performance potential of multi-core architectures, researchers and developers need systems that provide a reliable multi-threaded environment: every component of the underlying systems software must be designed for concurrent execution. But concurrency errors are difficult to diagnose with traditional debugging tools and, as not all schedules trigger them, can slip past even thorough testing. Runtime verification is a powerful technique for finding concurrency errors. Existing runtime verification tools can check potent concurrency properties, like atomicity, but have not been applied at the operating system level. This work explores runtime verification in the systems space, …

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Whoever Doesn't Hop Must Be Superior: The Russian Left-Periphery And The Emergence Of Superiority, Tatiana Scott Dec 2012

Whoever Doesn't Hop Must Be Superior: The Russian Left-Periphery And The Emergence Of Superiority, Tatiana Scott

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation maps the left-periphery of the Russian language, presenting a new geometry of Russian main and subordinate clauses in order to account for a number of phenomena: single and multiple wh-constructions, sluicing constructions, and coordinate multiple wh-constructions (CMW), as well as to predict various occurring word-orders. Interestingly, the theory for these constructions comes from a proposed unique wh-unrelated category, the Higher Operator Phrase (HOP), located higher than CP, which allows the aforementioned phenomena to fall out of the proposed structure. The thesis claims that Russian exhibits `true' wh-movement and is similar to Bulgarian in Rudin's 1988 typology, with a …

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Design And Simulation Of Single-Electron Molecular Devices, Nikita Simonian Dec 2012

Design And Simulation Of Single-Electron Molecular Devices, Nikita Simonian

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This work presents a study of molecular single-electron devices that may be used as the basic building blocks in high-density resistive memories and hybrid CMOS/nanoelectronic integrated circuits. It was focused on the design and simulation of a molecular two-terminal nonvolatile resistive switch based on a system of two linear, parallel, electrostatically-coupled molecules: one implementing a single electron transistor and another serving as a single-electron trap. To verify the design, a theoretical analysis of this "memristive" device has been carried out, based on a combination of ab-initio calculations of the electronic structures of the molecules, Bardeen's approximation for the rate of …

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Engineering Enhanced Piezoelectric Response In Ferroelectric Superlattices, John Sinsheimer Dec 2012

Engineering Enhanced Piezoelectric Response In Ferroelectric Superlattices, John Sinsheimer

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The piezoelectric effect is a useful property of certain crystals where the application of pressure on a crystal produces a voltage, and conversely in the inverse piezoelectric effect, the size of the crystal changes with the application of voltage. Piezoelectricity is widely used in devices such as ultrasound machines and various sensors and actuators. This thesis presents the development of two artificially layered material systems with enhanced piezoresponse and techniques developed to accurately characterize functional properties. Large piezoelectric responses, such as those seen in PbZrxTi1-xO3 in the vicinity of the compositional morphotropic phase boundary, can …

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Building Distributed Data Models In A Performance-Optimized, Goal-Oriented Optimization Framework For Cyber-Physical Systems, Varun Subramanian Dec 2012

Building Distributed Data Models In A Performance-Optimized, Goal-Oriented Optimization Framework For Cyber-Physical Systems, Varun Subramanian

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are large, distributed embedded systems that integrate sensing processing, networking and actuation. Developing CPS applications is currently challenging due to the sheer complexity of the related functionality as well as the broad set of constraints and unknowns that must be tackled during operation. Building accurate data representations that model the behavior of the physical environment by establishing important data correlations and capturing physical laws of the monitored entities is critical for dependable decision making under performance and resource constraints. The goal of this thesis is to produce reliable data models starting from raw sensor data under tight …

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A Study Of The Extratropical Tropopause: Related To The Upper Tropospheric Relative Vorticity And The Distance From The Jet, Shu Meir Wang Dec 2012

A Study Of The Extratropical Tropopause: Related To The Upper Tropospheric Relative Vorticity And The Distance From The Jet, Shu Meir Wang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The extratropical tropopause is a familiar feature in meteorology; however, the understanding of the mechanisms for its existence, formation, maintenance and sharpness is still an active area of research. In order to examine the sharpness of the tropopause, Birner et al. (2002) proposed the concept of the TIL (Tropopause Inversion Layer), which is based upon the characteristics of the thermal profile. Bell and Geller (2008), believing that the resulting stability profile was more fundamental to dynamics and transport, defined the ESTL (Extratropical Stability Transition Layer) based on the stability characteristics. Wirth (2004) suggested that the cyclonic/anticyclonic asymmetry plays a large …

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An Ambient And Surfactant-Less Synthesis Of Segmented Palladium/Gold Multi-Functional Nanowires, Zhibo Tan Dec 2012

An Ambient And Surfactant-Less Synthesis Of Segmented Palladium/Gold Multi-Functional Nanowires, Zhibo Tan

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Segmented noble metal nanowires (NWs) represent an exciting, multifunctional one-dimensional structural architecture with a variety of potential applications. However, currently available methodologies for preparing these systems require either rigorous reaction conditions or expensive equipment. An example of such a conventional protocol is electrodeposition. These strict requirements have limited the potential for these systems to be produced on a large scale, since this protocol is costly and requires complex processes and caustic reaction media. Given the inherent limitations of such methodologies, we report for the first time an ambient, surfactantless template-based approach for the reliable production of Pd/Au segmented nanowires that …

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An Efficient Framework For High-Quality Low-Dose Ct Reconstruction And Reference-Based Image Restoration, Wei Xu Dec 2012

An Efficient Framework For High-Quality Low-Dose Ct Reconstruction And Reference-Based Image Restoration, Wei Xu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

CT imaging procedures have been shown to considerably increase the medical radiation dose to patients, giving rise to cancer. As a result, low dose imaging modalities have gained much attention recently. However, this renders traditional CT reconstruction processes no longer sufficient. Iterative reconstruction algorithms using numerical optimization paradigms are better suited, but they suffer from (1) expensive computation, (2) problems with the selection of optimal parameters to simultaneously optimize speed and (3) poor reconstruction quality. To cope with these problems, we have made several contributions to low-dose CT. First, we have devised a GPU-accelerated ordered subset iterative CT reconstruction algorithm …

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Search For The Standard Model Higgs Boson At D0 In The Μ + Τ (Hadrons) + 2 Jets Final State, Wanyu Ye Dec 2012

Search For The Standard Model Higgs Boson At D0 In The Μ + Τ (Hadrons) + 2 Jets Final State, Wanyu Ye

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The Standard Model has been a successful theory in various aspects. It predicted and led to discovery of many new particles, including the Higgs boson recently found, the last missing piece of the Standard Model. The Higgs mechanism allows the vector bosons and fermions to be massive via the electroweak symmetry breaking. This thesis presents the search of the Standard Model Higgs through the decay products: one muon, one hadronically decaying tau, and two or more jets using the full 9.7 fb^(-1) of Tevatron collider RunII data set collected in the D0 detector at Fermilab. The main production channels are …

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Efficient Reconstruction And Visualization Of Ct Data, Ziyi Zheng Dec 2012

Efficient Reconstruction And Visualization Of Ct Data, Ziyi Zheng

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Cone-beam CT (Computed Tomography) has become a major imaging technique thanks to its image-fidelity and scanning time. Scientists and practitioners frequently utilize volume visualization tools for diagnosis and decision-making. The thesis work presented here seeks to improve on the volume visualization pipeline for CT generated data. We summarize our contributions into three categories. Cone-beam CT scanners typically use analytical algorithms to reconstruct volumetric data. We studied the interpolation error of visualization tools and built a verifiable visualization tool and efficient data structure to enable users to enjoy interactive rendering speed to freely examine the high resolution data at minimal error. …

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Quantitative Computational And Biophysical Investigation Of Multivalent Proteins, Vadim Patsalo Dec 2012

Quantitative Computational And Biophysical Investigation Of Multivalent Proteins, Vadim Patsalo

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The valency of a biological molecule is the number of interactions that it is able to make with other molecules. Multivalency arises in proteins which oligomerize or contain tandem repeats, and commonly involves the binding of carbohydrates. Biological processes which rely on multivalency include surface interactions (e.g. virus-cell adhesion and cell-cell binding) or de-mixing phenomena. The energetics of multivalent interactions can be significantly enhanced relative to their monovalent counterparts, and numerous multivalent inhibitors of viral infection have been identified. In this dissertation, we present computational and biophysical investigations of several multivalent proteins related to human viral pathogens. The bivalent lectin …

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Bag Of Feature Graphs: A New Method For Non-Rigid 3d Shape Retrieval, Xiaohua Hou Dec 2012

Bag Of Feature Graphs: A New Method For Non-Rigid 3d Shape Retrieval, Xiaohua Hou

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This thesis presents a new paradigm for non-rigid 3D shape retrieval, which is also called Bag of Feature Graphs (BoFG). The main idea is to connect only the features on the shape to construct the graphs so that the number of points involved in the computation is greatly reduced. Given a vocabulary of geometric words, the BoFG approach generates a graph that preserves the spatial information among features for each word. The spatial information is weighted by its similarities to each word so that points unlike the word category are eliminated. And the graphs are captured by the affinity matrices …

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How Does Climate Influence Speciation: Theoretical And Empirical Perspectives, Xia Hua Dec 2012

How Does Climate Influence Speciation: Theoretical And Empirical Perspectives, Xia Hua

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Many people are now familiar with the idea that climate change can cause extinction. Here, I show how climate change may also lead to the origin of new species. I explore two major aspects of how climate influences speciation. First, variation in climatic conditions over space and time can be a direct driver of speciation, via two mechanisms. Climate may drive allopatric speciation when a geographic barrier that consists of suboptimal climatic conditions for a species divides the species range and climatic niche conservatism of the species limits its adaptation to the climatic conditions, preventing gene flow between the two …

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Using Type Inference And Abstract Interpretation For Static Binary Analysis, Alireza Saberi Dec 2012

Using Type Inference And Abstract Interpretation For Static Binary Analysis, Alireza Saberi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In recent years, many research efforts have been dedicated to detect vulnerabilities in software. Most of these techniques are based on source code analysis. However, source code-based analysis methods are ineffective when the program source code is not available. In such a case, binary analysis is the only option. Yet, all binary analysis methods have to address serious challenges such as indirect memory access, missing functions and data abstraction. Historically, these problems have been addressed using rather ad hoc techniques. However, recent research has begun to reverse this trend. In this thesis, we cover Value-Set Analysis (VSA) and Abstract Stack …

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Evolution Of The Cardiac Electrophysiological System And Regulation Of Ion Channel Gene Expression, Qinghong Yan Dec 2012

Evolution Of The Cardiac Electrophysiological System And Regulation Of Ion Channel Gene Expression, Qinghong Yan

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

There are two basic ways by which biological systems can evolve, either by changes in the sequence of protein coding regions (structural evolution) or by changes in gene regulatory function (regulatory evolution). The relative importance of regulatory versus structural evolution for the evolution of different biological systems is a subject of controversy. The primacy of regulatory evolution in the diversification of morphological traits has been promoted by many evolutionary developmental biologists. For physiological traits, however, the role of regulatory evolution has received less attention or has been considered to be relatively unimportant. To address this issue for electrophysiological systems, I …

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Creating Light Music At The Festival Of Song: Politics, Personhood, And Cultural Production In Tirana, Albania (1944-Present), Nicholas Tochka Dec 2012

Creating Light Music At The Festival Of Song: Politics, Personhood, And Cultural Production In Tirana, Albania (1944-Present), Nicholas Tochka

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Though different orders organize subjects in audibly distinguishable ways, only rarely have ethnomusicologists theorized how musical practice articulates to practices of government. Through a diachronic case study of Tirana, Albania, this dissertation interrogates how the production of popular music has supported the production of popular consent to illiberal regimes both socialist (1944-1992) and capitalist (1992-present). While previous ethnomusicological and musicological studies of eastern bloc musical practice have focused (respectively) on professionalized folk music and concert music, my research examines the composition, performance, and reception of the popular genre "light music" (Alb. muzik?_ e leht?_) at an annual song competition the …

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Postmetaphysical Reason And Postsecular Consciousness: Habermas' Analysis Of Religion In The Public Sphere, Javier Aguirre Dec 2012

Postmetaphysical Reason And Postsecular Consciousness: Habermas' Analysis Of Religion In The Public Sphere, Javier Aguirre

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

My dissertation is an exegetical, reconstructive and critical project on J??rgen Habermas' recent account of the role of religion in the public sphere. It is an exegetical dissertation insofar as it interprets Habermas' account as presented in his article Religion in the Public Sphere. It is reconstructive since it develops an analysis of Habermas' previous works as well as his new thoughts related to the key concepts involved in his argument. Finally, it is critical because it offers as well, based on the previous exegesis and reconstruction, a critical perspective of some of the weakness and deficiencies of Habermas?? account. …

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Non Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis Of Aneuploidy: Next Generation Sequencing Or Fetal Dna Enrichment?, N. D. Avent, A. Webb, T. E. Madgett, T. Miran, K. Sillence, N. Kaushik, M. Kiernan Dec 2012

Non Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis Of Aneuploidy: Next Generation Sequencing Or Fetal Dna Enrichment?, N. D. Avent, A. Webb, T. E. Madgett, T. Miran, K. Sillence, N. Kaushik, M. Kiernan

School of Biomedical Sciences

ABSTRACT Current invasive procedures [amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (CVS)] pose a risk to mother and fetus and such diagnostic procedures are available only to high risk pregnancies limiting aneuploidy detection rate. This review seeks to highlight the necessity of investing in non invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) and how NIPD would improve patient safety and detection rate as well as allowing detection earlier in pregnancy. Non invasive prenatal diagnosis can take either a proteomics approach or nucleic acid-based approach; this review focuses on the latter. Since the discovery of cell free fetal DNA (cffDNA) and fetal RNA in maternal plasma, …

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Iron Deprivation In Synechocystis : Inference Of Pathways, Non-Coding Rnas, And Regulatory Elements From Comprehensive Expression Profiling, Ma Hernández-Prieto, V Schön, J Georg, L Barreira, Et Al Dec 2012

Iron Deprivation In Synechocystis : Inference Of Pathways, Non-Coding Rnas, And Regulatory Elements From Comprehensive Expression Profiling, Ma Hernández-Prieto, V Schön, J Georg, L Barreira, Et Al

School of Biomedical Sciences

Iron is an essential cofactor in many metabolic reactions. Mechanisms controlling iron homeostasis need to respond rapidly to changes in extracellular conditions, but they must also keep the concentration of intracellular iron under strict control to avoid the generation of damaging reactive oxygen species. Due to its role as a redox carrier in photosynthesis, the iron quota in cyanobacteria is about 10 times higher than in model enterobacteria. The molecular details of how such a high quota is regulated are obscure. Here we present experiments that shed light on the iron regulatory system in cyanobacteria. We measured time-resolved changes in …

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The Confessions Of Augustine's Flesh: Counter-Conducts Overwhelming To Pastoral Power In Christian Conversion, Darla Senami Migan Dec 2012

The Confessions Of Augustine's Flesh: Counter-Conducts Overwhelming To Pastoral Power In Christian Conversion, Darla Senami Migan

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In his 1978 lectures at the College de France, Security Territory Population, Michel Foucault shifts his analysis of power by arguing for pastoral power as both the prelude to governmentality and as the decisive moment in the constitution of the Western subject. If the history of the Christian pastorate involves " the entire history of procedures of human individualization in the West (184)," then, Foucault argues, there has never been a revolt against pastoral power because such a revolt would be a revolt against the constitution of the self, that is to say against self-consciousness. If the revolt against pastoral …

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