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Peaks Island Star : December 2013, Vol. 33, Issue 12, Service Agencies Of The Island Dec 2013

Peaks Island Star : December 2013, Vol. 33, Issue 12, Service Agencies Of The Island

Peaks Island Star, 2013

The Peaks Island Star is the newsletter of the island's service agencies and other community news.

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A Culture-Independent Study Of Dominant Sulfur-Utilizing Chemoautotrophs Within The Cariaco Basin's Redoxcline, Agnieszka Podlaska Dec 2013

A Culture-Independent Study Of Dominant Sulfur-Utilizing Chemoautotrophs Within The Cariaco Basin's Redoxcline, Agnieszka Podlaska

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

As in many other stratified bodies of water, microbial chemoautotrophic productivity in the anoxic Cariaco Basin is a major source of fixed carbon across the oxic-anoxic boundary yet the identity of the chemoautotrophic microbes and what fuels their metabolism are poorly understood. In this work, multiple techniques were used to investigate the distribution, abundance, and activity of major proteobacterial and archaeal clades during nine cruises from 2006 to 2010 in order to identify the dominant chemoautotrophs. Among seven clades examined in this study by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), epsilonproteobacteria and betaproteobacteria were the prevalent clades and on average accounted …

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An Automated, Track-Based Climatology Of Rossby Wave Packets, Matthew Souders Dec 2013

An Automated, Track-Based Climatology Of Rossby Wave Packets, Matthew Souders

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

This research produces an objective, track-based climatology of Rossby wave packets (RWPs) and tests the sensitivity of the results to changes in the methods used in filtering the raw data and in tracking. NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis wind and geopotential height data at 300 hPa every 6 hours were spectrally filtered using a Hilbert transform technique under the assumption that RWPs propagate along a waveguide defined by the 14-day running average of the 300 hPa wind. After some spatial smoothing, the local maxima in RWP envelope amplitude (WPA) were tracked using two objective techniques: a point-based cost optimization routine and a hybrid …

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Habitat Preference And Spatial Interactions Of The Northwest Atlantic Skate Complex, Joshua Zacharias Dec 2013

Habitat Preference And Spatial Interactions Of The Northwest Atlantic Skate Complex, Joshua Zacharias

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

Increasingly targeted by commercial fisheries, the seven resident species of Northwest (NW) Atlantic skates possess life history traits that make them vulnerable to overexploitation, including slow growth, late maturation and relatively low fecundity. The various species occupy overlapping habitats and often migrate long distances. While their ecological role as benthic marine generalists and basic geographic ranges are understood, little is known about how they occupy available habitat relative to environmental and biotic factors. I statistically analyzed skate habitat preference using data collected by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) bottom trawl survey for 1963-2010. Using the nonparametric cumulative distribution approach …

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Prey Plasticity Responses To A Native And Nonnative Predator, Alexandra Hooks Dec 2013

Prey Plasticity Responses To A Native And Nonnative Predator, Alexandra Hooks

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

Phenotypic plasticity in response to environmental stimuli is exceedingly common across systems and taxa. For instance, predation risk in many gastropods can induce a variety of defenses including growing thicker shells, growing shells of different shapes, and developing apertural teeth. However, the role of coevolution between species that produce these defense responses and their consumers is not well known. This thesis examines the responses of an ovoviviparous gastropod (Littorina saxatilis) with low dispersal from three different habitats (marsh habitat, rocky habitat, and cobble stone habitat) to the presence of chemical cues from a native (Dyspanopeus sayi) and nonnative (Hemigrapsus sanguineus) …

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Using Quantitative Genetics Methods To Estimate Heritability Of Larval Co2-Resistance In A Coastal Marine Fish, Alex James Malvezzi Dec 2013

Using Quantitative Genetics Methods To Estimate Heritability Of Larval Co2-Resistance In A Coastal Marine Fish, Alex James Malvezzi

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

Marine organisms are under pressure to adapt to anthropogenic changes that are rapidly altering ocean water chemistry. Since the Industrial Revolution, human activities have caused an increase in atmospheric CO2 which is partly absorbed by the world's oceans, thereby reducing ocean pH, aragonite and calcite saturation states in a process known as ocean acidification (OA). Concern over these changes has caused a surge in scientific interest to better understand and predict how OA affects marine organisms from single celled algae to marine calcifying invertebrates and vertebrates such as fish. Since most studies thus far have focused on short-term responses of …

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Population Dynamics Of The Ctenophore Mnemiopsis Leidyi And Implications For Bottom-Up And Top-Down Controls Of The Plankton Community, Marianne E. Mcnamara Dec 2013

Population Dynamics Of The Ctenophore Mnemiopsis Leidyi And Implications For Bottom-Up And Top-Down Controls Of The Plankton Community, Marianne E. Mcnamara

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

This dissertation investigated the ecology of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in Great South Bay, New York via field and laboratory studies. The research focused on the role of M. leidyi in controlling plankton community structure and the influence of the plankton community in regulating seasonal population blooms of M. leidyi. First, this study documented top-down control of microplankton by larval M. leidyi in Great South Bay. A relationship between high adult M. leidyi/low mesozooplankton with high microplankton abundance was also identified, and preceded an increase in larval ctenophores, suggesting that intense feeding on mesozooplankton by adult M. leidyi enhances prey …

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The Population Ecology Of The Spiny Dogfish In The Northeast (Us) Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem: Implications For The Status Of The Stock, Skyler Rose Sagarese Dec 2013

The Population Ecology Of The Spiny Dogfish In The Northeast (Us) Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem: Implications For The Status Of The Stock, Skyler Rose Sagarese

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

In this dissertation, statistical and modeling approaches were undertaken to increase the knowledge of spiny dogfish distribution, habitat, and population dynamics including: (1), environmental preference (2), habitat modeling (3), assessing diel variation in survey catchability of spiny dogfish and key prey species and (4), elucidating how spiny dogfish distributional shifts influenced their availability to commercial fisheries. For objective (1), I estimated habitat preference for neonate (total length, TL <= 26 cm), immature (male: 26 cm < TL < 60 cm; female: 26 cm < TL < 80 cm), and mature (male: TL >= 60 cm; female: TL >= 80 cm) spiny dogfish using Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) annual bottom trawl survey data from 1963 through 2009. Preferences were compared between dogfish stages to …

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The Role Of The Ctenophore Mnemiopsis Leidyi In Nutrient Cycling In Long Island Sound, Ny, Laura Mae Treible Dec 2013

The Role Of The Ctenophore Mnemiopsis Leidyi In Nutrient Cycling In Long Island Sound, Ny, Laura Mae Treible

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

Gelatinous zooplankton blooms have been increasing in magnitude and frequency globally. Seasonal variations in food availability and temperature can trigger a population bloom and subsequent crash in coastal and estuarine waters. Long Island Sound (LIS) is a highly-productive urban estuary. Due to its proximity to New York City and annual summer hypoxia, there has been substantial focus on anthropogenic nutrient inputs and reductions to LIS. When determining nutrient budgets, an important process is the recycling of nutrients within a system. Gelatinous zooplankton, including the most common species in LIS, the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, are capable of high rates of nutrient …

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The Chinese Equity Risk Factor Model Based On Heavy Tailed Distributions, And Its Application In Risk Management And Portfolio Optimization, Tianyu Lu Dec 2013

The Chinese Equity Risk Factor Model Based On Heavy Tailed Distributions, And Its Application In Risk Management And Portfolio Optimization, Tianyu Lu

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

In financial risk and portfolio management, the heavy tailed distributions of one-dimensional asset returns and complex dependence structure among multi-dimensional asset returns are two widely discussed problems. Various distributions, which share the desired properties, such as heavy tails, skewness and kurtosis, have been introduced and applied into practice. On the other hand, factor modeling as a technique of dimension reduction, has been used in multivariate statistical analysis and econometric model building, especially in high-dimensional world of financial risk management In this dissertation, we study these two popular problems in risk and portfolio management. The findings are empirically examined through their …

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Doctor Of Philosophy, Ha Youn Shin Dec 2013

Doctor Of Philosophy, Ha Youn Shin

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

Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 5 (STAT5) is a transcription factor that is critical for various biological processes including hematopoiesis, liver metabolism and mammary gland development. However, persistent activation of STAT5 has been causally linked to human leukemia and solid tumor formation. Since STAT5 is important for normal physiological functions and aberrant activity can promote cancer, accurate regulation of STAT5 is essential. As a transcription factor, STAT5 must gain entry into the nucleus to act, and one means of controlling its activity is to regulate its cellular localization. This study explores the nuclear trafficking mechanisms of STAT5a that may …

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Things That Happen: Husserl's Theory Of Judgment And The Problem Of Events, Andres Colapinto Dec 2013

Things That Happen: Husserl's Theory Of Judgment And The Problem Of Events, Andres Colapinto

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

This dissertation develops a phenomenology of events through an application, and critical re-evaluation, of key concepts in the philosophy of Edmund Husserl. I argue that non-phenomenological approaches to events fail to account for the availability of `things that happen' as intentional objects. How are they intelligible as objects of thought and experience? Why is their manner of being `things' one in which they happen (rather than exist, for example)? I argue, moreover, that we can best address these questions through a phenomenological analysis of propositions that express what happens--propositions like `My tooth fell out'--rather than nominal expressions like `earthquake' and …

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Aspects Of Supersymmetric Field Theories And Complex Geometry, Patricio Marcos Crichigno Dec 2013

Aspects Of Supersymmetric Field Theories And Complex Geometry, Patricio Marcos Crichigno

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

In this dissertation we study various aspects of Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theory and Complex Geometry. We focus on three main aspects. The first is general N=(2,2) gauged linear sigma models involving semichiral fields. We show that integrating out the semichiral vector multiplet leads to the generalized potential for a hyperkahler manifold, providing a formulation of the hyperkahler quotient in a generalized setting. We then discuss a new quotient construction which leads to non-Kahler manifolds. The second problem we study is motivated by recent developments in the study of the Coulomb branch of supersymmetric theories with a hyperkahler moduli space. A …

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Quantum Computation And Quantum Measurements With Mesoscopic Superconducting Structures, Qiang Deng Dec 2013

Quantum Computation And Quantum Measurements With Mesoscopic Superconducting Structures, Qiang Deng

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

Systems of mesoscopic Josephson junctions are at present among the leading candidates for development of practical qubits for quantum information devices. Although different qubit structures have been realized with Josephson junctions, their common feature is the design that is optimized to overcome the problem of decoherence by the low-frequency noise that exists in all solid-state structures. In the presented dissertation research, we propose and study an alternative approach of direct suppression of noise by a feedback loop based on the low-frequency quantum measurements. The minimal noise induced in the qubit by such a feedback loop is calculated under the conditions …

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Low Momentum Direct Photons As A Probe Of Heavy Ion Collisions, Richard Michael Petti Dec 2013

Low Momentum Direct Photons As A Probe Of Heavy Ion Collisions, Richard Michael Petti

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

Relativistic heavy ion collisions have been a major research interest in the field of nuclear physics for the past few decades. Large collider facilities have been constructed to study the exotic matter produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions, one of which is the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY. Essential to the study of heavy ion collisions are probes that are produced in the collision itself. Photons are a very useful probe of the collisions, since they escape the fireball virtually unmodified and carry with them information about the environment in which it was …

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Entanglement In Low Dimensional Systems, Raul Santos Dec 2013

Entanglement In Low Dimensional Systems, Raul Santos

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

In the ground state of gapped systems, the entanglement entropy of a subsystem A scales with the length of the boundary of A. This observation suggests that the entanglement properties of the sub- system can be described in terms of degrees of freedom living in the boundary of A. We will discuss the the connection between en- tanglement properties and effective boundary descriptions in spin systems in one and two dimensions. In one dimension we present analytic results for the spin S = 1, Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki (AKLT) ground state entanglement, characterized by negativity and entanglement spectrum. We also discuss a generalization …

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A Look At Heavy Ion Collisions Through The So(3)-Invariant Flow, Maria Del Pilar Staig Fernandez Dec 2013

A Look At Heavy Ion Collisions Through The So(3)-Invariant Flow, Maria Del Pilar Staig Fernandez

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

One of the measurements obtained from heavy ion collisions is the correlation between two final particles as a function of the difference of azimuthal angle and pseudorapidity. These correlations show structure in the azimuthal direction that is elongated in pseudorapidity, and that has its origin in the initial state after the collision, and in its evolution. We implemented a Glauber Monte Carlo code to study initial state fluctuations that appear on an event by event basis because of the random positions of the nucleons in the nuclei. We calculated the initial average deformations and their fluctuations as a function of …

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A Hydrodynamic Analysis Of Collective Flow In Heavy-Ion Collisions, Li Yan Dec 2013

A Hydrodynamic Analysis Of Collective Flow In Heavy-Ion Collisions, Li Yan

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

Recent progress in the hydrodynamic simulation of heavy-ion collisions have characterized the fluctuating initial state and the viscous corrections to the corresponding collective flow. These fluctuations naturally explain the " ridge" and " shoulder" structure of the measured two-particle correlation functions at RHIC and the LHC. We introduce a cumulant expansion for analyzing the azimuthal fluctuations in the initial state. The cumulant definitions systematically describe the azimuthal anisotropy order by order. In particular, the dipole asymmetry $\epsilon_1$ appears at third order in the expansion, and the response to this initial fluctuation produces a radipity even dipole flow $v_1$, which has …

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The Dynamical Basis Of The Decanalization Of Gene Expression In Kr Uppel Mutant Embryos, Lena Panok Dec 2013

The Dynamical Basis Of The Decanalization Of Gene Expression In Kr Uppel Mutant Embryos, Lena Panok

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

Canalization is the ability of an organism's phenotype to remain stable under a perturbation in their genotype or the environment. It has been noted that there is no canalization or canalization is to a much smaller degree in mutants than in wild type. Waddington's idea was to understand canalization through studying gene interactions. We investigate the mechanisms of canalization of gap gene patterns in D.melanogaster through dynamical analysis of the gene circuit. To carry out this investigation we construct a dynamical model of the evolution of the concentration of protein products of the gap genes in time. Our model, which …

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Vitamin B12 Distribution Patterns In Marine Sediments Revealed By A New Elisa Method, Meichen Liu Dec 2013

Vitamin B12 Distribution Patterns In Marine Sediments Revealed By A New Elisa Method, Meichen Liu

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

Vitamin B12 is an organic micronutrient in the ocean, and it is required for the growth of majority of phytoplankton. Because of the ultra-low concentrations of vitamin B12 in the ocean and the lack of suitable analytical methods, the distribution, transport and biogeochemical cycling of vitamin B12 in marine ecosystem have not been essentially documented. In this thesis, vitamin B12 distribution and reaction patterns in water column and marine sediments were preliminary studied by using newly developed immunoassay methods. Two new sensitive and specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) methods have been developed and compared in Chapter …

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Using Quantitative Genetics Methods To Estimate Heritability Of Larval Co2-Resistance In A Coastal Marine Fish, Alex James Malvezzi Dec 2013

Using Quantitative Genetics Methods To Estimate Heritability Of Larval Co2-Resistance In A Coastal Marine Fish, Alex James Malvezzi

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

Marine organisms are under pressure to adapt to anthropogenic changes that are rapidly altering ocean water chemistry. Since the Industrial Revolution, human activities have caused an increase in atmospheric CO2 which is partly absorbed by the world's oceans, thereby reducing ocean pH, aragonite and calcite saturation states in a process known as ocean acidification (OA). Concern over these changes has caused a surge in scientific interest to better understand and predict how OA affects marine organisms from single celled algae to marine calcifying invertebrates and vertebrates such as fish. Since most studies thus far have focused on short-term responses of …

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A Culture-Independent Study Of Dominant Sulfur-Utilizing Chemoautotrophs Within The Cariaco Basin's Redoxcline, Agnieszka Podlaska Dec 2013

A Culture-Independent Study Of Dominant Sulfur-Utilizing Chemoautotrophs Within The Cariaco Basin's Redoxcline, Agnieszka Podlaska

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

As in many other stratified bodies of water, microbial chemoautotrophic productivity in the anoxic Cariaco Basin is a major source of fixed carbon across the oxic-anoxic boundary yet the identity of the chemoautotrophic microbes and what fuels their metabolism are poorly understood. In this work, multiple techniques were used to investigate the distribution, abundance, and activity of major proteobacterial and archaeal clades during nine cruises from 2006 to 2010 in order to identify the dominant chemoautotrophs. Among seven clades examined in this study by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), epsilonproteobacteria and betaproteobacteria were the prevalent clades and on average accounted …

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Mixture Modeling Of Next Generation Sequencing Data And Its Applications To Genotyping And Estimating Genotype Frequencies, Jayon Lihm Dec 2013

Mixture Modeling Of Next Generation Sequencing Data And Its Applications To Genotyping And Estimating Genotype Frequencies, Jayon Lihm

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

Estimating the probability that an individual has a base pair nucleodite different from the reference nucleotide is important in next generation sequencing (NGS) research. I present a method for modeling the frequency of single nucleotide polymorphism variants in the exome capturing sequence data of an individual. A mixture distribution was used to model the proportion of alternative alleles at a specified base pair position assuming a biallelic single nucleotide polymorphism model. I measured the proportion of alternative alleles for positions in chromosome 1 exome sequencing data fro two trios taken from the Pilot 3 data in the 1000 Genomes Project. …

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The Dynamical Basis Of The Decanalization Of Gene Expression In Kr Uppel Mutant Embryos, Lena Panok Dec 2013

The Dynamical Basis Of The Decanalization Of Gene Expression In Kr Uppel Mutant Embryos, Lena Panok

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

Canalization is the ability of an organism's phenotype to remain stable under a perturbation in their genotype or the environment. It has been noted that there is no canalization or canalization is to a much smaller degree in mutants than in wild type. Waddington's idea was to understand canalization through studying gene interactions. We investigate the mechanisms of canalization of gap gene patterns in D.melanogaster through dynamical analysis of the gene circuit. To carry out this investigation we construct a dynamical model of the evolution of the concentration of protein products of the gap genes in time. Our model, which …

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Defect Studies In 4h- Silicon Carbide Pvt Grown Bulk Crystals, Cvd Grown Epilayers And Devices, Shayan Mysore Byrappa Dec 2013

Defect Studies In 4h- Silicon Carbide Pvt Grown Bulk Crystals, Cvd Grown Epilayers And Devices, Shayan Mysore Byrappa

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

Silicon Carbide [SiC]which exists as more than 200 different polytypes is known for superior high temperature and high power applications in comparison to conventional semiconductor materials like Silicon and Germanium. The material finds plethora of applications in a diverse fields due to its unique properties like large energy bandgap, high thermal conductivity and high electric breakdown field. Though inundated with superior properties the potential of this material has not been utilized fully due to impeding factors such as defects especially the crystalline ones which limit their performance greatly. Lots of research has been going on for decades to reduce these …

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High-Order Surface Reconstruction And Its Applications To Surface Integrals And Surface Remeshing, Navamita Ray Dec 2013

High-Order Surface Reconstruction And Its Applications To Surface Integrals And Surface Remeshing, Navamita Ray

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

High-order surface reconstruction is a numerical technique to obtain high-order approximations of both geometry and its differential quantities such as normals, curvatures, etc. | over a discrete surface mesh. Its computational framework is based on local polynomial fittings using a weighted least squares approach. In this dissertation, we complete the scope of this framework to compute high-order approximations of surface integrals and demonstrate the application of the complete framework to various mesh-based numerical computations for high-order numerical methods. The computational framework relies on an efficient underlying mesh data structure for various traversal queries. For this purpose, an array-based mesh data …

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Approximation Of Long Memory Process By Short Memory Process - With Application To Option Valuation, Pengyuan Shao Dec 2013

Approximation Of Long Memory Process By Short Memory Process - With Application To Option Valuation, Pengyuan Shao

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

Options on an asset which follow a long memory process are difficult to value by conventional methods, due to the existence of arbitrage opportunities. Here we show how to avoid the problem of arbitrage opportunities and value vanilla European options when underlying asset returns follow a FARIMA(p,d,q) processes with d>0 which is widely used as an model of long memory price processes. We use information distance to prove that stationary ARMA processes are dense in all FARIMA processes in the total variation distance. As a consequence, statistical tests with finite sample size fail to distinguish a FARIMA process from …

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Preparation And Investigation Of Multi-Alkali Photocathode, Xue Liang Dec 2013

Preparation And Investigation Of Multi-Alkali Photocathode, Xue Liang

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

Multialikali antimonide photocathodes exhibit high quantum efficiency in visible light range, so this kind of cathodes is attractive for use in high average current photoinjectors to generate high quality electron beams. We have grown multi-alkali photocathodes on silicon (100) substrates, simultaneously acquiring in-situ X-ray reflection (XRR), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) data throughout the growth process. Correlations between cathode structure and growth parameters and the resulting quantum efficiency (QE) have been explored. | 40 pages

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Characterization Of Defects In Single Crystal Epitaxial Silicon For Solar Cells, Hao Wang Dec 2013

Characterization Of Defects In Single Crystal Epitaxial Silicon For Solar Cells, Hao Wang

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

In semiconductor technology for solar applications, the demand for high level of structural perfection in single crystal silicon has increased. The defects in the crystals can affect the efficiency of solar cells, so the study of imperfections is important for providing feedback to develop high quality crystal. X-ray topography is a nondestructive method and a powerful tool to evaluate crystals for technological applications, growth and processing. In this study, defects in homoepitaxial silicon epilayers grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) for solar cell application with the dislocation density of 9.4×〖 10〗 ^3cm-2 have been mapped and characterized by synchrotron white …

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The Ricci Flow On Manifolds With Boundary, Panagiotis Gianniotis Dec 2013

The Ricci Flow On Manifolds With Boundary, Panagiotis Gianniotis

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

In this thesis, we investigate issues related to boundary value problems for the Ricci flow. First, we focus on a compact manifold with boundary and show the short-time existence, regularity and uniqueness of the flow. To obtain these results we impose the boundary conditions proposed by Anderson for the Einstein equations, namely the mean curvature and the conformal class of the boundary. We also show that a certain continuation principle holds. Our methods still apply when the manifold is not compact, as long as it has compact boundary and an appropriate control of the geometry at infinity. Secondly, motivated by …

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