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Food Sharing During The Transition To Agriculture At Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia | Food Sharing During The Transition To Agriculture At Neolithic ÇAtalhã¶Yã¼K, Central Anatolia, G. Arzu Demirergi Dec 2015

Food Sharing During The Transition To Agriculture At Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia | Food Sharing During The Transition To Agriculture At Neolithic ÇAtalhã¶Yã¼K, Central Anatolia, G. Arzu Demirergi

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

All human societies share food. Investigation of food sharing in a society can provide great insights into social relations. Food sharing practices have been anthropologically explored in many cultures, especially in small scale societies such as hunter-gatherers and subsistence agriculturalists. According to the findings of these studies, it can be generalized that hunter gatherers tend to share food relatively widely and often beyond the kin level, while agriculturalists tend to share more restrictedly and often within the household. Although this general statement sheds light on how food is shared in different subsistence systems, it does not provide information on how …

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Mutilated Bodies And Memories Of Violence: Displacements And Contestations Of Representations Of Violence, In Contemporary Video Art And Photography In Colombia, 1993-1998., Juan Carlos Guerrero Hernandez Dec 2015

Mutilated Bodies And Memories Of Violence: Displacements And Contestations Of Representations Of Violence, In Contemporary Video Art And Photography In Colombia, 1993-1998., Juan Carlos Guerrero Hernandez

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

How do contemporary artworks address and give visibility to the wounded body without reinvigorating trauma, without repeating the spectacular and homogenizing strategies used by the media? How do artworks move beyond denunciation to aesthetically and historically name and rearticulate bodily violence? And fundamentally, how do artworks offer an historical understanding of the political historicity of contemporary violence without uncritically resorting to myth and structural trauma? We intend to answer these questions within the context of art and violence in Colombia in 1990s. In this direction, we examine four artworks produced between 1993 and 1998, by artists Alberto Baraya, Clemencia Echeverri, …

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Distributed Energy Resources And Dynamic Microgrid: An Integrated Assessment, Duo Shang Dec 2015

Distributed Energy Resources And Dynamic Microgrid: An Integrated Assessment, Duo Shang

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

The overall goal of this thesis is to improve understanding in terms of the benefit of DERs to both utility and to electricity end-users when integrated in power distribution system. To achieve this goal, a series of two studies was conducted to assess the value of DERs when integrated with new power paradigms. First, the arbitrage value of DERs was examined in markets with time-variant electricity pricing rates (e.g. | time of use, real time pricing) under a smart grid distribution paradigm. This study uses a stochastic optimization model to estimate the potential profit from electricity price arbitrage over a …

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The Merchant Of Venice: Portia As The Embodiment Of Queen Elizabeth I, Weijian Wang Dec 2015

The Merchant Of Venice: Portia As The Embodiment Of Queen Elizabeth I, Weijian Wang

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

With the large amount of research of William Shakespeare, scholars tend to look at Shakespeare as a noble literary figure who wrote the best English poems and plays ever. They, however, may lose a comprehensive understanding of the motivation for some of his best works by not considering his other social roles, such as businessman, shareholder, etc. So when we talk about The Merchant of Venice, there are always elusive questions about the main characters in the play. One question is about how Shakespeare made the audience, especially after the twentieth century, feel pity for Shylock who might have been …

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The Role Of Pofut2 In Gastrulation And Axis Elongation Of The Mouse Embryo, Brian Benz Dec 2015

The Role Of Pofut2 In Gastrulation And Axis Elongation Of The Mouse Embryo, Brian Benz

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

Protein O-fucosyltransferase 2 (POFUT2) elongates Thrombospondin Type 1 Repeats (TSR) with an O-linked fucose. Forty-nine potential proteins are modified by POFUT2 in the endoplasmic reticulum. Nearly half the POFUT2 targets belong to the A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease with ThromboSpondin type-1 motifs (ADAMTS) or ADAMTS-like family of proteins. One of POFUT2’s target proteins, ADAMTS9, contains 15 TSRs and is reported to be embryonic lethal around the same time as our Pofut2 LoxP mutants. In this study, we compared the Pofut2 and Adamts9 knockout phenotypes and used tissue specific deletion of Pofut2 to define the role of Pofut2 during gastrulation. Knockout of …

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An Investigation Of Epidermolysis Bullosa And An Analysis Of Research And Treatment, Anna Dowling Dec 2015

An Investigation Of Epidermolysis Bullosa And An Analysis Of Research And Treatment, Anna Dowling

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

The dysfunction of genes encoding integral proteins of the extracellular matrix and the basement membrane zone create foundations for the disease epidermolysis bullosa. Various proteins reside in the basement membrane zone and are responsible for the strength of the epidermal tissue. The cure for this disease is elusive which poses a problem for modern medicine. In this analysis, the mechanisms of epidermolysis bullosa subtypes were investigated and the viability of future treatment protocols was assessed. The promising treatment options include stem cell, gene, fibroblast, and protein therapy. Strategies need to be investigated further in order to develop therapeutic cures which …

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Cyclodextrins As Lipid Exchange Mediators To Synthesize Artificial Asymmetric Model Membranes, Brad Greenstein Dec 2015

Cyclodextrins As Lipid Exchange Mediators To Synthesize Artificial Asymmetric Model Membranes, Brad Greenstein

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

The use of cyclodextrins have shown promise to exchange lipids of model membranes in various conditions. Several types of cyclodextrins have been shown to exchange lipids in different conditions. In this study, we used Methyl-alpha cyclodextrin (MαCD) to facilitate lipid exchange between donor multilamellar vesicles (MLVs) containing brain SM and large unilamellar vesicle acceptors (LUVs) composed of POPE, POPS and cholesterol. This technique is just one of several exploring the use of cyclodextrins to manipulate artificial membranes in order to obtain asymmetry. Overview of other studies involving other types of cyclodextrin are also discussed to explain what is known about …

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The Roles Of Sox2 And Canonical Wnt Signaling Pathway In Fate Specification Of Tailbud Bipotential Stem Cells, Yu-Jung Tseng Dec 2015

The Roles Of Sox2 And Canonical Wnt Signaling Pathway In Fate Specification Of Tailbud Bipotential Stem Cells, Yu-Jung Tseng

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

During vertebrate development, formation of the head -to-tail body axis is shaped by a group of unspecified cells at the caudal region of the embryo. The undifferentiated tail bud stem cells are capable of adopting mesodermal or neural cell fates as the embryo develops, but the mechanism of this patterning process remains largely unknown. Our previous studies confirm that Wnt signaling is required in tail bud stem cells to repress the neural transcription factor sox2 and induce mesodermal fate. However, it is unclear if sox2 repression at the cell-autonomous level is the critical factor required for Wnt mediated mesoderm induction. …

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Structure Determination, Enzymatic Characterization, And Inhibitor Discovery Of Select Protein Targets Of Bacterial Pathogens, Brian Edward Mcgillick Dec 2015

Structure Determination, Enzymatic Characterization, And Inhibitor Discovery Of Select Protein Targets Of Bacterial Pathogens, Brian Edward Mcgillick

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

Our interests are in using structure based drug design to target bacterial agents and toxins that have the potential for intentional release into the environment and therefore pose a severe threat to public health and safety. Specifically, we focus on the pathogenic bacteria Francisella tularensis and Yersinia pestis, as well as the Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs). Our strategy for F. tularensis and Y. pestis was to target the bacterial system for fatty acid biosynthesis (FAS-II). The FAS-II system contains several enzymes whose sequence and structure is highly conserved across a vast array of pathogens. This coupled with the low homology …

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Development Of Novel Nuclear Imaging Systems For Bioscience Applications, Tuoyu Cao Dec 2015

Development Of Novel Nuclear Imaging Systems For Bioscience Applications, Tuoyu Cao

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

Biological systems are incredibly complex and their scientific study can be facilitated by the assessment of multiple independent parameters from the same location, ideally in way that provides quantitative and time-synchronized data, with high spatial sampling, and throughout a living subject. Our group has advanced this in vivo, quantitative, multimodal imaging approach by developing and combining various nuclear imaging modalities that provide complementary data to better understand the physiology of humans, animal models, and even plants. Multi-modality imaging in clinical and pre-clinical settings has been shown to provide better diagnostic interpretation compared to stand-alone imaging systems. In recent years, combining …

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Bmp-2 Gene Delivery Using Electrospun Collagen/Plla Scaffold With Surface Adsorbed Transfection Complexes For Bone Formation, Xia Zhao Dec 2015

Bmp-2 Gene Delivery Using Electrospun Collagen/Plla Scaffold With Surface Adsorbed Transfection Complexes For Bone Formation, Xia Zhao

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

Bone tissue engineering provides an alternative to bone grafting. Our laboratory previously developed two different types of electrospun scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, including a DNA containing PLGA/PELA scaffold for delivering genes and a collagen/PLLA scaffold for delivering cells. For this dissertation research, we firstly fabricated a DNA containing PLGA/PELA electrospun scaffold using the same method as previously developed, with the intent of delivering osteogenic growth factor genes for bone regeneration. However, the scaffold shrunk severely after being submerged into aqueous environment and failed to achieve high transfection efficiency in vitro. Subsequently, we used the collagen/PLLA scaffold (originally developed for …

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Multi-Marker Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping Of Quantitative Trait Loci, Soyoun Lee Dec 2015

Multi-Marker Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping Of Quantitative Trait Loci, Soyoun Lee

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

Background: Genome-wide associations have been studied for years to infer relationships between biological traits and their underlying genetic causes, known as quantitative traits loci (QTL), in a process known as QTL mapping. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which are commonly used genetic markers, are usually in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with each other within a small genetic region. Both single- and double-marker-based LD mapping methods have been developed by taking advantage of LD structure. Method: In this thesis, a more general LD mapping framework with an arbitrary number of markers has been developed in order to improve LD mapping and its detection …

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A Dynamic Oyster Reef Bioenergetics Model: Predictions Of Secondary Production Based On Different Restoration Scenarios, Elizabeth Gomez Dec 2015

A Dynamic Oyster Reef Bioenergetics Model: Predictions Of Secondary Production Based On Different Restoration Scenarios, Elizabeth Gomez

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

The presence of oyster reefs augments the biomass and abundance of many transient fish and crustacean species. Therefore, restoration of oyster reefs has become an increasingly common practice in coastal areas with the goal of enhancing production of transient fish. However, predicting the effect of oyster restoration on transient fish community biomass remains elusive. To address this challenge, I created a trophic bioenergetic model to understand how energy transfers in an oyster reef and assess the effects of various restoration strategies on transient fish species. The model used a set of functional groups representing organisms commonly found in an oyster …

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Denitrifying Bioreactors: A Solution To Groundwater Nitrate Pollution At The Forge River?, Christine Jean Gurdon Dec 2015

Denitrifying Bioreactors: A Solution To Groundwater Nitrate Pollution At The Forge River?, Christine Jean Gurdon

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

Denitrifying bioreactors are an approach to remediate groundwater contaminated with nitrate. Their popularity as a remediation system has increased due to their unnecessary maintenance, low cost, and longevity. While field trials on their performance have been conducted, few have been completed in a marine coastal environment. In this study, a denitrification wall was designed to be installed and monitored along the shore of a coastal environment, namely, the Forge River, New York. Prior to the design phase, a groundwater plume of elevated nitrate-nitrite concentrations needed to be identified. Groundwater nitrate-nitrite concentrations ranged from 0.01-17.68 mg/L along Riviera Drive, a road …

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An Application Of Regression For Storm Surge Prediction Along The New York/New Jersey Coast In Climate Models, Keith J. Roberts Dec 2015

An Application Of Regression For Storm Surge Prediction Along The New York/New Jersey Coast In Climate Models, Keith J. Roberts

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

Storm surge from extratropical cyclones can lead to significant coastal flooding, particularly along coastlines adjacent to wide and shallow continental shelves. In warming global climate simulations, studies have shown systematic regional changes to cyclones, which generate surges. However, there have been no formal studies that link regional cyclone changes to changes in the occurrence and intensity of surges along the densely populated New York/New Jersey coastline. A multi-linear regression (MLR) approach is developed to predict 3-hourly surge during the cool season months (Oct. 1-March 31) using climate model data. At the three stations the approach is applied to (The Battery …

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An Ensemble Three-Dimensional Constrained Variational Analysis Method To Derive Large-Scale Forcing Data For Single-Column Models, Shuaiqi Tang Dec 2015

An Ensemble Three-Dimensional Constrained Variational Analysis Method To Derive Large-Scale Forcing Data For Single-Column Models, Shuaiqi Tang

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

Atmospheric vertical velocities and advective tendencies are essential as large-scale forcing data to drive single-column models (SCM), cloud-resolving models (CRM) and large-eddy simulations (LES). They cannot be directly measured or easily calculated with great accuracy from field measurements. In the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program, a constrained variational algorithm (1DCVA) has been used to derive large-scale forcing data over a sounding network domain with the aid of flux measurements at the surface and top of the atmosphere (TOA). We extend the 1DCVA algorithm into three dimensions (3DCVA) along with other improvements to calculate gridded large-scale forcing data. We also introduce …

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Knowledge Extraction From Diverse Biomedical Corpora With Applications In Healthcare: Bridging The Translational Gap, Ritwik Banerjee Dec 2015

Knowledge Extraction From Diverse Biomedical Corpora With Applications In Healthcare: Bridging The Translational Gap, Ritwik Banerjee

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

A wealth of knowledge in the biomedical domain is available in unstructured or semi-structured data repositories as natural language narratives. Much of this knowledge can provide immediate and tangible benefits in patient welfare and the healthcare industry. Extracting relevant knowledge from these natural language sources and providing them as structured information suitable for immediate real-time consumption in clinical settings is, however, a manual process restricted to human domain experts. As a result, it is expensive and time-consuming. A very real consequence of this is that the journey made by medical " knowledge nuggets" from research publications to patient care settings …

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Language Grounding In Massive Online Data, Jianfu Chen Dec 2015

Language Grounding In Massive Online Data, Jianfu Chen

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

Truly understanding natural language requires grounding language to perceptions and actions in the physical and social world. This goes beyond studying the textual modality alone. Today's web not only has sheer volume of data, but also increasingly multi-modal data, intertwining text with videos, images, audios, and ontologies that are perceptions or abstractions of people's everyday life. Hence the web provides rich and ever growing resources for studying grounded language. This thesis presents a series of investigations of language woven into various types of online data, ranging from ontology and images to time series. We contribute data distillation approaches and large-scale …

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Natural Language Processing Using Word Connection Networks, Yanqing Chen Dec 2015

Natural Language Processing Using Word Connection Networks, Yanqing Chen

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

Word Connection Networks are graphs recording linguistic connections, including both semantic and syntactic connections, between single words. Specific Word Connection Networks of smaller sizes are frequently used in our daily communications – we search for counterparts of words in another language when doing translations and we group words by their sentiment when express feelings. Word Connection Networks are usually consistent with each other, which makes it an interesting and challenging idea to construct integrated language resources with both inter-language and intra-language connections to handle natural language processing tasks in a multilingual environment. We propose to collect large-scale word-level linguistic resources …

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Algorithms And Applications In Genome Assembly Using Long Read Sequencing Technology, Hayan Lee Dec 2015

Algorithms And Applications In Genome Assembly Using Long Read Sequencing Technology, Hayan Lee

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

The first generation sequencing technology represented by Sanger sequencing opened the era of de novo genome assembly. The assembled genome had good quality as a reference but it was very costly. The second generation, so called Next-Gen sequencing, produced tons of short reads in a day with economic cost. However de novo genome projects and other downstream research confronted limited quality. Now third generation begins with long reads sequencing technology and related algorithms with reasonable cost. The quality of reference genomes and downstream research has been recovered. Here we introduce third generation read sequencing technology and span sequencing technology, related …

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Measuring Routing Policies On The Internet, Mohammad Haseeb Niaz Dec 2015

Measuring Routing Policies On The Internet, Mohammad Haseeb Niaz

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

Models of Internet routing are critical for studies of Internet security, reliability and evolution, which often rely on simulations of the Internet’s routing system. Accurate models are difficult to build and suffer from a dearth of ground truth data, as ISPs often treat their connectivity and routing policies as trade secrets. In this environment, researchers rely on a number of simplifying assumptions and models proposed over a decade ago, which are widely criticized for their inability to capture routing policies employed in practice. This thesis makes the following two contributions: Investigating Interdomain Routing Policies. First we put Internet topologies and …

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Minimally Disruptive Management Frameworks For Network Functions, Zafar Ayyub Qazi Dec 2015

Minimally Disruptive Management Frameworks For Network Functions, Zafar Ayyub Qazi

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

Networks today rely on network functions or middleboxes (e.g. | firewalls, WAN optimizers) to provide critical performance, security, and policy compliance capabilities. However, today the management of these middleboxes is hard. First, these middleboxes are implemented as dedicated hardware appliances, making it difficult to dynamically scale resources. Second, operators need to carefully plan the network topology, manually set up rules to route traffic through the desired sequence of middleboxes, and implement safeguards for correct operation in the presence of failures and overload. We can overhaul today’s network infrastructure to address these problems by introducing flexibility in routing and the implementation …

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Interacting With Gigapixel Displays, Charilaos Papadopoulos Dec 2015

Interacting With Gigapixel Displays, Charilaos Papadopoulos

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

Large, high-resolution displays (LHiRDs) are a powerful visualization and data exploration tool. These facilities, with resolutions in the hundreds of millions of pixels, have proliferated in industry and research laboratories, enabling scientists, engineers or physicians to better understand the problems that they face. Recently, the Reality Deck pushed LHiRDs past the gigapixel resolution barrier, offering 1.5 gigapixels and providing a 360 degree horizontal field of view, within a large workspace of 33′ × 19′. Room-sized facilities such as the Reality Deck simultaneously promote and demand physical navigation on behalf of the user. Consequently, static user interfaces (e.g. | keyboard and …

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Engineering High-Performance Parallel Algorithms With Applications To Bioinformatics, Jesmin Jahan Tithi Dec 2015

Engineering High-Performance Parallel Algorithms With Applications To Bioinformatics, Jesmin Jahan Tithi

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

Since the beginning of the last decade, plateauing of the clock speed of computer processors has forced us to invest more in parallelism — for both hardware and software. This resulted in improvements in computing technologies that have favored parallelism over increased clock speed. Taking advantage of these improvements requires designing algorithms that can leverage parallelism well. In this dissertation, we show how to take advantage of several algorithm design techniques to harness modern heterogeneous parallel architectures for solving problems in bioinformatics efficiently. Our main goal while designing algorithms is to achieve high-performance in terms of running time and scalability. …

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Synthetic Gene Design: Optimization And Analysis, Rukhsana Yeasmin Dec 2015

Synthetic Gene Design: Optimization And Analysis, Rukhsana Yeasmin

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

With the advance of synthetic biology has come increased interest in designing synthetic genes which optimize protein expression. We propose new algorithms for gene design under several different constraints. Our optimization criteria include finding minimum energy and maximum energy RNA structures for a given gene sequence, optimizing the amount of tRNA auto-correlation in genes and designing maximum and minimum auto-correlated sequences. We also develop methods to analyze and interpret tiled microarray genome expression data. Statistical analysis of the viral genome expression data enables us to discover unknown facts about its life cycle, its impact on the host cell shutoff mechanism. …

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Two Essays On Actuarial And Financial Econometrics, Kwadwo Asamoah Dec 2015

Two Essays On Actuarial And Financial Econometrics, Kwadwo Asamoah

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

In chapter 1, we analyze the concept of credibility in two generalized count models: Mittag Leffler and Weibull count models which can handle both underdispersion and overdispersion in count data and nest the commonly used Poisson model as a special case. A correct specification of the model for determining individual risk premium is important since without a proper pricing mechanism one is simply not competitive in the insurance industry. We find evidence using data from Danish Insurance Company that the simple Poisson model can set the credibility weight to one as a result of large heterogeneity among policyholders and thus, …

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Essays On Durable Good Market With Quality Choice, Shino Komatsudani Dec 2015

Essays On Durable Good Market With Quality Choice, Shino Komatsudani

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

This dissertation constructs a model of durable-goods oligopoly and monopoly in which quality choice is allowed and analyzes the equilibrium behavior of the firms and consumers. The second chapter considers the case of multiple firms and continuum of consumers whose types are uniformly distributed in infinite horizon setting and shows that there exists an equilibrium where higher-quality good is not offered before certain period even though firms are capable of producing them. The first section of the third chapter analyzes the market which consists of a monopolist who faces a single consumer that has two possible types and shows that …

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Price Co-Movements And Investment Funds, Maryam Sami Dec 2015

Price Co-Movements And Investment Funds, Maryam Sami

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

This dissertation consists of two chapters, at the first chapter we analyze the rational expectation equilibria of a delegated portfolio model in which two risky assets have completely independent returns and liquidity shocks. The investment decision is delegated to risk neutral managers with reputational concerns. Some managers have perfect information on the assets' returns while others are uninformed and try to infer information from the prices. We show that in equilibrium there are always realizations of the shocks such that the returns are not revealed. In this region, the prices of the two assets exhibit a strong form of co-movement, …

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The Secret Bank Settlement: Who Was Guilty And Who Was Not?, E Yang Dec 2015

The Secret Bank Settlement: Who Was Guilty And Who Was Not?, E Yang

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

Since the subprime mortgage crisis, many banks agreed to pay huge sums to settle the government's accusations that they sold flawed mortgage securities in the 2008 crisis. The Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citi, Wells Fargo, and many other banks have paid a total of more than $130 billion for claims that they intentionally misled investors or were guilty of financial wrongdoing. Is there evidence to support this position and is it fair to assign equal blame to all the big banks? Here, we estimate the expected default rate based on loan characteristics reported by big banks and compare with …

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Bayesian Reliability Analysis And Nonlinear System Identification For Complex Particle Accelerator Protection Systems, Prachi Chitnis Dec 2015

Bayesian Reliability Analysis And Nonlinear System Identification For Complex Particle Accelerator Protection Systems, Prachi Chitnis

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

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is used to study primordial form of matter that existed in the universe shortly after the Big Bang. Enormous energy (72 MJ) is stored inside RHIC in the form of ion beams and superconducting magnet currents during operation. The accelerator Machine Protection System (MPS) is used to safeguard against undesirable energy leakage due to the faults developing in the collider, and needs to be highly reliable. The most crucial parts of MPS are the Beam Permit System (BPS) and the Quench Detection System (QDS). The BPS monitors the health of RHIC …

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