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Excavation, Heather Marie Cruce Dec 2016

Excavation, Heather Marie Cruce

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

For the past three years, while an MFA student at Stony Brook University, I have pursued an intense study of sculptural work in the medium of ceramic. My goal was to create large-scale ceramic installations. Theses installations comprised of many ceramic pieces I meticulously sculpted and carved to reference the fragility, beauty and finite existence of the human body as it relates to earthly landscapes. My aim has been to imbue an exhibition space with a sense of reference and ambiguity, allowing the viewer of the large scaled installed work to experience the work independent of direction. I deliberately and …

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Live From Dripdropolis: Static, Remote Control & The Leftover Tv Dinners, Logan Edward Marks Dec 2016

Live From Dripdropolis: Static, Remote Control & The Leftover Tv Dinners, Logan Edward Marks

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

The following details my work with found objects of the everyday, resulting mostly in the form of sculptural installation and also in two-dimensional imagery. A reutilization of unwanted materials gives new potential to seemingly worthless items. In an effort to positively contribute to our social and economic culture, I rebuild and compile these once-consumer goods into dioramic landscapes and architectural settings, as artworks. Through this reinterpretation and recycling of waste, a reflection on our behaviors and experiences is prompted from our own dealings and associations to items like tube televisions, broken records, concrete blocks, or wooden two-by-fours. Our role as …

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Mentoring Women In Stem: A Collegiate Investigation Of Mentors And Proteges, Nicole Jeanne Leavey Dec 2016

Mentoring Women In Stem: A Collegiate Investigation Of Mentors And Proteges, Nicole Jeanne Leavey

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

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in the United States lags behind that of other industrialized nations. Despite national efforts to enhance the quality of STEM education for students, progress remains elusive. Underperformance is evident in measures of outcomes, participation, and retention. In particular, inequity persists in the attraction and retention of women to STEM fields. Mentoring is heavily cited as a means to improve our national efforts to fortify STEM education. This research explores mentoring styles, gender preferences, and differential impact on outcomes. The results challenge conventional wisdom that women prefer and benefit from a style of mentoring …

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An Ideal Woman: Feminism And Performance, Kristin Nicole Leadbetter Dec 2016

An Ideal Woman: Feminism And Performance, Kristin Nicole Leadbetter

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

An exploration of theatrical history, theory, and technique is a “triumvirate†that can “determine the value of any performance practice for an enlightened theatre†(Gainor 173). My thesis addresses the question of what it means to be a feminist performer, and overall theatre practitioner. Feminist critiques have often attempted to understand a technique best suited for women to practice theatre that is reflective of feminist ideals. My thesis begins by exploring specific examples of female representation in theatre and in society. It covers the patriarchal structure of society, the opinions held about women and their position, and their categorization into …

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Palmitoylation Of The Nmda Receptor And Psd95 Utilizing Phosphopantetheinyl Transferases, Victor Chang Dec 2016

Palmitoylation Of The Nmda Receptor And Psd95 Utilizing Phosphopantetheinyl Transferases, Victor Chang

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

Signal transduction relies on the proper localization of proteins to properly transfer signals throughout the cell. The cell membrane serves as a vital interface for the proper localization of proteins. Posttranslational modifications cause proteins to become targeted to membranes. One such modification is palmitoylation, the addition of a palmitic acid to a cysteine of a protein. Within the neuron, a large protein complex called the postsynaptic density receives upstream signals at the synapse. Many signaling proteins within the postsynaptic density are known to require palmitoylation for proper trafficking and function. Two such examples are the N-methyl-D-Aspartate receptor (NMDAR) and Post …

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Phic31 Integrase As A More Efficient Method Of Transgenesis In Zebrafish, Andrew Scortea Dec 2016

Phic31 Integrase As A More Efficient Method Of Transgenesis In Zebrafish, Andrew Scortea

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

Zebrafish transgenesis is conventionally performed via the tol2 transposable element system as it is the most straightforward, providing quick and easy transgenesis. Despite being commonly used in the zebrafish community, tol2 mediated transgenesis has issues that cause workflow slowdowns and delays. The biggest of these issues are the random nonspecific integrations which can occur multiple times within a genome. In order to generate a stable transgenic line with a single insertion, one must perform several generations of outcrosses and subsequent screening. Thus, while tol2 transgenesis is effective at generating founder animals, a considerable amount of time and labor is required …

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Role Of Runt, Even-Skipped, And Odd-Paired In Regulating Enhancer Activity In The Drosophila Embryo, Michael Luis Higgins Dec 2016

Role Of Runt, Even-Skipped, And Odd-Paired In Regulating Enhancer Activity In The Drosophila Embryo, Michael Luis Higgins

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

The Drosophila runt gene is the founding member of the RUNX transcription factor family, a group of conserved genes that have vital roles in multiple developmental pathways throughout the animal kingdom. Runt plays important roles in segmentation, as well as in neurogenesis and sex determination in the Drosophila embryo. As a transcription factor, Runt is both an activator and a repressor of its target genes depending on the context. Sloppy-paired (slp1) is a target of runt’s activity as a pair-rule transcription factor in the segmentation pathway that is both activated and repressed by Runt. Two cis-regulatory enhancers of slp1, a …

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Multiscale Particle-Based Modeling Of Mechanotransduction Process In Flow-Induced Platelet Activation Using Dissipative Particle Dynamics And Coarse Grained Molecular Dynamics, Chao Gao Dec 2016

Multiscale Particle-Based Modeling Of Mechanotransduction Process In Flow-Induced Platelet Activation Using Dissipative Particle Dynamics And Coarse Grained Molecular Dynamics, Chao Gao

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

Thrombosis in cardiovascular diseases and prosthetic cardiovascular devices can be potentiated by pathological flow patterns that enhance hemostatic responses including platelet activation, aggregation, and adhesion. Platelets upon activation react to pathological shear stresses with complex biochemical and morphological changes, aggregate, and adhere to blood vessels or device surfaces to form thrombi. Computational modeling and simulation are extensively employed to study the shear-induced platelet activation. Numerical simulations of this complex process based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) treat blood as a continuum and solve the Navier-Stokes equations to resolve the process to μm scales level. Due to the limited scales range, …

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Synthetic Approaches To A Bis-Thiol Based Arsenic Receptor And A Potential Pi-Stacking Based Polyamide Foldamer, Dana Michele Castro Dec 2016

Synthetic Approaches To A Bis-Thiol Based Arsenic Receptor And A Potential Pi-Stacking Based Polyamide Foldamer, Dana Michele Castro

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

Arsenic is a known harmful chemical, causing cancer and other adverse health effects if consumed in even modest amounts. Arsenic is found in drinking water at levels higher than deemed safe in many parts of the world. Current detection methods for arsenic in water have many limitations. A low-cost, safe, and efficient alternative would make arsenic detection simpler and human lives safer. As arsenic is known to have a high affinity to sulfur, the Drueckhammer group has designed a compound with two protruding thiol groups that may provide the basis for fluorescence-based detection. In this study, preliminary steps in the …

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Nanostructured Iron And Manganese Oxide Electrode Materials For Lithium Batteries: Influence Of Chemical And Physical Properties On Electrochemistry, Jessica Durham Dec 2016

Nanostructured Iron And Manganese Oxide Electrode Materials For Lithium Batteries: Influence Of Chemical And Physical Properties On Electrochemistry, Jessica Durham

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

The widespread use of portable electronics and growing interest in electric and hybrid vehicles has generated a mass market for batteries with increased energy densities and enhanced electrochemical performance. In order to address a variety of applications, commercially fabricated secondary lithium-ion batteries employ transition metal oxide based electrodes, the most prominent of which include lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (LiNixMnyCo1-x-yO2), lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4), and lithium manganese oxide (LiMn2O4). Transition metal oxides are of particular interest as cathode materials due to their robust framework for lithium intercalation, potential for high energy density, and utilization of earth-abundant elements (i.e. iron and …

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Geometric Optimization Problems In Sensor Networks, Gui Benjamin Citovsky Dec 2016

Geometric Optimization Problems In Sensor Networks, Gui Benjamin Citovsky

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

In this thesis, we address a variety of algorithmic problems motivated by applications in sensor networks. In many of these problems we consider that the placement of the sensors is in a general metric space and in all of the problems we consider the case that the sensors lie in the Euclidean plane and exploit geometric properties in order to achieve better results. We introduce the \sinrk\ model which is a generalization of the SINR model. Given a set of sender-receiver requests in the Euclidean plane, the goal is to minimize the number of rounds of scheduling needed to satisfy …

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Overcoming Element Quality Dependence Of Finite Element Methods, Rebecca Conley Dec 2016

Overcoming Element Quality Dependence Of Finite Element Methods, Rebecca Conley

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

The finite element methods (FEM) are important techniques in engineering for solving partial differential equations, especially on complex geometries. One limitation of the classical FEM is its heavy dependence on element shape quality for stability and good performance. We introduce the Adaptive Extended Stencil Finite Element Method (AES-FEM) as a means to overcome this dependence on element shape quality. Our method replaces the traditional basis functions with a set of generalized Lagrange polynomial (GLP) basis functions, which we construct using local weighted least-squares approximations. The method preserves the theoretical framework of FEM, and allows imposing essential boundary conditions and integrating …

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Integrating Mobile Agents And Distributed Sensors In Wireless Sensor Networks, Jiemin Zeng Dec 2016

Integrating Mobile Agents And Distributed Sensors In Wireless Sensor Networks, Jiemin Zeng

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

As computers become more ubiquitous in the prominent phenomenon of the Internet of Things, we encounter many unique challenges in the field of wireless sensor networks. A wireless sensor network is a group of small, low powered sensors with wireless capability to communicate with each other. The goal of these sensors, also called nodes, generally is to collect some information about their environment and report it back to a base station. Depending on the nature of the nodes or the environment, they may be placed in a deterministic pattern, deployed randomly, or mobile (i.e. cars on a highway). Due to …

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Innovations In High Dimensional Data Exploration, Representation And Generation, Bing Wang Dec 2016

Innovations In High Dimensional Data Exploration, Representation And Generation, Bing Wang

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

Data with many attributes have become commonplace in a wide range of domains. In these data, the most interesting relations are often multivariate and are generally confusing to most people. Efforts have been made to design proper tools to recognize those high dimensional relationships reliably but those tools are often far off from making use of the innate 3D scene understanding capabilities of the human visual system. We present a framework that eases this barrier by design, called the Subspace Voyager. It decomposes a high-dimensional data space into a continuum of generalized 3D subspaces. Analysts can then explore these 3D …

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Uncertainty Quantification For Physical And Numerical Diffusion Models In Inertial Confinement Fusion Simulations, Verinder S. Rana Dec 2016

Uncertainty Quantification For Physical And Numerical Diffusion Models In Inertial Confinement Fusion Simulations, Verinder S. Rana

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

This thesis concerns simulations of Inertial Confinement Fusion. Inertial confinement is carried out in a large scale facility at National Ignition Facility. The experiments have failed to reproduce design calculations, and so uncertainty quantification of calculations is an important asset. Uncertainties can be classified as aleatoric or epistemic. This thesis is concerned with aleatoric uncertainty quantification. Among the many uncertain aspects that affect the simulations, we have narrowed our study of possible uncertainties. The first source of uncertainty we present is the amount of pre-heating of the fuel done by hot electrons. The second source of uncertainty we consider is …

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Influence Propagation Modeling And Applications In Finance, Li Zhang Dec 2016

Influence Propagation Modeling And Applications In Finance, Li Zhang

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

To appropriately use the information from social media for finance-related problems is typically challenging to both finance and data mining. Traditional schemes in finance focus on identifying the trading activities and financial events that generate asset abnormal returns, while the usage of data typically only covers regular events such as earning announcements, financial statements, and new stock issuance. Related data-driven implementations mainly focus on developing trading strategies using social media data, while the results usually lack theoretical explanations. This work is designed to fill the gap between the usage of social media data and financial theories, with comprehensive evaluations using …

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Essays On The Spillover Effects Of Information Arrivals In Security Trading, Zhenning Wang Dec 2016

Essays On The Spillover Effects Of Information Arrivals In Security Trading, Zhenning Wang

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

The mixture distribution hypothesis is widely used to explain the behavior of returns and volumes in security trading in single-security settings, and the unobservable information arrival process in models based on this hypothesis is the key factor that determines the conditional distributions of returns and volumes. In order to investigate whether the information arrival processes of different securities may interact with each other, in the first part of this dissertation I extended the framework of mixture distribution hypothesis to a multiple-security setting, in which the unobservable information arrival processes of different securities may potentially interact with each other through vector …

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Log-Linear Model Based Tree And Latent Variable Model For Count Data, Yuan Zhao Dec 2016

Log-Linear Model Based Tree And Latent Variable Model For Count Data, Yuan Zhao

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

Events that occur randomly over time or space result in count data. Poisson models are widely used for analyses. However, simple log-linear forms are often insufficient for complex relationship between variables. Thus we study tree-structured log-linear models and latent variables models for count data. First, we consider extending Poisson regression for independent observations. Decision trees exhibit the advantage of interpretation. Constant fits are too simple to interpret within strata nonetheless. We hence propose to embed log-linear models to decision trees, and use negative binomial distribution for overdispersion. Second, we consider latent variable models for point process observation in neuroscience. Neurons …

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Sdn-Based Wsn Routing Protocol, Divith Aruni Babu Dec 2016

Sdn-Based Wsn Routing Protocol, Divith Aruni Babu

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

This thesis aims to find out whether a centralized routing protocol with a dynamic routing table could perform as well as a decentralized routing protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Towards this goal, a Software-defined Networking (SDN) based protocol is proposed and its performance is measured against a popular decentralized routing protocol, Control Tree Protocol (CTP). The goal is to investigate whether an implementation of SDN in a sensor network would offer WSN applications an advantage by compromising on autonomy to possibly increase efficiency and application diversity. This thesis shows that, although the performance of the SDN-based protocol is inferior …

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Part 1. A Study On Delay Tolerant Network Algorithm For Vanet Part 2. An Efficient Mu-Mimo Precoding Operation With Zf And Mmse, Taek Keun Lyu Dec 2016

Part 1. A Study On Delay Tolerant Network Algorithm For Vanet Part 2. An Efficient Mu-Mimo Precoding Operation With Zf And Mmse, Taek Keun Lyu

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

Part 1. In this paper, we learn how to select the Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) routing protocols according to dynamic network environment in wireless ad hoc network. Basically, providing access to the Internet or other network services with low mobile density is quite difficult for disconnection and long delay. One of the solutions in this problem is using Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) with DTN. There are a variety of DTNs, relying on the different network environment. We categorize the DTNs routing protocols. Also, we use simulations to compare that DTN routing protocols lead to reduce end-to-end delay and higher message …

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Investigations Of Electronic And Optical Sources In The Mid Infrared And Terahertz Regions, Thakur Siddharth Singh Dec 2016

Investigations Of Electronic And Optical Sources In The Mid Infrared And Terahertz Regions, Thakur Siddharth Singh

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

Fundamental sources of mid-infrared and terahertz radiation are of the utmost importance for applications such as chemical sensing, molecular spec- troscopy, imaging and telecommunications to name a few. Practical realiza- tions of room temperature fundamental sources in the terahertz region are often hampered by low power and poor temperature performance and this is referred to as the Terahertz gap. This work presents investigations of Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCL) as optical sources of mid-infrared radiation and the proposal of a novel electronic oscillator in the extremely important terahertz region based on a single layer of a suspended graphene sheet. Monte Carlo …

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Design Of A Novel Glitch-Free Integrated Clock Gating Cell For High Reliability, Tasnuva Noor Dec 2016

Design Of A Novel Glitch-Free Integrated Clock Gating Cell For High Reliability, Tasnuva Noor

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

A novel glitch-free integrated clock gating (ICG) cell is developed and demonstrated in 45 nm CMOS technology. The proposed cell is more reliable as it produces an uninterrupted gated clock signal in cases where glitches occur in the enable signal during clock transitions. A detailed comparison of the proposed cell with the existing integrated clock gating cells is also presented. Glitch-free operation (and therefore high reliability) is achieved at the expense of larger power and delay, as quantified for 45 nm CMOS technology. Several design issues and different glitch characteristics are also discussed. The proposed ICG cell is shown to …

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Willful Forgetting: €Œwhite Indians,€ Trauma, And Relationality In American Historical Literature, Kathleen Hankinson Dec 2016

Willful Forgetting: €Œwhite Indians,€ Trauma, And Relationality In American Historical Literature, Kathleen Hankinson

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

This work proposes a critical vocabulary for the study of American historical literature and Native American literature in the light of the genocide of Native America. Considering this genocide in terms of trauma theory (including perpetrator trauma) and relationality theory, it becomes clear that a “working-through†for the non-native postgenerations who have unintentionally inherited stolen lands (along with a self/other construction of non-Native and Native Americans) is ethically and socially desirable. In transcending the dominant self/other paradigm, one’s orientation to US American and Native American historical literature is not about possessing knowledge of these histories and literatures, but rather knowing …

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Gwendolyn Nisbett, Gwendolyn Editha Nisbett Dec 2016

Gwendolyn Nisbett, Gwendolyn Editha Nisbett

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

As You Like It and Hamlet have as a central consideration the need for the restoration of order and the establishment of good governance. A comparative analysis of the roles of the clowns in both plays, using primary and secondary data, reveals that they expose a corrupt political directorate and offer social and political commentary through dialogue, soliloquies, asides and other forms of direct communication with the audience. As You Like It is a romantic comedy in which the usurping Duke causes the courtiers to flee from tyranny by going into exile in the forest of Arden. Touchstone, the jester, …

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From Text To Screen: John Green And The Rise Of Digital Literacy, Jessica Pond Dec 2016

From Text To Screen: John Green And The Rise Of Digital Literacy, Jessica Pond

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

Social media is rapidly becoming more prevalent in modern society. Businesses, politicians, and educators are using social media as an increasingly important tool of communication and information. In my thesis, I examine the implications of the growing importance of social media on young adult authors and the way that literacy is perceived. While social media is often seen as existing purely for entertainment, many educational professionals are bringing aspects of social media into classrooms as instructive and informational tools. Through close examination of the works of John Green and his activities on social media, this thesis addresses the ways in …

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Traumedy: Dark Comedic Negotiations Of Trauma In Contemporary American Literature, Benjamin Nathan Schachtman Dec 2016

Traumedy: Dark Comedic Negotiations Of Trauma In Contemporary American Literature, Benjamin Nathan Schachtman

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

This project explores how dark comedy negotiates between varying and paradoxically conflicting reactions to traumatic experience. These reactions unfold in two ways: the specific moments of “punctual trauma†and the “structural traumas,†wherein illusory structures of the ego – including sex, gender, race, ethnicity, and the sense of immortality – are dissembled and deconstructed. Thus, the traumas represented – in novels by Joseph Heller, Gustav Hasford, Gore Vidal, Chuck Palahniuk, Gary Shteyngart, Thomas King, and Robert Coover; films by Mike Nichols, Stanley Kubrick, and David Fincher – concern characters facing a seemingly oppositional choice between “witnessing,†providing “testimony†about the …

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Margery Kempe: A Mirror Of Change In Late-Medieval England, Janet Tuthill Dec 2016

Margery Kempe: A Mirror Of Change In Late-Medieval England, Janet Tuthill

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

Often considered the earliest autobiography written in English, The Book of Margery Kempe expresses social and religious commentary. This dissertation discusses Kempe’s life story as it mirrors the religious and social changes occurring in late-medieval England. I view Margery Kempe as a real person who was very involved in the production of her book, that the scribes who assisted her played an important part in shaping the text, but that we mainly hear Kempe’s voice. My view is that the work is neither a straightforward presentation of lived experience nor pure fiction, but based upon the real-life experiences of an …

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Discovery Of A Novel Nitric Oxide Sensing Protein, Nosp, Sajjad Hossain Dec 2016

Discovery Of A Novel Nitric Oxide Sensing Protein, Nosp, Sajjad Hossain

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

In nature, most bacteria live in surface attached communities called bacterial biofilms. Community living is beneficial to the bacteria, as it offers heightened resistance to environmental stresses due to the production of a protective exopolymeric matrix. When the growth of a bacterial community reaches a certain threshold, some bacteria disperse to find new frontiers to occupy and repopulate. Bacterial biofilms can be beneficial as is the case with those found in our gastrointestinal tracks that help us digest food particles. However, biofilms can pose a major threat to human health when they are composed of pathogenic bacteria that cause chronic …

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Synaptonemal Complex Disassembly Activates Rad51-Mediated Double Strand Break Repair During Budding Yeast Meiosis, Evelyn Joann Prugar Dec 2016

Synaptonemal Complex Disassembly Activates Rad51-Mediated Double Strand Break Repair During Budding Yeast Meiosis, Evelyn Joann Prugar

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

Meiosis is a highly conserved specialized cell division that occurs in many organisms, including budding yeast and mammals. Meiosis divides the chromosome number of the cell in half to create gametes for sexual reproduction. A single round of chromosome duplication is followed by two rounds of chromosome segregation, Meiosis I (homologs segregate) and Meiosis II (sister chromatids segregate). Proper segregation at Meiosis I requires that homologs are connected by both crossovers and sister chromatid cohesion. Crossovers are formed by the repair of double strand breaks (DSBs) preferentially by the homolog. The choice of repair template is determined at the time …

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Stony Brook Press, V. 38, N. 05, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook Press. Dec 2016

Stony Brook Press, V. 38, N. 05, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook Press.

Stony Brook Press

v. 36,n. 4, v.:ill. ; 38 cm (original analog pub.)

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