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Buletin Jabatan Sejarah, No. 3, 2016, Department Of History University Of Malaya Dec 2016

Buletin Jabatan Sejarah, No. 3, 2016, Department Of History University Of Malaya

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The Political Ideologies Of American Lawyers, Adam S. Chilton, Adam Bonica, Maya Sen Dec 2016

The Political Ideologies Of American Lawyers, Adam S. Chilton, Adam Bonica, Maya Sen

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Civil Rights In A Desegregating America, Nicholas Stephanopoulos Dec 2016

Civil Rights In A Desegregating America, Nicholas Stephanopoulos

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Knowledge Goods And Nation-States, Daniel Hemel, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette Dec 2016

Knowledge Goods And Nation-States, Daniel Hemel, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette

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Litigating The Blue Wall Of Silence: How To Challenge The Police Privilege To Delay Investigation, Aziz Huq, Richard H. Mcadams Dec 2016

Litigating The Blue Wall Of Silence: How To Challenge The Police Privilege To Delay Investigation, Aziz Huq, Richard H. Mcadams

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The Constitutional Law Of Agenda Control, Aziz Huq Dec 2016

The Constitutional Law Of Agenda Control, Aziz Huq

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It's Not All About Me, Antoinette Truglio Martin Dec 2016

It's Not All About Me, Antoinette Truglio Martin

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

It's Not All About Me is a wimpy patience's journey through the first year of cancer. Through journaling and email correspondence, courage was realized. | 235 pages

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Monotonicity Properties Of Stochastic Kriging Metamodels And Related Applications, Bing Wang Dec 2016

Monotonicity Properties Of Stochastic Kriging Metamodels And Related Applications, Bing Wang

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

Stochastic kriging (SK) and stochastic kriging with gradient estimators (SKG) are popular approaches to approximate complex simulation models because of their ability to replace the expensive simulation outputs by metamodel values. Obtaining an accurate SK/SKG metamodel is highly desirable in practice. This dissertation studies the monotonicity properties of the mean squared error (MSE) of optimal SK and SKG predictors. In particular, we show that in both SK and SKG, the MSEs of the corresponding optimal predictors are non-increasing functions of the numbers of design points. Based on these findings, we design an adaptive sequential sampling approach to obtain SK/SKG predictors …

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Manipulation Of Dna At Polymer Surfaces: Electric-Field Controlled Adsorption, Patterned Cutting And Stretching, Ke Zhu Dec 2016

Manipulation Of Dna At Polymer Surfaces: Electric-Field Controlled Adsorption, Patterned Cutting And Stretching, Ke Zhu

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

Recent developments in next generation DNA sequencing and optical restriction mapping involve manipulation of DNA molecules on surfaces. Here we propose a novel method that can control the adsorbed DNA density on polymer surfaces by applying an electric field. The efficiency of deposition was optimized with respect to DNA concentration in solution, electric field type and electric field strength. Enhancement of adsorption density of greater than twenty-fold was found. In addition, DNA molecules are fragmented on a polymer surface by soft lithography. Several experimental conditions have been tested to optimize the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) stamp fabrication and DNA cutting method. Fragmented …

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The Frame Retardant, Mechanical Properties, Thermal Properties And Permeability Of Biodegradable Polymers, Xianghao Zuo Dec 2016

The Frame Retardant, Mechanical Properties, Thermal Properties And Permeability Of Biodegradable Polymers, Xianghao Zuo

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

Nano-particles are great additives to the thermal properties of the polymers, however, they sometimes have some disadvantages on the mechanical properties. The mixing of polymers and nano-particles such as cloisite clays, graphene, melamine polyphosphate and molybdenum disulfide, are mostly physical reactions between them. Therefore, the dispersion of the nano-particles inside the polymers is very important. As for the frame retardant of the polymers, the additives are used as three most important components during the mixing, i.e. the acid source, the carbonization agent (or char forming agent), and a blowing agent. The better the particles disperse in the polymer, the easier …

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Sovereign Invulnerability: Sexual Politics And The Ontology Of Rape, Jane Clare Jones Dec 2016

Sovereign Invulnerability: Sexual Politics And The Ontology Of Rape, Jane Clare Jones

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

As Rebecca Whisnant has noted, notions of “national…and…bodily (especially sexual) sovereignty are routinely merged in rhetoric and metaphor.†(2008:155) Departing from this observation, this project explores the ‘existential infrastructure’ of the ‘logic of sovereign integrity’ in which personhood is thought as analogous to jurisdiction over a bounded territorial enclosure. It traces the philosophical history of this logic, and unfolds the post-Heideggerian French critique of sovereignty as an analysis of how sovereign imperatives are animated by a drive to deny the vulnerabilities of constitutive ontological relation, and are thus implicated in violent cycles of disavowal and appropriation. It then applies this …

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Beyond Regietheater: The Oper Frankfurt Behind The Curtain, 1979 - 2015, Cordelia Elizabeth Chenault Dec 2016

Beyond Regietheater: The Oper Frankfurt Behind The Curtain, 1979 - 2015, Cordelia Elizabeth Chenault

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

This dissertation focuses on the Oper Frankfurt, a musical institution that has played an influential role in the development of operatic staging since the 1980s. Through an examination of productions staged at the house in two different periods (1979 – 1987 and 2010 – 2015), I pay particular attention to the ways in which these contemporary stagings contribute to a discourse about recent opera— particularly in Germany— and what has frequently been called Regietheater. This polemical term, often translated as “director’s theater,†connotes a provocative, theatrically experimental, even massively reenvisioned reading of an operatic work, propelled by a visionary stage …

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Searching For Dark Matter With The Fermi-Lat And Through New Experimental Ideas, Andrea Massari Dec 2016

Searching For Dark Matter With The Fermi-Lat And Through New Experimental Ideas, Andrea Massari

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

The evidence for dark matter is overwhelming. We know where the dark matter is, how much there is, but we do not know what type of particle it consists of. Experimental efforts, as well as theoretical, have tried to shed light on its identity. On the experimental side, “indirect detection†aims to detect stable leptons, baryons, or photons resulting from the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles in outer space. On the other hand, “direct detection†experiments have the goal to reveal interactions of the dark matter particles with electrons or nuclei in a detector on Earth. To date, …

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The Role Of Protein Kinase C In Mammalian Target Of Rapamycin Signaling And Its Therapeutic Implications In Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Mengling Liu Dec 2016

The Role Of Protein Kinase C In Mammalian Target Of Rapamycin Signaling And Its Therapeutic Implications In Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Mengling Liu

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

The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway, which integrates extracellular and intracellular signals, plays a key role in cell metabolism, growth and survival; therefore, the proteins in the signaling pathway must be tightly regulated in order to maintain cellular homeostasis. Conversely, dysregulation of key components of mTOR signaling pathway leads to increased cellular growth and proliferation, which is implicated in many human cancers. Protein kinase C (PKC) is a family of serine/ threonine kinases that regulate many cellular processes including proliferation and cell survival. It has been shown to regulate mTOR signaling in some human cancers. However, the mechanism …

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Characterization Of Structural Defects In Wide Band-Gap Compound Materials For Semiconductor And Opto-Electronic Applications, Ouloide Yannick Goue Dec 2016

Characterization Of Structural Defects In Wide Band-Gap Compound Materials For Semiconductor And Opto-Electronic Applications, Ouloide Yannick Goue

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

Single crystals of binary and ternary compounds are touted to replace silicon for specialized applications in the semiconductor industry. However, the relative high density of structural defects in those crystals has hampered the performance of devices built on them. In order to enhance the performance of those devices, structurally perfect single crystals must be grown. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the interplay between crystal growth process and crystal quality as well as structural defect types and transport property. To this end, the thesis is divided into two parts. The first part provides a general review of the …

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Novel Processing Of Ceramics With Polymorphic Control, Gagan Jodhani Dec 2016

Novel Processing Of Ceramics With Polymorphic Control, Gagan Jodhani

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

Polymorphism is an important phenomenon exhibited by many materials, including ceramic oxides. The availability of multiple structural configurations for the same chemical composition opens the pathway to a large number of phases with distinct properties. The formation of the crystal structures can be directly correlated to the processing temperature and/or pressure as well as the particle size for nanomaterials. This work focuses on the tailored synthesis of the desired polymorphs of binary and ternary metal oxides through nanoscale processes with emphasis on flame spray pyrolysis. Flame spray pyrolysis (FSP) is a scalable nano-manufacturing process used for the synthesis of oxide …

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A Data Driven Design Methodology For Ss Dyads And Its Application To Unified Synthesis Of Planar, Spherical And Spatial Linkages, Xin Ge Dec 2016

A Data Driven Design Methodology For Ss Dyads And Its Application To Unified Synthesis Of Planar, Spherical And Spatial Linkages, Xin Ge

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

This research deals with a general kinematic synthesis problem of how to generate the motion of a spatial platform subject to one or more spherical con- straints. Each spherical constraint can be modeled by a SS dyad, which is a spatial two-link kinematic chain connected by two spherical (S) joints. It defines a five-degree-of-freedom motion of the end link such that a point stays on the surface of a sphere. A spherical constraint degenerates into a plane constraint when the radius of the sphere becomes infinite. In this way, a plane constraint is considered as a special case of a …

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Investigation In A Ocean Wave Energy Converter With A Flywheel, Jiakang Jia Dec 2016

Investigation In A Ocean Wave Energy Converter With A Flywheel, Jiakang Jia

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

A wave energy converter with a flywheel has been investigated and three conceptual designs of power take-off system have came up of which the third generation conceptual design has been built as a prototype for test. Among variable types of wave energy converters, Salter's Duck can convert wave energy to mechanical energy with high efficiency up to 90%. Salter's Duck moves in two directions as waves come and a power take-off system should be designed connected with Salter's Duck for converting mechanical energy to electrical energy. Considering the intermittent energy input, a flywheel energy storage system is included in the …

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Task Scheduling In Modern Data Center: Task Placement And Resource Allocation, Li Shi Dec 2016

Task Scheduling In Modern Data Center: Task Placement And Resource Allocation, Li Shi

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

In modern data centers, the wide use of virtualization techniques has enabled dynamic resource allocation in the form of virtual machines and virtual networks. With such an ability, scheduling tasks, including both computing tasks and data transfer tasks, comprises (a) placing tasks on servers or network paths and (b) allocating a certain amount of resources to each task. In such a context, minimizing the completion time of the tasks, as a critical goal on many task processing platforms, requires joint consideration of both task placement and resource allocation. While many approaches have been proposed in the area of scheduling tasks …

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Verification Of Probabilistic Branching Time Systems, Andrey Gorlin Dec 2016

Verification Of Probabilistic Branching Time Systems, Andrey Gorlin

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

This thesis deals with verification of complex systems, which involve probabilistic choices. In total, we explore three interrelated problems. First, we explore probabilistic extensions of mu-calculus. GPL extends mu-calculus by having all the probabilistic choices made first; this keeps the model checking procedure decidable for any property. We extend GPL to a logic, XPL, which is undecidable, in general. We define a syntactic property of an XPL formula, separability, as a sufficient condition for model checking. Second, we can frame the problem of probabilistic model checking as query evaluation over probabilistic logic programs. We have developed an inference algorithm, PIP, …

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Investigating Interdomain Routing In The Wild, Ruwaifa Anwar Dec 2016

Investigating Interdomain Routing In The Wild, Ruwaifa Anwar

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: â— Investigating Interdomain Routing Policies. First we put Internet topologies …

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Using Locality To Tackle Modern Algorithmic Challenges, Samuel Mccauley Dec 2016

Using Locality To Tackle Modern Algorithmic Challenges, Samuel Mccauley

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

As computers become faster and more parallel, the number of computations a process executes is becoming too simplistic a predictor of performance. In many circumstances, modern algorithmic research can no longer rely on the assumption that each computation roughly corresponds to a set amount of time. For example, large-scale computers may spend far more time moving data around than performing computation, in which case minimizing data transfers is the best way to improve wall-clock performance. Similarly, manufacturing plants may need to focus on minimizing maintenance costs. While they must still guarantee good throughput, the maintenance costs are what most impact …

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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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Turbulent Mixing In Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Using Front-Tracking, Pooja Rao Dec 2016

Turbulent Mixing In Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Using Front-Tracking, Pooja Rao

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

Turbulent mixing from hydrodynamical instabilities, such as Richtmyer-Meshkov (RMI) and Rayleigh-Taylor (RTI) instabilities, plays a critical role in numerous applications ranging from performance degradation in inertial confinement capsules to supernova explosions. At high Reynolds numbers (Re), for which experimental data is not available, numerical simulations are paramount in studying these instabilities. However, the algorithmic differences due to differences in numerical modeling often give solutions that are converged but not unique, that is, different codes converge to different solutions. Thus, to establish the credibility of the simulation in an objective manner, it is necessary to fulfill three main requirements: (1) verification …

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Local Modeling Of Attributed Graphs: Algorithms And Applications, Bryan Perozzi Dec 2016

Local Modeling Of Attributed Graphs: Algorithms And Applications, Bryan Perozzi

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

It is increasingly common to encounter real-world graphs which have attributes associated with the nodes, in addition to their raw connectivity information. For example, social networks contain both the friendship relations as well as user attributes such as interests and demographics. A protein-protein interaction network may not only have the interaction relations but the expression levels associated with the proteins. Such information can be described by a graph in which nodes represent the objects, edges represent the relations between them, and feature vectors associated with the nodes represent the attributes. This graph data is often referred to as an attributed …

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To Fuse Or Not To Fuse? Analysis And Performance Characterization Of The Fuse User-Space File System Framework, Bharath Kumar Reddy Vangoor Dec 2016

To Fuse Or Not To Fuse? Analysis And Performance Characterization Of The Fuse User-Space File System Framework, Bharath Kumar Reddy Vangoor

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

Traditionally, file systems were implemented as part of operating systems kernels, which provide a limited set of tools and facilities to a programmer. As complexity of file systems grew, many new file systems began being developed in user space. Low performance is considered the main disadvantage of user-space file systems but the extent of this problem has never been explored systematically. As a result, the topic of user-space file systems remains rather controversial: while some consider user-space file systems a ``toy'' not to be used in production, others develop full-fledged production file systems in user space. In this thesis we …

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Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese ‘Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations | Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese €˜Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations, I-Te Rita Sung Dec 2016

Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese ‘Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations | Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese €˜Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations, I-Te Rita Sung

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

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the jun’ai (pure-love) genre has flourished in Japan, both in works of popular literature and in film. This phenomenon coincides with a time when the country is seen by the media as being characterized by soshitsukan (sense of loss). In jun’ai films, the heroine is often the object of loss. This theme of loss in jun’ai therefore resonates with the Japanese social context, but this connection has not yet been fully elucidated. In this dissertation, I seek to explain why Japanese women, who are arguably treated as “other†within Japan, embody a transnationalism …

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Numerical Modeling Of Hydrodynamic Instabilities And Their Impact On Mix In Inertial Confinement Fusion, Jeremy Melvin Dec 2016

Numerical Modeling Of Hydrodynamic Instabilities And Their Impact On Mix In Inertial Confinement Fusion, Jeremy Melvin

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

The simulation campaign to model Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) capsules has come a long way since experiments with the potential to achieve net energy gain began in 2010. A remaining area of uncertainty is the modeling of instability growth and mixing of ablator material into the core, degrading the capsules. We explore the instability growth by applying techniques that have led to a proven track record of validation: the addition of a front tracking (FT) algorithm and physical diffusion models. For the first time, we have integrated our FT algorithm through an API into an external Rad-Hydro code FLASH, from …

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Appropriating A People’S Movement: The Relationship Between Community Gardens And Gentrification In New York City | Appropriating A People’S Movement: The Relationship Between Community Gardens And Gentrification In New York City, Prita Lal Dec 2016

Appropriating A People’S Movement: The Relationship Between Community Gardens And Gentrification In New York City | Appropriating A People’S Movement: The Relationship Between Community Gardens And Gentrification In New York City, Prita Lal

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

In this dissertation, I study the intersection of community gardens with gentrification. In much of the gentrification scholarship, gentrification was studied from the macro level and was thought to result from changes in the housing market, hence being viewed as a top-down process in which the elite revitalized decaying urban neighborhoods by bringing capital into these areas and building higher end housing and services or was driven by consumer choices of privileged individuals (Smith 1979; Ley 1981). Some scholars maintained a connection between community gardens and gentrification, by insisting that gardens helped facilitate gentrification (Martinez 2010; Weissman 2012). I take …

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Dna Damage Induces Invasion Of Mcf-7(Human Breast Adenocarcinoma) Cells, Ronald Steven Chavez Dec 2016

Dna Damage Induces Invasion Of Mcf-7(Human Breast Adenocarcinoma) Cells, Ronald Steven Chavez

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

Abstract of the Thesis DNA Damage induces invasion of MCF-7 (Human Breast Adenocarcinoma) Cells by Ronald S. Chavez Master of Science in Biochemistry and Cell Biology Stony Brook University 2016 Breast Cancer is a common malignancy in American and European women, and approximately one-third of these women develop metastasis and die from the disease. Chemotherapy is widely used to treat breast cancer and is known to extend survival of patients. Despite this fact, a small percentage of cells can endure and gain resistance to these treatments. Clinicians have sought to increase the time and intensity of these doses to reduce …

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