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Heat Capacity of High Pressure Minerals and Phase Equilibria of Cretan Blueschists.
(2008)
Low temperature heat capacity data are obtained for sphene (titanite) and TiO2-II. The standard entropies are 127.2 ± 0.2 and 48.8 ± 0.10 J/mol.K respectively, obtained by integrating the heat capacity over temperature ...
Well-Posed Boundary Element Formulations in Electromagnetics.
(2008)
New well-conditioned frequency and time domain integral equations providing rapidly convergent solutions to electromagnetic radiation and scattering problems have been obtained. By leveraging (i) novel integral identities, ...
Factors Influencing Opioid Receptor Signaling to Adenylyl Cyclase.
(2010)
Opioids, such as morphine, signal through G protein-coupled receptors that are linked to adenylyl cyclase (AC)-inhibitory (Gi/o) heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins. The transduction of signal from opioid receptor to G ...
Essays on Population Learning Dynamics and Boundedly Rational Behavior
(2009)
This dissertation contains four essays about evolutionary learning dynamics and the quantal response model of bounded rationality in game theory.
The first essay examines the use of single-agent and representative-agent ...
RNA Topology as a Framework for Structure, Dynamics and Adaptation.
(2010)
The thermodynamic rules that link RNA sequences to secondary structure are well established while the link between its secondary structure and three-dimensional global conformation remains poorly understood. A-form helices ...
Identification of Atmospheric Mercury Sources and Transport Pathways on Local and Regional Scales.
(2010)
Mercury (Hg) is a hazardous air pollutant and bioaccumulative neurotoxin whose intricate atmospheric chemistry complicates our ability to define Hg source-receptor relationships on all scales. Our detailed measurements ...
Polymer Membrane Based Optical and Electrochemical Anion/Polyanion Sensors.
(2009)
Polymer membrane based optical and electrochemical anion sensors employing metalloporphyrins as ionophores are attractive tools for the detection of specific anions in environmental and biological samples. In this ...
Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Problems in Computational Biology.
(2009)
This thesis addresses the application of Bayesian hierarchical models to the analysis of high-throughput genomic and proteomic datasets. These models offer probabilistic data mining tools for large-scale datasets and help ...
Information Rates for Secret Sharing over Various Access Structures.
(2009)
Many open questions in secret sharing ask about the information rate of a particular access structure or class of access structures. Here we improve the best known upper bounds on the information rates of the access ...
Integer Ratios of Factorials, Hypergeometric Functions, and Related Step Functions.
(2009)
In this thesis we study the question of certain sequences of ratios products of factorials are always integers. Equivalently, this is a study of when certain step functions related to the Beurling--Nyman criterion for the ...