The P2X7 receptor is an ATP gated ion channel that plays significant roles in the immune response and neurodegeneration. In a heterologous system, P2X7 channels open only when triggered by a high concentration of ATP (EC50 ...

My dissertation, Sacred Subjects: Gender and Nation in South Asian Literature, intervenes in the ongoing debates in postcolonial and feminist studies about the mapping of woman onto nation. There has been a tendency to ...

This dissertation tells the story of Islamist Conscientious Objectors (COs) in Turkey who resist the obligatory duty of conscription and cultural valorizations of martyrdom through a nonviolent civil resistance based on ...

How do religious parties with historically elite support bases win the mass support required to succeed in democratic politics? This dissertation examines why the world's largest such party, the upper-caste, Hindu nationalist ...

Low-cost accurate methods for estimating soil carbon (C) stocks are needed if terrestrial C offset markets are going to be implemented in the United States. Accurately measuring C stocks is often prohibitively expensive ...

The role of employee satisfaction in the human resources literature is one that is long-lived and, while theoretical rationales explaining why satisfaction may influence firm performance abound, little convincing evidence ...

Stable multi-dimensional optical solitons have been predicted to exist in saturable instantaneous Kerr-like nonlinear systems for many years. The experimental observation of these objects is interesting scientifically and ...

My thesis describes new instrumentation and signal processing techniques developed for time-domain studies of the radio sky and applies these techniques to a variety of radio astronomical data. Time-domain algorithms were ...

This thesis presents a scalable approach for an index based livestock insurance product in Kenya. The index is formulated using remote sensing data from the Modis satellite data to capture the systemic risk associated with ...