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Mixed Lineage Luekemia Histone Methyltransferases In Hormonal Regulation Of HOXB9 And Target Gene Regulation
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2014-09-17)
Homeobox gene (HOX) genes are evolutionary conserved genes that play important roles in cell differentiation, cell proliferation and embryogenesis. HOX genes bind to the DNA via their homeodomain and act as transcription ...
An updated GPS velocity field for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands: Constraints on tectonic setting and internal-deformation
(2014-09-17)
Puerto Rico and the northern Virgin Islands define the eastern end of the Greater Antilles, while the Puerto Rico trench and the Muertos Trough define the northern and the southern limits of the North American - Caribbean ...
Chaucer's De-colonized Custance
(English, 2014-07-14)
Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale (MLT) contains several non-Western views, religious practices, cultures and laws. Most importantly, within the MLT readers can discover an alternative to viewing non-Western people as enemies. ...
Design, Fabrication And Characterization Of Guided-mode Resonance Transmission Filters
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-07-14)
This dissertation addresses photonic devices enabled by the guided-mode resonance (GMR) effect. As periodic phototonic structures can become highly reflective or transmissive at resonance, this effect has been utilized to ...
Inferring Answer Quality, Answerer Expertise, And Ranking In Question Answer Social Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-07-14)
Search has become ubiquitous mainly because of its usage simplicity. Search has made great strides in making information gathering relatively easy and without a learning curve. Question answering services/communities (termed ...
Digitalism: Towards A Theory Of Digital Rhetoric And Composition
(English, 2014-09-17)
In this thesis, I argue that the text and the textual are inherently digital and, thus, have properties that are information theoretic in origin. From that premise, I use an interdisciplinary approach to construct a theory ...
Influence Of Variation In CPU Utilization On The Rack Level Fan Configuration As A Cooling Technique For High End Servers
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-07-14)
The data center industry has experienced significant growth over the past decade with the introduction and explosion of online banking, social networking and entertainment services. As a result, power consumption of such ...
Executive Compensation And Idiosyncratic Risk
(Finance & Real Estate, 2014-09-17)
Executive compensation is a very heavily researched area in finance, accounting and management over the last three decades. However, there are several inconclusive issues. One of them is the relationship between idiosyncratic ...
Experimental Testbed For Robot Skin Characterization And Interaction Control
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-07-14)
This thesis presents the research and work we conducted with an experimental testbed designed for testing and characterizing various types of robot skin with tactile sensing. The main goal of this research is to develop ...
Run-time Compilation And Dynamic Memory Use Analysis For GPUs
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-09-17)
Powerful Graphics Processing Units (commonly called GPUs) are proliferatingrapidly and are becoming a viable choice for a wide range of user applications. Forperforming computationally intensive tasks on these processors, ...