Current therapies to improve hearing, including hearing aids and cochlear implants, require intact and functional auditory neurons. Within the inner ear, the primary auditory neurons, called spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs), ...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a deadly disease with a 5-year survival rate of ~11%. Late-stage diagnosis of disease is a key driver of poor outcomes. To improve patient survival, a better understanding of early ...

Astrobiology is the study of the “living universe,” which includes the study of the origin of lifeas well as its evolution and distribution on Earth and beyond. Prime candidates for alien life include the icy moons of the ...

HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a retrovirus affecting approximately 1.2 million people in the United States according to the CDC. This virus causes severe damage to the immune system eventually leading to acquired ...

This dissertation concerns selecting locally influential variables in both conditional mean and conditional distribution-based models with high-dimensional longitudinal data. Motivated by a large epidemiological study for ...

This thesis reexamines the careers and works of three contemporary writers: the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, the German writer and academic W.G. Sebald, and the American poet, memoirist, and human rights activist ...

American urban core cities have been in a crisis that commenced in the middle of the last century and has not abated. The outmigration of economically diverse populations and capital threatens the economic sustainability ...

Abstract:Since 2002, many previously unknown textual fragments inscribed in Hebrew or Aramaic have surfaced on the antiquities market. Believed to be newly discovered biblical artifacts belonging to the canon of the Dead ...

Electric distribution utilities link individuals to the vast infrastructure involved in generating electricity. Because of the utilities’ intermediary role, it is important to study whether justice or injustice is considered ...

El objetivo de este estudio es analizar las capacidades estatales necesarias para la implementación del Programa Nacional de Entrega Voluntaria de Armas de Fuego en la República Argentina (2007-2015) como política de desarme ...