Z-structures were originally formulated by Bestvina in order to axiomatize the properties that an ideal group boundary should have. In this dissertation, we prove that if a given group admits a Z-structure, then any ...

Along with London, Rome, Paris, Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Beijing and other celebrated cities that dotted the landscape of early modern world, 17th-century Isfahān has been acknowledged for its impressive urbanity. As such, ...

Invasive zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) have been anthropogenically transported to various inland locations in the midwestern United States from the Laurentian Great Lakes. In northeastern Wisconsin and the Upper ...

Since the completion of the human genome sequencing project, morpholino phosphorodiamidate oligonucleotide (MO) knockdown in zebrafish has been increasingly used to elucidate human gene function. As part of the effort to ...

Patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) suffer from disrupted kidney function due to large, fluid-filled cysts that form in the collecting ducts and kidney tubules. Current treatments for the ...

Zero forcing is a graph infection parameter which allows vertices of a graph to be colored using the color-change rule. Vertices of a graph are initially colored either blue or white. The color-change rule states that if ...

The Project Management Unit (PMU) was created by Government in 1993 to implement the Land Market Action Plan. A part of this plan involves the systematic preparation of maps of all immovable properties, public and private, ...

The following are results of acidified water samples received from the ERL-0 for zinc analysis (acid-exchangeable). Analysis was performed according to guidelines in ''Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes11 ...

Cadmium ion causes toxicity in humans, most prominently in the kidney. This thesis focuses on mechanisms by which Cd2+ harms kidney proximal tubule cells. Previous experiments have shown the time-dependent distribution of ...