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Environmental Radiation and Fetal Outcomes: From the Ground to the Sky
(2023-05-01)Background radiation is an environmental risk factor for human diseases that is often overlooked. This dissertation focuses on two major ionizing radiation exposures that occur naturally at chronic and low doses, particle ... -
Environmental Radiation and Human Health: From Radon to the Sun
(2022-06-06)Environmental radiation, often referred to as “background radiation”, is around us all the time. There are three main natural sources of environmental radiation: cosmic radiation that comes from the sun and stars, terrestrial ... -
Environmental Spiral: Scientific Mediation in Twentieth-Century American Poetry
(2013-08-28)This dissertation asks how the heightening of artistic and scientific mediation has affected the representation of the environment in modernist and contemporary American poetry. In chapters on Marianne Moore, A.R. Ammons, ... -
Environmental Stupidity
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Environmental Tax Reform and Economic Welfare
(2013-10-08)According to a new study EPI (2012), India has the worst air pollution in the entire world. Given the severe damages caused by air pollution, it is important to explore various options to control air pollution. In chapter ... -
Environmental Writing for Children: A Selected Reconnaissance of Heritages, Emphases, Horizons
(Oxford University Press, 2014)This article analyzes representative topoi or traditions emanating from the so-called golden age of children’s writing in the late Victorian era that feature encounters with the physical environment. It traces the emergence ... -
Environmental, Economic, and Moral Dimensions of Sustainability in the Petroleum Industry in Austrian Galicia
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2011)Fears about the sustainability of oil-rich communities and hopes that petroleum would fuel financial, social, and moral renewal have accompanied the oil industry since its inception in the mid-nineteenth century. With each ... -
Environmentally induced changes in the gut microbiome and their role in the metabolic syndrome
(2022-06-06)Previous studies have shown that lifestyle affects the gut microbiome. For example, a diet low in fiber leads to progressive loss of gut microbiome diversity across generations in mice. Industrial populations have a higher ... -
The Environments of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts and Implications for their Progenitors
(Elsevier BV, 2011)The study of short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) experienced a complete revolution in recent years thanks to the discovery of the first afterglows and host galaxies starting in May 2005. These observations demonstrated ... -
An Enzymatic Cyclopentyl[b]indole Formation Involved in Scytonemin Biosynthesis
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2009)Previous studies of the biosynthetic enzymes involved in the assembly of scytonemin (1), a cyanobacterial sunscreen, have identified β-ketoacid 2 as an important intermediate that is produced by ThDP-dependent enzyme ScyA. ... -
Enzymatic Signal Amplification of Molecular Beacons for Sensitive DNA Detection
(Oxford University Press, 2008)Molecular beacons represent a new family of fluorescent probes for nucleic acids, and have found broad applications in recent years due to their unique advantages over traditional probes. Detection of nucleic acids using ... -
Enzyme Kinetics, Past and Present
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Enzyme-Free Translation of DNA into Sequence-Defined Synthetic Polymers Structurally Unrelated to Nucleic Acids
(2014)The translation of DNA sequences into corresponding biopolymers enables the production, function, and evolution of the macromolecules of life. In contrast, methods to generate sequence-defined synthetic polymers with similar ... -
Ephemeral History: Periodical Form and Doubled Time in the British Novel, 1720-1830
(2023-05-15)Ephemeral History reads the emergence of the British novel in relation to a long-overlooked aspect of the contemporaneous media environment: a growing interest in preserving and collecting media that were designed or ... -
Epic
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The Epic Cycle and the Ancient Novel
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The Epic Hero
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The Epic of Sasun: Armenian Apocalypse
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An Epidemic Model of Violence and Public Support in Civil War
(Sage Publications, 2013)How do civilians respond to violence in civil war, and how do these responses shape combatants’ coercive strategies? Conventional wisdom expects civilian victimization to backfire, as a security-minded public “balances” ...