Causal inference methods are powerful techniques which allow the practitioner to estimate treatment effects while simultaneously injecting cause and effect into the problem at hand. However, when causal estimation procedures ...

The Acts of the Apostles writes criminals into existence. Acts, a second-century text that narrates the origins of the messiah movement or “the Way”—its term for Christ-followers—has often been read as a straightforward ...

Nearly 425 million years ago land plants evolved novel tissues to move water and sugar more efficiently through their body. These conducting tissues, xylem and phloem, amplified mass flow rates by orders of magnitude, ...

In my dissertation, I study the role of nature in spatial, landscape, and urban planning. The main actor in this investigation is the Danube River: a watershed of 300,000 square miles, the infrastructure of myths since the ...

The cell division cycle requires duplication of the genome and segregation of the replicated genomes into daughter cells. Failure to keep these two processes distinct can compromise genomic integrity, causing oncogenic ...

Ever since President Calderón launched the War on Drugs policy in Mexico in 2006 by sending in more than 6,500 troops to his home state of Michoacán, there have been a series of political assassinations against local ...

Between 1987 and 2017, the number of annual fire incidents in the US declined by nearly 45 percent, while the number of total career (salaried) firefighters increased by almost 55 percent. This dissertation, which consists ...

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant amount of research on the dynamics of the disease and its unique effects on different locations. There remains a lot to learn about the spatial and ...

TGFb and Wnt developmental signaling pathways are commonly dysregulated in cancer; this includes melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. These pathways terminate in signaling transcription factors (TFs) binding to ...

This dissertation claims that literature is best understood as an event of language. Borrowing from the late work of Hans Georg Gadamer, the event nature of literature is articulated as the full presencing of language ...