The site o f Tabun is one o f the most important hominid occupation sites in Southwest Asia. In the 1930’s a fairly complete female Neandertal skeleton (Tabun C l) was found along with an isolated male mandible (Tabun C2) ...

Non-exchangeable dependence structures exist in the real world, and we are interested in how to identify the existence of non-exchangeability in the joint distributional tails and how to quantify the degree of such tail ...

This dissertation argues that acclaimed filmmaker Ang Lee should be regarded as a Taiwanese transnational filmmaker. Thus, to best understand his work, a Taiwanese sociopolitical context should be employed to consider his ...

Takings jurisprudence has long been and remains, in the opinion of many, a constitutional quagmire, with little in the way of predictable results or coherent principles. The Supreme Court itself has acknowledged the largely ...

This paper consists of three parts discussing different aspects of rhythm and percussion from South India. South Indian rhythm is perhaps the most highly developed in the world. Chapter 1 contains the reasons why this topic ...

Issuers of blockchain-based projects have increasingly turned to Initial Coin Offerings to raise capital. Many of these offerings have similar characteristics to securities offerings, yet are often not registered or exempt ...

Ribozymes are small catalytic RNAs that can be engineered to cleave heterologous RNA in an enzymatic fashion. One of the applications of ribozyme technology is as an AIDS therapeutic. In this thesis, an HIV-1 sequence was ...

In vitro studies suggest that catalytic RNA may down regulate gene expression through cleavage of target RNA. This application is being evaluated by using a "hairpin" ribozyme derived from the negative strand of the satellite ...