Viral encephalitis is a serious and life-threatening inflammation of the central nervous system (CNS). However, mechanisms of viral neuroinvasion and disease pathogenesis in the CNS are often poorly understood. Mammalian ...

This thesis evaluates the fundamental understanding of electroosmotic flow in a heterogeneous converging-diverging circular microchannel. Three converging-diverging circular microchannels were modeled and the Poisson-Boltzmann ...

Deep genome sequencing of the fungal kingdom, an ancient and diverse eukaryotic lineage, has shed light on the dynamics of genome evolution. For example, these studies have underscored the importance of evolution by gene ...

The United States has experienced dramatic gains over the last 70 years with the number of women entering the labor workforce. Despite these gains, women continue to earn less than men in similar roles, hold fewer leadership ...

Independent agencies have long been viewed as different from executive-branch agencies because the President lacks authority to fire their leaders for political reasons, such as failure to follow administration policy. In ...

The federal common law of foreign relations has been in decline for decades. The field was built in part on the claim that customary international law is federal common law and in part on the claim that federal judges ...

Descriptions of resources, like the genome assemblies reported in Microbiology Resource Announcements, are often frozen at their time of publication, yet they will need to be interpreted in the midst of continually evolving ...

GABA functions as the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain. In hippocampus, GABA serves multiple roles during development and throughout adulthood, which include: 1) orchestrate synapse maturation ...