RULE205 The 19th-Century Russian Novel The 19th-century novel is widely regarded as the supreme achievement of Russian literature. This course will trace its development from Pushkin's elegant, witty novel in verse, EUGENE ONEGIN, through the grotesque comedies of Gogol, to the realist masterpieces of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, with their complex depiction of human psychology and the philosophical...

Although the rare earth element (REE) geochemistry of hydrothermal systems have intensively been investigated at mid-oceanic ridges, studies are relatively few at the converging plate zones like the Okinawa Trough. The “chimney” deposits obtained by using submersible “SHINKAI 2000” from the Iheya Ridge site, Okinawa Trough are largely composed of massive carbonates and silicates with minor amou...

We compute the canonical class of certain Rees algebras. Our formula generalizes that of Herzog and Vasconcelos. Its proof relies on the fact that the formation of the canonical module commutes with subintersections in important cases. As an application we treat the classical determinantal ideals and the corresponding algebras of minors. A considerable part of Wolmer Vasconcelos’ work has been ...

OF DISSERTATION Tricia Muldoon Brown The Graduate School University of Kentucky 2009 Rees Products of Posets and Inequalities ABSTRACT OF DISSERTATIONOF DISSERTATION A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky By Tricia Muldoon Brown Lexington, Kentucky Director: Dr. ...

Recovery and reuse of materials is important for a circular economy. In recent years the recovery of critical metals from end-of-life products has received increased attention. Various streams, e.g. permanent magnets, nickel metal hydride batteries and fluorescent lamps are considered targets for the recovery of rare earth elements (REEs). The last can be a source of up to six different REEs: e...

Proteins are considered the workhorses in the cellular machinery. They are often organized in a highly ordered conformation in the crowded cellular environment. These conformations display characteristic dynamics over a range of time scales. An emerging consensus is that protein function is critically dependent on its dynamics. The subtle interplay between structure and dynamics is a hallmark o...

We define involutive bases for polynomial ideals and demonstrate their use in calculating direct decompositions of polynomial modules, focusing on the so-called Pommaret bases. The resulting decomposition is the well known Rees decomposition. An overview of other important applications of Pommaret bases is given.

We use the theory of lexicographic shellability to provide various examples in which the rank of the homology of a Rees product of two partially ordered sets enumerates some set of combinatorial objects, perhaps according to some natural statistic on the set. Many of these examples generalize a result of J. Jonsson, which says that the rank of the unique nontrivial homology group of the Rees pr...

Nitrobenzoxadiazole (NBD)-labeled lipids are popular fluorescent membrane probes. However, the understanding of important aspects of the photophysics of NBD remains incomplete, including the observed shift in the emission spectrum of NBD-lipids to longer wavelengths following excitation at the red edge of the absorption spectrum (red-edge excitation shift or REES). REES of NBD-lipids in membran...