The ratification of Article 6 the Paris Agreement allows countries to engage in compliance-based carbon markets which will allow offset their own emissions by investing reductions elsewhere. Given this recent development, it bears considering whether international system is prepared adopt existing voluntary into a compliance system. Accordingly, paper examines nationally determined contribution...

Since 1980 U.S. rr~acroeconomic policy has diverged from that of other major industrial countries. While most countries responded to the inflationary impact of the 1979 oil shock by tightening their fiscal policies, the influence of supply-side doctrine has led the United States into a dramatic fiscal loosening. After 1979 all major countries moved towards tighter monetary policies; but until m...

The purpose of this study was to examine consumers' behaviors toward ready-to-eat foods and to develop ready-to-eat food market segmentation in Korea. The food-related lifestyle and purchase behaviors of ready-to-eat foods were evaluated using 410 ready-to-eat food consumers in the Republic of Korea. Four factors were extracted by exploratory factor analysis (health-orientation, taste-orientati...

Telemedicine technologies and services allow today's ophthalmic clinicians to remotely diagnose, manage and monitor several ophthalmic conditions from a distance. But is this the case for glaucomas? There has been a proliferation of telemedicine friendly devices in recent years that improves the capabilities of the clinician in managing glaucomas. The existing instruments still need to align th...

microscopy (SPM) for nano-scale imaging with confocal Raman spectroscopy for chemical characterization. Challenges with tip quality, optical alignment, consistency and speed, however, have made the technique difficult and complex. New instrumentation is addressing these challenges, allowing TERS to migrate from pure research to routine laboratory analysis. These systems provide correlated nano-...

Opening of the voltage-dependent Ca 2 channels permits influx of Ca across the plasma membrane, triggering diverse physiological processes. These channels are widely distributed in the cardiovascular system, constituting the main route for Ca entry essential for excitation and contraction. Ten unique 1 subunits, grouped in 3 families (CaV1, CaV2, and CaV3), that encode the low-voltage– activate...

An in-depth investigation of a multi-mode reconfigurable aperture controlled by pin diode switches is presented. A method for reducing the coupling across the pin diode switches is explored, yielding a noticeable improvement in the isolation characteristics between ports. Strategic feeding of the patch antenna ports results in significantly improved radiation patterns, making the system suitabl...

Space exploration could be significantly aided by combining the disciplines of machine learning and computer vision, but these disciplines need to be developed further for specific space-related applications to have merit. One of the applications for space exploration is the detection of certain structures designating areas of interest. This thesis demonstrates a method of structure-detecting t...