Colorectal cancer is the malignant neoplasm of the colon or rectum. Total Mesorectal Excision refers to the complete sharp surgical resection of the perirectal soft tissue, resulting in a smooth, circumferential radial margin. The completeness of a mesorectal excision c...

The first verse of Genesis says that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The world, its form and matter, and time, argues Augustin, arose in Being out of nothing, in one single instant, that of the Creation. Conceived as the coronation of Creation, ...

The exam from ARTH292 (Dept of Art Hist & Art Conserv) taught by Katherine Romba in December 2018

The main topic of this Ph.D. program is focus on the numerical stability and accuracy of Electromagnetic transient simulations. In the first part of this thesis, novel techniques are developed to evaluate the stability. Firstly, in order to adapt the existing stability ...

There is a need for affordable, widely deployable maternal-fetal ECG monitors to improve maternal and fetal health during pregnancy and delivery. Based on the diffusion-based channel selection, here we present the mathematical formalism and clinical validation of an alg...

Pleistocene glaciations resulted in dramatic range adjustments for North American species, involving isolation into southern refugia and subsequent expansion northward. The last glacial cycle shaped the recolonization dynamics and consequently the contemporary distribut...

NASA and its project Journey to Mars pledges to send humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s. But it won't be an easy trip given Mars' low atmospheric pressure, which is less than one per cent of the Earth's. But, after winning a year-long competition, a group of Universi...

Proteins are responsible for virtually all functions performed within and in the surroundings of a cell. The control of gene expression, which determines the amount, localisation and timing of protein production in the cell, is the central processes in the regulation of...