The equitable doctrine of undue influence allows for the rescission of a gift or contract arising out of a relationship of influence between the transacting parties. The doctrine applies in two ways. The first application is through ‘actual undue influence’ where it must be proved that one party unconscionably used their position of significant influence in the relationship to secure the transa...

The late 19th century and early 20th century represent an era of significant progress and important discoveries. Explorers of unknown continents interacted with pioneers of neuroscience, including the founders of the neuron doctrine, which asserted that nerve tissue was composed of individual cells that were genetic, anatomic, functional, and trophic units. Fridtiof Nansen (1861-1930), an arcti...

Kiwi fruit is of great agricultural, botanical, and economic interest. The flower of kiwi fruit has axile placentation, which is typical for Actinidiaceae. Axile placentation is thought derived through fusion of conduplicate carpels with marginal placentation according to the traditional doctrine. Recent progress in angiosperm systematics has refuted this traditional doctrine and placed ANITA c...

This thesis will assess influential guerrilla doctrine advising optimal insurgent (1) operational environment, (2) organizational structure, (3) logistical capacity, and (4) dependent tactics items of consistent, yet incomplete analysis in counter-insurgency (COIN) analytics and civil war scholarship. Following a review of five of the most infamously disseminated guerrilla doctrine and training...

To my treasured wife Marti-my eternal companion To the Lord Jesus Christ iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS They have encouraged, advised and led me along this path. I want to thank members of the Meiler Lab – Dr. Edward W. Lowe for his help with GPU acceleration, Brian Weiner for his help in programming and introduction to the lab, Mariusz Butkeivicz and Jeff Mendenhall for their insight and assistance thro...

This summer I stood with a group of American university professors on a mountain in Israel overlooking the border with Lebanon. Through the telephoto lenses of our cameras, we could see plainly Hezbollah’s yellow flags and installations on the Lebanese side. An Israeli Defense Forces spokesman—a New York-born major in the reserves—had told us earlier in the day of the estimated ten thousand roc...