Malaria is a highly debilitating vector-borne parasitic infection which has been known to be mortal and morbid human beings for centuries now. As of today, the success rate effective control strategies less; however there have several riveting developments. These include: 1. A global incidence decrease in malaria cases; 2. The development non-malaria transmissible transgenic mosquitoes 3. launc...

The global health effort to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio) has encountered a number of unforeseen and unpredictable challenges. This article provides a timely review of progress made toward eradication, including the polio vaccines in use, and explores the reasons for delays in eradication target dates. It provides an overview of some of the remaining barriers to eradication and looks toward o...

The total synthesis of lundurines A-C has been accomplished in racemic and enantiopure forms in 11-13 and 12-14 steps, respectively, without protection/deprotection of functional groups, by a novel tandem double condensation/Claisen rearrangement, a gold(I)-catalyzed alkyne hydroarylation, a cyclopropanation via formal [3 + 2] cycloaddition/nitrogen extrusion, and a remarkable olefin migration ...

OF THE DISSERTATION Simple Groups of Finite Morley Rank of Odd and Degenerate Type by Jeffrey Burdges Dissertation Director: Professor Gregory Cherlin The present thesis aims to drive Borovik’s program towards its final endgame, and to lay out a plan for bringing it to a conclusion. Borovik’s program is an approach to the longstanding Algebraicity Conjecture of Cherlin and Zilber, which propose...