of the Dissertation Self-Dual Metrics on 4-Manifolds by Mustafa Kalafat Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics Stony Brook University 2007 Under a vanishing hypothesis, Donaldson and Friedman proved that the connected sum of two self-dual Riemannian 4-Manifolds is again self-dual. Here we prove that the same result can be extended over to the positive scalar curvature case. Secondly we give an exa...

of the Dissertation Axioms for Di erential Cohomology

Ruidan Zhong,1,2,* Xugang He,1,3 J. A. Schneeloch,1,3 Cheng Zhang,1,2 Tiansheng Liu,1,4 I. Pletikosić,1,5 T. Yilmaz,6 B. Sinkovic,6 Qiang Li,1 Wei Ku,1 T. Valla,1 J. M. Tranquada,1,† and Genda Gu1 1Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA 2Materials Science and Engineering Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Broo...

Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy for charged particle production in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV and in p+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

The official electronic file of this thesis or dissertation is maintained by the University Libraries on behalf of The Graduate School at Stony Brook University. d d b b b y y y A A A u u u t t t h h h o o o r r r. .. Aneeta Bhattacharyya We, the thesis committee for the above candidate for the Master of Science degree, hereby recommend acceptance of this thesis. 2010 Wireless sensor networks a...

Traditional INSERTION SORT runs in O(n) time because each insertion takes O(n) time. When people run INSERTION SORT in the physical world, they leave gaps between items to accelerate insertions. Gaps help in computers as well. This paper shows that GAPPED INSERTION SORT has insertion times of O(logn) with high probability, yielding a total running time of O(n logn) with high probability.

Considerable quantities of valuable data about product information and financial statements is often available in sources and formats that are not amenable for querying using traditional database techniques. One such important source is text documents. In such documents these kinds of data often appear in tabular form. A data item in these text tables may span several words (e.g. product descri...

viability of black-footed ferrets in plague-impacted landscapes: a metamodelling approach Kevin T. Shoemaker, Robert C. Lacy, Michelle L. Verant, Barry W. Brook, Travis M. Livieri, Philip S. Miller, Damien A. Fordham and H. Resit Akc akaya* Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Chicago Zoological Society, Brookfield, IL 60513, USA; USGS Nationa...

In 1995, Dell and Teta published a cohort mortality study of asbestos molding compound workers at a Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) plastics manufacturing plant in Bound Brook, New Jersey. They reported that the factory workers were exposed to "asbestos (mostly chrysotile)," implying that the asbestos used at the Bound Brook plant occasionally contained amphiboles. However, UCC statements and t...