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(2022-06-13)Department: AnthropologyThis research explores the Postclassic period migrations of Nahua speaking groups from Mexico to Central America, which is known as one of the best examples of large-scale population movements in New World culture history. ...
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(2010-12-04)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines the form of the nineteenth-century sonnet in order to demonstrate how this poetry reshapes expectations of Victorian desire, love and marriage. The amatory sonnet sequence, a poetic form which ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 1996)We ask a lot of our jurors. The financial and emotional burdens of jury duty can be significant even in mundane cases. Deciding another's fate is often a trying ordeal, aggravated by unintelligible instructions, hostile ...
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(2009-04-10)Department: ReligionSecret names are a common folkloristic concept found in the Ancient Near Eastern society. The thesis examines four stories of various cultures in the Ancient Near East in search of secret names and how they relate to the ...
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(2015-03-24)Department: Biomedical EngineeringCalorimetry has many applications in the physical and life sciences including measuring phase changes, determining reaction equilibria, detecting protein binding events, and quantifying enzyme kinetics. Towards the goal ...
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(2023-05-24)Department: Biomedical Engineering1 in 8 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime, representing a need for effective preventative measures and therapeutics. Dendritic cells (DCs) can be useful for effective anti-cancer vaccines. In this ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: Biomedical EngineeringPoint-of-care (POC) diagnostics is an important field of biomedical research, delivering rapid results in nonlaboratory settings. Advances in microfabrication have given rise to calorimeters with smaller reaction volumes, ...
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(2007-09-13)Department: PhysicsMicrocalorimetry is an established technique in the biological sciences for determining energy generation and consumption. With recent developments in microfabrication techniques, nanocalorimeters or even picocalorimeters ...
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(2007-12-04)Department: ChemistryNanocarbon materials, specifically graphitic carbon nanofibers (GCNFs) and ultra-dispersed nanodiamond (UDD) particles, have attracted tremendous attention due to their specific nanometer scale structures and unique thermal, ...
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(2011-12-13)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceProperties such as high electrical conductivity; chemical and electrochemical stability over a wide range of conditions; rapid electron transfer kinetics for different redox systems; and reproducible electrical, microstructural ...
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(2019-11-22)Department: Civil EngineeringThe nanoengineering of the mechanical properties of crystalline calcium-silicate-hydrates (i.e., tobermorite 9 Å (T9) and 14 Å (T14)) using single-layer graphene sheets (GS) as nanoreinforcement was studied. The effects ...
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(2018-07-18)Department: Mechanical EngineeringCarbon nanomaterials have been widely used in many applications owing to their unique physical, chemical, and mechanical properties. For energy storage applications, the high surface area and high electrical conductivity ...
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(2018-11-20)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThe plasma membrane is a complex, dynamic, and multifunctional microenvironment whose components mediate much of cellular communication. The size, unique properties, and ability to target and tailor nanoscale materials has ...
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(2014-06-11)Department: PharmacologyPHARMACOLOGY Nanonetworks as Innovative Platforms for Therapeutic Solubilization and Delivery David Michael Stevens Dissertation under the direction of Professor Eva M. Harth Solubility remains the biggest obstacle in ...
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(2010-04-26)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceColloidal nanoparticles in an assortment of shapes (e.g., spherical, rod-like, tube-like, sheet-like) have been the focus of far-reaching research pursuits due to their attractive material-dependent and size-dependent ...
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(2017-07-13)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyCytokinesis is the final step in the cell cycle where one cell is physically divided into two. Animal and fungal cells perform cytokinesis with an actin- and myosin-based molecular machine, the contractile ring. A complete ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2016-05-02)A Fano resonance is an asymmetric, resonant scattering phenomenon which occurs in a multitude of fields, such as atomic physics, nuclear physics, nonlinear optics, and nanophotonics. The Fano resonance is a many-particle ...