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(2019-07-16)Department: PsychologyAcetylcholine (ACh) is a ubiquitous and well-studied neurotransmitter, best characterized in the peripheral nervous system where it acts as the signaling molecule at the neuromuscular junction. Despite being among the first ...
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(2018-04-02)Department: Electrical EngineeringWith technology scaling at 22 nm and beyond, the semiconductor industry has successfully transitioned to 3D multi-gate transistors (i.e., FinFETs) due to the excellent FinFET gate control and reduced short channel effects ...
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(2005-08-11)Department: Biological SciencesPSF (PTB-associated splicing factor) has been implicated in both early and late steps of pre-mRNA splicing as well as multiple nuclear events including transcription regulation, nuclear RNA retention/export, topoisomerase ...
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(2009-06-15)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) is a region of the brain critical in mediating behavioral and physiological responses to stress and anxiety. Stress is a major cause of relapse for drug addicts attempting ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsHantaviruses are high-priority emerging pathogens carried by rodents and transmitted to humans by aerosolized excreta or, in rare cases, person-to-person contact. While sporadic in North and South America, many infections ...
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(2012-04-09)Department: Electrical EngineeringAs transistor density increases with each new CMOS technology node, the probability of a single ion causing a single-event transient in a circuit or inducing charge sharing among transistors increases. These transients can ...
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(2014-07-28)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyThe apical recycling endosome supported by myosin Vb (MYO5B) acts as the main decision point for both the biosynthetic and endocytic pathways as they traffic proteins to and from the apical surface in polarized cells. ...
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(2019-07-24)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyThe blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a highly restrictive and regulated vascular network, strictly controlling the molecules that enter the brain via the bloodstream, while also serving an important role in the removal of toxic ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyChronic Helicobacter pylori infection in humans causes prominent inflammation and oxyntic atrophy, which leads to two distinct types of metaplasia: intestinal metaplasia and spasmolytic polypeptide expressing metaplasia ...
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(2010-03-23)Department: PhysicsWe report the observation of coherent acoustic phonon oscillations in GaSb(20 nm)/GaAs near the band gap of GaAs at room temperature. A photogenerated longitudinal acoustic phonon wave travels from the top surface of GaSb ...
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(2011-04-05)Department: Electrical EngineeringThermionic energy conversion is a relatively unexplored technology for the efficient conversion of thermal energy directly to electrical energy. In a thermionic converter, thermally excited electrons are emitted from the ...
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(2011-08-03)Department: Electrical EngineeringTwo-photon absorption (TPA) has become an important tool for understanding the mechanisms of single-event effects (SEE) in microelectronics. Very little experimental work has been reported that describes the physical ...
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(2023-03-24)Department: Electrical EngineeringTechnology scaling has increased the density of logic gates impacted by particle strikes, which affects the reliability of digital designs. Also, the impact of process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variation enhances ...
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(2018-04-06)Department: MathematicsThis dissertation contributes new results about minor-restricted families of graphs to the field of structural graph theory. A graph G contains a graph H as a minor if H can be formed from G through a sequence of vertex ...
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(2014-03-27)Department: PhysicsCharacterization and modeling magnetic flux transport within the surface layers of the Sun are vital to explaining the 11 year sunspot cycle. I have characterized the differential rotation (DR) and meridional flow (MF) ...
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(2023-03-27)Department: NeuroscienceEpilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, and current treatments fail to provide seizure control for ~30% of patients. Most pharmacological treatments target ion channels and neurotransmission, yet the ...
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(2023-11-07)Department: Computer ScienceMedical imaging techniques, such as multi-modality Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MR) and Computed Tomography (CT), have been invaluable for the early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases. The process of annotating ...
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(2021-04-02)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyCancer is a heterogeneous disease displaying a variety of cell populations inter- and intra-tumorally. This heterogeneity poses a challenge to cancer treatment, as more heterogeneous cellular populations are more prone to ...
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(2022-11-22)Department: NeuroscienceAutism has long been considered an empathy related condition, yet empirical evidence supporting this claim has been inconclusive. While most cognitive empathy assessments suggest a decreased capacity for emotion recognition, ...
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(2009-12-16)Department: Chemical EngineeringBimodal analysis, a cellular-scale approach to studying eukaryotic single cell migration by performing a model-based analysis of single cell video-microscopy data, is described. The bimodal framework that is a generalization ...