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(2013-07-01)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn recent years, more and more efforts have been put on creating robots that operate in domestic environments. A robotic simulation environment for testing, developing and deploying motion planning is extremely necessary ...
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(2014-04-17)Department: NeuroscienceBoth dopamine and glutamate are critically involved in cognitive processes such as working memory. Evidence has demonstrated that manipulation of either neurotransmitter can lead to alterations in the other. Astrocytes, ...
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(2014-06-20)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyMicrotubule plus-end tracking proteins (+TIPs) are a specialized group of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) that preferentially localize to microtubule (MT) plus-ends. This unique localization is thought to be due to ...
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(2013-06-28)Department: Cancer BiologyStromal-epithelial interactions are important in both prostate development and cancer. Stromal changes have been shown to be powerful prognostic indicators of prostate cancer progression and of patient death helping to ...
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(2014-08-28)Department: NeuroscienceThe p75 Neurotrophin Receptor (p75NTR) is a critical regulator of axon pruning and apoptosis during neurodevelopment. Because the receptor has also been associated with many injurious or pathological conditions involving ...
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(2011-08-16)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyEvaluation of late events in cardiovascular development is precluded mid-gestational embryonic lethality associated with most traditional endothelial specific gene knockouts. Thus, it has not been possible to study late ...
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(2023-06-30)Department: Community Research & ActionIn this paper, I seek to understand how staff members of Faith in Indiana (a Midwestern federation of the national faith-based community organizing network Faith in Action) perceive and talk about navigating their new roles ...
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(2023-06-30)Department: Community Research & ActionIn this paper, I seek to understand how staff members of Faith in Indiana (a Midwestern federation of the national faith-based community organizing network Faith in Action) perceive and talk about navigating their new roles ...
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(1987)
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(2023-03-10)Department: Chemical EngineeringMonolayer film coatings show promise as a means to lubricate mechanical devices with nanoscale separation. These monolayers have many optimizable parameters, such as its film composition and terminal groups, that can ...
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(2022-08-23)Department: PhysicsA search for Supersymmetry (SUSY) produced via electroweak vector boson fusion (VBF) processes using proton-proton collision data is presented. This analysis probes compressed mass spectrum SUSY scenarios in which the mass ...
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(2023-03-27)Department: PhysicsThe focus of this thesis is a search for a heavy fourth neutrino by targeting heavy neutrino production via vector boson fusion (VBF) processes. This type of process includes two vector bosons (radiated from quarks involved ...
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A search for supersymmetric top quarks in CMS 8TeV data in the b/τ + jets + met + muon final state (2016-04-05)Department: PhysicsThis dissertation examines data recorded in 2012 by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to search for supersymmetric top quark decay. In order to reduce the substantial backgrounds ...
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(2012-08-01)Department: EnglishThis dissertation recovers the long nineteenth-century history of the magic-portrait story, a forgotten genre of prose fiction that climaxed in 1890 with Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. I argue that the history ...
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(2006-06-07)Department: Computer ScienceModel-Integrated Computing (MIC) is an approach for model-based design of embedded software and systems. MIC places strong emphasis on the use of domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) and model transformation techniques ...
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(2023-07-19)Department: Computer ScienceModel-driven engineering (MDE) has been applied extensively to Cyber-physical systems (CPS) in which the functionality emerges from the interactions of computational and physical processes. The CPS design of autonomous ...
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(2007-12-27)Department: EnglishIn this dissertation, I conceive of three interlocking developments in geography: the revolution of infrastructure, the circulation of goods and print, and the completion of the map of the world. The enclosure of lands and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)This paper proposes a fully nonparametric test for cointegrating rank which does not require estimation of a vector autoregressive model. The test exploits the fact that the degeneracy in the moment matrix of the variables ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)This paper analyzes a simple and tractable model of occupational choice in the presence of credit market imperfections. We examine the relative roles of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, and history ...