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(2009-03-27)Department: Computer ScienceEmerging applications in the realm of Intelligent Transportation systems, such as traffic congestion management and vehicle rerouting, weather alerts, and infotainment via multimedia streaming, require timely and reliable ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)This article establishes versions of Moulin's [On strategy-proofness and single peakedness, Public Choice 35 (1980), 31-38] characterizations of various classes of strategy-proof social choice functions when the domain ...
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(2018-07-11)Department: MathematicsLet V be a unitary vertex operator algebra (VOA) satisfying the following conditions: (1) V is of CFT type. (2) Every N-gradable weak V -module is completely reducible. (3) V is C2-cofinite. Let Rep(V)be the category of ...
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(2008-12-06)Department: ReligionA United Methodist theology of service is developed in the general context of United Methodist sacramental theology. Baptism, as a sign of covenant with God, marks the entry into a Christian life of service in the world. ...
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(2011-07-29)Department: Mechanical EngineeringIn conventional internal combustion engines, valves are opened and closed using a cam surface. The cam is kinematically related to the piston positions through the crankshaft and timing belt. In contrast, there is no ...
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(2007-07-26)Department: Electrical EngineeringAutonomous robots are intelligent machines capable of performing tasks in the real world without explicit human control for extended periods of time. A high degree of autonomy is particularly desirable in fields where ...
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(2018-04-11)Department: Latin American StudiesIn the antebellum American South, slaves and free blacks from across the Atlantic World went to court to petition for their freedom from illegal enslavement. US legal officials primarily cared whether or not slaves could ...
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(2021-06-11)Department: EnglishThis dissertation intervenes in discussions about the development of fictionality during the eighteenth century by examining how British authors experimented with fictional practices through the oriental tale. While the ...
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(2011-04-16)Department: ReligionThis dissertation seeks to strengthen the relationship between preaching and adolescents. I begin by narrating a critical homiletic history of adolescence in North America, showing how a once fruitful relationship ...
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(2015-03-26)Department: HistoryIn February 1939, the Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA) hired a registered nurse, Mildred Delp, and charged her with implementing a program to promote birth control among California’s migrant women. Over the next ...
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(portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2018-04)The Research and Teaching Fellowship (RTF) of the University of Maryland Libraries in College Park is a three-semester teacher training program for students seeking a master's of library and information science (MLIS) ...
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(2013-06-04)Department: PsychologyWilliams syndrome (WS) is a genetic, neurodevelopmental disorder that has been of interest to music cognition researchers because of its characteristic auditory sensitivities and emotional responsiveness to music. However, ...
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(2017-12-06)Department: ChemistryPart A: Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) oxygenates arachidonic acid (AA) and its ester analog, 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), to prostaglandins (PGs) and prostaglandin glyceryl esters (PG-Gs), respectively. Although the efficiency ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2009-03-23)
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(2011-07-29)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyAPOBEC3G (A3G) is a cytidine deaminase that inhibits the replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in the absence of the HIV-1 virion infectivity factor (Vif) protein. However, in the presence of the viral ...
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(2018-02-14)Department: Biological SciencesCell migration is vital to numerous biological processes, and is misregulated in pathological processes, such as cancer metastasis. Cell migration is a tightly, spatiotemporally regulated process that requires the coordination ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-06-07)A discussion of the physiology and presentation of abdominal compartment syndrome.
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(2008-07-31)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceTo support the world's insatiable desire for energy in the coming century without risking environmental catastrophe, paradigm-shifting research into next-generation photovoltaics and solid-state white lighting is necessary. ...
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(PLoS One, 2019-07-31)Glycosaminoglycans in the skin interstitium and endothelial surface layer have been shown to be involved in local sodium accumulation without commensurate water retention. Dysfunction of heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycans ...