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(2010-08-03)Department: PsychologyThis study examined guilt in adult siblings of individuals with developmental disabilities. Responses were taken from 1,150 adult siblings, age 18-85, who responded to the Adult Sibling Questionnaire, an online survey ...
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(2009-04-07)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe processes of tumor growth and treatment response are associated with the upregulation of numerous proteins [1, 2], yet current clinical imaging methods of cancer characterization monitor only gross morphology [3, 4]. ...
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(2009-12-08)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyThe premise of this work is to understand the contrast variations seen in MRI in light of the proteomic composition of tissue. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is now widely used as a primary medical imaging method to ...
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(2012-02-28)Department: Biomedical EngineeringRaman spectroscopy is an extremely sensitive technique that has been used by many research groups to differentiate between normal and abnormal changes in biological samples. Previous results have shown that when Raman ...
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(2016-11-21)Department: PsychologyThe correlation coefficient be can interpreted as the cosine of the angle between centered or standardized variable vectors in subject space. Using this interpretation of the correlation, the space occupied by 3x3 correlation ...
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(2015-11-16)Department: ChemistryColloidal quantum dots (QDs) promise to revolutionize light harvesting for photovoltaics and controlled light emission from devices such as LEDs, lasers, and even nanometer-scale single-QD optical switches and routers. ...
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(2007-04-14)Department: PsychologyEquivalence testing confirms that two parameters are within an acceptable tolerance of each other by rejecting a statistical null hypothesis that the parameters are farther apart than that tolerance. Equivalence testing ...
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(2009-12-14)Department: SociologyFollowing reforms in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, a large environmental movement erupted across the nation. At the time, it was the largest and most powerful critical group in the repressive regime. After the ...
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(2013-04-16)Department: Political ScienceWhat factors lead to the support of female political candidates in the Latin American and Caribbean region? I focus on one part of this broader question by examining the relationship between gender stereotypes and perceptions ...
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(2013-04-01)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation project is concerned with corruption in higher education as a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. In this study, I defined corruption in higher education and developed a conceptual ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)Two aspects of corruption are examined theoretically: its effect on macroeconomic variables, and its determination from the political environment. Corruption is defined in an occupational choice model as the extra fees or ...
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(2016-11-09)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesPurpose: The purpose of the current study was to investigate cortical associates of emotional reactivity and emotion regulation (as indexed by the amplitude of evoked response potentials [ERP]) in young children who do ...
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(2017-11-21)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesIt is well documented that noise has a detrimental effect on speech processing and that speech-in-noise perception abilities continue to develop into adolescence. However, our understanding of the mechanism by which ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesRemote microphone (RM) systems are assistive listening devices that improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to the user, facilitating children’s speech perception in noisy environments. As a result, these devices are widely ...
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(2022-08-15)Department: PsychologyThe brain is a highly dynamic system, performing complex operations at the millisecond scale. Cognitive processes studied in human participants manifest the same dynamicity through behavioral observations. Electrophysiology, ...
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(2022-08-15)Department: PsychologyThe brain is a highly dynamic system, performing complex operations at the millisecond scale. Cognitive processes studied in human participants manifest the same dynamicity through behavioral observations. Electrophysiology, ...
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(2022-08-15)Department: PsychologyThe brain is a highly dynamic system, performing complex operations at the millisecond scale. Cognitive processes studied in human participants manifest the same dynamicity through behavioral observations. Electrophysiology, ...
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(2004-12-03)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThis dissertation covers research regarding the use of laser range scanning (LRS) during neurosurgery. Impetus for this work stems from the desire to provide relevant intraoperative data regarding the position and motion ...
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(2013-09-30)Department: NeuroscienceObesity and obesity-associated disease together are a leading cause of death worldwide. Recent research demonstrates striking similarities between obesity and addiction in their dysregulation of brain dopamine systems. ...
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(2010-03-31)Department: PharmacologyStriatal medium spiny neurons (MSNs) receive glutamatergic afferents from the cerebral cortex that synapse onto the spine head and dopaminergic inputs from the substantia nigra which synapse onto the necks of dendritic ...