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(2017-11-30)Department: Biomedical EngineeringPrecision medicine is the concept of incorporating patient-specific variability into prevention and treatment strategies. Precision medicine initiatives in oncology have primarily focused on the use of genetics to classify ...
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(2021-03-22)Department: Special EducationPeer-mediated interventions (PMIs) offer substantial benefits to middle school, high school, and post-secondary students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). However, with no valid and reliable measure ...
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(2008-11-20)Department: Nursing ScienceNURSING SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE STUDENT ACTIVATION MEASURE RACHEL A. KINDER Dissertation under the direction of Professor Kenneth A. Wallston Student activation is defined as a level of engagement ...
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(2020-06-01)Department: OtherObjectives: Subjective cognitive decline (SCD), a self-reported concern about one’s memory or thinking, is emerging as a potential early marker of unhealthy brain aging, recognized by the recent operationalized definition ...
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(2015-03-24)Department: HistoryThis dissertation is a case study of Marsabit, Kenya and the history of pastoralists, administrators, missionaries, and others who resided on or near the mountain in the twentieth century. My research emphasizes the ...
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(2021-04-18)Successful development teams employ best practices to ensure sustainability and longevity within higher education. This study investigates the office of Alumni and Development Relations in a small midwestern liberal arts ...
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(2015-02-23)Department: ChemistryOne family of platforms to probe molecular interactions utilizes interferometry. Interferometry has a major advantage over other techniques in that it does not require the use of labels, which could affect interactions ...
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(2015-07-01)Department: Biomedical EngineeringCurrent treatment for moderate and severe mitral regurgitation (MR), due to degenerative mitral valve (MV) disease, is open-chest surgical repair or replacement, as there are no known pharmacologic therapies that directly ...
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(2014-12-02)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental ManagementThe 2013 Report Card for the Nation’s Infrastructure, published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, estimates that more than 10% of the over 607,000 bridges in the United States are structurally deficient. Engendering ...
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(2013-08-04)Department: EpidemiologyLung cancer is deadly, killing more people than breast, colon and prostate cancer combined. Surgeons evaluating patients for lung cancer face a dilemma: to operate and subject the individual to operation associated mortality ...
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(2007-04-14)Department: Biomedical EngineeringHepatic fibrosis is a progressive disease in which progression is correlated to liver mechanical properties. This correlation may be used to assess the state of the disease, and hence methods to determine the elastic ...
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(2021-09-10)Department: NeuroscienceSepsis is a life-threatening illness characterized by acute organ dysfunction including encephalopathy that clinically manifests as delirium. Survivors experience persistent cognitive deficits that indicate lasting ...
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(2006-02-06)Department: Biomedical EngineeringSelective targeting of damaged or diseased cells is a concept with great potential to revolutionize the efficacy of systemically administered agents. Successful targeting preferentially delivers imaging agents and/or ...
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Development of a new model-based radiation dose calculation algorithm for kilovoltage energy x-rays (2013-07-15)Department: PhysicsKilovoltage energy x-rays have long been used in medicine. With the rapid increase in use of x-ray imaging for diagnostics and for imaging guidance during radiotherapy there is an increased interest in determining the ...
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(2021-12-06)Department: Biomedical EngineeringLow cardiac output syndrome (LCOS) describes a collection of clinical symptoms that can arise in pediatric patients after surgical correction of a congenital heart defect (CHD). The consequences of low cardiac output states ...
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(2011-09-13)Department: NeuroscienceExpansion in the glutamine encoding CAG triplet-repeat in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene causes Huntington’s disease (HD). The susceptibility, age of onset, and severity of HD is modified by ill-defined genetic and/or environmental ...
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(2007-08-02)Department: Biomedical EngineeringT cells occupy a central role in cell-mediated immunity and as such, deciphering the signaling events that govern T cell activity is critical in fully understanding the adaptive immune response. Current immunologic ...
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(2009-09-02)Department: Biomedical EngineeringLimitations of commercial RNA extraction kits make them inappropriate for use in a clinical setting. This project develops and evaluates a point-of-care process for simple and rapid extraction of RNA from clinical samples. ...
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(2020-11-17)Department: PhysicsPHYSICS Development of a scintillation-based CMOS Quantitative Autoradiography imager for Safeguard Applications Ardelia Michelle Clarke Dissertation under the direction of Professor Todd Peterson This dissertation ...
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(2014-03-17)Department: Biomedical EngineeringNucleic acid extraction is a significant roadblock to the widespread use of molecular detection strategies such as PCR in resource-limited settings. This thesis explores the potential to simplify nucleic acid extractions ...