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(2020-09-16)Department: Electrical EngineeringPhotonic crystals are often referred to as “the semiconductors of light”. As semiconductors have revolutionized the electronics industry, photonic crystals have shown immense potential to control light for a variety of ...
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(2018-03-27)Department: ChemistrySeparation of complex biological samples is major challenge in bioanalytical chemistry. Ion mobility spectrometry (IM) is an emerging analytical method which provides an additional method to separate structurally similar ...
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(2006-07-12)Department: Mechanical EngineeringFlame response on curvature is very important for understanding and predicting of both laminar and turbulent combustion. In this work, curvature effects on flames are studied analytically, numerically, and experimentally ...
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(2022-03-18)Department: Mechanical EngineeringFriction Stir Welding has been implemented as a successful joining process for a wide variety of materials and circumstances, allowing for it to be favorably adopted as a joining process in many manufacturing settings. For ...
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(2016-03-24)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyColonization of the human stomach with Helicobacter pylori is a risk factor for development of gastric cancer and peptic ulcer disease. Proteins present on the surface of H. pylori mediate adhesion to the host gastric ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) predispose adolescents to a variety of physical and mental health problems and place them at an increased risk of experiencing additional major stressors later in life (Anda et al., ...
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(2012-04-11)Department: Biomedical EngineeringMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides methods for characterizing tissue micro-structure using relaxation-based measurements with and without the use of contrast agents (CA). Two techniques, dynamic contrast enhanced ...
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(2015-03-23)Department: Human GeneticsCommon age, related eye diseases are a major driving force behind vision disability and blindness. The three most common diseases afflicting Americans today are age-related macular degeneration (AMD), primary open-angle ...
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(2020-11-19)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsHelicobacter pylori colonizes the stomach in about half of the world’s population. Gastric colonization with H. pylori strains containing the cag pathogenicity island (cag PAI) is a risk factor for gastric adenocarcinoma ...
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(2012-11-15)Department: Mechanical EngineeringComputational modeling of the Madaras wind turbine is presented in this thesis. First, comparative studies were performed based upon literature results to validate the accuracy of the computational model. Then, the Madaras ...
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(The RAND Journal of Economics, 2012)After developing a conceptual analysis of consumer valuation of multiple risks, we explore both economic and cognitive hypotheses regarding individual risk-taking. Using a sample of over 1,500 consumers, our study ...
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(2020-11-20)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyFaithful duplication of DNA lies at the center of DNA replication, defects in which can lead to cancer and other diseases of genomic instability. Generating copies of the two stands of the DNA duplex begins with synthesis ...
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(2005-12-06)Department: ChemistryThe stereo structures of variety chiral molecules were studied by vibrational circular dichroism (VCD), optical rotation (OR), and density functional theory in this dissertation. The error ranges in the density functional ...
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(2018-04-02)Department: Computer ScienceThe stochastic gradient descent algorithm for training neural networks is widely used in many machine learning, especially deep learning tasks. The stochastic gradient descent algorithm operates by choosing a small fraction ...
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(2013-12-09)Department: BiochemistryThe G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) family is comprised of ubiquitous, membrane-bound proteins that are highly conserved in structure, yet varied in their cognate ligand. This allows for regulation of diverse physiological ...
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(2015-05-28)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsPdx1 is a transcription factor of fundamental importance to pancreas formation and adult islet β-cell function. However, little is known regarding its role in mature β-cells or the positive- and negative-acting coregulators ...
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(2008-02-05)Department: Human GeneticsSpontaneous preterm birth (PTB), gestational age less than 37 weeks, is a major public health problem worldwide. Almost 500,000 preterm births occur annually in the United States (U.S.), accounting for ~12% of deliveries. ...
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(2015-11-19)Department: ChemistryMechanochemical methods of synthesis (specifically grinding and milling) have not yet been widely used by organometallic chemists. This thesis surveys recent developments in the field, outlining differences that can occur ...
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(2010-08-24)Department: PsychologyThis dissertation aims at investigating the role of early visual cortex in music reading expertise. This work was motivated by the surprising finding of neural selectivity for musical notes in early visual cortex with music ...
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(2011-02-15)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologySeveral viruses are known to induce stress granules (SGs), however, a role for these structures during viral infection remains unknown. We first showed that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) induces SGs starting approximately ...