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(2008-07-24)Department: PsychologyA model in which self-perceived competence mediates the relations of parenting and negative life events to depressive symptoms was tested in a sample of 755 elementary and middle school students. Developmental trends in ...
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(2011-08-02)Department: EnglishRichard Wright's powerful 1940 novel Native Son holds a notoriously vexed place in literary history. Wright has been variously disparaged for his depiction of women, pilloried for his "gratuitous" violence, denigrated for ...
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(2015-03-27)Department: Biomedical EngineeringUnfortunately, the current re-excision rates for breast conserving surgeries due to positive margins average 20-40%. The high re-excision rates arise from difficulty in localizing tumor boundaries intraoperatively and lack ...
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(2018-03-29)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyThe immune system is a complex network of cells spread throughout the body, spanning dozens of tissue types and locations. A complete understanding of a systemic immune response, like those required for the regression of ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers transport over one billion tonnes of sediment across the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river delta (GBMD) plain each year. We investigate stratigraphic and bulk geochemical data for over 4,500 ...
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(2018-04-04)Department: Electrical EngineeringfMRI nowadays is a very popular and crucial tool for medical purposes, which is always involved with engineering methods for properly processing the fMRI images. However, not too much effort has been invested in studying ...
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(2014-07-22)Department: Biomedical InformaticsGene fusions are instances where two discrete genes incorrectly join together. They are common mutations in cancer, and, since the advent of next generation sequencing technology, many gene fusions in cancer tissues have ...
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(2007-12-05)Department: Biomedical EngineeringImage to physical space registration is a very challenging problem in image guided surgical procedures for the liver due to deformation and paucity of prominent surface anatomical landmarks. Iterative closest point (ICP) ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: PsychologyThe Tower of Hanoi (TOH) is a classic problem solving task. Over the past twenty years, it has found new applications in domains of cognition such as executive function, in special populations such as patients with frontal ...
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(2007-08-01)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn robotics, one important objective is the ability to teach the robot new skills and have it reason about the current tasks at hand without explicit programming. Indeed, this idea is central to open-ended development, ...
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(2019-12-13)Department: Mechanical EngineeringComputational material models for analyzing aerodynamic loads on metallic supersonic and hypersonic aircraft panels rarely include plastic deformation. In this study, the Multi-Yield Surface Plasticity model is introduced ...
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(2006-06-07)Department: Biomedical InformaticsPreventive care measures including vaccinations are underutilized. The Emergency Department (ED) environment has been recommended to be a feasible environment to offer pneumococcal vaccination; however, the ED is a challenging ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: English“A Connected Idea of the Lesson”: Teaching and Learning in African American Literature, examines depictions of the classroom in African American literature in order to understand how well-known writers and activists from ...
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(2020-10-12)Department: EnglishThis study details the construction of the intellectual infrastructure of “culturally relevant teaching” (CRT) by African-American women educators from 1873 to 1913. While CRT is understood to have roots in the pedagogies ...
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(2020-03-10)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyTwo goals motivate treating diseases with drug combinations: reduce off-target toxicity by minimizing dose (synergistic potency), and improve outcomes by escalating effect (synergistic efficacy). Surprisingly, current drug ...
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(2014-12-22)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityIn program evaluation research, measures of realized classroom instruction are often referred to as fidelity measures. Although there is a wide consensus that fidelity measures should be grounded in the program theories ...
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(2015-04-08)Department: HistoryThis paper explores how encounters with European empire shaped American missionary and travel writing about the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I break with the way that scholars in the humanities, ...
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(2009-12-10)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThere has been considerable research devoted to control and experimental realization of bipedal locomotion with the aim to develop a fully functional humanoid robot. Similar to humans, such a robot should be able to walk ...
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(2014-07-26)Department: PsychologyPrevious attempts to influence food intake have fallen short as rates of obesity continue to increase. Contributing to the increase are the myriad of factors that influence food intake including physiology, emotion, and ...