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(Viruses-basel, 2022-12-15)The blood brain barrier (BBB) is a multicellular microenvironment that plays an important role in regulating bidirectional transport to and from the central nervous system (CNS). Infections by many acutely infectious viruses ...
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(2021-03-30)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe analysis of image data in image guided surgery can produce promising insights to improve patient outcomes, since medical images provide detailed, patient-specific data on how an intervention affects the anatomy – or ...
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(2014-06-26)Department: ChemistryMy doctoral research has focused on (i) using organocatalysis to prepare enantioenriched pharmaceutically relevant scaffolds and (ii) preparing isoenzyme selective inhibitors of phospholipase D. (i) Methodologies for ...
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(2013-08-01)Department: ChemistryAziridines represent an important class of nitrogen-containing heterocycles with a wide range of synthetic utility. Despite their value, synthetic approaches are limited in terms of generality and diversity. On this ...
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(2011-07-15)Department: ChemistryIn the field of organocatalysis, the use of small organic molecules has had a significant impact on chemical synthesis, providing a mild and practical alternative to the more conventional metal based catalyst. The selective ...
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(2013-12-20)Department: Electrical EngineeringRobust localization is essential for successful navigation of autonomous mobile robots in any environment. Advanced techniques such as simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) also consider reliable localization as a ...
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(2019-07-30)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesI apply the speleothem δ44/40Ca rainfall proxy to a fast growing stalagmite from White Moon Cave (WMC) on the California coast that grew during the 8.2 kyr event. Variability in speleothem δ44/40Ca is controlled by ...
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(2015-07-21)Department: Environmental EngineeringTiming and duration of magmatism, involvement of fluid or assimilation of material, and geodynamic context are all important when assessing the processes by which silicic magmas are produced, erupted, or emplaced. This ...
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(2022-05-04)Department: Biomedical EngineeringFocused ultrasound (FUS) is a non-invasive and non-ionizing technology that can converge ultrasound beam at a point. FUS is currently FDA approved for ablating uterine fibroids, performing thalamotomies to relieve essential ...
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(2016-03-07)Department: ChemistryApplications of Chiral Amidine Catalysis Towards the Synthesis of Small Molecule Therapeutics and Recent Advances in Vicinal Diamine Synthesis Michael W. Danneman Dissertation Under the Direction of Professor Jeffrey N. ...
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(2019-10-23)Department: MathematicsThe sphere packing problem asks for the densest collection of non-overlapping con- gruent spheres in Rn. In 2016, Viazovska proved that the E8 lattice is optimal for n = 8. Subsequently, she with Cohn, Kumar, Miller, and ...
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(2012-01-20)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe use of electric fields to control colloids has proven to be a promising form of actuation for microfluidic devices. However, limiting our ability to exert precise control over colloidal samples using this technique is ...
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(2021-08-11)This capstone project focuses on the decline in enrollment at a specific all boys boarding school in the suburbs of Pennsylvania. I examined data for the past three years for enrollment trends. The data used was a mixture ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Biomedical InformaticsObjective: Supervised machine learning methods have shown good performance in text classification tasks in the biomedical domain, but they often require large annotated corpora, which are costly to develop. Our goal is to ...
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(2021-04-28)Currently, Black men make up a mere two percent of America’s teacher workforce and has the highest turnover rate across race, ethnicity, and gender lines (Ingersoll and May, 2011). In order to investigate the factors that ...
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(2017-08-09)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyOver the past several years, increasing the adoption of interoperable EHRs has been one of central goals of the US healthcare system. This study is the first known state-wide assessment of adoption rates of EDRs and certified ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-07-15)This Capstone project consists of a backwards design format unit plan based on corresponding units from a specific traditional Algebra I textbook. The student goals that I have identified are closely aligned with standards ...
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(2009-07-27)Department: Biomedical InformaticsClinical decision support in electronic prescribing (e-Rx) systems can improve patient safety and quality of care. Despite the availability of drug information knowledgebases and decision support modules, users often disable ...
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(2022-12-09)Department: Biomedical InformaticsSuicide is a significant threat to public health. In the United States, 47,500 people died from suicide in 2019, a 10-year increase of 30%. Informaticians studying suicide are working on improved ways to analyze suicide ...
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(2021-08-16)Department: Political ScienceSocial network analysis (SNA) has recently become a key approach for migration scholars to understand how immigrants socialize and build personal connections in new environments, while maintaining ties to their former ...