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(2020-11-24)Department: EnglishDuring a discussion of her novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward recalls her experience of Hurricane Katrina: “I sat on the porch, barefoot and shaking. The sky turned orange and the wind sounded like fighter jets” (Ward ...
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(2012-06-25)Department: MathematicsThere is evidence that cancer develops when cells acquire a sequence of mutations. This sequence determines a hierarchy among the cells, based on how many more mutations they need to accumulate in order to become cancerous. ...
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(2015-06-25)Department: Political ScienceMany political decisions have actual life or death consequences. I examine how rhetoric used to discuss these life or death consequences, along with personality predispositions, influence political attitudes. In my first ...
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(2009-07-23)Department: Political ScienceThis project seeks to understand the meaning and importance of judicial independence. The capacity of a judicial system to administrate justice without outside influences is a necessary requisite for the consolidation of ...
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(2019-03-29)Department: MathematicsThis work is motivated by the problem of recovering the magnetization M of a rock sample from a given set of measurements for the magnetic field it generates. Modeling the magnetization by an R 3 -valued measure, we focus ...
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(2014-08-04)Department: PathologyCystic fibrosis (CF) is a debilitating, multi-organ, autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations leading to absence of functional cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in epithelial cells. Chronic ...
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(2014-04-19)Department: PathologyFactor XI (FXI) is the zymogen of a protease (FXIa) that contributes to blood coagulation by activating factor IX (FIX). This thesis presents several novel observations regarding the structure and function of FXI that will ...
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(2012-03-31)Department: ChemistryJohnston and coworkers recently reported a novel amide bond forming reaction wherein the amine acts as the electrophile and the carbon donor acts as the nucleophile (Umpolung Amide Synthesis). In the following study, the ...
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(2010-06-29)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis study synthesizes what is known about strategic reading pedagogy through a meta-analysis of research on multiple comprehension strategies instruction (MCSI) for young adolescents in grades 4-8. The average effect of ...
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(2003-12-17)Department: PsychologyCognitive impairment represents a core feature of schizophrenia and a major impediment to social and vocational rehabilitation. First generation antipsychotic (FGA) medications do not elicit robust cognitive changes, but ...
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(2006-08-01)Department: Education & Human DevelopmentThis meta-analysis reviews research published between 1966 and 2001 that explores the effects of various reading treatments on the reading fluency of elementary school students. The literature search, coding schemes and ...
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A Method for Automated Performance Evaluation and Tuning of Neural Oscillation Detection Algorithms (2021-11-16)Department: Electrical EngineeringThere are numerous methods to detect and characterize transient oscillatory events found in electrical signals from the brain representing local activity. These events can be used to time electrical stimulation to modulate ...
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(2009-07-29)Department: PhysicsA METHOD FOR MEASURING INTRUSION INTO CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS CONTAINING PARAMAGNETIC SUBSTANCES USING µCT WITH CONTRAST AGENT PATRICK MICHAEL MARINE Thesis under the direction of Professor Michael Stabin ,Professor David ...
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(2020-06-16)Department: EconomicsFollowing the 2008 Financial Crisis, the field of Macroeconomics entered a remarkable phase of methodological transformation. The reason for this is twofold. First, the standard approach of locally approximating equilibrium ...
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(2008-08-18)Department: Biomedical EngineeringLiving cells and tissues experience mechanical forces in their physiological environments that are known to affect many cellular processes. Also of importance are the mechanical properties of cells, as well as the microforces ...
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(2008-04-14)Department: Nursing ScienceThis mixed method study explored continuing bonds in children who lived with advanced cancer, as well as in bereaved families who lost a child to cancer. The study also examined associations among continuing bonds, coping ...
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(2019-06-19)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis mixed-methods dissertation uses benchmark data to explore how schools in a large urban district responded to shifting accountability policy incentives as the state changed from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to a waiver ...
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(2010-12-06)Department: Electrical EngineeringEffective communication and user input are crucial to mobile human-robot interaction tasks, especially in cases where robots are deployed to assist with disaster relief, emergency response, or military applications. This ...
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(2003-07-21)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe correlation between the stiffness and health of tissue is an accepted form of organ disease assessment. As a result, there has been a significant amount of interest in developing methods to image elasticity parameters ...
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(2014-07-15)Department: HistoryA Model for America investigates how black and white South Orange, New Jersey residents formed alliances in order to transform their community from a predominantly white community into a racially integrated community. ...