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(2015-05-26)Department: PsychologyMediation analysis has become one of the most popular statistical methods in the social sciences. However, currently available effect size measures for mediation have limitations that restrict their usage to special cases. ...
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(2009-12-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringA major challenge in endocrine surgery is the intraoperative identification of parathyroids during both thyroid and parathyroid surgery. Current localization techniques are mostly preoperative and are imprecise. Optical ...
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(2012-04-06)Department: Biomedical EngineeringA major challenge in endocrine surgery is the intraoperative identification of parathyroid during both thyroid and parathyroid surgery. Current localization techniques are mostly preoperative and are imprecise. Optical ...
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(2009-12-08)Department: Biomedical EngineeringWe present a multi-dye ratiometric method for the correction of optical artifacts and unequal illumination encountered by researchers that utilize complex microfluidic systems. Using a novel chemotaxis system that provides ...
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(2022-03-15)Department: Biomedical EngineeringIn 2017 the sclerostin targeting monoclonal antibody Romosozumab was approved as a treatment for post-menopausal osteoporosis (PMO) despite cardiovascular side effects discovered in clinical trials. Previous studies indicated ...
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(2016-07-26)Department: Cancer BiologyExosomes are extracellular vesicles that carry a variety of RNA and protein cargos, including growth factors, transmembrane proteins, angiogenic factors, proteinases, and microRNA. However, the mechanisms that regulate ...
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(2016-07-22)Department: Computer ScienceThe popularity of online social networks has grown at an exponential scale since they connect people all over the world enabling them to remain in touch with each other despite the geographical distance among them. These ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Computer ScienceDespite its potential for STEM education, educational robotics remains out of reach for many classrooms. Physical robots have an upfront purchase cost, maintenance requirements, storage space, and many more costs and ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Computer ScienceDespite its potential for STEM education, educational robotics remains out of reach for many classrooms. Physical robots have an upfront purchase cost, maintenance requirements, storage space, and many more costs and ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Computer ScienceDespite its potential for STEM education, educational robotics remains out of reach for many classrooms. Physical robots have an upfront purchase cost, maintenance requirements, storage space, and many more costs and ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Computer ScienceDespite its potential for STEM education, educational robotics remains out of reach for many classrooms. Physical robots have an upfront purchase cost, maintenance requirements, storage space, and many more costs and ...
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(2001-05)Department: ReligionThe dissertation is a history covering the years from 1912-1963 of the Women's Department of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). COGIC, the largest African American Pentecostal denomination, founded in 1897, has a Women's ...
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A Pedagogy of Horror: The Counter-hegemonic Discourse of Latin American Short Narratives (1830-1920) (2020-05-14)Department: SpanishI examine the political function of short narratives during the period of nation formation in Latin America (1830-1920). I focus on Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba as case studies to show that the genre was a prominent platform ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: Special EducationLimited social interaction typically occurs between high school students with autism and their general education peers unless programming is introduced to promote interaction. However, few published social interaction ...
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(2018-03-13)Department: Latin American StudiesStarting in 1960, a 36-year Civil War ravaged Guatemala ultimately leaving 200,000 people dead and 45,000 people disappeared. The violence that drove Guatemalans from the country during the war eventually saw a boomerang ...
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(2021-03-29)Department: Computer ScienceCurrent solutions for software deployment in cloud computing and high performance computing (HPC) incur a significant amount of storage overhead in order to allow scalability while guaranteeing reproducibility. Containerization, ...
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(2023-05-03)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation rehabilitates the concept of social class for contemporary social and political philosophy. In much contemporary work, the concept of class is often uncritically presupposed in an unreconstructed Marxist ...
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(2010-04-16)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceWhite light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have attracted great interest recently due to their capability for higher efficiency and longer lifetimes compared to other current lighting technologies. In pursuit of a white LED that ...
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(2013-01-29)Department: Electrical EngineeringAvionics systems play a critical role in many aspects of aircraft flight control. As the complexity of these systems increase, the chances of in-flight malfunctions are also likely to increase. This drives the need for ...
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(2017-08-07)Department: English“Never give up your lands you now possess, for it is your right by God and nature, for the ‘earth was given to the children of men.’” Quoting Psalm 115-16, the Jamaican preacher Robert Wedderburn announces a political order ...