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- Objectives: Poor infant health is associated with lower wellbeing later in life. Food insecurity has been associated with higher rates of some morbidities in young children. However, this relationship has not been well studied in infants younger than six months or in Kenya. Thus, we sought to determine the relationship...
- Keyword:
- crd18
- Creator:
- Kathleen Clark
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-04-10
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- Poster
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- Modeling and simulation at different scales were used to study mass transport, residence times and selective oxidation in nanostructured membranes. First, analytical equations of the possible mass transport mechanisms inside the pores were used to determine that diffusion dominates over convection under the conditions of interest for selective oxidation: 700...
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- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Simon E Albo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- A number of new satiric forms -- or emergent genres -- have exploded in popularity almost simultaneously in recent years, all markedly political, all incorporating the real into the mimetic in striking ways, and all straddling the line between satire and serious political dialogue. This dissertation focuses on three of...
- Keyword:
- satire, news, documentary, activism, parody, and counterpublic
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Amber Day
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- New telecommunication techniques utilizing distinctive quantum properties, e.g., measurement uncertainties and entanglement, extend the capabilities of existing systems. Quantum cryptography, as an example, provides physical layer security enforced by fundamental physical laws, while modern cryptographic techniques rely on assumptions of intractability of certain mathematical problems with limited computational power. Rapid...
- Keyword:
- Fiber Optics, Quantum Cryptography, and Optical Communication
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Chuang Liang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- A catalytic, multi-component coupling reaction for the synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles has been developed, via the reaction of an imine, α-diazoester and unsaturated coupling partner in the presence of a copper(I) or rhodium(II) transition metal catalyst with excellent diastereo-selectivities and high yields. The transition metal-catalyzed decomposition of a diazo compound...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry and Organic
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Chris Galliford
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The use of processes based on microorganisms to produce fuels, monomers, and pharmaceuticals from renewable feedstocks is increasing today due to their environmental and economic advantages over petrochemical-based processes. In order to unlock the full potential of microorganisms to produce a sustainable industry centered on biosynthesis, an improved understanding of...
- Keyword:
- group contribution method, thermodynamics-based metabolic flux analysis, BNICE, thermodynamics, biosynthesis, and E. coli
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Christopher Scott Henry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- It is critical to genomic integrity that DNA is replicated completely and faithfully during each cell cycle. The essential replication factor Cdt1 is a critical protein in preventing reinitiation of replication. Overexpression of Cdt1 causes re-replication in p53 null cells and transforms NIH3T3 cells, causing them to form tumors in...
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- Xenopus, Cell Cycle, Geminin, Cdt1, and Re-Replication
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Sarah Lynn Kerns
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many images of dwarves, hirsutes, and castrati depict them in the guise of the monstrous, either as jokes of nature or indices of courtly wit. However, there are some Renaissance portraits of physically deformed individuals that transcend these categories. These portraits point to the...
- Keyword:
- hirsute, anatomy, monster, Renaissance, dwarf, castrato, and portraiture
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Touba Ghadessi Fleming
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- As technology moves into deep submicron and nanoscale era, undesirable trends such as increasing power density, leakage power, and temperature variation within chips have made thermal effects emerge as a major bottleneck in further technology scaling. Thermal effects are no longer considered as just a reliability issue, but it also...
- Keyword:
- Electronics and Electrical and Engineering
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Ja Chun Ku
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In the first chapter, I study how political institutions can affect policymaking when the economy is in transition. I develop a framework where a transition process gradually restructures economic institutions so that the population's long-term preference may differ from its short-term preference. A democracy may fail to implement the optimal...
- Keyword:
- Institution, Regulation, transition, Political Economy, and Medicaid
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Tapas Kundu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Next generation of high performance nano-optoelectronic integrated circuits will require an integral combination of highly efficient all-optical nanophotonic devices and electrically-pumped nanophotonic devices, which will enable the chip to process optical information all optically with ultrafast speed and electro-optically to interface with the electronic control plane. The realizations of such...
- Keyword:
- Electronics and Electrical and Engineering
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Yingyan Huang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- At the heart of nonlinear optimization methods lies the solution of linear systems of equations. As the size of the problem increases, it is imperative to use iterative methods, such as the conjugate gradient algorithm, to solve these linear systems. In the context of constrained optimization, it has proved to...
- Keyword:
- preconditioning, interior point method, strategic bidding, nonlinear optimization, and bilevel programming
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Long Hei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Entangled photons serve as an important tool in the field of quantum information processing. Traditionally, spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in second-order nonlinear crystals has been the workhorse source for generating entangled photons. However, those SPDC-generated photons are notoriously difficult to couple into single-mode optical fibers due to mode mismatch, thus...
- Keyword:
- quantum computation, quantum splitter, coincidence, quantum communication, entanglement, and nonlinear fiber optics
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Jun Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In "Optimal Delegation" I analyze the design of decision rules by a principal who faces an informed but biased agent and who is unable to commit to contingent transfers. The contracting problem reduces to a delegation problem in which the principal commits to a set of decisions from which the...
- Keyword:
- delegation, decision rights, cheap talk, incomplete contracts, and authority
- Subject:
- Kellogg School of Management
- Creator:
- Ricardo Alonso
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation examines topical humor produced by "Late Night with David Letterman," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Saturday Night Live," and The Onion for the period of one year after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Three phases emerge: the purgation of extreme emotions like anger, acceptance or...
- Keyword:
- Speech Communication
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Ann Benacka
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis is devoted to the study of A-branes on symplectic tori and to the Mirror Symmetry conjecture. Using a method called Seidel's mirror map, we are able to reconstruct the homogeneous coordinate ring of a complex abelian variety using Lagrangian intersection theory on the mirror symplectic torus. Moreover, we...
- Keyword:
- Mirror Symmertry
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Marco Aldi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In composite manufacturing, Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding (VARTM) is becoming increasingly important as a cost effective manufacturing method of structural composites. In this process the dry preform (reinforcement) is placed on a rigid tool and covered by a flexible film to form an airtight vacuum bag. Liquid resin is...
- Keyword:
- Engineering and Material
- Subject:
- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Creator:
- John M Bayldon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation presents a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) study of anisotropic superconductors, MgB$_2$ and Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+\delta}$ (Bi2212), and diffusion in glass-forming aqueous solutions of glycerol. In glycerol and deuterated water mixtures, the diffusion of glycerol is measured selectively by the $^1$H NMR stimulated echo technique in the gradient field of a...
- Keyword:
- Physics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Bo Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Mechanisms of Bladder Barrier Dysfunction during Neurogenic Cystitis: the Role of TNF and Mast Cells
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- The primary function of the human urinary bladder is to store urine, while maintaining a permeability barrier that protects underlying tissues from noxious urinary components. Inflammatory diseases of the bladder, including urinary tract infection (UTI) and interstitial cystitis (IC), afflict millions of patients in the US annually and cause significant...
- Keyword:
- Physiology and Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Michael C Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- High relaxivity contrast agents are of great importance in the advancement of magnetic resonance imaging diagnostics for use in biomaterials. Biomaterials that are implanted into the body, with the goal of repairing or regenerating lost or damaged tissue, need to be tracked noninvasively, over time. I have completed work using...
- Keyword:
- self-assembly, dumbbell, peptide amphiphile, templation, and MRI
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Steve Bull
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows for the selective visualization of blood vessels via the intravascular injection of a paramagnetic contrast agent and the suppression of background signal. Called magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), this technique can produce three-dimensional images and is useful clinically for the noninvasive diagnosis of vascular disorders. In...
- Keyword:
- magnetic resonance, angiography, and medical imaging
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Ty Cashen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- What can the theatrical use of food accomplish in performances which assert cultural, legal, or moral rights to food production and consumption in a food insecure society? Case studies comprising the USDA's 1933-34 World's Fair exhibits, the May 1933 Wisconsin Cooperative Milk Pool protest, the 1936 Federal Theatre Project living...
- Keyword:
- History and United States
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Ann Eleanor Folino White
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- I study several aspects of a game-theoretic model of persuasion. A speaker attempts to persuade a listener to take an action which is highly ranked by the speaker. The listener knows the speaker's preference but is uncertain about what the speaker can say. The listener can commit to a persuasion...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Theory
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Itai Sher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is an aphasic dementia syndrome caused by neurodegenerative disease in which linguistic abilities are selectively disrupted in the relative absence of other cognitive deficits in early stages. The studies presented in this thesis were designed to examine the integrity of word and object processing by contrasting...
- Keyword:
- Dementia, Pictures, Recognition Memory, Frontotemporal Dementia, Words, and Priming
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Emily Joy Rogalski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chinese television has gone through enormous growth and significant structural change since the economic reforms of the 1970s. The changes include an increased number of channels, the establishment of overseas channels, increased reliance on advertising, more diversified programming, and heightened market competition. The new multi-channel media environment has the potential...
- Keyword:
- Communication Studies
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Elaine Yuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Small area estimation (SAE) has been one of the most active areas in survey methodology research, due to the increasing demand for small area statistics from government agencies and the private sector. But in some areas of interest, sample sizes could be very small, or even zero, in which case,...
- Keyword:
- Statistics
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Haoliang Song
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Commercially available electrically powered prosthetic elbows are stiff and unyielding. Making these artificial limb replacements more closely mimic human elbows by increasing their compliance may be beneficial. In addition to having increased compliance compared with current electrically powered prosthetic elbows, humans modulate the overall impedance of their joints. The author...
- Keyword:
- prosthesis, Series Elastic Actuator, Impedance Control, and prosthetics
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jonathon Wilbur Sensinger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- An understanding of how two people anticipate, adapt, and react to each other's forces and motions could aid in designing machines to work cooperatively with humans and further explain how a single human interacts with the world. Tasks, such as lifting and moving a bulky object, teaching manual skills, dancing,...
- Keyword:
- physical cooperation, interaction, human-human, and human-robot
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Kyle Brandon Reed
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The present dissertation includes my research on modeling financial market returns and volatility on high frequency data. It consists of three chapters. The first chapter introduces a novel high-frequency volatility estimator based on large price moves, which constitutes a generalization of the standard range. An asymptotic theory is developed in...
- Keyword:
- Normality Tests, Jump Detection, Generalized Range, Realized Volatility, Jump-Diffusion Processes, and High-Frequency Data
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Dobrislav Dobrev
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Information processing in the striatum is crucial for voluntary movement control and associative learning and in the normal condition is subject to balanced dopaminergic and cholinergic modulation. However, in Parkinson's disease (PD) striatal dopamine (DA) level falls because of degeneration of DA neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta and...
- Keyword:
- Neuroscience
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Jun Ding
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates the ways in which poetry encourages visual images in the reader. This investigation breaks new ground, for in the wake of behaviorist psychology and the linguistic turn in literary theory, literary critics have ignored and often spurned the visual imagination. The project uses Imagist poetry as a...
- Keyword:
- English
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Daniel Wallace Gleason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explains why some rebel groups act in a highly coercive fashion toward local populations, only to shift to increasingly contractual behavior, and why other groups that share similar circumstances evolve in the opposite direction. Drawing upon fieldwork in Sudan, Iraq, Turkey, and Colombia, this study examines three rebel...
- Keyword:
- resources, war, insurgents, conflict, rebels, and violence
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Claire Margaret Metelis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Social networks play an important role in the labor market. Various surveys document that 30-60% of jobs are found through friends or relatives. To better understand how networks operate in the labor market, I examine how networks that were formed involuntarily as a result of the American Civil War and...
- Keyword:
- Employment, First World War Veterans, Identification, Social Interactions, Civil War Veterans, and Multiple Reference Groups
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Ron Laschever
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation we analyze, using standard formal imperfect competition models from the literature, two central public policy issues in the deregulated wholesale electricity markets. The first issue is the regulatory rules around generator ownership of transmission companies or transmission rights in general. The second issue we look into is...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Theory
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Serhan Ogur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulation of the Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone Receptor
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- In mammalian development, cell specification and organogenesis are achieved by the regulated expression and repression of specific subsets of genes. The anterior pituitary gland, comprised of five cell types that arise from a common precursor, is an excellent model system for understanding these developmental processes. Examination of factors regulating transcription...
- Keyword:
- Gene Regulation, Pituitary Development, and Alternative Splicing
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Allison Therese MvElvaine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Recent work exploring children's verb learning in the laboratory has generated some interesting contradictions. Some studies have found that children as old as 4 years old are unable to reliably map a novel verb to an action (e.g., Kersten & Smith, 2002; Imai, Haryu, & Okada, 2005), even though much...
- Keyword:
- cross-situational learning, contrast, verb learning, language acquisition, and early word learning
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Thomas B Piccin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The study of III-Nitride based optoelectronics devices is a maturing field, but there are still many underdeveloped areas in which to make a contribution of new and original research. This work specifically targets the goals of realizing high-efficiency back-illuminated solar-blind photodetectors, solar-blind focal plane arrays, and visible- and solar-blind Avalanche...
- Keyword:
- APD, photodetector, Ultraviolet, avalanche, AlGaN, and FPA
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Ryan P. McClintock
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We compute Lawson homology groups and semi-topological K-theory for certain "degenerate" varieties. "Degenerate" varieties are those smooth complex projective varieties whose zero cycles are supported on a proper subvariety. Rationally connected varieties are examples of such varieties. Our main method of study makes use of a technique of Bloch and...
- Keyword:
- algebraic cycles, semi-topological K-theory, and Lawson homology
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Mircea Alexandru Voineagu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Autoxidation is a primary route by which lubricants in working conditions undergo degradation. Degraded lubricants, if not replaced periodically, contribute to increased wear and product failure. Experimental studies of lubricant degradation have yielded useful results but have left important questions unanswered. While many computational studies of degradation have been carried...
- Keyword:
- Engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Jim Pfaendtner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Substrate-mediated delivery involves the immobilization of DNA, complexed with nonviral vectors, to a biomaterial or surface that supports cell adhesion. Cells cultured on the substrate are exposed to elevated DNA concentrations within the local microenvironment, which enhances transfection. As surface properties are critical to this delivery approach, self-assembled monolayers (SAMs)...
- Keyword:
- Engineering
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Angela Kaye Pannier
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Wave propagation at the bottom of the electromagnetic spectrum (below 300 kHz) in the Earth-ionosphere system is a problem having a rich history of theoretical investigation extending over many decades. Propagation within this system involves complex interactions of electromagnetic waves with the lithosphere, oceans, and ionosphere, leading to resonances that...
- Keyword:
- remote-sensing, extremely low-frequency (ELF), earthquake precursors, electromagnetic wave propagation, lightning, and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD)
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Jamesina Jean Simpson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Should the government subsidize entry to promote competition? In theory, free entry does not guarantee the socially optimum number of entrants. In differentiated product markets, free entry can result either in excessive or insufficient entry. Quantifying this inefficiency and identifying the optimal subsidy level require an empirical framework that combines...
- Keyword:
- Entry, Simulation Method, Medicare HMO, Welfare Analysis, and GHK Simulator
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Shiko Maruyama
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Lydia Sigourney, female authorship, feminism , Cult of True Womanhood , Karli Goldenberg , and Illustrated Poems
- Creator:
- Karli Goldenberg
- Owner:
- Karli Jordan Goldenberg
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/24/2018
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies the organizing local approach to labor renewal, a union model centered on organizing new workers. I examine the role of activists and what motivates them to participate beyond a rational evaluation of gains. Additionally, I establish the conditions for successful union reform, specifically, how to overcome inertial...
- Keyword:
- organizing local, structural change, reciprocity, labor revitalization, and union activism
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Laura Ariovich
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The motion of thin drops under the effects of surfactants and gravity is studied. First, the effects of surfactant and temperature on the spreading of a viscous droplet are considered. Lubrication theory is used to develop a two-dimensional model for the evolution of the droplet. The surfactant is assumed to...
- Keyword:
- contact line, Marangoni, and capillary
- Subject:
- Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Matthew Allen Clay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The goal of this dissertation was to examine the influence of motivational incentives on visual spatial attention in patients with probable Alzheimer's Disease (PRAD), patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy age-matched control subjects (EC). Specifically, I compared the ability of monetary incentives to influence behavioral and neural performance...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Lisa Bagurdes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- I examine horizontally differentiated firms in three different contexts. First, I look at an industry where firms can develop self-customizable products -- products which appeal to different consumers for different reasons. This addition results in an unexpected conclusion that sometimes more differentiated firms can end up with lower profits than...
- Keyword:
- two-sided markets, horizontal differentiation, reservations, intermediaries, spatial models, and self-customization
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Alexei Alexandrov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ceramic matrix composites are known for their low density, high strength and high stiffness, but lower fracture toughness compared to metal matrix composites. The addition of a reinforcing agent within the matrix can increase the toughness of the composite via many strain energy absorption mechanisms such as plastic deformation. This...
- Keyword:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Nasim Alem
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The goal of this study was to investigate the properties of the retinal ganglion cell receptive field at low light levels. There has been considerable interest in whether the surround of a ganglion cell receptive field disappears and the center expands in size under scotopic conditions. The previous data from...
- Keyword:
- Biology and Resources
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Jie Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The purpose of this dissertation study was to build on scholarly work in the area of critical mathematics by such scholars as Gutstein (2003) and Gutierrez (2002). Critical pedagogy is designed to foster political agency and critical consciousness in students (Freire, 1971). That is the aim of critical mathematics in...
- Keyword:
- Teacher Beliefs, Discourse Analysis, Curriculum Analysis, Urban Education, Practitioner Research, and Critical Mathematics
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Andrew Morgan Brantliger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation