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Description:: Racial disparities in cardiovascular health constitute one of the most pressing current public health problems in the United States. This dissertation examines how individual's cultural experiences of stress become embodied and contribute to these racial health inequalities. Anthropologists have traditionally approached culture through narrative ethnographic methods that are difficult to...
Keyword:: Physical and Anthropology
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Elizabeth Sweet
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/08/2018
Date Modified:: 09/08/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The work presented in this thesis describes investigations into linear and nonlinear optical properties of two-dimensional silver nanoparticle arrays. The linear optical measurements - extinction measurements were performed on two-dimensional square arrays of L-shaped silver nanoparticles fabricated by electron beam lithography in order to study the effect of dipole coupling...
Keyword:: Physical and Chemistry
Subject:: Chemistry
Creator:: Jiha Sung
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/27/2018
Date Modified:: 08/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-09-27
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Surfaces and interfaces, which are ubiquitous in the environment, control the mobility,speciation, and ultimate fate of groundwater species. The presented work provides insight into the interfacial behavior of three environmental pollutants: hexavalent chromium, oxytetracycline, and morantel. Model surfaces are employed for these studies, including (1-102) α-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> and a carboxylic acid-terminated...
Keyword:: Physical and Chemistry
Subject:: Chemistry
Creator:: Michael Joseph Musorrafiti
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/13/2018
Date Modified:: 08/13/2018
Date Created:: 2007-08-22
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Direct dynamics quasiclassical trajectory (QCT) calculations are performed to study the dynamics of model atom + polyatom reactions. In the first part of this thesis, we examine adiabatic dynamics of H/O reaction with simple alkanes, CD4 and C2H6. Overall good agreement with state-of-the-art experiments shows that the molecular motion is...
Keyword:: Physical and Chemistry
Subject:: Chemistry
Creator:: Wenfang Hu
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/06/2018
Date Modified:: 08/06/2018
Date Created:: 2007-09-26
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The work presented here describes investigations into the optical properties of single silver nanoparticles. The contents of this thesis are divided into two parts: (1) single nanoparticle localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) spectroscopy and sensing and (2) approaches to combining LSPR spectroscopy with atomic force and transmission electron microscopies. Part...
Keyword:: Physical and Chemistry
Subject:: Chemistry
Creator:: Leif Jorstad Sherry
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 07/30/2018
Date Modified:: 07/30/2018
Date Created:: 05-21-2007
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Theoretical studies on electronic structure governing charge transport properties are investigated to understand and improve the prediction of electron charge carrier organic semiconductors used in field-effect transistors. Perfluorinated oligothiophene semiconductors have shown experimental n-type behavior, but placement of fluorinated aryl groups changes charge polarities. Models were developed to investigate how...
Keyword:: Physical and Chemistry
Subject:: Chemistry
Creator:: Sharon E Koh
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/27/2018
Date Modified:: 06/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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