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(2015-04-02)Department: SociologyResearch has typically assumed the way to increase resources in low income and racial minority neighborhoods is to increase their demographic diversity. This has proven problematic in practice, often leading to gentrification. ...
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(2021-03-18)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityIn this dissertation, I approach questions of classroom dialogue in ethico-onto-epistemological terms, that is, in terms of how interlocutors jointly co-author themselves, each other, and the world in more or less optimal ...
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(2009-07-19)Department: Mechanical EngineeringMECHANICAL ENGINEERING The Mechanical Effects of WeaveTrack on Friction Stir Welds in a Lap configuration Christopher Edward Hendricks Thesis under the direction of Professor A.M. Strauss The mechanical effects of ...
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(2011-10-04)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation addresses modeling, control, and sensing with continuum robots. In particular, two continuum robot architectures are studied: (1) concentric-tube designs, and (2) designs actuated by embedded wires, cables, ...
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(2010-12-10)Department: PharmacologyThe goal of my thesis research is to elucidate the catalytic mechanism and physiological function of the atypical mammalian lipoxygenase, epidermal lipoxygenase-3. Although named as a lipoxygenase based on sequence homology ...
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(2012-10-01)Department: NeuroscienceDuring development of the nervous system, about half of the neurons generated undergo apoptosis. How these neurons are cleared in the peripheral nervous system was largely unknown. Our lab discovered that clearance in the ...
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(2014-10-01)Department: BiochemistryDuring development of the nervous system, approximately 50% of the neurons generated undergo apoptosis as part of a normal pruning process. The neuronal corpses must be efficiently cleared to prevent an immune system ...
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(2015-03-26)Department: Biomedical EngineeringCalcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is the predominant valvular disease in the developed world, affecting over five million individuals in the United States alone and manifests itself as a progressive disease resulting ...
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(2017-04-05)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThis thesis illuminates the ways that medicalization of female sexual desire disorder lends authority to and is legitimized by heteronormative, patriarchal sexual norms. The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of ...
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(2021-05-12)Department: Biomedical InformaticsDespite widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), medication errors persist. Modern clinical decision support (CDS) systems to prevent medication errors still rely on simple alerts, such as those pertaining ...
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(2017-03-24)Department: Biological SciencesMosquitoes encounter pathogens throughout their holometabolous life cycle, be it in the microbe-rich pools of the aquatic larva stage or the infected blood meals of the terrestrial adult stage. Pathogens that invade the ...
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(2018-07-22)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsSkeletal muscle insulin resistance is a state of metabolic dysfunction that increases the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Despite decades of research into potential myocellular defects, the ...
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The Middle Voice of Love in I Corinthians: Reading Singularity and Plurality from Different Cultures (2014-12-05)Department: ReligionThis dissertation highlights the modes of existence (autonomy, relationality, and heteronomy) of the threefold contextual choices that readers privilege in their perception of the self and the other/Other. Examining Paul’s ...
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(2023-09-22)Department: Molecular Pathology ImmunologyIdentifying molecular circuits that control adipose tissue macrophage (ATM) function is necessary to understand how ATMs contribute to tissue homeostasis and obesity-induced insulin resistance. In this study, we found that ...
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(2010-02-08)Department: Political ScienceLegislatures are among the least trusted political institutions in the world; but they are the heart of liberal democracy: no legislatures, no democracy. How are democracies to survive and prosper if citizens distrust one ...
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(2019-10-14)Department: EnglishGimlet Media’s 2016 podcast "Homecoming" has been regarded by critics as revolutionary within the genre for both its thematic and technical features, and for its choice to forgo a traditional narrator-based framing structure. ...
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(2017-03-30)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyBacterial type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) can function to export or import DNA, and can deliver effector proteins into a wide range of target cells. Relatively little is known about the structural organization of T4SSs ...
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(2014-11-24)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyVirus-receptor interactions govern the susceptibility of cells to infection and dictate viral tropism in the host. Mammalian reoviruses display serotype-specific neurotropism in newborn mice, with serotype 1 (T1) strains ...