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Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Electronic theses and dissertations of masters and doctoral students submitted to the Graduate School.
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(2021-05-11)Department: NeuroscienceStress is critical to every organism’s ability to adapt and survive. This dissertation reviews the history of stress research and reviews stress physiology across a variety of organ systems. Neurocircuitry that is involved ...
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(2021-05-17)Department: Chemical EngineeringModification strategies involving polymer or molecular coatings have the ability to tailor the interfacial properties of surfaces by control of the structure, thickness, and composition of these adlayers. This work utilized ...
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(2021-05-11)Department: NeuroscienceStress is critical to every organism’s ability to adapt and survive. This dissertation reviews the history of stress research and reviews stress physiology across a variety of organ systems. Neurocircuitry that is involved ...
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(2021-05-11)Department: NeuroscienceStress is critical to every organism’s ability to adapt and survive. This dissertation reviews the history of stress research and reviews stress physiology across a variety of organ systems. Neurocircuitry that is involved ...
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(2021-04-12)Department: NeuroscienceArabic digits are perhaps the most ubiquitous symbol set used regardless of one’s native language and script. The ability to read numerals fluently is critical to succeed in the modern world. Yet, we know very little about ...
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(2021-03-23)Department: Nursing ScienceBackground: Pain is underrecognized and undertreated and pain processing is altered in people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The periaqueductal gray (PAG) is essential to pain processing and increased pain has been found ...
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(2021-03-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringOver 1.6 million bone grafting procedures are performed annually in the United States as a result of underlying illness or trauma. Bone grafts are required when a defect is critical sized or is unable to spontaneously heal ...
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(2021-03-18)Department: Chemical EngineeringDespite the potency of most first-line anti-cancer drugs, non-adherence to these drug regimens remains high and is attributable to the prevalence of “off-target” drug effects that result in serious, adverse events (SAEs) ...
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(2021-05-14)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn this work, single-event upset responses of D flip-flop designs with different threshold-voltage options in a 7-nm bulk FinFET technology are examined. Experimental data imply that single-event cross-section depends ...
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(2021-03-25)Department: Electrical EngineeringModeling systems intended for radiation environments is an important and challenging reliability problem. Due to their cost, commercial off the shelf (COTS) parts are more prevalent in systems today. However, due to their ...
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(2021-03-30)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesThe primary objective of this dissertation is to investigate and understand the impact neighborhood contexts may have on low-performing first-grade students’ mathematics achievement. The data for this study came from a ...
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(2021-05-11)Department: EpidemiologyDespite widespread availability of curative treatment, tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes remain sub-optimal, particularly among persons living with HIV. In 2018, global treatment success rates were 85% and 75% for TB ...
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(2021-03-25)Department: Biomedical InformaticsBeginning in the 2000s, electronic health record (EHR) systems have collected large amounts of clinical data. To leverage EHR data for drug studies, researchers have developed powerful computational methods. However, these ...
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(2021-03-25)Department: PhilosophyThe philosopher Adrian Margaret Smith Piper has labored hard to show how theories of knowledge and theories of motivation are deeply embedded in a ‘conception of self’ that guides how self-conception functions for the ...
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Cadherin-11 in Cardiovascular Mechanobiology: Altered Immune Response and Endothelial Contractility (2021-03-12)Department: Biomedical EngineeringCadherin-11 (CDH11) is a cell-cell adhesion protein that has been implicated in several diseases associated with fibrosis and inflammation. The bulk of current CDH11 research focuses on fibroblasts and its upregulation ...
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(2021-03-14)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsT cells play an important role in promoting inflammation in asthmatic patients and both Th2 and Th17 CD4+ T cells have been implicated in severe disease. The metabolic phenotypes and dependencies of these cells, however, ...
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(2021-05-01)Department: PsychologyBackground: The genetic mechanisms associated with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) are often used to study biological models of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Data are limited, however, on the rates and characteristics of ...
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(2021-03-16)Department: PhysicsHigh spin states of the neutron-rich $^{104}$Mo nucleus have been reinvestigated by analyzing the $\gamma$-rays in the spontaneous fission of $^{252}$Cf with Gammasphere. Both $\gamma$-$\gamma$-$\gamma$ and $\gamma$-$\ga ...
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(2021-03-31)Department: Cancer BiologyThe Wnt/b-catenin (canonical) signaling pathway is an evolutionarily conserved pathway that is critical for normal development, and misregulation of Wnt signaling can lead to diseases in humans. Many components of the Wnt ...
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(2021-03-06)Department: ChemistryUmpolung amide synthesis (UmAS) exploits the unique properties of an α-halo nitroalkane in its reaction with an amine to produce an amide. The “umpolung” moniker reflects its paradigm-breaking C–N bond formation on the ...