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Shared Positive Affect: An Early Behavioral Risk Marker for Autism Spectrum Disorders?
(2009-11-09)
PSYCHOLOGY
SHARED POSITIVE AFFECT: AN EARLY BEHAVIORAL RISK MARKER FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS?
CAITLIN R. MCMAHON
Dissertation under the direction of Professor Wendy L. Stone
This project examined the early ...
Examining Tissue Microstructure with Temporal Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
(2009-11-09)
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a noninvasive imaging technique that can be used to quantify the rate of self-diffusion of water molecules. In biological tissues the mobility of water molecules ...
Resource-Aware Deployment, Configuration, and Adaptation for Fault-tolerant Distributed Real-time Embedded Systems
(2009-11-11)
There is growing demand for simultaneous support of timeliness and high availability quality of service (QoS) properties in distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems deployed in resource-constrained environments. ...
Delineation of signaling pathways induced by Helicobacter pylori that regulate host cell survival
(2009-11-13)
Gastric adenocarcinoma is strongly associated with the presence of H. pylori. Microbial factors of H. pylori and host responses induced by the interactions of H. pylori with gastric epithelial cells play important roles ...
Monetary Policy, Trade Patterns, and Price Dispersion: The Role of Trade Costs
(2009-03-28)
This dissertation consists of three studies. Each study examines the role of trade costs for some facet of trade or finance, thus partly addressing a number of the Six Puzzles of International Economics highlighted by ...
Restriction of vif-competent HIV-1 by physiological levels of APOBEC3G in primary T-helper cells
(2009-03-31)
Apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex 3G and 3F (APOBEC3G, A3G, A3F) reduce endogenous retrotransposition and also limit the replication of HIV-1. These cytidine deaminases have anti-HIV activity when packaged into virions, ...
Human Action Segmentation and Recognition with a High Dimensional Single Camera System
(2009-04-21)
A key goal in machine vision is to understand how the actions of sentient agents such as humans are processed, identified, and understood. The most apparent challenge is the need to segment a continuous set of visual ...
Eye movement strategies during attentional tracking
(2009-04-02)
Though it is a common occurrence during activities such as team sports to have to attend to multiple objects at once, we are only able to direct gaze to one location at a time. Where will gaze be directed when there are ...
A grounded theory approach to analyzing political narratives
(2009-04-08)
Much ink has been spilled over the question of whether or not there is a “culture war” going on in the United States between religious conservatives and liberals (Hunter, 1991). This thesis examines the possibility of ...
Redeeming the Time: The Making of Early American Methodism
(2009-04-16)
This dissertation is a thematic exploration of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the early national period of American history. Between the years 1784 and 1835, the denomination achieved unprecedented numeric growth, ...