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Multiple roles for olig2 in the hindbrain: oligodendrocyte and abducens motor neuron specification and facial motor neuron migration
(2009-04-01)
In the spinal cord, most oligodendrocytes, the myelinating cell type of the CNS, and motor neurons arise from common, ventral, olig2-expressing precursors called pMN cells. In the hindbrain, the degree to which motor neurons ...
Pubertal Development and Substance Use among Adolescent Girls: The Importance of Social Interactions and Social Contexts
(2009-03-28)
This dissertation examines the substance use risk associated with pubertal development among adolescent girls, focusing on the reasons why and how this relationship occurs. Three empirical studies are presented using data ...
The Design, Implementation and Performance of the PHENIX Time-of-Flight West Detector
(2009-04-14)
The topic of this thesis is the design, implementation and performance of the PHENIX Time-of-Flight West (TOFW) subsystem, a high transverse momentum (pT ) particle identification (PID) detector based on Multi-Gap Resistive ...
Real-time Gesture Imitation in a Soft-arm Control Robot
(2009-04-08)
In this thesis a system is developed whereby ISAC, a soft-arm control humanoid robot, can observe, track, and imitate hand motions made by a human being. This is accomplished by making use of the OpenCV libraries for Haar ...
Immune Tolerance for Insulin in Developing B Lymphocytes
(2009-03-28)
The bulk of the developing B cell repertoire consists of autoreactive specificities; accordingly, effective maintenance of immune tolerance at this stage is critical for the prevention of autoimmune disease, the third most ...
Using Model-based techniques for improving performance and reliability in high performance scientific computing
(2009-03-28)
Data processing in scientific and workflow-oriented computing is carried out as analysis campaigns, which consist of an input dataset and a set of interdependent jobs. Traditionally, these massively parallel computations ...
The Covert Magisterium: Theology, Textuality and the Question of Scripture
(2009-04-02)
This project utilizes cultural materialist methodologies to examine the doctrine of Scripture as it pertains to post-20th Century North American theologians. The dissertation puts forth the thesis that such theologians ...
Knowing "How" Is More Than Knowing "That": A Study of Educational Leadership Expertise
(2009-04-02)
While there is ample criticism of principal certification and professional
development programs to equip individuals with the expertise they need, we as
a field possess few methodologies to measure leadership expertise. ...
SPRR3 Regulation and Function in the Atherosclerotic Microenvironment
(2009-04-02)
Atherosclerosis is a chronic vascular disease which is the underlying cause of over half the deaths in the United States each year. Variations in local vascular hemodynamics predispose select sites in the vasculature to ...
Investigating Terminal Preclassic and Classic Period Power and Wealth at K'o, Guatemala
(2009-04-13)
This dissertation investigates the relationship between power and wealth in past societies by examining the economic networks through which wealth was distributed at K’o, Guatemala from the Terminal Preclassic through the ...