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Autonomous Cooperative Assembly by Force Feedback Using a Control Basis Approach
(2009-04-07)
Recent goals in space missions require innovative technologies to develop and to build infrastructure for space exploration. NASA plans to have robots construct modular systems and habitats and prepare them for life support ...
Effects of soil transport processes on organic carbon storage in forested hillslope soils
(2009-04-22)
This study examines how coupled geomorphic and biologic processes influence the potential for hillslope soils to store organic carbon. A mass-balance model of soil organic carbon on hillslopes is developed by combining ...
Caretaking behaviors in adolescent children of depressed parents
(2009-05-18)
In a sample of 89 depressed parents and their 115 adolescent children, ages 9-15, child caretaking behaviors were examined to determine their relationship to child and parent demographic characteristics, parental functioning ...
High Affinity Peptide Neurotoxin Quantum Dot Conjugates for Detecting Endogenous Targets in Live Cells and Ex Vivo Tissue
(2009-06-05)
This project focused upon advancing nanotechnology for applications in biological assays using highly fluorescent nanocrystals, quantum dots, with high affinity peptide neurotoxins as targeting molecules. Specifically, ...
Performing Silence, Performing Speech: Genre and Gender in Stuart Drama
(2009-06-10)
I argue that, during the Jacobean and Caroline periods, the three dramatic forms of closet drama, masque, and commercial theatre participated in recreating and critiquing conduct manual vocabularies of speech and ...
Spin state isomerism and molecular magnetism from site-specifically substituted bis(indenyl) transition metal complexes
(2009-06-10)
This work focuses on bis(indenyl) complexes of vanadium, chromium, manganese and iron. Specifically, spin-state manipulations of the complexes were attempted by the variation of ligand substituents in number, type, and ...
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Literature and Memory
(2009-06-10)
Although the outbreak of “Spanish flu” in 1918-1919 has been labeled a “forgotten pandemic,” it has made a significant mark on literature and culture, especially that of the 1930s. This paper examines three works of that ...
Orienting and maintenance of gaze in contamination-based OCD: biases for disgust and fear cues
(2009-06-18)
The present study examines the extent to which attentional biases in contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are specific to disgust or fear cues, as well as the components of attention involved. Eye tracking ...
Defensive Adaptation: Managing Social Anxieties in Literature and Film
(2009-06-16)
In this dissertation I examine the relationships between textual adaptation and social anxieties. By looking at work by artists as varied as Jane Austen and Michael Powell, Patricia Highsmith and Ellen Wood, Anthony ...