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Dying to Speak: Death and the Creation of a New Reader in the Latin American Novel
(2009-12-15)
In this study, I analyze Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas and Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, La amortajada and The Shrouded Woman by María Luisa Bombal, Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo, and João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: ...
Corruption and Cognitive Liberation in Russian Environmentalism: A Political Process Approach to Social Movement Decline
(2009-12-14)
Following reforms in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, a large environmental movement erupted across the nation. At the time, it was the largest and most powerful critical group in the repressive regime. After the ...
Automatic determination of optimal surgical drilling trajectories for cochlear implant surgery
(2009-01-08)
Cochlear implantation is a surgical procedure in which an electrode array is permanently implanted in the cochlea to stimulate the auditory nerve and allow deaf people to hear. Traditional techniques require wide excavation ...
Iron Oxide Nanoclusters as In Vitro Biosensors of Proteolytic Activity
(2009-12-21)
We demonstrate a flexible, tunable scheme for synthesizing multifunctional, ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (USPIOs) and its application to the area of magnetic relaxation switches. USPIO cores (10nm) ...
Superhydrophobic Polymethylene Films
(2009-12-08)
SUPERHYDROPHOBIC POLYMETHYLENE FILMS
The preparation, characterization, and stability of polymethylene films grown from metallic surfaces is presented in this thesis. Polymethylene films were produced in a single step ...
Assessment of a measure of response confidence for a speech recognition task in noise.
(2009-12-17)
ASSESSMENT OF A MEASURE OF RESPONSE CONFIDENCE FOR
A SPEECH RECOGNITION TASK IN NOISE
JOHN ANDREW DUNDAS
Dissertation under the direction of Gary P Jacobson, Ph.D.
The development of a measure of response confidence ...
A novel optical approach to the intraoperative detection of parathyroid glands
(2009-12-16)
A major challenge in endocrine surgery is the intraoperative identification of parathyroids during both thyroid and parathyroid surgery. Current localization techniques are mostly preoperative and are imprecise. Optical ...
High temperature oxidation of silica formers in dissociated oxygen
(2009-01-08)
A study of the high temperature oxidation of silica formers in dissociated oxygen is presented in this dissertation. Flowing an O2/Ar gas mixture through a microwave discharge before it entered a flow reactor generated ...
The Genetics and Epidemiology of Reproductive Disorders
(2009-01-14)
Each year in the United States about one million (17%) of all pregnancies experience complications that result in fetal loss. Of the five million pregnancies that end in a live birth approximately 12% are born prematurely. ...
Investigating tract-specific changes in white matter with diffusion tensor imaging
(2009-01-15)
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that provides information about the organization and structural integrity of tissue. It has become an increasingly popular tool for investigation ...