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Bioanalytical Approaches to Chemical Biology
(2010-06-01)
As the field of chemical biology evolves, so does the development of novel bioanalytical techniques capable of accurately measuring biochemical composition and regulation. This dissertation explores three aspects of ...
Polyester based ‘nanosponges’ as a delivery platform for diverse therapeutics to advance the treatment of a broad range of diseases
(2010-06-07)
While traditional polyesters, such as poly(lactic acid) and poly(glycolic acid), have long been of interest for the development of nanoparticles as effective drug delivery devices, they are restricted in their utility due ...
Structural biology of the C-terminal domain of eukaryotic replication factor Mcm10
(2010-06-04)
Eukaryotic DNA replication is tightly regulated during the initiation phase to ensure that the genome is copied only once and at the proper time during each cell cycle. During replication initiation, over twenty different ...
Narrowing the Window: Multisensory Perceptual Learning and its Neural Correlates
(2010-06-04)
The brain’s ability to bind incoming auditory and visual stimuli depends critically on the temporal structure of this information. Specifically, there exists a window of time within which stimuli are highly likely to be ...
Bodies of encounter: health, illness and death in the early modern African-Spanish Caribbean.
(2010-06-11)
This dissertation explores African ideas and practices related to bodies, health, illness and death in the early modern Spanish Caribbean. African healing traditions were an essential part of the imagination of bodies, ...
Second harmonic generation in Si/SiO2 systems.
(2010-06-08)
Second harmonic generation (SHG) has been utilized as a sensitive and non-invasive optical tool to investigate the interface in Si/SiO2 systems. This dissertation encompasses two major topics: 1) Polarization-dependent SHG ...
Distributed and Adaptive Parallel Computing for Computational Finance Applications
(2010-06-08)
Analysts, scientist, engineers, and multimedia professionals require massive processing power to analyze financial trends, create test simulations, model climate, compile code, render video, decode genomes and other complex ...
A Meta-Analysis of Comprehension Strategy Instruction for Upper Elementary and Middle School Students
(2010-06-29)
This study synthesizes what is known about strategic reading pedagogy through a meta-analysis of research on multiple comprehension strategies instruction (MCSI) for young adolescents in grades 4-8. The average effect of ...
Teaching young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to respond appropriately to lures from strangers
(2010-06-24)
As young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are particularly vulnerable to being taken advantage of, safety training is needed to teach appropriate responding to lures from strangers. This study ...