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(2020-01-17)Basement membranes are sheet-like extracellular matrixes that can be found on the basal surface of epithelial and endothelial cells, surrounding muscles and other organs, and in association with neurons. In addition to ...
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(2020-01-16)Aortic valve disease, including developmental defects and late-stage fibrocalcific remodeling, is a major global health burden. There is no pharmaceutical treatment for valve disease, and options for valve replacement are ...
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(2020-06-18)Previous research has shown that stress has a negative effect on executive control (Quinn & Joormann, 2015a, 2015b, 2020; Shields et al., 2016). The present study aimed to replicate the finding that a laboratory stressor ...
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(2020-06-15)While federal education policy requires that states support their lowest performing schools, the research on how to effectively turn around these schools is limited. Drawing from 13 years of statewide administrative data ...
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(2020-06-03)An estimated 50% of the electricity in the world is controlled by power semiconductor devices, with silicon carbide power devices superior to silicon power devices due to higher breakdown electric fields, increased thermal ...
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(2020-06-18)During third grade, students are expected to transition from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.” Students who do not make this transition are at-risk for future reading failure. The increased focus on informational ...
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(2020-06-18)This dissertation includes three papers which use modern microeconometric methods to estimate the causal effect of policies relevant to education and urban economics. The first chapter explores whether state mandated ...
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(2020-05-29)Bacterial biofilms are adherent, treatment-recalcitrant communities that contribute to the chronicity of diseases such as osteomyelitis, a debilitating infection of bone that results in increased morbidity and mortality. ...
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(2020-05-19)This dissertation considers the health and labour market implications of the U.S. Clean Air Act. Chapter 1 exploits the exogeneous variation provided by the 1990 Amendment of the U.S. Clean Air Act in order to test the ...
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3D Supervised Learning for CT Hematoma Segmentation via Transfer Learning from a 2D Trained Network (2020-05-19)Supervised learning approaches are the most widely used models in medical image processing and tend to offer the highest level of accuracy when paired data and labels are available. However, manual labeling process is ...
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(2020-05-19)ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Multi -Atlas Guided Automatic Tract Reconstruction of White Matter Fibers Xuan Wang Dissertation under the direction of Professor Bennett A. Landman Tractography based on diffusion MRI (Magnetic ...
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(2020-05-19)Lung cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in the world today, and it is the leading cause of cancer death, accounting for 1 in 4 cancer deaths (Gatsonis et al.,2011). Various automatic lung cancer detection ...
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(2020-06-02)Parental reflective functioning, a parent’s ability to mentalize about their child, has been linked to healthy child development. Evidence suggests that depressive symptoms are negatively correlated with mental state ...
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(2020-05-19)In “White Mythology,” Jacques Derrida claims that the structure of metaphor reveals the impossibility of constructing complete theories of meaning. He targets two metaphors—the metaphor of metaphor, and the metaphor of ...
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(2020-06-16)Bioinformatic and epitope mapping approaches have been successful, but are reactive, in determining the mutation preferences and commonly targeted B-cell epitopes of viral fusion proteins. The primary motivation of this ...
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A Pedagogy of Horror: The Counter-hegemonic Discourse of Latin American Short Narratives (1830-1920) (2020-05-14)I examine the political function of short narratives during the period of nation formation in Latin America (1830-1920). I focus on Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba as case studies to show that the genre was a prominent platform ...
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(2020-06-05)Many scientific questions focus on estimating the correlation between two variables. When the two variables are times to events, one or both of the variables may be censored. For example, when estimating the correlation ...
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(2020-05-19)Stressful experiences in early life can adversely influence long-term behavior, including in ways that propagate to individuals’ offspring. The mechanisms by which early life stress exerts effects that span generations are ...
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(2020-05-19)Two dimensional materials are sought after as proton conductors for energy conversion devices. Herein, hexagonal boron-nitride (hBN) and graphene were incorporated into Nafion|2Dmaterial|Nafion membrane assemblies and ...
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(2020-05-19)High resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is desirable for better in vivo tissue characterization. The overall aim of this dissertation is to develop new RF pulses that address problems hindering high-resolution ...