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(2006-12-11)Department: PsychologyAlthough used widely in psychological research, race and ethnicity are amorphous and ill-defined constructs, lack adequate reliability and validity, and are rarely suitable as explanatory variables or mechanisms of ...
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(2021-03-30)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesThe primary objective of this dissertation is to investigate and understand the impact neighborhood contexts may have on low-performing first-grade students’ mathematics achievement. The data for this study came from a ...
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(2016-04-09)Department: SociologyNeighborhoods structure the availability of resources necessary for the healthy functioning of their residents. Because neighborhoods vary greatly in the amount of physical, social, and economic resources available, they ...
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(2007-07-26)Department: EnglishENGLISH “NEITHER LYE NOR ROMANCE”: NARRATIVITY IN THE OLD BAILEY SESSIONS PAPERS CHARLES KINIAN COSNER, JR. Dissertation under the direction of Professor John Halperin This study examines the ways in which the Old ...
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(2020-11-06)Department: BiostatisticsElectronic health records (EHRs) provide unprecedented amounts of data, facilitating entirely new kinds of observational research studies. One valuable and challenging area of research enabled by these databases is ...
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(2009-12-01)Department: Computer ScienceWireless networks are more prone to failures than their wireline counterparts. The unique characteristics of wireless networks introduce fundamental challenges to the design of restoration related wireless networks that ...
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(2022-03-24)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyDissertation under the direction of Dr. Vito Quaranta Epigenetic heterogeneity underlies acquired resistance to therapy in several cancer types. Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a particularly recalcitrant form of lung ...
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(2015-11-27)Department: Electrical EngineeringCyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are becoming increasingly distributed in nature. These distributed systems interact closely with the physical world and require the use of communications channels between the computational ...
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(2018-07-26)Department: Electrical EngineeringHardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation is an effective technique for testing an embedded system. An HIL simulation includes a plant model run in a real-time simulator, a controller run in the embedded system under test, and ...
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(2008-12-30)Department: Computer ScienceThis thesis considers two important issues for video sensor networks, (1) timely delivery of captured video stream and (2) energy-efficient network design. Based on network calculus, it presents a unified analytical framework ...
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(2015-10-20)Department: AnthropologyThis ethnographic study examines the pioneering tactics Brazilian Internet freedom activists have used to defend what they refer to as the Internet livre - a free and open Internet. In particular, it explores how the concept ...
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(2021-07-21)Department: History“Information freedom” is a powerful discourse in the 21st century. Its invocation often trades in the sense that information “wants to be free”: that the unrestrained flow of information across borders inherently facilitates ...
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(2010-08-13)Department: HistoryKinship networks were central to early Americans’ achievement of socio-economic and political goals. By comparing case studies of Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Anglo-American families, this dissertation shows how very important ...
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(2017-12-21)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation examines mortuary traditions, cranial trauma, violent dismemberment, and cranial hyperostoses among a mortuary population from the cemetery of Uraca, in the Majes Valley, Arequipa, Peru. AMS dates show ...
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(2017-04-12)Department: NeurosciencePunishment undergirds large-scale cooperation and helps dispense criminal justice. Despite its importance, little is known about the brain mechanisms that support punishment decision-making as well as the influence of ...
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(2009-04-22)Department: NeuroscienceMammalian circadian rhythms are orchestrated by the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus. The SCN are composed of circadian clock neurons but the mechanisms by which these neuronal oscillators encode circadian ...
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(2009-12-03)Department: NeuroscienceHow does the brain select visual targets for eye movements? We recorded neural activity while macaques performed visual search in which they were trained to move their eyes to a target stimulus among an array of distractor ...
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(2024-03-12)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesNaturalistic language production is integral to daily communication and ubiquitously impaired in aphasia, an acquired language disorder caused by focal brain damage typically due to stroke. Despite its importance, naturalistic ...
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(2014-12-03)Department: NeuroscienceInhibited temperament is a biological risk factor for the development of social anxiety disorder. In adolescents and young adults, inhibited temperament has been associated with increased amygdala reactivity and alterations ...
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(2022-08-11)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesWe investigated functional reorganization for language processing in post-stroke aphasia, while making a concerted effort to ameliorate previously identified methodological challenges and implementing a novel method to ...