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(2019-11-11)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesTropical ecosystems regulate global climate, act as carbon sinks, and contain some of the highest levels of biodiversity in the world. Yet, increased human population growth and associated land use needs have made tropical ...
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(2022-07-09)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines Black and White women’s experiences as complainants and defendants in South Carolina’s county-level criminal courts between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing ...
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(2008-05-05)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesRelational trust has proven to be an important predictor of school achievement in the United States and can lead to innovation, problem-solving, and collective action in school communities (Bryk and Schneider, 2002). This ...
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(2022-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as other public health agencies, emphasizes the news media as a key channel in the development and dissemination of crisis and risk communication to the American ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: ReligionThe poetry and songs of the radical Jewish Labor movement in the United States were derived from their Russian populist past in Russian and German, but delivered to the Soviet socialist future in Yiddish. What transpired ...
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(2015-07-17)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyProteins that regulate cell polarity are fundamental for metazoan biology and are necessary for proper development of tissues and organs. In light of polarity genes’ fundamental role in tissue organization, disruptions ...
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(2022-02-11)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyComplex systems contain several hierarchical levels of abstracted information and function, which attenuate the effectiveness of traditional analytical methods. The application of systems theory and machine learning for ...
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(2014-04-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringClinical translation of RNA interference has been impeded by the lack of safe and effective technologies for cytoplasmic delivery to target cells. Regenerative medicine is a potentially high impact but relatively underexplored ...
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(2012-07-18)Department: SociologyThis dissertation examines the ways educated urban Chinese youth seek out and engage American scripted TV as a vehicle of self-reflexivity and as a symbolic tool for identity work. Based on 29 one-on-one interviews with ...
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(2014-04-08)Department: Electrical EngineeringHemodialysis remains an under-appreciated opportunity to assess individual pharmacokinetics. As dialysis is started and stopped, drug clearance suddenly changes, thus disturbing drug equilibration between pharmacokinetic ...
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(2015-10-12)Department: HistoryThroughout the course of American history, a tension has existed between domestic politics and American foreign policy. American foreign policymakers often see domestic opponents as a far more relevant threat to their ...
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(2014-02-11)Department: NeuroscienceEpilepsy is a disease characterized by two or more unprovoked seizures. Two mutations, S326fs328X and A322D, in the α1 subunit of GABAA receptor (Gabra1), are associated with childhood absence epilepsy and juvenile myoclonic ...
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(2015-11-25)Department: Electrical EngineeringAcoustic neuroma surgery is a procedure in which a benign mass is removed from the Internal Auditory Canal (IAC). Currently this surgical procedure requires the manual drilling of the temporal bone followed by exposure and ...
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(2015-04-14)Department: HistoryThe othering of Welsh persons was a recurrent feature of English “home tour” travelogues throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet, in the eighteenth-century English popular imaginary, the Welsh landscape ...
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(2013-07-30)Department: MathematicsWe investigate two subjects in asymptotic analysis. The first focuses on a class of rational functions called Padé-orthogonal approximants. We study the relation of the convergence of poles of row sequences of Padé-orthogonal ...
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Two problems in Computational Mathematics: Multiple Orthogonal Polynomials and Greedy Energy Points (2010-05-25)Department: MathematicsIn this thesis we investigate the asymptotic behavior of greedy energy sequences on locally compact metric spaces and Euclidean spaces, and the asymptotic behavior of multiple orthogonal polynomials associated with measures ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: MathematicsIn this dissertation, we present the results of two projects, both related to equations over groups and each concerning a particular generalization of hyperbolic groups. Their abstracts are presented below. A subgroup of ...
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(2022-06-29)Department: Neuroscienceγ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) type A receptors (GABARs) are ligand-gated Cl- channels that mediate the bulk of inhibitory neurotransmission in the mature brain. Disruptions in GABAergic signals underlie a significant portion ...
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(2021-07-15)Department: PhysicsThe successful isolation and characterization of graphene opened a new dimension for experimental materials research. And though graphene possesses an assortment of attractive mechanical, optical, and electrical properties ...
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(2021-05-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringTwo-dimensional (2D) materials, from graphene to transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), have attracted tremendous attention from researchers in various fields owing to their exceptional properties. This dissertation ...