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(2012-12-12)Department: PsychologyCardiovascular responses to acute stress have been examined for mediation and moderation of the stress-illness relation, but few studies of functional abdominal pain (FAP) have evaluated cardiovascular responses with none ...
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(2009-12-10)Department: ChemistryInitial studies on the development of diagnostic applications for backscattering interferometry (BSI) are presented. Backscattering interferometry (BSI) is a label-free technique developed by the Bornhop laboratory which ...
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(2007-04-14)Department: ChemistryThe movement of molecular analyses to u-TAS formats has grown exponentially over the past decade. This in turn has led to the development of new and innovative detection schemes to perform analyses on micro- and nanoarrays. ...
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(2017-04-05)Department: PhysicsIn the series of morphogenetic events that are required for Drosophila development, some of the most dramatic are those that involve the coordinated movement of the germband and amnioserosa, two epithelia that remain ...
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(2018-11-15)Department: Biomedical EngineeringAdvanced organic chemistry allows for design of unique nanocarriers that have specific functions tailored for in vivo applications, such as decorating with mannose to target tumor-associated macrophages for immunotherapy ...
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(2020-04-15)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityAs practice-based teacher education (PBTE) has become more prevalent, debates about its effectiveness have emerged. One side emphasizes the utility of core practices while another suggests that core practices are contrary ...
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(2019-03-21)Department: MathematicsThe uncertainty principle implies that a function and its Fourier transform cannot both be well-localized. The Balian-Low theorem is a version of the uncertainty principle for generators of Gabor orthonormal bases. This ...
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(2016-04-09)Department: MathematicsShift-invariant spaces and Gabor systems are frequently used in approximation theory and signal processing. In these settings, it is advantageous for the generators of such spaces to be localized and for the spaces to be ...
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(2007-02-15)Department: ReligionThis thesis investigates the problem of the disappearance of the Church, which is a result of the fracture of Christian praxis. First, the problem is introduced and outlined according to the maxim that the Church can only ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: Community Research and ActionAs systems of care become more prevalent for children and adolescents with mental health needs, there are an increasing number of peer support programs available for their family caregivers. Though these programs have shown ...
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(2021-06-13)Department: Nursing ScienceCancer is the leading cause of death among Hispanics in the United States; however, cancer clinical trial participation remains low within this population. Clinical trial participation is integral to the advancement of ...
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(2019-03-22)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyThe basement membrane is a sheet-like extracellular matrix that wraps around muscle fibers and underlies epithelia. Although the basement membrane is often considered to be static, there are indications that the BM is a ...
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(2023-03-14)Department: BiochemistryType II topoisomerases are essential enzymes that regulate the topological state of DNA. These enzymes function by performing a double-stranded DNA passage reaction, the process of which generates a covalent enzyme-cleaved ...
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(2012-11-05)Department: Biomedical InformaticsIn shotgun proteomics, database search algorithms rely on fragmentation models to predict fragment ions that should be observed for a given peptide sequence. The most widely used strategy (Naïve model) is oversimplified, ...
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(2014-08-04)Department: HistoryThis paper employs the NAACP records, military records, oral histories, and newspapers to reconstruct the efforts of civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall and his NAACP colleagues to launch a full-scale investigation of ...
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(2020-11-18)Department: Civil EngineeringCritical infrastructure systems provide essential services that support modern society. However, these systems are deteriorating and becoming more vulnerable to multiple hazards. In order to improve their resilience (i.e., ...
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(2022-05-10)Department: BiostatisticsBayesian methods offer many advantages in clinical trials, healthcare evaluation, and drug development, but their usage lags that of classical 'frequentist' methods. While some of this lag is related to philosophical ...
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(2018-11-27)Department: BiostatisticsThis dissertation broadly focuses on the advancement and extension of Bayesian methods for multivariate survival analysis with applications in larger data settings. Increased sample information allows researchers to develop ...
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(2005-12-19)Department: Cancer BiologyCANCER BIOLOGY BCL-2/BCL-XL REGULATES CELL CYCLE THROUGH A NOVEL MECHANISM IN ADDITION TO CELL SURVIVAL YELENA MELKUM JANUMYAN Dissertation under the direction of Professor Elizabeth Yang Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL are ...
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(2011-12-09)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyStructural information facilitates understanding of protein function and activity. The limitations of experimental methods for protein structure elucidation in applicability to certain types and families of proteins, ...