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(2013-03-22)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsElevated very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL)-triglyceride (TG) secretion from liver contributes to atherogenic dyslipidemia that is associated with obesity, diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome. Numerous models of obesity ...
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(2012-04-19)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation examines the impact of obesity on the labor market from a legal point of view. Previous scholars have documented a discrepancy between the wages of the obese and the non-obese that is particularly large ...
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(2009-04-21)Department: Electrical EngineeringA machine’s intelligence is related to its autonomy. Making robots autonomous is perhaps the most difficult current challenge in the state-of-the art of robotics research. Robots are said to be autonomous, if they can learn ...
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(2005-04-13)Department: Electrical EngineeringObject recognition and learning algorithms are huge areas of robotics research with many different methods in use by various researchers. A common result of using complex recognition methods is the loss of meaning (for ...
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(2012-07-31)Department: PsychologyOne critical finding from the literature on embodied cognition is that people produce actions more efficiently when observing similar as compared to when observing different actions. This imitative compatibility effect has ...
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Observation of Collective Behavior in High-Multiplicity Proton-Gold Collisions with PHENIX at RHIC (2018-03-19)Department: PhysicsQuark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is an extremely hot and dense state of nuclear matter in which the quarks and gluons are not confined into hadrons. QGP existed in the first microsecond of the Universe and presently, it is produced ...
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(2012-12-03)Department: Special EducationMore than 30 previously published studies have shown that small group direct instruction is effective and efficient for teaching participants with and without disabilities, although relatively few studies have been conducted ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Special EducationVisual impairment fundamentally impacts students’ access to information and instruction. The field of visual impairment (VI) has touted assistive technology (AT) as a vital tool for addressing students with VI’s access ...
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(2015-07-21)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesCurrently, Greenland ice sheet mass loss is increasing at a rate near 1000 Gt yr-1, making the ice sheets top contributors to current sea level rise. Errors in constraining the mass balance of the Antarctic and Greenland ...
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(2011-03-26)Department: PsychologyRelations among observed positive and negative parenting and children’s coping strategies were concurrently and prospectively examined in the context of an intervention study designed to change both parenting behaviors and ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: Law and EconomicsAs millions of new patients enter the healthcare system in the wake of the Affordable Care Act, the greater use of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) represents an important option for increasing the ...
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(2016-10-12)Department: ChemistryThe work presented in this dissertation focuses on biomimetic studies of two systems of biosilification: a subset of unicellular algae, known as diatoms, and sea sponges. Chapter I introduces the topics represented in ...
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(2016-07-25)Department: Mechanical EngineeringRetinal surgery requires surgeons to manipulate delicate structures with very high precision while contending with perception and manipulation challenges due to the limited repertoire of tools available to them. Current ...
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(2016-11-23)Department: NeuroscienceOcular blast trauma induces multiple pathological changes in the retina and optic nerve that can result in permanent vision loss. Previous research has focused on characterizing various models of whole body or head blast ...
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(2021-02-01)Department: Biological SciencesAnts coordinate social behaviors by relying on a well-developed chemical communication system. Indeed, one of the most distinctive features of the ant genome is a highly expanded repertoire of odorant receptors (ORs) whose ...
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(2021-09-02)Department: NeuroscienceThe brain transforms an exuberant number of incoming noisy signals at imperfect noisy receptors and converts them into meaningful percepts that allows us to seamlessly interact with a complex world full of sensory information. ...
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(2014-05-28)Department: PharmacologyInward rectifier potassium (Kir) channels are a family of two transmembrane-spanning potassium selective ion channels. Kir channels are found in all kingdoms of life where they play essential roles in regulating numerous ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: EnglishThis thesis considers the function and purpose of propaganda across three notable moments in the career of W.E.B. Du Bois: his journalistic work for The Crisis, his sociological and curatorial work for the 1900 Paris ...
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(2017-08-29)Department: HistoryIn early 1965, Dr. Jack Geiger, a physician with a history of civil rights activism, approached officials in the newly-created Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and proposed a plan to create a community health center ...
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(2010-12-13)Department: SpanishIn this dissertation, I analyze literary texts deemed as obscene and the inquisitorial documentation against them in transatlantic Spain during the early modern period, in order to argue that obscenity and censorship are ...