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- The effects of thyrotropin releasing hormone in the retrotrapezoid nucleus.
- Thyrotropin releasing factor -- Physiological effect. ; Pons Varolii -- Physiology. ; Medulla oblongata -- Physiology. ; Respiration -- Regulation. ; Rats -- Respiration.
- The respiratory control network (RC) is made up nuclei dispersed throughout the pons and medulla oblongata and receives information from various sources that alter respiratory output. My studies have been focussed on one of these nuclei that play a...
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- Analysis of reactor configurations for combined anaerobic-aerobic biotreatment of perchloroethylene.
- Anaerobic bacteria -- Analysis. ; Biodegradation -- Testing. ; Bacteria Aerobic -- Analysis. ; In situ bioremediation -- Methodology. ; Bioremediation -- Methodology. ; Tetrachloroethylene -- Analysis.
- Chlorinated ethenes are ubiquitous environmental pollutants of public concern due to their potential toxicity and carcinogenicity. Under appropriate conditions anaerobic bacteria mediate the dechlorination of perchloroethylene (a common dry...
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- Coaxial microwave antennas for interstitial and intracavitary hyperthermia.
- Cancer -- Radiotherapy.
- Hyperthermia, the elevation of tissue temperature from 42°C to 50°C, is currently being investigated as an adjunct to radiation therapy in the treatment of cancer. The interstitial microwave antenna array hyperthermia (IMAAH) system is designed...
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- Brine drainage in sodium chloride ice.
- Sea ice.
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- Isotopic phase separation in dilute solid mixtures of Helium-4 in Helium-3.
- Helium -- Isotopes. ; Isotope separation.
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- Porous segmental bone replacements.
- Bone-grafting.
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- The temperature dependence of the fluorescence of tetracene single crystals.
- Tetracene. ; Fluorescence.
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- Quality control of solid dielectric cable.
- Electric cables. ; Dielectrics.
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- Production of ethanol from lignocellulosic materials using thermophilic bacteria.
- Alcohol -- Production methods. ; Lignocellulose. ; Thermophilic bacteria.
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- Scalable high-performance 3-D polygon rendering.
- Computer graphics. ; Computer architecture. ; Image processing -- Digital techniques.
- Computer generated 3-D images are proving useful in a wide variety of applications including data visualization, computer animation, virtual reality, telepresence and terrain generation. High-end applications in these fields require images to be...
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- ACAT1 knockdown gene therapy in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease / by Stephanie Rachel Murphy.
- Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease its pathogenesis is linked with cholesterol metabolism. Acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferases (ACATs) are key enzymes involved in cholesterol homeostasis that catalyze the...
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- Intrinsic photoconductivity in molecular crystals,
- Crystals -- Electric properties.; Photoconductivity.
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- Energy gaps and infrared spectra by electron tunneling.
- Tunneling (Physics); Energy levels (Quantum mechanics).
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- Biochemistry of dioxygenated triterpenoids and steroids.
- Cholesterol. Squalene. Steroids.
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- Capillary flow of superfluid helium at 0.45°K.
- Superfluidity. Liquid helium.
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- Combined digital breast tomosynthesis and near-infrared spectral tomography for breast lesion characterization / by Kelly E. Michaelsen.
- Annual screening mammograms are recommended for all women above 40 years of age for early detection of breast cancer, and are known to improve cancer mortality rates. However, mammography is hampered by low sensitivity and a high rate of false...
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- Multimodal electroencephalography and near-infrared spectroscopy neuroimaging measurement and analysis / by Paolo Giacometti
- This project focuses on the development of research tools and methods that are used to study the relationship between neural activity and subsequent hemodynamic responses in the human brain. This relationship, referred to as neurovascular coupling,...
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- Towards the experimental verification of macroscopic phenomena in quantum electrodynamics.
- Casimir effect. Zero-point field. Electric conductivity. Quantum electrodynamics.
- The Casimir force arises from an alteration of boundary condition in vacuum and is often regarded as a manifestation of quantum zero point energy. Considerable progress has been made in the last decade with an impressive achievement of experimental...
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- The role of mediator in white-opaque switching / by Anda Zhang.
- The multisubunit eukaryotic Mediator complex integrates diverse positive and negative gene regulatory signals and transmits them to the core transcription machinery. It is also involved in chromatin structure related epigenetic silencing through...
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- Development of an apparatus for simultaneous trapping of ⁶Li-⁸⁷Rb Fermi-Bose mixtures.
- Trapped ions -- Instruments. Magnetooptical devices -- Design and construction. Atoms -- Cooling. Lithium ions. Rubidium -- Isotopes.
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- Part I: synthetic approaches to the perfluorotropylium ion; Part II: a new, mild and selective dehydrohalogenating reagent.
- Fluorine.
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- Conformationally restricted bis(9-aminoacridine)s : a chemical and biological study
- Acridine.
- A series of conformationally restricted bis(9-amino-acridine) derivatives were designed, synthesized, and then evaluated for their chemical and biological behavior. The novel compounds were prepared by treating selected diamines with a...
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- Direct experimental investigation of the electron distribution function in a magnetized plasma.
- Plasma dynamics. Electrons.
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- Regulation of B lymphocyte proliferation and differentiation through CD40.
- B cells. CD antigens. Immune response -- Regulation.
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- The bedrock geology of the Holderness quadrangle, New Hampshire.
- Geology -- New Hampshire -- Holderness Quadrangle.
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- A frequency analysis of the tidal volume controller in CO2 regulation in decerebrate cats with peripheral denervations.
- Respiration. Carbon dioxide in the body.
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- Investigation of dynamic sea ice processes in the Weddell Sea during 1992.
- Sea ice -- Antarctica -- Weddell Sea.
- Through a series of case studies, signal processing and statistical tools, analyses of dynamic sea ice processes of drift, deformation, and ice pack expansion and decay are investigated for the Weddell Sea region during 1992. Cavitating fluid (CAV)...
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- Solution chemistry of a New Hampshire subalpine ecosystem.
- Forest ecology -- New Hampshire. Solution (Chemistry).
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- Computational methods for microwave medical imaging.
- Microwave imaging -- Mathematics. ; Three-dimensional imaging -- Mathematics. ; Image reconstruction -- Mathematics. ; Microwave imaging in medicine. ; Computer algorithms.
- Medical imaging methods have become increasingly important in diagnosing diseases and assisting therapeutic treatment. In particular, early detection of breast cancer is considered as a critical factor in reducing the mortality rate of women....
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- A generalized least-squares minimization method for near infrared diffuse optical tomography.
- Optical tomography. ; Near infrared spectroscopy. ; Image analysis -- Mathematical models. ; Imaging systems -- Image quality -- Mathematical models. ; Image reconstruction -- Mathematical models. ; Least squares. Breast -- Tomography.
- Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) has the potential to become a non-invasive and non-ionizing diagnostic imaging technique for breast cancer imaging. DOT uses near-infrared (NIR) light to illuminate the breast, generally through the use of fiber...
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- Anisotropic quasiparticle properties in aluminum.
- Aluminum. ; Fermi surfaces.
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- Effects of pressure on optical and magnetic properties of F-centers in rubidium halides
- Halides
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- Chronology of Neogene tectonics in the Central Andes (27°-33° S) of western Argentina based on the magnetic polarity stratigraphy of foreland basin sediments.
- Geology, Stratigraphic -- Neogene. ; Plate tectonics -- Argentina. Geology -- Argentina.
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- High-throughput analysis of antigen-specific antibody effector function from polyclonal Ig / by Eric Brown
- Antibodies are known to be a primary correlate of protection in almost all current vaccines, and thus evaluating the antibody response is of critical importance in attempting to predict the efficacy of novel vaccine candidates. Historically...
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- Sounding-rocket studies of Langmuir-wave microphysics in the auroral ionosphere / by Micah P. Dombrowski
- Since their discovery in laboratory plasmas in the 1920s, Langmuir waves have been observed to be ubiquitous in plasma environments, particularly in space plasmas. From the greater solar wind to planetary foreshocks and the auroral ionosphere,...
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- Dependence of snow thermal and electrical conductiveness on microstructure.
- Snow -- Thermal properties. ; Snow -- Electric properties. ; Microstructure.
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- NPC1-mediated trafficking of intracellular cholesterol.
- Cholesterol -- Physiological transport. Cholesterol -- Genetic aspects. Cholesterol -- Metabolism. Genetic disorders -- Molecular aspects.
- Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) is a neurovisceral disease that causes intracellular accumulation of cholesterol and other lipids. The exact mechanism how the defects in cholesterol trafficking pathways result in the progressive neurological damage is...
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- Inertial coupling in two-phase flow: a few test cases and their impacts on two-fluid modeling.
- Two-phase flow. ; Couplings.
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- Observation of changing information sources.
- Information resources management -- Mathematical models. ; Database management -- Methodology. ; Change. ; World Wide Web.
- Many modern information management tasks consist of an observer that must maintain current knowledge of a collection of changing information. The goal of this observer is to maintain acceptably accurate state estimates given limited observation...
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- The effects of testing delay and composite viewing on identification accuracy in lineups and showups.
- Psychology, Experimental. ; Criminals -- Identification. ; Child witnesses. ; Children and adults.
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- Nonequilibrium dynamics of phase transitions.
- Phase transformations (Statistical physics) -- Mathematical models. ; Differential equations Nonlinear -- Numerical solutions. ; Nonequilibrium thermodynamics -- Mathematical models. ; Mathematical physics.
- Phase transitions occur in such diverse and important systems as ferromagnets, liquid crystals and the early Universe. The dynamics of phase transitions such as these have been studied for decades, but the analytical models still need a great deal...
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- Residential indoor and outdoor air pollution.
- Air -- Pollution. ; Indoor air pollution. ; Air -- Pollution -- Measurement.
- The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) content of ambient air at several locations is described. The indoor sites examined included those having woodstoves, fireplaces, and kerosene heaters as supplements to oil heat, as well as one test home...
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- Pesticides in cloudwater: a study at three New England mountain sites.
- Water -- Pesticide content -- Analysis. ; Condensation (Meteorology) -- Analysis. ; Clouds -- Analysis.
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- Synthesis, characterization, and reactions of octafluorobicyclo[2.2.0]hex-1(4)-ene.
- Fluorine compounds -- Synthesis. ; Hexafluorobenzene.
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- New preparations of substituted (3H)-1,2-dithiole-3-thiones and investigations into the mechanism of their formation.
- Dithiole -- Synthesis. ; Thiols -- Synthesis. ; Aliphatic compounds -- Synthesis.
- This thesis describes a new synthesis of substituted (3H)-1,2-dithiole-3-thiones (dithiolethiones) from readily available starting materials. Dithiolethiones have a wide variety of industrial and pharmaceutical applications. These include use as...
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- The role of CD154/CD40 interactions in the development and persistence of CD4+ T cell-mediated immunity.
- CD antigens. ; T cells -- Receptors. ; Tumors -- Immunological aspects. ; Mice -- Immunology. ; CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes. ; Antigens CD40.
- The data presented herein demonstrate the requirement for CD154/CD40 in the development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model for multiple sclerosis. Blockade of CD154/CD40 interactions causes a decrease in T cell and...
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- Runx1 expression and function in the development of murine definitive hematopoietic stem cells and blood lineages.
- Transcription factors. ; Hematopoietic stem cells -- Genetic aspects. ; DNA-binding proteins. ; Mutation (Biology).
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- A high resolution ice-ocean model with imbedded mixed layer.
- Sea ice -- Simulation methods. ; Sea ice -- Polar regions. ; Numerical analysis.
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- Jackson queueing networks with denumerably many stations.
- Queuing theory.
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- The finger cuff.
- Blood pressure -- Measurement.
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