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- Large bowel polyps: aspects of epidemiology and diagnosis.
- Intestine, Large -- Cancer -- Epidemiology. ; Intestine.
- Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer diagnosis and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Most colorectal cancers are believed to develop from precursor lesions known as colorectal adenomas....
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Effects of foliage structure on the foraging behavior of insectivorous forest birds.
- Wood warblers -- Food. ; Wood warblers -- Behavior. Leaves. ; Forest ecology.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Patient outcomes and decision making in the treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
- Congenital heart disease in children -- Surgery -- Evaluation. ; Heart -- Abnormalities -- Surgery -- Evaluation. ; Outcome assessment (Medical care).
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a heart malformation that requires surgical intervention for survival. Without surgery, 95% of neonates with HLHS die in the first month of life. Two surgical approaches are available, a series of...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Spectral analysis of moderate length time series.
- Time-series analysis. Spectral theory (Mathematics).
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- The synthesis and chemistry of novel cyclic perfluoromethyl-substituted molecules.
- Fluorine compounds.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Identification of the glucose transport system in purified rat adipose cell plasma membranes
- Glucose -- Metabolism. Insulin -- Physiological effect.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Access control in and for the real world / by Sara Sinclair.
- Access control is a core component of any information-security strategy. Researchers have spent tremendous energy over the past forty years defining abstract access-control models and proving various properties about them. However, surprisingly...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Teaching diverse orthopaedic patient populations about deliberative decision making skills : testing a design strategy for online patients' decision aids
- Clinical medicine -- Decision making. ; Medical informatics. ; Patient participation. ; Osteoarthritis -- Treatment. ; Knee -- Diseases -- Treatment. ; Decision Making. ; Decision Support Techniques.
- Problem Statement. Effective patients' decision aids (PtDAs) help patients understand clinical information and reduce decisional conflict. PtDAs that also explicitly provide guidance through four """"Deliberative Steps"""" may achieve additional...
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- Clay mineralogy and geochemistry of soils and sediments with perma frost in interior Alaska.
- Clay minerals -- Alaska. ; Soils -- Alaska. ; Frozen ground -- Alaska.
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- Simulating electron radiation belt dynamics.
- Van Allen radiation belts -- Mathematical models. ; Magnetosphere -- Mathematical models. ; Magnetohydrodynamics -- Mathematical models.
- The physics of geomagnetically-trapped radiation has been a topic of interest since the discovery of the Van Allen belts in 1958. As the energetic particles comprising these belts can pose a hazard to human activity in space, considerable effort...
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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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- Development and application of a dual-excitation, digital imaging, fluorescence microscope to investigate parathyroid hormone-stimulated calcium transport in kidney distal tubule cells.
- Fluorescence microscopy. ; Calcium -- Physiological transport -- Measurement. ; Renal tubular transport -- Measurement.
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- The design of a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft for the general aviation market.
- VTOL -- Design and construction.
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- Calcium control of nervous excitation.
- Excitation (Physiology). ; Calcium -- Physiological effect.
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- An integrated approach to structure-function analysis: a study of interleukin-2 and ligand-based agonist and antagonist design.
- Interleukin-2.
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- Si-Au Schottky barrier nuclear battery.
- Nuclear batteries.
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- Estimation of effective scatterer size and number density in near-infrared tomography.
- Optical tomography. ; Mie scattering. ; Image analysis -- Mathematics. ; Breast -- Imaging. ; Diagnostic imaging.
- Light scattering from tissue originates from the fluctuations in intra-cellular and extra-cellular components, so it is possible that macroscopic scattering spectroscopy could be used to quantify sub-microscopic structures. Both electron microscopy...
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- The development of magnetic susceptibility weighted magnetoencephalography
- Magnetoencephalography -- Technique.; Magnetic susceptibility.
- The measurement of human brain function is the goal of many noninvasive medical imaging modalities. Two sources of physiological contrast are commonly targeted to achieve this goal. The most direct approach to measuring neuronal activity is with...
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- Particle entrainment under non-uniform flow created by an impinging jet / by Robert B. Haehnel.
- Prions.;""Proteins -- Conformation."";""Nanoparticles."";""Iron oxides."";""PrPSc Proteins.""
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- Individual differences in situation awareness: validation of the situationism scale
- For the most part, research on self-regulation has focused on behavior-control, which is how people self-regulate in the face of immediate urges and temptations (e.g., resisting cookies that are close at hand, or resisting beer that is being freely...
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- Geographisch-statistische und historische Charte von Neuhampshire
- New Hampshire
- The Granite State in Maps, 1756-2003
- Medicine: July 1991; Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospi...
- Dartmouth College Photographic Records
- Medicine: July 1991; Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospi...
- Dartmouth College Photographic Records
- Understanding the vulnerabilities of tumors : a network-based approach to drug target discovery / by Nadia M. Penrod.
- The demand for novel molecularly targeted drugs will continue to rise as we make progress toward personalizing cancer treatments to the molecular signatures of individual tumors. While the collection and analysis of genomic data has become routine,...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Energy gaps and infrared spectra by electron tunneling.
- Tunneling (Physics); Energy levels (Quantum mechanics).
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- Forest structure and atmospheric interactions : predictive models for subalpine balsam fir forest
- Forest hydrology -- Mathematical models; Forest Meteorology -- Mathematical models; Balsam fir
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- Analytical and computational approaches for quantitative phosphoproteomics / by Jason M. Gilmore.
- Protein phosphorylation is an important regulatory mechanism for the control of countless processes in living systems. The delicate management of phosphate attachment to, and removal from, serine, threonine and tyrosine residues in proteins...
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- Leptin DNA methylation and maternal and infant pregnancy outcomes in the Rhode Island child health study / by Corina Lesseur Perez.
- In utero exposure to maternal malnutrition is associated with increase offspring susceptibility to cardiometabolic and neuropsychiatric disease. Epigenetic mechanisms mediate, at least in part, fetal adaptations to adverse in utero environments...
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- Computational methods for the discovery and application of protein sequence-structure-function relationships / by Lu He.
- Proteins are ubiquitous in cells and are essential to a wide range of biological processes. Since existing proteins occupy only a small portion of the space of possible amino acid composition, understanding their sequence-structure-function...
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- Habitat selection in the American redstart (Setophaga ruticilla): the importance of early successional habitat and the role of landscape change in population declines.
- Wood warblers -- Habitat. Wood warblers -- Effect of habitat modification on. Forest ecology -- New Hampshire. Animal populations -- Mathematical models.
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- Habitat selection by breeding black-throated blue warblers: different patterns at two spatial scales and the use of habitat for foraging and nesting.
- Black-throated blue warbler -- Habitat. Black-throated blue warbler -- Behavior. Black-throated blue warbler -- Food. Black-throated blue warbler -- Nests.
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- Approximation algorithms for the shortest superstring problem.
- Algorithms. Pattern recognition systems.
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- Direct experimental investigation of the electron distribution function in a magnetized plasma.
- Plasma dynamics. Electrons.
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- Heat shock translational control in Drosophila melanogaster.
- Heat shock proteins. RNA. Drosophila melanogaster.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Solution chemistry of a New Hampshire subalpine ecosystem.
- Forest ecology -- New Hampshire. Solution (Chemistry).
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The adaptation of a potential function controller for control of a dynamic multi-robot system.
- Robots -- Control systems -- Design and construction. Mobile robots. Robots -- Dynamics.
- This thesis examines the issues of vehicle and information dynamics in the control of a multi-robot system using a radial-basis potential function controller. Distributed control of multi-robot systems requires each robot to communicate state...
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- Mapping the junction of action perception and production.
- Perceptual-motor learning -- Physiological aspects. ; Language acquisition -- Physiological aspects. ; Motor ability -- Physiological aspects. ; Knots and splices.
- The studies presented in this dissertation explore several points of intersection between action perception and production within the human brain. One's ability to use perceptual information about another individual's actions to guide and inform...
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- The differentiation and survival of long-lived plasma cells.
- Plasma cells. ; Lymphocyte transformation. ; B cells. Immune response -- Regulation. ; Immunologic Memory -- physiology.
- During an immune reaction to an invading pathogen, a population of lymphocytes with receptors that specifically recognize the pathogen are activated and become memory cells. Characteristically, memory lymphocytes persist for long periods of time...
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- Nonstigmatized individuals' reactions to the acknowledgment and valuation of a stigma by overweight individuals and physically disabled individuals.
- Overweight persons -- Attitudes. ; People with disabilities -- Attitudes. ; Obesity -- Public opinion. ; Stigma (Social psychology). ; Self-presentation.
- In the last few years, a new perspective on the management of obesity has emerged. Instead of focusing on dieting and weight loss efforts, the new approach focuses on size acceptance. The concept of positively accepting one's deviant features has...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Morphological, semantic and formal relationships in the organisation of the mental lexicon.
- Learning, Psychology of. ; Psycholinguistics.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The use and transfer of learning strategies in the classroom.
- Learning, Psychology of. ; Cognitive styles.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The role of government in encouraging the market penetration of newly-emerging energy technologies: a parabolic trough case study.
- Solar energy industries -- United States.; Solar collectors -- United States. ; Subsidies -- United States.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Coding of disparity as a function of directional separation and feature similarity.
- Vision -- Research. ; Visual perception.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- microRNA in Porifera : evolution of a molecular mechanism in sponges / by Jeffrey Robinson
- Sponges are a historically ambiguous taxon, often considered primitively simple representatives of early Metazoa, living fossils from the era before the complex morphological features of the bilaterian phyla appeared in the Cambrian. Yet recent...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Functionalization of fluorocarbons.
- Fluorocarbons -- Synthesis. Fluorocarbons -- Derivatives. Activation (Chemistry). Polytef -- Surfaces. Organofluorine compounds -- Synthesis.
- The great strength of the C-F bond has enabled fluorocarbons to find many industrial and domestic applications, and makes C-F activation a chemical and technical challenge akin to that of C-H bond activation in hydrocarbons. In our mission to...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- CD8+ T cell responses to acute and chronic viral infections governed by costimulatory signals and CD4 help.
- T cells. T cells -- Receptors. CD antigens. CD4 antigen. Immunologic memory. Herpesvirus diseases -- Immunological aspects. Vaccinia. CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes -- immunology. CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes -- immunology. Herpesviridae Infections --...
- The phenomenon of immunological memory has been known for thousands of years. This knowledge has been applied to vaccination, which has resulted in a dramatic reduction in the number of deaths due to infectious diseases. Immunological memory is...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 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...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Characterization of cancer risk and response to immunotherapy through pathway-based genomic analyses / by David C. Qian
- For most cancers, the genetic mechanisms that predispose normal cells to neoplastic transformation and tumor cells to therapeutic eradication are poorly understood. High throughput genotyping technologies have allowed the rapid discovery of...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Electrical impedance acquisition system for surgical margin assessment during robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy / by Shadab Khan
- Prostate cancer (PCa) recurrences are often predicted by assessing the status of surgical margins (SM) – positive surgical margins (PSM) increase the chances of biochemical recurrence by 2-4 times which may lead to PCa recurrence. At present,...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Structure, petrology, and U-Th-Pb geochronology in the Milford (15') quadrangle, New Hampshire.
- Petrology -- New Hampshire -- Milford. ; Geological time.
- Dartmouth Dissertations

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