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Chemistry of P-H bonds at metal centers.
Organophosphorus compounds -- Synthesis. ; Phosphine. ; Transition metal compounds.
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N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl-P-phenylenediamine (TMPD) photoionization in nonpolar solvents.'
Photoionization.
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In vivo degradation in modern orthopaedic UHMWPE bearings and structural characterization of a novel alternative UHMWPE material / by Steven D. Reinitz.
Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) remains the most common bearing material for total joint arthroplasty. Advances in radiation cross-linking and other post-consolidation treatments have led to a rapid differentiation of polyethylene...
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Electron transfer reaction in solution: initial charge separation distance distribution and its impact on free ion formation.
Free radicals (Chemistry). ; Electron donor-acceptor complexes. ; Ions.
In this study, the initial charge separation distance and its impact on free radical ion (FRI) formation are investigated in detail. Transient photocurrent techniques together with other spectroscopic methods were used with a series of donors and...
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Molecular Replacement for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: application to NMR resonance assignment and protein structure determination.
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy -- Data processing. ; Proteins -- Analysis -- Mathematical models. ; Computer algorithms.
Our aim is to enhance high-throughput applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) through the development of efficient computational methods that operate on sparse (minimal) sets of experimental NMR data. We have developed a family of four...
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Fluorinated ligands in organometallic chemistry.
Fluorocarbons. Ligands.
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Preparation and reactivity of perfluorobenzyl complexes of the group 9 metals (Co, Rh, Ir).
Organometallic compounds. ; Organofluorine compounds. ; Organic compounds -- Synthesis. ; Transition metals. ; Cobalt compounds -- Synthesis. ; Rhodium compounds -- Synthesis. ; Organoiridium compounds -- Synthesis.
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The polarization of Be stars.
B stars. ; Polarization (Light).
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Shared decision making for people with severe mental illness.
Mentally ill -- Care -- Decision making. Mental illness -- Treatment -- Decision making. Mental health services -- Decision making. Mental health -- Information services. Medical informatics. Mental Disorders -- drug therapy.
Objective. We explored preferences and perceptions about treatment decision-making roles among persons with severe mental illness and evaluated two computer-based medication values clarification tools. Methods. In this study we conducted a pilot...
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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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Utilization and health outcomes in a spatial model of the US health care system / by Laura C. Yasaitis.
Objectives: This dissertation comprises three essays on geographic variations in healthcare, and the association between utilization and health outcomes. I first explore associations between outpatient visits and Medicare beneficiaries'...
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Preparations of oxysterols and derivatives for investigation of cholesterol regulation.
Oxysterols -- Synthesis. ; Oxysterols -- Derivatives -- Synthesis. ; Cholesterol -- Metabolism -- Regulation. ; Cholesterol -- Synthesis -- Regulation.
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Computing bounds for the Hausdorff dimension of the residual set of the Apollonian packing.
Hausdorff measures.
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Solution chemistry of a New Hampshire subalpine ecosystem.
Forest ecology -- New Hampshire. Solution (Chemistry).
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Experiment planning for protein structure elucidation and site-directed protein recombination.
Proteins -- Structure -- Computer simulation -- Experiments. ; Amino acid sequence -- Data processing -- Experiments. Protein engineering -- Experiments. ; Recombinant proteins -- Mathematical models.
In order to most effectively investigate protein structure and improve protein function, it is necessary to carefully plan appropriate experiments. The combinatorial number of possible experiment plans demands effective criteria and efficient...
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Deformation mechanisms in 2-D composite laminates under compression.
Laminated materials -- Fracture. ; Fibrous composites -- Fracture. ; Carbon composites -- Fracture. ; Materials -- Compression testing.
2-D and 3-D woven composites are becoming materials of choice for the forming of structural parts for an ever-increasing range of industries from infrastructure to aerospace. Research has shown that for a wide range of structural composites, in...
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Optical constants of noble and transition metals.
Metals -- Optical properties.
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A mechanistic investigation of the ring expansion of vinylcyclopropenes to metallacyclohexadienes and cyclopentadienyl complexes through the use of isotopically labelled ligands.
Organometallic chemistry. Isomerization. Organoiridium compounds. Organoiron compounds. Organorhodium compounds.
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Regeneration studies of a single indentifiable motoneuron in the crayfish Procambarus Clarkii.
Motor neurons. ; Nervous system -- Regeneration. ; Crayfish.
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Splicing thermotolerance in Drosophila melanogaster.
Heat -- Physiological effect. ; Cells -- Effect of temperature on. ; RNA splicing. ; Drosophila melanogaster.
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Four solar cycle ecliptic solar wind data set generated from the OMNI data set
Numerical modeling of the global heliosphere provides key insights into the physics of the outer heliosphere. The solar wind data utilized by these models impacts their accuracy and should be as close as possible to the actual solar wind. Ideally,...
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The immunobiology of antisecretory factor.
Monoclonal antibodies. ; Immunoglobulins. ; Immune response -- Regulation. Intestines -- Secretions.
Microglia are a bone marrow derived population of immune effector cells resident in the CNS. The function of these cells is manifold, and includes physiological, reparative, and immunological activities. During previous investigations of these...
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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...
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Fault modeling and design of dynamic logic.
Logic programming. ; Electronic digital computers -- Circuits -- Testing -- Mathematical models. ; Fault-tolerant computing.
Today''s fastest microprocessors, logic chips, and even memory chips employ dynamic logic as the key part to achieving advanced performance. Dynamic logic only retains the correct data state briefly and is far less robust than previous technologies...
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Replication in highly available distributed systems.
Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing. ; Computer network protocols.
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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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Minimum time kinematic trajectories for self-propelled rigid bodies in the unobstructed plane
Dynamics, Rigid. ; Trajectories (Mechanics) -- Mathematical models. ; Machinery Kinematics of -- Mathematical models.
The problem of moving rigid bodies efficiently is of particular interest in robotics because the simplest model of a mobile robot or of a manipulated object is often a rigid body. Path planning, controller design and robot design may all benefit...
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Kinematics and space densities for the local cataclysmic variable population.
Cataclysmic variable stars. Kinematics.
I investigate the kinematics and space densities of the local cataclysmic variable (CV) population. CVs are close binary star systems composed of a white dwarf that accretes matter from a less compact companion star in Roche lobe overflow....
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Prime polynomials over finite fields.
Polynomials. Finite fields (Algebra). Algebraic functions. Number theory.
The ring of univariate polynomials over a finite field shares many foundational arithmetic properties with the ring of rational integers. This similarity makes it possible for many problems in elementary number theory to be translated 'through the...
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Nonlinear theory of the Cerenkov maser.
Cherenkov radiation. ; Maser physics.
The Cerenkov Maser radiation is examined using linear and nonlinear theory. Linear theories for the gain in the single particle and the collective limits have been given previously. In this work, we show the connections between these two operating...
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Mode-locking in a grating coupled oscillator.
Mode-locked lasers. ; Free electron lasers. ; Laser pulses Ultrashort.
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Analytical characterization of scalar-field oscillons in quartic potentials.
Scalar field theory.; Perturbation (Quantum dynamics). ; Klein-Gordon equation.
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Murine transgenic cyclin E lung cancer models as discovery tools.
Lungs -- Cancer -- Etiology. Cyclins -- Pathophysiology. Carcinogenesis -- Genetic aspects. Transgenic mice. MicroRNAs.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. There is a pressing need for improved ways to treat or prevent lung cancer. Murine lung cancer models are previously reported. Although these have explored pathways involved in lung...
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Advancement of magnetic resonance poroelastography for applications in brain imaging / by Adam J. Pattison.
Brain tissue mechanics are an important biomarker for neurological disorders, yet methods to obtain tissue information yield inconsistent conclusions. These techniques can be invasive or require excised tissue, where tissue function is altered from...
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Distribution of sessile rotifers in a bog pond : with particular emphasis on substrate selection by Ptycura Beauchampi larvae
Rotifera. Ptychura Beauchampi.
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The experimental analysis of mutlitple computationally-driven methods for the deletion of broadly distributed T cell epitopes in a functional biotherapeutic candidate / by Regina Salvat
Novel biotherapeutics have reshaped drug discovery and promise a continued revolution in disease therapy, yet therapeutic proteins present unique design challenges. One distinguishing risk factor is the prospect of eliciting an adaptive immune...
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Density functional theory study of transition metal doped chalcogenides / by Stefano Poggio
The main driving force behind the development of computers was the attempt to solve problems that would otherwise require a large amount of time to be solved. Despite the technological development that has made computers ubiquitous in daily lives,...
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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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Computations of wall-bounded two-dimensional turbulence.
Turbulence. ; Navier-Stokes equations -- Numerical solutions. ; Galerkin methods. ; Boundary layer -- Mathematical models. ; Viscous flow -- Mathematical models.
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Appearance-design interfaces and tools for computer cinematography: evaluation and application.
Digital cinematography. ; Cinematography -- Lighting -- Data processing -- Evaluation. ; Cinematography -- Special effects -- Data processing -- Evaluation. ; User interfaces (Computer systems) -- Evaluation.
We define appearance design as the creation and editing of scene content such as lighting and surface materials in computer graphics. The appearance design process takes a significant amount of time relative to other production tasks and poses...
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The role of medullary raphé serotonergic neurons in central chemoreception during sleep and wakefulness in newborn piglets: relevance to the sudden infant death syndrome.
Serotoninergic mechanisms. ; Brain stem -- Physiology. ; Neurons -- Physiology. ; Respiration -- Regulation. ; Carbon dioxide -- Physiological effect. ; Chemoreceptors -- Physiology. ; Sudden infant death syndrome -- Pathogenesis
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Geographic access, utilization, and outcomes in lung, breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer patients at NCI-designated cancer centers.
Cancer Control Program (National Cancer Institute) -- Evaluation. Cancer -- Treatment -- United States -- Evaluation. Cancer -- Patients -- Care -- Evaluation.
Background. Disparities in access to cancer care and cancer-related outcomes have been demonstrated in the U.S. Patterns of access to National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Centers (NCI-CCs), the most specialized cancer care settings, have not...
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Graph algorithms for NMR resonance assignment and cross-link experiment planning.
Graph algorithms. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy -- Data processing. Proteins -- Structure -- Mathematical models. Proteins -- Crosslinking -- Mathematical models. Protein folding -- Mathematical models.
The study of three-dimensional protein structures produces insights into protein function at the molecular level. Graphs provide a natural representation of protein structures and associated experimental data, and enable the development of graph...
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Novel methods for improved identification throughput and high-resolution scoring for proteomics
The field of proteomics aims to identify and quantify the protein contents of a biological sample. The mass spectrometer is the instrument of choice to characterize these proteins. In the typical proteomics experiment, mass spectra are collected...
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construction of snow sculpture, "One Carnival to R...
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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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C₂-Symmetric Bis(phosphines) and Their Metal Complexes : Synthesis, Materials Application, and Screening Racemic Catalysts / Sanderson, Matthew David
Chapter 1: The dimethylation of the C2-symmetric Pt-phosphido complex Pt((R,R)-Me-DuPhos)(IsPCH2PIs) (Is = 2,4,6-(iPr)3C6H2) to yield rac- and meso- [Pt((R,R)-Me-DuPhos)(IsMePCH2PMeIs)][OTf]2 represents an interesting case of the Horeau principle...
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Expression and recovery of recombinant proteins in a novel high cell density prokaryotic system based on Ralstonia eutropha.
Ralstonia -- Biotechnology. Microbial biotechnology. Industrial microbiology. Recombinant proteins -- Synthesis. Recombinant Proteins -- Biosynthesis.
Escherichia coli is the standard host for recombinant protein expression in bacteria, but suffers from some limitations (e.g. poor fermentation performance, inclusion body formation and proteolysis). A novel recombinant protein expression system,...
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