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- Fractal models in the visual perception of textures and surfaces in nature.
- Visual perception. Fractals. Computer graphics. Uniformity of nature -- Mathematical models.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Temporal aspects of mental representation: a psychophysical approach.
- Memory. ; Psychophysics.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Investigation, optimization and synthesis of dihydrodipyrrins, linear tetrapyrroles and the resulting chlorins.
- Porphyrins -- Synthesis. Tetrapyrroles -- Synthesis.
- The synthesis of macrocyclic tetrapyrroles continues to be an area of vigorous research due to their application to a wide range of fields spanning the physical sciences. Only recently have general syntheses for the reduced systems, such as...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Partial acid hydrolysis pretreatment for enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose : a process development study for ethanol production.
- Cellulose. ; Hydrolysis. ; Refuse as fuel.
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- Petrology and geochemistry of shield volcanoes in the central Mexican Volcanic Belt.
- Volcanoes -- Mexico. ; Shields (Geology) -- Mexico. ; Petrology -- Mexico. ; Geology -- Mexico.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The chemistry of arsenic and mercury under post-combustion conditions.
- Arsenic wastes -- Analysis. Mercury wastes -- Analysis. Coal -- Combustion -- By-products. Fly ash. Flue gases.
- Coal combustion remains an important source of toxic metal emissions. Dilute concentrations and poor understanding of their chemistries hinders reduction of these emissions. This thesis examines the chemistry of the trace metals arsenic and mercury...
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- Vibrio cholerae lipopolysaccharide peptide mimicry.
- Endotoxins -- Immunology. Vibrio cholerae -- Immunology. Mimicry (Chemistry). Antigenic determinants. Peptides -- Immunology. Molecular mimicry -- immunology. Epitopes -- immunology.
- The potential of peptide mimics of V. cholerae lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to elicit cross-reactive immune responses against LPS was investigated, as an alternative approach towards the development of a cholera vaccine. Peptide mimics of two...
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- Tray 34.4
- Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala.
- Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala.
- Stoiber Slides
- Synthetic studies of Munchnone reactivity and applications and the total synthesis of cyclopenta[B]indole natural products / by Justin M. Lopchuk.
- Chapter 1: Munchnones and mesoionic heterocycles The reactivity, regioselectivity, and synthetic applications of munchnones (1,3-oxazolium-5-olates) is a common theme which runs through Chapters 2-5. The definition, structure, and reactivity of...
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- Analysis of zooplankton dynamics: case studies of temporal succession controlled by the predator, Asplancha, and of diel cycles in Keratella.
- Freshwater zooplankton. Predation (Biology).
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- C.O.A.L.1: a dynamic model for the analysis of United States energy policy.
- Energy policy -- United States -- Mathematical models.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- A multivariate analysis of self-selection and change due to college experience.
- College students -- Psychology. College environment.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- A prediction of the interaction of a normal shock with a separating, turbulent boundary layer.
- Shock waves. Turbulent boundary layer.
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- Evaluation and engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for cellulase expression and growth on insoluble cellulose.
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae -- Genetics. Cellulase -- Biotechnology. Cellulose -- Biotechnology. Biomass conversion -- Technological innovations.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- On the implementation of ALGOL 68.
- ALGOL (Computer program language);Computer programming.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Determining anthropogenic and natural controls on the global mercury cycle using lake sediment and ice cores ; by Samuel Adams Beal Jr.
- While anthropogenic emissions of the toxic element mercury (Hg) to the atmosphere are currently rising, major uncertainties remain in determining the relative impacts of anthropogenic activity and natural processes on the global Hg cycle. In this...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The role of gut commensals in regulating susceptibility to acute liver damage / by Stela Celaj.
- Liver disease of different etiologies confers significant morbidity and mortality and hence it constitutes a major health concern worldwide. Stemming from a range of causes, such as viral, drug-induced, alcoholic, or autoimmune, the rate of...
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- Thermodynamic and spectroscopic studies of metalloprotein stability ligation and reactivity / by George P. Lisi III.
- Metal ions confer structural stability and reactivity to a large number of proteins that use the amino acids histidine (His) and cysteine (Cys) to form stable metal-ligand complexes. The stability of metal-His and metal-Cys interactions and their...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Reactor design considerations for the conversion of particulate biomass to ethanol.
- Bioreactors -- Design and construction. Alcohol as fuel. Biomass energy.
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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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- Optical constants of ZnS and ZnS:Mn thin films from 1.5 eV to 3.2 eV as determined by transverse photothermal deflection spectroscopy.
- Thin films -- Optical properties. Zinc sulfide -- Spectra.
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- Fluorinated ligands in organometallic chemistry.
- Fluorocarbons. Ligands.
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- Implementation, characterization, and applications of a scanning Kelvin probe force microscope.
- Scanning force microscopy. Scanning electron microscopes -- Design and construction. Semiconductors -- Analysis.
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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.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Genetic inactivation of ACAT1 ameliorates the amyloid pathology and cognitive deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.
- Acyltransferases -- Genetic aspects. Enzyme inhibitors. Alzheimer's disease. Amyloid.
- Acyl-CoA:Cholesterol Acyltransferases (ACATs) are key enzymes in cellular cholesterol metabolism. ACAT converts free cholesterol to cholesterol ester, which makes it more easily storable in lipid droplets. There are two ACAT genes encoding two...
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- Detection of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon microseepage in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming using isotopic, biogeochemical, and spectral reflectance techniques.
- Hydrocarbons -- Secretion. Petroleum -- Geology -- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.). Natural gas -- Geology -- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.). Isotope geology -- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.). Sagebrush -- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.) -- Analysis....
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- Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions.
- Meadow ecology -- Colorado. Angiosperms -- Nutrition. Angiosperms -- Pollination. Plants -- Effect of nitrogen on. Insect pollinators -- Ecology -- Colorado. Mountain plants -- Ecology -- Colorado. Bees -- Ecology -- Colorado. Bees -- Nutrition --...
- Nutrients play fundamental roles in biological systems, affecting plant growth and quality, community structure, and species interactions. Although the effects of nutrients on primary and secondary production have been well documented, their...
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- From nonmetal- and metal-chalcogen nanoclusters to chalcogenide nanotubes.
- Chalcogenides. Nanotubes. ; Nanostructured materials.
- A double-acceleration stage linear time of flight mass spectrometer (TOF MS) with Nd/YAG laser ablation cluster source was designed and constructed for cluster production, study and deposition. Cumulenic polycarbons SC n S ( n = 2-27) were...
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- Anisotropic quasiparticle properties in aluminum.
- Aluminum. ; Fermi surfaces.
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- Diaphragmatic electromyogram and airflow responses to imperceptible mechanical loads in conscious humans
- Respiration -- Regulation. ; Pressure breathing.
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- The population dynamics, bioenergetics, and nutrient cycling of three species of mice in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, U.S.A
- Mice; Forest ecology -- New Hampshire. ; Animal ecology -- New Hampshire
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- Morphological, semantic and formal relationships in the organisation of the mental lexicon.
- Learning, Psychology of. ; Psycholinguistics.
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- Investigation of the reactivity of vinylimidazoles.
- Imidazoles. ; Heterocyclic compounds -- Synthesis.
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- A descriptive examination of situation constraints on expressive behavior.
- Emotions.
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- Temperature dependence of the optical constants of the noble metals.
- Precious metals -- Optical properties.
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- Molecular function of the MADS floral organ identity proteins of APETALA3 and PISTILLATA in Arabidopsis.
- Arabidopsis -- Genetics. Arabidopsis -- Molecular aspects. Transcription factors. DNA-binding proteins. Flowers -- Morphogenesis -- Molecular aspects.
- APETALA3 ( AP3 ) and PISTILLATA ( PI ) are floral organ identity genes that are necessary and sufficient for petal and stamen development. Surprisingly little is known about molecular mechanisms by which AP3 and PI proteins direct floral organ...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The organization of environmental memory
- Memory. ; Ecology -- Memorizing
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- The mental workspace as a distributed neural network / by Alexander Schlegel
- The brain is a vastly interconnected information processing network. In humans, this network supports the rich mental space at the root of the imagination and enables many flexible cognitive abilities such as scientific and artistic creativity. How...
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- Anthropogenic changes to mercury and lead biogeochemistry in forest soils across the Northeastern United States / by Justin Byron Richardson
- Understanding mercury (Hg) and lead (Pb) accumulation and retention in forest soils is needed to reduce their negative impacts on human and wildlife health. In addition, mercury and lead can be used to characterize the role of soil in terrestrial...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The functional importance of the head direction signal for homing behavior / by William Nelson Butler
- The rat limbic system contains head direction (HD) cells that fire according to heading in the horizontal plane. These HD cells are thought to provide animals with an internal compass to guide navigation. Previous work has found that HD cell tuning...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Specificity in signaling : bacterial decision-making through the cyclic diguanylate second messenger / by Kurt M. Dahlstrom
- Cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP) is a primarily bacterial and nearly universal second messenger used to stimulate a variety of responses from the cell by binding effector proteins. It is created by enzymes called diguanylate cyclases (DGCs) and broken...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 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,...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Biological significance of VIVID photocycle length and the control of gene expression by the Neurospora clock / by Arko Dasgupta
- Sensing light from the environment using photoreceptors is of great adaptive significance to eukaryotes. A prominent feature of the photochemistry of these receptors is the photocycle length, the time taken to decay from the initial signaling light...
- 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...
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- Innate immune mechanisms contributing to LP-BM5 murine retroviral pathogenesis and immunodeficiency / by Megan Ashley O''Connor
- LP-BM5 murine retroviral infection induces murine AIDS (MAIDS), and is characterized by profound and broad immunosuppression of T- and B-cell responses. Adaptive immune response to LP-BM5 infection, including the pathogenic role of CD4+ T-cells and...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Improving MHC-peptide binding prediction from sparse data with a multi-allele graphical model and active learning / by Li Jiang
- The recognition of foreign peptides by MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) proteins is a critical step in the immune response mounted by higher vertebrates against pathogens. MHC proteins have many allelic variants, each recognizing different...
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- Targeting kinetochore-microtubule stability affects chromosome segregation and tumor growth in mice / by Christopher D. Laucius
- Chromosomal instability (CIN) is defined as a high rate of whole chromosome loss or gain and is a hallmark of many aneuploid solid tumors. CIN positively correlates with poor patient prognosis and chemotherapeutic resistance. The persistence of...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The dual role of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa type I-F CRISPR-Cas system in group behavior modification and viral immunity / by Gary E. Heussler
- CRISPR-Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-CRISPR associated) systems have been characterized as adaptive immune systems in bacteria and archaea, providing defense against mobile genetic elements, including bacteriophage,...
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- Structure, petrology, and U-Th-Pb geochronology in the Milford (15') quadrangle, New Hampshire.
- Petrology -- New Hampshire -- Milford. ; Geological time.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Isolation of interleukin-2-induced immediate-early genes.
- Interleukin-2.
- Dartmouth Dissertations

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