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- Effects of pressure on optical and magnetic properties of F-centers in rubidium halides
- Halides
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 5-AMINOLEVULINIC-INDUCED PROTOPORPHYRIN.
- Brain tumors account for ~2% of all cancers, with gliomas accounting for ~70% of all brain tumors. Evidence suggests that extent of resection provides both a quality of life and survival benefit to patients. Recent work has shown the utility of...
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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 Santo Niño Ag-Pb-Zn Vein, Fresnillo District, Mexico : Geology, Sulphide And Sulphosalt Mineral.
- Geology -- Mexico -- Fresnillo Region. ; Sulfide minerals -- Mexico -- Fresnillo Region. ; Sulfosalts. ; Geochemistry -- Mexico -- Fresnillo Region.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Development of a ruby fluorescence-based surface probe of tribological processes.
- Plastics -- Testing. ; Fluorescent probes. ; Temperature measuring instruments. ; Tribology. ; Polytef -- Thermal properties. ; Nylon -- Thermal properties.
- This research has established feasibility of surface temperature characterization using ruby fluorescence. Study was performed in pin-on-disk geometry, with balls made of different plastics sliding against the sapphire disk. Fluorescence signal was...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The heterogeneous role of the medial prefrontal cortex and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes in negative occasion setting.
- Prefrontal cortex -- Physiology. ; Acetylcholine -- Receptors. ; Nicotine -- Physiological effect. ; Inhibition.
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- Re-programming tumor-infiltrating dendritic cells in situ via RNAi elicits therapeutic immunity against ovarian cancer.
- Ovaries -- Cancer -- Immunotherapy. Dendritic cells. Small interfering RNA. Nanoparticles -- Therapeutic use. Medical Term Ovarian Neoplasms -- therapy. RNA Interference.
- Current therapies for ovarian carcinoma are based on surgical debulking followed by chemotherapy. After more than three decades implementing treatments that selectively target the tumor cell, the 5-year survival rate for metastatic ovarian cancer...
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- 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...
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- Electrical impedance tomography for breast imaging.
- Electrical impedance tomography -- Equipment and supplies -- Design and construction. ; Breast -- Cancer -- Diagnosis. ; Breast -- Imaging.
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- The cognitive dynamics underlying decision-making : interactions between attention memory and reward in action control / by Kanghoon Jung.
- A fundamental question in decision neuroscience is how cognitive processes underlying decision-making give rise to efficient decisions, especially in complex situations with multiple choice options, and each option consisting of multiple attributes...
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- FGF2 in endothelial cell migration, intracellular signalling and receptor endocytosis.
- Fibroblast growth factors. Rho GTPases. Cell receptors. Integrins -- Physiological effect. Endocytosis. Vascular endothelium. Cellular signal transduction.
- Endothelial cell migration is an important element of a number of biological processes, including angiogenesis. The fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) are a family of angiogenic heparan-binding proteins that potently induce endothelial migration....
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- Anticipated emotion in health decision making : an extension of the prototype-willingness model
- Health behavior -- Decision making. ; Emotions.
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- Decentralized adaptive control for nonlinear interconnected systems with applications to real-time robot control.
- Robots -- Control systems. ; Control theory. ; Robotics.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Primate origins through the lens of functional and degenerate cone opsins / by Gillian L. Moritz
- A nocturnal activity pattern is central to almost all hypotheses on the adaptive origins of primates but this view has been challenged recently on the basis of variation in the cone opsin genes of nocturnal primates. The diversity among primates in...
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- Effects of suburbanization on plant-pollinator interactions / by Adrian L. Carper.
- Urban and suburban development is a dominant factor driving ecological processes at local and regional scales and its impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services are alarming. Pollinators, especially bees, and the ecosystem services they...
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- Genetic variants among G-protein coupled receptors and implications for cardiovascular disease.
- G proteins -- Receptors. Cardiovascular system -- Diseases -- Genetic aspects. Medical Term Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled -- genetics.
- Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), particularly non-synonymous variants, provide opportunities for deciphering pathophysiological protein influence. An ideal group for realizing these opportunities is the GPCR-superfamily. Principles from...
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- Imaging performance in advanced small pixel and low light image sensors / by Leo Anzagira
- The proliferation of mobile devices and other consumer products has greatly expanded the market for CMOS image sensors. This in turn has promoted a trend of continued improvement in image sensor performance, as companies seek to gain an advantage...
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- Acoustic measurement of upper airway movement and inspiratory airflow modeling.
- Acoustic imaging. ; Sound -- Measurement. ; Airway (Medicine) -- Mathematical models. ; Air flow -- Mathematical models. ; Larynx -- Physiology -- Mathematical models.
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- CXCR3 and its cognate-chemokine expression : implications for cancer immunotherapy / by Eleanor Clancy-Thompson
- Despite immunogenicity, melanoma-specific vaccines have demonstrated minimal clinical efficacy in patients with established disease, but enhance survival when administered in the adjuvant setting. It has been shown that T cell infiltration of...
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- The representation of auditory space in the auditory pathway of primates.
- Auditory pathways -- Physiology. Auditory perception -- Physiological aspects. Directional hearing -- Physiological aspects. Space perception -- Physiological aspects. Visual perception -- Physiological aspects. Primates -- Sense organs. Inferior...
- Recent studies demonstrating that eye position modulates auditory responses in a brainstem auditory structure and in primary auditory cortex (Groh et al., 2001; Werner-Reiss et al., 2003a), suggest preparation of the auditory signal for eventual...
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- Molecular analysis of novel ER membrane proteins important for homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
- Membrane proteins -- Physiological transport. Biological transport -- Regulation. Proteins -- Biodegradation. Proteins -- Synthesis -- Regulation. Endoplasmic reticulum. Cellular control mechanisms. Saccharomyces cerevisiae -- Molecular aspects.
- Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) homeostasis requires the coordination of anabolic and catabolic activities. A primary function of the ER is the biosynthesis and export of secretory proteins and lipids. Anterograde transport of only properly folded and...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Si-Au Schottky barrier nuclear battery.
- Nuclear batteries.
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- Functional heterogeneity and helper roles of CD4+T cells in antiviral immunity / by Zhuting Hu
- CD4+ T cells are critical for the control of virus infections, memory cell formation and immune surveillance. Epstein-Barr virus and Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus are two γ-herpesviruses identified in humans and are strongly associated...
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- 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,...
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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...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Homepage Image: Summer Snow: Margaret E. Wheeler, ...
- Dartmouth College Photographic Records
- Homepage Image: Summer Snow: Margaret E. Wheeler, ...
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- Homepage Image: Summer Snow: Margaret E. Wheeler, ...
- Dartmouth College Photographic Records
- Linguistics Olympiad: posted January 31, 2014, on ...
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- Classroom: posted October 26, 2015 on Dartmouth No...
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- Inventory control for a shop-warehouse system.
- Stores or stock-room keeping. ; Electronic data processing -- Inventory control.
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- Identifying the biologically active forms of HEDGEHOG proteins.
- Hedgehog (HH) proteins play an important and evolutionary conserved patterning role in metazoan development. Aside from this physiological role, pathologically HH proteins are implicated in human developmental disorders and post-developmental...
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- Studies of adaptive immune responses: factors mediating the biology of adaptive T regulatory cells, plasma cells, and memory B cells.
- Immune response -- Regulation. Tretinoin. T cells. B cells. Plasma cells. Immunity.
- Adaptive immunity licenses higher organisms to generate potent immune responses against foreign antigens. Two hallmarks of adaptive immunity are A) the ability of T and B cells to distinguish self from non-self and B) the ability to mount a...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Dynamic model of the United States electric utility industry, 1950-2010.
- Electric utilities -- United States -- Mathematical models.
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- Cellular organization in syncytia : nuclear autonomy and cytosolic organization across kingdoms / by Samantha Elizabeth Roberts
- All cells must organize their cytoplasm in order to carry out functions properly and survive in different environments, and the requirement for organization is increased in large, multinucleate cells. It has long been known that membrane-bound...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The state of surface bound water on lysozyme.
- Water. ; Molecular dynamics. ; Lysozyme.
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- The electric field of an insulated, linear antenna embedded in an electrically dense medium
- Antennas (Electronics); ; Thermotherapy. ; Cancer -- Treatment.
- Engineers have devised many techniques by which to raise the temperature of a cancer tumor 8 degrees above body temperature. Such treatment is called hyperthermia; experiments in vitro suggest it may be an effective adjunct to standard radition...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Eliciting patients' preferences for the intensity of preference-sensitive health care: An integrated research strategy.
- Patients -- Decision making. Patients -- Attitudes. Motivation (Psychology) -- Social aspects. Preferences (Philosophy) Medical care -- Evaluation. Medical care -- Research -- Methodology. Medical care -- Decision making.
- Statement of Problem Characterizing the public's preferential attitudes towards relatively more-/less-intense elective options in ""preference-sensitive"" health care situations is particularly relevant for the prioritization policies of...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- C.O.A.L.1: a dynamic model for the analysis of United States energy policy.
- Energy policy -- United States -- Mathematical models.
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- Deception detection using human reasoning / by Deqing Li.
- Scientific methods that detect deception have been studied since 1895. Among them, computational methods have gained popularity in recent decades thanks to the development of artificial intelligence, (AI). Detecting deception by categorizing...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Theoretical and experimental study of order-packed flexible image-bundles.
- Fiber optics. ; Optical fibers. ; Optical transfer function. ; Coupled mode theory. ; Endoscopes.
- Flexible fiber scopes are widely used in industry and medicine. Typical scopes are made using conventional optical components and order-packed flexible image bundles. The optical performance of a flexible scope is largely determined by that of the...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Computational studies of small group IB clusters and their van der Waals complexes.
- Transition metal complexes -- Spectra. ; Chemical reaction.
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- Surface mismatch inverse based methods in brain deformation modeling.
- Three-dimensional imaging in medicine -- Mathematical models. Diagnostic imaging -- Digital techniques. Brain -- Magnetic resonance imaging. Inverse problems (Differential equations).
- An accurate registration between the preoperative images and the current surgical scene is critical to image-guided neurosurgery. However, during a neuro-surgical intervention, brain tissues shift and degrade the accuracy of the registration....
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- Forming, operating, and improving micro-systems of health care.
- Clinical medicine -- Practice. ; Medicine -- Practice. ; Group medical practice.
- Health care micro-systems are small, organized groups of clinicians and staff working together with a shared clinical purpose to provide care for a defined set of patients. The size of individual micro-systems vary--a micro-system must be large...
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- Motion optimized conformal microwave imaging for biomedical applications / by Neil R. Epstein.
- Investigations into alternative breast cancer (BC) imaging techniques have become increasingly popular based on the limitations of traditional imaging modalities: X-ray mammography uses ionizing radiation, has limited intrinsic contrast and is...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- A methodology for evaluating the development of new clinical emergency response technologies: Testing its validity using the case of electron paramagnetic resonance dosimetry.
- Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy -- Technological innovations. Radiation dosimetry -- Technological innovations. Emergency management -- Technological innovations.
- Background. The development and implementation of emergency response technologies have relied on two independent and rarely integrated processes. Initially, research labs develop technologies without systematic consideration of the special needs...
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- Harmonics based detection of magnetic nanoparticle dynamics for multiparameter biosensing
- Nanoparticles -- Magnetic properties.;""Harmonics (Electric waves)"";""Biosensors."";""Spectrum analysis."";""Brownian motion processes.""
- Magnetic nanoparticles have an increasing role in the clinical and pharmaceutical realms where their physical properties can be exploited for imaging, biological and functional sensing, control of cellular processes, therapeutics, and an array of...
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- The role of DRNL and microRNA319a in petal and stamen growth in Arabidopsis.
- Arabidopsis thaliana -- Genetics. Growth (Plants).
- Work in Arabidopsis and other model species over the past 25 years has led to major insights into the control of floral organ identity. However, much less is known about genes that control the growth and differentiation of floral organs. In this...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Performance indicators and policy evaluation in rural transit.
- Transportation -- Research -- New England. ; Travel -- Research -- Mathematical models -- New England.
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- An experimental study of the propagation and dispersion of internal atmospheric gravity waves.
- Gravity waves. Ionosphere.
- Dartmouth Dissertations

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