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- Dissecting the heterogeneity of breast tumor subtypes / by Nima Pouladi.
- Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. The discovery of breast tumor subtypes and the subsequent development of treatments aimed at them has allowed a reduction in the mortality of breast cancer. However, tumors with similar...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The function of perceived gaze direction in emotion and person perception.
- Gaze -- Psychological aspects. ; Facial expression. ; Body language.
- The primary goal of the current research was to examine the effect of perceived gaze direction on the perception and processing of facially communicated emotion. There is good reason to believe that gaze direction and facial displays of emotion...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- A multivariate analysis of self-selection and change due to college experience.
- College students -- Psychology. College environment.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The problems of perception and regulation in the relationship between activities and mood.
- Mood (Psychology)
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- Statistical methods for gene set annotation optimization unsupervised gene set testing and independent gene set filtering / by Hildreth Robert Frost.
- Gene set testing has become a critical tool for interpreting the results of high-throughput genomic experiments. Despite the development of robust statistical methods and extensive gene set collections, however, the results from gene set testing...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The employment of people with severe mental illness / by Alison E. Luciano.
- Study 1 This systematic review aimed to synthesize the emerging body of work on the impact of employment, with a focus on prospective cohort studies. Researchers identified relevant studies for review via PubMed, expert referral, and reference...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 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.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Self/other perception of the intensity of facial expressiveness : do we know what we show?
- Facial expression.; Emotions. ; Self-perception.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 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...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Patient outcomes and clinical decision making in aortic valve replacement.
- Outcome assessment (Medical care). ; Aortic valve -- Surgery -- Complications. ; Aortic valve -- Surgery -- New England. ; Cardiovascular instruments Implanted.
- Aortic valve disease is a frequent and serious disorder. Although aortic valve replacement (AVR) is arguably the only effective treatment, important issues remain unresolved in the care of patients with this disease. Recent studies have focused...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Direct and indirect effects on planktonic ciliate assemblages.
- Ciliata -- Effect of sediments on. ; Ciliata -- Effect of habitat modification on. ; Plankton -- Effect of sediments on. ; Plankton -- Effect of habitat modification on.
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- The cognitive structure of the self-concept: implications for psychological well-being.
- Self-perception. ; Cognitive psychology.
- The present work examines the cognitive structure of the self-concept. Improving upon established measures of self-complexity (H -statistic), cognitive complexity of the self-concept is measured in terms of the number of self-aspects and the...
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- Neural representation of social knowledge in the medial prefrontal cortex.
- Social perception -- Physiological aspects. ; Prefrontal cortex -- Physiology.
- From the most minimal of person information, such as a photograph or a sentence, people are able to rapidly infer a multitude of complex personality traits. These social inferences are thought to rely upon cognitive representations of person...
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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....
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- School and family influences on adolescent physical activity, sports participation, and weight status.
- Problem Statement: Increasing physical activity is a priority for decreasing obesity rates, but we have a limited understanding of which factors are most influential in promoting physical activity among adolescents. We also do not know what forms...
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- Understanding inpatient nurses' engagement in worksite health promotion: a case study.
- Nurses -- Health and hygiene. Employee health promotion.
- Background. Worksite health promotion programs (HPP) support employees' health behaviors to prevent downstream diseases. Maximizing participation can optimize program impact. Objectives. To assess staff nurses' participation in three HPP - flu...
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- Spectroscopy-based quantification of chromophores and scattering in near infrared tomography.
- Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy. Breast -- Cancer -- Tomography. Breast -- Cancer -- Imaging. Breast -- Cancer -- Diagnosis. Image reconstruction. Diagnostic imaging. Image Processing
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- Anomaly detection in network streams through a distributional lens
- Anomaly detection (Computer security); Computer networks -- Security measures.
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- Phosphoproteomic strategies to identify aberrant kinase signaling in lung cancer / by Devin Karl Schweppe
- Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the USA and worldwide causing 160,000 and 1.5 million deaths per year, respectively. Due to the late stage of diagnosis, poor efficacy of chemotherapies (targeted and pleiotropic), and...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 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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- The evolution of mate recognition in Oecanthus tree crickets / by Laurel Symes.
- Many organisms recognize and respond to categories: predator, prey, rival, or juvenile. Organisms recognize these ecologically-important categories by assessing diverse sensory stimuli. A primary focus of my research has been understanding how...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Automatic spectral classification.
- Stars -- Spectra -- Classification. Stars -- Open clusters.
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- Physical disability and the attribution dilemma : perceiving the causes of behavior in social interaction
- People with disabilities -- Psychology; Social perception
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- The role of DEG/ENaC ion channel subunits in pheromone detection and mating behaviors in Drosophila melanogaster / by Vinoy Vijayan.
- Gustatory pheromones regulate mating behaviors in Drosophila melanogaster and represent an important model for understanding how sensory stimuli can drive behavior. However, the genes and cells involved in pheromone detection have remained poorly...
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- Integration of machine learning network science and pathway analysis in genetic epidemiology / by Qinxin Pan.
- Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and other high-throughput initiatives have led to an information explosion in human genetics and genetic epidemiology, the mapping from genotype to phenotype remains challenging as most of the...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Conceptual processing of concrete objects in the brain / by Melissa M. Rundle.
- How is concrete conceptual information represented in the brain? Little is known about the neural organization for details of concrete objects when presented as words. The goal of the first two studies was to investigate this. In the third study,...
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- On the nature mechanisms and neural correlates of visual feature conjunction learning / by Eric Andrew Reavis.
- Visual searches for a conjunction of features (e.g., a particular combination of color and shape) are ordinarily slow and difficult. However, search efficiency for a particular conjunction can improve dramatically within a few hundred practice...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Novel dimensions in a fluid genome : an integrative risk analysis for cancers of the bladder and breast / by Asaf Wyszynski.
- The present thesis is focused on developing a better understanding of factors driving disease biology and overall risk using cancers of the bladder and breast as model systems. As no single approach was likely to unravel the complexities of these...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 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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- Importance of nest predation to avian population regulation and community structure in a northern hardwoods fores
- Bird populations -- New Hampshire; Predation (Biology); Birds -- Nests; Black-throated blue warbler; Chipmunks; Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
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- The role of attributions, affect, and expectancies in effort.
- Motivation (Psychology). Attribution (Social psychology). Affect (Psychology). Expectation (Psychology).
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The effect of suspended sediments on planktonic rotifers and cladocerans.
- Freshwater zooplankton -- Effect of sediments on. Rotifera. Cladocera.
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- Serpentine/chlorite and illite/smectite in the Tuscaloosa formation: origins, chemistry, mineralogic structures, and oxygen isotope compositions.
- Silicate minerals -- Louisiana. Silicate minerals -- Mississippi. Formations (Geology) -- Louisiana. Formations (Geology) -- Mississippi.
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- The effects of brain damage on source monitoring.
- Brain damage -- Psychological aspects. Memory. Brain -- Localization of functions. Neuropsychology.
- Two experiments were designed to investigate the effects of brain damage on source monitoring. Source monitoring is the process of making decisions about the origins of memories. Previous research has demonstrated that source monitoring judgments...
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- Neural and behavioral correlates of auditory-object processing.
- Auditory perception. Temporal lobes -- Physiology. Prefrontal cortex -- Physiology. Neurophysiology.
- The neurophysiological examination of auditory-object representations has focused on how early auditory cortical areas code for the spectral and temporal features of auditory objects. The goals of this dissertation was to investigate how auditory...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- A conditioning-expectancy theory of vicarious emotional experience: tests of a model.
- Emotions.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 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....
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Fish foraging and learning in complex environments.
- Sunfishes -- Food. Sunfishes -- Effect of habitat modification on
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- On-line metasearch, pooling and system evaluation.
- Information retrieval -- Mathematical models. ; Electronic information resource searching. ; Computer algorithms. ; Decision making -- Data processing. ; Mathematical optimization.
- This thesis presents a unified method for simultaneous solution of three problems in Information Retrieval--metasearch (the fusion of ranked lists returned by retrieval systems to elicit improved performance), efficient system evaluation (the...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 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...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The effects of social and health consequences on the drinking cognitions and behavior of young people /
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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...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Patient classification from fMRI brain activation patterns.
- Brain -- Magnetic resonance imaging. ; Brain mapping. Brain -- Localization of functions. ; Diagnostic imaging. ; Pattern perception. ; Patients -- Classification. ; Alzheimer's disease -- Diagnosis. ; Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis. ; Brain damage --...
- Earlier work has suggested that various neurological or neuropsychiatric disorders may result in characteristic spatial patterns in brain activation, potentially allowing their detection from maps of brain activity under different conditions....
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- The effects of endocrine disruptors on the development of Xenopus embryos.
- Xenopus laevis -- Embryology. Xenopus laevis -- Endocrinology. ; Estrogen -- Physiological effect. ; Estrogen -- Toxicology. ; Nonylphenol -- Physiological effect. Endocrine toxicology.
- Many environmental toxicants found in pesticides, herbicides, and industrial solvents are believed to have deleterious effects on development by disrupting hormone-sensitive processes. Xenopus embryos were exposed to commonly encountered endocrine...
- 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...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The use and transfer of learning strategies in the classroom.
- Learning, Psychology of. ; Cognitive styles.
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- Cinder cone distribution described using cluster analysis and two-dimensional Fourier analysis in the central Transmexican Volcanic Belt, Mexico, and in SE Guatemala and NW El Salvador.
- Volcanism -- Mexico. ; Volcanism -- Guatemala. ; Volcanism -- El Salvador. ; Cluster analysis.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- A descriptive examination of situation constraints on expressive behavior.
- Emotions.
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- Effects of foliage structure on the foraging behavior of insectivorous forest birds.
- Wood warblers -- Food. ; Wood warblers -- Behavior. Leaves. ; Forest ecology.
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- The ecology of Vibrio cholerae: intra- and interspecific interactions.
- Vibrio cholerae -- Ecology. Vibrio cholerae -- Growth. Cyanobacteria -- Ecology.
- In this dissertation, I present an examination of the role of two biotic interactions in the population dynamics of Vibrio cholerae. Traits with a genetic basis such as size, physiological processes, stress tolerance, and even behavior, are key...
- Dartmouth Dissertations

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