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- United Way Advertisement; Lyme, New Hampshire; Pho...
- Dartmouth College Photographic Records
- Aging minds and twisting attitudes: effects of age-related decline in executive function on older adults' attitudes toward stigmatized individuals.
- Stigma (Social psychology). Aging -- Psychological aspects. Cognition -- Age factors. Older people -- Attitudes.
- Extensive research on aging has demonstrated that normal aging debilitates executive function, a system that is critical for regulating stereotypes. However, there is a paucity of research on whether age-related declines to executive function...
- 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
- Control of emotion.
- Emotions. ; Self-control. ; Facial expression .
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- Mechanisms of a glial modulating agent, propentofylline :potential new treatment for glioblastoma multiforme
- Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor with a very poor prognosis despite multi-modalities of treatment. As a result, there is a critical need to develop alternative therapies. Propentofylline (PPF) is a...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Press Translations, Japanese
- Tokyo, Japan
- Press Translations, Japan, 1945-1946
- Press Translations, Japanese
- Tokyo, Japan
- Press Translations, Japan, 1945-1946
- Acquisition and registration of 3D optical surface scanning, MRI, and microwave tomographic imaging for improved clinical breast imaging and surgical planning / by Matthew John Pallone.
- Continual improvements to clinical breast imaging technologies have led to ever earlier detections and increasingly accurate localizations of female breast cancers. While these advancements have certainly improved the prognoses of many patients,...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Spectral analysis of moderate length time series.
- Time-series analysis. Spectral theory (Mathematics).
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The problems of perception and regulation in the relationship between activities and mood.
- Mood (Psychology)
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- 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...
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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...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The quantum-to-classical transition in strongly interacting nanoscale systems / by Latchezar Latchezarov Benatov.
- This thesis comprises two separate but related studies, dealing with two strongly interacting nanoscale systems on the border between the quantum and classical domains. In Part 1, we use a Born-Markov approximated master equation approach to study...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The role of attributions, affect, and expectancies in effort.
- Motivation (Psychology). Attribution (Social psychology). Affect (Psychology). Expectation (Psychology).
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- Physiological and neural mechanisms of anxiety, negativity, and threat.
- Anxiety -- Physiological aspects. Threat (Psychology) -- Physiological aspects. Amygdaloid body -- Psychophysiology. Brain -- Psychophysiology.
- The objective of this thesis was to examine the neural and physiological substrates underlying the processing of aversive information, and how individual differences in anxiety influence these responses. In a series of experiments, we utilized skin...
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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...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 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...
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- Efficient velocity estimation in doppler ultrasound imaging.
- Doppler ultrasonography -- Mathematical models. Ultrasonic imaging -- Mathematical models. Signal processing -- Mathematical models. Wavelets (Mathematics). Scattering (Mathematics).
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- The effects of social and health consequences on the drinking cognitions and behavior of young people /
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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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- 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...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The use and transfer of learning strategies in the classroom.
- Learning, Psychology of. ; Cognitive styles.
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- Mechanisms of feeling of knowing in memory.
- Memory -- Testing. ; Psychology Experimental.
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- Coding of disparity as a function of directional separation and feature similarity.
- Vision -- Research. ; Visual perception.
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- Dispositional emotional expressivity shapes the processing of facial expression / by Annemarie C. Brown
- When we want to know what others are thinking or feeling, we look to their face for clues. Affective neuroscience has usefully documented behavioral, psychophysiological and neural responses to the facial displays of others. Though this work...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The consequences of land-use on subsidies of stream insects to terrestrial consumers / by Ramsa Chaves-Ulloa
- The image of a child standing at the side of a creek and skipping stones across it exemplifies how we tend to mentally separate aquatic habitats from dry land. But there is a constant exchange of materials from land to streams, and vice-versa....
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- In vivo fluorescence imaging and tomography methods to quantify metastatic burden in lymph nodes / by Alisha Viola DSouza
- Morbidity and complexity involved in lymph node staging via surgical resection and biopsy could ideally be overcome using node assay techniques that are non-invasive. Visible blue dyes, fluorophores and radio-tracers are often used to locate the...
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- How we connect : neural mechanisms underpinning human social networks / by Carolyn M. Parkinson
- One of the most distinctive aspects of humans as a species is our propensity to form complex social networks made up of intense, non-reproductive bonds with non-kin. Navigating these networks presents a considerable cognitive challenge that is...
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- 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
- Measuring quality of life in economic evaluations of treatment for severe mental illness.
- Quality of life -- Evaluation. ; Health status indicators. ; Psychiatric rating scales. ; Mental illness -- Treatment -- Evaluation. ; Mental illness -- Treatment -- Economic aspects. ; Mental illness -- Treatment -- Social aspects.
- Background. It is not clear whether a generic quality-of-life instrument can appropriately represent severe mental illness in an economic evaluation. This problem is particularly salient for resource-allocation decisions where policymakers compare...
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- Performance evaluation of distributed security protocols using discrete event simulation.
- Computer networks -- Security measures. BGP (Computer network protocol). Public key infrastructure (Computer security). Discrete-time systems -- Mathematical models. Computer simulation.
- The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) that manages inter-domain routing on the Internet lacks security. Protective measures using public key cryptography introduce complexities and costs. To support authentication and other security functionality in...
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- Northeastern Venezuela''s Jurassic through Eocene passive margin, Hispaniola''s Neogene Cibao Basin, and their histories and causes of evolution.
- Geology -- Venezuela. ; Geology -- Dominican Republic -- Cibao Basin. ; Geology Structural -- Venezuela. ; Geology.
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- Hydrothermal pretreatment of cellulosic biomass for bioconversion to ethanol.
- Alcohol as fuel. ; Cellulose -- Biotechnology. ; Hot water. ; Steam. ; Biomass energy.
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- Neural and behavioral mechanisms of sensorimotor performance shifts under speed uncertainty.
- Sensorimotor integration. Uncertainty -- Psychological aspects. Time pressure. Decision making -- Psychological aspects. Neurophysiology. Psychomotor Performance -- physiology.
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- Effect of increased hemoglobin oxygen affinity on oxygen transport and its regulation in the rat.
- Hemoglobin. ; Oxygen -- Physiological transport. ; Rats.
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- Upper hybrid resonance scattering by magnetoplasma columns.
- Plasma (Ionized gases). ; Scattering (Physics).
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- Calcium control of nervous excitation.
- Excitation (Physiology). ; Calcium -- Physiological effect.
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- Radio frequency (RF) size effect: caliper and temperature dependence in tin.
- Fermi surfaces. ; Radiofrequency spectroscopy. ; Tin -- Electric properties.
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- Attended and unattended semantic priming as a function of the orienting task performed on an attended prime.
- Perception. ; Human information processing.
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- Hemispheric differences in visual information processing.
- Human information processing. ; Cerebral hemispheres. ; Visual perception.
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- The role of the observer's facial expressive response in vicarious classical conditioning.
- Facial expression. ; Emotions.
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- Categorization and abstract understanding in analogy.
- Brain -- Localization of functions. Analogy. Frontal lobes. Neuropsychology.
- This thesis represents a program of behavioral and brain-based research directed at elucidating the mechanisms of analogical reasoning. The studies that comprise this thesis took convergent experimental approaches to extend knowledge concerning two...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 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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- Certainty of threat, dispositional optimism, and potential mediators of health outcomes.
- Optimism -- Health aspects. ; Stress (Psychology) -- Health aspects. ; Risk perception -- Health aspects. ; Mind and body.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Dynamic social network analysis.
- Social networks -- Mathematical models. Social networks -- Computer simulation. Dynamics. Social sciences -- Network analysis -- Methodology.
- Detecting the significance of relationships between people is a complicated and difficult task. This is especially true when these relationships are intermixed with hundreds of different mundane and ordinary interactions that are simply background...
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- Development and investigation of a decision support system to facilitate shared decision making in community mental health.
- Community mental health services -- Decision making. Mentally ill -- Care -- Decision making. Psychotherapist and patient.
- Background. Electronic decision support systems (EDSS) using a shared decision making framework may be a new technology to facilitate service planning in public sector mental health care. The case management context is a ripe testing ground for...
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- 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
- Addressing and assessing spirituality in primary care medicine.
- Medicine -- Religious aspects. Health -- Religious aspects. Spirituality -- Health aspects. Spirituality -- Testing. Primary care (Medicine). Patients -- Religious life.
- Background . Although the epidemiology of spirituality/religion is still an emerging field, initial research suggests spirituality may promote better health. Additionally, physician-inquiry about spirituality may enhance the quality and possibly...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The role of modality-specific cortex in retrieving stored sensory information.
- Memory -- Physiological aspects. Brain -- Imaging. Imagery (Psychology) -- Physiological aspects. Perception -- Physiological aspects. Senses and sensation. Cerebral cortex.
- The studies described within the present dissertation build upon and extend the neuroimaging literature in the domains of imagery and semantic retrieval of perceptual memories. These investigations focus on the range of retrieval experiences--from...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Smartphone sensing and inference of human behavior and context
- Smartphones we carry everyday represent the first truly context-aware mobile device. By embedding specialized sensors and pushing AI into phones, it is now possible to continuously sense and infer people's physical activities, social interactions,...
- Dartmouth Dissertations

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