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A composition formula for asymptotic morphisms.
Morphisms (Mathematics). Hilbert modules. Perturbation (Mathematics). Operator theory.
Given graded C *-algebras A and B , we define the notion of an admissible pair ([straight phi], D ) for A and B . Associated to an admissible pair ([straight phi], D ) is an equivalence class of asymptotic morphisms from A to B . Under certain...
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$Stark-geometry photorefractive multiple quantum well spatial light modulators.$
Stark-geometry photorefractive multiple quantum well spatial light modulators.
Light modulators -- Mathematical models. ; Quantum wells. ; Photorefractive materials. ; Optoelectronic devices -- Mathematical models.
Stark-geometry photorefractive multiple quantum well (PR-MQW) spatial light modulators (SLMs) show promise for several optoelectronic applications such as high-speed image correlation and real-time 3-D holographic imaging. Their performance is...
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Analysis of annular two-phase flow with liquid entrainment.
Two-phase flow -- Mathematical models. ; Fluid dynamics -- Mathematical models.
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The role of the Drosophila SK channel in sensory processing and behavior / by Ahmad Nawwaf Abou Tayoun.
Partially ordered sets. ; Forcing (Model theory). ; Set theory.
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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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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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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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Biproducts in the rational cohomology of biformal spaces.
Homotopy theory.
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Cytoskeletal reorganization in B lymphocyte activation.
Lymphocyte transformation.
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Nucleophilic addition to electron deficient indoles and the synthesis of fused heterocyclic ring systems.
Indole -- Synthesis. ; Heterocyclic compounds -- Synthesis.
The chemistry of indole can be reversed and redirected by the addition of powerful electron-withdrawing groups. Incorporation of a nitro group at C-2 or C-3 renders the adjacent carbon susceptible to nucleophilic attack. Nitro, cyano, and...
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Structural, stratigraphic, and thermo-chronological evolution of Trinidad.
Geochronometry -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad. ; Geology Structural -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad. ; Geology.
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Clay mineralogy and geochemistry of soils and sediments with perma frost in interior Alaska.
Clay minerals -- Alaska. ; Soils -- Alaska. ; Frozen ground -- Alaska.
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Migmatite systematics and geology : Carter Dome-Wild River Region White Mountains New Hampshire.
Migmatite -- New Hampshire. ; Geology -- New Hampshire.
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Isolation and characterization of essential genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae required for the efficient nucleocytoplasmic trafficking of mRNA.
Messenger RNA. ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae. ; Cytoplasm.
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Intuitive user-guided appearance editing.
Image processing -- Digital techniques. ; Computer algorithms. ; Human-computer interaction.
We present new appearance editing algorithms that allow artists to perform complex editing operations on spatially-varying appearance datasets such as images and measured materials, in an intuitive and efficient manner. The goal is to develop...
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Analysis of reactor configurations for combined anaerobic-aerobic biotreatment of perchloroethylene.
Anaerobic bacteria -- Analysis. ; Biodegradation -- Testing. ; Bacteria Aerobic -- Analysis. ; In situ bioremediation -- Methodology. ; Bioremediation -- Methodology. ; Tetrachloroethylene -- Analysis.
Chlorinated ethenes are ubiquitous environmental pollutants of public concern due to their potential toxicity and carcinogenicity. Under appropriate conditions anaerobic bacteria mediate the dechlorination of perchloroethylene (a common dry...
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Analytical and computational approaches for quantitative phosphoproteomics / by Jason M. Gilmore.
Protein phosphorylation is an important regulatory mechanism for the control of countless processes in living systems. The delicate management of phosphate attachment to, and removal from, serine, threonine and tyrosine residues in proteins...
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Analytical and numerical studies of coherent field configurations.
Phase transformations (Statistical physics) -- Mathematical models. ; Nonlinear systems -- Mathematical models. ; Bubbles -- Mathematical models.
Motivated by the goal of investigating the dynamics of the electroweak phase transition in the early Universe, a study of dynamical aspects of nonlinear field-theoretical systems is performed. Symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials in the...
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Early earth and solar system evolution: insights from strontium, barium, neodymium, and samarium isotopes.
Chondrites (Meteorites). ; Mantle plumes. ; Samarium-neodymium dating. ; Strontium -- Isotopes. ; Barium -- Isotopes. ; Solar system. ; Earth -- Mantle.
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Transformation-group C*-algebras with bounded trace.
C*-algebras. ; Transformation groups.
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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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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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Application of Rayleigh's short-cut method to Polya's recurrence problem.
Random walks (Mathematics). ; Lattice theory.
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Applications of Cherenkov light emission for dosimetry in radiation therapy / by Adam Kenneth Glaser
Since its discovery in the 1930's, the Cherenkov effect has been paramount in the development of high-energy physics research. It results in light emission from charged particles traveling faster than the local speed of light in a dielectric...
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Isotopic phase separation in dilute solid mixtures of Helium-4 in Helium-3.
Helium -- Isotopes. ; Isotope separation.
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Dependence of snow thermal and electrical conductiveness on microstructure.
Snow -- Thermal properties. ; Snow -- Electric properties. ; Microstructure.
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Cation selectivity of IRT1: restricting cadmium uptake by plants.
Plant genetic engineering. ; Plants -- Effect of cadmium on. ; Cadmium -- Physiological transport.
Iron plays a central role in key biological processes in both plants and animals. Lack of available iron commonly limits plant growth and nutritional value. Worldwide, dietary iron is primarily obtained from plant sources and, despite our best...
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Attribute-based, usefully secure email.
Electronic mail systems -- Security measures. Electronic mail systems -- Social aspects. Trust.
A secure system that cannot be used by real users to secure real-world processes is not really secure at all. While many believe that usability and security are diametrically opposed, a growing body of research from the field of Human-Computer...
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Diagonalizing spaces of Hilbert cusp forms.
Hilbert modular surfaces. ; Hecke operators. ; Cusp forms (Mathematics). ; Fourier analysis.
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Spectral studies of the enzyme rhodanese.
Enzymes.
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The electrical conductivity tensor of a coulomb plasma.
Plasma (Ionized gases) -- Conductivity. ; Calculus of tensors. ; Coulomb functions.
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Firefighting on geometric graphs.
Graph theory. ; Infinite groups. ; Geometrical constructions. ; Geometry Plane.
In the Firefighter Problem, a fire starts at a vertex of a graph, and in discrete time units, it spreads from burned vertices to their neighbors, unless they are protected by one of the f firefighters that are deployed every turn. Once burned or...
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Methods for rapid EEG-based mapping of human brain functions.
Electroencephalography. ; Brain mapping -- Methodology. ; Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology).
Brain mapping via EEG activation is a useful tool of basic neuroscience, and has wide clinical applications as well. The mapping is achieved by means of Event Related Potentials (ERPs), task-related changes in EEG time series. The methodology of...
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Metamorphism in east central Vermont.
Metamorphism (Geology) -- Vermont. ; Nappes (Geology) -- Vermont.
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Hamiltonians, invariants and magnetic field-line topology.
Magnetic fields -- Mathematical models. ; Hamiltonian systems. ; Invariants.
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Providing evidence and measurement tools to support health care reform in communities.
Community health services -- United States -- Evaluation. ; Health care reform -- United States. ; Medical care -- United States -- Evaluation. ; Evidence-based medicine.
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Transitive groups of prime degree.
Permutations. ; Permutation groups.
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Characterization of COPII vesicle proteins involved in sorting between the endoplasmic reticulum and golgi apparatus in Sacch[a]romyces cerevisiae.
Membrane proteins -- Physiological transport. ; Carrier proteins. ; Biological transport -- Regulation. ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae -- Cytology. ; Golgi apparatus. ; Endoplasmic reticulum.
Intracellular transport between the ER and Golgi is mediated by vesicles that bud from donor membranes and then fuse with acceptor membranes. Bi-directional vesicle transport maintains distinct organelle composition through a process known as...
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Interspecific competition and the niche of the American redstart.
Wood warblers -- Migration. ; Wood warblers -- Behavior. ; Bird populations.
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Probing a receptor-binding domain of interleukin-2 by combinatorial cassette mutagenesis.
Interleukin-2. ; Mutagenesis.
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Synthetic approaches to indolo[2,3-a]carbazole alkaloids.
Indole alkaloids -- Synthesis. ; Carbazole.
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Routing games.
In large and complex networks such as the Internet and road networks, traffic routing is typically decentralized. Users in the network choose their routes independently to minimize their own delay, leading to complicated and nonintuitive outcomes...
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