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- Mechanisms of survival and persistence of Vibrio cholerae.
- Vibrio cholerae -- Molecular genetics. ; Pili (Microbiology). ; Proteins -- Secretion. Cholera -- Pathogenesis.
- Vibrio cholerae is the etiologic agent of the severe diarrheal disease cholera. Colonization of the host environment by V. cholerae requires the type IV toxin co-regulated pilus (TCP). Adequate colonization by V. cholerae is essential for cholera...
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- Quantum graphs and their spectra
- Quantum graphs.
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- Distribution of sessile rotifers in a bog pond : with particular emphasis on substrate selection by Ptycura Beauchampi larvae
- Rotifera. Ptychura Beauchampi.
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- The effects of lesions of the cerebellar vermis and cerebellar hemispheres on conditioned and unconditioned heart-rate responses in restrained and unrestrained rats.
- Cerebellum -- Experiments. ; Rats -- Behavior. ; Heart beat.
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- Functional analysis of cell cycle genes by genome-wide expression data and meta-analysis of RNAi screens.
- Cell cycle -- Regulation. ; Genetic regulation. ; Small interfering RNA. ; Spindle (Cell division). ; Epithelial cells -- Genetic aspects. ; Mammary glands -- Cytology. ; Cell lines. ; Cell Cycle -- genetics. ; Genes cdc. ; RNA Interference. ;...
- Successful traversal of the cell division cycle is paramount for maintaining a cell's genomic integrity and fitness. To ensure the faithful replication and segregation of the genome, cellular components, and cytoplasm, eukaryotes have evolved a...
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- Assisting human motion-tasks with minimal, real-time feedback.
- Human locomotion -- Computer-assisted instruction. ; Real-time data processing. ; Human-computer interaction.
- Teaching physical motions such as riding, exercising, swimming, etc. to human beings is hard. Coaches face difficulties in communicating their feedback verbally and cannot correct the student mid-action; teaching videos are two dimensional and...
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- Geometric and spectral properties of compact Riemann orbisurfaces.
- Riemannian manifolds. Singularities (Mathematics). Laplacian operator. Spectral theory (Mathematics). Riemann surfaces. Curves on surfaces. Geometry
- Historically, inverse spectral theory has been concerned with the relationship between the geometry and the spectrum of compact Riemannian manifolds, where spectrum means the eigenvalue spectrum of the Laplace operator as it acts on smooth...
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- Distinct functions for diguanylate cyclases in regulating Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 surface-associated behaviors.
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa -- Genetics. Biofilms -- Growth. Bacteria -- Motility. Guanylate cyclase. Cellular signal transduction.
- Biofilm formation is a complex process culminating in a multicellular microbial structure encased in an extracellular matrix. In order for planktonic cells to initiate and proceed through biofilm formation, they must appropriately regulate a number...
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- Temperature effects on consumer-resource species interactions : integrating thermal physiology and community ecology / by Lauren Elizabeth Culler.
- Climate change is altering the thermal environment for populations at all trophic levels and thus the response of any given population to warming can only be understood in the context of species interactions. Consumer-resource species interactions...
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- Rejuvenation of cohesion during meiotic prophase is required for maintenance of chiasmata and accurate chromosome segregation / by Katherine Adalia Weng.
- Accurate chromosome segregation in human oocytes requires that meiotic sister chromatid cohesion remain intact for decades and work in model organisms indicates that deterioration of meiotic cohesion over time may be a major determinant of...
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- On a generalization of Van Kampen's theorem.
- Algebraic topology.
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- Energy gaps and infrared spectra by electron tunneling.
- Tunneling (Physics); Energy levels (Quantum mechanics).
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- Multimodal electroencephalography and near-infrared spectroscopy neuroimaging measurement and analysis / by Paolo Giacometti
- This project focuses on the development of research tools and methods that are used to study the relationship between neural activity and subsequent hemodynamic responses in the human brain. This relationship, referred to as neurovascular coupling,...
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- Cognitive and neural mechanisms of social motivation / by Katherine E. Powers.
- The need for social connection is a pervasive and powerful human drive. When this fundamental need is not fulfilled, people place greater emphasis on forming social bonds and are motivated to behave in ways consistent with accomplishing these...
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- The role of mediator in white-opaque switching / by Anda Zhang.
- The multisubunit eukaryotic Mediator complex integrates diverse positive and negative gene regulatory signals and transmits them to the core transcription machinery. It is also involved in chromatin structure related epigenetic silencing through...
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- Excitation transfer in strain-induced quantum wires and dots.
- Semiconductors -- Optical properties. Quantum wells. Quantum electronics.
- Quantum wires and dots can be created by patterning inhomogeneous strain on semiconductor quantum wells. I have used laser spectroscopic methods to study the carrier transfer from the host quantum well to quantum wires and dots. For quantum dot...
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- On monotonic pairs of solid tori.
- Torus (Geometry). Monotonic functions. Braid theory.
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- A new synthetic route to B-ring derivatives of TMD
- Bicyclic compounds -- Synthesis
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- The isolation and characterization of squid p196: a new member of myosin-V class of proteins.
- Myosin. Axonal transport. Neurons -- Physiology. Squids -- Nervous system.
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- Laser-based oxygen isotopic studies of Acadian metamorphism in eastern Vermont.
- Metamorphism (Geology) -- Vermont. Garnet -- Vermont. Laser spectroscopy.
- This study presents δ18O analyses of garnets microsampled by laser fluorination from two localities in the deep seated, Barrovian metamorphic terrane of eastern Vermont. The broad goals of the research were to constrain further the amount,...
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- Behavioral treatment of chronic pain.
- Pain.
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- Brine drainage in sodium chloride ice.
- Sea ice.
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- Thermally induced quasiparticle branch imbalance in thin film superconductors.
- Superconductors -- Thermal properties. Quasiparticles (Physics).
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- Photorearrangements of aryl halides.
- Photochemistry. Halides.
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- Semantic integration in sentence memory
- Memory. Semantics. Recognition (Psychology)
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- Characterization of factors critical for initial stages of Vibrio cholerae intestinal colonization.
- Vibrio cholerae -- Molecular genetics. ; Bacteria -- Adhesion. ; Virulence (Microbiology) -- Molecular aspects. ; Pili (Microbiology). ; DNA-binding proteins. ; Cholera -- Pathogenesis.
- Vibrio cholerae is the etiologic agent of cholera in humans. Intestinal colonization occurs via ingestion of contaminated food and water and results in symptoms that include the production of the characteristic rice water stool, vomiting, and...
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- Host-epibiont population dynamics.
- Daphnia pulex -- Ecology. ; Epibiosis. Host-parasite relationships. ; Euglenoids -- Ecology.
- Regulatory linkage between epibiotic organisms and their host zooplankton populations is one of the least understood topics in zooplankton biology, despite the likely importance of epibionts to pelagic communities. These laboratory studies with...
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- Damping and decoherence of a nanomechanical resonator due to two-level systems
- Nanoelectromechanical systems -- Mathematical models. ; Resonators -- Mathematical models. ; Damping (Mechanics) -- Mathematical models. ; Multilevel models (Statistics) ; Materials at low temperatures.
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- Solar: building a context fusion network for pervasive computing.
- Solar (Computer architecture). ; Ubiquitous computing. Sensor networks. ; Detectors. ; User interfaces (Computer systems).
- The complexity of developing context-aware pervasive-computing applications calls for distributed software infrastructures that assist applications to collect, aggregate, and disseminate contextual data. In this dissertation, we present a Context...
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- The role of decision strategies in the development of visual information processing
- Visual perception. ; Child psychology.
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- The planar orotron: a metal grating coupled, millimeter wavelength radiation source.
- Millimeter wave devices.
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- Characterization of the interaction of the chemotherapeutic drug mitomycin C with DNA in vitro and in vivo and effects on specific DNA-protein interactions.
- Mitomycin C -- Mechanism of action. ; DNA -- Effect of mitomycin C on. ; Genetic expression -- Effect of mitomycin C on. ; DNA-protein interactions -- Effect of mitomycin C on.
- Mitomycin C (MMC) is a chemotherapeutic drug that reacts with the N$\sp2$ of guanine to form monoadducts, interstrand and intrastrand crosslinks. These lesions, especially the interstrand crosslink, are believed to be responsible for the potent...
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- Ionic and mechanical responses of the rat brain to acute dilutional hyponatremia.
- Brain -- Physiology. ; Hyponatremia.; Rats.
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- K(G,1)'s and real analytic foliations,
- K-theory. ; Foliations (Mathematics)
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- Understanding the role of Toxoplasma gondii secreted rhoptry (ROP) and dense granule (GRA) effector proteins in host-parasite biology using reverse genetics / by Leah M. Rommereim
- Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular pathogen that is able to survive in a range of hosts due to its repertoire of secreted effector proteins. Utilizing the type I and type II Δku80 strains we engineered a collection of targeted knockout...
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- 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...
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- Effects of violent game play on attitudes toward behavioral deviance : mechanisms of self involvement, affective responses, and motivated attitude change / by Anna T. Prescott
- Violent video games are immensely popular among children and adults, making it crucial to understand how these games affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of those who play them. The present research proposed an account by which video game...
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- Algorithmic problems arising in posets and permutations / by Shahrzad Haddadan
- Partially ordered sets and permutations are combinatorial structures having vast applications in theoretical computer science. In this thesis, we study various computational and algorithmic problems related to these structures. The first chapter of...
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- Dependence of snow thermal and electrical conductiveness on microstructure.
- Snow -- Thermal properties. ; Snow -- Electric properties. ; Microstructure.
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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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- In vitro reconstitution of exocytosis from sea urchin egg plasma membrane and isolated secretory vesicles.
- Sea urchins -- Cytology.
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- Building a better trap: the use of iron dithiocarbamate complexes in the in vivo and ex vivo detection and quantification of nitric oxide.
- Nitric oxide -- Analysis. ; Dithiocarbamates. ; Iron compounds. ; Organonitrogen compounds. ; Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy.
- Nitric oxide is synthesized by living organisms and plays important roles in circulatory, neurological, and immune function. Nitric oxide can also play pathophysiological roles, depending on the amount of the molecule, the presence of other species...
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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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- Deformation mechanisms in 2-D composite laminates under compression.
- Laminated materials -- Fracture. ; Fibrous composites -- Fracture. ; Carbon composites -- Fracture. ; Materials -- Compression testing.
- 2-D and 3-D woven composites are becoming materials of choice for the forming of structural parts for an ever-increasing range of industries from infrastructure to aerospace. Research has shown that for a wide range of structural composites, in...
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- Electrical and magnetic properties of niobium-thorium eutectic composite superconducting wire.
- Electric wire.
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- Vibrio cholerae pathogenesis: molecular mechanisms of colonization.
- Vibrio cholerae -- Molecular genetics. ; Bacteria -- Adhesion. ; Virulence (Microbiology). ; Cholera -- Pathogenesis. ; Pili (Microbiology).
- Vibrio cholerae is a gram-negative bacterial pathogen that causes the severe diarrheal disease cholera. Several bacterial factors have been identified that are critical for V. cholerae intestinal colonization. The best characterized of these...
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- Cellulose hydrolysis and fermentation by Clostridium thermocellum for the production of ethanol.
- Clostridium -- Biotechnology. ; Cellulose. ; Hydrolysis. ; Fermentation. ; Alcohol -- Synthesis.
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- New preparations of substituted (3H)-1,2-dithiole-3-thiones and investigations into the mechanism of their formation.
- Dithiole -- Synthesis. ; Thiols -- Synthesis. ; Aliphatic compounds -- Synthesis.
- This thesis describes a new synthesis of substituted (3H)-1,2-dithiole-3-thiones (dithiolethiones) from readily available starting materials. Dithiolethiones have a wide variety of industrial and pharmaceutical applications. These include use as...
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- Synthesis and bond alternation of azulene derivatives.
- Azulene -- Derivatives -- Synthesis. ; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons -- Synthesis. ; Crystallography. ; Chemical bonds.
- 5,6-Azulyne, the first azulyne to be prepared, has been trapped with furan to give an adduct whose crystal structure reveals marked bond alternation in the azulene pi system. The double bond in the furan moiety is responsible in part for the bond...
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- Synthesis of porphobilinogen and studies on the synthesis of cobyric acid.
- Tetrapyrroles -- Synthesis. ; Porphyrins -- Synthesis. ; Vitamin B12 -- Synthesis.
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